I've had the same monitor and case for about 4 years, while swapping out the motherboard twice, and CPUs at least 3-4 times.
My previous monitor (15") is about 8 years old, and is sitting on my wife's desk, along with the case from 8 years ago with (of course) new PS, MB, and etc.
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"Linux Companion: For Users and system Administrators". Mostly about converting MS-DOS concepts (hey, it was 1995ish) into UNIX-speak. Unfortunately, it was my first book and wasn't quite as clearly written as some of my later works. Also, Linux wasn't quite as popular in 1995 as it is now. Might even be in print still....I should check..
That's all that matters to me, like I said, I'm a selfish bastard. But if you had read my post you'd have noticed this isn't about ibiblio. Of course, you didn't pause to notice that and instead went on flaming... you probably missed the 4 other examples and how this is representative of a continuing trend in the linux community. One that I don't like. It's called an "opinion", and like an asshole everybody has one
I don't recall a note on the ldp-discuss list mentioning that $4mil is being donated to the LDP. Nor do I see anything of the sort regarding metalab/ibiblio. So I'm not sure how you equate a donation to ibiblio as a donation to the LDP.
When you check up on your history, imetasite has been one of the largest and longest-running source for Linux software. The other being tsx-11.mit.edu (is that still up).
On a side note, if you're so concerned about the quality of documentation for Linux, I suggest you write a HOWTO or even a guide and contribute instead of complaining. The tools for writing DocBook articles and books has increased, and the amount of documentation about writing documentation has increased as well. I suggest you start with the LDP Author Guide (formerly the HOWTO-HOWTO).
What if someone (Apex?) were to build an unlicensed DVD hardware player using the DeCSS code? Is that breaking the DCMA? Does it apply to hardware devices? What about a PC card that did the decoding in hardware, but was unlicensed?
World's scariest near-misses by asteroids
Single Female Lawyer In Space
The Simpsons on Mars
All of course followed by that great FOX News coverage you expect of the show you just watched along with other topical news ("Will Space Debris Fall on Your House? Find out at 10PM!").
Last weekend I set my (computer literate, but not Linux-literate) brother up with Coyote Linux which is based off the Linux Router Project. Single-floppy distro with DHCP server and some other goodies (VPN, no services running, etc). If you're a Linux user, it's free of charge, but you can purchase the full edition which contains a Windows setup tool which runs...you figured that out.
For people who don't know how Linux can help them, this is a great way to show them.
Airplanes have a fixed capacity of passengers and a fixed cost to fly (fuel, flight attendants, pilots, profit, etc). I'm flying to Toronto in two months. I have three choices:
1) buy a ticket now ($350)
2) wait to see if the plane doesn't fill and get cheaper tickets (since the airline wants to fill all the seats)
3) wait, find out that the plane is full, and miss the plane/pay more a seat because of demand.
If anything, airlines show how supply and demand work. Right now, I can go to travelocity and air canada and find the exact same price for the same flight. If the flight doesn't fill, the price drops. If it does fill and it gets closer (within two weeks) to the time of the flight, the price rises.
Supply and demand has no bearing on what Amazon is doing. I could understand a "good customer" discount (of...say 5%) or something, but arbitrarily changing the price on items doesn't make sense. Perhaps this is to see if people will still buy books at a 25% discount instead of 30%? Amazon is under incredible pressure to announce when it will turn a profit. Given that Amazon is making less than 20% per book, that doesn't give them much to work with.
My (quick) reading of the article indicated that RAMBUS does have a few problems:
1) More parts (thus, higher cost)
2) Only access 1/2 the banks of memory at a time.
3) RAMBUS claiming patents for SDRAM production doesn't make their case any better as well.
That being said, will RAMBUS (aside from the political issues) give better performance..say...5 years from now, when we all have 2Ghz machines running with an 800Mhz FSB motherboard? Some of what I've seen implies that the performance is really nasty right now, but in a few years when CPU and FSB speeds increase, it could pick up more performance.
I get 99.9% of my news from a combination of my Yahoo, NPR, and Slashdot (tech news;). Why not local news? The local channels (I live outside Boston, MA) rarely actually *covers* news. It's all turned into a vague form of investigative reporting. FOX is the worst at this. Their headlines for almost an entire week was "killer automatic doors" and "if your car falls into the river, what do you do?". Yea, that's the hard-hitting journalism that I want to see. I'll bet you a large wad of cash that there was absolutely no coverage of the MPAA or RIAA.
NPR with "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition" at least does things right: 5 minute updates of national (then regional) headlines, followed by more in depth coverage of some of the headlines. Follow that with stuff that isn't necessarily news, but interesting anyways (NPR 100 - the 100 most influential music albums, or lost-and-found-sound which once covered the shortwave numbers).
Doesn't firewire allow two devices on the chain to talk to each other directly, without needing the CPU? If this is the case, you could have (say) a FW video camera dump its contents to a FW HDD at the full 400MB/s without requiring CPU intervention.
Whoops. Sorry. Forgot to mention the beta and testing periods done by facilities willing to do testing. Support during the beta period is handled by the support group, and the beta testers are the actual ones who will be using the software once it's released into the field.
APIs were designed by the kernel group (we were using MUMPS, if you know what that is) and there was a central kernel that was really a combination of what we could think of as libc (common routines and functions) and the kernel itself (other processes that were running that tied it all together). The idea behind the coding style was so that the written code could work on anything from a 20-year-old VAX to a state-of-the-art Alpha machine or even an x86 box, with M implementations that ran all over the place.
Yes, it's least comon denomonator code, but it works, which is somewhat important if you're running a hospital, and want easy support and maintenance.
For all the hollering about the US Govt, the Dept. of VA (worked for a few years for them) did things the "right" way:
1) Big 'ol binder that had coding style, approved APIs, things like that
2) All the functions must declare inputs, outputs, and globals used before you even start coding. These declarations also make it into the code.
3) That pseudocode goes through a peer review with coders from other facilities.
4) Once the code is written, it goes through another peer review, and there are usually a few rewrites after that review.
The reason for much of this is *this* is the code that runs 170+ hospitals around the country. Don't want rogue code screwing up the systems.
The upshot out of all this is that the code is extremely easy to update, easy to debug, and the support people have an easier job.
I tried fiddling with utah-GLX on the pinstripe release with limited success (some apps worked, most didn't). But I see the pinstripe is using 3.3.6 but has most of 4 installed. Anyone go the
rest of the way and try this out?
1) Graphical (sorry)
2) SIMAP (so I can access the server from anywhere and have the data encrypted)
3) GPG support
4) Did I mention stable and reliable IMAP support?
So far, Netscape does it all except GPG, which is a real shame. Hopefully Mozilla will support this. The added benefit to Netscape is the roaming profiles, so I don't have to enter in all my e-mail information each time I install a new OS. Just enter the roaming profile information and go.
1) Rubbing alcohol cleans up dirt and gunk real well.
2) Some q-tips dipped in rubbing alcohol cleans between the keys
3) Compressed air blows the junk oput from underneath the keys (holding the keyboard upside down and shaking as if it were an etch-a-sketch also helps).
I remember using USENET back in '89. I was subscribed to about 50-75 newsgroups and could read them all (all articles, all newsgroups). It took about an hour/hour and a half a day. No SPAM, alt.flame was actually funny...
Last time I read USENET was maybe a year ago. SPAM everywhere, little actual news in any of the newsgroups, flamefests, bunches of questions with no answers.
This is true...unless it can be shown that the individual would have known about the contract. In this case, the first couple of DVDs you buy, you could get away with it...but after that, you know what to expect when you open the shrinkwrap! Therefore, a shrinkwrap license is valid, provided you've seen one before!
Err....I don't think so. There's nothing to guarantee that the shrinkwrap in one DVD is exactly the same as in another DVD. Maybe you could get away with saying that for the same DVD, but even then, the licenses may change.
My guess would be that much of this has to do with code reuse in graphical applications. Netscape takes up a lot of space, but not one byte can be used by other applications. In contrast, MS apps can make use of the code in IE (even the web browser part of Winamp).
The same could be said for StarOffice, which is a big bloated mess, but can't share its code.
The real future of Linux is looking towards things like Mozilla and galeon, where galeon can reuse the code from Mozilla to create a small browser.
Interesting idea. I've taken a quick glance through much of my music and believe that a large majority of it have artists that either don't have many music videos, or none.
I like Verizon. $35/mo for 200 minutes anywhere from Maine to VA (I live outside Boston and travel frequently to upstate NY). Customer service is pretty good, the regular phones are crappy though - I got a Qualcomm 820. The car charger I had broke (damn custom connectors), but Verizon said there was a lifetime warranty on them, so I exchanged it for free.
Anyone remember the "report" from 5 years ago that said 90% of the Internet was pr0n? Time did a big 'ol article on it, the report wound up on the Senate floor, etc.
Too bad the data used for the report was completely wrong.
Too bad that report is still probably being used to decry the evils of the Internet.
No matter how many rebuttals there are, it won't stop the fact that Moody's article is out there. We must demand a correction from Moody or abcnews.com that also gets linked to the original article. Otherwise, 3 years from now, this will come back and bite us again.
Either way, the masses have control. The masses go to Wal-Mart, it prospers. The masses buy Disney DVDs and watch NBC. The masses buy RIAA-endorsed CD and watch MPAA-approved movies. The masses buy PCs with Windows pre-loaded.
These companies all make it pretty much impossible to have alternatives. Go find a high-quality PC without Windows at the same price as a Dell or Gateway. Go watch a DVD that doesn't have CSS on it. Listen to a CD that has no involvement with the RIAA or its member companies. It's hard to do, and getting harder as companies consolidate power. And there's nothing that the masses can do except continue to consume and increase the power of these coroporations.
This isn't to say I'm a socialist/communist, but I do believe that a certain level of government oversight and laws are required for a good balance between the good of the consumers and the quest for profit for corporations and their shareholders.
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I've had the same monitor and case for about 4 years, while swapping out the motherboard twice, and CPUs at least 3-4 times.
My previous monitor (15") is about 8 years old, and is sitting on my wife's desk, along with the case from 8 years ago with (of course) new PS, MB, and etc.
"Linux Companion: For Users and system Administrators". Mostly about converting MS-DOS concepts (hey, it was 1995ish) into UNIX-speak. Unfortunately, it was my first book and wasn't quite as clearly written as some of my later works. Also, Linux wasn't quite as popular in 1995 as it is now. Might even be in print still....I should check..
That's all that matters to me, like I said, I'm a selfish bastard. But if you had read my post you'd have noticed this isn't about ibiblio. Of course, you didn't pause to notice that and instead went on flaming... you probably missed the 4 other examples and how this is representative of a continuing trend in the linux community. One that I don't like. It's called an "opinion", and like an asshole everybody has one
I don't recall a note on the ldp-discuss list mentioning that $4mil is being donated to the LDP. Nor do I see anything of the sort regarding metalab/ibiblio. So I'm not sure how you equate a donation to ibiblio as a donation to the LDP.
When you check up on your history, imetasite has been one of the largest and longest-running source for Linux software. The other being tsx-11.mit.edu (is that still up).
On a side note, if you're so concerned about the quality of documentation for Linux, I suggest you write a HOWTO or even a guide and contribute instead of complaining. The tools for writing DocBook articles and books has increased, and the amount of documentation about writing documentation has increased as well. I suggest you start with the LDP Author Guide (formerly the HOWTO-HOWTO).
I got thinking last night:
What if someone (Apex?) were to build an unlicensed DVD hardware player using the DeCSS code? Is that breaking the DCMA? Does it apply to hardware devices? What about a PC card that did the decoding in hardware, but was unlicensed?
Pfft..FOX has all sorts of stuff up their sleve:
World's scariest near-misses by asteroids
Single Female Lawyer In Space
The Simpsons on Mars
All of course followed by that great FOX News coverage you expect of the show you just watched along with other topical news ("Will Space Debris Fall on Your House? Find out at 10PM!").
Last weekend I set my (computer literate, but not Linux-literate) brother up with Coyote Linux which is based off the Linux Router Project. Single-floppy distro with DHCP server and some other goodies (VPN, no services running, etc). If you're a Linux user, it's free of charge, but you can purchase the full edition which contains a Windows setup tool which runs...you figured that out.
For people who don't know how Linux can help them, this is a great way to show them.
OGG (Vorbis) support would be nice. 128kb OGG is pretty similar in quality to 160kbit MP3.
If one is a content author, how do they go about getting their money? Are they exempt from the tax? Does 'fair use' exist in Germany?
This whole analogy with the airlines is wrong.
Airplanes have a fixed capacity of passengers and a fixed cost to fly (fuel, flight attendants, pilots, profit, etc). I'm flying to Toronto in two months. I have three choices:
1) buy a ticket now ($350)
2) wait to see if the plane doesn't fill and get cheaper tickets (since the airline wants to fill all the seats)
3) wait, find out that the plane is full, and miss the plane/pay more a seat because of demand.
If anything, airlines show how supply and demand work. Right now, I can go to travelocity and air canada and find the exact same price for the same flight. If the flight doesn't fill, the price drops. If it does fill and it gets closer (within two weeks) to the time of the flight, the price rises.
Supply and demand has no bearing on what Amazon is doing. I could understand a "good customer" discount (of...say 5%) or something, but arbitrarily changing the price on items doesn't make sense. Perhaps this is to see if people will still buy books at a 25% discount instead of 30%? Amazon is under incredible pressure to announce when it will turn a profit. Given that Amazon is making less than 20% per book, that doesn't give them much to work with.
My (quick) reading of the article indicated that RAMBUS does have a few problems:
1) More parts (thus, higher cost)
2) Only access 1/2 the banks of memory at a time.
3) RAMBUS claiming patents for SDRAM production doesn't make their case any better as well.
That being said, will RAMBUS (aside from the political issues) give better performance..say...5 years from now, when we all have 2Ghz machines running with an 800Mhz FSB motherboard? Some of what I've seen implies that the performance is really nasty right now, but in a few years when CPU and FSB speeds increase, it could pick up more performance.
I get 99.9% of my news from a combination of my Yahoo, NPR, and Slashdot (tech news;). Why not local news? The local channels (I live outside Boston, MA) rarely actually *covers* news. It's all turned into a vague form of investigative reporting. FOX is the worst at this. Their headlines for almost an entire week was "killer automatic doors" and "if your car falls into the river, what do you do?". Yea, that's the hard-hitting journalism that I want to see. I'll bet you a large wad of cash that there was absolutely no coverage of the MPAA or RIAA.
NPR with "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition" at least does things right: 5 minute updates of national (then regional) headlines, followed by more in depth coverage of some of the headlines. Follow that with stuff that isn't necessarily news, but interesting anyways (NPR 100 - the 100 most influential music albums, or lost-and-found-sound which once covered the shortwave numbers).
Doesn't firewire allow two devices on the chain to talk to each other directly, without needing the CPU? If this is the case, you could have (say) a FW video camera dump its contents to a FW HDD at the full 400MB/s without requiring CPU intervention.
Whoops. Sorry. Forgot to mention the beta and testing periods done by facilities willing to do testing. Support during the beta period is handled by the support group, and the beta testers are the actual ones who will be using the software once it's released into the field.
APIs were designed by the kernel group (we were using MUMPS, if you know what that is) and there was a central kernel that was really a combination of what we could think of as libc (common routines and functions) and the kernel itself (other processes that were running that tied it all together). The idea behind the coding style was so that the written code could work on anything from a 20-year-old VAX to a state-of-the-art Alpha machine or even an x86 box, with M implementations that ran all over the place.
Yes, it's least comon denomonator code, but it works, which is somewhat important if you're running a hospital, and want easy support and maintenance.
For all the hollering about the US Govt, the Dept. of VA (worked for a few years for them) did things the "right" way:
1) Big 'ol binder that had coding style, approved APIs, things like that
2) All the functions must declare inputs, outputs, and globals used before you even start coding. These declarations also make it into the code.
3) That pseudocode goes through a peer review with coders from other facilities.
4) Once the code is written, it goes through another peer review, and there are usually a few rewrites after that review.
The reason for much of this is *this* is the code that runs 170+ hospitals around the country. Don't want rogue code screwing up the systems.
The upshot out of all this is that the code is extremely easy to update, easy to debug, and the support people have an easier job.
I tried fiddling with utah-GLX on the pinstripe release with limited success (some apps worked, most didn't). But I see the pinstripe is using 3.3.6 but has most of 4 installed. Anyone go the
rest of the way and try this out?
-Mark
1) Graphical (sorry)
2) SIMAP (so I can access the server from anywhere and have the data encrypted)
3) GPG support
4) Did I mention stable and reliable IMAP support?
So far, Netscape does it all except GPG, which is a real shame. Hopefully Mozilla will support this. The added benefit to Netscape is the roaming profiles, so I don't have to enter in all my e-mail information each time I install a new OS. Just enter the roaming profile information and go.
1) Rubbing alcohol cleans up dirt and gunk real well.
2) Some q-tips dipped in rubbing alcohol cleans between the keys
3) Compressed air blows the junk oput from underneath the keys (holding the keyboard upside down and shaking as if it were an etch-a-sketch also helps).
Let's get OmniSky on the thing. At least then you can roam around anywhere and get /. anywhere.
:wonders if the iPaq handles remote clients.
I remember using USENET back in '89. I was subscribed to about 50-75 newsgroups and could read them all (all articles, all newsgroups). It took about an hour/hour and a half a day. No SPAM, alt.flame was actually funny...
Last time I read USENET was maybe a year ago. SPAM everywhere, little actual news in any of the newsgroups, flamefests, bunches of questions with no answers.
*sigh* sad to see it go that way...
This is true...unless it can be shown that the individual would have known about the contract. In this case, the first couple of DVDs you buy, you could get away with it...but after that, you know what to expect when you open the shrinkwrap! Therefore, a shrinkwrap license is valid, provided you've seen one before!
Err....I don't think so. There's nothing to guarantee that the shrinkwrap in one DVD is exactly the same as in another DVD. Maybe you could get away with saying that for the same DVD, but even then, the licenses may change.
My guess would be that much of this has to do with code reuse in graphical applications. Netscape takes up a lot of space, but not one byte can be used by other applications. In contrast, MS apps can make use of the code in IE (even the web browser part of Winamp).
The same could be said for StarOffice, which is a big bloated mess, but can't share its code.
The real future of Linux is looking towards things like Mozilla and galeon, where galeon can reuse the code from Mozilla to create a small browser.
Interesting idea. I've taken a quick glance through much of my music and believe that a large majority of it have artists that either don't have many music videos, or none.
What would an 808 State music video look like?
I like Verizon. $35/mo for 200 minutes anywhere from Maine to VA (I live outside Boston and travel frequently to upstate NY). Customer service is pretty good, the regular phones are crappy though - I got a Qualcomm 820. The car charger I had broke (damn custom connectors), but Verizon said there was a lifetime warranty on them, so I exchanged it for free.
Anyone remember the "report" from 5 years ago that said 90% of the Internet was pr0n? Time did a big 'ol article on it, the report wound up on the Senate floor, etc.
Too bad the data used for the report was completely wrong.
Too bad that report is still probably being used to decry the evils of the Internet.
No matter how many rebuttals there are, it won't stop the fact that Moody's article is out there. We must demand a correction from Moody or abcnews.com that also gets linked to the original article. Otherwise, 3 years from now, this will come back and bite us again.
Either way, the masses have control. The masses go to Wal-Mart, it prospers. The masses buy Disney DVDs and watch NBC. The masses buy RIAA-endorsed CD and watch MPAA-approved movies. The masses buy PCs with Windows pre-loaded.
These companies all make it pretty much impossible to have alternatives. Go find a high-quality PC without Windows at the same price as a Dell or Gateway. Go watch a DVD that doesn't have CSS on it. Listen to a CD that has no involvement with the RIAA or its member companies. It's hard to do, and getting harder as companies consolidate power. And there's nothing that the masses can do except continue to consume and increase the power of these coroporations.
This isn't to say I'm a socialist/communist, but I do believe that a certain level of government oversight and laws are required for a good balance between the good of the consumers and the quest for profit for corporations and their shareholders.