Linux needs to have a stable, ABI. There is no reason for a driver to stop working on a point update to the kernel. On windows, once the manufacture releases the driver they can be sure it will work until the next major version update. There were 7 years between the releases of Windows XP and Vista, that is a lot longer than linux kernel 2.6.20 to 2.6.22 for example.
Fish oil also contains omega 3 fatty acids (DHA, EPA), which reduce inflammation. These compounds in the fish oil would have helped your back pain as well. Fish oil is truly great stuff for you health.
The dark blue Metal AZO CD-Rs are the best. Make sure the media descriptor is MCC (Mitsubishi Chemical) - Made in Japan or India (Indian ones are under contract from Mitsubishi by Moser Baer). I have a spindle of Verbatim Datalife Plus and while they were expensive and are getting hard to find (many newer Verbatims are made by CMC Magnetics) the MCC Verbatims are great CD-Rs. Others have recommended Taiyo Udens made in Japan as good CD-Rs, but I haven't been able to find them locally.
Fish stickers aside, - 5 is perfectly acceptable. You do realize that the speed limit is the absolute maximum legal speed, not the required driving speed. Driving 5 miles an hour (or km/h for those outside the US) would give a nice, but not too big, margin of error to help avoid speeding when going down hills, etc. From the point of view of the law you should never be exceeding the speed limit.
According to the article, Phoronix offered cash to help fix X.org. I wouldn't describe that as freeloading. Not everyone can code. I would say that offering money to get bugs fixed would be an excellent way to contribute to an open source project such as x.org. I'm not sure why there is such a negative reaction to the idea here on Slashdot, with people calling it bribery and such. Is it a control issue? Do open source developers fear giving up any amount of control over their pet project by letting "paying customers" dictate what gets worked on?
Yeah, I have the same problem with Qwest. I have their 3Mbps VDSL service (at an outrageous $41.99/month), which is the fastest connection they will sell me. VDSL is basically FTTN and should be capable of speeds up to 100Mbps, but Qwest is using most of that bandwidth for their crappy TV service (which no one I know in the area uses). Why, why, why won't they use some of that bandwidth to provide decent internet service ala Verizon's FIOS? The infrastructure is already there.
There simply is not enough infrastructure to allow everyone to consume whatever they want, whenever they want, without making them pay for it.
You do realize that they already charge for internet service -- well over $50/month for most cable internet plans. How is that not making the customer pay for it? In fact, compared to the rates many in other parts of the world pay, consumer grade US internet service is very expensive.
Yes, they decided to go in a totally different direction. The thin and light and very expensive MacBook Air for $1799 vs. the thin, light and cheap Dell Mini Inspiron, Asus EEE PC, and the rest of the netbook crowd for under $500.
I'm sure they will find enough people with more fashion sense and money than brains to keep them in business, but I sure the hell wouldn't pay that much for a netbook.
Agreed. There are plenty of cheap video cards that work adequately with Linux. What is missing is good video acceleration. Xvmc support is limited and generally sucks for most cards, and MPEG-4 support is non-existent for Linux. Drivers for newer Unichrome chipsets only support hardware acceleration for 1024x1024, intel 950 xvmc is only standard def as well for now (and that is only available with the newest experimental xorg intel driver). Not that useful. HD processing is the challenge now since any CPU over about 1GHZ clock speed can handle SD decoding. What is needed is a card that will handle full HD video decoding that could be paired with a low power cpu such as the via epia parts to make a nice HD mythtv frontend.
It's not available yet in the states, but will be on my lottery win wishlist when it is. Combined with a cheap 45watt Athlon x2, a nice case and a fanless 120w dc-dc power supply, it would make a killer mythtv frontend.
Just sell them on Ebay as spare parts. The buyer can cover your shipping costs, so that's a non-issue. Depending on the model, the LCD itself is probably worth at least $50 so you will probably get plenty of bids.
could someone remind me again what this "NBC" thing is, and why I should care?
thankx.
NBC is a broadcast network owned by General Electric, the world's thrid largest corporation. It is a corporate propaganda outlet for big business to push their agenda in the USA -- namely destroying the middle class, turning the average American into a wage slave, and enriching the wealthy elite at the expense of civil liberties. So basically NBC is the media arm of the devil.
B.S. Mythtv is dead simple to install using a Mythbuntu live CD. If one takes a little care with their choice of hardware, the only possible problem areas I could think of would be lirc configuration for some remotes (at least it's a bit of a pain with the POS Packard Bell serial IR receiver I have).
If you were a store owner and you recognised someone who had stolen from you not once, but three times, would you allow him into your store?
What has been stolen in this case though? Has the downloading of a copyrighted work deprived anyone of use of that copy of the work? Copyright infringement is not theft, regardless of how badly the entertainment lobby would like people to believe that it is.
Don't these services have contract terms which prohibit their usage as primary computer internet services? They did the last time I checked (which was a couple of years ago).
The best course of action is to boycott the Chinese Olympics, and all the corporate sponsors of the games. Don't drink Coke or go to McDondald's. Don't buy GE, Volkswagen, Samsung, Levono, Microsoft, or Johnson & Johnson products. Don't watch NBC. Don't use a Visa credit card.
The Olympic games are big business; the best way to send a message is to hurt the sales of those that profit from the Beijing games. Companies that associate themselves with the games are implicitly endorsing the Chinese government and their human rights abuses.
Or you could, you know, just buy a LED bulb that is made for 110V. Not hard to find. http://www.ccrane.com/lights/led-light-bulbs/
My guess is vossman77 poster could probably save as much energy for less cost by converting the house to LED light bulbs rather than messing with solar cells.
The fact that the grid inverter shuts off when the grid shuts off makes this a poor backup power solution. You should use a transfer switch to isolate the backup power source from the grid to use it if the grid is down.
Putting proprietary companies out of business (as everyone's pointing out) is *obviously* a good thing.
Agreed. Anything that reverses the concentration of wealth to a few extremely rich people controlling large global companies is a very good thing (whether they be software, media, pharma companies or anything else). These companies MO is to twist the laws, patent system, etc. to their favor to increase their profits. Customers and employees always get screwed.
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Linux needs to have a stable, ABI. There is no reason for a driver to stop working on a point update to the kernel. On windows, once the manufacture releases the driver they can be sure it will work until the next major version update. There were 7 years between the releases of Windows XP and Vista, that is a lot longer than linux kernel 2.6.20 to 2.6.22 for example.
Fish oil also contains omega 3 fatty acids (DHA, EPA), which reduce inflammation. These compounds in the fish oil would have helped your back pain as well. Fish oil is truly great stuff for you health.
The dark blue Metal AZO CD-Rs are the best. Make sure the media descriptor is MCC (Mitsubishi Chemical) - Made in Japan or India (Indian ones are under contract from Mitsubishi by Moser Baer). I have a spindle of Verbatim Datalife Plus and while they were expensive and are getting hard to find (many newer Verbatims are made by CMC Magnetics) the MCC Verbatims are great CD-Rs. Others have recommended Taiyo Udens made in Japan as good CD-Rs, but I haven't been able to find them locally.
Just save/export to PDF or Postscript if you want the doc to render correctly. ODF and DOC are for editing.
Slashdot ate my post. It should have read "speed limit -5 is perfectly acceptable", not "-5".
Fish stickers aside, - 5 is perfectly acceptable. You do realize that the speed limit is the absolute maximum legal speed, not the required driving speed. Driving 5 miles an hour (or km/h for those outside the US) would give a nice, but not too big, margin of error to help avoid speeding when going down hills, etc. From the point of view of the law you should never be exceeding the speed limit.
According to the article, Phoronix offered cash to help fix X.org. I wouldn't describe that as freeloading. Not everyone can code. I would say that offering money to get bugs fixed would be an excellent way to contribute to an open source project such as x.org. I'm not sure why there is such a negative reaction to the idea here on Slashdot, with people calling it bribery and such. Is it a control issue? Do open source developers fear giving up any amount of control over their pet project by letting "paying customers" dictate what gets worked on?
Yeah, I have the same problem with Qwest. I have their 3Mbps VDSL service (at an outrageous $41.99/month), which is the fastest connection they will sell me. VDSL is basically FTTN and should be capable of speeds up to 100Mbps, but Qwest is using most of that bandwidth for their crappy TV service (which no one I know in the area uses). Why, why, why won't they use some of that bandwidth to provide decent internet service ala Verizon's FIOS? The infrastructure is already there.
There simply is not enough infrastructure to allow everyone to consume whatever they want, whenever they want, without making them pay for it.
You do realize that they already charge for internet service -- well over $50/month for most cable internet plans. How is that not making the customer pay for it? In fact, compared to the rates many in other parts of the world pay, consumer grade US internet service is very expensive.
Yes, they decided to go in a totally different direction. The thin and light and very expensive MacBook Air for $1799 vs. the thin, light and cheap Dell Mini Inspiron, Asus EEE PC, and the rest of the netbook crowd for under $500.
I'm sure they will find enough people with more fashion sense and money than brains to keep them in business, but I sure the hell wouldn't pay that much for a netbook.
Agreed. There are plenty of cheap video cards that work adequately with Linux. What is missing is good video acceleration. Xvmc support is limited and generally sucks for most cards, and MPEG-4 support is non-existent for Linux. Drivers for newer Unichrome chipsets only support hardware acceleration for 1024x1024, intel 950 xvmc is only standard def as well for now (and that is only available with the newest experimental xorg intel driver). Not that useful. HD processing is the challenge now since any CPU over about 1GHZ clock speed can handle SD decoding. What is needed is a card that will handle full HD video decoding that could be paired with a low power cpu such as the via epia parts to make a nice HD mythtv frontend.
You might be interested in the GeForce 8200 mini-itx board reviewed here http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/05/20/jetway-jnc62k-geforce-8200-mini-itx/.
It's not available yet in the states, but will be on my lottery win wishlist when it is. Combined with a cheap 45watt Athlon x2, a nice case and a fanless 120w dc-dc power supply, it would make a killer mythtv frontend.
The batteries come out in every model I've ever seen.
Except the iPhone, of course. Apple would prefer that everyone buy a new device, rather than make the battery easily changeable.
They are the customer. They paid for the database. Give them full access to it. And when they muck it up, charge them a very high rate to fix things.
Just sell them on Ebay as spare parts. The buyer can cover your shipping costs, so that's a non-issue. Depending on the model, the LCD itself is probably worth at least $50 so you will probably get plenty of bids.
could someone remind me again what this "NBC" thing is, and why I should care? thankx.
NBC is a broadcast network owned by General Electric, the world's thrid largest corporation. It is a corporate propaganda outlet for big business to push their agenda in the USA -- namely destroying the middle class, turning the average American into a wage slave, and enriching the wealthy elite at the expense of civil liberties. So basically NBC is the media arm of the devil.
B.S. Mythtv is dead simple to install using a Mythbuntu live CD. If one takes a little care with their choice of hardware, the only possible problem areas I could think of would be lirc configuration for some remotes (at least it's a bit of a pain with the POS Packard Bell serial IR receiver I have).
Damn, I got suckered into replying to someone with the nick "TheVelvetFlamebait".
If you were a store owner and you recognised someone who had stolen from you not once, but three times, would you allow him into your store?
What has been stolen in this case though? Has the downloading of a copyrighted work deprived anyone of use of that copy of the work? Copyright infringement is not theft, regardless of how badly the entertainment lobby would like people to believe that it is.
Don't these services have contract terms which prohibit their usage as primary computer internet services? They did the last time I checked (which was a couple of years ago).
The best course of action is to boycott the Chinese Olympics, and all the corporate sponsors of the games. Don't drink Coke or go to McDondald's. Don't buy GE, Volkswagen, Samsung, Levono, Microsoft, or Johnson & Johnson products. Don't watch NBC. Don't use a Visa credit card.
The Olympic games are big business; the best way to send a message is to hurt the sales of those that profit from the Beijing games. Companies that associate themselves with the games are implicitly endorsing the Chinese government and their human rights abuses.
Or you could, you know, just buy a LED bulb that is made for 110V. Not hard to find. http://www.ccrane.com/lights/led-light-bulbs/ My guess is vossman77 poster could probably save as much energy for less cost by converting the house to LED light bulbs rather than messing with solar cells.
The fact that the grid inverter shuts off when the grid shuts off makes this a poor backup power solution. You should use a transfer switch to isolate the backup power source from the grid to use it if the grid is down.
Putting proprietary companies out of business (as everyone's pointing out) is *obviously* a good thing.
Agreed. Anything that reverses the concentration of wealth to a few extremely rich people controlling large global companies is a very good thing (whether they be software, media, pharma companies or anything else). These companies MO is to twist the laws, patent system, etc. to their favor to increase their profits. Customers and employees always get screwed.
"Agile development" is the biggest load of crap out there, IMHO.