Until now i didn't know that grub 2 wrote data there despite having installed and updated grub 2 several times. And grub 2 never asked me if i wanted data written there. So by your logic, the programmers of grub 2 are as guilty as all the other ones who write programs writing to unpartitioned space without asking the user.
Just remember if you're trying to add any new OS to it that/etc/grub.d/40_custom is your friend. Add your OS to it, then update-grub, and it will be on the menu the next boot.
I couldn't find/etc/grub.d nor update-grub in grub's documentation. You sure this isn't some distribution specific bit?
From the grub doc (Node: Configuration):
GRUB is configured using `grub.cfg', usually located under
`/boot/grub'.
(Node: Simple Configuration)
The program `grub-mkconfig' (*note Invoking grub-mkconfig::) generates
`grub.cfg' files suitable for most cases.
(Node: Changes From Grub Legacy)
The configuration file is now written in something closer to a full
scripting language: variables, conditionals, and loops are
available.
If buying ATI cards because of their improved performance encourages ATI to make a greater investment in open source drivers, which in turn further improves features and performance, how is this is any way NOT pragmatic?
How do you know all that? Have you made a contract with ATI that guarantees you that development? Oh, i forgot. There's an "if" and a pretty big one.
About being pragmatic or a zealot: It's neither. It's just plain stupid to buy hardware that's not fully supported by your OS of choice.
Bruce Perens, of all people, of zealotry is not a great way to impress us with your perspicacity.
If you rely so heavily on being able to trust that a game company will not advertise games to you, that you feel your "trust is violated" if you see an unexpected ad, maybe you are asking too much of the universe.
Why do i ask "too much of the universe" in this case? It is in fact possible to produce games were there's no pesturing advertisment everytime you're in spectator mode. And which obscures part of the screen which displays information important to the game. It's not some unobtrusive ad when the game starts. It cripples the game. So Valve basically sold me a defective game. Maybe you don't care when someone sells you broken stuff for full price, but i do and i'm acting accordingly.
These days I'm pretty happy nobody bonks me on the head and steals my food.
Of course if your standards are low enough, you can be quite happy with just about anything that's thrown at you.
I still have the original discs but the low price on steam was worth it for me, especially to avoid having to hook up optical drives and hunting down patches for the machines I wanted to play on.
Why didn't you simply register it with Steam by punching in your CD-key, getting it for free to download?
Games are not the problem. Support from hardware vendors is the problem. I use Win 7 on my netbook because I don't trust the OSS implementation of SHE (i like to get the full 11 h out of my netbooks battery, not 6 h) and I want a stable WLAN connection (read: ndis wrapper).
I'm done with Steam, but for a different reason. Bought several games on it, like Warhammer 40k and CS:S. Then I decided to try some CS1.6 and see what's all the fuzz about it from so-called "progamers". Guess what. I got an advertisment in the game for Valves Orange Box! E-mailed them that i find that outrageous and that they should remove it. They: sorry, can't do that. Me: i guess i can't buy from Steam then, anymore.
Being able to do it on silicon should mean they can make them cheaply and quickly with existing fab gear. I could see these being a lot of fun for tinkerers.
Sure, you can make them cheap. But QA could be a bitch, I imagine. Simply ensuring that all used gates operate linear within a small error margin should be hard. And how you gonna give error margins for each output it calculated? After all, it's analog not digital.
It's become pretty clear that Google is able to develop Chrome much faster than Mozilla is able to develop Firefox.
And yet Chrome (or to be more precise, webkit) still doesn't support MathML. No wonder Chrome seems to develop faster if it's support for W3C standards is narrowed down. Plus, Chrome doesn't maintain it's very own rendering engine but uses one that's supported by at least one other major browser vendors.
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AFAICS only if you run Debian or sth based on it.
Truecrypt 5.0 is fairly old. Does 7.0 disk encryption (for newly created ones with 7.0) still have this issue?
Until now i didn't know that grub 2 wrote data there despite having installed and updated grub 2 several times. And grub 2 never asked me if i wanted data written there. So by your logic, the programmers of grub 2 are as guilty as all the other ones who write programs writing to unpartitioned space without asking the user.
Just remember if you're trying to add any new OS to it that /etc/grub.d/40_custom is your friend. Add your OS to it, then update-grub, and it will be on the menu the next boot.
I couldn't find /etc/grub.d nor update-grub in grub's documentation. You sure this isn't some distribution specific bit?
From the grub doc (Node: Configuration):
GRUB is configured using `grub.cfg', usually located under `/boot/grub'.
(Node: Simple Configuration)
The program `grub-mkconfig' (*note Invoking grub-mkconfig::) generates `grub.cfg' files suitable for most cases.
(Node: Changes From Grub Legacy)
The configuration file is now written in something closer to a full scripting language: variables, conditionals, and loops are available.
So how does this make configuring grub easier?
If buying ATI cards because of their improved performance encourages ATI to make a greater investment in open source drivers, which in turn further improves features and performance, how is this is any way NOT pragmatic?
How do you know all that? Have you made a contract with ATI that guarantees you that development? Oh, i forgot. There's an "if" and a pretty big one.
About being pragmatic or a zealot: It's neither. It's just plain stupid to buy hardware that's not fully supported by your OS of choice.
Bruce Perens, of all people, of zealotry is not a great way to impress us with your perspicacity.
Should i know this guy? Because i don't.
Guess i'll abandon /. anytime soon. It's become News for the gulli(ble). Stuff that's illogical. With ads.
Dunno why you're offtopic. You're right. At least about the "sorting not boring"-part :)
let's just make the crap go faster!
You mean, like, throwing it at a fan? I'm all for it!
"Her heart was pounding as she unlatched the door and BUY VIAGRA!"
Though this could be perfectly "fine" in movies where product placement is now commonplace.
Try it..see what you think.
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If you rely so heavily on being able to trust that a game company will not advertise games to you, that you feel your "trust is violated" if you see an unexpected ad, maybe you are asking too much of the universe.
Why do i ask "too much of the universe" in this case? It is in fact possible to produce games were there's no pesturing advertisment everytime you're in spectator mode. And which obscures part of the screen which displays information important to the game. It's not some unobtrusive ad when the game starts. It cripples the game. So Valve basically sold me a defective game. Maybe you don't care when someone sells you broken stuff for full price, but i do and i'm acting accordingly.
These days I'm pretty happy nobody bonks me on the head and steals my food.
Of course if your standards are low enough, you can be quite happy with just about anything that's thrown at you.
How can i be sure they are good? As far as i'm concerned, Valves position of trust has been compromised.
I bought HL as part of a bundle that included Blue Shift, Opposing Force and Team Fortress as well.
Don't want it to make more sad, but i gotta inform you that i got that whole bundle for free when i registered my copy of HL :)
I still have the original discs but the low price on steam was worth it for me, especially to avoid having to hook up optical drives and hunting down patches for the machines I wanted to play on.
Why didn't you simply register it with Steam by punching in your CD-key, getting it for free to download?
Games are not the problem. Support from hardware vendors is the problem. I use Win 7 on my netbook because I don't trust the OSS implementation of SHE (i like to get the full 11 h out of my netbooks battery, not 6 h) and I want a stable WLAN connection (read: ndis wrapper).
Don't forget about all Steam games.
I'm done with Steam, but for a different reason. Bought several games on it, like Warhammer 40k and CS:S. Then I decided to try some CS1.6 and see what's all the fuzz about it from so-called "progamers". Guess what. I got an advertisment in the game for Valves Orange Box! E-mailed them that i find that outrageous and that they should remove it. They: sorry, can't do that. Me: i guess i can't buy from Steam then, anymore.
Of course this is BS in this context. Sorry. :(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic#Example
Being able to do it on silicon should mean they can make them cheaply and quickly with existing fab gear. I could see these being a lot of fun for tinkerers.
Sure, you can make them cheap. But QA could be a bitch, I imagine. Simply ensuring that all used gates operate linear within a small error margin should be hard. And how you gonna give error margins for each output it calculated? After all, it's analog not digital.
Dictionary? WTH. Try a encyclopedia next time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship
Cops and robbers, sure, but who the fuck ever heard of playing pirates and aliens?
Maybe Weyland-Yutani will pirate some EA games for their deep-run-freighters in the future? Who knows.
...Only because we were lied to and were impulsive.
Must.. get.. picture.. of 5 year old.. out of my ... head.
It's become pretty clear that Google is able to develop Chrome much faster than Mozilla is able to develop Firefox.
And yet Chrome (or to be more precise, webkit) still doesn't support MathML. No wonder Chrome seems to develop faster if it's support for W3C standards is narrowed down. Plus, Chrome doesn't maintain it's very own rendering engine but uses one that's supported by at least one other major browser vendors.
Planets?
I wish i had modpoints. The only laptop hard drive that died on me ever was from - wait for it - Toshiba. NC.