NDP: Here in BC we are still recovering from when they were last in power (provincially). They have good intentions but the economics just don't seem to work, unfortunantly.
I was going to make a big rant about this pack of lies, but what's the point. You'd just turn back to Global TV, and tune out the homeless people in the street, laid off teachers and health care workers, young people who can't find jobs longer than a few months because of minimum wage, students who can't afford to finish their degrees, forestry workers watching their jobs being shipped to oregon, etc.
In an election that was mainly a fight over The Religious Right (Corporatist) vs Corrupt Corporatists where you are lead to believe that it MUST be one or the other, few people realise that they CAN vote for a Non-corporatist party ( or another, or another)
The colour photo is slightly out of focus, the light is too much stronger on the left side, and slightly different colour in the shadows. The bottom was shot fully open with a faster lens than most amateurs would own, the focus point is correct (on his eyes), and the light is well balanced.
The tip off that it's actually amateur should have been that it's a portrait shot with a wide-angle lens (I'm guessing equivalent to 28mm on a 35mm SLR). This makes the nose look bulbous and the ears look tiny. A professional would have used a fast, longish lens like an 80mm f1.4 or a 120mm f2.8. These would have given the correct perspective and small depth of field (to blur out the background).
But Anakin does bring balance to the force. For centuries it has been tilted to the side of the Jedi. After Ep III there are 2 sith and 2 Jedi ((Yoda & Obi-wan) then (Yoda & Luke) then (Luke & Lea))
As Apple's big usability advantage is the lack of "Tyranny of Choice", I doubt if they'd offer a choice of MacOS X or Linux. Much more likely is that they'd just quietly not obstruct linux installs. No need to confuse the plebs with unnescesary choices.
My iBook falls down under a heavy load copying files. I know this sounds like the well-worn anti-linux troll, but I frequently copy a DVD worth of small files to&from a USB drive, and the system becomes unresponsive during this (and I have 768MB RAM).
My RH 9 workstation does too, though. My Gentoo box has no problem with this whatsoever (mostly due to the 2.6 kernel, not anything gentoo specific).
There's tons of software available for Linux, but only a little specifically for MacOS X. The software for Linux spans all needs, and all quality levels; Most of the software for Mac is very good, but only for limited needs. Linux tends to emphasize flexibility at the expense of difficult (or at least diverse) installation, whereas Mac emphasizes usability at the expense of flexibility.
Apple could immediately improve flexibility for power users by allowing the user to select the option of starting the X server on login. Then many of the desktop apps for the Linux/BSD world would just work too.
And while I'm wishing, if the MacOS X UI is vector based, why can't the secondary display of my iBook run a higher resolution than the builtin LCD supports? It should be able to just make everything smoother when plugged into a monitor that supports 1600x1200 (not that x.org does this either, but X11 is a raster based protocol).
Put the bucket outside, in the wind, with a pump to cycle the water through the fan coil in the house, then back to the same bucket outside. Instant swamp cooler with the swamp outside and the cool inside.
It should be quite a bit more efficient than this guy's system.
I keep several passwords on postits on my monitor at home -- Who gives a damn about the password to my account on a car club forum, for example. My workstation password and ssh passphrase are kept more securely, though.
If I have never have to use vi to set up a simple routing configuration again... If I can't point and click my way to a basic setup... I shouldn't have to 'alias' this and 'rm' that and:wq here and 'sudo' there just to get a damn X server running...
Wow! What distro are you running? Slackware 0.9? LFS? I haven't had to do any of this stuff since 1995 unless I wanted to.
Looks like a pretty minimally configured server to me. Their HTMl sure could use some cleaning up though. 40K for the HTML of your homepage? oy!. Looks like most of it was assembled with SSI, though, the mod_jk is probably for processing forms or something.
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I was going to make a big rant about this pack of lies, but what's the point. You'd just turn back to Global TV, and tune out the homeless people in the street, laid off teachers and health care workers, young people who can't find jobs longer than a few months because of minimum wage, students who can't afford to finish their degrees, forestry workers watching their jobs being shipped to oregon, etc.
In an election that was mainly a fight over The Religious Right (Corporatist) vs Corrupt Corporatists where you are lead to believe that it MUST be one or the other, few people realise that they CAN vote for a Non-corporatist party ( or another, or another)
That's good, because it would be REALLY off-topic in a thread about Canadian copyright law.
The colour photo is slightly out of focus, the light is too much stronger on the left side, and slightly different colour in the shadows. The bottom was shot fully open with a faster lens than most amateurs would own, the focus point is correct (on his eyes), and the light is well balanced.
The tip off that it's actually amateur should have been that it's a portrait shot with a wide-angle lens (I'm guessing equivalent to 28mm on a 35mm SLR). This makes the nose look bulbous and the ears look tiny. A professional would have used a fast, longish lens like an 80mm f1.4 or a 120mm f2.8. These would have given the correct perspective and small depth of field (to blur out the background).
But Anakin does bring balance to the force. For centuries it has been tilted to the side of the Jedi. After Ep III there are 2 sith and 2 Jedi ((Yoda & Obi-wan) then (Yoda & Luke) then (Luke & Lea))
Background: For centuries there have been thousands of Jedi, but only 2 Sith at a time.
Prophecy: There will come a chosen one who will return balance to the force.
Jedi (in unison): Yay!
Palpatine: heh heh heh
Later...
Yoda & Obi-wan Kenobi: D'Oh!
Sorry for the spoiler for anyone who's been living under a rock for the past quarter century.
w00t. Thanks... I found it. (btw, don't rotate your display at really high resolution. bad stuff happens).
As Apple's big usability advantage is the lack of "Tyranny of Choice", I doubt if they'd offer a choice of MacOS X or Linux. Much more likely is that they'd just quietly not obstruct linux installs. No need to confuse the plebs with unnescesary choices.
My iBook falls down under a heavy load copying files . I know this sounds like the well-worn anti-linux troll, but I frequently copy a DVD worth of small files to&from a USB drive, and the system becomes unresponsive during this (and I have 768MB RAM).
My RH 9 workstation does too, though. My Gentoo box has no problem with this whatsoever (mostly due to the 2.6 kernel, not anything gentoo specific).
There's tons of software available for Linux, but only a little specifically for MacOS X. The software for Linux spans all needs, and all quality levels; Most of the software for Mac is very good, but only for limited needs. Linux tends to emphasize flexibility at the expense of difficult (or at least diverse) installation, whereas Mac emphasizes usability at the expense of flexibility.
Apple could immediately improve flexibility for power users by allowing the user to select the option of starting the X server on login. Then many of the desktop apps for the Linux/BSD world would just work too.
And while I'm wishing, if the MacOS X UI is vector based, why can't the secondary display of my iBook run a higher resolution than the builtin LCD supports? It should be able to just make everything smoother when plugged into a monitor that supports 1600x1200 (not that x.org does this either, but X11 is a raster based protocol).
Put the bucket outside, in the wind, with a pump to cycle the water through the fan coil in the house, then back to the same bucket outside. Instant swamp cooler with the swamp outside and the cool inside.
It should be quite a bit more efficient than this guy's system.
take your pick
This design should work just as well with filtered brackish water.
What's more hip than a postfix-notation calculator?
I keep several passwords on postits on my monitor at home -- Who gives a damn about the password to my account on a car club forum, for example. My workstation password and ssh passphrase are kept more securely, though.
It sucks that they have to put 3 computers on each desk so they can fill out every form in triplicate.
Could it be both? if you think "Everyone's addicted to Email" and "OMG WHERE'S MY EMAIL?!?!?!" are contradictory, you don't understand addiction.
Wow! What distro are you running? Slackware 0.9? LFS? I haven't had to do any of this stuff since 1995 unless I wanted to.
[(me)@localhost security]$ wget -S http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/460671 9.stm1 9.stm0 c06003cbcac5048d522bee0Wget%2f1%2e8%2e2; expires=Tue, 02-Jun-09 20:23:36 GMT; path=/; domain=bbc.co.uk;
--13:23:36-- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/46067
=> `4606719.stm'
Resolving news.bbc.co.uk... done.
Connecting to news.bbc.co.uk[212.58.240.41]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
2 Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:23:36 GMT
3 Server: Apache
4 Cache-Control: max-age=0
5 Expires: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:23:36 GMT
6 Set-Cookie: BBC-UID=1472caf04b1c04e8e9678f1ef1604aff54f48fcef
7 Connection: close
8 Content-Type: text/html
[ <=> ] 40,846 92.76K/s
13:23:37 (92.76 KB/s) - `4606719.stm' saved [40846]
[(me)@localhost security]$ wget -S www.cbc.ca
--12:45:57-- http://www.cbc.ca/
=> `index.html.6'
Resolving www.cbc.ca... done.
Connecting to www.cbc.ca[209.249.114.35]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
1 HTTP/1.0 200 OK
2 Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_jk/1.2.5
3 Content-Type: text/html
4 Expires: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:45:58 GMT
5 Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:45:58 GMT
6 Connection: close
7 Set-Cookie: Webtrends=209.249.114.31.55231117827957965; path=/; expires=Wed, 30-Nov-05 19:45:57 GMT
[ <=> ] 40,518 238.36K/s
12:45:58 (238.36 KB/s) - `index.html.6' saved [40518]
Looks like a pretty minimally configured server to me.
Their HTMl sure could use some cleaning up though. 40K for the HTML of your homepage? oy!. Looks like most of it was assembled with SSI, though, the mod_jk is probably for processing forms or something.
This article, for instance.