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I know this is something of a surprise for people who hate the name GIMP but much of the world doesn't actually speak English (how the fuck do they manage to talk to each other? Nobody knows) and doesn't care, it means nothing. Can those prudish repressed souls who dare not speak its acronym please just use the full name and stop bothering everyone with your tedious hang ups? Thank you.
No I didn't forget the "Glorious Revolution". If it happened today we would probably call it a coup d'etat or a revolution rather than an invasion. It's quite unusual for an invader to arrive by invitation, to cede authority to a local parliament and to have the support of most of the local army, the entire navy and most of the civilian population. There was no immigration from Holland, no change in population. Historians are still arguing this one I believe.
Ireland has a much smaller population than the UK and was never settled by the Anglo Saxons or occupied by Rome. The Normans invaded it and it was then under control of England and later the UK until the 20th century and there was English colonisation in the form of settlements (plantations) mostly in Munster ans Ulster. But there was also immigration from continental Europe, which would have a much greater effect than similar numbers settling in Britain. The British (English and Scottish) settlers were Protestants, the Irish were Catholics. Never the twain shall meet etc. Ireland has also hosted French and Spanish armies during the wars between Protestant and Catholic states of Europe. The Protestant and Catholic communities have remained distinct. Two or three peoples divided by a common saviour:-)
The Roman legions weren't necessarily Italians, the soldiers would have been from all over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. I don't know enough about the history to know if there was any great mixing of populations but the Roman occupation was only about 350 years in Britain, compared to many times more in Europe, and there were numerous rebellions and even the complete destruction of Roman armies and cities, so perhaps it was more like a military occupation than a settlement and integration. From what I've read of Roman history all citizens of the empire could attain high position in the military and civil governments regardless of national/ethnic origin but we don't see many Brits making big careers:-)
The origin of the Britons in legend claims descent from those who fled Troy under the leadership of Brutus (no, not that one) after it was sacked by the Greeks. The Trojans arrived at Albion, which they conquered/colonised and renamed Britain. We all know that the legend of the founding of Rome is similar, fleeing Trojans in this case being led by Aeneas and arriving in Italy and Aeneas' descendents founding Rome.
But I'm sure little of this survives real scrutiny.
Great Britain might be part of Europe politically and in geological terms but there is the barrier of the English Channel which has kept us safe from French, Spanish and German invasion attempts for 900 years. The last 4 successful invasions of Britain were by the Normans in the 11th century, by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes et al in the 5th/6th century, by Vikings in the 9th/10th centuries and by the Romans in the 1st century. Probably not a lot changed in terms of the genetic profile of the population for many hundreds of years until the mass immigration in the 20th century of people from the West Indies, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Uganda (Ugandan Indians).
And during the real and vicious custard pie assault the clowns cleverly integrated a real police officer into the performance and nobody was any the wiser.....the absolutely real and genuine violence was so severe that the damaged squad car is now in the shop having its doors refitted.
My understanding is that the NT kernel is not a true microkernel but a hybrid because the sub processes run in kernel mode, not user mode like with a real microkernel, so in these terms NT kernel reacts exactly as a monolithic kernel when a driver fails.
The user-level software like AV and firewalls is not really user level but kernel mode, it has kernel hooks. In effect it works at driver level which is why a failure can bring down the kernel. A true user mode application can't do that.
I don't have any evidence one way or the other if those shots were faked but it's a very easy thing to do and similar things have been done millions of times before. Also the BSOD shot is a long running theme, it's easy to believe, there are lots of people who *want* to believe it and everyone enjoys it.
I hope most of us are past the stage of believing something happened because there's a picture on the internet "proving" it.
Bad drivers can crash any system using a monolithic kernel. I've had the misfortune to use a driver that crashes the Linux kernel this year (Intel iwl3945 on 2.6.25). Only low level problems can cause a Windows BSOD, usually this means driver level i.e drivers for hardware devices or some software like anti-virus and 3rd party firewalls, or tools like anydvd which bypasses copy protection using kernel hooks.
btw I'm not an MS apologist, I use Debian and don't like Windows but facts are facts. XP these days is stable (it only took 7 years but they made it) and you won't see a blue screen using signed drivers and hardware that isn't malfunctioning.
I'd guess the picture is in any case a fake.
there is a better and free way to recover damaged optical disks. http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
"GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors.
Ddrescue does not truncate the output file if not asked to. So, every time you run it on the same output file, it tries to fill in the gaps.
The basic operation of ddrescue is fully automatic. That is, you don't have to wait for an error, stop the program, read the log, run it in reverse mode, etc.
If you use the logfile feature of ddrescue, the data is rescued very efficiently (only the needed blocks are read). Also you can interrupt the rescue at any time and resume it later at the same point.
Automatic merging of backups: If you have two or more damaged copies of a file, cdrom, etc, and run ddrescue on all of them, one at a time, with the same output file, you will probably obtain a complete and error-free file. This is so because the probability of having damaged areas at the same places on different input files is very low. Using the logfile, only the needed blocks are read from the second and successive copies.
The logfile is periodically saved to disc. So in case of a crash you can resume the rescue with little recopying.
Also, the same logfile can be used for multiple commands that copy different areas of the file, and for multiple recovery attempts over different subsets.
Ddrescue aligns its I/O buffer to the sector size so that it can be used to read from raw devices. For efficiency reasons, also aligns it to the memory page size if page size is a multiple of sector size. "
I've used it successfully to create perfect iso images of original CDs from damaged physical media. It's better than using EAC or similar secure mode rippers because ddrescue can run on any platform, it doesn't require windows or wine, there's no limit to how many runs it can make, and it doesn't matter if the process is interrupted.
The entire article is based on a false premise (and some hysterical shrieking), which is that connection to self-certificated ssl encrypted websites is unavailable. It is simply not true and the author is apparently either woefully incompetent or is dishonest. I smell an ego-fuelled activist.
I hadn't been aware of Firefox's behaviour so I tried the self certificated example offered. As mentioned by other posters it's 4 clicks to add an exception. What I really appreciate is that Firefox's dialogues explain the situation in layman's terms, i.e clearly and concisely, and let even an uninformed user make an informed decision. This seems to me to be ideal. It is certainly a much better approach than I've experienced with older versions of Firefox, or with Epiphany or IE6/IE7 where it always feels like a roll of the dice when trying to make a quick decision.
I had the misfortune to work on the phone in a UK police force's operations room. A memorable call:
An old man called, sounding shocked and very upset indeed. He wanted to report being assaulted. He asked me if I'd seen the nearby circus. I confirmed I had, having noticed it the day before while out on my bicycle. Despite having recently completed my diversity training I immediately thought of all those nomadic, thieving, rough, stop at nothing, gypsy types, with swarthy complexions, switchblades and unwashed hair. I pictured the poor old man being relieved of his wallet and candyfloss at knifepoint and, assuming my most professional and concerned tone, asked him to continue. He explained that he had been to the circus the previous evening and was sitting in the front row when one of the clowns threw cold water over him.
I didn't directly call him a stupid miserable old bastard but I think he got the message.
I've also taken a call from a woman who wished to report that the milkman when making his early morning deliveries allowed the glass milk bottles to clang together noisily in order to cause harassment/annoyance to the caller.
Referred caller to dairy.
Seriously the UK is overflowing with fucking idiots. people call the police because the kitchen tap is dripping, the TV remote control doesn't work, their cable TV reception has worsened or any other trivial crap that might count as an emergency if you have the mental age and outlook of a retarded 4 year old.
The flipside is the idiots who call the non-emergency number, wait in a queue for a while, and when connected announce they're watching someone being stabbed/beaten/robbed and so on. I guess at least they tried to help instead of doing nothing.
mp3 can be encoded and decoded using entirely free software, the problems with mp3 are not about copyright/free software/proprietary software but with software patents, a legal minefield which makes distribution of mp3 decoders (players) and especially encoders a potential risk. It's perfectly possible to have a GNU/Linux desktop composed exclusively of free software, and which can play and encode mp3. It's just that US based distributors, with a few exceptions, are wary of offering it.
I'm talking about what's in the kernel, not the existence of kernel interfaces for stuff like nvidia drivers. It would take you about the same time to find this out for yourself as it does to make two uninformed comments on slashdot.....
if you want to learn more feel free to find out for yourself: google linux-libre, gnewsense, sourceless firmware, binary blobs. then you can make a nice list of all the kernel versions, filenames and line numbers.
The author really likes skype. A lot.
He has an nvidia card.
He didn't do his research.
He claims "Despite their concern, I would point out that NVIDIA has a fairly decent track record with bug control and, mysteriously, Linux developers have been able to make things work on their end despite this issue with the licensing behind the current closed source NVIDIA driver. " yet according to https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Linux_Graphics_Essay the proprietary nvidia and ati drivers and other binary drivers are regular features in the list of top kernel oops.
When he talks about mp3s and encrypted DVDs and binary wireless drivers in the same sentence he is clearly confusing the issues of copyright license, software patents and the legality of breaking DRM and the like. I can easily play and encode mp3s and watch encrypted DVDs using only free software, that's free as in speech.
His arguments are based on misunderstandings and poor research so they're not very interesting. He also completely misses the fact that the Linux kernel contains non-free and unattributable code which could be the subject of a much more interesting article.
Use a mirror. Pointy head? alarmingly low/thick/broad brow? Lantern jaw? Narrow eyes remarkably close together? Then you probably won't easily get medical insurance, what with all the hooch and the home grown tobaccy. But never mind, you still got your banjo, your smooth bore and your free AOL CD.
In UK law fraud was until a year ago dealt with by the 1968 Theft Act, relevant offences being obtaining property by deception, obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception and similar. This only changed last year with the introduction of the Fraud Act (a 2006 act which came into force in 2007). Making/selling counterfeit goods falls under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act.
sign the document, put it in an envelope and fax the whole thing, problem solved. These so-called security gurus are all very well but they lack common sense.
I still have an original basic Audigy, bought it a few years ago (for the firewire as much as the sound) when I used Windows. The XP drivers back then stank too, horribly unstable, very tedious to uninstall cleanly (required cleaning registry and also system folders for orphaned.inf files) and I ended up using the alternative kX drivers. It took Creative maybe 6 months to produce useable drivers while simultaneously vigorously claiming nothing was wrong in public. Looks like nothing changed which surprises me (but probably shouldn't). Using Audigy in Linux is fine though, everything works nicely right from distro install. The hardware actually seems very good, and much better for having none of Creative's awful drivers or software along for the ride. They should thank and hire this Daniel_K instead of stomping on him, but I don't think that's the Singapore way.
yeah I'm so dumb I never have any trouble compiling executables in Ubuntu. I'm also so dumb that I can find synergy precompiled in the repos. I like being dumb because stuff works and I don't have to throw good hardware in the trash during temper tantrums (I'm also too dumb to have temper tantrums).
Do you really want to assert that Ubuntu is "linux for idiots" at the same time as publicly announcing how you failed to even make the compiler run? There are a lot of "idiots" out there who manage this without difficulty, or perhaps after reading the docs to clear up any questions.
There is no "any" key!
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I know this is something of a surprise for people who hate the name GIMP but much of the world doesn't actually speak English (how the fuck do they manage to talk to each other? Nobody knows) and doesn't care, it means nothing. Can those prudish repressed souls who dare not speak its acronym please just use the full name and stop bothering everyone with your tedious hang ups? Thank you.
No I didn't forget the "Glorious Revolution". If it happened today we would probably call it a coup d'etat or a revolution rather than an invasion. It's quite unusual for an invader to arrive by invitation, to cede authority to a local parliament and to have the support of most of the local army, the entire navy and most of the civilian population. There was no immigration from Holland, no change in population. Historians are still arguing this one I believe.
Ireland has a much smaller population than the UK and was never settled by the Anglo Saxons or occupied by Rome. The Normans invaded it and it was then under control of England and later the UK until the 20th century and there was English colonisation in the form of settlements (plantations) mostly in Munster ans Ulster. But there was also immigration from continental Europe, which would have a much greater effect than similar numbers settling in Britain. The British (English and Scottish) settlers were Protestants, the Irish were Catholics. Never the twain shall meet etc. Ireland has also hosted French and Spanish armies during the wars between Protestant and Catholic states of Europe. The Protestant and Catholic communities have remained distinct. Two or three peoples divided by a common saviour :-)
The Roman legions weren't necessarily Italians, the soldiers would have been from all over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. I don't know enough about the history to know if there was any great mixing of populations but the Roman occupation was only about 350 years in Britain, compared to many times more in Europe, and there were numerous rebellions and even the complete destruction of Roman armies and cities, so perhaps it was more like a military occupation than a settlement and integration. From what I've read of Roman history all citizens of the empire could attain high position in the military and civil governments regardless of national/ethnic origin but we don't see many Brits making big careers :-)
The origin of the Britons in legend claims descent from those who fled Troy under the leadership of Brutus (no, not that one) after it was sacked by the Greeks. The Trojans arrived at Albion, which they conquered/colonised and renamed Britain. We all know that the legend of the founding of Rome is similar, fleeing Trojans in this case being led by Aeneas and arriving in Italy and Aeneas' descendents founding Rome.
But I'm sure little of this survives real scrutiny.
Great Britain might be part of Europe politically and in geological terms but there is the barrier of the English Channel which has kept us safe from French, Spanish and German invasion attempts for 900 years. The last 4 successful invasions of Britain were by the Normans in the 11th century, by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes et al in the 5th/6th century, by Vikings in the 9th/10th centuries and by the Romans in the 1st century. Probably not a lot changed in terms of the genetic profile of the population for many hundreds of years until the mass immigration in the 20th century of people from the West Indies, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Uganda (Ugandan Indians).
And during the real and vicious custard pie assault the clowns cleverly integrated a real police officer into the performance and nobody was any the wiser.....the absolutely real and genuine violence was so severe that the damaged squad car is now in the shop having its doors refitted.
My understanding is that the NT kernel is not a true microkernel but a hybrid because the sub processes run in kernel mode, not user mode like with a real microkernel, so in these terms NT kernel reacts exactly as a monolithic kernel when a driver fails. The user-level software like AV and firewalls is not really user level but kernel mode, it has kernel hooks. In effect it works at driver level which is why a failure can bring down the kernel. A true user mode application can't do that. I don't have any evidence one way or the other if those shots were faked but it's a very easy thing to do and similar things have been done millions of times before. Also the BSOD shot is a long running theme, it's easy to believe, there are lots of people who *want* to believe it and everyone enjoys it. I hope most of us are past the stage of believing something happened because there's a picture on the internet "proving" it.
Bad drivers can crash any system using a monolithic kernel. I've had the misfortune to use a driver that crashes the Linux kernel this year (Intel iwl3945 on 2.6.25). Only low level problems can cause a Windows BSOD, usually this means driver level i.e drivers for hardware devices or some software like anti-virus and 3rd party firewalls, or tools like anydvd which bypasses copy protection using kernel hooks. btw I'm not an MS apologist, I use Debian and don't like Windows but facts are facts. XP these days is stable (it only took 7 years but they made it) and you won't see a blue screen using signed drivers and hardware that isn't malfunctioning. I'd guess the picture is in any case a fake.
there is a better and free way to recover damaged optical disks. http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html "GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors. Ddrescue does not truncate the output file if not asked to. So, every time you run it on the same output file, it tries to fill in the gaps. The basic operation of ddrescue is fully automatic. That is, you don't have to wait for an error, stop the program, read the log, run it in reverse mode, etc. If you use the logfile feature of ddrescue, the data is rescued very efficiently (only the needed blocks are read). Also you can interrupt the rescue at any time and resume it later at the same point. Automatic merging of backups: If you have two or more damaged copies of a file, cdrom, etc, and run ddrescue on all of them, one at a time, with the same output file, you will probably obtain a complete and error-free file. This is so because the probability of having damaged areas at the same places on different input files is very low. Using the logfile, only the needed blocks are read from the second and successive copies. The logfile is periodically saved to disc. So in case of a crash you can resume the rescue with little recopying. Also, the same logfile can be used for multiple commands that copy different areas of the file, and for multiple recovery attempts over different subsets. Ddrescue aligns its I/O buffer to the sector size so that it can be used to read from raw devices. For efficiency reasons, also aligns it to the memory page size if page size is a multiple of sector size. " I've used it successfully to create perfect iso images of original CDs from damaged physical media. It's better than using EAC or similar secure mode rippers because ddrescue can run on any platform, it doesn't require windows or wine, there's no limit to how many runs it can make, and it doesn't matter if the process is interrupted.
The entire article is based on a false premise (and some hysterical shrieking), which is that connection to self-certificated ssl encrypted websites is unavailable. It is simply not true and the author is apparently either woefully incompetent or is dishonest. I smell an ego-fuelled activist. I hadn't been aware of Firefox's behaviour so I tried the self certificated example offered. As mentioned by other posters it's 4 clicks to add an exception. What I really appreciate is that Firefox's dialogues explain the situation in layman's terms, i.e clearly and concisely, and let even an uninformed user make an informed decision. This seems to me to be ideal. It is certainly a much better approach than I've experienced with older versions of Firefox, or with Epiphany or IE6/IE7 where it always feels like a roll of the dice when trying to make a quick decision.
I had the misfortune to work on the phone in a UK police force's operations room. A memorable call: An old man called, sounding shocked and very upset indeed. He wanted to report being assaulted. He asked me if I'd seen the nearby circus. I confirmed I had, having noticed it the day before while out on my bicycle. Despite having recently completed my diversity training I immediately thought of all those nomadic, thieving, rough, stop at nothing, gypsy types, with swarthy complexions, switchblades and unwashed hair. I pictured the poor old man being relieved of his wallet and candyfloss at knifepoint and, assuming my most professional and concerned tone, asked him to continue. He explained that he had been to the circus the previous evening and was sitting in the front row when one of the clowns threw cold water over him. I didn't directly call him a stupid miserable old bastard but I think he got the message. I've also taken a call from a woman who wished to report that the milkman when making his early morning deliveries allowed the glass milk bottles to clang together noisily in order to cause harassment/annoyance to the caller. Referred caller to dairy. Seriously the UK is overflowing with fucking idiots. people call the police because the kitchen tap is dripping, the TV remote control doesn't work, their cable TV reception has worsened or any other trivial crap that might count as an emergency if you have the mental age and outlook of a retarded 4 year old. The flipside is the idiots who call the non-emergency number, wait in a queue for a while, and when connected announce they're watching someone being stabbed/beaten/robbed and so on. I guess at least they tried to help instead of doing nothing.
The President today: "I checked with Commissioner Xith and he's never even heard of the human Dr Mitchell. Or David Icke."
you demanded kernel versions filenames and line numbers (!). read the thread, use google, stop being such a fucking bedwetter.
mp3 can be encoded and decoded using entirely free software, the problems with mp3 are not about copyright/free software/proprietary software but with software patents, a legal minefield which makes distribution of mp3 decoders (players) and especially encoders a potential risk. It's perfectly possible to have a GNU/Linux desktop composed exclusively of free software, and which can play and encode mp3. It's just that US based distributors, with a few exceptions, are wary of offering it.
I'm talking about what's in the kernel, not the existence of kernel interfaces for stuff like nvidia drivers. It would take you about the same time to find this out for yourself as it does to make two uninformed comments on slashdot.....
if you want to learn more feel free to find out for yourself: google linux-libre, gnewsense, sourceless firmware, binary blobs. then you can make a nice list of all the kernel versions, filenames and line numbers.
The author really likes skype. A lot. He has an nvidia card. He didn't do his research. He claims "Despite their concern, I would point out that NVIDIA has a fairly decent track record with bug control and, mysteriously, Linux developers have been able to make things work on their end despite this issue with the licensing behind the current closed source NVIDIA driver. " yet according to https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Linux_Graphics_Essay the proprietary nvidia and ati drivers and other binary drivers are regular features in the list of top kernel oops. When he talks about mp3s and encrypted DVDs and binary wireless drivers in the same sentence he is clearly confusing the issues of copyright license, software patents and the legality of breaking DRM and the like. I can easily play and encode mp3s and watch encrypted DVDs using only free software, that's free as in speech. His arguments are based on misunderstandings and poor research so they're not very interesting. He also completely misses the fact that the Linux kernel contains non-free and unattributable code which could be the subject of a much more interesting article.
Use a mirror. Pointy head? alarmingly low/thick/broad brow? Lantern jaw? Narrow eyes remarkably close together? Then you probably won't easily get medical insurance, what with all the hooch and the home grown tobaccy. But never mind, you still got your banjo, your smooth bore and your free AOL CD.
If people can't sell their votes how do the politicians expect to be able to buy them? Surely this is restraint of trade, hence unethical.
In UK law fraud was until a year ago dealt with by the 1968 Theft Act, relevant offences being obtaining property by deception, obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception and similar. This only changed last year with the introduction of the Fraud Act (a 2006 act which came into force in 2007). Making/selling counterfeit goods falls under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act.
sign the document, put it in an envelope and fax the whole thing, problem solved. These so-called security gurus are all very well but they lack common sense.
unless he's married to her
I still have an original basic Audigy, bought it a few years ago (for the firewire as much as the sound) when I used Windows. The XP drivers back then stank too, horribly unstable, very tedious to uninstall cleanly (required cleaning registry and also system folders for orphaned .inf files) and I ended up using the alternative kX drivers. It took Creative maybe 6 months to produce useable drivers while simultaneously vigorously claiming nothing was wrong in public. Looks like nothing changed which surprises me (but probably shouldn't). Using Audigy in Linux is fine though, everything works nicely right from distro install. The hardware actually seems very good, and much better for having none of Creative's awful drivers or software along for the ride. They should thank and hire this Daniel_K instead of stomping on him, but I don't think that's the Singapore way.
yeah I'm so dumb I never have any trouble compiling executables in Ubuntu. I'm also so dumb that I can find synergy precompiled in the repos. I like being dumb because stuff works and I don't have to throw good hardware in the trash during temper tantrums (I'm also too dumb to have temper tantrums).
Do you really want to assert that Ubuntu is "linux for idiots" at the same time as publicly announcing how you failed to even make the compiler run? There are a lot of "idiots" out there who manage this without difficulty, or perhaps after reading the docs to clear up any questions. There is no "any" key!