That is true. But that's not taking into account the XP upgrades that the IT folks probably did during X-mas break when the students weren't around to bother them...
SETI has more users than it needs, last time I checked, the same data was being tested over and over again, simply because they have more volunteers than they need.
If a signal is observed two or more times, and it's not RFI or a test signal, the SETI@home team will ask another group to take a look. This other group will be using different telescopes, receivers, computers, etc. This will hopefully rule out a bug in our equipment or our computer code
Need you still wonder why the same Work Unit is processed by 2 or 3 machines?
1) I think that it's very great that you're running the Cancer thing, but:
2) It's NOT possible to run 2 apps that want 100% of your CPU at the same time.
I run SETI. I have been for about 2 years now. If I hadn't already dedicated machines to SETI, I'd be doing the cancer thing.
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Ever find yourself stroking the spot between the left and right mouse button on a mouse without a wheel?
ALL the time, and practically EVERY time I've got a non-wheel mouse in my hand. I never thought that such a little addition could be so addictive. The first time I was with one, I found it a bit of a nusance. Not 1 day later I had a "normal" mouse in my hand, and found myself rubbing the mouse where the wheel shoud've been.
I ran into the samething with the M$ Natural Keyboards. There was one sitting around the office that no one wanted to use. I figured "what the hell" and tried it. I yelled at that thing for 2 days straight. I finally got fed up enough and put a "normal" keyboard back on my box. I couldn't use it! After that, I plugged the Natural back in and ordered one for home. I've been using a Natural ever since. That was like 2 years ago. ( I HATE the cursor keys on the newer Naturals, but ALL pain in my wrists totally went away after using the Natural. I think that out-weighs a bit of annoyance (and a few extra times of getting fragged...:-) ).
You don't NEED to subscribe to them (I do, but that's beside the point). You CAN just go to their SourceForge CVS page and get it that way. THere are a part or two of the main project that isn not in the CVS dir though. (That's why I said, sort of).
The LZW patent is set to expire at the end of this year
Not according to this it's not. The patent was granted in 1985. 1985+20=2005. Or you could read at Unisys itself.
~
It wasn't a solution or a proposal.
I know, bad wording. Sorry,man.
~
MPEG-4 will be exactly the same algorithm in a decade as it is now.
You are 100% correct, but my point is no one will care. We will have GREATLY moved on by then, and the guts of MP4 will be very little more than an eye-brow raiser.
Although I understand your point, you failed to consider one little thing:
20 years ago, 20K of RAM in a "Personal Computer" was a REAL big deal. Do you still have people hacking out apps for a Vic-20? No. 10 years ago, "who will ever need more than 640k of RAM" was still somewhat in fashion. 20 years from now we'll be laughing at MP4's.
So I'm sorry man, but your solution or proposal or whatever is really not an option. By any means. By the time the coders get their hands on the inards of the thing, we'll be bitching about MP15's.
I almost hate to do this but, I think Mandrake REALLY needs to start reading this and taking it into account. I've been using MDK for a few years now and I do really like the distro. Hell, infact, I'm burring the 8.2 beta2 right now. *BUT* one thing that makes me REALLY hate what they do is all this -mdk crap. Even something simply like the Kicker Menu icons are all stored in -mdk locations so no source that you use will get the icons right without you making symlins all over the place. And even when you DO make all the symlinks and copy stuff to MDK's locations, next time you install something, their RPM's will run "update-menus" and "fix" all their locations to their liking. THAT makes me not too happy.
For instance Mosfet's Liquid theme. He has a kcontrol module that he uses to control his theme. You can't have it on MDK if you don't copy his module to (something like, I forget):/usrshare/applnk-mdk-simplified/.hidden/Configurat ion. Not the two big problems there. First eh mkd specifck location and then a HIDDEN dir on top of that.
It's this sort of thing that (my understand is) the LSB is supposed to help "prevent". I wish MDK would follow it. I think it would REALLY help the newbies if they did.
I'm honestly stumped. What do they have to do with the M$ case? A lot of them are not even in America anyway. Mandrake? France. BSD's? Canada (well, one of them I forget which). SuSE? Germany. ATheOS? Finland (? I think I might be wrong, the site is down I can't check). Petros? Australia. Shall I go on?
What does your challenge of my (sarcastic) statement of: "Bill still wins, even when losing. Gotta love America..." have to do with the post you just made?
P.S.
How the hell have you gotten mod'ed up enough to post at +2 if this is the type of stuff that you post? For the record, I'm almost capped, but I post at +1 because I don't feel that I need to be trying to push other/better posters out of the way for my little rants. People just continually think my rants are "insightful" or "informative" or even "funny" once in a while. But I do forget to check the "No Score +1 Bonus" checkbox from time to time...
...does M$ want to keep it's users clueless about the machine itself by dumbing down the OS, they also want to keep it's users clueless about their bad business practices as it continues to get exposed.
Great.
Bill still wins, even when losing. Gotta love America...
I love MAnsdrake. I've been using their distro for a few yeas now but I installed the lastest Freq (dated 12-24-01) and have only one problem:
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for c++... c++
checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ -O2 ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables.
[root@set kvirc]#
All compiler libraries, devel packages, etc. are installed. I hope this is fixed in this beta.
P.S.
On this same machine it compiled perfectly fine until I installed this release...:-(
Apples stuff holds up better (cost wise and lifetime wise) better than stuff made for x86's because it is BETTER. Apple uses items that are not cheap. I DO understand the cheap != inferior, and also understand that expensive != good. *BUT* selecting the right products to build a mass marketed box out of said good hardware has (almost) always seemed to be one of the HUGE selling points in seriously considering re-buying half my software so I can run a Mac.
The new iMac is down right beautiful. This is hands-down power. Geeze, I guess it's about time to dump my x86 stuff...
Well, it's nice to get Linux out there...
on
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But to speak quite frank this image is a pretty crappy way to make people feel fuzzy. KFM is OBVIOUSLY half dead behind the menu there since it hasn't repainted the window. KFM is solid for me, but I'm saying that a new entry into the Linux Arena needs to (at the extreme freakin' least) make for damn sure their screen shots are perfect.
P.S.
Yes, I know this isn't from the Lindows site, but I feel my point still stands...
Realize that every dime you take from Microsoft through piracy is NOTHING in comparison to the hurt that you put on Loki when you burned an ISO.
All I had to do was go out and blow the little bit (since I had gotten the Win* version as a Christmas gift) and buy Q3A for cheap. Did I? No. A friend had done that for me, I coppied his. Now, yes I understand 100% that one extra sale wouldn't have done anything to help Loki (not much anyway...), but how many others were in the same situation.
Hmmm... on one hand I could've ran down to the local Software place and grabed it for cheap (the software store I usually visit DOES have a Linux section), or I could've asked my friend if I could copy his CD and use *MY* valid CD-Key on it.
I "gave" money to id (it was a gift but still...), not to Loki. Loki suffered, not id.
but currently is just really slow and redirecting to Woz's personal page.
Oh that poor server. If it's already slow, having a link to it posted on the front page of/. isn't going to help matters any. That and it's probably just the poor guys DSL line or something (I can't even get there to check that, however).
Slashdot Mirror
And I've got 3 machines trying to return units too... O-well, another day of no processing...
That is true. But that's not taking into account the XP upgrades that the IT folks probably did during X-mas break when the students weren't around to bother them...
/me lifts an eyebrow.
SETI has more users than it needs, last time I checked, the same data was being tested over and over again, simply because they have more volunteers than they need.
Wrong. Learn, before you speak.
From one of the FAQ pages:
If a signal is observed two or more times, and it's not RFI or a test signal, the SETI@home team will ask another group to take a look. This other group will be using different telescopes, receivers, computers, etc. This will hopefully rule out a bug in our equipment or our computer code
Need you still wonder why the same Work Unit is processed by 2 or 3 machines?
Didn't think so.
Two things:
1) I think that it's very great that you're running the Cancer thing, but:
2) It's NOT possible to run 2 apps that want 100% of your CPU at the same time.
I run SETI. I have been for about 2 years now. If I hadn't already dedicated machines to SETI, I'd be doing the cancer thing.
I smoke...
...I find this stuff funny. From the site linked:
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/home/sites/site84/web/class_db.php on line 7
:-) Boom goes the box.
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ERROR: Unable to connect to database.
Ever find yourself stroking the spot between the left and right mouse button on a mouse without a wheel?
:-) ).
ALL the time, and practically EVERY time I've got a non-wheel mouse in my hand. I never thought that such a little addition could be so addictive. The first time I was with one, I found it a bit of a nusance. Not 1 day later I had a "normal" mouse in my hand, and found myself rubbing the mouse where the wheel shoud've been.
I ran into the samething with the M$ Natural Keyboards. There was one sitting around the office that no one wanted to use. I figured "what the hell" and tried it. I yelled at that thing for 2 days straight. I finally got fed up enough and put a "normal" keyboard back on my box. I couldn't use it! After that, I plugged the Natural back in and ordered one for home. I've been using a Natural ever since. That was like 2 years ago. ( I HATE the cursor keys on the newer Naturals, but ALL pain in my wrists totally went away after using the Natural. I think that out-weighs a bit of annoyance (and a few extra times of getting fragged...
or "rf:gaim" to search freshmeat?
I just thought I'd make a correction for people who are not familiar with this (totally freakin' awesome) feature.
rf:gaim - The "rf" is for searching RPMFind.net
fm:gaim - The "fm" is for searching FreshMeat
You can see many more things available to you by going to:
Control Center --> Web Browsing --> Enhanced Browsing
Very cool stuff...
So, what are all you other KDE fans looking forward to?
/. front page. :-)
Waiting to see how short of a time span it is for my current download to timeout because of being posted on the
You, my friend, are a Troll...
:-)
Wrong. Sort of.
You don't NEED to subscribe to them (I do, but that's beside the point). You CAN just go to their SourceForge CVS page and get it that way. THere are a part or two of the main project that isn not in the CVS dir though. (That's why I said, sort of).
The LZW patent is set to expire at the end of this year
,man.
Not according to this it's not. The patent was granted in 1985. 1985+20=2005. Or you could read at Unisys itself.
~
It wasn't a solution or a proposal.
I know, bad wording. Sorry
~
MPEG-4 will be exactly the same algorithm in a decade as it is now.
You are 100% correct, but my point is no one will care. We will have GREATLY moved on by then, and the guts of MP4 will be very little more than an eye-brow raiser.
Although I understand your point, you failed to consider one little thing:
20 years ago, 20K of RAM in a "Personal Computer" was a REAL big deal. Do you still have people hacking out apps for a Vic-20? No. 10 years ago, "who will ever need more than 640k of RAM" was still somewhat in fashion. 20 years from now we'll be laughing at MP4's.
So I'm sorry man, but your solution or proposal or whatever is really not an option. By any means. By the time the coders get their hands on the inards of the thing, we'll be bitching about MP15's.
I almost hate to do this but, I think Mandrake REALLY needs to start reading this and taking it into account. I've been using MDK for a few years now and I do really like the distro. Hell, infact, I'm burring the 8.2 beta2 right now. *BUT* one thing that makes me REALLY hate what they do is all this -mdk crap. Even something simply like the Kicker Menu icons are all stored in -mdk locations so no source that you use will get the icons right without you making symlins all over the place. And even when you DO make all the symlinks and copy stuff to MDK's locations, next time you install something, their RPM's will run "update-menus" and "fix" all their locations to their liking. THAT makes me not too happy.
/usrshare/applnk-mdk-simplified/.hidden/Configurat ion. Not the two big problems there. First eh mkd specifck location and then a HIDDEN dir on top of that.
For instance Mosfet's Liquid theme. He has a kcontrol module that he uses to control his theme. You can't have it on MDK if you don't copy his module to (something like, I forget):
It's this sort of thing that (my understand is) the LSB is supposed to help "prevent". I wish MDK would follow it. I think it would REALLY help the newbies if they did.
I'm honestly stumped. What do they have to do with the M$ case? A lot of them are not even in America anyway. Mandrake? France. BSD's? Canada (well, one of them I forget which). SuSE? Germany. ATheOS? Finland (? I think I might be wrong, the site is down I can't check). Petros? Australia. Shall I go on?
What does your challenge of my (sarcastic) statement of: "Bill still wins, even when losing. Gotta love America..." have to do with the post you just made?
...does M$ want to keep it's users clueless about the machine itself by dumbing down the OS, they also want to keep it's users clueless about their bad business practices as it continues to get exposed.
Great.
Bill still wins, even when losing. Gotta love America...
I love MAnsdrake. I've been using their distro for a few yeas now but I installed the lastest Freq (dated 12-24-01) and have only one problem:
:-(
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for c++... c++
checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ -O2 ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables.
[root@set kvirc]#
All compiler libraries, devel packages, etc. are installed. I hope this is fixed in this beta.
P.S. On this same machine it compiled perfectly fine until I installed this release...
(preface: I'm a x86 Linux user, not a Macie)
Apples stuff holds up better (cost wise and lifetime wise) better than stuff made for x86's because it is BETTER. Apple uses items that are not cheap. I DO understand the cheap != inferior, and also understand that expensive != good. *BUT* selecting the right products to build a mass marketed box out of said good hardware has (almost) always seemed to be one of the HUGE selling points in seriously considering re-buying half my software so I can run a Mac.
The new iMac is down right beautiful. This is hands-down power. Geeze, I guess it's about time to dump my x86 stuff...
Is this the magic 8-ball guy?
Just wondering. It's along the same lines.
Art via Geekiosity.
(isnt that what AOL members reply with?) :)
/\/\3 70!
Nope, more like:
But to speak quite frank this image is a pretty crappy way to make people feel fuzzy. KFM is OBVIOUSLY half dead behind the menu there since it hasn't repainted the window. KFM is solid for me, but I'm saying that a new entry into the Linux Arena needs to (at the extreme freakin' least) make for damn sure their screen shots are perfect.
P.S.
Yes, I know this isn't from the Lindows site, but I feel my point still stands...
Windows has supported HIBERNATE for a couple YEARS now. Toshiba was doing it with their laptops even a couple years before that. What's the problem.
Hell, not even a problem:
What's the question? This has been done... AGES ago.
...feel like a slouch:
Realize that every dime you take from Microsoft through piracy is NOTHING in comparison to the hurt that you put on Loki when you burned an ISO.
All I had to do was go out and blow the little bit (since I had gotten the Win* version as a Christmas gift) and buy Q3A for cheap. Did I? No. A friend had done that for me, I coppied his. Now, yes I understand 100% that one extra sale wouldn't have done anything to help Loki (not much anyway...), but how many others were in the same situation.
Hmmm... on one hand I could've ran down to the local Software place and grabed it for cheap (the software store I usually visit DOES have a Linux section), or I could've asked my friend if I could copy his CD and use *MY* valid CD-Key on it.
I "gave" money to id (it was a gift but still...), not to Loki. Loki suffered, not id.
damn. this blows...
but currently is just really slow and redirecting to Woz's personal page.
/. isn't going to help matters any. That and it's probably just the poor guys DSL line or something (I can't even get there to check that, however).
:-\
Oh that poor server. If it's already slow, having a link to it posted on the front page of
Ummm... you mean that kid RIver Phoenix that OD'ed 8 1/2 years ago?
LucasArts may be quite talented, but re-animating the dead I don't think is in their power.
I hate to sound like a stick in the mud here (and no this isn't a flame either) since I am a Linux user, but:
This saga has gotten more coverage here than the 9/11 tragedy. Does anyone besides me see something wrong with this picture?