I've been using RedHat for a long time, but I had never noticed this. Tab completion works well enough and I don't need to restart services that often (uptime on my server is ~170d and I've had no stalled services in that whole time), so once I learned about the init scripts I didn't really need to go poking around for shortcuts. I like that one, though, and might use it. Thanks.
If you're having trouble with a service, and it's started through init.d (which it probably is, if you're using Mandrake or Fedora/RedHat), then simply restart the offending service. So, add this to your list of steps:
1a)/etc/rc.d/init.d/servicename restart
Note that your init scripts might be in a slightly different location.
If a nuke Challenger went down, the LH2 used as propellant would ignite with the O2 from the air, and you'd get a big boom. Not as much as the Challenger with it's perfect blend of LOX and LH2, but it'd be pretty big, as booms go. But the reactor would simply fall like a radioactive Geo Metro. No boom. Wrong isotopes, no way to go critical.
No nuclear 'boom'. I'll grant you that. But a few hundred pounds of enriched uranium or worse, plutonium, being vapourized and scattered over populated areas is certainly cause for concern.
Treating workers in a foreign country the same as the workers in the company's home country (assuming the latter treatment is better) is, without hyperbole, one of the most important steps towards a fair world without resentment, and in which we can have a happy conscience.
...except that the foreign workers won't be treated the same as those in the home country. The companies are basically agreeing to comply with the laws of the nations in which the factories are located (which they must do anyway), with the additions of forbidding torture, discrimination, and forced/indentured/child labour:
"For example, the labor standards section of the industry's code states that forced, bonded or indentured labor is not allowed, nor is child labor. Discrimination and harsh or inhumane treatment are forbidden; companies must comply with minimum-wage laws; and overtime and benefits policies must be in accordance with the law where the factories are located."
Frankly, it is a rather minimal set of standards they are requiring themselves to maintain.
But, let's give the "scientists" the benefit of the doubt, and assume they really are bouncing lasers off the moon. (Those of you with even high-end laser pointer experience will find that hard to accept, but bear with me.)
Why would we bear with you when you are comparing milliwat consumer lasers with the instruments used at the McDonald Observatory? Do you believe what the physicists at Fermilab or CERN have to say, or do all your particle experiments have to be reproducible with a speaker magnet and an old CRT?
You're right: some people are gullible. Photoshop a dog's picture and they see proof of a werewolf conspiracy.
"We'd like to set up a firewall/mail server/small-file-server..."
IMHO, putting all your servers on your firewall is just asking for trouble. For better security, you'd do best to have one of those Linksys firewall/routers separate from your mail/file/blah-blah server.
So, you're calling the democratically elected president of a long-standing European ally an extremist lunatic? It never ceases to amaze me how so Americans get shocked and upset when foreign interests don't necessarily align with those of the US, and their leaders are willing to act in their own interests.
Er... he was joking. See, these days it seems that any sort of criticism of the government or public services, etc., gets slammed for being unpatriotic... especially if they are defense or terrorism related... so he wanted that post modded down for being critical of the EPA's actions after 9/11, which scratches a particularly raw nerve in the public psyche and... oh, just forget it...
...before we know it we're going to reach the "singularity"-- the point where it accelerates beyond our capability to understand it.
The assumption here being, of course, that we actually have the capability to understand the ramifications of what we're doing now. I don't think that's ever been the case at any point in human history.
...they make an installer that will upgrade the older versions and keep all your plugins/settings? I've got a multiple list of Mozilla versions in my Add/Remove Programs box...very annoying...
I've found that WinXP is rather sluggish in a computer with 256MB of RAM. Dropping in another 256MB stick, the performance takes a very perceptable jump in all sorts of machines ranging from PIII500's to XP3200+'s in day to day computer use. I've also found that doubling it again to 1GB makes for no noticible difference in the same machines.
To paraphrase a previous poster, nobody except Microsoft wants DirectX and WinCE on settop boxes. If they make a decent Linux driver, perhaps the Sony's and Toshibas of this world will be more interested in using their chipsets in their next Tivo-alike.
True, but they only need to understand their tools to the extent that they need use them. A violinist can tune his violin, but he doesn't need to be able to make one from scratch, and he most certainly doesn't need an education to understand the physics of vibrating strings.
The original poster basically said that Macs don't help art students hone their computer skills. This is fine, as long as they are able to do what they need with it - 'make their music', so to speak.
Have you actually talked to some art students lately? Aside from people that are actually doing computer graphics work, their computer skills (in general) are pitiful. Having a Mac does not help this - in fact, it gives them even less incentive to actually learn how their computer works beyond "double-click the cute little icon to open IE/AIM/Photoshop/etc.".
This is a problem, why? They are learning art, not computer science. They are ARTISTS learning about how to create ART, using the computer as a tool (or perhaps toolbox). This art is not some excuse for these students to hone up on their computer skills and become some sort of pseudo computer geek that would appear to be more acceptable to you.
"Now I expect lots of posts supporting English Haiku and telling me that I am an idiot. But none will offer anything but the verbatim dronings of their professors, which they seem to feel are gods. Forgive my condescending chuckle."
Or, in other words, you are closed-minded on the subject and refuse to listen to any and all arguments.
Oh Anonymous Coward Hater of Enlish Haikus do not care for you
You don't have to be sure of individual cases. You just have to know in which direction citizens of the immediate areas surrounding the polling stations are most likely to vote. This is easily accomplished through polling. Then you just knock out the stations in areas where your opposition has a substantial majority of the popular vote.
...the fact that they're not really putting out music, but rather soundtracks for the product placement ads known as 'music videos'. It used to be that artists tried to write great songs. Now they're trying to come up with rhymes for 'Benz' or 'Courvoisier'. That entire industry is a friggin' joke, the music a parody of itself. The CBC (Canada) did a special on it last night called "Rhyme Pays" in their show, Market place. Check it out . It's quite an eye-opener. It's focused on the hip-hop industry, but I don't have a doubt that 'Blink Park' and whoever else is on the rock charts these days are doing the same thing.
From the article: "It recognized our home network, but I couldn't get onto the Internet despite every tweak I tried."
It's obvious he had network authentication (possibly routing) problems of some sort. I've seen this sort of problem on networks with WEP enabled. In my experience (ok, 2 networks, but totally different cards and access points), the passphrase generators in the Linux tools simply don't work. You have to directly copy the key into the configuration file/utility of your choice.
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I've been using RedHat for a long time, but I had never noticed this. Tab completion works well enough and I don't need to restart services that often (uptime on my server is ~170d and I've had no stalled services in that whole time), so once I learned about the init scripts I didn't really need to go poking around for shortcuts. I like that one, though, and might use it. Thanks.
If you're having trouble with a service, and it's started through init.d (which it probably is, if you're using Mandrake or Fedora/RedHat), then simply restart the offending service. So, add this to your list of steps:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/servicename restart
1a)
Note that your init scripts might be in a slightly different location.
With this new engine, it seems that an inexpensive trip to Mars is now firmly within our grasp. Will we rise to the challenge?
Define 'inexpensive'.
If a nuke Challenger went down, the LH2 used as propellant would ignite with the O2 from the air, and you'd get a big boom. Not as much as the Challenger with it's perfect blend of LOX and LH2, but it'd be pretty big, as booms go. But the reactor would simply fall like a radioactive Geo Metro. No boom. Wrong isotopes, no way to go critical.
No nuclear 'boom'. I'll grant you that. But a few hundred pounds of enriched uranium or worse, plutonium, being vapourized and scattered over populated areas is certainly cause for concern.
"For example, the labor standards section of the industry's code states that forced, bonded or indentured labor is not allowed, nor is child labor. Discrimination and harsh or inhumane treatment are forbidden; companies must comply with minimum-wage laws; and overtime and benefits policies must be in accordance with the law where the factories are located."
Frankly, it is a rather minimal set of standards they are requiring themselves to maintain.
...into a sports bar tonight in Boston.
Nerd suicide.
Read myself journal when you are not understand. I am German and don't attack English!
Buddy...if that isn't an attack on English, I don't know what is.
But, let's give the "scientists" the benefit of the doubt, and assume they really are bouncing lasers off the moon. (Those of you with even high-end laser pointer experience will find that hard to accept, but bear with me.)
Why would we bear with you when you are comparing milliwat consumer lasers with the instruments used at the McDonald Observatory? Do you believe what the physicists at Fermilab or CERN have to say, or do all your particle experiments have to be reproducible with a speaker magnet and an old CRT?
You're right: some people are gullible. Photoshop a dog's picture and they see proof of a werewolf conspiracy.
"We'd like to set up a firewall/mail server/small-file-server..."
IMHO, putting all your servers on your firewall is just asking for trouble. For better security, you'd do best to have one of those Linksys firewall/routers separate from your mail/file/blah-blah server.
So, you're calling the democratically elected president of a long-standing European ally an extremist lunatic? It never ceases to amaze me how so Americans get shocked and upset when foreign interests don't necessarily align with those of the US, and their leaders are willing to act in their own interests.
Er... he was joking. See, these days it seems that any sort of criticism of the government or public services, etc., gets slammed for being unpatriotic... especially if they are defense or terrorism related... so he wanted that post modded down for being critical of the EPA's actions after 9/11, which scratches a particularly raw nerve in the public psyche and... oh, just forget it...
You can only play music bought from itunes on the ipod...
I think you meant to say that the iPod can only play DRM'd music in Apple's format, which means it can only come from iTunes.
...they make an installer that will upgrade the older versions and keep all your plugins/settings? I've got a multiple list of Mozilla versions in my Add/Remove Programs box...very annoying...
Could somebody explain the popularity of pro wrestling to me?
I've found that WinXP is rather sluggish in a computer with 256MB of RAM. Dropping in another 256MB stick, the performance takes a very perceptable jump in all sorts of machines ranging from PIII500's to XP3200+'s in day to day computer use. I've also found that doubling it again to 1GB makes for no noticible difference in the same machines.
2 words: Settop Boxes.
To paraphrase a previous poster, nobody except Microsoft wants DirectX and WinCE on settop boxes. If they make a decent Linux driver, perhaps the Sony's and Toshibas of this world will be more interested in using their chipsets in their next Tivo-alike.
An artist understands how their tools work.
True, but they only need to understand their tools to the extent that they need use them. A violinist can tune his violin, but he doesn't need to be able to make one from scratch, and he most certainly doesn't need an education to understand the physics of vibrating strings.
The original poster basically said that Macs don't help art students hone their computer skills. This is fine, as long as they are able to do what they need with it - 'make their music', so to speak.
Have you actually talked to some art students lately? Aside from people that are actually doing computer graphics work, their computer skills (in general) are pitiful. Having a Mac does not help this - in fact, it gives them even less incentive to actually learn how their computer works beyond "double-click the cute little icon to open IE/AIM/Photoshop/etc.".
This is a problem, why? They are learning art, not computer science. They are ARTISTS learning about how to create ART, using the computer as a tool (or perhaps toolbox). This art is not some excuse for these students to hone up on their computer skills and become some sort of pseudo computer geek that would appear to be more acceptable to you.
Darn. My first Haiku wasn't.
I'll give it another try:
You are a young man
Filled with hatred and envy
Of men with girlfriends
"Now I expect lots of posts supporting English Haiku and telling me that I am an idiot. But none will offer anything but the verbatim dronings of their professors, which they seem to feel are gods. Forgive my condescending chuckle."
Or, in other words, you are closed-minded on the subject and refuse to listen to any and all arguments.
Oh Anonymous Coward
Hater of Enlish
Haikus do not care for you
Watergate nothing. Look around. The current administration's crimes are far far worse than those of the Nixon administration.
No joke. Look how they are using the IRS to do their campaigning for them.
You don't have to be sure of individual cases. You just have to know in which direction citizens of the immediate areas surrounding the polling stations are most likely to vote. This is easily accomplished through polling. Then you just knock out the stations in areas where your opposition has a substantial majority of the popular vote.
...the fact that they're not really putting out music, but rather soundtracks for the product placement ads known as 'music videos'. It used to be that artists tried to write great songs. Now they're trying to come up with rhymes for 'Benz' or 'Courvoisier'. That entire industry is a friggin' joke, the music a parody of itself. The CBC (Canada) did a special on it last night called "Rhyme Pays" in their show, Market place. Check it out . It's quite an eye-opener. It's focused on the hip-hop industry, but I don't have a doubt that 'Blink Park' and whoever else is on the rock charts these days are doing the same thing.
From the article:
"It recognized our home network, but I couldn't get onto the Internet despite every tweak I tried."
It's obvious he had network authentication (possibly routing) problems of some sort. I've seen this sort of problem on networks with WEP enabled. In my experience (ok, 2 networks, but totally different cards and access points), the passphrase generators in the Linux tools simply don't work. You have to directly copy the key into the configuration file/utility of your choice.