Bikes will not be charged, as bikes do not cause traffic congestion. I ride a bike in London and it's certainly the quickest and easiest way to get around. I just hope that this congestion charging works and reduces the number of cars.
He's sold his house and some personal belongings to pay for this and, according to the article, "the free fall will involve 200 scientific experiments in the stratosphere and the troposphere". If you're so concerned, why not sell your house (if you have one) and give the money to medical research?
"Will shall be the sterner, heart the boulder, spirit the braver, as our strength lessens. The Battle of Maldon"
Interesting sig. I was born in Maldon and reading that has made me want to learn more about the battle. Though it's spelt 'bolder' - a 'boulder' is a large rock.
Why is it that BSD users always feel the need to knock Linux? This article kicks off with "Most honeypots out there tend to be Redhat Linux as it's has the worst record for security out of pretty much every OS out there". RH is pretty damn secure compared with Windows, which seems to have a major security alert almost every day.
Your totally right, of course. This is what the OSI was created for - to 'market' free software to PHBs. That's why they coined the term 'Open Source' instead of Free Software and have introduced trademarks, logos and certification. PHBs (being creatures of habit and little brain) are reassured by such things. OSI is little more than a PHB pacifier, it's genius lies in it's simplicity. Without it, all we'd have is Stallmanism and, face it, no PHB is going to be convinced by RMS.
Acknowledge their work. A once-a-year banquet ain't gonna do it. Each individual volunteer needs to hear from you regarding what impact their donation of time and talent is accomplishing.
When I submit bug reports for open-source products, I always praise the product and thank the developers as well as describing the bug. It lets the developers know that their work is being appreciated and may also encourage them to fix the bug. After all, if they receive two reports for different bugs, one that praises them and one that says "your fscking software sucks", which do you think that they'll fix first?
If you're using Linux, then Evolution allows you to prevent HTML mail from contacting a remote server. No downloads of large images in your mail and no spammers tracking you. Kudos to Ximian.
2D drivers will be available immediately, say Matrox. However, OpenGL drivers may take a long time to appear as they have to port the Windoze drivers to Linux.
The French are best. I don't think so. Senegal recently proved pretty conclusively that they're better. Pity that there isn't a Senegalese Linux distribution.
Number of goals scored by France (the previous world champions) in the 2002 World Cup - 0.
It's a real shame that the PA wasn't too clear for the Speccy talk
We could hear it and, ye gods, was it dull. I'd always wanted to know about the disk controllers that 'russian spectrum hackers' use instead of cassette tapes.
Just been there too. Pretty boring and far too many geeks. Mind you, it was fun roaring up on a harley (I don't fit the geek stereotype), but not suprisingly very few girls to impress! Google teatowels were cool though. Didn't see the Reg either, though I expect that they (like us) went to the pub instead.
Not just that, but last week we had Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath playing their classic metal anthem 'Paranoid' at Buckingham Palace for the Queen. And Brian May (guitarist from Queen) playing 'God Save the Queen' on Buckingham Palace roof. Truely weird.
From their website: The Company has established e-mail databases exceeding 2 million Australian and 30 million world addresses. Currently we send in excess of 1,000,000 e-mails per month to Opt In Permission e-mail subscribers.
So these scum have over 30 million 'opt in' email addresses to spam. Yeah, right. Someone shoot the bastards. No, that's too humane. There's some mediaeval tortures that seem more appropriate.
A passport face-recognition system? Given that no-one ever looks like their passport photo (unless they're ill), it should only sound the alarm if the face and photograph actually match.
It's a Reuters article. Reuters always use 'upstart' to describe Linux. I've no idea why. Maybe we should start desribing them as 'Reuters, the upstart news agency'.
I'm sick of deleting bug reports from people with the Nvidia kernel modules. I've talked to Nvidia folks about why they do it. The bottom line is that I can't make a good case for them to open source it. Their worries about what it might do to their performance relative to competitors are quite well founded.
Could you explain this further? The source code for the Nvidia kernel drivers is available (though copyrighted, not GPL) and appears to be well commented. What exactly do they fear from GPL'ing it? That it may degrade in performance? Obviously not that their competitors will be able to see it, as they can already.
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Except that the 'Light Emitting' bit might be a dead giveaway, especially in low light.
HH
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My timetable:
August - Rent, Rip
November - Buy
HH
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Bikes will not be charged, as bikes do not cause traffic congestion. I ride a bike in London and it's certainly the quickest and easiest way to get around. I just hope that this congestion charging works and reduces the number of cars.
HH
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He's sold his house and some personal belongings to pay for this and, according to the article, "the free fall will involve 200 scientific experiments in the stratosphere and the troposphere". If you're so concerned, why not sell your house (if you have one) and give the money to medical research?
"Will shall be the sterner, heart the boulder, spirit the braver, as our strength lessens. The Battle of Maldon"
Interesting sig. I was born in Maldon and reading that has made me want to learn more about the battle. Though it's spelt 'bolder' - a 'boulder' is a large rock.
HH
Why is it that BSD users always feel the need to knock Linux? This article kicks off with "Most honeypots out there tend to be Redhat Linux as it's has the worst record for security out of pretty much every OS out there". RH is pretty damn secure compared with Windows, which seems to have a major security alert almost every day.
HH
Your totally right, of course. This is what the OSI was created for - to 'market' free software to PHBs. That's why they coined the term 'Open Source' instead of Free Software and have introduced trademarks, logos and certification. PHBs (being creatures of habit and little brain) are reassured by such things. OSI is little more than a PHB pacifier, it's genius lies in it's simplicity. Without it, all we'd have is Stallmanism and, face it, no PHB is going to be convinced by RMS.
HH
Acknowledge their work. A once-a-year banquet ain't gonna do it. Each individual volunteer needs to hear from you regarding what impact their donation of time and talent is accomplishing.
When I submit bug reports for open-source products, I always praise the product and thank the developers as well as describing the bug. It lets the developers know that their work is being appreciated and may also encourage them to fix the bug. After all, if they receive two reports for different bugs, one that praises them and one that says "your fscking software sucks", which do you think that they'll fix first?
HH
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If you're using Linux, then Evolution allows you to prevent HTML mail from contacting a remote server. No downloads of large images in your mail and no spammers tracking you. Kudos to Ximian.
HH
I've just typed both 'occult' and 'pagan' into google. The top sites for both categories are unknown by Smartfilter. Not very smart if you ask me.
HH
How about www.godhatesamerica.com, since they haven't (so far) listed that one. I've just submitted it, btw.
HH
Please explain cast iron
2D drivers will be available immediately, say Matrox. However, OpenGL drivers may take a long time to appear as they have to port the Windoze drivers to Linux.
The French are best. I don't think so. Senegal recently proved pretty conclusively that they're better. Pity that there isn't a Senegalese Linux distribution.
Number of goals scored by France (the previous world champions) in the 2002 World Cup - 0.
HH
10Gb speeds should be enough for anybody
Just like 640K is enough for anybody.
HH
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No, the Mallard set a steam record of 126mp/h (202km/h) in 1938.
HH
It's a real shame that the PA wasn't too clear for the Speccy talk
We could hear it and, ye gods, was it dull. I'd always wanted to know about the disk controllers that 'russian spectrum hackers' use instead of cassette tapes.
HH
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Just been there too. Pretty boring and far too many geeks. Mind you, it was fun roaring up on a harley (I don't fit the geek stereotype), but not suprisingly very few girls to impress! Google teatowels were cool though. Didn't see the Reg either, though I expect that they (like us) went to the pub instead.
HH
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Not just that, but last week we had Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath playing their classic metal anthem 'Paranoid' at Buckingham Palace for the Queen. And Brian May (guitarist from Queen) playing 'God Save the Queen' on Buckingham Palace roof. Truely weird.
HH
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From their website: The Company has established e-mail databases exceeding 2 million Australian and 30 million world addresses. Currently we send in excess of 1,000,000 e-mails per month to Opt In Permission e-mail subscribers.
So these scum have over 30 million 'opt in' email addresses to spam. Yeah, right. Someone shoot the bastards. No, that's too humane. There's some mediaeval tortures that seem more appropriate.
HH
If that's true then it sounds to me like a pre-emptive strike against Sun's linux.
HH
A passport face-recognition system? Given that no-one ever looks like their passport photo (unless they're ill), it should only sound the alarm if the face and photograph actually match.
HH
It's a Reuters article. Reuters always use 'upstart' to describe Linux. I've no idea why. Maybe we should start desribing them as 'Reuters, the upstart news agency'.
HH
What I hear a lot is "We want our home computer to be like the ones that the kids use in school."
So if the schools are using Linux, then parents might well start to use it at home. And the Linux snowball gets a bit bigger...
HH
I'm sick of deleting bug reports from people with the Nvidia kernel modules. I've talked to Nvidia folks about why they do it. The bottom line is that I can't make a good case for them to open source it. Their worries about what it might do to their performance relative to competitors are quite well founded.
Could you explain this further? The source code for the Nvidia kernel drivers is available (though copyrighted, not GPL) and appears to be well commented. What exactly do they fear from GPL'ing it? That it may degrade in performance? Obviously not that their competitors will be able to see it, as they can already.
Ian (from Cropredy, ukpml & Sydney linux.conf.au)
I want the chip that removes the loudest people from the party.
HH