One way to sort it out is to write a script that calls xrandr every time you login.
For example, I have a retarded LCD panel that gives broken EDID, so Xorg guesses (wrongly) at its resolution. This puts things right for me:
#!/bin/sh
xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x1024
xrandr --output DVI-0 --pos 1280x304 --mode 1280x720
gconftool-2 --type integer -s/apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel/monitor 1
But yes, this sort of jiggery-pokery shouldn't be necessary. Have you filed a bug in Launchpad?
That's funny, I'm pretty sure the HP drivers that came with my system are much smaller than that. Let me have a look....
....ah, yes: 8.7MB
$ yum info hplip ...
Name : hplip
Arch : x86_64
Version : 3.10.6
Release : 1.fc13
Size : 8.7 M
Repo : installed
From repo : updates
Summary : HP Linux Imaging and Printing Project
URL : http://hplip.sourceforge.net/
License : GPLv2+ and MIT
Description : The Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing Project provides
: drivers for HP printers and multi-function peripherals.
Oh, do you have to go to a manufacturer's website to download your printer driver along with whatever crapware they stuff into it? How antiquated...
In the UK, all of the above cases (except for using a pencil, which is fine) count as a spoiled ballot, and are not counted as votes. If you do accidentally spoil your ballot (like putting an X in the wrong box), then you simply take your ballot paper to the polling officer, who destroys it and hands you a fresh one.
The problem with hanging chads is that a voter may punch the correct part of the paper, but the punch is incomplete - often through no fault of their own. With pen(cil) and paper, it's easy to tell if you made a mistake. With a punch, it may not be so obvious.
Hanging chads are not a problem with paper voting. They are a problem with inappropriate technology. Why punch a bit of paper when you could simply use a pen to make an X in a box?
And changing the day of the month too! No spammer would guess that Joanie wasn't really born on the 3rd of July, 2010. Or maybe the 20th of October 1937.
AFAIK, the US is already covered by USGS maps at similar scales to GB OS. All they need to do is print a grid on there - total cost would be a tiny tiny fraction of the cost of survey. It's such a simple idea - and one that's been around for 150 years - I'm amazed more countries don't have a similar system.
The OS maps are the best in the world. Although the Swiss Landeskarte der Schweiz 1:25k maps are very, very pretty.
In the Alps, where mountain rescue helicopters are usually privately owned and run, a year's mountain rescue insurance cover, often included as part of membership of a mountaineering club, costs around €50 ($60). Not outside the realm of affordability, even for those on low incomes. No need to demonstrate experience, preparedness etc.
That should be "...move _to_ a country..." of course. The original suggestion might be quite difficult (although if you could tow Great Britain a few hundred miles further south that would be much appreciated).
Parent is correct. The Taxpayers Alliance are a right-wing lobby group which routinely sends out highly biased and inaccurate press releases which somehow frequently make newspaper headlines.
BTW, "socialist" isn't an insult in civilised countries...
b3ta.com is the place that the maker posted the video first. All the PC Pro article does is tell you that sometimes there are naughty pictures on b3ta and btw lego is great. That's hardly adding value.
I recommend exploring b3ta if you don't know it. Start with the newsletter, then dip a toe into the waters of the image challenge. And everything SpankyHanky says is lies, albeit highly entertaining lies.
You would have had to pay $20 000 from your own pocket (that's equivalent to my entire yearly income) for a potentially life-saving diagnostic test? Can someone explain to me again why there is so much opposition in the USA to state-funded healthcare?
Yes, er, other "problems". Like, er, let's stop the weather. Seriously. Climatology is OBSERVATION and INTERPRETATION. What the fuck do you think it is, precision science? Satellites all over the world and they still don't know with certainty which direction the hurricane will move in the next 24 hours. Give me a fucking break. Next you're going to convince me that a doctorate in philosophy has practical use in the world.
Climatology also involves modelling, and using observation to confirm or refute the predictions made by those models, leading to refinements of the models and more accurate predictions. Rather like many other sciences such as meteorology (yer actual weather forecasting), which although it has a lot in common with climatology is not the same (a bit like mechanical engineering and car repair)
Carbon dating absolutely does NOT work that way. A CO2 molecule's age can ABSOLUTELY NOT be determined. The "age" of CO2 in the atmosphere can ABSOLUTELY NOT be determined.
Not one molecule, no. But there are a slightly mind-bogglingly large number of CO2 molecules in every breath you take. The carbon isotope ratio of an atmospheric sample can indeed be used to determine the "age" of the carbon in that sample, in the same way that carbon dating works with archeological samples. The wikipedia article is a good place to start learning about this.
I have no vested interest in whether anthropogenic global warming is real, beyond wanting a future for my children not marred by wars over land and water. I however honestly can't see any way that burning large amounts of fossil fuels could not increase the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and as far as I can tell it is indisputable that atmospheric CO2 contributes to heat retention - that particular debate was settled over a century ago.
Your ranting about taxes and regulation should be directed at your government, as it irrelevant to what scientists measure (although what scientists measure is obviously very relevant to any regulatory regime - evidence based policy is superior to policy based evidence)
Yes, Win7 still boots for some, and that is an unacceptable security risk. The inbuilt malware is pretty scary, and most antivirus programs will not detect it.
Don't worry, McAfee will neutralise that particular malware installation just fine
Except typically a VM on a desktop machine does not have access to hardware graphics acceleration on the host, making gaming problematic (anyone know how to get Direct3D games working in a windows guest under KVM/libvirt?)
Marks and Spencer in St Pancras Station, London, accepts cash payment in Euros, but not Scottish pounds sterling. I can understand why they would accept Euros (St Pancras is the terminal for the Eurostar train to the continent) but if you're training your staff to recognise foreign currency, it ought to be trivial to train them to also recognise domestic currency too.
On that note, a game involving binge drinking, violence, knife crime, teenage pregnancy, police brutality and political corruption would definitely promote "Britishness" at the moment, but I can't see Our Glorious Leaders giving it the official stamp of approval...
Yes, because let's not forget that Britain Is Broken. You can't even walk down the street without getting drunk then stabbed and made pregnant by a teenage asylum seeking terrorist high on drugs bought with generous handouts from Gordon "Stalin" Brown.
I wish all the whinging bloody Daily Fail reading UKIP voting morons would fuck off to their villas in Spain (apparently it's only immigration when furriners come here, tax dodging ex-pats polluting someone else's country with their idiocy and refusal to speak the local language are ok) and let the rest of us get on with our lives without their relentless tide of misery.
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One way to sort it out is to write a script that calls xrandr every time you login.
For example, I have a retarded LCD panel that gives broken EDID, so Xorg guesses (wrongly) at its resolution. This puts things right for me: /apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel/monitor 1
#!/bin/sh
xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x1024
xrandr --output DVI-0 --pos 1280x304 --mode 1280x720
gconftool-2 --type integer -s
But yes, this sort of jiggery-pokery shouldn't be necessary. Have you filed a bug in Launchpad?
That's funny, I'm pretty sure the HP drivers that came with my system are much smaller than that. Let me have a look....
....ah, yes: 8.7MB
$ yum info hplip
...
Name : hplip
Arch : x86_64
Version : 3.10.6
Release : 1.fc13
Size : 8.7 M
Repo : installed
From repo : updates
Summary : HP Linux Imaging and Printing Project
URL : http://hplip.sourceforge.net/
License : GPLv2+ and MIT
Description : The Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing Project provides : drivers for HP printers and multi-function peripherals.
Oh, do you have to go to a manufacturer's website to download your printer driver along with whatever crapware they stuff into it? How antiquated...
In the UK, all of the above cases (except for using a pencil, which is fine) count as a spoiled ballot, and are not counted as votes. If you do accidentally spoil your ballot (like putting an X in the wrong box), then you simply take your ballot paper to the polling officer, who destroys it and hands you a fresh one.
The problem with hanging chads is that a voter may punch the correct part of the paper, but the punch is incomplete - often through no fault of their own. With pen(cil) and paper, it's easy to tell if you made a mistake. With a punch, it may not be so obvious.
Hanging chads are not a problem with paper voting. They are a problem with inappropriate technology. Why punch a bit of paper when you could simply use a pen to make an X in a box?
And changing the day of the month too! No spammer would guess that Joanie wasn't really born on the 3rd of July, 2010. Or maybe the 20th of October 1937.
AFAIK, the US is already covered by USGS maps at similar scales to GB OS. All they need to do is print a grid on there - total cost would be a tiny tiny fraction of the cost of survey. It's such a simple idea - and one that's been around for 150 years - I'm amazed more countries don't have a similar system.
The OS maps are the best in the world. Although the Swiss Landeskarte der Schweiz 1:25k maps are very, very pretty.
In the Alps, where mountain rescue helicopters are usually privately owned and run, a year's mountain rescue insurance cover, often included as part of membership of a mountaineering club, costs around €50 ($60). Not outside the realm of affordability, even for those on low incomes. No need to demonstrate experience, preparedness etc.
That should be "...move _to_ a country..." of course. The original suggestion might be quite difficult (although if you could tow Great Britain a few hundred miles further south that would be much appreciated).
I recommend that you move a country where public health services are free at the point of delivery, funded by general taxation.
Parent is correct. The Taxpayers Alliance are a right-wing lobby group which routinely sends out highly biased and inaccurate press releases which somehow frequently make newspaper headlines.
BTW, "socialist" isn't an insult in civilised countries...
I find smiles, rainbows and unicorns incredibly offensive, you insensitive clod.
At least you didn't recommend comic sans.
b3ta.com is the place that the maker posted the video first. All the PC Pro article does is tell you that sometimes there are naughty pictures on b3ta and btw lego is great. That's hardly adding value.
I recommend exploring b3ta if you don't know it. Start with the newsletter, then dip a toe into the waters of the image challenge. And everything SpankyHanky says is lies, albeit highly entertaining lies.
In my country prescription pharmaceuticals are not directly advertised to consumers. This is a Good Thing.
You would have had to pay $20 000 from your own pocket (that's equivalent to my entire yearly income) for a potentially life-saving diagnostic test? Can someone explain to me again why there is so much opposition in the USA to state-funded healthcare?
I can't be bothered to look it up, but how many presidents not elected in a xxx0 year died in office?
You insensitive cold.
Having no heart would tend to make one cold and insensitive.
And dead.
Yes, er, other "problems". Like, er, let's stop the weather. Seriously. Climatology is OBSERVATION and INTERPRETATION. What the fuck do you think it is, precision science? Satellites all over the world and they still don't know with certainty which direction the hurricane will move in the next 24 hours. Give me a fucking break. Next you're going to convince me that a doctorate in philosophy has practical use in the world.
Climatology also involves modelling, and using observation to confirm or refute the predictions made by those models, leading to refinements of the models and more accurate predictions. Rather like many other sciences such as meteorology (yer actual weather forecasting), which although it has a lot in common with climatology is not the same (a bit like mechanical engineering and car repair)
Carbon dating absolutely does NOT work that way. A CO2 molecule's age can ABSOLUTELY NOT be determined. The "age" of CO2 in the atmosphere can ABSOLUTELY NOT be determined.
Not one molecule, no. But there are a slightly mind-bogglingly large number of CO2 molecules in every breath you take. The carbon isotope ratio of an atmospheric sample can indeed be used to determine the "age" of the carbon in that sample, in the same way that carbon dating works with archeological samples. The wikipedia article is a good place to start learning about this.
I have no vested interest in whether anthropogenic global warming is real, beyond wanting a future for my children not marred by wars over land and water. I however honestly can't see any way that burning large amounts of fossil fuels could not increase the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and as far as I can tell it is indisputable that atmospheric CO2 contributes to heat retention - that particular debate was settled over a century ago.
Your ranting about taxes and regulation should be directed at your government, as it irrelevant to what scientists measure (although what scientists measure is obviously very relevant to any regulatory regime - evidence based policy is superior to policy based evidence)
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Fedora is.
Yes, Win7 still boots for some, and that is an unacceptable security risk. The inbuilt malware is pretty scary, and most antivirus programs will not detect it.
Don't worry, McAfee will neutralise that particular malware installation just fine
Except typically a VM on a desktop machine does not have access to hardware graphics acceleration on the host, making gaming problematic (anyone know how to get Direct3D games working in a windows guest under KVM/libvirt?)
Get off my lawn!
Marks and Spencer in St Pancras Station, London, accepts cash payment in Euros, but not Scottish pounds sterling. I can understand why they would accept Euros (St Pancras is the terminal for the Eurostar train to the continent) but if you're training your staff to recognise foreign currency, it ought to be trivial to train them to also recognise domestic currency too.
On that note, a game involving binge drinking, violence, knife crime, teenage pregnancy, police brutality and political corruption would definitely promote "Britishness" at the moment, but I can't see Our Glorious Leaders giving it the official stamp of approval...
Yes, because let's not forget that Britain Is Broken. You can't even walk down the street without getting drunk then stabbed and made pregnant by a teenage asylum seeking terrorist high on drugs bought with generous handouts from Gordon "Stalin" Brown.
I wish all the whinging bloody Daily Fail reading UKIP voting morons would fuck off to their villas in Spain (apparently it's only immigration when furriners come here, tax dodging ex-pats polluting someone else's country with their idiocy and refusal to speak the local language are ok) and let the rest of us get on with our lives without their relentless tide of misery.
From Facebook's Terms of Use:
So, given that there are no sex offenders or children on facebook, what's the big deal?