Is there any chance of this desktop being used on a distribution small enough for a credit card sized CD? 50MB.
From the site:
This table represents the state of libs from XFree86 that should be brought into the Freedesktop cvs as autofooed projects. Please update these if you have any further information.
Library current status GL needs to be done GLU FreeGlu? may be better? (don't think so, and Mesa should have the same libGLU available --EricAnholt) GLw XThrStub? would be part of libX11, but may be better not as a separate library XTrap Xaw6 Xbsd Xfontcache Xft1 Maybe do not need this Xinerama Multiscreen unified display Xp X print Xss X screen saver A newer smarter version of this may be nice Xtst XvMC? Xxf86dga Probably does not need to be done. Xxf86misc getting and setting of input device attributes possible ideas for better device handling Xxf86rush Xxf86vm VidMode? extension that allows modifying video attributes on the fly apple dps There may be a GNU package for this, but it may be old. dpstk See dps expat Should be depended upon font fontconfig fontenc freetype2 Should be depended upon libxutil libxml2 Should be depended upon misc oldX psres See dps regex xkbfile xkbui zlib Should be depended upon
Those MOLiens get the IntergalacticNet so screwed up, their email doesn't work right, IE is messed up, and when they installed MOL on the rover it started saying: "You've Got Rocks!"
Last year Intuit restricted the installation of Quick Tax to just one computer, using the activation scheme that Windows now favours. This year, they allow it to be installed physically on more than one computer of the owner's.
I think DRM will take the same route, after companies find that the consumer outcry is bad for business, and increases production and support costs.
Even if it had DC [Delivery Confirmation] that doesn't insure against damage, only a lost package. They better hope they either find it, or if it is damaged they never find it.
It was the best 50 ESA spent on the mission though.
I'll have to trust you on that, or wait until someone else confirms or denies, because it just so happens that my hard drive repair clean room is out of order at the moment.
I say it will be, but there will always be alternative means that although may be illegal, will be as easily obtainable. An example are the DirecTV dishes in Canada. Although the RCMP has begun doing raids to stop people from "stealing signals", it won't be long before they realize their time on that is a waste of resources.
Remember 3 years ago when it was said that we'd all have harddrives with built in DRM by now? Where are they?
It comes down to how your philosophy on life dictates your actions. Either it is survival of the fitest by denying the weak resources, or you give the weak some resources so that they will later be able to bail you out when you are weak [or someone else helps who was once bailed out].
And if my family is reading, well, you can't say I didn't give you a hint.
For any geek with a nice digital camera, a telescope is perfect for photgraphing Mars while it is still close, and Saturn which is very close [relatively] too.
Where I'm from there are no gas stations, nor hotels for within a 30 minute drive across open country. At this time of year it would be murder or at best man slaughter not to help some idiot who drove out here in -20, with not enough gas for a return trip. The nearest farm house can be a 30 minute walk in places, off the highway.
This situation is not much different. You can call anyone stranded an "idiot", for poor planning, but if you refuse to help them you are contributing to the idiot population.
The only thing that separates us from the animals is our defiance of the "survival of the fitest" theory. It is called compassion. A dead person can't pass compassion on to others.
Part of the problem is the Martin soil and atmosphere. Even though it is farther from the Sun, it's magnetic shielding isn't enough, it's atmosphere doesn't cut it, and the soil is low in the right kind of filtering atoms. We'd have to take a good supply of H to mix with our Martion soil shield to get adaquate shielding.
It should be noted that "heavier" doesn't always mean "better" radiation shielding in space.
Hydrogen, the lightest atom, makes one of the best shields, because it doesn't kick out radiation very well after being struck by a high energy atom from the Sun.
Actually, my research last year on what it would take to get to Mars turned up that a very long hydrocarbon chain, like the hydrocarbons in plastic shopping bags, were the best way to transport lots of hydrogen atom shielding into space in a fine powder so it could be mixed into hydrogen clay with water at Mars.
There are also hydrogen material bricks in some sleeping stations on the ISS, I think they were first used on MIR.
This low-tech shielding was the inspiration for part of the filtering my Foil Hat in my sig.
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I think some people do it just because they will get attention. That, and people LOVE to get mail. email even. Anything that is addressed to THEM.
On the advice of another /. user, I've invented the MAA to fix any Auto problems.
MAA
Is there any chance of this desktop being used on a distribution small enough for a credit card sized CD? 50MB.
From the site:
This table represents the state of libs from XFree86 that should be brought into the Freedesktop cvs as autofooed projects. Please update these if you have any further information.
Library current status
GL needs to be done
GLU FreeGlu? may be better? (don't think so, and Mesa should have the same libGLU available --EricAnholt)
GLw
XThrStub? would be part of libX11, but may be better not as a separate library
XTrap
Xaw6
Xbsd
Xfontcache
Xft1 Maybe do not need this
Xinerama Multiscreen unified display
Xp X print
Xss X screen saver A newer smarter version of this may be nice
Xtst
XvMC?
Xxf86dga Probably does not need to be done.
Xxf86misc getting and setting of input device attributes possible ideas for better device handling
Xxf86rush
Xxf86vm VidMode? extension that allows modifying video attributes on the fly
apple
dps There may be a GNU package for this, but it may be old.
dpstk See dps
expat Should be depended upon
font
fontconfig
fontenc
freetype2 Should be depended upon
libxutil
libxml2 Should be depended upon
misc
oldX
psres See dps
regex
xkbfile
xkbui
zlib Should be depended upon
I should have added MOL insurance to the Martian Automobile Association brochure.
Those MOLiens get the IntergalacticNet so screwed up, their email doesn't work right, IE is messed up, and when they installed MOL on the rover it started saying:
"You've Got Rocks!"
The MAA card is now available.
An MAA membership card. My next eBay item I think...
Last year Intuit restricted the installation of Quick Tax to just one computer, using the activation scheme that Windows now favours. This year, they allow it to be installed physically on more than one computer of the owner's.
I think DRM will take the same route, after companies find that the consumer outcry is bad for business, and increases production and support costs.
I AM worried about not being able to photoshop tin foil hat pictures. Thank you very much. ;-)
Or if security isn't a concern, just post them into your /. Journal.
Damn Small Linux is neat, and supports USB keys too I've read.
www.damnsmalllinux.org
What I'd like to know is if Antivirus software can easily scan USB drives, or if they pose a virus risk when popped into a machine.
Even if it had DC [Delivery Confirmation] that doesn't insure against damage, only a lost package. They better hope they either find it, or if it is damaged they never find it.
It was the best 50 ESA spent on the mission though.
I consider comediens actors too, as long as they aren't standing in front of a mic.
If you've seen Scrooged, Groundhog Day, or The Man Who Knew Too Little you'd see both a great actor, and funny man in action.
I'll have to trust you on that, or wait until someone else confirms or denies, because it just so happens that my hard drive repair clean room is out of order at the moment.
I say it will be, but there will always be alternative means that although may be illegal, will be as easily obtainable. An example are the DirecTV dishes in Canada. Although the RCMP has begun doing raids to stop people from "stealing signals", it won't be long before they realize their time on that is a waste of resources.
Remember 3 years ago when it was said that we'd all have harddrives with built in DRM by now? Where are they?
It comes down to how your philosophy on life dictates your actions. Either it is survival of the fitest by denying the weak resources, or you give the weak some resources so that they will later be able to bail you out when you are weak [or someone else helps who was once bailed out].
It may be prudent, but it isn't neighbourly.
And if my family is reading, well, you can't say I didn't give you a hint.
For any geek with a nice digital camera, a telescope is perfect for photgraphing Mars while it is still close, and Saturn which is very close [relatively] too.
If they don't have the fuel, then they've done all they can.
I was obviously speaking from the mistaken knowledge that they had the right kind of fuel he needed to get himself out of the jam.
Heard inside geek's appartment: ..."I'll just slip the condom on while you sign this waiver here, here, and here."
Unless selling him fuel is illegal or at all damaging to their operation, then their action is just punitive and not compassionate.
Not to mention not very Christian: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
But most people don't live by the Golden Rule anymore.
Excuse me while I patent my DNA."
Would that be YOUR DNA, or your clones'?
Where I'm from there are no gas stations, nor hotels for within a 30 minute drive across open country. At this time of year it would be murder or at best man slaughter not to help some idiot who drove out here in -20, with not enough gas for a return trip. The nearest farm house can be a 30 minute walk in places, off the highway.
This situation is not much different. You can call anyone stranded an "idiot", for poor planning, but if you refuse to help them you are contributing to the idiot population.
The only thing that separates us from the animals is our defiance of the "survival of the fitest" theory. It is called compassion. A dead person can't pass compassion on to others.
Part of the problem is the Martin soil and atmosphere. Even though it is farther from the Sun, it's magnetic shielding isn't enough, it's atmosphere doesn't cut it, and the soil is low in the right kind of filtering atoms. We'd have to take a good supply of H to mix with our Martion soil shield to get adaquate shielding.
Sn? What kind of protection does that atom really provide from radiation?
How about Aluminum foil?
It should be noted that "heavier" doesn't always mean "better" radiation shielding in space.
Hydrogen, the lightest atom, makes one of the best shields, because it doesn't kick out radiation very well after being struck by a high energy atom from the Sun.
Actually, my research last year on what it would take to get to Mars turned up that a very long hydrocarbon chain, like the hydrocarbons in plastic shopping bags, were the best way to transport lots of hydrogen atom shielding into space in a fine powder so it could be mixed into hydrogen clay with water at Mars.
There are also hydrogen material bricks in some sleeping stations on the ISS, I think they were first used on MIR.
This low-tech shielding was the inspiration for part of the filtering my Foil Hat in my sig.