I just wish I could buy something that records OTA HD (not subscription based - aka TIVO). I don't care if it is HDD based or tape. All the HD dvr's I played with aren't really random access anyway, you still have to FFWD through the program anyhow and it is just as slow as a tape. BUT, there is no equipment I can but today to do this because the damn studio's don't want us to be able to do what we have been doing with SDTV and VCR's for many years. Now they have the tech to stop that and force us all to pay for the privilege of time-shifting OTA programming. I'm sick to death of sorting out which equipment allows displaying to an HD device without HDMI/HDCP. I just want to use component video, nice and simple. HDMI is the biggest scam I've ever seen.
STUPID broadcast flag, and it isn't even mandated by law, yet! I love how PC Mag lists lack of HDCP support as a con when reviewing equipment. As far as I am concerned, HDCP support is not a pro, it is a con.
Redhat explained it me like this:
If your company has any valid support subscriptions with Redhat, the terms of that agreement say that your company will not run any unlicensed copies of the o/s. If you have no subscriptions anywhere in the company, you can run the o/s as long as all of the RHN (up2date, rhnd, etc.) software removed from the system. If you run unlicensed copies of RHEL and Redhat has knowledge of it, they can refuse support for your valid copies.
I have never used Photoshop so I have no pre-conceptions of what an image manipulation gui should be like. I don't find GIMP that hard to use at all. It has been able to do everything I have ever needed to do to images an for free to boot.
1. A flash movie can not write to disk or execute any command. Period. It only has a "cookie" mechanism to store info on user's computer but the user can allow/deny the action and allocate a quota for that info. The cookie is saved in the user's Documents and Settings folder (and the Mac/Linux equivalent), e.g. "C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\LQ93AHGQ\www.youtube.com" The flash app cannot control the location or the file name.
Then what is the flash "Global Storage Settings Panel" option to set 0-unlimited of local storage for?
For the record the company is Thomson and that is a peice of equipment known as the Princeton Engine used by the IC developers to quickly verify their software/algorythms. It was lying around in our computer room (known as the Princeton Engine room) for years. Its replacement is from Cadence and is called Palladium and has the power of several hundred of those old fpga boards.
Why on earth are folks running 64-bit desktops? It's unnecessarily silly. 64-bitness gains you nothing for desktop use, it is meant for systems (servers) that need more RAM than can be addressed via 32-bits. Performance is even slower with 64-bit unless all your apps are native 64-bit ones and I can't think of a single end-user app that is 64-bit.
If you only run games, browsers, email clients, photo editors, etc. why do so many people think they need 64-bit OS's? Especially when there is so little support for non-server 64bit software.
Except small, lightweight cars will be extremely unsafe as long as big ICE vehicles are around. The transition to smaller/lighter/efficient vehicles will have to wait until all the legacy vehicles are no longer in service, which may mean we'll have to wait until there is no oil or it is prohibitively expensive. Even then the rich/affluent population will continue to run expensive petro powered cars because they can afford to unless laws are enacted prohibiting them (and we know how likely it is that will happen).
Hmmm. I just went here, http://www.clearchannelmusic.com/hdradio/ and listened to it with mplayer in firefox on my Linux system without any trouble. I can probably capture it wget if I tried.
I don't think it has anything to do with IP or patents. It has to do with the DMCA circumvention provisions. Most of those codecs (DVD/AACS??) have the hacked keys in them.
No, its not that simple if you do not have a registered account. Here in Indy it is required for first time setup to go to a specific comcast web page to create the account and activate it and this page REQUIRES IE for it to work. I have gone through this dozens of times setting up cable ISP services for people.
I have requested they change there registration site to no avail many times, it is simpler to just call support and have them register for you. Maybe if everyone called support to register they would get the message and try to save the cost of support calls by fixing the automated website.
So, when a program has a "complicated" interface with a "large number of features" it is a professional grade tool but when the free tool "GIMP" has a "complicated interface" with a "large number of features" it is, well, too complicated to use.
"You can only go so far in making something easy to use without losing flexibility."
So which is it? Is GIMP a powerful tool or just a complicated tool? I'm not a graphics pro, but GIMP has done everything I need for graphics quite well and is well worth its price.
I'm so sick of companies like Adobe and Autodesk that charge exorbitant prices for their software because there is no competition (there used to be before they were allowed to buy all the competition and shut them down).
The only systems that ever crash are the ones running unstable apps. My CUPS/NIS/LDAP server has never gone down on it's own. In my experience, Linux is at least as stable as any other OS (I admin Solaris, HP-UX 11.11, RHEL3, and windows). Except for Solaris, RHEL is the most stable OS we have running here.
What is all this "stability" crap? I admin over 100 linux systems in a cluster and they hardly EVER go down on their own. The only thing that crashes our systems are the EDA tools that run the systems out of memory and swap. Other than rogue large footprint apps that would crash any system, ours stay up for at least 6 months at a time without a reboot (most stay up continuously, record uptime in our cluster is 457 days so far).
In my little world Linux is more robust/stable than any other OS except for Solaris.
The primary purpose of RAID is only protection against HARDWARE failure along and enhancing performance. Backups are the only way to protect data from; user error, program errors, O/S errors (file system corruption), and virus infections/hackers, etc.
I always get worried when a scheduled backup fails and I make sure it is corrected ASAP and do regular restores to verify the integrity of data.
I'm sorry, but secure encryption is a complicated subject and anyone who doesn't understand it should not rely on it to be secure. If you lack the basic skills to properly implement it then you have no business using it.
If you observe helecopters hovering at altitude, you'll notice that they aren't actually hovering. They're moving forward very slowly.
That would be news to the high voltage tower service pilot. I've watched as a helicopter hovered absolutely still (+/- 6-12") for over 5 minutes while a tech harnessed to the side and hanging down attaches the insulator on top of the tower in 30 mph wind.
Hovering uses the same fixed-wing aerodynamics as a plane with the tail rotor compensating for the torque against lift, the air stream must travel further over the top than below the wing (rotor) providing lift.
This could be a big boon to battery technology. Plastic is way lighter than lead, cheaper and less toxic than Lithium or Ni-Cad. and maybe more corrosion resistant.
Didn't the NYSE use Solaris running Oracle or other heavyweight db in the past. I heard they were switching to WinTel systems in recent years. If true, that shows how robust Solaris/Sun/Oracle is compared to the MS solution.
So, the very first question is weather this is related to global warming or not. What about.. Or it may be due to hot magma underneath or some previously unknown "conveyor belt"?
Thats a surprise. I've been downloading Linux/Solaris/Unix for how long now?
Yeah you can add the features you want online, but at what cost? Will it be like the $2.99 songs/ringtones for phones, nickel & diming us for each overpriced one?
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I just wish I could buy something that records OTA HD (not subscription based - aka TIVO). I don't care if it is HDD based or tape. All the HD dvr's I played with aren't really random access anyway, you still have to FFWD through the program anyhow and it is just as slow as a tape. BUT, there is no equipment I can but today to do this because the damn studio's don't want us to be able to do what we have been doing with SDTV and VCR's for many years. Now they have the tech to stop that and force us all to pay for the privilege of time-shifting OTA programming. I'm sick to death of sorting out which equipment allows displaying to an HD device without HDMI/HDCP. I just want to use component video, nice and simple. HDMI is the biggest scam I've ever seen.
STUPID broadcast flag, and it isn't even mandated by law, yet! I love how PC Mag lists lack of HDCP support as a con when reviewing equipment. As far as I am concerned, HDCP support is not a pro, it is a con.
Redhat explained it me like this: If your company has any valid support subscriptions with Redhat, the terms of that agreement say that your company will not run any unlicensed copies of the o/s. If you have no subscriptions anywhere in the company, you can run the o/s as long as all of the RHN (up2date, rhnd, etc.) software removed from the system. If you run unlicensed copies of RHEL and Redhat has knowledge of it, they can refuse support for your valid copies.
I have never used Photoshop so I have no pre-conceptions of what an image manipulation gui should be like. I don't find GIMP that hard to use at all. It has been able to do everything I have ever needed to do to images an for free to boot.
1. A flash movie can not write to disk or execute any command. Period. It only has a "cookie" mechanism to store info on user's computer but the user can allow/deny the action and allocate a quota for that info. The cookie is saved in the user's Documents and Settings folder (and the Mac/Linux equivalent), e.g. "C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\LQ93AHGQ\www.youtube.com" The flash app cannot control the location or the file name.
Then what is the flash "Global Storage Settings Panel" option to set 0-unlimited of local storage for?
Some folks probably burn as a regular filesystem rather than an iso or don't know the difference.
For the record the company is Thomson and that is a peice of equipment known as the Princeton Engine used by the IC developers to quickly verify their software/algorythms. It was lying around in our computer room (known as the Princeton Engine room) for years. Its replacement is from Cadence and is called Palladium and has the power of several hundred of those old fpga boards.
Then they can turn on SkyNet ...
Why on earth are folks running 64-bit desktops? It's unnecessarily silly. 64-bitness gains you nothing for desktop use, it is meant for systems (servers) that need more RAM than can be addressed via 32-bits. Performance is even slower with 64-bit unless all your apps are native 64-bit ones and I can't think of a single end-user app that is 64-bit.
If you only run games, browsers, email clients, photo editors, etc. why do so many people think they need 64-bit OS's? Especially when there is so little support for non-server 64bit software.
Except small, lightweight cars will be extremely unsafe as long as big ICE vehicles are around. The transition to smaller/lighter/efficient vehicles will have to wait until all the legacy vehicles are no longer in service, which may mean we'll have to wait until there is no oil or it is prohibitively expensive. Even then the rich/affluent population will continue to run expensive petro powered cars because they can afford to unless laws are enacted prohibiting them (and we know how likely it is that will happen).
Hmmm. I just went here, http://www.clearchannelmusic.com/hdradio/ and listened to it with mplayer in firefox on my Linux system without any trouble. I can probably capture it wget if I tried.
No DRM there, yet.
I don't think it has anything to do with IP or patents. It has to do with the DMCA circumvention provisions. Most of those codecs (DVD/AACS??) have the hacked keys in them.
No, its not that simple if you do not have a registered account. Here in Indy it is required for first time setup to go to a specific comcast web page to create the account and activate it and this page REQUIRES IE for it to work. I have gone through this dozens of times setting up cable ISP services for people. I have requested they change there registration site to no avail many times, it is simpler to just call support and have them register for you. Maybe if everyone called support to register they would get the message and try to save the cost of support calls by fixing the automated website.
What happens is that when you call Comscast to get registered is that the operator goes into IE and registers for you within their network.
Mandrake costs quite a bit, ubuntu is free $$.
So, when a program has a "complicated" interface with a "large number of features" it is a professional grade tool but when the free tool "GIMP" has a "complicated interface" with a "large number of features" it is, well, too complicated to use.
"You can only go so far in making something easy to use without losing flexibility."
So which is it? Is GIMP a powerful tool or just a complicated tool? I'm not a graphics pro, but GIMP has done everything I need for graphics quite well and is well worth its price.
I'm so sick of companies like Adobe and Autodesk that charge exorbitant prices for their software because there is no competition (there used to be before they were allowed to buy all the competition and shut them down).
The only systems that ever crash are the ones running unstable apps. My CUPS/NIS/LDAP server has never gone down on it's own. In my experience, Linux is at least as stable as any other OS (I admin Solaris, HP-UX 11.11, RHEL3, and windows). Except for Solaris, RHEL is the most stable OS we have running here.
What is all this "stability" crap? I admin over 100 linux systems in a cluster and they hardly EVER go down on their own. The only thing that crashes our systems are the EDA tools that run the systems out of memory and swap. Other than rogue large footprint apps that would crash any system, ours stay up for at least 6 months at a time without a reboot (most stay up continuously, record uptime in our cluster is 457 days so far).
In my little world Linux is more robust/stable than any other OS except for Solaris.
The primary purpose of RAID is only protection against HARDWARE failure along and enhancing performance. Backups are the only way to protect data from; user error, program errors, O/S errors (file system corruption), and virus infections/hackers, etc.
I always get worried when a scheduled backup fails and I make sure it is corrected ASAP and do regular restores to verify the integrity of data.
I'm sorry, but secure encryption is a complicated subject and anyone who doesn't understand it should not rely on it to be secure. If you lack the basic skills to properly implement it then you have no business using it.
That would be news to the high voltage tower service pilot. I've watched as a helicopter hovered absolutely still (+/- 6-12") for over 5 minutes while a tech harnessed to the side and hanging down attaches the insulator on top of the tower in 30 mph wind.
Hovering uses the same fixed-wing aerodynamics as a plane with the tail rotor compensating for the torque against lift, the air stream must travel further over the top than below the wing (rotor) providing lift.
This could be a big boon to battery technology. Plastic is way lighter than lead, cheaper and less toxic than Lithium or Ni-Cad. and maybe more corrosion resistant.
Didn't the NYSE use Solaris running Oracle or other heavyweight db in the past. I heard they were switching to WinTel systems in recent years. If true, that shows how robust Solaris/Sun/Oracle is compared to the MS solution.
"Which sounds reasonable to me. No causality claims were made."
What do you call this???
"...and scientists are interested in studying whether the temperatures are related to global warming."
So, the very first question is weather this is related to global warming or not. What about.. Or it may be due to hot magma underneath or some previously unknown "conveyor belt"?
Not jumping to conclusions or anything, are we??
Thats a surprise. I've been downloading Linux/Solaris/Unix for how long now?
Yeah you can add the features you want online, but at what cost? Will it be like the $2.99 songs/ringtones for phones, nickel & diming us for each overpriced one?