77C is probably a bit hot, given that ~60C is the highest temperature that multi-cellular life is known to be able to survive for long periods of time.
That said, 25C is a bit cold for swimming on the beach. 30C (or even 40C) would be more like a tropical island, and would be great if they could keep the water just a bit cooler...
This is Linux we're talking about. It is configurable. I suggest you open the "Configure KSpaceDuel" window and change the bullet speed and gravity to your own tastes.
Oh, wait... It was a joke? You didn't really want support with this particular Linux software package?
The surface area is not a good measurement of a 4D object. The equivalent would be the volume of its three dimensional "surface". The 4D equivalent of a 3D volume (i.e. the total 4-space inclosed) would be a hypervolume measured in meters^4.
Couldn't you think of anything else to say about this disaster?
And anway, Colombo is exactly on the wrong side of the island to be badly hit (assuming the quake was centered somewhere to the east of Sri Lanka (well the Maldives were hit).
Why should forum spellchecking be server-side anyway?
It's slow to do repeated corrections that way, and what if I don't use American spellings?
There is a perfectly good spellchecker for Firefox - it's based on a Firefox port of the spell checker from Mozilla Composer/Thunderbird.
From now on, we know that people asking for a/. spellchecker are using IE!
Adjust the priority of demanding processes then.
"man nice" for more information.
I update Gentoo with "nice -n 19 emerge --update whatever" at a very low priority, and that allows me to browse the web, listen to music. even play opengl games while my machine is compiling the latest stable Firefox.
Also, I am listening to music right now, and compiling the Gimp without any change in priorities. I am using kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r1, which is supposed to be patched to give fewer processor cycles to background stuff. It's not enough for 3d games or screensavers, but Firefox and XMMS are running fine, the music only skipping when emerge does source unpacking (tar).
IIRC, BLOD and "illegal operation" screens used to happen quite a lot in airports back in the days of Windows 95 (XP is nearly stable in comparison; 95 wasn't even funny).
I also once saw an airport display showing an (arabic) win95 desktop and the start menu. I sat there waiting for someone to forget it was connected to a display screen and play Solitaire, but no luck.
Good for you then. Wasn't alive then myself, but read books/listened to library tapes (you can get anything from public libraries in Oxford, UK) in the late 90s.
I do this regularly (well a URL monitor does it for me) as a precaution. A few months ago, Google told me that I had accidentally posted my real address on a forum, and I pleaded with the webmaster to remove it.
They took it down, and that email address still only receives ~1 unsolicited email a week, usually from a friend with a virus.
It's a preview release. It's supposed to crash a bit...
And who actually uses Publisher? I don't think MS even changes anything apart from appearance from release to release now (that is partly true of word as well, but anyway...).
It's support of de facto "standards" is definitely a great feature. IIRC, PDF creation in MS Office requires Adobe Acrobat (not the reader, the expensive one for creating PDFs).
Another feature which impressed me was the ability to open presentations made in Powerpoint and save them as swf (Macromedia Flash) files.
The doc->html source is much better than word's. W3C compliant, and human-readable.
But the startup times/memory usage suck on my gentoo machine.
But it is a work in progress, unlike MS office (What changed in Office XP? A less pleasent windows XP style GUI and slower loading, but anything real?).
This is offtopic, but your sig doesn't work at all.
For a start, they moved to sco.com instead of www.sco.com after the virus (if you don't remember the virus, you must be lucky enough not to have to deal with windows boxes).
Also, Google doesn't read/. sigs. Try logging out, you'll find they disappear.
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77C is probably a bit hot, given that ~60C is the highest temperature that multi-cellular life is known to be able to survive for long periods of time.
That said, 25C is a bit cold for swimming on the beach. 30C (or even 40C) would be more like a tropical island, and would be great if they could keep the water just a bit cooler...
1 TB of swap.
Fun.
A TERABYTE of RAM? As in one trillion bytes?
(well 1099511627776 bytes, but anyway...)
What do you run on it? I don't even know what OS will support a TB of RAM!
Does that mean that when (if?) Windows Longhorn boots up for the first time, the user will be offered a list of available botnets?
That would be a major advance on the current behaviour of just selecting a botnet at random, a system that has annoyed some users.
I can't even tell if you are a troll or not...
That really isn't funny.
I seem to remember that, for me, crashing applications would cause the OS to BSOD ...
Maybe my hardware/drivers were just crap...
Win 3.1?
Usefull?
Have you used it? Or used anything that is actually less stable than Windows 95(!)?
Oh, the BSODs...
This is Linux we're talking about. It is configurable. I suggest you open the "Configure KSpaceDuel" window and change the bullet speed and gravity to your own tastes.
Oh, wait... It was a joke? You didn't really want support with this particular Linux software package?
The surface area is not a good measurement of a 4D object. The equivalent would be the volume of its three dimensional "surface". The 4D equivalent of a 3D volume (i.e. the total 4-space inclosed) would be a hypervolume measured in meters^4.
That's pretty tasteless really, this is a major disaster and people have died.
Pay some attention to the real world.
Couldn't you think of anything else to say about this disaster?
And anway, Colombo is exactly on the wrong side of the island to be badly hit (assuming the quake was centered somewhere to the east of Sri Lanka (well the Maldives were hit).
No, it means they didn't make a big enough swap partition.
That doesn't need answering.
Why should forum spellchecking be server-side anyway?
/. spellchecker are using IE!
It's slow to do repeated corrections that way, and what if I don't use American spellings?
There is a perfectly good spellchecker for Firefox - it's based on a Firefox port of the spell checker from Mozilla Composer/Thunderbird.
From now on, we know that people asking for a
Adjust the priority of demanding processes then.
"man nice" for more information.
I update Gentoo with "nice -n 19 emerge --update whatever" at a very low priority, and that allows me to browse the web, listen to music. even play opengl games while my machine is compiling the latest stable Firefox.
Also, I am listening to music right now, and compiling the Gimp without any change in priorities. I am using kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r1, which is supposed to be patched to give fewer processor cycles to background stuff. It's not enough for 3d games or screensavers, but Firefox and XMMS are running fine, the music only skipping when emerge does source unpacking (tar).
IIRC, BLOD and "illegal operation" screens used to happen quite a lot in airports back in the days of Windows 95 (XP is nearly stable in comparison; 95 wasn't even funny).
I also once saw an airport display showing an (arabic) win95 desktop and the start menu. I sat there waiting for someone to forget it was connected to a display screen and play Solitaire, but no luck.
People have been using Froogle to look at product pictures rather than to buy I think:
1. bikini
2. mini skirt
3. prom dresses
4. lingerie
5. little black dress
6. poncho
7. t-shirt
8. sports bra
9. red dress
10. low-rise jeans
Good for you then. Wasn't alive then myself, but read books/listened to library tapes (you can get anything from public libraries in Oxford, UK) in the late 90s.
Everyone read the books. NOW.
Before the film comes out.
It might get popular after the film or something and not be so geeky...
You could try googling for your email address.
I do this regularly (well a URL monitor does it for me) as a precaution. A few months ago, Google told me that I had accidentally posted my real address on a forum, and I pleaded with the webmaster to remove it.
They took it down, and that email address still only receives ~1 unsolicited email a week, usually from a friend with a virus.
It's a preview release. It's supposed to crash a bit...
And who actually uses Publisher? I don't think MS even changes anything apart from appearance from release to release now (that is partly true of word as well, but anyway...).
Loading times are definitely an issue though.
In-correct hyphenation...
It's support of de facto "standards" is definitely a great feature. IIRC, PDF creation in MS Office requires Adobe Acrobat (not the reader, the expensive one for creating PDFs).
Another feature which impressed me was the ability to open presentations made in Powerpoint and save them as swf (Macromedia Flash) files.
The doc->html source is much better than word's. W3C compliant, and human-readable.
But the startup times/memory usage suck on my gentoo machine.
But it is a work in progress, unlike MS office (What changed in Office XP? A less pleasent windows XP style GUI and slower loading, but anything real?).
This is offtopic, but your sig doesn't work at all.
/. sigs. Try logging out, you'll find they disappear.
For a start, they moved to sco.com instead of www.sco.com after the virus (if you don't remember the virus, you must be lucky enough not to have to deal with windows boxes).
Also, Google doesn't read