Say you were trying to use VMWare under Linux to create a beowulf cluster of Linux virtual machines each running VMWare each running a beowulf cluster of Linux virtual machines each....
But what if you can't/don't want to flash your BIOS? Once the kernel is booted, doesn't it mostly ignore the BIOS anyway, except for ACPI, APM, and PCI namespace? Once you have Linux booted, the BIOS shouldn't interfere, assuming that it doesn't mind booting the kernel. I've also never been to learned on the x86 BIOS and Linux kernel relationship.
As long as they mopped the floor afterwards. That's why I don't like the smell of hospitals. It's all those microorganisms that give air flavor and life.
No, but E. Coli is supposed to be in your intestine. When it gets out, it can be really harmful. I'm not sure, but I think it can get out by feces. So, it would be undoubtably bad if your floor is covered in feces, and you probably wouldn't eat something on that floor, 5 second rule or not.
How about we create a new kind of candy with this stuff. It would be like Poprocks but it electrocutes you with the millions of micro-batteries it has. I wonder how toxic these batteries are.
<quote source="The Simpsons"> "We knew that the gum had spiders eggs in it, but the Haunta virus! Heh heh." --Krusty the Klown </quote>
Microsoft?!?! This is the same company that showed off Windows 95's awesome USB support and got a BSoD! Open source/free(dom) projects usually don't have to worry as much about deadlines -- "It'll be done when it's done." But Microsoft is not known for delaying a product because it's buggy.
Of course it is. Mac OS X IS UNIX-LIKE. FreeBSD, more precisely. Anything you can do with the average *nix you can do with OS X. I doubt that Apple reimplemented anything. They probably just made current capabilities pretty.
Theres also the ability to run CLI only on OSX so that can free up processor time too.
You speak as if CLI is a feature unique to OS X. *nix is very modular, and anything can be enabled or disabled, depending on what you need. So, you are describing a UNIX-like system.
Those BASIC Stamps you are talking about are really Microchip PIC's (Periferal Interface Controllers) with an interperator program. You can buy your own, though, and assembly code them or download the C compiler for it and use a subset of C.
Yeah, it's called PicoGUI. The problem with X (or the flexability with X, depending on how you look at it) is that you can do anything you want. It is the canvas -- what you put there is up to you. Of course, that means absolutely no consistancy. But, if someone does try to standardize the common functionality, it may not be taken too well and may just wind up joining the bazillions of other projects that have tried to do the same thing.
...[DeCSS] could more broadly be used in the process of decrypting and copying DVDs.
That's balogna, and everyone on Slashdot knows it. Just because the orginization is called the DVD Copy Control Association doesn't mean that the encryption used has anything to do with copying the DVDs. I can easily and full "cp/dev/dvd ~/copied-dvd.iso" without DeCSS. But you need DeCSS to access the content, which has nothing to do with copying (well, permenantly), only playing.
It's a matter of instinct, It's a matter of conditioning,
It's a matter of fact
You can call me Pavlov's dog Ring a bell and i'll salivate -- how'd you like that
Dr. Landy tell me you're not just a pedagogue
I don't like the music industry restricting free speech and screwing the artists, but people copying copyrighted music illegally is wrong. However, I wonder if it could be argued in a court that some of the really crappy MP3's aren't even equivalent to the original work because they are so bad. Probably not, but what if the music industry started a website to allow full length, super crappy MP3's, as opposed to the 30s super crappy streams, to circulate unabated so that we can actually have a reasonable way of sampling music instead of breaking copyright now and buying it later. It would have to be crappy enough that people would buy the music eventually. I agree that what is really needed is some reasonable way to sample music. Of course, I prefer Ogg Vorbis, but Vorbis is actually designed to keep as much fidelity as possible;-)
You bring up a good point -- Linux is more of a mentality on building an operating system than an operating system itself. You could strip out all the GNU software and use BSD instead; use KDE, or another window manager/desktop instead of GNOME, and use indie free/libre software, like XawTV, Gtk-Gnutella, XMMS, BusyBox, TinyX, etc. You can even package it with quasi-proprietary-corperate-freeish software like X11, Mozilla/Netscape, Opera, Open Office, Qt, and others. The GNU system is totally GNU software, like the HURD, GNOME, GCC, GLibC, GNU Utilities, etc.
No clue where I got it originally because I saved it. I googled and found it everywhere. The first time I saw it, I read it about three or four times and it still was hilarious.
A major research institution has recently announced the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. This new element has been tentatively named "Administratium."
Administratium has 1 neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 111 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by a force called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.
Since Administratium has no electrons, it is inert.However, it can be detected as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of Administratium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would normally take less than a second.
Administratium has a normal half-life of three years; it does not decay but instead undergoes reorganization. In fact, Administratium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization causes some morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientists to speculate that Administratium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as "critical morass." You will know it when you see it...
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No there's not, there's only 32 lb. on board. I lived near the lauch site for a while and...
Knock Knock!!!
Crash! [door falling to the ground]
Don't Move!!
Hey, who are you guuy pft mft ffm!!
fda#R#$543 NO CARRIER
Nelson: Stop pinging yourself!
Millhouse: Ow!
Nelson: Stop pinging yourself!
Millhouse: Ow!
Nelson: Stop pinging yourself!
Millhouse: Ow!
Say you were trying to use VMWare under Linux to create a beowulf cluster of Linux virtual machines each running VMWare each running a beowulf cluster of Linux virtual machines each....
Ooooohhhh, my head hurts.
MSN Customer Service: But you don't need to be connected to use the Messenger!
But what if you can't/don't want to flash your BIOS? Once the kernel is booted, doesn't it mostly ignore the BIOS anyway, except for ACPI, APM, and PCI namespace? Once you have Linux booted, the BIOS shouldn't interfere, assuming that it doesn't mind booting the kernel. I've also never been to learned on the x86 BIOS and Linux kernel relationship.
As long as they mopped the floor afterwards. That's why I don't like the smell of hospitals. It's all those microorganisms that give air flavor and life.
No, but E. Coli is supposed to be in your intestine. When it gets out, it can be really harmful. I'm not sure, but I think it can get out by feces. So, it would be undoubtably bad if your floor is covered in feces, and you probably wouldn't eat something on that floor, 5 second rule or not.
How about we create a new kind of candy with this stuff. It would be like Poprocks but it electrocutes you with the millions of micro-batteries it has. I wonder how toxic these batteries are.
<quote source="The Simpsons">
"We knew that the gum had spiders eggs in it, but the Haunta virus! Heh heh."
--Krusty the Klown
</quote>
Oh, it's patented. Nevermind.
You are right. I'm a moron. Even so, it is a funny clip. I think you get it from chris.com
Microsoft?!?! This is the same company that showed off Windows 95's awesome USB support and got a BSoD! Open source/free(dom) projects usually don't have to worry as much about deadlines -- "It'll be done when it's done." But Microsoft is not known for delaying a product because it's buggy.
Of course it is. Mac OS X IS UNIX-LIKE. FreeBSD, more precisely. Anything you can do with the average *nix you can do with OS X. I doubt that Apple reimplemented anything. They probably just made current capabilities pretty.
You speak as if CLI is a feature unique to OS X. *nix is very modular, and anything can be enabled or disabled, depending on what you need. So, you are describing a UNIX-like system.
Those BASIC Stamps you are talking about are really Microchip PIC's (Periferal Interface Controllers) with an interperator program. You can buy your own, though, and assembly code them or download the C compiler for it and use a subset of C.
Yeah, it's called PicoGUI. The problem with X (or the flexability with X, depending on how you look at it) is that you can do anything you want. It is the canvas -- what you put there is up to you. Of course, that means absolutely no consistancy. But, if someone does try to standardize the common functionality, it may not be taken too well and may just wind up joining the bazillions of other projects that have tried to do the same thing.
That's balogna, and everyone on Slashdot knows it. Just because the orginization is called the DVD Copy Control Association doesn't mean that the encryption used has anything to do with copying the DVDs. I can easily and full "cp /dev/dvd ~/copied-dvd.iso" without DeCSS. But you need DeCSS to access the content, which has nothing to do with copying (well, permenantly), only playing.
how's this:
while true; do
wget http://search.msn.com/results.asp?q=linux;
done
Words and Music by Steven Page
Lennie: Hey Homer, you wanna go bowling tonight?
Homer: Oh, Mr. Burns wants me to eat all this nuclear waste.
Sorry, I suck. I can't remember the rest of the scene and I probably misquoted it anyway.
I don't like the music industry restricting free speech and screwing the artists, but people copying copyrighted music illegally is wrong. However, I wonder if it could be argued in a court that some of the really crappy MP3's aren't even equivalent to the original work because they are so bad. Probably not, but what if the music industry started a website to allow full length, super crappy MP3's, as opposed to the 30s super crappy streams, to circulate unabated so that we can actually have a reasonable way of sampling music instead of breaking copyright now and buying it later. It would have to be crappy enough that people would buy the music eventually. I agree that what is really needed is some reasonable way to sample music. Of course, I prefer Ogg Vorbis, but Vorbis is actually designed to keep as much fidelity as possible ;-)
I think I might try to unpatch my dad's computer (I'm running Linux :-P) just so I can catch this virus!
You bring up a good point -- Linux is more of a mentality on building an operating system than an operating system itself. You could strip out all the GNU software and use BSD instead; use KDE, or another window manager/desktop instead of GNOME, and use indie free/libre software, like XawTV, Gtk-Gnutella, XMMS, BusyBox, TinyX, etc. You can even package it with quasi-proprietary-corperate-freeish software like X11, Mozilla/Netscape, Opera, Open Office, Qt, and others. The GNU system is totally GNU software, like the HURD, GNOME, GCC, GLibC, GNU Utilities, etc.
No clue where I got it originally because I saved it. I googled and found it everywhere. The first time I saw it, I read it about three or four times and it still was hilarious.
A major research institution has recently announced the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. This new element has been tentatively named "Administratium."
Administratium has 1 neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 111 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by a force called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.
Since Administratium has no electrons, it is inert.However, it can be detected as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of Administratium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would normally take less than a second.
Administratium has a normal half-life of three years; it does not decay but instead undergoes reorganization. In fact, Administratium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization causes some morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientists to speculate that Administratium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as "critical morass." You will know it when you see it...
You mean MSBlaster.exe or the DCOM RPC bug? I mean, if you want to reimplement Window$, then you might as well match it bug for bug ;-)
Does this mean that businesses won't have to be handicapped-accessable once these get cheap enough?