Brilliant deduction, I've got Reiser on most of my boot disk partitions and that could very easily be the cause of its insomnia. I suppose this is a feature not a bug. Oh well, it's worth the electricity I guess.
That's as may be, but my Linux box still uses more energy than my 2k because the boot disk won't ever spin down! I have hdparm set to powerdown both the drives after half an hour, but the root drive is being accessed every five minutes or so for various things.
I realize that I could dig through my logs and find out why sound-slot-0 is being modprobed every so often even though my one ALSA-driven sound card is inserted at boot. Or I could find a way for my log files to be written to ramdisk (since I'm not running a server and have a UPS). Sure is a lot of work though! Aren't there laptop users that have gotten distros to hack together workarounds for this stuff?
Last HOWTO I saw on this was about 20 pages long and looked mighty timeconsuming. Anyone have any tips on quick-ish ways to make Debian Sid disk-friendly?
Cost-saving measures at this new privately-owned spaceport will include an abbreviated launch sequence - no longer will T-minus start at two days, instead Joe will stand next to the launch plunger and count to three.
This is getting closer and closer to that ideal user interface - something that's so complicated that you just wave your hand in its' general direction and hope that it does what you want.
I like my interfaces old-school. Dials and knobs, please.
I hope this show isn't as realistic as junkyard wars -
"Gee whiz, profesor, it's a good thing this moderately sized aircraft crashed in this remote location with key components intact! Now we can build our submarine!"
This could be the difference between the story poster's proposal and the typical dot-com buisness model.
Local advertising is more relevant, easier to canvas for as a small start-up, and more interesting than X10 ads. I think this'll work and would love to hear back from anyone who's tried it.
Couldn't agree with you more. Another case in point: My dad was coming back from the states, and was forced to throw away his nailclippers that he had in his backpack because they had a pointy folding nailfile. I can see the justification for that.
But get this: They didn't even look at the gin bottle half-filled with clear liquid that he had in his pack. Could have been acid, could have been nitroglycerin, could have been anything! Plus, all you have to do is smash the bottle and you have a much better weapon than any piddly swiss army knife.
It's just like the border checks. As the joke goes: What's the best way to smuggle a nuclear bomb into the USA?
The answer, of course: In the back of a rusty pickup truck, hidden inside a bale of marijuana.
That sounds scarily close to saying "US Law doesn't apply to our actions" and "Russian Law doesn't apply to our actions" so we'll do whatever we damned like...
Go take an economics class... heh heh heh. While I respect economics profs, I think it's pretty obvious that our current economic system is pretty incomplete in its oversight of environmental issues. A polluting smokestack can be marked down $0.00 on a balance sheet, but that is *not* its true cost.
The cost of disposal of 'used' cellphones does not have to be borne by the company that manufactured them, so effectively they are offloading disposal costs onto the public. Clever, but despicable nonetheless.
Focusing on the posters (arguable) innacuracy in the exact country from which tantalum is mined (which these stupid cellphones would still be wasting, no matter where it is dug up from) does not address his more central issue. Don't be so quick to squeak "troll!".
Or is she trying to deliberately give a shoddy analogy in the hopes it gets by people?
Ding! I'll bet 10 to 1 odds that you've hit the nail on the head. That's PR for you! Contrary to the geek ethic where one attempts to be as correct as possible in whatever one says (even if it pisses people off), Hillary and every other spokespuppet use speech as a real rhetorician would, to persuade people that whatever cause they're backing is 'right'.
That's something really useful that should be taught in school: the skill of identifying flawed reasoning and propagandistic logic.
In fact the American Institute of Propaganda Analysis attempted to do just that in 1937 when the Nazis' PR department was churning the stuff out and innocent US minds needed to be protected. Now that the Pentagon is the world leader in 'public relations', it's a lot more convenient for Americans to believe whatever they're told.
the U.S. feared that the same thing would happen to Japan that happened to Germany after WWI, that is, that Japan would get strong again and attack.
I'm more of a believer that the US foreign policy folks realized that making Japan artificially weak, in the manner that Germany was treated post WWI with their 'reparations' penalties, would be to repeat a horrible mistake. This would only generate resentment amongst the people, paving the way for 'dynamic leadership' i.e. another fascist/totalitarian government, this time in Japan.
By re-making Japan in their own image, the Americans gained a strong ally instead of creating a bitter foe. Why attack the nation that put you back on your feet? There's a lesson to be learned there.
When I was in elementary school, we were taught the three R's:
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
But over the years, the only one that has weathered the storm of 'common sense economics' is Recycling - why? Because there's no money in reducing and reusing.
I have to say that my weakness for the old WB cartoons was for the orchestra's background music. I'm still trying to find the name of the 'big band' style tune that plays during the "How they make bowling pins" sequence. (You know, you start with an entire tree, have horribly complicated machines whittle it down to a bowling pin size, get a white-gloved mechanical arm to paint it properly, use it once, then throw it out)
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Brilliant deduction, I've got Reiser on most of my boot disk partitions and that could very easily be the cause of its insomnia. I suppose this is a feature not a bug. Oh well, it's worth the electricity I guess.
I realize that I could dig through my logs and find out why sound-slot-0 is being modprobed every so often even though my one ALSA-driven sound card is inserted at boot. Or I could find a way for my log files to be written to ramdisk (since I'm not running a server and have a UPS). Sure is a lot of work though! Aren't there laptop users that have gotten distros to hack together workarounds for this stuff?
Last HOWTO I saw on this was about 20 pages long and looked mighty timeconsuming. Anyone have any tips on quick-ish ways to make Debian Sid disk-friendly?
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I like my interfaces old-school. Dials and knobs, please.
Did they mention that that's based on a Minimum Advertised Price of $250 per CD?
CODE 0000-FFFF:
YOUR CAR IS BROKEN. BUY A NEW ONE.
"Gee whiz, profesor, it's a good thing this moderately sized aircraft crashed in this remote location with key components intact! Now we can build our submarine!"
It can check your Hotmail account every half hour or so too if you don't want to give up your spam-harvesting mailbox. How's that for features?
NOTE: I don't work for them or have anything to do with them except being quite happy with my free account there. This is not a plug!
Local advertising is more relevant, easier to canvas for as a small start-up, and more interesting than X10 ads. I think this'll work and would love to hear back from anyone who's tried it.
But get this: They didn't even look at the gin bottle half-filled with clear liquid that he had in his pack. Could have been acid, could have been nitroglycerin, could have been anything! Plus, all you have to do is smash the bottle and you have a much better weapon than any piddly swiss army knife.
It's just like the border checks. As the joke goes: What's the best way to smuggle a nuclear bomb into the USA?
The answer, of course: In the back of a rusty pickup truck, hidden inside a bale of marijuana.
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http://archive.salon.com/comics/boll/2001/12/20/bo ll/index.html
Thanks to Ruben Bolling's Tom the Dancing Bug, of course.
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The cost of disposal of 'used' cellphones does not have to be borne by the company that manufactured them, so effectively they are offloading disposal costs onto the public. Clever, but despicable nonetheless.
Focusing on the posters (arguable) innacuracy in the exact country from which tantalum is mined (which these stupid cellphones would still be wasting, no matter where it is dug up from) does not address his more central issue. Don't be so quick to squeak "troll!".
Is it true that they're named after the National Film Board of Canada?
I'd be pretty damn mad if my project got the slashdotting that this has brought down on labs1.google.com...
Or is she trying to deliberately give a shoddy analogy in the hopes it gets by people?
Ding! I'll bet 10 to 1 odds that you've hit the nail on the head. That's PR for you! Contrary to the geek ethic where one attempts to be as correct as possible in whatever one says (even if it pisses people off), Hillary and every other spokespuppet use speech as a real rhetorician would, to persuade people that whatever cause they're backing is 'right'.
That's something really useful that should be taught in school: the skill of identifying flawed reasoning and propagandistic logic.
In fact the American Institute of Propaganda Analysis attempted to do just that in 1937 when the Nazis' PR department was churning the stuff out and innocent US minds needed to be protected. Now that the Pentagon is the world leader in 'public relations', it's a lot more convenient for Americans to believe whatever they're told.
Do I sound cynical?
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the U.S. feared that the same thing would happen to Japan that happened to Germany after WWI, that is, that Japan would get strong again and attack.
I'm more of a believer that the US foreign policy folks realized that making Japan artificially weak, in the manner that Germany was treated post WWI with their 'reparations' penalties, would be to repeat a horrible mistake. This would only generate resentment amongst the people, paving the way for 'dynamic leadership' i.e. another fascist/totalitarian government, this time in Japan.
By re-making Japan in their own image, the Americans gained a strong ally instead of creating a bitter foe. Why attack the nation that put you back on your feet? There's a lesson to be learned there.
But over the years, the only one that has weathered the storm of 'common sense economics' is Recycling - why? Because there's no money in reducing and reusing.
Sigh.
Anyone know what I'm talking about?