I seriously doubt that thousands of very intelligent people would spend their entire lives developing it.
People also did the same with MS-DOS.
look at the IT industry as it stands today, and realize that without Microsoft, you probably wouldn't even be doing what you do today
I don't know about that. I'm sure BSD would be a major player. The IT industry would be vastly different, but it'd be the same outcome: providing data and services.
No matter what you say about Windows, the fact remains that it is the most widely used OS on Earth. If Windows remain's bigger than Linux, it's because it obviously offers something that Linux doesn't to the normal user.
That tends to happen when every machine sold on the market has it.
It's like saying that because a majority of Vette owners have a standard non-turbocharged engine that it's obviously better than the aftermarket turbocharged model. It's just not a mainstream addition by the dealer. (okay, so Callaway did it for a year or so) Linux is the same way, although some places dabble(d) in it.
I don't get this incessant need to avoid stating the OBVIOUS TRUTH, which is that p2p is used for a shitload of outright piracy and avoiding paying for stuff. I'd say over 90%. You're being foolish and purposely stoic if you pretend otherwise.
Now now, just because you do it, doesn't mean everyone does. Remember, not everything is relative to your existence:P
A browser with landscape display and more efficient rendering engine would help, but for best results stick with the sites formatted for handheld screens like at Pocket IE Friendly, but that limits you to a tiny fraction of the web.
Well, Opie offers landscape mode. (otherwise known as Rotate) I use it quite often with Konqueror. Although, I must say I prefer my normal system for we surfing. I need to remake my jffs2 filesystem to have more than 16 megs in it, since I have 64mb on the iPAQ. I haven't felt so space limited since back when I was working off of floppy...
Reading email is no problem. Writing email with the stylus sucks. A thumb keyboard helps. A full size keyboard is better, but you'd have to set it down on a table.
Ugh.. yes, agreed. Although I'm getting quite good at typing with the stylus... the handwriting recognition is the part I have problems with. Luckily I have the optional stowaway keyboard, which makes life easier during meetings.
This activity is quite enjoyable to liberals because, in their minds, it validates their anger at the administration. In reality, the perceived validation is based on the paranoia that they helped to create.
After which the normal population gets wind of these actions through a single blurb on CNN's bottom ticker, only to get into an outrage about how the Internet is breeding an underground cult following against the United States. This spawns off a new realm of political rounds which regulate certain aspects of the Internet, such as VoIP and E-Mail, for the sake of national security. As everyone knows, we can't have those nasty traitors talking to each other over the Internet about their ideas.
Right. There wasn't a cop magically there when you got mugged, so they're all pigs. Try and live in a country with no police force. See how you like that.
That's the gripe, the cop WAS around, had it reported to him, I knew who it was. It wasn't a mugging, it was a robbery. It wasn't even on the street, it was in my place of work.
If I lived in a country with no police force, I'd probably be living in either Bosnia, Iraq, Haiti, or one of the other countries with civil unrest. In that case it'd be very different, but I don't. So, I stay with the standard for my country, which can be definately improved.
What do you mean other way around? If the gasket goes the oil leaks back into the radiator and makes the coolant boil faster which causes it to boil out. I've never seen coolant leak back into the oil pan, just oil into the radiator. Are you saying it can go the other way too (I'm asking, not being smart - I don't know)?
Funny, it seems common practice to look on the dipstick to see if there is any antifreeze or water on the top of the dipstick. It indicates if the water jacket has been breached at the head gasket. Because of the amount of pressure the coolant has versus oil, it's not a likely thing to gather a large amount of oil in the coolant system. The cooling system is a sealed system, and adding material into it is very hard unless something escapes from it. When the engines running, the antifreeze/water suspension is expanding, looking for a way out. If the headgasket has a crack in it, the antifreeze has a chacteristic to slip out through the smallest crack so it escapes under the pressure. Unless the oil travels the same path at a high pressure, which it doesn't when coming down through the head or around the upper cylinder, the oil just gathers the contaminants and drags them with it back to the oil pan where it's recirculated.
And, depending on the motor, it may be as simple as "popping the head's and replacing the gasket" every few thousand miles. Mopars come to mind.... eh, well... caveat emptor...
Okay, well, some of the new Ram trucks with more than 1/2 of the engine buried out of reach of the engine compartment might be a problem, but we're talking about a boat:) Older Mopar engines used to have wierd problems with head gaskets, I know... head gaskets aren't really that hard to fix, though. It's rudimentary automechanics. The removal of the peices around the head with proper labelling is all you really need to pay attention to, along with torque requirements.
Actually, if you try looking in a decent dictionary (preferable non-american),
Why would I look in a non-american dictionary to find a word in my language? I speak American.
But thanks for the lecture all the same. IMHO 'gas' is *extremely* misleading, especially as there are cars that run on fuel that is 'gas' in the sense of 'not solid or liquid.' What do you call that stuff? What do you do if you want to talk about helium or hydrogen? The American way seems a lot more confusing to me.
The majority of vehicles on the road in America are powered by unleaded gasoline, so it's a pretty common thing to say "gas" the same way you say "net" when you talk about the Internet. It's not that confusing, really. The rare vehicle that runs on something else other than gas or diesel run off of either hydrogen, LP, or some other derivative. We call them by their respective names. If you want to talk about helium or hydrogen, I'd hope you wouldn't just call it gas, as this would be misleading because the person listening would be thinking "what type of gas?". You just need to designate what your talking about.
Read the fucking newspaper. Count how many stories you read about crimes committed by police and compare that to the number of crimes committed by non-police. Heck, even do it "per capita" if you want.
Don't use the newspaper as a statistical "proof" of anything. That's like watching the evening news to count the number of white on white assaults/murders, versus black on white/black.
Besides, a majority of the time police aren't caught because well... they're cops.
Either you're in Iraq, or you're a complete nitwit. Yeah, yeah, all cops are pigs... until you're the one being robbed or raped.
Please... What did the cops do when I had a 45 Cal put to my face, and I knew who did it? Nothing. What did the cops do when my wife and my daughter had a knife to them, threatening their life when I wasn't around. (by a family membertemporarily living there, none the less) Nothing. Even went as far as telling her to give him some money for a hotel room, or keep him there. What did the cops do when I got into an accident because of bad brakes? Strip my car for drugs, and leave it stripped. (none found, I don't do it, or deal it) Now to top it all off, what did the cops do when I needed help to get to a local place to actually get help for my car? Tell me they can't help anymore, due to regulations, turned around and left.
I fear when I see a cop. Not because I did or am doing something wrong, but because of my history with them.
Actually petrol is short for 'petroleum spirit' and is one product of the fractional distillation of petroleum. Other petroleum based products bearing its name include 'petroleum jelly' and 'petroleum ether'.
Do people outside of America call that Petrol, also?
GAS is, well... GAS? Where as PETROL is a liquid of sorts?
I love this argument:)
Gas is short for the what it's actually called.. gasoline. Petrol is short for what it's derived from, Petroleum. (or the genre, considering it comes from oil, and they're both petroleum products)
Oh and after three years of just not bothering I tried to print a web page from Mozilla 1.4 on Mandrake 9.1 (Using CUPS) today. I mean, I figured after three years it must work by now, right?
When was the last time you saw a network-printer setup automatically detect a printer? Even Mac doesn't do that. Yeah, you have select the driver and know where the printer is. If you can't do that, I don't know what to tell you.
Besides, CUPS is one hell of alot easier to configure than LPR....
However, if you don't want to compile everything from scratch to optimize it for your specific hardware, you can install precompiled binary packages and go to town. Look at the Gentoo Reference Platform (GRP) for details.
Yep... and to spice things up (and to go further with what you were syaing), if you're installing on a large number of systems you can setup distccd on the systems and use all of the processor power to build the system. Set buildpkg in the make.conf, and you have binary packages that came from that build to put out onto an NFS mountable binary repository.
I personally have never understood why Linux has such a following compared to the BSDs, but frankly I'm happy to see my favorite platform set - BSD - get promoted security wise.
I'd venture to say because of the device structure, and various other things like driver availability. Those are the 2 things that have kept me from using it as my OS. BSD is very secure, but it's not exactly the most logical.
Devices on a SCSI or FireWire bus can talk to one another without help from a "master" device.
Devices on a SCSI bus do not talk directly to each other, they talk through the SCSI card. I don't know about FireWire simply because I have not dealt with that technology.
Nope, I've compiled kernels left and right while testing usermode linux with 2.6.1, 2.4.22, 2.4.23, etc. This was with Gentoo, Redhat, and Mandrake.
Oh yes, Debian also.
Just for the record, aside from some complaints about bdflush being used by the initscripts, and 'free' not working correctly, Redhat 8.0 works with 2.6.1.
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LMAO
If I had mod points I'd give them to you ahaha
This would be a major pain for people whose e-mail addresses are being used in forged Mail from: fields.
No more of a pain than getting a "We're sorry, this users mailbox has reached it's quota. Your message is undeliverable."
I seriously doubt that thousands of very intelligent people would spend their entire lives developing it.
People also did the same with MS-DOS.
look at the IT industry as it stands today, and realize that without Microsoft, you probably wouldn't even be doing what you do today
I don't know about that. I'm sure BSD would be a major player. The IT industry would be vastly different, but it'd be the same outcome: providing data and services.
No matter what you say about Windows, the fact remains that it is the most widely used OS on Earth. If Windows remain's bigger than Linux, it's because it obviously offers something that Linux doesn't to the normal user.
That tends to happen when every machine sold on the market has it.
It's like saying that because a majority of Vette owners have a standard non-turbocharged engine that it's obviously better than the aftermarket turbocharged model. It's just not a mainstream addition by the dealer. (okay, so Callaway did it for a year or so) Linux is the same way, although some places dabble(d) in it.
I don't get this incessant need to avoid stating the OBVIOUS TRUTH, which is that p2p is used for a shitload of outright piracy and avoiding paying for stuff. I'd say over 90%. You're being foolish and purposely stoic if you pretend otherwise.
:P
Now now, just because you do it, doesn't mean everyone does. Remember, not everything is relative to your existence
A browser with landscape display and more efficient rendering engine would help, but for best results stick with the sites formatted for handheld screens like at Pocket IE Friendly, but that limits you to a tiny fraction of the web.
Well, Opie offers landscape mode. (otherwise known as Rotate) I use it quite often with Konqueror. Although, I must say I prefer my normal system for we surfing. I need to remake my jffs2 filesystem to have more than 16 megs in it, since I have 64mb on the iPAQ. I haven't felt so space limited since back when I was working off of floppy...
Reading email is no problem. Writing email with the stylus sucks. A thumb keyboard helps. A full size keyboard is better, but you'd have to set it down on a table.
Ugh.. yes, agreed. Although I'm getting quite good at typing with the stylus... the handwriting recognition is the part I have problems with. Luckily I have the optional stowaway keyboard, which makes life easier during meetings.
This activity is quite enjoyable to liberals because, in their minds, it validates their anger at the administration. In reality, the perceived validation is based on the paranoia that they helped to create.
After which the normal population gets wind of these actions through a single blurb on CNN's bottom ticker, only to get into an outrage about how the Internet is breeding an underground cult following against the United States. This spawns off a new realm of political rounds which regulate certain aspects of the Internet, such as VoIP and E-Mail, for the sake of national security. As everyone knows, we can't have those nasty traitors talking to each other over the Internet about their ideas.
Pocket PC sucks, especially Pocket IE. Try a Zaurus with Opera instead. You can actually read web pages with one of them.
Yep.. I agree "WinCE" sucks. (not the pocketpc)
Put Opie on a PocketPC, and it's very useful.
I have it on mine.
Right. There wasn't a cop magically there when you got mugged, so they're all pigs.
Try and live in a country with no police force. See how you like that.
That's the gripe, the cop WAS around, had it reported to him, I knew who it was. It wasn't a mugging, it was a robbery. It wasn't even on the street, it was in my place of work.
If I lived in a country with no police force, I'd probably be living in either Bosnia, Iraq, Haiti, or one of the other countries with civil unrest. In that case it'd be very different, but I don't. So, I stay with the standard for my country, which can be definately improved.
What do you mean other way around? If the gasket goes the oil leaks back into the radiator and makes the coolant boil faster which causes it to boil out. I've never seen coolant leak back into the oil pan, just oil into the radiator. Are you saying it can go the other way too (I'm asking, not being smart - I don't know)?
:) Older Mopar engines used to have wierd problems with head gaskets, I know... head gaskets aren't really that hard to fix, though. It's rudimentary automechanics. The removal of the peices around the head with proper labelling is all you really need to pay attention to, along with torque requirements.
Funny, it seems common practice to look on the dipstick to see if there is any antifreeze or water on the top of the dipstick. It indicates if the water jacket has been breached at the head gasket. Because of the amount of pressure the coolant has versus oil, it's not a likely thing to gather a large amount of oil in the coolant system. The cooling system is a sealed system, and adding material into it is very hard unless something escapes from it. When the engines running, the antifreeze/water suspension is expanding, looking for a way out. If the headgasket has a crack in it, the antifreeze has a chacteristic to slip out through the smallest crack so it escapes under the pressure. Unless the oil travels the same path at a high pressure, which it doesn't when coming down through the head or around the upper cylinder, the oil just gathers the contaminants and drags them with it back to the oil pan where it's recirculated.
And, depending on the motor, it may be as simple as "popping the head's and replacing the gasket" every few thousand miles. Mopars come to mind.... eh, well... caveat emptor...
Okay, well, some of the new Ram trucks with more than 1/2 of the engine buried out of reach of the engine compartment might be a problem, but we're talking about a boat
Actually, if you try looking in a decent dictionary (preferable non-american),
Why would I look in a non-american dictionary to find a word in my language? I speak American.
But thanks for the lecture all the same. IMHO 'gas' is *extremely* misleading, especially as there are cars that run on fuel that is 'gas' in the sense of 'not solid or liquid.' What do you call that stuff? What do you do if you want to talk about helium or hydrogen? The American way seems a lot more confusing to me.
The majority of vehicles on the road in America are powered by unleaded gasoline, so it's a pretty common thing to say "gas" the same way you say "net" when you talk about the Internet. It's not that confusing, really. The rare vehicle that runs on something else other than gas or diesel run off of either hydrogen, LP, or some other derivative. We call them by their respective names. If you want to talk about helium or hydrogen, I'd hope you wouldn't just call it gas, as this would be misleading because the person listening would be thinking "what type of gas?". You just need to designate what your talking about.
Read the fucking newspaper. Count how many stories you read about crimes committed by police and compare that to the number of crimes committed by non-police. Heck, even do it "per capita" if you want.
Don't use the newspaper as a statistical "proof" of anything. That's like watching the evening news to count the number of white on white assaults/murders, versus black on white/black.
Besides, a majority of the time police aren't caught because well... they're cops.
Either you're in Iraq, or you're a complete nitwit. Yeah, yeah, all cops are pigs... until you're the one being robbed or raped.
Please...
What did the cops do when I had a 45 Cal put to my face, and I knew who did it? Nothing. What did the cops do when my wife and my daughter had a knife to them, threatening their life when I wasn't around. (by a family membertemporarily living there, none the less) Nothing. Even went as far as telling her to give him some money for a hotel room, or keep him there. What did the cops do when I got into an accident because of bad brakes? Strip my car for drugs, and leave it stripped. (none found, I don't do it, or deal it)
Now to top it all off, what did the cops do when I needed help to get to a local place to actually get help for my car? Tell me they can't help anymore, due to regulations, turned around and left.
I fear when I see a cop. Not because I did or am doing something wrong, but because of my history with them.
That's what cell phones are for...
*ducks for cover* Oh dear lord, don't rile up the anti-cellphone nazis on this thread...
When I think oil in the radiator, I think blown head gasket. It could of been a serious problem.
It's usually the other way around, but either way it's usually as simple as popping the head(s) and replacing the gasket.
Actually petrol is short for 'petroleum spirit' and is one product of the fractional distillation of petroleum. Other petroleum based products bearing its name include 'petroleum jelly' and 'petroleum ether'.
Do people outside of America call that Petrol, also?
GAS is, well... GAS? Where as PETROL is a liquid of sorts?
:)
I love this argument
Gas is short for the what it's actually called.. gasoline. Petrol is short for what it's derived from, Petroleum. (or the genre, considering it comes from oil, and they're both petroleum products)
Oh and after three years of just not bothering I tried to print a web page from Mozilla 1.4 on Mandrake 9.1 (Using CUPS) today. I mean, I figured after three years it must work by now, right?
When was the last time you saw a network-printer setup automatically detect a printer? Even Mac doesn't do that. Yeah, you have select the driver and know where the printer is. If you can't do that, I don't know what to tell you.
Besides, CUPS is one hell of alot easier to configure than LPR....
However, if you don't want to compile everything from scratch to optimize it for your specific hardware, you can install precompiled binary packages and go to town. Look at the Gentoo Reference Platform (GRP) for details.
Yep... and to spice things up (and to go further with what you were syaing), if you're installing on a large number of systems you can setup distccd on the systems and use all of the processor power to build the system. Set buildpkg in the make.conf, and you have binary packages that came from that build to put out onto an NFS mountable binary repository.
I personally have never understood why Linux has such a following compared to the BSDs, but frankly I'm happy to see my favorite platform set - BSD - get promoted security wise.
I'd venture to say because of the device structure, and various other things like driver availability.
Those are the 2 things that have kept me from using it as my OS. BSD is very secure, but it's not exactly the most logical.
Devices on a SCSI or FireWire bus can talk to one another without help from a "master" device.
Devices on a SCSI bus do not talk directly to each other, they talk through the SCSI card. I don't know about FireWire simply because I have not dealt with that technology.
He meant generalization.
That's funny. It only took me 15 minutes to install KDE 3.2 on my Slackware box. Maybe it is time to change to a distro that just works.
I small a severe contradiction in just two sentences....
Nope, I've compiled kernels left and right while testing usermode linux with 2.6.1, 2.4.22, 2.4.23, etc.
This was with Gentoo, Redhat, and Mandrake.
Oh yes, Debian also.
Just for the record, aside from some complaints about bdflush being used by the initscripts, and 'free' not working correctly, Redhat 8.0 works with 2.6.1.
In my understanding, it's because of the FCC mandates about the safe installation and usage of a transciever like that.
Basically, the FCC doesn't want it shooting everywhere, interrupting things.