AnandTech also has a review up. I'm wondering if this solution will be interesting to... anyone, basically. Perhaps if/once it becomes available integrated into or onto motherboard chipsets.
Btw, I find AnandTech's terminology annoying, they refer to all graphics memory as "the framebuffer" which I find inaccurate. In my world, the frame buffer is only that part of graphics memory that has a 1-to-1 mapping to on-screen pixels. Front- and backbuffers, stencil and Z buffers, basically. Not texture buffers, off-screen rendering targets, geometry arrays, and all that stuff. Oh well. Nice review anyway.:)
This is almost totally off topic and (imo) very overrated, since the article is not about running Linux on actual GPS hardware, but simply about accessing data from a GPS receiver from Linux. Thus, the power-management done by the Linux kernel is rather irrelevant...
I actually had to ask a friend with more powerful Humour Analyzing Bioware than mine to get this joke. For the curious, "vi" simply means "we" in Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian... Since I'm from Sweden, I didn't pick up on the joke.
Oh, and since the site is Danish, all moose/elk jokes are off topic; that's only "funny" when talking about Sweden. You've got to keep them separated. I know it's hard, but it can be done.
I doubt that. iRiver themselves, on the linked-to page, list the formats as
Supports MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV and OGG music files
while calling it the "sleek and compact H320 digital music player". It doesn't sound like a company to accidentally omit a rather major feature such as video playback support, in my opinion. So, my guess is we're just seeing more Slashdot quality editing/proofing. Move along...
Uh? On my local system, Gentoo Linux 2004.2 I believe, "man tar" contains this:
EXAMPLES tar -xvvf foo.tar extract foo.tar
tar -xvvzf foo.tar.gz extract gzipped foo.tar.gz
tar -cvvf foo.tar foo/ tar contents of folder foo in foo.tar
That's the fourth headline, after Name, Synopsis and Description, and should appear on the first or second page for a reasonable terminal size... Perhaps you've been using an outdated man page?
I don't seem to have sudo installed, so I couldn't check that one.
Just to pick a nit: this is not true. DirectX is a family of APIs, and not limited to graphics like OpenGL. The latter is roughly the equivalent to Direct3D, however. Or at least it used to be back around DirectX 3.0, heh. But I think it's still the case.
Well, this only happened this spring, and I haven't been using the camera heavily during summer. But for what it's worth, I'd say it's as good as new, or maybe even better. Still only 80-90 minutes on a full charge, but if I leave the camera for a week and come back, the battery isn't flat.
I'm sorry to hear you've been given the "cold shoulder", since the problem from my point of view is an honest bug/design error in the original product. Sony confessed by starting the service program, which ended about a week after I first heard about it.
It's going to be interesting during the (rapidly approaching) Swedish fall/winter to see how it behaves. I formed a theory that it was the cold that killed the old battery, before I realized it was flawed to begin with... Hopefully there is no major degradation once the temperature drops a bit...
Whoa there, turn up the humour and creativity-appreciation knobs a couple of notches please. I don't think anyone likes to see obfuscated code in production environments, but if you haven't read any IOCCC entries, you should. They can be real eye-openers when it comes to realizing what you can do with the C language (and preprocessor) when put in the right hands. Plus, it's just plain fun!:)
Just as a counter-point, I own a Sony DSC-P1 digital camera. I bought it at Fry's on a business trip to Califoria back in 2001.
During subsequent years, the camera (or its battery) developed a problem; it wouldn't "hold a charge", but would instead signal being fully charged, and then drop to empty/no charge from mere minutes of use. It was useless.
I surfed around, and one day I found this note about the problem. It's on a (as far as I know, I'm not a regular) US site, and I'm in Sweden with a camera bought three years ago in a diferent country, and without any warranty cards or anything sent in.
I thought "what the heck", and e-mailed Sony about it. That's right, I just wrote a question to "info@sony.se", describing my situation and linking to the above page (or maybe Sony's page about the problem, which seems to be gone now). Writing to a general "info" address of a major multinational felt almost silly, in an "of course I won't get a reply" kind of way. But, what can I say; I got a reply within 24 hours! It was from their service representatives here, asking me to send the camera to them, including all accessories. No questions asked.
I did so, and in one week I got it back, with a new battery (that's a $50 value right there, approximately), new charger, a replaced power port in the camera body, and upgraded firmware. The cost to me was the postage to get the camera to the service techs, approx $8 or so.
So, I guess my point is that Sony are surely capable of excellent service, too!
Not in the current x86 Quick Installation, it doesn't. Scroll down a page or so for the/etc/fstab template, which suggests ext2 for the/boot partition, and reiserfs for the root. Hopefully they know what the recommend, so my recently-reinstalled laptop won't crash and burn. Heh.
diff(1) is primarily a text comparison tool, it tries to find the minimum difference between two text files and is very handy for creating e.g. patches to source code. For comparing arbitrary files though, you might want a tool that simply compares them byte-by-byte, and in that case you need to use cmp(1).
Well, according to this page, types with _t suffixes can actually be reserved.
Even if that is not so, I tend to assume that _t types are provided by the "system", and not part of the application code. Thus, I find use of this convention very confusing, since (at least in my experience) there is a difference in reliability between "system" and application code.
Personally, I use MixedCase for type names, which make them distinctive since functions and variables are all lower case.
The story is not about a projecter [sic], it's about a new type of screen material.
The way I read it, any projector works on the screen material, and gives increased brightness as compared to projecting on a regular (ambient-reflective) surface such as a wall...
These nifty drives aren't quite as fast as standard 2.5mm notebook hard drives, but they do use half the power.
Also, I doubt that there are that many "2.5mm" hard drives to compare against. I'm not sure how tall a PC Card-form factor flash "hard drive" is, but then again I don't think the 1.8"ers consume more power than a solid state drive. Thus, I conclude it's good the reviewer doesn't work for NASA.;-)
Now, I'm no expert in geography, but the grandparent sure sounded Australian to me. And, come to think of it, Australians really do have "a whole continent to themselves". Having done at least a little driving in the US, but never visited Oz, I'd sure appreciate such a video from down under. Bring it on!:)
I had the exact same thought, although without having been to an exposition last week. If this guy hadn't been a painter himself, it would have been a rather dumb statement. Now, it's more... weird, I guess.
This, actually, is the official date format in Sweden. It's beautiful. This of course does not in any way mean that you in Swedish always say dates like that, it's just a writing thing. Absolutely lovely. Logical, sorts well, and even is an international standard. Now, if only it were used in even more places (like best-before dates on all foods) I'd be happy. Um. Make that "happier", there are more important things I guess.
The chef doesn't speak Swedish either. I do, here's my attempt:
10 SKRIV "BORK!"
20 GÅTILL 20
Something like that. I guess a single Aring isn't quite as exotic as something using Japanese glyphs would be.:/
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AnandTech also has a review up. I'm wondering if this solution will be interesting to... anyone, basically. Perhaps if/once it becomes available integrated into or onto motherboard chipsets.
Btw, I find AnandTech's terminology annoying, they refer to all graphics memory as "the framebuffer" which I find inaccurate. In my world, the frame buffer is only that part of graphics memory that has a 1-to-1 mapping to on-screen pixels. Front- and backbuffers, stencil and Z buffers, basically. Not texture buffers, off-screen rendering targets, geometry arrays, and all that stuff. Oh well. Nice review anyway. :)
This is almost totally off topic and (imo) very overrated, since the article is not about running Linux on actual GPS hardware, but simply about accessing data from a GPS receiver from Linux. Thus, the power-management done by the Linux kernel is rather irrelevant...
I actually had to ask a friend with more powerful Humour Analyzing Bioware than mine to get this joke. For the curious, "vi" simply means "we" in Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian... Since I'm from Sweden, I didn't pick up on the joke.
Oh, and since the site is Danish, all moose/elk jokes are off topic; that's only "funny" when talking about Sweden. You've got to keep them separated. I know it's hard, but it can be done.
"Was"? Not sure if you're serious, but there are certainly some efforts to clone Apple's current work too...
Well, this only happened this spring, and I haven't been using the camera heavily during summer. But for what it's worth, I'd say it's as good as new, or maybe even better. Still only 80-90 minutes on a full charge, but if I leave the camera for a week and come back, the battery isn't flat.
I'm sorry to hear you've been given the "cold shoulder", since the problem from my point of view is an honest bug/design error in the original product. Sony confessed by starting the service program, which ended about a week after I first heard about it.
It's going to be interesting during the (rapidly approaching) Swedish fall/winter to see how it behaves. I formed a theory that it was the cold that killed the old battery, before I realized it was flawed to begin with... Hopefully there is no major degradation once the temperature drops a bit...
Whoa there, turn up the humour and creativity-appreciation knobs a couple of notches please. I don't think anyone likes to see obfuscated code in production environments, but if you haven't read any IOCCC entries, you should. They can be real eye-openers when it comes to realizing what you can do with the C language (and preprocessor) when put in the right hands. Plus, it's just plain fun! :)
Just as a counter-point, I own a Sony DSC-P1 digital camera. I bought it at Fry's on a business trip to Califoria back in 2001.
During subsequent years, the camera (or its battery) developed a problem; it wouldn't "hold a charge", but would instead signal being fully charged, and then drop to empty/no charge from mere minutes of use. It was useless.
I surfed around, and one day I found this note about the problem. It's on a (as far as I know, I'm not a regular) US site, and I'm in Sweden with a camera bought three years ago in a diferent country, and without any warranty cards or anything sent in.
I thought "what the heck", and e-mailed Sony about it. That's right, I just wrote a question to "info@sony.se", describing my situation and linking to the above page (or maybe Sony's page about the problem, which seems to be gone now). Writing to a general "info" address of a major multinational felt almost silly, in an "of course I won't get a reply" kind of way. But, what can I say; I got a reply within 24 hours! It was from their service representatives here, asking me to send the camera to them, including all accessories. No questions asked.
I did so, and in one week I got it back, with a new battery (that's a $50 value right there, approximately), new charger, a replaced power port in the camera body, and upgraded firmware. The cost to me was the postage to get the camera to the service techs, approx $8 or so.
So, I guess my point is that Sony are surely capable of excellent service, too!
Not in the current x86 Quick Installation, it doesn't. Scroll down a page or so for the /etc/fstab template, which suggests ext2 for the /boot partition, and reiserfs for the root. Hopefully they know what the recommend, so my recently-reinstalled laptop won't crash and burn. Heh.
diff(1) is primarily a text comparison tool, it tries to find the minimum difference between two text files and is very handy for creating e.g. patches to source code. For comparing arbitrary files though, you might want a tool that simply compares them byte-by-byte, and in that case you need to use cmp(1).
That sounds a lot like Pixar's short film "For the Birds. Truly a wonderful film, I saw it at SIGGRAPH 2000 and loved it instantly. So, am I right?
Well, according to this page, types with _t suffixes can actually be reserved.
Even if that is not so, I tend to assume that _t types are provided by the "system", and not part of the application code. Thus, I find use of this convention very confusing, since (at least in my experience) there is a difference in reliability between "system" and application code.
Personally, I use MixedCase for type names, which make them distinctive since functions and variables are all lower case.The story is not about a projecter [sic], it's about a new type of screen material.
The way I read it, any projector works on the screen material, and gives increased brightness as compared to projecting on a regular (ambient-reflective) surface such as a wall...
Bah, didn't you read the article? She rows Linux.
Now, I'm no expert in geography, but the grandparent sure sounded Australian to me. And, come to think of it, Australians really do have "a whole continent to themselves". Having done at least a little driving in the US, but never visited Oz, I'd sure appreciate such a video from down under. Bring it on! :)
Free hint: "almost everyone" don't live in the US. Honest!
I had the exact same thought, although without having been to an exposition last week. If this guy hadn't been a painter himself, it would have been a rather dumb statement. Now, it's more... weird, I guess.
I couldn't have imagined driving a TV with one of those. ;)
Imagine harder!
This, actually, is the official date format in Sweden. It's beautiful. This of course does not in any way mean that you in Swedish always say dates like that, it's just a writing thing. Absolutely lovely. Logical, sorts well, and even is an international standard. Now, if only it were used in even more places (like best-before dates on all foods) I'd be happy. Um. Make that "happier", there are more important things I guess.
Um, I missed with the target line number for the GÅTILL instruction on line 20, obviously. Oops. :/
The chef doesn't speak Swedish either. I do, here's my attempt: :/
10 SKRIV "BORK!"
20 GÅTILL 20
Something like that. I guess a single Aring isn't quite as exotic as something using Japanese glyphs would be.