The first thing I thought of when reading this article was the scene towards the begining of the movie Sneekers where the main charactor is flashing back to collage where he and a buddy hack into some big name's bank accounts and used them to make donations to interesting causes. So the question is, Who's been sneeking?
I won't argue that XP does or doesn't need an extraordinary amount of RAM.
I didn't notice the difference after adding RAM. It always had 512. The difference came after disabling virtual memory. I'm not argueing, just adding a workaround for sluggish XP boxes.
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I use XP on a new laptop. I bought it with 512meg of ram and just recently configured it to stop using virtual memory. It is absolutly amazing how much more responsive it is. It boots faster, programs load faster and if you load a program, close it and reload it, snap your fingers and it's there. I use a cad system (www.solidworks.com) that takes 30-90 seconds to load (I never timed it, just an estimate) on my desktop Win2k and my laptop XP. I can close the program on my desktop machine and immediately restart it, and wait 30-90 seconds again, the laptop has no such wait.
BTW, I love having a ten key pad on the side of my laptop keyboard. You should check out www.sagernotebooks.com I'm very happy with my NP8560.
You've got it backwards. The stresses do go down by something like the square of the sizes. But the power output decreases by something like the cube of the sizes. The rub (pun intended) is that while power is decreasing by cubes, friction is only decreasing by squares. So as you get smaller, the poweroutput/friction ratio is getting smaller.
In particular I was interested in seeing what messages would show up for me in the new Slashdot messenging system. I got notes for both time I was mod'ed -1 Offtopic, and notifying me of your reply.
Thank you for you assistance in my (not so) scientific experiment.
This reminded me of the one of the first lessons in my intro to physics 101 class, the, The Physics of Lilliput. That lesson stated that a structure can not scale perfectly from small to large like the Lilliputions and Gulliver, simply because with a liner increase of size the mass of the object (human body) cubes but the strenth of its support (cross section of it's legs) only squares.
This guy has some interesting articles, including one that focuses on physics involved in the dinosaures skeletons. There are lots of links, cruise over and have a look.
Warning he is seriously focused on creationism. True or false, I'll not say but an interesting arguement either way.
I saw the advisory on NTBugTraq and the fix, the default install of either IE 5.01 or IE 5.5. So I got the latest and... well the latest anyways. IE 5.5 munched my computer and it has so far taken about 2.5hrs and a half dozen reboots to get functional again. Microsoft sucks, I wish I didn't have to use it here at work!
Can this thing breath life in to my windows applications as well? I'm stuck using design software on windows at work and sometimes it is just dog slow.
Anyone want to help out a poor windows user yearning to break free?
I bought RedHat recently but it won't play nice with my video card, maybe Corel will work better. I have the 311 meg.iso file, a cd burner, now what do I do with it?
Perhaps because it may be possible to divine some of thier hardware voodoo by what the driver itself is doing. So they don't release driver source to at least slow the reverse engineering process.
It would be hard to count how many classes in high school I got kicked out of because the dice rolled off the vellvet bag and clattered on the desk. It would be even harder to count how much money I spent replace said dice after they were confiscated by the teacher.
Strange how the muscle bound idiots bothered me less when it became obvious that I was in "TROUBLE" more often then they were.
I use the computer screen exclusively for any document or drawing that is in work or in any other way not static. But if it is static it gets printed. I have found that this is some small part relieves my eye strain. My crt is adjusted fairly bright so that I can more easily see detials (I'm a CAD draftsman by trade). But this makes text, which is usually black on white, difficult to read.
I just wish I could adjust/. to look more like http://slashdot.org/tacohell/
In your car you can connect only one of the wires from the stereo to your speaker and ground the other wire to the car. Your car is alway negative so the juice can't go the other way. It doesn't alternate back and forth, just current up and down. High current pushes the cone away from the magnet. Alternating this is what makes the speaker cone go in and out.
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My favorite fake address is
not@telling.com
The first thing I thought of when reading this article was the scene towards the begining of the movie Sneekers where the main charactor is flashing back to collage where he and a buddy hack into some big name's bank accounts and used them to make donations to interesting causes. So the question is, Who's been sneeking?
I won't argue that XP does or doesn't need an extraordinary amount of RAM.
I didn't notice the difference after adding RAM. It always had 512. The difference came after disabling virtual memory. I'm not argueing, just adding a workaround for sluggish XP boxes.
I use XP on a new laptop. I bought it with 512meg of ram and just recently configured it to stop using virtual memory. It is absolutly amazing how much more responsive it is. It boots faster, programs load faster and if you load a program, close it and reload it, snap your fingers and it's there. I use a cad system (www.solidworks.com) that takes 30-90 seconds to load (I never timed it, just an estimate) on my desktop Win2k and my laptop XP. I can close the program on my desktop machine and immediately restart it, and wait 30-90 seconds again, the laptop has no such wait.
BTW, I love having a ten key pad on the side of my laptop keyboard. You should check out www.sagernotebooks.com I'm very happy with my NP8560.
I watch it regularly, sort of the mental health version of asking your friend to punch you in the stomach to see if you can take it.
I have the Christmas special. Do you really want it?
You've got it backwards. The stresses do go down by something like the square of the sizes. But the power output decreases by something like the cube of the sizes. The rub (pun intended) is that while power is decreasing by cubes, friction is only decreasing by squares. So as you get smaller, the poweroutput/friction ratio is getting smaller.
In particular I was interested in seeing what messages would show up for me in the new Slashdot messenging system. I got notes for both time I was mod'ed -1 Offtopic, and notifying me of your reply.
Thank you for you assistance in my (not so) scientific experiment.
Testing what happens when I post random crap.
It's amazing that I've never heard of a hole in Yahoo's webmail.
and a monster screen
http://www.sagernotebook.com/index.html
This guy has some interesting articles, including one that focuses on physics involved in the dinosaures skeletons. There are lots of links, cruise over and have a look.
Warning he is seriously focused on creationism. True or false, I'll not say but an interesting arguement either way.
Doesn't apply to me because I only crack within my country.
Don't sites like http://www.shouldexist.org/ also provide a sort of board for displaying prior art?
I saw the advisory on NTBugTraq and the fix, the default install of either IE 5.01 or IE 5.5. So I got the latest and ... well the latest anyways. IE 5.5 munched my computer and it has so far taken about 2.5hrs and a half dozen reboots to get functional again. Microsoft sucks, I wish I didn't have to use it here at work!
Can this thing breath life in to my windows applications as well? I'm stuck using design software on windows at work and sometimes it is just dog slow.
The BIG NEW THING about this chip is that is supports the os. It pretends to be a x86 chip.
2 gig? I have more mp3's than that!
Anyone want to help out a poor windows user yearning to break free?
.iso file, a cd burner, now what do I do with it?
I bought RedHat recently but it won't play nice with my video card, maybe Corel will work better. I have the 311 meg
Thanks for your ohh so wonderfull advise!
There is too a Q3 test. I downloaded it just the other day. It is much more entertaining than Q2 was.
You can pick up your copy right here. I wonder how A.J. got his hands on it!
Perhaps because it may be possible to divine some of thier hardware voodoo by what the driver itself is doing. So they don't release driver source to at least slow the reverse engineering process.
Or I could be wrong.
Hee Hee
Mandrake has been slashdotted!
I wonder if it pisses him off when his fans crash his server. Or maybe not crashed, just bogged.
It would be hard to count how many classes in high school I got kicked out of because the dice rolled off the vellvet bag and clattered on the desk. It would be even harder to count how much money I spent replace said dice after they were confiscated by the teacher.
Strange how the muscle bound idiots bothered me less when it became obvious that I was in "TROUBLE" more often then they were.
I use the computer screen exclusively for any document or drawing that is in work or in any other way not static. But if it is static it gets printed. I have found that this is some small part relieves my eye strain. My crt is adjusted fairly bright so that I can more easily see detials (I'm a CAD draftsman by trade). But this makes text, which is usually black on white, difficult to read.
/. to look more like http://slashdot.org/tacohell/
I just wish I could adjust
It's much easier on my peepers
In your car you can connect only one of the wires from the stereo to your speaker and ground the other wire to the car. Your car is alway negative so the juice can't go the other way. It doesn't alternate back and forth, just current up and down. High current pushes the cone away from the magnet. Alternating this is what makes the speaker cone go in and out.