Once you burned the images to CDRs, you can use rpm -Fvh * on each CD. It will upgrade only the packages that are present on your system.
Or you can loopback mount all the isos, then symlink all the packages in a single directory, and run a single rpm -Fvh *. That way, if a devel package is on another CD, it won't matter.
Another thing I always do before an upgrade is use the same command with --test. If there's a dependancy problem, I can see it before anything bad happens.
Good luck with up2date: I never used it myself (prefer ftp+rpm).
Since so many/. users notice so quickly that a story is a repost, why don't the editors do the same? Do they actually read what the others ran?
It might be because of the duplicates the editors see all day in the submission bin. When you read so many stories, it might be difficult to judge if you already saw it in the submission bin (and rejected it) or if it made it through to/. homepage...
Would a "not a repost" committee, with some regular users as members, help? They could be chosen the same way as moderators (randomly, but still based on past level of activity). This would likely catch a lot of reposts, since usually, in the first ~30 comments, half of them are complaining about the repost. If a member flags a story as repost, the editor could then verify it, and refrain from actually putting it on the frontpage and look as somebody not doing a lot of backgroung checking.
I don't know if that's from an FTP or HTTP server, but in doing so you're probably limiting the number of people who can download the isos from RHN, since a lot of FTP servers have a limit on the number of concurrent connections (that's especially true for anonymous connections, but also to a lesser extent for authenticated connections). Those people have paid the same thing as you: why would you prevent them from getting it? One at the time would be better for everybody, and it might not even take you more time (since with all of them, you're maxing out your cable-modem, with one you should be able to also)!
(Saying this from a DSL line with 3 concurrent downloads from a single mirror... bad me! Bad)
Probably in their next revision (8.0). Actually, they ship it right now, as gcc3 packages rather than gcc-3. So if you want to use it, you can. Their testing must have shown that gcc 2.96-RH is the one they want to ship right now.
If they change their default compiler to gcc 3.x, then they'll up the version to 8.0 because that new compiler (mostly the C++ compiler, but maybe the Java one also) won't be binary compatible with the previous one.
And if that's the only reason for you, why don't you give it a go yourself? It's pretty easy to do, especially if your second choice of distro is Slackware rather than say Suse or even Debian.
Don't forget the version of the C++ compiler. I don't have the different version numbers shipped with the different distributions, but from one version to the other the ABI (application binary compatibility) is not guaranteed, if not plain absent.
IE, you can't link some part of a C++ program compiled with gcc-2.95.3 with some other compiled with gcc 3.0, although you can do the same thing with a C program.
I think the compiler thing will be one of the major compatibility changes for RH 8.0.
wget [f,ht]tp://path_to_iso_1/disk1.iso &
wget [f,ht]tp://path_to_iso_1/disk2.iso &
etc
logout
You may want to use nohup wget... rather than wget directly if you intend to logout while downloading.
Or wget -b..., which sends it to the backgroud. Along with -o file, it enables you to have it in the backgroud and still have a log of what happens.
Don't forget that some FTP servers will limit the number of concurrent connections a single host can sustain at a time. And if you download more than one image at the same time, you'll (likely) prevent somebody else from getting his.
How many PVRs (TiVo, etc.) were sold in the US over the few last years? A few (2-3) millions? So let's say that 3% of the population (about 3 people per household) have access to one of them. What's the percentage of those that actually use it use it for the purpose of skipping commercials (or what average percent of the time they use it for that)? Yeah, not very significant at the scale of the US.
So, basically Turner is pissed because overall, in the whole US, a fraction of a percent of their possible audience is skipping commercials.
Don't ever let them near a school! They'll go on a blood hunt for students not listening in class!
I don't know about all of you, but if I record a show to watch it later, I'll fast-forward through them when I'll watch the show. It's quite easy: you spot the time elapsed since the beginning of the show, press fast-forward, and when it's about to turn to 3 minutes you press play. Check your local commercial breaks for the exact duration.Of course you actually "see" them, but if you don't already know the ad there's almost no chance you can guess what product it is for. And if you absolutely don't want to see them, press stop before fast-forward and you'll skip them even faster!
Same thing on rental videos. There's usually a couple trailers for future releases at the beginning, along with a warning from the FBI. Press that same button on the remote, and they go away! I heard that some DVD players, in coordination with the actual DVD, prevented you from doing that, though.
Yearly raises recently came around at the company I work for, and my raise was 0.5%, a percent of a percent. So, I did what any self-respecting working stiff would do, I found a new job for a company that makes enough money to pay its employees.
What kind of yearly raise did you expected? Agreed, 0.5% is below the inflation, but you can't expect a 5-10% raise each year! Your company can't just charge 5-10% more each year to their costumers. And if they get more costumers, there's a good chance they'll need more employees, not higher paid employees.
In a couple of my internships (I'm beginning my masters), the yearly raises were calculated on an individual basis, wrt some objectives you wrote at the beginning of the year vs those you did acheived (and their scope). So if you stayed very low profile, you wouldn't get a huge raise, but if you helped design and implement the new whatever system (for internal use, and being the "costumer" rather than developper), then you'd get a very nice raise.
Although I agree with your recommendations (quit Divine and keep quick money for problems), I don't think your job switching (reason being a small raise) was a good move. If there was some other reason, like "The company is headed to hell", or "The lady in that office is harassing me", that's another story.
Question 1: How long did it take you to get your linux box to play DVDs?
Buy DVD-ROM, install it in computer, download xine+plugins,./configure && make && make install, put DVD in and play. I'd say around 1 hour, with the longest time being buying the DVD-ROM and installing it in my computer.
Question 2: How many times did you have to reboot?
Once, when I installed the DVD-ROM in the computer.
Question 3: How many kernels did you compile in the process?
None. Why would I recompile it? The DVD-ROM was already recognized, I use iso9660 on the DVDs if I ever mount them.
Question 4: How many CDs do you actually own?
If you count audio CDs, around 4. Data CDs, OTOH,... alot more.
Don't think of that as if I have a shitload of MP3s: it's not my fault if I prefer TV to music!
Question 5: How many DVDs do you actually own?
One. Blockbuster is your friend. And your friends are your friends, too.
Question 6: Who are you going to sell your DVDs to when you have copied them to your hard disk?
Listen, I got my DVD in a cereal box. A Disney thing. Don't recall the title, and if you want to buy it, drop me a line.
Comment 1: What happened to the copy of windows that came conveniently bundled with your PC?
That's more a question than a comment. Anyway, there was none. It's not easy to have an OS bundled when all the parts come from different places. Should it come with the motherboard? Processor? Processors?
Comment 2: As a Linux Zealot, you will know that DivX is not standardised and therefore you cannot use it, as it is against everything you stand for.
Zealot? Nope. Just a user. Although I wouldn't use it because it usually relies on win32 dlls to work, and it usually means less stability for me.
Comment 3: There are no tools available that are legal for this purpose.
Depends on where you live. You're entitled to backup copies in some jurisdictions. Now, I want a tool to do the backup for me rather than do it by hand with a hand calculator for the IDCT. Can I?
Comment 4: As you will know, the production of a tool like abcde for DVDs is against the DMCA, and so anyone who creates such a tool is likely to go to prison like Dimitry did.
If he didn't come to the US, he wouldn't have been arrested. As I said, there are some other juridictions with different laws than the US. Jon shouldn't have been arrested for something he did in Norway. A swastika is legal out of Germany and France. A pdf viewer for the disabled is legal in Russia.
What does all this leaves? I don't know. I'll continue to watch rented and lended DVDs on my Linux box, and you'll probably continue to think it is difficult/illegal to do so. Have a good day!
Apple users are now, for the most part, Unix users, too. And there are games that they may want to run that won't work under VirtualPC that just might work under WINE or WineX. Apple users don't have the luxury of being able to install a MS OS natively.
Using either Wine, WineX or ReWind (X11-license branch) won't help Mac users for now, since there's no CPU emulation in any of these. OTOH, VirtualPC does that (emulation of CPU). I don't own a Mac, so I'm not up to date on the subject, but the only OSS x86 emulator that I know of is Bochs. And I wouldn't recommend that to play games (slow as hell on a PIII-600).
Look at it the bright way! It'll be easier to find a look-alike in your home state or, if the database is shared by every state, in the whole USA! That way, you can get in touch with him and both of you can have great alibis:"I was in CA. I have witnesses." when they come after you for something in CT.
The other guy can do exactly the same.
Of course, then there's always the possibility that your lookalike is a criminal and you are mistaken for him...
What prevents a server from resizing (and/or clipping) another image format? You do need server support for this, right? So it's not just another image format (like PNG): it is more akin to some kind of data processing on the website which is then sent to the client. Am I correct this time?
Is it the way data is written to the file which makes it faster to resize?
Actually, nearly every browser scale the image they receive to fit the HEIGHT and WIDTH attributes of an IMG tag. That's what's used by 1x1 transparent GIFs to place some other images at the right place (pixel-wise), so you don't need a gazillion different transparent GIFs to fit all the dimensions you need in your site.
Now, if you'd like the browser to adapt the image to something else (eg. browser window width), it's on the browser side that you have to modify something, but it can be adapted to any type of image, not only JPEG2000. This way you don't need to do thumbnails, but you display the same data with 2 different zoom factors.
And if you do that on the server, zooms can be supported for any image type, you only need the proper module for your web-server. It might be faster for a JPEG2000, but I don't see anything special about JPEG2000 wrt server-side zooming.
My knowledge of CRTs is not perfect, but I'm pretty sure a (potentially very good) CRT can do 2048x1536x32bitsx75Hz, plus the various sync bandwidth which is lost when the electron beams are returning to "start position". That's already nearly 950MB/s. I just checked the ASUS website, and the new V8460 is able to fulfill just that. It's not for nothing that if you want a good signal, you need a good cable (interferences can be more harmful for a signal at a higher frequency).
Furthermore, if the values are refreshed 40 times per second, it's already lower than from the worst CRT you can get (lower bound being 60Hz, but you shouldn't settle for less than at least 80-85 by now). And you can't get the bandwidth back on resolution either, as it's also lower than a comparably sized CRT.
Even taking your framebuffer analogy, you still begin to transmit the data for one point (probably the top left, but I could be mistaken), then another, another, etc. until you get all the new values, and then you begin a new frame. It would be stupid to not display them until you have all of them: you'd have to store them, then transmit them (again!) from that storage to the liquid crystals. At least small LCDs (Hantronix, or could be Hektronix) work like that (pixels are displayed as soon as they arrive).
All this just to say that... oh ya, almost forgot the point of my first post. You said that CRTs were refreshed a line at the time, while LCDs were refreshed the whole screen at once, which led to less eyestrain, flicker and headache. I think what causes those 3 last things has more to do with the fact that the LCs stay in an orientation as long as they're not changed, or at least they don't go off as fast as a "pixel" from a CRT. So when you shoot an LCD, you can see it's steady, but when you play Quake, it's usually not updated as fast as you'd like (blurred images).
Then there's refresh. CRTs must refresh a line at a time, where LCDs refresh the whole screen at once; less headache, less flicker, less eyestrain. (emphasis mine)
Huh?
How are 1024x768x3 bytes (or more, I really hope it's more) supposed to travel between the video card and the LCD screen at the same time? Or are you saying that they are transferred at whatever speed, then buffered in the LCD, waiting to be sent to all the pixels at once? Even then I'd have a little problem with that.
Regarding your other counter-points (and the original points), all I can say is that my next monitor will most likely be a Viewsonic P225F. It's an easy pick: never had a problem with the company, and more than twice cheaper than the VP201M. And it has a higher resolution (I'm currently working at 1600x1200 on a 17", and I won't take anything smaller). But then, I'm not using it for digital photography.
So now, it'll be even easier to do nasty things with JS!
Who wants to take bets on when the first JS rootkit comes out?
Of course, this is hypothetical as long as nobody actually uses it. If somebody takes it and puts it a a web browser, that will be the end (or the beginning).
BTW, Windows already has that: ActiveX. You can see what kind of mess it can do.
Just finished installing RH 7.2, and it left a nice trail (not only a log) of what I did. So next time, I could just copy that file (kickstart) to an install floppy and it would bring it back to what I just installed. Be sure to check all the options (interactive or not, partionning, etc.).
I know RH has always been installable n network (ftp, nfs). Probably some other ones too (Debian). It's before you start that your problem lies (booting the computer to start the install). Sorry, I don't see how you could just hook a new PC to the network and start installing without being at the console.
Also, what do you use on the Wintel side? It works with your current hardware, right? Is it (or could it be made) enough OS agnostic to be used with Linux?
This could prevent some students of getting some jobs in the future.
Suppose I enroll in one of those programs where the exposure to.NET source code is mandatory for some classes. Now, could a student refuse to take a particular class or ask for an equivalence because of that? If not, it's like if they signed a whole lot of people into non-compete clauses, without much benefit for them! I'm not even talking about Free software here. They could probably prevent you from working for a competitor (Sun, Apple, etc.)
The use of "sponsored" material in classes has always been dangerous, but when it can influence where you can or can't work after you graduate, it's just plain Not a Good Idea (tm).
My desklamp is a neon, and it's just above my monitor. Whenever I light it, even if I'm at 800x600@100Hz, it will flicker. So I never use it (prefer ambient light).
I also whitnessed some speakers doing some weird things to monitors. Another thing to check for.
He only talked about "pre-MacOS X" macs, not about Powermacs. I understood this as "it's been in use since a long time ago". My point was to show that LaTeX might have been in use since yet longer than the programs he alludes to.
Thank you for pointing those two to me, since I never used any of those. Well, at least for eqn and tbl. I know troff (groff) is still used by the man command, but I never thought it could be possible to use it for equations, articles or books.
(The fact that this discussion is about latex is purely a coincidence.)
Well, had time to read the answers of Mr Knuth before the start, so the point is rather moot.
I'll watch it anyway, at least to have a good reason to be scrap tomorrow morning (I live Eastern time) before I finish my taxes and those of my sister.
In the publishing field, there is quite a lot of software used before latex
And LaTeX has been in use since 1986 IIRC. The current version (LaTeX2e) dates from 1994. I'm not sure the first PowerPC was commercialised at that time.
Not to mention that LaTeX is an extension of TeX, which is even older. The TeXbook has been published in 1984, which was after the release of the program itself.
If you have some name of program used before LaTeX and still in use, could you name them for us? Thank you!
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Once you burned the images to CDRs, you can use rpm -Fvh * on each CD. It will upgrade only the packages that are present on your system.
Or you can loopback mount all the isos, then symlink all the packages in a single directory, and run a single rpm -Fvh *. That way, if a devel package is on another CD, it won't matter.
Another thing I always do before an upgrade is use the same command with --test. If there's a dependancy problem, I can see it before anything bad happens.
Good luck with up2date: I never used it myself (prefer ftp+rpm).
Since so many /. users notice so quickly that a story is a repost, why don't the editors do the same? Do they actually read what the others ran?
/. homepage...
It might be because of the duplicates the editors see all day in the submission bin. When you read so many stories, it might be difficult to judge if you already saw it in the submission bin (and rejected it) or if it made it through to
Would a "not a repost" committee, with some regular users as members, help? They could be chosen the same way as moderators (randomly, but still based on past level of activity). This would likely catch a lot of reposts, since usually, in the first ~30 comments, half of them are complaining about the repost. If a member flags a story as repost, the editor could then verify it, and refrain from actually putting it on the frontpage and look as somebody not doing a lot of backgroung checking.
Food for thought...
I don't know if that's from an FTP or HTTP server, but in doing so you're probably limiting the number of people who can download the isos from RHN, since a lot of FTP servers have a limit on the number of concurrent connections (that's especially true for anonymous connections, but also to a lesser extent for authenticated connections). Those people have paid the same thing as you: why would you prevent them from getting it? One at the time would be better for everybody, and it might not even take you more time (since with all of them, you're maxing out your cable-modem, with one you should be able to also)!
(Saying this from a DSL line with 3 concurrent downloads from a single mirror... bad me! Bad)
Probably in their next revision (8.0). Actually, they ship it right now, as gcc3 packages rather than gcc-3. So if you want to use it, you can. Their testing must have shown that gcc 2.96-RH is the one they want to ship right now.
If they change their default compiler to gcc 3.x, then they'll up the version to 8.0 because that new compiler (mostly the C++ compiler, but maybe the Java one also) won't be binary compatible with the previous one.
And if that's the only reason for you, why don't you give it a go yourself? It's pretty easy to do, especially if your second choice of distro is Slackware rather than say Suse or even Debian.
Don't forget the version of the C++ compiler. I don't have the different version numbers shipped with the different distributions, but from one version to the other the ABI (application binary compatibility) is not guaranteed, if not plain absent.
IE, you can't link some part of a C++ program compiled with gcc-2.95.3 with some other compiled with gcc 3.0, although you can do the same thing with a C program.
I think the compiler thing will be one of the major compatibility changes for RH 8.0.
(And damn them, I left my dorm room last week!)
wget [f,ht]tp://path_to_iso_1/disk1.iso & wget [f,ht]tp://path_to_iso_1/disk2.iso & etc logout You may want to use nohup wget ... rather than wget directly if you intend to logout while downloading. ..., which sends it to the backgroud. Along with -o file, it enables you to have it in the backgroud and still have a log of what happens.
Or wget -b
Don't forget that some FTP servers will limit the number of concurrent connections a single host can sustain at a time. And if you download more than one image at the same time, you'll (likely) prevent somebody else from getting his.
How many PVRs (TiVo, etc.) were sold in the US over the few last years? A few (2-3) millions? So let's say that 3% of the population (about 3 people per household) have access to one of them. What's the percentage of those that actually use it use it for the purpose of skipping commercials (or what average percent of the time they use it for that)? Yeah, not very significant at the scale of the US.
So, basically Turner is pissed because overall, in the whole US, a fraction of a percent of their possible audience is skipping commercials.
Don't ever let them near a school! They'll go on a blood hunt for students not listening in class!
I don't know about all of you, but if I record a show to watch it later, I'll fast-forward through them when I'll watch the show. It's quite easy: you spot the time elapsed since the beginning of the show, press fast-forward, and when it's about to turn to 3 minutes you press play. Check your local commercial breaks for the exact duration.Of course you actually "see" them, but if you don't already know the ad there's almost no chance you can guess what product it is for. And if you absolutely don't want to see them, press stop before fast-forward and you'll skip them even faster!
Same thing on rental videos. There's usually a couple trailers for future releases at the beginning, along with a warning from the FBI. Press that same button on the remote, and they go away! I heard that some DVD players, in coordination with the actual DVD, prevented you from doing that, though.
Yearly raises recently came around at the company I work for, and my raise was 0.5%, a percent of a percent. So, I did what any self-respecting working stiff would do, I found a new job for a company that makes enough money to pay its employees.
What kind of yearly raise did you expected? Agreed, 0.5% is below the inflation, but you can't expect a 5-10% raise each year! Your company can't just charge 5-10% more each year to their costumers. And if they get more costumers, there's a good chance they'll need more employees, not higher paid employees.
In a couple of my internships (I'm beginning my masters), the yearly raises were calculated on an individual basis, wrt some objectives you wrote at the beginning of the year vs those you did acheived (and their scope). So if you stayed very low profile, you wouldn't get a huge raise, but if you helped design and implement the new whatever system (for internal use, and being the "costumer" rather than developper), then you'd get a very nice raise.
Although I agree with your recommendations (quit Divine and keep quick money for problems), I don't think your job switching (reason being a small raise) was a good move. If there was some other reason, like "The company is headed to hell", or "The lady in that office is harassing me", that's another story.
about the illegality of linking to their content back in 1966 but have since
1966? Excellent prior art for the BT patent!!
And a few answers from me...
./configure && make && make install, put DVD in and play. I'd say around 1 hour, with the longest time being buying the DVD-ROM and installing it in my computer.
... alot more.
Question 1: How long did it take you to get your linux box to play DVDs?
Buy DVD-ROM, install it in computer, download xine+plugins,
Question 2: How many times did you have to reboot?
Once, when I installed the DVD-ROM in the computer.
Question 3: How many kernels did you compile in the process?
None. Why would I recompile it? The DVD-ROM was already recognized, I use iso9660 on the DVDs if I ever mount them.
Question 4: How many CDs do you actually own?
If you count audio CDs, around 4. Data CDs, OTOH,
Don't think of that as if I have a shitload of MP3s: it's not my fault if I prefer TV to music!
Question 5: How many DVDs do you actually own?
One. Blockbuster is your friend. And your friends are your friends, too.
Question 6: Who are you going to sell your DVDs to when you have copied them to your hard disk?
Listen, I got my DVD in a cereal box. A Disney thing. Don't recall the title, and if you want to buy it, drop me a line.
Comment 1: What happened to the copy of windows that came conveniently bundled with your PC?
That's more a question than a comment. Anyway, there was none. It's not easy to have an OS bundled when all the parts come from different places. Should it come with the motherboard? Processor? Processors?
Comment 2: As a Linux Zealot, you will know that DivX is not standardised and therefore you cannot use it, as it is against everything you stand for.
Zealot? Nope. Just a user. Although I wouldn't use it because it usually relies on win32 dlls to work, and it usually means less stability for me.
Comment 3: There are no tools available that are legal for this purpose.
Depends on where you live. You're entitled to backup copies in some jurisdictions.
Now, I want a tool to do the backup for me rather than do it by hand with a hand calculator for the IDCT. Can I?
Comment 4: As you will know, the production of a tool like abcde for DVDs is against the DMCA, and so anyone who creates such a tool is likely to go to prison like Dimitry did.
If he didn't come to the US, he wouldn't have been arrested. As I said, there are some other juridictions with different laws than the US. Jon shouldn't have been arrested for something he did in Norway. A swastika is legal out of Germany and France. A pdf viewer for the disabled is legal in Russia.
What does all this leaves? I don't know. I'll continue to watch rented and lended DVDs on my Linux box, and you'll probably continue to think it is difficult/illegal to do so. Have a good day!
Apple users are now, for the most part, Unix users, too. And there are games that they may want to run that won't work under VirtualPC that just might work under WINE or WineX. Apple users don't have the luxury of being able to install a MS OS natively.
Using either Wine, WineX or ReWind (X11-license branch) won't help Mac users for now, since there's no CPU emulation in any of these. OTOH, VirtualPC does that (emulation of CPU). I don't own a Mac, so I'm not up to date on the subject, but the only OSS x86 emulator that I know of is Bochs. And I wouldn't recommend that to play games (slow as hell on a PIII-600).
Look at it the bright way! It'll be easier to find a look-alike in your home state or, if the database is shared by every state, in the whole USA! That way, you can get in touch with him and both of you can have great alibis :"I was in CA. I have witnesses." when they come after you for something in CT.
The other guy can do exactly the same.
Of course, then there's always the possibility that your lookalike is a criminal and you are mistaken for him...
What prevents a server from resizing (and/or clipping) another image format? You do need server support for this, right? So it's not just another image format (like PNG): it is more akin to some kind of data processing on the website which is then sent to the client. Am I correct this time?
Is it the way data is written to the file which makes it faster to resize?
Actually, nearly every browser scale the image they receive to fit the HEIGHT and WIDTH attributes of an IMG tag. That's what's used by 1x1 transparent GIFs to place some other images at the right place (pixel-wise), so you don't need a gazillion different transparent GIFs to fit all the dimensions you need in your site.
Now, if you'd like the browser to adapt the image to something else (eg. browser window width), it's on the browser side that you have to modify something, but it can be adapted to any type of image, not only JPEG2000. This way you don't need to do thumbnails, but you display the same data with 2 different zoom factors.
And if you do that on the server, zooms can be supported for any image type, you only need the proper module for your web-server. It might be faster for a JPEG2000, but I don't see anything special about JPEG2000 wrt server-side zooming.
My knowledge of CRTs is not perfect, but I'm pretty sure a (potentially very good) CRT can do 2048x1536x32bitsx75Hz, plus the various sync bandwidth which is lost when the electron beams are returning to "start position". That's already nearly 950MB/s. I just checked the ASUS website, and the new V8460 is able to fulfill just that. It's not for nothing that if you want a good signal, you need a good cable (interferences can be more harmful for a signal at a higher frequency).
Furthermore, if the values are refreshed 40 times per second, it's already lower than from the worst CRT you can get (lower bound being 60Hz, but you shouldn't settle for less than at least 80-85 by now). And you can't get the bandwidth back on resolution either, as it's also lower than a comparably sized CRT.
Even taking your framebuffer analogy, you still begin to transmit the data for one point (probably the top left, but I could be mistaken), then another, another, etc. until you get all the new values, and then you begin a new frame. It would be stupid to not display them until you have all of them: you'd have to store them, then transmit them (again!) from that storage to the liquid crystals. At least small LCDs (Hantronix, or could be Hektronix) work like that (pixels are displayed as soon as they arrive).
All this just to say that... oh ya, almost forgot the point of my first post. You said that CRTs were refreshed a line at the time, while LCDs were refreshed the whole screen at once, which led to less eyestrain, flicker and headache. I think what causes those 3 last things has more to do with the fact that the LCs stay in an orientation as long as they're not changed, or at least they don't go off as fast as a "pixel" from a CRT. So when you shoot an LCD, you can see it's steady, but when you play Quake, it's usually not updated as fast as you'd like (blurred images).
Then there's refresh. CRTs must refresh a line at a time, where LCDs refresh the whole screen at once; less headache, less flicker, less eyestrain. (emphasis mine)
Huh?
How are 1024x768x3 bytes (or more, I really hope it's more) supposed to travel between the video card and the LCD screen at the same time? Or are you saying that they are transferred at whatever speed, then buffered in the LCD, waiting to be sent to all the pixels at once? Even then I'd have a little problem with that.
Regarding your other counter-points (and the original points), all I can say is that my next monitor will most likely be a Viewsonic P225F. It's an easy pick: never had a problem with the company, and more than twice cheaper than the VP201M. And it has a higher resolution (I'm currently working at 1600x1200 on a 17", and I won't take anything smaller). But then, I'm not using it for digital photography.
So now, it'll be even easier to do nasty things with JS!
Who wants to take bets on when the first JS rootkit comes out?
Of course, this is hypothetical as long as nobody actually uses it. If somebody takes it and puts it a a web browser, that will be the end (or the beginning).
BTW, Windows already has that: ActiveX. You can see what kind of mess it can do.
Just finished installing RH 7.2, and it left a nice trail (not only a log) of what I did. So next time, I could just copy that file (kickstart) to an install floppy and it would bring it back to what I just installed. Be sure to check all the options (interactive or not, partionning, etc.).
I know RH has always been installable n network (ftp, nfs). Probably some other ones too (Debian). It's before you start that your problem lies (booting the computer to start the install). Sorry, I don't see how you could just hook a new PC to the network and start installing without being at the console.
Also, what do you use on the Wintel side? It works with your current hardware, right? Is it (or could it be made) enough OS agnostic to be used with Linux?
This could prevent some students of getting some jobs in the future.
.NET source code is mandatory for some classes. Now, could a student refuse to take a particular class or ask for an equivalence because of that? If not, it's like if they signed a whole lot of people into non-compete clauses, without much benefit for them! I'm not even talking about Free software here. They could probably prevent you from working for a competitor (Sun, Apple, etc.)
Suppose I enroll in one of those programs where the exposure to
The use of "sponsored" material in classes has always been dangerous, but when it can influence where you can or can't work after you graduate, it's just plain Not a Good Idea (tm).
My desklamp is a neon, and it's just above my monitor. Whenever I light it, even if I'm at 800x600@100Hz, it will flicker. So I never use it (prefer ambient light).
I also whitnessed some speakers doing some weird things to monitors. Another thing to check for.
He only talked about "pre-MacOS X" macs, not about Powermacs. I understood this as "it's been in use since a long time ago". My point was to show that LaTeX might have been in use since yet longer than the programs he alludes to.
Thank you for pointing those two to me, since I never used any of those. Well, at least for eqn and tbl. I know troff (groff) is still used by the man command, but I never thought it could be possible to use it for equations, articles or books.
(The fact that this discussion is about latex is purely a coincidence.)
Well, had time to read the answers of Mr Knuth before the start, so the point is rather moot.
I'll watch it anyway, at least to have a good reason to be scrap tomorrow morning (I live Eastern time) before I finish my taxes and those of my sister.
In the publishing field, there is quite a lot of software used before latex
And LaTeX has been in use since 1986 IIRC. The current version (LaTeX2e) dates from 1994. I'm not sure the first PowerPC was commercialised at that time.
Not to mention that LaTeX is an extension of TeX, which is even older. The TeXbook has been published in 1984, which was after the release of the program itself.
If you have some name of program used before LaTeX and still in use, could you name them for us? Thank you!