Re:What's the problem with dual boot on same disk?
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Here is an interesting situation for you:
Linux on the first partition, Windows on the second. I somehow managed to get it to work, but...
every time I boot into Windows 2000, Win2k changes the active partition to the Windows one. So next reboot it automatically boots Windows instead of giving me the grub bootloader. I need to pop in a Knoppix CD and change the active partition back to the Linux one.
I live out in the boonies, where Cable is just another word for what the telegraph guy delivers and the nearest Central Office is over 27,000 feet away,
If you're good with electronics, you could hook up a laser bridge between your place and a neighbouring farm or a farm that is close enough to a DSL repeater and share the cost of internet/hydro with the farm owner. IIRC make magazine had an article on laser uplinks, but like every other issue google's your friend.
(If this doesn't help, just place a big shark with a friggin' laser beam on the ISP's CEO's lawn. Maybe he'll get the clue, but don't count on that;).)
Part of the problem here is that television is ad based, and time-slots are a VERY important factor in their pricing. By doing away with the time-slot (as DVRs basically do...) they feel they're going to lose big.
So what? I think they can benefit from having dynamic timeslots anyways. Remember that they now can air multiple ads at the same time (i.e. Dave watches show A at 7, Joey watches show B at 7)... they now have two methods of targeting viewers: by timeslot and by audience. Combine that with a "with ad / without ad" selector and you will see the dough roll in like one-year-old krispy kreme donuts.
You need to transfer huge amounts of data back and forth to make this happen. This is unlikely for a portable computer (laptop, notebooks, etc.) with a slow network connection, but is already being done in a corporate environment (think clusters) where network throughput is available. We could come up instead with new schemes of temporarily reducing processor speed to a minimum (say 50MHz) and reducing the time to bring them back to normal speed.
My soloution (which i use myself and which i stated in an earlyer post) was to get an older laptop with a nice screen to use as a glorified book reader. I paid 200 for a P3-600mhz with 256MB ram(a really good price at the time, so perhaps it will cost you a little more. Though a 600mhz p3 is overkill for just a pdf reader, but i use it for other things aswell) with a nice 15" screen.
I was kickin ass, but then my mom came and pulled the stupid plug.
Why is this modded funny? Slashdot needs a +1 Sad moderation! Anyways, I remember playing Super Mario Brothers 3 on our Canadian NES system in Germany. I was about to enter Bowser's castle, and my mom yanks open the door. Unfortunately she yanked out the wall-wart of the NES in the process. You shoulda seen my face:
I can't help but wonder if after a certain point, that instead of taking classes where there's an actual lecturer, that instead a tape of the lecturer from a previous course is instead used for a class.
Naaah, why bother with showing up to classes then? Just have the prof upload the file to a FTP. But then I am not paying $3000C for tape recordings.
That's one of those vicious circles or cyclic arguments: To have people survive they will need food and water, but how do you get food and water to the people? They'll need transportation and infrastructure to distribute food and water, but how can they transport goods if they're starving to death or dieing with thirst because there is no food?
I'd love to have this with "A Day in the Life" from the Beatles, too (hear all those grand pianos at the end one by one)! Someday...
Looking at the cost of a grand piano tells me that you (or me, heh) won't be able to afford the real thing. But how about the not-so-real thing? Ever tried the sample-based grand piano by Steinberg? Or how about the grand piano synth? I admit, it's still some serious dough, but just get a couple of bright musically-inclined students, get the sheet music, and record it on your own. Since you are a teacher at an arts high school, I assume the recording technology is already there and available. If not, you can buy older hardware for a fraction of the price of new stuff.
One may be willing to DL an old bubble-gum tune from the late sixties, or early seventies, but one may not be interested enough to cough up cash for it.
And why should one? If they didn't raise the bar for copyright periods everytime Mickey Mouse is about to become Public Domain, we wouldn't have the ridiculous opinion that 20 to 30 year old music has to be paid for just be because it is music.
Anyone who wants to build another Tower of Babel because they read about it in the Bible clearly didn't finish reading it.
It's quite remarkable what a source of information the Internet is. I didn't know about the Tower of Babel (only small bits and pieces) so I looked it up on Wikipedia. From there on I got into different religious interpretation of the bible, then the novel Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson and now I am currently browsing on eight different tabs containing information about stupidity, Rudy Rucker, Georg Hegel, Black comedy, Ronald Reagan, and street smarts. Truly, the internet currently is one of the biggest fountain of wisdom of mankind.:P
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Someone please tell me why a Computer Science degree has been devaluated by the public? Or is it that degrees in general are worth shit nowadays? :/
I am sure I am not the first one to read that as adult-heaven, am I not?
vi stands for victory. :)
Here is an interesting situation for you:
Linux on the first partition, Windows on the second. I somehow managed to get it to work, but...
every time I boot into Windows 2000, Win2k changes the active partition to the Windows one. So next reboot it automatically boots Windows instead of giving me the grub bootloader. I need to pop in a Knoppix CD and change the active partition back to the Linux one.
Talk about weird behaviour. O_o
Goodbye cruel world, hello Otherland. :D
If you're good with electronics, you could hook up a laser bridge between your place and a neighbouring farm or a farm that is close enough to a DSL repeater and share the cost of internet/hydro with the farm owner. IIRC make magazine had an article on laser uplinks, but like every other issue google's your friend.
(If this doesn't help, just place a big shark with a friggin' laser beam on the ISP's CEO's lawn. Maybe he'll get the clue, but don't count on that
There's a party down the street and one across the street. I'm a party guy, so I guess I have to say:
:)
Yes, I am a third party.
You just made a new friend. I wouldn't be able to put it like you did in my wildest dreams.
You get my respect.
So what? I think they can benefit from having dynamic timeslots anyways. Remember that they now can air multiple ads at the same time (i.e. Dave watches show A at 7, Joey watches show B at 7)... they now have two methods of targeting viewers: by timeslot and by audience. Combine that with a "with ad / without ad" selector and you will see the dough roll in like one-year-old krispy kreme donuts.
Keep it like us programmers keep it with optimizing:
;)
1. Don't.
For experts only:
2. Don't (yet).
3. Profile before you optimize.
You need to transfer huge amounts of data back and forth to make this happen. This is unlikely for a portable computer (laptop, notebooks, etc.) with a slow network connection, but is already being done in a corporate environment (think clusters) where network throughput is available.
;)
We could come up instead with new schemes of temporarily reducing processor speed to a minimum (say 50MHz) and reducing the time to bring them back to normal speed.
My $0.02C.
Helloooo customer!
May I introduce you to business? And his best buddy bottom line?
Ohh, you already know him?
Awesome. Bend over, bitch.
That's a flawed analogy.
"Not unfull" would be an analogy to "not unacceptable". Tell me, if something is not acceptable and not unacceptable, what is then?
is this a GeekCruise then?
Why is this modded funny? Slashdot needs a +1 Sad moderation!
Anyways, I remember playing Super Mario Brothers 3 on our Canadian NES system in Germany. I was about to enter Bowser's castle, and my mom yanks open the door. Unfortunately she yanked out the wall-wart of the NES in the process. You shoulda seen my face:
Naaah, why bother with showing up to classes then? Just have the prof upload the file to a FTP. But then I am not paying $3000C for tape recordings.
That's one of those vicious circles or cyclic arguments:
To have people survive they will need food and water, but how do you get food and water to the people? They'll need transportation and infrastructure to distribute food and water, but how can they transport goods if they're starving to death or dieing with thirst because there is no food?
Looking at the cost of a grand piano tells me that you (or me, heh) won't be able to afford the real thing. But how about the not-so-real thing? Ever tried the sample-based grand piano by Steinberg? Or how about the grand piano synth? I admit, it's still some serious dough, but just get a couple of bright musically-inclined students, get the sheet music, and record it on your own. Since you are a teacher at an arts high school, I assume the recording technology is already there and available. If not, you can buy older hardware for a fraction of the price of new stuff.
Can you give an example of your so called 'thinking tools'?
May he rest in peace. :(
F) ???
G) Boobies!
You stand corrected?
It's quite remarkable what a source of information the Internet is. I didn't know about the Tower of Babel (only small bits and pieces) so I looked it up on Wikipedia. From there on I got into different religious interpretation of the bible, then the novel
Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson and now I am currently browsing on eight different tabs containing information about stupidity, Rudy Rucker, Georg Hegel, Black comedy, Ronald Reagan, and street smarts.
Truly, the internet currently is one of the biggest fountain of wisdom of mankind.