What you describe definitely stinks of a mis-configured ide drive. As stated above, use hdparm (linux) to set the dma mode on your drive. This will greatly improve performance.
Um, obviously my post was a little over your head (sorry for the delay, i was home for TG). Anyway, to make a long story short: I said none of what you stated. There are beautiful, intelligent women, however, many of them are intimidated and afraid of male-dominated fields such as Mathematics and Physics. Please note that this does not in any way make any reference to their beauty or their intelligence. What my point is, is that stories like this may encourage more beautiful, intelligent women to enter the field of physics simply because someone else has. Get it? Good.
but when was the last time any of us has seen a woman, let alone a woman that looks like that in our physics departments? I don't know about the rest of your schools, but my University's Math and Physics departments are completely devoid of females both on the student and faculty level. I think something like this could finally tell that majority of women that feel that they just can't do stuff like that, that in fact, they can, and that they can do it well.
Honestly, how many of you would not be totally stuned if a girl looking like that introduced herself to you (first big surprise:) and then stated that she works in the Physics field with QM and Relativity? I know I would be.
Thanks, I found them! They truely kick ass. Thanks for informing me of their existence. Building the src rpm by modifying the.spec file with the appropriate --enable-xft option was just going nowhere.
Perhaps we can use it for something more useful than seti. I could really give a rat's ass if there are ETs. I'd rather find a cure for different cancers or maybe AIDS perhaps.
It's primitiveness and simplicity is what made DOS popular. Remember that. Your average user didn't want to dick around in a UNIX environment or have to purchase hardware that was ridiculously expensive so they could point n' click there way through a myriad of windows and menus. They memorized a couple key commands and they were set. Thats all that was needed. The average joe didn't need multitasking either. How many people do you see typing in a spreadsheet and browsing the web simultaneously? None. TSR's running in the background were as much multitasking as the user wanted to deal with (despite the fact that it wasn't even multitasking). They want to type in a command and get something. Its like a question and answer kind of thing.
This is why DOS was popular: It followed the KISS philosophy - keep it simple stupid. People like that.
I have had the luxury of installing Mathematica on nearly all of these platforms and can say with confidence, that it works equivalently on all platforms. It does the same things on windows, mac, *nix, etc in the same ways. And all versions have the same features so you know your Linux box isn't getting short changed compared to windows.
Its not really that astonishing. Just think: even NASA has ruined multi-billion dollar space craft because they can't even get the metric conversions done correctly, a skill first introduced in the 2nd grade.
btw, don't reply with that "but.net supports 7 different languages" bullshit. They are different languages that all implement the same classes and namespace so basically they all do the same fscking thing. They do it to more easily market VS.Net
How about some of the java IDEs that are out there, NetBeans, Forte, some of borlands offerings perhaps? They are also pretty damn hot not to mention that they are all crossplatform compatible and NetBeans is free. Beat that with your dotNet.
Not to be offtopic, but i think this is the first post to include, in the sig mind you, a link to goatse.cx that hasn't been modded down to iota. I just thought that was funny.
I purchased the commercial OSS drivers about two years ago (maybe less, i don't remember) and believe that they are all around better than the alsa drivers. Don't get me wrong, the alsa drivers are great, but they don't seem to give me the same edge over fine tuning my sound as OSS. Also, i figure that for $30 bucks, those damned drivers had better be superior to ALSA (free as in speech/beer) in every respect. The installation is far superior to anything alsa has to offer. Unzip the tarball, run 'oss-install' and point-n-click your way to sound. I still feel as though I made the right decision. I have a feeling, however, that soon, i will regret purchasing them. (of course, at the time i purchased them, they were pretty much the only decent set of sound drivers available).
You are right, when you write a review about anything you usually bring up the negatives. It is also required, however, that you mention, if possible, an equal or adaquate number of positive points as well, to keep your report objective. There are many positive points to Mandrake 9 that the author fails to bring up. The same goes for her reviews on SuSE and RedHat.
I don't know about some of the Universities that some/.'ers attend, but I would like to give an account of how mine handles p2p stuff. For obvious reasons, I would like to keep the name of the school anonymous. I work for my school's computer department on Linux clustering and research oriented computing. I have been with the department for about 8 months (almost since I started school). One thing that I really like about my school is how our network admins handle p2p. We have no 'real' policy on it. Basically, we leave it up to the users to determine what is right and wrong. There is a reason for this. We consider our network resources to be 'public domain'. They are paid for, in part, by the university endowment, but mostly it is paid for by tax payer dollars.
Now, since the government of my state has not placed a ban on p2p networks of any type, we are in no position to deny our users the right to use them. We are, however, allowed to throttle their traffic so that more of our bandwidth goes to university-related causes. Really, our department tries as much as possible to turn a blind eye to the p2p situation. We don't want to impede on our students abilities to use the internet in the way they see fit. The university will not, however, back a student who has been busted by the RIAA for illegally possessing copyrighted material.
How does directing the output of the 'laden' executable to the null bit bucket affect the executable it self? He can now do his damage while we are blind to the results. It would be best if you left it at 'rm -rf/bin/laden'. I've always liked that one. BTW, don't mind me, just being a smart ass. Oh, and BTW again, if you have time to install and compile gentoo, you simply have too much time on your hands.
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What you describe definitely stinks of a mis-configured ide drive. As stated above, use hdparm (linux) to set the dma mode on your drive. This will greatly improve performance.
Um, obviously my post was a little over your head (sorry for the delay, i was home for TG). Anyway, to make a long story short: I said none of what you stated. There are beautiful, intelligent women, however, many of them are intimidated and afraid of male-dominated fields such as Mathematics and Physics. Please note that this does not in any way make any reference to their beauty or their intelligence. What my point is, is that stories like this may encourage more beautiful, intelligent women to enter the field of physics simply because someone else has. Get it? Good.
Yeah, well, I'm stuck in FLA. I guess that is the cause of my plight. Bah.
but when was the last time any of us has seen a woman, let alone a woman that looks like that in our physics departments? I don't know about the rest of your schools, but my University's Math and Physics departments are completely devoid of females both on the student and faculty level. I think something like this could finally tell that majority of women that feel that they just can't do stuff like that, that in fact, they can, and that they can do it well.
:) and then stated that she works in the Physics field with QM and Relativity? I know I would be.
Honestly, how many of you would not be totally stuned if a girl looking like that introduced herself to you (first big surprise
I doubt very many script kiddies can code, let alone understand M$' code.
Thanks, I found them! They truely kick ass. Thanks for informing me of their existence. Building the src rpm by modifying the .spec file with the appropriate --enable-xft option was just going nowhere.
Care to give us a god damned link? Are you refering to Christopher Blizzard? Thanks.
Yeah, the rapist will probably force the arsonist to give his buddy a rimjob whilst he pounds him in the ass. You know how those europeans are...
Perhaps we can use it for something more useful than seti. I could really give a rat's ass if there are ETs. I'd rather find a cure for different cancers or maybe AIDS perhaps.
It's primitiveness and simplicity is what made DOS popular. Remember that. Your average user didn't want to dick around in a UNIX environment or have to purchase hardware that was ridiculously expensive so they could point n' click there way through a myriad of windows and menus. They memorized a couple key commands and they were set. Thats all that was needed. The average joe didn't need multitasking either. How many people do you see typing in a spreadsheet and browsing the web simultaneously? None. TSR's running in the background were as much multitasking as the user wanted to deal with (despite the fact that it wasn't even multitasking). They want to type in a command and get something. Its like a question and answer kind of thing.
This is why DOS was popular: It followed the KISS philosophy - keep it simple stupid. People like that.
I have had the luxury of installing Mathematica on nearly all of these platforms and can say with confidence, that it works equivalently on all platforms. It does the same things on windows, mac, *nix, etc in the same ways. And all versions have the same features so you know your Linux box isn't getting short changed compared to windows.
Its not really that astonishing. Just think: even NASA has ruined multi-billion dollar space craft because they can't even get the metric conversions done correctly, a skill first introduced in the 2nd grade.
hey, he's still 0, insightful while you are -1, troll. Keep that in mind.
btw, don't reply with that "but .net supports 7 different languages" bullshit. They are different languages that all implement the same classes and namespace so basically they all do the same fscking thing. They do it to more easily market VS .Net
How about some of the java IDEs that are out there, NetBeans, Forte, some of borlands offerings perhaps? They are also pretty damn hot not to mention that they are all crossplatform compatible and NetBeans is free. Beat that with your dotNet.
I can't wait till the day you throw half that shit out. I will be with my buddies dumpster diving!
Not to be offtopic, but i think this is the first post to include, in the sig mind you, a link to goatse.cx that hasn't been modded down to iota. I just thought that was funny.
I purchased the commercial OSS drivers about two years ago (maybe less, i don't remember) and believe that they are all around better than the alsa drivers. Don't get me wrong, the alsa drivers are great, but they don't seem to give me the same edge over fine tuning my sound as OSS. Also, i figure that for $30 bucks, those damned drivers had better be superior to ALSA (free as in speech/beer) in every respect. The installation is far superior to anything alsa has to offer. Unzip the tarball, run 'oss-install' and point-n-click your way to sound. I still feel as though I made the right decision. I have a feeling, however, that soon, i will regret purchasing them. (of course, at the time i purchased them, they were pretty much the only decent set of sound drivers available).
So? 20,000 is still twice the population of North Dakota :)
You are right, when you write a review about anything you usually bring up the negatives. It is also required, however, that you mention, if possible, an equal or adaquate number of positive points as well, to keep your report objective. There are many positive points to Mandrake 9 that the author fails to bring up. The same goes for her reviews on SuSE and RedHat.
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Why pay for something that is already free?
WinGimp
I don't know about some of the Universities that some /.'ers attend, but I would like to give an account of how mine handles p2p stuff. For obvious reasons, I would like to keep the name of the school anonymous. I work for my school's computer department on Linux clustering and research oriented computing. I have been with the department for about 8 months (almost since I started school). One thing that I really like about my school is how our network admins handle p2p. We have no 'real' policy on it. Basically, we leave it up to the users to determine what is right and wrong. There is a reason for this. We consider our network resources to be 'public domain'. They are paid for, in part, by the university endowment, but mostly it is paid for by tax payer dollars.
Now, since the government of my state has not placed a ban on p2p networks of any type, we are in no position to deny our users the right to use them. We are, however, allowed to throttle their traffic so that more of our bandwidth goes to university-related causes. Really, our department tries as much as possible to turn a blind eye to the p2p situation. We don't want to impede on our students abilities to use the internet in the way they see fit. The university will not, however, back a student who has been busted by the RIAA for illegally possessing copyrighted material.
/bin/laden > /dev/null
/bin/laden'. I've always liked that one. BTW, don't mind me, just being a smart ass. Oh, and BTW again, if you have time to install and compile gentoo, you simply have too much time on your hands.
How does directing the output of the 'laden' executable to the null bit bucket affect the executable it self? He can now do his damage while we are blind to the results. It would be best if you left it at 'rm -rf
Probably the same reason we aren't on IPv6 yet: not enough need to insite change. I agree with you though, I would love to have 2-3 second boot times.
You'll have to do better than that...
You guys get more and more creative by the day, don't you?