The ozone hole shows seasonal effects from increased solar influence. Some folks have been saying that the overall trends over multiple years can be due to solar activity varying over years.
So any shrinking trends, over any small time period (less than 5, maybe) are not as important as the radical increasing trend thats been there for the last 25 or so.
Why are they only incorporating this into the 6-current tree? I know that it says opt-in, but I think that a good number of hte changes in the 6-current should be in the 5.x too, like the wireless support and this.
Anyone know why this is merged into the 6-current tree? Is it just for fear of new code in the -release, and a desire to backport tested fixes?
Is this release substantially slower/more bloated than the 4.0 release, and less so than the 4.1 release? When I went from the 4.0 release to the 4.1 release, my system couldn't take it and still remain reasonable (I have a junker running FreeBSD). So how does 4.2 run, for those who went right ahead and installed the release? I wonder if there will even be packages built for this version for the 4.x tree.
What about bashrc? What about the libraries to support bash if its not compiled statically? Why not integrate these into ONE file, to use superfluous capitalization?
That's what I'm complaining about, I want to be able to copy and paste one single file and have the entire application move. Meta-files, sort of like folders, but with an architecture separate from the filesystem.
This is the approach that Syllable takes, or will take, with one application file representing the entire application. I think that this is a great idea. I don't know if it's been implemented yet, but there's been some heavy discussion on the mailing list.
I would say that in some cases, the process of attaining a usable system might be a benefit. Learning how to manipulate a *nix system might provide additional benefits. For example, say when I ssh into my school's mail server to read my mail. The skills I've learned on FreeBSD at home are applicable to the AIX systems at school.
So that time comittment to learn a different system is not necessarily wasted.
Not to mention mucking around in rc scripts can be a fun challenge.
Personally, I'm willing to sacrifice the convenience of flash animations, or of photoshop, for a free (as in beer) solution. I'm cheap. The fact that the free (as in beer and in freedom) software often is excellent quality, FreeBSD being my favorite, doesn't hurt either.
However, I can see it being an impediment to adoption of free software because of the sometimes unreasonable demands placed by restrictive licences. The GPL does prevent advances and progress in some cases, such as device drivers, that otherwise would be possible. Same with flash and other non-free media solutions, whether DRM or CSS on DVDs or what have you.
I myself feel however, that sacrificing utility for the benefit of using a free software package, is only rational if the resulting loss in utility is no greater than the benefits. However, it is easy to quantify the benefit of free as in beer software, but harder to economically evalutate the benefits of free as in freedom software.
Parts of Mars are smooth for the same reason that parts of our moon are smooth, and parts of our earth are smooth. Extrusive vulcanism, and fissure vulcanism in particular, cause the formation of wide lava plains. And because of the low gravity and ineffective cooling on mars and the moon, the lava flows are allowed to smooth out more, making it more noticable.
The Columbia River plateu is a big fissure eruption that still is extant as a rock unit, and the catoctin formation in the appalachians is a historical one from around 800 million years ago, I think.
So there was no ocean, at least not restricted to the mare area, although that'd be really cool if there were.
The real question is, though nobody else seems to care, what are the effects of the incident cosmic radiation on the near surface soils, in particular, the possibility of iron hydroxides losing water to become iron oxides.
I've had a class with Mann for Atmosphere and Weather, and I'm not suprised that there was a computer messup. When I had him, he couldn't even get the overhead projector to work and couldn't get powerpoint to work.
However, I'm putting money on some grad student under Mann having made the error. But Mann's name is on the research, so he gets the flak.
As I recall, it was perfectly reasonable to use the DOS interface under Windows 95. But you would be extraordinarily naive to think that most people have any use for a command line. Command lines are so 1980's anyway.
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Chances are if California ever did actually part with the NA continent, that it wouldn't sink anyway. Continental crust is relatively light weight compared to either oceanic crust or lithospheric materials, and thus "floats" on top.
I wouldn't be worrying about this in any timespan that will have man extant. And usually a rift will develop an extra crack that will then fail, like Northeast Africa and the Red sea.
Earthquakes will become more severe though, with more "big ones." No revelation there.
It will probably happen sooner that a piece of Oahu or other hawaiin island will slough off into the sea, if you're a fan of huge disasters.
On my junk computer with 32M of ram and a slow harddrive, I find Slackware 9.1's performance with X to be dog slow, running any window manager or X app. However, on the same computer, FreeBSD runs completely acceptably, even running firefox OK. I think that the desktop issue for older computers is that Linux is abandoning its low requirements in favor of graphical installers, fully synced file systems, and eye candy GUI's, as well as including a billion QT and GTK dependencies.
Not that I'm bashing Linux, but recent linux compared to recent FreeBSD pales in low memory desktop situations. And also, default X installs with FreeBSD include less software than on most major linux distros.
Now, not to be complaining, but I wish that at least a few Linux distros would take a text installation and minimal configuration for an install, without a lot of user input, kinda like the FreeBSD install.
And also, I wish that software would still be universally released in gzipped packages rather than bzip2, which takes ages to decompress on a slow, low memory computer.
Something that I haven't seen mentioned explicitly in the commentary is the impact of international agreement on the allocation of radio spectrum. Privatizing radio allocations with a lottery system would not work because RF waves are not limited to geographical area. You cannot privatize something without limits, because private industry has no hope of any consistency across international borders.
The FCC is a necessary agency, although they do seem a bit rash about Broadband over power lines, and other such issues facing amateur radio operators.
The thing I find most interesting is that you don't have a problem with Red Hat. Unless I am mistaken, at its most basic level, Slackware will function on vanilla kernel.org kernel source, while Red Hat will not. I don't know about Debian.
And the tgz packages are more than a simple tarball, and I would rather have the ability to ignore dependencies than go through the hell of rpms with their dependency hell.
What I like about the 4.x releases is pretty minor, but the package management on the install cd's is still gzip, whereas in the 5.x release its bzip2. Some of us choose to run FreeBSD on older computers with little ram, like 32M, and gzip decompresses almost infinately faster than bzip2.
Long live the 4.x tree.
I'm glad that NetBSD seems to have a strong roadmap that is going somewhere soon. Since I've started fiddling with FreeBSD, I've thought that NetBSD didn't have the drive and commitment that FreeBSD did.
Bully for them, putting out an optimistic showing for v 2.0.
I wonder what the new logo will be.
The summary mismentions something, it claims that since olivine is "water-reactive" it is "volcanic in origin." Olivine does weather relatively quickly in the presence of water, but that doesn't mean it is a volcanic. Limestone also weathers quickly in water, but is definately not igneous. Also, olivine is a mineral, not necessarily a rock. The rock with high olivine is peridotite. In addition, olivine occurs other places, such as mid ocean ridges, and in the lower crust in general and in the lithosphere.
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The ozone hole shows seasonal effects from increased solar influence. Some folks have been saying that the overall trends over multiple years can be due to solar activity varying over years.
So any shrinking trends, over any small time period (less than 5, maybe) are not as important as the radical increasing trend thats been there for the last 25 or so.
Why are they only incorporating this into the 6-current tree? I know that it says opt-in, but I think that a good number of hte changes in the 6-current should be in the 5.x too, like the wireless support and this.
Anyone know why this is merged into the 6-current tree? Is it just for fear of new code in the -release, and a desire to backport tested fixes?
I found that very informative as well...
Yes, very informative....
Oh GOD IT'S EATING MY EYES FROM THE INSIDE!!!
Is this release substantially slower/more bloated than the 4.0 release, and less so than the 4.1 release? When I went from the 4.0 release to the 4.1 release, my system couldn't take it and still remain reasonable (I have a junker running FreeBSD). So how does 4.2 run, for those who went right ahead and installed the release? I wonder if there will even be packages built for this version for the 4.x tree.
No, you're wrong.
What about bashrc? What about the libraries to support bash if its not compiled statically? Why not integrate these into ONE file, to use superfluous capitalization? That's what I'm complaining about, I want to be able to copy and paste one single file and have the entire application move. Meta-files, sort of like folders, but with an architecture separate from the filesystem.
This is the approach that Syllable takes, or will take, with one application file representing the entire application. I think that this is a great idea. I don't know if it's been implemented yet, but there's been some heavy discussion on the mailing list.
But can you get it for free? Because if you can't, then its apples to gmail's oranges.
I would say that in some cases, the process of attaining a usable system might be a benefit. Learning how to manipulate a *nix system might provide additional benefits. For example, say when I ssh into my school's mail server to read my mail. The skills I've learned on FreeBSD at home are applicable to the AIX systems at school.
So that time comittment to learn a different system is not necessarily wasted.
Not to mention mucking around in rc scripts can be a fun challenge.
Personally, I'm willing to sacrifice the convenience of flash animations, or of photoshop, for a free (as in beer) solution. I'm cheap. The fact that the free (as in beer and in freedom) software often is excellent quality, FreeBSD being my favorite, doesn't hurt either.
However, I can see it being an impediment to adoption of free software because of the sometimes unreasonable demands placed by restrictive licences. The GPL does prevent advances and progress in some cases, such as device drivers, that otherwise would be possible. Same with flash and other non-free media solutions, whether DRM or CSS on DVDs or what have you.
I myself feel however, that sacrificing utility for the benefit of using a free software package, is only rational if the resulting loss in utility is no greater than the benefits. However, it is easy to quantify the benefit of free as in beer software, but harder to economically evalutate the benefits of free as in freedom software.
I don't think so. On opera, it just recycles the intro page regardless of which browser you choose, even if you set the browser string differently.
Parts of Mars are smooth for the same reason that parts of our moon are smooth, and parts of our earth are smooth. Extrusive vulcanism, and fissure vulcanism in particular, cause the formation of wide lava plains. And because of the low gravity and ineffective cooling on mars and the moon, the lava flows are allowed to smooth out more, making it more noticable.
The Columbia River plateu is a big fissure eruption that still is extant as a rock unit, and the catoctin formation in the appalachians is a historical one from around 800 million years ago, I think.
So there was no ocean, at least not restricted to the mare area, although that'd be really cool if there were.
The real question is, though nobody else seems to care, what are the effects of the incident cosmic radiation on the near surface soils, in particular, the possibility of iron hydroxides losing water to become iron oxides.
Basic binutils are upgraded too, but I find it particularly interesting that the Darwin msdosfs tools are getting incorporated into the BSD tree.
Cool.
I've had a class with Mann for Atmosphere and Weather, and I'm not suprised that there was a computer messup. When I had him, he couldn't even get the overhead projector to work and couldn't get powerpoint to work. However, I'm putting money on some grad student under Mann having made the error. But Mann's name is on the research, so he gets the flak.
As I recall, it was perfectly reasonable to use the DOS interface under Windows 95. But you would be extraordinarily naive to think that most people have any use for a command line. Command lines are so 1980's anyway.
I wouldn't be worrying about this in any timespan that will have man extant. And usually a rift will develop an extra crack that will then fail, like Northeast Africa and the Red sea.
Earthquakes will become more severe though, with more "big ones." No revelation there.
It will probably happen sooner that a piece of Oahu or other hawaiin island will slough off into the sea, if you're a fan of huge disasters.
Not that I'm bashing Linux, but recent linux compared to recent FreeBSD pales in low memory desktop situations. And also, default X installs with FreeBSD include less software than on most major linux distros.
Now, not to be complaining, but I wish that at least a few Linux distros would take a text installation and minimal configuration for an install, without a lot of user input, kinda like the FreeBSD install.
And also, I wish that software would still be universally released in gzipped packages rather than bzip2, which takes ages to decompress on a slow, low memory computer.
The FCC is a necessary agency, although they do seem a bit rash about Broadband over power lines, and other such issues facing amateur radio operators.
And the tgz packages are more than a simple tarball, and I would rather have the ability to ignore dependencies than go through the hell of rpms with their dependency hell.
What I like about the 4.x releases is pretty minor, but the package management on the install cd's is still gzip, whereas in the 5.x release its bzip2. Some of us choose to run FreeBSD on older computers with little ram, like 32M, and gzip decompresses almost infinately faster than bzip2. Long live the 4.x tree.
Ya know, it's getting so that the BSD section is almost a private board,
it seems nobody ever posts or moderates, except for the trolling AC's.
But what I want to know, is why was this sucker held in Canada?
I wouldn't have thought Ottawa the hotbed of BSD hacking.
Hehe, now when the cells split in mitosis, you can hear all the "Ahhhhhh!" and "OOOOOOOHHH YEAH!" cell sex noises that they are sure to make.
A good intro text for Troff systems, Gnu or otherwise, is UNIX Text Processing by Dougherty and O'Reilly.
Good book. I think its out of print though.
I'm glad that NetBSD seems to have a strong roadmap that is going somewhere soon. Since I've started fiddling with FreeBSD, I've thought that NetBSD didn't have the drive and commitment that FreeBSD did. Bully for them, putting out an optimistic showing for v 2.0. I wonder what the new logo will be.
The summary mismentions something, it claims that since olivine is "water-reactive" it is "volcanic in origin." Olivine does weather relatively quickly in the presence of water, but that doesn't mean it is a volcanic. Limestone also weathers quickly in water, but is definately not igneous. Also, olivine is a mineral, not necessarily a rock. The rock with high olivine is peridotite. In addition, olivine occurs other places, such as mid ocean ridges, and in the lower crust in general and in the lithosphere.