I know that when you a defending the Alaskan Pipeline, there is no sniper or fog. So either the report made up stuff, wasn't paying attention, or was being led on.
And cheating isn't as bad in Army Ops as they imply. Very rarely do I see something that is only explained by cheating in the game. Maybe someone wants to discredit it, so that gamers move on to a newer game?
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I am still quite the n00b at Gentoo, but there are some things I do know. SuSE uses an initrd and some other features in the kernel, so the bzImage wouldn't just boot for me.
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The other two distributions that are similar to Gentoo would be Linux From Scratch(LFS), and Sorceror Linux (now Lunar Linux, I think). LFS mercifully doesn't require you to design and manufactur a CPU from scratch, but that is about it. Gentoo and Sorceror/Lunar are significantly more advanced, partially due to different priorities the LFS. LFS is designed to be an educational distribution.
As a disclaimer, I don't use LFS or Sorceror/Lunar, so this information is deemed reliable, but not guaranteed.
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You know, even though Gentoo is supposed to be a "geek" distribution, it does make a lot of things easier.
For example, I could never compile my own kernel under SuSE. For some reason, I could never get it right. All I would get is a near-endless stream of agony out of the boot console, then the whole thing dying in a kernel panic. Not so in Gentoo. Gentoo makes it easy to get a new kernel going, and to try out different versions. When I want to use my Archos Jukebox - hey make sure you compile in IDS-200 support.
However, I must stress Gentoo is not for everyone. Not everyone has time/interest in getting such a distribution going. But you certainly learn a lot more about what is going on in a linux machine.
My boss always says "using a pc is like going to a movie to look at the projector". I guess that is why he uses a Mac...
Really, I don't see anything there but some pretty pictures. In the forums, a guy posted a question on when they expect to have anything. They haven't answered in a year.
If they were serious, they would at least let their preliminary versions out. And even though they say it will be release open-source, they don't say which license, and they might even back-track from that latter.
Oh well, it's a shame, 'cause Archon was one of the great all-time games. Don't get me wrong - if this is legit, I will be stoked when it comes out. But until then, I will maintain a solid dollap of skepticism.
Saddam had 12 years to hide/give away/destroy at the last minute. We know he had them at the end of the last wwar. He and his government said so, and the inspectors found them. The recent activity was trying to verify (as was required by UN edict) that he destroyed them. I really don't understand what you are saying there. If he had already destroyed them, what threat was he to the world? If he had already destroyed them then the UN efforts were successful. Ari F. had stated that reason we invaded was because of WMD. Not because of 9/11, although that non-existant link was bandied about whenever possible.
Really. What would you have preferred to happen in Afghanistan? Rebuilding takes time. True. But you need to start! And it has been more than a year. So cut out your Fox news BS.
I suppose you missed the part about regular Iraqi civilians thanking us for getting rid of Saddam? They may not like the US, but they really, really didn't like Saddam. And for every one who has thanked us, I can find 10 who want us out.
Well, I am not sure about which fire you are referring to, but as long as too many people didn't die or too much private property wasn't lost, I'm not going to get too worked up about it. The forest probably will be healthier in a few years/decades due to the fire.
I won't always attribute junk science to letting the fires burn. I think that there is a realization that the original approach of surpressing fires as much as possible wasn't consistent with environmental realities.
As for not letting burnt timber be harvested, well, I don't know about that. If the trees fell over, they are probably too burnt to be useful in industry. If they are standing, then they may be able to heal enough to survive. Either way, I can't see how harvesting the burnt timber will help the forest regrow. If cheap lumber was an economic necessity, then we would stop putting tariffs on Canadian lumber.
But, I am no expert on logging or forest fires. And I don't know anything about the particulars of any incidents you refer to.
The definition of junk science always seems to depend on the political leanings of the person. I generally lean against more industry, even at the expense of jobs. If the entire region is a polluted wasteland 20 years from now, are any jobs really worth it? While I am not advocating a return to the stone ages, we need to be more efficient with what we already have.
As for the pendulum swinging too far into the envirionmental preservation direction, I think that is ok. All too often we implement some project without really being aware of the consequences. Any development needs to be carefully evaluated. I think that this article is relevent to this discussion.
Well, for the first thing, you don't have the forest fire story right. There were two effects running in parallel: first, the government policy of stopping forest fires ASAP, and second, the logging companies' habit of only cutting down the largest trees (most profitable). That is what resulted in the large amount of kindling.
Also, the pollution from a forest fire is a lot less toxic than many of the industrial pollutions. You don't hear about ground water being poisoned by a forest fire, do you? Or about tree smoke concentrating in the bodies of whales? There is a big problem with perchlorate poisoning ground water in California. Concentrations of around 10PPB (billion) are a major problem. It doens't take very much of that chemical to produce a problem for thousands of people.
Your premise B needs revising. Obviously, everyone needs food, and logging and mining are necessary. BUT, the approach must be a sustainable method. One hundred years ago, a standard method to mine gold involved using huge amounts of mercury. If I have to explain why that is bad to you then you need a huge amount of education.
As for the comment on saving owls and so on, well, how do you want to protect endangered species? If it doesn't taste good, let it die off?
You need to think your approach thru a bit more. You give too much credit to the compromise process. You know why the compromise is flawed? For the same reason that democracy in the US is flawed: the people with the influence to solve the problem have incentives to ignore the problem.
If I could, I would make the executives of companies that dump toxic waste have to live with their families in the areas that were poisoned. I'm sure that would quickly straighten out a lot of the problems.
Basically, a dog is smarter than collective humanity - a dog won't shit on its food or bed.
-Bush said we had to defend ourselves against the (non-existant) WMD. He couldn't wait 10 days to give the UN inspectors more time to look. Of course, he knew they wouldn't find anything, because there was nothing to find. That news would put a big damper on his great war push.
-So now we are stuck with rebuilding Iraq. Given the wonderful job done in Afghanastan, I expect Iraq will simply be milked for oil.
-Bottom line is, the world is no safer, and Bush's friends are getting richer.
Oh, and you are a traitor for disagreeing with the great leader!
And obviously, Afghanastan is SOOOO much better off now than under the Tailiban. Face it, Iraq will simply turn back into a dictatorship in a few years.
IF WE DIDN'T ATTACK IRAQ, then we wouldn't have risked the loss of historical artifacts or environmental disaster.
Since we initiated the conflict, we have obligations to minimize the losses. Not simply our military losses, but also Iraqi citizens and Iraqi property. You can say all you want on how Saddam was killing innocent civilians, and we liberated Iraq and all of your fox propoganda, but that is simply bullshit.
I generally run the default selection of tests, and I can run a complete iteration in ~20minutes, and I have a 512MB of DDR on an Nforce2 MB. So I can almost get 3 complete tests done in an hour.
When I've had bad memory, the first iteration always flagged it. Of course, a more complete overnight run would be better. But, in my experience the first 30minutes finds 90% of all memory errors.
Perhaps we could parcel out the grammer/spelling nazi functions into focused solutions. Somebody has obviously already taken then/than (which is a known high runner) as their special calling.
So, if you always wanted to be a spelling/grammer nazi, but didn't have time to police ALL of Slashdot, get involved in the new paradigm: focused spelling/grammer nazi activism!
Act fast before the cool ones are taken:
* there/their * to/too/two * you/your/you're and the ever popular: * it/its/it's
Hurry! Some other spelling/grammer nazi may take your choice!
Another factor to consider is that the chipset is a critical factor: it took the Athlon almost 2 years before there was a solid chipset for it. Hopefully, AMD is already working on this.
Well, I will have to disagree. AMD has to sell their CPUs at an lower price to induce people to buy, so they absolutely have to have a price/performance advantage.
I'm also able to leverage that further: by running Gentoo Linux, you can optimize for your CPU architecture, which helps the Athlon, as any SW out there is focused for the P4
Not that I'm complaining, as the last Intel processor I bought was a Celeron 400MHz. I've gone Athlon and haven't looked back.
1) whenever you buy a new stick of RAM, run memtest 86 on it for an hour or so. It can save you weeks of problems.
2) Use a grounding strap. ESD damage is a serious problem, and especially in the winter months, can easily lead to zapped parts. In fact, use a strap whenever you open your box! I even have a roll-up ESD mat for serious surgery.
I have actually had memory go bad in my PC right when I was using the PC: it was good one minute, then bad the next. I have a nice APC UPS working as a surge protector. THe memory was some premium stuff too - Corsiar XMS memory. I hadn't touched the inside of the box for a few weeks (hard to believe, huh?), and I was practicing with the 203 on America's Army, and I suddenly got a win2k BSOD (which has a lot more words, but is basically just as useless as the win98 BSOD). So:
3) test your memory periodically - like every 6 months or so.
4) Maybe your motherboard has some debris in the memory slot or a sliver of metal shorting some pins out.
That is what I did. However, I did have some hair-pulling problems until I did a MAC clone.
The simple answer: spend some money and buy a hardware router/firewall. A simple hub or switch won't do it.
The real simple answer: use google.
My proposal for the next ask slashdot: I have more electronic equipement then wall outlets. What can I do to have them all plugged in at the same time?
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I know that when you a defending the Alaskan Pipeline, there is no sniper or fog. So either the report made up stuff, wasn't paying attention, or was being led on.
And cheating isn't as bad in Army Ops as they imply. Very rarely do I see something that is only explained by cheating in the game. Maybe someone wants to discredit it, so that gamers move on to a newer game?
I am still quite the n00b at Gentoo, but there are some things I do know. SuSE uses an initrd and some other features in the kernel, so the bzImage wouldn't just boot for me.
The other two distributions that are similar to Gentoo would be Linux From Scratch(LFS), and Sorceror Linux (now Lunar Linux, I think). LFS mercifully doesn't require you to design and manufactur a CPU from scratch, but that is about it. Gentoo and Sorceror/Lunar are significantly more advanced, partially due to different priorities the LFS. LFS is designed to be an educational distribution.
As a disclaimer, I don't use LFS or Sorceror/Lunar, so this information is deemed reliable, but not guaranteed.
You know, even though Gentoo is supposed to be a "geek" distribution, it does make a lot of things easier.
For example, I could never compile my own kernel under SuSE. For some reason, I could never get it right. All I would get is a near-endless stream of agony out of the boot console, then the whole thing dying in a kernel panic. Not so in Gentoo. Gentoo makes it easy to get a new kernel going, and to try out different versions. When I want to use my Archos Jukebox - hey make sure you compile in IDS-200 support.
However, I must stress Gentoo is not for everyone. Not everyone has time/interest in getting such a distribution going. But you certainly learn a lot more about what is going on in a linux machine.
My boss always says "using a pc is like going to a movie to look at the projector". I guess that is why he uses a Mac...
Really, I don't see anything there but some pretty pictures. In the forums, a guy posted a question on when they expect to have anything. They haven't answered in a year.
If they were serious, they would at least let their preliminary versions out. And even though they say it will be release open-source, they don't say which license, and they might even back-track from that latter.
Oh well, it's a shame, 'cause Archon was one of the great all-time games. Don't get me wrong - if this is legit, I will be stoked when it comes out. But until then, I will maintain a solid dollap of skepticism.
I was reading your post until the "t" word. Then I got so scared, I pissed in my pants and put plastic wrap around my cube!
Well, I hate to burst your bubble, but:
Saddam had 12 years to hide/give away/destroy at the last minute.
We know he had them at the end of the last wwar. He and his government said so, and the inspectors found them.
The recent activity was trying to verify (as was required by UN edict) that he destroyed them.
I really don't understand what you are saying there. If he had already destroyed them, what threat was he to the world? If he had already destroyed them then the UN efforts were successful. Ari F. had stated that reason we invaded was because of WMD. Not because of 9/11, although that non-existant link was bandied about whenever possible.
Really. What would you have preferred to happen in Afghanistan? Rebuilding takes time.
True. But you need to start! And it has been more than a year. So cut out your Fox news BS.
I suppose you missed the part about regular Iraqi civilians thanking us for getting rid of Saddam? They may not like the US, but they really, really didn't like Saddam.
And for every one who has thanked us, I can find 10 who want us out.
Well, I am not sure about which fire you are referring to, but as long as too many people didn't die or too much private property wasn't lost, I'm not going to get too worked up about it. The forest probably will be healthier in a few years/decades due to the fire.
I won't always attribute junk science to letting the fires burn. I think that there is a realization that the original approach of surpressing fires as much as possible wasn't consistent with environmental realities.
As for not letting burnt timber be harvested, well, I don't know about that. If the trees fell over, they are probably too burnt to be useful in industry. If they are standing, then they may be able to heal enough to survive. Either way, I can't see how harvesting the burnt timber will help the forest regrow.
If cheap lumber was an economic necessity, then we would stop putting tariffs on Canadian lumber.
But, I am no expert on logging or forest fires. And I don't know anything about the particulars of any incidents you refer to.
The definition of junk science always seems to depend on the political leanings of the person. I generally lean against more industry, even at the expense of jobs. If the entire region is a polluted wasteland 20 years from now, are any jobs really worth it? While I am not advocating a return to the stone ages, we need to be more efficient with what we already have.
As for the pendulum swinging too far into the envirionmental preservation direction, I think that is ok. All too often we implement some project without really being aware of the consequences. Any development needs to be carefully evaluated. I think that this article is relevent to this discussion.
Well, for the first thing, you don't have the forest fire story right. There were two effects running in parallel: first, the government policy of stopping forest fires ASAP, and second, the logging companies' habit of only cutting down the largest trees (most profitable). That is what resulted in the large amount of kindling.
Also, the pollution from a forest fire is a lot less toxic than many of the industrial pollutions. You don't hear about ground water being poisoned by a forest fire, do you? Or about tree smoke concentrating in the bodies of whales? There is a big problem with perchlorate poisoning ground water in California. Concentrations of around 10PPB (billion) are a major problem. It doens't take very much of that chemical to produce a problem for thousands of people.
Your premise B needs revising. Obviously, everyone needs food, and logging and mining are necessary. BUT, the approach must be a sustainable method. One hundred years ago, a standard method to mine gold involved using huge amounts of mercury. If I have to explain why that is bad to you then you need a huge amount of education.
As for the comment on saving owls and so on, well, how do you want to protect endangered species? If it doesn't taste good, let it die off?
You need to think your approach thru a bit more. You give too much credit to the compromise process. You know why the compromise is flawed? For the same reason that democracy in the US is flawed: the people with the influence to solve the problem have incentives to ignore the problem.
If I could, I would make the executives of companies that dump toxic waste have to live with their families in the areas that were poisoned. I'm sure that would quickly straighten out a lot of the problems.
Basically, a dog is smarter than collective humanity - a dog won't shit on its food or bed.
Well Said.
Let me just expand on this whole topic.
-Bush said we had to defend ourselves against the (non-existant) WMD. He couldn't wait 10 days to give the UN inspectors more time to look. Of course, he knew they wouldn't find anything, because there was nothing to find. That news would put a big damper on his great war push.
-So now we are stuck with rebuilding Iraq. Given the wonderful job done in Afghanastan, I expect Iraq will simply be milked for oil.
-Bottom line is, the world is no safer, and Bush's friends are getting richer.
Oh, and you are a traitor for disagreeing with the great leader!
I corrected your post somewhat:
Number of American citizens slain by "fundamentalist Islamic militias" since April 19, 1995: at least 3,000.
Number of American citizens slain by "fundamentalist Christian militias" since April 19. 1995: at least 168
Darn - the truth keeps messing up your little fox-based world again!
I see.
And obviously, Afghanastan is SOOOO much better off now than under the Tailiban. Face it, Iraq will simply turn back into a dictatorship in a few years.
Eventually, they will run out of mountains they can mine.
The same way that the people on Easter Island ran out of trees?
Yes, you are correct. BUT at least agree to this:
IF WE DIDN'T ATTACK IRAQ, then we wouldn't have risked the loss of historical artifacts or environmental disaster.
Since we initiated the conflict, we have obligations to minimize the losses. Not simply our military losses, but also Iraqi citizens and Iraqi property. You can say all you want on how Saddam was killing innocent civilians, and we liberated Iraq and all of your fox propoganda, but that is simply bullshit.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!!
Sorry, I just had to do that...
Am I the only one that thought "IT depts are on tight budgets BECAUSE of Microsoft"?
Ironic....
I generally run the default selection of tests, and I can run a complete iteration in ~20minutes, and I have a 512MB of DDR on an Nforce2 MB. So I can almost get 3 complete tests done in an hour.
When I've had bad memory, the first iteration always flagged it. Of course, a more complete overnight run would be better. But, in my experience the first 30minutes finds 90% of all memory errors.
Yeah, but the k7 (athlon) was delayed for at least 6 months also...
Perhaps we could parcel out the grammer/spelling nazi functions into focused solutions.
Somebody has obviously already taken then/than (which is a known high runner) as their special calling.
So, if you always wanted to be a spelling/grammer nazi, but didn't have time to police ALL of Slashdot, get involved in the new paradigm: focused spelling/grammer nazi activism!
Act fast before the cool ones are taken:
* there/their
* to/too/two
* you/your/you're
and the ever popular:
* it/its/it's
Hurry! Some other spelling/grammer nazi may take your choice!
Another factor to consider is that the chipset is a critical factor: it took the Athlon almost 2 years before there was a solid chipset for it. Hopefully, AMD is already working on this.
Well, I will have to disagree. AMD has to sell their CPUs at an lower price to induce people to buy, so they absolutely have to have a price/performance advantage.
I'm also able to leverage that further: by running Gentoo Linux, you can optimize for your CPU architecture, which helps the Athlon, as any SW out there is focused for the P4
Not that I'm complaining, as the last Intel processor I bought was a Celeron 400MHz. I've gone Athlon and haven't looked back.
Ok - to summarize
1) whenever you buy a new stick of RAM, run memtest 86 on it for an hour or so. It can save you weeks of problems.
2) Use a grounding strap. ESD damage is a serious problem, and especially in the winter months, can easily lead to zapped parts. In fact, use a strap whenever you open your box! I even have a roll-up ESD mat for serious surgery.
I have actually had memory go bad in my PC right when I was using the PC: it was good one minute, then bad the next. I have a nice APC UPS working as a surge protector. THe memory was some premium stuff too - Corsiar XMS memory. I hadn't touched the inside of the box for a few weeks (hard to believe, huh?), and I was practicing with the 203 on America's Army, and I suddenly got a win2k BSOD (which has a lot more words, but is basically just as useless as the win98 BSOD). So:
3) test your memory periodically - like every 6 months or so.
4) Maybe your motherboard has some debris in the memory slot or a sliver of metal shorting some pins out.
We missed our chance to do that. Now we will have to wait until y3k so that we can implement the new policy. Only 997 years to go, so get ready!
You're just mad 'cause he didn't free all of the felons from the Reagan administration
That is what I did. However, I did have some hair-pulling problems until I did a MAC clone.
The simple answer: spend some money and buy a hardware router/firewall. A simple hub or switch won't do it.
The real simple answer: use google.
My proposal for the next ask slashdot: I have more electronic equipement then wall outlets. What can I do to have them all plugged in at the same time?