Hey, I thought of a cool idea, I don't know how practical it would be though.
Include a virtualisation program(s) which would let you run knoppix in a virtual machine. Then, you don't have to reboot PC's, you just plug in the CD, have it autoplay(or manually run it) and nearly instantly, the linux system boots up.
Is there anything that would be difficult about that?
Why don't you just write to the swapfile? If your on the way to rebooting, nothing gets hurt by munging up the swapfile some. Of course, if your harddrive drivers crash, it's no good, but for all other cases, it sounds like a good idea.
I realise that the bochs and plex86 projects are still in alpha stages, but is there any plan to port a knoppix CD to run under bochs? Then, if you provided different emulation binaries for different OS's(win98, 2000, linux, freebsd, etc...), you could run your own linux virtual system from the CD without having to reboot.
Yes, you can have automatic updates by having cron call apt-get. But I think there's an important difference. Debian allows you to chose from 3 different branches: Testing, Unstable, Stable. The testing branch contains all software that was added within the past 2 weeks. (I.e. if your a package maintainer and you upload a package to the repository, it goes there) If and only if the package is a)Not updated in 2 weeks b)Doesnt have a critical error, it is moved to the Unstable branch, where it sits for a few months before it moves to the stable branch.
All that to say that if you run the 'stable' distribution, you can be fairly confident in the stability of your system because it has been tested not only by Debian developers, but by the hordes of users that enjoy testing out stuff like that. Also, all communication for debian is public and you can participate if you want to, which is somethine Microsoft doesn't provide.
Now granted, there is a separate security branch which handles patching exploited packages, but if your running the risk of getting exploited, the risk that something's gonna blow up is far less.
if the US wasn't strictly trying to control embryonic stem cells for research, then there wouldn't be a demand to make a hybrid source for embryonic stem cells.
by banning science from using this unfortunate situation to the best of their ability, people are ensuring that absolutely no good comes from the situation.
why shouldn't these mothers who exercised their legal right to terminate their pregnancies, also have that same legal right to donate?
Correct me if i'm wrong, but the current laws do _NOT_ ban embryonic cell research. They merely restrict government funding to 'new cell lines'. I understand your sentiments concerninc technological advancement vs. morality, but I don't think that the effect is as severe as you portray it. There are plenty of private organisations that privatly mess with embryonic stem cells.
I'm real fuzzy on that issue, but I think the idea was that if your brother dies, you have to take care of his wife. If you don't have a wife you marry her, and if you do...well, I don't remember what happens then.
It was a system to take care of widows, not a method to get yourself some more lovin.
If I understand you correctly, I think that I'm shooting for something else.
I want to be able to check the mail via an IMAP client. If I type mutt or something and look at the mailstore, I see the messages there, but they don't make it to the IMAP box, if that makes any sense.
Hey, while we're on they topic of mailboxes and such, I was wondering if anyone had a question to my problem.
I have 3 POP3 accounts, and I'd like to have them all accesable by one IMAP account(i'm back and forth between school and I'd like access to my messages anywhere). I'm using cyrus+procmail+postfix to try and get them to all go neatly into their own subfolders, but it doesn't work. It downloads from the POP boxes ok, but somehow, it's not making it's way to the IMAP box...
Anyone know a solution or something? All of the HOWTO's i've read are a bit vague, and don't work (althouh it's equally possible that I'm an idiot).
I don't have a link handy, but I remember reading about a case a couple years ago that went something like this: A burgler was walking along the roof of someone's house to try to get into an upstairs window. Unbeknownst(sp?) to him, the owner was doing some sort of construction to his roof (installing a skylight or something) and he fell through. The burgler sued and won because the judge said the jury couldn't consider the fact that he was trespassing in the case.
Since were being "honest" here, how about explaining why the Republicans ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS choose white over black, rich over poor, corporate rights over worker and consumer rights, and Church dogma over individual choice? Hmm?
White over black? I'm not really sure of what you mean, but if you're referring to affirmative actions, Republicans are for evening the table everywhere. It's very possible for anyone to become successful with the right amount of work. Of course there's gonna people that screw up and fail, but that happens to everyone, regardless of race. Programs like affirmative action do nothing but increase the complacency (sp?) of the people it benifits.
Rich over poor? Once again stemming from the idea that everyone has the power to influence their own destiny, without the need for the government to intervene.
Corporate rights over worker and consumer rights? That's because corporations are the ones who generate the majority of this country's wealth. I agree that sometimes we go to far, but the opposite is true as well. Workers abuse the system for their own good(/laziness). Just ask anyone who's worked in a union shop for any amount of time.
Church dogma over individual choice? Because many republicans see things that you see as choices as harmfull to society. Homosexuality, Drugs, Porn and a bunch of other things are viewed as things that just screw stuff up. For instance, (I"ll use homosexuality as an example). I don't agree with being gay. I think that it's stupid and disgusting, but I'm not your mom, and if you want to stick your wang into someone else's butt in private, I don't care. But, since I think that homosexuality is wrong, I don't want to provide tax breaks or other government-approved benifits for gay or lesbian couples. Tax breaks and such are reserved for things that the government encourages, and I don't see that as something I want to encourage.
Although a lot of embedded systems which don't handle years fared just fine, the reason we didn't have any sort of a meltdown was because there was billions of dollars put into fixing old systems.
Looking at what happened and saying that there was no threat is silly.
I thought that Palladium was a hardware based solution. It would work under recompiled windows or linux or anything else because the checks are hardware based. If you turned off the DRM, you simply wouldn't have access to any DRM-protected stuffs.
You don't look at where the planes are and try to shoot where theyre not. You tell the FAA where your shooting, and they coordinate planes to fly around it, if possible.
Netstat is a system level command which looks at what connections computer made to/from other computers. Right now, I have AIM open, and typing netstat shows the local port, remote port and remote IP of the aim connection. You can't block those requests because it simply looks at the kernel's network information and it doesn't send any data over the network.
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Well, I havn't checked in a while, but I thought that bochs+plex86 were coming along well.
Hey, I thought of a cool idea, I don't know how practical it would be though.
Include a virtualisation program(s) which would let you run knoppix in a virtual machine. Then, you don't have to reboot PC's, you just plug in the CD, have it autoplay(or manually run it) and nearly instantly, the linux system boots up.
Is there anything that would be difficult about that?
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Hey, my UID is lower than yours :) :)
Thanks for the welcome though.
Have I been sleeping for the past 6 months??? What is the world coming to???!!?!1!1?
Cats....and dogs...living together?
I'll bet that once they get the game out the door, they'll work on the Linux client.
Unfortunately, the head guys have stated repeatedly that neither HL2 nor the underlying 'Source' engine will be ported to linux. It's a shame, really.
Why don't you just write to the swapfile? If your on the way to rebooting, nothing gets hurt by munging up the swapfile some. Of course, if your harddrive drivers crash, it's no good, but for all other cases, it sounds like a good idea.
I realise that the bochs and plex86 projects are still in alpha stages, but is there any plan to port a knoppix CD to run under bochs? Then, if you provided different emulation binaries for different OS's(win98, 2000, linux, freebsd, etc...), you could run your own linux virtual system from the CD without having to reboot.
The SSN is a unique name
Wrong. Sorry, but it's not unique. The rest of your post is good.
Yes, you can have automatic updates by having cron call apt-get. But I think there's an important difference. Debian allows you to chose from 3 different branches: Testing, Unstable, Stable. The testing branch contains all software that was added within the past 2 weeks. (I.e. if your a package maintainer and you upload a package to the repository, it goes there) If and only if the package is a)Not updated in 2 weeks b)Doesnt have a critical error, it is moved to the Unstable branch, where it sits for a few months before it moves to the stable branch.
All that to say that if you run the 'stable' distribution, you can be fairly confident in the stability of your system because it has been tested not only by Debian developers, but by the hordes of users that enjoy testing out stuff like that. Also, all communication for debian is public and you can participate if you want to, which is somethine Microsoft doesn't provide.
Now granted, there is a separate security branch which handles patching exploited packages, but if your running the risk of getting exploited, the risk that something's gonna blow up is far less.
if the US wasn't strictly trying to control embryonic stem cells for research, then there wouldn't be a demand to make a hybrid source for embryonic stem cells.
by banning science from using this unfortunate situation to the best of their ability, people are ensuring that absolutely no good comes from the situation.
why shouldn't these mothers who exercised their legal right to terminate their pregnancies, also have that same legal right to donate?
Correct me if i'm wrong, but the current laws do _NOT_ ban embryonic cell research. They merely restrict government funding to 'new cell lines'. I understand your sentiments concerninc technological advancement vs. morality, but I don't think that the effect is as severe as you portray it. There are plenty of private organisations that privatly mess with embryonic stem cells.
I'm real fuzzy on that issue, but I think the idea was that if your brother dies, you have to take care of his wife. If you don't have a wife you marry her, and if you do...well, I don't remember what happens then.
It was a system to take care of widows, not a method to get yourself some more lovin.
If I understand you correctly, I think that I'm shooting for something else.
I want to be able to check the mail via an IMAP client. If I type mutt or something and look at the mailstore, I see the messages there, but they don't make it to the IMAP box, if that makes any sense.
Thanks for the help.
Hey, while we're on they topic of mailboxes and such, I was wondering if anyone had a question to my problem.
I have 3 POP3 accounts, and I'd like to have them all accesable by one IMAP account(i'm back and forth between school and I'd like access to my messages anywhere). I'm using cyrus+procmail+postfix to try and get them to all go neatly into their own subfolders, but it doesn't work. It downloads from the POP boxes ok, but somehow, it's not making it's way to the IMAP box...
Anyone know a solution or something? All of the HOWTO's i've read are a bit vague, and don't work (althouh it's equally possible that I'm an idiot).
Thanks-
I think what the parent was talking about was this situation:
-You are using WinNT or something else which is 'unsupported' despite MS's pressure
-Virus infects all MS products
-MS patches all systems except older ones
-you have to either a)upgrade or b) deal with the virus.
You can fit a doppler radar on a 5kg plane??
I don't have a link handy, but I remember reading about a case a couple years ago that went something like this: A burgler was walking along the roof of someone's house to try to get into an upstairs window. Unbeknownst(sp?) to him, the owner was doing some sort of construction to his roof (installing a skylight or something) and he fell through. The burgler sued and won because the judge said the jury couldn't consider the fact that he was trespassing in the case.
Woo, it's troll feeding day!
Since were being "honest" here, how about explaining why the Republicans ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS choose white over black, rich over poor, corporate rights over worker and consumer rights, and Church dogma over individual choice? Hmm?
White over black? I'm not really sure of what you mean, but if you're referring to affirmative actions, Republicans are for evening the table everywhere. It's very possible for anyone to become successful with the right amount of work. Of course there's gonna people that screw up and fail, but that happens to everyone, regardless of race. Programs like affirmative action do nothing but increase the complacency (sp?) of the people it benifits.
Rich over poor? Once again stemming from the idea that everyone has the power to influence their own destiny, without the need for the government to intervene.
Corporate rights over worker and consumer rights? That's because corporations are the ones who generate the majority of this country's wealth. I agree that sometimes we go to far, but the opposite is true as well. Workers abuse the system for their own good(/laziness). Just ask anyone who's worked in a union shop for any amount of time.
Church dogma over individual choice? Because many republicans see things that you see as choices as harmfull to society. Homosexuality, Drugs, Porn and a bunch of other things are viewed as things that just screw stuff up. For instance, (I"ll use homosexuality as an example). I don't agree with being gay. I think that it's stupid and disgusting, but I'm not your mom, and if you want to stick your wang into someone else's butt in private, I don't care. But, since I think that homosexuality is wrong, I don't want to provide tax breaks or other government-approved benifits for gay or lesbian couples. Tax breaks and such are reserved for things that the government encourages, and I don't see that as something I want to encourage.
Anyway, gobble up you troll.
Although a lot of embedded systems which don't handle years fared just fine, the reason we didn't have any sort of a meltdown was because there was billions of dollars put into fixing old systems.
Looking at what happened and saying that there was no threat is silly.
Actually, if you read the EULA, it states that nobody is allowed to install the software.
I thought the idea was that anything Jackson said was automatically false....
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Oh well
I thought that Palladium was a hardware based solution. It would work under recompiled windows or linux or anything else because the checks are hardware based. If you turned off the DRM, you simply wouldn't have access to any DRM-protected stuffs.
At least that was my understanding.
You don't look at where the planes are and try to shoot where theyre not. You tell the FAA where your shooting, and they coordinate planes to fly around it, if possible.
How would you right-click in a tablet?
I always have to put the flags down to keep myself from screwing up and getting the sad face.
Netstat is a system level command which looks at what connections computer made to/from other computers. Right now, I have AIM open, and typing netstat shows the local port, remote port and remote IP of the aim connection. You can't block those requests because it simply looks at the kernel's network information and it doesn't send any data over the network.