Note that 24 hours is online time. You can take up to a RL month to use it.
But beware, be very careful. I did that back in February after seeing comments here about the linux version. Took only a few days before I bought a paid subscription...and another week or two before my wife did also. The $28 per month ($14 times 2 accounts) is nothing compared to the hours we've spent on it. I'm afraid to even add them up, but I'd guess that the $14 per month works out to on the order of 10 to 20 cents per hour. It is very addictive.
Much of the addiction is the friends and community. If I left, I'd not just be quitting the game; I'd be leaving a lot of friends.
The "airspeed velocity" also struck me, but no it isn't redundant. It is contradictory. Speed and velocity are different things. (Speed is a scalar, velocity a vector).
Sounds sort of like the reviewer never actually used previous SuSE versions, but just copied marketting blurb claims. He makes a big deal about how new it is that SUSE 9.0 does....exactly the same thing that the 8.2 I'm running at home does.
Namely it set up dual boot with Windows XP and mounted the NTFS file systems read-only.
I suppose the Times must have felt like they needed to recycle month old news for some reason. The report came out a month ago. You don't exactly have to dig through the report for a month to find this stuff; it is among the kind of thing most highlighted in the report.
I suppose next month we will get a news article explaining that the World Trade Center is no longer standing.
If that press release was more informative than the free reg (yada, yada) article, the article must have been pretty bad. The press release reads like...well..a press release.
I fell asleep trying to get through all the usual blurbs about how great this is, before the part where it says exactly what it is that is so great...if it ever did get to that.:-)
The real six million dolar man was Bruce Peterson. He was the real-life pilot in the M2F2 lifting body crash shown in the intro to the show.
The real life pilot did survive the crash, but didn't get all the bionic stuff, I'm afraid. He did spend quite a while in the hospital and came out of it with an eye patch, but not a replacement eye.
I refuse to buy any of the "for dummies" books. It doesn't matter whether they are good or not, I won't buy a book with an insulting title like that. I don't find it humorous to imply that anyone who isn't a geek is a dummy; I don't happen to think my mother is a dummy.
I speak with the only voice that matters on this - my wallet. It is clear that my voice isn't the same as that of a large fraction of the population, but then I knew that anyway.
is that someone was stupid enough to take a Weekly World News story at face value. I didn't know that people came that clueless, even on/.
If the WWN said that the sun was expected to continue burning at least through the end of the week, then I'd start worrying. I think they have a policy against publishing anything that is actually true, no matter how outlandish.
What part of "no" did the poster of this not understand?
Misreading "NASA...has no plans" as "the US [and Russia] are planning" is pretty bad,even by slashdot standards. I suggest not (note that "not") applying as a rocket scientist until learning how to read a little better than that.
Most of those certifications (like your saloon example) are there solely to block competition. The excuses about protecting customers are usually prettly thin.
In rare cases, the customer protection argument makes sense, but those cases are very much in a minority. Doctors come to mind as probably the biggest case. But tanning saloons? If you believe that tanning saloons are regulated in order to protect customers, then I have a deal for you.
From the release notes, it sounds like I'll now need a floppy to install on systems with SCSI hard disks (which almost all of the ones I run are). Bummer. particularly for the ones that don't have floppy drives
Hmm, perhaps the few that don't have floppy drives are a subset of the few non-SCSI ones (mostly some laptops). Still, it seems a step backwards, and an extra hassle.
I haven't seen anything about the stuff that most annoyed me with 8.0 (and has kept me from inflicting 8.0 on my users). Things like the horrible menu (and the inability to edit it).
I also miss netscape in 8.0. Mostly I use Mozilla, but there are a few things that just don't (yet?) work in Mozilla. For example, I cannot for the life of me get some java stuff to run with Mozilla at work, even though the same stuff works with an almost identical setup at home. My best guess on that one is that Java isn't going through the proxy correctly, because that's the only difference I can see in the setups (no stinking mandatory proxy at home).
Nah. Its not that it is particularly stressful. It's just hard to get test data that is useful. Around Mach 1, things get *VERY* sensitive to tiny changes in flight condition - the difference between Mach 0.99 and 0.995 can be large, while the difference between 0.7 and 0.705 is unlikely to be measurable (assuming you are looking at the appropriately nondimensionalized data, which you do if you are an aero). It is difficult to keep an airplane at a precise transonic speed precisely enough to get good data. And repeatability is also a problem; if you try to get multiple maneuvers at the same condition (which you want to do), you'll have trouble matching flight conditions well enough for the purpose.
I've seen tests of lots of things near Mach 1. Tends to be an awful lot of scatter in the data.
They must be using a different definition of "mooted" than the one I know, which is roughly "made irrelevant". If the plans have been made irrelevant then they wouldn't seem to be very...well... relevant.
Perhaps someone meant "promoted". That's about the closes word I can come up with that makes sense in the cpntext.
The install script seems to have gotten added between 641d and 1.0 in the linux version....
And it's got an incredibly high big density. It must have been tricky fitting that many bugs into such a small script.
I was glad to see that the install script did a network install by default. With 641d, you just had to be in the know - the -net flag wasn't documented anywhere I could find, but if you didn't use it, you couldn't install on linux (requiring each user to install a personal copy of the whole thing practically counts as not being able to install). But back to 1.0.
If you just run the install script with no options, it actually does a more-or-less reasonable install, aparently more by accident than design - multiple bugs manage to cancel each other out.
The script has a strange attempt to override the default installation path on the strange theory that if you failed to specify the path, that must have been an accident, so you must really want it somewhere different; luckily the script fails to do the override correctly, so the default remains in effect.
You also get a bunch of error messages about symlinks failing because the script used the wrong shell variable in trying to set the symlinks. But since the program can't be run via a symlink anyway, it is probably good that this failed.
Once you have completed the shared install as root, you are in for another collection of bugs new to 1.0 during the user install. You'll get about a dozen errors from a script error in attempting to make symlinks in your gnome and kde setups. Looks like misguided attempts to use blanks in file names (but not managing to quote them as needed to get such names through a shell).
In the end it worked, but what a sucky collection of install bugs, all new between 641d and 1.0
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The concept of "bad speller" wasn't yet relevant. Standardized spelling didn't come until later.
Note that 24 hours is online time. You can take up to a RL month to use it.
But beware, be very careful. I did that back in February after seeing comments here about the linux version. Took only a few days before I bought a paid subscription...and another week or two before my wife did also. The $28 per month ($14 times 2 accounts) is nothing compared to the hours we've spent on it. I'm afraid to even add them up, but I'd guess that the $14 per month works out to on the order of 10 to 20 cents per hour. It is very addictive.
Much of the addiction is the friends and community. If I left, I'd not just be quitting the game; I'd be leaving a lot of friends.
Ok, I'll bite..so to speak. Though it seems a little off topic.
:-(
What are the best ways to skin a cat?
I have a feeling that no matter what way I used, my daughter would be really, really pissed at me, though.
The "airspeed velocity" also struck me, but no it isn't redundant. It is contradictory. Speed and velocity are different things. (Speed is a scalar,
velocity a vector).
Sounds sort of like the reviewer never actually used previous SuSE versions, but just copied marketting blurb claims. He makes a big deal about how new it is that SUSE 9.0 does....exactly the same thing that the 8.2 I'm running at home does.
Namely it set up dual boot with Windows XP and mounted the NTFS file systems read-only.
I suppose the Times must have felt like they needed to recycle month old news for some reason. The report came out a month ago. You don't exactly have to dig through the report for a month to find this stuff; it is among the kind of thing most highlighted in the report.
I suppose next month we will get a news article explaining that the World Trade Center is no longer standing.
"literally a living fossil"?
:-)
Are you using the word "literally" literally to mean "literally", or are you using "literally" figuratively to mean "figuratively"?
I find the widespread practice of using the word "literally" to mean its exact opposite to be a bit strange.
I was also slightly curious about how they managed to get a picture of it from the Jurassic age, but I suppose that would probably be a trade secret.
If that press release was more informative than the free reg (yada, yada) article, the article must have been pretty bad. The press release reads like...well..a press release.
:-)
I fell asleep trying to get through all the usual blurbs about how great this is, before the part where it says exactly what it is that is so great...if it ever did get to that.
The real six million dolar man was Bruce Peterson. He was the real-life pilot in the M2F2 lifting body crash shown in the intro to the show.
The real life pilot did survive the crash, but didn't get all the bionic stuff, I'm afraid. He did spend quite a while in the hospital and came out of it with an eye patch, but not a replacement eye.
I refuse to buy any of the "for dummies" books. It doesn't matter whether they are good or not, I won't buy a book with an insulting title like that. I don't find it humorous to imply that anyone who isn't a geek is a dummy; I don't happen to think my mother is a dummy.
I speak with the only voice that matters on this - my wallet. It is clear that my voice isn't the same as that of a large fraction of the population, but then I knew that anyway.
is that someone was stupid enough to take a Weekly World News story at face value. I didn't know that people came that clueless, even on /.
If the WWN said that the sun was expected to continue burning at least through the end of the week, then I'd start worrying. I think they have a policy against publishing anything that is actually true, no matter how outlandish.
But you have to read the article to notice all those occurances of the word "she".
This is the 3rd independent post about this article where she was referred to as a guy.
The conclusion is?...well, but we knew that already.
What part of "no" did the poster of this not understand?
Misreading "NASA...has no plans" as "the US [and Russia] are planning" is pretty bad,even by slashdot standards. I suggest not (note that "not") applying as a rocket scientist until learning how to read a little better than that.
If someone called me a "computer infrastructure :-)
practitioner", I'd probably hit them.
Anytime that someone is asking for me as "the sysadmin",
or for that matter by any title, it is usually for bureaucratic bs.
When someone really wants to get something done,
they ask for me by name. It gets around.
Most of those certifications (like your saloon example) are there solely to block competition. The excuses about protecting customers are usually prettly thin.
In rare cases, the customer protection argument makes sense, but those cases are very much in a minority. Doctors come to mind as probably the biggest case. But tanning saloons? If you believe that tanning saloons are regulated in order to protect customers, then I have a deal for you.
From the release notes, it sounds like I'll now need a floppy to install on systems with SCSI hard disks (which almost all of the ones I run are). Bummer. particularly for the ones that don't have floppy drives
Hmm, perhaps the few that don't have floppy drives are a subset of the few non-SCSI ones (mostly some laptops). Still, it seems a step backwards, and an extra hassle.
I haven't seen anything about the stuff that most annoyed me with 8.0 (and has kept me from inflicting 8.0 on my users). Things like the horrible menu (and the inability to edit it).
I also miss netscape in 8.0. Mostly I use Mozilla, but there are a few things that just don't (yet?) work in Mozilla. For example, I cannot for the life of me get some java stuff to run with Mozilla at work, even though the same stuff works with an almost identical setup at home. My best guess on that one is that Java isn't going through the proxy correctly, because that's the only difference I can see in the setups (no stinking mandatory proxy at home).
I personally mean it to apply to all companies who market by phone. What I want to know is who are you to tell me that I'm not allowed to mean that.
Unless you are using the gnu version, which would presumably be g00. :-)
Nah. Its not that it is particularly stressful. It's just hard to get test data that is useful. Around Mach 1, things get *VERY* sensitive to tiny changes in flight condition - the difference between Mach 0.99 and 0.995 can be large, while the difference between 0.7 and 0.705 is unlikely to be measurable (assuming you are looking at the appropriately nondimensionalized data, which you do if you are an aero). It is difficult to keep an airplane at a precise transonic speed precisely enough to get good data. And repeatability is also a problem; if you try to get multiple maneuvers at the same condition (which you want to do), you'll have trouble matching flight conditions well enough for the purpose.
I've seen tests of lots of things near Mach 1. Tends to be an awful lot of scatter in the data.
So nobody expected RT11 to be running after 1999?
I know someone in this building running RT11.
At least he was a few months ago; I haven't checked
recently.
Getting it to "play nice" on the net is
a PITA. It used to interfere with some of the
Solaris autoclients when I had some on the same
subnet as it.
They must be using a different definition of "mooted" than the one I know, which is roughly "made irrelevant". If the plans have been made irrelevant then they wouldn't seem to be very...well... relevant.
Perhaps someone meant "promoted". That's about the closes word I can come up with that makes sense in the cpntext.
The install script seems to have gotten added between 641d and 1.0 in the linux version....
And it's got an incredibly high big density. It must have been tricky fitting that many bugs into such a small script.
I was glad to see that the install script did a network install by default. With 641d, you just had to be in the know - the -net flag wasn't documented anywhere I could find, but if you didn't use it, you couldn't install on linux (requiring each user to install a personal copy of the whole thing practically counts as not being able to install). But back to 1.0.
If you just run the install script with no options, it actually does a more-or-less reasonable install, aparently more by accident than design - multiple bugs manage to cancel each other out.
The script has a strange attempt to override the default installation path on the strange theory that if you failed to specify the path, that must have been an accident, so you must really want it somewhere different; luckily the script fails to do the override correctly, so the default remains in effect.
You also get a bunch of error messages about symlinks failing because the script used the wrong shell variable in trying to set the symlinks. But since the program can't be run via a symlink anyway, it is probably good that this failed.
Once you have completed the shared install as root, you are in for another collection of bugs new to 1.0 during the user install. You'll get about a dozen errors from a script error in attempting to make symlinks in your gnome and kde setups. Looks like misguided attempts to use
blanks in file names (but not managing to quote them as needed to get such names through a shell).
In the end it worked, but what a sucky collection of install bugs, all new between 641d and 1.0
This bill overrides some stronger state laws.
Might that actually be it's objective - to
pre-empt stronger ones?
I've read that slashdot AC's all like goat sex.
:-)
I read it, so it must be true.