I have an Intel CPU and run RHEL6[*], but I suspect it's handled similarly. You can see it loading firmware at boot time. If I run dmesg I see a boot-time record containing, among a bunch of other lines:
I'm not sure where it gets the data file, but if you go to this download page at Intel, choose "Processors" in column 1, "Desktop" in column 2, and "Intel Core i3 Desktop Processor" in column 3, it takes you to a new page where you can enter "Linux" in column 1; column 2 will automatically be set to "Firmware" Download Type, and the first line of the results will be "Linux Processor Microcode Data File, 12/12/2011". If you go there, you can press "Download" and end up with tarball named "microcode-20111110.tgz", which extracts to a single big text file "microcode.dat". Actually, regardless of what you entered along the way, it appears the file covers every Intel x86 processor (server, desktop, and mobile).
The file contains a big bunch of hex numbers and some unilluminating comments and tags.
I assume the distro packager gets updates periodically from the same underlying source.
If the program crashes, you KNOW it crashed and you know the runs before that didn't crash are OK.
Sorry, no. Just no. The real world is not that simple. If there are very low runner random stack corruptions, some of the time you'll just get bad data with no crash, and sometimes you'll get bad return addresses resulting in a crash. So you don't know the runs that didn't crash are automatically "OK". You only know that by running repeated identical tests of different hardware and comparing the results.
A U-boat lookout who failed to use his binoculars because "it's not that easy to scan the horizon with them" would have been chewed out, beat senseless, keel hauled, and thrown off the boat, in that order. Same with any lookout on any warship.
Utter nonsense. The doors were closed right after the collision, long before enough water entered to sink the ship. It was the fact that water kept progressively flooding over the tops of the bulkheads with the doors CLOSED that caused the sinking.
That is just an idiotic statement. The concentration and labor camps were run by the SS-Totenkopfverbände. The Waffen-SS were fighting units, and the two organizations were distinct. The Waffen-SS had elite training and indoctrination, but their duties were straight combat, which they conducted for the most part as honorably as regular army fighting units in Germany and other countries. Only someone truly clueless would characterize Waffen-SS combat performance as "pathetic". They were highly effective, They were respected and feared by all opponents. They were arguably the finest elite troops anywhere in the history of the world.
Yeah, why not within 1%? I mean that literally; why stop at 10%? How about 0.1%? How about 0.000000001%, so there is only a single perfect specimen left?
Marketing targeting STUPID PEOPLE works. It just bounces off anyone with a trace of actual intellect. I for one am perfectly OK with genetically stupid people being selected OUT of the gene pool by their own characteristics. Not that that is a significant result of marketing in actual fact, mind, but I would be fine with it if it were. I can't imagine why some caricature of a do-gooder busybody would NOT be fine with it.
where the majority of the population in Canada lives the climate is fairly similar to New York or Vermont
In other words, two months of acceptable weather in the summer and DREADFUL all the rest of the time. It is so bad that there is an underground city in Montreal which makes it possible for quite a few people to avoid almost all outdoor excursions in the winter.
I don't have any problem with you switching distros for any reason, but wouldn't it be a little more constructive to at least have a LOGICAL and VALID reason? In 12.04, as for any version since a long time ago, you can just install the xubuntu variant, or (not QUITE as clean) just apt-get install the xfce desktop environment. It just isn't so that with the release of 12.04 you will be "forced" to either use gnome3 or switch distros.
PS - I'm not a ubuntu guy myself (I don't particularly like any of the debian camp), and I realize you can readily construct a logical and valid reason to abandon it - but you didn't mention such a reason.
PPS - what I am using is an RHEL6 free repackaging - PUIAS in my case, but CentOS or Scientific Linux is just as good - and I am good with Gnome2 until 2017. Or I could just as well be running Xfce or KDE on it. I really cannot recommend this set of distros enough.
We're Americans. We know that practically everyone in politics is lying to us whenever they open their mouth.
Not everyone in politics is a lying SOB. Just about everyone in the political ESTABLISHMENT is. There are plenty of good candidates who run for office. They are "in politics" by definition, but almost always not in the political establishment. There are a fair number of people who actually get elected and who at least begin as principled and honorable public servants. Sure, a large majority of them get corrupted when they gradually slide into the political establishment.
Our true problem is that lying is widely EFFECTIVE in politics. Voters fall for it. Or they overlook it because there is some pandering position they agree with.
Most cars today have such TERRIBLE rear visibility that even if you follow the rules and use good technique, the chance of missing something is still much higher than it should be. The style nowadays is to have rear windows like gunslits, and even front side windows have gotten much smaller vertically. It's the downside of the tunnel vision that says you need the side impact protection of a Sherman tank, and that glass weighs too much and must be minimized to meet fuel economy mandates.
Can you see on the ground directly behind your rear wheel? I thought not. A small child lying down to reach something, or fallen down, is way way below any site line from the drivers seat, no matter if you swivel your head 360 degrees and use all three mirrors. You would have to work the side mirror controls extensively; even then it's very dubious you could cover all approaches; and by the time you'd examined all achievable areas, there would have been plenty of time to miss things in the areas your mirrors weren't pointing.
Unless you are staring at ALL approaches to the blind areas 100% of the time (good luck driving), there is a risk someone or something can enter it without your noticing.
LPG is nothing like natural gas. LPG can be stored as a liquid at room temperature under moderate pressure. For motor vehicle use, natural gas must be stored as a gas under extremely high pressure, or as a liquid cryogenically.
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Idiot. The VW diesel engines are adaptations of VW gasoline engines, not the other way around.
I have an Intel CPU and run RHEL6[*], but I suspect it's handled similarly. You can see it loading firmware at boot time. If I run dmesg I see a boot-time record containing, among a bunch of other lines:
platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-2a-07
microcode: CPU0 sig=0x206a7, pf=0x2, revision=0x18
once for each core.
I'm not sure where it gets the data file, but if you go to this download page at Intel, choose "Processors" in column 1, "Desktop" in column 2, and "Intel Core i3 Desktop Processor" in column 3, it takes you to a new page where you can enter "Linux" in column 1; column 2 will automatically be set to "Firmware" Download Type, and the first line of the results will be "Linux Processor Microcode Data File, 12/12/2011". If you go there, you can press "Download" and end up with tarball named "microcode-20111110.tgz", which extracts to a single big text file "microcode.dat". Actually, regardless of what you entered along the way, it appears the file covers every Intel x86 processor (server, desktop, and mobile).
The file contains a big bunch of hex numbers and some unilluminating comments and tags.
I assume the distro packager gets updates periodically from the same underlying source.
~~~~~
[*] Actually a free repackaging, PUIAS.
If the program crashes, you KNOW it crashed and you know the runs before that didn't crash are OK.
Sorry, no. Just no. The real world is not that simple. If there are very low runner random stack corruptions, some of the time you'll just get bad data with no crash, and sometimes you'll get bad return addresses resulting in a crash. So you don't know the runs that didn't crash are automatically "OK". You only know that by running repeated identical tests of different hardware and comparing the results.
A U-boat lookout who failed to use his binoculars because "it's not that easy to scan the horizon with them" would have been chewed out, beat senseless, keel hauled, and thrown off the boat, in that order. Same with any lookout on any warship.
I.e., it's complete nonsense.
Utter nonsense. The doors were closed right after the collision, long before enough water entered to sink the ship. It was the fact that water kept progressively flooding over the tops of the bulkheads with the doors CLOSED that caused the sinking.
That is just an idiotic statement. The concentration and labor camps were run by the SS-Totenkopfverbände. The Waffen-SS were fighting units, and the two organizations were distinct. The Waffen-SS had elite training and indoctrination, but their duties were straight combat, which they conducted for the most part as honorably as regular army fighting units in Germany and other countries. Only someone truly clueless would characterize Waffen-SS combat performance as "pathetic". They were highly effective, They were respected and feared by all opponents. They were arguably the finest elite troops anywhere in the history of the world.
A WHOLE LOT of fucking morons think that.
How about we ban you first? Oh wait. I have an idea. How about we don't ban ANYBODY because of their opinions and life choices?
Some people are heavy. Some are LIGHT. Fucking DEAL WITH IT. Your idea of perfection, or some committee's idea, does NOT impress me.
If you want to create a perfect robot race, with every one stamped out an exact copy, be my guest.
Yeah, why not within 1%? I mean that literally; why stop at 10%? How about 0.1%? How about 0.000000001%, so there is only a single perfect specimen left?
Independent thinking detected! This one is dangerous! KILL HIM!
Marketing targeting STUPID PEOPLE works. It just bounces off anyone with a trace of actual intellect. I for one am perfectly OK with genetically stupid people being selected OUT of the gene pool by their own characteristics. Not that that is a significant result of marketing in actual fact, mind, but I would be fine with it if it were. I can't imagine why some caricature of a do-gooder busybody would NOT be fine with it.
where the majority of the population in Canada lives the climate is fairly similar to New York or Vermont
In other words, two months of acceptable weather in the summer and DREADFUL all the rest of the time. It is so bad that there is an underground city in Montreal which makes it possible for quite a few people to avoid almost all outdoor excursions in the winter.
I don't have any problem with you switching distros for any reason, but wouldn't it be a little more constructive to at least have a LOGICAL and VALID reason? In 12.04, as for any version since a long time ago, you can just install the xubuntu variant, or (not QUITE as clean) just apt-get install the xfce desktop environment. It just isn't so that with the release of 12.04 you will be "forced" to either use gnome3 or switch distros.
PS - I'm not a ubuntu guy myself (I don't particularly like any of the debian camp), and I realize you can readily construct a logical and valid reason to abandon it - but you didn't mention such a reason.
PPS - what I am using is an RHEL6 free repackaging - PUIAS in my case, but CentOS or Scientific Linux is just as good - and I am good with Gnome2 until 2017. Or I could just as well be running Xfce or KDE on it. I really cannot recommend this set of distros enough.
Oh, the press is perfectly free. Free to be apologists, accomplices, and cheerleaders for scum.
We're Americans. We know that practically everyone in politics is lying to us whenever they open their mouth.
Not everyone in politics is a lying SOB. Just about everyone in the political ESTABLISHMENT is. There are plenty of good candidates who run for office. They are "in politics" by definition, but almost always not in the political establishment. There are a fair number of people who actually get elected and who at least begin as principled and honorable public servants. Sure, a large majority of them get corrupted when they gradually slide into the political establishment.
Our true problem is that lying is widely EFFECTIVE in politics. Voters fall for it. Or they overlook it because there is some pandering position they agree with.
Looks like you're one of the 5 people whose PC makes sense to run Windows8 on.
For the other 6,999,999,995 people in the world, not so much.
Set phasers to KILL, baby!
I always wanted to say that.
And we have Gnome3, which is the only pile of shit worse than Windows8.
Maybe you mean NoScript. :-)
Yes. Just yes. You can hardly see anything at all through the back window of most cars nowadays.
Most cars today have such TERRIBLE rear visibility that even if you follow the rules and use good technique, the chance of missing something is still much higher than it should be. The style nowadays is to have rear windows like gunslits, and even front side windows have gotten much smaller vertically. It's the downside of the tunnel vision that says you need the side impact protection of a Sherman tank, and that glass weighs too much and must be minimized to meet fuel economy mandates.
Can you see on the ground directly behind your rear wheel? I thought not. A small child lying down to reach something, or fallen down, is way way below any site line from the drivers seat, no matter if you swivel your head 360 degrees and use all three mirrors. You would have to work the side mirror controls extensively; even then it's very dubious you could cover all approaches; and by the time you'd examined all achievable areas, there would have been plenty of time to miss things in the areas your mirrors weren't pointing.
Unless you are staring at ALL approaches to the blind areas 100% of the time (good luck driving), there is a risk someone or something can enter it without your noticing.
What the hell does propane have to do with natural gas? They are two completely different things. Sheesh.
LPG is nothing like natural gas. LPG can be stored as a liquid at room temperature under moderate pressure. For motor vehicle use, natural gas must be stored as a gas under extremely high pressure, or as a liquid cryogenically.