First, the graphics card isn't ATI or NVidia. It's Intel. That means no native OpenGL support
Bzzt, wrong! Intel cards do support OpenGL, just not spectacularly. Here I am running XGL on one to prove it...
Yeah, "That's an Asus" was my first thought. Confirmed it by scrolling half a page down the article and reading "Powered by ASUS", nifty logo and all...
I'm amazed there's no mention of this yet, with all the fuss about XGL and Compiz recently... The FC development repo (so I assume FC6T1 has it as well) includes AIGLX, a different approach to the accelerated desktop thing. The metacity that comes with Core has support for a few effects (like wobbling windows), but if you want to try the cube and othe compiz goodies, Kristian has an RPM of compiz for AIGLX here. Just install it and voilá: eye candy goodness.
What are you talking about? Suspend (SWSUSP), the in-kernel version, already supports hibernate (suspend-to-disk), and is enabled on FC5 by default. Coupled with (also in the distro) gnome-power-manager, I just have to hit the power button on my laptop for it to go into hibernation...
Or if you're the "do it by hand" type, just run "pm-hibernate" (part of the pm-utils package)
Next time, try undefining (or changing) the browser.search.param.Google.1.default key.
Took me about 2 minutes to figure it out (just look at the existing config keys with "google" in their name and play around with them, for crying out loud...)
As others have written, the Discworld is more of a universe than a series. There are 4 major "plot series" in it, though: The Wizards, The Witches, The Watch, and Death
Some books overlap these "series", some don't mention them, and some have small tie-ins. If you want to start with the standalone books, "Small Gods" is a good pick.
For the others, "The Colour of Magic" is good for the Wizards, "Equal Rites" is great for the Witches, "Guards! Guards!" for the Watch, and "Mort" for Death. My personal preference goes to the Death books and the Watch books, so I'd say Mort is a good place to start.
Or... you can just bite the bullet and start from the beginning: "The Colour of Magic"
Don't think of it as Sci-Fi, think of it as "Western in a future that happens to have space travel":)
Jokes aside, I had the same reaction to the first few episodes. Like most other shows, it starts out slowly with a bit of storybuilding, and only starts to get interesting a few episodes later. Sit down, watch a few more eps, and your opinion will probably change.
You're kidding, right? They are THE processor for laptops. Almost everyone I know with a x86 laptop has one. I went from a P3 to a P4 to a first-gen centrino, and now a Sonoma for about the last half year (actually, a W5A like the one in the article).
There's no way a regular Pentium or Celeron can compare to a Centrino when in comes to battery life or heat output. . And I'm no Intel fanboy at all, I actually do prefer AMDs on the desktops, but for notebooks Intel Centrinos are "it"
There's only 2 ways that can be true:
1 - You never sent an e-mail message to a Windows user, and your e-mail address has never shown up in any pages or forwarded message or anything that might expose it to an infected machine
2 - Your e-mail provider filters your e-mail.
Maybe, but true IPTV would be on-demand rather than scheduled, IMO. Of course, if the back-end is closed and licensed, its doomed to fail. iTunes picks RSS feeds for podcasting from anyone, but IPTV will likely give us "what we don't want, when we don't want it."
You're limiting IPTV to VoD or time-shifted TV, and that's not what it's about. Think "cable operator with real-time interactive features". IPTV is not _just_ a consumer-oriented tech, it's a way for telcos to compete with cable operators and pay for the high-bandwidth last-mile links customers want nowadays. (the ARPU in TV services is MUCH higher than Internet or voice)
You'll get the god-knows-how-many broadcast channels as before, and those, being real-time, can and will use multicast, so each individual channel will only go once through the backbone. For timeshifted TV (think TiVO's "pause"), you can just have an HDD on the STB. Video-on-Demand, however, _Will_ take it's toll on the operator's network, as each customer's video-feed will be unique to that customer.
And now, to go back to the original article, I've seen MS's platform in exhibits throughout the year. It's gorgeous, but it's expensive as hell (the STBs require a massive amount of capacity to do their nifty little features. While most middleware vendors make do with small PPC CPU's in the 200-400 Mhz range, MS's solution needs at least a 700MHz Celeron. The investment per customer goes through the roof) they're hardly a big contender in that area (although they're growing). They (still?) have a sizeable and healthy number of competitors.
I think there's many people in that situation, even if it's for different reasons.
As in your case, both me and the wife love the new BSG (and a lot of my co-workers and friends). The catch is: we live in a country where Sci-Fi is just plain unavailable. Some of us started out by downloading the miniseries, then went ahead and bought it on DVD along with season 1, and started downloading season 2 episodes as they came out, while intending to buy the S2 DVDs whenever they're released.
Others (myself included), started following the series at various points during season 1. When the boxset came out, a few months later, we all bought it together (There's something memorable about a big Amazon cardbox filled with DVD boxed sets:) ).
My point is basically the same as yours: we have no way of following the show unless we download the eps. For us, not even buying a cable subscription is an option; we either wait for the DVDs, or we hit the trackers; and who wants to wait for a DVD when the last ep you saw ends in a huge cliffhanger? (as is usual between seasons).
I'd be fully willing to pay for the episodes if they made them available on a weekly basis (as they come out); just give them to me in a format which can be played in the Linux HTPC, and I'm a happy man. And yes, I'd still buy the boxed set later.
- Does the Enterprise Edition come with Kirk or Picard?
As I doubt our computers will start speaking and listening to us, I'm gessing it'll be the "Archer Edition", with "Trip Center" replacing the Control Panel, "Hail then, Hoshi" as a WinPopup replacement, and "Reed Alert" as the new firewall. (T'Pol will probably be lurking as a wallpaper or something)
Yeah, and if that same "God" had meant us to cross the oceans 500 years ago, he should have given European powers a couple of jets to avoid scurvy and mutinies out of boredom.
Transportation technology and exploration missions have always started out with rudimentary technology, prone to risk and with lots of fatalities paving the way. Crossing the oceans, crossing the continents, going to the poles, the mountains and the abysses have always been dangerous undertakings, and we've gotten better at it over time. Space is just another frontier, and another learning curve.
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3 MythTV boxes (1 master, 2 "satellites"), all running FC5. As someone previously mentioned, just "yum install mythtv-suite" using the atrpms repo.
(I'm just trying to nail down the audio / video sync issues - I gotta get my line out to stop playing 'live' audio, dammit!)
Just disable "Capture" for the TV line in the audio mixer (alsamixer will do. Just hit tab twice to see playback and capture devices simultaneously)
How long ago was that? For the last year or so, they've been working out of the box.
First, the graphics card isn't ATI or NVidia. It's Intel. That means no native OpenGL support
Bzzt, wrong! Intel cards do support OpenGL, just not spectacularly. Here I am running XGL on one to prove it...
Yeah, "That's an Asus" was my first thought. Confirmed it by scrolling half a page down the article and reading "Powered by ASUS", nifty logo and all...
I'm amazed there's no mention of this yet, with all the fuss about XGL and Compiz recently...
The FC development repo (so I assume FC6T1 has it as well) includes AIGLX, a different approach to the accelerated desktop thing. The metacity that comes with Core has support for a few effects (like wobbling windows), but if you want to try the cube and othe compiz goodies, Kristian has an RPM of compiz for AIGLX here. Just install it and voilá: eye candy goodness.
... including in the latest 2 laptops, a T40 and T41. What are you talking about?
IIRC, she didn't remove them; they were rerouted to her mouth.
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What are you talking about? Suspend (SWSUSP), the in-kernel version, already supports hibernate (suspend-to-disk), and is enabled on FC5 by default. Coupled with (also in the distro) gnome-power-manager, I just have to hit the power button on my laptop for it to go into hibernation... Or if you're the "do it by hand" type, just run "pm-hibernate" (part of the pm-utils package)
It won't be "fixed", it's like that by design. Check http://fedora.redhat.com/About/ (Why can't Fedora play mp3 files?)
Slow, unusable in real work environments, but real. Check https://lg3d.dev.java.net/, "there be download links there".
:)
Last time I tried it (about 6 months ago) I was actually able to use it for a couple of hours without hanging
Next time, try undefining (or changing) the browser.search.param.Google.1.default key.
Took me about 2 minutes to figure it out (just look at the existing config keys with "google" in their name and play around with them, for crying out loud...)
As others have written, the Discworld is more of a universe than a series. There are 4 major "plot series" in it, though: The Wizards, The Witches, The Watch, and Death
Some books overlap these "series", some don't mention them, and some have small tie-ins. If you want to start with the standalone books, "Small Gods" is a good pick.
For the others, "The Colour of Magic" is good for the Wizards, "Equal Rites" is great for the Witches, "Guards! Guards!" for the Watch, and "Mort" for Death. My personal preference goes to the Death books and the Watch books, so I'd say Mort is a good place to start.
Or... you can just bite the bullet and start from the beginning: "The Colour of Magic"
Here it is. (this is the 1510, imageshack, Coralized)
Don't think of it as Sci-Fi, think of it as "Western in a future that happens to have space travel" :)
Jokes aside, I had the same reaction to the first few episodes. Like most other shows, it starts out slowly with a bit of storybuilding, and only starts to get interesting a few episodes later. Sit down, watch a few more eps, and your opinion will probably change.
You're kidding, right? They are THE processor for laptops. Almost everyone I know with a x86 laptop has one. I went from a P3 to a P4 to a first-gen centrino, and now a Sonoma for about the last half year (actually, a W5A like the one in the article). There's no way a regular Pentium or Celeron can compare to a Centrino when in comes to battery life or heat output. . And I'm no Intel fanboy at all, I actually do prefer AMDs on the desktops, but for notebooks Intel Centrinos are "it"
There's only 2 ways that can be true: 1 - You never sent an e-mail message to a Windows user, and your e-mail address has never shown up in any pages or forwarded message or anything that might expose it to an infected machine 2 - Your e-mail provider filters your e-mail.
Not even that. Most deployments I've personally seen are TS/IP, so the main difference is just the transport layer.
Maybe, but true IPTV would be on-demand rather than scheduled, IMO. Of course, if the back-end is closed and licensed, its doomed to fail. iTunes picks RSS feeds for podcasting from anyone, but IPTV will likely give us "what we don't want, when we don't want it."
You're limiting IPTV to VoD or time-shifted TV, and that's not what it's about. Think "cable operator with real-time interactive features". IPTV is not _just_ a consumer-oriented tech, it's a way for telcos to compete with cable operators and pay for the high-bandwidth last-mile links customers want nowadays. (the ARPU in TV services is MUCH higher than Internet or voice)
You'll get the god-knows-how-many broadcast channels as before, and those, being real-time, can and will use multicast, so each individual channel will only go once through the backbone. For timeshifted TV (think TiVO's "pause"), you can just have an HDD on the STB. Video-on-Demand, however, _Will_ take it's toll on the operator's network, as each customer's video-feed will be unique to that customer.
And now, to go back to the original article, I've seen MS's platform in exhibits throughout the year. It's gorgeous, but it's expensive as hell (the STBs require a massive amount of capacity to do their nifty little features. While most middleware vendors make do with small PPC CPU's in the 200-400 Mhz range, MS's solution needs at least a 700MHz Celeron. The investment per customer goes through the roof) they're hardly a big contender in that area (although they're growing). They (still?) have a sizeable and healthy number of competitors.
Somehow, I think Daniel Cutberth, 28, east London, arrested on January 20th and the Solaris using, Lynx toting 28-year-old east Londoner arrested about the same time are one and the same.
So much for the "Lynx theory".
I think there's many people in that situation, even if it's for different reasons.
:) ).
As in your case, both me and the wife love the new BSG (and a lot of my co-workers and friends). The catch is: we live in a country where Sci-Fi is just plain unavailable. Some of us started out by downloading the miniseries, then went ahead and bought it on DVD along with season 1, and started downloading season 2 episodes as they came out, while intending to buy the S2 DVDs whenever they're released.
Others (myself included), started following the series at various points during season 1. When the boxset came out, a few months later, we all bought it together (There's something memorable about a big Amazon cardbox filled with DVD boxed sets
My point is basically the same as yours: we have no way of following the show unless we download the eps. For us, not even buying a cable subscription is an option; we either wait for the DVDs, or we hit the trackers; and who wants to wait for a DVD when the last ep you saw ends in a huge cliffhanger? (as is usual between seasons).
I'd be fully willing to pay for the episodes if they made them available on a weekly basis (as they come out); just give them to me in a format which can be played in the Linux HTPC, and I'm a happy man. And yes, I'd still buy the boxed set later.
- Does the Enterprise Edition come with Kirk or Picard?
As I doubt our computers will start speaking and listening to us, I'm gessing it'll be the "Archer Edition", with "Trip Center" replacing the Control Panel, "Hail then, Hoshi" as a WinPopup replacement, and "Reed Alert" as the new firewall. (T'Pol will probably be lurking as a wallpaper or something)
Yeah, she must have spent a few grand on the crane alone ;)
Yeah, and if that same "God" had meant us to cross the oceans 500 years ago, he should have given European powers a couple of jets to avoid scurvy and mutinies out of boredom.
Transportation technology and exploration missions have always started out with rudimentary technology, prone to risk and with lots of fatalities paving the way. Crossing the oceans, crossing the continents, going to the poles, the mountains and the abysses have always been dangerous undertakings, and we've gotten better at it over time. Space is just another frontier, and another learning curve.