One problem is Ogg Vorbis is not 1.0, I know the bit stream spec is locked so today's decoder should work tomorrow, but to marketing types and PHBs many times if something is not 1.0 then they don't won't to hear about it.
Secondly, there is no freely available integer decoder (needed for embedded applications), I think xiph.org might have one to sell, but why take a chance on something that's unproven and not free, when there isn't really that much demand for it in the non-geek world.
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A week later, I got a vague renewal notice from Verisign...
Just so you know, two things you said contradict each other:
In a 120V circuit, it is NEVER a neutral wire because it is carrying current back to the power source.
In spite of the fact that the "neutral" wire...carries current, the potential between it and ground should always be zero.
If its carrying current then there will be a potential between ground and neutral, which is the real world case. BTW, neutral and ground are bonded together, once and only once, usually at your circuit box. The neutral is very close to zero, but never zero for loaded circuits. Secondly, an ideal 3 phase motor would not return any current on the neutral, but they don't exist, so in three phase, there is current on the neutral, granted very small, but still there.
A side note: In a three phase system, neutral lines used to be sized to the same gauge as one of the phases, but things like computer switching power supplies, produce harmonics on the line which would add together on the return from the three phases and burn out the neutral, so now they are sized larger.
Its probably a riser and a cable, although they only say cable. Almost all of the PCI signals are shared on a the PCI bus except for a few device select/grant signals, which probably are side chained out of one of those headers near the PCI slot.
I've been using Mozilla on Linux as default since the early.9 releases, but on windows it just didn't seem as fast, even the last release I downloaded, 0.9.7, but WOW, it's fast now. Window's users, definetly give Mozilla another look if you haven't used it in a while, and Linux users, well your probably already using it...Great job mozilla team!
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I thought monty's name was Chris Montgomery... See here...
Each PCI bus (yes there can be many more than one) supports up to four interrupts. The way the bus is wired, these interrupt lines are equally distributed among the slots. Actually, all slots have the four lines connected, they are just staggered to the devices, so that the first interrupt line in slot 0 is not the first interrupt line again until slot 4, but each slot can actually use all four interrupts, most devices use one. The PCI bridge is then given four IRQ numbers to assign to those lines, in the case of Windows 2000 and XP its 9 for all the lines. Not a big deal, because you may be sharing already and this is the way the PCI bus is suppose to be able to work, in an ideal world.
The problems come about in the drivers and in design. When devices share interrupts, drivers need to be conservative about what they do in their ISR's (interrupt service routines) because someone else on that same interrupt might be trying to get some work done too, (like playing a wave file through your sound card and transfering data thourgh you fire wire card at the same time) both cards will be producing interrupts that need to be serviced. Its difficult to write efficient interrupt handlers for many reasons, but not impossible. People usually get lazy or the hardware is poorly designed. And that's why there are so many problems with sharing interrupts. In theory it should work, but the drivers/hardware are sometimes not up to the task.
Microsoft has said, this is how we are going to do it, its designed to work like this, make your devices work right. Although, they can be dicks when it comes to their hardware certification program (WHQL), the devices should be able to work like this. Now as far as the MoBo, my guess is that it probably did not function correctly in non-ACPI mode, and MSFT said, fine ACPI works, but if you go into non-ACPI mode, we can't certify you....
Just as proof heres the init script output when bastille is starting: Setting up IP spoofing protection... done. Allowing traffic from trusted interfaces... done. Loading NAT modules... done. Setting up masquerading rules... done. Loading masquerading modules... done. Setting up chains for public/internal interface traffic... done. Setting up general rules... done. Setting up outbound rules... done.
And also the fact that I have two computers on the inside connection of my firewall, might be enough proof....
Sorry to be redundent, but I must agree, couldn't get port forwarding to work. Althought, I must say the DSL support with PPPoE was great, install was a little confusing (could never get it to set up each card with the correct interface parameters) but once you get it to the point where you can use the web interface its easy. I also had problems with Smoothwall, but that was with the PPPoE support which was still in beta (this was almost a year ago) probably much better now. I'm happy now just using Bastille-Linux and then tweaking the rest myself. (end 2 cents)
"these days" is not refering to post 9/11, but instead the past year. I know a lot of people, including myself, who have gotten laid off, had to get a lower paying job or not gotten their usual bonuses or raises, and lost a lot of money in the stock market. This can definetly change your spending habits. These are facts, not slogans or cliches, that's the way it is for many people. Things are tighter, and its not perception, my bank account says so...
Exactly right. Stop at the parent post there is nothing more to discuss. I know I don't buy CD's anymore, not because I don't want to, it's just too much of an expense to justify, (except maybe a Radiohead CD;) ), I've cut down on my book buying, my magazine subscriptions, etc...Not because of downloading, but because of money. Things are a lot tighter these days.
I agree that kts does not beat wma at 32kbs. Furthermore, it may beat mp3, but that's really not a big deal. Most new compression schemes beat mp3 at low bitrates (Ogg Vorbis, WMA). Really not impressed with this at all...
Because they all use ogg packaging. Vorbis is just the raw encoded audio, with no hinting or headers. Ogg is the actual transport mechanism. So it's an ogg transport format file that contains vorbis audio. Kinda like how.avi is a wrapper. You're correct on your second point, it's really vorbis or ogg vorbis, not ogg encoding.
IIRC from my tour of a substation years ago, electricity suppliers use power line carriers (PLC) to communicate between substations to relay switching information. If you happend to be driving by a substation, look for these large cylinders called wave or line traps, that are used to "capture" the RF signals...Cool stuff especially since they are operating on something like a 500kV line. Probably a much simpler modulation scheme though.
YOU HAVE NO IDEA...Have you ever listened to Richie Hawtin? That's fuckin' Detroit Techno. Big difference from Jay-Z, Grandmaster Flash, etc... You have no idea (did I already say that). It's not about scratching, its about beat matching, keeping the crowd pumped for 4, 6, 8 hours bring them up and down on a wave of tempo changes and moods. These are the real DJ's, not these Puff Daddy guys on MTV. Not DJ Scribble. The ravers, the techno gods, these are the guys that would normally have to carry crates of vinyl, but can now just plug in a laptop...You understand now...You have no idea....
I'm willing to be [sic] that companies like OSDN, RedHat, Mandrake, Rackspace, etc.
Not Mandrake at least. They, wisely, don't host a thing. It's all mirrors and it works well, especially since most people are downloading 650MB ISO images. Something kernel.org should think about. The only problem with that is they need fast syncing of the mirrors, because a lot of -pre patches are only tested for a few days until the next one comes out....
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Yeah maybe its a little rude, but the dude is right...
One problem is Ogg Vorbis is not 1.0, I know the bit stream spec is locked so today's decoder should work tomorrow, but to marketing types and PHBs many times if something is not 1.0 then they don't won't to hear about it.
Secondly, there is no freely available integer decoder (needed for embedded applications), I think xiph.org might have one to sell, but why take a chance on something that's unproven and not free, when there isn't really that much demand for it in the non-geek world.
A week later, I got a vague renewal notice from Verisign...
I just can't believe that a cat would figure out "the system" and know the reason it's not being let in is due to having a bird in it's mouth.
Obviously, you've never lived with a cat...
Just so you know, two things you said contradict each other:
In a 120V circuit, it is NEVER a neutral wire because it is carrying current back to the power source.
In spite of the fact that the "neutral" wire...carries current, the potential between it and ground should always be zero.
If its carrying current then there will be a potential between ground and neutral, which is the real world case. BTW, neutral and ground are bonded together, once and only once, usually at your circuit box. The neutral is very close to zero, but never zero for loaded circuits. Secondly, an ideal 3 phase motor would not return any current on the neutral, but they don't exist, so in three phase, there is current on the neutral, granted very small, but still there.
A side note: In a three phase system, neutral lines used to be sized to the same gauge as one of the phases, but things like computer switching power supplies, produce harmonics on the line which would add together on the return from the three phases and burn out the neutral, so now they are sized larger.
"than hearing you sketch sweeping paint-by-number landscapes you can't possibly hope to fill in"
That's awesome! I'll have to remember that. Slashdot, you should hire this person to write, at least it would be entertaining.
Its probably a riser and a cable, although they only say cable. Almost all of the PCI signals are shared on a the PCI bus except for a few device select/grant signals, which probably are side chained out of one of those headers near the PCI slot.
I've been using Mozilla on Linux as default since the early .9 releases, but on windows it just didn't seem as fast, even the last release I downloaded, 0.9.7, but WOW, it's fast now. Window's users, definetly give Mozilla another look if you haven't used it in a while, and Linux users, well your probably already using it...Great job mozilla team!
I thought monty's name was Chris Montgomery...
See here...
As the hardware guys say when all else fails, "Stick a f***ing cap on it, that'll fix it" and in this case it will...
Each PCI bus (yes there can be many more than one) supports up to four interrupts. The way the bus is wired, these interrupt lines are equally distributed among the slots. Actually, all slots have the four lines connected, they are just staggered to the devices, so that the first interrupt line in slot 0 is not the first interrupt line again until slot 4, but each slot can actually use all four interrupts, most devices use one. The PCI bridge is then given four IRQ numbers to assign to those lines, in the case of Windows 2000 and XP its 9 for all the lines. Not a big deal, because you may be sharing already and this is the way the PCI bus is suppose to be able to work, in an ideal world.
The problems come about in the drivers and in design. When devices share interrupts, drivers need to be conservative about what they do in their ISR's (interrupt service routines) because someone else on that same interrupt might be trying to get some work done too, (like playing a wave file through your sound card and transfering data thourgh you fire wire card at the same time) both cards will be producing interrupts that need to be serviced. Its difficult to write efficient interrupt handlers for many reasons, but not impossible. People usually get lazy or the hardware is poorly designed. And that's why there are so many problems with sharing interrupts. In theory it should work, but the drivers/hardware are sometimes not up to the task.
Microsoft has said, this is how we are going to do it, its designed to work like this, make your devices work right. Although, they can be dicks when it comes to their hardware certification program (WHQL), the devices should be able to work like this. Now as far as the MoBo, my guess is that it probably did not function correctly in non-ACPI mode, and MSFT said, fine ACPI works, but if you go into non-ACPI mode, we can't certify you....
Just as proof heres the init script output when bastille is starting:
Setting up IP spoofing protection... done.
Allowing traffic from trusted interfaces... done.
Loading NAT modules... done.
Setting up masquerading rules... done.
Loading masquerading modules... done.
Setting up chains for public/internal interface traffic... done.
Setting up general rules... done.
Setting up outbound rules... done.
And also the fact that I have two computers on the inside connection of my firewall, might be enough proof....
yes it does, with iptables for 2.4 kernels...
Sorry to be redundent, but I must agree, couldn't get port forwarding to work. Althought, I must say the DSL support with PPPoE was great, install was a little confusing (could never get it to set up each card with the correct interface parameters) but once you get it to the point where you can use the web interface its easy. I also had problems with Smoothwall, but that was with the PPPoE support which was still in beta (this was almost a year ago) probably much better now. I'm happy now just using Bastille-Linux and then tweaking the rest myself. (end 2 cents)
"these days" is not refering to post 9/11, but instead the past year. I know a lot of people, including myself, who have gotten laid off, had to get a lower paying job or not gotten their usual bonuses or raises, and lost a lot of money in the stock market. This can definetly change your spending habits. These are facts, not slogans or cliches, that's the way it is for many people. Things are tighter, and its not perception, my bank account says so...
Exactly right. Stop at the parent post there is nothing more to discuss. I know I don't buy CD's anymore, not because I don't want to, it's just too much of an expense to justify, (except maybe a Radiohead CD ;) ), I've cut down on my book buying, my magazine subscriptions, etc...Not because of downloading, but because of money. Things are a lot tighter these days.
I agree that kts does not beat wma at 32kbs. Furthermore, it may beat mp3, but that's really not a big deal. Most new compression schemes beat mp3 at low bitrates (Ogg Vorbis, WMA). Really not impressed with this at all...
Because they all use ogg packaging. Vorbis is just the raw encoded audio, with no hinting or headers. Ogg is the actual transport mechanism. So it's an ogg transport format file that contains vorbis audio. .avi is a wrapper. You're correct on your second point, it's really vorbis or ogg vorbis, not ogg encoding.
Kinda like how
IIRC from my tour of a substation years ago, electricity suppliers use power line carriers (PLC) to communicate between substations to relay switching information. If you happend to be driving by a substation, look for these large cylinders called wave or line traps, that are used to "capture" the RF signals...Cool stuff especially since they are operating on something like a 500kV line. Probably a much simpler modulation scheme though.
While you have the drive open you should take the opportunity to defraggle your motherdisc....
I'm glad someone else noticed that...Remember P=VI, that's Power (watts) = Voltage * Current...
YOU HAVE NO IDEA...Have you ever listened to Richie Hawtin? That's fuckin' Detroit Techno. Big difference from Jay-Z, Grandmaster Flash, etc... You have no idea (did I already say that). It's not about scratching, its about beat matching, keeping the crowd pumped for 4, 6, 8 hours bring them up and down on a wave of tempo changes and moods. These are the real DJ's, not these Puff Daddy guys on MTV. Not DJ Scribble. The ravers, the techno gods, these are the guys that would normally have to carry crates of vinyl, but can now just plug in a laptop...You understand now...You have no idea....
This stuff is pretty complex, and I doubt you will find anything that good for free...
Really that's not real, you mean /. had a incorrect story/rumor/bs...
I'm willing to be [sic] that companies like OSDN, RedHat, Mandrake, Rackspace, etc.
Not Mandrake at least. They, wisely, don't host a thing. It's all mirrors and it works well, especially since most people are downloading 650MB ISO images. Something kernel.org should think about. The only problem with that is they need fast syncing of the mirrors, because a lot of -pre patches are only tested for a few days until the next one comes out....