I get them every once in a while, too. Hell, I'll be honest and say that I almost never metamoderate nor do I use the mod points typically. I'm not sure who keeps granting them to me, but they can be sure that I almost never used them.
Isn't that what engines such as Unreal are supposed to alleviate? A company does most of the hard work for you by making a physics engine, a texture and model format, etc.
It makes sense for Linux to fork into two branches: one, a conservative one, aimed at upkeeping what already works, and the second, a wild-ass anarchist, aimed at forging new and innovative technologies.
Cough...2.4 and 2.5? Wasn't there some reason why they don't do that anymore?
In California at least (probably other states too), highways/freeways (in cities, maybe elsewhere) have "emergency phones" dotting along the shoulder. I've never used one before, but there's a good chance you get an emergency operator. Hell, they probably even have the time.
I actually decided to perform my own test on this. I used iperf to record the bandwidth to my CentOS box, and ran Winamp, alternating between playing and not playing. I also tested with VLC playing and with both VLC and Winamp closed. I tested them several times, and I couldn't find any difference in network speed sans entropy. Through my tiny 100Mbit switch, I was getting roughly 44-60Mbits with nothing indicating a speed increase/decrease due to audio playing/not playing.
In MY experience, when SMART tells you a drive is dead or dying...it's already dead.
That is, if SMART even manages to add everything up in the first place.
I actually went to see the Transformers movie (I dislike most movies that show in theaters; I was dragged along by someone else), and I managed to get in, complete with my cell phone in the holster on my left, digital camera in my right holster, and a black backpack on my back with a laptop. None of the employees said anything about any of those. It wasn't exactly a big city theater, though, although it wasn't a small town theater either (I've been to both types).
Fry: Hey, I'm starting to get the hang of this game. The blerns are loaded, the count's three blerns and two anti-blerns and the infield blern rule is in effect, right? Leela: Except for the word 'blern' that was complete gibberish.
Really, it was great. I even submitted the Slackware 11 release story. I got turned to it right when 10 came out because I wanted to try Linux. The problem was, I got tired of spending hours configuring everything. For example, getting everything ACPI-related on my laptop was possible, but getting something like the lid to work was a real pain because I had to A) figure out what was wrong (which would entail finding people with similar problems usually with DISsimilar distros), B) find the necessary software to make it work, if applicable, and C) configure it, sometimes with trial and error, so that it did work. So, really getting nice, modern features working was sometimes unbearable. This is why I switched over to CentOS, at least for the time being: it's 100% RedHat compatible, and I get the ease of using a distro that's more or less popular. If something doesn't work, I get the benefit of help from either CentOS or RedHat (not to mention I can use RedHat and maybe Fedora packages, which can help for some obscure tools and proprietary packages like fglrx).
Slackware has a plus side, though: it's easy to diagnose problems manually. If there was a bad driver, for example, it would usually dump to dmesg or some other log, without any filtering. There also were next to no distro-specific software and settings to get in the way of problem solving. If you had a problem, it was solvable with generic instructions (e.g. RedHat does it this way and Gentoo that way, etc).
Now that 12's out with Xorg 11 7.1, I might pick it up for a bit again.
In 2001, when I bought an HP Pavilion through Best Buy, it came with six months of free MSN internet access. After that, we consented to paying (it was a better deal than PacBell at the time). Just my two cents.
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I get them every once in a while, too. Hell, I'll be honest and say that I almost never metamoderate nor do I use the mod points typically. I'm not sure who keeps granting them to me, but they can be sure that I almost never used them.
There was an exploit
and then it was fixed
slow news day
Which one?
Here's one!
Isn't that what engines such as Unreal are supposed to alleviate? A company does most of the hard work for you by making a physics engine, a texture and model format, etc.
This is actually a feature, not a bug (look under the SuperFetch section).
In California at least (probably other states too), highways/freeways (in cities, maybe elsewhere) have "emergency phones" dotting along the shoulder. I've never used one before, but there's a good chance you get an emergency operator. Hell, they probably even have the time.
I actually decided to perform my own test on this. I used iperf to record the bandwidth to my CentOS box, and ran Winamp, alternating between playing and not playing. I also tested with VLC playing and with both VLC and Winamp closed. I tested them several times, and I couldn't find any difference in network speed sans entropy. Through my tiny 100Mbit switch, I was getting roughly 44-60Mbits with nothing indicating a speed increase/decrease due to audio playing/not playing.
In MY experience, when SMART tells you a drive is dead or dying...it's already dead. That is, if SMART even manages to add everything up in the first place.
I actually went to see the Transformers movie (I dislike most movies that show in theaters; I was dragged along by someone else), and I managed to get in, complete with my cell phone in the holster on my left, digital camera in my right holster, and a black backpack on my back with a laptop. None of the employees said anything about any of those. It wasn't exactly a big city theater, though, although it wasn't a small town theater either (I've been to both types).
I guess, as they say, your mileage may vary.
...for the poor guy who said it wasn't a Cisco problem when he starts getting those Apple fanboy death threats.
This is probably why.
Is this some variant of "unknown unknowns?"
Oblig. Futurama:
Fry: Hey, I'm starting to get the hang of this game. The blerns are loaded, the count's three blerns and two anti-blerns and the infield blern rule is in effect, right?
Leela: Except for the word 'blern' that was complete gibberish.
Really, it was great. I even submitted the Slackware 11 release story. I got turned to it right when 10 came out because I wanted to try Linux. The problem was, I got tired of spending hours configuring everything. For example, getting everything ACPI-related on my laptop was possible, but getting something like the lid to work was a real pain because I had to A) figure out what was wrong (which would entail finding people with similar problems usually with DISsimilar distros), B) find the necessary software to make it work, if applicable, and C) configure it, sometimes with trial and error, so that it did work. So, really getting nice, modern features working was sometimes unbearable. This is why I switched over to CentOS, at least for the time being: it's 100% RedHat compatible, and I get the ease of using a distro that's more or less popular. If something doesn't work, I get the benefit of help from either CentOS or RedHat (not to mention I can use RedHat and maybe Fedora packages, which can help for some obscure tools and proprietary packages like fglrx).
Slackware has a plus side, though: it's easy to diagnose problems manually. If there was a bad driver, for example, it would usually dump to dmesg or some other log, without any filtering. There also were next to no distro-specific software and settings to get in the way of problem solving. If you had a problem, it was solvable with generic instructions (e.g. RedHat does it this way and Gentoo that way, etc).
Now that 12's out with Xorg 11 7.1, I might pick it up for a bit again.
That's been the case for years (see: bad third-party drivers on Windows XP). I don't see why it would change now.
http://toastytech.com/guis/winvistawin101.png
I guess it's a flat four then.
Don't forget the pixel salad (from TFA).
In 2001, when I bought an HP Pavilion through Best Buy, it came with six months of free MSN internet access. After that, we consented to paying (it was a better deal than PacBell at the time). Just my two cents.
Pointy-hair boss, is that you?