2.6.3 through 2.6.11. It seems to only be a problem with this specific drive (Cyberdrive CW058D). I've searched around and plenty of people have the problem, none seem to have the solution.
Most linux zealots are just happy it's running linux at all. After all, they can replace the distro any time they want. The main thing is it shows the hardware will work with linux.
You mean the thing where someone could send a software command that would totally wipe out some hardware? Man, sure sucks that that got fixed.
I mean the thing where now I can't use my CD burner. I don't care about whether ide-scsi apparently sucks, I'm just a poor user trying to actually burn CDs. I used to be able to in linux, every other OS I've tried on this system can, but now I can't. (Well, I can, but it requires either messing around to use cdrdao or rebooting to an older kernel, neither of which is very friendly.)
With the CD writing thing. I realise that has worked out well for most people, but for me and anyone else with a Cyberdrive CW058D it hasn't. It's a real pain. I also noticed with the whole reiser4 issue. Linux was always a kludge to get things running for a bit until hurd came out. Now that's starting to bite, as kludge is piled on kludge to get things running. Linus being dictatorial really doesn't help, because the rare times when he's boneheaded are far more harmful than the many times he's being sensible are helpful. If it's the right thing, almost everyone can see it's the right thing.
Have you ever tried to get free porn on the web? It's very easy, at least if you don't really know what you're doing which is the majority of computer users, to accidentally come to something that you really didn't want. In that case, your cache will look like you deliberately got child porn or gay porn or whatever.
You make it a directory. Split the file up into 70 rars and make maybe 10 pars, just like you do when you post it to a newsgroup. Then torrent the directory. Once people have completed any 70 of the 80 files, they can construct the whole thing.
If the Soviets hadn't lost millions of people pushing back the Nazis, we would have had to have done it. Are you taking those numbers into account as you do your Hiroshima/Nagasaki math? And if we had had to slog through mainland Japan in the same way that we did Saipan, Okinowa, Iwojima, and every other ferociously defended scrap of land, many, many more Japanese would have died, including civilians in that densely populated country. You're selectively leaving out what would have been hundreds (plural) of thousands of deaths just to make the destruction of those two targets sound worse than they were by describing them out of any context.
Then let the soviets take the decision to drop the nukes. I said the Chinese might have a justification in terms of revenge. The Americans, plain and simple, didn't.
How many people do you suppose would have been born to all of those that were killed by the Japanese, had they not started the aggression? The thousands killed at Pearl Harbor alone would have had more children and grand children than that, never mind the thousands that died as young men during the ensuing conflict. That's whole generations and family trees cut off by the war the Japanese started.
There were whole generations cut off by the nukes. Pearl Harbour was an attack on naval ships, it was meant to kill naval forces, the civilian deaths were never an aim. The admiral even called off the third wave of bombers, which would have struck at docks and fuel stores rather than ships themselves, for reasons he never explained to his superiors. It may have just been tactics and nothing to do with what was thought to be a genuine target, but the attack on Pearl Harbour was legitimate in a way those on Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't.
You're being very selective about the history here. Japanese attacked the US, always the aggressors, just because they felt evil. Didn't have any reason, US didn't do anything to contribute to it, oh no, it was just being evil.
You're pretty twisted, then. When is it ever "acceptable" for our soldiers to be killed? Are they just trash to you? Disposable? They put their lives at risk to do what they do, but they don't sign up to die. Deaths are deaths.
Soldiers have signed up to risk death. They know some of them, maybe even all of them, will die, and they accept that. The bloke in the factory hasn't, and doesn't. Deaths are deaths, but there's a qualitative difference between deaths of soldiers and deaths of civilians.
Stopping the Japanese war machine, and all of the infrastructure (including factories and ports) that was supporting it was not only acceptable, it was mandatory. By doing so, hundreds of thousands of lives were saved. That's not complicated, nor ethically difficult to grapple with.
If the aim of the US was to save lives, you could have just surrendered at the start. Attacks on civilians are not an acceptable way to fight a war, no matter what the motives are.
Then why was it shocking? It can't have been the death, the Japanese society had killed 10x as many. It can't have been the destruction of the cities, the Japanese society had destroyed plenty of cities.
How do you tell then? It used to be the case that if a warez thing was packaged as an exe it would be a self-extractor, so you could unzip/unrar it without having to run it. But nowadays that's not always how it is, they can be an actual installer. If you have an msi or similar package, how do you tell whether it's installing spyware along with what you're seeing it install? Monitor your registry for changes I suppose, but that's beyond most users, I certainly wouldn't call you moronic for not knowing how to do that. What if it adds itself to the task scheduler instead of using the registry?
The FDL is not widely accepted. I'd go so far as to say the people who use it are a) the FSF and b) people who haven't read it and thought the name sounded good. Every non-FSF site talking about licenses for documentation says don't use the FDL, it sucks. The reason Debian sees it as non-free is because it simply is non-free. Debian has said they'll move all non-free docs out of main and rewrite them themselves. Quite often the Debian man pages are better than the originals.
It's not control-freakery, it's what makes the project useable. The reason people say apt-get is so good is not because apt-get is so good, it's because the Debian packagers make damn sure their packages are following Debian guidelines. If they've improved it, or just modified it to fit in with Debian, I want that version, not the mozilla foundation project. I think they'd be forced to choose a different name that didn't have Firefox or Mozilla in it at all. They could distribute it as the Debian Web Browser, but they'd rather not, since users know and want firefox. As far as greedo, that's completely against the whole open source idea, the right to fork is at the heart of everything Debian stands for.
The web used to have no ads. For a while, google had no ads, or at least they were only down the right hand side. RSS used to have no ads. It seems there's no way out, the next replacement will grow ads, though one can try and keep ahead of the wave I suppose.
I think he's talking about the _audio_ format, wma. Wmv succeeds because it's actually a very good codec for low bitrates. I have a wmv music video that is smaller than an mp3 of the same song. Wma, as far as I can tell, hasn't gone anywhere. (Lots of music stores selling it, and players playing it, but at the moment apple ownzors them)
All blacklists get corrupted over time. On the other hand, new ones won't be very effective because they don't have enough spammers on them. You have to choose what false positive level is acceptable to you.
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2.6.3 through 2.6.11. It seems to only be a problem with this specific drive (Cyberdrive CW058D). I've searched around and plenty of people have the problem, none seem to have the solution.
Most linux zealots are just happy it's running linux at all. After all, they can replace the distro any time they want. The main thing is it shows the hardware will work with linux.
I mean the thing where now I can't use my CD burner. I don't care about whether ide-scsi apparently sucks, I'm just a poor user trying to actually burn CDs. I used to be able to in linux, every other OS I've tried on this system can, but now I can't. (Well, I can, but it requires either messing around to use cdrdao or rebooting to an older kernel, neither of which is very friendly.)
But yeah, fork looks like a good option. I'll see about it.
With the CD writing thing. I realise that has worked out well for most people, but for me and anyone else with a Cyberdrive CW058D it hasn't. It's a real pain. I also noticed with the whole reiser4 issue. Linux was always a kludge to get things running for a bit until hurd came out. Now that's starting to bite, as kludge is piled on kludge to get things running. Linus being dictatorial really doesn't help, because the rare times when he's boneheaded are far more harmful than the many times he's being sensible are helpful. If it's the right thing, almost everyone can see it's the right thing.
By "whining" they might get the mozilla foundation to change it's policy so firefox is free for everyone. Wouldn't that be a better outcome?
30 seconds each is ages, especially if they were series. I get through alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female series at about 5 seconds/pic.
If drug addicts stealing is the problem, why not just arrest and charge them for stealing? That's a good law that's already in place.
He may or may not have been, but I am. The makers, sure, arrest them and all. Like he said, perhaps anyone who pays for it. But just looking?
He works for a company who pays him to keep writing it. So there's demand.
Have you ever tried to get free porn on the web? It's very easy, at least if you don't really know what you're doing which is the majority of computer users, to accidentally come to something that you really didn't want. In that case, your cache will look like you deliberately got child porn or gay porn or whatever.
You make it a directory. Split the file up into 70 rars and make maybe 10 pars, just like you do when you post it to a newsgroup. Then torrent the directory. Once people have completed any 70 of the 80 files, they can construct the whole thing.
Then let the soviets take the decision to drop the nukes. I said the Chinese might have a justification in terms of revenge. The Americans, plain and simple, didn't.
How many people do you suppose would have been born to all of those that were killed by the Japanese, had they not started the aggression? The thousands killed at Pearl Harbor alone would have had more children and grand children than that, never mind the thousands that died as young men during the ensuing conflict. That's whole generations and family trees cut off by the war the Japanese started.
There were whole generations cut off by the nukes. Pearl Harbour was an attack on naval ships, it was meant to kill naval forces, the civilian deaths were never an aim. The admiral even called off the third wave of bombers, which would have struck at docks and fuel stores rather than ships themselves, for reasons he never explained to his superiors. It may have just been tactics and nothing to do with what was thought to be a genuine target, but the attack on Pearl Harbour was legitimate in a way those on Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't.
You're being very selective about the history here. Japanese attacked the US, always the aggressors, just because they felt evil. Didn't have any reason, US didn't do anything to contribute to it, oh no, it was just being evil.
You're pretty twisted, then. When is it ever "acceptable" for our soldiers to be killed? Are they just trash to you? Disposable? They put their lives at risk to do what they do, but they don't sign up to die. Deaths are deaths.
Soldiers have signed up to risk death. They know some of them, maybe even all of them, will die, and they accept that. The bloke in the factory hasn't, and doesn't. Deaths are deaths, but there's a qualitative difference between deaths of soldiers and deaths of civilians.
Stopping the Japanese war machine, and all of the infrastructure (including factories and ports) that was supporting it was not only acceptable, it was mandatory. By doing so, hundreds of thousands of lives were saved. That's not complicated, nor ethically difficult to grapple with.
If the aim of the US was to save lives, you could have just surrendered at the start. Attacks on civilians are not an acceptable way to fight a war, no matter what the motives are.
Then why was it shocking? It can't have been the death, the Japanese society had killed 10x as many. It can't have been the destruction of the cities, the Japanese society had destroyed plenty of cities.
How do you tell then? It used to be the case that if a warez thing was packaged as an exe it would be a self-extractor, so you could unzip/unrar it without having to run it. But nowadays that's not always how it is, they can be an actual installer. If you have an msi or similar package, how do you tell whether it's installing spyware along with what you're seeing it install? Monitor your registry for changes I suppose, but that's beyond most users, I certainly wouldn't call you moronic for not knowing how to do that. What if it adds itself to the task scheduler instead of using the registry?
They increase freedom overall. Would you say the first amendment restricts freedom? After all, it's a rule.
They actually care about freedom, not just getting good software for free.
The FDL is not widely accepted. I'd go so far as to say the people who use it are a) the FSF and b) people who haven't read it and thought the name sounded good. Every non-FSF site talking about licenses for documentation says don't use the FDL, it sucks. The reason Debian sees it as non-free is because it simply is non-free. Debian has said they'll move all non-free docs out of main and rewrite them themselves. Quite often the Debian man pages are better than the originals.
It's not control-freakery, it's what makes the project useable. The reason people say apt-get is so good is not because apt-get is so good, it's because the Debian packagers make damn sure their packages are following Debian guidelines. If they've improved it, or just modified it to fit in with Debian, I want that version, not the mozilla foundation project. I think they'd be forced to choose a different name that didn't have Firefox or Mozilla in it at all. They could distribute it as the Debian Web Browser, but they'd rather not, since users know and want firefox. As far as greedo, that's completely against the whole open source idea, the right to fork is at the heart of everything Debian stands for.
The web used to have no ads. For a while, google had no ads, or at least they were only down the right hand side. RSS used to have no ads. It seems there's no way out, the next replacement will grow ads, though one can try and keep ahead of the wave I suppose.
I think he's talking about the _audio_ format, wma. Wmv succeeds because it's actually a very good codec for low bitrates. I have a wmv music video that is smaller than an mp3 of the same song. Wma, as far as I can tell, hasn't gone anywhere. (Lots of music stores selling it, and players playing it, but at the moment apple ownzors them)
Just RAR it up and stick a few PARs in there before making the torrent? Oh wait, I forgot, bittorrent users only like sexy new stuff.
Just use links. Content without the crap. It's like the last decade or so never happened, no flash, no java applets, no funky javascript. Heaven.
All blacklists get corrupted over time. On the other hand, new ones won't be very effective because they don't have enough spammers on them. You have to choose what false positive level is acceptable to you.
I got it just a minute ago. The half hour in the faq is just to scare you, they don't really block you even if you check it every 30 sepjoi4321#]p9i'#!"^%!^£ +++ NO CARRIER