The major brand of the wifi card doesn't matter the chipset does. Major brands of chipsets are like ralink, atheros, and broadcom. Ralink and Atheros have decent linux support and broadcom has less so. For the record, if your have a centrino laptop, you have a built in intel wifi chipset which uses a binary blob for drivers, giving similar performance in debian as in windows (not speaking for all linux).
If I recall correctly, all 3 of those networking brands use broadcom, in addition to atheros and ralink, (prism too), but it is possible that each time you bought a new wifi card, you could have gotten the same brand or even chipset inside.
Debian lenny has wireless networking that "just works" for me (after going through the unstable lenny it would often work and then not work based on updates). It looks like ubuntu missed the boat on the latest update that makes it work just fine.
Regular Slashdot Readers The scripts track average accesses from each logged-in user. It then selects eligible users who read an average number of times. The homepage doesn't count either. It then picks users from the middle of the pack- no obsessive compulsive reloaders, and nobody who just happened to read an article this week.
A good OS might use more overhead predicting what the user wants to do. So the throughput may be lower because its trying to anticipate 20 separate actions, but the response time should be much lower because it has all those things ready. All in all, a user may not care about a process that always takes 30 seconds vs 35 seconds, but if you click something, and something happens immediately, they're gonna see that. Hopefully though, the hardware should have speed up to compensate for the loss in throughput due to the pre-emptive measures.
How often do you check the site? They pull mods from the pool of people with excellent karma, do some meta moderations (where you mod other people's mods) and only check the site like 2-6 times a day.
You can tell you're at perfect karma when you get 15 mod points (maybe more) but after I have a string of good posts, good mods (yes, your mods will be meta moderated) and slip cowboyneal a $20, it'll give me 15 mod points like every 3 days. I think that perfect karma might be 20 mod points or 15 mod points like every other day.
Of course I refuse to RTFA, but the summary isn't clear. Right now, if I want to undergo treatment that involves adult stem cells harvested from me, to be re-injected from me, I might have to wait 5 years. However, what is not clear is whether it will take 5 years to approve the process such that in 6 years, it might take 2 weeks, or will it take 5 years in 10 years when(if) this process is well understood and old hat?
Ok, Its official. The chairs thing is officially in critical condition. If I were to make a comment about how Ballmer has tennis/chair elbow that het got from smacking chair joke with thrown chairs into the hospital, it would officially kill the joke. You're lucky I'm more considerate than that.
Please, think of the memes and don't over-use them. Look at what you people did to the "But does it run Linux?" joke? Its rocking back and forth in a padded room, chanting "No more me-too's".
As for the topic at hand, I think that at this point in time, Apple releasing a gaming console would make as much brand sense as IBM releasing an IBM branded gaming console. However, if they integrated console gaming capabilities as a secondary feature onto a media center, they might do so later.
I'm trying to think of what the word would be, but I can't come up with a word to mean "I have free pizza and the entire star trek series recorded on VHS tapes in my apartment."
I bet that there's something in klingon or lojban to embody the nerd's mating call...
At least in Florida, my electrical engineering degree + a test is good enough to get me a temp certificate (good for 3 years while I go to teaching theory classes) in any subject I wish. My wife is a teacher and has a poli-sci degree, but I get the feeling that she isn't getting much out of the classes beyond a permanent certificate, much less a political indoctrination.
Test scores started dropping when they said you couldn't beat students in class anymore.
after #3. MyDoom, there's no jump, no next page, just the copy right notice, am i missing something?
Anywho, these viruses remind me of a kinder, gentler time when lemonade was real and the danger wasn't, when we had to boot our machines up hill, both ways in the snow, and yada yada yada. Good piece of nostalgia, but I'd be interested to see #2 and #1.
See, that's the argument that I never quite got my mind around. Mod me flame bait, but I've got karma to burn. Lets discuss the "i own it so it should do what i want it to" argument. (Disclaimer: and again, I use adblock and the like)
You own your tv and pay the electricity, pay for satellite/cable if you have it (often the costs may be the same depending on your setup, $600 for a big screen tv or laptop, $50 a month for digital cable or cable internet). If you tivo it, cpu cycles and hard drive space goes into storing/fast forwarding past those commercials. What about those advertising bugs that clutter the video during the show? Do you change the channel then?
If a book had ads on every other page, you probably wouldn't read it, but people rarely have any problem with ads on every other page of a magazine (Even when you can get some books for $7 and some magazines for $7). What do you do when/if you read magazines?
I run adblock with filterset and all that good stuff. But I'm going to play devils advocate here. Something about the tone of your post makes me feel like I need to ask this question: If you feel entitled to read someone's content, why do you feel entitled to read it without ads? While I agree that most flash/gif ads are obnoxious, they spent time creating the content and money on hosting it for your consumption, that's not exactly information wanting to be free.
I used to read a website where behind the banners, the author had a simple text graphic worked into the background with text along the lines of "If you can read this, you are hurting my ability to pay for the hosting of this site". Granted he ran punch the monkey type ads for the 10 minutes I white listed him, but it doesn't feel right to be able to be entitled to read everything on the net without ads.
I realize that ads can bring scams, drive by installs, monkey punching, and malicious behavior, and that should be blocked, but I don't see the problem that people have with the simple applied text based concept embodied by google ads (well, I won't when google steps up and removes scams and malware type ads from their advert list).
The only place where i've heard about the atari 2600's pac man has been on like the top 10 lists of terrible games or worst games of all time or whatever because it so wasn't the arcade version.
The only thing I was wondering was where could I play the emulated games?
I've seen treos where the keypads went before the touch screen, at least on HTC made phones (like the treo 750 and 755) the touch screen might not be the first point of failure. That being said, I can type text on the physical qwerty button much much faster than I've ever seen anybody correctly enter text into an iphone. (PS, no, I do not use the shortened text-speak that's so popular in text messages and those damn phone commercials)
I posted earlier about how Geocities was the early web 2.0 in practice, where anybody could post anything and contribute to the community. I'm sure that there is a wealth of information on geocities about obscure topics that *Might* come in handy if you were to let your true inner geek reign supreme. I.E. I have bios roms of early mac's that I found on Geocities sites that couldn't be found anywhere else, and I'm sure that if they were posted nowadays, they would be subject to lawsuits or take-down notices by Apple.
I think that our generation will leave less of a mark than that which came before it because nobody is writing on paper. Geocities is the closest thing that we have to shoe-boxes full of letters and diaries for the period spanning the late 90's (In the form of websites about star trek and software and pointless articles posted by ambitious young proto-webdesigners). In the future, there will be a similar scramble to preserve facebook and myspace to preserve correspondence for future generations.
Will you need a firewall or AV for a virtual machine that is fairly isolated from the outside world, doesn't browse the internet, and don't open email?
Don't forget about hunger, homelessness, poverty, animal abuse, disease, insurance, and a myriad of other issues, but those aren't NEARLY as much fun to over-react to:( Or react to in general...
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The major brand of the wifi card doesn't matter the chipset does. Major brands of chipsets are like ralink, atheros, and broadcom. Ralink and Atheros have decent linux support and broadcom has less so. For the record, if your have a centrino laptop, you have a built in intel wifi chipset which uses a binary blob for drivers, giving similar performance in debian as in windows (not speaking for all linux).
If I recall correctly, all 3 of those networking brands use broadcom, in addition to atheros and ralink, (prism too), but it is possible that each time you bought a new wifi card, you could have gotten the same brand or even chipset inside.
Debian lenny has wireless networking that "just works" for me (after going through the unstable lenny it would often work and then not work based on updates). It looks like ubuntu missed the boat on the latest update that makes it work just fine.
Regular Slashdot Readers The scripts track average accesses from each logged-in user. It then selects eligible users who read an average number of times. The homepage doesn't count either. It then picks users from the middle of the pack- no obsessive compulsive reloaders, and nobody who just happened to read an article this week.
there's a faq
A good OS might use more overhead predicting what the user wants to do. So the throughput may be lower because its trying to anticipate 20 separate actions, but the response time should be much lower because it has all those things ready. All in all, a user may not care about a process that always takes 30 seconds vs 35 seconds, but if you click something, and something happens immediately, they're gonna see that. Hopefully though, the hardware should have speed up to compensate for the loss in throughput due to the pre-emptive measures.
How often do you check the site? They pull mods from the pool of people with excellent karma, do some meta moderations (where you mod other people's mods) and only check the site like 2-6 times a day.
You can tell you're at perfect karma when you get 15 mod points (maybe more) but after I have a string of good posts, good mods (yes, your mods will be meta moderated) and slip cowboyneal a $20, it'll give me 15 mod points like every 3 days. I think that perfect karma might be 20 mod points or 15 mod points like every other day.
Of course I refuse to RTFA, but the summary isn't clear. Right now, if I want to undergo treatment that involves adult stem cells harvested from me, to be re-injected from me, I might have to wait 5 years. However, what is not clear is whether it will take 5 years to approve the process such that in 6 years, it might take 2 weeks, or will it take 5 years in 10 years when(if) this process is well understood and old hat?
no, this sounds like "The plural of anecdote is not..." Yeah, forget it.
Ok, Its official. The chairs thing is officially in critical condition. If I were to make a comment about how Ballmer has tennis/chair elbow that het got from smacking chair joke with thrown chairs into the hospital, it would officially kill the joke. You're lucky I'm more considerate than that.
Please, think of the memes and don't over-use them. Look at what you people did to the "But does it run Linux?" joke? Its rocking back and forth in a padded room, chanting "No more me-too's".
As for the topic at hand, I think that at this point in time, Apple releasing a gaming console would make as much brand sense as IBM releasing an IBM branded gaming console. However, if they integrated console gaming capabilities as a secondary feature onto a media center, they might do so later.
their nitrogen rich poo will burn out the gas if you let them park too long. And they will eat on occasional grass clipping.
it does have a fuel nipple, and you can milk anything with a nipple.
watch dog protocols.
I'm trying to think of what the word would be, but I can't come up with a word to mean "I have free pizza and the entire star trek series recorded on VHS tapes in my apartment."
I bet that there's something in klingon or lojban to embody the nerd's mating call...
At least in Florida, my electrical engineering degree + a test is good enough to get me a temp certificate (good for 3 years while I go to teaching theory classes) in any subject I wish. My wife is a teacher and has a poli-sci degree, but I get the feeling that she isn't getting much out of the classes beyond a permanent certificate, much less a political indoctrination.
Test scores started dropping when they said you couldn't beat students in class anymore.
after #3. MyDoom, there's no jump, no next page, just the copy right notice, am i missing something?
Anywho, these viruses remind me of a kinder, gentler time when lemonade was real and the danger wasn't, when we had to boot our machines up hill, both ways in the snow, and yada yada yada. Good piece of nostalgia, but I'd be interested to see #2 and #1.
See, that's the argument that I never quite got my mind around. Mod me flame bait, but I've got karma to burn. Lets discuss the "i own it so it should do what i want it to" argument. (Disclaimer: and again, I use adblock and the like)
You own your tv and pay the electricity, pay for satellite/cable if you have it (often the costs may be the same depending on your setup, $600 for a big screen tv or laptop, $50 a month for digital cable or cable internet). If you tivo it, cpu cycles and hard drive space goes into storing/fast forwarding past those commercials. What about those advertising bugs that clutter the video during the show? Do you change the channel then?
If a book had ads on every other page, you probably wouldn't read it, but people rarely have any problem with ads on every other page of a magazine (Even when you can get some books for $7 and some magazines for $7). What do you do when/if you read magazines?
I run adblock with filterset and all that good stuff. But I'm going to play devils advocate here. Something about the tone of your post makes me feel like I need to ask this question: If you feel entitled to read someone's content, why do you feel entitled to read it without ads? While I agree that most flash/gif ads are obnoxious, they spent time creating the content and money on hosting it for your consumption, that's not exactly information wanting to be free.
I used to read a website where behind the banners, the author had a simple text graphic worked into the background with text along the lines of "If you can read this, you are hurting my ability to pay for the hosting of this site". Granted he ran punch the monkey type ads for the 10 minutes I white listed him, but it doesn't feel right to be able to be entitled to read everything on the net without ads.
I realize that ads can bring scams, drive by installs, monkey punching, and malicious behavior, and that should be blocked, but I don't see the problem that people have with the simple applied text based concept embodied by google ads (well, I won't when google steps up and removes scams and malware type ads from their advert list).
The only place where i've heard about the atari 2600's pac man has been on like the top 10 lists of terrible games or worst games of all time or whatever because it so wasn't the arcade version.
The only thing I was wondering was where could I play the emulated games?
I've seen treos where the keypads went before the touch screen, at least on HTC made phones (like the treo 750 and 755) the touch screen might not be the first point of failure. That being said, I can type text on the physical qwerty button much much faster than I've ever seen anybody correctly enter text into an iphone. (PS, no, I do not use the shortened text-speak that's so popular in text messages and those damn phone commercials)
No
I posted earlier about how Geocities was the early web 2.0 in practice, where anybody could post anything and contribute to the community. I'm sure that there is a wealth of information on geocities about obscure topics that *Might* come in handy if you were to let your true inner geek reign supreme. I.E. I have bios roms of early mac's that I found on Geocities sites that couldn't be found anywhere else, and I'm sure that if they were posted nowadays, they would be subject to lawsuits or take-down notices by Apple.
I think that our generation will leave less of a mark than that which came before it because nobody is writing on paper. Geocities is the closest thing that we have to shoe-boxes full of letters and diaries for the period spanning the late 90's (In the form of websites about star trek and software and pointless articles posted by ambitious young proto-webdesigners). In the future, there will be a similar scramble to preserve facebook and myspace to preserve correspondence for future generations.
Will you need a firewall or AV for a virtual machine that is fairly isolated from the outside world, doesn't browse the internet, and don't open email?
Don't forget about hunger, homelessness, poverty, animal abuse, disease, insurance, and a myriad of other issues, but those aren't NEARLY as much fun to over-react to :( Or react to in general...
Yeah, seconded. WMP11 streams to ps3 without reg files, or any of the hoops described by the summary. It feels like the snuggie commercial... Are mundane tasks like answering the phone now impossibly difficult?
US Certified has barcodes and requires a signature, but it costs 3x the cost of a first class stamp.