that the Wifi had been turned off for most of the./ community's English 101 class. Jesus Christ! then/than your/you're has/is... stuff they taught me in 6th grade! And these are the people screaming right here, right now, that it's the profisors(sic) job to intertain(sic) them!
who here actually USES the client-server capabilities of X? Apart from a small bunch of people, I presume almost none.
In fact, I use it, and so do a growing number of schools and businesses as a way to recycle old hardware and limit administration headaches. IceWM on my little P133 16Mb RAM X Term takes about 10 seconds from ON to autologin... slow because it's got a 10mb NIC. It runs OO.o Moz 1.2.1 and Gimp 1.2.3, all at the speed of the server. This makes it easy and profitable. Dropping the server client aspect of X11 would be really silly as people in your country ready themselves for a touch screen with network sound in every room.
I tell this story all the time, whenever there's some talk about my primary school life (I'm now in my mid thirties). I was teased and taunted, sometimes beaten, for being a "queer" in elementary school in TX and OK, all because I played with girls during recess.
My first memory (and I know that it's mine, because no one has ever told me a story about it, unlike my earlier memories) is of a girl. It was before I moved from TX to CA when I was 1.5 years old.
She was a little mexican looking girl, and I thought to myself that I liked her, in a prepubescent sexual kind of way. I have never seen a home movie of the incident or anything, so I am pretty sure it really exists.
As a side note, I never went through the I don't like girls phase about 6-10 years old. I liked and actively sought a girlfriend from my first memory until now. My sex drive was so strong that I had to move to Thailand to fill it...heheh
You might try this. OPL/OCL... Can you say free as in freedom? I just found it this week, and looks innovative, but I haven't played an RPG since 1986, so wouldn't really know. Anyone up for a game in the BKK area? My house is fine...
Well..your just triing to show you're superialority (hows that word, huh?) by bring in that complacated word. Sheesh...jerks...
mods...yes, this is a joke, offtopic OK, flamebait/troll not:)
Faux pas for replying to myself, but I want to apologize that there are really no English web pages to read, and that all the links were in Thai, but, hey, This is Thailand (TIT), and the English here is really poor, which is what keeps me in business.:) If you get really tired of having (or not having) a job in IT, and can differentiate there and their, look us up over here.
Anyone who has been here for a long time has seen my posts about Thailand, but I'll summarize what's happening here, and it's big.
You see linux desktops and laptops in almost every computer store. All top five domestic brands, including BeltaLiberta and Laser ( I can't find a link), use it for their lower models. It is always the same, the National Electronics and Computer Technology (NECTEC) organization of Thailand's own Linux TLE, a Red Hat based distibution that has had Thai language support and translations added to virtually every application.
Since November,the new releases come with version 4.1R2, which is touted as "Professional," and includes OfficeTLE, an OO.o variant which includes such difficult to program features as a Thai word parser, because Thai uses no spaces between words. It, in my opinion, outshines Sun's Pladao Office, which translates as "Starfish." The menus for Pladao are all in Thai, but the OfficeTLE menus are in English. Books for both litter the bookstore shelves in prominant places.
NECTEC also has a venerable serverdistribution, SIS (can't find the link), which stands for School Internet Server, and connects primary, secondary, and tertiary(?) schools to their SchoolNet, a free internet and information sharing operation.
Free Software is kicking here in Thailand.
For other perks, see my sig.
There's no official number but far more than half of the MS installs are pirated.
Here in Thailand, the gov't estimates that over 97% of all software is pirated. I wonder why MS ever bothers to do a local language version...
I can't believe what I'm reading today. I really cannot.
You need to stop reading at -1...;)
Seriously, while Slashdot is filled with narrowminded people, I'm willing to bet that most of the responses that sicken you are merely well crafted trolls. That in itself is cause for alarm, but know that many of these same post were not heartfelt.
DB
It is unbelievable that this metaphor is still modded as off-topic, after how many hours? It is obviously a reference to agreeing to one thing, then finding something better and changing your mind. Kind of like what MS did, huh? Totally lacks fairness. Now I'm off-topic, but screw it.
if sites like Freshmeat and Sourceforge were set-up more like cnet's download.com we would see more people
Start them off like I did, five plus years ago, with Tucows, and absolutely disgusting, but cnet, style site.
If Panthip Plaza can stay open year after year after year after year
F*** Panthip... do yourself a favor and go to Zeer Ransit or the IT mall in Future Park, for God's sake! The traffic is 10% of Pathip Plaza.
As the rock group Loso sings... ja mai pai Panthip (We won't go to Panthip)
Are you serious? Cause it was just my ramblings at midnight about an hour after it took place. I tried to submit more the next day, even hotter, but phoenix hung near the end, and I was too lazy to retype. By the time I had a chance the next day, we had made love three times and I was confusing the sessions...
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(there is also a free project similar to vmware, called plex86, I think). Plexwas dead, man. But long live plex! It had the goal of replacing VMWare, but Kevin Lawton lost his job at Mandrake, I believe, and it was orphaned for about a year, but it is now being developed by Rivnphnx at savannah.
Hope it gets on its feet again!
Dan
Tiny machines that fly like insects will soon be a reality.
That is the confident prediction of scientists who have just studied the remarkable aerobatics of the butterfly.
There is a lot of interest in this sort of thing from toy manufacturers
Dr Adrian LR Thomas
The two Oxford researchers put red admirals in a specially designed wind tunnel and used high-speed cameras to analyse how the animals moved through the air.
The results of the experiments, they say, represent a major advance in our understanding of flight mechanics on the small scale, and will be invaluable to engineers trying to build "micro air vehicles".
"There is a lot of interest in this sort of thing from toy manufacturers and, of course, the military," Dr Adrian LR Thomas told BBC News Online. "We are now moving in the direction where we will soon be able to build 10-centimetre-wingspan aircraft, either radio controlled or autonomous.
"They would make an entertaining toy but if you put a camera on them then the [security agencies] could send them into small spaces such as caves to see what was going on."
Effortless switch
Red admiral, Adrian LR Thomas
Wisps of smoke were blown over the wings
Dr Thomas has spent 12 years studying insect aerodynamics. The wind tunnel used in the butterfly experiments took three years to construct and fine tune.
With help of Dr Robert Srygley, red admirals (Vanessa atalanta) were trained to fly freely to and from artificial flowers in the tunnel. Wisps of smoke were blown over the insects' wings to see how they interacted with the air.
The visible turbulence was caught on an ultra-fast digital camera.
"The fluttering of butterflies is not a random, erratic wandering, but results from the mastery of a wide array of aerodynamic mechanisms," Srygley and Thomas report in the journal Nature.
They identified six different ways the butterflies flapped and rotated their wings to stay airborne. The insects moved effortlessly through the different mechanisms "much like a horse might switch between walking, trotting and galloping depending on what it wanted to do," Dr Thomas said.
BBCi Nature
Click here for facts about red admirals
Much to learn
The researchers found the insects could, at times, fly very efficiently, producing very little turbulence. On other occasions, the red admirals' wings deliberately created vortices to achieve extra lift.
"We saw conventional aircraft-style aerodynamics, two different kinds of leading-edge vortices, rotational mechanisms, wake-capture mechanisms and the so-called clap and fling."
It is known that insect wings produce 10 times the amount of lift achieved by aircraft wings (per unit of area).
Building tiny planes that were just scaled-down versions of the real thing would never get off the ground.
It is only by mimicking the insect world that micro air vehicles will get airborne efficiently. And while miniaturisation experiments are progressing fast, engineers confess they still have much to learn from the animal world.
Somehow, I think that we are a long from using these as a weapons delivery system, but the ability to ride an updraft with little power used on flight would be several times that of gliders.
IANAAE (I am not an aeronautical engineer), but I assume that something like this can be easily solved by scaling up the wings, without the body. After all, many insects fly to several km high, and is how almost all of the insects got to Hawaii, where I am from.
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I suspected that was what you meant, but LTSP gives great flexibility in booting, and everything sits in RAM after that. With 16Mb, I never have a problem. I know several people, however, who prefer your method. It just makes one more point of failure and something else that I need to reinstall.
OpenMosix on LTSP is quite easy to implement and there is even a How-To. I have done it myself. If you purchase thin clients as PCs with no local media, you end up with an overpowered client. The people on the mailing list all agree that it should help the server, but no one has seen or shown any hard numbers for this. Bottom line: if your network and clients are both underused, it can't hurt.
At home, I have seven clients which are all P133s (integrated everything for about US$17 each) and one server which is a duron 850 256 Mb RAM. I used to have a Celeron 550 Mosixed to it on a crossover, but the RAM failed, and I never really saw any peformance hit, so I didn't fix it.
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that the Wifi had been turned off for most of the ./ community's English 101 class. Jesus Christ! then/than your/you're has/is ... stuff they taught me in 6th grade! And these are the people screaming right here, right now, that it's the profisors(sic) job to intertain(sic) them!
This wouldn't be Thailand, would it? There are several reasons why that would be so... mostly it's goverment policy.
who here actually USES the client-server capabilities of X? Apart from a small bunch of people, I presume almost none.
In fact, I use it, and so do a growing number of schools and businesses as a way to recycle old hardware and limit administration headaches. IceWM on my little P133 16Mb RAM X Term takes about 10 seconds from ON to autologin... slow because it's got a 10mb NIC. It runs OO.o Moz 1.2.1 and Gimp 1.2.3, all at the speed of the server.
This makes it easy and profitable. Dropping the server client aspect of X11 would be really silly as people in your country ready themselves for a touch screen with network sound in every room.
Sounds like a great partner to these.
Comments?
I tell this story all the time, whenever there's some talk about my primary school life (I'm now in my mid thirties). I was teased and taunted, sometimes beaten, for being a "queer" in elementary school in TX and OK, all because I played with girls during recess.
My first memory (and I know that it's mine, because no one has ever told me a story about it, unlike my earlier memories) is of a girl. It was before I moved from TX to CA when I was 1.5 years old.
She was a little mexican looking girl, and I thought to myself that I liked her, in a prepubescent sexual kind of way. I have never seen a home movie of the incident or anything, so I am pretty sure it really exists.
As a side note, I never went through the I don't like girls phase about 6-10 years old. I liked and actively sought a girlfriend from my first memory until now. My sex drive was so strong that I had to move to Thailand to fill it...heheh
You might try this. OPL/OCL ... Can you say free as in freedom? I just found it this week, and looks innovative, but I haven't played an RPG since 1986, so wouldn't really know. Anyone up for a game in the BKK area? My house is fine...
Well..your just triing to show you're superialority (hows that word, huh?) by bring in that complacated word. Sheesh...jerks... mods...yes, this is a joke, offtopic OK, flamebait/troll not:)
Oh, yeah, and sorry for "prominant" and "serverdistro." Preview, huh? ...
Faux pas for replying to myself, but I want to apologize that there are really no English web pages to read, and that all the links were in Thai, but, hey, This is Thailand (TIT), and the English here is really poor, which is what keeps me in business. :) If you get really tired of having (or not having) a job in IT, and can differentiate there and their, look us up over here.
Anyone who has been here for a long time has seen my posts about Thailand, but I'll summarize what's happening here, and it's big.
You see linux desktops and laptops in almost every computer store. All top five domestic brands, including Belta Liberta and Laser ( I can't find a link), use it for their lower models. It is always the same, the National Electronics and Computer Technology (NECTEC) organization of Thailand's own Linux TLE, a Red Hat based distibution that has had Thai language support and translations added to virtually every application.
Since November,the new releases come with version 4.1R2, which is touted as "Professional," and includes OfficeTLE, an OO.o variant which includes such difficult to program features as a Thai word parser, because Thai uses no spaces between words. It, in my opinion, outshines Sun's Pladao Office, which translates as "Starfish." The menus for Pladao are all in Thai, but the OfficeTLE menus are in English. Books for both litter the bookstore shelves in prominant places.
NECTEC also has a venerable serverdistribution, SIS (can't find the link), which stands for School Internet Server, and connects primary, secondary, and tertiary(?) schools to their SchoolNet, a free internet and information sharing operation.
Free Software is kicking here in Thailand.
For other perks, see my sig.
There's no official number but far more than half of the MS installs are pirated.
Here in Thailand, the gov't estimates that over 97% of all software is pirated. I wonder why MS ever bothers to do a local language version...
I can't believe what I'm reading today. I really cannot.
You need to stop reading at -1...;)
Seriously, while Slashdot is filled with narrowminded people, I'm willing to bet that most of the responses that sicken you are merely well crafted trolls. That in itself is cause for alarm, but know that many of these same post were not heartfelt. DB
It is unbelievable that this metaphor is still modded as off-topic, after how many hours? It is obviously a reference to agreeing to one thing, then finding something better and changing your mind. Kind of like what MS did, huh? Totally lacks fairness. Now I'm off-topic, but screw it.
if sites like Freshmeat and Sourceforge were set-up more like cnet's download.com we would see more people
Start them off like I did, five plus years ago, with Tucows, and absolutely disgusting, but cnet, style site.
If Panthip Plaza can stay open year after year after year after year
F*** Panthip... do yourself a favor and go to Zeer Ransit or the IT mall in Future Park, for God's sake! The traffic is 10% of Pathip Plaza. As the rock group Loso sings... ja mai pai Panthip (We won't go to Panthip)
Are you serious? Cause it was just my ramblings at midnight about an hour after it took place. I tried to submit more the next day, even hotter, but phoenix hung near the end, and I was too lazy to retype. By the time I had a chance the next day, we had made love three times and I was confusing the sessions...
(there is also a free project similar to vmware, called plex86, I think).
Plex was dead, man. But long live plex! It had the goal of replacing VMWare, but Kevin Lawton lost his job at Mandrake, I believe, and it was orphaned for about a year, but it is now being developed by Rivnphnx at savannah.
Hope it gets on its feet again! Dan
All I know is it took me six clicks to get a response from their server... so I posted it.
My...name...is...Neo
Now that we've got that settled...
Next, he be sweaty and breathless while flying over stage. Would that be better?
Tiny machines that fly like insects will soon be a reality. That is the confident prediction of scientists who have just studied the remarkable aerobatics of the butterfly. There is a lot of interest in this sort of thing from toy manufacturers Dr Adrian LR Thomas The two Oxford researchers put red admirals in a specially designed wind tunnel and used high-speed cameras to analyse how the animals moved through the air. The results of the experiments, they say, represent a major advance in our understanding of flight mechanics on the small scale, and will be invaluable to engineers trying to build "micro air vehicles". "There is a lot of interest in this sort of thing from toy manufacturers and, of course, the military," Dr Adrian LR Thomas told BBC News Online. "We are now moving in the direction where we will soon be able to build 10-centimetre-wingspan aircraft, either radio controlled or autonomous. "They would make an entertaining toy but if you put a camera on them then the [security agencies] could send them into small spaces such as caves to see what was going on." Effortless switch Red admiral, Adrian LR Thomas Wisps of smoke were blown over the wings Dr Thomas has spent 12 years studying insect aerodynamics. The wind tunnel used in the butterfly experiments took three years to construct and fine tune. With help of Dr Robert Srygley, red admirals (Vanessa atalanta) were trained to fly freely to and from artificial flowers in the tunnel. Wisps of smoke were blown over the insects' wings to see how they interacted with the air. The visible turbulence was caught on an ultra-fast digital camera. "The fluttering of butterflies is not a random, erratic wandering, but results from the mastery of a wide array of aerodynamic mechanisms," Srygley and Thomas report in the journal Nature. They identified six different ways the butterflies flapped and rotated their wings to stay airborne. The insects moved effortlessly through the different mechanisms "much like a horse might switch between walking, trotting and galloping depending on what it wanted to do," Dr Thomas said. BBCi Nature Click here for facts about red admirals Much to learn The researchers found the insects could, at times, fly very efficiently, producing very little turbulence. On other occasions, the red admirals' wings deliberately created vortices to achieve extra lift. "We saw conventional aircraft-style aerodynamics, two different kinds of leading-edge vortices, rotational mechanisms, wake-capture mechanisms and the so-called clap and fling." It is known that insect wings produce 10 times the amount of lift achieved by aircraft wings (per unit of area). Building tiny planes that were just scaled-down versions of the real thing would never get off the ground. It is only by mimicking the insect world that micro air vehicles will get airborne efficiently. And while miniaturisation experiments are progressing fast, engineers confess they still have much to learn from the animal world.
Somehow, I think that we are a long from using these as a weapons delivery system, but the ability to ride an updraft with little power used on flight would be several times that of gliders.
IANAAE (I am not an aeronautical engineer), but I assume that something like this can be easily solved by scaling up the wings, without the body. After all, many insects fly to several km high, and is how almost all of the insects got to Hawaii, where I am from.
I suspected that was what you meant, but LTSP gives great flexibility in booting, and everything sits in RAM after that. With 16Mb, I never have a problem. I know several people, however, who prefer your method. It just makes one more point of failure and something else that I need to reinstall.
OpenMosix on LTSP is quite easy to implement and there is even a How-To. I have done it myself. If you purchase thin clients as PCs with no local media, you end up with an overpowered client. The people on the mailing list all agree that it should help the server, but no one has seen or shown any hard numbers for this. Bottom line: if your network and clients are both underused, it can't hurt.
At home, I have seven clients which are all P133s (integrated everything for about US$17 each) and one server which is a duron 850 256 Mb RAM. I used to have a Celeron 550 Mosixed to it on a crossover, but the RAM failed, and I never really saw any peformance hit, so I didn't fix it.