apt-get update whatever..... all other pkg managers just give me the creeps, especially on a remote server...
oh it is all GNU too, and yes it counts for me.
many say it is only for techs or geeks or whatever, I think whatever else I tried I just went back to it, I don't want crippled packages and messed up (e.g. RH) kernels (well I compile mine so it does not matter anyway)
now mod me whatever, but for me it is #1 for the last good few years... and yes before that I used slackware.... ooohh... like in 95'
My point was only, that it is advertised as a "madia center" "media hub" "AV component", and so it should belong at least to the AV stand.
I find the closed cabinet a stupid idea, but the 360 seems to misbehave on open ones too.
I personally do not care, when I get a PS3 or 360 (we'll see) I will have it on top of something not warm (e.g. DVD player. or PS2) as I have enough space, however some people just do not want an ugly white box to sit freestanding in the middle of everythin heat isolated from everything.
I just try to stress the fact, that it is a "family media hub" and so it should be with the other AV crap, but appearently it cannot take it:)
Hmm I never understood the movie campers either. Actually unless it is eye candy I better wait for the DVD and rent it (hate the popcorn smell, the cellphones ringing and stuff)
But to a certain extent I understand the gamers. If you look at online gaming services, you can see that just before the release, their user base dropped to less than 20%. That does not include Live, I do not have XBL.
So if you are an online gamer and/or your favourite game is already out I understand you want it yesterday, or before. After the xbox (1) I was trusting MS with a game console, and this far I was happy with their hardware (console keyboard. mouse).
I understand they are unhappy, and I was really thinking about getting one but I am waiting for the PS3 myself as I see more hardware upgrades/power there than on the 360.
Quality is one thing, Quake playing with poor framerates ? I do not want that from my new console, definetely NOT, if I am buying a ps3/360 in the future that is almost exclusively for online FPS or maybe a little driving/flying and if I cannot do it at least 800x600 without a frame dropping, screw it I build myself a gaming PC with as many processors or ram it needs to play my titles.
So did I camp ? I would never.
Did I get one on the first week? Not, but that was solely because nothing interested me that much from the currently available games, and because I was planning waiting for the PS3.
Will I get one? Hmm now I definetely wait, if it turns out that there is a fix I might pick one up, but I see frame rate issues all over posted and it scares me again.
forgive me to say this, but it is a "family room equipment" or media center, according to MS and so I would like to put such a device on top of my AMP, my ps2, my DVD player, my xbox, and my various other things.. all these generate heat (my sony AMP is the hottest of all) and all of these are fine in a cabinet, I used the same AMP in one before (different model, same heat if not more).
I hate closed cabinets, but hey if the 360 cannot take one and is so loud and hot I neither want it in the family room.
I mean I am not picky, and actually at some point I wanted a small cabinet with cooling installed in my room with pcs and all the crap, but I am not sure people think of a "rack cabinet with AIRCO" as something that belongs to their TV room....
hohh,... I think I would immediately return the untit for money-back, i think it is possible most places.
Staying 20+ hours in the line, paying $1k + on ebay, and they can replace it in 4-6 weeks.
This is really sad. And many sad that, many flamed that, but I am happy I decided to wait for the PS3 release, but I won't be the first waiting in line, but wait a few weeks to see the problems.
That's how I convinced myself not to buy a psp, as I heard of dead pixels and how they were handled I just walked away from the product (later they changed policy, but they lost me as a customer already)... so you see i am not a playstation fanboy but I wanna get quality for my money.
Overheating boxes and 4-6 weeks to replace just do not meet my quality standards tolerance.
I am surprised no typical/. conspiracy theorists did not bring that up.
Would you consider tha chance that the kid was totally normal, and simply fell out of the window? Than the parents are just trying to make a buck ?
OR:
How did the parents know that he was "re-enacting" a scene from the game? Were THEY playing the game and the kid just watched?
Now if they saw or played the game, they should have realised that it was dangerous and just forbid the kid to play it. I have motorbikes, quads, drill machines and whatever else dangerous stuff, if I know it is dangerous I do not let my kid play with it, simple like that. If I do fail so it is my responsibility.
This is just another retarded case of let's blame games practice.
How many people sued the makers of superman ? Or mary poppins? I mean I knew a kid who broke both her arms trying to parachute with an umrella. She landed in front of our garage entrance in fact. She was stupid but not stupid enought to make 1st jump from the 3rd floor, and the first floor jump did not kill her.
Now I ask again: why not sue movies? I mean how many kids movies feature people flying, shooting, killing. Or how many homes are without a channel blovking device with password control for non-suitable content?
It is a joke. Kids see more violence on a day staying home and watching TV that I can experience playing grand theft auto for hours.
Nop. I am in Costa Rica. You do not want to know how much that $320 proc costs here. And I have a HT capable mobo already so I would just need a proc and do not necessarily want to replace half the machine.
Especially because my local store staff just stares at me when I ask about 64bit processors....
Maybe on my next shopping trip to Panama or Miami. Price compare on that; I will.
No pun intended, I like good old Europe, it's just maybe I am tired of it or our country (Hungary) starts to look "just like the others", and what make the little touches are changed to shopping malls and fastfood chains, and I better moved to Central AM for good weather, beaches and lotsa green space everywhere around me.
I myself travelled to many places in Europe and when you want to see history or architecture it is a #1 choice.
I am from europe.... here is a hint... make it central america, make it africa, make it far east.
Europe is too much americanized (as McDonalds).... I was america (as US admirer for years as an USSR occupaied country) but living off europe i see europe too much "globalised", soo look somewhere else.
Just a suggestion, I like "western civilisation" but avoid hamburgers and loud ads I think you have to further than europe now.
You know I have seen the UN "go in" and "do stuff" in former Yugoslavia. There is no oil or anything else ther. There were just people dying. It was scary as I lived in Hungary (Norht border from there) and we were happy about the UN going in and to provide peace keeping efforts.
You might question if they were late or whatever, but they went there and without political or monetary interest. The US was there (in fact they used HU airfields for their runs).
My point: the UN does stuff, they help where they can, they feed the hungry.
My father worked for years on industry development for the U.N. (as an electrical engineer and economist with aluminium industry) in places like Mozambique and other places that you probably do not see in your average passport. Many places where there were armored vehicles parked on the corner with angry uneducated people shooting at anyone at sight.
I know for a fact that the UN does a lot and there are supporters who go where they can and die if they have to for a cause.
What do you want? More uncontrolled power so anyone can jsut run-down a country for oil? Or the UN should run into Zimbabwe and have a UN version of black hawk dawn (I know it was Somalia), without support for other big countries because they only want more oil or only want nuclear power for themselves?
yep, cool idea. Class has to be sometimes shaken up a bit. I went to a type of college which operated a bit differently: one day one class 6+ hours... learning e.g. SQL for 6-8 hours straight can be sometimes.. hmm... sleep inducing?.. (or e.g. economics for me). So teachers used jokes and whatever available to keep the crowd from falling apart.
I know the school still operates like this, and has divided success because of that, and because lots of the materials are meant to watch at home from VHS. We had these long classes 1-2 times a week (+lab time) so it was bearable, but if you weren't able to work on your own you were screwed. It was considered experimental and costed a lot of money as it was one of the first private schools that operated this way, in a country (Hungary) when most schools are public/government.
Ohh I ran off topic... anyway, still in that rebel education system it was waay more strict and hard to survive than anything I can see in most "US classroom movies".
When I go to a website like gnu.org or most linux manual/howto pages and I see that super simple white bg, black text, blue link, I know that site has content I want and does not want to sell me anything I don't.
Ohh I also know that it can be accessed with anything, not just the newest java and flash enabled bloat that eats up 128megs+ resources just after load. Lynx?
The funny thing is that I wrote this before I actually went to the site:) and I haven't been there for a while. I swear.
Simplicity is also a statement and a strong one.
On the clothing; well it is one statement too. I like his style and with that I am sure I am not alone in slashdot (I hope? Wish? Wasn't a few years ago?).
Maybe I am old, but if we talked on a class we got thrown out. no talkback... X missed classes, you repeated a year. No laptops, only calculators (with no text memory on exams). Pen + paper.
In college it was worse but still, your phone rang, and you were out of your paid classroom with a good chance of failing your next test. Failing tests resulted in a much harder exam from the whole year/months of material just to pass the year. Teachers were respected, of at least politely greeted.
Dunno, are US classrooms really as I see in your typical movie? Ring sounds everyone jumps out and runs away? I remember spending my whole breaks in calss with the teacher finishing the class, there was no jumping out and leaving BS.
Watching movies or writing email on a class ? I mean our teachers would ask you "and Mr Anderson what do you think of this" (refferring to the part you did not pay attention) and if you had no idea what was up you were screwed one way or an other....
Ahm.. todays youth:) I thought I was a rebel once...
On the technical side: I would allow users to log in to an Xterm over wifi, they could acces their stuff, and if you are not logged in, no laptop on the table.... If the teacher walks by and you have anything open other than your app that's needed for the class.... close laptop, and no use for the rest of the class..
I would go as far as installing a cam at the back of the class with pan/tilt/zoom to make sure no one is doing stuff they should not...
I mean if you spend a class watching a TV show why not just stay at home and not disturb the others with distraction...
I might sound like a nerd to some, but I do not care really, I came from tough schools and at the end I am happy I did. (besides having to learn a bunch of completely stupid subjects at high school that was part of the government's requirements for all schools)
Hmm interesting. I was talking about a single proc and HT, I imagine that with dual + HT it is different. I do not see why it is happening. Actually if I bought an expensive server and experienced that, I might try to get some official explanation for the problem.
I wonder If you tried BSD or Windows on the same or similar hardware, that might be some OS specific problem as well.
Scrapers are all those pages, that simply crawl SE results with expensive keywords, then put them onto a page with ads (adsense many times).
They would even include a search, and poll via yahoo/google api, html strip YOUR pages and present it without backlinks to YOUR site.
With the recent Bourbon Dance (recent reindex/algo change is called a Dance in SEO world) it seems that some of these are gone.
Sad is that your site can be penalized for dupe content, and it happened to me multiple times. That means from yahoo number one to the dustbin on sometimes ALL engines. That can effect a small business in a devastating way.
Sorry for the SEO talk, but I am sure some guys are into it too here, so for those that is no news, while for others it might explain what these crap collections are.
Want to find some? Enter your domain name as a search phrase. Alternatively put a very rare phrase on a page that has widely searched keywords, and try this phrase in those sites' search box, you will PUKE I am almost sure.
Than the flame begins, about "relying on search engines as an income". For your information, lots of small businesses cannot afford to bid anymore, at least not in the competitive areas. Weight loss, debt consolidation clicks can cost around $10 per click, and if you think that's all scam business, try PDA accessories or laptop computers, I am almost sure you will end up paying around $8 for a US visitor.
Now then you say "following guidelines" content is KING so you spend money or time (do yourself or pay someone) to find yourself on the first page, and then scrapers find you in those results, and you get penalized for dupe content.
Devilish cycle, and at the end ad services make a double buck:
1. ads on scraper pages 2. inflated PPC (pay-per-click) costs
It seems more and more that the internet turns into television: small businesses cannot affors crap, unless they sell a niche service/product. But how much can you really make on obscure things no one searches for or looks for?
Now combine that with price wars (read an affiliate/SEO forum) and you see prices going down, costs up, and again at the end only BIG_COMPANY makes a real buck.
Now you wonder why your mail box is getting more and more full with spam -> yes some of those are advertisers who turn to this (crappy method) as they gave up on SE results or PPC. I am not saying it is legit (I hate spam) but I know for a fact that some started spamming because they gave anything else up.
Mysql on linux with a 10gig DB for me definetely benefits my server's performance. In fact turning it off results in a 20+ percent query time, especially with multiple fulltime queries.
Of course differently written queries and different systems/sql engines might behave differently.
In fact I am so happy with HT, that I am going to change my desktop to one, as it is a linux machine with lots of running apps at the same time. Not mentioning that it is also a devel station with SQL+apache that benefited with HT according to my experience.
(well it is time to upgrade anyway, and I choose HT over non HT).
For what I use my windows machine : running an X client (M|X) and downloading crap from gadgets,
testing stuff in IE, or sometimes browsing with mozilla...
I must say I would be happy to see a free version as opposed to the waste of money a license for windows is....
I will be also happy to have that on my next laptop, as they tend to come with windows, then I tend to install Linux, and the damn license only tends to work on laptops and come with a crippled installation that ONLY installs on the laptop, not any desktop
Back then there were a few test tunnels, however a quick search revealed, that there are so called "tunnel brokers" online allowing to play around....
And Voila you have an ipv6 address (most sites will "approve" your endpoint and you need a public IP with ICMP enabled (from the tunnel site)....
offtopic: i remember ping times being better between 2 macines using ipv6 addresses, interestingly now my laptop pings with bigger latency over ipv6...... strange....
hmm at the end I will make use of the ipv6 in my kernel that I religiously compile in for the last 5+ years for who knows what misterious reason...
at least kill time instead of working on that "must finish today" project.... crap
interesting, I never had a problem, maybe it's not OO but the your system? OR windows alltogether ?
Actually after a recent upgrade I had some problems (random crash), but it had to do with something with Gnome, and after upgrading some libs it never happened.
My wife is using it on a remote X terminal/session (old laptop just sucked with gnome+OO+mozilla) and it works just nice with 2 users on a XP2000 AMD with 768M of ram and older ATA disks....
Even under several users running several firefox, thunderbird, tons of terms and stuff and the machine firewalling/natting for 5 computers + file server, openoffice works just fine for her... she is interchanging docs with other teachers who usually use MS products and I never hear her complain about anything not working.... except font rendering, but that has to do something with my font server being screwed up in some way I am just damn lazy to fix:)
I understand that this is a small home net and document sizes are in the 5-35 page range, but in that situation it just works beautifully with 0 crashes or lost documents.
So before "sprouting shit out your mouth" you might as well check your installation or your windows. I am sure you did not type up 50 pages without a single save and if it crashes it has its reasons.
Vikings used to eat amanita muscaria before going to battle. It gave them spiritual courage, fearlessness and anger. Not to be mistaken by magic mushrooms (psylocibe content).
It is a strong psychedelic in bigger quantities and you can actually get it online as it is considered legal and grows all over the norht hemisphere.
Disclaimer: No I am not a biologist, not a Viking nor am I any kind of substance abuser. And don't run and pick some now (just by googling for a pic), they look very similar to other shrooms that will make you drop dead in an instant.
I think the multiplayer code is more or less the same (I mean I THINK). Live is different, but on PS2 the games connect to the developer's (publishers') servers, and if there is a code for ps2, it could be in the other versions too.
Now on titles where they have to alter maps too much (e.g. PS2 maps are smaller than xbox, xbox maps are smaller than PC) it is a no-no, however lots of games have smaller multi player maps.
Quality wise I think I can play ghost recon just as well on a ps2 or an xbox or pc because resolution, draw distance, textures are tweaked to the machines' capability, so technically you can fire up the same map and play the same game when it is not a HUGE map of some kind.
I dunno, I really would like to see that feature, and I think whoever does that first would have serious amount of people in their online rooms, and it is like a magnet effect.
I personally hate Halo(2), but it happened that I played because all other games had 1-4 people and there were 10+ in every game.... My point is, that a game gets played a lot where there are a lot of people playing, and if you make a Ghost Recon like this (or similar title) that is multi platform anyway, that could be a huge success.
I have a big screen, so playing (online) with a 4-player splitscreen crew is an acceptable option, but how nicer would it be to bring over a gamecube, and be able to play xbox/ps2/pc/gc on separate screens and go online?
Oh.. you are right, I was planning several times on borrowing one just to see, but its time consuming nature keeps me away from it.
Nowadays I only play online, and mainly FPS.
I cannot help it I am an offroad/paintball/extreme sports junky, so when it comes to games I like anything that is fast and competitive, and it boils down to shooting, tactical shooting (my favourite e.g. ghost recon, rainbow six), racing or flying....
Also I am tired of the "must complete mission" of most titles and actually only plan to get a next gen console with very few titles from these genres, but the best, most played ones (online), as most of the single player games just collect dust unfinished on my shelves for both xbox and my PS2.
Until now I was pretty much against the 360, but seeing that Live is technically free with your xbox I might get one for myself as a Christmas present in case at least 2 titles come out I am interested in besides Quake4.
If no ghost recon or something else good I just wait for the PS3 -> most likely that will happen:)
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apt-get update whatever ..... all other pkg managers just give me the creeps, especially on a remote server ...
... and yes before that I used slackware .... ooohh... like in 95'
oh it is all GNU too, and yes it counts for me.
many say it is only for techs or geeks or whatever, I think whatever else I tried I just went back to it, I don't want crippled packages and messed up (e.g. RH) kernels (well I compile mine so it does not matter anyway)
now mod me whatever, but for me it is #1 for the last good few years
My point was only, that it is advertised as a "madia center" "media hub" "AV component", and so it should belong at least to the AV stand.
:)
I find the closed cabinet a stupid idea, but the 360 seems to misbehave on open ones too.
I personally do not care, when I get a PS3 or 360 (we'll see) I will have it on top of something not warm (e.g. DVD player. or PS2) as I have enough space, however some people just do not want an ugly white box to sit freestanding in the middle of everythin heat isolated from everything.
I just try to stress the fact, that it is a "family media hub" and so it should be with the other AV crap, but appearently it cannot take it
Hmm I never understood the movie campers either. Actually unless it is eye candy I better wait for the DVD and rent it (hate the popcorn smell, the cellphones ringing and stuff)
But to a certain extent I understand the gamers. If you look at online gaming services, you can see that just before the release, their user base dropped to less than 20%. That does not include Live, I do not have XBL.
So if you are an online gamer and/or your favourite game is already out I understand you want it yesterday, or before. After the xbox (1) I was trusting MS with a game console, and this far I was happy with their hardware (console keyboard. mouse).
I understand they are unhappy, and I was really thinking about getting one but I am waiting for the PS3 myself as I see more hardware upgrades/power there than on the 360.
Quality is one thing, Quake playing with poor framerates ? I do not want that from my new console, definetely NOT, if I am buying a ps3/360 in the future that is almost exclusively for online FPS or maybe a little driving/flying and if I cannot do it at least 800x600 without a frame dropping, screw it I build myself a gaming PC with as many processors or ram it needs to play my titles.
So did I camp ? I would never.
Did I get one on the first week? Not, but that was solely because nothing interested me that much from the currently available games, and because I was planning waiting for the PS3.
Will I get one? Hmm now I definetely wait, if it turns out that there is a fix I might pick one up, but I see frame rate issues all over posted and it scares me again.
forgive me to say this, but it is a "family room equipment" or media center, according to MS and so I would like to put such a device on top of my AMP, my ps2, my DVD player, my xbox, and my various other things.. all these generate heat (my sony AMP is the hottest of all) and all of these are fine in a cabinet, I used the same AMP in one before (different model, same heat if not more).
I hate closed cabinets, but hey if the 360 cannot take one and is so loud and hot I neither want it in the family room.
I mean I am not picky, and actually at some point I wanted a small cabinet with cooling installed in my room with pcs and all the crap, but I am not sure people think of a "rack cabinet with AIRCO" as something that belongs to their TV room....
haha, maybe it is the game man:)
I had it on Xbox (not 360) for a test run, and the game is so crappy, Socom II looks better than that.
Ohh multiplayer is so interesting as whipping myself with poison ivy...
I am soo happy I can test games at my local store before shelling money out on them...
Yes, and companies still do that.
They miss one point: not everyone has Live, not everyone has even a decent net connection.
Want a recent example? Rainbow six Lockdown. The game is screwed, there is no replacement only a Live patch download.
hohh,... I think I would immediately return the untit for money-back, i think it is possible most places.
Staying 20+ hours in the line, paying $1k + on ebay, and they can replace it in 4-6 weeks.
This is really sad. And many sad that, many flamed that, but I am happy I decided to wait for the PS3 release, but I won't be the first waiting in line, but wait a few weeks to see the problems.
That's how I convinced myself not to buy a psp, as I heard of dead pixels and how they were handled I just walked away from the product (later they changed policy, but they lost me as a customer already)... so you see i am not a playstation fanboy but I wanna get quality for my money.
Overheating boxes and 4-6 weeks to replace just do not meet my quality standards tolerance.
I am surprised no typical /. conspiracy theorists did not bring that up.
Would you consider tha chance that the kid was totally normal, and simply fell out of the window? Than the parents are just trying to make a buck ?
OR:
How did the parents know that he was "re-enacting" a scene from the game? Were THEY playing the game and the kid just watched?
Now if they saw or played the game, they should have realised that it was dangerous and just forbid the kid to play it. I have motorbikes, quads, drill machines and whatever else dangerous stuff, if I know it is dangerous I do not let my kid play with it, simple like that. If I do fail so it is my responsibility.
This is just another retarded case of let's blame games practice.
How many people sued the makers of superman ? Or mary poppins? I mean I knew a kid who broke both her arms trying to parachute with an umrella. She landed in front of our garage entrance in fact. She was stupid but not stupid enought to make 1st jump from the 3rd floor, and the first floor jump did not kill her.
Now I ask again: why not sue movies? I mean how many kids movies feature people flying, shooting, killing. Or how many homes are without a channel blovking device with password control for non-suitable content?
It is a joke. Kids see more violence on a day staying home and watching TV that I can experience playing grand theft auto for hours.
Nop. I am in Costa Rica. You do not want to know how much that $320 proc costs here. And I have a HT capable mobo already so I would just need a proc and do not necessarily want to replace half the machine.
Especially because my local store staff just stares at me when I ask about 64bit processors....
Maybe on my next shopping trip to Panama or Miami.
Price compare on that; I will.
OOOh. you did not mention it:)
No pun intended, I like good old Europe, it's just maybe I am tired of it or our country (Hungary) starts to look "just like the others", and what make the little touches are changed to shopping malls and fastfood chains, and I better moved to Central AM for good weather, beaches and lotsa green space everywhere around me.
I myself travelled to many places in Europe and when you want to see history or architecture it is a #1 choice.
I am from europe .... here is a hint ... make it central america, make it africa, make it far east.
Europe is too much americanized (as McDonalds).... I was america (as US admirer for years as an USSR occupaied country) but living off europe i see europe too much "globalised", soo look somewhere else.
Just a suggestion, I like "western civilisation" but avoid hamburgers and loud ads I think you have to further than europe now.
You know I have seen the UN "go in" and "do stuff" in former Yugoslavia. There is no oil or anything else ther. There were just people dying. It was scary as I lived in Hungary (Norht border from there) and we were happy about the UN going in and to provide peace keeping efforts.
You might question if they were late or whatever, but they went there and without political or monetary interest. The US was there (in fact they used HU airfields for their runs).
My point: the UN does stuff, they help where they can, they feed the hungry.
My father worked for years on industry development for the U.N. (as an electrical engineer and economist with aluminium industry) in places like Mozambique and other places that you probably do not see in your average passport. Many places where there were armored vehicles parked on the corner with angry uneducated people shooting at anyone at sight.
I know for a fact that the UN does a lot and there are supporters who go where they can and die if they have to for a cause.
What do you want? More uncontrolled power so anyone can jsut run-down a country for oil? Or the UN should run into Zimbabwe and have a UN version of black hawk dawn (I know it was Somalia), without support for other big countries because they only want more oil or only want nuclear power for themselves?
yep, cool idea. Class has to be sometimes shaken up a bit. .. hmm... sleep inducing? .. (or e.g. economics for me). So teachers used jokes and whatever available to keep the crowd from falling apart.
I went to a type of college which operated a bit differently: one day one class 6+ hours... learning e.g. SQL for 6-8 hours straight can be sometimes
I know the school still operates like this, and has divided success because of that, and because lots of the materials are meant to watch at home from VHS. We had these long classes 1-2 times a week (+lab time) so it was bearable, but if you weren't able to work on your own you were screwed. It was considered experimental and costed a lot of money as it was one of the first private schools that operated this way, in a country (Hungary) when most schools are public/government.
Ohh I ran off topic... anyway, still in that rebel education system it was waay more strict and hard to survive than anything I can see in most "US classroom movies".
You know, I might be alone but with yout.
:) and I haven't been there for a while.
When I go to a website like gnu.org or most linux manual/howto pages and I see that super simple white bg, black text, blue link, I know that site has content I want and does not want to sell me anything I don't.
Ohh I also know that it can be accessed with anything, not just the newest java and flash enabled bloat that eats up 128megs+ resources just after load. Lynx?
The funny thing is that I wrote this before I actually went to the site
I swear.
Simplicity is also a statement and a strong one.
On the clothing; well it is one statement too. I like his style and with that I am sure I am not alone in slashdot (I hope? Wish? Wasn't a few years ago?).
thank you. really.
All I thought was posting some flamebait, then I found it just "not worth it". I am happy someone posted an intelligent response to that note.
Sometimes you have to be an upset child to prove your point, and he (RSM) would even take that role.
Go Richard, I don't want anyone to scan my batch or implant, except my own house or car so my devices know daddy is home.
Maybe I am old, but if we talked on a class we got thrown out. no talkback ...
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.. todays youth :) I thought I was a rebel once...
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X missed classes, you repeated a year. No laptops, only calculators (with no text memory on exams). Pen + paper.
In college it was worse but still, your phone rang, and you were out of your paid classroom with a good chance of failing your next test.
Failing tests resulted in a much harder exam from the whole year/months of material just to pass the year. Teachers were respected, of at least politely greeted.
Dunno, are US classrooms really as I see in your typical movie? Ring sounds everyone jumps out and runs away? I remember spending my whole breaks in calss with the teacher finishing the class, there was no jumping out and leaving BS.
Watching movies or writing email on a class ? I mean our teachers would ask you "and Mr Anderson what do you think of this" (refferring to the part you did not pay attention) and if you had no idea what was up you were screwed one way or an other
Ahm
On the technical side: I would allow users to log in to an Xterm over wifi, they could acces their stuff, and if you are not logged in, no laptop on the table....
If the teacher walks by and you have anything open other than your app that's needed for the class.... close laptop, and no use for the rest of the class..
I would go as far as installing a cam at the back of the class with pan/tilt/zoom to make sure no one is doing stuff they should not...
I mean if you spend a class watching a TV show why not just stay at home and not disturb the others with distraction
I might sound like a nerd to some, but I do not care really, I came from tough schools and at the end I am happy I did. (besides having to learn a bunch of completely stupid subjects at high school that was part of the government's requirements for all schools)
Hmm interesting.
:)
I was talking about a single proc and HT,
I imagine that with dual + HT it is different. I do not see why it is happening. Actually if I bought an expensive server and experienced that, I might try to get some official explanation
for the problem.
I wonder If you tried BSD or Windows on the same or similar hardware, that might be some OS specific problem as well.
Hmm, Google on it I will.
Scrapers are all those pages, that simply crawl SE results with expensive keywords, then put them onto a page with ads (adsense many times).
They would even include a search, and poll via yahoo/google api, html strip YOUR pages and present it without backlinks to YOUR site.
With the recent Bourbon Dance (recent reindex/algo change is called a Dance in SEO world) it seems that some of these are gone.
Sad is that your site can be penalized for dupe content, and it happened to me multiple times. That means from yahoo number one to the dustbin on sometimes ALL engines. That can effect a small business in a devastating way.
Sorry for the SEO talk, but I am sure some guys are into it too here, so for those that is no news, while for others it might explain what these crap collections are.
Want to find some? Enter your domain name as a search phrase. Alternatively put a very rare phrase on a page that has widely searched keywords, and try this phrase in those sites' search box, you will PUKE I am almost sure.
Than the flame begins, about "relying on search engines as an income". For your information, lots of small businesses cannot afford to bid anymore, at least not in the competitive areas. Weight loss, debt consolidation clicks can cost around $10 per click, and if you think that's all scam business, try PDA accessories or laptop computers, I am almost sure you will end up paying around $8 for a US visitor.
Now then you say "following guidelines" content is KING so you spend money or time (do yourself or pay someone) to find yourself on the first page, and then scrapers find you in those results, and you get penalized for dupe content.
Devilish cycle, and at the end ad services make a double buck:
1. ads on scraper pages
2. inflated PPC (pay-per-click) costs
It seems more and more that the internet turns into television: small businesses cannot affors crap, unless they sell a niche service/product. But how much can you really make on obscure things no one searches for or looks for?
Now combine that with price wars (read an affiliate/SEO forum) and you see prices going down, costs up, and again at the end only BIG_COMPANY makes a real buck.
Now you wonder why your mail box is getting more and more full with spam -> yes some of those are advertisers who turn to this (crappy method) as they gave up on SE results or PPC. I am not saying it is legit (I hate spam) but I know for a fact that some started spamming because they gave anything else up.
Mysql on linux with a 10gig DB for me definetely benefits my server's performance.
In fact turning it off results in a 20+ percent query time, especially with multiple fulltime queries.
Of course differently written queries and different systems/sql engines might behave differently.
In fact I am so happy with HT, that I am going to change my desktop to one, as it is a linux machine with lots of running apps at the same time. Not mentioning that it is also a devel station with SQL+apache that benefited with HT according to my experience.
(well it is time to upgrade anyway, and I choose HT over non HT).
For what I use my windows machine : running an X client (M|X) and downloading crap from gadgets,
...
testing stuff in IE, or sometimes browsing with mozilla
I must say I would be happy to see a free version as opposed to the waste of money a license for windows is....
I will be also happy to have that on my next laptop, as they tend to come with windows, then I tend to install Linux, and the damn license only tends to work on laptops and come with a crippled installation that ONLY installs on the laptop, not any desktop
Back then there were a few test tunnels, however a quick search revealed, that there are so called "tunnel brokers" online allowing to play around....
...... strange ....
.... crap
And Voila you have an ipv6 address (most sites will "approve" your endpoint and you need a public IP with ICMP enabled (from the tunnel site)....
offtopic: i remember ping times being better between 2 macines using ipv6 addresses, interestingly now my laptop pings with bigger latency over ipv6
hmm at the end I will make use of the ipv6 in my kernel that I religiously compile in for the last 5+ years for who knows what misterious reason...
at least kill time instead of working on that "must finish today" project
interesting, I never had a problem, maybe it's not OO but the your system? OR windows alltogether ?
:)
Actually after a recent upgrade I had some problems (random crash), but it had to do with something with Gnome, and after upgrading some libs it never happened.
My wife is using it on a remote X terminal/session (old laptop just sucked with gnome+OO+mozilla) and it works just nice with 2 users on a XP2000 AMD with 768M of ram and older ATA disks....
Even under several users running several firefox, thunderbird, tons of terms and stuff and the machine firewalling/natting for 5 computers + file server, openoffice works just fine for her... she is interchanging docs with other teachers who usually use MS products and I never hear her complain about anything not working.... except font rendering, but that has to do something with my font server being screwed up in some way I am just damn lazy to fix
I understand that this is a small home net and document sizes are in the 5-35 page range, but in that situation it just works beautifully with 0 crashes or lost documents.
So before "sprouting shit out your mouth" you might as well check your installation or your windows. I am sure you did not type up 50 pages without a single save and if it crashes it has its reasons.
Vikings used to eat amanita muscaria before going to battle. It gave them spiritual courage, fearlessness and anger. Not to be mistaken by magic mushrooms (psylocibe content).
It is a strong psychedelic in bigger quantities and you can actually get it online as it is considered legal and grows all over the norht hemisphere.
Disclaimer:
No I am not a biologist, not a Viking nor am I any kind of substance abuser. And don't run and pick some now (just by googling for a pic), they look very similar to other shrooms that will make you drop dead in an instant.
Well I agree and not.
I think the multiplayer code is more or less the same (I mean I THINK). Live is different, but on PS2 the games connect to the developer's (publishers') servers, and if there is a code for ps2, it could be in the other versions too.
Now on titles where they have to alter maps too much (e.g. PS2 maps are smaller than xbox, xbox maps are smaller than PC) it is a no-no, however lots of games have smaller multi player maps.
Quality wise I think I can play ghost recon just as well on a ps2 or an xbox or pc because resolution, draw distance, textures are tweaked to the machines' capability, so technically you can fire up the same map and play the same game when it is not a HUGE map of some kind.
I dunno, I really would like to see that feature, and I think whoever does that first would have serious amount of people in their online rooms, and it is like a magnet effect.
I personally hate Halo(2), but it happened that I played because all other games had 1-4 people and there were 10+ in every game....
My point is, that a game gets played a lot where there are a lot of people playing, and if you make a Ghost Recon like this (or similar title) that is multi platform anyway, that could be a huge success.
I have a big screen, so playing (online) with a 4-player splitscreen crew is an acceptable option, but how nicer would it be to bring over a gamecube, and be able to play xbox/ps2/pc/gc on separate screens and go online?
Oh.. you are right, I was planning several times on borrowing one just to see, but its time consuming nature keeps me away from it.
Nowadays I only play online, and mainly FPS.
I cannot help it I am an offroad/paintball/extreme sports junky, so when it comes to games I like anything that is fast and competitive, and it boils down to shooting, tactical shooting (my favourite e.g. ghost recon, rainbow six), racing or flying....
Also I am tired of the "must complete mission" of most titles and actually only plan to get a next gen console with very few titles from these genres, but the best, most played ones (online), as most of the single player games just collect dust unfinished on my shelves for both xbox and my PS2.
Until now I was pretty much against the 360, but seeing that Live is technically free with your xbox I might get one for myself as a Christmas present in case at least 2 titles come out I am interested in besides Quake4.
If no ghost recon or something else good I just wait for the PS3 -> most likely that will happen:)