I roll my own when it comes to embedded or specialized tasks. I suppose I forgot to mention that in my previous post.
I did not mean that the kernel needs to run anything and everything at once... I meant that GNU/Linux type OS's can do so much already with the proper software and configuration.
It has never been a one-size fits all which is what Windows is. GNU/Linux is so modular in every aspect its no wonder Windows looks so bulky.;-)
I wanna see Linux turn into "the platform" for AI. I read something about it already becoming that so that'd be sweet. Right now you all know the famous categories.
Alright. I'm still with you.
Windows is for business and other dumb stuff.
Business: I personally disagree as I've been using Linux for all of my business needs since 2002... but then again that is just me. I am going to assume that the 'other dumb stuff' is video games and malware. I agree on that note... although there are some fun games for Linux available.
Macs are apparently the thing to get for video and graphics work though I strongly disagree.
Yeah... Mac's have their place and they seem to be more media oriented. A good friend of mine is just finishing his last year in school for Video Production and Design (4 year program), so far he has yet to use a Mac. So I agree with you on this point.
And Linux is gonna be for anything with AI! Cuz AI programmers (and their programs) are smart enough to know that paying for an OS is stupid when you don't have to and you can't change much about the OS after you install it. And you don't need your AI creation freezing up while the OS makes a system restore point or crashing randomly (OS X and Windows).
I like to see Linux as an open platform for *any* use. I, personally, use it for everything. From my laptop, to my home PC, to my media center to my embedded linux system in my car.
And in 2009 I hope a giant pengiun robot attacks Microsoft headquarters.
This kind of bothers me, really. Yes, we all know Microsoft is "evil". I've heard it too many times to count. I do not, however, advocate the idea of physically destroying the company. In a sense, we need Microsoft for MANY reasons. Their OS sucks, yes, but the mass amounts of people who use it still don't understand it and manage to break it's brain-dead design. This creates a HUGE market for people to fix these systems and networks. I've been doing it for quite some time (on the side, of course) and sometimes that money is nice. How do you think I was able to afford my media center? My laptop? etc. etc.
I'm not trying to say we should necessarily support a company that has a lot of bad practices, but they create a huge market for us to make money. When they release a new OS, they beef up the minimum requirements for it and in turn brings prices of last gen products down in price for us to use.
I've written myself a script that tracks certain directories (~/Code, ~/Documents, ~/Work, etc.) using FAM. When a file is modified it grabs it and stores it on a file server on the local network. Also you may want to have a look at Gamin, which is a FAM replacement maintained under the GNOME project.
If what you're implying is that you have prioritized your data needs and feel that backing up your media files is not necessary, then that's something else.
Bingo.
I own all of my media either in DVD, CD, etc. Keeping it in digital format on my file server is simply for convenience. The two others that are fault tolerant are primarily for my source code and documents for school, pictures, etc.:-)
I recently increased it from 500GB to 2TB (those 500GB drives have really fallen in price!) for my eventual purchase of either an HD-DVD/BluRay drive.
If my Media partition were to die, it's only time lost in the long run. Yes, ripping it all again down the road will be a pain in the ass, but it's not as big of a deal as losing a weeks worth of work, or what-have-you.
I have a similar setup as well...
I have a box crammed full of 6 hard drives... 4 x 500GB in RAID 0 as one partition for storing all of my media. The others are 2 x 320GB in RAID 1 with 3 partitions (/,/boot,/data, no swap) for my backup purposes. I use Linux all around, so I just setup NFS Shares & wrote some archival scripts utilizing FAM to simplify it for myself.
I know this solution is not for everyone, but it works great for me. I have an automated system monitoring some directories (the portion using FAM) and others require forced updates issued by a command "backup ${BackupDirName}"
Apparently I am not as enthusiastic about the news as you are ("ZOMFG!!!!11!! Save teh newz papehs!").
I live in a small city with barely 30,000 people. We are in Saskatchewan, Canada... quite frankly I'm tired of reading the bullshit that comes from our neighboring country... Yes. If something bad had happened, I would hear about it by other means (it's not as though I sit at home and never socialize).
If you read my fucking post and don't criticize me because I don't sit there and analyze every aspect of every piece of news every single minute (as you apparently do), you will notice that I said HERE our news paper sucks. Yes, I know, I'm supporting the cause of the reason it sucks by not buying it. I know, I'm a horrible person. I don't feel like coughing out money for a (maybe) 4 pieces of news, and a handful of flyer's tossed in it.
I don't know how it is where you live, and I don't care. The way it is here has degraded to the point where I didn't care to buy the news paper anymore. I don't care if I get regurgitated pieces of news through the internet. The Community Site mentioned in my original post is owned and operating by our local Radio Station... Probably within the top 5 employers in my city. They also own a lot more than a website and a radio station. They have real journalists and work WITH the news paper.
So just please, bugger off and shut your mouth. You don't know my situation, and please stop acting as if you do.
The newspaper is stale and (here) it costs more than it is worth. You get little to no news, the only thing worth looking at is the crossword or sudoku. I haven't subscribed to the paper since I moved into my most recent apartment (11 months ago on the new year).
We have a community website that is run by one of the local radio stations... it has fairly "up-to-the-minute" updates and is generally very informative. It's entirely free and funded by advertising from LOCAL businesses. Being a business owner, I've noticed a fairly steady increase in traffic since I've gotten some ads put up.
1: dollar and daily universal register had the year 1785 in common. 1785%100 = 85
2: the date of transition (=>) between the two rulers was 512. 512/2-1 = 255
3: Sherman Anti-Trust and Van Gogh have the year 1890 in common. 1890/9 = 210
4: Tycho's supernova was in 1572. 1572/12 = 131
You need to find the values of the things in [], then perform the mathematical evaluation on them... it will then create a numerical sequence such as an IP address.
I've done this. It was the first thing I thought of when I learned how the Wiimotes worked.
It's actually rather simple...
First you need a sensor bar that is no dependent of your Wii. You can make one or buy one.
You need a bluetooth module
A driver to handle requests for your Wiimote and translate them into mouse movements, etc. Linux, Mac and Windows drivers
(optional) I mapped my buttons to multimedia keys and bound some of them to commands
You need some software. In my case I've written my own called faultBox. I'll be releasing the code to the public probably this spring.
Some more info on faultBox: it is a very simplistic system, actually written in PHP. Now, don't freak out about this... the way it works:
two scripts: faultbox.d and faultbox.
faultbox.d is the backend that runs a mini web server and launches commands if needed.
faultbox is the interface. I use php-gtk with gtkmozembed set in 100% fullscreen mode. It loads the mini web servers pages onto the display. When a request to view a video file (specially crafted url) it will launch the file in Mplayer in full screen mode. From here I have created a simple skin for Mplayer to be easily usable with a Wiimote.
This is just some information. Please do not use it as a complete guide as it is not. I'm working on a full guide I will be releasing with faultBox.
They do, at least, all of the banks I have ever dealt with.
I think that the major concern is if you were to get up from the computer, and get caught up in doing something else... they don't want you to stay logged in, in the event that someone else were to use your computer (this is especially true in a work environment)
Typing this on a Vista Laptop, I can say the bootup is painfully slower than my Gentoo system at home. This laptop isn't top of the line, but it certainly is much newer and more powerful than my system at home.
XP, in my experience boots up pretty quickly if it has all updates (well, mostly just SP2).
I purchased my XP 2500+ in 2002 or 2003 (not sure, it was in the winter months) that I still use to this date.:-)
I think the 64 bit versions came out in 2004, but please do not hold me to that.
I'm with you here. If I could pay an extra $4 for a disc with absolutely no DRM on it, I'd be in heaven... although, I am in Canada and it doesn't look as though it is as illegal here to copy DVD's (I have not actually looked that deep into it).
The problem I could see is that if they release it with no DRM, they think that they will see it up on the net faster... which it may, but a large portion of the movies I download are because I personally cannot or don't have time to remove the CSS/DRM. I only rip them to my system because it plays smoother than right off the disc and I do not own a TV/DVD player. The other portion I download is when the movies don't make themselves to my city in the Theatre... so I download it to see if I like it or not.
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I roll my own when it comes to embedded or specialized tasks. I suppose I forgot to mention that in my previous post.
;-)
I did not mean that the kernel needs to run anything and everything at once... I meant that GNU/Linux type OS's can do so much already with the proper software and configuration.
It has never been a one-size fits all which is what Windows is. GNU/Linux is so modular in every aspect its no wonder Windows looks so bulky.
I'm not trying to say we should necessarily support a company that has a lot of bad practices, but they create a huge market for us to make money. When they release a new OS, they beef up the minimum requirements for it and in turn brings prices of last gen products down in price for us to use.
My personal 'sweet spot' for my eyes and my apartment is 37"-42".
I agree with you on the idea of having a 100"+ TV is pretty dumbfounded... I think 50"-56" should be the max available. (other than the theater/IMAX)
I've written myself a script that tracks certain directories (~/Code, ~/Documents, ~/Work, etc.) using FAM. When a file is modified it grabs it and stores it on a file server on the local network. Also you may want to have a look at Gamin, which is a FAM replacement maintained under the GNOME project.
I dunno what's worse:
- that there is a 35 character tag
- or that you took the time to count it
I own all of my media either in DVD, CD, etc. Keeping it in digital format on my file server is simply for convenience. The two others that are fault tolerant are primarily for my source code and documents for school, pictures, etc. :-)
I recently increased it from 500GB to 2TB (those 500GB drives have really fallen in price!) for my eventual purchase of either an HD-DVD/BluRay drive.
If my Media partition were to die, it's only time lost in the long run. Yes, ripping it all again down the road will be a pain in the ass, but it's not as big of a deal as losing a weeks worth of work, or what-have-you.
I have a similar setup as well... I have a box crammed full of 6 hard drives... 4 x 500GB in RAID 0 as one partition for storing all of my media. The others are 2 x 320GB in RAID 1 with 3 partitions (/, /boot, /data, no swap) for my backup purposes. I use Linux all around, so I just setup NFS Shares & wrote some archival scripts utilizing FAM to simplify it for myself.
I know this solution is not for everyone, but it works great for me. I have an automated system monitoring some directories (the portion using FAM) and others require forced updates issued by a command "backup ${BackupDirName}"
Apparently I am not as enthusiastic about the news as you are ("ZOMFG!!!!11!! Save teh newz papehs!").
I live in a small city with barely 30,000 people. We are in Saskatchewan, Canada... quite frankly I'm tired of reading the bullshit that comes from our neighboring country... Yes. If something bad had happened, I would hear about it by other means (it's not as though I sit at home and never socialize).
If you read my fucking post and don't criticize me because I don't sit there and analyze every aspect of every piece of news every single minute (as you apparently do), you will notice that I said HERE our news paper sucks. Yes, I know, I'm supporting the cause of the reason it sucks by not buying it. I know, I'm a horrible person. I don't feel like coughing out money for a (maybe) 4 pieces of news, and a handful of flyer's tossed in it.
I don't know how it is where you live, and I don't care. The way it is here has degraded to the point where I didn't care to buy the news paper anymore. I don't care if I get regurgitated pieces of news through the internet. The Community Site mentioned in my original post is owned and operating by our local Radio Station... Probably within the top 5 employers in my city. They also own a lot more than a website and a radio station. They have real journalists and work WITH the news paper.
So just please, bugger off and shut your mouth. You don't know my situation, and please stop acting as if you do.
Wow... I suppose I should know better than to post something like this on a website such as this.
I stated my opinion... and I got an asshole response. Go figure.
I hear ya.
The newspaper is stale and (here) it costs more than it is worth. You get little to no news, the only thing worth looking at is the crossword or sudoku. I haven't subscribed to the paper since I moved into my most recent apartment (11 months ago on the new year).
We have a community website that is run by one of the local radio stations... it has fairly "up-to-the-minute" updates and is generally very informative. It's entirely free and funded by advertising from LOCAL businesses. Being a business owner, I've noticed a fairly steady increase in traffic since I've gotten some ads put up.
It's a female and male symbol. I think someone in the group added it for no apparent reason... or to fuck with us.
As I had figured... it indeed is an IP address.
1: dollar and daily universal register had the year 1785 in common. 1785%100 = 85
2: the date of transition (=>) between the two rulers was 512. 512/2-1 = 255
3: Sherman Anti-Trust and Van Gogh have the year 1890 in common. 1890/9 = 210
4: Tycho's supernova was in 1572. 1572/12 = 131
Going here: http://85.255.210.131/
Only reveals 'yes';
It's an IP address of some kind.
You need to find the values of the things in [], then perform the mathematical evaluation on them... it will then create a numerical sequence such as an IP address.
They should make a snap-in extension if they ever release to canada.
Brings a whole new meaning to BootCamp, doesn't it?
That's pretty good...
The most I have seen in a AA battery is 2650 (although this is NiMH), so in comparison: 1 AA battery is roughly 15-20 grams (estimated).
15 x 4277 = 64155mAh
20 x 4277 = 85540mAh
It's actually rather simple...
- First you need a sensor bar that is no dependent of your Wii. You can make one or buy one.
- You need a bluetooth module
- A driver to handle requests for your Wiimote and translate them into mouse movements, etc. Linux, Mac and Windows drivers
- (optional) I mapped my buttons to multimedia keys and bound some of them to commands
- You need some software. In my case I've written my own called faultBox. I'll be releasing the code to the public probably this spring.
Some more info on faultBox: it is a very simplistic system, actually written in PHP. Now, don't freak out about this... the way it works:two scripts: faultbox.d and faultbox.
faultbox.d is the backend that runs a mini web server and launches commands if needed.
faultbox is the interface. I use php-gtk with gtkmozembed set in 100% fullscreen mode. It loads the mini web servers pages onto the display. When a request to view a video file (specially crafted url) it will launch the file in Mplayer in full screen mode. From here I have created a simple skin for Mplayer to be easily usable with a Wiimote.
This is just some information. Please do not use it as a complete guide as it is not. I'm working on a full guide I will be releasing with faultBox.
At first glance I thought I had written this, perhaps in a drunken state.
Good comment. I don't think I could have said it any better.
Or the iLazy. ;-)
Podcasts have nothing to do with Apple, other than the obvious similarity in the names.
That is all.
I think I found what you want.
They do, at least, all of the banks I have ever dealt with.
I think that the major concern is if you were to get up from the computer, and get caught up in doing something else... they don't want you to stay logged in, in the event that someone else were to use your computer (this is especially true in a work environment)
Typing this on a Vista Laptop, I can say the bootup is painfully slower than my Gentoo system at home. This laptop isn't top of the line, but it certainly is much newer and more powerful than my system at home.
XP, in my experience boots up pretty quickly if it has all updates (well, mostly just SP2).
I purchased my XP 2500+ in 2002 or 2003 (not sure, it was in the winter months) that I still use to this date. :-)
I think the 64 bit versions came out in 2004, but please do not hold me to that.
The problem I could see is that if they release it with no DRM, they think that they will see it up on the net faster... which it may, but a large portion of the movies I download are because I personally cannot or don't have time to remove the CSS/DRM. I only rip them to my system because it plays smoother than right off the disc and I do not own a TV/DVD player. The other portion I download is when the movies don't make themselves to my city in the Theatre... so I download it to see if I like it or not.