I'd like to see someone install a Red Hat system in a... (wait for it) red hat! Now that would kick some serious tail. I wouldn't want to wear it, though.
this letter ranks up there with the Peruvian Congressman's letter to Microsoft in clarity and impact.
I think this is another fine piece of work. I'm surprised that Slashdot ignored it (maybe I wasn't looking hard enough). I submitted it as a story, but it was rejected.
I was citing from memory, so I'm sure the details got messed up somehow.
5) The fungus did not eat throught titanium. Mir was aluminum.
Yes, I know that Mir was aluminium. I think they ran tests on the bacteria and found that it could corrode (not eat) titanium.
6) During periods of high solar activity, astronauts on the space station might get 30 millirems of radiation in a single day. On the other hand, on the surface we pick up 350 millirems from background, and another 150 or so from cosmic radiation in a year. So, ISS occupants do NOT receive the same amount in a day as they would get on the surface in a year.
What's this, then? To quote: "Data collected by NASA and a Russian-Austrian collaboration show that astronauts on the ISS are subjected to about 1 millisievert of radiation per day, about the same as someone would get from natural sources on Earth in a whole year."
You just need to make sure you've killed EVERYTHING. Otherwise, if given enough time, the bacteria may develop a resistance through evolution. Apparently there was bacteria on the Mir space station that had evolved (due to the pressures of the environment, etc.) to the point where it could eat through titanium. Of course, this caused all sorts of damage to space station components. The ISS may breed similar kinds of life. Recent measurements have shown that ISS occupants receive the same level of radiation in a day as a human on earth receives in a whole year.
Microkernels have their pros and cons, with their main con being slower speed due to the greater need for message passing. The open source nature of Linux allows it to have a monolithic design with many microkernel-like properties.
With that said, GNU/HURD still has a lot going for it. Whereas Linux is essentially a UNIX clone (and there's nothing wrong with that), GNU/HURD is very different. Remember, GNU means "GNU's Not UNIX". There is a great overview of HURD given at KernelTrap.
If you install this, do you lose your old BIOS? For example, if I install it to my ASUS board, will it eliminate my ability to go to the BIOS setup menus? What happens to my ability to change the jumper settings through software?
I can't trust people named Theo. It happened with Theo on The Cosby Show, then again with Theo de Raadt. And now it's you. Well it ain't happening again, brother! Ya hear me?!;)
Then the community has an excuse to fork the standard. The FOSS community has an impressive degree of leverage -- just look at how Bruce Perens' threats to fork Web standards made the W3C reject RAND licensing.
Besides, the.NET framework is a very useful tool in itself, without MS compatibility. It suits the FSF's need for a flexible, secure, fast, language- (as long as the app is somewhat C-like, anyway) and platform-independent infrastructure for the development of network aware applications and services.
Besides geeks and Phillips, who cares? These things are circular and work in (most) CD-Players, therefore for most people they qualify as CDs. Only geeks care about rights and freedoms. Ordinary people will only care if a gun is pointed to their heads.
Warning - if you have a soft place in your heart for cute goofy stoner chicks you just might become obsessed.
According to Ellen, "These people don't have lives." That was the funniest part of the interview. It reminds me of Bill Shatner telling fans to "get a life" (I think it was on Saturday Night Live).
How likely is a monorail to be profitable? Here in Sydney we've had a monorail running through the CBD for well over a decade. It's overpriced and nobody uses it but tourists. There's been talk for a long time about dismantling it, since it's not making any money.
NOTE: This is intended to be only a joke, I mean no offence whatsoever. In fact, I am black myself.
But seriously, what's wrong with just calling it a GameCube? Everyone knows it is made by Nintendo. How often do you see somebody say/write "MS Xbox" or "Sony PS2"? Almost never -- there's no need to.
Of course, you'd need a separate server & bandwidth for the camera feed, so that we can actually see the slashdotting. Then we need a camera (with its own server & bandwidth) to see the blinkenlights on the first camera's server so that we can see it being slashdotted. Then we need a third camera to see the blinkenlights on the second camera's server...
No, I was right. A contraction is a shortened word or words formed from omitting or combining some of the letters or sounds. An abbreviation is simply a shortened form of a word or phrase. So "GBA" is an abbreviation because it isn't pronounced as a word (you could pronounce it as a word, but it'd sound pretty silly).
You obviously can't. An acronym is a WORD formed from the first letters of other words. If you have to spell it out letter-by-letter, it ain't an acronym, it's an abbreviation.
How much of that RAM can be used for general data? Unless the RAM is unified (like the 64MB in the Xbox), I don't think you can use the video RAM for anything other than video.
BTW, the PS2 is 32MB of system RAM + 4MB video + 2MB audio. Remember that next time some weenie proclaims, "the Xbox has twice as much RAM as the PS2!"
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Take a look at the Thunderbird/Minotaur Project.
I'd like to see someone install a Red Hat system in a... (wait for it) red hat! Now that would kick some serious tail. I wouldn't want to wear it, though.
If I put my PDA in my hat, does that count?
Now I can cook my lunch at work on my Athlon!
It may take years of psychiatric evaluation to find that one out...
You just need to make sure you've killed EVERYTHING. Otherwise, if given enough time, the bacteria may develop a resistance through evolution. Apparently there was bacteria on the Mir space station that had evolved (due to the pressures of the environment, etc.) to the point where it could eat through titanium. Of course, this caused all sorts of damage to space station components. The ISS may breed similar kinds of life. Recent measurements have shown that ISS occupants receive the same level of radiation in a day as a human on earth receives in a whole year.
Microkernels have their pros and cons, with their main con being slower speed due to the greater need for message passing. The open source nature of Linux allows it to have a monolithic design with many microkernel-like properties.
With that said, GNU/HURD still has a lot going for it. Whereas Linux is essentially a UNIX clone (and there's nothing wrong with that), GNU/HURD is very different. Remember, GNU means "GNU's Not UNIX". There is a great overview of HURD given at KernelTrap.
If you install this, do you lose your old BIOS? For example, if I install it to my ASUS board, will it eliminate my ability to go to the BIOS setup menus? What happens to my ability to change the jumper settings through software?
If that's your planned line of defence, I recommend that you think of another. No judge will buy that. ;)
I can't trust people named Theo. It happened with Theo on The Cosby Show, then again with Theo de Raadt. And now it's you. Well it ain't happening again, brother! Ya hear me?! ;)
Then the community has an excuse to fork the standard. The FOSS community has an impressive degree of leverage -- just look at how Bruce Perens' threats to fork Web standards made the W3C reject RAND licensing.
.NET framework is a very useful tool in itself, without MS compatibility. It suits the FSF's need for a flexible, secure, fast, language- (as long as the app is somewhat C-like, anyway) and platform-independent infrastructure for the development of network aware applications and services.
Besides, the
Besides geeks and Phillips, who cares? These things are circular and work in (most) CD-Players, therefore for most people they qualify as CDs. Only geeks care about rights and freedoms. Ordinary people will only care if a gun is pointed to their heads.
And the NeXT cube was available before that. It is seen as the inspiration for the Mac Cube (and Steve Jobs ran NeXT, too).
Does XPC stand for something or was it chosen just to sound cool?
How likely is a monorail to be profitable? Here in Sydney we've had a monorail running through the CBD for well over a decade. It's overpriced and nobody uses it but tourists. There's been talk for a long time about dismantling it, since it's not making any money.
"You remember ALF? Well he's back... in POG form!" -- Milhouse van Houten, The Simpsons
Ha! I kill me!
If the antenna is installed on top, can't a thief break it off (to disrupt communications with the satellites) before stealing a car?
No, you're thinking of this.
A Niga Cube? Yeah, it's called a gaol cell!
NOTE: This is intended to be only a joke, I mean no offence whatsoever. In fact, I am black myself.
But seriously, what's wrong with just calling it a GameCube? Everyone knows it is made by Nintendo. How often do you see somebody say/write "MS Xbox" or "Sony PS2"? Almost never -- there's no need to.
Of course, you'd need a separate server & bandwidth for the camera feed, so that we can actually see the slashdotting. Then we need a camera (with its own server & bandwidth) to see the blinkenlights on the first camera's server so that we can see it being slashdotted. Then we need a third camera to see the blinkenlights on the second camera's server...
No, I was right. A contraction is a shortened word or words formed from omitting or combining some of the letters or sounds. An abbreviation is simply a shortened form of a word or phrase. So "GBA" is an abbreviation because it isn't pronounced as a word (you could pronounce it as a word, but it'd sound pretty silly).
How much of that RAM can be used for general data? Unless the RAM is unified (like the 64MB in the Xbox), I don't think you can use the video RAM for anything other than video.
BTW, the PS2 is 32MB of system RAM + 4MB video + 2MB audio. Remember that next time some weenie proclaims, "the Xbox has twice as much RAM as the PS2!"