There is actually an RFC you can refer to for help on the difficult problem of naming computers:
Why are they using an ATI card? Nvidia cards have much better support under linux generally, including full 1080p h264, mpeg2 and wmv hardware decode support. ATI don't have any hardware video decoding support at all, so to play HD films you need a much more beefy cpu creating a lot more heat and noise than with the nvidia solution.
ATI's drivers still haven't really got much better, tried installing them on a friend's Ubuntu pc the other day for a radeon 3650. Trying to enable compiz caused the entire system to hang immediately, and the only way to get working video was to use the opengl output option. The open source drivers aren't exactly brilliant at the moment either. If you want real opengl or video support on linux your only option is still nvidia.
Mod parent up, absolutely. The British wall socket plugs are simply the best, deliberately designed so they don't come out of the wall when you trip over or yank on the power cord (this is a feature, not a bug, if you want it unplugged go to the wall and pull it out people).
They're also slimline so they can slip down in small spaces behind furniture or against walls unlike those European plugs that stick out a mile. They're very safe, I really can't think of any flaws with the design at all.
Yes!
(Seriously, linux needs a standard base to work off. The current mess is completely untenable)
This actually sounds like a good idea, we were already planning on doing this after the exams finish, but I'll make sure it happens this time.
I'm fairly sure any interaction with women would cure him as well, just gotta get him drunk enough and in the right club...
Relevant hydrogenaudio thread: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?s=55b656dc8cdb3b97da794e936b2a9b1d&showtopic=70548
In summary, it seems like a fairly useless and poorly thought out format. To be clear, this WILL NOT play losslessly in a standard mp3 player, you must use a special decoder to get the lossless bit. It will only play the lossy component in a normal mp3 player.
Lossless information stored in id3v2 tags? Bad hack that will break just about every tagging program out there. File sizes much larger than real lossless codecs and encoding/decoding speed is much slower than flac. Also you can't have tracks longer than about an hour due to id3v2 size limits. Additionally, a full size flac file and 256kbit mp3 often comes in at a SMALLER size than this one monolithic hacked up mp3.
Nothing to see here people, this is a waste of time. Something like lossy/lossless wavpack hybrid is a much better solution.
Sam
Anyone else think that 10 is a very small number to top out at?
Anyone else here who is on a private tracker with strict ratio requirements will most likely be seeding at least 100 torrents 24/7.
Alternatively you could just get Be Unlimited, which gives you up to 24mb/s and NO CAP for £18 a month. Why anybody uses anything else I have no idea.
Sam
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