But I'm confident one day we'll put an astronaut on the moon," he told a news conference. In related news, Chinese scientists have been found to be studying old episodes of the 1950s American television show The Honeymooners, hoping to actually the find the episode where Alice goes to the moon.
Well informed scientist see more possible causes for harm than the non-informed general public. This hardly comes as a surprise to me. Not always. Many times it's the other way around. Take, for example, genetically modified food. Most scientists working in this area see no harmful effects from GM food, yet many in the general public think GM food is going to kill them, cause cancer, or other such nonsense. Or human cloning. Many people in the general public are absolutely terrified of human cloning, yet I'd bet most scientists see no problem with this from a biotech standpoint, except for a few ethical considerations.
I am not sure computers work well below -10 degrees celsius:-) Microsoft should build a datacenter around here. Where I'm at it's currently 75 degrees F and sunny. We're looking at a high of 80, very slight chance of rain. Of course, I live near Tampa, FL.:D
Maybe I could see it for game publishers (maybe), but I kind of doubt it. It's important to keep in mind that hardware and software companies develop for the widest audience possible. If they have to be tied to any one platform, it's going to be the one with the most installed base -- XP. Software development does not drive OS adoption, it's the other way around. That being said, more and more software development in recent years has been cross platform.
The most successful applications (except Microsoft Office, IE, and a few other notable exceptions like Intuit's 'suite') are cross-platform -- Photoshop, Firefox, Dreamweaver, Apache.
So, until/unless Vista gains significant traction, software developers are going to to reluctant to tie themselves to that platform. Microsoft is feeling the force of its own monoculture!
RIght. They've taken a community-developed kernel module and have modified it, and then released the result as a binary-only kernel module without including the soure orat least posting an offer to obtain the source to the kernel module. That's a direct letter violation of of the GPL.Sounds like the author of asus_acpi has a lawsuit on his/her hands.
Is it just me? Or does there seem to be coordinated effort on the part of Microsoft and their cronies to fragment the Linux community by using legal offensives, everything from the patent agreements mentioned in TFA to out and out violations of the GPL, such as this one from ASUS? I think it's sort of a divide and conquer strategy... BUt I also don't think that they fully understand the dynamics involved... there isn't just the 'purists' vs. the 'pragmatists'... we're a lot more complicated than that, or so I'd like to think.
You don't much know about cars, do you? The Volt has the room, size, and features of what's called a 'compact' or 'economy' car. Take, for instance, the Honda Civic, which retails starting at $15k. The Civic Hybrid is almost 22K, and has the features of the standard $15K model. That's DOUBLE the price for a modest increase in fuel economy.
If Chevy could price the Volt at under $20K, they would, in the words of Steve Ballmer, 'f**king KILL Honda', but I doubt this would ever happen.
Technically, the Volt is a hybrid and isn't pure electric, of course, since it does have a small gasoline motor for charging the battery. That it can plug in to the wall means that it's a 'plug-in hybrid' as GM calls it.
The Aptera offers the same thing, but for $30k, forget about it.
But a purchase price of $30,000 for a hybrid (which you'll need if you plan to drive it more than 120 miles round trip without a recharge), no cargo space, and room for only one passenger makes this an extremely limited option. TFA's right, the Volt, provided they can keep the price UNDER $30K, will be by far the most attractive option. As a small car, I'd like to see the Volt priced under $20K, actually, but I'm sure it's only a pipe dream at this point, given what 1st gen hybrids like the Prius are going for.
Western Digital drives are cheap for a reason. He mentioned reliability as being particularly important to him. My experience with WD's drives is that they are inexpensive for a reason. It's worth a little bit more money to go for the Seagate, Hitachi or Maxtor (in order of my preference) units.
Yeah, I was thinking about a little nicer case like a server chassis with a SATA hotswap and such, nicer SATA 2 HDDs with a 16MB buffer, which tend to run $120 or so from reputable online sites. You can get the cases for like $150 or so. An Asus AMD64 board.
But, sure, if you go dirt cheap, you grab like an Athlon 64 x2 3800 board with CPU and memory for around $100, an el cheapo $60 case, and cheaper SATA HDDs with 8MB buffers for around $100 a piece. That puts you at like $60, but in the Firehose question, he wanted an integrated GB NIC, so you're looking at a more expensive board up in $150 range for the combo, $150 for the case, and $240 for the drives puts at $540, but you still almost always end up needing miscellaneous parts (extra fans, cables, etc. On one I just finished, I had to run out and buy a SATA power cable as neither the drive nor the mobo came with one, and a couple of fans). at which I usually figure out to be around $25-30, so that puts in the $570 range.
I just checked these numbers against Pricewatch, before I was just ballparking the 'under $750 part'.
Buy a couple of 500 GB SATA HDDs. You can build a box with a SATA RAID controller for probably ~$200 or so and throw OpenFiler on it. You still won't do this under $500, though. Probably under $750, though, for sure, if you're careful.
As for the botched MBR, boot an MS-DOS or even a FreeDOS boot disk and do a fdisk/mbr. That should fix it.
See what I mean?:-D We have to develop an extremely complicated application just to look at pretty pictures and text on the Intarweb tubes. I think the resident size on lynx is like a couple of meg. Yeah. Just checked.
Is it just me or does it seem like 60MB or even 34MB is a LOT of memory for something that browses Web pages?
I mean, people used to make fun of GNU Emacs, saying things like it stands for eight megabytes and constantly swapping or eventually malloc()'s all computer storage. Emacs takes somewhere around 10MB or so on a RHEL4 box, and that thing is practically an operating system. It reads mail! Firefox doesn't even read mail, and it takes 60MB. Opera reads mail, but still 34MB seems just too big, too.
Maybe I'm just getting to be a cranky old man. Now you kids get offa my lawn!
I think the biggest problem with DNSSEC is that it reveals all the zone data, since it has to be able to return an authenticated denial of existence.
Implementation of DNSSEC would essentially make all zone transfers promiscuous. I think that's probably the biggest reason why there's been so much resistance to it.
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Ick. Comedy Central is famous for getting shows like this and then killing them off quick. MST3K anyone?
As a former GM contract employee, let me tell you: you aren't missing much. GM cafeteria food was HORRIBLE.
It cuts both ways.
For maximum nano safety, just specify the -B, -N, and -t options.
Oh, wait, you were talking about something else!
Way #6: Install Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. It includes most of this stuff right out of the box and the rest can be added right from Synaptic.
Maybe I could see it for game publishers (maybe), but I kind of doubt it. It's important to keep in mind that hardware and software companies develop for the widest audience possible. If they have to be tied to any one platform, it's going to be the one with the most installed base -- XP. Software development does not drive OS adoption, it's the other way around. That being said, more and more software development in recent years has been cross platform.
The most successful applications (except Microsoft Office, IE, and a few other notable exceptions like Intuit's 'suite') are cross-platform -- Photoshop, Firefox, Dreamweaver, Apache.
So, until/unless Vista gains significant traction, software developers are going to to reluctant to tie themselves to that platform. Microsoft is feeling the force of its own monoculture!
RIght. They've taken a community-developed kernel module and have modified it, and then released the result as a binary-only kernel module without including the soure orat least posting an offer to obtain the source to the kernel module. That's a direct letter violation of of the GPL.Sounds like the author of asus_acpi has a lawsuit on his/her hands.
Is it just me? Or does there seem to be coordinated effort on the part of Microsoft and their cronies to fragment the Linux community by using legal offensives, everything from the patent agreements mentioned in TFA to out and out violations of the GPL, such as this one from ASUS? I think it's sort of a divide and conquer strategy... BUt I also don't think that they fully understand the dynamics involved ... there isn't just the 'purists' vs. the 'pragmatists'... we're a lot more complicated than that, or so I'd like to think.
You don't much know about cars, do you? The Volt has the room, size, and features of what's called a 'compact' or 'economy' car. Take, for instance, the Honda Civic, which retails starting at $15k. The Civic Hybrid is almost 22K, and has the features of the standard $15K model. That's DOUBLE the price for a modest increase in fuel economy.
If Chevy could price the Volt at under $20K, they would, in the words of Steve Ballmer, 'f**king KILL Honda', but I doubt this would ever happen.
Technically, the Volt is a hybrid and isn't pure electric, of course, since it does have a small gasoline motor for charging the battery. That it can plug in to the wall means that it's a 'plug-in hybrid' as GM calls it.
The Aptera offers the same thing, but for $30k, forget about it.
Oh, I think they'll be fine as long they don't outsource the manufacturing to Sony. :-D
But a purchase price of $30,000 for a hybrid (which you'll need if you plan to drive it more than 120 miles round trip without a recharge), no cargo space, and room for only one passenger makes this an extremely limited option. TFA's right, the Volt, provided they can keep the price UNDER $30K, will be by far the most attractive option. As a small car, I'd like to see the Volt priced under $20K, actually, but I'm sure it's only a pipe dream at this point, given what 1st gen hybrids like the Prius are going for.
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MOD PARENT UP! This AC knows what he's talking about.
Western Digital drives are cheap for a reason. He mentioned reliability as being particularly important to him. My experience with WD's drives is that they are inexpensive for a reason. It's worth a little bit more money to go for the Seagate, Hitachi or Maxtor (in order of my preference) units.
Yeah, I was thinking about a little nicer case like a server chassis with a SATA hotswap and such, nicer SATA 2 HDDs with a 16MB buffer, which tend to run $120 or so from reputable online sites. You can get the cases for like $150 or so. An Asus AMD64 board.
But, sure, if you go dirt cheap, you grab like an Athlon 64 x2 3800 board with CPU and memory for around $100, an el cheapo $60 case, and cheaper SATA HDDs with 8MB buffers for around $100 a piece. That puts you at like $60, but in the Firehose question, he wanted an integrated GB NIC, so you're looking at a more expensive board up in $150 range for the combo, $150 for the case, and $240 for the drives puts at $540, but you still almost always end up needing miscellaneous parts (extra fans, cables, etc. On one I just finished, I had to run out and buy a SATA power cable as neither the drive nor the mobo came with one, and a couple of fans). at which I usually figure out to be around $25-30, so that puts in the $570 range.
I just checked these numbers against Pricewatch, before I was just ballparking the 'under $750 part'.
Buy a couple of 500 GB SATA HDDs. You can build a box with a SATA RAID controller for probably ~$200 or so and throw OpenFiler on it. You still won't do this under $500, though. Probably under $750, though, for sure, if you're careful.
/mbr. That should fix it.
As for the botched MBR, boot an MS-DOS or even a FreeDOS boot disk and do a fdisk
See what I mean? :-D We have to develop an extremely complicated application just to look at pretty pictures and text on the Intarweb tubes. I think the resident size on lynx is like a couple of meg. Yeah. Just checked.
Is it just me or does it seem like 60MB or even 34MB is a LOT of memory for something that browses Web pages?
I mean, people used to make fun of GNU Emacs, saying things like it stands for eight megabytes and constantly swapping or eventually malloc()'s all computer storage. Emacs takes somewhere around 10MB or so on a RHEL4 box, and that thing is practically an operating system. It reads mail! Firefox doesn't even read mail, and it takes 60MB. Opera reads mail, but still 34MB seems just too big, too.
Maybe I'm just getting to be a cranky old man. Now you kids get offa my lawn!
Who cares if you can read a user's password or not? That's why the gods invented the password reset function.
I think the biggest problem with DNSSEC is that it reveals all the zone data, since it has to be able to return an authenticated denial of existence.
Implementation of DNSSEC would essentially make all zone transfers promiscuous. I think that's probably the biggest reason why there's been so much resistance to it.
I just fixed the one for my new house.
-- Hillary
KHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!!!
Oops. Wrong sci-fi franchise.