I also have to ask what the point of including a touch pad is, when you have one of those "keyboard nipple" trackpoints. The trackpoints are so ridiculously and unambiguously superior to a touch pad, that it just seems like a waste of space. Can you please elaborate? I've never seen anybody using the nipple. I attempted to use it more than once but it feels weird and it's really slow and imprecise.
Is there something to know to effectively use those things?
I wanted to write the same you did, but it's not necessary.
There is some additional info required to fully understand why this happened: there is currently a debate about abortion in Italy. It is currently debated if the human rights declaration should be modified to state approximatively that "life should be preserved from its beginning to its natural end".
There is currently concern about countries in which selective abortions are performed (something like all females should be aborted). I don't think they have any remote possibility of changing the abortion law in Italy.
This discussion is welcome. I am a bit concerned too about such things too and I don't have a definite opinion about it. I would like to hear what the Church says and what others think about it.
Far left wingers thought that the Pope may speak about this issue at Sapienza. Leftist students arranged a harsh event to "defend our culture", with things like "Frocessione": a pun on procession and a derogatory word for homosexuals. It is well known that popes do not like being disputed during their speech, so he postponed the event.
67 teachers spoke out loudly against the pope's speech.
This censorship looked fascist to me. Hear his position, explain yours and argue against his if needed. That's how science works. Preventing opposite parties to speak seems to imply your reasons are weak. Voltaire, anybody?
The real point though, is not whether or not these nutcases exist, it's whether they're a real threat. I don't think they are a real threat and we should probably just ignore them. Didn't 9/11 prove exactly the opposite?
mother nature she "loves" you, specifically she loves to attempt to kill you at every chance she gets, that's why we develop technology to enforce the restraining order against her.
She's been succeeding since the beginning of humanity.
I should probably add that this is a machine that was installed about a year ago, but I feel that that should not matter, it performs well enough and I really don't see the point in fixing that which isn't broken. This was important information and leaving it out gave a wrong impression unexperienced users.
Your distribution updates its packages from time to time. You know, there are _security_ patches from time to time (and your machine is apparently plugged to the Internet).
Your distribution also upgrades its software packages to newer versions from time to time. If you do not wish this, you should switch to some other distribution - take a look at Debian stable. But the best idea is probably to upgrade your software on a desktop and selectively pin down packages that you want to keep, if any.
What happened there is that you tried to install a package that is part of a bigger software system composed by several packages. Your package manager attempts to install the newer version, which depends on shared libraries newer than the ones you have now, hence it suggests you update them too.
On an up-to-date system:
joseph-laptop:/home/joseph# aptitude install kruler Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following NEW packages will be installed:
kruler 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 64.4kB of archives. After unpacking 332kB will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Get:1 http://ftp.es.debian.org/ testing/main kruler 4:3.5.8-2+b1 [64.4kB] Fetched 64.4kB in 0s (250kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package kruler. (Reading database... 174445 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking kruler (from.../kruler_4%3a3.5.8-2+b1_powerpc.deb)... Setting up kruler (4:3.5.8-2+b1)... Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done
There are things not working as they should on Linux - one of them are pdf readers - but not package management.
All in all, don't blame Secunia: blame people (especially journalists) who know nothing about security and jump on meaningless numbers pulled out of thin air to blame Linux. Except the same meaningless numbers were used to push FF against IE. I recall the "More secure" slogan. But it's been a while since the last time I heard it. Malice suggests that those numbers aren't very useful to FF lately.
Disclaimer: I'm a Linux user and I use FF regularly. For what it's worth, I don't wish to start a flame war, but I think we should attempt to be fair.
...patenting accurate thumbnails of virtual desktops and using those to swich between the desktop (as previews). We should prevent people from patenting trivial things like this one. It would be better to patent the idea of the desktop, or of the virtual desktops instead.
As others pointed out, there's prior art. This patent is probably unenforceable.
The Bundestrojaner would make snooping simpler, both in technical and in legal terms. I can't understand why the choice of the tool used for wiretapping should affect the legal side of the issue. I fear you imply that if it is easy to do, it doesn't require a warrant. This is false in my country and should be so in every civilized country.
As I once stated on a thread about Chinese knockoffs the problem is not to "stop them doing it" but is rather "to make them understand they are doing something wrong in the first place". Not everyone has your sense of ethics. They may not stop doing something wrong if they find it useful. Isn't the widespread lack of ethics one of the main reasons why we have laws?
You see - "communication skills", "understanding", "expertise", "correct and consistent", "credibility" = Apple users.
Everybody else is fucking moron. I disagree. I find his reply interesting even if I never heard about him. If you don't agree - and you have reasons to do so - use your "communication skills", "understanding", "expertise", be "correct and consistent" to state it, I'll be happy to read. Otherwise... you know:)
Maybe my university will update its machines. I'm not sure if it's because they have some long term support with RH but Debian stable seems more up to date compared to my box...
Watch out. This is ordinary in Italian politics. The scheme is: 1. Speak about a very restrictive law that is being written. 2. Wait for the reaction of the media. If they criticize you, step back and say you were "misunderstood". 3. Change the criticized aspects of the law, introduce a bit of freedom. This is how you wanted the law to be from the beginning. Everyone should understand that this is a reasonable compromise between what is needed and what is possible to do. Now the media won't care about it anymore, it's not news. No more criticism except from your political opponents, but that doesn't matter because you opponents criticize you anyway. 4. The law is approved with the regular iter. 5. Profit ?!?
I was wondering the same. What about the discussion I've seen so many times: Slashdotter1: Check out the source code with svn Slashdotter2: What if I don't have svn installed? Slashdotter1: #aptitude install subversion Slashdotter2: What the heck is supposed to be that? I don't wanna type some obscure command line!!!!!1
We should say every time: click the "K" in the bottom left corner of your screen, or the "Applications" label at the top left of your screen or...
Are PCs really getting bigger? Last time I checked, electronic devices were getting smaller.
Anyway, following his logic, we should stop improving PCs or someday they'll get so big that Windows will be so complicated that it will make them useless to almost everybody.
Why do you prefer a ISO to a compressed tar archive? If meant that you want a precompiled kernel, you should wait until your distro offers a package.
On the other hand, if you want to try the new kernel now, you have to build it yourself. Many users complain that the "make-based" compiling is too difficult, hence distros usually offer some kernel building facility. Check your documentation - or google.
Here's how I'm building the new kernel right now on a Debian system:
cd/usr/src/linux-2.6.22.9/ ketchup -r 2.6 make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=`date +%d%m%y` kernel_image
A old linear power supply has a efficiency ~40%, and is considered low efficiency and unacceptable.
Solar cells may be used - and in fact are already in use in some areas - even if they have n ~ 10-20%. A key factor is that here we are converting a different form of energy in electrical energy, while a converter has the same type of energy at input and output. It is usually supposed that light is widely available and space is relatively cheap, although there are places where this isn't the case.
The idea is: if we absorb a kW and we get only 100W out because the efficiency is very low, we increment the solar cell's area by a factor 10 and get a kW out. This works only if the cells are cheap, of course.
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I may believe you, but it would surely help if you would be kind enough to provide some proof.
Every time I read those "it took XXX years to realize something was wrong" posts, I'm puzzled.
It took 359 years for the catholic church to admit they did wrong, so what? How much time did it took to mankind to condemn slavery?
A story currently on the front page refers to that accident.
Is there something to know to effectively use those things?
I wanted to write the same you did, but it's not necessary.
There is some additional info required to fully understand why this happened: there is currently a debate about abortion in Italy. It is currently debated if the human rights declaration should be modified to state approximatively that "life should be preserved from its beginning to its natural end".
There is currently concern about countries in which selective abortions are performed (something like all females should be aborted). I don't think they have any remote possibility of changing the abortion law in Italy.
This discussion is welcome. I am a bit concerned too about such things too and I don't have a definite opinion about it. I would like to hear what the Church says and what others think about it.
Far left wingers thought that the Pope may speak about this issue at Sapienza. Leftist students arranged a harsh event to "defend our culture", with things like "Frocessione": a pun on procession and a derogatory word for homosexuals. It is well known that popes do not like being disputed during their speech, so he postponed the event.
67 teachers spoke out loudly against the pope's speech.
This censorship looked fascist to me. Hear his position, explain yours and argue against his if needed. That's how science works. Preventing opposite parties to speak seems to imply your reasons are weak. Voltaire, anybody?
By the way, everyone is ashamed of what happened. Sapienza every day gathers the articles that speak about the university. Here's the link: http://www.uniroma1.it/ufficiostampa/RassegnaStampa/archivio08/011608.pdf (italian, sorry)
Among them there are the first minister and Sapienza's director himself.
One of the requirements of a well designed watermark is that if you remove it, you lose content quality.
I'm not sure if this is actually possible or just wishful thinking.
Anyway, to properly remove it you may need to reverse engineer the algorithm used to watermark the file. This may be tricky.
mother nature she "loves" you, specifically she loves to attempt to kill you at every chance she gets, that's why we develop technology to enforce the restraining order against her.
She's been succeeding since the beginning of humanity.Your distribution updates its packages from time to time. You know, there are _security_ patches from time to time (and your machine is apparently plugged to the Internet).
Your distribution also upgrades its software packages to newer versions from time to time. If you do not wish this, you should switch to some other distribution - take a look at Debian stable. But the best idea is probably to upgrade your software on a desktop and selectively pin down packages that you want to keep, if any.
What happened there is that you tried to install a package that is part of a bigger software system composed by several packages. Your package manager attempts to install the newer version, which depends on shared libraries newer than the ones you have now, hence it suggests you update them too.
On an up-to-date system:
joseph-laptop:/home/joseph# aptitude install kruler
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
kruler
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 64.4kB of archives. After unpacking 332kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://ftp.es.debian.org/ testing/main kruler 4:3.5.8-2+b1 [64.4kB]
Fetched 64.4kB in 0s (250kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package kruler.
(Reading database
Unpacking kruler (from
Setting up kruler (4:3.5.8-2+b1)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
There are things not working as they should on Linux - one of them are pdf readers - but not package management.
But it's been a while since the last time I heard it. Malice suggests that those numbers aren't very useful to FF lately.
Disclaimer: I'm a Linux user and I use FF regularly.
For what it's worth, I don't wish to start a flame war, but I think we should attempt to be fair.
...patenting accurate thumbnails of virtual desktops and using those to swich between the desktop (as previews). We should prevent people from patenting trivial things like this one. It would be better to patent the idea of the desktop, or of the virtual desktops instead.As others pointed out, there's prior art. This patent is probably unenforceable.
What if leaving a open access to the Internet is illegal?
There are countries in which this is true.
I fear you imply that if it is easy to do, it doesn't require a warrant. This is false in my country and should be so in every civilized country.
Isn't the widespread lack of ethics one of the main reasons why we have laws?
Everybody else is fucking moron. I disagree. I find his reply interesting even if I never heard about him. If you don't agree - and you have reasons to do so - use your "communication skills", "understanding", "expertise", be "correct and consistent" to state it, I'll be happy to read. Otherwise... you know
Maybe my university will update its machines. I'm not sure if it's because they have some long term support with RH but Debian stable seems more up to date compared to my box...
Right, so where is the Linux/PPC version of Flash?
By the way, the only thing acceptable done with flash is video.
Otherwise flash is the right answer to:
1. How do I turn my website into a mess?
2. What may make my ads more annoying?
Keep fighting the good fight. Agreed.
Thank you, Rob. Slashdot wouldn't be the same without you.
I hope to be here in 2017.
~joseph
Watch out. This is ordinary in Italian politics.
The scheme is:
1. Speak about a very restrictive law that is being written.
2. Wait for the reaction of the media. If they criticize you, step back and say you were "misunderstood".
3. Change the criticized aspects of the law, introduce a bit of freedom. This is how you wanted the law to be from the beginning. Everyone should understand that this is a reasonable compromise between what is needed and what is possible to do. Now the media won't care about it anymore, it's not news. No more criticism except from your political opponents, but that doesn't matter because you opponents criticize you anyway.
4. The law is approved with the regular iter.
5. Profit ?!?
I was wondering the same. What about the discussion I've seen so many times:
Slashdotter1: Check out the source code with svn
Slashdotter2: What if I don't have svn installed?
Slashdotter1: #aptitude install subversion
Slashdotter2: What the heck is supposed to be that? I don't wanna type some obscure command line!!!!!1
We should say every time: click the "K" in the bottom left corner of your screen, or the "Applications" label at the top left of your screen or...
From one of those:
SuperLaugh.exe 90923 (89K) md5: d87bd90e02d5137e6f5063f6fedce31e
Infected by Packed.Win32.Tibs.cu
Which doesn't tell us much, it seems to be a common way to refer to packed malware. It seems to be very small to be a peer to peer client.
The website I got it from is sick. Who wants to download a "psycho cat laughing to NO END"?
Are PCs really getting bigger? Last time I checked, electronic devices were getting smaller.
Anyway, following his logic, we should stop improving PCs or someday they'll get so big that Windows will be so complicated that it will make them useless to almost everybody.
Nice try, Steve.
If meant that you want a precompiled kernel, you should wait until your distro offers a package.
On the other hand, if you want to try the new kernel now, you have to build it yourself.
Many users complain that the "make-based" compiling is too difficult, hence distros usually offer some kernel building facility. Check your documentation - or google.
Here's how I'm building the new kernel right now on a Debian system: cd
ketchup -r 2.6
make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=`date +%d%m%y` kernel_image
From Debian:
...] destination
SYNOPSIS
ping [-LRUbdfnqrvVaAB] [-c count] [-i interval] [-l preload] [-p pattern]
[-s packetsize] [-t ttl] [-w deadline] [-F flowlabel] [-I interface] [-M hint]
[-Q tos] [-S sndbuf] [-T timestamp option] [-W timeout] [hop
The granparent should be pleased, his manpage is actually the most readable.
Making low cost cells is very important:
A old linear power supply has a efficiency ~40%, and is considered low efficiency and unacceptable.
Solar cells may be used - and in fact are already in use in some areas - even if they have n ~ 10-20%.
A key factor is that here we are converting a different form of energy in electrical energy, while a converter has the same type of energy at input and output. It is usually supposed that light is widely available and space is relatively cheap, although there are places where this isn't the case.
The idea is: if we absorb a kW and we get only 100W out because the efficiency is very low, we increment the solar cell's area by a factor 10 and get a kW out. This works only if the cells are cheap, of course.