i'd like to see resolutions go > 5000 horizontal, > 3000 vertical
i don't know why people keep wanting to do silght improvements
like why not jump stragiht to 5120x3200
at least the chipset on my netbook has a max of 4096x4096
your netbook has lcd inbuilt
netbooks are always going to be non-ideal for multitasking etc
sure, doesn't mean I accept its builtin resolution of 1024x600 as my ideal pixel count workspace
my laptop has 1680x1050
i don't find it too bad
xrandr --output LVDS1 --panning 1280x1024 .. helps a bit
but i don't try to show more than one thing on the screen at once
xterm -font 5x7 also helps
sounds painful
i saw a laptop with 640x200 resolution once
my eyes (for 10+ years) are quite accustomed to this. I hate wasting pixels.
you could see the pixels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_General-One
heh
i'm using quite a small font
i dunno how to check though
239x68 characters
so about 8 pixels wide
and 17 high?
'quite a small font' heh. try 'xterm -font 5x7'
or if you have LC_CTYPE=utf-8 or somesuch, try: 'uxterm -font -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--7-70-75-75-C-50-ISO10646-1'
presuming your .Xresources or .Xdefaults don't over-ride the font
anyone know why this might happen
~/app]$ su -
Cannot open "/lib/libutil.so.9"
hazardous: check your LD library path
make sur eyou haven't clobbered it in some way
hazardous: and, what OS?
if you have a security program such as 'su' that looks at the LD library path, you have found a security gaping hole indeed
oh, good point
hazardous: could be due to running out of open fd's
Does anyone know how the PSTN network along with cellphones work? Like how do carriers know which provider a given number belongs to and how do they route calls
off topic I know, but figured someone here probably knows
SS7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signaling_System_7
can analogies be made to Internet peers / transit
There's some central databases yes
well - the internet uses CIDR
can't do that with cell phones
each phone can be moved to a new carrier
so the routing is more complex
that and the whole packet switchted vs circuit switched networking?
imagine if each IPv4 could be on a different net :)
RandalSchwartz, they can :)
you'd have a table with every single phone number in it, mapped to carrier
well - no
there are CIDR aggregations
otherwise, routers would have blown up long ago
smallest of which is a /24
even v6 has aggregation
well no, the smallest for v4 is /28
I mean /30
I thought you were referring to BGP announcements
30 gives you router, host, broadcast, and mask
which is two hosts
ahh ok
yeah BGP is probably /24
but within a BGP zone, /30 :)
v6 handles it a bit better
indeed
. /48 I guess
I have 5 ipv6 /48's :)
it was designed from the ground up to be better
but back to the PSTN - who takes care of which phone number is assigned to which operator
there's a central mapping authority
like is there a central "verisign" like when it ccomes to .com's
carriers all subscribe to it
and update it for migration
supposedly only for cell phones
mnathani, the NANPA does it for north america (http://www.nanpa.com/).
which is why google can migrate your cell number to google voice, but not your hardline
RandalSchwartz, you can move landlines around, although there are often limitations.
area limits?
yeah stuff like that
possile technical issues as well
possible*
brachiation: you still up? :)
up_the_irons: yes i am.
brachiation: how's it going?
up_the_irons: pretty good. i was in the neighborhood earlier today, had do drop off some medical equipment for a patient.
cool
howabout yourself?
pretty good; just working (as always)
you should relax sometime and drink a bottle of something.
we can set up a party and invite all the greats.
but everyone is so spread out now :(
oh, i was setting up a humidifier for this russian family. as the 80 y/o man was pouring a clear liquid into the humidifier chamber, he said something in russian "blah blah vodka blah" and smiled.
i had to check to make sure he didn't actually put vodka in there, cause russians can be pretty hardcore.
brachiation: i actually do drink a bottle of something from time to time... trust me ;)
brachiation: LOL
brachiation: so was it vodka? ;)
nah it was water.
but he had me second guessing him.
especially because of the smile.
haha
he was just joking with me. a lot of prankster elderly from what i've encoutered.
lol
cool
my wife said the elderly were the most flirtatious back when she worked in a hospital.
yeah my EMT teacher had some similar stories
i can't say ive experienced the same though.
old ladies in ambulances hitting on him ;)
hahaha
actually now that i think about it, there were at least 2 occasions for me.
also, lack of oxygen might make people act a little different.
or even worse when they are on morphine.
like...  the driver took a sharp turn and he fell on a lady in the gurney and she says, "what happens in the ambulance stays in the ambulance"  LOL
hahaha wow she is a born comdedian.
brachiation: hah yeah..   wouldn't lack of oxygen be similar to being drunk?
yeah people definitely act a little drunk.
but with confusion a lot of the time.
yeah
ah
like a short term dementia.
interesting
anytime someone acts weird like that, it is a good idea to have them take 'tests' for stroke.
the holding the arms forward, stick the tongue straight out, stuff like that.
if the tongue goes to one side, then that could be sign of stroke.
following your finger as you move it side to side. make sure both eyes move together.
yeah
or tell the to say something about the sky is blue in cincinatti?