The law requires that all nutritional information be in metric (except for energy which is the derived unit of kilocalorie (which is often just shortened to Calorie) and the law for soft drinks is fuzzy so some use metric and others use fluid ounces (yes, there's an ounce weight as well which can cause confusion for anyone that didn't grow up with it).
12 fl oz is the most common, but there's lots of other fairly common sizes here as well: - 10 fl oz - 14 fl oz - 16 fl oz - 450mL - 500mL
We really do need to get rid of this complex and confusing system. Not because of external factors, but because it's the best thing for our country to do.
It may seem more practical, but that's only because you grew up with it. The rest of the world went metric because it's actually more practical to just shift decimals.
Then there's things like this:
Which is larger: - a barrel of oil? - a barrel of wine? - a barrel of beer?
Or this:
Which is heavier: - an ounce of gold? - an ounce of feathers?
Yes, both of these examples overload the measurement they're using. Turns out the oil barrel is the largest (unless you're using Imperial instead of US customary and then the beer barrel is) and an ounce of feathers does way more than an ounce of gold.
The metric is simple because the first question is entirely liters and it's easy to just see, the second one is entirely grams and that's also easy to see.
We're really doing ourselves no favors keeping this confusing system.
http://metric.org/ - US Metric Association. http://gometricamerica.org/ - He's trying to drum up support and get people moving http://gometric.us/ - A wiki that's just started and is trying to get something actually happening rather than wallowing in imperial measures for the next 20 years.
There are many different versions of this packet filter out there. Most of them incompatible with each other and a few even break backwards compatibility.
Darren just doesn't want a dozen, different, incompatible versions of IPF floating around. By having the license the way he does it's guaranteed that there'll only be one version and he won't be asked to support other peoples changes to his code.
Considering that this is a major piece of security software it's a good idea that it's not liable to forks by sub-standard coders.
Yes. It looks like being another Pentium Pro.
But then again, at least the PPro had some use in the server market with its on-die cache (which was something extra-ordinary at the time but put it out of the competition just based on the price).
Isn't it interesting that one of the biggest security holes is default passwords on services.
Notice that for a long time the most common way of gaining credit card numbers was to find a MS-SQL server that could be accessed from the internet and try and access it with the default username/password.
If you're programming something do us all a favor and make people enter a password during the install instead of having a default.
If the politicians don't protect the ISPs from this sort of stupid behaviour we are going to see a rather large decline in web sites. This stinks very badly of the Australian web censorchip act. In both cases the ISPs get hit for other peoples behaviour.
>Please keep this crap out of slashdot. By posting >a hundred character word, you made the whole page >be as wide as that line, and caused most of us to >get horizontal scrollbars as a result.
Apologies. I run at 140 char's wide and forgot that it wouldn't be chopped.
This is what happens when you read slashdot at 2 in the morning instead of sleeping.:(
Unless Microsoft can convince everyone that Windows media format is somehow better than mp3, ra etc there shouldn't be a problem. The question then becomes: Does Windows Media offer anything to the provider that the other (especially the already hugely popular mp3) formats don't?
I had a very similar problem with my PPro 200. Finally got it to install but it tried putting the video mode into >640x480 which is all my poor little monitor will support. Took a bit of tweaking but finally got there. Overall not too bad for their first try. But they need to do some serious bug checking of there installer before the next version. Things I think it needs: - Ability to choose the resolution you want the desktop to be in before it starts X. - some fine tuning of their fdisk utility. (I ended up having to delete partitions just to give them a mount point) - the choice for a non-graphical install (or at least have the ability to flick to a term during the install) - If it detects an ethernet card it should let me set up the networking for it during the install. - How about a choice of computer name instead of CorelLinux - entering passwords during the install (especially root!)
I'm sure there will be more that I'll find when I've played with it a bit more. In a version or two I think it should be quite suitable for newbie/desktop use.
You think 16 bit will ever disppear? Look at the PIII. These chips still have 8 bit (8088) backwards compatability!! Once Intel put an instruction and hardware support into the chip they will never get rid of it no matter how useless and outdated it is.
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The law requires that all nutritional information be in metric (except for energy which is the derived unit of kilocalorie (which is often just shortened to Calorie) and the law for soft drinks is fuzzy so some use metric and others use fluid ounces (yes, there's an ounce weight as well which can cause confusion for anyone that didn't grow up with it).
12 fl oz is the most common, but there's lots of other fairly common sizes here as well:
- 10 fl oz
- 14 fl oz
- 16 fl oz
- 450mL
- 500mL
We really do need to get rid of this complex and confusing system. Not because of external factors, but because it's the best thing for our country to do.
No, we're mostly discussing the US customary system here. The Imperial system is entirely different.
Paul
It may seem more practical, but that's only because you grew up with it.
The rest of the world went metric because it's actually more practical to just shift decimals.
Then there's things like this:
Which is larger:
- a barrel of oil?
- a barrel of wine?
- a barrel of beer?
Or this:
Which is heavier:
- an ounce of gold?
- an ounce of feathers?
Yes, both of these examples overload the measurement they're using. Turns out the oil barrel is the largest (unless you're using Imperial instead of US customary and then the beer barrel is) and an ounce of feathers does way more than an ounce of gold.
The metric is simple because the first question is entirely liters and it's easy to just see, the second one is entirely grams and that's also easy to see.
We're really doing ourselves no favors keeping this confusing system.
Paul
http://metric.org/ - US Metric Association.
http://gometricamerica.org/ - He's trying to drum up support and get people moving
http://gometric.us/ - A wiki that's just started and is trying to get something actually happening rather than wallowing in imperial measures for the next 20 years.
Wow, someone finally got it....
Goobuntu is the internal workstation release, customized just enough to work in the environment.
Given all the recent advances at Microsoft, what do you think the Unix market learn from Windows?
What do you you think are the things that Microsoft/Windows still needs to learn from the Unix market?
Lotus Notes.
It's still years ahead of Outlook.
Look at IPFW!
There are many different versions of this packet filter out there. Most of them incompatible with each other and a few even break backwards compatibility.
Darren just doesn't want a dozen, different, incompatible versions of IPF floating around. By having the license the way he does it's guaranteed that there'll only be one version and he won't be asked to support other peoples changes to his code.
Considering that this is a major piece of security software it's a good idea that it's not liable to forks by sub-standard coders.
Damn slashdot stuffed up my code:
it should be:
rdr "ext interface" "ext ip" port 4000 -> "internal machine ip" port 4000 udp
Paul.
By either using SOCKS or redirecting incoming traffic to a specific port on the box behind the firewall.
e.g.
rdr de0 port 4000 -> port 4000 udp
Paul.
Yes. It looks like being another Pentium Pro.
But then again, at least the PPro had some use in the server market with its on-die cache (which was something extra-ordinary at the time but put it out of the competition just based on the price).
Isn't it interesting that one of the biggest security holes is default passwords on services.
Notice that for a long time the most common way of gaining credit card numbers was to find a MS-SQL server that could be accessed from the internet and try and access it with the default username/password.
If you're programming something do us all a favor and make people enter a password during the install instead of having a default.
Yes maybe. But it's better for the distro the more we get added to it.
Paul.
Yes maybe. But it's better for the distro the more we get added to it.
If the politicians don't protect the ISPs from this sort of stupid behaviour we are going to see a rather large decline in web sites.
This stinks very badly of the Australian web censorchip act. In both cases the ISPs get hit for other peoples behaviour.
>Please keep this crap out of slashdot. By posting
:(
>a hundred character word, you made the whole page
>be as wide as that line, and caused most of us to
>get horizontal scrollbars as a result.
Apologies. I run at 140 char's wide and forgot that it wouldn't be chopped.
This is what happens when you read slashdot at 2 in the morning instead of sleeping.
Unless Microsoft can convince everyone that Windows media format is somehow better than mp3, ra etc there shouldn't be a problem.
+ +N++o?K?w---O-M-(+)VPS+()PE+(++)Y+(++)PG Pt5X-R+!tvb+(++)DI++!DGe>++h!(*)r@--y+(**)
The question then becomes:
Does Windows Media offer anything to the provider that the other (especially the already hugely popular mp3) formats don't?
------BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12
GCS d+(!)s+:a--C++(++++)UL++(++++)$P>+++L+++>+++++!EW
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
I had a very similar problem with my PPro 200.
Finally got it to install but it tried putting the video mode into >640x480 which is all my poor little monitor will support. Took a bit of tweaking but finally got there.
Overall not too bad for their first try. But they need to do some serious bug checking of there installer before the next version.
Things I think it needs:
- Ability to choose the resolution you want the desktop to be in before it starts X.
- some fine tuning of their fdisk utility. (I ended up having to delete partitions just to give them a mount point)
- the choice for a non-graphical install (or at least have the ability to flick to a term during the install)
- If it detects an ethernet card it should let me set up the networking for it during the install.
- How about a choice of computer name instead of CorelLinux
- entering passwords during the install (especially root!)
I'm sure there will be more that I'll find when I've played with it a bit more.
In a version or two I think it should be quite suitable for newbie/desktop use.
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12
GCS d+(!)s+:a--C++(++++)UL++(++++)$
P>+++L+++>+++++!EW++N++o?K?w---O-
M-(+)VPS+()PE+(++)Y+(++)PGPt5X-R+
!tvb+(++)DI++!DGe>++h!(*)r@--y+(**)
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
You think 16 bit will ever disppear?
Look at the PIII. These chips still have 8 bit (8088) backwards compatability!!
Once Intel put an instruction and hardware support into the chip they will never get rid of it no matter how useless and outdated it is.