I know ubuntu auto-mounts them (USB drives). I haven't had a floppy drive in years. Try one of their LiveCD's. There are ways to configure it so that it writes directly, rather than caching the writes until it's unmounted, so that may help with your unmounting problems, too.
The older releases are still patched. If you don't want to upgrade... well, don't. Not a hard choice. But giving a nice binary snapshot so someone new can download and install it without having to download a disc full of updates afterwards is a Good Thing(tm)
True. Microsoft should be aiming for EU requirements, not industry requirements. They still don't get the kind of hot water that they're in, and continue to dick around like they always do. "You're illegally tying products!" stall... stall... stall... IE, Media Player, all still in there.
My phone would normally be one of those ringing if it weren't for those reminders. I don't think the 10 seconds they take are that big of a deal to try to keep the theater a nicer place. The fucking commercials though... ARGH!
So write to the company and request a refund for a defective product, then bring it to the attention of the newspaper when they tell you they won't. Newspapers love stories of companies ripping people off.
Yeah. Because you have no videos, media or anything else on your hard drive? How about casual gamers who *gasp* use a laptop? My 60GB drive is WAY too small to have more than a game or two at a time installed, and still have all the stuff I want/need to do other things. Life isn't just about games, you know.
Hell, even a non-virus can bring down a system. We had a system here with Symantec Corporate AV that was looking on the wrong subnet for it's update server. Not finding it, it just flooded the damn network with ARP requests. Took nearly everything offline, and since it was an obscure, nearly forgotten-about system, we didn't realize it was the one doing it. Figured out it's IP with ethereal, but that doesn't help as much if you don't know what machine has what IP. Oh well.
There are extradition treaties and things like that all over the place;) If you break the law in the US, you can't necessarily just flee to Canada or Mexico or the UK, becuase they'll generally just send you back if the US asks, as the US does with other criminals. That's the "respect of US laws" that I think the GPP was talking about.
I'm also support for said family. If I'm gonna have to do more work to support the recommended system, I won't recommend it. That's why they don't run Linux currently. It won't do everything they want it to do.
But the geeks have, and the geeks tell the "public" about these things. My parents and family take my word about tech as gospel, essentially. They know I care about that stuff, they don't, and that I'm going to try to do the best for them that I can with advising that. If I think Macs are insecure (I don't, at least not compared to Windows), that's a lot of people that might have bought them that won't now.
Google doesn't need it's shareholders money. It's just giving them a chance to ride along. "Profits are paramount" isn't Google's mantra, and that's all that's fucking with Wall St.'s collective head. They're just out to try to do good, interesting business, and have never said that they weren't. Deal with it.
And it's attitudes like this that cause you to curse at the asshat who cut you off in traffic, or shortchanged you, or spits in your burger, or just laughs as you get robbed. Because as far as they're concerned, you can go fly a kite.
I love how the saying is still lingua Franca when the current standard is actually English, much to the dismay of the French. Go ahead, keep thinking that Java is bad;) I'm not saying C/C++ isn't good, but Java certainly isn't something to loathe. It actually offers many advantages over C/C++ in different situations, including performance advantages due to the JIT profiling code at runtime, which alters the programs execution depending on the data it's going through. You just can't do that in C/C++.
JIT code sometimes has an advantage in that it can run-time analyze and refactor code better than any person ever could. But I agree with you for the most part... someone knowing about the architecture as a whole can make better guesses than any compiler ever could. At least any compiler that's feasable to write in our lifetimes.
I thought it was more like a horseshoe crab or trilobyte at first glance.
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So, the AI lessons in making a robot react CORRECTLY to a ping-pong ball have absolutely no relationship to things like #3? They're solving 'problems' while gaining massive leaps in understanding. Even if their end result isn't immediately useful, the lessons they learn from it are.
If they shipped laptops with performance features (NVidia/ATI cards, fast dual-core processors) and Linux-compatible native hardware, I'd really look at them. I think a lot of other/.ers would as well. I don't really fancy building my own laptop.
Yeah, well, Yum is a steaming pile of doggy-doo compared to apt. The problem is that those are the things that are standardized on, the steaming piles of doggy-doo that manager X pushed really hard for to get his name noticed so he'd get promoted. Once you get into a corporate designed system, you rarely compete on pure technical merit any more.
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I know ubuntu auto-mounts them (USB drives). I haven't had a floppy drive in years. Try one of their LiveCD's. There are ways to configure it so that it writes directly, rather than caching the writes until it's unmounted, so that may help with your unmounting problems, too.
The older releases are still patched. If you don't want to upgrade... well, don't. Not a hard choice. But giving a nice binary snapshot so someone new can download and install it without having to download a disc full of updates afterwards is a Good Thing(tm)
Don't forget right angles... hehe
True. Microsoft should be aiming for EU requirements, not industry requirements. They still don't get the kind of hot water that they're in, and continue to dick around like they always do. "You're illegally tying products!" stall... stall... stall... IE, Media Player, all still in there.
My phone would normally be one of those ringing if it weren't for those reminders. I don't think the 10 seconds they take are that big of a deal to try to keep the theater a nicer place. The fucking commercials though... ARGH!
So write to the company and request a refund for a defective product, then bring it to the attention of the newspaper when they tell you they won't. Newspapers love stories of companies ripping people off.
Yeah. Because you have no videos, media or anything else on your hard drive? How about casual gamers who *gasp* use a laptop? My 60GB drive is WAY too small to have more than a game or two at a time installed, and still have all the stuff I want/need to do other things. Life isn't just about games, you know.
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Hell, even a non-virus can bring down a system. We had a system here with Symantec Corporate AV that was looking on the wrong subnet for it's update server. Not finding it, it just flooded the damn network with ARP requests. Took nearly everything offline, and since it was an obscure, nearly forgotten-about system, we didn't realize it was the one doing it. Figured out it's IP with ethereal, but that doesn't help as much if you don't know what machine has what IP. Oh well.
There are extradition treaties and things like that all over the place ;) If you break the law in the US, you can't necessarily just flee to Canada or Mexico or the UK, becuase they'll generally just send you back if the US asks, as the US does with other criminals. That's the "respect of US laws" that I think the GPP was talking about.
I'm also support for said family. If I'm gonna have to do more work to support the recommended system, I won't recommend it. That's why they don't run Linux currently. It won't do everything they want it to do.
But the geeks have, and the geeks tell the "public" about these things. My parents and family take my word about tech as gospel, essentially. They know I care about that stuff, they don't, and that I'm going to try to do the best for them that I can with advising that. If I think Macs are insecure (I don't, at least not compared to Windows), that's a lot of people that might have bought them that won't now.
To adore the holy chip of Intel?
Dude, you should know by now that it's the holy chip of AMD. Heathen.
Google doesn't need it's shareholders money. It's just giving them a chance to ride along. "Profits are paramount" isn't Google's mantra, and that's all that's fucking with Wall St.'s collective head. They're just out to try to do good, interesting business, and have never said that they weren't. Deal with it.
You mean truck numbers should be kept high. A low truck number means you're in dangerous territory if you lose someone.
And it's attitudes like this that cause you to curse at the asshat who cut you off in traffic, or shortchanged you, or spits in your burger, or just laughs as you get robbed. Because as far as they're concerned, you can go fly a kite.
Ha-ha. Sorry, by "they" I meant the researchers, specifically the Japanese in this case ;)
I love how the saying is still lingua Franca when the current standard is actually English, much to the dismay of the French. Go ahead, keep thinking that Java is bad ;) I'm not saying C/C++ isn't good, but Java certainly isn't something to loathe. It actually offers many advantages over C/C++ in different situations, including performance advantages due to the JIT profiling code at runtime, which alters the programs execution depending on the data it's going through. You just can't do that in C/C++.
JIT code sometimes has an advantage in that it can run-time analyze and refactor code better than any person ever could. But I agree with you for the most part... someone knowing about the architecture as a whole can make better guesses than any compiler ever could. At least any compiler that's feasable to write in our lifetimes.
If you're a parent, then you definitely need to read this.
Don't worry, it's short. And it may help your kids.
So the default is NULL allowed, rather than NOT NULL when making your tables in MySQL? Doesn't seem like a horrible obstacle to overcome...
I thought it was more like a horseshoe crab or trilobyte at first glance.
So, the AI lessons in making a robot react CORRECTLY to a ping-pong ball have absolutely no relationship to things like #3? They're solving 'problems' while gaining massive leaps in understanding. Even if their end result isn't immediately useful, the lessons they learn from it are.
If they shipped laptops with performance features (NVidia/ATI cards, fast dual-core processors) and Linux-compatible native hardware, I'd really look at them. I think a lot of other /.ers would as well. I don't really fancy building my own laptop.
Yeah, well, Yum is a steaming pile of doggy-doo compared to apt. The problem is that those are the things that are standardized on, the steaming piles of doggy-doo that manager X pushed really hard for to get his name noticed so he'd get promoted. Once you get into a corporate designed system, you rarely compete on pure technical merit any more.