There's a correct procedure to follow, so that CDs can be used for long time storage. CDs can be successfully used to store data, even though they're so fragile. It's just necessary to do a lot of maintenance. Don't ask me about the details, I'm just writing here what I remember about this.
1) Burn 2 identical CD-Rs
2) Store them inside some protected place, upright
3) When it's necessary to use them, use just CD1. CD2 is never used.
4) After n years, throw away CD1. (Since the guy said it takes 5 years for the CD to stop working, n should be 2.5 or less, depending on how much you use CD1). Burn CD3. Let CD1:= CD2 and CD2:= CD3.
5) Goto 2.
Open source movement ponders that you may be paying much more money than software really costs. Although the phrase "YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!" is true you may be paying for what you get and for what you don't. This is actually a fallacy of capitalism.
... so what ? OpenOffice has come from proprietary world and this has been a long time by now. It's age is the sole reason it has reached Microsoft Office compatibility before other not bloated Office packages (like KOffice, for example). Money from Sun Microsystems is not a big deal here - if there weren't Open Office, big companies would support any other package. OpenOffice popularity is just so unfortunate, so what ? Both now-open-source-former-closed-source software packages are like this - Open Office and Firefox (that is, compare Gecko and KHTML). It's just too bad people keep writing code over and over those stuff. If there were Microsoft Office for Linux, maybe I would buy it just to throw away OO.o.
Now it seems so obvious... Market society is fuss-driven, completely irrational. We have seen the few thinking ones switching over to linux because they decided they would get more productivity-security-whatever and now the great mass is going for it because it's the new trend.
Man, completely wrong arguments up to now. Linux is fashion, linux is chic. Linux everywhere. Do it now.
"We invite other vendors, including Novell, IBM and Red Hat, to repeat their own independent analysis based on Security Innovation's methodology."
What do they mean "their own independent" ??? Was this study Microsoft's independent ? What is independent ? I'm sorry, I couldn't read the article past this line. Too bad, because, there could be serious scientific studies below... Ha !
The oxide that would be recicled is "pure". This could be less expensive and consume less energy than taking the mineral and separating all the components. At least googling about "aluminium, energy, steel and costs" seems to say so:-/
Still, aluminium is very expensive to produce, in terms of energy. It's cheaper, however, than producing hydrogen by electrolysis.
Now for some math: the average monthly income for a Brazilian is R$ 800,00. I don't know how much is the average income in England, but I'll assume it is £1600,00. That means the ~1Mbps "fast" internet costs here 0.19AI (average incomes) and in England, the 5-25 Mbps broadband costs 0.015AI. If one averages ADSL2+ at around 8000 Mpbs, we get, in England, a price of 0.0019AI/Mbps, while in Brazil, we get 0.19AI/Mbps, 100 times the value found for England.
Putting in other words:
1. With grub I had to read the manual.
Now there's another:
2. Grub didn't load in my roommate's SATA HD on his amd64. He had to switch to LILO. Problems with his BIOS ? Probably. Grub didn't load.
People already answered with some apps. The idea is that Windows or DOS install a very simple boot loader in MBR that actually calls the boot loader of some tagged partition (the 'DOS-active' partition). This information should be difficult to find because it's not a Linux thing. Anyway, there's a linux software that creates such a boot sector: mbr. I couldn't find it anywhere but at debian.
Now for the 'get my disk space back' thing, this is both a not-so-easy thing and pretty much requested thing, that already has some interesting software
AFAICT, the whole kernel should be in a contiguous space starting in sector zero (because the kernel boot sector was designed to be used in floppies), so if you have done this in your HD I suppose you've lost your first 8 MB. Anyway, now it's written in the kernel README:
- Booting a kernel directly from a floppy without the assistance of a bootloader such as LILO, is no longer supported.
Anyway, this bootloader thing is too much x86-centric. Better solutions would be either use a bigger boot sector, or even better, move the boot loader to a ROM.
Although I don't even have Windows on my PC, I
could use Microsoft Office if there were a Linux version. And I mean it by comparing to OO.o, because while the former may be bigger than it in bytes, both feel heavy the same way. I mean, wouldn't switch to MS Office over LaTeX, but I wouldn't feel bad switching from Writer to Word, Calc to Excel, etc... I've had many bad experiences with Word, already seen Excel crash and I even saw Power Point going into "safe mode" once, but Open Office seems as bloated as MS'.
I didn't read Ken Brown's reply fully, but it seems that he's trying to aim GPL. If you try to change every term "hybrid source" to "GPL source", things will make better sense. Every sentence with "GPL source" fits, except for its first definition, probably because he (or me) doesn't fully understand it.
The matter that he is trying to bring everybody about is that of economic nature. GPL makes getting more money from software than it actually costs impraticable and that's what he fears.
Hello, I'm Nek Brown, Ken Brown's brother. I don't like him either, so I'm offering $100 Million in a context for the people who first write the following Unix operating systems:
- $1 Million, if you write a unix kernel in C
- $2 Millions if you write a unix kernel in C++ and port Gnu for it
- $10 Millions if you write a unix operating system in BASIC
- $15 Millions if you write a unix operating system in Prolog
- $20 Millions if you write a unix operatig system in bash shell script
And finally,
- $50 Millions if you write the boot loader in Java !!!
But wait ! Those prizes don't sum up to $100 Millions ! Oh, sh** !
The difference is that nobody will be buying Windows, that is, Microsoft won't get any money. OS/2 was expensive and device drivers got scarce over time (I remember some SB awe 32/64 issues). Linux is cheap and device drivers get abundant. Actually, if Linux fully runs windows code it will be able to compete with it more easily.
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Microsoft TC0 in New York - 354,55 (+2,57)
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There's a correct procedure to follow, so that CDs can be used for long time storage. CDs can be successfully used to store data, even though they're so fragile. It's just necessary to do a lot of maintenance. Don't ask me about the details, I'm just writing here what I remember about this.
:= CD2 and CD2 := CD3.
1) Burn 2 identical CD-Rs
2) Store them inside some protected place, upright
3) When it's necessary to use them, use just CD1. CD2 is never used.
4) After n years, throw away CD1. (Since the guy said it takes 5 years for the CD to stop working, n should be 2.5 or less, depending on how much you use CD1). Burn CD3. Let CD1
5) Goto 2.
This is a very cheap way to store data.
Open source movement ponders that you may be paying much more money than software really costs. Although the phrase "YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!" is true you may be paying for what you get and for what you don't. This is actually a fallacy of capitalism.
... so what ? OpenOffice has come from proprietary world and this has been a long time by now. It's age is the sole reason it has reached Microsoft Office compatibility before other not bloated Office packages (like KOffice, for example). Money from Sun Microsystems is not a big deal here - if there weren't Open Office, big companies would support any other package. OpenOffice popularity is just so unfortunate, so what ? Both now-open-source-former-closed-source software packages are like this - Open Office and Firefox (that is, compare Gecko and KHTML). It's just too bad people keep writing code over and over those stuff. If there were Microsoft Office for Linux, maybe I would buy it just to throw away OO.o.
It has gone open source.
Now it seems so obvious... Market society is fuss-driven, completely irrational. We have seen the few thinking ones switching over to linux because they decided they would get more productivity-security-whatever and now the great mass is going for it because it's the new trend.
Man, completely wrong arguments up to now. Linux is fashion, linux is chic. Linux everywhere. Do it now.
"... internet publishing would harm the exchange of knowledge between researchers."
Internet publishing is exchanging knowledge. Thus, exchanging knowledge would harm the exchange of knowledge, which is a paradox
"We invite other vendors, including Novell, IBM and Red Hat, to repeat their own independent analysis based on Security Innovation's methodology."
What do they mean "their own independent" ??? Was this study Microsoft's independent ? What is independent ? I'm sorry, I couldn't read the article past this line. Too bad, because, there could be serious scientific studies below... Ha !
The mutex doesn't seem to be shared between processes. This would make the code incorrect. Can anyone confirm this ?
Simply stating:
;-)
H + B -> 3 He + ~10.000.000 eV
H2O + ~10eV -> H2 + O2
See, for example, this and this.
We can see that this reaction is really benefical, because it removes dihydrogen monoxide from the environment.
I use Linux !11/1/1;1!!!!1 I'm staying behind on the information superhighway !1!!!!
The oxide that would be recicled is "pure". This could be less expensive and consume less energy than taking the mineral and separating all the components. At least googling about "aluminium, energy, steel and costs" seems to say so :-/
Still, aluminium is very expensive to produce, in terms of energy. It's cheaper, however, than producing hydrogen by electrolysis.
Use ADSL/cable in Brazil to get amazing 256 kbps. The fastest services are around 1 Mbps. Let's see some prices for this really advanced service:
- cable modem, 1200 kbps: R$ 149,90
- adsl, 1000kbps: R$ 178,90
Now for some math: the average monthly income for a Brazilian is R$ 800,00. I don't know how much is the average income in England, but I'll assume it is £1600,00. That means the ~1Mbps "fast" internet costs here 0.19AI (average incomes) and in England, the 5-25 Mbps broadband costs 0.015AI. If one averages ADSL2+ at around 8000 Mpbs, we get, in England, a price of 0.0019AI/Mbps, while in Brazil, we get 0.19AI/Mbps, 100 times the value found for England.
Unfortunately, this post has no conclusion.
Slashdot readers are not supposed to be clients. They're supposed to choose the browser they like and understand why slashdot looks awful on it. :-)
;-)
BTW, the picture of the dog is being covered by the first news in the slashcode site. It's awful that they don't suppot firefox...
It's not my problem. I have an AMD64 and a SATA HD and I use Grub. The problem happened in my friend's AMD.
Putting in other words:
1. With grub I had to read the manual.
Now there's another:
2. Grub didn't load in my roommate's SATA HD on his amd64. He had to switch to LILO. Problems with his BIOS ? Probably. Grub didn't load.
People already answered with some apps. The idea is that Windows or DOS install a very simple boot loader in MBR that actually calls the boot loader of some tagged partition (the 'DOS-active' partition). This information should be difficult to find because it's not a Linux thing. Anyway, there's a linux software that creates such a boot sector: mbr. I couldn't find it anywhere but at debian.
Now for the 'get my disk space back' thing, this is both a not-so-easy thing and pretty much requested thing, that already has some interesting software
AFAICT, the whole kernel should be in a contiguous space starting in sector zero (because the kernel boot sector was designed to be used in floppies), so if you have done this in your HD I suppose you've lost your first 8 MB. Anyway, now it's written in the kernel README:
- Booting a kernel directly from a floppy without the assistance of a bootloader such as LILO, is no longer supported.
Anyway, this bootloader thing is too much x86-centric. Better solutions would be either use a bigger boot sector, or even better, move the boot loader to a ROM.
I think Workplace Shell is IBM property from top to bottom. Open source community would benefit from learning the source of this unique GUI.
Although I don't even have Windows on my PC, I could use Microsoft Office if there were a Linux version. And I mean it by comparing to OO.o, because while the former may be bigger than it in bytes, both feel heavy the same way. I mean, wouldn't switch to MS Office over LaTeX, but I wouldn't feel bad switching from Writer to Word, Calc to Excel, etc... I've had many bad experiences with Word, already seen Excel crash and I even saw Power Point going into "safe mode" once, but Open Office seems as bloated as MS'.
I didn't read Ken Brown's reply fully, but it seems that he's trying to aim GPL. If you try to change every term "hybrid source" to "GPL source", things will make better sense. Every sentence with "GPL source" fits, except for its first definition, probably because he (or me) doesn't fully understand it.
The matter that he is trying to bring everybody about is that of economic nature. GPL makes getting more money from software than it actually costs impraticable and that's what he fears.
They asked for the wrong patent. The correct one is called:
"Key sequence for setting the system in a sane state: Ctrl+Alt+Del"
Hello, I'm Nek Brown, Ken Brown's brother. I don't like him either, so I'm offering $100 Million in a context for the people who first write the following Unix operating systems:
- $1 Million, if you write a unix kernel in C
- $2 Millions if you write a unix kernel in C++ and port Gnu for it
- $10 Millions if you write a unix operating system in BASIC
- $15 Millions if you write a unix operating system in Prolog
- $20 Millions if you write a unix operatig system in bash shell script
And finally,
- $50 Millions if you write the boot loader in Java !!!
But wait ! Those prizes don't sum up to $100 Millions ! Oh, sh** !
The difference is that nobody will be buying
Windows, that is, Microsoft won't get any money.
OS/2 was expensive and device drivers got scarce over time (I remember some SB awe 32/64 issues). Linux is cheap and device drivers get abundant. Actually, if Linux fully runs windows code it will be able to compete with it more easily.