or backups (if a file has not been read in three years, it's probably safe to archive and move off the drive)
Ummmm... if you are doing regular backups then the atime will be changing every time so you can't tell if the file has not *really* been read in three years.
So atime is only useful in the case that you havn't backed that file up in three years and it has never even been accessed in that time... at which point I have to ask why you are only now deciding to archive it to offline media, if its relevence is really that low?
Its funny how the poor sanitation is a modern phenomenon. 10,000 years of culture and civilisation later...
I know Indians *try* to be sanitary but the technique employed with respect to eating and defecation seems to leave a lot to be desired. One could use eating utensils and not wipe ones arse with ones bare hand and use soap to wash afterward for example. And not shit by the road, that would help too.
The Indian parliament recently tried to get a scheme in place to get people to use toilets instead of just doing it as they walk down the street. From what I hear, its not been very successful as many politicians apparently believe in just doing it as they walk down the street...
where hitherto cities had been limited by our frankly shocking approach to sanitation.
Wow true.
Imagine the population explosion if India ever introduces decent sanitation... apart from the whole "don't eat with the hand you wipe your arse with" notion of 'sanitation'.
All the shapeshifting abilities use mana, but they're not interruptable, they're not dispellable, and they don't have duration, which makes them different from every other spell in the game.
The fact is that the USA can produce far less new soldiers per annum per capita than almost any other nation on earth.
The "fit for military service per capita" figure for the USA is extremely low; something like 0.7%. Most other nations can manage at least 10%.
These figures were from the CIA world fact book circa 2000 ie before 9/11 when the data was pulled out. I doubt that the picture has improved for the USA since then.
So, yes, the USA desperately needs mass production of fighting robots if it is to cope with a ground war.
I've been under the impression that point release Software Updates can break such installs
You are absolutely right.
The 'hackintosh' installs use hacked versions of some kernel stuff. This gets replaced by some of the Apple updates and breaks the system. The forums are full of instructions on what to do to upgrade hackintoshes.
In OSX this file exists and looks as if it contains real mount entries. However it is just some sort of bizarre and perverse 'bling'. It appears to do nothing at all.
One of the first things I wanted to do on the Mac was to set it up to mount some NFS shares at boot time. So I added them to/etc/fstab and.... nothing!
I mean WTF??? Why have an/etc/fstab if it doesn't do anything? Its just *misleading* and useless. Like tits on a bull!
Now if you look at the actions of the United States over at least the past 20 years you'll note that we don't have a policy of randomly going around and bombing people
Absolutely correct.
The USA does not *randomly* bomb just *anyone*. In almost all cases the people who get bombed by the USA are *brown* people. People of *colour*.
Apart from the Germans, but they were trying to move in on Americas action. "World domination? Thats *our* fuckin job!!!"
Serbs probably come under that category sort of -- they were bombing *Muslims* thats *Americas* job!!! Cheeky bastards those Serbs, bomb them!!!
Of course for a removable USB/Firewire drive XFS could be an unmitigated disaster as XFS is intended for *enterprise* hardware and *expects* a UPS and RAID array. This is due to the very heavy caching that XFS does for performance reasons.
Since a *removable* external drive could be unceremoniously unplugged or powered down one could expect ones files to suddenly be filled with NULL characters. Thats what (frequently) happens when XFS filesystems unexpectedly lose power or have drives disconnected.
The fact of the matter is that either the government controls the press or the press controls the government.
"He who has the power to destroy a thing controls that thing"
I bet that every major press corporation in any given 'democratic' (I prefer the term 'mediacratic') nation has some secret dirt filed away on every major political player in that nation ready to roll out and destroy those politicians (or their cronies) should push come to shove.
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or backups (if a file has not been read in three years, it's probably safe to archive and move off the drive)
Ummmm... if you are doing regular backups then the atime will be changing every time so you can't tell if the file has not *really* been read in three years.
So atime is only useful in the case that you havn't backed that file up in three years and it has never even been accessed in that time... at which point I have to ask why you are only now deciding to archive it to offline media, if its relevence is really that low?
Its funny how the poor sanitation is a modern phenomenon. 10,000 years of culture and civilisation later...
I know Indians *try* to be sanitary but the technique employed with respect to eating and defecation seems to leave a lot to be desired. One could use eating utensils and not wipe ones arse with ones bare hand and use soap to wash afterward for example. And not shit by the road, that would help too.
The Indian parliament recently tried to get a scheme in place to get people to use toilets instead of just doing it as they walk down the street. From what I hear, its not been very successful as many politicians apparently believe in just doing it as they walk down the street...
They're probably waiting until Steve Jobs is done announcing new products
They may be waiting a while. Sometimes it seems thats all Steve Jobs ever *does*.
where hitherto cities had been limited by our frankly shocking approach to sanitation.
Wow true.
Imagine the population explosion if India ever introduces decent sanitation... apart from the whole "don't eat with the hand you wipe your arse with" notion of 'sanitation'.
we need third party politicians with maturity, vision, and leadship skills.
I sure hope Steve Jobs isn't reading this... or you'll have a damn 'iGovernment' after the next election.
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. Always boom tomorrow.
Oh thats just such a Russian attitude...
My mayor ran on the promising of "fixing any pothole within 24 hours of discovery."
Dude we could do with that kind of attitude here.
Except it'd be more like "I have a pot *hole* right here. In my pipe. Please fill it in. With pot. Thanks."
THERE! That look realistically surprised to you guys?
Nah, you look more like you did in that faked YouTube video where you had a pineapple shoved up your butt.
At least I'm *assumuing* it was faked...
Wait, Letters to Penthouse aren't real?
The one about your mother was...
*zing*
All the shapeshifting abilities use mana, but they're not interruptable, they're not dispellable, and they don't have duration, which makes them different from every other spell in the game.
Except for the Paladins aura.
That .7% seems waaaayyy off
It was calculated from the figure for total gross population vs "Military manpower: fit for service"
Thats what the CIA put in the book at least; who knows if its true, right?
Ah yes, but it's only a ground war in the Middle East. Imagine what it would be like if it was a ground war in Asia!
Almost as bad as going up against a Sicilian when death is on the line...
The fact is that the USA can produce far less new soldiers per annum per capita than almost any other nation on earth.
The "fit for military service per capita" figure for the USA is extremely low; something like 0.7%. Most other nations can manage at least 10%.
These figures were from the CIA world fact book circa 2000 ie before 9/11 when the data was pulled out. I doubt that the picture has improved for the USA since then.
So, yes, the USA desperately needs mass production of fighting robots if it is to cope with a ground war.
Heres a thought.
The cycles of motion of our sun through the galaxy could cause gravitational perturbations in the orbits of objects in the oort cloud or kuiper belt.
Those peturbations could, in the long run, result in more earth-crossing objects and therefore impacts.
Those impacts could, directly, lead to loss of biodiversity or, indirectly through setting off cataclysmic vulcanism lead to loss of biodiversity.
Therefore, its possible that the cyclic motion of the sun could lead to extinction events which are don't directly intersect with those cycles.
Caution: I am not an astrophysicist but I might play one in a roleplaying game.
I've been under the impression that point release Software Updates can break such installs
You are absolutely right.
The 'hackintosh' installs use hacked versions of some kernel stuff. This gets replaced by some of the Apple updates and breaks the system. The forums are full of instructions on what to do to upgrade hackintoshes.
Real unix users tend to cry when trying to use it
/etc/fstab
/etc/fstab and.... nothing!
/etc/fstab if it doesn't do anything? Its just *misleading* and useless. Like tits on a bull!
My personal favorite is
In OSX this file exists and looks as if it contains real mount entries. However it is just some sort of bizarre and perverse 'bling'. It appears to do nothing at all.
One of the first things I wanted to do on the Mac was to set it up to mount some NFS shares at boot time. So I added them to
I mean WTF??? Why have an
I suspect that an 'OS X Wine' would take as long.
Wouldn't an 'OS X Wine' be Cider?
Indeed.
But how do you do the single-raised-eyebrow smiley??
the actual death toll was (thankfully) closer to only a few dozen individuals. :-)"
:-)" (slurp, yum! spaghetti!!)
You need to be careful how you terminate sentences, quoting etc with emoticons.
That just looked as if you said:
the actual death toll was (thankfully) closer to only a few dozen individuals.
in the late 1970's. That's what the MULTI environment was for on CDC Cybers. :-)
The late '70s eh? Wow. I always thought 'cybering' was a '90s thing!
In your mind, case closed at that point. I'm sorry this happened, but is it really so shocking?
Whats really shocking is that he didn't wind up in Gitmo.
I mean *what* has the department of homeland security come to????
Now if you look at the actions of the United States over at least the past 20 years you'll note that we don't have a policy of randomly going around and bombing people
Absolutely correct.
The USA does not *randomly* bomb just *anyone*. In almost all cases the people who get bombed by the USA are *brown* people. People of *colour*.
Apart from the Germans, but they were trying to move in on Americas action. "World domination? Thats *our* fuckin job!!!"
Serbs probably come under that category sort of -- they were bombing *Muslims* thats *Americas* job!!! Cheeky bastards those Serbs, bomb them!!!
Of course for a removable USB/Firewire drive XFS could be an unmitigated disaster as XFS is intended for *enterprise* hardware and *expects* a UPS and RAID array. This is due to the very heavy caching that XFS does for performance reasons.
Since a *removable* external drive could be unceremoniously unplugged or powered down one could expect ones files to suddenly be filled with NULL characters. Thats what (frequently) happens when XFS filesystems unexpectedly lose power or have drives disconnected.
Police and Judges will not want to waste there time with it either
Police and Judges won't be allowed anywhere *near* it.
It's treated as a contempt of Parliament, so it goes before the Privileges Committee (i.e. a select committee of MPs).
It's true that a free press _is_ dangerous.
The fact of the matter is that either the government controls the press or the press controls the government.
"He who has the power to destroy a thing controls that thing"
I bet that every major press corporation in any given 'democratic' (I prefer the term 'mediacratic') nation has some secret dirt filed away on every major political player in that nation ready to roll out and destroy those politicians (or their cronies) should push come to shove.