My HP LaserJet 1200 prints 1200 dpi (dvi) on linux fine. Of course I haven't tried photos because it is a B&W printer.
TTF and PS fonts are fully supported, although you may need a patent license in certain countries to make hinting work properly.
Well, documentation seems to be quite poor (much, but not well organized), otherwise you wouldn't say such false things (unless you are just trolling).
Online porn is officially illegal in China, but many of the ads on Chinese sites (especially local news sites whose funding is scarce) are adult content enough. In some sites, porn is just one click away. A few even put porn^H^H^H^Hadult content links in my Favorites or Desktop (only when using IE, of course). Fortunately only my parents use IE at home now, and they know how to remove those bookmarks manually.
If my government want to do censorship, it should start from the inside. At least few major US or UK sites will link to goatse.cx-alike on the front page.
Google is quite well known in China --- my mother and her friends use it as the sole search engine (except on some campus machines where nothing outside China is accessible). If it gets blocked, people will notice it quickly.
But... it is blocked now (or slashdotted, which is less probable)... maybe slashdot shouldn't have posted this story in the first place...
I'm in Shanghai. All project homepages (like speex.sourceforge.net) are blocked. www.sourceforge.net became blocked very recently. Thankfully prdownloads.sf.net and lists.sf.net are still accessible, so I can still download things and read mailing lists (if I can obtain the list names), but not much more.
Google is accessible, so project homepages etc. can still be read via the google cache, but often it is a PITA.
Of course I'm very unhappy about this, and cannot understand why. Maybe it is because of the `forge' in it, maybe they want to prevent IP leakage, or it may just be a mistake that no one cared to report. I want to send some interesting patches to PrBoom, but don't even know where to send them.
I doubt there is any way for the editor to easily pull the story, and using raw SQL is so troublesome and so risky (for some/. editors) that they will try to avoid that if possible.
Well, Dillo is very fast, but currently it still leaks some memory (both in itself and in the X server). Since the leaks just mean more and more swap used, just make sure you have a lot of swap (at least 128MB), install a swap meter, and when it gets too high, restart dillo.
If someone can make 4.3GHz mode stable, I suspect some software may break for storing the Hz number in a 32-bit number, and they may say "45,336,372 Hz processor detected".
Thank god, in linux/arch/i386/time.c an unsigned long is used to measure KHz's.
I doubt if CPUs will work well below -55C. There may also be some mechanical problems.
If you want the CPU to work at a reasonably high temperature (like 0C or -20C), then LHe are no better than LN2. I guess LHe's heat capacity is quite low.
Build a small house, and use a beowulf cluster of these to provide the heating (about as efficient as an electric heater). Just make sure you have electricity and a phone line if you want to participate in some distributed computing projects (like seti). Of course, it is even better if you have some useful things to compute, or can sell your computing power.
But... as soon as you feel reasonably warm, the P4's clocks will drop automatically.
Well, it does make programs more extensible, but if you are having race conditions or other delicate problems, tough. Another problem is that I often make 2000-line functions unwittingly --- although they are no harder to understand, they take much more time to compile with gcc.
No one will tell you if an MP3 is recorded from an old tape, which is even worse.
Well, I bet 45kbps oggs sound similar whether they come from the original CD or an 192kbps mp3. So just use lower bitrates (quality), especially if the mp3 originally comes from an old tape or other low-quality sources.
Do you work for AMD? Are they engineering samples?
If gcc were written by Turbo Pascal/C authors...
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As one who frequently programs, desktop delays does not matter even on my p2/233 (if a huge page take more than 10 seconds to render in mozilla, it probably works in dillo or links or lynx), but waiting for gcc to compile my programs are a PITA. I once wrote a full-screen editor (with some complex data structures) with about 5k lines of C code, and it takes 5 secs to compile w/o optimization, and 7-10 secs with -Os! (later I ported the program to dos with minimum changes, and TC made it in less than 2 secs) When writing a gnome program, or dealing with even larger projects, this is more painful.
If gcc is as fast as turbo C (when optimization is off or at as low a level as TC), I probably won't think of updating at all.
your legitimate (even important) mail get erroneously filtered. This is unavoidable albeit rare when the filter works correctly, but if anyone there makes a mistake, quite a few important e-mails may get lost. What's worse, you generally cannot figure out why it got filtered, and resending usually yields the same result.
If you modify your client (quite possibly the source code of the game, except the rendering engine, will be released), and use it in a game without the approval of your partners, it is cheating.
I don't know much about newer games. However, for Doom, you may modify the client to prevent the screen from reddening when getting hurt, or do some automatic actions that is hardly possible manually. This is definitely cheating.
In fact, multiplayer games are often played in one large room, so someone will make sure everyone has the same client and that they are not modified by you. In other cases, you play with your friend, so you trust each other anyway.
Many students are caught in my campus to use IP addresses without authorization (often the address belongs to some other student, causing network conflicts). This is the only action commonly called "stealing" here w.r.t. IP.
I think popular P2P clients should ask the user to confirm three times if they want to download something from a bad source (like riaa), use language like "This song is from riaa. If you download it, you are supporting them by promoting their music, and giving them more reason to crank up laws to crush down this network, which will harm everyone including you. Please think thrice about your action".
Well, there are technical difficulties in identifing a song's source because many songs don't have the right tags, but I think it is an interesting idea.
I have tried it. It is quite cool (although not very fast --- I got 40cpm after a few minutes, which is about my Chinese typing speed). However, the colors make my eyes ache.
Oh, and the program does not support cut-n-paste, so I have to type the last paragraph again so that I can put it on slashdot!
I use the official 1.0 rpm, and it is full of x87 instructions. I guess Windows binaries are the same.
So... Compile it from the source code, and optimize for P4 if you want to test with P4!
Source should be more easily accessible in OSS
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If my OpenOffice malfunctions in some way, I cannot easily figure it out, because the binary distributions does not contain debug information, the sources are HUGE, and takes FOREVER to compile (not to mention it also takes quite a lot of disk space). In such cases the benefits of OSS are not sufficiently exploited.
I hope someone will figure out some on-demand sourcecode & debuginfo repository, so that everyone can just have their undebuggable RPMS (or debs, etc.), but if someone want to look at the source to diagnose a problem (or study something), the relevent portions of debug info and source files can be downloaded on demand.
At least I won't need to compile something by myself just to run it in gdb so that I can study how it works.
I tried GNUnet last month. The most serious problem I see is that it uses UDP, so I can be flooded by UDP packets (sometimes about 30KB/sec) even after I shutdown everything about GNUnet. And there is no way to stop them --- even icmp-host-unreachable errors aren't respected. The UDP flooding didn't calm down till the next day.
I hope such problems are fixed now, but older clients will continue to eat my bandwidth. I don't want to make my ISP unhappy by letting lots of useless packets in.
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My HP LaserJet 1200 prints 1200 dpi (dvi) on linux fine. Of course I haven't tried photos because it is a B&W printer.
TTF and PS fonts are fully supported, although you may need a patent license in certain countries to make hinting work properly.
Well, documentation seems to be quite poor (much, but not well organized), otherwise you wouldn't say such false things (unless you are just trolling).
If my government want to do censorship, it should start from the inside. At least few major US or UK sites will link to goatse.cx-alike on the front page.
But... it is blocked now (or slashdotted, which is less probable)... maybe slashdot shouldn't have posted this story in the first place...
Google is accessible, so project homepages etc. can still be read via the google cache, but often it is a PITA.
Of course I'm very unhappy about this, and cannot understand why. Maybe it is because of the `forge' in it, maybe they want to prevent IP leakage, or it may just be a mistake that no one cared to report. I want to send some interesting patches to PrBoom, but don't even know where to send them.
I doubt there is any way for the editor to easily pull the story, and using raw SQL is so troublesome and so risky (for some /. editors) that they will try to avoid that if possible.
IANAL, but this should not be too hard, and I guess there aren't too many developers who hold copyright on the plugin.
Well, Dillo is very fast, but currently it still leaks some memory (both in itself and in the X server). Since the leaks just mean more and more swap used, just make sure you have a lot of swap (at least 128MB), install a swap meter, and when it gets too high, restart dillo.
Thank god, in linux/arch/i386/time.c an unsigned long is used to measure KHz's.
If you want the CPU to work at a reasonably high temperature (like 0C or -20C), then LHe are no better than LN2. I guess LHe's heat capacity is quite low.
But... as soon as you feel reasonably warm, the P4's clocks will drop automatically.
Well, it does make programs more extensible, but if you are having race conditions or other delicate problems, tough. Another problem is that I often make 2000-line functions unwittingly --- although they are no harder to understand, they take much more time to compile with gcc.
Well, I bet 45kbps oggs sound similar whether they come from the original CD or an 192kbps mp3. So just use lower bitrates (quality), especially if the mp3 originally comes from an old tape or other low-quality sources.
Do you work for AMD? Are they engineering samples?
If gcc is as fast as turbo C (when optimization is off or at as low a level as TC), I probably won't think of updating at all.
your legitimate (even important) mail get erroneously filtered. This is unavoidable albeit rare when the filter works correctly, but if anyone there makes a mistake, quite a few important e-mails may get lost. What's worse, you generally cannot figure out why it got filtered, and resending usually yields the same result.
I don't know much about newer games. However, for Doom, you may modify the client to prevent the screen from reddening when getting hurt, or do some automatic actions that is hardly possible manually. This is definitely cheating.
In fact, multiplayer games are often played in one large room, so someone will make sure everyone has the same client and that they are not modified by you. In other cases, you play with your friend, so you trust each other anyway.
Many students are caught in my campus to use IP addresses without authorization (often the address belongs to some other student, causing network conflicts). This is the only action commonly called "stealing" here w.r.t. IP.
Well, there are technical difficulties in identifing a song's source because many songs don't have the right tags, but I think it is an interesting idea.
Oh, and the program does not support cut-n-paste, so I have to type the last paragraph again so that I can put it on slashdot!
If your window titles mess up, check the config of your window manager. It is not galeon's fault.
You will possibly still have Chinese spam, but have hardly any useful mail (assuming that you speak english).
So... Compile it from the source code, and optimize for P4 if you want to test with P4!
I hope someone will figure out some on-demand sourcecode & debuginfo repository, so that everyone can just have their undebuggable RPMS (or debs, etc.), but if someone want to look at the source to diagnose a problem (or study something), the relevent portions of debug info and source files can be downloaded on demand.
At least I won't need to compile something by myself just to run it in gdb so that I can study how it works.
I hope such problems are fixed now, but older clients will continue to eat my bandwidth. I don't want to make my ISP unhappy by letting lots of useless packets in.
Should be 3.5e-21 DOLLARS per atom, and 2.8e-8 DOLLARS per TB, which happens to be 1/357000 cent.