Thanks for the cheap relativity lesson...The original claim was "the single most important". You weakened it to "one of the most important". And thereby nearly prove my point.
I still think that F=ma is the most important, from the point of being used by the most people, for most things, every day.
I think the latest kernel comes with a microcode patch that fixes the erroneous calculation of your non-existence. But you still get nice framerates on the proto-fowl...;-|
It's not pseudo-science. Look at sea floor rocks (unless you think plate techtonics is also pseudo-science); as the plates spread and boiling hot magma surfaces, the igneous rocks solidify with tiny fricking magnets embedded in it. There are stripes of rocks that have their north and south poles in the wrong direction, indicating that the Earth's field had flipped at some time. The MTBF (mean time betwee flipping) is what gives people cause to say that the poles are due to flip "real soon now".
And for how many years did the x86 faithful deride the Mac motherboard for this very issue? It contained every thing you needed (in the day) without the need for extra PCI slots (audio, nic, etc)...
Ah, how the chickens come home to roost. The bottom line is quality of the parts on the motherboard.
From the article: Proper exploitation of this vulnerability leads to local privilege escalation giving an attacker full super-user privileges.
Now, I am not a hacker, but I think after I got local access via another exploit, I would use this current vulnerability to get root, install my back door/zombie code, etc. and leave quietly.
Gentoo has been available for the PPC for a while. Not sure if you knew this or were just advocating using Yellowdog (a fine distro in its own right).
The only reason I don't run Gentoo on my PPC is that the default install CD didn't recognize my Adaptec 2940 (? I think that's the card...?) that runs the only hard drive in my Power Tower (no snickering!). The PPC maintainer lamented having kernel panics related to SCSI drivers, so he decided to leave that out of the previous 1.4 release (though it's present in the 1.2 release...).
I use the wonderful part of ImageMagick called 'convert' which will rotate, resize, etc. All from the convenience of the CLI (or scripts). Heck it will even make animated gifs out of your images!
If you call anything in the last 2 years a mac, then sure, you probably have a good case for OS X being a better choice.
But what about my sweet Power Tower Pro with a 250 Mhz 604e chip? Am I supposed to be content with OS 8.1 (the last *officially* supported OS by Apple), or the dead end 9.x? Or try to run XpostFacto to get OS X to run? Nope.
My answer was YellowDog Linux. It discovered all the hardware and runs sweet. I can use apt-get to install/upgrade software (who cares if it's an RPM and not a DEB, aside from the politics?). Heck, mplayer even plays MPEG4 encoded avi's smoothly.
The choice is yours, but for my machine Linux has definitely resuscitated it!
Isn't simpler the Mac OS way? You want to select the file, click the icon (double click opens). You want to rename the file, click on the filename and type in the new one.
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Thanks for the cheap relativity lesson...The original claim was "the single most important". You weakened it to "one of the most important". And thereby nearly prove my point.
I still think that F=ma is the most important, from the point of being used by the most people, for most things, every day.
Quantum Physics is the single most successful theory in the history of science.
What about F = ma?
I think the latest kernel comes with a microcode patch that fixes the erroneous calculation of your non-existence. But you still get nice framerates on the proto-fowl...;-|
I'm using apt-get by Axel Thimm for my FC1 install running MythTV, not Debian.
Wow, I knew MythTV was big, but didn't realize it was its own distro now .
two words: homestarrunner.com
okay, three words. No one word with a suffix...nevermind.
It's not pseudo-science. Look at sea floor rocks (unless you think plate techtonics is also pseudo-science); as the plates spread and boiling hot magma surfaces, the igneous rocks solidify with tiny fricking magnets embedded in it. There are stripes of rocks that have their north and south poles in the wrong direction, indicating that the Earth's field had flipped at some time. The MTBF (mean time betwee flipping) is what gives people cause to say that the poles are due to flip "real soon now".
Not to be a spelling-nazi, but that's correlation. And repeat after me: correlation does not imply causation.
These guys beg to differ. And that's just one of the many examples you can get from google.
Increased solar radiance leads to a higher average global temperature.
The problem is not the number of extinctions (man, does that sound bad...), it's the rate at which they are occurring (d extinction/dt).
I don't know, what's your IP?
And for how many years did the x86 faithful deride the Mac motherboard for this very issue? It contained every thing you needed (in the day) without the need for extra PCI slots (audio, nic, etc)...
Ah, how the chickens come home to roost. The bottom line is quality of the parts on the motherboard.
The write up is a direct copy from the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Order of magnitude is dependent on the base of the number system. For computers, the base is 2 (binary), so a factor of two is an order of magnitude!
This hasn't been true for a while, and differentiates the "Old World" macs from the "New World" macs...
From the article: Proper exploitation of this vulnerability leads to local privilege escalation giving an attacker full super-user privileges.
Now, I am not a hacker, but I think after I got local access via another exploit, I would use this current vulnerability to get root, install my back door/zombie code, etc. and leave quietly.
Every exploit is serious.
... a real geek would have said gold-pressed latinum.
Gentoo has been available for the PPC for a while. Not sure if you knew this or were just advocating using Yellowdog (a fine distro in its own right).
The only reason I don't run Gentoo on my PPC is that the default install CD didn't recognize my Adaptec 2940 (? I think that's the card...?) that runs the only hard drive in my Power Tower (no snickering!). The PPC maintainer lamented having kernel panics related to SCSI drivers, so he decided to leave that out of the previous 1.4 release (though it's present in the 1.2 release...).
Go figure.
I use the wonderful part of ImageMagick called 'convert' which will rotate, resize, etc. All from the convenience of the CLI (or scripts). Heck it will even make animated gifs out of your images!
Try it, it's free.
1 Infinite Loop does not require infinite payments.
Thanks....I'll be here all week.
Yup, you got me. I keep thinking that my beige G3 (which *will not* run Panther) isn't that old. Actually it's about 6 years old.
Maybe when the dual 3 Ghz G5s come out, it'll be time to spend my tax refund.
I guess it depends on your definition of a Mac.
If you call anything in the last 2 years a mac, then sure, you probably have a good case for OS X being a better choice.
But what about my sweet Power Tower Pro with a 250 Mhz 604e chip? Am I supposed to be content with OS 8.1 (the last *officially* supported OS by Apple), or the dead end 9.x? Or try to run XpostFacto to get OS X to run? Nope.
My answer was YellowDog Linux. It discovered all the hardware and runs sweet. I can use apt-get to install/upgrade software (who cares if it's an RPM and not a DEB, aside from the politics?). Heck, mplayer even plays MPEG4 encoded avi's smoothly.
The choice is yours, but for my machine Linux has definitely resuscitated it!
Hey, if Bush would volunteer to get in a jump suit and fly to the sun, I would pay double the taxes I owe!
Then maybe would could fly that "Mission Accomplished" banner and have it mean something.
There is nothing fnord to see fnord here. Move along.
Isn't simpler the Mac OS way? You want to select the file, click the icon (double click opens). You want to rename the file, click on the filename and type in the new one.
two bits.
Seriously though, isn't this just akin to the real world where you don't open the door unless they know the secret knock?