also klibc and newlib could be interesting. Newlib especially since it is used for its portability and to make experimental OSes, klibc for being extremely small and minimal
It might be easier to add than to remove, leading to bloat over time and glibc has been around for a while. Also, building on old code might mean that you are limited in what you can change. For example, the modular design of LLVM has been a pretty big success and is considered easier to work with/develop than gcc.
For musl, I think they have decided to remove all legacy stuff + non-standard extensions.
For those curious about which "5000 packages" that build with musl, there is the awesome automated pkgsrc tests published:
http://wiki.musl-libc.org/wiki...
Is any of the P2P DNS solutions (and which one?) a viable alternative to the Google DNS or OpenDNS? Does anyone have experiences that they would like to share?
Both dubbing and re-casting with native actors take away a lot of the experience. I hate the brittish and american recasts of swedish films/series for example. For dubbing, it is quite clear that people in European countries not speaking one of the big languages (German, Spanish, French, Italian,...) are on average better in English thanks to sub titling of the original movies.
more like 1600 years old. The christian bible was assembled as a political compromize in the 400s - including the classical prayer clearly stating that Jesus was tortured at the cross (a way to exclude the gnostics from the definition of christians). Apparently there are a lot of texts available that were classified as herretic back then which are the same age as those included in the NT. According to some of the Jesus was a bully in his teens using his super powers....
then again....we could just as well discus our hero-of-preference from the Marvel universe....
I wonder if I could use the KDE on Windows effort on those asking for help with Windows 8 (right now i have just slapped classic shell on there). My "secret" hope would be that when they are comforable enough with KDE I could convert them to a proper OS (I usually give OpenSuse KDE to novice users but use Arch myself). The case for an alternative user-installed desktop environment has never been greater on Windows, so definitely an opportunity.
I have a perfectly fine multipage scanner here that doesn't have drivers for Windows 7 and the manufacturer is out of business. You do know that Windows 7 implemented driver signing right? So even if you do find a legacy driver it probably won't start because it won't be signed. And don't give me this "Linux is your route" because no driver exists for it there either. So my choices are toss a perfectly working, expensive at the time and in demand scanner just to update from a working OS to one that doesn't or stick with what is working.... Hmmmm Hard choice that one.
It would have helped if you mentioned brand and model. Perhaps people could have helped you out...
I can attest to that this also is a problem in academic (biomedical) research. We have two fairly expensive machines that originally were attached to a win 95 or 98. The controller software is 16-bit and I experience a lot of instability now that the computers gave up and got replaced by XP machines. Sadly the products are discontinued and the company merged/bought. As a Linux nerd I would have loved to have OSS drivers for these machines, but that will most likely never happen (too niche products for anyone with skills to care)
I am confused... But reasonably Satanist should also be considered Christians just rooting for the other team? Personally I would have thought that something more interesting could have been erected there.
BTW if I have understood philosophical satanism correctly, one of its core beliefs is that egoism is a virtue. That should make a good fit with some of the Republicans.
The thing I still use torrents for is to find really old stuff (we are talking 20s-50s here, mostly "horror"). There are lots of old gems to be found on TPB, which I do not think will ever be offered by any commercial streaming service. To be fair, most of those fringe downloads are abmyssably slow. Because of this, I still think that the torrents will fill a niche also when the true pirates have disappeared. It would be great if there was a repository with 1) legal now public domain movies (the old stuff) 2) old movies that can be considered "abandonware", where the rights were tracked in one way or another. This would be a cultural contribution similar to the "scan all books in the whole world" thing Google is doing.
The scary thing is that such information is already now witheld from the fathers also when the results are negative in standard genetic screenings (genetic risk assessments, donor profile,...). The positive part is that the frequencies are lower than commonly cited.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misattributed_paternity
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Who is't that can inform me? (of how low England has sunk)
And then it started like a guilty thing (soon Top Gear will be blocked)
O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
These tedious old fools!
I know what's rotten in Denmark: their cheeze smells like old feet
I built a model to calculate the fuel consumption of locomotives on 24 routes crossing the nation. on each route, i had a record every tenth of a mile that calculated instantaneous speed, acceleration, and power. rolled it all up to aggregate fuel economy, horsepower, etc. metrics. more than 10^6 records. power user, bitch.
Model building like that is probably better done in R anyway
I have not been using Windows since 2007 (luckily, at my job I can bring my own laptop and basically the only little issue there is is that I am using Zotero with Libre Office and most of my colleagues Endnote with Microsoft Office... In those cases I will have to take responsibility for smooth working and compatibility. I always do my presentations in PDF (hate animated crap anyway)). Basically, every time I now get in front of a Windows machine, the first two words that strike me are "confusing" (the ribbon stuff in Office) and "boring" (Windows feel like a box with just a few buttons to press, very limited) - on the other hand, I am a pathological distro-hopper (although being hopping-free for a few years thanks to Arch... but starting to get the feeling that I want to try something new again... perhaps Alpine) so I am not representative of the typical computer user.
As long as the kids get to know about it. I am surprised how few that are aware of its existence. I have this cognitive dissonance where everything I read on the internet revolves around open source in general and Linux in particular. Then when I talk to "normal" people they have never heard about it!
Does steam need root? I needed root to install it (like any piece of software) on Arch linux, but it runs at low privileges. Also if you run the windows version under Wine it is completely unprivileged and only active in your assigned WINEPREFIX.
Right now, there are only 3 countries in the world that are non-metric: US, Burma and Liberia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metrication_by_year_map.svg). Some have made a partial conversion, Brittain officially changed to the metric system partially but their street signs are still in miles. I think a conversion in the modern society needs to take its time due to all the legacy material (maps, cars etc). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Kingdom
And seriously, the Britts got lots of other standards compliance issues which probably hurts its consumers by more expensive custom-made products for that market, like cars made for left traffic and their own type of electrical plugs compared to the rest of EU.
As expected, lots of/.-ers fail to make the distinction between phages and (human-infecting) viruses...
Phages have been tested as an interesting alternative to antibiotics. One disadvantage has been that they are very specific, which means that one often would have to apply many strains in order to fight an unclassified infection. On the other hand, with the advent of metagenomics, it has become clear that the composition of our commensal bacteria in the gut and on other places are critical for our health (both mental and physical) and that there may be several diseases caused by messing with this ecosystem by too frequent use of antibiotics (overlays of antibiotic usage and several diseases (heart diseases, diabetes, psychological diseases) per geographic area actually fit pretty nicely).
An interesting application of phages could be to manipulate our commensal ecosystems in such a way that we ensure a "healthy" composition in our gut, lungs etc.
Since the phages themselves are not alive, I have no idea what such a treatment would be called. It is not an antibiotic and it is not a probiotic... parabiotic? Nah... I will leave that to the marketers.
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also klibc and newlib could be interesting. Newlib especially since it is used for its portability and to make experimental OSes, klibc for being extremely small and minimal
It might be easier to add than to remove, leading to bloat over time and glibc has been around for a while. Also, building on old code might mean that you are limited in what you can change. For example, the modular design of LLVM has been a pretty big success and is considered easier to work with/develop than gcc. For musl, I think they have decided to remove all legacy stuff + non-standard extensions.
For those curious about which "5000 packages" that build with musl, there is the awesome automated pkgsrc tests published: http://wiki.musl-libc.org/wiki...
simply convert to mp4?
Is any of the P2P DNS solutions (and which one?) a viable alternative to the Google DNS or OpenDNS? Does anyone have experiences that they would like to share?
I would rather see it based on Genode OS and the L4 microkernel
There are several real Plan9 variants and they are all FOSS (LPL is OSI approved) 9atom: http://9atom.org/ 9front: https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/ 9legacy: http://www.9legacy.org/ and the real bell labs distro: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
Both dubbing and re-casting with native actors take away a lot of the experience. I hate the brittish and american recasts of swedish films/series for example. For dubbing, it is quite clear that people in European countries not speaking one of the big languages (German, Spanish, French, Italian, ...) are on average better in English thanks to sub titling of the original movies.
more like 1600 years old. The christian bible was assembled as a political compromize in the 400s - including the classical prayer clearly stating that Jesus was tortured at the cross (a way to exclude the gnostics from the definition of christians). Apparently there are a lot of texts available that were classified as herretic back then which are the same age as those included in the NT. According to some of the Jesus was a bully in his teens using his super powers.... then again....we could just as well discus our hero-of-preference from the Marvel universe....
I wonder if I could use the KDE on Windows effort on those asking for help with Windows 8 (right now i have just slapped classic shell on there). My "secret" hope would be that when they are comforable enough with KDE I could convert them to a proper OS (I usually give OpenSuse KDE to novice users but use Arch myself). The case for an alternative user-installed desktop environment has never been greater on Windows, so definitely an opportunity.
#4 does... Namely legacy reasons.
I have a perfectly fine multipage scanner here that doesn't have drivers for Windows 7 and the manufacturer is out of business. You do know that Windows 7 implemented driver signing right? So even if you do find a legacy driver it probably won't start because it won't be signed. And don't give me this "Linux is your route" because no driver exists for it there either. So my choices are toss a perfectly working, expensive at the time and in demand scanner just to update from a working OS to one that doesn't or stick with what is working.... Hmmmm Hard choice that one.
It would have helped if you mentioned brand and model. Perhaps people could have helped you out...
I can attest to that this also is a problem in academic (biomedical) research. We have two fairly expensive machines that originally were attached to a win 95 or 98. The controller software is 16-bit and I experience a lot of instability now that the computers gave up and got replaced by XP machines. Sadly the products are discontinued and the company merged/bought. As a Linux nerd I would have loved to have OSS drivers for these machines, but that will most likely never happen (too niche products for anyone with skills to care)
I am confused... But reasonably Satanist should also be considered Christians just rooting for the other team? Personally I would have thought that something more interesting could have been erected there. BTW if I have understood philosophical satanism correctly, one of its core beliefs is that egoism is a virtue. That should make a good fit with some of the Republicans.
I also like amarok and was pleasantly surprised to find a shoutcast plugin after getting a bit nostalgic after the news of winamps demise got public.
obviously since the evidence of their existence was found in our genomes
The thing I still use torrents for is to find really old stuff (we are talking 20s-50s here, mostly "horror"). There are lots of old gems to be found on TPB, which I do not think will ever be offered by any commercial streaming service. To be fair, most of those fringe downloads are abmyssably slow. Because of this, I still think that the torrents will fill a niche also when the true pirates have disappeared. It would be great if there was a repository with 1) legal now public domain movies (the old stuff) 2) old movies that can be considered "abandonware", where the rights were tracked in one way or another. This would be a cultural contribution similar to the "scan all books in the whole world" thing Google is doing.
There has at least been some at getting some binutils replacements within the LLVM project. No idea how complete this is at the moment....
The scary thing is that such information is already now witheld from the fathers also when the results are negative in standard genetic screenings (genetic risk assessments, donor profile, ...). The positive part is that the frequencies are lower than commonly cited.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misattributed_paternity
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. This bodes some strange eruption to our state. Contagious blastments are most imminent. Who is't that can inform me? (of how low England has sunk) And then it started like a guilty thing (soon Top Gear will be blocked) O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! These tedious old fools!
I know what's rotten in Denmark: their cheeze smells like old feet
I built a model to calculate the fuel consumption of locomotives on 24 routes crossing the nation. on each route, i had a record every tenth of a mile that calculated instantaneous speed, acceleration, and power. rolled it all up to aggregate fuel economy, horsepower, etc. metrics. more than 10^6 records. power user, bitch.
Model building like that is probably better done in R anyway
I have not been using Windows since 2007 (luckily, at my job I can bring my own laptop and basically the only little issue there is is that I am using Zotero with Libre Office and most of my colleagues Endnote with Microsoft Office... In those cases I will have to take responsibility for smooth working and compatibility. I always do my presentations in PDF (hate animated crap anyway)). Basically, every time I now get in front of a Windows machine, the first two words that strike me are "confusing" (the ribbon stuff in Office) and "boring" (Windows feel like a box with just a few buttons to press, very limited) - on the other hand, I am a pathological distro-hopper (although being hopping-free for a few years thanks to Arch... but starting to get the feeling that I want to try something new again... perhaps Alpine) so I am not representative of the typical computer user.
As long as the kids get to know about it. I am surprised how few that are aware of its existence. I have this cognitive dissonance where everything I read on the internet revolves around open source in general and Linux in particular. Then when I talk to "normal" people they have never heard about it!
Does steam need root? I needed root to install it (like any piece of software) on Arch linux, but it runs at low privileges. Also if you run the windows version under Wine it is completely unprivileged and only active in your assigned WINEPREFIX.
Right now, there are only 3 countries in the world that are non-metric: US, Burma and Liberia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metrication_by_year_map.svg). Some have made a partial conversion, Brittain officially changed to the metric system partially but their street signs are still in miles. I think a conversion in the modern society needs to take its time due to all the legacy material (maps, cars etc). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Kingdom And seriously, the Britts got lots of other standards compliance issues which probably hurts its consumers by more expensive custom-made products for that market, like cars made for left traffic and their own type of electrical plugs compared to the rest of EU.
As expected, lots of /.-ers fail to make the distinction between phages and (human-infecting) viruses...
Phages have been tested as an interesting alternative to antibiotics. One disadvantage has been that they are very specific, which means that one often would have to apply many strains in order to fight an unclassified infection. On the other hand, with the advent of metagenomics, it has become clear that the composition of our commensal bacteria in the gut and on other places are critical for our health (both mental and physical) and that there may be several diseases caused by messing with this ecosystem by too frequent use of antibiotics (overlays of antibiotic usage and several diseases (heart diseases, diabetes, psychological diseases) per geographic area actually fit pretty nicely).
An interesting application of phages could be to manipulate our commensal ecosystems in such a way that we ensure a "healthy" composition in our gut, lungs etc.
Since the phages themselves are not alive, I have no idea what such a treatment would be called. It is not an antibiotic and it is not a probiotic... parabiotic? Nah... I will leave that to the marketers.