there's the pig-froker who dreamed up scroll bars that snap back to their original position if your mouse cursor gets too far away from them during a drag.
I just tried this in Linux (Gnome 2.8). It seems not affected. I can grab the scrollbar, and move my mouse all the way to the left side of the screen, outside of firefox completely, and still scroll.
"Building" a Mame cabinet is no where as hard as it used to be because there's been great advancements in the mame cabinet building community, and a ton of support "niche" market providers to create products that make it really easy to convert an existing cabinet (or build your own)... hell there's even a book on the topic to step you throuh the process.
Yeah, it's not hard. I picked up Project Arcade from Barnes and Noble on a whim and then decided to build my own cocktail arcade. It wasn't that difficult. I spent $370 total.
Here's a couple of tips, first, using a keyboard controller for your input is neat, but very difficult to work with. Most newer PS2 keyboard "fix" the ghosting problem by failing to report the 3rd key in alignment. That means instead of ghost keys, you'll have keys that just don't show up.
Second, I had the idea, like many others I'm sure, to use a compactflash card instead of a harddrive. This was a bad idea, compactflash is just too slow. Advmame is 70 megs, it takes forever just to load that 70 megs into ram.
Third, for the love of god, use CAT5 for your wiring. At first glance you don't realize that each joystick is going to use 8 wires, and each button uses 2, and when all is said and done, you're going to have a clump of 80 wires that are difficult to manage.
Here's a nice little pricelist I compiled of my mame cabinet.
Finally, work out exactly how much of everything you'll need. It's pretty annoying to have to go to the store and pick up something you missed. You'll notice from my pricelist, there's the littlest things listed. I had to go to the store 3 times to pick up different sized wood screws, or a set of corner braces, etc.
Well, no...it gives you more GP registers. Applications for x86-64 Linux usually show about a 20% speedup.
It also gives you twice the SSE2 registers. And on AMD at least, AMD64 chips provide SSE2, AMDXP chips don't. This doesn't matter with Intel, but on intel it does give you double the number of SSE2 registers.
Some other reasons to use AMD64 over AthlonXP: Hypertransport, smaller electricity usage, AMD64 runs cooler than AthlonXP, thus less fan noise.
So even in 32bit mode, you get a very noticable benefit from running AMD64 rather than AthlonXP or P4.
Find me a PC laptop that comes out of the box with firewire, USB 2.0, 4+ hours battery life, small form factor, runs office natively, offers X windows support, intergrates all the GNU tools into the OS, and does it all for less than 1200 bucks out the door
An eMachines AMD64 laptop with Linux preinstalled? Oh, did you mean MSOffice? I thought you meant OpenOffice.
How about this? I've never used Garage Band, so I can't really compare, but FL Studio seems like a good candidate.
Fruityloops is significantly more complicated than GarageBand, but it's also significantly more powerful.
I think a better comparison is SF Acid. Acid is easier than FL, just as easy to use as garageband, but still more powerful. GarageBand can't even keyframe effect levels.
Yet RedHat continues to use an inferior system, and people continue to use RedHat.
RPMs aren't inferior to DEBs.. they're better. dpkg doesn't have a verify ability. I can verify files on my drive are the exact same files installed by rpms. Thus if you overwrite my/bin/login, I'll be able to tell.
yum works perfectly well for me. The problem is when you download rpms from random sources and install them. Debian doesn't have this problem because no-one but debian offers.debs.
Are reenactments of historical events disrespectful to those involved? How is this form of reenactment any more disrespectful than a TV show that does all the work of the recreation for you?
Because reenactments help explain what happened. This isn't historical, it's glorifying Lee Harvey Oswald.
If you can't tell that this is tasteless, then you have no sense of morality.
Of course I'll be buying a PSP eventually because I am a huge fan of some of Sony's titles
One thing that just occurred to me that no one has seemed to pick up on yet... the PSP is going to require memory cards. And knowing games like Madden, you'll probably need several. With some games you'll need to tote around the game and the corresponding memory card.
What are RSIZE, VSIZE and RSHRD? Which one does "Memory Usage" in WinXP correspond to?
VSIZE (also displayed as "virt" and "VSZ") is the virtual size of the process. File mappings, video mappings, disk cache, swapped-to-disk ram is all included in this. For example, under Linux, X11 has a very large vsize because all of your videoram is included in this VSIZE.
RSIZE (aka "res" and "RSS") is the amount of physical ram your process, and your process alone, is using. This is the best indicator of ram usage.
RSHRD (aka "SHR") is the amount of shared ram your process is using. This is the space taken up by any shared libraries your process uses. This isn't necessarily in physical ram either.
Let's look at an example: My firefox has been running for 5 days, it has a VSIZE of 165megs, RSIZE of 61 megs, and RSHRD of 35 megs.
VSIZE is what WinXP would report, 165 megs of ram used, never mind that more than half of that ram is stuff like disk cache allocated by the OS.
firefox-bin is using 65 megs of physical ram (that's still quite a lot).
RSHRD is the memory taken up by GTK, and libX11.so, and all the other shared libraries that are used by firefox. Closing firefox won't free this ram because it's *shared*, other apps running use that same libX11.so, etc.
Hope this helps. I don't know how to display this detail under XP, but I'm sure there are 3rd party tools to do it if system profiler can't.
Firefox 1.0 on Panther is much more stable than previous versions.
Quicktime will randomly crash and take down the browser, but that's quicktime's fault.. it does the same thing in Safari, and has ever since Quicktime 6.4
I have the flash click-to-play extension (poor little Pismo already suffers on Panther, flash just makes it worse) and the web developer extension installed.
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Everclear is great becuase it burn easliy which means... VAPOR SHOTS!!! Lite a shotglass of everclear on fire, then turn your palm so it faces the ground and shove the glass up onto your palm.
Here's an alternative that they actually serve at a bar. It's called a Flaming Waterfall.
Put a shot of Bacardi 151 and a shot of Sambuka into a brandy snifter.
Light on fire. Pour burning mixture into a pint glass, be sure to raise the snifter high enough so entire bar can see. Place snifter upside-down onto pint glass, putting out the fire.
Then lift up the snifter, inhale the fumes, and take the shot.
I'm sure many bars have their own version of this, but Malloneys in Tucson, AZ is where I've always had them.
Drop the soundtrack. Using the theme to the film Gone With The Wind is entirely inappropriate.
I vote they go with Gary Numan.
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While it made sense 5 years ago to drop ~$500k on an E10k box to get reliability and support, nowadays you can get that same reliability for much less by using piles of clustered Intel hardware and a fairly-competent Linux or BSD admin.
Sure, that's why all those sites survive the slashdot effect.. oh wait, no they don't. We have a mix of Intels, Suns, and xserves. About 50 servers in total, the sun boxes are still the most reliable and powerful. We have 8 year old E220s that can still handle 512 simultaneous mysql threads and 1024 apache processes. The mysql process alone uses 2 gigs of ram.
The last time our main webserver was rebooted was for Y2K patches.
Yes, Intels and xserves make good servers, but we do lose harddrives and ethernet cards on them. We don't worry about the sun hardware.
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Other than the obligatory references to climbing mountains because they're there, why would anyone want to run Linux on a G5?
Because Linux runs circles around OSX in terms of speed. Especially for servers. OSX's file IO and network IO in particular have too much overhead.
The same holds true for the desktop. Linux is much snappier on the desktop than OSX.
That was a tactic from the old days to force the assistant to open the till (and give the person their change), thus (IIRC) registering the sale.
Wow, it must be a tactic from very long ago.. before sales tax even!
are doomed to be modded redundant.
Didn't they get shotguns about a month ago? From what I can tell they'll have rocket launchers by the begining of next year.
I just hope they don't get Quad Damage.
Strangely enough, a better paying sidejob involves sending spam and spyware to the people in your neighborhood. Maybe you should do both.
there's the pig-froker who dreamed up scroll bars that snap back to their original position if your mouse cursor gets too far away from them during a drag.
I just tried this in Linux (Gnome 2.8). It seems not affected. I can grab the scrollbar, and move my mouse all the way to the left side of the screen, outside of firefox completely, and still scroll.
"Building" a Mame cabinet is no where as hard as it used to be because there's been great advancements in the mame cabinet building community, and a ton of support "niche" market providers to create products that make it really easy to convert an existing cabinet (or build your own)... hell there's even a book on the topic to step you throuh the process.
Yeah, it's not hard. I picked up Project Arcade from Barnes and Noble on a whim and then decided to build my own cocktail arcade. It wasn't that difficult. I spent $370 total.
Here's a couple of tips, first, using a keyboard controller for your input is neat, but very difficult to work with. Most newer PS2 keyboard "fix" the ghosting problem by failing to report the 3rd key in alignment. That means instead of ghost keys, you'll have keys that just don't show up.
Second, I had the idea, like many others I'm sure, to use a compactflash card instead of a harddrive. This was a bad idea, compactflash is just too slow. Advmame is 70 megs, it takes forever just to load that 70 megs into ram.
Third, for the love of god, use CAT5 for your wiring. At first glance you don't realize that each joystick is going to use 8 wires, and each button uses 2, and when all is said and done, you're going to have a clump of 80 wires that are difficult to manage.
Here's a nice little pricelist I compiled of my mame cabinet.
Finally, work out exactly how much of everything you'll need. It's pretty annoying to have to go to the store and pick up something you missed. You'll notice from my pricelist, there's the littlest things listed. I had to go to the store 3 times to pick up different sized wood screws, or a set of corner braces, etc.
Well, no...it gives you more GP registers. Applications for x86-64 Linux usually show about a 20% speedup.
It also gives you twice the SSE2 registers. And on AMD at least, AMD64 chips provide SSE2, AMDXP chips don't. This doesn't matter with Intel, but on intel it does give you double the number of SSE2 registers.
Some other reasons to use AMD64 over AthlonXP:
Hypertransport,
smaller electricity usage,
AMD64 runs cooler than AthlonXP, thus less fan noise.
So even in 32bit mode, you get a very noticable benefit from running AMD64 rather than AthlonXP or P4.
Find me a PC laptop that comes out of the box with firewire, USB 2.0, 4+ hours battery life, small form factor, runs office natively, offers X windows support, intergrates all the GNU tools into the OS, and does it all for less than 1200 bucks out the door
An eMachines AMD64 laptop with Linux preinstalled? Oh, did you mean MSOffice? I thought you meant OpenOffice.
How about this? I've never used Garage Band, so I can't really compare, but FL Studio seems like a good candidate.
Fruityloops is significantly more complicated than GarageBand, but it's also significantly more powerful.
I think a better comparison is SF Acid. Acid is easier than FL, just as easy to use as garageband, but still more powerful. GarageBand can't even keyframe effect levels.
I love how everyone defending Apple's prices compares it to Dell.
We think Dell is overpriced as well! Oh look, if you compare Apple with the most overpriced PC vendor, it doesn't look so bad.
Try comparing to eMachines AMD64 Laptops, which are amazing.
Yet RedHat continues to use an inferior system, and people continue to use RedHat.
/bin/login, I'll be able to tell.
.debs.
RPMs aren't inferior to DEBs.. they're better. dpkg doesn't have a verify ability. I can verify files on my drive are the exact same files installed by rpms. Thus if you overwrite my
yum works perfectly well for me. The problem is when you download rpms from random sources and install them. Debian doesn't have this problem because no-one but debian offers
Are reenactments of historical events disrespectful to those involved? How is this form of reenactment any more disrespectful than a TV show that does all the work of the recreation for you?
Because reenactments help explain what happened. This isn't historical, it's glorifying Lee Harvey Oswald.
If you can't tell that this is tasteless, then you have no sense of morality.
The only think I have agest it is that it looks in the pics to be quite large for a gameboy
I picked my DS up this morning, it's not that large. It's smaller than the original 1989 gameboy.
My biggest complaint with it is that Pictochat should've been internet-enabled.
Of course I'll be buying a PSP eventually because I am a huge fan of some of Sony's titles
One thing that just occurred to me that no one has seemed to pick up on yet... the PSP is going to require memory cards. And knowing games like Madden, you'll probably need several. With some games you'll need to tote around the game and the corresponding memory card.
This is death for a portable.
What are RSIZE, VSIZE and RSHRD? Which one does "Memory Usage" in WinXP correspond to?
VSIZE (also displayed as "virt" and "VSZ") is the virtual size of the process. File mappings, video mappings, disk cache, swapped-to-disk ram is all included in this. For example, under Linux, X11 has a very large vsize because all of your videoram is included in this VSIZE.
RSIZE (aka "res" and "RSS") is the amount of physical ram your process, and your process alone, is using. This is the best indicator of ram usage.
RSHRD (aka "SHR") is the amount of shared ram your process is using. This is the space taken up by any shared libraries your process uses. This isn't necessarily in physical ram either.
Let's look at an example:
My firefox has been running for 5 days, it has a VSIZE of 165megs, RSIZE of 61 megs, and RSHRD of 35 megs.
VSIZE is what WinXP would report, 165 megs of ram used, never mind that more than half of that ram is stuff like disk cache allocated by the OS.
firefox-bin is using 65 megs of physical ram (that's still quite a lot).
RSHRD is the memory taken up by GTK, and libX11.so, and all the other shared libraries that are used by firefox. Closing firefox won't free this ram because it's *shared*, other apps running use that same libX11.so, etc.
Hope this helps. I don't know how to display this detail under XP, but I'm sure there are 3rd party tools to do it if system profiler can't.
it's been open for about 5 days straight, running on Win2KPro. It's using 104MB of RAM.
Even worse, there's this System Idle process that's taking up 99% of my CPU time!
Sheesh. It's called memory caching. That's why TOP differentiates between RSIZE, VSIZE and RSHRD.
RSIZE is the amount of ram being actively used by a process. I doubt RSIZE is 104megs.
Linux 2.6, GNOME, 32-bit ppc, libswf installed,
I have an idea on why your browser is crashing.
You're trying to open flashMX movies in a flash3 library that was abandoned over 5 years ago.
Try removing libswf and I bet CNN won't crash at all.
Firefox 1.0 on Panther is much more stable than previous versions.
Quicktime will randomly crash and take down the browser, but that's quicktime's fault.. it does the same thing in Safari, and has ever since Quicktime 6.4
I have the flash click-to-play extension (poor little Pismo already suffers on Panther, flash just makes it worse) and the web developer extension installed.
Everclear is great becuase it burn easliy which means... VAPOR SHOTS!!! Lite a shotglass of everclear on fire, then turn your palm so it faces the ground and shove the glass up onto your palm.
Here's an alternative that they actually serve at a bar. It's called a Flaming Waterfall.
Put a shot of Bacardi 151 and a shot of Sambuka into a brandy snifter.
Light on fire. Pour burning mixture into a pint glass, be sure to raise the snifter high enough so entire bar can see. Place snifter upside-down onto pint glass, putting out the fire.
Then lift up the snifter, inhale the fumes, and take the shot.
I'm sure many bars have their own version of this, but Malloneys in Tucson, AZ is where I've always had them.
I'd really like to know what the hell a pivot table is
Obviously it's a table with one leg shorter than the other. They're useful for annoying the rest of your family at dinner time.
Drop the soundtrack. Using the theme to the film Gone With The Wind is entirely inappropriate.
I vote they go with Gary Numan.
While it made sense 5 years ago to drop ~$500k on an E10k box to get reliability and support, nowadays you can get that same reliability for much less by using piles of clustered Intel hardware and a fairly-competent Linux or BSD admin.
Sure, that's why all those sites survive the slashdot effect.. oh wait, no they don't. We have a mix of Intels, Suns, and xserves. About 50 servers in total, the sun boxes are still the most reliable and powerful. We have 8 year old E220s that can still handle 512 simultaneous mysql threads and 1024 apache processes. The mysql process alone uses 2 gigs of ram.
The last time our main webserver was rebooted was for Y2K patches.
Yes, Intels and xserves make good servers, but we do lose harddrives and ethernet cards on them. We don't worry about the sun hardware.
How about add 50 more and get a freaking AV tuner - 6.1x100 Watt/channel, 24/192 DAC, >100 dB SNR, etc, etc?
That low-end card does 8 channel out, 24/96, and 106 dB.
Anyway, if you want pro-level digitizing, that cards will not fit.
Are you kidding? The Layla32 is practically an industry standard, and the Layla3G is even better and cheaper.
They're remaking Assault in Precinct 13... I'm afraid.