...you ought to be able to just dd the data from the drive, and if the chip doesn't use a non-standard data layout, write a program or script to put it back together and back it up, then you recreate the array, and put your data back on it.
I used to do this (I'm not the original poster), and the latency introduced by the HTTP connection, transfer, and final parsing made it more accurate to just ssh in and set the time manually. The latency was too inconsistent to simply adjust the time by a predefined or calculated amount. That's what NTP is designed to handle, anyway.
In the initial setup process (and also in a configuration tool or file somewhere), each system's screensaver would ask for its physical position. Either absolute coordinates in a lab, or relative positioning to other machines could be used. In the case of relative positioning, you could either have each computer check those computers next to it if they're running the screensaver, and if those computers are currently displaying an object. If not, that screensaver would spawn an object. It would probably be easier to have a master server that knows which machines are currently idle and where they're at, and have each node send a message to the server/next node whenever an object is about to leave the screen, and in which direction it's going (forward, back, left, right, maybe up and down if there are monitors in a rack). For example, in a scrolling banner, as soon as the text touches the right side of the screen, it would send a message to the next node containing the text itself, the text velocity, and which side of the screen to begin it on. Since they're at the same velocity, the second node should have the text fully appear at the same time the text fully disappears from the first node. You could also have the server keep a pool of objects, and when a node's screensaver is deactivated, the object is sent back to the pool and displayed somewhere else. If only one computer in the lab is running the screensaver, it could have all the objects bouncing around, and as soon as other computers turn on, the objects would be distributed or sent to them as the server desires. You could even add manual control for objects, too.
Adobe's.FLM format is extremely simple. I've always been threatening to write a.FLM loader for GIMP. You can find a PDF that describes the.FLM layout on Adobe's site somewhere.
I know all this because I've been wanting to do the same thing: lightsabers in GIMP instead of Photoshop. I've never had much success with the OSS video editing software though; Cinelerra seems to be targeted at the $80000 HDTV workstations with which it is frequently bundled.
You can get ASIO drivers for emu10k1 and emu10k2 cards (SB Live, Audigy, EMU APS) from http://www.kxproject.com/. They work pretty well with Acid Pro 4, which I bought when first released for $250, but you can get it now from local music shops for around $170. The kx drivers also have a very cool interface for programming the various chips of the sound card, and a built in emu10k1 assembler/disassembler so you can write your own DSP modules if you like.
A friend of mine decided he was going to approach the Buzz guys about porting Buzz to Linux, and I offered to help with the port. Apparently they acted interested, except there was one tiny problem... according to my friend, they "lost" the source code.
If you can get SpiralSynth working in Linux (it is an extreme pain... I had it working once; you have to have all the exact same libraries as the developer, and fix a few compilation errors), it's a pretty darn cool synthesizer, as is the Juno 6 from realitymasters.com(?). In Windows, RGC Audio has some cool softsynths.
Or, on the other hand, if you happen to be actively seeking porn, you'll know exactly where to find it, instead of ending up in some endless popup loop (because you were too busy looking for porn to remember to turn off javascript) of non-porn sites.
I personally would like to be able to just block.xxx because while I'm fully aware that there's no way some people will stop pleasuring themselves, I'm not interested in it (I'm not in alignment with the "popular/. view" and I believe in abstinence until marriage) and I'd prefer to have any children I might have some day learn about such things from me and/or my wife rather than running into it on the 'net or at school.
Watch this post get moderated to crap because I don't agree with the hive mind...
I forgot to mention that, when I watched Jurassic Park on the Viewsonic LCD projector and 9' screen we have at work (late at night after hours), I almost thought I was watching a film projection, aside from the judder/jitter/whatever-the-technical-term-is caused by the postprocessing. Playing other video formats with MPlayer, like DV avi's, gives similar quality, but perfect smoothness and performance.
One odd thing about MPlayer is that the audio seems to be about 200ms off, so I have to hit kpad_plus twice every time I start a movie to get it in sync.. I don't know why it doesn't detect the audio delay and account for it.
The reason mplayer appears to perform more slowly in DVD playback is because it does some very aggressive deinterlacing/pulldown (based on evaulation of its video quality alone; I haven't checked the source to see what it's really doing) to 24fps, but it has a hard time syncing that 24fps output to the audio.
Most DVD menus I've tried worked in a sufficiently new MPlayer.
Before they started shipping, Lindows made sure that there was a NIC and either a supported Linmodem or a hardware modem in all the Microtel machines, and I think similar measures are taken for the other OEMs. LindowsOS is touted as "the broadband OS," so there are NICs in even the bottom of the line machines.
A local computer shop, EBC Computers sells 19" elements monitors for about $150, and another local shop, Armadillo Bros, sells good condition used monitors for next to nothing. One of the local office chains was running a $100 sale on a 19" monitor, but I can't remember which one. You can find 15" and 17" monitors anywhere these days, too.
From the article (emphasis added): Digambar Gokhale and colleagues at the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune mix the styrene subunits of polystyrene with small amounts of another substance that provides a chemical hook for sucrose or glucose pieces. They then add sugars to the styrene chains like pendants on a necklace.
It does say what kind of sugar: sucrose or glucose.
Remember, the royalty fees are only for RIAA-owned music. Independent artists and labels are free to license their music however they want. I believe that the laws prevent them from doing anything worse than the RIAA, but don't require them to follow in the RIAA's footsteps, though I could be wrong on that first part.
This seems like a good idea initially, but if people can continue using MS Office to communicate with users of OpenOffice.org and StarOffice, then what encouragement do they have to use the free/less expensive alternatives? I think that, while this might encourage a standard document format, it has the negative effect of encouraging MS Office use.
I hate to say this, but I think in this case the wise choice is to use MS's tactics against itself.
I'm running the 4.2.99.2 DRI trunk, compiled from DRI cvs. I haven't noticed any improvement over 4.2.1. Do you know of any good resources on the issues with HyperZ and S3TC? Links to particular posts in the mailing list archives, that sort of thing?
They cannot perform as well... because of restrictions on what can be released as source
What restrictions are there exactly? Is there a legal limit on the performance of Open Source drivers? I've been blaming the slowness of my 7500 on Mesa (in Linux I get equal or lesser performance to a Geforce 2MX 200, while in Windows I get performance almost on par with a Geforce 2 Ultra). Why can't they release faster Open Source drivers? Are the specs incomplete or something? I'll write them myself if the specs are available.
I wish other companies were like 3dfx and released full specs and source code.. Voodoo cards were fun to write drivers for.
In addition to rpm2tgz there's rpm2cpio, and someone else already mentioned alien. Gentoo has rpm2tgz as an ebuild. Debian has alien in the apt-get pool.
My grandfather is a farmer and frequently makes such transactions as part of maintaining his land (kerosine for flame thrower to burn weeds, fertilizer for fertilizing), except for the truck part. He already owns a truck.
Win2k is a freaking PAIN to install. I had to wipe my partition table to get it to install its bootloader to its own boot sector, and then reinstall Gentoo and grub. Rebooting after every single driver and application is painful, especially when all my PCI slots are full, and I have lots of obscure video editing utilities. It uses close to 1GB of hard drive space just for an OS? I can get the same functionality with a modern Linux distribution in half that space. Last time I installed LindowsOS there were only two pages that required any thought from the user (the "erase your existing operatingsystem?" page and the "pick a name for this computer page" -- I'm discounting the license agreement page because nobody reads those anyway (yes, I myself have read it, and there's nothing crazy in it that I could see.. does that make me nobody?)). Win2k had lots of crap left to do after the installer was done.
My kid brother can download and install software using Click-N-Run. He doesn't know how to download and install software using an ordinary web browser and Windows.
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...you ought to be able to just dd the data from the drive, and if the chip doesn't use a non-standard data layout, write a program or script to put it back together and back it up, then you recreate the array, and put your data back on it.
But unfortunately it is too large to be contained in this margin.
I used to do this (I'm not the original poster), and the latency introduced by the HTTP connection, transfer, and final parsing made it more accurate to just ssh in and set the time manually. The latency was too inconsistent to simply adjust the time by a predefined or calculated amount. That's what NTP is designed to handle, anyway.
Here's an idea:
In the initial setup process (and also in a configuration tool or file somewhere), each system's screensaver would ask for its physical position. Either absolute coordinates in a lab, or relative positioning to other machines could be used. In the case of relative positioning, you could either have each computer check those computers next to it if they're running the screensaver, and if those computers are currently displaying an object. If not, that screensaver would spawn an object. It would probably be easier to have a master server that knows which machines are currently idle and where they're at, and have each node send a message to the server/next node whenever an object is about to leave the screen, and in which direction it's going (forward, back, left, right, maybe up and down if there are monitors in a rack). For example, in a scrolling banner, as soon as the text touches the right side of the screen, it would send a message to the next node containing the text itself, the text velocity, and which side of the screen to begin it on. Since they're at the same velocity, the second node should have the text fully appear at the same time the text fully disappears from the first node. You could also have the server keep a pool of objects, and when a node's screensaver is deactivated, the object is sent back to the pool and displayed somewhere else. If only one computer in the lab is running the screensaver, it could have all the objects bouncing around, and as soon as other computers turn on, the objects would be distributed or sent to them as the server desires. You could even add manual control for objects, too.
Cinelerra is kind of cool, from heroine virtual.
.FLM format is extremely simple. I've always been threatening to write a .FLM loader for GIMP. You can find a PDF that describes the .FLM layout on Adobe's site somewhere.
Adobe's
I know all this because I've been wanting to do the same thing: lightsabers in GIMP instead of Photoshop. I've never had much success with the OSS video editing software though; Cinelerra seems to be targeted at the $80000 HDTV workstations with which it is frequently bundled.
You're right; it's factory labor bootcamp. What's emphasized? Punctuality, conformity. If you're not "in," you're "out."
Most freezer bags these days are also boilable... That's at least 300F (the bottom of the pan is much hotter than the boiling point of water).
Darn... I was hoping we'd run out of oil in 50 years so I could laugh at everyone who wasn't using nuclear, wind, hydrogen, or solar.
You can get ASIO drivers for emu10k1 and emu10k2 cards (SB Live, Audigy, EMU APS) from http://www.kxproject.com/. They work pretty well with Acid Pro 4, which I bought when first released for $250, but you can get it now from local music shops for around $170. The kx drivers also have a very cool interface for programming the various chips of the sound card, and a built in emu10k1 assembler/disassembler so you can write your own DSP modules if you like.
A friend of mine decided he was going to approach the Buzz guys about porting Buzz to Linux, and I offered to help with the port. Apparently they acted interested, except there was one tiny problem... according to my friend, they "lost" the source code.
If you can get SpiralSynth working in Linux (it is an extreme pain... I had it working once; you have to have all the exact same libraries as the developer, and fix a few compilation errors), it's a pretty darn cool synthesizer, as is the Juno 6 from realitymasters.com(?). In Windows, RGC Audio has some cool softsynths.
Or, on the other hand, if you happen to be actively seeking porn, you'll know exactly where to find it, instead of ending up in some endless popup loop (because you were too busy looking for porn to remember to turn off javascript) of non-porn sites.
.xxx because while I'm fully aware that there's no way some people will stop pleasuring themselves, I'm not interested in it (I'm not in alignment with the "popular /. view" and I believe in abstinence until marriage) and I'd prefer to have any children I might have some day learn about such things from me and/or my wife rather than running into it on the 'net or at school.
I personally would like to be able to just block
Watch this post get moderated to crap because I don't agree with the hive mind...
I forgot to mention that, when I watched Jurassic Park on the Viewsonic LCD projector and 9' screen we have at work (late at night after hours), I almost thought I was watching a film projection, aside from the judder/jitter/whatever-the-technical-term-is caused by the postprocessing. Playing other video formats with MPlayer, like DV avi's, gives similar quality, but perfect smoothness and performance.
One odd thing about MPlayer is that the audio seems to be about 200ms off, so I have to hit kpad_plus twice every time I start a movie to get it in sync.. I don't know why it doesn't detect the audio delay and account for it.
The reason mplayer appears to perform more slowly in DVD playback is because it does some very aggressive deinterlacing/pulldown (based on evaulation of its video quality alone; I haven't checked the source to see what it's really doing) to 24fps, but it has a hard time syncing that 24fps output to the audio.
Most DVD menus I've tried worked in a sufficiently new MPlayer.
Before they started shipping, Lindows made sure that there was a NIC and either a supported Linmodem or a hardware modem in all the Microtel machines, and I think similar measures are taken for the other OEMs. LindowsOS is touted as "the broadband OS," so there are NICs in even the bottom of the line machines.
A local computer shop, EBC Computers sells 19" elements monitors for about $150, and another local shop, Armadillo Bros, sells good condition used monitors for next to nothing. One of the local office chains was running a $100 sale on a 19" monitor, but I can't remember which one. You can find 15" and 17" monitors anywhere these days, too.
From the article (emphasis added):
Digambar Gokhale and colleagues at the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune mix the styrene subunits of polystyrene with small amounts of another substance that provides a chemical hook for sucrose or glucose pieces. They then add sugars to the styrene chains like pendants on a necklace.
It does say what kind of sugar: sucrose or glucose.
Remember, the royalty fees are only for RIAA-owned music. Independent artists and labels are free to license their music however they want. I believe that the laws prevent them from doing anything worse than the RIAA, but don't require them to follow in the RIAA's footsteps, though I could be wrong on that first part.
You could probably get pretty darn close, unless the ratio of sides is something irrational like pi/e^sqrt(2) or some insane thing like that.
You might have to use a whole lot of bricks to find a common integer multiple. Out of curiosity, what is the ratio of width to height of a 1x1x1 stud?
This seems like a good idea initially, but if people can continue using MS Office to communicate with users of OpenOffice.org and StarOffice, then what encouragement do they have to use the free/less expensive alternatives? I think that, while this might encourage a standard document format, it has the negative effect of encouraging MS Office use.
I hate to say this, but I think in this case the wise choice is to use MS's tactics against itself.
I'm running the 4.2.99.2 DRI trunk, compiled from DRI cvs. I haven't noticed any improvement over 4.2.1. Do you know of any good resources on the issues with HyperZ and S3TC? Links to particular posts in the mailing list archives, that sort of thing?
They cannot perform as well ... because of restrictions on what can be released as source
What restrictions are there exactly? Is there a legal limit on the performance of Open Source drivers? I've been blaming the slowness of my 7500 on Mesa (in Linux I get equal or lesser performance to a Geforce 2MX 200, while in Windows I get performance almost on par with a Geforce 2 Ultra). Why can't they release faster Open Source drivers? Are the specs incomplete or something? I'll write them myself if the specs are available.
I wish other companies were like 3dfx and released full specs and source code.. Voodoo cards were fun to write drivers for.
In addition to rpm2tgz there's rpm2cpio, and someone else already mentioned alien. Gentoo has rpm2tgz as an ebuild. Debian has alien in the apt-get pool.
My grandfather is a farmer and frequently makes such transactions as part of maintaining his land (kerosine for flame thrower to burn weeds, fertilizer for fertilizing), except for the truck part. He already owns a truck.
Win2k is a freaking PAIN to install. I had to wipe my partition table to get it to install its bootloader to its own boot sector, and then reinstall Gentoo and grub. Rebooting after every single driver and application is painful, especially when all my PCI slots are full, and I have lots of obscure video editing utilities. It uses close to 1GB of hard drive space just for an OS? I can get the same functionality with a modern Linux distribution in half that space. Last time I installed LindowsOS there were only two pages that required any thought from the user (the "erase your existing operatingsystem?" page and the "pick a name for this computer page" -- I'm discounting the license agreement page because nobody reads those anyway (yes, I myself have read it, and there's nothing crazy in it that I could see.. does that make me nobody?)). Win2k had lots of crap left to do after the installer was done.
My kid brother can download and install software using Click-N-Run. He doesn't know how to download and install software using an ordinary web browser and Windows.
How do you determine that Lindows is illegal? You can find links to the source code here.