Heheh... Thanks for the link. I found it most humorous. The "Insults Against Women" page particularly. It reads like the writings of some self-made victim of society, and things are frequently deliberately misinterpreted from the meaning that would be most likely perceived if the passages were quoted in context, and considered with the probable customs and culture of the period in history. Also, it's well-known that the Bible has been translated and copied very many times, and some of its content has been lost or altered. Some mistranslated passages are quoted as though they were correct (the example of Lot protecting the angles is an example; in another translation, he does not yield his daughters to the men of Sodom and Gomorrah, but warns them (the men) not to touch his daughters, presumably because they were desiring them as well).
I don't know about you but I would like to be able to avoid having my keystrokes monitored by somebody placing a $20 gadget onto my PS/2 cable in order to get passwords. Of the pieces of NGSCB is encryption over the wire for devices.
It's not that hard to keep malicious attackers from physically accessing your system... If you don't have physical security, you have nothing.
Load encrypted file, Verify Rights, Decrypt Audio Stream, send result to sound card which saves it straight to Wav, MP3, or Ogg. Thank you very much.
You can do this exact thing in the free KX project emu10k1 drivers, if you have an emu10k1 sound card (like EMU Aps, Creative Sound Blaster Live/Audigy), by connecting a virtual patch cable from the WAV play lines to the WAV record lines. You can even record decoded surround sound from applications, or all channels of a game's audio, if you have a multichannel ASIO recording program.
I really love mplayer because it is fast and responsive, delivers a much better quality than any windows player I used
While the still image quality of all the Linux players is much better, the A/V sync code seems to be very poor, especially for playing back 24p DVD's with S/PDIF audio output. Smooth pans are anything but smooth. It almost looks like they're trying to sync to 30fps, and just tossing out frames from the 24fps at about the right place, rather than displaying them at a continuous 24fps. Mplayer's -autosync 120 option helps with that quite a bit, but there are still noticable skips now and then. Does anybody know how to deal with these problems in Xine, Ogle, or Mplayer?
This different from any flyer. Software that runs on mission critical (i.e. "if it fails people will die") systems should be waranteed and audited as much as possible. I highly doubt that even Microsoft would recommend Windows XP and Outlook for running nuclear stations. At least, I hope not. Windows nor Linux are designed to that level of control. Such systems should be extremely simple, a few thousand lines of code max (or some number that's easy enough for a team of programmers and debuggers to go through with a fine toothed comb), designed using proven base realtime OSes, or no OS if necessary. These systems should also be isolated from any possible source of virus attack.
None of the gentoo ebuilds will add their programs to startup. You have to, for example, rc-update add mysql default. There's also/etc/conf.d/local.start and/etc/conf.d/local.stop for running stuff similar to rc.local.
Dude... Slackware's init system is not excellent. It's a mess! You add/remove things to/from startup by editing the startup scripts themselves! It doesn't even have dependency tracking. Yeah, Slackware's supposed to be "leet" and all, but it's not the init system that makes it so.
Gentoo's intelligent SysV-based init system is much more useful IMO.
If two programs don't need one another to run, but they sleep a long time waiting for i.e. network resources, they can both be started at the same time. Running all non-interdependent tasks in parallel speeds init times, because while one daemon is sleeping another can be doing its thing, rather than starting everything serially.
Parallel initialization is nothing new. This is something we were working on for U4X back in the day. Too bad U4X never took off; all of us developers had school and work to keep up with.
Turning one average high-end box off at night can save as much as $14 a month. For hardcore system hackers who have 4+ boxes, that can amount to a pretty sizable hardware upgrade every year. It also benefits the environment if your electricity is provided by a coal burning power plant.
Man, cheesy puffs are the one of the best snacks while coding. I just can't get enough of them! You can get big barrels of them from some company called "Utz" at Sam's Club.
Speaking of Walton-owned chains.. Does anybody else feel like they've walked into some kind of giant corporate washing machine whenever they walk into a Super Walmart? I swear it seems like the scene from Minority Report where all those advertisements are going on everywhere. It's a washing machine all right. A brainwashing machine. These buildings are freaking huge and impersonal. There's one ten minutes from me, and they're putting in another one five minutes from me in the other direction. They're only like 12 minutes away from each other. What's up with that?
Open standards forever! I think government should mandate that all public records be stored using open standards, and that the software to access those records can always be available. Maybe some kind of escrow-like thing where if computers are no longer compatible with the software, the government gets the source code to update the software. Also, the public shouldn't have to pay for the software to access public records; it should be freely available.
I think it's great how they find this jawbone that has large molars and all of a sudden that means that there was inter-species reproduction and all the current crackpot theories have to be thrown out the window for a new crackpot theory...
Sometimes scientists infer and speculate way too much based on the data they have. It's kind of getting stretched so far it's starting not to resemble science at all.
It seems to me that the friend's problem was only slightly the influence of LZ. Mostly, he/she cared too much about what LZ was saying (a common error among humankind).
The film image bounces up and down a lot because the holes in the film are not exactly the same size as the pegs or spikes that move the film through the projector. On the first showing of a film, the bouncing is much less noticable, or possibly nonexistent, but with each successive showing the holes are streched out, so each frame is not always lined up exactly how the one preceeding it was.
Joking about the exploitation of innocent children is far from appropriate. This is highly distasteful. You should be ashamed of yourself. Please, consider more carefully what you're talking about before posting. Obviously you don't have children (or younger siblings (I have no children myself)) that you care about.
Every Samsung hard drive I've owned has grown steadily louder over time. It's really aggravating. All of my newer Seagate Barracuda drives still run quiet with those spiffy fluid bearings. The Seagate drives are 7200RPM, and the Samsung drives are 5400RPM.
Now if only someone would come along with a decent capacity 15000RPM drive that I could afford...
Yeah, I know this is a troll and all, but I'm going to say this before someone else agrees with you...
I've been using Linux as my primary (unfortunately not only) OS for the last few years. I've reached level 10 of the stages of Linux user evolution (i.e. I write my own device drivers). My laptop that I bought a year ago came preinstalled with WindowsXP. Sure, it's nice and pretty, and I thought "cool" when I plugged in my DV camera and a dialog came up asking if I wanted to capture video. But, when I actually wanted to do something useful, it became an extreme pain. There is nothing beyond that extremely simple "ooh, pretty" interface. Yeah, you can select a bunch of files in a directory and click "burn to cd," but what happens when you want to burn a.iso, or create a multisession or data+audio CD? The functionality simply doesn't exist without purchasing some third party software. Nearly every single Linux distribution comes with the tools necessary to do anything, from burn CD's to write your own software.
Linux is for getting stuff done. Windows is just for home users who don't want to take the time to learn how to click launch->programs->video->kino or whatever, and depend on having an automagical dialog displayed for them. They're the kind of people who download a song from p2p all over again when they want to listen to it a second time.
Unfortunately not everybody gets it right in X11. There are some X-like implementations, some Windows-like implementations, some in-between implementations that make no sense at all, and some apps don't even support copy/paste. Personally, I want to have two clipboard buffers, the selection buffer and a copy buffer (though the names might be different). The selection buffer would be used for mark+middle click quick copy/paste, while the copy buffer can be used to keep something until I tell it to go away with a ctrl-C or something. It should be pasted with maybe a shift+middle click or a ctrl-V.
Sleep calls don't go to the card. They tell the scheduler "don't run this program for the next X milliseconds." The scheduler will not schedule the test program at all. All the other manufacturer has to do is put more sleep calls in than the first manufacturer.
This is not acceptable. The benchmarks cannot be developed by anyone influenced by the hardware manufacturers. Otherwise you'll have manufacturer A putting sleep calls in their anti-manufacturer-B benchmark and vice versa. Then you'll just have a test of how quickly the computer finishes 2000 calls to sleep for 100ms, rather than 2000 calls to draw the screen and swap buffers.
Then you'll have driver manufacturers figuring out a way to disable the sleep system call....
You know, you can put xmms on a desktop by itself, then you just have to hit Alt-4 (or Ctrl-F2 or whatever), C, to pause the music, and you can quickly hit Alt-1 to switch back to code.
I have a blue label model M (the one with the beverage drains), part number 52G9658. It's certainly a lot of fun to type on, though I don't know if it helps my speed or not.
No, they weren't. They do their graphics in house. The guy who does most of the graphics is really good, and a cool guy.
they took all the good stuf [like apt, gimp] out
apt is still there! All you have to do to start installing software from debian's repository is apt-get update; apt-get install gimp (or some other package). You can edit/etc/apt/sources.list to add unstable and get more recent software versions, or add others custom repositories for packages not in debian.
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Heheh... Thanks for the link. I found it most humorous. The "Insults Against Women" page particularly. It reads like the writings of some self-made victim of society, and things are frequently deliberately misinterpreted from the meaning that would be most likely perceived if the passages were quoted in context, and considered with the probable customs and culture of the period in history. Also, it's well-known that the Bible has been translated and copied very many times, and some of its content has been lost or altered. Some mistranslated passages are quoted as though they were correct (the example of Lot protecting the angles is an example; in another translation, he does not yield his daughters to the men of Sodom and Gomorrah, but warns them (the men) not to touch his daughters, presumably because they were desiring them as well).
I don't know about you but I would like to be able to avoid having my keystrokes monitored by somebody placing a $20 gadget onto my PS/2 cable in order to get passwords. Of the pieces of NGSCB is encryption over the wire for devices.
It's not that hard to keep malicious attackers from physically accessing your system... If you don't have physical security, you have nothing.
Load encrypted file, Verify Rights, Decrypt Audio Stream, send result to sound card which saves it straight to Wav, MP3, or Ogg. Thank you very much.
You can do this exact thing in the free KX project emu10k1 drivers, if you have an emu10k1 sound card (like EMU Aps, Creative Sound Blaster Live/Audigy), by connecting a virtual patch cable from the WAV play lines to the WAV record lines. You can even record decoded surround sound from applications, or all channels of a game's audio, if you have a multichannel ASIO recording program.
I really love mplayer because it is fast and responsive, delivers a much better quality than any windows player I used
While the still image quality of all the Linux players is much better, the A/V sync code seems to be very poor, especially for playing back 24p DVD's with S/PDIF audio output. Smooth pans are anything but smooth. It almost looks like they're trying to sync to 30fps, and just tossing out frames from the 24fps at about the right place, rather than displaying them at a continuous 24fps. Mplayer's -autosync 120 option helps with that quite a bit, but there are still noticable skips now and then. Does anybody know how to deal with these problems in Xine, Ogle, or Mplayer?
This different from any flyer. Software that runs on mission critical (i.e. "if it fails people will die") systems should be waranteed and audited as much as possible. I highly doubt that even Microsoft would recommend Windows XP and Outlook for running nuclear stations. At least, I hope not. Windows nor Linux are designed to that level of control. Such systems should be extremely simple, a few thousand lines of code max (or some number that's easy enough for a team of programmers and debuggers to go through with a fine toothed comb), designed using proven base realtime OSes, or no OS if necessary. These systems should also be isolated from any possible source of virus attack.
None of the gentoo ebuilds will add their programs to startup. You have to, for example, rc-update add mysql default. There's also /etc/conf.d/local.start and /etc/conf.d/local.stop for running stuff similar to rc.local.
Maybe it had something to do with the BSD advertising clause. Until that was removed, Linux couldn't borrow BSD code under the GPL.
Dude... Slackware's init system is not excellent. It's a mess! You add/remove things to/from startup by editing the startup scripts themselves! It doesn't even have dependency tracking. Yeah, Slackware's supposed to be "leet" and all, but it's not the init system that makes it so.
Gentoo's intelligent SysV-based init system is much more useful IMO.
If two programs don't need one another to run, but they sleep a long time waiting for i.e. network resources, they can both be started at the same time. Running all non-interdependent tasks in parallel speeds init times, because while one daemon is sleeping another can be doing its thing, rather than starting everything serially.
Parallel initialization is nothing new. This is something we were working on for U4X back in the day. Too bad U4X never took off; all of us developers had school and work to keep up with.
Turning one average high-end box off at night can save as much as $14 a month. For hardcore system hackers who have 4+ boxes, that can amount to a pretty sizable hardware upgrade every year. It also benefits the environment if your electricity is provided by a coal burning power plant.
Man, cheesy puffs are the one of the best snacks while coding. I just can't get enough of them! You can get big barrels of them from some company called "Utz" at Sam's Club.
Speaking of Walton-owned chains.. Does anybody else feel like they've walked into some kind of giant corporate washing machine whenever they walk into a Super Walmart? I swear it seems like the scene from Minority Report where all those advertisements are going on everywhere. It's a washing machine all right. A brainwashing machine. These buildings are freaking huge and impersonal. There's one ten minutes from me, and they're putting in another one five minutes from me in the other direction. They're only like 12 minutes away from each other. What's up with that?
Open standards forever! I think government should mandate that all public records be stored using open standards, and that the software to access those records can always be available. Maybe some kind of escrow-like thing where if computers are no longer compatible with the software, the government gets the source code to update the software. Also, the public shouldn't have to pay for the software to access public records; it should be freely available.
I think it's great how they find this jawbone that has large molars and all of a sudden that means that there was inter-species reproduction and all the current crackpot theories have to be thrown out the window for a new crackpot theory...
Sometimes scientists infer and speculate way too much based on the data they have. It's kind of getting stretched so far it's starting not to resemble science at all.
Your monitor's circuitry or your VGA cable are too poor quality. Turn your refresh rate down to 72Hz or even 60Hz.
It seems to me that the friend's problem was only slightly the influence of LZ. Mostly, he/she cared too much about what LZ was saying (a common error among humankind).
The film image bounces up and down a lot because the holes in the film are not exactly the same size as the pegs or spikes that move the film through the projector. On the first showing of a film, the bouncing is much less noticable, or possibly nonexistent, but with each successive showing the holes are streched out, so each frame is not always lined up exactly how the one preceeding it was.
Joking about the exploitation of innocent children is far from appropriate. This is highly distasteful. You should be ashamed of yourself. Please, consider more carefully what you're talking about before posting. Obviously you don't have children (or younger siblings (I have no children myself)) that you care about.
Every Samsung hard drive I've owned has grown steadily louder over time. It's really aggravating. All of my newer Seagate Barracuda drives still run quiet with those spiffy fluid bearings. The Seagate drives are 7200RPM, and the Samsung drives are 5400RPM.
Now if only someone would come along with a decent capacity 15000RPM drive that I could afford...
Yeah, I know this is a troll and all, but I'm going to say this before someone else agrees with you...
.iso, or create a multisession or data+audio CD? The functionality simply doesn't exist without purchasing some third party software. Nearly every single Linux distribution comes with the tools necessary to do anything, from burn CD's to write your own software.
I've been using Linux as my primary (unfortunately not only) OS for the last few years. I've reached level 10 of the stages of Linux user evolution (i.e. I write my own device drivers). My laptop that I bought a year ago came preinstalled with WindowsXP. Sure, it's nice and pretty, and I thought "cool" when I plugged in my DV camera and a dialog came up asking if I wanted to capture video. But, when I actually wanted to do something useful, it became an extreme pain. There is nothing beyond that extremely simple "ooh, pretty" interface. Yeah, you can select a bunch of files in a directory and click "burn to cd," but what happens when you want to burn a
Linux is for getting stuff done. Windows is just for home users who don't want to take the time to learn how to click launch->programs->video->kino or whatever, and depend on having an automagical dialog displayed for them. They're the kind of people who download a song from p2p all over again when they want to listen to it a second time.
Unfortunately not everybody gets it right in X11. There are some X-like implementations, some Windows-like implementations, some in-between implementations that make no sense at all, and some apps don't even support copy/paste. Personally, I want to have two clipboard buffers, the selection buffer and a copy buffer (though the names might be different). The selection buffer would be used for mark+middle click quick copy/paste, while the copy buffer can be used to keep something until I tell it to go away with a ctrl-C or something. It should be pasted with maybe a shift+middle click or a ctrl-V.
If you're drinking unpurified well water, you probably have a lot more than just fluorine in there...
Sleep calls don't go to the card. They tell the scheduler "don't run this program for the next X milliseconds." The scheduler will not schedule the test program at all. All the other manufacturer has to do is put more sleep calls in than the first manufacturer.
This is not acceptable. The benchmarks cannot be developed by anyone influenced by the hardware manufacturers. Otherwise you'll have manufacturer A putting sleep calls in their anti-manufacturer-B benchmark and vice versa. Then you'll just have a test of how quickly the computer finishes 2000 calls to sleep for 100ms, rather than 2000 calls to draw the screen and swap buffers.
Then you'll have driver manufacturers figuring out a way to disable the sleep system call....
You know, you can put xmms on a desktop by itself, then you just have to hit Alt-4 (or Ctrl-F2 or whatever), C, to pause the music, and you can quickly hit Alt-1 to switch back to code.
I have a blue label model M (the one with the beverage drains), part number 52G9658. It's certainly a lot of fun to type on, though I don't know if it helps my speed or not.
the icons are stolen from MacOS X
/etc/apt/sources.list to add unstable and get more recent software versions, or add others custom repositories for packages not in debian.
No, they weren't. They do their graphics in house. The guy who does most of the graphics is really good, and a cool guy.
they took all the good stuf [like apt, gimp] out
apt is still there! All you have to do to start installing software from debian's repository is apt-get update; apt-get install gimp (or some other package). You can edit