I find that good arm rests are important, especially ones that can be cranked high enough. Most chairs have them too low. Having your arms steadily supported is very effecient in terms of avoiding neck pain.
Very true. Even today you can see flicker here and there, most visible when moving or resizing windows. It's not a major pain in the ass but I would have thought they would have ironed it out already.
What happens if you're playing the disc while it begins to degrade to unreadable? You probably start to get random read errors, but can it harm the drive?
Count me in. A couple of years ago I purchased the Epia MII mini-itx board of which performance revealed to be horrible. I did some benchmarking and the 600MHz processor pretty much equaled to a 300MHz Intel chip. Added to that, the board was built to be completely passive cooled, but the CPU could not stay in safe temperatures unless I added a fan.
I wonder why VIA processors keep having this reputation of being efficient chips while in practice they seem to run hot and perform badly.
I also wondered that. What I have heard dual core versions of the Atom would not be released until later this year and therefore would not make it in the Wind.
If you are so worried about reflections I highly suggest that you check your lighting too. If you set it correctly you won't get reflections from any display. The most important thing is that there should be no light source opposite the screen.
Fluorescents by their nature are not full-spectrum. They have tall, narrow spikes right in the middle of where our eyes are sensitive to red, green, and blue, and virtually no output anywhere else in the spectrum.
It's enough to fool human eyes, and not much else. I wouldn't be surprised if pets had trouble seeing by fluorescent light.
True, but there certainly exists some models with full-spectrum output too. For an example see Viva-Lite. Sure they are more expensive than the basic ones.
In Finland Saunalahti has to offer somewhat similar deal with their Wippies project. You cannot get unlimited bandwidth but you get a free ADSL/WLAN box plus a 4GB mailbox. The rules also define you must share your internet connection through the WLAN for the first year. There is also hot spot maps, blogs and other "creative stuff" built around it.
Don't let the Desktop versions memory usage fool you, it is mostly RAM Cache, not memory "flood". Instead of flooding memory, they use it for a good reason and release immediately when another app needs it.
That is not possible. Opera cannot know when another app needs memory.
Maybe, but the GP's assertion was just that genes don't fold at all. In which tepples replied that they in fact do (while it's still not what Folding@Home does).
You can tell it wasn't hidden, because the obvious shortcut for "slashdot" is "/.".
I wouldn't say it's obvious that a browser would go to Slashdot after typing "/." in the address bar. An obvious thing would be something like that the browser would activate address bar by pressing CTRL+L. If that kind of thing was undocumented it would just be an undocumented feature. But this "/." thing I would still certainly classify as an easter egg.
Another component which is difficult to get silent is the hard disk - elastic mounting works wonders, but it's still just quiet, not silent. You need to go for a more expensive 2.5" drive and possibly sound insulation for that.
By the way, 4200rpm 2.5" drives really kick ass in terms of being quiet - they are practically completely silent. (Well ok, they are probably a bit slower than their faster spinning counterparts, but then again, every mechanical hard drive is slow.)
The real problem is that Windows has so much third party software around. Even if you could install an application safely (through a "package manager" or something), the installed program itself could still be malicious and for example nuke all your personal files.
On Linux you are in better position since you install most of the software from the distributor's repository, which is usually quite safe and tested. However in Windows world this would probably not be an option.
What if after your death your relatives just walk in and happily unplug your Linux boxes (having no idea how they even work) before your cool scripts even get a chance to run.:S
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I find that good arm rests are important, especially ones that can be cranked high enough. Most chairs have them too low. Having your arms steadily supported is very effecient in terms of avoiding neck pain.
Very true. Even today you can see flicker here and there, most visible when moving or resizing windows. It's not a major pain in the ass but I would have thought they would have ironed it out already.
What happens if you're playing the disc while it begins to degrade to unreadable? You probably start to get random read errors, but can it harm the drive?
No. :P
Count me in. A couple of years ago I purchased the Epia MII mini-itx board of which performance revealed to be horrible. I did some benchmarking and the 600MHz processor pretty much equaled to a 300MHz Intel chip. Added to that, the board was built to be completely passive cooled, but the CPU could not stay in safe temperatures unless I added a fan.
I wonder why VIA processors keep having this reputation of being efficient chips while in practice they seem to run hot and perform badly.
I also wondered that. What I have heard dual core versions of the Atom would not be released until later this year and therefore would not make it in the Wind.
You must be new here.
If you are so worried about reflections I highly suggest that you check your lighting too. If you set it correctly you won't get reflections from any display. The most important thing is that there should be no light source opposite the screen.
In Soviet Russia, Duke Nukem Forever runs Linux.
True, but there certainly exists some models with full-spectrum output too. For an example see Viva-Lite. Sure they are more expensive than the basic ones.
In Finland Saunalahti has to offer somewhat similar deal with their Wippies project. You cannot get unlimited bandwidth but you get a free ADSL/WLAN box plus a 4GB mailbox. The rules also define you must share your internet connection through the WLAN for the first year. There is also hot spot maps, blogs and other "creative stuff" built around it.
That is not possible. Opera cannot know when another app needs memory.
Nah. Innovation is what you do, invention is the product.
Maybe, but the GP's assertion was just that genes don't fold at all. In which tepples replied that they in fact do (while it's still not what Folding@Home does).
I wouldn't say it's obvious that a browser would go to Slashdot after typing "/." in the address bar. An obvious thing would be something like that the browser would activate address bar by pressing CTRL+L. If that kind of thing was undocumented it would just be an undocumented feature. But this "/." thing I would still certainly classify as an easter egg.
I'd rather wait for the flash-only solid state disks to become affordable than buy one of these.
By the way, 4200rpm 2.5" drives really kick ass in terms of being quiet - they are practically completely silent. (Well ok, they are probably a bit slower than their faster spinning counterparts, but then again, every mechanical hard drive is slow.)
Needing over 4GB for something like this seems just insane. Are you absolutely sure you couldn't rethink your software choices?
Ahh, when the site got un-slashdotted, I was able to read it from the page. :P
How did they underclock the Pentium to only 8MHz?
The real problem is that Windows has so much third party software around. Even if you could install an application safely (through a "package manager" or something), the installed program itself could still be malicious and for example nuke all your personal files.
On Linux you are in better position since you install most of the software from the distributor's repository, which is usually quite safe and tested. However in Windows world this would probably not be an option.
It runs SCUMM, of course.
I think 641k should be just enough.
What if after your death your relatives just walk in and happily unplug your Linux boxes (having no idea how they even work) before your cool scripts even get a chance to run. :S