If the community can't even keep an old Red Hat going for a couple years how on earth do you expect them to keep an embedded system alive for 30 years?
Nobody's going to stop any coal fired plants from being opened.
Looking at it a different way, the human race is about two million years old give or take. In the early 1800s there were only about 800 million people alive. Now we are approaching seven billion. Industrialization powered by oil caused this massive population increase. When the oil is only one half used up we are going to see "downsizing" as in massive die-off.
Last weekend's top film, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, held up strongly, taking in an estimated $17 million from Friday to Saturday. Doubling its theatre count to 1,725, Fahrenheit 9/11 pushed its total to $56.1 million and has a good shot at becoming the first documentary to top the $100-million mark.
It quotes Moore, though it doesn't cite a source, as encouraging such downloading by saying: "I don't agree with the copyright laws, and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people. As long as they're not doing it to make a profit, you know, as long as they're not trying to make a profit off my labor. I would oppose that."
but I have a video clip of the interview where he says it.
Aren't longer release cycles better for production enviroments? If you have 500 servers do you really want to update every month (except for critical bug fixes which you can get by putting apt-get in a crontab)?
It was crippled but it still ran faster than the 486 it replaced plus it had Pentium features like the performance counters to play with. It had the F00F bug too but hey so did more expensive systems.
You could try Opera on QNX since QNX is very lightweight.
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I was using an Atari ST but I lost interest in GEM and eventually MINIX ST took it over. My next computer computer was a 68010 running Systev V R.3 (with BSD demand-paging grafted on) which was my first UNIX system, the MINIX ST conversion came after that. I bought my first 368 as a used Tandy computer and promptly put MINIX on that too (it actually came with MicroSoft XENIX on it but I wanted a source code UNIX.) A little after that I started hearing about this new Linux thing and I had vague plans that I would move the 368 to that but then the power supply blew and that delayed me. During the delay I started to use NetBSD on computers at work and so when I bought my first 486 (a 66 MHz screamer with 32-bit VL bus buslogic SCSI and ET-4000-w32p VL bus video, heh) I loaded it with NetBSD 0.8 not Linux. I stopped using a 486 per-se when I upgraded it to a 83 MHz Pentium (a "clock-halfed" 166 MHz CPU.) The box was given to a friend to work in her office. She put Windoze on it but hey it wasn't my problem.
Why are four schools crammed into one building with no A/C, known arsonist children, smoke damage from arson, moldy water-damaged carpeting, children carrying firearms, and children allowed to behave any way they want to with zero threat of every being suspended?
POSTED: 12:48 p.m. EDT May 20, 2004 UPDATED: 12:49 p.m. EDT May 20, 2004
Story by http://theWBALChannel.com
BALTIMORE -- The Baltimore City public school system closed four schools early Thursday afternoon after fire was discovered in the building housing all the schools.
Samuel L. Banks High School, Abbottston Elementary School, the Stadium School and Highlandtown Elementary School #237, which are all housed in the same building at 2500 East Northern Parkway, are closing immediately due to a fire in the basement. All students and staff were evacuated.
Fire crews are still on the scene in north Baltimore. There are no reports of injuries.
Stay with TheWBALChannel.com and 11 News for the latest news updates.
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On June 3 the students rioted in the cafeteria turning over the long, heavy tables with attached benches in the presense of the principle and vice principle who were unable to stop them. I could not even find a news story about this one.
School promised meeting, didn't deliver, say parents
by Mary Helen Sprecher
newsroom@baltimoreguide.com
We're still waiting.
Parents of students at Highlandtown Elementary School 237 are sending the message loud and clear to the Baltimore City Public School system. The parents, whose children have been bused to a BCPS facility in Northeast Baltimore since 2001 while repairs were supposed to take place at PS 237, were promised a meeting with school officials by early December. Chief among their complaints are the lack of progress on the original building (on which repairs have not yet started), and the problems with the children's interim school facility.
As students enter the second semester of the 2003-2004 school year without the promised meeting, the unrest is growing.
"The parents are getting really angry," says Virginia Glass, president of School 237's PTA. "We're being lied to, lied to, lied to again. There's no meeting. I want a meeting. I demand a meeting. My child deserves a meeting."
School officials claim that a meeting is in the cards, but that its scheduling had to be delayed while the system dealt with its financial crisis and widespread staff layoffs.
"That's not satisfying to me," says Glass. "I mean, come on now."
Highlandtown 237 was originally closed in January 2001 because of the need for widespread renovations, Carlton Epps, COO of Baltimore City Public Schools, told the Guide in November of 2003.
"Generally, we can do a renovation more quickly and at less cost if a building is unoccupied," said. "The idea was to take about two years, maybe two and a half years."
Students were moved to 2500 E. Northern Parkway, a building that houses a professional development center as well as several other schools. From the beginning, there were complaints.
Parents disliked having their children attending a school that was located so far outside their neighborhood. Getting their children out of bed earlier, they said, was difficult. They also complained about problems with buses that came too late to get the children to Northern Parkway in a timely manner.
Many parents who did not have cars also found the new school's location to be a problem. In the event of an emergency such as a sick child who had to be taken
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Now with Linux, you're no longer dependent on that string; you can leverage off the community providing updates
wrong. Linux isn't about supporting legacy, it's about re-inventing everything constantly.
Case in point? Read the red-n-pink text. http://fedoralegacy.org/updates/
If the community can't even keep an old Red Hat going for a couple years how on earth do you expect them to keep an embedded system alive for 30 years?
Where is it written that Word Processor = WYSIWYG?
We should focus on stopping all the new coal fired power plants that are scheduled to come on line over the next 30 years from starting.
Clue: The people of the earth consumed 28 billion barrels of in one year while discovering only 8.5 billion barrels of oil to replace it.
Nobody's going to stop any coal fired plants from being opened.
Looking at it a different way, the human race is about two million years old give or take. In the early 1800s there were only about 800 million people alive. Now we are approaching seven billion. Industrialization powered by oil caused this massive population increase. When the oil is only one half used up we are going to see "downsizing" as in massive die-off.
Try this: http://www.google.com/search?q=mega+patch+problems
After all having the most fixes makes you the most secure, right?
Ironically, their idiotic approach provided a better browser.
In the long run if you consider Firefox to be the end result.
I quit.
I wish someone would do a telesync of it already, my parents would love to see it, but would need to be able to pause it and take breaks.
VCDs and DVDs are MPEG data streams.
MPEG can pause. An MPEG is made of GOPs which are still frames followed by segments of streaming video. You can pause on the still frame (GOP header).
I'm planning on trying again after doing this:Using isoinfo on the old and new version shows that the old one had a short header.
By the way... If Titan wasn't captured by Saturn, it would be considered a planet.
If Io was in a cardboard box it would be considered a pizza.
It's more like a time machine back to the very origins of life itself.
Aren't longer release cycles better for production enviroments? If you have 500 servers do you really want to update every month (except for critical bug fixes which you can get by putting apt-get in a crontab)?
Is Linux a fundemental energy source or can it be traced back to solar energy?
I think it can be argued that Windows + cygwin != Windows.
Windows + cygwin ~= Linux + wine
4,564.635.454th Floor -- Ladie's lingerie and gloves.
Going up.
http://dieoff.org/
It was crippled but it still ran faster than the 486 it replaced plus it had Pentium features like the performance counters to play with. It had the F00F bug too but hey so did more expensive systems.
Get them to read this
You could try Opera on QNX since QNX is very lightweight.
I was using an Atari ST but I lost interest in GEM and eventually MINIX ST took it over. My next computer computer was a 68010 running Systev V R.3 (with BSD demand-paging grafted on) which was my first UNIX system, the MINIX ST conversion came after that. I bought my first 368 as a used Tandy computer and promptly put MINIX on that too (it actually came with MicroSoft XENIX on it but I wanted a source code UNIX.) A little after that I started hearing about this new Linux thing and I had vague plans that I would move the 368 to that but then the power supply blew and that delayed me. During the delay I started to use NetBSD on computers at work and so when I bought my first 486 (a 66 MHz screamer with 32-bit VL bus buslogic SCSI and ET-4000-w32p VL bus video, heh) I loaded it with NetBSD 0.8 not Linux. I stopped using a 486 per-se when I upgraded it to a 83 MHz Pentium (a "clock-halfed" 166 MHz CPU.) The box was given to a friend to work in her office. She put Windoze on it but hey it wasn't my problem.
Young kids now think 1GHz isn't enough to browse web & email. That's not just wrong, it ends up wasteful
I agree with the E-mail part but I suffer with running Mozilla on a 700 MHz Celeron at work and it's way too slow.
Why are four schools crammed into one building with no A/C, known arsonist children, smoke damage from arson, moldy water-damaged carpeting, children carrying firearms, and children allowed to behave any way they want to with zero threat of every being suspended?
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Four Schools Close Due To Fire In Building
POSTED: 12:48 p.m. EDT May 20, 2004
UPDATED: 12:49 p.m. EDT May 20, 2004
Story by http://theWBALChannel.com
BALTIMORE -- The Baltimore City public school system closed four schools early Thursday afternoon after fire was discovered in the
building housing all the schools.
Samuel L. Banks High School, Abbottston Elementary School, the Stadium School and Highlandtown Elementary School #237, which are all housed
in the same building at 2500 East Northern Parkway, are closing immediately due to a fire in the basement. All students and staff were evacuated.
Fire crews are still on the scene in north Baltimore. There are no reports of injuries.
Stay with TheWBALChannel.com and 11 News for the latest news updates.
=====
On June 3 the students rioted in the cafeteria turning over the long, heavy tables with attached benches in the presense of the principle and vice principle who were unable to stop them. I could not even find a news story about this one.
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http://www.ebguide.com/seleadarchive.html
School 237, tired of waiting
School promised meeting, didn't deliver, say parents
by Mary Helen Sprecher
newsroom@baltimoreguide.com
We're still waiting.
Parents of students at Highlandtown Elementary School 237 are sending the message loud and clear to the Baltimore City Public School system. The parents, whose children have been bused to a BCPS facility in Northeast Baltimore since 2001 while repairs were supposed to take place at PS 237, were promised a meeting with school officials by early December. Chief among their complaints are the lack of progress on the original building (on which repairs have not yet started), and the problems with the children's interim school facility.
As students enter the second semester of the 2003-2004 school year without the promised meeting, the unrest is growing.
"The parents are getting really angry," says Virginia Glass, president of School 237's PTA. "We're being lied to, lied to, lied to again. There's no meeting. I want a meeting. I demand a meeting. My child deserves a meeting."
School officials claim that a meeting is in the cards, but that its scheduling had to be delayed while the system dealt with its financial crisis and widespread staff layoffs.
"That's not satisfying to me," says Glass. "I mean, come on now."
Highlandtown 237 was originally closed in January 2001 because of the need for widespread renovations, Carlton Epps, COO of Baltimore City Public Schools, told the Guide in November of 2003.
"Generally, we can do a renovation more quickly and at less cost if a building is unoccupied," said. "The idea was to take about two years, maybe two and a half years."
Students were moved to 2500 E. Northern Parkway, a building that houses a professional development center as well as several other schools. From the beginning, there were complaints.
Parents disliked having their children attending a school that was located so far outside their neighborhood. Getting their children out of bed earlier, they said, was difficult. They also complained about problems with buses that came too late to get the children to Northern Parkway in a timely manner.
Many parents who did not have cars also found the new school's location to be a problem. In the event of an emergency such as a sick child who had to be taken