Most likely that is supposed to be "daily alarm" which you no doubt figured out.
I bet whoever wrote this page was Japanese, and they didn't know exactly how to spell "daily" in English, so they used the kana spelling to guess. Unfortunatly, the Japanese have neither an l nor an r sound, just one that is kind of in-between, so when our hapless translater fell upon this sound he guessed, incorrectly.
try pkg_delete(1), and the ports tree will automatically handle dependancies like new glibc. You can also just make a component and install it (by using cd to go to the directory and typing make and make install).
The problem with the perception that 2D sucks is that the only 2D stuff these people know of is 70s quality animation (like Titan AE). I was constantly amazed when people both on Slashdot and in the real world raved about the quality of the animation in Titan AE, despite the fact the characers were drawn in a 30 year old style and the 3D rendering was only average. Still, the quality of the animation didn't kill Titan AE, the quality (or lack thereof) of the story did.
I don't think the moviegoing public is as dumb as most people seem to think. I think people really do prefer a movie where the plot stays together and doesn't feel the need to reduce everything to the lowest common denominator. I fully believe that if Fox animation wants to pull out of its slump, it needs to smarten up and convince its animators to update their style.
You can't rack up giant uptimes if you dual boot though.
Also, dual booting is annoying. My system has a some flaky hardware (although you can't complain too much when it's free) that makes booting a real chore. Plus you have to stop everything you're doing to reboot the machine, which is annoying if you only wanted to run the Windows program for some particular value that you need to stick in some mostly filled out form on a web page, etc...
Plus, Windows is not small, especially when you consider how many people still have 2 and 4GB drives, and most of that drive space is wasted for the 99% of the time you're running Linux/*BSD/BeOS...
As for #1, I doubt most people are trying to run Windows apps under Wine on mission critical 4 9 servers. I doubt many of those servers even have X running. The best part is the fact that Wine is the only application I've ever run into that will crash XFree (It usually only take about 8-10 hours in Wine to make my X server unstable, which is easy to do when I go on a Stars! binge:)
I'll take your word that those are perfectly valid fighting moves, but my biggest beef was with the bad guy. Whenever Tom Cruise started one of these run forward 10 paces, jump up in the air, with a backflip and catch the guy right in the face manuvers; I kept saying to myself "Why isn't he trying to block or dodge that? Why is the bad guy just standing there with his arms at his sides? Why is he ignoring all of these gigantic openings Cruise was leaving when he was setting up for these jumps?" But I guess it is just a movie, just like the Harlem Globetrotters are just Basketball...
I think the virus was supposed to become infectous/airborne after the 20 hour incubation period. I don't know why the bad guys dropped the girl off and then just left her alone for however much time she had left (they never did tell you after the first 20 hour window, although Cruise apparently did have a watch on that he checked at the end of the film) and assumed that she wouldn't incinerate herself or something.
Yeah, Crusoe running at 700Mhz is only as fast as a PII at 450 or so. Still way more power than you need to do a presentation with PowerPoint. How much processing power do you think it takes to blit the screen with a new slide, even with the fancy transition effects you don't use even a fraction of that processer power you are paying for with battery life.
Also, your wording is interesting: Slow and long, fast but shorter. Perhaps more accuratly: Unnoticably slower and several hours of work, or uselessly faster and only a little over an hour worth of work (but you can fry eggs on it while you are working!). It's your decision.
I doubt you'll be able to execute code from the scratch area.
The only way I can see a virus trying to use it is as a method of hiding the bulk of its code. Just think of a little micro-virus that is even harder to detect than regular viruses (because it is so small it doesn't have much of a signature) and works by loading itself from the EEPROM when it is executed. This might be viable if the virus detection companies don't think to check accesses to memory the same way the check accesses to the hard drive(s). Of course it would be rather difficult to spread this virus, as everyone would need a brand new ultra-expensive processor in their computers, and the people who tend to buy these things tend to know how to avoid getting viruses.
Fairy Princess Ren Certainly an interesting choice. It was billed at an anime convention like so: This is your anime. This is your anime on crack. Any questions?
This could not be more appropriate.
If you like Fairy Princess Ren, I highly recommend watching Kodomo no Omocha TV. Just as spastic and much longer (there are something like 100+ episodes of this series).
If you're wondering what other people thought of a few series, you should want to check out the Fall 1999 VTAS ratings charts (with graphs). Beware that this chart is about a year old and severly underrates Kare Kano. ^_^
How many people out there actually like Lain? In my opinion, it was terrible.
Hey, I liked Lain. Sure it was confusing and wierd and they didn't seem to like explaining stuff, but once you get past that it is really rather enthralling. One thing you have to remember is that Lain is not ment to be understood, it is ment to be experienced.
As for bad dubs, I'm sure I don't have to reiterate how horrible a job some of these companies do. (cough)Streamline(cough)(cough)
There are better Animes out there though, Cowboy Bebop, Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou[1], Card Captor Sakura:), Neon Genesis Evangelion, and many others.
[1]: Kare Kano for short, which roughly translated means "His and Her Circumstances", just be sure you get the Pero Pero subs because they subtitle the text on the screen.
Yeah, I remember when the local FOX (IIRC) affiliate had it first. They changed the time slot like every other week and never told our local paper so it could update the show listings, and worse they would play the episodes out of order which makes B5 darn near unwatchable.
When TNT finally picked it up, I finally got to watch the entire story arc from start to finish, which makes for a much much better experiance. I hope Sci-Fi is planning to do the same thing. Maybe they can even resurrect Crusade if B5 is popular enough.
Yes, for the low low price of $50,000 US you too can own your very own e-copy of War and Piece (Iridium modem not included).
For merely $100,000 US/month you can have access to our huge pr0n library, circumvent any information restrictions your government might have! (check or money order only please, not responsible for government interception of your money at the border.)
That only works if/usr/bin comes after $HOME/bin in your path, which it should not. Any paths that are user writable should be at the END of your $PATH, including./
By the way, does anyone else find these "two clicks and you are smack dab in the middle of child porn" a little hard to believe? Where are these numbers coming from, where do the activists keep finding all of this child porn? To they have a different definition of child porn than I do (maybe anybody under 60 baring their ankles?)
o the effect of DeCSS, it is a program that has only one use: To circumvent the DVD copy-protection scheme. It's irrelevent what the purpose of doing so was (to watch it under Linux or to pirate it over the internet), because the crime here is the actual act of circumvention
I don't see the difference here. CD Players are designed to read the bits off of a CD and output them to some device (like headphones or a speaker). DeCSS is designed to take the stream off of the DVD (since the reader itself doesn't output a useable form like the CD Player) and output it to some useable device, like an X display or a FBCons driver. Neither were designed for the duplication of the medium (DeCSS was written for watching movies on a laptop) and both have uses other than copying.
Under the kind of logic you have above, all CD-Rs would be illegal (only used for copying) no matter if the person merely uses them for backing up important data. This obviously doesn't make sense.
I think a lot of the paranoia comes from people who do things that, while technically legal, catch the attention of the local politicions/law officials/men in black. Maybe it is an unpopular political viewpoint, maybe some sort of religious issue, if they can't put you in jail for the rest of your life simply because it is unconstitutional, then they just need to catch you doing something that you didn't even know was a crime. Maybe you spit on the sidewalk or walk backwards or something and they pull up some law from 1722 that calls for 20 years in jail that nobody has enforced in years. Of course this example doesn't really do justice to the situitation, since most juries would acquit you faster than you could say unfair enforcement.
Frankly I'm amazed at the number of schools here that assign projects in kernel-land. I know the lab admins here would have a fit if someone assigned projects that required the students to not only have root access, but to mess around with the kernel.
Here, when they teach OS, the first thing the students do is write an emulator for a system, then implement the various projects on top of it.
Actually, you have this backwards. Hard Drives have not been increasing speed as fast as processors, in fact they are falling way behind in terms of speed. Most HD manufacturers are nearly totally dedicated on making their product bigger, not faster. Worse, HDs are still something like 10 orders of a magnitude slower than main memory, we aren't going to see them replacing main memory anytime in the near future.
You must be using Windows. I played MP3s up to 256 kbit (that was the highest one I had) all the time under FreeBSD, with X running and deveoping/compiling GUI applications at the same time. The only time it skipped was when I had to swap something big from memory. Of course running it at -10 niceness helped.
Heck, I even managed to play a 128 kbit mp3 (in mono mode) on a 486 66 without skipping. The 486 would start skipping in stereo mode however.:(
Some of the plain text pages on the site seem to assume that whatever you're browsing with has terminal control code capability. For instace: from the X modeline howto:
I take it you have never tried to stream audio over a modem before. Nobody encodes MP3s at 48kbps anymore, for good reason, they sound terrible. Plus whenever I stream audio, the audio invariably breaks up/pops whenever one of the other two people I share the modem with decide to download an mpeg, view a webpage, check their mail, etc...
All this is great until you realize that you are going to have to do something with that data. It doesn't do any good to pull off 1 GBps over the AGP port only to discover that your IDE drive can't write data anywhere near that fast, or that you can't even push the data down to the disk controller that fast. Heck, even doing some sort of simple calculation with that much data is going to overrun your processor in no time.
Frist thing I want to see ported is Starcraft, which even after 3 years is still the best RTS on the market IMHO.
Next I want to see Stars! and Stars Supernova (when it is released) ported so I don't have to play them under Wine all the time, and because a port would draw attention to these excellent games.
That probabaly should have said: The most successful computing device of the Millenium (I think the x86 still wins in number of units sold since only scientests/engineers generally bought slide rules, while all businesses (marketing, etc...) buy PCs nowadays. Of course something like the Z80 probabally has a larger installed base... In fact number of units sold is probabally a poor measure of the geekiness of an invention/individual, since the most successful product is not always the best.
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Most likely that is supposed to be "daily alarm" which you no doubt figured out.
I bet whoever wrote this page was Japanese, and they didn't know exactly how to spell "daily" in English, so they used the kana spelling to guess. Unfortunatly, the Japanese have neither an l nor an r sound, just one that is kind of in-between, so when our hapless translater fell upon this sound he guessed, incorrectly.
try pkg_delete(1), and the ports tree will automatically handle dependancies like new glibc. You can also just make a component and install it (by using cd to go to the directory and typing make and make install).
The problem with the perception that 2D sucks is that the only 2D stuff these people know of is 70s quality animation (like Titan AE). I was constantly amazed when people both on Slashdot and in the real world raved about the quality of the animation in Titan AE, despite the fact the characers were drawn in a 30 year old style and the 3D rendering was only average. Still, the quality of the animation didn't kill Titan AE, the quality (or lack thereof) of the story did.
I don't think the moviegoing public is as dumb as most people seem to think. I think people really do prefer a movie where the plot stays together and doesn't feel the need to reduce everything to the lowest common denominator. I fully believe that if Fox animation wants to pull out of its slump, it needs to smarten up and convince its animators to update their style.
You can't rack up giant uptimes if you dual boot though.
:)
Also, dual booting is annoying. My system has a some flaky hardware (although you can't complain too much when it's free) that makes booting a real chore. Plus you have to stop everything you're doing to reboot the machine, which is annoying if you only wanted to run the Windows program for some particular value that you need to stick in some mostly filled out form on a web page, etc...
Plus, Windows is not small, especially when you consider how many people still have 2 and 4GB drives, and most of that drive space is wasted for the 99% of the time you're running Linux/*BSD/BeOS...
As for #1, I doubt most people are trying to run Windows apps under Wine on mission critical 4 9 servers. I doubt many of those servers even have X running. The best part is the fact that Wine is the only application I've ever run into that will crash XFree (It usually only take about 8-10 hours in Wine to make my X server unstable, which is easy to do when I go on a Stars! binge
I shall call it the Alan Parsons Project!
I'll take your word that those are perfectly valid fighting moves, but my biggest beef was with the bad guy. Whenever Tom Cruise started one of these run forward 10 paces, jump up in the air, with a backflip and catch the guy right in the face manuvers; I kept saying to myself "Why isn't he trying to block or dodge that? Why is the bad guy just standing there with his arms at his sides? Why is he ignoring all of these gigantic openings Cruise was leaving when he was setting up for these jumps?" But I guess it is just a movie, just like the Harlem Globetrotters are just Basketball...
I think the virus was supposed to become infectous/airborne after the 20 hour incubation period. I don't know why the bad guys dropped the girl off and then just left her alone for however much time she had left (they never did tell you after the first 20 hour window, although Cruise apparently did have a watch on that he checked at the end of the film) and assumed that she wouldn't incinerate herself or something.
Yeah, Crusoe running at 700Mhz is only as fast as a PII at 450 or so. Still way more power than you need to do a presentation with PowerPoint. How much processing power do you think it takes to blit the screen with a new slide, even with the fancy transition effects you don't use even a fraction of that processer power you are paying for with battery life.
Also, your wording is interesting: Slow and long, fast but shorter.
Perhaps more accuratly: Unnoticably slower and several hours of work, or uselessly faster and only a little over an hour worth of work (but you can fry eggs on it while you are working!).
It's your decision.
I doubt you'll be able to execute code from the scratch area.
The only way I can see a virus trying to use it is as a method of hiding the bulk of its code. Just think of a little micro-virus that is even harder to detect than regular viruses (because it is so small it doesn't have much of a signature) and works by loading itself from the EEPROM when it is executed. This might be viable if the virus detection companies don't think to check accesses to memory the same way the check accesses to the hard drive(s). Of course it would be rather difficult to spread this virus, as everyone would need a brand new ultra-expensive processor in their computers, and the people who tend to buy these things tend to know how to avoid getting viruses.
Fairy Princess Ren Certainly an interesting choice. It was billed at an anime convention like so: This is your anime. This is your anime on crack. Any questions?
This could not be more appropriate.
If you like Fairy Princess Ren, I highly recommend watching Kodomo no Omocha TV. Just as spastic and much longer (there are something like 100+ episodes of this series).
If you're wondering what other people thought of a few series, you should want to check out the Fall 1999 VTAS ratings charts (with graphs). Beware that this chart is about a year old and severly underrates Kare Kano. ^_^
How many people out there actually like Lain? In my opinion, it was terrible.
:), Neon Genesis Evangelion, and many others.
Hey, I liked Lain. Sure it was confusing and wierd and they didn't seem to like explaining stuff, but once you get past that it is really rather enthralling. One thing you have to remember is that Lain is not ment to be understood, it is ment to be experienced.
As for bad dubs, I'm sure I don't have to reiterate how horrible a job some of these companies do. (cough)Streamline(cough)(cough)
There are better Animes out there though, Cowboy Bebop, Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou[1], Card Captor Sakura
[1]: Kare Kano for short, which roughly translated means "His and Her Circumstances", just be sure you get the Pero Pero subs because they subtitle the text on the screen.
Yeah, I remember when the local FOX (IIRC) affiliate had it first. They changed the time slot like every other week and never told our local paper so it could update the show listings, and worse they would play the episodes out of order which makes B5 darn near unwatchable.
When TNT finally picked it up, I finally got to watch the entire story arc from start to finish, which makes for a much much better experiance. I hope Sci-Fi is planning to do the same thing. Maybe they can even resurrect Crusade if B5 is popular enough.
I can only hope...
Yes, for the low low price of $50,000 US you too can own your very own e-copy of War and Piece (Iridium modem not included).
For merely $100,000 US/month you can have access to our huge pr0n library, circumvent any information restrictions your government might have! (check or money order only please, not responsible for government interception of your money at the border.)
That only works if /usr/bin comes after $HOME/bin in your path, which it should not. Any paths that are user writable should be at the END of your $PATH, including ./
Spam is hardly rare in the Usenet.
By the way, does anyone else find these "two clicks and you are smack dab in the middle of child porn" a little hard to believe? Where are these numbers coming from, where do the activists keep finding all of this child porn? To they have a different definition of child porn than I do (maybe anybody under 60 baring their ankles?)
o the effect of DeCSS, it is a program that has only one use: To circumvent the DVD copy-protection scheme. It's irrelevent what the purpose of doing so was (to watch it under Linux or to pirate it over the internet), because the crime here is the actual act of circumvention
I don't see the difference here. CD Players are designed to read the bits off of a CD and output them to some device (like headphones or a speaker). DeCSS is designed to take the stream off of the DVD (since the reader itself doesn't output a useable form like the CD Player) and output it to some useable device, like an X display or a FBCons driver. Neither were designed for the duplication of the medium (DeCSS was written for watching movies on a laptop) and both have uses other than copying.
Under the kind of logic you have above, all CD-Rs would be illegal (only used for copying) no matter if the person merely uses them for backing up important data. This obviously doesn't make sense.
I think a lot of the paranoia comes from people who do things that, while technically legal, catch the attention of the local politicions/law officials/men in black. Maybe it is an unpopular political viewpoint, maybe some sort of religious issue, if they can't put you in jail for the rest of your life simply because it is unconstitutional, then they just need to catch you doing something that you didn't even know was a crime. Maybe you spit on the sidewalk or walk backwards or something and they pull up some law from 1722 that calls for 20 years in jail that nobody has enforced in years. Of course this example doesn't really do justice to the situitation, since most juries would acquit you faster than you could say unfair enforcement.
Frankly I'm amazed at the number of schools here that assign projects in kernel-land. I know the lab admins here would have a fit if someone assigned projects that required the students to not only have root access, but to mess around with the kernel.
Here, when they teach OS, the first thing the students do is write an emulator for a system, then implement the various projects on top of it.
Actually, you have this backwards. Hard Drives have not been increasing speed as fast as processors, in fact they are falling way behind in terms of speed. Most HD manufacturers are nearly totally dedicated on making their product bigger, not faster. Worse, HDs are still something like 10 orders of a magnitude slower than main memory, we aren't going to see them replacing main memory anytime in the near future.
You must be using Windows. I played MP3s up to 256 kbit (that was the highest one I had) all the time under FreeBSD, with X running and deveoping/compiling GUI applications at the same time. The only time it skipped was when I had to swap something big from memory. Of course running it at -10 niceness helped.
:(
Heck, I even managed to play a 128 kbit mp3 (in mono mode) on a 486 66 without skipping. The 486 would start skipping in stereo mode however.
What you don't see there in Netscape are the character control codes that only work on terminals.
I take it you have never tried to stream audio over a modem before. Nobody encodes MP3s at 48kbps anymore, for good reason, they sound terrible. Plus whenever I stream audio, the audio invariably breaks up/pops whenever one of the other two people I share the modem with decide to download an mpeg, view a webpage, check their mail, etc...
All this is great until you realize that you are going to have to do something with that data. It doesn't do any good to pull off 1 GBps over the AGP port only to discover that your IDE drive can't write data anywhere near that fast, or that you can't even push the data down to the disk controller that fast. Heck, even doing some sort of simple calculation with that much data is going to overrun your processor in no time.
Frist thing I want to see ported is Starcraft, which even after 3 years is still the best RTS on the market IMHO.
Next I want to see Stars! and Stars Supernova (when it is released) ported so I don't have to play them under Wine all the time, and because a port would draw attention to these excellent games.
That probabaly should have said: The most successful computing device of the Millenium (I think the x86 still wins in number of units sold since only scientests/engineers generally bought slide rules, while all businesses (marketing, etc...) buy PCs nowadays. Of course something like the Z80 probabally has a larger installed base... In fact number of units sold is probabally a poor measure of the geekiness of an invention/individual, since the most successful product is not always the best.