I have 100 % failure rate on my machines. Or rather problems that needed to be fixed manually afterwards. Numbers from such a small source is worth nothing. Read the forums. They tell a different story.
Yes it would seem so but running update-grub does not add the new kernel for many users for some reason. Check in the forum. They would either have to delete the file and get a new one created or add the new kernel manually.
No, what Canonical is doing is releasing stable releases comparable and competing with Microsoft and Apple and then providing long time support like Debian om their LTS releases. Unfortunately the non-LTS releases is more like unstable or testing. I have been using Ubuntu on and off since Ubuntu 6 (Dapper Drake) and with every release the feel of being a beta tester have gotten worse and worse.
This time I really think they have shot themselves in the foot by releasing Karmic with the new GRUB which is not only a beta version but also had known problems before they released it. Many who dual boot installs Windows on the primary drive sine that is what Windows like best and then change the drive with Ubuntu (and GRUB) to being primary drive afterwards. This causes GRUB to take from ~1 minute to load the menu (56 seconds and up in my case). Users in the forum report up to 3 minutes load time.
Also it seems many in the forum agree that Ubuntu can no longer be upgraded and is comparable to Windows in that area forcing users to reinstall. I my opinion Ubuntu is a great distro but it is in no way a beginners distro. Beginners should stay one or even two releases behind the release schedule if they want to be sure to have sound, video and a reasonable performance.
Didn't your mother teach you not to lie? That was NOT what he wrote:
IDLE-TIME PROCESS. Once in a while the system will go into an idle mode, requiring from five minutes to half an hour to unwind. It's weird, and I almost always have to reboot. When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing? Once in a while, after you've clicked all over the screen trying to get the system to do something other than idle, all your clicks suddenly ignite and the screen goes crazy with activity. This is not right.
I don't know where the "here" in "PS3 is an oddity here" is but in Scandinavia where I live the stats says that the PS3 has sold better than the PS2 in the same timespan after release. And that is even with the competition of the Xbox 360 and the Wii. So maybe the PS3 is in trouble worldwide (citation please?) but surely not everywhere.
That's because it is part of Denmark. Unfortunately our government loves everything Microsoft. When Bill Gates was here he got the same reception as a President does. He also met with our government heads.
If you think we're just going to roll over and give up one of the last great bastions of American manufacturing, you can kiss Barack's patriotic ass.
Americans really are good patriots!
They would rather bring down the whole nations economy and pollute the world than lose some brand to foreigners even though they can't even compete anyways. Bravo! No wonder Americans got the reputations they do - even in nations that are supposed to be their closest allies in wars around the globe.
Did you ever travel out in the world? Sadly most places I have been they dislike Americans because of the few rotten apples you got (Well, I assume it is a minority at least!) that behave as if they own the globe.
I (as a schizophrenic) have never read or been told about if from physicians so if it is common knowledge maybe they do not recommend it for some reason.
I'm a musician and a programmer. I guess that would count as being creative. I'm also schizophrenic so the only way I can see this could be true, at least in my case, is if schizophrenics is creative people with added intelligence and not the other way around. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure I'm no more intelligent than most. Sounds dubious me thinks.
Sadly Abilify makes me seriously ill even with half the dose of the smallest pill and Seroquel both made me tired like a walking zombie and also made me put on a lot of weight. As far as I know I have tried all of the "new anti psychotics". Only one that wasn't too bad was Zeldox. Unfortunately it does not look like science is going to understand schizophrenia (or the brain for that matter) anytime soon especially the "negative symptoms".
Negative symptoms - Wikipedia:
...loss or absence of normal traits or abilities, and include features such as flat or blunted affect and emotion, poverty of speech (alogia), inability to experience pleasure (anhedonia), lack of desire to form relationships (asociality), and lack of motivation (avolition).
As I suffer from schizophrenia myself I know how bad your memory can get because of it. Maybe there is a connection between I stopped smoking and I (finally) got a diagnose on what was wrong with me. Perhaps it made the symptoms clearer?
I sure hope it is correct and doesn't get debunked.
You're assuming the Government's IT department is completely ignorant of the world outside their doors; is it seriously plausible that they wouldn't know their options?"
That would fit most government IT departments in the world so why not this one.
Dude, you've either been reading way too much or not nearly enough. That's not some special, secret technology they have. Hell, it isn't even hardware based. There are probably 40 million IT professionals who could do what you think is so secret and dastardly, and do so on a regular basis. That includes me, by the way.
It also doesn't work the way you think it does. It's true that they can make an exact, sector by sector copy of your hard drive. However, it's not some outlandish expensive hardware that does this, it's actually software and there are even a number of free programs that will do it, though the gold standard of sector based drive imaging is Norton's Ghost.
It sounds more like you are talking about taking a backup of a drive then collecting data in a forensically sound way. The police does use hardware to block writing to the drive holding the evidence. If they don't it doesn't hold in court as the data could have been modified. Also I have never heard of anything Norton being used for collecting evidence. It would more likely be dd, FTK or EnCase.
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I have 100 % failure rate on my machines. Or rather problems that needed to be fixed manually afterwards. Numbers from such a small source is worth nothing. Read the forums. They tell a different story.
Yes it would seem so but running update-grub does not add the new kernel for many users for some reason. Check in the forum. They would either have to delete the file and get a new one created or add the new kernel manually.
A tiny minority?? Unlike me it seems you haven't been helping out the masses on the forums.
No, what Canonical is doing is releasing stable releases comparable and competing with Microsoft and Apple and then providing long time support like Debian om their LTS releases. Unfortunately the non-LTS releases is more like unstable or testing. I have been using Ubuntu on and off since Ubuntu 6 (Dapper Drake) and with every release the feel of being a beta tester have gotten worse and worse. This time I really think they have shot themselves in the foot by releasing Karmic with the new GRUB which is not only a beta version but also had known problems before they released it. Many who dual boot installs Windows on the primary drive sine that is what Windows like best and then change the drive with Ubuntu (and GRUB) to being primary drive afterwards. This causes GRUB to take from ~1 minute to load the menu (56 seconds and up in my case). Users in the forum report up to 3 minutes load time. Also it seems many in the forum agree that Ubuntu can no longer be upgraded and is comparable to Windows in that area forcing users to reinstall. I my opinion Ubuntu is a great distro but it is in no way a beginners distro. Beginners should stay one or even two releases behind the release schedule if they want to be sure to have sound, video and a reasonable performance.
IDLE-TIME PROCESS. Once in a while the system will go into an idle mode, requiring from five minutes to half an hour to unwind. It's weird, and I almost always have to reboot. When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing? Once in a while, after you've clicked all over the screen trying to get the system to do something other than idle, all your clicks suddenly ignite and the screen goes crazy with activity. This is not right.
Nice going mods! Veeery informative...
So you snail-mail the commands to the PC then?
I don't know where the "here" in "PS3 is an oddity here" is but in Scandinavia where I live the stats says that the PS3 has sold better than the PS2 in the same timespan after release. And that is even with the competition of the Xbox 360 and the Wii. So maybe the PS3 is in trouble worldwide (citation please?) but surely not everywhere.
If he do not have a PC already I don't think this would be where he asked the question.
That's because it is part of Denmark. Unfortunately our government loves everything Microsoft. When Bill Gates was here he got the same reception as a President does. He also met with our government heads.
The earth (pollution) should come before investors. Then investors would also see a need to push the company to pollute less.
If you think we're just going to roll over and give up one of the last great bastions of American manufacturing, you can kiss Barack's patriotic ass.
Americans really are good patriots!
They would rather bring down the whole nations economy and pollute the world than lose some brand to foreigners even though they can't even compete anyways. Bravo! No wonder Americans got the reputations they do - even in nations that are supposed to be their closest allies in wars around the globe.
Did you ever travel out in the world? Sadly most places I have been they dislike Americans because of the few rotten apples you got (Well, I assume it is a minority at least!) that behave as if they own the globe.
I see. Thank you that was most informative :-)
For instance, if you quit smoking by age 50, you are 100 times less likely to get cancer as a result of smoking.
Yes, the chance to get cancer drops after you quit smoking but only in the future so the chance you took while smoking is not any less lethal.
I was a smoker in ~10 years. I've had cancer twice even though I quit smoking years before. I'm 32.
"The world's fastest computer"
I (as a schizophrenic) have never read or been told about if from physicians so if it is common knowledge maybe they do not recommend it for some reason.
Anyone know a good link?
And if they did, did he inhale?
I'm pretty sure it was her that 'inhaled' but you never know!
I'm a musician and a programmer. I guess that would count as being creative. I'm also schizophrenic so the only way I can see this could be true, at least in my case, is if schizophrenics is creative people with added intelligence and not the other way around. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure I'm no more intelligent than most. Sounds dubious me thinks.
Sadly Abilify makes me seriously ill even with half the dose of the smallest pill and Seroquel both made me tired like a walking zombie and also made me put on a lot of weight. As far as I know I have tried all of the "new anti psychotics". Only one that wasn't too bad was Zeldox. Unfortunately it does not look like science is going to understand schizophrenia (or the brain for that matter) anytime soon especially the "negative symptoms".
Negative symptoms - Wikipedia:
As I suffer from schizophrenia myself I know how bad your memory can get because of it. Maybe there is a connection between I stopped smoking and I (finally) got a diagnose on what was wrong with me. Perhaps it made the symptoms clearer?
I sure hope it is correct and doesn't get debunked.
You're assuming the Government's IT department is completely ignorant of the world outside their doors; is it seriously plausible that they wouldn't know their options?"
That would fit most government IT departments in the world so why not this one.
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Could I give it up if I wanted to? Absolutely, and I have when I needed to but now is not that time.
Riiiight!
Dude, you've either been reading way too much or not nearly enough. That's not some special, secret technology they have. Hell, it isn't even hardware based. There are probably 40 million IT professionals who could do what you think is so secret and dastardly, and do so on a regular basis. That includes me, by the way.
It also doesn't work the way you think it does. It's true that they can make an exact, sector by sector copy of your hard drive. However, it's not some outlandish expensive hardware that does this, it's actually software and there are even a number of free programs that will do it, though the gold standard of sector based drive imaging is Norton's Ghost.
It sounds more like you are talking about taking a backup of a drive then collecting data in a forensically sound way. The police does use hardware to block writing to the drive holding the evidence. If they don't it doesn't hold in court as the data could have been modified. Also I have never heard of anything Norton being used for collecting evidence. It would more likely be dd, FTK or EnCase.