I actually convinced my boss to order me a brand new Model M keyboard, and in my opinion it's the best damn keyboard there is.
Tactile feedback people, tactile feedback... (of course, my colleagues aren't too intrigued about the clicking of the mecanic keyswitches...). I'd recommend this keyboard for anyone that does a serious amount of coding/writing in their work.
I would recommend you to try Planescape: Torment, a game from 1999. I think it is the best computer role playing game ever. Really good story, great character development and real ethical decisions.
It takes a couple of hours to get into the game, but it is worth it.
To prevent some Debian trolling I want to clarify some facts about the release model used by the Debian project.
Debian always provides a stable distribution. This distribution is guaranteed to, yes you guessed it, be stable. That is if you install Debian stable on a server you know that you won't have to update configuration files because the application has changed its internal format and suchlike.
This does not mean that the stable distribution is never updated, in fact Debian has a security team that fixes security bugs and backports security fixes from newer versions of a package.
The stable distribution has a quite slow release cycle, but there is no reason for a desktop user to run the stable distribution. You can run either the unstable distribution, that regardless of its name is quite stable, or you can run the testing distribution.
The unstable and testing distributions have really large collections of packages and are updated each day, updating your distribution is as simple as typing:
#apt-get update #apt-get dist-upgrade
A desktop user can also opt to run a Debian-derivative like Ubuntu.
Sounds like you want the POWER5 processor from IBM.
Dual-core with simultaneous multithreading for each core, 4 chips (8 cores) can be connected together on a module and modules can be connected with each other forming up to 64-way systems.
Each processor chip has 1.875MiB on-chip L2-cache and 36 MiB off-chip L34-cache.
And yes, it is a server processor and no you won't be able to afford it...
Actually the first 64k intro (as the small ones were/are usually called) created using this tool was The product (das produkt) released at The Party and ranked 1st in the intro competition.
A really mind-blowing piece of work considering it was made four years ago and fit into 64k, be sure to check it out.
I am completely baffled by software companies
thinking they can accomplish something by trying to impose
tougher and tougher copy protection on their software.
I think that the approach that some companies have taken
nowadays, to offer people free personal editions of a
product is better both to the end-user and to the company.
As an example let me talk a little about Trolltechs
approach with Qt and Borlands approach with JBuilder
In both these cases I as an end-user get access to a good product
that I can try out and build my own opinion of, not influenced
by marketing hype.
If I like the products, I'll be more inclined towards using them in a
production enviroment, and I'll gladly buy The Product
(pun intended).
On the other hand, if I don't have a chance to try out a companies products before I buy them, or if
I am forced to withstand outrageous license agreements, phone-home "features" or
Digital Rights Management then that company can forget to have me
as a customer. I'll get something else...
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I actually convinced my boss to order me a brand new Model M keyboard, and in my opinion it's the best damn keyboard there is.
Tactile feedback people, tactile feedback... (of course, my colleagues aren't too intrigued about the clicking of the mecanic keyswitches...). I'd recommend this keyboard for anyone that does a serious amount of coding/writing in their work.
But we all know that Paula is versatile. She might already have created a brilliant AJAX application.
I would recommend you to try Planescape: Torment, a game from 1999. I think it is the best computer role playing game ever. Really good story, great character development and real ethical decisions. It takes a couple of hours to get into the game, but it is worth it.
To prevent some Debian trolling I want to clarify some facts about the release model used by the Debian project.
Debian always provides a stable distribution. This distribution is guaranteed to, yes you guessed it, be stable. That is if you install Debian stable on a server you know that you won't have to update configuration files because the application has changed its internal format and suchlike.
This does not mean that the stable distribution is never updated, in fact Debian has a security team that fixes security bugs and backports security fixes from newer versions of a package.
The stable distribution has a quite slow release cycle, but there is no reason for a desktop user to run the stable distribution. You can run either the unstable distribution, that regardless of its name is quite stable, or you can run the testing distribution.
The unstable and testing distributions have really large collections of packages and are updated each day, updating your distribution is as simple as typing:
A desktop user can also opt to run a Debian-derivative like Ubuntu.
Sounds like you want the POWER5 processor from IBM.
Dual-core with simultaneous multithreading for each core, 4 chips (8 cores) can be connected together on a module and modules can be connected with each other forming up to 64-way systems.
Each processor chip has 1.875MiB on-chip L2-cache and 36 MiB off-chip L34-cache.
And yes, it is a server processor and no you won't be able to afford it...
The kernel is the last missing piece? What's the first piece, an integrated browser?
Yes, they named it emacs
Actually one of the more popular bittorrent trackers, The Pirate Bay, regularly gets cease and desist letters from american companies.
The site is located in Sweden though, and the owners of the site usually answer the letters in quite insulting and patronizing ways.
The letters and the answers can be found here, I recommend reading them.
Actually the first 64k intro (as the small ones were/are usually called) created using this tool was The product (das produkt) released at The Party and ranked 1st in the intro competition.
A really mind-blowing piece of work considering it was made four years ago and fit into 64k, be sure to check it out.
Tvtime does what you want. It can use the dscaler dll's to deinterlace the signal so you get the same image quality as when using dscaler.
No, no, no
The website contained 100% factual information, although written in a very humorous way
You cannot accuse SCO of doing that, more like the opposite
This guy probably has a career in marketing ahead of him though.
As an example let me talk a little about Trolltechs approach with Qt and Borlands approach with JBuilder In both these cases I as an end-user get access to a good product that I can try out and build my own opinion of, not influenced by marketing hype.
If I like the products, I'll be more inclined towards using them in a production enviroment, and I'll gladly buy The Product (pun intended).
On the other hand, if I don't have a chance to try out a companies products before I buy them, or if I am forced to withstand outrageous license agreements, phone-home "features" or Digital Rights Management then that company can forget to have me as a customer. I'll get something else...
AFS is a really cool distributed filesystem and is used widely at many universities, I would like to see it used more in enterprise enviroments.
A good free AFS implementation is Arla. Another one is, as a previous poster pointed out, OpenAFS