The cool thing about SCSI is that it adapts quite nicely downwards to be compatible apart from LVL where everything has to be electrically compatible with double-ended signals. Yes, I load my slow CD drives on a 50-pin SCSI-2 bus and it seems to mostly work ok. I'm just kind of curious as to how effective these adapters really are.
Pitch Black was hardly mainstream Hollywood. It was a US/Ozzie co-production. I don't think it really hit distribution until its critical success at film-fests.
There are a few cases where high-end SCSI drives (either high capacity HD or stuff like the DVD-R/W xyz) are definitely charged at a premium price. Has anyone tried these IDE to SCSI-3/LVL adapters that are knocking around? Are they reliable? Do they even work for non-HD devices? They add about $100 to the price but it still seems to be cheaper than the SCSI variant (if available at all).
In another post they noted what the data rate is going to one of these things. Would you really want it on your HD chain? I don't know hoe much b buffer they have, but with the media cost, I certainly wouldn't want to risk under-runs.
I have a DVD reader, but it is on an ancillary controller with just one other device (a CD-RW).
I have a Plextor burner and I get the same, but only on some brands of blank disk, on others, varying from Verbatim to No-Names, it works perfectly but slowly. I understand that the burn power is adjusted relative to the media, perhaps mine isn't putting out enough.
I wouldn't buy if I don't have right of return. I have once bought a book with a couple of pages missing (binding error). It was, of course, replaced as defective.
Of course, it would be kind of interesting if Holloywood decided to make "Moving Pictures". I guess this was written after Pterry's contact with Hollywood. His idea of turning CMOT Dibbler into a producer was spot on.
I personally quite like the Brigg's script treatments of DiscWorld and the theatre plays certainly go down well in the UK. However, I guess they would not do down so well in the US. The majority of US money is educated on the old Hollywood dictum of never overestimating the intelligence of an audience.
However Red Dwarf is definitely being produced. HHTTG may make it (it has been there and back for so long), we shall see what happens. As for Pterry's stuff - maybe a rich Ozzie will put monie behind it?
Btw, you forgot to mention that Mort was Death's apprentice and losing the Death angle probably wasn't a good idea. Anyway, Pterry himself related that tail so it is probably true.
I've had light weight bikes but the wheels are so easily bent by pot-holes, tram lines or simply going up and down curbs. Off-road bikes may seem excessive, but the wheels at least are a lot tougher.
The answer is to make Ghostscript a lot more user friendly for output to pdf. The problem still exists for importing from a pdf. If PDF is so open, why aren't ther more tools to support it?
Understanding the sources of experimental error is very important, but students are taught to produce results that 'fit', it is easier. Initially the reward is to pass more easily through exams, later it is more directly financial.
Interestingly enough with the Internet and the availability of space to store large quantities of data, it becomes easier to store and share original data. This allows others to make the same judgement calls about which data to exclude and then whether it is reasonable.
But distiller is only the output side. You still need to write the document. Great if you can persuade everyone to load OpenOffice, but most already have Word (not necessarily full Office - too expensive). They think, they have Word, why doesn't everyone else? MS like that way of thinking.
I hope an editor sees this. Reeve has a very personal view on the use of advances such as stem cell research. However, I would also like to hear his answers to the nay-sayers that have messed his chances up.
Sorry, I don't buy shrink wrapped books unless I can examine a specimen. I can even read a few pages without paying a single cent. A few dollars for "The Colour of Magic" means that it is a low risk factor. In any case Terry is happily married to Lynn so he wouldn't want to take advantege of me in that respect.
How about a book on algorithms costing $50 that then tells you that you can't make any use of the examples? That is definitly a book where you want to see the 'EULA' before buying.
In the UK and Germany, the write down for tax purposes is five years. On the other hand, I know high end users such as bank trading rooms that like to replace after two.
Regrettably, it seems to be a bit below bare minimum for running KDE or Gnome. I agree that it can get painful putting a general distribution onto a system intended for specialised use like yours.
I also have monitor problems though. I have this aweful Vivitron 15" on my server which makes me feel ill at 1024*768.
It is easy to produce a PDF document if you have the full Adobe Acrobat or Distiller. Unforunately they cost money.
There is always Alladin Ghostscript or the OS Ghostscript that trails a version or two behind the Alladin version (which is still effectively free). It still isn't easy to use and you have to still create the Postscript with the right info in it (the cpd file in an Adobe driver).
There is fraud and there is data massaging. Forgetting a few rogue results is taught from an early stage in the science classroom. Regrettably it continues through to original research. This is a pity because sometimes those rogue results can open up a completely new area.
Umm, I have *never* had a problem installing a distro on an old P-Pro running at 166MHz and 64MB of memory. It is a lot slower (decompression takes performance) but once loaded, it works very nicely as a file server. As distributed with Gnome, the GUI sux, but I don't login there very often.
In Europe the amortization time (tax write-off time) is generally a very unrealistic five years. In Germany at least, a lot of professional PCs are on 3 year leases. This way you don't have to worry about write-offs.
However, with a lot of front-end stuff moving to languages like Java, 450MHz sucks big time so at my last assignment, we jumped to 1.6GHz Dells. Oh we use lots of RAM too but the local disks are usually almost empty (i.e., 1-2GB used) as apart from the local O/S (Win 2K pro or XP Pro), the JRE and some other local stuff like X, everything was served via the net.
Yes, with three clients only, you are under the five. However NT isn't that great anyway when getting to organise things and the client lucenses really suck big time. If I pay for a W2K Pro license why do I have to pay $$$$ just to access a Win2K Server? No, we aren't talking all the BO stuff like SQL Server, just the basic file system. With Linux, you get it working once and it stays working MS do not own your balls. Otherwise you have an inadequate system responsible for law enforcement. Sure as hell, you can't sue MS if it goes wrong. They 0wn you.
Is this a troll? There are some things that are obviously incorrect here, you can't share files with more than a few clients from 2K-pro. You need to have a 2K-server. This is an artificial limitation (down to licensing manager) but a real one in terms of dollars spent.
The only thing that SAMBA doesn't easily handle (and that is an issue of the underlying file system) is permissions. Standard permissions work fine but ACLs are a no-no unless you install a file system capable of supporting them. Domain controllers are tricky but thay have been working for a good four years now at least.
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The cool thing about SCSI is that it adapts quite nicely downwards to be compatible apart from LVL where everything has to be electrically compatible with double-ended signals. Yes, I load my slow CD drives on a 50-pin SCSI-2 bus and it seems to mostly work ok. I'm just kind of curious as to how effective these adapters really are.
It can come even faster on your favourite P2P (ads stripped as well!).
Pitch Black was hardly mainstream Hollywood. It was a US/Ozzie co-production. I don't think it really hit distribution until its critical success at film-fests.
There are a few cases where high-end SCSI drives (either high capacity HD or stuff like the DVD-R/W xyz) are definitely charged at a premium price. Has anyone tried these IDE to SCSI-3/LVL adapters that are knocking around? Are they reliable? Do they even work for non-HD devices? They add about $100 to the price but it still seems to be cheaper than the SCSI variant (if available at all).
I have a DVD reader, but it is on an ancillary controller with just one other device (a CD-RW).
I have a Plextor burner and I get the same, but only on some brands of blank disk, on others, varying from Verbatim to No-Names, it works perfectly but slowly. I understand that the burn power is adjusted relative to the media, perhaps mine isn't putting out enough.
I wouldn't buy if I don't have right of return. I have once bought a book with a couple of pages missing (binding error). It was, of course, replaced as defective.
I personally quite like the Brigg's script treatments of DiscWorld and the theatre plays certainly go down well in the UK. However, I guess they would not do down so well in the US. The majority of US money is educated on the old Hollywood dictum of never overestimating the intelligence of an audience.
However Red Dwarf is definitely being produced. HHTTG may make it (it has been there and back for so long), we shall see what happens. As for Pterry's stuff - maybe a rich Ozzie will put monie behind it?
Btw, you forgot to mention that Mort was Death's apprentice and losing the Death angle probably wasn't a good idea. Anyway, Pterry himself related that tail so it is probably true.
I've had light weight bikes but the wheels are so easily bent by pot-holes, tram lines or simply going up and down curbs. Off-road bikes may seem excessive, but the wheels at least are a lot tougher.
The answer is to make Ghostscript a lot more user friendly for output to pdf. The problem still exists for importing from a pdf. If PDF is so open, why aren't ther more tools to support it?
Interestingly enough with the Internet and the availability of space to store large quantities of data, it becomes easier to store and share original data. This allows others to make the same judgement calls about which data to exclude and then whether it is reasonable.
But distiller is only the output side. You still need to write the document. Great if you can persuade everyone to load OpenOffice, but most already have Word (not necessarily full Office - too expensive). They think, they have Word, why doesn't everyone else? MS like that way of thinking.
I hope an editor sees this. Reeve has a very personal view on the use of advances such as stem cell research. However, I would also like to hear his answers to the nay-sayers that have messed his chances up.
IDE disks need a fair bit of CPU to drive them, even if DMA is enabled. If the ATI driver is hogging the CPU then other stuff may suffer.
How about a book on algorithms costing $50 that then tells you that you can't make any use of the examples? That is definitly a book where you want to see the 'EULA' before buying.
In the UK and Germany, the write down for tax purposes is five years. On the other hand, I know high end users such as bank trading rooms that like to replace after two.
I also have monitor problems though. I have this aweful Vivitron 15" on my server which makes me feel ill at 1024*768.
There is always Alladin Ghostscript or the OS Ghostscript that trails a version or two behind the Alladin version (which is still effectively free). It still isn't easy to use and you have to still create the Postscript with the right info in it (the cpd file in an Adobe driver).
There is fraud and there is data massaging. Forgetting a few rogue results is taught from an early stage in the science classroom. Regrettably it continues through to original research. This is a pity because sometimes those rogue results can open up a completely new area.
Umm, I have *never* had a problem installing a distro on an old P-Pro running at 166MHz and 64MB of memory. It is a lot slower (decompression takes performance) but once loaded, it works very nicely as a file server. As distributed with Gnome, the GUI sux, but I don't login there very often.
However, with a lot of front-end stuff moving to languages like Java, 450MHz sucks big time so at my last assignment, we jumped to 1.6GHz Dells. Oh we use lots of RAM too but the local disks are usually almost empty (i.e., 1-2GB used) as apart from the local O/S (Win 2K pro or XP Pro), the JRE and some other local stuff like X, everything was served via the net.
Why?
The only thing that SAMBA doesn't easily handle (and that is an issue of the underlying file system) is permissions. Standard permissions work fine but ACLs are a no-no unless you install a file system capable of supporting them. Domain controllers are tricky but thay have been working for a good four years now at least.
The Holosuites in DS9 were somewhat less ambiguously used for 'personal entertainment'.