> On the other hand, if people had to go through as much training to get a driver's license as they do a pilot's license the roads would probably be a better place.
> I was certified to fly gliders only after many hours of instruction that included emergency situations as well as learning how to give myself large safety margins. Just the thinking process of getting my pilot's license caused me to really evaluate my driving habits as well.
How long does it take to get a drivers license in US, and how expensive it is?
Here in Finland, if you're 18 or older, you can get a license. The process is split in two phases, first phase consists of 10 x 1,5 hours of theory and 10 x 1h driving lessons. Then there's written exam including traffic situation pictures, and finally driving test. If you pass both tests, you get temporary license which is valid for 1-2 years. (don't recall if the hours are accurate, I've had my drivers license for several years now)
If you manage to drive 1-2 years without too many mistakes (3-strike system, if you fail, you have to do first phase again) you can start second phase. In second phase, you have few more theory hours, 5 or so, mostly about driving in dark and on slippery surfaces. Some of the theory also focuses on driving more economically. There's practice run on slippery surface track and basically training for driving on icy surfaces. After completing the second phase, you receive your final drivers license which is valid until you turn 70. After that age, you need to take medical and with doctors approval, the license can be extended.
The whole thing costs about $1200-2000, depending on the driving school, more if you fail any of the tests.
> If someone can make use of a Firefox hole, couple it with a root exploit, and put a kmod in/lib/modules, it's all over.
[ ] Enable loadable module support, and build your kernel static
No-one is required to use modular kernels anyway. Modern machines have too little memory to keep all the neccessary kernel code loaded all time? Don't think so. Modules were great when you were running linux with 16Mb memory, honestly you won't notice the extra 10-20Mb memory in use by kernel modules if you have 1-2Gb stacked in the machine.
As a finn, I have to say that the only ones we have to blaim about this new law is the current parliament.
I hope this law wakes up current young generations and pushes them to vote in the next election in order to keep these beauty pageants like Karpela from dictating legislation they can barely read.
I know that Finland is the most American country in Europe, but that doesn't mean we have to unify our legislation with USA and their DMCA.
You could also talk over them when they're trying to introduce themselves "unfortunately all our customer service personell are busy at the moment, please hold" and start whistling elevator music. Repeat, every 30 sec or so
just do what I did, and get cell plan where you get refund for received calls.
I've almost paid my last months phone bill, just by talking with telemarketers.
You can easily keep them talking for about 30 minutes by asking everything about the product they're selling.
No, Bittorrent is not suitable protocol for that purpose.
If I paid for the content, there's no way I would saturate my upstream to upload it to others while downloading it for myself.
Bandwidth is cheap, if you are running a huge media company.
If those companies arrange deals with operators as content providers, I'm sure they would get all the bandwidth they need for selling content to the operators customers.
Since MPAA/RIAA are lobbying the rant about movies/dvds/cds being different mediums for delivering media, why don't they offer streaming media services for say $10-20/month where you can watch or listen to all the programs they're offering when ever you want.
The technology is already here, why are they too stupid to use it?
Sounds like it just is more profitable business model to just sue the customers on random intervals than to actually "Improve the quality of American Entertainment"
Btw. anyone else noticed that they don't print that on their albums anymore?
Old vinyls used to have slogan like that right under RIAA logo.
>I mean, I've sometimes tried to switch OS X to dvorak, but my eye constantly fools me, and I'm pressing wrong keys.
Your eyes don't fool you, your brain does, or atleast that's my experience.
Even if you change the hats on your keyboard, you have to "cheat" every now and then to type correctly with the different layout.
I found that I'm just too used to writing with qwerty.
I can write with it without any printing on the keys if the output matches qwerty, I don't really care what the hats say.
Maybe some layouts are easier for carpal tunnel syndrome and some for writing different languages faster, but it all boils to what ever you are accustomized to.
I'm using F-Secure antivirus for linux, and the matches I usually get are windows viruses, since it's scanning changes on network drive where browser downloaded files and profiles are kept. I don't recall ever finding any linux viruses with the scanner, but it helps to keep the windows machines clean on the network. I also map administrative shares with samba from the desktops and run daily scan on them over network after work hours. Takes the load away from the workstations.
1. Video editing, yes, there's software like kino and heroinewarrior, but those either don't open the filetypes I need to modify properly or they just eat ton of resources and just crash. 2. DVD mastering. 3. Hardware incompatibility. My DVB card just doesn't work. It has drivers in kernel, but SIGNAL LOST: Cannot get LOCK. 4. Games. I'm not that much of a gamer, but I still occasionally want to play something other than solitare or mahjongg without endless install run of cedega/wine/xwine to get the games to work. 5. File management. I'm too used to manage files using explorer. It just feels better to use, when moving folders around, renaming files etc. for some reason.
Linux is perfect for servers. I wouldn't dream (nightmares if I did) of running apache/mysql/fileserver on windows. Another box works as my surf and email machine, no need to use internet explorer or outlook.
Do mac users run virus scanners often? How do they know if they have viruses that aren't commonly known yet? I keep virus scanner running on my linux machines just in case, and it disinfects few files every now and then.
Good thing modern viruses aren't like CIH and pals. I'd hate to buy new motherboard/gpu just because my pc was infected with some virus that flashed bioses full of garbage.
We can't really outlaw manufacturing of compilers and crowbars. Besides the program infected the computer only if the end user opened the email and ran the virus code.
This is more of a case for how to get peoples attention on not to open anything non-text that comes through your email. I think his sentence should be something like community service by going to different schools and talking to children about what might happen when they open innocent looking goat.cx link or run program they got from someone via email, and consequences what happens if they do. Teach em young how to avoid dangers online instead paying for it later by exposing their employers network for the latest email worm.
I'm not in favour for what he's done, but getting 175 years in prison for writing a program? You can get less for killing a man. No wonder the prisons are already full. Perhaps it's time to realize that it's not always the solution to lock people up for what they have done.
who needs 30 drive bays, when you can have 32 bays (I'm almost sure I've seen 48 drive chassis too, couldn't find link tho)
That thing actually has only 2x450W and 2x150W power supplies for the system, so it gives some idea how much overkill 1KW powersupply is.
I've seen machines with 16 harddrives running on single 500W power supply. The amount of forking power connectors was bit frightening, but it still ran quite stable.
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Wikipedia has nice page about Questionable content.
> On the other hand, if people had to go through as much training to get a driver's license as they do a pilot's license the roads would probably be a better place.
> I was certified to fly gliders only after many hours of instruction that included emergency situations as well as learning how to give myself large safety margins. Just the thinking process of getting my pilot's license caused me to really evaluate my driving habits as well.
How long does it take to get a drivers license in US, and how expensive it is?
Here in Finland, if you're 18 or older, you can get a license. The process is split in two phases, first phase consists of 10 x 1,5 hours of theory and 10 x 1h driving lessons.
Then there's written exam including traffic situation pictures, and finally driving test. If you pass both tests, you get temporary license which is valid for 1-2 years.
(don't recall if the hours are accurate, I've had my drivers license for several years now)
If you manage to drive 1-2 years without too many mistakes (3-strike system, if you fail, you have to do first phase again) you can start second phase.
In second phase, you have few more theory hours, 5 or so, mostly about driving in dark and on slippery surfaces. Some of the theory also focuses on driving more economically. There's practice run on slippery surface track and basically training for driving on icy surfaces. After completing the second phase, you receive your final drivers license which is valid until you turn 70. After that age, you need to take medical and with doctors approval, the license can be extended.
The whole thing costs about $1200-2000, depending on the driving school, more if you fail any of the tests.
> If someone can make use of a Firefox hole, couple it with a root exploit, and put a kmod in /lib/modules, it's all over.
[ ] Enable loadable module support, and build your kernel static
No-one is required to use modular kernels anyway.
Modern machines have too little memory to keep all the neccessary kernel code loaded all time?
Don't think so. Modules were great when you were running linux with 16Mb memory, honestly you won't notice the extra 10-20Mb memory in use by kernel modules if you have 1-2Gb stacked in the machine.
some case modding and you have your own anthro-pc!
As a finn, I have to say that the only ones we have to blaim about this new law is the current parliament.
I hope this law wakes up current young generations and pushes them to vote in the next election in order to keep these beauty pageants like Karpela from dictating legislation they can barely read.
I know that Finland is the most American country in Europe, but that doesn't mean we have to unify our legislation with USA and their DMCA.
How about verifying facts before citing?
The vlc player alone has nice streaming support, but they also have separate streaming server
You could also talk over them when they're trying to introduce themselves
"unfortunately all our customer service personell are busy at the moment, please hold" and start whistling elevator music.
Repeat, every 30 sec or so
just do what I did, and get cell plan where you get refund for received calls.
I've almost paid my last months phone bill, just by talking with telemarketers.
You can easily keep them talking for about 30 minutes by asking everything about the product they're selling.
No, Bittorrent is not suitable protocol for that purpose.
If I paid for the content, there's no way I would saturate my upstream to upload it to others while downloading it for myself.
Bandwidth is cheap, if you are running a huge media company.
If those companies arrange deals with operators as content providers, I'm sure they would get all the bandwidth they need for selling content to the operators customers.
Since MPAA/RIAA are lobbying the rant about movies/dvds/cds being different mediums for delivering media, why don't they offer streaming media services for say $10-20/month where you can watch or listen to all the programs they're offering when ever you want.
The technology is already here, why are they too stupid to use it?
Sounds like it just is more profitable business model to just sue the customers on random intervals than to actually "Improve the quality of American Entertainment"
Btw. anyone else noticed that they don't print that on their albums anymore?
Old vinyls used to have slogan like that right under RIAA logo.
>I mean, I've sometimes tried to switch OS X to dvorak, but my eye constantly fools me, and I'm pressing wrong keys.
Your eyes don't fool you, your brain does, or atleast that's my experience.
Even if you change the hats on your keyboard, you have to "cheat" every now and then to type correctly with the different layout.
I found that I'm just too used to writing with qwerty.
I can write with it without any printing on the keys if the output matches qwerty, I don't really care what the hats say.
Maybe some layouts are easier for carpal tunnel syndrome and some for writing different languages faster,
but it all boils to what ever you are accustomized to.
mods are stoned again..
this is what I'm talking about
das keyboard layout is for finnish what dvorak is for english.
It's useless unless you write finnish with it.
I heard history often repeats itself..
I think linux follows posix standard quite well.. it's the other OS that doesn't follow standards
changing to 2.6.13 later this week
Uptime------------System----Boot up
62 days, 14:02:05 Linux 2.6.9 Wed Jun 29 19:06:18 2005
90 days, 18:28:05 Linux 2.6.9 Tue Mar 22 20:54:33 2005
28 days, 08:41:03 Linux 2.6.9 Tue Feb 22 12:02:50 2005
31 days, 14:05:41 Linux 2.6.9 Fri Jan 21 19:42:01 2005
49 days, 07:58:12 Linux 2.6.9 Fri Dec 3 11:40:11 2004
31 days, 06:14:18 Linux 2.6.8-rc2 Mon Oct 4 19:32:10 2004
39 days, 16:12:23 Linux 2.6.8-rc2 Thu Aug 26 03:14:37 2004
33 days, 16:05:05 Linux 2.6.8-rc2 Fri Jul 23 10:39:51 2004
60 days, 20:01:02 Linux 2.6.4 Thu Apr 1 23:08:26 2004
25 days, 12:55:43 Linux 2.4.23 Mon Jan 12 01:05:52 2004
Boots often caused by monthly case cleaning operation and on two occasions, power failure.
I'm using F-Secure antivirus for linux, and the matches I usually get are windows viruses, since it's scanning changes on network drive where browser downloaded files and profiles are kept.
I don't recall ever finding any linux viruses with the scanner, but it helps to keep the windows machines clean on the network.
I also map administrative shares with samba from the desktops and run daily scan on them over network after work hours.
Takes the load away from the workstations.
(on all my machines)
1. Video editing, yes, there's software like kino and heroinewarrior, but those either don't open the filetypes I need to modify properly or they just eat ton of resources and just crash.
2. DVD mastering.
3. Hardware incompatibility. My DVB card just doesn't work. It has drivers in kernel, but SIGNAL LOST: Cannot get LOCK.
4. Games. I'm not that much of a gamer, but I still occasionally want to play something other than solitare or mahjongg without endless install run of cedega/wine/xwine to get the games to work.
5. File management. I'm too used to manage files using explorer. It just feels better to use, when moving folders around, renaming files etc. for some reason.
Linux is perfect for servers. I wouldn't dream (nightmares if I did) of running apache/mysql/fileserver on windows.
Another box works as my surf and email machine, no need to use internet explorer or outlook.
Do mac users run virus scanners often?
How do they know if they have viruses that aren't commonly known yet?
I keep virus scanner running on my linux machines just in case, and it disinfects few files every now and then.
Good thing modern viruses aren't like CIH and pals.
I'd hate to buy new motherboard/gpu just because my pc was infected with some virus that flashed bioses full of garbage.
We can't really outlaw manufacturing of compilers and crowbars.
Besides the program infected the computer only if the end user opened the email and ran the virus code.
This is more of a case for how to get peoples attention on not to open anything non-text that comes through your email.
I think his sentence should be something like community service by going to different schools and talking to children about what might happen when they
open innocent looking goat.cx link or run program they got from someone via email, and consequences what happens if they do.
Teach em young how to avoid dangers online instead paying for it later by exposing their employers network for the latest email worm.
I'm not in favour for what he's done, but getting 175 years in prison for writing a program?
You can get less for killing a man. No wonder the prisons are already full.
Perhaps it's time to realize that it's not always the solution to lock people up for what they have done.
oh, I thought Cisco networks were self defending :P
is this really suitable naming scheme?
add one, and you get:
Intel Inside VIIVI
who needs 30 drive bays, when you can have 32 bays
(I'm almost sure I've seen 48 drive chassis too, couldn't find link tho)
That thing actually has only 2x450W and 2x150W power supplies for the system, so it gives some idea how much overkill 1KW powersupply is.
I've seen machines with 16 harddrives running on single 500W power supply.
The amount of forking power connectors was bit frightening, but it still ran quite stable.