If the US is behind this, it's a pretty stupid move. I bet for ever Iranian teenager reading how to bomb the infidels, there's at least ten watching porn. Cut off the internet, and you cut off the messages of the west.
The Iranian Army will still teach them to make bombs, though.
I'm currently doing the International Baccalaureate, which is an excellent program in almost all respect: very well rounded, academically stimulating and well received by universities. You have to take 6 subjects: 3 High Level and 3 Standard Level.
The course is great: except for its Maths component. Unlike other HL subject, where a student who is getting B+'s in year ten can do reasonably well in, HL Maths is insane. You have to be super-brilliant to do it. So this means that most semi-advanced students, like myself, can't do HL and get a decent grade.
So if I want to do a maths-heavy course at Uni, like engineering or physics, I'll need to take bridging course. Which is a shame.
There nothing inherently illegal about Automatix: it just allows you to break the DMCA.
The article is a technical crictism of Automatix, how it doesn't follow proper package rules, etc.
This is the conclusion to the article, which sums it up pretty well
Automatix exists to satisfy a genuine need, and further work should be carried out to determine whether these user requirements can be satisfied within the distribution as a whole. However, in its current form Automatix is actively dangerous to systems - ranging from damage to small items of user configuration, through removing user-installed packages without adequate prompting or warning and up to the (small but existing) potential to leave a system in an unbootable state.
The current design of Automatix precludes any reasonable way to fix some of these problems. It is attempting to fulfil the role of a high-level package manager without actually handling any sort of dependency resolution itself.
A more reasonable method of integrating Automatix's functionality into Ubuntu would be for the Automatix team to provide deb files to act as installers for the software currently provided. These could then be installed through the existing package manager interfaces. This would solve many of the above problems while still providing the same level of functionality.
In its current form Automatix is unsupportable, and a mechanism for flagging bugs from machines with Automatix installed may provide a valuable aid for determining whether issues are due to supported distribution packages or third party software installers.
Automatix is barely needed anymore. You can do just about anything through the standard repos these days.
Really? All those companies have full time people hacking the Linux kernel. Does Microsoft?
Can anyone think of any useful application that is part of your standard GNU/Linux/BSD etc. desktop/server that was written by Microsoft? The only thing I can think of is IronPython, and that wasn't written by MS per se.
With Ubuntu, it simply reported "sync out of range" and there was nothing that could be done. Safe mode generated the same error, and with no UI to interact with, that's the end of it.
This is plain rubbish. You still have access to the command line: which despite the fact it is "scary", there is nothing stopping you fixing your computer with it.
With Windows, there's a support number you can call, or you can take it to a local computer store, or ask for help among the massive number of Windows users - in short, you're not stuck with snobs on forums who think you should be able to hand-edit configuration files without being able to see anything on the screen.
You can buy support for Ubuntu: for about the same price as a Windows licence. Or you can go get yourself a copy of Red Hat Enterprise, and get support and a phone number to call. Or you could take it to a local Linux User Group. Or try a different forum.
From your post you seem to not really understand the command line. The road to linux isn't learning-free. Learn the CLI.
Being one of those non-trendy teenagers who still wears brown despite black is the new black, I came to the IM game quite late: I preferred email for communication with my friends purely for the reason I prefer phone calls to text messages: the intent is clear and the message often more detailed.
The only thing I really use IM for is IRC, and I prefer email for everything else, because there is a possibility that the response may well be legible and not abbreviation filled.
I also like the idea of a constant record of all my communications. Gmail is excellent in this regard.
IM is fine for quick question and idle banter, but for serious matters, email and phone are king.
are actually in use though? Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE, Redhat, Gentoo, Slackware, Debian? There are many distros, but most are specialized forks. Most people would use one of the listed ones.
I played GW (40K & Inquistor) for a while: but the prices where just ridiculous. You could by just as detailed miniatures at the hobby shop down the street, for, half, hell, even a quater of the price of GW mini.
GW games are pretty awesome: but they overcharge you for everything. (Australian Prices) $30 for a Codex or Army Book: slightly more content than your average magazine. $50 for a squad of ten Space Marines. A decent army is in the $1000+ range. If you're rich, it would be a pretty cool hobby.
GW has such a rich and exciting backstory: that's what makes the games so damn good. But screwing your fans like this is just stupid. Not to mention they bring out spinoffs like Inquisitor, only to remove them to UK/US mail order only in a year or so.
I was considering making an computer version of Inquistor due to the cost of importanting minis from the UK. But this IP rubbish has turned me off. So, GW, essentially you want to kill off FREE ADVERTISING for your products.
Indeed. Joe User can't see a need to switch to linux: after all, he's paid his money for Windows and Norton and MS Office. It does everything he wants, maybe not the best, but good enough.
If he woke up one day and someone had replaced his desktop with OS X or Ubuntu, along with detail instructions on how to use it, and everything worked fine, he probably wouldn't switch back from Windows.
Problem is, Joe doesn't know about linux: and if he does, it's probably all FUD. He maybe knows about mac, but why would he pay for an extra PC + the iTax, when he can't see the benifits?
It will *never* be the year of the linux desktop until Joe User, Young Sebastian and Aunt Tille all have a very good reason to switch to Linux. Like a mass virus which formats windows pc's becomes really widespread. Or Dell/HP/etc stop preinstalling windows.
On a side note, if the US Government *really* wanted to remove MS's monoploy, they'd simply make it illegal to ship a computer with an Operating system pre-installed. Then, maybe, we could have a year of the linux desktop!
Exactly. The Aussie health system has the best of both worlds: Government Medicare will cover you for just about anything: but if you want private hospital, acupuncture, choice of doctor etc, you can pay for any of a few insurers. This lets you pay for the extras if you want them, but no Australian will be left in crippling debt after a major op.
Medical services aren't a commodity: it's not like buying a car or an iPod. If you get cancer, you will pay anything to stay alive. It's unfair for insurance companies to rape people at their most vulnerable.
America is a great country, but the ridiculous system of healthcare is one of the few reasons that would stop me living there.
You can buy a supported distro: RHEL or Canocial Ubuntu. You can even hire third party support, who can be just a compitent as the creators of the software, because they too can see the code: can you do that with MS or Oracle? StarOffice gives you a supported office suite. MySQL AB will support your DBMS.
OSS encourages better support from companies, because their is actually competition for the support.
It's worse in Australia: with no rights for citizens to own arms, the government can run wild.
Look at what happens. There is one shooting (Port Arthur): bang, no more semi-autos of any kind for civilians. No grandfathering. My 60-yr old Grandpa got his ten round,.22LR semi-auto rifle confiscated. Another shooting (Monash Uni): Bang, no more pistols, except for those who compete in over 10 shooting competitions a year.
And yes, we still have gun crime in Australia. Despite the fact that it's far easier to own a car than a 850fps single shot air rifle. Recently, cops all over the country have been begging to get Glocks and other semi-autos because they are being out-gunned by criminals.
To those./ers who say no one needs a gun, who don't get it when gun owners bitch and moan about gun laws, let me pose you a hypothetic sitiuation:
Car ownership is heavily restricted. No one living in the city needs a car, it's just a dangerous, polluting, selfish form of transport. If you have a legitimate reason for owning a car, you may own 1 small car, which will be ridiculously overpriced with a 30L fuel tank. You can only drive your cars on certain roads, at certain times, and don't let the cops catch you with car off the official roads. They might still bust you if you're doing perfectly legal things.
Any person who's willing to crusade for car control (Cars cause far more deaths, injuries than guns), can crusade for gun control.
Actually, for running in wet terrain or rain, what I would really like, is to have them made of some watertight material with a mesh of holes in it. That would be almost like sandals, but give you less problems with small rocks getting inside the shoe. And there is no way you can avoid getting wet anyway, so you can just as well have the holes there. Why watertight material if there are holes anyway? Because it isn't damaged by water, it dries easily, and is easy to maintain. They didn't sell this at the sports shop either.
Any of these shoes by Merrell should fit your needs. I'm sure other manufacturers make them.
The wavebird was practically the only redeeming feature of the Gamecube. Sure, if you had ape hands it was kind of small, but for my 12-year old hands, it was a dream come true. The wavbird proved that you could have a decent wireless controller.
Err...because it requires MORE energy to make than you get out of it: that means that you will always be reliant on that huge cock OPEC has stuck up your ass.
To quote the West Wing "It's like selling gin as a replacement for tonic"
All Aussie should, right now, right an email to their MP, asking them why this has happened, and why we are pandering to the US. It's a blatant double standard, since. Brad Murdock wasn't extradited to the UK for murdering Peter Falconio...why?
Agree 100%.
I thank my parents on a daily basis that we moved to SA and I now attend an independent private school. When we have friends over and the topic turns to schooling, we seem to hear nothing but horror stories about the NSW public system. The reports they receive don't tell you anything but a wishy-washy "Satisfactory/Record/Unoted Acheivement". It tells you nothing about how you are going compared to other class members: if they refuse to rate students, possible to avoid teacher rating that could come as a result NSW will cut and run.
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Obviously it's the Church of Scientology trying to stop Project Chanology.
I can't believe you're all so sheepish.
If the US is behind this, it's a pretty stupid move. I bet for ever Iranian teenager reading how to bomb the infidels, there's at least ten watching porn. Cut off the internet, and you cut off the messages of the west.
The Iranian Army will still teach them to make bombs, though.
Interesting that Rob didn't choose to respond to some of the questions that where more critical of ./...
I'm currently doing the International Baccalaureate, which is an excellent program in almost all respect: very well rounded, academically stimulating and well received by universities. You have to take 6 subjects: 3 High Level and 3 Standard Level.
The course is great: except for its Maths component. Unlike other HL subject, where a student who is getting B+'s in year ten can do reasonably well in, HL Maths is insane. You have to be super-brilliant to do it. So this means that most semi-advanced students, like myself, can't do HL and get a decent grade.
So if I want to do a maths-heavy course at Uni, like engineering or physics, I'll need to take bridging course. Which is a shame.
The article is a technical crictism of Automatix, how it doesn't follow proper package rules, etc.
This is the conclusion to the article, which sums it up pretty well
Automatix is barely needed anymore. You can do just about anything through the standard repos these days.
I was recently berated by a Mac user for claiming that Steve was going to announce new iMacs. His response:
"You know NOTHING about Steve Jobs!"
And he stormed off. You'd think he was the Messiah or something...
Really? All those companies have full time people hacking the Linux kernel. Does Microsoft?
Can anyone think of any useful application that is part of your standard GNU/Linux/BSD etc. desktop/server that was written by Microsoft? The only thing I can think of is IronPython, and that wasn't written by MS per se.
This is plain rubbish. You still have access to the command line: which despite the fact it is "scary", there is nothing stopping you fixing your computer with it.
You can buy support for Ubuntu: for about the same price as a Windows licence. Or you can go get yourself a copy of Red Hat Enterprise, and get support and a phone number to call. Or you could take it to a local Linux User Group. Or try a different forum.
From your post you seem to not really understand the command line. The road to linux isn't learning-free. Learn the CLI.
Being one of those non-trendy teenagers who still wears brown despite black is the new black, I came to the IM game quite late: I preferred email for communication with my friends purely for the reason I prefer phone calls to text messages: the intent is clear and the message often more detailed.
The only thing I really use IM for is IRC, and I prefer email for everything else, because there is a possibility that the response may well be legible and not abbreviation filled.
I also like the idea of a constant record of all my communications. Gmail is excellent in this regard.
IM is fine for quick question and idle banter, but for serious matters, email and phone are king.
are actually in use though? Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE, Redhat, Gentoo, Slackware, Debian? There are many distros, but most are specialized forks. Most people would use one of the listed ones.
What exactly is so bad about PHP?
I played GW (40K & Inquistor) for a while: but the prices where just ridiculous. You could by just as detailed miniatures at the hobby shop down the street, for, half, hell, even a quater of the price of GW mini. GW games are pretty awesome: but they overcharge you for everything. (Australian Prices) $30 for a Codex or Army Book: slightly more content than your average magazine. $50 for a squad of ten Space Marines. A decent army is in the $1000+ range. If you're rich, it would be a pretty cool hobby. GW has such a rich and exciting backstory: that's what makes the games so damn good. But screwing your fans like this is just stupid. Not to mention they bring out spinoffs like Inquisitor, only to remove them to UK/US mail order only in a year or so. I was considering making an computer version of Inquistor due to the cost of importanting minis from the UK. But this IP rubbish has turned me off. So, GW, essentially you want to kill off FREE ADVERTISING for your products.
Indeed. Joe User can't see a need to switch to linux: after all, he's paid his money for Windows and Norton and MS Office. It does everything he wants, maybe not the best, but good enough.
If he woke up one day and someone had replaced his desktop with OS X or Ubuntu, along with detail instructions on how to use it, and everything worked fine, he probably wouldn't switch back from Windows.
Problem is, Joe doesn't know about linux: and if he does, it's probably all FUD. He maybe knows about mac, but why would he pay for an extra PC + the iTax, when he can't see the benifits?
It will *never* be the year of the linux desktop until Joe User, Young Sebastian and Aunt Tille all have a very good reason to switch to Linux. Like a mass virus which formats windows pc's becomes really widespread. Or Dell/HP/etc stop preinstalling windows.
On a side note, if the US Government *really* wanted to remove MS's monoploy, they'd simply make it illegal to ship a computer with an Operating system pre-installed. Then, maybe, we could have a year of the linux desktop!
Exactly. The Aussie health system has the best of both worlds: Government Medicare will cover you for just about anything: but if you want private hospital, acupuncture, choice of doctor etc, you can pay for any of a few insurers. This lets you pay for the extras if you want them, but no Australian will be left in crippling debt after a major op.
Medical services aren't a commodity: it's not like buying a car or an iPod. If you get cancer, you will pay anything to stay alive. It's unfair for insurance companies to rape people at their most vulnerable.
America is a great country, but the ridiculous system of healthcare is one of the few reasons that would stop me living there.
*** BEGIN CLICHES ***
I, for one, welcome our new GPLv3 overlords
In Soviet Russia, GPL violates YOU!!!
Imagine a Beowolf Cluster of those...
1) Place GPL Software on iPhone
2) ???
3) Profit!
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You can buy a supported distro: RHEL or Canocial Ubuntu. You can even hire third party support, who can be just a compitent as the creators of the software, because they too can see the code: can you do that with MS or Oracle? StarOffice gives you a supported office suite. MySQL AB will support your DBMS.
OSS encourages better support from companies, because their is actually competition for the support.
Mod parent up.
The killer app of the iPhone is undoubtedly the proper browser. That is the only reason I'd buy one.
How the hell are you meant to make a ten round revolver??? The thing would be massive, and totally impractical.
It's worse in Australia: with no rights for citizens to own arms, the government can run wild. Look at what happens. There is one shooting (Port Arthur): bang, no more semi-autos of any kind for civilians. No grandfathering. My 60-yr old Grandpa got his ten round, .22LR semi-auto rifle confiscated. Another shooting (Monash Uni): Bang, no more pistols, except for those who compete in over 10 shooting competitions a year.
And yes, we still have gun crime in Australia. Despite the fact that it's far easier to own a car than a 850fps single shot air rifle. Recently, cops all over the country have been begging to get Glocks and other semi-autos because they are being out-gunned by criminals.
To those ./ers who say no one needs a gun, who don't get it when gun owners bitch and moan about gun laws, let me pose you a hypothetic sitiuation:
Car ownership is heavily restricted. No one living in the city needs a car, it's just a dangerous, polluting, selfish form of transport. If you have a legitimate reason for owning a car, you may own 1 small car, which will be ridiculously overpriced with a 30L fuel tank. You can only drive your cars on certain roads, at certain times, and don't let the cops catch you with car off the official roads. They might still bust you if you're doing perfectly legal things.
Any person who's willing to crusade for car control (Cars cause far more deaths, injuries than guns), can crusade for gun control.
The wavebird was practically the only redeeming feature of the Gamecube. Sure, if you had ape hands it was kind of small, but for my 12-year old hands, it was a dream come true. The wavbird proved that you could have a decent wireless controller.
Err...because it requires MORE energy to make than you get out of it: that means that you will always be reliant on that huge cock OPEC has stuck up your ass.
To quote the West Wing "It's like selling gin as a replacement for tonic"
All Aussie should, right now, right an email to their MP, asking them why this has happened, and why we are pandering to the US. It's a blatant double standard, since. Brad Murdock wasn't extradited to the UK for murdering Peter Falconio...why?
The SACE, which is a school-leaving HSC certificate, does indeed give you a comparative standard (TER).
For the record, I do the IB: which is just about the most sensible approch to curriculum-setting and grading that I've seen.
Agree 100%. I thank my parents on a daily basis that we moved to SA and I now attend an independent private school. When we have friends over and the topic turns to schooling, we seem to hear nothing but horror stories about the NSW public system. The reports they receive don't tell you anything but a wishy-washy "Satisfactory/Record/Unoted Acheivement". It tells you nothing about how you are going compared to other class members: if they refuse to rate students, possible to avoid teacher rating that could come as a result NSW will cut and run.