Oh yeah, I used to have a 3-stage tube amp for my guitar (when I had one), and it was sweet. Transistor distortion and feedback are so different and mechanical sounding than the sound that tube amps provide. And there's relatively little danger of burning out a tube amp, compared to a mosfet amp or something. Unless, of course, your name is Jimi Hendrix.
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Don't forget Alma Gates, creator of The Beast, a Ford Bronco with a 48,000 watt sound system that's louder by a factor of eight or so than a 747 jet engine. Alma's a 6-something retired schoolteacher.
Okay, so maybe that's not the usual definition of audiophile, but she does exhibit quite a love for her kind of audio.
High-end audio equipment actually colors sound in a way that they find pleasing, I think; rather than providing perfect reproduction. Witness the typical audiophile's love of vinyl and tubes, which don't offer anything like faithful reproduction. They do, however, provide a characteristic coloration which many people find enjoyable.
If you enable and use DFSA, you might get some mileage out of it. But in general, Mosix makes a cluster of computers look like a big SMP system. Anything that uses shared memory and/or incurs lots of I/O will probably not migrate, and if you force it, will run slower. Remote I/O is not as efficient, and puts additional load on the home-node processor.
You might be better off writing pvm-aware plugins for gimp...
Re:Imagine the tech support call from this kid?
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Try this instead:
"Oh my God! My son took apart the smoke detector, and, and, oh my God! I think he ate parts of it! Some parts are radioactive, right? Which ones? Which ones??!!?"
... and the person on the other end gladly tells which parts.
Their laptops are intentionally damaged during the design phase; I have a Compaq Presario something or another that has its bios more or less wired to work only with Compaq's version on Win98. Installing Win2k, Linux, QNX, or anything else on it may result in the hard drive being overwritten by the "hibernate" feature, which is impossible to disable in the BIOS. Apparently if it doesn't find its special file in its special place, it just starts writing somewhere on the disk. I called Compaq Tech Support and spoke with them at length, and they finally just admitted that this model was designed to work only with '98 as supplied on their Recovery CD. "So you took this hardware and froze it in time?" I asked. "Yes," tech support said. "I'll not be buying a Compaq laptop again," I said. "That's probably a good idea, but you didn't hear me say it," tech support said.
Plus, the battery doesn't work well, and the (internal) charger quit working after a few months.
Don't buy a compaq, no matter how cool the blurry PR photos from that VP look.
Does your Unix support DMAPI? Perhaps you could get a look at what's its doing using that. Maybe a plugin for ReiserFS, if you're using that, to get a look at what the changes are that it makes.
You might be able to use a TV as the "monitor" -- see here for instructions. Requires TV with RGB SCART input. Gamers may already know what SCART is, but for the rest of you, it means "Syndicat des Constructeurs d'Appareils Radiorécepteurs et Téléviseurs." SCART is for connecting dissimilar A/V systems together. It's popular in Europe where they have those funny Pal systems:) Here is a little info. And here is some more.
but it also has something else, something which is quite interesting and isn't usually held by a corporation: OBLIGATIONS.
Call your congressman and ask that NSOL's contract be discontinued, and that OpenSRS/Tucows be given the business. OpenSRS, for those who do not know, is a very open registration system run by Tucows; lots of other registrars' service is based on it, and lots of ISPs use it as well. While you're at it, ask that NSOL's corporate charter be revoked, and the.us domain be given to OpenSRS as well, or perhaps some University -- MIT, maybe...
Didn't Ayn Rand just HATE govenment-granted monopolies?
Why, yes, she did. So did the American colonists, especially the bunch that tossed all that tea into the harbor.
Um, the Love Canal was a dump, sanctioned by the government for use by that company. When they were done with it, they sealed it up and covered it over, and kept people off of it. Then, the local government decided they wanted to build a school there, and forced the company to sell the property, over its protests. The company kept saying that it was a waste dump site, and nothing -- especially not a school -- should be built there. Waht did they get for their efforts? Blamed for the actions of the government that did the stupid thing anyway.
Love Canal is a bad example if you're looking to villanize business and lift up government.
Thank you for that wonderful post. The course of action is clear: abolition of the corporation as a legal entity. Shortly after Lincoln's warning, we saw the rise of the "robber baron," the establishment of bottomless welfare for banks and other financial institutions (payed for by the taxpayers), the War Powers Act, and then the Great Depression. Yum.
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An exceptional example: "Thousands of them wrote texts, some of them monuments of dullness" (Robert L. Heilbroner).
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Oh yeah, I used to have a 3-stage tube amp for my guitar (when I had one), and it was sweet. Transistor distortion and feedback are so different and mechanical sounding than the sound that tube amps provide. And there's relatively little danger of burning out a tube amp, compared to a mosfet amp or something. Unless, of course, your name is Jimi Hendrix.
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Don't forget Alma Gates, creator of The Beast, a Ford Bronco with a 48,000 watt sound system that's louder by a factor of eight or so than a 747 jet engine. Alma's a 6-something retired schoolteacher.
Okay, so maybe that's not the usual definition of audiophile, but she does exhibit quite a love for her kind of audio.
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High-end audio equipment actually colors sound in a way that they find pleasing, I think; rather than providing perfect reproduction. Witness the typical audiophile's love of vinyl and tubes, which don't offer anything like faithful reproduction. They do, however, provide a characteristic coloration which many people find enjoyable.
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From the FAQ:
I think Darwin, and therefore OSX, is FreeBSD-based, so vtun might work. Don't know how Mach would play into it, though...
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Slashdot: Reuse, Reduce, Regret. Er, Recycle.
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I thought that article looked familiar. And yep, posted on Slashdot not too long ago.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/27/17242
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If you enable and use DFSA, you might get some mileage out of it. But in general, Mosix makes a cluster of computers look like a big SMP system. Anything that uses shared memory and/or incurs lots of I/O will probably not migrate, and if you force it, will run slower. Remote I/O is not as efficient, and puts additional load on the home-node processor.
You might be better off writing pvm-aware plugins for gimp...
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When I saw th news, my first thought was, "woohoo! less spam!"
I've been hating psinet for years.
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http://www.flyingbuttmonkeys.com/linux.ogg
enjoy!
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http://www.flyingbuttmonkeys.com/linux.mp3
Enjoy!
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Be patient...
esdmon | sox -t raw -w -c2 -s -r 44100 - -t wav - | gogo stdin linux.mp3 -m m -b 64
8^D
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Try this instead:
"Oh my God! My son took apart the smoke detector, and, and, oh my God! I think he ate parts of it! Some parts are radioactive, right? Which ones? Which ones??!!?"
... and the person on the other end gladly tells which parts.
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Marvin could kick HAL's shiny metal ass any day of the century.
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Their laptops are intentionally damaged during the design phase; I have a Compaq Presario something or another that has its bios more or less wired to work only with Compaq's version on Win98. Installing Win2k, Linux, QNX, or anything else on it may result in the hard drive being overwritten by the "hibernate" feature, which is impossible to disable in the BIOS. Apparently if it doesn't find its special file in its special place, it just starts writing somewhere on the disk. I called Compaq Tech Support and spoke with them at length, and they finally just admitted that this model was designed to work only with '98 as supplied on their Recovery CD. "So you took this hardware and froze it in time?" I asked. "Yes," tech support said. "I'll not be buying a Compaq laptop again," I said. "That's probably a good idea, but you didn't hear me say it," tech support said.
Plus, the battery doesn't work well, and the (internal) charger quit working after a few months.
Don't buy a compaq, no matter how cool the blurry PR photos from that VP look.
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Does your Unix support DMAPI? Perhaps you could get a look at what's its doing using that. Maybe a plugin for ReiserFS, if you're using that, to get a look at what the changes are that it makes.
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The site at http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/circuits/vga2tv / also has info on VGA -> TV conversion.
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You might be able to use a TV as the "monitor" -- see here for instructions. Requires TV with RGB SCART input. Gamers may already know what SCART is, but for the rest of you, it means "Syndicat des Constructeurs d'Appareils Radiorécepteurs et Téléviseurs." SCART is for connecting dissimilar A/V systems together. It's popular in Europe where they have those funny Pal systems :) Here is a little info. And here is some more.
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but it also has something else, something which is quite interesting and isn't usually held by a corporation: OBLIGATIONS.
.us domain be given to OpenSRS as well, or perhaps some University -- MIT, maybe...
Call your congressman and ask that NSOL's contract be discontinued, and that OpenSRS/Tucows be given the business. OpenSRS, for those who do not know, is a very open registration system run by Tucows; lots of other registrars' service is based on it, and lots of ISPs use it as well. While you're at it, ask that NSOL's corporate charter be revoked, and the
Didn't Ayn Rand just HATE govenment-granted monopolies?
Why, yes, she did. So did the American colonists, especially the bunch that tossed all that tea into the harbor.
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Industry just wants to take our money, and in so doing will end up raping our planet.
Q: Why is it that most pollution comes from governments directly, and/or happens on government lands?
Q: why are forests the straddle a public-private boundary in better condition on the private side? Including forests owned by paper companies?
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Um, the Love Canal was a dump, sanctioned by the government for use by that company. When they were done with it, they sealed it up and covered it over, and kept people off of it. Then, the local government decided they wanted to build a school there, and forced the company to sell the property, over its protests. The company kept saying that it was a waste dump site, and nothing -- especially not a school -- should be built there. Waht did they get for their efforts? Blamed for the actions of the government that did the stupid thing anyway.
Love Canal is a bad example if you're looking to villanize business and lift up government.
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Thank you for that wonderful post. The course of action is clear: abolition of the corporation as a legal entity. Shortly after Lincoln's warning, we saw the rise of the "robber baron," the establishment of bottomless welfare for banks and other financial institutions (payed for by the taxpayers), the War Powers Act, and then the Great Depression. Yum.
:)
Let's get back to the future.
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Simple solution:
Get rid of corporations. We didn't always have them, you know.
Or, apply a single legal standard to all persons, real or fictitious (corporate).
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CRAP!!
That, and the lameness filter is pretty lame.
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Thanks! The net is a wonderful source of information, some of it true. :)
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Monument:
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