Maybe it's your friend, but it's definitely my foe. I can't get urpmi to work.
Example:
% urpmi sendmail [...]==> RETR sendmail-8.12.7-3mdk.i586.rpm... Installation failed, some files are missing. You may want to update your urpmi database. % urpmi.update -a urpmi database locked % kill 11724 % urpmi.update -a urpmi database locked % kill -9 11724 % urpmi.update -a ...retrieving failed: wget failed: exited with 0 or signal 2 retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for medium "rpmfind"
I have done this with various sources of RPMs I've gleaned from recent posts to alt.os.linux.mandrake, all of which fail one way or another. There's nothing wrong with my internet connectivity, it's urpmi.
In Gentoo, do you have to rely on packages being created for you? That would make it useless right there. I have enough trouble finding RPMs for everything. And once I need to install something from scratch, I'm screwed. Header libraries from RPM-installed dependencies are missing, I have to re-install dependencies from scratch, RPM then breaks, and I'm in a situation much like Windows' "DLL Hell".
I like my current Mandrake distro, and RPM works great as long as you consistently and always use RPM to install stuff. But for me, it always ends up breaking. Just last night I tried to uninstall postfix in order to install sendmail, and it went something like this:
I even tried to use rpm to update rpm, in case there was a bug, but that failed too.
What the #$%&*@!! am I supposed to do? (Excuse my Perl)
Anyway, perhaps I should try a debian-based distro like Xandros. Everyone talks about how great apt-get is... is there an apt-remove? Does it manage dependencies well?
"Centuries ago, on our cathedrals, grotesques were intended to symbolize the evil that existed outside the church. Today, Darth Vader is an excellent example of evil in our times."
This is incorrect. The gargoyles were designed to scare away evil spirits. Darth Vader was evil, and that is a concept that's completely different, and therefore not consistent with the traditional gargoyles.
Hmm... if they did it without his helmet, you could perhaps make a case that it is sufficiently grotesque!
That is a very unconvincing website. It would be interesting if it provided actual detailed information about the "junk science" that CR purportly uses, but instead we have a number of quotes by people in several different organizations without any context given to make sense of them.
I agree. The quotes were all regarding one thing: its alarmist slant on pesticides. And some of the sources are a lot worse than CR could ever be: The Washington Times? Give me a break. It's always complaining about other media sources being "environmentalist" which is WT's highest insult.
Now, it's probably impossible for personal opinions to never end up affecting articles, and CR certainly has less expertise in some areas, but CR in general does a really good job at being fair.
An aside, when CR rated Coors and Budweiser as top beers, I knew they were untrustworthy.
As far as taste tests go: The results are simply a statistical summary of tests taken by randomly-selected double-blind taste testers. You may not agree with the results; you may wish the sample size was bigger; but you can't fault the method.
I also wanted to know if anyone knew what language iCalendar was written in.
Looks like American English to me. Why don't you look at the iCalendar specification yourself and see if you agree. I believe all RFC's are written in English.
First of all, I think MoveableType is the wrong platform to build this on. It is a great weblog, but what you describe (and probably actually want) is a project portal, and MoveableType is not a great fit.
I recommend Metadot which is a nice portal that has several built-in components (including a calendar and a versioned project file repository). Metadot is very easy for users to use and it's easy to develop for--its plugins are called Gizmos and it has a Gizmo API so that you can create your own Gizmos or integrate other systems in.
It's a true portal, in that end-users can create their own "My Portal" page by choosing and arranging these Gizmos. Check out the demo.
I forgot to mention that you are wrong about the discrete codes. I have entered them into my Neo. In fact, theres a Pronto2Neo app that lets you convert standard Pronto discrete codes to Neo discrete codes.
As far as pre-done configs, who wants 'em? Nobody has the same setup as you--they're never quite right. With NeoEdit you can create your own pretty easily.
Personally, I like having some hard buttons. For example, the directional control is a pain on a touchscreen--you have to keep looking down, whereas the hard buttons can be operated in the dark by feel.
I went shopping for remote controls and checked all the models out at the local Home Theater store. Let me tell you, a remote should be easy to use and functional. This is not it. Anything more than a Hometheatre Master MX-500 is a waste.
Ironically, Philips makes a $149 programmable touchscreen remote (with a decent number of programmable hard buttons like the HomeTheatreMasters)--the Pronto Neo.
For example, let us say I wanted to map a directory to a particular CGI script. If I were building CGI apps with Perl, I couldn't do that
What does that have to do with Perl? If you were building CGI apps with Java, you wouldn't be able to do that either. CGI != perl.
On the other hand, this can be easily accomplished by a developer building a Web App for a Java servlet container (like Tomcat) by specifying the mapping in the WEB-INF/web.xml of the web application he's building.
Playing along with this terrible web-server configuration example... You can easily do the same thing with mod_perl or PHP (which uses mod_PHP). A "servlet container", mod_perl, and mod_PHP are all types of web app server. Compare apples and apples.
Excuse me, but I think there is definately a PRIOR art on induction. Or believe me - there definately would be patents and a lot of other hoopla. On a side note, my electric toothbrush has been charging wirelessly for about two years now. This is news?
Excuse me, but this patent is NOT on inductive charging. It USES inductive charging, but so what?
Lots of patents get granted for battery-operated things. Following your logic, those patents shouldn't be granted because there's lots of things that use batteries.
This would be great to create a single purpose server (gateway, webserver, whatever). You can boot off of them AND have some permanent storage (for logs, config, etc)! You'd probably still want ramdisk swap and/tmp partition.
Yeah, but how many disabled people can stand and balance well, but not walk? Sure, there may be a few...but I just don't see how such a device could really be that useful.
You missed the point. He was talking about disabled people using Kamen's wheelchair, not disabled people using the Segway.
If you haven't seen the wheelchair, look it up. It's incredible. In my opinion, it is a FAR more useful invention than the Segway.
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Maybe it's your friend, but it's definitely my foe. I can't get urpmi to work.
Example:I have done this with various sources of RPMs I've gleaned from recent posts to alt.os.linux.mandrake, all of which fail one way or another. There's nothing wrong with my internet connectivity, it's urpmi.
I like my current Mandrake distro, and RPM works great as long as you consistently and always use RPM to install stuff. But for me, it always ends up breaking. Just last night I tried to uninstall postfix in order to install sendmail, and it went something like this:I even tried to use rpm to update rpm, in case there was a bug, but that failed too.
What the #$%&*@!! am I supposed to do? (Excuse my Perl)
Anyway, perhaps I should try a debian-based distro like Xandros. Everyone talks about how great apt-get is... is there an apt-remove? Does it manage dependencies well?
I recently found a perl calendar app that supports iCal. Take a look at Calcium, by Brown Bear Software.
"Centuries ago, on our cathedrals, grotesques were intended to symbolize the evil that existed outside the church. Today, Darth Vader is an excellent example of evil in our times."
This is incorrect. The gargoyles were designed to scare away evil spirits. Darth Vader was evil, and that is a concept that's completely different, and therefore not consistent with the traditional gargoyles.
Hmm... if they did it without his helmet, you could perhaps make a case that it is sufficiently grotesque!
That is a very unconvincing website. It would be interesting if it provided actual detailed information about the "junk science" that CR purportly uses, but instead we have a number of quotes by people in several different organizations without any context given to make sense of them.
I agree. The quotes were all regarding one thing: its alarmist slant on pesticides. And some of the sources are a lot worse than CR could ever be: The Washington Times? Give me a break. It's always complaining about other media sources being "environmentalist" which is WT's highest insult.
Now, it's probably impossible for personal opinions to never end up affecting articles, and CR certainly has less expertise in some areas, but CR in general does a really good job at being fair.
An aside, when CR rated Coors and Budweiser as top beers, I knew they were untrustworthy.
As far as taste tests go: The results are simply a statistical summary of tests taken by randomly-selected double-blind taste testers. You may not agree with the results; you may wish the sample size was bigger; but you can't fault the method.
I also wanted to know if anyone knew what language iCalendar was written in.
Looks like American English to me. Why don't you look at the iCalendar specification yourself and see if you agree. I believe all RFC's are written in English.
First of all, I think MoveableType is the wrong platform to build this on. It is a great weblog, but what you describe (and probably actually want) is a project portal, and MoveableType is not a great fit.
I recommend Metadot which is a nice portal that has several built-in components (including a calendar and a versioned project file repository). Metadot is very easy for users to use and it's easy to develop for--its plugins are called Gizmos and it has a Gizmo API so that you can create your own Gizmos or integrate other systems in.
It's a true portal, in that end-users can create their own "My Portal" page by choosing and arranging these Gizmos. Check out the demo.
It seems that it would qualify as a pun.
I forgot to mention that you are wrong about the discrete codes. I have entered them into my Neo. In fact, theres a Pronto2Neo app that lets you convert standard Pronto discrete codes to Neo discrete codes.
As far as pre-done configs, who wants 'em? Nobody has the same setup as you--they're never quite right. With NeoEdit you can create your own pretty easily.
Personally, I like having some hard buttons. For example, the directional control is a pain on a touchscreen--you have to keep looking down, whereas the hard buttons can be operated in the dark by feel.
The new TSU-3000 is a good compromise though.
They don't call it the ipr0nto for nothing!
I went shopping for remote controls and checked all the models out at the local Home Theater store. Let me tell you, a remote should be easy to use and functional. This is not it. Anything more than a Hometheatre Master MX-500 is a waste.
Ironically, Philips makes a $149 programmable touchscreen remote (with a decent number of programmable hard buttons like the HomeTheatreMasters)--the Pronto Neo.
Some links:
Photo
Customized screen examples
Amazon $169/free shipping
BlueDo.com $149 (where I bought mine)
I really like it.
According to the site, they are simply not going to sell them directly. They are still going to manufacture them for OEM partners.
I prefer reading Slashdot using Red Hat then any Windows product =)
You read slashdot using Red Hat, after which you prefer to use Windows?
If I were you, as long as I was already in Red Hat, I'd continue to use it for anything else I need to do. No need for Windows.
-bp.
P.S. Unless you meant "than" instead of "then"
For example, let us say I wanted to map a directory to a particular CGI script. If I were building CGI apps with Perl, I couldn't do that
What does that have to do with Perl? If you were building CGI apps with Java, you wouldn't be able to do that either. CGI != perl.
On the other hand, this can be easily accomplished by a developer building a Web App for a Java servlet container (like Tomcat) by specifying the mapping in the WEB-INF/web.xml of the web application he's building.
Playing along with this terrible web-server configuration example... You can easily do the same thing with mod_perl or PHP (which uses mod_PHP). A "servlet container", mod_perl, and mod_PHP are all types of web app server. Compare apples and apples.
s/HUB/Switch/gi
If only there were more rulings like this one, maybe it would make spammers think twice if they knew they could be fined.
Are you kidding? This will encourage more spam. The spammers are saying, "they only got fined $55,000? That's decent ROI. Let's spam DoCoMo!"
Excuse me, but I think there is definately a PRIOR art on induction. Or believe me - there definately would be patents and a lot of other hoopla. On a side note, my electric toothbrush has been charging wirelessly for about two years now. This is news?
Excuse me, but this patent is NOT on inductive charging. It USES inductive charging, but so what?
Lots of patents get granted for battery-operated things. Following your logic, those patents shouldn't be granted because there's lots of things that use batteries.
bookpool $12 cheaper then that b&n link :
Or you could buy it here, with free shipping you break about even with bookpool, and I get 15%! Whaddadeal!
Ah yes! Now I understand. I just check the box labeled "As the commodity which is added to the cart the mark"
This would be great to create a single purpose server (gateway, webserver, whatever). You can boot off of them AND have some permanent storage (for logs, config, etc)! You'd probably still want ramdisk swap and /tmp partition.
I can think of all kinds of uses for such a CD.
It's like a relief map of Kansas.
Yeah, but how many disabled people can stand and balance well, but not walk? Sure, there may be a few...but I just don't see how such a device could really be that useful.
You missed the point. He was talking about disabled people using Kamen's wheelchair, not disabled people using the Segway.
If you haven't seen the wheelchair, look it up. It's incredible. In my opinion, it is a FAR more useful invention than the Segway.
I shake so damn much that blood clots could never form.
On a serious note, I've got that annoying habit where I shake my legs when I'm sitting still... I wonder if that will actually protect me from DVT?
I drastically improved my signal when I mounted it under my basement stairs. I think the key is the degree of displacement from horizontal.