oil lubricates and cools moving parts (crankshaft , camshaft, valves, piston rods). The engine block is cooled by water with some other substance to prevent rust (in iron blocks) and to raise the boiling point and reducing freezing point. some manufacteres droped water all togheter. some of the substances used are ethylene glycol or propylene glycol. use of pure water as coolant in a car engine is not recomended and voids the warranty of many models.
take care if using ethylene glycol because it's toxic. in doing so keep the antidote (ethyl alcohol, AKA booze) always at hand. if care is taken, a 50/50 concentration of both ethylene glycol or propylene glycol will protect your cooling sysntem from rust, overheating, freezing or formation af algae.
first of all: wins car of the year the brand with bigger marketing budget. second: the most expensive maintenace around here (brasil) even with almos 100% of the parts made here. now they're puting M$ code onboard to make it even more expensive to keep ?
second: mercedes also uses linux on some models. BMW went micro$oft in theor top of the line models and the result is a crappy, hard to use joystick interface full of bugs (dashboard displaying incorrect info, headlights shuting down in the road, engine dying for no reason,...)
expect probkems (lots of them) with M$ powered fiats. I for one welcome our new Volkswagen overlords. not the cheapest models but way more reliable and easier to keep than fiat. and no M$ code in them.
The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités). It is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second. It is equal to 10000/254 inches, approximately 39.37 inches. The symbol of the metre is m. Metre is also spelled meter in American English.
works quite well. my subscription expired because i forgot to send them my new credit card number (old one expired *^_^*) but i'll renew it as soon as get home.
i have a pet peevee with them thought... no decent support for flight simulator till now. i tried several times with novalogic's f16 and it still not ok. my flightstick is still not properly accepted. in game the rudder axis stays turned to one side, making it impossible to even take off.
i'll try with IL2 someday. if it works i may consider dumping f16. all i want is ONE combat flight sim to work right.
if i wanted a "real life metaphor" in my computer i'd rather be using Microsoft Bob than gnome...
serious, my "desktop" is 120x60cm, which is 0.7m^2 waaaaay larger than my 17" CRT, how can you possible put in such a small screen all that i put in a "real" desktop ? answer: you can't.
another thing is how people work with papers. well, i can't say how others do, but when _i_ work with papers i tend to _stack_ them, then shuffle through the papers, and when i need to compare papers i put one besides the other and _no more that two_ at the same time.
see how _my_ metaphor is closer to the tabbed file manager in KDE ?
but this all theoretical. fact is: COMPUTERS ARE NOT DESKTOPS, and people know it. people react diferently to the glowing and the size and the colors and the everything of the computer screens than they react to a phisical desktop. puting icons that resemble folders or sheets of paper does nothing to change this. i know of a lot of people who are excedingly good dealing with and organizing paper that are lousy doing the same on the computer, and is not lack of inteligence or trainig, is just that computers are diferent. period.
just to make sure i'm clear on the diferences:
size: a desktop is much bigger, paper is much bigger and readable than windows in a screen
feel: grabing, shufling and sorting the real thing (paper) whith bare hands is faster and more intuitive than doing the same with the mouse
space: the computer screen is a flat 2D surface, while the desktop allows for stacking, which makes for a visible volume. there's no way for a person to tell if under there is or there isn't other windows under another (unless you use tabs like in KDE). this reason is enough by itself to make the spatial idea bad in the computer. computer screens are _not_ spatial devices. they lack the 3rd dimension, which the desktop has.
in other words: drop the spatial mode as a default and bring the tree view with tabs. Konqueror nailed this right on the spot. i'm pretty happy using konqueros with a tree view on the left and a bunch of tabs, one for each folder moving and copying stuff from one to another. much better and productive than several overlaping windows.
anyone knows if/when x.org will make it to debian experimental/unstable ?
i don't want to build mine because the next apt-get dist-upgrade may overwrite x.org with xfree86, so i'm waiting for the packages. i just want to know how long i'll have to wait.
it was ugly and unresponsive in other platforms as well.
i'm trying to understand why the only "stable" OOo for mac is still 1.0.3 while for other platforms it's already 1.1.1. doesn't apple have some kind of internal program to build up-to-date native (non-X11) versions of OOo ?
it's be a wellcome irony use the law RIAA/MPAA bought against them.
1- create an encripted P2P network 2- make sure it's easy to decrypt 3- create a user licence saying that if you're DOJ/RIAA/MPAA you can't decrypt 4- wait for them do break in and tap the network 5- sue their ass based on DMCA 6- profit
with 1.4 billion potential consumers, the rest of the world better consider adopting chinese standards or they risk isolating themselves from the chinese.
com.os.linux alone has (according to groups.google.com) more than 95,000 posts. print one post per page, the same for all sub-groups, plus every post from alt.os.linux and there's paper enough to cover the whole state of utah. and i didn't even counted the mailing lists.
the last time i used gnome before trying the current one gnome was 1.4 still. i skipped 2.0-2.4 and i can say i don't regret. i found 2.6 as annoying as 1.4 (for different reasons).
before moding me down, let me say that i don't use KDE either, i use windowmaker (heck, i even tattooed wmaker's dock icon in my back. really) as WM and mozilla for browsing/e-mail, but when i need something wmaker can't give me, such as a file browser, i fire a KDE app (konkeror, juk, quanta, whatever). the reason is simple, KDE apps usually looks better, are more configurable, and behave the way _I_ like, and there's pretty much _nothing_ that can not be configured by a dialog box/menu.
I tried gnome. i browsed every single configuration option. i tried really hard to find a reason to keep it.
it didn't allowed me to turn off spattial browsing in an easy and convenient way, the desktop color change dialog was wierd and lacking several options, such a list of named colors, i didn't find a way to change the colors/shapes of widgets...
I know it's all eye candy, but I _like_ eye candy. my windowmaker is heavilly custmized with dock icons backgrounds, title bar shades and other stuf that i configured myself (my own theme to tell the truth). unfortunatly gnome seems to lack a complete appearance control pannel like the ones in KDE or wmaker's WPrefs, and this is reason enough for me to switch to another environment.
add _LOTS_ of eye candy configuration and a control to turn spatial browsing off in gnome 2.6.x and i may reconsider it. untill then i'll stay with wmaker and KDE apps.
actually the "super star destroyer" in ROTJ is the executor, and it's 12.8 kilometers long. the 5, sometimes 8 kilometers long information is inacurate. a myth created by badly researched RPG games.
here't the authoritative information: http://www.starwars.com/databank/starship/supersta rdestroyer/
considering that a "star destroyer", actually Imperator-class Star Destroyer, is 1,600 metres long (1 mile) and an average human is 1.7 metres long, to acomodate 4" tall figures (aprox 10 cm or 0.1 m) and keep the scale right the model would be 94 m long.
with 6000+ pckages in woody and almost 10000 in the upcoming sarge is just a matter of choosing right.
thing is, debian is oriented towards more advanced users. this doesn't mean it's oriented towards server or desktop or development. you can use it to any of these, it just takes more work from your part. i always sugest my friends that they debian a try exactly for this reason. since it's harder to setup it makes a good teacher.
the moon takes the same time to spin on it's axis as it takes to orbit earth. that's why it has a _far side_ and a _near side_ not a dark and light side. all sides of the moon gets light once in a while.
it was believed some time ago that mercury (the planet) had a "light side" and a "dark side" (ie. the same hemisphere always pointed to the sun) but it was discovered this is not true also.
a lunar day is equivalent to several earth days. this means the russian rover could drive across the moon on solar power for much longer than spirit. the drawback is that it also had to sleep for almost 2 earth weeks at a time.
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oil lubricates and cools moving parts (crankshaft , camshaft, valves, piston rods). The engine block is cooled by water with some other substance to prevent rust (in iron blocks) and to raise the boiling point and reducing freezing point. some manufacteres droped water all togheter. some of the substances used are ethylene glycol or propylene glycol. use of pure water as coolant in a car engine is not recomended and voids the warranty of many models.
take care if using ethylene glycol because it's toxic. in doing so keep the antidote (ethyl alcohol, AKA booze) always at hand. if care is taken, a 50/50 concentration of both ethylene glycol or propylene glycol will protect your cooling sysntem from rust, overheating, freezing or formation af algae.
first of all: wins car of the year the brand with bigger marketing budget. second: the most expensive maintenace around here (brasil) even with almos 100% of the parts made here. now they're puting M$ code onboard to make it even more expensive to keep ?
second: mercedes also uses linux on some models. BMW went micro$oft in theor top of the line models and the result is a crappy, hard to use joystick interface full of bugs (dashboard displaying incorrect info, headlights shuting down in the road, engine dying for no reason,...)
expect probkems (lots of them) with M$ powered fiats. I for one welcome our new Volkswagen overlords. not the cheapest models but way more reliable and easier to keep than fiat. and no M$ code in them.
they're quite happy using their ISPs SMTP server to relay their messages, so "blocking por 25 is the end of the internet" is a bogus argument.
for the 1 or 2% of the users who really need access to external SMTP servers comcast could set up a "white list" to allow them such access.
in other words, what comcast is doing is firewalling in behalf of their users since most of them have no idea what a firewall is.
and now is based on the speed of light.
from wikipedia:
Metre
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités). It is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second. It is equal to 10000/254 inches, approximately 39.37 inches. The symbol of the metre is m. Metre is also spelled meter in American English.
works quite well. my subscription expired because i forgot to send them my new credit card number (old one expired *^_^*) but i'll renew it as soon as get home.
i have a pet peevee with them thought... no decent support for flight simulator till now. i tried several times with novalogic's f16 and it still not ok. my flightstick is still not properly accepted. in game the rudder axis stays turned to one side, making it impossible to even take off.
i'll try with IL2 someday. if it works i may consider dumping f16. all i want is ONE combat flight sim to work right.
if i wanted a "real life metaphor" in my computer i'd rather be using Microsoft Bob than gnome...
serious, my "desktop" is 120x60cm, which is 0.7m^2 waaaaay larger than my 17" CRT, how can you possible put in such a small screen all that i put in a "real" desktop ? answer: you can't.
another thing is how people work with papers. well, i can't say how others do, but when _i_ work with papers i tend to _stack_ them, then shuffle through the papers, and when i need to compare papers i put one besides the other and _no more that two_ at the same time.
see how _my_ metaphor is closer to the tabbed file manager in KDE ?
but this all theoretical. fact is: COMPUTERS ARE NOT DESKTOPS, and people know it. people react diferently to the glowing and the size and the colors and the everything of the computer screens than they react to a phisical desktop. puting icons that resemble folders or sheets of paper does nothing to change this. i know of a lot of people who are excedingly good dealing with and organizing paper that are lousy doing the same on the computer, and is not lack of inteligence or trainig, is just that computers are diferent. period.
just to make sure i'm clear on the diferences:
size: a desktop is much bigger, paper is much bigger and readable than windows in a screen
feel: grabing, shufling and sorting the real thing (paper) whith bare hands is faster and more intuitive than doing the same with the mouse
space: the computer screen is a flat 2D surface, while the desktop allows for stacking, which makes for a visible volume. there's no way for a person to tell if under there is or there isn't other windows under another (unless you use tabs like in KDE). this reason is enough by itself to make the spatial idea bad in the computer. computer screens are _not_ spatial devices. they lack the 3rd dimension, which the desktop has.
in other words: drop the spatial mode as a default and bring the tree view with tabs. Konqueror nailed this right on the spot. i'm pretty happy using konqueros with a tree view on the left and a bunch of tabs, one for each folder moving and copying stuff from one to another. much better and productive than several overlaping windows.
anyone knows if/when x.org will make it to debian experimental/unstable ?
i don't want to build mine because the next apt-get dist-upgrade may overwrite x.org with xfree86, so i'm waiting for the packages. i just want to know how long i'll have to wait.
it was ugly and unresponsive in other platforms as well.
i'm trying to understand why the only "stable" OOo for mac is still 1.0.3 while for other platforms it's already 1.1.1. doesn't apple have some kind of internal program to build up-to-date native (non-X11) versions of OOo ?
it's be a wellcome irony use the law RIAA/MPAA bought against them.
1- create an encripted P2P network
2- make sure it's easy to decrypt
3- create a user licence saying that if you're DOJ/RIAA/MPAA you can't decrypt
4- wait for them do break in and tap the network
5- sue their ass based on DMCA
6- profit
the past.
this toyota thingie is just a 21st century Romi Isetta
with 1.4 billion potential consumers, the rest of the world better consider adopting chinese standards or they risk isolating themselves from the chinese.
redbull contains taurine which when mixed with alcohol can have nasty side-effects on some people, including seizures and memory loss.
10,000 pages ?
com.os.linux alone has (according to groups.google.com) more than 95,000 posts. print one post per page, the same for all sub-groups, plus every post from alt.os.linux and there's paper enough to cover the whole state of utah. and i didn't even counted the mailing lists.
"pimenta no cu do outros é refresco" (red peper in somebody else's arse is refreshment)
dude, you replied the wrong comment, i didn't post any screenshot ...
it's still not for me.
the last time i used gnome before trying the current one gnome was 1.4 still. i skipped 2.0-2.4 and i can say i don't regret. i found 2.6 as annoying as 1.4 (for different reasons).
before moding me down, let me say that i don't use KDE either, i use windowmaker (heck, i even tattooed wmaker's dock icon in my back. really) as WM and mozilla for browsing/e-mail, but when i need something wmaker can't give me, such as a file browser, i fire a KDE app (konkeror, juk, quanta, whatever). the reason is simple, KDE apps usually looks better, are more configurable, and behave the way _I_ like, and there's pretty much _nothing_ that can not be configured by a dialog box/menu.
I tried gnome. i browsed every single configuration option. i tried really hard to find a reason to keep it.
it didn't allowed me to turn off spattial browsing in an easy and convenient way, the desktop color change dialog was wierd and lacking several options, such a list of named colors, i didn't find a way to change the colors/shapes of widgets...
I know it's all eye candy, but I _like_ eye candy. my windowmaker is heavilly custmized with dock icons backgrounds, title bar shades and other stuf that i configured myself (my own theme to tell the truth). unfortunatly gnome seems to lack a complete appearance control pannel like the ones in KDE or wmaker's WPrefs, and this is reason enough for me to switch to another environment.
add _LOTS_ of eye candy configuration and a control to turn spatial browsing off in gnome 2.6.x and i may reconsider it. untill then i'll stay with wmaker and KDE apps.
actually the "super star destroyer" in ROTJ is the executor, and it's 12.8 kilometers long. the 5, sometimes 8 kilometers long information is inacurate. a myth created by badly researched RPG games.
a rdestroyer/
here't the authoritative information: http://www.starwars.com/databank/starship/superst
considering that a "star destroyer", actually Imperator-class Star Destroyer, is 1,600 metres long (1 mile) and an average human is 1.7 metres long, to acomodate 4" tall figures (aprox 10 cm or 0.1 m) and keep the scale right the model would be 94 m long.
can be found in your nearest pr0n site.
i remember loggin on i a porn site back in 1999 from where i could jump to several others without loggin on again.
maybe sir bill could buy a pr0n site or two to learn how it's done.
can u imagine MSN with an adults only warning ???
actually it's down from $22.29 which means it's $0,14 from a 50% loss in value in less than 5 months. check the the 52 week range
in carrying a gun. after all, is not paranoia if the open source community is really after you.
what about http://www.openoffice.org ?
debian is oriented to whatever you want it to be.
with 6000+ pckages in woody and almost 10000 in the upcoming sarge is just a matter of choosing right.
thing is, debian is oriented towards more advanced users. this doesn't mean it's oriented towards server or desktop or development. you can use it to any of these, it just takes more work from your part. i always sugest my friends that they debian a try exactly for this reason. since it's harder to setup it makes a good teacher.
the moon takes the same time to spin on it's axis as it takes to orbit earth. that's why it has a _far side_ and a _near side_ not a dark and light side. all sides of the moon gets light once in a while.
it was believed some time ago that mercury (the planet) had a "light side" and a "dark side" (ie. the same hemisphere always pointed to the sun) but it was discovered this is not true also.
a lunar day is equivalent to several earth days. this means the russian rover could drive across the moon on solar power for much longer than spirit. the drawback is that it also had to sleep for almost 2 earth weeks at a time.