With that said, can we please get some meaningful side impact protection in our cars? All it takes is some more steel. The technology is well-understood. If we're going to be adding weight, let's spend it someplace useful.
What about that foam they use in the NASCAR vehicles for side impact?
If it's a heat issue, can't you put the device in a freezer for a while and then attempt to at least recover the data? Or would just a little use heat it too much?
BTW, I know this guy's drive is toast, but I'm just askin'.
IE6 is horrible enough to eventually die on its own, even in the corporate world. What more could Gavin do besides personally encourage websites worldwide to eliminate any IE6-specific HTML code? Oh, he could also kill off ActiveX since that's where the real impediment to abandon IE6 for the corporate world seems to be, all their kludgey in-house ActiveX stuff.
This is obviously a shameless plug for IE9, otherwise why even mention it?
Ubuntu follows a different philisophy than Mandrake. Mandrake added a control panel which wrote configuration files from scratch, was complex and sometimes borked the configuration, pretty much like Windows does.
The Control Center, written in perl, modified existing/etc/~ files in their default locations. Initially it conflicted with KDE and GNOME tools that also modified the same system-wide settings; that's been fixed for quite a while.
Also, Mandrake had the whole OS supplied on several CDs, which was nice when internet was slow and expensive. Ubuntu's "download everything from the net" philosophy and a large package collection, borrowed from Debian, had a lot more software than Mandrake.
Mandriva has always had on-line software repositories with more packages that could fit on a DVD and there are few packages that Ubuntu offered that Mandriva didn't.
Mandrake seemed to focus more on aesthetics and ease-of-use instead of Ubuntu's improvements under the hood. This resulted in lower-quality software that often crashed or developed bizarre glitches, but the installer and control center allowed someone without Linux experience to use the produce, except for when something went horribly wrong and xfree or the boot process failed because of a broken config.
Mandriva had a sometimes bizarre packaging policy that led to stupid versioning conflicts and things in non-standard locations. It also resulted in excessively fine-tuning many standard apps with unusual defaults chosen.
Problems with XFree were just that, problems with XFree. Every distro had the same problems.
Mandriva has also provided better-than-average hardware compatibility, with their usb.ids and pci.ids files usually being a superset of what other distros offered contemporaneously.
They tried too hard to implement cutting edge stuff that affected the init process and lot's of "fixes" for udev and such. That's what led to instability and was usually fixed by the.1 release, but they pissed a lot of people off in the meantime.
I spent upwards of 2-3 weekends trying to figure out why I couldn't configure my sound card on the command line... only to find out that Mandrake devs had removed "alsaconfig" in favor of GUI-only "draksound", so all the tutorials I had read were for naught.
Well, alsaconf/alsaconfig was available if you wanted to install it. Had you read the Mandriva docs or asked in the forums, you would have been using drakconf from the command line. That's been the default command-line configuration tool for Mandriva for quite some time.
1. Poor management decisions after the IPO took the company far afield from its core business and sent them into bankruptcy. They did emerge (not a common things in French bankruptcies), but seemed to have lost their edge. They kept trying to modify a consumer-based business model (vice and Enterprise model) and kept failing.
2. Their graphics always sucked. They were very cartoon-ish and not enticing the way, sat, Ubuntu graphics were, so it was difficult to have a "cool factor" to bring in younger users.
3. Loss of vision. They initially wanted to do "RedHat Done Better", but decided to abandon RedHat's python-based tools for their own perl-based tools because, well, RedHat's sucked, but it took a lot of time, manpower and money to re-invent the wheel. They let "we-have-better-way-dammit" influence far too many of their decisions
4. They lost a lot of their original core in-house developers and a lot of their community supporters because of their management decision s and choices. That meant they lost a lot of their momentum.
I hope they find a buyer that will take them back to their original vision and revitalize one of the nicer distros. They had excellent implementations of the popular desktops, great user and admin tools.
I normally use Mandriva, but the P/S (ShuttleX) died and I'm awaiting a replacement.
In the meantime, without another PC, I've been using my WinXP/VooDoo video box that I use for older 3Dfx games. It's all updated and I use Firefox, etc.
Within 24 hours of using it, it became infected and my email account got hacked. I've changed all my passwords, but damn GMail still locked down my mail account and my blog and won't tell me why. Any advice on that?
The "independent" report was written by a law firm hired by the school system.
The IT guy made forum posts talking about the "security" system.
The school used the software to do more that locate and retrieve lost or stolen laptops with all this starting because one student was accused of dealing "drugs" (aka Mike & Ike candy) based on a captured image.
This report is just posturing by adults who should know better but who have stupidly done something unethical and illegal.
The adults involved should be subject to a "zero tolerance" interpretation of the law. They can make new friends in prison and learn a trade since they won't again be employed in education in their lifetime.
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of an AMC Pacer and a Delorean
designed by an engineer on peyote and a stylist from K-Mart.
With that said, can we please get some meaningful side impact protection in our cars? All it takes is some more steel. The technology is well-understood. If we're going to be adding weight, let's spend it someplace useful.
What about that foam they use in the NASCAR vehicles for side impact?
yet still cling to such over-priced, gimmick-infested cars like the Cobalt. STILL, even after we bailed them out.
Grrrr.
And they did a crappy job on the Camaro as well. OK car, but it should not have that name.
If it's a heat issue, can't you put the device in a freezer for a while and then attempt to at least recover the data? Or would just a little use heat it too much?
BTW, I know this guy's drive is toast, but I'm just askin'.
IE6 is horrible enough to eventually die on its own, even in the corporate world. What more could Gavin do besides personally encourage websites worldwide to eliminate any IE6-specific HTML code? Oh, he could also kill off ActiveX since that's where the real impediment to abandon IE6 for the corporate world seems to be, all their kludgey in-house ActiveX stuff.
This is obviously a shameless plug for IE9, otherwise why even mention it?
Did they remove the rootkit?
Ubuntu follows a different philisophy than Mandrake. Mandrake added a control panel which wrote configuration files from scratch, was complex and sometimes borked the configuration, pretty much like Windows does.
The Control Center, written in perl, modified existing /etc/~ files in their default locations. Initially it conflicted with KDE and GNOME tools that also modified the same system-wide settings; that's been fixed for quite a while.
Also, Mandrake had the whole OS supplied on several CDs, which was nice when internet was slow and expensive. Ubuntu's "download everything from the net" philosophy and a large package collection, borrowed from Debian, had a lot more software than Mandrake.
Mandriva has always had on-line software repositories with more packages that could fit on a DVD and there are few packages that Ubuntu offered that Mandriva didn't.
Mandrake seemed to focus more on aesthetics and ease-of-use instead of Ubuntu's improvements under the hood. This resulted in lower-quality software that often crashed or developed bizarre glitches, but the installer and control center allowed someone without Linux experience to use the produce, except for when something went horribly wrong and xfree or the boot process failed because of a broken config.
Mandriva had a sometimes bizarre packaging policy that led to stupid versioning conflicts and things in non-standard locations. It also resulted in excessively fine-tuning many standard apps with unusual defaults chosen.
Problems with XFree were just that, problems with XFree. Every distro had the same problems.
Mandriva has also provided better-than-average hardware compatibility, with their usb.ids and pci.ids files usually being a superset of what other distros offered contemporaneously.
They tried too hard to implement cutting edge stuff that affected the init process and lot's of "fixes" for udev and such. That's what led to instability and was usually fixed by the .1 release, but they pissed a lot of people off in the meantime.
Forget to add "8)" to a post one time . . . 8)
using the gtQT toolkit.
I spent upwards of 2-3 weekends trying to figure out why I couldn't configure my sound card on the command line... only to find out that Mandrake devs had removed "alsaconfig" in favor of GUI-only "draksound", so all the tutorials I had read were for naught.
Well, alsaconf/alsaconfig was available if you wanted to install it. Had you read the Mandriva docs or asked in the forums, you would have been using drakconf from the command line. That's been the default command-line configuration tool for Mandriva for quite some time.
But the real kicker was the lack of documentation and community support online.
These are two things Ubuntu has done right. I think it's easy to see why Ubuntu stole Mandriva's thunder.
Mandrake had great user support/interaction. Mandriva screwed with that every release until they broke it completely.
I helped work on their documentation as a volunteer until their stupid management made it horrible to do productive work for them.
So I tried to put in a bid, but I can't get my printer to work with my maching
Then uninstall Ubuntu and use something that works.
Mandriva is essentially a repackaged Red Hat distro... how much can it cost to maintain? Too bad there aren't any alternatives.
It is not. The installer and package manager are all unique to Mandriva as are the admin tools (except for the printing tool in 2010).
It was as you say until release 7.x, then they began to diverge quite a bit.
What happened?
1. Poor management decisions after the IPO took the company far afield from its core business and sent them into bankruptcy. They did emerge (not a common things in French bankruptcies), but seemed to have lost their edge. They kept trying to modify a consumer-based business model (vice and Enterprise model) and kept failing.
2. Their graphics always sucked. They were very cartoon-ish and not enticing the way, sat, Ubuntu graphics were, so it was difficult to have a "cool factor" to bring in younger users.
3. Loss of vision. They initially wanted to do "RedHat Done Better", but decided to abandon RedHat's python-based tools for their own perl-based tools because, well, RedHat's sucked, but it took a lot of time, manpower and money to re-invent the wheel. They let "we-have-better-way-dammit" influence far too many of their decisions
4. They lost a lot of their original core in-house developers and a lot of their community supporters because of their management decision s and choices. That meant they lost a lot of their momentum.
I hope they find a buyer that will take them back to their original vision and revitalize one of the nicer distros. They had excellent implementations of the popular desktops, great user and admin tools.
'Whether or not a child cries, we have to follow the rules under our Zero Intelligence Policy,' said school superintendent Jack Ellis.
I normally use Mandriva, but the P/S (ShuttleX) died and I'm awaiting a replacement.
In the meantime, without another PC, I've been using my WinXP/VooDoo video box that I use for older 3Dfx games. It's all updated and I use Firefox, etc.
Within 24 hours of using it, it became infected and my email account got hacked. I've changed all my passwords, but damn GMail still locked down my mail account and my blog and won't tell me why. Any advice on that?
I hate Windows.
I suspected it was crap when they had George Takei as their spokesman with his hilarious overacting and poor timing.
Guys with little dicks are so touchy about that kind of thing.
He should have responded "It's cold in here, dammit. IT'S COLD IN HERE!" or "It's a grow-er, not a show-er".
Still, nobody cares except the guys with little dicks. Buy a Corvette . . . or a hovercraft.
The "independent" report was written by a law firm hired by the school system.
The IT guy made forum posts talking about the "security" system.
The school used the software to do more that locate and retrieve lost or stolen laptops with all this starting because one student was accused of dealing "drugs" (aka Mike & Ike candy) based on a captured image.
This report is just posturing by adults who should know better but who have stupidly done something unethical and illegal.
The adults involved should be subject to a "zero tolerance" interpretation of the law. They can make new friends in prison and learn a trade since they won't again be employed in education in their lifetime.
A link to the User Manual, I believe.
http://preview.socuteurl.com/wuvvywiddlecuddlefish
Personally, I'm more disgusted by the censorship (the black bar) than the original photo.
Then the Commonwealth of Virginia will really bother you.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/01/virginia-seal-breast-picture_n_559673.html
Does this even qualify as porn in 2010?
At least the models are human and at least 18 years old (I hope or we're all going to jail).
It doesn't seem to offer the flexibility of Firefox? I found it to not suit my needs. What's the attraction?
but more power to the Church.
But please don't let them advert on Slashdot.
Moving from mom's basement to the rectory may not be good idea for either party.
And nobody will care IF Microsoft permits plugin architecture for IE9 that allows free and open plugins to support other codecs.
Otherwise, too bad for Microsoft.