Sure, you can do a lot of things with a browser... yesterday I've just installed a webserver in my laserjet 4000 8-).... same for E-mail, same for firewalls, same for everything...
Yes, it is definitly handy... But are you sure this is so amazingly secure that you would like the whole world to know about your medical condition? sure there are those certificates thingies... HP must've sent me half a dozen of those before I could update the firmware on my printer, but still, I managed to do this without even having to put a password!
Joke aside, even if I had put a password, this is no secure http we are talking about (it's only a printer, isn't it?)... but even if it were... what exactly is encoded? the password? the web content? the cookies? Look at what happened to the bloody DVD thing!
I thing some stuff is just better off without network connectivity, or at least should be kept on an intranet... even so, I wouldn't trust paatient information unless the account itself was strongly encrypted... solaris/linux/bsd/[...] all support that, don't they?
A while back when I started writing up my thesis, I was faced by the challenge of choosing myself a word processor... Would it be word and its magic paper clip that says 'oh I see you are writing a letter, would you like some help?' or that writes Mhz even though what I meant was MHz... Would it be staroffice, LyX or gee!!! LaTeX?
I started to poll around and came to the conclusion that word95 was definitely getting too intelligent for its own good. (word 2 was the last in the series of microsoft half decent word processors)... Even worse, it seems to start crashing when documents get to big... Oh, and then came word97 with its magic compression that made my med images looking all blurred and crappy... (gee, is that a brain section or is it the pelvis?)
By that time (late 96) I had already switched completely to Linux, and was using vi quite a lot to edit my programs.
So I tried LyX and quite frankly, it's really good, and you can't beat the TeX output. So I started to type a long equation, the way I would have done in word, with the equation editor... a few minutes later, pleased with the result, I thought, so,,,, what does it look like in LaTeX. A click on the 'view LaTeX source' or something showed less than an 80 char long line... Yep, that just proved me, that if you are willing to spend some time learning LaTeX, it can be much faster to type the equation, rather than clicking on buttons and then being really crossed because the char you wanted is not available (IR in office 95/97 equation editor anyone?)
So by that time I was really confused, and asked on slashdot how people were doing with LaTeX, and got a lot of encouraging answers (flames at that time where not at all common on/.), so I made the jump. All my fears were answered straight from the begining, yes you can spellcheck your document or yes you can include pictures (I'm still working on this one:-) or yes, there are packages to draw stuff and include into your LaTeX document
My mix so far is
rtf2latex2e to convert some early word stuff over to LaTeX
vim for the editing
xfig for sketches
xmgr for graphs
ispell for spell checking (haven't tried aspell, is it much better?)
Just a word about xfig, opensource (I'm not sure it's GPLed, but you get the source code and an extensive description of the format) means I can generate most of my drawing directly from IDL (haven't jumped from IDL to PDL yet, though) and obtain great stuff I can put staright into my thesis. Same for xmgr
Do I miss office? no! Is LaTeX great for scientific publications? Hell, yes!! If vi/emacs is already your typing interface for programming, you will have no problem switching to compiling your documents as well. Will LaTeX crash on me when I reach 200 pages? say... what? Will I stop wasting Rob's diskspace? yeah, okay...:-)
I had a 48SX and a casio 8000 before that, and spent a lot of time programming stuff and other challenging activities like playing hptris:-)
Well, 10 years on, kids now play with palm pilots!
Great stuff! you wouldn't want to know how much memory we had to play with, just the same way I wouldn't want to know what our elders had...
But still, there's something I kind of regret in this evolution: We were playing with calculators. Sometimes, we even did calculation stuff, like symbolic integrals, solving a NxN system or doing some chi square statistics stuff... Anyway, how is a palm pilot required in schools nowadays? I mean, besides cheating at exams...
IMHO, those new toys are much more business oriented rather than science oriented... that's the scary bit.
I do medical imaging, so I've been used for quite a while to dealing with monochrome/color displays. While color monitors are becoming quite good if you're willing to spend the money (All the color monitors I work on have trinitron tubes), matching the pitch of a grey monochrome monitor is quite chalenging (put R,G,B channels in the space of one grey pixel).
The first time I came across this fact was in Russia, with diagnostic filmless X-ray here. You wouldn't want to see the difference when compared to a color normal display! Displaying the same images on a color monitor just look awful, and can be quite dangerous if you rely on the quality of the monitor for diagnostic purposes!!!!
So anyway, a few years later, here I am with my two monitors (saved from the skip). Both are 1280x1024 21" DEC monitors, there's a color one (VRT19HA) and a BW (VR21 I think) that is plugged on the green output of the color monitor (so in fact both display the same stuff).
If I program and do a lot of text stuff, I will look at the BW monitor, whereas if I do color stuff, I will look at the color one, clever hey?;-)
Even better, with Xfree 4.0 I should now be able to get a different display on both of them (haven't tried x2x though), especially now that I managed to get myself a second matrox millennium 2, ideal for the purpose with the sync-on-green hack! When I am done, I will definitely use a true monochrome setup, because while the green channel is okay with most of the stuff, it's a little bit weird if you get color information in your xterms, sometimes you just miss some of the stuff:-)
The first one was laika, but there were several others! bars,lisichka,belka,strelka,pchelka... actually, a good webpage would be this one to get the full range.
The good points:
Almost all of them fall into the less than 8 character long breed
There was a fair number of them (13 or 15 if I remember well)
The bad points:
Completely useless if you don't speak russian... I mean, is it
pchelka or pcholka or ptshiolka....;-)
On the other hand, the US sent some monkeys in space too, and one of them was called ham... ham or hal? the confusion would be quite deadly;-)
Anyway, with a masquerading firewall, I could setup my own domain, my own naming convention without being bothered by anybody. From the outside all my computers are called by00..something
Go wild, after all those servers mean much more to you than they do to the marketing department, so why should you let them choose a name for your babies;^)
Photorealistic real time would have other applications than games... like medical imaging. But games are okay, actualy, games are driving price of computers/graphics cards/embeded graphics technology (are those called game consoles or something?;) down. That's a gooood thing.
And yes I remember wherever you go there you are I believe it was in my amstrad cpc 464/6128 manual:-)
But things like marriage and military service should certainly qualify, and confer adulthood
Military service hey? In some contries you see, you just have to do it, no matter what.
In others, it's a choice you can make like, if you feel you have something to prove,,, or no other choice.
So when you're done, does this qualify you to be an adult?
Believe me, there are much smarter things to do rather than a military service. I chose not to do mine, neither in France nor in Russia. I love my country of birth, I love the country that gave me a western passport, but Ive alway's decided for meself what's good and what's not. Wearing smelly boots for 10 months and loose your job when you're done qualifies as bad.
Not that I'm so sober or anything, right now... But it seems to me that cDc must've missed something about/.
Random people ask random question, but this being a slashdot forum, the questions get a bias towards linux/un*x, to start with.
Some people then moderate the questions with a bigger bias towards linux/un*x.
cDc then answers the moderated questions...
Where's the flaw? O.K. cDc may not have time to sample their own questions, being busy hacking/cracking/whatever... So my question is, redaing the questions that were answered, why haven't you sampled your own batch of questions?
Was your intent pleasing the l*nux community? I don't think so reading your answers,,,, and it didn't look either like 'Your questions are so futile I laugh at them'
I don't get it, but then again, I don't get muych when I'm pissed either... (pissed is british english for drunk...)
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mmhh... I'm not 100% sure what this stuff is based on, but if it is eeprom or flash, there is a lifespan for those devices, like around 10000 rewrites or something (I haven't done any digital electronics in years, so my figures may be a little rusty;)
You can still perform error check, and rewrite the bytes that were not written correctly, but the reliability issue is still raised.
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I now use 9.1Gb hitachi 91WS UWSCSI drives and they've proven to be quite reliable, however I've always been sceptical about bigger size hard drives (wasn't 4.3 the reliable threshold last year?).
No pr0ns and no mp3s for me, just a lot of CT scans and them again processed one way, and another way, and yet another way.... that's a lot of space!
I'm not that scared about the server crashing 'coz I keep my results up to date on DLT (this is a research server I'm talking about, not an actual hospital database server), but if I were to upgrade to bigger disks, I'd be skeptical about their reliability, and 73Gb sounds far too much to be 110% reliable... I know I'm too paranoid to be running free, but I'd still be interested about what you people think... what do you think the reliability threshold is these days?
This is what the Lavazza website has to say about the two:
Coffea Arabica. This African species has been cultivated for many centuries. It grows on mineral-rich soil above an altitude of 600 m. and needs a constant temperature of 20 C; it produces long blue-green beans. The main organoleptic qualities are a markedly acid yet sweet taste, limited body and an intense aroma. It is the most widely cultivated of all beans (70% of world production).
Coffea Robusta. This variety gives an abundant harvest and can be cultivated in the plains, it has good resistance to disease and grows even in difficult conditions. The beans are small and round with a brownish-yellow colour. Originally from the Congo basin, it is widely cultivated in Africa and Asia and is distinguished by its full body and "chocolate" sweetness.
I tend to go for the Lavazza Espresso blend, because I really like the aroma, but I don't have a real espresso machine in my office... yet:-) I think I'll have to wait to be a post-doc for that;-)
So whether it protects from radiation, improves your memory, or protects you against prostate cancer, who cares????
Coffee smells good, it tastes good and if you really appreciate it, you will certainly drink it black, grind your beans yourself, and keep your coffee in the fridge:-)
I'm a geek alright, but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate good coffee!
Now with TI explicitly enabling asm programming on their calculators (without having to use memory dumps) a lot of young ones are delving right into it.
Sounds a lot like the HP28/48: 4MHz, 4bit saturn processor! When I got an HP48SX, I had to program the op codes in HEX. No doubt the ultimate geekness, the only problem being that too many jumps were giving you headaches... Also, 2 pass hand assembling becomes like a second nature:-)
Those were the old good days, going straight from basic to assembly, because you only had those two languages available on your computer 8-)
The computer I had was a CPC 6128 and Gee, did I just love this computer? I even made myself an 8Kb memory extension to write my own boot code that you would call like |Eg0r and stuff from the basic prompt, brilliant!
Anyway, I still do think that in order to learn assembly properly, all you need is a processor you understand everything about, from registers to conditional jumps and so on... Man, x86s are just too complicated to program:-need all those instructions? I know it's cool to have instructions that would take you several op codes to get the same result, but when you learn, all you need is the bare minimum:-)
Anyway, what I learned about the Z80 around when I was a 14 year old teenage kid thinking 'Gee, 8K? I'll NEVER need that much space':-) helped me with the motorola 68K (both at school and on my Amiga) and then with the TMS320C30, C50, C40 DSPs...
Once you've seen ONE assembly, they are all the same, but you need to start humble, and the Z80 was just a great start for me.
Of course, this is all redundant now, because VLIW is not something you code by hand, but having some knowledge being able to code a microcontroller is never lost!
See Imaging tutorials 1 and 2 to get some ideas of what can be done both in C, assembly and MMX!
I went to Tampere for a conference a few years ago, and really like it A LOT. Somehow, Finland reminded me of Russia (friendly people, forests, weather, saunas, vodka) but with a "western" country general feeling about it. Very difficult to explain... I only wish Russia was like that when things settle down, i.e. a nice and peaceful place.
Anyway, I wouldn't mind living there, if it wasn't for the language.... This is one of the difficult parts about moving in Europe. Moving is not the problem, it's when you settle down somewhere, you definitely notice the shortcoming of not being able to speak the country's language on a daily life basis.
To get back in the subject, it was a bad move from music industry... just makes you wonder WHY exactly do artists need pimps, and just rises the hate bar one step further up... Like the french music industry collaborating with nazis during the war, or american music industries desperately trying to survive... the wrong way.
I'm running debian on a ruffian/21164 and tried to install the ccc compiler. Well, to start with, everything comes in as rpms. Nothing wrong with that as long as you can alien them... which in this case failed lamely on me.
belka:~# alien -d ccc-6_2_0-1_alpha.rpm
-- Examining ccc-6_2_0-1_alpha.rpm query of ccc-6_2_0-1_alpha.rpm failed query of ccc-6_2_0-1_alpha.rpm failed query of ccc-6_2_0-1_alpha.rpm failed query of ccc-6_2_0-1_alpha.rpm failed query of ccc-6_2_0-1_alpha.rpm failed query of ccc-6_2_0-1_alpha.rpm failed query of ccc-6_2_0-1_alpha.rpm failed query of ccc-6_2_0-1_alpha.rpm failed query of ccc-6_2_0-1_alpha.rpm failed query of ccc-6_2_0-1_alpha.rpm failed query of ccc-6_2_0-1_alpha.rpm failed alien: Error querying rpm file.
Is there just something plain stupid I am doing or what? PS: I got the same result trying to alienate the package on a PII.
Sorry if my post sounds just the way you described it. I will never ever knock down any development, be it in windows or on any other platform: where's the point? where's the fun?
Litestep is a great piece of software, no doubt about it. I haven't had a chance to test the latest version yet (heck, it's only been out for a week or something?:), but I definitely want to give it a go. (after all, I already use gnustep in Linux, Litestep is just an extension of one of my favorite desktops to the windows world)
So why did I say what I said? Because of what people tend to do with themable software (like litestep or winamp): 1st step: make the 1eetest looking desktop Then, pretend you're a hax0r dude... (watch hacker's again if you don't quite rembember)... When you're ready, piss everybody off with skr1pts you don't even understand: "I've got this cool puke.c thing, how do I run it?"
I'm dead sorry if my post sounds like I labeled Litestep the wrong way (like with a hammer), this was not the intent. It's not the software, it's people.
I would agree with you if we were talking about normal posters (in the sense grown-up, at least half-responsible people) not sick kids just looking for attention.
How many people will be turned away from/. by those events?
Tom Christiansen sure looked disgusted with Good riddance, Slashdot in the title of his post.
I understand that seeking attention is part of the puberty process, but if you kids have really chosen Linux as your operating system of choice because you think it has potential, not just because you hate (or think you hate) Windows, then please, act so.
Good way to get attention from the linux crowd:
Submit interesting/meaningful comments... Be mature, that's you're chance to be listened to!
Code! Didn't Alan Cox said something like he wished/. would be more first patch! rather than frst psot!!!!!!
If you can't code, do something for the community! submit bug reports, write documentation, help people installing Linux...
Last but not least, please do not annoy anybody... Sure this isn't a perfect world, but if you call yourself a Linux user, behave like one and show respect.
Do kids really get a kick behaving like assholes? Is that it? Well kids, seat back and think about the way you have hurt W. Richard Stevens's family. The guy is dead. He was well respected and a lot of people will miss him because he wrote good unix books and knew in depth the stuff he was talking about. Think about the way you have made not only/. ACs look like assholes, but the whole site, and put shame on the Linux community... it's bad.
Now, nobody actually asked you to use Linux. If you get pissed at people because you can't use it, there are alternatives! Download the latest litestep and show your hax0r dude friends on IRC how cool you are while running those warscr1pts on your illegal copy of mirc...
I've got a ruffian board, 512Mb RAM (couldn't get the 6 SDRams to work with 2.0.36) and a 600MHz alpha.... on the good side, I've got a 3C905B to work instead of the onboard tulip and same for SCSI, I use an adaptec 2940UW but have to really check what difference it makes on my transfer rate, because now I have to boot from a floppy! (milo won't boot from this 3Mb/dev/sda1 partition)
No glitches in Debian when you get round the really confusing documentation, and pretty much everything I use compiles great and seem to work fine. WM, Gimp, PDL, LaTeX...
So why am I complaining? Well, if you try some of the logo scripts-fu on both the alpha and a PIII-550, the speed difference is not that noticeable at all.
The real test would be to do a povbench on both machines... but I got some errors half way thru the rendering on the alpha!
When alphalinux gets a descent compiler (I'm just blaming compaq here, the gcc team is doing a great job no matter what!)... well, that's going to be a different story, but compaq will never allow Linux take shares of Tru64 or whatever the name is... (OSF)
I'll check bladeenc with compaq's enhanced mathlib... that should be a pretty good test, but until then, I'm not convinced.
Did everything you could expect from a quick and dirty WYSIWYG editor and MS Draw is one of those few MS tools that actually worked the way it was intended, that is with very few glitches... and lotsa good hidden features (drag and drop of vector objects and really inuitive shortcuts:)
Anyway, anything beyond a few pages, and word is crap no matter what version. I got so hooked on \LaTex I generate my output tables from within my programs... and XFig is much better than MSDraw when you think about it, even though I still like Draw;-)
Also try me on word's equation writer output compared to \LaTeX:-)
But Fsck jee Fsckin krist! What did it take for the guy to actually admit his crime?
Like being interogated by the police or something like that? Of course I don't condone what the poor bastard did, but think about what the police had to do to make him talk!!!!
Doesn't this remind you of WW2 or Vietnam? Sorry, I'm just as pissed as pissed-off. We french people don't like any of those fsckin pigs.
Err... excuse me, but beta versions of chicago have been released as early as february 95, if I remember correctly, maybe even january (but for some reason february release come to mind)
The first public version was something like september.
All I remember was that the most noticable difference between july release and august release was
It is now safe to turn off your computer instead of You can now safely turn off your computer
That and a few more megabytes... Micros~1 suddenly realising it had to invent the internet?
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You've got a point here, xdm is rock solid, but if I thought about wdm, it's because I actually got a wdm login screen on my X terminal, having done an X -query baikal (baikal is my app server)
This is all past tense because I'm upgrading (even though right now it looks more like downgrading with the application server down;-)
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How do you recover information from a broken encrypted file is an entirely different problem ,though!
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Yes, it is definitly handy... But are you sure this is so amazingly secure that you would like the whole world to know about your medical condition? sure there are those certificates thingies... HP must've sent me half a dozen of those before I could update the firmware on my printer, but still, I managed to do this without even having to put a password!
Joke aside, even if I had put a password, this is no secure http we are talking about (it's only a printer, isn't it?)... but even if it were... what exactly is encoded? the password? the web content? the cookies? Look at what happened to the bloody DVD thing!
I thing some stuff is just better off without network connectivity, or at least should be kept on an intranet... even so, I wouldn't trust paatient information unless the account itself was strongly encrypted... solaris/linux/bsd/[...] all support that, don't they?
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I started to poll around and came to the conclusion that word95 was definitely getting too intelligent for its own good. (word 2 was the last in the series of microsoft half decent word processors)... Even worse, it seems to start crashing when documents get to big... Oh, and then came word97 with its magic compression that made my med images looking all blurred and crappy... (gee, is that a brain section or is it the pelvis?)
By that time (late 96) I had already switched completely to Linux, and was using vi quite a lot to edit my programs.
So I tried LyX and quite frankly, it's really good, and you can't beat the TeX output. So I started to type a long equation, the way I would have done in word, with the equation editor... a few minutes later, pleased with the result, I thought, so,,,, what does it look like in LaTeX. A click on the 'view LaTeX source' or something showed less than an 80 char long line...
Yep, that just proved me, that if you are willing to spend some time learning LaTeX, it can be much faster to type the equation, rather than clicking on buttons and then being really crossed because the char you wanted is not available (IR in office 95/97 equation editor anyone?)
So by that time I was really confused, and asked on slashdot how people were doing with LaTeX, and got a lot of encouraging answers (flames at that time where not at all common on /.), so I made the jump. All my fears were answered straight from the begining, yes you can spellcheck your document or yes you can include pictures (I'm still working on this one :-) or yes, there are packages to draw stuff and include into your LaTeX document
My mix so far is
- rtf2latex2e to convert some early word stuff over to LaTeX
- vim for the editing
- xfig for sketches
- xmgr for graphs
- ispell for spell checking (haven't tried aspell, is it much better?)
Just a word about xfig, opensource (I'm not sure it's GPLed, but you get the source code and an extensive description of the format) means I can generate most of my drawing directly from IDL (haven't jumped from IDL to PDL yet, though) and obtain great stuff I can put staright into my thesis. Same for xmgrDo I miss office? no! Is LaTeX great for scientific publications? Hell, yes!! If vi/emacs is already your typing interface for programming, you will have no problem switching to compiling your documents as well. Will LaTeX crash on me when I reach 200 pages? say... what? :-)
Will I stop wasting Rob's diskspace? yeah, okay...
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Well, 10 years on, kids now play with palm pilots!
Great stuff! you wouldn't want to know how much memory we had to play with, just the same way I wouldn't want to know what our elders had...
But still, there's something I kind of regret in this evolution: We were playing with calculators. Sometimes, we even did calculation stuff, like symbolic integrals, solving a NxN system or doing some chi square statistics stuff...
Anyway, how is a palm pilot required in schools nowadays? I mean, besides cheating at exams...
IMHO, those new toys are much more business oriented rather than science oriented... that's the scary bit.
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I do medical imaging, so I've been used for quite a while to dealing with monochrome/color displays. While color monitors are becoming quite good if you're willing to spend the money (All the color monitors I work on have trinitron tubes), matching the pitch of a grey monochrome monitor is quite chalenging (put R,G,B channels in the space of one grey pixel).
The first time I came across this fact was in Russia, with diagnostic filmless X-ray here. You wouldn't want to see the difference when compared to a color normal display! Displaying the same images on a color monitor just look awful, and can be quite dangerous if you rely on the quality of the monitor for diagnostic purposes!!!!
So anyway, a few years later, here I am with my two monitors (saved from the skip). Both are 1280x1024 21" DEC monitors, there's a color one (VRT19HA) and a BW (VR21 I think) that is plugged on the green output of the color monitor (so in fact both display the same stuff).
If I program and do a lot of text stuff, I will look at the BW monitor, whereas if I do color stuff, I will look at the color one, clever hey? ;-)
Even better, with Xfree 4.0 I should now be able to get a different display on both of them (haven't tried x2x though), especially now that I managed to get myself a second matrox millennium 2, ideal for the purpose with the sync-on-green hack! When I am done, I will definitely use a true monochrome setup, because while the green channel is okay with most of the stuff, it's a little bit weird if you get color information in your xterms, sometimes you just miss some of the stuff :-)
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You should have settled down for names of places, not names of the ancient ones!
Kaddath, brunswick, boston, r'lyeh... much safer if you ask me ;-)
BTW, what is azathoth doing? is this the machine I should hax00r in if I were a hA>oR skr1pT keedY? :-)
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The good points:
The bad points:On the other hand, the US sent some monkeys in space too, and one of them was called ham... ham or hal? the confusion would be quite deadly ;-)
Anyway, with a masquerading firewall, I could setup my own domain, my own naming convention without being bothered by anybody. From the outside all my computers are called by00..something
Go wild, after all those servers mean much more to you than they do to the marketing department, so why should you let them choose a name for your babies ;^)
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And yes I remember wherever you go there you are I believe it was in my amstrad cpc 464/6128 manual :-)
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Military service hey? In some contries you see, you just have to do it, no matter what.
In others, it's a choice you can make like, if you feel you have something to prove,,, or no other choice.
So when you're done, does this qualify you to be an adult?
Believe me, there are much smarter things to do rather than a military service. I chose not to do mine, neither in France nor in Russia. I love my country of birth, I love the country that gave me a western passport, but Ive alway's decided for meself what's good and what's not. Wearing smelly boots for 10 months and loose your job when you're done qualifies as bad.
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But it seems to me that cDc must've missed something about
- Random people ask random question, but this being a slashdot forum, the questions get a bias towards linux/un*x, to start with.
- Some people then moderate the questions with a bigger bias towards linux/un*x.
- cDc then answers the moderated questions...
Where's the flaw? O.K. cDc may not have time to sample their own questions, being busy hacking/cracking/whatever... So my question is, redaing the questions that were answered, why haven't you sampled your own batch of questions?Was your intent pleasing the l*nux community? I don't think so reading your answers,,,, and it didn't look either like 'Your questions are so futile I laugh at them'
I don't get it, but then again, I don't get muych when I'm pissed either... (pissed is british english for drunk...)
Cheers,
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You can still perform error check, and rewrite the bytes that were not written correctly, but the reliability issue is still raised.
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No pr0ns and no mp3s for me, just a lot of CT scans and them again processed one way, and another way, and yet another way.... that's a lot of space!
I'm not that scared about the server crashing 'coz I keep my results up to date on DLT (this is a research server I'm talking about, not an actual hospital database server), but if I were to upgrade to bigger disks, I'd be skeptical about their reliability, and 73Gb sounds far too much to be 110% reliable...
I know I'm too paranoid to be running free, but I'd still be interested about what you people think... what do you think the reliability threshold is these days?
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So whether it protects from radiation, improves your memory, or protects you against prostate cancer, who cares????
Coffee smells good, it tastes good and if you really appreciate it, you will certainly drink it black, grind your beans yourself, and keep your coffee in the fridge :-)
I'm a geek alright, but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate good coffee!
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The computer I had was a CPC 6128 and Gee, did I just love this computer? I even made myself an 8Kb memory extension to write my own boot code that you would call like |Eg0r and stuff from the basic prompt, brilliant!
Anyway, I still do think that in order to learn assembly properly, all you need is a processor you understand everything about, from registers to conditional jumps and so on... Man, x86s are just too complicated to program :-need all those instructions? I know it's cool to have instructions that would take you several op codes to get the same result, but when you learn, all you need is the bare minimum :-)
Anyway, what I learned about the Z80 around when I was a 14 year old teenage kid thinking 'Gee, 8K? I'll NEVER need that much space' :-) helped me with the motorola 68K (both at school and on my Amiga) and then with the TMS320C30, C50, C40 DSPs...
Once you've seen ONE assembly, they are all the same, but you need to start humble, and the Z80 was just a great start for me.
Of course, this is all redundant now, because VLIW is not something you code by hand, but having some knowledge being able to code a microcontroller is never lost!
See Imaging tutorials 1 and 2 to get some ideas of what can be done both in C, assembly and MMX!
So, what do you guys have learned assembly on?
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Anyway, I wouldn't mind living there, if it wasn't for the language.... This is one of the difficult parts about moving in Europe. Moving is not the problem, it's when you settle down somewhere, you definitely notice the shortcoming of not being able to speak the country's language on a daily life basis.
To get back in the subject, it was a bad move from music industry... just makes you wonder WHY exactly do artists need pimps, and just rises the hate bar one step further up...
Like the french music industry collaborating with nazis during the war, or american music industries desperately trying to survive... the wrong way.
Kitos! :-)
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Is there just something plain stupid I am doing or what?
PS: I got the same result trying to alienate the package on a PII.
Thanks or any help!
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Litestep is a great piece of software, no doubt about it. I haven't had a chance to test the latest version yet (heck, it's only been out for a week or something? :), but I definitely want to give it a go. (after all, I already use gnustep in Linux, Litestep is just an extension of one of my favorite desktops to the windows world)
So why did I say what I said?
Because of what people tend to do with themable software (like litestep or winamp):
1st step: make the 1eetest looking desktop
Then, pretend you're a hax0r dude... (watch hacker's again if you don't quite rembember)...
When you're ready, piss everybody off with skr1pts you don't even understand: "I've got this cool puke.c thing, how do I run it?"
I'm dead sorry if my post sounds like I labeled Litestep the wrong way (like with a hammer), this was not the intent. It's not the software, it's people.
Sorry,
Egor
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How many people will be turned away from /. by those events?
Tom Christiansen sure looked disgusted with Good riddance, Slashdot in the title of his post.
I understand that seeking attention is part of the puberty process, but if you kids have really chosen Linux as your operating system of choice because you think it has potential, not just because you hate (or think you hate) Windows, then please, act so.
Good way to get attention from the linux crowd:
- Submit interesting/meaningful comments... Be mature, that's you're chance to be listened to!
- Code! Didn't Alan Cox said something like he wished
/. would be more first patch! rather than frst psot!!!!!! - If you can't code, do something for the community! submit bug reports, write documentation, help people installing Linux...
- Last but not least, please do not annoy anybody... Sure this isn't a perfect world, but if you call yourself a Linux user, behave like one and show respect.
Do kids really get a kick behaving like assholes? Is that it? Well kids, seat back and think about the way you have hurt W. Richard Stevens's family. The guy is dead. He was well respected and a lot of people will miss him because he wrote good unix books and knew in depth the stuff he was talking about. Think about the way you have made not onlyNow, nobody actually asked you to use Linux. If you get pissed at people because you can't use it, there are alternatives!
Download the latest litestep and show your hax0r dude friends on IRC how cool you are while running those warscr1pts on your illegal copy of mirc...
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No glitches in Debian when you get round the really confusing documentation, and pretty much everything I use compiles great and seem to work fine. WM, Gimp, PDL, LaTeX...
So why am I complaining? Well, if you try some of the logo scripts-fu on both the alpha and a PIII-550, the speed difference is not that noticeable at all.
The real test would be to do a povbench on both machines... but I got some errors half way thru the rendering on the alpha!
When alphalinux gets a descent compiler (I'm just blaming compaq here, the gcc team is doing a great job no matter what!)... well, that's going to be a different story, but compaq will never allow Linux take shares of Tru64 or whatever the name is... (OSF)
I'll check bladeenc with compaq's enhanced mathlib... that should be a pretty good test, but until then, I'm not convinced.
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Anyway, anything beyond a few pages, and word is crap no matter what version. I got so hooked on \LaTex I generate my output tables from within my programs... and XFig is much better than MSDraw when you think about it, even though I still like Draw ;-)
Also try me on word's equation writer output compared to \LaTeX :-)
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Like being interogated by the police or something like that? Of course I don't condone what the poor bastard did, but think about what the police had to do to make him talk!!!!
Doesn't this remind you of WW2 or Vietnam? Sorry, I'm just as pissed as pissed-off.
We french people don't like any of those fsckin pigs.
Sous les pavés la plage...
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The first public version was something like september.
All I remember was that the most noticable difference between july release and august release was
It is now safe to turn off your computer
instead of
You can now safely turn off your computer
That and a few more megabytes... Micros~1 suddenly realising it had to invent the internet?
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This is all past tense because I'm upgrading (even though right now it looks more like downgrading with the application server down ;-)
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