21in CRT's that cost $1500 three years ago are going for under $100.
Where? I'll take 3.
But seriously, that's how tech is. Your $700 LCD you buy today will be worth jack-squat in 3 years.
I havent bought a 'new' CRT in a few years, I found a guy who reconditions them and resells 'em on the cheap with a 3 year parts and labor guarantee. His work is top-notch, and I've grabbed some really choice Diamondtron monitors from him.
Though I still havent found a (decent) 21" for under 100 bucks.
They dont have an 'infinite' refresh rate, they dont really have a 'refresh' rate in the conventional sense anyways.
A CRT sends a beam of electrons scanning up and down, and how many times a second it can do so is it's refresh rate.
LCDs turn individual pixels on or off (there are scanning LCD displays, like the gameboy for example). So its more about how long it takes the individual elements to 'turn on' or 'turn off'.
They tend to dim slowly when you shut them off, hence ghosting of moving images.
Most of the graphics issues have to do with contrast, brightness, and the fact those things change when you move your head (viewing angle problems). A high end CRT can display more shades of blue than an LCD.
Despite this statistic, I think it'll be a long time before CRTs become an uncommon sight on a desktop machine
It'll happen about the time you can get a LCD screen of a comparable quality to a CRT, for the same price.
I was checking out LCDs. I'd love to have one, but for the 800 bucks I'd shell out for a decent 15" LCD, I could get a top of the line 19" CRT, and a bigger desk to fit it on.
I'm no fan of CRTs, they're big, hot, and annoying. But I just dont have the cheese for a good LCD.
With the increasing power and flexibility of PVR cards for the PC, how long until TiVo et al become -1 redundant, because nerds can roll their own, and "dudes" can order it as an option when "they're gettin a Dell"?
All the do-it-for-me type features can surely be replicated in open source, and automatic listings and whatnot can be had via the 'net.
Here's the problem I have with books like this. The examples are things that already exist.
C++ (or any OO) books that take you step by step through creating a class CShape, then sublclassing CBox, etc etc... Yeah, I get the principles of inheritance, but trivial examples CShape, CBox etc no doubt already exist in $LIBRARY if they're of any use.
So my question is, do the examples in this book just spew out stuff thats already in the STL?
I find that tends to have people reinventing the wheel, writing their own templates for say a stack or queue, because the book taught them to do so, even though it already exists.
Slashdot gets a ton of spam because they're a high profile target. They get it for the same reason they get "in soviet russia" jokes, Old Ike stories, and goatse links.
My company is undeniably low profile. The only people who know our domain exists are our clients, save perhaps the one in a million mistyped url.
We get virtually no spam. The spam we do get is because of one of the perverts in marketing who keeps signing up for "hot porn daily in your email" lists.
Any solution that involves paying for something that used to be "free" is not going to catch on.
Especially in light of the fact that probably 99 percent of everyone who uses email doesnt give a shit about spam. Whatever they get, they ignore, just like they hang up on telemarketers and throw junk mail into the trash can. Of course those costs dont stop marketing. It's just part of life.
To stop spam by charging for email, you'd have to make email prohibitively expensive --- when was the last time you were FedEx'ed some junkmail?
So you'd be not only be charging for something that used to be free, you'd be charging to fix a problem most frankly dont care about.
Squid works great if you stick a big honking chunk of RAM into the box, and have it create it's cache in there.
Beats hitting the HDD any day of the week. Of course, if you want a filtering wall with a gigantic database of blacklisted urls and phrases, you're on your own. (Though I suppose you could do so through NFS)
I love floppy based walls, I dont have to think twice about just bouncing the power on 'em.
Slackware has a ton of packages I'll never ever need, and is missing many crucial ones that would be a godsend if they would just install and work without a plethora of patches (Get PoPToP working with MS-CHAP v2 auths, and see what I mean).
Mod this post down, too. It's not going to change my mind.
All the linux boxes in my home run slackware (save my coyotelinux based router), because they are all headless; a samba based PDC, a squid proxy, a VPN host, a couple more samba based storage machines. All are built out of spare parts.
None require X, only one has compilation tools. None need the plethora of stuff that come with other distros.
Slackware works just the way I want it. All I want is a kernel and a few basic utilities.
I've never considered it the 'hard way', or call it a badge of honor. It's the easiest way to get what I want on a box without wasting any precious space. And when you're trying to cram squid and dansguardian onto a 3.6 gig HDD, you want all the extra space you can get.
I'll cede that if I wanted a desktop OS with web browsers and working net connections, I'd stay away from slackware. But for what I do its the best tool for the job.
My first install was completely by hand, but I used slackwares boot disks to do it.
Then did the fdisk, mke2fs, installed bintools and blah blah blah blah till I had a system.
Of course I was a comp sci student and wanted to know step by step how an OS went together.
Slackware's the only linux distro I've ever installed, and I love-hate it. The big text based installer can be a pain in the ass with it's 10 zillion packages you dont want.
Maybe some defaults, like 'development install' or 'server install' or 'desktop install' would help?
I used to like slackware. Now the installation CD seems more like a mirror of sourceforge with everything and the kitchen sink wanting to be installed.
Except for Samba, PoPToP, squid, and FreeS/WAN... What's up with that?
It's also getting annoying that most new linux docs are geared towards Red Hat and it's SysV style init. I can 'translate' it, but it's just a pain sometimes.
If the design was good, the couplings would be located such that if one leaked, it wouldnt possibly get anywhere near the actual electronics. Like outside and below the case.
However, Phipps said he doubts that JBoss software will pass the compliance test. Basing his opinion on public information, he said, JBoss software does not appear to implement all of the J2EE specification. Phipps also noted that JBoss appears to be using software written by Sun
translation:
"They copied us, and we suck!"
I will never ever say JBoss out loud. I can imagine what it would sound like, and it's frighteningly lame.
You can be kicked off a game for a variety of reasons, from sheer whim to acting as a punishment to cheaters.
"Kick him, kick him, kick him," is the tribal chant of those gamers tired of another's childish antics.
There's no "cheating" on Xbox live, which is why they banned modded boxes from the service.
You get 'kicked' when you win. The same thing happens on all the free services like xbtunnel. The online gaming community is chock full of kids with l337 names talking about 'm4d sk1llz0rz', but as soon as they start to lose, they either kick you, or if they cant, they quit.
It's pretty much why I dont bother with online gaming anymore, except for stuff where I'm playing peer to peer with a (real life) friend, or my kid brother, or something like that.
Too many idiots in the world, and it's just no fun. MSFT should have looked at human nature before they sank so much into Xbox live, because it's going to fail. I know 3 people who've bought it, and none played more than two weeks, and none plan on renewing the subscription, pretty much for the same reasons I've said.
It's really annoying to be accused of 'cheating' because you fragged someone in Unreal.
One of my clients set up a Cisco PIX box to VPN into their network. Then he disabled the dial-up account I would use to do maintainance.
So, at first I installed the VPN client on a DMZ box in our network. Now I could run terminal services, but that's next to useless to me. I need to be able to step through code on my machine running against their databases.
So I tried to set up the VPN client on my machine, which is a SecureNAT box behind ISA server. But IPSec cant transverse a NAT wall. So Cisco has a feature where they can tunnel it through UDP ports 500 and 10000. I found a nice MSDN knowledge base article on the whole thing, and configured ISA server to do just that. So I try to connect from my machine, and get 'peer isnt responding errors'.
So I call the client, who conferences me with their "VPN guy". They have a "VPN guy". So he's just a completely clueless shmuck. I ask him to verify that they have the transparent tunneling feature enabled. He looks at his debug logs and sees me connecting, but I'm not getting through. So he forwards his logs to a Cisco guy.
So the Cisco guy answers him, and the email is forwarded to me. It instructs me to set up the firewall to allow IPSec.
But you cant allow IPSec through ISA server. Damnit.
I have work to do over here. Why do these "NETWORK EXPERTS" keep pissing me off.
Damnit.
Now, my question for Ask Slashdot, is there a linux client that I can use to connect to their VPN (FreeS/WAN?), that I could put on the other side of the firewall, and then maybe do something like an IP-IP tunnel from my box to the linux VPN box, which in turn connects to this client, whos pissing me off because he wants all this work done but is too much of a lazy fucker to plug the modem back into the wall so I can dial in to do it?
Now, just to be on topic, I love linksys' stuff. Cheap stuff that works. Two thumbs up. I cant wait for cisco to turn the $5 Etherfast cards into $50 cluster-fsck modules.
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If it was about oil and money, it'd be much cheaper to lift the embargo, and turn a blind eye to Saddams persecution of his own people, and his funding of suicide attacks in Israel.
Saddam is a threat to you. If America was like Iraq, or if the Bush administration was half what you'd like to fantasize it is, you're throat would be slit and you'd be dead in the street.
The ANTI-WAR movement is about money and oil. Frances opposal to the US has to do with the 4 billion they have invested in Saddam. Germany has something like 2 billion on the line, Russia 6. The rub is, they cant get their oil so long as there's an embargo. And if the regime changes, they have to compete on the world market for it. Altruism and humanitarianism my ass.
Be a pacifist if you want, but for gods sake don't be so dense.
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We had this pointless flamewar yesterday.
And the day before that.
Seriously, let us get our news somewhere else. Noone's discussing anything here, just spewing crap and insults.
I was praying the last of these would be crapflooded with Old Ike stories, I got so sick of reading the "America Sucks" tripe.
21in CRT's that cost $1500 three years ago are going for under $100.
Where? I'll take 3.
But seriously, that's how tech is. Your $700 LCD you buy today will be worth jack-squat in 3 years.
I havent bought a 'new' CRT in a few years, I found a guy who reconditions them and resells 'em on the cheap with a 3 year parts and labor guarantee. His work is top-notch, and I've grabbed some really choice Diamondtron monitors from him.
Though I still havent found a (decent) 21" for under 100 bucks.
They dont have an 'infinite' refresh rate, they dont really have a 'refresh' rate in the conventional sense anyways.
A CRT sends a beam of electrons scanning up and down, and how many times a second it can do so is it's refresh rate.
LCDs turn individual pixels on or off (there are scanning LCD displays, like the gameboy for example). So its more about how long it takes the individual elements to 'turn on' or 'turn off'.
They tend to dim slowly when you shut them off, hence ghosting of moving images.
Most of the graphics issues have to do with contrast, brightness, and the fact those things change when you move your head (viewing angle problems). A high end CRT can display more shades of blue than an LCD.
Despite this statistic, I think it'll be a long time before CRTs become an uncommon sight on a desktop machine
It'll happen about the time you can get a LCD screen of a comparable quality to a CRT, for the same price.
I was checking out LCDs. I'd love to have one, but for the 800 bucks I'd shell out for a decent 15" LCD, I could get a top of the line 19" CRT, and a bigger desk to fit it on.
I'm no fan of CRTs, they're big, hot, and annoying. But I just dont have the cheese for a good LCD.
Chia pets were a fad, like mood rings or the pet rock.
Hardly an example for the failure of the american technocracy.
With the increasing power and flexibility of PVR cards for the PC, how long until TiVo et al become -1 redundant, because nerds can roll their own, and "dudes" can order it as an option when "they're gettin a Dell"?
All the do-it-for-me type features can surely be replicated in open source, and automatic listings and whatnot can be had via the 'net.
Here's the problem I have with books like this. The examples are things that already exist.
C++ (or any OO) books that take you step by step through creating a class CShape, then sublclassing CBox, etc etc... Yeah, I get the principles of inheritance, but trivial examples CShape, CBox etc no doubt already exist in $LIBRARY if they're of any use.
So my question is, do the examples in this book just spew out stuff thats already in the STL?
I find that tends to have people reinventing the wheel, writing their own templates for say a stack or queue, because the book taught them to do so, even though it already exists.
And what of namespaces. Those things piss me off.
This book is about defining and using your own templates, not using STL.
Just like a book about OO design has nothing to do with a book about the MFC.
Why mod that down? It's a valid point.
Slashdot gets a ton of spam because they're a high profile target. They get it for the same reason they get "in soviet russia" jokes, Old Ike stories, and goatse links.
My company is undeniably low profile. The only people who know our domain exists are our clients, save perhaps the one in a million mistyped url.
We get virtually no spam. The spam we do get is because of one of the perverts in marketing who keeps signing up for "hot porn daily in your email" lists.
Any solution that involves paying for something that used to be "free" is not going to catch on.
Especially in light of the fact that probably 99 percent of everyone who uses email doesnt give a shit about spam. Whatever they get, they ignore, just like they hang up on telemarketers and throw junk mail into the trash can. Of course those costs dont stop marketing. It's just part of life.
To stop spam by charging for email, you'd have to make email prohibitively expensive --- when was the last time you were FedEx'ed some junkmail?
So you'd be not only be charging for something that used to be free, you'd be charging to fix a problem most frankly dont care about.
Show of hands.
How many people give out cmdrtaco@slashdot.org or similar as their email address when registering for a website or whatnot?
We've gotten maybe 50 spams company wide all year so far.
Charging for email wont end spam. It'll end email. Why bother? If I'm paying for a service, I'll use a more reliable and secure one.
Squid works great if you stick a big honking chunk of RAM into the box, and have it create it's cache in there.
Beats hitting the HDD any day of the week. Of course, if you want a filtering wall with a gigantic database of blacklisted urls and phrases, you're on your own. (Though I suppose you could do so through NFS)
I love floppy based walls, I dont have to think twice about just bouncing the power on 'em.
Slackware has a ton of packages I'll never ever need, and is missing many crucial ones that would be a godsend if they would just install and work without a plethora of patches (Get PoPToP working with MS-CHAP v2 auths, and see what I mean).
Mod this post down, too. It's not going to change my mind.
It depends what you're installing the distro for.
All the linux boxes in my home run slackware (save my coyotelinux based router), because they are all headless; a samba based PDC, a squid proxy, a VPN host, a couple more samba based storage machines. All are built out of spare parts.
None require X, only one has compilation tools. None need the plethora of stuff that come with other distros.
Slackware works just the way I want it. All I want is a kernel and a few basic utilities.
I've never considered it the 'hard way', or call it a badge of honor. It's the easiest way to get what I want on a box without wasting any precious space. And when you're trying to cram squid and dansguardian onto a 3.6 gig HDD, you want all the extra space you can get.
I'll cede that if I wanted a desktop OS with web browsers and working net connections, I'd stay away from slackware. But for what I do its the best tool for the job.
My first install was completely by hand, but I used slackwares boot disks to do it.
Then did the fdisk, mke2fs, installed bintools and blah blah blah blah till I had a system.
Of course I was a comp sci student and wanted to know step by step how an OS went together.
Slackware's the only linux distro I've ever installed, and I love-hate it. The big text based installer can be a pain in the ass with it's 10 zillion packages you dont want.
Maybe some defaults, like 'development install' or 'server install' or 'desktop install' would help?
I used to like slackware. Now the installation CD seems more like a mirror of sourceforge with everything and the kitchen sink wanting to be installed.
Except for Samba, PoPToP, squid, and FreeS/WAN... What's up with that?
It's also getting annoying that most new linux docs are geared towards Red Hat and it's SysV style init. I can 'translate' it, but it's just a pain sometimes.
I guess it's time to sign up with Microsoft Jr.
If the design was good, the couplings would be located such that if one leaked, it wouldnt possibly get anywhere near the actual electronics. Like outside and below the case.
However, Phipps said he doubts that JBoss software will pass the compliance test. Basing his opinion on public information, he said, JBoss software does not appear to implement all of the J2EE specification. Phipps also noted that JBoss appears to be using software written by Sun
translation:
"They copied us, and we suck!"
I will never ever say JBoss out loud. I can imagine what it would sound like, and it's frighteningly lame.
Add to that the fact that at that size, you wouldn't even notice a benefit from HDTV
Just like you dont notice the difference between gaming at 640x480 vs 1280x1024, right?
You can be kicked off a game for a variety of reasons, from sheer whim to acting as a punishment to cheaters.
"Kick him, kick him, kick him," is the tribal chant of those gamers tired of another's childish antics.
There's no "cheating" on Xbox live, which is why they banned modded boxes from the service.
You get 'kicked' when you win. The same thing happens on all the free services like xbtunnel. The online gaming community is chock full of kids with l337 names talking about 'm4d sk1llz0rz', but as soon as they start to lose, they either kick you, or if they cant, they quit.
It's pretty much why I dont bother with online gaming anymore, except for stuff where I'm playing peer to peer with a (real life) friend, or my kid brother, or something like that.
Too many idiots in the world, and it's just no fun. MSFT should have looked at human nature before they sank so much into Xbox live, because it's going to fail. I know 3 people who've bought it, and none played more than two weeks, and none plan on renewing the subscription, pretty much for the same reasons I've said.
It's really annoying to be accused of 'cheating' because you fragged someone in Unreal.
XP detects the different cards during setup.
And Windows Update under 2000 does the same thing. I'd guess it'd work for other versions, but I haven't tried.
And I've installed from floppy the drivers for card rev 2 on a rev 4 card, and it worked fine.
They all work the same using tulip.o under linux.
I'm not exactly sure what the different revisions is about, I suspect it has to do with the boot prom, or something.
One of my clients set up a Cisco PIX box to VPN into their network. Then he disabled the dial-up account I would use to do maintainance.
So, at first I installed the VPN client on a DMZ box in our network. Now I could run terminal services, but that's next to useless to me. I need to be able to step through code on my machine running against their databases.
So I tried to set up the VPN client on my machine, which is a SecureNAT box behind ISA server. But IPSec cant transverse a NAT wall. So Cisco has a feature where they can tunnel it through UDP ports 500 and 10000. I found a nice MSDN knowledge base article on the whole thing, and configured ISA server to do just that. So I try to connect from my machine, and get 'peer isnt responding errors'.
So I call the client, who conferences me with their "VPN guy". They have a "VPN guy". So he's just a completely clueless shmuck. I ask him to verify that they have the transparent tunneling feature enabled. He looks at his debug logs and sees me connecting, but I'm not getting through. So he forwards his logs to a Cisco guy.
So the Cisco guy answers him, and the email is forwarded to me. It instructs me to set up the firewall to allow IPSec.
But you cant allow IPSec through ISA server. Damnit.
I have work to do over here. Why do these "NETWORK EXPERTS" keep pissing me off.
Damnit.
Now, my question for Ask Slashdot, is there a linux client that I can use to connect to their VPN (FreeS/WAN?), that I could put on the other side of the firewall, and then maybe do something like an IP-IP tunnel from my box to the linux VPN box, which in turn connects to this client, whos pissing me off because he wants all this work done but is too much of a lazy fucker to plug the modem back into the wall so I can dial in to do it?
Now, just to be on topic, I love linksys' stuff. Cheap stuff that works. Two thumbs up. I cant wait for cisco to turn the $5 Etherfast cards into $50 cluster-fsck modules.
If it was about oil and money, it'd be much cheaper to lift the embargo, and turn a blind eye to Saddams persecution of his own people, and his funding of suicide attacks in Israel.
Saddam is a threat to you. If America was like Iraq, or if the Bush administration was half what you'd like to fantasize it is, you're throat would be slit and you'd be dead in the street.
The ANTI-WAR movement is about money and oil. Frances opposal to the US has to do with the 4 billion they have invested in Saddam. Germany has something like 2 billion on the line, Russia 6. The rub is, they cant get their oil so long as there's an embargo. And if the regime changes, they have to compete on the world market for it. Altruism and humanitarianism my ass.
Be a pacifist if you want, but for gods sake don't be so dense.
Vendors of commercial software are going to volentarily put a revenue cap on their products?
Why wouldnt they just license it with a classic commercial license?
Or are you saying you can use GPL'd code and keep it closed until they make X dollars then open it?
Can I sell my own version of closed source linux until I make 200 million dollars, then open the source?