I find that inst, even in the newer releases of IRIX, makes installing an IRIX system a chore.
Using their latest release and overlays I still have dependencies that can not be met. It can be frustrating to anyone who is used to a sane installer, like the ones provided with Solaris, HP-UX and most Linux distros.
Filesystems were not recreated sometimes when I made the install, and configurations were left on the system. I'm not a Unix god, but that is not how most operating systems install, or how I think they should work.
Not saying that the research behind this article is biased at all, but at a first glance the title is:
HD-DVD Must Die
Sony's Blu-ray is the better next-generation DVD.
If and only if they can keep the price of a HD-DVD the same or very close to a regular DVD. Who knows about the cost of the media compared to regular DVD.
Does anyone know the cost differences? Anyone with a crystal ball?
Please post what experience you have with RHEL and dealing with their support. Your paying them for support, and that is about it. I use RHEL 3.0 and have used their 3.90 beta (cough Fedora Core 3).
I find that when you find a bug, it takes an unacceptable amount of time to get it fixed. This is compared to mainly Solaris and other proprietary Unix solutions. I have been waiting for a kernel bug (caused by one of their patches) to be fixed for two months.
I also find that their errata causes more harm than good. I have a poorly written comment about their autofs packages below. They break shit. The kernel bug above was a patch that they added in an errata kernel.
Everyone else is screaming about how stable it is, has anyone had any bad experiences like mine?
Please post what experience you have with RHEL and dealing with their support. Your paying them for support, and that is about it. I use RHEL 3.0 and have used their 3.90 beta (cough Fedora Core 3).
I find that when you find a bug, it takes an unacceptable amount of time to get it fixed. This is compared to mainly Solaris and other proprietary Unix solutions. I have been waiting for a kernel bug (caused by one of their patches) to be fixed for two months.
I also find that their errata causes more harm than good. I have a poorly written comment about their autofs packages below. They break shit. The kernel bug above was a patch that they added in an errata kernel.
Everyone else is screaming about how stable it is, has anyone had any bad experiences like mine?
Red Hat "Enterprise" support isn't stable in most of the situations I have used it at work.
My problems have been mainly involved with patching systems and having that break systems completely. We patched a few systems with an autofs patch on RHEL 3.0 and found that when they decided to fix some bugs, they just upgraded from 3.x of autofs to 4.x. This caused automount maps to stop timing out and any changes we made to the NIS maps wouldn't get fixed until autofs gets restarted. Here is the bugzilla
This problem has existed for weeks and I don't even have an ETA on the resolution.
In the end, the service they provide for their cost isn't worth it. If I was choosing an server OS, I would go elsewhere. The only thing they bring to the table for us is Oracle support.
The CIA/FBI et cetera have been onto the IRC seen for a long time.
What's new? Automated logging instead of people? They would be crazy not to log channels now. Technology has been there for a while.
New Tools to Help Patients Reclaim Damaged Senses By SANDRA BLAKESLEE
Published: November 23, 2004
Cheryl Schiltz vividly recalls the morning she became a wobbler. Seven years ago, recovering from an infection after surgery with the aid of a common antibiotic, she climbed out of bed feeling pretty good.
"Then I literally fell to the floor," she said recently. "The whole world started wobbling. When I turned my head, the room tilted. My vision blurred. Even the air felt heavy."
The antibiotic, Ms. Schiltz learned, had damaged her vestibular system, the part of the brain that provides visual and gravitational stability. She was forced to quit her job and stay home, clinging to the walls to keep from toppling over.
But three years ago, Ms. Schiltz volunteered for an experimental treatment - a fat strip of tape, placed on her tongue, with an array of 144 microelectrodes about the size of a postage stamp. The strip was wired to a kind of carpenter's level, which was mounted on a hard hat that she placed on her head. The level determined her spatial coordinates and sent the information as tiny pulses to her tongue.
The apparatus, called a BrainPort, worked beautifully. By "buzzing" her tongue once a day for 20 minutes, keeping the pulses centered, she regained normal vestibular function and was able to balance.
Ms. Schiltz and other patients like her are the beneficiaries of an astonishing new technology that allows one set of sensory information to substitute for another in the brain.
Using novel electronic aids, vision can be represented on the skin, tongue or through the ears. If the sense of touch is gone from one part of the body, it can be routed to an area where touch sensations are intact. Pilots confused by foggy conditions, in which the horizon disappears, can right their aircraft by monitoring sensations on the tongue or trunk. Surgeons can feel on their tongues the tip of a probe inside a patient's body, enabling precise movements.
Sensory substitution is not new. Touch substitutes for vision when people read Braille. By tapping a cane, a blind person perceives a step, a curb or a puddle of water but is not aware of any sensation in the hand; feeling is experienced at the tip of the cane.
But the technology for swapping sensory information is largely the effort of Dr. Paul Bach-y-Rita, a neuroscientist in the University of Wisconsin Medical School's orthopedics and rehabilitation department. More than 30 years ago, Dr. Bach-y-Rita developed the first sensory substitution device, routing visual images, via a head-mounted camera, to electrodes taped to the skin on people's backs. The subjects, he found, could "see" large objects and flickering candles with their backs. The tongue, sensitive and easy to reach, turned out to be an even better place to deliver substitute senses, Dr. Bach-y-Rita said.
Until recently sensory substitution was confined to the laboratory. But electronic miniaturization and more powerful computer algorithms are making the technology less cumbersome. Next month, the first fully portable device will be tested in Dr. Bach-y-Rita's lab.
The BrainPort is nearing commercialization. Two years ago, the University of Wisconsin patented the concept and exclusively licensed it to Wicab Inc., a company formed by Dr. Bach-y-Rita to develop and market BrainPort devices. Robert Beckman, the company president, said units should be available a year from now.
Meanwhile, a handful of clinicians around the world who are using the BrainPort on an experimental basis are effusive about its promise.
"I have never seen any other device do what this one does," said Dr. F. Owen Black, an expert on vestibular disorders at the Legacy Clinical Research and Technology Center in Portland, Ore. "Our patients are begging us to continue using the device."
Dr. Maurice Ptito, a neuroscientist at University of Montreal School of Optometry, is conducting bra
Agreed. The only way I would ever visit a blog is by searching for something that I was interested in.
I don't know how everyone elses "uses" blogs, but I haven't found someone's blog who is worth reading on a regular basis.
Are there any services or epinions like forums that rate blogs and index them based on subject matter. If so, it would be a lot more difficult to search and index them as noted by my parrent.
SuSE Logo (Score:1) by seiotek (521782) Alter Relationship on Friday October 29, @01:17PM (#10664656) Hey when are you guys gonna change the SuSE Logo? http://www.suse.com/images/suse.png
If the token of a Nintendo doesn't seem like much, just wait to see how many h0rny g33ky slashdotters sign up for memberships now.
Horray for slashdotting pr0n.
My girlfriend bought a 2 disc set of every mp3 of Depeche Mode for almost nothing. The professional looking jacket and cds had multimedia content and looked great. She bought it in Poland.
Music there is, from what I heard reall expensive. Now that she is here, she buys CDs of bands that she likes.
I'm not sure what the cost of a CD is like all over Europe, but if it gets to the point where people can't afford digital content, they will resort to piracy if it is possible.
It's not "right", but it will happen none the less.
-un1xl0ser
They are just giving audiophile hackers the chance to show their stuff. If everything is open and free people will let their l33t reverse engineering skills fade.
un1xl0ser
If you knew they were testing the market, then why did you "Ask Slashdot" if they were? If you are going to ask people what they think, please try not to bias their answers.
Slashdot Mirror
I find that inst, even in the newer releases of IRIX, makes installing an IRIX system a chore.
Using their latest release and overlays I still have dependencies that can not be met. It can be frustrating to anyone who is used to a sane installer, like the ones provided with Solaris, HP-UX and most Linux distros.
Filesystems were not recreated sometimes when I made the install, and configurations were left on the system. I'm not a Unix god, but that is not how most operating systems install, or how I think they should work.
Yeah. That's not off topic at all mods.
Try again.
Not saying that the research behind this article is biased at all, but at a first glance the title is: HD-DVD Must Die Sony's Blu-ray is the better next-generation DVD.
If and only if they can keep the price of a HD-DVD the same or very close to a regular DVD. Who knows about the cost of the media compared to regular DVD.
Does anyone know the cost differences? Anyone with a crystal ball?
but society is to blame.
Submit it as plain text you moron.
Please post what experience you have with RHEL and dealing with their support. Your paying them for support, and that is about it. I use RHEL 3.0 and have used their 3.90 beta (cough Fedora Core 3).
I find that when you find a bug, it takes an unacceptable amount of time to get it fixed. This is compared to mainly Solaris and other proprietary Unix solutions. I have been waiting for a kernel bug (caused by one of their patches) to be fixed for two months.
I also find that their errata causes more harm than good. I have a poorly written comment about their autofs packages below. They break shit. The kernel bug above was a patch that they added in an errata kernel.
Everyone else is screaming about how stable it is, has anyone had any bad experiences like mine?
Please post what experience you have with RHEL and dealing with their support. Your paying them for support, and that is about it. I use RHEL 3.0 and have used their 3.90 beta (cough Fedora Core 3). I find that when you find a bug, it takes an unacceptable amount of time to get it fixed. This is compared to mainly Solaris and other proprietary Unix solutions. I have been waiting for a kernel bug (caused by one of their patches) to be fixed for two months. I also find that their errata causes more harm than good. I have a poorly written comment about their autofs packages below. They break shit. The kernel bug above was a patch that they added in an errata kernel. Everyone else is screaming about how stable it is, has anyone had any bad experiences like mine?
My problems have been mainly involved with patching systems and having that break systems completely. We patched a few systems with an autofs patch on RHEL 3.0 and found that when they decided to fix some bugs, they just upgraded from 3.x of autofs to 4.x. This caused automount maps to stop timing out and any changes we made to the NIS maps wouldn't get fixed until autofs gets restarted. Here is the bugzilla This problem has existed for weeks and I don't even have an ETA on the resolution.
In the end, the service they provide for their cost isn't worth it. If I was choosing an server OS, I would go elsewhere. The only thing they bring to the table for us is Oracle support.
AOL is owned by Time-Warner, no?
AOL is the n00bie internet user product.
Roadrunner is the more savvy faster product.
Mixed households can use AOL Broadband.
I think about free vacations in tibet.
Program TiVos to keep a minute or two on each side.
Problem solved.
The CIA/FBI et cetera have been onto the IRC seen for a long time. What's new? Automated logging instead of people? They would be crazy not to log channels now. Technology has been there for a while.
My boss at said something to that effect a while ago. Same reaction from me.
It's to bad people don't go around betting to eat their hat anymore. That would be amusing at lunch times.
For people buy into that paragraph bullshit.
New Tools to Help Patients Reclaim Damaged Senses
By SANDRA BLAKESLEE
Published: November 23, 2004
Cheryl Schiltz vividly recalls the morning she became a wobbler. Seven years ago, recovering from an infection after surgery with the aid of a common antibiotic, she climbed out of bed feeling pretty good.
"Then I literally fell to the floor," she said recently. "The whole world started wobbling. When I turned my head, the room tilted. My vision blurred. Even the air felt heavy."
The antibiotic, Ms. Schiltz learned, had damaged her vestibular system, the part of the brain that provides visual and gravitational stability. She was forced to quit her job and stay home, clinging to the walls to keep from toppling over.
But three years ago, Ms. Schiltz volunteered for an experimental treatment - a fat strip of tape, placed on her tongue, with an array of 144 microelectrodes about the size of a postage stamp. The strip was wired to a kind of carpenter's level, which was mounted on a hard hat that she placed on her head. The level determined her spatial coordinates and sent the information as tiny pulses to her tongue.
The apparatus, called a BrainPort, worked beautifully. By "buzzing" her tongue once a day for 20 minutes, keeping the pulses centered, she regained normal vestibular function and was able to balance.
Ms. Schiltz and other patients like her are the beneficiaries of an astonishing new technology that allows one set of sensory information to substitute for another in the brain.
Using novel electronic aids, vision can be represented on the skin, tongue or through the ears. If the sense of touch is gone from one part of the body, it can be routed to an area where touch sensations are intact. Pilots confused by foggy conditions, in which the horizon disappears, can right their aircraft by monitoring sensations on the tongue or trunk. Surgeons can feel on their tongues the tip of a probe inside a patient's body, enabling precise movements.
Sensory substitution is not new. Touch substitutes for vision when people read Braille. By tapping a cane, a blind person perceives a step, a curb or a puddle of water but is not aware of any sensation in the hand; feeling is experienced at the tip of the cane.
But the technology for swapping sensory information is largely the effort of Dr. Paul Bach-y-Rita, a neuroscientist in the University of Wisconsin Medical School's orthopedics and rehabilitation department. More than 30 years ago, Dr. Bach-y-Rita developed the first sensory substitution device, routing visual images, via a head-mounted camera, to electrodes taped to the skin on people's backs. The subjects, he found, could "see" large objects and flickering candles with their backs. The tongue, sensitive and easy to reach, turned out to be an even better place to deliver substitute senses, Dr. Bach-y-Rita said.
Until recently sensory substitution was confined to the laboratory. But electronic miniaturization and more powerful computer algorithms are making the technology less cumbersome. Next month, the first fully portable device will be tested in Dr. Bach-y-Rita's lab.
The BrainPort is nearing commercialization. Two years ago, the University of Wisconsin patented the concept and exclusively licensed it to Wicab Inc., a company formed by Dr. Bach-y-Rita to develop and market BrainPort devices. Robert Beckman, the company president, said units should be available a year from now.
Meanwhile, a handful of clinicians around the world who are using the BrainPort on an experimental basis are effusive about its promise.
"I have never seen any other device do what this one does," said Dr. F. Owen Black, an expert on vestibular disorders at the Legacy Clinical Research and Technology Center in Portland, Ore. "Our patients are begging us to continue using the device."
Dr. Maurice Ptito, a neuroscientist at University of Montreal School of Optometry, is conducting bra
Is there anything in yum.repos.d?
i ?i d=137967
I did a "yum upgrade yum" using test3 and the upgraded package didn't give me any files in repos.d.
Put in a bug report and they mentioned setting a variable (exactarch=0). It was marked as notabug, however I don't understand why.
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cg
People haven't learned about Bit Torrent yet?!?
Agreed. The only way I would ever visit a blog is by searching for something that I was interested in. I don't know how everyone elses "uses" blogs, but I haven't found someone's blog who is worth reading on a regular basis. Are there any services or epinions like forums that rate blogs and index them based on subject matter. If so, it would be a lot more difficult to search and index them as noted by my parrent.
This belongs here:
SuSE Logo (Score:1)
by seiotek (521782) Alter Relationship on Friday October 29, @01:17PM (#10664656)
Hey when are you guys gonna change the SuSE Logo? http://www.suse.com/images/suse.png
"Keep on Tuxin"
Why use edonkey instead of bit-torrent?
I thought the reason they kept the coffee hotter was because it tasted better longer. That increased profits. Am I ignorant or full of shit or both?
If the token of a Nintendo doesn't seem like much, just wait to see how many h0rny g33ky slashdotters sign up for memberships now. Horray for slashdotting pr0n.
My girlfriend bought a 2 disc set of every mp3 of Depeche Mode for almost nothing. The professional looking jacket and cds had multimedia content and looked great. She bought it in Poland. Music there is, from what I heard reall expensive. Now that she is here, she buys CDs of bands that she likes. I'm not sure what the cost of a CD is like all over Europe, but if it gets to the point where people can't afford digital content, they will resort to piracy if it is possible. It's not "right", but it will happen none the less. -un1xl0ser
I just picked up an MPIO HD300 over an ipod because it does ogg vorbis.
Sorry Apple, but white headphones won't do it for me.
-un1xl0ser
They are just giving audiophile hackers the chance to show their stuff. If everything is open and free people will let their l33t reverse engineering skills fade. un1xl0ser
If you knew they were testing the market, then why did you "Ask Slashdot" if they were? If you are going to ask people what they think, please try not to bias their answers.
- un1xl0ser