And you'll be really hosed if you don't. The best way to see this happen is to full up a disk drive until it is 99.9% full. Then try running applications that automatically load and save their configuration files. The file will be loaded, the application will run, and once complete, it will end cleanly. Or so you think. The next time you try running that application, it segmentation faults.
Maybe a more sensible think to do is to check the amount of free disk space and give a warning.
Reminds of the time my parents bought a four bottle set of wine for the Christmas season; left them on the driveway while they unlocked the door to the house and then brought them in. Within seconds our cats were prowling around the bag, followed it around wherever we moved it to, and eventually sat right down beside it, watching intently and waiting...
We were puzzled about this odd behavior, surely cat's don't like wine that much, do they? So I cleared the bag out, bottle by bottle, then removed the cardboard packing. Right inside the packing was a little mouse which jumped around a bit. We managed to "free" it in an adjacent field, but it's amazing how sensitive cats are.
I'm not too sure if it was the smell or the sound of scratching that attracted our cats. If I make scratching noise underneath the table they are sitting on, they'll try and move round so they can what is underneath the table.
It is worth noting that these two ideas, in their full power, are even now still not available in other widely used operating systems, despite the rapid and otherwise enormous advance in the computer field since the 1960s; although in more limited forms they are now becoming more widely accepted and available, e.g. dynamic linking.
It seems something to do with the way they implemented dynamic linking. Each executable/data page could be shared between multiple processes, with each process having a different set of permissions on that page. On current systems, the permission codes would be associated with that executable/data page, not the process itself.
They would make more of a profit from me, if I could choose to receive international/documentary/science channels while not having to pay for junk/drunk/porn channels at the same time. Even after cancelling the higher tier bundle to avoid these channels, they are now reappearing/rechanneling on the freeview tier.
Maybe the reason that this submarine surfaced was that they were running on electric power to remain quiet, the batteries ran flat, and they had to surface for fresh air?
I would have hoped that EA had the common sense not to have two studions working on titles in identical genre's. That happened to other multi-studio game developers. The theory was a nice idea; let every team work on whatever interested them. This certainly attracted staff and the company grew massively, but in the end, they end up with multiple numbers of teams around the place competing against each other for the Christmas/Summer holiday slots.
Then you see three page mathematics papers being published which mention that the technique discussed is being patented, even if it just involves a couple of matrix-vector equations. And the paper will have around six or eight names as the listed authors.
Because universities are perpetually stretched for cash (this seems to happens everywhere, USA, Canada, UK). They can do several things to solve this:
(1) Cut back on staff and close departments - Not a valid proposition when there is demand for such staff.
(2) Take on more students and create new courses - The reputation of the university may suffer if the quality of teaching/resources go down - students now compare departments in terms of staff/student ratios, student/computer ratios, Internet bandwidth, contact hours and number of papers published per group.
(3) The other solution is to file patents based upon all research carried out. These patents can then be used to protect startups from predators, and bring in money from licensing. It is referred to as "technology transfer" and has several annual conferences dedicated to this.
I've partitioned and formatted my own external USB drives on both Windows and Linux. In both cases, there are GUI based applications to assist you. You first perform an integrity check (optional), set up your partitions (decide how many, what type and how big each partition is going to be). This would be (FAT16, FAT32, NTFS) for Windows, and whole many others for Linux (EXT3, SWAP, etc...)
The development for the "next generation" Eurofighter has been going on for the past 25 years. Funding was approved back in the mid 1980's. At this time, we still had a Cold War with Eastern Europe, and the threat of dodgy Middle Eastern countries.
Interesting. I have a wind-up torch. It's about half the size of a remote control, with a crank that fold into case. I would certainly welcome replacing the hassle of replacing batteries with a few rotations of the handle.
In Eruope, there are some channels that are popular and owned by the broadcaster (Sky News, Sky One). The perfect situation would be to able to subscribe to channels individually, but a compromise would be allow third parties to offer their own "bundles", so that some could specialise on news, pop music or documentaries rather than have the all or nothing choice that is available at present.
Most of the remotes that I have, seem to run on any number of AAA batteries from one to three (Telewest/Virgin Media = 3 x AAA), TV remote = 2 x AA.
I do wonder if the batteries couldn't be replaced by either adding a solar panel (some novelty calculators did this) or by adding a storage capacitor that could be charged up using a small wheel or something similar.
I just burnt the Fedora Core 8 install DVD. It seems the nvidia driver is detected automatically. It got as far as installing the X-server, but then freaked me out by complaining that *ALL* my partitions needed to be reformatted because I had a "loop partition" on my hard disk drive. I did a search for some similar comments and this seems to be something to do with the boot loader. Maybe I will upgrade to a larger hard disk drive before I install FC8.
I also tried running Ubuntu - that didn't get really far except to display a funny stripy square in the top left corner, and a checkerboard pattern of orange lines on my screen. This happened at the same time as it tried to play a trumpet sound off the DVD.
The issue is that one or two Megawatt power stations in the UK are effectively being used to keep electronic components on standby. According to the article these TV sets will also have solar panels to keep the capacitors charged.
The other thing people can do is to make sure they are using rechargable batteries for the remote control. I wonder if solar panels could be added to rechargeable batteries, so you could have them recharged simply by leaving them beside a window.
I've got some good USB external cases from E-bay. Otherwise, I get my spare part components direct from the laptop spare parts company (www.nexttronics.com). A good search across the Internet has provided me with the system maintenance manuals which list the official catalog numbers of each component.
I've repaired my laptops and desktops on several occasions now - The first time I tried gettin a laptop reapir, I tried taking it down to the "Computer Repair Shops", but they only dealt with things like computer viruses and corrupt registry settings in Windows. Fixing something like a fried LCD invertor was well beyond their expertise. So, I had nothing to lose in buying a set of jewelers screwdrivers and the odd TORX screwdriver (some manufacturers seemed to decided to use patented screws to make their hardware harder to open.)
What amazes me is the fragility, the cheapness and bad design of some circuit boards. For example, the switch used to detect whether a laptop lid is closed is no more than a surface mount switch that is pressed down by a sideways moving latch. One fall in the wrong direction and the switch can be pushed off the circuit board, which is also used to control the power supply, battery and hard drive activity LED's.
Another example is the connectors for the audio/microphone jacks. Being plastic, these are notorious for snapping if someone trips over the cable. Yet, they are mounted to the motherboard (no daughtercard) with no means of replacement. A $2000 investment can be completely floored by a $2 component, although they can be replaced by a $5 USB to headphone/microphone jack. Why can't the audio and microphone jacks be made of metal like the other components?
Then there's the graphics card. I've been able to get the service manuals to the laptop and they clearly indicate that the graphics card is removable simply by lifting up the keyboard and speaker system, yet the circuit board is a custom shape, so no upgrade is possible, even though the same model of laptop is still available for sale in the shops at the same price. A similar graphics card for a PC only costs $50, yet it is unavailable for a laptop even though I would guess that the pin layouts are identical. I can justify paying $100 for new graphics card, but I can't justify spending another $2000 just to upgrade a single circuit board.
To give the manufacturers some credit, there are companies that supply the spare parts directly, and most components such as keyboards, speakers, LCD 's, hard disk drives, DVD drives are removable/replaceable now. But any mechanical component should be replaceable as simply as possible.
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And you'll be really hosed if you don't. The best way to see this happen is to full up a disk drive until it is 99.9% full. Then try running applications that automatically load and save their configuration files. The file will be loaded, the application will run, and once complete, it will end cleanly. Or so you think. The next time you try running that application, it segmentation faults.
Maybe a more sensible think to do is to check the amount of free disk space and give a warning.
Reminds of the time my parents bought a four bottle set of wine for the Christmas season; left them on the driveway while they unlocked the door to the house and then brought them in. Within seconds our cats were prowling around the bag, followed it around wherever we moved it to, and eventually sat right down beside it, watching intently and waiting...
We were puzzled about this odd behavior, surely cat's don't like wine that much, do they? So I cleared the bag out, bottle by bottle, then removed the cardboard packing. Right inside the packing was a little mouse which jumped around a bit. We managed to "free" it in an adjacent field, but it's amazing how sensitive cats are.
I'm not too sure if it was the smell or the sound of scratching that attracted our cats. If I make scratching noise underneath the table they are sitting on, they'll try and move round so they can what is underneath the table.
What worries me is where all the H20 from the hydrocarbon burning process is ending up, never mind the CO2
That's what the wikipedia article said:
It is worth noting that these two ideas, in their full power, are even now still not available in other widely used operating systems, despite the rapid and otherwise enormous advance in the computer field since the 1960s; although in more limited forms they are now becoming more widely accepted and available, e.g. dynamic linking.
It seems something to do with the way they implemented dynamic linking. Each executable/data page could be shared between multiple processes, with each process having a different set of permissions on that page. On current systems, the permission codes would be associated with that executable/data page, not the process itself.
Multics - Novel Ideas
That's a nice set of shiny tubes you have there sonny, We wouldn't want anything to happen to them now, would we?
They would make more of a profit from me, if I could choose to receive international/documentary/science channels while not having to pay for junk/drunk/porn channels at the same time. Even after cancelling the higher tier bundle to avoid these channels, they are now reappearing/rechanneling on the freeview tier.
Maybe the reason that this submarine surfaced was that they were running on electric power to remain quiet, the batteries ran flat, and they had to surface for fresh air?
I would have hoped that EA had the common sense not to have two studions working on titles in identical genre's. That happened to other multi-studio game developers. The theory was a nice idea; let every team work on whatever interested them. This certainly attracted staff and the company grew massively, but in the end, they end up with multiple numbers of teams around the place competing against each other for the Christmas/Summer holiday slots.
That's what all the admissions tutors are saying now, "A BS/BA is the high-school diploma of the 21st Century" (podcast interview, about 17:24 into the interview).
Then you see three page mathematics papers being published which mention that the technique discussed is being patented, even if it just involves a couple of matrix-vector equations. And the paper will have around six or eight names as the listed authors.
Because universities are perpetually stretched for cash (this seems to happens everywhere, USA, Canada, UK). They can do several things to solve this:
(1) Cut back on staff and close departments - Not a valid proposition when there is demand for such staff.
(2) Take on more students and create new courses - The reputation of the university may suffer if the quality of teaching/resources go down - students now compare departments in terms of staff/student ratios, student/computer ratios, Internet bandwidth, contact hours and number of papers published per group.
(3) The other solution is to file patents based upon all research carried out. These patents can then be used to protect startups from predators, and bring in money from licensing. It is referred to as "technology transfer" and has several annual conferences dedicated to this.
Here's a link to AUTM (The Association of University Technology Managers) .
Here's a link to a Former EA Staff member speaking out
I've partitioned and formatted my own external USB drives on both Windows and Linux. In both cases, there are GUI based applications to assist you.
You first perform an integrity check (optional), set up your partitions (decide how many, what type and how big each partition is going to be). This would be (FAT16, FAT32, NTFS) for Windows, and whole many others for Linux (EXT3, SWAP, etc...)
Is there a slashdot popularity chart - listing the number of times every time the name of a famous person has turned up?
Here are some past slashdot stories about Microsoft morale:
Microsoft Employees critical of their employer
Why Ballmer should leave Microsoft
Software Engineering at Microsoft
The development for the "next generation" Eurofighter has been going on for the past 25 years. Funding was approved back in the mid 1980's. At this time, we still had a Cold War with Eastern Europe, and the threat of dodgy Middle Eastern countries.
Interesting. I have a wind-up torch. It's about half the size of a remote control, with a crank that fold into case. I would certainly welcome replacing the hassle of replacing batteries with a few rotations of the handle.
In Eruope, there are some channels that are popular and owned by the broadcaster (Sky News, Sky One). The perfect situation would be to able to subscribe to channels individually, but a compromise would be allow third parties to offer their own "bundles", so that some could specialise on news, pop music or documentaries rather than have the all or nothing choice that is available at present.
Most of the remotes that I have, seem to run on any number of AAA batteries from one to three (Telewest/Virgin Media = 3 x AAA), TV remote = 2 x AA.
I do wonder if the batteries couldn't be replaced by either adding a solar panel (some novelty calculators did this) or by adding a storage capacitor that could be charged up using a small wheel or something similar.
Microsoft >> Nigeria
Why would you try to append Microsoft to Nigeria?
Microsoft is a never-ending revenue stream?
I just burnt the Fedora Core 8 install DVD. It seems the nvidia driver is detected automatically. It got as far as installing the X-server, but then freaked me out by complaining that *ALL* my partitions needed to be reformatted because I had a "loop partition" on my hard disk drive. I did a search for some similar comments and this seems to be something to do with the boot loader. Maybe I will upgrade to a larger hard disk drive before I install FC8.
I also tried running Ubuntu - that didn't get really far except to display a funny stripy square in the top left corner, and a checkerboard pattern of orange lines on my screen. This happened at the same time as it tried to play a trumpet sound off the DVD.
Knoppix is still my favourite LiveCD so far.
The issue is that one or two Megawatt power stations in the UK are effectively being used to keep electronic components on standby. According to the article these TV sets will also have solar panels to keep the capacitors charged.
The other thing people can do is to make sure they are using rechargable batteries for the remote control. I wonder if solar panels could be added to rechargeable batteries, so you could have them recharged simply by leaving them beside a window.
I've got some good USB external cases from E-bay. Otherwise, I get my spare part components direct from the laptop spare parts company (www.nexttronics.com). A good search across the Internet has provided me with the system maintenance manuals which list the official catalog numbers of each component.
I've repaired my laptops and desktops on several occasions now - The first time I tried gettin a laptop reapir, I tried taking it down to the "Computer Repair Shops", but they only dealt with things like computer viruses and corrupt registry settings in Windows. Fixing something like a fried LCD invertor was well beyond their expertise. So, I had nothing to lose in buying a set of jewelers screwdrivers and the odd TORX screwdriver (some manufacturers seemed to decided to use patented screws to make their hardware harder to open.)
What amazes me is the fragility, the cheapness and bad design of some circuit boards. For example, the switch used to detect whether a laptop lid is closed is no more than a surface mount switch that is pressed down by a sideways moving latch. One fall in the wrong direction and the switch can be pushed off the circuit board, which is also used to control the power supply, battery and hard drive activity LED's.
Another example is the connectors for the audio/microphone jacks. Being plastic, these are notorious for snapping if someone trips over the cable. Yet, they are mounted to the motherboard (no daughtercard) with no means of replacement. A $2000 investment can be completely floored by a $2 component, although they can be replaced by a $5 USB to headphone/microphone jack. Why can't the audio and microphone jacks be made of metal like the other components?
Then there's the graphics card. I've been able to get the service manuals to the laptop and they clearly indicate that the graphics card is removable simply by lifting up the keyboard and speaker system, yet the circuit board is a custom shape, so no upgrade is possible, even though the same model of laptop is still available for sale in the shops at the same price. A similar graphics card for a PC only costs $50, yet it is unavailable for a laptop even though I would guess that the pin layouts are identical. I can justify paying $100 for new graphics card, but I can't justify spending another $2000 just to upgrade a single circuit board.
To give the manufacturers some credit, there are companies that supply the spare parts directly, and most components such as keyboards, speakers, LCD 's, hard disk drives, DVD drives are removable/replaceable now. But any mechanical component should be replaceable as simply as possible.
Early mail systems in the 1800's were pneumatic tubes. Just like in the movie 'Brazil'.