Cold calling is, in my mind, the equivalent of trespassing onto my property in order to say what I may or may not find useful (mostly the latter). It's an invasion of privacy rather than a free speech issue.
Frankly, I welcome this addition to the US law - we've had a similar system to it over here in the UK for some time, and it really does work.
doesn't allow the maximum of money to be squeezed out of the punter, and thus will be fought tooth and nail by the guys who are in charge of the "industry" - the RIAA et al. as opposed to the artists.
"Can Linux really handle crucial areas such as security and e-mail?"
pffffffffffft........... One word. Windows?
"Allchin points to new features in the version of Windows due in 2007 that will allow users to remotely turn PCs on or off, with programs still running"
Blaster!
"In some number of years my job shouldn't exist"
Well yes, we can hope. Probably not with the same outcome you're talking about though:)
An interesting article to start off with, but then it started to make sweeping statements about how unchangable the hardware market is. The author assumes that hardware at the time was set in stone, but the fact is that if Apple could build Macs, then larger companies who sublicensed the OS certainly could too.
As he meanders past this rather bizarre statement, I began to lose interest in its increasingly meaningless prose, ending with a stunningly profound (note my sarcasm):
"There is only room for one PC operating systems monopoly".
won't put an end to the planned rejuvenation of the Hubble Telescope.
A friend of mine's dad has been pulled out of semi-retirement to help design a light receptor to be fitted to the hubble, which would be able to detect accurately induvidual photons of light.
So if this failure leads to the collapse of the Hubble Reborn project, he'll be out of a job, and more importantly out of a damn interesting project.
The price of on-die memory is what he was talking about. 2 meg of on-die cache memory means that the ee is very unlikely to drop to sub 100 quid.
Another reason for this is that the EE isn't produced as massively as more mainstream intel processors, and thus the cost is likely to remain high. Ditto surplus - I doubt there will be many surplus EE chips that need clearing at a low price.
It's worth noting another recent breakthrough in the DC scene - a DC emulator for PC that works with real games at a playable rate.
Chankast is that piece of software, and it's a joy to see running:) I can now play rez on my PC.
However, with DCs available at as low as 15GBP, it's silly not to pick it up. As a games writer, it's my favourite console I've owned, for the high quantity of top-notch games that were released in its short life. In fact, if you haven't explored the DC's back catalogue - I'd thoroughly recommend it. It's one of modern gaming's best kept secrets.
Another games reviewer here. Got mine yesterday morning from the lovely PR people. It's a much nicer bit of kit than the original - almost all the design flaws are sorted and fixed, and there appears to be a wave of halfdecent games on the way.
I wrote a postmortem of the original N-Gage[google cache] which details what the QD fixes - I would add though that the QD is by no means a 'small' phone, it's almost the width of an old Nokia 1610!
Right, I was hit by this. I'm a linux newbie. But I solved it.
To fix it:
-If you don't already have it, get and install sfdisk (there are RPMs out there, no deps)
Run (presuming your hdd is hda) as root "sfdisk -d/dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread -H255/dev/hda"
You may have to cd to sbin and replace sfdisk with./sfdisk to make it work. In my case, i had to add the -force flag to the right hand side of the pipe.
That command ran, and then i could run WinXP from Grub just fine:)
However, FC2 has many other major bugs that I and others have found:
- Nvidia drivers don't work (i know it's nvidia's fault, but it's a stumbling block)
- As Xorg is in use, ATI drivers are a bitch to install (although if you use google there is a very good howto out there).
- The kludge i had to use to get software mixing working (dmix under alsa) was inexcusable. With alsa in 2.6, you'd think by default you'd have software mixing. An OS where I can't listen to XMMS and hear GAIM alerts at the same time is just ludicrous. Even sillier is the fact that GAIM alerts are queued, so when i close XMMS i get a minute solid of notification noises playing. Simultaneous sounds SHOULD work out of the box. Esound and arts are not in the equation any more, as alsa mixing is a much better solution - so why isn't it implemented?
- Totem just won't work. G-Streamer broke totally shortly afterwards.
- There's no easy way to edit your applications menu, without either SUing, or logging in as root. This seems daft for a multiuser OS like linux.
I know these bugs aren't Fedora only, but they need addressing if Fedora wants to remain OS of choice for many.
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Cold calling is, in my mind, the equivalent of trespassing onto my property in order to say what I may or may not find useful (mostly the latter). It's an invasion of privacy rather than a free speech issue.
Frankly, I welcome this addition to the US law - we've had a similar system to it over here in the UK for some time, and it really does work.
Can it be fooled simply and easily by a piece of jelly, like most fingerprint scanners on the market. Surely you can drag the jelly across.
doesn't allow the maximum of money to be squeezed out of the punter, and thus will be fought tooth and nail by the guys who are in charge of the "industry" - the RIAA et al. as opposed to the artists.
the Xpixmap issue with the ATI drivers, where Xv refuses to work very often :(
"Can Linux really handle crucial areas such as security and e-mail?"
:)
pffffffffffft........... One word. Windows?
"Allchin points to new features in the version of Windows due in 2007 that will allow users to remotely turn PCs on or off, with programs still running"
Blaster!
"In some number of years my job shouldn't exist"
Well yes, we can hope. Probably not with the same outcome you're talking about though
An interesting article to start off with, but then it started to make sweeping statements about how unchangable the hardware market is. The author assumes that hardware at the time was set in stone, but the fact is that if Apple could build Macs, then larger companies who sublicensed the OS certainly could too.
As he meanders past this rather bizarre statement, I began to lose interest in its increasingly meaningless prose, ending with a stunningly profound (note my sarcasm):
"There is only room for one PC operating systems monopoly".
Not frontpage material IMHO.
The point here is that the whole damn computer is inside the CF card, processor, ram, storage and EVERYTHING else :)
won't put an end to the planned rejuvenation of the Hubble Telescope.
A friend of mine's dad has been pulled out of semi-retirement to help design a light receptor to be fitted to the hubble, which would be able to detect accurately induvidual photons of light.
So if this failure leads to the collapse of the Hubble Reborn project, he'll be out of a job, and more importantly out of a damn interesting project.
The price of on-die memory is what he was talking about. 2 meg of on-die cache memory means that the ee is very unlikely to drop to sub 100 quid.
Another reason for this is that the EE isn't produced as massively as more mainstream intel processors, and thus the cost is likely to remain high. Ditto surplus - I doubt there will be many surplus EE chips that need clearing at a low price.
It's worth noting another recent breakthrough in the DC scene - a DC emulator for PC that works with real games at a playable rate.
:) I can now play rez on my PC.
Chankast is that piece of software, and it's a joy to see running
However, with DCs available at as low as 15GBP, it's silly not to pick it up. As a games writer, it's my favourite console I've owned, for the high quantity of top-notch games that were released in its short life. In fact, if you haven't explored the DC's back catalogue - I'd thoroughly recommend it. It's one of modern gaming's best kept secrets.
19 pages in that thread and nobody has come up with the obvious solution.
In a forum the size of spymac, members viewing this thread/online is useless - needle in a haystack style.
To get a gauge of popularity, why not have "number of members viewing this page" rather than the whole list?
If users want to know when their friends are online, then they could implement a vBulletin style "buddy list" in the member's control panel.
... Because it didn't turn on at all :)
That's because they're canadian dollars.
The USD is not the only dollar.
You may laugh, but nokia's official featurelist for the Ngage now includes "sidetalkin'"!
Another games reviewer here. Got mine yesterday morning from the lovely PR people. It's a much nicer bit of kit than the original - almost all the design flaws are sorted and fixed, and there appears to be a wave of halfdecent games on the way.
I wrote a postmortem of the original N-Gage [google cache] which details what the QD fixes - I would add though that the QD is by no means a 'small' phone, it's almost the width of an old Nokia 1610!
This is the first time I've seen a link to Newsforge without the "Slashdot and Newsforge both part of OSDN" disclaimer.
Is this an unintentional omission?
that some companies get away with using GPL code illegally in their hardware projects.
/. give these companies a little trouble. Seems like an open and shut case to me.
See BusyBox's hall of shame here:
http://www.busybox.net/shame.html
May I suggest that we at
"[Brown] is accepted at fine restaurants and hotels around the world."
My God, MasterCard can WRITE BOOKS?
Stephen Hawking's speech synthesizer, operated by one hardware button clicked for different lengths of time.
With the FOSS community and Gimps!
of a chinese couple.
In return I got some cash, and a bottle of the best tasting chilli sauce ever (750 ml).
After going through a pack of crisps, dipping them into the sweet sweet sauce, and eating them, I sat back and thought "Fuck it".
Two minutes later I had drunk the whole bottle. Quicker than I drink beer.
Then, I felt violently ill.
Windows only, IE only - judging by the other services they run.
As long as the end result is the same, I don't think anyone cares :)
I got them off google at first. But a quick look at them, and you can understand what they're doing :)
Right, I was hit by this. I'm a linux newbie. But I solved it.
/dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread -H255 /dev/hda"
./sfdisk to make it work. In my case, i had to add the -force flag to the right hand side of the pipe.
:)
To fix it:
-If you don't already have it, get and install sfdisk (there are RPMs out there, no deps)
Run (presuming your hdd is hda) as root "sfdisk -d
You may have to cd to sbin and replace sfdisk with
That command ran, and then i could run WinXP from Grub just fine
However, FC2 has many other major bugs that I and others have found:
- Nvidia drivers don't work (i know it's nvidia's fault, but it's a stumbling block)
- As Xorg is in use, ATI drivers are a bitch to install (although if you use google there is a very good howto out there).
- The kludge i had to use to get software mixing working (dmix under alsa) was inexcusable. With alsa in 2.6, you'd think by default you'd have software mixing. An OS where I can't listen to XMMS and hear GAIM alerts at the same time is just ludicrous. Even sillier is the fact that GAIM alerts are queued, so when i close XMMS i get a minute solid of notification noises playing. Simultaneous sounds SHOULD work out of the box. Esound and arts are not in the equation any more, as alsa mixing is a much better solution - so why isn't it implemented?
- Totem just won't work. G-Streamer broke totally shortly afterwards.
- There's no easy way to edit your applications menu, without either SUing, or logging in as root. This seems daft for a multiuser OS like linux.
I know these bugs aren't Fedora only, but they need addressing if Fedora wants to remain OS of choice for many.