Why oh why is it that my dual opteron 242 w/ 1gb ram workstation with a completely fresh install of winxp pro with nothing yet installed takes about 10 minutes to boot up. I can reinstall numerous times to no avail. But fedora core runs fine.
on a side note I cant seem to get gentoo to run with any stability, it crashes compiling the bootstrap or windowmanager...
Maybe if you live in chestnut, or at utm/utsc, but any other res downtown at uoft has a 10-15mbps connection downstream and more upstream.
Not to mention the fact that i was there 2 days ago at gerstein in the morison pavilion getting over 40mbps downstream and 10 up. Essentially maxing out my laptops hdd.
They're already sueing customers left and right, and now kazaa. How can they sue the users of kazaa for damages and the makers of kazaa. Isnt this kind of fighting both sides of the argument? not to mention getting paid twice for haveing a file stolen once?
Im happily on Gentoo and using opensource software nearly exclusivly as i dont feel these business practices are ethical. Im voting with my wallet, why dont you?
I have a laptop and I find that its nice to have for some courses, such as economics, because the prof will not shut up about the one time when he did something. Although for courses like Analysis I (basically advanced calculus) you bring your laptop and you fail. Its also really nice to have if your in comp sci, becasue you can take notes (if need be) or finish the assignment he handed out at the beginning of class.
You also need to consider the fact that even at the university of toronto that claims it has wireless everywhere on campus, its in about 3 buildings (and theres about 50 of them or more) so you dont get the option of browsing and chatting in class which is probably good for a lot of students. The problem now is that they are rolling out wireless installs everywhere as fast as possible. This will help profs when they cant remember syntax for somthing but will decrease grades for quite a few.
My hp laserjet 4p is 11-12 years old and still works great! well... printing is slow and pictures sometimes overload the memory but it works fine for text which is what i need to print. I dont print much either but 100$ toner every 3-4 years plus the 2000$ price tag then (now more like 300) and I bet i still made money avoiding cheap ink jets.
If i had to choose, and i wish i could, i would still use their internet access over the "rogers extreme edition" i have now. however i do not have a landline so can not get dsl from telus or any of the other providers. What results is voip that is lower quality than a cell phone from the 80's. If i could have dsl, even with some filtering, it would be better than the dialup that rogers is providing me for 50 bucks a month.
its also quite trivial to write a program that uses regexp's to get emails in any form conceivable, we did this as a "challenge" last year in a software design class, the hardest part was trying to think of possible patterns the emails could be presented in.
But it doesnt do everything, ie I needed to resize my root partition (LVM2) and apparantly knoppix doesnt have lvm support. and the fedora rescue cd doesnt load lvm, so im sol cause its an EXT3 partition that cant be resized online.
I used to work at Mississauga Diving Services (a scuba diving shop) and i always had one guy come in as i was trying to close to get his air tanks filled so he could get home from work, apparantly he has a truck that runs off compressed air. Seems like a half decent idea considering it takes 2 minutes to fill the tank (more if u want to do so safely, but lets not get into that:P) and other than the weight issue is fairly safe (ie, if they are strapped in they are safe... if they are let loose, and the valve breaks or the burst disc goes they can seriously injure/kill you but thats yor own fault now isnt it) and for 5 bucks a tank to fill it seems cheaper. I never thought to ask about milage tho. Id guess it wouldnt go terribly far but who knows, if u used a 5000psi tank the air density is pretty high, but those require special filling procedures and tank longer to fill.
I have a 1.4ghz pentium M laptop and the damn thing gets hotter than lava. If i wanna set it down i put it screen side down in an attemp to give it better air flow. u sure cant use it on your lap, but its a great laptop otherwise, quick enough, small, long run time. I think the other reason it gets hot is cause its either doing video encoding or running filters on 300mb pictures all day. regardless my dual opterons dont go above 40 with stock coolers, and with my nice, QUIET, water cooling kit fron innovatek (german company, metric fittings but very very high quality stuff, you can use a lighter to heat home depots pvc tubing to fit, and then use quick release fittings they sell too) i never get above 25c. That would be in near dead silence if i didnt have 7 hard drives in the other side of my (cube server) case. at any rate the laptop's heat dissipation is pathetic, why is it a laptop if u burn ur balls off when you try and use it.... sorry about that rant but dell seems like a good company on the surface...
I am impressed there are still people playing UO, I remember a good 5-6 years ago or more setting up a server emulator (ultime offline experiment, as well as others) And it was great. Does anyone know if UOX is still around or is this the the server thats most popular now?
Eventually what will happen is all cell phones will become video games, and all video games will become cell phones, life will be grand. However, we can exepct at least 30-40 more hybrids untill this happens.
I literally just got 2004.2 running on my new dual opteron system today, is there an easy way to update my system (i'd imagine emerge can do it?)
Thanks
Up here in Canada its generally accepted taht it is not possible to heat any room above freezing by conventional means (forced air etc) so we all bought pentium 4's
You should also think about the fact that most of those stores probably arnt in the yellow pages. being the ghetto and all. not like it matters that paticualr area isnt that great for good deals anyway, mississauga has some cheaper stores or brampton
Actually you have that soul cube dohicky thru the whole game, or i did for some reason. maybe mine was screwy. Its a pretty useless thing tho except for one final battle:P
I know in a lot of my coding classes at U of T they required no more than 80 characters on a line, lest you get some hefty mark deductions. I dont stick to it for my stuff tho i usually limit it to when my screen starts scrolling to the right....
Mine gets about 4 hours when i actually use it, with the spare bat. I have 2 spares so i can get from vancouver to toronto without much trouble. If you force speedstep down to the minimum, you cant play divx or dvd.
I dont agree that bmw's would last longer, driving a 2002 bmw x5 that requires an order of magnitude more maintence than our 1997 acura with 250000km's on it. Has to say somthing about quality.
The electronics are the same i beleive, mainly becuase my rebel will take 9 photos before writing, but i have to let off the shutter for half a second then take some more. Im fairly sure this is something else they blocked off in software, but im not doing anything to it until my warantee ends in november.
This is ridiculous. Im happy i bought my 160gb sata drive today, rather than tommorow when this could happen. I am furious that they are so retarded they can not see another use for digital media, or mp3 players. I own the music i have on my mp3 player, why should i pay the artist twice. So basically now im allowed to steal music and other software? well that works i guess, ill just buy my hard drives in the states and sneak them back.
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Why oh why is it that my dual opteron 242 w/ 1gb ram workstation with a completely fresh install of winxp pro with nothing yet installed takes about 10 minutes to boot up. I can reinstall numerous times to no avail. But fedora core runs fine.
on a side note I cant seem to get gentoo to run with any stability, it crashes compiling the bootstrap or windowmanager...
If anyone has some tips im all ears!
Maybe if you live in chestnut, or at utm/utsc, but any other res downtown at uoft has a 10-15mbps connection downstream and more upstream.
Not to mention the fact that i was there 2 days ago at gerstein in the morison pavilion getting over 40mbps downstream and 10 up. Essentially maxing out my laptops hdd.
They're already sueing customers left and right, and now kazaa. How can they sue the users of kazaa for damages and the makers of kazaa. Isnt this kind of fighting both sides of the argument? not to mention getting paid twice for haveing a file stolen once?
Im happily on Gentoo and using opensource software nearly exclusivly as i dont feel these business practices are ethical. Im voting with my wallet, why dont you?
I have a laptop and I find that its nice to have for some courses, such as economics, because the prof will not shut up about the one time when he did something. Although for courses like Analysis I (basically advanced calculus) you bring your laptop and you fail. Its also really nice to have if your in comp sci, becasue you can take notes (if need be) or finish the assignment he handed out at the beginning of class.
You also need to consider the fact that even at the university of toronto that claims it has wireless everywhere on campus, its in about 3 buildings (and theres about 50 of them or more) so you dont get the option of browsing and chatting in class which is probably good for a lot of students. The problem now is that they are rolling out wireless installs everywhere as fast as possible. This will help profs when they cant remember syntax for somthing but will decrease grades for quite a few.
My hp laserjet 4p is 11-12 years old and still works great! well... printing is slow and pictures sometimes overload the memory but it works fine for text which is what i need to print. I dont print much either but 100$ toner every 3-4 years plus the 2000$ price tag then (now more like 300) and I bet i still made money avoiding cheap ink jets.
Maybe im just old fashioned?
Can i have a job?! Im at UofToronto and so very sick of working at the factory... Justin justin.hunt (AT) utoronto(dot)ca
If i had to choose, and i wish i could, i would still use their internet access over the "rogers extreme edition" i have now. however i do not have a landline so can not get dsl from telus or any of the other providers. What results is voip that is lower quality than a cell phone from the 80's. If i could have dsl, even with some filtering, it would be better than the dialup that rogers is providing me for 50 bucks a month.
its also quite trivial to write a program that uses regexp's to get emails in any form conceivable, we did this as a "challenge" last year in a software design class, the hardest part was trying to think of possible patterns the emails could be presented in.
But it doesnt do everything, ie I needed to resize my root partition (LVM2) and apparantly knoppix doesnt have lvm support. and the fedora rescue cd doesnt load lvm, so im sol cause its an EXT3 partition that cant be resized online.
I used to work at Mississauga Diving Services (a scuba diving shop) and i always had one guy come in as i was trying to close to get his air tanks filled so he could get home from work, apparantly he has a truck that runs off compressed air. Seems like a half decent idea considering it takes 2 minutes to fill the tank (more if u want to do so safely, but lets not get into that :P) and other than the weight issue is fairly safe (ie, if they are strapped in they are safe... if they are let loose, and the valve breaks or the burst disc goes they can seriously injure/kill you but thats yor own fault now isnt it) and for 5 bucks a tank to fill it seems cheaper. I never thought to ask about milage tho. Id guess it wouldnt go terribly far but who knows, if u used a 5000psi tank the air density is pretty high, but those require special filling procedures and tank longer to fill.
I have a 1.4ghz pentium M laptop and the damn thing gets hotter than lava. If i wanna set it down i put it screen side down in an attemp to give it better air flow. u sure cant use it on your lap, but its a great laptop otherwise, quick enough, small, long run time. I think the other reason it gets hot is cause its either doing video encoding or running filters on 300mb pictures all day. regardless my dual opterons dont go above 40 with stock coolers, and with my nice, QUIET, water cooling kit fron innovatek (german company, metric fittings but very very high quality stuff, you can use a lighter to heat home depots pvc tubing to fit, and then use quick release fittings they sell too) i never get above 25c. That would be in near dead silence if i didnt have 7 hard drives in the other side of my (cube server) case. at any rate the laptop's heat dissipation is pathetic, why is it a laptop if u burn ur balls off when you try and use it.... sorry about that rant but dell seems like a good company on the surface...
I am impressed there are still people playing UO, I remember a good 5-6 years ago or more setting up a server emulator (ultime offline experiment, as well as others) And it was great. Does anyone know if UOX is still around or is this the the server thats most popular now?
Eventually what will happen is all cell phones will become video games, and all video games will become cell phones, life will be grand. However, we can exepct at least 30-40 more hybrids untill this happens.
I literally just got 2004.2 running on my new dual opteron system today, is there an easy way to update my system (i'd imagine emerge can do it?) Thanks
Up here in Canada its generally accepted taht it is not possible to heat any room above freezing by conventional means (forced air etc) so we all bought pentium 4's
You should also think about the fact that most of those stores probably arnt in the yellow pages. being the ghetto and all. not like it matters that paticualr area isnt that great for good deals anyway, mississauga has some cheaper stores or brampton
Well they are geeks, its not like they have any real use for it... *ducks*
Actually you have that soul cube dohicky thru the whole game, or i did for some reason. maybe mine was screwy. Its a pretty useless thing tho except for one final battle :P
I know in a lot of my coding classes at U of T they required no more than 80 characters on a line, lest you get some hefty mark deductions. I dont stick to it for my stuff tho i usually limit it to when my screen starts scrolling to the right....
Mine gets about 4 hours when i actually use it, with the spare bat. I have 2 spares so i can get from vancouver to toronto without much trouble. If you force speedstep down to the minimum, you cant play divx or dvd.
I dont agree that bmw's would last longer, driving a 2002 bmw x5 that requires an order of magnitude more maintence than our 1997 acura with 250000km's on it. Has to say somthing about quality.
The electronics are the same i beleive, mainly becuase my rebel will take 9 photos before writing, but i have to let off the shutter for half a second then take some more. Im fairly sure this is something else they blocked off in software, but im not doing anything to it until my warantee ends in november.
I have to use ps/2 cause my kvm switch doesnt have usb support. just cause you dont need it doesnt mean others dont
DUH!
This is ridiculous. Im happy i bought my 160gb sata drive today, rather than tommorow when this could happen. I am furious that they are so retarded they can not see another use for digital media, or mp3 players. I own the music i have on my mp3 player, why should i pay the artist twice. So basically now im allowed to steal music and other software? well that works i guess, ill just buy my hard drives in the states and sneak them back.