i have nm-applet running right now -- its still part of universe. Its not fantastic, ive seen several bug reports about how it fails to suspend and resume, and I know it hates it if i toggle the wifi kill switch. Oh, and it has that goofy keyring to protect AP passwords. The only thing that nm-applet does is make migrating from network to network dead easy.
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Because you use the forums, which are inappropriate for getting information reguarding bugs to developers? Launchpad bug tracking provides a way for INTERESTED people to be AUTOMATICALLY notified whenever a RELEVANT bug is filed. The forums are simply inadequate to connect the various people holding parts of the puzzle, despite the valiant efforts of folk like Sarah Hobbs.
I realize your wifi may have been the only connection with the internet, but has the initramfs shipped with edgy today fixed it, as suggested in the relevant bug report? Development versions are exactly that, and critical fixes can come in until almost the very last minute.
I suppose the other good news is that dapper will be supported for a long time, so you have at least that to work with.
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Firstly, some changes to Ubuntu are more fundamental than a new version. Upgrading glibc is still a version bump, but affects almost every package. Additionally, new versions of gcc itself produce potentially different objects. Releases allow for a coherent whole to be formed.
Additionally, releases allow for planning and coordination. Sometime programs aren't exactly C++ standard compliant, and sometimes the compiler isn't either. Changing the compiler version can occasionally introduce subtle bugs or build failures. By staggering freezes, you give people deadlines to work with / around. Imagine not knowing whether the kernel would support a specific feature your program wanted (like wpa_supplicant and NetworkManager).
Finally, the release system allows for simple testing and bug fixing. Sometimes upstream will fix a bug and introduce a new buggy feature at the same time.
Maybe the delay in filing was caused by their bankruptcy claims? No point in pursuing a claim if you may be forced to sell that right to someone else. But filing now as opposed to later sounds like an attempt by SGI management to be purchased by AMD, rather than inherit an ugly patent dispute and injunctions against distributing technology.
But that's not an argument for a playable race, its an argument for a story. Playable character arguments need to be examined by the balance that exists. Alliance had, for a very long time, overwhelming numbers. And you can probably guess that nobody was playing as male blood elves. Maybe nobody has the post-modernist tolerance to stomach pretending to be an elf that runs around pretending to be a woman?
I'm not gonna say that 50 dollars an hour isn't fantastic and espcially lucrative to people in places you describe. What I will say is that the downside to short term contracting is that you have to spend a lot of unpaid time finding more work, and things like health care that salaried people get with their job must be paid for as well. After all, you're essentially forgoing a regular salaried job so you can contract from company to company with ease. The general rule is 4 times salary. Rent-a-coder can push that factor downwards, but it can't get rid of the extra costs of finding new work and negotiating.
It might not be logically consistant with satire, but consider some of the best satirsts' pranks. Swift himself convinced the public of England that an amateur astonomer was dead; the astronomer was not and could not convince anyone that he wasn't more than someone who LOOKED like the supposedly dead astronomer.
If you don't call DEC's Alpha chip a 'great commercial success', than what is? Does it still have to be on the market? What chip from the Alpha era is still on the market? They've all been redesigned since.
How about, MIPS, x86 or PPC? ARM should probably also qualify, perhaps even bump MIPS off the list;).
If merit badges can help scouts determine which torrent is actually The Matrix and which is gay porn masquerading as The Matrix, so much the better! I have yet to master that art, myself.
How does that work? If there's no lawful way for cannabis to be sold across state lines, then there's no trade and thus no effect on the market. Extra supply in one state cannot move to another, so the price isn't affected. Are we allowed to consider the unlawful actions people might take? Hopefully the argument is more complex than stated.
Guess where that project got the name: DEBIAN! But we'll conveniently ignore that part, cuz then there's no clearly right answer. If only they had trademarked the name...
They make their revenue from hardware sales, not from software sales.
So when you buy 10.5 off the shelf, who gets that money? They are a software company. They're also a hardware company. It's not a bad thing. It's just a thing. They can and do sell software without hardware. They just refuse to hint at it anywhere within earshot of Microsoft, who responds to provocations by destroying your business as best they can. Apple is allergic to price wars, or anything that sounds like improving sales at the cost of margins, so they refuse to provoke Microsoft by selling OS X to the PC buying public.
Apple makes superior hardware.
Even by your own admission, they pick, package and sell hardware, not "makes". But then nobody makes laptops anymore, thanks to the asian ODMs. I don't know if Apple's stuff is truly "quality" or not, I don't have access to failure numbers. Their high airflow case was nice, but if improved airflow isn't improving anything noticable, like performance, noise or lifetime, then I fail to see the utility. They should have switched to intel much sooner than they did, but somehow that superior decision making and part selection failed them.
And by the way, is Intel really here to "prop up the market" or are they here to make money?
Notice in the article how it was mentioned that Dell gets their parts significantly cheap, and H-P wanted in. Intel can't legitmately play the volume card if Apple's getting in cheap. Intel probably isn't losing money as much as they are not making as much as they do elsewhere. It's hinted that their 40 percent margins (which is fantastically ridiculusly great) may shrivel as demand outstrips supply of Core 2 Duos. Apparently the analyst thinks by partnerign with Dell they can continue to get their parts in, which is nonsense.
But you're right, theres no reason for them to seek 3rd party support here. They have distribution channels, they have manufacturers, they have marketing. And going back to point one, looking to Dell for support would require sharing those precious margins. They're in a pretty good spot at the moment. But eventually, they can't ignore the market of PCs that could be running their OS. Whether that happens under the current executive team or not, I can't say.
The problem good sir, is that such a system is no longer "anonymous". You've directly associated a set of numbers with a voter's ballot, and suggested it be publicly accessible. There's good and bad news reguarding this approach.
The good news is that such a system would result in a lot more voters participating than currently do. The bad news is that votes would be on sale to anyone with a hundred dollars to spare per vote.
The $5000 gets you several things. It gets you a gigantic touchscreen about the size of my dell 20 inch monitor for the visually impaired (recall that a significant number of voters are elderly), along with a headset for those who really can't read well at all. It gets you a computer and stand that you can collapse and carry. it gets you a limited subset. And it gets you a machine primarily assembled in the states. It includes the cost of certifying the product design with one of three approved labs that test and vet these things. It includes a removable and theoretically secure pcCard slot for transporting the ballots. And the software needed to run all the various features, from translations to screen readers to the operating system. Like all government contracting work, the price is overbearing, mostly because so very few vendors are in the market. Even if you go with a cheap hard drive, cheap processor, and skimp in general on parts, I don't think you're going to get the screen alone for under 200. And remember, there's no room for error (theoretically) here. No failing power supplies, no broke hard drives, no blue screens, or those votes might simply be gone.
There are interesting arguments in favor of a computerized ballot system. The implementations I've seen universally suck, sadly. Whether its a function of cost cutting or a simple consequence of an incredibly complex system I can't say with certainty.
That's because they've found a place filled with people who think just like they do in the important ways. Perhaps future studies can show that people good with math surrounded by those who aren't will be unhappy;)
Why does everyone want to use GIMP to draw with, given that it's a bitch and a half to do so, and the developers refuse to add it in? I suspect the answer is "because you can in photoshop!" Is inkscape really that bad?
Doesn't make it not an example of I2C and sensor programming. But apparently this macbook app also includes source, probably more relevant to the OP's request.
Check out lm_sensors if you're curious. That's the linux software to read the temperature and current fan speeds over i2c or smbus. From there its just a matter of deciding whether the current temperature requires more fan speed or if you can get away with less. If your fans in your PC aren't cooling it down to room temperature, either the thermal readings are broken or you don't have frequency scaling on. With on-demand frequency scaling, my athlon64 will reach close to room temperature (it did rise 2 degrees when I added the newer GPU though). The difference between Cool'n'Quiet and not is 25'C and 40'C at idle.
I would imagine that the e3 demos were a pretty solid smoke-test for the Wii. Three days of non-stop abuse by gamers and all. The fact that the DS lite wasn't a new platform but a new revision of the same may have contributed to the crack thing not being caught before launch.
See, I figure they deliberately undersupplied pre-orders to either encourage retailers to bundle, or to drive up news stories of pre-order sell outs. That, or Gamestop got the short end of the Wii allocation stick somehow.
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i have nm-applet running right now -- its still part of universe. Its not fantastic, ive seen several bug reports about how it fails to suspend and resume, and I know it hates it if i toggle the wifi kill switch. Oh, and it has that goofy keyring to protect AP passwords. The only thing that nm-applet does is make migrating from network to network dead easy.
Because you use the forums, which are inappropriate for getting information reguarding bugs to developers? Launchpad bug tracking provides a way for INTERESTED people to be AUTOMATICALLY notified whenever a RELEVANT bug is filed. The forums are simply inadequate to connect the various people holding parts of the puzzle, despite the valiant efforts of folk like Sarah Hobbs.
I realize your wifi may have been the only connection with the internet, but has the initramfs shipped with edgy today fixed it, as suggested in the relevant bug report? Development versions are exactly that, and critical fixes can come in until almost the very last minute.
I suppose the other good news is that dapper will be supported for a long time, so you have at least that to work with.
Firstly, some changes to Ubuntu are more fundamental than a new version. Upgrading glibc is still a version bump, but affects almost every package. Additionally, new versions of gcc itself produce potentially different objects. Releases allow for a coherent whole to be formed.
Additionally, releases allow for planning and coordination. Sometime programs aren't exactly C++ standard compliant, and sometimes the compiler isn't either. Changing the compiler version can occasionally introduce subtle bugs or build failures. By staggering freezes, you give people deadlines to work with / around. Imagine not knowing whether the kernel would support a specific feature your program wanted (like wpa_supplicant and NetworkManager).
Finally, the release system allows for simple testing and bug fixing. Sometimes upstream will fix a bug and introduce a new buggy feature at the same time.
This sounds like a huge diff to carry between Debian and Ubuntu. Is Debian planning on adopting upstart?
Maybe the delay in filing was caused by their bankruptcy claims? No point in pursuing a claim if you may be forced to sell that right to someone else. But filing now as opposed to later sounds like an attempt by SGI management to be purchased by AMD, rather than inherit an ugly patent dispute and injunctions against distributing technology.
SGI is only alive because corporate euthanasia is socially unacceptable in the USA.
But that's not an argument for a playable race, its an argument for a story. Playable character arguments need to be examined by the balance that exists. Alliance had, for a very long time, overwhelming numbers. And you can probably guess that nobody was playing as male blood elves. Maybe nobody has the post-modernist tolerance to stomach pretending to be an elf that runs around pretending to be a woman?
I'm not gonna say that 50 dollars an hour isn't fantastic and espcially lucrative to people in places you describe. What I will say is that the downside to short term contracting is that you have to spend a lot of unpaid time finding more work, and things like health care that salaried people get with their job must be paid for as well. After all, you're essentially forgoing a regular salaried job so you can contract from company to company with ease. The general rule is 4 times salary. Rent-a-coder can push that factor downwards, but it can't get rid of the extra costs of finding new work and negotiating.
It might not be logically consistant with satire, but consider some of the best satirsts' pranks. Swift himself convinced the public of England that an amateur astonomer was dead; the astronomer was not and could not convince anyone that he wasn't more than someone who LOOKED like the supposedly dead astronomer.
What about the pagefile? And how do I know what is and isn't writing stupid temp files to somewhere that isn't encrypted?
If you don't call DEC's Alpha chip a 'great commercial success', than what is? Does it still have to be on the market? What chip from the Alpha era is still on the market? They've all been redesigned since.
;).
How about, MIPS, x86 or PPC? ARM should probably also qualify, perhaps even bump MIPS off the list
If merit badges can help scouts determine which torrent is actually The Matrix and which is gay porn masquerading as The Matrix, so much the better! I have yet to master that art, myself.
How does that work? If there's no lawful way for cannabis to be sold across state lines, then there's no trade and thus no effect on the market. Extra supply in one state cannot move to another, so the price isn't affected. Are we allowed to consider the unlawful actions people might take? Hopefully the argument is more complex than stated.
The commerce clause has become far too powerful,
Guess where that project got the name: DEBIAN! But we'll conveniently ignore that part, cuz then there's no clearly right answer. If only they had trademarked the name...
So when you buy 10.5 off the shelf, who gets that money? They are a software company. They're also a hardware company. It's not a bad thing. It's just a thing. They can and do sell software without hardware. They just refuse to hint at it anywhere within earshot of Microsoft, who responds to provocations by destroying your business as best they can. Apple is allergic to price wars, or anything that sounds like improving sales at the cost of margins, so they refuse to provoke Microsoft by selling OS X to the PC buying public.
Even by your own admission, they pick, package and sell hardware, not "makes". But then nobody makes laptops anymore, thanks to the asian ODMs. I don't know if Apple's stuff is truly "quality" or not, I don't have access to failure numbers. Their high airflow case was nice, but if improved airflow isn't improving anything noticable, like performance, noise or lifetime, then I fail to see the utility. They should have switched to intel much sooner than they did, but somehow that superior decision making and part selection failed them.
Notice in the article how it was mentioned that Dell gets their parts significantly cheap, and H-P wanted in. Intel can't legitmately play the volume card if Apple's getting in cheap. Intel probably isn't losing money as much as they are not making as much as they do elsewhere. It's hinted that their 40 percent margins (which is fantastically ridiculusly great) may shrivel as demand outstrips supply of Core 2 Duos. Apparently the analyst thinks by partnerign with Dell they can continue to get their parts in, which is nonsense.
But you're right, theres no reason for them to seek 3rd party support here. They have distribution channels, they have manufacturers, they have marketing. And going back to point one, looking to Dell for support would require sharing those precious margins. They're in a pretty good spot at the moment. But eventually, they can't ignore the market of PCs that could be running their OS. Whether that happens under the current executive team or not, I can't say.
A more compelling argument is gonna be needed before they jump off that gravy train.
The problem good sir, is that such a system is no longer "anonymous". You've directly associated a set of numbers with a voter's ballot, and suggested it be publicly accessible. There's good and bad news reguarding this approach.
The good news is that such a system would result in a lot more voters participating than currently do. The bad news is that votes would be on sale to anyone with a hundred dollars to spare per vote.
The $5000 gets you several things. It gets you a gigantic touchscreen about the size of my dell 20 inch monitor for the visually impaired (recall that a significant number of voters are elderly), along with a headset for those who really can't read well at all. It gets you a computer and stand that you can collapse and carry. it gets you a limited subset. And it gets you a machine primarily assembled in the states. It includes the cost of certifying the product design with one of three approved labs that test and vet these things. It includes a removable and theoretically secure pcCard slot for transporting the ballots. And the software needed to run all the various features, from translations to screen readers to the operating system. Like all government contracting work, the price is overbearing, mostly because so very few vendors are in the market. Even if you go with a cheap hard drive, cheap processor, and skimp in general on parts, I don't think you're going to get the screen alone for under 200. And remember, there's no room for error (theoretically) here. No failing power supplies, no broke hard drives, no blue screens, or those votes might simply be gone.
There are interesting arguments in favor of a computerized ballot system. The implementations I've seen universally suck, sadly. Whether its a function of cost cutting or a simple consequence of an incredibly complex system I can't say with certainty.
That's because they've found a place filled with people who think just like they do in the important ways. Perhaps future studies can show that people good with math surrounded by those who aren't will be unhappy ;)
Why does everyone want to use GIMP to draw with, given that it's a bitch and a half to do so, and the developers refuse to add it in? I suspect the answer is "because you can in photoshop!" Is inkscape really that bad?
Given the asian affinity for DDR, perhaps a Dance Mat input method is in order?
Doesn't make it not an example of I2C and sensor programming. But apparently this macbook app also includes source, probably more relevant to the OP's request.
Check out lm_sensors if you're curious. That's the linux software to read the temperature and current fan speeds over i2c or smbus. From there its just a matter of deciding whether the current temperature requires more fan speed or if you can get away with less. If your fans in your PC aren't cooling it down to room temperature, either the thermal readings are broken or you don't have frequency scaling on. With on-demand frequency scaling, my athlon64 will reach close to room temperature (it did rise 2 degrees when I added the newer GPU though). The difference between Cool'n'Quiet and not is 25'C and 40'C at idle.
I would imagine that the e3 demos were a pretty solid smoke-test for the Wii. Three days of non-stop abuse by gamers and all. The fact that the DS lite wasn't a new platform but a new revision of the same may have contributed to the crack thing not being caught before launch.
See, I figure they deliberately undersupplied pre-orders to either encourage retailers to bundle, or to drive up news stories of pre-order sell outs. That, or Gamestop got the short end of the Wii allocation stick somehow.