I saw that (I actually checked the most recent beta before posting), but that's not what I meant - having "extract to" as an item in the right-click-and-drag-menu. I.e. "extract to a subfolder in that position".
And that's despite the fact that there are quite a few better, cheaper mp3 players available.
Actually, no. When I bought my iPod mini, it was also easily the best bang for buck in its segment - with a battery life that's far better than the competitors (from what I gather: iPod mini 18[1] hours, iRiver H10 13 hours, Creative Zen Micro 11 hours). a very good interface, and supporting all audio formats I, for one, need - MP3. Because the iPods are so widespread, it also has great software support, meaning I can put music on the player directly from my media player without resorting to iTunes or some other crappy app.
For the record, I haven't even used the Apple headphones once, I'm sticking to my Etymotic-knock-off Koss canal headphones.
[1] Actually, when testing the iPod mini (rev.2) the site I got the numbers from (xonio.com - German, I'm afraid) had the little thing hold up for 25 hours, ie. nearly twice as long as the iRiver model did. But the 18 hours Apple claims are good enough. I'm not sure how long my model lasts - I never had low batteries yet.
And [a-zA-Z] and [n-za-mN-Z-A-M] are just ways of writing down the alphabet and it's ROT13 eqiuvalent. The command tr replaces the first character in the first set with the first character in the second set and so on.
WinZip might be bloated, but 7z is terrible. I'm using on my laptop, and I'm not happy at all. For instance, the shell integration is lacking, it seems you can't drag an archive to somewhere else with the RMB and have the option to extract there, or extract in a subfolder in that position. I use this constantly on my desktop with WinRAR. There are other annoyances, but this is the major one.
Agreed on the cable thing. Of course, I live in one of those parts that had cable modem service for a number of years (longer than DSL), and I'm still using DSL. And TBH I think the competition in the DSL market is working really well, as is the state of broadband affairs in Germany in general. When I'll move, I'll probably have the choice between several national and a couple of regional providers. A friend of mine in Dortmund is surfing at 6 MBit/s for something like 40 Euros a month.
I'd wager that many residents in the EU don't have a passport either, considering that you can travel freely between many of the continental countries. I didn't have one until earlier this year, and I'm not sure why the cruise I'm going on necessitated one - all the ports are either Italian or Greek. Maybe Schengen doesn't cover Greece, hmm.
When dealing with more than a hundred pages, you'd probably print on both sides of the paper. Great if your printer is duplex capable, slightly annoying if it's not - but still manageable once you figure it out, and easily worth it considering the savings in paper and, crucially, in weight. Also, most people seem to manage reading smaller text, so by printing two pages on one side by side you end up with a quarter of the pages. Still a lot of dead trees, though.
It does? Quality desktop sound cards typically aren't much cheaper. Anway, there are cheaper alternatives than the Xitel one. As for input, the USB Soundblaster I referred to has stereo in (AFAIK) in addition to surround out, and Xitel produces the Inport, which is a dedicated device featuring only a stereo input (I assume it does that especially well). Again, I'm sure there are cheaper alternatives for this.
Not all Nforce2 mainboards have nvidias audio chipset integrated, in fact most boards don't, because it costs a little more than a realtek chipset.
Yes, that is what I said. Pretty much word for word. The fact is that many people don't know that, they just read that the audio component of the Nforce2 chipset is awesome (it was madly hyped when it was released). Personally, I don't really care, I've got a standalone sound care anyway - I bought the mainboard because it was moderately cheap and the store had it stocked, not because or in spite of the chipset.
But anyway, thanks for insulting me for no obvious reason. Great talking to you.
Simple solution: buy a USB sound card. Cheap ones (30 bucks maybe) are good enough if all you want is a simple stereo audio-out, expensive ones (100 bucks) from Creative and such have all the bells and whistles, like 5.1 out etc. Here's one from Xitel. That's what I'll be doing once I get a dorm room.
Then again, I have a Nforce2 mainboard but the onboard sound component still is by Realtek, not Nvidia. The Nvidia drivers will work (it's all AC'97), but the Realtek drivers work better, and from what I can tell, it's Realtek hardware in the end. I suppose it's cheaper to license/buy the Realtek component, even with most of the other chips already coming from Nvidia. MSI doesn't go out of its way to let you know that, of course.
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Okay, he's a right-wing Christian who hates gay people. I don't think he is "bad" because that's a horribly vague term. But I have considered his point of view, and I think he must be insane.
(consider updating the X driver for a video card -- you have to restart X to use it, which is equivalent to a reboot in Windows)
No, it's not. There really is no equivalent to restarting X on Windows. You either reboot all of it, or you don't. The closest thing to semi-rebooting is logging out and back in, I guess, but obviously that's not similar to restarting the X server. With Windows 9x I guess you could say there is an equivalent, namely shutting down to DOS mode and starting Windows back up.
Sorry for picking nits here, I guess it does end up having a similar effect for the user in that the graphical programs running will have to be quit[1], but obviously it's different in that background daemons, networking, etc. aren't affected.
[1] I'm curious, how hard is it to have the programs "detach" from the old server and "re-attach" to the new instance? Impossible? Already done on a daily basis? I have no clue.
Considering how Tor (note the domain) is officially supported by the EFF, that does seem likely. However like I pointed out above, last I heard the Tor guys really don't want P2P on their network, saying that the network isn't able to sustain the bandwidth requirements - but I suppose that they want to avoid being connected with the filesharing scene in general.
Most vaguely modern routers can do UPNP (even though it's often disabled by default), and so can Azureus and most other BT clients. In theory this should make NAT configuration a breeze. Just a hint if you didn't try this already.
Oh. The Tor guys won't like that. People figured out how to run BT over Tor a while ago (I tried it myself in January after seeing a presentation on Tor). Google for anonbt and you end up on a subsection of the Azureus homepage, saying:
Please *DO NOT* use Tor for routing peer-to-peer data traffic, it can not handle the bandwidth. They have indicated that they will make efforts to ban such usage if it continues, which will likely affect both legitimate and unwanted use!
I'm surprised that it's taken Azureus this long to catch up,...
Catch up? You don't seem to understand what the new features in Azureus are. From what I can see, they are nothing like what you mention. Different solutions for different problems.
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I saw that (I actually checked the most recent beta before posting), but that's not what I meant - having "extract to" as an item in the right-click-and-drag-menu. I.e. "extract to a subfolder in that position".
And that's despite the fact that there are quite a few better, cheaper mp3 players available.
Actually, no. When I bought my iPod mini, it was also easily the best bang for buck in its segment - with a battery life that's far better than the competitors (from what I gather: iPod mini 18[1] hours, iRiver H10 13 hours, Creative Zen Micro 11 hours). a very good interface, and supporting all audio formats I, for one, need - MP3. Because the iPods are so widespread, it also has great software support, meaning I can put music on the player directly from my media player without resorting to iTunes or some other crappy app.
For the record, I haven't even used the Apple headphones once, I'm sticking to my Etymotic-knock-off Koss canal headphones.
[1] Actually, when testing the iPod mini (rev.2) the site I got the numbers from (xonio.com - German, I'm afraid) had the little thing hold up for 25 hours, ie. nearly twice as long as the iRiver model did. But the 18 hours Apple claims are good enough. I'm not sure how long my model lasts - I never had low batteries yet.
Unix man pages: tr (1): tr - translate or delete characters
And [a-zA-Z] and [n-za-mN-Z-A-M] are just ways of writing down the alphabet and it's ROT13 eqiuvalent. The command tr replaces the first character in the first set with the first character in the second set and so on.
WinZip might be bloated, but 7z is terrible. I'm using on my laptop, and I'm not happy at all. For instance, the shell integration is lacking, it seems you can't drag an archive to somewhere else with the RMB and have the option to extract there, or extract in a subfolder in that position. I use this constantly on my desktop with WinRAR. There are other annoyances, but this is the major one.
That's good then. As an added benefit, I still got a non-biometric passports valid for another 10 years.
Agreed on the cable thing. Of course, I live in one of those parts that had cable modem service for a number of years (longer than DSL), and I'm still using DSL. And TBH I think the competition in the DSL market is working really well, as is the state of broadband affairs in Germany in general. When I'll move, I'll probably have the choice between several national and a couple of regional providers. A friend of mine in Dortmund is surfing at 6 MBit/s for something like 40 Euros a month.
I'd wager that many residents in the EU don't have a passport either, considering that you can travel freely between many of the continental countries. I didn't have one until earlier this year, and I'm not sure why the cruise I'm going on necessitated one - all the ports are either Italian or Greek. Maybe Schengen doesn't cover Greece, hmm.
Yes, but those two ideologies aren't mutually exclusive.
Nice of you to admit to it. Especially considering the generous usage of capitalised letters in your original post. ;)
When dealing with more than a hundred pages, you'd probably print on both sides of the paper. Great if your printer is duplex capable, slightly annoying if it's not - but still manageable once you figure it out, and easily worth it considering the savings in paper and, crucially, in weight. Also, most people seem to manage reading smaller text, so by printing two pages on one side by side you end up with a quarter of the pages. Still a lot of dead trees, though.
It does? Quality desktop sound cards typically aren't much cheaper. Anway, there are cheaper alternatives than the Xitel one. As for input, the USB Soundblaster I referred to has stereo in (AFAIK) in addition to surround out, and Xitel produces the Inport, which is a dedicated device featuring only a stereo input (I assume it does that especially well). Again, I'm sure there are cheaper alternatives for this.
Not all Nforce2 mainboards have nvidias audio chipset integrated, in fact most boards don't, because it costs a little more than a realtek chipset.
Yes, that is what I said. Pretty much word for word. The fact is that many people don't know that, they just read that the audio component of the Nforce2 chipset is awesome (it was madly hyped when it was released). Personally, I don't really care, I've got a standalone sound care anyway - I bought the mainboard because it was moderately cheap and the store had it stocked, not because or in spite of the chipset.
But anyway, thanks for insulting me for no obvious reason. Great talking to you.
Simple solution: buy a USB sound card. Cheap ones (30 bucks maybe) are good enough if all you want is a simple stereo audio-out, expensive ones (100 bucks) from Creative and such have all the bells and whistles, like 5.1 out etc. Here's one from Xitel. That's what I'll be doing once I get a dorm room.
Then again, I have a Nforce2 mainboard but the onboard sound component still is by Realtek, not Nvidia. The Nvidia drivers will work (it's all AC'97), but the Realtek drivers work better, and from what I can tell, it's Realtek hardware in the end. I suppose it's cheaper to license/buy the Realtek component, even with most of the other chips already coming from Nvidia. MSI doesn't go out of its way to let you know that, of course.
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Error -1, I will never forget you.
Maybe somebody will figure out a way to read applications from the memory sticks savegames and music are stored on...
Okay, he's a right-wing Christian who hates gay people. I don't think he is "bad" because that's a horribly vague term. But I have considered his point of view, and I think he must be insane.
You're right, that's much better!
(consider updating the X driver for a video card -- you have to restart X to use it, which is equivalent to a reboot in Windows)
No, it's not. There really is no equivalent to restarting X on Windows. You either reboot all of it, or you don't. The closest thing to semi-rebooting is logging out and back in, I guess, but obviously that's not similar to restarting the X server. With Windows 9x I guess you could say there is an equivalent, namely shutting down to DOS mode and starting Windows back up.
Sorry for picking nits here, I guess it does end up having a similar effect for the user in that the graphical programs running will have to be quit[1], but obviously it's different in that background daemons, networking, etc. aren't affected.
[1] I'm curious, how hard is it to have the programs "detach" from the old server and "re-attach" to the new instance? Impossible? Already done on a daily basis? I have no clue.
Considering how Tor (note the domain) is officially supported by the EFF, that does seem likely. However like I pointed out above, last I heard the Tor guys really don't want P2P on their network, saying that the network isn't able to sustain the bandwidth requirements - but I suppose that they want to avoid being connected with the filesharing scene in general.
Most vaguely modern routers can do UPNP (even though it's often disabled by default), and so can Azureus and most other BT clients. In theory this should make NAT configuration a breeze. Just a hint if you didn't try this already.
Okay, cool. I didn't really get that impression from what the original poster said, though.
I'm surprised that it's taken Azureus this long to catch up, ...
Catch up? You don't seem to understand what the new features in Azureus are. From what I can see, they are nothing like what you mention. Different solutions for different problems.
As far as I have read, this has yet to be proven.