The TV card is picked up as a sound card, and probably takes the/dev/sound/dsp0 position. Your sound card probably never had drivers loaded for it since SUSE picked up the Hauppage first. Running alsaconf or setting arts to use/dev/sound/dsp1 instead would probably have fixed that issue for you. You could even define it in/etc/modprobe.conf
We refer to this as 'techie karma' or the 'magic touch'. For some reason, it doesn't work as well with females.
-- Shade
Hard Drive Massage
on
Computer Voodoo?
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· Score: 5, Interesting
In my repair monkey days, my shop used to handle data recovery jobs of all kinds. The problems ranged from minor filesystem corruption or unbootable drives to physical damage - heads, and even a bullet through a hard drive (No, I wasn't able to get anything off that one).
We had a variety of methods for dealing with the physically damaged drives that had suffered a head crash, but my boss had a technique he called the 'massage'. A clicking or noisy drive would be rotated around its various axes until the BIOS would recognize it on boot. Sometimes the clicking would stop and he would sit there holding the drive in that position or prop it up to keep it there.
Another method we used was to freeze the drives for a period of 15 minutes to 6 or 8 hours. Sometimes this allowed enough contraction to let the tracks line up again, and we'd get as much data as we could with the drive cold. Once, we even froze a drive between two ziploc bags of water with IDE and power cables hanging out the edge to keep the drive colder longer. It worked!
This should be modded funny over interesting, as at least *I* was always told that mixing stimulants with depressants tends to inflate the effects of both, rather than balance them out.
From elementary school, I recall diagrams of a basic computer layout. The labels on the diagram invariably read:
- Monitor - Keyboard - Mouse - Printer - CPU
-----------------
I think that's where the mass misuse of the term originated. In the late 80s and early 90s, when all this stuff was coming to a mass-marketed head, many people were taught the incorrect term.
Are you going to use the term 'computer' or 'box' in the diagram? It seems redundant or inprecise to call the box a computer, when the diagram on a whole is of a computer system. I guess it was thought that it would cause confusion.
Now we're stuck with people calling the box itself a CPU. Drives me nuts, too. I think people would feel sillier calling it a box, though. The whole point is that they are trying to be at least a bit technical about it. Calling it a box or tower might cheapen it to them.
Here in Fairfax, VA, they play that advertisement all the time. It's driving me nuts. And you're right. They used to quote percentages of increase and actual salaries -- no longer. I wonder what that implies?
On top of the fact that virtualization has numerous problems with accelerated graphics while you're suggesting games for this purpose; I can't believe you're posting this seriously.
There are a lot of people that think having to have a separate library to run a program (gtk vs QT et al) is bloat. Now we're thinking about a separate OS for each App? Ack.
Apple went to intel because of capacity concerns. AMD is already producing at capacity and the added load of all the 'Hot New Apples' would have strained them too much. Apple has been in the position before of not being able to push products because of supply chain problems, and they didn't want to do it again.
Intel can guarantee production rates, AMD can't at the moment.
Your milage will vary, as always, but I've noticed that FC* is one of *the* slowest distros to be published. I'm used to Slackware mainly, and putting Ubuntu up to Slack is like a cheetah racing your grandmother. I do agree with the assertion that Ubuntu is faster than FC, though.
IMHO, Ubuntu and Fedora are both rather sluggish.
Now, now, children, before you flame me for an 'ancient' machine, I'm running a modest but modern 2200+ with 1GB of RAM. No, neither Ubuntu nor FC are unusable, it's just that they lack the kind of snappiness to the UI I've grown accustomed to.
I don't really mind drab headlines as long as the point is clear. What really gets my goat are authors that think they're being clever when they twist a headline's grammar simply to insert that lovely pause -- the comma -- thus saving a word or two.
You've all seen it before, but for example:
In house, wife murders husband
By all, a good time had
On spring break, not taking it Easy
I couldn't think of many good examples, (the last is taken from washingtonpost.com) but I'm sure you see my point. Why bother? It sounds dumb. It looks dumb. And in the case of my silly examples above, doesn't even save a character.
Stop twisting the headlines to make them sound like bad headlines.
Wit is good; puns are fine. God dammit, make it readable!
No, you are not bound to submitting back *every* change. The stipulation is that if you redistribute that change, you must make the modified source available.
You're confusing the ability to submit changes, often touted as Open Source's strength, with the GPL requiring in-house changes be submitted back, which is not the case.
There are two other ways to check what's starting up. 'msconfig' from start > run is a good one, but I find it a cleaner solution to simply remove the entries from the registry. start > run: regedit and navigate to a couple of entries and subkeys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Curre ntVersion/Run (and RunOnce) and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Curr entVersion/Run (and RunOnce etc..)
You may also check for Windows NT subkeys instead of Windows.
Any time you do a repair by removing Spyware/Adware/Virus, make sure you disable system restore and then reenable it after you clean the virus -- you risk restoring back to the old 'infected point'.
I'll admit, I didn't read TFA, but this seems like the cornerstone of the argument.
"If Google combined this with publishing on demand, they could put every publisher in existence not only out of business, but do it while offering far better deals for the authors."
This is what authors are afriad of -- change from the status quo. I think it's a change for the better, but when you're talking about your livelihood, it's a scary thought to imagine -- the way you make your money is about to change drastically.
This looks like a cool new technology, but how useful can it be? I'm wondering how durable the 'film screen' is. Can I accidentally rip it, pulling it out of a pocket?
I'm interested to see prototypes in other such designs, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how useful something like this may be.
Slashdot Mirror
I should probably stop saying probably.
-- Shade
ps - prolly
-- Shade
In my repair monkey days, my shop used to handle data recovery jobs of all kinds. The problems ranged from minor filesystem corruption or unbootable drives to physical damage - heads, and even a bullet through a hard drive (No, I wasn't able to get anything off that one).
We had a variety of methods for dealing with the physically damaged drives that had suffered a head crash, but my boss had a technique he called the 'massage'. A clicking or noisy drive would be rotated around its various axes until the BIOS would recognize it on boot. Sometimes the clicking would stop and he would sit there holding the drive in that position or prop it up to keep it there.
Another method we used was to freeze the drives for a period of 15 minutes to 6 or 8 hours. Sometimes this allowed enough contraction to let the tracks line up again, and we'd get as much data as we could with the drive cold. Once, we even froze a drive between two ziploc bags of water with IDE and power cables hanging out the edge to keep the drive colder longer. It worked!
-- Shade
Here you go.
Though it is still 20MB!
This is a truly interesting method for killing darn near all the processes on an XP box.
Learned some interesting things in the comments on this post, as well.
You mispelled that.
;)
"Fixed in CVS!!!1!eleventy"
There, fixed that for ya
This should be modded funny over interesting, as at least *I* was always told that mixing stimulants with depressants tends to inflate the effects of both, rather than balance them out.
:D
On preview... my sig is appropriate, isn't it?
From elementary school, I recall diagrams of a basic computer layout. The labels on the diagram invariably read:
- Monitor
- Keyboard
- Mouse
- Printer
- CPU
-----------------
I think that's where the mass misuse of the term originated. In the late 80s and early 90s, when all this stuff was coming to a mass-marketed head, many people were taught the incorrect term.
Are you going to use the term 'computer' or 'box' in the diagram? It seems redundant or inprecise to call the box a computer, when the diagram on a whole is of a computer system. I guess it was thought that it would cause confusion.
Now we're stuck with people calling the box itself a CPU. Drives me nuts, too. I think people would feel sillier calling it a box, though. The whole point is that they are trying to be at least a bit technical about it. Calling it a box or tower might cheapen it to them.
Just out of curiosity, where are you located?
Here in Fairfax, VA, they play that advertisement all the time. It's driving me nuts. And you're right. They used to quote percentages of increase and actual salaries -- no longer. I wonder what that implies?
There is a technical term for this:
Swatting a fly with a sledgehammer.
On top of the fact that virtualization has numerous problems with accelerated graphics while you're suggesting games for this purpose; I can't believe you're posting this seriously.
There are a lot of people that think having to have a separate library to run a program (gtk vs QT et al) is bloat. Now we're thinking about a separate OS for each App? Ack.
Apple went to intel because of capacity concerns. AMD is already producing at capacity and the added load of all the 'Hot New Apples' would have strained them too much. Apple has been in the position before of not being able to push products because of supply chain problems, and they didn't want to do it again.
Intel can guarantee production rates, AMD can't at the moment.
Your milage will vary, as always, but I've noticed that FC* is one of *the* slowest distros to be published. I'm used to Slackware mainly, and putting Ubuntu up to Slack is like a cheetah racing your grandmother. I do agree with the assertion that Ubuntu is faster than FC, though.
IMHO, Ubuntu and Fedora are both rather sluggish.
Now, now, children, before you flame me for an 'ancient' machine, I'm running a modest but modern 2200+ with 1GB of RAM. No, neither Ubuntu nor FC are unusable, it's just that they lack the kind of snappiness to the UI I've grown accustomed to.
Alright, well the site is down within a few moments of posting up to Slashdot and Digg simultaneously. Coral Cache anyone?
I don't really mind drab headlines as long as the point is clear. What really gets my goat are authors that think they're being clever when they twist a headline's grammar simply to insert that lovely pause -- the comma -- thus saving a word or two.
You've all seen it before, but for example:
In house, wife murders husband
By all, a good time had
On spring break, not taking it Easy
I couldn't think of many good examples, (the last is taken from washingtonpost.com) but I'm sure you see my point. Why bother? It sounds dumb. It looks dumb. And in the case of my silly examples above, doesn't even save a character.
Stop twisting the headlines to make them sound like bad headlines.
Wit is good; puns are fine. God dammit, make it readable!
-- Shade
No, you are not bound to submitting back *every* change.
The stipulation is that if you redistribute that change,
you must make the modified source available.
You're confusing the ability to submit changes, often
touted as Open Source's strength, with the GPL requiring
in-house changes be submitted back, which is not the case.
Of course, IANAL.
All of the RX- line are rotaries, IIRC.
The RX-7 was very popular for a time, competing with Nissan's Z series.
The two cars were styled similarly.
Welcome to the....
What's with articles showing up from earlier times?
Remember that 14 some hour stretch without a post? The same thing happened.. the void got filled.
I tried to sit through it, and I *almost* got to the end... But it was just too cheezy, and I didn't get many chuckles out of it.
-- Shade
There are two other ways to check what's starting up. 'msconfig' from start > run is a good one, but I find it a cleaner solution to simply remove the entries from the registry.
e ntVersion/Run (and RunOnce)r entVersion/Run (and RunOnce etc..)
start > run: regedit and navigate to a couple of entries and subkeys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Curr
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Cur
You may also check for Windows NT subkeys instead of Windows.
Any time you do a repair by removing Spyware/Adware/Virus, make sure you disable system restore and then reenable it after you clean the virus -- you risk restoring back to the old 'infected point'.
-- Shade
"If Google combined this with publishing on demand, they could put every publisher in existence not only out of business, but do it while offering far better deals for the authors."
This is what authors are afriad of -- change from the status quo. I think it's a change for the better, but when you're talking about your livelihood, it's a scary thought to imagine -- the way you make your money is about to change drastically.
This looks like a cool new technology, but how useful can it be? I'm wondering how durable the 'film screen' is. Can I accidentally rip it, pulling it out of a pocket? I'm interested to see prototypes in other such designs, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how useful something like this may be.