See if she's heard this one. A mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and a civil engineer are discussing God. They all agree he must be an engineer, but what kind? They each present their case. The mechanical engineer says, "look at the human body, the perfection of the joints, bones and muscle. Obviously, God is a mechanical engineer." To which the electrical engineer counters, "But look at the human mind and nervous system! Surely God is an electrical engineer!" They both look at the civil engineer, who shrugs and says, "Who else would put the sewer outflow in the middle of the entertainment district?"
If it can be stored there. Most partition managers put this in even though the original reasons for this space are long gone. Back in the days of addressing disks in CHS (Cylinder, Head, Sector) mode, DOS couldn't span a cylinder boundary, so padding was added after the end of the partition table to make the first partition start on one.
It goes MBR, partition table, stage 1.5, partition 1. Your intuition that stage 1.5 goes in a 'secret partition' is correct.:)
GRUB stores the sector number of the beginning of stage 1.5 in the MBR, loads it and jumps to it. Stage 1.5 knows specifics of how to access (some) filesystems. It loads stage 2, which is what actually loads the menu.1st file and displays it.
So if you blow away the partition with the/boot directory on it, and you don't have another partition with a/boot directory, you are kind of hosed even though stage 1.5 is in a hidden partition.
What I think you can do, if fuzzy memory serves, is boot into the original OS, mount the new OS partition somewhere, chroot into it, and run grub-install with the correct arguments. This will reinstall stage 1.5 pointing to the new stage 2. I think.:) It's been years since I had dozens of Linux distributions on my computers. Now I just use VMware or Xen when I want to try out something new.
I like Google Earth, too, but there are some serious problems. Processes seem to be terminated arbitrarily, and far too soon. Interprocess communication is too difficult. I can't seem to execute a JOIN successfully. Forking new processes is fun, but time consuming and expensive. Most independent agents are severely lacking in intelligence. System management is byzantine and security is non-existent, I mean, anyone can kill a process with almost no effort!
I can't wait for Google Heaven, though. If it's anything close to what's advertised, it should make up for all the crap we have to go through with Google Earth.
What do you think 'adapt' means? If the proportion of certain pre-existing genes within a gene pool changes, that is adaptation. For instance, a certain white moth turned black within a few generations at the start of the industrial revolution because soot was everywhere. The black coloration genes were there in the gene pool, just very infrequent because they were originally a disadvantage, but not enough of one to be immediately fatal in all circumstances.
Suppose a species has some stronger members, but being stronger doesn't help much until the environment changes. When it does, these members have an advantage, and the next generation contains more stronger members. The species has adapted to the new environment.
You can try to play semantic games or misinterpret the theory, but no one is going to buy it when you complain how 'unscientific' your straw man is.
I love this kind of argument because it is so easy to debunk. A self sustaining moon colony would be worth the money it takes to set up, from a scientific and economic standpoint. This just makes it cheaper to do.
Consider that there are no pests on the moon. There is nothing but open space and free sunlight. The moon has a tiny gravity well. Think about bio-fuel production on Earth, and all the problems that go along with it. None of those problems exist on the moon.
If you can't see any of the reasons to have a moon colony in the first place, you are too stupid to try to explain this too.
SAN is block storage, NAS is file storage. Simply put, if you send packets requesting blocks of data, like you would send over your local bus to your local hard drive, it is block storage. If you send packets requesting whole files, it is file storage.
It's not that they're phasing them out of the GPL'd branch; these are new features that were never GPL'd in the first place. Ah, well that's not so bad then. Their money, their choice. Plenty of companies do that and we don't generally come down on them.
Sun will only develop and release certain features in the Enterprise version, specifically relating to online backup, management, and other advanced features. What's in the current version stays in the current version, but they will phase out those features in the community branch. Someone can still port them from the old version, but even then, we won't get the benefit of Sun's new developments.
Ah, come on, UB, my whiny tone is my BEST quality! Everyone says so. Anyway, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have been a dick about it but you HAVE been mentioning this incident for quite a while now. Ubuntu has come a long way since then.
And for the record, you can always use a windows boot disk or cd and either use fdisk with the/mbr switch, or the recovery console to fix the master bot record. I've had to do it a few times. It used to happen a lot more frequently back in the LILO days.
It just so happens I was looking at grind and brews to confirm the price range, and Cuisinart makes a burr grinder model.
Why is that important? Obviously you know, but a lot of people don't, considering how popular the blade grinders are. Blade grinders do two things wrong. The grounds are always in contact with the rapidly spinning blades, so the grounds heat up and lose flavor. Secondly, by the time the blades turn most of the coffee into appropriately sized grounds, the rest of it is dust. Burr grinders do not heat up the grounds and they produce a more even grind.
At least, some do. The first burr grinder I got was complete crap, wish I could remember the brand to steer you clear, but I know DeLonghi and Cuisinart are good. Look for one with hefty burrs powered by a motor strong enough not to slow down to a crawl when fed some beans.
Oh for crying out loud, how long ago was that? You've been bitching about that for YEARS. I don't even know how you managed to brick your system, I've put GRUB on the primary MBR of dual boot systems hundreds of times. I just did it with the new Ubuntu with a test server here in my office. No problkems. Last week I told my boss's boss how to help his kid do it. No problems.
I've read and followed the new Ubuntu dual boot instructions, a blind chimp could do it, you just clicky along 'till it's done, taking the defaults. It even resized my original windows partition with no problem.
What utter bullshit. I read reviews, listen to friends, read, and research. I have never seen a ad and thought, "Wow, I NEED that even though I've never heard of it before."
When I want something, I will seek it out. I'm not a sheep, I don't need to be led to pasture and shown where to graze. I don't need people telling me what I should want.
When I want something, I'll ask, thanks, so shut the fuck up, I don't want to hear what you have for sale.
I don't give a rat's ass if you download AdBlock or not. You said, "You're going to see the ads anyway, why not see ads targeted towards products you're interested in?" and I responded that I don't want to see ads, targeted or not, and that marketing and advertising are an evil waste of human talent and energy.
AdBlock just happens to be one method I use so I don't have to see ads. I mention it in passing, and you start frothing at the mouth and accusing me of being unoriginal. As if saying, "Hey, targeted ads are GREAT! More Please!!" or "I support websites by looking at ads!" is in any way original.
Advertising is anti-happiness. It actively tries to make people less happy, in order to get them to buy more useless crap that also won't make them happy.
You know what I find irritating as hell? People who recommend ways for me to get conned and mindfucked by sleazy scam artists who have a fucking college education in how to influence people against their will. That's all advertising is.
I use adblock and filterset.g. Even when there are ads on the page, I tune them out. When I want to purchase something, I research it. I don't need to have it shoved in my face. Advertising and marketing are a complete waste of human energy at best, evil mind control black magic at worst. I don't want to watch chickens being sacrificed to dark gods, I don't inject raw sewage straight into my brain, and I don't look at advertising.
Ahh, hadn't even thought about that. Probably not, the roaster and grinder are both quite loud. I suppose you could buy them all noise cancelling headphones...
Just get a personal coffee roaster and a grind & brew coffee maker. I know, I know. You want pneumatic tubes. Who doesn't? But a personal hot air coffee roaster can be had for $80+, while a grind and brew can be had for $100 and up. The result is the same, even if it's not as fun to watch.
First, I like Alan Dean Foster. I was actually being charitable to Cory comparing him to Foster. Foster is a talented word smith with a good sense of pacing and dramatic tension. But he writes fairly pedestrian space opera.
Cory writes about some fairly interesting ideas, but they aren't really that original. And he doesn't know how to flesh them out into an interesting plot. It's almost as if they aren't really his ideas, and he didn't listen that carefully when they were being explained to him. His sense of pacing is a bit off, and his characterizations are flat. Especially women, who come off as caricatures.
I haven't had anything published, but I've read over two thousand speculative fiction books and stories. I've discussed the genre quite extensively. I'm objective enough to recognize a good author even if I don't like their style or subject. I think Cory is a halfway decent author, and I can actually finish his books without throwing them across the room in disgust. If there's no new Bear, Benford, Banks, Baxter, Egan, Gaiman, Gibson, Hamilton, Mieville, Pratchett, Robinson, Rucker, Simmons, or Vinge around, I might consider reading something he wrote.
Look, I don't want to piss you off or anything, and I'm sure Cory is smart, but... what exactly has he done to prove it? I'm really not trying to be facetious.
He dropped out of four universities. He's a blogger. He writes science fiction about as well as Alan Dean Foster. Which is to say, mediocre science fiction. He started Boing Boing. He occasionally writes non fiction articles.
Am I missing something? Cure for cancer, grand unified theory, anything?
I'm sure Cory is both nice and smart, but his importance to a certain set of geeks seems blown way out of proportion to his actual accomplishments.
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See if she's heard this one. A mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and a civil engineer are discussing God. They all agree he must be an engineer, but what kind? They each present their case. The mechanical engineer says, "look at the human body, the perfection of the joints, bones and muscle. Obviously, God is a mechanical engineer." To which the electrical engineer counters, "But look at the human mind and nervous system! Surely God is an electrical engineer!" They both look at the civil engineer, who shrugs and says, "Who else would put the sewer outflow in the middle of the entertainment district?"
If it can be stored there. Most partition managers put this in even though the original reasons for this space are long gone. Back in the days of addressing disks in CHS (Cylinder, Head, Sector) mode, DOS couldn't span a cylinder boundary, so padding was added after the end of the partition table to make the first partition start on one.
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/boot directory on it, and you don't have another partition with a /boot directory, you are kind of hosed even though stage 1.5 is in a hidden partition.
:) It's been years since I had dozens of Linux distributions on my computers. Now I just use VMware or Xen when I want to try out something new.
It goes MBR, partition table, stage 1.5, partition 1. Your intuition that stage 1.5 goes in a 'secret partition' is correct.
GRUB stores the sector number of the beginning of stage 1.5 in the MBR, loads it and jumps to it. Stage 1.5 knows specifics of how to access (some) filesystems. It loads stage 2, which is what actually loads the menu.1st file and displays it.
So if you blow away the partition with the
What I think you can do, if fuzzy memory serves, is boot into the original OS, mount the new OS partition somewhere, chroot into it, and run grub-install with the correct arguments. This will reinstall stage 1.5 pointing to the new stage 2. I think.
I like Google Earth, too, but there are some serious problems. Processes seem to be terminated arbitrarily, and far too soon. Interprocess communication is too difficult. I can't seem to execute a JOIN successfully. Forking new processes is fun, but time consuming and expensive. Most independent agents are severely lacking in intelligence. System management is byzantine and security is non-existent, I mean, anyone can kill a process with almost no effort!
I can't wait for Google Heaven, though. If it's anything close to what's advertised, it should make up for all the crap we have to go through with Google Earth.
What do you think 'adapt' means? If the proportion of certain pre-existing genes within a gene pool changes, that is adaptation. For instance, a certain white moth turned black within a few generations at the start of the industrial revolution because soot was everywhere. The black coloration genes were there in the gene pool, just very infrequent because they were originally a disadvantage, but not enough of one to be immediately fatal in all circumstances.
Suppose a species has some stronger members, but being stronger doesn't help much until the environment changes. When it does, these members have an advantage, and the next generation contains more stronger members. The species has adapted to the new environment.
You can try to play semantic games or misinterpret the theory, but no one is going to buy it when you complain how 'unscientific' your straw man is.
I love this kind of argument because it is so easy to debunk. A self sustaining moon colony would be worth the money it takes to set up, from a scientific and economic standpoint. This just makes it cheaper to do.
Consider that there are no pests on the moon. There is nothing but open space and free sunlight. The moon has a tiny gravity well. Think about bio-fuel production on Earth, and all the problems that go along with it. None of those problems exist on the moon.
If you can't see any of the reasons to have a moon colony in the first place, you are too stupid to try to explain this too.
Where are you going to get mineral solutions on the moon?
The point of this research is to show that you don't need to import the minerals from earth, you can use bacteria to break down moon rocks.
Thanks for clarifying that. But I've never heard anyone refer to random access on a given file as 'block' storage.
SAN is block storage, NAS is file storage. Simply put, if you send packets requesting blocks of data, like you would send over your local bus to your local hard drive, it is block storage. If you send packets requesting whole files, it is file storage.
I lixen this new way of speaxen.
Sun will only develop and release certain features in the Enterprise version, specifically relating to online backup, management, and other advanced features. What's in the current version stays in the current version, but they will phase out those features in the community branch. Someone can still port them from the old version, but even then, we won't get the benefit of Sun's new developments.
Ah, come on, UB, my whiny tone is my BEST quality! Everyone says so. Anyway, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have been a dick about it but you HAVE been mentioning this incident for quite a while now. Ubuntu has come a long way since then.
/mbr switch, or the recovery console to fix the master bot record. I've had to do it a few times. It used to happen a lot more frequently back in the LILO days.
And for the record, you can always use a windows boot disk or cd and either use fdisk with the
It just so happens I was looking at grind and brews to confirm the price range, and Cuisinart makes a burr grinder model.
Why is that important? Obviously you know, but a lot of people don't, considering how popular the blade grinders are. Blade grinders do two things wrong. The grounds are always in contact with the rapidly spinning blades, so the grounds heat up and lose flavor. Secondly, by the time the blades turn most of the coffee into appropriately sized grounds, the rest of it is dust. Burr grinders do not heat up the grounds and they produce a more even grind.
At least, some do. The first burr grinder I got was complete crap, wish I could remember the brand to steer you clear, but I know DeLonghi and Cuisinart are good. Look for one with hefty burrs powered by a motor strong enough not to slow down to a crawl when fed some beans.
Oh for crying out loud, how long ago was that? You've been bitching about that for YEARS. I don't even know how you managed to brick your system, I've put GRUB on the primary MBR of dual boot systems hundreds of times. I just did it with the new Ubuntu with a test server here in my office. No problkems. Last week I told my boss's boss how to help his kid do it. No problems.
I've read and followed the new Ubuntu dual boot instructions, a blind chimp could do it, you just clicky along 'till it's done, taking the defaults. It even resized my original windows partition with no problem.
Thanks for posting that, it encapsulates my feelings about advertising quite succinctly.
What utter bullshit. I read reviews, listen to friends, read, and research. I have never seen a ad and thought, "Wow, I NEED that even though I've never heard of it before."
When I want something, I will seek it out. I'm not a sheep, I don't need to be led to pasture and shown where to graze. I don't need people telling me what I should want.
When I want something, I'll ask, thanks, so shut the fuck up, I don't want to hear what you have for sale.
I don't give a rat's ass if you download AdBlock or not. You said, "You're going to see the ads anyway, why not see ads targeted towards products you're interested in?" and I responded that I don't want to see ads, targeted or not, and that marketing and advertising are an evil waste of human talent and energy.
AdBlock just happens to be one method I use so I don't have to see ads. I mention it in passing, and you start frothing at the mouth and accusing me of being unoriginal. As if saying, "Hey, targeted ads are GREAT! More Please!!" or "I support websites by looking at ads!" is in any way original.
Advertising is anti-happiness. It actively tries to make people less happy, in order to get them to buy more useless crap that also won't make them happy.
You know what I find irritating as hell? People who recommend ways for me to get conned and mindfucked by sleazy scam artists who have a fucking college education in how to influence people against their will. That's all advertising is.
I use adblock and filterset.g. Even when there are ads on the page, I tune them out. When I want to purchase something, I research it. I don't need to have it shoved in my face. Advertising and marketing are a complete waste of human energy at best, evil mind control black magic at worst. I don't want to watch chickens being sacrificed to dark gods, I don't inject raw sewage straight into my brain, and I don't look at advertising.
You know what buzzword I really hate? Buzzword. Buzz is popular gossip, gossip is words, buzzword means popular words-word.
Ahh, hadn't even thought about that. Probably not, the roaster and grinder are both quite loud. I suppose you could buy them all noise cancelling headphones...
Just get a personal coffee roaster and a grind & brew coffee maker. I know, I know. You want pneumatic tubes. Who doesn't? But a personal hot air coffee roaster can be had for $80+, while a grind and brew can be had for $100 and up. The result is the same, even if it's not as fun to watch.
Okay, you win, we waterboarded illegal combatants we captured during hostilities, you happy now? Does that make it better?
And we are decidedly not the best guys available. The best guys available would have meant a real UN coalition.
First, I like Alan Dean Foster. I was actually being charitable to Cory comparing him to Foster. Foster is a talented word smith with a good sense of pacing and dramatic tension. But he writes fairly pedestrian space opera.
Cory writes about some fairly interesting ideas, but they aren't really that original. And he doesn't know how to flesh them out into an interesting plot. It's almost as if they aren't really his ideas, and he didn't listen that carefully when they were being explained to him. His sense of pacing is a bit off, and his characterizations are flat. Especially women, who come off as caricatures.
I haven't had anything published, but I've read over two thousand speculative fiction books and stories. I've discussed the genre quite extensively. I'm objective enough to recognize a good author even if I don't like their style or subject. I think Cory is a halfway decent author, and I can actually finish his books without throwing them across the room in disgust. If there's no new Bear, Benford, Banks, Baxter, Egan, Gaiman, Gibson, Hamilton, Mieville, Pratchett, Robinson, Rucker, Simmons, or Vinge around, I might consider reading something he wrote.
Look, I don't want to piss you off or anything, and I'm sure Cory is smart, but... what exactly has he done to prove it? I'm really not trying to be facetious.
He dropped out of four universities. He's a blogger. He writes science fiction about as well as Alan Dean Foster. Which is to say, mediocre science fiction. He started Boing Boing. He occasionally writes non fiction articles.
Am I missing something? Cure for cancer, grand unified theory, anything?
I'm sure Cory is both nice and smart, but his importance to a certain set of geeks seems blown way out of proportion to his actual accomplishments.