Driver only operation is a pet hate of mine. They sack all of the staff then half of all the travellers don't bother buying a ticket. Worse still kids run riot. It's really safe after dark...
Then whenever (frequently) the trains get covered in graffiti the company complains like crazy about the tens of thousands of pounds it costs to take the train out of service and clean it up.
I can believe that. I was on a Thameslink train once (heading out of Luton, overhead power but it switched to third rail somewhere along the way, didn't even notice!) and another train passed in the other direction. I was in that semi hypnotic state you can get into on a train (when its not full of screaming kids or drunk football hooligans*). Believe me the thing shuddered so violently I was quickly brought back to reality.
The south west is simply not electrified, you mean the south. I come from North Devon and believe me it's the back of beyond. It's a wonder the trains are not pulled by horses. Modern innovations like cable TV and large multiplexes are unknown.
The Pendolinos are just like the voyagers and supervoyagers except they are a little bigger inside. They are fast though, really fast. You really appreachiate the difference when you go to London on one and come back on one of Bransons relics.
I'm impressed it reaced 100kph. I'm even more impressed they managed to get the driver to give up his sandwich shelf.
Now seriously Branson has had his trains touching on 140mph for a while now. The Eurostar runs at 186 mph this side of the channel. The record is 208 mph in the UK on a Eurostar test run.
The Intercity 125 is an exceptional train as important as trains like the Flying Scotsman. It is the reason so little of the UK is electrified. Still very much in use today it can reach 125mph, quite execeptional for a Diesel.
Past generations converted hundreds of miles of wide gauge track in the southwest was to standard gauge in a weekend. The victorians built hundreds of miles the Edinburgh to Inverness line in two years, why does it take so long to replace worn out rails today with modern equipment like JCB's and tunnel boring machines.
Bah ha ha ha. That would involve someone other than Branson buying new trains (not that it's improved service. Bransons 15 minutes off the journey doesn't help you when your journey is an hour late. Like on Saturday, and the seats are uncomfortable as well.).
Besides the rust holes on the roof improve the WiMax signal reception.
I've recently figured out why the South East is sticking to the ancient third rail system in use, despite the low maximum speed possible using it. It's so when we finally become a fully fledged third world country people will be able to ride on the roof of trains, just like you see in travel documentaries.
Hauppauge also have a whole range of digital terrestrial receivers suitable for the UK. I have yet to see a board capable of receiving Topup-TV (the extra subscription channels).
I've seen Digital Satelite boards with a CAM slot. But for DVB-T, I'm still looking. Unless you know otherwise....
I'm guessing that the market for it would be so small it's not worth selling one.
I wonder what their special powers will be. I know BT's agreement with ET will enable it to fly bicycles and heal sick things with a glowing finger, but what about the others?
(Sorry American people etc. You probably haven't seen the adverts.)
I'm waiting for someone to come up with a write once chip for storing music on. Something like a cheap flash card memory card constructed of silicon fuses. Generic at the time of manufacture before writing to keep the cost/chip down. Think about it. No moving parts, tiny power consumption, small size, could be built to have huge reliablity. Hmmm huge reliabilty naa they'll never make it.
Your challenge, if you choose to accept it is to construct a regular expression to identify all celine dion tracks and incorportate it into a shell script the effect of which would cleanse a machine of all celine dion garbage.
Service Pack two was available on many magazine coverdisks soon after it came out, so there is no need to download 200mb at all. Updates since have been quite small, I can't remember how small but certainly only a few megabytes. Now I purchased my XP for real money. Shocking concept I know for the average visitor here, but the genuine OEM disk purchased with my machine came with service pack 2 already on it. So there was no need to download it at all.
Thank god Fedora comes with packages, because if I had to download it all it simply wouldn't be an option for me on dialup. I dread to think of the hassle involved in downloading all the different components required for a system. I would kill for setup.exe software installation ease on linux, installer package size be damned.
The is plenty of software available for Windows that will bring it up to the same level of functionality as Fedora. Some of it is even free and the same as you will find on Linux (Fedora, OpenOffice etc.). Guess what, it's even easier to install it.
Understand that I have no problem with Open Source Software, in fact I prefer it. I am merely pointing out the difficiencies in some of the attitudes towards the poor bod who actually ends up using it and in one particular product, Fedora itself.
3 Points to Windows.
3:0
Second Point: SATA problems
OK so I forgot to put in the.6, so shoot me. Some responses on here have just been shooting me down for that minor brain fade. This shows the attitude problem some Slashdotters have clearly. Rather than just correct me (as you have done), some piss taking allowed, ridicule the poster for a minor error in an attempt to make them look silly and not challenge them about the point they were trying to make. I am not a machine, sometimes I make still errors, get over it. Not that I expect better on Slashdot mind you:)
You wanted bugzilla entries, try here and here. Not a lot that would help the average user. You shouldn't need to be a programmer to install an operating system anyway. Infact not many answers at all, just silently fixed in 2.6.10. Please don't assume I haven't already posted it to Bugzilla next time.
Argument: Fedora won't even install, XP has no problems and didn't even need a driver disk. Pretty simple eh?
1 Point to Windows
1:0 - Ah can't be bothered with the silly scoring any more.
rhgb: It happens without fail. My main problem is with it freezing and not just giving up and allowing you to boot in text mode. Also why haven't they added a non rhgb startup option to the bootloader anyway if it is unreliable.
We all know Microsoft and a secure computer don't sit well together. But they are working on it at last. I've had no problems at all - yet - cross fingers sacrifice first born. Mind you I do keep the patches up to date, use the firewall and keep my virus checker up to date.
My installation media came with service pack two and my virus checker was installed before connnecting to the internet. Some common sense is required here however...
Mind you I'd rather clean a virus attack off a doze box than a linux box. God knows what would get changed, what back doors would be left around. If linux ever catches up with windows, I would be really supprised if it didn't suffer the same level of attacks, virus infections etc.
udev may be nice, but my first priority is a system that works. If it isn't broke then don't fix it;). Actually thats not quite true, if you are going to break it in a way that will affect an awfull lot of users at least disp
Slashdot Mirror
Use the Slashdot story generator and your story is sure to be accepted.
Really. Try making a journey between Birmingham New Street and Birmingham Moor Street ;)
Well yes, when the track, trains and all are owned by a single company there is more of an incentive to get the work done.
Driver only operation is a pet hate of mine. They sack all of the staff then half of all the travellers don't bother buying a ticket. Worse still kids run riot. It's really safe after dark...
Then whenever (frequently) the trains get covered in graffiti the company complains like crazy about the tens of thousands of pounds it costs to take the train out of service and clean it up.
I can believe that. I was on a Thameslink train once (heading out of Luton, overhead power but it switched to third rail somewhere along the way, didn't even notice!) and another train passed in the other direction. I was in that semi hypnotic state you can get into on a train (when its not full of screaming kids or drunk football hooligans*). Believe me the thing shuddered so violently I was quickly brought back to reality.
* Why do we have to put up with this.
Interference? Have you seen how many blue flashes you get are the train rumbles along the line over gaps etc.
Yes. They would be very effective at pushing up the revenue per passenger if you put all the second class travellers on the roof.
The south west is simply not electrified, you mean the south. I come from North Devon and believe me it's the back of beyond. It's a wonder the trains are not pulled by horses. Modern innovations like cable TV and large multiplexes are unknown.
The Pendolinos are just like the voyagers and supervoyagers except they are a little bigger inside. They are fast though, really fast. You really appreachiate the difference when you go to London on one and come back on one of Bransons relics.
I'm impressed it reaced 100kph. I'm even more impressed they managed to get the driver to give up his sandwich shelf.
Now seriously Branson has had his trains touching on 140mph for a while now. The Eurostar runs at 186 mph this side of the channel. The record is 208 mph in the UK on a Eurostar test run.
The Intercity 125 is an exceptional train as important as trains like the Flying Scotsman. It is the reason so little of the UK is electrified. Still very much in use today it can reach 125mph, quite execeptional for a Diesel.
Past generations converted hundreds of miles of wide gauge track in the southwest was to standard gauge in a weekend. The victorians built hundreds of miles the Edinburgh to Inverness line in two years, why does it take so long to replace worn out rails today with modern equipment like JCB's and tunnel boring machines.
Bah ha ha ha. That would involve someone other than Branson buying new trains (not that it's improved service. Bransons 15 minutes off the journey doesn't help you when your journey is an hour late. Like on Saturday, and the seats are uncomfortable as well.).
Besides the rust holes on the roof improve the WiMax signal reception.
I've recently figured out why the South East is sticking to the ancient third rail system in use, despite the low maximum speed possible using it. It's so when we finally become a fully fledged third world country people will be able to ride on the roof of trains, just like you see in travel documentaries.
Hauppauge also have a whole range of digital terrestrial receivers suitable for the UK. I have yet to see a board capable of receiving Topup-TV (the extra subscription channels).
I've seen Digital Satelite boards with a CAM slot. But for DVB-T, I'm still looking. Unless you know otherwise....
I'm guessing that the market for it would be so small it's not worth selling one.
Google is your friend as ever. Looks like nothing worthwhile is on .pro anyway...
Hmmm Tux joins the military.
;)
All the hippy hacker types will be fuming. They might even have to get their hair cur
Hey most of us are Unix people here in one way or another so why not just say 1114905600 /me Waits for someone to correct him.
You're too late. April 1st was ages ago.....
"The Monday after daylight savings?" Bah, luxury, you've got it easy. We Brits have been on British Summer Time for a week and a day now.
This is old news. The Frenchies have been there and done it.
It's even been tried in African (same company).
The company's own website seems to have gone. I would be suprised if this wasn't because the company has also gone out of business.
Why does it only get on Slashdot when it's an American company?
"Internet Providers Band Together to Fight Evil"
I wonder what their special powers will be. I know BT's agreement with ET will enable it to fly bicycles and heal sick things with a glowing finger, but what about the others?
(Sorry American people etc. You probably haven't seen the adverts.)
I'm waiting for someone to come up with a write once chip for storing music on. Something like a cheap flash card memory card constructed of silicon fuses. Generic at the time of manufacture before writing to keep the cost/chip down. Think about it. No moving parts, tiny power consumption, small size, could be built to have huge reliablity. Hmmm huge reliabilty naa they'll never make it.
Your challenge, if you choose to accept it is to construct a regular expression to identify all celine dion tracks and incorportate it into a shell script the effect of which would cleanse a machine of all celine dion garbage.
~They got the Discovery Channel don't they? ~
You never know, they might be picking up our p0rn transmissions already and trying to figure out our mating rituals.
I dread to think what their conclusions would be!
Late reply I know, but here we go.
.6, so shoot me. Some responses on here have just been shooting me down for that minor brain fade. This shows the attitude problem some Slashdotters have clearly. Rather than just correct me (as you have done), some piss taking allowed, ridicule the poster for a minor error in an attempt to make them look silly and not challenge them about the point they were trying to make. I am not a machine, sometimes I make still errors, get over it. Not that I expect better on Slashdot mind you :)
;). Actually thats not quite true, if you are going to break it in a way that will affect an awfull lot of users at least disp
First point: Service Pack 2.
Service Pack two was available on many magazine coverdisks soon after it came out, so there is no need to download 200mb at all. Updates since have been quite small, I can't remember how small but certainly only a few megabytes. Now I purchased my XP for real money. Shocking concept I know for the average visitor here, but the genuine OEM disk purchased with my machine came with service pack 2 already on it. So there was no need to download it at all.
Thank god Fedora comes with packages, because if I had to download it all it simply wouldn't be an option for me on dialup. I dread to think of the hassle involved in downloading all the different components required for a system. I would kill for setup.exe software installation ease on linux, installer package size be damned.
The is plenty of software available for Windows that will bring it up to the same level of functionality as Fedora. Some of it is even free and the same as you will find on Linux (Fedora, OpenOffice etc.). Guess what, it's even easier to install it.
Understand that I have no problem with Open Source Software, in fact I prefer it. I am merely pointing out the difficiencies in some of the attitudes towards the poor bod who actually ends up using it and in one particular product, Fedora itself.
3 Points to Windows.
3:0
Second Point: SATA problems
OK so I forgot to put in the
You wanted bugzilla entries, try here and here. Not a lot that would help the average user. You shouldn't need to be a programmer to install an operating system anyway. Infact not many answers at all, just silently fixed in 2.6.10. Please don't assume I haven't already posted it to Bugzilla next time.
Argument: Fedora won't even install, XP has no problems and didn't even need a driver disk. Pretty simple eh?
1 Point to Windows
1:0 - Ah can't be bothered with the silly scoring any more.
rhgb: It happens without fail. My main problem is with it freezing and not just giving up and allowing you to boot in text mode. Also why haven't they added a non rhgb startup option to the bootloader anyway if it is unreliable.
We all know Microsoft and a secure computer don't sit well together. But they are working on it at last. I've had no problems at all - yet - cross fingers sacrifice first born. Mind you I do keep the patches up to date, use the firewall and keep my virus checker up to date.
My installation media came with service pack two and my virus checker was installed before connnecting to the internet. Some common sense is required here however...
Mind you I'd rather clean a virus attack off a doze box than a linux box. God knows what would get changed, what back doors would be left around. If linux ever catches up with windows, I would be really supprised if it didn't suffer the same level of attacks, virus infections etc.
udev may be nice, but my first priority is a system that works. If it isn't broke then don't fix it
I just popped out in my Delorian and got them on nano inch disk
OK so I forgot the 6, get over it