I'd rather just be able to disable the questions entirely, relying on a good password and if that is lost/whatever, account specific information being verified by a human on the phone.
My problems with these "secret questions" are: 1. They are obviously stored cleartext 2. They can be used to "substitute" for your non-cleartext password 3. Because 1+2=3, if someone breaks in and grabs a dump of the table, they now effectively have your account. These "insecurity questions" are more of a liability if you are not one to just lose passwords. Crutch for the stupid, barrier for the secure.
Backports works the same way - works well. Basically you tell it to enable the (backports | experimental) repo in your install/upgrade command, and it grabs the package (and any dependencies) from said repo.
That said, even if you're only cherry-picking, if you are going to be touching sid you want to install apt-listbugs and perhaps even apt-listchanges.
This way, when you are working with apt/aptitude (not sure about GUI frontends) you get a listing of severe/critical bugs and changelogs, with "proceed Y/N?" prompts. These are pulled when you do your action, and not just when you update your listing, so you get to see bugs that were filed after the package version it's going to grab were uploaded...
Nice to know prior to installation that a given package will eat your dog!
Last I played with testing, they had the ability to schedule automatic updates too, like Ubuntu's done.
Debian's getting pretty damn desktop-usable these days, for sure. The few things that don't fit well (ancient iceweasel for instance) debian-backports is a good help for.
I'll just leave here that the smallest usable installer ISO for Debian is a whopping 50mb.
The reason it takes a full CD, is that the (full 8 single-layer DVDs worth) whole Stable repository is huge, so they cram as much of the most popular stuff on that first disk, so you only need the one disk to "get started". Once installed, you can use the network to install more.
I have no idea, not having much of a clue when it comes to chemistry etc, but should it not be possible to evaporate off a large amount of seawater and get a comparatively concentrated reading? Once you get that, you're just some maths away from the original level.
Indeed. 2000km is about 1200 miles. Interestingly the trip from Atlanta, Georgia up to Maine is closer to 1800. That's not even the full N/S length of the continental US, and the E/W length is much longer!
Go put on a jacket. Notice how you got warmer? I don't believe your putting a jacket on released any significant amount of energy - it just keeps the system more insulated (eg, energy doesn't escape so quickly)
You'll notice that if you step outside into the sun, there's a short period where you don't feel warmer immediately? That's the jacket doing the same thing - it's harder for energy to get inside the system from without (though the sun and ambient air temperature will quickly overwhelm the difference, so you'll start getting hot (hmm, just like the planet!))
Getting the code is always nice, but you can't do anything fun with it until you have assets to attach. That whole tedious and often unsuccessful part is now not really necessary, so work on bending the code can begin already and it will have good output to test.
Check your sound sync settings. You've got it slaved to the GPU or CPU. While that keeps things perfectly timed, it really eats performance as you know.
I've had no problems playing PS1 games disk-in-drive. Granted, sometimes seek times were atrocious (doesn't take long to spin up to the slow speed the original hardware had, but ramping up and back down from 52x drives you nuts). But reading itself worked.
To save my drive and sanity though I would rip the ISO file and mount that. Gets rid of all the spinup times etc.
Which is a problem in a digital environment: How can you tell whether something came from the original (public domain) source, or the re-broadcaster? YouTube's auto-filters obviously can't. There's no way to tell original from copy
Digital signatures and watermarks, how do they work?
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I'd rather just be able to disable the questions entirely, relying on a good password and if that is lost/whatever, account specific information being verified by a human on the phone.
My problems with these "secret questions" are:
1. They are obviously stored cleartext
2. They can be used to "substitute" for your non-cleartext password
3. Because 1+2=3, if someone breaks in and grabs a dump of the table, they now effectively have your account. These "insecurity questions" are more of a liability if you are not one to just lose passwords. Crutch for the stupid, barrier for the secure.
Backports works the same way - works well. Basically you tell it to enable the (backports | experimental) repo in your install/upgrade command, and it grabs the package (and any dependencies) from said repo.
That said, even if you're only cherry-picking, if you are going to be touching sid you want to install apt-listbugs and perhaps even apt-listchanges.
This way, when you are working with apt/aptitude (not sure about GUI frontends) you get a listing of severe/critical bugs and changelogs, with "proceed Y/N?" prompts. These are pulled when you do your action, and not just when you update your listing, so you get to see bugs that were filed after the package version it's going to grab were uploaded...
Nice to know prior to installation that a given package will eat your dog!
A good change, definitely.
Last I played with testing, they had the ability to schedule automatic updates too, like Ubuntu's done.
Debian's getting pretty damn desktop-usable these days, for sure. The few things that don't fit well (ancient iceweasel for instance) debian-backports is a good help for.
I'll just leave here that the smallest usable installer ISO for Debian is a whopping 50mb.
The reason it takes a full CD, is that the (full 8 single-layer DVDs worth) whole Stable repository is huge, so they cram as much of the most popular stuff on that first disk, so you only need the one disk to "get started". Once installed, you can use the network to install more.
"it all" takes up about 8 single-layer DVDs. That's just the main repository... contrib and non-free adds a shitload more.
So, they try to put the base system and as much of the most common packages on the first disk, so it can be used standalone to get a useful system.
One of my favorite series, ever.
1984 wasn't depressing, it was just irritating.
Hence the whole content of my comment. Try reading it again, and you'll find:
1. I realize it's still in copyright.
2. I believe it should not be.
These are not mutually exclusive.
I have no idea, not having much of a clue when it comes to chemistry etc, but should it not be possible to evaporate off a large amount of seawater and get a comparatively concentrated reading? Once you get that, you're just some maths away from the original level.
Indeed. 2000km is about 1200 miles. Interestingly the trip from Atlanta, Georgia up to Maine is closer to 1800. That's not even the full N/S length of the continental US, and the E/W length is much longer!
Smoking optional. There was probably an exhaust leak to cater to all your lung-destroying needs.
Why are we all beared and wearing birkenstocks? I don't even know what a birkenstock looks like, nor am I blessed with a full beard.
Well, fortunately win32 will cease moving on them once XP finishes dying. Vista and up are not win32 based, so they can stop chasing the ball.
You use CREATE/DIRECTORY
What's intuitive about that, especially compared to all the others?
Go put on a jacket. Notice how you got warmer? I don't believe your putting a jacket on released any significant amount of energy - it just keeps the system more insulated (eg, energy doesn't escape so quickly)
You'll notice that if you step outside into the sun, there's a short period where you don't feel warmer immediately? That's the jacket doing the same thing - it's harder for energy to get inside the system from without (though the sun and ambient air temperature will quickly overwhelm the difference, so you'll start getting hot (hmm, just like the planet!))
"Copyright (c) 1998"
In a just world, that would be fair game by now.
That's both unusual and awesome.
Getting the code is always nice, but you can't do anything fun with it until you have assets to attach. That whole tedious and often unsuccessful part is now not really necessary, so work on bending the code can begin already and it will have good output to test.
For those playing along at home, I believe he meant Warsow.
Nice! thanks for correcting that, haven't seen that one yet.
Check your sound sync settings. You've got it slaved to the GPU or CPU. While that keeps things perfectly timed, it really eats performance as you know.
I've had no problems playing PS1 games disk-in-drive. Granted, sometimes seek times were atrocious (doesn't take long to spin up to the slow speed the original hardware had, but ramping up and back down from 52x drives you nuts). But reading itself worked.
To save my drive and sanity though I would rip the ISO file and mount that. Gets rid of all the spinup times etc.
Bad link. If I guess, and try it on photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov, I get a nice old 404. (and verbatim as you have it, also bad)
Which is a problem in a digital environment: How can you tell whether something came from the original (public domain) source, or the re-broadcaster? YouTube's auto-filters obviously can't. There's no way to tell original from copy
Digital signatures and watermarks, how do they work?
NASA is government. The government cannot copyright materials (for some good reasons).
That it's NASA, and not ShitStain99's random upload channel?