It will install either XFree 4.0.1 or 3.3.6, depending on how well your graphics card is supported by each. Did you do an expert install? That might have given an option to force either version.
Europe will get 7.2 final. Assuming Australia doesn't get Mandrake from MacMillan (or even if you do), you will almost certainly get 7.2 final as well.
Which distribution/version did you upgrade from? Mandrake 7.1?
I ask because I will be upgrading my girlfriend's computer this weekend, from 7.1->7.2. I've always just done a re-install, but this time I might auto-update. But if it is borken, I'm happy to do it by hand.
Actually, most of the Mandrake specific tools seem to use Gtk/Gdk for a GUI, and not Qt or KDE (kinda odd, actually). This is based on "rpm -qR" inspection, BTW.
While the time pressure to get stock to Walmart by Nov.1 (NO exceptions) was unfortunate, once installed, the MandrakeUpdate tool will bring the release up to 7.2 final status. The version in stores was a "release candidate" during beta, and was indeed released. I say this to inform, not to apologize for Mandrake, BTW.
Thanks for filling in some of the details, and referencing the Nova site. I figured it was probably Nova... The show also had a lot of footage of John Stapp, another total nut.:) (Actually a brave guy, who put his own life on the line, many times, for human safety research)
There was a show on PBS last week that had footage of the highest freefall ever done (over 100,000 feet). The first time the guy did it, he jumped from about 80,000 feet, and went into a severe spin, eventually passing out. He awoke at about 10,000 feet after his safety chute had opened.
The next time, he went from over 100,000 (they used a balloon to launch him). He actually got stuck in the balloon, and almost couldn't get out. It was amazing stuff.
Apparently, at that height, one of the big problems is hitting the thicker air at about 70,000 feet. By that time, you are moving so fast, that entry into "thicker" air can be quite dangerous (not like any of it is safe).
I wish I remembered the name of the guy who did it (and the show that was on PBS). Anyone else see it?
For my home machine, I generally use Mandrake's cooker branch. Since I am often downloading packages, I was interested in trying the various ftp clients available. For a while, I was using gFTP, which was easy to use, but not always stable. Before then, I often used Netscape, but it is a total sloth at FTP. Then I tried lftp one day and was shocked; it was usually one or two(!!) orders of magnitude faster than any other client I'd tried (This on my university's T1, so I have the bandwidth.) When other clients would give me 6-80 Kbps, I routinely get 500+ Kbps from lftp (to the same server, of course).
So for those of you who are comfortable with the original command-line ftp, and have high bandwidth, I recommend you try lftp. It has tab-completion, bookmarks, wildcarding, etc. I'd be interested in hearing other people's recommendations for ftp clients.
PS. Yes, I use MandrakeUpdate as well, but I like to check for new packages.
And what if they use these powers to persecute political enemies, blackmail innocent people, or subvert the processes of the political system? Nah, couldn't ever happen...
Furthermore, Frontline also recently aired an incredible two pair episode on PBS called Drug Wars, which I urge everyone to see.
Basically, it shows that all the money spent on drug interdiction efforts has had ZERO effect on the availability of drugs in the U.S., and that the entire "supply side" effort of drug control has not worked. Yet, the huge funding available for enforcement has only helped to enrich the agencies competing for all this money. Basically, a drug enforcement industrial complex (to paraphrase Eisenhower).
How do you collect the taxes? This scheme requires a LARGE collection force (due to the HUGE amount of porn available), and a massive effort to prevent a black market from arising. And it is inherently unstable (if there is no money to fund a tax collection bureaucracy, no taxes are collected, and hence, no money is available for tax collection).
...he won't get any more royalties from the sale of the current book.
How so? Does calling for a boycott of your publisher negate their obligation to pay your royalties? Is this something written into these kinds of contracts?
This reminds me of something. I have a professor who has co-authored a niche book about computational solutions of partial differential equations. The book sells for over $100. He says he gets only a few dollars per book sold, and that it has sold in the low thousands, although it has become canonical for advanced post-graduate study in the field. It was written in TeX, although the publisher had it re-typeset when it was published (since typesetters need to get paid), and thus, MANY errors were introduced.
Basically, we talked about it in class, and I asked if the monetary compensation was worth all the frustration, or whether he would rather have just published the TeX source on the web, where the errors were fewer, and could be updated. He thought about it and said that, in retrospect, the money wasn't worth it, and that he would have preferred to just publish his correct, up-to-date version. The prestige of publishing an accurate version of such an important work, would likely more than make up for the lost royalty revenue, just in increased consultation fees.
Something to consider, if you plan to publish a book for a small niche.
Tell me about it. I use it weekly, and even contributed a minor fixes and clarifications. Eric always responded quickly and thankfully, and I was gearing up to make some larger contributions. I hope this gets resolved quickly.
I wouldn't. But what if everyone were issued a key card to gain entry to the toilet (ie. entry time and perhaps duration were recorded)... I stil wouldn't like it, but I can't say it should be illegal for them to do so (I'd just quit, or take a pay raise:)
And most amazing is, the seizure can happen without due process or conviction. There are cases of people losing their home due to small amounts of drugs, even though it never went to trial. I'm amazed there isn't more outrage at this. (This is a U.S.-centric post; I don't claim to know what is the norm elsewhere)
if this had been done 12 years ago, aids would have been removed from humans by now.
By the time it was discovered that AIDS was caused by a virus, HIV had spread far enough that it was already a pandemic in the making. It is not reasonable to assume that ANY quarantine procedures would have prevented its emergence in the population.
In fact, considering the mutagenic nature of HIV, and the long gestation time, quarantine may have the unintended effect of pressuring the virus to mutate into new, less easily detected strains with longer gestation times. HIV is adapted for slow and steady emergence in a population, whereas quarantine tends to be more effective for "hot" viruses like Ebola, which infects and kills rapidly.
Global testing of individuals is impractical, but necessary for any quarantine strategy to eliminate the virus from the population. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that it wouldn't cross over again into humans from the wild, unless we kill all the monkeys (something that SIV has not done, BTW.)
Therefore, vaccination on a massive scale, much like with small pox, is probably the only viable method for eliminating HIV, assuming an effective vaccine for all strains can ever be produced. Otherwise, we can only continue to deal with the symptoms of a disease that is here to stay.
And despite viral threats like HIV, antibiotic resistant tuberculosis is probably what is really going to be killing us all in the future.
I had thought to mention that the sample had been slowed done, but since you asked where the sound came from, I answered literally. How about half a Mars bar then?:)
Sure, everything they shipped was cheap as in quality but not cheap as in price tag.
The cheaply made Amiga's were competitively priced, but the higher end models (A2000, A3000) weren't built too shabbily. The C64 made people expect low priced machine with lots of versatility, and the quality of everyone's low-end machines reflected that. Even today, cheap PC's abound, and are built to not last.
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Does your machine use SCSI? How about trying the text install?
It will install either XFree 4.0.1 or 3.3.6, depending on how well your graphics card is supported by each. Did you do an expert install? That might have given an option to force either version.
Europe will get 7.2 final. Assuming Australia doesn't get Mandrake from MacMillan (or even if you do), you will almost certainly get 7.2 final as well.
Which distribution/version did you upgrade from? Mandrake 7.1?
I ask because I will be upgrading my girlfriend's computer this weekend, from 7.1->7.2. I've always just done a re-install, but this time I might auto-update. But if it is borken, I'm happy to do it by hand.
Actually, most of the Mandrake specific tools seem to use Gtk/Gdk for a GUI, and not Qt or KDE (kinda odd, actually). This is based on "rpm -qR" inspection, BTW.
While the time pressure to get stock to Walmart by Nov.1 (NO exceptions) was unfortunate, once installed, the MandrakeUpdate tool will bring the release up to 7.2 final status. The version in stores was a "release candidate" during beta, and was indeed released. I say this to inform, not to apologize for Mandrake, BTW.
Thanks for filling in some of the details, and referencing the Nova site. I figured it was probably Nova... The show also had a lot of footage of John Stapp, another total nut. :) (Actually a brave guy, who put his own life on the line, many times, for human safety research)
There was a show on PBS last week that had footage of the highest freefall ever done (over 100,000 feet). The first time the guy did it, he jumped from about 80,000 feet, and went into a severe spin, eventually passing out. He awoke at about 10,000 feet after his safety chute had opened.
The next time, he went from over 100,000 (they used a balloon to launch him). He actually got stuck in the balloon, and almost couldn't get out. It was amazing stuff.
Apparently, at that height, one of the big problems is hitting the thicker air at about 70,000 feet. By that time, you are moving so fast, that entry into "thicker" air can be quite dangerous (not like any of it is safe).
I wish I remembered the name of the guy who did it (and the show that was on PBS). Anyone else see it?
For my home machine, I generally use Mandrake's cooker branch. Since I am often downloading packages, I was interested in trying the various ftp clients available. For a while, I was using gFTP, which was easy to use, but not always stable. Before then, I often used Netscape, but it is a total sloth at FTP. Then I tried lftp one day and was shocked; it was usually one or two(!!) orders of magnitude faster than any other client I'd tried (This on my university's T1, so I have the bandwidth.) When other clients would give me 6-80 Kbps, I routinely get 500+ Kbps from lftp (to the same server, of course).
So for those of you who are comfortable with the original command-line ftp, and have high bandwidth, I recommend you try lftp. It has tab-completion, bookmarks, wildcarding, etc. I'd be interested in hearing other people's recommendations for ftp clients.
PS. Yes, I use MandrakeUpdate as well, but I like to check for new packages.
And what if they use these powers to persecute political enemies, blackmail innocent people, or subvert the processes of the political system? Nah, couldn't ever happen...
Furthermore, Frontline also recently aired an incredible two pair episode on PBS called Drug Wars, which I urge everyone to see.
Basically, it shows that all the money spent on drug interdiction efforts has had ZERO effect on the availability of drugs in the U.S., and that the entire "supply side" effort of drug control has not worked. Yet, the huge funding available for enforcement has only helped to enrich the agencies competing for all this money. Basically, a drug enforcement industrial complex (to paraphrase Eisenhower).
How do you collect the taxes? This scheme requires a LARGE collection force (due to the HUGE amount of porn available), and a massive effort to prevent a black market from arising. And it is inherently unstable (if there is no money to fund a tax collection bureaucracy, no taxes are collected, and hence, no money is available for tax collection).
The worst part about being atheist is that we don't know what to yell out during sex.
"Oh-my-lack-of-God! Oh-my-lack-of-God!"
...he won't get any more royalties from the sale of the current book.
I guess I totally misinterpreted THAT one. Thanks for all the gentle applications of the clue stick.
How so? Does calling for a boycott of your publisher negate their obligation to pay your royalties? Is this something written into these kinds of contracts?
This reminds me of something. I have a professor who has co-authored a niche book about computational solutions of partial differential equations. The book sells for over $100. He says he gets only a few dollars per book sold, and that it has sold in the low thousands, although it has become canonical for advanced post-graduate study in the field. It was written in TeX, although the publisher had it re-typeset when it was published (since typesetters need to get paid), and thus, MANY errors were introduced.
Basically, we talked about it in class, and I asked if the monetary compensation was worth all the frustration, or whether he would rather have just published the TeX source on the web, where the errors were fewer, and could be updated. He thought about it and said that, in retrospect, the money wasn't worth it, and that he would have preferred to just publish his correct, up-to-date version. The prestige of publishing an accurate version of such an important work, would likely more than make up for the lost royalty revenue, just in increased consultation fees.
Something to consider, if you plan to publish a book for a small niche.
Tell me about it. I use it weekly, and even contributed a minor fixes and clarifications. Eric always responded quickly and thankfully, and I was gearing up to make some larger contributions. I hope this gets resolved quickly.
Has anyone else noticed how bad the fonts look in that screenshot? Yikes! Looks like Windows 2.0.
To my eyes, the jpeg block compression artifacts appear to be the real source of ugliness in that screenshot, not lack of antialiasing.
I wouldn't. But what if everyone were issued a key card to gain entry to the toilet (ie. entry time and perhaps duration were recorded)... I stil wouldn't like it, but I can't say it should be illegal for them to do so (I'd just quit, or take a pay raise :)
And most amazing is, the seizure can happen without due process or conviction. There are cases of people losing their home due to small amounts of drugs, even though it never went to trial. I'm amazed there isn't more outrage at this. (This is a U.S.-centric post; I don't claim to know what is the norm elsewhere)
Then how about: "Vote Nader: 'Cause he's all that's left."
if this had been done 12 years ago, aids would have been removed from humans by now.
By the time it was discovered that AIDS was caused by a virus, HIV had spread far enough that it was already a pandemic in the making. It is not reasonable to assume that ANY quarantine procedures would have prevented its emergence in the population.
In fact, considering the mutagenic nature of HIV, and the long gestation time, quarantine may have the unintended effect of pressuring the virus to mutate into new, less easily detected strains with longer gestation times. HIV is adapted for slow and steady emergence in a population, whereas quarantine tends to be more effective for "hot" viruses like Ebola, which infects and kills rapidly.
Global testing of individuals is impractical, but necessary for any quarantine strategy to eliminate the virus from the population. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that it wouldn't cross over again into humans from the wild, unless we kill all the monkeys (something that SIV has not done, BTW.)
Therefore, vaccination on a massive scale, much like with small pox, is probably the only viable method for eliminating HIV, assuming an effective vaccine for all strains can ever be produced. Otherwise, we can only continue to deal with the symptoms of a disease that is here to stay.
And despite viral threats like HIV, antibiotic resistant tuberculosis is probably what is really going to be killing us all in the future.
I had thought to mention that the sample had been slowed done, but since you asked where the sound came from, I answered literally. How about half a Mars bar then? :)
Sure, everything they shipped was cheap as in quality but not cheap as in price tag.
The cheaply made Amiga's were competitively priced, but the higher end models (A2000, A3000) weren't built too shabbily. The C64 made people expect low priced machine with lots of versatility, and the quality of everyone's low-end machines reflected that. Even today, cheap PC's abound, and are built to not last.
Not if you buy an LCD display w/ digital input. :)
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