Nothing to miss.
My point was that RPM hell is not intrinsic to the RPM package manager. You could easily get into deb hell if it were not for the tighter control that the Debian and Ubuntu repository people have and the more pragmatic approach to what repositories exist and what is in them.
"APT is great"
Grrr!! Sorry, but my pet hate!
apt ~= yum i.e. go and find the packages I need
dpkg ~= rpm i.e. install or remove the package
All the package managers do is copy, move and delete files, keep a list of what files/packages are installed and keep a list of where packages can be obtained.
The reason why Ubuntu "just works" is because:
1) The Ubuntu team keep a tight(er) reign on the repositories, so there is very little need (if any "need") to use 3rd party repos.
2) More stuff that people need it in the repositories so you do not get A. Newbie trying to install an ancient RPM on a modern system and having it screw wverything up.
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Forgot to not post AC. I am the GP.
Yes it is.
There is a big difference between anonymity and actively pretending to be someone else. The whole point of the legislation seems to be to stop the former, not the latter.
We have a total of 28 iTunes tracks in our 5000+ song collection. 25 of them were free with my ipod (which in turn was purchased using points from my CC, not real $s). The other three were to complete an album (bad management on my behalf).
Anyway, if everybody thinks this is such a conspiracy by Apple, how come the record companies do not embrace the DRM-un-laden eMusic (god damn terrorists!)?
No DRM would equal more sales for Apple, end of story. Something tells me Jobs would be more than interested in more sales than enforcing having DRM on other peoples copyrighted material?
OTOH, I do agree that iTunes (software) + iPod is a pain.... which is one of the reasons why I use gtkpod/gnupod. It would be nice to be able to copy the music to the ipod like it was any old drive and then let the ipod scan the music to create the itunes db.
I'm from the UK and live in Australia, which is somewhere between the US and the UK in this respect.
The problem with "real democracy" is that there are a lot of ignorant people.
For instance, Toowoomba in Queensland (QLD) which is under severe drought recently had a vote on whether to start using recycled water for drinking water, like most modern cities outside of Australia. The vote ended up being "no". The leader of the no campaign's main argument seemed to be that people will call the town "Poowoomba". The vote was held regardless of the fact that there was no other viable option anyway.
The "wise man in parliament", QLD premier Peter Beattie, has now basically said "tough luck. There is no choice. Water is going to be recycled."
The problem now is that will there be enough water in time.
I am in no way anti-democracy and will defend ignorant people having their say. However, sometimes my jaw literally drops at the ignorance of a lot of voters (and the administrators for that matter). Surely there has to be some kind of happy medium?
Thus indicating that P and GP have never had a shite job that invoves dealing with the general public.
My first job at he tender age of 16 was at McDs and if the till tart had not corrected you something like this could well have happened...
Bitter Youth at Register: Is that a large $DRINK? ScuMstomer: Medium.
later on...
ScuMstomer to manager: Wha! Wha! Wha! I wanted a medium and {s,}he gave me a large so that means you have to give me $FREE_STUFF forever......wha wha wha...!
later on...
Manager to Bitter Youth: wha wha wha wha!
Seriously, "Bitter Youths" do not care about the sizes of the drinks or if you actually want fries with that. No really, they don't.
They said to their fans via a mailing list "We need $X to make the album which we will be selling for $Y. Anyone who prepays will get their name printed on the album cover. Once we have enough prepayers we will make the album."
My girlfriend has her name on the album... which we ripped to flac to play through our squeeze box:).
I do not think it is much of stretch to imagine that Macquarie Bank (the owners of Sydney Airport) have their fingers in some RIFD chip pie.
1) Sydney Airport buys lots of RIFD chips from XXX RIFD supplies, where XXX is owned or invested in by Macquarie Bank 2) ???^H^H^H Charges airport users for the priviledge of using RIFD chips for baggage handlers 3) Profit!
For those who are unaware of Australian businesses, Macquarie Bank has it's finger in just about every single pie you can think of.
"The only way to immigrate to those countries is to either have a lot of money, or to have a good job already lined up (i.e., a professional job requiring an advanced education, not a ditch-digging job)."
Not entirely true.
It is easier if you already have employment or have it lined up in an occupation which is on the MODL (http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/general-skilled-mi gration/skilled-occupations/occupations-in-demand. htm).
However, this may or may not require an "advanced education" - baker, cook, hairdresser?
"I'm sorry we exist and don't believe in Allah."
Actually most USians do. Allah is God in arabic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah), in case you do not know.
"islamic types kill each other over tiny differences"
So do christians, e.g. Northern Ireland, over even smaller differences.
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What do you reckon?
I would bet serious money on him doing the usual lets annoy a wild animal so I can look cool and have my own TV channels. But guess what, humans cannot move anywhere near as fast as fish underwater.
I am a pretty experienced scuba diver and have seen more stingrays than I can remember. I have been slammed by a big (~2M disc diameter) stingray in an aquarium (a mate sneaked some frozen fish into my pocket:) ), it was absolutely hilarious, far from scary. They are simply not agressive. They filter sand for little crustacean and fish fodder. You would have to seriously provoke them for them to do more than just swim away.
I wonder if the film footage (there is bound to be some) will ever surface.
Not only that, the hard drive, processor fan and case fans are generally just as noisy as the PSU fan - if not worse.
The Lx8100-MN does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to solve this.
The only effective way of doing this just for CPUs is to either use low power processors (as mentioned by parent) like Via or use massive heatsinks (e.g. Scythe Ninja - which by looking at the picture will not fit in this case) with quiet, big and slow fans (e.g. Nexus 120mm).
Hard drives are even trickier to silence. Putting them in boxes like the Scythe Quiet Box or SilenX HDSS or getting very quiet drives to begin with and suspending them or placing them on foam seems to be the only way to do it.
Without doing either of the above it is not going to be silent. Even being very quiet will be hard to achieve.
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OO and pretty dresses with the money daddy saves, or word?
Nothing to miss. My point was that RPM hell is not intrinsic to the RPM package manager. You could easily get into deb hell if it were not for the tighter control that the Debian and Ubuntu repository people have and the more pragmatic approach to what repositories exist and what is in them.
You forgot the classic... http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/liboobs/
"APT is great" Grrr!! Sorry, but my pet hate! apt ~= yum i.e. go and find the packages I need dpkg ~= rpm i.e. install or remove the package All the package managers do is copy, move and delete files, keep a list of what files/packages are installed and keep a list of where packages can be obtained. The reason why Ubuntu "just works" is because: 1) The Ubuntu team keep a tight(er) reign on the repositories, so there is very little need (if any "need") to use 3rd party repos. 2) More stuff that people need it in the repositories so you do not get A. Newbie trying to install an ancient RPM on a modern system and having it screw wverything up.
"if we truly believe in its superiority, we need to make it as accessible as possible to those without any technical knowledge."
So for something to be superior it has to pander to the LCD?
Well my sleeping parrot does anyway.
Forgot to not post AC. I am the GP.
Yes it is.
There is a big difference between anonymity and actively pretending to be someone else. The whole point of the legislation seems to be to stop the former, not the latter.
I get my music from eMusic too, and CDs.
We have a total of 28 iTunes tracks in our 5000+ song collection. 25 of them were free with my ipod (which in turn was purchased using points from my CC, not real $s). The other three were to complete an album (bad management on my behalf).
Anyway, if everybody thinks this is such a conspiracy by Apple, how come the record companies do not embrace the DRM-un-laden eMusic (god damn terrorists!)?
No DRM would equal more sales for Apple, end of story. Something tells me Jobs would be more than interested in more sales than enforcing having DRM on other peoples copyrighted material?
OTOH, I do agree that iTunes (software) + iPod is a pain.... which is one of the reasons why I use gtkpod/gnupod. It would be nice to be able to copy the music to the ipod like it was any old drive and then let the ipod scan the music to create the itunes db.
I'm from the UK and live in Australia, which is somewhere between the US and the UK in this respect.
The problem with "real democracy" is that there are a lot of ignorant people.
For instance, Toowoomba in Queensland (QLD) which is under severe drought recently had a vote on whether to start using recycled water for drinking water, like most modern cities outside of Australia. The vote ended up being "no". The leader of the no campaign's main argument seemed to be that people will call the town "Poowoomba". The vote was held regardless of the fact that there was no other viable option anyway.
The "wise man in parliament", QLD premier Peter Beattie, has now basically said "tough luck. There is no choice. Water is going to be recycled."
The problem now is that will there be enough water in time.
I am in no way anti-democracy and will defend ignorant people having their say. However, sometimes my jaw literally drops at the ignorance of a lot of voters (and the administrators for that matter). Surely there has to be some kind of happy medium?
Unfortunately, due to over-fishing there are no longer enough sharks on which to mount the lasers to form an effective defense.
Thus indicating that P and GP have never had a shite job that invoves dealing with the general public.
...wha wha wha...!
My first job at he tender age of 16 was at McDs and if the till tart had not corrected you something like this could well have happened...
Bitter Youth at Register: Is that a large $DRINK?
ScuMstomer: Medium.
later on...
ScuMstomer to manager: Wha! Wha! Wha! I wanted a medium and {s,}he gave me a large so that means you have to give me $FREE_STUFF forever...
later on...
Manager to Bitter Youth: wha wha wha wha!
Seriously, "Bitter Youths" do not care about the sizes of the drinks or if you actually want fries with that. No really, they don't.
In fact Women In Docs sort of did this.
:).
They said to their fans via a mailing list "We need $X to make the album which we will be selling for $Y. Anyone who prepays will get their name printed on the album cover. Once we have enough prepayers we will make the album."
My girlfriend has her name on the album... which we ripped to flac to play through our squeeze box
I do not think it is much of stretch to imagine that Macquarie Bank (the owners of Sydney Airport) have their fingers in some RIFD chip pie.
1) Sydney Airport buys lots of RIFD chips from XXX RIFD supplies, where XXX is owned or invested in by Macquarie Bank
2) ???^H^H^H Charges airport users for the priviledge of using RIFD chips for baggage handlers
3) Profit!
For those who are unaware of Australian businesses, Macquarie Bank has it's finger in just about every single pie you can think of.
"The real story here is that someone is buying the brown one. ;P"
Camoflage when the drop down an airliner's toilet?
No, no, no. You got it wrong.
Sure is the name of a guy that works at MS's QA dept.
If it "plays for Sure" then it is obviously something wrong with you gear i.e. not an MS problem.
"IMHO, there really isn't an alternative to Windows for the PC enthusiast."
I have to disagree here.
Linux reinvigorated my enthusiasm for computers in general after I first started playing with it in 2003.
For the enthusiast, what is better that actually being able to see how something works (or is meant to work) by viewing the source code?
"The only way to immigrate to those countries is to either have a lot of money, or to have a good job already lined up (i.e., a professional job requiring an advanced education, not a ditch-digging job)."
i gration/skilled-occupations/occupations-in-demand. htm).
Not entirely true.
It is easier if you already have employment or have it lined up in an occupation which is on the MODL (http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/general-skilled-m
However, this may or may not require an "advanced education" - baker, cook, hairdresser?
Is that because liquid flows through tubes easily?
It's more like arresting a Amsterdam cafe owner who is visiting America for selling a couple of spliffs to an American in Amsterdam.
And with a brief history too! * boom tish *
"I'm sorry we exist and don't believe in Allah." Actually most USians do. Allah is God in arabic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah), in case you do not know. "islamic types kill each other over tiny differences" So do christians, e.g. Northern Ireland, over even smaller differences.
What do you reckon? I would bet serious money on him doing the usual lets annoy a wild animal so I can look cool and have my own TV channels. But guess what, humans cannot move anywhere near as fast as fish underwater. I am a pretty experienced scuba diver and have seen more stingrays than I can remember. I have been slammed by a big (~2M disc diameter) stingray in an aquarium (a mate sneaked some frozen fish into my pocket :) ), it was absolutely hilarious, far from scary. They are simply not agressive. They filter sand for little crustacean and fish fodder. You would have to seriously provoke them for them to do more than just swim away.
I wonder if the film footage (there is bound to be some) will ever surface.
Not only that, the hard drive, processor fan and case fans are generally just as noisy as the PSU fan - if not worse.
The Lx8100-MN does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to solve this.
The only effective way of doing this just for CPUs is to either use low power processors (as mentioned by parent) like Via or use massive heatsinks (e.g. Scythe Ninja - which by looking at the picture will not fit in this case) with quiet, big and slow fans (e.g. Nexus 120mm).
Hard drives are even trickier to silence. Putting them in boxes like the Scythe Quiet Box or SilenX HDSS or getting very quiet drives to begin with and suspending them or placing them on foam seems to be the only way to do it.
Without doing either of the above it is not going to be silent. Even being very quiet will be hard to achieve.
I will rephrase. Science and faith are incompatible.
"use phones and keyboards that are used by others, but have yet to touch a stranger's bare butt" Well, this is slashdot after all.