Haha! Only 'problem' is that Norway is a member of NATO, UN and EEA (half-hearted EU membership), our government sucks up to the US like everybody else and we have troops (a few officers for moral support) in Iraq and Afghanistan. But sure. If you can somehow force us to come on bad terms with you...
Eyh! I'm Norwegian, you insensitive clod!
But seriously,
Norway is the world's third largest exporter of oil. We influence *your* gas prices. We also happen to be pretty far ahead in the tech and telecom sectors. We're the second richest country in the world (GDP pr capita). Yes! That's right. We have it better than the Americans, *and* we have the Nobel Peace Price. Trolltech, the makers of QT, the base of KDE, is situated in Norway, and don't forget Opera software. "The Scream" was painted by "Edvard Munch" (pr. "Munk" not "Munch"), a Norwegian painter. So *THERE*!
Once you know the above, the following references become completely unfunny:
"I'd like to thank the Prime Minister of Norway" in one of the "Police Academy" movies.
"Norway? More like Snoreway." in the Kenya Flash movie.
I keep hearing about these failing Maxtor drives all over the place? My 80 GB drive has been working just fine for at least a year now. My computer is on 24/7 and I sit in front of it at least 8 hours a day. Are you guys sure it might not just be a particular production batch or a certain model that has issues?
Uh... It *is* an institution. "SUnet" is the Swedish University Computer Network. The Finnish equivalent is ftp.funet.fi and the Norwegian is ftp.uninett.no.
I'm not being big-mouthed. I'm saying everybody is being lazy, using Linux as a pillow. WINE is taking forever to finish and I don't know why. Lack of pay? Lack of interest? Even Ubuntu isn't completely managable with a GUI. I say it wasn't ready for release when they released it. They could've at least waited until someone wrote an "Add/remove programs" front-end for APT. If anybody thinks my opinions are ridiculous, they're free to deconstruct my arguments. I don't have opinions for fun. I reach conclusions with logic and those form my opinions. I'm not a troll.
You shouldn't rule that out. I know the potential magnitude of such a project, but think about how exciting it would be. It would beat WINE and other attempts at 'patching' other OSes because it would be cleaner due to less wrapper code. Everything would be supported natively. Sometimes I'm actually tempted to just gather a team and do the impossible. I'm not saying that I could or am going to do it, but don't rule it out...
Debian and Ubuntu are good. Very good! But why no very apparent built-in graphical tool that lets you do an apt-cache search and apt-get install stuff?
I'd like to try a *NIX where the first thing I have to do isn't to open a terminal and type
barf --volapÿk -xxx -goatse narf.tar.bz2 loveTheBomb
to install something. Oh, sure, I have no problem with it, but sometimes I sit there and I feel the frustration build up. I think "This would be so much easier in Windows". Then close my eyes and go "BLAAH-BLAAH-BLAAH!" before I reboot.
I tried Fedora Core 4 the other day. The first thing I stumbled into was dependency hell.
Boy, somebody should just take one of the open source kernels, preferably a modular one, and add support for the.NET, Win32 and POSIX APIs to it, do a kickass no-bloat GUI and turn the whole computer business on it's head with an OS that beats everyone and supports everything.
I agree with most of what he's saying. I still claim OGG support is at least half-broken. If a player kneels because parts of a song has a hard-panned solo, that's a broken implementation. Regarding the order of plackback in directories, I can't say I recognize what you say. My player, with the latest UMS firmware, will play back everything in the order you dragged it to the player. Using the manager, it takes the order of the file list literally, but at least you can reorder songs in there.
The thing that made me buy an iRiver instead of any of the Creative and Apple players was it's feature richness and OGG support. I'm hoping they can get those final glitches out of the firmware soon, so I can actually start using OGG files (see review for elaboration).
Yes! Heck, if I encode a conga solo to MP3 at 320 kbps and listen to it on my headphones, it comes out all flabby. Sounds like somebody wet down the drums. Encode the same at any decent OGG bitrate. The result is brutally honest, and this is what I love about OGG.
I am not affiliated with iRiver and if this boosts sales, I did not intend that. If you had read the review properly, you would've know that there are two firmwares for it now, one of them being a new firmware with USB Mass Storage support. The iRiver's interface gets a good rating from me because it's very easy to learn, good looking and very flexible. I could've subtracted half a point for the joystick, but it's only tricky to use in the beginning. I don't regret purchasing it much, but am still disappointed by the poor OGG support.
I have the bandwidth. My server is connected directly to Norway's NIX at the University of Oslo's Research Park. My server just couldn't deal with all the requests. Seems to work better now, though.
Well, as they say: You can always switch the channel. I have tuned the server (which isn't a home server at all) a bit. It's out of the Slashdot storm now.
Sorry, people! Should've known better, and configured my server a bit better. It has a good connection, I just hadn't allocated the proper resources.
Cheers,
Thor
Slashdot Mirror
Mmm... Ja? xD Rar norsk du hadde...
Haha! Only 'problem' is that Norway is a member of NATO, UN and EEA (half-hearted EU membership), our government sucks up to the US like everybody else and we have troops (a few officers for moral support) in Iraq and Afghanistan. But sure. If you can somehow force us to come on bad terms with you...
Eyh! I'm Norwegian, you insensitive clod! But seriously, Norway is the world's third largest exporter of oil. We influence *your* gas prices. We also happen to be pretty far ahead in the tech and telecom sectors. We're the second richest country in the world (GDP pr capita). Yes! That's right. We have it better than the Americans, *and* we have the Nobel Peace Price. Trolltech, the makers of QT, the base of KDE, is situated in Norway, and don't forget Opera software. "The Scream" was painted by "Edvard Munch" (pr. "Munk" not "Munch"), a Norwegian painter. So *THERE*! Once you know the above, the following references become completely unfunny: "I'd like to thank the Prime Minister of Norway" in one of the "Police Academy" movies. "Norway? More like Snoreway." in the Kenya Flash movie.
I keep hearing about these failing Maxtor drives all over the place? My 80 GB drive has been working just fine for at least a year now. My computer is on 24/7 and I sit in front of it at least 8 hours a day. Are you guys sure it might not just be a particular production batch or a certain model that has issues?
Uh... It *is* an institution. "SUnet" is the Swedish University Computer Network. The Finnish equivalent is ftp.funet.fi and the Norwegian is ftp.uninett.no.
I have a thesis on this. I call it The Vicious Circle of Slashdot:
1. If you have good spelling, your grammar is bad.
2. If you have good grammar, your spelling is bad.
3. If you're smart, you write like a chimp.
4. If you're dim, you write like Shakespeare.
5. If you spend your spare time writing up posts like these on Slashdot, there is little hope for you indeed.
Hah! Are you expecting us to believe that you have *hair* on your arm? Nobody on Slashdot has high testosteron levels, everybody knows that!
It always cracks me up to see books like "How to save money" sell well...
Completely idiotic placement of post but I agree.
I'm not being big-mouthed. I'm saying everybody is being lazy, using Linux as a pillow. WINE is taking forever to finish and I don't know why. Lack of pay? Lack of interest? Even Ubuntu isn't completely managable with a GUI. I say it wasn't ready for release when they released it. They could've at least waited until someone wrote an "Add/remove programs" front-end for APT. If anybody thinks my opinions are ridiculous, they're free to deconstruct my arguments. I don't have opinions for fun. I reach conclusions with logic and those form my opinions. I'm not a troll.
You shouldn't rule that out. I know the potential magnitude of such a project, but think about how exciting it would be. It would beat WINE and other attempts at 'patching' other OSes because it would be cleaner due to less wrapper code. Everything would be supported natively. Sometimes I'm actually tempted to just gather a team and do the impossible. I'm not saying that I could or am going to do it, but don't rule it out...
Debian and Ubuntu are good. Very good! But why no very apparent built-in graphical tool that lets you do an apt-cache search and apt-get install stuff?
I'd like to try a *NIX where the first thing I have to do isn't to open a terminal and type barf --volapÿk -xxx -goatse narf.tar.bz2 loveTheBomb to install something. Oh, sure, I have no problem with it, but sometimes I sit there and I feel the frustration build up. I think "This would be so much easier in Windows". Then close my eyes and go "BLAAH-BLAAH-BLAAH!" before I reboot. I tried Fedora Core 4 the other day. The first thing I stumbled into was dependency hell. Boy, somebody should just take one of the open source kernels, preferably a modular one, and add support for the .NET, Win32 and POSIX APIs to it, do a kickass no-bloat GUI and turn the whole computer business on it's head with an OS that beats everyone and supports everything.
PAL and SECAM are interlaced as well. PAL frames have 576 lines at 25 FPS. PAL fields have 288 lines at 50 FPS. Same goes for SECAM.
I have a vendetta against myself? Dang! The culprit must be punished! :O
I agree with most of what he's saying. I still claim OGG support is at least half-broken. If a player kneels because parts of a song has a hard-panned solo, that's a broken implementation. Regarding the order of plackback in directories, I can't say I recognize what you say. My player, with the latest UMS firmware, will play back everything in the order you dragged it to the player. Using the manager, it takes the order of the file list literally, but at least you can reorder songs in there.
The thing that made me buy an iRiver instead of any of the Creative and Apple players was it's feature richness and OGG support. I'm hoping they can get those final glitches out of the firmware soon, so I can actually start using OGG files (see review for elaboration).
Yes! Heck, if I encode a conga solo to MP3 at 320 kbps and listen to it on my headphones, it comes out all flabby. Sounds like somebody wet down the drums. Encode the same at any decent OGG bitrate. The result is brutally honest, and this is what I love about OGG.
I am not affiliated with iRiver and if this boosts sales, I did not intend that. If you had read the review properly, you would've know that there are two firmwares for it now, one of them being a new firmware with USB Mass Storage support. The iRiver's interface gets a good rating from me because it's very easy to learn, good looking and very flexible. I could've subtracted half a point for the joystick, but it's only tricky to use in the beginning. I don't regret purchasing it much, but am still disappointed by the poor OGG support.
The player is limited to 96~225 kbps for OGG files. Read the appendix that I wrote just now. It should clear up a few things.
I have the bandwidth. My server is connected directly to Norway's NIX at the University of Oslo's Research Park. My server just couldn't deal with all the requests. Seems to work better now, though.
The slashdotting seems to have eased a bit. Try viewing it now. Feel free to ask any questions and I'll try to answer them. :-)
Well, as they say: You can always switch the channel. I have tuned the server (which isn't a home server at all) a bit. It's out of the Slashdot storm now.
Anybody got some good Apache2 settings to deal with the high traffic?
Sorry, people! Should've known better, and configured my server a bit better. It has a good connection, I just hadn't allocated the proper resources. Cheers, Thor