well, have to wait if the trend continues but it was like that last week and since I always try to spend almost all the points I had a busy week... Had been 10 points each time for some time before that
The summary says Be sure to visit the Museum of Disk-asters too. and I did. It is pure advertising. Zero facts, instead boring emotional angle with mom and pop hugging as all their iMac data got recovered.
That stuff on the front page? Bahh! Instead of 15 modpoints twice a week give me 5 article mod points to vote this one down to -1 overrated.
SuSE Linux used to be free, prior to the sell out to Novell, that is. Speaking of which, Im currently searching for a SuSE 9.2 distro DVD which seems a hard task as Google finds bazillions of old news linking to long since deleted mirrors. Is there any spot in the web where outdated ancient Distros get archived (for download)
slashdot was missing,too, and unlike google it still is.
dp@phoenix:~/Desktop$ ping6 ipv6.google.com PING ipv6.google.com(2001:4860:0:1001::68) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 2001:4860:0:1001::68: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=221 ms 64 bytes from 2001:4860:0:1001::68: icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=214 ms 64 bytes from 2001:4860:0:1001::68: icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=221 ms
--- ipv6.google.com ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2026ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 214.969/219.185/221.367/3.006 ms
Mr. Norris was a co-founder of the Carlyle Group (and ironically the current head of that group is the ex-CEO of IBM;).
This is nothing but speculation, spy vs. spy, but...
doesn't IBM have a strong interest in SCOg's existence right until the day of the judgement? They invested a lot of time, reputation and money into this defence and may want to harvest a judgement that settles a number of questions once and for all. They could have saved themselves a lot if they had bought SCO earlier but this would have encouraged other litigators to try forced buyouts on them, and IBM apparently didn't want the allegations to stop but wanted a ruling declaring them false and void. MS got plenty FUD out of the story but since SCOg lost almost all of its case (if they ever had any) there is no good reason for MS to continue covered funding. SCO bleeds money just to make sure Novell won't get what they owe them, and approaches death. At the same time threatens to spoil the trial by going bankcrupt. IBM might want to secretly tunnel some money into the corpse to make sure a zombie SCOg has just enough strength left to take all the beating IBM has prepared for them.
but do they have a leader (and former compliece) to hunt down and hang? And are there any relics from the time that place was the cradle of civilization to rob from the museums and sell at the grey market? It will take at least one "yes" to form a coalition of the willing
may be. Or myabe not. I thought of this before and while I believe my list of add-ons is rather short I still decided to list them with my statement, just in case someone in the know recognizes one add-on as known-to-be-not-so-good. If you have some details WRT this it would be very much appreciated if you post them.
ff2 was almost unusable for me with my browsing habbit of 3 to 10 windows with some 15 tabs each. After some hours fireFox2 would eat up all cycles of one of the dual cores and take ages to redraw a window etc. Thus, when I read the first reports about ff3 having done a lot of work fixing memory leaks I switched to ff3-b. The difference is very notably and on the whole I have only one issue to complain and that is the missing availability of most of the add-ons. Dominspector and Adblock Plus work with ff3, Adblock Filterset updater, Add Bookmark here, DownThemAll, Fasterfox, FireBug, Mouse Gestures and TabMixPlus still don't.
Is there anything remotely like real competition for Microsoft in the desktop coming from any European
We are talking about office software, and yes, openOffice is still seen by many as a project with European roots as it was oiginally developped by StarDivision in Hamburg and it was quite popular. I knew and used it long before Sun bought the source.
PING irna.ir (209.1.163.102) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 209.1.163.102: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=297 ms
Nice try. I suggest you do a traceroute on that host or feed the IP to some IP2Location look up.
209.1.163.102 (irna.ir) is hosted somewhere near san francisco
7 sl-gw35-nyc-11-0-0.sprintlink.net (160.81.172.169) 144.399 ms 128.771 ms 128.782 ms
8 sl-bb23-nyc-11-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.13.36) 132.188 ms 131.804 ms 131.979 ms
9 sl-bb24-nyc-6-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.13.170) 137.595 ms 136.567 ms 135.432 ms 10 144.232.9.118 (144.232.9.118) 1757.524 ms 1757.793 ms 1758.047 ms 11 cr1-loopback.sfo.savvis.net (206.24.210.70) 227.055 ms 224.271 ms 226.472 ms 12 er1-te-1-0-1.SanJose3Equinix.savvis.net (204.70.200.229) 217.334 ms 217.254 ms 216.697 ms 13 hr1-te-2-0-0.santaclarasc4.savvis.net (204.70.200.210) 213.887 ms 213.728 ms 215.181 ms 14 bhr1-pos-12-0.santaclarasc4.savvis.net (204.70.194.198) 216.759 ms 213.994 ms 213.840 ms 15 216.34.2.234 (216.34.2.234) 223.272 ms 223.703 ms 223.968 ms 16 209.1.163.102 (209.1.163.102) 218.678 ms !X 218.600 ms !X 219.086 ms !X
In fact a remarkable row of those apostrophes, can't remember if I ever saw such an example. This spelling manie keeps astonishing me as I saw it rise in two different languages at the same time. In Germany it's nicknamed Dummenapostroph (dumm = stupid, silly) and quite common on signs and restaurant menues especially in the countryside, East Germany, parts of town with less then average concentration of higher education. A common explanation points to the heavy pressure English exercises on German, with ads, music, tv, professional idioms more and more turning to a mixed language with lots of English (or quasi-English) nouns and adjectives glued together with German grammar and particles. So the theory is that many people in Germany get less sure about what there own language is and how it should be written, mistaking the saxon genitive as the new and cool way to write the letter "s". Among my favourites of this mess was "Bab'si's Ei's-Cafe" (apparently Babsi the first name of the owner of that ice&coffe shop) but seem's... becau'se... pay's sort of beats that. And falsifies said theory, unless we assume that by some strange magic there is a feedback influence. Rupert Sheldrake's morphogenetic fields applied to linguistics?
reading the list myself I think it needs some filtered perception to summarize it like it was done for this entry. This is/. after all and I'm not new here and in soviet russia the news invent you...
unless you have a dual monitor setup which makes displayconfig-restore.py crash on start, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/97507 I switched from w2k to kubuntu a month ago and I must say there are still thousands of little things which annoy or limit my productivity
I have another way of looking at this. But let me first admit that I'm sort of biased, since I earned my bread creating educational applications with tools like toolbook, director, flash for the last 12 years. Macromedia tools were mac/win x-platform since '95 or so, but in the last couple of years the win versions had a tendency of having less bugs, so yes, my tool set tends to force me to windows. Now, I still have and use my w2k licenses but vista made a very strong impression when I had to work on it for a week, so that I now switched to kubuntu. Running my Macrobe stuff on wine, or on vmware etc, all in all a situation which needs a strong will to go through. Nothing which designers, or an agency or, say, teachers will do. But it is these people, too, who we need to switch to give linux the momentum to successfully eat from MS market share (and put an end to some monopolistic dreams). Porting silverdollar to.mono will add some pressure on ADOBE to start releasing more/better linux versions of their soft. Which, if they finally do, will make linux on the desktop attractive and viable to lots of people and businesses who at the moment may symphthise but actually have no chance to switch from the proprietary lock-in. So, yes, I hope Miguel will succeed with this.
Your argument, put another way, reads: since plants use chlorophyll and that specific molecule requires energy levels corresponding to red & blue light, things are required to be like they are. This is almost tautologic. The more interesting question would be, why something like chlorophyll evolved to power plants, instead of reactions with a potentially higher gain
The parent's sig is a nugget of gold, it looks like barbed wire even to a German reader (and German has words like "Angstschweiß", thus, we know our way through a jungle of consonants) but it sounds like milk and honey if pronounced properly. It just shows that Latin-1 is quite inappropriate to represent European languages. Take Ghoti as an example. Latecomers (like Turkish which seems to do a nice job representing its sound with some additional letters) seem to do a much better job there.
Slashdot Mirror
well, have to wait if the trend continues but it was like that last week and since I always try to spend almost all the points I had a busy week...
Had been 10 points each time for some time before that
The summary says Be sure to visit the Museum of Disk-asters too. and I did. It is pure advertising. Zero facts, instead boring emotional angle with mom and pop hugging as all their iMac data got recovered.
That stuff on the front page? Bahh! Instead of 15 modpoints twice a week give me 5 article mod points to vote this one down to -1 overrated.
SuSE Linux used to be free, prior to the sell out to Novell, that is.
Speaking of which, Im currently searching for a SuSE 9.2 distro DVD which seems a hard task as Google finds bazillions of old news linking to long since deleted mirrors. Is there any spot in the web where outdated ancient Distros get archived (for download)
> far and away closer to a comet than to a Saturnian body, but cannot be a captured comet.
Why not?
me. ipv6.google.com looks pretty much as I expected, but there is a difference: the letters jump on load, but only on the first load.
you do have a point there, or rather a comma, but it's a wrong error:
ping6 ipv6.slashdot.org gives unknown host and the typo was introduced only when I did it all once again to copy paste from it to the post.
slashdot was missing,too, and unlike google it still is.
dp@phoenix:~/Desktop$ ping6 ipv6.google.com
PING ipv6.google.com(2001:4860:0:1001::68) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2001:4860:0:1001::68: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=221 ms
64 bytes from 2001:4860:0:1001::68: icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=214 ms
64 bytes from 2001:4860:0:1001::68: icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=221 ms
--- ipv6.google.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2026ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 214.969/219.185/221.367/3.006 ms
dp@phoenix:~/Desktop$ ping6 ipv6.slashdot,org
unknown host
dig ipv6.google.com AAAA
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 7, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ipv6.google.com. IN AAAA
;; ANSWER SECTION:
ipv6.google.com. 10455 IN CNAME ipv6.l.google.com.
ipv6.l.google.com. 5 IN AAAA 2001:4860:0:1001::68
ipv6.l.google.com. 5 IN AAAA 2001:4860:0:2001::68
dig slashdot.org AAAA
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
said service only sees a limited range of TLDs excluding ccTLDs
Mr. Norris was a co-founder of the Carlyle Group (and ironically the current head of that group is the ex-CEO of IBM ;).
This is nothing but speculation, spy vs. spy, but...
doesn't IBM have a strong interest in SCOg's existence right until the day of the judgement? They invested a lot of time, reputation and money into this defence and may want to harvest a judgement that settles a number of questions once and for all.
They could have saved themselves a lot if they had bought SCO earlier but this would have encouraged other litigators to try forced buyouts on them, and IBM apparently didn't want the allegations to stop but wanted a ruling declaring them false and void.
MS got plenty FUD out of the story but since SCOg lost almost all of its case (if they ever had any) there is no good reason for MS to continue covered funding.
SCO bleeds money just to make sure Novell won't get what they owe them, and approaches death. At the same time threatens to spoil the trial by going bankcrupt.
IBM might want to secretly tunnel some money into the corpse to make sure a zombie SCOg has just enough strength left to take all the beating IBM has prepared for them.
but do they have a leader (and former compliece) to hunt down and hang? And are there any relics from the time that place was the cradle of civilization to rob from the museums and sell at the grey market? It will take at least one "yes" to form a coalition of the willing
may be. Or myabe not. I thought of this before and while I believe my list of add-ons is rather short I still decided to list them with my statement, just in case someone in the know recognizes one add-on as known-to-be-not-so-good.
If you have some details WRT this it would be very much appreciated if you post them.
ff2 was almost unusable for me with my browsing habbit of 3 to 10 windows with some 15 tabs each. After some hours fireFox2 would eat up all cycles of one of the dual cores and take ages to redraw a window etc. Thus, when I read the first reports about ff3 having done a lot of work fixing memory leaks I switched to ff3-b. The difference is very notably and on the whole I have only one issue to complain and that is the missing availability of most of the add-ons. Dominspector and Adblock Plus work with ff3, Adblock Filterset updater, Add Bookmark here, DownThemAll, Fasterfox, FireBug, Mouse Gestures and TabMixPlus still don't.
Is there anything remotely like real competition for Microsoft in the desktop coming from any European
We are talking about office software, and yes, openOffice is still seen by many as a project with European roots as it was oiginally developped by StarDivision in Hamburg and it was quite popular. I knew and used it long before Sun bought the source.
jealous jellyfish
Check this out:
PING irna.ir (209.1.163.102) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 209.1.163.102: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=297 ms
Nice try. I suggest you do a traceroute on that host or feed the IP to some IP2Location look up.
209.1.163.102 (irna.ir) is hosted somewhere near san francisco
7 sl-gw35-nyc-11-0-0.sprintlink.net (160.81.172.169) 144.399 ms 128.771 ms 128.782 ms
8 sl-bb23-nyc-11-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.13.36) 132.188 ms 131.804 ms 131.979 ms
9 sl-bb24-nyc-6-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.13.170) 137.595 ms 136.567 ms 135.432 ms
10 144.232.9.118 (144.232.9.118) 1757.524 ms 1757.793 ms 1758.047 ms
11 cr1-loopback.sfo.savvis.net (206.24.210.70) 227.055 ms 224.271 ms 226.472 ms
12 er1-te-1-0-1.SanJose3Equinix.savvis.net (204.70.200.229) 217.334 ms 217.254 ms 216.697 ms
13 hr1-te-2-0-0.santaclarasc4.savvis.net (204.70.200.210) 213.887 ms 213.728 ms 215.181 ms
14 bhr1-pos-12-0.santaclarasc4.savvis.net (204.70.194.198) 216.759 ms 213.994 ms 213.840 ms
15 216.34.2.234 (216.34.2.234) 223.272 ms 223.703 ms 223.968 ms
16 209.1.163.102 (209.1.163.102) 218.678 ms !X 218.600 ms !X 219.086 ms !X
In fact a remarkable row of those apostrophes, can't remember if I ever saw such an example. This spelling manie keeps astonishing me as I saw it rise in two different languages at the same time. In Germany it's nicknamed Dummenapostroph (dumm = stupid, silly) and quite common on signs and restaurant menues especially in the countryside, East Germany, parts of town with less then average concentration of higher education. A common explanation points to the heavy pressure English exercises on German, with ads, music, tv, professional idioms more and more turning to a mixed language with lots of English (or quasi-English) nouns and adjectives glued together with German grammar and particles. So the theory is that many people in Germany get less sure about what there own language is and how it should be written, mistaking the saxon genitive as the new and cool way to write the letter "s". Among my favourites of this mess was "Bab'si's Ei's-Cafe" (apparently Babsi the first name of the owner of that ice&coffe shop) but seem's ... becau'se ... pay's sort of beats that. And falsifies said theory, unless we assume that by some strange magic there is a feedback influence. Rupert Sheldrake's morphogenetic fields applied to linguistics?
reading the list myself I think it needs some filtered perception to summarize it like it was done for this entry. This is
It read like foxtrott for me.
informative? soso. If I had some mod points left I'd give it an insightful WRT the last paragraph, just my 2 cent
Giant black hole whistles happily, than sings to itself:
"The sweet you can eat between meals - without ruining your appetite. (slurp.) Milky Way."
The article says it absorbs radiation from water based solutions. So I assume in a wet universe this should work...
unless you have a dual monitor setup which makes displayconfig-restore.py crash on start, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/97507
I switched from w2k to kubuntu a month ago and I must say there are still thousands of little things which annoy or limit my productivity
I have another way of looking at this. But let me first admit that I'm sort of biased, since I earned my bread creating educational applications with tools like toolbook, director, flash for the last 12 years. Macromedia tools were mac/win x-platform since '95 or so, but in the last couple of years the win versions had a tendency of having less bugs, so yes, my tool set tends to force me to windows. .mono will add some pressure on ADOBE to start releasing more/better linux versions of their soft. Which, if they finally do, will make linux on the desktop attractive and viable to lots of people and businesses who at the moment may symphthise but actually have no chance to switch from the proprietary lock-in.
Now, I still have and use my w2k licenses but vista made a very strong impression when I had to work on it for a week, so that I now switched to kubuntu. Running my Macrobe stuff on wine, or on vmware etc, all in all a situation which needs a strong will to go through. Nothing which designers, or an agency or, say, teachers will do. But it is these people, too, who we need to switch to give linux the momentum to successfully eat from MS market share (and put an end to some monopolistic dreams).
Porting silverdollar to
So, yes, I hope Miguel will succeed with this.
Your argument, put another way, reads: since plants use chlorophyll and that specific molecule requires energy levels corresponding to red & blue light, things are required to be like they are. This is almost tautologic. The more interesting question would be, why something like chlorophyll evolved to power plants, instead of reactions with a potentially higher gain
The parent's sig is a nugget of gold, it looks like barbed wire even to a German reader (and German has words like "Angstschweiß", thus, we know our way through a jungle of consonants) but it sounds like milk and honey if pronounced properly.
It just shows that Latin-1 is quite inappropriate to represent European languages. Take Ghoti as an example.
Latecomers (like Turkish which seems to do a nice job representing its sound with some additional letters) seem to do a much better job there.