Well, with the parallel port available, I don't need that extra $20 board. The point is that it's all in one component, whereas your board would not be. And if you're going through all the trouble of USB at that step you're already consuming an obscene amount of power in the design we are talking about when compared to a simple parallel, or even serial, port.
If you get the boards based on the ATOM reference platform you will notice that it contains both serial and, get this, a PARALLEL port.
Seriously, the parallel and serial ports are for embedded applications. It's much easier to use those 8 bits on the parallel port for dry contact control. And most small embedded controllers have serial interfaces.
Why does it have to be legacy free? This is not supposed to be JUST a consumer computer platform.
It's supposed to be both a consumer platform as well as an embedded platform and you can't be an embedded platform if you're legacy free.
Says you. I bought all my many VIA processors and processor/motherboard packages from more than a handful of US merchants within months of the announcement of their availability.
Amazing. At first I was wondering if the 45-degree offset component would allow good airflow, thinking it is the processor, but it is not.
After downloading the Image Kit I noticed that the processor is actually the little tiny component with "nano" stamped on it near the top right side of the board.
Someone asked me about this very thing last week. I thought everyone knew that you get what you pay for, both speed and durability. I have found also that the drives marked ReadyBoost usually mean they're among the faster drives.
When Star Wars and its sequels came out I bought and read all of the books. It was only when the re-releases came out, and the anticipation was growing over the "prequels" that I realized that Star Wars "storyline" never existed and was made up as they went along.
The original books that I read were screenplay adaptations, but I was too young and naive to recognize that. I figured it out when the "prequels" didn't have books coming out before them. They made it up as they went along. Like the X-Files and Lost. There's hardly even an outline to this so-called "storyline."
First, if you're looking for inexpensive rack-mounted servers, check geeks.com which sells several machines of recent vintage.
However, you might consider this idea. I decided to be more flexible for my own home after observing a small dotcom that acquired several smaller dotcoms, some of which used towers and others that used rack mounted machines.
I opted to install a two-post rack, the kind some people call "relay racks," and I installed shelves on them. The shelves allow me to install whatever computer I want, whether rack-mounted or tower configuration. They also allow me to use non-rack-mount communications gear like routers and modems. I also have punch-down blocks at the top for cabling and power hanging off the side. Naturally your four-post 19-inch rack would have similar if not somewhat less expensive shelving available for it.
Back to my setup, the all-aluminum two-post rack came from American Power Conversion and only cost me $150. The shelves vary from $35 to $70 each. The shelves holding the smaller gear are cantilevered and vented. The rest are center-mounted.
For your rack you can use your old rack-mounted computer as a shelf for the other components.
There shouldn't be a reason to restrict your options to just rack-mounted computers. The more flexible and less expensive tower form factors are definitely going to satisfy you more.
Fedora 9 will not install on certain Samsung hard disks.
If your hard disk has a "/" character in its model name as reported through the ATA interface then Anaconda will fail. The Python error message reads like "ends with '/' and is not just '/'" and the kernel halts.
I have a very standard desktop Dell Optiplex that has one of these hard disks, model number "SAMSUNG HD080HJ/P".
The "/" character kills the installation.
So disappointing yet so simple to have fixed before release.
I was researching some off-the-grid solutions when buying and renovating my house.
There are several problems though.
All of the "off-the-grid" solutions require a backup source of power which means a generator with the kind of fuel that can be stored indefinitely--that is, for a consumer, propane. Diesel and gasoline cannot be practically stored more than 3 months even with preservatives.
Home owners' association says "no" to turbines or anything else that can be viewed from the street or neighbor. Unfortunately our house's roof faces due east and due west.
For "supplemental" power you require a specialized system that feeds the "surplus" power back into the mains. This means expensive electronics.
When you go "green" with electrical power you definitely vote for your dollars.
Me, I'd rather use the power plant. It provides the most power for the least pollution per kilowatthour. My 15kw propane-fed generator is a horrible polluter per kilowatthour.
Vienna, Virginia has a similar system. While it does not ticket you for speeding, it does sense the traffic speed of individual cars and if a car is racing towards the intersection at a dangerous rate it will adjust the timing of the green light for opposing traffic at the intersection. This is intended to prevent accidents. The system tries to detect willfull and dangerous red-light- and yellow-light-runners and close the intersection so nobody gets hurt. Of course the violator's vehicle is photographed from three angles with the position in the intersection at the time of the violation as well as the SPEED. As with all the red light camera systems these are also reviewed by humans.
You did know that humans always review red light camera violation reports, right?
New York City has shortened the yellow light for as long as I can remember and it was for practical reasons. The four-second (and sometimes shorter) delay discourages yellow light runners and theoretically makes the intersections slightly safer. The temptation to run the yellow is quickly squelched It has been criticized over the years, too, and the delay goes up and down depending on what year you're talking about.
Please note: Kudelski is the company that developed Nagravision (and please spell it correctly). Nagravision is what "secures" DISH Network, Bell Open Vu, and a large number of smaller satellite-delivered television properties. NDS is owned by the same company that owned DirecTV at the time of the Nagravision breach. The story is predictable.
The author, after asserting that only psychosomatic symptoms are evident, goes on to say: "Ever notice that your skin gets warm after a long call? That's the only side effect of RF energy - warming." This statement is utterly idiotic. The warming of your skin is from the phone itself generating its own heat from the circuitry and the discharging battery, NOT the so-called microwaving of the skin as this clueless author puts it.
The first time you visit the "fmt=6" video the copy on your computer's cache, and the copy in the cache of the edge server you're visiting, is using the higher-quality transcoded version of the video.
You'd have to erase your browser and Adobe Flash's cache directories and then visit the video's URL that is not the one you already visited.
When they say that old videos are being "converted" they're being a little coy about it. These videos are transcoded from youtube over onto the local "edge" servers using the requested format. From their point of view you should be able to see the higher-quality video instead of the lower-quality one as long as your Adobe Flash player supports the new format.
That format appears to be On2's VP6 at a much more aggressive quality/bandwidth setting. That coded is somewhat more efficient than H.264 and is much cheaper to license.
You did know that using H.264 requires licensing even though they are standards, right?
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I was aware of bus patent issues with the C7 making it electrically incompatible but I wasn't aware of those problems halted the C3 socket-370.
Well, with the parallel port available, I don't need that extra $20 board. The point is that it's all in one component, whereas your board would not be.
And if you're going through all the trouble of USB at that step you're already consuming an obscene amount of power in the design we are talking about when compared to a simple parallel, or even serial, port.
If you get the boards based on the ATOM reference platform you will notice that it contains both serial and, get this, a PARALLEL port.
Seriously, the parallel and serial ports are for embedded applications. It's much easier to use those 8 bits on the parallel port for dry contact control. And most small embedded controllers have serial interfaces.
Why does it have to be legacy free? This is not supposed to be JUST a consumer computer platform.
It's supposed to be both a consumer platform as well as an embedded platform and you can't be an embedded platform if you're legacy free.
Says you. I bought all my many VIA processors and processor/motherboard packages from more than a handful of US merchants within months of the announcement of their availability.
Amazing. At first I was wondering if the 45-degree offset component would allow good airflow, thinking it is the processor, but it is not.
After downloading the Image Kit I noticed that the processor is actually the little tiny component with "nano" stamped on it near the top right side of the board.
Why should they keep it?
They can't serve advertisements that way.
I've put Feedburner.com, another Google non-advert-serving venture, on my dot-com death watch list, too, for the same reason.
Someone asked me about this very thing last week.
I thought everyone knew that you get what you pay for, both speed and durability.
I have found also that the drives marked ReadyBoost usually mean they're among the faster drives.
Great, we have yet another self-promoting missive from a company that manufactures ergonomic keyboards and pointing devices.
You have no excuse for posting inaccurate, invalid information. You need to do YOUR homework.
After all, you are trying to make a point, aren't you?
If you "don't know for sure" then you should not bother.
Checking your spelling wouldn't hurt, either.
I have a hard time accepting torkus' statement as truth when he uses the phrase "I believe" in parentheses while trying to make a point.
In any case I have not been able to fax a signature for legal documents in Virginia for as long as I've been here.
When Star Wars and its sequels came out I bought and read all of the books. It was only when the re-releases came out, and the anticipation was growing over the "prequels" that I realized that Star Wars "storyline" never existed and was made up as they went along.
The original books that I read were screenplay adaptations, but I was too young and naive to recognize that. I figured it out when the "prequels" didn't have books coming out before them. They made it up as they went along. Like the X-Files and Lost. There's hardly even an outline to this so-called "storyline."
Ditto, here.
First, if you're looking for inexpensive rack-mounted servers, check geeks.com which sells several machines of recent vintage.
However, you might consider this idea. I decided to be more flexible for my own home after observing a small dotcom that acquired several smaller dotcoms, some of which used towers and others that used rack mounted machines.
I opted to install a two-post rack, the kind some people call "relay racks," and I installed shelves on them. The shelves allow me to install whatever computer I want, whether rack-mounted or tower configuration. They also allow me to use non-rack-mount communications gear like routers and modems. I also have punch-down blocks at the top for cabling and power hanging off the side. Naturally your four-post 19-inch rack would have similar if not somewhat less expensive shelving available for it.
Back to my setup, the all-aluminum two-post rack came from American Power Conversion and only cost me $150.
The shelves vary from $35 to $70 each. The shelves holding the smaller gear are cantilevered and vented. The rest are center-mounted.
For your rack you can use your old rack-mounted computer as a shelf for the other components.
There shouldn't be a reason to restrict your options to just rack-mounted computers. The more flexible and less expensive tower form factors are definitely going to satisfy you more.
Finally the gtk-qt-engine equivalent for KDE programs. I hate getting the wrong colors and fonts on Opera and K3b windows popping up.
You mean the hard disk maker or the anaconda authors?
If it is a string and comes from someone else you always need to handle any possible combination of characters--including non-ASCII.
It's an unfortunate oversight for a product that used to have so much mindshare before Ubuntu strolled along.
I actually did test them.
Something changed or regressed on the way to the final release.
Someone said "I thought we fixed that" on IRC when I asked about it.
Fedora 9 will not install on certain Samsung hard disks.
If your hard disk has a "/" character in its model name as reported through the ATA interface then Anaconda will fail. The Python error message reads like "ends with '/' and is not just '/'" and the kernel halts.
I have a very standard desktop Dell Optiplex that has one of these hard disks, model number "SAMSUNG HD080HJ/P".
The "/" character kills the installation.
So disappointing yet so simple to have fixed before release.
I was researching some off-the-grid solutions when buying and renovating my house.
There are several problems though.
All of the "off-the-grid" solutions require a backup source of power which means a generator with the kind of fuel that can be stored indefinitely--that is, for a consumer, propane. Diesel and gasoline cannot be practically stored more than 3 months even with preservatives.
Home owners' association says "no" to turbines or anything else that can be viewed from the street or neighbor. Unfortunately our house's roof faces due east and due west.
For "supplemental" power you require a specialized system that feeds the "surplus" power back into the mains. This means expensive electronics.
When you go "green" with electrical power you definitely vote for your dollars.
Me, I'd rather use the power plant. It provides the most power for the least pollution per kilowatthour. My 15kw propane-fed generator is a horrible polluter per kilowatthour.
Vienna, Virginia has a similar system. While it does not ticket you for speeding, it does sense the traffic speed of individual cars and if a car is racing towards the intersection at a dangerous rate it will adjust the timing of the green light for opposing traffic at the intersection. This is intended to prevent accidents. The system tries to detect willfull and dangerous red-light- and yellow-light-runners and close the intersection so nobody gets hurt.
Of course the violator's vehicle is photographed from three angles with the position in the intersection at the time of the violation as well as the SPEED.
As with all the red light camera systems these are also reviewed by humans.
You did know that humans always review red light camera violation reports, right?
New York City has shortened the yellow light for as long as I can remember and it was for practical reasons. The four-second (and sometimes shorter) delay discourages yellow light runners and theoretically makes the intersections slightly safer. The temptation to run the yellow is quickly squelched
It has been criticized over the years, too, and the delay goes up and down depending on what year you're talking about.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/5342/nydrive.htm
http://www.allcarrentacar.com/driving-in-queens.php
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2004/rpt/2004-r-0540.htm
The patented subpixel components are indeed in Freetype but you need to rebuild Freetype with them included.
For example, for Freetype 2.3.5, edit the file include/freetype/config/ftoption.h and uncomment the line so it reads:
#define FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING
It's nearly identical to Cleartype.
It works best with the TrueType bytecode interpreter turned OFF, meaning the Freetype autohinter is being used.
Yes, gentle reader, it's annual "Slashdot is a useless pile of crap" day.
Please note: Kudelski is the company that developed Nagravision (and please spell it correctly).
Nagravision is what "secures" DISH Network, Bell Open Vu, and a large number of smaller satellite-delivered television properties.
NDS is owned by the same company that owned DirecTV at the time of the Nagravision breach.
The story is predictable.
The author, after asserting that only psychosomatic symptoms are evident, goes on to say: "Ever notice that your skin gets warm after a long call? That's the only side effect of RF energy - warming."
This statement is utterly idiotic.
The warming of your skin is from the phone itself generating its own heat from the circuitry and the discharging battery, NOT the so-called microwaving of the skin as this clueless author puts it.
You can't fight junk science with junk science!
The first time you visit the "fmt=6" video the copy on your computer's cache, and the copy in the cache of the edge server you're visiting, is using the higher-quality transcoded version of the video.
You'd have to erase your browser and Adobe Flash's cache directories and then visit the video's URL that is not the one you already visited.
When they say that old videos are being "converted" they're being a little coy about it. These videos are transcoded from youtube over onto the local "edge" servers using the requested format. From their point of view you should be able to see the higher-quality video instead of the lower-quality one as long as your Adobe Flash player supports the new format.
That format appears to be On2's VP6 at a much more aggressive quality/bandwidth setting. That coded is somewhat more efficient than H.264 and is much cheaper to license.
You did know that using H.264 requires licensing even though they are standards, right?