I use it, occasionally. It just kind of got sucked in as a dependency when I emerged Gnome. I ignored it at first, but now I use it occasionally. It's a pretty lightweight browser, and is nice once in a while. I'm too used to FireFox to use it entirely, though.
Perhaps there could be a failsafe where it would draw power from the grid to charge the batteries in the event of prolonged darkness? The average city would have a lot of conventional streetlights; if one were to retrofit these solar trees in, a lot of the infrastructure would already be there.
I try to keep an open mind, but I find the existence of UFOs less than probable due to lack of evidence
I woke up early one morning and saw something small, bright and sparkly moving through the sky in odd patterns. I'm not sure what it was; you might say I couldn't identify it. And it was definitely flying, and I think there's a good chance it might have been some sort of object too, but I can't prove it.
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I agree with this. I think that it's important to diversify our energy sources. While I'm not the biggest fan of nuclear, I do agree that it's a better option than coal provided we use better reactors. I also think that small-scale renewable energy should be encouraged as well, though. This way we could distribute the load on the transmission lines to a degree, and thus make the grid slightly more reliable.
I use Cinelerra on occasion, and find that it's not too bad... If you're willing to get to know it and learn how not to anger it. After a while you can get the hang of things and find what you can and can't do safely. At that point it's actually not that hard to be productive.
It's also not very intuitive. Again, once you learn it it's not bad, but for someone who's new to it it can be tough. This was the issue my brother ran into; his PC runs Ubuntu quite well, and when he wanted to edit video I suggested Cinelerra. He used it for a while, but decided to invest in a used Mac just for Final Cut.
So, it's a powerful program, and worth looking into. This company actually makes turnkey Linux editing systems using Cinelerra, so it has potential.
In the future this problem will be solved when it is possible to download one's consciousness into a computer. A huge computer will be built to take on the office of President, and at each election you will be able to vote for the stances on issues that interest you for each candidate. The result will be some sort of hybrid consciousness which will make everyone happy.
I actually just homebrewed a system for running my laptop. I have a 10 watt PowerFilm module, which is lightweight and flexible. It doesn't put out enough juice to run my Toshiba laptop continuously, but I do use it to charge a small battery via a regulator. When I need it it will extend my laptop's use by a few hours. One catch is that laptops generally need more than 12 volts (mine takes 15), which is what the battery gives. I have a homemade DC-DC converter that steps the voltage up.
The panel will set you back about $200, with around $100 for both the battery and regulator (most of the parts for the DC-DC converter can be scrounged). So, it's not much cheaper than the system they describe in TFA, but it's light and fairly portable.
In addition to my desktop and laptop, I've got two server running in my dorm. One is a Web server, and the other runs primarily as a Tor node though I use it for SSH too. And then of course I have a little Soekris box as a router.
Out of curiosity, are there any BSD user groups? The LUG I helped start touches on the BSDs, but I haven't heard of any groups dedicated to those OSes.
If I'm not mistaken, I believe that the proprietary stuff in OS X consists of the GUI mainly, and I suppose other things like CoreAudio. (If someone knows this a little more in depth, I'd be interested.) The stuff like Darwin is thus under their open source license. In other words, what makes it OS X and not just Open Darwin is proprietary.
Frankly, if Apple had decided to bas OS X on the Linux kernel, I'd probably be a Mac user now. At the moment, many of their products don't appeal to me enough for me to consider buying a Mac; this is just a personal preference. However, it would be cool to have true compatibility with other Linux distros, while still being able to run things like Photoshop seemlessly.
I suppose vendors like Adobe would not like this, as it would in theory make things easier for people wanting to run say Photoshop on other distros, but software like that would rely on Aqua anyway, so I don't know if it would be a big deal.
This was actually a big reason I didn't move primarily to FreeBSD for my workstation. I chose Gentoo because I do audio work (multitracking with Ardour, which thus needs Jack) along with 3D in Maya. I'm aware those will work in FreeBSD (I heard someone got Maya running under Linux emulation). However, for the audio I want to be able to run Ardour and Jack in realtime, and I read that doing this under FreeBSD would require you to be root. On Linux I can use the realtime-lsm module and do my audio work as a normal user with reduced latency.
I've used FreeBSD, and I can't say I love it or hate it more than Linux. If this has changed at all, I'd be interested in knowing. Also, has anyone here tried Maya on FreeBSD? Just curious.
I have a VIA mini-itx board that I run as a Web, mail, and MySQL server in my basement. I got the board used, with the 12 volt dc power supply. I use one of these with a small emergency lighting battery for a simple, efficient UPS. The board has a 1 GHZ processor, and draws on average about 3 amps at 12 volts. It should run for about an hour on backup; luckilly I haven't had to test that lately:).
What window manager/desktop environment are you using? In general, I would say make use of what you already have. Assuming you use FireFox, make liberal use of the tabs function; I prefer about five per window on my 1280x1024 single screen system, so you could probably do more without the tabs becoming too small. Also, when SSHing or doing general terminal work, use a terminal with tabs. The Gnome terminal will do this, but multi-aterm is less of a resource hog. (For some reason I can't seem to copy and paste into multi-aterm, something I can do in the Gnome term. If there's a way around this I would be interested; the copy and pasting is helpful.) I know this is not much, but I usually find that making more efficient use of your environment is more something to sit and think about a bit. It's better to try to work with what you have than to go and install a bunch of applications that may or may not help.
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Yeah, it's really too bad that the world's ending in 2012.
I use it, occasionally. It just kind of got sucked in as a dependency when I emerged Gnome. I ignored it at first, but now I use it occasionally. It's a pretty lightweight browser, and is nice once in a while. I'm too used to FireFox to use it entirely, though.
When we find the aliens I'm sure they'll tell us how to cure cancer.
They should genetically engineer a bioluminescent tree that would glow in the dark. I think they've done it with other plants.
Perhaps there could be a failsafe where it would draw power from the grid to charge the batteries in the event of prolonged darkness? The average city would have a lot of conventional streetlights; if one were to retrofit these solar trees in, a lot of the infrastructure would already be there.
This is a good point, but I wouldn't say that it's his fault. He was just trying to do his job, and went with an industry standard.
Regarding the article, I consider myself lucky that I don't need to rely on Photoshop for any image editing I do.
Which OS was running their Web server?
I woke up early one morning and saw something small, bright and sparkly moving through the sky in odd patterns. I'm not sure what it was; you might say I couldn't identify it. And it was definitely flying, and I think there's a good chance it might have been some sort of object too, but I can't prove it.
I agree with this. I think that it's important to diversify our energy sources. While I'm not the biggest fan of nuclear, I do agree that it's a better option than coal provided we use better reactors. I also think that small-scale renewable energy should be encouraged as well, though. This way we could distribute the load on the transmission lines to a degree, and thus make the grid slightly more reliable.
I use Cinelerra on occasion, and find that it's not too bad... If you're willing to get to know it and learn how not to anger it. After a while you can get the hang of things and find what you can and can't do safely. At that point it's actually not that hard to be productive.
It's also not very intuitive. Again, once you learn it it's not bad, but for someone who's new to it it can be tough. This was the issue my brother ran into; his PC runs Ubuntu quite well, and when he wanted to edit video I suggested Cinelerra. He used it for a while, but decided to invest in a used Mac just for Final Cut.
So, it's a powerful program, and worth looking into. This company actually makes turnkey Linux editing systems using Cinelerra, so it has potential.
In the future this problem will be solved when it is possible to download one's consciousness into a computer. A huge computer will be built to take on the office of President, and at each election you will be able to vote for the stances on issues that interest you for each candidate. The result will be some sort of hybrid consciousness which will make everyone happy.
I can say with some certainty that lead-acid batteries are a highly recycled material; when your's dies you should be able to take it back to any store which sells new ones. As for the cells, Wikipedia says they generally recoup the energy used to make them in 1 to 5 years, making them net energy producers.
I actually just homebrewed a system for running my laptop. I have a 10 watt PowerFilm module, which is lightweight and flexible. It doesn't put out enough juice to run my Toshiba laptop continuously, but I do use it to charge a small battery via a regulator. When I need it it will extend my laptop's use by a few hours. One catch is that laptops generally need more than 12 volts (mine takes 15), which is what the battery gives. I have a homemade DC-DC converter that steps the voltage up.
The panel will set you back about $200, with around $100 for both the battery and regulator (most of the parts for the DC-DC converter can be scrounged). So, it's not much cheaper than the system they describe in TFA, but it's light and fairly portable.
In addition to my desktop and laptop, I've got two server running in my dorm. One is a Web server, and the other runs primarily as a Tor node though I use it for SSH too. And then of course I have a little Soekris box as a router.
Out of curiosity, are there any BSD user groups? The LUG I helped start touches on the BSDs, but I haven't heard of any groups dedicated to those OSes.
If I'm not mistaken, I believe that the proprietary stuff in OS X consists of the GUI mainly, and I suppose other things like CoreAudio. (If someone knows this a little more in depth, I'd be interested.) The stuff like Darwin is thus under their open source license. In other words, what makes it OS X and not just Open Darwin is proprietary.
Frankly, if Apple had decided to bas OS X on the Linux kernel, I'd probably be a Mac user now. At the moment, many of their products don't appeal to me enough for me to consider buying a Mac; this is just a personal preference. However, it would be cool to have true compatibility with other Linux distros, while still being able to run things like Photoshop seemlessly.
I suppose vendors like Adobe would not like this, as it would in theory make things easier for people wanting to run say Photoshop on other distros, but software like that would rely on Aqua anyway, so I don't know if it would be a big deal.
Oh well, just a thought.
I've actually used VMware for doing some video work with Adobe Premiere and After Effects on my Linux machine.
It's not something I'd recommend doing all the time, but it works decently.
Here ya go.
This was actually a big reason I didn't move primarily to FreeBSD for my workstation. I chose Gentoo because I do audio work (multitracking with Ardour, which thus needs Jack) along with 3D in Maya. I'm aware those will work in FreeBSD (I heard someone got Maya running under Linux emulation). However, for the audio I want to be able to run Ardour and Jack in realtime, and I read that doing this under FreeBSD would require you to be root. On Linux I can use the realtime-lsm module and do my audio work as a normal user with reduced latency.
I've used FreeBSD, and I can't say I love it or hate it more than Linux. If this has changed at all, I'd be interested in knowing. Also, has anyone here tried Maya on FreeBSD? Just curious.
Just out of curiosity, what is an example of one? I'm not arguing, just wondering.
I have a VIA mini-itx board that I run as a Web, mail, and MySQL server in my basement. I got the board used, with the 12 volt dc power supply. I use one of these with a small emergency lighting battery for a simple, efficient UPS. The board has a 1 GHZ processor, and draws on average about 3 amps at 12 volts. It should run for about an hour on backup; luckilly I haven't had to test that lately :).
Apparently it does, or at least they do.
Here's a mirror in case it goes down: http://slashdot.whatsmykarma.com/scanjet-elise2.mp g.
To shut everyone up they could have just found a way to work the Flying Spaghetti Monster in somewhere.
What window manager/desktop environment are you using? In general, I would say make use of what you already have. Assuming you use FireFox, make liberal use of the tabs function; I prefer about five per window on my 1280x1024 single screen system, so you could probably do more without the tabs becoming too small. Also, when SSHing or doing general terminal work, use a terminal with tabs. The Gnome terminal will do this, but multi-aterm is less of a resource hog. (For some reason I can't seem to copy and paste into multi-aterm, something I can do in the Gnome term. If there's a way around this I would be interested; the copy and pasting is helpful.) I know this is not much, but I usually find that making more efficient use of your environment is more something to sit and think about a bit. It's better to try to work with what you have than to go and install a bunch of applications that may or may not help.