a lot of the components we use are cheaper to assemble with manpower.
Or more specifically from what I've seen, asian womanpower. They're damn good with their hands. Even at the York (heating/air conditioning manf) company there were only asian women handling the delicate stuff like wiring up switchboxes.
This isn't funny at all. Tweaker usually refers to someone on speed or methamphetamines. It's someone that involuntarily twitches and acts 'tweaked out'. Heroin users on the other hand tend to be more calm. The exact opposite of a tweaker. Maybe sleepers.net promotes heroin.
This should've been from the 'no shit sherlock' category or the 'captain obvious' category. Any privacy policy can be used for felonious means. It's the same reasoning the US government uses to circumvent any form of personal privacy afforded it's citizens. "If we can't listen to everyone's phone calls, how will we find the terrorists?" type of mentality. Just ask yourself how many more rights you're willing to give up in the name of 'national security' and don't bitch when we have a full-on police state. 1984, here we come.
The reason you have this attitude towards tape is that analog tape suffers degradation over time (tape becomes worn, quality degrades over generational copying, etc.). Keep in mind that nearly all music producers master to DAT first, which is similar to DVHS. D, being digital, means zeroes and ones are getting stored, and they don't degrade much over time and have almost zero noticable artifacts between generational copies. DAT master tapes sound the same after 1000 times of being played, unlike analog cassette tapes you're used to.
I can see DVHS being handy for TV stations replacing Beta, but not much else. Who needs another format in this day and age? Sure, maybe you can copy your favorite stuff in full res from your satellite now, but overall DVD has more advantages.
The impression I've gotten of the Unix world is that the universal reaction to a SERIOUS security hole is "Oh sh!t, we've got to FIX this, NOW!"
The way I see it, the unix world's reaction to possible security holes is the same. Just because a buffer overflow or whatever can be exploited doesn't mean it will be. I think this is where Microsoft's attitude comes into play. They wait for someone to exploit something, wait for enough people to complain, then do something about it. That's called being REactive. Unix and linux coders tend to be PROactive, i.e. issuing bugfixes and patches before anything serious comes to pass (i.e. your whole network getting rooted from an obscure overflow in an even more obscure kernel module/server daemon). Alot of patches are to prevent/repair potential exploits which are provable in theory only sometimes.
It's hard to administer a network when you spend half the day rebooting. Who has time for patches? By the time you punch the clock at the end of the day you pray that the network will hold up until the next day.
Some neighborhoods here use poles instead of ground pedestals and the installers hate them. Even the repair guys groan when they know they have to go to an 'aerial' job. The box on the pole may or may not be the equivalent of a pedestal. Just look and trace where everyone's lines connect, it should be a 4, 8, 6 or 12-way box with coax connectors on the bottom of it. People without service at all should have a terminator (looks like an aluminum barrel) on their hookup spot on the box and their line may or may not be plugged into the terminator.
Personally I didn't trust customer-run coax unless the guy seemed competent and the crimps all looked good. Most consumer-grade cable is 59 whereas the dual shielded coax high speed data and cable telephony requires uses 60. It's much better suited for applications like this than the 59 crap they sell at Rat Shack. The copper inside is twice as thick and it's more durable/better shielded. If I came across a customer-run coax situation I'd be sure to strip and re-crimp all the fittings and take level readings to make sure there's not too much loss. I'm not saying every installer does this everywhere but AT&T holds high standards for the contractors and holds them responsible for certain trouble calls. Basically if you did it wrong today tomorrow you'd go back and fix it. That cuts into your cash so you're motivated to do it right the first time.
The split in the crawlspace or garage at your home should have an upstream trap on the tv side of the split. Maybe the installer was lazy or the system there works differently (the latter is unlikely). Maybe he ran out of upstream traps. This isn't nearly as important as the cable-tv-blocking 400 traps but it's still important.
When you mention using pliers and a nail, you're talking about the plunger-type locks. These are rare here, the more popular types of locks are much more difficult. It has a flower-shaped pattern etched into the head. You either need a 5 or 8 spoked flower key to remove the lock, and it's done by pushing and turning. Again, these keys are hard to obtain and this type of lock is hard to defeat.
I installed cable modems all over Oklahoma and Texas for Cox and AT&T. Allow me to enlighten you.
If I were to show up at a new house without cable, I would run a new line to the ped (short for pedestal, also known as a consumer interface or a million other terms). At the ped, if this person didn't already have cable tv and it wasn't part of my work order, I'd slap a 400 trap on the line. The 400 trap blocks everything but the cable modem's frequency range. Trust me, these things work.
Since the pedestal is locked and requires one of three unavailable-to-the-public keys, you won't be pulling this filter anytime soon. Some of you may have access to a broken pedestal but when the cable guy shows up, he'll call it in and it'll get replaced.
Some installers, in a rush, neglect this filter, but it's standard practice to put one on each house/apt/whatever when the customer doesn't already have cable. It's also common practice to split the incoming (master) line to the home and put upstream traps on half the split and connect all t.v. lines to this half of the split. The cable modem gets alot of power (anywhere from -10 to +13db) from this half of the split and the rest of the lines don't send rf interference upstream so the cable modem has a clean path upstream.
I'm mentioning the split/upstream trap because some of you might go rooting around in your attic or somewhere poking around on filters and getting creative with the setup. Don't touch anything. If there's a 400 trap you don't have access to it anyway and if you pull the upstream trap you're setting your cable modem up for poor performance.
So basically, I'd say you probably have a 20% chance of getting cable tv over your cablemodem line, and when you split it, you'll be dumping rf interference into your room because your crimping tools will inevitably be inferior, and your tv will be dumping upstream noise into your cable modem stream. You've been warned, proceed at your own risk.
I agree in a roundabout way. Here's how I see it: if your card is capable of giving you 150fps in quake3, when you're playing with a ton of people in multiplayer and you get in a crowd and mix it up, your card will still be able to handle the action. That's my biggest bitch with my geforce2mx (affordable piece of crap that it is). It's fine until you get in a crowd and start blasting or if you get rushed by a few people. In urban terror, this happens because of my playing style (anyone that's played me, Gaylord_Focker, will know). My card drops frames like crazy. So that 150fps guarantee would help alot.
Yeah I agree. Compiling Mplayer on Mandrake 8.1/8.2 was as easy as:
download and install win32codecs
download and install skins ./configure --disable-gcc-checking --enable-gui ./make ./make install
It really isn't that hard. PLF at plf.zarb.org has lots of rpms for mplayer as well so it's even easier if you're lazy or inexperienced.
Trying to do something cutting-edge (watching dvds) on some super old distro will always give you headaches. Upgrade binutils just for a software build? Jesus man. Join this century and get a recent distro.
People quietly protest sodomy laws and other sex laws by the millions on a daily basis, but the laws are still on the books. Next time you get a hummer, chalk one up for civil disobedience and give Thoreau a thumbs-up.
If you're using Mandrake 8.2 with the default kernel, Haesslich's script at my site http://tuxbox.by-a.com/mdk_rpms will handle everything for you. Couldn't be easier really, and I'm surprised Nvidia doesn't offer something like this. Everyone that's tried it loves it.
And DSL is different how? If you don't have an active telephone line through your local telco you can't get DSL either. It just comes with the territory.
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Not to feed the trolls but my wife is from Thailand, so I think I can call asian people asian people. Go back to trolling little man.
a lot of the components we use are cheaper to assemble with manpower.
Or more specifically from what I've seen, asian womanpower. They're damn good with their hands. Even at the York (heating/air conditioning manf) company there were only asian women handling the delicate stuff like wiring up switchboxes.
This isn't funny at all. Tweaker usually refers to someone on speed or methamphetamines. It's someone that involuntarily twitches and acts 'tweaked out'. Heroin users on the other hand tend to be more calm. The exact opposite of a tweaker. Maybe sleepers.net promotes heroin.
It was a joke and I was clowning bullshit statistics. Sorry you didn't get it. Scott Adams might have.
Linux's share of the desktop is 0.5%, and Windows' is 95%
:p
.5% of the desktop is probably 65% more than MacOS has. Then again we're talking Intel hardware aren't we...
And for my next trick, I'll pull more statistics AND a rabbit out of your ass.
Oh, and
As Sol Rosenberg (of the Jerky Boys) once said:
"Sue Everybody!" "for what sir" "Punitive damages!!"
Ok I agree. This is a damn worthless format that will die screaming.
This should've been from the 'no shit sherlock' category or the 'captain obvious' category. Any privacy policy can be used for felonious means. It's the same reasoning the US government uses to circumvent any form of personal privacy afforded it's citizens. "If we can't listen to everyone's phone calls, how will we find the terrorists?" type of mentality. Just ask yourself how many more rights you're willing to give up in the name of 'national security' and don't bitch when we have a full-on police state. 1984, here we come.
Like I said, that's Microsoft's attitude, or at the very least it's been their attitude in the past. Analogies are fun aren't they?
It's tape! Gaaack!
The reason you have this attitude towards tape is that analog tape suffers degradation over time (tape becomes worn, quality degrades over generational copying, etc.). Keep in mind that nearly all music producers master to DAT first, which is similar to DVHS. D, being digital, means zeroes and ones are getting stored, and they don't degrade much over time and have almost zero noticable artifacts between generational copies. DAT master tapes sound the same after 1000 times of being played, unlike analog cassette tapes you're used to.
I can see DVHS being handy for TV stations replacing Beta, but not much else. Who needs another format in this day and age? Sure, maybe you can copy your favorite stuff in full res from your satellite now, but overall DVD has more advantages.
The impression I've gotten of the Unix world is that the universal reaction to a SERIOUS security hole is "Oh sh!t, we've got to FIX this, NOW!"
The way I see it, the unix world's reaction to possible security holes is the same. Just because a buffer overflow or whatever can be exploited doesn't mean it will be. I think this is where Microsoft's attitude comes into play. They wait for someone to exploit something, wait for enough people to complain, then do something about it. That's called being REactive. Unix and linux coders tend to be PROactive, i.e. issuing bugfixes and patches before anything serious comes to pass (i.e. your whole network getting rooted from an obscure overflow in an even more obscure kernel module/server daemon). Alot of patches are to prevent/repair potential exploits which are provable in theory only sometimes.
Just joking/speculating. I imagine (and have heard from some friends) that this is how Microsoft networks are.
It's hard to administer a network when you spend half the day rebooting. Who has time for patches? By the time you punch the clock at the end of the day you pray that the network will hold up until the next day.
Some neighborhoods here use poles instead of ground pedestals and the installers hate them. Even the repair guys groan when they know they have to go to an 'aerial' job. The box on the pole may or may not be the equivalent of a pedestal. Just look and trace where everyone's lines connect, it should be a 4, 8, 6 or 12-way box with coax connectors on the bottom of it. People without service at all should have a terminator (looks like an aluminum barrel) on their hookup spot on the box and their line may or may not be plugged into the terminator.
Personally I didn't trust customer-run coax unless the guy seemed competent and the crimps all looked good. Most consumer-grade cable is 59 whereas the dual shielded coax high speed data and cable telephony requires uses 60. It's much better suited for applications like this than the 59 crap they sell at Rat Shack. The copper inside is twice as thick and it's more durable/better shielded. If I came across a customer-run coax situation I'd be sure to strip and re-crimp all the fittings and take level readings to make sure there's not too much loss. I'm not saying every installer does this everywhere but AT&T holds high standards for the contractors and holds them responsible for certain trouble calls. Basically if you did it wrong today tomorrow you'd go back and fix it. That cuts into your cash so you're motivated to do it right the first time.
The split in the crawlspace or garage at your home should have an upstream trap on the tv side of the split. Maybe the installer was lazy or the system there works differently (the latter is unlikely). Maybe he ran out of upstream traps. This isn't nearly as important as the cable-tv-blocking 400 traps but it's still important.
When you mention using pliers and a nail, you're talking about the plunger-type locks. These are rare here, the more popular types of locks are much more difficult. It has a flower-shaped pattern etched into the head. You either need a 5 or 8 spoked flower key to remove the lock, and it's done by pushing and turning. Again, these keys are hard to obtain and this type of lock is hard to defeat.
I installed cable modems all over Oklahoma and Texas for Cox and AT&T. Allow me to enlighten you.
If I were to show up at a new house without cable, I would run a new line to the ped (short for pedestal, also known as a consumer interface or a million other terms). At the ped, if this person didn't already have cable tv and it wasn't part of my work order, I'd slap a 400 trap on the line. The 400 trap blocks everything but the cable modem's frequency range. Trust me, these things work.
Since the pedestal is locked and requires one of three unavailable-to-the-public keys, you won't be pulling this filter anytime soon. Some of you may have access to a broken pedestal but when the cable guy shows up, he'll call it in and it'll get replaced.
Some installers, in a rush, neglect this filter, but it's standard practice to put one on each house/apt/whatever when the customer doesn't already have cable. It's also common practice to split the incoming (master) line to the home and put upstream traps on half the split and connect all t.v. lines to this half of the split. The cable modem gets alot of power (anywhere from -10 to +13db) from this half of the split and the rest of the lines don't send rf interference upstream so the cable modem has a clean path upstream.
I'm mentioning the split/upstream trap because some of you might go rooting around in your attic or somewhere poking around on filters and getting creative with the setup. Don't touch anything. If there's a 400 trap you don't have access to it anyway and if you pull the upstream trap you're setting your cable modem up for poor performance.
So basically, I'd say you probably have a 20% chance of getting cable tv over your cablemodem line, and when you split it, you'll be dumping rf interference into your room because your crimping tools will inevitably be inferior, and your tv will be dumping upstream noise into your cable modem stream. You've been warned, proceed at your own risk.
I agree in a roundabout way. Here's how I see it: if your card is capable of giving you 150fps in quake3, when you're playing with a ton of people in multiplayer and you get in a crowd and mix it up, your card will still be able to handle the action. That's my biggest bitch with my geforce2mx (affordable piece of crap that it is). It's fine until you get in a crowd and start blasting or if you get rushed by a few people. In urban terror, this happens because of my playing style (anyone that's played me, Gaylord_Focker, will know). My card drops frames like crazy. So that 150fps guarantee would help alot.
It's hard to beat the driver setup tool for Mandrake 8.2 nvidia users at my site. http://tuxbox.by-a.com/mdk_rpms. Simple and effective.
It's a personal problem. Glxgears runs fine on my box and so does JK2. Both Mandrake 8.2 and gentoo have zero trouble with the new drivers.
Um, don't forget to mention one important fact:
The radeon 8500 still has absolutely NO 3d support in Linux. As usual, 'someone is working on it', but don't hold your breath.
And be reasonable. Nobody plays games in 800x600 unless they have a tiny monitor or get bad framerates at 1024x768.
Yeah I agree. Compiling Mplayer on Mandrake 8.1/8.2 was as easy as:
./configure --disable-gcc-checking --enable-gui
./make
./make install
download and install win32codecs
download and install skins
It really isn't that hard. PLF at plf.zarb.org has lots of rpms for mplayer as well so it's even easier if you're lazy or inexperienced.
Trying to do something cutting-edge (watching dvds) on some super old distro will always give you headaches. Upgrade binutils just for a software build? Jesus man. Join this century and get a recent distro.
People quietly protest sodomy laws and other sex laws by the millions on a daily basis, but the laws are still on the books. Next time you get a hummer, chalk one up for civil disobedience and give Thoreau a thumbs-up.
If you're using Mandrake 8.2 with the default kernel, Haesslich's script at my site http://tuxbox.by-a.com/mdk_rpms will handle everything for you. Couldn't be easier really, and I'm surprised Nvidia doesn't offer something like this. Everyone that's tried it loves it.
(Can you say 'Tying'?)
And DSL is different how? If you don't have an active telephone line through your local telco you can't get DSL either. It just comes with the territory.
LOL, woops, they're both hot and I get them mixed up occasionally.