Did somebody try it? I did, and the X server runs with keyboard layout set to dvorak. This isn't mentioned anywhere and it is very odd to find out after a lenghly download.
In Switzerland we have this situation already. The sensors in the street switch the traffic light to red if some other cars are waiting and there is a too large gap in the line of cars going over the crossing. Drives me nuts! One idiot slow car driver is enough and the light flips red just when he crosses the white line. It's also very dangerous, because people adapted to it and try to keep to short distance.
Cool, so Bill Gates is kind of ironic proof how much more efficient electronic business communication is.
He just doesn't know how bad the spam problem is.
This reminds me of Erich Honecker, who didn't know anything about what the real situation of his country was. He had a full departement working on keeping the illusion of a prosper and healthy communist system alive. He believed it until the very end.
Well, I did an dual-boot install with FC2 a few month ago and it worked without touching the windows XP install. Don't know if that answers your question. Just never install your boot record in MBR and you shut have no problems.
Bush administration censored Bin Laden Tape
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Finally, we know what Mr. Bush didn't want to let us know about the Bin Laden tape:
It is interesting how much his arguments make sense. Did Bush ever say something THAT clear? Did he have such a clear strategy when he sent his troops to iraq? We will prevail... Yes, sure. Tell us hat we want to hear and we will not question it further.
The censored version of the tape made everybody wonder, why Bin Laden is supporting Bush. The uncensored version speaks a different language.
I hope Kerry wins, and I hope it will change something. I also hope Bush will pay for what he did to America and the world.
... all ecological as they produce oxygen and water vapours...
Its not: first you need nuclear power plants to produce all the oxygen and hydrogen from water, and than you burn it not perfecly producing lot's of ozon.
H.U.M.A.N. (host unit for multimedia advanced network) - a multimedia network platform designed to explore real world. Devices included: speaker system ('Mouth'), dual-mic ('Ears' - sometimes not working), dual-cam ('Eyes' - always on), rechargable battery ('stomach'), central processing unit ('brain', only in some units available), multiple sensors, build-in transport system (compatible with all public transport systems),... No with additional speaker system to annoy environment! Invovate!
A year ago or so I bought a PC for home so I do not have to carry my laptop home if I may need to access some email at work, etc. The PC had a PCI card modem, so I asked in the shop if it is linux compatible, i.e. not a software modem - the PC was sold without any OS so it should work with any OS - if not, I would choose to buy an external hardware modem. They told me it is a winmodem type but a linux driver exists too. Fine, I tried it and spend an hour finding/downloading/installing the linux driver. Actually I returned the first modem and tried another one. Finally it worked (I think it actually works full speed), but it doesn't support FAX. That was the other thing I expected the modem to do (I do not care about voice mode at all). The website from conexant claimed, the driver will be improved soon and provide better stability/speed and FAX support. Later I went to conexant to check for the promised updates, but they now do sell the driver via Linuxant. I would have better spent my money on a hardware modem - no special software/driver required. I do not see how supporting linuxant would support linux. So I will sell this modem sooner or later on ebay. And I will not - ever - choose some closed software again. Spending extra time and/or money on something which stops working after the next OS version comes out doesn't make much sense.
Of course its marketing strategy. Hardware vendors will help to push the new windows os forward, to increase sale of new systems. If it would not create demand for faster computers, computer vendors would instead push towards linux to lower cost. Only by increasing the 'demand' in some way, ms$ can sell windows.
Usually, comets eject mass not all over the place but small confined areas. I'm more worried about the electronics surviving such extreme conditions.
It will be fun to watch the firework going off. Since it takes only 6.6 years to go around the sun, this comet must be rather burned out and less active then a fresh comet from outside the solar system. Still, it must be a fantastic scenic view.
I think it's now time to create a new timezone locale for Mars (and all other planets?). I suggest:
TZ=MarsUT for "Mars Universal time". Then all these NASA scientists will just need a linux laptop with xdaliclock running. Another reason to switch to linux. Linux, the only OS with martian time zones.
I think a prediction like this is very hard to make. Surely you can write better and better software and eventually, you have a tool which can do some job perfectly. But then new things become important and new tools develope. Only few programs survive for years, or decades, and there is always something new comming. You may think, PC's become like a 'type-writer' in the end, something rocksolid and unchanging. But: type-writers changed a lot as well and presently computers with 'Word' are not just the newest kind of 'type-writer'.
As far as jobs go, I think there is -always- a need for mind workers. Even if we could build smart AIs, they would be more of an extension of our brains, not a replacement. Why? Simple answer:
if could down the branch your sitting on, you will fall down the tree! If the society doesn't provide jobs anymore, then either everyone owns a one-man-factory which does everything for free, or
one owns all but cannot sell anything.
This is not a birds-eye view. It's the view of the Milkyway from earth when you look towards the Center with Infrared Telescopes.
If you want to see a real bird-eye view of the
Milkyway spiral pattern you have to go
here.
E-Bombs would clearly hit more advanced countries more then low-tech countries, but low-tech countries cannot develop such high-tech weapons. If you want to fight terrorists, I think they won't be impressed by E-bombs at all.
Wow, two comets !!! Well, they probably are part of one commet which broke apart, perhaps when it passed Jupiter, -perhaps- even some pieces hit Jupiter and caused the mysterious black spots which have been observed just recently. So, things get really connected on a cosmic scale (or better solar scale).
This is interesting, because the standard theory for cosmology predicts that galaxies like the Milky Way are build from merging small galaxies. However, only few remnants of this merger events have been found so far.
You can start multiple X Servers, so start another server for the second monitor using a separate XF86config file. In the XF86config file, you configure the input from the other keyboard and mouse. You must start the second X server by hand, because the USB keyboard and mouse won't be connected all time. If it's a PC and mouse/kbd are connected always, you can add the X server startup to the appropriate config file for your xdm. But for a laptop, I would suggest to write a short script to start the X server on the second screen by hand.
Would be nice if a distribution could do this for you, but I do not know any. Perhaps somebody can write a nice setup tool (if it doesn't exist already).
Personally I prefer to do things myself, but you can't do everything all time. So the real question is, if this box comes with support (and what quality that support has), rather the question if you can trust it now. Just like your home made solution, it will have bugs and will need patches/upgrades etc. If you have a channel to report problems to, and they fix it for a resonable subscription price, then go for it. You should also ask, for how long the support will be available (1 year, 10 years,...).
Loop mounting is a feature of the linux kernel. With cygwin you still use the microsoft kernel even if you emulate native linux routines using the cygwin library. To my knowledge, there is nothing like loop mounting in windows, so this is why you can't loop mount there (try the mount command with option '-o loop' on a iso image file if you like).
Loop mounting is one of the cool features of linux, I would miss alot in windows.
First of all: I understand why you want to block it.
However, I believe that for each measure there will be a counter-measure and at some point it actually hurts either productivity or freedom of users. Well, while 'freedom' is not necessarily what the users should have in a computing environment, it may hinder creativity in the sense that each time somebody has some free time and likes to try some crazy idea he has to ask for permission, and will most likely be disencouraged tampering with the system.
Depending on how serious the problem is, I would try arguing with people, asking for integrity and common sense instead of imposing rules. If the problem is serious, however, go ahead and block everything which is not on the 'positive' list. To stop unwanted traffic, allow only high volume traffic to a list of 'allowed' ip addresses. If traffice exceeds the allowed amount, you can make your proxy return a polite message instead of the wanted content.
Yes, of course. That's why the fee is so high and
will continue to raise. Actually, in Germany they
come to your house and ask trick questions, like how many stations do you receive? All they want to know is, of course, whether you have a TV or not. Or they call you and ask about your opinion about some movie or show from the TV which run yesterday. While this is payment for the public TV and radio stations, the principle is the same. You pay because they exist. What do you get to let all the EM waves pass through your body? Nothing...
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9 out of 13 have to do with astrophysics.
Perhaps we should all become rocket scientists to
help solving the final questions. My answer is 42.
Spam level over 80% --- this is good news. Spam
can only grow to 100%, at which point we will stop using email and start to use the phone again.
Did somebody try it? I did, and the X server runs with keyboard layout set to dvorak. This isn't
mentioned anywhere and it is very odd to find out
after a lenghly download.
In Switzerland we have this situation already. The sensors in the street switch the traffic light to red if some other cars are waiting and there is a too large gap in the line of cars going over the crossing. Drives me nuts! One idiot slow car driver is enough and the light flips red just when he crosses the white line. It's also very dangerous, because people adapted to it and try to keep to short distance.
Cool, so Bill Gates is kind of ironic proof how much more efficient electronic business communication is. He just doesn't know how bad the spam problem is.
This reminds me of Erich Honecker, who didn't know anything about what the real situation of his country was. He had a full departement working on keeping the illusion of a prosper and healthy communist system alive. He believed it until the very end.
Well, I did an dual-boot install with FC2 a few
month ago and it worked without touching the windows XP install. Don't know if that answers your question. Just never install your boot record in MBR and you shut have no problems.
Finally, we know what Mr. Bush didn't want to let us know about the Bin Laden tape:
n .tape/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/01/binlade
It is interesting how much his arguments make sense. Did Bush ever say something THAT clear? Did he have such a clear strategy when he sent his troops to iraq? We will prevail... Yes, sure. Tell us hat we want to hear and we will not question it further.
The censored version of the tape made everybody wonder, why Bin Laden is supporting Bush. The uncensored version speaks a different language.
I hope Kerry wins, and I hope it will change something. I also hope Bush will pay for what he did to America and the world.
... all ecological as they produce oxygen and water vapours ...
Its not: first you need nuclear power plants to produce all the oxygen and hydrogen from water, and than you burn it not perfecly producing lot's of ozon.
Your next project will be to shake hands of everybody in the world in alphabetic order. Start with your own town as a pilot study.
H.U.M.A.N. (host unit for multimedia advanced network) - a multimedia network platform designed to explore real world. Devices included: speaker system ('Mouth'), dual-mic ('Ears' - sometimes not working), dual-cam ('Eyes' - always on), rechargable battery ('stomach'), central processing unit ('brain', only in some units available), multiple sensors, build-in transport system (compatible with all public transport systems), ... No with additional speaker system to annoy environment! Invovate!
A year ago or so I bought a PC for home so I do not have to carry my laptop home if I may need to access some email at work, etc. The PC had a PCI card modem, so I asked in the shop if it is linux compatible, i.e. not a software modem - the
PC was sold without any OS so it should work with any OS - if not, I would choose to buy an external hardware modem. They told me it is a winmodem type but a linux driver exists too. Fine, I tried it and spend an hour finding/downloading/installing the linux driver. Actually I returned the first modem and tried another one. Finally it worked (I think it actually works full speed), but it doesn't support FAX. That was the other thing I expected the modem to do (I do not care about voice mode at all). The website from conexant claimed, the driver will be improved soon and provide better stability/speed and FAX support. Later I went to conexant to check for the promised updates, but they now do sell the driver via Linuxant. I would have better spent my money on a hardware modem - no special software/driver
required. I do not see how supporting linuxant would support linux. So I will sell this modem sooner or later on ebay. And I will not - ever - choose some closed software again. Spending extra time and/or money on something which stops working after the next OS version comes out doesn't make much sense.
Of course its marketing strategy. Hardware vendors will help to push the new windows os forward, to increase sale of new systems. If it would not create demand for faster computers, computer vendors would instead push towards linux to lower cost. Only by increasing the 'demand' in some way, ms$ can sell windows.
Usually, comets eject mass not all over the place but small confined areas. I'm more worried about the electronics surviving such extreme conditions.
It will be fun to watch the firework going off. Since it takes only 6.6 years to go around the sun, this comet must be rather burned out and less active then a fresh comet from outside the solar system. Still, it must be a fantastic scenic view.
I think it's now time to create a new timezone locale for Mars (and all other planets?). I suggest: TZ=MarsUT for "Mars Universal time". Then all these NASA scientists will just need a linux laptop with xdaliclock running. Another reason to switch to linux. Linux, the only OS with martian time zones.
I think a prediction like this is very hard to make. Surely you can write better and better software and eventually, you have a tool which can do some job perfectly. But then new things become important and new tools develope. Only few programs survive for years, or decades, and there is always something new comming. You may think, PC's become like a 'type-writer' in the end, something rocksolid and unchanging. But: type-writers changed a lot as well and presently computers with 'Word' are not just the newest kind of 'type-writer'. As far as jobs go, I think there is -always- a need for mind workers. Even if we could build smart AIs, they would be more of an extension of our brains, not a replacement. Why? Simple answer: if could down the branch your sitting on, you will fall down the tree! If the society doesn't provide jobs anymore, then either everyone owns a one-man-factory which does everything for free, or one owns all but cannot sell anything.
This is not a birds-eye view. It's the view of the Milkyway from earth when you look towards the Center with Infrared Telescopes. If you want to see a real bird-eye view of the Milkyway spiral pattern you have to go here.
E-Bombs would clearly hit more advanced countries more then low-tech countries, but low-tech countries cannot develop such high-tech weapons. If you want to fight terrorists, I think they won't be impressed by E-bombs at all.
Wow, two comets !!! Well, they probably are part of one commet which broke apart, perhaps when it passed Jupiter, -perhaps- even some pieces hit Jupiter and caused the mysterious black spots which have been observed just recently. So, things get really connected on a cosmic scale (or better solar scale).
This is interesting, because the standard theory for cosmology predicts that galaxies like the Milky Way are build from merging small galaxies. However, only few remnants of this merger events have been found so far.
You can start multiple X Servers, so start another server for the second monitor using a separate XF86config file. In the XF86config file, you configure the input from the other keyboard and mouse. You must start the second X server by hand, because the USB keyboard and mouse won't be connected all time. If it's a PC and mouse/kbd are connected always, you can add the X server startup to the appropriate config file for your xdm. But for a laptop, I would suggest to write a short script to start the X server on the second screen by hand.
Would be nice if a distribution could do this for you, but I do not know any. Perhaps somebody can write a nice setup tool (if it doesn't exist already).
Personally I prefer to do things myself, but you can't do everything all time. So the real question is, if this box comes with support (and what quality that support has), rather the question if you can trust it now. Just like your home made solution, it will have bugs and will need patches/upgrades etc. If you have a channel to report problems to, and they fix it for a resonable subscription price, then go for it. You should also ask, for how long the support will be available (1 year, 10 years, ...).
Loop mounting is a feature of the linux kernel. With
cygwin you still use the microsoft kernel even if you emulate native linux routines using the cygwin library. To my knowledge, there is nothing like loop mounting in windows, so this is why you can't loop mount there (try the mount command with option '-o loop' on a iso image file if you like).
Loop mounting is one of the cool features of linux, I would miss alot in windows.
First of all: I understand why you want to block it.
However, I believe that for each measure there will be a counter-measure and at some point it actually hurts either productivity or freedom of users. Well, while 'freedom' is not necessarily what the users should have in a computing environment, it may hinder creativity in the sense that each time somebody has some free time and likes to try some crazy idea he has to ask for permission, and will most likely be disencouraged tampering with the system.
Depending on how serious the problem is, I would try arguing with people, asking for integrity and common sense instead of imposing rules. If the problem is serious, however, go ahead and block everything which is not on the 'positive' list. To stop unwanted traffic, allow only high volume traffic to a list of 'allowed' ip addresses.
If traffice exceeds the allowed amount, you can make your proxy return a polite message instead of the wanted content.
Yes, of course. That's why the fee is so high and will continue to raise. Actually, in Germany they come to your house and ask trick questions, like how many stations do you receive? All they want to know is, of course, whether you have a TV or not. Or they call you and ask about your opinion about some movie or show from the TV which run yesterday. While this is payment for the public TV and radio stations, the principle is the same. You pay because they exist. What do you get to let all the EM waves pass through your body? Nothing...
But you will be able to walk with your socks on water! Jesus, now we know how you did it!