I've had Google Desktop Search installed on my main machine for a couple months now.
What, exactly does it do? Find files by name? I already have a tool to do that.
I mean, it's just another useless service to run.
I'm being serious. Tell me something neat and impressive that I can make it do, so I too can start preaching the genious of Google.
I tried searching, for example, for some phrases that I know are in some sourcecode files I have. It didn't find the files containing the code. I guess it doesnt recognize.c or.h as text to index them?
If found stuff in a word doc that i made just to test it, but the built in search already does that.
So, what's it do? Why do I need it? Why does this need to be integrated into every app on my desktop?
You can google around for cad/cam files, and find a local machine shop in the yellow pages to mill it out for you. Maybe you can't do it yourself, but it can be easily done, and would cost you about 20 bucks.
Most "Xtreme 2 da max" waterblocks aren't 40 bucks either, they're upwards of 200 (and of course have blinking blue LEDs to make your PC go faster).
Who wants to watch some rotten-toothed big-eared limey flying around space in one of those queer british phone booths.
Note to editors: quit making excuses. The leak was wrong, it's not their property to put on the net, you have no right to download it without consent from the BBC.
ITS JUST NOT FUCKING YOURS TO TAKE NO MATTER HOW MANY "MINT IN BOX" DR WHO ACTION FIGURES YOU'VE COLLECTED.
Easy piezy, you can disable/fake a lot of stuff that the Windows version actually does (pretend FSAA is enabled when it isnt, etc).
It's the same kind of benchmarking bullshit as with the Quack/Quake scandal, or the nVidia 3DMark shenanigans.
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It "worked", but plenty of those failed. For one, floppies had felt inside the plastic casing, that would wipe dust and dirt off of the magnetic media.
Most single-sided disks had a cheaper felt, with all the grain lined up one way, to catch the dirt. This was fine, because the disc could only be expected to spin one way. Imagine rubbing a dogs fur the wrong way, dust and stuff getting trapped in the hair as it grates your hand.
When you flip the disk over and spin it backwards, the felt worked backwards too. That is, dust and dirt that was trapped, is pushed back out onto the media of the disk.
I used to nibble floppies all the time in my C64 days, and plenty of them failed. The more expensive dual-sided floppies we used at work at the time were much more reliable.
I get really tired of the sanctification of the founding fathers. Sure they had a few good ideas, but if you really look into the men themselves, they were as weak and corrupt as any who've followed them.
Man those sites are the bane of computer science today.
If I hear one more 13 year old talk about how the fancy new copper heatspreaders on his DDR RAM gave him 5 more FPS in Doom 3, I swear I'm going to snap his greasy little neck.
Then again, big ups to the makers of all this "extreme PC gear". For instance, this vapochil deal, bought as a sushi bar cooler (which is what it is), would cost about 75 bucks. They turn around, mod it a little bit, jam it in a 20 dollar case and sell it for hundreds.
Or taking the heater core for a car, anodizing (or just spraypainting) it black, and selling it for 100+ plus as an "Xtreme PC radiator".
Or taking a 50 dollar aquarium pump and selling it for 100+ as an "Xtreme PC cooling pump".
Or, the piece of resistance, 50 cents worth of milled copper being sold as an "Xtreme PC waterblock".
Some "tech" site, populated by 13 year old overclockers who know shit about how a computer works, and it shows (ie; they think they need to cool their CPU to sub-0 temps to make it work), reviews a product thats been around forever (and is nothing but a repurposed sushi bar cooler).
"Nothing for you to see here" indeed.
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After all, scientists are never wrong about this sort of thing..
They can detect that I don't appreciate being tracked online without my consent. That's fine with me, so long as some asshole isn't aggregating a bunch of data like "Hey he's in a starbucks in Cleveland, hey he's in Boston, hey he's in Japan".
Wait until the Direct Marketing Association (aka, spamming assholes) starts portscanning class A's with this technique to gather marketting data.
Randomly adjust your RTC by a few millisecs every 30 seconds or so, or have your edge router (NAT box) mangle the timestamps.
OT Note to comcast and other ISPs: I am not violating anything in your usage policy by running my own nat. I do not want third third rate router you offer for "home networking".
Go ahead and try and employ these types of douchey tricks to "catch" me doing something that's perfectly acceptable to you (using my cable connection for my personal use, and that of my immediate families). All that'll happen is Speakeasy will get a new customer.
Being a journalist is not just starting a web site and pronouncing yourself as one
Yes, it is exactly that.
Would you prefer a "journalism" license thats issued by the federal government? I'm sure the White House would. That's how it worked in Iraq under Saddam, and we all know the quality of the info spewed out by his Information Minister, and Uday-run newspapers.
When Amazon makes a fix to its software, "not a single customer had to download a bag of bits, answer any silly questions, prove that they are not software thieves, reboot their computers, etc. The software was shipped to them, and they didn't have to lift a finger. Now that's what I call shipping software," Lucovsky said
I don't get his point. Amazon is a website, Windows is an OS (SQL Server is a database, MechWarrior is a video game). How do they compare?
Does he think my OS should be a website? Because I like the old method, I don't want stuff shoved down the pipe onto my machine. I want to choose what, when, how and why to install software on the hardware that I own. Isn't that what Free Software is all about? My freedom to choose how the devices I own operate?
Google and all these "software as service" dorks can blow it out all straight their smelly asses.
It's just a baby monitor. It doesn't "raise" or "watch" your kids. It's just a webcam stuck in a teddy bear so you can check in on them while they're sleeping.
That's just a smokescreen for "we won't start suing again until we run low on bucks".
If they win, what are they going to do with the cash? Use it to prop up their legal department. Then they can do what SCO dreamed of doing - send a bill to every end user of every owner of every computer. This patent goes beyond simple web browsers.
It can concievably cover anything that "seamlessly loads plugins based on input data". Photoshop loads a TIFF filter if you open a TIFF file, Winamp loads the FLAC module if you open a FLAC file, etc.
Modern IP law will make the US a third world country in the information age, if no sanity is introduced. Give it 50 years or so. Other countries don't have these shackles.
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I've had Google Desktop Search installed on my main machine for a couple months now.
.c or .h as text to index them?
What, exactly does it do? Find files by name? I already have a tool to do that.
I mean, it's just another useless service to run.
I'm being serious. Tell me something neat and impressive that I can make it do, so I too can start preaching the genious of Google.
I tried searching, for example, for some phrases that I know are in some sourcecode files I have. It didn't find the files containing the code. I guess it doesnt recognize
If found stuff in a word doc that i made just to test it, but the built in search already does that.
So, what's it do? Why do I need it? Why does this need to be integrated into every app on my desktop?
You can google around for cad/cam files, and find a local machine shop in the yellow pages to mill it out for you. Maybe you can't do it yourself, but it can be easily done, and would cost you about 20 bucks.
Most "Xtreme 2 da max" waterblocks aren't 40 bucks either, they're upwards of 200 (and of course have blinking blue LEDs to make your PC go faster).
It always did, and always will.
Who wants to watch some rotten-toothed big-eared limey flying around space in one of those queer british phone booths.
Note to editors: quit making excuses. The leak was wrong, it's not their property to put on the net, you have no right to download it without consent from the BBC.
ITS JUST NOT FUCKING YOURS TO TAKE NO MATTER HOW MANY "MINT IN BOX" DR WHO ACTION FIGURES YOU'VE COLLECTED.
Aint nothing automatic about linux. It's somehow powered by the kinetic energy you expend by endlessly tweaking conf files.
I like your waffles. I buy as many as I can with counterfeit yen.
They dont want to be on tape calling someone on the DNC list, or prior to the list, someone who'd previously asked to have been removed.
That'd potentially open the parent company up to real legal problems. Physical evidence vs hearsay.
I dunno though, the robot ones didn't seem to bother leaving messages for me to call back about an urgent business opportunity or whatnot.
Now that he lost the election Kerry's blogging?
Sheesh. Oh well, someone's got to make up news for Clinton '08 (shudder).
(she's inflatable... shh, he doesnt know. he's still mourning.. hehehehe)
If they cooled the clockgen too maybe it'd supply a faster clock to the cpu.
Other than that, they didnt do anything. They know fuck all about hardware.
If you want real performance boosts, involving real technical skill, look at what comes of the Gnome bloat bounty thingy.
The vapochill is no more than a repackaged sushi bar cooler, as I've already mentioned in this discussion.
Dr Spock was a renowned child care specialist.
Mr Spock was a pointy eared know it all with copper based green blood.
Easy piezy, you can disable/fake a lot of stuff that the Windows version actually does (pretend FSAA is enabled when it isnt, etc).
It's the same kind of benchmarking bullshit as with the Quack/Quake scandal, or the nVidia 3DMark shenanigans.
It "worked", but plenty of those failed. For one, floppies had felt inside the plastic casing, that would wipe dust and dirt off of the magnetic media.
Most single-sided disks had a cheaper felt, with all the grain lined up one way, to catch the dirt. This was fine, because the disc could only be expected to spin one way. Imagine rubbing a dogs fur the wrong way, dust and stuff getting trapped in the hair as it grates your hand.
When you flip the disk over and spin it backwards, the felt worked backwards too. That is, dust and dirt that was trapped, is pushed back out onto the media of the disk.
I used to nibble floppies all the time in my C64 days, and plenty of them failed. The more expensive dual-sided floppies we used at work at the time were much more reliable.
If by "kept" you mean "raped", yes.
I get really tired of the sanctification of the founding fathers. Sure they had a few good ideas, but if you really look into the men themselves, they were as weak and corrupt as any who've followed them.
Bullshit, a corporation or business is a citizen, just like you. It's always been that way, since the day the constitution was signed.
"My name is George Costanza, and I fear no reprocussions for my actions..."
Man those sites are the bane of computer science today.
If I hear one more 13 year old talk about how the fancy new copper heatspreaders on his DDR RAM gave him 5 more FPS in Doom 3, I swear I'm going to snap his greasy little neck.
Then again, big ups to the makers of all this "extreme PC gear". For instance, this vapochil deal, bought as a sushi bar cooler (which is what it is), would cost about 75 bucks. They turn around, mod it a little bit, jam it in a 20 dollar case and sell it for hundreds.
Or taking the heater core for a car, anodizing (or just spraypainting) it black, and selling it for 100+ plus as an "Xtreme PC radiator".
Or taking a 50 dollar aquarium pump and selling it for 100+ as an "Xtreme PC cooling pump".
Or, the piece of resistance, 50 cents worth of milled copper being sold as an "Xtreme PC waterblock".
Fools and their money..
Some "tech" site, populated by 13 year old overclockers who know shit about how a computer works, and it shows (ie; they think they need to cool their CPU to sub-0 temps to make it work), reviews a product thats been around forever (and is nothing but a repurposed sushi bar cooler).
"Nothing for you to see here" indeed.
After all, scientists are never wrong about this sort of thing..
They can detect that I don't appreciate being tracked online without my consent. That's fine with me, so long as some asshole isn't aggregating a bunch of data like "Hey he's in a starbucks in Cleveland, hey he's in Boston, hey he's in Japan".
Wait until the Direct Marketing Association (aka, spamming assholes) starts portscanning class A's with this technique to gather marketting data.
No you just need an iptables rule to mangle the timestamp on outbound packets.
Everyone needs the same rule, so when this asshat starts portscanning class A's, he sees the same machine a billion times.
Randomly adjust your RTC by a few millisecs every 30 seconds or so, or have your edge router (NAT box) mangle the timestamps.
OT Note to comcast and other ISPs: I am not violating anything in your usage policy by running my own nat. I do not want third third rate router you offer for "home networking".
Go ahead and try and employ these types of douchey tricks to "catch" me doing something that's perfectly acceptable to you (using my cable connection for my personal use, and that of my immediate families). All that'll happen is Speakeasy will get a new customer.
Being a journalist is not just starting a web site and pronouncing yourself as one
Yes, it is exactly that.
Would you prefer a "journalism" license thats issued by the federal government? I'm sure the White House would. That's how it worked in Iraq under Saddam, and we all know the quality of the info spewed out by his Information Minister, and Uday-run newspapers.
When Amazon makes a fix to its software, "not a single customer had to download a bag of bits, answer any silly questions, prove that they are not software thieves, reboot their computers, etc. The software was shipped to them, and they didn't have to lift a finger. Now that's what I call shipping software," Lucovsky said
I don't get his point. Amazon is a website, Windows is an OS (SQL Server is a database, MechWarrior is a video game). How do they compare?
Does he think my OS should be a website? Because I like the old method, I don't want stuff shoved down the pipe onto my machine. I want to choose what, when, how and why to install software on the hardware that I own. Isn't that what Free Software is all about? My freedom to choose how the devices I own operate?
Google and all these "software as service" dorks can blow it out all straight their smelly asses.
You're both idiots who didn't RTFA.
It's just a baby monitor. It doesn't "raise" or "watch" your kids. It's just a webcam stuck in a teddy bear so you can check in on them while they're sleeping.
In ALMOST all cases.
That's just a smokescreen for "we won't start suing again until we run low on bucks".
If they win, what are they going to do with the cash? Use it to prop up their legal department. Then they can do what SCO dreamed of doing - send a bill to every end user of every owner of every computer. This patent goes beyond simple web browsers.
It can concievably cover anything that "seamlessly loads plugins based on input data". Photoshop loads a TIFF filter if you open a TIFF file, Winamp loads the FLAC module if you open a FLAC file, etc.
Modern IP law will make the US a third world country in the information age, if no sanity is introduced. Give it 50 years or so. Other countries don't have these shackles.