Re:"The greeter application appears to be crashing
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Vista Vs. Gutsy Gibbon
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The greeter is the program that presents you with the login under X. My guess is that the one the system wants to use by default keeps crashing so it's trying to use a different one, but that's just my guess. Of course, your system isn't even approximately dead if you're getting that message. If you want to log in, you can still CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to a console login and get enough access to your system to diagnose why the greeter is crashing.
If you'd prefer not to do the work, it'd probably take me about 15 minutes to fix. For that sort of thing, I get $65 per hour with a four hour minimum to take a look at it, FOB Katy, Texas. I'd expect that the update didn't complete, so parts of the system are missing. If that's the case, it should be a simple matter to do an update using apt and see what's messed up.
As for why you're supposed to use Linux, well, I didn't know that you had a requirement to use Linux. I use it because I prefer it, myself.
I have watched the exact same content (an American-style football game) on both an NTSC and a HD TV at the same time. I could, indeed, tell a difference in picture quality. On the other hand, I couldn't figure out how the difference in picture quality made any sort of qualitative difference to my viewing experience. I mean, I could tell it was a football game and I could see all the relevant details on both screens.
If "W" killed the X-33, it was a mercy killing. An excessively complicated design that nobody can actually build is why the X-33 never flew. Heck, article 1 never even got most of the way through construction despite being years past it's scheduled completion date. The thing is, the X-33 was all about technical coolness not getting into orbit, which is why NASA picked it over the DC-X.
Yes, plenty of technologies worked fine with tubes. Heck, the first proximity fuzes were built with tubes that could be shot out of a cannon, and nuvistors were tubes that were about the size of discrete transistors. However Transistors led to integrated circuits which, along with the printed circuit board, completely revolutionized how electronics is done, and that is not an exaggeration.
My Ford Freestar has an odometer that can be switched from miles to kilometers. What other instrumentation would you need? Of course, it's not as cool as your van, but YMMV.
You know, for years I've been listening to people complain that the Free Software and Open Source communities don't ever invent anything on their own. That they simply re-implement other peoples' ideas. I think it's kind of ironic that the number one suggestion for the future of the GIMP is that it be changed such that it simply re-implements other peoples' ideas.
They're still trying to figure out where to fit the Web into it, so they don't know what to do with on-line magazines like Baen's Universe Fortunately, selected bits of last year's Baen's Universe have been published in book form, and they say they're planning to do that again next year. That makes them eligible for awards under the current rules for printed works.
I've got to believe that the local denizens would like that magazine. They offer DRM-free downloads of each issue and, in addition to stories, have editorials about what's screwed up with the current copyright laws.
Re:The Seven Deadly Sins of Erlang
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Programming Erlang
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· Score: 4, Insightful
I often judge the quality of something by looking at the quality of the criticisms of it. If that's the best criticism of Erlang that you can find (or come up with) then Erlang looks pretty damn good. Of course, if you could see your way clear to describing how to write programs without implementing algorithms instead of simply explaining in great detail that algorithmic software is bad, maybe I would find it easier to embrace your view of programming.
Yes, expensive compared to operating costs, but since the wire lasts essentially forever your installation cost is negligible over the life of the cable. However, the franchise fees are annual and are quite large, even if you run cable to only a tiny fraction of the city. It's those franchise fees which prevent people from running their own Cat-5 and using it to set up their own VoIP telephone exchanges.
The thing is, putting the cabling into the ground (or up on poles) is cheap. What is expensive (in the US, anyway) are the franchise fees that you are required to pay in order to put your cabling into the public right of way.
Of course there's a way to know. Not to the point of certainty, but to a fairly high confidence level. At least, there's a way to know if it's calling getpwnam. It's a dynamically-linked executable and getpwnam is in one of those libraries so the name "getpwnam" is going to appear, in plain text, in the executable itself. A simple check with "strings" show getpwuid_r, getuid, getcwd, getpwnam_r, getgrid_r and others are in the executable. To be sure, you'd have to check the executable using tools that know about the parts of an ELF file (you know, like those that are in the Debian elfutils package) and see where those names show up.
I seem to be able to confirm this. When I run skype, it does not read/etc/password, I expect because my user information is distributed using LDAP. Therefore, it instead connects to nscd.
Although your words parse and pass semantic analysis, I don't understand how an exact representation of an image can be any less pleasing than the image itself. I mean, I understand that my understanding is limited by the background I don't have, but examples or a tutorial would be helpful.
Okay, I'll feed the troll. Tell me where I can buy an ATX (or smaller) PPC motherboard and CPU new for, oh, say $200, and I'll look at PPC again. The reason that x86 gets all the software is because it's the cheapest, it's the cheapest because all the motherboard manufacturers make motherboards for it, and all the motherboard manufacturers make motherboards for it because it gets all the software.
Speaking as someone who has lost a lot of weight recently, I have to say that anyone who says "the reason you are fat is because you make bad choices and all you have to do is make better choices and you will suddenly stop being fat" is so clueless about how it works that they're not worth listening to.
If your economic status is above subsistence, there's more to food than nutrition. A lot more. Good food has a strong sensual appeal quite independent of whether or not you're hungry. Also, food has a strong social aspect to it. Going to lunch with my coworkers is something I want to do despite the fact that it screws up my diet. We talk and joke and interact as friends while eating far more than enough food simply to keep oneself alive. Giving that up is difficult.
To be sure, there are strategies for dealing with those issues (and the others that you may run into, I'm just talking about what I find difficult about making better choices in my life) but it's not a simple matter to figure out where your motivations lie and address each issue with workable solutions. You're talking about making major changes in your life. Imagine living your whole life in a major city and then having to choose between living the life you know for a reduced time, or moving to a small town somewhere far from where you live now so that you can live a longer, happier life. Do that and none of your daily habits will work any more. You've got to constantly watch to keep yourself from doing your comfortable old routine. It's no wonder people hope for a pill to make their life better without making any of these scary changes.
I am largely a critic of the idea that there is an anthropogenic global warming crisis either occurring now or about to occur, but it's easy to see how a small change, applied without any kind of correcting factor, can accumulate to make a big change. The human race doesn't need to be particularly technically advanced to make global changes if the changes we can make move the world only in one direction and nothing moves it back.
You also need to be careful when gathering your data. Neither mall samples of global data nor any number of samples at any specific location suffices to establish a long-term global trend. That's just as true if you're reporting thin ice in the arctic as it is if you're reporting cool summers near Mexico.
You have male colleagues who don't send not-funny jokes to other males? Where do you work, and are they hiring? I've got one coworker who keeps insisting that Richard Cheese is funny.
Look, thriving in any competitive environment requires a combination of thick skin, political skills, and the occasional set of gonads. It doesn't matter if the parties in question are male or female.
The link that you provide does not support the assertion that MLB claims a copyright to all descriptions and accounts of each game, only that the clips that WBAL wants to play belong to someone else and that someone else hasn't granted permission. In fact, I'm kind of disappointed that someone hasn't provided a link to what is actually said as the copyright notice for a broadcast because that would at least give us a factual basis for discussion. The broadcasts I have heard in the past talk about not using "the descriptions and accounts" of the game, not "any descriptions and accounts". The "the" in the first one clearly refers to the descriptions and accounts you're listening to. The "any" in the second is, well, any of them.
I'm sure that WBAL has run interviews with people who were at the games in question who talked about the game. How can they do that if MLB (or the Orioles--the broadcasts of the Houston Astros games belong to the Astros because the announcers are paid by the Astros) owns all accounts of the game? The answer is, they can't.
But their "descriptions and accounts of the game" are protected by copyright. If you went to a game and described the game, your description would also be protected by copyright, but the copyright on your description wouldn't belong to MLB.
Only if you, and everyone else you want to identify, have Web pages. While I understand the reason for this limitation, it would be nice to be able to be able to positively identify someone based upon an ID that's something other than a URL. There was a proposal I saw a while back about requiring that people poll for emails from everyone they know rather than have everyone push email towards you. That kills spam dead, but they conveniently ignored the problem of proving that the people retrieving the email were the intended recipients. That's a hard problem, and one that could be solved by something like OpenID, but you'd need to allow the identification of persons by their email address, which OpenID doesn't do.
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If you'd prefer not to do the work, it'd probably take me about 15 minutes to fix. For that sort of thing, I get $65 per hour with a four hour minimum to take a look at it, FOB Katy, Texas. I'd expect that the update didn't complete, so parts of the system are missing. If that's the case, it should be a simple matter to do an update using apt and see what's messed up.
As for why you're supposed to use Linux, well, I didn't know that you had a requirement to use Linux. I use it because I prefer it, myself.
I have watched the exact same content (an American-style football game) on both an NTSC and a HD TV at the same time. I could, indeed, tell a difference in picture quality. On the other hand, I couldn't figure out how the difference in picture quality made any sort of qualitative difference to my viewing experience. I mean, I could tell it was a football game and I could see all the relevant details on both screens.
If "W" killed the X-33, it was a mercy killing. An excessively complicated design that nobody can actually build is why the X-33 never flew. Heck, article 1 never even got most of the way through construction despite being years past it's scheduled completion date. The thing is, the X-33 was all about technical coolness not getting into orbit, which is why NASA picked it over the DC-X.
Yes, plenty of technologies worked fine with tubes. Heck, the first proximity fuzes were built with tubes that could be shot out of a cannon, and nuvistors were tubes that were about the size of discrete transistors. However Transistors led to integrated circuits which, along with the printed circuit board, completely revolutionized how electronics is done, and that is not an exaggeration.
My Ford Freestar has an odometer that can be switched from miles to kilometers. What other instrumentation would you need? Of course, it's not as cool as your van, but YMMV.
You know, for years I've been listening to people complain that the Free Software and Open Source communities don't ever invent anything on their own. That they simply re-implement other peoples' ideas. I think it's kind of ironic that the number one suggestion for the future of the GIMP is that it be changed such that it simply re-implements other peoples' ideas.
Up until he died last year, Jim Baen was a big name editor and publisher and had done that for 30 years.
I've got to believe that the local denizens would like that magazine. They offer DRM-free downloads of each issue and, in addition to stories, have editorials about what's screwed up with the current copyright laws.
Wow, like how many do you need?
I often judge the quality of something by looking at the quality of the criticisms of it. If that's the best criticism of Erlang that you can find (or come up with) then Erlang looks pretty damn good. Of course, if you could see your way clear to describing how to write programs without implementing algorithms instead of simply explaining in great detail that algorithmic software is bad, maybe I would find it easier to embrace your view of programming.
Yes, expensive compared to operating costs, but since the wire lasts essentially forever your installation cost is negligible over the life of the cable. However, the franchise fees are annual and are quite large, even if you run cable to only a tiny fraction of the city. It's those franchise fees which prevent people from running their own Cat-5 and using it to set up their own VoIP telephone exchanges.
The thing is, putting the cabling into the ground (or up on poles) is cheap. What is expensive (in the US, anyway) are the franchise fees that you are required to pay in order to put your cabling into the public right of way.
The Debian Linux "test" is a PDF file describing how to secure my system, I downloaded it, but couldn't figure out how to compute my score.
Of course there's a way to know. Not to the point of certainty, but to a fairly high confidence level. At least, there's a way to know if it's calling getpwnam. It's a dynamically-linked executable and getpwnam is in one of those libraries so the name "getpwnam" is going to appear, in plain text, in the executable itself. A simple check with "strings" show getpwuid_r, getuid, getcwd, getpwnam_r, getgrid_r and others are in the executable. To be sure, you'd have to check the executable using tools that know about the parts of an ELF file (you know, like those that are in the Debian elfutils package) and see where those names show up.
I seem to be able to confirm this. When I run skype, it does not read /etc/password, I expect because my user information is distributed using LDAP. Therefore, it instead connects to nscd.
Although your words parse and pass semantic analysis, I don't understand how an exact representation of an image can be any less pleasing than the image itself. I mean, I understand that my understanding is limited by the background I don't have, but examples or a tutorial would be helpful.
Okay, I'll feed the troll. Tell me where I can buy an ATX (or smaller) PPC motherboard and CPU new for, oh, say $200, and I'll look at PPC again. The reason that x86 gets all the software is because it's the cheapest, it's the cheapest because all the motherboard manufacturers make motherboards for it, and all the motherboard manufacturers make motherboards for it because it gets all the software.
If your economic status is above subsistence, there's more to food than nutrition. A lot more. Good food has a strong sensual appeal quite independent of whether or not you're hungry. Also, food has a strong social aspect to it. Going to lunch with my coworkers is something I want to do despite the fact that it screws up my diet. We talk and joke and interact as friends while eating far more than enough food simply to keep oneself alive. Giving that up is difficult.
To be sure, there are strategies for dealing with those issues (and the others that you may run into, I'm just talking about what I find difficult about making better choices in my life) but it's not a simple matter to figure out where your motivations lie and address each issue with workable solutions. You're talking about making major changes in your life. Imagine living your whole life in a major city and then having to choose between living the life you know for a reduced time, or moving to a small town somewhere far from where you live now so that you can live a longer, happier life. Do that and none of your daily habits will work any more. You've got to constantly watch to keep yourself from doing your comfortable old routine. It's no wonder people hope for a pill to make their life better without making any of these scary changes.
You also need to be careful when gathering your data. Neither mall samples of global data nor any number of samples at any specific location suffices to establish a long-term global trend. That's just as true if you're reporting thin ice in the arctic as it is if you're reporting cool summers near Mexico.
Actually, I don't think it's at odds with the summary, it's just that the BMI is a pretty useless measure of someone's health.
Look, thriving in any competitive environment requires a combination of thick skin, political skills, and the occasional set of gonads. It doesn't matter if the parties in question are male or female.
I'm sure that WBAL has run interviews with people who were at the games in question who talked about the game. How can they do that if MLB (or the Orioles--the broadcasts of the Houston Astros games belong to the Astros because the announcers are paid by the Astros) owns all accounts of the game? The answer is, they can't.
Don't tell me, tell the OpenID folks. I'm sure that they would appreciate someone else bringing up the identification of email addresses yet again.
But their "descriptions and accounts of the game" are protected by copyright. If you went to a game and described the game, your description would also be protected by copyright, but the copyright on your description wouldn't belong to MLB.
Only if you, and everyone else you want to identify, have Web pages. While I understand the reason for this limitation, it would be nice to be able to be able to positively identify someone based upon an ID that's something other than a URL. There was a proposal I saw a while back about requiring that people poll for emails from everyone they know rather than have everyone push email towards you. That kills spam dead, but they conveniently ignored the problem of proving that the people retrieving the email were the intended recipients. That's a hard problem, and one that could be solved by something like OpenID, but you'd need to allow the identification of persons by their email address, which OpenID doesn't do.