make em small, enough to power a city and indestructible, tamper-proof, very low maintenance, who said power plants have to be HUGE monoliths, just think a nuclear power plant about the size of two shipping containers could manage an entire city or burrough, wind and solar is great but is not practical for everything...
Ubuntu using the year and month for version numbers is a great idea, then at a glance you can see when the distro was released, after any application or operating system makes it to a 1.0 release it should be done this way = YY.MM
The crap that microsoft does is just exactly what i see in versions, versions like home basic, premium, ultimate just sounds like marketing cruft, when we all know the OS was originally built with ALL the features and all they did was cripple it in steps and named them as such, so in essence the "basic" should cost the most because more work went in to it to remove the features and extra testing went to to make sure it still worked good enough to market...
sadly i have to agree, i love Linux, as a platform it is excellent (under the hood) but the desktop is a damn fustercluck the best/closest it ever got to makeing a usable desktop for granma and JoeSixPack was just retired = KDE-3.5.x which was not perfect but quite usable and was just starting to get a nice collection of third party apps (k3b, kmplayer, konversation, & others). kde-4.x is an abomination compared to kde-3.5.x.
shamelesly stolen from another website, i am not plagiarizing this, (i lay no claim to authoring it, but i love it)
So here's the thing: We have 46 chromosomes. Our nearest great ape relatives have 48. On the surface, it looks like we must have lost two. But that's actually a huge problem. Made up of organized packs of DNA and proteins, chromosomes don't just up and vanish. In fact, it's doubtful any primate could survive a mutation that simply deleted a pair of chromosomes. That's because chromosomes are to the human body what instruction sheets are to inexpensive, flat-pack furniture. If you're missing one screw, you can still put that bookcase together pretty easily. But if the how-to guide suddenly jumps from page 1 (take plywood panels out of box) to page 5 (enjoy bookcase!), you're likely to end up missing something pretty vital. All this left scientists with a thorny dilemma: How could we have a common ancestor with great apes, but fewer chromosomes?
Turns out: The chromosomes aren't missing at all.
Genetic investigators caught the first whiff of the prodigal chromosomes' scent in 1982. That year, a paper published in the journal Science described a very funny phenomenon. Researchers knew all chromosomes had distinctive signatures; patterns of DNA sequences that can be reliably found in specific spots, including in the center and on the ends. These end-cap sequences are called telomeres. Telomeres are like the little plastic tips that keep your shoelaces from unravelling. They protect the ends of chromosomes and hold things together. Given that important function, you wouldn't expect to find telomeres hanging out on other parts of the chromosome. But that's exactly what the 1982 study reported. Looking at human chromosome 2, the scientists found telomeres snuggled up against the centromere (the central sequence). What's more, these out-of-place human telomeres were strikingly similar to telomeres that can be found, in their proper location, on two great ape chromosomes.
This evidence laid the groundwork for a brilliant discovery. Rather than falling apart, the two missing chromosomes had fused together. Their format changed, but they didn't lose any information, so the mutation wasn't deadly. Instead, scientists now think, the fusion made it difficult for our ancestors to mate with the ancestors of chimpanzees, leading our two species to strike out alone. In the two decades since the original study, more evidence has surfaced backing this up, which leads us to 2005, when the chimpanzee genome was sequenced around the same time that the National Human Genome Research Institute published a detailed survey of human chromosome 2. We can now see extra centromeres in chromosome 2 and trace how its genes neatly line up with those on chimpanzee chromosomes 12 and 13. It's a great example of evidence supporting the common descent of man and ape. [EOF]
So all you christians are wack thinking some imaginary god did it.
well yeah, but i dont do anything illegal so i am not attracting the attention of the authorities, it is the identity thieves and trolls that would like to cause harm to people is what i am concerned with.
i dont expect anything on a computer or the internet to protect my privacy, so i take matters in to my own hands, i dont ever post my real name anywhere, i never upload a photo of myself, people need to protect their own privacy if they want their identiy off the internet/websites, --without-facebook --without-myspace even this user account on this PC is named anyuser which is an anonymous brand websites give to unidentified computers/people.
IBM makes the hardware & software to work together as a complete marketable unit, if microsoft wants to compete in the mainframe market then they better build their own mainframe & software to run on it as a complete unit ready for market, and quit bitching about being anti-competitive bunch of damn hypocrites...
i was reading BBC News and noticed that Sugar on a Stick is targeted at old PCs, well a lot of old PCs are not capable of booting from USB devices, a live CD would be more apropriate...
ok, i will tell you why i did not just post a link, at the time i made that first comment i was using a linux powered computer that is very old and does not have an X window system, i was using a commandline interface browser so copy & paste does not work considering the lenghth of most URLs nowadays i did not want to spend a hour typing in a URL that was 750 characters long (or longer).
looks like this submission is infested with astroturfers from various service providers, they can all go to hell, if a local government wants to offer internet it is a good thing,
Slashdot Mirror
make em small, enough to power a city and indestructible, tamper-proof, very low maintenance, who said power plants have to be HUGE monoliths, just think a nuclear power plant about the size of two shipping containers could manage an entire city or burrough, wind and solar is great but is not practical for everything...
i understand it, it is more than an average user needs, maybe put that info in to the "Help > About" dialog box
we have 1000 years until that blunder comes back...
Ubuntu using the year and month for version numbers is a great idea, then at a glance you can see when the distro was released, after any application or operating system makes it to a 1.0 release it should be done this way = YY.MM
The crap that microsoft does is just exactly what i see in versions, versions like home basic, premium, ultimate just sounds like marketing cruft, when we all know the OS was originally built with ALL the features and all they did was cripple it in steps and named them as such, so in essence the "basic" should cost the most because more work went in to it to remove the features and extra testing went to to make sure it still worked good enough to market...
sadly i have to agree, i love Linux, as a platform it is excellent (under the hood) but the desktop is a damn fustercluck the best/closest it ever got to makeing a usable desktop for granma and JoeSixPack was just retired = KDE-3.5.x which was not perfect but quite usable and was just starting to get a nice collection of third party apps (k3b, kmplayer, konversation, & others). kde-4.x is an abomination compared to kde-3.5.x.
#!/bin/sh X -configure \ /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
cp
fixed it
#!/bin/sh X -configure \ cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
shamelesly stolen from another website, i am not plagiarizing this, (i lay no claim to authoring it, but i love it)
So here's the thing: We have 46 chromosomes. Our nearest great ape relatives have 48. On the surface, it looks like we must have lost two. But that's actually a huge problem. Made up of organized packs of DNA and proteins, chromosomes don't just up and vanish. In fact, it's doubtful any primate could survive a mutation that simply deleted a pair of chromosomes. That's because chromosomes are to the human body what instruction sheets are to inexpensive, flat-pack furniture. If you're missing one screw, you can still put that bookcase together pretty easily. But if the how-to guide suddenly jumps from page 1 (take plywood panels out of box) to page 5 (enjoy bookcase!), you're likely to end up missing something pretty vital. All this left scientists with a thorny dilemma: How could we have a common ancestor with great apes, but fewer chromosomes?
Turns out: The chromosomes aren't missing at all. Genetic investigators caught the first whiff of the prodigal chromosomes' scent in 1982. That year, a paper published in the journal Science described a very funny phenomenon. Researchers knew all chromosomes had distinctive signatures; patterns of DNA sequences that can be reliably found in specific spots, including in the center and on the ends. These end-cap sequences are called telomeres. Telomeres are like the little plastic tips that keep your shoelaces from unravelling. They protect the ends of chromosomes and hold things together. Given that important function, you wouldn't expect to find telomeres hanging out on other parts of the chromosome. But that's exactly what the 1982 study reported. Looking at human chromosome 2, the scientists found telomeres snuggled up against the centromere (the central sequence). What's more, these out-of-place human telomeres were strikingly similar to telomeres that can be found, in their proper location, on two great ape chromosomes.
This evidence laid the groundwork for a brilliant discovery. Rather than falling apart, the two missing chromosomes had fused together. Their format changed, but they didn't lose any information, so the mutation wasn't deadly. Instead, scientists now think, the fusion made it difficult for our ancestors to mate with the ancestors of chimpanzees, leading our two species to strike out alone. In the two decades since the original study, more evidence has surfaced backing this up, which leads us to 2005, when the chimpanzee genome was sequenced around the same time that the National Human Genome Research Institute published a detailed survey of human chromosome 2. We can now see extra centromeres in chromosome 2 and trace how its genes neatly line up with those on chimpanzee chromosomes 12 and 13. It's a great example of evidence supporting the common descent of man and ape. [EOF]
So all you christians are wack thinking some imaginary god did it.
well yeah, but i dont do anything illegal so i am not attracting the attention of the authorities, it is the identity thieves and trolls that would like to cause harm to people is what i am concerned with.
i dont expect anything on a computer or the internet to protect my privacy, so i take matters in to my own hands, i dont ever post my real name anywhere, i never upload a photo of myself, people need to protect their own privacy if they want their identiy off the internet/websites, --without-facebook --without-myspace even this user account on this PC is named anyuser which is an anonymous brand websites give to unidentified computers/people.
isnt benzene a carcinogen?
Benzene
i will be glad when michael jackson is buried and forgoten, i am tired of the damn media coverage of some dead popstar/pedophole
what does RMS use on his personal computers in his home, basement boiler room or wherever he lives?
there is no way in hell AT&T would be getting that kind of money out of me! you hear that AT&T?!!
when Farrah Faucett died and went to heaven she asked god if he would protect the children, so god killed michael jackson
IBM makes the hardware & software to work together as a complete marketable unit, if microsoft wants to compete in the mainframe market then they better build their own mainframe & software to run on it as a complete unit ready for market, and quit bitching about being anti-competitive bunch of damn hypocrites...
i was reading BBC News and noticed that Sugar on a Stick is targeted at old PCs, well a lot of old PCs are not capable of booting from USB devices, a live CD would be more apropriate...
with a Slackware Linux CD or DVD
you forgot "Except in Nebraska" you insensitive clod!
thermite, lets see them get data out of a pile of slag
ok, i will tell you why i did not just post a link, at the time i made that first comment i was using a linux powered computer that is very old and does not have an X window system, i was using a commandline interface browser so copy & paste does not work considering the lenghth of most URLs nowadays i did not want to spend a hour typing in a URL that was 750 characters long (or longer).
i read that Green Dam has an exploit, just search Google_News
i think that is pronounced Unazis
looks like this submission is infested with astroturfers from various service providers, they can all go to hell, if a local government wants to offer internet it is a good thing,
7Mhz, hmm i wonder what sort of mess this makes on the 40 & 71 meter HF band?