Leia: "If you do this bad thing, you probably won't get what you want" Tarkin: ignores the advice, does the bad thing anyway (some time later) Tarkin doesn't have what he wants. He's also dead.
ARGH, PLEASE don't link to the Daily Mail as an authoratitive source for anything, ever, please. They routinely misrepresent the results of scientific studies (willingly, and ignore attempts to correct) in the name of sensationalism.
The study they cite in that "article" is available here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727743.300-how-dna-evidence-creates-victims-of-chance.html
Hypothesis: his wife caught him with it. He claims that he accidentally downloaded it instead of some music. He then takes up her suggestion to report it to corroborate his story. Police suspect he is not being entirely truthful and size his laptop to examine further. Police find cause for concern.
The basis for this story is the man's own testimony. Why should we believe him?
Disclaimer: I hold no opinion one way or the other. Not enough facts are known.
Just don't put your laptop to sleep running Linux, forget and swap your Windows hard drive in, then wake it up. I'm still puzzled as to how that made such a mess of that drive. (To be fair, this was in the days of EPM suspend and the Windows drive was running Windows 2000)
Has something changed, because Network Manager allowed user control over connecting to WLAN back in... er... 10.0 I think, or one of the 9. series. By default, in fact. I remember it annoyed me and it was uninstalled in short order, but it worked.
Thats LJ post was a good read. It's nostalgic for me because in 95 my family moved out to India and although we left most of our western gadgets behind (no CD player, TV, VCR etc for us) we DID take my Macintosh LCIII. To have that computer when everyone else had what I'm guessing were 386 or 486 PCs (and most didn't have a PC at all) was pretty awesome.
Of course, we never got a phone line, not wanting to go through the whole find-the-right-person-to-bribe, pay-lots-and-lots-of-money process required to get one, so I never got to go on the internet. I just had to settle for copies of MacFormat and the cover disks that came with, sent out from the UK, and what software I'd been able to pirate before I left.
You do seem to have got your memories a bit confused, though, since your LJ posts states that it wasn't the LC475 that came with VirtualPC, it was the PowerMac you bought later.
The "miserable failure" thing was abusing Google's algorithm. It pointed out something faulty with Google's algorithm, and they corrected it. I personally thought it was hilarious but I can't argue that the underlying mechanism that allowed it to be posted didn't need correcting. It was, in effect, an exploit.
The santorum thing is totally different. Dan Savage created a page with meaning that other people linked to for legitimate reasons. It deserves its place at the top of the search results. There's nothing wrong with Google's algorithm and no exploit that needs correcting. The search engine is functioning correctly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc732uzUkw4 Penn and Teller's Bullshit on Mother Teresa. Not suggesting you take it as God's honest truth without some critical thought, but interesting nonetheless.
People don't buy the 360, PS3 or BluRay to stream from Netflix. They buy them to play games, play games and play BluRay Discs respectively. The Netflix thing is just a value add, and people are willing to put up with a big of sluggish behaviour from a value add. If you bought a dedicated Netflix player and it was sluggish, you'd be pissed off.
When I ran a Linux laptop, I used to use SCPM to deal with those problems. Well, I didn't deal with the power management issue at all but it should be possible.
Create a new profile, configure the network settings once, then use scpm to switch to that profile when necessary.
See: <a href="http://linux.eregion.de/tag/scpm/">this guy's blog</a> for an explanation.
I don't know if SCPM was only a SUSE thing, but it was fantastically useful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4 (Nyan Cat) has proved an excellent distraction technique for my littlest when she is upset. Very useful for when we're waiting for her bottle to cool, or similar.
(ps, how the bloody hell do you post links on this godawful new AJAX abomination of a comment system? <a href= didn't work!)
If you give a child a phone that is only useful for calling Mummy and Daddy, then they won't bother to keep it on them, they won't care where it is, they won't bother charging it and they'll lose it/break it in very short order, because it's just not an object they will care about protecting.
The way to make sure a child keeps their phone charged and about their person is to let them USE it.
My children's school has a hand-it-in-at-reception-on-arrival policy. They hand it in when they arrive, they retrieve it when they leave. This seems entirely reasonable to me, since many of the year 6 pupils walk to and from school by themselves, and thus might legitimately need to carry a phone.
Re the cut and paste thing. It's a bit complicated, like many aspects of Linux, but it's certainly not random. There are two separate and independent copy/paste mechanisms at work. See this extract from http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html.
=== Copy and Paste:
Contrary to what you may have come to believe, copying and pasting text under X11 works pretty much exactly the same way it does under MacOS and Windows. Really. It works like this:
Select the text to copy;
Pull down the ``Edit'' menu and select ``Copy.''
This causes the text to become the Clipboard Selection.
In another window, pull down the ``Edit'' menu and select ``Paste.''
This causes the current value of the Clipboard selection to be inserted.
But what about the middle mouse button?
It happens that X11 programs have a second way of copying and pasting text that is orthogonal to the Edit/Copy way described above. This causes confusion, because some people mix the two up. Here's how the other way works:
Select the text to copy.
This causes the text to become the Primary Selection.
In another window, click the middle mouse button.
This causes the current value of the Primary selection to be inserted. ===
Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V and Ctrl-Insert/Shift-Insert are functionally identical, just different keybindings for the same thing. And they map to Edit>Copy and Edit>Paste.
Let's bring this in line with what Moz are actually proposing:
Caller: "My computer will not boot into Windows" Support: "Are you running the most recent version of Windows?" Caller: "I have no idea" Support: "Please go to Help > About Windows. Does it say 'Your version of Windows is up to date?'" Caller: "No, it says I need to update" Support: "OK, please relaunch Windows and let the automatic updater run. The update is free and will be installed automatically. Then if the problem persists please call back and we'll go from there. If for any reason you have trouble running the updater, please call back and we'll assist".
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It's not just Hollywood, either. There have been a few segments on Top Gear (UK) that are blatantly just recruitment drives for the Army.
Not really.
Leia: "If you do this bad thing, you probably won't get what you want"
Tarkin: ignores the advice, does the bad thing anyway
(some time later)
Tarkin doesn't have what he wants. He's also dead.
I think it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock-off_Nigel
ARGH, PLEASE don't link to the Daily Mail as an authoratitive source for anything, ever, please. They routinely misrepresent the results of scientific studies (willingly, and ignore attempts to correct) in the name of sensationalism.
The study they cite in that "article" is available here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727743.300-how-dna-evidence-creates-victims-of-chance.html
Hypothesis: his wife caught him with it. He claims that he accidentally downloaded it instead of some music. He then takes up her suggestion to report it to corroborate his story. Police suspect he is not being entirely truthful and size his laptop to examine further. Police find cause for concern.
The basis for this story is the man's own testimony. Why should we believe him?
Disclaimer: I hold no opinion one way or the other. Not enough facts are known.
Just don't put your laptop to sleep running Linux, forget and swap your Windows hard drive in, then wake it up. I'm still puzzled as to how that made such a mess of that drive. (To be fair, this was in the days of EPM suspend and the Windows drive was running Windows 2000)
Has something changed, because Network Manager allowed user control over connecting to WLAN back in ... er ... 10.0 I think, or one of the 9. series. By default, in fact. I remember it annoyed me and it was uninstalled in short order, but it worked.
Thats LJ post was a good read. It's nostalgic for me because in 95 my family moved out to India and although we left most of our western gadgets behind (no CD player, TV, VCR etc for us) we DID take my Macintosh LCIII. To have that computer when everyone else had what I'm guessing were 386 or 486 PCs (and most didn't have a PC at all) was pretty awesome.
Of course, we never got a phone line, not wanting to go through the whole find-the-right-person-to-bribe, pay-lots-and-lots-of-money process required to get one, so I never got to go on the internet. I just had to settle for copies of MacFormat and the cover disks that came with, sent out from the UK, and what software I'd been able to pirate before I left.
You do seem to have got your memories a bit confused, though, since your LJ posts states that it wasn't the LC475 that came with VirtualPC, it was the PowerMac you bought later.
You cannot link to the Daily Mail as a credible source for anything. Well, you can, but please don't.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=269512464297 (List of things the Daily Mail say will give you cancer)
The "miserable failure" thing was abusing Google's algorithm. It pointed out something faulty with Google's algorithm, and they corrected it. I personally thought it was hilarious but I can't argue that the underlying mechanism that allowed it to be posted didn't need correcting. It was, in effect, an exploit.
The santorum thing is totally different. Dan Savage created a page with meaning that other people linked to for legitimate reasons. It deserves its place at the top of the search results. There's nothing wrong with Google's algorithm and no exploit that needs correcting. The search engine is functioning correctly.
also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxQVUV0oa_0
The film absorbs one shot. Doubt it would take two (they don't demonstrate). I imagine unprotected glass wouldn't withstand one shot.
and: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq_3STLnSe0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTOqLtI4Aro
How does this handle the registry?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc732uzUkw4
Penn and Teller's Bullshit on Mother Teresa. Not suggesting you take it as God's honest truth without some critical thought, but interesting nonetheless.
People don't buy the 360, PS3 or BluRay to stream from Netflix. They buy them to play games, play games and play BluRay Discs respectively. The Netflix thing is just a value add, and people are willing to put up with a big of sluggish behaviour from a value add. If you bought a dedicated Netflix player and it was sluggish, you'd be pissed off.
When I ran a Linux laptop, I used to use SCPM to deal with those problems. Well, I didn't deal with the power management issue at all but it should be possible.
Create a new profile, configure the network settings once, then use scpm to switch to that profile when necessary.
See: <a href="http://linux.eregion.de/tag/scpm/">this guy's blog</a> for an explanation.
I don't know if SCPM was only a SUSE thing, but it was fantastically useful.
I thought it was the 15th Wednesday After Pentecost
"We are in the process of blowing the whistle on ourselves to the ICO over the matter."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4 (Nyan Cat) has proved an excellent distraction technique for my littlest when she is upset. Very useful for when we're waiting for her bottle to cool, or similar.
(ps, how the bloody hell do you post links on this godawful new AJAX abomination of a comment system? <a href= didn't work!)
If you give a child a phone that is only useful for calling Mummy and Daddy, then they won't bother to keep it on them, they won't care where it is, they won't bother charging it and they'll lose it/break it in very short order, because it's just not an object they will care about protecting.
The way to make sure a child keeps their phone charged and about their person is to let them USE it.
and that's where confiscation (and, for persistent offenders, detention) comes into play :)
My children's school has a hand-it-in-at-reception-on-arrival policy. They hand it in when they arrive, they retrieve it when they leave. This seems entirely reasonable to me, since many of the year 6 pupils walk to and from school by themselves, and thus might legitimately need to carry a phone.
Re the cut and paste thing. It's a bit complicated, like many aspects of Linux, but it's certainly not random. There are two separate and independent copy/paste mechanisms at work. See this extract from http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html.
===
Copy and Paste:
Contrary to what you may have come to believe, copying and pasting text under X11 works pretty much exactly the same way it does under MacOS and Windows. Really. It works like this:
Select the text to copy;
Pull down the ``Edit'' menu and select ``Copy.''
This causes the text to become the Clipboard Selection.
In another window, pull down the ``Edit'' menu and select ``Paste.''
This causes the current value of the Clipboard selection to be inserted.
But what about the middle mouse button?
It happens that X11 programs have a second way of copying and pasting text that is orthogonal to the Edit/Copy way described above. This causes confusion, because some people mix the two up. Here's how the other way works:
Select the text to copy.
This causes the text to become the Primary Selection.
In another window, click the middle mouse button.
This causes the current value of the Primary selection to be inserted.
===
Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V and Ctrl-Insert/Shift-Insert are functionally identical, just different keybindings for the same thing. And they map to Edit>Copy and Edit>Paste.
I agree it's a snag ...
Let's bring this in line with what Moz are actually proposing:
Caller: "My computer will not boot into Windows"
Support: "Are you running the most recent version of Windows?"
Caller: "I have no idea"
Support: "Please go to Help > About Windows. Does it say 'Your version of Windows is up to date?'"
Caller: "No, it says I need to update"
Support: "OK, please relaunch Windows and let the automatic updater run. The update is free and will be installed automatically. Then if the problem persists please call back and we'll go from there. If for any reason you have trouble running the updater, please call back and we'll assist".
That's a scenario I can live with to be honest.