While Anne had a tendency to romanticize her stories and characters, there's no doubt that she had a great imagination. I'll always have a soft spot for the Harper Hall trilogy (Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, Dragondrums). One of my favourite series, and I thoroughly recommend them to anyone of any age. Her music training in life really showed through her writing, and she wrote it well.
Very passionate post. Very inaccurate, at least about Debian.
I run both FreeBSD and Debian servers in my workplace. Been running them for the last 6 years. I also have Debian running as my primary OS on my workstation. Debian is not a "stagnant swamp" as you say it is. If you really want the absolutely latest software, then you can install testing or unstable packages on an otherwise stable system. If you're running servers, though, you really don't want to be running the latest stuff.
Debian can't be considered secure? That's a strange thing to say. Our Debian systems have never had a problem, and security patches are always prompt and timely. Funnily enough, it's been one of our FreeBSD systems that has been hacked into, but granted, it was a PHP software security issue.
Interestingly, I've found that Debian is more sane and better documented than the FreeBSD system. I guess it's just one of those subjective things.
FreeBSD makes for a very good server. No questions there. I'd argue that Debian is better though, because it is more manageable than FreeBSD. As for desktops, Ubuntu is better than both, though.
I just checked my system (Debian testing, amd64). The/lib64 directory is not linked to/lib. It only has one entry inside it, though, which is a link to the 64 bit loader:/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ->/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so .
The/lib directory contains a link to the 32 bit loader:/lib/ld-linux.so.2 ->/lib32/ld-linux.so.2 . The rest of the files in the/lib directory are all 64 bit libraries, though.
I just looked up the FHS v2.3 standard. You're right, it does specify that on an amd64 platform, 32 bit libraries should go in/lib. So Debian does break the FHS in this regard.
Found a document which describes the Debian/Ubuntu approach to multiarch support: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec#Design . It talks about the shortcomings of both the FHS and the previous 64 bit Debian system, and how the new multiarch system solves this.
Too late. In the testing and unstable distributions, Debian has segregated the library files into lib32 and lib64 directories. I think it's a good change. Much easier to handle binaries from both architectures now.
At least they walked. Sounds like a good way to work off the extra kilojoules in a McD meal. Plus, you'd get to see some sights that you normally wouldn't have encountered. Food isn't the only cultural experience you can have.
What in the hell does a 13 year old need a cell phone for? I'd say it's mostly parents being worried about their children, and giving them a way to make contact if they're in trouble.
Are they being overprotective? Hard to say. As a parent, you'd feel downright guilty if something happened to your child, and you didn't give them a mobile phone because you thought it was crazy for them to have one.
Two thoughts come to mind: * This may be a good way to reduce obesity levels in society. * Shopping centers with supermarkets and/or food courts will make a killing.
Rule #1 of supermarket shopping: never shop while you're hungry.
Technically speaking, yes, SCP and SFTP need a shell to call the subsystem that provides the functions needed. You can install a package called "rssh" which will restrict a user to the SCP and SFTP subsystems, and prevent access to any other commands.
Hurrah, they fixed that?! The audio noise was caused by a memcpy issue with flash player and the glibc libs. Linus actually wrote a LD_PRELOAD replacement for memcpy which fixed it. I've been using that for the last few months. Search for linusmemcpy.c if you're interested.
An update to my comment... I did a bit of research, and found out about the repositories in mozilla.debian.net. Looks like I can upgrade to version 5 in Debian after all. In fact, have just done so, and am typing this reply in Iceweasel 5.0.
I'm a Debian user, and browser version is one thing they're definitely lagging on.
Stable, testing, and unstable are still on version 3.5 of Firefox (sorry, Iceweasel). The experimental dist has version 4 in there. I've been using that for the last 3 or 4 months, and it works perfectly fine. No issues at all. I'm surprised they haven't moved it to unstable or testing.
No idea how long before version 5 will appear. I guess it does take a bit of time to convert it to Iceweasel.
I'll just say, though, it's pretty "cool" having a browser named "Iceweasel". Ignoring the politics, I love the name.
To be fair, if I had a child, I'd be more worried about them learning swear words. I don't see exposing them to obviously fictional death in the thousands as having much influence on their daily lives. Learning a few bad words, though, would be a great way to get a reaction from their parents.
Thanks for that apache security vulnerability link. I went through each one listed. The majority cause crashes or denial of services, so we can rule those out. There were two vulnerabilities that allowed arbitrary code execution. One of these was patched in 2.2.3, so I don't think it applies. The other vulnerability was in the mod_isapi module, so it only affects windows versions of apache. This one, though, affected apache version 2.2.15, which seems to comply with reports of what Sony was running.
So, therefore, it seems likely that Sony were running apache on windows, and using isapi modules with it. I bet they're wishing they were running apache on linux instead.
As long as the new console is HD capable. It's a serious embarrassment to have a modern gaming console still outputting SD video quality. Surely the majority of Wii owners out there now have HD screens.
Now this series may be as much an offender as others out there, but it did very well in handling the death of a major character in the second season. It even had an episode devoted to the possibility of the character coming back, before finally ending with the idea that they were truly gone. Pretty clever writing, as it was playing on the expectations of the viewer that the character would come back.
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While Anne had a tendency to romanticize her stories and characters, there's no doubt that she had a great imagination. I'll always have a soft spot for the Harper Hall trilogy (Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, Dragondrums). One of my favourite series, and I thoroughly recommend them to anyone of any age. Her music training in life really showed through her writing, and she wrote it well.
Yep, it's on your Wii.
Very passionate post. Very inaccurate, at least about Debian.
I run both FreeBSD and Debian servers in my workplace. Been running them for the last 6 years. I also have Debian running as my primary OS on my workstation. Debian is not a "stagnant swamp" as you say it is. If you really want the absolutely latest software, then you can install testing or unstable packages on an otherwise stable system. If you're running servers, though, you really don't want to be running the latest stuff.
Debian can't be considered secure? That's a strange thing to say. Our Debian systems have never had a problem, and security patches are always prompt and timely. Funnily enough, it's been one of our FreeBSD systems that has been hacked into, but granted, it was a PHP software security issue.
Interestingly, I've found that Debian is more sane and better documented than the FreeBSD system. I guess it's just one of those subjective things.
FreeBSD makes for a very good server. No questions there. I'd argue that Debian is better though, because it is more manageable than FreeBSD. As for desktops, Ubuntu is better than both, though.
In Soviet Russia, sharks jump bad-tempered sea bass.
Oh god, my first Soviet Russia joke, and I feel so dirty. So very dirty.
I just checked my system (Debian testing, amd64). The /lib64 directory is not linked to /lib. It only has one entry inside it, though, which is a link to the 64 bit loader: /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so .
The /lib directory contains a link to the 32 bit loader: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> /lib32/ld-linux.so.2 . The rest of the files in the /lib directory are all 64 bit libraries, though.
I just looked up the FHS v2.3 standard. You're right, it does specify that on an amd64 platform, 32 bit libraries should go in /lib. So Debian does break the FHS in this regard.
Found a document which describes the Debian/Ubuntu approach to multiarch support: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec#Design . It talks about the shortcomings of both the FHS and the previous 64 bit Debian system, and how the new multiarch system solves this.
Too late. In the testing and unstable distributions, Debian has segregated the library files into lib32 and lib64 directories. I think it's a good change. Much easier to handle binaries from both architectures now.
At least they walked. Sounds like a good way to work off the extra kilojoules in a McD meal. Plus, you'd get to see some sights that you normally wouldn't have encountered. Food isn't the only cultural experience you can have.
What in the hell does a 13 year old need a cell phone for? I'd say it's mostly parents being worried about their children, and giving them a way to make contact if they're in trouble.
Are they being overprotective? Hard to say. As a parent, you'd feel downright guilty if something happened to your child, and you didn't give them a mobile phone because you thought it was crazy for them to have one.
Well, to be fair, if you can steal a trillion dollars, you obviously know something that most people don't. May make a very good consultant.
If media/gaming companies can consider Australia a part of Europe, then dammit, so can some dumb element!
Two thoughts come to mind:
* This may be a good way to reduce obesity levels in society.
* Shopping centers with supermarkets and/or food courts will make a killing.
Rule #1 of supermarket shopping: never shop while you're hungry.
My first try at programming was in high school, on an Apple II, using BASIC. As I remember, this was how it went:
10 PRINT "John Baxter SUX !!"
20 GOTO 10
I recommend a similar approach with the 2nd grade kids. Giving them the power to insult their fellow classmates is always appreciated, and remembered.
Technically speaking, yes, SCP and SFTP need a shell to call the subsystem that provides the functions needed. You can install a package called "rssh" which will restrict a user to the SCP and SFTP subsystems, and prevent access to any other commands.
Hurrah, they fixed that?! The audio noise was caused by a memcpy issue with flash player and the glibc libs. Linus actually wrote a LD_PRELOAD replacement for memcpy which fixed it. I've been using that for the last few months. Search for linusmemcpy.c if you're interested.
Those "spear chuckers" don't use radar to detect enemy craft, therefore your stealth capability is useless against them.
Plus, they obviously have a rocket science geek amongst them. Those spears, they're just not natural, I tells ya!
Ahh Civ, how I love thee.
An update to my comment ... I did a bit of research, and found out about the repositories in mozilla.debian.net. Looks like I can upgrade to version 5 in Debian after all. In fact, have just done so, and am typing this reply in Iceweasel 5.0.
I'm a Debian user, and browser version is one thing they're definitely lagging on.
Stable, testing, and unstable are still on version 3.5 of Firefox (sorry, Iceweasel).
The experimental dist has version 4 in there. I've been using that for the last 3 or 4 months, and it works perfectly fine. No issues at all. I'm surprised they haven't moved it to unstable or testing.
No idea how long before version 5 will appear. I guess it does take a bit of time to convert it to Iceweasel.
I'll just say, though, it's pretty "cool" having a browser named "Iceweasel". Ignoring the politics, I love the name.
To be fair, if I had a child, I'd be more worried about them learning swear words. I don't see exposing them to obviously fictional death in the thousands as having much influence on their daily lives. Learning a few bad words, though, would be a great way to get a reaction from their parents.
I was going to recommend this myself. Searched the comments first, though, to make sure someone else hadn't done so already.
Excellent game! Great fun and definitely kid friendly.
A happy coincidence, to be sure.
Thanks for that apache security vulnerability link. I went through each one listed. The majority cause crashes or denial of services, so we can rule those out. There were two vulnerabilities that allowed arbitrary code execution. One of these was patched in 2.2.3, so I don't think it applies. The other vulnerability was in the mod_isapi module, so it only affects windows versions of apache. This one, though, affected apache version 2.2.15, which seems to comply with reports of what Sony was running.
So, therefore, it seems likely that Sony were running apache on windows, and using isapi modules with it. I bet they're wishing they were running apache on linux instead.
As long as the new console is HD capable. It's a serious embarrassment to have a modern gaming console still outputting SD video quality. Surely the majority of Wii owners out there now have HD screens.
Now this series may be as much an offender as others out there, but it did very well in handling the death of a major character in the second season. It even had an episode devoted to the possibility of the character coming back, before finally ending with the idea that they were truly gone. Pretty clever writing, as it was playing on the expectations of the viewer that the character would come back.
Or the Xbox 360 counterpart to Demon's Souls
Or the Uncharted series
Or Heavy Rain
Or Flower
Or most of the Pixeljunk games
Or Valkyria Chronicles
Just a few quality games off the top of my head.
I'm guessing, regardless of whether they got it or not, people agree that America has too many entertainers.