I wonder what is the bestway to upgrade to FC3 from FC2... Maybe just use apt and yum to upgrade
Humm... I have never had good luck upgrading a (rh-type) distro with either yum or apt. It is probably because after a year or two of running I have added too many games, browsers, flash plugins, java, etc from both source and other RPM repo's like FreshRPMS.
For instance my main desktop at home started out life as FC1, was modified extensively from FreshRPMS, and now has a bunch of stuff from DAG's rpm repo and NewRPM's.
I am not even going to try to upgrade it in place.
In about a month, after everyone else finds the bugs for me, I will buy the biggest disk drive I can get for less then $300 at Fryes, install and mount it under/opt/newdrive, and copy everything I want to keep to it.
Next I will upgrade my video card and move my tv capture card from my wifes machine back to mine.
After that I will do a fresh FC3 install over my old drive, remount/opt/newdrive and copy everything I wanted to keep back.
Next I will reformat the new drive with XFS and mount it under/opt/video.
This way FC3 starts out its life not all mucked up , I get a fast new dedicated hard drive for video editing that is formated with a file system that is made for big files, and I don't lose any important stuff.
One really nice feature of Vmware is that I made gzipped tarballs of each os when it was "virgin" so any time I want to roll one of my virtual test machines back to a known good state I just untar right over top of the questionable directory and I am back up and running in about five minutes.
Netkit
http://www.netkit.org
in vmware/other is a really interesting package. It uses User-Mode Linux to set up a "router lab" where one can learn about routers and routing. Very well done. They set up the machines for you and also have "Labs" on their website to help you learn.
I think that you are repeating my point. With the EC in place Bush had to appeal to both rural and urban populations. If we had a popular ballot appealing to the urban populations would be enough and the rural populations would be ignored. I think that this would not be a good thing for either the rural populations or the country as a whole.
Perhaps change so that either Popular vote decides the election...
I don't think that this is a good idea. With the Electoral Collage system in place a candidate must win the hearts of all different kinds of people in all different kinds of places. They must represent both city and country, north and south, easterners and westerners. If we go to a poplular vote election then they will concentrate on a few urban areas such as NYC and LA and will ignore places like Montana, New Mexico, Kansas, etc. You will have a situation were all of the focus will be on improving popularity with city dwellers at the expense of the rest of the country. Those people in the middle of the country deserve to have a government that represents them too.
I got into a good discussion about this with a friend of mine who is quite liberal. He took the possition that a popular vote was the right way to go. I still can't understand why he feels that way. The liberal/democratic side has always had it as part of thier beliefs that the government should protect minorities from the dictatorship of the majority, even when it infringes somewhat on the rights of the majority. Yet in this case my friend is clearly for the majority (urban) at the expense of the minority ( flyover country). I suspect that if the urban areas of the country voted more to the right and the rural areas voted to the left he would change his stand.
Instead of flying cars, I want a car like they had in the movie Minority Report. One that I can just sit down in, punch a few buttons, and sit back and relax while it gets me where I want to go all on its own. You will notice that although there was plenty of traffic and it was not moving 200 mph it WAS moving steadly and smoothly because the speed of every car was computer controlled to avoid turbulence and congestion. Cars where queued up at an interchange and were merging one at a time with the steadily flowing traffic on the main road with out any slowdown of the already flowing traffic. No brake lights, no nitwits that don't know how to merge properly, no one slamming on their brakes for no reason or wildly changing lanes and creating a backup.
Ever ride in a limo. When someone else is doing the driving it is way more relaxing and seems to go much faster. You can kick back and talk and relax and not even worry about how you are going to get there. The driver has all of that under control and is far enough forward that you can't easily back seat drive. I would be willing to give up being the first one there if I could sit and read, or surf the internet while I was traveling. Also it would be very nice if I knew that there would never be any traffic jams and that it would always take me exactly 21 minutes to go from my house to my office.
One of the things always mentioned is public transportation. If you don't have a choice that is great but nothing beats door to door service. People want to go from point A to point B quickly and at a time that they choose. I personally really dislike standing at a bus stop for 35 minutes waiting for the next bus headed my way. That coupled with the fact that I have to drive about a fifth of the way to work to get to a bus stop that even has a bus going where I need to go means that you will never see me riding a bus to work. I mean it takes longer to drive to the park-and-ride, park, and wait, then it does just to drive in. Another problem with the park-and-rides around here is that the parking lots are too small. If you don't have a spot by about 6:45 am you are not going to find one. Think they are going to expand any of the lots or put in multilevel parking garages? No. That would be too sensible. Instead we are building a MULTI-BILLION dollar tunnel and light rail that goes from the University to downtown. (A complete waste! NO ONE who works downtown lives at the UW! If they live at the University they are going to classes there. If they are working downtown they are living in the suburbs. Fricken morons!) Think that they have any plans to simplify the route system enough so that you don't need a laptop and a spread sheet to figure out how to get anywhere. No. God forbid they follow a regular schedule and have a bus go southbound every 10 minutes and westbound every 20.
When I am driving over the mountains in my inlaws moterhome I pull over and let people by every chance I get. In places where it is legal I use the shoulder. To do otherwise is just plain selfish.
I repeat my position that if you can not keep up to the speed limit you should be over to the side.
Electic Bikes Northwest has some good information as well as a movie of one of the bikes climbing a serious hill. They seem to favor the kind of e-bikes that are activated by peddling. Something about the drive being about to provide power through the gears as opposed to a fixed gear ratio.
If you can not keep up with the speed limit you should not be on that road. Stay in the residential streets (25mph) until you are in good enough shape to keep up with the traffic. Doesn't matter how right you are if you are dead.
Everyone wonders why more people don't cycle and I think one of the main reasons is that it is outright dangerous. Until there are more cycle routes that don't use roads, or drivers are more considerate towards cyclists, I don't think any more people will cycle to work.
Riders have to take some of the blame. Every morning on my way to work I see cylers who pook along in the middle of the lane, (hey if you can't keep up with the traffic you need to be over to the side) or don't signal turns, or run red lights, or weave through traffic or ride on the wrong side of the road, or ride on the sidewalk. When I ride I obey the traffic laws as if I was on a motercycle.
Compared to Europeans, Americans live in -huge- houses, which have to be heated/cooled/cleaned, etc. A smaller house is cheaper to run and takes a heck of a lot fewer resources than a big house.
But try raising a few kids in your smaller house. My wife and I bought a 900 square foot house about 10 years ago. Then we started having kids. We have since added on 2 bedrooms, a dining room, and a second bathroom, and doubled the size of the house. We are currently trying to figure out a way to squeeze in a two car garage out front.
About half way down the page is a is a section titled Head to Head Bush vs Kerry where they both got a chance to answer fifteen science related questions. I found this part to be the most interesting as you get to hear their answers in their own words instead of the usual "iffy" synopsis about what they think from some talking head with an axe to grind that never took a science class in his life.
As an example of this in the stem cell section at the top of the page the editors say:
"...he said, it is immoral to destroy embryos for the purposes of human
research...Scientists have been frustrated by this rule for three years..
They say that it is slowing progress in stem-cell research,..."
While in the q and a section Bush says:
"I am committed to pursuing stem-cell research without crossing a fundamental line and I am the first president to provide federal funding for human embryonic stem-cell research...Last year the the federal government invested $25million in embryonic stem-cell research and nearly $191 million in adult stem-cell research. My administration is also creating a national embryonic stem-cell bank . These efforts are providing a boost to research while not providing taxpayer funding that would sanction or encourage further destruction of human embryos. My policy makes it possible for federally funded researchers to explore the potential of embryonic stem-cells, while respecting the ethical and moral implications associated with this research."
Not really the same thing at all.
I really hate that about our news. They tell us their version of what someone said instead of just quoting them in context so that we can see what they really said.
Most of the time I am convinced that our so called "objective news reporting" is anything but. Don't these people believe in the integraty of the news anymore?. Aren't reporters taught to be fair, objective, and complete anymore? It used to be that a reporters integrity and accuracy was his most valuable asset. People would talk to reporters like Walter Cronkite because they knew the man would report the facts as they happened without trying to put his own spin on things.
Anyway what does the/. crew think about sending our own questions to the candidates? We could do it the usual way where the top 10 moderated questions get sent to both candidates. I would like to see questions dealing with specific policy and specific goals and plans for the country and the world instead of "baiting" to try to make your favorite look better.
I resisted getting a DVD player until just a couple of months ago. I just hated the idea that they were trying to control what DVDs would play on what players. I am still really pissed at the whole "DVDJon" thing.
The movie/TV industry is only about one thing these days, GREED! The childrens programing producers are the worst of the lot. Most childrens programs are one long commercial for "sugercoated-fatkid-flakes" and "we-longago-ran-out-of-ideas-so-we-will-put-the-wo rd-zoid-in-it action figures." They don't give a damn about putting out quality entertainment or educating kids about life. They just want to tie in to the Mc-ruin-your-kids-health promo so they can extract a few extra dollars from you.
After I started having to buy the same Thomas The Tankengine videos over again because my son had worn out the first one, I finally relented so my kids could watch their favorite movies on DVD. At least this way I can somewhat control what they watch. I will say that I refuse to buy ANYTHING put out by Disney. (GREED,GREED,GREED)
> the day it becomes pay per view is the day I stop buying.
You probably are already watching pay-per-view.... it's called cable tv any you pay through the nose every month for it. Worse they still put the commercials in so you pay to watch commercials. Worse yet the quality of the picture is not that great. Even worse then that is the "casual" approch to customer service you get from BOZO and compan^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H your local cable provider.
I, on the other hand, watch "over the air" HDTV with no monthly fee although the entry price is slightly higher. There are still commercials although they are now free (ie. I am not paying to watch them). The only disadvantage is that instead of 65 channels of unwatchable crap I only get 11 channels of unwatchable crap... wait a minute is that an advantage or a disadvantage?
So this city slicker is driving along one day out in the country, not really paying attention, when BAM! he hits a rooster standing in the middle of the road.
Well this fella looks around and sees a farm house and since he feels kind of bad about killing someone's rooster so he drives up to the farm house to apologize.
So he gets out of his car and he knocks on the door. The door opens and he says to the farmer, "I am really sorry but I just accidentally ran over your rooster. I would like to replace him."
The farmer looks at the city slicker and thinks about it for a minute and then says, "Well, suit yourself, the hens are out back in the coop."
I am a middle class person, not rich, not poor, pretty much worked for everything I have. I almost always vote straight republican.
I am not selfish. I am generous with my friends and my family. I tithe (as in 10%) to my church and I give money to a couple of causes I think are doing usefull "good" in the world. (Habitat for Humanity, The Nature Conservencey, and the Union Gospel Mission.)
I don't have any use for a bunch of whiners that think they deserve a hand out.
The richest person I personally know (a friend who inherited a company that employs about 100 people) is a hard core liberal. His wife and all of his friends, with the exception of my wife and I, are liberals and vote exclusively democrat.
They live in one of the most expensive areas of the city.
I love them but they don't have a clue. They talk on and on about how Bush stole the election and the evil republicans raping the country, and big buisiness taking advantige of the workers, etc, etc, etc. Trying to have a discussion with them is like trying to talk a Jehovah's Witness out of their beliefs. You can't, it's a waste of time to even try. They are "true believers". They have built up a world view that while it seems logicaly consistaint is based on non-sequiters and faulty premises. They don't even hear anything that doesn't confirm their views.
(Not trying to pick on the JW's here I just used them as an example of someone who is argument proof.)
Meanwhile they all and drive expensive cars. Every single one of them went to school on daddys dime. Not one has ever worked full time to afford part time school or worked two jobs so their kids can live in a good neighborhood.
As one of the hard working upward moving middle class I say keep you politics of envy. I will do just fine by the sweat of my own brow. As for the lazy whiners that think the world owes them something, let them work or starve!
When I was a kid I loved The Hitchhikers Guide. One thing that made an impression on me was the bit about always having a clean towel when you travel. Funny how things stick in your head.
About 10 years ago my wife and I spent a month back packing around Europe. Since we had we had to carry everything we went very light, but I still remembered to pack a towel for me and although she didn't want to I made her take one for her.
They came in handy almost every day. She thought I was wise. There is nothing better after you have been walking for three days straight and took a "sink bath" in a little train station in the middle of Italy then to pull a clean folded towel out of your backpack.
People look at you differently too. No matter how bad you look or smell, all of the sudden you are ok. You're not a "bum" anymore. You are civilized.
On the last day, when we flew home, I bought several bottles of expensive wine. We wrapped them in our towels and they all made it home ok.
I am unconvinced this scheme will make much of a difference in the spam epidemic.... This scheme seems to heavily favor the "all-in-one" Internet companies, who manage both sending and receiving....
I think that this is a good thing. It will not have a huge effect at first but over time I think that it will cut down on the spam.
My incoming mail server already does a reverse look up on any incoming SMTP connection. As I understand it I will start to see a "v=spf1" record as part of the DNS look up on some of the records.
Once that starts happening I will be able to set up a perl script that compares the IP that the SMTP connection is coming from with the "v" record and then deny or allow the connection.
Or if I want to wait a couple of months for the maintainers to write in support, I can just upgrade to the latest version of my mail software; in my case Postfix.
Either way as long as it is set up (initially) to default to allow a connection if no "v" record is found the bad effects will be minimal.
At some point in the future "everyone" will be using it and the only ones that do not are the known hard core spam havens. At that point people will start changing their set up to default to deny connections with no record.
For those that have an ISP that will not support it... well that is what the free market is for. It's not like it is very hard to support. If you are using bind all you have to do is add one line to your zone file...something like this (I am telling everyone that mail coming from mynetwork.net should be coming from either xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx or yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy):
mynetwork.net. IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ip4:yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy"
If tech support at your ISP says that they don't support it then either they are morons or they make lots of money from spammers. Either way you are better off somewhere else. Just make sure that you tell the sales/marketing department at your ISP why you are leaving. In my experience the sales department always has the CEO's ear.
The idea was good, a special agent who has a lot of knowlege and is a clever about improvising when things go wrong. But the lack of believable science and technology killed it for me.
If they had only hired some decent writers...
The ones that they had seemed to have flunked out of 3th grade science class. I seem to remember one episode where McGyver manages to set off an explosion by shining sunlight from a hand held mirror on something like a bullet from across a small field. I mean come on! If the sun was that hot we would all be crispy critters in about 2 seconds.
So then I bought an NVidia 5700 Ultra GeForceFX for my machine. The dual-head video works (basically), but X has never been slower. I can't believe how DOG slow X is. I dual booted over to WinXP a couple of weeks ago - the first time I had seen Windows in many, many months. I was sickened at how increadibly fast it is. Almost enough to make me give up on my Linux fantasy.
I had the same problem with my NVIDIA card when I finally got tired of RH9 and installed FC1. I upgraded to the latest NVIDIA driver at the same time. (I think that it was NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run).
SLOW, SLOW, SLOW...REALLY SLOW! Slow enough that BZFLAG was not even playable! Slow enough that full screen video looked like Real Player used to look when you had a 28.8 modem!
Much wailing and nashing of teeth.
Fortunately, I still had a copy of NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run sitting in a "save" directory, ( OK I admit it I am a pack rat). I installed 4363 and my video was back to normal speed. I tried several Nvidia drivers and everything above 4363 was unbearably slow. Nvidia needs to take away their developers fancy new vidio cards and make them use ones that are a couple of years old. (Rolls up a newspaper and...BAD PROGRAMER! BAD!)
I did have a problem with an error message - cc_mismatch error. I believe it was because 4363 did not recognise the version of GCC that was in FC1. I found that to get around the cc_mismatch error when I want to compile the nvida driver I just do the following: (thank you google groups)
# export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1 # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run
I use Mozilla at work on WinXP and at home on FC1 for IMAP email. Other then being smaller and faster to start (not an issue as I have fast computers in both places) what features does thunderbird offer that Mozilla does not. Or what is better about it that I should switch?
What keeps me off of windows at home? Several things.
1) I spend a lot of time fiddling with Windows at work. I am the IT guy and I get tired of clickety, click, clicking around trying to figure out what someone has done to their PC.
1a) I am also the IT guy for my church (see above comment...clickety, clickety, click... Installing your new download buddy AI super-search popup blocker bar with integrated AdtrackerTM system... groan...)
1b) Several of my friends run windows. (above)
2) My main home machine is an Athlon 1500+ and is getting older. It still runs ok but it is not state of the art anymore and I can't justify forking out for a new top of the line PC every 2 years. Linux is just plain faster on any given hardware.
3) All the tools you could ever want come with Linux with no extra charge. (Browsers, graphics, office, compilers, encryption, scanners, network tools, servers, vpn, scripting languages, filters, games, etc. Thousands of tools available. You would spend a fortune buying all that software for windows. I don't think that I have actually paid for a piece of software for my home use in several years. No need to.
4) Much easier to automate things with any of the unix's then with windows.
5) X's ability to run a program on one machine and display it on another saves me all kinds of running around. I know, I know, I am running cygwin on my windows machine at work so I have an Xserver there but even running on my P4 it is kind of laggy.
6) yum and/or apt-get -- install or upgrade almost anything you could want with one or two commands (for free)!
7) Ability to configure the desktop to look exactly the way I want, no matter what weird idea I get this week.
8) VMWARE! I have a 2 whole virtual networking labs set up in VMWARE running on Linux, one at work and one at home. Since I am always studying for another cert this is very handy. The machine at work has 6 virtual subnets set up in it! My Athlon1500+ running Linux at home can handle 4 virtual machines running at once with 3 virtual networks and be perfectly usable.(ram is cheap) I know that there is a version of VMWARE that runs on windows but YOU try that much multitasking on an XP machine.
9) email and web - this probably belongs under the tools section but I like being able to run my own web and email servers just because I can.
10) edna... I have ripped every cd both I and my kids own and have put them on an edna server on my home network so that we can listen to them anywhere in the house.
Edna is a py script that will stream MP3 files over a network or the internet. It has a nice web front end and if you scan the cover art and drop it into the directory it will display in the web page. The main difference though is that there is no easy way to find your edna server on the internet... you have to know where it is.
At home I have ripped almost all of my and my kids CD's and can listen to them on any PC in the house. Streaming 2 or 3 songs at once doesn't seem to tax the network.
One of my future projects is to put together a (silent) media room PC so that I will be able to pipe MP3's through my main stereo and play them on the speakers in the back yard. (Pool Party!) Right now I have to go inside every once in a while and feed new cd's into the changer.
I can also listen to my entire collection at work, ether by opening up a port to my home network DMZ or by tunneling via SSH or VPN.
It works pretty well. My DSL connection can stream a 128mb MP3 file ok. If I try to stream 2 files however at the same time my DSL line can not handle the upload without pauses. Downloading 2 streams at once though the DSL
One of my co-workers set up an Edna server at home. Listening to 2 streams at once over his cable modem connection works just fine, no pausing.
I also know someone who is putting together a wi-fi enabled system to go in his car. When that is done he will be able to park in his driveway and sync his MP3 collections between his car Edna server and his home Edna server. (hopefully he is reading up on iptables)
I think that the whole plugin system was a stroke of pure genius. Set up an easy way for people to add features themselves and you suddenly get all kinds of new ideas, not to mention the fact that the main developers don't have to deal so much with piddly little feature requests anymore.
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Humm... I have never had good luck upgrading a (rh-type) distro with either yum or apt. It is probably because after a year or two of running I have added too many games, browsers, flash plugins, java, etc from both source and other RPM repo's like FreshRPMS.
For instance my main desktop at home started out life as FC1, was modified extensively from FreshRPMS, and now has a bunch of stuff from DAG's rpm repo and NewRPM's.
I am not even going to try to upgrade it in place.
In about a month, after everyone else finds the bugs for me, I will buy the biggest disk drive I can get for less then $300 at Fryes, install and mount it under
Next I will upgrade my video card and move my tv capture card from my wifes machine back to mine.
After that I will do a fresh FC3 install over my old drive, remount
Next I will reformat the new drive with XFS and mount it under
This way FC3 starts out its life not all mucked up , I get a fast new dedicated hard drive for video editing that is formated with a file system that is made for big files, and I don't lose any important stuff.
Vmware works well for me. Even though it costs a few bucks I think that it is well worth the money.
I setup whole virtual labs in there when I get in the mood to play with Checkpoint for a while.
Of course I can not run all at the same time but my Athlon 1500+ will run 4 at once without any problem and 5 with lots of swapping.
Taking a look in my vmware directory I see the following:
$ ls ~/vmware
docs iso iso2 linux ltsp other src windows
$ ls ~/vmware/linux
fc2-1 fresco-1 fresco-2 gnustep rh-firewall-1 rh-firewall-2 startcom smeserver suse tmp yoper whitebox
$ ls ~/vmware/other
netedit netkit
$ ls ~/vmware/windows
win2000Pro1 win2000Pro2 win98 winNT-1 winNT-4 winNT-CP1 winNT-CP2 winNT-CP3
One really nice feature of Vmware is that I made gzipped tarballs of each os when it was "virgin" so any time I want to roll one of my virtual test machines back to a known good state I just untar right over top of the questionable directory and I am back up and running in about five minutes.
Netkit
http://www.netkit.org
in vmware/other is a really interesting package. It uses User-Mode Linux to set up a "router lab" where one can learn about routers and routing. Very well done. They set up the machines for you and also have "Labs" on their website to help you learn.
I think that you are repeating my point. With the EC in place Bush had to appeal to both rural and urban populations. If we had a popular ballot appealing to the urban populations would be enough and the rural populations would be ignored. I think that this would not be a good thing for either the rural populations or the country as a whole.
I don't think that this is a good idea. With the Electoral Collage system in place a candidate must win the hearts of all different kinds of people in all different kinds of places. They must represent both city and country, north and south, easterners and westerners. If we go to a poplular vote election then they will concentrate on a few urban areas such as NYC and LA and will ignore places like Montana, New Mexico, Kansas, etc. You will have a situation were all of the focus will be on improving popularity with city dwellers at the expense of the rest of the country. Those people in the middle of the country deserve to have a government that represents them too.
I got into a good discussion about this with a friend of mine who is quite liberal. He took the possition that a popular vote was the right way to go. I still can't understand why he feels that way. The liberal/democratic side has always had it as part of thier beliefs that the government should protect minorities from the dictatorship of the majority, even when it infringes somewhat on the rights of the majority. Yet in this case my friend is clearly for the majority (urban) at the expense of the minority ( flyover country). I suspect that if the urban areas of the country voted more to the right and the rural areas voted to the left he would change his stand.
Instead of flying cars, I want a car like they had in the movie Minority Report. One that I can just sit down in, punch a few buttons, and sit back and relax while it gets me where I want to go all on its own. You will notice that although there was plenty of traffic and it was not moving 200 mph it WAS moving steadly and smoothly because the speed of every car was computer controlled to avoid turbulence and congestion. Cars where queued up at an interchange and were merging one at a time with the steadily flowing traffic on the main road with out any slowdown of the already flowing traffic. No brake lights, no nitwits that don't know how to merge properly, no one slamming on their brakes for no reason or wildly changing lanes and creating a backup.
Ever ride in a limo. When someone else is doing the driving it is way more relaxing and seems to go much faster. You can kick back and talk and relax and not even worry about how you are going to get there. The driver has all of that under control and is far enough forward that you can't easily back seat drive. I would be willing to give up being the first one there if I could sit and read, or surf the internet while I was traveling. Also it would be very nice if I knew that there would never be any traffic jams and that it would always take me exactly 21 minutes to go from my house to my office.
One of the things always mentioned is public transportation. If you don't have a choice that is great but nothing beats door to door service. People want to go from point A to point B quickly and at a time that they choose. I personally really dislike standing at a bus stop for 35 minutes waiting for the next bus headed my way. That coupled with the fact that I have to drive about a fifth of the way to work to get to a bus stop that even has a bus going where I need to go means that you will never see me riding a bus to work. I mean it takes longer to drive to the park-and-ride, park, and wait, then it does just to drive in. Another problem with the park-and-rides around here is that the parking lots are too small. If you don't have a spot by about 6:45 am you are not going to find one. Think they are going to expand any of the lots or put in multilevel parking garages? No. That would be too sensible. Instead we are building a MULTI-BILLION dollar tunnel and light rail that goes from the University to downtown. (A complete waste! NO ONE who works downtown lives at the UW! If they live at the University they are going to classes there. If they are working downtown they are living in the suburbs. Fricken morons!) Think that they have any plans to simplify the route system enough so that you don't need a laptop and a spread sheet to figure out how to get anywhere. No. God forbid they follow a regular schedule and have a bus go southbound every 10 minutes and westbound every 20.
When I am driving over the mountains in my inlaws moterhome I pull over and let people by every chance I get. In places where it is legal I use the shoulder. To do otherwise is just plain selfish.
I repeat my position that if you can not keep up to the speed limit you should be over to the side.
http://www.electricvehiclesnw.com/
Electic Bikes Northwest has some good information as well as a movie of one of the bikes climbing a serious hill. They seem to favor the kind of e-bikes that are activated by peddling. Something about the drive being about to provide power through the gears as opposed to a fixed gear ratio.
>An e-bike confers no speed advantage, at the cost of being environmetally unfriendly, and denying the user exercise.
Steep hills. I sure as hell would not want to try to peddle up some of the hills around here.
If you can not keep up with the speed limit you should not be on that road. Stay in the residential streets (25mph) until you are in good enough shape to keep up with the traffic. Doesn't matter how right you are if you are dead.
Riders have to take some of the blame. Every morning on my way to work I see cylers who pook along in the middle of the lane, (hey if you can't keep up with the traffic you need to be over to the side) or don't signal turns, or run red lights, or weave through traffic or ride on the wrong side of the road, or ride on the sidewalk. When I ride I obey the traffic laws as if I was on a motercycle.
But try raising a few kids in your smaller house. My wife and I bought a 900 square foot house about 10 years ago. Then we started having kids. We have since added on 2 bedrooms, a dining room, and a second bathroom, and doubled the size of the house. We are currently trying to figure out a way to squeeze in a two car garage out front.
About half way down the page is a is a section titled Head to Head Bush vs Kerry where they both got a chance to answer fifteen science related questions. I found this part to be the most interesting as you get to hear their answers in their own words instead of the usual "iffy" synopsis about what they think from some talking head with an axe to grind that never took a science class in his life.
As an example of this in the stem cell section at the top of the page the editors say:
"
research...Scientists have been frustrated by this rule for three years..
They say that it is slowing progress in stem-cell research,..."
While in the q and a section Bush says:
"I am committed to pursuing stem-cell research without crossing a
fundamental line and I am the first president to provide federal funding
for human embryonic stem-cell research.
government invested $25million in embryonic stem-cell research and
nearly $191 million in adult stem-cell research. My administration
is also creating a national embryonic stem-cell bank . These efforts
are providing a boost to research while not providing taxpayer funding
that would sanction or encourage further destruction of human embryos.
My policy makes it possible for federally funded researchers to explore
the potential of embryonic stem-cells, while respecting the ethical and
moral implications associated with this research."
Not really the same thing at all.
I really hate that about our news. They tell us their version of what someone said instead of just quoting them in context so that we can see what they really said.
Most of the time I am convinced that our so called "objective news reporting" is anything but. Don't these people believe in the integraty of the news anymore?. Aren't reporters taught to be fair, objective, and complete anymore? It used to be that a reporters integrity and accuracy was his most valuable asset. People would talk to reporters like Walter Cronkite because they knew the man would report the facts as they happened without trying to put his own spin on things.
Anyway what does the
I think that it would be an interesting read.
I resisted getting a DVD player until just a couple of months ago. I just hated the idea that they were trying to control what DVDs would play on what players. I am still really pissed at the whole "DVDJon" thing.
o rd-zoid-in-it action figures." They don't give a damn about putting out quality entertainment or educating kids about life. They just want to tie in to the Mc-ruin-your-kids-health promo so they can extract a few extra dollars from you.
The movie/TV industry is only about one thing these days, GREED! The childrens programing producers are the worst of the lot. Most childrens programs are one long commercial for "sugercoated-fatkid-flakes" and "we-longago-ran-out-of-ideas-so-we-will-put-the-w
After I started having to buy the same Thomas The Tankengine videos over again because my son had worn out the first one, I finally relented so my kids could watch their favorite movies on DVD. At least this way I can somewhat control what they watch. I will say that I refuse to buy ANYTHING put out by Disney. (GREED,GREED,GREED)
> the day it becomes pay per view is the day I stop buying.
You probably are already watching pay-per-view.... it's called cable tv any you pay through the nose every month for it. Worse they still put the commercials in so you pay to watch commercials. Worse yet the quality of the picture is not that great. Even worse then that is the "casual" approch to customer service you get from BOZO and compan^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H your local cable provider.
I, on the other hand, watch "over the air" HDTV with no monthly fee although the entry price is slightly higher. There are still commercials although they are now free (ie. I am not paying to watch them). The only disadvantage is that instead of 65 channels of unwatchable crap I only get 11 channels of unwatchable crap... wait a minute is that an advantage or a disadvantage?
So this city slicker is driving along one day out in the country, not really paying attention, when BAM! he hits a rooster standing in the middle of the road.
Well this fella looks around and sees a farm house and since he feels kind of bad about killing someone's rooster so he drives up to the farm house to apologize.
So he gets out of his car and he knocks on the door. The door opens and he says to the farmer, "I am really sorry but I just accidentally ran over your rooster. I would like to replace him."
The farmer looks at the city slicker and thinks about it for a minute and then says, "Well, suit yourself, the hens are out back in the coop."
Here! Here!
I am a middle class person, not rich, not poor, pretty much worked for everything I have. I almost always vote straight republican.
I am not selfish. I am generous with my friends and my family. I tithe (as in 10%) to my church and I give money to a couple of causes I think are doing usefull "good" in the world. (Habitat for Humanity, The Nature Conservencey, and the Union Gospel Mission.)
I don't have any use for a bunch of whiners that think they deserve a hand out.
The richest person I personally know (a friend who inherited a company that employs about 100 people) is a hard core liberal. His wife and all of his friends, with the exception of my wife and I, are liberals and vote exclusively democrat.
They live in one of the most expensive areas of the city.
I love them but they don't have a clue. They talk on and on about how Bush stole the election and the evil republicans raping the country, and big buisiness taking advantige of the workers, etc, etc, etc. Trying to have a discussion with them is like trying to talk a Jehovah's Witness out of their beliefs. You can't, it's a waste of time to even try. They are "true believers". They have built up a world view that while it seems logicaly consistaint is based on non-sequiters and faulty premises. They don't even hear anything that doesn't confirm their views.
(Not trying to pick on the JW's here I just used them as an example of someone who is argument proof.)
Meanwhile they all and drive expensive cars. Every single one of them went to school on daddys dime. Not one has ever worked full time to afford part time school or worked two jobs so their kids can live in a good neighborhood.
As one of the hard working upward moving middle class I say keep you politics of envy. I will do just fine by the sweat of my own brow. As for the lazy whiners that think the world owes them something, let them work or starve!
When I was a kid I loved The Hitchhikers Guide. One thing that made an impression on me was the bit about always having a clean towel when you travel. Funny how things stick in your head.
About 10 years ago my wife and I spent a month back packing around Europe. Since we had we had to carry everything we went very light, but I still remembered to pack a towel for me and although she didn't want to I made her take one for her.
They came in handy almost every day. She thought I was wise. There is nothing better after you have been walking for three days straight and took a "sink bath" in a little train station in the middle of Italy then to pull a clean folded towel out of your backpack.
People look at you differently too. No matter how bad you look or smell, all of the sudden you are ok. You're not a "bum" anymore. You are civilized.
On the last day, when we flew home, I bought several bottles of expensive wine. We wrapped them in our towels and they all made it home ok.
As I said that is what the free market is for. If the vendor doesn't do what you want then you find a new vendor ( or isp in this case ).
I think that this is a good thing. It will not have a huge effect at first but over time I think that it will cut down on the spam.
My incoming mail server already does a reverse look up on any incoming SMTP connection. As I understand it I will start to see a "v=spf1" record as part of the DNS look up on some of the records.
Once that starts happening I will be able to set up a perl script that compares the IP that the SMTP connection is coming from with the "v" record and then deny or allow the connection.
Or if I want to wait a couple of months for the maintainers to write in support, I can just upgrade to the latest version of my mail software; in my case Postfix.
Either way as long as it is set up (initially) to default to allow a connection if no "v" record is found the bad effects will be minimal.
At some point in the future "everyone" will be using it and the only ones that do not are the known hard core spam havens. At that point people will start changing their set up to default to deny connections with no record.
For those that have an ISP that will not support it
mynetwork.net. IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ip4:yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy"
If tech support at your ISP says that they don't support it then either they are morons or they make lots of money from spammers. Either way you are better off somewhere else. Just make sure that you tell the sales/marketing department at your ISP why you are leaving. In my experience the sales department always has the CEO's ear.
I did watch some of the original McGyver.
The idea was good, a special agent who has a lot of knowlege and is a clever about improvising when things go wrong. But the lack of believable science and technology killed it for me.
If they had only hired some decent writers...
The ones that they had seemed to have flunked out of 3th grade science class. I seem to remember one episode where McGyver manages to set off an explosion by shining sunlight from a hand held mirror on something like a bullet from across a small field. I mean come on! If the sun was that hot we would all be crispy critters in about 2 seconds.
I had the same problem with my NVIDIA card when I finally got tired of RH9 and installed FC1. I upgraded to the latest NVIDIA driver at the same time. (I think that it was NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run).
SLOW, SLOW, SLOW...REALLY SLOW! Slow enough that BZFLAG was not even playable! Slow enough that full screen video looked like Real Player used to look when you had a 28.8 modem!
Much wailing and nashing of teeth.
Fortunately, I still had a copy of NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run sitting in a "save" directory, ( OK I admit it I am a pack rat). I installed 4363 and my video was back to normal speed. I tried several Nvidia drivers and everything above 4363 was unbearably slow. Nvidia needs to take away their developers fancy new vidio cards and make them use ones that are a couple of years old. (Rolls up a newspaper and...BAD PROGRAMER! BAD!)
I did have a problem with an error message - cc_mismatch error. I believe it was because 4363 did not recognise the version of GCC that was in FC1. I found that to get around the cc_mismatch error when I want to compile the nvida driver I just do the following: (thank you google groups)
# export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1
# sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run
Greetings.
I use Mozilla at work on WinXP and at home on FC1 for IMAP email. Other then being smaller and faster to start (not an issue as I have fast computers in both places) what features does thunderbird offer that Mozilla does not. Or what is better about it that I should switch?
What keeps me off of windows at home? Several things.
... groan...)
1) I spend a lot of time fiddling with Windows at work. I am the IT guy and I get tired of clickety, click, clicking around trying to figure out what someone has done to their PC.
1a) I am also the IT guy for my church (see above comment...clickety, clickety, click... Installing your new download buddy AI super-search popup blocker bar with integrated AdtrackerTM system
1b) Several of my friends run windows. (above)
2) My main home machine is an Athlon 1500+ and is getting older. It still runs ok but it is not state of the art anymore and I can't justify forking out for a new top of the line PC every 2 years. Linux is just plain faster on any given hardware.
3) All the tools you could ever want come with Linux with no extra charge. (Browsers, graphics, office, compilers, encryption, scanners, network tools, servers, vpn, scripting languages, filters, games, etc. Thousands of tools available. You would spend a fortune buying all that software for windows. I don't think that I have actually paid for a piece of software for my home use in several years. No need to.
4) Much easier to automate things with any of the unix's then with windows.
5) X's ability to run a program on one machine and display it on another saves me all kinds of running around. I know, I know, I am running cygwin on my windows machine at work so I have an Xserver there but even running on my P4 it is kind of laggy.
6) yum and/or apt-get -- install or upgrade almost anything you could want with one or two commands (for free)!
7) Ability to configure the desktop to look exactly the way I want, no matter what weird idea I get this week.
8) VMWARE! I have a 2 whole virtual networking labs set up in VMWARE running on Linux, one at work and one at home. Since I am always studying for another cert this is very handy. The machine at work has 6 virtual subnets set up in it! My Athlon1500+ running Linux at home can handle 4 virtual machines running at once with 3 virtual networks and be perfectly usable.(ram is cheap) I know that there is a version of VMWARE that runs on windows but YOU try that much multitasking on an XP machine.
9) email and web - this probably belongs under the tools section but I like being able to run my own web and email servers just because I can.
10) edna... I have ripped every cd both I and my kids own and have put them on an edna server on my home network so that we can listen to them anywhere in the house.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/edna/
... you have to know where it is.
Edna is a py script that will stream MP3 files over a network or the internet. It has a nice web front end and if you scan the cover art and drop it into the directory it will display in the web page. The main difference though is that there is no easy way to find your edna server on the internet
At home I have ripped almost all of my and my kids CD's and can listen to them on any PC in the house. Streaming 2 or 3 songs at once doesn't seem to tax the network.
One of my future projects is to put together a (silent) media room PC so that I will be able to pipe MP3's through my main stereo and play them on the speakers in the back yard. (Pool Party!) Right now I have to go inside every once in a while and feed new cd's into the changer.
I can also listen to my entire collection at work, ether by opening up a port to my home network DMZ or by tunneling via SSH or VPN.
It works pretty well. My DSL connection can stream a 128mb MP3 file ok. If I try to stream 2 files however at the same time my DSL line can not handle the upload without pauses. Downloading 2 streams at once though the DSL
One of my co-workers set up an Edna server at home. Listening to 2 streams at once over his cable modem connection works just fine, no pausing.
I also know someone who is putting together a wi-fi enabled system to go in his car. When that is done he will be able to park in his driveway and sync his MP3 collections between his car Edna server and his home Edna server. (hopefully he is reading up on iptables)
Yep.
Greatest invention since pre-sliced bread!
I think that the whole plugin system was a stroke of pure genius. Set up an easy way for people to add features themselves and you suddenly get all kinds of new ideas, not to mention the fact that the main developers don't have to deal so much with piddly little feature requests anymore.