Your problem can't be solved. Not enough information. What are your RAM requirements? If RAM is easily available, but storage is not, run Puppy Linux off RAM, use hard-drive space for whatever you want.
If, on the other hand, RAM is short but hard drive space is available, install Puppy Linux or Damn Small Linux.
If, on the other hand, RAM is short and hard drive space is short, you need to find some way of compiling just the modules you need for that piece of hardware. Let me explain why those minimal installations are so big, they need to hold drivers for all possible hardware. Take my/lib/modules/2.6.24-22-generic subdirectory for instance: 137 MB. It simply isn't possible for a distribution to reduce its size below a certain point unless it is targeting just one particular configuration of hardware. But you can do that, because you know precisely what your hardware is. So do it. You need to compile your own kernel, and only the modules you require. Hope that helps.
Whoops, my mistake. I did not quite pick up on the tone of your comment the first time around. It is obvious that you won't accept the evaluation of a government agency, since you feel they are biased. In which case, the answer to your question, "Where the fuck are all the environmentalists?" is, "They believe that the NSF CEE is acceptable, and they believe that the NSF is credible."
Ha ha, no no. What I meant was that the question, "Where the f*ck are all the environmentalists?" makes no sense without saying why the environmentalists should be making a fuss.
I would assume that they read this document, and found the results satisfactory.
The Comprehensive Environmental Evaluations for IceCube are available online for free. If you feel that there is something in there that requires attention or if there is something there that people have previously objected to in the case of oil rigs then you really should mention that.
If you read the full CEE there, you should be able to know why. I suggest you read section 5.3 alone, if the whole document is daunting, since that describes the environmental effects and that section is followed by a description of procedures taken to mitigate those.
Again, if there is something to complain about, you will have to point it out, and then these environmentalists you speak of will have to explain why they only object to those things when the subject is an oil rig. But asking people to explain why they aren't complaining about something without explaining why they should just makes no sense in my book.
I know people who have obtained SIM cards on expired ID. I know one person who was in Mumbai, and got a SIM card forging the signature of the person he was staying with (the person would have signed, but was unfortunately out of town at the time). I have obtained a SIM card using my driver's licence - it shows the wrong address, I moved a year back. Every time I bought a connection, I was _called_ to verify my address, not visited.
This does not say 'really strong' to me - it says 'cosmetic security'. And it is characteristic of security provided in India. A few days back, a leading daily (I forget which, I subscribe to several, the Times of India perhaps) carried on its front page a story about a commuter who carried a handgun through the metal detectors at CST, _days after terrorists shot the place up_. Policemen there said they didn't hear the beeping metal detectors. Cosmetic security, there to make things look like they're safe for you. I lived in Bombay (and travelled through CST often) until weeks before the terror strike, and I believed that the security personnel would fire on armed terrorists. I was wrong there too. They turned tail and ran.
You want genuine criticism? I'll give you genuine criticism. The Chief Minister of West Bengal has what they call Z-class security. Hours after he passed through a route, an IED exploded along it. How? Cosmetic security. There to make it look like stuff is being done.
Why single out India? It's where I live! I wouldn't make as big a fuss if the government of Guinea-Bissau spies on its citizens.
I also take issue with quite a few statements by you, and even though they're completely off-topic I really believe that I should wake you from this silly delusion of yours:
Secular credentials: You will find it hard to prove this to me when there is religious violence all across the nation, when the society is caste-ridden, and when governments stand by and let innocents from one particular ethnic group be killed (as in Gujarat, Orissa, - and though this was 20 years ago, in Delhi). This is a bold faced lie, sir. In some places people are talking about 'anti-conversion laws'!
Democracy: Ballot box stuffing, poll booths run over by 'activists', poll violence. These are things that are normal in a properly running constitutional democracy?
I find this "I love my country" nonsense revolting. We'll never fix a problem we cannot see. Call it what it is, every time some large scale failure happens, people like you come out the woodwork and paper over the flaws. It's okay, you say, we're Indians, we have the spirit to rebuild. Well, I'm an Indian, and I'm tired of pretending it's all fine.
Just the other day I was trying to get a crack for a program* and I came across this site that wanted me to type in a CAPTCHA to download. The first thing I wondered was whether these CAPTCHAs were actually from a legit site like yahoo.com and they were serving it to me to get me to break it.
* Yes, sometimes you need the crack for programs to run properly on Linux through Wine. Sucks, no? I'm sorry guys, I contributed to spam.
You can find the actual paper in the New England Journal of Medicine. I think many here are missing the point. Peter Pronovost's suggestion to use a checklist is to ensure that commonly done tasks are done properly, not that a surgeon will have to look at a piece of paper before he moves each vein aside. And, as he has demonstrated, it works.
It's not as glamorous as discovering a cure for some new disease, but it works great.
Notice the other things mentioned in the New Yorker article:
Nurses were authorised by the hospital administration to correct doctors when they skipped part of a procedure.
Mundane processes were pushed to a checklist, so recalling them was no longer a human task, letting the doctors focus on the parts that actually require them to think.
In fact, the most important part of the whole article is in these paragraph:
First, they helped with memory recall, especially with mundane matters that are easily overlooked in patients undergoing more drastic events. (When you're worrying about what treatment to give a woman who won't stop seizing, it's hard to remember to make sure that the head of her bed is in the right position.) A second effect was to make explicit the minimum, expected steps in complex processes. Pronovost was surprised to discover how often even experienced personnel failed to grasp the importance of certain precautions. In a survey of I.C.U. staff taken before introducing the ventilator checklists, he found that half hadn't realized that there was evidence strongly supporting giving ventilated patients antacid medication. Checklists established a higher standard of baseline performance.
I agree that it doesn't seem to serve any purpose, but it's incredibly easy to get a connection. Vodafone will give you one in 2 hours, Airtel in a day.
It's India, man. Really, ID checks are incredibly lax here, even now. I know people who've gotten a SIM card replaced on expired ID, and it could have been fake and no one would have noticed a thing.
If I recall right, most viruses these days work by social engineering rather than by remote exploit. And marketshare does have a huge impact on that. To take an example, if I were to receive a.deb file which I wanted to install, I double-click it and after typing my password in, I install it. There is nothing here that would protect me from a malware writer.
If (and without the actual information I can't be sure about this) most malware is run by users who are just "trying to get that screensaver that I got in the mail" then this is going to hit the Mac crowd as bad as the Windows bunch.
At one point I thought that the repository system for Linux distributions would keep them safe, but it's obvious that in the search to make things easier, other (less safe) methods of installing (double-clicking a.deb, for instance) have been allowed. Remote root exploits are highly unlikely on my computer, but that doesn't matter, I'm already the weakest link.
I strongly disagree. I see this attitude everywhere and while people who are already really motivated, you will kill off even the least interest in a student who could later find it all fascinating.
You have to engage students. They aren't automatons who will simply take in any information at the same rate. I understand that you're talking about undergraduate college, and that the system is probably different depending on which country you live in, but you have to start at a level where it is easily possible for a student to _do_ things, and that's how you pique someone's interest and sustain it.
I've been through two computer science courses (one introductory, one advanced) in college as part of my Math degree, and through a year in school of being taught C, and while to me it was interesting (I had a computer much earlier than any of my classmates - back when I was just out of primary - so I had an advantage), quite a few of my classmates were obviously struggling with the "This seems so useless, just learning a bunch of stuff for no reason." idea.
I know, they're in a Math course, and stuff like that, but there are a lot of people who will probably be capable of first-rate programming, but they will likely be scared away by having to write a 10 line cryptic bunch of codes just for Hello World.
Besides, Computer Science is about Computer Science anyway, not just the instruction set of one particular processor.
Resnick, Halliday and Walker (Fundamentals of Physics) did a great job with this. I loved how each chapter would start with a story and a question formed from that. For example, Electromagnetics, I think, started with telling how Jimi Hendrix fiddled with his guitar pickups to change the kind of sound he got.
Pretty much one of the best Physics textbooks I had when in high school.
This reminds me of that guy who got his edits rolled back because he was correcting the list of bibliography on his own article. I thought it was funny. Anyone know who it was?
Never? You may know something because you've seen it, but if you add it to Wikipedia saying you _saw_ it happen, it won't fly. You still have to be published by an authoritative source.
PS: I wanted to let everyone know about this site which I once read to catch just the basics of what signal processing (I think, could be something else) was about. It's called Connexions and it's pretty cool. (I'm not affiliated to the site)
TrueCrypt (and I assume many other cryptography tools) allow you to create a 'hidden volume'. What happens is you have one password load the real volume and the other load the hidden volume. I don't know if you can set your computer to run a program when a partition is mounted, but you could write a trivial script to watch the folder where your encrypted stuff is loaded by default and then dd your main drive if it sees a file from that hidden volume.
Will this all work? I don't know. There are probably better ways.
In addition to that, it also serves some functions. Different states have different societies, and there apparently isn't any particular society today that is superior to another.
To defend a society because you believe in its ideals and in its current manner of working requires a certain degree of enlightenment (not simply intelligence) and patriotism is a way of ensuring that the less enlightened members* of the state pull their weight when it needs to be defended.
Or it may just be a vestige of our tribal nature, who knows?
* I know this sounds rather like making other people's decisions for them, and that's a dangerous road to go down on, so I'd like to hear another reason for it.
The typo theory is very possible. Everyone knows the story about whitehouse.com
And honestly, if it were me, I'd probably be surprised for a few seconds before I actually reacted. It's just not something you expect on a school computer.
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Your problem can't be solved. Not enough information. What are your RAM requirements? If RAM is easily available, but storage is not, run Puppy Linux off RAM, use hard-drive space for whatever you want.
/lib/modules/2.6.24-22-generic subdirectory for instance: 137 MB. It simply isn't possible for a distribution to reduce its size below a certain point unless it is targeting just one particular configuration of hardware. But you can do that, because you know precisely what your hardware is. So do it. You need to compile your own kernel, and only the modules you require. Hope that helps.
If, on the other hand, RAM is short but hard drive space is available, install Puppy Linux or Damn Small Linux.
If, on the other hand, RAM is short and hard drive space is short, you need to find some way of compiling just the modules you need for that piece of hardware. Let me explain why those minimal installations are so big, they need to hold drivers for all possible hardware. Take my
Whoops, my mistake. I did not quite pick up on the tone of your comment the first time around. It is obvious that you won't accept the evaluation of a government agency, since you feel they are biased. In which case, the answer to your question, "Where the fuck are all the environmentalists?" is, "They believe that the NSF CEE is acceptable, and they believe that the NSF is credible."
Ha ha, no no. What I meant was that the question, "Where the f*ck are all the environmentalists?" makes no sense without saying why the environmentalists should be making a fuss.
I would assume that they read this document, and found the results satisfactory.
PS: Slashdot strips the <q> tag?
The Comprehensive Environmental Evaluations for IceCube are available online for free. If you feel that there is something in there that requires attention or if there is something there that people have previously objected to in the case of oil rigs then you really should mention that.
If you read the full CEE there, you should be able to know why. I suggest you read section 5.3 alone, if the whole document is daunting, since that describes the environmental effects and that section is followed by a description of procedures taken to mitigate those.
Again, if there is something to complain about, you will have to point it out, and then these environmentalists you speak of will have to explain why they only object to those things when the subject is an oil rig. But asking people to explain why they aren't complaining about something without explaining why they should just makes no sense in my book.
This does not say 'really strong' to me - it says 'cosmetic security'. And it is characteristic of security provided in India. A few days back, a leading daily (I forget which, I subscribe to several, the Times of India perhaps) carried on its front page a story about a commuter who carried a handgun through the metal detectors at CST, _days after terrorists shot the place up_. Policemen there said they didn't hear the beeping metal detectors. Cosmetic security, there to make things look like they're safe for you. I lived in Bombay (and travelled through CST often) until weeks before the terror strike, and I believed that the security personnel would fire on armed terrorists. I was wrong there too. They turned tail and ran.
You want genuine criticism? I'll give you genuine criticism. The Chief Minister of West Bengal has what they call Z-class security. Hours after he passed through a route, an IED exploded along it. How? Cosmetic security. There to make it look like stuff is being done.
Why single out India? It's where I live! I wouldn't make as big a fuss if the government of Guinea-Bissau spies on its citizens.
I also take issue with quite a few statements by you, and even though they're completely off-topic I really believe that I should wake you from this silly delusion of yours:
I find this "I love my country" nonsense revolting. We'll never fix a problem we cannot see. Call it what it is, every time some large scale failure happens, people like you come out the woodwork and paper over the flaws. It's okay, you say, we're Indians, we have the spirit to rebuild. Well, I'm an Indian, and I'm tired of pretending it's all fine.
Just the other day I was trying to get a crack for a program* and I came across this site that wanted me to type in a CAPTCHA to download. The first thing I wondered was whether these CAPTCHAs were actually from a legit site like yahoo.com and they were serving it to me to get me to break it.
* Yes, sometimes you need the crack for programs to run properly on Linux through Wine. Sucks, no? I'm sorry guys, I contributed to spam.
It's not as glamorous as discovering a cure for some new disease, but it works great.
Notice the other things mentioned in the New Yorker article:
In fact, the most important part of the whole article is in these paragraph:
I agree that it doesn't seem to serve any purpose, but it's incredibly easy to get a connection. Vodafone will give you one in 2 hours, Airtel in a day.
It's India, man. Really, ID checks are incredibly lax here, even now. I know people who've gotten a SIM card replaced on expired ID, and it could have been fake and no one would have noticed a thing.
If I recall right, most viruses these days work by social engineering rather than by remote exploit. And marketshare does have a huge impact on that. To take an example, if I were to receive a .deb file which I wanted to install, I double-click it and after typing my password in, I install it. There is nothing here that would protect me from a malware writer.
.deb, for instance) have been allowed. Remote root exploits are highly unlikely on my computer, but that doesn't matter, I'm already the weakest link.
If (and without the actual information I can't be sure about this) most malware is run by users who are just "trying to get that screensaver that I got in the mail" then this is going to hit the Mac crowd as bad as the Windows bunch.
At one point I thought that the repository system for Linux distributions would keep them safe, but it's obvious that in the search to make things easier, other (less safe) methods of installing (double-clicking a
I strongly disagree. I see this attitude everywhere and while people who are already really motivated, you will kill off even the least interest in a student who could later find it all fascinating.
You have to engage students. They aren't automatons who will simply take in any information at the same rate. I understand that you're talking about undergraduate college, and that the system is probably different depending on which country you live in, but you have to start at a level where it is easily possible for a student to _do_ things, and that's how you pique someone's interest and sustain it.
I've been through two computer science courses (one introductory, one advanced) in college as part of my Math degree, and through a year in school of being taught C, and while to me it was interesting (I had a computer much earlier than any of my classmates - back when I was just out of primary - so I had an advantage), quite a few of my classmates were obviously struggling with the "This seems so useless, just learning a bunch of stuff for no reason." idea.
I know, they're in a Math course, and stuff like that, but there are a lot of people who will probably be capable of first-rate programming, but they will likely be scared away by having to write a 10 line cryptic bunch of codes just for Hello World.
Besides, Computer Science is about Computer Science anyway, not just the instruction set of one particular processor.
Resnick, Halliday and Walker (Fundamentals of Physics) did a great job with this. I loved how each chapter would start with a story and a question formed from that. For example, Electromagnetics, I think, started with telling how Jimi Hendrix fiddled with his guitar pickups to change the kind of sound he got.
Pretty much one of the best Physics textbooks I had when in high school.
This reminds me of that guy who got his edits rolled back because he was correcting the list of bibliography on his own article. I thought it was funny. Anyone know who it was?
Never? You may know something because you've seen it, but if you add it to Wikipedia saying you _saw_ it happen, it won't fly. You still have to be published by an authoritative source.
PS: I wanted to let everyone know about this site which I once read to catch just the basics of what signal processing (I think, could be something else) was about. It's called Connexions and it's pretty cool. (I'm not affiliated to the site)
TrueCrypt (and I assume many other cryptography tools) allow you to create a 'hidden volume'. What happens is you have one password load the real volume and the other load the hidden volume. I don't know if you can set your computer to run a program when a partition is mounted, but you could write a trivial script to watch the folder where your encrypted stuff is loaded by default and then dd your main drive if it sees a file from that hidden volume.
Will this all work? I don't know. There are probably better ways.
In addition to that, it also serves some functions. Different states have different societies, and there apparently isn't any particular society today that is superior to another.
To defend a society because you believe in its ideals and in its current manner of working requires a certain degree of enlightenment (not simply intelligence) and patriotism is a way of ensuring that the less enlightened members* of the state pull their weight when it needs to be defended.
Or it may just be a vestige of our tribal nature, who knows?
* I know this sounds rather like making other people's decisions for them, and that's a dangerous road to go down on, so I'd like to hear another reason for it.
Good point. However, it's possible that we underestimate just how much Red Hat, Novell and IBM contribute to the kernel. To the 2.6.20 kernel, for instance, these three contributed nearly a fourth of all changes.
The typo theory is very possible. Everyone knows the story about whitehouse.com
And honestly, if it were me, I'd probably be surprised for a few seconds before I actually reacted. It's just not something you expect on a school computer.
What on earth is styleproject? Ironically, the first google result for that is Stile Project, which advertises itself as having 'free sex pics'.
In moments the yellow eyed beast closed in on him. Something spoke to him in his last moments, warning him about the 'grue'.
I heard that she claimed that the whole song was ironic because the song titled Ironic had nothing ironic in it. Really.
Skip to around 4:45 to get to the action. Thanks for the link :)
I did, once, and now I have to sit in this room staring at the blinkenlichten.
Well, Satan _is_ a bit of a heel. So he deserves it.
I had a HP Compaq NX 7300. It was a good laptop, everything worked perfectly in Ubuntu. In fact, the touchpad was better in Ubuntu than in Windows XP.