I've noticed that, proper Xinerama support is really lacking, SDL doesnt like it at all, and there's a few other library's that just seem to ignore the possiblity that a user MAY be using two or more monitors, having dialogs and games open "centered" on my desktop, split perfectly in half by my two monitors drives me nuts, While I have not had a problem with GL accelleration, which works on both monitors fine, the fact that many applications do not link with it right, really bugs me.
This just in: Standard configuration for desktop systems is NOT applicable to production servers, Film at 11.
Really, I mean I hate to use a cliche, if you've got a machine with 2GB+ of RAM, you should know what you need, and not be taking the advice of some random tech site which is referring to desktop configurations.
That "Stupid Reason" is that clock speed is not everything, Thank you for proving to Intel that it's marketting is worth it though, There are a lot of other factors regarding chip speed.
Where I work, they started to disable the USB ports on the computer's, We can still bypass them, but it points out on of the key problems of firefox, It's hard to make it follow a local security policy, my place of employ, uses a local proxy on the machines, to avoid exess traffic which would just be blocked anyway's, because it's used to lock down internet use, (Uses a whitelist of allowable sites), problem is, (Well, to the admins it's a problem that caused them to ban firefox, which makes it a problem for us), Firefox just ignores the local internet connection settings, which say, "Use this proxy", and as far as I know, even if it was installed on the computer's, there's no way to set that, and make it secure.
They are currently running a 14 disk u160 RAID array, and want to go up to u320, (Can't remember how many disks), I've run a soft raid with 3 UWSCSI-2 drives, and my processor choked everytime disk load went up, They are already under fairly heavy load right now, soft raid would just reduce the performance to nothing.
Not really, The site state's it cannot be distributed seperatly, without specific approval from the author, meaning no distro's will be able to include it, or even package it.
The media continues to fall for the tricks being implemented by the MPAA's PR machine.
Wrongo, You assume the media doesnt know what's going on, (referring to the media as "Big Media" like CNN, etc.), you think this kinda thing just slips by them? I think it's more likely they report as they are told, or at least pressured.
The textbook updates I think are a very important point, I know there are a LOT of textbooks out there that are inaccurate, or plain wrong, The first thing we were told with my math textbook this year, was "The answers in the back can be wrong, dont take them as the absolute, check with me if your not sure", Now this is just a high school calculus book, and even then, the examples are fine, but I know I've heard of serious error's in history text's, that would be great to be able to update accurately.
No, Terrorists use terror to achieve political gains, usually this terror is caused by killing people, but maiming people, threatening people, or disrupting important services is a start on that, though I dont think this should be considered terrorist, just saying is all...
*Hard Drives Are Cheap* - Sure, but so are most University Students,
*Burning to CD-R* - No, Means the movies are inaccessable from anywhere else, CD-R's rot, and you are assuming they are 650MB DivX's, what if they were not? What if, (God forbid) he wanted a little quality in his movies?
*What to do with them?* You get a little confusing here, and are mixing points, (Connection speed vs portability), Whats more portable than a server online? with basically assured 24/7 uptime?, As well, assuming he's getting these movies still, and they are not JUST things he has, there are warez sites/irc groups with T3's out there.
*Why Nasa? Why not Joe Schmoe?* Because Joe Schmoe is slower, and likely to get taken out by a virus any given day of the week,
And yeah, I admit, He made a stupid choice going with nasa, he would have been better to take on a web hosting company or something, even a university, NASA is a little too high profile, so I'd say he was going for ego points.
Wait a tick, KDE is heavily dependant on QT, which is free only on linux isnt it? I was under the impression you could not use QT App's on windows, without a dev. license from trolltech, ($1500), but I also thought you could not develop app's with another version of someones software then just switch when you want to start selling it?
They cant use the good ones, because they change it every few months, they think of good ones, and hold on to them, or sell them or something, why waste a good name when your just going to change it so people cant figure out "Claria" = teh bad
nuts to the ISP, I do this on my LAN, and it works great, I set higher priority's for Streaming radio, HTTP, and games, (halflife and variants mostly), then put bittorrent and FTP in lower priority's, I can have a bittorrent using 95% of my bandwidth, and keep a 40ms ping in counterstrike of Hostile Intent,
No. They wouldnt, the manufacturing process means they make them in batches, batches of say, 100,000, if they make them one at a time, the manufacturing costs skyrocket, if they make 100,000 without a confirmed order, they stand to lose a LOT of money.
You DO NOT BUY these games on E-Bay. Same holds true for original half-life, (Which is still available new at most stores for a decent price, so dont bitch about not being able to get them anymore), if you bought original halflife, you can almost be certain that there are a half-dozen people using that WON key:P
Though the Car and Gas statement is really irrelevant, I agree with the rest of your statement, this site is becoming, or I can probably say, HAS become, a flimsy excuse for a news site, Editors need to keep their opinions to themselves, and provide an UNBIASED bit of information, usually it's fine, "Look at this, very cool: " or "uh-oh, sucks to be so and so" but now it's getting to be "sucks to be so and so, MAN $company is evil!" and the like, so much for professionalism, lets see if this thread get's modded into oblivion too, ever read anti-slash? While the lot of them are right bastards, they have a few good points about the editors.
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I've noticed that, proper Xinerama support is really lacking, SDL doesnt like it at all, and there's a few other library's that just seem to ignore the possiblity that a user MAY be using two or more monitors, having dialogs and games open "centered" on my desktop, split perfectly in half by my two monitors drives me nuts, While I have not had a problem with GL accelleration, which works on both monitors fine, the fact that many applications do not link with it right, really bugs me.
This just in: Standard configuration for desktop systems is NOT applicable to production servers, Film at 11. Really, I mean I hate to use a cliche, if you've got a machine with 2GB+ of RAM, you should know what you need, and not be taking the advice of some random tech site which is referring to desktop configurations.
That "Stupid Reason" is that clock speed is not everything, Thank you for proving to Intel that it's marketting is worth it though, There are a lot of other factors regarding chip speed.
Where I work, they started to disable the USB ports on the computer's, We can still bypass them, but it points out on of the key problems of firefox, It's hard to make it follow a local security policy, my place of employ, uses a local proxy on the machines, to avoid exess traffic which would just be blocked anyway's, because it's used to lock down internet use, (Uses a whitelist of allowable sites), problem is, (Well, to the admins it's a problem that caused them to ban firefox, which makes it a problem for us), Firefox just ignores the local internet connection settings, which say, "Use this proxy", and as far as I know, even if it was installed on the computer's, there's no way to set that, and make it secure.
As in... Software? You make me sad dear boy.
They are currently running a 14 disk u160 RAID array, and want to go up to u320, (Can't remember how many disks), I've run a soft raid with 3 UWSCSI-2 drives, and my processor choked everytime disk load went up, They are already under fairly heavy load right now, soft raid would just reduce the performance to nothing.
Also, 650MB of CD-R space is WAY cheaper than 650MB of USB Flash space.
Not really, The site state's it cannot be distributed seperatly, without specific approval from the author, meaning no distro's will be able to include it, or even package it.
The media continues to fall for the tricks being implemented by the MPAA's PR machine.
Wrongo, You assume the media doesnt know what's going on, (referring to the media as "Big Media" like CNN, etc.), you think this kinda thing just slips by them? I think it's more likely they report as they are told, or at least pressured.
MS, That's who! (pointless flame, but it hurts because it's true)
The textbook updates I think are a very important point, I know there are a LOT of textbooks out there that are inaccurate, or plain wrong, The first thing we were told with my math textbook this year, was "The answers in the back can be wrong, dont take them as the absolute, check with me if your not sure", Now this is just a high school calculus book, and even then, the examples are fine, but I know I've heard of serious error's in history text's, that would be great to be able to update accurately.
thanks for clarifying at the end there, you know, just in case anyone missed it.
Don't be brainwashed, it's not that Mac's dont support yahoo, it's that Yahoo doesnt support Mac's :P
:)
I know, I'm a nitpicker
No, Terrorists use terror to achieve political gains, usually this terror is caused by killing people, but maiming people, threatening people, or disrupting important services is a start on that, though I dont think this should be considered terrorist, just saying is all...
Stigma? I dont know about you, but I'm proud to be labelled a geek or nerd, and to take all that comes with that title.
Ok, Lesse here....
*Hard Drives Are Cheap* - Sure, but so are most University Students,
*Burning to CD-R* - No, Means the movies are inaccessable from anywhere else, CD-R's rot, and you are assuming they are 650MB DivX's, what if they were not? What if, (God forbid) he wanted a little quality in his movies?
*What to do with them?* You get a little confusing here, and are mixing points, (Connection speed vs portability), Whats more portable than a server online? with basically assured 24/7 uptime?, As well, assuming he's getting these movies still, and they are not JUST things he has, there are warez sites/irc groups with T3's out there.
*Why Nasa? Why not Joe Schmoe?* Because Joe Schmoe is slower, and likely to get taken out by a virus any given day of the week,
And yeah, I admit, He made a stupid choice going with nasa, he would have been better to take on a web hosting company or something, even a university, NASA is a little too high profile, so I'd say he was going for ego points.
I don't get it
...
*starts downloading FBSD 4.10*
Wait a tick, KDE is heavily dependant on QT, which is free only on linux isnt it? I was under the impression you could not use QT App's on windows, without a dev. license from trolltech, ($1500), but I also thought you could not develop app's with another version of someones software then just switch when you want to start selling it?
It Really really makes me sad, to see CmdrTaco making a jab at someone elses spelling error...
They cant use the good ones, because they change it every few months, they think of good ones, and hold on to them, or sell them or something, why waste a good name when your just going to change it so people cant figure out "Claria" = teh bad
nuts to the ISP, I do this on my LAN, and it works great, I set higher priority's for Streaming radio, HTTP, and games, (halflife and variants mostly), then put bittorrent and FTP in lower priority's, I can have a bittorrent using 95% of my bandwidth, and keep a 40ms ping in counterstrike of Hostile Intent,
No. They wouldnt, the manufacturing process means they make them in batches, batches of say, 100,000, if they make them one at a time, the manufacturing costs skyrocket, if they make 100,000 without a confirmed order, they stand to lose a LOT of money.
Yes. Yes it is.
And Current Military computers are not vulnerable to bullets?
You DO NOT BUY these games on E-Bay. Same holds true for original half-life, (Which is still available new at most stores for a decent price, so dont bitch about not being able to get them anymore), if you bought original halflife, you can almost be certain that there are a half-dozen people using that WON key :P
Though the Car and Gas statement is really irrelevant, I agree with the rest of your statement, this site is becoming, or I can probably say, HAS become, a flimsy excuse for a news site, Editors need to keep their opinions to themselves, and provide an UNBIASED bit of information, usually it's fine, "Look at this, very cool: " or "uh-oh, sucks to be so and so" but now it's getting to be "sucks to be so and so, MAN $company is evil!" and the like, so much for professionalism, lets see if this thread get's modded into oblivion too, ever read anti-slash? While the lot of them are right bastards, they have a few good points about the editors.