fg, bg, kill, Ctrl-Z, &. Learn it. Know it. Live it.
Even if they do know about job control, I've seen people look for a background job with ps, and then kill it using the PID. In most shells you can just do kill %, e.g. kill %1
Canada may have an advantage here... many parking lots are fitted with a receptacle for each stall so you can plug in the car's engine block heater. And the ones at apartment buildings are each on a dedicated circuit connected to the tenant's breaker panel.
Of course, you might see people leeching the free power at parking lots at malls, park & rides, etc. And those receptacles probably aren't on dedicated 15A circuits.
A NES-on-a-chip was used in those Jakks Atari joysticks (a joystick with 5-10 built-in games and an audio/video out cable) from about 5 years ago. The gameplay and sound were not perfect because it's emulated. I believe they retailed for around $15 or less.
Actually I remember a graph from the race last year (or the year before?) showing that the speed in Alberta was about half what it was in Arizona. Southern alberta might have more hours of sunlight because of the latitude, but the sun is at more of an angle, so the light is dimmer.
What a simple-minded view. That was the thinking 50 years ago, but we're finding that refusing to trade with a country isn't like ignoring a bully. Embargoes really make things worse for the civilians - families, women, children. The leaders and military will always have their toys and enough to eat. You give the leaders more power and you turn the people against you.
It's not quite what you're suggesting, but have a look at your Vista score (Windows Experience Index). There's a breakdown of each component, and what you can do to improve your score (usually simple suggestions like buy more RAM, or get a better video card). I think they had a plan at some point to include a minimum score on boxed software (for example, "this game requires a Windows Experience index of 4.0" or "this software will run best with a score of 3.0 or higher"), but it's been a while since I looked at software on the shelf.
Someday soon a UHF antenna might be all you need. There's talk of stopping broadcasts on channels 2-6 (these are the VHF-LO channels, lower frequency than FM radio, that require the really long VHF antenna). You can pick up channels 7+ just fine with many UHF antennas.
Canada is requiring most stations (those not in remote northern regions) to be broadcasting ATSC by August, 2011. Certain areas close to the border might stop broadcasting on channels 52-69 (the 700MHz spectrum) before then.
Depending where you live, you might already be able to get CBC in digital. Vancouver and Toronto have a number of digital broadcast channels including CBC.
It's not "Canada's poorest neighbourhood" by a long shot. Maybe it's got the highest concentration of junkies and alcoholics, but just about anybody could rent an apartment there and get a good job somewhere else in the city. If you want to see real poverty in Canada, have a look at rural reservations, places with dirt roads, no jobs, no healthcare and no money for proper police protection or social services. I mean, you yourself went to Vancouver because there is work there. That's not poverty. I think the DES is about to change anyway. It's got some great old buildings and is in a prime location. The cycle of gentrification is underway, with artists/creative types moving there (and doing things like rolling out a wimax network), and people renovating properties.
Not to argue with your overall point, but street grid planning for has been around a long time. Manhattan's grid was planned in 1811, but wasn't fully developed for another 100 years. The 1950s cookie-cutter houses were a product of cheap (but desirable) land, which was a product of people owning cars.
This is good news. The important thing is that MS is now saying they're willing to sacrifice backwards compatibility in IE. They have no reason not to follow the standards now (barring bugs or technical limitations).
GP is talking about much older PCs. But he's right, you usually play games on a PC with the keyboard/mouse, whereas on a Commodore 64 or Amiga it was all about the joystick.
ISA joystick cards, and sound cards like the Sound Blaster with joystick/MIDI ports, have been available since the late 80s. But only in the last 10 years or so has it been common to have a joystick/MIDI port built in to a motherboard, either on the snap-out panel or attached via a card bracket as you described. Back when DOOM was popular, if you had a joystick port, it was on your sound card which you bought separately from the motherboard.
For a long time now, all the joysticks in the store have been USB. Do those old DB15 joysticks even work anymore? Man, those were a pain in the ass to develop for. The position of the stick was based on how far it was from the TOP/LEFT, not the middle, so of course you had to calibrate it to know where the middle was. And the whole thing was timing sensitive. Those were the bad old days.
The Apple ][ had "high" res black & white (320x200?), low res 6-colour (black, white, orange, blue, purple, green, 160x200?) and a really low res mode at like 40x50 and 16 colours. If you only had a monochrome screen, the 6-colour mode looked just like the monochrome mode but with dithering.
Pretty horrible, I agree. But the Apple's strengths were the option of an 80-column card and a decently fast disk drive. You could actually do work on them. Games and the SID is what really made the C64 shine.
It's also a good starting point when you bring up the map. A map of the surrounding area of 1000m x 1000m in your palm is very useful. You could hilight all the bookstores or subway stations within that area, or if you're lost, you might recognize the street name you're on at a glance.
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With bash, you can even get tab completion for hostnames. Try this:
ssh user@l[tab]
Everything after the @ is filled in from /etc/hosts.
fg, bg, kill, Ctrl-Z, &. Learn it. Know it. Live it.
Even if they do know about job control, I've seen people look for a background job with ps, and then kill it using the PID. In most shells you can just do kill %, e.g. kill %1
Are they playing The Wall?
Canada may have an advantage here... many parking lots are fitted with a receptacle for each stall so you can plug in the car's engine block heater. And the ones at apartment buildings are each on a dedicated circuit connected to the tenant's breaker panel.
Of course, you might see people leeching the free power at parking lots at malls, park & rides, etc. And those receptacles probably aren't on dedicated 15A circuits.
I don't know much about memory management in Linux. What happens if you hibernate the system while the swap file is in use?
Isn't that more of a heat exchanger than geothermal? Geothermal is drawing heat from (typically) deep in the earth.
And I hope you meant 6" pipe! Imagining the stonehenge effect, in reverse...
A NES-on-a-chip was used in those Jakks Atari joysticks (a joystick with 5-10 built-in games and an audio/video out cable) from about 5 years ago. The gameplay and sound were not perfect because it's emulated. I believe they retailed for around $15 or less.
Actually I remember a graph from the race last year (or the year before?) showing that the speed in Alberta was about half what it was in Arizona. Southern alberta might have more hours of sunlight because of the latitude, but the sun is at more of an angle, so the light is dimmer.
What a simple-minded view. That was the thinking 50 years ago, but we're finding that refusing to trade with a country isn't like ignoring a bully. Embargoes really make things worse for the civilians - families, women, children. The leaders and military will always have their toys and enough to eat. You give the leaders more power and you turn the people against you.
It's not quite what you're suggesting, but have a look at your Vista score (Windows Experience Index). There's a breakdown of each component, and what you can do to improve your score (usually simple suggestions like buy more RAM, or get a better video card).
I think they had a plan at some point to include a minimum score on boxed software (for example, "this game requires a Windows Experience index of 4.0" or "this software will run best with a score of 3.0 or higher"), but it's been a while since I looked at software on the shelf.
If "ls a*" isn't working, it's because the shell is expanding a* into a command line >100kB in size. That's not the right way to do it.
Try "find -name 'a*'", or if you want ls -l style output, "find -name 'a*' -exec ls -l {} \;"
Try timing how long it takes reiserfs to delete the files in that directory. I'll check back for your results later this week.
It looks like the specs have recently changed. The cheapest Dell notebook I could find with a 1920x1200 anti-glare screen is the Precision M4300.
Someday soon a UHF antenna might be all you need. There's talk of stopping broadcasts on channels 2-6 (these are the VHF-LO channels, lower frequency than FM radio, that require the really long VHF antenna). You can pick up channels 7+ just fine with many UHF antennas.
Canada is requiring most stations (those not in remote northern regions) to be broadcasting ATSC by August, 2011. Certain areas close to the border might stop broadcasting on channels 52-69 (the 700MHz spectrum) before then.
Depending where you live, you might already be able to get CBC in digital. Vancouver and Toronto have a number of digital broadcast channels including CBC.
Analog tuners are still fine for analog cable, which doesn't have a cutoff date, and will continue to be available for a long time in many places.
It's not "Canada's poorest neighbourhood" by a long shot. Maybe it's got the highest concentration of junkies and alcoholics, but just about anybody could rent an apartment there and get a good job somewhere else in the city. If you want to see real poverty in Canada, have a look at rural reservations, places with dirt roads, no jobs, no healthcare and no money for proper police protection or social services. I mean, you yourself went to Vancouver because there is work there. That's not poverty.
I think the DES is about to change anyway. It's got some great old buildings and is in a prime location. The cycle of gentrification is underway, with artists/creative types moving there (and doing things like rolling out a wimax network), and people renovating properties.
Not to argue with your overall point, but street grid planning for has been around a long time. Manhattan's grid was planned in 1811, but wasn't fully developed for another 100 years. The 1950s cookie-cutter houses were a product of cheap (but desirable) land, which was a product of people owning cars.
This is good news. The important thing is that MS is now saying they're willing to sacrifice backwards compatibility in IE. They have no reason not to follow the standards now (barring bugs or technical limitations).
Thanks for the correction... I didn't know that. I started using PCs in the sound card era.
GP is talking about much older PCs. But he's right, you usually play games on a PC with the keyboard/mouse, whereas on a Commodore 64 or Amiga it was all about the joystick.
ISA joystick cards, and sound cards like the Sound Blaster with joystick/MIDI ports, have been available since the late 80s. But only in the last 10 years or so has it been common to have a joystick/MIDI port built in to a motherboard, either on the snap-out panel or attached via a card bracket as you described. Back when DOOM was popular, if you had a joystick port, it was on your sound card which you bought separately from the motherboard.
For a long time now, all the joysticks in the store have been USB. Do those old DB15 joysticks even work anymore? Man, those were a pain in the ass to develop for. The position of the stick was based on how far it was from the TOP/LEFT, not the middle, so of course you had to calibrate it to know where the middle was. And the whole thing was timing sensitive. Those were the bad old days.
We're on slashdot. That post is nerd folklore.
Plus, come on, a 17 MB file should take about 5 seconds to copy. It's obviously a joke, not a +5 Insightful.
It's an LCD. You don't need a high refresh rate (unless I'm misunderstanding your comment). The pixels stay on; they don't fade like phosphor.
The Apple ][ had "high" res black & white (320x200?), low res 6-colour (black, white, orange, blue, purple, green, 160x200?) and a really low res mode at like 40x50 and 16 colours. If you only had a monochrome screen, the 6-colour mode looked just like the monochrome mode but with dithering.
Here's a screenshot: http://www.volny.cz/havlikjosef/galery/AppleIIFSII_1.PNG
Pretty horrible, I agree. But the Apple's strengths were the option of an 80-column card and a decently fast disk drive. You could actually do work on them. Games and the SID is what really made the C64 shine.
It's also a good starting point when you bring up the map. A map of the surrounding area of 1000m x 1000m in your palm is very useful. You could hilight all the bookstores or subway stations within that area, or if you're lost, you might recognize the street name you're on at a glance.