What was the vidcard in question? Linux video support is good, not "universal". What I recommend is to download and burn a few live CDs to easily determine if your hardware is supported and which distro handles it best. Kanotix works well for this, as does Knoppix.
"anti-US sentiment in the world." Especially from our competitors in the arms business, including sweet neutral Sweden and Switzerland, culturally superior France, etc. I bow my head in shame.
AT mines are not AP mines are not (usually) CBU bomblets. The intarweb is our friend, so there is no excuse for not knowing the fscking difference. Intelligent minefields should be a breeze for postwar demining. Command the field to hop. Blow the visible mines and wait for the others to hop. Follow up with conventional demining.
"he was VOTED to power by people like us" Well, he was voted to power. Keep in mind, even allowing for some of the strange folk who post on Slashdot, that/.ers are far more clueful than the mob of illiterate, superstition-ridden, daytime-TV-watching, moronic proles that make up the rest of the public.
Why the OS makers? Third-party boot CDs have been easy to build or download and should be part of every skilled users toolkit. Very full-featured BartPE, "khauyeung", Linux, BSD, etc live CDs are easy to find and customize if needed.
I would like to see mass migration, but the folks running warezed copies can just reinstall and never install the updates that will break their systems. OTOH, I'M sure I'll make money fixing borked boxes, so I'll adapt.:)
No conspiracy needed. Using Windows allows the government to avoid training users, which would be horrendously expensive. It is easier to order new Dells/HPs/Gateways, install the standard image, and press on.
College athletes on scholarship are entertainers, and getting well paid for it. Part of their value as employees of the college is their public image. If they don't like the rules they are free to leave for greener pastures.
Shrinking social networks? Not for me! I'm 47 and feel zero nostalgia for pre-internet days. I found them suffocating. Thanks to computers, I keep in touch with my friends worldwide that I would otherwise forget to write to. I can meet someone when I travel or deploy, then keep in touch for many years.
The beauty is that they do not lose money. Their cost is media, shipping, etc. They can then deduct the retail value of the software (tax experts correct me here if deserved). Looks like a profitable way to advertise.
End-run the problems by improving robots (and capturing the useful technology) instead of rushing to put meat in space. We have plenty of time to play with. The Cold War is over, so no need for cawk-size comparisons/moon missions.
In other news, old junk goes "boom". There is no compelling need to put people in space with primitive technology now that the Cold War is over. Life is cheap, courage abundant, but life support equipment is insanely expensive. Send robots first, gather data, and save sending humans for later. It is not rational to rush. Let technology evolve, send more unmanned systems to explore, then send more mature designs to follow. Oh, by the way, put the jettisonable explosive bits BELOW the fuselage next time.
Whatever zeroize method is used will be fired by accident many time over the life of the system, so it should not damage the rest of the system. Anyone in aircraft maintenance gets this.:)
Best post in the whole thread! Screw this "why aren't they building electric cars for meeee!" whining. Share knowledge and let's do things ourselves. GM took its "closed source" vehicle off the road. Open Source designs for drivetrains and retrofit kits would mean that the EV hobbyist/early adopter would be less vulnerable to big companies AND individuals who would hoard knowledge.
If you renounce force, then you have chosen to rely on the kindness of others. Not to say that some USian aggressive behaviors haven't backfired, but since when do moral examples have any weight with anyone besides the extremely naive? There are many people in the world that choose to treat appeals to "morality" (whatever that is on any given day) with utter contempt and brute force. In a world where violence and fear trump everything else, nukes are just another tool in the toolbox.
Cheap labour worked for the US during the Industrial Revolution. We should accept the necessity, and when workers have enough leverage to fight for better conditions they can choose to do so.
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I'm in the USAF (fighter maintenance, not IT) and have watched the transition over the years. Originally, many units let their resident geeks work the local IT issues, and hired from within as formal IT coalesced. Then came the Great Mistake, where the 'computer' troops were merged with the paper-pushing 'admin' troops. What a goat rope... Many admin troops were and are totally nontechnical people. The skilled geeks get overloaded, the welfare-moms-in-uniform types aren't worth shit troubleshooting, and now with the 40,000 airman manning reduction the leftover troops will be even more overworked. The lack of respect for software licensing is due to it not mattering in the AF. Heck, our squadron Office install folder was listed as being packaged by "Kemosabe" until they removed the readme! No offense to the good folks, but the field has way to many losers and needs to be outsourced instantly. The good ones will leave, the bad ones will stay, so chuck 'em.
It also omits to mention that the failure to use lockout/tagout procedures has killed many industrial maintenance workers. There is nothing special about the way the engineer died. The "robotness" of the machine didn't kill him, the choice to get in its way with it powered up did.
They are selling product to the same public that thinks Natalee Holloway was the most important woman in the Western hemisphere. They crave entertainment, and while geeks will always have free stuffs, all the industry need do is deter casual copying. The industry can afford to fight and collect its enhanced profits while fighting. Copyright enforcement requires very little in the way of resources.
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What was the vidcard in question? Linux video support is good, not "universal". What I recommend is to download and burn a few live CDs to easily determine if your hardware is supported and which distro handles it best. Kanotix works well for this, as does Knoppix.
"anti-US sentiment in the world."
Especially from our competitors in the arms business, including sweet neutral Sweden and Switzerland, culturally superior France, etc.
I bow my head in shame.
AT mines are not AP mines are not (usually) CBU bomblets. The intarweb is our friend, so there is no excuse for not knowing the fscking difference.
Intelligent minefields should be a breeze for postwar demining. Command the field to hop. Blow the visible mines and wait for the others to hop. Follow up with conventional demining.
"he was VOTED to power by people like us" /.ers are far more clueful than the mob of illiterate, superstition-ridden, daytime-TV-watching, moronic proles that make up the rest of the public.
Well, he was voted to power. Keep in mind, even allowing for some of the strange folk who post on Slashdot, that
Why the OS makers? Third-party boot CDs have been easy to build or download and should be part of every skilled users toolkit. Very full-featured BartPE, "khauyeung", Linux, BSD, etc live CDs are easy to find and customize if needed.
I would like to see mass migration, but the folks running warezed copies can just reinstall and never install the updates that will break their systems. OTOH, I'M sure I'll make money fixing borked boxes, so I'll adapt. :)
Your state license plate motto was WHAT again? :)
No conspiracy needed. Using Windows allows the government to avoid training users, which would be horrendously expensive. It is easier to order new Dells/HPs/Gateways, install the standard image, and press on.
Firefox should stay out of the blast radius of any OpenOffice advert-driven failure. FF can stand on its own.
College athletes on scholarship are entertainers, and getting well paid for it. Part of their value as employees of the college is their public image. If they don't like the rules they are free to leave for greener pastures.
Shrinking social networks? Not for me! I'm 47 and feel zero nostalgia for pre-internet days. I found them suffocating. Thanks to computers, I keep in touch with my friends worldwide that I would otherwise forget to write to. I can meet someone when I travel or deploy, then keep in touch for many years.
It is also out of service. Not due to the swing wing, but the maintenance cost of its aging systems.
The beauty is that they do not lose money. Their cost is media, shipping, etc. They can then deduct the retail value of the software (tax experts correct me here if deserved).
Looks like a profitable way to advertise.
End-run the problems by improving robots (and capturing the useful technology) instead of rushing to put meat in space. We have plenty of time to play with. The Cold War is over, so no need for cawk-size comparisons/moon missions.
In other news, old junk goes "boom".
There is no compelling need to put people in space with primitive technology now that the Cold War is over. Life is cheap, courage abundant, but life support equipment is insanely expensive. Send robots first, gather data, and save sending humans for later. It is not rational to rush. Let technology evolve, send more unmanned systems to explore, then send more mature designs to follow.
Oh, by the way, put the jettisonable explosive bits BELOW the fuselage next time.
Whatever zeroize method is used will be fired by accident many time over the life of the system, so it should not damage the rest of the system. Anyone in aircraft maintenance gets this. :)
Best post in the whole thread!
Screw this "why aren't they building electric cars for meeee!" whining. Share knowledge and let's do things ourselves.
GM took its "closed source" vehicle off the road. Open Source designs for drivetrains and retrofit kits would mean that the EV hobbyist/early adopter would be less vulnerable to big companies AND individuals who would hoard knowledge.
This is Louisiana. Raising the money to land the Saints was more important than raising the levees...
If you renounce force, then you have chosen to rely on the kindness of others.
Not to say that some USian aggressive behaviors haven't backfired, but since when do moral examples have any weight with anyone besides the extremely naive?
There are many people in the world that choose to treat appeals to "morality" (whatever that is on any given day) with utter contempt and brute force.
In a world where violence and fear trump everything else, nukes are just another tool in the toolbox.
Cheap labour worked for the US during the Industrial Revolution. We should accept the necessity, and when workers have enough leverage to fight for better conditions they can choose to do so.
I'm in the USAF (fighter maintenance, not IT) and have watched the transition over the years.
Originally, many units let their resident geeks work the local IT issues, and hired from within as formal IT coalesced.
Then came the Great Mistake, where the 'computer' troops were merged with the paper-pushing 'admin' troops. What a goat rope... Many admin troops were and are totally nontechnical people. The skilled geeks get overloaded, the welfare-moms-in-uniform types aren't worth shit troubleshooting, and now with the 40,000 airman manning reduction the leftover troops will be even more overworked. The lack of respect for software licensing is due to it not mattering in the AF. Heck, our squadron Office install folder was listed as being packaged by "Kemosabe" until they removed the readme!
No offense to the good folks, but the field has way to many losers and needs to be outsourced instantly. The good ones will leave, the bad ones will stay, so chuck 'em.
It also omits to mention that the failure to use lockout/tagout procedures has killed many industrial maintenance workers. There is nothing special about the way the engineer died. The "robotness" of the machine didn't kill him, the choice to get in its way with it powered up did.
They are selling product to the same public that thinks Natalee Holloway was the most important woman in the Western hemisphere. They crave entertainment, and while geeks will always have free stuffs, all the industry need do is deter casual copying. The industry can afford to fight and collect its enhanced profits while fighting. Copyright enforcement requires very little in the way of resources.
You can use the 95 shell with 98 by using 98lite. :)
Oppression is often best fought by killing the oppressors (who are people).
So which is it to be?