Once upon a time (late 1990s), a company called Kryotech essentially put a refrigerator inside a computer rather than do it the other way around. At the bottom of a very tall and heavy case, they had the workings of a refrigerator (compressor, condenser, coils, etc.) that pumped coolant to the CPU. AnandTech and Tom's Hardware still have their coverage on their sites, complete with diagrams.
I'm going to go out on a limb and speculate Instagram's decline in user activity has a lot more to do with a rise in popularity in Snapchat than their TOS snafu. I don't know how popular Snapchat has gotten, but the college kids I teach were raving about it.
Paul Thurrott discussed this on Thursday on Windows Weekly:
http://twit.tv/show/windows-weekly/261 (jump to 21:20 and watch for about 5 minutes)
Paul thinks there was some pretty shoddy journalism with this story.
FYI - Dan Maes followed these comments by winning the Republican primary. He defeated Scott McInnis, who just paid $300,000 to settle a plagiarism suit. Now all Maes has to worry about (other than John Hickenlooper, the Democratic candidate) is Tom Tancredo, who is also known for making some outlandish comments:
(Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with this company, but I know somebody who is. I should talk to him about a "complimentary robot for referrals" program.)
http://reconrobotics.com/
Recon Robotics makes a product called the Scout that is designed specifically for this purpose. Each robot weighs only 1.2 pounds, is deployable and easily controllable by a single soldier, and is relatively inexpensive compared to other combat-ready robot technologies. I know I want one.;)
The only thing that KDE4 has accomplished to date is to offer less features than 3.5, and make everything slower and a little more mouse dependent.
Agreed. I just finished a 10-day trial of Kubuntu 9.04, after having used KDE3 versions of Kubuntu since their first release. It was pretty, for sure, but really felt like every visual enhancement came at the sacrifice of some functional enhancement. Example: Icons of folders containing pictures in KDE4 have tiny thumbnail pictures on them, but no longer could I hover over a picture to see its dimensions or JPEG comment.
Granted, KDE 3.5 might be the most feature-packed, customizable desktop environment of all time (for better or worse). Recreating every one of its features is a huge task, and it's going to take time. I can keep using KDE 3.5 while I wait.
If you're looking for an expensive, resource-intensive solution (you're a Windows user, so this concept should be sadly familiar), use VMWare for Windows. You can set up Linux in VMWare and configure VMWare to allow access to your regular ext2/ext3/xfs/whatever partitions. Mount them in your virtual linux machine and export them via samba. All of your data will be available locally (kinda - it's fast but still networked) in Windows. I used this setup for a while as I transitioned from Windows to Linux, and it worked well. Make sure your hardware (memory and cpu) is up to the task!
It helps to realize that the debian installer has been developed to work with all of Debian's supported architectures (currently 10 - i386, m68k, sparc, alpha, powerpc, arm, mips, hppa, ia64, and s390). Such an installer has to sacrifice some beauty and convenience for flexibility and power, and those of us who only compare debian's i386 installation to that of RedHat's or Suse's need to realize this.
That all said, because of the overwhelming majority of debian users who only use i386 machines, it sure makes sense to me that it would be beneficial to develop a fancy i386-only installer to satisfy the masses. There are plenty of other debian-based distros who have done just that (with varying success). Perhaps this anaconda port is the beginning of just such a project.
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For a little insight on the KDE-Germany connection, here's a snippet from http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde/README, a readme by Ralf Nolden, one of the people responsible for building KDE for debian:
The main reason to set up this repository is, amongst others, that I'm working at credativ GmbH, located in Juelich, Germany since September 2002. We are contracted to set up KDE 3.1 together with the Aegypten project (http://www.gnupg.org/aegypten/) on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody) by the BSI (Bundesamt fuer Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik), the german governmental agency for security in IT-technology. The Aegypten project itself is a development effort contracted by the BSI to enable governmental authorities to use S/MIME certifications for email communications with KMail and Mutt as email clients. The graphical user interface for Desktop use is the primary goal behind the project. The same is valid for the Kroupware (http://www.kroupware.org) project, wich implements a groupware solution for KDE with two components, the kolab server as the group-ware server component and KMail, KAddressbook and KOrganizer as client-side components. The Kroupware project is currently under development by the according companies and will be merged into KDE 3.2.
I agree. In a perfect world companies would always be on time with perfect products that are always cheap and in supply, but it just doesn't work that way. AMD is thinking long term here - the Athlon (K7) was the breakthrough they were looking for on the desktop, and the next revision of the Athlon (Barton) is plenty good enough to compete with the Pentium 4 and squeeze a few extra dollars out of what has been a very successful K7 design. Knowing that, AMD can focus on making the next breakthrough, which is on the server platform. This is where their x86-64 architecture comes in, and the only 64-bit OS that will be ready to take advantage of it is Linux. Naturally, it is a good business decision right now to target the server platform, not the desktop.
By waiting 5 months to release the Athlon64, AMD can evaluate the success of the x86-64 design, build up supply, and hype up a release that coincides with a 64-bit version of Windows. That extra 5 months will allow AMD to make a better decision on how to transition from the Barton K7 chips to the x86-64 design on the desktop. And while waiting is frustrating for us as consumers, this is a major step for AMD (and the PC world in general) and it's important for everything to go smoothly.
I know HP makes some nice scanning equipment, and I can just picture an engineer trying to figure out how to sheet-feed a 14th century handwritten Bible. Shall we propose this as the biggest OCR task this side of scanning the Rosetta Stone?
I first read about Microsoft hoarding cash several years ago. Back then, the figure was at $6 billion, and it was said that Microsoft was trying to keep enough cash on hand to run the company at its current level of production without any gross income for a period of one year. I'm not very business-minded, but it sounded like an ambitious insurance plan (thus the term "Catastrophe Hedging") and I didn't think much more about it. Thirty-four billion dollars later (and another billion every month), it sounds like Microsoft might be having more than simple "Catastrophe Hedging" in mind. All this talk about dividends and tax-evasion sounds suspicious, and I'm sure eventually somebody will have to answer for that pile of cash.
I just checked Abisource's site and it appears that 0.9.6 is on it's way. The site says 0.9.6 but not all the download links are updated. Your best bet is to browse http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/ and see if what you need is there. Right now I only see the abiword-0.9.6.1.tar(.gz)...I'm sure more will follow soon... Nice timing,/.!
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Once upon a time (late 1990s), a company called Kryotech essentially put a refrigerator inside a computer rather than do it the other way around. At the bottom of a very tall and heavy case, they had the workings of a refrigerator (compressor, condenser, coils, etc.) that pumped coolant to the CPU. AnandTech and Tom's Hardware still have their coverage on their sites, complete with diagrams.
I'm going to go out on a limb and speculate Instagram's decline in user activity has a lot more to do with a rise in popularity in Snapchat than their TOS snafu. I don't know how popular Snapchat has gotten, but the college kids I teach were raving about it.
Paul Thurrott discussed this on Thursday on Windows Weekly:
http://twit.tv/show/windows-weekly/261 (jump to 21:20 and watch for about 5 minutes)
Paul thinks there was some pretty shoddy journalism with this story.
This practice sounds like complete the opposite of the principles of scientific research.
Of course. Publishers aren't in this for the science.
FYI - Dan Maes followed these comments by winning the Republican primary. He defeated Scott McInnis, who just paid $300,000 to settle a plagiarism suit. Now all Maes has to worry about (other than John Hickenlooper, the Democratic candidate) is Tom Tancredo, who is also known for making some outlandish comments:
http://rdonaldsnyder.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/09/4647834-poll-is-tom-tancredo-bat-guano-crazy
Not exactly a bumper crop of top-quality Republicans this year in the state of Colorado.
(Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with this company, but I know somebody who is. I should talk to him about a "complimentary robot for referrals" program.) http://reconrobotics.com/ Recon Robotics makes a product called the Scout that is designed specifically for this purpose. Each robot weighs only 1.2 pounds, is deployable and easily controllable by a single soldier, and is relatively inexpensive compared to other combat-ready robot technologies. I know I want one. ;)
The only thing that KDE4 has accomplished to date is to offer less features than 3.5, and make everything slower and a little more mouse dependent.
Agreed. I just finished a 10-day trial of Kubuntu 9.04, after having used KDE3 versions of Kubuntu since their first release. It was pretty, for sure, but really felt like every visual enhancement came at the sacrifice of some functional enhancement. Example: Icons of folders containing pictures in KDE4 have tiny thumbnail pictures on them, but no longer could I hover over a picture to see its dimensions or JPEG comment. Granted, KDE 3.5 might be the most feature-packed, customizable desktop environment of all time (for better or worse). Recreating every one of its features is a huge task, and it's going to take time. I can keep using KDE 3.5 while I wait.
ftp://mozilla.isc.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rele ases/1.0/ r efox/releases/1.0/ e fox/releases/1.0/ e ases/1.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%201.0.exe.tor rent
ftp://mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu/pub/mozilla.org/fi
ftp://mozilla.oregonstate.edu/pub/mozilla.org/fir
Official mozilla.org torrent for Win32:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rel
If you're looking for an expensive, resource-intensive solution (you're a Windows user, so this concept should be sadly familiar), use VMWare for Windows. You can set up Linux in VMWare and configure VMWare to allow access to your regular ext2/ext3/xfs/whatever partitions. Mount them in your virtual linux machine and export them via samba. All of your data will be available locally (kinda - it's fast but still networked) in Windows. I used this setup for a while as I transitioned from Windows to Linux, and it worked well. Make sure your hardware (memory and cpu) is up to the task!
It helps to realize that the debian installer has been developed to work with all of Debian's supported architectures (currently 10 - i386, m68k, sparc, alpha, powerpc, arm, mips, hppa, ia64, and s390). Such an installer has to sacrifice some beauty and convenience for flexibility and power, and those of us who only compare debian's i386 installation to that of RedHat's or Suse's need to realize this. That all said, because of the overwhelming majority of debian users who only use i386 machines, it sure makes sense to me that it would be beneficial to develop a fancy i386-only installer to satisfy the masses. There are plenty of other debian-based distros who have done just that (with varying success). Perhaps this anaconda port is the beginning of just such a project.
For a little insight on the KDE-Germany connection, here's a snippet from http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde/README, a readme by Ralf Nolden, one of the people responsible for building KDE for debian:
The main reason to set up this repository is, amongst others, that I'm working at credativ GmbH, located in Juelich, Germany since September 2002. We are contracted to set up KDE 3.1 together with the Aegypten project (http://www.gnupg.org/aegypten/) on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody) by the BSI (Bundesamt fuer Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik), the german governmental agency for security in IT-technology. The Aegypten project itself is a development effort contracted by the BSI to enable governmental authorities to use S/MIME certifications for email communications with KMail and Mutt as email clients. The graphical user interface for Desktop use is the primary goal behind the project. The same is valid for the Kroupware (http://www.kroupware.org) project, wich implements a groupware solution for KDE with two components, the kolab server as the group-ware server component and KMail, KAddressbook and KOrganizer as client-side components. The Kroupware project is currently under development by the according companies and will be merged into KDE 3.2.
I agree. In a perfect world companies would always be on time with perfect products that are always cheap and in supply, but it just doesn't work that way. AMD is thinking long term here - the Athlon (K7) was the breakthrough they were looking for on the desktop, and the next revision of the Athlon (Barton) is plenty good enough to compete with the Pentium 4 and squeeze a few extra dollars out of what has been a very successful K7 design. Knowing that, AMD can focus on making the next breakthrough, which is on the server platform. This is where their x86-64 architecture comes in, and the only 64-bit OS that will be ready to take advantage of it is Linux. Naturally, it is a good business decision right now to target the server platform, not the desktop. By waiting 5 months to release the Athlon64, AMD can evaluate the success of the x86-64 design, build up supply, and hype up a release that coincides with a 64-bit version of Windows. That extra 5 months will allow AMD to make a better decision on how to transition from the Barton K7 chips to the x86-64 design on the desktop. And while waiting is frustrating for us as consumers, this is a major step for AMD (and the PC world in general) and it's important for everything to go smoothly.
I know HP makes some nice scanning equipment, and I can just picture an engineer trying to figure out how to sheet-feed a 14th century handwritten Bible. Shall we propose this as the biggest OCR task this side of scanning the Rosetta Stone?
I first read about Microsoft hoarding cash several years ago. Back then, the figure was at $6 billion, and it was said that Microsoft was trying to keep enough cash on hand to run the company at its current level of production without any gross income for a period of one year. I'm not very business-minded, but it sounded like an ambitious insurance plan (thus the term "Catastrophe Hedging") and I didn't think much more about it. Thirty-four billion dollars later (and another billion every month), it sounds like Microsoft might be having more than simple "Catastrophe Hedging" in mind. All this talk about dividends and tax-evasion sounds suspicious, and I'm sure eventually somebody will have to answer for that pile of cash.
I just checked Abisource's site and it appears that 0.9.6 is on it's way. The site says 0.9.6 but not all the download links are updated. Your best bet is to browse http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/ and see if what you need is there. Right now I only see the abiword-0.9.6.1.tar(.gz)...I'm sure more will follow soon... Nice timing, /.!