Even I have really only *built* one PC - and that was out of spare parts. My desktop (now an Athlon 900) was merely upgraded a few times... from a 4.77Mhz XT. Although I did use to take said XT to bits and then put it back together again - does that count as building?
FWIW, the mormons/latter day saints/etc are the only (AFAIK, IANAT, etc) religion who recognise the Book of Mormon. Not that this is particularly odd (apart from the comparatively recent appearance of the book of mormon) - catholics kept the Apocrypha in their view of the bible, while most (all?) other christian denominations don't recognise them.
But yes, there are a lot of people out there who profess to belong to some faith, but whose actions do not appear to be consistent with the teachings of that faith.
I believe they often use semiconductors, too. They're quite useful, you know. Much more reliable than a monkey flipping DIP switches in response to flashing LEDs (but not as much fun).
I run Debian sarge on a 486sx25 Compaq Contura Aero, with 24MB of RAM (...which the thing isn't supposed to support) and an 810MB HDD. I used to use a 12MB 486sx33 Aero, with a ~250MB disk but it eventually died.
No, I don't run X - but emacs, perl, g++, vgaspect and kismet (with SVGATextMode) all work.
Could you qualify the "stuff-I-used-20-years-ago"? Are you admonishing them for using vi/emacs and LaTeX instead of "modern" systems like MS Word/PowerPoint (or OpenOffice), or something else?
OTOH, we do have one lecturer here who was only recently shifted off Netscape 4 after the admins decided they didn't want to support NS4 anymore.
my understanding is that using the PC for other activities while encoding can occasionally cause errors
If by encoding you include the process of reading the audio data off the CD, then yes, it could. But the process of compressing audio data with a given audio encoder with fixed settings should be deterministic (if it isn't, there's something very wrong with it).
This is just as completely unrelated to OpenLindows.org, but Asterisk PBX is an open-source Linux-based PABX with IP support that is at a stage where it does useful things, as opposed to the sourceforge-project-with-Index-of-page stage.
Form factor. There's a big difference between a card you can leave in the laptop (providing extra ports, or with a WiFi antenna sticking out, etc) and attaching a USB or IEEE1394 dongle (particularly if you don't have a nearby flat surface handy), and then possibly having to attach something else to that.
Of course, PC Cards are more important to me as someone whose primary laptop is a 486SX25 with a single PCMCIA slot:-)
One of the CS graduate students here, while watching the Matrix Reloaded, thought it was so disappointing that he stayed in the theatre, but started looking up reviews of it with his phone, and SMSing us to tell us his opinion of it.
But the lack of phone wouldn't have helped the movie studios: he told us all the next day how disappointing it was, ad nauseum. Didn't help me, I'd seen the first midnight showing at The Embassy already:-(
FWIW, the Tipping isn't optional only applies in countries where tipping is considered the norm. Not living in one of those countries, I've never understood why - would someone care to explain?
So... if I take my laptop to the local university, send mail from my personal address through their SMTP relay... you'd consider it spam? Or require them to modify their relay to attempt route the message through one of the MX records for my domain (which would be horribly inefficient, as I'm on a much smaller pipe than the university, and also a configuration nightmare)?
High Fidelity
Hi-Fi's the thing for me
With an LP disc and an FM set
And a corner reflex cabinet
High frequency range
Complete with auto-change
All the highest notes niether sharp nor flat
The ear can't hear as high as that
Still I ought to please any passing bat
With my High Fidelity
...
High Fidelity,
FFRR for me.
I've an opera here you shan't escape,
On miles and miles of recording tape
High decibel gain
Is easy to obtain
With the tone control at a single touch
Bel canto sounds like double Dutch But I never did care for music much,
It's the high fidelity.
The $app =~/$g/i => GNOME and $app =~/$k/i => KDE thing is annoying, I agree. But it's quite likely that gnumeric is named that way due to GNU rather than GNOME (like GCC).
The desktop prefix IMHO is these days more of a problem with KDE apps (e.g. Konqueror, Kmail, etc) - they seem to go to some lengths to spell things with an initial 'K'. There are many mainstream GTK- or GNOME-based apps without an initial G (e.g. Nautilus, Evolution, Sylpheed, Pan) and with several that do, it stands for GNU anyway (e.g. the Gimp).
>...the user should be able to (and usually can) run apps using either framework...
The thing people don't usually realise is that all running GNOME apps with GNOME, or KDE apps with KDE buys you is a consistent look-and-feel, and better desktop integration (and thanks to people like freedesktop.org, these differences are becoming less noticable all the time). But you can run them under fvwm with no "desktop" software at all if you prefer. They're X apps, and don't need anything more than a window manager to run.
That's terribly inefficient, though. I propose an alternate format, with five bits per symbol. It can have "shift" symbols to switch to character sets with upper/lowercase characters, numeric digits, etc.
I name this amazing creation Binary Allocation Utilised to Define Optimal Text - Baudot.
Er. It depends what you mean by circuit-switched. When you want to talk to someone via ATM, you need to establish a virtual circuit to them, a process that involves each ATM switch between you and the other VC endpoint. This sets up the path the ATM packets in that VC will take through the network (and ATM packets are *small* - 53 bytes).
Compare this with IP, etc - the routers don't (or at least shouldn't have to) care about anything beyond the destination header in the packet, something that shouldn't be modified en-route. TCP doesn't require the intervening routers to know about it.
You seem to be labouring under the mistaken impression that digital == packet-switched and circuit-switched == analogue.
Circuit-switched is things like ATM and TDM (over E1s, etc): you establish a "circuit" to who you want to communicate with (an expensive operation), and then talk over that.
Packet-switched is when you cut the data up into packets, each of which can be routed independently - they have a target address in a header, and you don't need to set up a circuit to send them. On the flipside, guaranteeing bandwidth for a stream of packets from one node to another is harder.
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Even I have really only *built* one PC - and that was out of spare parts. My desktop (now an Athlon 900) was merely upgraded a few times... from a 4.77Mhz XT. Although I did use to take said XT to bits and then put it back together again - does that count as building?
FWIW, the mormons/latter day saints/etc are the only (AFAIK, IANAT, etc) religion who recognise the Book of Mormon. Not that this is particularly odd (apart from the comparatively recent appearance of the book of mormon) - catholics kept the Apocrypha in their view of the bible, while most (all?) other christian denominations don't recognise them.
But yes, there are a lot of people out there who profess to belong to some faith, but whose actions do not appear to be consistent with the teachings of that faith.
I believe they often use semiconductors, too. They're quite useful, you know. Much more reliable than a monkey flipping DIP switches in response to flashing LEDs (but not as much fun).
Bah! Try using an XT motherboard in a similar state because you want to read some EPROMs and it has a spare socket for them :-)
...how about this, instead:
) ;$w=$1;while(@a){$w.=splice@a,
while(<>){s!([a-z])([a-z]+)([a-z])!@a=split(//,$2
rand@a,1}$w.$3!ieg;print$_}
I run Debian sarge on a 486sx25 Compaq Contura Aero, with 24MB of RAM (...which the thing isn't supposed to support) and an 810MB HDD. I used to use a 12MB 486sx33 Aero, with a ~250MB disk but it eventually died.
No, I don't run X - but emacs, perl, g++, vgaspect and kismet (with SVGATextMode) all work.
Could you qualify the "stuff-I-used-20-years-ago"? Are you admonishing them for using vi/emacs and LaTeX instead of "modern" systems like MS Word/PowerPoint (or OpenOffice), or something else?
OTOH, we do have one lecturer here who was only recently shifted off Netscape 4 after the admins decided they didn't want to support NS4 anymore.
If by encoding you include the process of reading the audio data off the CD, then yes, it could. But the process of compressing audio data with a given audio encoder with fixed settings should be deterministic (if it isn't, there's something very wrong with it).
This is just as completely unrelated to OpenLindows.org, but Asterisk PBX is an open-source Linux-based PABX with IP support that is at a stage where it does useful things, as opposed to the sourceforge-project-with-Index-of-page stage.
Form factor. There's a big difference between a card you can leave in the laptop (providing extra ports, or with a WiFi antenna sticking out, etc) and attaching a USB or IEEE1394 dongle (particularly if you don't have a nearby flat surface handy), and then possibly having to attach something else to that.
:-)
Of course, PC Cards are more important to me as someone whose primary laptop is a 486SX25 with a single PCMCIA slot
One of the CS graduate students here, while watching the Matrix Reloaded, thought it was so disappointing that he stayed in the theatre, but started looking up reviews of it with his phone, and SMSing us to tell us his opinion of it.
:-(
But the lack of phone wouldn't have helped the movie studios: he told us all the next day how disappointing it was, ad nauseum. Didn't help me, I'd seen the first midnight showing at The Embassy already
It's obvious now: with this new system, if you do try card counting, you'll be dancing on a highwire...
Mode, of course.
That release date has been pushed back, and back, and back... I wouldn't hold your breath.
FWIW, the Tipping isn't optional only applies in countries where tipping is considered the norm. Not living in one of those countries, I've never understood why - would someone care to explain?
So... if I take my laptop to the local university, send mail from my personal address through their SMTP relay... you'd consider it spam? Or require them to modify their relay to attempt route the message through one of the MX records for my domain (which would be horribly inefficient, as I'm on a much smaller pipe than the university, and also a configuration nightmare)?
They've been around for some time.
To quote a now somewhat dated song ("A Song of Reproduction", Flanders and Swan, ~1950s):
The rest of it goes on in a similar vein.
definition [meaning 6]: Loss of merchandise, especially through theft.
I believe it's retail jargon, but I could be wrong.
You may not have noticed, but the earth is a sphere. While the bit you are in may be tilted towards the sun, the bit I'm in ain't. It's FREEZING here.
Thankfully, we haven't had a SARS outbreak. Just the standard damn-it's-cold-ah-choo etc.
The $app =~ /$g/i => GNOME and $app =~ /$k/i => KDE thing is annoying, I agree. But it's quite likely that gnumeric is named that way due to GNU rather than GNOME (like GCC).
...the user should be able to (and usually can) run apps using either framework...
The desktop prefix IMHO is these days more of a problem with KDE apps (e.g. Konqueror, Kmail, etc) - they seem to go to some lengths to spell things with an initial 'K'. There are many mainstream GTK- or GNOME-based apps without an initial G (e.g. Nautilus, Evolution, Sylpheed, Pan) and with several that do, it stands for GNU anyway (e.g. the Gimp).
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The thing people don't usually realise is that all running GNOME apps with GNOME, or KDE apps with KDE buys you is a consistent look-and-feel, and better desktop integration (and thanks to people like freedesktop.org, these differences are becoming less noticable all the time). But you can run them under fvwm with no "desktop" software at all if you prefer. They're X apps, and don't need anything more than a window manager to run.
At least Oracle doesn't encourage use of MS Comic Sans (or Bold, Underlined, Italicised Times New Roman)... I hope.
But then a really expensive SQL database which doesn't support NATURAL JOIN rates pretty highly on my "list of things that really annoy me".
That's terribly inefficient, though. I propose an alternate format, with five bits per symbol. It can have "shift" symbols to switch to character sets with upper/lowercase characters, numeric digits, etc.
I name this amazing creation Binary Allocation Utilised to Define Optimal Text - Baudot.
Er. It depends what you mean by circuit-switched. When you want to talk to someone via ATM, you need to establish a virtual circuit to them, a process that involves each ATM switch between you and the other VC endpoint. This sets up the path the ATM packets in that VC will take through the network (and ATM packets are *small* - 53 bytes).
Compare this with IP, etc - the routers don't (or at least shouldn't have to) care about anything beyond the destination header in the packet, something that shouldn't be modified en-route. TCP doesn't require the intervening routers to know about it.
You seem to be labouring under the mistaken impression that digital == packet-switched and circuit-switched == analogue.
:-)
Circuit-switched is things like ATM and TDM (over E1s, etc): you establish a "circuit" to who you want to communicate with (an expensive operation), and then talk over that.
Packet-switched is when you cut the data up into packets, each of which can be routed independently - they have a target address in a header, and you don't need to set up a circuit to send them. On the flipside, guaranteeing bandwidth for a stream of packets from one node to another is harder.
I knew there was a use for that CompSci degree