Personally, I think suicide should be on the list of Human Rights.
It is in Canada.
That being said, assisted suicide, euthanasia, and counselling someone to kill themselves are crimes with substantial penalties listed. Here's a news story about someone who publicly declared his intent and succeeded.
it seems that all of the divx players won't play files with these enhancements. some types of content need these options during encoding in order to have accepable quality during playback.
the former being one i've used... the latter being one i actually had for sometime in 1995-1997.. you wouldn't believe the "thank you for your interest in our product..." emails i got.
no one seems to have mentionned this format. it's basically an audio cd format with 6-channel data on it. you get 6 channels, similar playback time, as well as an existing physical format. has nobody heard of it?
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i never tried forcing it closed... never was able to under win9x.. the whole damn thing was frozen solid during all the thrashing an i didn't want to lose data.
as far as fragmentation is concerned, a fresh ghost restore and defrag (swap was on windows partition) didn't help. newsbin and its data was on a separate drive.
when swap wasn't in the picture, disk performance was never a problem (rules out newsbin's own data files). a 4 gig file copy goes in 2.5 minutes and ghost in dos getting 300-600 megs/minute for a restore.
newsbin may have been poorly optimized as far as that goes, it didn't seem to deallocate all of the ram at once like one would expect, it was something like 4k at a time (per disk stroke)
anyway, i fixed it by disabling the swap... nobody needs it swapping when there's plenty of ram left now do they?:)
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there's a definite pattern with regard to swap in the windows world.
for win'9x: use up ram until almost gone then start allocating swap space in anticipation of actually using it. should memory allocation still be increasing then actually use swap space. reverse the order when freeing memory. i had 384 megs ram at the time and as long as i used less than about 350 megs total the system wouldn't be in swap.
for win 2k & xp: (when within physical ram limits) whatever amount of memory is requested, allocate between 60-80% to ram and the rest to the swapfile. even the disk cache partially goes to swap! i didn't believe it at first but all one has to do is look at the numbers in the task manager's memory/cpu window. at first i figured that all i'd need to do is throw in some more ram and the disk thrashing and absolute crawl would go away. i put in a gigabyte of ram (i never allocate more than 700 megs at most and the total system memory usage on bootup is 100 megs). even with the extra ram the problem stayed the same.
turning off swap gives me consistent fast performance, and since the disk cache isn't swapped (partially) i get 2x the throughput i had with a swapfile on large file copy operations
machine tested: duron 1.3ghz, 1 gig pc133 ram, 2x 80 gig wd800jb hdd.. os win2000 & winxp running newsbin which allocates disgusting amounts of ram in a large header grab (yeah i could have used a test program but why do that when newsbin is a real-world test for me). the os and applications are on different drives on their own ide chains
with swapfile enabled (size=1.5x system ram). allocation time: unaffected, only the time to perform task reqested memory de-allocation time: (by either quitting app or selecting another group) 23 MINUTES of constant disk thrashing
with swapfile DISabled allocation time: unaffected, only the time to perform task reqested memory de-allocation time: (by either quitting app or selecting another group) 2 seconds
much of it here is still owned by someone. in ottawa, ontario the hydro utility has miles of dark fiber that can be leased depending on your location. rogers cable, from 1988-1995, strung fiber lines down almost every single street in ottawa in tandem with the existing coax lines on the pole. i'm sure they're using some of it to feed distribution nodes but the vast majority is unused. only the last 50 feet directly into the home is needed.
nine years later, everyone is still wired from miles of old coax with the newer bi-directional splitters (for uplink signal) that let interference back into the system.
other examples of rogers stupidity include fiber bundles going literally through smaller towns (with 8000-30000 pop. and suburban housing density throughout) and yet the town is fed a one-way link from a microwave dish on the water tower that points at ottawa which is 25 miles away. the fiber bundle goes right past the base of the water tower. go figure. because of this, rogers is losing out on digital services and internet revenue and the telco is getting all the broadband internet business! now, if this was done by the government here it'd have taken longer but everyone would have service availability.
Almost a year ago, when I was quitting smoking, I was using Nicoderm patches. I used to get them at the corner drug store but once went to a Shoppers Drug Mart (usually avoided because of loyalty crap but I was with someone else and had little choice at the time)... when I opened the box, there were no less than THREE RFID TAGS in it! One was a flat and square sticker like the ones used in libraries, the other two were different sized rectangular, flat, and plastic coated.
To top it off, they're still scanning the UPC code on the outside of the box...
actually i found that 60-90mg oxycontin (roughly equal to 90-120mg ms-contin/morphine-sr) per day plus the patch and you just don't give a shit about quitting cigarettes. never was able to quit before i had these pills prescribed... i decided to take advantage of the situation and quit.
caffeine on the otherhand was horrible to give up...(reduce greatly really) partly from the headaches, but partly because i just loved the wonderful taste of the mega strong coffee i made(put 2x the coffee in the filter part of the coffee machine:) ). i often drank 7 cups a day and near the end and i was really getting dehydrated. seriously dehydrated... as in not needing to pee in the morning.
now i drink a couple of cups of tea daily and don't smoke (been 11 months and counting, and no real temptations of any kind so far), so that just leaves me with the oxycontin.
i'm not rich enough to buy a mac in order to change my OS. a mac is clearly out of the question for that reason alone. however linux doesn't yet cut the mustard when it comes to hardware support. it's not entirely any of the linux programmer's faults either; it's hardware vendor support.
i can't watch tv, or capture to mpeg2 using my ati card under linux. (yeah they claim it's possible but i don't think the "slower" cards like a 7200 vivo can do it under linux because of the inefficient way capture is implemented [only guessing here])
ati claims that they are a linux supporter with the catalyst series drivers. the windows drivers support all readeon from 9xxx to 7xxx... but the linux drivers only go "down" as far as the 8500. another piss off, as i'm not buying another card when this one has nothing wrong with it.
whatever the reason, i get fantastic captures in win95, 2000 & xp. (my hw: duron 1300, 1 gig pc133 ram, 3x80gig hdd with 8meg cache, ati 7200 vivo, sblive, intel 10/100 nic)
i've never been able to play many avi types or mpgs full screen (utilising the hardware overlay).
my webcam is not supported in the least with linux. the vendor claims linux support but has no documentation or drivers. it's a divio 802 based usb cam. it's not the end of the world on this one but it's simply annoying.
(not hardware, just something i'd like to see) there are no news readers that are usable to the extent where you can do truly industrial strength downloading from the newsgroups... multi server, multi download, intelligent auto resume that doesn't give up if one of your three feeds does.
on the software side, there are so many little utilities and widgets that i'd like to be able to use under linux (native support for the widgets' functionality is not included).. there's no easy way to limit the rate (bandwidth allocation to each app both in & out).. oh and how the hell does one associate file extensions to a particular application??
if anyone can reply with tips or urls to fix any of the above it would be taken seriously and appreciated. there are some really cool things about linux but (mainly) HW support is the show stopper for me.
that one chip where the company who makes the chip says there's linux support but my cam (and dozens of clones with the same chip) doesn't come with linux driverd nor are there any anywhere on the net
Maybe in your country. Here cellphones are more expensive than ever. Digital cellphones were supposed to be better digital quality, cheaper because there were no contracts, billed by the second, and the phones had better battery life. for a while they were. Now all but one company is back to billing by the minute for digital calls. 2 & 3 year contracts are the norm again. you might be able to find a plan with a lot of minutes but there's no such thing as unlimited for anything
Quality is down the toilet for digital. It has really dropped, and on top of that rates are higher than analog used to be, no service or feature offered comes in an unlimited form now unless you're an old customer who's paying the rates dictated by a 2+yr old contract.
I can find half a dozen better deals for long distance calling on landlines than the 10cents/minute the cell companies claim is a deal.
Oh yes, all those people who switch to cell-only and drop their landline?.. haven't you noticed they all stop using the phone quickly? the phone's always off because the owners have discovered that if you actually rely on these crap things you'll have to replace your $120 lithium battery every 8 months.
i don't watch much tv.. on the tv at least.. i get the minimum possible cable package in order to get cable internet. i then download shows that people post from the other channels:)
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if you are using joliet for your cdrom then you are using a 128 character filename. every character you see in the filename is made from a 2 byte value (the other byte is usually a null value, and a complete waste for u.s. english) because of m$'s "unicode". from the coincidental number of bytes allowed in the filename i'll guess that the lesser-known "romeo" file system was joliet without unicode. the only difference is that support for the romeo filesystem has been pulled by the mainstream software for the mainstream os's:(
i don't want to come across as being language-centric? but i do believe that unicode is horrible waste of space. everything, used or not, is not expressed as a two byte value. filenames, formatted text from various m$ editors, all the text in any recent win32 exe (wonder why the filesizes continue to increase? all the strings are stored twice the size)
none of the ad types did a damn thing:) my config contains default filters from the proxomitron but many more than just the default options enabled
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I'm sure most here will scoff at what i'm about to say but I find it interesting that no matter how many people, no matter how many faster and faster processors (and more of them) there are - seti *always* has plenty of data to send to everyone at all times of the day.
I think it's disgustingly brilliant that the u.s. gov't most likely has access to the computing power from people all over the world. most likely for such purposes.
...have drivers and such supported or at least updated for x number of years instead of being dropped like a rock when the next version of comes out? we've all got a lot of hardware that i can't use anymore or can't use because updates (and fixes) were shelved permanently. most of this is just lack of will. it's disgusting how much hardware waste stuff like that causes.
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Personally, I think suicide should be on the list of Human Rights.
It is in Canada.
That being said, assisted suicide, euthanasia, and counselling someone to kill themselves are crimes with substantial penalties listed. Here's a news story about someone who publicly declared his intent and succeeded.
that we'll start getting floppy 45's in magazines again?
The more you tighten your grip, the more torrent sites will slip through your fingers...
voip phones that look, *sound* and feel like regular phones.
...come to think of it, why do we have cord heatsets for (regular) cord phones and cordless headsets for cordless phones?
it seems that all of the divx players won't play files with these enhancements. some types of content need these options during encoding in order to have accepable quality during playback.
"Real" freon? R12? Go over to Iraq (and presumably other middle eastern countries too). They use it there ... as well as leaded gasoline.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit:
smoking.
drinking.
sniffing glue.
amphetamines.
using the internet.
The word is spelt as "bulletin"
:)
I'm sorry, did you mean "spelled" instead of spelt?
the former being one i've used ... the latter being one i actually had for sometime in 1995-1997 .. you wouldn't believe the "thank you for your interest in our product..." emails i got.
no one seems to have mentionned this format. it's basically an audio cd format with 6-channel data on it. you get 6 channels, similar playback time, as well as an existing physical format. has nobody heard of it?
i never tried forcing it closed... never was able to under win9x .. the whole damn thing was frozen solid during all the thrashing an i didn't want to lose data.
:)
as far as fragmentation is concerned, a fresh ghost restore and defrag (swap was on windows partition) didn't help. newsbin and its data was on a separate drive.
when swap wasn't in the picture, disk performance was never a problem (rules out newsbin's own data files). a 4 gig file copy goes in 2.5 minutes and ghost in dos getting 300-600 megs/minute for a restore.
newsbin may have been poorly optimized as far as that goes, it didn't seem to deallocate all of the ram at once like one would expect, it was something like 4k at a time (per disk stroke)
anyway, i fixed it by disabling the swap... nobody needs it swapping when there's plenty of ram left now do they?
there's a definite pattern with regard to swap in the windows world.
for win'9x: use up ram until almost gone then start allocating swap space in anticipation of actually using it. should memory allocation still be increasing then actually use swap space. reverse the order when freeing memory.
i had 384 megs ram at the time and as long as i used less than about 350 megs total the system wouldn't be in swap.
for win 2k & xp: (when within physical ram limits) whatever amount of memory is requested, allocate between 60-80% to ram and the rest to the swapfile. even the disk cache partially goes to swap! i didn't believe it at first but all one has to do is look at the numbers in the task manager's memory/cpu window. at first i figured that all i'd need to do is throw in some more ram and the disk thrashing and absolute crawl would go away. i put in a gigabyte of ram (i never allocate more than 700 megs at most and the total system memory usage on bootup is 100 megs). even with the extra ram the problem stayed the same.
turning off swap gives me consistent fast performance, and since the disk cache isn't swapped (partially) i get 2x the throughput i had with a swapfile on large file copy operations
machine tested: duron 1.3ghz, 1 gig pc133 ram, 2x 80 gig wd800jb hdd.. os win2000 & winxp running newsbin which allocates disgusting amounts of ram in a large header grab (yeah i could have used a test program but why do that when newsbin is a real-world test for me). the os and applications are on different drives on their own ide chains
with swapfile enabled (size=1.5x system ram).
allocation time: unaffected, only the time to perform task reqested
memory de-allocation time: (by either quitting app or selecting another group) 23 MINUTES of constant disk thrashing
with swapfile DISabled
allocation time: unaffected, only the time to perform task reqested
memory de-allocation time: (by either quitting app or selecting another group) 2 seconds
much of it here is still owned by someone. in ottawa, ontario the hydro utility has miles of dark fiber that can be leased depending on your location. rogers cable, from 1988-1995, strung fiber lines down almost every single street in ottawa in tandem with the existing coax lines on the pole. i'm sure they're using some of it to feed distribution nodes but the vast majority is unused. only the last 50 feet directly into the home is needed.
nine years later, everyone is still wired from miles of old coax with the newer bi-directional splitters (for uplink signal) that let interference back into the system.
other examples of rogers stupidity include fiber bundles going literally through smaller towns (with 8000-30000 pop. and suburban housing density throughout) and yet the town is fed a one-way link from a microwave dish on the water tower that points at ottawa which is 25 miles away. the fiber bundle goes right past the base of the water tower. go figure. because of this, rogers is losing out on digital services and internet revenue and the telco is getting all the broadband internet business! now, if this was done by the government here it'd have taken longer but everyone would have service availability.
.. searches for material on that site? ... cached pages that won't die perhaps?
Almost a year ago, when I was quitting smoking, I was using Nicoderm patches. I used to get them at the corner drug store but once went to a Shoppers Drug Mart (usually avoided because of loyalty crap but I was with someone else and had little choice at the time)... when I opened the box, there were no less than THREE RFID TAGS in it! One was a flat and square sticker like the ones used in libraries, the other two were different sized rectangular, flat, and plastic coated.
To top it off, they're still scanning the UPC code on the outside of the box...
Match 6172: Flash animation killer
:) I use a few more than the 'default' options but no ad type of theirs loads automatically.
Match 6172: Frame Jumper-Outer
6172: Restore pop-ups after a page loads
+++CLOSE 6172+++
Yup... I love that program
actually i found that 60-90mg oxycontin (roughly equal to 90-120mg ms-contin/morphine-sr) per day plus the patch and you just don't give a shit about quitting cigarettes. never was able to quit before i had these pills prescribed... i decided to take advantage of the situation and quit.
...(reduce greatly really) partly from the headaches, but partly because i just loved the wonderful taste of the mega strong coffee i made(put 2x the coffee in the filter part of the coffee machine :) ). i often drank 7 cups a day and near the end and i was really getting dehydrated. seriously dehydrated... as in not needing to pee in the morning.
/me doubles over in withdrawl cramps *
caffeine on the otherhand was horrible to give up
now i drink a couple of cups of tea daily and don't smoke (been 11 months and counting, and no real temptations of any kind so far), so that just leaves me with the oxycontin.
piece of cake!
*
bleh!
i'm not rich enough to buy a mac in order to change my OS. a mac is clearly out of the question for that reason alone. however linux doesn't yet cut the mustard when it comes to hardware support. it's not entirely any of the linux programmer's faults either; it's hardware vendor support.
... but the linux drivers only go "down" as far as the 8500. another piss off, as i'm not buying another card when this one has nothing wrong with it.
i can't watch tv, or capture to mpeg2 using my ati card under linux. (yeah they claim it's possible but i don't think the "slower" cards like a 7200 vivo can do it under linux because of the inefficient way capture is implemented [only guessing here])
ati claims that they are a linux supporter with the catalyst series drivers. the windows drivers support all readeon from 9xxx to 7xxx
whatever the reason, i get fantastic captures in win95, 2000 & xp. (my hw: duron 1300, 1 gig pc133 ram, 3x80gig hdd with 8meg cache, ati 7200 vivo, sblive, intel 10/100 nic)
i've never been able to play many avi types or mpgs full screen (utilising the hardware overlay).
my webcam is not supported in the least with linux. the vendor claims linux support but has no documentation or drivers. it's a divio 802 based usb cam. it's not the end of the world on this one but it's simply annoying.
(not hardware, just something i'd like to see) there are no news readers that are usable to the extent where you can do truly industrial strength downloading from the newsgroups... multi server, multi download, intelligent auto resume that doesn't give up if one of your three feeds does.
on the software side, there are so many little utilities and widgets that i'd like to be able to use under linux (native support for the widgets' functionality is not included).. there's no easy way to limit the rate (bandwidth allocation to each app both in & out).. oh and how the hell does one associate file extensions to a particular application??
if anyone can reply with tips or urls to fix any of the above it would be taken seriously and appreciated. there are some really cool things about linux but (mainly) HW support is the show stopper for me.
oh well that's my bit
that one chip where the company who makes the chip says there's linux support but my cam (and dozens of clones with the same chip) doesn't come with linux driverd nor are there any anywhere on the net
fscking liars!
Maybe in your country. Here cellphones are more expensive than ever. Digital cellphones were supposed to be better digital quality, cheaper because there were no contracts, billed by the second, and the phones had better battery life. for a while they were. Now all but one company is back to billing by the minute for digital calls. 2 & 3 year contracts are the norm again. you might be able to find a plan with a lot of minutes but there's no such thing as unlimited for anything
.. haven't you noticed they all stop using the phone quickly? the phone's always off because the owners have discovered that if you actually rely on these crap things you'll have to replace your $120 lithium battery every 8 months.
Quality is down the toilet for digital. It has really dropped, and on top of that rates are higher than analog used to be, no service or feature offered comes in an unlimited form now unless you're an old customer who's paying the rates dictated by a 2+yr old contract.
I can find half a dozen better deals for long distance calling on landlines than the 10cents/minute the cell companies claim is a deal.
Oh yes, all those people who switch to cell-only and drop their landline?
What a deal! NOT!
i don't watch much tv .. on the tv at least.. i get the minimum possible cable package in order to get cable internet. i then download shows that people post from the other channels :)
if you are using joliet for your cdrom then you are using a 128 character filename. every character you see in the filename is made from a 2 byte value (the other byte is usually a null value, and a complete waste for u.s. english) because of m$'s "unicode". from the coincidental number of bytes allowed in the filename i'll guess that the lesser-known "romeo" file system was joliet without unicode. the only difference is that support for the romeo filesystem has been pulled by the mainstream software for the mainstream os's :(
i don't want to come across as being language-centric? but i do believe that unicode is horrible waste of space. everything, used or not, is not expressed as a two byte value. filenames, formatted text from various m$ editors, all the text in any recent win32 exe (wonder why the filesizes continue to increase? all the strings are stored twice the size)
none of the ad types did a damn thing :)
my config contains default filters from the proxomitron but many more than just the default options enabled
I'm sure most here will scoff at what i'm about to say but I find it interesting that no matter how many people, no matter how many faster and faster processors (and more of them) there are - seti *always* has plenty of data to send to everyone at all times of the day.
I think it's disgustingly brilliant that the u.s. gov't most likely has access to the computing power from people all over the world. most likely for such purposes.
...have drivers and such supported or at least updated for x number of years instead of being dropped like a rock when the next version of comes out? we've all got a lot of hardware that i can't use anymore or can't use because updates (and fixes) were shelved permanently. most of this is just lack of will. it's disgusting how much hardware waste stuff like that causes.