a PVR doesn't have to have high processor usage. the (maybe older) tivo does hardware encoding/decoding and has something like a 50mhz processor apparently.
is it possible to run an openmosix or openmsi cluster over two differen arch's? if so, i might buy one of these and cluster it with my desktop, if somebody gets linux to install on it.
nfs can be used on windows (with microsoft services for unix [free download])
in unix, the attributes of a file are different (there's no hidden bit, but there's an execute bit, etc) so samba has to use the bits on windows computers to mean what they should to unixes, etc.
i happen to like nfs, and if i remember correctly, its easy to setup (one share = one line in/etc/exports and one lines in/etc/fstab) although this time round im having problems (permission denied errors)
Gambas isn't a drop in replacement for VB, there's some changes:
msgbox "hello", vbinformation 'in vb is message.info "hello" 'in gambas
also (much better in gambas) 'VB dim myFileHandle as integer myFileHandle = freefile() open myfile for input as myFileHandle 'Gambas: dim myFileHandle as file open myfile for READ as myfilehandle
as in gambas, myFileHandle is a file object, as opposed to an int in VB. also its READ instead of input.
if you read the FAQ, it covers most/all of the differences between vb and gambas.
only problem is, you need the gambas runtime installed (which afaik isn't packaged for many distro's), plus some other stuff (gambas-qt, etc) to run the software. it does include a package creator though, which can do many package formats for many different distro's.
And if MS had been tried with the original judge, rather than MS/Bush's replacement, they could have been *broken up*, more than a slap on the wrist, more of a punishment than IBM got too.
Microsoft know if they tried to sue IBM they would lose (even if they had a great case, IBM could just sue them for $50B dollars worth of patent infringment)
that was my point - they do it now with the POSIX subsystem, so they could (and bloody should) just use a freebsd kernel with a *high level* win32 subsystem, that way win32 could be phased out like msdos support was.
They dont need to port the 'drive' naming system (c:, d:, etc) as its retarded (maybe provide a *high level* emulation for it).
device drivers in win2k didn't work in xp, xp's wont work in longhorn so if they scapped blackcomb or whatever its called and replaced it with freebsd+somewin32stuff the drivers wouldn't have to be rewritten any more than they would anyway.
i believe reiser4 would be a good filesystem for microsoft to use (although i dont know anything about ufs). if they paid namesys to port reiser4 to freebsd (if its not there already)and stablise it. they would have a solid filesystem with plugin support (plus performance and reliability[atomic writes]). The plugins would be useful in reiser4 because it could then do the encryption, compression etc that NTFS supports. (reiser does support ACL's doesn't it?)
ive not read her stuff but if she overlooked sco's case's weaknesses, what the hell did she write about? what is it about her blank pages that make them so much better than anybody elses?
i want stricter immigration laws, eg you have to be a real, bloody genuine asylum seaker or you have to possess a skill which is in shortage.
i dont think arbitrary limits are a good idea, far from it.
I think the tories are a complete mess and have been for a long time now, its very suprising they gained ~70 seats on labour compared to the last election.
Braindead policies like that will get them nowhere (hopefully).
ok, i'l rephrase: i want labour or tory to take up some very watered down BNP policies. such as being tougher on immigration, fix benifits, etc.
being tougher on immigration and benifits is not a BNP like policy, its just more BNP like than labours current policy of unlimited immigration and massive benifits for those who cant be arsed working, not enough benifits for those who cant get by.
benifits: yes, your right, some people do get too little as well
imigration: it bothers me mainly because of the political correctness. its not proper to call an indian 'indian' or a chineese 'chineese', you have to call them 'asians'. i would take great offence at being labeled a european and the chineese are very different to indians. A lot of assylum seakers come to this country to live off benifits, if they want to come here to live and work as the english people do then fair enough.
europe: the european union is a non-democratic beurocracy. i hate beurocracy. as an example of the bad reasons for the EU is the mess with software patents (non elected officials forcing the bill through the argriculture ministers!). i also believe britain is very different to the rest of europe and what may be good for france and germany may not be good for england (or britain as a whole).
euro: im against the euro as it takes the power to stabalise the economy away from us. if the french and german economies were doing well and the british enconomy wasn't, there would be little to no chance of getting brussels to change the interest rates in our favour.
bush/blair - yep, impeached.
parliement: yes, that would help, as would locking up PC activists such as cherie(?) blair.
i think hadrians wall was actually an attempt to chop scotland off and make it float away.
i would like scotland to get their own parliament, afaik[*] (i may be wrong), the english pay taxes to keep the scottish from having to pay as much.
[*] - i may have read that in the Sun newspaper, so please forgive me if its inaccurate.
i dont mean BNP getting seats would get the BNP policies outlawed, i mean if the BNP got seats it would cause labour/tory to get some policies. here's some policies i think the BNP could have positive *indirect* influence over:
benifits (too leanient, most people on disability are perfectly healthy)
immigration (fine for real assylum seakers but not ones who just want to live off benifits)
europe (blair seems to want the rest of the world to run the country for him)
bush/blairs unhealthy relationship (another case of see above)
once they have served their purpose and scared labour/tory into doing the above, i would like to see then BNP abolished, but they could serve a purpose.
again, *NOTE* i am not racist, i dont support the BNP or the NF but i do think the BNP could scare other 'real' politicians into be proactive about some real issues.
also, sorry for my endless disclaimers - i want to be 100% sure nobody gets the wrong end of the stick
although i dont agree with the BNP's policies, it would be nice for them to get an occasional seat. it would make the other party's get the act together and take a stand on some issues to stop people voting BNP next time.
I voted ukip, they didn't get a single seat afaik. also, what happened to the national front? ive not heard of them for years.
*NOTE* i do not support the BNP or the National Front, but i do believe a few seats in parliament would get labour/tory to do something about actual issues.
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a PVR doesn't have to have high processor usage. the (maybe older) tivo does hardware encoding/decoding and has something like a 50mhz processor apparently.
is it possible to run an openmosix or openmsi cluster over two differen arch's? if so, i might buy one of these and cluster it with my desktop, if somebody gets linux to install on it.
just a quick look in make xconfig:
Technotrend/Hauppauge Nova-USB devices (DVB_TTUSB_BUDGET)
Technotrend/Hauppauge USB DEC devices (DVB_TTUSB_DEC)
yes, these are dvb devices - there might be more, i only looked quickly and i didn't look at usb analogue cards at all.
But, the xbox could be used for running mythfrontend, with a big ugly loud box in the attic running the backend (with the card[s] in there)
gmean glike gnome gapplications ior iapple iapplications "microsoft or" "microsoft microsoft" "microsoft applications"?
openperhaps openyou openmean openlike openbsd's openapps.
two questions
do you have any of these magical rocks for sale?
do you only take paypal or can i just give you all my bank details and let you deal with it?
no, because then people would buy knocked off Rloex watches, that are scratched, made of fools gold and are an extra minute behind every hour for $45.
(yes, i mean Rloex)
is it just me, or does the CAN-SPAM law's name read more like "you CAN SPAM thanks to this laws loopholes" than "put SPAM in the trash CAN
Do you know what X is? Do you know anything about X other than 'it doesn't like pretty on my osx box'?
nfs can be used on windows (with microsoft services for unix [free download])
/etc/exports and one lines in /etc/fstab) although this time round im having problems (permission denied errors)
in unix, the attributes of a file are different (there's no hidden bit, but there's an execute bit, etc) so samba has to use the bits on windows computers to mean what they should to unixes, etc.
i happen to like nfs, and if i remember correctly, its easy to setup (one share = one line in
fish is an ssh kioslave, sftp is a sftp kioslave.
afaik, fish uses ssh (cd, ls) to browse and scp to copy files
sftp connects to a sftp server and speaks the ftp protocol, but its encrypted (ssh?/ssl? - not sure)
If Stallman et al don't like it, they're free to try and do better: it's step up or shut up time.
i believe the phrase is "Shit, or get off the pot"
Gambas isn't a drop in replacement for VB, there's some changes:
msgbox "hello", vbinformation 'in vb
is
message.info "hello" 'in gambas
also (much better in gambas)
'VB
dim myFileHandle as integer
myFileHandle = freefile()
open myfile for input as myFileHandle
'Gambas:
dim myFileHandle as file
open myfile for READ as myfilehandle
as in gambas, myFileHandle is a file object, as opposed to an int in VB. also its READ instead of input.
if you read the FAQ, it covers most/all of the differences between vb and gambas.
only problem is, you need the gambas runtime installed (which afaik isn't packaged for many distro's), plus some other stuff (gambas-qt, etc) to run the software. it does include a package creator though, which can do many package formats for many different distro's.
And if MS had been tried with the original judge, rather than MS/Bush's replacement, they could have been *broken up*, more than a slap on the wrist, more of a punishment than IBM got too.
Microsoft know if they tried to sue IBM they would lose (even if they had a great case, IBM could just sue them for $50B dollars worth of patent infringment)
aren't libraries heavily subsidised by the government
that was my point - they do it now with the POSIX subsystem, so they could (and bloody should) just use a freebsd kernel with a *high level* win32 subsystem, that way win32 could be phased out like msdos support was.
They dont need to port the 'drive' naming system (c:, d:, etc) as its retarded (maybe provide a *high level* emulation for it).
device drivers in win2k didn't work in xp, xp's wont work in longhorn so if they scapped blackcomb or whatever its called and replaced it with freebsd+somewin32stuff the drivers wouldn't have to be rewritten any more than they would anyway.
i believe reiser4 would be a good filesystem for microsoft to use (although i dont know anything about ufs). if they paid namesys to port reiser4 to freebsd (if its not there already)and stablise it. they would have a solid filesystem with plugin support (plus performance and reliability[atomic writes]). The plugins would be useful in reiser4 because it could then do the encryption, compression etc that NTFS supports. (reiser does support ACL's doesn't it?)
sorry, i assumed there was a popular anti sco site hosted at yahoo (or yahoo themselves). i didn't realise you meant what i linked too.
i'd consider this to be more of a SCO hate site (although its all fact)
ive not read her stuff but if she overlooked sco's case's weaknesses, what the hell did she write about? what is it about her blank pages that make them so much better than anybody elses?
when did i say howards proposal was a good one?
i want stricter immigration laws, eg you have to be a real, bloody genuine asylum seaker or you have to possess a skill which is in shortage.
i dont think arbitrary limits are a good idea, far from it.
I think the tories are a complete mess and have been for a long time now, its very suprising they gained ~70 seats on labour compared to the last election.
Braindead policies like that will get them nowhere (hopefully).
i dont know their fiscal policies, their social policies are well publicised.
the BNP dont appeal to me, but them scaring the other parties into doing what the public wants does apeal to me.
ok, i'l rephrase: i want labour or tory to take up some very watered down BNP policies. such as being tougher on immigration, fix benifits, etc.
being tougher on immigration and benifits is not a BNP like policy, its just more BNP like than labours current policy of unlimited immigration and massive benifits for those who cant be arsed working, not enough benifits for those who cant get by.
benifits: yes, your right, some people do get too little as well
imigration: it bothers me mainly because of the political correctness. its not proper to call an indian 'indian' or a chineese 'chineese', you have to call them 'asians'. i would take great offence at being labeled a european and the chineese are very different to indians. A lot of assylum seakers come to this country to live off benifits, if they want to come here to live and work as the english people do then fair enough.
europe: the european union is a non-democratic beurocracy. i hate beurocracy. as an example of the bad reasons for the EU is the mess with software patents (non elected officials forcing the bill through the argriculture ministers!). i also believe britain is very different to the rest of europe and what may be good for france and germany may not be good for england (or britain as a whole).
euro: im against the euro as it takes the power to stabalise the economy away from us. if the french and german economies were doing well and the british enconomy wasn't, there would be little to no chance of getting brussels to change the interest rates in our favour.
bush/blair - yep, impeached.
parliement: yes, that would help, as would locking up PC activists such as cherie(?) blair.
i think hadrians wall was actually an attempt to chop scotland off and make it float away.
i would like scotland to get their own parliament, afaik[*] (i may be wrong), the english pay taxes to keep the scottish from having to pay as much.
[*] - i may have read that in the Sun newspaper, so please forgive me if its inaccurate.
i dont mean BNP getting seats would get the BNP policies outlawed, i mean if the BNP got seats it would cause labour/tory to get some policies. here's some policies i think the BNP could have positive *indirect* influence over:
benifits (too leanient, most people on disability are perfectly healthy)
immigration (fine for real assylum seakers but not ones who just want to live off benifits)
europe (blair seems to want the rest of the world to run the country for him)
bush/blairs unhealthy relationship (another case of see above)
once they have served their purpose and scared labour/tory into doing the above, i would like to see then BNP abolished, but they could serve a purpose.
again, *NOTE* i am not racist, i dont support the BNP or the NF but i do think the BNP could scare other 'real' politicians into be proactive about some real issues.
also, sorry for my endless disclaimers - i want to be 100% sure nobody gets the wrong end of the stick
although i dont agree with the BNP's policies, it would be nice for them to get an occasional seat. it would make the other party's get the act together and take a stand on some issues to stop people voting BNP next time.
I voted ukip, they didn't get a single seat afaik. also, what happened to the national front? ive not heard of them for years.
*NOTE* i do not support the BNP or the National Front, but i do believe a few seats in parliament would get labour/tory to do something about actual issues.
again, i am not a supporter of the BNP or the NF
come to think of it, i actually hate being classes as the same as a poncey girly southerner