--So why is everyone jumping *only* on the Patriot Act, in a time of war? A time of war? You have got to be kidding me. We are NOT, and have never been in a state of war at any time since 9/11. Congress has never declared war upon anyone, so to say that we are in a state of war is inaccurate and disingenuous. I do not dispute that Imminent Domain and the other issues you raise are serious, but please be honest and don't refer to our illegal military actions as a "war" to do so just gives fuel to the idiots on both sides of the debate.
twice-demonstrated, flawed vehicle Try to get your facts straight. The Challenger explosion was caused by faulty o-rings combined with a launch in conditions the Shuttle engineers told NASA were completely unsafe to launch the Shuttle in . It was a known fact that there were issues with the o-rings at low temperatures. It was a known fact that insulation foam from the main tank had the possibility of damaging the orbiter, that was part of the reason they used to paint the tanks (to reduce the chance of foam breaking away). Nobody knew that the potential damage could be as bad as it turned out to be, but they certainly should have known that the possibility existed.
As for a programmatic risk, that is a spurious argument. Any further loss of life by NASA could have grave consequences, whether caused by an ISS failure, a launch vessel blowing up on the pad, a fire, or another lost orbiter. Right now the orbiter fleet is grounded. The oribiters may very well never be flown again if current trends continue. I find it a rather silly concept to let millions of dollars of spacecraft, and repair parts to sit around doing nothing when they can be used for their original mission by highly trained volunteers. Failing to do so because some administrator is afraid of another incident is truly silly.
If your power is running down too fast, then you need to make sure you have the CPU scaling module which is appropriate for your architecture installed. Then you can use something like "speedfreqd" http://www.goop.org/~jeremy/speedfreq/ to dynamically scale processor usage. Lastly, make sure that you adjust the brightness of your display. Dimming the display even a little bit will greatly increase your battery life.
Well, actually Sun made ONE rather poorly received workstation based on a 386 the 386i and then dropped support after two minor revisions of SunOS4.x.x >>Quaterdeck's DESQView, and QEMM386 required 386s.
They did indeed require 386s, but because of more advanced protected mode interfaces, not because of the 32-bit capabilities of the chip. 32 bit addressing certainly didn't hurt, but it wasn't especially helpful either. Plus, both Win95 and 98 and all direct descendants still retain some legacy 16bit code. Only the NT-derived OS's NT,2000,XP are totally 32-bit operating systems.
Try reading more of the series. The original intention of the Pern colonists was to establish a low-technology colony away from the governments that many of the colonists had come to distrust. Because of Thread they ended up more low-tech than they maybe intended, but not by much, especially after 2000 years. And for the record I have read each and every Pern novel extant multiple times, I dream of dragons in my sleep!
Indeed. For another excellent and easy read which perfectly illustrates your point there is the Pern series by Anne McCaffrey, most particularly the Dragons of Pern. Big colony ships high technology, and the establishment of a brand new low-tech society.
So far as I can tell,when I compile the Nvidia kernel module on my system I do not link the kernel with the NVidia binary/library, I link the BINARY with limited portions of the kernel. These portions are mostly header files which allow the module to determine where to properly insert itself into the kernel. It would be trivial to produce a closed source binary that only need know the version number of the kernel it is going to be running under, and nothing else,even header files, of the kernel itself.
So far as I can tell, the GPL does not prohibit interoperability. The NVidia modules exist solely for interoperability. It is exceedingly strange how the/. community jumps all over anyone who proposes limited interoperability BNETD for example, but kowtows whenever the GPL is mentioned.
The KISS school of thought is definitely one that is well worth paying attention. When it comes to weapons, history has shown time and again that simple is better. As Robert Heinlein put it in Starship Troopers (my best recollection, as I don't have it in front of me) "While you're busy trying to read a vernier, someone much simplier armed,say with a rock, will sneak up and bash your brains out"
Even in Andromeda, they show the long-standing commonwealth forces using force lances which can not only fire energy projectiles, but also turn into handy-dandy 6-foot pikes in an instant.
From what I remember last time I was looking at their site they have two basic models. They have a "Pro" which has a built-in display and a "Basic" which has no display, only standard control (play, stop pause, advance, etc). I believe that both types were perfectly usable without connecting them to a Gameboy, they just gained functionality when connected. Especially the "Basic" version. They have built in headphone jacks/volume controls so they play completely independantly from the Gameboy.
As far as airflow goes, I have noticed that leaving the side off of my case causes the processor temperature to drop 5-10 degrees depending on load. This is a Supermicro full tower case with plenty of ventilation, running a PIII-833.
Thank you for saying what I've been thinking for years. If I were ever on a hijacked vehicle of any kind my assumption would be: I'm dead. Now, what can I do to make myself not be dead?
simple, just load the required player software onto a RAM disk, and execute from there. The whole system should be fairly simple to put together. even multiple type of video card could be accomodated with trivial amounts of scripting
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I have no personal experience with integrated GUI tools for adding samba shares. You can use the SWAT tool via your seb browser, which automates much of the process. There may well be a tool for GNOME or KDE which integrates the making of SAMBA shares into the desktop enviroment. A quick check on google shows a tool named GNOSAMBA which is apparently a gnome toll for configuring samba.
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What you want (a single user list) is provided by NIS. If you set up NIS(yp) properly it should work with SAMBA by default. NIS provides basically the same functionality as a PDC for windows. Try looking around and actually LEARNING things before you complain about missing functionality.
Don't even bother fooling around with the scheduler. Just make a.bat file that adds the static route (or does anything you want!) and put it in the startup group. Start->startup->*.bat. Nice and simple, with no fuss or muss.
I enjoy working on both cars and computers. I work as an admin fixing stupid student and professor problems, and then I go and fix the car 1966 Mustang. Last week I had the engine stripped halfway down to fix a head problem. Not the easiest thing in the world, but as long as you don't mind getting dirty, and can follow instructions it's pretty easy. A lot cheaper too:-)
Since when is Dell not considered a major manufacturer? Granted, Dell isn't quite in the same league as HP and Compaq when it comes to workstations, but lacking any other more stringent requirements Dell hardware should be perfectly adequate for most jobs. I don't have direct experience with the service departments of HP,Dell or Compaq, but I can't believe them to be so different as to be useless
Quite correct! DeCSS was not truly reverse engineered. Some bright person merely found that the decryption key in Xing's player was stored in the clear, and worked from there to implement a decryption codec. However given the relatively weak strength of the DeCSS encryption it would not take very long to break the code using a brute force method such as that employed by Distributed.net
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They are weighted, so under normal use they properly orient themselves.
--So why is everyone jumping *only* on the Patriot Act, in a time of war?
A time of war?
You have got to be kidding me. We are NOT, and have never been in a state of war at any time since 9/11. Congress has never declared war upon anyone, so to say that we are in a state of war is inaccurate and disingenuous.
I do not dispute that Imminent Domain and the other issues you raise are serious, but please be honest and don't refer to our illegal military actions as a "war" to do so just gives fuel to the idiots on both sides of the debate.
twice-demonstrated, flawed vehicle
Try to get your facts straight. The Challenger explosion was caused by faulty o-rings combined with a launch in conditions the Shuttle engineers told NASA were completely unsafe to launch the Shuttle in . It was a known fact that there were issues with the o-rings at low temperatures. It was a known fact that insulation foam from the main tank had the possibility of damaging the orbiter, that was part of the reason they used to paint the tanks (to reduce the chance of foam breaking away). Nobody knew that the potential damage could be as bad as it turned out to be, but they certainly should have known that the possibility existed.
As for a programmatic risk, that is a spurious argument. Any further loss of life by NASA could have grave consequences, whether caused by an ISS failure, a launch vessel blowing up on the pad, a fire, or another lost orbiter.
Right now the orbiter fleet is grounded. The oribiters may very well never be flown again if current trends continue. I find it a rather silly concept to let millions of dollars of spacecraft, and repair parts to sit around doing nothing when they can be used for their original mission by highly trained volunteers. Failing to do so because some administrator is afraid of another incident is truly silly.
If your power is running down too fast, then you need to make sure you have the CPU scaling module which is appropriate for your architecture installed. Then you can use something like "speedfreqd" http://www.goop.org/~jeremy/speedfreq/ to dynamically scale processor usage. Lastly, make sure that you adjust the brightness of your display. Dimming the display even a little bit will greatly increase your battery life.
>>Early Sun workstations were 386s.
Well, actually Sun made ONE rather poorly received workstation based on a 386 the 386i and then dropped support after two minor revisions of SunOS4.x.x
>>Quaterdeck's DESQView, and QEMM386 required 386s.
They did indeed require 386s, but because of more advanced protected mode interfaces, not because of the 32-bit capabilities of the chip. 32 bit addressing certainly didn't hurt, but it wasn't especially helpful either. Plus, both Win95 and 98 and all direct descendants still retain some legacy 16bit code. Only the NT-derived OS's NT,2000,XP are totally 32-bit operating systems.
Try reading more of the series. The original intention of the Pern colonists was to establish a low-technology colony away from the governments that many of the colonists had come to distrust. Because of Thread they ended up more low-tech than they maybe intended, but not by much, especially after 2000 years. And for the record I have read each and every Pern novel extant multiple times, I dream of dragons in my sleep!
Indeed. For another excellent and easy read which perfectly illustrates your point there is the Pern series by Anne McCaffrey, most particularly the Dragons of Pern. Big colony ships high technology, and the establishment of a brand new low-tech society.
So far as I can tell,when I compile the Nvidia kernel module on my system I do not link the kernel with the NVidia binary/library, I link the BINARY with limited portions of the kernel. These portions are mostly header files which allow the module to determine where to properly insert itself into the kernel. It would be trivial to produce a closed source binary that only need know the version number of the kernel it is going to be running under, and nothing else ,even header files, of the kernel itself.
/. community jumps all over anyone who proposes limited interoperability BNETD for example, but kowtows whenever the GPL is mentioned.
So far as I can tell, the GPL does not prohibit interoperability. The NVidia modules exist solely for interoperability. It is exceedingly strange how the
The KISS school of thought is definitely one that is well worth paying attention. When it comes to weapons, history has shown time and again that simple is better. As Robert Heinlein put it in Starship Troopers (my best recollection, as I don't have it in front of me) "While you're busy trying to read a vernier, someone much simplier armed ,say with a rock, will sneak up and bash your brains out"
Even in Andromeda, they show the long-standing commonwealth forces using force lances which can not only fire energy projectiles, but also turn into handy-dandy 6-foot pikes in an instant.
From what I remember last time I was looking at their site they have two basic models. They have a "Pro" which has a built-in display and a "Basic"
which has no display, only standard control (play, stop pause, advance, etc).
I believe that both types were perfectly usable without connecting them to a Gameboy, they just gained functionality when connected. Especially the "Basic" version. They have built in headphone jacks/volume controls so they play completely independantly from the Gameboy.
As far as airflow goes, I have noticed that leaving the side off of my case causes the processor temperature to drop 5-10 degrees depending on load. This is a Supermicro full tower case with plenty of ventilation, running a PIII-833.
Thank you for saying what I've been thinking for years. If I were ever on a hijacked vehicle of any kind my assumption would be: I'm dead. Now, what can I do to make myself not be dead?
This sounds just like DIVX from circuit City will noone learn?
simple, just load the required player software onto a RAM disk, and execute from there. The whole system should be fairly simple to put together. even multiple type of video card could be accomodated with trivial amounts of scripting
I have no personal experience with integrated GUI tools for adding samba shares. You can use the SWAT tool via your seb browser, which automates much of the process. There may well be a tool for GNOME or KDE which integrates the making of SAMBA shares into the desktop enviroment. A quick check on google shows a tool named GNOSAMBA which is apparently a gnome toll for configuring samba.
What you want (a single user list) is provided by NIS. If you set up NIS(yp) properly it should work with SAMBA by default. NIS provides basically the same functionality as a PDC for windows. Try looking around and actually LEARNING things before you complain about missing functionality.
Don't even bother fooling around with the scheduler. Just make a .bat file that adds the static route (or does anything you want!) and put it in the startup group. Start->startup->*.bat. Nice and simple, with no fuss or muss.
I enjoy working on both cars and computers. I work as an admin fixing stupid student and professor problems, and then I go and fix the car 1966 Mustang. Last week I had the engine stripped halfway down to fix a head problem. Not the easiest thing in the world, but as long as you don't mind getting dirty, and can follow instructions it's pretty easy. A lot cheaper too :-)
Since when is Dell not considered a major manufacturer? Granted, Dell isn't quite in the same league as HP and Compaq when it comes to workstations, but lacking any other more stringent requirements Dell hardware should be perfectly adequate for most jobs. I don't have direct experience with the service departments of HP ,Dell or Compaq, but I can't believe them to be so different as to be useless
Quite correct! DeCSS was not truly reverse engineered. Some bright person merely found that the decryption key in Xing's player was stored in the clear, and worked from there to implement a decryption codec. However given the relatively weak strength of the DeCSS encryption it would not take very long to break the code using a brute force method such as that employed by Distributed.net