Hmmm... learn something new every day. There's probably still lists of which numbers are mobile... or maybe not, but I've yet to get a solicitation on my any of my mobile numbers I had, although I haven't converted a landline yet obviously...
There's lists of the blocks of numbers given to mobile phone companies. As far as I know, portability only works between mobile phones, not from a landline to a mobile phone.
Same with me, I wouldn't mind using Gaim on windows, but last time I tried it (maybe 5 months ago?), it crashed whenever I tweaked certain prefs. I tried working around it for awhile, but eventually got fed up and went back to miranda.
Maybe I'll give it another go one of these days, it was nice using the same client in windows and linux.
I wish it would get included in the main kernel already. It's such a desirable thing, I can't believe it hasn't made it in yet.
From the FAQ:
Q: Will supermount be included in standard kernel?
A: Frankly speaking, I do not know. Version for 2.4 kernel is still more of a hack so I would not even try to ask for it. I still do not consider 2.6 version to be ready for inclusion in mainline - although it would definitely make some things easier. If anyone thinks supermount should be part of standard kernel - feel free to ask on LKML.
My first thought about this was: "Huh, why not, go for it". The crime in Baltimore is horrible as it is... something needs to be done about it.
If I'm out in public, I don't care if I'm being recorded, I try to be on my best behavior anyway (which sometimes isn't all that great, but I digress). I could give a rats ass if some bum with a video camera is behind the bushes recording me, or some camera attached to an electric pole is recording me.
As long as the cameras are aimed for surveilance of public areas, and not aimed into my window or back deck or something, I'm fine with it.
My second thought was, why not make it a public service and broacast it over the local cable? The last place I lived already did this, although they only had a few cameras. This way people can see where the camera's point, and if they have a problem being on film, then don't go there.
I think gnome looks better as well, which is one reason I run it, that and half the apps I use are gtk apps anyway. Gnome 2.6 is really pretty nice, nautilus is finally useable.
But why doesn't media player just get updated through the normal windows update method? Why does it needs it own built in auto-updater to constantly call home? It's the only piece of windows software like it. There must be a reason, I'll leave it up to you to decide.
And has anyone ever seen that automatic codec downloader work?
Download the whole shebang here in a nice easy to install 19 meg installer. Seems to have some weird skipping problems with some AVIs but otherwise is solid.
I've heard stories of people getting tickets for speeding and not keeping up with the flow of traffic at the same time. Dunno if it's true or not, but in theory it's possible.
I still get the jerks on that game as well. AMD Athlon 1.33ghz/768 megs ram, GF2 GTS w/latest nvidia drivers, Debian/sid, XFree86 version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1, 2.6.5 kernel with preemption, Alsa ymfpci (YMF744) sound drivers. I'm betting it's probably a sound driver thing, I'll have to try it on my other machine with a different sound card when I get a chance.
I bought a creative gf2 mx card awhile back. The thing didn't come with a fan or heatsync, just a bare chip, so it'd lock up when running a graphics intensive game. I had to buy a GPU fan to stick on it to make it run stable, I remember having other problems with it as well, but I can't remember what they were, but I do specifically remember vowing to never buy a creative graphics card again, part of the problem might have been that is WAS just an mx card, but it soured me enough to no longer like creative. Oh yeah, waiting in line to download a driver wasn't fun, IF you could even weave your way through the maze that was creative's website. (things may have changed by now)
The place I've found that's good for graphics card shopping (or any other computer related product) is http://newegg.com/ (not affilated, blah blah blah), there's reviews for each product there, as long as you take it with a grain of salt, it's a good resource. If it's a crappy product, people will let you know. I'm also weary of products with very little reviews, meaning it's unpopular for whatever reason or just too new for anyone to have an opinion yet. I've been looking at a few things there and turned around and ran because more than one person said, "This card is noisy as hell", or "this dvd burner drive doesn't like certain media", etc.
Weird, I JUST ran vcool and fvcool on my systems, an XP 2600+ running winxp and a 1.33 ghz Athlon running Linux. Both dropped in temp, 8 deg c and 22! deg C respectively. And I have the graphs to prove it.:)
Can you tell when I started running fvcool? BTW, there's also vcool for windows, that's helping as well, although in windows, the temperature only dropped 7 deg C, not 21 deg C like my linux box.
Thanks for the link, I always thought there was something about Athlon's that made them run unnecessarily hot.:)
I never knew about all this on-the-fly underclocking stuff until now. I think I might have to get a new machine to help cool down this room some more and save some power. And heck, I'm a java developer so anything to reduce compile times would definitely be a plus.:)
It gets rather hot in here with my Athlon 1.33ghz and my Athlon XP 2600+ running. Replacing a 19" CRT with an LCD flat panel helped tons... Now I need to get rid of my 21" CRT as well.:)
Do the latest 32-bit Athlon XP chips support on-the-fly underclocking, or is that an Athlon 64 only feature?
I dunno if I believe this. My Linux box has a 1.33ghz Athlon in it. It runs quite a bit hotter if I'm compiling something or doing something else cpu intensive. My temperature graphs show this. I haven't tested it on my Windows XP machine tho, so maybe it's a Windows problem?
Cygwin is fairly nice now. I run another machine with linux on it, but that doesn't help me in windows. Ever try the windows search for seaching text in files? I don't know what it is, but it's unreliable and rarely works for me. Installing cygwin and using grep is nice. Sure there's native port of grep for windows. But the syntax is all funky and most don't support recursion.
Sometimes I'd rather use an environment I'm more used to. I'd rather have my computer work for me instead of against me.
That's really too bad. I tried shfs probably at least 3 years ago or so. I had similar problems. I tried reporting bugs about it, went back and forth a bit, trying new versions as new versions came out with supposed fixes which never quite resolved it. I eventually just lost interest and ended up using something else. There were also some permission problems, it's been awhile now, I can't remember exactly what the problem was but I remember being very frustrated and losing data. (test data mind you). It was also suggested not to "push it" opening too many files at once, another stipulation that made it useless to me. What's pushing it, accessing 2 files at once? 3? 4?
It's just a domain name. I happen to hate dashes in them, apparently so does Wal-Mart.
Browsing around their site, they spell it Wal-Mart in print. The domain name is without the dash, and obviously no with an asterisk either. Their logo on the other hand is WAL*MART. I'm sure someone's probably gone over their site with a fine tooth comb making sure these things are consistent.
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Hmmm... learn something new every day. There's probably still lists of which numbers are mobile... or maybe not, but I've yet to get a solicitation on my any of my mobile numbers I had, although I haven't converted a landline yet obviously...
There's lists of the blocks of numbers given to mobile phone companies. As far as I know, portability only works between mobile phones, not from a landline to a mobile phone.
Well I run ICQ as well as Yahoo sometimes, plus I want to save the poor puppies.
Room Juice is going ok, haven't had much inspiration to work on it lately tho. Do I know you? I see you're a "fan", sorry I don't recognize the nick.
Same with me, I wouldn't mind using Gaim on windows, but last time I tried it (maybe 5 months ago?), it crashed whenever I tweaked certain prefs. I tried working around it for awhile, but eventually got fed up and went back to miranda.
Maybe I'll give it another go one of these days, it was nice using the same client in windows and linux.
I wish it would get included in the main kernel already. It's such a desirable thing, I can't believe it hasn't made it in yet.
From the FAQ:
Q: Will supermount be included in standard kernel?
A: Frankly speaking, I do not know. Version for 2.4 kernel is still more of a hack so I would not even try to ask for it. I still do not consider 2.6 version to be ready for inclusion in mainline - although it would definitely make some things easier. If anyone thinks supermount should be part of standard kernel - feel free to ask on LKML.
Sure there's exceptions, but the vast majority of c++ applications are compiled with g++. There's no denying that.
I'm for p2p, and I'm also for this.
My first thought about this was: "Huh, why not, go for it". The crime in Baltimore is horrible as it is... something needs to be done about it.
If I'm out in public, I don't care if I'm being recorded, I try to be on my best behavior anyway (which sometimes isn't all that great, but I digress). I could give a rats ass if some bum with a video camera is behind the bushes recording me, or some camera attached to an electric pole is recording me.
As long as the cameras are aimed for surveilance of public areas, and not aimed into my window or back deck or something, I'm fine with it.
My second thought was, why not make it a public service and broacast it over the local cable? The last place I lived already did this, although they only had a few cameras. This way people can see where the camera's point, and if they have a problem being on film, then don't go there.
I think gnome looks better as well, which is one reason I run it, that and half the apps I use are gtk apps anyway. Gnome 2.6 is really pretty nice, nautilus is finally useable.
But why doesn't media player just get updated through the normal windows update method? Why does it needs it own built in auto-updater to constantly call home? It's the only piece of windows software like it. There must be a reason, I'll leave it up to you to decide.
And has anyone ever seen that automatic codec downloader work?
Download the whole shebang here in a nice easy to install 19 meg installer. Seems to have some weird skipping problems with some AVIs but otherwise is solid.
I've heard stories of people getting tickets for speeding and not keeping up with the flow of traffic at the same time. Dunno if it's true or not, but in theory it's possible.
Maybe we can send all the telephone sanitizers and hairdressers first.
I still get the jerks on that game as well. AMD Athlon 1.33ghz/768 megs ram, GF2 GTS w/latest nvidia drivers, Debian/sid, XFree86 version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1, 2.6.5 kernel with preemption, Alsa ymfpci (YMF744) sound drivers. I'm betting it's probably a sound driver thing, I'll have to try it on my other machine with a different sound card when I get a chance.
I believe they showed Doom3 multiplayer at quakecon last year, and from rumors I've heard, Splashdamage is working on the doom3 multiplayer levels.
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I bought a creative gf2 mx card awhile back. The thing didn't come with a fan or heatsync, just a bare chip, so it'd lock up when running a graphics intensive game. I had to buy a GPU fan to stick on it to make it run stable, I remember having other problems with it as well, but I can't remember what they were, but I do specifically remember vowing to never buy a creative graphics card again, part of the problem might have been that is WAS just an mx card, but it soured me enough to no longer like creative. Oh yeah, waiting in line to download a driver wasn't fun, IF you could even weave your way through the maze that was creative's website. (things may have changed by now)
The place I've found that's good for graphics card shopping (or any other computer related product) is http://newegg.com/ (not affilated, blah blah blah), there's reviews for each product there, as long as you take it with a grain of salt, it's a good resource. If it's a crappy product, people will let you know. I'm also weary of products with very little reviews, meaning it's unpopular for whatever reason or just too new for anyone to have an opinion yet. I've been looking at a few things there and turned around and ran because more than one person said, "This card is noisy as hell", or "this dvd burner drive doesn't like certain media", etc.
Weird, I JUST ran vcool and fvcool on my systems, an XP 2600+ running winxp and a 1.33 ghz Athlon running Linux. Both dropped in temp, 8 deg c and 22! deg C respectively. And I have the graphs to prove it. :)
Can you tell when I started running fvcool? BTW, there's also vcool for windows, that's helping as well, although in windows, the temperature only dropped 7 deg C, not 21 deg C like my linux box.
:)
Thanks for the link, I always thought there was something about Athlon's that made them run unnecessarily hot.
I never knew about all this on-the-fly underclocking stuff until now. I think I might have to get a new machine to help cool down this room some more and save some power. And heck, I'm a java developer so anything to reduce compile times would definitely be a plus. :)
:)
It gets rather hot in here with my Athlon 1.33ghz and my Athlon XP 2600+ running. Replacing a 19" CRT with an LCD flat panel helped tons... Now I need to get rid of my 21" CRT as well.
Do the latest 32-bit Athlon XP chips support on-the-fly underclocking, or is that an Athlon 64 only feature?
I dunno if I believe this. My Linux box has a 1.33ghz Athlon in it. It runs quite a bit hotter if I'm compiling something or doing something else cpu intensive. My temperature graphs show this. I haven't tested it on my Windows XP machine tho, so maybe it's a Windows problem?
No, it wasn't kind of funny.
I believe Keck meant funny strange, not funny haha. No one's argueing the bomb threats weren't a waste of everyone's time.
Ok, I'll bite.
Cygwin is fairly nice now. I run another machine with linux on it, but that doesn't help me in windows. Ever try the windows search for seaching text in files? I don't know what it is, but it's unreliable and rarely works for me. Installing cygwin and using grep is nice. Sure there's native port of grep for windows. But the syntax is all funky and most don't support recursion.
Sometimes I'd rather use an environment I'm more used to. I'd rather have my computer work for me instead of against me.
Heh, I was having the same problem. I just gave up.
Actually, it was ftpfs and then lufs that I used. Sounds like they have or had similar problems.
That's really too bad. I tried shfs probably at least 3 years ago or so. I had similar problems. I tried reporting bugs about it, went back and forth a bit, trying new versions as new versions came out with supposed fixes which never quite resolved it. I eventually just lost interest and ended up using something else. There were also some permission problems, it's been awhile now, I can't remember exactly what the problem was but I remember being very frustrated and losing data. (test data mind you). It was also suggested not to "push it" opening too many files at once, another stipulation that made it useless to me. What's pushing it, accessing 2 files at once? 3? 4?
It's just a domain name. I happen to hate dashes in them, apparently so does Wal-Mart.
Browsing around their site, they spell it Wal-Mart in print. The domain name is without the dash, and obviously no with an asterisk either. Their logo on the other hand is WAL*MART. I'm sure someone's probably gone over their site with a fine tooth comb making sure these things are consistent.