Please RTFS ( read the fine synopsis) before posting. Scientists in Nebraska made the 10 Kelvin plastic magnet 3 years ago. The one from Durham works at room temp.
Well, I don't have any portable media players or memory card readers but I do have a couple of IDE to USB portable drives where you can swap in ( or out) hard drives or CD-RW. These have all worked flawlessly with Linux - my largest drive once had 9 different partitions with 6 different filesystems and all were accessible. You might get more info here: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/USB_Car d_Reade rs
I suggest that you download the Knoppix LiveCD to test for peripheral support under Linux. I don't doubt that you'll be pleasantly surprised as to the hardware that'll work without problems. http://www.knoppix.org/ Best of Luck!!
WinFS isn't really a file system; it's a way of better organizing data on top of NTFS. From what I've read, BeOS ( which I really miss) had a similar concept for it's own filesystem. There is a GNOME project called Storage that's implementing something similar to WinFS for Linux ( http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage/ ). It's currently in early alpha stage. MacOS X already has a similar search technology called Spotlight ( http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/spotlight.html). Also, the newly released Reiser4 filesystem ( www.namesys.com ) should make implementing this on Linux much easier.
When was the last time you used a Linux distro, and which one and version was it? Hardware support in Linux has been very good for several years. Yes, there is a lot of hardware that isn't supported but you can almost always find equivalent hardware that is. More and more, hardware manufacturers are directly supporting Linux or are providing enough info for others to do it well. While Slashdot does have a big Linux bias, many criticisms of Linux are posted either by those who don't know what it is NOW capable of or are longtime Wintel zealots who've been posting the same diatribes against Linux for years.
Well, I bet there are a lot of people who've never failed chemistry who didn't know what a sterically hindered polyester is. I'm also sure that there are a ton of smart chemistry students who, thanks to your pedantic "explanation" are no wiser.
I hope that you don't plan to teach chemistry to anyone who doesn't already know it. Not everyone has studied organic chemistry.
How did this get modded up so highly? Yes, it was a boneheaded decision by Netgear engineers to hardcode an NTP server address but they did work with the University and release a firmware fix in a respectable timeframe. Unfortunately, without a way to force an upgrade, the NTP flooding may continue for years. The real lesson here, which in this day and age should be second nature, is that HARDCODING is BAD!! Especially, hardcoding ONE source that will be used by hundreds of thousands of clients. The engineer(s) responsible should have been bitchslapped once per second for every flawed router.
Actually, one of Opera coolest features, which it's had since version 2 is scaling down a page for printing. I've found this to be useful feature for web pages, especially ones that have tables.
There was an online desktop that was offering free trials back in '98 but I can't recall the name and they probably folded when the tech boom went bust. They MIGHT have been called thinkoffice.com. I don't believe they had collaboration features, though. Here is an IBM announcement along the same lines as MSFT made in early April: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,20 00061733,39147117,00.htm
What are you talking about? We aren't talking about closing the door on anyone. It's our own doors that we're trying to keep open. It seems that companies are always trying to move ANY job they can to where it's cheaper. They aren't doing this to better the lives of overseas workers; if it does, they get to look good. If it doesn't, well they'll downplay it. Look, I guess outsourcing programmming is relatively innocuous but there have been a lot of jobs that have been moved overseas that have hurt both the people who lost those jobs AND those who gained them. My point was that, in most cases, those who profit most were those who really had the least need - the people on top. By the way, I'm looking forward to trying out Reiser4.
EXACTLY!! Unfortunately, the only jobs they don't try to outsource are the executives ( honestly, they should try harder) and, those newly-freed up resources - usually cash - go into the bigwigs pockets in one of two ways. First, they get bigger raises, expense accounts, golden parachutes for reducing the company payroll. Second, the stock exchanges usually reward the newly productive company with an increase in share price, making those executive stock options more valuable. It's win-win if you have the key to the big boys' bathroom.
Well, another way this kind of error could be generated is if the file suddenly exceeded the maximum file size that either the application or the operating system could handle. But, in any case, this should have been the work of a half-day or, at worst, a weekend to find. They really need to work on their bug-finding skills.
Agreed. I see anything touting of a hydrogen economy by politicians as dodging the immediate issues. It always seems that the promises will bear fruit AFTER the next election. Funny how that always seems to be the case. Until H2 storage problems are solved, all of this is a pipe dream. Make the switch to biodiesel blends, add ethanol to every tank of gasoline and insist on low-sulphur fuels NOW, not tomorrow, not next week,not 3 years from now and the atmosphere will take care of itself.
We, the Linux fanboys, are impressed that you managed to remove your tongue from Bill Gates' asshole long enough to type 2 sentences. Thank you. Now, please go back to what you were doing; it's not nice to keep Mr. Gates waiting. After all, the world's wealthiest hypocrite can hardly be expected to wipe his own ass. And, rightly so, when he has so many willing sycophants.
Peter Engel's book, Folding the Universe, is the most interesting book on origami that I've ever read. The first half of the book is almost like a Godel, Escher, Bach for Origami. The models are simply terrific but most of them are ONLY for advanced folders.
Not bad but, for the record, sudo is pronounced "soo-doo". See the last question on the following page: http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/troubleshooting.html
I'd rather that someone conserve in the short term rather than take the long term view, when that view is usually something like "We'll find more resources, or increased efficiency will solve that problem". Natural resources have to be MANAGED. And, there are other ways to get wood pulp than raping the under-developed world when you're blocked in North America. There are hundreds of sites worldwide where forests have been flooded by hydro-electric projects. Why not just harvest those trees instead of clear-cutting old growth forests? Yes, you'll have to cut underwater but you won't have to worry of trees falling and having to transport them out of the forest since most will float to the surface and you can collect them downriver. Also, a lot of the changes that enviros fear most have critical mass - once they've progressed to a certain point, it takes a great deal of time for the changes to be reversed. We need to take a look at the TOTAL cost of doing (or not doing) something. Not just what it'll cost the company, not just what the loss of a resource may cost but also the cost in terms of human life or health and the rate at which changes can be reversed, if at all.
So these aliens have no idea of the concept if reconnaisance? Also, didn't one of these superbeings jump onto the roof of a 15 foot home? A swift kick or two should have gotten him out of that pantry in record time.
I made the wise choice of waiting till it came to the small screen. That way, I was able to vomit in the privacy of my own home. It's hard to believe that this was the work of the same man who made the Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.
I think that the studio must have truncated the original title of the movie from "Signs that there are no Intelligent Lifeforms in the Audience"
If the only thing they got wrong was the ending, that was a book that never should have been printed, let alone made into a movie. I haven't read any Stephen King in a long time and it looks like I haven't missed anything. Dreamcatcher gets my vote as well as an Honorable Mention for "Best Cast in a Truly Rotten Stinker".
This appears to be perl-based and Damian Conway, Randal Schwartz and Aeleen Frisch are/were advisors. But, it doesn't seem that much has been done in over 2 years. They did have a writeup in SysAdmin mag, back when they first started.
You've listed their revenue for the most recent quarter vs IBM's ANNUAL revenue. So the true difference in revenue is a factor of THREE not a factor of TEN.
I remember seeing an article a long time ago in one of the american science magazines about an attempt to make microscopic vacuum tubes to replace electronics in hostile environments, especially ones with very high radiation. Don't know what came of it as I never heard about it again. IIRC, this would have been around '93 or so.
I'm gratified that you took the time to read it. I've found that most people just skim through and jump to concluions. What I couldn't find was an online version of a newspaper article I read about 2 years ago that accused several governments of deliberately fostering conflicts in order to make it easier to get valuable natural resources.
In many cases, the conflicts were longstanding but the governments in question were giving support to either one or more sides in order to KEEP THE CONFLICT GOING.
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Please RTFS ( read the fine synopsis) before posting. Scientists in Nebraska made the 10 Kelvin plastic magnet 3 years ago. The one from Durham works at room temp.
Well, I don't have any portable media players or memory card readers but I do have a couple of IDE to USB portable drives where you can swap in ( or out) hard drives or CD-RW.r d_Reade rs
These have all worked flawlessly with Linux - my largest drive once had 9 different partitions with 6
different filesystems and all were accessible.
You might get more info here:
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/USB_Ca
I suggest that you download the Knoppix LiveCD to test for peripheral support under Linux. I don't doubt that you'll be pleasantly surprised as to the hardware that'll work without problems.
http://www.knoppix.org/
Best of Luck!!
WinFS isn't really a file system; it's a way of better organizing data on top of NTFS. From what I've read, BeOS ( which I really miss) had a similar.
concept for it's own filesystem.
There is a GNOME project called Storage that's implementing something similar to WinFS for Linux
( http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage/ ). It's currently in early alpha stage.
MacOS X already has a similar search technology called Spotlight ( http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/spotlight.html)
Also, the newly released Reiser4 filesystem ( www.namesys.com ) should make implementing this on Linux much easier.
When was the last time you used a Linux distro, and which one and version was it? Hardware support in Linux has been very good for several years.
Yes, there is a lot of hardware that isn't supported
but you can almost always find equivalent hardware that is.
More and more, hardware manufacturers are directly supporting Linux or are providing enough info for others to do it well.
While Slashdot does have a big Linux bias, many criticisms of Linux are posted either by those who don't know what it is NOW capable of or are longtime Wintel zealots who've been posting the same diatribes against Linux for years.
Well, I bet there are a lot of people who've never failed chemistry who didn't know what a sterically hindered polyester is.
I'm also sure that there are a ton of smart chemistry students who, thanks to your pedantic "explanation" are no wiser.
I hope that you don't plan to teach chemistry to anyone who doesn't already know it.
Not everyone has studied organic chemistry.
How did this get modded up so highly? Yes, it was a boneheaded decision by Netgear engineers to hardcode an NTP server address but they did work with the University and release a firmware fix in a respectable timeframe.
Unfortunately, without a way to force an upgrade, the NTP flooding may continue for years. The real lesson here, which in this day and age should be second nature, is that HARDCODING is BAD!!
Especially, hardcoding ONE source that will be used by hundreds of thousands of clients.
The engineer(s) responsible should have been bitchslapped once per second for every flawed router.
I think that the RIAA has proven that no-one is too small to be found out.
Actually, one of Opera coolest features, which it's had since version 2 is scaling down a page for printing. I've found this to be useful feature for web pages, especially ones that have tables.
There was an online desktop that was offering free trials back in '98 but I can't recall the name and they probably folded when the tech boom went bust.0 00061733 ,39147117,00.htm
They MIGHT have been called thinkoffice.com. I don't believe they had collaboration features, though.
Here is an IBM announcement along the same lines as MSFT made in early April:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2
Actually, I find Office 97 to be a bit lacking in stability and needs the service packs in order to run properly. Office 2000, OTOH, works fine.
What are you talking about? We aren't talking about closing the door on anyone. It's our own doors that we're trying to keep open.
It seems that companies are always trying to move ANY job they can to where it's cheaper. They aren't doing this to better the lives of overseas workers; if it does, they get to look good. If it doesn't, well they'll downplay it.
Look, I guess outsourcing programmming is relatively innocuous but there have been a lot of jobs that have been moved overseas that have hurt both the people who lost those jobs AND those who gained them.
My point was that, in most cases, those who profit most were those who really had the least need - the people on top.
By the way, I'm looking forward to trying out Reiser4.
EXACTLY!! Unfortunately, the only jobs they don't try to outsource are the executives ( honestly, they should try harder) and, those newly-freed up resources - usually cash - go into the bigwigs pockets in one of two ways.
First, they get bigger raises, expense accounts, golden parachutes for reducing the company payroll. Second, the stock exchanges usually reward the newly productive company with an increase in share price, making those executive stock options more valuable.
It's win-win if you have the key to the big boys' bathroom.
Well, another way this kind of error could be generated is if the file suddenly exceeded the maximum file size that either the application or the
operating system could handle.
But, in any case, this should have been the work of a half-day or, at worst, a weekend to find.
They really need to work on their bug-finding skills.
Agreed. I see anything touting of a hydrogen economy
by politicians as dodging the immediate issues.
It always seems that the promises will bear fruit AFTER the next election. Funny how that always seems to be the case. Until H2 storage problems are solved, all of this is a pipe dream. Make the switch to biodiesel blends, add ethanol to every tank of gasoline and insist on low-sulphur fuels NOW, not tomorrow, not next week,not 3 years from now and the atmosphere will take care of itself.
We, the Linux fanboys, are impressed that you managed to remove your tongue from Bill Gates' asshole long enough to type 2 sentences.
Thank you.
Now, please go back to what you were doing; it's not nice to keep Mr. Gates waiting. After all, the world's wealthiest hypocrite can hardly be expected to wipe his own ass.
And, rightly so, when he has so many willing sycophants.
Peter Engel's book, Folding the Universe, is the most interesting book on origami that I've ever read. The first half of the book is almost like a
Godel, Escher, Bach for Origami. The models are simply terrific but most of them are ONLY for advanced folders.
Not bad but, for the record, sudo is pronounced "soo-doo". See the last question on the following page: http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/troubleshooting.html
I'd rather that someone conserve in the short term rather than take the long term view, when that view is usually something like "We'll find more resources, or increased efficiency will solve that problem".
Natural resources have to be MANAGED. And, there are
other ways to get wood pulp than raping the under-developed world when you're blocked in North America.
There are hundreds of sites worldwide where forests have been flooded by hydro-electric projects. Why not just harvest those trees instead of clear-cutting old growth forests? Yes, you'll have to cut underwater but you won't have to worry
of trees falling and having to transport them out of the forest since most will float to the surface and you can collect them downriver.
Also, a lot of the changes that enviros fear most have critical mass - once they've progressed to a certain point, it takes a great deal of time for the changes to be reversed.
We need to take a look at the TOTAL cost of doing
(or not doing) something. Not just what it'll cost the company, not just what the loss of a resource may cost but also the cost in terms of human life or health and the rate at which changes can be reversed, if at all.
So these aliens have no idea of the concept if reconnaisance? Also, didn't one of these superbeings
jump onto the roof of a 15 foot home? A swift kick or two should have gotten him out of that pantry in
record time.
I made the wise choice of waiting till it came to the small screen. That way, I was able to vomit in the privacy of my own home.
It's hard to believe that this was the work of the same man who made the Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.
I think that the studio must have truncated the original title of the movie from "Signs that there are no Intelligent Lifeforms in the Audience"
If the only thing they got wrong was the ending, that was a book that never should have been printed, let alone made into a movie.
I haven't read any Stephen King in a long time and it looks like I haven't missed anything.
Dreamcatcher gets my vote as well as an Honorable Mention for "Best Cast in a Truly Rotten Stinker".
http://www.stemsystems.com
This appears to be perl-based and Damian Conway, Randal Schwartz and Aeleen Frisch are/were advisors.
But, it doesn't seem that much has been done in over
2 years. They did have a writeup in SysAdmin mag, back when they first started.
You've listed their revenue for the most recent quarter vs IBM's ANNUAL revenue. So the true difference in revenue is a factor of THREE not a factor of TEN.
I remember seeing an article a long time ago in one of the american science magazines about an attempt to make microscopic vacuum tubes to replace electronics in hostile environments, especially ones with very high radiation.
Don't know what came of it as I never heard about it
again.
IIRC, this would have been around '93 or so.
I'm gratified that you took the time to read it. I've found that most people just skim through and jump to concluions. What I couldn't find was an online version of a newspaper article I read about 2 years ago that accused several governments of deliberately fostering conflicts in order to make it easier to get valuable natural resources.
In many cases, the conflicts were longstanding but the governments in question were giving support to either one or more sides in order to KEEP THE CONFLICT GOING.