lets hope that the EU decide that users ought to be able to install which ever operating system they want on a phone.
if microsoft can make a good phone OS then i am sure plenty of people will want to install it on their nexus 4. likewise i would not mind lumia running tizen, qtmoko or android. everybody wins when you remove lock-in from a market (and by everyone i mean consumers and companies that make good products).
Airlines should be subject to the same regulations as nuclear power. All planes should have a few meters of lean and concrete shielding to protect the passengers. Anything that saves one childs life should be done.
but my analysis code spits out a set of plots, for various different parameters. I want to have those parameters in my file name so, foo_at_1.2m.pdf foo_at_1.4m.pdf. It makes life easier for me if i can keep these sensible file names. (i want my life to be easy, thats why i use latex over something WYSIWYG in the first place).
It is annoying enough when programs do their file type recognition based on the name. but its just silly to assume that everything after the first '.' is the extension.
while i have written a thesis in latex, and could not imagine using anything else for papers, i still get frustrated by it. * any problem is solvable with enough searching online, but the solutions are often like magic. for example i often have figure filenames like "x2.3_y3.4.pdf" latex gives a weird message, search around and eventually you find a forum thread that tells you to put some extra arguments in the includegraphics call, or if you are lucky you might find a mention of the grffile package. in all the years of using it I have never built up an intuition for solving these issue (by comparison programming and linux pretty much make sense to me). * multiple ways of doing things. should i use \begin{center} or {\centering text text tex}. probably they both work fine, but each of them breaks something else in some obscure case. * why are some things \command{text text text}, some {\command text text text} and some \begin{command}. compare with XML/SGML where everything is achieved with nesting tags. * can the output be cleaned up? when i run pdflatex i get several screen-fulls of messages. really it should be showing me errors and optionally warnings. * the interactive mode when it hits an error. i am sure there is nothing productive i can do in that shell. why is it so hard to get out of. why is -halt-on-error not default? * why do i have to run pdflatex twice? why can't it figure out if a reference has changed? latexmk (or a good makefile) helps, but it took me years to find it.
i never understood the "anything other than EPS". it would be nice it accepted a superset of what plain latex supported. (i would also like it to support svg. it would make my makefile simpler).
I made an account with username 'guest' and password 'password'. then just let them log on.
I also had ssh installed. one day the sysadmin at work come to see me and tells me that my laptop had been blocked from the network because it was making a large number of outgoing ssh connections. important lessons were learned.
(some distros offer a locked down password-less guest account. this is a much better idea)
sounds like a nice improvement. as long as: * The interface is still the same. i.e. i ssh -X in to a machine, start a graphical program (evince or whatever), and it displays locally. I dont want to have to configure stuff, or start some additional server on the remote machine. * It works in mixed environments. I might be running wayland on my laptop next year. but some of the machines i log into a currently on Scientific Linux 5. I guess RHEL 7 will still be X11 based and i would not make bets about RHEL8.
Also this will score double bonus points if it works with gnu screen. i.e. i ssh into a machine, start screen, start a tunnelled graphical app. drop the network connection, or suspend, or switch to a different machine, and it re-attaches the graphical app.
i dont care if implemented as an applet, extenstion, built into the panel or writen into the frame buffer a kernel module. I just want a system monitor that is always visable at the top of my screen. the gnome2 system monitor is the best implemented one i have ever used (i can set it to a slow update rate, i can choose colors, and i can make iowait visable).
"In many fundamental features, GNOME Classic actually fails to match GNOME 2's standards. On closer examination, the panel proves to be unmovable and un-resizable. Nor has GNOME Classic followed Mate's lead and restored the ecosystem of applets, the small utilities that could do so much to customize a GNOME 2 desktop." -- datamation.com
So i'll be sticking with MATE (on fedora) and GNOME2 (gentoo stable) for atleast the next 6 months then:-)
You might also want to look at a multi-seat setup. ie 1 reasonably spec'd computer, with several monitor+keyboard+mouse sets.
Is electricity consumption an issue? A class full of pentium 4 computers is going to cost quite a bit in power. maybe enough to be worth paying for newer hardware instead.
its a fun project for a long weekend if you want to see how a linux distribution is put together. but do it in a virtual machine, or on old computer. I doubt there are many people who actually run LFS as their main distro. If they do, i bet they dont manage to keep it up to day with security fixes.
there are many hundreds of distros, mostly with little to distinguish them and some maintained by very small teams. if you use a distro that has small non-fulltime development team, then how long is it going to take for them to push a security update in to the repositories? what if one of their developers is on holiday, or has exams, or whatever. with the bigger distros they will have a security team to do this.
If only Linux had a filesystem that checksummed all you data, and check the checksum at every read. we could call it better FS, or something like that.
Its not perfect replication, but the LHC has 2 multipurpose exeriments ATLAS and CMS. They a 2 separate teams of people, using different detectors of different designs, different software and different analysis techniques. The do share some systems, ie the same proton beam (so a miss calculation in the beam energy will effect them both (not that it matters a huge amount for proton collisions)), they sometimes work in the same buildings, and they go to the same canteens.
They both see the same bump in their data in multiple channels. scientists dont really use the word proof. but it is fairly clear that there is a particle at ~125 GeV, that behaves very much like the boson predicted by theory. hopefully soon we'll have an e+e- collider that will see the same thing.
for my commute it saves time compared to any other 'reasonable' mode of transport. (not including jetpack, helicopter, pneumatic tubes) (ok maybe a motorbike might win).
+1 for liferea I have used it for years. I like that it grabs all the headlines in the morning, then i can read them on the train (or where ever else I might be without a net connection). I can flag the interesting ones and read them later when i am online
over the past couple of years the way its hard some odd bugs in it counting and displaying of unread or flagged mails, but it seems mostly good now in 1.8.12
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I wonder if the EU could push some legal requirement for hardware specs to make it possible. i guess unlikely.
lets hope that the EU decide that users ought to be able to install which ever operating system they want on a phone.
if microsoft can make a good phone OS then i am sure plenty of people will want to install it on their nexus 4. likewise i would not mind lumia running tizen, qtmoko or android. everybody wins when you remove lock-in from a market (and by everyone i mean consumers and companies that make good products).
Airlines should be subject to the same regulations as nuclear power. All planes should have a few meters of lean and concrete shielding to protect the passengers. Anything that saves one childs life should be done.
but my analysis code spits out a set of plots, for various different parameters. I want to have those parameters in my file name so, foo_at_1.2m.pdf foo_at_1.4m.pdf. It makes life easier for me if i can keep these sensible file names. (i want my life to be easy, thats why i use latex over something WYSIWYG in the first place).
It is annoying enough when programs do their file type recognition based on the name. but its just silly to assume that everything after the first '.' is the extension.
with vim, latexmk and evince on a second monitor i have a fast workflow. each time i save in vim, latexmk rebuilds and evince refreshes.
while i have written a thesis in latex, and could not imagine using anything else for papers, i still get frustrated by it.
* any problem is solvable with enough searching online, but the solutions are often like magic. for example i often have figure filenames like "x2.3_y3.4.pdf" latex gives a weird message, search around and eventually you find a forum thread that tells you to put some extra arguments in the includegraphics call, or if you are lucky you might find a mention of the grffile package. in all the years of using it I have never built up an intuition for solving these issue (by comparison programming and linux pretty much make sense to me).
* multiple ways of doing things. should i use \begin{center} or {\centering text text tex}. probably they both work fine, but each of them breaks something else in some obscure case.
* why are some things \command{text text text}, some {\command text text text} and some \begin{command}. compare with XML/SGML where everything is achieved with nesting tags.
* can the output be cleaned up? when i run pdflatex i get several screen-fulls of messages. really it should be showing me errors and optionally warnings.
* the interactive mode when it hits an error. i am sure there is nothing productive i can do in that shell. why is it so hard to get out of. why is -halt-on-error not default?
* why do i have to run pdflatex twice? why can't it figure out if a reference has changed? latexmk (or a good makefile) helps, but it took me years to find it.
i never understood the "anything other than EPS". it would be nice it accepted a superset of what plain latex supported. (i would also like it to support svg. it would make my makefile simpler).
I made an account with username 'guest' and password 'password'. then just let them log on.
I also had ssh installed. one day the sysadmin at work come to see me and tells me that my laptop had been blocked from the network because it was making a large number of outgoing ssh connections. important lessons were learned.
(some distros offer a locked down password-less guest account. this is a much better idea)
sounds like a nice improvement. as long as:
* The interface is still the same. i.e. i ssh -X in to a machine, start a graphical program (evince or whatever), and it displays locally. I dont want to have to configure stuff, or start some additional server on the remote machine.
* It works in mixed environments. I might be running wayland on my laptop next year. but some of the machines i log into a currently on Scientific Linux 5. I guess RHEL 7 will still be X11 based and i would not make bets about RHEL8.
Also this will score double bonus points if it works with gnu screen. i.e. i ssh into a machine, start screen, start a tunnelled graphical app. drop the network connection, or suspend, or switch to a different machine, and it re-attaches the graphical app.
i dont care if implemented as an applet, extenstion, built into the panel or writen into the frame buffer a kernel module. I just want a system monitor that is always visable at the top of my screen. the gnome2 system monitor is the best implemented one i have ever used (i can set it to a slow update rate, i can choose colors, and i can make iowait visable).
"In many fundamental features, GNOME Classic actually fails to match GNOME 2's standards. On closer examination, the panel proves to be unmovable and un-resizable. Nor has GNOME Classic followed Mate's lead and restored the ecosystem of applets, the small utilities that could do so much to customize a GNOME 2 desktop." -- datamation.com
So i'll be sticking with MATE (on fedora) and GNOME2 (gentoo stable) for atleast the next 6 months then :-)
we already know about far more oil reserves then we can wisely burn. finding more is only going to make things worse.
You might also want to look at a multi-seat setup. ie 1 reasonably spec'd computer, with several monitor+keyboard+mouse sets.
Is electricity consumption an issue? A class full of pentium 4 computers is going to cost quite a bit in power. maybe enough to be worth paying for newer hardware instead.
WFM YMMV
its a fun project for a long weekend if you want to see how a linux distribution is put together. but do it in a virtual machine, or on old computer. I doubt there are many people who actually run LFS as their main distro. If they do, i bet they dont manage to keep it up to day with security fixes.
I recommend that (at least to start with) you stick with major distros. distrowatch has a reasonable list http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major
there are many hundreds of distros, mostly with little to distinguish them and some maintained by very small teams. if you use a distro that has small non-fulltime development team, then how long is it going to take for them to push a security update in to the repositories? what if one of their developers is on holiday, or has exams, or whatever. with the bigger distros they will have a security team to do this.
If only Linux had a filesystem that checksummed all you data, and check the checksum at every read. we could call it better FS, or something like that.
Will the HTTPS Everywhere pluggin protect me from this?
Pah. AMD had FMA4 since 2011
Thats why they are giving out free inhalers :-)
Coal can be clean and safe too http://www.coalcares.org/cleanenergy.html
Its not perfect replication, but the LHC has 2 multipurpose exeriments ATLAS and CMS. They a 2 separate teams of people, using different detectors of different designs, different software and different analysis techniques. The do share some systems, ie the same proton beam (so a miss calculation in the beam energy will effect them both (not that it matters a huge amount for proton collisions)), they sometimes work in the same buildings, and they go to the same canteens.
They both see the same bump in their data in multiple channels. scientists dont really use the word proof. but it is fairly clear that there is a particle at ~125 GeV, that behaves very much like the boson predicted by theory. hopefully soon we'll have an e+e- collider that will see the same thing.
cycle to work.
for my commute it saves time compared to any other 'reasonable' mode of transport. (not including jetpack, helicopter, pneumatic tubes) (ok maybe a motorbike might win).
Maybe some of these 'tricks' can actually be used to improve fuel efficiency.
Can we make tires that are safe at higher pressures? Or improve the aerodynamics?
+1 for liferea
I have used it for years. I like that it grabs all the headlines in the morning, then i can read them on the train (or where ever else I might be without a net connection). I can flag the interesting ones and read them later when i am online
over the past couple of years the way its hard some odd bugs in it counting and displaying of unread or flagged mails, but it seems mostly good now in 1.8.12