Except in this case they all had the same hardware on each machine...
But different drivers. They used a mix of vesa framebuffer and SIS drivers, thereby invalidating the test as an apples-to-apples comparison. This test is not at all meaningful as a generalized performance test.
religion was introduced in ancient times as a deterrent against perceived immoral/harmful behavior
Yes, of course it was! It surprises me that so few people seem to realize this. The best way to get people to follow some set of societal laws is to scare them into not violating such laws. The threat of 'eternal damnation' and promise of 'eternal life' clearly comes from this.
I can't believe everyone slamming Bush for this as it's nothing new. Slick Willie had the exact same sort of thing - when you filled out the online webmail form you had to pick a particular issue.
Like another post on this topic, I submitted a couple of complaint issues to the Clinton administration via this mechanism. About a month letter, I received generic form letters about my support (yes, even though I complained).
It's bad enough that they took my complaint as support, but I also was frustrated to see they would reply to electronic communication via paper snail-mail, which had to have been pretty expensive. Our tax dollars hard at work!
Thank you! I hadn't heard of this particular one previously. I've been creating domains in dhs.org or dyndns.org, and then creating aliases on my mail server. This lets me disconnect mail addresses (and domains should it need to get drastic), but I generally like the Spam Gourmet concept better, and it doesn't require any mail server setup.
I guess the only comment I have is to use watch words, so some spammer doesn't register "haha.99.you@spamgourmet.com" or whatever. Sure, you can manually delete it, but they could keep creating new ones. Having a watchword (or prefix) that you change every once in a while solves this.
No kidding, Cray always has the coolest looking systems. The Connection Machine was pretty cool too, if I recall, it had 1000's of LEDs in a big matrix showing what was going on inside it, which was mighty purty (I've seen pictures).
The elxsi MBOS (Message Based OS, amazing I can remember after all this time) was able to run multiple OS's on top of it at the same time. It was the first partitionable system I'd ever heard of. Funny that's coming around again today - both directly (like IBM 690s) or indirectly (like VMWare). Kind of handy to be able to boot a virtual OS to do some testing. Too bad they folded and went to Singapore.
Novell added that in recent months, SCO executives had asked Novell to transfer the Unix copyrights to SCO -- a request that was denied.
It would be interesting to see if this request for transfer occurred before SCO's legal maneuvering or after..
Sounds like after. I listened in to the shareholder meeting for a bit, and he claimed that they had a meeting with Novell yesterday (Tuesday) to discuss this but that Novell was a no-show.
*Shrug* Not that we can trust this as the truth, but just because SCO invited Novell to a meeting, doesn't necessarily mean Novell agreed to have the meeting. Who knows what really happened.
This approach does work well, especially if you can find a slick ramp which you run from the side down towards the bait (but not close enough they can actually reach it). I remember my dad salvaged some sort of teflon coated plastic that worked great. When the mice would try to go down the ramp, they would slide right down into the water.
We always used water, but antifreeze sounds like a good idea.
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The concept of version numbers is just so... archaic... to Gentoo users, since all we have to do is install off any old release and type "emerge -u world".:-)
Having said that, yes, it would be nice, since a newer release does reduce the amount of stuff that needs to be emerge'd.
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No, it doesn't make me sick because I know the difference between reality and fantasy. The average teenager is not an idiot and knows this difference too (I have a 15 year old, and I assure you she knows the difference). Sure, there will always be problem people who don't know the difference, but guess what: they have always existed in society, and always will exist. Welcome to the real world.
How did the parent get modded up as insightful? Oh,/. pushing politics as usual. Sigh...
Oh yeah, and the Archos works perfectly with the usb-storage driver in Linux.
The great thing about using usb-storage is that the Archos looks just like a hard drive to your system. And with USB2.0, transfer performance is decent.
Another option is the Archos Jukebox. The 20GB recorder model is ~$225, and you can upgrade the drive to 60GB.
One of the best things about the Archos is the OSS Rockbox firmware at http://rockbox.haxx.se/. New features are continually being added that make the Archos a very cool device. Plus, if you aren't happy with the way it works, just hack it yourself! The Rockbox source is very well written and easy to hack. Plus it has games.
I second the suggestion to try psi. I've tried every Linux client I could find, and like psi the best. It's not completely perfect and polished, but overall it works nicely.
When you are older, you will thank your parents for actually being involved and caring. I have 2 kids in the public school system (3rd grade and 9th grade), and I can assure you an alarming number of parents are not involved in their children's education and really don't seem to care, almost treating school as a free day-care. What a shame.
I agree the security aspect is unacceptable, but your parents should be commended for not only caring, but actually checking up on you.
The latest Archos jukebox products (recorder, FM recorder) work with no special drivers - they are USB storage compliant and work great with usb-storage under Linux.
Even the older jukebox will work under Linux, you just have to add a readily available driver.
The nice thing about having a USB storage compliant device is when you plug it in, it just becomes a drive on your system. You can copy anything to or from it as if it was a local HD (it's just alot slower). Nice not having to use any proprietary software or DRM crap.
Then, put Rockbox, the open source firmware for the Archos on it, and it makes for a very nice solution. On the go, it's a portable MP3 player; plugged into your system, you just play your MP3's with xmms right off the device. Good stuff!
s/Linux/other_OS/ and s/xmms/other_player/ as appropriate.
Didn't chuck-e-cheese used to be called Showbiz pizza?
Nope. Chuck E Cheese was the original concept - which was to bring a Disney-like experience to going out to pizza. Sounds cheesy (pun intended), but that was the idea.
Also, unless you went to the original bay area (Calif) Chuck E Cheese restaurants in the early 80s, you probably never saw it the way it was meant to be.
My father was an Atari engineer who worked on the animatronics (as well as pinball machines, video games, computers, etc). It was pretty neat stuff. In fact, Disney seemed pretty open about showing off their technology - I got to go along for a behind-the-scenes tours at DisneyWorld/Epcot in 81.
How about a Zaurus? Runs Linux, and is overall pretty decent, but certainly not as polished as the competitors who have been in the marketplace for 5+ years longer.
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I figured as much - I actually thought it was pretty funny to obfuscate a cryptographic acronym.
/. reader" (whatever the heck that is), I had to challenge it, of course!
But, being a "typical
Awww crap!
Ummmm... KACE ??
But different drivers. They used a mix of vesa framebuffer and SIS drivers, thereby invalidating the test as an apples-to-apples comparison. This test is not at all meaningful as a generalized performance test.
Yes, of course it was! It surprises me that so few people seem to realize this. The best way to get people to follow some set of societal laws is to scare them into not violating such laws. The threat of 'eternal damnation' and promise of 'eternal life' clearly comes from this.
I would argue administer==use
Or perhaps more accurately:
If it was easy to use, we wouldn't have to administer it. My microwave has a 'puter in it. It's easy to use, and I don't have to administer it.
Thank you! Mod the parent up!
I can't believe everyone slamming Bush for this as it's nothing new. Slick Willie had the exact same sort of thing - when you filled out the online webmail form you had to pick a particular issue.
Like another post on this topic, I submitted a couple of complaint issues to the Clinton administration via this mechanism. About a month letter, I received generic form letters about my support (yes, even though I complained).
It's bad enough that they took my complaint as support, but I also was frustrated to see they would reply to electronic communication via paper snail-mail, which had to have been pretty expensive. Our tax dollars hard at work!
Thank you! I hadn't heard of this particular one previously. I've been creating domains in dhs.org or dyndns.org, and then creating aliases on my mail server. This lets me disconnect mail addresses (and domains should it need to get drastic), but I generally like the Spam Gourmet concept better, and it doesn't require any mail server setup.
I guess the only comment I have is to use watch words, so some spammer doesn't register "haha.99.you@spamgourmet.com" or whatever. Sure, you can manually delete it, but they could keep creating new ones. Having a watchword (or prefix) that you change every once in a while solves this.
Good stuff. Thanks!
In fact, here's a picture of the Connection Machine:
http://mission.base.com/tamiko/cm/cm-image.html
No kidding, Cray always has the coolest looking systems. The Connection Machine was pretty cool too, if I recall, it had 1000's of LEDs in a big matrix showing what was going on inside it, which was mighty purty (I've seen pictures).
The elxsi MBOS (Message Based OS, amazing I can remember after all this time) was able to run multiple OS's on top of it at the same time. It was the first partitionable system I'd ever heard of. Funny that's coming around again today - both directly (like IBM 690s) or indirectly (like VMWare). Kind of handy to be able to boot a virtual OS to do some testing. Too bad they folded and went to Singapore.
This list would probably have been dominated by elxsi, Connection Machines, and Crays, if things had been different.
I never saw a live CM or Cray, but I did play on an elxsi, and it was a pretty hot system for it's time.
Novell added that in recent months, SCO executives had asked Novell to transfer the Unix copyrights to SCO -- a request that was denied.
It would be interesting to see if this request for transfer occurred before SCO's legal maneuvering or after..
Sounds like after. I listened in to the shareholder meeting for a bit, and he claimed that they had a meeting with Novell yesterday (Tuesday) to discuss this but that Novell was a no-show.
*Shrug* Not that we can trust this as the truth, but just because SCO invited Novell to a meeting, doesn't necessarily mean Novell agreed to have the meeting. Who knows what really happened.
This approach does work well, especially if you can find a slick ramp which you run from the side down towards the bait (but not close enough they can actually reach it). I remember my dad salvaged some sort of teflon coated plastic that worked great. When the mice would try to go down the ramp, they would slide right down into the water.
We always used water, but antifreeze sounds like a good idea.
The concept of version numbers is just so... archaic... to Gentoo users, since all we have to do is install off any old release and type "emerge -u world". :-)
Having said that, yes, it would be nice, since a newer release does reduce the amount of stuff that needs to be emerge'd.
No, it doesn't make me sick because I know the difference between reality and fantasy. The average teenager is not an idiot and knows this difference too (I have a 15 year old, and I assure you she knows the difference). Sure, there will always be problem people who don't know the difference, but guess what: they have always existed in society, and always will exist. Welcome to the real world.
/. pushing politics as usual. Sigh...
How did the parent get modded up as insightful? Oh,
That's why you are supposed to put that block of metal and the spinny thing on top. Duh!
Oh yeah, and the Archos works perfectly with the usb-storage driver in Linux.
The great thing about using usb-storage is that the Archos looks just like a hard drive to your system. And with USB2.0, transfer performance is decent.
Another option is the Archos Jukebox. The 20GB recorder model is ~$225, and you can upgrade the drive to 60GB.
One of the best things about the Archos is the OSS Rockbox firmware at http://rockbox.haxx.se/. New features are continually being added that make the Archos a very cool device. Plus, if you aren't happy with the way it works, just hack it yourself! The Rockbox source is very well written and easy to hack. Plus it has games.
Just think of the possibilities! With a webcam, there could be a direct link to ratemypoo.com.
I second the suggestion to try psi. I've tried every Linux client I could find, and like psi the best. It's not completely perfect and polished, but overall it works nicely.
When you are older, you will thank your parents for actually being involved and caring. I have 2 kids in the public school system (3rd grade and 9th grade), and I can assure you an alarming number of parents are not involved in their children's education and really don't seem to care, almost treating school as a free day-care. What a shame.
I agree the security aspect is unacceptable, but your parents should be commended for not only caring, but actually checking up on you.
The latest Archos jukebox products (recorder, FM recorder) work with no special drivers - they are USB storage compliant and work great with usb-storage under Linux.
Even the older jukebox will work under Linux, you just have to add a readily available driver.
The nice thing about having a USB storage compliant device is when you plug it in, it just becomes a drive on your system. You can copy anything to or from it as if it was a local HD (it's just alot slower). Nice not having to use any proprietary software or DRM crap.
Then, put Rockbox, the open source firmware for the Archos on it, and it makes for a very nice solution. On the go, it's a portable MP3 player; plugged into your system, you just play your MP3's with xmms right off the device. Good stuff!
s/Linux/other_OS/ and s/xmms/other_player/ as appropriate.
Yeah, good thing Linux doesn't do this. Oh wait... I remember hearing about some guy named... hmmm... Linus or something like that.
Long live FreeBSD!
Didn't chuck-e-cheese used to be called Showbiz pizza?
Nope. Chuck E Cheese was the original concept - which was to bring a Disney-like experience to going out to pizza. Sounds cheesy (pun intended), but that was the idea.
Also, unless you went to the original bay area (Calif) Chuck E Cheese restaurants in the early 80s, you probably never saw it the way it was meant to be.
My father was an Atari engineer who worked on the animatronics (as well as pinball machines, video games, computers, etc). It was pretty neat stuff. In fact, Disney seemed pretty open about showing off their technology - I got to go along for a behind-the-scenes tours at DisneyWorld/Epcot in 81.
How about a Zaurus? Runs Linux, and is overall pretty decent, but certainly not as polished as the competitors who have been in the marketplace for 5+ years longer.