I've had an Antec case similar to the one reviewed in Tom's Hardware Guide for about a year. Yes, it is pretty well-engineered, rugged, quiet and ergonomic.
There is a serious problem, however. The fans seem to pull dust in through the 5" drive bays. Whenever I open my white CD burner tray, it's coated with dust. If you put your hand right in front of the drive bays, you can feel the air getting sucked right through the drives. Air flow past a hard drive is one thing, but a CD burner is un-sealed, motorized, and requires a clean laser to work properly... I would never think of mounting an internal tape drive in this case for fear of dust issues.
It strikes me as a major flaw in this case, and one I have not experienced with any other case.
"The article also mentions how Macromedia is on a campaign to have its Flash plugin included in all Internet-compatible devices."
Excellent. How about a plug-in for Lynx? How about for FreeBSD's native Mozilla? How about releasing some *source code* so we can compile native FreeBSD flash?? FreeBSD is certainly an "internet capable device"; we'd love to have Flash!
Since Mozilla 0.9.8 seems to keep crashing (0.9.6 seemed to me to be the peak of stability for the browser), I've been using Konqueror a lot more.
It does make me miss good Mozilla things, like tabbed browsing. I've also run into a number of pages that Konqueror does not handle all that well, but I'm not sure if its due to standards violations in those pages or in Konqueror.
I might be missing it, but I also can't find a way to do a text zoom in Konqueror!
Konqueror seems to be as fast as Opera at rendering pages (but no in-gui ads!). And, for the paranoid, it handles cookie requests as well as... Lynx!
And Konqueror doesn't have a ton of dependencies like Galeon or skipstone... (it just depends on the whole of KDE!)
Best of all, Konqueror is *just* a web browser, which is something all the other browser projects should come to terms with. I am never going to use Mozilla's mail client, their news reader, or their HTML editor. In fact, the inclusion of these items tends to slow me down when I accidentally invoke them.
Wouldn't these massive browser projects benefit greatly by focusing on only *one thing*, like making a nice, fast, stable, standards-compliant browser? Isn't that hard enough?
Lately, when I build Mozilla, I choose not to build those components, which speeds up the build process nicely!
Nobody has mentioned that the HDTV rollout has been stymied deliberately -- by the media corporations who are reluctant to broadcast their best material throughout the airwaves. If THE MATRIX were broadcast in glorious HDTV, imagine the carnage! You could capture the non-compressed HDTV signal to a hard drive, and you'd actually have a video version of THE MATRIX that was superior to any version you could buy. Plus, you wouldn't have to worry about any DVD copy protection/region encoding.
In short, the media companies are terrified that this will put them out of business.
When I briefly owned an HDTV decoder, the manual's fine print read something like this: The HDTV broadcast standard is still emerging, and this decoder may not be able to decode all or any future HDTV broadcasts. (Especially since BIG MEDIA is still planning to implement copy protection to protect their crappy Hollywood assets.)
I sure wonder how pissed off Joe Early Adopter is going to be when he finds out his $700 set top decoder won't decode any HDTV signal worth watching!
Of course, since true copy protection of digital signals is probably impossible, I would probably bet that Big Media will do everything possible to delay and stymie the HDTV "rollout". Just like DAT.
Of the two 45 GB Deskstars I own, both of them have developed bad sectors at about the 1 year mark. IBM's drive fitness test can map around them, and they haven't (yet) failed again.
I rather wish FreeBSD would use a filesystem that can map around bad sectors. (I asked a few of my Microsoft friends if they had problems, but then realized that they probably wouldn't know if they had a bad sector under NTFS...)
I've been looking for a nice distribution-only list. Until now, I've used majordomo and GNU Mailman, but in each case I've had to spend a lot of time configuring them to reject posts, prohibit the detection of other lists, etc. I guess I feel like Majordomo/Mailman are just too much tool for what I'm doing.
I think the features that are needed are:
- fast delivery/processing
- bounce detection/removal
- automatic unsubscribe facilities
This doesn't solve the problem necessarily. If you add a tag fairly high up the hierarchy, you could end up shifting a lot of content in an indentation level. The content has hardly changed, but the diff is huge.
This assumes your standardized XML is indented, as it often is. I think the ideal CVS filter would be to have *no* indentation.
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I've had an Antec case similar to the one reviewed in Tom's Hardware Guide for about a year. Yes, it is pretty well-engineered, rugged, quiet and ergonomic.
There is a serious problem, however. The fans seem to pull dust in through the 5" drive bays. Whenever I open my white CD burner tray, it's coated with dust. If you put your hand right in front of the drive bays, you can feel the air getting sucked right through the drives. Air flow past a hard drive is one thing, but a CD burner is un-sealed, motorized, and requires a clean laser to work properly... I would never think of mounting an internal tape drive in this case for fear of dust issues.
It strikes me as a major flaw in this case, and one I have not experienced with any other case.
"The article also mentions how Macromedia is on a campaign to have its Flash plugin included in all Internet-compatible devices."
Excellent. How about a plug-in for Lynx? How about for FreeBSD's native Mozilla? How about releasing some *source code* so we can compile native FreeBSD flash?? FreeBSD is certainly an "internet capable device"; we'd love to have Flash!
- tomRakewell
Since Mozilla 0.9.8 seems to keep crashing (0.9.6 seemed to me to be the peak of stability for the browser), I've been using Konqueror a lot more.
It does make me miss good Mozilla things, like tabbed browsing. I've also run into a number of pages that Konqueror does not handle all that well, but I'm not sure if its due to standards violations in those pages or in Konqueror.
I might be missing it, but I also can't find a way to do a text zoom in Konqueror!
Konqueror seems to be as fast as Opera at rendering pages (but no in-gui ads!). And, for the paranoid, it handles cookie requests as well as... Lynx!
And Konqueror doesn't have a ton of dependencies like Galeon or skipstone... (it just depends on the whole of KDE!)
Best of all, Konqueror is *just* a web browser, which is something all the other browser projects should come to terms with. I am never going to use Mozilla's mail client, their news reader, or their HTML editor. In fact, the inclusion of these items tends to slow me down when I accidentally invoke them.
Wouldn't these massive browser projects benefit greatly by focusing on only *one thing*, like making a nice, fast, stable, standards-compliant browser? Isn't that hard enough?
Lately, when I build Mozilla, I choose not to build those components, which speeds up the build process nicely!
Nobody has mentioned that the HDTV rollout has been stymied deliberately -- by the media corporations who are reluctant to broadcast their best material throughout the airwaves. If THE MATRIX were broadcast in glorious HDTV, imagine the carnage! You could capture the non-compressed HDTV signal to a hard drive, and you'd actually have a video version of THE MATRIX that was superior to any version you could buy. Plus, you wouldn't have to worry about any DVD copy protection/region encoding.
In short, the media companies are terrified that this will put them out of business.
When I briefly owned an HDTV decoder, the manual's fine print read something like this: The HDTV broadcast standard is still emerging, and this decoder may not be able to decode all or any future HDTV broadcasts. (Especially since BIG MEDIA is still planning to implement copy protection to protect their crappy Hollywood assets.)
I sure wonder how pissed off Joe Early Adopter is going to be when he finds out his $700 set top decoder won't decode any HDTV signal worth watching!
Of course, since true copy protection of digital signals is probably impossible, I would probably bet that Big Media will do everything possible to delay and stymie the HDTV "rollout". Just like DAT.
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tomRakewell
Of the two 45 GB Deskstars I own, both of them have developed bad sectors at about the 1 year mark. IBM's drive fitness test can map around them, and they haven't (yet) failed again.
I rather wish FreeBSD would use a filesystem that can map around bad sectors. (I asked a few of my Microsoft friends if they had problems, but then realized that they probably wouldn't know if they had a bad sector under NTFS...)
I've been looking for a nice distribution-only list. Until now, I've used majordomo and GNU Mailman, but in each case I've had to spend a lot of time configuring them to reject posts, prohibit the detection of other lists, etc. I guess I feel like Majordomo/Mailman are just too much tool for what I'm doing.
I think the features that are needed are:
- fast delivery/processing
- bounce detection/removal
- automatic unsubscribe facilities
Anybody know of any good distribution only lists?
This doesn't solve the problem necessarily. If you add a tag fairly high up the hierarchy, you could end up shifting a lot of content in an indentation level. The content has hardly changed, but the diff is huge.
This assumes your standardized XML is indented, as it often is. I think the ideal CVS filter would be to have *no* indentation.