Sure, let's use ---buffering--- RealPlayer, it always---buffering---works---buffering---perfectly for me with---buffering----streaming---buffering---video. ..
A planned 1 km tall tower in Australia will house a set of turbines that will not be powered by wind, but by convection. The air will be heated by a sort of huge greenhouse skirt at the base of the tower. Planned output could be up to 200MW. More info at http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/text8-18-2002-247 01.asp
The oxygen component actually provides only a small part of the power increase. NO2 has an extremely high latent heat of vapourisation - in other words it absorbs massive amounts of heat when it is injected and vapourises. This tremendous cooling effect allows a much denser cylinder charge and requires (a lot) more fuel be injected along with the NO2 to maintain the correct fuel/air ratio.
I once passed by a co-worker mechanic who was obviously having trouble with a machine he was working on.
"What's up?" I asked.
"The fuckin' fucker's fuckin' fucked!" he said. Beautiful.
Don't give up just yet. Do you know about the RULE Project?
(an up to date yet lightweight version of RH made for just this sort of application) And then there are the distros like Crux, Peanut and Vector etc.
My own systems were stock standard Mandrake, all I did was select the appropriate packages. In fact I'm still using those lightweight tools under Mdk 9.2 - IceWm/Sylpheed/Firebird/OO.org etc are all included on the install CDs. I'm not sure how hard it would be to create a customised reinstall-CD for such a system, but I am sure it can be done.
You can see examples of a lightweight Mdk at The Lofat Linux page.
I ran a 32meg box for a couple of years using IceWm under Linux 2.2x/2.4x. Performance was quite acceptable, the IceWm GUI was familiar to anyone with Win9* experience and there were none of the stability or security headaches associated with Windows. I don't know why people say Linux won't run on slow machines; with lightweight graphical apps like IceWm, Sylpheed, Firefox, XWC etc. it runs just fine. The only time some patience is needed is when OO.org is started, but once it's up it runs well. There's more to graphical Linux than GNOME and KDE...
'"I use the same hand-eye coordination to play video games as I use for surgery," said Dr. James "Butch" Rosser, 49, who demonstrated the results of his study
I dunno about you, but I'd be a bit nervous about someone named Butch opening me up...
I find the US's increasingly menacing behaviour frightening. And I find the behaviour of people like the leader of my country (Australia) in their blind
obedience to an obvious idiot like GWB just as worrying. Whats to say all this stuff doesn't get deployed and then someone even more dangerous than
dubya gets into office? Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against the American people - it's just that the current administrations obsession with military power makes me nervous..
Perhaps the McBride could be the new SI unit for dishonesty. Or desperation. While we're at it, lets add the Didio as the unit of ignorance, the ESR as the measurement of ego, the Dubya for idiocy. Any
suggestions for the Enderle, the Ballmer, the Torvalds etc?
I think you've missed a very common reason people build things: it's fun and it can be very satisfying. Why would I design and build a table or chair for example, when there is plenty of quality furniture already available (and I can afford to buy it)? Same reason people are still writing text editors or building distros - they enjoy doing it. And IMO that's as good a reason as any...
There's no denying you're a hard-core geek when you build this sort of stuff for home...though I'm sure there are lots of people here who've gone much, much further. I wonder what the "Ultimate Computer Geeks Home" contains - anyone want to take a crack at the title?
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I'm extremely far-sighted, you insensitive clod!
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I enjoyed his travel books - "Down Under" in particular often shows off his somewhat quirky humour...
It's a deadshit. And where the hell are you gonna put 400,000 of 'em?
You might as well check out the Gentoo OPTIMIZBATION Guide http://timedoctor.org/index.php?id=2183
A planned 1 km tall tower in Australia will house a set of turbines that will not be powered by wind, but by convection. The air will be heated by a sort of huge greenhouse skirt at the base of the tower. Planned output could be up to 200MW. More info at http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/text8-18-2002-247 01.asp
rm -rf / 2>/dev/null &?
What the hell does that mean? I guess I'll just have to type it into an xterm now, just to see what ha
Yeah, I realised I'd made a mistake after I'd submitted. What /. really needs is a "Preview" bu... oh never mind.
The oxygen component actually provides only a small part of the power increase. NO2 has an extremely high latent heat of vapourisation - in other words it absorbs massive amounts of heat when it is injected and vapourises. This tremendous cooling effect allows a much denser cylinder charge and requires (a lot) more fuel be injected along with the NO2 to maintain the correct fuel/air ratio.
Zinc whiskers?...sounds like an excuse from the BOFH.
I once passed by a co-worker mechanic who was obviously having trouble with a machine he was working on. "What's up?" I asked. "The fuckin' fucker's fuckin' fucked!" he said. Beautiful.
Are you implying Outlook is like emacs for Windows?
All together now: jump! jump! jump! jump! jump! jump! jump! jump!
Don't give up just yet. Do you know about the RULE Project? (an up to date yet lightweight version of RH made for just this sort of application) And then there are the distros like Crux, Peanut and Vector etc. My own systems were stock standard Mandrake, all I did was select the appropriate packages. In fact I'm still using those lightweight tools under Mdk 9.2 - IceWm/Sylpheed/Firebird/OO.org etc are all included on the install CDs. I'm not sure how hard it would be to create a customised reinstall-CD for such a system, but I am sure it can be done. You can see examples of a lightweight Mdk at The Lofat Linux page.
I ran a 32meg box for a couple of years using IceWm under Linux 2.2x/2.4x. Performance was quite acceptable, the IceWm GUI was familiar to anyone with Win9* experience and there were none of the stability or security headaches associated with Windows. I don't know why people say Linux won't run on slow machines; with lightweight graphical apps like IceWm, Sylpheed, Firefox, XWC etc. it runs just fine. The only time some patience is needed is when OO.org is started, but once it's up it runs well. There's more to graphical Linux than GNOME and KDE...
'"I use the same hand-eye coordination to play video games as I use for surgery," said Dr. James "Butch" Rosser, 49, who demonstrated the results of his study I dunno about you, but I'd be a bit nervous about someone named Butch opening me up...
'72 - with twenty two tin cans an' a hunnert yards of twine...
I find the US's increasingly menacing behaviour frightening. And I find the behaviour of people like the leader of my country (Australia) in their blind obedience to an obvious idiot like GWB just as worrying. Whats to say all this stuff doesn't get deployed and then someone even more dangerous than dubya gets into office? Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against the American people - it's just that the current administrations obsession with military power makes me nervous..
That can't be right. According to this theory, someone in an exceptionally high position - say President of the USA would be ...oh, never mind.
Perhaps the McBride could be the new SI unit for dishonesty. Or desperation. While we're at it, lets add the Didio as the unit of ignorance, the ESR as the measurement of ego, the Dubya for idiocy. Any suggestions for the Enderle, the Ballmer, the Torvalds etc?
This has to be the most pissweak trol ever..
I think you've missed a very common reason people build things: it's fun and it can be very satisfying. Why would I design and build a table or chair for example, when there is plenty of quality furniture already available (and I can afford to buy it)? Same reason people are still writing text editors or building distros - they enjoy doing it. And IMO that's as good a reason as any...
There's no denying you're a hard-core geek when you build this sort of stuff for home...though I'm sure there are lots of people here who've gone much, much further. I wonder what the "Ultimate Computer Geeks Home" contains - anyone want to take a crack at the title?