guess what, if you had enough energy to type www.google.com the first 8 links are all great projects and ways to do exactly what you said for the keywords "linux undelete"
but then, typing those letter into a web browser is simply way to much effort.
These options went out of the window with the introduction of journaling in ext3. But even with ext2, they barely worked, especially for large files. They didn't work for me anyway.
you must be either management or incredibly lazy.
I guess you are the 18-year-old intern who believes to know everything then?
Undelete, not half-assed, desktop based trash can implementations, is something I've always been missing on Linux. And yes, I generally know what I'm doing, but i'm also human and do make mistakes.
Windows vista on modern hardware boots no faster then 98 did on hardware that was modern for its era.
Boot time is constrained by harddrive seek times, not CPU throughput. Today's harddrives have only marginally better seek times than harddrives from 1998. PCs didn't improve much in terms of latency at all.
But few developers seem to be aware of this, which is probably one of the reasons for many types of apps starting even slower than they used to. Many apps abuse the filesystem as a database. My system has currently >600.000 files on it. In 98 I would have had maybe 2000 and back than, most of these files were my user files, rather than files for apps, configs and caches.
I think the problem is this: Christ (the only Son of God) died (on this Earth) to redeem mankind because of man's sins (on this Earth). Now, if there is intelligent life on other planets and if that life sinned also, then Christ would have to be incarnated there, and die there as well. I think it's not so much as incompatible as simply inelegant. It makes you want to say, "why can't Christ just be incarnated somewhere in the middle of the universe and die and rise again there for the whole universe's sins, rather than at 30 AD in Jerusalem, Earth, and at 200,000 AD on the planet Zardoz-3 in the city of Qyynax'gbtht, and..etc."
You could also ask why he didn't incarnate, die and rise in the 1990s live on TV, rather than in some unimportant desert ridden area on only one of many disconnected continents and relying on oral traditions of dubios quality to advertise his deed.
The world religions are full of contradictions, yet the believers pretty much don't care. My best estimate would be that if an intelligent alien species were discovered, Christians would just try to proselytise them.
I don't really see the benefit of these machines. Sure, you get the results a little bit earlier, but that's hardly important. So why are some countries adopting voting machines, while others don't even think about it?
What is the TCO of these things anyway? These machines are used maybe once a year. Will they still work in ten years down the line? Lots of motherboards don't due to failing CMOS batteries for example. It seems to me that given the rapid pace of changes in the field of computing and networking, it would be very difficult to maintain such a system over decades. Do voting machines use modems? What if everybody uses VoIP and cell phones in ten years?
Yeah. The list isn't well researched. Vista is on the list? I haven't tried it yet, but I doubt that it could top need to shuffle AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS entries on a per application basis. Realplayer is on the list? How could Realplayer possibly compete with Netscape 4.x in terms of annoyance? And what about some of the truly bizzaro UI experiences us Linux users had to endure in the late 90ies? I still get flashbacks from those.
You might have missed the news, but Thailand was overtaken by a military coup last year and is now being run as a military dictatorship. "Their own morality" is irrelevent, particularly when the dictator is a Muslim.
Well the problem is that the news reported about this coup with an extremely positive and naive slant. The coup was said to allegedly be supported by the people (how would they know?), while the ousted governement was meaninglessly accused of being corrupt (which governement isn't to some extent?) and of preventing reforms (reform = policy a certain constituency supports).
On February 15 2003 the largest global protest ever took place in hundreds of place around the planet. It was against the war on Iraq. They were ignored by politicians. Democracy is dead.
No it isn't. It is alive and well and has never been stronger.
Look, I too protested against the war in 2003. But I never expected that this could actually prevent the war. Demonstrations seldomly achieve this effect. Most politicians will in fact continue with their plans in spite and pat themselves on the shoulder for "not giving in to the masses".
But protests do have effects. Nobody in the US cared about the Vietnam war for years. Because of that, the US was able to commit numerous atrocities. This time, the war was at the center of public and media attention right from the start and atrocities like those committed in Abu Ghraib were exposed. 30-years ago, nobody would have bothered to look.
Also, think about all of the governements that didn't send their troops to fight a useless war. The demonstrations gave support to those european leaders that opposed the iron and divisive will of Rumsfeld and Bush and had the audacity to demand actual evidence for Saddam's alleged stockpiles of WMDs.
I believe that another important fear is that of disempowerment. Open source is usually free of charge, which means that their budgets and thus their importance decreases. Also, there is no need for developers and IT staff to go to their superiors to ask and beg in the first place. They can just download, evaluate and use free software right away.
Free software is also not advertised unlike commercial products, which means that managers can't even communciate, what is going on, to their kin.
Compare: "I recently negotiated a licencing deal with <known software company> for <known software product>, which i deemed to be the best solution because of <list of buzzwords>" To: "Well, my IT guys implemented a working system on their own, using some software I can't pronounce and really don't understand."
Electoral secrecy compromised to some degree??? Now that is an understatement, unless I misunderstood something.
So let me get this straight. If you take only one ballot from one party and no empty ballot, then that is what your vote will be? So party goons can easily check whether you voted for their party?
Seems like your whole protection against election fraud seems to be based on the notion that swedish people are nice and fair-minded anyway and therefore wouldn't do anything bad.
This is not meant to be rude. I don't feel I have any right to dictate taste or quality. That said, it's guys like you that keep me off of file sharing networks.
The quality of a movie or a tv show is in the writing, acting, camera work etc.
I use file sharing to get the undubbed originals of tv-shows and I've seen the unfortunate trend to bigger and bigger files. My connection does 5Mbs nowadays, yet it takes the exact same time to download a show like in the good old days of kazaa. 70 Megs is perfectly fine for your average 22 minute show.
2) Manufacturers should be obliged to make low-voltage devices have transformers internal(and wired after the power switch), and make those really annoying power bricks you now get with everything illegal.
What I'd like to do is to power peripherals with the efficient power supply of my PC instead of having to independently manage a myriad of said annoying bricks.
USB maxes out at 2.5W, which is at least good enough to power a scanner, but not much more.
Now I am against the UK model like the next guy. The problem with public surveillance is that humans are operating it. Such a system can be abused in so many ways, from ogling hot chicks, over stalking your neighbour to racial profiling and monitoring dissident activities.
If however the system is operated by computers who work with publicly known and approved heuristics and human operators are only allowed to watch if specific events occur, I am perfectly fine with that.
Now before anybody attempts to defend the guy, here is an actual quote from the transcript in which he himself anounced that he would beat his own kids, if they stopped believing.
"But if my kid is aged 12 and he's kinda like dad, i appreciate what you've taught me but i've decided in my 12 years of religion that i'm gonna stop going to church, after i break his backside, we're gonna have a little attitude adjustment and i'm gonna say you're gonna get in the car with the rest of the family and go to church. you're entitled to your own opinion, but you're gonna do what i tell you to."
Well, that was quite a post, but why on earth should James Randi have anything to do with it?
Unless he has suddenly undertaken a career in physics instead of card tricks while I wasn't looking, Randi is just not qualified to even begin to crtitique any physicist's work.
Randi does a good job taking on mediums, psychics and water diviners. That's about the grasp of his abilities.
James Randi is not a trained diviner, psychic oder medium either. In order to assess the question, if something works, it is not necessary to understand how it works. If Bussard won't indeed produce any verifiable experiments then he's just not doing science.
Most of the opposition parties boycotted the last election due to massive fraud.
Which is why the supreme court ordered re-elections to take place in October. This of course didn't happen, since the military took power in September. Looks more like the military tried to prevent elections instead of being for elections. If they were truly democratic, they would have held the elections as scheduled and under OECD supervision. Instead, they seem to be governing at their choosing, with no mandate whatsoever.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't move out if death squads are chasing you.
But if you are living in the free world, where by and large problems of similar magnitude exist, it isn't a good idea to move just because of this reason, because soon, you will find out that the grass isn't that much greener on the other side after all.
As somebody from Vienna, Austria, I must say that your observations astonished me.
hands-off governement in Austria? This has probably to do with sloppy/pragmatic enforcement of laws in comparison to Germany. We do have many laws, but are not crazy enough to actually implement them.
Cleanliness? We don't think of ourselves that way, since we are not as obsessed with cleanliness as the Germans are.
There are many god reasons to move to another country: climate, women, food, jobs, etc. It is however not a good idea to move to a country because you are feed up with the politics of your own. People are feed up with their governements and politicians, because of the many bad experiences they had. Since they had mostly exciting and good memories from vacations and business trips to outher countries, they can get the wrong impression that everything is better everywhere else.
But some actually do move for that reason. There are Germans who come to Austria, because they hate german politics. Some Austrians move to Greece, because they hate ours and so on. These kinds of expatriates then continue to obsess with their native country and never stop badmouthing it.
And like most marketers, it doesn't seem like you have acutally used the product prior to marketing it. You underestimated Krita. CMYK wasn't added just now. It was already present in prior versions. Krita features on top of that up to 32 bit floating point or integer RGB, L*a*b and Watercolor color spaces. Now THAT would have been something to brag about.
I think you misunderstood Nussbaum. I believe he was trying to say that once some volunteers are paid, the other volunteers lose interest. I've witnessed this first hand in an originally volunteer based NPO.
Maybe it won't be with Vista, but with the next years-late, overhyped, and nearly-identical version of Windows, people might say "Hey, this is the same crap." Especially since BSOD stopped with Win2k, and windows is basically stable.
The only way to avoid buying Vista, is to move to another plattform, like Linux. But sticking with an older revision of some OS is only doable for so long. Eventually the cost/benefit ratio will tilt to the new Version.
XP was late and overhyped as well. Many argued that NT4SP6, W2K and W98SE would be enough for anyone. There were numerous predictions that companies and consumers wouldn't upgrade and stick with what they have.
But this didn't happen. XP was adopted, just like Vista will be adopted over time. Trying to stop this inevitable progression is really a complete waste of one's political vigor.
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These options went out of the window with the introduction of journaling in ext3. But even with ext2, they barely worked, especially for large files. They didn't work for me anyway.
I guess you are the 18-year-old intern who believes to know everything then?
Undelete, not half-assed, desktop based trash can implementations, is something I've always been missing on Linux. And yes, I generally know what I'm doing, but i'm also human and do make mistakes.
Boot time is constrained by harddrive seek times, not CPU throughput. Today's harddrives have only marginally better seek times than harddrives from 1998. PCs didn't improve much in terms of latency at all.
But few developers seem to be aware of this, which is probably one of the reasons for many types of apps starting even slower than they used to. Many apps abuse the filesystem as a database. My system has currently >600.000 files on it. In 98 I would have had maybe 2000 and back than, most of these files were my user files, rather than files for apps, configs and caches.
You could also ask why he didn't incarnate, die and rise in the 1990s live on TV, rather than in some unimportant desert ridden area on only one of many disconnected continents and relying on oral traditions of dubios quality to advertise his deed.
The world religions are full of contradictions, yet the believers pretty much don't care. My best estimate would be that if an intelligent alien species were discovered, Christians would just try to proselytise them.
I don't really see the benefit of these machines. Sure, you get the results a little bit earlier, but that's hardly important. So why are some countries adopting voting machines, while others don't even think about it?
What is the TCO of these things anyway? These machines are used maybe once a year. Will they still work in ten years down the line? Lots of motherboards don't due to failing CMOS batteries for example. It seems to me that given the rapid pace of changes in the field of computing and networking, it would be very difficult to maintain such a system over decades. Do voting machines use modems? What if everybody uses VoIP and cell phones in ten years?
Yeah. The list isn't well researched. Vista is on the list? I haven't tried it yet, but I doubt that it could top need to shuffle AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS entries on a per application basis. Realplayer is on the list? How could Realplayer possibly compete with Netscape 4.x in terms of annoyance? And what about some of the truly bizzaro UI experiences us Linux users had to endure in the late 90ies? I still get flashbacks from those.
Well the problem is that the news reported about this coup with an extremely positive and naive slant. The coup was said to allegedly be supported by the people (how would they know?), while the ousted governement was meaninglessly accused of being corrupt (which governement isn't to some extent?) and of preventing reforms (reform = policy a certain constituency supports).
No it isn't. It is alive and well and has never been stronger.
Look, I too protested against the war in 2003. But I never expected that this could actually prevent the war. Demonstrations seldomly achieve this effect. Most politicians will in fact continue with their plans in spite and pat themselves on the shoulder for "not giving in to the masses".
But protests do have effects. Nobody in the US cared about the Vietnam war for years. Because of that, the US was able to commit numerous atrocities. This time, the war was at the center of public and media attention right from the start and atrocities like those committed in Abu Ghraib were exposed. 30-years ago, nobody would have bothered to look.
Also, think about all of the governements that didn't send their troops to fight a useless war. The demonstrations gave support to those european leaders that opposed the iron and divisive will of Rumsfeld and Bush and had the audacity to demand actual evidence for Saddam's alleged stockpiles of WMDs.
I believe that another important fear is that of disempowerment. Open source is usually free of charge, which means that their budgets and thus their importance decreases. Also, there is no need for developers and IT staff to go to their superiors to ask and beg in the first place. They can just download, evaluate and use free software right away.
Free software is also not advertised unlike commercial products, which means that managers can't even communciate, what is going on, to their kin.
Compare: "I recently negotiated a licencing deal with <known software company> for <known software product>, which i deemed to be the best solution because of <list of buzzwords>"
To: "Well, my IT guys implemented a working system on their own, using some software I can't pronounce and really don't understand."
Electoral secrecy compromised to some degree??? Now that is an understatement, unless I misunderstood something.
So let me get this straight. If you take only one ballot from one party and no empty ballot, then that is what your vote will be? So party goons can easily check whether you voted for their party?
Seems like your whole protection against election fraud seems to be based on the notion that swedish people are nice and fair-minded anyway and therefore wouldn't do anything bad.
The quality of a movie or a tv show is in the writing, acting, camera work etc.
I use file sharing to get the undubbed originals of tv-shows and I've seen the unfortunate trend to bigger and bigger files. My connection does 5Mbs nowadays, yet it takes the exact same time to download a show like in the good old days of kazaa. 70 Megs is perfectly fine for your average 22 minute show.
What I'd like to do is to power peripherals with the efficient power supply of my PC instead of having to independently manage a myriad of said annoying bricks.
USB maxes out at 2.5W, which is at least good enough to power a scanner, but not much more.
Now I am against the UK model like the next guy. The problem with public surveillance is that humans are operating it. Such a system can be abused in so many ways, from ogling hot chicks, over stalking your neighbour to racial profiling and monitoring dissident activities.
If however the system is operated by computers who work with publicly known and approved heuristics and human operators are only allowed to watch if specific events occur, I am perfectly fine with that.
If this guy isn't a Christian, what is he then? He is a radical? What exactly is he radical about?
Public school teacher tells class: "You belong in hell"
Transcript: A look at what was said in KHS class
She is the self-taught chip designer who created the C-64 in a joystick thingie.
Jeri Ellsworth Lectures about the C64 & C-One at Stanford Uni.
James Randi is not a trained diviner, psychic oder medium either. In order to assess the question, if something works, it is not necessary to understand how it works. If Bussard won't indeed produce any verifiable experiments then he's just not doing science.
Which is why the supreme court ordered re-elections to take place in October. This of course didn't happen, since the military took power in September. Looks more like the military tried to prevent elections instead of being for elections. If they were truly democratic, they would have held the elections as scheduled and under OECD supervision. Instead, they seem to be governing at their choosing, with no mandate whatsoever.
Seems like the majority who voted for him thought otherwise.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't move out if death squads are chasing you.
But if you are living in the free world, where by and large problems of similar magnitude exist, it isn't a good idea to move just because of this reason, because soon, you will find out that the grass isn't that much greener on the other side after all.
As somebody from Vienna, Austria, I must say that your observations astonished me.
hands-off governement in Austria? This has probably to do with sloppy/pragmatic enforcement of laws in comparison to Germany. We do have many laws, but are not crazy enough to actually implement them.
Cleanliness? We don't think of ourselves that way, since we are not as obsessed with cleanliness as the Germans are.
There are many god reasons to move to another country: climate, women, food, jobs, etc.
It is however not a good idea to move to a country because you are feed up with the politics of your own. People are feed up with their governements and politicians, because of the many bad experiences they had. Since they had mostly exciting and good memories from vacations and business trips to outher countries, they can get the wrong impression that everything is better everywhere else.
But some actually do move for that reason. There are Germans who come to Austria, because they hate german politics. Some Austrians move to Greece, because they hate ours and so on. These kinds of expatriates then continue to obsess with their native country and never stop badmouthing it.
And like most marketers, it doesn't seem like you have acutally used the product prior to marketing it. You underestimated Krita. CMYK wasn't added just now. It was already present in prior versions. Krita features on top of that up to 32 bit floating point or integer RGB, L*a*b and Watercolor color spaces. Now THAT would have been something to brag about.
I think you misunderstood Nussbaum. I believe he was trying to say that once some volunteers are paid, the other volunteers lose interest. I've witnessed this first hand in an originally volunteer based NPO.
The only way to avoid buying Vista, is to move to another plattform, like Linux. But sticking with an older revision of some OS is only doable for so long. Eventually the cost/benefit ratio will tilt to the new Version.
XP was late and overhyped as well. Many argued that NT4SP6, W2K and W98SE would be enough for anyone. There were numerous predictions that companies and consumers wouldn't upgrade and stick with what they have.
But this didn't happen. XP was adopted, just like Vista will be adopted over time. Trying to stop this inevitable progression is really a complete waste of one's political vigor.