At most festivals, the toilets become unuseable by the end. I don't know how it happens, but you get piss and shit every where - on the toilet, on the floor, even on the roof sometimes. I hope they come up with some way of making all their gear water and shit resistant.
The best idea would probably be to install a temporary linux distribution. You'll need to repartition your drive any way. You could also look in the hints section - a couple of these might be helpful to you.
You can learn system configuration from any distribution; I haven't seen a distribution yet where I haven't had to venture into/etc at some point. But that's not the point. LFS isn't about learning about system administration, it's abvout learning how the system is put together: what does what, how the different parts of the system interrelate, why things are done the way they are. It's not intended as a working distribution like gentoo is, except for people with particular needs. LFS is a HOWTO for building a linux distribution, not a distribution itself.
Yes it does. It's right there in the documentation
Where exactly? In chapter 9 (hint: this is the last chapter in the book), "What now" it states:
Now that you have finished installing your LFS system, you may be wondering "What now?". In order to answer that question, we have composed a list of resources for you.
Beyond Linux From Scratch
The Beyond Linux From Scratch book covers installation procedures for a wide range of software beyond the scope of the LFS Book. The BLFS project can be found at http://beyond.linuxfromscratch.org/.
...From which I conclude that you are a troll, and the person who modded you "insightful" is an idiot.
Because LFS doesn't tell you how to install a desktop, a firewall, a multimedia player/editor, an Apache web server or all of the above. Thats why it's called Beyond Linux From Scratch. RTFWP.
The difference is that with gentoo, you don't learn much because most things are automated. Yes, gentoo is probably a much better option for someone who just wants a customised linux distribution. LFS, though, is an outstanding educational tool, for one thing, and an invaluable resource if you want to produce a linux distribution which is radically different from the norm in any way.
If you want to learn about how and why a linux distribution is put together, LFS is the way.
You started off with the beginning of a great conspiracy theory about how the airlines want absolute control over the flow of information into the aircraft, then...just left it at that. That's just not on. What sinister plans do they have for us? Who's pulling the strings really? Are they just flying us around in circles while they change the holodeck program? It's important to elaborate on such things when you post to slashdot, otherwise, we get really paranoid.
They speculated that the rotational spin of the disc was actually generating a stronger-than-normal magnetic field
I speculate that his CD player was malfunctioning, and playing his Judas Priest CD backwards, thus causing satanic forces to interfer with the planes avionics. This would be a much more plausible explanation than a magnetic field from a spinning disc which contains no ferromagnetic material.
If you read "The Tao of Physics", you will understand that most systems of philosophy concur with this opinion.
Solipsism certainly doesn't. The point I was making is that you can't "safely say" anything. It's just your opinion. Just because a lot of people agree with your opinion, doesn't make it right. Using a literary argument to prove something is just as shaky as using a dialectical argument, which is how your proposition was first accepted into western culture (read Plato's Republic). Socrates considered himself to be incurably ignorant when he was sentenced to death in his 70s. You should to.
I think one can safely say that Intellect is EXTERNAL to the physical human body, and exists independent of it
Oh, we can, can we? I think we can safely say that you don't have a clue what you're talking about. Try studyiung philosophy before making ridiculous comments like that.
intellect is NOT a physical commodity
The whole point of patents is to protect an inventor with limited resources who has invested in the overheads of developing an invention from being unable to capitalise on it because a wealthy competitor has taken the idea, without spending anything up front on developing it, and hence preventing the inventor making a return on investment. It is not an ethical matter, it is a practical one. People wouldn't bother developing a lot of ideas if they knew that all their hard work and sacrifices would just go towards lining someone elses pockets, so the patent system was created. Patents are not a god given right, they are an economic stimulant, much like fiddling with interest rates.
I liked the bit where it said Residents are unlikely to be baked. I hope they're more reassured than I would be.
AFAIK the only safe way to do this would be using a microwave laser, which they're not. All conventional antenna designs have sidelobes which means it's impossible to avoid transmitting power in other directions. You can minimise this by clever antenna design, but you can never get rid of it. This means that the more power you want to transmit, the bigger the problem you face keeping the stray radiation at legal levels. I can't see this scaling very well, although it obviously has it's applications.
They served loads of content which was politically or culturally sensitive in some way. The actual content of the website would change from country to country to reflect governmental regulations, or the sensitivities or responsibility of whoever was hosting the site at the time.
A computer can hold a piece of fruit in it's bowels like a human,that doesn't mean it can digest it.
A virus (organic one) has no bowel. It digests nothing. It doesn't eat, it just replicates. That's all it is - a self replicating genetic code. You could just as well argue that a virus isn't alive, and that would be a reasonable argument. There is no clear definition of life. Some people have even argued that crystals are alive. Whether a computer virus is alive or not depends on your definition of life.
Some guy thinks one day, "Life is just the replication of information. Computers can do that". We all love to hate them, but you could argue that conceptually, computer virii are as "alive" as organic virii. If that isn't an etreme idea, what is?
Is it just me or is way so much emphasis being put on having a small product?
The whole point is that you can stick it in your pocket. Laptops are too big and heavy, even the subnotebooks. For the kind of thing you want a laptop for, there is a certain size below which it becomes counterproductive. Likewise, for the kind of thing you use a PDA for, there is a certain size above which it becomes impractical. The catch is, though, that PDAs lack the power, storage space or expandability for many tasks which they would otherwise be ideal. This is the niche which this device is meant to fill.
Politics, at its core, is the study of the philosophy of ethics
I thought politics was the art of the possible. Oh well.
You should perhaps broaden your understanding of ethics a little. The central question of ethics is, as I understand it, "How should I live?", not "What is right, and what is wrong?". While you may reflect on this and decide that the best way to live is to divide all actions into "right" and "wrong" and try to only do the right ones, that is just your perspective, and you shouldn't really expect everyone to follow this way. There are many other ethical systems in the world other than the christian good/evil viewpoint. A taoist, for example, would probably find Linus' point of view quite admirable.
A true tragedy was when an African country decided not to take an American donation of tons of corn because the environmentalists convinced the government of that nation that the genetically altered food was poison
Actually, the reason they didn't accept it was because it hadn't been milled, and they were worried about people planting it. If this stuff did get planted, some firm in the USA would have patent rights to all the planted crops and all those germinated by them in the future. A legal precedent has already been set in the US, and there's no doubt that this law would be diplomatically forced on Zimbabwe. All these evil Zimbabwe farmers would have to fork out royalties or starve. Which begs the question, why didn't they offer to mill the grain to start with, and why were they still so reluctant when Zimbabwe refused to accept it on reasonable grounds?
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It's pining for the fjords
At most festivals, the toilets become unuseable by the end. I don't know how it happens, but you get piss and shit every where - on the toilet, on the floor, even on the roof sometimes. I hope they come up with some way of making all their gear water and shit resistant.
Just think how paranoid he'll be after a slashdotting has destroyed his webserever. Heh Heh Heh.
The best idea would probably be to install a temporary linux distribution. You'll need to repartition your drive any way. You could also look in the hints section - a couple of these might be helpful to you.
You can learn system configuration from any distribution; I haven't seen a distribution yet where I haven't had to venture into /etc at some point. But that's not the point. LFS isn't about learning about system administration, it's abvout learning how the system is put together: what does what, how the different parts of the system interrelate, why things are done the way they are. It's not intended as a working distribution like gentoo is, except for people with particular needs. LFS is a HOWTO for building a linux distribution, not a distribution itself.
Where exactly? In chapter 9 (hint: this is the last chapter in the book), "What now" it states:
Because LFS doesn't tell you how to install a desktop, a firewall, a multimedia player/editor, an Apache web server or all of the above. Thats why it's called Beyond Linux From Scratch. RTFWP.
If you want to learn about how and why a linux distribution is put together, LFS is the way.
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You started off with the beginning of a great conspiracy theory about how the airlines want absolute control over the flow of information into the aircraft, then...just left it at that. That's just not on. What sinister plans do they have for us? Who's pulling the strings really? Are they just flying us around in circles while they change the holodeck program? It's important to elaborate on such things when you post to slashdot, otherwise, we get really paranoid.
I speculate that his CD player was malfunctioning, and playing his Judas Priest CD backwards, thus causing satanic forces to interfer with the planes avionics. This would be a much more plausible explanation than a magnetic field from a spinning disc which contains no ferromagnetic material.
Solipsism certainly doesn't. The point I was making is that you can't "safely say" anything. It's just your opinion. Just because a lot of people agree with your opinion, doesn't make it right. Using a literary argument to prove something is just as shaky as using a dialectical argument, which is how your proposition was first accepted into western culture (read Plato's Republic). Socrates considered himself to be incurably ignorant when he was sentenced to death in his 70s. You should to.
Oh, we can, can we? I think we can safely say that you don't have a clue what you're talking about. Try studyiung philosophy before making ridiculous comments like that.
intellect is NOT a physical commodity
The whole point of patents is to protect an inventor with limited resources who has invested in the overheads of developing an invention from being unable to capitalise on it because a wealthy competitor has taken the idea, without spending anything up front on developing it, and hence preventing the inventor making a return on investment. It is not an ethical matter, it is a practical one. People wouldn't bother developing a lot of ideas if they knew that all their hard work and sacrifices would just go towards lining someone elses pockets, so the patent system was created. Patents are not a god given right, they are an economic stimulant, much like fiddling with interest rates.
I bet he'll kick himself when he finds that out.
Give it another 7 years ;-)
I bet this will revolutionise online prOn. It's only a matter of time before the invention of the sperm-cam...for the ultimate cumshot!
AFAIK the only safe way to do this would be using a microwave laser, which they're not. All conventional antenna designs have sidelobes which means it's impossible to avoid transmitting power in other directions. You can minimise this by clever antenna design, but you can never get rid of it. This means that the more power you want to transmit, the bigger the problem you face keeping the stray radiation at legal levels. I can't see this scaling very well, although it obviously has it's applications.
They served loads of content which was politically or culturally sensitive in some way. The actual content of the website would change from country to country to reflect governmental regulations, or the sensitivities or responsibility of whoever was hosting the site at the time.
Yes. Imagine that. Bwahahahahahahahaaaaaa!
A virus (organic one) has no bowel. It digests nothing. It doesn't eat, it just replicates. That's all it is - a self replicating genetic code. You could just as well argue that a virus isn't alive, and that would be a reasonable argument. There is no clear definition of life. Some people have even argued that crystals are alive. Whether a computer virus is alive or not depends on your definition of life.
Some guy thinks one day, "Life is just the replication of information. Computers can do that". We all love to hate them, but you could argue that conceptually, computer virii are as "alive" as organic virii. If that isn't an etreme idea, what is?
The whole point is that you can stick it in your pocket. Laptops are too big and heavy, even the subnotebooks. For the kind of thing you want a laptop for, there is a certain size below which it becomes counterproductive. Likewise, for the kind of thing you use a PDA for, there is a certain size above which it becomes impractical. The catch is, though, that PDAs lack the power, storage space or expandability for many tasks which they would otherwise be ideal. This is the niche which this device is meant to fill.
I thought politics was the art of the possible. Oh well.
You should perhaps broaden your understanding of ethics a little. The central question of ethics is, as I understand it, "How should I live?", not "What is right, and what is wrong?". While you may reflect on this and decide that the best way to live is to divide all actions into "right" and "wrong" and try to only do the right ones, that is just your perspective, and you shouldn't really expect everyone to follow this way. There are many other ethical systems in the world other than the christian good/evil viewpoint. A taoist, for example, would probably find Linus' point of view quite admirable.
Actually, the reason they didn't accept it was because it hadn't been milled, and they were worried about people planting it. If this stuff did get planted, some firm in the USA would have patent rights to all the planted crops and all those germinated by them in the future. A legal precedent has already been set in the US, and there's no doubt that this law would be diplomatically forced on Zimbabwe. All these evil Zimbabwe farmers would have to fork out royalties or starve. Which begs the question, why didn't they offer to mill the grain to start with, and why were they still so reluctant when Zimbabwe refused to accept it on reasonable grounds?