I'd suggest two proxies. Squid for the caching, and Privoxy inline before it to filter out the adverts and other junk. It will make most junk laden pages better to read too.
Even though they got a picture of him driving the car the next day? And the description the car dealer gave was that the guy was missing a few fingers, and lo, the guy they caught was a regular Dr Zoidberg too? Did I miss something?
I don't think the point is that they produce sound like a proper cabinet speaker. Even some quite expensive speakers produce compromised sound, and the amount of cheap Home Cinema which uses the sub to produce half of the bass as well as the sub bass they were intended for really emphasises the deficiency in small satelite speakers.
The point here is that you can have a surface that produces reasonable sound. Billboards, public information, communications will benefit the most.
As said though, they've been selling these for years already, so I'm not sure why this is being reported now.
I have exactly the same with a 1080p TV. It will accept many modes through the vga connection, but using a DVI to HDMI connection I'm extremely limited.
Should I believe this is due to the way the hardware processes the signal internally, or that it is defective by design?
My last TV (warranty replaced with the new one) had a DVI connection on it, but the manual states this will not display anything other than old TV, or new HDTV resolutions.
And another thing while I'm at it. Why wont Battle Field 2 load when going through DVI, only through vga, even though I tell it to use the same resolution?
Enlightenment used to be considered bloated way back when we were mostly still using fvwm.
And for some reason, XP64 takes longer to boot than Slamd64 for me. It takes longer to get to a login prompt, and longer to load the desktop when I do login. It takes longer for any application to open, even small ones. Everything takes longer in XP, and Slamd64 (a Slackware derivative) is much more responsive. Pretty much the only difference is Slamd64 sits on its own 6 year old 70gb Seagate Cheetah, and XP sits on its own 80gb Seagate Barracuda, that is 10k vs 7200 rpm rotational speeds, even though the barracuda has a much higher sustained transfer rate I would have thought they should be pretty evenly matched.
My mum learnt to use a computer via Gnome a year or so ago. Since then, she's experienced KDE, and just recently Windows XP. She doesn't do much apart from using the internet at the moment.
Unless someone gets stuck into working with a single OS and its way of working, the environment is less important than the applications. Personally, since I started using computers I've lived with Amiga Workbench, Windows 3.11, 9x, NT4, XP, Mac OS 7, OS X, bash, fvwm, fvwm2/95/etc, WindowMaker, Enlightenment, Kde(since the second beta to present), Gnome (since inception), XFCE, and probably some more I've forgotten about.
Now I adapt from one environment to the next really quickly. When you've just booted Windows, not having unix-like cut and paste functions sucks, and when using X11... the ability to play Call Of Duty 4?
Yeah I've just bought one for £1300 in the UK, a samsung 40" 1080p. I'm just waiting for Unreal Tournament 2007 now. It makes a pretty good desktop, better than my twin 21" CRT's anyway, and SLI works on one screen too.
But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short. An uproar of voices was coming from the farmhouse. They rushed back and looked through the window again. Yes, a violent quarrel was in progress. There were shoutings, bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously.
Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Does it not seem like slowly the GPL is having its ideals re-evaluated, and the writing on the wall is being changed? I'm not a big idealist personally, buts lets not forget what makes FOSS different from proprietry software, and let us stay as pigs and not become men.
I've used NetBSD on my old server. It was great once I got my head around pkgsrc and its quirks. I now use pkgsrc on my new server with Slackware Linux, because I heard Linux was better on SMP hardware than BSD, although NB3.0 might have chnaged that.
I'd use NetBSD on my desktop if the NVidia X server would run on it. Does anyone play Unreal Tournament on BSD?
And not only that, but the VooDoo3 wouldn't do 800x600x32bpp at any framerate. It was 16bpp only iirc.
I got a 6800GT on ebay for £120, and another one a month or so later for same price, but the adaptor on my scsi disk is getting in the way so can't use two yet till I get a bigger case. UT2k4 is very enjoyable at 1600x1200 with just the one card, and am spending way to much time playing it. Am really looking forward to the new one see here, but I'm pretty certain even with both cards its going to be slow as hell:-(
The syntax police are worse than the spelling cops. Its one command I've never issued either, but thinking about it I really want to now... rm -rf/* I'm gonna have to set up a box just for the pleasure of executing that one, and being able to say "I've done it."
Yeah this annoys me too. E-mail was surely invented as a means to send letters to each other - a bit bigger than just a simple message, but not for sending multi megabyte files. Each time some idiot sends an avi by e-mail, the e-mail server he sends with is tied up receiving it from him, tied up sending it to the next server, which may or may not be the final destination, and then onto another server perhaps or even just tied up again while the end user gets his mail delivered.
I know someone who was still on dial-up when his mothers boyfriend sent him an 80mb e-mail of some wedding photos. He had to download the whole thing because like most people he wouldnt have known the DELE command (or even how to get to a position to issue it). He got broadband soon after.
Yeah I think every computer convention, gaming related or not sould be covered in this way too. Since no-one else has volunteered, I am open to sponsorship proposals. So much more interesting than the usual reports of such events, and pictures of what most gamers actually want to see; Chicks in latex.
Pity the Microsoft guy is probably being called into work right this moment to be sacked if anyone at MS has got wind of this, and this being Slashdot they probably have. If onlt the article didn't use the guys full and proper name or maybe this is just an article to discredit him in the first place?
Just upgraded my 128mb ram k6 200mhz NetBD box to a quad 400mhz xeon w 2.6gig ram and now my websites are *noticeably* faster. I think its because now I'm running it on Linux .
alt-return flips you from fullscreen to windowed, then ctrl-g gets rid of the mouse grabbing. I have sloppy-focus on all the time so maybe that stops UT interpretting kb input, but I've never had that problem so don't actually have a clue what you mean. Yeah twinview makes a difference - ditch it, is simpler with it, but it doesn't add much, takes a bit away, and I trust opensource code more than I trust NVidia's binary only dist. Not that they are not doing a *fine* job with their drivers:-) I used twinview for a while, but found that the hard way was more versatile, but twinview would have been cool if both my monitors were identical.
I'm in dalnet #amirc where things are pretty quiet so dont actually do much typing these days anyway.
Not if you don't use TwinView to make you dual screen setup work. I don't know about anything other than Nvidia, but I couldn't make its TwinView work very well because I have monitors of different sizes, so I set up two device sections, two screen sections, and two monitor sections, and used the ServerLayout section to arrange it all.
Thats how I play. I exit gnome because its a memory hog, and even go to run level 3. Then I run startx with an old window manager: fvwm2. I run a couple of rxvt's on one screen (less memory, lighter than xterm IIRC) with one running BitchX and the other providing a console for the game, which is running on the other screen (usually unreal2004).
Oh, and an oclock running too, as I have to get up early and its easy to lose track of time and end up with only 4 hours sleep.
It is a big deal to take a production server down for an hour and it could cost major money to do so.
Actually I reckon that I could probably swap libpng for a new one in less than a minute, and have time to restart apache too, if thats even needed (does php link to gd or does it just call it?) Total downtime maybe 5 seconds, maybe less. Still got five 9's w00t! Dang forgot to run ldconfig:-(
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I'd suggest two proxies. Squid for the caching, and Privoxy inline before it to filter out the adverts and other junk. It will make most junk laden pages better to read too.
Meept.
I'll get my coat.
Even though they got a picture of him driving the car the next day? And the description the car dealer gave was that the guy was missing a few fingers, and lo, the guy they caught was a regular Dr Zoidberg too? Did I miss something?
I thought the BBC were toying with that idea? Well, free to download by us Brits anyway...
You are all so wrong you wouldn't believe. Nuclear War? Russia? China? USA? Bwahahaha...
The dolphins are mobilizing... They are allied with Porpoises, and Duck Billed Platypus'.
YOU ARE ALL DOOMED!!!
I don't think the point is that they produce sound like a proper cabinet speaker. Even some quite expensive speakers produce compromised sound, and the amount of cheap Home Cinema which uses the sub to produce half of the bass as well as the sub bass they were intended for really emphasises the deficiency in small satelite speakers.
The point here is that you can have a surface that produces reasonable sound. Billboards, public information, communications will benefit the most.
As said though, they've been selling these for years already, so I'm not sure why this is being reported now.
Explain it me.... I feel stupid and don't get it :(
I have exactly the same with a 1080p TV. It will accept many modes through the vga connection, but using a DVI to HDMI connection I'm extremely limited.
Should I believe this is due to the way the hardware processes the signal internally, or that it is defective by design?
My last TV (warranty replaced with the new one) had a DVI connection on it, but the manual states this will not display anything other than old TV, or new HDTV resolutions.
And another thing while I'm at it. Why wont Battle Field 2 load when going through DVI, only through vga, even though I tell it to use the same resolution?
Enlightenment used to be considered bloated way back when we were mostly still using fvwm.
And for some reason, XP64 takes longer to boot than Slamd64 for me. It takes longer to get to a login prompt, and longer to load the desktop when I do login. It takes longer for any application to open, even small ones. Everything takes longer in XP, and Slamd64 (a Slackware derivative) is much more responsive. Pretty much the only difference is Slamd64 sits on its own 6 year old 70gb Seagate Cheetah, and XP sits on its own 80gb Seagate Barracuda, that is 10k vs 7200 rpm rotational speeds, even though the barracuda has a much higher sustained transfer rate I would have thought they should be pretty evenly matched.
My mum learnt to use a computer via Gnome a year or so ago. Since then, she's experienced KDE, and just recently Windows XP. She doesn't do much apart from using the internet at the moment.
Unless someone gets stuck into working with a single OS and its way of working, the environment is less important than the applications. Personally, since I started using computers I've lived with Amiga Workbench, Windows 3.11, 9x, NT4, XP, Mac OS 7, OS X, bash, fvwm, fvwm2/95/etc, WindowMaker, Enlightenment, Kde(since the second beta to present), Gnome (since inception), XFCE, and probably some more I've forgotten about.
Now I adapt from one environment to the next really quickly. When you've just booted Windows, not having unix-like cut and paste functions sucks, and when using X11... the ability to play Call Of Duty 4?
I had a low ID once. I forgot my original login and password so had to create another. :(
Yeah I've just bought one for £1300 in the UK, a samsung 40" 1080p. I'm just waiting for Unreal Tournament 2007 now. It makes a pretty good desktop, better than my twin 21" CRT's anyway, and SLI works on one screen too.
1080p FTW!
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Does it not seem like slowly the GPL is having its ideals re-evaluated, and the writing on the wall is being changed? I'm not a big idealist personally, buts lets not forget what makes FOSS different from proprietry software, and let us stay as pigs and not become men.
Are the *BSD people are nicer? Or at least more tactful?
No. Thats why there is more than one BSD. Issues come up, and booom crash goes the fork. Pity.
I've used NetBSD on my old server. It was great once I got my head around pkgsrc and its quirks. I now use pkgsrc on my new server with Slackware Linux, because I heard Linux was better on SMP hardware than BSD, although NB3.0 might have chnaged that.
I'd use NetBSD on my desktop if the NVidia X server would run on it. Does anyone play Unreal Tournament on BSD?
And not only that, but the VooDoo3 wouldn't do 800x600x32bpp at any framerate. It was 16bpp only iirc.
:-(
I got a 6800GT on ebay for £120, and another one a month or so later for same price, but the adaptor on my scsi disk is getting in the way so can't use two yet till I get a bigger case. UT2k4 is very enjoyable at 1600x1200 with just the one card, and am spending way to much time playing it. Am really looking forward to the new one see here, but I'm pretty certain even with both cards its going to be slow as hell
The syntax police are worse than the spelling cops. Its one command I've never issued either, but thinking about it I really want to now... rm -rf /* I'm gonna have to set up a box just for the pleasure of executing that one, and being able to say "I've done it."
Shouldn't that be:
root@ibm# rm -rf *
And as always on storage/bandwidth topics: the pr0n/ogg/divx potential of that thing... *sorry*
Yeah this annoys me too. E-mail was surely invented as a means to send letters to each other - a bit bigger than just a simple message, but not for sending multi megabyte files. Each time some idiot sends an avi by e-mail, the e-mail server he sends with is tied up receiving it from him, tied up sending it to the next server, which may or may not be the final destination, and then onto another server perhaps or even just tied up again while the end user gets his mail delivered.
I know someone who was still on dial-up when his mothers boyfriend sent him an 80mb e-mail of some wedding photos. He had to download the whole thing because like most people he wouldnt have known the DELE command (or even how to get to a position to issue it). He got broadband soon after.
Gawd you people ruined the internet.
Yeah I think every computer convention, gaming related or not sould be covered in this way too. Since no-one else has volunteered, I am open to sponsorship proposals. So much more interesting than the usual reports of such events, and pictures of what most gamers actually want to see; Chicks in latex.
Pity the Microsoft guy is probably being called into work right this moment to be sacked if anyone at MS has got wind of this, and this being Slashdot they probably have. If onlt the article didn't use the guys full and proper name or maybe this is just an article to discredit him in the first place?
Just upgraded my 128mb ram k6 200mhz NetBD box to a quad 400mhz xeon w 2.6gig ram and now my websites are *noticeably* faster. I think its because now I'm running it on Linux .
alt-return flips you from fullscreen to windowed, then ctrl-g gets rid of the mouse grabbing. I have sloppy-focus on all the time so maybe that stops UT interpretting kb input, but I've never had that problem so don't actually have a clue what you mean. Yeah twinview makes a difference - ditch it, is simpler with it, but it doesn't add much, takes a bit away, and I trust opensource code more than I trust NVidia's binary only dist. Not that they are not doing a *fine* job with their drivers :-) I used twinview for a while, but found that the hard way was more versatile, but twinview would have been cool if both my monitors were identical.
I'm in dalnet #amirc where things are pretty quiet so dont actually do much typing these days anyway.
Not if you don't use TwinView to make you dual screen setup work. I don't know about anything other than Nvidia, but I couldn't make its TwinView work very well because I have monitors of different sizes, so I set up two device sections, two screen sections, and two monitor sections, and used the ServerLayout section to arrange it all.
Thats how I play. I exit gnome because its a memory hog, and even go to run level 3. Then I run startx with an old window manager: fvwm2. I run a couple of rxvt's on one screen (less memory, lighter than xterm IIRC) with one running BitchX and the other providing a console for the game, which is running on the other screen (usually unreal2004).
Oh, and an oclock running too, as I have to get up early and its easy to lose track of time and end up with only 4 hours sleep.
Actually I reckon that I could probably swap libpng for a new one in less than a minute, and have time to restart apache too, if thats even needed (does php link to gd or does it just call it?) Total downtime maybe 5 seconds, maybe less. Still got five 9's w00t! Dang forgot to run ldconfig