Disclaimer: I am an atheist. I believe that the idea of a supernatural being is 100% pure unfiltered bullshit. I was going to steer clear of posting here, but I felt compelled to reply to this one.
do you truly believe that 7 days after the earth was formed that man lived? No. how do you explain the existence of dinosaurs for millions of years before man? The Bible, and thus the foundation of the Christian religion, is easliy proven wrong. the church has even said that each of those days was more than a day. Sounds like a cover story to make themselves not look stupid for having believed something for so long when it starts with a blatant lie
It worked for me. Drake 9.0 resized my WinXP Pro NTFS partition with no problems. I also recently (yesterday) used ntfsrezise on a Win2K Pro NTFS partition off of a LNX-BBC Live CD with no problems. As long as the drive has been defragged, I have never seen a problem with NTFS resizing.
It'll definately cost you in electricity to power the processor that would otherwise be in sleep mode. It will also increase your cooling bills. (On the plus side, during the winter, your heat bills will be less;)
How much it will affect these depends on too many variables (which processor, OCed or not, cooling method (air, water, peltier, etc.), and the cost of your energy).
Someone should do an experiment with a few different PCs in different simulated environments comparing sleep, idle, and 100% load states.
The Linux startup process works. Agreed. That doesn't mean its the best solution though.
Is there any need to muck about with it? Of course! Isn't that the point of OSS? I can't stand people who look at a new way of doing things (recent example: X replacements) and say that just because the old one works means we shouldnt look at ways to improve or replace the current system to provide a better experience.
These are along the same lines of what you are saying: The Articles of Confederation worked. Why do we need this Constitution stuff? Carburetors work fine. Who wants EFI anyways? (that was sarcasm for any humorless mods)
On Red Hat et al and Debian, there's the powerful but complicated init.d directory Exactly the point. This article is about replacing init
And hey, it's not like we have to boot all that often, is it;-) Some people, myself included, like to shut down their computers every now and then. Laptops tend to not like staying on for that long anyways.
For server admins, doesn't it make sense to spend a little time redoing your boot procedure if it will save a noticable amount of time on the rare occasion of a crash? Less downtime is a good thing last time i checked.
Obviously if your system is a stability champ, there's no reason to destroy your uptime while tweaking your boot process, but for frequently (re)booted machines (dual-boots anyone?) and any new install, this is a good thing (that is, if it actually does as claimed. I haven't seen any tests yet.).
I don't know about you, but I prefer to not be tethered by a power cable. I could save alot of cash and just buy a link cable if I was going to be tethered to one spot while gaming.
I do think that blocking headphone access is really stupid though. You'll piss off alot of people with repetitive music in public places.
Unless of course, you're talking about the way the power management in 2K and XP that let you hit the power button on an ATX case and get a proper shutdown....or suspend if you've set it up that way...
nope;)
I don't have important data on either of my boxes with journaled FSes installed, so I really don't care.
My laptop (XP Tablet) came configured to hibernate, but that seems to be not working anymore. My desktop (XP Pro + Mandrake 9) has never liked any power management features under any OS, and both of my OSes crash on shutdown with the desktop, so i just risk it with the journaling. (explorer crashes with XP, and NFS won't properly stop on Mandrake)
The Forbes article states that it will be Windows only, but according to Tapwave's site, it uses a modified Palm Desktop. All that is added are a few simple extensions (likely for getting MP3s in to it)
Why do those extensions totally break compatiblity with other OSes? Since the games are on SD cards (and likely using SD DRM), all that the desktop needs to be used for are the PIM functions, which should work fine with any palm. iSync can hotsync over bluetooth with any current palm model.
Is this just igonrance on the part or Forbes, or is there an actual reason it won't work?
Regardless, good work Tapwave! This looked like vapor a few months ago. It's great to see PalmOS gaming getting pushed like this.
Yes, a "fixed" SMTP or a new protocol will drastically reduce spam.
SMTP is a trusting protocol. It relies on the sending computer to correctly identify the sender. This is how spammers send out millions of messages with bogus From: addresses. If a new protocol was implemented that required the sender to prove their identity (or at the very least, made sure the From: domain is actually in the network being served), that would make it harder for spammers to BS their addresses, thus making it much easier to block them. Unfortunately the spammers don't seem to understand that if we have a spam filter enabled, WE DON'T WANT THEIR CRAP! All it does by slipping past our filters is piss us off.
From a user's perspective both pop and imap should behave the exact(*) same way as long as they're accessing their email from one computer.
Big difference: If the user likes to organize their mail, it will be in the same folder no matter where they access it from using IMAP.
I use Communigate Pro and I enjoy being able to get my mail in the same folder all the time, no matter if I use my laptop, my desktop, or a remote computer via the webmail server built in to Communigate. All that convienience is thanks to IMAP and server-side filters.
Let's see POP3 do that.
OTOH I would recommend leaving POP3 enabled, as many PDA mail apps don't support IMAP AFAIK.
Newb: "apt-WHAT? popcorn kernels...screw it I'm using Windows..."
Start>Windows Update Click Yes/Continue a few times Reboot
Still a hell of alot easier.
I dual boot on all of my systems, and while I love being able to completely customise my kernels, I still prefer Windows when it comes to updating every month or so (dialup means you plan your updates ahead of time)
I download a few files, run Windows Update, reboot 7 or 8 times, and be done with it.
On Linux, I download sources, tweak settings and grab dependencies until they compile, install them, change settings, and eventually make it work after much cursing.
The problem is that you need to completely stop spam to be make it not work.
Spamming is the most cost effective marketing method available. The cost of sending out millions of spams is near zero. In most cases, if one sale results from the entire spam campaign, they have either broken even or profitted.
Think about it from a spammer's perspective. You don't care about your company's reputation, you just want money. Run a harvester on a few popular websites, grab a few thousand email addresses, and send your advertisement through an open relay, and wait for a click.
Many of these spammers also are using the pay-per-impression ad banners, so they make money from anyone who even clicks, without buying anything (or anyone who even reads the message with HTML mail).
For a larger spammer, the system works even better. They could buy a list of a few million email addresses for a couple hundred bucks. ***HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION*** For this example, lets say they buy 2 million addresses. Out of those, lets say that due to spam blockers and dead addresses, only 750,000 get through. Of those,.01% of the recipients (75 people) read the mail. 25 of those view the site, and 15 actually buy the product, which could be a "Viagra Alternative" for $70 (actually costing the spammer $10), giving the spammer $60x15 = $900 profit. All that for 1 minute typing the message, a few minutes building a simple web site on a free host, and a few minutes sending the message. If the process takes him 30 minutes plus 5 minutes to pack and label for shipping the product, that is 105 minutes for $900 profit. ***END HYPOTHETICAL***
I pulled all of the above numbers randomly, so they are likely inaccurate, but you get the picture.
Spamming offers the spammer exactly what many of them advertise, "Make money fast in your spare time!!!"
The profit margins are even higher if they are not actually sending the product, and jut scamming the idiots who buy their products (as many spammers do).
P.S. while I have basically just sold some losers on the idea of spamming, I hate spam and think they need to be restricted through both legal limits similar to telemarketers, and through technological systems to prevent faked email addresses (close those relays people!).
there is NO demand for 10gb networks currently and especially NO demand for 100gb let alone a freakin terrabyte pipe.
So? With the technology available, we'll make a reason to demand it.
Although those things are "nice" and very "cool", there is not a big enough demand/NEED for this kind of transfer
Again...so? This is/. We like cool new stuff.
- YET.
You got that part right. Right now, even most backbones don't need this. They will in the near future though. More, faster broadband connections means more need for high speed backbones.
actually, your Radeon9800 will output to your HDTV card
As others have mentioned, I was referring to the YPrPb (component) output that is output either from a dongle on the AiW 9800 or adapted from the DVI port on the AiW 9700. I have no idea how (or if) it comes out of the non AiW models.
HDTV can't be sent over the PCI bus
I havent yet seen a TV tuner of any kind for PCs that doesnt allow recording. The card mentioned not only allows recording, meaning there is enough bus left over to feed the data to the hard drive, but also allows it to be forwarded to a DVHS deck through your 1394 port.
MyHD card takes input from your graphics card and then overlays the HD signal output to your monitor
It does this when not recording or forwarding data, to prevent any performance hit on the system.
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how about a traditional PDA that provides phone functionality over a headset attachment?
Palm Tungsten|W to name one...
Another reply named a similar Windows based PDA
Correction for ya:
Halo is definately NOT widescreen.
The Xbox just stretches it to fill the screen, like it does for the dashboard when not properly configured.
Disclaimer: I am an atheist. I believe that the idea of a supernatural being is 100% pure unfiltered bullshit. I was going to steer clear of posting here, but I felt compelled to reply to this one.
do you truly believe that 7 days after the earth was formed that man lived?
No.
how do you explain the existence of dinosaurs for millions of years before man?
The Bible, and thus the foundation of the Christian religion, is easliy proven wrong.
the church has even said that each of those days was more than a day.
Sounds like a cover story to make themselves not look stupid for having believed something for so long when it starts with a blatant lie
It worked for me. Drake 9.0 resized my WinXP Pro NTFS partition with no problems. I also recently (yesterday) used ntfsrezise on a Win2K Pro NTFS partition off of a LNX-BBC Live CD with no problems. As long as the drive has been defragged, I have never seen a problem with NTFS resizing.
It'll definately cost you in electricity to power the processor that would otherwise be in sleep mode. It will also increase your cooling bills. (On the plus side, during the winter, your heat bills will be less ;)
How much it will affect these depends on too many variables (which processor, OCed or not, cooling method (air, water, peltier, etc.), and the cost of your energy).
Someone should do an experiment with a few different PCs in different simulated environments comparing sleep, idle, and 100% load states.
the video card I bought to facilitate my two-monitor setup came with the software to allow this to happen.
There is also a PowerToy for XP that supports 4 desktops.
The Linux startup process works.
;-)
Agreed. That doesn't mean its the best solution though.
Is there any need to muck about with it?
Of course! Isn't that the point of OSS? I can't stand people who look at a new way of doing things (recent example: X replacements) and say that just because the old one works means we shouldnt look at ways to improve or replace the current system to provide a better experience.
These are along the same lines of what you are saying:
The Articles of Confederation worked. Why do we need this Constitution stuff?
Carburetors work fine. Who wants EFI anyways?
(that was sarcasm for any humorless mods)
On Red Hat et al and Debian, there's the powerful but complicated init.d directory
Exactly the point. This article is about replacing init
And hey, it's not like we have to boot all that often, is it
Some people, myself included, like to shut down their computers every now and then. Laptops tend to not like staying on for that long anyways.
For server admins, doesn't it make sense to spend a little time redoing your boot procedure if it will save a noticable amount of time on the rare occasion of a crash? Less downtime is a good thing last time i checked.
Obviously if your system is a stability champ, there's no reason to destroy your uptime while tweaking your boot process, but for frequently (re)booted machines (dual-boots anyone?) and any new install, this is a good thing (that is, if it actually does as claimed. I haven't seen any tests yet.).
As was already mentioned, XP Tablet is a variant of Pro.
Acer has a Centrino Travelmate available
I know. This message typed with a Travelmate C102Ti
I don't know about you, but I prefer to not be tethered by a power cable. I could save alot of cash and just buy a link cable if I was going to be tethered to one spot while gaming.
I do think that blocking headphone access is really stupid though. You'll piss off alot of people with repetitive music in public places.
See the little blue plug (the L-shaped one)?
That's SATA
They still can do this over firewire.
Unless of course, you're talking about the way the power management in 2K and XP that let you hit the power button on an ATX case and get a proper shutdown....or suspend if you've set it up that way...
;)
nope
I don't have important data on either of my boxes with journaled FSes installed, so I really don't care.
My laptop (XP Tablet) came configured to hibernate, but that seems to be not working anymore.
My desktop (XP Pro + Mandrake 9) has never liked any power management features under any OS, and both of my OSes crash on shutdown with the desktop, so i just risk it with the journaling.
(explorer crashes with XP, and NFS won't properly stop on Mandrake)
The Forbes article states that it will be Windows only, but according to Tapwave's site, it uses a modified Palm Desktop. All that is added are a few simple extensions (likely for getting MP3s in to it)
Why do those extensions totally break compatiblity with other OSes? Since the games are on SD cards (and likely using SD DRM), all that the desktop needs to be used for are the PIM functions, which should work fine with any palm. iSync can hotsync over bluetooth with any current palm model.
Is this just igonrance on the part or Forbes, or is there an actual reason it won't work?
Regardless, good work Tapwave! This looked like vapor a few months ago. It's great to see PalmOS gaming getting pushed like this.
IIRC, NTFS has journaling.
I never do the Start>Shutdown on 2K and XP boxes.
I'm not sure about NT4's NTFS
Please explain how a spammer makes money by pissing us off.
Their spam passing by my filter does not gain them a single cent.
Almost anyone who can properly set up a spam filter will delete any spam that slips thru on sight.
Getting by filters does not help anyone. It's the morons who actually buy the junk they sell who keep spammers around.
Yes, a "fixed" SMTP or a new protocol will drastically reduce spam.
SMTP is a trusting protocol. It relies on the sending computer to correctly identify the sender.
This is how spammers send out millions of messages with bogus From: addresses. If a new protocol was implemented that required the sender to prove their identity (or at the very least, made sure the From: domain is actually in the network being served), that would make it harder for spammers to BS their addresses, thus making it much easier to block them.
Unfortunately the spammers don't seem to understand that if we have a spam filter enabled, WE DON'T WANT THEIR CRAP! All it does by slipping past our filters is piss us off.
From a user's perspective both pop and imap should behave the exact(*) same way as long as they're accessing their email from one computer.
Big difference: If the user likes to organize their mail, it will be in the same folder no matter where they access it from using IMAP.
I use Communigate Pro and I enjoy being able to get my mail in the same folder all the time, no matter if I use my laptop, my desktop, or a remote computer via the webmail server built in to Communigate. All that convienience is thanks to IMAP and server-side filters.
Let's see POP3 do that.
OTOH I would recommend leaving POP3 enabled, as many PDA mail apps don't support IMAP AFAIK.
Now Phoenix is falling in to the DRM trap?!?
When will the hurting stop?
CWRU uas a medium size campus, but it is in the middle of Cleveland, so there are lots of buildings.
Buildings = reflected signals = interference
anyways, 100 meters without hopped up antennas + amps (read: FCC violation) is a pipe dream. 100 feet with a reliable signal is rare.
apt-get install kernel-2.6.0
Newb: "apt-WHAT? popcorn kernels...screw it I'm using Windows..."
Start>Windows Update
Click Yes/Continue a few times
Reboot
Still a hell of alot easier.
I dual boot on all of my systems, and while I love being able to completely customise my kernels, I still prefer Windows when it comes to updating every month or so (dialup means you plan your updates ahead of time)
I download a few files, run Windows Update, reboot 7 or 8 times, and be done with it.
On Linux, I download sources, tweak settings and grab dependencies until they compile, install them, change settings, and eventually make it work after much cursing.
The problem is that you need to completely stop spam to be make it not work.
.01% of the recipients (75 people) read the mail. 25 of those view the site, and 15 actually buy the product, which could be a "Viagra Alternative" for $70 (actually costing the spammer $10), giving the spammer $60x15 = $900 profit.
Spamming is the most cost effective marketing method available. The cost of sending out millions of spams is near zero. In most cases, if one sale results from the entire spam campaign, they have either broken even or profitted.
Think about it from a spammer's perspective. You don't care about your company's reputation, you just want money. Run a harvester on a few popular websites, grab a few thousand email addresses, and send your advertisement through an open relay, and wait for a click.
Many of these spammers also are using the pay-per-impression ad banners, so they make money from anyone who even clicks, without buying anything (or anyone who even reads the message with HTML mail).
For a larger spammer, the system works even better. They could buy a list of a few million email addresses for a couple hundred bucks.
***HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION***
For this example, lets say they buy 2 million addresses. Out of those, lets say that due to spam blockers and dead addresses, only 750,000 get through. Of those,
All that for 1 minute typing the message, a few minutes building a simple web site on a free host, and a few minutes sending the message.
If the process takes him 30 minutes plus 5 minutes to pack and label for shipping the product, that is 105 minutes for $900 profit.
***END HYPOTHETICAL***
I pulled all of the above numbers randomly, so they are likely inaccurate, but you get the picture.
Spamming offers the spammer exactly what many of them advertise, "Make money fast in your spare time!!!"
The profit margins are even higher if they are not actually sending the product, and jut scamming the idiots who buy their products (as many spammers do).
P.S. while I have basically just sold some losers on the idea of spamming, I hate spam and think they need to be restricted through both legal limits similar to telemarketers, and through technological systems to prevent faked email addresses (close those relays people!).
there is NO demand for 10gb networks currently and especially NO demand for 100gb let alone a freakin terrabyte pipe.
/. We like cool new stuff.
So? With the technology available, we'll make a reason to demand it.
Although those things are "nice" and very "cool", there is not a big enough demand/NEED for this kind of transfer
Again...so? This is
- YET.
You got that part right. Right now, even most backbones don't need this. They will in the near future though. More, faster broadband connections means more need for high speed backbones.
Imagine how much pr0n....er....um...I mean valuable business data you could get with this!
actually, your Radeon9800 will output to your HDTV card
As others have mentioned, I was referring to the YPrPb (component) output that is output either from a dongle on the AiW 9800 or adapted from the DVI port on the AiW 9700. I have no idea how (or if) it comes out of the non AiW models.
HDTV can't be sent over the PCI bus
I havent yet seen a TV tuner of any kind for PCs that doesnt allow recording. The card mentioned not only allows recording, meaning there is enough bus left over to feed the data to the hard drive, but also allows it to be forwarded to a DVHS deck through your 1394 port.
MyHD card takes input from your graphics card and then overlays the HD signal output to your monitor
It does this when not recording or forwarding data, to prevent any performance hit on the system.
Now if we get support for the HDTV outputs on the Radeon 9800, I will have the perfect DVR to go with my 61" HDTV!
/.ing...
Site's already slow....
Probably won't survive the