i can barely get above 30K [snip] when were meant to het up to 512K
Are you sure you're meant to get up to 512K? An upper-case K signifies KiloBytes, and a lower-case k means KiloBits. 512 KBytes would be a whopping (for the british isles) 4 megabits/s.
Now, 512 Kbits/s is still 64 KBytes/s, so you aren't getting the "full 512k".
Dial-up is (normally) 56 Kbits/s, which is a meagre 7 KBytes/s.
I've found that kilobits are normally used when talking about networking, as opposed to kilobytes when talking about storage.
I was. I'm 14 now and even I can see that ImageMagick and "Quod Libet" are useful utilities rather than sysadmin tools. However, I'm sure that linux was a hell of a lot harder to learn six years ago when he was 11, so I will give him credit for that.
You are allowed to say "I hate all niggers" because that's just expressing your opinion. You aren't allowed to say "kill all the jews", however, because that's inciting others to commit a crime.
I like the message you get when you do try to use opera:
Oops! Sorry, your web browser is not yet supported.
Our programming wizards tried their darndest to get Google Page Creator to work with as many browsers as possible. But alas, even the most expert practitioners of web sorcery must sleep now and again, lest their JavaScript magic run dry.
So, for now, you'll need either to download a new version of Firefox or download a new version of Internet Explorer (Windows only), and then come right back.
"Care to back that up? It sounds handy to me, and it's not like providing power through USB isn't included in the specification."
Firstly, I see that I mis-read the original post. I didn't see the part about "very low power devices", but I think my point still stands.
It does sound handy to use USB for powering small devices, but not/that/ handy. USB provides power for a reason - to allow small devices to draw their required power from the host, and not require extra cables. It was never supposed to be used for solely supplying power. To have all your routers and other small devices plugged into your computer for power does seem a little strange to me, especially if you need them where there is no computer with USB connectivity (my router is across the room from me, and plugs into the wall there. It would be crazy for me to extend a cable along the floor and use USB to power it). To resolve this one might come up with a sort of USB hub that plugs directly into the wall and supplies power only, and no serial connection, but if you're going to go to those lengths, why not create a new standard and design it for powering things, instead of re-using an old standard?
Powering devices like LED lights that require a tiny amount of power to operate is okay, but when you move on to devices that would otherwise require a wall-wart (like the OP was suggesting), you're (ab)using USB for a completely different purpose to what it was made for. The USB specifications state that the maximum voltage that should be drawn by a single device is be 5.25 volts. Just looking around the room, I can find plenty of things (for example my network switch) that require more than that.
I am not suggesting that a universal power connector would be a bad thing at all, in fact, I can imagine that it would be hugely useful, but there are a couple of reasons why I doubt the emergence of such a thing. Firstly, manufacturers can make a small amount of profit by making 'proprietary' plugs, because if you lose the one that came in the box, you have to go back and buy a new one instead of using a spare that you may have lying around. Also, if all the connectors looked the same, then you would get people plugging the wrong type in and breaking something, and they'd complain about that.
Suppose you want to type in BitchX, how to you stop UT2004 from capturing your keypresses and mouse control? Also, do you run in a window or fullscreen? If I run in fullscreen my second monitor turns off. I use nvidia twinview, if that makes a difference.
Well, they can still see to which server the packets are going, so they can tell if you're on ebay or "Joe's auction site", and prioritise accordingly. Tor is very good at hiding your communications.
I really want to try some bawls, but it's not available in the UK. I think it would be very profitable to set up a small company to import and sell bottles in england. With a reputation like it has, there must be a huge demand for it over here.
Well, I don't know about the US, but in the UK, I've tried 3 types.
Red Bull - Way too expensive, certainly not worth the price, especially with all the alternatives available.
Blue Bear - It used to be great. You could get it in 1.5 Litre bottles for £1.50 or something like that. It is sold in Spar, but they've discontinued the large bottles now, so you have to get the measly 250ml cans.
Kick - This one's from Tesco. Well worth it. My friend once bought 10 bottles (1 litre each) at 50p each (I think there was an offer on - they're usually £1 each) for a small LAN party I was hosting. Certainly did the job well, and at a great low price.
I can't really say anything about the taste, as they're all about the same to me - a sort of fruity, fizzy flavour.
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It is hard to get a fully working mplayer with win32 codecs on x86_64, because you need to compile with -m32 for the codecs to work. Doing this means that you need all the 32-bit libraries that mplayer requires, and there are a lot of them. If you use rpm then installing the 32-bit libs as well as the 64-bit ones (for other apps) creates conflicts. So, it's possible, but hard. It's not worth the effort for me, so I just statically compile mplayer on a 32-bit box and move it over to my desktop.
I was actually thinking about this earlier today. Would it not be pretty useful to use wiki software for customer "tickets" in tech support? Seems pretty sensible to me, even if it's a little overkill.
If you're on x86, then it's easy. Just follow http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/dvdplay. If you're on something like x86_64, it's a little more difficult, but I got it working after a while.
Completely true. In the UK, we pay (where I live) about 92p/litre, which converts to £3.48GBP or $5.97 per US gallon. Has it stopped people driving? No way. It costs me £1.60 ($2.74) to get from home to school on the bus. That's for a single, one-way fare. Now, let's take a car that goes at 5 mpg, and can take 2 people (completely unrealistic, but it helps prove my point). It's about 3 miles from home to school, so it costs £2.09 ($3.59) to take the car. 2 people on the bus, on the other hand, would cost £3.20 ($5.49), and would take twice as long. Now, factoring in the fact that most cars take 4+ people and do _way_ more than 5 mpg, which would you choose?
How on earth did the slashdot editors let THIS one get past? It's obviously some sort of scam!
Seriously though, you've got to create a good reputation for your country and its people. Everyone knows that one person can not make a difference, so anything you do will be futile. The best thing to do is to use proxy servers, webmail and pretend you're from somewhere else.
Either the person playing at the start of the video was using the arrow keys instead of a mouse, or he was really crap at doom. And he just stood there while bill stood right in the crosshairs! What's up with that!?
"You need to learn a bit about everything in school, becase there's no way to know what knowledge you're going to need in the future."
Aha, but what if you *do* know what you're going to do for a job, while still relatively early in your education? What do you do then? It can get extremely frustrating, being required by law to have Religious Education lessons until you're 16, when you know you're going to go into the IT field, because that's what you're good at, and you enjoy it. You can't get into university early, perhaps because you're not quite that amazing, or perhaps because people don't appreciate the tech guy.
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Now, 512 Kbits/s is still 64 KBytes/s, so you aren't getting the "full 512k".
Dial-up is (normally) 56 Kbits/s, which is a meagre 7 KBytes/s.
I've found that kilobits are normally used when talking about networking, as opposed to kilobytes when talking about storage.
I was. I'm 14 now and even I can see that ImageMagick and "Quod Libet" are useful utilities rather than sysadmin tools.
However, I'm sure that linux was a hell of a lot harder to learn six years ago when he was 11, so I will give him credit for that.
You are allowed to say "I hate all niggers" because that's just expressing your opinion.
You aren't allowed to say "kill all the jews", however, because that's inciting others to commit a crime.
That would be damn cool. File a patent now, before someone else does!
I like the message you get when you do try to use opera:
Oops!
Sorry, your web browser is not yet supported.
Our programming wizards tried their darndest to get Google Page Creator to work with as many browsers as possible. But alas, even the most expert practitioners of web sorcery must sleep now and again, lest their JavaScript magic run dry.
So, for now, you'll need either to download a new version of Firefox or download a new version of Internet Explorer (Windows only), and then come right back.
"Care to back that up? It sounds handy to me, and it's not like providing power through USB isn't included in the specification."
/that/ handy. USB provides power for a reason - to allow small devices to draw their required power from the host, and not require extra cables. It was never supposed to be used for solely supplying power. To have all your routers and other small devices plugged into your computer for power does seem a little strange to me, especially if you need them where there is no computer with USB connectivity (my router is across the room from me, and plugs into the wall there. It would be crazy for me to extend a cable along the floor and use USB to power it). To resolve this one might come up with a sort of USB hub that plugs directly into the wall and supplies power only, and no serial connection, but if you're going to go to those lengths, why not create a new standard and design it for powering things, instead of re-using an old standard?
Firstly, I see that I mis-read the original post. I didn't see the part about "very low power devices", but I think my point still stands.
It does sound handy to use USB for powering small devices, but not
Powering devices like LED lights that require a tiny amount of power to operate is okay, but when you move on to devices that would otherwise require a wall-wart (like the OP was suggesting), you're (ab)using USB for a completely different purpose to what it was made for. The USB specifications state that the maximum voltage that should be drawn by a single device is be 5.25 volts. Just looking around the room, I can find plenty of things (for example my network switch) that require more than that.
I am not suggesting that a universal power connector would be a bad thing at all, in fact, I can imagine that it would be hugely useful, but there are a couple of reasons why I doubt the emergence of such a thing.
Firstly, manufacturers can make a small amount of profit by making 'proprietary' plugs, because if you lose the one that came in the box, you have to go back and buy a new one instead of using a spare that you may have lying around.
Also, if all the connectors looked the same, then you would get people plugging the wrong type in and breaking something, and they'd complain about that.
This would be a very bad thing. USB was never designed as a power source, and it's not good to use it as if it was.
"i submit that before 2008 we'll see people 'defecting' from britain."
Damn right there. I'm jumping ship as soon as I can.
Suppose you want to type in BitchX, how to you stop UT2004 from capturing your keypresses and mouse control?
Also, do you run in a window or fullscreen? If I run in fullscreen my second monitor turns off.
I use nvidia twinview, if that makes a difference.
Well, they can still see to which server the packets are going, so they can tell if you're on ebay or "Joe's auction site", and prioritise accordingly.
Tor is very good at hiding your communications.
I really want to try some bawls, but it's not available in the UK.
I think it would be very profitable to set up a small company to import and sell bottles in england. With a reputation like it has, there must be a huge demand for it over here.
Well, I don't know about the US, but in the UK, I've tried 3 types.
Red Bull - Way too expensive, certainly not worth the price, especially with all the alternatives available.
Blue Bear - It used to be great. You could get it in 1.5 Litre bottles for £1.50 or something like that. It is sold in Spar, but they've discontinued the large bottles now, so you have to get the measly 250ml cans.
Kick - This one's from Tesco. Well worth it. My friend once bought 10 bottles (1 litre each) at 50p each (I think there was an offer on - they're usually £1 each) for a small LAN party I was hosting. Certainly did the job well, and at a great low price.
I can't really say anything about the taste, as they're all about the same to me - a sort of fruity, fizzy flavour.
It is hard to get a fully working mplayer with win32 codecs on x86_64, because you need to compile with -m32 for the codecs to work. Doing this means that you need all the 32-bit libraries that mplayer requires, and there are a lot of them. If you use rpm then installing the 32-bit libs as well as the 64-bit ones (for other apps) creates conflicts.
So, it's possible, but hard. It's not worth the effort for me, so I just statically compile mplayer on a 32-bit box and move it over to my desktop.
That in itself is interesting. It's like the interesting number paradox, already mentioned by someone else here.
I was actually thinking about this earlier today. Would it not be pretty useful to use wiki software for customer "tickets" in tech support?
Seems pretty sensible to me, even if it's a little overkill.
I think you're getting confused between "fission" and "fusion".
Here is a list of operating plants using fission.
How, exactly, is this substantially different from a reboot? :P :)
You get to keep your awesomely 1337 uptime
If you're on x86, then it's easy. Just follow http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/dvdplay. If you're on something like x86_64, it's a little more difficult, but I got it working after a while.
Completely true. In the UK, we pay (where I live) about 92p/litre, which converts to £3.48GBP or $5.97 per US gallon.
Has it stopped people driving? No way.
It costs me £1.60 ($2.74) to get from home to school on the bus. That's for a single, one-way fare. Now, let's take a car that goes at 5 mpg, and can take 2 people (completely unrealistic, but it helps prove my point). It's about 3 miles from home to school, so it costs £2.09 ($3.59) to take the car. 2 people on the bus, on the other hand, would cost £3.20 ($5.49), and would take twice as long.
Now, factoring in the fact that most cars take 4+ people and do _way_ more than 5 mpg, which would you choose?
How on earth did the slashdot editors let THIS one get past? It's obviously some sort of scam!
Seriously though, you've got to create a good reputation for your country and its people. Everyone knows that one person can not make a difference, so anything you do will be futile. The best thing to do is to use proxy servers, webmail and pretend you're from somewhere else.
Well, I was wondering about that slightly when I posted it, but I definitely remember playing Doom II with a mouse.
Either the person playing at the start of the video was using the arrow keys instead of a mouse, or he was really crap at doom. And he just stood there while bill stood right in the crosshairs! What's up with that!?
I have to say, that's pretty cool. But did they really defeat gmail? I haven't heard anything special about yahoo mail until now.
"You need to learn a bit about everything in school, becase there's no way to know what knowledge you're going to need in the future."
Aha, but what if you *do* know what you're going to do for a job, while still relatively early in your education? What do you do then? It can get extremely frustrating, being required by law to have Religious Education lessons until you're 16, when you know you're going to go into the IT field, because that's what you're good at, and you enjoy it. You can't get into university early, perhaps because you're not quite that amazing, or perhaps because people don't appreciate the tech guy.
Captain obvious to the rescue!
(no offence intended)