Metalinks should be the way to download big files, they might include a torrent, might not, but it works better. It just needs more adoption in browsers. Standardized as RFC 5854.
somewhere is a rather long explanation about their hardware - on youtube ^^
gigabyte built customized mainboards for them. optimized for speed, and either a lot of ram or a lot of harddisks - and no graphics, sound or other silly things. they do UPS right on the board (top boxes in picture 2) and yes, i think it's cheaper. they might fail more often, but they can repair and reuse them!! everything is their hands and they have full control!
+1 to Sage http://www.sagemath.org/ from me, too. You are always limited by these tiny utilites and you are not able to program with them easily like with Sage - since it is based on Python.
i got a hp 2140 and well, they (hp) put suse sled 10 on it. it was terrible slow, old software, and even the webcam didn't work!
then i tried ubuntu's netbook remix based on upcoming jaunty. well, it was much faster, up to date software, webcam and everything else worked. wlan connected much faster (took up to 2 min on sled 10)
only problem: the kernel (2.6.28) can't boot if the DC power is plugged!
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12984
i really want linux since i only use linux, but it is a bit hard to go mainstream based on such a level of quality... preinstalled linux is horrible and the more recent software has bugs.
spoiler, i'm a gnome fan, but not only because it is simple and i don't have to think about how to use it (after about 10 years of linux experience i want to focus on other things than silly desktop effects). I recently got kde 4.1 here at my office and the first thing which was really annoying is, that the "Dolphin" file manager eats about 200mb of ram almost instantly. That's simply not acceptable and is only the tip of the iceberg. At gnome, things are reduced to fit their purposes, repsond faster, eat less resources. Therefore i think, kde has a really long way to go and I don't think that gnome's gradual way has any problems for the next years... Netbooks and web-applications will demand new features and gnome is well prepared.
type in x, highligh it, menu: insert > object > formula (iirc there is a shortcut for that) and then click on it and edit the formula to "overline {x}"
click somehwere else and you are done
back before 2000, google was choosen as the search results provider vor yahoo. they helped google, now they want to give back. this deal wasn't about google gets yahoo,just about showing ads along a page, only bottom right iirc, and nothing more - for their mutual benefit. (i.e. yahoo doesn't have the technology to show ads for the long tail of less important keywords and therefore less ads to display)
no, but that's interesting! even if this is a new browser, firefox could still benefit via open source. chrome uses mozilla code and well, good developers are normally more exited with new projects than maintaining an old one;)
no, read those studies with brain activity. they just say, that in the *moment* when you *think* you decide, your brain has actually already decided. but there is no evidence at all, that this moment of brain activitiy before it comes to your mind, is based on free will or not. having free will is not equal with the impression of the actually thinking. see it that way, that a small unknow magic activity triggers a cascade of events, that form this impression of a free-will-thought a second later.
so, this whole question is just much more complicated than those studies suggest...
i've just installed it and the first thing i noticed is the google-docs/spreadsheed/notes-like interface. did they just copy it and removed the CSS or is there more behind? but anyway, would be very interesting to have google hosting this as an addition to their documents. online collaboration notebooks with that high level by them would be really interesting addition to their current stack of products (despite only interesting for a very small percentage of users, besides high school and college)!
and second the one big open source suite i'm missing is R (www.r-project.org) which would be a huge expansion in the field of statistics (data mining, analysis and so on) and visualization (ggplot2...)...
aside of that, there is also a "copies" parameter. default is 1, if set higher, all new files are stored this number of times - distributed across disks. this means, as far as i understand. two raidz with two disks and copies set to 2 saves everything in both raidz. redundancy is higher, not much space gained and speed is possibly higher, too. three raidz a two disks with copies 2... well.. do the math;) [and there is a raidz2, too]
you can try view>online layout.
not exactly what you are looking for, but there are less irritating borders and no page breaks.
and a hint, if you hack a bit around you can assign each paragraph the header level 10 and then you can see the first words of each paragaph together with the headings in the navigator window (compass icon...)
i suggest to use the mass of one single proton as the base unit. and then a fixed factor to get 1kg of it. that would be the only solution which would hold for a long time...
LFS is educationally, but it is hard to keep it up to date. thats the most important point for gentoo. there you have a database which gives you tested updates (hopefully) very soon. on the other hand, if you have LFS, you have to watch all installed components for updates, that is very time consuming. and then, you install them even if you don't know if it will be working right out of the box
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Metalinks should be the way to download big files, they might include a torrent, might not, but it works better. It just needs more adoption in browsers. Standardized as RFC 5854.
somewhere is a rather long explanation about their hardware - on youtube ^^ gigabyte built customized mainboards for them. optimized for speed, and either a lot of ram or a lot of harddisks - and no graphics, sound or other silly things. they do UPS right on the board (top boxes in picture 2) and yes, i think it's cheaper. they might fail more often, but they can repair and reuse them!! everything is their hands and they have full control!
+1 to Sage http://www.sagemath.org/ from me, too. You are always limited by these tiny utilites and you are not able to program with them easily like with Sage - since it is based on Python.
you know, one of the main reasons google is scanning books, is, to feed them into an AI !
i got a hp 2140 and well, they (hp) put suse sled 10 on it. it was terrible slow, old software, and even the webcam didn't work! then i tried ubuntu's netbook remix based on upcoming jaunty. well, it was much faster, up to date software, webcam and everything else worked. wlan connected much faster (took up to 2 min on sled 10) only problem: the kernel (2.6.28) can't boot if the DC power is plugged! http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12984 i really want linux since i only use linux, but it is a bit hard to go mainstream based on such a level of quality... preinstalled linux is horrible and the more recent software has bugs.
spoiler, i'm a gnome fan, but not only because it is simple and i don't have to think about how to use it (after about 10 years of linux experience i want to focus on other things than silly desktop effects). I recently got kde 4.1 here at my office and the first thing which was really annoying is, that the "Dolphin" file manager eats about 200mb of ram almost instantly. That's simply not acceptable and is only the tip of the iceberg. At gnome, things are reduced to fit their purposes, repsond faster, eat less resources. Therefore i think, kde has a really long way to go and I don't think that gnome's gradual way has any problems for the next years... Netbooks and web-applications will demand new features and gnome is well prepared.
i hope thats sarcasm. open source means that you actively build something on your own. watching tv is just consuming and passive. i prefer active.
type in x, highligh it, menu: insert > object > formula (iirc there is a shortcut for that) and then click on it and edit the formula to "overline {x}" click somehwere else and you are done
Google really wanted to "rescue" Yahoo?
back before 2000, google was choosen as the search results provider vor yahoo. they helped google, now they want to give back. this deal wasn't about google gets yahoo,just about showing ads along a page, only bottom right iirc, and nothing more - for their mutual benefit. (i.e. yahoo doesn't have the technology to show ads for the long tail of less important keywords and therefore less ads to display)
Glad I held my purchase =P
i think there is a refund, so no real damage ... but i hope for an update to this story, i.e. a new delivery date.
no, but that's interesting! even if this is a new browser, firefox could still benefit via open source. chrome uses mozilla code and well, good developers are normally more exited with new projects than maintaining an old one ;)
no, read those studies with brain activity. they just say, that in the *moment* when you *think* you decide, your brain has actually already decided. but there is no evidence at all, that this moment of brain activitiy before it comes to your mind, is based on free will or not. having free will is not equal with the impression of the actually thinking. see it that way, that a small unknow magic activity triggers a cascade of events, that form this impression of a free-will-thought a second later. so, this whole question is just much more complicated than those studies suggest...
hadoops's hdfs is the only thing which comes to my mind but i don't know if this could be any useful at all.
http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/DFS
another project is wuala ( http://wua.la/ ), but that's not for internal use...
i've just installed it and the first thing i noticed is the google-docs/spreadsheed/notes-like interface. did they just copy it and removed the CSS or is there more behind? but anyway, would be very interesting to have google hosting this as an addition to their documents. online collaboration notebooks with that high level by them would be really interesting addition to their current stack of products (despite only interesting for a very small percentage of users, besides high school and college)!
...
and second the one big open source suite i'm missing is R (www.r-project.org) which would be a huge expansion in the field of statistics (data mining, analysis and so on) and visualization (ggplot2...)
well, at least they have their suitable programming language http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/att-invents-pro.html
aside of that, there is also a "copies" parameter. default is 1, if set higher, all new files are stored this number of times - distributed across disks. this means, as far as i understand. two raidz with two disks and copies set to 2 saves everything in both raidz. redundancy is higher, not much space gained and speed is possibly higher, too. three raidz a two disks with copies 2 ... well .. do the math ;) [and there is a raidz2, too]
.. you forgot about the intelligent prefetching.
> 2) new quickstarter is useless, cannot launch apps from it. Annoys me too. Please Vote for it here: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=30 853
> play Pac Man
well, try this in OOo's Calc
=GAME(A2:C4;"TicTacToe")
you can try view>online layout. not exactly what you are looking for, but there are less irritating borders and no page breaks. and a hint, if you hack a bit around you can assign each paragraph the header level 10 and then you can see the first words of each paragaph together with the headings in the navigator window (compass icon...)
i suggest to use the mass of one single proton as the base unit. and then a fixed factor to get 1kg of it. that would be the only solution which would hold for a long time...
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LFS is educationally, but it is hard to keep it up to date. thats the most important point for gentoo. there you have a database which gives you tested updates (hopefully) very soon.
on the other hand, if you have LFS, you have to watch all installed components for updates, that is very time consuming. and then, you install them even if you don't know if it will be working right out of the box