right, he'd be running 1.0.6 - but if he saw a report that 1.5 beta 1 was out, would he know where he stood on the upgrade path? I'm talking about an uncle of mine, btw;) He runs FF 1.0.6 and Opera now, but I can't wait for the 'auto-update' of the 1.5 series, that'll do wonders for this, FF is less secure than IE since patches will just...occur! (as long as we can trust mozilla more than microsoft...)
Ok, I'm a geek and all, but this week I just installed 1.5 Beta 1 - so is it now vuln to this, whereas 1.0.7 is not? I understand branches, tags and such, but after awhile this could really confuse joe_user. Is anyone trying out the new Opera since it's now free? I've only tried the Win version, but darnit, it's very nice. Tonight I'll try it on Unbuntu, after updating FF to 1.0.7 of course (I don't run dev software at home, else I"ll hear about it crashing from my wife!;))
Unveil some good movies. The amount of crappy reworking of old themes, overused CGI and explosions is pretty damn old, perhaps some movies with substance and, oh I don't know, a plot?
Sorry to be harsh, but when I started using Debian 3 years back, I wasn't treated well as a 'n00b' even though I had 2 yrs prior Slackware experience, and just felt like the entire project was too splintered. I mean, running on multiple archs is cool and all, but if it pulls down the medium range then what's been gained? The plus of this approach is it was ripe for someone to come along, take what's good (APT-GET!) and create something specialized, which is now Ubuntu Linux. Building on the Debian base was just their beginnning, but it was an ace move.
Site search works, just click Advanced Blog Search -> and enter the site URL in "In blogs at this URL. Click search and you'll get a resultspage" >like this. Looks like another easy way to add google search to your site (I know mine is crawled constantly by bots, esp google)
Thanks - what distro(s) are you running on? I want to run it on my workstation, running Ubuntu (breezy pre-release). I have / (resier3)/home (reiser3) and/boot (ext2) - but would redo the entire drive if I could use reiser4. Is it an option during install? Does it need a spec kern?
Thanks for the advice, I also backup my workstation to my server (an rsyc over ssh job daily at noon) so I have that covered - just want more speed from my 3.2G Pen4 with the SATA harddrive...
I've been waiting until it's deemed "safe" to use, but it seems it's going on 2 years now or "not ready yet". I know it's ready when it's ready, but is there a timetable for it? I don't have a fast enough spare box to test it out, and I want to dig the faster FS perf on an SATA harddrive. Keep going Hans!
> My qyestion is, what would ebay want with VIOP?
> Paypal and Half.com made sense for ebay to pick
> up, but I'm just not seeing this at all...
Perhaps you should see about a spellchecker first?
Exactly, as an intern getting a free mp3 player should be second fiddle to things like health insurance, or lack of 401k. sorry, but ppl are bought off too easy with junk that won't matter in a few years; health and retirement will be long term issues.
Re:Ah, with Breezy I'm only an update (or two?) aw
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GNOME 2.12 Released
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>Anything with a bouncing cow in it is sure to be awsome.
Correct, but for full bouncy effect you really need 3d accel drivers running. With my nVidia 6600GT it really flys!
On the other hand pac-man works on any old machine. Just food for thought.;)
Re:Ah, with Breezy I'm only an update (or two?) aw
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GNOME 2.12 Released
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· Score: 1
UPDATE: yep, 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' and now I have Gnome 2.12.0 - the little changes are nice enough to make it feel much more polished.
Ah, with Breezy I'm only an update (or two?) away
on
GNOME 2.12 Released
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I just reinstalled with Breezy Colony 4 this afternoon (let's hear it for 1/2 days) and I've got to tell ya, it's very nice. Gnome is 2.11.94 or something, and I'm updating a ton of apps just now, so after a reboot I may be up to 2.12. The little things like the focus of the 'root password prompt' and the pulsing tab in the taskbar is so much nicer than the FLASH in windows. The add/remove programs, while the name bothers me, is really nice and something n00bs and g33ks should dig.
Oh, and the pac-man screensaver now has diff colors for the ghosts, a big/flashing pill so pac-man can eat the blue ghosts and finally pac-man dies properly when he touches a ghost! Now that's progress!;)
Will apple use the ubiquitous Mork from Mork and Mindy to halk the 'nano', as in 'nano, neano' as Mork would say. As for the r0k3r, why did they go with such a dumb name? iPhone was obvious, so why the confusing phrasing? Will APple become too big and be the 'next google' on/.? Stay tuned...
No kidding, if we had something like this, geeks could 'choose' what CSS they wanted Slashdot to display with, and set that in their prefs. I for one would love a nice, modern but MINIMAL Slashdot site. Yes there would have to be limits on what could be done, as ads would need to be part of the CSS, but that could be handled by anyone who would checkin the CSS and make it avail for users via their own prefs. I like this idea allot!
finally, being as/. is such a tech site, it's about time to bring things into this century. Hell, I rework my site constantly, I still can't believe/. went so long with old/outdated/non-validated code. perhaps it could be a quarterly thing to update things in the future.
I like this, I'm constantly trying to rid my site of bots that continuously hit old pages, or try to post texas-hold-em-poker links, and this is a nice way to fight back a little. Next up are tarpits...
"The first thing jumps to mind is a typical fanboy response: "The Mac is a desktop computer. If it runs MySQL good enough for a prototyping environment, that's fine. Where else can you get a great desktop environment that just works, along with a built-in Unix-like OS?"
I agree, but you have to look at Apple's stance with the Xserve. The earlier article that is listed in the post was devastating, almost to the point of 'who would want to deploy an Xserve as a server?' type of deal. If they deal with that and make OS X Server really hope on the Intel/Mac Xserver, lookout, as then it'll be really something to consider. (/me crosses fingers)
Polluted Climate
Climate
change is one environmental issue that hasn't had much traction at the
federal level. Congress has refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, while
the Bush administration has opposed explicit carbon dioxide reduction
requirements. Thus, it should come as no surprise that activists have
tried to stir up political support for legislated carbon dioxide (CO2) reductions by trying to tie climate change to matters of more immediate public concern, such as air pollution.
For
example, activists, scientists, and government officials have claimed
that global warming will cause ozone to rise in the future. This claim
is false. Upcoming large reductions in emissions of ozone-forming
pollutants will reduce future ozone levels, regardless of climate
change. Even more important, higher temperatures will decrease levels of airborne particulate matter. Thus, to the extent temperatures do rise in the future, the net result will be a decrease in air pollution health risks.[1]
Last year the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) published Heat Advisory: How Global Warming Causes More Bad Air Days.
The report claimed that by 2050 increasing temperatures would cause a
50 percent rise in days exceeding the federal 8-hour ozone standard
each year.[2] The federal government's 2002 Climate Action Report also cited potential increases in air pollution due to higher temperatures.[3] And the Massachusetts Attorney General, whose bid to force EPA to regulate CO2
as an air pollutant will be argued today in federal court, puts ozone
increases near the top of his list of harms from global warming.[4] Even academic and government scientists have entered the debate as activists -- NRDC's Heat Advisory was
written by public health professors from Johns Hopkins and Columbia,
and atmospheric and environmental scientists from Yale, the State
University of New York at Albany, the University of Wisconsin, NASA,
and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Some of these scientists also
published their Heat Advisory results in the prestigious refereed journal Environmental Health Perspectives.[5]
All
else equal, higher temperatures do indeed mean higher ozone levels. But
all else won't remain equal. EPA and state regulators have already
taken actions that will eliminate most remaining ozone-forming
emissions -- volatile organic compounds (VOC) and nitrogen oxides (NOx)
-- during the next 20 years or so.[6] At worst, warming will cause ozone to decrease slightly less than it otherwise might.
The
activists and scientists who claim that higher temperatures will
necessarily increase ozone fail to note that a roughly
one-degree-Fahrenheit temperature rise during the last 30 years was
accompanied by nationwide declines in ozone levels. Where more than 80
percent of ozone monitors violated the federal 8-hour ozone standard
during the late 1970s, only about 35 percent do so today. The average
number of 8-hour-ozone exceedance days per year has declined more than
70 percent.
Despite a record of decreasing ozone, Heat Advisory's authorsmanaged
to manufacture future ozone increases by assuming ozone-forming
emissions in 2050 would be the same as they were in 1996. Yet by the
time Heat Advisory was published in 2004, VOC and NOx had already declined 50 and 25 percent, respectively, below 1996 levels.[7]Heat Advisory claims
to predict how rising temperatures will affect future ozone levels. In
fact, the report merely estimates what ozone
Call me an idiot all day, that's not addressing the issue or proposing an alternative theory. Here's what "I've read" and what "I believe"; feel free to use it as a jumping off point, but don't simply name call to make yourself look better.
Ozone depletion = higher temps = melting polarcaps = higher sea levels = scientists have said that rising ocean levels would make hurricanes and other storms more dangerous. Now, let's keep in mind that more than half the U.S. population lives within 50 miles of a coastline, not to mention some entire nations - like Bangladesh and the Netherlands - are at or near sea level. You'd think what just happened would highlight the need to look at *all* factors that may have contributed to this, not just the ones that are politically popular.
Slashdot Mirror
Check out the new cal for Hula http://hula-project.org/Hula_Server - amazing work.
And the front end to the webmail for Zimbra http://www.zimbra.com/
Really, really nice stuff.
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right, he'd be running 1.0.6 - but if he saw a report that 1.5 beta 1 was out, would he know where he stood on the upgrade path? I'm talking about an uncle of mine, btw ;) He runs FF 1.0.6 and Opera now, but I can't wait for the 'auto-update' of the 1.5 series, that'll do wonders for this, FF is less secure than IE since patches will just...occur! (as long as we can trust mozilla more than microsoft...)
Ok, I'm a geek and all, but this week I just installed 1.5 Beta 1 - so is it now vuln to this, whereas 1.0.7 is not? I understand branches, tags and such, but after awhile this could really confuse joe_user. Is anyone trying out the new Opera since it's now free? I've only tried the Win version, but darnit, it's very nice. Tonight I'll try it on Unbuntu, after updating FF to 1.0.7 of course (I don't run dev software at home, else I"ll hear about it crashing from my wife! ;))
Unveil some good movies. The amount of crappy reworking of old themes, overused CGI and explosions is pretty damn old, perhaps some movies with substance and, oh I don't know, a plot?
They passed this around work last week, can't believe ppl are buying this:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/hotelkey.asp
You^H^H^H I must be new here!
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[Try again]Sorry to be harsh, but when I started using Debian 3 years back, I wasn't treated well as a 'n00b' even though I had 2 yrs prior Slackware experience, and just felt like the entire project was too splintered. I mean, running on multiple archs is cool and all, but if it pulls down the medium range then what's been gained? The plus of this approach is it was ripe for someone to come along, take what's good (APT-GET!) and create something specialized, which is now Ubuntu Linux. Building on the Debian base was just their beginnning, but it was an ace move.
Site search works, just click Advanced Blog Search -> and enter the site URL in "In blogs at this URL. Click search and you'll get a resultspage" >like this. Looks like another easy way to add google search to your site (I know mine is crawled constantly by bots, esp google)
Thanks - what distro(s) are you running on? I want to run it on my workstation, running Ubuntu (breezy pre-release). I have / (resier3) /home (reiser3) and /boot (ext2) - but would redo the entire drive if I could use reiser4. Is it an option during install? Does it need a spec kern?
Thanks for the advice, I also backup my workstation to my server (an rsyc over ssh job daily at noon) so I have that covered - just want more speed from my 3.2G Pen4 with the SATA harddrive...
I've been waiting until it's deemed "safe" to use, but it seems it's going on 2 years now or "not ready yet". I know it's ready when it's ready, but is there a timetable for it? I don't have a fast enough spare box to test it out, and I want to dig the faster FS perf on an SATA harddrive. Keep going Hans!
> My qyestion is, what would ebay want with VIOP? > Paypal and Half.com made sense for ebay to pick > up, but I'm just not seeing this at all... Perhaps you should see about a spellchecker first?
Exactly, as an intern getting a free mp3 player should be second fiddle to things like health insurance, or lack of 401k. sorry, but ppl are bought off too easy with junk that won't matter in a few years; health and retirement will be long term issues.
>Anything with a bouncing cow in it is sure to be awsome. Correct, but for full bouncy effect you really need 3d accel drivers running. With my nVidia 6600GT it really flys! On the other hand pac-man works on any old machine. Just food for thought. ;)
UPDATE: yep, 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' and now I have Gnome 2.12.0 - the little changes are nice enough to make it feel much more polished.
I just reinstalled with Breezy Colony 4 this afternoon (let's hear it for 1/2 days) and I've got to tell ya, it's very nice. Gnome is 2.11.94 or something, and I'm updating a ton of apps just now, so after a reboot I may be up to 2.12. The little things like the focus of the 'root password prompt' and the pulsing tab in the taskbar is so much nicer than the FLASH in windows. The add/remove programs, while the name bothers me, is really nice and something n00bs and g33ks should dig.
;)
Oh, and the pac-man screensaver now has diff colors for the ghosts, a big/flashing pill so pac-man can eat the blue ghosts and finally pac-man dies properly when he touches a ghost! Now that's progress!
Will apple use the ubiquitous Mork from Mork and Mindy to halk the 'nano', as in 'nano, neano' as Mork would say. As for the r0k3r, why did they go with such a dumb name? iPhone was obvious, so why the confusing phrasing? Will APple become too big and be the 'next google' on /.? Stay tuned...
No kidding, if we had something like this, geeks could 'choose' what CSS they wanted Slashdot to display with, and set that in their prefs. I for one would love a nice, modern but MINIMAL Slashdot site. Yes there would have to be limits on what could be done, as ads would need to be part of the CSS, but that could be handled by anyone who would checkin the CSS and make it avail for users via their own prefs. I like this idea allot!
if you're dreaming of slashdot, I think it may be time to leave home and go out for awhile.
finally, being as /. is such a tech site, it's about time to bring things into this century. Hell, I rework my site constantly, I still can't believe /. went so long with old/outdated/non-validated code. perhaps it could be a quarterly thing to update things in the future.
I like this, I'm constantly trying to rid my site of bots that continuously hit old pages, or try to post texas-hold-em-poker links, and this is a nice way to fight back a little. Next up are tarpits...
"The first thing jumps to mind is a typical fanboy response: "The Mac is a desktop computer. If it runs MySQL good enough for a prototyping environment, that's fine. Where else can you get a great desktop environment that just works, along with a built-in Unix-like OS?"
I agree, but you have to look at Apple's stance with the Xserve. The earlier article that is listed in the post was devastating, almost to the point of 'who would want to deploy an Xserve as a server?' type of deal. If they deal with that and make OS X Server really hope on the Intel/Mac Xserver, lookout, as then it'll be really something to consider. (/me crosses fingers)
For example, activists, scientists, and government officials have claimed that global warming will cause ozone to rise in the future. This claim is false. Upcoming large reductions in emissions of ozone-forming pollutants will reduce future ozone levels, regardless of climate change. Even more important, higher temperatures will decrease levels of airborne particulate matter. Thus, to the extent temperatures do rise in the future, the net result will be a decrease in air pollution health risks.[1]
Last year the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) published Heat Advisory: How Global Warming Causes More Bad Air Days. The report claimed that by 2050 increasing temperatures would cause a 50 percent rise in days exceeding the federal 8-hour ozone standard each year.[2] The federal government's 2002 Climate Action Report also cited potential increases in air pollution due to higher temperatures.[3] And the Massachusetts Attorney General, whose bid to force EPA to regulate CO2 as an air pollutant will be argued today in federal court, puts ozone increases near the top of his list of harms from global warming.[4] Even academic and government scientists have entered the debate as activists -- NRDC's Heat Advisory was written by public health professors from Johns Hopkins and Columbia, and atmospheric and environmental scientists from Yale, the State University of New York at Albany, the University of Wisconsin, NASA, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Some of these scientists also published their Heat Advisory results in the prestigious refereed journal Environmental Health Perspectives.[5]
All else equal, higher temperatures do indeed mean higher ozone levels. But all else won't remain equal. EPA and state regulators have already taken actions that will eliminate most remaining ozone-forming emissions -- volatile organic compounds (VOC) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) -- during the next 20 years or so.[6] At worst, warming will cause ozone to decrease slightly less than it otherwise might.
The activists and scientists who claim that higher temperatures will necessarily increase ozone fail to note that a roughly one-degree-Fahrenheit temperature rise during the last 30 years was accompanied by nationwide declines in ozone levels. Where more than 80 percent of ozone monitors violated the federal 8-hour ozone standard during the late 1970s, only about 35 percent do so today. The average number of 8-hour-ozone exceedance days per year has declined more than 70 percent.
Despite a record of decreasing ozone, Heat Advisory's authorsmanaged to manufacture future ozone increases by assuming ozone-forming emissions in 2050 would be the same as they were in 1996. Yet by the time Heat Advisory was published in 2004, VOC and NOx had already declined 50 and 25 percent, respectively, below 1996 levels.[7] Heat Advisory claims to predict how rising temperatures will affect future ozone levels. In fact, the report merely estimates what ozone
Call me an idiot all day, that's not addressing the issue or proposing an alternative theory. Here's what "I've read" and what "I believe"; feel free to use it as a jumping off point, but don't simply name call to make yourself look better.
Ozone depletion = higher temps = melting polarcaps = higher sea levels = scientists have said that rising ocean levels would make hurricanes and other storms more dangerous. Now, let's keep in mind that more than half the U.S. population lives within 50 miles of a coastline, not to mention some entire nations - like Bangladesh and the Netherlands - are at or near sea level. You'd think what just happened would highlight the need to look at *all* factors that may have contributed to this, not just the ones that are politically popular.