grey hound has a shit schedule, you try to go from a remote place to a city on one, stops every 30-45 minutes any time there is a group of buildings that more than 30 people live in.
Most of amtracks problems is that they are sharing/renting lines from cargo companies, that see no need to be that on time. The buses and trains I used in germany were usually on time, in fact I remember my german friends bitching the bus was 3 minutes late.
How many explosives + 1" ball bearings could be loaded into a semi? how about 4-10 panel vans(no CDL this way)....
How about a semi shape charge pointed down, and drive out to your nearest high capacity bridge... You want to play that game, you better lock everyone up in their houses and let no one travel without armed guard. Also the big issue with a plane is that then can be directed just about anywhere, whereas a train, assuming electric track, could simply be shut down remotely, or in the worst case, blow up a few hundred feet of track. Yes you could blow up a station, but there are easier ways to do that, as the station doesn't move, and you can drive a van near one. People really need to think about that sort of shit before "OMG SEND OUT THE 'chain-mails of weeping, twinkling, glitter-covered bald eagles wrapped in American flags.'"
The opensource world tends not to have days off, this idea of "workday" is almost not in it.
Not agreeing with either side, but Wednesday is 5 opensource "workdays" from Saturday. Can you get MS tech support on a Sunday? Also, every day is patch day in opensource land, so again, who cares it was "patch day" for MS. MS also has a history of doing, "we'll get back to you on friday, ohh he's out today, how's next wednesday, oh he got called out and won't be back in till pigs fly, thank you for your interest".
Also I see no technical discussion of the problem on any of the links you posted, nor any steps that can be taken until MS gets a update out to fix it. Nor was MS very friendly towards discussing the issue with this researcher, as well as dragged google into the whole thing, what the guy does off the clock is his deal, even if he does something similar on the clock.
Did Ormandy do everything right? no, he probably should have responded to the Tuesday communication with, if there is no timeline presented for fixing this bug, and a written guarantee that it will be worked on, Saturday morning I let sys admins know so that can take any available steps to protect their systems/users.
I'll still need my binary nvidia driver until i can get 3d accel, and hardware decoding for nvidia cards from OSS, making wayland a long distant pipe dream.
Could you link me to KMS driver for my Nvidia Geforce 8600GT with full 3d support and support for decoding h264 and the rest? I need to play tuxracer and bzflag.
The problem for me is i have need of the 3d accel parts of my video card, and none of the FOSS drivers support that yet.
All bugs are the same in the kernel devs eyes. "crashes when the user touches their nose on days that end in X, and while mars is behind the sun relative to the earth" as well as "Press the 'y' key to become root" both get the same mention, a line in the kernel changelog.
so if i have 3 "up to" tiers, 3Mbps, 6Mbps, and 9Mbps, and the costs are x, 2x, and 3x. You are saying that it is fine that the 9Mbps tier run at 2Mbps 99% of the time, and cost 3x that of the 3Mbps tier that gets the same speed?
Heres the thing, when you see three tiers like that you assume that the 6 is 2 times as fast as the 3, and the 9 is 3 times as fast as the 3... Now if there is one person close to the office that has a dedicated line(only house down that path, mandated to have the line by local government), and they pay for the 9Mbps line and get 9Mbps most(>80%) of the time, then they can claim up to 9Mbps.
The normal consumer expects each tier to be faster than the last most of the time. We understand sometimes things break, or get congested, or a tree falls on a line, but "we oversubscribed the line, so only 1am-4am gets full speed" isn't a good excuse. If the only thing that cause max speed to be lower than the 9Mbps, was TCP/IP, frame, and FTP/etc overhead, then fine. None of the data shows that they advertise raw bit rate, and you get less based on your transfer protocol. The real issue with this, is how is the consumer to make an informed decision on whether DSL A is faster than Cable B. Both say up to 20Mbps.
did your contract with the ISP come with a SLA? no? right, so you agreed to pay $45 a month for what ever they give you... hmm oddly i'm not sure a contract like that would hold up in court though.
Yea, the layer modes get updated in realtime, and my steps didn't. I'm not sure tepples has posted his wish on the mailing list like my link said was the way to get a feature added. There might be a way for him to donate that money once the feature is in as well, but i saw no mention of it on the gimp website.
thus the "the basic functionality seems to be there", have you posted your wish on the user mailing list like the link i used said to?
I saw that it looked in real time on youtube, but again, it looks like gimp has all the parts in place to do this, just simply that Photoshops, UI is much much much better at it. I wonder what sorts of hooks you can use with a plugin/script. Is there a "layer changed" event? seems like a plugin could be made to handle this.
Actually if i had a low power NAS, and an SSD in my desktop, I would likely be shutting down my desktop a lot more. A lot of the stuff i run, i could run on a 1GHz or slower ARM. lighttpd for serving files, and samba/nfs, proftpd, sshd, mediatomb, lvm + DM raid, cups, etc.
It will get worse the next time i upgrade and am no longer using a 65W cpu, and a geforce 8600GT. I hear Athlon x6's and gtx480's are hungry.
care to explain what an "adjustment layer" does? maybe gimp does have it, but it takes 4 steps instead of 2.
Hmm after a bit of looking around for what one is, it seems that all the feature does, is makes a new layer from the visible below layers, applies an effect, and then shows that layer to you. It is somewhat doable in GIMP. 1) Show only the layers you want to effect. 2) New layer from visible 3) apply effect to layer 4) Turn on above/all layers.
This could be more polished that it is in GIMP, but the basic functionality seems to be there. Have you added it, with a good description of what you want it to do, see http://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#Requests .
i thought libx264 was basically the reference encoder. Are you sure you are getting the correct level and profile settings? have you tried using ffmpeg instead of mplayer? I can do 480P feature length videos in around 3-4 hours on my 2.3ghz athlon X2. Yes high quality h264 takes a long time to encode, how about level 2.0 baseline profile? doing a 2 pass encode will take much longer than 1 pass with a cfq.
*The above based on my experiences using ffmpeg to encode dvds for my ps3.
Why would I want any "smartphone" without a data plan? What's the point? If that was my goal I'd go back to an iPod and a cheap Nokia
You want a single device that will let you make phonecalls and browse slashdot while at home. I have little use for mobile internet 98% of the time. A standalone GPS is better than a iPhone for nav in my car anyways.
The only other carrier in the US is T-Mobile, but apparently they use some different frequencies and not everything works right, so I need AT&T anyway.
That isn't a question, and yes you are right.
Since I need a dataplan ($15 or $25 a month from AT&T), why would I pay $400 more for the unlocked phone, which amortized over 24 months is $16.67 a month?
Good question, I'm fine with it, as long as it doesn't have a fee for ending early, simply the remainder of the balance of the loan. Yes it needs to be written in the contract as a loan, not hidden in the costs.
I believe the GP is confusing "jailbroken" and "unlocked", I would like to see all consumer goods shipped "jailbroken", having the baseband unmodifiable is fine(of course all of that really should be done in silicon then). I bought the device, and am paying for the service it receives(outside of 911 in the USA) so I should be able to do what i like to the device. Could you imagine the uproar that would ensue if apple had a clause in the purchase agreement that said, "The purchaser agrees to minimally obscure the iPhone at all times, and will give all of their children current and future the middle name of 'Steve', in honor of 'Steve Jobs'" Basically I would be very happy to own an iPhone if the apple store was simply the "apple approved/screened" store, and i was free to do what i like with the device.
yep, until you find out that it has to slow down for every crossing(every 300 feet/100 meters), does not get right of way, and has to go where locals want (around sharp curves to miss places, and other such nonsense) instead of a nice path for a fast train.
but if one does something similar in all states, hasn't the same end been accomplished? no one is reallying saying "put all the wind farms in Kansas and sent the power all over the USA." most are saying "build some wind farms in Kansas, and some solar PV in Arizona, and hydro in Colorado, and Nukes all over" Use what you can where you can, and go for the ow hanging fruit first(the coal plants)
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I use gentoo and most of the linux users i know use fedora/suse/arch/gentoo
grey hound has a shit schedule, you try to go from a remote place to a city on one, stops every 30-45 minutes any time there is a group of buildings that more than 30 people live in.
Most of amtracks problems is that they are sharing/renting lines from cargo companies, that see no need to be that on time. The buses and trains I used in germany were usually on time, in fact I remember my german friends bitching the bus was 3 minutes late.
How many explosives + 1" ball bearings could be loaded into a semi? how about 4-10 panel vans(no CDL this way)....
How about a semi shape charge pointed down, and drive out to your nearest high capacity bridge...
You want to play that game, you better lock everyone up in their houses and let no one travel without armed guard. Also the big issue with a plane is that then can be directed just about anywhere, whereas a train, assuming electric track, could simply be shut down remotely, or in the worst case, blow up a few hundred feet of track. Yes you could blow up a station, but there are easier ways to do that, as the station doesn't move, and you can drive a van near one. People really need to think about that sort of shit before "OMG SEND OUT THE 'chain-mails of weeping, twinkling, glitter-covered bald eagles wrapped in American flags.'"
The opensource world tends not to have days off, this idea of "workday" is almost not in it.
Not agreeing with either side, but Wednesday is 5 opensource "workdays" from Saturday. Can you get MS tech support on a Sunday? Also, every day is patch day in opensource land, so again, who cares it was "patch day" for MS. MS also has a history of doing, "we'll get back to you on friday, ohh he's out today, how's next wednesday, oh he got called out and won't be back in till pigs fly, thank you for your interest".
Also I see no technical discussion of the problem on any of the links you posted, nor any steps that can be taken until MS gets a update out to fix it. Nor was MS very friendly towards discussing the issue with this researcher, as well as dragged google into the whole thing, what the guy does off the clock is his deal, even if he does something similar on the clock.
Did Ormandy do everything right? no, he probably should have responded to the Tuesday communication with, if there is no timeline presented for fixing this bug, and a written guarantee that it will be worked on, Saturday morning I let sys admins know so that can take any available steps to protect their systems/users.
why didn't you report it 7 years ago then? huh? huh?, right it was recently discovered, and recently fixed. so quickly.
I'll still need my binary nvidia driver until i can get 3d accel, and hardware decoding for nvidia cards from OSS, making wayland a long distant pipe dream.
Could you link me to KMS driver for my Nvidia Geforce 8600GT with full 3d support and support for decoding h264 and the rest? I need to play tuxracer and bzflag.
The problem for me is i have need of the 3d accel parts of my video card, and none of the FOSS drivers support that yet.
All bugs are the same in the kernel devs eyes. "crashes when the user touches their nose on days that end in X, and while mars is behind the sun relative to the earth" as well as "Press the 'y' key to become root" both get the same mention, a line in the kernel changelog.
so if i have 3 "up to" tiers, 3Mbps, 6Mbps, and 9Mbps, and the costs are x, 2x, and 3x. You are saying that it is fine that the 9Mbps tier run at 2Mbps 99% of the time, and cost 3x that of the 3Mbps tier that gets the same speed?
Heres the thing, when you see three tiers like that you assume that the 6 is 2 times as fast as the 3, and the 9 is 3 times as fast as the 3... Now if there is one person close to the office that has a dedicated line(only house down that path, mandated to have the line by local government), and they pay for the 9Mbps line and get 9Mbps most(>80%) of the time, then they can claim up to 9Mbps.
The normal consumer expects each tier to be faster than the last most of the time. We understand sometimes things break, or get congested, or a tree falls on a line, but "we oversubscribed the line, so only 1am-4am gets full speed" isn't a good excuse. If the only thing that cause max speed to be lower than the 9Mbps, was TCP/IP, frame, and FTP/etc overhead, then fine. None of the data shows that they advertise raw bit rate, and you get less based on your transfer protocol. The real issue with this, is how is the consumer to make an informed decision on whether DSL A is faster than Cable B. Both say up to 20Mbps.
did your contract with the ISP come with a SLA? no? right, so you agreed to pay $45 a month for what ever they give you... hmm oddly i'm not sure a contract like that would hold up in court though.
Yea, the layer modes get updated in realtime, and my steps didn't. I'm not sure tepples has posted his wish on the mailing list like my link said was the way to get a feature added. There might be a way for him to donate that money once the feature is in as well, but i saw no mention of it on the gimp website.
thus the "the basic functionality seems to be there", have you posted your wish on the user mailing list like the link i used said to?
I saw that it looked in real time on youtube, but again, it looks like gimp has all the parts in place to do this, just simply that Photoshops, UI is much much much better at it. I wonder what sorts of hooks you can use with a plugin/script. Is there a "layer changed" event? seems like a plugin could be made to handle this.
Actually if i had a low power NAS, and an SSD in my desktop, I would likely be shutting down my desktop a lot more. A lot of the stuff i run, i could run on a 1GHz or slower ARM. lighttpd for serving files, and samba/nfs, proftpd, sshd, mediatomb, lvm + DM raid, cups, etc.
It will get worse the next time i upgrade and am no longer using a 65W cpu, and a geforce 8600GT. I hear Athlon x6's and gtx480's are hungry.
places have ports enabled that are not is use/conspicuous?
care to explain what an "adjustment layer" does? maybe gimp does have it, but it takes 4 steps instead of 2.
Hmm after a bit of looking around for what one is, it seems that all the feature does, is makes a new layer from the visible below layers, applies an effect, and then shows that layer to you. It is somewhat doable in GIMP.
1) Show only the layers you want to effect.
2) New layer from visible
3) apply effect to layer
4) Turn on above/all layers.
This could be more polished that it is in GIMP, but the basic functionality seems to be there. Have you added it, with a good description of what you want it to do, see http://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#Requests .
plain jane mpeg files don't support DRM. Flash ships decoders for the video types it supports. for producers it's DRM again.
Hey, a basic pdf isn't much more than postscript in a fancy container, and that works well. I know the other end can open it and it will look right.
The rest i agree with or don't care about.
i thought libx264 was basically the reference encoder. Are you sure you are getting the correct level and profile settings? have you tried using ffmpeg instead of mplayer? I can do 480P feature length videos in around 3-4 hours on my 2.3ghz athlon X2. Yes high quality h264 takes a long time to encode, how about level 2.0 baseline profile? doing a 2 pass encode will take much longer than 1 pass with a cfq.
*The above based on my experiences using ffmpeg to encode dvds for my ps3.
Marks wing seems to work better for flying though.
Why would I want any "smartphone" without a data plan? What's the point? If that was my goal I'd go back to an iPod and a cheap Nokia
You want a single device that will let you make phonecalls and browse slashdot while at home. I have little use for mobile internet 98% of the time. A standalone GPS is better than a iPhone for nav in my car anyways.
The only other carrier in the US is T-Mobile, but apparently they use some different frequencies and not everything works right, so I need AT&T anyway.
That isn't a question, and yes you are right.
Since I need a dataplan ($15 or $25 a month from AT&T), why would I pay $400 more for the unlocked phone, which amortized over 24 months is $16.67 a month?
Good question, I'm fine with it, as long as it doesn't have a fee for ending early, simply the remainder of the balance of the loan. Yes it needs to be written in the contract as a loan, not hidden in the costs.
I believe the GP is confusing "jailbroken" and "unlocked", I would like to see all consumer goods shipped "jailbroken", having the baseband unmodifiable is fine(of course all of that really should be done in silicon then). I bought the device, and am paying for the service it receives(outside of 911 in the USA) so I should be able to do what i like to the device. Could you imagine the uproar that would ensue if apple had a clause in the purchase agreement that said, "The purchaser agrees to minimally obscure the iPhone at all times, and will give all of their children current and future the middle name of 'Steve', in honor of 'Steve Jobs'" Basically I would be very happy to own an iPhone if the apple store was simply the "apple approved/screened" store, and i was free to do what i like with the device.
for some definitions of "interesting" sure. The PS3 still plays FFXIII and GT5 better than linux on it...
yep, until you find out that it has to slow down for every crossing(every 300 feet/100 meters), does not get right of way, and has to go where locals want (around sharp curves to miss places, and other such nonsense) instead of a nice path for a fast train.
but if one does something similar in all states, hasn't the same end been accomplished? no one is reallying saying "put all the wind farms in Kansas and sent the power all over the USA." most are saying "build some wind farms in Kansas, and some solar PV in Arizona, and hydro in Colorado, and Nukes all over" Use what you can where you can, and go for the ow hanging fruit first(the coal plants)
for(x==FOO;x=1;x++) (sorry my C is very very rusty)
While it's easy to remember that it goes "condition", "set-er", "increment-er", it's much easier to to read, if it uses "==" instead of "="
for(x=FOO; x=1;x++) is a bit ambiguous.