The main reason for the difference is the fact that no one relies on/. for monetary purposes (or at least no one should......) However, some poeple unwisely choose to rely on Windows, and so, the bugs are a serious problem (or a serious advantage, if you're part of the OSS community...)
Ok, I assume (or hope) that you know about the "Interactive Setup" that Mandrake, Redhat, and probably other distros have during boot time, why not just make a little boot script (or chunk it into rc.sysinit) that allows you, if you so choose, to interactively pick which/etc tarball you want to use....
I could do it in about 15 minutes (if that), so it can't be that hard....
then again, I have a 33.6 modem, and ever since I set my MTU to 1024, I've been downloading at 6.5-7K, occasionally going up to 8 for short amounts of time, so in effect, I HAVE a 56K (sometimes 64) modem.
sctualy, back in the sixties (i don't remember hte exact date), the US along w/ the USSR and a bunch of other nations signed a treaty declaring that no nation could claim ownership to any part of space, not even the orbital space above each respective country.
Actually, if you create and upload the content yourself (as well you should), you can avoid the ads, while having more control over the design of the web page.
I think it may be the whole thing about the huge piece of software meant to blind you from the truth (that there are better OSes out there), and that in the end, Neo shows them what they don't want them to see (Linux). And of course, I just can't forget to mention the "System Failure" (remind anyone of the BSOD?)
No, I wasn't saying that Win98 did that. you must go and download a program that checks for the f0 instruction. (and, I might add, not from MS either..) There are programs that are purposefully designed to set the processor in a deadlock (there are also ActiveX controls, which seems to be annother reason not to use IE)
And of course, I forgot this in my earlier post. my sound card is Plug and Play -- Don't you think it's a little funny that Linux does a better job at PnP (a MS protocol, i might add) than Windows?
Exactly. I had not looked into that in depth, but you'll notice, like the above post says, it's disabled by default. if you have problems, you have to MANUALLY enable that. Linux DETECTS the F0 0F bug on its own, and then works around it.
No, that wasn't the only reason. For one, It was that it actually did what it was supposed to do. And this was on a 2.0.3x kernel too. now I run 2.2.15 & 2.4.0-test1, and both of them have shown great advances in support. Then again, you should have seen windows running on the same machine. It was (and still is) slower, buggy, and an all around piece of crap. As for those 'low standards', an Open Source OS has higher standards than the rest of them. When a windows user finds a bug, or is just dissatisfied with the OS, they just think "Oh. Well, that's windows", and they never bother to do anything about it. If someone finds something that they don't like or doesn't work for them under Linux, FreeBSD, or any other Open-SOurce OS, they actually DO something about it.. Besides, the only solution that windows has for the Pentium f0 0f bug is to search the HD for anything that will trigger it. Linux actually has a workaround for it, as quoted here "Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled." which means that someone actually found the f0 0f bug, and decided to make a workaround for it.
Seeing as the number of Linux users is constantly expanding, I think this may just be a new beginning. Now there are probably enough user out there so as soon as a protocol is published, people will begin to band together and write a driver for it. Before, and still now, there are those who are trying to see what else Linux can support/run on (they've ported it to robots & graphing calculators). The change is that before, people though "well, I have a {insert device here}, and I think I'll see if I can port Linux to it", but when they saw a new protocol (USB) a lot of them thought "Oh. Well, I'll never have one of those" so they wouldn't bother porting to it/ adding support for it. Now there are always people who have either already ported Linux to everything in their house/office, etc., or who realize that the newly released protocol is just what they need, and so, they go and crank out a driver for it.
Actually, if you were to take a look into kernel 2.3.xx or 2.4-test1, you will see that Linux is now beginning to support both USB and the IEEE 1394 (Firewire) devices. When I first installed Linux, I instantly realized it was superior to Windows. The first time I booted Linux, it had detected my sound card, and initialized it correctly. Meanwhile, when I had previously tried the same hting with windows, it had all kinds of problems with my sound card, even after I downloaded the drivers for it. Now I never run Windows at all, and sometime when I have nothing else to do, I may just delete it.
The US/Soviet docking of 1975 was called the ASTP (Apollo - Soyuz Test Project), and some would argue it to be the beginning of the end of the cold war. Not only that, but it was also the first (and only) spaceflight for Deke Slayton, who was one of the original mercury astronauts, but was grounded for abnormal heart rythms before the Mercury mission that was scheduled to be his. As for the spirit of the nation of the time, it would be nice to get the nation thinking the space program was worth it (maybe they don't realize that a lot of the technology in their everyday lives is a result of the space program).
The funny thing is, I know/think this, and I'm only a Junior in High School.
In all actuality, most of the Mac OS (probably under a different name at the time) was already completed before Apple BOUGHT the technology developed from Xerox PARC. Apple does come up with their own ideas, (most of the time it works out in some way or annother (Mac OS, Quicktime, the iMac, etc), though sometimes it doesn't (the Newton)) and when they don't, they BUY them, instead of stealing them. There is a difference.
The Apollo era (and yes, earlier) scrubbers were filled with Lithium Hydroxide. This wasn't actually so much converting CO2 to O2, it was simply removing the CO2 from the air (that's why they had to be replaced - once they got saturated, they could no longer function), which is why they had to take enough O2 along for the entire mission.
Am I the only one who see's this? Breathing pure O2 in itself isn't a problem. The astronauts did it (don't bother replying that it was a 60/40 mix of O2 + N2, because that was just on the ground. once they got into space, the pressure was only 5 psi, and they had to use pure O2. So a spark won't be a problem in itself, as long as the pressure is low enough. At high pressure, however, you have a different problem. If you breathe in too much O2 at a high enough pressure, it can destroy tissues. Oh, and one more thing.... Nitrogen is NOT a noble gas. The noble gases consist of Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon, and Radon.
actually, at pressures that low, you wouldn't pass out: instead, your blood would literally boil, even at such low temperatures, so the amount of Oxygen is, for now, a moot point, which is why some type of protective clothing would be required, not just to keep warm, but also to keep you in a suitable atmospheric pressure.
The problem isn't so much gravity, or even the high percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere. The biggest problems are the atmospheric pressure, and the temperature. Theoretically, there is a way to fix this along with the problem of all of the superoxides in the soil. If NASA were to decide to terraform Mars, the soil could actually be a key. Using their methane producing bacteria, they could raise the temperature. By raising the temperature, it will eventually be enough to break down the super oxides in the soil -- producing two vital allotropes of Oxygen (O2, or then normal oxyger that we breathe, and O3, or ozone, seeing as UV could be a problem with the current atmosphere). Through all of this, it may just be possible to create a thick enough atmosphere, along with enough Oxygen, and even an Ozone layer.
A semi-practical use for these things (if the price were to drop) would be a very simple, and portable mp3 player. Simply hook it up to one of those portable cdroms, and then you can listen to normal CD's, a CD filled with mp3's (what's that? something like 11 CD's worth?), not to mention video games, though I wouldn't recommend playing them (the games) while you drive.
While I'm not quite sure about why/. is so Gnome enthused, I can at least offer personal experience. Running both straight out of the box, I found KDE to be more aesthetically pleasing, and Gnome to be more stable (at least until I recompiled KDE). Now I usually run whichever one I please, which is usually KDE (the fact that Gnome doesn't automatically focus on a new window is a slight annoyance. I have seen screenshots of both KDE 2.0 and Gnome 1.2, and so far, I am leaning towards Gnome. once the/. effect wears off, I'm going to download it and give it a try..
Ok, first off, I don't pretend to be an expert, but I do know some things. Isn't it theoretically possible to just use random radio noise for the OTP ciphers? Maybe it would be better to tune into a bunch of similar frequencies, and then pipe 'em all through one channel, seeing as the constructive and destructive interference would chage according to wavelength and amplitude.
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The main reason for the difference is the fact that no one relies on /. for monetary purposes (or at least no one should......)
However, some poeple unwisely choose to rely on Windows, and so, the bugs are a serious problem (or a serious advantage, if you're part of the OSS community...)
Ok, I assume (or hope) that you know about the "Interactive Setup" that Mandrake, Redhat, and probably other distros have during boot time, why not just make a little boot script (or chunk it into rc.sysinit) that allows you, if you so choose, to interactively pick which /etc tarball you want to use....
I could do it in about 15 minutes (if that), so it can't be that hard....
and, of course, we mustn't forget that those companies that will be hit the hardest are those who make their money off of the bugs in windows..
then again, I have a 33.6 modem, and ever since I set my MTU to 1024, I've been downloading at 6.5-7K, occasionally going up to 8 for short amounts of time, so in effect, I HAVE a 56K (sometimes 64) modem.
sctualy, back in the sixties (i don't remember hte exact date), the US along w/ the USSR and a bunch of other nations signed a treaty declaring that no nation could claim ownership to any part of space, not even the orbital space above each respective country.
Actually, if you create and upload the content yourself (as well you should), you can avoid the ads, while having more control over the design of the web page.
I think it may be the whole thing about the huge piece of software meant to blind you from the truth (that there are better OSes out there), and that in the end, Neo shows them what they don't want them to see (Linux). And of course, I just can't forget to mention the "System Failure" (remind anyone of the BSOD?)
If I recall correctly, Larry Ellison of Oracle is now the richest man on earth. does this still hold true?
No, had it not been for M$, we'd all be using Macs (or at least the hardware... people would have still created open source Unix variants)
No, I wasn't saying that Win98 did that. you must go and download a program that checks for the f0 instruction. (and, I might add, not from MS either..) There are programs that are purposefully designed to set the processor in a deadlock (there are also ActiveX controls, which seems to be annother reason not to use IE)
And of course, I forgot this in my earlier post.
my sound card is Plug and Play -- Don't you think it's a little funny that Linux does a better job at PnP (a MS protocol, i might add) than Windows?
Exactly. I had not looked into that in depth, but you'll notice, like the above post says, it's disabled by default. if you have problems, you have to MANUALLY enable that. Linux DETECTS the F0 0F bug on its own, and then works around it.
No, that wasn't the only reason. For one, It was that it actually did what it was supposed to do. And this was on a 2.0.3x kernel too. now I run 2.2.15 & 2.4.0-test1, and both of them have shown great advances in support. Then again, you should have seen windows running on the same machine. It was (and still is) slower, buggy, and an all around piece of crap. As for those 'low standards', an Open Source OS has higher standards than the rest of them. When a windows user finds a bug, or is just dissatisfied with the OS, they just think "Oh. Well, that's windows", and they never bother to do anything about it. If someone finds something that they don't like or doesn't work for them under Linux, FreeBSD, or any other Open-SOurce OS, they actually DO something about it.. Besides, the only solution that windows has for the Pentium f0 0f bug is to search the HD for anything that will trigger it. Linux actually has a workaround for it, as quoted here
"Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled."
which means that someone actually found the f0 0f bug, and decided to make a workaround for it.
Seeing as the number of Linux users is constantly expanding, I think this may just be a new beginning. Now there are probably enough user out there so as soon as a protocol is published, people will begin to band together and write a driver for it. Before, and still now, there are those who are trying to see what else Linux can support/run on (they've ported it to robots & graphing calculators). The change is that before, people though "well, I have a {insert device here}, and I think I'll see if I can port Linux to it", but when they saw a new protocol (USB) a lot of them thought "Oh. Well, I'll never have one of those" so they wouldn't bother porting to it/ adding support for it. Now there are always people who have either already ported Linux to everything in their house/office, etc., or who realize that the newly released protocol is just what they need, and so, they go and crank out a driver for it.
Actually, if you were to take a look into kernel 2.3.xx or 2.4-test1, you will see that Linux is now beginning to support both USB and the IEEE 1394 (Firewire) devices. When I first installed Linux, I instantly realized it was superior to Windows. The first time I booted Linux, it had detected my sound card, and initialized it correctly. Meanwhile, when I had previously tried the same hting with windows, it had all kinds of problems with my sound card, even after I downloaded the drivers for it. Now I never run Windows at all, and sometime when I have nothing else to do, I may just delete it.
The US/Soviet docking of 1975 was called the ASTP (Apollo - Soyuz Test Project), and some would argue it to be the beginning of the end of the cold war. Not only that, but it was also the first (and only) spaceflight for Deke Slayton, who was one of the original mercury astronauts, but was grounded for abnormal heart rythms before the Mercury mission that was scheduled to be his. As for the spirit of the nation of the time, it would be nice to get the nation thinking the space program was worth it (maybe they don't realize that a lot of the technology in their everyday lives is a result of the space program).
The funny thing is, I know/think this, and I'm only a Junior in High School.
Am I wrong, or can't you just concatonate it straight across? True, the DVD would still be encoded, but it would be a copy, right?
In all actuality, most of the Mac OS (probably under a different name at the time) was already completed before Apple BOUGHT the technology developed from Xerox PARC. Apple does come up with their own ideas, (most of the time it works out in some way or annother (Mac OS, Quicktime, the iMac, etc), though sometimes it doesn't (the Newton)) and when they don't, they BUY them, instead of stealing them. There is a difference.
The Apollo era (and yes, earlier) scrubbers were filled with Lithium Hydroxide. This wasn't actually so much converting CO2 to O2, it was simply removing the CO2 from the air (that's why they had to be replaced - once they got saturated, they could no longer function), which is why they had to take enough O2 along for the entire mission.
Am I the only one who see's this? Breathing pure O2 in itself isn't a problem. The astronauts did it (don't bother replying that it was a 60/40 mix of O2 + N2, because that was just on the ground. once they got into space, the pressure was only 5 psi, and they had to use pure O2. So a spark won't be a problem in itself, as long as the pressure is low enough. At high pressure, however, you have a different problem. If you breathe in too much O2 at a high enough pressure, it can destroy tissues. Oh, and one more thing.... Nitrogen is NOT a noble gas. The noble gases consist of Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon, and Radon.
actually, at pressures that low, you wouldn't pass out: instead, your blood would literally boil, even at such low temperatures, so the amount of Oxygen is, for now, a moot point, which is why some type of protective clothing would be required, not just to keep warm, but also to keep you in a suitable atmospheric pressure.
The problem isn't so much gravity, or even the high percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere. The biggest problems are the atmospheric pressure, and the temperature. Theoretically, there is a way to fix this along with the problem of all of the superoxides in the soil. If NASA were to decide to terraform Mars, the soil could actually be a key. Using their methane producing bacteria, they could raise the temperature. By raising the temperature, it will eventually be enough to break down the super oxides in the soil -- producing two vital allotropes of Oxygen (O2, or then normal oxyger that we breathe, and O3, or ozone, seeing as UV could be a problem with the current atmosphere). Through all of this, it may just be possible to create a thick enough atmosphere, along with enough Oxygen, and even an Ozone layer.
A semi-practical use for these things (if the price were to drop) would be a very simple, and portable mp3 player. Simply hook it up to one of those portable cdroms, and then you can listen to normal CD's, a CD filled with mp3's (what's that? something like 11 CD's worth?), not to mention video games, though I wouldn't recommend playing them (the games) while you drive.
While I'm not quite sure about why /. is so Gnome enthused, I can at least offer personal experience. Running both straight out of the box, I found KDE to be more aesthetically pleasing, and Gnome to be more stable (at least until I recompiled KDE). Now I usually run whichever one I please, which is usually KDE (the fact that Gnome doesn't automatically focus on a new window is a slight annoyance. I have seen screenshots of both KDE 2.0 and Gnome 1.2, and so far, I am leaning towards Gnome. once the /. effect wears off, I'm going to download it and give it a try..
Ok, first off, I don't pretend to be an expert, but I do know some things. Isn't it theoretically possible to just use random radio noise for the OTP ciphers? Maybe it would be better to tune into a bunch of similar frequencies, and then pipe 'em all through one channel, seeing as the constructive and destructive interference would chage according to wavelength and amplitude.