They rarely pay of in the long run, and environmentally they aren't really the best shit around. Even if they are mercury (*insert favourite metal here*) free
seems to me you should hook up with a quality supplier that can provide the stability and guarantee you'll need to restock the cameras when needed.
Where I used to work, we defaulted to all canon equipment. From the Gx-series -> D-xx for stills and xl-1s for quick videos and stuff. This allowed us to share chargers and media between most of the items even though we changed models every now and then (g3 replaced g2 and so on)
Why not be smart and choose one camera (or probably one manufacturer) and stick with your choice. That way you can use the same charger, rack up extra batteries for people to take along etc.
Then charging won't be an issue as you can keep around ready charged batteries for swapping instead of having to wait for the battery to charge.
rotation doesn't really matter, as the rotation of the image only makes a difference when viewing the image, and not when trying to verify whether it's tampered with or not.
In courtrooms the image is probably gonna be printed too, so it'll matter even less..
swaret does provide some rudimentary dependency checking. IMO the lack of dependency has always been slackware's strength. It doens't force or suggest installation of packages you don't really need.
Gentoo IMO isn't an alternative, neither is LFS. Both require masses of compiling, which in turn require loads of CPU-cycles and at least some ram. Slackware is IMO one of the few distros that really support tiny computers.
But on the whole slackware is starting to disappear as a desktop-distro for average joe schmoe. Partly because people keep saying it's only for powerusers ?
(posted on a P-II 350 running slackware-"current" with dpkg and apt put on top of it).
while I agree with most of your points, I question the reliability of your tests. If you compared like with like, ie. not oranges and apples you should have gotten the same framerates. Which distro you use shouldn't determine which speed cross-distro software run at. It comes down to which kernel-version, software-version and functionality compiled in (and compile target) used. Not which distro.
Strange, I've seen n00bs install both gentoo and debian in less than 2 days. I guess I must count myself lucky to be surrounded by such skilled n00bs.;-).
Software coredumping out of the box is hardly a fault of the distro, but the software. While the distro is "responsible" for providing the software they are usually not responsible for the stability of the individual software packages they provide.
You're simply asking to much. It's like blaming Microsoft for all the crashes that occur in windows. A lot of them is probably related to poor drivers and misc. non-ms software. Don't kill the messenger, kill the source;-).
While FreeBSD-stable is stable is seriously trailing in parts of hardware support, and FreeBSD 5 is pretty much far from stable in my experience.
I wouldn't really say that Debian has lost marketshare compared to 1997. It's not just a simple comparasion. In 1997 there weren't as many distros as there is today, and Microsoft was a viable choice. So all things considered Debian is bigger today than it was in 1997, so I'd say it has increased it's relative-markedshare.
Sparc's have positive sides too, and further what's the point of ditching perfectly good hardware capable of doing a good job. It's not all about the number of gigahertz and gigabytes of RAM anymore. There are several tasks that require stability and durability rather than speed. Sparc hardware (at least parts of it) has a much better trackrecord when it comes to durability. I wouldn't trust my life to a cheap intel(or similar) computer, I'd rather trust my life to a Sparc-based one and most of us do several times a day. (even if we know it or not)
Further having a distro and package-system that scales well to several architectures just shows that there is a lean-mean-working system behind the distro, if the distro can't handle having X architectures updated it might be a guideline to this distro being understaffed or other latent problems. (of course to be taken with a grain of salt as most distros rely on non-paid work)
This survey kind-of depends on distros putting their name visible in the apache version string, something slackware doesn't. I for one manage a couple of slackware servers, some of them running apache with public reachable sites.
However slackware, is to put it in slashdot-terms, dying. I still love it because of the ease of use and how easy it is to mold into what you want it to be. I even managed to convice the phb at my previous employment to commit to slackware instead of more "commercial" and buzzword distros like redhat et al.
Unless swaret or other apt-ish application turns into a huge thing, I guess slackware will remain a distro for people with special needs. It's just not simple enough anymore to go out and look for packages or even compiling your self when all you friends are typing "apt-get install blah" and that sorts everything out.
With signed-debs the security argument doesn't really hold anymore, and gentoo (with other deficits) provides pretty much custom-compiled applications the custom-compiled argument doesn't hold anymore.
It's finally a matter of taste rather than functionality.
Hopefully it'll increase the intelligence of internet-users. Just try this one, fill in the missing word, the sentence borrowed from the latest pieces of spam in my inbox:
That method is already in use by several sites that get paid by the number of ad-clicks. To make *dead sure* that the patrons click the banners you have to fill in a missing word in a sentence collected from the banner-site or the 3rd word etc to get into the site.
It's pretty lame, and I guess most ad-agencies frown upon it as the clickers aren't really producing any business..
I'd say opera is pretty crossplatform, too. Not as free as mozilla/netscape, but it's beginning to emerge as the true and only choice for smartphones and communicators/PDAs.
So I guess it's only a matter of time before IE-junkies realizes that it might be smart to check out their shit in browsers that doesn't make up their own standard as they go along
oss being an acronym for open source software, whether the drivers are based on OSS or ALSA I don't really care as long as they work. Of course ALSA being the sound of the future so it would be better to have ALSA drivers, but I guess as long as one is released (and okay specs are avail.) it shan't take too long before somebody ports them to what ever is the modern state of sound-drivers.
who sends such large files via email, it seems retarted to me as encoding them in MIME (or uu, et al) increases the file size by a significant part. Why not use protocols better suited for exchanging files, especially those that support resume etc.
It's not dead is easy for any joe-schmoe to find any song he likes, so in many cases it'll be quicker to find stuff on iTunes.
Further some people have ethics or something (i dunno) and actually prefer to pay the artist for their contribution. (or they just don't like breaking laws... you choose)
It's probably because your netadmins want the bandwidth to themselves. Nothing is more annoying than some luser consuming all the bandwidth when you really want the last rar-archive of the latest release
And you don't have to get around the chicken and egg problem of paying for Photoshop. How can you pay for it if you need the software to produce the money you intend to use for paying;-)
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They rarely pay of in the long run, and environmentally they aren't really the best shit around. Even if they are mercury (*insert favourite metal here*) free
seems to me you should hook up with a quality supplier that can provide the stability and guarantee you'll need to restock the cameras when needed.
Where I used to work, we defaulted to all canon equipment. From the Gx-series -> D-xx for stills and xl-1s for quick videos and stuff. This allowed us to share chargers and media between most of the items even though we changed models every now and then (g3 replaced g2 and so on)
Why not be smart and choose one camera (or probably one manufacturer) and stick with your choice. That way you can use the same charger, rack up extra batteries for people to take along etc.
Then charging won't be an issue as you can keep around ready charged batteries for swapping instead of having to wait for the battery to charge.
Who says you have to use ElGamal, and who says you have to use GnuPG.
There are several pretty good signing-algorithms around...
rotation doesn't really matter, as the rotation of the image only makes a difference when viewing the image, and not when trying to verify whether it's tampered with or not.
In courtrooms the image is probably gonna be printed too, so it'll matter even less..
I personally close my eyes when I sleep. I don't know about you, but shutting the old lids usually implies not being able to see anything.
swaret does provide some rudimentary dependency checking. IMO the lack of dependency has always been slackware's strength. It doens't force or suggest installation of packages you don't really need.
Gentoo IMO isn't an alternative, neither is LFS. Both require masses of compiling, which in turn require loads of CPU-cycles and at least some ram. Slackware is IMO one of the few distros that really support tiny computers.
But on the whole slackware is starting to disappear as a desktop-distro for average joe schmoe. Partly because people keep saying it's only for powerusers ?
(posted on a P-II 350 running slackware-"current" with dpkg and apt put on top of it).
while I agree with most of your points, I question the reliability of your tests. If you compared like with like, ie. not oranges and apples you should have gotten the same framerates.
Which distro you use shouldn't determine which speed cross-distro software run at. It comes down to which kernel-version, software-version and functionality compiled in (and compile target) used. Not which distro.
Strange, I've seen n00bs install both gentoo and debian in less than 2 days. ;-).
I guess I must count myself lucky to be surrounded by such skilled n00bs.
Software coredumping out of the box is hardly a fault of the distro, but the software.
;-).
While the distro is "responsible" for providing the software they are usually not responsible for the stability of the individual software packages they provide.
You're simply asking to much. It's like blaming Microsoft for all the crashes that occur in windows. A lot of them is probably related to poor drivers and misc. non-ms software.
Don't kill the messenger, kill the source
While FreeBSD-stable is stable is seriously trailing in parts of hardware support, and FreeBSD 5 is pretty much far from stable in my experience.
I wouldn't really say that Debian has lost marketshare compared to 1997. It's not just a simple comparasion. In 1997 there weren't as many distros as there is today, and Microsoft was a viable choice. So all things considered Debian is bigger today than it was in 1997, so I'd say it has increased it's relative-markedshare.
Sparc's have positive sides too, and further what's the point of ditching perfectly good hardware capable of doing a good job. It's not all about the number of gigahertz and gigabytes of RAM anymore. There are several tasks that require stability and durability rather than speed. Sparc hardware (at least parts of it) has a much better trackrecord when it comes to durability. I wouldn't trust my life to a cheap intel(or similar) computer, I'd rather trust my life to a Sparc-based one and most of us do several times a day. (even if we know it or not)
Further having a distro and package-system that scales well to several architectures just shows that there is a lean-mean-working system behind the distro, if the distro can't handle having X architectures updated it might be a guideline to this distro being understaffed or other latent problems. (of course to be taken with a grain of salt as most distros rely on non-paid work)
This survey kind-of depends on distros putting their name visible in the apache version string, something slackware doesn't.
I for one manage a couple of slackware servers, some of them running apache with public reachable sites.
However slackware, is to put it in slashdot-terms, dying. I still love it because of the ease of use and how easy it is to mold into what you want it to be. I even managed to convice the phb at my previous employment to commit to slackware instead of more "commercial" and buzzword distros like redhat et al.
Unless swaret or other apt-ish application turns into a huge thing, I guess slackware will remain a distro for people with special needs. It's just not simple enough anymore to go out and look for packages or even compiling your self when all you friends are typing "apt-get install blah" and that sorts everything out.
With signed-debs the security argument doesn't really hold anymore, and gentoo (with other deficits) provides pretty much custom-compiled applications the custom-compiled argument doesn't hold anymore.
It's finally a matter of taste rather than functionality.
Hopefully it'll increase the intelligence of internet-users.
Just try this one, fill in the missing word, the sentence borrowed from the latest pieces of spam in my inbox:
methuselah assistant constantine cryostat chisholm documentation civic conclude boxcar , sax vector courthouse argillaceous kit ______ disyllable infusion revelatory rabat jugate annex elector global commonality . [missing word: purify]
That method is already in use by several sites that get paid by the number of ad-clicks. To make *dead sure* that the patrons click the banners you have to fill in a missing word in a sentence collected from the banner-site or the 3rd word etc to get into the site.
It's pretty lame, and I guess most ad-agencies frown upon it as the clickers aren't really producing any business..
I'd say opera is pretty crossplatform, too. Not as free as mozilla/netscape, but it's beginning to emerge as the true and only choice for smartphones and communicators/PDAs.
So I guess it's only a matter of time before IE-junkies realizes that it might be smart to check out their shit in browsers that doesn't make up their own standard as they go along
oss being an acronym for open source software, whether the drivers are based on OSS or ALSA I don't really care as long as they work.
Of course ALSA being the sound of the future so it would be better to have ALSA drivers, but I guess as long as one is released (and okay specs are avail.) it shan't take too long before somebody ports them to what ever is the modern state of sound-drivers.
Does the royalty free license also imply that we'll see good opensource drivers for a plethora of platforms?
Is it just me or does the title of the article sound like another bayesian-poison spam?
who sends such large files via email, it seems retarted to me as encoding them in MIME (or uu, et al) increases the file size by a significant part. Why not use protocols better suited for exchanging files, especially those that support resume etc.
It's not dead is easy for any joe-schmoe to find any song he likes, so in many cases it'll be quicker to find stuff on iTunes.
Further some people have ethics or something (i dunno) and actually prefer to pay the artist for their contribution. (or they just don't like breaking laws... you choose)
and slashcode just beautifully removed my less-than sign, so I ment to say writing only on volumes created by windows versions earlier than 2k.
and IIRC it's also limited to writing only on volumes created by win2k.
Strange that most universities and large corporations operate their own "FTP-servers". I guess this piracy reach further than people think ;-)
Most of this entities even allow *anonymous* access.
It's probably because your netadmins want the bandwidth to themselves.
Nothing is more annoying than some luser consuming all the bandwidth when you really want the last rar-archive of the latest release
And you don't have to get around the chicken and egg problem of paying for Photoshop. How can you pay for it if you need the software to produce the money you intend to use for paying ;-)