Generally, I only use xmms for show. mpg123 is *so* much more convenient. First, run find/mp3 -name '*.mp3' >/usr/local/share/mp3list (adjust the path if needed). Then, you only need to run mpg123 -Z -@/usr/local/share/mp3list to run your jukebox which plays all your MP3s randomly! If you never play games, you can even add the second line to/etc/rc.d/rclocal:-) Note: you could use the result of find(1) directly in conjunction with xargs(1), but if you file list does not change to often, saving it to a file is faster.
When I tried xmms (after stopping mpg123), it played the song at full speed (using 100% available CPU all the time, no timing), which means it took maybe ten seconds to play a five minute song:-)
Let's assume that one can losslessly download all information from a brain, transfer it to a big digital machine (be at a computer, a neural network, FPGA or whatever) and switch to runlevel 5:-) Does this mean that we have artificial life, or merely a perfect simulation? The program will only manipulate register contents, which are not connected to actual physical realities. Some philosophers argue that this property (the so-called "symbol grounding") is required for life. This is the case for any life form, but not for computers. Even if we cannot distinguish the behavior of such a computer from a real human's, does it mean that it is alife? Or does it merely produce the correct output, like a non-Chinese human using a Chinese-Chinese dictionary (that always gives a perfect response to any situation in life he encounters)? We will not be able to find out unless we (personally) undergo such a transfer... even if the "artificial brain" claims it is alife, it might be part of the perfect simulation.
for better color output and for double sided printing on the Deskjet 970 Clx series. Right now, only the driver for that other operating system supports duplex printing:-(
How do the *BSD schedulers cope with that problem? What alternatives to an evaluation of the "Goodness functions" have been thought of?
Is it maybe possible that one only makes a rough (heuristic) estimate of that function, maybe based on older (exact) values, which are only updated from time to time? The same goes for the ranking of the results of these functions (apperently much time is lost here). After all, with so many threads a) one does not have to select the best process to run - choosing a good one is OK b) having a bigger data structure in the Kernel should not be a problem - the testing machines had 1 GB of RAM...
I hope a company is going to buy it and donate it later to some museum. This is done fairly frequently (although usually the museum buys it, given funds by the sponsor), and the more popular the exhibition piece is, the better it is for the donator's image.
Besides Open Source tools like Glade and JX Builder, Code Fusion (and other commercial tools like the Motif based BX pro) make for some very serious competition for Code Warrior. Maybe the abundance of such tools (and the availability of excellent Open Source ones) killed Codewarrior? So instead of worrying too much about this (admittedly heavy) loss, look forward to new tools, and try one of the other ones!
Are you sure Orwell was totally wrong with the date? If you go to the UK, particularly to Glasgow, there are CCTV cameras all over the city... Big Brother is truly watching you there, you have no privacy whatsoever on the streets.
It was really strange when I came there first, but apparently nobody bothered, and indeed you get used to it sooner than you would admit:-(
Check this story (from November): According to this "Corel Corporation will use GraphOn's Bridges(TM) software to allow access to Windows applications from Corel's(R) Linux desktops." Does this mean Corel is dropping support of WINE? As someone else has stated before, this has nothing to do with wine: Bridges is only a sort of "X server for Windows", so one can display the output of a Windoze app runner on a Windoze box.
"However, he said, the planet is covered with craters and canyons and it is impossible to remotely place a spacecraft at a precise location. He also said JPL scientists couldn't find a single landing zone on the planet's generally smooth south pole without a hazard."
If it is not safe enough to land a probe there, we can forget about manned mars missions. Even though a manned landing might, due to "last minute corrections" (like with the lunar landing), go well, one would not risk as much anymore as the NASA did during the Apollo missions.
> drop the patent (I don't know if this can be done) I am not a lawyer, but a patent can be "dropped" quite easily. Once the patent is active, its owner has to pay an annual fee, which is pretty high if you want the patent to apply world wide ("world wide" = in those countries where 95% of the global market is). If you don't pay the fee, the patent is no longer valid. This is actually done very often, because usually after 5 - 7 years, upholding a patent is not worth anymore. Either the technology is outdated, or some new patent has made the old one obsolete, or the revenues from licences with other companies no longer cover the costs - there are many reasons for dropping a patent.
Most of us would like to spend Xmas in space, but we have to keep in mind the short timeframe for the whole mission - the Shuttle has to be back before the end of the year in order to avoid Y2K problems. The schedule is damn tight... but I am sure that Claude Nicollier and the others will do a perfect job.
IMHO spamming is something that should be prevented as rigorously as possible, and if lawsuits are the only effective means, so be it. However, this procedure is slow and unavailable to small ISPs who don't have the $$$ to back up such a lawsuit.
At this overview page, one can see how far Open Source software has come now. The choice of topics is very wide, and although centered on web related applications (document management included), some tutorials are about GNOME, KDE or Open Source in general. For the people who have the privilege to go, the choice of which tutorials to attend is not easy...
The 128 bit version is not or not yet available on Netscape's page (the link is blocked). Maybe it takes a while to update that page, or the whole thing is just a rumor (I hope it's true).
With a market cap. of now nearly 17(!) billion (twice as much as one month ago), their shares having risen today by 16% to $247, they can afford it... (although RH still only gets $14/share...).
I hate to say it, but that other office program runs a lot faster on the same machine (I ignore the loading time, since that comparison is unfair; the evil competition has all its libraries loaded from the OS at boot-time). The menus react very sluggishly if the machine is under some load (playing MP3s and with several Netscapes/xterms open). This is not the case with ApplixWare and other programs, so if the bloat is stripped from StarOffice, we could end up with the slick app we are all waiting for. Of course StarOffice is the most complete office package for Linux. Nobody wants to lose that advantage... and everybody wants to keep the features that are *important* (such as a window manager within a window manager, an extra desktop, taskbar, a reload button etc.);-)
This story (link on the same page) says that China has banned Pentium IIIs already, fearing espoinage from the USA. Moreover, Win98 has been declared a "danger property" due to security holes and is now forbidden as well =)
Too many geeks have already ordered this gadget - there are none left for Xmas! Maybe some local store has it - at least in Switzerland, where these goodies are invented and made, I still saw some. Didn't know they were that much sought after...
'People like Linux, because they can basically have the same environment for both embedded applications and development. You don't want to cut it down too much or you lose that advantage," Torvalds says.'
Having helped to build such a distribution, all I can say this is exactly the point. Developers can run his program on exactly the same platform that will be used for the product. The only difference is that the product does not have development tools (such as gcc) on it.
This eliminates the need for cross-compiling and uploading the code to the embedded board, making life a lot easier. Also, developers can use a standardized platform they are familiar with.
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Generally, I only use xmms for show. mpg123 is *so* much more convenient. /mp3 -name '*.mp3' >/usr/local/share/mp3list /usr/local/share/mp3list /etc/rc.d/rclocal :-)
First, run
find
(adjust the path if needed). Then, you only need to run
mpg123 -Z -@
to run your jukebox which plays all your MP3s randomly! If you never play games, you can even add the second line to
Note: you could use the result of find(1) directly in conjunction with xargs(1), but if you file list does not change to often, saving it to a file is faster.
When I tried xmms (after stopping mpg123), it played the song at full speed (using 100% available CPU all the time, no timing), which means it took maybe ten seconds to play a five minute song :-)
Did anyone experience such a bug, too?
This is the mirror list of ftp.mozilla.org mirrors. I checked the nearest mirror to me, it was up to date; so don't /. the main ftp server :-)
Let's assume that one can losslessly download all information from a brain, transfer it to a big digital machine (be at a computer, a neural network, FPGA or whatever) and switch to runlevel 5 :-)
Does this mean that we have artificial life, or merely a perfect simulation? The program will only manipulate register contents, which are not connected to actual physical realities. Some philosophers argue that this property (the so-called "symbol grounding") is required for life.
This is the case for any life form, but not for computers. Even if we cannot distinguish the behavior of such a computer from a real human's, does it mean that it is alife? Or does it merely produce the correct output, like a non-Chinese human using a Chinese-Chinese dictionary (that always gives a perfect response to any situation in life he encounters)?
We will not be able to find out unless we (personally) undergo such a transfer... even if the "artificial brain" claims it is alife, it might be part of the perfect simulation.
for better color output and for double sided printing on the Deskjet 970 Clx series. Right now, only the driver for that other operating system supports duplex printing :-(
How do the *BSD schedulers cope with that problem? What alternatives to an evaluation of the "Goodness functions" have been thought of?
Is it maybe possible that one only makes a rough (heuristic) estimate of that function, maybe based on older (exact) values, which are only updated from time to time? The same goes for the ranking of the results of these functions (apperently much time is lost here). After all, with so many threads
a) one does not have to select the best process to run - choosing a good one is OK
b) having a bigger data structure in the Kernel should not be a problem - the testing machines had 1 GB of RAM...
I hope a company is going to buy it and donate it later to some museum. This is done fairly frequently (although usually the museum buys it, given funds by the sponsor), and the more popular the exhibition piece is, the better it is for the donator's image.
Besides Open Source tools like Glade and JX Builder, Code Fusion (and other commercial tools like the Motif based BX pro) make for some very serious competition for Code Warrior. Maybe the abundance of such tools (and the availability of excellent Open Source ones) killed Codewarrior?
So instead of worrying too much about this (admittedly heavy) loss, look forward to new tools, and try one of the other ones!
Are you sure Orwell was totally wrong with the date? If you go to the UK, particularly to Glasgow, there are CCTV cameras all over the city... Big Brother is truly watching you there, you have no privacy whatsoever on the streets.
:-(
It was really strange when I came there first, but apparently nobody bothered, and indeed you get used to it sooner than you would admit
What went wrong when they designed the penguin case? :-)
Check this story (from November): According to this "Corel Corporation will use GraphOn's Bridges(TM) software to allow access to Windows applications from Corel's(R) Linux desktops." Does this mean Corel is dropping support of WINE? As someone else has stated before, this has nothing to do with wine: Bridges is only a sort of "X server for Windows", so one can display the output of a Windoze app runner on a Windoze box.
"However, he said, the planet is covered with craters and canyons and it is impossible to remotely place a spacecraft at a precise location. He also said JPL scientists couldn't find a single landing zone on the planet's generally smooth south pole without a hazard."
If it is not safe enough to land a probe there, we can forget about manned mars missions. Even though a manned landing might, due to "last minute corrections" (like with the lunar landing), go well, one would not risk as much anymore as the NASA did during the Apollo missions.
> Then, there's the "banning" of Windows 2000. Why ban one Microsoft OS and no other?
:-)
Some time ago, Windows 95 has been banned in China, too, because it is too insecure (I can't argue with that)
> drop the patent (I don't know if this can be done)
I am not a lawyer, but a patent can be "dropped" quite easily. Once the patent is active, its owner has to pay an annual fee, which is pretty high if you want the patent to apply world wide ("world wide" = in those countries where 95% of the global market is). If you don't pay the fee, the patent is no longer valid. This is actually done very often, because usually after 5 - 7 years, upholding a patent is not worth anymore. Either the technology is outdated, or some new patent has made the old one obsolete, or the revenues from licences with other companies no longer cover the costs - there are many reasons for dropping a patent.
This is the solution for Microsoft :-) :-D
Then they can even say, "now it's finally stable!"
Most of us would like to spend Xmas in space, but we have to keep in mind the short timeframe for the whole mission - the Shuttle has to be back before the end of the year in order to avoid Y2K problems. The schedule is damn tight... but I am sure that Claude Nicollier and the others will do a perfect job.
IMHO spamming is something that should be prevented as rigorously as possible, and if lawsuits are the only effective means, so be it. However, this procedure is slow and unavailable to small ISPs who don't have the $$$ to back up such a lawsuit.
At this overview page, one can see how far Open Source software has come now. The choice of topics is very wide, and although centered on web related applications (document management included), some tutorials are about GNOME, KDE or Open Source in general.
For the people who have the privilege to go, the choice of which tutorials to attend is not easy...
The 128 bit version is not or not yet available on Netscape's page (the link is blocked). Maybe it takes a while to update that page, or the whole thing is just a rumor (I hope it's true).
With a market cap. of now nearly 17(!) billion (twice as much as one month ago), their shares having risen today by 16% to $247, they can afford it... (although RH still only gets $14/share...).
I hate to say it, but that other office program runs a lot faster on the same machine (I ignore the loading time, since that comparison is unfair; the evil competition has all its libraries loaded from the OS at boot-time). The menus react very sluggishly if the machine is under some load (playing MP3s and with several Netscapes/xterms open). This is not the case with ApplixWare and other programs, so if the bloat is stripped from StarOffice, we could end up with the slick app we are all waiting for. ;-)
Of course StarOffice is the most complete office package for Linux. Nobody wants to lose that advantage... and everybody wants to keep the features that are *important* (such as a window manager within a window manager, an extra desktop, taskbar, a reload button etc.)
I am sure this is because of xdoom that comes in some of the 'games' packages...
This story (link on the same page) says that China has banned Pentium IIIs already, fearing espoinage from the USA. Moreover, Win98 has been declared a "danger property" due to security holes and is now forbidden as well =)
Too many geeks have already ordered this gadget - there are none left for Xmas! Maybe some local store has it - at least in Switzerland, where these goodies are invented and made, I still saw some. Didn't know they were that much sought after...
'People like Linux, because they can basically have the same environment for both embedded applications and development. You don't want to cut it down too much or you lose that advantage," Torvalds says.'
Having helped to build such a distribution, all I can say this is exactly the point. Developers can run his program on exactly the same platform that will be used for the product. The only difference is that the product does not have development tools (such as gcc) on it.
This eliminates the need for cross-compiling and uploading the code to the embedded board, making life a lot easier. Also, developers can use a standardized platform they are familiar with.