And what is the relationship between this and the Quicktime video codec?
I'd love to watch Quicktime movies or be able to capture Quicktime streams without requiring the Apple Quicktime video codec, much less being forced to install the Apple Quicktime player.
I've got the exact same problem with Firefox. I don't know why it takes forever for the app to start.
Another problem with Firefox is enabling javascript while having 20+ tabs open. CPU usage on my 1.8ghz 1 gig machine skyrockets to 90% to 100%.
I've had to set up multiple profiles for Firefox. My main profile is with javascript, images and java disabled. A secondary one with javascript and java disabled. And the use-in-case-of-emergency-only profile is normal mode (java, javascript, images enabled) since some sites (PayPal) require javascript to submit forms. I've disabled gif animation in all profiles since this seems to chew up CPU cycles.
All of these changes keeps Firefox from hogging my CPU and turning my 1.8 ghz machine into a 20mhz 386.
I tend to agree with you about police brutality. The police were far more brutal in the 40's, 50's and 60's because they themselves were killed in pretty high numbers compared to today. As the number of police officers killed in the line of duty have declined, police brutality has also declined. In a way, it's almost a "chicken or the egg" idea.
But will "ENLARGE YOUR PENIS!" be considered sexually explicit or just pandering to just the gullible?
I found found this item on the FTC site: "Finally, the final Rule incorporates the Sexually Explicit Labeling Rule as promulgated in April 2004. The Commission vote approving publication of the Federal Register notice was 4-0-1, with Commissioner Jon Leibowitz not participating."
Does this mean that Playboy, a soft-core magazine, or Maxim, even softer but orientated towards the adult male, would be considered "sexually explicit" or would the "sexually explicit" label be limited to hardcore pornography (sex, penetration, etc)?
I use a PII 333 for my mail server. No CPU fan, just a large heat sink. The thing runs in the low 50C range. The original poster either overclocked the hell out of the CPU or really botched the setup of the motherboard.
(5) Due to visa restrictions, foreign exchange students may not be able to get jobs outside of the university therefore universities rely upon them for cheap labor.
How come when I go to Netcraft and punch in photo.net I get the following results: http://www.photo.net was running AOLserver on Linux when last queried at 8-Nov-2004 04:52:37 GMT
AOLServer? Huh? I was expecting to see Zope (or OpenACS) on *nix but AOLServer? All the knowledgable posters said that Zope was a web server.
Dang!!! FreeBSD 5 is finally stable?! Just when I was getting ready to bury FreeBSD in my backyard.
Does anyone know about compatibility of NetBSD with things like Postgresql, MySQL, Apache and PHP? I was going to upgrade my Linux servers to FreeBSD-5-stable but if NetBSD runs faster and has better SMP than FreeBSD then I might consider NetBSD instead of FreeBSD.
I look at it like this, M$ can be at 0% (zero) profit growth for the rest of eternity, since they are raking in about $5 to $8 billion in profits every quarter, earning additional profit doesn't really matter to M$ (except for maniacal egomanic reasons).
Where does MySQL fit? Storing discussion forums, news sites, caching mailing lists, storing information, etc.
I would never use MySQL for financial transactions but for non-monetary usage it's a good general purpose database as long as your don't require complex business rules filled with lots of cascading actions.
Sorry to break the news to you buddy, but NiMH batteries are also 1.2volts. I've got about 60 NiMH AAs that I use in my digital cameras and all the AAs are all rated at 1.2v. They range from 1600 mA all the way up to 2400 mA.
I built an external battery pack consisting of D sized NiMH cells. The D sized NiMH batteries are also rated at 1.2 volts. These are 9500mAh batteries.
I made the mistake of installing M$ DirectX 9 on a couple of clean Win98 and Win2K machines. Those computers began crashing multiple times per day just doing simple stuff like surfing the web, playing MP3s, or editing graphics.
I found a freeware DirectX 9 uninstaller (since M$ claims you cannot uninstall DirectX) and installed DirectX 8.1 instead. The Win2K machines became rather stable (for a Windoze box), requiring a reboot maybe once a week. The Win98 machine will crash every other day instead of every few hours.
DirectX 9 is a huge problem.
Wow! Don't tell me you work in IT. Nobody in their right mind is going to cram a binary image of a DVD into a database. A fool might. A smart person will not.
The stored procedures in Postgres stink. Sybase's stored procedures are magnitudes better than Postgres. Also, Sybase has, arguable, the best documentation in the business. Postgres' documentation is somewhere between mediocre and marginally bad. Postgres is just getting around to replication and clustering. Sybase has had it for a while.
When working on M$'s SQL Server, it's not unusual for me to pull out my Sybase documentation. This is especially true when working with Transact SQL and stored procedures. M$ added some junk to TSQL in SQL2000 that's incompatible with Sybase but for the most part jumping from one to another is largely transparent.
I work at a medium sized real estate management company. Our financial data going back to 1994 is no more than 2 gigs max.
5 gigs is plenty for most, unless you are a hardcore pr0n freak. A heavy duty pr0n fanatic probably needs about 1 to 3 gigs a day to keep up with their fetish.
That's what I did: got an NEC dual format burner (~$100 US). I also have a single format Sony DVD+R burner but I got it dirt cheap (~$70 US).
I just bought a Philips console DVD player (DVP642, ~$70 US) that plays DVD/DIVX 3.x,4.x,5.x/MPEG4/VCD/MPEG1, MP3 and audio CDs. There are less expensive home DVD console players (I've seen them as low as $30), but this thing plays almost all the major formats and it automatically resizes between PAL and NTSC DVDs.
Taking screen caps of your desktop does not reflect the color spectrum as it exists in nature.
Here's a better idea for you (if you really want to do a true check of image quality vs. compression vs. size): get a 3+ megapixel digital camera, set it to RAW mode (many are in TIFF format). Take some snapshots outside where there is a large variety of objects and colors. Do the conversions to PNG and JPEG. Then report your findings.
*Note: If you don't have a digital camera that can shoot 3 megapixels or higher go to candidboard , and borrow some of their content for testing purposes.
Like the other poster said, compare them on equal machines.
On my 1.3 ghz machines with 1.5 gigs of ram, it takes Linux well over 30 seconds for the login prompt to show. Starting XDM and connecting with an X server adds another 15 to 30 seconds.
The only machines that I have Win95 loaded on are p100, p133 and p200 systems with 64 megs of RAM. I do have Win2k on a 1.3 ghz system but it's only got 512 megs of ram and it uses 5400 rpm IDE not 10000 rpm SCSI drives like the Linux systems, so bootup comparisons are not valid.
As far as GUI desktops are concerned, I am mostly agnostic towards Win95/2K/XP, KDE or Gnome. All I care about is that I can copy and paste between apps running on the desktop and that they all use the same keystrokes for copying, cutting and pasting (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V).
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And what is the relationship between this and the Quicktime video codec?
I'd love to watch Quicktime movies or be able to capture Quicktime streams without requiring the Apple Quicktime video codec, much less being forced to install the Apple Quicktime player.
I've got the exact same problem with Firefox. I don't know why it takes forever for the app to start.
Another problem with Firefox is enabling javascript while having 20+ tabs open. CPU usage on my 1.8ghz 1 gig machine skyrockets to 90% to 100%.
I've had to set up multiple profiles for Firefox. My main profile is with javascript, images and java disabled. A secondary one with javascript and java disabled. And the use-in-case-of-emergency-only profile is normal mode (java, javascript, images enabled) since some sites (PayPal) require javascript to submit forms. I've disabled gif animation in all profiles since this seems to chew up CPU cycles.
All of these changes keeps Firefox from hogging my CPU and turning my 1.8 ghz machine into a 20mhz 386.
I tend to agree with you about police brutality. The police were far more brutal in the 40's, 50's and 60's because they themselves were killed in pretty high numbers compared to today. As the number of police officers killed in the line of duty have declined, police brutality has also declined. In a way, it's almost a "chicken or the egg" idea.
Firefox 1.0 displays Slashdot perfectly on my XP machine.
I have disabled images, javascript, java and am running adblock.
But will "ENLARGE YOUR PENIS!" be considered sexually explicit or just pandering to just the gullible?
I found found this item on the FTC site:
"Finally, the final Rule incorporates the Sexually Explicit Labeling Rule as promulgated in April 2004. The Commission vote approving publication of the Federal Register notice was 4-0-1, with Commissioner Jon Leibowitz not participating."
Does this mean that Playboy, a soft-core magazine, or Maxim, even softer but orientated towards the adult male, would be considered "sexually explicit" or would the "sexually explicit" label be limited to hardcore pornography (sex, penetration, etc)?
I agree.
I use a PII 333 for my mail server. No CPU fan, just a large heat sink. The thing runs in the low 50C range. The original poster either overclocked the hell out of the CPU or really botched the setup of the motherboard.
(5) Due to visa restrictions, foreign exchange students may not be able to get jobs outside of the university therefore universities rely upon them for cheap labor.
*Note: My guess about student visa restrictions.
You left out the most obvious:
Linux is a Unix work-alike
How come when I go to Netcraft and punch in photo.net I get the following results:
http://www.photo.net was running AOLserver on Linux when last queried at 8-Nov-2004 04:52:37 GMT
AOLServer? Huh? I was expecting to see Zope (or OpenACS) on *nix but AOLServer? All the knowledgable posters said that Zope was a web server.
Dang!!! FreeBSD 5 is finally stable?! Just when I was getting ready to bury FreeBSD in my backyard.
Does anyone know about compatibility of NetBSD with things like Postgresql, MySQL, Apache and PHP? I was going to upgrade my Linux servers to FreeBSD-5-stable but if NetBSD runs faster and has better SMP than FreeBSD then I might consider NetBSD instead of FreeBSD.
I look at it like this, M$ can be at 0% (zero) profit growth for the rest of eternity, since they are raking in about $5 to $8 billion in profits every quarter, earning additional profit doesn't really matter to M$ (except for maniacal egomanic reasons).
Where does MySQL fit? Storing discussion forums, news sites, caching mailing lists, storing information, etc.
I would never use MySQL for financial transactions but for non-monetary usage it's a good general purpose database as long as your don't require complex business rules filled with lots of cascading actions.
Sorry to break the news to you buddy, but NiMH batteries are also 1.2volts. I've got about 60 NiMH AAs that I use in my digital cameras and all the AAs are all rated at 1.2v. They range from 1600 mA all the way up to 2400 mA.
I built an external battery pack consisting of D sized NiMH cells. The D sized NiMH batteries are also rated at 1.2 volts. These are 9500mAh batteries.
No, a real company would've used Apache on FreeBSD (the real BSD, not the Mac impersonation) on x86 hardware.
I'm able to use EBay with IE 5.0, Opera 7.5 and Firefox 1.0PR. My firewall is Kerio Personal Firewall not Zone Alarm. Maybe that's the difference.
Suxs to be you...
I made the mistake of installing M$ DirectX 9 on a couple of clean Win98 and Win2K machines. Those computers began crashing multiple times per day just doing simple stuff like surfing the web, playing MP3s, or editing graphics. I found a freeware DirectX 9 uninstaller (since M$ claims you cannot uninstall DirectX) and installed DirectX 8.1 instead. The Win2K machines became rather stable (for a Windoze box), requiring a reboot maybe once a week. The Win98 machine will crash every other day instead of every few hours. DirectX 9 is a huge problem.
Wow! Don't tell me you work in IT. Nobody in their right mind is going to cram a binary image of a DVD into a database. A fool might. A smart person will not.
The stored procedures in Postgres stink. Sybase's stored procedures are magnitudes better than Postgres. Also, Sybase has, arguable, the best documentation in the business. Postgres' documentation is somewhere between mediocre and marginally bad. Postgres is just getting around to replication and clustering. Sybase has had it for a while.
When working on M$'s SQL Server, it's not unusual for me to pull out my Sybase documentation. This is especially true when working with Transact SQL and stored procedures. M$ added some junk to TSQL in SQL2000 that's incompatible with Sybase but for the most part jumping from one to another is largely transparent.
I work at a medium sized real estate management company. Our financial data going back to 1994 is no more than 2 gigs max.
5 gigs is plenty for most, unless you are a hardcore pr0n freak. A heavy duty pr0n fanatic probably needs about 1 to 3 gigs a day to keep up with their fetish.
If I had any mod points left, I'd mod the parent post as a troll.
I use PHP/MySQL. I also use M$ Access. I've also used FoxPro, FileMaker and SQL Server.
Comparing FileMaker to PHP/MySQL is like comparing apples to spinach. Being part of the same generalized group does not mean they are interchangeable.
The user/developer base, and technical skill levels of the two groups are quite different.
I got the Sony and NEC about a year ago and I included shipping, handling and taxes, etc, etc.
That's what I did: got an NEC dual format burner (~$100 US). I also have a single format Sony DVD+R burner but I got it dirt cheap (~$70 US).
I just bought a Philips console DVD player (DVP642, ~$70 US) that plays DVD/DIVX 3.x,4.x,5.x/MPEG4/VCD/MPEG1, MP3 and audio CDs. There are less expensive home DVD console players (I've seen them as low as $30), but this thing plays almost all the major formats and it automatically resizes between PAL and NTSC DVDs.
So does this change in Office mean M$'s VBA viruses will now run on their server instead of my workstation?
Taking screen caps of your desktop does not reflect the color spectrum as it exists in nature.
Here's a better idea for you (if you really want to do a true check of image quality vs. compression vs. size): get a 3+ megapixel digital camera, set it to RAW mode (many are in TIFF format). Take some snapshots outside where there is a large variety of objects and colors. Do the conversions to PNG and JPEG. Then report your findings.
*Note: If you don't have a digital camera that can shoot 3 megapixels or higher go to candidboard , and borrow some of their content for testing purposes.
1. Clear your browser cache.
2. Close your browser.
3. Restart your browser.
4. Revisit the link
Then you'll see the first paragraph and the fee message come up.
Like the other poster said, compare them on equal machines.
On my 1.3 ghz machines with 1.5 gigs of ram, it takes Linux well over 30 seconds for the login prompt to show. Starting XDM and connecting with an X server adds another 15 to 30 seconds.
The only machines that I have Win95 loaded on are p100, p133 and p200 systems with 64 megs of RAM. I do have Win2k on a 1.3 ghz system but it's only got 512 megs of ram and it uses 5400 rpm IDE not 10000 rpm SCSI drives like the Linux systems, so bootup comparisons are not valid.
As far as GUI desktops are concerned, I am mostly agnostic towards Win95/2K/XP, KDE or Gnome. All I care about is that I can copy and paste between apps running on the desktop and that they all use the same keystrokes for copying, cutting and pasting (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V).