When XFree86 4 came out supporting Xinerama the first thing that I did was to set up a box with three beat up CRT monitors and install "The Matrix" screensaver... It was so pimp...
"...a rewrite of an X server where the display device is "a file on the harddrive"
"No need to rewrite; the Xvfb (virtual frame buffer) server has been part of X for a long time."
Even more than that, almost everything in Linux is treated as a file. The console output is written to as a file, the keyboard input buffer is a file being read, even the sound architecture that was kernel-based was just copying to a file.
Yes, more advanced sound daemons aren't necessarily operating as the kernel does, so while the programs still write to files the daemon handling that data gets different, but the basic principle still could apply depending on how future sound and video controls are implemented.
"I had two 1.5Mbps DSL lines back at my parent's house(they work for ATT) and the connections were fine. But I couldn't connect too many computers to one connection and run anything more than one or two torrents without bottlenecking the connection. And the ping times were around an average of 100-200ms. Now I'm on a 4Mbit connection with ping times around 50-100ms while running a few torrents."
For a long time I had DSL through an account provider that gave me five static IP addresses and permission to host my own DNS, web, and SMTP services. Qworst's line, however, was pathetic enough that I couldn't really host too much, and only a handfull of friends would use the bandwidth for the most part.
I'd love to have business-grade cable services, but it doesn't seem to be too likely unfortunately.
Company car. White, G plate, vehicle number, and blah-blah-blah for official use only on the sides...
Of course, we've taken to putting stickers that somewhat resemble network servers on, one for every server that we bring back b0rked to be bench-repaired, and one of the vans has a sticker resembling a huge bandaid on it. That's the one that always ends up at Vehicle Maintenance...
My work (a public institution) made me remove my "Bush/Cheney 1984: War is Peace" bumpersticker and wouldn't let me put my "I (heart) Big Brother" bumper sticker on either...
Probably explains why the Minbari in Babylon 5 were so much stronger, their beds were slanted with their head higher than their feet. Their explanation was that only the dead lie flat, but perhaps they were simply misleading the humans?
Really? I thought it was just because JMS wasn't good at the details when writing science fiction and that he picked a bad way to make the Minbari different and used a rather pathetic excuse to justify it...
In marketing their software to the masses and in gaining a monopoly in the method that they have, they should be obligated to provide some minimum quality standard. In my eyes that means figuring out what can and should be secure out of the box, and implementing a proper security model. Integrating Internet Explorer and ActiveX into the shell to the level that it has the ability to make system calls was STUPID. Requiring users to basically have administrator level access on any given computer in order to really use it is STUPID. Not back-patching software that's still heavily in use is STUPID.
Yes, I'm aware that it's possible for Linux, BSD, OSX, and any other OS to be configured badly, but many distributions that try to cater to the masses instead of to administrators or techies make a decent effort to turn off stuff that's not necessary, and they also work to minimize the amount of time someone needs to be root in order to do something. Apple's OSX did it beautifully by simply prompting when superuser access was necessary.
Honestly, I don't think that malevolent use of technology would be nearly as much of a problem if it were designed better. I'm looking at you, Microsoft, who have continued to provide us with software that is insecure both on the system and via network, and who never ever gets the software truly fixed. The next version may fix many of the previous version's problems, but it itself introduces new vulnerabilities that again, aren't fixed until the next version.
Companies that create software or firmware need to be held to a quality standard that creates a modicum of safety or security. There will always be people who will try to break into systems, but if the software is hardened to a certain extent then maybe the scr1pt k1dd13s will be kept out and reduce the number of compromises to those who actually can break in through their own work.
Edit: I forgot about the X-Serve, in that it is 17". Unfortunately it's also about three feet long and is obscenely expensive. So, while technically that could fit into the right system, it's a lot deeper than the 12-18" deep equipment that most of us use.
I only buy 17" component equipment. I like having a seperate receiver, cd player, dvd player, vcr, and the like. Apple doesn't produce anything in that form factor (and a 17" wide speaker with an ipod sitting on top doesn't count) and hasn't since the days of the pizza-box Quadras of the early nineties.
For me to consider putting Apple into my AV cabinet they need equipment that fits the form factor that both industry and I have chosen. I can put a cheap PC into a rack mount server chassis and use that for music and video playback a lot less expensively than even the iPod solutions cost.
...because asusming that Google's statement is true, there are too many others with their own agendas who will twist whatever's said to bolster their own positions.
While I don't like Google's actions in China, they're not nearly as reprehensible as Cisco Systems (equipping and training Chinese Police to seek out those who have spoken against the Government using the routers to prosecute) and Yahoo (turning over contact information of those who were specifically targeted), so Google really is a more minor player here than the others anyway.
While I can agree that emoticons and faux-HTML tags can help to clarify the intent of a message, personally I find it easier to just say enough to make my point clear. Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it makes for a very poor way to explain in print. The collective we have become so used to shortening and truncating what we say that we have forgotten how to write, and instead of relearning the skill we have substituted it with characters, abbreviations, and software-interpreted markup language to the point that I rarely meet people who would be able to write a pursuasive essay even if they set out to do so.
Unfortunately along with this, most people seem to have gotten to where they tune out that which requires their attention, instead relying on sound-bites, catch phrases that are unignorable, and outlandish exclamations to actually get data to penetrate. I'd be rather surprised if many people have read this far into my comment, for example. People need to learn how to read just as much as they need to learn how to write.
Thankfully vestiges of literary decency still exist, even if they aren't mainstream anymore. Hopefully trends will eventually return to that, but I'm not going to count on it.
I own two projectors, and I'd consider buying this if it looked good enough. The leap forward that their emission technology uses could explain the low power use.
The only reason why I own two projectors is that the second one came along at a very good deal ($300) and was higher res (1024x768) compared to my older one, which was 800x600. The old one is only 300 lumens, but it's still perfectly adequate in a dark room. If this thing delivers the resolution that it sounds like and is comparable to my older projector in brightness then I'd get one in a heartbeat. It'd be great to have something that tiny to mount to the ceiling or integrate, rather than having something that's better described as one cubit by one cubit...
My first computer was my dad's poor choice in a Price Club buy in 1988, a Packard Bell "PB500", XT with 640K RAM, 30MB MFM hard drive, and double density 5.25" floppy. It had an ATI video card capable of displaying 16 colors in 80x25 or 40x25 text mode or four colors in a graphical environment. It had MS-DOS 3.3 and GW Basic 3.22.
I added a modem to it and started BBSing when I got a shareware CD with Procomm in 1992 or so. I later added a 3.5" floppy drive, but I didn't realise the 1MB limitation on using it for long enough to be a pain.
I got a Cyrix 486-equivalent in 1994, finally replacing that dinosaur.
I'm a bit annoyed with the XP "hide all of the desktop icons" stuff too. Maybe, maybe I can understand it with people using the standard 'user' account, but 'power user' and 'administrator' both should have all of that stuff right where it belongs. It would also be nice if the built-in Administrator account had actual administrative functions as part of the default screen/shell/desktop right there rather than nested away in menus, and even better yet if the stuff couldn't be closed, so maybe people would be forced to take system security seriously and not run as an administrator unless they actually intended to use that power.
I don't run as administrator/root/supervisor on anything unless I have a real need to do so. That's rare. My Microsoftie friends seem to fail to understand why that's a bad thing, and surprise surprise, they're reinstalling the OSes more often than I have to.
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Apparently you missed the fan-zine era of the late seventies and eighties. Kirk/Spock "Slash" was very, very popular for awhile.
And very disturbing.
But not nearly as disturbing as the Dr. Crusher/Wesley Crusher stories...
Well, that picture floating around the Internet of the woman with the "Wish these were brains" shirt on appears to meet two out of four...
When XFree86 4 came out supporting Xinerama the first thing that I did was to set up a box with three beat up CRT monitors and install "The Matrix" screensaver... It was so pimp...
Even more than that, almost everything in Linux is treated as a file. The console output is written to as a file, the keyboard input buffer is a file being read, even the sound architecture that was kernel-based was just copying to a file.
Yes, more advanced sound daemons aren't necessarily operating as the kernel does, so while the programs still write to files the daemon handling that data gets different, but the basic principle still could apply depending on how future sound and video controls are implemented.
I'd love to have business-grade cable services, but it doesn't seem to be too likely unfortunately.
Company car. White, G plate, vehicle number, and blah-blah-blah for official use only on the sides...
Of course, we've taken to putting stickers that somewhat resemble network servers on, one for every server that we bring back b0rked to be bench-repaired, and one of the vans has a sticker resembling a huge bandaid on it. That's the one that always ends up at Vehicle Maintenance...
Hey, a hooker with a glass eye is a popular thing in extreme porno that wants to go beyond triple...
My work (a public institution) made me remove my "Bush/Cheney 1984: War is Peace" bumpersticker and wouldn't let me put my "I (heart) Big Brother" bumper sticker on either...
And I actually like Babylon 5...
"...I can assure you that cars DO fly through the air*."
"*The glide ratio is pretty bad though."
It worked out okay for that AMC Matador in Ian Fleming's The Man With The Golden Gun...
By contrast, it didn't work out so well for Joan Wilder and Jack Colton in The Jewel of the Nile...
In marketing their software to the masses and in gaining a monopoly in the method that they have, they should be obligated to provide some minimum quality standard. In my eyes that means figuring out what can and should be secure out of the box, and implementing a proper security model. Integrating Internet Explorer and ActiveX into the shell to the level that it has the ability to make system calls was STUPID. Requiring users to basically have administrator level access on any given computer in order to really use it is STUPID. Not back-patching software that's still heavily in use is STUPID.
Yes, I'm aware that it's possible for Linux, BSD, OSX, and any other OS to be configured badly, but many distributions that try to cater to the masses instead of to administrators or techies make a decent effort to turn off stuff that's not necessary, and they also work to minimize the amount of time someone needs to be root in order to do something. Apple's OSX did it beautifully by simply prompting when superuser access was necessary.
Honestly, I don't think that malevolent use of technology would be nearly as much of a problem if it were designed better. I'm looking at you, Microsoft, who have continued to provide us with software that is insecure both on the system and via network, and who never ever gets the software truly fixed. The next version may fix many of the previous version's problems, but it itself introduces new vulnerabilities that again, aren't fixed until the next version.
Companies that create software or firmware need to be held to a quality standard that creates a modicum of safety or security. There will always be people who will try to break into systems, but if the software is hardened to a certain extent then maybe the scr1pt k1dd13s will be kept out and reduce the number of compromises to those who actually can break in through their own work.
No, I meant 17". 19" is the width including mounting provisions. 17" is the width of the equipment sans rails. The Xserve is 17".
Edit: I forgot about the X-Serve, in that it is 17". Unfortunately it's also about three feet long and is obscenely expensive. So, while technically that could fit into the right system, it's a lot deeper than the 12-18" deep equipment that most of us use.
I only buy 17" component equipment. I like having a seperate receiver, cd player, dvd player, vcr, and the like. Apple doesn't produce anything in that form factor (and a 17" wide speaker with an ipod sitting on top doesn't count) and hasn't since the days of the pizza-box Quadras of the early nineties.
For me to consider putting Apple into my AV cabinet they need equipment that fits the form factor that both industry and I have chosen. I can put a cheap PC into a rack mount server chassis and use that for music and video playback a lot less expensively than even the iPod solutions cost.
I need a new keyboard now. This old one doesn't work so well now that it's full of coffee...
"A $7 paperback is waterproof enough that you can try not to get it wet. If you do get it wet, the damage stops at 'shit!'."
Yeah, and if you're like me and buy almost all used books, then with that $3.50 paperback, the damage stops at 'sh'
...because asusming that Google's statement is true, there are too many others with their own agendas who will twist whatever's said to bolster their own positions.
While I don't like Google's actions in China, they're not nearly as reprehensible as Cisco Systems (equipping and training Chinese Police to seek out those who have spoken against the Government using the routers to prosecute) and Yahoo (turning over contact information of those who were specifically targeted), so Google really is a more minor player here than the others anyway.
...a real interview, with answered questions and everything.
C'mon CmdrTaco! Don't you have that ouija-board Apache kernel module working right yet?
I could have sworn that I met someone who the grandparent post applied to just last week, while in line at the grocery store...
While I can agree that emoticons and faux-HTML tags can help to clarify the intent of a message, personally I find it easier to just say enough to make my point clear. Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it makes for a very poor way to explain in print. The collective we have become so used to shortening and truncating what we say that we have forgotten how to write, and instead of relearning the skill we have substituted it with characters, abbreviations, and software-interpreted markup language to the point that I rarely meet people who would be able to write a pursuasive essay even if they set out to do so.
Unfortunately along with this, most people seem to have gotten to where they tune out that which requires their attention, instead relying on sound-bites, catch phrases that are unignorable, and outlandish exclamations to actually get data to penetrate. I'd be rather surprised if many people have read this far into my comment, for example. People need to learn how to read just as much as they need to learn how to write.
Thankfully vestiges of literary decency still exist, even if they aren't mainstream anymore. Hopefully trends will eventually return to that, but I'm not going to count on it.
I own two projectors, and I'd consider buying this if it looked good enough. The leap forward that their emission technology uses could explain the low power use.
The only reason why I own two projectors is that the second one came along at a very good deal ($300) and was higher res (1024x768) compared to my older one, which was 800x600. The old one is only 300 lumens, but it's still perfectly adequate in a dark room. If this thing delivers the resolution that it sounds like and is comparable to my older projector in brightness then I'd get one in a heartbeat. It'd be great to have something that tiny to mount to the ceiling or integrate, rather than having something that's better described as one cubit by one cubit...
Yeah, it's ridiculous, but it makes sense given that tabbed browsing evolved from an engine that didn't have it.
Of course, I don't care for tabs, I like using the windowmanager to keep track of things like that instead of the suite.
My first computer was my dad's poor choice in a Price Club buy in 1988, a Packard Bell "PB500", XT with 640K RAM, 30MB MFM hard drive, and double density 5.25" floppy. It had an ATI video card capable of displaying 16 colors in 80x25 or 40x25 text mode or four colors in a graphical environment. It had MS-DOS 3.3 and GW Basic 3.22.
I added a modem to it and started BBSing when I got a shareware CD with Procomm in 1992 or so. I later added a 3.5" floppy drive, but I didn't realise the 1MB limitation on using it for long enough to be a pain.
I got a Cyrix 486-equivalent in 1994, finally replacing that dinosaur.
I miss BBSing...
I'm a bit annoyed with the XP "hide all of the desktop icons" stuff too. Maybe, maybe I can understand it with people using the standard 'user' account, but 'power user' and 'administrator' both should have all of that stuff right where it belongs. It would also be nice if the built-in Administrator account had actual administrative functions as part of the default screen/shell/desktop right there rather than nested away in menus, and even better yet if the stuff couldn't be closed, so maybe people would be forced to take system security seriously and not run as an administrator unless they actually intended to use that power.
I don't run as administrator/root/supervisor on anything unless I have a real need to do so. That's rare. My Microsoftie friends seem to fail to understand why that's a bad thing, and surprise surprise, they're reinstalling the OSes more often than I have to.