When a discovery like this is made like this the reaction can be 'load of rubbish', 'now everything's bad for us'. While that may be true with food this is a different matter. You can't lump it together will those scares. Computers aren't natural as are plastics and that kind of stuff. It wasn't there before in our natural(ish) environment so it's ok to view it as a problem.
Obviously nothing to loose sleep over. But if you can reduce it a bit then why not? - unless you're willing to do the honourable thing and go through evolution.
Piggin says swap = good. Even if swap = ramdrive?
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Is Swap Necessary?
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"Nick Piggin [interview] explained that swap can improve performance no matter how much RAM you have, "well it is a magical property of swap space, because extra RAM doesn't allow you to replace unused memory with often used memory. The theory holds true no matter how much RAM you have. Swap can improve performance. It can be trivially demonstrated." This said, numerous Linux users do report success running a swapless system."
^ so you're saying that having say, 512mb mounted as swap on a ramdrive and 512mb normal ram is better than just all ram?
on humans, but still suprised that bacteria can handle this.
It turns out that the DNA in the bacteria IS damaged, but it is able to repair at a fast enough rate and accurately too:
"Others, such as the radioactivity-resistant Deinococcus radiodurans, can withstand serious damage by repairing their own DNA."
Personally I'm still not happy with what's available.
Problems are still: - battery life - size - screen visibility - input - the fact that you have to turn it on; availablility
Some of these problems have been mitigated but no one's fixed them all, especially with the low price you need for this sort of thing (the max contents of a wallet you'd bring around everyday).
The comment of using a digicam is really good though.
I feel that if the Sony Ebook reader: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/ 23/053221 3&mode=flat&tid=100&tid=137&tid=19 6
had handwriting recognition as good as WindowsXP (where you can write whole sentances at a time), without making battery life shorter than a days work (i.e. say 8 hours constant use). Then I'd be happy.
Wack idea for you:
- use a blackboard/similar. Perhaps one of those magic pen board things - photo it with your digicam - erase + start again - do handwriting recognition at a later stage (obviously this won't work that well, meant as inspiration for better ideas)
The http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,5787,00.html is also an option but it still wastes paper.
And http://www.dynamism.com/u70/ (24Watt) may still have problems with battery life and screen visability.
What's the point of having it if you more scared to use it than paper - that the battery will run out. It has to be at least as good as paper or better.
I should add that plenty of people have suggested various things but only the dedicated actually use a PDA for quick notes. I had a Zaurus but even if the battery life was 8 hours instead of 2 just turning it on would have stopped me from using it.
"I wonder how I can find the answer to this question",
using a thesaurus, using boolean searches
And then I thought, maybe there's a way I can get better at googleing. After all, some people are rubbish, if the phrase isn't there there don't subsitute words, they don't know about speech marks and so forth.
So where can I find google training because I'm sure it's a skill, just that few recognise it. And being told to just google for the answer on freenode as we all know, isn't much help unless they give you some words to search for.
Example:
what's the word for that thing, you know, the big white round thing, the thing that goes on the what-sit; the point is you need the words to start with.
- ClosedSourced with agreement to release source in event of company liquidation, discontinue line etc
Or:
- More software licenses like QT
and so forth.
or:
- invest in people, not software. Pay geeks to run operate GNU software.
It would be nice for OpenSource to do it all but I think there'll always be problems if it remains Community driven. I still haven't seen a OpenSource project with a GUI / interface that has really impressed me in terms of phycology.
I try at all opportunities to switch to OSS. Not because it might be better but because
it's predictable. I can rely on it. I don't have to trust a company to be honest with me - it's inherent.
If x86 dies it doesn't have to go abandonware.
This is the main reason I choose OSS these days. Too often in the past I bought software (or even hardware with firmware), only to find the company abandon it, treat me bad.
It least with OpenSource I can't expect no support.
My Windows install is always on the line: - will be University XP license still be valid in 6 months time? - will Windows 2000 be discontinued and unsupported next year? - will there be a compulsory upgrade for Photoshop next year at an unbudgetable price?
So you see, I'm taking a risk getting used to Photoshop because I never know what the future has in store. I'm not in control. No freedom.
This is the problem will all propreitory software.
It doesn't matter how good or bad the alternatives are, it just can't compete... the quality of the software only takes the argument so far,
especially when I've spent 10 on my computer in the last year.
Well, the idea was inspired from something a nobel peace prize winner invented;
a refrigerator that works without electricity - two clay pots with sand and water between the two that evaporates
but I can't seem to find it anywhere: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=U TF-8&oe=UTF -8&q=nobel+prize+food+cold+evaporation&spell=1
I only suggested glass because it might look better. Is there that much difference in heat properties between glass and clay? I guess glass is a supercooled liquid so...
My idea - loose parts,cool compartment using water
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A Silent PC Solution?
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· Score: 3, Interesting
- couldn't figure out why all my silentPC sites had all gone down:D
My idea is to have two layers of glass (or something else waterproof) with damp sand in between, possibily using water or homebrew alcohol
Slashdot Mirror
I'm still waiting for the
'Boot off usb via boot floppy and burn off a CD'
solution.
Featherlinux has a boot floppy for usb. It can do it but it's not ideal quite yet.
Photo would be nice :)
One thing I would say is this:
When a discovery like this is made like this the reaction can be 'load of rubbish', 'now everything's bad for us'. While that may be true with food this is a different matter. You can't lump it together will those scares. Computers aren't natural as are plastics and that kind of stuff. It wasn't there before in our natural(ish) environment so it's ok to view it as a problem.
Obviously nothing to loose sleep over. But if you can reduce it a bit then why not? - unless you're willing to do the honourable thing and go through evolution.
"Nick Piggin [interview] explained that swap can improve performance no matter how much RAM you have, "well it is a magical property of swap space, because extra RAM doesn't allow you to replace unused memory with often used memory. The theory holds true no matter how much RAM you have. Swap can improve performance. It can be trivially demonstrated." This said, numerous Linux users do report success running a swapless system."
^ so you're saying that having say, 512mb mounted as swap on a ramdrive and 512mb normal ram is better than just all ram?
Well, I am suprised because I thought that radiation damages all DNA no matter what cell it's in.
I can understand that the effects
on humans, but still suprised that bacteria can handle this. It turns out that the DNA in the bacteria IS damaged, but it is able to repair at a fast enough rate and accurately too:
"Others, such as the radioactivity-resistant Deinococcus radiodurans, can withstand serious damage by repairing their own DNA."
source
So there's only so much the bacteria can handle.
While there may be disagreement on:
- whether things will get hot or cold
- or whether we are causing the changes
We are very sure that change of some sort is absolutely unequivocal.
Change is generally bad, usually costing money. On that all parties agree.
So it is economically wise to proact rather than react.
When economics begin to look at the whole timescale - 10 years or 100 years things will change. That's the real challange.
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- dump in box,
- take a photo of each layer (i.e. digital)
- seporate each layer with card
A guy on a skateboard with one arm went by me in India.
Decided not to offer him a copy of Knoppix.
Got a problem - give me a call and you can route your money through my account; either that or use mine exclusively or make another one
Personally I'm still not happy with what's available.
/ 23/053221 3&mode=flat&tid=100&tid=137&tid=19 6
Problems are still:
- battery life
- size
- screen visibility
- input
- the fact that you have to turn it on; availablility
Some of these problems have been mitigated but no one's fixed them all, especially with the low price you need for this sort of thing (the max contents of a wallet you'd bring around everyday).
The comment of using a digicam is really good though.
I feel that if the Sony Ebook reader:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04
had handwriting recognition as good as WindowsXP (where you can write whole sentances at a time), without making battery life shorter than a days work (i.e. say 8 hours constant use). Then I'd be happy.
Wack idea for you:
- use a blackboard/similar. Perhaps one of those magic pen board things
- photo it with your digicam
- erase + start again
- do handwriting recognition at a later stage
(obviously this won't work that well, meant as inspiration for better ideas)
The http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,5787,00.html
is also an option but it still wastes paper.
And http://www.dynamism.com/u70/ (24Watt) may still have problems with battery life and screen visability.
What's the point of having it if you more scared to use it than paper - that the battery will run out. It has to be at least as good as paper or better.
I should add that plenty of people have suggested various things but only the dedicated actually use a PDA for quick notes. I had a Zaurus but even if the battery life was 8 hours instead of 2 just turning it on would have stopped me from using it.
How's about using as a thinclient:
s ou rceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=u tf-8
http://www.google.com/search?q=xbox+thinclient&
?
hmm, not much discussion. Maybe I'll mantion to xbox mailing list.
What a **** article you ****, come and get some you piece of ****
;) ]
I'm glad FightClub managed to say what needs to be said on this; life is too safe for some people.
Give them knives and put them in a cage, or similar;
http://www.ufc.tv/
[ wink
There I am, console mode at the command line trying to compile the latest kde release.
...but then without this division there wouldn't be sound and graphics card companies.
I might have a dedicated card:
- for DSP audio
- a dedicated AGP card for graphics
- another PCI graphics card for xinerama
- a PCI VPN card
And yet only the CPU is being used (mostly). This is nuts
Gimmie gimmie my GPU (glx) accelerated GCC!
Just sold my zaurus, battery lasted 2hrs for me.
Loved it but personally i find these things useless if they can't operate for about 18hours / a working day constantly.
Hence I have no PDA or laptop even though I'd benefit greatly from one that lasted long enough.
Nice, but does light make the same nice mistakes as the needle does?
So many times I've thought
"I wonder how I can find the answer to this question",
using a thesaurus,
using boolean searches
And then I thought, maybe there's a way I can get better at googleing. After all, some people are rubbish, if the phrase isn't there there don't subsitute words, they don't know about speech marks and so forth.
So where can I find google training because I'm sure it's a skill, just that few recognise it. And being told to just google for the answer on freenode as we all know, isn't much help unless they give you some words to search for.
Example:
what's the word for that thing, you know, the big white round thing, the thing that goes on the what-sit; the point is you need the words to start with.
My University blocks IRC.
Not easy without internet at home.
How can I convince them to allow access to this one server?
At the moment I have to use a java applet. I know, I should get a shell.
"kill him"
muhahaha
Plymouth University ALL computers down 4th May:
http://www.plym.ac.uk/
Devon Coastguard also reporting trouble.
Someone please divide price by benchmark and plot this in a graph please!
Maybe I'll do it if no one else can be bothered.
Hopefully someone can come up with a compromise;
- OpenSource backend, ClosedSource frontend,
something like that.
Or:
- ClosedSourced with agreement to release source in event of company liquidation, discontinue line etc
Or:
- More software licenses like QT
and so forth.
or:
- invest in people, not software. Pay geeks to run operate GNU software.
It would be nice for OpenSource to do it all but I think there'll always be problems if it remains Community driven. I still haven't seen a OpenSource project with a GUI / interface that has really impressed me in terms of phycology.
I do, at present use Photoshop and Gimp.
I try at all opportunities to switch to OSS. Not because it might be better but because
it's predictable. I can rely on it. I don't have to trust a company to be honest with me - it's inherent.
If x86 dies it doesn't have to go abandonware.
This is the main reason I choose OSS these days. Too often in the past I bought software (or even hardware with firmware), only to find the company abandon it, treat me bad.
It least with OpenSource I can't expect no support.
My Windows install is always on the line:
- will be University XP license still be valid in 6 months time?
- will Windows 2000 be discontinued and unsupported next year?
- will there be a compulsory upgrade for Photoshop next year at an unbudgetable price?
So you see, I'm taking a risk getting used to Photoshop because I never know what the future has in store. I'm not in control. No freedom.
This is the problem will all propreitory software.
It doesn't matter how good or bad the alternatives are, it just can't compete... the quality of the software only takes the argument so far,
especially when I've spent 10 on my computer in the last year.
Well, the idea was inspired from something a nobel peace prize winner invented;
U TF-8&oe=UTF -8&q=nobel+prize+food+cold+evaporation&spell=1
a refrigerator that works without electricity - two clay pots with sand and water between the two that evaporates
but I can't seem to find it anywhere:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=
I only suggested glass because it might look better. Is there that much difference in heat properties between glass and clay? I guess glass is a supercooled liquid so...
- couldn't figure out why all my silentPC sites had all gone down :D
My idea is to have two layers of glass (or something else waterproof) with damp sand in between, possibily using water or homebrew alcohol
^ this liquid then evaporates
Picture of the idea:
pic
Prose and links:
txt
More:
directory