The best part of wireless mice: the batteries. Why? batteries are HEAVY. Now you've got this mouse that has actual mass. Trust me, it's really cool. I'm not quite sure why, but heavy mice just feel better.
I'm writing this from behind a 486 firewall on a DSL connection. There is no appreciable speed decrease when you go through a firewall of this type. In fact, I've discovered that a 486 firewall has no problem saturating a 10 Mbps ethernet connection. Remember, ethernet is something like 3 times faster than cable.
I would, however, make sure the firewall has at least 32 megs of memory (as yours does). Linux (and other modern OS's in general) are very memory-hungry and slow down greatly when starved of it.
hello, everyone, from indianapolis. Most of the year, I'm a student up the road at Purdue, so I was as suprised as everyone else to hear about mayor Bart Peterson's plan to restrict violent video games. However, after reviewing some facts, it's become pretty obvious to me that this new ordinance is not intended to save our children from the evils of mass media, but to shift focus from our mayor's lack of action.
The simple fact of the matter is that in the seven months of Peterson's term, this is the first law he has seen put into action. Oh, and be assured that during his campaign there were many promises of action. This boils down to a politician trying to dazzle the public's attention by cracking down on those with no rights: our children.
Sounds like these guys are doing the same sort of thing as the folks at SRS labs. I bought a WOW box, a little dealie that goes between the sound card and speakers. It "rebuilds" high-end frequencies, just like the Kenwood guys claim. The sound is much fuller.
The best features of the thing, however, are the TruBass(tm)(R)(C) knob which makes the sound much deeper without distortion on plain speakers, as well as good old SRS stereo enhancement.
Wow, i shound like an advertisement. anyway, www.wowthing.com - they have a plugin for winamp that works almost as well as the hardware.
Dude!! I'm sorry, but the first movie sucked ass, royally. I know it's hard to quantify something like suck ass, but I assure you that everyone I've interviewed agreed with me.
Wine does not *require* windows DLLs. It can load them for their native architecture (intel) if the application requires it. It also implements the windows API itself. Basically, if the program requires an external DLL, wine will load it. If it sticks to plain API calls (or the windows dlls the wine people have finished porting) it runs natively.
Since they're calling it a native version, I bet it's the latter.
Octave is a GPL numerical computation tool that is like MATLAB, but better.:-) Most scripts that don't rely on commercial matlab toolkits run fine right out of the box.
Of course, the symbolic toolkit that comes with matlab is probably what you're looking for. Perhaps we should work on creating a symbolic toolkit for Octave? Perhaps someone already has? Stay tuned!
I'm not sure if anyone's mentioned it, but my favorite use for ssh's arbitrary port forwarding is setting up secure X connections. It's a fast, easy, secure way to use all my cool graphical applications while diddling away on the SPARCs in lab. It's also the easiest way I can find to get remote X sessions to tunnel through a masquerading firewall.
The punchline: When srp can automatically do secure X, it'll be ready to replace ssh.
oh god i'm so hungry right now. i WANT one of those indian-flavored ones. mango chutney... mmm... flavor.
(i live in a dorm... if it ain't boiled to death, we don't eat it. or fried. broccoli kind of loses its health-fu when you boil it until it's no longer green, dude.)
the fun part is that the "code-morphing software" is supposed to be self-optimizing. It caches frequently used instructions, performing them faster the next time they come up. So, if the crusoe works in any way at all similar to transmeta's claims, the chip will improve its performance for every opertating system you throw at it.
i like the dvd demonstration... when you first start MPEG decoding, processsor utilization is high, but then if falls down to a stable equlibrium after a few seconds. this is real-life useful.
hey, anybody remember XUL? the whole point is that the user-interface is completely extensible and customizable. i believe anyone with a modicum of programming skill can produce their own "branded" version.
Wow, people... cut the guy some slack! If every writer out there would take a stand for what (s)he believes in and write about the issues as (s)he sees it, the media and the world would be a better place. We should appreciate that our community is diverse enough to entertain all sorts of opinions; why have a community if it were not so?
And I wish some people would _read_ the article before posting their anti-Katz rhetoric. All the reflex-flaming just strengthens some of the old boy's points.
This article seems rather timely to me; I took a few minutes last night/this morning to bring my personal web page "up to code" as they say. It's not hard to do at all.
I found a cool automated website checker that looks for things that will hinder a site's accessibility. Go to www.cast.org/bobby and run your site through it. If you've written valid HTML 4.0, you won't have much work to do. If not.... heh.
these books, quite simply, kick some mondo butt. startide is especially exciting, can't put the thing down. (I think they're making it into a movie, let's hope it doesn't go the way of The Postman.)
the second trilogy was really cool, too, although definitely not an easy undertaking. I ended up reading all 2000+ pages in a few days, i was so addicted.
Lots of stuff by David Brin is really good... He has an interesting view of our world.
We have to take a serious look at the state of creating games for linux right now: it's too durned tough. Development studios hire outside firms to create ports for them instead of handling the thing internally. Why? In my opinion, it's the lack of an easy, comprehensive, high-performance game programming interface.
I am of course referring to the lack of a DirectX for linux. Before you flame me into the stone age, think a minute. With its DirectDraw, Sound, Input and 3D, MS has all the bases covered for small-to-medium developers who don't have the resources to develop their own hardware layers.
What is available for linux? Mesa and OpenGL are a great start, but they intentionally neglect user input for the sake of portability. Sound and joysticks are supported in the kernel... is that good enough? (I'm not a real developer).
So what's the solution? Should we wait for (better yet, join in with) the WINE people to complete their DirectX libraries? Should we make a linux-native game interface? i leave this as an excercise for the reader.:-)
Everything in the docs for quake3 implys that you *need* some form of hardware acceleration to even run the game at all. Mesa lets you get around that, but at what a cost!
Anyway, if you check Transmeta's circuit diagrams, a large part of the chip is blocked off a "Floating Point / Graphics Unit." True, the chip has a rockin' 128-bit core, but I doubt that it could handle the general loating-point calculations needed for transform and lighting as well as the rest of the 3d pipeline normally handled in the accelerator card (read fillrate).
Although if they're powering digital LCDs they don't need massive, hot, expensive 350 MHz RAMDACs...
how can you say transmeta is not driven by their marketing department? This secrecy has been the marketer's dream... everyone in the technosphere has been debating their merits endlessly. People have attributed to them everything from an Athlon-killer to a giant reality-altering abacus.
That's exactly what chipmakers do: they design a chip and then ramp the frequency up until "she can't take much more 'o this." Then it's time to design a new core: more efficient, smaller die, something like that. Coppermine, anyone?
This is also the reason that a good old Celeron-300 is the hottest chip intel ever made. That's the highest that manufacturing technique could go. It's pretty high too, you can cook meat on that puppy!
I still think it's cool how after hours of operation, my PIII-500 is much cooler than the voodoo3 main chip.
See, the problem with your observation is that these two schools of thought you speak of are _not_ mutually exclusive. It is quite possible to use KVidGen to get a set of usable modelines for your monitor and then "tweak" the refresh rates by hand later in your XF86Config file.
It doesn't seem like a tradeoff at all. In fact, it seems like the best of both worlds.
In the article, Ms. Skeddle observes that computers are nearing the point of sentience, artificial intelligence, if you will.
If such progress continues, Ms. Skeddle wonders, will computers need some type of moral structure?
We already have a framework for artificial morality!/. readers may be familiar with the works of Isaac Asimov. Disgusted with the state of science fiction and its visions of "killer robots," Asimov had the audacity to propose a world of benign robots working for the betterment of humanity. How did he insure this? With the Three Laws of Robotics, of course:
THE THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Law.
These laws sure seem reasonable enough and held up well in fiction; perhaps the prescient author's theories would do well in practice?
I may be missing the boat here, but I thought DVD drives weren't supported by linux. I mean, I'm using one right now, but Linux thinks it's a plain old ATAPI CD-ROM. I assume that the proverbial "bad things" will happen if i try to read a DVD-ROM. . .
Wouldn't make much sense to distribute an OS on a medium the OS can't use, would it?
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The best part of wireless mice: the batteries. Why? batteries are HEAVY. Now you've got this mouse that has actual mass. Trust me, it's really cool. I'm not quite sure why, but heavy mice just feel better.
I'm writing this from behind a 486 firewall on a DSL connection. There is no appreciable speed decrease when you go through a firewall of this type. In fact, I've discovered that a 486 firewall has no problem saturating a 10 Mbps ethernet connection. Remember, ethernet is something like 3 times faster than cable.
I would, however, make sure the firewall has at least 32 megs of memory (as yours does). Linux (and other modern OS's in general) are very memory-hungry and slow down greatly when starved of it.
hello, everyone, from indianapolis. Most of the year, I'm a student up the road at Purdue, so I was as suprised as everyone else to hear about mayor Bart Peterson's plan to restrict violent video games. However, after reviewing some facts, it's become pretty obvious to me that this new ordinance is not intended to save our children from the evils of mass media, but to shift focus from our mayor's lack of action.
The simple fact of the matter is that in the seven months of Peterson's term, this is the first law he has seen put into action. Oh, and be assured that during his campaign there were many promises of action. This boils down to a politician trying to dazzle the public's attention by cracking down on those with no rights: our children.
that's all i got tonight.
Sounds like these guys are doing the same sort of thing as the folks at SRS labs. I bought a WOW box, a little dealie that goes between the sound card and speakers. It "rebuilds" high-end frequencies, just like the Kenwood guys claim. The sound is much fuller.
The best features of the thing, however, are the TruBass(tm)(R)(C) knob which makes the sound much deeper without distortion on plain speakers, as well as good old SRS stereo enhancement.
Wow, i shound like an advertisement. anyway, www.wowthing.com - they have a plugin for winamp that works almost as well as the hardware.
Dude!! I'm sorry, but the first movie sucked ass, royally. I know it's hard to quantify something like suck ass, but I assure you that everyone I've interviewed agreed with me.
sucked ass.
Wine does not *require* windows DLLs. It can load them for their native architecture (intel) if the application requires it. It also implements the windows API itself. Basically, if the program requires an external DLL, wine will load it. If it sticks to plain API calls (or the windows dlls the wine people have finished porting) it runs natively.
Since they're calling it a native version, I bet it's the latter.
Octave is a GPL numerical computation tool that is like MATLAB, but better. :-) Most scripts that don't rely on commercial matlab toolkits run fine right out of the box.
Of course, the symbolic toolkit that comes with matlab is probably what you're looking for. Perhaps we should work on creating a symbolic toolkit for Octave? Perhaps someone already has? Stay tuned!
I'm not sure if anyone's mentioned it, but my favorite use for ssh's arbitrary port forwarding is setting up secure X connections. It's a fast, easy, secure way to use all my cool graphical applications while diddling away on the SPARCs in lab. It's also the easiest way I can find to get remote X sessions to tunnel through a masquerading firewall.
The punchline: When srp can automatically do secure X, it'll be ready to replace ssh.
oh god i'm so hungry right now. i WANT one of those indian-flavored ones. mango chutney... mmm... flavor.
(i live in a dorm... if it ain't boiled to death, we don't eat it. or fried. broccoli kind of loses its health-fu when you boil it until it's no longer green, dude.)
the fun part is that the "code-morphing software" is supposed to be self-optimizing. It caches frequently used instructions, performing them faster the next time they come up. So, if the crusoe works in any way at all similar to transmeta's claims, the chip will improve its performance for every opertating system you throw at it.
i like the dvd demonstration... when you first start MPEG decoding, processsor utilization is high, but then if falls down to a stable equlibrium after a few seconds. this is real-life useful.
hey, anybody remember XUL? the whole point is that the user-interface is completely extensible and customizable. i believe anyone with a modicum of programming skill can produce their own "branded" version.
i plan on it. :-)
Wow, people... cut the guy some slack! If every writer out there would take a stand for what (s)he believes in and write about the issues as (s)he sees it, the media and the world would be a better place. We should appreciate that our community is diverse enough to entertain all sorts of opinions; why have a community if it were not so?
And I wish some people would _read_ the article before posting their anti-Katz rhetoric. All the reflex-flaming just strengthens some of the old boy's points.
wooo, time for class.
This article seems rather timely to me; I took a few minutes last night/this morning to bring my personal web page "up to code" as they say. It's not hard to do at all.
I found a cool automated website checker that looks for things that will hinder a site's accessibility. Go to www.cast.org/bobby and run your site through it. If you've written valid HTML 4.0, you won't have much work to do. If not.... heh.
oh man, CDE is way worse than win3.1 ever was. totally worthless as a graphical environment.
about the signature... my computer CAN talk!
Check out the festival speech synthesis engine. It rocks!
these books, quite simply, kick some mondo butt. startide is especially exciting, can't put the thing down. (I think they're making it into a movie, let's hope it doesn't go the way of The Postman.)
the second trilogy was really cool, too, although definitely not an easy undertaking. I ended up reading all 2000+ pages in a few days, i was so addicted.
Lots of stuff by David Brin is really good... He has an interesting view of our world.
We have to take a serious look at the state of creating games for linux right now: it's too durned tough. Development studios hire outside firms to create ports for them instead of handling the thing internally. Why? In my opinion, it's the lack of an easy, comprehensive, high-performance game programming interface.
I am of course referring to the lack of a DirectX for linux. Before you flame me into the stone age, think a minute. With its DirectDraw, Sound, Input and 3D, MS has all the bases covered for small-to-medium developers who don't have the resources to develop their own hardware layers.
What is available for linux? Mesa and OpenGL are a great start, but they intentionally neglect user input for the sake of portability. Sound and joysticks are supported in the kernel... is that good enough? (I'm not a real developer).
So what's the solution? Should we wait for (better yet, join in with) the WINE people to complete their DirectX libraries? Should we make a linux-native game interface? i leave this as an excercise for the reader. :-)
Everything in the docs for quake3 implys that you *need* some form of hardware acceleration to even run the game at all. Mesa lets you get around that, but at what a cost!
Anyway, if you check Transmeta's circuit diagrams, a large part of the chip is blocked off a "Floating Point / Graphics Unit." True, the chip has a rockin' 128-bit core, but I doubt that it could handle the general loating-point calculations needed for transform and lighting as well as the rest of the 3d pipeline normally handled in the accelerator card (read fillrate).
Although if they're powering digital LCDs they don't need massive, hot, expensive 350 MHz RAMDACs...
how can you say transmeta is not driven by their marketing department? This secrecy has been the marketer's dream... everyone in the technosphere has been debating their merits endlessly. People have attributed to them everything from an Athlon-killer to a giant reality-altering abacus.
engineers, maybe. but marketing-savvy, too.
it's not like the voodoo3 even _uses_ AGP features for anything. and everybody knows that's all that matters. ;-)
i'm just happy that the kernel can see that the slot's even there!
That's exactly what chipmakers do: they design a chip and then ramp the frequency up until "she can't take much more 'o this." Then it's time to design a new core: more efficient, smaller die, something like that. Coppermine, anyone?
This is also the reason that a good old Celeron-300 is the hottest chip intel ever made. That's the highest that manufacturing technique could go. It's pretty high too, you can cook meat on that puppy!
I still think it's cool how after hours of operation, my PIII-500 is much cooler than the voodoo3 main chip.
See, the problem with your observation is that these two schools of thought you speak of are _not_ mutually exclusive. It is quite possible to use KVidGen to get a set of usable modelines for your monitor and then "tweak" the refresh rates by hand later in your XF86Config file.
It doesn't seem like a tradeoff at all. In fact, it seems like the best of both worlds.
The soundtrack is really killer, too.
"European Deep Club" is how I've heard it described. No geeky desktop should be complete without phattie club trax. :-)
In the article, Ms. Skeddle observes that computers are nearing the point of sentience, artificial intelligence, if you will.
If such progress continues, Ms. Skeddle wonders, will computers need some type of moral structure?
We already have a framework for artificial morality! /. readers may be familiar with the works of Isaac Asimov. Disgusted with the state of science fiction and its visions of "killer robots," Asimov had the audacity to propose a world of benign robots working for the betterment of humanity. How did he insure this? With the Three Laws of Robotics, of course:
THE THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Law.
These laws sure seem reasonable enough and held up well in fiction; perhaps the prescient author's theories would do well in practice?
I may be missing the boat here, but I thought DVD drives weren't supported by linux. I mean, I'm using one right now, but Linux thinks it's a plain old ATAPI CD-ROM. I assume that the proverbial "bad things" will happen if i try to read a DVD-ROM. . .
Wouldn't make much sense to distribute an OS on a medium the OS can't use, would it?