You have to remember how many things can go wrong that people can blame on the X server... gpm may not give up the mouse in switching from console to X, window manager may crash and you lose pager functionality, etc... I've never has an X crash, but I have had window manager crashes...
Except all browsers seem to have trouble with png and embed tags.. Before it was just IE and Opera, but as of the 4.7 redhat package anyway, netscape also handles them incorectly.. Only Mozilla does this right... Check out this page to test it: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/Inline-embed.html I get this message: /home/spinkham/.netscape/cache/1c/cache3805FF3c2 454B0A.png: unknown or unsupported image type.
On refresh, png and object tags don't work correctly either... Only with img tags do they work right.. Ugh... I thought as version numbers increase, things were supposed to get better? Nah, shovelware has done away with that concept. Now software gets worse with each revision. (OK, I'll get off my soapbox now...)
1) We DO NOT live in a democracy. We live in a republic. 2) We have orginizations who refuse to be accountable to the other gov't orginizations they are supposed to be, citing for "national security" reasons. Like the NSA, who is supposed to be under Congress's control, but refuses to tell congress about what it is doing on a regular basis. Also, our armed forces have some levels of security so tight, only a handful of people know what is going on. And not even a total funding cut from congress would stop these operations, though it would be hard pressed to keep a standing army, these ultra secret parts will stay that way. Yes, there is some steps we can take to open these orginizations up, but right now the avarage Joe(anna) on the street thinks that the Gov't needs that kind of power and security to protect us. And maybe they do. But the fact is that the gov't has so many layers of obstraction now, the american people are so misinformed as to what is going on in the gov't that they can't do anything to change it. Except educate each other as to why our Gov't should be "open sourced" in a sense, why we should be able to see more of what the gov't does in secret.
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AC said: As an answer to why piracy is bad, DOJ says:
This software company does not get paid for its games when people copy them off the Internet. If software companies don't get paid for their work, they will go out of business and there won't be any more "really cool games."
Though this is starting to get off-topic: He is not trying to make a case for legality of multiple copies per license here. He is taking issue with this bad reasoning on the DOJ's part, when they say the issue is the amount of cashflow to the game maker. If only one person bought a copy of a N64 cartridge based game, played it for a week, then sold it, with no way to keep a copy, Nintendo loses out on the money the second person would have given them, and it is still legal. If everyone does this, they can effectively spread out the amount of money they spend on a game and get more games, so only need to play a new game for a few weeks before you pass it on and get a new one cheap for someone else.
Basically, the view that licensing is to keep cashflow to a company has many other loopholes, both legaly (like this senario of game cost sharing) and illegaly (warez). The reason I don't do warez isn't to support the manufacture, it's because it's illegal. I don't mind getting stuff for free (Use Red Hat linux I downloaded off the net, and other packages and games too) but if there is something of good quality I'll pay for it if need be (bought Quake, quake2, CIV: CTP, all good games for linux). If there was a way to legaly get them free, gosh darn it I would;-) (with maybe the exception of CIV: CTP... I think LOKI is a great company and worth supporting.. Also bought a copy of RedHat 5.0 quite a bit ago, at the time that was something I figgured would be worth supporting too..) Anyway, I'm just rambling now, sorry... Up to darn late studying Physics...
Well, don't know about Linux, but here at work with Solaris, I am a member of about 5 groups... Just searching the Linux System admin. guide, says you can be a member of more then one group too.. Reading my/etc/group file, root is a member of group: root, bin, daemon, sys, adm, disk, and wheel. Users can be added to any and all groups you want by adding their name to and group definition here.. Special cases are addressed with multiple groups, at least in my department...
In the computer world, Mhz is the unit we use to measure clockspeed.
Mhz is a unit used for measuring frequency.
1 hz=1 cycle per second 60 hz= 60 cycles per second 1MHz=1,000,000 cycles per second
In SMP computers, both cpu's syncronize to the same clock cycle. In this case, that cycle is 550 Mhz, or 550,000,000 hz. that means, every 1/550000000th of a second, the processors act. Having two of them act at the same time does nothing to speed this time up. It does acomplish more in each cycle, but there are the same amount of cycles per second. So, 2 SMP processors at 550Mhz do not give you a 1100Mhz computer. It gives you a 550Mhz computer that accomplishes more per clock cycle.
I guess at this point, you are just looking for something to wine about, but maybe someone else will learn from this.
Yes, and icecast can do this.. Icecast just shoots out an mp3 stream, you must provide it with that stream. One of the programs that is provided with icecast is shout, which does playlists, and the other is called liveice, which can take either mp3 files or live input from your soundcard (line in) This could be used for live streaming... If you needed to broadcast from on location, you can stream from your laptop to the server, and then out to the internet from there.. There will be a small buffer delay, but such is life...
NT can be very stable, as long as you don't push it too hard.. It runs great for our low volume print server at work. However, in my experience, it dies pretty fast under high load... Our midrange load stuff goes on Linux boxes, and high stuff goes on our Sun E 6000's or one of our few 10000's..
Mhz==speed, specifically in this case, cpu clock speed. mips/mflops/etc==throughput, in this case, dual processor throughput.
He should have given us the bogomips score if anything, though it is a completely inaccurate way of testing throughput, at least he would have had his units right... (yes, I know he did give us the bogomips score later, but the tilte was still a major screw up..) And yes, I do have a sense of humor (somewhere around here... D'oh, where did I put it again?) and could figure out what he meant, even if it was completely wrong...
Mhz==Clockspeed. Period. Nothing about ops per second in there, at all. mhz!=ops per second, by a long shot...
Man hours is a concept of throughput, not speed. Mhz is a concept of speed, not throughput. If you want to measure clock speed, you use Mhz.. If you want to measure throughput, you use mips, mflops, or other such unit.
Yes, there is a big difference, and my original analogy holds.
Except quake isn't multi-threaded.. You could get at least 500 people or so on a k7-700 if you had the bandwidth though... Quake servers aren't that processor intensive... At least my Quake2 server isn't, runs on a lowely k6-2 300, and gets about 1% load with 6 users on... But those six users use up most of my 128Kb cable modem upstream..
Sorry, but I must disagree... Mhz is pulses per second, and this is two different cpu's both pulsing at the same exact time 550 million times a second. What you are arguing for is like saying a highway with two lanes and a fifty-five mile an hour speedlimit really has a 110 mile an hour speedlimit... You can say it is as efficient as a 110 mile an hour speed limit, and it may be that or not.. But it certainly isn't a 110 mile an hour speedlimit..
Doesn't the realplayer "plus" or whatever allow you to save streams? I thought that was one of it's main selling points... That's what they say on their site anyway...
Glad I caught it now... How long will it be before a site with a 300kb video stream is slashdotted? Not long I bet;-) Is really amusing though.. Wish I could figgure out how to save it with the free realplayer alpha...
Re: keypads vs phones, I have a friend who works at a bank and is using the number pad all day... You should see her try to dial a phone;-) Is amusing. The brain tends to get stuck in a certain pattern, that's how we learn after all..
Re:a) Ever heard of China's one baby policy? It's already begun, my friend... It's reather well enforced in urbanized areas, and overlooked in country areas though.
Religion will always exist, but as you seem o think, the prominentreligion may be naturalism/atheism. This is different from no religion, as all worlviews are a religion of sorts. For instance, we may get rid of Catholic priests and instead follow "science priests". Why? Based on what evidence? Science explains motion and action in time and space. Can we infer that all that exists is said motion in time and space? No. Would this be logical? No, no more (aruguably much less) then Christianity or Buddism is logical.
In regards to being brainwashed by their enviornment, how do you avoid the colclusion that the only reason people believe there is no religion is because of their enviornment? Basically, you can't. Also, it seems that curently, the only improvement is that people are being brainwashed in a religion with science, the useful yet flawed tool, as its god. Big improvement.
As for today being a age of great intellectual thought: BBAAAHHHAHHHHAAA!!! The average farmer in America 200 years ago was much better read and much more philosophical then the average person today. Why? Because we have more entertainment. How much of our lives is consumed in frivoulusness? We are also much more stressed. The average farmer had much mindless labor to do, and had in that labor time to think. He would read at night and ponder during the day. Our days are so filled with crud that we have no time for learning or reflection. What advantages do we have in this era? Better scientific knowledge. We have a decent understanding of electricity, of kaos theory, of Einstein's theory of relativity, and are approaching a general relitivity theorm. Also we have Nihilism, relitivism, and other such "isms" that are the conclusion of a world without an absolute. Basically, you define yourself as the absolute, which is darn silly. We would be looked at as ludicrist if we said that when we walked, we stayed still and moved the world under us like a big treadmill. However, that may be the case for one person, and the universe might really revolve around me. There is no way you can prove that it doesn't. But it strikes us as ludicrist. This is our great discovery. We get there by assuming, and by being just as close minded and dogmatic as other religions.
Which as we all know is quite different to science's reaction to problems too big for them. They come up with a theory, rteach it as fact, and say that anything non-physical doesn't exist because they can deal with the physical. Same thing, different method. Many of science's answers aren't anywhere near as sure as they make them out to be. Some things are best explained using scientific methods, and some things science isn't good at explaining. Claiming that science's guesses are better then religion's beliefs in these areas is a question in the realm of philosophy and whatever worldview you hold. (christianity, athiesm, skepticism/agnosticism, etc...)
Good comment.. Where's my moderator rights when I want them;-) This is perhaps the ideal solution.. the best idea I've seen in this thread anyway;-) So how do we go about getting this implemented?
The problem withthis is that you think there is always a right answer.. Usually in politics you are choosing the lesser of two evils, balancing power, and making things "fair". None of these things are really definable outside of our particular metanarrative, and I think you would be hard pressed to define right outside of "what the majority of people want". Politics are really the same realm as religion, if you really stop to think about it... And the amount that our politics match our chosen religion shows how real that religion is to us. If I was to kill Hemos, would that be wrong? punishable? Basically how answer that shows what you really think about reality. Because of this definition of politics, I believe the closer the power is to the people, the better the government, as it would more reflect how their ethics are acted out. The better government is only the one that gives what its people want. (BTW, I am a Christian, and believe in absolute right and wrong, being defined by God's revelation to us, mostly documented in the Bible. Outside of that grounding, I see no basis for deceny and order. But our culture as a whole still is based mostly on Judeo/Christian ethics despite the rampant philosphical denial of the fundementals of that ethics in our culture.) (also, I respect the rules of those of other worldviews, and will agree to live under the rule of the majority's views, whether they are "good" acording to how I have come to understand good or not. However, would much prefer that our Judeo/Christian values continue, as they have proven to be the most benificial to all...)
Is this true? My college radio station has a measily 140 watt radio station.. Do they have a different kind of license? I am a ham, and have knowledge of radio, but not much about comercial regs...
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You have to remember how many things can go wrong that people can blame on the X server...
gpm may not give up the mouse in switching from console to X, window manager may crash and you lose pager functionality, etc...
I've never has an X crash, but I have had window manager crashes...
Except all browsers seem to have trouble with png and embed tags..l 2 454B0A.png: unknown or unsupported image type.
Before it was just IE and Opera, but as of the 4.7 redhat package anyway, netscape also handles them incorectly.. Only Mozilla does this right...
Check out this page to test it:
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/Inline-embed.htm
I get this message:
/home/spinkham/.netscape/cache/1c/cache3805FF3c
On refresh, png and object tags don't work correctly either...
Only with img tags do they work right.. Ugh...
I thought as version numbers increase, things were supposed to get better?
Nah, shovelware has done away with that concept. Now software gets worse with each revision.
(OK, I'll get off my soapbox now...)
1) We DO NOT live in a democracy.
We live in a republic.
2) We have orginizations who refuse to be accountable to the other gov't orginizations they are supposed to be, citing for "national security" reasons.
Like the NSA, who is supposed to be under Congress's control, but refuses to tell congress about what it is doing on a regular basis.
Also, our armed forces have some levels of security so tight, only a handful of people know what is going on. And not even a total funding cut from congress would stop these operations, though it would be hard pressed to keep a standing army, these ultra secret parts will stay that way.
Yes, there is some steps we can take to open these orginizations up, but right now the avarage Joe(anna) on the street thinks that the Gov't needs that kind of power and security to protect us. And maybe they do.
But the fact is that the gov't has so many layers of obstraction now, the american people are so misinformed as to what is going on in the gov't that they can't do anything to change it.
Except educate each other as to why our Gov't should be "open sourced" in a sense, why we should be able to see more of what the gov't does in secret.
AC said:
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As an answer to why piracy is bad, DOJ says:
This software company does not get paid for its games when people copy them off the Internet. If software companies don't get paid for their work, they will go out of business and there won't be any more "really cool games."
Though this is starting to get off-topic:
He is not trying to make a case for legality of multiple copies per license here. He is taking issue with this bad reasoning on the DOJ's part, when they say the issue is the amount of cashflow to the game maker. If only one person bought a copy of a N64 cartridge based game, played it for a week, then sold it, with no way to keep a copy, Nintendo loses out on the money the second person would have given them, and it is still legal. If everyone does this, they can effectively spread out the amount of money they spend on a game and get more games, so only need to play a new game for a few weeks before you pass it on and get a new one cheap for someone else.
Basically, the view that licensing is to keep cashflow to a company has many other loopholes, both legaly (like this senario of game cost sharing) and illegaly (warez). The reason I don't do warez isn't to support the manufacture, it's because it's illegal. I don't mind getting stuff for free (Use Red Hat linux I downloaded off the net, and other packages and games too) but if there is something of good quality I'll pay for it if need be (bought Quake, quake2, CIV: CTP, all good games for linux). If there was a way to legaly get them free, gosh darn it I would
(with maybe the exception of CIV: CTP... I think LOKI is a great company and worth supporting.. Also bought a copy of RedHat 5.0 quite a bit ago, at the time that was something I figgured would be worth supporting too..)
Anyway, I'm just rambling now, sorry... Up to darn late studying Physics...
Well, don't know about Linux, but here at work with Solaris, I am a member of about 5 groups... /etc/group file, root is a member of group:
Just searching the Linux System admin. guide, says you can be a member of more then one group too..
Reading my
root, bin, daemon, sys, adm, disk, and wheel.
Users can be added to any and all groups you want by adding their name to and group definition here..
Special cases are addressed with multiple groups, at least in my department...
There is an option in gFTP to do one transfer at a time only...
You can set it however you want.
In the computer world, Mhz is the unit we use to measure clockspeed.
Mhz is a unit used for measuring frequency.
1 hz=1 cycle per second
60 hz= 60 cycles per second
1MHz=1,000,000 cycles per second
In SMP computers, both cpu's syncronize to the same clock cycle. In this case, that cycle is 550 Mhz, or 550,000,000 hz.
that means, every 1/550000000th of a second, the processors act. Having two of them act at the same time does nothing to speed this time up. It does acomplish more in each cycle, but there are the same amount of cycles per second.
So, 2 SMP processors at 550Mhz do not give you a 1100Mhz computer. It gives you a 550Mhz computer that accomplishes more per clock cycle.
I guess at this point, you are just looking for something to wine about, but maybe someone else will learn from this.
Playing with it right now.. Talking and listining in headphones, about half a second delay...
Yes, and icecast can do this..
Icecast just shoots out an mp3 stream, you must provide it with that stream.
One of the programs that is provided with icecast is shout, which does playlists, and the other is called liveice, which can take either mp3 files or live input from your soundcard (line in)
This could be used for live streaming...
If you needed to broadcast from on location, you can stream from your laptop to the server, and then out to the internet from there..
There will be a small buffer delay, but such is life...
NT can be very stable, as long as you don't push it too hard..
It runs great for our low volume print server at work.
However, in my experience, it dies pretty fast under high load...
Our midrange load stuff goes on Linux boxes, and high stuff goes on our Sun E 6000's or one of our few 10000's..
Mhz==speed, specifically in this case, cpu clock speed.
mips/mflops/etc==throughput, in this case, dual processor throughput.
He should have given us the bogomips score if anything, though it is a completely inaccurate way of testing throughput, at least he would have had his units right...
(yes, I know he did give us the bogomips score later, but the tilte was still a major screw up..)
And yes, I do have a sense of humor (somewhere around here... D'oh, where did I put it again?)
and could figure out what he meant, even if it was completely wrong...
Mhz==Clockspeed. Period. Nothing about ops per second in there, at all.
mhz!=ops per second, by a long shot...
Man hours is a concept of throughput, not speed.
Mhz is a concept of speed, not throughput.
If you want to measure clock speed, you use Mhz..
If you want to measure throughput, you use mips, mflops, or other such unit.
Yes, there is a big difference, and my original analogy holds.
Except quake isn't multi-threaded..
You could get at least 500 people or so on a k7-700 if you had the bandwidth though... Quake servers aren't that processor intensive...
At least my Quake2 server isn't, runs on a lowely k6-2 300, and gets about 1% load with 6 users on...
But those six users use up most of my 128Kb cable modem upstream..
K7 is SMP capable, whether or not people will build SMP chipsets for the K7 is yet another thing...
Sorry, but I must disagree...
Mhz is pulses per second, and this is two different cpu's both pulsing at the same exact time 550 million times a second.
What you are arguing for is like saying a highway with two lanes and a fifty-five mile an hour speedlimit really has a 110 mile an hour speedlimit...
You can say it is as efficient as a 110 mile an hour speed limit, and it may be that or not.. But it certainly isn't a 110 mile an hour speedlimit..
I carry a SOG.. Find it more versitile and convient then the other "megatool pliers".
I don't think those swiss arms "pliers" can handle much...
Doesn't the realplayer "plus" or whatever allow you to save streams? I thought that was one of it's main selling points... That's what they say on their site anyway...
Glad I caught it now... ;-)
How long will it be before a site with a 300kb video stream is slashdotted? Not long I bet
Is really amusing though.. Wish I could figgure out how to save it with the free realplayer alpha...
Re: keypads vs phones, ;-)
I have a friend who works at a bank and is using the number pad all day...
You should see her try to dial a phone
Is amusing. The brain tends to get stuck in a certain pattern, that's how we learn after all..
Re:a) Ever heard of China's one baby policy? It's already begun, my friend...
It's reather well enforced in urbanized areas, and overlooked in country areas though.
Religion will always exist, but as you seem o think, the prominentreligion may be naturalism/atheism. This is different from no religion, as all worlviews are a religion of sorts.
For instance, we may get rid of Catholic priests and instead follow "science priests". Why? Based on what evidence?
Science explains motion and action in time and space. Can we infer that all that exists is said motion in time and space? No. Would this be logical? No, no more (aruguably much less) then Christianity or Buddism is logical.
In regards to being brainwashed by their enviornment, how do you avoid the colclusion that the only reason people believe there is no religion is because of their enviornment? Basically, you can't. Also, it seems that curently, the only improvement is that people are being brainwashed in a religion with science, the useful yet flawed tool, as its god. Big improvement.
As for today being a age of great intellectual thought: BBAAAHHHAHHHHAAA!!!
The average farmer in America 200 years ago was much better read and much more philosophical then the average person today.
Why? Because we have more entertainment. How much of our lives is consumed in frivoulusness?
We are also much more stressed. The average farmer had much mindless labor to do, and had in that labor time to think. He would read at night and ponder during the day. Our days are so filled with crud that we have no time for learning or reflection.
What advantages do we have in this era? Better scientific knowledge. We have a decent understanding of electricity, of kaos theory, of Einstein's theory of relativity, and are approaching a general relitivity theorm.
Also we have Nihilism, relitivism, and other such "isms" that are the conclusion of a world without an absolute. Basically, you define yourself as the absolute, which is darn silly. We would be looked at as ludicrist if we said that when we walked, we stayed still and moved the world under us like a big treadmill. However, that may be the case for one person, and the universe might really revolve around me. There is no way you can prove that it doesn't. But it strikes us as ludicrist.
This is our great discovery. We get there by assuming, and by being just as close minded and dogmatic as other religions.
Which as we all know is quite different to science's reaction to problems too big for them.
They come up with a theory, rteach it as fact, and say that anything non-physical doesn't exist because they can deal with the physical. Same thing, different method.
Many of science's answers aren't anywhere near as sure as they make them out to be.
Some things are best explained using scientific methods, and some things science isn't good at explaining. Claiming that science's guesses are better then religion's beliefs in these areas is a question in the realm of philosophy and whatever worldview you hold. (christianity, athiesm, skepticism/agnosticism, etc...)
Good comment.. Where's my moderator rights when I want them ;-) ;-)
This is perhaps the ideal solution.. the best idea I've seen in this thread anyway
So how do we go about getting this implemented?
The problem withthis is that you think there is always a right answer..
Usually in politics you are choosing the lesser of two evils, balancing power, and making things "fair".
None of these things are really definable outside of our particular metanarrative, and I think you would be hard pressed to define right outside of "what the majority of people want".
Politics are really the same realm as religion, if you really stop to think about it...
And the amount that our politics match our chosen religion shows how real that religion is to us.
If I was to kill Hemos, would that be wrong? punishable? Basically how answer that shows what you really think about reality.
Because of this definition of politics, I believe the closer the power is to the people, the better the government, as it would more reflect how their ethics are acted out.
The better government is only the one that gives what its people want.
(BTW, I am a Christian, and believe in absolute right and wrong, being defined by God's revelation to us, mostly documented in the Bible. Outside of that grounding, I see no basis for deceny and order. But our culture as a whole still is based mostly on Judeo/Christian ethics despite the rampant philosphical denial of the fundementals of that ethics in our culture.)
(also, I respect the rules of those of other worldviews, and will agree to live under the rule of the majority's views, whether they are "good" acording to how I have come to understand good or not. However, would much prefer that our Judeo/Christian values continue, as they have proven to be the most benificial to all...)
Is this true? My college radio station has a measily 140 watt radio station.. Do they have a different kind of license?
I am a ham, and have knowledge of radio, but not much about comercial regs...