Since SP2, we've had a lot more luck swapping motherboards and such and having Windows installs survive without needing a repair install. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The odds are better lately, but it's still a roll of the dice.
From the research I've done, it is directly tied to the chipset driver used for the boot partition. If you swap motherboards, but the IDE or SATA chipset you're booting from remains the same, you'll have no trouble booting. Otherwise you need the repair, which re-wires the Windows install to load a different driver first.
But I think the top ten is a little biased in favor of movies that are part of a series. I guess that's because the characters are better known ( having spent more time with them ) and because it's easy to carry over karma from other films in a series. ( For better or worse. )
My top five would be, in order:
1) 2001: A Space Oddessy 2) The Right Stuff 3) Apollo 13 4) Close Encounters of the Third Kind. 5) Star Wars: Episode IV
Too bad the list is just space related movies, rather than space related stories in any medium. I'd love to throw Babylon 5 in the mix.
"I was a conservative. Then they changed what `conservative' was. Now what I am isn't conservative, and what is `conservative' seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you!"
And this proves what?
Apparently it proves that not everyone appreciates a good play on a Simpsons quote.
The first linked article's author, at least, could use a cold shower. Every time an interesting and insightful fact was revealed, it seemed that the author took a moment to wallow in polite hatred for all things human, who are, in fact, wreched abominations engaged in widespread destruction of this fragile little blue and green ball of dirt. Apparently I'm supposed to feel guilty.
Fuck that.
Earth activists love to envision a world where we all can live in peace and harmony with mother earth; never stepping out of bounds; preserving the earth as it is ( or was ) for all time. It is a beautiful ideal, and I can at least applaud them for having ideals. It also happens to be completely impossible.
The universe is self-destructive by it's very nature, always building and destroying and reworking atoms on a scale impossible for us to comprehend. The systems of this planet, too, are constantly in flux. This is normal folks. We are supposed to have self-corrections in the ecosystem, as evidence of these corrections date back much farther than our existence.
"But Corbin, the difference is that we're the ones causing it! We're destroying our home, not some giant asteroid!." Heh. How arrogant and presumptuous of a human to suggest that they operate outside of the ecosystem, outside of the natural ways of the universe. We as a species are not capable of knowing the correct course for this planet any more than a dog. As smart as we think we are, humans are still pretty stupid when it comes to the workings of the ecosystem, the way it ties in with the planet's activities, and the infulence of celestial bodies. Even if preservation was the right course of action, we do not know the correct balance of actions that would be required to reverse current trends and restore "balance". And even if we did know, what if it means cooling the oceans, or changing solar activity? Do we really have that kind of power? ( That was retorical, by the way. )
Let it ride. We're already hip-deep in this mass-extinction, we can't stop it even if we wanted to. People inclined to recycle and ride bikes to work should do so, by all means. It will make a small difference, but a difference none the less. Could this cycle kill humans? Very possibly. However, as most people would agree, the earth is over-populated with humans anyway. This can only be a good thing. Could the human race die? Yeah, that's possible too. If we did, then at least there's historical evidence that a better species would evolve in our place. Plus, as an added bonus, we wouldn't be around to screw up the planet anymore. That should make the environmentalists happy. Right?
Dude, that doesn't even make sense. Why does ever joke about a slashdotting get modded up no mater how lame it is?
Probably because the usual barrage of In Soviet Russia, hot grits, Step #3 profit, welcomed overlords, beowulf clusters, duped articles, petrified Portman, misspelled articles, Micro$$$oft anything, Jon Katz, Slashdotter virginity, and SCO Madness seem shriveled and flaccid in comparison.
I'm not disagreeing with you, just making a point. If Slashdotters could recycle plastics and aluminum the way we recycle old jokes, that old Indian dude on the Hootie the Owl commercial wouldn't cry anymore. "Give a hoot, don't pollute!"
This will not take down an XP machine, Microsoft's latest. But it does take down several of the latest distros. As a Linux zealot myself, I'm pretty displeased.
Many KDE apps when open the first time consist of a single, empty square with just one button in the toolbar and no text labels. These apps MUST be 'konfigured' in order to access the most common functionality, with buttons that are hidden in the 'configure toolbar' dialog.
Hmm, interesting that I've never noticed that. What applications that come in the official KDE packages have this behavior? What version of KDE? What distro packaged it? I assume you have quite a list since you used the adjective many.
I've been using KDE since '99 and I've been developing for it since '01. I've seen a lot of bugs and broken features in that time, and I've even seen things that I didn't think were very newbie friendly; but I've never seen an official app just dump you to an... excuse me, empty square? If you're just interested in cheering for your home team then that's fine, I won't stop you. But I hope you didn't expect to spread unsubstantiated FUD and make a clean break. Did you?!
problems for astronomers, who still don't have a basic definition for the word planet or a firm idea of what separates planets from stars.
It's not as sexy as having a word like "planet", but all this confusion could be eliminated with a basic classification system that took into account distinguishing characteristics besides just it's mass.
As an example, one could define these objects through two primary attributes: The body's mass and the mass of that which it orbits. As I don't have exact mass data at hand, this example will use the following over-simplifications:
S = Solar Mass G = Gas Giant Mass R = Rock Planet Mass M = Minor Mass ( appx Phobos to Pluto ) A = Asteroid Mass D = Debrit ( 1m or smaller )
Of course, the real system would use exact scientific measurments rather than these crude examples.
Earth = SR ( Rock Planet Mass orbiting a Solar Mass ) Jupiter = SG ( Gas Giant Mass orbiting a Solar Mass ) Pluto = SM ( Minor Mass orbiting a Solar Mass ) Titan = GR ( Rock Planet Mass orbiting a Gas Giant Mass ) etc etc
You could even create a symbol to represent the galactic center, which could be used in relation to stars and other free roaming bodies. Binary stars can be represented using SS, since they're orbiting each other.
Anyway, the point is that you can not come up with solid definitions of these bodies on mass alone. Take into account other major factors as this example does.
[nelson@desk nelson]$ ping google.com PING google.com (216.239.39.99) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 216.239.39.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=237 time=90.3 ms 64 bytes from 216.239.39.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=237 time=103 ms 64 bytes from 216.239.39.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=237 time=75.5 ms 64 bytes from 216.239.39.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=237 time=129 ms
How would you feel if Charles Manson got a job on the board of directors of your cracker manufacturer?
Not one bit different. One crazy man on a board does not a crazy company make. The whole point of a corporation is that it is not under the diabolical control of one man. As much fun as it may be to poke fun at Bill Gates, Gates != Microsoft. If he started to suggest that Microsoft sell exploding CDs or suggested that his company make drastic changes in focus ( from product development to litigation ), that would require the consensus of many people.
Going back to Charles Manson, what exactly do you think he could do to harm you? Without influencing the other board members, he would have to resort to sneaking into the factories and poisioning the food. I say 'sneak' because the factory workers wouldn't allow him to pour unknown substances into the batter.
No wonder you snipped that bit out of your reply. Your analogy, piss-poor originally, is in tatters. Retract it.
It got snipped because it was irrelevant as to the direction, focus, and character of Trolltech for the reason started above. Ergo, I retract nothing.
And for the record, SCO is probably the best thing that's ever happened to FOSS. Awareness is at an all time high, people are questioning the pros and cons of open vs closed development who would never have done so before, and thus far not one FOSS developer has been harmed insofar as I am aware.
It costs a lot of money to develop commercial software with Qt (and by extension KDE) because they use the full GPL license (as opposed to something more reasonable like the LGPL) for the Qt library to extort money from developers. Trolltech effectively control any possible commercial software market for KDE (or anything that uses Qt).
So what if you have to buy a licence for commercial development? If you're out to make money on your software then you deserve to pay. Show me another cross-platform development suite as flexable and powerful as Qt that's free. Go on, I'll wait right here till you get back.
But naturally, Trolltech are benign lovable types, aren't they? Sure they are... except they are part-owned by SCO and Canopy -- the Linux IP grab and sue specialists. Avoid Qt. It's poisonous to free software.
If you're going to troll, at least take the time to write something with fewer holes in it. Trolltech is partially owned by Canopy but not SCO. Big deal. If you were to discover that the Unibomber owned 5% of Nabisco, would you really avoid eating thier crackers? Qt ( and Trolltech ) are great friends to FOSS.
Truly the loss of a great, if relatively unknown actor...
I agree completely. You can actually catch him one last time in one of the new "Dawn of the Dead"'s bonus features. He played a news anchor who was broadcasting live during the crisis. The scene also featured an audio appearance by another B5 alumni, appropriately cast as the president.
That said, I have high hopes for this movie. I've always loved JMS's B5 universe, and it was only after the property was aquired by Turner that it's quality took a nose dive. ( Season 5+ ) Hopefully JMS can keep tighter control over the quality of it's content.
And speaking of quality, I wonder how they're going to fare in today's CG Hollywood. Their stuff was pretty cutting edge at the time.
stop denying the science that is saving your life right now
Science has not, nor will it ever save my life. I am going to die, and science can not stop that. We're all dying.
Sorry, but that phrase is a pet-peeve of mine. It's like the housewife who goes to the mall to buy several pairs of shoes. "I saved fifteen dollars!" "Yes dear, but you spent $70."
Every Windows PC needs these installed, updated, and run at least once a week. You need both: sometimes one will catch something that the other won't. Even then you are not 100% safe. For really nasty Spyware:
You are a bad man. I hate you. You made me cry. I will now burrow back into my hole and dream a dream that can't possibly have any bearing on real life just because some people have questions about it's origins.... Kinda like this Linux story eh?
Slashdot Mirror
Since SP2, we've had a lot more luck swapping motherboards and such and having Windows installs survive without needing a repair install. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The odds are better lately, but it's still a roll of the dice.
From the research I've done, it is directly tied to the chipset driver used for the boot partition. If you swap motherboards, but the IDE or SATA chipset you're booting from remains the same, you'll have no trouble booting. Otherwise you need the repair, which re-wires the Windows install to load a different driver first.
But I think the top ten is a little biased in favor of movies that are part of a series. I guess that's because the characters are better known ( having spent more time with them ) and because it's easy to carry over karma from other films in a series. ( For better or worse. )
My top five would be, in order:
1) 2001: A Space Oddessy
2) The Right Stuff
3) Apollo 13
4) Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
5) Star Wars: Episode IV
Too bad the list is just space related movies, rather than space related stories in any medium. I'd love to throw Babylon 5 in the mix.
Apparently it proves that not everyone appreciates a good play on a Simpsons quote.
The first linked article's author, at least, could use a cold shower. Every time an interesting and insightful fact was revealed, it seemed that the author took a moment to wallow in polite hatred for all things human, who are, in fact, wreched abominations engaged in widespread destruction of this fragile little blue and green ball of dirt. Apparently I'm supposed to feel guilty.
Fuck that.
Earth activists love to envision a world where we all can live in peace and harmony with mother earth; never stepping out of bounds; preserving the earth as it is ( or was ) for all time. It is a beautiful ideal, and I can at least applaud them for having ideals. It also happens to be completely impossible.
The universe is self-destructive by it's very nature, always building and destroying and reworking atoms on a scale impossible for us to comprehend. The systems of this planet, too, are constantly in flux. This is normal folks. We are supposed to have self-corrections in the ecosystem, as evidence of these corrections date back much farther than our existence.
"But Corbin, the difference is that we're the ones causing it! We're destroying our home, not some giant asteroid!." Heh. How arrogant and presumptuous of a human to suggest that they operate outside of the ecosystem, outside of the natural ways of the universe. We as a species are not capable of knowing the correct course for this planet any more than a dog. As smart as we think we are, humans are still pretty stupid when it comes to the workings of the ecosystem, the way it ties in with the planet's activities, and the infulence of celestial bodies. Even if preservation was the right course of action, we do not know the correct balance of actions that would be required to reverse current trends and restore "balance". And even if we did know, what if it means cooling the oceans, or changing solar activity? Do we really have that kind of power? ( That was retorical, by the way. )
Let it ride. We're already hip-deep in this mass-extinction, we can't stop it even if we wanted to. People inclined to recycle and ride bikes to work should do so, by all means. It will make a small difference, but a difference none the less. Could this cycle kill humans? Very possibly. However, as most people would agree, the earth is over-populated with humans anyway. This can only be a good thing. Could the human race die? Yeah, that's possible too. If we did, then at least there's historical evidence that a better species would evolve in our place. Plus, as an added bonus, we wouldn't be around to screw up the planet anymore. That should make the environmentalists happy. Right?
Dude, that doesn't even make sense. Why does ever joke about a slashdotting get modded up no mater how lame it is?
Probably because the usual barrage of In Soviet Russia, hot grits, Step #3 profit, welcomed overlords, beowulf clusters, duped articles, petrified Portman, misspelled articles, Micro$$$oft anything, Jon Katz, Slashdotter virginity, and SCO Madness seem shriveled and flaccid in comparison.
I'm not disagreeing with you, just making a point. If Slashdotters could recycle plastics and aluminum the way we recycle old jokes, that old Indian dude on the Hootie the Owl commercial wouldn't cry anymore. "Give a hoot, don't pollute!"
This will not take down an XP machine, Microsoft's latest. But it does take down several of the latest distros. As a Linux zealot myself, I'm pretty displeased.
Many KDE apps when open the first time consist of a single, empty square with just one button in the toolbar and no text labels. These apps MUST be 'konfigured' in order to access the most common functionality, with buttons that are hidden in the 'configure toolbar' dialog.
Hmm, interesting that I've never noticed that. What applications that come in the official KDE packages have this behavior? What version of KDE? What distro packaged it? I assume you have quite a list since you used the adjective many.
I've been using KDE since '99 and I've been developing for it since '01. I've seen a lot of bugs and broken features in that time, and I've even seen things that I didn't think were very newbie friendly; but I've never seen an official app just dump you to an... excuse me, empty square? If you're just interested in cheering for your home team then that's fine, I won't stop you. But I hope you didn't expect to spread unsubstantiated FUD and make a clean break. Did you?!
problems for astronomers, who still don't have a basic definition for the word planet or a firm idea of what separates planets from stars.
It's not as sexy as having a word like "planet", but all this confusion could be eliminated with a basic classification system that took into account distinguishing characteristics besides just it's mass.
As an example, one could define these objects through two primary attributes: The body's mass and the mass of that which it orbits. As I don't have exact mass data at hand, this example will use the following over-simplifications:
S = Solar Mass
G = Gas Giant Mass
R = Rock Planet Mass
M = Minor Mass ( appx Phobos to Pluto )
A = Asteroid Mass
D = Debrit ( 1m or smaller )
Of course, the real system would use exact scientific measurments rather than these crude examples.
Earth = SR ( Rock Planet Mass orbiting a Solar Mass )
Jupiter = SG ( Gas Giant Mass orbiting a Solar Mass )
Pluto = SM ( Minor Mass orbiting a Solar Mass )
Titan = GR ( Rock Planet Mass orbiting a Gas Giant Mass )
etc
etc
You could even create a symbol to represent the galactic center, which could be used in relation to stars and other free roaming bodies. Binary stars can be represented using SS, since they're orbiting each other.
Anyway, the point is that you can not come up with solid definitions of these bodies on mass alone. Take into account other major factors as this example does.
and there isn't a unified API for network, sound and inputs like DirectX (OpenGL is only for graphics).
Here ya go. All you lack is Network, which is easy to implement anyway.
[nelson@desk nelson]$ ping google.com
;-)
PING google.com (216.239.39.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 216.239.39.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=237 time=90.3 ms
64 bytes from 216.239.39.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=237 time=103 ms
64 bytes from 216.239.39.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=237 time=75.5 ms
64 bytes from 216.239.39.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=237 time=129 ms
--- google.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 75.598/99.877/129.919/19.979 ms, pipe 2
Very well sir, your wit seems to be in order. You have my blessing to lead the OSI.
Apparently, the tool referenced in this Slashdot article is not recommended for use because it can corrupt the results.
How would you feel if Charles Manson got a job on the board of directors of your cracker manufacturer?
Not one bit different. One crazy man on a board does not a crazy company make. The whole point of a corporation is that it is not under the diabolical control of one man. As much fun as it may be to poke fun at Bill Gates, Gates != Microsoft. If he started to suggest that Microsoft sell exploding CDs or suggested that his company make drastic changes in focus ( from product development to litigation ), that would require the consensus of many people.
Going back to Charles Manson, what exactly do you think he could do to harm you? Without influencing the other board members, he would have to resort to sneaking into the factories and poisioning the food. I say 'sneak' because the factory workers wouldn't allow him to pour unknown substances into the batter.
No wonder you snipped that bit out of your reply. Your analogy, piss-poor originally, is in tatters. Retract it.
It got snipped because it was irrelevant as to the direction, focus, and character of Trolltech for the reason started above. Ergo, I retract nothing.
And for the record, SCO is probably the best thing that's ever happened to FOSS. Awareness is at an all time high, people are questioning the pros and cons of open vs closed development who would never have done so before, and thus far not one FOSS developer has been harmed insofar as I am aware.
Sorry, SCO owns a chunk of Trolltech ...h tml
http://www.trolltech.com/newsroom/investors.
I stand corrected on the issue of ownership, though the Unabomber/Nabisco analogy still stands.
It costs a lot of money to develop commercial software with Qt (and by extension KDE) because they use the full GPL license (as opposed to something more reasonable like the LGPL) for the Qt library to extort money from developers. Trolltech effectively control any possible commercial software market for KDE (or anything that uses Qt).
So what if you have to buy a licence for commercial development? If you're out to make money on your software then you deserve to pay. Show me another cross-platform development suite as flexable and powerful as Qt that's free. Go on, I'll wait right here till you get back.
But naturally, Trolltech are benign lovable types, aren't they? Sure they are... except they are part-owned by SCO and Canopy -- the Linux IP grab and sue specialists. Avoid Qt. It's poisonous to free software.
If you're going to troll, at least take the time to write something with fewer holes in it. Trolltech is partially owned by Canopy but not SCO. Big deal. If you were to discover that the Unibomber owned 5% of Nabisco, would you really avoid eating thier crackers? Qt ( and Trolltech ) are great friends to FOSS.
Truly the loss of a great, if relatively unknown actor...
I agree completely. You can actually catch him one last time in one of the new "Dawn of the Dead"'s bonus features. He played a news anchor who was broadcasting live during the crisis. The scene also featured an audio appearance by another B5 alumni, appropriately cast as the president.
That said, I have high hopes for this movie. I've always loved JMS's B5 universe, and it was only after the property was aquired by Turner that it's quality took a nose dive. ( Season 5+ ) Hopefully JMS can keep tighter control over the quality of it's content.
And speaking of quality, I wonder how they're going to fare in today's CG Hollywood. Their stuff was pretty cutting edge at the time.
got citibank, i have no account but was able to transfer $100 million into an offshore account.
Wow, did you get an email from Yassir Arafat's widow too? I'm still waiting for my cash transfer.
I second this. West Virginia is a georgous state, and anyone who hasn't been truly doesn't know what natural beauty is.
You're either a troll or you have poor written comprehension skills. Neither is worthy of further explanation.
stop denying the science that is saving your life right now
Science has not, nor will it ever save my life. I am going to die, and science can not stop that. We're all dying.
Sorry, but that phrase is a pet-peeve of mine. It's like the housewife who goes to the mall to buy several pairs of shoes. "I saved fifteen dollars!" "Yes dear, but you spent $70."
You have a link to the dictionary's entry for "abattoir" and still managed to spell it wrong in the summary. Bravo.
But if he hadn't misspelled something, the editors never would have approved his submission.
but I won't be satisfied until I can have my own Chi. You can have Somomo.
Pants-o, pants-o, pants-o.
Can be found at this site.
Ad-Aware
Spybot-S&D
Every Windows PC needs these installed, updated, and run at least once a week. You need both: sometimes one will catch something that the other won't. Even then you are not 100% safe. For really nasty Spyware:
HijackThis!
Note that HijackThis! is NOT for joe user! Removing the wrong entry can disable legitimate apps. Also, for IE users:
You could set up tighter ActiveX permissions than this, but doing so would disable Windows Update, which is just as dangerous.
You are a bad man. I hate you. You made me cry. I will now burrow back into my hole and dream a dream that can't possibly have any bearing on real life just because some people have questions about it's origins.... Kinda like this Linux story eh?
;-)
See, I'm still on topic.
That was as poetic as I could ever have hoped to express my feelings. Well written. Figures that I don't have any mod points right now.