Memory card readers that attach to the USB should all appear as mass storage and be usable through a generic mass storage driver. The problem is that some manufacturers play fast and loose with the protocol specification and implement just the subset that the Windows driver uses. Since the Linux driver uses a different subset of the protocol it doesn't work with some of the badly-implemented devices.
What software were you trying with the digital camera? My wife got a digital camera with USB interface and I thought it might work as a mass storage device, but in fact it doesn't support any standard device class. So I got a card reader, which showed up but returned errors to almost all commands. The vendor claimed to have a Linux driver for it but never did get round to sending me it... Eventually I discovered gphoto2 and the problem was solved. Check their list of supported cameras. If your camera isn't on there and you have to go for a card reader, see the Linux-USB mass storage device list. Be aware that the chips inside products can change without the name changing, so these lists don't guarantee compatibility of a given product.
POP3 does not readily support central storage of mail (each user gets one folder and is expected to delete mail after downloading it). Also it does not support notification when new mail arrives - the client must disconnect and reconnect to see new mail. IMAP4 on the other hand is perfectly adequate.
Officially, though, IBM is in favour of this. It's a major influence in the BSA, which drafted the proposal now presented by the European Commission. (An early draft was distributed by the Commission as a Word document, and the author name embedded in the file was that of a BSA employee.)
The term "technical contribution" is defined in article 2 as "a contribution to the state of the art in a technical field which is not obvious to a person skilled in the art."
Article 3 then requires that "a computer-implemented inventions is considered to belong to a field of technology". Which just leaves the obviousness test, and the EPO seems incapable of applying that.
One of the MEPs I wrote to sent back a form letter, from which I quote:
The European Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (JURI) will be assessing and voting on the Directive on Wednesday, but the legislation will come before the Parliament in June and can be revised or even dropped altogether.
I think that "Wednesday" actually means the Wednesday already gone.
Anyway, the letter confirms that the UK's Liberal Democrats are against the change, which is a start.
A friend of mine got a job with the local council, which uses Groupwise. He went on holiday for a few days and set up out-of-office notification as requested. Then he received a mail from a mailing list, to which it responded, which the mailing list echoed back, to which it responded, etc, etc. This problem was solved 17 years ago by 'vacation' in 4.3BSD, but Groupwise is a toy mail system that wasn't built to interoperate with the rest of the world.
It's the place for all things nu, like, er, nu metal. Also, nu is French for nude, so I imagine there are plenty of domains along the lines of femmes.nu... no, that's been revoked apparently. Well there's still hommes.nu if that's your thing.
The bytecode (IL), the C# language and the core library (CLR) are now standardised and apparently Microsoft has fixed its C# implementation where it deviated from the standard.
Seems more like astrology than astronomy. It doesn't seem very clever to me to choose where to settle based on the movement of the moon, rather than practical considerations like availability of water and farmland.
$ whois NET-19-0-0-0-1
OrgName: Ford Motor Company
OrgID: FORDMO
Address: P.O. Box 2053, RM E-1121
City: Dearborn
StateProv: MI
PostalCode: 48121-2053
Country: US
No, 40-pin ATA has only 7 grounds. It's just an adaptation of the PC AT expansion bus (the ISA bus) that includes the signals needed by a hard disk controller (hence the name ATA for AT Attachment).
Firstly, far too many things get opened for write in windows land when they should be only opened for reading. System libraries in particular come to mind. In most systems, opening a file for writing locks the file.
No, you don't understand what's going on. If an executable file is loaded into a process, it's demand-paged i.e. the code only gets copied into physical memory as necessary, so it mustn't be overwritten. The same is true in Unix - this is what the ETXTBSY error code is for.
Then there is the matter of not being able to tell what is accessing a particular file, or to tell it to "stop that now so I can change the file then you read it again." This is a pretty common operation on Unix.
No it isn't. Normally you use link and unlink to install a replacement. A good installation system or distribution can arrange to signal or restart relevant processes using the appropriate protocol, but there is no general way to do this.
I know it is possible on Windows because I have supported applications that did just that (replaced library, config, and executable files on the fly then restarted applications or told them to read again) which worked on a variety of platforms including windows.
That's easy to do when you know which applications use the files. For shared files that's not necessarily the case.
If it were easier to tell what is running and what is reading what (hell, windows does not even necessarily give you the real process table!) this would be possible.
The pathetic Task Manager that comes with Windows 9x doesn't show much, but the process and thread lists are certainly readable (though with different APIs under 9x and NT).
Given such uncertainties, it is easier to reboot and windows users have gotten used to it.
The key difference is the inability to unlink a file that's in use, because that would delete it.
There's no accounting for moronic installer writers. The only things that should require a reboot are replacement or removal of open files (including executable files and DLLs that are loaded into a process). This is because Windows file-system semantics don't support unlinking without immediate deletion.
Repeat after me: the labels are not just going to "give" artists money, they will LOAN it to them.
But they don't loan money to the artists. The label controls how the money is spent, and can use accounting tricks to invent or exaggerate costs of some things. They're more like vulture capitalists that demand management positions and preferential stock.
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I can agree with you up to a point, but depression is a serious problem and often cannot be solved without treatment (with counselling and/or medicine). Anti-depressants can be very effective and it's generally not necessary for patients to keep on taking them indefinitely.
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Munchausen syndrome involves inducing medical problems to get attention, normally in onesself. You're talking about Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
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Memory card readers that attach to the USB should all appear as mass storage and be usable through a generic mass storage driver. The problem is that some manufacturers play fast and loose with the protocol specification and implement just the subset that the Windows driver uses. Since the Linux driver uses a different subset of the protocol it doesn't work with some of the badly-implemented devices.
What software were you trying with the digital camera? My wife got a digital camera with USB interface and I thought it might work as a mass storage device, but in fact it doesn't support any standard device class. So I got a card reader, which showed up but returned errors to almost all commands. The vendor claimed to have a Linux driver for it but never did get round to sending me it... Eventually I discovered gphoto2 and the problem was solved. Check their list of supported cameras. If your camera isn't on there and you have to go for a card reader, see the Linux-USB mass storage device list. Be aware that the chips inside products can change without the name changing, so these lists don't guarantee compatibility of a given product.
POP3 does not readily support central storage of mail (each user gets one folder and is expected to delete mail after downloading it). Also it does not support notification when new mail arrives - the client must disconnect and reconnect to see new mail. IMAP4 on the other hand is perfectly adequate.
What about it? Joe PC User doesn't even know what that means, and probably wouldn't care even if he did.
How about ads that are so fast you don't need to fast-forward through them?
Officially, though, IBM is in favour of this. It's a major influence in the BSA, which drafted the proposal now presented by the European Commission. (An early draft was distributed by the Commission as a Word document, and the author name embedded in the file was that of a BSA employee.)
The term "technical contribution" is defined in article 2 as "a contribution to the state of the art in a technical field which is not obvious to a person skilled in the art."
Article 3 then requires that "a computer-implemented inventions is considered to belong to a field of technology". Which just leaves the obviousness test, and the EPO seems incapable of applying that.
One of the MEPs I wrote to sent back a form letter, from which I quote:
I think that "Wednesday" actually means the Wednesday already gone.
Anyway, the letter confirms that the UK's Liberal Democrats are against the change, which is a start.
OK, I guess I'm just complaining about an old version then.
A friend of mine got a job with the local council, which uses Groupwise. He went on holiday for a few days and set up out-of-office notification as requested. Then he received a mail from a mailing list, to which it responded, which the mailing list echoed back, to which it responded, etc, etc. This problem was solved 17 years ago by 'vacation' in 4.3BSD, but Groupwise is a toy mail system that wasn't built to interoperate with the rest of the world.
"Uni" seems to be a pretty common abbreviation in informal English. Maybe it just hasn't made it to SA yet.
It's the place for all things nu, like, er, nu metal. Also, nu is French for nude, so I imagine there are plenty of domains along the lines of femmes.nu... no, that's been revoked apparently. Well there's still hommes.nu if that's your thing.
The bytecode (IL), the C# language and the core library (CLR) are now standardised and apparently Microsoft has fixed its C# implementation where it deviated from the standard.
Seems more like astrology than astronomy. It doesn't seem very clever to me to choose where to settle based on the movement of the moon, rather than practical considerations like availability of water and farmland.
Ford did get a class A - 19.0.0.0/8:
PCI Express is not PCI-X. -X is an extension of PCI whereas Express seems to be a whole new bus.
No, 40-pin ATA has only 7 grounds. It's just an adaptation of the PC AT expansion bus (the ISA bus) that includes the signals needed by a hard disk controller (hence the name ATA for AT Attachment).
I was appalled to see this example of IT in the NHS yesterday. Seems like they still don't have a usable email system.
That should be "BSD Family Bush".
No, you don't understand what's going on. If an executable file is loaded into a process, it's demand-paged i.e. the code only gets copied into physical memory as necessary, so it mustn't be overwritten. The same is true in Unix - this is what the ETXTBSY error code is for.
No it isn't. Normally you use link and unlink to install a replacement. A good installation system or distribution can arrange to signal or restart relevant processes using the appropriate protocol, but there is no general way to do this.
That's easy to do when you know which applications use the files. For shared files that's not necessarily the case.
The pathetic Task Manager that comes with Windows 9x doesn't show much, but the process and thread lists are certainly readable (though with different APIs under 9x and NT).
The key difference is the inability to unlink a file that's in use, because that would delete it.
Yes, but this is firmware. How could it even boot Windows without already having the translation software loaded?
Run a Google search for 'crusoe linux' and you'll find a few pages about computers that use them.
There's no accounting for moronic installer writers. The only things that should require a reboot are replacement or removal of open files (including executable files and DLLs that are loaded into a process). This is because Windows file-system semantics don't support unlinking without immediate deletion.
But they don't loan money to the artists. The label controls how the money is spent, and can use accounting tricks to invent or exaggerate costs of some things. They're more like vulture capitalists that demand management positions and preferential stock.
I can agree with you up to a point, but depression is a serious problem and often cannot be solved without treatment (with counselling and/or medicine). Anti-depressants can be very effective and it's generally not necessary for patients to keep on taking them indefinitely.
Munchausen syndrome involves inducing medical problems to get attention, normally in onesself. You're talking about Munchausen syndrome by proxy.