I read a nice article (not sure if was on slashdot), that banning chlorine will be more damagin in the long run.
Because chlorine is an industrial by-product of many different chemical processes, it has to get gotten rid of somehow. Thus chlorine gas in warfare, cfc's in spray cans, pvc plastics - it's cheap!
So now the chlorine has to get bound in other materials and will pose an environmental threat some hundreds pf years later.
Maybe we should take a look at the processes having chlorine as a waste product and try and do them more environmentally-friendly
Re:Token Ring Cards & DHCP kaputt since 2.4.0?
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which kernel version? *that* would be interesting!
Token Ring Cards & DHCP kaputt since 2.4.0?
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Kernel 2.4.14 is out
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I held a Linux class last weekend and was in for some surprises. It turned out to be really 'hands on', because the Token Ring cards in the machines refused to work with DHCP.
Of course the kernel ignored my cajoling and the increasingly nervous class... But wait, that wasn't a problem with 2.2er kernels!!
Anybody know since when this was an issue? I'm not exactly anxious about embarassing myself again in front of Linux Newbies.
I've got a HP PhotoSmart negative scanner.
First of all, you can't download any drivers from their site. (I could order the CD and get it via the post).
Secondly, the software won't work with Windows NT/2000/XP or MacOS.
Thirdly, it works perfect with SANE.
But seriously, I think its a bad thing if companies don't make their drivers available online. There's just no excuse for it nowadays - especially if the product is obsolete!
Re:Kernel 2.4.13 is out..yay....
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all you need to do is copy the.config file of their kernel and load it. No big problem there.
This reminds me right away of packet radio. My father used to get reliable 2.4kB conenctions on 2m band while he had his ham radio phase.
But that was the 80's - packet must have gone on to higher speeds. Anybody know what kind of speeds you can get now?
I was thinking that that could be real cool if the technology would spread, with a protocol that would find out the nearest nodes and could configure a private IP network. To uplink to the internet, people with flatrates could donate bandwidth and supply their computers as gateways.
Or has this been tried before?
"It's silly. These things are among the brightest objects in the sky," says John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington-based policy group. He says the Pentagon has grown arrogant, believing "we won the cold war, we can do whatever we want".
The brightest objects in the sky, even with all the light pollution? Seriously, I've never seen a satellite other than SkyLab. And then, only because everybody in the neighborhood knew when it was to fly by!
Those things don't need navigation lights or bright colors. I'm afraid, Mr. Pike, that the Pentagon can do anything they want in this matter.
If I remember correctly this was the whole idea behind the assembly line.
But of course, it was also quickly found out that humans make too many errors and can't concentrate if the task is too simple. The law goes both ways - you're under stress if what you do is too difficult, just as you're under stress when the task is too easy.
So, is this really news? Wasn't there this old saying going "too many cooks spoil the broth"? Doesn't that already say everything?
There've been a few cd sold here in Europe with various protections systems.
I used to be a big fan of Phillip Boa, until his newest CD was sold with copy protection. Yes, I grab mp3s of my music, so I can listen to them at work or on my computer. Yes, I make copies of my music for friends, so that they get to know different bands.
And what's illegal about that? I'm not making any profit out of it, I'm not making my own music and copying stuff from other people - it's all for personal use!
And what about the radio stations, which all use digital systems? Won't it be difficult to get airplay if all the modern radio stations can't digitalize and play the songs? As if they would grab the cd from the archive, insert it, etc..
I would think that a structure on the moon would have to meet higher standards than those one Earth...
Especially since the buildings are pressurized. You can't even let those small cracks appear which everybody on earth takes for granted when buildings settle on their foundations.
And when the air starts leaking (and, at best, rips a huge hole out the wall), you can't just walk out of the building, lie yourself in a small crater and wait for the dust to settle;-)
Nice to hear that it's taken seriously
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When I saw this, I thought of something my girlfriend said to me today. She's studying architecture, and I asked her on a whim if they would do any projects for buildings on the moon.
I thought that she would make fun of me, but she said that a group of students in Darmstadt, Germany (we both study in Wiesbaden) are really working on it. They're currently working on a shower which is a big metal tub, that attracts errant water drops electrostatically. (Or something like that).
Now that Denis Tito has been in space and the first signs of the commercialising of space are showing the space transportation companies would be better off if they could make the journey for their paying customers as comfortable as possible.
And I'm sure every architecht would laugh with glee at the thought of decreased gravity and the lack of weather. I can hear my girl now: "huge arches, hihih! And glass roofs! And bristly things poking out everywhere! HAHAA"
is practice. Code every day, always review your code, try out new things, refine your code. Rewrite your programs until they're also aesthetically pleasing. Enjoy the creative process and become part of it.
That at least is my experience. I'm a compsci student, and although I could program Delphi, Pascal, C, C++ etc because I've taken the courses I can't. I always did enough to pass the classes and promptly forgot about everything.
Now I've landed in a small dotcom and have been forced to learn Perl, PHP and SQL. I use them everyday and after a few months of practice I have ecountered all the pitfalls. The job has formed my thinking and my approach to programming a lot - and that's something you'll always need, no matter what language.
And most of all, I found out that coding is cool. My geekiness has increased enormously in the last half year!!
I'll remember these things for the future when posting here:
1) slashdot is as international as America
2) Watch out for spelling! It'll really give you away!
3) Never, never, never compare countries. We're international here, remember?
The rest I'll just keep to myself before I say something inopportune.
Just put yourself in Germany's situation and you'll see that they have been internationally stigmatized because of their (admittedly) ugly past. Forbidding swastikas and ultra-right wing parties is a concession to the world showing that we distance ourselves from it.
Problem is, it doesn't help for a healthy feeling of national identity. Some politicians publicly say that they are ashamed to be German because of the past (wackos)
As a German, I just can't help but wonder about Americans. It seems that the land of the free doesn't know its own rights and continually tolerates breaches of constitutional law.
Not only that, they allow laws to be enforced which are krassly against the constitution. Of course, there will always be a small minority which will profit from these laws.
But remember: Freedom goes as far as the freedom of others is not endangered.
I was all sympathy for Marty and his sad, sad job, but when I read:
He leaves early and dashes toward his car. ``I feel like I've just started my day,'' he says. Actually, his day started at 3 a.m., and he will get home at 1 a.m.
I just had to think that, no, this is impossible without drugs. Who knows what kind of stuff you need to make the job enjoyable?
Saving the world yet again from evil nazi cyborgs?
I just can't stand it - nice graphics, id truely make the best 3d shooter engines, but why display it with worn out, stupid stereotypes? The game industry is proving that it can provide high-quality rendered graphics in realtime - so why don't they do something with it? Now we have so many more possibilities than back in the days of Galaga and PacMan, yet the games during that time used the available resources much more creatively. Now, we're just getting the nth 3d shooter, rpg or strategy game which are all based upon each other.
I would like to see more things like Black and White, where much more effort was put into gameplay and AI, which bring fresh ideas in the games market. Grrr, we've got enough computing power to think up whole new genres, and all these technology-loving nerds give us is yet another 3d shooter!!
It seems the general tone here is: "Why bother? Why give them personal info?"
The problem here, I think, is not that microsoft is asking personal info of its costumers. The problem is that they force their customers to use their new products. Shouldn't we be able to choose?
They tout themselves as user-friendly, but force customers to learn new programs, websites, licensing schemes - I don't understand how it can mix. And I know it may sound typically anti-microsoft when I say this, but a customer-oriented company should never force their customers to do anything. Period.
What's special and so good about Galeon? It's not faster or more feature-laden than Opera, and nothing can beat Lynx or Links when it comes to speed and size.
The thing is that it's modular! It's just a frontend to Mozilla and GTM. I can use these programs by themselves, if I want to. One could even make a "K"aleon, just to stop all those KDE freaks from bitchin.
Every program should have a small, definied area where it works perfect - that's the whole UNIX paradigm!
I've been using Opera for more than half a year and was greatly impressed how Galeon is going! It even crashes much less. But that's the downside of modularity - you have to rely upon other programs doing their thing well.
Maybe Galeon should always restart with a dialog saying "Sorry I crashed, but it was Mozilla's fault!"
Why does everybody think that Apple hardware based on the x86 architecture will automatically be compatible to pcs?
Already Macs have a lot of technology from the PC world: AGP, PCI, USB, IDE. Heck, they use the same drives, the same graphic chips and even the same memory modules!
So, will it really make a big difference if they also use a PC Processor? Would it really sink the price tag?
The submitted names are really meant for all time.
How long will it take for the CDROM to melt under Martian temperatures? Oh, I'm sure that they supplied a climate-controlled spot for the CDROM, complete with a playing device and instructions looking like Space Invaders.
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I read a nice article (not sure if was on slashdot), that banning chlorine will be more damagin in the long run.
Because chlorine is an industrial by-product of many different chemical processes, it has to get gotten rid of somehow. Thus chlorine gas in warfare, cfc's in spray cans, pvc plastics - it's cheap!
So now the chlorine has to get bound in other materials and will pose an environmental threat some hundreds pf years later.
Maybe we should take a look at the processes having chlorine as a waste product and try and do them more environmentally-friendly
which kernel version? *that* would be interesting!
I held a Linux class last weekend and was in for some surprises. It turned out to be really 'hands on', because the Token Ring cards in the machines refused to work with DHCP.
Of course the kernel ignored my cajoling and the increasingly nervous class... But wait, that wasn't a problem with 2.2er kernels!!
Anybody know since when this was an issue? I'm not exactly anxious about embarassing myself again in front of Linux Newbies.
I've got a HP PhotoSmart negative scanner.
First of all, you can't download any drivers from their site. (I could order the CD and get it via the post).
Secondly, the software won't work with Windows NT/2000/XP or MacOS.
Thirdly, it works perfect with SANE.
But seriously, I think its a bad thing if companies don't make their drivers available online. There's just no excuse for it nowadays - especially if the product is obsolete!
all you need to do is copy the .config file of their kernel and load it. No big problem there.
This reminds me right away of packet radio. My father used to get reliable 2.4kB conenctions on 2m band while he had his ham radio phase.
But that was the 80's - packet must have gone on to higher speeds. Anybody know what kind of speeds you can get now?
I was thinking that that could be real cool if the technology would spread, with a protocol that would find out the nearest nodes and could configure a private IP network. To uplink to the internet, people with flatrates could donate bandwidth and supply their computers as gateways.
Or has this been tried before?
"It's silly. These things are among the brightest objects in the sky," says John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington-based policy group. He says the Pentagon has grown arrogant, believing "we won the cold war, we can do whatever we want".
The brightest objects in the sky, even with all the light pollution? Seriously, I've never seen a satellite other than SkyLab. And then, only because everybody in the neighborhood knew when it was to fly by!
Those things don't need navigation lights or bright colors. I'm afraid, Mr. Pike, that the Pentagon can do anything they want in this matter.
If I remember correctly this was the whole idea behind the assembly line.
But of course, it was also quickly found out that humans make too many errors and can't concentrate if the task is too simple. The law goes both ways - you're under stress if what you do is too difficult, just as you're under stress when the task is too easy.
So, is this really news? Wasn't there this old saying going "too many cooks spoil the broth"? Doesn't that already say everything?
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There've been a few cd sold here in Europe with various protections systems.
I used to be a big fan of Phillip Boa, until his newest CD was sold with copy protection. Yes, I grab mp3s of my music, so I can listen to them at work or on my computer. Yes, I make copies of my music for friends, so that they get to know different bands.
And what's illegal about that? I'm not making any profit out of it, I'm not making my own music and copying stuff from other people - it's all for personal use!
And what about the radio stations, which all use digital systems? Won't it be difficult to get airplay if all the modern radio stations can't digitalize and play the songs? As if they would grab the cd from the archive, insert it, etc..
I would think that a structure on the moon would have to meet higher standards than those one Earth...
;-)
Especially since the buildings are pressurized. You can't even let those small cracks appear which everybody on earth takes for granted when buildings settle on their foundations.
And when the air starts leaking (and, at best, rips a huge hole out the wall), you can't just walk out of the building, lie yourself in a small crater and wait for the dust to settle
When I saw this, I thought of something my girlfriend said to me today. She's studying architecture, and I asked her on a whim if they would do any projects for buildings on the moon.
I thought that she would make fun of me, but she said that a group of students in Darmstadt, Germany (we both study in Wiesbaden) are really working on it. They're currently working on a shower which is a big metal tub, that attracts errant water drops electrostatically. (Or something like that).
Now that Denis Tito has been in space and the first signs of the commercialising of space are showing the space transportation companies would be better off if they could make the journey for their paying customers as comfortable as possible.
And I'm sure every architecht would laugh with glee at the thought of decreased gravity and the lack of weather. I can hear my girl now: "huge arches, hihih! And glass roofs! And bristly things poking out everywhere! HAHAA"
is practice. Code every day, always review your code, try out new things, refine your code. Rewrite your programs until they're also aesthetically pleasing. Enjoy the creative process and become part of it.
That at least is my experience. I'm a compsci student, and although I could program Delphi, Pascal, C, C++ etc because I've taken the courses I can't. I always did enough to pass the classes and promptly forgot about everything.
Now I've landed in a small dotcom and have been forced to learn Perl, PHP and SQL. I use them everyday and after a few months of practice I have ecountered all the pitfalls. The job has formed my thinking and my approach to programming a lot - and that's something you'll always need, no matter what language.
And most of all, I found out that coding is cool . My geekiness has increased enormously in the last half year!!
I'll remember these things for the future when posting here:
1) slashdot is as international as America
2) Watch out for spelling! It'll really give you away!
3) Never, never, never compare countries. We're international here, remember?
The rest I'll just keep to myself before I say something inopportune.
can somebody tell me what's funny about what I said?
I meant it seriously (*sniff*)
Just put yourself in Germany's situation and you'll see that they have been internationally stigmatized because of their (admittedly) ugly past. Forbidding swastikas and ultra-right wing parties is a concession to the world showing that we distance ourselves from it.
Problem is, it doesn't help for a healthy feeling of national identity. Some politicians publicly say that they are ashamed to be German because of the past (wackos)
As a German, I just can't help but wonder about Americans. It seems that the land of the free doesn't know its own rights and continually tolerates breaches of constitutional law.
Not only that, they allow laws to be enforced which are krassly against the constitution. Of course, there will always be a small minority which will profit from these laws.
But remember: Freedom goes as far as the freedom of others is not endangered.
I was all sympathy for Marty and his sad, sad job, but when I read:
He leaves early and dashes toward his car. ``I feel like I've just started my day,'' he says. Actually, his day started at 3 a.m., and he will get home at 1 a.m.
I just had to think that, no, this is impossible without drugs. Who knows what kind of stuff you need to make the job enjoyable?
"Get it while you still can, bzip it, and upload to a gnutella server!"
Vardamir, this brings a whole new dimension to p2p networking.
Saving the world yet again from evil nazi cyborgs?
I just can't stand it - nice graphics, id truely make the best 3d shooter engines, but why display it with worn out, stupid stereotypes? The game industry is proving that it can provide high-quality rendered graphics in realtime - so why don't they do something with it? Now we have so many more possibilities than back in the days of Galaga and PacMan, yet the games during that time used the available resources much more creatively. Now, we're just getting the nth 3d shooter, rpg or strategy game which are all based upon each other.
I would like to see more things like Black and White, where much more effort was put into gameplay and AI, which bring fresh ideas in the games market. Grrr, we've got enough computing power to think up whole new genres, and all these technology-loving nerds give us is yet another 3d shooter!!
It seems the general tone here is: "Why bother? Why give them personal info?"
The problem here, I think, is not that microsoft is asking personal info of its costumers. The problem is that they force their customers to use their new products. Shouldn't we be able to choose?
They tout themselves as user-friendly, but force customers to learn new programs, websites, licensing schemes - I don't understand how it can mix. And I know it may sound typically anti-microsoft when I say this, but a customer-oriented company should never force their customers to do anything. Period.
What's special and so good about Galeon? It's not faster or more feature-laden than Opera, and nothing can beat Lynx or Links when it comes to speed and size.
The thing is that it's modular! It's just a frontend to Mozilla and GTM. I can use these programs by themselves, if I want to. One could even make a "K"aleon, just to stop all those KDE freaks from bitchin.
Every program should have a small, definied area where it works perfect - that's the whole UNIX paradigm!
I've been using Opera for more than half a year and was greatly impressed how Galeon is going! It even crashes much less. But that's the downside of modularity - you have to rely upon other programs doing their thing well.
Maybe Galeon should always restart with a dialog saying "Sorry I crashed, but it was Mozilla's fault!"
Why does everybody think that Apple hardware based on the x86 architecture will automatically be compatible to pcs?
Already Macs have a lot of technology from the PC world: AGP, PCI, USB, IDE. Heck, they use the same drives, the same graphic chips and even the same memory modules!
So, will it really make a big difference if they also use a PC Processor? Would it really sink the price tag?
I stand corrected.
;)
But show me liquid CO2 and I'll eat my keyboard
The submitted names are really meant for all time.
How long will it take for the CDROM to melt under Martian temperatures? Oh, I'm sure that they supplied a climate-controlled spot for the CDROM, complete with a playing device and instructions looking like Space Invaders.