I'm using the ATI Remote Wonder on mine. Although I only know of Windows drivers, it's a VERY well designed remote.
I use my box to do 3 things.
First and foremost: Output a 480p signal from dvds to my hd set. The next fairly common thing I use it for is to play 192k mp3s through the 5.1 system (I'd prefer a higher bitrate, and/or wav files, but it's hard to get decent quality high bitrate files. I also use it occasionally to play Divx movies, but the quality just isn't that great.
The ATI remote lets me do all of these, and has a built in mouse, so there is no need for any other crap hanging off that box.
Very well written story, if a little strong on the sarcastic side. Quite entertaing as well. My collegue has a nuclear engineering background, and he thought it was hilarious.
It used to be a premier location to find out what's new in the world, and what kind of trend the computer industry was looking at. It's been probably 8-10 years since that was the case though.
It's at the point now where it's so large, and there is so little useful information to find there, that no one wants to go anymore. And now that they're selling all the information of anyone who attends, less people want to go, as who would pay to sign up for spam?
Exchange 5.5 compatibility. I haven't yet found a tool that will interface properly with it, so I'm forced to keep a Windows 2000 machine around to get email and calendar information on.
If we were using Exchange 2000, I could use Ximian Connector, but I've heard it doesn't work with 5.5, so I'm not going to spend the money to find out the hard way.
For taking down notes, it's not bad. But not for your normal computer interface, and especially not if you have to type a hell of a lot. Or need to type in half a dozen passwords. The room for error is too great. It's also pretty slow compared to a keyboard.
is the interface. Face it. A pen is not the easiest interface to a computer. Adding a keyboard takes up too much room, and using a virtual on-screen keyboard uses up too much desktop space.
Until there is an effective, easy to use interface, tablet PC's will never be more than niche items. I've seen them put to good use in warehouses, and retail stores, but Symbol is already a giant when it comes to those markets.
Plus, the main site is damn slow today. The link I'm on has about 14 mbs un-utilized, so the problem probably isn't on my side. I haven't hooked up the sniffer yet to see if we're getting tcp errors, but I'd expect Slashdot is just suffering.
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One warning about the ATI Tv Wonder VE. I have one, and the software that comes with it (ATI Multimedia Center) is old. This causes a problem with the Multimedia Center that comes with your Radeon. The Radeon versin is 7.5 I think, but the TV version is 5 something. Or close enough. I had numerous problems with these products trying to coexist. I basically got it to where I could watch tv on my computer, but the dvd features were disabled. I ended up just ditching the tv card, and buying a decent tv (Sony 36XBR800). I hooked a dvd player up to it, and now I don't need any of that stuff on my computer. Plus, the quality on the tv is FAR superior to what I used to get off of my computer. And the dvds look better too (besides displaying much larger).
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I've got a pair of 21" monitors on my desk, and it doesn't leave too much room for me. It can be annoying at times, but the extra 1900x1440 I get out of the second one is really nice.
The only way I can see getting 3 would be to swap out these tubes for flat panels, and arranging them in a semi-circle around my desk. I'd actually gain some space most likely, so maybe it'd be worth trying to convince the boss.
They tend to glow fairly brightly when they're in use. However, you may not want to put anything on them to color them, as you could trap the heat inside them, and cause them to shatter.
Now that I think about it though, it wouldn't look too bad to have some colored tubes in your box.
I was under the impression that they were for the audiophiles who want better sound. That sort doesn't use the onboard sound, no matter how good it may be. It's pointless to use them on a motherboard. If someone really cares enough about sound quality to use vacuum tubes, they'll have their own sound card to use.
Besides, they just look ugly. 3 big balls of glass sitting on your motherboard. And then when one blows, you'll have to replace it.
We had a clone/ripoff called New Word. It was actually a fairly useable application, but that was 10 years ago. It's scary that the Navy is using something like still. You'd think they would at least have upgraded to WordPerfect 5.1?
I really like this browser, but working themes would be nice. You can install them, but you can't ever get them to activate via the prefs menu.
Other than that, it's pretty useable. I'd still like to be able to pull up the Location window, instead of having to type in the drop down at the top. And I'd REALLY like to be able to disable that autocomplete. I hate that damn thing. And no, it's not from the pr0n sites that I'm hitting (work computer, no pr0n). I just find it annoying.
Are there any *reliable* kernel modules for Linux 2.2 that will let you use bfs as your filesystem? I heard of a development/test module, but I also heard that it was more in the toy stage then alpha/beta quality.
I really miss the fast, usable bfs from my old BeOS 4.5 box. I never really like 5.0, but 4.5 was awesome. It's unfortunate that they discontinued it, as with some support, it could easily have been wide spread desktop (probably around the popularity that the various BSD flavors are today).
I've never typed 'r' or 'u' or any of those other crap shortcuts. To me it's ugly, and painful to see. It's not very difficult to type at a fast enough pace to not need them. The only reason someone couldn't type reasonably fast after using a computer for a few months is if their other hand is occupied in self-gratification.
It doesn't just look like quake3... it IS quake3. Every single thing in the game, from the menus to the bots to the gameplay is quake3. The only difference is the detail of the textures. And with about 1.4gigs of textures on the release version, it's a bit higher detail than quake3. But it feels absolutely identical to quake3.
I've been playing the full release for sometime now ( helps to have friends at epic;D ), and I'm extremely disappointed. When UT came out, it looked and played so well, that I was hoping this release would be the same. Instead, they removed the Assault game type (my favorite), and added in the Bombing Run. Unfortunately, Bombing Run is entertaining, but it requires far more teamwork than you'll find on your typical public server. With Assault, you could win even if your team didn't know what to do, because all they had to do was frag. Bombing Run is like the vip maps in Counter-Strike. And without a lot of teamwork, you'll lose everytime.
Altough the game has pretty graphics, it's just not fun. Unless you loved the way Quake3 felt and played, don't bother downloading this.
Who knows maybe people buy blizzard games because they always have such a sick amount of cheats.
hehe, that wouldn't surprise a bit. From what I've seen in the two games of theirs I've played (Starcraft and Diablo 2), they seem to have more cheats than the normal couple that any game has.
just login to battle.net with the Diablo 2 Expansion. During the 9 months or so that it has been out, there have been several dozen major hacks, including several spree's of item duplicating (duping). Because of the widespread duping, the online economy is hosed, and you can often trade for one of the really nice items, only to have it disappear next time you join a game. There is still a bug utilizing the druid, whereby you cause all players within a small radius of your character to drop from the game. Unfortunately, they remain in the game for a few seconds after they drop, allowing you to easily kill them (this has been around for 6+ months). There is a map exploit out that gives you the full map, and shows all players and monsters on the map. It also removes darkness, and let's you see through walls. For a time, there was a bug that allowed one to raise their skills to unlimited levels. This would allow paladins to have auras extending for thousand's of yards, and doing damage in the hundred of thousands. Sorcs were similar. Some spells would have the same mana cost for each level, so at level 1, you might only do 5-10 damage, but at level 2039, you could do 29920-1929302020999302.12993891 damage (*slight* exaggeration).
And yet, Blizzard responds very slowly to reports of exploits, and does very little to those that do cheat. Recently, they banned some accounts, but that was a one time occurance, and it probably won't happen again. Part of the problem, is that the code base has grown so large, that the programmers can't review all their code, and QA can't test everything. Some of the fan websites list a number of the known bugs, yet they never get fixed. One of the bugs even makes it so that Barbarians always do double damage. This one has been known about since the last patch back in September, yet nothing has been done about it.
If you managed to read your way through this long rambling thing, I thank you.
Of course, at the time it was 4 man Doom matches, and we only had 12 computers, but yes, some other schools do this. They weren't promoted or anything, but if you came to the computer lab during the week leading up to it, the lab instructor would tell you about it.
So you didn't have a choice? You were forced to go out and buy the $50US Microsoft IntelliMouse?
I know that I was allowed to pick from all mice availiable at the store, and I chose a Logitech. There were 5 different Microsoft mice there. And I didn't see anyone forcing anyone to buy a certain type of mouse.
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It looks like Bell pulled the article, because it's not there anymore. (Or the editor didn't check the link when he posted...)
Sure, hires pics are nice, but what about the server? Those suckers should be compressed down to 640x480 or so, just to spare the poor server. :D
I'm using the ATI Remote Wonder on mine. Although I only know of Windows drivers, it's a VERY well designed remote.
I use my box to do 3 things.
First and foremost: Output a 480p signal from dvds to my hd set.
The next fairly common thing I use it for is to play 192k mp3s through the 5.1 system (I'd prefer a higher bitrate, and/or wav files, but it's hard to get decent quality high bitrate files.
I also use it occasionally to play Divx movies, but the quality just isn't that great.
The ATI remote lets me do all of these, and has a built in mouse, so there is no need for any other crap hanging off that box.
Very well written story, if a little strong on the sarcastic side. Quite entertaing as well. My collegue has a nuclear engineering background, and he thought it was hilarious.
It's sad that its so true though.
So is buying votes... it's called a special interest group, and campaign contributions.
It used to be a premier location to find out what's new in the world, and what kind of trend the computer industry was looking at. It's been probably 8-10 years since that was the case though.
It's at the point now where it's so large, and there is so little useful information to find there, that no one wants to go anymore. And now that they're selling all the information of anyone who attends, less people want to go, as who would pay to sign up for spam?
Exchange 5.5 compatibility. I haven't yet found a tool that will interface properly with it, so I'm forced to keep a Windows 2000 machine around to get email and calendar information on.
If we were using Exchange 2000, I could use Ximian Connector, but I've heard it doesn't work with 5.5, so I'm not going to spend the money to find out the hard way.
For taking down notes, it's not bad. But not for your normal computer interface, and especially not if you have to type a hell of a lot. Or need to type in half a dozen passwords. The room for error is too great. It's also pretty slow compared to a keyboard.
is the interface. Face it. A pen is not the easiest interface to a computer. Adding a keyboard takes up too much room, and using a virtual on-screen keyboard uses up too much desktop space.
Until there is an effective, easy to use interface, tablet PC's will never be more than niche items. I've seen them put to good use in warehouses, and retail stores, but Symbol is already a giant when it comes to those markets.
Plus, the main site is damn slow today. The link I'm on has about 14 mbs un-utilized, so the problem probably isn't on my side. I haven't hooked up the sniffer yet to see if we're getting tcp errors, but I'd expect Slashdot is just suffering.
One warning about the ATI Tv Wonder VE. I have one, and the software that comes with it (ATI Multimedia Center) is old. This causes a problem with the Multimedia Center that comes with your Radeon. The Radeon versin is 7.5 I think, but the TV version is 5 something. Or close enough. I had numerous problems with these products trying to coexist. I basically got it to where I could watch tv on my computer, but the dvd features were disabled. I ended up just ditching the tv card, and buying a decent tv (Sony 36XBR800). I hooked a dvd player up to it, and now I don't need any of that stuff on my computer. Plus, the quality on the tv is FAR superior to what I used to get off of my computer. And the dvds look better too (besides displaying much larger).
I've got a pair of 21" monitors on my desk, and it doesn't leave too much room for me. It can be annoying at times, but the extra 1900x1440 I get out of the second one is really nice.
The only way I can see getting 3 would be to swap out these tubes for flat panels, and arranging them in a semi-circle around my desk. I'd actually gain some space most likely, so maybe it'd be worth trying to convince the boss.
They tend to glow fairly brightly when they're in use. However, you may not want to put anything on them to color them, as you could trap the heat inside them, and cause them to shatter.
Now that I think about it though, it wouldn't look too bad to have some colored tubes in your box.
I was under the impression that they were for the audiophiles who want better sound. That sort doesn't use the onboard sound, no matter how good it may be. It's pointless to use them on a motherboard. If someone really cares enough about sound quality to use vacuum tubes, they'll have their own sound card to use.
Besides, they just look ugly. 3 big balls of glass sitting on your motherboard. And then when one blows, you'll have to replace it.
Take the damn things off please!
We had a clone/ripoff called New Word. It was actually a fairly useable application, but that was 10 years ago. It's scary that the Navy is using something like still. You'd think they would at least have upgraded to WordPerfect 5.1?
I really like this browser, but working themes would be nice. You can install them, but you can't ever get them to activate via the prefs menu.
Other than that, it's pretty useable. I'd still like to be able to pull up the Location window, instead of having to type in the drop down at the top. And I'd REALLY like to be able to disable that autocomplete. I hate that damn thing. And no, it's not from the pr0n sites that I'm hitting (work computer, no pr0n). I just find it annoying.
Are there any *reliable* kernel modules for Linux 2.2 that will let you use bfs as your filesystem? I heard of a development/test module, but I also heard that it was more in the toy stage then alpha/beta quality.
I really miss the fast, usable bfs from my old BeOS 4.5 box. I never really like 5.0, but 4.5 was awesome. It's unfortunate that they discontinued it, as with some support, it could easily have been wide spread desktop (probably around the popularity that the various BSD flavors are today).
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All I got was a month in jail, and a 5k fine. Easily taken care of.
I've never typed 'r' or 'u' or any of those other crap shortcuts. To me it's ugly, and painful to see. It's not very difficult to type at a fast enough pace to not need them. The only reason someone couldn't type reasonably fast after using a computer for a few months is if their other hand is occupied in self-gratification.
It doesn't just look like quake3... it IS quake3. Every single thing in the game, from the menus to the bots to the gameplay is quake3. The only difference is the detail of the textures. And with about 1.4gigs of textures on the release version, it's a bit higher detail than quake3. But it feels absolutely identical to quake3.
;D ), and I'm extremely disappointed. When UT came out, it looked and played so well, that I was hoping this release would be the same. Instead, they removed the Assault game type (my favorite), and added in the Bombing Run. Unfortunately, Bombing Run is entertaining, but it requires far more teamwork than you'll find on your typical public server. With Assault, you could win even if your team didn't know what to do, because all they had to do was frag. Bombing Run is like the vip maps in Counter-Strike. And without a lot of teamwork, you'll lose everytime.
I've been playing the full release for sometime now ( helps to have friends at epic
Altough the game has pretty graphics, it's just not fun. Unless you loved the way Quake3 felt and played, don't bother downloading this.
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Of course, I also know people who say RealAudio sounds better than MP3.
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I hope you're joking here... I can't imagine that anyone would think that RealAudio sounds good at all, let alone better than a 128kbps+ MP3 file.
Who knows maybe people buy blizzard games because they always have such a sick amount of cheats.
hehe, that wouldn't surprise a bit. From what I've seen in the two games of theirs I've played (Starcraft and Diablo 2), they seem to have more cheats than the normal couple that any game has.
just login to battle.net with the Diablo 2 Expansion. During the 9 months or so that it has been out, there have been several dozen major hacks, including several spree's of item duplicating (duping). Because of the widespread duping, the online economy is hosed, and you can often trade for one of the really nice items, only to have it disappear next time you join a game. There is still a bug utilizing the druid, whereby you cause all players within a small radius of your character to drop from the game. Unfortunately, they remain in the game for a few seconds after they drop, allowing you to easily kill them (this has been around for 6+ months). There is a map exploit out that gives you the full map, and shows all players and monsters on the map. It also removes darkness, and let's you see through walls. For a time, there was a bug that allowed one to raise their skills to unlimited levels. This would allow paladins to have auras extending for thousand's of yards, and doing damage in the hundred of thousands. Sorcs were similar. Some spells would have the same mana cost for each level, so at level 1, you might only do 5-10 damage, but at level 2039, you could do 29920-1929302020999302.12993891 damage (*slight* exaggeration).
And yet, Blizzard responds very slowly to reports of exploits, and does very little to those that do cheat. Recently, they banned some accounts, but that was a one time occurance, and it probably won't happen again. Part of the problem, is that the code base has grown so large, that the programmers can't review all their code, and QA can't test everything. Some of the fan websites list a number of the known bugs, yet they never get fixed. One of the bugs even makes it so that Barbarians always do double damage. This one has been known about since the last patch back in September, yet nothing has been done about it.
If you managed to read your way through this long rambling thing, I thank you.
Of course, at the time it was 4 man Doom matches, and we only had 12 computers, but yes, some other schools do this. They weren't promoted or anything, but if you came to the computer lab during the week leading up to it, the lab instructor would tell you about it.
So you didn't have a choice? You were forced to go out and buy the $50US Microsoft IntelliMouse?
I know that I was allowed to pick from all mice availiable at the store, and I chose a Logitech. There were 5 different Microsoft mice there. And I didn't see anyone forcing anyone to buy a certain type of mouse.