On Fedora Core 2 I use XFce 4. After logging in and opening gnome-system-monitor, only 35.0 MB RAM is used. This is with the samba and xfs services running.
Gnome is installed purely for the apps and in case I do something to stop XFce 4 from working (and I want a GUI to fix it). The GNOME desktop & nautilus are just too slow & memory hungry for my liking (on a P3 450 MHz with 576 MB RAM). I haven't really tried KDE to see if it is better or worse.
Linux users should check to see if there are any unused services running on their boxes - Fedora comes with heaps turned on and I never need most of them. After an install this is one of the first things I do.
1. Consume at least 2 litres of water per day. If you exercise during that day, drink an extra 1-2 litres. If it is a hot day - drink an extra 1-2 litres. Water helps keeps the brain 'on task', it flushes impurities from your body, it's energy content is negligible and it is cheap. Remember - if you are feeling thirsty - you are already starting to dehydrate.
2. Consume no more than 20 grams of fat (not FAT32) per day. Even if you rarely exercise (like me) - you will loose weight (like me). Nutritional info can be found on product packaging - keep a daily tally - but dont be obsessive. Do not consume excess carbohydrates - the body can convert this to fat. Oh, and once a week, reward yourself with a decent unhealthy meal.
3. Ensure you get all the protein, vitamins, minerals, etc that your body needs. Dont forget calcium. Dont forget fibre - your bowels will thank you with regularity. If you dont think you are getting everything - take multivitamins. No point looking lean if your body is unhealthy, your bones weak, your intestines full of toxins, etc.
4. Try not to eat large meals close to bed-time - the body will not metabolise the energy content from the food and store it as fat. If you are really keen, have 5 (healthy) snacks during the day instead of 3 meals.
5. Limit alcohol consumption to one occasion per week - but get blotto if you feel the need.
6. If you are out on the street - try not to carry cash - it will be harder to get junk food.
The author is German, as are a couple of his comments, but the PHP code is tidy, with English variables. The script handles ID3v1 - ID3v2.3 and is LGPL.
I believe ID3 tags are at the beginning of MP3 files - so you could use a couple of neat PHP functions.
fopen() can open local files & URLs - look at the http:// example: fopen()
fgets() will read in data from the steam - you can pick how many bytes you want to read in: fgets()
Dont forget to use fclose() afterwards!
When you get those functions working, it's just a matter of interpreting the content returned. PHP has many useful string functions - many more than ASP does.
These functions are analogous to using a Microsoft.XMLHTTP object:
myXMLHTTPObject.Open "GET", someURL
The PHP and ASP way are both neat ways to read content from [X]HTML pages on other servers (the weather, share prices, etc) - although it might not be 100% ethical!
Hope this helps... I have nothing better to do while I wait for Fedora Core 2 to be delivered. Oh wait, I do... I'm at work reading Slashdot!
Most people save their work and close applications before starting a game for performance reasons (to free memory for example) and to reduce the possibility of data loss in the event of a crash.
Rebooting takes very little time, even on my [old] P3/450. Granted it takes longer to shut down Fedora than Win98, but not much longer.
I like the idea about bootable games, but intense FPS games require fast disk access, or gameplay can become jumpy. CD access can also be noisy compared to HD access.
Data persitance is another reason for not having bootable CD games. Where will you store your saved games? Your preferences? Do you need to manually enter the disk/partition location each time you want to play? (or is it automatically the first FAT breed of partition found by the bootable game?)
Offering games targeted at specific platforms (such as Windows) makes game development simpler. Microsoft provides layers such as DirectX - without it most games would need to code similar functionality themselves (increasing the cost).
A bootable CD would require the game developer to maintain the code for their bootable OS. Most FPS games also require more than one CD worth of data - changing CDs during play would be a hassel.
My parents were cheap - we only had 3 games: * enduro (car racing) * donkey kong (only 2 levels that repeated) * tennis
I would have killed for that centipede game!
By far tennis was the most lame. We had two joysticks - whoever had the more expensive one (that form fitted the hand better, had more buttons) always won in a 2P game. The cheap joystick was literally like a chopstick sticking out of a box, it didn't even have suction pads to stick to the table surface.
Most people do not know that inside an Atari 2600 is a variable pot. Soldered onto the PCB is a component with a groove for a flat-head scredriver. It fine-tunes the RF being sent to your TV - if only I had known about it ~20 years ago!
Debian packages are too old, unless you want to jump into the "unstable" tree - and what business can accept unstable server software? Back-porting bugfixes just don't cut it in the business world. Debian lacks a powerful entity that governs development priorities - but it doesn't lack zealots who will die for their cause.
For example... Debian hasn't got XFree86 4.3.0 in their stable tree (and they wont for years to come as they still have 4.1.0 stable) - whereas RedHat has had a stable XFree86 4.3.0 for over a year. RedHat isn't perfect - but more often than not it's more suitable for business useage.
There the smart thing is to write separate pages for both browsers and use those PHP programmer skills to serve up the right page for each.
This is NOT a smart thing to do. You will have 4 times as many files to create/maintain (for Mozilla, Safari, Opera, MSIE). The smart thing to do is have one page with a couple of condition statements to deal with any quirks.
Just a few days ago, the television stations in Melbourne were broadcasting stories about ambulance officers injecting stoke victims with cooled liquids to limit brain damage.
I think a study is about to get underway - extent of brain damage and recovery times will be compared to those who have not been injected with cooled liquids.
Of course, ambulance response times need to be faster, otherwise the damage would already be done.
I can understand naming a huge rock hurtling through space, or the big red rock (monolith) in the middle of Australia. But naming a small rock on Mars?
Do the folks at NASA name their french fries before eating them too? LOL
Good news that both explorers are functioning well now.
ripping out the IE proprietary Javascript in favor of ECMAScript
Why don't you still use JavaScript, however use cross-browser code? JavaScript conforms to ECMA 262 - and any standards compliant browser will understand it (more than will understand JScript or ECMAScript).
Since we started coding the front end at about the time of the browser wars, we didn't have the luxury of planning to use the W3 standards (especially since they were not complete, and browsers weren't honoring them anyways) ...our app is only native to IE 5.5...
This is pure crap. The browsers wars were in full swing with MSIE 4 and Netscape 4. By MSIE 5.5 - the air had cleared. Standards were released LONG before MSIE 5.5:
CSS Level 1 - 17th Dec 1996
HTML 4 - 18th Dec 1997
CSS Level 2 - 12th May 1998
XHTML 1 - 26th Jan 2000
These standards were complete, and have been for many years. HTML/CSS1 have been complete standards for many years, and are honoured pretty damn well. XHTML and CSS2 are nearing the same level of support.
Whilst I support your move to standards compliance - it sounds like poor research on behalf of dogas' company is to blame. Unless of course, the application coding began before 1998.
Humour aside, if that was the intention of the virus, it should bring down the SCO email server (mail.sco.com) as well as www.sco.com. This would hurt sales and cause a major inconvenience.
SCO's lawyers are probably 'creating' a lawsuit as we speak - claiming the portions of the virus are SCO IP. (Which is just as believable as Linux containing SCO's code.)
SCO could also have written the virus - to hurt the image of their competition.
A. Most slashdot readers are sadly (?) not constrained by this requirement. Perhaps you could explain to the majority of the readership here, what a wife is, and how you get one.
This is a common assumption, but how true is it? This would make an excellent question for a Slashdot poll.
Are you:
* hetero & single
* hetero & married
* hetero with girlfriend/fiancee
* gay & single
* gay & virtually married
* gay with partner(s)
* bi & single
* bi with girlfriend and boyfriend
* bi engaged or married
* I am a nun, married to Cowboy Neal.
If your wife/partner doesn't like cables, string her up (yes, hang her) by a cable.
If she is fat/obese, thick PC power cords will be required. If she is more petite, I find network cabling or USB cables more suitable (easier to bend). Network cabling is the better choice - it's longer, cheaper and more flexible.
Now seriously...
You have to put your foot down dude - let her have control/arrange the furniture in the whole house, except your office. Remember, your office is your domain, not hers. The kitchen and laundry are hers, and the bedroom is shared. Your office is where you go to look at internet porno when she isn't putting out. You deserve a comfortable den, after-all you are the breadwinner, and the one endowed with a penis. You pay rent too - therefore you deserve a say in such matters.
If these steps don't bring you sexcess - it's time to format away WifeOS 40 and install GirlfriendOS 21.
These helpful tips brought to you from the land down under.
It's a shame that AMD64 computers aren't "free as in beer" (like Fedora) so I could test this release of Fedora.
Fedora Cora 1 (up2date) on my i686 is very stable, it will be interesting to see if the 64 bit version is too. I thought RedHat 9 was polished, but Fedora did even better.
I can't remember my first MP3. I was first year uni (1996) and read an article in a news paper about it. I download an antiquated version of WinAmp and Fraunhofer's l3enc. The number of times I downloaded MP3s at Melbourne University, and "pkzip -& -ex" onto multiple floppy disks...;-)
I found that there were no programs that automated CD-ripping->mp3 - so I compiled the first program ever to do this automatically. It was called CD2MP3, and it wasn't GUI.
I spent hundreds of hours on the bulletin boards at www.mp3shoppingmall.com (later mp3.com). In the time since, I have spent far more time on Slashdot though.
Oh, my miss spent youth... where has my free time gone?
FYI - many web applications that export to a.xls file, are simply creating an HTML document, (hopefully with tables in it), and changing the header so the browser does not think the file is text/html.
I saw the Micro$oft logo when I ran the Micro$oft Fury 3 game (uses the Terminal Velocity engine). Subsequently, I have never purchased a game from Micro$oft since.
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On Fedora Core 2 I use XFce 4. After logging in and opening gnome-system-monitor, only 35.0 MB RAM is used. This is with the samba and xfs services running.
Gnome is installed purely for the apps and in case I do something to stop XFce 4 from working (and I want a GUI to fix it). The GNOME desktop & nautilus are just too slow & memory hungry for my liking (on a P3 450 MHz with 576 MB RAM). I haven't really tried KDE to see if it is better or worse.
Linux users should check to see if there are any unused services running on their boxes - Fedora comes with heaps turned on and I never need most of them. After an install this is one of the first things I do.
This is just so LAME.
I'm sure they could find something more productive to do with their time. Stop living in the past!
Very insightful.
I would like to add:
1. Consume at least 2 litres of water per day. If you exercise during that day, drink an extra 1-2 litres. If it is a hot day - drink an extra 1-2 litres. Water helps keeps the brain 'on task', it flushes impurities from your body, it's energy content is negligible and it is cheap. Remember - if you are feeling thirsty - you are already starting to dehydrate.
2. Consume no more than 20 grams of fat (not FAT32) per day. Even if you rarely exercise (like me) - you will loose weight (like me). Nutritional info can be found on product packaging - keep a daily tally - but dont be obsessive. Do not consume excess carbohydrates - the body can convert this to fat. Oh, and once a week, reward yourself with a decent unhealthy meal.
3. Ensure you get all the protein, vitamins, minerals, etc that your body needs. Dont forget calcium. Dont forget fibre - your bowels will thank you with regularity. If you dont think you are getting everything - take multivitamins. No point looking lean if your body is unhealthy, your bones weak, your intestines full of toxins, etc.
4. Try not to eat large meals close to bed-time - the body will not metabolise the energy content from the food and store it as fat. If you are really keen, have 5 (healthy) snacks during the day instead of 3 meals.
5. Limit alcohol consumption to one occasion per week - but get blotto if you feel the need.
6. If you are out on the street - try not to carry cash - it will be harder to get junk food.
The author is German, as are a couple of his comments, but the PHP code is tidy, with English variables. The script handles ID3v1 - ID3v2.3 and is LGPL.
No need to reinvent the wheel :-)
fopen() can open local files & URLs - look at the http:// example:
fopen()
fgets() will read in data from the steam - you can pick how many bytes you want to read in:
fgets()
Dont forget to use fclose() afterwards!
When you get those functions working, it's just a matter of interpreting the content returned. PHP has many useful string functions - many more than ASP does.
These functions are analogous to using a Microsoft.XMLHTTP object:
myXMLHTTPObject.Open "GET", someURL
The PHP and ASP way are both neat ways to read content from [X]HTML pages on other servers (the weather, share prices, etc) - although it might not be 100% ethical!
Hope this helps... I have nothing better to do while I wait for Fedora Core 2 to be delivered. Oh wait, I do... I'm at work reading Slashdot!
Fast and easy access to porn?
What would you look for out of this project?
Open Source porno???
That will get a lot of people cumming to your site.
> OpenOffice is too sluggish on my Duron 1.3GHz
I find that very interesting. I run OO 1.1.1 (under Fedora Core 1 & Win98) on a PIII 450 MHz with 576 MB RAM. It runs very sweetly.
With the QuickStarter in the tray keeping part of OO in memory - starting times are quite acceptable.
Most people save their work and close applications before starting a game for performance reasons (to free memory for example) and to reduce the possibility of data loss in the event of a crash.
Rebooting takes very little time, even on my [old] P3/450. Granted it takes longer to shut down Fedora than Win98, but not much longer.
I like the idea about bootable games, but intense FPS games require fast disk access, or gameplay can become jumpy. CD access can also be noisy compared to HD access.
Data persitance is another reason for not having bootable CD games. Where will you store your saved games? Your preferences? Do you need to manually enter the disk/partition location each time you want to play? (or is it automatically the first FAT breed of partition found by the bootable game?)
Offering games targeted at specific platforms (such as Windows) makes game development simpler. Microsoft provides layers such as DirectX - without it most games would need to code similar functionality themselves (increasing the cost).
A bootable CD would require the game developer to maintain the code for their bootable OS. Most FPS games also require more than one CD worth of data - changing CDs during play would be a hassel.
Don't use 900 MHz and come to Melbourne, Australia. It will interfere with my Uniden cordless phones. ;-)
My parents were cheap - we only had 3 games:
* enduro (car racing)
* donkey kong (only 2 levels that repeated)
* tennis
I would have killed for that centipede game!
By far tennis was the most lame. We had two joysticks - whoever had the more expensive one (that form fitted the hand better, had more buttons) always won in a 2P game. The cheap joystick was literally like a chopstick sticking out of a box, it didn't even have suction pads to stick to the table surface.
Most people do not know that inside an Atari 2600 is a variable pot. Soldered onto the PCB is a component with a groove for a flat-head scredriver. It fine-tunes the RF being sent to your TV - if only I had known about it ~20 years ago!
http://www.mikeskinner.net/
Exactly right Jammer.
They are fresh/cold water fish. Very hardy, and prefer alkaline environments too.
And I am so sick of hearing about my 3 fish having 3somes - there has been nothing of the sort going on (unless they do IT at night?).
BladeMelbourne
Agreed.
Debian packages are too old, unless you want to jump into the "unstable" tree - and what business can accept unstable server software? Back-porting bugfixes just don't cut it in the business world. Debian lacks a powerful entity that governs development priorities - but it doesn't lack zealots who will die for their cause.
For example... Debian hasn't got XFree86 4.3.0 in their stable tree (and they wont for years to come as they still have 4.1.0 stable) - whereas RedHat has had a stable XFree86 4.3.0 for over a year. RedHat isn't perfect - but more often than not it's more suitable for business useage.
Rick Moen can't grasp this.
Just a few days ago, the television stations in Melbourne were broadcasting stories about ambulance officers injecting stoke victims with cooled liquids to limit brain damage.
I think a study is about to get underway - extent of brain damage and recovery times will be compared to those who have not been injected with cooled liquids.
Of course, ambulance response times need to be faster, otherwise the damage would already be done.
Do the folks at NASA name their french fries before eating them too? LOL
Good news that both explorers are functioning well now.
Why don't you still use JavaScript, however use cross-browser code? JavaScript conforms to ECMA 262 - and any standards compliant browser will understand it (more than will understand JScript or ECMAScript).
Since we started coding the front end at about the time of the browser wars, we didn't have the luxury of planning to use the W3 standards (especially since they were not complete, and browsers weren't honoring them anyways)
...our app is only native to IE 5.5...
This is pure crap. The browsers wars were in full swing with MSIE 4 and Netscape 4. By MSIE 5.5 - the air had cleared. Standards were released LONG before MSIE 5.5:
CSS Level 1 - 17th Dec 1996
HTML 4 - 18th Dec 1997
CSS Level 2 - 12th May 1998
XHTML 1 - 26th Jan 2000
These standards were complete, and have been for many years. HTML/CSS1 have been complete standards for many years, and are honoured pretty damn well. XHTML and CSS2 are nearing the same level of support.
Whilst I support your move to standards compliance - it sounds like poor research on behalf of dogas' company is to blame. Unless of course, the application coding began before 1998.
Humour aside, if that was the intention of the virus, it should bring down the SCO email server (mail.sco.com) as well as www.sco.com. This would hurt sales and cause a major inconvenience.
SCO's lawyers are probably 'creating' a lawsuit as we speak - claiming the portions of the virus are SCO IP. (Which is just as believable as Linux containing SCO's code.)
SCO could also have written the virus - to hurt the image of their competition.
This is a common assumption, but how true is it? This would make an excellent question for a Slashdot poll.
Are you:
* hetero & single
* hetero & married
* hetero with girlfriend/fiancee
* gay & single
* gay & virtually married
* gay with partner(s)
* bi & single
* bi with girlfriend and boyfriend
* bi engaged or married
* I am a nun, married to Cowboy Neal.
If your wife/partner doesn't like cables, string her up (yes, hang her) by a cable.
If she is fat/obese, thick PC power cords will be required. If she is more petite, I find network cabling or USB cables more suitable (easier to bend). Network cabling is the better choice - it's longer, cheaper and more flexible.
Now seriously...
You have to put your foot down dude - let her have control/arrange the furniture in the whole house, except your office. Remember, your office is your domain, not hers. The kitchen and laundry are hers, and the bedroom is shared. Your office is where you go to look at internet porno when she isn't putting out. You deserve a comfortable den, after-all you are the breadwinner, and the one endowed with a penis. You pay rent too - therefore you deserve a say in such matters.
If these steps don't bring you sexcess - it's time to format away WifeOS 40 and install GirlfriendOS 21.
These helpful tips brought to you from the land down under.
It's a shame that AMD64 computers aren't "free as in beer" (like Fedora) so I could test this release of Fedora.
Fedora Cora 1 (up2date) on my i686 is very stable, it will be interesting to see if the 64 bit version is too. I thought RedHat 9 was polished, but Fedora did even better.
I can't remember my first MP3. I was first year uni (1996) and read an article in a news paper about it. I download an antiquated version of WinAmp and Fraunhofer's l3enc. The number of times I downloaded MP3s at Melbourne University, and "pkzip -& -ex" onto multiple floppy disks... ;-)
I found that there were no programs that automated CD-ripping->mp3 - so I compiled the first program ever to do this automatically. It was called CD2MP3, and it wasn't GUI.
I spent hundreds of hours on the bulletin boards at www.mp3shoppingmall.com (later mp3.com). In the time since, I have spent far more time on Slashdot though.
Oh, my miss spent youth... where has my free time gone?
"I did not and do not believe that."
;-)
Then one must ask why did you write that? Bad hair day? Boy-friend dump you? Broke a nail?
That confirms it - hcg50a has had too much coffee. Lucky I dont have such an expensive r/c vehicle. ;-)
FYI - many web applications that export to a .xls file, are simply creating an HTML document, (hopefully with tables in it), and changing the header so the browser does not think the file is text/html.
eg:
Response.ContentType = "mime-type application/vnd.ms-excel"
Response.AddHeader "content-disposition", "attachment; filename=auto-gen.xls"
You can also do the same to generate M$ Word files - although they dont need a table inside. These files can be opened in M$ Office and OpenOffice.
Mike
I saw the Micro$oft logo when I ran the Micro$oft Fury 3 game (uses the Terminal Velocity engine). Subsequently, I have never purchased a game from Micro$oft since.