The best part of SF was playing with friends, and the Wii is the console to have to play with friends at home. I guess online play will come to the rescue but it is not the same.
Sad.
It depends on where you were taught, because in Russia and in Latin America, North and South America are seen as one single continent, as they are one large landmass (dividied artificially by the Panama Canal) (Reference here).
In other languages, like spanish, when you talk about America you are talking about the continent. So it all depends on where you are coming from. I know this is/. and a big part of the audience is in the US, but not all.
Here at my university people bend over backwards to try and practice their english with the visitors. So much that all the meetings and classes they attend are in english (including opening new groups for 3 or 4 persons in english).
In the north of Mexico (think Monterrey) english is like the second official language. People don't call a truck by its name in spanish ("camioneta"), but by an anglicism ("troca"=truck + a). Wherever you go and it is reasonable, you'll find someone that will willingly speak english with you. Reasonable means that s/he had enough of an education to include english.
The official school program starts with english at the fifth grade. Most of the people that do speak english do it because they HAVE to (private schools, work) and will usually not refuse the chance to practice.
It is just about where you try to speak english, in some places it is almost impossible for them to speak it (who taught them english in the first place?).
The second was that the iPod lost its FireWire connector because the PC world was the new target audience.
The iPod lost its FW connector because of space considerations. It was dissected in ArsTechnica that the chipset required for FW communications taks a lot of space and could be used in a better way. They made a design compromise (versatility of communication with the iPod vs space), nothing more.
Have you measured the voltage on the outlets when the computer is not working? . Anything below 100 will not work. If one of the phases is overloaded and thus your circuit not balanced, you'll have a serious voltage drop on the outlets of the overloaded phase.
I was trying to install a new drive to a server. It has freebsd 5.3 installed and it was supposedly going to be an easy upgrade. Not so. The disks are supposed to be concatenated using gvinum. I put the disk, so far so good. Then, when starting the new subdisk I get a kernel panic.
Anything I do, I get a kernel panic. So, back to single-user mode and try to fix everything using plain old vinum.
It is supposedly working right now, I am sorely tempted to reinstall this server from scratch using something else.
Apple does support a lossless compression format with the iPod.
With iTunes 4.7 http://www.apple.com/itunes/, you can encode to Apple Lossless Format, which can compress to half the space an uncompressed song would.
Switzerland did not get invaded because of their tunnels. The threathened that if the germans invaded, they would bomb the tunnels, thereby closing the valuable transport lines that pass through Switzerland.
Dell does just this, I have a Complete Care warranty and when the screen failed I called the toll-free number. They arrived the next day with a new screen, it just took them about 20 minutes to have it fixed. BTW. This was at school, it was the only place I knew I could wait for Dell to come fix my computer.
So it's great, with wineconsole the simulator AVSIM51 did not work at all. Under FreeDOS it worked perfectly.
I had to use AVSIM51 as one subject in school required it for some assignements. FreeDOS helped me not having to use a Windows box for doing this work.
Happy birthday!
After reading your post I felt that I had to say this, I run Gentoo on my laptop and I am very happy about it, but on my servers, I run FreeBSD (4 & 5). The thing about FreeBSD is that everything is so logical, I can find everything where I *think* it will be, man pages are very well writen, even new things that have just been imported (like ALTQ in PF for FreeBSD-CURRENT).
In gentoo, I just don't *feel* that 'being at home' likehood, but still, I love it.
Right now I am leaving and I have to train my replacement, when I was thinking about the system I had to leave to my successor, by a reflex I thought about FreeBSD. For me, I feel it is easier to leave to a total newbie than to leave another system. I feel most at home and I feel I can teach someone else better if its something I appreciate and can talk about without having to Goolgle something up (like, about DUMMYNET, I think I can send him to the relevant man pages) but in Linux, I just don't feel I can leave him to work with iptables and just do not screw up. I know this might sound too centric but the point is, because FreeBSD is build userworld + kernel as a whole, it is much more coherent. Much more easier to train someone into.
It may well be that a number of citizens were not charged with terrorism-related crimes, but they need not be. Where the department has suspected people of terrorism it will prosecute those persons for other violations of law, rather than wait for a terrorist conspiracy to fully develop and risk the potential that that conspiracy will be missed and thereby sacrificing innocent American lives in the process.
After reading this I fear for whoever is SUSPECTED of a crime, not only terrorism. The Patriot Act allows the authorities to charge a person of terrorism and hold him, without a public trial.
"Sun is in a unique competitive position against HP and IBM - who now find themselves lacking an operating system on either Intel or AMD Opteron, and fighting a systems war without weaponry"
I thought that on M2, when Neo talked to the architect, all the anomalies that came before had chosen to go back to the source. There, the One chose 7 males and 16 females to rebuild Zion.
This time around, Smith (an agent program designed to keep the rebels under check before the critical point when the "anomaly" had to do his show), is killed in a way it absorbs a part of the One (let's say its a piece of his conciousness, knowledge and the capacity to bend some rules and break others). With this newfound ability, Smith can now change the cycle.
Also, as a parallel event, Neo chooses to save Trinity instead of Zion, when he first meets the Architect. These two events trigger M3.
The machines are now in a very difficult situation, their energy supply is being controlled by a rogue program, which, could theoretically control all the machines. The machines have never been in that situation. Maybe this was planned by the Oracle, maybe it was an evolution of the machines (they were just developing the emotions of faith and love) and this was the logical consequence.
Here in Mexico, at my university (ITESM), there is a scanner running every 30 minutes. If it detects you are infected with the Blaster worm, your network access is revoked. You have to go to the IT department so they can check your computer and certify it virus-free. Also, every time you go into the school's web site, a pop-up window appears with instructions on how to install Norton AV and keep it updated. Because of these worms/virii, the network has been down intermittently for the last 4 weeks.
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The best part of SF was playing with friends, and the Wii is the console to have to play with friends at home. I guess online play will come to the rescue but it is not the same. Sad.
It was Safari, not Firefox.
In other languages, like spanish, when you talk about America you are talking about the continent. So it all depends on where you are coming from. I know this is /. and a big part of the audience is in the US, but not all.
"El respeto al derecho ageno es la paz"...y la conservación de los dientes.
Hell yeah. The ATMEL offerings of the MCS8051 architecture are much better and cheaper that what you can find from Intel.
Here at my university people bend over backwards to try and practice their english with the visitors. So much that all the meetings and classes they attend are in english (including opening new groups for 3 or 4 persons in english).
In the north of Mexico (think Monterrey) english is like the second official language. People don't call a truck by its name in spanish ("camioneta"), but by an anglicism ("troca"=truck + a). Wherever you go and it is reasonable, you'll find someone that will willingly speak english with you. Reasonable means that s/he had enough of an education to include english.
The official school program starts with english at the fifth grade. Most of the people that do speak english do it because they HAVE to (private schools, work) and will usually not refuse the chance to practice.
It is just about where you try to speak english, in some places it is almost impossible for them to speak it (who taught them english in the first place?).
The iPod lost its FW connector because of space considerations. It was dissected in ArsTechnica that the chipset required for FW communications taks a lot of space and could be used in a better way. They made a design compromise (versatility of communication with the iPod vs space), nothing more.
Have you measured the voltage on the outlets when the computer is not working? . Anything below 100 will not work. If one of the phases is overloaded and thus your circuit not balanced, you'll have a serious voltage drop on the outlets of the overloaded phase.
Anything I do, I get a kernel panic. So, back to single-user mode and try to fix everything using plain old vinum.
It is supposedly working right now, I am sorely tempted to reinstall this server from scratch using something else.
And when was this a problem?
Maybe if you ask nicely the user what does s/he wants, it will no seem evil
iTunes has a Join Tracks feature, where you can meld tracks and create a gap-free track. Great for live albums.
With iTunes 4.7 http://www.apple.com/itunes/, you can encode to Apple Lossless Format, which can compress to half the space an uncompressed song would.
Switzerland did not get invaded because of their tunnels. The threathened that if the germans invaded, they would bomb the tunnels, thereby closing the valuable transport lines that pass through Switzerland.
Dell does just this, I have a Complete Care warranty and when the screen failed I called the toll-free number. They arrived the next day with a new screen, it just took them about 20 minutes to have it fixed. BTW. This was at school, it was the only place I knew I could wait for Dell to come fix my computer.
So it's great, with wineconsole the simulator AVSIM51 did not work at all. Under FreeDOS it worked perfectly. I had to use AVSIM51 as one subject in school required it for some assignements. FreeDOS helped me not having to use a Windows box for doing this work. Happy birthday!
Does anybody know if pf (OpenBSD's firewall) is included in OSX?
After reading your post I felt that I had to say this, I run Gentoo on my laptop and I am very happy about it, but on my servers, I run FreeBSD (4 & 5). The thing about FreeBSD is that everything is so logical, I can find everything where I *think* it will be, man pages are very well writen, even new things that have just been imported (like ALTQ in PF for FreeBSD-CURRENT). In gentoo, I just don't *feel* that 'being at home' likehood, but still, I love it. Right now I am leaving and I have to train my replacement, when I was thinking about the system I had to leave to my successor, by a reflex I thought about FreeBSD. For me, I feel it is easier to leave to a total newbie than to leave another system. I feel most at home and I feel I can teach someone else better if its something I appreciate and can talk about without having to Goolgle something up (like, about DUMMYNET, I think I can send him to the relevant man pages) but in Linux, I just don't feel I can leave him to work with iptables and just do not screw up. I know this might sound too centric but the point is, because FreeBSD is build userworld + kernel as a whole, it is much more coherent. Much more easier to train someone into.
After reading this I fear for whoever is SUSPECTED of a crime, not only terrorism. The Patriot Act allows the authorities to charge a person of terrorism and hold him, without a public trial.
"Sun is in a unique competitive position against HP and IBM - who now find themselves lacking an operating system on either Intel or AMD Opteron, and fighting a systems war without weaponry"
Then what is linux with 64 bit support?
I thought that on M2, when Neo talked to the architect, all the anomalies that came before had chosen to go back to the source. There, the One chose 7 males and 16 females to rebuild Zion.
This time around, Smith (an agent program designed to keep the rebels under check before the critical point when the "anomaly" had to do his show), is killed in a way it absorbs a part of the One (let's say its a piece of his conciousness, knowledge and the capacity to bend some rules and break others). With this newfound ability, Smith can now change the cycle.
Also, as a parallel event, Neo chooses to save Trinity instead of Zion, when he first meets the Architect. These two events trigger M3.
The machines are now in a very difficult situation, their energy supply is being controlled by a rogue program, which, could theoretically control all the machines. The machines have never been in that situation. Maybe this was planned by the Oracle, maybe it was an evolution of the machines (they were just developing the emotions of faith and love) and this was the logical consequence.
Here in Mexico, at my university (ITESM), there is a scanner running every 30 minutes. If it detects you are infected with the Blaster worm, your network access is revoked. You have to go to the IT department so they can check your computer and certify it virus-free.
Also, every time you go into the school's web site, a pop-up window appears with instructions on how to install Norton AV and keep it updated.
Because of these worms/virii, the network has been down intermittently for the last 4 weeks.
Is the comments at the end about the ISP bill...
I haven't seen that feature in newer bioses, but as far as I've seen (which is not much), every Adaptec SCSI card has that feature.
On FreeBSD try: # route add -net 127. -netmask 255.0.0.0 -iface lo0 -blackhole