My uncle bought a dell running XP during the summer of 2002. Since I was visiting, I set it up for him. By default, it asked me before any program tried to access the net. For some reason, one of the programs on this brand new pc (hadn't put any new software on it yet) kept trying to access www.dell.com.
Not sure if it was a registration program or spyware or what, but it certainly was annoying.
1) We're discussing helping sick children, not the the possibility of gaming leading to violent tendencies. 2) I've done something similar in sames like Deus Ex back in the day, but you don't see me going on a shooting rampage. It's more to test the limits of the game's engine than to brutally 'slaughter' a group of pixels.
Not having much exposure to Mac, I just saw the expose effect the other day. A professor was doing a powerpoint lecture and needed to switch to a website to better get a point across.
He used the expose feature to select the browser from the 10+ he had open at the time. The audience all went "Ooooooh" and I'll admit that I thought it was a neat effect.
While I probably would just use virtual desktops most of the time, it would be useful in some cases, or to show someone (as pictures are worth a 1000 words and all that) some of the neat stuff Linux can do.
Family Guy was ok, but I felt like I needed ADD just to keep up with how much they randomly changed topics.
Now, Futurama, that was a show to savor. You had such a good mix of comedy and drama. You had story arcs, plot, character development, and most scifi inside-jokes than anyone could catch. Just look at "Jurassic Bark": Dolemite references and an ending that genuinely make me tear up, something that a television show has never make me do before.
I'm curious: Did anyone one get confused and a little suspicious of the style article's equations? It seemed like an awful lot of his work was "Well, I got this number doing it this way and that number doing it that way, so let's just average the two together and pretend it's right. And then I looked it up and it's actually a third number number, so we'll average this in there as well".
I assume the article was mostly just in good humor, but it still left me scratching my head in confusion.
Mod parent up. I got a lot of snide comments and puts downs in elementary and middle school, but I would hardly consider that at the same level as actually getting beat up.
My hometown is Sioux City, Iowa, manufacturing center for Gateway computers, so I might be a little biased, but...
Them seem to be getting better. As I understand it, the story goes like this:
A few years ago, Ted Waitt, founder of Gateway computers, retired. The board selected a new CEO, who proceeded to cut corners and the like until Gateway was known for crappy PCs. The board kicked him out and since Waitt's stock options were now in the toilet, he agreed to come back and fix the whole mess. Since then, Gateway seems to be improving.
Hopefully, they can earn back a place of trust in consumer and corporate minds.
I found a lot of value in the project, so after the proof of concept was completed I continued to program. I turned the entire system into a distributed client/server model. The clients request a chunk of random IP space from the server and when it is completed the IP space is registered with the server. This is done until all of the IP space has been scanned. I'm also working on a stats system so I can monitor the productivity of the different scanning nodes and users involved in the project.
I was just about to comment on this. Granted, I haven't seen a whole lot of episodes, but this thing sound like the some sort of "appeal to younger viewers" update thing. I'm used to #5 from that site linked in the adjacent post.
I know you said you didn't want to troubleshoot it extensively, but SOMETHING must have been screwed up. The ATI 9100 came out before the GF4, right? There's no way it could result in double the points of a GF5.
Now, I've owned both ATI and Nvidia, so I hope no one will call me an nvidia fan-boy, but that just doesn't seem right.
If you go with the most general tweaking, yeah. But, for example, I compiled all my programs with the -march=athlon flag, which means I get a slight performance boost, but my system would not play well with older intel systems. I'm just saying that since one of the key philosphies of LFS is a system customized to exactly your setup, it seems counter-intuitive to make a generic distro out of it.
I assume he means so that when he has his LFS system just the way he wants it, he can create a CD that will let him install it on anything he wants. It wouldn't really work, though, what with the hardware-specific tweaks LFS puts in.
I've got an nforce2 motherboard with an onboard 3com ethernet card that wasn't added to the 3c59c module until 2.4.21 or so. As I understand it, Gentoo uses 2.4.20. I would therefore not be able to access the net and download all the required packages if I did a stage1 or stage2 build.
Am I missing something, or would I have to wait for another release that uses 2.4.22/2.6.x? I guess I'll just fiddle with my LFS system until then...
About a month ago, I tried out LFS 4.1 and was very happy with it. (Wish I had known LFS 5 was coming so soon. I might have waited) I'm new to Linux and it helped me get a handle on a lot of commands that I probably would not have learned for quite a while longer had I not tried it. I'm currently in the middle of using the BLFS (Beyond Linux from Scratch) to add in the necessary tools to use my LFS system as my main linux system.
For others new to linux, I would recommend it. All you need is: - A spare partition - An ordinary linux distro to start building the lfs system. (I hear you can build w/o it, but I didn't try that method, as it wasn't recommended) - Lots of free time
...That when they 'fixed' the problem, they did it right. Since they probably didn't want the local county's IT guy to look at the source and fix the problem, there's no guarantee they got it right this time, either.
Haven't tried the new Nortons (Still running 2001 because it was the last version that doesn't seem to be a resource hog), but for 2001, they stored the license info in a different folder than the program files. I had to clean it out one time because, when doing a clean install of Windows, I installed Norton, then realized I hadn't reset the clock yet. It was set for Jan 1, 2000. Setting it to 2003 naturally made Norton think my license was 2 years out of date.
Anyway, I had to get rid of several folders to get rid of this info (after uninstalling, of course):
It's a little odd how they chose to edit it. For example, they would sometimes cover the summary sentance of a paragraph, but the meaning of it could still be guessed based up the rest of the paragraph.
Giant sound waves propagated through the blazing hot matter that filled the Universe shortly after the Big Bang. These squeezed and stretched matter, heating the compressed regions and cooling the rarefied ones.
I'm not totally sure, but I honestly thing this is the first e-mail I ever got from someone that wasn't a standard message from a friend. Ah, memories...
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My uncle bought a dell running XP during the summer of 2002. Since I was visiting, I set it up for him. By default, it asked me before any program tried to access the net. For some reason, one of the programs on this brand new pc (hadn't put any new software on it yet) kept trying to access www.dell.com.
Not sure if it was a registration program or spyware or what, but it certainly was annoying.
Not terribly germane:
1) We're discussing helping sick children, not the the possibility of gaming leading to violent tendencies.
2) I've done something similar in sames like Deus Ex back in the day, but you don't see me going on a shooting rampage. It's more to test the limits of the game's engine than to brutally 'slaughter' a group of pixels.
Now let's get back to helping these kids.
Sorry. Should have been clearer. I meant he had 10 different kinds of windows open, one of which was an internet browser.
I, too, enjoy tabbed internet browsing.
Not having much exposure to Mac, I just saw the expose effect the other day. A professor was doing a powerpoint lecture and needed to switch to a website to better get a point across.
He used the expose feature to select the browser from the 10+ he had open at the time. The audience all went "Ooooooh" and I'll admit that I thought it was a neat effect.
While I probably would just use virtual desktops most of the time, it would be useful in some cases, or to show someone (as pictures are worth a 1000 words and all that) some of the neat stuff Linux can do.
Family Guy was ok, but I felt like I needed ADD just to keep up with how much they randomly changed topics.
Now, Futurama, that was a show to savor. You had such a good mix of comedy and drama. You had story arcs, plot, character development, and most scifi inside-jokes than anyone could catch. Just look at "Jurassic Bark": Dolemite references and an ending that genuinely make me tear up, something that a television show has never make me do before.
I'm curious: Did anyone one get confused and a little suspicious of the style article's equations? It seemed like an awful lot of his work was "Well, I got this number doing it this way and that number doing it that way, so let's just average the two together and pretend it's right. And then I looked it up and it's actually a third number number, so we'll average this in there as well".
I assume the article was mostly just in good humor, but it still left me scratching my head in confusion.
Mod parent up. I got a lot of snide comments and puts downs in elementary and middle school, but I would hardly consider that at the same level as actually getting beat up.
My hometown is Sioux City, Iowa, manufacturing center for Gateway computers, so I might be a little biased, but...
Them seem to be getting better. As I understand it, the story goes like this:
A few years ago, Ted Waitt, founder of Gateway computers, retired. The board selected a new CEO, who proceeded to cut corners and the like until Gateway was known for crappy PCs. The board kicked him out and since Waitt's stock options were now in the toilet, he agreed to come back and fix the whole mess. Since then, Gateway seems to be improving.
Hopefully, they can earn back a place of trust in consumer and corporate minds.
It's a feature of slashdot. Note how the name isn't a hyperlink like the rest of ours.
I found a lot of value in the project, so after the proof of concept was completed I continued to program. I turned the entire system into a distributed client/server model. The clients request a chunk of random IP space from the server and when it is completed the IP space is registered with the server. This is done until all of the IP space has been scanned. I'm also working on a stats system so I can monitor the productivity of the different scanning nodes and users involved in the project.
Yay! I finally get to tell someone to RTFA!
I'm logged into AIM for several hours a day, and I still have yet to get a single "spim". Maybe it's because I have a long and unique username.
I was just about to comment on this. Granted, I haven't seen a whole lot of episodes, but this thing sound like the some sort of "appeal to younger viewers" update thing. I'm used to #5 from that site linked in the adjacent post.
I know you said you didn't want to troubleshoot it extensively, but SOMETHING must have been screwed up. The ATI 9100 came out before the GF4, right? There's no way it could result in double the points of a GF5.
Now, I've owned both ATI and Nvidia, so I hope no one will call me an nvidia fan-boy, but that just doesn't seem right.
If you go with the most general tweaking, yeah. But, for example, I compiled all my programs with the -march=athlon flag, which means I get a slight performance boost, but my system would not play well with older intel systems. I'm just saying that since one of the key philosphies of LFS is a system customized to exactly your setup, it seems counter-intuitive to make a generic distro out of it.
I assume he means so that when he has his LFS system just the way he wants it, he can create a CD that will let him install it on anything he wants. It wouldn't really work, though, what with the hardware-specific tweaks LFS puts in.
I think the best possibility is, having never opened the graves before, they find his torso in one and his legs in the other.
I'm interested, but I have a question:
I've got an nforce2 motherboard with an onboard 3com ethernet card that wasn't added to the 3c59c module until 2.4.21 or so. As I understand it, Gentoo uses 2.4.20. I would therefore not be able to access the net and download all the required packages if I did a stage1 or stage2 build.
Am I missing something, or would I have to wait for another release that uses 2.4.22/2.6.x? I guess I'll just fiddle with my LFS system until then...
About a month ago, I tried out LFS 4.1 and was very happy with it. (Wish I had known LFS 5 was coming so soon. I might have waited) I'm new to Linux and it helped me get a handle on a lot of commands that I probably would not have learned for quite a while longer had I not tried it. I'm currently in the middle of using the BLFS (Beyond Linux from Scratch) to add in the necessary tools to use my LFS system as my main linux system.
For others new to linux, I would recommend it. All you need is:
- A spare partition
- An ordinary linux distro to start building the lfs system. (I hear you can build w/o it, but I didn't try that method, as it wasn't recommended)
- Lots of free time
...That when they 'fixed' the problem, they did it right. Since they probably didn't want the local county's IT guy to look at the source and fix the problem, there's no guarantee they got it right this time, either.
Well, it's a watch, right? Just take the watch off and hand it to them.
Although that might be too logical.
Haven't tried the new Nortons (Still running 2001 because it was the last version that doesn't seem to be a resource hog), but for 2001, they stored the license info in a different folder than the program files. I had to clean it out one time because, when doing a clean install of Windows, I installed Norton, then realized I hadn't reset the clock yet. It was set for Jan 1, 2000. Setting it to 2003 naturally made Norton think my license was 2 years out of date.
Anyway, I had to get rid of several folders to get rid of this info (after uninstalling, of course):
C:\Program Files\Symantec
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared
C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data\Symantec
Hope that helps.
It's a little odd how they chose to edit it. For example, they would sometimes cover the summary sentance of a paragraph, but the meaning of it could still be guessed based up the rest of the paragraph.
Other places are more logical coverings, though.
As will I.
I'm also going to save that pic, just in case...
I'm not totally sure, but I honestly thing this is the first e-mail I ever got from someone that wasn't a standard message from a friend. Ah, memories...