When you take it in for service, it will often get an ECU update as part of the service. Just ask anyone who has ever chipped their car, only to have their ECU modifications erased after visiting the dealer.
It really is mostly the displays. On Android phones you can see what is using the battery, and it's almost always 60-70% the display.
As for those multicore CPUs, modern smartphone operating systems are remarkably good at keeping them clocked down when they're not needed. As a matter of fact, if I leave my Galaxy Nexus unattended (i.e. don't use the display), there hardly is any battery drain. I wouldn't be surprised if it would last a whole week that way.
Yes, I've heard of that study too, but I don't completely buy it. First of all, it depends a lot on the length of the commute. For instance, I am pretty sure that the energy I burn on my 180km roundtrip could warm my apartment all day and then some. It also depends on the thermal insulation of your home. New houses here have to comply with strict standards with regards to insulation these days and I only have to compare my heating bill of my new appartment with the old one to see that it helps a lot. Then there's the local climate, we have a moderate climate and I really only need to turn on the heating in the coldest winter months. Most homes don't even have air conditioning here, so that's no issue in the summer. Finally, heating and cooling are two things that are much less dependent on dirty fossil fuels than cars. Most homes here are still heated with gas, which, while still a fossil fuel, burns a lot cleaner than petrol or diesel in a combustion engine. It's also much easier to switch to energy efficient electric heat pumps for both cooling and heating than it is to switch to electric cars.
Seriously, fuck narrow minded people like you who only see the bad side of personal transportation.
What you need to realize is that the availability of cheap energy and the development of personal transportation have contributed more than anything to the progress of Western civilization in the 20th century and the corresponding rise in life expectancy. In only 100 years, life expectancy in the US has risen from 47 to 76. Personal transportation is what enables a modern society to work, and without it it would collapse.
It's also not about one dude not wanting to give up his comfort, you have to look at the bigger picture. All the alternatives you mention are never going to be a suitable alternative for everyone. For instance, public transit is already near its peak capacity in my country (Belgium), yet it only supports 10-15% of the daily traffic, depending on whose figures you believe. Physically it's simply impossible to make trains and busses go from every place to every other place, on a reasonable time and at a reasonable cost. And mopeds and motorcycles? Are you kidding me? They are dangerous, uncomfortable and not all that environmentally friendly either.
Either way, at the end of the day, people are going to choose the mode of transportation that works best for them and you can't blame them if in most cases that happens to be a car.
Is this sustainable in the long term? No, it's not because eventually we will run out of oil, and we WILL need real alternatives. However, I believe that this problem will resolve itself economically. In the future oil prices will continue to rise, and at some point in time it will get so expensive that the alternatives become more attractive, and they will gain traction. That is when people will start to switch, not sooner. Until then... let everyone use what works best for them.
Another thing I strongly believe in is that we shouldn't just focus on changing our mode of transportation, but we should also focus on making transportation less needed. For instance, I have a 90km one way daily commute. I could just as easily do most of my work from home or from a satelite office closer to home, all I need is a laptop and a network connection, but my employer insists that everyone works centralized and that my physical presence is required. There are many people just like me. Work on changing that mentality, and you will not only do good for the environment but you will also actually improve people's lives.
Well, seeing that Peugeot boasts about it and that it was a record breaking attempt and that it was without a doubt performed by a professional driver, yes I consider that 9 minute time to be representative and I find it rather underwhelming. I'm sure they could still shave off a few seconds if they tried, but it's not as if they could beat it down to sub 8 minutes, which is where the real performance cars start.
To give you a comparison: someone I know personally and who is a good-but-not-incredibly-talented amateur driver does 7:56 bridge-to-gantry (*) on tourist days with a stock 225bhp Renault R26R, which translates roughly to 8:18 for the full lap
As for the efficiency, it's well known (**) that batteries can store a lot less energy per kg than the energy content of 1kg of gasoline. Simply put: to store the equivalent energy of 1 kg of gasoline, you (roughtly) need 20kg of battery. So I would say it's not an unreasonable guess that weight is an issue with this car.
(*) On Tourist days you can't use the full length of the straight so times are usually measured from the bridge at the end of the straight to the gantry at the beginning of the straight. Bridge to gantry times are give or take 22 seconds shorter than a full lap time. (**) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
It's still for "faggz" though. 9 minutes around the Nordschleife with a custom made 340bhp car? Wake me up when they can do a sub 8 minute time. There are combustion engined cars with the aerodynamics of a brick that can do that.
Those were exactly my thoughts. 9 minutes for a 340bhp car? That seems terribly slow. Even my 15 year old E36 M3 GT (295bhp) does better than that.
My guess is that the weight of the batteries is holding it back. This shows one of the biggest drawbacks of electrical cars: batteries make them way too heavy, so unless battery capacity increases drastically, the handling is going to be poor.
For what it's worth: the energy density of a battery is about 20 times less than that of gasoline. Now an electrical engine does make up for some of that because it runs more efficient than a combustion engine, but not 20 times more efficient.
Why are the prisons filled with a good portion of non-violent criminals then?
Because "doing harm" can also be non-violent and one could argue that one would want to protect society from non-violent crimes as well.
Now of course you could argue about which offenses deserve jailtime and which don't. For instance, I don't believe in jailtime for small drug related offenses. But that's a legislation issue, it doesn't have anything to do with prisons being necessary or not. If the law says that you have go to prison for carrying a bit of weed, then the law is broken not the prison system.
TFA claims that prisons have failed. I don't entirely agree. The way I see it, prisons have three roles: one is reeducation, when we release someone from prison, they should come out as better citizens, not better criminals. In that respect, you could say that prisons have failed.
The second role of prisons however is punishment: prison SHOULD be an unpleasant experience for someone who has committed a crime. It should be a deterrent, something they will never want to experience again. Also, if you're a victim of a crime, you want to know that the criminal actually gets punished and doesn't get off with just a slap on the wrist.
Finally, the third role of prisons is protecting society, taking dangerous individuals out of the loop for a considerable amount of time so that they can't do any harm.
It seems to me that while GPS tracking devices may help somewhat with role 1, they don't do anything for role 2 and 3. So in my opinion, they shouldn't be a replacement for a prison system, but an addition to it, for instance in combination with the parole system.
You weren't forced to make an Avatar. When I did my update, I wanted to get to test Netflix as quickly as possible, so I just pulled up the guide and exited out of the Avatar builder to the dashboard. Just like before with any other application.
That's not really very obvious is it? I didn't even know you could do that. There was just no obvious way to say "skip avatar creation".
The Avatars may be useless and silly, but really, an "eyesore"? Maybe you should make a better looking one?
You don't get it. I dislike the whole idea of having an avatar (why do I need one?), *and* I don't like the cartoonish cutesy style in which they are implemented, "fisher price" style as someone called it here. There is no way to change that, no matter which hairstyle or sunglasses you put on it. And even if I could make a better looking one it would be like having a better looking Clippy in Office, still pointless;)
MSFT didn't promise that they were keeping the blades. They specifically said that the NXE was to replace the blade system and that the blades would only be preserved in the Guide system.
Well that's not how I interpreted it. I remember reading an interview by one of the MS guys who said that they were keeping the old interface around because there would always be people who would not dig the new interace.
I'm happy to finally have an OS that's responsive and allows me to scroll through and read descriptions for items quickly. I think you're a bit worked up over the idea of "change" so much that you can't see the improvements.
It's not that I'm worked up about the idea of "change", I just don't like this particular change. I do see the improvements, but they are minor things compared to the things that bug me about the new interface.
I applied the update yesterday, even though I wasn't wild about the screenshots I had seen so far. The announcements by Microsoft did however promise I could still use the old blade interface if I wanted, so I thought: why not give it a try?
The install went fairly smoothly, taking only a few minutes. Then I had to create an avatar *ugh*, this was my first turn-off. I've never been a fan of avatar systems, but if they're going to make it mandatory they could at least have thrown in some models that don't look childish and cartoonish. So I just selected some random character, hoping I could switch it off later.
Then I played around with the interface. It is fairly easy to figure out, and I could quickly find most functions I was looking for, however I couldn't help but think that the blade interface felt simpler, more intuitive and more mature. In the blade system, if you were looking for something, you just had to select the right tab and everything was available from there. In the new system, you have to navigate in 2 "dimensions", first select the right channel, then look for the right tab, then go into the tab. The blade system also made better use of screen real estate. A lot of screen space is wasted now because they chose to work with some kind of 3D representation.
After using it for a while other things started to annoy me. I find the color scheme rather ugly for instance. It's all dull grey or migraine inducing green and selecting a different theme doesn't seem to change it. The sound effects got on my nerves too, instead of the cool muted *swish* sounds of the old blade system, the new sounds are much more *bling bling* and in your face (I don't know how else to describe it). Then, there's no way to get rid of your avatar. It's not like it does anything useful, it just stands there looking silly and generally being an eyesore.
Then I started looking for new features. Netflix doesn't work outside of the US, so I couldn't use that. The install to HDD option could be handy, but I don't find it essential. The loading times never really bothered me that much anyway, it's having to switch discs when you want to play a different game that bothers me. To my disappointment no new video or audio codecs have been added, so some divx and mp4 files still don't play, there's still no support for 5.1 surround sound in divx files and still no support for subtitles. As a media player, it has not become more useful to me.
So after a few hours of playing around with it, I decided that I didn't like it, and I started looking for the option to revert to the old style interface. Only, there wasn't one! Sure, when you push the big X button a menu pops up that looks remotely like the old blades, but it's not fullscreen and in no way a replacement interface. Now I feel cheated.
My conclusion is that Microsoft spent way too much time and effort trying to invent a completely new interface, which in many ways is worse than the old system, when they could have just offered an upgraded blade system and spent all the time and effort on real features that are actually useful.
Did you only skip to the last page? If you looked over every benchmark, the new kernel had improved performance in almost every test, save for two of the last three.
Erm... to me it looks like the new kernel is performing consistently (but only marginally) better on all tests. Keep in mind, on the LAME tests, a lower score means better performance. Not that the whole thing is very scientific of course. What about multitasking efficiency for instance?
The F-15 has never suffered a combat loss, and it has a kill ratio of 105 to 0 IIRC. An Israeli F-15 got shot up badly by Syrian MiGs once, but it managed to make it home and land safely with half a wing missing.
I'm not a sysadmin, but I never got how NFS prevented a user plugging a computer which they have root access on into the network, mounting a common NFS mount, "su"ing to somebody's UID and then deleting their files. AFAICS, SMB handles this by requiring credentials of some kind from the computer. Can anyone explain this?
"Authentication" with NFS is IP based. You grant access to NFS mounts by specifying which hosts can mount that share. This implies that the hosts you allow are trusted, and that your network is trusted as well. So yes, if a computer you have root access to has been granted read/write access to an NFS mount then you can just su to someone else's UID and delete their files on that NFS mount.
Is it a good idea to use NFS in a security sensitive environment? Probably not.
The X-box racing game Forza motorsport already has something like this. You can train a "Drivatar" to race just like you. Once it's properly trained, it will take generally the same line as you, take corners the same way... and it also makes the same errors as you.
Think about it... if they charge you a "copyright tax" of 40 Euros per computer, then you can download stuff via p2p to your heart's content... I'd willingly pay a one off levy on purchase to tell the minions of the **AA to P off... and gladly make sure my receipt for this levy was kept very, very safe...
Ah but unfortunately it doesn't work that way. That would still be a copyright infringement and remain illegal under the current proposal. Think about it: if the 40 euro covered whatever copyright infringement, you could also put "pirated" copies of Windows, Office, or any other commercial software on it legally.
Also many computers (think businesses) are never ever used for copyright infringement, but they would have to pay the tax too.
They're working on a similar proposal here in Belgium. They are actually considering a "copyright" tax of 40 euros per computer!! The money won't even benefit society, but will go straight to SABAM (the RIAA/MPAA equivalent in Belgium) This is outrageous and comes down to simple theft.
If this proposal becomes law, I will not buy a computer in Belgium anymore. I live close enough to the German and Dutch border so I'll just buy my equipment there.
For those interested, more info can be found here: http://geenpctaks.be/ (Sorry the page is in dutch, can't find an english translation)
If you are Belgian, please sign the petition against this proposal.
... static link the binary in one of the bin directories...
Static link? I am sure you mean creating a *symbolic* link, because that is what the "-s" in the "ln -s" command stands for.
Static linking is something entirely different, and has to do with the way you compile a binary. A statically linked binary includes all the libraries it depends on in the binary itself, whereas a dynamically linked binary just refers refers to the shared library files and the linking is done at runtime.
when i got my first computer, (a dell pentium p60) I accidently installed a demo version of OS2 warp cause it came with a magazine and i thought it was a game, completely wiped out my dos/win 3.11 setup.
Yes it is an IBM RS/6000 F50 which does indeed have a powerpc processor, and usually runs IBM's own version of Unix, namely AIX. I've configured plenty of those back in 98/99.
I do wonder what OS runs (or used to run) on that machine though, AIX or (Yellowdog?) Linux?
Most package systems allow you to "roll your own" packages from the software you build from source. I use Slackware myself, so I first install my apps into a "staging" directory and build my package from there using the makepkg command.
It takes an extra minute of your time when you're installing software but it really helps to keepi track of what software is installed on the system, what files belong to it, keeping track of versions etc.
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But cars do get updates, just not OTA.
When you take it in for service, it will often get an ECU update as part of the service. Just ask anyone who has ever chipped their car, only to have their ECU modifications erased after visiting the dealer.
It really is mostly the displays. On Android phones you can see what is using the battery, and it's almost always 60-70% the display.
As for those multicore CPUs, modern smartphone operating systems are remarkably good at keeping them clocked down when they're not needed. As a matter of fact, if I leave my Galaxy Nexus unattended (i.e. don't use the display), there hardly is any battery drain. I wouldn't be surprised if it would last a whole week that way.
Yes, I've heard of that study too, but I don't completely buy it. First of all, it depends a lot on the length of the commute. For instance, I am pretty sure that the energy I burn on my 180km roundtrip could warm my apartment all day and then some.
It also depends on the thermal insulation of your home. New houses here have to comply with strict standards with regards to insulation these days and I only have to compare my heating bill of my new appartment with the old one to see that it helps a lot.
Then there's the local climate, we have a moderate climate and I really only need to turn on the heating in the coldest winter months. Most homes don't even have air conditioning here, so that's no issue in the summer.
Finally, heating and cooling are two things that are much less dependent on dirty fossil fuels than cars. Most homes here are still heated with gas, which, while still a fossil fuel, burns a lot cleaner than petrol or diesel in a combustion engine. It's also much easier to switch to energy efficient electric heat pumps for both cooling and heating than it is to switch to electric cars.
Seriously, fuck narrow minded people like you who only see the bad side of personal transportation.
What you need to realize is that the availability of cheap energy and the development of personal transportation have contributed more than anything to the progress of Western civilization in the 20th century and the corresponding rise in life expectancy. In only 100 years, life expectancy in the US has risen from 47 to 76. Personal transportation is what enables a modern society to work, and without it it would collapse.
It's also not about one dude not wanting to give up his comfort, you have to look at the bigger picture. All the alternatives you mention are never going to be a suitable alternative for everyone. For instance, public transit is already near its peak capacity in my country (Belgium), yet it only supports 10-15% of the daily traffic, depending on whose figures you believe. Physically it's simply impossible to make trains and busses go from every place to every other place, on a reasonable time and at a reasonable cost. And mopeds and motorcycles? Are you kidding me? They are dangerous, uncomfortable and not all that environmentally friendly either.
Either way, at the end of the day, people are going to choose the mode of transportation that works best for them and you can't blame them if in most cases that happens to be a car.
Is this sustainable in the long term? No, it's not because eventually we will run out of oil, and we WILL need real alternatives. However, I believe that this problem will resolve itself economically. In the future oil prices will continue to rise, and at some point in time it will get so expensive that the alternatives become more attractive, and they will gain traction. That is when people will start to switch, not sooner. Until then ... let everyone use what works best for them.
Another thing I strongly believe in is that we shouldn't just focus on changing our mode of transportation, but we should also focus on making transportation less needed. For instance, I have a 90km one way daily commute. I could just as easily do most of my work from home or from a satelite office closer to home, all I need is a laptop and a network connection, but my employer insists that everyone works centralized and that my physical presence is required. There are many people just like me. Work on changing that mentality, and you will not only do good for the environment but you will also actually improve people's lives.
Well, seeing that Peugeot boasts about it and that it was a record breaking attempt and that it was without a doubt performed by a professional driver, yes I consider that 9 minute time to be representative and I find it rather underwhelming. I'm sure they could still shave off a few seconds if they tried, but it's not as if they could beat it down to sub 8 minutes, which is where the real performance cars start.
To give you a comparison: someone I know personally and who is a good-but-not-incredibly-talented amateur driver does 7:56 bridge-to-gantry (*) on tourist days with a stock 225bhp Renault R26R, which translates roughly to 8:18 for the full lap
As for the efficiency, it's well known (**) that batteries can store a lot less energy per kg than the energy content of 1kg of gasoline. Simply put: to store the equivalent energy of 1 kg of gasoline, you (roughtly) need 20kg of battery. So I would say it's not an unreasonable guess that weight is an issue with this car.
(*) On Tourist days you can't use the full length of the straight so times are usually measured from the bridge at the end of the straight to the gantry at the beginning of the straight. Bridge to gantry times are give or take 22 seconds shorter than a full lap time.
(**) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
So I guess we should all drive golf carts then?
It's still for "faggz" though. 9 minutes around the Nordschleife with a custom made 340bhp car?
Wake me up when they can do a sub 8 minute time. There are combustion engined cars with the aerodynamics of a brick that can do that.
Those were exactly my thoughts. 9 minutes for a 340bhp car? That seems terribly slow. Even my 15 year old E36 M3 GT (295bhp) does better than that.
My guess is that the weight of the batteries is holding it back. This shows one of the biggest drawbacks of electrical cars: batteries make them way too heavy, so unless battery capacity increases drastically, the handling is going to be poor.
For what it's worth: the energy density of a battery is about 20 times less than that of gasoline. Now an electrical engine does make up for some of that because it runs more efficient than a combustion engine, but not 20 times more efficient.
Why are the prisons filled with a good portion of non-violent criminals then? Because "doing harm" can also be non-violent and one could argue that one would want to protect society from non-violent crimes as well. Now of course you could argue about which offenses deserve jailtime and which don't. For instance, I don't believe in jailtime for small drug related offenses. But that's a legislation issue, it doesn't have anything to do with prisons being necessary or not. If the law says that you have go to prison for carrying a bit of weed, then the law is broken not the prison system.
TFA claims that prisons have failed. I don't entirely agree. The way I see it, prisons have three roles: one is reeducation, when we release someone from prison, they should come out as better citizens, not better criminals. In that respect, you could say that prisons have failed.
The second role of prisons however is punishment: prison SHOULD be an unpleasant experience for someone who has committed a crime. It should be a deterrent, something they will never want to experience again. Also, if you're a victim of a crime, you want to know that the criminal actually gets punished and doesn't get off with just a slap on the wrist.
Finally, the third role of prisons is protecting society, taking dangerous individuals out of the loop for a considerable amount of time so that they can't do any harm.
It seems to me that while GPS tracking devices may help somewhat with role 1, they don't do anything for role 2 and 3. So in my opinion, they shouldn't be a replacement for a prison system, but an addition to it, for instance in combination with the parole system.
You weren't forced to make an Avatar. When I did my update, I wanted to get to test Netflix as quickly as possible, so I just pulled up the guide and exited out of the Avatar builder to the dashboard. Just like before with any other application.
That's not really very obvious is it? I didn't even know you could do that. There was just no obvious way to say "skip avatar creation".
The Avatars may be useless and silly, but really, an "eyesore"? Maybe you should make a better looking one?
You don't get it. I dislike the whole idea of having an avatar (why do I need one?), *and* I don't like the cartoonish cutesy style in which they are implemented, "fisher price" style as someone called it here. There is no way to change that, no matter which hairstyle or sunglasses you put on it. And even if I could make a better looking one it would be like having a better looking Clippy in Office, still pointless ;)
MSFT didn't promise that they were keeping the blades. They specifically said that the NXE was to replace the blade system and that the blades would only be preserved in the Guide system.
Well that's not how I interpreted it. I remember reading an interview by one of the MS guys who said that they were keeping the old interface around because there would always be people who would not dig the new interace.
I'm happy to finally have an OS that's responsive and allows me to scroll through and read descriptions for items quickly. I think you're a bit worked up over the idea of "change" so much that you can't see the improvements.
It's not that I'm worked up about the idea of "change", I just don't like this particular change. I do see the improvements, but they are minor things compared to the things that bug me about the new interface.
I applied the update yesterday, even though I wasn't wild about the screenshots I had seen so far. The announcements by Microsoft did however promise I could still use the old blade interface if I wanted, so I thought: why not give it a try?
The install went fairly smoothly, taking only a few minutes. Then I had to create an avatar *ugh*, this was my first turn-off. I've never been a fan of avatar systems, but if they're going to make it mandatory they could at least have thrown in some models that don't look childish and cartoonish. So I just selected some random character, hoping I could switch it off later.
Then I played around with the interface. It is fairly easy to figure out, and I could quickly find most functions I was looking for, however I couldn't help but think that the blade interface felt simpler, more intuitive and more mature. In the blade system, if you were looking for something, you just had to select the right tab and everything was available from there. In the new system, you have to navigate in 2 "dimensions", first select the right channel, then look for the right tab, then go into the tab. The blade system also made better use of screen real estate. A lot of screen space is wasted now because they chose to work with some kind of 3D representation.
After using it for a while other things started to annoy me. I find the color scheme rather ugly for instance. It's all dull grey or migraine inducing green and selecting a different theme doesn't seem to change it. The sound effects got on my nerves too, instead of the cool muted *swish* sounds of the old blade system, the new sounds are much more *bling bling* and in your face (I don't know how else to describe it). Then, there's no way to get rid of your avatar. It's not like it does anything useful, it just stands there looking silly and generally being an eyesore.
Then I started looking for new features. Netflix doesn't work outside of the US, so I couldn't use that. The install to HDD option could be handy, but I don't find it essential. The loading times never really bothered me that much anyway, it's having to switch discs when you want to play a different game that bothers me. To my disappointment no new video or audio codecs have been added, so some divx and mp4 files still don't play, there's still no support for 5.1 surround sound in divx files and still no support for subtitles. As a media player, it has not become more useful to me.
So after a few hours of playing around with it, I decided that I didn't like it, and I started looking for the option to revert to the old style interface. Only, there wasn't one! Sure, when you push the big X button a menu pops up that looks remotely like the old blades, but it's not fullscreen and in no way a replacement interface. Now I feel cheated.
My conclusion is that Microsoft spent way too much time and effort trying to invent a completely new interface, which in many ways is worse than the old system, when they could have just offered an upgraded blade system and spent all the time and effort on real features that are actually useful.
Did you only skip to the last page? If you looked over every benchmark, the new kernel had improved performance in almost every test, save for two of the last three. ... to me it looks like the new kernel is performing consistently (but only marginally) better on all tests. Keep in mind, on the LAME tests, a lower score means better performance. Not that the whole thing is very scientific of course. What about multitasking efficiency for instance?
Erm
The F-15 has never suffered a combat loss, and it has a kill ratio of 105 to 0 IIRC. An Israeli F-15 got shot up badly by Syrian MiGs once, but it managed to make it home and land safely with half a wing missing.
I'm not a sysadmin, but I never got how NFS prevented a user plugging a computer which they have root access on into the network, mounting a common NFS mount, "su"ing to somebody's UID and then deleting their files. AFAICS, SMB handles this by requiring credentials of some kind from the computer. Can anyone explain this?
"Authentication" with NFS is IP based. You grant access to NFS mounts by specifying which hosts can mount that share. This implies that the hosts you allow are trusted, and that your network is trusted as well. So yes, if a computer you have root access to has been granted read/write access to an NFS mount then you can just su to someone else's UID and delete their files on that NFS mount.
Is it a good idea to use NFS in a security sensitive environment? Probably not.
The X-box racing game Forza motorsport already has something like this. You can train a "Drivatar" to race just like you. Once it's properly trained, it will take generally the same line as you, take corners the same way... and it also makes the same errors as you.
More info about it here: http://www.drivatar.com/
Think about it... if they charge you a "copyright tax" of 40 Euros per computer, then you can download stuff via p2p to your heart's content... I'd willingly pay a one off levy on purchase to tell the minions of the **AA to P off... and gladly make sure my receipt for this levy was kept very, very safe...
Ah but unfortunately it doesn't work that way. That would still be a copyright infringement and remain illegal under the current proposal. Think about it: if the 40 euro covered whatever copyright infringement, you could also put "pirated" copies of Windows, Office, or any other commercial software on it legally.
Also many computers (think businesses) are never ever used for copyright infringement, but they would have to pay the tax too.
They're working on a similar proposal here in Belgium. They are actually considering a "copyright" tax of 40 euros per computer!! The money won't even benefit society, but will go straight to SABAM (the RIAA/MPAA equivalent in Belgium) This is outrageous and comes down to simple theft.
If this proposal becomes law, I will not buy a computer in Belgium anymore. I live close enough to the German and Dutch border so I'll just buy my equipment there.
For those interested, more info can be found here: http://geenpctaks.be/ (Sorry the page is in dutch, can't find an english translation)
If you are Belgian, please sign the petition against this proposal.
Nah, just buy Fusjitsu. They never fail. *wink*
;)
The manufacturer is actually called Fujitsu not Fusjitsu. But I guess calling them Fusjitsu or even Fushitsu is not that inaccurate
... static link the binary in one of the bin directories ...
Static link? I am sure you mean creating a *symbolic* link, because that is what the "-s" in the "ln -s" command stands for.
Static linking is something entirely different, and has to do with the way you compile a binary. A statically linked binary includes all the libraries it depends on in the binary itself, whereas a dynamically linked binary just refers refers to the shared library files and the linking is done at runtime.
when i got my first computer, (a dell pentium p60) I accidently installed a demo version of OS2 warp cause it came with a magazine and i thought it was a game, completely wiped out my dos/win 3.11 setup.
;-)
That was a *mistake*?
One has to wonder though ... what will they inflate them with in the vacuum of space??
Yes it is an IBM RS/6000 F50 which does indeed have a powerpc processor, and usually runs IBM's own version of Unix, namely AIX. I've configured plenty of those back in 98/99.
I do wonder what OS runs (or used to run) on that machine though, AIX or (Yellowdog?) Linux?
Most package systems allow you to "roll your own" packages from the software you build from source. I use Slackware myself, so I first install my apps into a "staging" directory and build my package from there using the makepkg command.
It takes an extra minute of your time when you're installing software but it really helps to keepi track of what software is installed on the system, what files belong to it, keeping track of versions etc.
Actually Europe has more people online now than the US.