serifs helping the eye to track along a line of text is a [legend that] persists despite eye-tracking studies long ago demonstrating that humans do not read a continuous line of text straight
I know eyes makes only three jumps to read a text line in a pocket book, three or four sight spots are enough to catch words and read the line. (this is for people who read fast, without mental vocalisation).
I agree with that. But I didn't say that serif help tracking the line.
According to my personal and subjective experience, serif fonts are more readable because it add more information, especially to disambiguate those groups of letters: {m,n,u} and {p,q,b,d,h,g}. I guess many of you will find it strange because letters don't look confusing, maybe some will think I have a kind of dyslexia (I really don't). In fact the issue arises at high speed reading, when the brain guess a group of words rather than actually reading it.
May I suggest you to try an experiment:
Choose 8 pages of an unknown text (from a downloadable novel, standard vocabulary).
Print 4 pages in Arial font (or worse Arial Narrow), 4 pages in Times font (or better Bookman Old Style). Adjust the font size for a fair comparison, and make short lines as in pocket books.
How many time do you need to read each set of pages ? Compare.
I felt exactly the same disappointment. I'm also interested in scientific study of text readability.
Concerning on screen vs paper readability: much of us underestimate the impact of resolution we have on screen. It's very low compared to paper, even for a 17" screen at 1280x1024. We get used to pixeled characters or slightly blurred ones if anti-aliasing is on (and yes I'm aware of inner pixel anti-aliasing improvements).
We get used to it but, please, try to read on screen and then on paper with the same character size, from the same distance. The difference is striking.
Talking about serif and sans-serif: serif fonts are much more readable on paper (it helps brain to disambiguate many letters), but due to the pixel size on screen the serif fonts are often worse than sans-serif. More straight lines display better.
I've been using Linux for ten years now also: from Linux Mandrake v5 (1998).
I'm still regularly frustrated by some problems that come again and again with each release, it is tiring, yes. But I'm not sick with it yet. Really good job have been done, some features are wonderful (drak-* and package management is 98% operational), uptime is good, custom adjustments unbeatable.
And as you said it "Linux is now really almost ready for the desktop, and world domination is just around the corner", so keep the faith and hope!
Your comment is the only one in the discussion mentionning Patriot Act. Strange.
Here's more from passablynews reactions (article link):
p1 "The treatment of Cody reflected the result, and the intent of the Patriot act 1 & 2. Cody was deemed a terrorist and as a result, his rights were suspended. Is what happened to Him, what's happened to others, whats going to happen to countless more, the absolute disrespect, humiliation, and utter disregard of Constitution O.K.? This is the Security we have been given in exchange for Liberty?
Alex Epstein "This is exactly how the Patriot Act operates. Innocent people being jailed on hysterical accusations while the real culprits go free. And this is why we need our civil rights protections. When you can jail people without a trial, it's just too easy to jail the wrong guy."
When you first backup in the old format, build a virtual machine with a recent format (latest vmware workstation or some free product). Inside the virtual PC you install windows 3.11 and some old software.
Now you've got something to read your old format for another 8-10 years.
Next upgrade you will deal with the VM, not with your data. So it is constant time for any volume of old documents.
1. A and B regularly occur together.
2. Therefore A is the cause of B.
That's false of course, as the conclusion of this study!
As parent post says...
Some people manage to drink alcohol in moderation. Obviously they will have in general better habits than those who drink more or even than those who don't drink at all for some over reason than caring about health.
Such better habits lead to greater lifespan.
Nothing to do with alcohol itself.
As pointed here, effect of normalization to compensate dietetary habits is not detailled. Go figure.
Choose product, neo case (0db, nice look in the living room), then see available motherboards, MV823A is the one for this multimedia purpose.
Enjoy real 0 db appliance( compact flash instead of hard drive, 1 GB are affordable now and enought for MythTV ).
Some details for MV823A mobo:
Processor: . On-board VIA C3/Eden 376 pin EBGA package . Front side bus 100/133 MHz . VIA Eden Processor 533MHz/733MHz/800MHz/1GHz . VIA C3 processor 800MHz/1GHz/1.2GHz/1.4GHz . Integrated full-speed 192KB L1/L2 cache, F.S.B.133MHz . Advanced multimedia instruction set for MMX,3Dnow System Chipset list: . MB chipset:VIA CLE266 Chipset ( VT8623 and VT8235 ) . VGA : Integrated VT8623 Graphic chip . Sound:VIA VT1616 AC97 SOUND . LAN : Intel 100M/1G 82540EM or Realtek 10M/100M RTL8100B . TV-OUT : VIA VT1622A Chip . I/O : VIA VT1211 chip . Video in : Philip 7113H Video input processor . LVDS Transmitter : VT1631 DFP to LVDS signal . IEEE1394 : VT6307 chip Memory: . Support one bank PC 1600/2100 DDR 266 up to 512MB VGA Graphic: . Optimized Shared Memory Architecture and maximum share 64MB . Integrated 4x AGP, 128 bit. 3D graphics engine . MPEG 2/1 Video Decoder, high quality DVD video playback . Microsoft DirectX 7.0 and 8.0 compatible . Resolution up to 1920 x 1440 x 16bit . VGA resolution support 16:9 Mode TV-out: . NTSC( M and J) or PAL (B,D , G , H , I , M , N and Nc ) TV output . Graphics resolution up to 1024 x 768 . Automatic detection of TV presence
Well, the main non-sense in The Matrix is the process of making power from human beings dreaming in bath-tubs. That's just a bad trick to set up the whole matrix thing, which is in itself a good idea. However I like this movie a lot, putting this non-sense aside.
we can say that we *are* a specific species: the first one who could eventually outlive the Sun.
Rescuing other species before the giant red sun burns everything on Earth is the strongest argument against those who would like to see mankind disappear for the benefit of nature.
We need more technologies, space industry and good productivity to face this ultimate challenge in a far future. We can also manage to protect bio-diversity, while dominating Earth .
Those misleading headlines should be edited, pointless discussions dilute valuable news and comments.
(read "valuable" from a broad slashdot nerd perspective)
Moderation system completely fail to address this issue, since moderators are also massively misled.
Here's my top 5, they may remind you good memories...
Sid Mier's Civilisation / CivNet (PC, nice 9h sitting non stop) StartCraft (PC, current success 8 years later shows how good it was and still is) Duke Nukem 3D (PC, for its excellent gameplay and great 3D fun with friends, even on slow PC, something really new happened) Lode Runner [ Apple//e ] ( Conan or Boulder Dash could have been mentionned too, Transylvania also ) OGame ( online game, great time consumer )
I would rather say: Relakks offers a personnal gateway to Internet over VPN, along with SNAT/DNAT I guess.
(by personnal gateway I mean you don't share a public IP-address with others, good for P2P apps)
This is not a darknet as usually defined.
Neither a proxy, technically speaking.
They need one default startup/shutdown sound for their default theme, the one we got after installation.
Or they keep spare prices for some background contest.
Anyway, packaging the 10 best sounds of the contest in Mandriva 2007 is a good idea we should suggest.
a courthouse request is needed to get the information from the ISP
You are right on this point: by the time they ask for it, records may be gone... or not, depending on your ISP policy and your country.
BTW check those ISP who claim that they don't record leases, for instance I think the french ISP "Free" still do not record but may be obliged to do so by the law soon.
MAC address is not seen by ISP (dial up modem or adsl modem).
Anyway, ISP can record IP leases for each account. And some do: in France (if I remember well) they have to keep logs 3 months back.
So, given an IP and a date they can find your home on prosecutor request.
See this journal for information about this topic, gathered on slashdot.
I've set up a fileserver in my garage, Linux mandriva 2005, serving NFS and SaMBa shares. Running since 3-4 months
I use EVMS as professional LVM.
Raid 0 or 1 available, and bad blocs relocation too. Also SMART monitoring is running as daemon.
Your main problem for spinning down drives is the filesystem:
With journaled FS (recommended) disks will spin up every 10mn or so, after some tuning. For me too it's still too much and I'd like to stop them for hours if I don't use the shares...
I plan to study this: remount read only and then turn read-write access automatically on serving files. As nothing happen on RO journaled FS, discs will remain down when not in use - I hope.
I'll will gather all good advice on this thread later to update the fileserver entry.
English translation:
You have very important data but they must be read? This adapter enables you to physically prevent the writing (and thus the alteration) of the data.
Description: Combining 3200 color graphics with amusing
sound effects and poetic documentation, The Tinies is an
arcade style timed strategy game with 100 levels. Using
your keypad, your goal is to move multiple animated Tinie
onto their "sleeper pads." On beginning levels, that's
pretty easy to do; however, you will eventually run into
objects that block your path, and you'll need to quickly
figure out alternate routes.
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I know eyes makes only three jumps to read a text line in a pocket book, three or four sight spots are enough to catch words and read the line. (this is for people who read fast, without mental vocalisation).
I agree with that. But I didn't say that serif help tracking the line.
According to my personal and subjective experience, serif fonts are more readable because it add more information, especially to disambiguate those groups of letters: {m,n,u} and {p,q,b,d,h,g}. I guess many of you will find it strange because letters don't look confusing, maybe some will think I have a kind of dyslexia (I really don't). In fact the issue arises at high speed reading, when the brain guess a group of words rather than actually reading it.
May I suggest you to try an experiment:
But it don't think that it's backlit either, even if it's an other important issue.
It's resolution, as I've replied here.
Concerning on screen vs paper readability: much of us underestimate the impact of resolution we have on screen. It's very low compared to paper, even for a 17" screen at 1280x1024. We get used to pixeled characters or slightly blurred ones if anti-aliasing is on (and yes I'm aware of inner pixel anti-aliasing improvements). We get used to it but, please, try to read on screen and then on paper with the same character size, from the same distance. The difference is striking.
Talking about serif and sans-serif: serif fonts are much more readable on paper (it helps brain to disambiguate many letters), but due to the pixel size on screen the serif fonts are often worse than sans-serif. More straight lines display better.
I, for one, welcome our new arithmetic overlords! Could you please tell us how many years there is starting from 1998 to 2007, both included ?
I'm still regularly frustrated by some problems that come again and again with each release, it is tiring, yes. But I'm not sick with it yet. Really good job have been done, some features are wonderful (drak-* and package management is 98% operational), uptime is good, custom adjustments unbeatable.
And as you said it "Linux is now really almost ready for the desktop, and world domination is just around the corner", so keep the faith and hope!
Here's more from passablynews reactions (article link):
p1 "The treatment of Cody reflected the result, and the intent of the Patriot act 1 & 2. Cody was deemed a terrorist and as a result, his rights were suspended. Is what happened to Him, what's happened to others, whats going to happen to countless more, the absolute disrespect, humiliation, and utter disregard of Constitution O.K.? This is the Security we have been given in exchange for Liberty?
Here is the patriot act itself.
http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html
"
Alex Epstein "This is exactly how the Patriot Act operates. Innocent people being jailed on hysterical accusations while the real culprits go free. And this is why we need our civil rights protections. When you can jail people without a trial, it's just too easy to jail the wrong guy."
Now you've got something to read your old format for another 8-10 years.
Next upgrade you will deal with the VM, not with your data. So it is constant time for any volume of old documents.
Confusing Cause and Effect is a fallacy that has the following general form:
1. A and B regularly occur together.
2. Therefore A is the cause of B.
That's false of course, as the conclusion of this study!
As parent post says...
Some people manage to drink alcohol in moderation. Obviously they will have in general better habits than those who drink more or even than those who don't drink at all for some over reason than caring about health.
Such better habits lead to greater lifespan.
Nothing to do with alcohol itself.
As pointed here, effect of normalization to compensate dietetary habits is not detailled. Go figure.
ZFS in main Linux tree as kernel module.
BTW, any idea about how robust is ZFS compared to ext2/3 when some blocks are corrupted (for instance reiserfs loose a lot more here) ?
Link to lex system updated
Choose product, neo case (0db, nice look in the living room), then see available motherboards, MV823A is the one for this multimedia purpose.
Enjoy real 0 db appliance( compact flash instead of hard drive, 1 GB are affordable now and enought for MythTV ).
Some details for MV823A mobo:
Well, the main non-sense in The Matrix is the process of making power from human beings dreaming in bath-tubs. That's just a bad trick to set up the whole matrix thing, which is in itself a good idea. However I like this movie a lot, putting this non-sense aside.
we can say that we *are* a specific species: the first one who could eventually outlive the Sun.
Rescuing other species before the giant red sun burns everything on Earth is the strongest argument against those who would like to see mankind disappear for the benefit of nature.
We need more technologies, space industry and good productivity to face this ultimate challenge in a far future.
We can also manage to protect bio-diversity, while dominating Earth .
Thank you for reminding us this fact.
I hope both of you get modded up.
Those misleading headlines should be edited, pointless discussions dilute valuable news and comments.
(read "valuable" from a broad slashdot nerd perspective)
Moderation system completely fail to address this issue, since moderators are also massively misled.
Sid Mier's Civilisation / CivNet (PC, nice 9h sitting non stop) //e ] ( Conan or Boulder Dash could have been mentionned too, Transylvania also )
StartCraft (PC, current success 8 years later shows how good it was and still is)
Duke Nukem 3D (PC, for its excellent gameplay and great 3D fun with friends, even on slow PC, something really new happened)
Lode Runner [ Apple
OGame ( online game, great time consumer )
Diablo II is the 6th.
Relakks offers a personnal gateway to Internet over VPN, along with SNAT/DNAT I guess.
(by personnal gateway I mean you don't share a public IP-address with others, good for P2P apps)
This is not a darknet as usually defined.
Neither a proxy, technically speaking.
Can someone elaborate on this, any clues ?
Or they keep spare prices for some background contest.
Anyway, packaging the 10 best sounds of the contest in Mandriva 2007 is a good idea we should suggest.
You are right on this point: by the time they ask for it, records may be gone ... or not, depending on your ISP policy and your country.
BTW check those ISP who claim that they don't record leases, for instance I think the french ISP "Free" still do not record but may be obliged to do so by the law soon.
Anyway, ISP can record IP leases for each account. And some do: in France (if I remember well) they have to keep logs 3 months back.
So, given an IP and a date they can find your home on prosecutor request.
But it seems to me that it's what happen with ext3 journal... as a kind of periodic checkpoint - no matter the activity.
To minimize access and spin up my fstab entries look like
(that's 600s = 10mn)I hope I'm wrong, maybe I've overlooked something that keep the drive spinning. If course I won't use a noflush patch for such a fileserver!!!
I've set up a fileserver in my garage, Linux mandriva 2005, serving NFS and SaMBa shares. Running since 3-4 months
I use EVMS as professional LVM. Raid 0 or 1 available, and bad blocs relocation too. Also SMART monitoring is running as daemon.
Your main problem for spinning down drives is the filesystem:
With journaled FS (recommended) disks will spin up every 10mn or so, after some tuning. For me too it's still too much and I'd like to stop them for hours if I don't use the shares...
I plan to study this: remount read only and then turn read-write access automatically on serving files. As nothing happen on RO journaled FS, discs will remain down when not in use - I hope.
I'll will gather all good advice on this thread later to update the fileserver entry.
http://pearl.fr/article-PE8194-IDE.html
English translation:
You have very important data but they must be read? This adapter enables you to physically prevent the writing (and thus the alteration) of the data.
http://users.foxvalley.net/~joko/lib.html
(it seems this games had a previous version for Apple IIGS)
http://www.nonoche.com/tinies.html
(This site needs Shockwave, I couldn't see it with linux)
http://www.gamegenie.com/cheats/mac/TheTinies.shtm l
(cheat codes to different levels)
http://www.grenier-du-mac.net/fiches/tinies.htm
(binary to download, some pictures, but not exactly what I remember, it has a much nicer look and was more sophisticated)
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ds876/apple.html
(thanks to this page, I've found the company who made the Tinies, along with onwer's names)
Finally I've e-mailed them to ask about what we are looking for. /. topic, if you want more info feel free to email me.
Again we'd better leave this
Laurence M. just e-mailed me this (no post as it seems): I'm just about to run a new search. (I'm showing my e-mail for a while, so we can keep in touch outside this slashdot topic).
BTW I think I've also played to the demo version.
What have you done to get it again ? Any search ? Do you have some over clues ?