Google should add two simple options (check-boxes) to its search. "Omit blogs" and "Omit commerce sites". Those two options, if they could be cleanly implemented, would improve the search results enormously. And they wouldn't even have to be perfect, it would be fine if a blog-filtered search still had some blog results, or a commerce-filtered search still had some commerce related sites in it. Heck, just reduce them by a third or half and it would still help a lot.
Actually slashdot doesn't have as much google juice as you might think. Try installing the Firefox extention that displays the page rank of each page down in the corner of the browser. Most of slashdot pages are PR 2 or3, while others aren't even ranked (usually the more obscure sections, bsd.slashdot developers.slashdot etc.) The main page is only PR 5. In comparison a dinky little FAQ site I run is PR 8 just because various sites point to it. However I can damn well assure you that there are more inbound links from high PR sites to slashdot than to my FAQ page, so it is NOT just a matter of the number of links and the PR of the linking sites.
Google is full of a lot of really bright people and I think they figured out about 6 years ago that sites that are overflowing with links (like slashdot with its thousands of pages each with links to various random shit in stories, posts, sigs, etc.) should be trusted less than more normal sites. This has got to dilute its PR.
Oh baloney. Most every slashdot "story" is a blatant copy and paste from the first paragraph of an actual publication, and what meagre original content may be present in the writeup is penned by someone with no concept of proper grammar or spelling, often in broken, incomplete sentences. The Pulitzer committee would be laughed off the face of the earth for rewarding this kind of "journalism" with any sort of reward.
If you know anything about webhosting you know that cPanel/WHM (and competitors, e.g. DirectAdmin, Fantastico, etc) still support the stodgy old Apache 1.3/mod_php model. The vast majority of sites out there run on cPanel or some other type of shared/reseller type of control panel/managed hosting software. Until this changes, don't expect Apache 2.0 to make any inroads.
That said, everyone should hope 1.x to die ASAP. Basically the Apache developers have to do double duty maintaining two completely seperate branches. If everyone could let 1.3 die then there would be a LOT more manpower available to concentrate on 2.0. For many many years they have said that no new features are going into 1.3 -- everything is happening on 2.x. Yet they still have to maintain security fixes and chase down bugs on the 1.3 branch which is very creaky. There is a reason, after all, that they decided to rewrite everything for 2.x.
If you bought the game then Valve has your $50 and you should feel no shame for using a crack to avoid talking to Steam servers. The plain fact is that if you know where to look you will ALWAYS find an appropriate crack or patch to avoid all traces of Steam and its ilk.
So if you want to play a game, and support the company that made it, and at the same time feel secure that it will always be installable and playable, then just download the friggin crack and STFU.
My guess is that they have the electric motors on the outer edge of the place, not on the inside. It could come with two motors per floor at opposing points of the circle. Since the place probably doesn't rotate extremely fast, even at the highest setting, then the motors wouldn't need to drain a ton of power.
Welcome to Physics Non-Sequitur Of The Week.
You see, it doesn't matter where you place the motors. If you place them near the pivot they are going to be high-torque, low-rpm. If you place them near the edge they will be higher RPM but lower torque. However, it doesn't matter where you place them as the work done is exactly the same regardless and assuming equal rotational rates, that means the same power. As long as the thing is turning at a given fixed rate, it doesn't matter what the radius of the placement of the motors, the amount of power needed is the same.
Thank you for proving that science education is at a low point in the modern age.
They pulled it from the site because stock windows XP does this in the background during idle time anyway. They claim you do not need to run bootvis explicitly, and should not do so unless you're writing kernel drivers or are a system integrator or something esoteric like that. From the site:
Please note that Bootvis.exe is not a tool that will improve boot/resume performance for end users. Contrary to some published reports, Bootvis.exe cannot reduce or alter a system's boot or resume performance. The boot optimization routines invoked by Bootvis.exe are built into Windows XP. These routines run automatically at pre-determined times as part of the normal operation of the operating system.
There's nothing that MS can do that would please the slashbots. Use MS technology exclusively and they're derided because they would never pick up on interoperability/standards issues (at least not until they got to the costly QA stage.) Use a mixed technology platform for in-house systems and they're derided for not eating their own dog food.
Sure they don't have a legal basis for preventing you from selling game items... on the other hand they DO have a legal basis to terminate your account or the account that posesses the traded object. It's their server, their rules, etc. So in effect they can't prevent you from selling the items but they sure can make sure that the parties involved get their accounts disabled if they can show that the items were sold outside of the game.
When they ask you how much you weigh, tell them you are grossly overweight (regardless of if you are or not.) That seemed to stop them from bugging me for a while (~10 years ago.)
It shows you ALL the locations where programs are automatically started (there are lots of them!) It shows you the path to the executable, and can show you its properties (filename, description, module name, version, etc. -- all the info fields embedded in the.exe), and lets you remove the entry with a single click.
It's probably because he's using NetGeo to do the ip address -> geographical location lookup. That service has been abandoned, unmaintained, and out of date for years now. It's a joke. It gets the country wrong all the time, it's just a really old and stale database. I wish someone would remove it from CPAN so that people would stop using it, it's worse than useless.
If you would like to see the supported hardware for x86, here is the link. It might save someone a few seconds if you just want to see what the current state of drivers is. And, in my case, it was good: they support both cardbus ethernet adaptors in my laptop, which is what I was looking for.:)
Each student upon entering the school is provided with a laptop computer.
I can never understand when someone says this triumphantly as if somehow this benevolent school somehow materialized the parts and technology for a laptop out of thin air and produces them for free in a basement somewhere.
You should really be saying, "The school requires each student to purchase an expensive laptop as part of the tuition cost." I'm sure it's a very nice laptop, and I'm sure that forcing everyone to buy one does add a certain amount of convenience... But it's not like something is being provided to you for free. I'm sure there are some students who would secretly rather have lower student loan debt and just read hotmail on the library's computers.
Difficulty in pirating HL2? Where have you been? There have been several releases of the game (by EMPORiO and VENGEANCE) that run perfectly without steam and no network connection. With the hl2dm updates you can even play online on legit server without a cdkey thanks to the steam emulator that someone wrote. In fact the people that pirated the game just sat back and played it without any of those steam headaches that everyone who shelled out cash for it had to suffer through.
HL2 has been no harder than any other game to pirate, I don't know what you're smoking. In fact thanks to steam it's a lot faster and easier to play the pirated version compared to buying it.
It's a common misconception that Windows XP is just the same old 2k with themes. There were actually a large number of kernel level improvements. Things such as prefetching and volume shadow copy are NOT just fancy feel-good eye candy.
Case in point, Half-Life 2. It's my understanding that in order to get reviews of the game out in a timely manner, the reviewers had to play the game in the Valve offices.
So ignore those reviews and read the ones written by people who tested the game after it was released. I don't understand the obsession with having to have all reviews completed before the game is even released. Just have some patience and wait for decent reviews by people whose heads aren't up $game_company's posterior.
Only in RAM. And only because RAM is addressed using a binary system. Hard disks are not. They are an arbitrary size with an arbitrary number of platters, and an arbitrary numbr of cylinders. A base 2 system makes no sense for these.
Baloney. The atomic unit (sector size) of every modern HD is 512 bytes. Thus all HD operations (read/write) occur on base-2 aligned sector boundaries. At the level the filesystem is speaking to the controller and drive, it's requesting sectors, not arbitrary byte-ranges.
It's almost like HD designers years ago realized that these things would be working in concert with the CPU and memory subsystems, both of which are deeply rooted in base-2 arithmetic. Hey look, four 512 byte sectors correspond exactly to one 4kb page, the standard page size in most all x86 MMU implementations.
If you take that to its logical conclusion you'd never buy anything, because there will always be something that's [faster, cheaper, smaller] in the future.
You can actually set the name and location of "Documents and Settings" at install time with a response file. For example, create a file named "Winnt.sif" containing the following and put it on a floppy:
The two relevent settings here are TargetPath (which lets you set the Windows directory) and ProfilesDir which lets you set the "Documents and Settings" location. I searched for a way to set "Program Files" but apparently this is tied to the language/localization of Windows and cannot be set. (the closest you can come is to just install applications to an alternate directory - but there will be some still installed under Program Files by the stupid system.)
Regarding the command line - drop that CMD.EXE shit and get a real bash prompt from Cygwin. Then you can mount or symlink paths to whereever you want them - I use/pgf for "c:\Program Files" and so on.
Well obviously it could be gamed by either side. Users could pledge and then cancel the CC, and so on. The game company could deliver an inferior product. But neither is really adventageous to the people involved: the game company would generate more ill-will with a stunt like that than any money they would get. You don't help the company's bottom line by being infantile and royally screwing a large number of gamers - they do tend to talk to each other and share their experiences.
Likewise the whole point of the thing from the user's standpoint is to demonstrate a willingness to the company. Signing up and then not following through misses the point completely and does harm to the cause. Everyone that signs up should be doing it because they want to support the company in return for a native linux port. Jerking them around is counter to that. So, you have to weed out the people that don't plan to follow-through, by making it into a binding contract type of deal.
Someone should really make a "Linux gaming pledge" site. By that I mean a site where you sign up and basically pledge to the software publisher, "If you were to release a native linux version of $some_game I would gladly pay $current_average_retail_MSRP for it." And it would be a legally binding contract. If the publisher did nothing, then no one would ever end up paying anything. If the publisher released a native-linux version then everyone that signed up would be legally bound to buy it. You might have to do something along the lines of collecting real names and CC #s (not charging them, but verifying them in some way) to ensure that everyone who signs up means business. But I think it could be done. You could optionally have a check-box during signup that says "Oh, and I hereby state that I have not bought the win32 version and do not plan to" for extra emphasis that they are losing money not supporting linux.
If that sort of thing existed, then you could make a solid financial statement to the gaming publishers: "If you released $some_game now for linux you would have a guaranteed sale of $n copies." And hopefully it would also demonstrate to publishers of games in early development periods that by choosing an engine that is portable they will increase their marketshare.
However, it requires a real commitment from the linux gamers -- not just posting on forums that "oh yeah I'd buy that if it were out." The cynical side of me tends to think that the linux gaming community really doesn't have the balls to sign up for such a site, and is actually content to just buy the win32 version and keep a windows installation hanging around on the side to game with.
He didn't say that his version of winamp lacked ogg support. He implied that he went looking for a suitable replacement for winamp and one of the required features was ogg support, which was satisfied by Quintessential. In fact by my interpretation that means that he was using ogg support with winamp since it was a requirement for his replacement.
He wasn't trying to say "damn winamp didn't support ogg." Rather, he was implying that when he read that winamp might go unsupported he went seeking a "currently supported and developed" program to replace the one he thought was dead, and found a player that he likes more in the process.
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Google should add two simple options (check-boxes) to its search. "Omit blogs" and "Omit commerce sites". Those two options, if they could be cleanly implemented, would improve the search results enormously. And they wouldn't even have to be perfect, it would be fine if a blog-filtered search still had some blog results, or a commerce-filtered search still had some commerce related sites in it. Heck, just reduce them by a third or half and it would still help a lot.
Actually slashdot doesn't have as much google juice as you might think. Try installing the Firefox extention that displays the page rank of each page down in the corner of the browser. Most of slashdot pages are PR 2 or3, while others aren't even ranked (usually the more obscure sections, bsd.slashdot developers.slashdot etc.) The main page is only PR 5. In comparison a dinky little FAQ site I run is PR 8 just because various sites point to it. However I can damn well assure you that there are more inbound links from high PR sites to slashdot than to my FAQ page, so it is NOT just a matter of the number of links and the PR of the linking sites.
Google is full of a lot of really bright people and I think they figured out about 6 years ago that sites that are overflowing with links (like slashdot with its thousands of pages each with links to various random shit in stories, posts, sigs, etc.) should be trusted less than more normal sites. This has got to dilute its PR.
Oh baloney. Most every slashdot "story" is a blatant copy and paste from the first paragraph of an actual publication, and what meagre original content may be present in the writeup is penned by someone with no concept of proper grammar or spelling, often in broken, incomplete sentences. The Pulitzer committee would be laughed off the face of the earth for rewarding this kind of "journalism" with any sort of reward.
If you know anything about webhosting you know that cPanel/WHM (and competitors, e.g. DirectAdmin, Fantastico, etc) still support the stodgy old Apache 1.3/mod_php model. The vast majority of sites out there run on cPanel or some other type of shared/reseller type of control panel/managed hosting software. Until this changes, don't expect Apache 2.0 to make any inroads.
That said, everyone should hope 1.x to die ASAP. Basically the Apache developers have to do double duty maintaining two completely seperate branches. If everyone could let 1.3 die then there would be a LOT more manpower available to concentrate on 2.0. For many many years they have said that no new features are going into 1.3 -- everything is happening on 2.x. Yet they still have to maintain security fixes and chase down bugs on the 1.3 branch which is very creaky. There is a reason, after all, that they decided to rewrite everything for 2.x.
Christ, if I had a nickel for everyone clamoring about Steam not necessarily existing in the future I'd be rich.
The pirate/cracker community will always have a way around this.
If you bought the game then Valve has your $50 and you should feel no shame for using a crack to avoid talking to Steam servers. The plain fact is that if you know where to look you will ALWAYS find an appropriate crack or patch to avoid all traces of Steam and its ilk.
So if you want to play a game, and support the company that made it, and at the same time feel secure that it will always be installable and playable, then just download the friggin crack and STFU.
Welcome to Physics Non-Sequitur Of The Week.
You see, it doesn't matter where you place the motors. If you place them near the pivot they are going to be high-torque, low-rpm. If you place them near the edge they will be higher RPM but lower torque. However, it doesn't matter where you place them as the work done is exactly the same regardless and assuming equal rotational rates, that means the same power. As long as the thing is turning at a given fixed rate, it doesn't matter what the radius of the placement of the motors, the amount of power needed is the same.
Thank you for proving that science education is at a low point in the modern age.
There's nothing that MS can do that would please the slashbots. Use MS technology exclusively and they're derided because they would never pick up on interoperability/standards issues (at least not until they got to the costly QA stage.) Use a mixed technology platform for in-house systems and they're derided for not eating their own dog food.
Sure they don't have a legal basis for preventing you from selling game items... on the other hand they DO have a legal basis to terminate your account or the account that posesses the traded object. It's their server, their rules, etc. So in effect they can't prevent you from selling the items but they sure can make sure that the parties involved get their accounts disabled if they can show that the items were sold outside of the game.
When they ask you how much you weigh, tell them you are grossly overweight (regardless of if you are or not.) That seemed to stop them from bugging me for a while (~10 years ago.)
autoruns from sysinternals.com is a much better way compared to using regedit by hand.
.exe), and lets you remove the entry with a single click.
It shows you ALL the locations where programs are automatically started (there are lots of them!) It shows you the path to the executable, and can show you its properties (filename, description, module name, version, etc. -- all the info fields embedded in the
It's probably because he's using NetGeo to do the ip address -> geographical location lookup. That service has been abandoned, unmaintained, and out of date for years now. It's a joke. It gets the country wrong all the time, it's just a really old and stale database. I wish someone would remove it from CPAN so that people would stop using it, it's worse than useless.
If you would like to see the supported hardware for x86, here is the link. It might save someone a few seconds if you just want to see what the current state of drivers is. And, in my case, it was good: they support both cardbus ethernet adaptors in my laptop, which is what I was looking for. :)
Each student upon entering the school is provided with a laptop computer.
I can never understand when someone says this triumphantly as if somehow this benevolent school somehow materialized the parts and technology for a laptop out of thin air and produces them for free in a basement somewhere.
You should really be saying, "The school requires each student to purchase an expensive laptop as part of the tuition cost." I'm sure it's a very nice laptop, and I'm sure that forcing everyone to buy one does add a certain amount of convenience... But it's not like something is being provided to you for free. I'm sure there are some students who would secretly rather have lower student loan debt and just read hotmail on the library's computers.
Difficulty in pirating HL2? Where have you been? There have been several releases of the game (by EMPORiO and VENGEANCE) that run perfectly without steam and no network connection. With the hl2dm updates you can even play online on legit server without a cdkey thanks to the steam emulator that someone wrote. In fact the people that pirated the game just sat back and played it without any of those steam headaches that everyone who shelled out cash for it had to suffer through.
HL2 has been no harder than any other game to pirate, I don't know what you're smoking. In fact thanks to steam it's a lot faster and easier to play the pirated version compared to buying it.
It's a common misconception that Windows XP is just the same old 2k with themes. There were actually a large number of kernel level improvements. Things such as prefetching and volume shadow copy are NOT just fancy feel-good eye candy.
They sort-of already did, indirectly...
So ignore those reviews and read the ones written by people who tested the game after it was released. I don't understand the obsession with having to have all reviews completed before the game is even released. Just have some patience and wait for decent reviews by people whose heads aren't up $game_company's posterior.
Baloney. The atomic unit (sector size) of every modern HD is 512 bytes. Thus all HD operations (read/write) occur on base-2 aligned sector boundaries. At the level the filesystem is speaking to the controller and drive, it's requesting sectors, not arbitrary byte-ranges.
It's almost like HD designers years ago realized that these things would be working in concert with the CPU and memory subsystems, both of which are deeply rooted in base-2 arithmetic. Hey look, four 512 byte sectors correspond exactly to one 4kb page, the standard page size in most all x86 MMU implementations.
Calm down. The article submitter didn't know what he was talking about. Deep linking works fine.
If you take that to its logical conclusion you'd never buy anything, because there will always be something that's [faster, cheaper, smaller] in the future.
The two relevent settings here are TargetPath (which lets you set the Windows directory) and ProfilesDir which lets you set the "Documents and Settings" location. I searched for a way to set "Program Files" but apparently this is tied to the language/localization of Windows and cannot be set. (the closest you can come is to just install applications to an alternate directory - but there will be some still installed under Program Files by the stupid system.)
Regarding the command line - drop that CMD.EXE shit and get a real bash prompt from Cygwin. Then you can mount or symlink paths to whereever you want them - I use
Well obviously it could be gamed by either side. Users could pledge and then cancel the CC, and so on. The game company could deliver an inferior product. But neither is really adventageous to the people involved: the game company would generate more ill-will with a stunt like that than any money they would get. You don't help the company's bottom line by being infantile and royally screwing a large number of gamers - they do tend to talk to each other and share their experiences.
Likewise the whole point of the thing from the user's standpoint is to demonstrate a willingness to the company. Signing up and then not following through misses the point completely and does harm to the cause. Everyone that signs up should be doing it because they want to support the company in return for a native linux port. Jerking them around is counter to that. So, you have to weed out the people that don't plan to follow-through, by making it into a binding contract type of deal.
Someone should really make a "Linux gaming pledge" site. By that I mean a site where you sign up and basically pledge to the software publisher, "If you were to release a native linux version of $some_game I would gladly pay $current_average_retail_MSRP for it." And it would be a legally binding contract. If the publisher did nothing, then no one would ever end up paying anything. If the publisher released a native-linux version then everyone that signed up would be legally bound to buy it. You might have to do something along the lines of collecting real names and CC #s (not charging them, but verifying them in some way) to ensure that everyone who signs up means business. But I think it could be done. You could optionally have a check-box during signup that says "Oh, and I hereby state that I have not bought the win32 version and do not plan to" for extra emphasis that they are losing money not supporting linux.
If that sort of thing existed, then you could make a solid financial statement to the gaming publishers: "If you released $some_game now for linux you would have a guaranteed sale of $n copies." And hopefully it would also demonstrate to publishers of games in early development periods that by choosing an engine that is portable they will increase their marketshare.
However, it requires a real commitment from the linux gamers -- not just posting on forums that "oh yeah I'd buy that if it were out." The cynical side of me tends to think that the linux gaming community really doesn't have the balls to sign up for such a site, and is actually content to just buy the win32 version and keep a windows installation hanging around on the side to game with.
He didn't say that his version of winamp lacked ogg support. He implied that he went looking for a suitable replacement for winamp and one of the required features was ogg support, which was satisfied by Quintessential. In fact by my interpretation that means that he was using ogg support with winamp since it was a requirement for his replacement.
He wasn't trying to say "damn winamp didn't support ogg." Rather, he was implying that when he read that winamp might go unsupported he went seeking a "currently supported and developed" program to replace the one he thought was dead, and found a player that he likes more in the process.