You forget that not all people on this earth
live in such city-centric areas as yourself.
I'm a soon-to-be middle-aged, relatively well-educated guy with lots of experience in living
in "almost 100% barren places" as you call it.
And yes, "utterly alone" as well.
I don't really see a problem there at all.
In fact, I wouldn't be far from volunteering
myself. And uh, I don't consider myself a wacko,
and I dare say most of my friends wouldn't either:-)
This is true, if you live in the
same country! But those of use living overseas
would lose a lot of money on the shipping costs, as
well as getting hell with customs. Tax+VAT would
add another 30% to the cost (I would even have to
pay VAT on the shipping!) and it's a bureacratic
nightmare for a private person (it's less trouble
for companies, although not without hassles) to get
customs to understand that you shouldn't have to pay
duty+VAT one more time for the replacement jacket.
I want one. But not being from the country of the jacket's origin, I'm not familiar with the sizes. The size selection (see web site) is as follows:
small medium large large - tall x-large x-large - tall xx-large xx-large - tall xxx-large xxx-large - tall
I'm about 182 cm (~ 6") tall, and my arm reach from fingertip to fingertip is also about six feet as well. Quite slim (didn't grow up on hamburgers:-). Now, what of the above sizes would fit this guy?
'dd' is slow only when you don't specify a
blocksize. The default is just 2048 bytes,
which makes it really slow. Just specify a
larger blocksize, e.g. dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=131072
If you want to make an exact copy of a disk full
of data then there is no faster way than this.
Ahem, you obviously did not read the article.
You're saying that you could run a 3GHz chip at
4GHz at 0 celsius, the article on the other hand
said that in fact he had to go all the way down
to -100 celsius to go that one gigahertz. 3 -> 4
and 2 -> 3, for a couple of chip types he tried.
He also implied that at around zero you would only
be able to go a few hundred megahertz at the most.
Comcast you said? Indeed, comcast broadband is one of the worst, at our site (medium sized) we have blocked all traffic coming directly from comcast. We have yet to receive a single legit email coming out of a comcast connected computer.
No, IBM did not. You rented the mainframe from them.
Nobody at the time imagined that anyone would ever
want to buy their own computer, so
the first businesses were all built around the rent-a-mainframe concept.
Of course it is a valid concern of the carriers. They may indeed lose customers. That's the whole point of letting customers keep their number when they move on: To make it easier for customers to switch carrier, and thus increasing competition! This kind of thing has been done in several countries in Europe years ago, and it works exactly as planned: If people are unhappy with their telecom carrrier they'll switch immediately. This does wonders for support and prices! You should all urge this change folks -- we Europeans like it.
Everything described in that article (database of photos, driving license, and connecting the bars' databases) would be totally illegal in a lot of countries, and I'm surprised that this seems to be allowed in Canada.
As someone who spends an hour a day maintaining spam filters I would love to be able to filter based on such an "allowed"-list. However, I also see a problem. I have my own domain, maintained on my own computer. My father is connected to the world through a free dialup account, where he gets one of these random name/letter combination email address. And that address will obviously change if he changes to another provider. Therefore his system is configured to send out his emails through the free provider's mail server, but his From: address is an email address of the domain belonging to me. This is the email address he gives out to his friends and associates, and it never changes. My computer simply forwards his mail to whatever is his current free account email address. Works great. But obviously, with the suggested scheme, my domain name server must include the IP address(es) of his free account ISP's mailserver(s), which can change at any time. In other words, will be tricky! It may not even be possible. I would hate to have to tell the old man that from now on his email address will just have to be ju3n4n@freeasinbeer.net and change every five months.
I became aware of Linux in late 1991, a month or so after Linus' first announcement of Linux. Linux source was very small at that time, although it could be used as a completely fine Unix substitute as early as second quarter of 1992 (which is when I installed it on my computer. I have been using it as my office computer ever since. With hw- and sw updates of course). So, with the small source and everything I followed all the development very closely, including test-driving alpha- and beta versions of the first network code and the first non-minix-compatible filesystem (ext, precursor to ext2). In fact I read every single line of sourcecode put into Linux from the start and up to around 2.3.50, when the amount of code finally grew to more than I could absorb.
With the above in mind I can tell you that insinuating that there is any link from Unix to Xenix to Minix to Linux is so off the mark that it leaves me almost speachless. I've watched every line of code painstakingly put in by the early developers of that small, but already fully functional and useful Unix-line operating system called Linux. Useful as early as 1992, and everything was written from scratch. I saw it happen.
Sigh. How ignorant is it possible to be? Of course there was a Murphy, and most of us know the story. It has been written up dozens of times the last few decades.
Now this is interesting. Indeed, sending English text through Jamie's script renders the text still completely readable, as per the researchers claims. But trying the same thing with e.g. Scandinavian languages gives a different conclusion, the text simply gets unintelligble. Oh, you can figure out what it probably means but you have to stop at most words and work out how it's scrambled, unlike the scrambled English text which you can read full speed.
For the N'th time: SCANDINAVIA INCLUDES NO/DK/SE ONLY!! Finland and the other Nordic countries are NOT part of Scandinavia. Please get your facts right.
Scandinavia is just the three countries, Iceland is not part of it and Icelandish is definitely a very different language from the the three others -- it is quite similar to what the Scandinavian languages used to be a thousand years ago. The Icelanders can read the old sagas, we Danes/Norwegians/Swedes cannot (unless we learn the language).
You got it completely backwards. Scandinavia consists of exactly three countries: Norway, Denmark, Sweden (incidentically the same countries where the Vikings came from). "The Nordic countries" is the extended version: Scandinavia plus Finland, Iceland, Faroe.
The "Nordic" region:
Scandinavia plus Finland, Iceland and Faroese islands.
And Scandinavia is Norway,Denmark,Sweden (note that Finland
is not included in Scandinavia, it is a common error to refer to Scandinavia when talking about Finland. The correct term is "the Nordic countries" in that case).
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That link shows no such "recall" text, and looking around on the site doesn't indicate anything like the above has ever been present.
You forget that not all people on this earth live in such city-centric areas as yourself. I'm a soon-to-be middle-aged, relatively well-educated guy with lots of experience in living in "almost 100% barren places" as you call it. And yes, "utterly alone" as well. I don't really see a problem there at all. In fact, I wouldn't be far from volunteering myself. And uh, I don't consider myself a wacko, and I dare say most of my friends wouldn't either :-)
This is true, if you live in the same country! But those of use living overseas would lose a lot of money on the shipping costs, as well as getting hell with customs. Tax+VAT would add another 30% to the cost (I would even have to pay VAT on the shipping!) and it's a bureacratic nightmare for a private person (it's less trouble for companies, although not without hassles) to get customs to understand that you shouldn't have to pay duty+VAT one more time for the replacement jacket.
Weight? 77-80 kg (the latter is post-Christmas)
Pounds? Hm, I think that translates to around 170-175 pounds .
I want one. But not being from the country of the jacket's origin, I'm not
:-).
familiar with the sizes. The size selection (see web site) is as follows:
small
medium
large
large - tall
x-large
x-large - tall
xx-large
xx-large - tall
xxx-large
xxx-large - tall
I'm about 182 cm (~ 6") tall, and my arm reach from fingertip to fingertip
is also about six feet as well. Quite slim (didn't grow up on hamburgers
Now, what of the above sizes would fit this guy?
'dd' is slow only when you don't specify a blocksize. The default is just 2048 bytes, which makes it really slow. Just specify a larger blocksize, e.g. dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=131072
If you want to make an exact copy of a disk full of data then there is no faster way than this.
Ahem, you obviously did not read the article. You're saying that you could run a 3GHz chip at 4GHz at 0 celsius, the article on the other hand said that in fact he had to go all the way down to -100 celsius to go that one gigahertz. 3 -> 4 and 2 -> 3, for a couple of chip types he tried. He also implied that at around zero you would only be able to go a few hundred megahertz at the most.
Comcast you said? Indeed, comcast broadband is one
of the worst, at our site (medium sized) we have
blocked all traffic coming directly from comcast.
We have yet to receive a single legit email coming
out of a comcast connected computer.
No, IBM did not. You rented the mainframe from them. Nobody at the time imagined that anyone would ever want to buy their own computer, so the first businesses were all built around the rent-a-mainframe concept.
"." as decimal indicator is an americanism.
Lots of other places use "," instead.
"You can't take code based on a license you signed, change it a little and then give it away for free (as in the case of XFS from SGI)."
He's saying that SGI got XFS from SCO and then "changed it a little". SGI should sue the guy for slander.
TA
Of course it is a valid concern of the carriers.
They may indeed lose customers. That's the whole
point of letting customers keep their number when
they move on: To make it easier for customers to
switch carrier, and thus increasing competition!
This kind of thing has been done in several
countries in Europe years ago, and it works exactly
as planned: If people are unhappy with their telecom
carrrier they'll switch immediately. This does
wonders for support and prices! You should all
urge this change folks -- we Europeans like it.
Everything described in that article (database of
photos, driving license, and connecting the bars'
databases) would be totally illegal in a lot of
countries, and I'm surprised that this seems to be
allowed in Canada.
You didn't really read the article. Intel is adding hardware support in the CPU which is intended to make it easier to write software like VMware.
As someone who spends an hour a day maintaining spam filters I
would love to be able to filter based on such an "allowed"-list.
However, I also see a problem. I have my own domain, maintained
on my own computer. My father is connected to the world through
a free dialup account, where he gets one of these random name/letter
combination email address. And that address will obviously change if
he changes to another provider. Therefore his system is configured
to send out his emails through the free provider's mail server, but
his From: address is an email address of the domain belonging to me.
This is the email address he gives out to his friends and associates,
and it never changes. My computer simply forwards his mail to
whatever is his current free account email address. Works great.
But obviously, with the suggested scheme, my domain name server
must include the IP address(es) of his free account ISP's mailserver(s),
which can change at any time. In other words, will be tricky!
It may not even be possible. I would hate to have to tell the old
man that from now on his email address will just have to be
ju3n4n@freeasinbeer.net and change every five months.
So how is this different from what DXPC does already? Faster, better? Niftier logo? http://www.vigor.nu/dxpc/ I used dxpc years ago when I had a slow connection. Worked great, as soon as you figured out the tricky bits when combining with SSH and tunnels over multiple nodes. TA (no connection with dxpc other than as former user)
I became aware of Linux in late 1991, a month or so after Linus' first announcement of Linux. Linux source was very small at that
time, although it could be used as a completely fine Unix substitute as early as second quarter of 1992 (which is when I installed it on my computer. I have been using it as my office computer ever since. With hw- and sw updates of course). So, with the small source and everything I followed all the development very closely, including test-driving alpha- and beta versions of the first network code and the first non-minix-compatible filesystem (ext, precursor to ext2). In fact I read every single line of sourcecode put into Linux from the start and up to around 2.3.50, when the amount of code finally grew to more than I could absorb.
With the above in mind I can tell you that insinuating that there is any link from Unix to Xenix to Minix to Linux is so off the mark that it leaves me almost speachless. I've watched every line of code painstakingly put in by the early developers of that small, but already fully functional and useful Unix-line operating system called Linux. Useful as early as 1992, and everything was written from scratch. I saw it happen.
Sigh. How ignorant is it possible to be? Of course there was
a Murphy, and most of us know the story. It has been written
up dozens of times the last few decades.
You didn't read the article either. It is fusion. It's just not self-sustained (only generating four neutrons a minute). It's still fusion.
Now this is interesting. Indeed, sending English text through
Jamie's script renders the text still completely readable, as per the
researchers claims. But trying the same thing with e.g. Scandinavian languages gives a different conclusion, the text simply gets unintelligble. Oh, you can figure out what it probably means but
you have to stop at most words and work out how it's scrambled, unlike the scrambled English text which you can read full speed.
For the N'th time: SCANDINAVIA INCLUDES NO/DK/SE ONLY!! Finland and the other Nordic countries are NOT part of Scandinavia. Please get your facts right.
Scandinavia is just the three countries, Iceland is not part of it and Icelandish is definitely a very different language from the the three others -- it is quite similar to what the Scandinavian languages used to be a thousand years ago. The Icelanders can read the old sagas, we Danes/Norwegians/Swedes cannot (unless we learn the language).
You got it completely backwards. Scandinavia consists of exactly three countries: Norway, Denmark, Sweden (incidentically the same countries where the Vikings came from). "The Nordic countries" is the extended version: Scandinavia plus Finland, Iceland, Faroe.
The "Nordic" region: Scandinavia plus Finland, Iceland and Faroese islands. And Scandinavia is Norway,Denmark,Sweden (note that Finland is not included in Scandinavia, it is a common error to refer to Scandinavia when talking about Finland. The correct term is "the Nordic countries" in that case).
"its" is a word, like "his" or "hers", that's why there should be no apostrophe.