The annoying thing is when sites that have legitimate and interesting content are ranked nowhere near the spammers.
And there are some strangenesses: I found a site I was looking for with very unique keywords: 210th out of 231 results on Google. A friends with a different browser and location: 3rd ! It should have simply been number one since it's the reference for those specific keywords (the name of the company and its field of expertise, the others were just mentioning them).
I have a more generic question: I have written a few old style drivers for DOS, some USB drivers for Windows using LibUsb and I'm working on some more complex Linux driver. But that was on devices that we designed and whose specs I knew. Now I have a monitor calibration device I'd like to get working on Linux. I don't expect the driver to be very complicated (it's just a color sensor), but I have no idea how to get started without specs. Is it possible to intercept the USB communications while the device runs in VirtualBox for instance ?
If you want to talk reality, forget beer comparisons, try cheese. America is home to the worlds most disgusting cheese. [...] I don't know what it is.
It was explained to me by a veterinarian thus: there are several milk qualities, the good quality with high fat content and the poor quality with high water content. In france they use good milk to make cheese, and the bad milk is pasteurized to be drunk at some future time; there's very little fresh milk. In the US the good quality milk is sold as dairy and the watery one goes into cheese and there's very little long conservation milk (the lobbies love it that you need to throw away your milk after 3 days).
But what you call cheese could kill a rhino at ten paces.
Dirt (or rock) is a very poor conductor of heat. It moves only a few meters per YEAR. So while you can indeed dump unlimited heat into it, it would indeed get really hot near your dump point. And heat exchanger efficiency decreases as the temperature differential increases, so it it would take more and more power to dump less and less heat.
I thought it was the CO2 that was melting the glaciers in Europe, not farmville.
I don't understand this fascination for bunker server farms, besides the Neil Stephenson geek factor. There's no way you can evacuate the heat from those servers while deep underground. The only option is to run long pipes to suck air in and out, and that takes lots of energy. And if you close the vent because the apocalypse/rapture/singularity has arrived, then your server will overheat in seconds. But maybe here they found the solution thanks to this underground water flow...
I hope you don't mean Amy Drugcastle, because I certainly would need Viagra to get it up with that 'ho. Or you have some pretty damning tastes (testes?!?).
One of the most interesting thing I ever read on the liberal vs conservative debate comes from a dating site which did analysis of its members: OkCupid blog. Take a look at the 1st diagram and the consequences: liberals belong to 3 varied groups of people while conservative are more unified... Probably explains why the US democrats never seem to get their things together while having 'better' ideas.
So now Taco Bell is a reference for both cooking and programming ? I ate there exactly once and it tasted like sucking ass off a dead donkey. I pity the people who've been forced to eat there since a young age and now think this is 'food'. Yeah, flamebait, etc...
So how do you check for errors in SSDs ? Besides doing regular checksums on all the files à la Tripwire. I just checked and mine (Kingston) does support SMART, as to knowing if this is enough to have a forewarning...
I've got an SSD in my laptop, and I couldn't be happier. Its easily lengthened the life of my laptop by about 2 years.
Yeah, I just updated my main desktop with an SSD for system and cache and I was astounded to see a full KUbuntu boot in less than ONE second. And it's a pleasure to use and almost completely silent. You can bet that instead of replacing my 5-year old laptop, I'm just going to put an SSD in it. The only problem is that SSD with IDE interface are somewhat hard to find.
Yup, besides the obvious trolling of the article, I could very obviously write about the reverse. Of the hundreds of computers I have nearby at work and in the family, I have never even seen Vista or Win7 (is that even the correct name?). We have a majority of Ubuntu and other Linuxes, some Macs and quite a bit of aging XPs. Not a SINGLE post XP. So I have no clue what 'lack of content' this article refers to. Or maybeTaco posted it to get us geeks warmed up in a good flame war on a cold monday morning...
(You can kind of get a marriage-like thing from the government, but it's legally not the same thing.)
I don't know where you are from, but here I am religious weddings are strictly for show and have no legal value whatsoever. Up to the point that the priest won't even hold the ceremony if you don't already have signed up on the gov form. That's called separation of church and state.
What the fuck do iPhone owners do with their phones? Crack open coconuts with them? I've been using cellular phones since they came in bags and ran off nicads and lead-acid batteries, and I have never managed to break a screen.
Same here. I got an HTC Hero. After a year, there's not a scratch on it although I use it extensively. I got a Samsung smartphone (don't remember the model) for the wife. After a week the screen looked like it had gone under a sand blaster. And she hardly used it. I guess life at the bottom of a handbag is real tough.
Yeah, but who tells Joe Sixpack what to buy ? Who fixes his computer when it breaks ? Who writes the software he'll be using ? It's us geeks. If our mindset changes, then it will propagate.
But that was in 2001. The landscape has changed a lot since then and the OSS world has lost ground on the desktop
Strange, from where I sit, 10 years ago there were only a bunch of servers on Linux. Now my laptop, the 5 production PCs in my back, my home PCs, and most of my colleagues are Linux (different distros). More so, I warned my family a long time ago "Next time you get a virus I either install Linux or you get a Mac" and now Windows is gone. We are researchers and developers and if all our new developments are under Linux, what does that say about the future of Windows mindshare ? Yeah, I know not everyone is like us, but when all our students have been exposed to Linux for a bunch of years, I don't think they'll be eager to run Windows 2017 "Our safest OS yet!"
I spent a year drinking recycled water using reverse osmosis, and the water was so pure we actually had to add salts to it to make it drinkable. The desalination plants you refer to must have been pretty shitty.
Books are quickly accessible, portable, need no batteries and just feel good in your hand while reading them.
No. The single reason why I consider shifting to eBooks is that many books are horrible to hold. Some are printed to within 1mm of the glue and you must press like crazy to be able to read the letters in the center. It's okay with each hands pressing it against the table, but makes it a real pain to hold the book one handed while in bed while using the other hand to... never mind.
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The annoying thing is when sites that have legitimate and interesting content are ranked nowhere near the spammers.
And there are some strangenesses: I found a site I was looking for with very unique keywords: 210th out of 231 results on Google. A friends with a different browser and location: 3rd ! It should have simply been number one since it's the reference for those specific keywords (the name of the company and its field of expertise, the others were just mentioning them).
I have a more generic question: I have written a few old style drivers for DOS, some USB drivers for Windows using LibUsb and I'm working on some more complex Linux driver. But that was on devices that we designed and whose specs I knew. Now I have a monitor calibration device I'd like to get working on Linux. I don't expect the driver to be very complicated (it's just a color sensor), but I have no idea how to get started without specs. Is it possible to intercept the USB communications while the device runs in VirtualBox for instance ?
If you want to talk reality, forget beer comparisons, try cheese. America is home to the worlds most disgusting cheese. [...] I don't know what it is.
It was explained to me by a veterinarian thus: there are several milk qualities, the good quality with high fat content and the poor quality with high water content. In france they use good milk to make cheese, and the bad milk is pasteurized to be drunk at some future time; there's very little fresh milk. In the US the good quality milk is sold as dairy and the watery one goes into cheese and there's very little long conservation milk (the lobbies love it that you need to throw away your milk after 3 days).
But what you call cheese could kill a rhino at ten paces.
Hmmm, no, that's corsican cheese !!!
Just posting to remove an erroneous moderation.
And indeed geothermal energy works by pumping water in and out of porous hot zones, not just by putting a heat exchanger underground.
Dirt (or rock) is a very poor conductor of heat. It moves only a few meters per YEAR. So while you can indeed dump unlimited heat into it, it would indeed get really hot near your dump point. And heat exchanger efficiency decreases as the temperature differential increases, so it it would take more and more power to dump less and less heat.
Underground glacial lake for cooling?
I thought it was the CO2 that was melting the glaciers in Europe, not farmville.
I don't understand this fascination for bunker server farms, besides the Neil Stephenson geek factor. There's no way you can evacuate the heat from those servers while deep underground. The only option is to run long pipes to suck air in and out, and that takes lots of energy. And if you close the vent because the apocalypse/rapture/singularity has arrived, then your server will overheat in seconds. But maybe here they found the solution thanks to this underground water flow...
...thereafter you start getting into some serious delirium. Maybe we should hand the guy a paint brush and see what he comes up with.
If you hand him a compiler he'll probably come up with perl.
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-democrats-are-doomed-or-how-a-big-tent-can-be-too-big/
I hope you don't mean Amy Drugcastle, because I certainly would need Viagra to get it up with that 'ho. Or you have some pretty damning tastes (testes?!?).
One of the most interesting thing I ever read on the liberal vs conservative debate comes from a dating site which did analysis of its members: OkCupid blog. Take a look at the 1st diagram and the consequences: liberals belong to 3 varied groups of people while conservative are more unified... Probably explains why the US democrats never seem to get their things together while having 'better' ideas.
So now Taco Bell is a reference for both cooking and programming ? I ate there exactly once and it tasted like sucking ass off a dead donkey. I pity the people who've been forced to eat there since a young age and now think this is 'food'. Yeah, flamebait, etc...
So how do you check for errors in SSDs ? Besides doing regular checksums on all the files à la Tripwire. I just checked and mine (Kingston) does support SMART, as to knowing if this is enough to have a forewarning...
I've got an SSD in my laptop, and I couldn't be happier. Its easily lengthened the life of my laptop by about 2 years.
Yeah, I just updated my main desktop with an SSD for system and cache and I was astounded to see a full KUbuntu boot in less than ONE second. And it's a pleasure to use and almost completely silent. You can bet that instead of replacing my 5-year old laptop, I'm just going to put an SSD in it. The only problem is that SSD with IDE interface are somewhat hard to find.
Safari, like most Apple software (Aperture,iTunes, iLife) is fine for some people but I find it bizarre, limiting and generally annoying.
For me that includes the finder and OSX !
And they even write novels where it's a central point to the plot...
Yup, besides the obvious trolling of the article, I could very obviously write about the reverse. Of the hundreds of computers I have nearby at work and in the family, I have never even seen Vista or Win7 (is that even the correct name?). We have a majority of Ubuntu and other Linuxes, some Macs and quite a bit of aging XPs. Not a SINGLE post XP. So I have no clue what 'lack of content' this article refers to. Or maybeTaco posted it to get us geeks warmed up in a good flame war on a cold monday morning...
(You can kind of get a marriage-like thing from the government, but it's legally not the same thing.)
I don't know where you are from, but here I am religious weddings are strictly for show and have no legal value whatsoever. Up to the point that the priest won't even hold the ceremony if you don't already have signed up on the gov form. That's called separation of church and state.
In my experience, anti-gun nuts are more numerous and more nutty than so-called gun nuts.
But a lot less dangerous !
What the fuck do iPhone owners do with their phones? Crack open coconuts with them? I've been using cellular phones since they came in bags and ran off nicads and lead-acid batteries, and I have never managed to break a screen.
Same here. I got an HTC Hero. After a year, there's not a scratch on it although I use it extensively. I got a Samsung smartphone (don't remember the model) for the wife. After a week the screen looked like it had gone under a sand blaster. And she hardly used it. I guess life at the bottom of a handbag is real tough.
Yeah, but who tells Joe Sixpack what to buy ? Who fixes his computer when it breaks ? Who writes the software he'll be using ? It's us geeks. If our mindset changes, then it will propagate.
But that was in 2001. The landscape has changed a lot since then and the OSS world has lost ground on the desktop
Strange, from where I sit, 10 years ago there were only a bunch of servers on Linux. Now my laptop, the 5 production PCs in my back, my home PCs, and most of my colleagues are Linux (different distros). More so, I warned my family a long time ago "Next time you get a virus I either install Linux or you get a Mac" and now Windows is gone. We are researchers and developers and if all our new developments are under Linux, what does that say about the future of Windows mindshare ? Yeah, I know not everyone is like us, but when all our students have been exposed to Linux for a bunch of years, I don't think they'll be eager to run Windows 2017 "Our safest OS yet!"
I spent a year drinking recycled water using reverse osmosis, and the water was so pure we actually had to add salts to it to make it drinkable. The desalination plants you refer to must have been pretty shitty.
I guess if you really want a primitive editor, you can try ed in backwards compatibility mode [-G option]. A backward ed, think about it. Shivers.
real men use
If you aren't a verbose writer, you only need cat >> story.txt
Books are quickly accessible, portable, need no batteries and just feel good in your hand while reading them.
No. The single reason why I consider shifting to eBooks is that many books are horrible to hold. Some are printed to within 1mm of the glue and you must press like crazy to be able to read the letters in the center. It's okay with each hands pressing it against the table, but makes it a real pain to hold the book one handed while in bed while using the other hand to... never mind.