I would have to say that BulletProofX is a great leap forward in bringing Linux to the desktop. The average user does not know "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" off the top or his/her head. Sure, you can look it up on the internet, but what if the user only has one machine?
Roasting Plant is the brainchild of Mike Caswell, a former engineer for Starbucks, where he worked on supply chain and operational efficiency projects.
If he signed a do not compete contract, he might be screwed. If he didn't, how can I invest in his company?
Sorry, I'm not implying all crimps are shoddy. I understand that there are places where a properly designed crimp is appropriate (like vehicle wiring harnesses). However, these crimps are no good. I took my system apart to move it over the weekend and when I hooked it back up several of the connectors were missing. It was in a cardboard box the whole time so I don't know what could have happened to it.
It seems like the crimp is the weak point in the connection instead of the connector-to-speaker connection being the weak point. If someone were to pull on the wire the crimp would fail before the wire became disconnected from the speaker (not that I would do such a thing).
I purchased some Monster Cables for my home theater. Now the damn connectors are coming off my speaker wires. I took them apart to find out that connectors are held on by a shoddy crimp job. For what they cost they could at least solder them. The rubber shielding is even starting to deteriorate. Not worth the money.
For instance on the release day of XP what were most home pc's like? Perhaps 64 or 128 megs of ram running a first generation pentium? I still have my computer from before XP came out. Pentium III 800MHz with 256MB of RAM. It's a pretty standard laptop of the day, not a gaming rig or anything.
Ok, granted, it wasn't as fast as 98SE. But 98SE also tended to me more unstable (I say "tended" because I have heard reports that with the proper setup it was fine).
I recently repaired my future mother-in-law's old laptop. It's an 800MHz Pentium III with 256MB of RAM. I used the original system recovery disk that came with it. It was Windows XP and it was either the original version or SP 1. That sucker was fast!
I loaded all of the updates, including SP 2, and it slowed to a crawl.
A lightweight version of Windows XP sounds like a wonderful idea. Perhaps they could then port it to desktop computers so they will be really fast!
(reality sinks in)
Wait, standard XP was lightweight when it first came out. It was also horribly insecure, that's why the service packs came out. The service packs made XP slower and of course your going to need an antivirus...
Never mind, it's a horrible idea. They might as well start from scratch on a whole new OS.
Develop a Round-Up resistant strain of weeds and release it under the GPL. I was thinking the same thing. A Round-Up resistant strain of weeds would potentially put Monsanto out of business.
I also think the DHS would consider that an act of terrorism and would wipe the creator of such a weed out of existence. The impact of a Round-Up ready weed on the global food supply is debatable. However, I do believe DHS would make a winning argument that it is detrimental to the food supply.
However, after some Googling (roundup ready weeds, not weed) I found that Darwin appears to be doing this for us.
Better be careful. Monsanto has installed RRGA (Roundup Ready Genuine Advantage) on all of it's seeds. Now all of the seeds will send spores back to corporate headquarters. If those spores aren't in the company database the it will send return spores that will disable many of the features of the corn.
When I worked in manufacturing I would occasionally rig up some logic circuits using a series of pneumatic valves. If only a few conditions had to be met (like don't open door if bucket raised) it was cheaper and easier than installing a PLC.
According to this site the legal yellow light times in the state of California are:
Posted Speed or Prima Facie Speed Minimum Yellow Interval
MPH KPH Yellow SECONDS
25 40 3.0
30 48 3.2
35 56 3.6
40 64 3.9
45 72 4.3
50 80 4.7
55 89 5.0
60 97 5.4
65 105 5.8
Sorry, the lameness filter prevents this from being easily read.
Try a set of Phantom Plate or Photoshield license plate covers.
(Don't bother with the spray, though; it doesn't work.) There's also this great show called Mythbusters. You should watch it!
Your LA Times link is broken. I imagine that article measures ticket sales in dollars. Measuring ticket sales by revenue is a terrible way to measure the success of an industry because it doesn't account for inflation. After accounting for inflation, movie ticket sales have indeed remained flat.
Even though the movement of the bridge was started by aerodynamics, the aerodynamic forces added energy with the same frequency at which the bridge swayed. Therefore, it was a resonance.
I don't think changing the natural frequency would have helped since the frequency of the forces would have followed. Most of the time engineers observe resonant frequencies where the force frequency is not a function of the natural frequency of the object(like a building in an earthquake). The force frequency just happens to be close the the natural frequency of the object by coincidence. In the case of Tacoma Narrows the forces exerted on the bridge were a function of the bridge's natural frequency. Destruction was inevitable.
"The KDE Kiosk admin tool is currently used as there didn't appear to be enough flexibility with the GNOME setup to allow for a decent lockdown," Stefyn said.
It helps to RTFA.
I guess Xubuntu and Fluxbuntu should develop a similar Kiosk admin tool.
Ritalin is just the start of it. Modafinil(ProVigil) is supposed to be ten times better. Not only does it keep you awake, but alert too, with very few side effects. Apparently it somehow reduces the body's need for sleep. I don't know how it works but I heard rumors that elite military units around the world are using it.
You may be right about that. However, if they poison the company like that, wouldn't the share price go down significantly so Microsoft would be able to buy them cheap?
The AOL-Yahoo! merger might give the new company quite a bit of equity, but will the shareholders recognize that? or will they be blinded by the mismanagement?
It gave me different directions to and from work. I guess this means it's accounting for traffic jams. I did notice that it doesn't ask what time you will be making this journey. In my experience lesser known streets are faster during rush hour, and larger streets and expressways are fastest at off-peak times.
Microsoft also needs to update their maps of Chicago. I-355 goes all the way to I-80 now. I thought it took Google a long time to fix that. Wow!
Yahoo, which wants to remain independent, has been in a desperate search for white knights, holding conversations with Time Warnerâ(TM)s AOL and News Corporation.
A Yahoo-AOL merger would make for one mediocre company. I don't think that will scare off giants like Microsoft and Google. In the end we will be left with just two companies, unless the SEC says otherwise.
The malcode that was caught may be "old-n-crufty" but what about the code that wasn't caught? This could be an oversight by a more sophisticated attacker, or a script kiddie replicating something seen elsewhere.
Most likely it's a crime of opportunity. Like stealing a car that had the keys left in it.
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I would have to say that BulletProofX is a great leap forward in bringing Linux to the desktop. The average user does not know "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" off the top or his/her head. Sure, you can look it up on the internet, but what if the user only has one machine?
Sorry, I'm not implying all crimps are shoddy. I understand that there are places where a properly designed crimp is appropriate (like vehicle wiring harnesses). However, these crimps are no good. I took my system apart to move it over the weekend and when I hooked it back up several of the connectors were missing. It was in a cardboard box the whole time so I don't know what could have happened to it.
It seems like the crimp is the weak point in the connection instead of the connector-to-speaker connection being the weak point. If someone were to pull on the wire the crimp would fail before the wire became disconnected from the speaker (not that I would do such a thing).
I purchased some Monster Cables for my home theater. Now the damn connectors are coming off my speaker wires. I took them apart to find out that connectors are held on by a shoddy crimp job. For what they cost they could at least solder them. The rubber shielding is even starting to deteriorate. Not worth the money.
Actually you just reminded me of something I read about earlier. It's called Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs. It's based on XP Embedded.
Ok, granted, it wasn't as fast as 98SE. But 98SE also tended to me more unstable (I say "tended" because I have heard reports that with the proper setup it was fine).
I recently repaired my future mother-in-law's old laptop. It's an 800MHz Pentium III with 256MB of RAM. I used the original system recovery disk that came with it. It was Windows XP and it was either the original version or SP 1. That sucker was fast!
I loaded all of the updates, including SP 2, and it slowed to a crawl.
A lightweight version of Windows XP sounds like a wonderful idea. Perhaps they could then port it to desktop computers so they will be really fast!
(reality sinks in)
Wait, standard XP was lightweight when it first came out. It was also horribly insecure, that's why the service packs came out. The service packs made XP slower and of course your going to need an antivirus...
Never mind, it's a horrible idea. They might as well start from scratch on a whole new OS.
from the Shell website
rules
I haven't read all of the rules, but it appears they only go 15 mph.
Good Answer!
I also think the DHS would consider that an act of terrorism and would wipe the creator of such a weed out of existence. The impact of a Round-Up ready weed on the global food supply is debatable. However, I do believe DHS would make a winning argument that it is detrimental to the food supply.
However, after some Googling (roundup ready weeds, not weed) I found that Darwin appears to be doing this for us.
Better be careful. Monsanto has installed RRGA (Roundup Ready Genuine Advantage) on all of it's seeds. Now all of the seeds will send spores back to corporate headquarters. If those spores aren't in the company database the it will send return spores that will disable many of the features of the corn.
When I worked in manufacturing I would occasionally rig up some logic circuits using a series of pneumatic valves. If only a few conditions had to be met (like don't open door if bucket raised) it was cheaper and easier than installing a PLC.
According to this site the legal yellow light times in the state of California are:
Posted Speed or Prima Facie Speed Minimum Yellow Interval
MPH KPH Yellow SECONDS
25 40 3.0
30 48 3.2
35 56 3.6
40 64 3.9
45 72 4.3
50 80 4.7
55 89 5.0
60 97 5.4
65 105 5.8
Sorry, the lameness filter prevents this from being easily read.
(Don't bother with the spray, though; it doesn't work.) There's also this great show called Mythbusters. You should watch it!
Your LA Times link is broken. I imagine that article measures ticket sales in dollars. Measuring ticket sales by revenue is a terrible way to measure the success of an industry because it doesn't account for inflation. After accounting for inflation, movie ticket sales have indeed remained flat.
Even though the movement of the bridge was started by aerodynamics, the aerodynamic forces added energy with the same frequency at which the bridge swayed. Therefore, it was a resonance.
I don't think changing the natural frequency would have helped since the frequency of the forces would have followed. Most of the time engineers observe resonant frequencies where the force frequency is not a function of the natural frequency of the object(like a building in an earthquake). The force frequency just happens to be close the the natural frequency of the object by coincidence. In the case of Tacoma Narrows the forces exerted on the bridge were a function of the bridge's natural frequency. Destruction was inevitable.
I guess Xubuntu and Fluxbuntu should develop a similar Kiosk admin tool.
Why not use Xubuntu or Fluxbuntu for older machines? That's what those distributions are intended for.
I'm probably going to get flamed for this.
Ritalin is just the start of it. Modafinil(ProVigil) is supposed to be ten times better. Not only does it keep you awake, but alert too, with very few side effects. Apparently it somehow reduces the body's need for sleep. I don't know how it works but I heard rumors that elite military units around the world are using it.
You may be right about that. However, if they poison the company like that, wouldn't the share price go down significantly so Microsoft would be able to buy them cheap?
The AOL-Yahoo! merger might give the new company quite a bit of equity, but will the shareholders recognize that? or will they be blinded by the mismanagement?
It gave me different directions to and from work. I guess this means it's accounting for traffic jams. I did notice that it doesn't ask what time you will be making this journey. In my experience lesser known streets are faster during rush hour, and larger streets and expressways are fastest at off-peak times.
Microsoft also needs to update their maps of Chicago. I-355 goes all the way to I-80 now. I thought it took Google a long time to fix that. Wow!
making bad Windows Vista Display Drivers pun.
This service should work great! Traffic jams are caused by bad drivers and we know the people at Microsoft are experts with those.
post'em if you got'em.
The malcode that was caught may be "old-n-crufty" but what about the code that wasn't caught? This could be an oversight by a more sophisticated attacker, or a script kiddie replicating something seen elsewhere.
Most likely it's a crime of opportunity. Like stealing a car that had the keys left in it.