My personal peeve is people that hit Reply when Reply All is required. I deliberately included those other people in the original email, because they need to be part of the discussion, don't cut them out. You've just forced me to add them all back in again on my reply.
USA: FMVSS 208 requires that air-bags be engineered and calibrated to be able to "save" the life of an unbelted 50th-percentile size and weight "male" crash test dummy.
European ECE airbags are generally smaller and inflate less forcefully than U.S. airbags, because the ECE specifications are based on belted crash test dummies
Basically the law says you should belt up in both, but the safety standards in the USA assume you won't be...
Did the submitter (or editor, ha ha) even read the article? Or even read the article headline: "Why aren't you using FreeBSD?".
Nowhere does he mention the desktop except to say "There used to be a saying -- at least I've said it many times -- that my workstations run Linux, my servers run FreeBSD", and he finishes with "you may decide you'd be better off running FreeBSD on the next set of Web servers, SMTP relays, or application servers you build".
That's true. I worked there in the late 80's and several bits of obsolete gear was just sitting around. Most notable was a perspex hemisphere about two feet across which was part of the original pointing system (since upgraded several times). You can see that in the film.
From that video the Star Wars Kinect game reminds me a lot of Dragon's Lair. Totally scripted and just a matter of pushing the right button (or waving your hand) at the right time.
And those robots had worse aim than the storm troopers in the original movie.
Can you put your small personal computer running Mathematica in your pocket? How long does it take to start up? How long before you need to recharge it?
The latest CentOS release is getting pretty long in the tooth, so recent versions of packages can be hard to find or difficult to install. They are still only mirroring RHEL5 even though RedHat release v. 6 last November.
I understood that the problem was that the firmware was broken on a recent kernel update, and they are waiting for new firmware from Intel, currently being tested.
If you had the same kernel version in Debian then you'd have the same issue. I've stuck with 10.04, which is kind-of the same as sticking with Debian stable.
The point is that BCC only works when the recipients understand what it means (as it says in TFA), and are savvy enough to check for it in sensitive situations. In today's world that's not many people.
You would certainly want to stick to LTS rather than the six-montly releases for an Ubuntu Server. It's not just the less frequent updating, they deliberately try more experimental things in the six-monthlies but focus on stability for the LTS releases.
Regarding Ubuntu vs Debian: I run 15-20 Ubuntu servers currently, in a mix of 8.04 and 10.04. After a failed attempt on my home server to go from 8.04 to 10.04 in place I've only upgraded on my production machines via a fresh install, part of the reason some are still on 8.04.
I don't know if Debian is more solid for in-place upgrades (I once borked a Debian server doing an in-place upgrade but that was about six years ago).
What is more puzzling is what the existence of two camps creating such huge codebases for a fundamental application type says about the whole state of open source development at this time. It clearly isn't the idealistic world it tries to present itself as.
Let me save you some time in the future. One of your requirements:
My mom, for example, uses special software to interface with her high-end sewing machine
Stop looking at alternatives. That particular piece of software will only ever work with Windows. In fact, it's quite likely that it will become unsupported and only ever work with the current version of Windows, so expect to be supporting that for a long time to come, until she upgrades the sewing machine.
The problem is that you assume that the second-hand book seller is purely a business. All the ones I know in various countries in Europe are much more a social thing. The store owner is much more interested in having the right atmosphere than making a profit. I'd guess that many of them are essentially hobbies, making only enough to cover the rent. At several I know the "customers" sit around chatting and drinking tea or coffee for much of the day.
They are protecting (or offering) different freedoms. The BSD licence offers freedom to the first generation recipient to do what they wish (pretty much). The GPL licence is designed to extend that freedom to the second generation recipient, by preventing the first generation recipient from taking it away.
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My personal peeve is people that hit Reply when Reply All is required. I deliberately included those other people in the original email, because they need to be part of the discussion, don't cut them out. You've just forced me to add them all back in again on my reply.
As JasterBobaMereel said earlier in the thread:
USA: FMVSS 208 requires that air-bags be engineered and calibrated to be able to "save" the life of an unbelted 50th-percentile size and weight "male" crash test dummy.
European ECE airbags are generally smaller and inflate less forcefully than U.S. airbags, because the ECE specifications are based on belted crash test dummies
Basically the law says you should belt up in both, but the safety standards in the USA assume you won't be ...
We have no simple way for me to write a cool hack of a little game today, and share it with thousands of Linux enthusiasts tomorrow.
Stick it on your website; create a PPA for Ubuntu; add it to SourceForge. There's a ton of ways to distribute something.
The hash on the following line would then be different.
Did the submitter (or editor, ha ha) even read the article? Or even read the article headline: "Why aren't you using FreeBSD?".
Nowhere does he mention the desktop except to say "There used to be a saying -- at least I've said it many times -- that my workstations run Linux, my servers run FreeBSD", and he finishes with "you may decide you'd be better off running FreeBSD on the next set of Web servers, SMTP relays, or application servers you build".
Staggering lack of reading comprehension.
Here on their website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15287391
That's true. I worked there in the late 80's and several bits of obsolete gear was just sitting around. Most notable was a perspex hemisphere about two feet across which was part of the original pointing system (since upgraded several times). You can see that in the film.
Warner Bros. is doing so badly that only one of their movies last year made the top 100. (It was "Hot Tub Time Machine".)
I think you mean MGM. Warner Bros had a ton in the top 100. http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2010&p=.htm
From that video the Star Wars Kinect game reminds me a lot of Dragon's Lair. Totally scripted and just a matter of pushing the right button (or waving your hand) at the right time.
And those robots had worse aim than the storm troopers in the original movie.
Can you put your small personal computer running Mathematica in your pocket? How long does it take to start up? How long before you need to recharge it?
The latest CentOS release is getting pretty long in the tooth, so recent versions of packages can be hard to find or difficult to install. They are still only mirroring RHEL5 even though RedHat release v. 6 last November.
emacs - all that and more (even the proportional fonts - god forbid that you should want them)
most people (including myself) are in the good habit of keeping a tidy workspace and 'taking out the trash' when they see that it is full
Whilst my dataset is no more valid that the submitters, I have never seen anyone feel a desperate need to keep an empty trash can.
It fills up to a certain (configurable) limit, then starts permanently removing the oldest files. Seems pretty good behaviour. Just leave it alone.
But what is all this bullshit about integrated mp3 stores?
You answered your own question
I downloaded Ubuntu a while back because it was simple to install, it was straightforward to use
For Ubuntu's target audience "straightforward to use" includes pre-setting up a way to buy mp3's.
I'm guessing you're referring to this bug: iwlagn degrades quickly during normal wifi session which affects a number of Intel cards in the 5000 series.
I understood that the problem was that the firmware was broken on a recent kernel update, and they are waiting for new firmware from Intel, currently being tested.
If you had the same kernel version in Debian then you'd have the same issue. I've stuck with 10.04, which is kind-of the same as sticking with Debian stable.
The point is that BCC only works when the recipients understand what it means (as it says in TFA), and are savvy enough to check for it in sensitive situations. In today's world that's not many people.
You would certainly want to stick to LTS rather than the six-montly releases for an Ubuntu Server. It's not just the less frequent updating, they deliberately try more experimental things in the six-monthlies but focus on stability for the LTS releases.
Regarding Ubuntu vs Debian: I run 15-20 Ubuntu servers currently, in a mix of 8.04 and 10.04. After a failed attempt on my home server to go from 8.04 to 10.04 in place I've only upgraded on my production machines via a fresh install, part of the reason some are still on 8.04.
I don't know if Debian is more solid for in-place upgrades (I once borked a Debian server doing an in-place upgrade but that was about six years ago).
Boy, was this phrase ever flamebait:
What is more puzzling is what the existence of two camps creating such huge codebases for a fundamental application type says about the whole state of open source development at this time. It clearly isn't the idealistic world it tries to present itself as.
citation needed
So they are switching to BSD, I take it?
No, they are shipping a Linux system that doesn't run under any recent hardware.
Not that bad, assuming someone else will write a script that configures the system and loads all proprietary firmware.
I'm guessing that script will be called "Ubuntu".
You could put this replica Harrier on the deck.
Let me save you some time in the future. One of your requirements:
My mom, for example, uses special software to interface with her high-end sewing machine
Stop looking at alternatives. That particular piece of software will only ever work with Windows. In fact, it's quite likely that it will become unsupported and only ever work with the current version of Windows, so expect to be supporting that for a long time to come, until she upgrades the sewing machine.
The problem is that you assume that the second-hand book seller is purely a business. All the ones I know in various countries in Europe are much more a social thing. The store owner is much more interested in having the right atmosphere than making a profit. I'd guess that many of them are essentially hobbies, making only enough to cover the rent. At several I know the "customers" sit around chatting and drinking tea or coffee for much of the day.
This guy is the antithesis of that.
Looks like Data Center Knowledge could use some of that infrastructure.
They are protecting (or offering) different freedoms. The BSD licence offers freedom to the first generation recipient to do what they wish (pretty much). The GPL licence is designed to extend that freedom to the second generation recipient, by preventing the first generation recipient from taking it away.
Mod the parent up. I walked out 45 minutes in at the theaters and it took 5 sittings to get through on DVD.
Am I missing something?
Apparently anything better to do in your life other than repeatedly try to watch a film you don't like.