> These "javascript incompatabilities" aren't really incompatabilities.
Cute, but is wrooong !
When you edit an TEXTAREA input in a from, under M$ it will be sent with CRs and LFs as End-Of-Line, but under ANY UN*X browser will be send only with LFs. Stupid cgi-s (like the embeded web server form 3com's LanModem)(and almost all MS-IIS cgis) will barf when this happens.
AUCH ! And the disk will grind and grind all day long slowing down everything.
A simmilar thing is implemented in hardware in the HP AutoRaid 12H storage boxen. The data is kept in Raid5, the unused space is used to Raid1/0 the most accesed blocks. In perionds with no disk activity it will "optimise" the data by moving the most accesed blocks in Raid1/0. This way you have a "fast" raid5 storage and a "space wise" raid 1/0:)
If there were no cubicicles it wold be preety darn hard to hide when agents are coming after you. What could Morpheus tell you on the phone if there were no walls ?
"hide behind that fat lady... now pose as a plant... now run with your head down hoping that nobody will see you in that open room..." --
I am waiting for a Visual Intercal developement appl. I bet the graphical representation of the stuff will not be a 2d view but a 1d wiev (1d as in a line - like a tape - like the turing machine - for full compatibility:)
hmmm... Could the electronics used in a CC be used to manufacture an explosive device ? If so - DC becomes Una-DC: "Hello, police - i received a package that contains PARTS FOR A BOMB"
Let the DC root in the same cell with Ted.K.:) --
What next: 300x300 icons ?
The interface and the colors look like some "My frist tehme - this is mai frist try to make a tehme" at *.themes.org
At least they should change that sick-blue bacground. That kind of blue is used in psichiatric institutions to keep the loonies silent as it creates the sensation of a void mind.
Is it possible to have different resolutions on the displays ? The XFREE docs are only stating that the screens must be in the same bit depth but nothing about the resolution.
I have an 17" monitor and i'll put another 14" one beside him (with a monitor arm - no table space for 2 17" monitors:( ) if i could run 800x600 on the 14" one and 1280x1024 on the 17" one to have an L shaped kinda display (i seen w98 doing that and i have seen a picture of an old mac doing that) it would be perfect. Without Xinerama (screen:0.0 and:0.1) it works (3.3.x) but could Xinerama cope with that ? (what kind of strage output will xwd create from a L shaped root window ? )
WAIT !!! They couldn't have licensed a "one click" patent ! Click with WHAT mouse button? A "one squeeze" or "one rub" patent will sound more reasonable with their new mouse.:)
PS: will RMS call for an Apple boycot ? "Do not eat apples GNUfriends !!! better eat maGNUo or baGNUannas !":)
NOOOOO ! God forbid ! If you recompile a binary for performance'n'stuff (that's why.srpm and.src.deb were made for) - you're dead, having as many chances for the binary to run as with dd if=/dev/random of=binary. Look at the kernel: yes, a patch is smaller than a kernel - but all the patches required to transform an 2.2.5 (shipped with an imaginary distro) to 2.2.17 or the patches to get from 2.2 to 2.4 are WAY WAY WAY bigger put together than the kernel itself. And no, having a zilion patches for upgrading ANY verion to ANY version is not a good ideea for the ftp servers's owners. --
The problem with old computers is that they USE ELECTRICITY, and lots of. I wanted to grab hold of an old VAX server, but after checking its power consumption levels i deciced that with a year's electricity cost i could buy a significantly faster pentium or k5 which also would make less noise.
And what to do with old 8/16bit machines which cannot run linux to save their asses ? Play a little with them and you will find them tooo slow for your liking (ever tried to use an 286 after using some almost-gigahertz machine ? the letters appear on the screen with a smaaal delay after you press the keys. When all i had was an 286 - i didn't noticed that, but now i do and after 10 minutes it becomes annoying)
I am the proud owner of an 1987-or-something hercules monitor and video card, an 1985 vt100 terminal and lots of other old hardware which I use (cases, keyboards, floppy drives, controllers, arcnet network cards...) and will use until the last miligram of magic smoke in them is out. But i thrown away the Z80, XT and 286 processor based boards as there was nothing i could do with them. (hint: most memory chips (256K*4) on 286 boards fit perfectly on old svga cards)
Recycle/reuse as much as you can. Upgrade/repair as much as it's possible. Recycle what you can't.
The US govt. is de facto bashing M$ ith this announcement. Like: "Hey PHBs, you want to have SECURITY like the one we use ? DITCH NON/FREE software and use GPL and BSD licensed software".
If the interface will be trough an PC[mcia] or flash card and not using the VGA out connector, this means that the pcmcia/flash card will be a video card so here come the problems:
- PC/FLASH bus is slow and 16bit - so no high fps rates. Extremelly low ones maybe. I don't think that the PC/Flash buses were ever designed for that.
- Driver problems (Second video card -ok- but how you disable the first one TO HAVE 25% POWER SAVE) (Hot pluggable video cards ? if i connect two sets of glasses (trough 2 pc cards) what do i get ? )
- See if they can fit 4 3D processors and 128mb of texture ram on a PC card to make a competing video card. (and where will they fit the coolers ?:-)
Let's just wait until the industry creates an unified digital video-out connector/standard. (FireWire ?)
Slashdot Mirror
The question is wether to be called e!mail or e:mail ... :)
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Binary file registry instead of clear-text conf files ? :)
/etc/system.dat and ~/.user.dat - NO THANX !
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This makes no difference
As watermarked MP3s
Will napster.
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MPEG4 -> DivX ;-) is the way !
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> These "javascript incompatabilities" aren't really incompatabilities.
Cute, but is wrooong !
When you edit an TEXTAREA input in a from, under M$ it will be sent with CRs and LFs as End-Of-Line, but under ANY UN*X browser will be send only with LFs. Stupid cgi-s (like the embeded web server form 3com's LanModem)(and almost all MS-IIS cgis) will barf when this happens.
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Three monitors and a Rock'n'ride chair is required for a complete Quake/UT experience.
You can't play a thing on two heads - the target is in the middle - between them.
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And translators KIK MAZZIVE AZZ !!!!
/database/instance/table/*
/network/http/www.slashdot.org/ .
:( )
database access:
grep query
wget equiv:
cp -r
/EVERYTHING/ _IS_ a file/filesystem !
Back away Amiga/Linux zealots - the HURD Religion is coming !
(too bad i couldn't install-it on my machine due to hardware incompatibility
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AUCH ! And the disk will grind and grind all day long slowing down everything.
:)
A simmilar thing is implemented in hardware in the HP AutoRaid 12H storage boxen. The data is kept in Raid5, the unused space is used to Raid1/0 the most accesed blocks. In perionds with no disk activity it will "optimise" the data by moving the most accesed blocks in Raid1/0. This way you have a "fast" raid5 storage and a "space wise" raid 1/0
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... here !
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No, we're just all fallen from a bus [sized meteor] from outer space :) (Spaceballs refference again ?:)
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Ok - So from now on, in addition to the hundreds of kool-case-mod sites we will see kewl-vaio-mod sites
Fur-coated vaio, camouflage vaio, 9-huge-fans vaio, metalic-sprayed-with-q3-logos vaio... you name it.
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... and the vaio's default bios password is 12345678 ?
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If there were no cubicicles it wold be preety darn hard to hide when agents are coming after you. What could Morpheus tell you on the phone if there were no walls ? ... now pose as a plant ... now run with your head down hoping that nobody will see you in that open room ..."
"hide behind that fat lady
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I am waiting for a Visual Intercal developement appl. I bet the graphical representation of the stuff will not be a 2d view but a 1d wiev (1d as in a line - like a tape - like the turing machine - for full compatibility :)
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hmmm... Could the electronics used in a CC be used to manufacture an explosive device ? If so - DC becomes Una-DC: "Hello, police - i received a package that contains PARTS FOR A BOMB" :)
Let the DC root in the same cell with Ted.K.
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We then have only one hope: :)
https://www.slashdot.org
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What next: 300x300 icons ?
The interface and the colors look like some "My frist tehme - this is mai frist try to make a tehme" at *.themes.org
At least they should change that sick-blue bacground. That kind of blue is used in psichiatric institutions to keep the loonies silent as it creates the sensation of a void mind.
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Is it possible to have different resolutions on the displays ? The XFREE docs are only stating that the screens must be in the same bit depth but nothing about the resolution.
:( ) if i could run 800x600 on the 14" one and 1280x1024 on the 17" one to have an L shaped kinda display (i seen w98 doing that and i have seen a picture of an old mac doing that) it would be perfect. Without Xinerama (screen :0.0 and :0.1) it works (3.3.x) but could Xinerama cope with that ? (what kind of strage output will xwd create from a L shaped root window ? )
I have an 17" monitor and i'll put another 14" one beside him (with a monitor arm - no table space for 2 17" monitors
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WAIT !!! They couldn't have licensed a "one click" patent ! Click with WHAT mouse button? A "one squeeze" or "one rub" patent will sound more reasonable with their new mouse. :)
:)
PS: will RMS call for an Apple boycot ? "Do not eat apples GNUfriends !!! better eat maGNUo or baGNUannas !"
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> patching anyone??
.srpm and .src.deb were made for) - you're dead, having as many chances for the binary to run as with dd if=/dev/random of=binary. Look at the kernel: yes, a patch is smaller than a kernel - but all the patches required to transform an 2.2.5 (shipped with an imaginary distro) to 2.2.17 or the patches to get from 2.2 to 2.4 are WAY WAY WAY bigger put together than the kernel itself. And no, having a zilion patches for upgrading ANY verion to ANY version is not a good ideea for the ftp servers's owners.
NOOOOO ! God forbid ! If you recompile a binary for performance'n'stuff (that's why
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Does anyone knows what toxic stuff might be in the LCD screens ?
And what are the usual life expectations fon an LCD vs an CRT ?
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The problem with old computers is that they USE ELECTRICITY, and lots of. I wanted to grab hold of an old VAX server, but after checking its power consumption levels i deciced that with a year's electricity cost i could buy a significantly faster pentium or k5 which also would make less noise.
...) and will use until the last miligram of magic smoke in them is out. But i thrown away the Z80, XT and 286 processor based boards as there was nothing i could do with them. (hint: most memory chips (256K*4) on 286 boards fit perfectly on old svga cards)
And what to do with old 8/16bit machines which cannot run linux to save their asses ? Play a little with them and you will find them tooo slow for your liking (ever tried to use an 286 after using some almost-gigahertz machine ? the letters appear on the screen with a smaaal delay after you press the keys. When all i had was an 286 - i didn't noticed that, but now i do and after 10 minutes it becomes annoying)
I am the proud owner of an 1987-or-something hercules monitor and video card, an 1985 vt100 terminal and lots of other old hardware which I use (cases, keyboards, floppy drives, controllers, arcnet network cards
Recycle/reuse as much as you can. Upgrade/repair as much as it's possible. Recycle what you can't.
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The US govt. is de facto bashing M$ ith this announcement. Like: "Hey PHBs, you want to have SECURITY like the one we use ? DITCH NON/FREE software and use GPL and BSD licensed software".
:)
This IS good for our cause, *u*x/*bsd komrades
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Mosix allready exists and is an cluster extension for Linux.
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If the interface will be trough an PC[mcia] or flash card and not using the VGA out connector, this means that the pcmcia/flash card will be a video card so here come the problems: :-)
- PC/FLASH bus is slow and 16bit - so no high fps rates. Extremelly low ones maybe. I don't think that the PC/Flash buses were ever designed for that.
- Driver problems (Second video card -ok- but how you disable the first one TO HAVE 25% POWER SAVE) (Hot pluggable video cards ? if i connect two sets of glasses (trough 2 pc cards) what do i get ? )
- See if they can fit 4 3D processors and 128mb of texture ram on a PC card to make a competing video card. (and where will they fit the coolers ?
Let's just wait until the industry creates an unified digital video-out connector/standard. (FireWire ?)
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