Perhaps I can take advantage of this discussion to ask a quick question..
How might I record from the line in port of my sound card? I generally record vinyls that I own to a digital format to listen to more conveniently, and audacity's GUI option dialog only allows me to record from/dev/dsp, which records everything, i.e. "What U Hear".
I tried changing it to/dev/mixer in the config file, but the effect was the same.
This is annoying, if I'm recording and GAIM happens to make a noise, or something else does. I know I could just kill every other sound-producing process, but I'd rather work out how to record directly from line-in.
Gentoo's installation guide will tell you how to set up a dual-boot configuration *properly*, with no wizards or anything, just plain old text file editing.
If that sounds daunting, don't worry because it's as easy as pie. Personally, I use grub, with a config file a bit like this:
You hit the nail. Indeed, I think I may have sounded rather cynical in my last post, so kudos to Intel for taking the first step.
They know what to do to make things perfect, and so long as they're making a good effort to release true open source drivers in the future then we'll appreciate the initiative and cheer them on.
That's quite a flamebait-inducing post you've got there...
What about other operating systems? Do we have to badger Intel to release drivers for BSD, and whatever other operating systems might be released in the future?
What happens if we release a new kernel, or decide to change something that breaks the rigid structure into which this proprietary driver is locked?
Releasing proprietary drivers like this seems to be no more than a "keep them happy" quick-fire solution, as this is by no means a long-term solution. And frankly, ignoring the long-term is a very short-sighted viewpoint indeed.
What's the ideal solution? Write your drivers so that they use a well-documented and open API that can always be well-supported, and make the code as portable as possible. Then what happens when you want to use your hardware with a different operating system? Well, so long as your operating system implements that particular well-documented and open driver API, then you shouldn't have any problem. Recompile, rinse, repeat.
Think ahead. We wouldn't be pushing for open source drivers without reason.
For instance, it has its own timezone, about 5 minutes later than GMT, because the stubborn priests that ran the clocktowers refused to yield to GMT-standardisation.. Yeah, love it.
I also had one, a 30GB model. Luckily enough, I never had any problems with it, and it did endure some heavy usage in its time (lots of music shifting, audio-editing)..
After hearing the rumours, I sold it to a friend who needed some extra storage space, and kitted out my computer with two maxtor drives in RAID-0. No problems, and now I've got a load of Western Digital drives running the server.
I consider myself lucky with that 30GB drive, and the friend I sold it to lucky too, as he hasn't encountered a single problem with it yet, and it's been in operation for a good few years now!
If Mozilla Firebird/fox and Thunderbird are set out to replace the current Mozilla Suite, why not call them simply by their respective functional names, such as "Mozilla Browser", "Mozilla Mail"?
.. launched a denial-of-service attack early Sunday that crippled SCO Group's Web site with hundreds of thousands of requests, an SCO spokesman said.
Pfffffft... bwaaahhha, pffft.
But seriously, I thought the design of MyDoom was as if the DDoS was tacked on as a last-minute thought. Does anybody know if there was even any serious traffic going to SCO at all?
Personally, my opinion is that SCO will hype it up beyond all truth and belief. I mean, what do they have to lose? Credibility? Oh no, they lost that a while ago..
Of course, would it not be better to keep as much correspondance in digitally-stored form as possible?
I can see sometimes that wouldn't always be possible (slow tech, stubbornness, archiving purposes, all those other rubbish reasons), but what's wrong with Courier New for those other departments? The only advantages making the decision that the article cares to offer is that Times New Roman is "crisper, cleaner, more modern".
If TCP/IP had a presentation layer, then perhaps all network communications would be able to identify what charset strings were being sent in. At least that way we could use a number of local character sets, and perhaps the browser could warn if a different one was needed to view a webpage.
However, I can see the above method getting tedious for the user. How about a browser that can has a list of obvious homographs, and can warn when the tactic is being used?
"This hyperlink leads to www.microsoft.com (Cyrilic character set), but the following sites also exist:
www.microsoft.com (Latin character set).
Perhaps a more inhibiting solution would be to *only* allow a domain name to contain characters from the local character set of the country to which that domain belongs. But again, I can see problems with that too.
I'm all for internationalisation, but this is going to be a tough one.
Tom Bombadil is the one who suggests the Hobbits make for Bree. Jackson has Gandalf make this suggestion though, having left Bombadil out of the film entirely, this is somewhat understandable.
Erm, yes of course. Because a character has been completely removed from a theatrical adaptation of the book, then his absense in making a small suggestion elsewhere in the book is only somewhat understandable...
By the sounds of these, I feel they were on a mission to reach point number 1000 or somewhere near that. Pedants! Bah!
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Perhaps I can take advantage of this discussion to ask a quick question..
/dev/dsp, which records everything, i.e. "What U Hear".
/dev/mixer in the config file, but the effect was the same.
/. crowd.
How might I record from the line in port of my sound card? I generally record vinyls that I own to a digital format to listen to more conveniently, and audacity's GUI option dialog only allows me to record from
I tried changing it to
This is annoying, if I'm recording and GAIM happens to make a noise, or something else does. I know I could just kill every other sound-producing process, but I'd rather work out how to record directly from line-in.
Any clues? Thank you, knowledgeable
Before you ask, I have STFW somewhat on this..
The only reason why everybody uses MP3 is exactly because of that, everybody uses it!
Perhaps you hit the nail.. Imagine the big companies could blow MP3 out of the water and force everybody to use WMA.. *shudder*
Gentoo's installation guide will tell you how to set up a dual-boot configuration *properly*, with no wizards or anything, just plain old text file editing.
If that sounds daunting, don't worry because it's as easy as pie. Personally, I use grub, with a config file a bit like this:
# Gentoo
title=Gentoo Linux (linux-2.6.1-mm4 kernel)
root (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/bzImage-2.6.1-mm4 root=/dev/hde5
# Windows XP
title=Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
Dual boot couldn't be easier.
... Osias Griffin, who owned one of the first dozen telephones.
"Hello, Johnathan?"
"Nope. What number are you trying to dial?"
"Seven."
"Ah, well this is three."
Reminds me of this:
Number of linux distros surpasses number of linux users.
I suppose your statement is vacuously true, considering the server is slashdotted..
Damn, seems like I can't be a pedant without being a hypocrite too.. Of course I meant "flame-inducing". Arse.
Flame-inducing arse?
You hit the nail. Indeed, I think I may have sounded rather cynical in my last post, so kudos to Intel for taking the first step.
They know what to do to make things perfect, and so long as they're making a good effort to release true open source drivers in the future then we'll appreciate the initiative and cheer them on.
Bring on the open-source drivers.
Who the hell cares besides RMS?
That's quite a flamebait-inducing post you've got there...
What about other operating systems? Do we have to badger Intel to release drivers for BSD, and whatever other operating systems might be released in the future?
What happens if we release a new kernel, or decide to change something that breaks the rigid structure into which this proprietary driver is locked?
Releasing proprietary drivers like this seems to be no more than a "keep them happy" quick-fire solution, as this is by no means a long-term solution. And frankly, ignoring the long-term is a very short-sighted viewpoint indeed.
What's the ideal solution? Write your drivers so that they use a well-documented and open API that can always be well-supported, and make the code as portable as possible. Then what happens when you want to use your hardware with a different operating system? Well, so long as your operating system implements that particular well-documented and open driver API, then you shouldn't have any problem. Recompile, rinse, repeat.
Think ahead. We wouldn't be pushing for open source drivers without reason.
Oxford has some *very* weird customs indeed.
For instance, it has its own timezone, about 5 minutes later than GMT, because the stubborn priests that ran the clocktowers refused to yield to GMT-standardisation.. Yeah, love it.
Your 'seasoned' haiku,
Though concealing much effort,
Completely sucked balls.
I'm actually so god damn lazy today that I'm just going to say "me too!" and link to a post I just submitted :-).
I also had one, a 30GB model. Luckily enough, I never had any problems with it, and it did endure some heavy usage in its time (lots of music shifting, audio-editing)..
After hearing the rumours, I sold it to a friend who needed some extra storage space, and kitted out my computer with two maxtor drives in RAID-0. No problems, and now I've got a load of Western Digital drives running the server.
I consider myself lucky with that 30GB drive, and the friend I sold it to lucky too, as he hasn't encountered a single problem with it yet, and it's been in operation for a good few years now!
Luck of the draw, folks. Luck of the draw.
Any author whose surname practically *is* a C string library function name gets my vote
Pah!
C and C++ combine all the raw speed and power of assembly with all the grace and smooth design of assembly.
(I heard that somewhere - don't know the original source).
unwilling to provide actual human help to one of their customers until said customer was frustrated enough to start cursing into a telephone
I'm sure they've realised this and would only put the 'cursing-redirect' into effect if almost all or all their human operators were tied up already.
If Mozilla Firebird/fox and Thunderbird are set out to replace the current Mozilla Suite, why not call them simply by their respective functional names, such as "Mozilla Browser", "Mozilla Mail"?
With all the penis-enlargement emails in my inbox, I should be entitled to, with a full money-back guarantee, a 14 foot 9 inch penis by now.
(Source: somewhere from bash.cx)
Excellent, you've been modded insightful for making a joke! Interesting feeling, isn't it?
I'd probably give him a good spraying with the hose.
I nearly misread that as 'a good spaying'. Now the cat would certainly fear that!
.. launched a denial-of-service attack early Sunday that crippled SCO Group's Web site with hundreds of thousands of requests, an SCO spokesman said.
Pfffffft... bwaaahhha, pffft.
But seriously, I thought the design of MyDoom was as if the DDoS was tacked on as a last-minute thought. Does anybody know if there was even any serious traffic going to SCO at all?
Personally, my opinion is that SCO will hype it up beyond all truth and belief. I mean, what do they have to lose? Credibility? Oh no, they lost that a while ago..
Of course, would it not be better to keep as much correspondance in digitally-stored form as possible?
I can see sometimes that wouldn't always be possible (slow tech, stubbornness, archiving purposes, all those other rubbish reasons), but what's wrong with Courier New for those other departments? The only advantages making the decision that the article cares to offer is that Times New Roman is "crisper, cleaner, more modern".
Whew, and there was me thinking you two had suddenly broken into l33t-sp3@k.
If TCP/IP had a presentation layer, then perhaps all network communications would be able to identify what charset strings were being sent in. At least that way we could use a number of local character sets, and perhaps the browser could warn if a different one was needed to view a webpage.
However, I can see the above method getting tedious for the user. How about a browser that can has a list of obvious homographs, and can warn when the tactic is being used?
"This hyperlink leads to www.microsoft.com (Cyrilic character set), but the following sites also exist:
www.microsoft.com (Latin character set).
Perhaps a more inhibiting solution would be to *only* allow a domain name to contain characters from the local character set of the country to which that domain belongs. But again, I can see problems with that too.
I'm all for internationalisation, but this is going to be a tough one.
Tom Bombadil is the one who suggests the Hobbits make for Bree. Jackson has Gandalf make this suggestion though, having left Bombadil out of the film entirely, this is somewhat understandable.
Erm, yes of course. Because a character has been completely removed from a theatrical adaptation of the book, then his absense in making a small suggestion elsewhere in the book is only somewhat understandable...
By the sounds of these, I feel they were on a mission to reach point number 1000 or somewhere near that. Pedants! Bah!