I tried to avoid hatred when writing, but that you've felt some when reading it is telling. it just means that people, sometimes myself, can't stomach the truth. what can we do exactly if we can't clean up our western governments and if there are no consequence for committing the supreme crime?
That particular international institution lost all credibility when a psychopath with the blood of one million people on his hands was appointed at its head. I was infuriated but well, it did let us know there was something wrong with it.
This is only one more reason for citizens in concerned countries to mobilize, organize and bring back democracy to themselves. We must fight back against the international financial dictatorship in order to keep a livable world for ourselves, and we must denounce western war criminals for what they are : put them out of power, put them behind bars. Our dignity and our democracy depends on this.
When in first year at the university we were introduced to functional programming as the first paradigm to learn. we would make fun at it and hate it, you'd thought they would start with something simple and low level like C (which by the way is assembly++, like BASIC).
But Caml, an ML variant, had its charms. strong typing, as in perfectly strong typing. type inference as in, it looks at the code and perfectly infers what the input and output types are. it was so picky that you add "+" for addition between ints and "+." for addition bewteen floats. so you would try and input your damn recursive fonction, hit keypad-enter and the damn interpreter would inform you of type mismatch, or accept your function which would mean it should mostly work, and prints out the types (such as int -> int or list of int -> list of ints) . running on windows NT4 on 32MB ram computers at the time, which was impressive - a real OS in not much ram.
That ultra-strict strong typing bitch was awesome too, if your function could deal with any kind of element or list then you would get a truly polymorphic function without any special syntax.
apple bashing is fine. this is a website with a freaking Borg icon for bill gates and a slant against other entities perceived to be against freedom (SCO, oracle etc.). crappy groupthink maybe but we're all intelligent and know to exercise critical judgement, and comments often show respect towards our "enemies". it's on slashdot that I learnt how much technically advanced and well integrated microsoft solutions are, or how apple succeeds by mostly giving their customers what they fucking want.
I didn't thought the headline was negative really. but that's because I didn't know what a "thud" was. so I'm pissed at the editor for using a very rare anglo-saxon word I've never seen anywhere:D.
looks like the Apple TV 2 was 720p so that the next one would bring 1080p as an incentive for adopters to upgrade or buy a second one.
really? who would believe being limited to 720p was a real technical limitation? I guess you would have no trouble getting 1080p output from a graphics card made in 1999. that said it's a cheap and tiny computer with an ethernet port. it's tempting to get, but does it support the standards (DLNA, samba shares etc.) or is it locked into iTunes, I don't know.
thanks a lot!, it's hard to get accounts on this setup, besides a few youtube videos.
Yes I was planning an ATI card for windows (first a cheap one then maybe a radeon 7770), and my 8400GS for linux. dedicate a USB controller, easy enough (I can even use an old USB 1 card). yes, passing through random devices looks fun. you can use a both on-board and discrete sound cards, etc. I will have to get a damn USB to PS/2 adapter (one that works) and the USB KVM is another expense but it's not too bad.
Do you run the dom0 as the full linux desktop? it's the main interrogation I have right now. I guess that idea would horrify any sysadmin, but I guess that it's also possible, is begnin for a desktop, and would make the setup more simple. else I'd have to make another VGA passthrough to a linux domU and things might get hairy (nvidia issues + second VGA passthru?). or maybe use a 2D only linux which isn't that great either
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you get working 3D acceleration. never got that to run under Virtualbox even though you only have to check a box, and somehow other people have it working. your I/O is not slow and CPU hungry it seems. but compatibility is still hit or miss - I'm talking about games mainly. my wine 1.3.28 just crapped at running return to castle wolfenstein and even with warcraft III I have stuttering sound. but I should update my 1.3 via ppa.
my great plan is to switch to IOMMU virtualisation, running presumably Xen. a physical graphics card will be passed-thru to a windows gaming-only VM. but I need new hardware (an asrock mobo with 970 chipset, I will go from 2GB ddr2 to 8GB ddr3). I also fear that it may be a pain in the ass and ill supported, and needing a VGA switch or a KVM.
Iran needs everything it can to defends itself. note that the puppet EU organization has collaborated with the pro-war activists (i.e. criminals responsible for Iraq) again in this issue. the oil and central banking sanctions are a disgrace. we shouldn't be attacking a country like that. fuck that EU which is turning its constituent countries into financial dictatorships. fuck NATO, the umbrella puppet of the US military forces.
I could write something better, but I'm tired and this is slashdot.
more like half people, or half of half people are talked into getting a smartphone, because it's "cheap" as it's almost offered when renewing the subscription, or maybe because smartphones crash in price and soon are to the $100 mark, or because they believe their blackberry look-a-like with a music player and web browser is a smartphone. endless reasons. study doesn't say how many people own a smartphone for text and voice only, and never hook it up to a PC, never plug the proprietary ear buds in, and never use the internet function except for checking a train schedule or something every two weeks.
this is what I haven't understood yet in all of this discussion. half the posts are about bringing a redundant inferior computer with its AC adaptor and whatever.
why shouldn't you visit porn sites on the company laptop? a locked down computer *should* allow you to visit any website. it's not like security depends on it, or are we again in the IE5 and XP SP0 era? porn is NOT illegal except for some copyright infringements concerns you have no control over. likewise, are your downloads filtered by content type so you can only download.doc and.pdf from your corporate mail? I don't think so. this is USER data, an honest admin has no reason to spy on your home directory and report you for storing media files.
use the web : you could have a media server at home with a web front end that lets you access or stream the content. or have a remote desktop running at home or even in a datacenter, accessed through a web based client. you could play flash games and that may be better than crappy cell phone games. read e-books in your web browser. don't ever try to run any user installable crap like google chrome or portable.exe for firefox and other software, this is breaking the limits of course.
because that's what the IT department installed on servers?
but it's great anyway. local access to company and user data, beats syncing heavy files over the same network, even IT can like it better. regarding X though, it's awesome for beaming text editors and such but with its chatty protocol, RDP and similar can beat it on other things.
I have 2GB ram and firefox makes me swap, and I don't do gaming anymore which could eat over 1GB more. RAM is an issue. I have no free memory slots (two were burnt). had to switch from gnome 3 to lxde (not that it's a bad thing!)
haha I liked it back then, great UI, can turn into the file manager and vice versa, efficient for its time. I used windows media player 6.0, too. was holding onto windows 98SE as XP was a piece of crap that couldn't even play doom 2 correctly. security issues and lack of tabs forced me to firefox 0.5 though.
hey, I installed 2.x on a computer semi-recently, because it was loaded with windows ME. similar hardware to yours. it was fine and even the OS was clean and responsive and not crashing at all. I say run win 9x and firefox 2 if you want a retro-gaming machine. (full speed native DOS games with sound, yay!)
but the beauty of linux is you can run totally up to date OS and software on old crap. well XP works but is a pain, has to be fully updated else you get pwned in a few minutes. here's an excellent OS, it's made of ubuntu 11.10 and firefox 10, but without all the suckage : http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1930 . it should run like a charm on your piece of crap. i.e. you click on the start menu and it actually comes up instantly..
my favorite feature on newer firefox versions is you can select a plain text link, i.e. a link that is not quite a link, right-click and open in current tab, new tab or new window. I used to install an extension for that. it's maybe the only useful new feature but quite a time saver.
I bought a samsung lowest end phone, an E1050 for only 15 euros. pretty unbelievable!, new and unlocked. it has a small color screen and only does voice + SMS. but what little "PDA" features there are are well done. the calendar is extremely accessible and lets you write plain text for a particular day. so I can put appointments and stuff there.
I'm french so disregard my plan options.. but we had an oligopoly, till a fourth operator, "Free", lauched service about a month ago. it has two offers. the lower end is 2€ per month for one hour voice!, whatever SMS amount. if you get overcharged it's only 3€ for one more hour! and negligible cost for SMS. as I'm customer for their DSL (not particularly cheap but full of features I don't use) I will pay 0€ per month instead of 2€. I'm in the process of cancelling the former plan which was 10x as expensive and moving to the new one.
except you need to enter a special URL or something. unless this changed a few days or weeks ago, my secondary flash-less computer wouldn't play anything in youtube, so I gave it the same treatment as other computers get, which is flash plugin and flashblock extension. this has the added benefit of blocking the videos so I can load it and let it consume scarce CPU resources when I want, not automatically.
here I happen to agree with RMS just because it describes it unambiguously and is shorter than saying "NonAndroidNonCrazyEmbeddedNonObscurePetProjectLinuxDistribution".
I will still run evil software as I don't want to run crappy graphics drivers that turn my hardware into a pile of shit, and lose streamed video and occasional audio, dialing the web back to 1994.
until your XP gets a nasty ZBOT infection. last time I installed XP I even got the classical worm infection before all updates are applied. now I only install linux distros, which need a lightweight desktop to run as well as XP, but windows 7 is an option if you have crap hardware with 1GB ram.
LXDE is fine as a windows 95 clone, it's what I use on a recent piece of junk - VIA C7 1.8GHz. along with firefox 8 which has fast javascript and patched memory leaks. LXDE may feel boring, too conventional and gtk based, but that's you use nowadays if like me you weren't on linux in the good/bad old days, or if you're lazy.
I remember using afterstep on damn small linux and found the little squares confusing, esp. when launching an app resulted in twice the little squares, one of which seemingly functioned as a task bar button. maybe the point it for it to look cool. well, I liked it better than OSX.
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"liberty" and "libertarian" are separate concepts.
I tried to avoid hatred when writing, but that you've felt some when reading it is telling. it just means that people, sometimes myself, can't stomach the truth. what can we do exactly if we can't clean up our western governments and if there are no consequence for committing the supreme crime?
That particular international institution lost all credibility when a psychopath with the blood of one million people on his hands was appointed at its head. I was infuriated but well, it did let us know there was something wrong with it.
This is only one more reason for citizens in concerned countries to mobilize, organize and bring back democracy to themselves. We must fight back against the international financial dictatorship in order to keep a livable world for ourselves, and we must denounce western war criminals for what they are : put them out of power, put them behind bars. Our dignity and our democracy depends on this.
agreed, launch a nice nuke on Tel Aviv. problem solved.
When in first year at the university we were introduced to functional programming as the first paradigm to learn. we would make fun at it and hate it, you'd thought they would start with something simple and low level like C (which by the way is assembly++, like BASIC).
But Caml, an ML variant, had its charms. strong typing, as in perfectly strong typing. type inference as in, it looks at the code and perfectly infers what the input and output types are. it was so picky that you add "+" for addition between ints and "+." for addition bewteen floats. so you would try and input your damn recursive fonction, hit keypad-enter and the damn interpreter would inform you of type mismatch, or accept your function which would mean it should mostly work, and prints out the types (such as int -> int or list of int -> list of ints) . running on windows NT4 on 32MB ram computers at the time, which was impressive - a real OS in not much ram.
That ultra-strict strong typing bitch was awesome too, if your function could deal with any kind of element or list then you would get a truly polymorphic function without any special syntax.
how funny, in my language the "app" word doesn't seem to exist, we say "application iphone" rather than "iphone app".
apple bashing is fine. this is a website with a freaking Borg icon for bill gates and a slant against other entities perceived to be against freedom (SCO, oracle etc.). crappy groupthink maybe but we're all intelligent and know to exercise critical judgement, and comments often show respect towards our "enemies". it's on slashdot that I learnt how much technically advanced and well integrated microsoft solutions are, or how apple succeeds by mostly giving their customers what they fucking want.
I didn't thought the headline was negative really. but that's because I didn't know what a "thud" was. so I'm pissed at the editor for using a very rare anglo-saxon word I've never seen anywhere :D.
looks like the Apple TV 2 was 720p so that the next one would bring 1080p as an incentive for adopters to upgrade or buy a second one.
really? who would believe being limited to 720p was a real technical limitation? I guess you would have no trouble getting 1080p output from a graphics card made in 1999. that said it's a cheap and tiny computer with an ethernet port. it's tempting to get, but does it support the standards (DLNA, samba shares etc.) or is it locked into iTunes, I don't know.
thanks a lot!, it's hard to get accounts on this setup, besides a few youtube videos.
Yes I was planning an ATI card for windows (first a cheap one then maybe a radeon 7770), and my 8400GS for linux. dedicate a USB controller, easy enough (I can even use an old USB 1 card). yes, passing through random devices looks fun. you can use a both on-board and discrete sound cards, etc. I will have to get a damn USB to PS/2 adapter (one that works) and the USB KVM is another expense but it's not too bad.
Do you run the dom0 as the full linux desktop? it's the main interrogation I have right now. I guess that idea would horrify any sysadmin, but I guess that it's also possible, is begnin for a desktop, and would make the setup more simple. else I'd have to make another VGA passthrough to a linux domU and things might get hairy (nvidia issues + second VGA passthru?). or maybe use a 2D only linux which isn't that great either
you get working 3D acceleration. never got that to run under Virtualbox even though you only have to check a box, and somehow other people have it working. your I/O is not slow and CPU hungry it seems. but compatibility is still hit or miss - I'm talking about games mainly. my wine 1.3.28 just crapped at running return to castle wolfenstein and even with warcraft III I have stuttering sound. but I should update my 1.3 via ppa.
my great plan is to switch to IOMMU virtualisation, running presumably Xen. a physical graphics card will be passed-thru to a windows gaming-only VM. but I need new hardware (an asrock mobo with 970 chipset, I will go from 2GB ddr2 to 8GB ddr3). I also fear that it may be a pain in the ass and ill supported, and needing a VGA switch or a KVM.
Der Führer has a love/hate relationship with it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcvkbrwDuaY
Iran needs everything it can to defends itself. note that the puppet EU organization has collaborated with the pro-war activists (i.e. criminals responsible for Iraq) again in this issue. the oil and central banking sanctions are a disgrace. we shouldn't be attacking a country like that. fuck that EU which is turning its constituent countries into financial dictatorships. fuck NATO, the umbrella puppet of the US military forces.
I could write something better, but I'm tired and this is slashdot.
more like half people, or half of half people are talked into getting a smartphone, because it's "cheap" as it's almost offered when renewing the subscription, or maybe because smartphones crash in price and soon are to the $100 mark, or because they believe their blackberry look-a-like with a music player and web browser is a smartphone. endless reasons. study doesn't say how many people own a smartphone for text and voice only, and never hook it up to a PC, never plug the proprietary ear buds in, and never use the internet function except for checking a train schedule or something every two weeks.
this is what I haven't understood yet in all of this discussion. half the posts are about bringing a redundant inferior computer with its AC adaptor and whatever.
why shouldn't you visit porn sites on the company laptop? a locked down computer *should* allow you to visit any website. it's not like security depends on it, or are we again in the IE5 and XP SP0 era? porn is NOT illegal except for some copyright infringements concerns you have no control over. likewise, are your downloads filtered by content type so you can only download .doc and .pdf from your corporate mail? I don't think so. this is USER data, an honest admin has no reason to spy on your home directory and report you for storing media files.
use the web : you could have a media server at home with a web front end that lets you access or stream the content. or have a remote desktop running at home or even in a datacenter, accessed through a web based client. you could play flash games and that may be better than crappy cell phone games. read e-books in your web browser. don't ever try to run any user installable crap like google chrome or portable .exe for firefox and other software, this is breaking the limits of course.
because that's what the IT department installed on servers?
but it's great anyway. local access to company and user data, beats syncing heavy files over the same network, even IT can like it better. regarding X though, it's awesome for beaming text editors and such but with its chatty protocol, RDP and similar can beat it on other things.
I have 2GB ram and firefox makes me swap, and I don't do gaming anymore which could eat over 1GB more. RAM is an issue. I have no free memory slots (two were burnt). had to switch from gnome 3 to lxde (not that it's a bad thing!)
haha I liked it back then, great UI, can turn into the file manager and vice versa, efficient for its time. I used windows media player 6.0, too. was holding onto windows 98SE as XP was a piece of crap that couldn't even play doom 2 correctly. security issues and lack of tabs forced me to firefox 0.5 though.
hey, I installed 2.x on a computer semi-recently, because it was loaded with windows ME. similar hardware to yours. it was fine and even the OS was clean and responsive and not crashing at all. I say run win 9x and firefox 2 if you want a retro-gaming machine. (full speed native DOS games with sound, yay!)
but the beauty of linux is you can run totally up to date OS and software on old crap. well XP works but is a pain, has to be fully updated else you get pwned in a few minutes. here's an excellent OS, it's made of ubuntu 11.10 and firefox 10, but without all the suckage : http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1930 . it should run like a charm on your piece of crap. i.e. you click on the start menu and it actually comes up instantly..
my favorite feature on newer firefox versions is you can select a plain text link, i.e. a link that is not quite a link, right-click and open in current tab, new tab or new window. I used to install an extension for that. it's maybe the only useful new feature but quite a time saver.
I bought a samsung lowest end phone, an E1050 for only 15 euros. pretty unbelievable!, new and unlocked. it has a small color screen and only does voice + SMS. but what little "PDA" features there are are well done. the calendar is extremely accessible and lets you write plain text for a particular day. so I can put appointments and stuff there.
I'm french so disregard my plan options.. but we had an oligopoly, till a fourth operator, "Free", lauched service about a month ago. it has two offers. the lower end is 2€ per month for one hour voice!, whatever SMS amount. if you get overcharged it's only 3€ for one more hour! and negligible cost for SMS. as I'm customer for their DSL (not particularly cheap but full of features I don't use) I will pay 0€ per month instead of 2€. I'm in the process of cancelling the former plan which was 10x as expensive and moving to the new one.
except you need to enter a special URL or something. unless this changed a few days or weeks ago, my secondary flash-less computer wouldn't play anything in youtube, so I gave it the same treatment as other computers get, which is flash plugin and flashblock extension. this has the added benefit of blocking the videos so I can load it and let it consume scarce CPU resources when I want, not automatically.
here I happen to agree with RMS just because it describes it unambiguously and is shorter than saying "NonAndroidNonCrazyEmbeddedNonObscurePetProjectLinuxDistribution".
I will still run evil software as I don't want to run crappy graphics drivers that turn my hardware into a pile of shit, and lose streamed video and occasional audio, dialing the web back to 1994.
until your XP gets a nasty ZBOT infection. last time I installed XP I even got the classical worm infection before all updates are applied. now I only install linux distros, which need a lightweight desktop to run as well as XP, but windows 7 is an option if you have crap hardware with 1GB ram.
LXDE is fine as a windows 95 clone, it's what I use on a recent piece of junk - VIA C7 1.8GHz. along with firefox 8 which has fast javascript and patched memory leaks. LXDE may feel boring, too conventional and gtk based, but that's you use nowadays if like me you weren't on linux in the good/bad old days, or if you're lazy.
I remember using afterstep on damn small linux and found the little squares confusing, esp. when launching an app resulted in twice the little squares, one of which seemingly functioned as a task bar button. maybe the point it for it to look cool. well, I liked it better than OSX.