1) Because of the procrustean Debian install. It does walk you through each thing, which is nice. But you can't go back once you discovered you misunderstood something. And you can't go back if you fumble with your fingers. You must be perfect.
Er, which part of the Debian install are you talking about? During the boot disk part you can always go back to previous sections.
3) Because Debian comes with the lousy MBR program that sits on top of LILO. My laptop is intended to dual boot between Win98 (I get $$$ from some clients for consulting there:) and Linux. Let's just call MBR 'unfriendly' and not call names.
I'm not sure what you're talking about... I never noticed such a thing and I never had a problem dual booting with the default installation of lilo. (Of course, now I used grub)
Not exclusively. In my engineering courses they often stress how engineers must work in the constraints of the real world. So along with the predominate metric units, we still have problems dealing with feet, inches, psi, calories, etc. Of course, in practice that often means conversion into metric to do the calculations with reverse calculations at the end if needed.
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Drudge is up, just very slow.
Funny thing though, in the last 3 'updates' there has been less and less up:
First
DRUDGE REPORT... TUE NOV 07 2000 18:30:21 ET... UPDATED BY MATT DRUDGE...
BATTLE: GORE CORNERS BIG STATES, BUSH PLOWS HEARTLAND...
GORE UP 21% IN NY; 16% IN CALIFORNIA; 15% IN NJ, SAY CAMPAIGN SOURCES...
GORE MOVES AHEAD IN FLORIDA BY 3%, SAY CAMPAIGN SOURCES....
NADER VOTE COLLAPSED...
INDEPENDENTS CUT 2 TO 1 FOR GORE, SAY SOURCES...
HILLARY SET TO CAPTURE SENATE SEAT
then...
DRUDGE REPORT... TUE NOV 07 2000 20:10:51 ET... UPDATED BY MATT DRUDGE...
BATTLE: GORE CORNERS BIG STATES, BUSH PLOWS HEARTLAND...
GORE UP 21% IN NY; 16% IN CALIFORNIA...
NADER VOTE COLLAPSED...
INDEPENDENTS CUT 2 TO 1 FOR GORE, SAY SOURCES...
BUSH SET TO CAPTURE ELECTORAL COLLEGE; HILLARY WINS SENATE SEAT
then...
DRUDGE REPORT... UPDATED BY MATT DRUDGE TUE NOV 07 20:36:47 ET...
GORE WINS BIG STATES, BUSH SET TO CAPTURE ELECTORAL COLLEGE; HILLARY WINS SENATE SEAT
I feel I should add my own datapoint, I've been using X4 since 4.0 and I have not experienced a single random crash. (P300, Intel i740 chipset video card)
There are debs of 4.0.1 that someone has succesfully compiled on potato (from a slightly earlier version of the woody ones). Search the debian-x archives and you should be able to find it.
Friend of mine was in Hong Kong last week and brought back 5 of them. They were about US$130 over there with the exchange rate. Instead of eBaying them he sold them to his friends for reasonable prices... and still made $1000.
Thought I would mention that, since last summer, you can update the microcode of your P6 family chip under Linux. The utility is here. It's been in since 2.4.0-test1-ac10 and there's a backported patch to 2.2.18pre3 as well.
There's some updated microcodes up there too. Unfortunately there is basically no information at all as to what the updates fix/update/change... any such information would be appreciated.
That's the truly sad thing... streaming media formats have been designed for mediocrity. Business doesn't want a format that's truly high quality and the last thing they want you to be able to do is save it.
I wish everyone would just use streaming MP3 - high quality, cross platform compatible, cheap. Don't see it ever happening though. About the only place I ever saw use it was CDNow, and only on a small number of tracks (along with RealAudio on a large number). Now they're RA and Windows Media only. Sigh.
I don't know about applying the verbatim LGPL, but if you can't, there's nothing stopping you from modifying it to your own license. Easiest thing would be to use it all the same except the part the conflicts (if it is determined to conflict).
NASA's got a nice shuttle web site with updates during the mission (STS-92). There's also the mission press kit with all and more than you wanted to know.
This patent describes a method of alternate word spellings to increase the leetness of what is being said and, by associating, the person who has typed it.
Single character substitutions may be made at any point as follows
substrings:
a => 4
i => !,|
e => 3,=
l => 1
o => 0
s => $
t => +,7
c => k
k => c
String subtitutions may be made at any time as follows:
ate => 8
you => u
f => ph
Punctuation within the body of a sentence can and should be ignored if possible. Punctuation at the end of the sentence should be repeated for extended effect. In addition, the unshifted key used for typing a punctuation mark can be used in that mark's place.
Miscellanous
The word "I" may be replaced with "eye".
Silent letters may be dropped or replaced with other silent letters.
Common acronym interjections, such as LOL, ROFL, WTF, OMG, etc. are the prefered way of expressing emotions such as suprising, elation, amusement, etc.
The prefix k- can be added to any adjective or adverb.
Capitalization is entirely up to the typist.
Thus can a normally bland sentence, such as "Now I know how to type well!" can be transformed into the more effectively leet phrase "0MG n0w eye gN0 h0w +o +yp3 k-W=11!!!!1!!". Well-executed translations like this will mark the typist as a truly ph33rs0me individually far to leet to ignore.
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Damn, competeting identical twins AND a dead gubernatorial candidate. I'm voting in Missouri next in 2004!
Wait, are you saying Britney Spears endorsed one of the candidate? Shit, now it's too late, I may not have voted right...
If you want something stable, why are you using the unstable Debian distro? Think a little next time...
1) Because of the procrustean Debian install. It does walk you through each thing, which is nice. But you can't go back once you discovered you misunderstood something. And you can't go back if you fumble with your fingers. You must be perfect.
Er, which part of the Debian install are you talking about? During the boot disk part you can always go back to previous sections.
3) Because Debian comes with the lousy MBR program that sits on top of LILO. My laptop is intended to dual boot between Win98 (I get $$$ from some clients for consulting there
I'm not sure what you're talking about... I never noticed such a thing and I never had a problem dual booting with the default installation of lilo. (Of course, now I used grub)
Not exclusively. In my engineering courses they often stress how engineers must work in the constraints of the real world. So along with the predominate metric units, we still have problems dealing with feet, inches, psi, calories, etc. Of course, in practice that often means conversion into metric to do the calculations with reverse calculations at the end if needed.
Drudge is up, just very slow.
Funny thing though, in the last 3 'updates' there has been less and less up:
First
DRUDGE REPORT... TUE NOV 07 2000 18:30:21 ET... UPDATED BY MATT DRUDGE...
BATTLE: GORE CORNERS BIG STATES, BUSH PLOWS HEARTLAND...
GORE UP 21% IN NY; 16% IN CALIFORNIA; 15% IN NJ, SAY CAMPAIGN SOURCES...
GORE MOVES AHEAD IN FLORIDA BY 3%, SAY CAMPAIGN SOURCES....
NADER VOTE COLLAPSED...
INDEPENDENTS CUT 2 TO 1 FOR GORE, SAY SOURCES...
HILLARY SET TO CAPTURE SENATE SEAT
then...
DRUDGE REPORT... TUE NOV 07 2000 20:10:51 ET... UPDATED BY MATT DRUDGE...
BATTLE: GORE CORNERS BIG STATES, BUSH PLOWS HEARTLAND...
GORE UP 21% IN NY; 16% IN CALIFORNIA...
NADER VOTE COLLAPSED...
INDEPENDENTS CUT 2 TO 1 FOR GORE, SAY SOURCES...
BUSH SET TO CAPTURE ELECTORAL COLLEGE; HILLARY WINS SENATE SEAT
then...
DRUDGE REPORT... UPDATED BY MATT DRUDGE TUE NOV 07 20:36:47 ET...
GORE WINS BIG STATES, BUSH SET TO CAPTURE ELECTORAL COLLEGE; HILLARY WINS SENATE SEAT
(Don't blame me for the caps, that's all Drudge)
This link appears to work just fine.
I feel I should add my own datapoint, I've been using X4 since 4.0 and I have not experienced a single random crash. (P300, Intel i740 chipset video card)
There are debs of 4.0.1 that someone has succesfully compiled on potato (from a slightly earlier version of the woody ones). Search the debian-x archives and you should be able to find it.
Don't forget
() What are you talking about, I've been using the 4.0 debs for weeks now
The answer is "Smooth Marlboro flavor"
Offtopic, but which ones? How do you like them? How is the range? I've been considering wireless phones...
Friend of mine was in Hong Kong last week and brought back 5 of them. They were about US$130 over there with the exchange rate. Instead of eBaying them he sold them to his friends for reasonable prices... and still made $1000.
Thought I would mention that, since last summer, you can update the microcode of your P6 family chip under Linux. The utility is here. It's been in since 2.4.0-test1-ac10 and there's a backported patch to 2.2.18pre3 as well.
There's some updated microcodes up there too. Unfortunately there is basically no information at all as to what the updates fix/update/change... any such information would be appreciated.
Everyone is mispelling it, it was T$R...
BTW, maybe you can answer a question for me...
Where did the acronym PSX come from? The PS makes sense, but what does the X mean?
That's the truly sad thing... streaming media formats have been designed for mediocrity. Business doesn't want a format that's truly high quality and the last thing they want you to be able to do is save it.
I wish everyone would just use streaming MP3 - high quality, cross platform compatible, cheap. Don't see it ever happening though. About the only place I ever saw use it was CDNow, and only on a small number of tracks (along with RealAudio on a large number). Now they're RA and Windows Media only. Sigh.
I don't know about applying the verbatim LGPL, but if you can't, there's nothing stopping you from modifying it to your own license. Easiest thing would be to use it all the same except the part the conflicts (if it is determined to conflict).
Thank you for including the irrelevant compile time comparison.
You BUY things, you HIRE people (at least these days you don't buy people)
NASA's got a nice shuttle web site with updates during the mission (STS-92). There's also the mission press kit with all and more than you wanted to know.
... leaving shuttle pilot Pamela Melroy to finish by herself ...
George Washington's axe had a 386 in it?
Actually I'm 1 course away from a minor in AI (and I didn't even plan it)...
This patent describes a method of alternate word spellings to increase the leetness of what is being said and, by associating, the person who has typed it.
Single character substitutions may be made at any point as follows
substrings:
a => 4
i => !,|
e => 3,=
l => 1
o => 0
s => $
t => +,7
c => k
k => c
String subtitutions may be made at any time as follows:
ate => 8
you => u
f => ph
Punctuation within the body of a sentence can and should be ignored if possible. Punctuation at the end of the sentence should be repeated for extended effect. In addition, the unshifted key used for typing a punctuation mark can be used in that mark's place.
Miscellanous
The word "I" may be replaced with "eye".
Silent letters may be dropped or replaced with other silent letters.
Common acronym interjections, such as LOL, ROFL, WTF, OMG, etc. are the prefered way of expressing emotions such as suprising, elation, amusement, etc.
The prefix k- can be added to any adjective or adverb.
Capitalization is entirely up to the typist.
Thus can a normally bland sentence, such as "Now I know how to type well!" can be transformed into the more effectively leet phrase "0MG n0w eye gN0 h0w +o +yp3 k-W=11!!!!1!!". Well-executed translations like this will mark the typist as a truly ph33rs0me individually far to leet to ignore.