ow I didn't know about dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, but in 7.04 the xorg.conf file was still static and I edited it all the time.
Yes, reconfigure xserver-xorg was a wizard program that would edit xorg.conf for you. I edited xorg.conf a few times, but I only made things worse. I'd end up stuck with a black screen and cursor, and reconfigure xserver-xorg would bail me out.
I'll have to disagree with you there. I started with Ubuntu version 7.04. There were a lot of bugs. Flash was a pain to get working, display drivers were a mess. I must have run the command "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" a dozen times to get it to work.
10.04 was the best. Everything worked. Everything was in a logical place, with exception of the window controls, which you get used to. If you couldn't deal with the window controls, 8.04 wasn't bad either.
People are always finding new means and reasons to kill each other, and they'll do it with or without my help. The best we can do as engineers is to make sure that the attacks are as precise and successful as possible, to minimize the innocent casualties.If an AI can tell the difference in 10 pixels between a firearm flash or the sun reflecting off a camera lens, I'm all in favor of it.
100 years ago, the belief was that war could be ended if there were only more powerful weapons. Those weapons were created, and their creators went on to regretcreating them. Sure, people will continue to kill each other, but they can do it without my help.
History has taught us, war is a zero sum game. The only way to win is not to play.
I became an engineer to make the world better, not to tear it apart.
Back when I was a kid, an F-4 flew over our house at super sonic speeds. I thought the world was coming to and end. The whole house shook. It was lunch time and my plate moved across the table. I distinctly remember the windows rattling.
They will be happy to cooperate with you. One year later, an almost identical car from an almost identical factory in a different city will hit the market.
The way I've seen it happen is the corporate partner decides to terminate the partnership once the factory is up and running. They continue churning out widgits, and you don't get any of the profit.
Every company I've seen enter the Chinese market does it with a product they can't sell anywhere else. They use it to recover some of the development costs on products that didn't sell well in Western markets.
My friend's BMW had some bolts corrode on the power steering system. I wonder if it's the same part. When he asked for it to be fixed for free, BMW told him to pound sand.
- Physical laws are not constant. e are looking at very distant objects, and seeing them in the distant past. Perhaps universal constants are not, in fact, constant across large spans of space and/or time.
This hypothesis is quite easy to test. Just observe the dark matter of various galaxies and plot them as a function of distance. A pattern would emerge.
Although I think it's unlikely, part of me finds this hypothesis fun. We have to remember that we don't really understand why most physical constants are the values that they are. They are subject to change without notice. However, this has never been observed.
I'm surprised to hear phone calls are cheap. Every doctor's office I've been to lately has replaced their phone system with an automated one. Usually I get reminders via text message, and am rarely able to talk to a person. Apparently receptionists are too expensive.
I've been looking for a new doctor with a real receptionist, apparently they are going extinct.
Norman Borlaug attempted to revolutionize the agricultural base of the African continent the same way he did India. Unfortunately, the environmental lobby had his funding cut off.
People like to rip on big agriculture, but billions of people would starve without it. If the whole world switched to organic or "sustainable" farming, everything would look like Africa.
I assume the source of the microplastics in the studdy is the container. The FDA assumes some of any container material will be ingested. Therefore containers can't be made of a material that is known to be harmful if ingested in small amounts.
I'm honestly more worried about lead in drinking water, which is known to be harmful, than microscopic particles of food contact rated plastic.
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Another phone copying the competition. Wake me up when this cool new slider phone is on the market.
I didn't even know that was a thing.
Ubuntuforums was pretty amazing too. I haven't been to that site in years now.
ow I didn't know about dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, but in 7.04 the xorg.conf file was still static and I edited it all the time.
Yes, reconfigure xserver-xorg was a wizard program that would edit xorg.conf for you. I edited xorg.conf a few times, but I only made things worse. I'd end up stuck with a black screen and cursor, and reconfigure xserver-xorg would bail me out.
7.04 was peak Ubuntu.
I'll have to disagree with you there. I started with Ubuntu version 7.04. There were a lot of bugs. Flash was a pain to get working, display drivers were a mess. I must have run the command "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" a dozen times to get it to work.
10.04 was the best. Everything worked. Everything was in a logical place, with exception of the window controls, which you get used to. If you couldn't deal with the window controls, 8.04 wasn't bad either.
I've got to ask you about the bionic beaver. Gussy it up however you want, Shuttleworth. What matters is, does it work?
You're sitting on a goldmine Shuttleworth!
Makes you all look like children.
You make some valid points. However, calling people "snowflakes" makes you look pretty childish yourself. Otherwise, thank you for your comments.
People are always finding new means and reasons to kill each other, and they'll do it with or without my help. The best we can do as engineers is to make sure that the attacks are as precise and successful as possible, to minimize the innocent casualties.If an AI can tell the difference in 10 pixels between a firearm flash or the sun reflecting off a camera lens, I'm all in favor of it.
100 years ago, the belief was that war could be ended if there were only more powerful weapons. Those weapons were created, and their creators went on to regret creating them. Sure, people will continue to kill each other, but they can do it without my help.
History has taught us, war is a zero sum game. The only way to win is not to play.
I became an engineer to make the world better, not to tear it apart.
Back when I was a kid, an F-4 flew over our house at super sonic speeds. I thought the world was coming to and end. The whole house shook. It was lunch time and my plate moved across the table. I distinctly remember the windows rattling.
They will be happy to cooperate with you. One year later, an almost identical car from an almost identical factory in a different city will hit the market.
The way I've seen it happen is the corporate partner decides to terminate the partnership once the factory is up and running. They continue churning out widgits, and you don't get any of the profit.
Every company I've seen enter the Chinese market does it with a product they can't sell anywhere else. They use it to recover some of the development costs on products that didn't sell well in Western markets.
Joe Walsh, for writing a song about her without permission, before she was even born.
99 little bugs in the code.
99 little bugs.
Take one down, patch it around.
127 little bugs in the code...
My friend's BMW had some bolts corrode on the power steering system. I wonder if it's the same part. When he asked for it to be fixed for free, BMW told him to pound sand.
And stop turning electricity into money.
You guys have me all nostalgic about running Unigraphics on an HP-UX system.
However, I thought the data integrity requirements you mention were largely resolved by Teamcenter.
- Physical laws are not constant. e are looking at very distant objects, and seeing them in the distant past. Perhaps universal constants are not, in fact, constant across large spans of space and/or time.
This hypothesis is quite easy to test. Just observe the dark matter of various galaxies and plot them as a function of distance. A pattern would emerge.
Although I think it's unlikely, part of me finds this hypothesis fun. We have to remember that we don't really understand why most physical constants are the values that they are. They are subject to change without notice. However, this has never been observed.
I'm surprised to hear phone calls are cheap. Every doctor's office I've been to lately has replaced their phone system with an automated one. Usually I get reminders via text message, and am rarely able to talk to a person. Apparently receptionists are too expensive.
I've been looking for a new doctor with a real receptionist, apparently they are going extinct.
Steam is what you get when you burn hydrogen containing molecules. Space X flies with CO2 and Steam.
Which raises the question, was this really a rocket, or a steam catapult?
Is the transporter killing people by ripping them apart atom by atom, and then creating a new person?
Tinder is still working!
Now delete Twitter too.
Elon can't delete Twitter. He's had a neural lace implant that streams his consciousness directly to his Twitter feed.
Without Twitter, he'd die!
Norman Borlaug attempted to revolutionize the agricultural base of the African continent the same way he did India. Unfortunately, the environmental lobby had his funding cut off.
People like to rip on big agriculture, but billions of people would starve without it. If the whole world switched to organic or "sustainable" farming, everything would look like Africa.
To summarize, the location of the spacecraft makes a refueling mission impractical and expensive.
If only there was a large reusable rocket that could that could reach it inexpensively.
The question is, do all these microplastics going around your body cause any harm? We don't know.
Keep in mind in the US all packaging must be made of materials approved by the FDA as safe for food contact.
I assume the source of the microplastics in the studdy is the container. The FDA assumes some of any container material will be ingested. Therefore containers can't be made of a material that is known to be harmful if ingested in small amounts.
I'm honestly more worried about lead in drinking water, which is known to be harmful, than microscopic particles of food contact rated plastic.
Looks like it's fixed now. It wasn't just you.