This is only half-way on topic, and perhaps it should be on ask-Slashdot, but here goes:
I want the latest and gratest CPU, mainboard, and 3D GFX card AND I want them silent. Less noisy is good, real quiet is better, but what I really, really want is total silence.
That's why this cooling method appealed to me at first -- it looked like it might be really quiet. Fans pushing air around are noisy, but with liquid you avoid that. Then I saw the pump and the air conditioner and figured they'd probably be anything but quiet.
This article describes ImageMagic both as an Imlib-equivalent and something that brings "improved graphical effects" to KDE. Imlib doesn't do anything I'd call graphical effects. It basically just frees you from having to deal with different file formats, visuals, colour depths, gamma values etc. and provides some basic functionality like scaling, flipping and right-angle rotation. See the Imlib tutorial for more info. --
My main peeve with the wireless desktop is the way capslock magically turns itself on -- you hit capslock to turn it off, which somehow doesn't toggle it, thus forcing you to hit capslock yet another time.
You think that's strange? Mine does that and I don't even HAVE a caps lock key to press! (xmodmapped it to Multi_key). Assuming Logitech some day manages to make a wireless keyboard that works, do you think they'd agree to replace our faulty ones for free? --
I have the Wireless Desktop as well. Should have just bought a wireless mouse. Half the time I try to type C-X C-S in xemacs I somehow end up inserting an "s" into the buffer. Playing Quake with that thing is out of the question - movement keys tend to get "stuck" and sometimes pressing and releasing again doesn't even help. --
Use the -as n option when starting esd. "as" stands for auto-standby and will give up the sound device after n seconds of inactivity. If you do that, non esd-aware programs can grab write top/dev/dsp when esd isn't using it.
Usually if you have a program foo that doesn't support esd, you can run "esddsp foo" which does some tricks to make the program talk to esd. --
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People should say what they feel right? He feels the system made up of the GNU stuff and the Linux kernel should be called GNU/Linux. Why does this upset people? Can't they just say "I disagree" and move on? --
Perhaps ALT-N would work. The linux version of communicator 4.5 and probably all versions use the alt key for things like this. That doesn't necessarily mean it's the same in the windows version, but don't thinkj there isn't (or won't be in the final version) a way to do this kind of thing with the keyboard. What made you think that mozilla would use the same combos as IE5? --
If that happens we should point out that the setup is tailored to NT's strengths and Linux's weaknesses. Ask people to consider whether the hardware might have been chosen with that in mind.
Also ask them if they're going to be running these 4 processor, 4GB, 4nic machines in their businesses and point out that these results say nothing about how NT and Linux compare on more mundane machines.
Ask people to consider the following: Tests like these are expensive. MS has money, the Linux community doesn't. If Linux beats NT on some machines and NT beats Linux on others, you're never going to see test results for the systems where Linux is superior.
Last but not least we need to show that we don't sweep problems under the rug, we fix them. --
People hear differently. People have different audio hardware. People like different kinds of music. All these factors play a part in determining how high a data rate is high enough for you. With crappy computer speakers blasting out heavy metal, the 128kbps MP3 is not the limiting factor. Someone listening to classical music with good headphones (Sennheiser HD580's perhaps) is quite likely to feel the limitations of that format.
On top of that, 128kbps from bladeenc is not the same as 128kbps from MP3 Compressor. It's a lot worse. (I choose these as examples because I've used them and heard the difference). Bladeenc is better at higher rates, like the 192kbps I'm using now.
To complicate matters further, I find that I'm now hearing faults in the MP3's I thought were flawless a few months ago. My brain is apparently training itself to pick up the flaws. How helpful. --
I guess my p200 with voodoo 1 won't be much good either. It would be nice to know what weighs more, the CPU performance or the 3D card. Will a p200 with a beefy card be ok? --
He gets it. Few other outsiders get it. Many Linux users and Slashdot readers don't even get it.
What is it that he gets? It's the fact that Linux itself isn't the big deal. The big deal is the movement, or "religion", surrounding it. As I've said before: Linux could drop out of existance tomorrow and it wouldn't hurt us too much. We'd replace it, maybe with the Hurd, maybe with something else. The important thing is that there is a "We".
We can't blame the man for doing what he does with this insight, namely to use it to his company's advantage. That's his job and it seems he's pretty good at it. --
You can't really say that E is ugly. E doesn't have one particular look. It's themable. Even if all the themes are ugly, that's not a complaint against E. --
There's another peripheral maker out there that just opened up the specs to a lot of its hardware -- specifically their joysticks -- so that open source drivers can now be written with ease. This company is Logitech.
This is the kind of thing I like to see, and I support the company by buying their products. The other day I went looking for a WingMan Interceptor but couldn't find it. I spoke to a salesman and explained how this new development had just made Logitech products more appealing to me and possibly other Linux users. He thanked me for the information and said he'd order a line of Logitech joysticks immediately.
As I explained to the salesman, I've used MS Sidewinders and I think they're excellent joysticks. And as he explained to me, Microsoft is beginning to dominate the market for high-quality input devices.
I have looked at what's happening with peripherals now and I've looked at what happened with browsers, word processors, spreadsheets, and operating systems in the past and I've drawn the following conclusion: If I choose Microsoft today, then tomorrow I may no longer have a choice.
PS. I bought the Logitech Cordless Desktop (it was impulse shopping at its worst). I love the pros, but I hate the cons. The keyboard has a tendency to think a key is still down after I've released it. This happens mostly with the movement keys while playing Q2 (grr!). Also, the sequence ^X^S^X^C usually fails at some point. Can other cordless keyboard users tell me if this is to be expected and if there's anything to be done to improve the situation? (I've observed the 8 inch radius guidelines and am withing 1.5m) --
Sometimes when walking down the street I imagine myself firing a railgun at passers by. I picture the blue spiral and try to imagine how it feels to hold that massive barrell as the shot goes off.
I'm not mentally ill, really!
However, I wouldn't tell this to the social worker charged with deciding whether I was allowed to raise children or not. --
In a thread about emulators (I think) I made an analogy with guns. I said something like "When somebody shoots your sister you don't blame Smith & Wesson". (Obviously that would be ridiculous.)
The following week I read about exactly that happening.
I don't live in a crap-free country either, but this is a class of crap above anything that could happen elsewhere. --
Let's not forget that when Excel first came out, it was considered a great product. People ran out and bought it in droves. Back then, the features were enough to sell the product, and I'd say even today, Excel would sell on features alone if by some magic, the compatibility issue disappeared. --
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I prefer headphones. The Sennheiser HD580's are a dream.
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This is only half-way on topic, and perhaps it should be on ask-Slashdot, but here goes:
I want the latest and gratest CPU, mainboard, and 3D GFX card AND I want them silent. Less noisy is good, real quiet is better, but what I really, really want is total silence.
That's why this cooling method appealed to me at first -- it looked like it might be really quiet. Fans pushing air around are noisy, but with liquid you avoid that. Then I saw the pump and the air conditioner and figured they'd probably be anything but quiet.
Am I alone in my quest for quiet computing?
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...they don't do it like this. This story isn't so much about the results as it's about some guy pushing the limits of sanity :-)
In fact, this story doesn't even mention how much the guy was able to overclock the damn thing. Can we have that bit of information, please?
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This article describes ImageMagic both as an Imlib-equivalent and something that brings "improved graphical effects" to KDE. Imlib doesn't do anything I'd call graphical effects. It basically just frees you from having to deal with different file formats, visuals, colour depths, gamma values etc. and provides some basic functionality like scaling, flipping and right-angle rotation. See the Imlib tutorial for more info.
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Why do you call yourself Thornae and then sign your post "ÐÆ"?
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You think that's strange? Mine does that and I don't even HAVE a caps lock key to press! (xmodmapped it to Multi_key). Assuming Logitech some day manages to make a wireless keyboard that works, do you think they'd agree to replace our faulty ones for free?
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I have the Wireless Desktop as well. Should have just bought a wireless mouse. Half the time I try to type C-X C-S in xemacs I somehow end up inserting an "s" into the buffer. Playing Quake with that thing is out of the question - movement keys tend to get "stuck" and sometimes pressing and releasing again doesn't even help.
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People who want to sell (presumably) smart people a chair for $6300 should know better than to call their technology "zero-gravity ergonomics".
I see a problem besides the price. Where are you supposed to keep your books/pens/coke can?
Or for that matter, your computer?
Is this even for real?
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Use the -as n option when starting esd. "as" stands for auto-standby and will give up the sound device after n seconds of inactivity. If you do that, non esd-aware programs can grab write top /dev/dsp when esd isn't using it.
Usually if you have a program foo that doesn't support esd, you can run "esddsp foo" which does some tricks to make the program talk to esd.
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People should say what they feel right? He feels the system made up of the GNU stuff and the Linux kernel should be called GNU/Linux. Why does this upset people? Can't they just say "I disagree" and move on?
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Didn't some other judge rule that source code was indeed NOT "speech"?
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Perhaps ALT-N would work. The linux version of communicator 4.5 and probably all versions use the alt key for things like this. That doesn't necessarily mean it's the same in the windows version, but don't thinkj there isn't (or won't be in the final version) a way to do this kind of thing with the keyboard. What made you think that mozilla would use the same combos as IE5?
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If that happens we should point out that the setup is tailored to NT's strengths and Linux's weaknesses. Ask people to consider whether the hardware might have been chosen with that in mind.
Also ask them if they're going to be running these 4 processor, 4GB, 4nic machines in their businesses and point out that these results say nothing about how NT and Linux compare on more mundane machines.
Ask people to consider the following: Tests like these are expensive. MS has money, the Linux community doesn't. If Linux beats NT on some machines and NT beats Linux on others, you're never going to see test results for the systems where Linux is superior.
Last but not least we need to show that we don't sweep problems under the rug, we fix them.
--
People hear differently. People have different audio hardware. People like different kinds of music. All these factors play a part in determining how high a data rate is high enough for you. With crappy computer speakers blasting out heavy metal, the 128kbps MP3 is not the limiting factor. Someone listening to classical music with good headphones (Sennheiser HD580's perhaps) is quite likely to feel the limitations of that format.
On top of that, 128kbps from bladeenc is not the same as 128kbps from MP3 Compressor. It's a lot worse. (I choose these as examples because I've used them and heard the difference). Bladeenc is better at higher rates, like the 192kbps I'm using now.
To complicate matters further, I find that I'm now hearing faults in the MP3's I thought were flawless a few months ago. My brain is apparently training itself to pick up the flaws. How helpful.
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What's a Debian user to do? Use alien on the RPM or get the tarball?
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I guess my p200 with voodoo 1 won't be much good either. It would be nice to know what weighs more, the CPU performance or the 3D card. Will a p200 with a beefy card be ok?
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This was supposed to link to the story on SCO's CEO's comments. Could it be that the slashdot code is fouling up?
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He gets it. Few other outsiders get it. Many Linux users and Slashdot readers don't even get it.
What is it that he gets? It's the fact that Linux itself isn't the big deal. The big deal is the movement, or "religion", surrounding it. As I've said before: Linux could drop out of existance tomorrow and it wouldn't hurt us too much. We'd replace it, maybe with the Hurd, maybe with something else. The important thing is that there is a "We".
We can't blame the man for doing what he does with this insight, namely to use it to his company's advantage. That's his job and it seems he's pretty good at it.
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You can't really say that E is ugly. E doesn't have one particular look. It's themable. Even if all the themes are ugly, that's not a complaint against E.
--
There's another peripheral maker out there that just opened up the specs to a lot of its hardware -- specifically their joysticks -- so that open source drivers can now be written with ease. This company is Logitech.
This is the kind of thing I like to see, and I support the company by buying their products. The other day I went looking for a WingMan Interceptor but couldn't find it. I spoke to a salesman and explained how this new development had just made Logitech products more appealing to me and possibly other Linux users. He thanked me for the information and said he'd order a line of Logitech joysticks immediately.
As I explained to the salesman, I've used MS Sidewinders and I think they're excellent joysticks. And as he explained to me, Microsoft is beginning to dominate the market for high-quality input devices.
I have looked at what's happening with peripherals now and I've looked at what happened with browsers, word processors, spreadsheets, and operating systems in the past and I've drawn the following conclusion: If I choose Microsoft today, then tomorrow I may no longer have a choice.
PS. I bought the Logitech Cordless Desktop (it was impulse shopping at its worst). I love the pros, but I hate the cons. The keyboard has a tendency to think a key is still down after I've released it. This happens mostly with the movement keys while playing Q2 (grr!). Also, the sequence ^X^S^X^C usually fails at some point. Can other cordless keyboard users tell me if this is to be expected and if there's anything to be done to improve the situation? (I've observed the 8 inch radius guidelines and am withing 1.5m)
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A new type of crime: Audio laundering.
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Won't there be a watermark?
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Sometimes when walking down the street I imagine myself firing a railgun at passers by. I picture the blue spiral and try to imagine how it feels to hold that massive barrell as the shot goes off.
I'm not mentally ill, really!
However, I wouldn't tell this to the social worker charged with deciding whether I was allowed to raise children or not.
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In a thread about emulators (I think) I made an analogy with guns. I said something like "When somebody shoots your sister you don't blame Smith & Wesson". (Obviously that would be ridiculous.)
The following week I read about exactly that happening.
I don't live in a crap-free country either, but this is a class of crap above anything that could happen elsewhere.
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Let's not forget that when Excel first came out, it was considered a great product. People ran out and bought it in droves. Back then, the features were enough to sell the product, and I'd say even today, Excel would sell on features alone if by some magic, the compatibility issue disappeared.
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