AFAIC a USB drive isn't the right tool for the job of system recovery. How long have PCs been shipping with BIOS support for booting from USB? Certainly not long enough for me to have one. So the choice is between a floppy with just enough stuff to recover (which is what I use ATM) or a CD, in which case there's no point wasting 600MB of space.
Since this is Slashdot and a globally accessible site, it's hard to tell if the poster's native tongue is English. There is no excuse for people who have spoken English all their lives, however.
Surely/. has editors in part to tidy up the stories they post? Or does it need to move to an editor/sub-editor model, where the editor decides which stories to post and the sub-editor fixes the grammar and spelling?
The "Darl McBride" post is still there, as is one from "William Gates" promising a $20k kickback. Not very imaginative, but I suppose the people posting those comments enjoyed it.
Did you hear that Ireland has decided to move over from driving on the left, in order to conform with the majority of the EU? However, because it's clearly a big change they've decided to stagger it: lorries will start driving on the right in January, vans in April, and motorcylists and bicyclists in August.
That's a weird hypothesis, since no distribution I've ever heard of uses such a license. I'm not sure it would even be possible to distribute Linux under stuch a license.
The hypothesis I was addressing was a scenario in which Linux was distributed under a licence which required anyone producing software which ran on it to distribute source code with that software.
It's not like every company who makes commercial software which runs on Linux is obliged to release the source (would be great if they did though)
That couldn't possibly happen, because you can produce software which runs on Linux without agreeing to any licence. An easy example is Java programs, but C programs could be compiled for Linux on another platform.
Saddam did have ties to al Qaeda. He is well documented as a supporter of Palestinian terrorists. He has not, however, been shown to have a connection to 9/11... But who said he did?
You did, just then, unless you're saying that Al Qaeda are Palestinian terrorists and it was another bunch who were responsible for the 11th Sep WTC attacks.
So it makes me wonder - would we have been any more successful if we didn't put that much effort into technology but human contact instead?
That's the way the British troops play it. Since about the 50s the key phrase in British warfare has been "hearts and minds". Initially they were having more success at calming the region for which they were responsible, but I'm not sure that that's still the case now that foreign terrorists have moved into Iraq.
By the way, my personal experience is that The Times (a British broadsheet, in case of ambiguity) is far better for toilet paper than either Pravda or Granma. It's still not very good, but in an emergency...
AIUI the Coke flavouring is manufactured only in the US and shipped to the rest of the world to be added to carbonated water etc. in local bottling plants. I can't remember where I heard that, though, and it's nearly my bedtime so I'm not going to go Googling it now.
I think "superb" is over-stating it. The last time I went to Casualty the communication was so bad it was almost funny.
Doctor who examines my badly cut finger tells me I've cut the tendon: he'll have the wound packed with antibiotics and I should come in tomorrow at 09:00 to have it stitched up.
So I'm handed over to the nurses, who say they can't read his handwriting and ask what he told me. I repeat it: they say it can't be right, because the antibiotics he's prescribed are oral. I take the oral antibiotics.
Next day I'm in at 09:00 as instructed. One doctor checks through the notes, checks the details with me, including checking that it's the right index finger affected. Then I get to pre-surgery and the nurse checks that it's the left hand affected. Hang on! Get that sorted out, the right finger is stitched up, and I'm told to make a physio appointment.
So I turn up to physio at the appointed time, and the physio checks over my notes, and they say that I haven't damaged the tendon. But that's not what the first doctor I saw said: he even showed me the cut in the tendon.
(For those who care, that finger is now in full working order, although I have a 1.5 inch scar).
"This is news" was my reaction too. I don't know how long Brits have been popping across to the Continent to beat the NHS waiting lists, but I do know that the travel insurance I got in 2000 included exceptions for people travelling abroad for medical treatment.
surely you're talking about free()? And where free() exists, double-free() bugs can exist. The alternative is garbage collection, which is safer but less amenable to real-time constraints.
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I'm bemused. I tend not to refer to myself in the third person.
AFAIC a USB drive isn't the right tool for the job of system recovery. How long have PCs been shipping with BIOS support for booting from USB? Certainly not long enough for me to have one. So the choice is between a floppy with just enough stuff to recover (which is what I use ATM) or a CD, in which case there's no point wasting 600MB of space.
The "Darl McBride" post is still there, as is one from "William Gates" promising a $20k kickback. Not very imaginative, but I suppose the people posting those comments enjoyed it.
They can't possibly be as bad as Aylee.
Did you hear that Ireland has decided to move over from driving on the left, in order to conform with the majority of the EU? However, because it's clearly a big change they've decided to stagger it: lorries will start driving on the right in January, vans in April, and motorcylists and bicyclists in August.
I thought lemmings said "Oh no!" and "Yippee!". And sometimes make squelchy noises.
The hypothesis I was addressing was a scenario in which Linux was distributed under a licence which required anyone producing software which ran on it to distribute source code with that software.
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You could try looking at their website.
By the way, my personal experience is that The Times (a British broadsheet, in case of ambiguity) is far better for toilet paper than either Pravda or Granma. It's still not very good, but in an emergency...
AIUI the Coke flavouring is manufactured only in the US and shipped to the rest of the world to be added to carbonated water etc. in local bottling plants. I can't remember where I heard that, though, and it's nearly my bedtime so I'm not going to go Googling it now.
Doctor who examines my badly cut finger tells me I've cut the tendon: he'll have the wound packed with antibiotics and I should come in tomorrow at 09:00 to have it stitched up.
So I'm handed over to the nurses, who say they can't read his handwriting and ask what he told me. I repeat it: they say it can't be right, because the antibiotics he's prescribed are oral. I take the oral antibiotics.
Next day I'm in at 09:00 as instructed. One doctor checks through the notes, checks the details with me, including checking that it's the right index finger affected. Then I get to pre-surgery and the nurse checks that it's the left hand affected. Hang on! Get that sorted out, the right finger is stitched up, and I'm told to make a physio appointment.
So I turn up to physio at the appointed time, and the physio checks over my notes, and they say that I haven't damaged the tendon. But that's not what the first doctor I saw said: he even showed me the cut in the tendon.
(For those who care, that finger is now in full working order, although I have a 1.5 inch scar).
"This is news" was my reaction too. I don't know how long Brits have been popping across to the Continent to beat the NHS waiting lists, but I do know that the travel insurance I got in 2000 included exceptions for people travelling abroad for medical treatment.
No, so you can't get double-free bugs.
My passport has a machine-readable stripe, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually swipe it through a reader.