Be sure to make a FULL DRIVE IMAGE backup of the hard drive that has Windows on it, before putting Linux on it, even if you have a restore DVD. You can do that with the Ubuntu install DVD by starting a command line terminal shell. The earlier you do this, the smaller the compressed result will be. Unless you want to make a full size image copy to an equal sized external drive, it is best to make a compressed copy. The bzip2 compression is smaller when there are lots of blocks that have not been used and still contain binary zeros, but it runs slower (several hours for a 250GB drive). The gzip compression is faster, but the result is larger.
A typical command (with some optimizing options shows) might be (after the place to save the image is mounted) might be (everything all on ONE command line despite how your browser splits it into two or more lines):
Be sure to backup the WHOLE device (no number at the end of the device name for Linux users) and not a partition. BSD users will need to use a different device name.
Microsoft: Dell netbooks with Linux are being returned at 4 to 5 times the number of Dells with Windows.
Dell: Our netbooks are being returned for technical issues at the same rate regardless of the OS.
Uh... they aren't talking about the same thing. What Microsoft is saying is NOT that netbooks with Linux are somehow broken, but rather, people are just unhappy with them and returning them (for replacement with a Windows version or money back). Dell seems to think the statement is claiming that Dell machines break more with Linux. Dell is probably pretty sensitive in that way for some reason like maybe they have a history of cheap hardware that breaks a lot. Microsoft is just trying to say that people who do try Linux find out they prefer Windows (which could be for one of many reasons, such as a favorite game is designed to only run on Windows and they didn't realize the issue until they tried to install it on Linux).
I recently bought a netbook (ASUS EEE). I specifically got one with Windows XP on it, instead of with Linux on it, despite my intention to use Linux on it. Since I plan to put my own Linux on it, the factory installed Linux does me no good as an alternative fallback OS. I image-copied the 16GB SSD (compressed down to 2.6GB) that had Windows on it to other storage media and saved a few copies of it. I verified that restoring it to the SSD even works (booting up after each restore, it goes into the "new user" setup again). Now if I ever need Windows for some reason, I can restore one of those images and I have it. Had I chosen the netbook with Linux, what I'd have would be Linux I could use instead of Linux.
My point here is that sales rates for netbooks with Windows will be higher for reasons that don't always involve Windows being the preferred OS. Because Linux has traditionally been "an Internet OS" (e.g. an OS you get by downloading it from the internet), this will always skew sales figures.
I'm sure not every Icelander was involved in this. Too bad they are all going to be suffering the effects for the stupid decisions of a bunch of capitalists and socialists.
The difference impacts the rendering of the document beginning on page 16. It appears to have HTTP headers inserted into the file. The same difference is seen across these download programs: firefox, lynx, wget. There may be a bad replication to that site. Maybe they used a bad HTTP client.
Of course that can cost millions of dollars for a school building. But I heard of a theater that put one in while it was constructing the building (it's a lot cheaper then).
The site I'm building now won't bitch if you have cookies off. But if you try to login, you'll find that subsequent requests will be handled as if you have not logged in. If the web ever gets a better login scheme standardized, implemented, and widely deployed, then maybe cookies won't be needed as a half-arsed way to achieve login sessions. Also, if you disabled Javascript, the site will not lay out nicely. But that will fall under the same "degrade gracefully" principle as if you disabled CSS.
Jeffrey Michael, whose family has run Horizon for more than 25 years, said: "The statements are obviously false, and it's our intention to prove that."
He said that while she moved out recently, the company never had a conversation about the post and never asked her to take it down.
"We're a sue first, ask questions later kind of an organization," he said, noting that the company manages 1,500 apartments in Chicago and has a good reputation it wants to preserve.
If there was so much news of significance to a substantial portion of the news watching public that it took 24 hours to report it all, then WE would be having issues far worse than deciding the payment methods for internet content. The 24 hour nature of news is more like a 24 hour convenience store. You certainly don't take 24 hours to do your shopping. The purpose is to be able to get stuff, be it a quick bite of junk food, or a quick bite of junk news, any time of any day.
And what part of the "internet economy" will these small free sites make up?
In much the same way that a term like "everyone says..." does not mean 100% of people, but a significant majority (even if their statement is false... just focusing on the meaning), Mr. Diller is talking about the majority of web sites the majority of people will habitually visit. Being able to show even hundreds of web sites that don't fit his description does not invalidate the meaning of what he says.
... was that you're not going to see content that is paid for through your ISP subscription. You pay the ISP for bandwidth. You pay a content provider to decide which bits are ones and zeros. He didn't rule out advertising as a means to pay for content. He didn't even rule out good-will as a means to pay (he just didn't figure in things like free open source because it's just not in his sphere of thinking).
Which of you readers of Slashdot is going to put up a popular web site and run it totally free to access and entirely devoid of content? And I don't mean some puny little personal blog page. I mean a major popular site with a million visits an hour. Unless you are already filthy rich and want to blow it on this, it ain't gonna happen. And if you do fit that category, the site still isn't free because whoever you ripped off to get rich is paying for it.
Slashdot Mirror
So pick a new name for it and start using that.
... at the top of the page http://flexcomm.com/.
Be sure to make a FULL DRIVE IMAGE backup of the hard drive that has Windows on it, before putting Linux on it, even if you have a restore DVD. You can do that with the Ubuntu install DVD by starting a command line terminal shell. The earlier you do this, the smaller the compressed result will be. Unless you want to make a full size image copy to an equal sized external drive, it is best to make a compressed copy. The bzip2 compression is smaller when there are lots of blocks that have not been used and still contain binary zeros, but it runs slower (several hours for a 250GB drive). The gzip compression is faster, but the result is larger.
A typical command (with some optimizing options shows) might be (after the place to save the image is mounted) might be (everything all on ONE command line despite how your browser splits it into two or more lines):
dd if=/dev/sda iflag=direct ibs=1048576 obs=16384 | bzip2 -9 > /media/windows-2009-08-14.img.bz2
Be sure to backup the WHOLE device (no number at the end of the device name for Linux users) and not a partition. BSD users will need to use a different device name.
Microsoft: Dell netbooks with Linux are being returned at 4 to 5 times the number of Dells with Windows.
Dell: Our netbooks are being returned for technical issues at the same rate regardless of the OS.
Uh ... they aren't talking about the same thing. What Microsoft is saying is NOT that netbooks with Linux are somehow broken, but rather, people are just unhappy with them and returning them (for replacement with a Windows version or money back). Dell seems to think the statement is claiming that Dell machines break more with Linux. Dell is probably pretty sensitive in that way for some reason like maybe they have a history of cheap hardware that breaks a lot. Microsoft is just trying to say that people who do try Linux find out they prefer Windows (which could be for one of many reasons, such as a favorite game is designed to only run on Windows and they didn't realize the issue until they tried to install it on Linux).
I recently bought a netbook (ASUS EEE). I specifically got one with Windows XP on it, instead of with Linux on it, despite my intention to use Linux on it. Since I plan to put my own Linux on it, the factory installed Linux does me no good as an alternative fallback OS. I image-copied the 16GB SSD (compressed down to 2.6GB) that had Windows on it to other storage media and saved a few copies of it. I verified that restoring it to the SSD even works (booting up after each restore, it goes into the "new user" setup again). Now if I ever need Windows for some reason, I can restore one of those images and I have it. Had I chosen the netbook with Linux, what I'd have would be Linux I could use instead of Linux.
My point here is that sales rates for netbooks with Windows will be higher for reasons that don't always involve Windows being the preferred OS. Because Linux has traditionally been "an Internet OS" (e.g. an OS you get by downloading it from the internet), this will always skew sales figures.
At least it's XP instead of Vista.
... the Slashdot logo?
Just take away his Fancy Feast.
why people don't teach kitty to encrypt their illicit stuff ?
The fix is to change the operating system.
Why piddle around with a mere 50 rows. Go for 200 BILLION digits (100 million per each of 2000 downloads).
2635622779696759818963956926355997625653382829357706805515232 / 838944787028681613144502774660896402692975681322322888764935
I have lots of better ones. But they'd probably break Slashdot to post them.
I'm sure not every Icelander was involved in this. Too bad they are all going to be suffering the effects for the stupid decisions of a bunch of capitalists and socialists.
That could be a cause. The site with the borked file needs to resynchronize. If they didn't use rsync, they might want to consider that.
Iceland was under "custody" shortly after the Nazis invaded Denmark during WW2, until the chose to become independent.
Here are the MD5 checksums I calculated for various downloads:
The difference impacts the rendering of the document beginning on page 16. It appears to have HTTP headers inserted into the file. The same difference is seen across these download programs: firefox, lynx, wget. There may be a bad replication to that site. Maybe they used a bad HTTP client.
Of course that can cost millions of dollars for a school building. But I heard of a theater that put one in while it was constructing the building (it's a lot cheaper then).
The Democrats promised change. So we are getting change.
The site I'm building now won't bitch if you have cookies off. But if you try to login, you'll find that subsequent requests will be handled as if you have not logged in. If the web ever gets a better login scheme standardized, implemented, and widely deployed, then maybe cookies won't be needed as a half-arsed way to achieve login sessions. Also, if you disabled Javascript, the site will not lay out nicely. But that will fall under the same "degrade gracefully" principle as if you disabled CSS.
From the Sun-Times article:
Jeffrey Michael, whose family has run Horizon for more than 25 years, said: "The statements are obviously false, and it's our intention to prove that."
He said that while she moved out recently, the company never had a conversation about the post and never asked her to take it down.
"We're a sue first, ask questions later kind of an organization," he said, noting that the company manages 1,500 apartments in Chicago and has a good reputation it wants to preserve.
How will anyone figure out if there really was mold or not? I'm sure the evidence has all been cleaned up by now.
Don't worry. I'm sure the Fourth Reich will come along before you know it...
Actually, it is the Nazis that prohibited Fraktur, on January 3, 1941, by government offices at least.
... the death of Blackletter.
If there was so much news of significance to a substantial portion of the news watching public that it took 24 hours to report it all, then WE would be having issues far worse than deciding the payment methods for internet content. The 24 hour nature of news is more like a 24 hour convenience store. You certainly don't take 24 hours to do your shopping. The purpose is to be able to get stuff, be it a quick bite of junk food, or a quick bite of junk news, any time of any day.
And what part of the "internet economy" will these small free sites make up? In much the same way that a term like "everyone says ..." does not mean 100% of people, but a significant majority (even if their statement is false ... just focusing on the meaning), Mr. Diller is talking about the majority of web sites the majority of people will habitually visit. Being able to show even hundreds of web sites that don't fit his description does not invalidate the meaning of what he says.
... was that you're not going to see content that is paid for through your ISP subscription. You pay the ISP for bandwidth. You pay a content provider to decide which bits are ones and zeros. He didn't rule out advertising as a means to pay for content. He didn't even rule out good-will as a means to pay (he just didn't figure in things like free open source because it's just not in his sphere of thinking).
Which of you readers of Slashdot is going to put up a popular web site and run it totally free to access and entirely devoid of content? And I don't mean some puny little personal blog page. I mean a major popular site with a million visits an hour. Unless you are already filthy rich and want to blow it on this, it ain't gonna happen. And if you do fit that category, the site still isn't free because whoever you ripped off to get rich is paying for it.
... at least in good weather during the day.