Eh? His reply does not refer to backup copies, but rather copying media a friend owns (ie a private copy, see his post for details). This is legal in most of Europe. A backup copy could also be considered a private copy, but it goes deeper than that.
Planes are more fuel-efficient than cars, but while people generally don't travel 1000 miles per trip two times a month with a car, they might do just that in a plane. Which is a big problem.
None of my case fans (all running at 5V) is louder than the PSU fan, but the whole system is still more silent when I turn them all off. The same goes for the CPU fan.
Quoting the article: "Please note that in some cases I suspected that the drive temperature was not being reported properly, as some drives showed no change in temperature via software but were clearly cooler to the touch." I assume he touched the metal around the actual platters and not the (powered) drive electronics. I doubt a 3x 40 mm fan battery will be more effective than this, in fact it'd probably be more noisy at the same amount of airflow/cooling. It's not like his setup only cooled the PCB.
For what it's worth, try holding your hand in the airflow of a fan some time. It feels a lot stronger on the side the fan blows on to compared to the one the fan sucks the air from. Obviously, the same amount of air has to be blown out as sucked in, but blewn out air is accelerated in a certain direction giving it more power. It's not that much of a difference, anyway - people who experiment with switching on their CPU heatsink/fan typically end up with only a few degrees of temperature difference. Most modern tower cases have one or two intake fans in the front blowing on to the hard drives.
Steps I have to perform to use a network printer for the first time where I work:
1. Type in the printer name (e.g. \\server\printer1) in Start -> Run, hit Enter.
2. Confirm that I want to install this new printer.
Done. I can now use this printer in all applications. Obviously browsing to the printer using the network neighbourhood or whatever would work, too, but it's faster this way. I don't know how much work was involved on the server side to get it to work as smoothly, though.
I'll check it out, but the laptop I'll be doing this on only has the "extremely" integrated Intel GPU, I'm afraid. And I haven't figured out how to cram an Nvidia PCI-E card into it, yet.
Okay, so how do I get some eye-candy
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I'm probably going to wipe off XP from my laptop RSN. I've already got Ubuntu on it, but I'll probably re-install from scratch anyway. Not sure which distro yet, pending any other convincing arguments I might just end up re-installing Ubuntu. But that's beside the point.
All those demos are nice and all, but are there any usable ways of getting cool eye-candy in a working, moderately stable Linux install today? Without all the hassle of checking out code from a VCS? Is Enlightenment a sensible choice for an install that should primarily just work? For instance, I'm going to install OpenOffice and to stuff for the university on it - is working with OOO better supported in Gnome or KDE than in E, or is there no difference? I like some eye-candy (if it doesn't get in the way, XP-style), but it's no use if the prerequisite is a system too geeky or unstable to do any work on.
Pass the first and they won't take anything back from you unless you show ID.
Sounds like you could just return stuff giving a fake name to get around that, since Mr Fake Name probably hasn't passed the first threshold and is able to return stuff without ID... no?
I didn't read the PDF (meh) paper you link to, but I'm wondering how a P2P web search would deal with the issue of trusting search results gained from peers. Seems like a playground for "SEO" crooks.
It could be anything, but, well, it's not. Your second sentence just serves to prove that point: people (in Germany) routinely refer to kilograms simply as "kilo", and even though that could be kilo-anything, well, it's not, and it's really not a source of misunderstanding, ever. It's clear from context whether you're referring to a weight or a distance.
It's not really weird, I think most speakers of English would be startled to see anyone write about "driving 50 m/h". In fact it actually looks really odd to me, even though I'm used to km/h...
Just to disspell some of the mythical qualities of the German autobahn, while there is no general speed limit on the highway, very often there are signs indicating speed limits very much in line with the rest of the world. Very hard to say how much of the national highway network has a speed limit in place... 10%? 20%? 40%? Maybe someone else knows.
Are unused (unallocated) parts of the filesystem read as zero by dd, though? I kind of doubt that. Disallocating (say, by deleting a fie) typically doesn't zero out blocks, it just updates the allocation table to disregard the contents, right?
There is a legal and moral difference between non-profit and for-profit IP infringement. P2P music and video filesharing is almost exclusively the former, while the copyright/contract breach that is GPL-infringement only gets Slashdot coverage if it's the latter.
I'm minoring in linguistics, but I guess the movie does rather cater for my CS side. That said, I didn't totally understand it on my first pass, either, I'll rewatch it and hope to be better off.
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Eh? His reply does not refer to backup copies, but rather copying media a friend owns (ie a private copy, see his post for details). This is legal in most of Europe. A backup copy could also be considered a private copy, but it goes deeper than that.
Planes are more fuel-efficient than cars, but while people generally don't travel 1000 miles per trip two times a month with a car, they might do just that in a plane. Which is a big problem.
Actually, it's a perfectly fine way to add some information on intonation/prosody to a written account. It worked surprisingly well, for me, anyway.
None of my case fans (all running at 5V) is louder than the PSU fan, but the whole system is still more silent when I turn them all off. The same goes for the CPU fan.
Quoting the article: "Please note that in some cases I suspected that the drive temperature was not being reported properly, as some drives showed no change in temperature via software but were clearly cooler to the touch." I assume he touched the metal around the actual platters and not the (powered) drive electronics. I doubt a 3x 40 mm fan battery will be more effective than this, in fact it'd probably be more noisy at the same amount of airflow/cooling. It's not like his setup only cooled the PCB.
For what it's worth, try holding your hand in the airflow of a fan some time. It feels a lot stronger on the side the fan blows on to compared to the one the fan sucks the air from. Obviously, the same amount of air has to be blown out as sucked in, but blewn out air is accelerated in a certain direction giving it more power. It's not that much of a difference, anyway - people who experiment with switching on their CPU heatsink/fan typically end up with only a few degrees of temperature difference. Most modern tower cases have one or two intake fans in the front blowing on to the hard drives.
Steps I have to perform to use a network printer for the first time where I work:
1. Type in the printer name (e.g. \\server\printer1) in Start -> Run, hit Enter.
2. Confirm that I want to install this new printer.
Done. I can now use this printer in all applications. Obviously browsing to the printer using the network neighbourhood or whatever would work, too, but it's faster this way. I don't know how much work was involved on the server side to get it to work as smoothly, though.
Maybe you should take the hint...? =)
I'll check it out, but the laptop I'll be doing this on only has the "extremely" integrated Intel GPU, I'm afraid. And I haven't figured out how to cram an Nvidia PCI-E card into it, yet.
I'm probably going to wipe off XP from my laptop RSN. I've already got Ubuntu on it, but I'll probably re-install from scratch anyway. Not sure which distro yet, pending any other convincing arguments I might just end up re-installing Ubuntu. But that's beside the point.
All those demos are nice and all, but are there any usable ways of getting cool eye-candy in a working, moderately stable Linux install today? Without all the hassle of checking out code from a VCS? Is Enlightenment a sensible choice for an install that should primarily just work? For instance, I'm going to install OpenOffice and to stuff for the university on it - is working with OOO better supported in Gnome or KDE than in E, or is there no difference? I like some eye-candy (if it doesn't get in the way, XP-style), but it's no use if the prerequisite is a system too geeky or unstable to do any work on.
Pass the first and they won't take anything back from you unless you show ID.
Sounds like you could just return stuff giving a fake name to get around that, since Mr Fake Name probably hasn't passed the first threshold and is able to return stuff without ID... no?
Quick, somebody patent it!!
I didn't read the PDF (meh) paper you link to, but I'm wondering how a P2P web search would deal with the issue of trusting search results gained from peers. Seems like a playground for "SEO" crooks.
Hey man I'd love to read your comic... Please post an URL!
I think it's pretty much solely in the foot section because the webcomic is supposed to be funny...
It could be anything, but, well, it's not. Your second sentence just serves to prove that point: people (in Germany) routinely refer to kilograms simply as "kilo", and even though that could be kilo-anything, well, it's not, and it's really not a source of misunderstanding, ever. It's clear from context whether you're referring to a weight or a distance.
Yes: kph = kilometers per hour
It's not really weird, I think most speakers of English would be startled to see anyone write about "driving 50 m/h". In fact it actually looks really odd to me, even though I'm used to km/h...
Just to disspell some of the mythical qualities of the German autobahn, while there is no general speed limit on the highway, very often there are signs indicating speed limits very much in line with the rest of the world. Very hard to say how much of the national highway network has a speed limit in place... 10%? 20%? 40%? Maybe someone else knows.
Are unused (unallocated) parts of the filesystem read as zero by dd, though? I kind of doubt that. Disallocating (say, by deleting a fie) typically doesn't zero out blocks, it just updates the allocation table to disregard the contents, right?
There is a legal and moral difference between non-profit and for-profit IP infringement. P2P music and video filesharing is almost exclusively the former, while the copyright/contract breach that is GPL-infringement only gets Slashdot coverage if it's the latter.
Yes, but then you did change some of the words, so it'd be really odd if it sounded the same.
Patients with decerebral dementia commonly groan, and even laugh. What they don't do is think, feel pain, or try to speak.
their pseudomorphic heterojunction bipolar transistor
*blank stare*
What now? It's pronounced nu-cu-lar!
I'm minoring in linguistics, but I guess the movie does rather cater for my CS side. That said, I didn't totally understand it on my first pass, either, I'll rewatch it and hope to be better off.
Okay, I stand corrected. I just checked the company contact address, so I might well be wrong.