> On the other hand, China and Korea can't let go what happened almost 70 years ago (20 years earlier than the bombs) and are rioting and staging protests against Japan's "whitewashing" of history.
I used to think the way you do as well, before I actually moved to Japan and have seen the way the LDP party continues to piss off their Asian neighbours (island disputes -- not just disputing the land, but also doing things like issuing postal stamps showing the disputed lands with Japanese names, Yasukuni shrine visits, textbook omissions, attempts to remilitarize, etc. ad nauseum. Not to mention the fact that while Germany has apologized for its wartime atrocities, Japan has played the victim mentality card.
Maybe some day the LDP will be booted out of the power they have held onto for decades and things will change, but I am not holding my breath.
Last winter I managed to walk into a small tree branch which slightly damaged the epithelium over the cornea. The pain and stinging was QUITE significant. I was freaking thinking my eye was damaged forever, but it's amazing how quickly that tissue can heal itself.
I always wondered how these places stay in business. Do you really think the vendor's actually put a lot of thought into finding the perfect tomatoes, freshest eggs and milk, and softest loaves of bread?
Or do they sell whatever the oldest crap they can get away with selling?
Personally, unless I'm buying books or CD's, I'll stick to real-life visits to the local grocery store.;-)
Gee, forgive me for wanting to fully utilize all the functionality of a laptop I've had since fucking August of last year.:p
But you're right, I could just be patient and by the time my laptop is completely obsolete and I'm in the market for a new one, Intel might finally release their drivers for it.
I've been a Linux zealot since 1995, but just two annoying things have forced me to spend 90% of my time booted into my WinXP partition on my Panasonic toughbook:
- swsusp is not reliable. Sorry, but I can't be patient when my fucking laptop hangs on the 2nd or 3rd resume. Cold booting and shutting down is just too damned slow, so I rarely bother anymore. - lack of Centrino support. Bastards at Intel! I would not have purchased this laptop if I knew I would have gotten shafted on Linux support -- especially when I was under the impression Intel was Linux-friendly!)
Oh, and I guess a 3rd problem has begun to rear its ugly head now that I'm getting into video capture and editing via firewire. Namely driver support and applications.:-/
Ah, but I'll never give up Linux on the server OR my main desktop.
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This may be filed under the "funny, laugh" department, but I would LOVE some kind of heating device for my hands. I work in an office which is always freezing cold in the summer (they crank the air conditioner, yet they complain about wanting to save money:-/ ), and my hands get so cold I find it very difficult to type.
I would love to buy an electrical wrist rest heater (like those wrist cushions for RSI), but nobody seems to make one.:( In the meantime, I go through one of those chemical heating pads every single day. I should try to get reimbursed for them from HR.;-)
I haven't ran out yet, but I easily got over 4, doing lots of disk activity (installing crap under Linux), reading a bunch of web sites over a PHS card (which sucks power). I think 7.5 is really pushing it, but the battery life is really damned decent. I am crazy about this Panasonic. I kind of got fucked on the Windows XP cd, though -- it's a "recovery cd", and when I tried to install it in a vmware virtual machine on top of Linux, it gave me a cock and bull story about my configuration not being supported and I couldn't install from there. Fucking Microsoft.:p I did get dual boot working fine though (albeit, grub seems to cause it to hang if I try to load it as a physical disk via VMware).
If only swsusp didn't fucking HANG every 2nd resume, I'd be one very very happy camper.
The SLC-760 sucks. Sorry, but it sucks. I bought one at first sight, and got some use out of it, but it's battery life is horrendous (using a PHS device to use the 'net I get an hour and a half -- 1.5 hours on a PDA!), and usable memory is so small it's laughable. This problem was alleviated somewhat by getting a sdram card and adding a swapfile, but that makes things really slow. It was also really overpriced (cost me around 80,000 yen for the unit, a CF network card, a 256 Mb SDRAM chip, and a PHS wireless card).
It was nice to finally be able to read Slashdot during my train commute, and more importantly, to give me something to read on the shitter, but when the beautiful Panasonic W2 (http://www.dynamism.com/w2/index.shtml) came out a couple of weeks ago I snapped one up (I got it direct from Panasonic with a 60 Gb drive and 512 Mb of RAM), and my SLC-760 is sitting unused, collecting dust. I only wish I could sell it and get even HALF of what I paid for it just a couple of months ago.:(
> I've felt like the show has been slipping all season, so here's hoping.
I've heard more than a few people say things like that. Have you seen this week's "Cogenitor"? In my opinion, it was worthy of an emmy! Dawn, Judgement, and The Crossing were also all very interesting and original (save for scenes in Judgement being on the same penal moon that ST:6 was in). I've found Enterprise the best Trek of all of them, and this season is MUCH better than the first one was.
I know, opinions are like assholes, but what the fuck do you people WANT from Trek if you truly feel that this season is "slipping"?
> Once the new partition table is saved there is no going back; both IPSO and Check Point FW-1 are gone.
Of course, if I were the one doing the installation I'd backup the original drive contents so I could always go back to original configuration (in case of screw up, or if I wanted to sell the unit on e-bay, etc.) It's only 8 Gb...
> When it comes time to install the various packages, select only Network Support and then go into the Select Individual Packages section and add GCC, autoconf and ncurses.
GCC on a firewall box?! Sounds like a new tool of terror for the scrip7 kiddies.;-) It might be a good idea to delete the compiler after everything has been configured, or even better, don't install it and build any necessary packages on another server, then transfer the binaries to the firewall.
Nice article though. Nothing like putting the screws to those closed source, code hoarding, proprietary software vendors.:-D
But which end distribution do you expect ISV's like Oracle to support? Debian which is the "official" GNU version? Red Hat because of its popularity? Slackware because of its stability? SuSe because of...well, I can't think of a single good damn reason to support Suse, but I digress.
Ideally, we'd have an LSB standard to follow and these wouldn't be issues, but unfortunately, there are enough differences between distributions that a software vendor _has_ to make these kinds of decisions. Consolidation, or at the very least strictly following established standards would go a long way towards bringing Linux to the masses.
I decide that I want a monitor, decide that I need it _NOW_, march to my local Bic Camera store, look for a 17" LCD in my price range, put it on my credit card, and carry it home. I am an unabashed impulse shopper; welcome to my life.
Nice idea, but flawed. Spammers do not normally use real e-mail addresses anyway, and their invalid ones may actually map onto innocent collateral damage victims.
According to the installation documentation, BlackRhino needs a 4 Gb partition to be defined on a newly installed Sony Linux system. The thing is, I've already been using my Kondara-based default installation with my own partitioning scheme, and I do not really want to change it. Why is this necessary, and what happens to the 4 Gb partition once the BlackRhino install has been finished?
cpu : MIPS cpu model : R5900 V1.4 system type : EE PS2 BogoMIPS : 392.40
It's not too bad but I'd hate to compile a kernel on it.;-) It's unusable for playing full screen mpegs, etc. but one of these days somebody might optimize SDL which would help things out.
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> On the other hand, China and Korea can't let go what happened almost 70 years ago (20 years earlier than the bombs) and are rioting and staging protests against Japan's "whitewashing" of history.
I used to think the way you do as well, before I actually moved to Japan and have seen the way the LDP party continues to piss off their Asian neighbours (island disputes -- not just disputing the land, but also doing things like issuing postal stamps showing the disputed lands with Japanese names, Yasukuni shrine visits, textbook omissions, attempts to remilitarize, etc. ad nauseum. Not to mention the fact that while Germany has apologized for its wartime atrocities, Japan has played the victim mentality card.
Maybe some day the LDP will be booted out of the power they have held onto for decades and things will change, but I am not holding my breath.
Last winter I managed to walk into a small tree branch which slightly damaged the epithelium over the cornea. The pain and stinging was QUITE significant. I was freaking thinking my eye was damaged forever, but it's amazing how quickly that tissue can heal itself.
This is just abuse of the DCMA! By the way, frosty post!
I always wondered how these places stay in business. Do you really think the vendor's actually put a lot of thought into finding the perfect tomatoes, freshest eggs and milk, and softest loaves of bread?
;-)
Or do they sell whatever the oldest crap they can get away with selling?
Personally, unless I'm buying books or CD's, I'll stick to real-life visits to the local grocery store.
Gee, forgive me for wanting to fully utilize all the functionality of a laptop I've had since fucking August of last year. :p
But you're right, I could just be patient and by the time my laptop is completely obsolete and I'm in the market for a new one, Intel might finally release their drivers for it.
I've been a Linux zealot since 1995, but just two annoying things have forced me to spend 90% of my time booted into my WinXP partition on my Panasonic toughbook:
:-/
- swsusp is not reliable. Sorry, but I can't be patient when my fucking laptop hangs on the 2nd or 3rd resume. Cold booting and shutting down is just too damned slow, so I rarely bother anymore.
- lack of Centrino support. Bastards at Intel! I would not have purchased this laptop if I knew I would have gotten shafted on Linux support -- especially when I was under the impression Intel was Linux-friendly!)
Oh, and I guess a 3rd problem has begun to rear its ugly head now that I'm getting into video capture and editing via firewire. Namely driver support and applications.
Ah, but I'll never give up Linux on the server OR my main desktop.
Yeah, but, does it run Linux?
This may be filed under the "funny, laugh" department, but I would LOVE some kind of heating device for my hands. I work in an office which is always freezing cold in the summer (they crank the air conditioner, yet they complain about wanting to save money :-/ ), and my hands get so cold I find it very difficult to type.
:( In the meantime, I go through one of those chemical heating pads every single day. I should try to get reimbursed for them from HR. ;-)
I would love to buy an electrical wrist rest heater (like those wrist cushions for RSI), but nobody seems to make one.
I haven't ran out yet, but I easily got over 4, doing lots of disk activity (installing crap under Linux), reading a bunch of web sites over a PHS card (which sucks power). I think 7.5 is really pushing it, but the battery life is really damned decent. I am crazy about this Panasonic. I kind of got fucked on the Windows XP cd, though -- it's a "recovery cd", and when I tried to install it in a vmware virtual machine on top of Linux, it gave me a cock and bull story about my configuration not being supported and I couldn't install from there. Fucking Microsoft. :p I did get dual boot working fine though (albeit, grub seems to cause it to hang if I try to load it as a physical disk via VMware).
If only swsusp didn't fucking HANG every 2nd resume, I'd be one very very happy camper.
The SLC-760 sucks. Sorry, but it sucks. I bought one at first sight, and got some use out of it, but it's battery life is horrendous (using a PHS device to use the 'net I get an hour and a half -- 1.5 hours on a PDA!), and usable memory is so small it's laughable. This problem was alleviated somewhat by getting a sdram card and adding a swapfile, but that makes things really slow. It was also really overpriced (cost me around 80,000 yen for the unit, a CF network card, a 256 Mb SDRAM chip, and a PHS wireless card).
:(
It was nice to finally be able to read Slashdot during my train commute, and more importantly, to give me something to read on the shitter, but when the beautiful Panasonic W2 (http://www.dynamism.com/w2/index.shtml) came out a couple of weeks ago I snapped one up (I got it direct from Panasonic with a 60 Gb drive and 512 Mb of RAM), and my SLC-760 is sitting unused, collecting dust. I only wish I could sell it and get even HALF of what I paid for it just a couple of months ago.
I see you're still deserving of being on my scumbag list. Scumbag.
I hope somehow you ended up with HIV from your little experience.
Watch "The Crossing". Were those aliens humanoid? :p
> I've felt like the show has been slipping all season, so here's hoping.
I've heard more than a few people say things like that. Have you seen this week's "Cogenitor"? In my opinion, it was worthy of an emmy! Dawn, Judgement, and The Crossing were also all very interesting and original (save for scenes in Judgement being on the same penal moon that ST:6 was in). I've found Enterprise the best Trek of all of them, and this season is MUCH better than the first one was.
I know, opinions are like assholes, but what the fuck do you people WANT from Trek if you truly feel that this season is "slipping"?
Some thoughts I had when reading the article:
;-) It might be a good idea to delete the compiler after everything has been configured, or even better, don't install it and build any necessary packages on another server, then transfer the binaries to the firewall.
:-D
> Once the new partition table is saved there is no going back; both IPSO and Check Point FW-1 are gone.
Of course, if I were the one doing the installation I'd backup the original drive contents so I could always go back to original configuration (in case of screw up, or if I wanted to sell the unit on e-bay, etc.) It's only 8 Gb...
> When it comes time to install the various packages, select only Network Support and then go into the Select Individual Packages section and add GCC, autoconf and ncurses.
GCC on a firewall box?! Sounds like a new tool of terror for the scrip7 kiddies.
Nice article though. Nothing like putting the screws to those closed source, code hoarding, proprietary software vendors.
But which end distribution do you expect ISV's like Oracle to support? Debian which is the "official" GNU version? Red Hat because of its popularity? Slackware because of its stability? SuSe because of...well, I can't think of a single good damn reason to support Suse, but I digress.
Ideally, we'd have an LSB standard to follow and these wouldn't be issues, but unfortunately, there are enough differences between distributions that a software vendor _has_ to make these kinds of decisions. Consolidation, or at the very least strictly following established standards would go a long way towards bringing Linux to the masses.
I decide that I want a monitor, decide that I need it _NOW_, march to my local Bic Camera store, look for a 17" LCD in my price range, put it on my credit card, and carry it home. I am an unabashed impulse shopper; welcome to my life.
Nice idea, but flawed. Spammers do not normally use real e-mail addresses anyway, and their invalid ones may actually map onto innocent collateral damage victims.
To avoid being hacked, I set my password to "pi". Only problem is, now it takes me forever to log on in the morning. :-/
According to the installation documentation, BlackRhino needs a 4 Gb partition to be defined on a newly installed Sony Linux system. The thing is, I've already been using my Kondara-based default installation with my own partitioning scheme, and I do not really want to change it. Why is this necessary, and what happens to the 4 Gb partition once the BlackRhino install has been finished?
Hope this answers your question:
;-)
cpu : MIPS
cpu model : R5900 V1.4
system type : EE PS2
BogoMIPS : 392.40
It's not too bad but I'd hate to compile a kernel on it.
It's unusable for playing full screen mpegs, etc. but one of these days
somebody might optimize SDL which would help things out.
Congratulations, you've made foe #2 on my known Slashdot scumbags list.