This highlights the cultural and lifestyle differences between the US and Europe.
My specific experience is with the UK rather than Europe, but I'd wager the differences are not great.
Lawnmowers (I presume we're talking domestic) tend to be electric nowadays. Our lawns are generally smaller than yours so we don't have a problem plugging in a lawnmower with a long electric cable.
As I said, cities (and even small towns) here don't allow the use of coal or wood fires to heat homes; that's been the case for years. It's different in the countryside but that's a tiny proportion of the population. Twenty years ago I remember the coalman delivering "smokeless fuel" to my parents house when I lived with them, and that provided our central heating and hot water. I haven't seen a coalman in 20 years!
Our cars have smaller engines than yours! Average size is 1.2 litres. Our fuel is more expensive (it's taxed heavily) so there is great incentive for people not to buy gas-guzzlers; a minority still do, but it's a minority.
Given that the government knows how big each car's engine is (this is required for vehicle registration) then it's safe to say they can calculate an average emission from then number of cars on the road.
who is responsible for measuring the gas output of various things like everybodies lawnmower, fireplace, car, etc
Don't be so petty.
Lawnmowers are pretty insignificant. So are fireplaces; in the UK at least, most cities have by-laws banning the burning of wood or coal; as result, houses are generally heated by electricity or gas.
As for cars, governments have a pretty good idea of how many cars there are on the road at any one time and they can make fair estimates of emissions from those figures.
The remaining carbon emission producers are orders of magnitude fewer than private households; government inspectorates can enforce and measure compliance for them.
I understand that 3D hardware can accelerate 2D operations and that this can offload work from the CPU.
Personally, I would consider a 3D desktop something that differs radically from a WIMP model, as a window is a 2D surface, and a mouse only crawls, it doesn't fly.
But it's obvious this isn't what the chap who wrote the writeup meant. I'm not sure what he did mean though.
I wasn't aware of the 'commonly accepted' definition of the 3D desktop; I've never used Irix, though I'm aware OpenGL is from SGI, so I am still not sure what everyone else accepts the term to mean.
Yes that's right, the bus company is going to install PDA's so I can use them with my personal server, and they're not going to get vandalised, and they'll always work.
And the guy next to me won't be busy using his, oh no.
And the park, you missed that. I take it trees will come with compatible interfaces.
The Familiar HOWTO doesn't mention the Zaurus. Can I run Familiar / GPE on the Zaurus? Easily? Familiar seems very pro-iPaq.
Does Familiar run the same kernel as OpenZaurus? There are issues with the SD Card driver on the Zaurus; Sharp won't release the specs so Sharp's binary module must be used.
I'm from the UK and whenever I go to Europe the behaviour of the cars terrifies me.
If the light is red, and the pedestrian sign says "walk", I expect to be able to walk. Not so; the red light usually just means "don't go straight on, but turn if you want". The drivers don't even seem to notice you jumping out of there way to avoid being killed.
Bicycles and trams in Amsterdam scare the shit out of me too.
So perhaps the transatlantic bond really is greater than the cross-channel one...
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My statement about ext3 being more mature than ReiserFS is based on the fact that ext3 is a journal add-on to the now very mature ext2; that is it's an evolution of an older filesystem, not the revolution that is ReiserFS.
DriveImage / Ghost: the web pages for these apps state support for only ext2; indeed one of them Ghost, I think) says specifically ReiserFS is NOT supported.
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Try running tune2fs -j /dev/yourext2filesystem.
Moments later you have a journal added to your filesystem. Remount it as ext3 and the journal is being used.
This is not a "major change" and it's not a "hack"; it's an elegant retrofit of journalling to a non-journaled filesystem.
This highlights the cultural and lifestyle differences between the US and Europe.
My specific experience is with the UK rather than Europe, but I'd wager the differences are not great.
Lawnmowers (I presume we're talking domestic) tend to be electric nowadays. Our lawns are generally smaller than yours so we don't have a problem plugging in a lawnmower with a long electric cable.
As I said, cities (and even small towns) here don't allow the use of coal or wood fires to heat homes; that's been the case for years. It's different in the countryside but that's a tiny proportion of the population. Twenty years ago I remember the coalman delivering "smokeless fuel" to my parents house when I lived with them, and that provided our central heating and hot water. I haven't seen a coalman in 20 years!
Our cars have smaller engines than yours! Average size is 1.2 litres. Our fuel is more expensive (it's taxed heavily) so there is great incentive for people not to buy gas-guzzlers; a minority still do, but it's a minority.
Given that the government knows how big each car's engine is (this is required for vehicle registration) then it's safe to say they can calculate an average emission from then number of cars on the road.
who is responsible for measuring the gas output of various things like everybodies lawnmower, fireplace, car, etc
Don't be so petty.
Lawnmowers are pretty insignificant. So are fireplaces; in the UK at least, most cities have by-laws banning the burning of wood or coal; as result, houses are generally heated by electricity or gas.
As for cars, governments have a pretty good idea of how many cars there are on the road at any one time and they can make fair estimates of emissions from those figures.
The remaining carbon emission producers are orders of magnitude fewer than private households; government inspectorates can enforce and measure compliance for them.
chmod 750 /usr/bin/gcc
But anyway, windows >= NT let's you do this too (doesn't it?).
Difference is the FSF volunteer zealots believe they are promoting good, whereas the MS PR team believe they are filling their bank.
I wouldn't envision this type of system being given to anyone "creative". I would envision it going to folks in marketing...
Ironic that the folks in marketing call themselves "creatives"!
My keyhoard skills deteriorate daily.
Microsoft is never going to be really successful...
Hello? Eartb to Cowboy, come in Cowboy!
Well done, you spotted my deliberate logical inconsistency.
I agree it's not as stable as other platforms, currently. But it is much more flexible, don't you think?
I imagine (and hope) a few iterations of OpenZaurus will put things right.
Yes, I see this. Sorry for being so stupid.
I still don't see how this makes my computer faster. At the moment, I don't notice the time it takes to move or resize windows.
I understand that 3D hardware can accelerate 2D operations and that this can offload work from the CPU.
Personally, I would consider a 3D desktop something that differs radically from a WIMP model, as a window is a 2D surface, and a mouse only crawls, it doesn't fly.
But it's obvious this isn't what the chap who wrote the writeup meant. I'm not sure what he did mean though.
I wasn't aware of the 'commonly accepted' definition of the 3D desktop; I've never used Irix, though I'm aware OpenGL is from SGI, so I am still not sure what everyone else accepts the term to mean.
Yes that's right, the bus company is going to install PDA's so I can use them with my personal server, and they're not going to get vandalised, and they'll always work.
And the guy next to me won't be busy using his, oh no.
And the park, you missed that. I take it trees will come with compatible interfaces.
I see you're one of the developers of GPE.
The Familiar HOWTO doesn't mention the Zaurus. Can I run Familiar / GPE on the Zaurus? Easily? Familiar seems very pro-iPaq.
Does Familiar run the same kernel as OpenZaurus? There are issues with the SD Card driver on the Zaurus; Sharp won't release the specs so Sharp's binary module must be used.
TIA
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Yeah, why are you pissed?
I own a Zaurus, and I'm very happy!
It just struck me as curious how one would actually interface with these servers directly without said PDAs, Laptops, or PCs...oh well.
Exactly, you can't.
This is just a hard disk on a radio link. Why they're making the claims they are, I don't know.
Correct, the "handheld killer" bit is just so much rubbish. Makes me doubt the content of the rest of the site.
They're saying both. Of course, one of them can't be right. This is not a replacement for laptops and PDAs.
How can I use a personal server on the train or the bus, or sitting in a park, or lying in bed, or at a meeting, or in a cafe, or...
I said the article says this is the only benefit to Longhorn.
Read the article! Try the "What it all means" section. Sheesh.
Overly critical? Or just a bit slow?
Could be very useful, thanks!
You made me laugh uncontrollably, Thanks.
I'm from the UK and whenever I go to Europe the behaviour of the cars terrifies me.
If the light is red, and the pedestrian sign says "walk", I expect to be able to walk. Not so; the red light usually just means "don't go straight on, but turn if you want". The drivers don't even seem to notice you jumping out of there way to avoid being killed.
Bicycles and trams in Amsterdam scare the shit out of me too.
So perhaps the transatlantic bond really is greater than the cross-channel one...
My statement about ext3 being more mature than ReiserFS is based on the fact that ext3 is a journal add-on to the now very mature ext2; that is it's an evolution of an older filesystem, not the revolution that is ReiserFS.
DriveImage / Ghost: the web pages for these apps state support for only ext2; indeed one of them Ghost, I think) says specifically ReiserFS is NOT supported.
Anyway, OT.