As the HP printer uses a four-color inkjet, I would safely say that even at PC-compatable levels, images from Metal Gear Solid won't be anywhere as good as the images you'd actually see onscreen. I fail to see the logic in this. Your printer, a four colour inkjet, is based on the CMYK model, combining cyan, magenta, yellow, and black to create just about any colour imaginable, just like other inkjet printers on your PC. It is not limited to only four distinct colours, rather, it combines those available to reproduce any shade... the quality would then only be dependant on how closely spaced the jets were (DPI) and the quality of the paper.
That's a very selfish outlook on the situation. People could be in that house dying, and all you do is drive on by, because you don't want to get involved with the cops.
I find it interesting that it states that the file systems that Linux and Windows use are incompatible... they are, to an extent, but they say it in such a manner that dismisses all possibility of a dual boot option- heaven forbid.
Also noted is how they state that file Linux can recognize the filesystems of Microsoft (and over 40 other) partition types, yet their Windows is ignorant of all but its own.
It's a personal filtering proxy that has the primary focus of replacing ad banners with a clear 1 square pixel gif image... it, however, has the added bonus of replacing your browser ID tag with something you specify (ie, you're a large corporation that has microsoft users inside, but externally, it looks like everyone is running netscape- great for image) as well as blocking cookies entirely from anyone you don't trust. Very cool software.
It has a windows port, a linux/unix port, and a MacOS port, and, if you just want to try it out, I believe there is a trial proxy server that you just specify in your netscape prefs.... last I checked it was purposely speed limited so that you would just install your own.
Yes. I was also surprised when I realized that Java and JavaScript are automatically set to be useable in email as the default under Netscape mail... I turned that off promptly. Java execution in Netscape 4.7 seems to core an awful lot... which is really annoying.
In any case, I run everything through my junkbuster proxy, which makes me feel happy and secure... I recommend junkbuster to anyone and everyone who values their privacy and hates banner advertisements... especially the ones on slashdot.;)
...and I'm your regular Canadian student trying to work his way through school- so, with a good sound system, a couple of turntables, a cd player, a laptop, and a LOT of practice, you're versatile.
There's nothing more annoying than a greasy 16 year old handing you a CD and bothering you to play it when you're trying to get the beats matched between trance tracks- oh, yeah, there is something more annoying... when you're playing a trance set and that kid is handing you Limp Bizkit.
As a DJ, I can tell you exaclty why a DJ at your local club won't play a CDR that you hand to him out of the blue-
-he doesn't know what is on it. He doesn't know what song it is (even if it's labelled, he doesn't know you) or the quality of the sound. Any recording which isn't top-notch will reflect poorly on his performance.
Handing a DJ music, or constantly requesting the same piece of music is not only obnoxious, but annoying and distracting to someone who is trying to get a crowd excited- the DJ has his full attention on the crowd and the music, not you.
Trust me, the DJ knows his music, and his art. Don't bother him.
Is there a song you want to hear? Don't give him the CD. Instead, write your request on a slip of paper in bold capital letters (not big, just bold) and leave it on his desk. If it doesn't fit in with the set, or if he just doesn't have it, he won't play it, and that's all there is to it. If blacklights are set up above the desk, write it in hi-liter so he won't miss it.
Stop concentrating on your desires to have a specific song played... leave your cds at home. Go dance and have fun with the rhythm.
Have you tried optimizing your configuration of gnome? Install a colour based instead of pixmap based GTK theme, just as win 95 has. Now have your panel ONLY have the pager app and the clock and the foot/start button menu. Now boot. Hrm... seems to be running a little faster than Windows Explorer to me....
Now, I'll just customize a few things here and a few things there... put a nice e theme in... tweak some more...
Hey! Cool! I have now a *cool* looking and relatively safe (ie: no BSoD) and streamlined desktop!
If you were to run the various pixmap window tweakers on the windows machine, you'd be running slower, too.
Anyway, my point is, don't expect magic out of a linux system just because it's a linux system... expect magic out of it because it's been engineered that way, and yet still remains within the actual things you can actually do wth the limited number of cycles on your processor.
...will this have good import filters for Microsoft office as well as Star Office files? It would really be good to have all my files accessible on one place... Another question I have is does it co-operate with window managers... separate windows instead of the fake windows that StarOffice generates? What about swap space? Again, compared to star office, is it still going to sink my 64 MB ram, 64 MB swap computer into oblivion?
I was wondering if, in the States, there are laws governing when and when you cannot file for an IPO.
A peer review board is always helpful- and what about meeting other conditions- incorporation for 2 years, for example. Other ideas: -Must post a break even or have earnings in order to file for IPO (I realize this would have excluded RHAT) or perhaps: -Must have at least one product which is currently earning money, at a certain projected percentage of the future share value/total stock worth -Must have a minimum of officers holding stock... no one man IPOs
And I'm sure there are many other suggestions... something should be done to protect against shady IPOs. While linuxOne may have good intentions, perhaps they're going about it in the wrong way... I guess we'll find out about it in a few months/weeks.
What I'm worried about is DoubleTalk MarketSpeak (TM) coming from a company on false pretences to future investors... if linuxOne falls through, that could hit the rest of the big players such as RedHat, Caldera, now Debian, and the future Corel pretty har in the eyes of unenlightened/technologically ignorant investors, and tarnish the commercial projection of the linux and open source communities as a whole.
Um... sort of off topic, but bandwidth related and to the downloading of DVDs. While you demonstrate your patience, assuming it takes between 6 and 10 (we'll assume 6) minutes to download 100k at 2400 speeds (in my experience, it DOES, also calculated assuming 2.4 kilobits/sec, or 300 *bytes* per second), that means it takes about 100 hours (one megabyte per hour) to complete a one megabyte download of your 100 megabyte linux distribution. I'm not patient enough to wait 100 hours for a DVD movie to download, so your comparison is a bit off, methinks.;)
This may strike others as obvious, but why one earth would you want to run a fully functional OS under another OS?
This strikes me as.... overkill.
Partitioning isn't terrificly difficult, however, the process could be made easier... maybe that would be a better product focus.... decent, easy to use, no-fault safe cross-platform open source partioning/defragging software, and a nice x86 graphical replacement for LILO... or at least front end or patch for it. I remember partition-it w/boot-it... I tried to use it again recently. Apparantly, it supports linux 3.0. (WHAT IS THAT?) and refused to boot the linux partitions that it did find. Oh well. LILO is amazing as is...
Some of the protection schemes for internet voting must be fairly hefty... I think the cons outway the pros. I can understand where lower security voting is adequate, for petitions and opinion voicing, but I don't think that with the common multi-computer and multi-IP situations, as well as most people getting their IPs from a dynamic pool, can we ever be completely secure... even if everyone had a secret password, etc, it must be retrieved via mail, and, if it is distributed like they distribute them up here, many will be discarded into the junk mail bin by the recipients, and will illegally be abused.
I don't think we're ready to vote people into office using this one yet, folks... I'd hesitate to use it in less serious cases like re-zoning for an Exxon station on the corner, either.
Sites of controversy are usually sites of high volume... you'd be surprised at how much a text only pages comes up with... and when you hear about hate web pages on 20/20, not only do they usally say the address, but they say something about the ISP.... so the guys running the pool get their servers swamped by viewers, and they get a bad rap in the process, even though they may have had no prior knowledge of the site.
Freedom of speech ends at inspried hatred. I would allow people to do this on my servers either.
What city are you in? (Say Ottawa.) Right now, all I've seen for high speed internet is Bell Sympatico and Rogers@Home... Roger@Home gets about the same bandwidth as a 56k modem during normal daylight hours, and HSE won't come to my house, even though it is DSL, they won't run it.
Argh, being rural stinks- so my only option is wireless. My wireless 1200 baud packet connection as VA3CSG just didn't cut it, my 56k connection via the gov't just doesn't cut it..... I want my speed. And soon.;)
Hrm.... I thought Andover and Amiga were completely unrelated companies. But maybe it's just me.
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....this sounds like someone compiled a guided flamer program on their OpenBSD system.:) If you replace FreeBSP in the above message with the name of your favourite politician, it's almost exactly the same as you'd find in your generic alt.rec.flamewars. Whoever moderated this up as informative should have read it first. Thanks, Rob. I'm liking M^2 more and more.
Wow. I think the most effective weapons against software piracy are: a) Lower prices b) Incentive to purchase (make the customer feel worth it) and finally, c) Software coded on punchcards that are 3 feet by 5 feet.
But that should apply for all companies. Maybe if they were to focus more on fighting software piracy on-line. I bet many of the folks present upon the street had little experience with software piracy... in that case, Microsoft should have focused more on the education of the public, instead of trying to acquire pirated software.
I don't remember this happening, but it's possible.
However, it's a very, very dumb idea to park your car on the 417 Queensway where the average traffic speed is 135km/h in the rightmost lane... and faster in the passing lane.... yep, posted limit 100km/h. Quite brutal.... fun to drive (heh) but brutal if you have an accident.
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As the HP printer uses a four-color inkjet, I would safely say that even at PC-compatable levels, images from Metal Gear Solid won't be anywhere as good as the images you'd actually see onscreen.
I fail to see the logic in this. Your printer, a four colour inkjet, is based on the CMYK model, combining cyan, magenta, yellow, and black to create just about any colour imaginable, just like other inkjet printers on your PC. It is not limited to only four distinct colours, rather, it combines those available to reproduce any shade... the quality would then only be dependant on how closely spaced the jets were (DPI) and the quality of the paper.
It was by the Arrogant Worms... Canadians, I believe. I've heard the screams of the vegetables...
That's a very selfish outlook on the situation. People could be in that house dying, and all you do is drive on by, because you don't want to get involved with the cops.
Shame on you.
I speak both english and french in my home. I'm not from Britain, nor am I from France... I am Canadian.
I live in Canada, and as such, I am Canadian.
Uh... why do so many of the internet data collection companies add the suffix 'craft' to their names?
:)
Congrats Apache team, though. Another nail in the coffin? Or perhaps just a thorn in the side? We'll just have to wait and see.
I find it interesting that it states that the file systems that Linux and Windows use are incompatible... they are, to an extent, but they say it in such a manner that dismisses all possibility of a dual boot option- heaven forbid.
Also noted is how they state that file Linux can recognize the filesystems of Microsoft (and over 40 other) partition types, yet their Windows is ignorant of all but its own.
Just something to think about.
Go to freshmeat and type in 'junkbuster'. :)
It's a personal filtering proxy that has the primary focus of replacing ad banners with a clear 1 square pixel gif image... it, however, has the added bonus of replacing your browser ID tag with something you specify (ie, you're a large corporation that has microsoft users inside, but externally, it looks like everyone is running netscape- great for image) as well as blocking cookies entirely from anyone you don't trust. Very cool software.
It has a windows port, a linux/unix port, and a MacOS port, and, if you just want to try it out, I believe there is a trial proxy server that you just specify in your netscape prefs.... last I checked it was purposely speed limited so that you would just install your own.
Best of all, it's free.
Yes. I was also surprised when I realized that Java and JavaScript are automatically set to be useable in email as the default under Netscape mail... I turned that off promptly. Java execution in Netscape 4.7 seems to core an awful lot... which is really annoying.
In any case, I run everything through my junkbuster proxy, which makes me feel happy and secure... I recommend junkbuster to anyone and everyone who values their privacy and hates banner advertisements... especially the ones on slashdot. ;)
Very useful. BTW, add 613 on there for Ottawa's area code.
:)
Hrm... I have realplayer in my netscape prefs, or 'realplay' anyway- whats the variable to pass the file labelled as?
Come on all you netscape 4.7 linux users.... someone look in your application prefs.
Well, he said in a club...
...and I'm your regular Canadian student trying to work his way through school- so, with a good sound system, a couple of turntables, a cd player, a laptop, and a LOT of practice, you're versatile.
There's nothing more annoying than a greasy 16 year old handing you a CD and bothering you to play it when you're trying to get the beats matched between trance tracks- oh, yeah, there is something more annoying... when you're playing a trance set and that kid is handing you Limp Bizkit.
As a DJ, I can tell you exaclty why a DJ at your local club won't play a CDR that you hand to him out of the blue-
-he doesn't know what is on it. He doesn't know what song it is (even if it's labelled, he doesn't know you) or the quality of the sound. Any recording which isn't top-notch will reflect poorly on his performance.
Handing a DJ music, or constantly requesting the same piece of music is not only obnoxious, but annoying and distracting to someone who is trying to get a crowd excited- the DJ has his full attention on the crowd and the music, not you.
Trust me, the DJ knows his music, and his art. Don't bother him .
Is there a song you want to hear? Don't give him the CD. Instead, write your request on a slip of paper in bold capital letters (not big, just bold) and leave it on his desk. If it doesn't fit in with the set, or if he just doesn't have it, he won't play it, and that's all there is to it. If blacklights are set up above the desk, write it in hi-liter so he won't miss it.
Stop concentrating on your desires to have a specific song played... leave your cds at home. Go dance and have fun with the rhythm.
Have you tried optimizing your configuration of gnome? Install a colour based instead of pixmap based GTK theme, just as win 95 has. Now have your panel ONLY have the pager app and the clock and the foot/start button menu. Now boot. Hrm... seems to be running a little faster than Windows Explorer to me....
Now, I'll just customize a few things here and a few things there... put a nice e theme in... tweak some more...
Hey! Cool! I have now a *cool* looking and relatively safe (ie: no BSoD) and streamlined desktop!
If you were to run the various pixmap window tweakers on the windows machine, you'd be running slower, too.
Anyway, my point is, don't expect magic out of a linux system just because it's a linux system... expect magic out of it because it's been engineered that way, and yet still remains within the actual things you can actually do wth the limited number of cycles on your processor.
...will this have good import filters for Microsoft office as well as Star Office files?
It would really be good to have all my files accessible on one place...
Another question I have is does it co-operate with window managers... separate windows instead of the fake windows that StarOffice generates?
What about swap space? Again, compared to star office, is it still going to sink my 64 MB ram, 64 MB swap computer into oblivion?
I was wondering if, in the States, there are laws governing when and when you cannot file for an IPO.
A peer review board is always helpful- and what about meeting other conditions- incorporation for 2 years, for example.
Other ideas:
-Must post a break even or have earnings in order to file for IPO (I realize this would have excluded RHAT)
or perhaps:
-Must have at least one product which is currently earning money, at a certain projected percentage of the future share value/total stock worth
-Must have a minimum of officers holding stock... no one man IPOs
And I'm sure there are many other suggestions... something should be done to protect against shady IPOs. While linuxOne may have good intentions, perhaps they're going about it in the wrong way... I guess we'll find out about it in a few months/weeks.
What I'm worried about is DoubleTalk MarketSpeak (TM) coming from a company on false pretences to future investors... if linuxOne falls through, that could hit the rest of the big players such as RedHat, Caldera, now Debian, and the future Corel pretty har in the eyes of unenlightened/technologically ignorant investors, and tarnish the commercial projection of the linux and open source communities as a whole.
Um... sort of off topic, but bandwidth related and to the downloading of DVDs. While you demonstrate your patience, assuming it takes between 6 and 10 (we'll assume 6) minutes to download 100k at 2400 speeds (in my experience, it DOES, also calculated assuming 2.4 kilobits/sec, or 300 *bytes* per second), that means it takes about 100 hours (one megabyte per hour) to complete a one megabyte download of your 100 megabyte linux distribution. I'm not patient enough to wait 100 hours for a DVD movie to download, so your comparison is a bit off, methinks. ;)
This may strike others as obvious, but why one earth would you want to run a fully functional OS under another OS?
This strikes me as.... overkill.
Partitioning isn't terrificly difficult, however, the process could be made easier... maybe that would be a better product focus.... decent, easy to use, no-fault safe cross-platform open source partioning/defragging software, and a nice x86 graphical replacement for LILO... or at least front end or patch for it. I remember partition-it w/boot-it...
I tried to use it again recently. Apparantly, it supports linux 3.0. (WHAT IS THAT?) and refused to boot the linux partitions that it did find. Oh well. LILO is amazing as is...
Some of the protection schemes for internet voting must be fairly hefty... I think the cons outway the pros. I can understand where lower security voting is adequate, for petitions and opinion voicing, but I don't think that with the common multi-computer and multi-IP situations, as well as most people getting their IPs from a dynamic pool, can we ever be completely secure... even if everyone had a secret password, etc, it must be retrieved via mail, and, if it is distributed like they distribute them up here, many will be discarded into the junk mail bin by the recipients, and will illegally be abused.
I don't think we're ready to vote people into office using this one yet, folks... I'd hesitate to use it in less serious cases like re-zoning for an Exxon station on the corner, either.
Sites of controversy are usually sites of high volume... you'd be surprised at how much a text only pages comes up with... and when you hear about hate web pages on 20/20, not only do they usally say the address, but they say something about the ISP.... so the guys running the pool get their servers swamped by viewers, and they get a bad rap in the process, even though they may have had no prior knowledge of the site.
Freedom of speech ends at inspried hatred. I would allow people to do this on my servers either.
What city are you in? (Say Ottawa.)
;)
Right now, all I've seen for high speed internet is Bell Sympatico and Rogers@Home... Roger@Home gets about the same bandwidth as a 56k modem during normal daylight hours, and HSE won't come to my house, even though it is DSL, they won't run it.
Argh, being rural stinks- so my only option is wireless. My wireless 1200 baud packet connection as VA3CSG just didn't cut it, my 56k connection via the gov't just doesn't cut it..... I want my speed. And soon.
Hrm.... I thought Andover and Amiga were completely unrelated companies. But maybe it's just me.
....this sounds like someone compiled a guided flamer program on their OpenBSD system. :) If you replace FreeBSP in the above message with the name of your favourite politician, it's almost exactly the same as you'd find in your generic alt.rec.flamewars. Whoever moderated this up as informative should have read it first. Thanks, Rob. I'm liking M^2 more and more.
Spinning a hard drive takes a LOT more battery power than keeping a few megs of ram alive.
(I start all posts with the subject "hrm...")
Wow. I think the most effective weapons against software piracy are:
a) Lower prices
b) Incentive to purchase (make the customer feel worth it)
and finally,
c) Software coded on punchcards that are 3 feet by 5 feet.
But that should apply for all companies. Maybe if they were to focus more on fighting software piracy on-line. I bet many of the folks present upon the street had little experience with software piracy... in that case, Microsoft should have focused more on the education of the public, instead of trying to acquire pirated software.
Ah well, life goes on in Redmond.
And considering they're gold coated windows... ;)
I don't remember this happening, but it's possible.
However, it's a very, very dumb idea to park your car on the 417 Queensway where the average traffic speed is 135km/h in the rightmost lane... and faster in the passing lane.... yep, posted limit 100km/h. Quite brutal.... fun to drive (heh) but brutal if you have an accident.
Yep, I love Ottawa.
Uhm.... pardon me, but it's not the TCP/IP stack that cares about files... it just juggles packets.
You should be looking at your FTP software if it crashed when saving large files.