Even when you install Ubuntu on your hard disk there is no superuser. The very first user you add during install IS the superuser, and he gets access via su or sudo and his password.
If I install Ubuntu, I would just make the first user 'Admin' and then add myself as the second user.
Because "Portable On-Demand Storage" used it first. If Apple tries to sue them, they should sue back and say "er,we trade marked it first, so remove the word pod from ipod!"
If they want to classify Charon (Pluto's moon) as a planet then they also need to classify Lunar (EARTH'S MOON!) as one also. Actually when you get down to it Charon and Pluto are a single double planet, as are Earth and Lunar. (And don't give me the BS about the location of the CG between the two bodies, that's just nit picking).
The blade guard on my saw isn't that hard to remove and replace (so long as I clean the saw dust off the attachment points!). I leave the guard on unless I'm making rabits or dado cuts.
The stop saw device would be bad if it couldn't tell the difference between green wood and flesh, I suppose they could put a bypass switch on the saw for that purpose. Also it might false if you cut metal. (Yes you CAN cut non-ferris metal on a table saw! I've used my saw to cut sheet aluminum and it workds fine. Just don't raise the blade more that the thickness of the metal, and DON'T waste carbide teeth blades on this!)
First of all the 68000 cpu was not yet available when IBM started to design the PC. In fact, they were going to use an 8085 cpu, which they were using in their DataMaster series of machines. The PC ended up with the same bus already used in the DataMaster. IBM switched to the newly released 8088 at the suggestion of Bill Gates.
The very first deliveries of 68000 cpus were locked up in advance sales to General Motors for use in auto electronics (smog control computers). Until Motorola could ramp up production very limited numbers of 68k chips were sold to anybody else.
The 68000 IS a 32 bit machine in the sense that it has 32 bit registers, and a 32 bit instruction set. It is constructed with 16 bit data paths and a 16 bit alu however. The 68020 is a true 32 bit machine with 32 bit data paths and a 32 bit alu. The 68020 can run the same software as the 68000 (it is actually binary compatible with the 68000). Motorola intended from the start to produce a 32 bit microprocessor but could not get the needed number of transistors on board till later on.
The 68K series were not really a dead end. For a few years Motorola matched Intel with new processors. The 68030 matching the 486 and the 68040 the Pentium. Apple's sales were only a small precent of the PC world and Motorola was loosing interest in the 68K. They started promoting the PowerPC processors with IBM and for a while it looked like IBM would start shipping machines based on this part. Apple thought it would be a good idea to jump ship, but the PowerPC processors never really caught on outside of IBM's mini mainframe business. (Deep Blue of chess fame was a PowerPC cluster). Now Apple is jumping ship AGAIN, this time to Intel.
Wireless connections do save time and effort in setting up a system. However (unless you have mice in your attic or walls chewing on the cables) a wired connection is more reliable. It's also more secure (wire tapping not withstanding, though you can put the wires in chrome steel pipes). Wireless devices are usually portable, which means batteries going dead at the worst moment.
I'll stick to hard wired connections, though a laptop with Wifi that can be moved anywhere in the house would be nice. But there will always be a docking station or two.....
while audio CD's actually have to be 'ripped' since they don't have a true file system, DVD's ARE file devices. Just try 'mount/dev/hdc/mnt/cdrom' with a movie dvd in the (dvd)drive and then try 'ls -l/mnt/cdrom' and see the files! To 'rip' the disk all you do is 'cp -r/mnt/cdrom somedir'
You have to use a special utility create a dvd file system image with the files to replicate the dvd to burn it though. I wonder if you could tell xine to play the files you copied off the dvd onto your hard drive as above.
In one of the recent James Bond movies he had a car that became invisible by use of cameras and projectors. The car projected an image seen from one side of the car onto the side facing the other way. In this way no matter how you looked at the car it was like you were looking through it. At least that's how Q described it. Active camafloge sorta.
Seems Linspire is moving to the business model of giving away the software and charging for the support.
I agree with the notion that 'non-free' software with an 'open' api and documented formats is not a true evil and should be allowed as a choice on a free system. If you use such an application you are not truly locked in to it as you can migrate your data.
The only problem I see with Freespire is the same one I see with other Debian clones. They may use.deb packages but they don't all follow the same source trees and you can end up with a broken system by mixing packages from different archives. That's a problem because may want an application that is only available from a different archive tree than the one your system was installed from and run into dependancy problems. (Installing the desired package from source into/usr/local may be the safest path in this case, and even this isn't foolproof.)
Since you don't download binary packages from Gentoo, only build scripts and patches, Gentoo doesn't need to post the sources on their servers. They only post the sources to the build scripts and any patches they wrote. The build scripts have the URLs of the source code in them and download the sources. So once the packages are built the sources are on YOUR MACHINE, unless you opt to have them deleted after building the binaries (to save disk space).
Sniping may net you a win but not the lowest price. If the item up for auction is a rare collector's item and you are a collector and MUST have the item, then snipe you must.
But if the item is readily available elsewhere and you are just looking for a bargin, then just place a bid for the highest price that you are willing to pay and walk away.
It's not a spectrum analyzer, but it is a nice panaramic receiver. The difference between the two is resolution. A panaramic receiver is just a band scanner. It will tell you what channels are occupied and the relative signal strength. A spectrum analyzer will do the same and more, such as giving you a good idea of the kind of signal you are looking at, and it's purity. Many years ago Hams used panaramic receivers (scope display) to see where the dx and band openings were without having to tune from one end of the band to the other. If you are looking for a clear (or occupied) channel the panaramic receiver is good enough. If you want to know why the FCC cited you for a dirty signal, then you want a spectrum analyzer.
Ansel Adams mostly used view cameras (you know the ones that have you looking in the back of the camera with a black sheet over your head). Now we have a sensor as large as a sheet negative. Soon it will be possible to make a digital view camera.
Not always. A digital SRL doesn't have to have a mirror between the lens and the sensor. If an electronic viewfinder is used instead of an optical one the sensor is in play all the time.
If it really bothers you then DON'T enter your login name and password, just click on the login button. You will be redirected to a secure page asking you to please enter you login infomation.
In the end it won't matter WHO gets charged for the bandwidth, the consumer will pay for it anyway. The only sites that would get charged for large bandwidth use would be those providing large bandwidth contents. This would be video on demand, porn, etc. Downloading software such as Linux distributions might raise an eyebrow here, but even now this activity usually doesn't trigger a bandwidth cap on most users IPS's. If the video on demand guys have to pay for the use of the pipe, the cost of this will be passed on by raising the price of the product. If the end user has to pay it will be in terms of excessive bandwidth use terms in his contract with his ISP.
Of course, eventually we will have fiber backbones all over the place with TBS bandwidth's and we will be looking for new products to clog the pipes.
The fusion of capacitors and batteries was foreseen in the "River World" series of novels. The device was called a "Bacapacitor", and it powered Sam Clemens riverboat in the novel. The bacapacitor was charged from the "grail stones" which flashed once a day to delivery food and supplies to the people living in River World.
Here's one engineering disaster they didn't mention.
The Russian N1 moon rocket. About the time we were preparing to get Apollo-11 off to the moon the Russians tried to get there. They didn't have too much luck with the N1 on it's first attempt, the second stage blew up. So they quickly worked the issues and got TWO N1's ready for takeoff on two launching pads near each other (BAD MOVE!) They figured if the first un-maned rocket worked they would risk a crew on the second. Well on takeoff there was a problem with a fuel pump on one of the first stage's 36 engines(!). The computer should have shut down the bad engine and throttled up the rest but instead it shut down ALL of the engines (except the bad one). The rocket lifted up about 100' off the ground and then fell back to the pad. It exploded with a force of a small atomic bomb causing the rocket next door to also blow up, killing the crew in the block house near the launching pad.
Ever wondered why the Russians never went to the moon?
The DC10 did have some early problems. They were eventually all sorted out and now the DC10 has one of the BEST safety records of ANY airliner in terms of flight hours between accidents. The plane's early history though scared off the flying public so it isn't used anymore in passenger service. But air freight carriers love it. Fedex and UPS are two of the air freight services still using the DC10 as their bread and butter. The pilots like the plane too.
That's what I did and it works great. I ran a 'home run' of cat5 cable from the NID/DSL splitter outside the house to my 'connection closet', and from there wires star out all over the house. The home run cat5 has TWO phone lines and the split off DSL line. The DSL modem, router, and hub/switch are in the closet and network cat5 cables go from there to each room in the house. Cat3 cables from the closet go to each room carrying both phone lines to each room in the house.
At a former residence I DID use a single filter as a splitter to isolate the DSL from all the phone lines in the house. While this DID work, the fact is that a filter is NOT a splitter, though the reverse is somewhat true. The problem is that a single filter is balanced to work against the impedance of a single phone device, while a splitter is balanced to work against a wide impedance range. If you use a single filter as a whole house filter it might not work as well as a true splitter. Still you have nothing to lose by trying it.
Small amounts of chemicals should be available for science experiments. The regulations should control how much you can buy. Even if someone could make illegal fireworks with the stuff, if you limit just how much they could purchase at a time you would keep them from going into mass production of the stuff. If someone can make a few M80's and blow his hand off, well that's HIS problem but at least he won't be able to produce a few gross of them and destroy the neighborhood.
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Is Dell or Sony going to replace that classic pickup truck
that got burned up by an exploding battery?
(not to mention the lap top computer).
"Become a GPL distributor"
Is that anything like Amway?
Even when you install Ubuntu on your hard disk there is no
superuser. The very first user you add during install IS
the superuser, and he gets access via su or sudo and his
password.
If I install Ubuntu, I would just make the first user
'Admin' and then add myself as the second user.
Because "Portable On-Demand Storage" used it first. If Apple tries
to sue them, they should sue back and say "er,we trade marked it first, so
remove the word pod from ipod!"
Maybe 10 meters will open up for DX again.
If they want to classify Charon (Pluto's moon) as a planet then
they also need to classify Lunar (EARTH'S MOON!) as one also. Actually
when you get down to it Charon and Pluto are a single double planet, as
are Earth and Lunar. (And don't give me the BS about the location of the
CG between the two bodies, that's just nit picking).
The blade guard on my saw isn't that hard to remove and replace (so long as I clean the saw
dust off the attachment points!). I leave the guard on unless I'm making rabits or dado
cuts.
The stop saw device would be bad if it couldn't tell the difference between green wood
and flesh, I suppose they could put a bypass switch on the saw for that purpose.
Also it might false if you cut metal. (Yes you CAN cut non-ferris metal on a table
saw! I've used my saw to cut sheet aluminum and it workds fine. Just don't raise
the blade more that the thickness of the metal, and DON'T waste carbide teeth blades
on this!)
First of all the 68000 cpu was not yet available when IBM started
to design the PC. In fact, they were going to use an 8085 cpu, which
they were using in their DataMaster series of machines. The PC ended
up with the same bus already used in the DataMaster. IBM switched to
the newly released 8088 at the suggestion of Bill Gates.
The very first deliveries of 68000 cpus were locked up in advance sales
to General Motors for use in auto electronics (smog control computers).
Until Motorola could ramp up production very limited numbers of 68k chips
were sold to anybody else.
The 68000 IS a 32 bit machine in the sense that it has 32 bit registers,
and a 32 bit instruction set. It is constructed with 16 bit data paths
and a 16 bit alu however. The 68020 is a true 32 bit machine with 32 bit
data paths and a 32 bit alu. The 68020 can run the same software as the
68000 (it is actually binary compatible with the 68000). Motorola intended
from the start to produce a 32 bit microprocessor but could not get the
needed number of transistors on board till later on.
The 68K series were not really a dead end. For a few years Motorola matched
Intel with new processors. The 68030 matching the 486 and the 68040 the Pentium.
Apple's sales were only a small precent of the PC world and Motorola was loosing
interest in the 68K. They started promoting the PowerPC processors with IBM and
for a while it looked like IBM would start shipping machines based on this part.
Apple thought it would be a good idea to jump ship, but the PowerPC processors
never really caught on outside of IBM's mini mainframe business. (Deep Blue of
chess fame was a PowerPC cluster). Now Apple is jumping ship AGAIN, this time
to Intel.
Wireless connections do save time and effort in setting up a system.
However (unless you have mice in your attic or walls chewing on the
cables) a wired connection is more reliable. It's also more secure
(wire tapping not withstanding, though you can put the wires in
chrome steel pipes). Wireless devices are usually portable, which
means batteries going dead at the worst moment.
I'll stick to hard wired connections, though a laptop with Wifi that
can be moved anywhere in the house would be nice. But there will always
be a docking station or two.....
while audio CD's actually have to be 'ripped' since they don't have a true /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom' /mnt/cdrom' and see the files! /mnt/cdrom somedir'
file system, DVD's ARE file devices. Just try 'mount
with a movie dvd in the (dvd)drive and then try 'ls -l
To 'rip' the disk all you do is 'cp -r
You have to use a special utility create a dvd file system image with the files
to replicate the dvd to burn it though. I wonder if you could tell xine to
play the files you copied off the dvd onto your hard drive as above.
In one of the recent James Bond movies he had a car that became
invisible by use of cameras and projectors. The car projected an image
seen from one side of the car onto the side facing the other way.
In this way no matter how you looked at the car it was like you
were looking through it. At least that's how Q described it.
Active camafloge sorta.
Seems Linspire is moving to the business model of giving away the software and charging
.deb packages but they don't all follow the same source trees and you can /usr/local may be the safest path in this case, and
for the support.
I agree with the notion that 'non-free' software with an 'open' api and documented
formats is not a true evil and should be allowed as a choice on a free system. If you
use such an application you are not truly locked in to it as you can migrate your data.
The only problem I see with Freespire is the same one I see with other Debian clones.
They may use
end up with a broken system by mixing packages from different archives. That's a problem
because may want an application that is only available from a different archive tree than the
one your system was installed from and run into dependancy problems. (Installing
the desired package from source into
even this isn't foolproof.)
Since you don't download binary packages from Gentoo, only build scripts
and patches, Gentoo doesn't need to post the sources on their servers.
They only post the sources to the build scripts and any patches they
wrote. The build scripts have the URLs of the source code in them and
download the sources. So once the packages are built the sources
are on YOUR MACHINE, unless you opt to have them deleted after building
the binaries (to save disk space).
Sniping may net you a win but not the lowest price.
If the item up for auction is a rare collector's item
and you are a collector and MUST have the item, then
snipe you must.
But if the item is readily available elsewhere and you
are just looking for a bargin, then just place a bid
for the highest price that you are willing to pay and
walk away.
It's not a spectrum analyzer, but it is a nice panaramic receiver.
The difference between the two is resolution. A panaramic receiver is just
a band scanner. It will tell you what channels are occupied and the relative
signal strength. A spectrum analyzer will do the same and more, such as
giving you a good idea of the kind of signal you are looking at, and it's
purity. Many years ago Hams used panaramic receivers (scope display) to
see where the dx and band openings were without having to tune from one
end of the band to the other. If you are looking for a clear (or occupied)
channel the panaramic receiver is good enough. If you want to know why the
FCC cited you for a dirty signal, then you want a spectrum analyzer.
Ansel Adams mostly used view cameras (you know the ones that have you looking in the back of the camera with a black sheet over your head). Now we have a sensor as large as a sheet negative. Soon it will be possible to make a digital view camera.
Not always. A digital SRL doesn't have to have a mirror between the lens and the sensor.
If an electronic viewfinder is used instead of an optical one the sensor
is in play all the time.
If it really bothers you then DON'T enter your login name and password,
just click on the login button. You will be redirected to a secure page
asking you to please enter you login infomation.
In the end it won't matter WHO gets charged for the bandwidth,
the consumer will pay for it anyway. The only sites that would
get charged for large bandwidth use would be those providing
large bandwidth contents. This would be video on demand, porn,
etc. Downloading software such as Linux distributions might
raise an eyebrow here, but even now this activity usually doesn't
trigger a bandwidth cap on most users IPS's. If the video on demand
guys have to pay for the use of the pipe, the cost of this will
be passed on by raising the price of the product. If the end user
has to pay it will be in terms of excessive bandwidth use terms in
his contract with his ISP.
Of course, eventually we will have fiber backbones all over the place
with TBS bandwidth's and we will be looking for new products to clog
the pipes.
The fusion of capacitors and batteries was foreseen in the "River World" series
of novels. The device was called a "Bacapacitor", and it powered Sam Clemens
riverboat in the novel. The bacapacitor was charged from the "grail stones"
which flashed once a day to delivery food and supplies to the people living
in River World.
Here's one engineering disaster they didn't mention.
The Russian N1 moon rocket. About the time we were preparing to
get Apollo-11 off to the moon the Russians tried to get there. They
didn't have too much luck with the N1 on it's first attempt, the second
stage blew up. So they quickly worked the issues and got TWO N1's ready
for takeoff on two launching pads near each other (BAD MOVE!) They figured
if the first un-maned rocket worked they would risk a crew on the second.
Well on takeoff there was a problem with a fuel pump on one of the first
stage's 36 engines(!). The computer should have shut down the bad engine
and throttled up the rest but instead it shut down ALL of the engines
(except the bad one). The rocket lifted up about 100' off the ground
and then fell back to the pad. It exploded with a force of a small
atomic bomb causing the rocket next door to also blow up, killing
the crew in the block house near the launching pad.
Ever wondered why the Russians never went to the moon?
The DC10 did have some early problems. They were eventually all sorted out and
now the DC10 has one of the BEST safety records of ANY airliner in terms of
flight hours between accidents. The plane's early history though scared off the
flying public so it isn't used anymore in passenger service. But air freight carriers love it. Fedex and UPS are two of the air freight services still using the DC10 as their bread and butter. The pilots like the plane too.
That's what I did and it works great. I ran a 'home run' of cat5 cable from the NID/DSL splitter outside the house to my 'connection closet', and from there wires star out all over the house. The home run cat5 has TWO phone lines and the split off DSL line. The DSL modem, router, and hub/switch are in the closet and network cat5 cables go from there to each room in the house. Cat3 cables from the closet go to each room carrying both phone lines to each room in the house.
At a former residence I DID use a single filter as a splitter to isolate the DSL from all the phone lines in the house. While this DID work, the fact is that a filter is NOT a splitter, though the reverse is somewhat true. The problem is that a single filter is balanced to work against the impedance of a single phone device, while a splitter is balanced to work against a wide impedance range. If you use a single filter as a whole house filter it might not work as well as a true splitter. Still you have nothing to lose by trying it.
Why not present the user with a "concentration" type puzzle?
Small amounts of chemicals should be available for science experiments. The regulations should control how much you can buy. Even if someone could make illegal fireworks with the stuff, if you limit just how much they could purchase at a time you would keep them from
going into mass production of the stuff. If someone can make a few M80's and blow his hand off, well that's HIS problem but at least he won't be able to produce a few gross of them and destroy the neighborhood.