IANAL but doesn't this fall into the catagory of caveat emptor? It seems to me that if you're stup^H^H^H^Hnaive enough to buy a CD that is protected by copy control then that's your problem, unless the retailer has a return policy in place covering this sort of thing. It should be pretty obvious that the record companies, RIAA, MPAA, and all these other pseudo-big-brother type culture generators don't have, or soon won't have, a return policy of this nature.
The best solution is boycott. Don't buy anything from Universal. Don't go to their movies (which suck for the most part anyway), don't buy their records (which suck for the most part anyway) and don't buy their DVD's (which are, for the most part, evil technology anyway).
Be sure to tell your friends and family if you're serious about a boycott.
Boycott: chapters-indigo (for censorship)
Boycott: Microsoft (for obvious reasons)
Boycott: Universal (for being ugly and evil)
Journalling pretty well assumes that one be able to actually write to the filesystem, so I would have to say that no, NTFS is no where near being the first supported journalling filesystem.
XFS is probably the best supported, best performance journalling fs out there at the moment. IBM has JFS too but it, apparently, has performance issues. And then there's the old standby, ReiserFS. I think Reiser was first, then JFS and finally XFS.
Typical. Yanks trying to claim braggarts rights as usual. The first TransAtlantic broadcast was indeed from Newfoundland, which, BTW, was then NOT a part of Canada but rather just another British colony. Newfoundland (say it fast, almost no stress on the syllables, not NewFOUNDland) became a Canadian province in 1949.
Whether or not it was on the North American mainland doesn't really bloody matter either, NF is a part of North American, the first broadcast was from NF to england 100 years ago, therefore the first transtlantic broadcast happened 100 years ago between NF and England. QED.
All they're doing is using Intel's chip speeds as an external comparison. So AMD's 1900+ runs at 1600Mhz but compares to a P4 1900MHz system. We're not going to get away from the MHz comparisons that easily, especially since it still remains the single most identifiable factor.
Psychologically it's a good move for AMD. Even though I know that their 1600MHz chip is faster than Intel's 1900MHz chip (or equivalent) I would still feel a bit, disempowered... groan. And for those who do not know they are surely going to be suckered into Intel's super MHz sales pitch.
Who are thsese moderators? It seems to me that most of the arguments for doing backups iwth hard dirves is that they can be taken offsite. The best solution is to have a 2 drive mirror'd raid and swap the second raid periodically and then take the 2nd drive offsite for storage. This is about ten million times more secure than any home user would normally do, even with tapes.
You're absolutely right about offsite network backup though, it is definitely the way to go.
Only you'd be nuts to use scp to do this, try rsync if you don't want to backup your entire home account every day. I do this on two systems and since I'm only syncing the changes my backups are on the order of 2 or 3 MB uploaded per day. This is a great, first line of defence (in case one accidentally deletes a file, or, ahem, subdirectory tree, or ones entire system gets toasted.
If only changes were on the way, but my guess is that it will be more of the same crap.
30 years ago, science fiction was kid's stuff - only children wanted to watch it, only children liked it, etc
This is a crock of doo doo. Thirty years ago, sci-fi was definitely not a child's genre. Some of the most thought provoking, socially aware, fiction was sci-fi UNTIL about 25 or 30 years ago when the whole fantasy fiction thing took off and hollywood, through that horrible Star Wars series, discovered sci-fi for children. Sci-Fi has been reduced to a shadow of what it used to be, go ahead and read some of the short fiction sci-fi from the 30's, 40's and 50's, this was the best of the best. Hollywood comes along and turns it into a space based western, where the "Injuns" are replaced by aliens. This is *all* we ever see now and 99% of hollywood sci-fi is complete and utter crap (mind you that's about the going rate for all hollywood films, comedy, horror,...)
And now they're going to ruin Tolkien, which was one of only several fantasy series that wasn't a blatent rip off of all the others. Just you wait and see.
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Mod this up. Damn that's the funniest thing I've read all day.
BTW, most of us (the rest of the world) prefer nanometre. Personally I prefer the
attoparsec.
An energy management system, for serval colleges, running on NT? I'd recommend sweaters in the winter and bathing suits in the summer.
Forget the NT portability requirements and write it for Unix. If you absolutely must run it under NT then perhaps Cygwin would be an alternative.
One thing you don't mention is whether you're writing a GUI or not, in which case I'd write a wrapper gui rather than an integrated GUI with IPC to deal with I/O. As others have mentionned serial I/O is a pain in da arse under Windows (it's a security issue, doncha know) but I'm not sure how cygwin deals with this issue.
Recommendation number one. Convince them to install Unix/Linux/Gnu/RMSIAI.
But you should probably store it on disc as/etc/hosts.gpg (or/etc/hosts.pgp if you insist). Typing one's passphrase would become a little tiresome while browsing, but security is what's important here!
Better to be spewing water vapour into the atmosphere than all the fucking crap that comes out of the family tailpipe these days. On your bike, ya lazy bastards!
The biggest potential environmental problem that I can envision at the moment, would be the two sources of energy expended for the use of H2 as a fuel (I've been an advocate of H2 as the only alternative fuel since the early 70's BTW). The first would be the energy requirement for hydrolysis. It takes a lot of energy to split H20 into H2 and O2 (or rather 2H2 and 02) and the potential for heat loss during this process is high, as anyone who has ever studied thermodynamics will know. You put energy into the system to split the water molecule, probably on a metallic catalyst of some kind to reduce the energy requirements, but only a certain percentage of that energy is used for the hydrolysis, most of the rest is released as heat. The other source of heat would of course be the inefficiency of the combustion of the hydrogen and the energy lost in powering a vehicle. But since automobiles are already painfully inefficient in their use of fuel this isn't too much of an issue.
So the only issue is when, not why.
ps. the produced by combustion could be recycled.
pps. the hydrogen would mostly be created and packaged somewhere else, not in your vehicle, although that would be the ultimate goal!
But don't go crying to me when they stick ad promos even further into your face, because that is the only way that they can get money without charging you a dime
They already do. The most common form of advertising is the network watermark which is becoming more and more annoying. At first these marks were displayed only periodically and usually in a washed out white so that they appeared transparent. Now these fscking WATERMARKS are becoming so huge and colourful that it is hard to ignore them. And once you notice the damn things it's almost impossible to stop thinking about them.
But this has nothing to do with advertising revenues here folks. This has to do with increasing advertising revenues. See, the capitalist world has found itself in a bit of a conundrum. In order to survive under this particular model, business must not only make money to satisfy its objective, but it must make more money. So we've gone from speeding to accelerating, and everyone knows that going to the stage where the rate of acceleration is increasing means certain disaster. This may seem like a sudden divergence in argument but in fact it does come back to what we are witnessing now with the major media outlets becoming greedier and greedier (an inappropriate term for a soulless media monster like AOL-Time-Warner or Disney or Sony, et. al.) I saw an old Bugs Bunny cartoon on the weekend, from the era where "Warner Bros." was a staple in society thay didn't make you want to retch. Gone are those days.
At any rate, I am definitely rambling now so I'll shut up and go to work so that I can afford the hundred bucks a month or so to pay for my high speed modem and multi-channel digital universe (which with its hundreds of channels, incredibly enough, is nearly devoid of entertainment these days, except for a select few shows from the past that are in syndication, unless you think that asshole on Cops! or World's Greatest Police Chases isn't a fascist asshole giving us one side of the story, and generally being a loud mouthed boor, is something to write home about.
Well, sure. And if the two planes hadn't plowed into the WTC towers there would have only been hundreds instead of thousands of casualties.
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I don't know, I always found that NS4 was reasonably stable under W9x. Now its stability under Linux is anther issue altogether... in fact, it wasn't really an issue of stability as it was an issue of interoperability, certain features were just plain broken since they were designed for windoze and never successfully made the transition. A couple of problems that come to mind are the address book, which never worked in Linux as I recall, and bookmarks, which fixed near the end of NS4's run.
All in all though, mozilla is the better browser and is slowly but surely inching towards a 1.0 product in admirable progress.
Intel processors can now be configuredc to ramp down the clock speed when the temperature goes too high. this is a good thing. I suspect that it is up t the motherboard manufacturer to implement this feature... but I'm guessing here.
Suffice it to say that within the next year or so ALL new processors will have some sort of overheating protection built into them. I'd be very surprised if this weren't on the drawing board for AMD right now.
Er, did you ever consider software monitoring of your cpu temperature? This is usually included with the utilities cd for Windoze and the kernel ad-on lm_sensors does the job for most systems under linux, an probably other un*x OS's as well.
A software solution could be configured easily under Linux to poll the CPU temperature periodically and shutdown the system whenever a critical event occurs. A graphical approach comes to mind -- the polling interval could be increased when the slope of the T vs Time increases to quickly, that is, the rate of temperature change. When the rate is found to be increasing beyond a certain critical maximum the system could be halted and any number of warnings could be emitted (email, pager, prevent reboot except single user, &c.)
Perhaps not for the faint of heart but certainly not beyond the ken of most weekend hobbiests I've met.
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That was rhetorical.
In short, you're a twit.
Now piss off and go back to downloading the latest 20MB IE patch.
Ha! Now that was funny.
I can fault them if they want me to give 'em 9.95$ per month. I wouldn't flinch if they asked for 9.95$ per year, but per month! Fuck that.
Welcome to the world of USB. Still faster than a bloody floppy. And, better still, it's not a frackin' Zip disk. Iomega can bite my arse.
The best solution is boycott. Don't buy anything from Universal. Don't go to their movies (which suck for the most part anyway), don't buy their records (which suck for the most part anyway) and don't buy their DVD's (which are, for the most part, evil technology anyway).
Be sure to tell your friends and family if you're serious about a boycott.
Boycott: chapters-indigo (for censorship) Boycott: Microsoft (for obvious reasons) Boycott: Universal (for being ugly and evil)
Try changing folders on a dialup connection to see why not to use notes.
XFS is probably the best supported, best performance journalling fs out there at the moment. IBM has JFS too but it, apparently, has performance issues. And then there's the old standby, ReiserFS. I think Reiser was first, then JFS and finally XFS.
Whether or not it was on the North American mainland doesn't really bloody matter either, NF is a part of North American, the first broadcast was from NF to england 100 years ago, therefore the first transtlantic broadcast happened 100 years ago between NF and England. QED.
Psychologically it's a good move for AMD. Even though I know that their 1600MHz chip is faster than Intel's 1900MHz chip (or equivalent) I would still feel a bit, disempowered ... groan. And for those who do not know they are surely going to be suckered into Intel's super MHz sales pitch.
Ya gotta roll with the punches ...
You're absolutely right about offsite network backup though, it is definitely the way to go. Only you'd be nuts to use scp to do this, try rsync if you don't want to backup your entire home account every day. I do this on two systems and since I'm only syncing the changes my backups are on the order of 2 or 3 MB uploaded per day. This is a great, first line of defence (in case one accidentally deletes a file, or, ahem, subdirectory tree, or ones entire system gets toasted.
rsync -v --stats -xrlptgoD --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --exclude-from=sync-out.exc /home/me me@remote:~/me-at-home
Real men like command line switches.
Of course, this is only a single copy. What is really needed is a good network differential backup system.
One guy (hah!) has a start on it,
dbak.pl this is a perl script that attemtps to do network differential backups. It's rough around the edges but with a bit of work ...
30 years ago, science fiction was kid's stuff - only children wanted to watch it, only children liked it, etc
This is a crock of doo doo. Thirty years ago, sci-fi was definitely not a child's genre. Some of the most thought provoking, socially aware, fiction was sci-fi UNTIL about 25 or 30 years ago when the whole fantasy fiction thing took off and hollywood, through that horrible Star Wars series, discovered sci-fi for children. Sci-Fi has been reduced to a shadow of what it used to be, go ahead and read some of the short fiction sci-fi from the 30's, 40's and 50's, this was the best of the best. Hollywood comes along and turns it into a space based western, where the "Injuns" are replaced by aliens. This is *all* we ever see now and 99% of hollywood sci-fi is complete and utter crap (mind you that's about the going rate for all hollywood films, comedy, horror, ...)
And now they're going to ruin Tolkien, which was one of only several fantasy series that wasn't a blatent rip off of all the others. Just you wait and see.
BTW, most of us (the rest of the world) prefer nanometre. Personally I prefer the attoparsec.
Java is a feature?
feh!
Flamebait.
And the mouse should kind of make a bloop sound as it passes through the layers of windows while leaving a wake in its trail.
That should be the next change to the desktop idiom, IMHO.
Forget the NT portability requirements and write it for Unix. If you absolutely must run it under NT then perhaps Cygwin would be an alternative.
One thing you don't mention is whether you're writing a GUI or not, in which case I'd write a wrapper gui rather than an integrated GUI with IPC to deal with I/O. As others have mentionned serial I/O is a pain in da arse under Windows (it's a security issue, doncha know) but I'm not sure how cygwin deals with this issue.
Recommendation number one. Convince them to install Unix/Linux/Gnu/RMSIAI.
But you should probably store it on disc as /etc/hosts.gpg (or /etc/hosts.pgp if you insist). Typing one's passphrase would become a little tiresome while browsing, but security is what's important here!
They also took a couple of strips out of Ren and Stimpy back in the dark ages.
I think the EFF is now bigger than yahoo, no?
The biggest potential environmental problem that I can envision at the moment, would be the two sources of energy expended for the use of H2 as a fuel (I've been an advocate of H2 as the only alternative fuel since the early 70's BTW). The first would be the energy requirement for hydrolysis. It takes a lot of energy to split H20 into H2 and O2 (or rather 2H2 and 02) and the potential for heat loss during this process is high, as anyone who has ever studied thermodynamics will know. You put energy into the system to split the water molecule, probably on a metallic catalyst of some kind to reduce the energy requirements, but only a certain percentage of that energy is used for the hydrolysis, most of the rest is released as heat. The other source of heat would of course be the inefficiency of the combustion of the hydrogen and the energy lost in powering a vehicle. But since automobiles are already painfully inefficient in their use of fuel this isn't too much of an issue.
So the only issue is when, not why.
ps. the produced by combustion could be recycled.
pps. the hydrogen would mostly be created and packaged somewhere else, not in your vehicle, although that would be the ultimate goal!
They already do. The most common form of advertising is the network watermark which is becoming more and more annoying. At first these marks were displayed only periodically and usually in a washed out white so that they appeared transparent. Now these fscking WATERMARKS are becoming so huge and colourful that it is hard to ignore them. And once you notice the damn things it's almost impossible to stop thinking about them.
But this has nothing to do with advertising revenues here folks. This has to do with increasing advertising revenues. See, the capitalist world has found itself in a bit of a conundrum. In order to survive under this particular model, business must not only make money to satisfy its objective, but it must make more money. So we've gone from speeding to accelerating, and everyone knows that going to the stage where the rate of acceleration is increasing means certain disaster. This may seem like a sudden divergence in argument but in fact it does come back to what we are witnessing now with the major media outlets becoming greedier and greedier (an inappropriate term for a soulless media monster like AOL-Time-Warner or Disney or Sony, et. al.) I saw an old Bugs Bunny cartoon on the weekend, from the era where "Warner Bros." was a staple in society thay didn't make you want to retch. Gone are those days.
At any rate, I am definitely rambling now so I'll shut up and go to work so that I can afford the hundred bucks a month or so to pay for my high speed modem and multi-channel digital universe (which with its hundreds of channels, incredibly enough, is nearly devoid of entertainment these days, except for a select few shows from the past that are in syndication, unless you think that asshole on Cops! or World's Greatest Police Chases isn't a fascist asshole giving us one side of the story, and generally being a loud mouthed boor, is something to write home about.
Great, now I'm pissed off.
Well, sure. And if the two planes hadn't plowed into the WTC towers there would have only been hundreds instead of thousands of casualties.
All in all though, mozilla is the better browser and is slowly but surely inching towards a 1.0 product in admirable progress.
Maybe it's an anti-blackhole. Kewl.
Is it globalism or globalizm? Globalisation or globalization? Bloody yanks.
Intel processors can now be configuredc to ramp down the clock speed when the temperature goes too high. this is a good thing. I suspect that it is up t the motherboard manufacturer to implement this feature ... but I'm guessing here.
Suffice it to say that within the next year or so ALL new processors will have some sort of overheating protection built into them. I'd be very surprised if this weren't on the drawing board for AMD right now.
Er, did you ever consider software monitoring of your cpu temperature? This is usually included with the utilities cd for Windoze and the kernel ad-on lm_sensors does the job for most systems under linux, an probably other un*x OS's as well.
A software solution could be configured easily under Linux to poll the CPU temperature periodically and shutdown the system whenever a critical event occurs. A graphical approach comes to mind -- the polling interval could be increased when the slope of the T vs Time increases to quickly, that is, the rate of temperature change. When the rate is found to be increasing beyond a certain critical maximum the system could be halted and any number of warnings could be emitted (email, pager, prevent reboot except single user, &c.)
Perhaps not for the faint of heart but certainly not beyond the ken of most weekend hobbiests I've met.