The only reason that the US joined was because of Perl Harbor. There was NO intention before that. Churchill apparently knew that the Japanese were about to invade the US, and did nothing about it. So that the US would be dragged into it. Why did French-fries turn into freedom-fries ? Why was there a big push by the Americans to belittle France and their decision not to get involved with Iraq? If you were to get rid of all things that were French, you'd have to give them that statue that floats in NY Harbor.
This is how most arguments turn out here on/. Some one points out that only one action is the reason something happened. Like you saying the only reason we joined WWII was because of Pearl Harbor. What's more likely is that there would have been another inevitable circumstance down the line where we would have had to join in if Pearl Harbor were not attacked. The Axis countries were fighting to become world powers. They wouldn't have just left us alone. Anyway, outside of some basic knowledge on the subject, I'm don't know enough about WWII to offer more than I already have.
About France - You're talking about the rednecks who think they french are some do nothing worthless sons of bitches. The truth is that France has played a vital role in our countries past and to ridicule them because they don't want to fight some stupid "war" of ours is inexcusable. Blame the uneducated masses, I don't care. There are some people in the states who recognize that France has historically been a major contributer to our past causes.
As far as the current war, I'm glad that your country, France and most of the UN has given the chance to join this war some thought. This is little more than one of Bush's tantrums to protect his interests and the interests he percieves the american people have. Something had to be done, just not at this level.
The war started in September of 1939. We joined in on December 7, 1941. That is 27 months of no fighting. The war ended in September, 1945. So 45 months of fighting. That's hardly "The last year of the war". We played a non-trivial role in the war and we suffered many losses. We don't claim all of the credit, I don't know of any book that says that.
The point is, we did help and we did join in. We could only hope you would do the same when it's time for us [CONNECTION TERMINATED]
It's essentially a visa permitting medium term residency in the United States. Corporate managers love them because they can hire 2:1 or even better over local candidates.
What I want to know is, why is this so widespread? Obviously the operator in the linked article was just a person at their job, and it's hard to imagine why he would have such a personal interest in keeping the customer from cancelling his account. Do they get a commission every time they dissuade someone? That's the only thing I could imagine.
I imagine this is the case. They probably have to recover so many accounts a month or they're fired. It's the same way with credit card collections, car sales, and so on. These people have a vested interest in ensuring they get their way. The problem is, the personalities that suite this job well are aggression, persuasion and the ability to "control" people. Those who don't have these personalities are probably not the people you're talking to (Because they don't last long), so that only leaves one thing...
What about partitioning & parallelism? Why use a product like db2 or oracle? How about because they can save you huge dollars on hardware? Take this example: you've got a million rows of data a day for 365 days on a 4-way SMP with 8 gbytes of memory and four disk arrays. Users run a wide variety of queries for reporting & analysis. Assume that your hardware cost $88,000 (list) for high-end models of this type.
I love this feature of databases, and just thought I'd mention that this is available in the beta version of mysql now.
Printing should never lock the whole system, ever. I encourage you to debug it a bit and submit a bug report if you find it's some software. If it's some hardware, that'd be an interesting story.
Just like the lowered the price on the PS after there were a lot of games produced, as their ROI started to look good? Oh wait, they didn't do that. How about how they lowered their price on the PS2 after the production costs went down dramatically? Nope, didn't do that either. The simple fact is, prices on consoles rarely drop if history is any guide. When they do make the rare drop, it's generally a negligable amount. If you're more than a once a week gamer, waiting for a $20 decrease in price after 3 years for a $200-$300 system is probably not worth it.
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AMANDA does encryption. It even does RAIT, tape changes, tape spanning, client compression, and so on. I've used it for 8 years and have yet to be disappointed.
FSpot's looking promising, especially with its histogram. How detailed is the EXIF? My problem with iPhoto is it only displays basic EXIF data (date, camera). I'm looking for more advanced/detailed info like aperture, shutter speed, light sensitivity setting, etc. I'm looking for a tool I can use to track my progress w/digital photography - to be able to see why a shot worked is an important part of that.
This is a picture I took recently. I just went to view->metadata browser in f-spot and copied and pasted. It's not a toughguy camera, I know, but you'll see the program gets pretty verbose with the metadata.
Manufacturer SONY Model DSC-P10 Orientation top - left x-Resolution 72.00 y-Resolution 72.00 Resolution Unit Inch Date and Time 2006:04:13 19:08:24 YCbCr Positioning co-sited Exposure Time 1/250 sec. FNumber f/2.8 ExposureProgram Normal program ISO Speed Ratings 100 Exif Version Exif Version 2.2 Date and Time (original) 2006:04:13 19:08:24 Date and Time (digitized) 2006:04:13 19:08:24 ComponentsConfiguration Y Cb Cr - Compressed Bits per Pixel 4.00 Exposure Bias 0.0 MaxApertureValue 3.00 Metering Mode Pattern Light Source 0 Flash Flash did not fire. Focal Length 7.9 mm Maker Note 1504 bytes unknown data FlashPixVersion FlashPix Version 1.0 Color Space sRGB PixelXDimension 2592 PixelYDimension 1944 File Source DSC Scene Type Custom Rendered Normal process Exposure Mode Auto exposure White Balance Auto white balance Scene Capture Type Standard
The reply to your post is correct for cpuscaling. Just make sure you get the right modules. Also, if you use the cpuspeed applet in gnome, you can setuid/usr/bin/cpufreq-selector (chmod o+s/usr/bin/cpufreq-selector) so you can change speed using the applet too.
You forgot one thing, that I at least think is important. W/S has shared folders, allowing fast access between environments. Server offers no such mechanism so if you'd like to transfer files between boxes, you're stuck with something like samba/smb which has a fair amount of overhead including overhead from the network. It's really quite inconvient, and you'd think it'd be easy for them to slap in there.
I think the wpa is better than windows actually - I can hot-undock my dell d800 and the first screen I get is the keyring prompt for the password so it can login to my wpa connection. I can do whatever, come back and hot-dock and my wired is up after a second or two. Just my experience, though.
The touchpads are buggy on apple devices, same old story. NetworkManager is included with dapper and has native wpa functionality (I don't think it has wpa2), and it works wonderfully.
Port knocking is security by obscurity. Sure it helps mitigate and reduce attack vectors, but it doesn't eliminate them. If you think port knocking is a solution to anything, you are sorely mistaken.
Actually, I found f-spot very, very nice. It rivals picassa in some areas and really fills in the gap on the linux side. I'm glad picassa is out, but I'll probably stick with f-spot.
No, not to disable routing, but TLS should work just as well. Demand your ISP to support it for incoming and outgoing emails. Demand the places you send email to and receive email from to support TLS.
Which is exactly why I quit using XFS. For production systems that reboot semi-often and cleanly, XFS is good. When XFS is up for quite some time (On 2.4.x at least, it can tend to get messy after 1yr+ of uptime with heavy writes. Eventually you'll have to umount and do an xfs repair just to get it back to normal.) it's not too good.
Even worse story for crashes. I've had to go to backup many times because a heavily used system locks up and XFS gets into it's unable to find superblocks or another one of it's infamous cryptic, non documented bugs/errors. I don't recall ever having to do this on a ext3 system unless the disk went bad or it crashed multiple times without a fsck.
That said, XFS is an excellent choice is some areas, such as realtime (soft guarentee) systems, etc.
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The only reason that the US joined was because of Perl Harbor. There was NO intention before that. Churchill apparently knew that the Japanese were about to invade the US, and did nothing about it. So that the US would be dragged into it. Why did French-fries turn into freedom-fries ? Why was there a big push by the Americans to belittle France and their decision not to get involved with Iraq? If you were to get rid of all things that were French, you'd have to give them that statue that floats in NY Harbor.
/. Some one points out that only one action is the reason something happened. Like you saying the only reason we joined WWII was because of Pearl Harbor. What's more likely is that there would have been another inevitable circumstance down the line where we would have had to join in if Pearl Harbor were not attacked. The Axis countries were fighting to become world powers. They wouldn't have just left us alone. Anyway, outside of some basic knowledge on the subject, I'm don't know enough about WWII to offer more than I already have.
This is how most arguments turn out here on
About France - You're talking about the rednecks who think they french are some do nothing worthless sons of bitches. The truth is that France has played a vital role in our countries past and to ridicule them because they don't want to fight some stupid "war" of ours is inexcusable. Blame the uneducated masses, I don't care. There are some people in the states who recognize that France has historically been a major contributer to our past causes.
As far as the current war, I'm glad that your country, France and most of the UN has given the chance to join this war some thought. This is little more than one of Bush's tantrums to protect his interests and the interests he percieves the american people have. Something had to be done, just not at this level.
The war started in September of 1939. We joined in on December 7, 1941. That is 27 months of no fighting. The war ended in September, 1945. So 45 months of fighting. That's hardly "The last year of the war". We played a non-trivial role in the war and we suffered many losses. We don't claim all of the credit, I don't know of any book that says that.
The point is, we did help and we did join in. We could only hope you would do the same when it's time for us [CONNECTION TERMINATED]
A little coaxing of the numbers, and string theory could prove the existance of Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny and Jesus.
BFD.
Agreed. They seem to get all wound up! It feels like you can't unfrazzle them no matter how hard you tie.
Although I shouldn't extend you the courtesy after you've used "USian", there is a fine link here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H1B
It's essentially a visa permitting medium term residency in the United States. Corporate managers love them because they can hire 2:1 or even better over local candidates.
What I want to know is, why is this so widespread? Obviously the operator in the linked article was just a person at their job, and it's hard to imagine why he would have such a personal interest in keeping the customer from cancelling his account. Do they get a commission every time they dissuade someone? That's the only thing I could imagine.
I imagine this is the case. They probably have to recover so many accounts a month or they're fired. It's the same way with credit card collections, car sales, and so on. These people have a vested interest in ensuring they get their way. The problem is, the personalities that suite this job well are aggression, persuasion and the ability to "control" people. Those who don't have these personalities are probably not the people you're talking to (Because they don't last long), so that only leaves one thing...
What about partitioning & parallelism? Why use a product like db2 or oracle? How about because they can save you huge dollars on hardware? Take this example: you've got a million rows of data a day for 365 days on a 4-way SMP with 8 gbytes of memory and four disk arrays. Users run a wide variety of queries for reporting & analysis. Assume that your hardware cost $88,000 (list) for high-end models of this type.
I love this feature of databases, and just thought I'd mention that this is available in the beta version of mysql now.
Uhh...my antelope?
I'm sorry, we didn't understand - what with Sony cock stuck in your mouth it's hard to make out what you're saying.
This works with the roomba:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/bpadams/roomba/
Probably the scooba as well. Looks very, very interesting...
Printing should never lock the whole system, ever. I encourage you to debug it a bit and submit a bug report if you find it's some software. If it's some hardware, that'd be an interesting story.
Just like the lowered the price on the PS after there were a lot of games produced, as their ROI started to look good? Oh wait, they didn't do that. How about how they lowered their price on the PS2 after the production costs went down dramatically? Nope, didn't do that either. The simple fact is, prices on consoles rarely drop if history is any guide. When they do make the rare drop, it's generally a negligable amount. If you're more than a once a week gamer, waiting for a $20 decrease in price after 3 years for a $200-$300 system is probably not worth it.
Seems to be working for Novell so far...
Umm, that's a link to breezy (5.10)
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Here:
http://torrent.ubuntu.com/releases/dapper/release
AMANDA does encryption. It even does RAIT, tape changes, tape spanning, client compression, and so on. I've used it for 8 years and have yet to be disappointed.
FSpot's looking promising, especially with its histogram. How detailed is the EXIF? My problem with iPhoto is it only displays basic EXIF data (date, camera). I'm looking for more advanced/detailed info like aperture, shutter speed, light sensitivity setting, etc. I'm looking for a tool I can use to track my progress w/digital photography - to be able to see why a shot worked is an important part of that.
This is a picture I took recently. I just went to view->metadata browser in f-spot and copied and pasted. It's not a toughguy camera, I know, but you'll see the program gets pretty verbose with the metadata.
Manufacturer SONY
Model DSC-P10
Orientation top - left
x-Resolution 72.00
y-Resolution 72.00
Resolution Unit Inch
Date and Time 2006:04:13 19:08:24
YCbCr Positioning co-sited
Exposure Time 1/250 sec.
FNumber f/2.8
ExposureProgram Normal program
ISO Speed Ratings 100
Exif Version Exif Version 2.2
Date and Time (original) 2006:04:13 19:08:24
Date and Time (digitized) 2006:04:13 19:08:24
ComponentsConfiguration Y Cb Cr -
Compressed Bits per Pixel 4.00
Exposure Bias 0.0
MaxApertureValue 3.00
Metering Mode Pattern
Light Source 0
Flash Flash did not fire.
Focal Length 7.9 mm
Maker Note 1504 bytes unknown data
FlashPixVersion FlashPix Version 1.0
Color Space sRGB
PixelXDimension 2592
PixelYDimension 1944
File Source DSC
Scene Type
Custom Rendered Normal process
Exposure Mode Auto exposure
White Balance Auto white balance
Scene Capture Type Standard
The reply to your post is correct for cpuscaling. Just make sure you get the right modules. Also, if you use the cpuspeed applet in gnome, you can setuid /usr/bin/cpufreq-selector (chmod o+s /usr/bin/cpufreq-selector) so you can change speed using the applet too.
You forgot one thing, that I at least think is important. W/S has shared folders, allowing fast access between environments. Server offers no such mechanism so if you'd like to transfer files between boxes, you're stuck with something like samba/smb which has a fair amount of overhead including overhead from the network. It's really quite inconvient, and you'd think it'd be easy for them to slap in there.
I think the wpa is better than windows actually - I can hot-undock my dell d800 and the first screen I get is the keyring prompt for the password so it can login to my wpa connection. I can do whatever, come back and hot-dock and my wired is up after a second or two. Just my experience, though.
The touchpads are buggy on apple devices, same old story. NetworkManager is included with dapper and has native wpa functionality (I don't think it has wpa2), and it works wonderfully.
Port knocking is security by obscurity. Sure it helps mitigate and reduce attack vectors, but it doesn't eliminate them. If you think port knocking is a solution to anything, you are sorely mistaken.
Works fine for me in dapper.
$ uname -a
Linux machine 2.6.15-23-386 #1 PREEMPT Tue May 23 13:49:40 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
Actually, I found f-spot very, very nice. It rivals picassa in some areas and really fills in the gap on the linux side. I'm glad picassa is out, but I'll probably stick with f-spot.
http://f-spot.org/Main_Page
No, not to disable routing, but TLS should work just as well. Demand your ISP to support it for incoming and outgoing emails. Demand the places you send email to and receive email from to support TLS.
Which is exactly why I quit using XFS. For production systems that reboot semi-often and cleanly, XFS is good. When XFS is up for quite some time (On 2.4.x at least, it can tend to get messy after 1yr+ of uptime with heavy writes. Eventually you'll have to umount and do an xfs repair just to get it back to normal.) it's not too good.
Even worse story for crashes. I've had to go to backup many times because a heavily used system locks up and XFS gets into it's unable to find superblocks or another one of it's infamous cryptic, non documented bugs/errors. I don't recall ever having to do this on a ext3 system unless the disk went bad or it crashed multiple times without a fsck.
That said, XFS is an excellent choice is some areas, such as realtime (soft guarentee) systems, etc.