Just watch, it's quite a different staff. His old staff was all-twisted, brown, thick wooden stick with curly top. The new staff is straight, white and with an orb on top. Apparently he got it on his way back from the outworld.
...or "universal bus". like, you stack the standarised size devices on top of each other, and there's plug in top of each of them and a socket in the bottom (or two sockets and you just add a connector with 2 plugs that can small dongle you place between them or a wire) and you don't care if you connected your VCR, to microwave oven, sat TV to printer etc, it all is interconnected (so i.e. you can start the microwave from VCR timer;)
I personally hate the "integrated" devices. A VCR integrated into a TV set, a motherboard with integrated audio and video adapters, such shit. This kills modularisation and customisation. It's dumbing things down, so an idiot who can't plug a VCR into TV set doesn't need to. And of course you're stuck with worse quality components attached to the better ones. Say, I buy such an all-in-one gamebox and it works great as a MP3, DVD, VCD player, sat receiver and a few more. But after short time it starts to suck at games. And what am I going to do? I'll have to buy another DVD+VCD+MP3 player+sat receiver, replacing my perfectly good existing one, just to upgrade my gaming console.
You can buy the memory, bring the PC to their authorised service and ask for the memory to be installed. Pay for installation (about as much as for the memory itself), wait maybe one hour, have the sticker put back in place.
There are two kinds of vendors. Some give warranty on all components separately, so if your HDD breaks, you get HDD replaced, etc. But some, especially the "home user" ones (like supermarkets, big office vendors etc) often give one warranty for whole set, so if your HDD breaks, you bring the whole computer to the service, and if you ever opened the case to remove the hdd and bring only the hdd to them, they will just say you have just voided the warranty by removing a part of the computer yourself. They treat it just about the same way as a TV set or VCR, you can plug external 3rd parts things (printer, speakers), but not open the case and install anything inside. And yeah, this policy is totally dumb, but it exists and is pretty common with "computers for lusers" type stores.
Linux on the other hand created a Disk icon on my desktop and I was able to view them with Konqueror.
so, how do I actually -prevent- it from creating the icons? I moved all my drive partition links (30 or so) to a separate folder but they get re-created on startup, spamming half of my desktop.
Come on, playing The Slashdot Game, trying to earn -1 troll for anti-microsoft post?
Typing that from W98SE. Didn't crash (by itself, without help of 3rd party programs) for 3 or more days. But recently crashes after maybe 6 hours of activity because of some 3rd party drivers.
The only way to get Windows running on middle-class hardware is to install W98 or such...
I've seen in many stores computers with config like: 2GHZ CPU, some Radeon gfx card, DVD, 5+1 audio card and to all that 128MB RAM (DDR). And of course Windows XP Home Edition. How fast will all that run when it has to use swap memory all the time?! Solution 1: Install more ram. And void warranty by doing so, because there's a warranty sticker on the case and no internals can be changed. Solution 2: Install some OS for which 128M RAM is more than enough. Like W98SE or such.
Given the much larger concentration of methanol, the metanol will be replenished faster than the water byproduct could dilute the double layer around the electrode.
That's why they use 20% instead of, say, 80% (which, was it possible, could last 4 times longer). Slowing down diffusion is not very hard, just place a ceramic layer around the reaction area.
It's a myth. And here's a proof: A few words from a desperate open source coder.../usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/arcnet.txt: Since no one seems to listen to me otherwise, perhaps a poem will get your attention:
This driver's getting fat and beefy,
But my cat is still named Fifi.
Hmm, I think I'm allowed to call that a poem, even though it's only two lines. Hey, I'm in Computer Science, not English. Give me a break.
The point is: I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY want to hear from you if you test this and get it working. Or if you don't. Or anything.
ARCnet 0.32 ALPHA first made it into the Linux kernel 1.1.80 - this was nice, but after that even FEWER people started writing to me because they didn't even have to install the patch.
Come on, be a sport! Send me a success report!
(hey, that was even better than my original poem... this is getting bad!)
WARNING: --------
If you don't e-mail me about your success/failure soon, I may be forced to start SINGING. And we don't want that, do we?
(You know, it might be argued that I'm pushing this point a little too much. If you think so, why not flame me in a quick little e-mail? Please also include the type of card(s) you're using, software, size of network, and whether it's working or not.)
The reaction produces water as by-product, sustaining itself by diluting the liquid nea the electrodes. 20% methanol contains over 3 times more methanol than 6%, thus the battery lasts way longer than the 6% would.
Please note 20% solution of methanol in water is not flammable - at all. This is not like lighter fluid (based on gasoline) but more like stronger wine or light liquor, or really strong beer. Except it's methanol instead of ethanol, which only makes it poisonous, but still far from flammable.
Well, in Linux there's that problem of blurred barrier between distributions. You could call RedHat user support and ask them to solve your problems with apt. But RedHat uses RPM? So what, you just installed APT, you removed standard RedHat scripts and replaced them with Debian native ones, you reinstalled all binaries through APT, uninstalling RPMs, you actually transformed your RedHat box into a Debian box. And now you're wondering why a RedHat user support can't help you with debian-specific problems with your custom-modified formerly-RedHat box.
Customisations within certain limits are OK. Like, installing more software through RPM, recompiling the kernel, editing services, setting up configuration and user accounts, but if, say, the user support guy depends on kudzu to tell your hardware, and you just uninstalled it, most probably you will be politely asked to reinstall it, no matter how much you hate it and don't want it in your system.
Anyway, Google uses very specific, dedicated software and hardware, just bare bones of Linux, cluster and such. Want support? Well, first thing the support will tell you (and guide you step-by step through it) is to install standard RedHat services (that will slow down the Google cluster to a crawl:) before providing any help on your specific question.
Well, on Debian, if you can load IRC and the problem is really baaad, we're home. Most of nerds will love solving such a challenge task. Only if 1) you can't get through to those nerds, i.e. net is down, or 2) your problem solution is really plain RTFM, you may be in trouble.
Since all heavy-duty nerds (that could handle mostly every kind of problem) have moved from RedHat (newbie distro) to Debian (zealot distro) it's pretty hard to get decent help on harder RedHat problems. Meanwhile, who would pay for user support when all you need is/join #debian on irc.debian.org, ask your question and at worst get redirected to the right RTFM.
I mean, I'm a nerd of my own and never used a paid Linux user support, but often helped people and many times I faced a problem I couldn't solve "over the phone".
So, how good is such user support?
Say, I run an important mailing list. A random power failure, severe disk corruption, nobody really knows what works OK and what is broken, week-old backup of data, no system backup, no network, no other computer to move the harddisk, I must work with this broken system. I must get it back up and running with as much of remaining database as possible, possibly fixing any corruption. Is the user support good enough to lead me through such landmine-ridden system? (if the above doesn't seem disastrous enough for you, think of your favourite "heavy disaster" scenario that still leaves some hope of recovery)
Why argue... twisting facts, stretching the truth...
Like the Hiacinth Action. I'm reading about it now, I didn't know it. True, arrested, put on record and... released. Nobody was really hurt. All they had to do was to sign statements that they -are- gays. The documents were classified. And the action was a measure against spreading AIDS, to help lower crime rates in homosexual environment (higher than hetero, and detection rate lower) and against leaders of -underground- gay organisation. Besides that, it was tolerated.
"Indecent behaviour"? Yeah, sure. If you did it on the street. So is hetero sex in most places of the world. In privacy of your home you are free to do whatever you wanted.
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Just watch, it's quite a different staff. His old staff was all-twisted, brown, thick wooden stick with curly top. The new staff is straight, white and with an orb on top. Apparently he got it on his way back from the outworld.
Yeah, you can't run bufer overflow and gain local root using these bugs, so who cares?
XUL
...or "universal bus". like, you stack the standarised size devices on top of each other, and there's plug in top of each of them and a socket in the bottom (or two sockets and you just add a connector with 2 plugs that can small dongle you place between them or a wire) and you don't care if you connected your VCR, to microwave oven, sat TV to printer etc, it all is interconnected (so i.e. you can start the microwave from VCR timer ;)
I personally hate the "integrated" devices. A VCR integrated into a TV set, a motherboard with integrated audio and video adapters, such shit. This kills modularisation and customisation. It's dumbing things down, so an idiot who can't plug a VCR into TV set doesn't need to. And of course you're stuck with worse quality components attached to the better ones. Say, I buy such an all-in-one gamebox and it works great as a MP3, DVD, VCD player, sat receiver and a few more. But after short time it starts to suck at games. And what am I going to do? I'll have to buy another DVD+VCD+MP3 player+sat receiver, replacing my perfectly good existing one, just to upgrade my gaming console.
transfer large amounts of data in a short amount of time
I want numbers! KBPS, % packet loss, maximum latency, roundtrip time, number of hops to destination! No stupid "large amounts"!
You can buy the memory, bring the PC to their authorised service and ask for the memory to be installed. Pay for installation (about as much as for the memory itself), wait maybe one hour, have the sticker put back in place.
There are two kinds of vendors. Some give warranty on all components separately, so if your HDD breaks, you get HDD replaced, etc. But some, especially the "home user" ones (like supermarkets, big office vendors etc) often give one warranty for whole set, so if your HDD breaks, you bring the whole computer to the service, and if you ever opened the case to remove the hdd and bring only the hdd to them, they will just say you have just voided the warranty by removing a part of the computer yourself. They treat it just about the same way as a TV set or VCR, you can plug external 3rd parts things (printer, speakers), but not open the case and install anything inside. And yeah, this policy is totally dumb, but it exists and is pretty common with "computers for lusers" type stores.
Linux on the other hand created a Disk icon on my desktop and I was able to view them with Konqueror.
so, how do I actually -prevent- it from creating the icons? I moved all my drive partition links (30 or so) to a separate folder but they get re-created on startup, spamming half of my desktop.
Come on, playing The Slashdot Game, trying to earn -1 troll for anti-microsoft post?
Typing that from W98SE. Didn't crash (by itself, without help of 3rd party programs) for 3 or more days. But recently crashes after maybe 6 hours of activity because of some 3rd party drivers.
The only way to get Windows running on middle-class hardware is to install W98 or such...
I've seen in many stores computers with config like: 2GHZ CPU, some Radeon gfx card, DVD, 5+1 audio card and to all that 128MB RAM (DDR). And of course Windows XP Home Edition. How fast will all that run when it has to use swap memory all the time?!
Solution 1: Install more ram. And void warranty by doing so, because there's a warranty sticker on the case and no internals can be changed.
Solution 2: Install some OS for which 128M RAM is more than enough. Like W98SE or such.
20% methanol solution is NOT FLAMMABLE.
It's like a stronger wine or quite weak liquor. It just won't burn!
Given the much larger concentration of methanol, the metanol will be replenished faster than the water byproduct could dilute the double layer around the electrode.
That's why they use 20% instead of, say, 80% (which, was it possible, could last 4 times longer).
Slowing down diffusion is not very hard, just place a ceramic layer around the reaction area.
It's a myth. And here's a proof: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/arcnet.txt :
A few words from a desperate open source coder...
Since no one seems to listen to me otherwise, perhaps a poem will get your
attention:
This driver's getting fat and beefy,
But my cat is still named Fifi.
Hmm, I think I'm allowed to call that a poem, even though it's only two
lines. Hey, I'm in Computer Science, not English. Give me a break.
The point is: I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY want to hear from you if
you test this and get it working. Or if you don't. Or anything.
ARCnet 0.32 ALPHA first made it into the Linux kernel 1.1.80 - this was
nice, but after that even FEWER people started writing to me because they
didn't even have to install the patch.
Come on, be a sport! Send me a success report!
(hey, that was even better than my original poem... this is getting bad!)
WARNING:
--------
If you don't e-mail me about your success/failure soon, I may be forced to
start SINGING. And we don't want that, do we?
(You know, it might be argued that I'm pushing this point a little too much.
If you think so, why not flame me in a quick little e-mail? Please also
include the type of card(s) you're using, software, size of network, and
whether it's working or not.)
My e-mail address is: apenwarr@worldvisions.ca
The reaction produces water as by-product, sustaining itself by diluting the liquid nea the electrodes. 20% methanol contains over 3 times more methanol than 6%, thus the battery lasts way longer than the 6% would.
Please note 20% solution of methanol in water is not flammable - at all. This is not like lighter fluid (based on gasoline) but more like stronger wine or light liquor, or really strong beer. Except it's methanol instead of ethanol, which only makes it poisonous, but still far from flammable.
...Why won't they make this with ethanol.
Don't you think it would be cool to take a sip from your PDA on cold days?
Simply, after the recent news on the investment retreat, their site got slashdotted, that's all!
I'm just watching SCO stock quotes and FINALLY they began running in the correct direction!
Well, in Linux there's that problem of blurred barrier between distributions. You could call RedHat user support and ask them to solve your problems with apt. But RedHat uses RPM? So what, you just installed APT, you removed standard RedHat scripts and replaced them with Debian native ones, you reinstalled all binaries through APT, uninstalling RPMs, you actually transformed your RedHat box into a Debian box. And now you're wondering why a RedHat user support can't help you with debian-specific problems with your custom-modified formerly-RedHat box.
:) before providing any help on your specific question.
Customisations within certain limits are OK. Like, installing more software through RPM, recompiling the kernel, editing services, setting up configuration and user accounts, but if, say, the user support guy depends on kudzu to tell your hardware, and you just uninstalled it, most probably you will be politely asked to reinstall it, no matter how much you hate it and don't want it in your system.
Anyway, Google uses very specific, dedicated software and hardware, just bare bones of Linux, cluster and such. Want support? Well, first thing the support will tell you (and guide you step-by step through it) is to install standard RedHat services (that will slow down the Google cluster to a crawl
Well, on Debian, if you can load IRC and the problem is really baaad, we're home.
Most of nerds will love solving such a challenge task. Only if 1) you can't get through to those nerds, i.e. net is down, or 2) your problem solution is really plain RTFM, you may be in trouble.
Since all heavy-duty nerds (that could handle mostly every kind of problem) have moved from RedHat (newbie distro) to Debian (zealot distro) it's pretty hard to get decent help on harder RedHat problems. /join #debian on irc.debian.org, ask your question and at worst get redirected to the right RTFM.
Meanwhile, who would pay for user support when all you need is
I don't think the support covers custom-made systems and I don't think Google could run on vanilla RedHat.
I mean, I'm a nerd of my own and never used a paid Linux user support, but often helped people and many times I faced a problem I couldn't solve "over the phone".
So, how good is such user support?
Say, I run an important mailing list. A random power failure, severe disk corruption, nobody really knows what works OK and what is broken, week-old backup of data, no system backup, no network, no other computer to move the harddisk, I must work with this broken system. I must get it back up and running with as much of remaining database as possible, possibly fixing any corruption. Is the user support good enough to lead me through such landmine-ridden system?
(if the above doesn't seem disastrous enough for you, think of your favourite "heavy disaster" scenario that still leaves some hope of recovery)
Why argue... twisting facts, stretching the truth...
Like the Hiacinth Action. I'm reading about it now, I didn't know it.
True, arrested, put on record and... released. Nobody was really hurt. All they had to do was to sign statements that they -are- gays. The documents were classified. And the action was a measure against spreading AIDS, to help lower crime rates in homosexual environment (higher than hetero, and detection rate lower) and against leaders of -underground- gay organisation. Besides that, it was tolerated.
"Indecent behaviour"? Yeah, sure. If you did it on the street. So is hetero sex in most places of the world. In privacy of your home you are free to do whatever you wanted.
The rest is just the same.
"The image "http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/gigapixel_strip .jpg" cannot be displayed, because it contains errors"
Some jpeg limitation in Mozilla or plain slashdotting or what?