Yes, you can scan the computer and get the codes. The problem is that only some of the codes are common across an entire make of cars. Many are vehicle specific reflecting the different engineering in each model. Those vehicle specific codes are the ones that we have traditionally had trouble interpreting because the manufacturers regard their meaning as trade secrets for some reason.
Sounds like the politicians who support the War-on-Drug-Users today, yet were snorting coke and hitting the bong before they reached office, and continue to intake their alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, happy pills, viagra, and such other 'government-approved' drugs. Everyone who uses 'illegal' drugs deserves to go to jail, but they deserve to be forgiven because they became productive members of society. Well, would that have happened if THEY had gone to jail?
Normal wear particles only "build up" in the oil if the oil filter has been saturated and is bypassing. That's a maintenance mistake. If you have a magnetic drain plug, those particles are already out of circulation, so how would an oil change reintroduce them into circulation? Yes, at the limit, it's possible for the magnet to become ineffective. (And a magnet won't help you much with an aluminum motor.) But you'd have to work pretty hard at not maintaining your engine to get it to that point.
I'm not biased; I change my oil and filter every 3000 miles or less by the normal drain plug venue. I just think the arguments presented for not having a shop change the oil are poor ones. Better arguments would be ones that center around the lack of interest the typical oil change employee has in your car, even at a dealership. This results in poor workmanship like stripped out or forgotten drain plugs (something the machines are designed to avoid), or forgotten replacement oil. At dealerships it tends to be even worse because the know-nothings are the ones assigned to oil change jobs while the real mechanics take the big dollar jobs.
Why is it that when countries bring their laws "in sync" with each other, it's inevitably in the direction of the 'more repressive/fascist' end of the sliding scale? Why couldn't the US bring its laws 'in sync' with Australia's or the UK's, for instance?
If by "crap" you mean dirt and carbon particules, they are held in suspension in the oil and sucked out at the same time. If by "crap" you mean sludge, you should fix whatever is sludging your oil (probably a stuck open or missing thermostat). If by "crap" you mean metal particles, your motor has got some problems that an oil change is unlikely to fix.
When I started to dig further into why the SiS 315 wasn't supported. I found out that the SiS 315 was the basis for all of SiS/XGI's new chipsets and included all kinds of new IP, register informtion/locations, and therefor datasheets could not be released to create an open driver. Ok, that is reasonable. So I asked if I could view the datasheets. After sighing an NDA I receievd all chipset datasheets within 2 weeks and an internal chip development contact. SiS/XGI was more than happy to work with me to get things to run under Linux/Unix but, their hands were just tied about releasing the specs as open.
I presume the NDA you signed prevented you from releasing an open source driver? The *specs* being open has zilch to do with whether the *driver* itself is open source or not. Go look at ATi. NDA specs to developers, yet open drivers were produced. Hell, make the register frobs into magic numbers instead of constants, if you want to be that secretive about it. The important thing is that the code structure is visible and can be easily brought forward with the evolving system architecture.
Blacklist, whitelisting, and 'greylisting' are all hacks that either introduce problems that are worse than the problems they're solving, only partially solve the problem, or introduce unnecessicarily recurring inconvinenience.
It's true, but since IM is fundamentally the same communications model as SMTP, it is doomed to the same problems that plague SMTP. It's 'push' e-mail with extensions like presence notification, nothing more.
I've had that exact problem and was wondering if I was the only one suffering from it. If you report a bug, it gets tagged as unreproducible because of the sporadic nature of the behavior. Sigh.
So disable such popups, and when your friends want to talk to you, they can contact you by some other means and ask to be added to your contact list. Whitelisting, instead of greylisting.
You forgot what the intent of copyright was. It was to prevent other publishers from publishing pirate copies of a work and selling them. Only recently has it been used as a tool against non-profit personal copying in addition to commercial piracy. It is very easy to enforce copyright against commercial pirates, because the money has to go somewhere. It is not so easy, as you state, to effectively enforce copyright against individual nonprofit copying.
Commercial piracy replaces the legitimate sale of a work, because the consumer no longer has the money to purchase the legitimate item. Nonprofit copying has not been shown one way or the other to impact sales. The assumption that every download takes the place of a sale is demonstrably false from my own experience. It may preclude a sale when the consumer doesn't like what he downloaded, or feels that one viewing was enough, or is satisfied with the format of the media. But two things keep me buying media: knowing I'm supporting the artist that created it to hopefully support future works, and having a high-quality master, to either duplicate to whatever form is convenient in the case of music, or to hold in my hands and enjoy inthe case of a book.
Another aspect to this is that while the idea of buying things to support the artist is nice, it is currently unknown how much money from each title sale goes to the artist or author. As long as publishers are the middlemen, they get to set the rules. If I could be guaranteed that more money would be going to the actual point of origin of this work and not some corporation who had nothing to do with its inspiration, I would be far more interested in corporate media.
In the end, I doubt nonprofit copying has the devastating effect you cite. If it ever could, then I think a significant portion of the population would be involved in it and the laws should be updated to reflect that behavior, because continuing to enforce copyright against majority will would be expensive and moot at that point. You can have both nonprofit copying permissions while still using copyright law to stamp out commercial pirates...
I did not claim one way or another that one approach to loading priority is correct and the other is not, and I don't believe that can be shown in general because different users have different requirements. (A server administrator has different requirements from a desktop user.). I certainly think that if this is some kind of stumbling block to user adoption, there will be some distro that takes the helm in addressing it.
I must confess that I'm puzzled why you see shared library components as a problem. As long as you don't have dependency problems when you go to upgrade (in other words, use a quality and well-supported distro), what could be the matter, even if tens of dozens of unrelated libraries are upgraded at the same time. If that functionality wasn't in libraries, it'd be a static component of the application you are upgrading, so you get to download it in any case.
As for installing apps in a single folder, I do this all the time for locally installed programs (that aren't managed by the package manager). Install into/usr/local/foobar-1.2 and link everything in/usr/local/foobar-1.2/bin to/usr/local/bin. If I want to get rid of that version of foobar I just trash the directory. Some programs are not smart enough to use relative paths, but that would be a bug in the program.
As for your last comment, I do not speak for nor control the "Linux community". I was responding to your insinuation that some obvious and utterly important user need was being overlooked in the area of binary compatibility. I can still run a copy of Maple from 1995 and a copy of Quake 3 from 1998; QED in my case.
Windows on the same box takes (again) about 30 seconds to a minute after post.
To reach the desktop. You know, it's still starting services in the background. A distro could do this just as well, but they have chosen to not present the user with the desktop until the system is fully loaded.
This isn't all that kernel specific, so it's not really germane; what breaks things isn't the kernel as much as things like glibc. And then once you upgrade a critical thing like that, you have to upgrade EVERYTHING else.
Bullshit. You can keep whatever crusty libc version you want around, installed in parallel with the current version. It will continue to work for applications that are linked against it.
Maybe you are thinking about the C++ name mangling change? But that wasn't a glibc change, that was a GCC change, and it was done in the name of standards conformance. You know, so you can more easily combine objects created with different compilers. Is having more flexibility worth a bit of hassle or not?
On Windows and Mac OS X, I can download an app as a single file (not all the time) and it just works.
You can do that on Linux too. Just statically link your app.
I can copy an app from one system to another (or even when upgrading systems) and it just works.
Bullshit. You forgot about the registry, components, Application Data, etc.
There is true binary compatibility there, and this just doesn't exist on Linux.
That binary compatibility comes at a cost in terms of maintenance, and is important to very few users who have special-case requirements. Limited manpower means it is prioritized very low at this time compared to things like having hardware drivers that actually work. It's a growing pain, nothing more.
This is the reason that even reasonable people like myself, who don't much care what the hell anybody does to destroy themselves, can see why drugs are illegal. It's hard to argue with simple economics.
Of course it's hard to argue with such economics, if you can make drugs and all of their costs disappear by waving a magic wand. Unfortunately, that's impossible. So in the end you have to pay police officers, courts and prisons to enforce the law, and deal with the inevitabilities of a black market (violence, corruption, etc). Now the 'simple economics' have become not so simple, at least if you really are viewing the debate objectively and not assuming that drugs are a moral problem that law enforcement is justified in combating like murder, rape, etc.
It would also probably be a good idea to ban advertising on television, radio, billboards, etc. That goes for LEGAL dangerous addictive drugs like alcohol too.
Thank you for suggesting this course of action. I have been supporting such a scheme for quite some time now, and rarely do I encounter anyone else with the same idea. Then people who want to sell this stuff have to card (which, in the case of alcohol and nicotine, they already do), and government oversight mandates that they do so or they lose their business license. Somehow the threat of having one's legitimate business destroyed by the law seems to do a better job at ensuring carding than the police doing their usual thing trying to keep black market sellers at bay.
Of course, in order for the states to enact their own schemes in this area, the Controlled Substances Act must first be repealed. Fat chance.
I'm against the legalization of drugs because of the harm they can do in untrained hands
So I guess we can safely presume that you are against the second amendment, against people driving or working on their own cars, against amateur fireworks,... just imagine what harm all those things can do in untrained hands.
Look, if some people are stupid enough not to seek a doctor's advice re: diagnosis and re: dosage, is that really a good reason for continuing to gouge those who have already established a treatment regimen on a chronic condition? It's nonsense. If people are going to make bad choices regarding their health, you wouldn't stand in their way, because it is ultimately their decision. How does threatening them with jail for obtaining drugs without permission change the fact that their health is ultimately their concern? If they want to internet-diagnose and treat themselves, they should have the choice to do that, and they should be fully responsible for the consequences of their decision not to consult an expert. And if they have consulted an expert numerous times, the answer hasn't changed, and no new symptoms have arrived, why does the government force me to continue paying this person if I want to continue on my current course?
Multiply-drug-resistant infections is probably your best argument, but it's still a weak one. Nobody said ANTIBIOTICS had to be deregulated, and there would be very little argument for them to be, since they are typically a short term measure that is employed in tandem with a doctor's diagnosis. The contrast between a bacterial infection and long-term opiate maintenence for pain should be obvious. And in fact, the CDC should be in charge of such regulation and not the FDA, since it is not a matter of purity, but protecting the public health from such resistant pathogens that would result from arbitrary antibiotic use. Not that we aren't already headed down that road, what with almost every consumer cleaning product including an antibiotic agent nowadays...
So wait, you'd have a problem with "Linux dominating and toppling Microsoft" even if it were a superiour product for enough customers for that to occur? Sounds to me like you have objectivity issues of your own.
The system will not boot until PowerGood is asserted from the power supply. Low quality power supplies tend to just use a fixed timer to assert this signal. Higher quality ones actually assert it based on the voltage as it ramps up.
Still have one (for better or for worse). Actually, the worst thing about it is the price of dealer parts for it. It's too bad GM stopped selling the Storm. I heard a conspiracy theory once that stated GM's reason for discontinuing the Storm as that it was outselling all of GM's domestic coupes combined during the years it was offered. It'd be really sad if that were true.
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Yes, you can scan the computer and get the codes. The problem is that only some of the codes are common across an entire make of cars. Many are vehicle specific reflecting the different engineering in each model. Those vehicle specific codes are the ones that we have traditionally had trouble interpreting because the manufacturers regard their meaning as trade secrets for some reason.
Sounds like the politicians who support the War-on-Drug-Users today, yet were snorting coke and hitting the bong before they reached office, and continue to intake their alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, happy pills, viagra, and such other 'government-approved' drugs. Everyone who uses 'illegal' drugs deserves to go to jail, but they deserve to be forgiven because they became productive members of society. Well, would that have happened if THEY had gone to jail?
I'm not biased; I change my oil and filter every 3000 miles or less by the normal drain plug venue. I just think the arguments presented for not having a shop change the oil are poor ones. Better arguments would be ones that center around the lack of interest the typical oil change employee has in your car, even at a dealership. This results in poor workmanship like stripped out or forgotten drain plugs (something the machines are designed to avoid), or forgotten replacement oil. At dealerships it tends to be even worse because the know-nothings are the ones assigned to oil change jobs while the real mechanics take the big dollar jobs.
Why is it that when countries bring their laws "in sync" with each other, it's inevitably in the direction of the 'more repressive/fascist' end of the sliding scale? Why couldn't the US bring its laws 'in sync' with Australia's or the UK's, for instance?
If by "crap" you mean dirt and carbon particules, they are held in suspension in the oil and sucked out at the same time. If by "crap" you mean sludge, you should fix whatever is sludging your oil (probably a stuck open or missing thermostat). If by "crap" you mean metal particles, your motor has got some problems that an oil change is unlikely to fix.
I've had that exact problem and was wondering if I was the only one suffering from it. If you report a bug, it gets tagged as unreproducible because of the sporadic nature of the behavior. Sigh.
Please enumerate any potentials of permanent physical harm or death from mescaline or psilocybin.
So disable such popups, and when your friends want to talk to you, they can contact you by some other means and ask to be added to your contact list. Whitelisting, instead of greylisting.
Commercial piracy replaces the legitimate sale of a work, because the consumer no longer has the money to purchase the legitimate item. Nonprofit copying has not been shown one way or the other to impact sales. The assumption that every download takes the place of a sale is demonstrably false from my own experience. It may preclude a sale when the consumer doesn't like what he downloaded, or feels that one viewing was enough, or is satisfied with the format of the media. But two things keep me buying media: knowing I'm supporting the artist that created it to hopefully support future works, and having a high-quality master, to either duplicate to whatever form is convenient in the case of music, or to hold in my hands and enjoy inthe case of a book.
Another aspect to this is that while the idea of buying things to support the artist is nice, it is currently unknown how much money from each title sale goes to the artist or author. As long as publishers are the middlemen, they get to set the rules. If I could be guaranteed that more money would be going to the actual point of origin of this work and not some corporation who had nothing to do with its inspiration, I would be far more interested in corporate media.
In the end, I doubt nonprofit copying has the devastating effect you cite. If it ever could, then I think a significant portion of the population would be involved in it and the laws should be updated to reflect that behavior, because continuing to enforce copyright against majority will would be expensive and moot at that point. You can have both nonprofit copying permissions while still using copyright law to stamp out commercial pirates...
I did not claim one way or another that one approach to loading priority is correct and the other is not, and I don't believe that can be shown in general because different users have different requirements. (A server administrator has different requirements from a desktop user.). I certainly think that if this is some kind of stumbling block to user adoption, there will be some distro that takes the helm in addressing it.
I must confess that I'm puzzled why you see shared library components as a problem. As long as you don't have dependency problems when you go to upgrade (in other words, use a quality and well-supported distro), what could be the matter, even if tens of dozens of unrelated libraries are upgraded at the same time. If that functionality wasn't in libraries, it'd be a static component of the application you are upgrading, so you get to download it in any case.
As for installing apps in a single folder, I do this all the time for locally installed programs (that aren't managed by the package manager). Install into /usr/local/foobar-1.2 and link everything in /usr/local/foobar-1.2/bin to /usr/local/bin. If I want to get rid of that version of foobar I just trash the directory. Some programs are not smart enough to use relative paths, but that would be a bug in the program.
As for your last comment, I do not speak for nor control the "Linux community". I was responding to your insinuation that some obvious and utterly important user need was being overlooked in the area of binary compatibility. I can still run a copy of Maple from 1995 and a copy of Quake 3 from 1998; QED in my case.
Maybe you are thinking about the C++ name mangling change? But that wasn't a glibc change, that was a GCC change, and it was done in the name of standards conformance. You know, so you can more easily combine objects created with different compilers. Is having more flexibility worth a bit of hassle or not?
You can do that on Linux too. Just statically link your app.Bullshit. You forgot about the registry, components, Application Data, etc.That binary compatibility comes at a cost in terms of maintenance, and is important to very few users who have special-case requirements. Limited manpower means it is prioritized very low at this time compared to things like having hardware drivers that actually work. It's a growing pain, nothing more.I'm sorry, but regardless of the circumstances I have no choice but to join OSDL in being skeptical of any study that involves joints.
It would also probably be a good idea to ban advertising on television, radio, billboards, etc. That goes for LEGAL dangerous addictive drugs like alcohol too.
Of course, in order for the states to enact their own schemes in this area, the Controlled Substances Act must first be repealed. Fat chance.
Look, if some people are stupid enough not to seek a doctor's advice re: diagnosis and re: dosage, is that really a good reason for continuing to gouge those who have already established a treatment regimen on a chronic condition? It's nonsense. If people are going to make bad choices regarding their health, you wouldn't stand in their way, because it is ultimately their decision. How does threatening them with jail for obtaining drugs without permission change the fact that their health is ultimately their concern? If they want to internet-diagnose and treat themselves, they should have the choice to do that, and they should be fully responsible for the consequences of their decision not to consult an expert. And if they have consulted an expert numerous times, the answer hasn't changed, and no new symptoms have arrived, why does the government force me to continue paying this person if I want to continue on my current course?
Multiply-drug-resistant infections is probably your best argument, but it's still a weak one. Nobody said ANTIBIOTICS had to be deregulated, and there would be very little argument for them to be, since they are typically a short term measure that is employed in tandem with a doctor's diagnosis. The contrast between a bacterial infection and long-term opiate maintenence for pain should be obvious. And in fact, the CDC should be in charge of such regulation and not the FDA, since it is not a matter of purity, but protecting the public health from such resistant pathogens that would result from arbitrary antibiotic use. Not that we aren't already headed down that road, what with almost every consumer cleaning product including an antibiotic agent nowadays...
The Diamond-branded motherboards were made by Micronics.
So wait, you'd have a problem with "Linux dominating and toppling Microsoft" even if it were a superiour product for enough customers for that to occur? Sounds to me like you have objectivity issues of your own.
The system will not boot until PowerGood is asserted from the power supply. Low quality power supplies tend to just use a fixed timer to assert this signal. Higher quality ones actually assert it based on the voltage as it ramps up.
Interesting. Thank you for the clarification.
Still have one (for better or for worse). Actually, the worst thing about it is the price of dealer parts for it. It's too bad GM stopped selling the Storm. I heard a conspiracy theory once that stated GM's reason for discontinuing the Storm as that it was outselling all of GM's domestic coupes combined during the years it was offered. It'd be really sad if that were true.
That was originally done by Cadillac and generally considered to be a bad idea.