Ever tried using an optical mouse on a glass table? Even varnished wood gives a jittery response.
The best surface for optical mousing is a noisy, matted texture. I recommend a sheet of A4 paper.
Of course, the absorbant qualities of said paper and resultant discolouration after weeks of persperation are enough to make me go back to a trusty fabric mouse pad.
However if the GPU can be left to crunch for most of the time and return say a row of pixels at a time I doubt the 1/10th speed of the AGP bus downstream would be a big problem. For complex scenes the input (textures, geometry, shaders) may well exceed the output (pixels) in terms of data.
But imagine you're trying to convince your PHB that you need to deploy linux in your enterprise.
"But what about all this copyright that SCO is claiming?" he asks.
Now you can tell him "It's just FUD/BS." (which we know is true, but not all non-techs do).
Or you can tell him "It's just FUD/BS, but if you're worried we can purchase 3% liability a year in insurance."
Which one is he more likely to listen to?
If the $699 per seat is the liability they refer to, then that's $20/year per linux box.
So like most insurances, this is just offering peace of mind for those who worry about the highly unlikely event of a catastrophe (or should that be fiaSCO?).
If it got a driver into Windows 95, it still works in Windows XP.
Not so. There are many fundamental design changes between the windows 9x kernel and the NT kernel (as employed in NT, 2000, XP).
I think you'll find that most windows 9x drivers don't stand a chance of working in XP.
I myself have had hardware that had windows 9x drivers, but nothing for XP, and the hardware vendor stopped supporting them long ago.
Yet that same hardware works fine in recent versions of Linux as other hackers write their own drivers and commit them to the kernel over the years. Yes, the hardware becomes useless with windows, fine with Linux.
In only one case the hardware was considered unusable, as there weren't any specs to write a linux driver.
Are you implying that iPods are any better than what else is already out there?
Other than the grunt of Apples Shiny Curvy Marketing Department, I don't see any specification that makes the iPod better than say an iriver or a neuros. Hell, the iPod can't even play vorbises.
Real is nobody. I don't know ANYONE that has half a clue about computers that is even ambililent about Real. They all dislike (up through hate) Real. Real doesn't have a large customer base. Real doesn't have lots of users who like them. Real doesn't have a good reputation.
You could very nearly say the same about Apple. Except for the "doesn't have lots of users who like them" part.
What potential energy exists between the magnet and the clips? Where did this energy come from?
When I magnetize a piece of metal, I put energy into aligning the N-S particles in the iron. When I use that iron rod to accelerate paperclips, isn't that imparting energy to them by applying a force?
Wouldn't that imply that the magnet itself is storing energy?
Energy is only transfered, it cannot be 'created'.... A magnet is not a fuel because it does not contain energy.
Are you sure about that?
When I hold a magnet over a pile of paper clips, the paper clips move rapidly towards the magnet, gaining kinetic energy in the form of 0.5mv^2. Where does this energy come from?
"A day doesn't go by when I don't talk to a Fortune 1000 customer from the financial services market, automotives or others that are not looking at dipping their feet into the Linux desktop"
You can also pick up an SL-5600 for $290 from Amazon.com. It has longer battery life than the SL-5500, and an inbuilt mic, better HWR, among other tweaks.
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds like the /. editors are speechless!
Baystar suggests that SCO make litigation its only business.
*sigh*
I smell another PanIP in the making.
Or just put a red stripe along row 0 of the terminal with "WARNING: Logged in as root" in bright yellow lettering.
You know, like when Java applets pop up windows that need user input.
It wouldn't break any existing tools, and IMHO it wouldn't be too much of an inconvenience, only your console would be 1 row shorter.
Most DSL providers in NZ (except for some, on very new plans) have a cap of around 3GB/month, and charge for every subsequent megabyte.
When mum & dad get the phone bill, he'd better make himself scarce.
But I had thought that the US had never officially been at war since 1945?
And that no declaration was made for the Vietnam, "GWI" and "GWII" so that the rules of war would not have to be followed.
I don't think there ever was a war per se.
Did George W. sign a declaration of war? Not that I know of.
Technically, what we saw it better described as an invasion, or a 'conflict'.
Ever tried using an optical mouse on a glass table?
Even varnished wood gives a jittery response.
The best surface for optical mousing is a noisy, matted texture. I recommend a sheet of A4 paper.
Of course, the absorbant qualities of said paper and resultant discolouration after weeks of persperation are enough to make me go back to a trusty fabric mouse pad.
If your SA's mouse pad is red, better leave him be.
There are also no "Who's the most foolish, the fool or the fool who follows it" in the new trilogy.
And I suspect no breasts are grabbed either.
If it's I/O bound, yes.
However if the GPU can be left to crunch for most of the time and return say a row of pixels at a time I doubt the 1/10th speed of the AGP bus downstream would be a big problem. For complex scenes the input (textures, geometry, shaders) may well exceed the output (pixels) in terms of data.
That's pretty much the long and short of it.
But imagine you're trying to convince your PHB that you need to deploy linux in your enterprise.
"But what about all this copyright that SCO is claiming?" he asks.
Now you can tell him "It's just FUD/BS." (which we know is true, but not all non-techs do).
Or you can tell him "It's just FUD/BS, but if you're worried we can purchase 3% liability a year in insurance."
Which one is he more likely to listen to?
If the $699 per seat is the liability they refer to, then that's $20/year per linux box.
So like most insurances, this is just offering peace of mind for those who worry about the highly unlikely event of a catastrophe (or should that be fiaSCO?).
If it got a driver into Windows 95, it still works in Windows XP.
Not so. There are many fundamental design changes between the windows 9x kernel and the NT kernel (as employed in NT, 2000, XP).
I think you'll find that most windows 9x drivers don't stand a chance of working in XP.
I myself have had hardware that had windows 9x drivers, but nothing for XP, and the hardware vendor stopped supporting them long ago.
Yet that same hardware works fine in recent versions of Linux as other hackers write their own drivers and commit them to the kernel over the years. Yes, the hardware becomes useless with windows, fine with Linux.
In only one case the hardware was considered unusable, as there weren't any specs to write a linux driver.
The Betamax was a superior product,
Are you implying that iPods are any better than what else is already out there?
Other than the grunt of Apples Shiny Curvy Marketing Department, I don't see any specification that makes the iPod better than say an iriver or a neuros. Hell, the iPod can't even play vorbises.
Real is nobody. I don't know ANYONE that has half a clue about computers that is even ambililent about Real. They all dislike (up through hate) Real. Real doesn't have a large customer base. Real doesn't have lots of users who like them. Real doesn't have a good reputation.
You could very nearly say the same about Apple. Except for the "doesn't have lots of users who like them" part.
What potential energy exists between the magnet and the clips? Where did this energy come from?
When I magnetize a piece of metal, I put energy into aligning the N-S particles in the iron. When I use that iron rod to accelerate paperclips, isn't that imparting energy to them by applying a force?
Wouldn't that imply that the magnet itself is storing energy?
Energy is only transfered, it cannot be 'created'....
A magnet is not a fuel because it does not contain energy.
Are you sure about that?
When I hold a magnet over a pile of paper clips, the paper clips move rapidly towards the magnet, gaining kinetic energy in the form of 0.5mv^2. Where does this energy come from?
I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less.
"A day doesn't go by when I don't talk to a Fortune 1000 customer from the financial services market, automotives or others that are not looking at dipping their feet into the Linux desktop"
No no, not more triple negatives!
http://www.openzaurus.org
the SL-5600 (which has the 400 MHz xscale proc and 64 MB of RAM) is under $400 last time I checked
Amazon.com are selling them for US$289.88.
Get one. Now!
The question is, with superior free codecs out there, would you really want to go back to mp3?
"Could you imagine a world without Lawyers..."
<utopian scenes of happy people holding hands, dancing round maypoles, rainbow in background>
<the lawyer shudders>
You can also pick up an SL-5600 for $290 from Amazon.com.
It has longer battery life than the SL-5500, and an inbuilt mic, better HWR, among other tweaks.
I love my one.
OpenSSL Security Advisory [17 March 2004]
...
...
Updated versions of OpenSSL are now available which correct two
security issues...
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has
assigned the name CAN-2004-0079 to this issue.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has
assigned the name CAN-2004-0112 to this issue.
and then...
[root@localhost src]$ rpm -q --changelog openssl |head
* Thu Mar 18 2004 Joe Orton 0.9.7a-20.2
- pull in fix for libssl link line (Tim Waugh, #111154)
* Tue Mar 09 2004 Joe Orton 0.9.7a-20.1
- add security fixes for CAN-2004-0079, CAN-2004-0112
- updated ca-bundle.crt: removed expired GeoTrust roots, added
freessl.com root, removed trustcenter.de Class 0 root
Note the dates.
People always complain about Apple, but does Microsoft make anything that's not overpriced?
The XBox?
They intentionally sell it at a loss to boost sales.