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In French (at least the way we speak it in Southern Belgium) we use LEGO as a noun most of the time. So we say "des legos" which would translate to "some legos", or "ils l'ont construit avec des legos" ("they built it with legos").
Older people usually call them "briques Lego" (Lego bricks), but it's uncommon tho hear this these days. Although most French adjectives will have an S if they related to a plural noun, there are exceptions (most color adjectives, and adjectives that are derived from proper nouns). I don't think we'd ever write it "briques legos" with a plural lego adjective.
Here's some information regarding ISO standards fro LCD's flat panels. (All this info is from technical documentation I got from Fujitsu-Siemens Computers.)
ISO standard 13406-2 is a completion of ISO 9241-3, -7 and -8, which already regarded LCD's. Classes I to IV are defined in ISO 13406-2.
Class I (theoretical) allows for no pixel faults.
Class II allows for 2 "light pixels", 2 "dark pixels" and 5 "other faults", per million pixels.
Class III allows for 5, 15 and 50 respectively.
Class IV allows for 50, 150 and 500.
"light pixel" is when a pixel is >75% lighter.
"dark pixel" is when a pixel is >75% darker (or "death", I presume).
"other fault" is, well, for other faults (e.g. a subpixel is defect, giving the pixel a distored hue - think color-stuck pixels).
Class II is considered acceptable for office use. Classes III and IV are not.
For a 1,024*768 panel, which is 786,432 pixels, that makes 1.57 light pixels (rounds up to 2), 1.57 dark pixels (rounds up to 2) and 3.93 other faults (rounds up to 4).
This give a maximal number of defective pixels of 8, which is 0.001 % of the screen surface.
This data is very useful when you're a techie on the field and you're being annoyed by some customer who keeps asking for a new monitor because his/her got one or two death pixels. You can tell the monitor still meets the industry standard and therefore will not be replaced.
As for the ViewSonic monitor, I suppose ViewSonic was pretty nice to you when they replaced your "defective" monitor.
While, as stated in many replies, this was not directly related to Napster, I would like to point this detail.
The IFPI spokeman clearly stated that they were using some sort of "scanning" device (coud very well be a couple of Naspter clients logging what's goign on), which seems true.
I live in Belgium and a couple of my friends got emails from IFPI lawyers regarding their use of Napster.
So who knows what's next, considering the IFPI is probably keeping a list of IP's used by Napster users.
Well, first of all I was surprised to be one of the only ones here able to give detailed info about this. I'm usually way behind the discussion in most threads on/.
Well, when I say server, it can be a laptop with a large disk (even an external disc). This is not going to be a bottleneck anyway. We often do it with an old Pentium 75 running NT server with 80 Mbs of RAM and some old and slow disk. By the way I said it's an NT soft, but I'm pretty sure it's a plain Win32 thing and it can be run on Win9x as well... (flamers, hit me if you can...)
But you sure want a fast enough network. I've always used this technique to dump images on disks in labs. Yesterday though, I dumped an image to a server on another site of our network (I guess you'd call it a MAN). I don't remember what's the speed of that link, but it was during working hours and it took 2.5 hours for about 1.5 gig. Not quite fast !
I'd sure recommend 100 Mbps where available, and possibly switched if not using the multicasting thing. I'm not a TCP/IP and ethernet wizz and I'm not sure how well these multicasted packets will react throuhg a switch or a router.
Or go fiber if you got the bucks !
The SCSI idea is not bad either if the target computers have not been ordered/paid for/installed on site yet.
USB sucks badly, I'd try avoiding that solution if I were you...
The CD solution is the easiest to set up and is perfect when all you've got to do is quickly get a workstation back to work on a remote site with a smaller infrastructure... That's the way we go with our techies on sites.
May the/. community excuse me, I'm going to talk about solutions that I know of, using Microsoft-based OS's.
Multicasting :
You could create DOS boot disks with network drivers and TCP/IP then launch Ghost and do multicasting from a Ghost server which stores the images.
Ghost server runs on NT, I don't know if there are other versions available. Basically you tell it what image file to use and a few parameters (session name, number of clients...).
There you have your network attached device which stores the images. The hard part of it is getting boot disks that work with the NIC's you may have. This can be troublesome with laptops. Either have one disk for each NIC, or tweak and do a little programming to allow a selection during the boot process (I got one such disk that Does 3Com 5x9 and 9x5).
The same applies for IP addressing : you could have a disk that asks you the IP address and subnet you want to work with (Again, I got a disk that does that, it uses a.db file to store the users input then creates the.ini file from the.db).
The most important benefit of this multicasting thing : network bandwidth is not wasted sending the same data many time over the network... You can Duplicate a disk on n machines at the same time with only one multicasting session.
Another solution is to create a boot disk with TCP/IP or another NetBIOS enabled protocol (NetBEUI or IPX/SPX) and connect to a network share on a NetBIOS server (could well be a Linux/Samba box), on which you have your images. Down side : each copy requires the data to be sent from the server to the station, thus using a lot of bandwidth.
As for USB, I have no idea how to configure these things under DOS...
Just my thoughts to answer your flame about Americans that don't need to know about other countries...
I used to live there, for about a year, in a family. I was an exchange student. So don't get me wrong : I hate the rest of the world's stereotypes about the US, it people, it culture and its history. I get really nervous when I meet friends that tell me all "Americans" hate burgers and their country has no history.
But you guys in the US should realize that there's more to the world than your country, and that no empire lasts forever (witness all the ancient civilizations that once had an all-mighty power over the known world).
I remember a big fuss in my high school because some organization studied high-schoolers and came up with this figure : 60% of US kids (that was in '95) cannot find Florida on a map of their country. Now that's an easy one... I guess most Europeans know that Florida is that small penis-like peninsula (forgive my spell. on this) in the South-east. Now I'd like to see the figures for Nebraska !!!
Another true story... When we started the Civil war unit in the American history, the teacher asked "I'd like to know if there's anyone in here who knows when the American Civil War took place ?". I was the only one able to give a answer (correct one, btw). And I was a 17 year-old kid from Belgium.
I think the US' problem is not about not knowing the others... It's a wider problem, a matter of education (Note that I believe most western nations face the same problem, only at lower intensity at this time).
I work for an IT company in Brussels, Belgium. We mostly use MS systems, although we have a few Unix (various flavors) servers in operation. All the office work is done with MS software. I found myself in trouble when my laptop died and I had to use coworkers' computers to read my mail : I had to configure Outlook to access my account on the exchange server every time I used someone else's laptop. The administrator configured an extra server, running Outlook Web Access. Now I can just type the server's url on the intranet and I get a decent outlook-like interface under Netscape. Which means I will be able to read my exchange mail and access other exchange data from Linux, when my new laptop ships. OK, it's not a real solution, but it can help switching to another Office suite and keeping that damn exchange server.
Although NetBEUI is the default protocol with many versions of MS products, any serious NT network uses TCP/IP, not NetBEUI... So I don't think implementing NetBEUI under Linux will make it closer to NT. Everybody uses TCP/IP anyway, except on very small private LAN's (home users who don't know a thing about protocols and don't need internet access to all their computers).
I would really like to know what kind of "long and disgusting history of being horrible to people of other races" does Belgium have...
Indeed Belgium had its Congo... And any other European nation had colonies back then ! Its not like we were the only ones. Not to say it was right to do it, but the connection you're trying to imply doesn't hold when any country has the same kind of history.
And let me remind you that Belgium didn't put Indians into reservations. Neither did we have slaves in our coton fields !
And finally, there's one thing I think can be said about Begium and Belgians, but not about many others : we know how to make fun of ourselves, we have a lot of self-humor. Unlike, e.g., the Americans and the French.
Well, I'd just like to say that Europeans are much less conservative than Americans when it comes to things like humor. I've lived in both sides (Arizona and Belgium) and I think I'm qualified to make that sort of comments.
In europe people will more easily make fun of other folks, including jokes based on "race" (there are no such things as human "racex" anyway), sex, age, country... We see it as second degree, and there's no big deal with that. Just like the other Belgian guy, I LOVE it !
Now I think that avoiding this humor but not doing anything to solve the problems that hide behing is hypocrisy (spell?). There ARE misunderstandings and tensions between different ethinc groups living together. Humor is a way to let the pressure go.
Once you're really comfortable with people, then you'll start making jokes about them with no offense intended. The best "negro" jokes I know come from a Congolese friend of mine, and I know of a Jew who'd tell you the most funny things about Jews.
To conclude, the kind of humor I like best is auto- (or self-)derision. Making fun of yourself is actually quite funny...
as digital distribution goes up, the value-added of merchandising
of 'physical' stuff based around the content will go up. SOMETHING
THAT IS PHYSICAL IS SCARCE, and its value (unlike digital) lies in
that not everyone can have it. thus, collectors will pay a premium
to have something TANGIBLE and official from the band over just a
download of the song.
I'd like to give a small real-life example of this idea...
One of my co-workers is a big time Napster user. He downloads lots of files, and even used to do it from work from a computer in the DMZ before Napster was banned company-wide.
Anyway, a few months ago Madonna's new album, 'Music', came out. He spent US$ 180 to get all sorts of versions, LP's, limited packages CD's... For just ONE album. And that's the way it goes everytime there's something new from Madonna.
So yeah, I guess there are ways to tap into that kind of behavior and make money from it. People will always want to have a little something others don't.
The one thing I can tell you is that the GSM standard allows for great things here in Europe. Last summer I was in Romania with my Nokia 5110 (GSM 900 Mhz with a Belgian Proximus SIM card) and a laptop computer. I could connect at 9600 bps, which is damn slow but still enough to get your email in a remote village in the hills of Transylvania. It also seems to me that newer phones already have 14400 bps support. Well, of course it's not much better.
I got a friend from Sweden who met a California boy online, through some sort of web cht interface. After 6 months of "dating" she moved to San Diego to meet the guy. They are now hapilly married and they still live in California. Well, they were not precisely geeks. But they sure were chat addicted !
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In French (at least the way we speak it in Southern Belgium) we use LEGO as a noun most of the time. So we say "des legos" which would translate to "some legos", or "ils l'ont construit avec des legos" ("they built it with legos").
Older people usually call them "briques Lego" (Lego bricks), but it's uncommon tho hear this these days. Although most French adjectives will have an S if they related to a plural noun, there are exceptions (most color adjectives, and adjectives that are derived from proper nouns). I don't think we'd ever write it "briques legos" with a plural lego adjective.
Juts my two "centimes".
Here's some information regarding ISO standards fro LCD's flat panels. (All this info is from technical documentation I got from Fujitsu-Siemens Computers.)
ISO standard 13406-2 is a completion of ISO 9241-3, -7 and -8, which already regarded LCD's. Classes I to IV are defined in ISO 13406-2.
Class I (theoretical) allows for no pixel faults.
Class II allows for 2 "light pixels", 2 "dark pixels" and 5 "other faults", per million pixels.
Class III allows for 5, 15 and 50 respectively.
Class IV allows for 50, 150 and 500.
"light pixel" is when a pixel is >75% lighter.
"dark pixel" is when a pixel is >75% darker (or "death", I presume).
"other fault" is, well, for other faults (e.g. a subpixel is defect, giving the pixel a distored hue - think color-stuck pixels).
Class II is considered acceptable for office use. Classes III and IV are not.
For a 1,024*768 panel, which is 786,432 pixels, that makes 1.57 light pixels (rounds up to 2), 1.57 dark pixels (rounds up to 2) and 3.93 other faults (rounds up to 4).
This give a maximal number of defective pixels of 8, which is 0.001 % of the screen surface.
This data is very useful when you're a techie on the field and you're being annoyed by some customer who keeps asking for a new monitor because his/her got one or two death pixels. You can tell the monitor still meets the industry standard and therefore will not be replaced.
As for the ViewSonic monitor, I suppose ViewSonic was pretty nice to you when they replaced your "defective" monitor.
Well, maybe Sun could hire him to work into StarOffice !
While, as stated in many replies, this was not directly related to Napster, I would like to point this detail.
The IFPI spokeman clearly stated that they were using some sort of "scanning" device (coud very well be a couple of Naspter clients logging what's goign on), which seems true.
I live in Belgium and a couple of my friends got emails from IFPI lawyers regarding their use of Napster.
So who knows what's next, considering the IFPI is probably keeping a list of IP's used by Napster users.
Hello, this solution was also in my post, but as I stated it uses more bandwidth...
Well, first of all I was surprised to be one of the only ones here able to give detailed info about this. I'm usually way behind the discussion in most threads on /.
Well, when I say server, it can be a laptop with a large disk (even an external disc). This is not going to be a bottleneck anyway. We often do it with an old Pentium 75 running NT server with 80 Mbs of RAM and some old and slow disk. By the way I said it's an NT soft, but I'm pretty sure it's a plain Win32 thing and it can be run on Win9x as well... (flamers, hit me if you can...)
But you sure want a fast enough network. I've always used this technique to dump images on disks in labs. Yesterday though, I dumped an image to a server on another site of our network (I guess you'd call it a MAN). I don't remember what's the speed of that link, but it was during working hours and it took 2.5 hours for about 1.5 gig. Not quite fast !
I'd sure recommend 100 Mbps where available, and possibly switched if not using the multicasting thing. I'm not a TCP/IP and ethernet wizz and I'm not sure how well these multicasted packets will react throuhg a switch or a router.
Or go fiber if you got the bucks !
The SCSI idea is not bad either if the target computers have not been ordered/paid for/installed on site yet.
USB sucks badly, I'd try avoiding that solution if I were you...
The CD solution is the easiest to set up and is perfect when all you've got to do is quickly get a workstation back to work on a remote site with a smaller infrastructure... That's the way we go with our techies on sites.
Hi,
/. community excuse me, I'm going to talk about solutions that I know of, using Microsoft-based OS's.
.db file to store the users input then creates the .ini file from the .db).
May the
Multicasting :
You could create DOS boot disks with network drivers and TCP/IP then launch Ghost and do multicasting from a Ghost server which stores the images.
Ghost server runs on NT, I don't know if there are other versions available. Basically you tell it what image file to use and a few parameters (session name, number of clients...).
There you have your network attached device which stores the images. The hard part of it is getting boot disks that work with the NIC's you may have. This can be troublesome with laptops. Either have one disk for each NIC, or tweak and do a little programming to allow a selection during the boot process (I got one such disk that Does 3Com 5x9 and 9x5).
The same applies for IP addressing : you could have a disk that asks you the IP address and subnet you want to work with (Again, I got a disk that does that, it uses a
The most important benefit of this multicasting thing : network bandwidth is not wasted sending the same data many time over the network... You can Duplicate a disk on n machines at the same time with only one multicasting session.
Another solution is to create a boot disk with TCP/IP or another NetBIOS enabled protocol (NetBEUI or IPX/SPX) and connect to a network share on a NetBIOS server (could well be a Linux/Samba box), on which you have your images. Down side : each copy requires the data to be sent from the server to the station, thus using a lot of bandwidth.
As for USB, I have no idea how to configure these things under DOS...
This is rather OT, but let me tell you the Germans ARE your allies. Can you say "NATO" ?
Just my thoughts to answer your flame about Americans that don't need to know about other countries...
I used to live there, for about a year, in a family. I was an exchange student. So don't get me wrong : I hate the rest of the world's stereotypes about the US, it people, it culture and its history. I get really nervous when I meet friends that tell me all "Americans" hate burgers and their country has no history.
But you guys in the US should realize that there's more to the world than your country, and that no empire lasts forever (witness all the ancient civilizations that once had an all-mighty power over the known world).
I remember a big fuss in my high school because some organization studied high-schoolers and came up with this figure : 60% of US kids (that was in '95) cannot find Florida on a map of their country. Now that's an easy one... I guess most Europeans know that Florida is that small penis-like peninsula (forgive my spell. on this) in the South-east. Now I'd like to see the figures for Nebraska !!!
Another true story... When we started the Civil war unit in the American history, the teacher asked "I'd like to know if there's anyone in here who knows when the American Civil War took place ?". I was the only one able to give a answer (correct one, btw). And I was a 17 year-old kid from Belgium.
I think the US' problem is not about not knowing the others... It's a wider problem, a matter of education (Note that I believe most western nations face the same problem, only at lower intensity at this time).
I work for an IT company in Brussels, Belgium. We mostly use MS systems, although we have a few Unix (various flavors) servers in operation. All the office work is done with MS software.
I found myself in trouble when my laptop died and I had to use coworkers' computers to read my mail : I had to configure Outlook to access my account on the exchange server every time I used someone else's laptop.
The administrator configured an extra server, running Outlook Web Access. Now I can just type the server's url on the intranet and I get a decent outlook-like interface under Netscape. Which means I will be able to read my exchange mail and access other exchange data from Linux, when my new laptop ships.
OK, it's not a real solution, but it can help switching to another Office suite and keeping that damn exchange server.
Although NetBEUI is the default protocol with many versions of MS products, any serious NT network uses TCP/IP, not NetBEUI... So I don't think implementing NetBEUI under Linux will make it closer to NT.
Everybody uses TCP/IP anyway, except on very small private LAN's (home users who don't know a thing about protocols and don't need internet access to all their computers).
Dear AC,
I would really like to know what kind of "long and disgusting history of being horrible to people of other races" does Belgium have...
Indeed Belgium had its Congo... And any other European nation had colonies back then ! Its not like we were the only ones. Not to say it was right to do it, but the connection you're trying to imply doesn't hold when any country has the same kind of history.
And let me remind you that Belgium didn't put Indians into reservations. Neither did we have slaves in our coton fields !
And finally, there's one thing I think can be said about Begium and Belgians, but not about many others : we know how to make fun of ourselves, we have a lot of self-humor. Unlike, e.g., the Americans and the French.
Well, I'd just like to say that Europeans are much less conservative than Americans when it comes to things like humor. I've lived in both sides (Arizona and Belgium) and I think I'm qualified to make that sort of comments.
In europe people will more easily make fun of other folks, including jokes based on "race" (there are no such things as human "racex" anyway), sex, age, country... We see it as second degree, and there's no big deal with that. Just like the other Belgian guy, I LOVE it !
Now I think that avoiding this humor but not doing anything to solve the problems that hide behing is hypocrisy (spell?). There ARE misunderstandings and tensions between different ethinc groups living together. Humor is a way to let the pressure go.
Once you're really comfortable with people, then you'll start making jokes about them with no offense intended. The best "negro" jokes I know come from a Congolese friend of mine, and I know of a Jew who'd tell you the most funny things about Jews.
To conclude, the kind of humor I like best is auto- (or self-)derision. Making fun of yourself is actually quite funny...
as digital distribution goes up, the value-added of merchandising
of 'physical' stuff based around the content will go up. SOMETHING
THAT IS PHYSICAL IS SCARCE, and its value (unlike digital) lies in
that not everyone can have it. thus, collectors will pay a premium
to have something TANGIBLE and official from the band over just a
download of the song.
I'd like to give a small real-life example of this idea...
One of my co-workers is a big time Napster user. He downloads lots of files, and even used to do it from work from a computer in the DMZ before Napster was banned company-wide.
Anyway, a few months ago Madonna's new album, 'Music', came out. He spent US$ 180 to get all sorts of versions, LP's, limited packages CD's... For just ONE album. And that's the way it goes everytime there's something new from Madonna.
So yeah, I guess there are ways to tap into that kind of behavior and make money from it. People will always want to have a little something others don't.
The one thing I can tell you is that the GSM standard allows for great things here in Europe. Last summer I was in Romania with my Nokia 5110 (GSM 900 Mhz with a Belgian Proximus SIM card) and a laptop computer. I could connect at 9600 bps, which is damn slow but still enough to get your email in a remote village in the hills of Transylvania.
It also seems to me that newer phones already have 14400 bps support. Well, of course it's not much better.
I got a friend from Sweden who met a California boy online, through some sort of web cht interface. After 6 months of "dating" she moved to San Diego to meet the guy. They are now hapilly married and they still live in California.
Well, they were not precisely geeks. But they sure were chat addicted !