Go to the Dell link you provided and click on the "Tech Specs" tab/link in that page; then click on "Learn more" for the graphics options about 1/3 of the way down the second page. That will give you a couple of quick ideas.
It would be too late at this point anyway, since it's already topped-out, but I've got to say "Damn! Why did my moderator access run out earlier today? Give this one a mod up, it still deserves it."
That information would have been quite nice to have about 24 hours ago...
The Real Bev wrote:
> > TenThumbs wrote: > > > BTW, what's the URL for the C-Band thing? > > http://www.21st-satellite.com/satellite_tv.html > > We have a 10' and a 12'. We used to have a 6', but it was right by the > south fence and the neighbors worried about it:-) (Friend in the business > who gave us his discards.) >
The page sets up a 2200 pxiel wide table. There aren't too many monitors that wide. Never frae, though; there's always a virtual frame buffer.
A little experimentation and you discover that you can do
Xvfb:1 -screen 0 2800x2100x8 &
netscape -display:1 -geometry =2600x1900 <URL> & Since you can't see anything you have to guess when netscape is finished but eventually you just do
xwd -display:1 -root >foo.xwd and you now have a screen shot. You have to crop it, of course, but that's not hard. Printing it may be a problem but it's a different problem.
I agree. I used a couple of different versions of wget on a couple of different boxes to make sure I was getting all the page requisites. I can't believe that page renders properly on anything.
Close to the right idea, but implemented the wrong way 'round.
Have javascript, if enabled, immediately redirect to another page which utilizes all that crap. That way, if anybody is promiscuously surfing with it enabled they can have all the superfluous code you can shove down their throats, while the rest of us don't have to wait for the change of venue.
Re:Subject to the ``Skating Force'' of LP days
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The skating force was due to the fact that in order to get the "needle" at the end of a fixed-vertical-pivot swinging arm to become perpendicular to the groove in two places instead of just one, it was necessary to position the stylus at a lateral angle.
I wouldn't be surprised if the amount of "overhang" (the distance the stylus would be past the table center, were that to lie directly inline between the stylus and tonearm pivot) also required to complete that task was the major skating-producing factor.
Since a user of the perpetual ski slope would likely not be tied to a lateral pivot point relative to the table pretty much renders this analogy moot.
Like I picked up at Goodwill the other day. A model 30 8088 (or was that 8086?) w/20 MB hard drive, 3-1/2 internal floppy and 640K RAM, the funky mouse, MCGA monitor, perfect model M keyboard, and the 5-1/4 external floppy, with all cables and connectors. I haven't been able to test the external floppy for want of a disk, but all other aspects pass IBM's system checks with flying colors. Museum quality, IMO. $29.99 + 5% sales tax.
Giving up the fairly rare opportunity to moderate on this one...
A couple of points need making in light of your expressed views:
Fairly often, if the poor soul who is on the receiving end of a black talon is wearing a good denim or better, the center cavity will plug with material resulting in much less to no expansion. That also means the cutting edges don't get formed too well. This article seems to provided a sane description of the round.
If one is in a military environment they'll be looking at the smaller-diameter end of a full-metal-jacketed small arms projectile, or there'll be "war crimes" to answer for. Last I heard, anyway.
Seems to me I'd heard somewhere that the sulfur is added to the natural gas in order to facilitate detection by humans, since "natural" natural gas is odorless.
8MB RAM (no secondary cache - takes 7 hours to compile 2.2.16 versus 9 hours with 24MB RAM!)
no monitor or keyboard
old IBM ne clone to the inside
modem to the outside (28kb/s max. connections, usually somewhat less)
running caching name server and sendmail and some other stuff on it.
One day I was wgeting a large database-type of FAQ with a bunch of individual pages. I'd been "surfing" in the mean-time and noticed the name lookups were getting a little sluggish. I discovered that each page request was generating an identd lookup and they were backing way up. The load was up to 30 on that little sucker, but even with all that userland stuff going on, there was no detectable difference in the alacrity with which it was masqing my packets!
It might be worth your while to go to ftp.lineo.com/pub/drdos and try a copy of their fine product. It does it's own "DOS Extend"ing, and can task-switch or multitask (although the implementation isn't as smooth as, say, Linux). It's much cooler than MS-DOS in many respects. If I had to use DOS, I'd pick up a license for it in a heartbeat. Of course, you don't need a license to "evaluate" it for 90 days, if I remember correctly.
I don't know about the current generation of TI's, but with the earlier models, you could only have one variable named "foo" on the whole calculator. With the HP, each directory may contain one.
I also don't know if the TI even supports a directory structure (if they do, they probably call them "folders").
I saw the link on LinuxToday a little while ago. They have a link to a RealVideo feed, which I took them up on. Unless you want to hear him take credit for the success of the internet &c, I'd suggest you jump to 23:15 to hear "the question" about Linux.
It's almost entertaining enough to listen to the entire feed, but for that whiney voice...
Slashdot Mirror
Go to the Dell link you provided and click on the "Tech Specs" tab/link in that page; then click on "Learn more" for the graphics options about 1/3 of the way down the second page. That will give you a couple of quick ideas.
It would be too late at this point anyway, since it's already topped-out, but I've got to say "Damn! Why did my moderator access run out earlier today? Give this one a mod up, it still deserves it."
That information would have been quite nice to have about 24 hours ago...
It's "illegal" to use unescaped spaces in a URL.
Did you bother to load the page off the server, or are you using a "I'll silently fix it for you" Windows browser?
While you make some good points I have to make the one that you're off-topic by a fair margin.
The question as I understand it was not "how to make new admins comfortable" but "how to make (old) admins comfortable with new hardware".
And I gave up modding for this...
A fatal dose of electricity doesn't constitute electrocution unless it's happening to you as a form of punishment. Think "electrical execution".
I agree. I used a couple of different versions of wget on a couple of different boxes to make sure I was getting all the page requisites. I can't believe that page renders properly on anything.
http://validator.w3.org/ says:
"Sorry, this document does not validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional." Which is what the document claims to be.
Close to the right idea, but implemented the wrong way 'round.
Have javascript, if enabled, immediately redirect to another page which utilizes all that crap. That way, if anybody is promiscuously surfing with it enabled they can have all the superfluous code you can shove down their throats, while the rest of us don't have to wait for the change of venue.
The skating force was due to the fact that in order to get the "needle" at the end of a fixed-vertical-pivot swinging arm to become perpendicular to the groove in two places instead of just one, it was necessary to position the stylus at a lateral angle.
I wouldn't be surprised if the amount of "overhang" (the distance the stylus would be past the table center, were that to lie directly inline between the stylus and tonearm pivot) also required to complete that task was the major skating-producing factor.
Since a user of the perpetual ski slope would likely not be tied to a lateral pivot point relative to the table pretty much renders this analogy moot.
Nice try, and thanks for the memories.
Like I picked up at Goodwill the other day. A model 30 8088 (or was that 8086?) w/20 MB hard drive, 3-1/2 internal floppy and 640K RAM, the funky mouse, MCGA monitor, perfect model M keyboard, and the 5-1/4 external floppy, with all cables and connectors. I haven't been able to test the external floppy for want of a disk, but all other aspects pass IBM's system checks with flying colors. Museum quality, IMO. $29.99 + 5% sales tax.
google to the rescue:
popup filtering junkbuster
ain't the GPL great?
Giving up the fairly rare opportunity to moderate on this one...
A couple of points need making in light of your expressed views:
Fairly often, if the poor soul who is on the receiving end of a black talon is wearing a good denim or better, the center cavity will plug with material resulting in much less to no expansion. That also means the cutting edges don't get formed too well. This article seems to provided a sane description of the round.
If one is in a military environment they'll be looking at the smaller-diameter end of a full-metal-jacketed small arms projectile, or there'll be "war crimes" to answer for. Last I heard, anyway.
Seems to me I'd heard somewhere that the sulfur is added to the natural gas in order to facilitate detection by humans, since "natural" natural gas is odorless.
Maybe it was just a dream...
386SX-33
8MB RAM (no secondary cache - takes 7 hours to compile 2.2.16 versus 9 hours with 24MB RAM!)
no monitor or keyboard
old IBM ne clone to the inside
modem to the outside (28kb/s max. connections, usually somewhat less)
running caching name server and sendmail and some other stuff on it.
One day I was wgeting a large database-type of FAQ with a bunch of individual pages. I'd been "surfing" in the mean-time and noticed the name lookups were getting a little sluggish. I discovered that each page request was generating an identd lookup and they were backing way up. The load was up to 30 on that little sucker, but even with all that userland stuff going on, there was no detectable difference in the alacrity with which it was masqing my packets!
Nothing better than shag-bark hickory period
It might be worth your while to go to ftp.lineo.com/pub/drdos and try a copy of their fine product. It does it's own "DOS Extend"ing, and can task-switch or multitask (although the implementation isn't as smooth as, say, Linux). It's much cooler than MS-DOS in many respects. If I had to use DOS, I'd pick up a license for it in a heartbeat. Of course, you don't need a license to "evaluate" it for 90 days, if I remember correctly.
Occasionally even getting into your box another way and killing off X or the svgalib program won't give you back normal control.
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt and see if compiling that capability into your kernel isn't really what you want.
Take a moment and read
I've got some HP calculators that are top-notch instruments.
Oh, yeah; they make some killer testing equipment too, and don't forget about that oh-so-cool electronic stethoscope http://www.healthcare.agil ent.com/mpgsupplies/stetscope/!
Yeah, they've made some pretty sucky decisions on the personal computing end of things, but that ain't all they are.
It's a simple ratio of proportions:
HP compares to TI
as
Linux compares to DOS
I don't know about the current generation of TI's, but with the earlier models, you could only have one variable named "foo" on the whole calculator. With the HP, each directory may contain one.
I also don't know if the TI even supports a directory structure (if they do, they probably call them "folders").
In short, TI's are fine, HP's are better.
License is (simplified somewhat) "permission granted to do something which would otherwise be illegal".
You cannot be required to obtain a license for any activity which has not been declared illegal.
Any other issues such as liability are secondary, or more.
I'm no lawyer, but I'd bet one would tell you the same.
It's almost entertaining enough to listen to the entire feed, but for that whiney voice...
The link is "Besvarelse af spørgsmål" = "Answering questions".