Not quite. I made a scientific (if general) statement against a widely held belief which I regard to be false. The belief is still widely held, ergo I have not corrected it.
I'm not at all surprised to see you talking about "blind scientists" holding onto "obsolete ideas" on a thread which had absolutely nothing to do with science.
Lame, lame, lame! At least get the quoted text right. (-:
I have an external 5.25" USB cage sitting here, the only ID for which is a product code and "Made in China". It currently houses a Pioneer DVD burner (+/-RW, which works at full blast) but fitted with a cheapo 5.25" removable tray for 3.5" drives it also works fine with 80 and 120GB 7200 RPM Seagates.
The only odd thing it does it throws an I/O error at the start of a burn (I've only ever used k3b with this drive) but k3b says it's OK and the burn always verifies. I've never burnt a coaster on it.
I normally use it with Mandrake 9.2 on an AOpen OpenBook 1547 laptop (mostly Intel chipset, but if anyone knows how to get a WinBond memory stick reader to play, do tell), but it works just as well on my desktop (Athlon 2400, nForce2 based, Mandrake 9.2 but 2.6 kernel). I;ve also used it with another Linux laptop (specs unknown), a Windows XP laptop, and a Windows 2003 workstation (those last three only as a DVD burner).
I think our local government (Australian Capital Territory) had a far more intelligent policy; you should consider open source software but still pick the best (read: most economical) tool for the job.
The croweaters' law says words to the effect of "thou shalt not buy lockin risks". That is aimed straight at the heart of everything opposed to FLOSS, and it's a very difficult approach to attack without coming across as a selfish cad. (-:
It's especially interesting because this has wider implications than IT, and it reflects some of what "third world" countries have been learning as they roll out their own FLOSS policies. People become less reluctant to shoot co-developers, and more interested in meeting to solve common problems as a result of the practice that they get on-line.
So much of the progress in this world is held up by blind faith in the existing dogma, so many people are held in thrall to greed and fear because of it. These same problems extend beyond business.
For example, science tells us and we all agree that craters are formed either by meteorite impacts or vulcanism. What? allofthem? I think not. But as long as we hang onto that obsolete idea, we're blind to any other possibilities.
Despite all of the benefits already expounded upon herein, the legislation we're seeing enacted is most important for forcing people to seriously consider alternatives for the first time. For that reason, it's sad to see Massuchusetts backing down at all. It's not as if the original wording was exactly draconian to start with.
my real motivation [...] is [...] partly smugness
Nathan! I'm shocked - absolutely shocked - at the level of self-deprecation I see here! (-:
I definitely don't want FLOSS to be govt-mandated now and 10 years later have a bunch of disgruntled ex-Microsofties bitch about how "FLOSS would never have won if the govt didn't make it compulsory".
They'll whine anyway. And we'll survive that experience, too. (-:
Seriously, is it such a big threat compared to frostbite, freezing to death if your car breaks down, roads covered in snow, slush, salt and sometimes ice, or driving on the French side of the road? (-:
Don't spend your life sunbaking, do eat fresh food and exercise a bit and your odds against skin cancer are good. In short, be sensible. It's nothing like the ad in the leaders before Terminator 2. (-:
Also, if you like cold, perhaps we could find you a job at Mawson Station?
Perhaps we can get you a spot in Perth, where summer never really ends. If you really do like hot and dry, we'll see if we can get you a research posting in Pannawonica or Paraburdoo or Marble Bar. (-:
Suffice to say, Trent has indeed hit puberty good and hard, and Jeremy is way north of that. There are other names in there you should have complained about and didn't.
It's -7 deg C here, snowing and 4 hours of "daylight".
Getting ready to stop now boss. Sunrise is circa 6:30, beautiful and clear, and sunset circa 19:30. As I go about my daily business, I shall treasure the comfort of knowing that I'm not living where you are. (-:
B'dale Garbee is here too, and Rusty, and Tridge, and Conrad Parker, Russell Coker, Chris Yeoh, Jon Oxer, Maddog, Job Corbet, Nick Bannon, James Henstridge, Malcolm Tredinnick, Sylvia Pfeiffer, Con Zymaris, Glen Turner, Ananth Mavinakayanahalli, Hugh Blemings, Janis Johnson, Jeremy Allison, Groggy Lehey, Jeff "jdub" Waugh, Rasmus Lerdorf, Trent "Lathiat" Lloyd, Jeremy Malcolm, Mark Tearle, Bernard Blackham, it's turning into a regular who's who.
And here's a postcard of Tux climbing the "Heroin Needle/Crashed Spaceship" communications tower Godzilla-style, telling us that Canberra have the 2005 conf. And they certainly have the balls for it: big concrete ones along the edges of some of their roads.
...that he takes it all in his stride. Today, he made a suggestion about Saturday's events and a specific large software company which clearly shows that:
He's not taking himself too seriously (no swelled head)
He's managing the excessive attention itself well (certainly several orders of mangitude better than I would)
...free icecreams and the beaches someone mentioned above. Could be worth it in the Northern Hemisphere's midwinter. (-:
Chick magnet? Well, probably 20 or 30 shielas
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OTOH, that's only Day One.
First photos (no, not just of the chix, settle down!) and a walkthrough going up on the site in the next 12 hours or so.
The Audio Miniconf has been a hoot, and ain't over yet. Also, educationaLinux has (sometimes) had the audience riveted, and even sessions as specialised as IPv6 are drawing an attentive crowd. Turn up to educationaLinux tomorrow and you not only get to see lil' ol' me present, but also Lindsay Holmwood's security talk has been pushed back into Tuesday.
...and awed at the effort you put in against my simple answer. I wasn't thinking of slowing it rocket-style but using magnetic braking. If it had been so braked, one would expect the planet's spin to be magnetically "tide locked" to the primary (like our own Moon) to a much greater extent than could be explained by gravity alone, and one would expect heating of the primary side of the planet in considerably greater degree than could be explained by radiation. I wonder if doppler on the limbs of the planet and/or the planet's spectrum as a whole would be accurate enough to tell us anything about that.
I would like to try taking lots of spectra at fixed intervals and looking for a wavy set of hot-but-not-stellar hydrogen lines alongside the star's more-or-less invariant stellar hydrogen.
...but if this is panels on the rover we're talking about, why not mount a sponge on the side of the lander that it can rub the panels against? And if it's the lander, why not equip the rover with a sponge? You could go and bash it against a rock every so often to clean it out. And since there's atmosphere, why not use some advanced technology like (ghasp) fans to blow the dang dust off every so often?
2.6.0-1mdk running fine on AOpen OpenBook 1547
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Still no drivers for the WinBond memory stick reader, and I have yet to port the driver for my Minitar PCMCIA WLAN card, but otherwise neat and sweet. Burns DVDs over USB2 as fast as the Pioneer drive will spin them. Firewire fires. Video is reliable including in 3D but not up to gamer speeds. Worked as well on a rebuilt kernel as on a mint binary.
My wife's nForce2 (Athlon 2400) also goes well on the same kernel, but because the NVidia drivers are execrable in terms of reliability I jammed a Radeon into it, and it's now up to about three times as reliable as a Windows box. )-: About to try some major hardware swapping to find out where the remaining hardware bugs are. One of them was a Minitar PCI WLAN card, which is now working flawlessly in an K6-2/450 box.
I have the certificates to prove this, and furthermore they're issued by the biggest software company in existence. [...] Mike Bouma, MCSE, MCDST, MS Office Specialist
The single biggest software maker in existence is IBM, not Microsoft. Don't bother quoting NASDAQ at me, it doesn't tell the whole story.
...then you'll be several orders of magnitude out in your forces. If you run into a "squared" or similar factor anywhere in your terms, the butterfly can suddenly morph to StarGlider size.
...and if it's interacting with the star at all, then the changes must be dragging energy out of the planet, ergo, the planet's orbit will decay and probably swiftly. Magnetism is going to be a huge effect if the range is short enough for a 3.5-day orbit. Think dynamo. Think closer, and faster.
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"Can we fix it?" (-:
Not quite. I made a scientific (if general) statement against a widely held belief which I regard to be false. The belief is still widely held, ergo I have not corrected it.
Lame, lame, lame! At least get the quoted text right. (-:
See you next year, if not before.
I have an external 5.25" USB cage sitting here, the only ID for which is a product code and "Made in China". It currently houses a Pioneer DVD burner (+/-RW, which works at full blast) but fitted with a cheapo 5.25" removable tray for 3.5" drives it also works fine with 80 and 120GB 7200 RPM Seagates.
The only odd thing it does it throws an I/O error at the start of a burn (I've only ever used k3b with this drive) but k3b says it's OK and the burn always verifies. I've never burnt a coaster on it.
I normally use it with Mandrake 9.2 on an AOpen OpenBook 1547 laptop (mostly Intel chipset, but if anyone knows how to get a WinBond memory stick reader to play, do tell), but it works just as well on my desktop (Athlon 2400, nForce2 based, Mandrake 9.2 but 2.6 kernel). I;ve also used it with another Linux laptop (specs unknown), a Windows XP laptop, and a Windows 2003 workstation (those last three only as a DVD burner).
The croweaters' law says words to the effect of "thou shalt not buy lockin risks". That is aimed straight at the heart of everything opposed to FLOSS, and it's a very difficult approach to attack without coming across as a selfish cad. (-:
It's especially interesting because this has wider implications than IT, and it reflects some of what "third world" countries have been learning as they roll out their own FLOSS policies. People become less reluctant to shoot co-developers, and more interested in meeting to solve common problems as a result of the practice that they get on-line.
So much of the progress in this world is held up by blind faith in the existing dogma, so many people are held in thrall to greed and fear because of it. These same problems extend beyond business.
For example, science tells us and we all agree that craters are formed either by meteorite impacts or vulcanism. What? all of them? I think not. But as long as we hang onto that obsolete idea, we're blind to any other possibilities.
Despite all of the benefits already expounded upon herein, the legislation we're seeing enacted is most important for forcing people to seriously consider alternatives for the first time. For that reason, it's sad to see Massuchusetts backing down at all. It's not as if the original wording was exactly draconian to start with.
Nathan! I'm shocked - absolutely shocked - at the level of self-deprecation I see here! (-:
They'll whine anyway. And we'll survive that experience, too. (-:
No.
Actually, they're quite good at sucking dust in... through the CD drive, mostly.
Maybe.
Yes, they are good. No, they are not infallible.
...I forgot the infamous Davyd "pr0xy" Madeley, bane of secure networks, and our unofficial harmonic balancer, Anne Busby, amongst others.
Seriously, is it such a big threat compared to frostbite, freezing to death if your car breaks down, roads covered in snow, slush, salt and sometimes ice, or driving on the French side of the road? (-:
Don't spend your life sunbaking, do eat fresh food and exercise a bit and your odds against skin cancer are good. In short, be sensible. It's nothing like the ad in the leaders before Terminator 2. (-:
Also, if you like cold, perhaps we could find you a job at Mawson Station?
No, we have enough whiners already, thank you.
BTW, you worship your paradise? Or is beatification different for inanimate objects?
Serious thanks for not posting as an AC, you're automatically in the top 20% just for that. (-:
Perhaps we can get you a spot in Perth, where summer never really ends. If you really do like hot and dry, we'll see if we can get you a research posting in Pannawonica or Paraburdoo or Marble Bar. (-:
Suffice to say, Trent has indeed hit puberty good and hard, and Jeremy is way north of that. There are other names in there you should have complained about and didn't.
Getting ready to stop now boss. Sunrise is circa 6:30, beautiful and clear, and sunset circa 19:30. As I go about my daily business, I shall treasure the comfort of knowing that I'm not living where you are. (-:
B'dale Garbee is here too, and Rusty, and Tridge, and Conrad Parker, Russell Coker, Chris Yeoh, Jon Oxer, Maddog, Job Corbet, Nick Bannon, James Henstridge, Malcolm Tredinnick, Sylvia Pfeiffer, Con Zymaris, Glen Turner, Ananth Mavinakayanahalli, Hugh Blemings, Janis Johnson, Jeremy Allison, Groggy Lehey, Jeff "jdub" Waugh, Rasmus Lerdorf, Trent "Lathiat" Lloyd, Jeremy Malcolm, Mark Tearle, Bernard Blackham, it's turning into a regular who's who.
And here's a postcard of Tux climbing the "Heroin Needle/Crashed Spaceship" communications tower Godzilla-style, telling us that Canberra have the 2005 conf. And they certainly have the balls for it: big concrete ones along the edges of some of their roads.
...that he has any rights to those images.
With specificity. (-:
...free icecreams and the beaches someone mentioned above. Could be worth it in the Northern Hemisphere's midwinter. (-:
OTOH, that's only Day One.
First photos (no, not just of the chix, settle down!) and a walkthrough going up on the site in the next 12 hours or so.
The Audio Miniconf has been a hoot, and ain't over yet. Also, educationaLinux has (sometimes) had the audience riveted, and even sessions as specialised as IPv6 are drawing an attentive crowd. Turn up to educationaLinux tomorrow and you not only get to see lil' ol' me present, but also Lindsay Holmwood's security talk has been pushed back into Tuesday.
...and awed at the effort you put in against my simple answer. I wasn't thinking of slowing it rocket-style but using magnetic braking. If it had been so braked, one would expect the planet's spin to be magnetically "tide locked" to the primary (like our own Moon) to a much greater extent than could be explained by gravity alone, and one would expect heating of the primary side of the planet in considerably greater degree than could be explained by radiation. I wonder if doppler on the limbs of the planet and/or the planet's spectrum as a whole would be accurate enough to tell us anything about that.
I would like to try taking lots of spectra at fixed intervals and looking for a wavy set of hot-but-not-stellar hydrogen lines alongside the star's more-or-less invariant stellar hydrogen.
...but if this is panels on the rover we're talking about, why not mount a sponge on the side of the lander that it can rub the panels against? And if it's the lander, why not equip the rover with a sponge? You could go and bash it against a rock every so often to clean it out. And since there's atmosphere, why not use some advanced technology like (ghasp) fans to blow the dang dust off every so often?
Still no drivers for the WinBond memory stick reader, and I have yet to port the driver for my Minitar PCMCIA WLAN card, but otherwise neat and sweet. Burns DVDs over USB2 as fast as the Pioneer drive will spin them. Firewire fires. Video is reliable including in 3D but not up to gamer speeds. Worked as well on a rebuilt kernel as on a mint binary.
My wife's nForce2 (Athlon 2400) also goes well on the same kernel, but because the NVidia drivers are execrable in terms of reliability I jammed a Radeon into it, and it's now up to about three times as reliable as a Windows box. )-: About to try some major hardware swapping to find out where the remaining hardware bugs are. One of them was a Minitar PCI WLAN card, which is now working flawlessly in an K6-2/450 box.
I don't actually use LVM anywhere, so I haven't tested it, but on paper Mandrake 9.2 supports that.
The single biggest software maker in existence is IBM, not Microsoft. Don't bother quoting NASDAQ at me, it doesn't tell the whole story.
IBM don't issue Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert (MCSE) certs (except possibly when their janitors replace the empty rolls).
...then you'll be several orders of magnitude out in your forces. If you run into a "squared" or similar factor anywhere in your terms, the butterfly can suddenly morph to StarGlider size.
...and if it's interacting with the star at all, then the changes must be dragging energy out of the planet, ergo, the planet's orbit will decay and probably swiftly. Magnetism is going to be a huge effect if the range is short enough for a 3.5-day orbit. Think dynamo. Think closer, and faster.
I also like not being left in doubt as to an author's opinion, and there are no lingering questions here. (-:
+1 Informative, that man!