I dunno... I admit I haven't read the whole patent app and all, but I know my Kenwood car stereo can change the color of the buttons from red to green... doesn't do it automagically though, I have to tell it to. Still sounds pretty similar.
I fully agree. Heck, I'm currently working a min. wage job... most people in the company make min. wage (before rather small comissions... it's retail). Even the lowest of the low employees who have been with the company for any time at all get a nice gratuity... for those under 21, a box of nice chocolates or fancy cookies or whatever... usually from Costco. For those over 21, it's Wine, Whiskey, or Other, Other being the aforementioned chocolates/cookies/etc. They may not cost a lot, but it's still a nice gesture, shows some appreciation for the otherwise slavish work we tend to do. It makes us happy to get such things. If we were to get a bobble-head doll of the owner, we would NOT be happy. In fact, our reaction would probably be to take all the bobble-head dolls and join them together in many compromising positions, take pictures, and proceed to post them to the company web page shortly before calling up the owner, telling him to play a quick game of "hide and go f* yourself", and then walking out the door telling them to mail our last paycheck.
How wrong you are. More accurate would be: "Average people are idiots. That's why they're average."
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What do you think people are doing when they buy shares in a company? Same principle. You're giving a certain amount of money to a company with the expectation of something in return. You may donate to Mandrake, Slackware, or any other software company with the expectation that that company will continue to provide you with great software, or you may purchase stock in Ford, GM, Trojan, BigCloudFromOuterSpaceCorp, etc. with the expectation that whichever company will use the money to continue (or in some cases, such as IPOs, be able to start) providing you with a product you value (and often financial return). Either way, you're funding a company so they can operate.
I guess they should start requiring a quick Scan of a Valid state driver license for CODs -- when payment is not by cash. At least then they'd have a scan of all the data on the drivers license/State ID Card (for people who don't drive) to turn over to the victims/police.
This in no way gaurantees that the check is not counterfeit. The business I work for, and many of the other stores in our chain, have recently gotten several counterfeit checks all from the same person. Every time, they have been for a significantly large amount that store policy says we must check 2 pieces of ID and verify funds with the bank. However, the guy is good enough that he has matching (counterfeit) state drivers licenses and second form of ID, and he uses a different name every time. He also steals account numbers to put on the checks, so when we call the bank to verify funds, everything seems alright. By the time the check actually tries to clear, the person has realized their account has been compromised, and the check comes back as stolen. So if the scammer is sufficiently careful/advanced, no amount of ID checking will do you any good.
Ok, do you realize how much more dangerous than a simple propane tank a hydrogen tank is?
Actually, depending on your situation, hydrogen may be quite a bit less dangerous than propane. You see, propane being quite heavy, if it leaks will form a layer on your floor. If you have a basement, it will all settle there. It will remain there just waiting for the right spark to come along, at which time *BOOM*. Hydrogen on the other hand is much lighter and a master escape artist. If you have a very slow hydrogen leak, it will simply rise and dissipate and find its way out. Even if you happen to ignite it right where it is leaking, you will most likely get just a quick *pop* and then it will be done, since the pure hydrogen environment inside the tank/lines has no oxidizer, and thus will not burn. Knowing what I know of propane and hydrogen, for any indoor application I would take hydrogen in a heartbeat over propane.
The batteries in that APC are evil nasty horrible little beasts when it comes to disposal after they've reached the end of their life.
Did you happen to notice that this wonderful fuel cell also contains sealed lead-acid batteries, which are the same "evil nasty horrible little beasts" you'll find in your typical APC unit? Now, perhaps there is much less battery in the unit, but regardless it still contains the same type of battery.
What I'd like to know (and this is NOT meant as a flame any way, I love mozilla), is HOW exactly do big bugs like this get into final releases? I mean, the 1.2 release was more than a month behind what was scheduled on the roadmap, and yet it still ends up with this in it? Is it just the number of people who don't bother with nightlies or reporting bugs? I would think there would be enough people using the nightlies to find fairly significant bugs like this. Perhaps the fine mozilla people need to add a "gamma" release after "alpha" and "beta" but before "final"? Have the gamma and final be seperated by one week, and ONLY incorporate bugfixes which don't affect major parts of the code? I don't quite know what the answer is, but it seems something should be done. All in all though, great browser.
My question is this... does ANYone have any idea how many Linux boxes Wal-Mart.com is selling and what kind of customers they are selling them to?
Well, I have no idea how many they're selling, but I do know I'm a customer who's thinking of buying one.
Application: router/VPN server for a small wireless network.
Reasons: It's cheap, and it's *good enough*. This is what many don't understand. A lot of people now sneer at a Via C3 800Mhz... but think about it... for many applications that's MORE than adequate. As is the 128 MB of SDRAM and the 10GB HD. It has almost everything I need built in. All I'd have to add is one NIC (it already has one on-board). The proc can run in heatsink-only designs, so I should n't have to worry too much about leaving it in a closet somewhere. If the fan dies, the box will probably just keep chugging as if nothing happened.
All I have to do when I get the box: Install another NIC. Wipe the hard drive, load slack. Configure firewall/routing rules. Set up VPN server. Set up anything else I may want, such as Apache, DNS, etc.
Keep in mind there will only be a few users at a time on the box. Plenty of power left over. Seems like a good deal to me.
SSSHhhhhhh.... You're making the proles think... they aren't supposed to do that. How can we subjugate them with our insidious prejudices if they think?
Alright everyone, [puts on sunglasses] I want you all to look right here at this little red *FLASH*
As I was saying, Linux is good. Ignorance is Strength. Microsoft is evil. Freedom is Slavery. China is mean. War is Peace.
Think for a second... 10,000 RPM SCSI drive 5 years ago... how big was it? What was the areal density? I'm not going to bother to do the math right now, but a 40 GB, 4200 rpm laptop drive may very well have the same I/O speeds (or a lot better) as a 2.1GB, 10,000 rpm scsi drive from 5 years ago would've had. As areal density increases, I/O speed increases when linear velocity remains constant. Think about it, and don't hurt yourself.:).
Did you by ANY chance happen to read the article and notice that only one of the vulnerabilities mentioned seems to apply to anything past version 1.0.1? Sorry, but I could care less that 1.0.1 has a vulnerability, or 6, or 600. They're up to 1.2b now, and 1.2 final should be out any day now. Why is this such "big news"? Maybe I'm missing something, cause as it stands I just don't see how this is worthy of *anyone's* reading time.
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All the Orinoco hardware eliminates the weak IVs. Not sure what other manufacturers do this. It's completely seperate from things like 802.1x EAP. What you're talking about (proprietary things) sound like Cisco LEAP (proprietary version of EAP, which has now bean licensed to most major WiFi makers and is showing up in the latest firmware revisions). A different IV is used for every packet sent either direction, so to completely rid yourself of weak IVs both the client adapters (all of them using the same WEP key) and the AP must avoid them. If even one client adapter is using weak IVs still, there is the potential for gathering enough to figure out the WEP key. However, with each additional client that eliminates weak IVs, the amount of time it takes to crack the WEP key grows.
An example: client and AP are both avoiding weak IVs: Airsnort and similar are completely ineffective (to the best of my knowledge).
AP avoids weak IVs while cheap client adapter with old firmware does not: Airsnort, etc. now can crack the key, but it takes many hours (we'll say 12 hours just to throw out a number).
Neither client adapter nor AP are avoiding weak IVs: Airsnort, etc. now take about half the time (we'll say 6 hours) to gain the WEP key, because there are proportionally twice as many packets with weak IVs being thrown across the network.
Also, much of the newer firmware is programmed to explicitly not use weak IVs (Initialization Vectors, what Airsnort etc. use to crack WEP). Without using weak IVs, all normal WEP cracking tools are defeated. So, even though WEP isn't perfect (there are other more complex attacks on it), it is a very good start especially if you have newer hardware or the most recent firmware for your older hardware.
If you read the article, you'd know they're announcing it because they're retiring it. It was only a prototype , a technology demonstration if you will. We won't be producing these jets.
Or, consider the conspiracy theory. Perhaps people were getting too curious about the whole project. Whip out some pictures and video clips and a brief description, say the project was for testing ideas only and has now been retired, and people will say "hey, that's cool. Ok... time to move on to the next UFO." In other words, "these are not the droids you're looking for." Who's to say this is *the* Bird of Prey which has actually been in testing, and not simply some decoy to make people say "ok... nothing more to see here. Move along."
This is a serious question... Why should typewriters be disposed of? For general documents, yes of course computers are better. But have you ever tried to fill out a government form by entering everything on your computer and running the form through the printer? I don't recommend it unless you've got a LOT of time and LOT of blank forms. On the other hand, you stick it in a typewriter, line it up till it looks about right, and fill in whatever you need to. You end up with an easy to read document in very little time at all. Granted a template can be made for most US.gov forms, or they can be done electronically, but what happens when they come across some form they don't have a template for?
Acutally, no, I haven't experienced that, but I've been using Mac's since 2001.
Newsflash: Macs and PCs use the same hard drives. Same manufacturers. Same model numbers. Same. Have been for quite a few years. Yes, I realize Macs used to be 100% SCSI. Not anymore. Using a Mac has nothing to do with hard drive noise or lack thereof, unless you mean they accoustically insulate the case. Which I doubt.
1) Distributions with hardware detection don't help if you need to add support for hardware that was created after the distribution was installed. What if I upgrade to a new network adapter that was just released? The "easiest" way way to add support for that hardware is download a new kernel with that driver and rebuild it. I can't just add the driver to my current installation.
They do if it happens to be hardware detection which runs every time the system runs. Look at the pcmcia-cs utils... they do it just fine. Same for hotplug with USB stuff (from what I've heard... don't have any USB stuff myself). And the easiest way to add a driver for a new device (which isn't already built for your current system) is to go the website (in your example, NICs, that would be scyld.com) and download the driver. Then compile it as a module and install it. Not too difficult.
2) If I upgrade to a new piece of hardware under Windows, that hardware will come with a floppy or CD-ROM that has the drivers on it. Windows drivers, but never Linux drivers. All I need to do is stick the disk in the driver, and Windows takes care of the rest. I don't need to know what kind of hardware it is.
As far as linux drivers on driver discs, when was the last time you looked at a linksys package? Matrox? 3com? I believe all of the above now come with linux drivers (I know the last linksys and I believe netgear NICs I bought came with them, and Matrox and 3com at least have the linux drivers on their websites now). And as far as the windows driver discs... they're usually out of date when you get a product, and they don't always install that nicely and easily. You ever installed the Via 4in1 drivers? Not the most self-explanatory thing on the planet. And I've seen other drivers that are worse.
Just tried it a couple days ago... worked just fine. What's your problem with it? Ever heard of pcmcia-cs? A whole bunch of drivers shipped completely seperate from the kernel. I'm running Slackware 8.1. Needed a patched driver for my Orinoco card.... Downloaded the pcmcia-cs package and the patch I needed... patched the driver,./configure && make all && make install && cd/etc/rc.d && rc.pcmcia start. Inserted my Orinoco card, and everything worked. No reboot, no need to recompile the kernel. Download and compile the driver (or in this case set of drivers) and you're good to go.
All in all, not a bad day, though it was a little windy. I do agree with an above post that icing COULD be a possibility, but with a surface temp as warm as it was, they would have to be flying pretty high.
I take it you fly not? The thing about ice in aviation is, it can form at almost any temperature. In fact, it is much more likely to form in the 50-70 degree range than it is in very cold weather. The two places you might end up with ice formation in a chopper are in the carb (if it has one) or on the rotors. The warmer air can carry quite a bit of moisture, and then when it goes into the carb or passes over the rotors, there is a sudden drop in air temperature due to the lowering in pressure. This causes the moisture to condense and very possibly freeze. Therefore, ice could have very possibly been a factor in the crash.
Slow down there turbo... Beta isn't completely gone, even today. Many studios use it (yes, even today) for the simple fact that it is indeed so much better than VHS. As recently as a few years ago you could spend $30,000 on a professional video camera using... you guessed it, the Beta format. I'm sure you can still buy them, though I'd guess the price has dropped a bit. Just because you happen to have piss-poor quality on the TV screen doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the quality of the format. That would be akin to saying, "SACDs aren't much better than my regular audio CDs. I mean, when I play them through this $10 pair of computer speakers, I can't hardly notice a difference."
I always wondered what hell would look like. Somehow, that screenshot just looks too pretty.
Come on RPM guys... You can make a scarrier dependency hell than that, can't you? heh.. I just love all those nasty lines linking all those packages into such a tangled web.
Thank you very much, but I'll stick with installpkg, removepkg, and upgradepkg. Those are Slackware's package management tools for anyone who doesn't know. Take careful note: NO DEPENDENCY HELL.
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I dunno... I admit I haven't read the whole patent app and all, but I know my Kenwood car stereo can change the color of the buttons from red to green... doesn't do it automagically though, I have to tell it to. Still sounds pretty similar.
I fully agree. Heck, I'm currently working a min. wage job... most people in the company make min. wage (before rather small comissions... it's retail). Even the lowest of the low employees who have been with the company for any time at all get a nice gratuity... for those under 21, a box of nice chocolates or fancy cookies or whatever... usually from Costco. For those over 21, it's Wine, Whiskey, or Other, Other being the aforementioned chocolates/cookies/etc. They may not cost a lot, but it's still a nice gesture, shows some appreciation for the otherwise slavish work we tend to do. It makes us happy to get such things. If we were to get a bobble-head doll of the owner, we would NOT be happy. In fact, our reaction would probably be to take all the bobble-head dolls and join them together in many compromising positions, take pictures, and proceed to post them to the company web page shortly before calling up the owner, telling him to play a quick game of "hide and go f* yourself", and then walking out the door telling them to mail our last paycheck.
Idiots aren't average. That's why they're idiots.
How wrong you are. More accurate would be: "Average people are idiots. That's why they're average."
What do you think people are doing when they buy shares in a company? Same principle. You're giving a certain amount of money to a company with the expectation of something in return. You may donate to Mandrake, Slackware, or any other software company with the expectation that that company will continue to provide you with great software, or you may purchase stock in Ford, GM, Trojan, BigCloudFromOuterSpaceCorp, etc. with the expectation that whichever company will use the money to continue (or in some cases, such as IPOs, be able to start) providing you with a product you value (and often financial return). Either way, you're funding a company so they can operate.
sed: -e expression #1, char 19: Unterminated `s' command
I guess they should start requiring a quick Scan of a Valid state driver license for CODs -- when payment is not by cash. At least then they'd have a scan of all the data on the drivers license/State ID Card (for people who don't drive) to turn over to the victims/police.
This in no way gaurantees that the check is not counterfeit. The business I work for, and many of the other stores in our chain, have recently gotten several counterfeit checks all from the same person. Every time, they have been for a significantly large amount that store policy says we must check 2 pieces of ID and verify funds with the bank. However, the guy is good enough that he has matching (counterfeit) state drivers licenses and second form of ID, and he uses a different name every time. He also steals account numbers to put on the checks, so when we call the bank to verify funds, everything seems alright. By the time the check actually tries to clear, the person has realized their account has been compromised, and the check comes back as stolen. So if the scammer is sufficiently careful/advanced, no amount of ID checking will do you any good.
Ok, do you realize how much more dangerous than a simple propane tank a hydrogen tank is?
Actually, depending on your situation, hydrogen may be quite a bit less dangerous than propane. You see, propane being quite heavy, if it leaks will form a layer on your floor. If you have a basement, it will all settle there. It will remain there just waiting for the right spark to come along, at which time *BOOM*. Hydrogen on the other hand is much lighter and a master escape artist. If you have a very slow hydrogen leak, it will simply rise and dissipate and find its way out. Even if you happen to ignite it right where it is leaking, you will most likely get just a quick *pop* and then it will be done, since the pure hydrogen environment inside the tank/lines has no oxidizer, and thus will not burn. Knowing what I know of propane and hydrogen, for any indoor application I would take hydrogen in a heartbeat over propane.
The batteries in that APC are evil nasty horrible little beasts when it comes to disposal after they've reached the end of their life.
Did you happen to notice that this wonderful fuel cell also contains sealed lead-acid batteries, which are the same "evil nasty horrible little beasts" you'll find in your typical APC unit? Now, perhaps there is much less battery in the unit, but regardless it still contains the same type of battery.
What I'd like to know (and this is NOT meant as a flame any way, I love mozilla), is HOW exactly do big bugs like this get into final releases? I mean, the 1.2 release was more than a month behind what was scheduled on the roadmap, and yet it still ends up with this in it? Is it just the number of people who don't bother with nightlies or reporting bugs? I would think there would be enough people using the nightlies to find fairly significant bugs like this. Perhaps the fine mozilla people need to add a "gamma" release after "alpha" and "beta" but before "final"? Have the gamma and final be seperated by one week, and ONLY incorporate bugfixes which don't affect major parts of the code? I don't quite know what the answer is, but it seems something should be done. All in all though, great browser.
My question is this ... does ANYone have any idea how many Linux boxes Wal-Mart.com is selling and what kind of customers they are selling them to?
Well, I have no idea how many they're selling, but I do know I'm a customer who's thinking of buying one.
Application: router/VPN server for a small wireless network.
Reasons: It's cheap, and it's *good enough*. This is what many don't understand. A lot of people now sneer at a Via C3 800Mhz... but think about it... for many applications that's MORE than adequate. As is the 128 MB of SDRAM and the 10GB HD. It has almost everything I need built in. All I'd have to add is one NIC (it already has one on-board). The proc can run in heatsink-only designs, so I should n't have to worry too much about leaving it in a closet somewhere. If the fan dies, the box will probably just keep chugging as if nothing happened.
All I have to do when I get the box: Install another NIC. Wipe the hard drive, load slack. Configure firewall/routing rules. Set up VPN server. Set up anything else I may want, such as Apache, DNS, etc.
Keep in mind there will only be a few users at a time on the box. Plenty of power left over. Seems like a good deal to me.
SSSHhhhhhh.... You're making the proles think... they aren't supposed to do that. How can we subjugate them with our insidious prejudices if they think?
Alright everyone, [puts on sunglasses] I want you all to look right here at this little red *FLASH*
As I was saying, Linux is good. Ignorance is Strength. Microsoft is evil. Freedom is Slavery. China is mean. War is Peace.
Think for a second... 10,000 RPM SCSI drive 5 years ago... how big was it? What was the areal density? I'm not going to bother to do the math right now, but a 40 GB, 4200 rpm laptop drive may very well have the same I/O speeds (or a lot better) as a 2.1GB, 10,000 rpm scsi drive from 5 years ago would've had. As areal density increases, I/O speed increases when linear velocity remains constant. Think about it, and don't hurt yourself. :).
Did you by ANY chance happen to read the article and notice that only one of the vulnerabilities mentioned seems to apply to anything past version 1.0.1? Sorry, but I could care less that 1.0.1 has a vulnerability, or 6, or 600. They're up to 1.2b now, and 1.2 final should be out any day now. Why is this such "big news"? Maybe I'm missing something, cause as it stands I just don't see how this is worthy of *anyone's* reading time.
Yup... you understood correctly. :).
All the Orinoco hardware eliminates the weak IVs. Not sure what other manufacturers do this. It's completely seperate from things like 802.1x EAP. What you're talking about (proprietary things) sound like Cisco LEAP (proprietary version of EAP, which has now bean licensed to most major WiFi makers and is showing up in the latest firmware revisions). A different IV is used for every packet sent either direction, so to completely rid yourself of weak IVs both the client adapters (all of them using the same WEP key) and the AP must avoid them. If even one client adapter is using weak IVs still, there is the potential for gathering enough to figure out the WEP key. However, with each additional client that eliminates weak IVs, the amount of time it takes to crack the WEP key grows.
An example: client and AP are both avoiding weak IVs: Airsnort and similar are completely ineffective (to the best of my knowledge).
AP avoids weak IVs while cheap client adapter with old firmware does not: Airsnort, etc. now can crack the key, but it takes many hours (we'll say 12 hours just to throw out a number).
Neither client adapter nor AP are avoiding weak IVs: Airsnort, etc. now take about half the time (we'll say 6 hours) to gain the WEP key, because there are proportionally twice as many packets with weak IVs being thrown across the network.
I'm kinda tired, so hopefully that makes sense.
Also, much of the newer firmware is programmed to explicitly not use weak IVs (Initialization Vectors, what Airsnort etc. use to crack WEP). Without using weak IVs, all normal WEP cracking tools are defeated. So, even though WEP isn't perfect (there are other more complex attacks on it), it is a very good start especially if you have newer hardware or the most recent firmware for your older hardware.
If you read the article, you'd know they're announcing it because they're retiring it. It was only a prototype , a technology demonstration if you will. We won't be producing these jets.
Or, consider the conspiracy theory. Perhaps people were getting too curious about the whole project. Whip out some pictures and video clips and a brief description, say the project was for testing ideas only and has now been retired, and people will say "hey, that's cool. Ok... time to move on to the next UFO." In other words, "these are not the droids you're looking for." Who's to say this is *the* Bird of Prey which has actually been in testing, and not simply some decoy to make people say "ok... nothing more to see here. Move along."
Always a conspiracy theory. ALWAYS.
This is a serious question... Why should typewriters be disposed of? For general documents, yes of course computers are better. But have you ever tried to fill out a government form by entering everything on your computer and running the form through the printer? I don't recommend it unless you've got a LOT of time and LOT of blank forms. On the other hand, you stick it in a typewriter, line it up till it looks about right, and fill in whatever you need to. You end up with an easy to read document in very little time at all. Granted a template can be made for most US .gov forms, or they can be done electronically, but what happens when they come across some form they don't have a template for?
Acutally, no, I haven't experienced that, but I've been using Mac's since 2001.
Newsflash: Macs and PCs use the same hard drives. Same manufacturers. Same model numbers. Same. Have been for quite a few years. Yes, I realize Macs used to be 100% SCSI. Not anymore. Using a Mac has nothing to do with hard drive noise or lack thereof, unless you mean they accoustically insulate the case. Which I doubt.
1) Distributions with hardware detection don't help if you need to add support for hardware that was created after the distribution was installed. What if I upgrade to a new network adapter that was just released? The "easiest" way way to add support for that hardware is download a new kernel with that driver and rebuild it. I can't just add the driver to my current installation.
They do if it happens to be hardware detection which runs every time the system runs. Look at the pcmcia-cs utils... they do it just fine. Same for hotplug with USB stuff (from what I've heard... don't have any USB stuff myself). And the easiest way to add a driver for a new device (which isn't already built for your current system) is to go the website (in your example, NICs, that would be scyld.com) and download the driver. Then compile it as a module and install it. Not too difficult.
2) If I upgrade to a new piece of hardware under Windows, that hardware will come with a floppy or CD-ROM that has the drivers on it. Windows drivers, but never Linux drivers. All I need to do is stick the disk in the driver, and Windows takes care of the rest. I don't need to know what kind of hardware it is.
As far as linux drivers on driver discs, when was the last time you looked at a linksys package? Matrox? 3com? I believe all of the above now come with linux drivers (I know the last linksys and I believe netgear NICs I bought came with them, and Matrox and 3com at least have the linux drivers on their websites now). And as far as the windows driver discs... they're usually out of date when you get a product, and they don't always install that nicely and easily. You ever installed the Via 4in1 drivers? Not the most self-explanatory thing on the planet. And I've seen other drivers that are worse.
Just tried it a couple days ago... worked just fine. What's your problem with it? Ever heard of pcmcia-cs? A whole bunch of drivers shipped completely seperate from the kernel. I'm running Slackware 8.1. Needed a patched driver for my Orinoco card.... Downloaded the pcmcia-cs package and the patch I needed... patched the driver, ./configure && make all && make install && cd /etc/rc.d && rc.pcmcia start. Inserted my Orinoco card, and everything worked. No reboot, no need to recompile the kernel. Download and compile the driver (or in this case set of drivers) and you're good to go.
What actually happens after all the drive letters are used up in windows?
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A:\
B:\
C:\
X:\
Y:\
Z:\
AA:\
AB:\
AC:\
etc...
In other words, nothing terribly exciting.
All in all, not a bad day, though it was a little windy. I do agree with an above post that icing COULD be a possibility, but with a surface temp as warm as it was, they would have to be flying pretty high.
I take it you fly not? The thing about ice in aviation is, it can form at almost any temperature. In fact, it is much more likely to form in the 50-70 degree range than it is in very cold weather. The two places you might end up with ice formation in a chopper are in the carb (if it has one) or on the rotors. The warmer air can carry quite a bit of moisture, and then when it goes into the carb or passes over the rotors, there is a sudden drop in air temperature due to the lowering in pressure. This causes the moisture to condense and very possibly freeze. Therefore, ice could have very possibly been a factor in the crash.
Slow down there turbo... Beta isn't completely gone, even today. Many studios use it (yes, even today) for the simple fact that it is indeed so much better than VHS. As recently as a few years ago you could spend $30,000 on a professional video camera using... you guessed it, the Beta format. I'm sure you can still buy them, though I'd guess the price has dropped a bit. Just because you happen to have piss-poor quality on the TV screen doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the quality of the format. That would be akin to saying, "SACDs aren't much better than my regular audio CDs. I mean, when I play them through this $10 pair of computer speakers, I can't hardly notice a difference."
I always wondered what hell would look like. Somehow, that screenshot just looks too pretty.
Come on RPM guys... You can make a scarrier dependency hell than that, can't you? heh.. I just love all those nasty lines linking all those packages into such a tangled web.
Thank you very much, but I'll stick with installpkg, removepkg, and upgradepkg. Those are Slackware's package management tools for anyone who doesn't know. Take careful note: NO DEPENDENCY HELL.