Could someone explain to me why we store twice before popping??
"store the bits, store the bits, then pop in a character on your TV."
You generally had 8 bits across each character, and then maybe 7-10 rows downward, so you needed to "store the bits, store the bits" 7-10 times before you could finally push the character on to the screen
Sorry if this isn't exactly appropriate, but I'm currently seeking feedback on forming a global union of web workers. A short introduction and a questionnaire seeking ideas and volunteers is at w4u.dhs.org
As someone else commented, these people wrote the search engine behind ftpsearch.lycos.com. Which is fast. There are a few more reasons, apart from sparse HTML.
This engine asks for no cookies
The output is not in a table, so you see the results as they arrive in your browser, without having to wait for the whole table (in lynx it makes no difference:-)
The load is not very high yet, probably.
But having seen FTPsearch in action for the last 4-5 years, and having seen it always return results quickly, it wouldn't surprise me if alltheweb stayed fast.
Creative had a terrible record, until recently, for not disclosing the details of the internals of their cards. In contrast Gravis had the completely opposite attitude, and much cool software was developed which was GUS only...
cool, we've/.ed their feedback form. I'm sure that when the suits ask why their web server was shafted they'll be quite interested to see slashdot in the referer (sic) logs
The patent on the "method" (rather than the "system") mentions "controlling use of the first memory from the second party"
The "second party" is the person controlling the selling server, the "second memory" (mentioned in the patent) is presumably the server the content is located on. (Now you can figure out what the first party and memory are;-)
Now there are a lot of security folk out there who go to great lengths to ensure that code on a web server cannot possibly interact with the web client or browser. So this patent seems broken after reading only a few lines...
Look at the figures for who shipped the most workstations. 37% of them were shipped by HP and Dell. These two giants are in the process of rolling out Linux-installed products where they have previously only shipped NT workstations.
Maybe that will have an impact on the statistics next time round...
Heh, I can hardly believe that Dell have finally adopted the Penguin...
I used to work for Dell EMEA on their website and I remember the politics involved when we said that shite server was no good for our next generation website. Within the company there was a great deal of resistance, esp from the States, and meetings with senior M$ ppl were littered with vague threats, including suggesting that we were damaging the personal relationship between Bill Gates and Michael Dell.
IIRC, a reverse-biased zener diode is a particularly noisy beast, used to generate truly random noise.
I guess if you amplified this noise, then applied the output to a short monostable or something else to produce a spike given a certain input level, you would get a series of spikes separated with truly random intervals
... for probably less than a couple of dollars worth of parts. And a few dollars more to connect to perhaps the COM port.
Hmm. This.EXE that you download includes a player. The Wintel player posted is useless for this file. I'd have to agree with a previous poster that this isn't exactly "anti-corporate" but then again I doubt Public Enemy have even heard of Unix or Linux, so perhaps the Microsoft slant is inevitable...
Take another look at the spec sheet - the small ones are PC104 form factor (3.6" * 3.8").
[to original poster of "Tiny Intel MBs" thread]: PCs have been around in this form factor for ages - take the base m/board, then stack a video card, sound card, multi channel analog converter (the PC104 heritage is in embedded systems) to get a nice cube, industrial strength, 2-3x the price of a standard PC of equivalent power.
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Could someone explain to me why we store twice before popping??
"store the bits, store the bits, then pop in a character on your TV."
You generally had 8 bits across each character, and then maybe 7-10 rows downward, so you needed to "store the bits, store the bits" 7-10 times before you could finally push the character on to the screen
Think about what you said in your first paragraph - "only the front page would be used"... actually you'd only need a single page of ePaper anyway...!
(s)he said "don't have to reboot the machine every time"...
sorry to nitpick
martian
As someone else commented, these people wrote the search engine behind ftpsearch.lycos.com. Which is fast. There are a few more reasons, apart from sparse HTML.
This engine asks for no cookies
The output is not in a table, so you see the results as they arrive in your browser, without having to wait for the whole table (in lynx it makes no difference
The load is not very high yet, probably.
But having seen FTPsearch in action for the last 4-5 years, and having seen it always return results quickly, it wouldn't surprise me if alltheweb stayed fast.
Creative had a terrible record, until recently, for not disclosing the details of the internals of their cards. In contrast Gravis had the completely opposite attitude, and much cool software was developed which was GUS only...
cool, we've /.ed their feedback form. I'm sure that when the suits ask why their web server was shafted they'll be quite interested to see slashdot in the referer (sic) logs
martian
Thank you
Wahey! I've been waiting for significant developments in reconfigurable computing with FPGAs - these are great chips...
hah! he reckons NT is "pretty doggone stable" - obviously he doesn't use it for anything more stressful than typing into FrontPage.
It's called 'd0ze' because it's for ppl like him...
The "second party" is the person controlling the selling server, the "second memory" (mentioned in the patent) is presumably the server the content is located on. (Now you can figure out what the first party and memory are;-)
Now there are a lot of security folk out there who go to great lengths to ensure that code on a web server cannot possibly interact with the web client or browser. So this patent seems broken after reading only a few lines...
martian
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Look at the figures for who shipped the most workstations. 37% of them were shipped by HP and Dell. These two giants are in the process of rolling out Linux-installed products where they have previously only shipped NT workstations.
Maybe that will have an impact on the statistics next time round...
I used to work for Dell EMEA on their website and I remember the politics involved when we said that shite server was no good for our next generation website. Within the company there was a great deal of resistance, esp from the States, and meetings with senior M$ ppl were littered with vague threats, including suggesting that we were damaging the personal relationship between Bill Gates and Michael Dell.
(In the end we chose Excelon from Object Design)
I'd have to agree that the use of the word "language" both betrays a lack of knowledge about the subject matter and serves to confuse newcomers.
It's still indicative of a growing awareness of Linux in the mainstream, however.
martian
Wow this is incredible - it's another indication of the massive swing towards the world's (soon to be) favourite OS
martian
IIRC, a reverse-biased zener diode is a particularly noisy beast, used to generate truly random noise.
I guess if you amplified this noise, then applied the output to a short monostable or something else to produce a spike given a certain input level, you would get a series of spikes separated with truly random intervals
... for probably less than a couple of dollars worth of parts. And a few dollars more to connect to perhaps the COM port.
includes cascaded peltier design http://larkin.nuclearwinter.com/cool/
martian
Hmm. This .EXE that you download includes a player. The Wintel player posted is useless for this file. I'd have to agree with a previous poster that this isn't exactly "anti-corporate" but then again I doubt Public Enemy have even heard of Unix or Linux, so perhaps the Microsoft slant is inevitable...
martian
[to original poster of "Tiny Intel MBs" thread]: PCs have been around in this form factor for ages - take the base m/board, then stack a video card, sound card, multi channel analog converter (the PC104 heritage is in embedded systems) to get a nice cube, industrial strength, 2-3x the price of a standard PC of equivalent power.
martian
Wasn't Wilbur Smith the protagonist in Orwell's "1984"?
Interesting new use for Apache mentioned in the article: apparently many ISPs use it for making web pages
ROTFL