Motorists and pedestrians in the vincinity of Presque Isle, Maine are warned to use caution and to observe all roadway warning signs. ("Jupiter Crossing", "Do Not Drive Into Rings", "Beware of Mars", etc.)
The sun should be pretty safe. It would be ~45ft in diameter, but it would just rotate and emit ~500 watts. (4*10^26W/((1/93,000,000)^3) = 497W
Bravo!!! Someone finally said the obvious instead of quoting dogma.
Usually when I bring up the point about running as root being of limited security value on a single user system, as well as a usability pain to the casual user, I usually get a bunch of condescending responses claiming that if I were an experienced administrator, I would understand the advantages of blah, blah, blah... And the thread usally ends up concluding that backups of user data are very important and everyone should do them. Which is very odd, because it's totally irrelevant to the original topic. Not sure why it always goes that way.;-)
Well, that's a possibility, of course. But, to me, this sounds more like a job for the Starship BistroMath. It'd take a hell of a lot of check pads though. (Not to mention *massive* parallel processing. they'd have to wait for a *very* busy night.) And it would not be very environmentally friendly, I suppose. But,then again, they could always recycle...
Well, you reveal here just how far behind the times your thinking is. The new Linux standard FS is ext3. Even your vaunted "Softupdates" which always seems to get brought up everytime the subject of journalling filesystems comes up can't touch ext3's full data journalling. (Can Softupdates make the same guarantees as a synchronously mounted filesystem without the performance penalty?) Even ext3's default data=ordered mode can make better guarantees with better performance. And then there's the whole (fine grained) SMP thing, the fact that Linux vm is now getting ready to catch up with and pass xBSD and, and, and...
BSD may not be dying, but it is certainly falling behind. How can it not? With the BSD license, anything that goes into BSD can be copied if desired, modified and put into Linux (or Windows) or whatever. I'm not saying that the BSD license is bad, but this is a consequence of it. xBSD was the king of Free unixes for years and Linux has come from way behind and passed it up in many areas and is about to pass it up in the rest.
Ever wonder why Linux gets all the press and no one outside of Unix circles even knows what BSD is? Is it some foul conspiracy? Or is there, perhaps, a valid reason?
Sorry for the rant, but seeing BSD mud slung at an area where Linux is now undeniably superior to the BSD's (and where BSD's lead was always rather dubious) irritates me just a bit.;-)
>LOTR stuff is prime geek bait, so you know that a large contingent of people with a nerdish bent will be scouring the net trying to find it.
This may be tangential, but has been on my mind lately. *Why* is LotR prime geek material? It has nothing that relates to science or technology. The only claim that it has to being related to such was provided by Isaac Asimov (still dearly missed after 10 years) who claimed that the ring is symbolic of technology, which he deeply resented and which J.R.R. Tolkein flatly denied. (Isaac's response was, BTW, that the ring does indeed represent technology whether J.R.R. Tolkein realizes it or not!;-)
I'm rereading TTT now. Its a work of pure fantasy. It's a good work of fantasy, to be sure, although I often want to slap the characters up side the head and say "cut it with all this corny Elendil, O Elendil! type nonsense", and I also must confess to skipping over most of the stupid songs. I really don't think I could bring myself to fininsh the books if I had to suffer through the songs...
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Hopefully thats where the similarity ends.
"The turbo-elevators are inoperative below C deck."
"Is *anything* working around here, Spock?
"Not much, Admiral.."
I would give you a 14 inch monitor and set your desktop size to 1600x1200 and make sure that you didn't have permission to edit your XF86Config file. And when you came whining to me about small fonts, guess what I'd say?:-)
This solution is a bit of a kludge but would work. When you die, the suit hits you with a light dose of knockout gas. Then, a friend drags you to your next respawn location.
I must say I was excited about this for a few minutes. But then I got the usual reminder that this won't work. Forget speed. Forget "Write once. Debug everywhere". The problem is more basic than that. You can be reminded of this too:
1. Get the latest mozilla. (0.9.9)
(You know, the one that's been refined to perfection over the last 4 years)
2. It doesn't come with Java so search around on the net and hunt down the latest official Sun Java2 plugin. (Make sure and use the official Sun plugin so that when everything crashes and burns, you can't blame it on a third party.)
3. Click on the "releasing" hyperlink in this story:
http://www.gamespy.com/gdc2002/jgp/
If your browser has not already died, click on one of the pictures on the left and then on the "back" link. Your browser is surely dead by now.
Restart Mozilla, disable Java and note how much better things work.
Here is an analogy using numbers that are more or less to scale.
Imagine a dart board 1 foot across. Imagine a "Bullseye" area 1 inch across in the center of the dart board. Imagine a dart sticking in the wall 2 feet to the left of the left edge dart board.
The "Bullseye" area is the earth. The dart is the asteroid.
Imagine someone saying "Gee, that was sooooo close!"
My first 3D card was a rendition Verite' 1000. I liked it. Quake1 was my game of choice then. But when I went to usenet, all I would see would be posts from guys with Voodoo based cards:
"Voodoo Rocks!" "Voodoo's great!" "Look at all the little kids playing with their little toy Verite' cards. Like that's soooooo retarded!!!"
So I eventually broke down and got a cool Voodoo based card. And I asked:
"OK, so how do you turn on the antialiasing? These non-antialiased scenes just look raggedy."
And I heard back:
"Errrm... Ummmm.... Uhhhh.... Well.... That's just not how OpenGL works! Followed by learned treatises about how OpenGL renders and how hard it would be to do antialiasing in that model."
To which I replied:
"But my lowly little Verite' chip did this quite well at 640x480."
And I heard back:
"Voodoo rocks!!! Look at how many triangles per second Voodoo's can do!"
So I asked:
"If the Voodoo's can do so many times more triangles per second, why isn't the (more expensve) Voodoo all that much faster than my Verite was, even though it's not doing antialiasing?"
And I heard back:
"Errm... Uhhhm... Uhhh... Well, OpenGL just doesn't work that way! Followed by more learned treatises about how OpenGL renders and how things are drawn over and over in many passes so you have to be able to crank out a lot of triangles per second to get passable performance."
It was years before I could say I liked any Voodoo's rendering as well as my "little toy" of a Verite' card.
>The calculator on my Nokia phone has a little bug in it... appears to be related to negative numbers... possibly around 32,000, but I haven't sat down and worked it out.
You too? On mine, anything that adds up to more than 4 gives a result of "A suffusion of yellow".
if they can recieve comments via an electronic medium, why can they not re-publish them via the same electronic medium?
Yeah right. They could set up a spambot and...;-)
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There are three kinds of Linux users in this world. Those who don't compile at all. Those who have problems with./configure;make;install a significant percentage of the time, and liars.
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Actually Lunix *is* and OS. It stands for "Little Unix" and runs on the Commodore 64.
Use the gcc 2.95 or 2.96 compiled versions of java and not the 3.x compiled ones for RH80 or mozilla will die.
Oops!
;-)
(4*10^26W) / (93,000,000^3) = 497W
That's better.
Motorists and pedestrians in the vincinity of Presque Isle, Maine are warned to use caution and to observe all roadway warning signs. ("Jupiter Crossing", "Do Not Drive Into Rings", "Beware of Mars", etc.)
The sun should be pretty safe. It would be ~45ft in diameter, but it would just rotate and emit ~500 watts. (4*10^26W/((1/93,000,000)^3) = 497W
Bravo!!! Someone finally said the obvious instead of quoting dogma.
;-)
Usually when I bring up the point about running as root being of limited security value on a single user system, as well as a usability pain to the casual user, I usually get a bunch of condescending responses claiming that if I were an experienced administrator, I would understand the advantages of blah, blah, blah... And the thread usally ends up concluding that backups of user data are very important and everyone should do them. Which is very odd, because it's totally irrelevant to the original topic. Not sure why it always goes that way.
The Vulcan Science Directorate has determined that time travel is impossible...
Well, that's a possibility, of course. But, to me, this sounds more like a job for the Starship BistroMath. It'd take a hell of a lot of check pads though. (Not to mention *massive* parallel processing. they'd have to wait for a *very* busy night.) And it would not be very environmentally friendly, I suppose. But ,then again, they could always recycle...
Network protocol overhead most likely. ftp/http are pretty fast. Filesystem protocols like nfs and smb are slower.
Well, you reveal here just how far behind the times your thinking is. The new Linux standard FS is ext3. Even your vaunted "Softupdates" which always seems to get brought up everytime the subject of journalling filesystems comes up can't touch ext3's full data journalling. (Can Softupdates make the same guarantees as a synchronously mounted filesystem without the performance penalty?) Even ext3's default data=ordered mode can make better guarantees with better performance. And then there's the whole (fine grained) SMP thing, the fact that Linux vm is now getting ready to catch up with and pass xBSD and, and, and...
;-)
BSD may not be dying, but it is certainly falling behind. How can it not? With the BSD license, anything that goes into BSD can be copied if desired, modified and put into Linux (or Windows) or whatever. I'm not saying that the BSD license is bad, but this is a consequence of it. xBSD was the king of Free unixes for years and Linux has come from way behind and passed it up in many areas and is about to pass it up in the rest.
Ever wonder why Linux gets all the press and no one outside of Unix circles even knows what BSD is? Is it some foul conspiracy? Or is there, perhaps, a valid reason?
Sorry for the rant, but seeing BSD mud slung at an area where Linux is now undeniably superior to the BSD's (and where BSD's lead was always rather dubious) irritates me just a bit.
>LOTR stuff is prime geek bait, so you know that a large contingent of people with a nerdish bent will be scouring the net trying to find it.
;-)
This may be tangential, but has been on my mind lately. *Why* is LotR prime geek material? It has nothing that relates to science or technology. The only claim that it has to being related to such was provided by Isaac Asimov (still dearly missed after 10 years) who claimed that the ring is symbolic of technology, which he deeply resented and which J.R.R. Tolkein flatly denied. (Isaac's response was, BTW, that the ring does indeed represent technology whether J.R.R. Tolkein realizes it or not!
I'm rereading TTT now. Its a work of pure fantasy. It's a good work of fantasy, to be sure, although I often want to slap the characters up side the head and say "cut it with all this corny Elendil, O Elendil! type nonsense", and I also must confess to skipping over most of the stupid songs. I really don't think I could bring myself to fininsh the books if I had to suffer through the songs...
Hopefully thats where the similarity ends. "The turbo-elevators are inoperative below C deck." "Is *anything* working around here, Spock? "Not much, Admiral.."
I would give you a 14 inch monitor and set your desktop size to 1600x1200 and make sure that you didn't have permission to edit your XF86Config file. And when you came whining to me about small fonts, guess what I'd say? :-)
This solution is a bit of a kludge but would work. When you die, the suit hits you with a light dose of knockout gas. Then, a friend drags you to your next respawn location.
Could you send me the email addresses for your parents and grandparents? I'd just like to verify.
I must say I was excited about this for a few minutes. But then I got the usual reminder that this won't work. Forget speed. Forget "Write once. Debug everywhere". The problem is more basic than that. You can be reminded of this too:
1. Get the latest mozilla. (0.9.9)
(You know, the one that's been refined to perfection over the last 4 years)
2. It doesn't come with Java so search around on the net and hunt down the latest official Sun Java2 plugin. (Make sure and use the official Sun plugin so that when everything crashes and burns, you can't blame it on a third party.)
3. Click on the "releasing" hyperlink in this story:
http://www.gamespy.com/gdc2002/jgp/
If your browser has not already died, click on one of the pictures on the left and then on the "back" link. Your browser is surely dead by now.
Restart Mozilla, disable Java and note how much better things work.
All hail Java!!!
Well, I should have previewed!
The subject should be "Is *this* really that close?
And the dart should be more like 2.5 feet to the left of the left edge of the board, or 3 feet from the center.
Here is an analogy using numbers that are more or less to scale.
Imagine a dart board 1 foot across.
Imagine a "Bullseye" area 1 inch across in the center of the dart board.
Imagine a dart sticking in the wall 2 feet to the left of the left edge dart board.
The "Bullseye" area is the earth. The dart is the asteroid.
Imagine someone saying "Gee, that was sooooo close!"
Lets move on to some real news.
My first 3D card was a rendition Verite' 1000. I liked it. Quake1 was my game of choice then. But when I went to usenet, all I would see would be posts from guys with Voodoo based cards:
"Voodoo Rocks!" "Voodoo's great!" "Look at all the little kids playing with their little toy Verite' cards. Like that's soooooo retarded!!!"
So I eventually broke down and got a cool Voodoo based card. And I asked:
"OK, so how do you turn on the antialiasing? These non-antialiased scenes just look raggedy."
And I heard back:
"Errrm... Ummmm.... Uhhhh.... Well.... That's just not how OpenGL works! Followed by learned treatises about how OpenGL renders and how hard it would be to do antialiasing in that model."
To which I replied:
"But my lowly little Verite' chip did this quite well at 640x480."
And I heard back:
"Voodoo rocks!!! Look at how many triangles per second Voodoo's can do!"
So I asked:
"If the Voodoo's can do so many times more triangles per second, why isn't the (more expensve) Voodoo all that much faster than my Verite was, even though it's not doing antialiasing?"
And I heard back:
"Errm... Uhhhm... Uhhh... Well, OpenGL just doesn't work that way! Followed by more learned treatises about how OpenGL renders and how things are drawn over and over in many passes so you have to be able to crank out a lot of triangles per second to get passable performance."
It was years before I could say I liked any Voodoo's rendering as well as my "little toy" of a Verite' card.
>The calculator on my Nokia phone has a little bug in it... appears to be related to negative numbers ... possibly around 32,000, but I haven't sat down and worked it out.
You too? On mine, anything that adds up to more than 4 gives a result of "A suffusion of yellow".
Anyone have any ideas?
> Now here you are. A verified spammer (or cause of my daily headaches, i.e. spam).
If spam is the cause of your daily headaches then my best advice is that you need to get a life.
if they can recieve comments via an electronic medium, why can they not re-publish them via the same electronic medium?
;-)
Yeah right. They could set up a spambot and...
There are three kinds of Linux users in this world. Those who don't compile at all. Those who have problems with ./configure;make;install a significant percentage of the time, and liars.
I'd put the percentage nearer 40%-50% myself.
I've been running an even less photorealistic version of quake for years. ;-)
;-)
telnet://cx662584-e.okcnc1.ok.home.com
Login: ttyquake
Passwd: zapper
Looks best on a text console rather than an xterm, but you haven't lived untill you've played quake on a wyse60.