You don't have to unlock the keyboard to answer a call. Whenever your phone is locked, and rings, a few keys will be enabled: answer, abort, and ignore (for the phones having it - great feature: makes the phone stop ringing, but not for your correspondant, who thinks you didn't hear the ring:-)).
Oh yeah, shop owners. Forgot about these. Well, people going to visit France, may I suggest you don't go to Paris, but rather more in the south of France. I lived in Paris for a while (and I'm not a tourist of course), and when I moved to Toulouse I noticed a great difference between Toulouse and Paris' inhabitants. In Toulouse people actually say Bonjour, Merci, Au revoir and even sometimes smile when you go in a shop and buy stuff.
Of course, Paris is the town with the most touristic attractions (like the Tour Eiffel), so you may end up choosing between lots of stuff to visit, or nicer people;-)
Speak English to a Frenchman in France, though, and you have just earned yourself an enemy for life.
Well, that must depend on the frenchman:-) (It may be true for old or sedendary people who never got out of his little piece of the world, though).
I'm french, but whenever I meet someone lost asking me for directions in english, I answer him as good as I can in english.
Maybe that's due to the fact i'm a developer (and a free software contributor), which led me to learn lots of stuff about english (and USA) language and culture, either via mailing-lists, slashdot, (or more generally, I think hacker culture is international); but a lot of my friends do the same. Anyway, every english or american guy I know (not necessarily met, but talked to via email) is nice and intelligent, and USA/France bashing is not an issue for me and these people.
Anyway, I imagine RMS will have to say a few thing on GPL-compatibility.
We saw him at Toulouse last Saturday, where he gave a speech about free software. Someone asked about CeCILL during the questions part of the speech, and he basically said it was fine (negating other FSF people's comments like these ones (in French).
The french have arranged this better: intellectual ownerships is always at the author, as far as i understood.
Actually, there's a copyright transfer (similar to the copyight transfer one can do with the FSF for GNU software) to the employer, for whatever we write during work hours; what we do during our spare time is ours.
Well, I put that in my list because, as much as it doesn't seem kernel-related, there has been a bug in one of the last DRM merge in the kernel, causing AGP access by X to fail (and thus falling back to PCI mode). This slowed glxgears by a factor of four on my laptop...
The bug was due to some 2.4 related code not being stripped when merged in the 2.6 kernel, but the #ifdef guardian itself had been stripped. See this changeset.
The tests covered in the article don't cover other user-related stuff in the kernel. One day, when i'll have enough motivation, i'll write a small script testing:
video (3D)
sound (alsa, oss-emulation)
third-party modules state (like linux-wlan-ng)
usb printer
usb key
usb modem
...
Too many times I missed a problem after a kernel upgrade, and lost time wondering "when did it stop working". I seem to always forget to test the broken thing each time I upgrade;-)
They "fixed" it by changing one (1) MODULE_LICENSE() macro, just to ensure tainting. the other submodules still lie about their license although the kernel developers fixed the taint message so that it appears only once.
See the Apr 30th entry in their Changelog.
To be fair, you can also use the file explorer and select "Eject" in the device's contextual menu - just like one uses "Unmount" on Gnome.
Unplugging an unmounted USB device is no problem.
Well, I think switching to X.org sooner rather than later allows for more progressive changes.
Switching from the latest XFree86 with the "correct" license to the first X.org release, is a matter of changing a few scripts, paths and names.
Architectural changes that could happen later will very probably be transparent to the use. Changing from XFree86 to X.org 6.9.0 (or any other upcoming Xorg release) will cause broder changes to take place and as such will make bug reporting and chasing harder.
Also, I think switching fast is meant as a strong political message from the distros to XFree maintainers.
I wonder if it would be feasible (and fast enough) to fingerprint the remote mail "server" while it's sending its mails. Then just add some SpamAssassin points if it's a Windows box.
Well, i don't think so. Translated from a news I read there:
Until the middle of the 19th century, Venus was considered as the sister planet of the
Earth: a diameter of 12104 km (12754 on Earth), 5.24g/cm3 density (5.51 on Earth).
We now know that actually, Venus is a (badly known) hell due to, among other things,
its thick atmosphere which radar observations just began to help discover.
Of numerous soviets and american probes sent to Venus, none has survived more than two
hours: the temperature on Venus' surface is about 460C et its pressure is more than 92
atm. Rocks on Venus are burning.
The reason to this has a familiar name: Greenhouse effect. As Venus gets less than half
the solar energy than Earth, Venus' ground refracts to its atmosphere (which is 97% carbon
dyoxide), the solar energy it gets. Carbon dyoxide being very efficient at absorbing
infrared rays, Venus' atmosphere is really overheated.
Venus is a dry planet: no water falls from its clouds but rather... sulfuric acid, which
evaporates before reaching the ground.
Well, your point is valid but I can't do that. The IIc I have is my first computer ever, the one I learned BASIC with at the age of 9. I really can't toss this computer away just for an ethernet adapter:)
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And this must be because you're so much convinced that this is an hoax that you post anonymously?
You don't have to unlock the keyboard to answer a call. Whenever your phone is locked, and rings, a few keys will be enabled: answer, abort, and ignore (for the phones having it - great feature: makes the phone stop ringing, but not for your correspondant, who thinks you didn't hear the ring :-)).
they do meet a lot of shopowners
;-)
Oh yeah, shop owners. Forgot about these. Well, people going to visit France, may I suggest you don't go to Paris, but rather more in the south of France. I lived in Paris for a while (and I'm not a tourist of course), and when I moved to Toulouse I noticed a great difference between Toulouse and Paris' inhabitants. In Toulouse people actually say Bonjour, Merci, Au revoir and even sometimes smile when you go in a shop and buy stuff.
Of course, Paris is the town with the most touristic attractions (like the Tour Eiffel), so you may end up choosing between lots of stuff to visit, or nicer people
Speak English to a Frenchman in France, though, and you have just earned yourself an enemy for life.
:-) (It may be true for old or sedendary people who never got out of his little piece of the world, though).
I'm french, but whenever I meet someone lost asking me for directions in english, I answer him as good as I can in english.
Well, that must depend on the frenchman
Maybe that's due to the fact i'm a developer (and a free software contributor), which led me to learn lots of stuff about english (and USA) language and culture, either via mailing-lists, slashdot, (or more generally, I think hacker culture is international); but a lot of my friends do the same. Anyway, every english or american guy I know (not necessarily met, but talked to via email) is nice and intelligent, and USA/France bashing is not an issue for me and these people.
Anyway, I imagine RMS will have to say a few thing on GPL-compatibility.
We saw him at Toulouse last Saturday, where he gave a speech about free software. Someone asked about CeCILL during the questions part of the speech, and he basically said it was fine (negating other FSF people's comments like these ones (in French).
The french have arranged this better: intellectual ownerships is always at the author, as far as i understood.
Actually, there's a copyright transfer (similar to the copyight transfer one can do with the FSF for GNU software) to the employer, for whatever we write during work hours; what we do during our spare time is ours.
this message © my employer.
Well, I put that in my list because, as much as it doesn't seem kernel-related, there has been a bug in one of the last DRM merge in the kernel, causing AGP access by X to fail (and thus falling back to PCI mode). This slowed glxgears by a factor of four on my laptop...
The bug was due to some 2.4 related code not being stripped when merged in the 2.6 kernel, but the #ifdef guardian itself had been stripped. See this changeset.
- video (3D)
- sound (alsa, oss-emulation)
- third-party modules state (like linux-wlan-ng)
- usb printer
- usb key
- usb modem
- ...
Too many times I missed a problem after a kernel upgrade, and lost time wondering "when did it stop working". I seem to always forget to test the broken thing each time I upgradeYou're sure pi's does not equal to three?
Well, given that 2+2=5 (for big enough values of 2), I guess we can safely assert that pi=3 (for big enough values of 3).
Oh, *laughs*, thanks, I didn't got it 'till you explained!
...as if it was still useful at speeds above 3GHz.
They "fixed" it by changing one (1) MODULE_LICENSE() macro, just to ensure tainting. the other submodules still lie about their license although the kernel developers fixed the taint message so that it appears only once.
See the Apr 30th entry in their Changelog.
Well, that doesn't explain your session managers crashes, but you don't seem to have RTFM:
./configure: N/A...I'm worried
X configuration is done via xc/conf/cf/host.def and xc/conf/cf/site.def.
should have wings so they can fly
Should be pretty big wings, with an average 7 millibars pressure at ground level.
To be fair, you can also use the file explorer and select "Eject" in the device's contextual menu - just like one uses "Unmount" on Gnome.
Unplugging an unmounted USB device is no problem.
Fords have explode buttons ? I always thought it was automatic.
Well, I wouldn't like my distro's package management system to fuck up my config files. I prefer doing it myself after having read the f* manual.
and replace
This page probably can.
Well, I think switching to X.org sooner rather than later allows for more progressive changes. Switching from the latest XFree86 with the "correct" license to the first X.org release, is a matter of changing a few scripts, paths and names.
Architectural changes that could happen later will very probably be transparent to the use. Changing from XFree86 to X.org 6.9.0 (or any other upcoming Xorg release) will cause broder changes to take place and as such will make bug reporting and chasing harder.
Also, I think switching fast is meant as a strong political message from the distros to XFree maintainers.
I wonder if it would be feasible (and fast enough) to fingerprint the remote mail "server" while it's sending its mails. Then just add some SpamAssassin points if it's a Windows box.
one word: mod_ssl
Well, i don't think so. Translated from a news I read there:
Until the middle of the 19th century, Venus was considered as the sister planet of the Earth: a diameter of 12104 km (12754 on Earth), 5.24g/cm3 density (5.51 on Earth). We now know that actually, Venus is a (badly known) hell due to, among other things, its thick atmosphere which radar observations just began to help discover.
Of numerous soviets and american probes sent to Venus, none has survived more than two hours: the temperature on Venus' surface is about 460C et its pressure is more than 92 atm. Rocks on Venus are burning.
The reason to this has a familiar name: Greenhouse effect. As Venus gets less than half the solar energy than Earth, Venus' ground refracts to its atmosphere (which is 97% carbon dyoxide), the solar energy it gets. Carbon dyoxide being very efficient at absorbing infrared rays, Venus' atmosphere is really overheated.
Venus is a dry planet: no water falls from its clouds but rather... sulfuric acid, which evaporates before reaching the ground.
I hope it's not too badly translated.
Why should you toss the //c
Because I actually have a girlfriend, and 4 computers (2 of them are servers in a cupboard). More wouldn't please her.
Well, your point is valid but I can't do that. The IIc I have is my first computer ever, the one I learned BASIC with at the age of 9. I really can't toss this computer away just for an ethernet adapter :)