Probably the best move is to have a cron job examine/proc/mdstat and e-mail you if it's troubled.
Or you can just have mdadmd (pard of the mdadm suite.(comes with my distro (SuSE 9.1))) running, and it'll monitor your raid arrays, and email you when there's a problem.
I agree about them being bad. The screen on my Dell laptop looks pants next to my mates HP/Compaq/Whatever they're called this week. Specifically when you have a light gret area next to a white area (e.g. the/. IT theme). From a normal angle you can't see the difference, and from a high angle, they're actually reversed with the grey being brighter than the white.
In fact the viewing angle is so small that the screen doesn't look consistent from top to bottom. This tech suddenly makes sense of this problem.
I notice that HP is conspicuous by it's abscence from the list of companies being sued.
To do this in other image editing programs, you have to mess with moving scrollbars around, which is ridiculously clumsy compared to PSP's elegant solution.
Or how about Photoshop's 'Hold down spacebar, click and drag to move the viewport'. I think most of the people who find Photoshop unwieldy haven't discovered the keyboard shortcuts (z selects the zoom tool for example (and Why oh Why isn't there a keyboard shortcut for the zoom tool in Gimp)). Once you start to use them you'll find the workflow very efficient. This is my main gripe with the Gimp, I have to be constantly moving out of the image window to find tools. Add to that the image information window that will disappear every time you close an image.</rant>
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Running a machine 24/7 will actually help with the lifetime of the hardware because it won't be constantly heating up and cooling down. This is what causes a fair proportion of hardware failures.
Alternatively, a slot loading mini DVD-r/w player would be nice. The mini DVD/CD format is small enough the player would still fint in a pocket, and also the reduction of spinning mass should save batteries.
How about something like this. Having said that I'm having trouble finding this product on the Philips website.
If you have a soundcard with a decent DAC on it, then your point stands. If, however, you only have a cheap DAC, then it makes sense to use the 5.1 encoder...
because you'll lose far more quality (if that can be quantified) going through the cheap DAC in the soundcard than you will by encoding it to 5.1, and then feeding it through a decent DAC in the 5.1 receiver.
I was about to post something very similar, but you've said it better than I was going to.
I think most of the problem with the sound arena is that it's very hard to get meaningful quantative benchmarks. It's not like "the better the soundcard the better the sample rate" (at least not in a comparable way to framerates with video). It comes down to a much more subjective evaluation. This means the companies can't say "our product is x times better than their product" or similar claims. They have to fall back on more vague qualatative arguments.
That's because when you jump start a car, you're actually charging the flat battery enough for it to be able to start the car. You're not trying to start the car from the other battery.
How much current do you think the croc clips on your standard jump leads are capable of? Certainly not the 300A or so that the starter motor needs.
I'd guess that there's not much difference in the current capacity of the croc clips as compared to the cig lighter.
While that's nice in theory, it doesn't help you much when your boss comes up to you and asks you why the website doesn't look right. He's not going to be interested in the fact that it looks right in a standards compliant browser, he just wants it to look right for everyone who visits the site.
Don't get me wrong, I wish it weren't like that, but sadly, that's the way things are.
That's where multiple desktops is great. I have Atl+1-6 switching between my 6 desktops, with a different task on each one. For something like a calculator (or xmms) I just set it to sticky, so it appears on all desktops.
Ah, The professional. The film that was cut to pieces and released as Leon in some countries (noteably the UK). I remember seeing the full version for the first time, and it suddenly made so much more sense.
If you outgrow it, just export the whole shabang... delimited by whatever your database software supports.
You make it sound as though that's a trivial task. It can be as long as everyone who used the spreadsheet was disciplined about how they entered data. The problem is that that is rarely the case, and the spreadsheet doesn't enforce any data types etc.. Converting a series of data from a spreadsheet to a database can be a huge PITA. I've been there, it ain't pretty.
Heck, there have been times I reccomended using excel when getting groups of 10 or more people together doing manual data entry.
I'd be interested to know how you get 10 people sharing a spreadsheet. AFAIK most spreadsheet programs will only allow one person to open it at a time.... Of course then someone else selects the open a copy option because they need to be able to write to it, and you instantly have inconsistency or someone else's changes get overwritten.
No, a spreadsheet is not an option if more than one person is using it.
the specifications document he hates so much is entirely equivalent to the IETF RFCs.
The point is that the RFC's already exist, whereas your proprietary specification doesn't. Writing a specification when the bulk of the work has been already done is inefficient.
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Probably the best move is to have a cron job examine /proc/mdstat and e-mail you if it's troubled.
Or you can just have mdadmd (pard of the mdadm suite.(comes with my distro (SuSE 9.1))) running, and it'll monitor your raid arrays, and email you when there's a problem.
I can't remember by whom or when though.
It was actually finally proved by Andrew Wiles in 1995.
See here towards the bottom of the page for who did what when. It' was quite a convoluted precess getting there.
I agree about them being bad. The screen on my Dell laptop looks pants next to my mates HP/Compaq/Whatever they're called this week. Specifically when you have a light gret area next to a white area (e.g. the /. IT theme). From a normal angle you can't see the difference, and from a high angle, they're actually reversed with the grey being brighter than the white.
In fact the viewing angle is so small that the screen doesn't look consistent from top to bottom. This tech suddenly makes sense of this problem.
I notice that HP is conspicuous by it's abscence from the list of companies being sued.
To do this in other image editing programs, you have to mess with moving scrollbars around, which is ridiculously clumsy compared to PSP's elegant solution.
Or how about Photoshop's 'Hold down spacebar, click and drag to move the viewport'. I think most of the people who find Photoshop unwieldy haven't discovered the keyboard shortcuts (z selects the zoom tool for example (and Why oh Why isn't there a keyboard shortcut for the zoom tool in Gimp)). Once you start to use them you'll find the workflow very efficient. This is my main gripe with the Gimp, I have to be constantly moving out of the image window to find tools. Add to that the image information window that will disappear every time you close an image.</rant>
Running a machine 24/7 will actually help with the lifetime of the hardware because it won't be constantly heating up and cooling down. This is what causes a fair proportion of hardware failures.
Alternatively, a slot loading mini DVD-r/w player would be nice. The mini DVD/CD format is small enough the player would still fint in a pocket, and also the reduction of spinning mass should save batteries.
How about something like this. Having said that I'm having trouble finding this product on the Philips website.
Agreed...
If you have a soundcard with a decent DAC on it, then your point stands. If, however, you only have a cheap DAC, then it makes sense to use the 5.1 encoder...
because you'll lose far more quality (if that can be quantified) going through the cheap DAC in the soundcard than you will by encoding it to 5.1, and then feeding it through a decent DAC in the 5.1 receiver.
Hear Hear....
I was about to post something very similar, but you've said it better than I was going to.
I think most of the problem with the sound arena is that it's very hard to get meaningful quantative benchmarks. It's not like "the better the soundcard the better the sample rate" (at least not in a comparable way to framerates with video). It comes down to a much more subjective evaluation. This means the companies can't say "our product is x times better than their product" or similar claims. They have to fall back on more vague qualatative arguments.
That's because when you jump start a car, you're actually charging the flat battery enough for it to be able to start the car. You're not trying to start the car from the other battery.
How much current do you think the croc clips on your standard jump leads are capable of? Certainly not the 300A or so that the starter motor needs.
I'd guess that there's not much difference in the current capacity of the croc clips as compared to the cig lighter.
Another approach is to take a phrase like this, and then use the first letters of each word (capitalised as necessary), and include the punctuation.
e.g. I borrowed all the books from the library! and read them both.
becomes: Ibatbftl!artb.
produces random looking passwords that are easy to remember.
While that's nice in theory, it doesn't help you much when your boss comes up to you and asks you why the website doesn't look right. He's not going to be interested in the fact that it looks right in a standards compliant browser, he just wants it to look right for everyone who visits the site.
Don't get me wrong, I wish it weren't like that, but sadly, that's the way things are.
Of course for a personal site it's different.
I agree the alpha transparency in png is great... If only it were supported by all the browsers *cough* IE *cough*.
e.g. this. Check this out in something like moz, and then in IE.
I know you were probably joking, but I thought I should point out this.
Is there a console word processor that can do footnotes and change text formatting easily?
Hmmmmm....... latex......
because the kernel is the heart of linux
<pedant> actualy, the kernel is Linux</pedant>
That's where multiple desktops is great. I have Atl+1-6 switching between my 6 desktops, with a different task on each one. For something like a calculator (or xmms) I just set it to sticky, so it appears on all desktops.
I think the challenge will be geting the heat from the die to the heatsink fast enough as opposed to getting the heat off the heatsink itself.
Ah, The professional. The film that was cut to pieces and released as Leon in some countries (noteably the UK). I remember seeing the full version for the first time, and it suddenly made so much more sense.
And yes, that is Natalie Portman.
If you outgrow it, just export the whole shabang... delimited by whatever your database software supports.
You make it sound as though that's a trivial task. It can be as long as everyone who used the spreadsheet was disciplined about how they entered data. The problem is that that is rarely the case, and the spreadsheet doesn't enforce any data types etc.. Converting a series of data from a spreadsheet to a database can be a huge PITA. I've been there, it ain't pretty.
Heck, there have been times I reccomended using excel when getting groups of 10 or more people together doing manual data entry.
I'd be interested to know how you get 10 people sharing a spreadsheet. AFAIK most spreadsheet programs will only allow one person to open it at a time.... Of course then someone else selects the open a copy option because they need to be able to write to it, and you instantly have inconsistency or someone else's changes get overwritten.
No, a spreadsheet is not an option if more than one person is using it.
Finally.... a story about a media server that won't have a thread complaining that it doesn't support ogg/vorbis.
Nice to see that in there...
Yes, but if you do it all in mime, you back to email, and that will be leaked.....
I'm sorry, that was a truly awfull joke...
er, yes but 20% of 75 is 15, therefore 120% of 75 is 90...hence 20% more
The main reason for that is that Many browsers don't support png properly, Notably Internet Explorer.
See this or this to see whether your prowser renders them correctly.
png has some really nice features (like alpha transparency) that would be really useful if you could rely on them being supported.
the specifications document he hates so much is entirely equivalent to the IETF RFCs.
The point is that the RFC's already exist, whereas your proprietary specification doesn't. Writing a specification when the bulk of the work has been already done is inefficient.