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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Template for users wishing to write a mini-review

« Last post by housetier on August 01, 2006, 05:55 PM »

I think the template is great as it is now, it gives reviewers something to go by. However, if it gets much larger it will be intimidating IIRC this is for a mini-review only. I really like the idea of a template though, its great and it absolutely will be a great help

hmm so what's more... a yes a couple of screenshots. Oh and the URL of course!

I hope this will encourage many users to write mini-reviews. I see this more of a guideline than minimum set of requirements that have to be fulfilled. Thanks a lot for your hard work, Josh!

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Living Room / Re: Found currency experiment

« Last post by housetier on August 01, 2006, 07:24 AM »

I have been picking up money too, coins mainly. There has been an occasioal bill too but over the years it wasn't really that much. One time I found 20 EUR and said to my friend "OK, let's go in there and get some beers!"

It is randomly found and just as randomly spent.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Scripting vs. Programming

« Last post by housetier on August 01, 2006, 06:16 AM »

but I think there's some usefulness in being able to differ between "I wrote a little program" vs. "I wrote a little script"

-f0dder (July 30, 2006, 03:26 PM)

Where is the difference? And much more importantly: What's the use? (Many songs have been writting about this question, it seems kinda fundamental)

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Living Room / Re: Math is an Attitude

« Last post by housetier on July 31, 2006, 07:32 PM »

Of course we can't be all nice all the time, so here is a different page that makes fun of all the mathematically "challenged" out there. Please don't be too offended though.

I mean while their solutions would seem painfully wrong, they did follow certain rules to arrive at the solution. The rules applied weren't the ones taught so the result was wrong, but I think some of these folks should get credit for consistency or at least creativity:

six = 6

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Living Room / Math is an Attitude

« Last post by housetier on July 31, 2006, 03:28 AM »

I just stumbledupon curiousmath.com, a web site about neat tricks you can do with math. It explains how to easily compute certain operations in your brain.

I does not seem to aim at the math professionals alone, but especially to those who feel uneasy when it comes to numbers. I haven't explored it very much yet, but I already learned an interesting fact about dividing by 7...

I recommend this because I think there are far too many people with an irrational (no pun intended) fear of numbers or algebra. As soon as they see a formular or have to calculate something, their brains lock up; but at the same time, most of these people manage to lead a household or go shopping without problems. I hope this site may help them to overcome this block.

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Living Room / Re: Windows Powershell from Microsoft (free)

« Last post by housetier on July 30, 2006, 07:35 PM »

My roomy has been trying it. Maybe I can get an interview of sorts from him.

There are neat ideas; it will have an impact on other (opensource) shells for sure. I haven't worked with it myself so I won't rate it, but I hope it is good; Might as well be the one thing they did right the past 10 years.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Template for users wishing to write a mini-review

« Last post by housetier on July 30, 2006, 05:04 AM »

I would like to add a section "Why I think you should consider this", a more personal and surely subjective view.

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Living Room / Re: What are your best working hours?

« Last post by housetier on July 30, 2006, 05:01 AM »

I am most productive from 06:00 until 14:00, but that's also the time I sleep best. If I am on a job, I make do with mediocre sleep and good working hours. I just need to sleep a little more than usual. Unemployed as I currently am, I very much enjoy sleeping during these times, I feel GREAT when I get up.

Amurkans note: I used Military Time, it would be 6 AM through 2 PM in your timezone...

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Living Room / Re: The Long Tail and it's Doubters

« Last post by housetier on July 30, 2006, 04:56 AM »

Let's play with words a little. It won't be sound at all so don't get worked up over it.

We pick a

The Future of Business Is Selling Less of More.

This could mean you have fewer customers to which you provide more services. When we take that to extremes, you might have 1 (one) customer only, for whom you do everything. "Customer" of course means someone you give something (in this case almost everything) to, and from whom you get something else in return, money maybe. (Is your head spinning fast enough yet?)

Now, to entirely depend on one person only means you either have an extremely close relationship (child-parent) or you are a slave and master. (NOW I got yer heads in a spin, right?)

By now you are wondering where the connection to the original post is. When we accept the stretches and re-definitions of words and put them back into the original quote, we could say:

The Future of Business is Slavery.

 

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Living Room / [jp]fight-oh, fight-oh![/jp]

« Last post by housetier on July 30, 2006, 04:39 AM »

Ah its most loverly to see the cat-lovers prevail against the cat haters (who shouldn't be posting here anyway). Thank you for cute cat pictures.

I must admit, kittenwars is a litte tacky 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Scripting vs. Programming

« Last post by housetier on July 30, 2006, 04:30 AM »

In school I learned that every (part of a) program could be seen as following the principal "input-process-output". A function/method/procedure/sub is called with parameters (input), does something with them (process), and has thus changed the data, sometimes explicitely "return"ing it.

This uhmm metaphor can be extended: not only do functions call each other, programs can call each other; and to extend it even more: computers can "call" other computers to get a certain task done.

And when we are willing to accept that "The Internet" is a giant program, then a one-liner such as

[Select]

echo There are $(dpkg -l *glib*|grep ^ii|wc -l) \"glib\"-packages installed.

should be considered a program too.

So what my teacher was getting at was not the looks, but how it was used: it's a program if it does something (anything!) with given data. No mentions of "professional" or "compilation".

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Living Room / Re: Diigo - social bookmarking and annotation

« Last post by housetier on July 27, 2006, 08:13 AM »

Woah! There are so many features that I am not sure I will need them all. I don't even use half of stumbleupon atm.

However I will keep this thing in mind, in case I feel stumbleupon is lacking something and diigo might have it. I don't want to discourage anybody from using this though, it just seems too much for me.

I already have so many plugins installed:

If someone from dc.com tried it, I'd be very interested in a supertiny review

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Living Room / Re: Diigo - social bookmarking and annotation

« Last post by housetier on July 27, 2006, 07:19 AM »

Hmm yeah diigo.com are overhauling their website atm; we shall see how it works, when I installed their toolbar/extension thingie.

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Living Room / Re: How DC.com made me a donator

« Last post by housetier on July 27, 2006, 06:12 AM »

  Such a nice story! I am glad you caught the spirit.
You are making a difference already, your donations are helping. 

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Living Room / Re: What are your favorite RSS Feeds?

« Last post by housetier on July 26, 2006, 06:44 AM »

The few I chose for now are:

• Global Guerrillas
• Sexy Desktop
• TalkLeft
• Global Voices Online
• and all the podcasters

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Living Room / Re: Mathematical Imagery Gallery

« Last post by housetier on July 26, 2006, 03:37 AM »

Fractals and Lyapunov are often seen together, both are used to create pretty images. I find the usual Mandelbrot and Julia sets somewhat boring. The graphic representation of an array of Lyapunov exponents is not a fractal though.

There used to be a program for x windows by name "xlyap", I can still find its man-pages on the net; it seems to (have) be(en) a part of a collection of xscreensaver programs. For windows I found this, and this seems to be a matlab program.

I was hoping Gnofract4D would have a Lyapunov function, but I couldn't find the answer on the site of the projet; I am guessing it is primarily for fractals. Another program I have to write myself, it seems...

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Living Room / Re: Mathematical Imagery Gallery

« Last post by housetier on July 25, 2006, 02:00 PM »

I was in a mathematical research group at one of the Fraunhofer Institutes. Some fellow members worked on a project to improve ray tracing techniques; my "project" dealt with the Lyapunov exponent, basically a number that says how robust a certain iterative function is towards perturbation.

I'll skip the nasty details to say that one could normalize this exponent and make a color value of it. Chosing a nice color space, one could get amazing results. Some images where incredibly dynamic, others looked like they had a third dimension (which was impossible from the way the data was calculated and projected). Results also depend on the specific formular and chose perturbation pattern: slight variations of either could lead to completely different results.

Results are often spectacular!

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Living Room / Re: Furry Friends

« Last post by housetier on July 25, 2006, 12:51 PM »

 

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Living Room / Re: Furry Friends

« Last post by housetier on July 25, 2006, 09:46 AM »

mine are both better that all of them. 

-Rover (July 25, 2006, 09:37 AM)

I believe it when I SEE it. Post some pictures please! 

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Living Room / Furry Friends

« Last post by housetier on July 25, 2006, 09:32 AM »

I like cats very much. They are awesome creatures. It is a shame so few landlords allow pets in their apartments, despite the calming/soothing/positive effects of pets in general and cats in particular.

Since I cannot own a cat for myself  , I have to look at other people's cats. Thusly configured stumbleupon.com () stumbled me upon a collection of cats' facial expressions and their meanings. This is very funny.
 

You should add your own funny cat link here, so we can all share our cat love. 

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Living Room / Re: What are your favorite RSS Feeds?

« Last post by housetier on July 25, 2006, 03:01 AM »

lol when I imported that opml, my feed reader showed about 7100 unread "news". To quote from a very funny movie:

That's a lot of nuts!

-http://imdb.com/title/tt0240468/

I am sure I won't keep all of them, but there might be some pearls in that chest.

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Living Room / You would have to be geek to understand this

« Last post by housetier on July 23, 2006, 03:45 PM »

Phew that was quite an amount of information, right?

-housetier (July 23, 2006, 03:31 PM)

Well, wait until you have seen the list of software packages!

dpkg -l|grep ^ii|wc -l
1058

-housetier@ganymede

dpkg -l|grep ^ii|wc -l
715

-housetier@jupiter

I should not forget to mention that "ganymede" is my laptop, whereas "jupiter" is the server. Other client names include "callisto", "io" and "europa"; these are the four moons of Jupiter that Galileo discovered. For geeks like me it is important to have a naming scheme; and let me warn you to never use a real person's name, it is not a good idea!

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Living Room / Behold, Here Cometh The Nerd!

« Last post by housetier on July 23, 2006, 03:31 PM »

So let me be superverbose AND geeky at the same time 

First, my laptop:
CPU

cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 8
model name      : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping        : 6
cpu MHz         : 852.033
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse up
bogomips        : 1704.69

RAM

cat /proc/meminfo

MemTotal:       256292 kB
MemFree:          7660 kB
Buffers:          4348 kB
Cached:         108368 kB
SwapCached:      12556 kB
Active:         156244 kB
Inactive:        64776 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       256292 kB
LowFree:          7660 kB
SwapTotal:      433712 kB
SwapFree:       383452 kB
Dirty:              24 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:         146136 kB
Slab:             8536 kB
CommitLimit:    561856 kB
Committed_AS:   396300 kB
PageTables:       1172 kB
VmallocTotal:   770040 kB
VmallocUsed:      3288 kB
VmallocChunk:   765940 kB

Installed Hardware:

sudo lspci -vv

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.: Unknown device 1040
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64
        Region 0: Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 1.0
                Status: RQ=32 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW- AGP3- Rate=x2
                Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- AGP+ GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>

0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap- 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 128
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
        Memory behind bridge: f0000000-f7ffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 28000000-280fffff
        BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B+

0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1988 Allegro-1 (rev 12)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.: Unknown device 1049
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32 (500ns min, 6000ns max)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
        Region 0: I/O ports at f800 [size=256]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

0000:00:06.1 Communication controller: ESS Technology ESS Modem (rev 12)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.: Unknown device 1049
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
        Region 0: I/O ports at f400 [size=256]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=100mA PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable+ DSel=0 DScale=0 PME+

0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0

0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64
        Region 4: I/O ports at fcd0 [size=16]

0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64
        Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 9
        Region 4: I/O ports at fce0 [size=32]

0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Interrupt: pin ? routed to IRQ 9

0000:00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.: Unknown device 1045
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64 (8000ns min, 16000ns max)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
        Region 0: I/O ports at f000 [size=256]
        Region 1: Memory at fedffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 80)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.: Unknown device 1044
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
        Region 0: Memory at 28100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176
        Memory window 0: 20000000-21fff000 (prefetchable)
        Memory window 1: 22000000-23fff000
        I/O window 0: 00001000-000010ff
        I/O window 1: 00001400-000014ff
        BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt+ PostWrite-
        16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:00:0a.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 80)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.: Unknown device 1044
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64
        Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 9
        Region 0: Memory at 28101000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=09, sec-latency=176
        Memory window 0: 24000000-25fff000 (prefetchable)
        Memory window 1: 26000000-27fff000
        I/O window 0: 00001800-000018ff
        I/O window 1: 00001c00-00001cff
        BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt+ PostWrite-
        16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/MX-MV (rev 11) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.: Unknown device 1042
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64 (1000ns min, 63750ns max), Cache Line Size: 0x08 (32 bytes)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
        Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Expansion ROM at 28000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [80] AGP version 1.0
                Status: RQ=32 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW- AGP3- Rate=x1,x2
                Command: RQ=32 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- AGP+ GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>

Operating System

lsb_release --description --codename

Description:    Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Codename:       dapper

Use

cat /dev/brain/habits | grep laptop

Work-, Play-, Multimedia-, and Chat-Station; pida for python, small solitair-style games for in between, it plays my music and movies, IRC and IM

Second, my "server":
CPU

cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 4
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping        : 4
cpu MHz         : 1010.330
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up
bogomips        : 2021.47

RAM

cat /proc/meminfo

MemTotal:      1036300 kB
MemFree:         13736 kB
Buffers:         39228 kB
Cached:         801104 kB
SwapCached:         16 kB
Active:         447344 kB
Inactive:       540832 kB
HighTotal:      131008 kB
HighFree:          260 kB
LowTotal:       905292 kB
LowFree:         13476 kB
SwapTotal:     2650684 kB
SwapFree:      2650520 kB
Dirty:             368 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:         189124 kB
Slab:            29424 kB
CommitLimit:   3168832 kB
Committed_AS:   293864 kB
PageTables:       1132 kB
VmallocTotal:   114680 kB
VmallocUsed:      1952 kB
VmallocChunk:   112508 kB

Installed Hardware

sudo lspci -vv

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0
        Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
                Status: RQ=32 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW- AGP3- Rate=x1,x2
                Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- AGP- GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
        Memory behind bridge: dbe00000-dbefffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: dbc00000-dbcfffff
        BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

0000:00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c968 [Vision 968 VRAM] rev 0 (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
        Region 0: Memory at 50000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Expansion ROM at 7f000000 [disabled] [size=64K]

0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8139
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32 (8000ns min, 16000ns max)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
        Region 1: Memory at dfffff00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Expansion ROM at dffe0000 [disabled] [size=64K]

0000:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8139
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32 (8000ns min, 16000ns max)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 12
        Region 0: I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
        Region 1: Memory at dffffe00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3074
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 255
        Region 4: I/O ports at ff00 [size=16]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

0000:00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 23) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32, Cache Line Size: 0x08 (32 bytes)
        Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 12
        Region 4: I/O ports at cc00 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

0000:00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 23) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32, Cache Line Size: 0x08 (32 bytes)
        Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 12
        Region 4: I/O ports at d000 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40)
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VAX Onboard Audio (Realtek ALC650)
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: I/O ports at d400 [size=256]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

Operating System

lsb_release --description --codename

Description:    Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Codename:       dapper

Use

All your base are belong to us!

Fileserver, SMB and NFS, which means for Windows and Linux; Firewall, for our whole LAN; Router for several clients, Linux and Windows and others; Burnserver, it has a cd writer; Leechserver, azureus downloads the latest anime-releases; Compileserver, I use its faster CPU to compile software for my laptop.

Phew that was quite an amount of information, right?

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Living Room / Re: Really cool quiz that shows how your optical illusions fool your senses

« Last post by housetier on July 23, 2006, 02:51 PM »

I could take the test only up to a certain point, then I was unable to see the text. This has happened before: it's the flashplugin for my favorite browser which makes flash sites not so fun for me.

The part that I could see was very interesting though

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Living Room / Website: English for Runaways

« Last post by housetier on July 21, 2006, 07:47 PM »

What is a "Runaway" in this context

This is from a German book about the English language. The pun only works if you have a good understanding of the German language and average understanding of the English language.


Uhh.. ok, what is the website?

The website about common errors in English can be found here.

It's a rather big list, so I cannot resist to think that errors per se are a common thing in English. Nonetheless, I think this is perfect for flamewars that have turned into discussion about orthography. Or, you could use to look things up if you are not sure about certain terms.

It is a useful site, so use it!