I've been using twinview on Mandrake 9.1 for a few months now and I like it.
At first it was annoying because when I would spawn new windows they would alternate between the two monitors. It was like playing "pong"
I finally tweaked it to somewhat limit that annoyance and it's pretty nice now. I can do a lot more at once that I could, as a matter of fact I keep several status windows running on the side display to monitor progress of several things.
It's a plus. I just hate that one of the displays insists on running at 60hz. For gods sake, I wish they would outlaw that frequency..
Last week's column inspired by Neal Stephenson's new novel, Quicksilver, produced an email from Stephenson's publisher, which led to me chatting with him on the telephone. The result was the following interview, done by cellphone as both of us traveled to different engagements. It's a bit on the casual side, but I found it interesting.
TCS: What got you interested in the Seventeenth Century?
Neal Stephenson: It started with the personal stories of Newton and Leibniz. Then I started to learn about Hooke, and the other members of the Royal Society, and it kind of snowballed. There were so many things going on back then with ramifications and consequences that we feel today that I just got sucked in.
What I found interesting on a political level was that the Cromwell types were pushing a bunch of ideas that struck people as nuts at the time, but that are bedrock principles of modern society -- things like free enterprise and separation of church and state and limited government that took years to actually achieve.
Many of the people called Puritans were small businessmen and independent traders. They had a real bent toward free enterprise, and they developed a real resentment of government and taxes -- as a result, they were free traders. It's like what we see with a lot of pro-business people today.
[We then had an interesting discussion of whether the growth of self-employment today would lead to an increase in such sentiments in the modern world, though we reached no conclusion.]
TCS: Many of the great minds in your book -- Hooke, Newton, Leibniz, etc. -- were, to put it mildly, kind of weird. But they were brilliant. I've heard a lot of people say that Richard Feynman would be too unconventional to get, or keep, a faculty position today. What about people like Newton, who was much odder? Are we sidelining our geniuses today?
NS: That's a big question. If you kind of read their "blogs" -- diaries of people like Pepys, Hooke, John Evelyn -- it's clear that they were pretty elastic, pretty adaptable, in their social arrangements. It didn't seem to faze them at all to deal with people who had odd social quirks. I think that's partly an English thing, part of having a clubby attitude. If you were a part of this club, the Royal Society, a pretty wide range of behavior was tolerated.
Today, well, I don't have enough firsthand experience with the modern academic world to have a sound opinion. But you can see examples of where really talented [eccentric] people today have been able to find a niche in the business world instead of academia.
In business, if you can make money, the personal oddities get overlooked. The bottom line is the bottom line.
In an academic setting you're looking at a different bottom line. It's a far more complex social environment that one has to navigate to get ahead, dealing with students, alumni, colleagues, the administration, and so on. I think you're onto an interesting question. It's too bad that there's not some kind of an index of eccentricity that we could use to compare the academic world and the business world over time.
TCS: Will your new website feature a blog?
NS: Not in the sense of chronological writing. Did you see the Metaweb site? That has some things in common with a blog. If someone asks a question, I can put up an answer. So that serves some bloglike functions. But to do something like that every day would totally interfere with getting books written.
TCS: I understand that you did all the writing on the Baroque Cycle books by hand, using a fountain pen. Did that make a difference?
NS: Absolutely. The key difference is that it's slower. It's like when you're writing, there's a kind of buffer in your head where the next sentence sits while you're outputting the last one. As long as it's still in your head, it's easy to manipulate that next sentence, or even to reject it
I have no need to use M$ products. And I would lay money on it that M$ ends up being the "hyper-os" and that being the case, I have no use for the hardware.
"Many consumers hate their cable companies' privacy policies and their failure to deal with spam effectively," said Chris Murray
Tard #1: "Many consumers hate their cable companies' privacy policies and their failure to deal with spam effectively,"
Tard #2: said Chris Murray
Why? Many people DO hate the privacy policies of their cable company. But I doubt that they hate the cable company because of spam.. Since when did it become to job of the ISP to filter spam? Who at the cable company has the power to determine what is spam and what is not spam? And when they filter and block something that is not spam and it's an important email and it causes you to lose your ass in someway, who will be responsible for mislabeling and blocking the email/false spam??
And really Mr. Murray, do you really think people are that stupid as to buy that bullshit? Sure, we want competition, we want more privacy, we want lower prices, but we don't want *YOU* or anyone else deciding what is spam and what is not.
I think what people REALLY want is more virus checking of emails. Road Runner does that now, (not that I could care-Linux) but 80 million numbnuts out there need it. And ALL ports except a select few should be off by default, open only those that are necessary for normal Internet activity, browsing, email, streaming media. Other ports are turned off and have to be manually opened by the user via webmin account. If they are adept enough to manage that simple task then they must have a reason to open the port. But 79.9 million numbnuts don't need 65,535 ports WIDE ASS OPEN, especially when they are running Winblows...
One last thing, you can't have privacy and have your ISP be your email shepherd at the same time.
For gods sake, think man, think!!
You can lead a man to Linux but you can't make him USE it..
Go ahead and flame away. I know about putting stuff in quotes but a lot of people do NOT know that and have a hard time.
Like this,
how to replace a washer in a leaky faucet
google comes back with this shit, The following words are very common and were not included in your search: how to a in a.
So, you get deludged with senseless bullshit that is not even close to what you want. You end up wading through hundreds of BS websites, the majority of them being a-holes trying to sell you books on DIY plumbing. Finding a website that actually shows you how do do what you are looking for is damn hard to find, even if you know how to play the google game.
Until they quit making assumptions on what you are trying to say/look for, Searching for things on the internet will always suck.
Just like digital satellite, which is a total free for all. They are yet to produce a secure technology that can prevent those that are really determined from circumventing their protection schemes.
They can not produced a system that can not be breeched. As long as the receiver/decoder is in the hands of the end user the end user holds the keys to the kingdom in his hands. He only needs to figure them out. And after that, free shit for everyone with a desire and an Internet connection.
I wouldn't use RAV for Linux if they were the only game on earth. With M$ in on it, it's tainted by stupidity. M$ people do not have the intelligence, insight, foresight, or any clue about Linux, much less that they would even give two squirts of shit about Linux.
I would NEVER trust ANY M$ product on ANY box and most certainly not on my Linux box(es)
"those same subjects had better memory and reaction times"
This is what happens, JUST BEFORE YOUR HEAD BURSTS INTO FLAME!
They can not prove what will happen to people over many years of being exposed to constant radiation. All of this radio, TV, cell phone, etc, etc, radiation is new, on the evolutionary scale to the human being.
We live in a sea of radiation. It's little wonder people go postal, what with their brains being cooked 24 hours a day.
Radiation has effects on living things. No one can say or prove that ANY of it is positive, outside of a *little* solar radiation, and even that is dangerous too.
As this 3G radiation cooks people off into psychotic episodes you'll see. And watch the cancer rates skyrocket..
I'm boycotting M$. I don't use M$ products. Don't have any M$ products in my house and never will. None in my 1975 German car either.. I don't have anything new, I don't buy new things. Tough shit M$..
Prepare for a FLOOD of new M$ attacks from China and Korea.
Personally, I blackhole all Asian IP's at my firewall. Not that it matters because I don't use M$ but the attacks do task your resources none-the-less..
Very informative, thanks. Sounds like many years ago we played a text based star trek game over 300buad modems, it was like two people playing battleship.
I can pick up the phone and order materials, parts, whatever, from a company in another state and as long as that company has no brick and mortar presence in my state I do not have to pay state sales tax.
Ordering through the Internet is no different than ordering over the phone or by mail.
Slashdot Mirror
If they just made them a little bit smaller they could replace those lost bills from my kids monopoly game..
I've been using twinview on Mandrake 9.1 for a few months now and I like it.
At first it was annoying because when I would spawn new windows they would alternate between the two monitors. It was like playing "pong"
I finally tweaked it to somewhat limit that annoyance and it's pretty nice now. I can do a lot more at once that I could, as a matter of fact I keep several status windows running on the side display to monitor progress of several things.
It's a plus. I just hate that one of the displays insists on running at 60hz. For gods sake, I wish they would outlaw that frequency..
Torvalds is GOD..
And the mighty hand of GOD smote the evil empire with kernel 2.6!
That way they can collaborate in a massive super computing project to overthrow the Evil Dictator of the Evil Empire.
And in the end, they will be SMARTER simply for using Linux..
The Source of the Modern World
By Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Published
10/07/2003
Last week's column inspired by Neal Stephenson's new novel, Quicksilver, produced an email from Stephenson's publisher, which led to me chatting with him on the telephone. The result was the following interview, done by cellphone as both of us traveled to different engagements. It's a bit on the casual side, but I found it interesting.
TCS: What got you interested in the Seventeenth Century?
Neal Stephenson: It started with the personal stories of Newton and Leibniz. Then I started to learn about Hooke, and the other members of the Royal Society, and it kind of snowballed. There were so many things going on back then with ramifications and consequences that we feel today that I just got sucked in.
What I found interesting on a political level was that the Cromwell types were pushing a bunch of ideas that struck people as nuts at the time, but that are bedrock principles of modern society -- things like free enterprise and separation of church and state and limited government that took years to actually achieve.
Many of the people called Puritans were small businessmen and independent traders. They had a real bent toward free enterprise, and they developed a real resentment of government and taxes -- as a result, they were free traders. It's like what we see with a lot of pro-business people today.
[We then had an interesting discussion of whether the growth of self-employment today would lead to an increase in such sentiments in the modern world, though we reached
no conclusion.]
TCS: Many of the great minds in your book -- Hooke, Newton, Leibniz, etc. -- were, to put it mildly, kind of weird. But they were brilliant. I've heard a lot of people say that Richard Feynman would be too unconventional to get, or keep, a faculty position today. What about people like Newton, who was much odder? Are we sidelining our geniuses today?
NS: That's a big question. If you kind of read their "blogs" -- diaries of people like Pepys, Hooke, John Evelyn -- it's clear that they were pretty elastic, pretty adaptable, in their social arrangements. It didn't seem to faze them at all to deal with people who had odd social quirks. I think that's partly an English thing, part of having a clubby attitude. If you were a part of this club, the Royal Society, a pretty wide range of behavior was tolerated.
Today, well, I don't have enough firsthand experience with the modern academic world to have a sound opinion. But you can see examples of where really talented [eccentric] people today have been able to find a niche in the business world instead of academia.
In business, if you can make money, the personal oddities get overlooked. The bottom line is the bottom line.
In an academic setting you're looking at a different bottom line. It's a far more complex social environment that one has to navigate to get ahead, dealing with students, alumni, colleagues, the administration, and so on. I think you're onto an interesting question. It's too bad that there's not some kind of an index of eccentricity that we could use to compare the academic world and the business world over time.
TCS: Will your new website feature a blog?
NS: Not in the sense of chronological writing. Did you see the Metaweb site? That has some things in common with a blog. If someone asks a question, I can put up an answer. So that serves some bloglike functions. But to do something like that every day would totally interfere with getting books written.
TCS: I understand that you did all the writing on the Baroque Cycle books by hand, using a fountain pen. Did that make a difference?
NS: Absolutely. The key difference is that it's slower. It's like when you're writing, there's a kind of buffer in your head where the next sentence sits while you're outputting the last one. As long as it's still in your head, it's easy to manipulate that next sentence, or even to reject it
http://home.gt.rr.com/linuxzealot88/sco.html
I have no need to use M$ products.
And I would lay money on it that M$ ends up being the "hyper-os" and that being the case, I have no use for the hardware.
Resistance is NOT futile.
Pass the crack pipe back to Darl.
You shouldn't bogart man, it's rude, dude..
"Many consumers hate their cable companies' privacy policies and their failure to deal with spam effectively," said Chris Murray
Tard #1: "Many consumers hate their cable companies' privacy policies and their failure to deal with spam effectively,"
Tard #2: said Chris Murray
Why? Many people DO hate the privacy policies of their cable company. But I doubt that they hate the cable company because of spam..
Since when did it become to job of the ISP to filter spam? Who at the cable company has the power to determine what is spam and what is not spam? And when they filter and block something that is not spam and it's an important email and it causes you to lose your ass in someway, who will be responsible for mislabeling and blocking the email/false spam??
And really Mr. Murray, do you really think people are that stupid as to buy that bullshit?
Sure, we want competition, we want more privacy, we want lower prices, but we don't want *YOU* or anyone else deciding what is spam and what is not.
I think what people REALLY want is more virus checking of emails. Road Runner does that now, (not that I could care-Linux) but 80 million numbnuts out there need it. And ALL ports except a select few should be off by default, open only those that are necessary for normal Internet activity, browsing, email, streaming media. Other ports are turned off and have to be manually opened by the user via webmin account. If they are adept enough to manage that simple task then they must have a reason to open the port. But 79.9 million numbnuts don't need 65,535 ports WIDE ASS OPEN, especially when they are running Winblows...
One last thing, you can't have privacy and have your ISP be your email shepherd at the same time.
For gods sake, think man, think!!
You can lead a man to Linux but you can't make him USE it..
Can you say, "ILLEGAL" ???
Damn. But what I wouldn't give to get a live demonstration. I'd have a woody that would cut stainless steel and diamonds...
Go ahead and flame away. I know about putting stuff in quotes but a lot of people do NOT know that and have a hard time.
Like this,
how to replace a washer in a leaky faucet
google comes back with this shit,
The following words are very common and were not included in your search: how to a in a.
So, you get deludged with senseless bullshit that is not even close to what you want.
You end up wading through hundreds of BS websites, the majority of them being a-holes trying to sell you books on DIY plumbing. Finding a website that actually shows you how do do what you are looking for is damn hard to find, even if you know how to play the google game.
Until they quit making assumptions on what you are trying to say/look for, Searching for things on the internet will always suck.
Just like digital satellite, which is a total free for all. They are yet to produce a secure technology that can prevent those that are really determined from circumventing their protection schemes.
They can not produced a system that can not be breeched. As long as the receiver/decoder is in the hands of the end user the end user holds the keys to the kingdom in his hands. He only needs to figure them out. And after that, free shit for everyone with a desire and an Internet connection.
I have visions of Firmage standing on the banks of the Deleware river on Christmas night, giving this speech to his troops of OS coders.
(Where the hell is my three pointed hat and musket when I need it!!)
I wouldn't use RAV for Linux if they were the only game on earth. With M$ in on it, it's tainted by stupidity. M$ people do not have the intelligence, insight, foresight, or any clue about Linux, much less that they would even give two squirts of shit about Linux.
I would NEVER trust ANY M$ product on ANY box and most certainly not on my Linux box(es)
crack pipe as Darl.
How about let's do a little investigation here.
Who pads their coffers?? Could there be a few M$ bucks in the CCAGW kitty??
"those same subjects had better memory and reaction times"
This is what happens, JUST BEFORE YOUR HEAD BURSTS INTO FLAME!
They can not prove what will happen to people over many years of being exposed to constant radiation. All of this radio, TV, cell phone, etc, etc, radiation is new, on the evolutionary scale to the human being.
We live in a sea of radiation. It's little wonder people go postal, what with their brains being cooked 24 hours a day.
Radiation has effects on living things. No one can say or prove that ANY of it is positive, outside of a *little* solar radiation, and even that is dangerous too.
As this 3G radiation cooks people off into psychotic episodes you'll see. And watch the cancer rates skyrocket..
I'm boycotting M$. I don't use M$ products. Don't have any M$ products in my house and never will. None in my 1975 German car either..
I don't have anything new, I don't buy new things. Tough shit M$..
Prepare for a FLOOD of new M$ attacks from China and Korea.
Personally, I blackhole all Asian IP's at my firewall. Not that it matters because I don't use M$ but the attacks do task your resources none-the-less..
"VeriSign and Secure Internet Voting" makes as much sense as "Military Intelligence"...
Someone email this info to Texstar!!
Very informative, thanks.
Sounds like many years ago we played a text based star trek game over 300buad modems, it was like two people playing battleship.
20 something years ago it was fun..
I've heard of them.
With all the slashdotting and urpmi'ing I just don't get around as much as I used to..
Winders XP???
One word. Linux.
Nuff said?
I can pick up the phone and order materials, parts, whatever, from a company in another state and as long as that company has no brick and mortar presence in my state I do not have to pay state sales tax.
Ordering through the Internet is no different than ordering over the phone or by mail.