It already gets bad if you have movies embedded in the presentation or use animations. (I know you shiver now but trust me, such things can be helpful and done with taste).
Data transfer rate, I suppose. According to Wikipedia, DVI can do up to 2.75 megapixels with a pixel clock frequency of 165 MHz. Too lazy to do the math, but seems like a lot to me.
We have our NEC projectors attached to the 100 Mbit ethernet and can access them via an application on the laptop. Works well for presentations, but is too slow for moving pictures.
Wow. At least this is easily fixed. Our IT heads insisted for a long time on buying laptops with 1024x768 screens, when everyone else already had 1280 upwards. Everyone hated it.
That is fine for you, but try teaching this to a PHB... It might take some fiddling with the graphic driver (screen control application), but it should be possible to set up the laptop in such a way that it deals with the situation automatically.
We faced the same problem and were able to make it work (with the ATi control panel on Mobility Radeon X1300)
Eric Chien, chief researcher at Symantec's antivirus research centre, does not expect the virus to spread , principally because it lacks the self-replication characteristics that made Code Red and the Lion worm (which affected Linux servers) such nuisances.
"I don't think anyone in the security business would consider this particular Linux virus a major (or even minor?) threat to real world computer users," said Chien. "However, it does reiterate the fact that Linux is susceptible just like any other operating system."
. To be honest, I don't think that there were ever viruses in the wild, if "in the wild" is considered to mean that they replicate; it is not enough to infect one research PC for that label. The situation is a bit different re worms that infect servers.
Yeah, "there may currently be some floating around", but you know what: as long as nobody gets infected and spots them, I doubt it.
As far as older malware is concerned, try one thing: don't blindly post a list from Wikipedia, but search for each of the list entries in the malware databases of the major anti-malware vendors and researchers. Then tell me what the results were. I have done this before, and I know what I expect: "theoretical threat", "proof of concept", "not in the wild", "research", etc.
You're changing the wrong parts of grub's menu.lst.
I was about to write that too, but I don't think this will help him. He is talking about changing "default num", which is at the top of the file. Of course, I doubt that the system simply overwrites a changed config file, it always asks.
That said, I see that there is now an option in the location of the file that you described that will do what OP wants. This might be new in Hardy, though:
## should update-grub adjust the value of the default booted system ## can be true or false # updatedefaultentry=false
There are many issues with the grub boot loader and it is well documented. It is actually quite easy to mess up your system and make it appear to be bricked.
The most common version of this issue has to do with when a new kernel update occurs during a NORMAL ubuntu update. You click the orange star, choose update, let it download and install, then reboot and voila...no more access to any hard drive. It happens to my machine every single time. Hasn't happened to me in years of using Ubuntu and Debian, and I've never seen it in years of hanging out on the ubuntu-users mailing list. I turst that you submitted this bug to launchpad?
If you have customized your menu.lst you will also have problems the next time a kernel update happens as the update will wipe out your customization, so if you have modified the menu.lst file to make change the order in which the menu displays your choices and which os is the default, that will be wiped out and you could loose access to one or more of your partitions (hence OSes). I have see this repeatedly, and in the latest situation I have had to turn off all updates so it didn't brick this retired gentleman's system. This is not true at all. It is treated like every other config file and gives you the chance to keep the old version. Anyway, why don't you just use the savedefault option?
Now I'm not supporting the idea that the installer bricked his unit. It didn't. I'm saying that making this sort of error and letting it stand for years without being addressed and then tossing it back into the face of the user (who just might be a retired friend who knows little about computers) is not the way to go about marking your product. Except that UbuntuDupe's bug was fixed.
I still can't quite understand why I am more willing to apologize here, when it was my computer that got hosed for following the standard instructions...
Dude, you used a free operating system that says NO WARRANTY everywhere. If you needed hand-holding you should have purchased a support contract.
netflix can get you 20 blue ray disks per month for ~$16 a month. isn't video-on-demand at least 2 to 5 times more costly, and not so many features?
Dunno about the US but in Germany, Deutsche Telekom has a non-HD plan that costs 50 EUR/month (incl. VAT) and includes landline phone (flat rate to all other German landlines), internet flat rate (16 Mbit down), all available free TV channels (70 channels), video on demand (10 movies per month are free), and a DVR.
For additional HDTV (not much available in German atm, though), additional pay-TV options, and assorted other features, add 20 EUR/month.
Well maybe you should choose examples that illustrate your point instead of examples that contradict what you are saying. It's really not my fault if you are unable to make your point convincingly.
Seems you haven't used a recent distro, really. In, for example, Ubuntu, the CD Burning Software, File System Browser, and Windows Manager certainly work more consistently together than on your average Windows desktop with its hodge-podge of UI styles. The OEM versions of Roxio and Nero, for example, certainly are no pinnacles of UI design and integration.
Agreed. Another aspect to ponder is (too lazy to check the study, but it should tell us right there in the methodology section if it did at all): where did they get the photos, and who decided in the first place what emotions they are supposed to communicate?
If they took photos of random people and asked them to make a specific expression, how well did the subjects perform this task? I would suspect, not very. And if the photos already existed, the study would have to deal with the bias of the judges.
The study actually just found that women are unclear about communicating their intentions to men.
Or that still images are poor communicators of intentions. From the study pdf:
Identification Task Seated in a private computer room, participants categorized each of a series of photo images of women into one of four categories: friendly, sexually interested, sad, or rejecting. Each participant was randomly assigned to view the images for 500 ms or 3,000 ms. The 500-ms presentation time was sufficiently short to make it challenging to decode all relevant information thoroughly; the 3,000-ms presentation time provided ample opportunity for thorough processing. Participants viewed the images in four blocks of 70 randomly ordered images, with a 30-s pause separating successive blocks.
This seems to have very little to tell us about actual real-life interaction between women and men, which tend to have much more going on than a frozen look. What's with smells, mimic, body language or, you know, the actual content of the conversation? Maybe the study authors have more experience with online sex, or they want to sell their method to webcam pr0n providers.
It's not a lie. I lived, worked and paid the 'Höchststeuersatz' of 43% (+ mandatory social insurance, church tax, Eastern German tax, etc.) for much tool long there!!
If you lived there, you should have learned how the tax system works:
For the first 7,664 EUR you earn per year, you pay no income tax at all. (This remains the case even if you do earn more than 7664.)
For the income above EUR 7,664 up to 52,152, you pay a progressive rate, starting with 15% for the first bracket. I'm too lazy to look up the actual brackets and their tax rates, suffice to say that the tax rises by 0.61% per additional one thousand EUR you earn. For the part of the income that falls into the highest bracket up to 52,152, the tax rate is 42% (Spitzensteuersatz). This then stays the same up to EUR 250,000. Income above 250,000 per year is then taxed with 45%.
To repeat, it's not as if you pay 42% of EUR 250,000. Instead, you pay an increasing rate for each part of your income, depending on which bracket in falls into. You pay 0% for the first 7,664, plus 15% for the next bracket above that, etc. You pay 42% only for the part of your income that is higher than 52,152.
Hence, if you earn EUR 95,000 (USD 150,000), you pay an average of 35%.
So you are proposing of evading tax by 'not being stupid enough to tax your whole income?'
No, there are legitimate ways to deduct tax. E.g., if you are married and the partner makes way less than you, you can enter a special tax mode where both your income is taxed together, with higher rates for the lower income and lower rates for the higher income. This can easily save 10%.
You can deduct certain insurances, most health expenses, professional expenses (any expenses you conceivable could have needed for you profession; think books, etc.). I'm no tax expert, there are many more ways to deduct. (This is part of the problem, actually, because people with higher income (even the not self-employed) have much more ways to deduct taxes as people who scramble to get by. It might be fairer to reduce taxes overall, while removing or lowering some of the deduction options.)
Have you ever even seen a German tax form?
BTW: paying church "tax" (which is not really a tax but just the state collecting membership fees for the christian church, because it has the infrastructure already in place, anyway) is entirely your own choice.
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That's truly horrible.
It already gets bad if you have movies embedded in the presentation or use animations. (I know you shiver now but trust me, such things can be helpful and done with taste).
Data transfer rate, I suppose. According to Wikipedia, DVI can do up to 2.75 megapixels with a pixel clock frequency of 165 MHz. Too lazy to do the math, but seems like a lot to me.
We have our NEC projectors attached to the 100 Mbit ethernet and can access them via an application on the laptop. Works well for presentations, but is too slow for moving pictures.
Wow. At least this is easily fixed. Our IT heads insisted for a long time on buying laptops with 1024x768 screens, when everyone else already had 1280 upwards. Everyone hated it.
We faced the same problem and were able to make it work (with the ATi control panel on Mobility Radeon X1300)
Yeah, "there may currently be some floating around", but you know what: as long as nobody gets infected and spots them, I doubt it.
As far as older malware is concerned, try one thing: don't blindly post a list from Wikipedia, but search for each of the list entries in the malware databases of the major anti-malware vendors and researchers. Then tell me what the results were. I have done this before, and I know what I expect: "theoretical threat", "proof of concept", "not in the wild", "research", etc.
You're changing the wrong parts of grub's menu.lst.
I was about to write that too, but I don't think this will help him. He is talking about changing "default num", which is at the top of the file. Of course, I doubt that the system simply overwrites a changed config file, it always asks.
That said, I see that there is now an option in the location of the file that you described that will do what OP wants. This might be new in Hardy, though:
## should update-grub adjust the value of the default booted system
## can be true or false
# updatedefaultentry=false
The most common version of this issue has to do with when a new kernel update occurs during a NORMAL ubuntu update. You click the orange star, choose update, let it download and install, then reboot and voila...no more access to any hard drive. It happens to my machine every single time. Hasn't happened to me in years of using Ubuntu and Debian, and I've never seen it in years of hanging out on the ubuntu-users mailing list. I turst that you submitted this bug to launchpad? If you have customized your menu.lst you will also have problems the next time a kernel update happens as the update will wipe out your customization, so if you have modified the menu.lst file to make change the order in which the menu displays your choices and which os is the default, that will be wiped out and you could loose access to one or more of your partitions (hence OSes). I have see this repeatedly, and in the latest situation I have had to turn off all updates so it didn't brick this retired gentleman's system. This is not true at all. It is treated like every other config file and gives you the chance to keep the old version. Anyway, why don't you just use the savedefault option? Now I'm not supporting the idea that the installer bricked his unit. It didn't. I'm saying that making this sort of error and letting it stand for years without being addressed and then tossing it back into the face of the user (who just might be a retired friend who knows little about computers) is not the way to go about marking your product. Except that UbuntuDupe's bug was fixed.
I still can't quite understand why I am more willing to apologize here, when it was my computer that got hosed for following the standard instructions...
Dude, you used a free operating system that says NO WARRANTY everywhere. If you needed hand-holding you should have purchased a support contract.
Last time I installed Windows, it always warned when formatting.
Yeah, but it overwrites the MBR without asking and without offering a way to boot the other OS.
netflix can get you 20 blue ray disks per month for ~$16 a month. isn't video-on-demand at least 2 to 5 times more costly, and not so many features?
Dunno about the US but in Germany, Deutsche Telekom has a non-HD plan that costs 50 EUR/month (incl. VAT) and includes landline phone (flat rate to all other German landlines), internet flat rate (16 Mbit down), all available free TV channels (70 channels), video on demand (10 movies per month are free), and a DVR.
For additional HDTV (not much available in German atm, though), additional pay-TV options, and assorted other features, add 20 EUR/month.
Then how the hell would he buy 5 copies?
Support the company? Besides, they make great gifts.
Where would you like your 5 copies of Mac OS X sent?
I would think that "Linux-like" includes "Free".
Well maybe you should choose examples that illustrate your point instead of examples that contradict what you are saying. It's really not my fault if you are unable to make your point convincingly.
Seems you haven't used a recent distro, really. In, for example, Ubuntu, the CD Burning Software, File System Browser, and Windows Manager certainly work more consistently together than on your average Windows desktop with its hodge-podge of UI styles. The OEM versions of Roxio and Nero, for example, certainly are no pinnacles of UI design and integration.
ATi has a similar thing in the upcoming Ubuntu 8.04.
And not to forget the utterly amazing and interesting Mother Earth, Mother Board
Are you adding income tax and VAT? That's stupid, the reply by the other guy already told you why.
Agreed. Another aspect to ponder is (too lazy to check the study, but it should tell us right there in the methodology section if it did at all): where did they get the photos, and who decided in the first place what emotions they are supposed to communicate?
If they took photos of random people and asked them to make a specific expression, how well did the subjects perform this task? I would suspect, not very. And if the photos already existed, the study would have to deal with the bias of the judges.
Or that still images are poor communicators of intentions. From the study pdf:
This seems to have very little to tell us about actual real-life interaction between women and men, which tend to have much more going on than a frozen look. What's with smells, mimic, body language or, you know, the actual content of the conversation? Maybe the study authors have more experience with online sex, or they want to sell their method to webcam pr0n providers.
It's not a lie. I lived, worked and paid the 'Höchststeuersatz' of 43% (+ mandatory social insurance, church tax, Eastern German tax, etc.) for much tool long there!!
If you lived there, you should have learned how the tax system works:
For the first 7,664 EUR you earn per year, you pay no income tax at all. (This remains the case even if you do earn more than 7664.)
For the income above EUR 7,664 up to 52,152, you pay a progressive rate, starting with 15% for the first bracket. I'm too lazy to look up the actual brackets and their tax rates, suffice to say that the tax rises by 0.61% per additional one thousand EUR you earn. For the part of the income that falls into the highest bracket up to 52,152, the tax rate is 42% (Spitzensteuersatz). This then stays the same up to EUR 250,000. Income above 250,000 per year is then taxed with 45%.
To repeat, it's not as if you pay 42% of EUR 250,000. Instead, you pay an increasing rate for each part of your income, depending on which bracket in falls into. You pay 0% for the first 7,664, plus 15% for the next bracket above that, etc. You pay 42% only for the part of your income that is higher than 52,152.
Hence, if you earn EUR 95,000 (USD 150,000), you pay an average of 35%.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einkommensteuertarif
So you are proposing of evading tax by 'not being stupid enough to tax your whole income?'
No, there are legitimate ways to deduct tax. E.g., if you are married and the partner makes way less than you, you can enter a special tax mode where both your income is taxed together, with higher rates for the lower income and lower rates for the higher income. This can easily save 10%.
You can deduct certain insurances, most health expenses, professional expenses (any expenses you conceivable could have needed for you profession; think books, etc.). I'm no tax expert, there are many more ways to deduct. (This is part of the problem, actually, because people with higher income (even the not self-employed) have much more ways to deduct taxes as people who scramble to get by. It might be fairer to reduce taxes overall, while removing or lowering some of the deduction options.)
Have you ever even seen a German tax form?
BTW: paying church "tax" (which is not really a tax but just the state collecting membership fees for the christian church, because it has the infrastructure already in place, anyway) is entirely your own choice.