The only reason that I am a little worried is I'm pretty sure yum will update me to core 6 automatically if i forget to "--exclude" everytime I do a update
No it won't.
yum works by checking for updates to your current version.
ie. the contents of your/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo read:
the key term here being $releasever which means it only checks within your current release.
The only way to make yum upgrade to a newer core version is to download and install the newer version kernel, reboot into that kernel, then tell yum to update. I have used that approach to go progressively from FC2 to FC3 to FC4.
And the real news of this is that Microsoft has been so vapidly against linux.
You use that word, but I do not think you know what it means. You are not alone, I have seen several posts using it recently, and they have been misusing it too.
Vapid Vap"id (va^p"i^d), a. L. vapidus having lost its
life and spirit, vapid; akin to vappa vapid wine
vapor. See Vapor.
Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid;
flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a
vapid state of the blood.
1913 Webster
Perhaps you mean rabidly, which according to Webster can be defined as "Extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion;
excessively zealous".
Or vehemently which is synonymous with the words "Furious; violent; raging; impetuous; passionate; ardent; eager; hot; fervid; burning."
Either way, vapid ain't relevant to Microsofts attitude to Linux. (At least not in the context of your argument).
I pay £24 / month for "up to 8Mb" ADSL from BT - I actually get 6Mb down and 448Kbps up. I use a switch with built in modem so it doesn't have to "dial up" every time. My ip hasn't changed for at least 6 months.
As for actual download speeds, 10Mbit means nothing if you are dloading from anywhere outside the providers network, due to the various overheads involved in switching and traffic levels. As an example, I just downloaded the FC5 dvd iso (3.5GB) over http in just under 6 minutes, but that was over 6 feet of Cat5e from my linux box ! Using bit torrent direct from Fedora it took around 10 hours. Statistics are meaningless without context.
BTW, I was paying £24 / month for a 2Mbit line then BT upgraded it for free. Previously it was a 1Mbit line. So I've gone from a 1Mbit line to a 6Mbit line with no increase in cost, in just under 2 years.
And people complain about BT as the incumbent telco !
Recently Bulldog have been advertising a 16 Mb line for around £9.75 (for the first 3 months), but the small print shows that the dload limit is 1Gig a month AND you have to buy a phone line from them too. Bulldog are shite. They are worse since Cable and Wireless bought them out. You also have to live within 2 inches of one of their PoPs.
What if itunes went down the crapper because someone was able to sell fairplay-encoded music in an interface that was better than itunes? What if third party players exploded in popularity, because people could easily transfer all their already-purchased music to those players, and ipod popularity dwindled?
*Me does double take*
Better than itunes ipod popularity dwindles
Hang on ! I thought that Apples popularity in this market was due to them having the best music store _and_ the best player.
If that were true, then they would lose nothing by licencing fairplay. Your comments suggest that maybe they _have_ to lock consumers into their device and software, or risk losing customers to the superior competition.
M$ / Apple / Sony - what's the difference - vendor lock-in takes precedence.
*Subject to all possible authorisations, positive credit references, thorough anti-terrorist screening, and a good reaming from the border guards at your favourite holiday destination, before you finally give up the notion of ever having a single original (and non-actionable) thought ever again.
Personally, I preferred web 1.0, or just plain old freedom of thought and action.
coz In 2021, the whole world is connected by the gigantic Internet, and almost a half of the population is suffering from the Nerve Attenuation Syndrome (NAS).Johnny with an inplanted memory chip in his brain was ordered to transport the over loaded information from Beijing to Newark. While Pharmakom Industries supported by yakuza tries to capture him to get the informaiton back, the Low-tech group led by J-Bone tries to break the missing code to download the cure of NAS which Johnny carries.
If you go to Tools --> Options --> Advanced --> Update, and you haven't changed your default settings, you will find that it is set to "Automatically download and install the update". Even Microsoft wouldn't do this, so why is it acceptable in Firefox?
And there was I thinking that we were trying to stop dumb windows users from just clicking yes to everything they get in their browser. It's an update, for Firefox. There are no privacy or security concerns there (IMHO).
BTW, win xp security center defaults to download and install updates automatically. In fact it complains if you alter that setting. I don't particularly want to install the Genuine Advantage "patch", so I set mine to notify when updates are available, and that's all.
the British are particularly good at hacking as they have "the perfect temperament to be hackers--technically skilled, slightly disrespectful of authority, and just a touch of criminal behavior."
should read -
the British are particularly good at hacking as they have "the perfect temperament to be hackers--technically skilled, disrespectful of authority, and are not averse to criminal behavior."
BTW, I see the use of the word "hacking" as a good thing, versus "cracking". Also, "criminal behaviour" is an ever changing variable, defined by clueless beaurocrats. I break the law every time I play a dvd or mp3 on my linux system.
The ideal system (for the government) is one where we are all criminals.
In time, we may completely abolish police and judicial system, since every crime will be on tape. People could vote the least simpathetic criminal out with their remote control etc. etc...
We still seem to be intent on using (costly) manufactured materials to capture the suns energy. We are getting more efficient at it but we are way behind natures own methods.
What I'd like to see is an "open source" methodology.
If you want to make something happen in say, Linux, you can look at what someone else has already done, then tweak it to make it do what you need it to do. With our advances in bio-tech, surely there must be a future in bio-engineering some specific plant life to produce high amounts of usable energy. I know that there are bacteria that produce h2 etc. but the scale is insufficient.
What I imagine is, a plant that converts prodigious amounts of energy (ie bamboo can grow 6 feet in a day) and subverting that energy so that instead of producing growth, it produces a chemical that can be used to directly power an engine of some variety. An engine is defined as something that converts energy into work done.
In the end, we need a symbiosis to fulfill our transportation requirements. Back in the days, man used a horse or a cow, to pull a cart. The animal got its food from grazing grass which got its energy directly (but not completely) from the sun.
So why can't we follow that approach ? Utilise a very efficient system that nature has "designed" and subvert it to our own ends. After all, fossil fuels are only stored solar power. Taking nanotech into account, it may be possible to create a muscle structure that when it is working generates an amount of electrical current. The muscle would get its "nutrition" from the chemical produced by the bio-engineered plant. The plant would get its energy from the sun. We could foster the initial growth of the plant in the ocean or tanks (for safety) much like an algae bloom, so we would only have to fill our "tanks" with a green goop once a month for example. The extra compounds the plant needs to survive (minerals etc) would be provided by the dead goop we have already used (think ginger beer plant). We still have to utilise the electrical energy more efficiently of course, but our motors are getting pretty good.
I realise this is all probably very naive, and I'm not a scientist in any way, at all ! But it seems to me that all our thinking has been towards shortcuts, ie. sun -> solar panel -> power instead of taking the natural route of sun -> plant -> food -> animal -> power. We need to aim at creating a living system.
Maybe I'm talking out of my ninth planet, but the saying "haste makes waste" seems to apply as solar panels aren't very efficient.
Of course, you could say that my ideal involves many more stages and so is less efficient, but each stage would be as close to maximum efficiency as nature has got to already.
This site is nothing BUT user created content, AND the best possible resource for students at ANY education level.
True only if they are students of received knowledge. If they want definitive information then your statement is false. They may as well use google as wikipedia.
1: Have a guy invent windows to spy on everyone
2: Keep everyone's phone records
3: Prevent the young in school to create there own sites and ideas on the net
4: Control the entire internet
5: Give out the new uniforms
The market will sort it all out - the seller will eventual lose sales as his reputations goes downhill. I don't think that you understand libertarianism. Selling rat poison as viagra is breach of the agreement between the seller and the buyer. As such the buyer or buyers heirs can instigate legal proceedings against the seller.
Slashdot Mirror
How about here ?
The howto I followed is here.
yum works by checking for updates to your current version.
ie. the contents of your /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo read:
the key term here being $releasever which means it only checks within your current release.The only way to make yum upgrade to a newer core version is to download and install the newer version kernel, reboot into that kernel, then tell yum to update. I have used that approach to go progressively from FC2 to FC3 to FC4.
HTH.
Or vehemently which is synonymous with the words "Furious; violent; raging; impetuous; passionate; ardent; eager; hot; fervid; burning."
Either way, vapid ain't relevant to Microsofts attitude to Linux.
(At least not in the context of your argument).
This post brought to you by the letters W,T,F.
I use a switch with built in modem so it doesn't have to "dial up" every time. My ip hasn't changed for at least 6 months.
As for actual download speeds, 10Mbit means nothing if you are dloading from anywhere outside the providers network, due to the various overheads involved in switching and traffic levels. As an example, I just downloaded the FC5 dvd iso (3.5GB) over http in just under 6 minutes, but that was over 6 feet of Cat5e from my linux box ! Using bit torrent direct from Fedora it took around 10 hours. Statistics are meaningless without context.
BTW, I was paying £24 / month for a 2Mbit line then BT upgraded it for free. Previously it was a 1Mbit line. So I've gone from a 1Mbit line to a 6Mbit line with no increase in cost, in just under 2 years.
And people complain about BT as the incumbent telco !
Recently Bulldog have been advertising a 16 Mb line for around £9.75 (for the first 3 months), but the small print shows that the dload limit is 1Gig a month AND you have to buy a phone line from them too. Bulldog are shite. They are worse since Cable and Wireless bought them out. You also have to live within 2 inches of one of their PoPs.
Nuff said.
Better than itunes
ipod popularity dwindles
Hang on !
I thought that Apples popularity in this market was due to them having the best music store _and_ the best player.
If that were true, then they would lose nothing by licencing fairplay. Your comments suggest that maybe they _have_ to lock consumers into their device and software, or risk losing customers to the superior competition.
M$ / Apple / Sony - what's the difference - vendor lock-in takes precedence.
I guess you'll have to retake Apple fanboyz 101 !
This takes in slow city traffic, faster freeway traffic and top speed travelling, approximate to an average consumers car usage.
Well in the sense that a picture is worth a thousand words, and I didn't understand a word of the linked page, I'd just like to say - Nice tits !
*Subject to all possible authorisations, positive credit references, thorough anti-terrorist screening, and a good reaming from the border guards at your favourite holiday destination, before you finally give up the notion of ever having a single original (and non-actionable) thought ever again.
Personally, I preferred web 1.0, or just plain old freedom of thought and action.
So the Son of God basically told people to RTFA, or even "google for it" !
I bet He reads Digg!
Whooooaa !
Behold the power of authority.
It looks like there has been a weird time distortion, in which Goatse is showing his response to Captain Copyright.
I'd like to see the end battle between these two "superheroes" ---- NOT !
BTW, win xp security center defaults to download and install updates automatically. In fact it complains if you alter that setting. I don't particularly want to install the Genuine Advantage "patch", so I set mine to notify when updates are available, and that's all.
Whose world did it take over ?
I have yet to see one in actual usage, despite the barrage of advertisements and /. hype.
Troll me if you like, but this is rubbish, designed for people who've owned a pc for less than 3 years, and have no idea of recent history.
The ideal system (for the government) is one where we are all criminals.
There is still nothing to prevent a scalper winning the auction and then putting the tickets out on ebay for an even higher price.
Oooh, snowball !
We end up with a dictatorship in that scenario too ...
What I'd like to see is an "open source" methodology.
If you want to make something happen in say, Linux, you can look at what someone else has already done, then tweak it to make it do what you need it to do. With our advances in bio-tech, surely there must be a future in bio-engineering some specific plant life to produce high amounts of usable energy. I know that there are bacteria that produce h2 etc. but the scale is insufficient.
What I imagine is, a plant that converts prodigious amounts of energy (ie bamboo can grow 6 feet in a day) and subverting that energy so that instead of producing growth, it produces a chemical that can be used to directly power an engine of some variety. An engine is defined as something that converts energy into work done.
In the end, we need a symbiosis to fulfill our transportation requirements. Back in the days, man used a horse or a cow, to pull a cart. The animal got its food from grazing grass which got its energy directly (but not completely) from the sun.
So why can't we follow that approach ? Utilise a very efficient system that nature has "designed" and subvert it to our own ends. After all, fossil fuels are only stored solar power.
Taking nanotech into account, it may be possible to create a muscle structure that when it is working generates an amount of electrical current. The muscle would get its "nutrition" from the chemical produced by the bio-engineered plant. The plant would get its energy from the sun. We could foster the initial growth of the plant in the ocean or tanks (for safety) much like an algae bloom, so we would only have to fill our "tanks" with a green goop once a month for example. The extra compounds the plant needs to survive (minerals etc) would be provided by the dead goop we have already used (think ginger beer plant). We still have to utilise the electrical energy more efficiently of course, but our motors are getting pretty good.
I realise this is all probably very naive, and I'm not a scientist in any way, at all ! But it seems to me that all our thinking has been towards shortcuts, ie. sun -> solar panel -> power instead of taking the natural route of sun -> plant -> food -> animal -> power.
We need to aim at creating a living system.
Maybe I'm talking out of my ninth planet, but the saying "haste makes waste" seems to apply as solar panels aren't very efficient.
Of course, you could say that my ideal involves many more stages and so is less efficient, but each stage would be as close to maximum efficiency as nature has got to already.
I'll get my coat.
I'm sure we'd all prefer OMG PONIES !!! to Battlestar Galactica, 24, Lost, CSI, The Matrix, Pulp Fiction, ......
Restitution in the afterlife !