You can make a diskless client to access the noisy PC. I did that for a while couple years back. Dunno why I stopped... having your / partition over a 100 mbit/s network is still kinda slow compared to IDE.
Anyway, you have an image on a floppy which has a kernel on it, which then looks over the network to mount an NFS partition and boot the rest of the OS. You put/sbin/hdparm -y/dev/hda in your rc.local and your HD switches off.
This was when the PSU fan was the only fan in my computer (Pentium 200) and it was load adjusting, so it'd speed up with more load. After the HD shut off, everything became wonderfully silent.:-)
Thats why we don't flap.. just drop like a rock.:-) Admittedly a little different than the flying birds do, but hey, its still feels like flying (especially once you're under your parachute).
+1 Insightful... why reinvent the wheel when there's Ximian Evolution, which already has a whole load of these features and an actual working product. I know it happens all the time in the open source world, but that doesn't take away my right to bitch about it.:-)
Lets Go books are awesome. But, picking up one of those assumes that you know where you wanna go. When you've decided WHERE you wanna go and WHAT you wanna do there, then you can pick up the tips from the Lets Go books to do things cheaply.:-)
here in the Netherlands we have quite a bit of advertising on the commercial (non-public) stations. Not as much as in the US, but the thing is that advertising time on the commercial stations is very expensive, so you tend to see good quality commercials. Not like the crap I saw in the US (been there couple times). For some reason the ad companies really do their best and most of the commercials are actually quite entertaining (except of course the washing powder commercials... there's absolutely nothing funny to be done with washing powder).
In conclusion, I feel sorry for you American types. I'm glad the commercials are better here.:-) Oh, and back OT, I hope those directors win...Nice precedent. It'd be cool if there were less breaks.
Yeah, I did that! I totally customized my MacOS error messages. Only for some reason the system became unstable and was rather crashprone. I never figured out why changing text in the kernel would make the system unstable. I put a clean kernel back in and it worked fine again.
It's weird man... I climbed Mt. Kenya twice and it's so frikkin cold up there. You're less than 20 miles from the equator and it's freezing (-20 degrees C, -4 degrees F). You're at 16,000 ft, taking a step, then stopping to take 3 breaths, then another step. Anyways, then on the way down, you sit on your ass and slide down a small glacier that is up there. Amazing. And very beautiful.
I don't understand this. Why have the inbetween stage converting the power from the turbine into electricity? Wouldn't it be more efficient to just transfer the power directly (with a lot of gearing in between, including a clutching system - like in helicopters)?
FluxBox is cool. I use it. I love the mouse scroll button desktop switching thingy (as you roll the mouse button up, it switches to the next workspace, down for the previous - but only if you roll it onna desktop, so not if your pointer is inside a window)
I recently also got my internet keyboard shortcut keys (on a compaq keyboard) working nicely. Buttons do useful things like opening a new tab with Slashdot, Google, or Google News. Or a new xterm. Or starting gcalc. Very nice.
FluxBox is nice. The only gripe I have is the still rather sparse documentation, especially on customizations.
You can make dry ice squeal too. Put a little pellet on a hard surface and take a coin and push down hard on the coin. It will squeak. Why I don't know.:-)
Putting a dry ice pellet in a bottle of coke is fun too. Most of the coke will boil straight out.
Of course the most fun we had at school with dry ice was putting some in a plastic ketchup bottle (with a screw on cap) and closing the cap, then letting it sit out by the lockers for a while. About 5 minutes later, it exploded loudly, sending ketchup flying everywhere!:-)
We actually used an egg with this experiment. Its kinda cool to see the egg rocket away, although you can't really 'test' bounce the egg before setting it atop the basketball.
Yeah, I guess... But waiting a while before the 8.0 RPM packages come out would be possible for Mr Average, wouldn't it?
NVidia has really done their best to have the Linux drivers easy to find and well documented. They've tried to make it as easy as possible to install. I guess the easiest would be to have RH have them as RPMs on the distro CDs and then configure them and the XF86Config-4, too. Ah well... maybe some day. For now I'll stick to this. Its definately easier than it used to be.:-)
I haven't tried this out, but I don't think there's any compatibility issues with different GCC versions. Some part of the modules that you compile from source are compiled already (the proprietory bits), the rest should just happily compile using your kernel headers (yeah, you'll need to have the kernel headers rpm installed if you're gonna build the SRPMs).
I believe that because of NVidia licensing you have to get the NVIDIA drivers from NVidia themselves. They're binary drivers but they're well documented. The RPMs for 8.0 aren't there yet, but you can build the drivers from source RPMs which are on that page too.
Dude this would be so awesome. Imagine if your things had some sort of radio tag in them, then you wouldn't need to look for them around the house... just do a search, and it'll tell you it's location... nice!
They also have their own lineup of, IMHO, a lot more sexier, better and more feature rich units than those from RIO. See the SlimX and their new HD unit, iDP-100 on their product listing page.
I'm getting a iMP-350 soon, and I guess this means that Real Soon Now(tm) I'll get to rip my CD collection to OGG and play it on this beauty! It's got verygoodreviewseverywhere.
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What the heck do you need 4x80 GBs for??? Can anyone collect that much pr0n?
You can make a diskless client to access the noisy PC. I did that for a while couple years back. Dunno why I stopped... having your / partition over a 100 mbit/s network is still kinda slow compared to IDE.
/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/hda in your rc.local and your HD switches off.
:-)
Anyway, you have an image on a floppy which has a kernel on it, which then looks over the network to mount an NFS partition and boot the rest of the OS. You put
This was when the PSU fan was the only fan in my computer (Pentium 200) and it was load adjusting, so it'd speed up with more load. After the HD shut off, everything became wonderfully silent.
Cheers!
CvD.
Thats why we don't flap.. just drop like a rock. :-) Admittedly a little different than the flying birds do, but hey, its still feels like flying (especially once you're under your parachute).
Cheers!
+1 Insightful... why reinvent the wheel when there's Ximian Evolution, which already has a whole load of these features and an actual working product. I know it happens all the time in the open source world, but that doesn't take away my right to bitch about it. :-)
Yep... learn skydiving somewhere... go to Spain and do a course there...
:-)
Something completely different!
Lets Go books are awesome. But, picking up one of those assumes that you know where you wanna go. When you've decided WHERE you wanna go and WHAT you wanna do there, then you can pick up the tips from the Lets Go books to do things cheaply. :-)
Cheers!
Costyn.
here in the Netherlands we have quite a bit of advertising on the commercial (non-public) stations. Not as much as in the US, but the thing is that advertising time on the commercial stations is very expensive, so you tend to see good quality commercials. Not like the crap I saw in the US (been there couple times). For some reason the ad companies really do their best and most of the commercials are actually quite entertaining (except of course the washing powder commercials... there's absolutely nothing funny to be done with washing powder).
:-) Oh, and back OT, I hope those directors win...Nice precedent. It'd be cool if there were less breaks.
In conclusion, I feel sorry for you American types. I'm glad the commercials are better here.
Cheers,
Costyn.
Yeah, I did that! I totally customized my MacOS error messages. Only for some reason the system became unstable and was rather crashprone. I never figured out why changing text in the kernel would make the system unstable. I put a clean kernel back in and it worked fine again.
It's weird man... I climbed Mt. Kenya twice and it's so frikkin cold up there. You're less than 20 miles from the equator and it's freezing (-20 degrees C, -4 degrees F). You're at 16,000 ft, taking a step, then stopping to take 3 breaths, then another step. Anyways, then on the way down, you sit on your ass and slide down a small glacier that is up there. Amazing. And very beautiful.
Cheers,
CvD.
Cheers,
Costyn.
I don't understand this. Why have the inbetween stage converting the power from the turbine into electricity? Wouldn't it be more efficient to just transfer the power directly (with a lot of gearing in between, including a clutching system - like in helicopters)?
Cheers
FluxBox is cool. I use it. I love the mouse scroll button desktop switching thingy (as you roll the mouse button up, it switches to the next workspace, down for the previous - but only if you roll it onna desktop, so not if your pointer is inside a window)
I recently also got my internet keyboard shortcut keys (on a compaq keyboard) working nicely. Buttons do useful things like opening a new tab with Slashdot, Google, or Google News. Or a new xterm. Or starting gcalc. Very nice.
FluxBox is nice. The only gripe I have is the still rather sparse documentation, especially on customizations.
FluxBox is fast! I like FluxBox.
Damnit, I knew it! They have aliens working for them... bastards...
More dry ice:
:-)
:-)
You can make dry ice squeal too. Put a little pellet on a hard surface and take a coin and push down hard on the coin. It will squeak. Why I don't know.
Putting a dry ice pellet in a bottle of coke is fun too. Most of the coke will boil straight out.
Of course the most fun we had at school with dry ice was putting some in a plastic ketchup bottle (with a screw on cap) and closing the cap, then letting it sit out by the lockers for a while. About 5 minutes later, it exploded loudly, sending ketchup flying everywhere!
Cheers!
Costyn.
We actually used an egg with this experiment. Its kinda cool to see the egg rocket away, although you can't really 'test' bounce the egg before setting it atop the basketball.
Whee!
And here is a picture of a mirror. :-)
... can't ... resist ...
a beowulf cluster of mobile phones!
Yeah, I guess... But waiting a while before the 8.0 RPM packages come out would be possible for Mr Average, wouldn't it?
:-)
NVidia has really done their best to have the Linux drivers easy to find and well documented. They've tried to make it as easy as possible to install. I guess the easiest would be to have RH have them as RPMs on the distro CDs and then configure them and the XF86Config-4, too. Ah well... maybe some day. For now I'll stick to this. Its definately easier than it used to be.
Cheers,
Costyn.
I haven't tried this out, but I don't think there's any compatibility issues with different GCC versions. Some part of the modules that you compile from source are compiled already (the proprietory bits), the rest should just happily compile using your kernel headers (yeah, you'll need to have the kernel headers rpm installed if you're gonna build the SRPMs).
Cheers,
Costyn.
Ok, that's cool. Thanks! Now I know I don't have to burn all 5 CDs. :-)
Cheers!
Costyn.
apt-get install mplayer
apt-get install xine
apt-get install xmms
It'll get all the necessary libraries, etc. No need to go through dependency hell!
How easy is that?
Cheers,
Costyn.
Why is it that they suddenly have 5 CDs to put everything on? Where's the major increase in space needed coming from?
Cheers,
Costyn.
I believe that because of NVidia licensing you have to get the NVIDIA drivers from NVidia themselves. They're binary drivers but they're well documented. The RPMs for 8.0 aren't there yet, but you can build the drivers from source RPMs which are on that page too.
Here's their latest release
Enjoy!
Costyn.
Dude this would be so awesome. Imagine if your things had some sort of radio tag in them, then you wouldn't need to look for them around the house... just do a search, and it'll tell you it's location... nice!
They also have their own lineup of, IMHO, a lot more sexier, better and more feature rich units than those from RIO. See the SlimX and their new HD unit, iDP-100 on their product listing page.
I'm getting a iMP-350 soon, and I guess this means that Real Soon Now(tm) I'll get to rip my CD collection to OGG and play it on this beauty! It's got very good reviews everywhere.
Cheers!
Costyn.