It's been about 8 years now, since we last made a call using our landline.
Unfortunately, there is (was?) a restricted cable infrastructure in the UK, so most of us are forced to pay BT ~£15/25 line rental per month, just to get DSL.
If I had the option, I'd consider hooking the lines up to the speakers I have dotted around the house, to synchronise them with the amp in the main room. Has anyone tried this?
So in contrast, a corporation that has 10,000 people behind it may only be reflecting the owners wishes which could be as little as one person of just a couple hundred of people while it appears to be larger. With a church, you can find another church to go to so similar representation of 10,000 is likely to reflect a lot more people in the community then a corporation.
And here I thought people interpreted their religion relative to that of their personal beliefs?
How many supposed Catholics do you know, who condone the use of condoms? Or others in any number of religious denominations, who have intercourse before marriage?
The oligarchy you allow to represent yourselves, are likely to be far more hard-line (read, extremist?) than the rest of their supposed 'congregation'.
Hardly the 'voice of the people'.
You've fallen into the classic apologists trap.
The simple existence of a god (as opposed to their supposed actions) is unfalsifiable.
An agnostic is someone who believes there is equal weight to each argument & simply hasn't chosen which to support.
/* poor attempt to claw back relevance */
I agree with the general sentiment that Trademarks are a simple method of quality control.
It helps verify the trusted developer - If I hear about a new fancy application & fancy giving it a go, I want to know I'm not unknowingly using some adulterated version which would provide undesired results.
As for many distributors strict control over their trademarks: they have no choice.
They have to prove an effort has been made to protect it, else they risk losing it as a generic term.
As stated, it's simply because the barry modules have been supplied with your kernel.
Although oddly, I was under the impression that synchronising was still rather sketchy...
Cut'n'Paste from my wiki:
By default, a USB device can be supplied with up to 100mA without interaction from the kernel - the blackberry needs 500mA. For safety reasons, the devices need to communicate between each other before upping the amperage.
In Windows, this is accomplished with RIM's driver. In Linux, the above mentioned "Barry" has come to the rescue.
Just make sure you have the latest release & the libusb-dev library installed (available with apt). Once done, simply run:
bcharge
It will scan the available USB ports & negotiate with any attached Blackberries.
If you are unsure the amperage has been changed, run:
lsusb -v | less
...and verify "MaxPower" for the device labeled "Research In Motion" reads 500mA.
Rather than manually running this command whenever I plug in my Blackberry, I've edited my udev scripts to do it for me.
I'm an engineer & run the network central to our company, so must continually be on-call.
If an SMS comes through on modern phones, they'll beep once or twice & that's it. That won't wake me up!
The only phone I've had that had the option to continually ping you until you acknowledge it, was an old Windows Mobile, HTC - and it was constantly crashing.
IMO, this is a horrible oversight by the Blackberry range (which I now use).
I've now setup a procmail filter to set off a siren whenever certain Nagios alerts come through. Annoying, but the best available option.
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It's been about 8 years now, since we last made a call using our landline.
Unfortunately, there is (was?) a restricted cable infrastructure in the UK, so most of us are forced to pay BT ~£15/25 line rental per month, just to get DSL.
If I had the option, I'd consider hooking the lines up to the speakers I have dotted around the house, to synchronise them with the amp in the main room. Has anyone tried this?
I can't speak to emacs...
RTFM.
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So in contrast, a corporation that has 10,000 people behind it may only be reflecting the owners wishes which could be as little as one person of just a couple hundred of people while it appears to be larger. With a church, you can find another church to go to so similar representation of 10,000 is likely to reflect a lot more people in the community then a corporation.
And here I thought people interpreted their religion relative to that of their personal beliefs?
How many supposed Catholics do you know, who condone the use of condoms? Or others in any number of religious denominations, who have intercourse before marriage?
The oligarchy you allow to represent yourselves, are likely to be far more hard-line (read, extremist?) than the rest of their supposed 'congregation'.
Hardly the 'voice of the people'.
At least shareholders get some form of democracy.
You've fallen into the classic apologists trap.
The simple existence of a god (as opposed to their supposed actions) is unfalsifiable.
An agnostic is someone who believes there is equal weight to each argument & simply hasn't chosen which to support.
I agree with the general sentiment that Trademarks are a simple method of quality control.
It helps verify the trusted developer - If I hear about a new fancy application & fancy giving it a go, I want to know I'm not unknowingly using some adulterated version which would provide undesired results.
As for many distributors strict control over their trademarks: they have no choice.
They have to prove an effort has been made to protect it, else they risk losing it as a generic term.
P: Gee Brain, what do you want to do tonight?
B: The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over, the world!
As stated, it's simply because the barry modules have been supplied with your kernel.
...and verify "MaxPower" for the device labeled "Research In Motion" reads 500mA.
Although oddly, I was under the impression that synchronising was still rather sketchy...
Cut'n'Paste from my wiki:
By default, a USB device can be supplied with up to 100mA without interaction from the kernel - the blackberry needs 500mA. For safety reasons, the devices need to communicate between each other before upping the amperage.
In Windows, this is accomplished with RIM's driver. In Linux, the above mentioned "Barry" has come to the rescue.
Just make sure you have the latest release & the libusb-dev library installed (available with apt). Once done, simply run:
bcharge
It will scan the available USB ports & negotiate with any attached Blackberries.
If you are unsure the amperage has been changed, run:
lsusb -v | less
Rather than manually running this command whenever I plug in my Blackberry, I've edited my udev scripts to do it for me.
I'm an engineer & run the network central to our company, so must continually be on-call.
If an SMS comes through on modern phones, they'll beep once or twice & that's it. That won't wake me up!
The only phone I've had that had the option to continually ping you until you acknowledge it, was an old Windows Mobile, HTC - and it was constantly crashing.
IMO, this is a horrible oversight by the Blackberry range (which I now use).
I've now setup a procmail filter to set off a siren whenever certain Nagios alerts come through. Annoying, but the best available option.
Same happening here.
I initially thought blockdev may be sending some sort of interrupts to the devices (/dev/*).
Not so sure now...
The following logs were consistent during my two "crashes":
syslog:Nov 5 21:46:38 electron modprobe: WARNING: Error running install command for nvidia
syslog:Nov 5 21:46:38 electron last message repeated 3 times
syslog:Nov 5 21:46:48 electron kernel: [45351.380245] hidraw: unsupported ioctl() 125e
syslog:Nov 5 21:46:48 electron kernel: [45351.380265] hidraw: unsupported ioctl() 125e
syslog:Nov 5 21:46:49 electron kernel: [45353.984766] loop: module loaded
syslog:Nov 5 21:46:49 electron modprobe: WARNING: Error running install command for nvidia
syslog:Nov 5 21:46:49 electron last message repeated 3 times
syslog:Nov 5 21:46:49 electron kernel: [45354.149515] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
syslog:Nov 5 21:46:49 electron kernel: [45354.204870] swsusp: Marking nosave pages: 000000000009f000 - 0000000000100000
syslog:Nov 5 21:46:49 electron kernel: [45354.204879] swsusp: Basic memory bitmaps created
syslog:Nov 5 21:46:50 electron kernel: [45355.833741] swsusp: Basic memory bitmaps freed
syslog:Nov 5 21:46:50 electron kernel: [45355.840090] iTCO_wdt: Unexpected close, not stopping watchdog!
That last line is referring to the Intel TCO Timer driver (watchdog).
Inspiron 6400 / Ubuntu 8.04
~$ uname -a
Linux electron 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 22:56:21 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
~$ blockdev -V
blockdev (util-linux-ng 2.13.1)