In which case all it's showing is that the map has been drawn with the USA in the middle. You could equally well draw it with Europe in the middle and it would appear to show the same result about Europe.
The only valid conclusion you can draw from the map is that there's a lot of bandwidth across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. This is not a surprise.
I'd be very doubtful of the information shown by that graph. It seems to suggest that there's more telephone traffic between London and Western Australia, and between the USA and eastern Australia than there is between the two bits of Australia. Even if you accept that unlikely fact, why is that people in Western Australia phone London and people in eastern Australia don't?
I suspect that the graph has been prepared from data which simply shows where calls passing through the USA and London have originated. Calls which don't pass through a few nominated hubs simply haven't been included, which is obviously going to lead to the distorted results shown.
VLC plays the stream just fine. How? I've been searching for ages for an alternative to Real's crappy and bug-ridden Linux client and I keep seeing references to alternatives but I've never got any of them to work. (At least Real's client does work sometimes with the wind behind it.)
As an example, how exactly do you get VLC to play the Dirk Gently stream? The best I can manage ends up with:
[00000330] live555 demuxer: real codec detected, using real-RTSP instead [00000330] live555 demuxer error: Nothing to play for rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/bbc7/0830_thu.ra?BBC-UID=0416d2c32b390e24e4639a106050dee5e4b2a9ee7090c0f3fbda4f3d5dcf6be9&SSO2-UID= [00000329] main input error: no suitable access module for `rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/bbc7/0830_thu.ra?BBC-UID=0416d2c32b390e24e4639a106050dee5e4b2a9ee7090c0f3fbda4f3d5dcf6be9&SSO2-UID=' [00000279] main playlist: nothing to play [00000279] main playlist: stopping playback
Run your sshd on a port other than 22. Or instead of that, just disable password authentication and allow only RSA/DSA keys auth. I think you mean "as well as that". Using a non-standard port is no substitute for all the usual precautions; it's an extra.
All the commercial OSs release the update, yet someone that controls something that is non-profit decides he is right and everyone else is wrong. The reason the commercial OSs release it? Because people use it! You seem to have failed to read the article. The Debian people *have* released the necessary package ages ago, and it will be rolled into the next release of Etch. The OP's complaint is that they didn't put it in the security updates. Since it isn't a security update it would have been quite wrong to put it in the security updates.
The complaint amounts to "You should have put it in the wrong place because I was looking in the wrong place and didn't find it." People who actually bother to think about what they're doing use Debian precisely *because* you can rely on them sticking to the rules.
VIA wants to keep the MHz myth going as long as they can (as do ARM/MIPS/etc. suppliers). Hardly a justified accusation against ARM - ARM processors have always produced much *higher* bang per MHz than their competitors, right back to when it was launched and an 8 MHz ARM could absolutely cream a 33MHz Intel processor.
I've been using this 'abysmal failure' as a primary OS for 8 months with nary a hitch. I really have. I spend every day developing various codes with various tools Your lack of understanding of the terminology immediately gives you away as someone who is pretending to be a programmer but isn't. Who's paying you to astro-turf?
And calculus isn't irrelevant crap? Correct, it isn't. If what you're trying to do is understand and calculate the gradient of a curve then calculus is just the tool you need. As I said, at that moment that's what those students were asking me about so that's what I told them about.
What I mean when I talk about irrelevant crap are things like stem and leaf diagrams.
I did calculus at 'O' grade in Scotland. Oh come on, it isn't even that hard. I took some of my year 9 (13 year olds) set through some basic calculus in the spring term of this year, *because they asked*. It is indeed not that hard, and I find that they really like stuff when you say, "This isn't on the syllabus but..." Alas, there's just far too little time available to do that. The syllabus is cram full with lots of irrelevant crap which they'll never use again.
On another similar occasion we did solving simple cubic equations. We'd done quadratics and they were still interested so we went on. Oh for a syllabus where that sort of thing was possible more of the time.
The authors of the national curriculum could have learned a valuable lesson by reading "Three men in a boat" by Jerome K Jerome. In it the three men are planning a boat trip up the Thames and sit down to make a list of all the things they could do with on the trip. When the list is complete they realise that a boat able to carry all the stuff won't be able to navigate the Thames, so they throw that list away and instead compose another list of all the things which they can't do without.
This is the mistake of the national curriculum. It was well intentioned and had a good objective, but unfortunately a whole lot of people then listed all the things that could do to be in it, resulting in something which needs significantly more time to be taught than there is in the school year. What was missing from the development process was the second step. They should then have started again and made a list of the things which we can't do without, with an absolute maximum ceiling on teaching time of 1/3 of the school year. That would then have met the objective of core skills, whilst still leaving time for teachers to do their jobs and actually educate children.
No - he pointed out that your argument could equally well be applied in a different situation and asked whether you were happy with the inevitable conclusion. It's a perfectly sound method of testing the validity of an argument, closely related to Reductio Ad Absurdum or RAA.
is there some UK law stating that a company's product must work across platforms? The point is that the BBC is not just "a company". It's a public-service broadcaster, funded by a compulsory licence fee. It has a charter and obligations to fulfil.
You could probably make a case for the BBC restricting access to their content to licence-payers only (although I wouldn't), but instead they've gone with a completely inappropriate restriction of "Microsoft-users only".
The current iPlayer implementation really stinks - it stinks of pushy salesmen and weak-minded decision takers. It flies in the face of many decades of the BBC standing on principles and doing The Right Thing(TM), resisting commercial pressure. Now they've gone to the opposite extreme and the outrage is perfectly justified.
The trouble with that Youtube clip is that it's utterly unrealistic. Everyone on the plane was clearly prepared to evacuate and moved swiftly onto the ramps and out. In real life you'd get lots of people dithering at the exit doors, a few wanting to go back to fetch things, etc, etc.
You'd need two strong people at the top of each ramp physically throwing people out of the plane, and then more at the bottom to move the passengers away as soon as they reached the bottom if you wanted to get close to that with real passengers.
I've come across this sort of cock-up in the past, in precisely that environment - VMS.
Developers would do their work on a development machine, and for their convenience would have the SETPRIV permission, and then for further convenience would put "set proc/priv=all" in their login script. They then forgot about this and went on to develop the software.
The problem came when they tried to deploy to a customer's system. There the same software would be expected to run with normal user privileges, or at least a known and documented list of extras. The developers would have no idea what privileges they needed and would do all sorts of nasty frigs to get things working.
This story has just the same smell about it. I'd put money on knowing what has happened - the developer did all his normal system usage as "root" and developed the driver on this assumption. Then when the time came to deploy it on a customer system it didn't work because of lack of privileges. To get it out the door someone then quickly made a list of all the programs which needed extra privileges and wrote a nasty script to give it to them all.
It's just common or garden incompetence. All too common unfortunately. (Can anyone say "VIA video drivers"?)
It's not a question of belief - the term "theft" has a very precise definition, and it doesn't include making unauthorised copies of someone else's software or films, despite what F.A.C.T. and F.A.S.T. would want you to believe.
That doesn't mean that copyright infringement isn't wrong or illegal - it just isn't theft.
#2. Raised flour and underground AC. A good chunk of datacenter power is used to run the air conditioning. If we abandoned the notion of raised flours and replaced them with say insulated celling mounted ducts with vents faceing each rack. ITYM self-raising flour. Raised flour is a cake.
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Of course you need to be careful not to muddle up the Internet and the World Wide Web as journalists so often do. The web was invented in Switzerland.
In which case all it's showing is that the map has been drawn with the USA in the middle. You could equally well draw it with Europe in the middle and it would appear to show the same result about Europe.
The only valid conclusion you can draw from the map is that there's a lot of bandwidth across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. This is not a surprise.
I'd be very doubtful of the information shown by that graph. It seems to suggest that there's more telephone traffic between London and Western Australia, and between the USA and eastern Australia than there is between the two bits of Australia. Even if you accept that unlikely fact, why is that people in Western Australia phone London and people in eastern Australia don't?
I suspect that the graph has been prepared from data which simply shows where calls passing through the USA and London have originated. Calls which don't pass through a few nominated hubs simply haven't been included, which is obviously going to lead to the distorted results shown.
As an example, how exactly do you get VLC to play the Dirk Gently stream? The best I can manage ends up with:
[00000330] live555 demuxer: real codec detected, using real-RTSP instead
[00000330] live555 demuxer error: Nothing to play for rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/bbc7/0830_thu.ra?BBC-UID=0416d2c32b390e24e4639a106050dee5e4b2a9ee7090c0f3fbda4f3d5dcf6be9&SSO2-UID=
[00000329] main input error: no suitable access module for `rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/bbc7/0830_thu.ra?BBC-UID=0416d2c32b390e24e4639a106050dee5e4b2a9ee7090c0f3fbda4f3d5dcf6be9&SSO2-UID='
[00000279] main playlist: nothing to play
[00000279] main playlist: stopping playback
TIA,
John
Lay off you lot! Here I am trying to listen to the last week of BBC7 and their server's been slashdotted.
I wonder whether they've thought of using bitstream to avoid this sort of thing.
John
Am I alone in having read that as "Novell Method for Universal EMail Authentication"? Might have been more interesting.
The complaint amounts to "You should have put it in the wrong place because I was looking in the wrong place and didn't find it." People who actually bother to think about what they're doing use Debian precisely *because* you can rely on them sticking to the rules.
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Lister have been making 3 cylinder (and 2 cylinder, and 1 cylinder) diesels for years.
Young people today! They don't know they're born.
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The original article was posted by someone called "doxology"!
What I mean when I talk about irrelevant crap are things like stem and leaf diagrams.
John
On another similar occasion we did solving simple cubic equations. We'd done quadratics and they were still interested so we went on. Oh for a syllabus where that sort of thing was possible more of the time.
The authors of the national curriculum could have learned a valuable lesson by reading "Three men in a boat" by Jerome K Jerome. In it the three men are planning a boat trip up the Thames and sit down to make a list of all the things they could do with on the trip. When the list is complete they realise that a boat able to carry all the stuff won't be able to navigate the Thames, so they throw that list away and instead compose another list of all the things which they can't do without.
This is the mistake of the national curriculum. It was well intentioned and had a good objective, but unfortunately a whole lot of people then listed all the things that could do to be in it, resulting in something which needs significantly more time to be taught than there is in the school year. What was missing from the development process was the second step. They should then have started again and made a list of the things which we can't do without, with an absolute maximum ceiling on teaching time of 1/3 of the school year. That would then have met the objective of core skills, whilst still leaving time for teachers to do their jobs and actually educate children.
End rant.
No - he pointed out that your argument could equally well be applied in a different situation and asked whether you were happy with the inevitable conclusion. It's a perfectly sound method of testing the validity of an argument, closely related to Reductio Ad Absurdum or RAA.
HTH
John
You could probably make a case for the BBC restricting access to their content to licence-payers only (although I wouldn't), but instead they've gone with a completely inappropriate restriction of "Microsoft-users only".
The current iPlayer implementation really stinks - it stinks of pushy salesmen and weak-minded decision takers. It flies in the face of many decades of the BBC standing on principles and doing The Right Thing(TM), resisting commercial pressure. Now they've gone to the opposite extreme and the outrage is perfectly justified.
HTH
Even with the current very weak dollar, 2.4 pounds sounds like a lot less than 100 dollars.
The trouble with that Youtube clip is that it's utterly unrealistic. Everyone on the plane was clearly prepared to evacuate and moved swiftly onto the ramps and out. In real life you'd get lots of people dithering at the exit doors, a few wanting to go back to fetch things, etc, etc.
You'd need two strong people at the top of each ramp physically throwing people out of the plane, and then more at the bottom to move the passengers away as soon as they reached the bottom if you wanted to get close to that with real passengers.
I've come across this sort of cock-up in the past, in precisely that environment - VMS.
Developers would do their work on a development machine, and for their convenience would have the SETPRIV permission, and then for further convenience would put "set proc/priv=all" in their login script. They then forgot about this and went on to develop the software.
The problem came when they tried to deploy to a customer's system. There the same software would be expected to run with normal user privileges, or at least a known and documented list of extras. The developers would have no idea what privileges they needed and would do all sorts of nasty frigs to get things working.
This story has just the same smell about it. I'd put money on knowing what has happened - the developer did all his normal system usage as "root" and developed the driver on this assumption. Then when the time came to deploy it on a customer system it didn't work because of lack of privileges. To get it out the door someone then quickly made a list of all the programs which needed extra privileges and wrote a nasty script to give it to them all.
It's just common or garden incompetence. All too common unfortunately. (Can anyone say "VIA video drivers"?)
John
It's not a question of belief - the term "theft" has a very precise definition, and it doesn't include making unauthorised copies of someone else's software or films, despite what F.A.C.T. and F.A.S.T. would want you to believe.
That doesn't mean that copyright infringement isn't wrong or illegal - it just isn't theft.
Presumably AE6 is a reverse-compatibility feature to allow OS/2 1.0 to run its DOS box?
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Surely a "Giant micro wave" is just a wave?