I don't recall the setup, but it's been about six months. I did post about it on several forums, but ironically, yours is the first post that suggested something that wasn't totally irrelevant. I ended up just using Debian proper and it worked fine, and since I only wanted to check out Ubuntu to see what all the buzz was about, I didn't sweat it too much. (Actually I ended up installing it in a VM later, and it worked fine there). At any rate, my point is that things don't always go smoothly regardless of the OS. When you try to use a nonstandard setup, you may get a nonstandard result.
No doubt I'll get some extremely witty and informative reply to this comment about how someone managed to bork their Grub and Ubuntu installation into not booting.
No borking needed here. I installed Ubuntu, and right away it failed to boot.
ALERT!/dev/hdd1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
Sure enough, I checked/dev/evms, and it listed the (only) drive as hdc. When installing, the drive was hdd, and I didn't change anything between installing and rebooting. Supposedly it was a bug within either evms or udev, I can't remember which, but it was at least as annoying to troubleshoot as the author of this FA, and in the end there was no real solution other than trying a different OS (unless you count waiting for a new release as a solution).
I've never heard a sequential one like that. The ones I hear are usually like "105.1" or "Hit Radio 97.5," and they just repeat over, and over, and over, with occasional "musical" interludes.
It's worse than that. They need centralized access, which means... you guessed it, a semi-universal (within each facility at least) password to access the data on all of the computers.
Also, "thin clients" are neither novel nor inherently more secure. Distributed data may be highly vulnerable to attack on an individual case-by-case basis (i.e., 1 person losing a laptop could compromise all the data), but centralized data is vulnerable to a distributed attack (i.e., one or more attackers discover the IP/port and look for vulnerabilities or [less likely] brute force). If a single individual leaves his or her key (username/password or key on solid state device or whatever) somewhere and somebody else finds it, the data is potentially compromised all the same. Granted, someone has to recognize what they have, but that's no different in the case of a lost laptop, where a thief is probably going to just wipe the drive and install something else rather than scour it for information.
Security is the responsibility of everyone who uses a network, and is dependant on the weakest link, regardless of whether the data is centralized, distributed, and/or encrypted.
6. The late Alan "Fluff" Freeman had trained as an opera singer. Because it was a non-story? Or did people really care? 7. The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions. I'm assuming they knew this when they made it. 9. Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight. Maybe scientists didn't know this, but tall men have probably known it for a while. 11. An infestation of head lice is called pediculosis. An infestation of inaccurate headlines is called ridiculosis. 15. Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defence secretary in US history. I'm guessing someone figured that out three years ago when he surpassed George Marshall as the oldest. 17. Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise. Does that even warrant a comment? 20. Sex workers in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine. Even assuming "things we forgot" counts as things we didn't know, that brothel was discovered in 1862. 24. One third of all the cod fished in the world is consumed in the UK. Only 1/3? 28. More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors. If you count the crashes that don't involve falling out of the sky. Anyway, the story appeared on CNN in 2005, and the report is from 2000. 32. Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts. This is from 2003.. 35. There were no numbers in the very first UK phone directory, only names and addresses. Operators would connect callers. Someone just finally got around to opening the very first UK phone directory? 37. Pavements are tested using an 80 square metre artificial pavement at a research centre You mean they test materials now? 41. Some Royal Mail stamps, which of course carry the Queen's image, are printed in Holland. Insert prior evidence here. 42. Helen Mirren was born Ilyena Lydia Mironov 2004. 48. Allotment plots come in the standard measure of 10 poles 2001 49. When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes 1978 50. There are 60 Acacia Avenues in the UK. Didn't know, or didn't care to know?
I too am entertained by what the game offers. Run around looking for "mines," gathering pelts, working on "trade skills," killing things repeatedly for hours on end. They really expect me to pay to do that? That's entertaining alright.
"If everybody did as me," is not justification, it's self-righteous rationalization, especially in this instance where you said, if everybody would just make space and bread-n-butter'd at the merge point like they're supposed to, I wouldn't have to go to all that trouble.
You shouldn't be going to ANY trouble -- you should just worry about your own driving and let other people worry about theirs. You're not saving anybody because some dolt 15 cars behind you is just going to do whatever you were trying to prevent anyway. The only thing you're actually causing is indifference on the part of the people next to you, and frustration for the people behind you. And for what? To try to make the people next to you not be frustrated because you feel they're doing the right thing? It makes no sense. The only thing you can do is set a good example.. if others choose not to follow it, that's their problem -- don't make it yours.
Google didn't invent quotes, the minus sign or other logical search operators -- I was using those back when Altavista was king -- but their site:, inurl:, etc type searches are useful. In Firefox specifically, it's nice to be able to type something like moviename site:imdb.com and have the proper imdb movie page (usually) pop up. At any rate, the real innovation of Google was/is their ranking technique which, although abused, still provides highly relevant results.
The problem is that unlike a zipper, one side (lane) is, in general, moving faster than the other, therefore there's a natural tendency to try to procrastinate the merge until absolutely necessary. Even if everyone had perfect merging discipline, the fact that one lane was going faster means there will be a shock wave of slowing, and inevitably someone in the merge-to lane will be too cautious/intimidated/"nice" to prevent 2 or more cars from getting in front of her, which will cause a slowdown effect in that lane as well.
But seriously, your examples are exactly why you shouldn't be doing that. It's not your responsibility, or your privilege, to be enforcing your will on other people. If you don't want to pass the people, fine, get in the lane with them. Trying to control other people's actions is impolite, imprudent, and inappropriate, no matter how good your intentions. You can hum with your fingers in your ears as much as you like, but if one of those idiots had caused an accident trying to get around you, you would have been a contributing factor just as much as if you'd taunted someone and then ducked to make them hit someone else. Maybe you wouldn't be legally responsible, but ethically you know damn well you instigated it.
The reason truckers do it is because they CAN'T stop/slow quickly, and having someone dart in front of them could cause them to slam on the brakes and jackknife. That doesn't make it right, per se, but at least they have a reasonable justification other than "It's my responsibility to make sure people don't get in front of others."
A better solution is for everyone to get off the road when I need to go somewhere. Now I just need some method to propogate the information when I'm about to leave. Not only would people not have to worry about traffic (because no one would be driving!), but they wouldn't have to deal with the humiliation of having my fist shaken at them. It's a win for everyone!
Personally I like to look around anxiously and then flee the store. It's even better if I'm pushing a cart and/or have an accomplice to yell things at like "if they catch you, don't say anything!"
Usually if you explain what happened to the bank, they will waive the fees. Ninety percent of the time they will waive them just by you explaining. Worst case, you'll have to do a lot of arguing, but it's still very likely you'll succeed. It depends on your bank, however my fiancee is a banker, and every bank she's worked at has instructed the reps to simply reverse the fees if there's even a hint of justification.
I just use credit cards. It's not exactly difficult to get a fraudulent charge reversed by the credit card issuer in most cases, and then they can sort out the mess on their own. In any event, your maximum liability under federal law is $50 per card. Maybe $50 is a lot to you, but it's certainly better than getting your bank account cleaned out (assuming the balance is over $50) and/or having PayPal as your only recourse, since a bank won't usually (and isn't required to AFAIK) do anything about an electronic transfer. Obviously since you go through the trouble of using a second account, that wouldn't be a problem for you, but for others...
Actually, that would be third-dimension, since acres are two dimensional units.
Anyway, duckweed doubles its biomass in 10 days. It's one of, if not the fastest growing plant known (which explains why it's such a pest in our backyard pond). However, since algae need not remain on the surface, the water could be agitated to perhaps increase the usable volume in which the algae grows. That probably wouldn't work for duckweed which a) floats very well, and b) has a sort of floating root which would cause problems. But if it grows faster, it might not matter -- assuming it's usable in the first place.
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I don't recall the setup, but it's been about six months. I did post about it on several forums, but ironically, yours is the first post that suggested something that wasn't totally irrelevant. I ended up just using Debian proper and it worked fine, and since I only wanted to check out Ubuntu to see what all the buzz was about, I didn't sweat it too much. (Actually I ended up installing it in a VM later, and it worked fine there). At any rate, my point is that things don't always go smoothly regardless of the OS. When you try to use a nonstandard setup, you may get a nonstandard result.
So it's the newest US Territory then. Wonder what we'll name it...
Obviously you know little to nothing of purple turtle mats, which are relevant to almost every story, ever.
(You thought I was going to ask something else, did you?)
You got me. I was sure you were going to ask about GLB vegetable oil.
No doubt I'll get some extremely witty and informative reply to this comment about how someone managed to bork their Grub and Ubuntu installation into not booting.
/dev/hdd1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
/dev/evms, and it listed the (only) drive as hdc. When installing, the drive was hdd, and I didn't change anything between installing and rebooting. Supposedly it was a bug within either evms or udev, I can't remember which, but it was at least as annoying to troubleshoot as the author of this FA, and in the end there was no real solution other than trying a different OS (unless you count waiting for a new release as a solution).
No borking needed here. I installed Ubuntu, and right away it failed to boot.
ALERT!
Sure enough, I checked
we have to post this every 108 minutes.
Don't worry, nothing will happen if we don't.
I've never heard a sequential one like that. The ones I hear are usually like "105.1" or "Hit Radio 97.5," and they just repeat over, and over, and over, with occasional "musical" interludes.
It's worse than that. They need centralized access, which means... you guessed it, a semi-universal (within each facility at least) password to access the data on all of the computers.
Also, "thin clients" are neither novel nor inherently more secure. Distributed data may be highly vulnerable to attack on an individual case-by-case basis (i.e., 1 person losing a laptop could compromise all the data), but centralized data is vulnerable to a distributed attack (i.e., one or more attackers discover the IP/port and look for vulnerabilities or [less likely] brute force). If a single individual leaves his or her key (username/password or key on solid state device or whatever) somewhere and somebody else finds it, the data is potentially compromised all the same. Granted, someone has to recognize what they have, but that's no different in the case of a lost laptop, where a thief is probably going to just wipe the drive and install something else rather than scour it for information.
Security is the responsibility of everyone who uses a network, and is dependant on the weakest link, regardless of whether the data is centralized, distributed, and/or encrypted.
6. The late Alan "Fluff" Freeman had trained as an opera singer.
Because it was a non-story? Or did people really care?
7. The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
I'm assuming they knew this when they made it.
9. Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
Maybe scientists didn't know this, but tall men have probably known it for a while.
11. An infestation of head lice is called pediculosis.
An infestation of inaccurate headlines is called ridiculosis.
15. Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defence secretary in US history.
I'm guessing someone figured that out three years ago when he surpassed George Marshall as the oldest.
17. Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.
Does that even warrant a comment?
20. Sex workers in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine.
Even assuming "things we forgot" counts as things we didn't know, that brothel was discovered in 1862.
24. One third of all the cod fished in the world is consumed in the UK.
Only 1/3?
28. More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.
If you count the crashes that don't involve falling out of the sky. Anyway, the story appeared on CNN in 2005, and the report is from 2000.
32. Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.
This is from 2003..
35. There were no numbers in the very first UK phone directory, only names and addresses. Operators would connect callers.
Someone just finally got around to opening the very first UK phone directory?
37. Pavements are tested using an 80 square metre artificial pavement at a research centre
You mean they test materials now?
41. Some Royal Mail stamps, which of course carry the Queen's image, are printed in Holland.
Insert prior evidence here.
42. Helen Mirren was born Ilyena Lydia Mironov
2004.
48. Allotment plots come in the standard measure of 10 poles
2001
49. When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes
1978
50. There are 60 Acacia Avenues in the UK.
Didn't know, or didn't care to know?
I'll let someone else do the last 50.
An eclipse powered kettle?
Ouch. You'd think they could've phrased it a little better.
Oh, sorry...
Right, I didn't say everything would be honky dory, I was just pointing out a way to lessen his pain, especially when he got rocked with $200 in fees.
I too am entertained by what the game offers. Run around looking for "mines," gathering pelts, working on "trade skills," killing things repeatedly for hours on end. They really expect me to pay to do that? That's entertaining alright.
"If everybody did as me," is not justification, it's self-righteous rationalization, especially in this instance where you said, if everybody would just make space and bread-n-butter'd at the merge point like they're supposed to, I wouldn't have to go to all that trouble.
You shouldn't be going to ANY trouble -- you should just worry about your own driving and let other people worry about theirs. You're not saving anybody because some dolt 15 cars behind you is just going to do whatever you were trying to prevent anyway. The only thing you're actually causing is indifference on the part of the people next to you, and frustration for the people behind you. And for what? To try to make the people next to you not be frustrated because you feel they're doing the right thing? It makes no sense. The only thing you can do is set a good example.. if others choose not to follow it, that's their problem -- don't make it yours.
...I wouldn't have to go to all that trouble.
He never claimed to be "minding his own business," so maybe you should just sit down and let the grownups talk.
Google didn't invent quotes, the minus sign or other logical search operators -- I was using those back when Altavista was king -- but their site:, inurl:, etc type searches are useful. In Firefox specifically, it's nice to be able to type something like moviename site:imdb.com and have the proper imdb movie page (usually) pop up. At any rate, the real innovation of Google was/is their ranking technique which, although abused, still provides highly relevant results.
The problem is that unlike a zipper, one side (lane) is, in general, moving faster than the other, therefore there's a natural tendency to try to procrastinate the merge until absolutely necessary. Even if everyone had perfect merging discipline, the fact that one lane was going faster means there will be a shock wave of slowing, and inevitably someone in the merge-to lane will be too cautious/intimidated/"nice" to prevent 2 or more cars from getting in front of her, which will cause a slowdown effect in that lane as well.
So YOU'RE THE ONE!!
But seriously, your examples are exactly why you shouldn't be doing that. It's not your responsibility, or your privilege, to be enforcing your will on other people. If you don't want to pass the people, fine, get in the lane with them. Trying to control other people's actions is impolite, imprudent, and inappropriate, no matter how good your intentions. You can hum with your fingers in your ears as much as you like, but if one of those idiots had caused an accident trying to get around you, you would have been a contributing factor just as much as if you'd taunted someone and then ducked to make them hit someone else. Maybe you wouldn't be legally responsible, but ethically you know damn well you instigated it.
The reason truckers do it is because they CAN'T stop/slow quickly, and having someone dart in front of them could cause them to slam on the brakes and jackknife. That doesn't make it right, per se, but at least they have a reasonable justification other than "It's my responsibility to make sure people don't get in front of others."
A better solution is for everyone to get off the road when I need to go somewhere. Now I just need some method to propogate the information when I'm about to leave. Not only would people not have to worry about traffic (because no one would be driving!), but they wouldn't have to deal with the humiliation of having my fist shaken at them. It's a win for everyone!
Divx is the old standard, we're migrating to H.264 now. Keep up!
Personally I like to look around anxiously and then flee the store. It's even better if I'm pushing a cart and/or have an accomplice to yell things at like "if they catch you, don't say anything!"
Usually if you explain what happened to the bank, they will waive the fees. Ninety percent of the time they will waive them just by you explaining. Worst case, you'll have to do a lot of arguing, but it's still very likely you'll succeed. It depends on your bank, however my fiancee is a banker, and every bank she's worked at has instructed the reps to simply reverse the fees if there's even a hint of justification.
I just use credit cards. It's not exactly difficult to get a fraudulent charge reversed by the credit card issuer in most cases, and then they can sort out the mess on their own. In any event, your maximum liability under federal law is $50 per card. Maybe $50 is a lot to you, but it's certainly better than getting your bank account cleaned out (assuming the balance is over $50) and/or having PayPal as your only recourse, since a bank won't usually (and isn't required to AFAIK) do anything about an electronic transfer. Obviously since you go through the trouble of using a second account, that wouldn't be a problem for you, but for others...
Google Pay is way nicer than Pay Pal, only eBay recognizes that, and won't let you use Google Pay on eBay.
The fact that eBay owns PayPal could also have something to do with it...
Actually, that would be third-dimension, since acres are two dimensional units.
Anyway, duckweed doubles its biomass in 10 days. It's one of, if not the fastest growing plant known (which explains why it's such a pest in our backyard pond). However, since algae need not remain on the surface, the water could be agitated to perhaps increase the usable volume in which the algae grows. That probably wouldn't work for duckweed which a) floats very well, and b) has a sort of floating root which would cause problems. But if it grows faster, it might not matter -- assuming it's usable in the first place.