I've had 64-bit (end to end) SLES 8 for awhile now! It kicks serious ass. No 3D accel, but I'm not using it locally for much anyway. (I could fix it but I'm lazy like that, it also has crappy built-in GFX so I'm not missing much)
The reason why WinZIP doesn't improve compression ratios with each version is because the format is a fixed standard... you can't compress any better if you implement it according to spec.
Meanwhile, WinRAR can do whatever they damn well please.
The reason why WinZIP is so popular is because it integrates well into the OS, although that market is dwindling since XP has built in support for it, and InfoZIP does just a good a job on the *nix side (as do the GNOME/KDE parts that integrate it into each respective GUI). The formats are compatible... always. A specific RAR file may necessistate downloading a new version of WinRAR in some cases if certain features are enabled when it was created. This is kind of a pain.
Frankly, I'm not fond of having to download binary compression utilities and/or archives. WinRAR will always suck compared to bz2 or (in the future) 7z in that respect.
And as to the bandwidth issue? Man, I feel for you if you're still on dialup.
I'm at the point where whatever I send over the wire is either already compressed enough that an extra layer won't help (music, video, compressed images), or that gzip -1 and/or lzo is actually BETTER for throughput because otherwise the compress/decompress takes too long compared to transit time!
BZ2 for archival purposes. At least I don't have to rely on the graces of WinRAR to get my data back in the future.
I remember seeing the sign now... sigh I feel like an idiot.
And it's Sunrise Valley... NORTH of the Toll Road. I fucking live there man, don't tell me. If I get the names switched, forgive me. I never have to remember them (other than the fact I always mix them up when giving directions) I used to pass by that stupid CIA building every day to work. I also can't tell you how many times I slowed down when I saw that cop, only to realize it was "that guy" and blow by him.
On Sunset Hills by Reston Town Center, (just north of the toll road) just before you get to the new Microsoft/Siebel/Oracle buildings intersection, there is a low brown building with no signs out front.
It belongs to a certain 3-letter agency. I'll leave it up to your imagination.
There's always a cop car with purposefully confusing jurisidiction markings patrolling the street out front. You can speed right on by if you see him, because they're actually Federal Marshals, IIRC.
Also near Dulles airport: Take Rt. 28 south until you reach Willard Blvd. (by the Dulles Expo Center). On your right is a large complex also with fake green windows. It's an enormous building set way back in that property. I think it's the same agency (anyone want to correct me?)
Although I've never taken a close look at it. It's right across the street from the shopping center with the "Regal Cinemas" is... there's a Marriot and a Sweet Water Tavern/Olive Garden on the street leading up to the business park. We go there all the time.
Sigh. Now I'm going to have prowl around out front and get security all worried.::runs off::
Mod me sideways, but it's the truth. You and Rhonda should get together and figure out how to take down some other sites you don't agree with.
It takes a seriously bland personality such as yours (and Rhonda's) to not find any redeeming value in goatse. Just the sheer cultural significance of it (especially on slashdot) is enough to make it a talking point, and to attempt to remove it is to end an era....An era of personal responsibility and knowledgability about the public nature of the internet.
Why don't you do the rest of us a favor and just get off it if that's your attitude?
Everyone I know is going to want to turn that Longhorn shit back to the "Windows Standard" of Server 2003, et al.
I'll take a decently configured WindowMaker desktop over that any day. It may not have antialiased, transparent icons in the dock, BUT WHO THE FUCK CARES ABOUT THAT?
http://www.xfree86.org/current/xclipboard.1.html But there's always the xclipboard option. Basically, if you want to put your primary in the clipboard, just middle click into the running xclipboard. Then you can "paste" from Mozilla, or Gnome, or whoever.
The whole point of control characters was to do things with the terminal that didn't have anything to do with printing glyphs on the screen, like moving the cursor around, clearing lines, or on some terminals, entering escape sequeneces that ultimately allowed for cut and paste.
When GUIs came into vouge, and people weren't worried about users not having a "typical" VT100 key->action mapping, they could repurpose the Control key to do other common things in the gui. It's still serving the same function (doing non-data-entry actions inline), albeit not with terminals in mind.
In this sense, for hybrid environments like Linux, I think the idea of using the windows keys for a MacOS-like command key is a grand idea.
The only trouble is with smaller laptop keyboards. Perhaps FN can fulfill the same role.
If you middle click into the browser window (not on a link), it goes to the URL you "paste". It's quite handy. For example, someone types a link in a post but doesn't make it clickable. Just select, and middle click. Wham! This even works in Windows, believe it or not.
but no one has sat down and figured out how that's going to work.
You'd need a "media" registry like the CLSID section in Windows to get this to work properly... to answer questions like "How do I uniquely identify a data format" and "What application/KPart/ORB do I need to display it", or "Can I assert a different format that can be downconverted into something I can handle using ImageMagick"
Something like mime_magic from Apache but system-wide. And you'd have to get all the app suites to adhere to it so they can negotiate. It might have transformation rules and default openers/editors, etc.
Start with the source application (whether a terminal or open office or whatever). Select what you want to copy, then use the Copy command from the Edit menu. This _should_ put the selected text in the CLIPBOARD. i.e. it moves the PRIMARY text to the CLIPBOARD.
No matter what you select afterwards, the CLIPBOARD is never erased until you use Edit... Cut/Copy again. The PRIMARY may be erased, but not the CLIPBOARD.
Switch to the other app., select what you want to replace, and choosed Edit... Paste.
Voila!
Now if the apps don't make use of PRIMARY/CLIPBOARD correctly, well there's nothing X can do about that. X even allows content negotiation, but that's something I haven't seen done hardly at all.
You have to stop thinking about using middle click to paste. Only do that if you're editing something in place. Otherwise use the Edit... menu in your app. It's there for a reason.
using the aluminum is essentially no better than using nothing at all. The aluminum foil won't "squish" into the cracks well, unless you apply an ungodly, chip-cracking amount of pressure. You would be better off with a foil-centered thermal pad (best of both worlds, and not messy like grease)
Sonic Adventure. It wasn't a great game, but it worked. So there's no reason why we shouldn't see it in a sports sim. EA's got deep pockets... they could buy Sonic Team.
It's almost the same arch. as a Compaq iPaq or Jornada, for gods sake. It's like 1/6th clock speed though, to preserve battery. I've heard of people working on SNES emulators for the GBA.:-)
And I imagine the DS will be even more powerful: by being larger than can use a larger battery and have more room to dissapate heat, so they can have the hardware push more.
For example, Command and Conquer generals... I could see that game recreated in pseudo-3d (3d landscapes, 2d entity sprites) where the map and commands are displayed in the second screen. That would totally kick ass.
1) It does not mention ANYWHERE in the article anything about "being worried email spammers might share the same fate"
2) The article's main point is that companies who are foolish enough to do business with a company with a bad reputation (ie fax.com) have been hurt collaterally by the actions of the "vigilantes". The article makes both fax.com and the vigilate activistis who directly or indirectly hurt the 3rd parties look bad. It also serves to warns any companies to be careful how to advertise in the future; that you open yourself up to small claims suits and worse by individuals who dislike your messenger. Evaluate the messenger; for they will shoot him, then come after those who sent him! Woe betide thee, etc. etc.
GET IT? That's what the article is about you raving psychopaths.
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I've had 64-bit (end to end) SLES 8 for awhile now! It kicks serious ass. No 3D accel, but I'm not using it locally for much anyway. (I could fix it but I'm lazy like that, it also has crappy built-in GFX so I'm not missing much)
It feels more like "your own computer" then a commodity box. You know everything that went into it. You even sat through an OS install. :-)
The reason why WinZIP doesn't improve compression ratios with each version is because the format is a fixed standard... you can't compress any better if you implement it according to spec.
Meanwhile, WinRAR can do whatever they damn well please.
The reason why WinZIP is so popular is because it integrates well into the OS, although that market is dwindling since XP has built in support for it, and InfoZIP does just a good a job on the *nix side (as do the GNOME/KDE parts that integrate it into each respective GUI). The formats are compatible... always. A specific RAR file may necessistate downloading a new version of WinRAR in some cases if certain features are enabled when it was created. This is kind of a pain.
Frankly, I'm not fond of having to download binary compression utilities and/or archives. WinRAR will always suck compared to bz2 or (in the future) 7z in that respect.
And as to the bandwidth issue? Man, I feel for you if you're still on dialup.
I'm at the point where whatever I send over the wire is either already compressed enough that an extra layer won't help (music, video, compressed images), or that gzip -1 and/or lzo is actually BETTER for throughput because otherwise the compress/decompress takes too long compared to transit time!
BZ2 for archival purposes. At least I don't have to rely on the graces of WinRAR to get my data back in the future.
I actively dissuade people from using it. Winzip handles tar.bz2 just fine, so I don't feel bad for pushing that alternative.
And remember kids, you get the best results when you bzip2 -9!!!
Now it all makes sense... CHEESE GRATERS.
So that's why I'm having trouble scaling on my Quad Xeon.
::sobbing hysterically::
This article is BOOOOORRRRING. I wish Final Fantasy had anything to do with it.
I remember seeing the sign now... sigh I feel like an idiot.
And it's Sunrise Valley...
NORTH
of the Toll Road. I fucking live there man, don't tell me. If I get the names switched, forgive me. I never have to remember them (other than the fact I always mix them up when giving directions)
I used to pass by that stupid CIA building every day to work. I also can't tell you how many times I slowed down when I saw that cop, only to realize it was "that guy" and blow by him.
And you had the nerve to post AC.
What a tool.
On Sunset Hills by Reston Town Center, (just north of the toll road) just before you get to the new Microsoft/Siebel/Oracle buildings intersection, there is a low brown building with no signs out front.
It belongs to a certain 3-letter agency. I'll leave it up to your imagination.
There's always a cop car with purposefully confusing jurisidiction markings patrolling the street out front. You can speed right on by if you see him, because they're actually Federal Marshals, IIRC.
Also near Dulles airport: Take Rt. 28 south until you reach Willard Blvd. (by the Dulles Expo Center). On your right is a large complex also with fake green windows. It's an enormous building set way back in that property. I think it's the same agency (anyone want to correct me?)
They take in satellite data and make detailed maps. I remember after Sept 11 they put in all those really heavy barriers and fences.
Fire in the baltimore train tunnel that took out a major east-coast Internet trunk.
It snagged and snarled traffic for the weekend, but the routes were mostly fixed by the beginning of the next week.
Although I've never taken a close look at it. It's right across the street from the shopping center with the "Regal Cinemas" is... there's a Marriot and a Sweet Water Tavern/Olive Garden on the street leading up to the business park. We go there all the time.
::runs off::
Sigh. Now I'm going to have prowl around out front and get security all worried.
Seriously.
...An era of personal responsibility and knowledgability about the public nature of the internet.
Mod me sideways, but it's the truth. You and Rhonda should get together and figure out how to take down some other sites you don't agree with.
It takes a seriously bland personality such as yours (and Rhonda's) to not find any redeeming value in goatse. Just the sheer cultural significance of it (especially on slashdot) is enough to make it a talking point, and to attempt to remove it is to end an era.
Why don't you do the rest of us a favor and just get off it if that's your attitude?
::no text, but I'm giving you the finger, how's that for a shout-out?::
Everyone I know is going to want to turn that Longhorn shit back to the "Windows Standard" of Server 2003, et al.
I'll take a decently configured WindowMaker desktop over that any day. It may not have antialiased, transparent icons in the dock, BUT WHO THE FUCK CARES ABOUT THAT?
http://www.xfree86.org/current/xclipboard.1.html
But there's always the xclipboard option. Basically, if you want to put your primary in the clipboard, just middle click into the running xclipboard. Then you can "paste" from Mozilla, or Gnome, or whoever.
The whole point of control characters was to do things with the terminal that didn't have anything to do with printing glyphs on the screen, like moving the cursor around, clearing lines, or on some terminals, entering escape sequeneces that ultimately allowed for cut and paste.
When GUIs came into vouge, and people weren't worried about users not having a "typical" VT100 key->action mapping, they could repurpose the Control key to do other common things in the gui. It's still serving the same function (doing non-data-entry actions inline), albeit not with terminals in mind.
In this sense, for hybrid environments like Linux, I think the idea of using the windows keys for a MacOS-like command key is a grand idea.
The only trouble is with smaller laptop keyboards. Perhaps FN can fulfill the same role.
If you middle click into the browser window (not on a link), it goes to the URL you "paste". It's quite handy. For example, someone types a link in a post but doesn't make it clickable. Just select, and middle click. Wham! This even works in Windows, believe it or not.
but no one has sat down and figured out how that's going to work.
You'd need a "media" registry like the CLSID section in Windows to get this to work properly... to answer questions like "How do I uniquely identify a data format" and "What application/KPart/ORB do I need to display it", or "Can I assert a different format that can be downconverted into something I can handle using ImageMagick"
Something like mime_magic from Apache but system-wide. And you'd have to get all the app suites to adhere to it so they can negotiate. It might have transformation rules and default openers/editors, etc.
Start with the source application (whether a terminal or open office or whatever). Select what you want to copy, then use the Copy command from the Edit menu. This _should_ put the selected text in the CLIPBOARD. i.e. it moves the PRIMARY text to the CLIPBOARD.
No matter what you select afterwards, the CLIPBOARD is never erased until you use Edit... Cut/Copy again. The PRIMARY may be erased, but not the CLIPBOARD.
Switch to the other app., select what you want to replace, and choosed Edit... Paste.
Voila!
Now if the apps don't make use of PRIMARY/CLIPBOARD correctly, well there's nothing X can do about that. X even allows content negotiation, but that's something I haven't seen done hardly at all.
You have to stop thinking about using middle click to paste. Only do that if you're editing something in place. Otherwise use the Edit... menu in your app. It's there for a reason.
If anything, it's X.org looking like morons claiming they got live breathed into them by XFree.
Which is the shit and which is obsolete? I think the former holds both titles.
And the other repliers wonder why you got downmodded. Also, never quote penny arcade again. It's really fagtastic.
using the aluminum is essentially no better than using nothing at all. The aluminum foil won't "squish" into the cracks well, unless you apply an ungodly, chip-cracking amount of pressure. You would be better off with a foil-centered thermal pad (best of both worlds, and not messy like grease)
Sonic Adventure. It wasn't a great game, but it worked. So there's no reason why we shouldn't see it in a sports sim. EA's got deep pockets... they could buy Sonic Team.
It's almost the same arch. as a Compaq iPaq or Jornada, for gods sake. It's like 1/6th clock speed though, to preserve battery. I've heard of people working on SNES emulators for the GBA. :-)
And I imagine the DS will be even more powerful: by being larger than can use a larger battery and have more room to dissapate heat, so they can have the hardware push more.
For example, Command and Conquer generals... I could see that game recreated in pseudo-3d (3d landscapes, 2d entity sprites) where the map and commands are displayed in the second screen. That would totally kick ass.
1) It does not mention ANYWHERE in the article anything about "being worried email spammers might share the same fate"
2) The article's main point is that companies who are foolish enough to do business with a company with a bad reputation (ie fax.com) have been hurt collaterally by the actions of the "vigilantes".
The article makes both fax.com and the vigilate activistis who directly or indirectly hurt the 3rd parties look bad.
It also serves to warns any companies to be careful how to advertise in the future; that you open yourself up to small claims suits and worse by individuals who dislike your messenger.
Evaluate the messenger; for they will shoot him, then come after those who sent him! Woe betide thee, etc. etc.
GET IT? That's what the article is about you raving psychopaths.
I wish you people would get a clue.