Actually, it's just a(n) (ana)cron job run once a week, which will immediately exit if it's disabled, so it's not really even true to say it's "running and collecting data", unless by "collecting data" you just mean dpkg remembering what's installed on your system:)
It's certainly a long time since disk heads had to parked manually - you shouldn't ever see damage to the disk itself from a power failure. The usual source of data loss is OS and drive controller caching.
It's believed that perhaps two capricolum cells fuse around a mycoides genome, but no evidence to support this claim is given in the paper. I haven't read the paper (not interested enough to pay £££ for it), but there was this in TFA: "They suspect that cell fusion may play an important role in mediating the transplant due to the optimal concentrations of fusion solution." I don't know whether they tried running the experiment multiple times with different concentrations (including zero) of this agent, but if so, a correlation between the concentration and the number of bacteria that survive the antibiotic would be circumstantial evidence in favour the suggested mechanism..
Nowadays, I just give people a Ubuntu live install to try, I tell them it will probably be a bit slow running of the CD or DVD and to focus on the way it works rather than the speed.
Don't forget Wubi. It's a nice compromise between buttock-clenchingly slow live CDs, and repartitioning..
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Actually, IE7 apparently strips the query string, which is more than FF2 does in enhanced mode. Still, I'm stuck on Win2K, so I have no choice over which to use..
Anyone who's been sat next to a noisy server has probably been doing this for years. I found I became rapidly attuned to normal disk activity patterns, and could detect unusual goings on very quickly.
I also used to be able to recognise the connect speed of analogue modems by listening the negotiation, but that was many moons ago..
If you chose to be good at science or math, you may have automatically chosen to be unpopular with the other groups.
At school, possibly, but life goes on after school. IME, most people tend to relax their group boundaries after they hit 18, particularly if they go on to university / college, etc.
There are also many social / leadership styles, and they don't all involve "maintaining an image." Quiet self-possession often allows one to, as the Taoists say, "lead from behind." A well timed comment or suggestion can carry a lot of influence, though the people so affected may not realize who has actually done it - don't expect kudos!
Alternatively, aim for power and control first (become reasonably senior in an organization, or start your own business), and then treat your subordinates well enough that they like you, but without letting them take liberties. To quote Larry Wall, "there's more than one way to do it"!
Unfortunately, leadership has become something of a dirty word in left-leaning circles. It doesn't have to mean tyranical dictatorship and corruption. At the end of the day, humans are herd / group animals, and most people will look to somebody else to make decisions and take risks for them. Sadly, many of the people with the potential to be a firm hand on the tiller have had such a shitty time during their youth that they don't believe in themselves.
What are the benefits to being "a brain"? What are the benefits to just getting along?
A reasonable point.
The Taoist approach, of course, is to do both. Social issues are not that hard to pick up if you have sufficient motivation, and are rarely so complex that they suck away more than a tiny percentage of one's mental cycles, at least once you've figured out good heuristics.
I suspect that most smart geeks actually have a lot of leadership potential, given sufficient self-confidence — and, of course, motivation.
But for those "few" of us who are interested in things technical or creative, we have an unprecedented opportunity. Assuming you can find a moderately stree-free way of earning a reasonable income (not always straightforward given the climate in many modern workplaces), then the time-saving technologies available allow you more hours a week to pursue the stuff that really interests you, and to leverage those hours to be more productive. Finding solutions to technical queries was much harder before the net (Fidonet Echomail was horrendously slow <g>)
Incidentally, most of the rest are perhaps not as decadent as they might look to a depressed geek; they just need a little leadership. It's actually not that hard to do, it just takes subtlety, and overcoming the fear of / antipathy towards the "herd" that thinking people tend — quite reasonably — to develop at an early age.
No, but they are the main fields that have obvious "right" answers, or at least, obvious quality metrics. The plane flies, or it doesn't. The nuclear power plant works, or it melts down:)
The judgement of quality in purely artistic fields is very subjective. All artists have been exposed to different cultural backgrounds, and their work is almost always a refinement or growth of what they've previously came across. Subjects like history or classics, while being more analytical, are again difficult to measure because nobody can travel back in time and get a definitive description of past events or the reasons for them.
Application of Hanlon's razor is appropriate here, I think. Put down the Dan Brown novels.
Do you really imagine Blair, Brown, et al. really consciously want a bunch of mindless zombies when they could have a population of intelligent, creative people who could solve the country's problems and revitalize the economy? Of course not. There Is No (Deliberate) Conspiracy. The problem is simply that people in power generally don't understand how to get what they want. The most obvious technique available to someone with the power to legislate is to control, so this is what they do. Sometimes in the short term it even works, but in the end it always creates a rigid, inflexible system composed of people who expect someone else to do their thinking for them, that cannot react to change.
The best thing (IMNSHO) way of achieving success is to gently relax the controls, while at the same time trying to "nucleate" creativity and lateral thinking. Much easier said then done — particularly in the current climate — but in the long term, the only way to go.
Obviously SetAbortProc should not be implemented for WMF playback, but assuming somebody screwed up and just called the normal version of Escape(), could the behaviour we're seeing here not somehow be the result of not checking the validity of the length parameter properly, performing some arithmetic on it, and possibly falling through to some other code that happens to a jump or call?
Years ago (5?) I attended a Linux conference in London, and met a lady from SGI (I think) who was talking about adding in this capability. As well as just granting applications the minimum level of "permissions" required to accomplish a task, there was also a complementary concept of "trust", based on the sources of data an application accessed. The idea being that something like Firefox which pulls in a lot of potentially unreliable from all over the internet would in turn not be trusted by other more vulnerable parts of the system, right down to the files it created, etc., etc.
I don't know whether anything like this ever made it into the kernel, or any set of add ons; I'd be curious to know...
I don't approve of spelling _flames_, but I think correct spelling is important. Why? Because I don't think most people read phonetically - they read by some sort of visual recognition. Sure, I can figure out that "sence" means "sense", but it slows me up a bit. I have the same problem with spurious apostrophes - I automatically look for a noun to bind to the possessive, and it throws me if there isn't one.
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Check the comments .. the author meant Rhythmbox, apparently.
Actually, it's just a(n) (ana)cron job run once a week, which will immediately exit if it's disabled, so it's not really even true to say it's "running and collecting data", unless by "collecting data" you just mean dpkg remembering what's installed on your system :)
I've certainly seen the question asked from the graphical installer, near the end, dunno about alternate installs, upgrades from old versions, etc.
If you want to check, it's run weekly from /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest. Looking at that file:
The default file in /usr sets PARTICIPATE to no, if that's not overriden by the version in /etc, it's not going run.
Sounds like Linux isn't the only OS that could benefit from network channels ..
It's certainly a long time since disk heads had to parked manually - you shouldn't ever see damage to the disk itself from a power failure. The usual source of data loss is OS and drive controller caching.
Nowadays, I just give people a Ubuntu live install to try, I tell them it will probably be a bit slow running of the CD or DVD and to focus on the way it works rather than the speed.
Don't forget Wubi. It's a nice compromise between buttock-clenchingly slow live CDs, and repartitioning ..
RTFGPL Myths.
The feature spec notes this as well. Might be a good page for monitoring ...
According to this, feisty will switch fully to the new system, but I haven't mention of it in more recent release notes ...
Actually, IE7 apparently strips the query string, which is more than FF2 does in enhanced mode. Still, I'm stuck on Win2K, so I have no choice over which to use ..
Do you want to explain to them what a "lay by" is, as well? ;-)
Anyone who's been sat next to a noisy server has probably been doing this for years. I found I became rapidly attuned to normal disk activity patterns, and could detect unusual goings on very quickly.
I also used to be able to recognise the connect speed of analogue modems by listening the negotiation, but that was many moons ago..
If you chose to be good at science or math, you may have automatically chosen to be unpopular with the other groups.
At school, possibly, but life goes on after school. IME, most people tend to relax their group boundaries after they hit 18, particularly if they go on to university / college, etc.
There are also many social / leadership styles, and they don't all involve "maintaining an image." Quiet self-possession often allows one to, as the Taoists say, "lead from behind." A well timed comment or suggestion can carry a lot of influence, though the people so affected may not realize who has actually done it - don't expect kudos!
Alternatively, aim for power and control first (become reasonably senior in an organization, or start your own business), and then treat your subordinates well enough that they like you, but without letting them take liberties. To quote Larry Wall, "there's more than one way to do it"!
Unfortunately, leadership has become something of a dirty word in left-leaning circles. It doesn't have to mean tyranical dictatorship and corruption. At the end of the day, humans are herd / group animals, and most people will look to somebody else to make decisions and take risks for them. Sadly, many of the people with the potential to be a firm hand on the tiller have had such a shitty time during their youth that they don't believe in themselves.
What are the benefits to being "a brain"?
What are the benefits to just getting along?
A reasonable point.
The Taoist approach, of course, is to do both. Social issues are not that hard to pick up if you have sufficient motivation, and are rarely so complex that they suck away more than a tiny percentage of one's mental cycles, at least once you've figured out good heuristics.
I suspect that most smart geeks actually have a lot of leadership potential, given sufficient self-confidence — and, of course, motivation.
But for those "few" of us who are interested in things technical or creative, we have an unprecedented opportunity. Assuming you can find a moderately stree-free way of earning a reasonable income (not always straightforward given the climate in many modern workplaces), then the time-saving technologies available allow you more hours a week to pursue the stuff that really interests you, and to leverage those hours to be more productive. Finding solutions to technical queries was much harder before the net (Fidonet Echomail was horrendously slow <g>)
Incidentally, most of the rest are perhaps not as decadent as they might look to a depressed geek; they just need a little leadership. It's actually not that hard to do, it just takes subtlety, and overcoming the fear of / antipathy towards the "herd" that thinking people tend — quite reasonably — to develop at an early age.
No, but they are the main fields that have obvious "right" answers, or at least, obvious quality metrics. The plane flies, or it doesn't. The nuclear power plant works, or it melts down :)
The judgement of quality in purely artistic fields is very subjective. All artists have been exposed to different cultural backgrounds, and their work is almost always a refinement or growth of what they've previously came across. Subjects like history or classics, while being more analytical, are again difficult to measure because nobody can travel back in time and get a definitive description of past events or the reasons for them.
Application of Hanlon's razor is appropriate here, I think. Put down the Dan Brown novels.
Do you really imagine Blair, Brown, et al. really consciously want a bunch of mindless zombies when they could have a population of intelligent, creative people who could solve the country's problems and revitalize the economy? Of course not. There Is No (Deliberate) Conspiracy. The problem is simply that people in power generally don't understand how to get what they want. The most obvious technique available to someone with the power to legislate is to control, so this is what they do. Sometimes in the short term it even works, but in the end it always creates a rigid, inflexible system composed of people who expect someone else to do their thinking for them, that cannot react to change.
The best thing (IMNSHO) way of achieving success is to gently relax the controls, while at the same time trying to "nucleate" creativity and lateral thinking. Much easier said then done — particularly in the current climate — but in the long term, the only way to go.
All programs evolve until they can read mail. All languages evolve until they approximate LISP (albeit with syntax) ;-)
Obviously SetAbortProc should not be implemented for WMF playback, but assuming somebody screwed up and just called the normal version of Escape(), could the behaviour we're seeing here not somehow be the result of not checking the validity of the length parameter properly, performing some arithmetic on it, and possibly falling through to some other code that happens to a jump or call?
Years ago (5?) I attended a Linux conference in London, and met a lady from SGI (I think) who was talking about adding in this capability. As well as just granting applications the minimum level of "permissions" required to accomplish a task, there was also a complementary concept of "trust", based on the sources of data an application accessed. The idea being that something like Firefox which pulls in a lot of potentially unreliable from all over the internet would in turn not be trusted by other more vulnerable parts of the system, right down to the files it created, etc., etc. I don't know whether anything like this ever made it into the kernel, or any set of add ons; I'd be curious to know ...
I don't approve of spelling _flames_, but I think correct spelling is important. Why? Because I don't think most people read phonetically - they read by some sort of visual recognition. Sure, I can figure out that "sence" means "sense", but it slows me up a bit. I have the same problem with spurious apostrophes - I automatically look for a noun to bind to the possessive, and it throws me if there isn't one.
What's the point of multiplexing different data streams over a single connection? Why not let TCP do the hard work, that's what it's there for...
i think i speak for most of the windows users on slashdot as i say:
huh?
Yeah, Windows users seem to say that a lot..
:-)