A. This is a loaded question, so we'll be brief. Ars started out on Windows NT back in 1998, but shortly after that we moved to FreeBSD, and then later, Linux. We ran Linux until March of 2004, when we made the move to Windows Servers. Linux and Apache had served us quite well, but when we turned to look at building our new CMS,.NET was simply so attractive for our needs that we felt it warranted the switch. If there are enough requests, we may do an article later documenting our thought process, but for now I'll say that the decision was largely a programming one, with the added benefit of the fact that more of us support Windows in our real lives than Linux.
I don't know - did they ever release that article documenting the thought process?
We did it, too, in high school. TBH I still don't think I totally understand it's ramifications, and I certainly wasn't aware of its importance to physics at that point. (That's not to say I didn't enjoy it - lasers were cool back then, and everyone did figure out that something decidedly weird was going on.) Maybe science classes should focus more on the history of science, that is, the feeling that you're retracing steps that were critical to our understanding of the world at some point. Kind of like reading pop sci books like Fermat's Last Theorem, which I always seem to enjoy. OTOH, maybe there simply isn't enough time for that - maybe there should be.
Heh, maybe I should pick up a pop sci book that deals with the Double-Slit Experiment - suggestions, anyone?:)
Ha, I was wondering how you control the keylogger. ThinkGeek claimed both that "A menu is displayed with options to erase data, view data, search data for keywords, change password, or disable the device." and at the same time "Works with all PC Operating Systems with PS/2 keyboards (sorry, no USB)."
Thanks for the suggestions. The RDC is a good idea, but as you mention, I'm not positive that it can handle the framerate of video. You could also use the laptop as a RDC server and transmit the audio to the client/desktop - not sure if that works well, either. Still, it seems like the only viable solution that isn't platform specific.
The outplug stacker is interesting, although I don't see how it helps solving the issue - you need another plugin that facilitates transmitting the audio over ethernet and reproducing it on a target computer. The stacker simply enables you to send it somewhere and listen to it locally at the same time. Still, I never knew such ethernet tunneling plugins existed for Winamp - that said, I don't own any standalone device, but a desktop computer should be able to look like one to Winamp. The output stacker plugins were in fact removed from Winamps DB, under a ban of Streamrippers, see discussion here and here. Somebody was nice enough to post it to some web board (shame that/. doesn't allow file uploads;).
The USB sound card doesn't really help in my situation - the laptop has got a perfectly fine (stereo only) audio out, and the internal sound chip is good enough for casual listening. But I don't want to connect it to my speakers every time I come home - the constant re-connecting, especially considering that my desktop is connected to them with something like 4 cables for surround audio would be extremely painful. And with wireless ethernet, the only cable that I grudgingly am willing to accept at home is a power cable.
I'm really kind of surprised there isn't an elegant solution already - I always figure it's a problem many people would like solved. But then again maybe that's what you always think about your own problems.:)
No engineering work has been performed on Quartz or Aqua development within the OpenOffice.org project since mid 2003. For the last year and a half all engineering work focusing on a native Mac OS X OpenOffice.org version has been concentrated in the NeoOffice/J project, using a combination of Java and Carbon technologies to replace X11.
Due to various licensing, political, and fundamental engineering difficulties it is likely, for the near future, that native Aqua porting work will be based off of the NeoOffice.org project and not under the direct aegis of OpenOffice.org. (from http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/timeline.html) This was reported on Slashdot a couple of weeks ago.
Interestingly, the page on distribution trademark policy says: "This document outlines the Mozilla Foundation's policy for distribution of modified versions of Firefox, Thunderbird and future products containing our trademarks. So, for example, it would apply to computer manufacturers or ISPs wanting to ship Firefox or Thunderbird with machines or on CDs."... and later... "Distributors can start using the Firefox and Thunderbird trademarks as soon as they have returned a signed copy agreeing to the terms of this trademark policy, along with their name and contact information, to the Mozilla Foundation, 1350 Villa Street, Suite C, Mountain View, CA 94041-1126, USA."
Of course, this only refers to modified versions, not unmodified ones, as stressed in their FAQ.
I want that, too, in a similar situation with a Windows laptop/desktop. Movie audio over the speakers of a 12" isn't exactly hi-fi. Ideally, there would be an audio driver that reroutes the audio via (wireless) ethernet to some server. And ideally, the laptop would automagically switch to the desktop speakers when they are "in range". As far as I am aware, there is no easy way to do this on Windows. The only thing that comes close is playing the same movie on both systems, ignoring the desktops image and muting the laptops audio. That's not exactly elegant.
Hm. I'm not sure. Couldn't find anything on a brief look at the Firefox homepage. Can you do that with GPL'd software? I know the Debian project has a special non-GPL'd logo they use to brand official releases. Now that I think about it, the same seems to be true with Firefox: if you use a special build (like those compiled with SSE2 etc), the picture of the fox is gone in the icon and logo. I think it's still called Firefox, though.
Probably they deny it because they're not aware of it; it's not a very frequent word to use, maybe a bit archaic - I think I personally never use it at all. I don't see why you would claim it, anyway, assuming you are using it as an contra-metric argument. We use pound literally as half a kilo - pound (or "Pfund") is part of the metric system, it's virtually the same concept as grams and tons, just with a different factor. And all the factors that are involved are excessively simple: 2, 100, etc - numbers that even people who are not fond of mathematics easily deal with in their everyday life.
I doubt few people outside of the US even know who Benjamin Franklin is.
Well, that's probably not true, at least not in my experience - I pretty much think everyone (German) I know has an idea who Benjamin Franklin was, at least something vague like "some figure in the American history". I had never heard of Mr. Bartlett before, though, so go figure.:)
As far as I am aware, if you use X locally, no networking is involved. X uses Unix sockets, which are similar to IP sockets (which is useful because you can easily switch), but not the same. Unix sockets are just one of the ways to facilitate inter-process communication, other ways being shared memory or pipes(?). I am not a Unix geek though, so beware.
Yes, I did, but the discussion cleared up that most likely the new batteries do not have an increased capacity at all, just different charge/recharge characteristics which aren't really relevant for the iPod mini. I really am curious to find out how Apple is saving so much energy - must be a combination of updated, more efficient hardware and more energy-aware coding. I'm sure someone with too much money on their hands will crack open the rev2 mini any day now and we'll be wiser...
The Slashdot blurb missed one of the significant upgrades: the battery life in both iPod mini is now a lot better. The original iPod mini only lasted about 8 hours (according to Apple), the new one supposedly lasts 18. And if that turns out to be exaggerated, even 15 hours would be a very good battery lifetime for that kind of device. I wonder how they've done that - the weight hasn't increased, so it's probably not simply a battery twice as big.
Yes, and since that majority of people you refer to is also the majority of voters it would make sense for them to institute laws that protect themselves from making such stupid mistakes.
Because network attached storage over airport is even slower than the internal 4200-rpm hard disk. Granted, your idea works if the problem is a lack of HD space, and not its access speed.
Coralising after the fact isn't very helpful. If a site is already being slashdotted, the coral servers have the same problems accessing it as everyone else. Even worse are cases where the web server doesn't just slow down, but returns error pages: even if the proxy network once had the article, it's then duly replaced by the most recent version of the page, ie the one with the errors. Since the latter seems to be the rule rather than the exception, coral isn't as useful as it could be. Obviously, the solution would be to coralise everything to start with, with an opt-out preferences option for people who for some reason can't access the coral network.
Really. Intriguing. How about writing an actual argument (what exactly does "badmouthing" consist of, and who exactly did it?) so that I (or someone else) can tear it apart. As it stands now, it's barely worth replying to and purely a flamebait. The US government is free to try and restrict GPS usage - especially with Galileo around the corner - but even if it could, something tells me it's not about to stop its closest military and political allies from using it. The economic consequences alone are enough.
As for yourself, try finding a more suitable way of coping with criticism.
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You missed an apostrophe, I'll see you in court!
And Wikipedia has a good page explaining the memory effect. Necessary reading for future communications satellite owners.
Yes, there is. Quoted from their article on the redesign:I don't know - did they ever release that article documenting the thought process?
Thanks, I'll find out if my library has a copy. I think I'll stick to the original, though. :)
We did it, too, in high school. TBH I still don't think I totally understand it's ramifications, and I certainly wasn't aware of its importance to physics at that point. (That's not to say I didn't enjoy it - lasers were cool back then, and everyone did figure out that something decidedly weird was going on.)
:)
Maybe science classes should focus more on the history of science, that is, the feeling that you're retracing steps that were critical to our understanding of the world at some point. Kind of like reading pop sci books like Fermat's Last Theorem, which I always seem to enjoy. OTOH, maybe there simply isn't enough time for that - maybe there should be.
Heh, maybe I should pick up a pop sci book that deals with the Double-Slit Experiment - suggestions, anyone?
Doesn't GMail have something like email drafts? No need to send, just jot down, save as a draft and you're done.
Ha, I was wondering how you control the keylogger. ThinkGeek claimed both that "A menu is displayed with options to erase data, view data, search data for keywords, change password, or disable the device." and at the same time "Works with all PC Operating Systems with PS/2 keyboards (sorry, no USB)."
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I was thinking about a graphical menu - looks I was wrong: http://keystroke-loggers.staticusers.net/images/m
I don't like keyloggers, but that is nifty.
Thanks for the suggestions. The RDC is a good idea, but as you mention, I'm not positive that it can handle the framerate of video. You could also use the laptop as a RDC server and transmit the audio to the client/desktop - not sure if that works well, either. Still, it seems like the only viable solution that isn't platform specific.
/. doesn't allow file uploads ;).
:)
The outplug stacker is interesting, although I don't see how it helps solving the issue - you need another plugin that facilitates transmitting the audio over ethernet and reproducing it on a target computer. The stacker simply enables you to send it somewhere and listen to it locally at the same time. Still, I never knew such ethernet tunneling plugins existed for Winamp - that said, I don't own any standalone device, but a desktop computer should be able to look like one to Winamp. The output stacker plugins were in fact removed from Winamps DB, under a ban of Streamrippers, see discussion here and here. Somebody was nice enough to post it to some web board (shame that
The USB sound card doesn't really help in my situation - the laptop has got a perfectly fine (stereo only) audio out, and the internal sound chip is good enough for casual listening. But I don't want to connect it to my speakers every time I come home - the constant re-connecting, especially considering that my desktop is connected to them with something like 4 cables for surround audio would be extremely painful. And with wireless ethernet, the only cable that I grudgingly am willing to accept at home is a power cable.
I'm really kind of surprised there isn't an elegant solution already - I always figure it's a problem many people would like solved. But then again maybe that's what you always think about your own problems.
No.
No engineering work has been performed on Quartz or Aqua development within the OpenOffice.org project since mid 2003. For the last year and a half all engineering work focusing on a native Mac OS X OpenOffice.org version has been concentrated in the NeoOffice/J project, using a combination of Java and Carbon technologies to replace X11.
Due to various licensing, political, and fundamental engineering difficulties it is likely, for the near future, that native Aqua porting work will be based off of the NeoOffice.org project and not under the direct aegis of OpenOffice.org. (from http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/timeline.html)
This was reported on Slashdot a couple of weeks ago.
Thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for.
... and later ...
Interestingly, the page on distribution trademark policy says:
"This document outlines the Mozilla Foundation's policy for distribution of modified versions of Firefox, Thunderbird and future products containing our trademarks. So, for example, it would apply to computer manufacturers or ISPs wanting to ship Firefox or Thunderbird with machines or on CDs."
"Distributors can start using the Firefox and Thunderbird trademarks as soon as they have returned a signed copy agreeing to the terms of this trademark policy, along with their name and contact information, to the Mozilla Foundation, 1350 Villa Street, Suite C, Mountain View, CA 94041-1126, USA."
Of course, this only refers to modified versions, not unmodified ones, as stressed in their FAQ.
I want that, too, in a similar situation with a Windows laptop/desktop. Movie audio over the speakers of a 12" isn't exactly hi-fi. Ideally, there would be an audio driver that reroutes the audio via (wireless) ethernet to some server. And ideally, the laptop would automagically switch to the desktop speakers when they are "in range". As far as I am aware, there is no easy way to do this on Windows. The only thing that comes close is playing the same movie on both systems, ignoring the desktops image and muting the laptops audio. That's not exactly elegant.
Hm. I'm not sure. Couldn't find anything on a brief look at the Firefox homepage. Can you do that with GPL'd software? I know the Debian project has a special non-GPL'd logo they use to brand official releases.
Now that I think about it, the same seems to be true with Firefox: if you use a special build (like those compiled with SSE2 etc), the picture of the fox is gone in the icon and logo. I think it's still called Firefox, though.
Probably they deny it because they're not aware of it; it's not a very frequent word to use, maybe a bit archaic - I think I personally never use it at all. I don't see why you would claim it, anyway, assuming you are using it as an contra-metric argument. We use pound literally as half a kilo - pound (or "Pfund") is part of the metric system, it's virtually the same concept as grams and tons, just with a different factor. And all the factors that are involved are excessively simple: 2, 100, etc - numbers that even people who are not fond of mathematics easily deal with in their everyday life.
I doubt few people outside of the US even know who Benjamin Franklin is.
:)
Well, that's probably not true, at least not in my experience - I pretty much think everyone (German) I know has an idea who Benjamin Franklin was, at least something vague like "some figure in the American history". I had never heard of Mr. Bartlett before, though, so go figure.
Also if a person under 18 (a minor, like my brother) agrees to a licence is it enforcable?
No. That said, IANAL, but at least TFA doesn't think so.
When was the last time you paid someone for commercial software?
As far as I am aware, if you use X locally, no networking is involved. X uses Unix sockets, which are similar to IP sockets (which is useful because you can easily switch), but not the same. Unix sockets are just one of the ways to facilitate inter-process communication, other ways being shared memory or pipes(?). I am not a Unix geek though, so beware.
Yes, I did, but the discussion cleared up that most likely the new batteries do not have an increased capacity at all, just different charge/recharge characteristics which aren't really relevant for the iPod mini. I really am curious to find out how Apple is saving so much energy - must be a combination of updated, more efficient hardware and more energy-aware coding. I'm sure someone with too much money on their hands will crack open the rev2 mini any day now and we'll be wiser...
The Slashdot blurb missed one of the significant upgrades: the battery life in both iPod mini is now a lot better. The original iPod mini only lasted about 8 hours (according to Apple), the new one supposedly lasts 18. And if that turns out to be exaggerated, even 15 hours would be a very good battery lifetime for that kind of device. I wonder how they've done that - the weight hasn't increased, so it's probably not simply a battery twice as big.
You can't not make a statement, sorry. Not that I necessarily disagree.
Yes, and since that majority of people you refer to is also the majority of voters it would make sense for them to institute laws that protect themselves from making such stupid mistakes.
Because the punishment should fit the crime? It doesn't get any more obvious.
Because network attached storage over airport is even slower than the internal 4200-rpm hard disk. Granted, your idea works if the problem is a lack of HD space, and not its access speed.
Coralising after the fact isn't very helpful. If a site is already being slashdotted, the coral servers have the same problems accessing it as everyone else. Even worse are cases where the web server doesn't just slow down, but returns error pages: even if the proxy network once had the article, it's then duly replaced by the most recent version of the page, ie the one with the errors. Since the latter seems to be the rule rather than the exception, coral isn't as useful as it could be. Obviously, the solution would be to coralise everything to start with, with an opt-out preferences option for people who for some reason can't access the coral network.
Really. Intriguing. How about writing an actual argument (what exactly does "badmouthing" consist of, and who exactly did it?) so that I (or someone else) can tear it apart. As it stands now, it's barely worth replying to and purely a flamebait.
The US government is free to try and restrict GPS usage - especially with Galileo around the corner - but even if it could, something tells me it's not about to stop its closest military and political allies from using it. The economic consequences alone are enough.
As for yourself, try finding a more suitable way of coping with criticism.