As a rule, Muslims don't fight each other religiously any more than Protestants fight each other religiously.
Well, the Sunni-Shiah schism was quite bloody and protracted, paralleling the vehemence with which Christians wage their internal wars. You are quite right though, it does not really happen between Protestants. Although I would regard America right now as in the midst of war between fundamentalist Protestants and secularists, most of whom are also nominally Protestants.
So when someone says "religious war" and "middle east", you might want to think "what non-Muslims have been attacked by Muslims in a religious pretext in the recent era?"
Err. Arguably the 1948 war was caused by the intransigence of Arab powers to accept the partition scheme proposed by the UN (although considering most of Palestine had Arab majority until the end of WW II, it is quite understandable), but most of the world regards the Israeli occupation of West Bank and the Gaza Strip post-1967 as unlawful.
Just because some extremists hijack a cause in the name of religion does not delegitimise the struggle itself. America was in the wrong over Vietnam - installing a puppet regime in South Vietnam that refused to call elections - and similarly Israel's occupation of the West Bank is as lawful as its similar occupation of south Lebanon in the past.
Regarding the Palestinian situation, it should be noted that most of the settlers are ultra-Orthodox while most Palestinians, both Islamists and secularists, oppose the occupation. You should try visiting the rest of the world, you will be surprised how thin support for Israel abroad is.
There is always WINE... though having experienced the burden of running PPC Linux and telling people ' I can't use Wine, dammit!' I shall qualify it: only on x86.
Then again, using a non-free (but distributable) program to break a non-free format is not such a bad deal after all...
To which war are you referring to? The only sectarian violence in the Middle East recently has been civil wars - witness Lebanon (Maronite Christians, Sunnis, Shiahs, plus Syria and Israel) and the Iranian Revolution.
The Iraq-Iran war does not count - Iraq invaded Iran wanting to take advantage of internal dissention after the revolution, so it is not the case of Iran exporting its revolution (though the Western world supported Iraq for the fear of it.. heh). Iraq uses gas, but Iraq is a secular left-wing dictatorship! Just read up the history of the Ba'ath party if you don't believe me.
One should think people do not really want nuclear contamination in their *own* country, after all.
And the Kurdish insurrection in Turkey, of course, was purely nationalistic: both the Turks and the Kurds are Sunni Muslims. Kind of boggles the mind how millions of Kurds got left out of the Versailles negotiations when they were carving up the Ottoman Empire. Laziness I guess, they just re-used the old Ottoman velayat administrative regions as the basis of drawing boundaries.
which you don't get for sure unless you prove that you have it(detonate one), sure you can just say that you have one, or try to make people think otherwise but that's not as good.
Well, Israel is widely assumed to have nukes that they will use as last-resort weapons; in this case at least it seems to work almost as well as actually detonating a test warhead, but that probably does not apply to any other country.
... remember the days before GnuPG, where if you are not American, you would wait at PGP international waiting for volunteers to scan the source code and ship it out of the country?
The source code is protected free speech, the compiled version is not. Uh...:p
So if you import this supercomputer into the States, disassemble it and scan it using tunneling electron microscopes, and re-export the scanned material, you should be OK...
.. bear in mind one thing: cost. Obviously any innovative solution that is ecologically sound is good and all, but the worry is that the uptake in 3rd world countries would be slow.
The new fridge might be more reliable and does not pollute, but the old technology has an army of technicians who can service it, and I believe countries like China are still allowed to produce CFC coolants. In fact, when countries agreed to phase out CFC, China's phase-out was based on its production several years in the future, and as a result its production actually jump in the subsequent years as manufacturers took advantage of the loophole.
#2) Why don't they all merge? They all are obviously trying to take on Microsoft. They all are remarkably similiar. Basically a slicked up kde system and a $99 price tag. I would think it would be in their best interest if Lindows, Lycoris and whatever that other one (Xandros..
Interesting, that. Lindows actually licensed its code from Xandros anyway, and both trace their heritage to Corel.
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Ehm, Crossover developers actually support the license switch to LGPL.. it's Transgaming folks that have problems with it and encourage dual-licensing, because some of their changes involve propietary bits that cannot be revealed.
Nothing stopping anyone from putting a propietary pay-only interface on top of an LGPL product.
It takes, what, 15 minutes to copy the entire DVD to hard disk to then process at your own leisure?
Then again this is only meant as an experiment to see if customers appreciate a/v packages, so maybe they did not put too much thought into securing it.
A/V bundles are very common in East Asia, btw; in Singapore I could get live video performance VCDs for Japanese artists for the same price as buying their album CDs.. about US$15.
Thanks for the clarification:) Was looking for articles about usage of fuel cells and guess I did not check that article properly before linking to it...
The fuel cells for laptops *are* the real deal, though, once they come out that is.
The hospital that my father works in has had similar cases in the past: infections that would only respond to the latest antibiotics.
This is rather worrying, especially when you think that the main cause of all this resistance buildup is GPs prescribing antibiotics copiously (at the behest of patients, true, but what's wrong with giving placebos? Probably will get them lawsuits for misleading the patients, hmm) and commercial farming where antibiotics are used liberally to stock up the animals..
.. Evo 1.2 has been announced on Ximian's website for quite a few hours, and has even made it to FootNotes, but..
Neither gnome.org or ximian's FTP servers carry the source, whether tarball or src.rpm. Oversight in a moment of excitement, or company policy? I sure hope it's the latter.
Oh, and CVS for evolution-1-2-branch is already bumped up to 1.2.0.99, so obviously they have had the time to release the source...
I had to use a USB-to-serial converter with my iBook last time to use an external modem with Linux. Yes, the internal modem is now some sort of USB device that would not work under Linux:(
Under Darwin you get a binary modem driver.
Any supported USB-to-serial device listed here should work under Linux. The funny thing is most of them would still not work under Mac OS X - as they say, in MacOS your device either works out of the box or not at all..
Sold that iBook in the end, I need vector-based computation muscle for my... err... video transcoding:p Neat machine though.
It's all configurable by toggling a GConf key. Unfortunately the next release of Red Hat will continue the trend by making all their configuration tool GUIs, and move to a database format for their GConf keys, so..... you will need a GUI to change your TUI!
Indeed. Here in UK the Labour Party while in opposition (pre-1997) worked out an alliance with the Liberal Democrats, the third party in domestic politics, a central feature of said alliance is the introduction of some sort of proportional representation.
This measure, which would benefit the Lib-Dems (consistently polling at around 20% but obtaining only 8% of the seats under the first-past-the-post system) was scuppered after Labour unexpectedly won a huge landslide in 1997 and kept a large part of its majority in the subsequent election in 2001. The carrot is still being dangled though..
And the X maintainer is working at PGI:) Branden Robinson, of the (in)famous 'Have a nice cup of coffee and shut the F**k off' message when bugged about availability of X 4.1.0:)
Extensibility is rather important I think. How about supporting LVM, RAID, having console and/or framebuffer front-ends...
Remember this is Debian. Although, yes, with the current state of affair they should have blessed a Progeny-installer set of images as well to help newbies, Having to deal with selecting rescue disk and base install images even when installing from the CD is rather.. ridiculous.
I must confess I am currently running Red Hat myself. Watching Debian closely though, esp. Debian Desktop - when they get the menuing system sorted out (heard it's a major mess now, and let's don't talk about their KDE3 packaging) I might give it a try again.
By that time apt-rpm probably has repository pinning as well.. hmmm:p
The Debian project is working on its own installer - check here for its status.
This installer is modularised, using udebs (micro debs) to extend its functionality. Currently bootable on i386 and s390 but probably not usable to do a complete install yet.
The Progeny-developed discover tool, similar to Red Hat's kudzu, is being used for hardware autodetection by the installer. But the Progeny installer itself seems to be not very useful to create a fully-fledged installer - it does not even have support for non-ext2 filesystems!
Rather modern, yes, but coming from a university with a famous music department (York, United Kingdom) I must say that a *lot* of students here are not up to that standard in their composition.
A lot of musical 'styles' are expressible in standard formulae anyway, so I was told by a former music student, so using pure mathematical properties for the composition is not actually a very far-fetched idea.
Hmm, to think about it, in the Royal School of Music theory examinations I took when I was small, there was always that bonus question at the end for identifying the composer of a given part of music...
I have used some computers before where the video drivers actually support the concept of a "virtual desktop", virtually identical to the one in X11. It tends to be on ATI drivers, I think.
If your physical resolution is less than your virtual resolution, then moving the mouse to the edge of the screen scrolls the screen in that direction.
Not a standard part of Windows though, true. And I have not seen it under Windows 2000/XP - a Win9x hack?
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Well, the Sunni-Shiah schism was quite bloody and protracted, paralleling the vehemence with which Christians wage their internal wars. You are quite right though, it does not really happen between Protestants. Although I would regard America right now as in the midst of war between fundamentalist Protestants and secularists, most of whom are also nominally Protestants.
Err. Arguably the 1948 war was caused by the intransigence of Arab powers to accept the partition scheme proposed by the UN (although considering most of Palestine had Arab majority until the end of WW II, it is quite understandable), but most of the world regards the Israeli occupation of West Bank and the Gaza Strip post-1967 as unlawful.
Just because some extremists hijack a cause in the name of religion does not delegitimise the struggle itself. America was in the wrong over Vietnam - installing a puppet regime in South Vietnam that refused to call elections - and similarly Israel's occupation of the West Bank is as lawful as its similar occupation of south Lebanon in the past.
Regarding the Palestinian situation, it should be noted that most of the settlers are ultra-Orthodox while most Palestinians, both Islamists and secularists, oppose the occupation. You should try visiting the rest of the world, you will be surprised how thin support for Israel abroad is.
There is always WINE... though having experienced the burden of running PPC Linux and telling people ' I can't use Wine, dammit!' I shall qualify it: only on x86.
Then again, using a non-free (but distributable) program to break a non-free format is not such a bad deal after all...
To which war are you referring to? The only sectarian violence in the Middle East recently has been civil wars - witness Lebanon (Maronite Christians, Sunnis, Shiahs, plus Syria and Israel) and the Iranian Revolution.
The Iraq-Iran war does not count - Iraq invaded Iran wanting to take advantage of internal dissention after the revolution, so it is not the case of Iran exporting its revolution (though the Western world supported Iraq for the fear of it.. heh). Iraq uses gas, but Iraq is a secular left-wing dictatorship! Just read up the history of the Ba'ath party if you don't believe me.
One should think people do not really want nuclear contamination in their *own* country, after all.
And the Kurdish insurrection in Turkey, of course, was purely nationalistic: both the Turks and the Kurds are Sunni Muslims. Kind of boggles the mind how millions of Kurds got left out of the Versailles negotiations when they were carving up the Ottoman Empire. Laziness I guess, they just re-used the old Ottoman velayat administrative regions as the basis of drawing boundaries.
Well, Israel is widely assumed to have nukes that they will use as last-resort weapons; in this case at least it seems to work almost as well as
actually detonating a test warhead, but that probably does not apply to any other country.
... remember the days before GnuPG, where if you are not American, you would wait at PGP international waiting for volunteers to scan the source code and ship it out of the country?
:p
The source code is protected free speech, the compiled version is not. Uh...
So if you import this supercomputer into the States, disassemble it and scan it using tunneling electron microscopes, and re-export the scanned material, you should be OK...
Rhythmbox depends on Musicbrainz - HTH :)
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Argh, and this comes up just when I'm going away on a Christmas break. Oh well
.. bear in mind one thing: cost. Obviously any innovative solution that is ecologically sound is good and all, but the worry is that the uptake in 3rd world countries would be slow.
The new fridge might be more reliable and does not pollute, but the old technology has an army of technicians who can service it, and I believe countries like China are still allowed to produce CFC coolants. In fact, when countries agreed to phase out CFC, China's phase-out was based on its production several years in the future, and as a result its production actually jump in the subsequent years as manufacturers took advantage of the loophole.
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Interesting, that. Lindows actually licensed its code from Xandros anyway, and both trace their heritage to Corel.
Ehm, Crossover developers actually support the license switch to LGPL.. it's Transgaming folks that have problems with it and encourage dual-licensing, because some of their changes involve propietary bits that cannot be revealed.
Nothing stopping anyone from putting a propietary pay-only interface on top of an LGPL product.
It takes, what, 15 minutes to copy the entire DVD to hard disk to then process at your own leisure?
Then again this is only meant as an experiment to see if customers appreciate a/v packages, so maybe they did not put too much thought into securing it.
A/V bundles are very common in East Asia, btw; in Singapore I could get live video performance VCDs for Japanese artists for the same price as buying their album CDs.. about US$15.
Thanks for the clarification :) Was looking for articles about usage of fuel cells and guess I did not check that article properly before linking to it...
The fuel cells for laptops *are* the real deal, though, once they come out that is.
I meant the former, yes. Big apologies to everyone at Ximian :) Thanks for the response.
Binary (and source) RPM for Red Hat 8.0 using Red Hat's spec is available at http://messlab.sourceforge.net for those not using Red Carpet
The hospital that my father works in has had similar cases in the past: infections that would only respond to the latest antibiotics.
This is rather worrying, especially when you think that the main cause of all this resistance buildup is GPs prescribing antibiotics copiously (at the behest of patients, true, but what's wrong with giving placebos? Probably will get them lawsuits for misleading the patients, hmm) and commercial farming where antibiotics are used liberally to stock up the animals..
.. remember when Palm was holding out from introducing colour devices because of worries about battery life? (or so they claim).
Combine this with fuel-cell power packs, which is now approved by the DoT and is already in use on some airlines (BA), this means....
Pitching my PDA against the onboard computer in an Othello death match! YaY!
Number 1: I could not find the CVS tag for the release itself, only the release branch
Number 2: autogen.sh from the CVS branch does not run cleanly on RH8.
The source is now available, yes, but it was not so for quite a few hours after release.
.. Evo 1.2 has been announced on Ximian's website for quite a few hours, and has even made it to FootNotes, but..
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Neither gnome.org or ximian's FTP servers carry the source, whether tarball or src.rpm. Oversight in a moment of excitement, or company policy? I sure hope it's the latter.
Oh, and CVS for evolution-1-2-branch is already bumped up to 1.2.0.99, so obviously they have had the time to release the source
I had to use a USB-to-serial converter with my iBook last time to use an external modem with Linux. Yes, the internal modem is now some sort of USB device that would not work under Linux :(
... err... video transcoding :p Neat machine though.
Under Darwin you get a binary modem driver.
Any supported USB-to-serial device listed here should work under Linux. The funny thing is most of them would still not work under Mac OS X - as they say, in MacOS your device either works out of the box or not at all..
Sold that iBook in the end, I need vector-based computation muscle for my
It's all configurable by toggling a GConf key. Unfortunately the next release of Red Hat will continue the trend by making all their configuration tool GUIs, and move to a database format for their GConf keys, so... .. you will need a GUI to change your TUI!
Indeed. Here in UK the Labour Party while in opposition (pre-1997) worked out an alliance with the Liberal Democrats, the third party in domestic politics, a central feature of said alliance is the introduction of some sort of proportional representation.
This measure, which would benefit the Lib-Dems (consistently polling at around 20% but obtaining only 8% of the seats under the first-past-the-post system) was scuppered after Labour unexpectedly won a huge landslide in 1997 and kept a large part of its majority in the subsequent election in 2001. The carrot is still being dangled though..
A requiem would be more appropriate. May I recommend Mozart or Duruflé ?
And the X maintainer is working at PGI :) Branden Robinson, of the (in)famous 'Have a nice cup of coffee and shut the F**k off' message when bugged about availability of X 4.1.0 :)
Oh weird, his X Strike Force site is down.
Extensibility is rather important I think. How about supporting LVM, RAID, having console and/or framebuffer front-ends...
:p
Remember this is Debian. Although, yes, with the current state of affair they should have blessed a Progeny-installer set of images as well to help newbies, Having to deal with selecting rescue disk and base install images even when installing from the CD is rather.. ridiculous.
I must confess I am currently running Red Hat myself. Watching Debian closely though, esp. Debian Desktop - when they get the menuing system sorted out (heard it's a major mess now, and let's don't talk about their KDE3 packaging) I might give it a try again.
By that time apt-rpm probably has repository pinning as well.. hmmm
This installer is modularised, using udebs (micro debs) to extend its functionality. Currently bootable on i386 and s390 but probably not usable to do a complete install yet.
The Progeny-developed discover tool, similar to Red Hat's kudzu, is being used for hardware autodetection by the installer. But the Progeny installer itself seems to be not very useful to create a fully-fledged installer - it does not even have support for non-ext2 filesystems!
Rather modern, yes, but coming from a university with a famous music department (York, United Kingdom) I must say that a *lot* of students here are not up to that standard in their composition.
A lot of musical 'styles' are expressible in standard formulae anyway, so I was told by a former music student, so using pure mathematical properties for the composition is not actually a very far-fetched idea.
Hmm, to think about it, in the Royal School of Music theory examinations I took when I was small, there was always that bonus question at the end for identifying the composer of a given part of music...
I have used some computers before where the video drivers actually support the concept of a "virtual desktop", virtually identical to the one in X11. It tends to be on ATI drivers, I think.
If your physical resolution is less than your virtual resolution, then moving the mouse to the edge of the screen scrolls the screen in that direction.
Not a standard part of Windows though, true. And I have not seen it under Windows 2000/XP - a Win9x hack?