I also have a FreeAgent drive and found a solution after scouring the Internet. All you have to do to allow the drive to spin up without Linux timout out is:
substituting appropriately. This can be a bother to do every time, so you can edit the file "/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules" to include a rule like:
where this script does the appropriate initialization for the device name given in the first argument. Unfortunately, this file gets overwritten by system updates and I'm not sure how to make this rule persist beyond that, so you'll need to check that 'allow_restart' has been set to be sure.
I realize it's fashionable to poo-poo the US, but this is not the sense in which I meant "fundamentally". No first-world democracy is fundamentally corrupt. You could make a strong argument that India, a democracy on paper, is fundamentally corrupt.
but even their standards body was overrun by MS
The first-world democracies need to get their shit together to prevent this kind of fraud from happening again. In the third world, there is no hope that this can happen.
Standards bodies have been set up by businesses for businesses
That's not a particular problem here. The situation was that one large company wanted MSOXML passed and about a dozen opposed it. The vote should have been 12-1 against. Companies themselves could have their votes weighted by something like gross revenue in the relevant industry. Microsoft's shills would get little weight.
one of the most corrupt governments in the developed world
The most corrupt government in the first world is orders of magnitude less corrupt than the lest corrupt government in the third world. I realize that it's fashionable to poo-poo the US, but you're ignoring the source of the MSOXML problem—idiots pretending that bullshit third-world "countries" aren't bullshit. (Actually, this causes quite a lot of other problems, too.)
Office XML specification (note the absence of "Open,"
I think the proper name that every knowledgeable should use for it is "Microsoft Office XML (MSOXML)", because this is exactly what it is.
As for Microsoft shooting itself in the foot, I don't think it matters. I predict that MSOXML will be approved at the next ISO meeting because ISO is a fundamentally corrupt organization. It is fundamentally corrupt because it allows every country in the world to have the same voting weight, and the majority of countries in the world are fundamentally corrupt (and easily bribed by Microsoft). Voting must be weighted in some counter-bullshit-country way to avoid this problem. I think a good way to accomplish this is to weigh the votes by country GDP.
Don't even get me started on Canadian English. Adding all those "eh's" into the end of each characters lines requires digitally lengthening each episode by 5 minutes.
Out of sheer frustration, many of us Canadians have learned American English. The missing "eh?" makes listening like reading messages in all-caps, but this is the price for an early release.
I think it behooves us to also look at the other side of it, impossible as it may be to properly quantify.
Whaa?? This is Slashdot — the cops are always wrong. No matter how the cops subdue a violent criminal attacking them, the moonbats here will find fault. The correct thing for the cops to do is let the perps continue their rampages with impunity and hope nobody videotapes them with discourteous expressions on their faces.
Greed is good. It is what has given the first world its fantastic standard of living. Simmons' problem is that he doesn't realize that the music paradigm has shifted.
"Why do they even bother putting an age restriction on these things when all you have to do is click 'yes- I am 18!' Even a seventeen year-old could figure that out."
And if you strip off the first digit and the last three digits and repeat the remaining digit three times, you get the number of the beast! Repent now!
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That's 200,000 square kilometers, or 200-billion square meters. At $500/m^2, that's $100-trillion. A mere pittance!
Never mind the distribution; I am curious to know how much it will cost to cover every square inch of desert with solar-collecting devices.
I also have a FreeAgent drive and found a solution after scouring the Internet. All you have to do to allow the drive to spin up without Linux timout out is:
% echo 1 >/sys/block/{device}/device/scsi_disk{junk}/allow_restart
substituting appropriately. This can be a bother to do every time, so you can edit the file "/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules" to include a rule like:
KERNEL=="sd*", BUS=="scsi", RUN+="/home/bob/bin/usbhdfix %k"
where this script does the appropriate initialization for the device name given in the first argument. Unfortunately, this file gets overwritten by system updates and I'm not sure how to make this rule persist beyond that, so you'll need to check that 'allow_restart' has been set to be sure.
I realize it's fashionable to poo-poo the US, but this is not the sense in which I meant "fundamentally". No first-world democracy is fundamentally corrupt. You could make a strong argument that India, a democracy on paper, is fundamentally corrupt.
The first-world democracies need to get their shit together to prevent this kind of fraud from happening again. In the third world, there is no hope that this can happen.
That's not a particular problem here. The situation was that one large company wanted MSOXML passed and about a dozen opposed it. The vote should have been 12-1 against. Companies themselves could have their votes weighted by something like gross revenue in the relevant industry. Microsoft's shills would get little weight.
The most corrupt government in the first world is orders of magnitude less corrupt than the lest corrupt government in the third world. I realize that it's fashionable to poo-poo the US, but you're ignoring the source of the MSOXML problem—idiots pretending that bullshit third-world "countries" aren't bullshit. (Actually, this causes quite a lot of other problems, too.)
What is this excellent work? ECMA's Wikipedia page is just a laundry list of rubber-stamped Microsoft products.
I think the proper name that every knowledgeable should use for it is "Microsoft Office XML (MSOXML)", because this is exactly what it is.
As for Microsoft shooting itself in the foot, I don't think it matters. I predict that MSOXML will be approved at the next ISO meeting because ISO is a fundamentally corrupt organization. It is fundamentally corrupt because it allows every country in the world to have the same voting weight, and the majority of countries in the world are fundamentally corrupt (and easily bribed by Microsoft). Voting must be weighted in some counter-bullshit-country way to avoid this problem. I think a good way to accomplish this is to weigh the votes by country GDP.
Do the research; my buck is safe. Also, Stupider (adjective, -er, -est).
I'll bet you a dollar that the average Bible believer is stupider than the average Atheist. I'm serious.
While will be true today, it probably wasn't true yesterday.
Treatment: Five episodes of House, M.D., stat!
There is no way Boies didn't know that SCO had no case. He just wanted to get paid tens of millions of dollars.
What does "devian" mean?
Out of sheer frustration, many of us Canadians have learned American English. The missing "eh?" makes listening like reading messages in all-caps, but this is the price for an early release.
Yeah, those secular societies are the most backward in the world!
Whaa?? This is Slashdot — the cops are always wrong. No matter how the cops subdue a violent criminal attacking them, the moonbats here will find fault. The correct thing for the cops to do is let the perps continue their rampages with impunity and hope nobody videotapes them with discourteous expressions on their faces.
No, it was trade that did that.
Greed is good. It is what has given the first world its fantastic standard of living. Simmons' problem is that he doesn't realize that the music paradigm has shifted.
Hope you got your fill of titties in cable movies, because the FCC will make all cable TV G-rated.
But I can't find any mention of the term "somatic hypermutation" in the Bible at all. Did they call it something else back then?
"Why do they even bother putting an age restriction on these things when all you have to do is click 'yes- I am 18!' Even a seventeen year-old could figure that out."
They could go down to a morgue and use time-lapse photography to see how many people come back to life after being dead for three days.
"Sheesh! 40,000 channels and only 150 have anything good on."
In other news, 100% of all logical propositions are either true or false.
And if you strip off the first digit and the last three digits and repeat the remaining digit three times, you get the number of the beast! Repent now!