Lets place bets on where AI (that possible singularity thing) will emerge. Either in a research environment...or from my favourite source... the botnet! Imagine the complexity of the thing, spreading like a virus etc. Finally the software has algorithms to change its structure and to develop novel ways of spreading until it finally becomes uncontrolled!
We have then an autonomous piece of software which evolved organically and could plausibly have intelligence and control the huge number of networked computers around the world!
Cool hey?
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I've never had a problem that ubuntuforums.org didn't have the answer to. You have to love it when something you use just has great resources.
I have...I love Ubuntuforums.org as a resource, but when it doesn't answer your question it can be hard to get a new solution. I specifically have had problems with 1) my camera, gphoto2 doesn't grab its photos any more...it used to. 2)nvidia/ati graphics periodically...gladly all resolved with new xorg/nvidia drivers or xrandr. 3)bloody wifi! I have a belkin rt73 usb which is good, use serialmonkey's drivers and its fine except when those drivers don't compile for the kernel...So I bought a linksys usb and it has the same bloody rt73 chipset!!!
You don't just need backups. You need to TEST them. Having a backup run every night is nice and all; but if the tapes are unreadable and no error was reported, or if you're doing it wrong and the backup is corrupted and you only find out when you come to restore....
This happened to my dad, he has a small business and it has many many entries in a patient database. The staff religiously placed the tapes into a drive for backup and stored them in a fireproof safe. One day the server died... everything was lost. Backups weren't working properly and around 3 months of data was lost. (luckily only 3 months) It should have been one day lost but perhaps only the monthly backups were actually working! Bugger!
doesn't work for me... I usually have to manually uninstall and then reinstall (all apt-get easy) the nvidia-glx-177 package. This may be due to my updating 8.10 from alpha through to release (current).
I totally agree. I installed XP for my bro last night... used gparted to repartition (so easy) and got the XP pro cd key from the bottom of his ASUS laptop. Insert windows ( half hour later ) prompted for CD key. Try legitamate key... doesn't work. WTF! So have to use 'borrowed' key... half hour later prompted for region and password... half hour later prompted for network settings... finished. Now to hunt for bloody drivers! (nvidia was a pain in the arse for a geforce GO 7300). I haven't tried but Ubuntu live CD would remove need for the gparted CD, ask all questions at the start and take ~20 mins to install everything! Nvidia would be apt-get easy to install, although all hardware would probably be supported... the hardware that is not would need some forum hunting to get to the bottom of. Bottom line... I would prefer to install Ubuntu.
I personally think it is ridiculous... I have been fiddling with installing osx86 and one large stumbling block is bloody file systems! I thought I had it figured out, where I have large storage partitions partitioned with ext3 so that with extifs (or whatever) I can read and write them from windows and they are all good in Linux.
Now I install OSX and it turns out apple can't even implement a very popular(presumably well documented) open source file system! Now you tell me they don't even write NTFS!!! Bloody Ubuntu has been by default using NTFS-3g for years, and it was apt-get easy in debian 3 or 4 years ago when I started. I though OSX would make for better desktop computing than Ubuntu but it has driver issues... file system issues...boot partition issues.
This is true... But! You can search for applications on the internet (just like with windows or osx) and when you find one, you can first try the 'install applications' application or do what I do these days and type 'apt-cache search deluge' to find the applications name, then type 'sudo apt-get install del' and enter and within minutes its there.
In my opinion package management is the thing which moves Linux (and debian based which is all I have used in particular) miles ahead of osx and windows.
and I for one would make a phone call if I knew who to. I would recommend using Linux and in particular striking a deal for support from Ubuntu or Redhat to get a custom OS running on 10" eees or U100 Winds. This way you would pay ~$500 AUD for each and the OS would be top notch. An issue with the Linux on these little laptops is that it seems rushed together. Using a full fledged Linux distro with package management would empower kids like nothing else! What with 2 million kids banging away at python and the few of them who contribute patches contributing patches to Ubuntu it would be a very great thing! Next they support their parents and grandparents building and maintaining their Ubuntu Pcs... I recommend Microsoft should pay to get Windows on these things!
Get a mac then. My ibook doesn't ever get turned off. I shut the lid and its asleep, I open the lid and 2 seconds later its connected to wifi and firefox is open again. My new Ubuntu desktop also suspends nicely, takes 5 seconds to turn on and all apps are running. Only thing is I need to reset the wireless connection (ifdown ifup). So... try again!
get fucked. I use XP computers 'unprivelaged' all the time at uni and it it ridiculous. Portable apps are the best thing, at least now I can use a great text editor (notepad++) without needing admin rights! Google writes nice applications which don't need admin rights to install and so don't affect your security but enable me to work more effectively and you have the gall to complain about it!
I say stop limiting folks. Sure people need to be stopped from installing all applications cause they end up installing "poker madness" and "spkcatcherXP2009VISTA" which breaks stuff, but don't stop folks installing good programs which install in user profile areas.
I couldn't install it at uni... so I think you must need some admin privileges. There is a 'portable apps' version of chrome, but it had issues too unfortunately.
That wasn't just an oil pump station... it was the software controlling the entire pipeline infrastructure and possibly caused the largest non nuclear explosion.
The article actually mentions red flag and the fact that microsoft gave China access to all the XP source code!! I didn't know that!
Ubuntu has in the past always had a sluggish firefox in the first instance (new Ubuntu = slow firefox) so I go into about:config and search for ipv6 and turn it off. This makes for fast internets again! I understand that firefox tries first to discover ipv6 addresses? Anyhow. Can someone explain the advantages of ipv6 aside from more unique numbers?
I agree, I would pirate the book and if I liked it a lot then I would donate some money to the author. I personally prefer paper 'dead tree' books, have been buying neal stephenson lately but I get them from ebay, second hand and for relatively cheap. This is actually depriving the author of money which he would have received had I purchased a new book. Maybe I should still send him some funds?
If you are reading this Neal, do you want a few bucks?
I too thought the movie was good, perhaps not amazing but it lived up to the book. The whole idea of an artificial intelligence being recognised as human is very cool. The other interesting point was that the manufacturers thought the robot was defective when it was discovered it was interested in art!!
its not windows only, there are.debs and.rpm and tar archive. But the full version is $80 USD. I haven't used softmaker but I know that abiword and gnumeric are lightweight, full featured and free as in speach so why this limited free software?
Mod parent funny! This guy at my uni is quite smart, but has studied the wrong things and he can argue very thoroughly things like "there were dinosaurs roaming north America less than 500 years ago because they found red blood cells in bones..."
I personally can't stand religion messing with science, they are mutually exclusive fields IMHO. You're not gonna convince me that there is no 11,000 year old turkey because the bible says the earth is too young!!!
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We have then an autonomous piece of software which evolved organically and could plausibly have intelligence and control the huge number of networked computers around the world!
Cool hey?
I've never had a problem that ubuntuforums.org didn't have the answer to. You have to love it when something you use just has great resources.
I have...I love Ubuntuforums.org as a resource, but when it doesn't answer your question it can be hard to get a new solution. I specifically have had problems with 1) my camera, gphoto2 doesn't grab its photos any more...it used to. 2)nvidia/ati graphics periodically...gladly all resolved with new xorg/nvidia drivers or xrandr. 3)bloody wifi! I have a belkin rt73 usb which is good, use serialmonkey's drivers and its fine except when those drivers don't compile for the kernel...So I bought a linksys usb and it has the same bloody rt73 chipset!!!
I only use the Vista partition for internet stuff, webcam, skype audio chat, etc.
I want to try 7 on this laptop.
you should do internet stuff in Ubuntu... not Vista. You can download and try win7 now if you want!
You don't just need backups. You need to TEST them. Having a backup run every night is nice and all; but if the tapes are unreadable and no error was reported, or if you're doing it wrong and the backup is corrupted and you only find out when you come to restore ....
This happened to my dad, he has a small business and it has many many entries in a patient database. The staff religiously placed the tapes into a drive for backup and stored them in a fireproof safe. One day the server died... everything was lost. Backups weren't working properly and around 3 months of data was lost. (luckily only 3 months) It should have been one day lost but perhaps only the monthly backups were actually working! Bugger!
And to be picky this is the wrong tense ... it should be "so the data are not that useful. Little known fact: data is plural ... datum is singular.
doesn't work for me ... I usually have to manually uninstall and then reinstall (all apt-get easy) the nvidia-glx-177 package. This may be due to my updating 8.10 from alpha through to release (current).
so at least they can play counter strike over the subs network to relieve the boredom now eh?
I totally agree. I installed XP for my bro last night... used gparted to repartition (so easy) and got the XP pro cd key from the bottom of his ASUS laptop. Insert windows ( half hour later ) prompted for CD key. Try legitamate key ... doesn't work. WTF! So have to use 'borrowed' key ... half hour later prompted for region and password ... half hour later prompted for network settings ... finished. Now to hunt for bloody drivers! (nvidia was a pain in the arse for a geforce GO 7300). I haven't tried but Ubuntu live CD would remove need for the gparted CD, ask all questions at the start and take ~20 mins to install everything! Nvidia would be apt-get easy to install, although all hardware would probably be supported ... the hardware that is not would need some forum hunting to get to the bottom of. Bottom line ... I would prefer to install Ubuntu.
I for one welcome our self-washing-kitten overlords
Now I install OSX and it turns out apple can't even implement a very popular(presumably well documented) open source file system! Now you tell me they don't even write NTFS!!! Bloody Ubuntu has been by default using NTFS-3g for years, and it was apt-get easy in debian 3 or 4 years ago when I started. I though OSX would make for better desktop computing than Ubuntu but it has driver issues ... file system issues ...boot partition issues.
In my opinion package management is the thing which moves Linux (and debian based which is all I have used in particular) miles ahead of osx and windows.
and I for one would make a phone call if I knew who to. I would recommend using Linux and in particular striking a deal for support from Ubuntu or Redhat to get a custom OS running on 10" eees or U100 Winds. This way you would pay ~$500 AUD for each and the OS would be top notch. An issue with the Linux on these little laptops is that it seems rushed together. Using a full fledged Linux distro with package management would empower kids like nothing else! What with 2 million kids banging away at python and the few of them who contribute patches contributing patches to Ubuntu it would be a very great thing! Next they support their parents and grandparents building and maintaining their Ubuntu Pcs ... I recommend Microsoft should pay to get Windows on these things!
Get a mac then. My ibook doesn't ever get turned off. I shut the lid and its asleep, I open the lid and 2 seconds later its connected to wifi and firefox is open again. My new Ubuntu desktop also suspends nicely, takes 5 seconds to turn on and all apps are running. Only thing is I need to reset the wireless connection (ifdown ifup). So ... try again!
I say stop limiting folks. Sure people need to be stopped from installing all applications cause they end up installing "poker madness" and "spkcatcherXP2009VISTA" which breaks stuff, but don't stop folks installing good programs which install in user profile areas.
I couldn't install it at uni ... so I think you must need some admin privileges. There is a 'portable apps' version of chrome, but it had issues too unfortunately.
The article actually mentions red flag and the fact that microsoft gave China access to all the XP source code!! I didn't know that!
Surely this isn't troll? I too am sick of the climate change doubters. Maybe all this DNS drama will finally put those carbon doubters in their place!
Ubuntu has in the past always had a sluggish firefox in the first instance (new Ubuntu = slow firefox) so I go into about:config and search for ipv6 and turn it off. This makes for fast internets again! I understand that firefox tries first to discover ipv6 addresses? Anyhow. Can someone explain the advantages of ipv6 aside from more unique numbers?
If you are reading this Neal, do you want a few bucks?
I loved this book, read it recently! very cool, highly recommended.
I too thought the movie was good, perhaps not amazing but it lived up to the book. The whole idea of an artificial intelligence being recognised as human is very cool. The other interesting point was that the manufacturers thought the robot was defective when it was discovered it was interested in art!!
thats awesome. I want to bi- and quad-locate someone
its not windows only, there are .debs and .rpm and tar archive. But the full version is $80 USD. I haven't used softmaker but I know that abiword and gnumeric are lightweight, full featured and free as in speach so why this limited free software?
the not funny thing is that that was a direct quote...
I personally can't stand religion messing with science, they are mutually exclusive fields IMHO. You're not gonna convince me that there is no 11,000 year old turkey because the bible says the earth is too young!!!