You seem to assume that any efforts at resurrecting extinct species will either prevent the success of or take resources away from efforts to minimize human contributions to future species loss. This is probably not the case.
It's true enough that it is no substitute for working to prevent further human-caused extinction, but I doubt anyone seriously thought it would be.
If you have a tendency to blow out speakers sometimes or if you really punish your gamepads/joysticks/whatever by playing too vigorously, or if your mobile regimen is really demanding on your pda or laptop, buying some protection may be worth it. But that's only if it's almost a no-questions-asked warranty. CompUSA's "replacement plan" has been really good to me on parts I use and abuse, even for relatively inexpensive items.
In most circumstances, though, it operates on the general principle of "risk management"- you're really buying psychological security at a steep price. Be good to your equipment and spend some of the money you would have spent on an extended warranty on inspiring books. There are cheaper ways to get a more genuine sense of security.
Quite frankly, "hate crimes" bills are bull. Whatever happened to "equal protection under the law"? Whether pertaining to a crime committed against lower-class black women, middle-class white heterosexual males, homosexuals, etc, justice is justice, and special protection for any group is fatal to any pretensions to of the US "justice system" to actually being fair and just.
But I agree with your main/first point- a democracy, if it is based solely on majority opinion, amounts to little more than a well-organized mob. (Imagine if in the Cuban missile crisis every American had voted on what to do, or if tactical decisions for the war in Iraq were made by public opinion polls.) The Founding Fathers tried to make the US more of a republic than a democracy, largely for this reason. The House was to be the voice of the people, while the Senators were to vote in ways less representative of simple popular opinion and more representative of their best judgement and that of the state legislatures. The President, whose broad range of powers were to be exercised not as the people wished but as he saw fit, had to have very good judgement and character. Since judgement and character are not the kinds of things one can expect millions of people personally unacquainted with the candidates to assess, this job was given to electors who the people would choose to trust with this assessment.
It's unfortunate it didn't work out that way. Pretty much from the start, states told their electors who to vote for instead of letting them exercise their best judgement. The Senate became a place where votes were openly bought and sold, and then was amended to become basically just another House of Representatives except with non-proportional representation and longer terms. When I hear people saying (generally as a result of the 2000 election) that the Electoral College was a bad idea, it frustrates me a little. Sure, it's not functioning extremely well as a way of conveying the popular vote to an election result- that's not what it was meant for. The US is largely failing in its efforts to avoid becoming either government by the lobbyist dollar or government by the uninformed instant opinion poll.
I would definitely wait for a version with a PXA255 xscale processor instead of a PXA250- the PXA255, which is already out, has twice the memory clock of the PXA250. It was recently reported that the PXA255 @ 300 mhz is not only 20% faster than the PXA250 @ 400 mhz but also saves considerably on battery power.
A few megs of HD and 4MB RAM? A 486 is enough to do X, but you'll want to have at least 8 megs of RAM, and you would really benefit from having 16 or even 32 MB. Furthermore, though you may be able to fit an X installation on a HD of just a few megs (see 2diskxwin, Small Linux), I don't think you'll be able to do much of use with it unless you have a hard drive which is at least 30 MB or so.
I personally don't have any experience trying to use X in an installation smaller than 120 MB. If you can get this much, you might try doing what I did: install the latest ZipSlack, then move it to ext2 and add X.
Just replying to myself- my post kind of looks like I'm disparaging Nader's safety crusade. I'm not- though the number of accidents increased by a fair bit, the number of deaths in accidents dropped by enough to compensate. It's just an example.
This is a good idea. This is for people who really don't want to get involved with pornography or want to get rid of an existing habit (guess which one is harder?). Curiosity, simple base impulses, etc can lead to situations people really didn't want to be in, and pornography can scar for life.
However, it's surprising how "rationally" we make decisions even in our most "irrational" moments and desires. It's one of the most surprising things in an intro to econ class- a good illustration is how economists correctly predicted that the implementation of safety features in cars Nader pushed for with "Unsafe at Any Speed" would cause an increase in the number of accidents, since the percieved costs of behavior which leads to accidents would drop. The knowledge that your actions can be known by others can make all the difference in these kinds of situations.
Unfortunately, their homepage doesn't seem to give any implementation details. This would have to be difficult to disable (if you could turn it off whenever you visited a bad site and then turn it back on, it might make you think twice but probably wouldn't) as well as be very good at analyzing the data (nobody wants to have to run through huge connection logs and try to guess if sites are pornographic or no, and nobody wants to have to convince people, as noted in another post, that Freshmeat isn't some sort of site for sadomasochists).
IIRC, it wouldn't add up- it would break down. Ozone is not the stablest form of oxygen, after all. If quantities are small enough it will combine with other materials in the air or break down to O2+O. I've got a "Ionic Breeze" air purifier from Sharper Image, and it manifests this behavior- if the quantity of ozone it's put out into an area is small, the ozone doesn't build up and you can have it running indefinitely without any trouble even if you don't have much air circulation. If you have it putting out a fair bit for a while, though, it gets to the point where it's created an environment in which the ozone concentration is high enough that it doesn't break down. Then it gets quite smelly really quickly.
move your arms and legs and force you to take a sledgehammer to the hot water heater. If you are running Unix as root, any code that you run could make you do just
that.
Wow. If malicious code on my computer can make me do anything it wants me to do, including destroying household appliances, I really should be a security paranoid.
Xandros Deluxe also resizes NTFS with PQDisk, proprietary software by PowerDesk (the makers of Partition Manager).
Mandrake's market niche is getting squeezed at both ends, by Redhat working to make their system more user-friendly as well as by up-and-coming distros like Xandros working to make a simpler Linux experience. If RedHat decides to work more at their dependency/updating system (outdoing urpmi and apt rpm) for 9.0, Mandrake's niche will disappear.
You mean "somebody send them a copy of ccache? As others have pointed out, ofttimes a clean build is needed. ccache can speed repetitive clean builds up quite a bit.
You appear to be confused.
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If you substitute "1.2" for "1.x" and "1.4" for "2.0" in your post, it makes sense. Gnome 1.2 was much faster than 1.4, though 1.4 was tolerable if you used gmc instead of nautilus. You can't really use gmc instead of nautilus with 2.0. However, nautilus is much speedier and stabler in 2.0, and is very usable. The only reason to wish for gmc again when you're using Gnome 2.0 is for gmc's much nicer context menus and archive handling.
Nautilus will, of course, be somewhat faster and more stable in 2.2, but compared to the leap in performance and stability from 1.4 to 2.0, this is definitely just incremental.
Perhaps he thinks that "If you use anything other than Internet Explorer, f$#@ off" is an offensive expression and/or sentiment, and that "best viewed in Internet Explorer" is substituted for it. Furthermore, Gecko renders just about anything without trouble these days, but if it doesn't have the right fonts, not only will the appearance of the text be other than the designer intended, but spacing could be messed up, breaking sections of the page up.
Slashdot ought to implement a dupe filtering system along the lines of the following: People indicate in their prefs whether or not they want to see dups (for the extra discussion). When a dupe is posted and an editor later recognizes it as a dupe, the editor flags it as a dupe and it no longer shows up on the pages of people who have asked not to see dupes.
They really ought to be able to find programs which extract the data off the CDs. I don't know what the format is, but there's a good chance it's installshield or some such. i5comp and i6comp, which are installshield extractors, come with source and run under wine. hwun would do the same for WISE, and of course there's cabextract for the Microsoft.cab formats.
I also think that if they're going to distribute a version that doesn't yet have Bink working (movie player), they ought to call it a beta, not a release version.
This is not some sort of mind-numbing disaster. This is just basic economic reality. When you take a valuable and limited resource (investors' money, employees' time) and produce something which the free market finds less valuable than what you started with, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" strikes. This is one of the benefits of a free market- it discourages losing enterprises and thus helps to ensure economic health. Other distros are doing just fine commercially (RedHat, SuSE, Slackware) or are nonprofit organizations (Debian). With RedHat targeting the desktop with recent releases and the releases of Lycoris, Xandros, and Lindows, Mandrake has failed to give people a compelling reason to use it.
If you want to see Linux on the desktop survive and have some cash you want to use for that purpose, don't throw it onto a sinking ship. Invest in a company which holds some promise. Or you could donate to XFree, Gnome, or KDE, all of which are nonprofits (though only Gnome is currently recognized by the IRS as a nonprofit).
Stowell also denied that SCO would target other Linux distributions, basically suggesting that it would be suicide for SCO to do such a thing. "Microsoft would love to see that happen," he said. Instead Stowell suggested that SCO would take out after other unidentified operating systems that drive something from Unix and hinted that that might mean Microsoft itself since Boies was involved.
I say wait and see what they're really doing and avoid jumping to conclusions, especially conclusions based on an article which contains so much unconfirmed speculation. I doubt Caldera would really go around trying to bring down other distributions with a patent attack.
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OK, so a high resolution worked just fine for you. That doesn't mean it works for all configurations. But I suppose it's possible that that problem has more to do with RH not correctly detecting the properly than with their driver for the nvidia card.
And sure, the rpms may install without any worries- if your kernel version is on Nvidia's list. If you were using RH 8.0 within a few weeks of its release or had up2date'd your kernel soon after RH released their kernel advisory and new kernel, you had to use the.src.rpm, make sure you had the proper libs installed, do a 'rpmbuild --rebuild', and edit your X config file.
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In 8.0, most of what RedHat installs goes into the main menu hierarchy, while other things (other Redhat packages, almost all 3rd party packages) end up in the Extras menu.
This is (IIRC) because RedHat is attempting to move from the old, normal Gnome and KDE menu schemes to the freedesktop.org unified menu scheme. Unfortunately, very few applications have adapted to the freedesktop.org scheme, and so these install themselves in the old Gnome menu system, which RH displays in the Extras menu. This by itself would not be such a big problem, but 8.0 did not ship with a menu editor, so if you wanted to put things from the Extras menu into your main menu, you had to edit the freedesktop.org standard desktop files by hand (and learn the syntax, which is definitely not self-explanatory). The menu editor issue will be resolved in RH 8.1 (freedesktop.org menu editing was in the Gnome point release after 8.0, and I suspect the same is true of KDE though I don't know). The Extras menu problem will gradually disappear as more and more apps move to the new menu standard.
Nvidia cards do *not* work "just fine, except w/o acceleration" in a base RH. In my experience, the RH-shipped driver refuses to run a lot of configurations (card, resolution, color depth combinations). Furthermore, Nvidia's drivers are easily available through Windows Update (though Windows Update is often one revision behind because Microsoft won't distribute any drivers which aren't WHQL'd). Nvidia's linux drivers are not available through Up2date- in fact, while NV drivers install on XP with a couple of newbie-friendly clicks, the NV drivers on Linux require manual editing of the X configuration file and often a recompilation.
Michael Sims,/. user 4716 and editor, posted a story about a game being ported by Michael Simms, user 580077. They are two different people. There is no reason Michael Sims ought not to have posted the news about Michael Simms' port. There is no conflict of interest just because they have similar names.
And by the way, Disciples 2 was rated very highly by just about every review site out there. IIRC, Disciples 1 was multiple-GOTY awarded. However, Disciples 2 was not very well marketed. I would bet Disciples 2 will be on Gamespot's 2002 Awards for Best Game Nobody Played.
Sun planned on including Gnome 2 in Solaris 9. Gnome 2 wasn't ready in time for the Solaris 9 release. That's the way it goes. Sun would not have included Gnome 1.4 in Solaris as the default desktop; they spent a good deal of effort improving GTK+ 2 and Gnome 2 to get them to the point where they could use them by default.
Sun would have to pay Trolltech to use QT for anything with has a license which isn't GPL compatible (read: most of what they'd be using a new toolkit for).
Very few programs actually require 2.4. IceWM will do just fine on 2.2, and I think Opera will as well (but don't quote me on Opera). A while back, I installed Slackware 8's 'zipslack' (based on a 2.2.2x kernel) on a EXT2 partition on my 486 laptop and added X and IceWM, and it ran moderately well. However, I would really recommend getting at least 32 mb of RAM if you want to run things on X.
At Sourceforge. (Where else would you expect it to be?) That includes Bogofilter, POPFile, and a whole bunch of less-active programs. Searching for 'bayes spam' (Sourceforge uses OR searching by default) ought to get you more projects than you really want to look at. Mozilla is also looking at getting a similar filter- see bug 163188 at bugzilla.mozilla.org.
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You seem to assume that any efforts at resurrecting extinct species will either prevent the success of or take resources away from efforts to minimize human contributions to future species loss. This is probably not the case.
It's true enough that it is no substitute for working to prevent further human-caused extinction, but I doubt anyone seriously thought it would be.
If you have a tendency to blow out speakers sometimes or if you really punish your gamepads/joysticks/whatever by playing too vigorously, or if your mobile regimen is really demanding on your pda or laptop, buying some protection may be worth it. But that's only if it's almost a no-questions-asked warranty. CompUSA's "replacement plan" has been really good to me on parts I use and abuse, even for relatively inexpensive items.
In most circumstances, though, it operates on the general principle of "risk management"- you're really buying psychological security at a steep price. Be good to your equipment and spend some of the money you would have spent on an extended warranty on inspiring books. There are cheaper ways to get a more genuine sense of security.
Quite frankly, "hate crimes" bills are bull. Whatever happened to "equal protection under the law"? Whether pertaining to a crime committed against lower-class black women, middle-class white heterosexual males, homosexuals, etc, justice is justice, and special protection for any group is fatal to any pretensions to of the US "justice system" to actually being fair and just.
But I agree with your main/first point- a democracy, if it is based solely on majority opinion, amounts to little more than a well-organized mob. (Imagine if in the Cuban missile crisis every American had voted on what to do, or if tactical decisions for the war in Iraq were made by public opinion polls.) The Founding Fathers tried to make the US more of a republic than a democracy, largely for this reason. The House was to be the voice of the people, while the Senators were to vote in ways less representative of simple popular opinion and more representative of their best judgement and that of the state legislatures. The President, whose broad range of powers were to be exercised not as the people wished but as he saw fit, had to have very good judgement and character. Since judgement and character are not the kinds of things one can expect millions of people personally unacquainted with the candidates to assess, this job was given to electors who the people would choose to trust with this assessment.
It's unfortunate it didn't work out that way. Pretty much from the start, states told their electors who to vote for instead of letting them exercise their best judgement. The Senate became a place where votes were openly bought and sold, and then was amended to become basically just another House of Representatives except with non-proportional representation and longer terms. When I hear people saying (generally as a result of the 2000 election) that the Electoral College was a bad idea, it frustrates me a little. Sure, it's not functioning extremely well as a way of conveying the popular vote to an election result- that's not what it was meant for. The US is largely failing in its efforts to avoid becoming either government by the lobbyist dollar or government by the uninformed instant opinion poll.
I would definitely wait for a version with a PXA255 xscale processor instead of a PXA250- the PXA255, which is already out, has twice the memory clock of the PXA250. It was recently reported that the PXA255 @ 300 mhz is not only 20% faster than the PXA250 @ 400 mhz but also saves considerably on battery power.
A few megs of HD and 4MB RAM? A 486 is enough to do X, but you'll want to have at least 8 megs of RAM, and you would really benefit from having 16 or even 32 MB. Furthermore, though you may be able to fit an X installation on a HD of just a few megs (see 2diskxwin, Small Linux), I don't think you'll be able to do much of use with it unless you have a hard drive which is at least 30 MB or so.
I personally don't have any experience trying to use X in an installation smaller than 120 MB. If you can get this much, you might try doing what I did: install the latest ZipSlack, then move it to ext2 and add X.
Just replying to myself- my post kind of looks like I'm disparaging Nader's safety crusade. I'm not- though the number of accidents increased by a fair bit, the number of deaths in accidents dropped by enough to compensate. It's just an example.
This is a good idea. This is for people who really don't want to get involved with pornography or want to get rid of an existing habit (guess which one is harder?). Curiosity, simple base impulses, etc can lead to situations people really didn't want to be in, and pornography can scar for life.
However, it's surprising how "rationally" we make decisions even in our most "irrational" moments and desires. It's one of the most surprising things in an intro to econ class- a good illustration is how economists correctly predicted that the implementation of safety features in cars Nader pushed for with "Unsafe at Any Speed" would cause an increase in the number of accidents, since the percieved costs of behavior which leads to accidents would drop. The knowledge that your actions can be known by others can make all the difference in these kinds of situations.
Unfortunately, their homepage doesn't seem to give any implementation details. This would have to be difficult to disable (if you could turn it off whenever you visited a bad site and then turn it back on, it might make you think twice but probably wouldn't) as well as be very good at analyzing the data (nobody wants to have to run through huge connection logs and try to guess if sites are pornographic or no, and nobody wants to have to convince people, as noted in another post, that Freshmeat isn't some sort of site for sadomasochists).
IIRC, it wouldn't add up- it would break down. Ozone is not the stablest form of oxygen, after all. If quantities are small enough it will combine with other materials in the air or break down to O2+O. I've got a "Ionic Breeze" air purifier from Sharper Image, and it manifests this behavior- if the quantity of ozone it's put out into an area is small, the ozone doesn't build up and you can have it running indefinitely without any trouble even if you don't have much air circulation. If you have it putting out a fair bit for a while, though, it gets to the point where it's created an environment in which the ozone concentration is high enough that it doesn't break down. Then it gets quite smelly really quickly.
Xandros Deluxe also resizes NTFS with PQDisk, proprietary software by PowerDesk (the makers of Partition Manager).
Mandrake's market niche is getting squeezed at both ends, by Redhat working to make their system more user-friendly as well as by up-and-coming distros like Xandros working to make a simpler Linux experience. If RedHat decides to work more at their dependency/updating system (outdoing urpmi and apt rpm) for 9.0, Mandrake's niche will disappear.
You mean "somebody send them a copy of ccache? As others have pointed out, ofttimes a clean build is needed. ccache can speed repetitive clean builds up quite a bit.
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If you substitute "1.2" for "1.x" and "1.4" for "2.0" in your post, it makes sense. Gnome 1.2 was much faster than 1.4, though 1.4 was tolerable if you used gmc instead of nautilus. You can't really use gmc instead of nautilus with 2.0. However, nautilus is much speedier and stabler in 2.0, and is very usable. The only reason to wish for gmc again when you're using Gnome 2.0 is for gmc's much nicer context menus and archive handling.
Nautilus will, of course, be somewhat faster and more stable in 2.2, but compared to the leap in performance and stability from 1.4 to 2.0, this is definitely just incremental.
Perhaps he thinks that "If you use anything other than Internet Explorer, f$#@ off" is an offensive expression and/or sentiment, and that "best viewed in Internet Explorer" is substituted for it. Furthermore, Gecko renders just about anything without trouble these days, but if it doesn't have the right fonts, not only will the appearance of the text be other than the designer intended, but spacing could be messed up, breaking sections of the page up.
Slashdot ought to implement a dupe filtering system along the lines of the following: People indicate in their prefs whether or not they want to see dups (for the extra discussion). When a dupe is posted and an editor later recognizes it as a dupe, the editor flags it as a dupe and it no longer shows up on the pages of people who have asked not to see dupes.
They really ought to be able to find programs which extract the data off the CDs. I don't know what the format is, but there's a good chance it's installshield or some such. i5comp and i6comp, which are installshield extractors, come with source and run under wine. hwun would do the same for WISE, and of course there's cabextract for the Microsoft .cab formats.
I also think that if they're going to distribute a version that doesn't yet have Bink working (movie player), they ought to call it a beta, not a release version.
This is not some sort of mind-numbing disaster. This is just basic economic reality. When you take a valuable and limited resource (investors' money, employees' time) and produce something which the free market finds less valuable than what you started with, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" strikes. This is one of the benefits of a free market- it discourages losing enterprises and thus helps to ensure economic health. Other distros are doing just fine commercially (RedHat, SuSE, Slackware) or are nonprofit organizations (Debian). With RedHat targeting the desktop with recent releases and the releases of Lycoris, Xandros, and Lindows, Mandrake has failed to give people a compelling reason to use it.
If you want to see Linux on the desktop survive and have some cash you want to use for that purpose, don't throw it onto a sinking ship. Invest in a company which holds some promise. Or you could donate to XFree, Gnome, or KDE, all of which are nonprofits (though only Gnome is currently recognized by the IRS as a nonprofit).
OK, so a high resolution worked just fine for you. That doesn't mean it works for all configurations. But I suppose it's possible that that problem has more to do with RH not correctly detecting the properly than with their driver for the nvidia card.
.src.rpm, make sure you had the proper libs installed, do a 'rpmbuild --rebuild', and edit your X config file.
And sure, the rpms may install without any worries- if your kernel version is on Nvidia's list. If you were using RH 8.0 within a few weeks of its release or had up2date'd your kernel soon after RH released their kernel advisory and new kernel, you had to use the
In 8.0, most of what RedHat installs goes into the main menu hierarchy, while other things (other Redhat packages, almost all 3rd party packages) end up in the Extras menu.
This is (IIRC) because RedHat is attempting to move from the old, normal Gnome and KDE menu schemes to the freedesktop.org unified menu scheme. Unfortunately, very few applications have adapted to the freedesktop.org scheme, and so these install themselves in the old Gnome menu system, which RH displays in the Extras menu. This by itself would not be such a big problem, but 8.0 did not ship with a menu editor, so if you wanted to put things from the Extras menu into your main menu, you had to edit the freedesktop.org standard desktop files by hand (and learn the syntax, which is definitely not self-explanatory). The menu editor issue will be resolved in RH 8.1 (freedesktop.org menu editing was in the Gnome point release after 8.0, and I suspect the same is true of KDE though I don't know). The Extras menu problem will gradually disappear as more and more apps move to the new menu standard.
Nvidia cards do *not* work "just fine, except w/o acceleration" in a base RH. In my experience, the RH-shipped driver refuses to run a lot of configurations (card, resolution, color depth combinations). Furthermore, Nvidia's drivers are easily available through Windows Update (though Windows Update is often one revision behind because Microsoft won't distribute any drivers which aren't WHQL'd). Nvidia's linux drivers are not available through Up2date- in fact, while NV drivers install on XP with a couple of newbie-friendly clicks, the NV drivers on Linux require manual editing of the X configuration file and often a recompilation.
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(not graphical terminal emulators, mlterm is out for this)
I was wondering if anyone out there is developing a solution for non-Linux platforms.
The answer "Sure, there's this graphical terminal emulator in a recent linux distro!" seems somewhat inappropriate to the question.
Michael Sims, /. user 4716 and editor, posted a story about a game being ported by Michael Simms, user 580077. They are two different people. There is no reason Michael Sims ought not to have posted the news about Michael Simms' port. There is no conflict of interest just because they have similar names.
And by the way, Disciples 2 was rated very highly by just about every review site out there. IIRC, Disciples 1 was multiple-GOTY awarded. However, Disciples 2 was not very well marketed. I would bet Disciples 2 will be on Gamespot's 2002 Awards for Best Game Nobody Played.
Sun planned on including Gnome 2 in Solaris 9. Gnome 2 wasn't ready in time for the Solaris 9 release. That's the way it goes. Sun would not have included Gnome 1.4 in Solaris as the default desktop; they spent a good deal of effort improving GTK+ 2 and Gnome 2 to get them to the point where they could use them by default.
Sun would have to pay Trolltech to use QT for anything with has a license which isn't GPL compatible (read: most of what they'd be using a new toolkit for).
Very few programs actually require 2.4. IceWM will do just fine on 2.2, and I think Opera will as well (but don't quote me on Opera). A while back, I installed Slackware 8's 'zipslack' (based on a 2.2.2x kernel) on a EXT2 partition on my 486 laptop and added X and IceWM, and it ran moderately well. However, I would really recommend getting at least 32 mb of RAM if you want to run things on X.