Having been born in 1957, I've often wondered what the effects of atmospheric radioactive fall-out from nuclear tests might be, long-term. Everyone born since 1945 has at least some Strontium-90 in their skeleton, but those of use born in the mid to late '50s and early '60s (the peak years of atmospheric n-tests) must surely be loaded with the stuff?
I suppose I could play Shakespeare with a Geiger counter.. "By the ticking of my thumbs / Something wicked this way comes"
I was experiencing the uptime rollover bug (at about 500 days
Thanks, I'll go Google for this - it happened recently on one of my DNS boxes (SuSE 7.3, kernel 2.4-10GB, old P233 PC). To the best of my calculations, it happened at about 496 days. Generated a bunch of error messages and just kept on chugging away. I still haven't rebooted it - no need.
Given that the 2.4 kernel wasn't that great around the 10 release, that's pretty impressive. Given that the box was going to be junked and the whole caboodle cost zilch, that's more impressive still.
Unfortunately, I have no Windows equivalent with which to compare it. Linux is definitely ahead on TCO, though:)
I first discovered this at a Herbie Hancock show at Edinburgh Odeon in c.1981. Everytime the LD used his blue-filtered Par 64s alone, I couldn't focus on the band.
Despite the mod you received, I think you're bang on there. Your country is in trouble and so is mine. The Fascists are winning.
Respected British journalist, author and lawyer Fenton Bresler died this week aged 74. Among many many other articles and books, he wrote "Who Killed John Lennon", and was probably the first person to suspect publicly that Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, was a brainwashed CIA stooge. And who would have authorised Lennon's murder? None other than George Bush Sr., head honcho of the Fascist criminal elite. Surprise surprise.
Now here come the "tinfoil hat" comments... shove 'em up your asses, wiseguys. Try a little reading and a little reasoning before you speak on behalf of the Fascisti.
While it certainly wasn't a perfect operating system, just imagine what the last decade of computing would've been like had OS/2 become the standard instead of Windows...
Don't pile on the torture, man. In 1994, I had OS/2 and early GNU/Linux running under OS/2 Boot Manager and, frankly, I was in non-MS-Windows heaven.(It was the install floppy reads that gave the game away. After about disk 5 on OS/2, it started multitasking and chomping data like Mr Creosote. Early Slack and terrific memory management did a similar trick there, as I recall.) I mean, technically, Microsoft and MS-DOS was so passe if not yet niche from there on. What the fuck went wrong?
I even started becoming a heavy REXX addict... there's nothing of the sort in any Microsoft product. Damn their eyes, Cap'n. I am bitter and resentful even now. Yes.
UTC == GMT == BST - daylight_savings, so far as I am aware.
Greenwich Mean Time is called Mean because it is the time averaged over a year, if you get the idea. It isn't the real time on account of the 3 degrees or so of wobble of the earth on its axis. The block where I live is pretty much bang on geographical North - South, so shadows around midday can be observed over time. The midday alignment can vary by as much as 12 minutes from 'clock' time, in advance or retarded depending on the season.
And now the sums: 12 mins = (hrs in day x mins in hr) x (3 degrees/360 degrees), or (24*60)*(3/360).
Windows exploits that '0wn' your machine go in at System privilege level. That's one above Administrator; you can be logged in as such while someone 'sploits your box and there's *nothing* you can do to defend it (apart from introducing sudden air-gap security). On a GNU/Linux box, you can at least try to defend it during an attack if you wish.
My thoughts: On slashdot, freedom is only important if it happens to serve the interests of the person speaking. Hooray for totalitarian open-source-supporting dictators!
I for one would welcome our new open-source-supporting dictators.
My place of work is a Novell shop; I think we'd all love at least a Netware client for GNU/Linux. I imagine that goes for a lot of people. It would make 'Linux on the Desktop' a much closer reality for us.
Also, we have a rolling hardware upgrade program here and too many viable PCs just end up in the skip. The 300MHz PIIs w/64Mb RAM are next for the chop, but they'd be totally acceptable general office-use machines if they ran GNU/Linux. Tending to the luxurious, in fact. My home PC, for example, is a 133MHz Cyrix w/64Mb and I can't be arsed to upgrade, the point being that the economy of Slackware 9 (or whatever the distro of the minute) let's me get away with not being arsed.
You can see the appeal of it, really. Free at last etc.
The shockwave is continuous; I've been yachting across the English Channel on two occasions as Concorde overflew at maximum pumpage, and on both I nearly cacked my breeks at the sudden double boom. It is (was) rather loud, to say the least.
Heh, yes I caught the scale thing on the way through, but what I really checked for was the "No Concerns" bar in the 'Concerns' graphs. At a rough estimate, Windows = 9%, Linux = 27%.
This is something I've never been able to understand, how peopel figure that the 1 metre cable between the outlet and the amp makes any difference as opposed to the thousands of kilometres of normal wire used to get the power to the house.
Apologies, wildly offtopic but...
Damping factor, IIRC my audio days, is the ratio of the output impedance of a power amplifier to the impedance of the load. It matters that this is high to give the amp maximum control over the cone and dampen any inertial overshoot.
Of course, the load that counts is the speaker itself, so "output impedance of power amplifier" has to include not only the impedance to the output terminals but that of the cable too. Nominal df values of 1:1000 at the output terminals (fabulous) drop to 1:10 or typically 1:3 (grim) with a grotty bit of mains cable.
Enough secrets of the audio vault, I'm off to Google 'damping factor'.
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Careful, one day you might have a passport.
I suppose I could play Shakespeare with a Geiger counter.. "By the ticking of my thumbs / Something wicked this way comes"
Thanks, I'll go Google for this - it happened recently on one of my DNS boxes (SuSE 7.3, kernel 2.4-10GB, old P233 PC). To the best of my calculations, it happened at about 496 days. Generated a bunch of error messages and just kept on chugging away. I still haven't rebooted it - no need.
Given that the 2.4 kernel wasn't that great around the 10 release, that's pretty impressive. Given that the box was going to be junked and the whole caboodle cost zilch, that's more impressive still.
Unfortunately, I have no Windows equivalent with which to compare it. Linux is definitely ahead on TCO, though :)
Fabulous show, though :)
Respected British journalist, author and lawyer Fenton Bresler died this week aged 74. Among many many other articles and books, he wrote "Who Killed John Lennon", and was probably the first person to suspect publicly that Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, was a brainwashed CIA stooge. And who would have authorised Lennon's murder? None other than George Bush Sr., head honcho of the Fascist criminal elite. Surprise surprise.
Now here come the "tinfoil hat" comments... shove 'em up your asses, wiseguys. Try a little reading and a little reasoning before you speak on behalf of the Fascisti.
Thank you.
thanx for teh link
Ctrl-D. I want to enjoy this 3 times a day after meals.
Heh! Heheheh! Heheheheheheheheh.....
"Gentlemen, start your debuggers."
Don't pile on the torture, man. In 1994, I had OS/2 and early GNU/Linux running under OS/2 Boot Manager and, frankly, I was in non-MS-Windows heaven.(It was the install floppy reads that gave the game away. After about disk 5 on OS/2, it started multitasking and chomping data like Mr Creosote. Early Slack and terrific memory management did a similar trick there, as I recall.) I mean, technically, Microsoft and MS-DOS was so passe if not yet niche from there on. What the fuck went wrong?
I even started becoming a heavy REXX addict... there's nothing of the sort in any Microsoft product. Damn their eyes, Cap'n. I am bitter and resentful even now. Yes.
(24*60)/(3/360)
Ahem.
Greenwich Mean Time is called Mean because it is the time averaged over a year, if you get the idea. It isn't the real time on account of the 3 degrees or so of wobble of the earth on its axis. The block where I live is pretty much bang on geographical North - South, so shadows around midday can be observed over time. The midday alignment can vary by as much as 12 minutes from 'clock' time, in advance or retarded depending on the season.
And now the sums: 12 mins = (hrs in day x mins in hr) x (3 degrees/360 degrees), or (24*60)*(3/360).
Someone correct me if this is bollocks.
Yes but...
Windows exploits that '0wn' your machine go in at System privilege level. That's one above Administrator; you can be logged in as such while someone 'sploits your box and there's *nothing* you can do to defend it (apart from introducing sudden air-gap security). On a GNU/Linux box, you can at least try to defend it during an attack if you wish.
I didn't think that the Bush cabal cared if they were caught out anymore, anyway. They just switch to the next convenient lie on the stack.
Ta!
I for one would welcome our new open-source-supporting dictators.
(er... surely this has been said already?)
Also, we have a rolling hardware upgrade program here and too many viable PCs just end up in the skip. The 300MHz PIIs w/64Mb RAM are next for the chop, but they'd be totally acceptable general office-use machines if they ran GNU/Linux. Tending to the luxurious, in fact. My home PC, for example, is a 133MHz Cyrix w/64Mb and I can't be arsed to upgrade, the point being that the economy of Slackware 9 (or whatever the distro of the minute) let's me get away with not being arsed.
You can see the appeal of it, really. Free at last etc.
'splains everything...
Made I larf, too.
The shockwave is continuous; I've been yachting across the English Channel on two occasions as Concorde overflew at maximum pumpage, and on both I nearly cacked my breeks at the sudden double boom. It is (was) rather loud, to say the least.
Suppercruise capability? Sign me up for the next sitting =:-0
Heh, yes I caught the scale thing on the way through, but what I really checked for was the "No Concerns" bar in the 'Concerns' graphs. At a rough estimate, Windows = 9%, Linux = 27%.
No worries!
Apologies, wildly offtopic but...
Damping factor, IIRC my audio days, is the ratio of the output impedance of a power amplifier to the impedance of the load. It matters that this is high to give the amp maximum control over the cone and dampen any inertial overshoot.
Of course, the load that counts is the speaker itself, so "output impedance of power amplifier" has to include not only the impedance to the output terminals but that of the cable too. Nominal df values of 1:1000 at the output terminals (fabulous) drop to 1:10 or typically 1:3 (grim) with a grotty bit of mains cable.
Enough secrets of the audio vault, I'm off to Google 'damping factor'.
MarsMicro 775 0.5mm 2B + Staedtler Plastic Eraser.
From Deutschland. Vorsprung durch Teknik and all.
It is (was) not itself a Trojan; the worm itself self-destructed on 10th September.