If you weren't using a telephoto lens or a telescope or something else to magnify the image, then it probably wasn't the actual disc you were resolving. It was probably just the excess light from Mars "bleeding" onto adjacent detectors on the surface of the camera's CCD. Or maybe the camera had trouble focusing?
For comparison, I have a 2 megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom, and when I hook it up to my 3.5" newtonian telescope, the disc is still tiny. You really need a telescope or a serious telephoto lens to be able to resolve the disc.
Does anyone know of any open source challenge-response anti-spam projects similar to what Earthlink is developing? I've wanted something like this for a long time. While I don't have time to start a project myself, I'd like to contribute to someone else's.
Campaign finance reform trys to limit the corrupting influence of big money on politics. It doesn't affect your freedom of speech at all - money is not speech. When a corporation gives money to a political candidate, it is not exercising free speech.
Limiting political contributions is not a radical idea. There are already laws on the books against this, dating back to 1907. McCain-Feingold simply closes some of new loopholes.
I love Slashdot's "Bill the Borg" logo. How about a T-Shirt? Sold from a booth right next to them? Who has the booths right next to them? Will they play along?
If I remember correctly, the Borg icon actually comes from a T-shirt that was being sold back during the early days of Slashdot. Until, of course, Microsoft sued the t-shirt guy out of business...
The linux world is not going to migrate to Debian en masse until the installer is improved. A big problem with Debian is you have to get through the installer to actually use it.
Uh, I more or less agree with a lot of what you have to say. But of course you're making a different point than Amy was...
(OT: Please don't forget that Hussein refuses to import the full amount of food and medicine he is allowed under the oil-for-food program, which isn't helping the situation in Iraq any. But it's still obvious to me the sanctions policy has failed and needs to go...)
Moral relativism at it's best. You see we are not the only ones evil!.
I'm not looking for moral relativism, I'm looking for perspective. I know, it's a foreign concept around here. (Any anyway, I don't think I'm going out on a limb by saying that, generally speaking, the US is an open society, not a closed and secretive one.)
I hate it when people hyperbolize to make a point. Making crappy analogies between the US and [the Roman Empire/Nazi Germany/whatever] is getting tiresome. Make your damn point and let it stand on its own merits.
Better yet why not decide what is moral and right and do that.
In two centuries, we've gone from isolationist "paradise" happy to revel in our beautiful countrysides and stay out of world conflicts for our own good, to the Roman Empire of the modern world.
A very poor, overly simplistic analogy.
America is not the Roman Empire redux. The Romans were conquerors. Name me one nation the United States has annexed in the last 75 years. Recent US administrations have fought abroad when forced to protect US interests. The US even fights in places like Kosovo, Bosnia and Somalia on solely humanitarian grounds. When we're done fighting, we leave, and often help rebuild the country as well. (Now I'm not defending any particular US foreign policies in particular, I'm just showing how they refute your analogy.)
I also highy disagree that the US is "backwards and secretive". Look at the US's "peers" in the world scene: Russia, China, India, Japan, Britain. Now, I'd say the US is *at least* as progessive and open as any of these other nations. (Of course, I'm sure the US looks plenty "backwards and secretive" in comparison to your personal utopian vision of government.)
I also love how you point out that Iraq was using declassified materials in the nuke program in one breath, and claim the US should continue to make these materials public in the next. Wouldn't it have been better not to have declassified the docs in the first place?
So you are saying that a repeat of slavery, war on Native Americans, etc. are possible in the modern political climate in the United States?
If you are, then you are either tremendously misinformed, or are simply contorting your limited knowledge of history to make a point. (If that was not what you were trying to say, then I have no I idea what you're blabbering on about.)
I imagine you would need to patch Apache fairly regularly as well.
No, you do not.
In fact, apache.org [apache.org] was compromised this year due to a security hole....which had nothing to do with Apache's security. The intruder grabbed an admin password by exploiting an unpatched copy of OpenSSH (IIRC). Apache was not in any way at fault.
Where do I go? I can't just call my Debian rep and ask him to help me fix my problems.
Um, you could cough up some money and buy a commercially supported distribution from, for example, Red Hat?
Yes... except that the Ximian software won't disable itself when your subscription expires. Not to mention that if you don't like Ximian's terms you can get Gnome from many other sources, too.
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Not terribly useful information. It's a release candidate, so of course there's no guarantee it'll work on everyone's system. If all the bugs were out, they'd take the "Candidate" out of "Release Candidate".:)
Be patient. Carping on slashdot will not make the final release arrive any faster. Installing the release candidate and submitting bug reports just might.
It's really easy to setup a MS Access front end to a MySQL database. Install the myODBC drivers and use them to setup a ODBC connection to your MySQL database. Open an Access file and import a link to each table in the database (the filetype will be ODBC). I knew nothing about ODBC, but after a little RTFMing I found it was very simple, and got it working immediately.
Here's a section of the MySQL manual you should read beforehand:
http://mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/m an ual_ODBC.html
You especially need to read the section about getting myODBC to work with Access. There are several glitches you'll need to work around.
That being said, I'd take a PHP or Perl frontend over and Access frontend, hands down...
Uh, unless I'm mistaken, OS X doesn't use OpenGL acceleration for its interface. I know it supports OpenGL for 3D apps, and it probably uses 2D acceleration when rendering the UI.
Here is the relevant quote from the MacCentral article:
"[Jobs] concentrated much of his address to the "customer experience" at retailers such as Circuit City, telling the dealers that, 'buying a car is no longer the worst purchasing experience. Buying a computer is now number one.'"
If you go to a car dealership, they don't steer you away from the model you ask for to show you another brand and try to bullshit you while they do it.
***spit take***
LOL, you are either being insanely sarcastic or have little experience shopping for a car!
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I've never heard of Laika... do they have a Badtimes virus song?
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This post is for you skeptical folks who dare to think all
these "IT" articles are actually just hoaxes designed to clog up
the internet.
If you receive an "IT", get rid of it
immediately WITHOUT using it. It is the most dangerous thingy yet.
It will rewrite your hard drive. Not only that, but it will scramble
any disks that are even close to your computer (20' range at 72 degrees
Fahrenheit).
It recalibrates your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice
cream melts and your milk curdles. It will demagnetize the strips
on all your credit cards, reprogram your ATM access code, screw
up the tracking on your VCR, and use subspace field harmonics to
scratch any CD's you try to play.
It will program your phone autodial to call only your mother-in-law's
number.
It will hide your car keys when you are late for work and interfere
with your car radio so that you hear 1940's hits and static while stuck
in traffic.
It will give you nightmares about circus midgets.
It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine, all
while changing all active verbs to passive tense and incorporating undetectable
misspellings which grossly change the interpretation of key sentences.
It will infest your armpits with fleas of a thousands camels.
It will rewrite your back-up files, leave the toilet seat up and leave
the hair dryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bath tub.
It wantonly removes the forbidden tags from your mattresses and
pillows, and refills your skim milk with whole.
It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to
behold.
It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve. It will cause
the universe to implode at the speed of light with a giant sucking sound,
and bother those with sensitive eardrums.
These are just a few signs. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
PLEASE FORWARD THIS INFORMATION TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!! Or "IT"
will track you down via public transportation. And won't you be sorry then.
Red Hat has plenty of quality documentation on their website. Newbie or linux veteran, there's lots of stuff for everyone.
http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/
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If you weren't using a telephoto lens or a telescope or something else to magnify the image, then it probably wasn't the actual disc you were resolving. It was probably just the excess light from Mars "bleeding" onto adjacent detectors on the surface of the camera's CCD. Or maybe the camera had trouble focusing?
For comparison, I have a 2 megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom, and when I hook it up to my 3.5" newtonian telescope, the disc is still tiny. You really need a telescope or a serious telephoto lens to be able to resolve the disc.
Does anyone know of any open source challenge-response anti-spam projects similar to what Earthlink is developing? I've wanted something like this for a long time. While I don't have time to start a project myself, I'd like to contribute to someone else's.
Campaign finance reform trys to limit the corrupting influence of big money on politics. It doesn't affect your freedom of speech at all - money is not speech. When a corporation gives money to a political candidate, it is not exercising free speech.
Limiting political contributions is not a radical idea. There are already laws on the books against this, dating back to 1907. McCain-Feingold simply closes some of new loopholes.
I love Slashdot's "Bill the Borg" logo. How about a T-Shirt? Sold from a booth right next to them? Who has the booths right next to them? Will they play along?
If I remember correctly, the Borg icon actually comes from a T-shirt that was being sold back during the early days of Slashdot. Until, of course, Microsoft sued the t-shirt guy out of business...
The linux world is not going to migrate to Debian en masse until the installer is improved. A big problem with Debian is you have to get through the installer to actually use it.
Please see here:
h ol d=-1&commentsort=3&mode=thread&pid=2583541#2583709
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23921&thres
Uh, I more or less agree with a lot of what you have to say. But of course you're making a different point than Amy was...
(OT: Please don't forget that Hussein refuses to import the full amount of food and medicine he is allowed under the oil-for-food program, which isn't helping the situation in Iraq any. But it's still obvious to me the sanctions policy has failed and needs to go...)
Moral relativism at it's best. You see we are not the only ones evil!.
I'm not looking for moral relativism, I'm looking for perspective. I know, it's a foreign concept around here. (Any anyway, I don't think I'm going out on a limb by saying that, generally speaking, the US is an open society, not a closed and secretive one.)
I hate it when people hyperbolize to make a point. Making crappy analogies between the US and [the Roman Empire/Nazi Germany/whatever] is getting tiresome. Make your damn point and let it stand on its own merits.
Better yet why not decide what is moral and right and do that.
...the best policy of all!
Uh, I'm pretty sure Hawaii was annexed in 1898, which would be LONGER than 75 years ago. Imbecile. :P
In two centuries, we've gone from isolationist "paradise" happy to revel in our beautiful countrysides and stay out of world conflicts for our own good, to the Roman Empire of the modern world.
A very poor, overly simplistic analogy.
America is not the Roman Empire redux. The Romans were conquerors. Name me one nation the United States has annexed in the last 75 years. Recent US administrations have fought abroad when forced to protect US interests. The US even fights in places like Kosovo, Bosnia and Somalia on solely humanitarian grounds. When we're done fighting, we leave, and often help rebuild the country as well. (Now I'm not defending any particular US foreign policies in particular, I'm just showing how they refute your analogy.)
I also highy disagree that the US is "backwards and secretive". Look at the US's "peers" in the world scene: Russia, China, India, Japan, Britain. Now, I'd say the US is *at least* as progessive and open as any of these other nations. (Of course, I'm sure the US looks plenty "backwards and secretive" in comparison to your personal utopian vision of government.)
I also love how you point out that Iraq was using declassified materials in the nuke program in one breath, and claim the US should continue to make these materials public in the next. Wouldn't it have been better not to have declassified the docs in the first place?
So you are saying that a repeat of slavery, war on Native Americans, etc. are possible in the modern political climate in the United States?
If you are, then you are either tremendously misinformed, or are simply contorting your limited knowledge of history to make a point. (If that was not what you were trying to say, then I have no I idea what you're blabbering on about.)
I imagine you would need to patch Apache fairly regularly as well. No, you do not. In fact, apache.org [apache.org] was compromised this year due to a security hole. ...which had nothing to do with Apache's security. The intruder grabbed an admin password by exploiting an unpatched copy of OpenSSH (IIRC). Apache was not in any way at fault.
Where do I go? I can't just call my Debian rep and ask him to help me fix my problems.
Um, you could cough up some money and buy a commercially supported distribution from, for example, Red Hat?
Yes... except that the Ximian software won't disable itself when your subscription expires. Not to mention that if you don't like Ximian's terms you can get Gnome from many other sources, too.
Read The Fine Manual!
l /i nstall-guide/s1-guimode-firewall.html
l /i nstall-guide/s1-steps-type.html
l /i nstall-guide/s1-guimode-sel-group.html#S2-GUIMODE- SEL-INDIV-PACK
http://redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-7.1-Manua
http://redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-7.1-Manua
http://redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-7.1-Manua
Linux already supports Firewire (IEEE 1394):
http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/
Not terribly useful information. It's a release candidate, so of course there's no guarantee it'll work on everyone's system. If all the bugs were out, they'd take the "Candidate" out of "Release Candidate". :)
Be patient. Carping on slashdot will not make the final release arrive any faster. Installing the release candidate and submitting bug reports just might.
It's really easy to setup a MS Access front end to a MySQL database. Install the myODBC drivers and use them to setup a ODBC connection to your MySQL database. Open an Access file and import a link to each table in the database (the filetype will be ODBC). I knew nothing about ODBC, but after a little RTFMing I found it was very simple, and got it working immediately.
m an ual_ODBC.html
Here's a section of the MySQL manual you should read beforehand:
http://mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/
You especially need to read the section about getting myODBC to work with Access. There are several glitches you'll need to work around.
That being said, I'd take a PHP or Perl frontend over and Access frontend, hands down...
Uh, unless I'm mistaken, OS X doesn't use OpenGL acceleration for its interface. I know it supports OpenGL for 3D apps, and it probably uses 2D acceleration when rendering the UI.
Thank you for sharing your car-buying experience with us all. God bless, and may the Fahrvergnuegen be with you.
"[Jobs] concentrated much of his address to the "customer experience" at retailers such as Circuit City, telling the dealers that, 'buying a car is no longer the worst purchasing experience. Buying a computer is now number one.'"
***spit take***
LOL, you are either being insanely sarcastic or have little experience shopping for a car!
I've never heard of Laika... do they have a Badtimes virus song?
If you receive an "IT", get rid of it immediately WITHOUT using it. It is the most dangerous thingy yet.
It will rewrite your hard drive. Not only that, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer (20' range at 72 degrees Fahrenheit).
It recalibrates your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream melts and your milk curdles. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, reprogram your ATM access code, screw up the tracking on your VCR, and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.
It will program your phone autodial to call only your mother-in-law's number.
It will hide your car keys when you are late for work and interfere with your car radio so that you hear 1940's hits and static while stuck in traffic.
It will give you nightmares about circus midgets.
It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine, all while changing all active verbs to passive tense and incorporating undetectable misspellings which grossly change the interpretation of key sentences.
It will infest your armpits with fleas of a thousands camels.
It will rewrite your back-up files, leave the toilet seat up and leave the hair dryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bath tub.
It wantonly removes the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows, and refills your skim milk with whole.
It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold.
It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve. It will cause the universe to implode at the speed of light with a giant sucking sound, and bother those with sensitive eardrums.
These are just a few signs. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
PLEASE FORWARD THIS INFORMATION TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!! Or "IT" will track you down via public transportation. And won't you be sorry then.
Red Hat has plenty of quality documentation on their website. Newbie or linux veteran, there's lots of stuff for everyone.
http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/
I disagree - I have never found windows help to be terribly well organized or helpful.
What about commercial, publicly-traded news/discussion sites that have a .org?? ;)