If you don't like the way disks work in a power outage, just switch to drum storage. Its angular momentum means that it would keep turning long enough to dump the entire core (OK, this is a bit ancient) to the drum. Sometimes, the "UPS" was a generator attached to the drum, so it powered the cpu. The drum was spun by separate motors, and had a read/write head on each track: no seek time, read & write in parallel to all tracks, great for virtual memory. They were noisy power-hogs, however.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_memory
It's hard as hell to make it your only desktop; you'll spend all your time wrangling with WINE.
Our home has been free of MS Windows for four years now. No, we don't use WINE or run Windows in a VM either. There are three desktops and a laptop on the LAN all running Ubuntu (one ran PCLinuxOS for a while, which was also quite OK). Our Synology server runs some mangled Linux, but it performs quite OK.
I don't recall any "hard as hell" issues. Everything goes fine, including all multimedia, graphic design, raw photo conversion, email, web access, and general document processing.
Perhaps Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst is just referring to desktop installation of Red Hat Linux having insufficient payback for Red Hat. The need for support contracts would be SO much greater if clients used Windows desktops to connect to the Red Hat servers (Windows being even less ready for the desktop, and more needy of support).
Whatever about Red Hat, I've found Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS to be eminently suitable for the desktop.
What features did the old screen saver menu have that the new one does not? Because having just taken a look on it (Using Ubuntu 8.10) I can't find an option that isn't there that I would use.
Here's one that annoys me a bit: if you select the image gallery screensaver, it was possible before to specify which image directories to use. Now, you can't; it uses the F-Spot gallery and nothing else. I don't even have F-Spot installed, as it cannot handle large collections of images (too big to fit on any single volume). Also, I would prefer the screensaver to access only a small subset of my images, not the entire image collection (which includes some naughty stuff). As I said, it's a minor annoyance for me, but it is an annoyance.
Absolute crap. the only reason Blair got in at all in the first place was because we wanted to get Thatcher out.
I hope this isn't news to you, but Tony Blair replaced John Major as the UK's prime minister. Thatcher had already been out for six and a half years. Major is the one who ousted Thatcher, and he was PM from November 1990 to May 1997. Thatcher had been PM from May 1979 to November 1990. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Major http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher
In Quebec, it also applies on private land. Same ticket if you're caught having a beer on a lawn tractor in your yard than while driving a car on the road.
Really? I was not aware of that. I lived in Ontario for some years, and I don't think DUI applied on your own land or private roads (speed limits didn't). But that was a while back and maybe things have changed in a suboptimal way.
BTW, is it also illegal to ride a horse while drunk in Quebec? In most of the world, it is quite legal, on the grounds that the likelihood of a horse crashing or otherwise causing damage is not greatly changed by its having an enebriated rider (other than the drunk rider falling off). Not that I ever drink while riding my horse, of course...
"There are cannabinoids in your bloodstream. The SWAT team has been alerted. Please wait for them to arrive and beat you up."
OR:
"Your blood alcohol level is above the legal limit. A police officer is on the way. Please stop your vehicle immediately and wait to be arrested."
And it would do this even if you were driving on your own private road, or driving a tractor on your own land (hint: DUI rules apply only on public roads, parking lots, etc.).
Something tells me that the DHS "Ministry of Love" will not lose all of its capability in cybersecurity scaremongering and related sabotage of citizen's rights. Instead, the White House will just have a "Ministry of Truth" spreading its own brand of FUD and fostering oppression of legitimate activities. Expect considerable inconsistency between the two, possibly including persecution competitions: "we're tougher than them" and suchlike.
Perhaps they're more interested in making profitable penis enhancement products: "The bionic erection is now possible, beating viagra for strength and endurance. Get yours for just $5,999,999.95 - order now, while supplies last".
these people should be tried and hung for treason.
Sorry, treason is explicitly defined in the Constitution. I doubt seriously the definition can be stretched to fit this.
I suspect a lynching would be more in line with the American tradition of informality. Holding an actual trial before the hanging just looks pompous and ritualistic.
everything is a pollutant when it is present in concentrations such that the current local environment can not deal with them.
Like Humans!
Overpopulation by humans is the root of our planet's problems (pollution, habitat loss, resource exhaustion, etc.). Unfortunately, no sane person is keen to tackle that particular issue.
Rome threw out the idea of limbo. Didn't you get the memo?
Not exactly. The pope expressed "the hope" that unbaptised infants don't go there, even though the Catholic church knew only of baptism as a route to Heaven.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo
Of course, when I was a kid, we got that Limbo stuff pushed as absolute dogma by the "Christian Brothers", even though it was never officially Catholic doctrine. Nowadays, I express "the hope" that the pope will come to his senses and become an atheist.
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions of years before I was born and
had not suffered the slightest of inconvenience from it." -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens).
Not if you accept that life begins at conception. No birth, no baptism, go to Hell.
Um, the Catholic doctrine is that the souls of those who die unbaptised at birth, or are stillborn (and so on and so forth) go to some place called Limbo. They eventually get to Heaven, apparently, but must wait until the souls of those in Purgatory get there also.
Then again, I think Dawkins said it best about the Catholics: "They're making it up as they go along!"
If it's shared among your 5,000 closest friends, I'd call that pretty public.
5,000 closest friends? Even if I included all of my friends and acquaintences, and maybe also all of my enemies, I still might not reach 5,000. And I've lived in numerous locations on both sides of the Atlantic in the last 5 decades.
This whole thing is ridiculous. How does looking at images of naked children cause harm? Is nudity "bad"? Is God some kind of pervert because he made-us naked without feathers or fur? C'mon people! If I take my family to a nudist resort, and I post our family photo, and I going to get drug-off in the middle of night as a child porn provider? Is nudism no longer acceptable? Sounds like 1984.
"If God wanted us to be naked, we would have been born that way" -- Oscar Wilde.
The sick social attitudes towards nudity that you allude to are not prevalent in all parts of the world. For example, in Finland it is considered quite normal for a whole family to go skinny-dipping together or to go into the sauna together. BTW, towels are NOT worn in the sauna - that would be considered wierd.
No they won't, Gemstar was doing this in 2001 and it had DRM all over it. This is a bad patent and it needs to die.
The patent application was filed in 1999, so whatever Gemstar was doing in 2001 is not prior art and is thus irrelevant. Perhaps there is something publicly revealed earlier than 1999 which could invalidate the patent or reduce its coverage.
Actually you could build one anyway as they use sugar and potassium nitrate as the propellant.
When I was a lad, we made rockets using sugar and sodium chlorate (that's chlorate not chloride). Of course, we also made small bombs by packing the mix into tobacco cans or copper pipes.
Good luck with hitting anything with an unguided rocket, there is a reason that millions are spent on putting in guidance systems.
Ah, happy memories! None of our rockets actually turned back on us, but damned few flew straight for much of a distance.
In the RIAA offices? Everybody knows that bacteria thrive in feces.
Coprophagous bacteria around the world are insulted and impugned by this implied association with the RIAA. Even the fecal matter is disgusted, you insensitive clod!
Simply linking to addresses in ACMA's blacklist attracts an $11,000 per-day fine (snip) The blacklist is secret, immune to FOI requests and forms the basis of the Australian (snip)
So you receive a letter on your mailbox saying that you were fined in AUD $11,000 , for linking to a site that you didn't know you could link, and if you knew that you couldn't link to it you would be even more penalized because that information is not for your security level?
Hmm, since the blacklist is secret, they might reasonably claim that they can't tell you which of your links is on the blacklist. So, $11,000 per day until every link on your entire site has vanished. Profit!
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If you don't like the way disks work in a power outage, just switch to drum storage. Its angular momentum means that it would keep turning long enough to dump the entire core (OK, this is a bit ancient) to the drum. Sometimes, the "UPS" was a generator attached to the drum, so it powered the cpu. The drum was spun by separate motors, and had a read/write head on each track: no seek time, read & write in parallel to all tracks, great for virtual memory. They were noisy power-hogs, however.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_memory
It's hard as hell to make it your only desktop; you'll spend all your time wrangling with WINE.
Our home has been free of MS Windows for four years now. No, we don't use WINE or run Windows in a VM either. There are three desktops and a laptop on the LAN all running Ubuntu (one ran PCLinuxOS for a while, which was also quite OK). Our Synology server runs some mangled Linux, but it performs quite OK.
I don't recall any "hard as hell" issues. Everything goes fine, including all multimedia, graphic design, raw photo conversion, email, web access, and general document processing.
Perhaps Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst is just referring to desktop installation of Red Hat Linux having insufficient payback for Red Hat. The need for support contracts would be SO much greater if clients used Windows desktops to connect to the Red Hat servers (Windows being even less ready for the desktop, and more needy of support).
Whatever about Red Hat, I've found Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS to be eminently suitable for the desktop.
What features did the old screen saver menu have that the new one does not? Because having just taken a look on it (Using Ubuntu 8.10) I can't find an option that isn't there that I would use.
Here's one that annoys me a bit: if you select the image gallery screensaver, it was possible before to specify which image directories to use. Now, you can't; it uses the F-Spot gallery and nothing else. I don't even have F-Spot installed, as it cannot handle large collections of images (too big to fit on any single volume). Also, I would prefer the screensaver to access only a small subset of my images, not the entire image collection (which includes some naughty stuff). As I said, it's a minor annoyance for me, but it is an annoyance.
The problem is that these are slightly more savvy idiots. :)
Lenin would have called them Useful Idiots.
Good Lord, it sounds like we need to invade and liberate Australia to set up a base from which to threaten New Zealand.
But why would the New Zealanders care what you do to West Island?
Absolute crap. the only reason Blair got in at all in the first place was because we wanted to get Thatcher out.
I hope this isn't news to you, but Tony Blair replaced John Major as the UK's prime minister. Thatcher had already been out for six and a half years. Major is the one who ousted Thatcher, and he was PM from November 1990 to May 1997. Thatcher had been PM from May 1979 to November 1990.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Major
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher
In Quebec, it also applies on private land. Same ticket if you're caught having a beer on a lawn tractor in your yard than while driving a car on the road.
Really? I was not aware of that. I lived in Ontario for some years, and I don't think DUI applied on your own land or private roads (speed limits didn't). But that was a while back and maybe things have changed in a suboptimal way.
BTW, is it also illegal to ride a horse while drunk in Quebec? In most of the world, it is quite legal, on the grounds that the likelihood of a horse crashing or otherwise causing damage is not greatly changed by its having an enebriated rider (other than the drunk rider falling off). Not that I ever drink while riding my horse, of course...
"There are cannabinoids in your bloodstream. The SWAT team has been alerted. Please wait for them to arrive and beat you up."
OR:
"Your blood alcohol level is above the legal limit. A police officer is on the way. Please stop your vehicle immediately and wait to be arrested."
And it would do this even if you were driving on your own private road, or driving a tractor on your own land (hint: DUI rules apply only on public roads, parking lots, etc.).
Something tells me that the DHS "Ministry of Love" will not lose all of its capability in cybersecurity scaremongering and related sabotage of citizen's rights. Instead, the White House will just have a "Ministry of Truth" spreading its own brand of FUD and fostering oppression of legitimate activities. Expect considerable inconsistency between the two, possibly including persecution competitions: "we're tougher than them" and suchlike.
Perhaps they're more interested in making profitable penis enhancement products: "The bionic erection is now possible, beating viagra for strength and endurance. Get yours for just $5,999,999.95 - order now, while supplies last".
these people should be tried and hung for treason.
Sorry, treason is explicitly defined in the Constitution. I doubt seriously the definition can be stretched to fit this.
I suspect a lynching would be more in line with the American tradition of informality. Holding an actual trial before the hanging just looks pompous and ritualistic.
Hah! I just clicked it, and if that's what the incompetents are censoring, there'll be trouble at halloween!
everything is a pollutant when it is present in concentrations such that the current local environment can not deal with them.
Like Humans!
Overpopulation by humans is the root of our planet's problems (pollution, habitat loss, resource exhaustion, etc.). Unfortunately, no sane person is keen to tackle that particular issue.
Let them use proper explosives, and let them make their own thermites, black powder or napalms. They'll develop an aptitude for chemistry (and perhaps an appreciation of medicine).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm
Let them play with a decently-sized ballista, trebuchet, or onager. They'll learn all about dynamics and ballistics, wind resistance, action-reaction (the onager kicks a bit), and the delivery of kinetic energy via projectile.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballista
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onager_(siege_weapon)
However, if they combine the explosives with the projectiles, their neighbours will study the law.
[Yes, I had a dangerously mis-spent childhood, and turned into a chemical engineer]
Rome threw out the idea of limbo. Didn't you get the memo?
Not exactly. The pope expressed "the hope" that unbaptised infants don't go there, even though the Catholic church knew only of baptism as a route to Heaven.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo
Of course, when I was a kid, we got that Limbo stuff pushed as absolute dogma by the "Christian Brothers", even though it was never officially Catholic doctrine. Nowadays, I express "the hope" that the pope will come to his senses and become an atheist.
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions of years before I was born and had not suffered the slightest of inconvenience from it." -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens).
Not if you accept that life begins at conception. No birth, no baptism, go to Hell.
Um, the Catholic doctrine is that the souls of those who die unbaptised at birth, or are stillborn (and so on and so forth) go to some place called Limbo. They eventually get to Heaven, apparently, but must wait until the souls of those in Purgatory get there also.
Then again, I think Dawkins said it best about the Catholics: "They're making it up as they go along!"
If it's shared among your 5,000 closest friends, I'd call that pretty public.
5,000 closest friends? Even if I included all of my friends and acquaintences, and maybe also all of my enemies, I still might not reach 5,000. And I've lived in numerous locations on both sides of the Atlantic in the last 5 decades.
This whole thing is ridiculous. How does looking at images of naked children cause harm? Is nudity "bad"? Is God some kind of pervert because he made-us naked without feathers or fur? C'mon people! If I take my family to a nudist resort, and I post our family photo, and I going to get drug-off in the middle of night as a child porn provider? Is nudism no longer acceptable? Sounds like 1984.
"If God wanted us to be naked, we would have been born that way" -- Oscar Wilde.
The sick social attitudes towards nudity that you allude to are not prevalent in all parts of the world. For example, in Finland it is considered quite normal for a whole family to go skinny-dipping together or to go into the sauna together. BTW, towels are NOT worn in the sauna - that would be considered wierd.
SRWare Iron has a proper installer - per default it installs in "C:\Program Files", which is where applications belong.
None of my Linux boxes have a directory with this strange name! Are all the programs installed in the wrong places?
No they won't, Gemstar was doing this in 2001 and it had DRM all over it. This is a bad patent and it needs to die.
The patent application was filed in 1999, so whatever Gemstar was doing in 2001 is not prior art and is thus irrelevant. Perhaps there is something publicly revealed earlier than 1999 which could invalidate the patent or reduce its coverage.
Actually you could build one anyway as they use sugar and potassium nitrate as the propellant.
When I was a lad, we made rockets using sugar and sodium chlorate (that's chlorate not chloride). Of course, we also made small bombs by packing the mix into tobacco cans or copper pipes.
Good luck with hitting anything with an unguided rocket, there is a reason that millions are spent on putting in guidance systems.
Ah, happy memories! None of our rockets actually turned back on us, but damned few flew straight for much of a distance.
In the RIAA offices? Everybody knows that bacteria thrive in feces.
Coprophagous bacteria around the world are insulted and impugned by this implied association with the RIAA. Even the fecal matter is disgusted, you insensitive clod!
Simply linking to addresses in ACMA's blacklist attracts an $11,000 per-day fine (snip) The blacklist is secret, immune to FOI requests and forms the basis of the Australian (snip)
So you receive a letter on your mailbox saying that you were fined in AUD $11,000 , for linking to a site that you didn't know you could link, and if you knew that you couldn't link to it you would be even more penalized because that information is not for your security level?
Hmm, since the blacklist is secret, they might reasonably claim that they can't tell you which of your links is on the blacklist. So, $11,000 per day until every link on your entire site has vanished. Profit!