I jumped ship to VirtualBox at the end of last year after being a long time VMWare Server user.
Server's switch to a terrible UI on version 2.0 and the fact that they continue to charge for VMWare fusion made me look for alternatives.
Mod parent up! VMware Server 2.0 with its vast bulk, instability, and ghastly browser based UI SUCKS DONKEY BALLS! I would have stayed with Server 1.0, but it won't install on any recent kernel.
They "fixed" what wasn't busted. Symptomatic of a company whose overall direction is getting close to death throes stage.
Batteries aren't efficient for a large scale solution. They're short-lived, they're low capacity, and energy is lost in the charging process.
Batteries using crappy technology are all of those things, but there's one battery technology that was invented 108 years ago that still impresses: the Edison Cell; nickel-iron-potash. Yeah, admittedly it's bulky and heavy per kwh, and expensive, and capacity temporarily takes a hit in a cold environment, but it's not short lived. There are cases on record where these have been in service (or worse, put away and neglected) for 50 or more years, and are still in perfect condition with nearly 100% of their original as-built capacity.
They have no memory effect; they tolerate conditions that kill other types, such as being left indefinitely in a fully discharged state, or grossly overcharged, or kept on indefinite float charge; the plates do not degrade; electrolyte vapour or spills do not corrode metals in the nearby environment.
They can be readily acquired in cell sizes up to 1220ah 1.2v, even by individuals. The cells can be put in series and series-parallel to get any desired energy capacity.
Do you have a link to the actual bug description or changelog? Because I don't see anything in the link you posted to validate your assertion.
Apparently he does not. However, if you google "2.6.21 leap second" you get to page 2 of a thread which starts here: http://www.linux-archive.org/debian-user/220788-hard-crash-leap-second.html. Apparently it may occur on "any" kernel before 2.6.21.6 (fairly obviously not "any" since 0.1, but you get the idea). Sounds to me that it would only show on an SMP system, but I didn't spend much time studying it.
AFAIK, f8 shipped with 2.6.23.1, so since several have reported f8 crashes on leap second in this article's comments, maybe this bug didn't get fixed so well. I did have a fully updated SMP f8 system (2.6.26.6) run through the recent leap second occurrence without crashing.
When you look at it, Red Hat is the wrong place to develop drivers. They should be developed by the vendors of the drivers, not the O/S packager.... This move is really more a reflection of the continuing maturity of the Linux Operating System!
God help us if linux gets as, ahem, MATURE as Windows. Microsoft's crappy OS code is only exceeded by the unbelievably crappy driver code turned out by OEMs.
Tracking down (bug-ridden) drivers for everything is the single factor that makes Windows' out of box experience a living Hell (And accepting them only on floppies is the single factor that will eventually kill off XP).
The contrast with linux is eye opening to former benighted Windows users. Not only are all your drivers right there, but all the apps you need are a (free) click away.
Anyway, it's not OS packegers who develop linux drivers; its kernel developers - who are exactly the people with the skills to do the best job.
It's about time they made 20" LCD's with a 1280x1024 resolution for people over the age of 40 who use it as a tool and not a hobby.
Or an operating system which scales GUI elements reasonable well. Oh wait... that's linux! Well, it's hardly perfect yet, but it does a whale of a lot better job at it than Windows does.
Apparently big blocky fonts are easier for seniors to see than big smooth fonts.
Not necessarily; it's not that simple. As an old guy with crappy eyes, I can tell you. Your Mom is not dumb, and probably has a good esthetic sense. Anything more than a very minor amount of font scaling in Windows just looks ugly and stupid. The scaling is not entirely consistent, and does not apply at all to other graphical elements. Caveat: I haven't tried Vista, but I don't consider that a viable choice for other reasons.
The bitmaps don't scale, which is understandable but results in real problems. Less forgivable is the fact that things like scrollbars and title bars don't scale. You end up with things like a ludicrously tiny scroll bar with elements you can barely hit with a mouse, and ludicrously thin title bar within which the system is trying to display nice large text which won't fit.
Dialog boxes become an insuperable problem. The nice large text gets clipped by the stupid box, or by the size of the text design element within the box.
Try setting up XP with readable text on a 15.4" 1920x1200 display sometime.
By design, Windows is not truly display independent or size preference adaptable. It never claimed to be, really.
All too true... and... the question as asked is not even rational. Is the objective really configuring Windows? Why isn't the objective setting up a system which can do general task types A, B, and C with a minimum of fuss?
There's damn-all most of us old guys need to do that isn't done better and with less fuss using a good linux distro.
Or you could take your time charging a second supercapacitor. Then, when you need to recharge the car, zap current into it from the second supercapacitor.
20% seems to be the maximum for a practical internal combustion engine.
Nope. It might be a decent value (hardly the ultimate limit) for a gasoline engine, but diesels can easily exceed 35%, and the best figure for the VW TDI of MY 2000 vintage is actually closer to 45%, which is not far from the figure for a good stationary power plant.
20A at 220V is the maximum for some household circuits. It certainly isn't the limit for a household. My incoming service is 200 amps, broken down into 50, 30, and 15 amp circuits at 220V and 110V (actually, 230V and 115V average, 220V and 110V minimum, and 240V and 120V maximum).
"Honey, would you unplug the electric stove, furnace, refrigerator, and toaster, please? I need to use almost the entire electric service for 1.1 hours to recharge the car. Thank you."
News flash, Europe and US use different 'thousands' separator.
Correct, but news flash: who knows who proofread what. The simple fact is that 52 kWh is about enough to power a car for a fairly reasonable range. 52 MWh would be enough to run an 18 wheeler from coast to coast.
Everything you put into SS is payed back to you (on average) within 2 to 3 years.
Does that take into account the time value of money on the open market? OK, so I'm asking a rhetorical question. I know it does not, so it is a completely bogus statement, and the idiot who originated it needs to [re-]take Economy 101.
It is evident that you don't understand the elementary nature of Constitutional government in the U.S. No rounds of ballot, on their own, can amend the U.S. Constitution. Period.
If the U.S. Supreme Court were to blatantly reinterpret the Constitution more than they already have, a Constitutional crisis would likely ensue. In the course of this, the power which the Supreme Court in fact arrogated to itself, to pass final judgement on what the Constitution says in plain English, could become subject to review by the other branches of Government.
This could be fun, but only in the sense that the last full blown Constitutional crisis, known as the Civil War, was "fun."
if the majority of Americans want public research into space exploration, medical research, and fundamental research, then it is the government's duty to carry out these wishes.
Incorrect. The government's duty is to carry out the mandate of the Constitution. The majority does not get to say "to Hell with the Constitution." To do that, you need a revolution.
Libertarianism is just a pretty name for Corporatism. You trade the federal government for large corporations, [which] are totally unaccountable to you.
No sensible definition of libertarianism makes it a "pretty name for corporatism." There are many branches of libertarian thought, and I suppose a proportion of these embrace some degree of corporatism, but libertarianism is at its heart a statement about INDIVIDUAL HUMAN liberty.
Corporatism is actually pretty much a statist idea. Corporations are protected by laws limiting liability in ways no ordinary citizen can take advantage of, and laws (such as patent laws) which choke competition. Many if not most libertarians would prefer such laws be greatly weakened or done away with.
If you want to see corporatism in action, you need look no farther than all western democracies, communist china (where it is embraced in controlled fashion), and of course all fascist states.
Actually, no. The U.S. is a Constitutional Representative Republic. Governmental powers are limited to those enumerated in the Constitution. You can't amend the Constitution by ballot; there is a considerably better thought out (and, thankfully, not so easy) way in place to do that.
At the national level, ballots are pretty much limited to voting for who you want to represent you.
I suppose ultimately the people could revolt and try something completely different, but for the last 143 years that has never gained traction.
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1.0 won't install on any recent kernel.
I jumped ship to VirtualBox at the end of last year after being a long time VMWare Server user.
Server's switch to a terrible UI on version 2.0 and the fact that they continue to charge for VMWare fusion made me look for alternatives.
Mod parent up! VMware Server 2.0 with its vast bulk, instability, and ghastly browser based UI SUCKS DONKEY BALLS! I would have stayed with Server 1.0, but it won't install on any recent kernel.
They "fixed" what wasn't busted. Symptomatic of a company whose overall direction is getting close to death throes stage.
The original HP-2133 had an 8.9", 1280x800 screen.
Batteries aren't efficient for a large scale solution. They're short-lived, they're low capacity, and energy is lost in the charging process.
Batteries using crappy technology are all of those things, but there's one battery technology that was invented 108 years ago that still impresses: the Edison Cell; nickel-iron-potash. Yeah, admittedly it's bulky and heavy per kwh, and expensive, and capacity temporarily takes a hit in a cold environment, but it's not short lived. There are cases on record where these have been in service (or worse, put away and neglected) for 50 or more years, and are still in perfect condition with nearly 100% of their original as-built capacity.
They have no memory effect; they tolerate conditions that kill other types, such as being left indefinitely in a fully discharged state, or grossly overcharged, or kept on indefinite float charge; the plates do not degrade; electrolyte vapour or spills do not corrode metals in the nearby environment.
They can be readily acquired in cell sizes up to 1220ah 1.2v, even by individuals. The cells can be put in series and series-parallel to get any desired energy capacity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_cell
http://www.beutilityfree.com/content/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=44&Itemid=129
http://www.beutilityfree.com/content/pdf_files/NiFeFlyer.pdf
In EU, it is 745 years from the death of the author. In the USA, it is 95 years from the date the copyright was issued.
Wow. 745 years is a long time.
It's very easy to think "RAID 1 = disks are safe".
They are safer. Just not safe enough. And the data is not comprehensively safe.
Do you have a link to the actual bug description or changelog? Because I don't see anything in the link you posted to validate your assertion.
Apparently he does not. However, if you google "2.6.21 leap second" you get to page 2 of a thread which starts here: http://www.linux-archive.org/debian-user/220788-hard-crash-leap-second.html. Apparently it may occur on "any" kernel before 2.6.21.6 (fairly obviously not "any" since 0.1, but you get the idea). Sounds to me that it would only show on an SMP system, but I didn't spend much time studying it.
AFAIK, f8 shipped with 2.6.23.1, so since several have reported f8 crashes on leap second in this article's comments, maybe this bug didn't get fixed so well. I did have a fully updated SMP f8 system (2.6.26.6) run through the recent leap second occurrence without crashing.
You're off by a factor of 144. 14.5 psi is 2088 psf. Multiply that by 16.1 to 21.5 sq ft!
When you look at it, Red Hat is the wrong place to develop drivers. They should be developed by the vendors of the drivers, not the O/S packager. ... This move is really more a reflection of the continuing maturity of the Linux Operating System!
God help us if linux gets as, ahem, MATURE as Windows. Microsoft's crappy OS code is only exceeded by the unbelievably crappy driver code turned out by OEMs.
Tracking down (bug-ridden) drivers for everything is the single factor that makes Windows' out of box experience a living Hell (And accepting them only on floppies is the single factor that will eventually kill off XP).
The contrast with linux is eye opening to former benighted Windows users. Not only are all your drivers right there, but all the apps you need are a (free) click away.
Anyway, it's not OS packegers who develop linux drivers; its kernel developers - who are exactly the people with the skills to do the best job.
What the heck is this incoherent post even talking about?
Yep. As an old guy, I can assure GP that old guys are seldom pompous, and almost always disdain the euphemisms.
It's about time they made 20" LCD's with a 1280x1024 resolution for people over the age of 40 who use it as a tool and not a hobby.
Or an operating system which scales GUI elements reasonable well. Oh wait ... that's linux! Well, it's hardly perfect yet, but it does a whale of a lot better job at it than Windows does.
Apparently big blocky fonts are easier for seniors to see than big smooth fonts.
Not necessarily; it's not that simple. As an old guy with crappy eyes, I can tell you. Your Mom is not dumb, and probably has a good esthetic sense. Anything more than a very minor amount of font scaling in Windows just looks ugly and stupid. The scaling is not entirely consistent, and does not apply at all to other graphical elements. Caveat: I haven't tried Vista, but I don't consider that a viable choice for other reasons.
The bitmaps don't scale, which is understandable but results in real problems. Less forgivable is the fact that things like scrollbars and title bars don't scale. You end up with things like a ludicrously tiny scroll bar with elements you can barely hit with a mouse, and ludicrously thin title bar within which the system is trying to display nice large text which won't fit.
Dialog boxes become an insuperable problem. The nice large text gets clipped by the stupid box, or by the size of the text design element within the box.
Try setting up XP with readable text on a 15.4" 1920x1200 display sometime.
By design, Windows is not truly display independent or size preference adaptable. It never claimed to be, really.
the question as asked is not a solvable problem
All too true ... and ... the question as asked is not even rational. Is the objective really configuring Windows? Why isn't the objective setting up a system which can do general task types A, B, and C with a minimum of fuss?
There's damn-all most of us old guys need to do that isn't done better and with less fuss using a good linux distro.
Windows had a heyday. It's OVER!
Or you could take your time charging a second supercapacitor. Then, when you need to recharge the car, zap current into it from the second supercapacitor.
20% seems to be the maximum for a practical internal combustion engine.
Nope. It might be a decent value (hardly the ultimate limit) for a gasoline engine, but diesels can easily exceed 35%, and the best figure for the VW TDI of MY 2000 vintage is actually closer to 45%, which is not far from the figure for a good stationary power plant.
4. Call undertaker (which will be difficult to do since you'll be dead)
20A at 220V is the maximum for some household circuits. It certainly isn't the limit for a household. My incoming service is 200 amps, broken down into 50, 30, and 15 amp circuits at 220V and 110V (actually, 230V and 115V average, 220V and 110V minimum, and 240V and 120V maximum).
"Honey, would you unplug the electric stove, furnace, refrigerator, and toaster, please? I need to use almost the entire electric service for 1.1 hours to recharge the car. Thank you."
A combustion event, aka 'explosion' occurs at the beginning of every power stroke
It's not an explosion. It's rapid, but controlled, combustion (burning).
When an engine 'knocks' there is a combustion event as well.
Nope. Knocking is preignition or detonation (explosion).
News flash, Europe and US use different 'thousands' separator.
Correct, but news flash: who knows who proofread what. The simple fact is that 52 kWh is about enough to power a car for a fairly reasonable range. 52 MWh would be enough to run an 18 wheeler from coast to coast.
Everything you put into SS is payed back to you (on average) within 2 to 3 years.
Does that take into account the time value of money on the open market? OK, so I'm asking a rhetorical question. I know it does not, so it is a completely bogus statement, and the idiot who originated it needs to [re-]take Economy 101.
Be careful when using the word "all."
It is evident that you don't understand the elementary nature of Constitutional government in the U.S. No rounds of ballot, on their own, can amend the U.S. Constitution. Period.
If the U.S. Supreme Court were to blatantly reinterpret the Constitution more than they already have, a Constitutional crisis would likely ensue. In the course of this, the power which the Supreme Court in fact arrogated to itself, to pass final judgement on what the Constitution says in plain English, could become subject to review by the other branches of Government.
This could be fun, but only in the sense that the last full blown Constitutional crisis, known as the Civil War, was "fun."
if the majority of Americans want public research into space exploration, medical research, and fundamental research, then it is the government's duty to carry out these wishes.
Incorrect. The government's duty is to carry out the mandate of the Constitution. The majority does not get to say "to Hell with the Constitution." To do that, you need a revolution.
Libertarianism is just a pretty name for Corporatism. You trade the federal government for large corporations, [which] are totally unaccountable to you.
No sensible definition of libertarianism makes it a "pretty name for corporatism." There are many branches of libertarian thought, and I suppose a proportion of these embrace some degree of corporatism, but libertarianism is at its heart a statement about INDIVIDUAL HUMAN liberty.
Corporatism is actually pretty much a statist idea. Corporations are protected by laws limiting liability in ways no ordinary citizen can take advantage of, and laws (such as patent laws) which choke competition. Many if not most libertarians would prefer such laws be greatly weakened or done away with.
If you want to see corporatism in action, you need look no farther than all western democracies, communist china (where it is embraced in controlled fashion), and of course all fascist states.
Actually, no. The U.S. is a Constitutional Representative Republic. Governmental powers are limited to those enumerated in the Constitution. You can't amend the Constitution by ballot; there is a considerably better thought out (and, thankfully, not so easy) way in place to do that.
At the national level, ballots are pretty much limited to voting for who you want to represent you.
I suppose ultimately the people could revolt and try something completely different, but for the last 143 years that has never gained traction.