Firstaidkit is an automated recovery tool that brings together common recovery processes and applies them to a system. The way that Firstaidkit handles the recovery processes is by means of plugins. The idea being that a plugin will focus on a particular issue in the system, like grub, init scripts or Xserver. Firstaidkit is designed to automatically fix problems while focusing on maintaining user data integrity. In other words, Firstaidkit will try its best to fix your system while giving you the possibility to revert the changes.
I never tried this one personally though. Last time I fried my MBR I recovered it "by hand".
From US & Israel's point of view Hezbollah is a terrorist organization, while from many Arab countries' POV it's a parliamentary party. I agree that the word "terrorist" has its generic meanings (e.g. violence) but in reality it all boils down to politics.
1. They might not communicate with radio waves. Maybe they've developed other ways to communicate among themselves, and we can't detect that.
I believe so. Maybe they are using the Point-of-View Gun as the most ordinary tool of communication but we Earthlings (esp. males, which make up the 50% of us) are simply too thick for those guns to penetrate.
2. Why would they talk to us? Presumably they're interested in intelligent life, and we're questionable there. Maybe when we develop the means to travel beyond our solar system, they'll take notice. Whether that's good or not is debatable.
Yeah, I believe in three or four years we *can* reach Warp Speed. But by the time the scientists find the way, a patent troll lawyer will have been there already, waiting for them, showing his teeth... Mmm, cash...
We humans are still a bunch of young, angsty teenagers. We desperately want to make the "first contact", crying and yelling and suffering from the depressive thought of loneliness.
Other galactic civilizations simply matured and stopped worrying about such pointless things. They make themselves busy with real business.
AFAIK the add-ons (incl. updates) hosted at addons.mozilla.org must go through a review procedure before being pushed to update channel. If so, why doesn't Mozilla sign the reviewed packages (while not signing the pending ones) and only allow the user installing the signed ones? This is similar to what all Linux distros are doing.
This doesn't rule out 3rd party add-ons that don't go through the Mozilla review procedure. Firefox should include only the official Mozilla public key by default, but a user can import 3rd-party developers' keys by themselves. If you don't trust a particular developer (for example, Microsoft) or can't verify its identity, just don't import the key and there will be no way for the add-on to install. Importing/deleting public keys should be done with root- or admin-privilege just like updating Firefox itself.
Also, I'd like to see, how
votes[canditate]+=1;
has an error margin of 2%.
Software design principle: All input is invalid.
Even simple input as a touchscreen click should be validated. And there's a long way to go between a click and "votes[candidate] += 1;" and it can go Wrong.
It's natural that people would lower their expectations after the dissatisfaction of Vista. Once the expectations are lowered, they are in turn easier to satisfy. Especially when most of the customers have few other choices.
Yes I know they do have choices. But MS now is still a monopoly.
I like this one, I'm sure there are people who try it from time to time... It's very tempting to say what syscall #2 is, but it would remove temptation:-)
He should have checked the system call return value... it's good programming habit even if it's a prank;-)
I'm not on the lie detector company's side and I sympathize with the Swedish researchers too. However, you seemed to be taking things black-and-white...
In reality it is all about probabilistic correlation between "lie-o-meter" readings and subjects' honesty. This correlation may be strong or poor. Lie detectors may work or not. I don't know. But I think it's how this correlation is measured and interpreted that matters. If the instrument company fails to make the measurement and interpretation on science, and further exaggerate it's actual use, that would be fraud. And scientists take fraud very seriously.
I guess that's because English and Swedish share a lot of common roots... both are languages of Germanic peoples... Anyway it's my guess that falls within the category of "folk linguistics":-)
This may sound off-topic, but has anyone tested ext4's performance on USB drives? I hope ext4's delayed allocation (well, something not specific to ext4) could provide some meaningful enhancement for USB usage. I'm considering the idea of ext4 on a flash drive with no journaling and noatime for LiveUSB. That being said, I'll have to make sure it works with GRUB..
Also the new BtrFS is said to be optimized for SSDs. I wonder whether this will benefit USB flash drives too when it comes out.
That's what Wikipedia is doing now, with the timeout set to zero, and it is doing fine.
One of Wikipedia's "behavioural guidelines" is WP:GF -- Assuming Good Faith. Although not an founding principle, I think it can rank as one of the cultural backbones of WP. It delivers a strong message which is Tolerance (whether the message is carried out is another topic).
Why don't we have this approval timeout in the first place? Back to the infant days of WP it would be infeasible. But now I'd rather view as a practice of Assuming Good Faith -- trusting the user's honesty regardless of what he or she writes. The point is *trust*. This is something nowhere to be found in a bureaucracy, and something that maintains a lively community.
The "approval via timeout" is still "innocent until proven guilty". But, should it take place, I would feel I'm much less trusted. Maybe I would reconsider whether I should continue contributing to Wikipedia.
Yes I'm being a bit too sensitive here and I'm sorry for that.
"End-users will do crazy things that no amount of testing infrastructure will get."
Actually TFA is quite good read about various things around Linux. The KDE vs. GNOME part is the least interesting IMO. Go read it and get modded down;-)
A bug in TFA: the Qs and As are using the same font & color and there's no "Q:" or "A:" markers before them, so it looks like a monologue...
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I never tried this one personally though. Last time I fried my MBR I recovered it "by hand".
Hezbollah is not Palestinian. It's Lebanese.
From US & Israel's point of view Hezbollah is a terrorist organization, while from many Arab countries' POV it's a parliamentary party. I agree that the word "terrorist" has its generic meanings (e.g. violence) but in reality it all boils down to politics.
"Are these questions testing whether I'm a Replicant, or a spy, Mr. Holden?"
and sending out gay porn featuring the CEO of the company
Featuring the CEO of the company? I say "the CEO and the company"!!!
Are you sure you've included the effects of precession etc. when doing that calculation?
I believe so. Maybe they are using the Point-of-View Gun as the most ordinary tool of communication but we Earthlings (esp. males, which make up the 50% of us) are simply too thick for those guns to penetrate.
Yeah, I believe in three or four years we *can* reach Warp Speed. But by the time the scientists find the way, a patent troll lawyer will have been there already, waiting for them, showing his teeth... Mmm, cash...
We humans are still a bunch of young, angsty teenagers. We desperately want to make the "first contact", crying and yelling and suffering from the depressive thought of loneliness.
Other galactic civilizations simply matured and stopped worrying about such pointless things. They make themselves busy with real business.
Grow up, humans.
AFAIK the add-ons (incl. updates) hosted at addons.mozilla.org must go through a review procedure before being pushed to update channel. If so, why doesn't Mozilla sign the reviewed packages (while not signing the pending ones) and only allow the user installing the signed ones? This is similar to what all Linux distros are doing.
This doesn't rule out 3rd party add-ons that don't go through the Mozilla review procedure. Firefox should include only the official Mozilla public key by default, but a user can import 3rd-party developers' keys by themselves. If you don't trust a particular developer (for example, Microsoft) or can't verify its identity, just don't import the key and there will be no way for the add-on to install. Importing/deleting public keys should be done with root- or admin-privilege just like updating Firefox itself.
Workable Fusion Starship Proposed
If it's only a proposal, how do we know whether it is "workable" or not?
Software design principle: All input is invalid.
Even simple input as a touchscreen click should be validated. And there's a long way to go between a click and "votes[candidate] += 1;" and it can go Wrong.
Yeah, I know ... I was just kidding ;) And I know "RTFM" really stands for "release to factory manufacturing".
It's natural that people would lower their expectations after the dissatisfaction of Vista. Once the expectations are lowered, they are in turn easier to satisfy. Especially when most of the customers have few other choices.
Yes I know they do have choices. But MS now is still a monopoly.
I read it as "Direct X11" and panicked.
So finally Windows will start telling the users to RTFM, well, without the F word?
echo -e 'global _start \n _start: \n mov eax, 2 \n int 80h \n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
I like this one, I'm sure there are people who try it from time to time... It's very tempting to say what syscall #2 is, but it would remove temptation :-)
He should have checked the system call return value... it's good programming habit even if it's a prank ;-)
Yup. I mean "make the measurement and interpretation based on scientific practices". I screwed things up when editing the post. Sorry for that.
I'm not on the lie detector company's side and I sympathize with the Swedish researchers too. However, you seemed to be taking things black-and-white...
In reality it is all about probabilistic correlation between "lie-o-meter" readings and subjects' honesty. This correlation may be strong or poor. Lie detectors may work or not. I don't know. But I think it's how this correlation is measured and interpreted that matters. If the instrument company fails to make the measurement and interpretation on science, and further exaggerate it's actual use, that would be fraud. And scientists take fraud very seriously.
I guess that's because English and Swedish share a lot of common roots... both are languages of Germanic peoples... Anyway it's my guess that falls within the category of "folk linguistics" :-)
No.
If this "lie detector" stuff is not based on solid scientific ground, then its indication doesn't really matter.
That may sound fantastic for you and I don't mean to bash the idea. But for me it sounds like a nightmare involving Clippy.
This may sound off-topic, but has anyone tested ext4's performance on USB drives? I hope ext4's delayed allocation (well, something not specific to ext4) could provide some meaningful enhancement for USB usage. I'm considering the idea of ext4 on a flash drive with no journaling and noatime for LiveUSB. That being said, I'll have to make sure it works with GRUB..
Also the new BtrFS is said to be optimized for SSDs. I wonder whether this will benefit USB flash drives too when it comes out.
Anybody noticed the MC mailing lists are "(mc|mc-devel)(AT)gnome.org"??
If you noticed, didn't this give you an ill omen about it?
That's what Wikipedia is doing now, with the timeout set to zero, and it is doing fine.
One of Wikipedia's "behavioural guidelines" is WP:GF -- Assuming Good Faith. Although not an founding principle, I think it can rank as one of the cultural backbones of WP. It delivers a strong message which is Tolerance (whether the message is carried out is another topic).
Why don't we have this approval timeout in the first place? Back to the infant days of WP it would be infeasible. But now I'd rather view as a practice of Assuming Good Faith -- trusting the user's honesty regardless of what he or she writes. The point is *trust*. This is something nowhere to be found in a bureaucracy, and something that maintains a lively community.
The "approval via timeout" is still "innocent until proven guilty". But, should it take place, I would feel I'm much less trusted. Maybe I would reconsider whether I should continue contributing to Wikipedia.
Yes I'm being a bit too sensitive here and I'm sorry for that.
4-dimensional inside-out Klein bottle Ouroboros ;-)
"End-users will do crazy things that no amount of testing infrastructure will get."
Actually TFA is quite good read about various things around Linux. The KDE vs. GNOME part is the least interesting IMO. Go read it and get modded down ;-)
A bug in TFA: the Qs and As are using the same font & color and there's no "Q:" or "A:" markers before them, so it looks like a monologue...