I'm using Linux Mint 13 KDE on a thinkpad R60. I too don't just close the lid, I use the "FN" key plus the blue moon key to suspend. I then have to use the power button and enter my password to restart the machine. I'm not surt that my older thinkpad is affected by this bug, or if the bug is even present in KDE. I have also not seen anything in this thread as to if this is a 32 or a 64 bit (or both) issue. BTW I have a newer thinkpad R400 on order and will be putting Mint 13 KDE 64 bit on it. We'll see.......
The winter ice extent is missleading since the ice is gettng thinner. It's not the total ice area, it's also the VOLUME that is shrinking and NOT recovering! Did anybody follow this link that was posted on the article....? http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/09/05/799761/death-spiral-watch-experts-warn-near-ice-free-arctic-in-summer-in-a-decade-volume-trends-continue/
Well fasting can help heal some problems. While recovering from surgery I developed Pancreatitis and was put on a liquid diet for a few days (jello, broth, water, etc).
The study suggested that calorie restriction reduced the onset certain dieases. This does suggest a longer life is possible as it reduces the chances of dieing from cancers, tumors and such. Eventually the body does lose the ability to regenerate itself and death is the result. If you can prevent dieing from other causes so you can live long enough to reach this point you will end up living to the maximum age you are able to.
I haven't flow Delta in years, and after hearing that they don't believe in the US constitution and free speech I will NEVER fly them again. Think I should linkt to this in my blog.
I think the R series use the same MB as the T series (only difference is the metal chassis on the T). I've upgraded my R60 from1gb ram to 2. It CAN accept up to 4GB, but only the first 3 would be usable thanks to the chipset and 32bit processor, so I stopped at 2. I also upgraded the HD, but unless you buy an IBM branded HD the bios won't be able to perform the HD selftest correctly and won't boot. Workaround is to bypass the bios selftest with two timed keypresses during startup. I'd like to upgrade my 14" R60 to a higher def LCD screen but I don't know how to perform the mod and which parts to buy. I have the core2dual 1.85ghz processor, I think these were made to accept up to 2.5ghz processors, but the increase won't be worth the effort IMHO. The machine runs the latest Linux Mint KDE just fine.
4. you don't have the use of the laptop while the battery is being replaced and the machine is in transit between you and Apple (unless you can find a authorized local Apple repair station.
As far as interchangable parts for laptops go, get a thinkpad. Most models of the thinkpad (especially the "R" and "T" series) kept on using similar interchangeable parts and form factors. Not only are these easier to upgrade, but to keep on going if something fails.
The one thing that all these Ultrabooks (Air Clones) lack is a built in optical drive. The slot loading kind are thin enough to fit into all but the thinnest notebooks (the 13" MacBooks are reasonably sized though not true Ultrabooks). I like to use my laptop for in-flight entertainment on trips, and the built in optical drive is requred for this (unless you have downloaded digital copies of DVD's). Replaceable batteries are also nice to extend your up time (keep a spare, charged pack with you). True I'm talking about a larger, heavier solution (but not by THAT much).
Flying reached it's peak in the late 70's and early 80's with lots of cheap (actually in-expensive) airlines coming on line. After 9-11 the added security, higher fares for everything (mostly thanks to rising fuel prices) have made things worse. If the GOP takes over the white house next year you can expect it to get WORSE as the government cuts back on the FAA and air traffic control to save money. You'll have fewer flights, higher fares and more delays. It will be a boast for Amtrak and Grayhound though.
One of my fondest memories of the '70s was the Eastern Airlines Air shuttle between Boston and NYC (also NYC to D.C.). For $20-$25 you could buy a ticket at the gate. If you got there before boarding started you got on the plane. If the flight got sold out they would either change to a bigger plane or add a second flight. Planes left every hour on the hour (or half hour depending which way it was going). I remember going to Boston for a bit of business. (I needed to register an automoblile I bought in NY in Boston before moving to MA to take my first job. NO WAY I was going to pay the sales tax TWICE!) The usual DC-9 was sold out and we ended up on an L-1011 instead. I was told once they had a very large crowd waiting at the terminal and they rolled up a 747! (They would usually grab a plane they would have needed to dead head anyway). Those were the days!
Eliminating the mortgage interest deduction would only work if the tax code were restructured so as to be tax netural to most families. What can be done is to limit the mortgage interest deduction so that the average middle class family is 100% covered and people like Bill Gates with their insanely expensive castles can deduct only a percentage of their mortgage interest. Also second homes would not be covered at all.
The tax breaks on the very rich need to be gotten rid of, however you should get a tax deduction on any money that you give away to charity.
The current administration may be spending like crazy, but it's mostly been to prop up the ecconomy. The recent stimuls pacakges didn't work well enough only because they DIDN'T spend ENOUGH and you can blame the GOP for that. You can also blame the last 8 years of GOP leadership for the current ecconomic problems. THEY fucked things up and want a second chance to fix it. Yeah RIGHT!
The power PC processor is now an abandoned stepchild as far as most Linux distros are concerned. It's been long enough since Apple switched over from PPC to Intel that you will have problems finding a good Linux distro for it. Even WORSE for the ancient 68K Macs (few of which are even remotely powerfull enough anymore for today's SW bloat). Actually anything older than a 500mhz PIII with 500mb of ram is useless for any of today's mainstream Linux distros. (Some LXDE based ones will install oin 256mb). Socket 7 based PC's are only good for the landfill unless you use a distro based on a 2.4 series kernel or older.
Most of the 'free' (as in speech) application programs available for Linux are also available for Windows. Things like Open (Libre) Office, the Gimp, etc, can be downloaded for use on Windows. Thank MicroSoft for making available a 'free' (as in beer) version of Visual Studio for C,C++,C# and VB that you can use to build applications for Windows XP and Win7 (but NOT windows 8!).
And if you thought DEC Tape was slow, I've also run Zork on an LSI-II with a DECTAPEII unit. That was DEC's little cartdrige tape unit that was software compatible with DECTAPE but interfaced though a serial (DLV11) interface. It was about 1/10th the price and less than 1/10th the speed. Took about ten minutes between moves on the game!
Did you ever play Zork on a PDP-11 running RT11 off of DEC-Tape? Rather interresting to watch the tape reels spin back an forth, but slow as shit sliding down sandpaper!
That's where dowload caps come in. Maybe the ISP's should respeak and say you get x amount of upload and download up to some g amount of gb per some unit of time and after that your bw is reduced for some period of time to give everyone else some of the bw THEY purchased. Which, "hey hey" is what they are actually doing, but don't tell you.
Correct. However you have the choice of which desktop WILL be installed as an earlier option selected from the CD boot menu. The installer requires an active internet connection to install other desktop options, the default option is what CAN be installed from the CD WITHOUT an active internet connection.
QDOS was actually quite similar to CP/M in it's structure, and CP/M86 was different in that it actually made use of the improvements offered in the 8086 processor. QDOS was written as if an 8080 to 8086 translator had been used to code it. However MS-DOS quickly moved away from this. What Microsoft sold was much polished over the original QDOS and CP/M OS's. They quickly improved the disk structure, FAT12 and FAT16 are different enough from the original CP/M disk structure. What they all STILL have in common is the use of the 0XE5 IBM uninitialized data marker in the FAT to show available space. This was a quick and dirty hack that allowed a freshly formated diskette to be used without having to initialize a directory structure on it.
Let's just give each nation their own block of addreses (which will be easier when ipv6 is universal) and let them assign them as they wish. Let them all have their own name servers to control their block of addresses and they will have to cache other name servers for other countries to be able to address content not their own. They can also erect whatever firewall they want where their country meets the world (wireless networks via satelite might be a problem, T.S.). However, no filtering will be done on outgoing packets by countries that don't want to filter their output to the world (like in the US, except maybe for what the RIAA or MPAA manage to get into law).
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Everything before Windows 3.1 was stoneage crap. Windows wasn't even on the radar before then. I lumped all versions of NT together as they quickly went from 3.1 to 4 before the OS was used by anybody other than developers. IIRC Windows 98SE followed quickly on the heels of 98 to fix some bad bugs. Windows 2003 and 2008 were mostly server OS's and enterprise customers held on to their win2000 systems the same way that XP users held on. From a desktop users view my list was about right.
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I too have a dual boot system with win7-64 installed for 'when I need it', and my primary OS is also Linux Mint. Currently Mint-9, but as soon as I can back up the system I'm going to upgrade to Mint-13 KDE.
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I'm using Linux Mint 13 KDE on a thinkpad R60. I too don't just close the lid, I use the "FN" key plus the blue moon key to suspend. I then have to use the power button and enter my password to restart the machine. I'm not surt that my older thinkpad is affected by this bug, or if the bug is even present in KDE. I have also not seen anything in this thread as to if this is a 32 or a 64 bit (or both) issue. BTW I have a newer thinkpad R400 on order and will be putting Mint 13 KDE 64 bit on it. We'll see.......
The winter ice extent is missleading since the ice is gettng thinner. It's not the total ice area, it's also the VOLUME that is shrinking and NOT recovering!
Did anybody follow this link that was posted on the article....?
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/09/05/799761/death-spiral-watch-experts-warn-near-ice-free-arctic-in-summer-in-a-decade-volume-trends-continue/
Well fasting can help heal some problems. While recovering from surgery I developed Pancreatitis and was put on a liquid diet for a few days (jello, broth, water, etc).
The study suggested that calorie restriction reduced the onset certain dieases. This does suggest a longer life is possible as it reduces the chances of dieing from cancers, tumors and such. Eventually the body does lose the ability to regenerate itself and death is the result. If you can prevent dieing from other causes so you can live long enough to reach this point you will end up living to the maximum age you are able to.
Wrong. You body DOES make vitamin D when you are exposed to the sun.
I haven't flow Delta in years, and after hearing that they don't believe in the US constitution and free speech I will NEVER fly them again.
Think I should linkt to this in my blog.
I think the R series use the same MB as the T series (only difference is the metal chassis on the T). I've upgraded my R60 from1gb ram to 2. It CAN accept up to 4GB, but only the first 3 would be usable thanks to the chipset and 32bit processor, so I stopped at 2. I also upgraded the HD, but unless you buy an IBM branded HD the bios won't be able to perform the HD selftest correctly and won't boot. Workaround is to bypass the bios selftest with two timed keypresses during startup.
I'd like to upgrade my 14" R60 to a higher def LCD screen but I don't know how to perform the mod and which parts to buy. I have the core2dual 1.85ghz processor, I think these were made to accept up to 2.5ghz processors, but the increase won't be worth the effort IMHO. The machine runs the latest Linux Mint KDE just fine.
4. you don't have the use of the laptop while the battery is being replaced and the machine is in transit between you and Apple (unless you can find a authorized local Apple repair station.
As far as interchangable parts for laptops go, get a thinkpad. Most models of the thinkpad (especially the "R" and "T" series) kept on using similar interchangeable parts and form factors. Not only are these easier to upgrade, but to keep on going if something fails.
The one thing that all these Ultrabooks (Air Clones) lack is a built in optical drive. The slot loading kind are thin enough to fit into all but the thinnest notebooks (the 13" MacBooks are reasonably sized though not true Ultrabooks). I like to use my laptop for in-flight entertainment on trips, and the built in optical drive is requred for this (unless you have downloaded digital copies of DVD's). Replaceable batteries are also nice to extend your up time (keep a spare, charged pack with you). True I'm talking about a larger, heavier solution (but not by THAT much).
Flying reached it's peak in the late 70's and early 80's with lots of cheap (actually in-expensive) airlines coming on line. After 9-11 the added security, higher fares for everything (mostly thanks to rising fuel prices) have made things worse. If the GOP takes over the white house next year you can expect it to get WORSE as the government cuts back on the FAA and air traffic control to save money. You'll have fewer flights, higher fares and more delays. It will be a boast for Amtrak and Grayhound though.
One of my fondest memories of the '70s was the Eastern Airlines Air shuttle between Boston and NYC (also NYC to D.C.). For $20-$25 you could buy a ticket at the gate. If you got there before boarding started you got on the plane. If the flight got sold out they would either change to a bigger plane or add a second flight. Planes left every hour on the hour (or half hour depending which way it was going). I remember going to Boston for a bit of business. (I needed to register an automoblile I bought in NY in Boston before moving to MA to take my first job. NO WAY I was going to pay the sales tax TWICE!) The usual DC-9 was sold out and we ended up on an L-1011 instead. I was told once they had a very large crowd waiting at the terminal and they rolled up a 747! (They would usually grab a plane they would have needed to dead head anyway). Those were the days!
"Jeez, go wherever you want. Move to Cuba, they have 100% free health insurance there."
Yeah but do you trust their "witch doctors"?
Eliminating the mortgage interest deduction would only work if the tax code were restructured so as to be tax netural to most families. What can be done is to limit the mortgage interest deduction so that the average middle class family is 100% covered and people like Bill Gates with their insanely expensive castles can deduct only a percentage of their mortgage interest. Also second homes would not be covered at all.
The tax breaks on the very rich need to be gotten rid of, however you should get a tax deduction on any money that you give away to charity.
The current administration may be spending like crazy, but it's mostly been to prop up the ecconomy. The recent stimuls pacakges didn't work well enough only because they DIDN'T spend ENOUGH and you can blame the GOP for that. You can also blame the last 8 years of GOP leadership for the current ecconomic problems. THEY fucked things up and want a second chance to fix it. Yeah RIGHT!
The power PC processor is now an abandoned stepchild as far as most Linux distros are concerned. It's been long enough since Apple switched over from PPC to Intel that you will have problems finding a good Linux distro for it. Even WORSE for the ancient 68K Macs (few of which are even remotely powerfull enough anymore for today's SW bloat). Actually anything older than a 500mhz PIII with 500mb of ram is useless for any of today's mainstream Linux distros. (Some LXDE based ones will install oin 256mb). Socket 7 based PC's are only good for the landfill unless you use a distro based on a 2.4 series kernel or older.
Most of the 'free' (as in speech) application programs available for Linux are also available for Windows. Things like Open (Libre) Office, the Gimp, etc, can be downloaded for use on Windows. Thank MicroSoft for making available a 'free' (as in beer) version of Visual Studio for C,C++,C# and VB that you can use to build applications for Windows XP and Win7 (but NOT windows 8!).
And if you thought DEC Tape was slow, I've also run Zork on an LSI-II with a DECTAPEII unit. That was DEC's little cartdrige tape unit that was software compatible with DECTAPE but interfaced though a serial (DLV11) interface. It was about 1/10th the price and less than 1/10th the speed. Took about ten minutes between moves on the game!
Did you ever play Zork on a PDP-11 running RT11 off of DEC-Tape? Rather interresting to watch the tape reels spin back an forth, but slow as shit sliding down sandpaper!
That's where dowload caps come in. Maybe the ISP's should respeak and say you get x amount of upload and download up to some g amount of gb per some unit of time and after that your bw is reduced for some period of time to give everyone else some of the bw THEY purchased. Which, "hey hey" is what they are actually doing, but don't tell you.
There are 800mb blank CD's available and theywork with most CD drives and ALL DVD drives.
And if you add Cario-Dock on top it REALLY looks nice!
Correct. However you have the choice of which desktop WILL be installed as an earlier option selected from the CD boot menu. The installer requires an active internet connection to install other desktop options, the default option is what CAN be installed from the CD WITHOUT an active internet connection.
QDOS was actually quite similar to CP/M in it's structure, and CP/M86 was different in that it actually made use of the improvements offered in the 8086 processor. QDOS was written as if an 8080 to 8086 translator had been used to code it. However MS-DOS quickly moved away from this. What Microsoft sold was much polished over the original QDOS and CP/M OS's. They quickly improved the disk structure, FAT12 and FAT16 are different enough from the original CP/M disk structure. What they all STILL have in common is the use of the 0XE5 IBM uninitialized data marker in the FAT to show available space. This was a quick and dirty hack that allowed a freshly formated diskette to be used without having to initialize a directory structure on it.
Let's just give each nation their own block of addreses (which will be easier when ipv6 is universal) and let them assign them as they wish. Let them all have their own name servers to control their block of addresses and they will have to cache other name servers for other countries to be able to address content not their own. They can also erect whatever firewall they want where their country meets the world (wireless networks via satelite might be a problem, T.S.). However, no filtering will be done on outgoing packets by countries that don't want to filter their output to the world (like in the US, except maybe for what the RIAA or MPAA manage to get into law).
Everything before Windows 3.1 was stoneage crap. Windows wasn't even on the radar before then. I lumped all versions of NT together as they quickly went from 3.1 to 4 before the OS was used by anybody other than developers. IIRC Windows 98SE followed quickly on the heels of 98 to fix some bad bugs. Windows 2003 and 2008 were mostly server OS's and enterprise customers held on to their win2000 systems the same way that XP users held on. From a desktop users view my list was about right.
I too have a dual boot system with win7-64 installed for 'when I need it', and my primary OS is also Linux Mint. Currently Mint-9, but as soon as I can back up the system I'm going to upgrade to Mint-13 KDE.