Wayland is an awesome project and shows immense promise to supplant the outdated X11. I especially like core concepts such as making each redraw pixel perfect and tight integration with vsync.
However all this will be for absolutely nothing until Wayland has integrated network transparency. Without that it's just another unusable toy.
A bootable image is just an OS X install disc. If you lost yours, you can get one off eBay (or copy it from someone)... or never in fact received one in the first place, as is the case with new Macs.
FlightGear is a wonderful flight simulator. I have been tracking its progress for the past eight or so years and it's great to see how it has progressed.
If there's something that it doesn't do well, you can always make it better yourself.
Umm, no it looked like a bomb as portrayed in popular media. They were absolutely right to treat it as a potential explosive. Did they over-react by closing the airport and arresting everyone? Perhaps.
This seems even more justified than the case a few years ago when that idiot put Talking Milkshake Hunger Something blinkies around Boston and acted all surprised when authorities came knocking.
Please mod me down or flame on if you wish, but I despise the TSA and their horrible scanning machines and root passwords to the US constitution. This case, however, is how I would expect any responsible airport security group to act. To bring this TSA idiocy to an end we need to focus on the evil they're doing and not the good.
We should now, however, watch very carefully how they treat the 11 detained who should get no more than a warning.
That's not my point. My point is this - if they're not making any more money, they won't be able to afford to keep crooked senators and buy horrible legislation.
I'm not trying to make a point to the RIAA/MPAA by not giving them money - I'm trying to gut them completely.
And to answer your earlier question about what I am doing about these abusive organizations: I have stopped giving them money. On the rare occasion I buy music, I buy indie. If everyone did that, then we wouldn't have this problem.
A shell script calling rsync with the --backup option is excellent for having a full up-to-date backup with daily historical changes in separate folders. Then a second script to backup to tape once a month.
A pity for me, as me and my kids like playing Flash games without caring about what platform we're on. My laptop fans only get noisy when I need them to, since Flashblock takes care of all unwanted Flash content. I don't recall the last time I saw a Flash advertisement.
Google inserting advertising content into YouTube streams is, IMO, much more nefarious and difficult to block.
My old car stereo, and I suspect most others from that era, had auto-reverse, meaning at the end of a tape it just started playing in the other direction, with a second set of heads aligned to the "flip" side.
I've been using LTO for monthly backups since LTO-2 came into fashion and, so long as you have a decent interface and block size, the performance is most impressive. I usually just use tar -b256 to give a 128k block size for decent performance. No zip compression since a single bad bit can render the remainder of the tape useless, and block-based compression algorithms such as bzip2 are too computationally expensive.
One thing I don't like though is the deceptive way they advertise the capacity. Here are the specifications for LTO-6: - Capacity: Up to 8 TB (assuming a 2.5:1 compression) [so actually 3.2TB] - Data transfer speed: up to 525 MB/s (assuming a 2.5:1 compression) [so actually up to 210MB/s]
Perhaps that's a cultural thing. The article also mentions not staring at Asians (which I understand, since eye-contact means very different things in different cultures).
And did you really want to approach an Arab woman before approaching a male first?
This isn't racism, people, these are rules of thumb that look like they're attempting to help you establish relations, trust, whatever.
The rage thing I'm really not sure about. I have seen that effect in several people of Arab descent but have no idea how pervasive it is compared with other groups.
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Just curious, is there a reason you don't require both key pairs AND a password?
That is true, unless the problem happens to be disk failure.
Wayland is an awesome project and shows immense promise to supplant the outdated X11. I especially like core concepts such as making each redraw pixel perfect and tight integration with vsync.
However all this will be for absolutely nothing until Wayland has integrated network transparency. Without that it's just another unusable toy.
Cool, so once the hackers compromise one of your computers they can get to all of them.
Nice.
A bootable image is just an OS X install disc. If you lost yours, you can get one off eBay (or copy it from someone) ... or never in fact received one in the first place, as is the case with new Macs.
Agreed. Any denomination less than 5c is just dead weight now. I would say 10c should be the smallest were it not for the ubiquitous quarter.
Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
FlightGear is a wonderful flight simulator. I have been tracking its progress for the past eight or so years and it's great to see how it has progressed.
If there's something that it doesn't do well, you can always make it better yourself.
Umm, no it looked like a bomb as portrayed in popular media. They were absolutely right to treat it as a potential explosive. Did they over-react by closing the airport and arresting everyone? Perhaps.
This seems even more justified than the case a few years ago when that idiot put Talking Milkshake Hunger Something blinkies around Boston and acted all surprised when authorities came knocking.
Please mod me down or flame on if you wish, but I despise the TSA and their horrible scanning machines and root passwords to the US constitution. This case, however, is how I would expect any responsible airport security group to act. To bring this TSA idiocy to an end we need to focus on the evil they're doing and not the good.
We should now, however, watch very carefully how they treat the 11 detained who should get no more than a warning.
Because he can.
There need be no other reason.
I know this can be Googled, but I don't think it would kill the submittor or editor to include a link to who these people are and why we should care.
I've never heard of either of these people. I know Phil Zimmerman was involved with PGP but that's not this guy is it?
Interesting.
Do you feel the same way about voting for minor parties in government elections?
Canada? I think he means North Montana.
That's not my point. My point is this - if they're not making any more money, they won't be able to afford to keep crooked senators and buy horrible legislation.
I'm not trying to make a point to the RIAA/MPAA by not giving them money - I'm trying to gut them completely.
So am I, on both counts.
And to answer your earlier question about what I am doing about these abusive organizations: I have stopped giving them money. On the rare occasion I buy music, I buy indie. If everyone did that, then we wouldn't have this problem.
A shell script calling rsync with the --backup option is excellent for having a full up-to-date backup with daily historical changes in separate folders. Then a second script to backup to tape once a month.
The best way to get these guys is to cut off their revenue stream. Stop buying [1] their crap.
[1] By "buying" I also mean downloading, for by doing so you are endorsing it, giving it further mindshare.
Why would anyone want their TV connected to a network anyway? Is this to do with those stupid "Skype(tm) Ready" systems?
A pity for me, as me and my kids like playing Flash games without caring about what platform we're on. My laptop fans only get noisy when I need them to, since Flashblock takes care of all unwanted Flash content. I don't recall the last time I saw a Flash advertisement.
Google inserting advertising content into YouTube streams is, IMO, much more nefarious and difficult to block.
From my experience, Vimeo works about 5% with Flash, unlike YouTube.
My old car stereo, and I suspect most others from that era, had auto-reverse, meaning at the end of a tape it just started playing in the other direction, with a second set of heads aligned to the "flip" side.
Ahh, memories.
I've been using LTO for monthly backups since LTO-2 came into fashion and, so long as you have a decent interface and block size, the performance is most impressive. I usually just use tar -b256 to give a 128k block size for decent performance. No zip compression since a single bad bit can render the remainder of the tape useless, and block-based compression algorithms such as bzip2 are too computationally expensive.
One thing I don't like though is the deceptive way they advertise the capacity. Here are the specifications for LTO-6:
- Capacity: Up to 8 TB (assuming a 2.5:1 compression) [so actually 3.2TB]
- Data transfer speed: up to 525 MB/s (assuming a 2.5:1 compression) [so actually up to 210MB/s]
Oh wait, not anymore, thanks CBS.
Also, that 10-bit per channel RGB colour analyser made me cry a little bit. It's 2012 and the GIMP still can't do that properly.
Perhaps that's a cultural thing. The article also mentions not staring at Asians (which I understand, since eye-contact means very different things in different cultures).
And did you really want to approach an Arab woman before approaching a male first?
This isn't racism, people, these are rules of thumb that look like they're attempting to help you establish relations, trust, whatever.
The rage thing I'm really not sure about. I have seen that effect in several people of Arab descent but have no idea how pervasive it is compared with other groups.
It's reasons like this that we should move to a more open IM system. Jabber, anyone?