The two are not even in the same class of laptop!! the thinnest edge of the X300 is about as thick as the thickest edge of the AIR
X300 is about twice as thick (18.6mm-23.4mm) as a MacBook Air (4.0mm-19.4mm) average thickness(11.7mm vs 21mm)
if you STACKED TWO Macbook Air Laptops (19.4+4.0=23.4) you would arrive at roughly the thickness of one X300 at (21mm average)
At the end of the day, this X300 laptop is somewhere between the Macbook Air and the Macbook Pro for thickness (closer to the Macbook Pro,... much closer at 25mm)
It's really unbelievable that these two laptops even get mentioned in the same breath.
if anyone did, I am suprised there aren't any rants about the red-eye based age detector that is covered in it. it's a pretty cool idea. although i don't see it ever used for anything really:D
I've read Slashdot three times this week.
Yes... I don't read Slashdot as much as I used to...
and the same f*&^%$%%^^&&***ing story has been the top story each effin' time
Seriously, I have never seen a tripe before!
Has this ever happened before?
What about a quadrupe?
A quadrupe, now that'd be something!
IQ is defined with 100 in the middle
i.e. half will be below average and half will be above
So it is a truism to say that:
"Yea, I once read that 50% of Americans are below average intelligence."
"and when we came off Daylight Saving Time, it didn't change until about eight hours after it was supposed to."
it doesn't check very often, but it checks at startup
so turn the phone off and back on again
a few minutes after the changeover and it will sync instantly
Every.0 release of Mandrake/iva has been ridden with problems
URPMI an PLF and Coooker are the reaseons I keep coming back to Mandrake
but seriously 2006 is one of the worst releases they have put out since 8.0
It is Much slower than 2005(10.2), much less stable;
it lacks apache1, which I still prefer, the list goes on and on.
KDE 3.4 with its kat and kdewallet annoyances...
but again it's a.0 release, so It's almost expected.
b4 you can have flying cars You need - freeflight - no flight corridors - autopilot for cars - automatic collision avoidance
- some tanks can do this now
- driverless vehicles that follow a map
bottom line the flying car needs to be able to fly itself and have a parachute in case of stalls
how long does it take to run
find /
2 minutes? 10 minutes?
ok
use locate instead
takes 1 second
maybe less
but the indeces may not be up do date
this essentially updates the locate-style db indeces whenever a file is saved
brilliant
going into a folder and displaying its contents
becomes the same thing as show me all files
from last week that are images about nature
brilliant
I do agree though that it should have a command line equivalent
so you need to have a real dbfs AND a command line utility
akin to find that akes advantage of it, ie make find dbfs aware and have it run faster and capable of searching metadata, but you also need this kind of improvement to KDE so that you can display files by keywords, not by the ANTIQUATED notion of FOLDERS
how long does it take to run
find /
2 minutes? 10 minutes?
ok
use locate instead
takes 1 second
maybe less
but the indeces may not be up do date
this essentially updates the locate-style db indeces whenever a file is saved
brilliant
going into a folder and displaying its contents
becomes the same thing as show me all files
from last week that are images about nature
brilliant
I do agree though that it should have a command line equivalent
so you need to have a real dbfs AND a command line utility
akin to find that akes advantage of it, ie make find dbfs aware and have it run faster and capable of searching metadata, but you also need this kind of improvement to KDE so that you can display files by keywords, not by the ANTIQATED notion of FOLDERS
I thought I was the only one that thought that Windows, not Linux is in need of better package management, but apparently there is at least one more person out there that understands RPM
I don't know how they can get away with calling it motion
In light of the Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox/Fire--- browser, and the mobilix.org forced name changes it should be noted that "Motion" is a well known motion detection software.
Every time I see an airport or a power plant affected by windows viruses and/or vulnerabilities I get a bit queasy
Will the general public ever realize that if what you are working on is of any importance, nevermind critical importance, then Windows is not the right tool for the job.
From the story:
"This is one of the most serious Microsoft vulnerabilities ever released," said Marc Maiffret of eEye Digital Security Inc. of Aliso Viejo, Calif., which discovered the new Windows flaws. "The breadth of systems affected is probably the largest ever. This is something that will let you get into Internet servers, internal networks, pretty much any system."
Maiffret said some computer systems that control critically important power or water utilities were vulnerable.
Arguably, all digital sound formats are lossy because the sound is sampled.
AAC could sound better than CD if the sound is sampled at a highr rate than it is for a CD and then only truly the parts that we can't hear are taken away by the compression
>There isn't time to order a new PC from Dell >--the geeks' PC maker of choice-- >so they head to Best Buy and pick up >a $679 HP Pavilion Home PC.
Now what kind of geek would do something like that It should have read:
There isn't time to order 100 RM1-4U cases from Koolance --the geeks' waatercooling provider of choice-- so they head to the industrial compound and get an industrial fan to cool down the Beowulf cluster of the bleeding edge AMD Athlon 64 systems that they plan to blow the $15,000 on.
I Just installed X11 on my iBook and it is quite priceless to click on X11 in the dock -> up comes an xterm window ssh -X into a linux box type kmail or evolution or whatever and it just works the linux app gets forwarded to the X11 display on the Mac
so X11 stuff AND command line stuff can be made to work on a mac even with network transparency
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/231920 4&mode=thread&tid=121&tid=185&tid=189&tid=190&tid= 201
Windows XP Edges Out KDE in Usability Test
On August 4th, 2003 with 910 comments
AstroDrabb writes "Linux, once viewed as an operating system that only computer geeks could appreciate, is today a much more user-friendly software that...
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... much closer at 25mm)
The two are not even in the same class of laptop!!
the thinnest edge of the X300 is about as thick as the thickest edge of the AIR
X300 is about twice as thick (18.6mm-23.4mm) as a MacBook Air (4.0mm-19.4mm)
average thickness(11.7mm vs 21mm)
if you STACKED TWO Macbook Air Laptops (19.4+4.0=23.4)
you would arrive at roughly the thickness of one X300 at (21mm average)
At the end of the day, this X300 laptop is somewhere between the Macbook Air
and the Macbook Pro for thickness (closer to the Macbook Pro,
It's really unbelievable that these two laptops even get mentioned in the same breath.
did anyone read the article?!?!
:D
if anyone did, I am suprised there aren't any rants about the red-eye based age detector that is covered in it. it's a pretty cool idea. although i don't see it ever used for anything really
I've read Slashdot three times this week. Yes... I don't read Slashdot as much as I used to ...
and the same f*&^%$%%^^&&***ing story has been the top story each effin' time
Seriously, I have never seen a tripe before!
Has this ever happened before?
What about a quadrupe?
A quadrupe, now that'd be something!
IQ is defined with 100 in the middle i.e. half will be below average and half will be above So it is a truism to say that: "Yea, I once read that 50% of Americans are below average intelligence."
"and when we came off Daylight Saving Time, it didn't change until about eight hours after it was supposed to." it doesn't check very often, but it checks at startup so turn the phone off and back on again a few minutes after the changeover and it will sync instantly
Every .0 release of Mandrake/iva has been ridden with problems
URPMI an PLF and Coooker are the reaseons I keep coming back to Mandrake
but seriously 2006 is one of the worst releases they have put out since 8.0
It is Much slower than 2005(10.2), much less stable;
it lacks apache1, which I still prefer, the list goes on and on.
KDE 3.4 with its kat and kdewallet annoyances...
but again it's a .0 release, so It's almost expected.
b4 you can have flying cars
You need
- freeflight - no flight corridors
- autopilot for cars
- automatic collision avoidance
- some tanks can do this now
- driverless vehicles that follow a map
bottom line
the flying car needs to be able to fly itself
and have a parachute in case of stalls
"There is no way for an attacker to force a user to open a malicious file."
This has got to be one of the stupidest things MS has ever said.
It's called spam!!!
99.999% of email programs and browsers automatically "open" images for viewing
We all get spam
the image can be a logo or something nonsuspicious
embedded in the email
So you only have to read the email
to get infected
make 2 layouts one callled 'nvidia' and the other 'nv' then run startx -- -layout nvidia || startx -- -layout nv easy, eh
how long does it take to run find / 2 minutes? 10 minutes? ok use locate instead takes 1 second maybe less but the indeces may not be up do date this essentially updates the locate-style db indeces whenever a file is saved brilliant going into a folder and displaying its contents becomes the same thing as show me all files from last week that are images about nature brilliant I do agree though that it should have a command line equivalent so you need to have a real dbfs AND a command line utility akin to find that akes advantage of it, ie make find dbfs aware and have it run faster and capable of searching metadata, but you also need this kind of improvement to KDE so that you can display files by keywords, not by the ANTIQUATED notion of FOLDERS
how long does it take to run find / 2 minutes? 10 minutes? ok use locate instead takes 1 second maybe less but the indeces may not be up do date this essentially updates the locate-style db indeces whenever a file is saved brilliant going into a folder and displaying its contents becomes the same thing as show me all files from last week that are images about nature brilliant I do agree though that it should have a command line equivalent so you need to have a real dbfs AND a command line utility akin to find that akes advantage of it, ie make find dbfs aware and have it run faster and capable of searching metadata, but you also need this kind of improvement to KDE so that you can display files by keywords, not by the ANTIQATED notion of FOLDERS
I thought I was the only one that thought that Windows, not Linux is in need of better package management, but apparently there is at least one more person out there that understands RPM
I don't know how they can get away with calling it motion
In light of the Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox/Fire--- browser, and the mobilix.org forced name changes
it should be noted that "Motion" is a well known motion detection software.
http://motion.sourceforge.net/
Every time I see an airport or a power plant affected by windows viruses and/or vulnerabilities I get a bit queasy Will the general public ever realize that if what you are working on is of any importance, nevermind critical importance, then Windows is not the right tool for the job. From the story: "This is one of the most serious Microsoft vulnerabilities ever released," said Marc Maiffret of eEye Digital Security Inc. of Aliso Viejo, Calif., which discovered the new Windows flaws. "The breadth of systems affected is probably the largest ever. This is something that will let you get into Internet servers, internal networks, pretty much any system." Maiffret said some computer systems that control critically important power or water utilities were vulnerable.
Right,
because the sound on the CD is also lossy.
Arguably, all digital sound formats are lossy because the sound is sampled.
AAC could sound better than CD
if the sound is sampled at a highr rate than it is for a CD
and then only truly the parts that we can't hear are taken away by the compression
in a properly set up mandrake box making sure
the below two lines get run once a day takes care of the problem
urpmi.update update_source
urpmi --update --auto --auto-select
what is the windows equivalent?
set windows update to automatically download and install patches for you
the odds of an automatic update screwings things up are laughably minuscule, compared to leaving your box unpatched
>There isn't time to order a new PC from Dell
>--the geeks' PC maker of choice--
>so they head to Best Buy and pick up
>a $679 HP Pavilion Home PC.
Now what kind of geek would do something like that
It should have read:
There isn't time to order 100 RM1-4U cases from Koolance --the geeks' waatercooling provider of choice--
so they head to the industrial compound and get an industrial fan to cool down the Beowulf cluster of
the bleeding edge AMD Athlon 64 systems that they plan to blow the $15,000 on.
The 2003 Prius price includes service and maintenance! No Joke
I, for one, welcome our new pet peeve overlords
I Just installed X11 on my iBook
and it is quite priceless to
click on X11 in the dock -> up comes an xterm window
ssh -X into a linux box
type kmail or evolution or whatever
and it just works
the linux app gets forwarded to the X11 display on the Mac
so X11 stuff AND command line stuff can be made to work on a mac even with network transparency
!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/231920 4&mode=thread&tid=121&tid=185&tid=189&tid=190&tid= 201
Windows XP Edges Out KDE in Usability Test
On August 4th, 2003 with 910 comments
AstroDrabb writes "Linux, once viewed as an operating system that only computer geeks could appreciate, is today a much more user-friendly software that...
I remember all this too!!
I feel like it's "1984" and history is being re-written by SCO