9. Storage Space: With Vista taking as much as 10 Gbytes of hard drive space, big and fast hard drives will be a must. Hardly relevant, any hard drive sold within the last few years will allow > 100GB.
10. Backup: See No. 9. Backing up desktops will take a great deal of space. No, do not back up the full installation, only your personal data.
Actually, the 10GB install size for Vista means it won't ever get close to my hard-drive, until I get a bigger one. Currently I have a 120G HDD, which is split 50-50 between Windows and Linux. As we all know, with time, Windows' performance degrades and even though XP does not require reinstalls as often as say, 98 did, it still needs it occasionally. About a year ago, I decided it was time to stop doing an hour-and-a-half* reinstalls and simply repartitioned the Windows space into a 5G C partition and 55G D partition. Windows, firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware, firefox and a couple of others go on C and there is still about 700MB left for the swapfile. After I completed installing the aforementioned software, I took and image of the drive under Linux and the next reinstall took about 15 minutes. I could cross my fingers/make a backup and use Partition Magic or similar to enlarge C and lessen D, but I don't think Vista is worth it.
*XP takes about 30 minutes to an hour. Then there are all the essentials, such as anti-virus, anti-spyware, drivers, firefox and other much needed programs.
Seems like the moderator of the parent is the first human in a long time to get Jesus. Judging from the exhibited symptoms, I'd say that this virus attacks the sense of humour in the host and introduces a significant handicap in the ability to spot Funny comments on Slashdot. The influence this had on prehistoric man, is still a mistery.
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It has been quite a while since you last checked. I do not have info about nVidia, but ATI's latest drivers (and some previous ones as well) provide almost-complete OpenGL 2.0 support. Last I checked, there was no support for loops in shaders and for the GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two extension, though there probably are a few more.
Tried turning up your speakers? I can hear it and it is bloody annoying. I do not think I would be able to restrain myself from killing, or at least infilcting great bodily harm to the owner for more than 5 minutes, should he refuse to stop the device.
I've read your post 5 times and all I have to say is that American accents are impossible to understand. I could barely make the score; the rest could have just as well been in Bushian.
They might be approaching it the same way, Alphonse Capone was jailed - you know there is something really immoral going on, but you either don't have enough evidence, or the law is moot about their crimes, or maybe even both; so you just get them for some other crime and fine them as much as you can. Maybe even pass a couple of new laws (though the EC hasn't done that here). It is also entirely possible, that we Europeans are just greedy little bastards.
Dihydrogen monoxide is serious stuff. It is practically lethal, if inhaled and when the hydrogen and oxygen react together to form dihydrogen monoxide, there is a lot of heat being discharged and you can uh... get burned. Plus, as the poster above me noticed, it is an acid (Hydric Acid). You know, the thing we are all scared of, after piracy, terrorism and radioactive energy (in this order, I beleive). I bet it can chew through skin in a matter of seconds. The army probably uses it as a [deep voice]Double-You[ominous pause/]Em[ominous pause/]Dee[/deep voice], but they don't want the word to get in public, because they might be facing charges for deploying one.
So, yeah. This wa... I mean Hydric Acid is quite dangerous.
Almost correct. But, no, you have to understand machine language, not assembly, which still needs an assembler to be converted to machine language and then executed.
One is truly computer literate, only when he can write programs with a hex editor and use neither an interpreter, nor a compiler, nor an assembler.
Of course, this means that nobody is truly computer literate nowadays.
In country ID cards are mandatory for anybody over 18 years of age and optional for people over 16 years. And really, I don't see the big deal. On my card, it says my name, my signature, contains my picture, information about where I live, height, eye colour, birthdate, unique ID number, telephone and date of expiry of the card. In short, everything I need to prove that I am me and not some little furry green alien from Alpha Centauri in disguise.
Now, I love grammar enforcement, as much as the next Nazi, but you must enforce _proper_ grammar, and in this case, you are wrong. It is actually "an", because the "h" in front of "haitch" is silent, so the first sound is an "a".
P.S. Dear slashdot maintaiers. Could you please alter the "Allowed HTML" list a bit? Currently,
<br>
is in front of
<a>
and together, they form "bra". At the present moment, they are the only two tags, forming a word together and I find this discriminatory to the other tags. I demand that you reorder it like this:
Let's see... The company is based in Russia, produces harmful software and doesn't acknowledge it. It also posts links to torrents of pirated copies of games, that don't use their copy protection (Galactic Civilisations 2) and generally screws up the whole world, except Russia and other countries, where practically everybody infringes copyright, instead of buying the software. I say that this StarForce thingy is actually sponsored by the Russian government in an attempt to screw up the US and the rest of the world.
And they seem to be doing a mighty fine job at it. I hope they continue to do so - seeing how you lose more and more drives ever so painfully is truly an uplifing sight. So, please buy Splinter Cell.
You are absolutely right. When one steals gum from a shop, he is stealing. When he is downloading files illegally, he is infringing copyright. The two are quite different from one another, no matter what the industry tells you.
The summary suggests, that the engine will be lifted 35km off the ground and dropped.
The article states, that it will be lifted 330km above the ground and dropped, with ingnition expected to occur at an altitude of 35km, after which, only 6 seconds would be left, before the engine hits the ground.
Yes, ATI tends to cheat quite a lot in that regard. The particularly hilraious bit is where it says that they support OpenGL 2, while their drivers are still missing some functionality from 1.5. A while ago, I noticed, that when you query for supported OpenGL extensions, the GL_ARB_draw_buffers extension gets reported as supported, but any attempts to dynamically load glDrawBuffersARB fail. So I submitted a bug report, and now, 2 driver versions after that, it is still unfixed (correct me if wrong). Quite staggering, considering the fact, that there is a glDrawBuffersATI. One would think that some person would put a glDrawBuffersARB, that calls the ATI version, but it seems that they are too lazy for that.
So true. If I ever become filthy rich, I'll invest my money in making a medial research facility, where there will be NO moral standarts. Maybe I will even contact all the prisons and offer them large sums of money, so that they give guys with the death sentence the choice to be human guinea pigs instead of getting killed. If they survive, they get released. If they don't survive, well, they were doomed to begin with.
And if any luddites come crying, they will just be told to fuckin' fuck off.
Last I checked, Linux supported EFI, so it should be just as easy as popping in distro's install CD and installing. Note: I am also not saying what the distro is.
Why? Why should GNU/Linux be a mainstream OS, accessible for the average user? The one [something] fits everybody approach is bad.
We have Windows, MacOS and many GNU/Linux-based OSes. Each of those is targeted at a specific userbase and has specific goals. These three can and should live alongside each other with equal support from vendors.
Now, if Novell wants to make a dent in the Idiot(meaning, normal user) market, more power to them, but please! People! Nerds! Please, understand that Linux does not have to be mainstream, it just has to be what it is - an OS for people, who like it.
Now, if we could only get software vendors' heads out of their arses and get them to see it, the world would be one bit better.
Once, I was browsing the "Off the wall" section of the gentoo linux forums http://forums.gentoo.com/. The usual discussions were about - the " Desktops" thread, the "Linux rulezz" kiddies, doomsday prophets, and other normal forum-goers.
Something caught my attention though. It was this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-418958.html. A sixteen year old, who cannot multiply two numbers. A calcualtor is useful only to a person, who needs to multiply two numbers quickly. Math classes are where you learn Math. Not how to use a calculator. If you cannot multiply without a calculator, you should just go back to second grade (or whatever grade it is, you Americans first learn the multiplication table) and start over.
Also, what use is a calculator in a Math class? It cannot solve equations, compute differentials or integrals nor even draw functions. The most advanced, I've ever seen can at most raise numbers to an arbitrary power and have a built-in table with sine and cosine values. So, pray tell, what use is a calcualtor in a Math class?
It is a bit more complicated than that. Xgl doesn't work all by itself - it relies on having a working OpenGL enviroment. In this case - Xorg. So you run Xgl on top of Xorg and Xgl implements RENDER and GLX, by passing relevant calls to the OpenGL system of the underlying Xserver. COMPOSITE is also turned on by default in Xgl, but it does NOT use the underlying server's COMPOSITE.
It will take some time until all this is finally merged into Xorg and we have an OpenGL-accelerated desktop without the need of running 2 Xservers, but for the time being, if you want (somewhat) stable COMPOSITE with GLX, this is the only way.
This won't be a problem. For the cells to become resistant, they would have to mutate. When they mutate, their DNA won't match yours and your immune system will clean them up in no time.
The whole problem with cancer, is that its DNA matches your DNA, so your immune system doesn't reject those cells.
Ohhh.... The smut we must stop. The trash we must smash. Laughter and fun, must all be undone. We must blame them and cause a fuss, before somebody thinks of blaming uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus.
I am not normally a grammer nazi, but your blatant use of the word "of" instead of "have" appals me. No, wait, actaully - since appal is not a synonym for "makes me want to kill you", I think this should be rephrased as follows:
DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE! STUPID, RAT-ARSED AMERICAN ASS, DIE! Or alternatively, put yourself on freeze, until we have the technology to erase all your knowledge of the American language and replace it with nice English.
No, no, no. We are translating completely unintelligible nonsence (EULAs) to almost complete, but still quite understandable, gibberish (AOLspeek (spelling error intended)).
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Actually, the 10GB install size for Vista means it won't ever get close to my hard-drive, until I get a bigger one. Currently I have a 120G HDD, which is split 50-50 between Windows and Linux. As we all know, with time, Windows' performance degrades and even though XP does not require reinstalls as often as say, 98 did, it still needs it occasionally. About a year ago, I decided it was time to stop doing an hour-and-a-half* reinstalls and simply repartitioned the Windows space into a 5G C partition and 55G D partition. Windows, firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware, firefox and a couple of others go on C and there is still about 700MB left for the swapfile. After I completed installing the aforementioned software, I took and image of the drive under Linux and the next reinstall took about 15 minutes. I could cross my fingers/make a backup and use Partition Magic or similar to enlarge C and lessen D, but I don't think Vista is worth it.
*XP takes about 30 minutes to an hour. Then there are all the essentials, such as anti-virus, anti-spyware, drivers, firefox and other much needed programs.
Sharks with freaking lasers on their heads.
Seems like the moderator of the parent is the first human in a long time to get Jesus. Judging from the exhibited symptoms, I'd say that this virus attacks the sense of humour in the host and introduces a significant handicap in the ability to spot Funny comments on Slashdot. The influence this had on prehistoric man, is still a mistery.
It has been quite a while since you last checked. I do not have info about nVidia, but ATI's latest drivers (and some previous ones as well) provide almost-complete OpenGL 2.0 support. Last I checked, there was no support for loops in shaders and for the GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two extension, though there probably are a few more.
Tried turning up your speakers? I can hear it and it is bloody annoying. I do not think I would be able to restrain myself from killing, or at least infilcting great bodily harm to the owner for more than 5 minutes, should he refuse to stop the device.
I've read your post 5 times and all I have to say is that American accents are impossible to understand. I could barely make the score; the rest could have just as well been in Bushian.
They might be approaching it the same way, Alphonse Capone was jailed - you know there is something really immoral going on, but you either don't have enough evidence, or the law is moot about their crimes, or maybe even both; so you just get them for some other crime and fine them as much as you can. Maybe even pass a couple of new laws (though the EC hasn't done that here).
It is also entirely possible, that we Europeans are just greedy little bastards.
Dihydrogen monoxide is serious stuff. It is practically lethal, if inhaled and when the hydrogen and oxygen react together to form dihydrogen monoxide, there is a lot of heat being discharged and you can uh... get burned. Plus, as the poster above me noticed, it is an acid (Hydric Acid). You know, the thing we are all scared of, after piracy, terrorism and radioactive energy (in this order, I beleive). I bet it can chew through skin in a matter of seconds. The army probably uses it as a [deep voice]Double-You[ominous pause/]Em[ominous pause/]Dee[/deep voice], but they don't want the word to get in public, because they might be facing charges for deploying one.
So, yeah. This wa... I mean Hydric Acid is quite dangerous.
Almost correct. But, no, you have to understand machine language, not assembly, which still needs an assembler to be converted to machine language and then executed.
One is truly computer literate, only when he can write programs with a hex editor and use neither an interpreter, nor a compiler, nor an assembler.
Of course, this means that nobody is truly computer literate nowadays.
In country ID cards are mandatory for anybody over 18 years of age and optional for people over 16 years. And really, I don't see the big deal. On my card, it says my name, my signature, contains my picture, information about where I live, height, eye colour, birthdate, unique ID number, telephone and date of expiry of the card. In short, everything I need to prove that I am me and not some little furry green alien from Alpha Centauri in disguise.
Now, I love grammar enforcement, as much as the next Nazi, but you must enforce _proper_ grammar, and in this case, you are wrong. It is actually "an", because the "h" in front of "haitch" is silent, so the first sound is an "a".
P.S. Dear slashdot maintaiers. Could you please alter the "Allowed HTML" list a bit? Currently,
is in front of and together, they form "bra". At the present moment, they are the only two tags, forming a word together and I find this discriminatory to the other tags. I demand that you reorder it like this: And stop the discrimination.Let's see... The company is based in Russia, produces harmful software and doesn't acknowledge it. It also posts links to torrents of pirated copies of games, that don't use their copy protection (Galactic Civilisations 2) and generally screws up the whole world, except Russia and other countries, where practically everybody infringes copyright, instead of buying the software. I say that this StarForce thingy is actually sponsored by the Russian government in an attempt to screw up the US and the rest of the world.
And they seem to be doing a mighty fine job at it. I hope they continue to do so - seeing how you lose more and more drives ever so painfully is truly an uplifing sight. So, please buy Splinter Cell.
You are absolutely right. When one steals gum from a shop, he is stealing. When he is downloading files illegally, he is infringing copyright. The two are quite different from one another, no matter what the industry tells you.
The summary suggests, that the engine will be lifted 35km off the ground and dropped.
The article states, that it will be lifted 330km above the ground and dropped, with ingnition expected to occur at an altitude of 35km, after which, only 6 seconds would be left, before the engine hits the ground.
Yes, ATI tends to cheat quite a lot in that regard. The particularly hilraious bit is where it says that they support OpenGL 2, while their drivers are still missing some functionality from 1.5. A while ago, I noticed, that when you query for supported OpenGL extensions, the GL_ARB_draw_buffers extension gets reported as supported, but any attempts to dynamically load glDrawBuffersARB fail. So I submitted a bug report, and now, 2 driver versions after that, it is still unfixed (correct me if wrong). Quite staggering, considering the fact, that there is a glDrawBuffersATI. One would think that some person would put a glDrawBuffersARB, that calls the ATI version, but it seems that they are too lazy for that.
So true. If I ever become filthy rich, I'll invest my money in making a medial research facility, where there will be NO moral standarts. Maybe I will even contact all the prisons and offer them large sums of money, so that they give guys with the death sentence the choice to be human guinea pigs instead of getting killed. If they survive, they get released. If they don't survive, well, they were doomed to begin with.
And if any luddites come crying, they will just be told to fuckin' fuck off.
Last I checked, Linux supported EFI, so it should be just as easy as popping in distro's install CD and installing. Note: I am also not saying what the distro is.
Why? Why should GNU/Linux be a mainstream OS, accessible for the average user? The one [something] fits everybody approach is bad.
We have Windows, MacOS and many GNU/Linux-based OSes. Each of those is targeted at a specific userbase and has specific goals. These three can and should live alongside each other with equal support from vendors.
Now, if Novell wants to make a dent in the Idiot(meaning, normal user) market, more power to them, but please! People! Nerds! Please, understand that Linux does not have to be mainstream, it just has to be what it is - an OS for people, who like it.
Now, if we could only get software vendors' heads out of their arses and get them to see it, the world would be one bit better.
The necessity of editing config files keeps the idiots out.
Let me tell you a story.
Once, I was browsing the "Off the wall" section of the gentoo linux forums http://forums.gentoo.com/. The usual discussions were about - the " Desktops" thread, the "Linux rulezz" kiddies, doomsday prophets, and other normal forum-goers.
Something caught my attention though. It was this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-418958.html. A sixteen year old, who cannot multiply two numbers. A calcualtor is useful only to a person, who needs to multiply two numbers quickly. Math classes are where you learn Math. Not how to use a calculator. If you cannot multiply without a calculator, you should just go back to second grade (or whatever grade it is, you Americans first learn the multiplication table) and start over.
Also, what use is a calculator in a Math class? It cannot solve equations, compute differentials or integrals nor even draw functions. The most advanced, I've ever seen can at most raise numbers to an arbitrary power and have a built-in table with sine and cosine values. So, pray tell, what use is a calcualtor in a Math class?
It is a bit more complicated than that. Xgl doesn't work all by itself - it relies on having a working OpenGL enviroment. In this case - Xorg. So you run Xgl on top of Xorg and Xgl implements RENDER and GLX, by passing relevant calls to the OpenGL system of the underlying Xserver. COMPOSITE is also turned on by default in Xgl, but it does NOT use the underlying server's COMPOSITE.
It will take some time until all this is finally merged into Xorg and we have an OpenGL-accelerated desktop without the need of running 2 Xservers, but for the time being, if you want (somewhat) stable COMPOSITE with GLX, this is the only way.
This won't be a problem. For the cells to become resistant, they would have to mutate. When they mutate, their DNA won't match yours and your immune system will clean them up in no time.
The whole problem with cancer, is that its DNA matches your DNA, so your immune system doesn't reject those cells.
Ohhh....
The smut we must stop.
The trash we must smash.
Laughter and fun,
must all be undone.
We must blame them and cause a fuss,
before somebody thinks of blaming uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus.
I am not normally a grammer nazi, but your blatant use of the word "of" instead of "have" appals me. No, wait, actaully - since appal is not a synonym for "makes me want to kill you", I think this should be rephrased as follows:
DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE! STUPID, RAT-ARSED AMERICAN ASS, DIE! Or alternatively, put yourself on freeze, until we have the technology to erase all your knowledge of the American language and replace it with nice English.
No, no, no. We are translating completely unintelligible nonsence (EULAs) to almost complete, but still quite understandable, gibberish (AOLspeek (spelling error intended)).