AFAIK, here in the UK it is illegal to use anything other than government licenced fuels for vehicles. There have been people (farmers mostly) who have been prosecuted for using vegetable oil, and other types of oil on public roads. Whether they were prosecuted for using particular types of oil or just for not using the "official" fuels I'm not sure.
According to this site, the reason for the prosecutions may have been that the culprits weren't paying tax on the fuel !
I am writing this on a Sony Vaio with the AMD Athlon 1Ghz cpu, supposedly with "power-stepping" technology. Ok, if its not in use it drops down to maybe 600Mhz, but since the day I got it, (in November 2001) I have never had a battery life of more than 1 hour !
In fact, these days, I would be lucky to get 40 minutes from a full charge. I guess I need a new battery, but as its a mobile desktop replacement, and I use it for video capture and conversion, it spends a whole lot of its life plugged in to the mains anyway.
But, a nice 1.4 Ghz machine running with lower power would definitely be better.
I am currently running the Climateprediction.net modelling software as a service, and the fan has been running constantly for around 12 hours now !
275mph is a little over the top, this bbc site says 170mph, and there is also this, which is still lower than 275mph. AFAIK, the Suzuki can't do 275mph either !
I don't advocate doing nothing. As I said in my post, I have no problem with finding less polluting energy sources. But, to blame climate change entirely on human emissions is ridiculous. My point was that a lot of the so called reasoning behind the human caused doomsday scenario, is based on a 400 year old record of the climate. I don't like being misled in order to achieve a political end. Truth that is tainted by politics, can very often be ignored, precisely because of those politics. Lets deal with real issues, not invented ones.
I run my own webservers, with mail service etc. 1 good thing was to make sure every user has a defined email address, or alias to their username. That means I can send a good 85% of mail straight to/dev/null as most spam is sent to madeupname@domain.com
The rest of the spam is due to people leaving their addresses in plain site (on web pages etc) and not having virus free computers.
I also run MailScanner to remove viruses, before the user can get to them, but I don't use spam assassin, because thats not my problem. The users are, to a large extent, to blame for the amount of spam going through the server, (see above) and I don't see why I should deprive them of their ill-gotten gains ! My spam count in my inbox is virtually zero, the few I do get are forwarded from other servers, but are trivial to delete. If only people would use personal certificates to identify themselves, then spam filtering would be so much easier.
Ok, we all know that the sea levels will rise, the weather will be come (even more) unpredictable, etc,etc. But every documentary I have seen on this subject, seems to use 2 different sources for its data. At first, they use data gained from antarctic ice cores that show that this has happened ("global warming") time and again over a considerable amount of time. Then suddenly, the doomsday scenario is based on the fact that the changes in the global climate have happened in the 400 or so years since records began.
How can you accept both points of view ? It is misleading to suggest that humans are the cause of global warming. I fully agree that we as a race should seek some non-polluting energy source over one that has shown to be bad for us, let alone the planet, but to use misleading information to achieve social indignation is wrong.
Global warming is a catch-phrase, being used to describe potential doom. Even if we all stopped using electricity and cars etc, then the planet would still go through immense environmental changes, as it has done since the beginning. News flash, the sahara used to be green and pleasant, and before that it was under water. Are we as humans responsible for that too ?
I built a new whitebox system for a friend, all new parts and *hiss* Win XP. Put all the bits together, powered on, got lots of beeps from the bios, and a grinding noise from the hard drive. Hmmm, hard drives fscked methinks. Problem is I got the hd from Ebuyer. So I go to the ebuyer site to get an RMA number to return it.
"In order to accept returns of Maxtor Hard Drives, you must first visit the Maxtor Website, and download the Win32 only Hard disk diagnostic software, run it on the affected machine, and post the results in the TT on Ebuyer." Only then will they issue a RMA number.
Call me childish, but I didn't feel like doing that with a drive that had no os installed on it, let alone won't get through POST !
Eventually, after much to-ing and fro-ing on the ebuyer TT, I get them to accept that the drive was DOA and to give me a RMA number. (I drove to another town and picked up the exact same drive and had XP running an hour later - Have never used ebuyer since. I actually had to threaten them under the trades descriptions act , UK, which states that I can return something within 14 days for any reason if it was ordered remotely. Especially if it was not Fit for the Purpose it was intended for.)
W*nkers.
I am still gonna use RH9 for a while.
I mostly use Synaptic for checking and installing the latest packages anyway. I have a FBSD 4.7 web server / mailserver and a FBSD 5.1 SAMBA server running on the LAN as well, so most of the data is safe, but my RH9 machine is dual boot with (:( ) win98, just coz I don't want to pay for XP and also don't want to overwite my RH partition by installing Xp. I only use windoze because I have a crappy Hauppage WinTV usb, which isn't supported in Linux / FBSD. I also like to rip and burn dvds, for which I need windoze.
The Television Licence is so-called because it covers television, hence the name. Nobody needs a licence for radio or internet access.
Errr, wrong, you do, technically, need a licence to receive radio broadcasts. It is covered by the TV licence. If you don't have a TV licence, they can still prosecute. Its just that they don't bother these days, AFAIK.
45 - 60 seconds ?!
I just opened OOo writer, the first time since I turned on the computer today - 12 seconds.
If thats an indication of Mac OS-x speed then I'm happy running linux.
( I closed it again, did something else, then opened it back up - 3 seconds. Only a 1.4 Athlon with 512 RAM, not a cray )
what about the extra overhead all these tracking toolbars and reporting tools add to the bandwidth ? Maybe its miniscule per user, but over the net as a whole it must contribute to slower access/response times, or in other words, increased latency.
Of course, that's the threshold crossed by the "output" of a black hole, which appears in the next universe as a "deja vu". The black hole's input universe arrives in infinite subsequent universes, each separated by a single iota of information. That iota is recieved as the smallest, infinitesimal information change in the subsequent universe
What a backup system !!! This means he | they could be trying to create a learning computer. Or even to find the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything.
How, exactly, does one *create* a market? there's zero demand
Errr, who is trying to create a market ? The market already exists. Market share is the issue, much like breakfast cereals, cars, or any other product. It's still all about building a better mouse trap.
... is that we only hear about these developments when they are nearly ready for consumption.
What is going on in the back rooms now, that outstrips these latest gizmos.
I get bored waiting 3 or 4 years to find out what was going on in 2004.
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AFAIK, here in the UK it is illegal to use anything other than government licenced fuels for vehicles. There have been people (farmers mostly) who have been prosecuted for using vegetable oil, and other types of oil on public roads. Whether they were prosecuted for using particular types of oil or just for not using the "official" fuels I'm not sure.
According to this site, the reason for the prosecutions may have been that the culprits weren't paying tax on the fuel !
I am writing this on a Sony Vaio with the AMD Athlon 1Ghz cpu, supposedly with "power-stepping" technology. Ok, if its not in use it drops down to maybe 600Mhz, but since the day I got it, (in November 2001) I have never had a battery life of more than 1 hour !
In fact, these days, I would be lucky to get 40 minutes from a full charge.
I guess I need a new battery, but as its a mobile desktop replacement, and I use it for video capture and conversion, it spends a whole lot of its life plugged in to the mains anyway.
But, a nice 1.4 Ghz machine running with lower power would definitely be better.
I am currently running the Climateprediction.net modelling software as a service, and the fan has been running constantly for around 12 hours now !
275mph is a little over the top, this bbc site says 170mph, and there is also this, which is still lower than 275mph.
AFAIK, the Suzuki can't do 275mph either !
I don't advocate doing nothing. As I said in my post, I have no problem with finding less polluting energy sources. But, to blame climate change entirely on human emissions is ridiculous. My point was that a lot of the so called reasoning behind the human caused doomsday scenario, is based on a 400 year old record of the climate. I don't like being misled in order to achieve a political end. Truth that is tainted by politics, can very often be ignored, precisely because of those politics. Lets deal with real issues, not invented ones.
I run my own webservers, with mail service etc. /dev/null as most spam is sent to madeupname@domain.com
1 good thing was to make sure every user has a defined email address, or alias to their username. That means I can send a good 85% of mail straight to
The rest of the spam is due to people leaving their addresses in plain site (on web pages etc) and not having virus free computers.
I also run MailScanner to remove viruses, before the user can get to them, but I don't use spam assassin, because thats not my problem. The users are, to a large extent, to blame for the amount of spam going through the server, (see above) and I don't see why I should deprive them of their ill-gotten gains !
My spam count in my inbox is virtually zero, the few I do get are forwarded from other servers, but are trivial to delete.
If only people would use personal certificates to identify themselves, then spam filtering would be so much easier.
Ok, we all know that the sea levels will rise, the weather will be come (even more) unpredictable, etc,etc. But every documentary I have seen on this subject, seems to use 2 different sources for its data. At first, they use data gained from antarctic ice cores that show that this has happened ("global warming") time and again over a considerable amount of time. Then suddenly, the doomsday scenario is based on the fact that the changes in the global climate have happened in the 400 or so years since records began.
How can you accept both points of view ? It is misleading to suggest that humans are the cause of global warming. I fully agree that we as a race should seek some non-polluting energy source over one that has shown to be bad for us, let alone the planet, but to use misleading information to achieve social indignation is wrong.
Global warming is a catch-phrase, being used to describe potential doom. Even if we all stopped using electricity and cars etc, then the planet would still go through immense environmental changes, as it has done since the beginning. News flash, the sahara used to be green and pleasant, and before that it was under water. Are we as humans responsible for that too ?
Errr, this makes nothing clear. Save time and don't bother, its 17MB of shite.
I built a new whitebox system for a friend, all new parts and *hiss* Win XP.
Put all the bits together, powered on, got lots of beeps from the bios, and a grinding noise from the hard drive. Hmmm, hard drives fscked methinks. Problem is I got the hd from Ebuyer. So I go to the ebuyer site to get an RMA number to return it.
"In order to accept returns of Maxtor Hard Drives, you must first visit the Maxtor Website, and download the Win32 only Hard disk diagnostic software, run it on the affected machine, and post the results in the TT on Ebuyer."
Only then will they issue a RMA number.
Call me childish, but I didn't feel like doing that with a drive that had no os installed on it, let alone won't get through POST !
Eventually, after much to-ing and fro-ing on the ebuyer TT, I get them to accept that the drive was DOA and to give me a RMA number.
(I drove to another town and picked up the exact same drive and had XP running an hour later - Have never used ebuyer since. I actually had to threaten them under the trades descriptions act , UK, which states that I can return something within 14 days for any reason if it was ordered remotely. Especially if it was not Fit for the Purpose it was intended for.) W*nkers.
I am still gonna use RH9 for a while. I mostly use Synaptic for checking and installing the latest packages anyway. I have a FBSD 4.7 web server / mailserver and a FBSD 5.1 SAMBA server running on the LAN as well, so most of the data is safe, but my RH9 machine is dual boot with (:( ) win98, just coz I don't want to pay for XP and also don't want to overwite my RH partition by installing Xp. I only use windoze because I have a crappy Hauppage WinTV usb, which isn't supported in Linux / FBSD. I also like to rip and burn dvds, for which I need windoze.
45 - 60 seconds ?! I just opened OOo writer, the first time since I turned on the computer today - 12 seconds. If thats an indication of Mac OS-x speed then I'm happy running linux. ( I closed it again, did something else, then opened it back up - 3 seconds. Only a 1.4 Athlon with 512 RAM, not a cray )
what about the extra overhead all these tracking toolbars and reporting tools add to the bandwidth ?
Maybe its miniscule per user, but over the net as a whole it must contribute to slower access/response times, or in other words, increased latency.
What a backup system !!!
This means he | they could be trying to create a learning computer. Or even to find the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything.
Errr, who is trying to create a market ?
The market already exists. Market share is the issue, much like breakfast cereals, cars, or any other product. It's still all about building a better mouse trap.
... is that we only hear about these developments when they are nearly ready for consumption. What is going on in the back rooms now, that outstrips these latest gizmos. I get bored waiting 3 or 4 years to find out what was going on in 2004.
Its called /mnt/dos
I thought a girls best friend was a rabbit ?