Normally I'd say something along the lines of "dont add yourself to the petition unless there is some *real* chance of you using it" but this seems to just be a general call for drivers.
As for how useful it'll be, we'll have to wait and see.
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If I were you I'd look at ARM chips. They're still quite cheap, and use less power.
No idea, but if you check back issues of new scientist you can see some interesting effects of animals falling from heights.
When a cat falls from a great height (block of flats etc) its usually when its alone, accidental maybe, or perhaps suicidal. Dogs however tend to either be tricked into the jump by vicious children, or just damn stupid.
Dogs tend to just land, whilst cats experience secondary bouncing.
After the (imo) stupid outcry about id's vid card monitoring, I hope that those who complained will realise that there are far more worrying things out there.
1. dpkg, *loads* of maintainers 2. Varies, but with a bit of work you can port most things 3. Nothing, other than their working methods. Debian's approach is highly parallel. 4. It would be hard. dpkg is GPL'd.
Yeh, science sucks, if people hadnt invented computers I'd be happier now, as I wouldnt have to read your luddite tripe!
Everyone else: sorry about the flame, but I'm having a hard time getting a grant for my science career. Some people (governments) are so damn short sighted.
There are a couple of ways of doing it. One is apt-get install [list of packages], but this asks questions for each package. When debconf is more developed it will be able to answer the questions for you.
This kind of measurement can measure gravitational lensing, which shows that light has mass.
Astronomers first attempted to measure this in an eclipse the year after Einstein published. (1928 or thereabouts). They got results, but it was later found that the measurements they made were smaller than the margin for error.
I think that the effect is pretty much accepted now:)
I believe you can filter this kind of noise by having multiple detectors.
Several detectors 100s of miles apart will get the same signal from a distant black hole, but will get very different signals from local perturbations.
I think it'd be hard. Not only do you have the windows/linux transation, but you also have the ways that xmms talks to plugins vs the ways winamp does.
For example, I think it'd be harder to make IPv6 less secure than IPv4, but we have layers on top of IPv4 that are sufficently secure.
On another related point: will the relaxation on exporting cryptographic source lead to the 'secure linux' patch being merged with the main kernel tree any time soon? Or are there other problems with the patch?
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Its a general petition.
Normally I'd say something along the lines of "dont add yourself to the petition unless there is some *real* chance of you using it" but this seems to just be a general call for drivers.
As for how useful it'll be, we'll have to wait and see.
If I were you I'd look at ARM chips. They're still quite cheap, and use less power.
The El Torito format allows for many different booting methods.
The most commonly used is where the bios treats an area of the CD as a floppy disk. Therefore it has to be 360k/720k/1.2M/1.44M/2.88M.
It is also possible to have it appear as a hard disk image, but I've never seen this.
No idea, but if you check back issues of new scientist you can see some interesting effects of animals falling from heights.
When a cat falls from a great height (block of flats etc) its usually when its alone, accidental maybe, or perhaps suicidal. Dogs however tend to either be tricked into the jump by vicious children, or just damn stupid.
Dogs tend to just land, whilst cats experience secondary bouncing.
Netscape is just so full of bugs it's unreal. It crashes a lot.
Nothing crashes as much as Unreal in OpenGL mode.
:)
I was always of the impression that the cat righted itself with the tail flick, via conservation of angular momentum.
:/)
I do know, however that a cat with 2/3 of its brain missing can still perform this feat (I'd hate to meet the guy who tested this tho
After the (imo) stupid outcry about id's vid card monitoring, I hope that those who complained will realise that there are far more worrying things out there.
If you have the source to your OS, you could either prevent your apps getting at the ID, or *even better* return your own choice of ID :)
As for random number generation, can I interest you in a noisy diode? Attach it to a DAC (Sound card'll do) and you're sorted.
1. dpkg, *loads* of maintainers
2. Varies, but with a bit of work you can port most things
3. Nothing, other than their working methods. Debian's approach is highly parallel.
4. It would be hard. dpkg is GPL'd.
I believe its *free* oxygen that means life is present. It wouldnt be much use to 'life as we know it' if its bound up with silicon for example.
OK, so it probably wouldnt have worked, but "imagine playing quake on that thing"
IMO, of course :)
I'm taking a computing course as part of my physics degree, and it involves basic C programming. We're being taught on macs, using codewarrior.
Compared to my programming experiences in Linux its terrible, do anything that would just cause a segfault in linux brings the mac down... all of it.
And I cant get the debugger to work. I've resorted to loading up ncsa telnet and working on my PC running linux at home.
Additionally the way that you need to allocate memory to an app before running it seems bizzare.
I guess I just suffer from CLI withdrawal.
He has a very good reason, but I'm not sure if he told me in confidence or not.
"Uh, yeh, you dont actually need to split them up...
just give em a slap on the wrist, I'm sure they'll be nice"
You have passed go, collect $10,000,000
I thought about that. VERY unlikely, given the dependance on their products.
Yeh, science sucks, if people hadnt invented computers I'd be happier now, as I wouldnt have to read your luddite tripe!
Everyone else: sorry about the flame, but I'm having a hard time getting a grant for my science career. Some people (governments) are so damn short sighted.
If the decision is to the detriment of MS, what do you think about the possibility that they'd move to another country with laxer anti-trust laws?
Maybe its to see if you're *REALLY* interested. It'd also be a good way to check that you know what you're talking about.
They're working on it.
There are a couple of ways of doing it. One is apt-get install [list of packages], but this asks questions for each package. When debconf is more developed it will be able to answer the questions for you.
This kind of measurement can measure gravitational lensing, which shows that light has mass.
:)
Astronomers first attempted to measure this in an eclipse the year after Einstein published. (1928 or thereabouts). They got results, but it was later found that the measurements they made were smaller than the margin for error.
I think that the effect is pretty much accepted now
I believe you can filter this kind of noise by having multiple detectors.
Several detectors 100s of miles apart will get the same signal from a distant black hole, but will get very different signals from local perturbations.
I think it'd be hard. Not only do you have the windows/linux transation, but you also have the ways that xmms talks to plugins vs the ways winamp does.
Not gonna happen soon, I think.
Can be patched with fair sucess at another.
For example, I think it'd be harder to make IPv6 less secure than IPv4, but we have layers on top of IPv4 that are sufficently secure.
On another related point: will the relaxation on exporting cryptographic source lead to the 'secure linux' patch being merged with the main kernel tree any time soon? Or are there other problems with the patch?
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/dselect /usr/bin/dselect
dpkg:
$ dpkg -s dpkg
Package: dpkg
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: base
Installed-Size: 1017
Maintainer: Ian Jackson and others = 2.1), libncurses4 (>= 4.2-3.1), libstdc 2.10
Description: Package maintenance system for Debian
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