Plus you have The Mirror trying to shepherd the people, but be on the other side of the fence. That's what make me sick about my home country, but being in the USA isn't saying much... it's just like most of the major the news channels model themselves on the worst and most insidious UK rag; The Daily Mail (i.e. Do gooders, point the blame on someone else, etc).
Plus, on one side our PM is Bush's lapdog, and on the other he is being the high school tease with the rest of Europe... and the politicians wonder why there is so much voter apathy!
...Pringles have announced record sales, especially among the computing demographic. This announcement also ties in with their plans to introduce MEGA-size Pringles... just for those who can't stop when they pop (or they need extra signal catchment from the bigger tube).
Remember the old MS-DOS days and M$'s illegal bundling of Stac software (DriveSpace, DoubleSpace, whatever)... and in return for Stac's suit, they either bought them out or changed the software enough not to infringe further on the Stac IP (AFAIK, it was a long time ago, hence the details being rather sketchy).
Although I can't be bothered to search for the link (it was on Anandtech or Toms Hardware), but apparently the ATI cards incorporate the DirectX version in their names.. hence the 9xxx cards were designed with DirectX 9.x in mind (hardware manufacturers have had the spec for months), and the Radeon 8xxx series was designed with DirectX 8.x... etc.
nVidia on the other hand started messing things up with the MX's, Ti's and Pure versions (let alone the FX, what next? FX2 or FX Part Deux?)... let alone any correlation to new or existing graphics technologies... i.e. they're just there to confuse Joe Public into thinking a GeForce 4 MX is better than a GeForce 3 etc.
I can vouch for that... I went to a Garbage concert and regretted not moshing like I usually would, so being further back I was in a direct line of the speakers.. I got my hearing back about two days later (and the ear wax production went to normal). Although I'm looking forward to hooking up my brothers DJ mobile speakers, all high quality BOSE with an output for about 3000 people.. but this old house might not have enough juice.
All we need is the legendary brown noise... and it won't be our hearing we'll be worrying about!
Knowing them... they might try giving money to help the military research sonic based weapons and get something to fight those pesky pirates!
Then again I suppose it will also depend on the quality of the speakers, and what frequency range they can properly output (as well as the soundcard and encoded track).
How about The Sims, and it's almost "Magic The Gathering" likeness regarding expansion packs?... EA (and Maxis, but isn't Maxis a wholly owned subsidiary?) have certainly made a lot of money by recycling that piece of crap over and over and over again (talk about a cash cow)...
...and yes, that might be considered flamebait to those who like The Sims series, but come on... when I played it, it took like 15 minutes just for a man to go for a piss! (unless it included time spent doing other things in the bathroom?) among other woeful "gameplay" issues.
I know I shouldn't be boxing EA because of my gripes against that game, they do come out with a lot of good stuff (i.e. Medal of Honor). Anyway, rant over!
...and forward this message and Slashdot page to ten of your e-mail contacts, you shall be granted eternal life!
Also, you shall be given a free Penis Enlargement, millions of dollars from your Nigerian friends and find out how to lose 50 pounds of weight in less than 5 seconds.
Sounds similar... I remember back in my first year of my Soft Eng degree, some of my friends were in a lab session punching in random band names... although one hit a problem when he tried www.queen.com while the lecturer was walking over to have a look. Let's just say it had nothing to do with Freddie Mercury and Co!
Now to go ontopic for all those mods! I remember the only thing useful about HotBot was the warez related searches, since I always used Yahoo! (but it's results were "cleaner" so to speak)... that is until AstaLaVista and Google came along.
Although I use the free ZoneAlarm.. I'm also pretty restrictive about what programs I allow access, i.e. why oh bloody why does WMP require internet access when playing a media file when all the required codecs are installed (pile of crap it is).
But, the cynic in me keeps shouting out this idea... what is to stop the disc (well apart from disabling autoplay, unless MS has some other "backdoor" auto execution of something on new media) from opening up a browser window with a heavily customised piece of url every now and then? The default access permissions will allow any web browser to do it's stuff?
Yep, it might reduce the price to nothing... for example would playing "Die Another Day" incite hardware failure? Either by the iPod developing a taste for music (in which case it self destructs) or the listener throws the iPod into a wall? (when users friend has got a waaaay cooler "Q" department issue iPod/iBond with a laser light show or something).
So in the end it is rather worthless, being in little pieces and all, unless Apple develops a special Terminator edition called the iT2000 (for when the film comes out) that can morph back together?
Agreed, I've been looking into the same thing... having 230GB of data (with capacity soon to be expanded to 460GB) and no backups per se... just because the idea sends a shiver down my spine.
I'm also reluctant to get extra IDE drives to use as backup media, even if they're only use when transferring... all it takes is a magnet happy nephew/niece or an accidental drop... and the provebial shit hits the fan.
But looking on NewEgg.. you can pick up DVD recorders for under $400 (my friend recommended sticking with DVD+RW).. and you can buy a 50 pack of 4.7GB DVD-RW disks for $65 (there we're DVD+RW disks but I can't find them now). With storage capacity making CD-R disks look paltry, DVD recordable seems the way to go for our needs at least.
And for keeping tabs on what is on which disk... I've been using a freeware program called "Cathy" (I don't have any links) for all my CDR archives... and this program ROCKS! (It just rips the file data in about a second, rather than other programs that take 5 minutes to traverse and log the files) Although I don't know whether it'll do DVD's, I haven't tried.
Same here, I built a fileserver in my brothers house for all his DJ'ing media. Since I didn't have a RAID controller, i used the software RAID 0 formatting when installing Red Hat 7.3 (2x120GB IBM Deskstar drives).
This was built at the end of June this year. The system has had plenty of usage over the last couple of months and has been fine (especially with extended power cuts that went beyond the ability of the UPS). Due to dwindling space I want to slap a RAID controller in there and put 2 extra drives on (the same model of drive). For the controller I've got the 4 channel Promise Rocket on my NewEgg wishlist ($100 isn't bad at all).
I'm not looking forward to how I'm going to juggle backing up 230GB of media... I suppose I'll format the new drives, copy the data over, take out the software RAID'ed drives and slap them into the controller (format and prep), and copy the data to the new RAID and add the new drives (i.e. just to make sure I don't have any major screw ups!). If anyone has any tips on this I would be grateful! I'm sure my brother will be more inclined for me to get a DVD+RW drive and plenty of disks... CD's don't seem to cut it anymore when dealing with 250GB+ of data (hey ho *sigh).
Oh and machine I'm using the file server on is one of those Walmart deals (it was the Duron 1Ghz $399 one), and has performed brilliantly (touch wood!)... although the first thing to die on me was the Intel EtherExpress Pro NIC I put into it.
How ironic that British scientists are trying to develop ways to make even more rain than the country is blessed with getting (I suppose it gives us more reason to complain about the weather - although as a Brit in CT, I'm finding it bloody cold here).
I remember hearing years ago about how to stop clouds from raining over certain areas, by planes dropping concrete powder into the rain cloud that might disturb an outdoor event (or something that would be spoilt by rain). Although I can't vouch for the truth of this tale, but the first thing that sprang to mind when hearing this was of concrete clouds falling from the sky.
But then again, we all know clouds are held up in the sky by string.... all we need is more string and wind machines;-)
...no seriously, then they might actually follow the standards that are out there (i.e. their supposed use of 'proper' XML in Longhorn).
Actually, maybe not. If they do have an O'Reilly Zoo, maybe the animals/books have been re-engineered into abominations... and then they follow what has been rewritten to produce anything.
Well I suppose Long"Horn" could be an animal derivative; the bit that MS chops off and gives to the customers.
Now if there was ever an advert for Shuttle XPC systems, the image does that just nicely.
If I only had 1 Shuttle XPC, that would be great. I suppose Shuttle ought to add this site to their news section. Hopefully their web server runs off these systems and a fat internet pipe... just to test the/. load.
He had a slight accident when someone referred Windows to MS-DOS for it's needs, and made it so that Windows could no longer be seen working with the good DR (followed up by the malpractice suit, and MS-DOS cheating on and paying off of Stac).
...but when 'they' (the populace who ridicule or look down on us) want us to do something for them, we're called 'friends'. That is until we've fixed it and gone home.
Slashdot Mirror
Plus you have The Mirror trying to shepherd the people, but be on the other side of the fence. That's what make me sick about my home country, but being in the USA isn't saying much... it's just like most of the major the news channels model themselves on the worst and most insidious UK rag; The Daily Mail (i.e. Do gooders, point the blame on someone else, etc).
Plus, on one side our PM is Bush's lapdog, and on the other he is being the high school tease with the rest of Europe... and the politicians wonder why there is so much voter apathy!
...Pringles have announced record sales, especially among the computing demographic. This announcement also ties in with their plans to introduce MEGA-size Pringles... just for those who can't stop when they pop (or they need extra signal catchment from the bigger tube).
[End Joke]
Remember the old MS-DOS days and M$'s illegal bundling of Stac software (DriveSpace, DoubleSpace, whatever)... and in return for Stac's suit, they either bought them out or changed the software enough not to infringe further on the Stac IP (AFAIK, it was a long time ago, hence the details being rather sketchy).
Although I can't be bothered to search for the link (it was on Anandtech or Toms Hardware), but apparently the ATI cards incorporate the DirectX version in their names.. hence the 9xxx cards were designed with DirectX 9.x in mind (hardware manufacturers have had the spec for months), and the Radeon 8xxx series was designed with DirectX 8.x... etc.
nVidia on the other hand started messing things up with the MX's, Ti's and Pure versions (let alone the FX, what next? FX2 or FX Part Deux?)... let alone any correlation to new or existing graphics technologies... i.e. they're just there to confuse Joe Public into thinking a GeForce 4 MX is better than a GeForce 3 etc.
Well with all those pictures us geeks are sterotyped as always looking at, we're heading for blindness anyway (along with hairy palms) ;-)
I can vouch for that... I went to a Garbage concert and regretted not moshing like I usually would, so being further back I was in a direct line of the speakers.. I got my hearing back about two days later (and the ear wax production went to normal). Although I'm looking forward to hooking up my brothers DJ mobile speakers, all high quality BOSE with an output for about 3000 people.. but this old house might not have enough juice.
All we need is the legendary brown noise... and it won't be our hearing we'll be worrying about!
Knowing them... they might try giving money to help the military research sonic based weapons and get something to fight those pesky pirates!
Then again I suppose it will also depend on the quality of the speakers, and what frequency range they can properly output (as well as the soundcard and encoded track).
How about The Sims, and it's almost "Magic The Gathering" likeness regarding expansion packs?... EA (and Maxis, but isn't Maxis a wholly owned subsidiary?) have certainly made a lot of money by recycling that piece of crap over and over and over again (talk about a cash cow)...
...and yes, that might be considered flamebait to those who like The Sims series, but come on... when I played it, it took like 15 minutes just for a man to go for a piss! (unless it included time spent doing other things in the bathroom?) among other woeful "gameplay" issues.I know I shouldn't be boxing EA because of my gripes against that game, they do come out with a lot of good stuff (i.e. Medal of Honor). Anyway, rant over!
...and forward this message and Slashdot page to ten of your e-mail contacts, you shall be granted eternal life!
Also, you shall be given a free Penis Enlargement, millions of dollars from your Nigerian friends and find out how to lose 50 pounds of weight in less than 5 seconds.
Yes, it is true!!!
Sounds similar... I remember back in my first year of my Soft Eng degree, some of my friends were in a lab session punching in random band names... although one hit a problem when he tried www.queen.com while the lecturer was walking over to have a look. Let's just say it had nothing to do with Freddie Mercury and Co!
Now to go ontopic for all those mods! I remember the only thing useful about HotBot was the warez related searches, since I always used Yahoo! (but it's results were "cleaner" so to speak)... that is until AstaLaVista and Google came along.
Although I use the free ZoneAlarm.. I'm also pretty restrictive about what programs I allow access, i.e. why oh bloody why does WMP require internet access when playing a media file when all the required codecs are installed (pile of crap it is).
But, the cynic in me keeps shouting out this idea... what is to stop the disc (well apart from disabling autoplay, unless MS has some other "backdoor" auto execution of something on new media) from opening up a browser window with a heavily customised piece of url every now and then? The default access permissions will allow any web browser to do it's stuff?
Just food for thought.
Yep, it might reduce the price to nothing... for example would playing "Die Another Day" incite hardware failure? Either by the iPod developing a taste for music (in which case it self destructs) or the listener throws the iPod into a wall? (when users friend has got a waaaay cooler "Q" department issue iPod/iBond with a laser light show or something).
So in the end it is rather worthless, being in little pieces and all, unless Apple develops a special Terminator edition called the iT2000 (for when the film comes out) that can morph back together?
Agreed, I've been looking into the same thing... having 230GB of data (with capacity soon to be expanded to 460GB) and no backups per se... just because the idea sends a shiver down my spine.
I'm also reluctant to get extra IDE drives to use as backup media, even if they're only use when transferring... all it takes is a magnet happy nephew/niece or an accidental drop... and the provebial shit hits the fan.
But looking on NewEgg.. you can pick up DVD recorders for under $400 (my friend recommended sticking with DVD+RW).. and you can buy a 50 pack of 4.7GB DVD-RW disks for $65 (there we're DVD+RW disks but I can't find them now). With storage capacity making CD-R disks look paltry, DVD recordable seems the way to go for our needs at least.
And for keeping tabs on what is on which disk... I've been using a freeware program called "Cathy" (I don't have any links) for all my CDR archives... and this program ROCKS! (It just rips the file data in about a second, rather than other programs that take 5 minutes to traverse and log the files) Although I don't know whether it'll do DVD's, I haven't tried.
Spike: And I should do what with my spare time? Sit at home knitting cunning sweater sets? Ep: Out of My Mind
Just in case people think I have way too much time on my hands, I did a Google search and this was at the top of the list.
I must say the spiral curve the guy did looks a bit hallucinogenic... maybe he was on something?
Same here, I built a fileserver in my brothers house for all his DJ'ing media. Since I didn't have a RAID controller, i used the software RAID 0 formatting when installing Red Hat 7.3 (2x120GB IBM Deskstar drives).
This was built at the end of June this year. The system has had plenty of usage over the last couple of months and has been fine (especially with extended power cuts that went beyond the ability of the UPS). Due to dwindling space I want to slap a RAID controller in there and put 2 extra drives on (the same model of drive). For the controller I've got the 4 channel Promise Rocket on my NewEgg wishlist ($100 isn't bad at all).
I'm not looking forward to how I'm going to juggle backing up 230GB of media... I suppose I'll format the new drives, copy the data over, take out the software RAID'ed drives and slap them into the controller (format and prep), and copy the data to the new RAID and add the new drives (i.e. just to make sure I don't have any major screw ups!). If anyone has any tips on this I would be grateful! I'm sure my brother will be more inclined for me to get a DVD+RW drive and plenty of disks... CD's don't seem to cut it anymore when dealing with 250GB+ of data (hey ho *sigh).
Oh and machine I'm using the file server on is one of those Walmart deals (it was the Duron 1Ghz $399 one), and has performed brilliantly (touch wood!)... although the first thing to die on me was the Intel EtherExpress Pro NIC I put into it.
How ironic that British scientists are trying to develop ways to make even more rain than the country is blessed with getting (I suppose it gives us more reason to complain about the weather - although as a Brit in CT, I'm finding it bloody cold here).
I remember hearing years ago about how to stop clouds from raining over certain areas, by planes dropping concrete powder into the rain cloud that might disturb an outdoor event (or something that would be spoilt by rain). Although I can't vouch for the truth of this tale, but the first thing that sprang to mind when hearing this was of concrete clouds falling from the sky.
But then again, we all know clouds are held up in the sky by string.... all we need is more string and wind machines ;-)
Talk about putting all your Kitties in one basket!
(running Windows) for its brains and a Web camera for its eye
Stupidity and Voyeurism rolled into one!
Or that lawnmower game (or more like screensaver) that came out for the Spectrum years ago...
...no seriously, then they might actually follow the standards that are out there (i.e. their supposed use of 'proper' XML in Longhorn).
Actually, maybe not. If they do have an O'Reilly Zoo, maybe the animals/books have been re-engineered into abominations... and then they follow what has been rewritten to produce anything.
Well I suppose Long"Horn" could be an animal derivative; the bit that MS chops off and gives to the customers.
Now if there was ever an advert for Shuttle XPC systems, the image does that just nicely.
If I only had 1 Shuttle XPC, that would be great. I suppose Shuttle ought to add this site to their news section. Hopefully their web server runs off these systems and a fat internet pipe... just to test the /. load.
Doh! Think before you post! "In The Navy" by The Village People, not YMCA... must be my day for stoopidity.
Maybe they we're bugged 'cos of all the illegal copies of "In The Navy" by YMCA ;)
What about poor old DR-DOS?
He had a slight accident when someone referred Windows to MS-DOS for it's needs, and made it so that Windows could no longer be seen working with the good DR (followed up by the malpractice suit, and MS-DOS cheating on and paying off of Stac).
We're called Geeks and Nerds in general...
...but when 'they' (the populace who ridicule or look down on us) want us to do something for them, we're called 'friends'. That is until we've fixed it and gone home.
Cynicism, don't you just love it, eh?