The concept of assigns can be emulated fairly easily though... even if done in a different way. Hell, even symlinks like/assigns/music would work if it was a standard and hence file requestors would use the symlinks in/assigns (and/or/etc/assigns,/home/etc/assigns, and so on) for the list of assigned places within the file system.
At least the KDE file requestor is quite usable and also nice to look at. Those Gnome mock-ups are awful (although better than the dire abysmal requestor currently used).
In fact, the only file requestor that I have ever liked is the Amiga file requestor, ASL.
Firstly, the vast majority of the window was set aside for the files themselves! An amazing concept that, compared to the 1/4 of the window for these mockups! It is a file requestor!
Secondly there was a button "Disks" (or "Volumes") that changed the file area into a locations area where you could select disks and assigns (you could assign "Music:" to "Work:Files/Media/Music" for example) to navigate quickly around the filesystem. No need to waste a lot of space on a "common locations" area that won't be used most of the time.
Yes, it had a filename filter option as well.
With a little thought this 15 year old file requestor could be modernised and made up to date. In fact, as AmigaOS4 is coming out soon, it might very well have been updated already to include modern graphical sparkle and useful functionality like "New Folder", etc, icons for the save requestor.
bah... did this post or not? I just got an error 500 page for my first attempt, but it recognised that I had tried to post when I clicked submit again.
"on schedule"... lol, it came in very late, and the high speed rail link on the English side (linking Folkestone to London) is still not complete!
"on cost"... nope, it massively overrun the initial project costs, although not at the same scale as this Big Dig thing. I'm convinced that massive public construction projects are simply a money drain.
Also, Brighton is around 30 miles to the West of where the tunnel emerges, so where you got that from I do not know!
Also it cost 7 or 8 lives, twice that of this Big Dig project.
1) The domain owner/administrator (or their mail server administrator) I imagine. I expect that some tools will be available to generate the keypair. The public half will be configured on the DNS (would this require a new revision of BIND to handle a "DK" type or will a TXT field be abused for this?) and the private half will be installed into the mail server.
When a mail from that domain goes via the mail server, the mail server will calculate the hash of the message and encrypt with the private key and add that as a header to the e-mail before sending it to the recipient.
There will have to be some transitional period though, because it will take time for all mail providers to support domain keys, and any spammer can send spam via an undomainkeyed domain, yet you won't want to block undomainkeyed domains until all your contacts are using it. Maybe there would be a "Trusted Inbox" and "Untrusted Inbox"...
Bayesian filters suck because they only handles spam at the end point, in the mail client. The best place will be on the mailserver, before you have to download it.
Dammit, why are Plasma displays in the UK still 2000 pounds at the low end then? (42" Relisys)... that's like 4 times the cost in Australia. Something isn't right:(
I can't find Plasma displays in the UK that are smaller than 42" either. Even though all I'd want is a nice 1920x1080 32" display at most...
Welcome to FreeView in the UK, around 20 to 30 TV channels free to air on digital terrestrial. The boxes are around 50 pounds, as I said elsewhere. Problem is that sometimes you need a new aerial to receive the digital broadcasts.
If only it had Sky One... then I could dump my useless expensive basic cable package from NTL.
Sure, our digital broadcasts aren't HDTV quality over here, but we've had Digital TV via Satellite for over 5 years now, and over cable and terrestrial for not that much shorter a time. Digital TV receivers are virtually free now (a non-subscription box can be had for around 50 pounds, so that shows how cheap the hardware is).
So why the costs for receivers are so high in Japan I don't know... I suspect price gauging of the poor old consumer, even if the receivers are more modern and HDTV, etc.
HDTV capable TV sets are still extremely expensive though, but they aren't a necessity for receiving digital TV.
For me to migrate my company's systems from MySQL to Postgres. Shame that my nice O'Reilly book won't cover the new features... but I probably am not so advanced as to need them!
Now how does it compile and run on FreeBSD / x86-64?
I read elsewhere that the interconnect used on the Opteron cluster would be the limitation. I think that it uses Myrinet which can't compete with 4x Infiniband as used on the PowerMac cluster.
I assume it because that is how you do game development. Half of the work is in reducing the models, etc, enough to create an overall playable game.
I still doubt that there will be a GameCube Pro (at least one with faster hardware, etc - consoles thrive because of the fixed hardware platform) myself (although it would be nice). However Nintendo should integrate the broadband adaptor by default I agree.
Another good idea, in my opinion, would be for Nintendo to offer a GameCube logic board to OEM... so that GameCube functionality could be in a lot more DVD players, etc, than just that expensive Panasonic cube device. That would do a lot more for Nintendo's bottom line in my opinion, as people would get a "free" gamecube with their DVD player. Still, they should have done this a year ago or more.
I'd imagine that all models, etc, start off with higher resultion, as do the textures, and then are cut down until they meet the spec of the hardware. So no big loss there.
Certainly a lot less effort than doing a complete rewrite for different hardware.
So you are saying what? "GameCube Pro" in essence?
Double (or triple, whatever) the speed of the processor, graphics, etc. Add more memory.
Games can check the system, if it is a standard GameCube then use the standard maps and graphics, etc. If it is a Pro model then load in the higher detail maps with the higher detail textures, etc?
I expect that the logic behind this is simple - the average consumer will simply use the DRM music on their computer instead of ripping the audio files (which is more complex), and this DRM music will not be sharable, hence the real issue, music sharing, will be cut down.
However, it only needs something along the lines of
1) relying on a custom music playing application (windows only) 2) relying on Windows Media Player (ugliest nastiest application ever)
to make the whole system pointless.
But it is a step in the right direction of not messing with the audio on the CD, adding more value to the CD, and yet trying to maintain the rights of the copyright holder without messing with the rights of the consumer.
lol, you think an over the air digital decoder costs $200 to $500?
In the UK a separate box for over the air digital decoding costs under $100 now. Integrate that into a TV and the cost is an extra $50. Multiply the volume by 10x and the cost is then only an extra $20...
Sounds like you want something like the Tyan K8W which has AGP 8x, PCI-X and supports 16GB of memory.
Sure, it is dual processor, but if you are wanting PCI-X and 16GB of memory support, then you probably want dual processors. I suppose you could live with one processor and 8GB of memory though.
Tyan already have at least *six* different motherboards for AMD's 64-bit platform.
Most of them are for Opteron though, but that means that there is a lot of experience within Tyan for the platform, so the A64 boards will be good from the get go.
Resolution is independant of display size, sheesh.
I was just wondering why they didn't put a 262x160 screen (same physical size, before you get confused) and thus have nicer higher resolution, clearer graphs.
You'd think on a graphing calculator they'd try and put a decent screen resolution in... more than 130x88 anyway.
I suppose it is because all the software is written for the old screen size, and they don't want to spend time adapting it for a more modern resolution. Shame.
Most end users on a network should not (and therefore will not if decently adminned) be running sendmail or apache (or equivalents) on their machines.
In fact, only machines that process incoming SMTP mail should be running sendmail (and preferably Exim, Postfix or QMail, if the admins know their jobs), and only web servers should be running Apache. That should be a very small number.
Now Windows Update has to be run on every machine. But installing a new Apache should be happening on 1/100th of the machines.
faster than "click on My Computer, Navigate to file, select file, press ctrl-c or right-click and select copy from menu, then navigate to new location and press ctrl-v or right click and select paste from menu"
Can you get a tax writeoff for doing folding on your computer, if you cost out the energy costs of running it?:)
Thing is, adding in the savings you make if you only have the machine on for the time you are using it (e.g., 8 hours a day) makes the 24 hour a day folding very costly.
200W (power consumption of high end PC) * 16 hours * 365 / 1kW * 0.15c = $175.00 a year you could save by having your machine off when you aren't using it. I'm assuming you'd turn off the monitor when you aren't using it regardless.
525 * (your local unit cost of electricity) = cost to run folding all year
e.g., 10p (UK) * 525 = 52.50 a year to run folding on a single computer (although if you only ran it overnight on Economy7 power it would be more like 20.00)
vs. turn off computer for 12 hours a day: 140W * 12 * 365 * 10p = 61.00 saved in power bills by only having the computer on for half the day.
So: 24 hour folding actually costs you 110.00 a year in the UK, assuming a 10p per unit electricity charge on average.
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The concept of assigns can be emulated fairly easily though ... even if done in a different way. Hell, even symlinks like /assigns/music would work if it was a standard and hence file requestors would use the symlinks in /assigns (and/or /etc/assigns, /home/etc/assigns, and so on) for the list of assigned places within the file system.
At least the KDE file requestor is quite usable and also nice to look at. Those Gnome mock-ups are awful (although better than the dire abysmal requestor currently used).
But not amazingly more usable
... did this post or not? I just got an error 500 page for my first attempt, but it recognised that I had tried to post when I clicked submit again.
In fact, the only file requestor that I have ever liked is the Amiga file requestor, ASL.
Firstly, the vast majority of the window was set aside for the files themselves! An amazing concept that, compared to the 1/4 of the window for these mockups! It is a file requestor!
Secondly there was a button "Disks" (or "Volumes") that changed the file area into a locations area where you could select disks and assigns (you could assign "Music:" to "Work:Files/Media/Music" for example) to navigate quickly around the filesystem. No need to waste a lot of space on a "common locations" area that won't be used most of the time.
Yes, it had a filename filter option as well.
With a little thought this 15 year old file requestor could be modernised and made up to date. In fact, as AmigaOS4 is coming out soon, it might very well have been updated already to include modern graphical sparkle and useful functionality like "New Folder", etc, icons for the save requestor.
bah
Hahahahahahahahaha
... lol, it came in very late, and the high speed rail link on the English side (linking Folkestone to London) is still not complete!
... nope, it massively overrun the initial project costs, although not at the same scale as this Big Dig thing. I'm convinced that massive public construction projects are simply a money drain.
"on schedule"
"on cost"
Also, Brighton is around 30 miles to the West of where the tunnel emerges, so where you got that from I do not know!
Also it cost 7 or 8 lives, twice that of this Big Dig project.
1) The domain owner/administrator (or their mail server administrator) I imagine. I expect that some tools will be available to generate the keypair. The public half will be configured on the DNS (would this require a new revision of BIND to handle a "DK" type or will a TXT field be abused for this?) and the private half will be installed into the mail server.
...
When a mail from that domain goes via the mail server, the mail server will calculate the hash of the message and encrypt with the private key and add that as a header to the e-mail before sending it to the recipient.
There will have to be some transitional period though, because it will take time for all mail providers to support domain keys, and any spammer can send spam via an undomainkeyed domain, yet you won't want to block undomainkeyed domains until all your contacts are using it. Maybe there would be a "Trusted Inbox" and "Untrusted Inbox"
Bayesian filters suck because they only handles spam at the end point, in the mail client. The best place will be on the mailserver, before you have to download it.
And that has been Digital from the beginning? Even though MPEG2 didn't exist 10 years ago ...
Analogue Satellite TV has been in europe for nearly 20 years now.
Dammit, why are Plasma displays in the UK still 2000 pounds at the low end then? (42" Relisys) ... that's like 4 times the cost in Australia. Something isn't right :(
I can't find Plasma displays in the UK that are smaller than 42" either. Even though all I'd want is a nice 1920x1080 32" display at most...
It's cheaper than a 12 month contract at 8 pounds a month for basic cable, and it's only 8 quid when you get the telephone package as well.
And remember that 50 quid includes a box and stuff. The decoder/receiver card must cost under 20 pounds on its own.
ARGH why has Firebird decided that it wants me to use a US keyboard layout, even though Windows is still on UK layout...
Welcome to FreeView in the UK, around 20 to 30 TV channels free to air on digital terrestrial. The boxes are around 50 pounds, as I said elsewhere. Problem is that sometimes you need a new aerial to receive the digital broadcasts.
... then I could dump my useless expensive basic cable package from NTL.
If only it had Sky One
Sure, our digital broadcasts aren't HDTV quality over here, but we've had Digital TV via Satellite for over 5 years now, and over cable and terrestrial for not that much shorter a time. Digital TV receivers are virtually free now (a non-subscription box can be had for around 50 pounds, so that shows how cheap the hardware is).
... I suspect price gauging of the poor old consumer, even if the receivers are more modern and HDTV, etc.
So why the costs for receivers are so high in Japan I don't know
HDTV capable TV sets are still extremely expensive though, but they aren't a necessity for receiving digital TV.
For me to migrate my company's systems from MySQL to Postgres. Shame that my nice O'Reilly book won't cover the new features ... but I probably am not so advanced as to need them!
Now how does it compile and run on FreeBSD / x86-64?
I read elsewhere that the interconnect used on the Opteron cluster would be the limitation. I think that it uses Myrinet which can't compete with 4x Infiniband as used on the PowerMac cluster.
I assume it because that is how you do game development. Half of the work is in reducing the models, etc, enough to create an overall playable game.
... so that GameCube functionality could be in a lot more DVD players, etc, than just that expensive Panasonic cube device. That would do a lot more for Nintendo's bottom line in my opinion, as people would get a "free" gamecube with their DVD player. Still, they should have done this a year ago or more.
I still doubt that there will be a GameCube Pro (at least one with faster hardware, etc - consoles thrive because of the fixed hardware platform) myself (although it would be nice). However Nintendo should integrate the broadband adaptor by default I agree.
Another good idea, in my opinion, would be for Nintendo to offer a GameCube logic board to OEM
I'd imagine that all models, etc, start off with higher resultion, as do the textures, and then are cut down until they meet the spec of the hardware. So no big loss there.
Certainly a lot less effort than doing a complete rewrite for different hardware.
So you are saying what? "GameCube Pro" in essence?
Double (or triple, whatever) the speed of the processor, graphics, etc. Add more memory.
Games can check the system, if it is a standard GameCube then use the standard maps and graphics, etc. If it is a Pro model then load in the higher detail maps with the higher detail textures, etc?
I expect that the logic behind this is simple - the average consumer will simply use the DRM music on their computer instead of ripping the audio files (which is more complex), and this DRM music will not be sharable, hence the real issue, music sharing, will be cut down.
However, it only needs something along the lines of
1) relying on a custom music playing application (windows only)
2) relying on Windows Media Player (ugliest nastiest application ever)
to make the whole system pointless.
But it is a step in the right direction of not messing with the audio on the CD, adding more value to the CD, and yet trying to maintain the rights of the copyright holder without messing with the rights of the consumer.
aka the Robert Jordan books?
There's a film? Or TV series? What exactly?
lol, you think an over the air digital decoder costs $200 to $500?
In the UK a separate box for over the air digital decoding costs under $100 now. Integrate that into a TV and the cost is an extra $50. Multiply the volume by 10x and the cost is then only an extra $20...
Sounds like you want something like the Tyan K8W which has AGP 8x, PCI-X and supports 16GB of memory.
Sure, it is dual processor, but if you are wanting PCI-X and 16GB of memory support, then you probably want dual processors. I suppose you could live with one processor and 8GB of memory though.
Tyan already have at least *six* different motherboards for AMD's 64-bit platform.
Most of them are for Opteron though, but that means that there is a lot of experience within Tyan for the platform, so the A64 boards will be good from the get go.
Resolution is independant of display size, sheesh.
I was just wondering why they didn't put a 262x160 screen (same physical size, before you get confused) and thus have nicer higher resolution, clearer graphs.
You'd think on a graphing calculator they'd try and put a decent screen resolution in ... more than 130x88 anyway.
I suppose it is because all the software is written for the old screen size, and they don't want to spend time adapting it for a more modern resolution. Shame.
Most end users on a network should not (and therefore will not if decently adminned) be running sendmail or apache (or equivalents) on their machines.
In fact, only machines that process incoming SMTP mail should be running sendmail (and preferably Exim, Postfix or QMail, if the admins know their jobs), and only web servers should be running Apache. That should be a very small number.
Now Windows Update has to be run on every machine. But installing a new Apache should be happening on 1/100th of the machines.
FreeBSD uses Apache and sendmail too.
because cp filename newfilename takes 20 minutes?
faster than "click on My Computer, Navigate to file, select file, press ctrl-c or right-click and select copy from menu, then navigate to new location and press ctrl-v or right click and select paste from menu"
Can you get a tax writeoff for doing folding on your computer, if you cost out the energy costs of running it? :)
Thing is, adding in the savings you make if you only have the machine on for the time you are using it (e.g., 8 hours a day) makes the 24 hour a day folding very costly.
200W (power consumption of high end PC) * 16 hours * 365 / 1kW * 0.15c = $175.00 a year you could save by having your machine off when you aren't using it. I'm assuming you'd turn off the monitor when you aren't using it regardless.
60W * 24 * 365 = 525kW
525 * (your local unit cost of electricity) = cost to run folding all year
e.g., 10p (UK) * 525 = 52.50 a year to run folding on a single computer (although if you only ran it overnight on Economy7 power it would be more like 20.00)
vs. turn off computer for 12 hours a day: 140W * 12 * 365 * 10p = 61.00 saved in power bills by only having the computer on for half the day.
So: 24 hour folding actually costs you 110.00 a year in the UK, assuming a 10p per unit electricity charge on average.