Just had my first power-loss since switching to ext3 last night. Normally would take 10-15 minutes for my computer to restart after checking/home, etc. But today came up in just a couple of minutes with no corruption (or none I have noticed, or has been reported). So ext3 gets my thumbs-up!
An American Airlines flight on its way to John F Kennedy airport has crashed in New York.
At least four buildings in the Rockaway Beach area of the city's borough of Queens are on fire.
It is not known why the aircraft crashed or how many people were on board, or in the buildings now ablaze.
New York Mayor Rudolph Guiliani is on his way to the crash site and has called a level one alert.
There is no indication at the moment that the crash is anything other than an accident.
The weather was crystal clear when the plane - thought to be a Boeing 767 - went down.
Both towers of the World Trade Center in New York were destroyed on 11 September after 767s were flown into them.
All three airports serving New York - JFK, Newark and La Guardia - are now closed.
The Dow index dropped 200 points on hearing the news.
At the new computer lab building (Henry William Gatesbuilding) in Cambridge (England), there is a heating system which has an intake at the back of each desk, behind all the monitors and then uses their heat to warm the whole building.
Nice idea, unfortunately since it was designed flat screens have become popular.
Does anyone know what has happened to the international kernel patch?
I haven't been able to get to kerneli.org for ages, and have been unable to find any info about where the patches now are.
I don't think it was the fire which caused the collapse but the loss of structural integrity of being deliberatly hit by a big plane, probably full of fuel so causing a big explosion.
At the moment it seems that all of the knowledge in Cyc has to be entered in by hand, reviewed by a technical board, etc.
IMHO for something like this to really take off, once they have taught it enough to be able to have a basic understanding of the world they should teach it various methods for discerning 'the truth' (mainly how to decide if a source is trustworthy). Then they can give it a fast internet connection, let it browse for awhile, and hopefully if should have learnt alot!
Consider it the equivalent of bringing up children: it is when they can read for themselves they really start learning.
Stealth aircarft can already be detected just by turning down the radar sensitivity and looking for anything with the radar signiture of a bird travelling way faster than it should.
The reason it still has some use though is most radar seeking misiles/automatic warning system don't do this. They just look for large radar signitures, not fast moving ones. Also it is alot easier to hit a large target than a small one.
Is this really necessary? There are already versions of Shockwave, Java and Realplayer plug-ins available for Linux browsers (which I have working fine in Konqueror)
Most online banking requires https support for java. This is not included in the standard java distributions for free browsers.
You need JSSE classes which you can download from here, information about getting them to with konqueror is here although personally I found you just need to pub the classes in your javahome/lib/ext/ directory and all works fine.
A similar thing has happened in London. There used to be loads of pipes underground carrying high presure steam around to operate things like London Bridge. Eventually they stopped being used when electricity became widespread, but now they are being used for fibres. Can't remember the name of the company who owned them, but they made a fortune selling the pipes.
....is the upgrades to using IPv6 stuff.
Now when mozilla or Konqueror try to look up *.bbc.co.uk or *.doubleclick.net (ok the second one isn't as annoying) the fail to find them, probably due to IPv6 addresses rather than IPv4 ones being returned, but the rest of the net not being able to route me to them.
I think the badges use IR for the room to transmit stuff to the badges (like if you have e-mail waiting), but ultrasound for the badges to transmit to the room as you can't get a good enough fix from IR 'cause it disperses too much.
Their current location sensors you can just not wear if you don't want to be tracked though. (Just like in Star Trek when people remove their Comm badges when they do things they shouldn't!). Makes life abit difficult though as most of the doors you need to be wearing your transmitter to walk through, as if uses it to identify you for security purposes.
What exactly is infinite computing?
As far as I'm aware quantum computing just claims to work in a finite number of inputs simultaneously....I'm not too sure what it can do which is infinite.
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Please tell me you're joking. There are many universities outside of America doing very good research. In fact I think Britain has actually won more noble prizes in total than the US, although someone might like to correct me on this. Anyway, I'm going off-topic.
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POWER=1000 Watts (Batteries Charged)
RUN TIME @ 50% LOAD=6 Hours
For the price, looks like it could be worth it.....
More interestingly the BBC are reporting that one company has secured places to be used as prizes in a TV game show!
Hummm, does this remind anyone of the filesyststem in Jurassic Park. (Which apparently was that of a Unix system!)
Just had my first power-loss since switching to ext3 last night. Normally would take 10-15 minutes for my computer to restart after checking /home, etc. But today came up in just a couple of minutes with no corruption (or none I have noticed, or has been reported). So ext3 gets my thumbs-up!
I've always thought it abit silly that people from all over the world gather together in one place to protest against globalisation!
An American Airlines flight on its way to John F Kennedy airport has crashed in New York.
At least four buildings in the Rockaway Beach area of the city's borough of Queens are on fire.
It is not known why the aircraft crashed or how many people were on board, or in the buildings now ablaze.
New York Mayor Rudolph Guiliani is on his way to the crash site and has called a level one alert.
There is no indication at the moment that the crash is anything other than an accident.
The weather was crystal clear when the plane - thought to be a Boeing 767 - went down.
Both towers of the World Trade Center in New York were destroyed on 11 September after 767s were flown into them.
All three airports serving New York - JFK, Newark and La Guardia - are now closed.
The Dow index dropped 200 points on hearing the news.
At the new computer lab building (Henry William Gatesbuilding) in Cambridge (England), there is a heating system which has an intake at the back of each desk, behind all the monitors and then uses their heat to warm the whole building.
Nice idea, unfortunately since it was designed flat screens have become popular.
Does anyone know what has happened to the international kernel patch?
I haven't been able to get to kerneli.org for ages, and have been unable to find any info about where the patches now are.
I don't think it was the fire which caused the collapse but the loss of structural integrity of being deliberatly hit by a big plane, probably full of fuel so causing a big explosion.
Nah. The classic polish jokes are all about contour integration!
Q: What is the integral round Western Europe?
A: Zero. All the Poles are in Eastern Europe.
(Actually there are some poles in western Europe but they're all removable)
At the moment it seems that all of the knowledge in Cyc has to be entered in by hand, reviewed by a technical board, etc.
IMHO for something like this to really take off, once they have taught it enough to be able to have a basic understanding of the world they should teach it various methods for discerning 'the truth' (mainly how to decide if a source is trustworthy). Then they can give it a fast internet connection, let it browse for awhile, and hopefully if should have learnt alot!
Consider it the equivalent of bringing up children: it is when they can read for themselves they really start learning.
Stealth aircarft can already be detected just by turning down the radar sensitivity and looking for anything with the radar signiture of a bird travelling way faster than it should.
The reason it still has some use though is most radar seeking misiles/automatic warning system don't do this. They just look for large radar signitures, not fast moving ones. Also it is alot easier to hit a large target than a small one.
You can get the README here
I think people will always trust a human pilot more, as he has a vested interested in the mission succeeding, machines don't.
Is this really necessary? There are already versions of Shockwave, Java and Realplayer plug-ins available for Linux browsers (which I have working fine in Konqueror)
Most online banking requires https support for java. This is not included in the standard java distributions for free browsers.
You need JSSE classes which you can download from here, information about getting them to with konqueror is here although personally I found you just need to pub the classes in your javahome/lib/ext/ directory and all works fine.
A similar thing has happened in London. There used to be loads of pipes underground carrying high presure steam around to operate things like London Bridge. Eventually they stopped being used when electricity became widespread, but now they are being used for fibres. Can't remember the name of the company who owned them, but they made a fortune selling the pipes.
> www.blug.linux.no should have both cpu and
> bandwith that can withstand som slashdotting.
Not if they are using CPIP!
Hummm, from the BBC article was this quote
"You can rest assured that everybody that knows anything about a computer is now at Johnson Space Center"
Guess that means those of us left reading this must be completely computer illiterate!
....is the upgrades to using IPv6 stuff. Now when mozilla or Konqueror try to look up *.bbc.co.uk or *.doubleclick.net (ok the second one isn't as annoying) the fail to find them, probably due to IPv6 addresses rather than IPv4 ones being returned, but the rest of the net not being able to route me to them.
I think the badges use IR for the room to transmit stuff to the badges (like if you have e-mail waiting), but ultrasound for the badges to transmit to the room as you can't get a good enough fix from IR 'cause it disperses too much.
Their current location sensors you can just not wear if you don't want to be tracked though. (Just like in Star Trek when people remove their Comm badges when they do things they shouldn't!). Makes life abit difficult though as most of the doors you need to be wearing your transmitter to walk through, as if uses it to identify you for security purposes.
What exactly is infinite computing?
As far as I'm aware quantum computing just claims to work in a finite number of inputs simultaneously....I'm not too sure what it can do which is infinite.
Please tell me you're joking. There are many universities outside of America doing very good research. In fact I think Britain has actually won more noble prizes in total than the US, although someone might like to correct me on this. Anyway, I'm going off-topic.
You don't have to install all of it. You can *just* install the web browser part without having the mail component installed.