[GTALUG] Fedora 22 Live Workstation Install - no fglrx - no pdftk
D. Hugh Redelmeier
hugh at mimosa.com
Fri Jul 31 18:18:55 UTC 2015
On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Russell Reiter wrote:
| From: Russell Reiter <rreiter91 at gmail.com>
| On 7/31/15, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com> wrote:
| > | From: Russell Reiter <rreiter91 at gmail.com>
| I got a copy of the manual when I picked up the bios.
I think that there are several manual-like-objects of varying
subject, detail, and specificity that you could have downloaded. Each
might have some useful nuggets.
| > Your computer has one processor chip, a die, but two cores (I'd call them
| > two processors, but I'm old fashioned). The "die" is one of the pieces
| > after the silicon wafer is "diced" (cut into bits). The plural of "die"
| > is "dice" but most hardware folks seem to use "dies".
|
| I suppose this is so as not to confuse it with casino dice. Another
| place where it's better to take your winnings and run.
Same word, same meaning: something that is cut up.
| > Yeah, there is animation in some desktops. That's surely not done with
| > conventional sprites. Of course somebody might recycle the term to mean
| > something different.
|
| I first heard the term as "Windows Desktop Sprite." I first heard
| about sprites in old fairytales.
|
| Here's a googled definition.
| 2. a computer graphic that may be moved on-screen and otherwise
| manipulated as a single entity.
Not a particularly good definition.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_%28computer_graphics%29>
isn't great, but it is better.
| I'm still looking for a table of sic sigma recommendations, often the
| service manuals are available somewhere deep in the bowels of the
| internet.
I think you mean "six sigma".
Uneducated prejudice:
Six sigma started out as a somewhat arbitrary quality metric. Sigma
is the standard deviation of a distribution. Six sigma is meant to be
six standard deviations away from the mean. I think that the
distribution is assumed to be Gaussian (Bell Curve), which is usually
safe, but probably not so far from the centre.
Now six sigma is a religious movement for improving manufacturing and
various other business processes.
I don't actually understand your usage.
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