I can't follow the link here but do you mean that there are more bugs reports in ubuntu than other distros? I would argue that the bug database is the most important feature of the ubuntu distro. I have raised bugs there and seen them propagated to the originating projects.
Releasing the source doesn't mean you can build the complete OS. There may well be proprietary applications and drivers. Having the source doesn't mean you have the tools to replace the existing firmware either.
Drivers are one issue which blocks people from running general android. I thought the whole point of getting the source from Dell was to get the drivers, which should be GPL'd by aggregation.
However, what disturbs me about Seekfind is its apparent narrowness in what they deem as "Christian-enough." Apparently they will not index sites that describe end-times from an amillennial perspective -- which is the most widely held view in all of Christendom (not American fundamentalism), and they won't consider infant baptism (as we in the Presbyterian Church do) or even believers' baptism by sprinkling. What the? It would be much more valuable if I could find commentaries from various Christian perspectives.
But this is the whole problem with organised religion. Once you give special status to a particular view (your own country, your own search engine) you alienate 1000 other interpretations of that religion. This is why the separation of church and state is a Good Thing. Its not bad for religion. Its bad for the little versions of it. Consider how happy the muslims in Saudi Arabia would be if the place wasn't run just by the Wahhabis.
Every atheist accepts that there is no deity on blind faith and without further investigation.
My perspective is that the simplest interpretation is likely to be correct. Maybe there is a god. Maybe god will send me an email one day or turn up on/. and say "you must do this". Until I will act as if god doesn't exist. A bunch of people who tell me that I should believe what they believe don't convince me of anything.
It should scale well for multiple clients, particularly where surfaces are not perfect optical reflectors. If every surface scatters then each client need only require tracing for the last leg of every ray.
One physics lecturer at the college I went to openly trained students to pass the exam. He was shameless. Every example he took us through became a question in the final examination. Needless to say he was a popular guy. This was in the days before there were a significant number of foreign students.
I have a little one at my desk. The trig scale on the back of the slider would be a handy place to put cheat notes. Or even better, write them on the body of the slide rule under the slider so they are normally hidden.
Yeah. GSM coverage in the Melbourne Concert Hall is inexplicably bad, In fact I seem to get no coverage there at all. A lot of attention was put into acoustics when the place was built so I wonder if the builders did something to the RF environment.
Anyway I suggest the OP consult his local physics department. I am sure they will come up with some creative solutions.
Oddly enough I am at work at 08:49 AM legitimately reading/. but checking my home email from here is a sackable offense because IT believe that keeping windows viruses out of the network is a top priority.
I don't know about other places, but here in U.S. Georgia, we have had power out lasting a week in winter storms but the phones were still up and running. The battery pack you mention would have come up a bit short.
Very different here in Melbourne, Australia. I live in an established inner suburb and I can't recall a single power outage in the ten years since we bought this house. When I lived in the outer suburbs there were a couple of one hour outages, probably because there were more trees to fall on the lines.
Incidentally the European standard emergency number 112 is very easy to pulse dial when joining cables.
Telstra techs here in.au once described their network of pipes as a secondary storm water system. One wet day I got called out for a traffic signal fault. Our computer room was flooding from water flowing up out of the Telstra pipe, across the floor and under our false floor, triggering a flood detector.
Telstra guy found a pit down hill from our building, and finding it dry tugged really hard on a cable. The resulting flood in the pipe stopped the water flooding our building.
Don't they sell alarms that use cellular connectivity in Aus?
According to other posters, yes. I don't have one myself. Somebody else said fibre optics are power intensive to use so maybe cellular alarms are a better way to go.
I have googled around for a bit but I can't find any simple figures on the power consumption of a simple network terminator. My guess is that you will run a laser diode at 50mA or so. So a simple NiMH battery pack with 3.3 amp hour will give you a couple of days (maybe).
A friend at Telstra described the massive low voltage DC cables they have and how hard they are to deal with. I think the DC supply was always there for pulse dialling and it kind of got misused over the years.
I don't know about Australia, but here most people pay a flat rate for phone service. They don't pay per call. So what incentive would telecoms have to give kickbacks to alarm companies?
Correct me if in fact in Australia customers pay per phone call or per minute.
Charge is per call for local calls. Time charges on non-local calls. Back when I worked on traffic signals we could get hard wired leased lines for $300 AUD a year from Telstra within a single exchange area. Our gear was located to minimise the cost of the leased lines. That was two actual strings of conducting copper, point to point. You don't see that these days.
More to the point the copper network is noisy as hell. It used to be that you would see fire engines in the Melbourne CBD every couple of hours or so because there were so many false positives from the fire alarms, and a lot of that came down to the phone system.
So its gotten much better lately but re-engineering is well over due IIRC.
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Sure but I doubt android integrators will go to that much trouble.
I bet the drivers are linked into the kernel. Either statically or dynamically, and so should be GPL'd.
I can't follow the link here but do you mean that there are more bugs reports in ubuntu than other distros? I would argue that the bug database is the most important feature of the ubuntu distro. I have raised bugs there and seen them propagated to the originating projects.
Releasing the source doesn't mean you can build the complete OS. There may well be proprietary applications and drivers. Having the source doesn't mean you have the tools to replace the existing firmware either.
Drivers are one issue which blocks people from running general android. I thought the whole point of getting the source from Dell was to get the drivers, which should be GPL'd by aggregation.
An offer for the source (or the source) is supposed to ship with the binaries.
So were Molly and Armitage on the plane too?
However, what disturbs me about Seekfind is its apparent narrowness in what they deem as "Christian-enough." Apparently they will not index sites that describe end-times from an amillennial perspective -- which is the most widely held view in all of Christendom (not American fundamentalism), and they won't consider infant baptism (as we in the Presbyterian Church do) or even believers' baptism by sprinkling. What the? It would be much more valuable if I could find commentaries from various Christian perspectives.
But this is the whole problem with organised religion. Once you give special status to a particular view (your own country, your own search engine) you alienate 1000 other interpretations of that religion. This is why the separation of church and state is a Good Thing. Its not bad for religion. Its bad for the little versions of it. Consider how happy the muslims in Saudi Arabia would be if the place wasn't run just by the Wahhabis.
Every atheist accepts that there is no deity on blind faith and without further investigation.
My perspective is that the simplest interpretation is likely to be correct. Maybe there is a god. Maybe god will send me an email one day or turn up on /. and say "you must do this". Until I will act as if god doesn't exist. A bunch of people who tell me that I should believe what they believe don't convince me of anything.
Buddhism might be the go.
It should scale well for multiple clients, particularly where surfaces are not perfect optical reflectors. If every surface scatters then each client need only require tracing for the last leg of every ray.
Yes
One physics lecturer at the college I went to openly trained students to pass the exam. He was shameless. Every example he took us through became a question in the final examination. Needless to say he was a popular guy. This was in the days before there were a significant number of foreign students.
I have a little one at my desk. The trig scale on the back of the slider would be a handy place to put cheat notes. Or even better, write them on the body of the slide rule under the slider so they are normally hidden.
Yeah. GSM coverage in the Melbourne Concert Hall is inexplicably bad, In fact I seem to get no coverage there at all. A lot of attention was put into acoustics when the place was built so I wonder if the builders did something to the RF environment.
Anyway I suggest the OP consult his local physics department. I am sure they will come up with some creative solutions.
With the door open? Or with phones inside?
That'l do it.
Oddly enough I am at work at 08:49 AM legitimately reading /. but checking my home email from here is a sackable offense because IT believe that keeping windows viruses out of the network is a top priority.
I believe those alarms worked on DC potentials. Simple contact closures. Improving the alarm hardware would definitely have helped.
I don't know about other places, but here in U.S. Georgia, we have had power out lasting a week in winter storms but the phones were still up and running. The battery pack you mention would have come up a bit short.
Very different here in Melbourne, Australia. I live in an established inner suburb and I can't recall a single power outage in the ten years since we bought this house. When I lived in the outer suburbs there were a couple of one hour outages, probably because there were more trees to fall on the lines.
So there you go. He's not one of the nuts.
Incidentally the European standard emergency number 112 is very easy to pulse dial when joining cables.
Telstra techs here in .au once described their network of pipes as a secondary storm water system. One wet day I got called out for a traffic signal fault. Our computer room was flooding from water flowing up out of the Telstra pipe, across the floor and under our false floor, triggering a flood detector.
Telstra guy found a pit down hill from our building, and finding it dry tugged really hard on a cable. The resulting flood in the pipe stopped the water flooding our building.
Don't they sell alarms that use cellular connectivity in Aus?
According to other posters, yes. I don't have one myself. Somebody else said fibre optics are power intensive to use so maybe cellular alarms are a better way to go.
I don't HAVE an alarm. Never did have one. It's just me, and my guns.
I take it you are one of the three remaining Australian gun nuts...
I have googled around for a bit but I can't find any simple figures on the power consumption of a simple network terminator. My guess is that you will run a laser diode at 50mA or so. So a simple NiMH battery pack with 3.3 amp hour will give you a couple of days (maybe).
A friend at Telstra described the massive low voltage DC cables they have and how hard they are to deal with. I think the DC supply was always there for pulse dialling and it kind of got misused over the years.
I don't know about Australia, but here most people pay a flat rate for phone service. They don't pay per call. So what incentive would telecoms have to give kickbacks to alarm companies?
Correct me if in fact in Australia customers pay per phone call or per minute.
Charge is per call for local calls. Time charges on non-local calls. Back when I worked on traffic signals we could get hard wired leased lines for $300 AUD a year from Telstra within a single exchange area. Our gear was located to minimise the cost of the leased lines. That was two actual strings of conducting copper, point to point. You don't see that these days.
More to the point the copper network is noisy as hell. It used to be that you would see fire engines in the Melbourne CBD every couple of hours or so because there were so many false positives from the fire alarms, and a lot of that came down to the phone system.
So its gotten much better lately but re-engineering is well over due IIRC.