after buying a quiet psu (antec tru-power) and the zalman flower cpu cooler, my system quieted down a lot. but the hard disks still annoyed me. so i just moved the hard disk into my server in the closet (on its own IDE channel) and mount root over NFSv3. performance is comperable to having the disk local, even over a standard 100Mbps ethernet link (through a $30 switch). now i can watch movies without straining to hear dialog.
Should we ban encryption? I'm sure the MPAA would have things to say about that.
I think the less unlikely situation would be for the government to regulate who gets to use encryption. And the MPAA folks have much more money to throw at Congress than us lowly privacy-hugging citizens.
Here it is.
I've read this bohemoth, and it generally contains the usual stuff. I had to re-read several phrases to make sure nothing fishy was going on. They reserve the right to cooperate with law enforcement officials. Here's the uncool part though:
Comcast shall have no obligation to monitor postings or transmissions made in connection with the Service. However, you acknowledge and agree that Comcast and its agents shall have the right to monitor any such postings and transmissions, including without limitation e-mail, newsgroups, chat, IP audio and video, and web space content, from time to time and to use and disclose them in accordance with Sections 4 and 5 of this Agreement, and as otherwise required by law or government request.
It reeks of the evil Patriot Act. As such, I plan on encrypting all of my communications this summer.
Comcast just took over Cable Internet in my area (Dallas, TX), and so far I've been pleased. Only a couple of minute-long outages, 256k upstream, and good downstream.
I, for one, find NPR to be my safe haven from the corporate media giants. It gives me all the facts and analysis I need, but without flashy graphics and dramatic music. Since it's radio, they actually have to improve their content, rather than their packaging. I don't know if NPR is conservative or liberal or if I am conservative or liberal -- but I do know what I like, and I like NPR.
Now to your point, I'm all for setting up an infrastructure that allows individuals to express their views and perhaps be noticed by the "big players". But wait a second -- isn't that what the internet is for?
Don't get me wrong, I fear TV consolidation as much as the next guy, but I consider PBS/NPR to be somewhat invulnerable to private-sector corporations. In fact, if this consolidation occurs, PBS/NPR may be the last outlet for minimal-biased reporting.
On the 15th of February around a million of us were not only against the war, but felt so strongly that we spent our free time and money making our way to London to protest.
Don't you think that group of people would fall under the second definition? I would think the first-definition people are the kind who feel so passionately about their issues that they protest/riot for months/years, often growing in intensity. Whereas the second-defintion people seem to only have temporary objections that quickly fade with time, indicating a certain apathy.
The protesters in the UK (or anywhere in the world, for that matter) have not been out and about on the scale of their pre-war numbers, meaning they fall under the second-definition. The only difference is that instead of talking quietly at the water-cooler, they are talking a bit louder on street-corners.
we overflowed at bug# 65537
I'm sorry, but I just gotta. It would actually overflow at 65536 since unsigned 16-bit numbers only go from 0 to 65535. Again, I'm sorry -- obsessive-compulsive-ness is bad.
like the ones based on the EVEm from ECS are a better value, giving nearly identical performance at a lower price.
I agree, I'm very pleased with my cheap (as in price) ECS mobo. HOWEVER, for those new to the low-cost mobo scene (is there one?), a word of warning about ECS.
This mobo I bought had stability problems at full speed. A quick google-search indicated that ECS used double-stick tape for the VIA chip's heatsink. I replaced the tape with thermal grease/super glue, and it worked like a charm.
So just do your research before going on the cheap side.
I watched it subtitled (German accents are so cool), but it was still really cool. Sweet electronic music, too. It's a Sony Pictures Classic. I don't want to give anything away, but it definitely makes you think about your life and how the smallest things can affect you (i.e. chaos theory).
On a more serious note, 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' is the culmination of Terry Gilliam's surreal interpretations, and probably one of the most accurate film translations of a piece of (fiction?/literature?) ever...One of my favorite movies, and if you thought this movie was just about drugs, you're taking it too serioualy...
Totally. The first time, I pretty much just saw the drugs (Johnny Depp plays such a good druggie). The next time, I saw the underlying stuff. More people should see/understand it.
True true. Great movie. Great soundtrack. Cusak does rule. I know I just repeated everything you just said, but when two people say it a person is more likely to notice . . . or something.
dannyd
If you're one of those rabid anti-emacs and/or pro-vi(m) users, you might like info.vim [vim.org]. It's an implementation of GNU info for vim [vim.org]. I haven't used it myself, so I can't vouch for how it looks, but it may be worth a try if you really hate emacs.
I am a vi user and have often attempted to find INFOrmation using 'info', and I can honestly say that it's one of the most confusing, convoluted help systems around.
Admittedly, I have been able to find one or two pieces of information in it, but I usually resort to a google for "vi tutorial" or something.
There is fundamentally only so much bandwidth in the air, and it is not enough to support ubiquitous wireless use.
This is, unfortunately, a very common misconception, and I'm afraid only a few people (RF folks and EEs) are aware of it. I remember reading a very interesting article a few months ago on this.
It's a bit like sound in an office. If there's lots of walls around the sound gets absorbed and everyone can talk to each other and pass messages around.
Exactly. With modern software radios, it is possible for many more devices to communicate in a given space without bothering each other. This technology didn't exist back when the FCC was formed, so they had to (and still do) allocate specific bandwidths for each service. However, a few people starting to realize that this isn't really necessary, and the effective amount of bandwidth can now be very large with respect to computing power.
Check this google on open spectrum. The first link seems to get the general gist.
Finally! I see someone else notices this!
This has bugged me for a while, now -- what with being a bit of a perfectionist (engineer) and all.
I guess typing.*[n,r][i,u]x would be kinda a bitch, though, huh?
Well, whatever. I guess *nix is alright, as long as everyone knows it's not 'correct'.
Furthermore, when some fool decides to put his entire hard drive out for grabs on Kazaa, everyone on the network suffers. Our service is subject to frequent bottlenecks and complete downages regularly.
Has your ISP ever heard of traffic shaping? Give top priority to SSH-like stuff, then web-browsing, then ftp, etc. etc. etc., then finally P2P.
I run a Gnutella node that constantly uploads at +20KB/sec with no slowdown on web-browsing, etc.
You're right, Anjuta is definitely schweet. But, not everyone in the world wants to use GNOME. I really, really wish they would have made it winmanager-agnostic.
I do, however, like that fact that they used GTK to make it look nice and shiny.
Well, for starters, why did he even use an AC-powered clock? Get one that at least starts out as battery-based. Then, it's not that hard to changes the computer's +5V to whatever the clock needs. In fact, you'd prolly be able to use the +5V even if the clock used something "close" to that.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not endorsing this mod. But, if I'm going to waste my time to see the pretty pictures, I'd at least like to see that it was done right.
Go get an Electrical Engineering degree and try again.
I recently left a company that exhibited this problem to a 'T'. In fact, the practice of forcing long work hours had existed for a few years prior to my employment. Without mentioning the name of the company, I'll simply say that several years of kludges kept piling on top of itself making the codebase next to impossible to edit (or even comprehend, for that matter). This ultimately is leading / has lead to the company's demise. It was so bad that the head manager actually admitted to everyone that he was probably not qualified for that position at all. He would quote _impossible_ timelines to customers knowing that they could not be met even working 16-hour days. There's much more to tell, but I won't waste everyone's time. But this shows what happens when the problem is not corrected.
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Is he describing Gentoo Linux here?
Should we ban encryption? I'm sure the MPAA would have things to say about that. I think the less unlikely situation would be for the government to regulate who gets to use encryption. And the MPAA folks have much more money to throw at Congress than us lowly privacy-hugging citizens.
I, for one, find NPR to be my safe haven from the corporate media giants. It gives me all the facts and analysis I need, but without flashy graphics and dramatic music. Since it's radio, they actually have to improve their content, rather than their packaging. I don't know if NPR is conservative or liberal or if I am conservative or liberal -- but I do know what I like, and I like NPR. Now to your point, I'm all for setting up an infrastructure that allows individuals to express their views and perhaps be noticed by the "big players". But wait a second -- isn't that what the internet is for? Don't get me wrong, I fear TV consolidation as much as the next guy, but I consider PBS/NPR to be somewhat invulnerable to private-sector corporations. In fact, if this consolidation occurs, PBS/NPR may be the last outlet for minimal-biased reporting.
we overflowed at bug# 65537 I'm sorry, but I just gotta. It would actually overflow at 65536 since unsigned 16-bit numbers only go from 0 to 65535. Again, I'm sorry -- obsessive-compulsive-ness is bad.
I watched it subtitled (German accents are so cool), but it was still really cool. Sweet electronic music, too. It's a Sony Pictures Classic. I don't want to give anything away, but it definitely makes you think about your life and how the smallest things can affect you (i.e. chaos theory).
True true. Great movie. Great soundtrack. Cusak does rule. I know I just repeated everything you just said, but when two people say it a person is more likely to notice . . . or something. dannyd
Well put. This movie was great, and I'm glad someone else on the planet noticed it.
If you're one of those rabid anti-emacs and/or pro-vi(m) users, you might like info.vim [vim.org]. It's an implementation of GNU info for vim [vim.org]. I haven't used it myself, so I can't vouch for how it looks, but it may be worth a try if you really hate emacs. I am a vi user and have often attempted to find INFOrmation using 'info', and I can honestly say that it's one of the most confusing, convoluted help systems around. Admittedly, I have been able to find one or two pieces of information in it, but I usually resort to a google for "vi tutorial" or something.
Ugh! Yeah, I found out about this and notified Max, the lead coder for Mutella. He says he's sorry and is going to fix that in the next version.
There is fundamentally only so much bandwidth in the air, and it is not enough to support ubiquitous wireless use. This is, unfortunately, a very common misconception, and I'm afraid only a few people (RF folks and EEs) are aware of it. I remember reading a very interesting article a few months ago on this. It's a bit like sound in an office. If there's lots of walls around the sound gets absorbed and everyone can talk to each other and pass messages around. Exactly. With modern software radios, it is possible for many more devices to communicate in a given space without bothering each other. This technology didn't exist back when the FCC was formed, so they had to (and still do) allocate specific bandwidths for each service. However, a few people starting to realize that this isn't really necessary, and the effective amount of bandwidth can now be very large with respect to computing power. Check this google on open spectrum. The first link seems to get the general gist.
Finally! I see someone else notices this! This has bugged me for a while, now -- what with being a bit of a perfectionist (engineer) and all. I guess typing .*[n,r][i,u]x would be kinda a bitch, though, huh?
Well, whatever. I guess *nix is alright, as long as everyone knows it's not 'correct'.
Actually, I've lived in Dallas my whole life, and both Dallas and Fort Worth have been exclusively 10-digit for the past several years.
You're right, Anjuta is definitely schweet. But, not everyone in the world wants to use GNOME. I really, really wish they would have made it winmanager-agnostic. I do, however, like that fact that they used GTK to make it look nice and shiny.
Well, for starters, why did he even use an AC-powered clock? Get one that at least starts out as battery-based. Then, it's not that hard to changes the computer's +5V to whatever the clock needs. In fact, you'd prolly be able to use the +5V even if the clock used something "close" to that. Don't get me wrong, I'm not endorsing this mod. But, if I'm going to waste my time to see the pretty pictures, I'd at least like to see that it was done right. Go get an Electrical Engineering degree and try again.
I recently left a company that exhibited this problem to a 'T'. In fact, the practice of forcing long work hours had existed for a few years prior to my employment. Without mentioning the name of the company, I'll simply say that several years of kludges kept piling on top of itself making the codebase next to impossible to edit (or even comprehend, for that matter). This ultimately is leading / has lead to the company's demise. It was so bad that the head manager actually admitted to everyone that he was probably not qualified for that position at all. He would quote _impossible_ timelines to customers knowing that they could not be met even working 16-hour days. There's much more to tell, but I won't waste everyone's time. But this shows what happens when the problem is not corrected.