those "iffy" specs are almost identical to my desktop machine (only difference being NVidia MX4000 (128MB) and 768MB sys ram), which I use daily to develop on compiz. As for games, yeah, it isn't the fastest, but I don't play modern games much (no $), and for older games its ok, I can even run Second Life's linux client decently (though it is a bit laggy in places)
**DISCLAIMER** I'm QuinnStorm of Compiz infamy **DISCLAIMER**
Speaking of 3d desktops and the like, there are some benefits to transparent windows and such. I have found my workflow to be a good bit faster ever since I started using compiz. Of course, yes, lots of effects are just "fun", but what using the GPU for your desktop can do is really make things "feel" better. If the effects are carefully thought out, and of course tunable to one's tastes, they don't get in the way, and instead actually help. Ugh, this post is coming out all sideways...well, I hope you all understand what I meant.
Actually, because you can get 'virtual' money in exchange for 'real' money, its not anywhere near that simple. Do you feel bad making money in the 'real' world for the same reasons? Of course we all feel that in the world around us people deserve some basic standard of living, and that's one thing, but we all know there's enough excess around that its okay to actually make a little bit of money.
Most people I know like single-player game cheats, and cheats for multi-player-single-console (non-networked) party type games, because both usually allow more freedom in enjoying the game (eliminate tedious "unlocking", give new options, etc.)
Hey they couldn't do worse than some of VIA's offerings (nah, I kid, I am just fed up with having an "agp 4x" board that can only do 2x because someone forgot to measure the load-drop on a line to the agp port......not to mention other weird issues.)
Actually if your job can be parted out into parallel batches that only have to sync every so often, rather than being a heavily multithreaded job, it will probably run fine on that system. Basically its just a design consideration, you have to take into account the limited bandwidth when coding your app, and emphasize doing work in chunks, and probably staggering the chunks so that the control app can aggregate the results without waiting
Become? Unfortunately, for at least most of modern history (I'm not completely sure about before about 1900 or so), we've been fighting day by day to become less repressive, however recently we've taken about ten big steps backwards in this fight, and it is indeed a dark day. Don't count liberty out yet, there are many of us left who still believe it is possible, and who will fight for it.
btw, that inheritance+polymorphism "mess" is what powers gtk, not defending or attacking, just stating. Probably a totally different implementation too.
As someone who has done a lot of programming in SDL, yes it has an input layer that is fairly good, integrated into the main SDL event loop. The major missing piece as far as myself and my fellow developers are concerned is a library for mapping SDL input events to some sort of internal game events (control customization). Eventually we plan to write one, but we are...lazy.
Not to mention it sounds very much like this channel is attempting to be an "open forum" which of course would attract viewpoints that one might not agree with. Consider the shows on American TV we watch to laugh at the "extremists" spouting their "nonsense", would you rather those be taken off the air too?
Well, I know this sounds odd, but, if the device has decently rechargable batteries and a tiny adapter, it'd be relatively easy to plug it in often (while in use) so that unless you actually read like 6 whole novels in a day (even I can't do that, though I can do like two), you probably won't wear the battery out before you get to plug it in
Actually legislation doesn't even enter into it most likely. Its all because of the cartel nature of the entertainment industry. If the RIAA got angry enough with XM, they'd simply pull any possibility for them to license the music to broadcast in the first place, thereby signaling a death sentence for XM (most likely).
To me, the nice part of gmail threading (though not nice enough to get me to use its over my centralized sylpheed-claws-gtk2 setup) is that the it includes sent messages, which is a very nice touch on lists that stupidly don't echo your messages back to you (and have no option to turn that on). I just wish gmail would realize that POP is far less sensible for them to support than IMAP since with their never-really-delete system, IMAP is more what it is anyway.
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Wow...not that Gnome has ever been slow on my machine, but KDE has never been slow for me. I currently use ion3 because I've gotten addicted to keyboard-manipulation, but I love KDE for its usability and configurability. Now, as for the slowness, my machine is almost identical to yours in power (original Athlon at 1.2GHz, 768 MB ram (though I used KDE on 512)). I don't recall ever having slowness issues except when I tried window transparency but that wasn't KDE's fault (that was poor graphics drivers & immature X code). If you could perhaps reply with some more information on your situation I could help you out? My e-mail should be visible if you'd rather not reply here.
Yes, NTFS supports that, they call them "streams" IIRC. You would just have to be sure to make sure all the streams went with the file, which is -not- the default behaviour on anything but ntfs-to-ntfs or ntfs-via-cifs-to-ntfs copies. (I'm pretty sure about the second one)
Yeah I much prefer VNV to IoC so I'm not surprised I didn't recognize them. I also agree that translation ruins music in most cases. I want to learn like...every language, so I can properly understand music.
Not all of it is that...strange...in fact I don't even recognize those lyrics. Some stuff from more recent albums (as that sounds like it might have been off of Advance and Follow)
I believe that we'll conceive
to make in hell for us a heaven.
The sound you are hearing
Is the symphony of what we are
Revelation will not come
With heart and mind closed and divided
Brighter than all the stars combined
More than the waters, Earth, and sky
All that I wish and all that I dream No creed on Earth can replace or provide
In my darkest hour, the comfort I'd feel
Leading me to see I can be more than I expect of me
Maybe my comprehension of spoken(sung?) language sucks but I prefer having the lyrics, it really helps me understand what an artist is trying to communicate, and among other things it makes it a lot easier to read the subtext involved. This is especially helpful in the case of a "rock opera" type "concept" album (one example is Green Day's "American Idiot", another from another area is VNV Nation's "Matter+Form")
I think the truth is that, in a very "real" way, ads really are "magic". More specifically, advertising is all about image and concept, there is nothing at all "concrete" about it. Yeah you can track what ads seem to "work" but that still doesn't explain why they work or maybe more importantly how they work.
Admittedly we only use MAC filtering to restrict our network as opposed to WEP/WPA (though WPA mostly worked with wpa_supplicant/etc.), but in general we have had NO wireless-related problems with our network. The only real problems we'd had were with weird firmware issues on our wireless router. Again, admittedly, we are on "channel" 11, and the only other APs around here are on 6 (all 3 of them!) but we are really having no major issues with it. We routinely get the full 54MBps, and at the moment, if I can trust the ndiswrapper reading, my signal ratings are: Signal level:-73 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm. My wireless equipment seems capable of receiving the signal all throughout the house, though as the laptop recently died, I can't really test -everywhere-, I just use a desktop in a fixed location mostly (as opposed to drilling holes and running cable in our 100 year old house).
If you are being serious, CoLinux is a far better answer for running linux under windows than vmware. It runs at near-native speed, using essentially a port of UserMode Linux to Win32 (it runs as an NT service)
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I believe it works in unstable, as I am running unstable and have kde 3.4.3-1, and the reason for the problems, btw, is a transition to a new C++ abi
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those "iffy" specs are almost identical to my desktop machine (only difference being NVidia MX4000 (128MB) and 768MB sys ram), which I use daily to develop on compiz. As for games, yeah, it isn't the fastest, but I don't play modern games much (no $), and for older games its ok, I can even run Second Life's linux client decently (though it is a bit laggy in places)
**DISCLAIMER** I'm QuinnStorm of Compiz infamy **DISCLAIMER**
Speaking of 3d desktops and the like, there are some benefits to transparent windows and such. I have found my workflow to be a good bit faster ever since I started using compiz. Of course, yes, lots of effects are just "fun", but what using the GPU for your desktop can do is really make things "feel" better. If the effects are carefully thought out, and of course tunable to one's tastes, they don't get in the way, and instead actually help. Ugh, this post is coming out all sideways...well, I hope you all understand what I meant.
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Actually, because you can get 'virtual' money in exchange for 'real' money, its not anywhere near that simple. Do you feel bad making money in the 'real' world for the same reasons? Of course we all feel that in the world around us people deserve some basic standard of living, and that's one thing, but we all know there's enough excess around that its okay to actually make a little bit of money.
Most people I know like single-player game cheats, and cheats for multi-player-single-console (non-networked) party type games, because both usually allow more freedom in enjoying the game (eliminate tedious "unlocking", give new options, etc.)
Hey they couldn't do worse than some of VIA's offerings (nah, I kid, I am just fed up with having an "agp 4x" board that can only do 2x because someone forgot to measure the load-drop on a line to the agp port......not to mention other weird issues.)
methinks the gpp just agrees with Cartman about hippies.
These are rear-projection type screens, not front, so there's no shadow.
Actually if your job can be parted out into parallel batches that only have to sync every so often, rather than being a heavily multithreaded job, it will probably run fine on that system. Basically its just a design consideration, you have to take into account the limited bandwidth when coding your app, and emphasize doing work in chunks, and probably staggering the chunks so that the control app can aggregate the results without waiting
Become? Unfortunately, for at least most of modern history (I'm not completely sure about before about 1900 or so), we've been fighting day by day to become less repressive, however recently we've taken about ten big steps backwards in this fight, and it is indeed a dark day. Don't count liberty out yet, there are many of us left who still believe it is possible, and who will fight for it.
btw, that inheritance+polymorphism "mess" is what powers gtk, not defending or attacking, just stating. Probably a totally different implementation too.
As someone who has done a lot of programming in SDL, yes it has an input layer that is fairly good, integrated into the main SDL event loop. The major missing piece as far as myself and my fellow developers are concerned is a library for mapping SDL input events to some sort of internal game events (control customization). Eventually we plan to write one, but we are...lazy.
Not to mention it sounds very much like this channel is attempting to be an "open forum" which of course would attract viewpoints that one might not agree with. Consider the shows on American TV we watch to laugh at the "extremists" spouting their "nonsense", would you rather those be taken off the air too?
Well, I know this sounds odd, but, if the device has decently rechargable batteries and a tiny adapter, it'd be relatively easy to plug it in often (while in use) so that unless you actually read like 6 whole novels in a day (even I can't do that, though I can do like two), you probably won't wear the battery out before you get to plug it in
Actually legislation doesn't even enter into it most likely. Its all because of the cartel nature of the entertainment industry. If the RIAA got angry enough with XM, they'd simply pull any possibility for them to license the music to broadcast in the first place, thereby signaling a death sentence for XM (most likely).
To me, the nice part of gmail threading (though not nice enough to get me to use its over my centralized sylpheed-claws-gtk2 setup) is that the it includes sent messages, which is a very nice touch on lists that stupidly don't echo your messages back to you (and have no option to turn that on). I just wish gmail would realize that POP is far less sensible for them to support than IMAP since with their never-really-delete system, IMAP is more what it is anyway.
Wow...not that Gnome has ever been slow on my machine, but KDE has never been slow for me. I currently use ion3 because I've gotten addicted to keyboard-manipulation, but I love KDE for its usability and configurability. Now, as for the slowness, my machine is almost identical to yours in power (original Athlon at 1.2GHz, 768 MB ram (though I used KDE on 512)). I don't recall ever having slowness issues except when I tried window transparency but that wasn't KDE's fault (that was poor graphics drivers & immature X code). If you could perhaps reply with some more information on your situation I could help you out? My e-mail should be visible if you'd rather not reply here.
Yes, NTFS supports that, they call them "streams" IIRC. You would just have to be sure to make sure all the streams went with the file, which is -not- the default behaviour on anything but ntfs-to-ntfs or ntfs-via-cifs-to-ntfs copies. (I'm pretty sure about the second one)
Despite her being too thin, I always preferred the pale chick in...well...really a dress made of straps...she was far sexier
Yeah I much prefer VNV to IoC so I'm not surprised I didn't recognize them. I also agree that translation ruins music in most cases. I want to learn like...every language, so I can properly understand music.
Not all of it is that...strange...in fact I don't even recognize those lyrics. Some stuff from more recent albums (as that sounds like it might have been off of Advance and Follow)
I believe that we'll conceive
to make in hell for us a heaven.
The sound you are hearing
Is the symphony of what we are
Revelation will not come
With heart and mind closed and divided
Brighter than all the stars combined
More than the waters, Earth, and sky
All that I wish and all that I dream
No creed on Earth can replace or provide
In my darkest hour, the comfort I'd feel
Leading me to see I can be more than I expect of me
Maybe my comprehension of spoken(sung?) language sucks but I prefer having the lyrics, it really helps me understand what an artist is trying to communicate, and among other things it makes it a lot easier to read the subtext involved. This is especially helpful in the case of a "rock opera" type "concept" album (one example is Green Day's "American Idiot", another from another area is VNV Nation's "Matter+Form")
I think the truth is that, in a very "real" way, ads really are "magic". More specifically, advertising is all about image and concept, there is nothing at all "concrete" about it. Yeah you can track what ads seem to "work" but that still doesn't explain why they work or maybe more importantly how they work.
Admittedly we only use MAC filtering to restrict our network as opposed to WEP/WPA (though WPA mostly worked with wpa_supplicant/etc.), but in general we have had NO wireless-related problems with our network. The only real problems we'd had were with weird firmware issues on our wireless router. Again, admittedly, we are on "channel" 11, and the only other APs around here are on 6 (all 3 of them!) but we are really having no major issues with it. We routinely get the full 54MBps, and at the moment, if I can trust the ndiswrapper reading, my signal ratings are: Signal level:-73 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm. My wireless equipment seems capable of receiving the signal all throughout the house, though as the laptop recently died, I can't really test -everywhere-, I just use a desktop in a fixed location mostly (as opposed to drilling holes and running cable in our 100 year old house).
If you are being serious, CoLinux is a far better answer for running linux under windows than vmware. It runs at near-native speed, using essentially a port of UserMode Linux to Win32 (it runs as an NT service)
I believe it works in unstable, as I am running unstable and have kde 3.4.3-1, and the reason for the problems, btw, is a transition to a new C++ abi