OK, let's go back to physics 101. The device has stored a certain amount of potential energy when the weight is on the top, and a lower potential when on the ground. That's all there is, that's all the energy you can transform into light. Nothing can change that. The only effect (besides added friction) of making it spin around is that you stretch the time in which you make use of the energy. Result: less light, but over a longer time period.
Not that it would even be a bright light if the weight would go straight down...
and in this case the path does matter since the spin will generate additional power
Ah, and where does the energy come from?
The spin only adds friction and thereby decreases efficiency... not that it would even work with 100% efficiency. Sorry, but you too have to obey the laws of thermodynamics...
From the Gaim page on skins: skins create a support nightmare. And: Were we to write our own mechanism, we would be adding overhead in both the run time and the time necessary to debug.
Yeah, you're right: they are just too lazy to implement this. It would be far better if the developers would spend more time on writing a skin interface and spend more time with support than to write useful new features or keep track of protocol changes which shut out their userbase from MSN and the likes.
Seriously, many other programs have skin support, and I hardly ever change skins on any of those. With the theming on Qt/KDE and GTK/GNOME I can get more than enough eye candy. The skin for XMMS with the best color contrast for fonts and widgets is the default one. Most Firefox/Thunderbird themes don't support the extensions I use. Changing the look of MPlayer was funny to me for 5 minutes.
Thanks to the Gaim folks to focus on more important stuff. If you want skins, stay with Trillian and Windows. I only want to be able to chat, so I stay with Gaim and Linux.
...has all the things I want (on the fly spell checking, history in new windows, etc)
I'd be interested in your "etc." since my Gaim gets out of my way, isn't flashy, does on the fly spell checking and can show me the conversation history... I have used Adium myself, but I fail to see why it would be superior to Gaim.
And if it doesn't support skinning, why hasn't anyone written skinning support into Gaim yet?
No, Gaim does not support skins. If you really want to know the good reasons for this design decision, you could check out the developers words on the topic.
But SUSE really sucks in that regard. Last I checked (which was v9.2) things were really outdated.
In one SUSE version, they don't do version upgrades, with good reasons. I prefer it that way, it's the way it should be for production systems. The more important thing is that they do backport security fixes, and you can even apply them automatically.
You are confusing 2 entirely different things here. One is patching an existing operating system environment and applications, the other one is upgrading software.
Yast Online Update is not for upgrading software, but for installing fixes for the installed version. They have good reasons for that. Security fixes will be backported by SUSE, that's one of the most important job of their security team. That's what I do on production systems.
Upgrading software is a whole different story. SUSE provides a lot of unsupported ugrades, and Mozilla Firefox is one of them. It's very easy to find them on their ftp mirrors. You can also use third party software packagers like packman. If you use apt4rpm, it's very easy to integrate the different repositories, both from SUSE and third parties. That's what I'm suing on my desktop, laptop etc.
Patching all of my systems is mostly done without notice, just the occasional reboot when the kernel was changed, or restarting servers.
For me, SUSE has the most convenient patching capabilities, Apple comes a close second (and only comes second because with SUSE there are more ways to do it). Windows is much more work for me.
StartCom cerificates are much worse than self-signed SnakeOil certificates.
There is no verification of the user applying for a certificate, so I could easily get a certificate stating I'm PayPal. Would make the job of people trying to make money of the recently discussed IDN weakness even easier, wouldn't it?
Additionally, the private key is generated on their servers, meaning that it's not private at all. Makes eavesdropping and man in the middle attacks so much easier.
Nothing to see here. Move on. I don't think the Mozilla Foundation will deliver the StartCom root certificate in their default builds, and if they do, their folks should get spanked and have to write "I will not generate private keys on other machines than my own" a hundred times.
Import the root certificate yourself, and you are screwed. Use CAcert or FreeSSL instead. Or self-signed certificates if it does not matter.
I found it rather balanced... for being a Forbes article, that is:-)
I mean , they also wrote "Or maybe--just maybe--SCO is onto something." Does not sound very convinced, does ist?
And probably the best one in the end of the article: But SCO insists it remains committed to selling Unix software--when it's not busy fighting people in court.
THe one that I DO use is missing: having bullets simply appear at the bottom of the list with each mouse click.
May be I don't get what you want to achieve, but that sounds to me like what you get when you do the following: when writing in the text box on your slide, press "Animation Effects" on the left sidebar, choose "Text Effects" on the top, choose "Other" and effect "Appear". Save that setting to your tempplate.
In the case of multiple installs, you can still copy the whole installation tree to a local machine and make it available via local network. This is also recommended by SUSE. I usually buy the install media and make them available on the local network... makes it very easy to install additonal software later on our machines.
That's not entirely true. You are right about YOU, but you can add additional install sources (Change Source of Installation) which can be used by the Install and Remove Software module in YaST.
Try to add ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.0/ to the sources (replace with your closest mirror and correct distribution), and YaST will update your KDE install.
The source directory must contain extra information sources for YaST (like a yast-source directory), so it does not work for all software updates provided by SUSE. AFAIK, it works for KDE; but not for GNOME or projects like Mozilla, unfortunately. You might try to use apt4rpm instead.
The answer to the orginal question: No, if they have not changed something for the new 9.1 Live CD's, it should not be possible to do a Knoppix-like upgrade from a Live CD.
I never understood this issue. What's the big deal about it? You can do a ftp install where only the packages you need get downloaded. Lot less traffic for the providers.
You will not get the programs where SUSE has no rights for redistribution, but you would not get them on ISO's either. Remember there's software with commercial licenses included (like officebib).
SUSE tries to make money from boxed versions, and I think they deserve it. You can still get it for free (as in beer).
While we are on it: yes, the YaST license is not free. I do in most cases support the standpoint of the FSF, but since the license only prohibits commercial redistribution and not redistribution per se, I can even live with that.
I'm using SUSE as my primary distro for a couple of years now, and I think SUSE has evolved greatly, supporting Linux standardization efforts widely.
While they are definately producing one of the most polished distro's available, it deviates from most linux distributions somewhat dramatically
There will alway be differences between different distributions, but I think that LSB and FHS compliance is the key. SUSE 9.0 is e.g. certified to comply with LSB Runtime Environment for IA32 Version 1.3
I still don't know how exactly the init system works.
The init system is designed according to the LSB specifications. I personally find it very easy to use.
I also found that you HAD to do things SuSE's way... you couldn't do it yourself because YaST would stomp all over your changes.
Why this partly was true for older versions of SUSE, the sitaution is much better now (or my knowledge on how to do things improved:-). Of course, there are things like when you have a configured X and then start the X config programms, you'll get an altered XF86Config. But I find that's hardly surprising.
I happily alter config files by hand all the time and I experience no problems using YaST on other occasions.
(again, you can't just update say, package X from a source tarball because SuSE will throw a fit).
You know what package management is all about, right? How can you expect the system to know about your nicely compiled update if you don't tell it? You can't get it both, the comfort of managed software installs and the freedom of source upgrades without spending some work on it.
I frequently install software from source, either newer versions than the ones from SUSE or stuff not supplied by them. The key is to build packages out of them. It's really not that difficult (it gets difficult when you want to build a whole consistent distro, that's why I happily pay for SUSE's boxes - they do all the dirty work).
It's probably not bad for novice and intermediate computer users; I'd reccomend that experienced users who want a pretty desktop with little hassle use Mandrake.
I'd recommend SUSE for both:-) I think SUSE is a very nice distribution usable both for the newbie and more experienced users. Heck, I also like Debian and SouceMage, but in my experience, SUSE delivers a good allround solution. That's why it runs on my laptop, my desktop, and some servers around here. The cluster, otoh, belongs to SourceMage:-).
So, yes, my experiences do differ. But that's OK, isn't it?
SUSE 9.0 can also be used with 2.6. It is packaged on the install media, but not the default, and you have to install the rpm from the CLI. Everybody who wants to use it should be able to figure out how to do that;-)
What I know a lot of people do is ONLY put the battery in if they are going to use it off AC. Charge it for an hour before you need it, and run it down. When you get back to your desk, pop the battery out, and dock without the battery.. that seems to be the "rage" as rumored by our customers who have traveled to Japan, where they claim people do this.
Or simply RTFM:-) Seriously, my IBM Thinkpad Manual advises you to have the battery plugged in only without AC and discharge the battery as much as possible before recharging.
Although in theory, I did not expect that this old-fashioned behaviour was necessary for Li battery types (it clearly is for NiCd and the like), IBM seems to think it's worth it for keeping them alife.
My TP is nearly 3 years old now, and although I see a decrease in battery performance, it is still good enough so that I did not consider buying a new one. In fact, the only reason why I'm considering it is to get one for the bay, as I usually don't use CD on the way or the... what where those funny little rectangular storage media called one used a while ago?
Most people I know who had problems with battery life were just using them the wrong way.
I disagree. As the article itself points out, there is a fundamental design difference: the telephone network is a virtual circuit network connecting dumb telephones. Thereby, all the control lies in the hands of the companies who own and control the infrastructure. That's why telecom is profitable.
The internet is a datagram network where end to end communication goes not over a virtual circuit, but where every package finds its way through the network. This is the core of the failure tolerance of the internet and what both white collars and political censors dislike.
Internet and telecom networks are apples and oranges.
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OK, let's go back to physics 101. The device has stored a certain amount of potential energy when the weight is on the top, and a lower potential when on the ground. That's all there is, that's all the energy you can transform into light. Nothing can change that. The only effect (besides added friction) of making it spin around is that you stretch the time in which you make use of the energy. Result: less light, but over a longer time period.
Not that it would even be a bright light if the weight would go straight down...
Ah, and where does the energy come from?
The spin only adds friction and thereby decreases efficiency... not that it would even work with 100% efficiency. Sorry, but you too have to obey the laws of thermodynamics...
Like, uhm, klik?
From the Gaim page on skins: skins create a support nightmare. And: Were we to write our own mechanism, we would be adding overhead in both the run time and the time necessary to debug.
Yeah, you're right: they are just too lazy to implement this. It would be far better if the developers would spend more time on writing a skin interface and spend more time with support than to write useful new features or keep track of protocol changes which shut out their userbase from MSN and the likes.
Seriously, many other programs have skin support, and I hardly ever change skins on any of those. With the theming on Qt/KDE and GTK/GNOME I can get more than enough eye candy. The skin for XMMS with the best color contrast for fonts and widgets is the default one. Most Firefox/Thunderbird themes don't support the extensions I use. Changing the look of MPlayer was funny to me for 5 minutes.
Thanks to the Gaim folks to focus on more important stuff. If you want skins, stay with Trillian and Windows. I only want to be able to chat, so I stay with Gaim and Linux.
I'd be interested in your "etc." since my Gaim gets out of my way, isn't flashy, does on the fly spell checking and can show me the conversation history... I have used Adium myself, but I fail to see why it would be superior to Gaim.
No, Gaim does not support skins. If you really want to know the good reasons for this design decision, you could check out the developers words on the topic.
Oh, really? What happened to all the H.323 and SIP based services? Did they all vanish?
But SUSE really sucks in that regard. Last I checked (which was v9.2) things were really outdated.
In one SUSE version, they don't do version upgrades, with good reasons. I prefer it that way, it's the way it should be for production systems. The more important thing is that they do backport security fixes, and you can even apply them automatically.
You are confusing 2 entirely different things here. One is patching an existing operating system environment and applications, the other one is upgrading software.
Yast Online Update is not for upgrading software, but for installing fixes for the installed version. They have good reasons for that. Security fixes will be backported by SUSE, that's one of the most important job of their security team. That's what I do on production systems.
Upgrading software is a whole different story. SUSE provides a lot of unsupported ugrades, and Mozilla Firefox is one of them. It's very easy to find them on their ftp mirrors. You can also use third party software packagers like packman. If you use apt4rpm, it's very easy to integrate the different repositories, both from SUSE and third parties. That's what I'm suing on my desktop, laptop etc.
Patching all of my systems is mostly done without notice, just the occasional reboot when the kernel was changed, or restarting servers.
For me, SUSE has the most convenient patching capabilities, Apple comes a close second (and only comes second because with SUSE there are more ways to do it). Windows is much more work for me.
StartCom cerificates are much worse than self-signed SnakeOil certificates.
There is no verification of the user applying for a certificate, so I could easily get a certificate stating I'm PayPal. Would make the job of people trying to make money of the recently discussed IDN weakness even easier, wouldn't it?
Additionally, the private key is generated on their servers, meaning that it's not private at all. Makes eavesdropping and man in the middle attacks so much easier.
Nothing to see here. Move on. I don't think the Mozilla Foundation will deliver the StartCom root certificate in their default builds, and if they do, their folks should get spanked and have to write "I will not generate private keys on other machines than my own" a hundred times.
Import the root certificate yourself, and you are screwed. Use CAcert or FreeSSL instead. Or self-signed certificates if it does not matter.
I found it rather balanced... for being a Forbes article, that is:-)
I mean , they also wrote "Or maybe--just maybe--SCO is onto something." Does not sound very convinced, does ist?
And probably the best one in the end of the article: But SCO insists it remains committed to selling Unix software--when it's not busy fighting people in court.
For starters:
Jabber.
ietf xmpp WG.
ietf impp wg.
ietf simple wg (SIP + IM).
Wikipedia on IM.
PS: /. thought writing IETF is yelling, so I had to write ietf.
Interesting. When did they put out the Linux/*BSD/Solaris Version?
May be I don't get what you want to achieve, but that sounds to me like what you get when you do the following: when writing in the text box on your slide, press "Animation Effects" on the left sidebar, choose "Text Effects" on the top, choose "Other" and effect "Appear". Save that setting to your tempplate.
In the case of multiple installs, you can still copy the whole installation tree to a local machine and make it available via local network. This is also recommended by SUSE. I usually buy the install media and make them available on the local network... makes it very easy to install additonal software later on our machines.
The live CD is available as an ISO (the older version were, at least, I expect it to be the same for 9.1).
yes, I know you can install from fto, but c'mon, this is not a good way of installation
It's a far superior way of install, since you only download what you need. I never understood this issue. Lot less traffic for the providers.
That's not entirely true. You are right about YOU, but you can add additional install sources (Change Source of Installation) which can be used by the Install and Remove Software module in YaST.
Try to add ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse /i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.0/ to the sources (replace with your closest mirror and correct distribution), and YaST will update your KDE install.
The source directory must contain extra information sources for YaST (like a yast-source directory), so it does not work for all software updates provided by SUSE. AFAIK, it works for KDE; but not for GNOME or projects like Mozilla, unfortunately. You might try to use apt4rpm instead.
The answer to the orginal question: No, if they have not changed something for the new 9.1 Live CD's, it should not be possible to do a Knoppix-like upgrade from a Live CD.
I never understood this issue. What's the big deal about it? You can do a ftp install where only the packages you need get downloaded. Lot less traffic for the providers.
You will not get the programs where SUSE has no rights for redistribution, but you would not get them on ISO's either. Remember there's software with commercial licenses included (like officebib).
SUSE tries to make money from boxed versions, and I think they deserve it. You can still get it for free (as in beer).
While we are on it: yes, the YaST license is not free. I do in most cases support the standpoint of the FSF, but since the license only prohibits commercial redistribution and not redistribution per se, I can even live with that.
I'm using SUSE as my primary distro for a couple of years now, and I think SUSE has evolved greatly, supporting Linux standardization efforts widely.
While they are definately producing one of the most polished distro's available, it deviates from most linux distributions somewhat dramatically
There will alway be differences between different distributions, but I think that LSB and FHS compliance is the key. SUSE 9.0 is e.g. certified to comply with LSB Runtime Environment for IA32 Version 1.3
I still don't know how exactly the init system works.
The init system is designed according to the LSB specifications. I personally find it very easy to use.
I also found that you HAD to do things SuSE's way ... you couldn't do it yourself because YaST would stomp all over your changes.
Why this partly was true for older versions of SUSE, the sitaution is much better now (or my knowledge on how to do things improved:-). Of course, there are things like when you have a configured X and then start the X config programms, you'll get an altered XF86Config. But I find that's hardly surprising.
I happily alter config files by hand all the time and I experience no problems using YaST on other occasions.
(again, you can't just update say, package X from a source tarball because SuSE will throw a fit).
You know what package management is all about, right? How can you expect the system to know about your nicely compiled update if you don't tell it? You can't get it both, the comfort of managed software installs and the freedom of source upgrades without spending some work on it.
I frequently install software from source, either newer versions than the ones from SUSE or stuff not supplied by them. The key is to build packages out of them. It's really not that difficult (it gets difficult when you want to build a whole consistent distro, that's why I happily pay for SUSE's boxes - they do all the dirty work).
It's probably not bad for novice and intermediate computer users; I'd reccomend that experienced users who want a pretty desktop with little hassle use Mandrake.
I'd recommend SUSE for both :-) I think SUSE is a very nice distribution usable both for the newbie and more experienced users. Heck, I also like Debian and SouceMage, but in my experience, SUSE delivers a good allround solution. That's why it runs on my laptop, my desktop, and some servers around here. The cluster, otoh, belongs to SourceMage :-) .
So, yes, my experiences do differ. But that's OK, isn't it?
The FSF can do that much better than me. They have very interesting articles in their philosophy section. They even have some audio and video material.
SUSE 9.0 can also be used with 2.6. It is packaged on the install media, but not the default, and you have to install the rpm from the CLI. Everybody who wants to use it should be able to figure out how to do that;-)
Or simply RTFM:-) Seriously, my IBM Thinkpad Manual advises you to have the battery plugged in only without AC and discharge the battery as much as possible before recharging.
Although in theory, I did not expect that this old-fashioned behaviour was necessary for Li battery types (it clearly is for NiCd and the like), IBM seems to think it's worth it for keeping them alife.
My TP is nearly 3 years old now, and although I see a decrease in battery performance, it is still good enough so that I did not consider buying a new one. In fact, the only reason why I'm considering it is to get one for the bay, as I usually don't use CD on the way or the... what where those funny little rectangular storage media called one used a while ago?
Most people I know who had problems with battery life were just using them the wrong way.
According to some information at the german news service Heise, the operational costs for the ring are at about 1millionUSD per day.
You probably want to reconsider your bid?:-)
As mentioned in previous posts, Heise has in depth coverage of the story, mostly german, but there is always a (...) fish.
Sure? Wasn't it the other way round? If we invented them, how does it come that
Klingon was the original language of Shakespeare's writings?
I disagree. As the article itself points out, there is a fundamental design difference: the telephone network is a virtual circuit network connecting dumb telephones. Thereby, all the control lies in the hands of the companies who own and control the infrastructure. That's why telecom is profitable.
The internet is a datagram network where end to end communication goes not over a virtual circuit, but where every package finds its way through the network. This is the core of the failure tolerance of the internet and what both white collars and political censors dislike.
Internet and telecom networks are apples and oranges.
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