Give your cat plenty to claw and chew on. Pet stores typically have things that the cat will find a lot more pleasant. If not, make some of your own. In my experience thick, strandy rope is the favorite for cats to claw on, and they prefer insulation of wire (metal removed, assuming it does not completely go soft.
But then again VGA is a huge cable, with metal shielding, so YMMV.
Well, do not give up yet. While it may be impossible to run programs in the underlying architecture, nothing says that you can not place a different translation code.
I am still waiting for the day when I will be able to run linux/ppc on my transmeta. (Or perhaps even cooler...being able to switch on demand!)
6to4 is your friend. For linux please refer to the Linux IPv6 HOWTO
For windows, go to your network configuration. Find your lan, and enable their IPv6 driver. XP only.(SP1 only?) I believe it self configures to use anycast, so that should be it.
Mac....do not know. I assume something along the lines of what linux does will work.
My microwave has a minute plus button. If microwave is on it adds a minute, if it is off it cooks for a minute. I almost never use any others. Nice and simple, although sometimes I think that a 30s button would be even better.
I think this would help him with alphabet & reading.
It probably will help him to read, but do not forget your responsibility as a parent that your son will not start speaking like the Mac tts. Such an impediment can ruin one's life.
I just want to say that you are not alone. You just described my dream cell phone.
I am stuck with Sprint right now (do not ask!). And I had my choice of a crappy nokia WITH REPLACABLE COVERS, what a WONDERFUL feature. All others were flipphones, which I personally hate. Nearly all of them had cameras, and most have 2 color lcd panels. Why do I need 2 lcd panels. I had to get the one with the camera and 2 lcds, because any other decent phones were 150+.....It came with a bunch of crappy ringer (all the while touting how the phone could produce 8 tones at the same time). All I wanted is a single loud short beep, and instead I get to hear a chorus of chimes that are highly annoying.
All I want is a service that gives me a voice connection and a data connection with an ip address, and I will have my own devices do all the features I want......
I also have an interesting issue, don't know if it is related. My parents have an EIDE cdrom and a SCSI scanner on an adaptec card. If I use a scanner first, then the CD drive will never activate, and windows complains that a device is not found. If I use a cd first, then a scanner will not work. Strangely, setting some cd option in cdex allows it to rip a cdrom anyway, but windows still does not see it.
Actually the refresh rate will decrease. The problem is that the console is a serial device. You have to position the cursor and then draw the character. That is much slower than what the video cards do with GL or even video. Worse...now you have to do all processing on the CPU as well. So expect frames to go down.
Well, until GPU's will start having ascii art on the GPU.
they would have to include drivers for the all the hardware, games need to run on.
how about all the libraries. DirectX et al is not tiny, as well as the OS they have to include.
Games frequently use swap, but with no OS, they have no facilities to make their swap files.
There is a part of the game that needs to be accessible at all times. (AKA binaries, dlls) Those will need to be placed into some kind of ramdisk for multidisk games
The fact that 'weird places' means that there are a half-dozen places for binaries to go (/bin,/sbin,/usr/bin,/usr/sbin/, etc...)
Let's see how this works on windows. OS's init (command.com) is in C:\. Windows main executables are in Windows. User land applications are in Program Files under who knows what the install chose. But not things like solitare -- that is back in the Windows Folder. Command line tools? Those are in Windows\Command if at all there. Certain lowlevel apps? (rundll32 regsvr32) Those are in Windows\System or in Windows\System32 depending on which service packs you install.
Oh and windows never sets your path correctly. And do not tell me to run everything from the gui. Some important development tools rely on consistent working directories that shift around. So it is always frustration for anyone who does more than solitare.
There are simpler ways. AFAIK in many states you do not need to have a front license plate at all. In fact, I have seen people with "fake" plates that are obviously not the real ones. I can imagine that the guy with the "California" JESUS plate must be getting a lot of tickets mailed to him.
But if you really want that high tech solution without much physical evidence, there is always glare paint. Reflects all light that comes in at more than 20 degree angle.
I agree with you fully. Having mythtv (mostly for just showing to people who care -- I do not watch tv) I can say that it is clearly superior having the files show up on your harddrive where they can be processed, organized, etc....Plus one can include extras....such as playing that library of simpsons downloaded off the net. I do not see a way how a company can do this without facing lawsuits. Free software on the other hand can, since it is harder to find people to sue, and there is no money involved.
The major problems with PC PVR are ease of installation/use....and hardware. The first one will be dealt with shortly. I expect to see LiveCDs being preconfigured to be plug and play with hardware autodetect and everything.
The second one is harder. MythTV uses a NuppelVideo codec, which seems to me to be a fairly uncompressed format, probably similar to MJPEG. It is nice and fast to encode, but eats space quickly. My 80Gb drive will not last for 10 hours of recording at full res. Trying to swithch encoders will result in frame loss quickly, even on fast machines. TiVo deals with this by having a hardware encoder. And to have MythTV working well, the PC has to have that as well.
The problem is there are not that many computers out there which have things as MPEG2 encoders and even TV tuners. And unfortunately, until Dell/whatever starts including them in their packages, people will not use MythTV. And Dell will not include these features until there is a demand.
The above reason is why only geeks will have PC PVR with many cool features for quite a while.
They specifically said "authorized", not "legal". Thus someone like who is currently sharing stuff that is legal in the US AFAIK, but not necesserily elsewhere (foreign movies not for sale in US), I doubt that I will be allowed to join this program.
To me this sounds like paying independents, and possibly some bigger companies small money for releasing their "preview" files.
This is not about the users of the network, it is about making the network seem more like a usable market or an advertising medium. Although this is not a bad step, I see no benefit to me, so I am staying on Gnutella, perhaps the only usable network that has no commercialism attached to it.
They are not fast. Mine is also an older model, clocking at 866 Mhz.
I also run Gentoo Linux, so my opinion may not work for you....
In pure speed I do not notice much problems with performance. Windowmaker is perfectly responsive, so are all the other apps. The major slowdown it seems to me is not the processor, but the HDD. Mozilla runs quite fast, but the initial loading time is near 10 sec (unless cached).
Other benchmarks are my movie playing, which is perfectly fine with mplayer. Divx5 full screen decoding uses 20-30 % cpu. Compiling speed is approximately 50-70% of my desktop, A 1.2 Ghz tbird. I have heard that Windows movie playing is a bit slower, with some skip, but that was on the 833 Mhz reviews when I read them a year ago.
So in general, it is fast enough. Be ready for some noticable slowdowns, especially in drive sensitive operations. And the 8Mb Mach 64 video card is horrible....The have radeon mobility now, but I hope that they cranked up the ram....as 24 bit color will spill into your ram....
I do not recommend this for a Visual Studio machine, as it will die under the disc stress. I do not know if they improved 3d graphics by swithching to radeon mobility, as mine dies under simple GL apps, (but lack of linux drivers may be the cause).
In general I highly recommend this system. It is small, fanless, with nice battery life. Decent price. Oh, did I mention hardware stability. I have not managed to get a hardware freeze yet. I have not turned the laptop off for like 60-70 days once, and it worked just fine, (rebooted due to certain apps (AFS) stuck in kernel mode because they timed out during network outage).
The only repeated annoyance is that the rubber feet will unglue and fall off.
I have no regrets buying this system. I will recommend it to anyone not doing 3d stuff, or is extremely impatient.
The problem that you see is that the current DNS system for IPv6 is non existent. What you are seeing is more of a hack to be interoperable.
Once IPv6 becomes more adopted you will see those improvements made.
Since most of the ip range is reserved for the local network, it will be more like a 64 bit address followed by::1 (unless a person needs more than one machine)
I am slightly confused why this device just would not support usb-storage. That would sound like the simplest thing to do. No strange programs run, etc.
Even for those who want syncronization abilities. They can just mount the usb-storage and then rsync the local paths.
A buck a gig? No. For a simple home computer, a standard IDE drive is acceptable. That is about a dollar a Gig. For a good hosting service, they need something fast and reliable, like high speed SCSI RAIDs. Those cost significantly higher.
If the hosting service is good, then they could even have multiple servers serving your data for speed and reliability. That means possible replication. If they don't and you still have a lot, then that means a server for just you. That costs quite a bit of money.
Backups also cost money, and the hosting companies will probably do those. Once again $$$.
Then there is an issue of transfer. If you store a lot, that probably means you transfer a lot. Add in a per Mb cost for transfer, and you will see that the prices do really add up.
So basically if you want something custom, do what the posters above suggest, and colocate your own server. That way you can do absolutely anything, and will only be paying only the monthly fee + bandwidth used.
I highly disagree with you that knowledge of assembly is required. I also disagree with you that people that know only java can not do reliable code. One of the major points of java, and some other languages is that they have a virtual machine. Thus the language of the virtual machine is the only required knowledge of how your code works.
Does it really matter where your object/value is stored. No! All one should care about is when this object is available for you. And even then, why does the programmer even need to care about this. The semantics of the language already make sure that your code does not go against the rules of the machine. (especially in the case of the statically typed languages)
The only thing that the programmer needs to do is to figure out how to solve the problem he needs correctly. The rules of the machine are already enforced.
So I do agree. Do not hire someone for college education. Hire them for problem solving skills. Although people with college education will typically have better problem solving.
Do ignore my comment if you are thinking systems code (drivers, OS). The correct, safe languages are not there yet. They will be, but not yet. Until then this type of work will need the knowledge of machines.
Check that you have xvideo extension on the xserver. $xvinfo if it outputs bunch of numbers you have it. then give mplayer the "-vo xv" flags then try the fullscreen.
if you do not have xvideo, then you should not really be scaling video anyway.
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Give your cat plenty to claw and chew on. Pet stores typically have things that the cat will find a lot more pleasant. If not, make some of your own. In my experience thick, strandy rope is the favorite for cats to claw on, and they prefer insulation of wire (metal removed, assuming it does not completely go soft.
But then again VGA is a huge cable, with metal shielding, so YMMV.
Well, do not give up yet. While it may be impossible to run programs in the underlying architecture, nothing says that you can not place a different translation code.
I am still waiting for the day when I will be able to run linux/ppc on my transmeta. (Or perhaps even cooler...being able to switch on demand!)
6to4 is your friend. For linux please refer to the Linux IPv6 HOWTO
For windows, go to your network configuration. Find your lan, and enable their IPv6 driver. XP only.(SP1 only?) I believe it self configures to use anycast, so that should be it.
Mac....do not know. I assume something along the lines of what linux does will work.
Good luck.
My microwave has a minute plus button. If microwave is on it adds a minute, if it is off it cooks for a minute. I almost never use any others. Nice and simple, although sometimes I think that a 30s button would be even better.
I think this would help him with alphabet & reading.
It probably will help him to read, but do not forget your responsibility as a parent that your son will not start speaking like the Mac tts. Such an impediment can ruin one's life.
I just want to say that you are not alone. You just described my dream cell phone.
I am stuck with Sprint right now (do not ask!). And I had my choice of a crappy nokia WITH REPLACABLE COVERS, what a WONDERFUL feature. All others were flipphones, which I personally hate. Nearly all of them had cameras, and most have 2 color lcd panels. Why do I need 2 lcd panels. I had to get the one with the camera and 2 lcds, because any other decent phones were 150+.....It came with a bunch of crappy ringer (all the while touting how the phone could produce 8 tones at the same time). All I wanted is a single loud short beep, and instead I get to hear a chorus of chimes that are highly annoying.
All I want is a service that gives me a voice connection and a data connection with an ip address, and I will have my own devices do all the features I want......
I also have an interesting issue, don't know if it is related. My parents have an EIDE cdrom and a SCSI scanner on an adaptec card. If I use a scanner first, then the CD drive will never activate, and windows complains that a device is not found. If I use a cd first, then a scanner will not work. Strangely, setting some cd option in cdex allows it to rip a cdrom anyway, but windows still does not see it.
Weird.
> well, the refresh rate got to be good, though
Actually the refresh rate will decrease. The problem is that the console is a serial device. You have to position the cursor and then draw the character. That is much slower than what the video cards do with GL or even video. Worse...now you have to do all processing on the CPU as well. So expect frames to go down.
Well, until GPU's will start having ascii art on the GPU.
But do they trust the people who put a flight simulator in Excel?
- they would have to include drivers for the all the hardware, games need to run on.
- how about all the libraries. DirectX et al is not tiny, as well as the OS they have to include.
- Games frequently use swap, but with no OS, they have no facilities to make their swap files.
- There is a part of the game that needs to be accessible at all times. (AKA binaries, dlls) Those will need to be placed into some kind of ramdisk for multidisk games
Do you think the OS is there for nothing?The fact that 'weird places' means that there are a half-dozen places for binaries to go (/bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin/, etc...)
Let's see how this works on windows. OS's init (command.com) is in C:\. Windows main executables are in Windows. User land applications are in Program Files under who knows what the install chose. But not things like solitare -- that is back in the Windows Folder. Command line tools? Those are in Windows\Command if at all there. Certain lowlevel apps? (rundll32 regsvr32) Those are in Windows\System or in Windows\System32 depending on which service packs you install.
Oh and windows never sets your path correctly. And do not tell me to run everything from the gui. Some important development tools rely on consistent working directories that shift around. So it is always frustration for anyone who does more than solitare.
There are simpler ways. AFAIK in many states you do not need to have a front license plate at all. In fact, I have seen people with "fake" plates that are obviously not the real ones. I can imagine that the guy with the "California" JESUS plate must be getting a lot of tickets mailed to him.
But if you really want that high tech solution without much physical evidence, there is always glare paint. Reflects all light that comes in at more than 20 degree angle.
I agree with you fully. Having mythtv (mostly for just showing to people who care -- I do not watch tv) I can say that it is clearly superior having the files show up on your harddrive where they can be processed, organized, etc....Plus one can include extras....such as playing that library of simpsons downloaded off the net. I do not see a way how a company can do this without facing lawsuits. Free software on the other hand can, since it is harder to find people to sue, and there is no money involved.
The major problems with PC PVR are ease of installation/use....and hardware. The first one will be dealt with shortly. I expect to see LiveCDs being preconfigured to be plug and play with hardware autodetect and everything.
The second one is harder. MythTV uses a NuppelVideo codec, which seems to me to be a fairly uncompressed format, probably similar to MJPEG. It is nice and fast to encode, but eats space quickly. My 80Gb drive will not last for 10 hours of recording at full res. Trying to swithch encoders will result in frame loss quickly, even on fast machines. TiVo deals with this by having a hardware encoder. And to have MythTV working well, the PC has to have that as well.
The problem is there are not that many computers out there which have things as MPEG2 encoders and even TV tuners. And unfortunately, until Dell/whatever starts including them in their packages, people will not use MythTV. And Dell will not include these features until there is a demand.
The above reason is why only geeks will have PC PVR with many cool features for quite a while.
LHice. Nice progress bars, lightning fast, and featured the most crappy compression imaginable..........
I miss the old days.......
Hmm. Did your wife installed the printer on the windows system? What about the word processor? Hmm?
What about Windows itself?
Stuff is easy when it is already preconfigured for you. The question is, why did you not just preconfigure a system, and just let it work?
They specifically said "authorized", not "legal". Thus someone like who is currently sharing stuff that is legal in the US AFAIK, but not necesserily elsewhere (foreign movies not for sale in US), I doubt that I will be allowed to join this program.
To me this sounds like paying independents, and possibly some bigger companies small money for releasing their "preview" files.
This is not about the users of the network, it is about making the network seem more like a usable market or an advertising medium. Although this is not a bad step, I see no benefit to me, so I am staying on Gnutella, perhaps the only usable network that has no commercialism attached to it.
They are not fast. Mine is also an older model, clocking at 866 Mhz.
I also run Gentoo Linux, so my opinion may not work for you....
In pure speed I do not notice much problems with performance. Windowmaker is perfectly responsive, so are all the other apps. The major slowdown it seems to me is not the processor, but the HDD. Mozilla runs quite fast, but the initial loading time is near 10 sec (unless cached).
Other benchmarks are my movie playing, which is perfectly fine with mplayer. Divx5 full screen decoding uses 20-30 % cpu. Compiling speed is approximately 50-70% of my desktop, A 1.2 Ghz tbird. I have heard that Windows movie playing is a bit slower, with some skip, but that was on the 833 Mhz reviews when I read them a year ago.
So in general, it is fast enough. Be ready for some noticable slowdowns, especially in drive sensitive operations. And the 8Mb Mach 64 video card is horrible....The have radeon mobility now, but I hope that they cranked up the ram....as 24 bit color will spill into your ram....
I do not recommend this for a Visual Studio machine, as it will die under the disc stress. I do not know if they improved 3d graphics by swithching to radeon mobility, as mine dies under simple GL apps, (but lack of linux drivers may be the cause).
In general I highly recommend this system. It is small, fanless, with nice battery life. Decent price. Oh, did I mention hardware stability. I have not managed to get a hardware freeze yet. I have not turned the laptop off for like 60-70 days once, and it worked just fine, (rebooted due to certain apps (AFS) stuck in kernel mode because they timed out during network outage).
The only repeated annoyance is that the rubber feet will unglue and fall off.
I have no regrets buying this system. I will recommend it to anyone not doing 3d stuff, or is extremely impatient.
I have a Fujitsu P2000 series.....
10 inches screen, 1280x768 res. Low latency and high contrast ratio too. Looks great.
It could be too small....But then just crank up the DPI rating, and it will work perfectly.
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The only laptop I was considering over this one was the powerbook. The fujitsu won based on the price.....
The problem that you see is that the current DNS system for IPv6 is non existent. What you are seeing is more of a hack to be interoperable.
::1 (unless a person needs more than one machine)
Once IPv6 becomes more adopted you will see those improvements made.
Since most of the ip range is reserved for the local network, it will be more like a 64 bit address followed by
You have to be kidding, right.
I have 2 keyboards. One is a fairly old IBM keyboard, that has the nicest feel to it you will ever see. They do not make keyboards like that anymore.
The other one is a Microsoft natural pro. Yes it is replacable, but I do not wish to spend $30+ to do so.
All it takes is a half an hour to pop keys drop them in a solution of detergent and water, and use alcohol dipped qtips on the actual surface.
And you only need to do it once per year.
I am slightly confused why this device just would not support usb-storage. That would sound like the simplest thing to do. No strange programs run, etc.
Even for those who want syncronization abilities. They can just mount the usb-storage and then rsync the local paths.
Why the special utility?
A buck a gig? No. For a simple home computer, a standard IDE drive is acceptable. That is about a dollar a Gig. For a good hosting service, they need something fast and reliable, like high speed SCSI RAIDs. Those cost significantly higher.
If the hosting service is good, then they could even have multiple servers serving your data for speed and reliability. That means possible replication. If they don't and you still have a lot, then that means a server for just you. That costs quite a bit of money.
Backups also cost money, and the hosting companies will probably do those. Once again $$$.
Then there is an issue of transfer. If you store a lot, that probably means you transfer a lot. Add in a per Mb cost for transfer, and you will see that the prices do really add up.
So basically if you want something custom, do what the posters above suggest, and colocate your own server. That way you can do absolutely anything, and will only be paying only the monthly fee + bandwidth used.
Good luck in your search.
The amount of changes that were put in since 3.1.2 is not huge. Now the problem still remains. Version 3.1.3 will come out before your KDE will load.
I highly disagree with you that knowledge of assembly is required. I also disagree with you that people that know only java can not do reliable code. One of the major points of java, and some other languages is that they have a virtual machine. Thus the language of the virtual machine is the only required knowledge of how your code works.
Does it really matter where your object/value is stored. No! All one should care about is when this object is available for you. And even then, why does the programmer even need to care about this. The semantics of the language already make sure that your code does not go against the rules of the machine. (especially in the case of the statically typed languages)
The only thing that the programmer needs to do is to figure out how to solve the problem he needs correctly. The rules of the machine are already enforced.
So I do agree. Do not hire someone for college education. Hire them for problem solving skills. Although people with college education will typically have better problem solving.
Do ignore my comment if you are thinking systems code (drivers, OS). The correct, safe languages are not there yet. They will be, but not yet. Until then this type of work will need the knowledge of machines.
Check that you have xvideo extension on the xserver.
$xvinfo
if it outputs bunch of numbers you have it.
then give mplayer the "-vo xv" flags
then try the fullscreen.
if you do not have xvideo, then you should not really be scaling video anyway.