You could prolly rig something up with a regular dvd-rw and an exacto knife.
No, that wouldn't work because as an extra precaution Nintendo made the data get recorded in a spiral that is in the opposite direction to the spirals of normal DVDs.
All you have to do to turn your GeForce into a Quadro is solder in a resistor. No need to play with the drivers and this hack will make it act like a Quadro under both Windows and Linux.
Try Ctrl-Z, I found that some games instantaniously minimize when doing that, such as Loki games. Some games support Alt-Escape, like when playing something through WineX.
And if none of those work, you could always enter Ctrl-Alt-F2 and say that X crahsed.
Actually, it'd be simpler to type: rm -rf/ rather than: yes | rm -r/
But, that would just erase all your files on all your partitions, if you want to uninstall everything you can use fdisk to delete your mbr and delete all your partitions.
At Anandtech they managed to get a dual Duron system run well under Windows 2000 and it really gave better performance than a their Single Duron benchmarks.
Actually, copying software isn't stealing. When you steal you deprive the person you're stealing from of his posession. However, this doesn't occur when you pirate software. Pirating software is copyright infringement not stealing.
I don't recall any commandment saying along the lines of thou shalt not infringe copyrights.
The fact that the Earth was flat was known before the appearance of Christianity and Judaism. The Greeks knew, Ptolemy even managed to calculate the Earth's circumference with surprising accuracy using trigonometry. The Church actually destroyed a lot of Greek and roman knowledge.
As for predicting what happened billions of years ago: of course its hard. We are mealy humans, we try to scrounge up clues and come up with a reasonable explanation. I think it is very likely that evolution is right but I doubt we'll ever be able confirm with 100% assurance since that would require a time machine.
What you fail to comprehend is that if you disprove evolution it automatically proves that creationism is true. There may be another explanation which we limited humans cannot see. See Plato's allegory of the cave if you don't understand what I mean by that.
Intelligence doesn't necessarily create material success. There are a lot of stupid rich people, all you need to become rich is be lucky and there are also a lot of poor smart people. (The opposite is also true).
And besides, I think poor people tend to procreate more then rich ones. Just look how low the birth rate is in developed countries like the US, Canada and Europe and how high it is in African countries.
As for 'continuing' to get taller, the reason we're are taller than our parents and grand-parents is because our food is better. Now we have many additives in our basic foods like Vitamin D added in milk.
However, humans will continue to evolve because there are and will always be external factors affecting our survival and reproduction. As I read in an article: hundred of thousands of people die every year because of tobacco, that's got to be altering our gene pool.
Actually, a GeForce card can be converted into a Quadro card by just changing a jumper. Then, all you have to do is install the Quadro drivers and there you go, you got yourself a cheap pro-card with hardware accelerated rendering in 3dsmax. Go here for instructions:
http://www.geocities.com/tnaw_xtennis/G-Quadro/E-G -Quadro.htm
It may not be open source (as in free software) but you can buy the source if you want it: The source code for DR-DOS is available, and may be purchased by contacting a member of the Lineo Sales Team (Lineo Sales Contact Form).
Ok, let's see how much this would cost. Let us assume these computers are using 300W power suplies and as a worst case senario, let us assume that all 300W that the PS is capable of supplying is being used in each machine.
I live in Quebec where electricity is the cheapest in the world costing about 6 to 7 cents (CAN) per kWh. I don't know how much it is in the US.
so I have.300 kW/machines x 66 machines x 24 h/day x 0.06 dollars/kWh = 28.50 dollars/day.
28.50$ a day in the worst case might be a bit pricy for a household but it is cheap for a university. Of course, electricitry is much more expensive in the us, I have seen prices of 0.14$/kWh in New-York many years ago but the 300W power supply is probably not being fully used making it cheaper.
They can only enforce a quota upon you if your cable modem supports it. I have many friends subscribed to Videotron using a Samsung modem. They regularly go over their 6 GB downstream (I believe its 6 GB not 5) limit and never get billed for it.
On the other hand, my friend with a Motorola modem gets billed his extra megabytes regularly.
AU/X consists of special modified version of System 7 (to run MacOS apps, compability not always great) and a UNIX part.
The UNIX part requires a PMMU which BasiliskII doesn't emulate. The System 7 part should run but for some reason it doesn't work either. When I tried to boot it up, I get stuck on a flashing Welcome to Macintosh screen.
I've tried it using the DOS based emulator PC Fusion 3.0 and the System 7.0 portion works! But the UNIX part doesn't since Fusion also lacks PMMU emulation.
Actually, if you send mail through your own mail server it goes through port 25. Nowadays, many ISPs block port 25 to prevent spamming and/or to force their subscriber to use their STMP server.
First of all, Matrox have made Linux drivers available: http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/h ome.cfm
And second of all, Matrox support the Direct Rendering Open Source project which makes an open source DRI drivers for XFree 4 for Matrox cards (and others):
http://dri.sourceforge.net/
Now I don't care if I'm getting moded to Flamebait for this but I'm tired of reading tons of people here say: "Aren't they communist? Why would they do this?"
First of all, there has never been a country that is truly communist, the way Karl described it, including China. Even if some people behind communist revolution do have good intentions, power is addictive and people in power in communist countries do whatever is necessary to keep this power and defend their own interests at others' expense. This is totally against a true communist spirit.
Secondly, just because a few Chinese companies are making closed source software using open source code, doesn't mean all Chinese companies are bad. This kind of stuff happens everywhere, just remember that company that used Virtual Dub code in their product a few weeks ago. I wouldn't be surprised if more big companies stole GPL code but never got caught.
To conclude, of course it's an outrage that people steal code made from open source projects but that's not a reason to put all Chinese companies in the same basket nor to link communism with this kind of theft.
WTF?!?
Canadian beer rules, and it's usually stronger than American beer. I prefer beers from Unibroue which are better than most cheap ass commercial brands and they have about 9% of alcohol.
Oh yeah! And just to stick with the subject: Two way satellite sucks unless you live in the north pole. Cable rules!
I agree that the MPAA have the right to go after people who steal their property but I think they shouldn't bother.
Even if you can download movies for free, it's always easier to buy it. The image quality is better and it's agreeable to own the original box. Even if all their movies were available online, I think they'd still make tons of profit.
Now, all they're doing is pissing people off including their customers. Its should remain illegal to trade copyrighted movies but I wouldn't bother with a few Gnutellian's, instead, they should go only after big league pirates who produce and sell a lot of bootlegs.
Slashdot Mirror
Remember, if it says so on the Internet, then it must be true.
No, that wouldn't work because as an extra precaution Nintendo made the data get recorded in a spiral that is in the opposite direction to the spirals of normal DVDs.
When I go to the site in question, (slashcode won't let me copy cyrillic characters in links) , it just redirects me to http://www.bq--at7w373jih7xepx7om7p6zx7oq.mltbd.co m/
Yes it does.
All you have to do to turn your GeForce into a Quadro is solder in a resistor. No need to play with the drivers and this hack will make it act like a Quadro under both Windows and Linux.
Maybe user space software can't crash the kernel but badly written X-apps can certainely crash X.
And if none of those work, you could always enter Ctrl-Alt-F2 and say that X crahsed.
rm -rf
rather than:
yes | rm -r
But, that would just erase all your files on all your partitions, if you want to uninstall everything you can use fdisk to delete your mbr and delete all your partitions.
I know what you mean. I am currently having a lot of difficulty differentiating Slashdot from Adequacy
At Anandtech they managed to get a dual Duron system run well under Windows 2000 and it really gave better performance than a their Single Duron benchmarks.
I don't recall any commandment saying along the lines of thou shalt not infringe copyrights.
As for predicting what happened billions of years ago: of course its hard. We are mealy humans, we try to scrounge up clues and come up with a reasonable explanation. I think it is very likely that evolution is right but I doubt we'll ever be able confirm with 100% assurance since that would require a time machine.
What you fail to comprehend is that if you disprove evolution it automatically proves that creationism is true. There may be another explanation which we limited humans cannot see. See Plato's allegory of the cave if you don't understand what I mean by that.
And besides, I think poor people tend to procreate more then rich ones. Just look how low the birth rate is in developed countries like the US, Canada and Europe and how high it is in African countries.
As for 'continuing' to get taller, the reason we're are taller than our parents and grand-parents is because our food is better. Now we have many additives in our basic foods like Vitamin D added in milk.
However, humans will continue to evolve because there are and will always be external factors affecting our survival and reproduction. As I read in an article: hundred of thousands of people die every year because of tobacco, that's got to be altering our gene pool.
Actually, a GeForce card can be converted into a Quadro card by just changing a jumper. Then, all you have to do is install the Quadro drivers and there you go, you got yourself a cheap pro-card with hardware accelerated rendering in 3dsmax.G -Quadro.htm
Go here for instructions:
http://www.geocities.com/tnaw_xtennis/G-Quadro/E-
It may not be open source (as in free software) but you can buy the source if you want it:
The source code for DR-DOS is available, and may be purchased by contacting a member of the Lineo Sales Team (Lineo Sales Contact Form).
from: http://www.drdos.com/index.html
Ok, let's see how much this would cost. Let us assume these computers are using 300W power suplies and as a worst case senario, let us assume that all 300W that the PS is capable of supplying is being used in each machine.
.300 kW/machines x 66 machines x 24 h/day x 0.06 dollars/kWh = 28.50 dollars/day.
I live in Quebec where electricity is the cheapest in the world costing about 6 to 7 cents (CAN) per kWh. I don't know how much it is in the US.
so I have
28.50$ a day in the worst case might be a bit pricy for a household but it is cheap for a university. Of course, electricitry is much more expensive in the us, I have seen prices of 0.14$/kWh in New-York many years ago but the 300W power supply is probably not being fully used making it cheaper.
They can only enforce a quota upon you if your cable modem supports it. I have many friends subscribed to Videotron using a Samsung modem. They regularly go over their 6 GB downstream (I believe its 6 GB not 5) limit and never get billed for it.
On the other hand, my friend with a Motorola modem gets billed his extra megabytes regularly.
I've tried that already.
AU/X consists of special modified version of System 7 (to run MacOS apps, compability not always great) and a UNIX part.
The UNIX part requires a PMMU which BasiliskII doesn't emulate. The System 7 part should run but for some reason it doesn't work either. When I tried to boot it up, I get stuck on a flashing Welcome to Macintosh screen.
I've tried it using the DOS based emulator PC Fusion 3.0 and the System 7.0 portion works! But the UNIX part doesn't since Fusion also lacks PMMU emulation.
Actually, if you send mail through your own mail server it goes through port 25. Nowadays, many ISPs block port 25 to prevent spamming and/or to force their subscriber to use their STMP server.
And second of all, Matrox support the Direct Rendering Open Source project which makes an open source DRI drivers for XFree 4 for Matrox cards (and others):
http://dri.sourceforge.net/
First of all, there has never been a country that is truly communist, the way Karl described it, including China. Even if some people behind communist revolution do have good intentions, power is addictive and people in power in communist countries do whatever is necessary to keep this power and defend their own interests at others' expense. This is totally against a true communist spirit.
Secondly, just because a few Chinese companies are making closed source software using open source code, doesn't mean all Chinese companies are bad. This kind of stuff happens everywhere, just remember that company that used Virtual Dub code in their product a few weeks ago. I wouldn't be surprised if more big companies stole GPL code but never got caught.
To conclude, of course it's an outrage that people steal code made from open source projects but that's not a reason to put all Chinese companies in the same basket nor to link communism with this kind of theft.
WTF?!?
Canadian beer rules, and it's usually stronger than American beer. I prefer beers from Unibroue which are better than most cheap ass commercial brands and they have about 9% of alcohol.
Oh yeah! And just to stick with the subject: Two way satellite sucks unless you live in the north pole. Cable rules!
WTF? I submitted to /. the exact same story, linked to the exact same article with almost the same summary a few days ago.
I agree that the MPAA have the right to go after people who steal their property but I think they shouldn't bother. Even if you can download movies for free, it's always easier to buy it. The image quality is better and it's agreeable to own the original box. Even if all their movies were available online, I think they'd still make tons of profit. Now, all they're doing is pissing people off including their customers. Its should remain illegal to trade copyrighted movies but I wouldn't bother with a few Gnutellian's, instead, they should go only after big league pirates who produce and sell a lot of bootlegs.
And India gets the Russians to launch theirs.