Linus has no option but to release the linux kernel under the letter of the GPLv2. He doesn't own copyright to the vast majority of the modern kernel. Each of the individual coders retains copyright of their parts. Even if Linus wanted to release under GPLv3 or BSD or some other license, he could not do so legally.
It's not that there is no root account. There is a root account that cannot be logged into without first setting a password (using sudo from a user account that is allowed to run sudo).
The idea is that no one needs to be root except to run particular commands (using sudo or gksudo). If you do need to run root you will create the root password and log in as root and be able to shoot yourself in the foot if you point the run in the wrong direction (ie: rm -R/. instead of rm -R./).
Absolutely agree. There's a lot of good stuff out now (probably more than there was a decade ago) if you look hard enough. Veronica Mars, 24, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, etc.
Maybe so that he could use it as soon as he gets back to the U.S. (ie: to call family at the airport to say he arrived and where exactly they can pick him up.) (This is why I always take my phone with me on overseas trips.)
Or maybe so that he could listen to his music.
Or maybe so he could keep track of information in his iCalender.
You really should give gmail a shot. It handles attachments better than most email clients (it will instaneously give you back control to do other stuff while it uploads the file in the background). It also does web2.0 magic (sorry, I'm not a technical guy:-)) so that making changes such as deleting a message does not require the whole page to be reloaded.
Try it for a week as a throwaway account. You have nothing to lose. In fact, it allows you to download or upload contacts, and even allows POP3 access to your email, so you can opt out without losing much. I don't think it allows uploading of your mbox files, however.:-(
Really, it's not that I like nvidia. But I've been hearing reports on/. since the beginning of the year of ATI linux drivers coming soon. How about we wait until they're actually release before bothering to give them any support.
As someone in the market for a new car that wants to be at least a little fuel-friendly, is there a list of new cars indexed on their miles per gallon and if they are hybrid engines or not?
Seriously. I want something fuel-friendly and am willing to pay a few extra bucks for it.
Just look at mainstream media portrayal of global warming. They make it sound as if global warming is a contested theory in the scientific community. As was mentioned in _An Inconvenient Truth_, of the hundreds of journal articles on the subject, there was not a single one that disputed that global warming existed.
To the best of my knowledge, Firefox does not have automatic syncing of bookmarks with a central server. There are definitely add-ons that allow it (such as foxmarks and the google toolbar (I think)). From this point of view, I think Opera has one up on Firefox by including it in the default installation (unless you don't believe in adding features to a browser that not everyone will use, of course).
Please note: I am not an Opera user. I use Firefox (with foxmarks).
Same here. If I try to install a kernel when it's absolutely fresh (within the first couple hours after it became available), it won't let me without first removing the nvidia drivers. I wait an hour or two and the kernel will install and download the new nvidia driver as well.
Actually, Linux (at least Ubuntu) can do that. Go to a software page and download the file (usually it says it is for Debian/Ubuntu). It will download to the desktop. Double click on the file. It will bring up the standard package installation dialog (used by *ALL* packages in the OS). The dialog will give a short description of the package and the version number of the package. Hit the installation button. The OS will ask for the administrator password. If other dependancies are required, they will then be downloaded (automatically!) and then everything will be installed.
You likely will not have to log off or reboot the machine, unless you just installed a new version of the kernel. If you do need to log off or reboot, a friendly dialog will just let you know once and an icon will remain visible in a corner of the screen. None of the Windows business of popups every fifteen minutes pestering you to reboot or start an autoreboot if you don't cancel within 30 seconds (as if usability studies suggest that individuals never leave their seats while the computer was logged in...).
Another cool thing about using synaptic and repositories: When Ubuntu came out with version 7.04, users of version 6.10 got a notice via synaptic, stating that a new version of the OS was available. If the user chose to upgrade to the new version, the only thing that was changed was the version of the OS listed in the list of repositories in synaptic. Then synaptic just did it's usual business and downloaded all the new files. A single reboot later, and the entire OS and all applications were upgraded. All at once.
The gui is called synaptic. It's so awesome compared to anything on the MSwindows side of things, it's hard to describe to someone who just uses MSWindows. But I'll give it a try:
Synaptic contains a list of repositories. Each repository is a website that has a group of applications for the OS. Synaptic comes with some default repositories and has an easy way for the user to add new ones using a GUI interface (or a text interface).
You run synaptic and it will give you a list of all possible programs to install on the OS. Everything. You click on a program to install. If it requires other applications to be installed, it will warn you that it will also install the other applications.
The magic comes when a new version of any application (ie: Firefox) comes out that you already have installed. The OS knows that there is a new version because the repositories will have a version number higher than the version installed on your system. The OS will put a little star in the corner of the screen. Click on it will bring up synaptic with the option to install the newer version.
Think of it as a Windows Update that does not send information about your system to any website, and which can update any program installed on your system (including OS files and files not distributed by Microsoft), regardless of who makes it. (repositories are available for proprietary products such as Opera and Google Earth).
A big part of the problem is beginner and intermediate users (I consider myself intermediate) who installs Linux on their only computer. An expert user can fiddle with X setting without breaking a sweat, I'm sure, but the beginner could sure use the help of google or a user forum to ask questions. Kind of tricky when the only computer in the house is stuck in console mode.:-(
Dual booting into Windows to trouble shoot X is a real trial of a newbie's patience.
Interstingly enough, when I created an HSBC direct savings account a couple months ago, it asked for two passwords. One I would type in after my user name. The other I had to click in using my mouse on a virtual keyboard on their website.
I have to do this every single time I want to access my account online. The second password sounds like it should be resistant to the average keylogger.
It was NOT... Buffy the Vampire Slayer in space. It NOT not a campy western in space. He really didn't like Firefly did he? What wasn't to like? I still can't see why Firefly didn't make it into the mainstream at least as well as Buffy. Interesting characters, well written, good plots. It had the plus of taking familiar themes and throwing curve balls. (ie: The crew goes down to the planet, gets drunk, and the captain gets married.)
What's the upshot of all this anyways? Even if OOXML gets approved for ISO don't we still have a choice? Won't ODF still be there? What's the point of a standard when there is a multiplicity of them? The amount of work required to create an OOXML-compliant office suite could probably be used to better the ODF standard (or at least implement it better). If the same people have to implement two different standards for the same software, either one of the standards will not be implemented as well, or less features will be available in the software since the programmer had to waste time with an extra data format.
Let's answer this by example: At the end on the heart contracting, there is 80 cc of blood in it. During relaxation another 20 cc enters the chamber. During the next contraction, 20 cc leaves the chamber. The ejection fraction is then (20/(80+20))*100=20 percent. The amount of blood that leaves the ventricle is always the same as the amount that enters it*, but is never 100% of the blood in the chamber.
*This is in the long term. On a beat-to-beat basis it may vary a little.
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Linus has no option but to release the linux kernel under the letter of the GPLv2. He doesn't own copyright to the vast majority of the modern kernel. Each of the individual coders retains copyright of their parts. Even if Linus wanted to release under GPLv3 or BSD or some other license, he could not do so legally.
It's not that there is no root account. There is a root account that cannot be logged into without first setting a password (using sudo from a user account that is allowed to run sudo).
/. instead of rm -R ./).
The idea is that no one needs to be root except to run particular commands (using sudo or gksudo). If you do need to run root you will create the root password and log in as root and be able to shoot yourself in the foot if you point the run in the wrong direction (ie: rm -R
Absolutely agree. There's a lot of good stuff out now (probably more than there was a decade ago) if you look hard enough. Veronica Mars, 24, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, etc.
Why do you think retailers will get the lions share of the margins?
But if it can be ignored, will the document lay out the same in two different products? If layout is different, why have you gained?
Maybe so that he could use it as soon as he gets back to the U.S. (ie: to call family at the airport to say he arrived and where exactly they can pick him up.) (This is why I always take my phone with me on overseas trips.)
Or maybe so that he could listen to his music.
Or maybe so he could keep track of information in his iCalender.
What does that mean? Can it render any page in zero time? Isn't that illegal (or at least against the laws of common sense)?
You really should give gmail a shot. It handles attachments better than most email clients (it will instaneously give you back control to do other stuff while it uploads the file in the background). It also does web2.0 magic (sorry, I'm not a technical guy :-)) so that making changes such as deleting a message does not require the whole page to be reloaded.
:-(
Try it for a week as a throwaway account. You have nothing to lose. In fact, it allows you to download or upload contacts, and even allows POP3 access to your email, so you can opt out without losing much. I don't think it allows uploading of your mbox files, however.
Really, it's not that I like nvidia. But I've been hearing reports on /. since the beginning of the year of ATI linux drivers coming soon. How about we wait until they're actually release before bothering to give them any support.
As someone in the market for a new car that wants to be at least a little fuel-friendly, is there a list of new cars indexed on their miles per gallon and if they are hybrid engines or not?
Seriously. I want something fuel-friendly and am willing to pay a few extra bucks for it.
Any reason to have 100 tabs open? Well, besides p0rn?
Just look at mainstream media portrayal of global warming. They make it sound as if global warming is a contested theory in the scientific community. As was mentioned in _An Inconvenient Truth_, of the hundreds of journal articles on the subject, there was not a single one that disputed that global warming existed.
Unfortunately, firefox cannot scale imaged with page zoom or keep track of the individual page zoom level (though I hear it will be better in 3.0).
I use Zoomy as an extention for buttons to zoom the text in and out. It's just a couple icons that shortcut to ctrl-+ and ctrl--.
Any eight-grader who's worth his salt will have an accessory gmail account to keep the important stuff.
To the best of my knowledge, Firefox does not have automatic syncing of bookmarks with a central server. There are definitely add-ons that allow it (such as foxmarks and the google toolbar (I think)). From this point of view, I think Opera has one up on Firefox by including it in the default installation (unless you don't believe in adding features to a browser that not everyone will use, of course).
Please note: I am not an Opera user. I use Firefox (with foxmarks).
Any idea if a .deb file for googleearth 4.2 will be available? I'm interested in playing with google sky. :-)
Same here. If I try to install a kernel when it's absolutely fresh (within the first couple hours after it became available), it won't let me without first removing the nvidia drivers. I wait an hour or two and the kernel will install and download the new nvidia driver as well.
Actually, Linux (at least Ubuntu) can do that. Go to a software page and download the file (usually it says it is for Debian/Ubuntu). It will download to the desktop. Double click on the file. It will bring up the standard package installation dialog (used by *ALL* packages in the OS). The dialog will give a short description of the package and the version number of the package. Hit the installation button. The OS will ask for the administrator password. If other dependancies are required, they will then be downloaded (automatically!) and then everything will be installed.
You likely will not have to log off or reboot the machine, unless you just installed a new version of the kernel. If you do need to log off or reboot, a friendly dialog will just let you know once and an icon will remain visible in a corner of the screen. None of the Windows business of popups every fifteen minutes pestering you to reboot or start an autoreboot if you don't cancel within 30 seconds (as if usability studies suggest that individuals never leave their seats while the computer was logged in...).
Another cool thing about using synaptic and repositories: When Ubuntu came out with version 7.04, users of version 6.10 got a notice via synaptic, stating that a new version of the OS was available. If the user chose to upgrade to the new version, the only thing that was changed was the version of the OS listed in the list of repositories in synaptic. Then synaptic just did it's usual business and downloaded all the new files. A single reboot later, and the entire OS and all applications were upgraded. All at once.
The gui is called synaptic. It's so awesome compared to anything on the MSwindows side of things, it's hard to describe to someone who just uses MSWindows. But I'll give it a try:
Synaptic contains a list of repositories. Each repository is a website that has a group of applications for the OS. Synaptic comes with some default repositories and has an easy way for the user to add new ones using a GUI interface (or a text interface).
You run synaptic and it will give you a list of all possible programs to install on the OS. Everything. You click on a program to install. If it requires other applications to be installed, it will warn you that it will also install the other applications.
The magic comes when a new version of any application (ie: Firefox) comes out that you already have installed. The OS knows that there is a new version because the repositories will have a version number higher than the version installed on your system. The OS will put a little star in the corner of the screen. Click on it will bring up synaptic with the option to install the newer version.
Think of it as a Windows Update that does not send information about your system to any website, and which can update any program installed on your system (including OS files and files not distributed by Microsoft), regardless of who makes it. (repositories are available for proprietary products such as Opera and Google Earth).
A big part of the problem is beginner and intermediate users (I consider myself intermediate) who installs Linux on their only computer. An expert user can fiddle with X setting without breaking a sweat, I'm sure, but the beginner could sure use the help of google or a user forum to ask questions. Kind of tricky when the only computer in the house is stuck in console mode. :-(
Dual booting into Windows to trouble shoot X is a real trial of a newbie's patience.
Interstingly enough, when I created an HSBC direct savings account a couple months ago, it asked for two passwords. One I would type in after my user name. The other I had to click in using my mouse on a virtual keyboard on their website.
I have to do this every single time I want to access my account online. The second password sounds like it should be resistant to the average keylogger.
Even if OOXML gets approved for ISO don't we still have a choice? Won't ODF still be there? What's the point of a standard when there is a multiplicity of them? The amount of work required to create an OOXML-compliant office suite could probably be used to better the ODF standard (or at least implement it better). If the same people have to implement two different standards for the same software, either one of the standards will not be implemented as well, or less features will be available in the software since the programmer had to waste time with an extra data format.
Let's answer this by example: At the end on the heart contracting, there is 80 cc of blood in it. During relaxation another 20 cc enters the chamber. During the next contraction, 20 cc leaves the chamber. The ejection fraction is then (20/(80+20))*100=20 percent. The amount of blood that leaves the ventricle is always the same as the amount that enters it*, but is never 100% of the blood in the chamber.
*This is in the long term. On a beat-to-beat basis it may vary a little.