And probably never actually getting around to that road trip, either.
Actually, I just went on a road trip with my wife. We went to Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
Primarily we were interested in the geology of a few places (Idaho batholith, Montana rockies, continental glacial deposits, Duluth Complex, Black Hills, and Yellowstone.)
Ok, your motive for owning a large SUV is to pull a 7000 lb trailer. What's you motive for pulling a 7000 lb trailer? Perhaps to drag around a gas-guzzling boat or other symbol of virility?
If more people would consider finding status symbols that didn't require transporting huge masses all over the place, our nations trade deficit would be in a lot better shape.
Spoken like a true AC, and someone who is jealous of other peoples success in life.
What's wrong with a boat or an RV? Not everyone likes to sit in their parents' basement and play Quake all night for recreation.
Not everyone on Slashdot is a pimply-faced pale white kid who never leaves their room. Some of us actually do stuff, like... you know... work. And then we enjoy the fruits of our labor.
I bet a few of us around here own horses, which is one motive to have a big, heavy trailer, no?
I had one, and it was a constant maintenance problem. There was always something going wrong. It would overheat in the summer unless you ran the heater full blast in the car. (Not making a comfortable drive.) No, there was nothing wrong with the cooling system.
Let me see what else went wrong with that car... a CV joint went out, the transmission popped out of second gear after the car was a few years old. The transmission was hard to shift into 4WD. The front-end alignment got screwed up way too easy if you hit a pothole.
I gave it to my sister and she totaled it. It was the best thing that ever happened to that car.
500 miles on a tank of gas IS pretty spectacular, when said tank is only 13.2 gallons. 42 mpg average so far, with a mix of commuting and highway driving. That figure is still rising too. I did about a 100 mile round trip highway, and got 53 mpg. Damn nice on the wallet.
Hmm... my 99 Plymouth Breeze has a 150 H.P. 4-cylinder. It's 4 years old and still gets 28-35 miles/gallon. I get 400 miles to a tank mixed highway/city commuting. It's a 16-gallon tank, but I've never let it go that low, so I'm not sure how far it goes until complete empty, but I imagine around 450ish the way I drive it now.
I don't think I would notice the difference between what I have and 42 miles/gallon, but 53 is significant. Would make road trips a little easier on the wallet.
There's just one thing, though. Since I'm not a hybrid, I'm not the guy going up the 6% grade at 45 MPH with a line of 50 cars behind me.
And yes, I've seen that quite a few times... though it may have been the drivers behind the wheels of the cars in question.
My other car is a 1970 Mustang 351 that gets about 12 miles/gallon... but there's nothing like finishing a 1/4 mile from a standing start in about 13 seconds. (And it does it a lot quieter than these buzz-bomb Hondas the kids have these days.)
If the US Navy had simply turned around and gone home in July 1945, Japan wouldn't have troubled them again.
Right.
That worked with all the other countries with tried it with.
Besides, complete and spectacular defeat was the only option after the despicable sneak-attack that Japan did on that little place called Pearl Harbor.
I fail to see how this is more fair than a fuel tax.
With a fuel tax, efficiency and conservation is encouraged.
With a fuel tax, the further you go, the more fuel you buy, the more tax you pay. How is this different than satellite tracking, other than the missing big-brother aspect?
With a fuel tax, if your vehicle puts more weight on the road, you use more fuel to move it, and pay more tax.
The only use I can see is to tax more for use of certain roads, but even that can be handled without tracking your every move... anyone heard of tollbooths?
One could also improve the situation by taxing things that cause more road damage... like (in the U.S. anyway) studded tires. Expecially studded tires that some morons use for the full season in places where it freezes maybe once a year, and snows once every few years.
One could tax someone who lives/works in a relatively snow- and ice-free area more than someone who lives/works in an area with more legitimate reasons to use studded tires.
Really, it pisses me off to see people with studded tires on in areas where snow or ice is uncommon. They simply tear up the road for no good reason.
While this may or may not attract more people to ham radio, it will make it easier for the novice to use packet radio devices.
Did you mean Novice class licensees, or new licensees?
Assuming the latter: A technician-class license (no code, 30 MHz and up operation only) has no code requirement and packet radio use is common.
What this will make easier is for people who don't have any use for code (like myself, I have to admit) to transmit on the worldwide HF frequencies with packet.
Of course, if they do drop the code requirement, I am not sure I will operate on HF, because the equipment is kinda spendy, antennas are kinda big (I live in an apartment), and all the fun stuff that I like to do is on VHF/UHF. (I like satellite & other space stuff like EME.)
They do use different versions of perl. You could say every distribution, and every version of a distribution is different. A package made on Redhat isn't guaranteed to work on Mandrake, and vice-versa. So if this projects makes rpms for Redhat, then that's what it does.
Now, that's a different statement entirely.:) I'll apologize for my sarcasm.
This really shouldn't be a problem for distributions shipping perl 5.6/5.8 when dealing with perl-only modules... but I can see the wrench when dealing with modules using non-perl code. That's not always going to happen, either... quite often it just depends on the 5.6/5.8 issue. (for now.) Most distributions *should* be shipping 5.8.
Isn't that what cpan2rpm is for?
No... cpan2rpm packages cpan modules into rpms, which you can then install with rpm. The more ideal tool would simply allow you to work with the CPAN module, doing all of the normal processes that we are used to, but when a module is installed, update the rpm database to include any newly-installed modules, transparently.
cpan2rpm is a fine tool, but it adds that extra step or two.
Now that I think about it, the guy the article is talking about has probably just automated the process cpan2rpming the entire CPAN. Maybe I'll read it again a little closer.
Oh, only RedHat uses RPM? I thought SuSE and Mandrake, as well as a few others did as well. Shows what I know.
Seriously, though. I use CPAN myself, but CPAN doesn't update the RPM database with dependency & file information and such. What would be a good solution is an optional extension to the CPAN module that allowed it to place files in the RPM database.
That's because rpm -ql takes package, not package.rpm. You're querying an installed package name, not the installation file.
Yes, I know this, you know this, but the OP was pointing out that it is not user-friendly.
What the OP was asking for was this:
rpm -ql package-vers.arch.rpm
If RPM sees the illegal package name, it should assume -p and look for the file. Failing that, it should strip everything but "package" and query the installed packages based on that name.
I agree with other posters that this isn't good for scripting, and I don't think that it should be change. However, some people were misinterpreting the OP's message. I was attempting to help him/her out before too many people told him to RTFM when it was clear that he/she had.
I was not devaluing ham radio usage. I think ham radios are fascinating, but the only thing it can do that the internet cannot is provide long distance communication without the need of a network. Am I wrong?
Yes, you are wrong.
You can't do satellite relays with the internet. You can't do Earth-Moon-Earth bounces with the internet.
You can't get an internet connection if you're a poor farmer in the middle of Africa. But you can build an AM tranciever from spare parts.
Why is 802.11a/b/g such a craze now if wires are so good? GHz-band transmissions were pioneered by hams. The things people are starting to take for granted today. The first wireless networks were made by hams. The first pictures were transmitted over radio by hams. The first video-like signals (using a spiraling optical scanner) were sent by hams before television was even invented.
You lose ham radio, you lose innovation, emergency services, and radio spectrum that belongs to the public. Anyone can get a ham license with a simple multiple-choice test. It's not like you even have to *work* to get one anymore.
How many people still rely on ham radio? Why havent they moved over to something a little more modern? Does ham radio have any advantages over current technology?
I'm not sure you understand exactly what ham radio is. It isn't like FRS or CB, just a means for a few people to talk to each other. It is also a means for innovation, a tool for emergency services, and (as someone pointed out) is also a hobby to many people.
For one, quite often the "bleeding edge" of radio technology is in ham radio. There are expirimentors working on new modulation techniques, low-power signalling, and new wireless data transmission protocols. There are little bits of hobbyist research going on every day.
People who use ham radio routinely communicate with satellites, do Earth-Moon-Earth signalling, and work on wireless networks that reach distances that people using 802.11a/b could only dream of.
Hams were some of the first people transmitting on those now-coveted 2.4 & 5.8 GHz bands that consumer electronics now use routinely.
Secondly, hams offer an emergency means of communication. When there are no phones, how do you get realtime communications? As an example, central Oregon used to have only one long-distance fiber connection. It was cut by a backhoe a couple years ago, destroying communications. It was hams that offered vital communications services for hospitals in the area. Nobody else stepped in. When a huge ice storm hit upstate New York, destroying much of the communications infrastructure, it was hams who provided communications, before FEMA was even on its way.
You might want to check out the ARRL web site, or Google for ARES, the Amateur Radio Emergency Service. You may find a chapter in your area... ask them what they will do for your community in the event of an emergency.
Finally, there is the hobby aspect. Hams are typically electronics and/or computer geeks who love the power of wireless communications. What other medium lets a person living out in the middle of nowhere with no phone/internet talk to other people around the globe? You won't find anything else.
When was the last time you heard of an individual in the middle of nowhere in Africa building their own Internet and phone network so they could talk with someone in Russia? Not likely. I guarantee you'll find a few hams that have built their own tranceivers, though.
In most places, gas taxes pay for the bulk of highway maintenance fees.
System development charges offset the cost of building other services.
In many places, developers must pay for roads, and mitigation costs for increased traffic.
Consequently, if you don't drive, there's not much cost to *you*.
As far as local retail is concerned, if you can afford to pay what the local retail charges, good for you. I can't. I don't usually shop at Wal*Mart, but I do shop at Target.
Why is it that the average "big box" store wants $1.09 for a partiular item, and the local place wants $1.99? That's almost *DOUBLE* the price.
I find that on average, the local retail place is about 50% more expensive than a place like Target. I'd have to get a really big raise in order to afford them.
The fear of failure is reinforced by depression. It is reinforced again when someone beats you down with such empathic phrases as 'you're just plain old-fasioned lazy.'
I preceded that with "It sounds like..."
You're right, of course. I should change my advice to: Please see the nearest doctor and ask them for Paxil, Zoloft, or Prozac.
Then again, I Am Not A Psychologist, and don't feel qualified to say anything else but what I did.
I suggest the poster try to find out when the fear of failure first began to manifest itself. There are feelings here which have not been properly dealt with. Examine these feelings logically and remember that there is no use is punishing yourself as you will only make the problem worse. You have to forgive yourself for failing. It's ok to fail.
Interesting idea, but my method does not involve forgiving myself for failing. If I fail by my own fault, I accept the faults and try to learn... I find the assets within my own failures, and that asset is greater knowledge. Thus, no failure is truly a failure for me. If I fail through no fault of my own, then I take the stoic route and simply don't get upset for something I could not prevent.
This whole forgiving yourself stuff sounds a bit too touchy-feely for me, but I suppose that other people may deal with their emotions that way.
Even people like Kymermosst fail.
Not often.:) But, it is as I said above. I don't feel I ever have any true failures as long as I have learned something.
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Try to build up a little willpower. Sheesh.
It sounds like you're just plain old-fashioned lazy and procrastinating.
Oh, and you can also make an M16 fire blanks by screwing a small washer between the compensator and the barrel. Adjust the hole size smaller until it works. Anyone who's been to unit armorer school or was a small arms repairman could make this modifcation to one rifle in a few minutes.
The above is one of the techniques used by Hollywood to make M16s/AR-15s fire blanks, along with special flash suppressors and compensators that also create more gas pressure.
Perhaps the parent does, but not me. Something about the massive changes needed to make an M16 fire blanks makes it not particularly feasible unless the entire rescue happened on a Hollywood sound stage.
So, if you consider a small clamp at the end of the barrel or a barely noticeable round blank firing adapter that simply lever-lock on as "massive changes"... well, you need to work on your sense of scale.
We soldiers used these on a constant basis. You don't have thousands of people making "massive changes" to thousands of rifles for every training mission.
Here's a page with a better picture of the newer "A2" blank firing adapter... scroll down this page. about 1/4 down.
Because the copy that comes with the machine is pre-activated, and the one that you install from a friend is not. So, you have to call M$ up to "reactivate"... at which point they might know that your PC was shipped with a disc that had a pre-activated version, etc.
I don't think it'll turn out quite as easy as reading the number off the sticker on the bottom of the machine to a M$ rep, and getting the activation code in return.
I'm sorry you decided to waste your money donatnig to food programs.i If your money had instead gone to educating people about simple engineering and farming techniques, as well as simple machinery and tools, then you might have accomplished something of lasting value
Oh, there are plenty of educated people here... we've even got a University.
What good is knowing how to run farm equipment, when nobody wants farm equipment operators?
What good is knowing simple engineering, when nobody wants engineers?
What good is knowing how to use tools, when nobody wants tool-users?
What good is literacy, when there are no jobs?
That, my friend, is the problem, and I point the finger square at NAFTA and the anti-timer folks.
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Ah well, maybe I'll fling them a little less shit.
But... I'd never own one again.
And probably never actually getting around to that road trip, either.
Actually, I just went on a road trip with my wife. We went to Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
Primarily we were interested in the geology of a few places (Idaho batholith, Montana rockies, continental glacial deposits, Duluth Complex, Black Hills, and Yellowstone.)
FWIW, my daily ride is a car that gets 30+ MPG.
I thought the main reason for a horse's existence is that it is a form of transportation. Kind of ironic to have to tow it around everwhere.
How do you get feed to them? How do you get them to the vet if they get sick?
And, if you live in Oregon and want to ride horses in Montana, you want to ride them there?
Ok, your motive for owning a large SUV is to pull a 7000 lb trailer. What's you motive for pulling a 7000 lb trailer? Perhaps to drag around a gas-guzzling boat or other symbol of virility?
If more people would consider finding status symbols that didn't require transporting huge masses all over the place, our nations trade deficit would be in a lot better shape.
Spoken like a true AC, and someone who is jealous of other peoples success in life.
What's wrong with a boat or an RV? Not everyone likes to sit in their parents' basement and play Quake all night for recreation.
Not everyone on Slashdot is a pimply-faced pale white kid who never leaves their room. Some of us actually do stuff, like... you know... work. And then we enjoy the fruits of our labor.
I bet a few of us around here own horses, which is one motive to have a big, heavy trailer, no?
You've obviously never owned a Subaru.
I had one, and it was a constant maintenance problem. There was always something going wrong. It would overheat in the summer unless you ran the heater full blast in the car. (Not making a comfortable drive.) No, there was nothing wrong with the cooling system.
Let me see what else went wrong with that car... a CV joint went out, the transmission popped out of second gear after the car was a few years old. The transmission was hard to shift into 4WD. The front-end alignment got screwed up way too easy if you hit a pothole.
I gave it to my sister and she totaled it. It was the best thing that ever happened to that car.
500 miles on a tank of gas IS pretty spectacular, when said tank is only 13.2 gallons. 42 mpg average so far, with a mix of commuting and highway driving. That figure is still rising too. I did about a 100 mile round trip highway, and got 53 mpg. Damn nice on the wallet.
Hmm... my 99 Plymouth Breeze has a 150 H.P. 4-cylinder. It's 4 years old and still gets 28-35 miles/gallon. I get 400 miles to a tank mixed highway/city commuting. It's a 16-gallon tank, but I've never let it go that low, so I'm not sure how far it goes until complete empty, but I imagine around 450ish the way I drive it now.
I don't think I would notice the difference between what I have and 42 miles/gallon, but 53 is significant. Would make road trips a little easier on the wallet.
There's just one thing, though. Since I'm not a hybrid, I'm not the guy going up the 6% grade at 45 MPH with a line of 50 cars behind me.
And yes, I've seen that quite a few times... though it may have been the drivers behind the wheels of the cars in question.
My other car is a 1970 Mustang 351 that gets about 12 miles/gallon... but there's nothing like finishing a 1/4 mile from a standing start in about 13 seconds. (And it does it a lot quieter than these buzz-bomb Hondas the kids have these days.)
If the US Navy had simply turned around and gone home in July 1945, Japan wouldn't have troubled them again.
Right.
That worked with all the other countries with tried it with.
Besides, complete and spectacular defeat was the only option after the despicable sneak-attack that Japan did on that little place called Pearl Harbor.
I fail to see how this is more fair than a fuel tax.
With a fuel tax, efficiency and conservation is encouraged.
With a fuel tax, the further you go, the more fuel you buy, the more tax you pay. How is this different than satellite tracking, other than the missing big-brother aspect?
With a fuel tax, if your vehicle puts more weight on the road, you use more fuel to move it, and pay more tax.
The only use I can see is to tax more for use of certain roads, but even that can be handled without tracking your every move... anyone heard of tollbooths?
One could also improve the situation by taxing things that cause more road damage... like (in the U.S. anyway) studded tires. Expecially studded tires that some morons use for the full season in places where it freezes maybe once a year, and snows once every few years.
One could tax someone who lives/works in a relatively snow- and ice-free area more than someone who lives/works in an area with more legitimate reasons to use studded tires.
Really, it pisses me off to see people with studded tires on in areas where snow or ice is uncommon. They simply tear up the road for no good reason.
While this may or may not attract more people to ham radio, it will make it easier for the novice to use packet radio devices.
Did you mean Novice class licensees, or new licensees?
Assuming the latter: A technician-class license (no code, 30 MHz and up operation only) has no code requirement and packet radio use is common.
What this will make easier is for people who don't have any use for code (like myself, I have to admit) to transmit on the worldwide HF frequencies with packet.
Of course, if they do drop the code requirement, I am not sure I will operate on HF, because the equipment is kinda spendy, antennas are kinda big (I live in an apartment), and all the fun stuff that I like to do is on VHF/UHF. (I like satellite & other space stuff like EME.)
Does this mean that when I launch bash under Cygwin, I have Unix as well? :)
(It's a joke. Laugh.)
They do use different versions of perl. You could say every distribution, and every version of a distribution is different. A package made on Redhat isn't guaranteed to work on Mandrake, and vice-versa. So if this projects makes rpms for Redhat, then that's what it does.
:) I'll apologize for my sarcasm.
Now, that's a different statement entirely.
This really shouldn't be a problem for distributions shipping perl 5.6/5.8 when dealing with perl-only modules... but I can see the wrench when dealing with modules using non-perl code. That's not always going to happen, either... quite often it just depends on the 5.6/5.8 issue. (for now.) Most distributions *should* be shipping 5.8.
Isn't that what cpan2rpm is for?
No... cpan2rpm packages cpan modules into rpms, which you can then install with rpm. The more ideal tool would simply allow you to work with the CPAN module, doing all of the normal processes that we are used to, but when a module is installed, update the rpm database to include any newly-installed modules, transparently.
cpan2rpm is a fine tool, but it adds that extra step or two.
Now that I think about it, the guy the article is talking about has probably just automated the process cpan2rpming the entire CPAN. Maybe I'll read it again a little closer.
(RedHat only)
Oh, only RedHat uses RPM? I thought SuSE and Mandrake, as well as a few others did as well. Shows what I know.
Seriously, though. I use CPAN myself, but CPAN doesn't update the RPM database with dependency & file information and such. What would be a good solution is an optional extension to the CPAN module that allowed it to place files in the RPM database.
That's because rpm -ql takes package, not package.rpm. You're querying an installed package name, not the installation file.
Yes, I know this, you know this, but the OP was pointing out that it is not user-friendly.
What the OP was asking for was this:
rpm -ql package-vers.arch.rpm
If RPM sees the illegal package name, it should assume -p and look for the file. Failing that, it should strip everything but "package" and query the installed packages based on that name.
I agree with other posters that this isn't good for scripting, and I don't think that it should be change. However, some people were misinterpreting the OP's message. I was attempting to help him/her out before too many people told him to RTFM when it was clear that he/she had.
I was not devaluing ham radio usage. I think ham radios are fascinating, but the only thing it can do that the internet cannot is provide long distance communication without the need of a network. Am I wrong?
Yes, you are wrong.
You can't do satellite relays with the internet. You can't do Earth-Moon-Earth bounces with the internet.
You can't get an internet connection if you're a poor farmer in the middle of Africa. But you can build an AM tranciever from spare parts.
Why is 802.11a/b/g such a craze now if wires are so good? GHz-band transmissions were pioneered by hams. The things people are starting to take for granted today. The first wireless networks were made by hams. The first pictures were transmitted over radio by hams. The first video-like signals (using a spiraling optical scanner) were sent by hams before television was even invented.
You lose ham radio, you lose innovation, emergency services, and radio spectrum that belongs to the public. Anyone can get a ham license with a simple multiple-choice test. It's not like you even have to *work* to get one anymore.
KD7ILU
How many people still rely on ham radio? Why havent they moved over to something a little more modern? Does ham radio have any advantages over current technology?
I'm not sure you understand exactly what ham radio is. It isn't like FRS or CB, just a means for a few people to talk to each other. It is also a means for innovation, a tool for emergency services, and (as someone pointed out) is also a hobby to many people.
For one, quite often the "bleeding edge" of radio technology is in ham radio. There are expirimentors working on new modulation techniques, low-power signalling, and new wireless data transmission protocols. There are little bits of hobbyist research going on every day.
People who use ham radio routinely communicate with satellites, do Earth-Moon-Earth signalling, and work on wireless networks that reach distances that people using 802.11a/b could only dream of.
Hams were some of the first people transmitting on those now-coveted 2.4 & 5.8 GHz bands that consumer electronics now use routinely.
Secondly, hams offer an emergency means of communication. When there are no phones, how do you get realtime communications? As an example, central Oregon used to have only one long-distance fiber connection. It was cut by a backhoe a couple years ago, destroying communications. It was hams that offered vital communications services for hospitals in the area. Nobody else stepped in. When a huge ice storm hit upstate New York, destroying much of the communications infrastructure, it was hams who provided communications, before FEMA was even on its way.
You might want to check out the ARRL web site, or Google for ARES, the Amateur Radio Emergency Service. You may find a chapter in your area... ask them what they will do for your community in the event of an emergency.
Finally, there is the hobby aspect. Hams are typically electronics and/or computer geeks who love the power of wireless communications. What other medium lets a person living out in the middle of nowhere with no phone/internet talk to other people around the globe? You won't find anything else.
When was the last time you heard of an individual in the middle of nowhere in Africa building their own Internet and phone network so they could talk with someone in Russia? Not likely. I guarantee you'll find a few hams that have built their own tranceivers, though.
KD7ILU
Try rpm -ql package.rpm and see how far you get.
Then try it with -p.
This is what the OP is talking about, I'm sure.
I hate to say it, but you're problem is that you RTFM but not all the way.
The problem is, in this case, you RTFM and think you know everything.
In most places, gas taxes pay for the bulk of highway maintenance fees.
System development charges offset the cost of building other services.
In many places, developers must pay for roads, and mitigation costs for increased traffic.
Consequently, if you don't drive, there's not much cost to *you*.
As far as local retail is concerned, if you can afford to pay what the local retail charges, good for you. I can't. I don't usually shop at Wal*Mart, but I do shop at Target.
Why is it that the average "big box" store wants $1.09 for a partiular item, and the local place wants $1.99? That's almost *DOUBLE* the price.
I find that on average, the local retail place is about 50% more expensive than a place like Target. I'd have to get a really big raise in order to afford them.
The fear of failure is reinforced by depression. It is reinforced again when someone beats you down with such empathic phrases as 'you're just plain old-fasioned lazy.'
:) But, it is as I said above. I don't feel I ever have any true failures as long as I have learned something.
I preceded that with "It sounds like..."
You're right, of course. I should change my advice to: Please see the nearest doctor and ask them for Paxil, Zoloft, or Prozac.
Then again, I Am Not A Psychologist, and don't feel qualified to say anything else but what I did.
I suggest the poster try to find out when the fear of failure first began to manifest itself. There are feelings here which have not been properly dealt with. Examine these feelings logically and remember that there is no use is punishing yourself as you will only make the problem worse. You have to forgive yourself for failing. It's ok to fail.
Interesting idea, but my method does not involve forgiving myself for failing. If I fail by my own fault, I accept the faults and try to learn... I find the assets within my own failures, and that asset is greater knowledge. Thus, no failure is truly a failure for me. If I fail through no fault of my own, then I take the stoic route and simply don't get upset for something I could not prevent.
This whole forgiving yourself stuff sounds a bit too touchy-feely for me, but I suppose that other people may deal with their emotions that way.
Even people like Kymermosst fail.
Not often.
Try to build up a little willpower. Sheesh.
It sounds like you're just plain old-fashioned lazy and procrastinating.
Oh, and you can also make an M16 fire blanks by screwing a small washer between the compensator and the barrel. Adjust the hole size smaller until it works. Anyone who's been to unit armorer school or was a small arms repairman could make this modifcation to one rifle in a few minutes.
The above is one of the techniques used by Hollywood to make M16s/AR-15s fire blanks, along with special flash suppressors and compensators that also create more gas pressure.
So much for "massive changes."
Perhaps the parent does, but not me. Something about the massive changes needed to make an M16 fire blanks makes it not particularly feasible unless the entire rescue happened on a Hollywood sound stage.
Massive changes? WTF are you talking about?
The Classic Blank Firing Adapter. (Used in military training.)
The Less Obvious Blank Firing Adapter. (Paint it black and nobody will notice it's there.)
So, if you consider a small clamp at the end of the barrel or a barely noticeable round blank firing adapter that simply lever-lock on as "massive changes"... well, you need to work on your sense of scale.
We soldiers used these on a constant basis. You don't have thousands of people making "massive changes" to thousands of rifles for every training mission.
Here's a page with a better picture of the newer "A2" blank firing adapter... scroll down this page. about 1/4 down.
That's pretty close to the Unisys model:
1. Allow your IP to be used freely for ages.
2. Suddenly demand royalties and licensing fees.
3. Profit!!!
The difference was, Unisys had a real claim to the IP. SCO probably does not, or we'd see more court action, like a request for a primary injunction.
Because the copy that comes with the machine is pre-activated, and the one that you install from a friend is not. So, you have to call M$ up to "reactivate"... at which point they might know that your PC was shipped with a disc that had a pre-activated version, etc.
I don't think it'll turn out quite as easy as reading the number off the sticker on the bottom of the machine to a M$ rep, and getting the activation code in return.
That, my friend, is the problem, and I point the finger square at NAFTA and the anti-timer folks.
s/timer/timber/
I'm sorry you decided to waste your money donatnig to food programs.i If your money had instead gone to educating people about simple engineering and farming techniques, as well as simple machinery and tools, then you might have accomplished something of lasting value
Oh, there are plenty of educated people here... we've even got a University.
What good is knowing how to run farm equipment, when nobody wants farm equipment operators?
What good is knowing simple engineering, when nobody wants engineers?
What good is knowing how to use tools, when nobody wants tool-users?
What good is literacy, when there are no jobs?
That, my friend, is the problem, and I point the finger square at NAFTA and the anti-timer folks.