Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc. ALL meet your #1 criteria; they reject Jesus Christ.
Common misunderstanding - Muslims do not reject Jesus. On the contrary, they recognize him as an important prophet, even as the messiah. They do not believe that he is the son of Allah, or that he was crucified. See the article on the islamic view of Jesus on Wikipedia for details.
Did they grow the crystals INSIDE of a levitating frog?
Oh!
That would make for an even crunchier frog, provided that they use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest-quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.
Being the firstborn has its disadvantages too: when God gets angry, you're first in line for the sacrifice.
On the other hand, the seventh sons (of seventh sons) are the ones who inherit all the cool wizardy powers. The seventh daughters too, as demonstrated by Eskarina Smith.
US agents were to be armed and given ridiculous powers [..] large portions of the city were closed to the public
The same thing happened when he visited Vienna (Austria), my home town. Vienna is one of the safest cities in the world, but that day we heard the sound of helicopters non-stop, and there was a general uneasiness in the air, probably caused by the many radio and TV announcements. The US Secret Service took over the city, the airport, etc, and the local police were told to aid them and follow their lead. Parts of our public transport system were cut off, people had to carry a permit to enter the inner city, and I couldn't even go visit my parents. To top it off, for a few hours the central area was totally off limits to practically everybody, because his wife wanted to go shopping. Very poor impression if you ask me.
IT IS NOT a replacement for sorting by the date parsed from the Received headers. I love Thunderbird, but this issue is really very annoying, for a lot of people. For one thing, the "Order Received" column contains only numbers, which adds noise to the interface and reduces the area that's available for real information. Second, it doesn't always do the right thig! Try importing mail from another MUA: the imported mails get the highest numbers, thus making them the "newest" messages, even if they're from 1997.
Before I moved to Thunderbird, I used KMail for a while. IIRC KMail had an interesting solution for the different ways to sort dates. The Date column header had 4 states (as opposed to the usual 2): sort by Date header ascending, Date header descending, Received header ascending, and Received header descending. Wish there was something like this in Thunderbird...
Oh well. Version 2 still can't sort my messages the way I want, but at least now it should be possible to make extensions that add sort columns.
I used to be concerned about this, because in the end, you have to trust somebody. Trust Microsoft, trust the device driver programmers, trust your AV vendor, trust the TrueCrypt programmers. In the case of OSS, trust that enough eyes are watching, and that they're watching closely enough, and that they're even checking every single update and patch that you automatically install.
It simply is not possible to personally check and verify every piece of code that gets executed on your computer.
So yes, it's possible that Microsoft (or any of the other "trusted" parties) has built backdoors into Windows and into the Bitlocker component.
But even if they could read your private encrypted data at will, they could *never* reveal it, because that would permanently destroy their credibility. I believe that most of our secrets simply aren't worth enough for MS to risk that.
I don't think it can read/write the Visio format (yet), but it has other nifty features, like real-time collaboration. It's also Flash based, so you'll need the plugin, but on the other hand using Flash avoids the usual Ajax/Web2.0 quirks. Here's a demo video. Gliffy accounts are free BTW.
I am extremely surprised that only openoffice packages were listed, or did you trim that down?
This is exactly what I get here with an up-to-date Kubuntu/Dapper version.
May have to do with me using Automatix and a lot of Multiverse packages.
In Debian I get a few *pages* of packages which would be ripped out... I am certain that the list would be almost as long on a Suse Linux Enterprise Server box (aside from the rather impoverished list of packages available to SLES).
... and from the fact that SLES usually doesn't use apt (AFAIK). Yeah, the list you posted is more like what I expected to happen too, but I'm content with running into an error before apt actually lets me remove the libc, and the 'Yes, do as I say!' part is really reassuring:-)
Actually, backing up the internet is a very good idea, and it isn't hard to do at all:
If you're using Windows, just drag and drop the internet (the blue "e" symbol) from your desktop onto your USB stick. Wait for the copying process to finish (with current Windows installations this will only take a few minutes). Next, confirm that you have successfully stored the internet: double-click the internet on your USB stick, and enter any address. Did it work all right? Congratulations! Now you can carry the whole web in your pocket, or give it to your friends as a gift.
> try this on a debian/ubuntu system: > > apt-get remove libc6
Just in case anyone's curious, this is what happens in Kububtu/Dapper:
root@[mybox]:/ # apt-get remove libc6 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb:
Depends: openoffice.org-common (>= 2.0.2) but it is not going to be installed or
language-support-en but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org-common (< 2.0.3) but it is not going to be installed or
language-support-en but it is not going to be installed
openoffice.org-l10n-en-us:
Depends: openoffice.org-common (>= 2.0.2) but it is not going to be installed or
language-support-en but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org-common (< 2.0.3) but it is not going to be installed or
language-support-en but it is not going to be installed
openoffice.org-l10n-en-za:
Depends: openoffice.org-common (>= 2.0.2) but it is not going to be installed or
language-support-en but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org-common (< 2.0.3) but it is not going to be installed or
language-support-en but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages
Dude, what the hell is something like that doing on slashdot?
Here, this may be more to your liking:
What in the world is electricity and where does it go after it leaves the toaster?
Here is a simple experiment that will teach you an important electrical lesson: On a cool dry day, scuff your feet along a carpet, then reach your hand into a friend's mouth and touch one of his dental fillings. Did you notice how your friend twitched violently and cried out in pain? This teaches one that electricity can be a very powerful force, but we must never use it to hurt others unless we need to learn an important lesson about electricity.
It also illustrates how an electrical circuit works. When you scuffed your feet, you picked up batches of "electrons", which are very small objects that carpet manufacturers weave into carpet so that they will attract dirt. The electrons travel through your bloodstream and collect in your finger, where they form a spark that leaps to your friend's filling, then travel down to his feet and back into the carpet, thus completing the circuit.
AMAZING ELECTRONIC FACT:
If you scuffed your feet long enough without touching anything, you would build up so many electrons that your finger would explode! But this is nothing to worry about unless you have carpeting.
Although we modern persons tend to take our electric lights, radios, mixers, etc. for granted, hundreds of years ago people did not have any of these things, which is just as well because there was no place to plug them in. Then along came the first Electrical Pioneer, Benjamin Franklin, who flew a kite in a lightning storm and received a serious electrical shock. This proved that lightning was powered by the same force as carpets, but it also damaged Franklin's brain so severely that he started speaking only in incomprehensible maxims, such as, "A penny saved is a penny earned." Eventually he had to be given a job running the post office.
After Franklin came a herd of Electrical Pioneers whose names have become part of our electrical terminology: Myron Volt, Mary Louise Amp, James Watt, Bob Transformer, etc. These pioneers conducted many important electrical experiments. Among them, Galvani discovered (this is the truth) that when he attached two different kinds of metal to the leg of a frog, an electrical current developed and the frog's leg kicked, even though it was no longer attached to the frog, which was dead anyway. Galvani's discovery led to enormous advances in the field of amphibian medicine. Today, skilled veterinary surgeons can take a frog that has been seriously injured or killed, implant pieces of metal in its muscles, and watch it hop back into the pond -- almost.
But the greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison, who was a brilliant inventor despite the fact that he had little formal education and lived in New Jersey. Edison's first major invention in 1877 was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented. But Edison's greatest achievement came in 1879 when he invented the electric company. Edison's design was a brilliant adaptation of the simple electrical circuit: the electric company sends electricity through a wire to a customer, then immediately gets the electricity back through another wire, then (this is the brilliant part) sends it right back to the customer again.
This means that an electric company can sell a customer the same batch of electricity thousands of times a day and never get caught, since very few customers take the time to examine their electricity closely. In fact, the last year any new electricity was generated was 1937.
Today, thanks to men like Edison and Franklin, and frogs like Galvani's, we receive almost unlimited benefits from electricity. For example, in the past decade scientists have developed the laser, an electronic appliance so powerful th
In case you were wondering (like me) what RPM stands for in this context, it's "Record Production Month" (says so in the last paragraph on the linked page).
The nuclear longevity, according to the models, is due to the closing of proton and neutron shells, which renders the particles stable against spontaneous fission
Like MS incorporating a "Linux mode" for either "migrating" Linux source code to Windows, or just a reverse "Wine" (Line-ux, anyone?) that runs Linux apps with a (secret) Linux -> Windows API.
It's not exactly the same as WINE (Linux software has to be built from source under Cygwin before it can be used), but since most Linux software is open source, that's usually not a problem.
There is even a commercial package called Tourist Remover which uses multiple images of the same location to compose a result without artifacts from moving objects.
Assuming you're referring to Adolf Hitler:
- he did not grow up as a Jew
- there is no proof of any Jewish ancestors at all
- he was never called Schicklgruber
Ooooh! So that's how this mating business works! My teacher tried to explain it to me a few years ago, but she must have been using the wrong subclasses (Bee::mate and Bird::mate).
Thank you, kind sir, you have made a poor geek's life a lot easier.
Reminds me of something I heard on a documentary about Stanley Kubrick a few days ago. Arthur C. Clarke was talking about his Space Odyssey novel, and he remarked:
"Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth.
"Now this is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence there are approximately a hundred billion stars in our local universe, the Milky Way. So for every man who has ever lived, in this universe, there shines a star."
Considering that the statement is from 1968 we'll probably have to add a couple of ghosts to that number. Anyway, interesting line of thought.
First thing I do on a root login:
rm -f.bash_history && ln -s/dev/null.bash_history
I can only guess at your reasons for that; my root sessions (on a remote server) usually begin with 'last', 'procinfo', 'ps axuf', 'top' and the like. If you don't want bash to log your current session, just do this:
HISTFILE=
A thousand years before the Wright brothers a Muslim poet, astronomer, musician and engineer named Abbas ibn Firnas made several attempts to construct a flying machine. [snip details] He flew to a significant height and stayed aloft for ten minutes but crashed on landing - concluding, correctly, that it was because he had not given his device a tail so it would stall on landing. Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him.
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Your point being...?
Common misunderstanding - Muslims do not reject Jesus. On the contrary, they recognize him as an important prophet, even as the messiah. They do not believe that he is the son of Allah, or that he was crucified. See the article on the islamic view of Jesus on Wikipedia for details.
Did they grow the crystals INSIDE of a levitating frog?
Oh!
That would make for an even crunchier frog, provided that they use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest-quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.
Ah, progress...
On the other hand, the seventh sons (of seventh sons) are the ones who inherit all the cool wizardy powers. The seventh daughters too, as demonstrated by Eskarina Smith.
The same thing happened when he visited Vienna (Austria), my home town. Vienna is one of the safest cities in the world, but that day we heard the sound of helicopters non-stop, and there was a general uneasiness in the air, probably caused by the many radio and TV announcements. The US Secret Service took over the city, the airport, etc, and the local police were told to aid them and follow their lead. Parts of our public transport system were cut off, people had to carry a permit to enter the inner city, and I couldn't even go visit my parents. To top it off, for a few hours the central area was totally off limits to practically everybody, because his wife wanted to go shopping. Very poor impression if you ask me.
Again with the "Order Received" column...
IT IS NOT a replacement for sorting by the date parsed from the Received headers. I love Thunderbird, but this issue is really very annoying, for a lot of people. For one thing, the "Order Received" column contains only numbers, which adds noise to the interface and reduces the area that's available for real information. Second, it doesn't always do the right thig! Try importing mail from another MUA: the imported mails get the highest numbers, thus making them the "newest" messages, even if they're from 1997.
Before I moved to Thunderbird, I used KMail for a while. IIRC KMail had an interesting solution for the different ways to sort dates. The Date column header had 4 states (as opposed to the usual 2): sort by Date header ascending, Date header descending, Received header ascending, and Received header descending. Wish there was something like this in Thunderbird...
Oh well. Version 2 still can't sort my messages the way I want, but at least now it should be possible to make extensions that add sort columns.
I used to be concerned about this, because in the end, you have to trust somebody. Trust Microsoft, trust the device driver programmers, trust your AV vendor, trust the TrueCrypt programmers. In the case of OSS, trust that enough eyes are watching, and that they're watching closely enough, and that they're even checking every single update and patch that you automatically install.
It simply is not possible to personally check and verify every piece of code that gets executed on your computer.
So yes, it's possible that Microsoft (or any of the other "trusted" parties) has built backdoors into Windows and into the Bitlocker component. But even if they could read your private encrypted data at will, they could *never* reveal it, because that would permanently destroy their credibility. I believe that most of our secrets simply aren't worth enough for MS to risk that.
TV by wok, eh?
Reminds me of the tasty and very useful Pringles antenna.
Geeks and their obsession with food...
What's next? A pizza box server? (no wait... scratch that)
Check out Gliffy.
I don't think it can read/write the Visio format (yet), but it has other nifty features, like real-time collaboration. It's also Flash based, so you'll need the plugin, but on the other hand using Flash avoids the usual Ajax/Web2.0 quirks. Here's a demo video. Gliffy accounts are free BTW.
May have to do with me using Automatix and a lot of Multiverse packages.
... and from the fact that SLES usually doesn't use apt (AFAIK). Yeah, the list you posted is more like what I expected to happen too, but I'm content with running into an error before apt actually lets me remove the libc, and the 'Yes, do as I say!' part is really reassuring
Actually, backing up the internet is a very good idea, and it isn't hard to do at all:
If you're using Windows, just drag and drop the internet (the blue "e" symbol) from your desktop onto your USB stick. Wait for the copying process to finish (with current Windows installations this will only take a few minutes). Next, confirm that you have successfully stored the internet: double-click the internet on your USB stick, and enter any address. Did it work all right? Congratulations! Now you can carry the whole web in your pocket, or give it to your friends as a gift.
> try this on a debian/ubuntu system:
>
> apt-get remove libc6
Just in case anyone's curious, this is what happens in Kububtu/Dapper:
root@[mybox]:/ # apt-get remove libc6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb:
Depends: openoffice.org-common (>= 2.0.2) but it is not going to be installed or
language-support-en but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org-common (< 2.0.3) but it is not going to be installed or
language-support-en but it is not going to be installed
openoffice.org-l10n-en-us:
Depends: openoffice.org-common (>= 2.0.2) but it is not going to be installed or
language-support-en but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org-common (< 2.0.3) but it is not going to be installed or
language-support-en but it is not going to be installed
openoffice.org-l10n-en-za:
Depends: openoffice.org-common (>= 2.0.2) but it is not going to be installed or
language-support-en but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org-common (< 2.0.3) but it is not going to be installed or
language-support-en but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
I obviously didn't try to force the issue.
Here, this may be more to your liking:
What in the world is electricity and where does it go after it leaves the toaster?
Here is a simple experiment that will teach you an important electrical lesson: On a cool dry day, scuff your feet along a carpet, then reach your hand into a friend's mouth and touch one of his dental fillings. Did you notice how your friend twitched violently and cried out in pain? This teaches one that electricity can be a very powerful force, but we must never use it to hurt others unless we need to learn an important lesson about electricity.
It also illustrates how an electrical circuit works. When you scuffed your feet, you picked up batches of "electrons", which are very small objects that carpet manufacturers weave into carpet so that they will attract dirt. The electrons travel through your bloodstream and collect in your finger, where they form a spark that leaps to your friend's filling, then travel down to his feet and back into the carpet, thus completing the circuit.
AMAZING ELECTRONIC FACT:
If you scuffed your feet long enough without touching anything, you would build up so many electrons that your finger would explode! But this is nothing to worry about unless you have carpeting.
Although we modern persons tend to take our electric lights, radios, mixers, etc. for granted, hundreds of years ago people did not have any of these things, which is just as well because there was no place to plug them in. Then along came the first Electrical Pioneer, Benjamin Franklin, who flew a kite in a lightning storm and received a serious electrical shock. This proved that lightning was powered by the same force as carpets, but it also damaged Franklin's brain so severely that he started speaking only in incomprehensible maxims, such as, "A penny saved is a penny earned." Eventually he had to be given a job running the post office.
After Franklin came a herd of Electrical Pioneers whose names have become part of our electrical terminology: Myron Volt, Mary Louise Amp, James Watt, Bob Transformer, etc. These pioneers conducted many important electrical experiments. Among them, Galvani discovered (this is the truth) that when he attached two different kinds of metal to the leg of a frog, an electrical current developed and the frog's leg kicked, even though it was no longer attached to the frog, which was dead anyway. Galvani's discovery led to enormous advances in the field of amphibian medicine. Today, skilled veterinary surgeons can take a frog that has been seriously injured or killed, implant pieces of metal in its muscles, and watch it hop back into the pond -- almost.
But the greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison, who was a brilliant inventor despite the fact that he had little formal education and lived in New Jersey. Edison's first major invention in 1877 was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented. But Edison's greatest achievement came in 1879 when he invented the electric company. Edison's design was a brilliant adaptation of the simple electrical circuit: the electric company sends electricity through a wire to a customer, then immediately gets the electricity back through another wire, then (this is the brilliant part) sends it right back to the customer again.
This means that an electric company can sell a customer the same batch of electricity thousands of times a day and never get caught, since very few customers take the time to examine their electricity closely. In fact, the last year any new electricity was generated was 1937.
Today, thanks to men like Edison and Franklin, and frogs like Galvani's, we receive almost unlimited benefits from electricity. For example, in the past decade scientists have developed the laser, an electronic appliance so powerful th
In case you were wondering (like me) what RPM stands for in this context, it's "Record Production Month" (says so in the last paragraph on the linked page).
Reminds me of Britney's Guide to Semiconductor Physics.
Like MS incorporating a "Linux mode" for either "migrating" Linux source code to Windows, or just a reverse "Wine" (Line-ux, anyone?) that runs Linux apps with a (secret) Linux -> Windows API.
Like, say, Cygwin?
It's not exactly the same as WINE (Linux software has to be built from source under Cygwin before it can be used), but since most Linux software is open source, that's usually not a problem.
There is even a commercial package called Tourist Remover which uses multiple images of the same location to compose a result without artifacts from moving objects.
Thank you, AC, that's a very nice analogy.
- he did not grow up as a Jew
- there is no proof of any Jewish ancestors at all
- he was never called Schicklgruber
Thank you, kind sir, you have made a poor geek's life a lot easier.
Well, what do you expect? They even called their newest baby "Diaper Drake"...
That's because the FAQ appears to be only accessible from the US.
The coralized link works (for me):
http://picasa.google.com.nyud.net:8080/linux/faq.h tml
rm -f
I can only guess at your reasons for that; my root sessions (on a remote server) usually begin with 'last', 'procinfo', 'ps axuf', 'top' and the like. If you don't want bash to log your current session, just do this:
HISTFILE=