That's nice. I guess I'll try it out on a live DVD some time. I have been a Redhat/Fedora user for 9 years, but unfortunately FC6 was unable to load on my latest PC with an Intel 965 motherboard, so I had to switch,....
Tell me about it!
I have a PII with 64MB of RAM and, so far, the only hing that works well is RH 8! Which, believe it or not, is still pretty good for what I do - testing my code for my business' website. (All I do is HTML and some PHP nothing major.)
I tried Ubuntu 6.1, but it didn't quite work out - no, I'm not saying more because I don't want to start a distro flame war!
Maybe the neighborhood switches should be held as 'commons' by the local government, with the competitive marketplace created at the switch station?
OK. Or have all of the ISPs build their own switches. That's what competition is all about. Otherwise, we will always have a monopoly. When the local monopoly phone company says, "Well if you want inerne service, you have to buy our phone service, and our cable service; otherwise you get nothing" (See Bellsouth i.e. AT&T now in many areas where they don't have competition), I guess you're right and we, the schlubs, just have to suck it up because they built the switch and as a result, they're entitled to gouge us.
Anyway, this is the problem with the "information society": there's so much information on people out there, a lot of it incorrect, and it's being used as if it's a fact - [satire]it is on the computer, after all! [/satire]
And as more and more information is collected, it is only going to make it worse and easier for identity thieves. Why, with every zipperhead bureaucrat running around with laptops with this information and with insider's willing to sell your information to criminals, it's only going to get worse - IMHO.
I had a really interesting conversation with a banker the other day. She's seeing more and more identity thieves. All she can do is refuse the transaction and call the cops when she catches one - the thief takes off. How did this conversation start? I asked why I needed all of this identification and all this paperwork just to open a checking account for my business. Long story short - PATRIOT ACT. Yes sir, in order to "protect" us from the terrorists and drug lords, our government is making it easier and easier for these crooks to steal our information by requiring certain businesses to gather as much information as possible and NOT requiring them to secure it properly.
Stopping now because I'm getting really pissed.....
Actually, I don't quite understand the whole digital thing - JPEG, RAW, storage, etc....
I was curious about what you said so I looked in my folders where I store my digital photos. I have a 5 mp KODAK C533 and the typical jpeg file it makes is anywhere from 1.2 to 1.25 MB - right along with what you said. I guess the discrepancy from what you said is other stuff that the camera puts in the file?
Oh well, I'm still learning. Thanks for the lesson! You may have saved me some $$$ down the line!
My desire for storage (though not yet in the terrabyte range) comes from my photography (no not porn...). I take a bunch of pictures, and well, because storage is cheap I leave them all at the original file size (which in this case is about 2-5 MB depending).
Ah yes, digital photography. It's a good thing I asked because I'm in the (gradual) process of moving away from film. Which means, I'll be having a similar problem as yourself. If you do it, I hope you post your results. I will be really interested!
BTW, a 5 MB photo file sounds very small - even if it's jpg. I'm assuming you made a typo and your storing a 2 - 5 megapixel image, which would be, what, at least 15 megabytes? Even more reason for the setup you're talking about!
As a common everyman who needs big, fast, reliable storage without a big budget,...
Porn jokes aside, what in the World does a common "everyman" need with that kind of storage?
I have a 40 gig OEM drive on this machine that I've had since 2003, and I still haven't approached the half way mark. And I run a couple of businesses.
For all we know, life could be able to live at thousands of degrees hot. You just don't know.
Whoever wrote the article doesn't know about the life that lives around volcanic vents deep in the ocean or the things living deep underground at extreme temps and pressures.
FTFA...to require the owner or operator to adopt and implement procedures to confirm the identity and age of a parent or guardian granting permission,..
I guess parents will have to go down to the their office. That's the only way to know for sure. Kids can steal credit cards.
and to provide for penalties; to make it a felony for a registered sex offender to access a commercial social networking web site;
How the hell are they going to enforce that until after the fact.
to increase the penalty for certain offenses of solicitation of A child by computer to commit an unlawful sex act;
Yeah whatever.
and to make it a felony to lie to a sworn SBI agent conducting
I can just see it now, some predator online actually saying, "I'm a sexual predator. I have to tell the truth. I'm really 45, fat, ugly, and I actually think some 15 year old girl or boy will see me and say, "Oh, baby! Give it to me! I just love beer bellies!'"
It's just business. Those in charge will continue on as usual. In their world there is no US and China. That's an illusion for us to keep so we will be their slaves to defend it.
It is funny that you said that. Whenever some politician starts grandstanding about China and wants to introduces a bill that will "balance out trade", it's interesting that they shut up real quickly. Of course I can't prove anything, but I think Sprawlmart and others, of course, has a lot to do with it. They're the ones who profit the most from trade with China.
Am I for legislation of trade with China to make it more "fair"? No. Although, I am quite concerned about our nation's dependence on them and their 1.25 Trillion(!) Dollars of cash reserves. On the other hand, I believe that China is even more dependent on trade with us than we are with them - for the time being.
A large population of our country is simply unable to comprehend american life without their SUVs/cheap gas/walmart lifestyles.
I recently got a Costco membership and one of the things that they sell a little cheaper (less than $0.10 a gallon) than your corner gas station is gas. There's always a huge line at the gas pumps and for me, with my 4 cylinder, $0.10 a gallon isn't worth waiting 20 minutes. But, you guessed it, most of the line is SUVs, pickup trucks, and large cars. (The Mercedes folks got me scratching my head. I guess they're in hock up the ass to buy their car so they have to scrimp everywhere else.)
Anyway, as China and the rest of the world's industry expands, oil will greatly increase in price, and we Americans will finally be driving smaller cars. It will happen. Unfortunately, our pollution decreases will be matched maybe overshadowed by increases in those countries I've mentioned.
--Innodb scaling across multiple processors (MySQL bug ID 15815, still not completely fixed).....
The audience for both articles are for IT (upper)mangers. Most of your argument above would be better off for the technical lead whose doing the report for his immediate manager (maybe technical) who'll then give a report to the CIO or even to a manger below him that would say:
MySQL (GOOD) Oracle (GOOD but expensive) Excel (BAD) Not that those managers inherently stupid (hope not), it's just that their more concerned with the bigger picture and the resultant budget.
I think it was a typo. They meant they want to track student asses. You know, the jackasses who get drunk and trash parts of the campus or the ones who think "Animal House" was a video student manual on how to act when at college.
Who knew a slave-girl costume could cause such a stir?
It wasn't the slave girl costume. It was the girl! The girl was built like a girl: not some emaciated waif. Carry Fisher had this cute tummy and hips and real boobs - not a body by Joe Schmoe, MD, Hollyweird, CA!
Geeze! And the irony is that, IIRC from one the Star Wars behind the scenes DVD extras, the producers wanted to or did send her to a fat farm.
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Tell me about it!
I have a PII with 64MB of RAM and, so far, the only hing that works well is RH 8! Which, believe it or not, is still pretty good for what I do - testing my code for my business' website. (All I do is HTML and some PHP nothing major.)
I tried Ubuntu 6.1, but it didn't quite work out - no, I'm not saying more because I don't want to start a distro flame war!
I wish I could run something current on that box.
No, I think that was "McNealy vs. Gates".
As apposed to the "Jobs vs. Gates Silicon Valley Smackdown"!?
Thanks!
OK. Or have all of the ISPs build their own switches. That's what competition is all about. Otherwise, we will always have a monopoly. When the local monopoly phone company says, "Well if you want inerne service, you have to buy our phone service, and our cable service; otherwise you get nothing" (See Bellsouth i.e. AT&T now in many areas where they don't have competition), I guess you're right and we, the schlubs, just have to suck it up because they built the switch and as a result, they're entitled to gouge us.
Ah! Which explains the differences between image sizes from the same camera.
Thanks! Eventually, it gets through the concrete! - [taps on head].
And as more and more information is collected, it is only going to make it worse and easier for identity thieves. Why, with every zipperhead bureaucrat running around with laptops with this information and with insider's willing to sell your information to criminals, it's only going to get worse - IMHO.
I had a really interesting conversation with a banker the other day. She's seeing more and more identity thieves. All she can do is refuse the transaction and call the cops when she catches one - the thief takes off. How did this conversation start? I asked why I needed all of this identification and all this paperwork just to open a checking account for my business. Long story short - PATRIOT ACT. Yes sir, in order to "protect" us from the terrorists and drug lords, our government is making it easier and easier for these crooks to steal our information by requiring certain businesses to gather as much information as possible and NOT requiring them to secure it properly.
Stopping now because I'm getting really pissed.....
Actually, I don't quite understand the whole digital thing - JPEG, RAW, storage, etc....
I was curious about what you said so I looked in my folders where I store my digital photos. I have a 5 mp KODAK C533 and the typical jpeg file it makes is anywhere from 1.2 to 1.25 MB - right along with what you said. I guess the discrepancy from what you said is other stuff that the camera puts in the file?
Oh well, I'm still learning. Thanks for the lesson! You may have saved me some $$$ down the line!
Well, I'll have to buy a digital camera that shoots in ASCII. Oh wait.......
Ah yes, digital photography. It's a good thing I asked because I'm in the (gradual) process of moving away from film. Which means, I'll be having a similar problem as yourself. If you do it, I hope you post your results. I will be really interested!
BTW, a 5 MB photo file sounds very small - even if it's jpg. I'm assuming you made a typo and your storing a 2 - 5 megapixel image, which would be, what, at least 15 megabytes? Even more reason for the setup you're talking about!
Porn jokes aside, what in the World does a common "everyman" need with that kind of storage?
I have a 40 gig OEM drive on this machine that I've had since 2003, and I still haven't approached the half way mark. And I run a couple of businesses.
quitting smoking and have had too much coffee! You're just asking to be modd'ed Troll or Flamebait!
Whoever wrote the article doesn't know about the life that lives around volcanic vents deep in the ocean or the things living deep underground at extreme temps and pressures.
I guess parents will have to go down to the their office. That's the only way to know for sure. Kids can steal credit cards.
and to provide for penalties; to make it a felony for a registered sex offender to access a commercial social networking web site;
How the hell are they going to enforce that until after the fact.
to increase the penalty for certain offenses of solicitation of A child by computer to commit an unlawful sex act;
Yeah whatever.
and to make it a felony to lie to a sworn SBI agent conducting
I can just see it now, some predator online actually saying, "I'm a sexual predator. I have to tell the truth. I'm really 45, fat, ugly, and I actually think some 15 year old girl or boy will see me and say, "Oh, baby! Give it to me! I just love beer bellies!'"
It is funny that you said that. Whenever some politician starts grandstanding about China and wants to introduces a bill that will "balance out trade", it's interesting that they shut up real quickly. Of course I can't prove anything, but I think Sprawlmart and others, of course, has a lot to do with it. They're the ones who profit the most from trade with China.
Am I for legislation of trade with China to make it more "fair"? No. Although, I am quite concerned about our nation's dependence on them and their 1.25 Trillion(!) Dollars of cash reserves. On the other hand, I believe that China is even more dependent on trade with us than we are with them - for the time being.
Have a new defense department in a building shaped like a circle. The theme of the building being what goes around, comes around.
I recently got a Costco membership and one of the things that they sell a little cheaper (less than $0.10 a gallon) than your corner gas station is gas. There's always a huge line at the gas pumps and for me, with my 4 cylinder, $0.10 a gallon isn't worth waiting 20 minutes. But, you guessed it, most of the line is SUVs, pickup trucks, and large cars. (The Mercedes folks got me scratching my head. I guess they're in hock up the ass to buy their car so they have to scrimp everywhere else.)
Anyway, as China and the rest of the world's industry expands, oil will greatly increase in price, and we Americans will finally be driving smaller cars. It will happen. Unfortunately, our pollution decreases will be matched maybe overshadowed by increases in those countries I've mentioned.
It's called being a realist and I, personally, don't think you should imply an apology - especially in this over-hyping everything day and age.
VM enables "write-once, run anywhere" Linux apps?
Ultimately, Lina has some pretty lofty goals.
Hi.
1. This sounds like what Java tried to do.
2. Startup!?!?! Watch your pocketbooks!
I almost got another email address to do just that when I first got the account. :-)
Psst, duuuuuuuuuude! The dolphins are taking off now! And they're looking for humans for domestic work. C'mon!
The audience for both articles are for IT (upper)mangers. Most of your argument above would be better off for the technical lead whose doing the report for his immediate manager (maybe technical) who'll then give a report to the CIO or even to a manger below him that would say:
MySQL (GOOD)
Oracle (GOOD but expensive)
Excel (BAD)
Not that those managers inherently stupid (hope not), it's just that their more concerned with the bigger picture and the resultant budget.
Happy weekend to you, too!
I think it was a typo. They meant they want to track student asses. You know, the jackasses who get drunk and trash parts of the campus or the ones who think "Animal House" was a video student manual on how to act when at college.
Who knew a slave-girl costume could cause such a stir?
It wasn't the slave girl costume. It was the girl! The girl was built like a girl: not some emaciated waif. Carry Fisher had this cute tummy and hips and real boobs - not a body by Joe Schmoe, MD, Hollyweird, CA!
Geeze! And the irony is that, IIRC from one the Star Wars behind the scenes DVD extras, the producers wanted to or did send her to a fat farm.