Maybe you are not aware that the article and discussion you have linked to have no evidence of rick-rolling with the bait.
Right, but even that article acknowledged that the potential for abuse is definitely there:
"Civil libertarians warn that anyone who clicks on a hyperlink advertising something illegal--perhaps found while Web browsing or received through e-mail--could face the same fate."
Show me evidence of 3rd parties deliberately rick-rolling innocents with FBI controlled kiddie porn URLs or go home.
Unlike canajin56, I don't claim that "FBI rolling" has actually happened -- just that it's very possible. No need to be an asshole about it.
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10.0.0.0/8 is one of the IP blocks allocated as for private networks (ten dot star), but if hosts are in a private network they can't contact other private networks directly.
I have this problem on a Dell Precision M90 laptop with a Seagate 120GB 5400rpm drive. Others are calling the article FUD, and while it may or may not be Ubuntu's fault (since some other Linux distros seem to do this too), what really matters is the fix.
I already had laptop-mode enabled, so rather than apply the rather kludgy fix of setting hdparm -B255/dev/sda to run at startup and resume, I simply edited my/etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf. I replaced the section "Hard drive behaviour settings" with these settings:
These settings fix both the problem of the hard drive spinning down after only a few seconds of inactivity, and the problem of the hard drive parking too often.
To the people who are trying to turn this article into an attack on Windows by saying that Windows has this problem too, but only Linux users are savvy enough to notice it, that's not true. On my laptop, Vista seems not to park the drive automatically at all.
I have Comcast. I also run only Linux. The two actually do work. Instead of activating my cable modem online, I just called Comcast and asked for them to activate my modem's MAC. They did so, and I was in.
You don't have to use their portal or web activation services. Just call them.
Low-frequency, and therefore low-energy EM radiation is non-ionizing. Your cell phone emits this kind of radiation, as do radio towers and WiFi access points. However, high-frequency, high-energy EM radiation like X-rays and gamma rays is ionizing. You can't lump all EM radiation in one group; remember that light is also EM radiation.
Color lasers aren't very expensive, and neither are the toner cartridges. I have a Konica-Minolta Magicolor 2300DL, and it cost around $450. As for the toner, black costs $80 for a 4500-page cartridge, and the three color cartridges (cyan, yellow, magenta) cost $60 each for a 1500-page cartridge.
So: $0.02/page for monochrome, and $0.04/page for color. That's much more economical than an inkjet.
I'd say you should stick with 6.06 Dapper or 6.10 Edgy (whichever you have installed at the moment) rather than going to 7.04 Feisty. 6.06 is both very stable and long-supported; 6.10 has nice under-the-hood improvements like upstart instead of init (giving faster boot times).
As for updating, don't bother. The upgrade process is usually buggy and unreliable. Instead, chdir to a removable drive, run sudo dpkg --get-selections > out, install the new Ubuntu, chdir to the removable drive on the new installation, run sudo dpkg --set-selections < out and sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade.
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I agree with you that Perl is hard to maintain for websites of any reasonable size. But I still use Perl for websites because of how intuitive I find coding in it. (And Perl wasn't even my first language...)
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I think the idea is that there are too many phrases in common between them, so the first one is probably an auto-recycled version of the second.
Both comments *could* be by the same person, but it seems pretty unlikely...
Sorry for assuming you didn't know -- I myself had forgotten about that article and, after rediscovering it, thought it would be helpful.
Have a nice day!
Maybe you are not aware that the article and discussion you have linked to have no evidence of rick-rolling with the bait.
Right, but even that article acknowledged that the potential for abuse is definitely there:
"Civil libertarians warn that anyone who clicks on a hyperlink advertising something illegal--perhaps found while Web browsing or received through e-mail--could face the same fate."
Show me evidence of 3rd parties deliberately rick-rolling innocents with FBI controlled kiddie porn URLs or go home.
Unlike canajin56, I don't claim that "FBI rolling" has actually happened -- just that it's very possible. No need to be an asshole about it.
FBI linkbait was actually covered on Slashdot itself last year.
Presumably he means quick factorization of composites (the product of two primes).
While I agree with you that making up words is annoying, badware is different from malware: http://stopbadware.org/home/badware
It's a broader term that includes adware as well as directly malicious software. I don't think malware has the same scope.
Currently giving twice the speed of the server for me.
The article from yesterday about Verizon and Comcast's pledge to support Bittorrent also includes information about Cubit.
10.0.0.0/8 is one of the IP blocks allocated as for private networks (ten dot star), but if hosts are in a private network they can't contact other private networks directly.
Accidentally modded you redundant when I was trying for insightful; posting to undo the moderation.
The parent's link redirects to http://www.goatsemarathon.com./
Hehe, that's the pre tag, which the lameness filter doesn't allow.
I have Comcast. I also run only Linux. The two actually do work. Instead of activating my cable modem online, I just called Comcast and asked for them to activate my modem's MAC. They did so, and I was in. You don't have to use their portal or web activation services. Just call them.
Accidentally modded you redundant when I meant insightful...posting to undo.
Low-frequency, and therefore low-energy EM radiation is non-ionizing. Your cell phone emits this kind of radiation, as do radio towers and WiFi access points. However, high-frequency, high-energy EM radiation like X-rays and gamma rays is ionizing. You can't lump all EM radiation in one group; remember that light is also EM radiation.
You don't need to reinstall Ubuntu if Windows overwrites GRUB. Details are at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351 and here's a summary:
Color lasers aren't very expensive, and neither are the toner cartridges. I have a Konica-Minolta Magicolor 2300DL, and it cost around $450. As for the toner, black costs $80 for a 4500-page cartridge, and the three color cartridges (cyan, yellow, magenta) cost $60 each for a 1500-page cartridge.
So: $0.02/page for monochrome, and $0.04/page for color. That's much more economical than an inkjet.
I'd say you should stick with 6.06 Dapper or 6.10 Edgy (whichever you have installed at the moment) rather than going to 7.04 Feisty. 6.06 is both very stable and long-supported; 6.10 has nice under-the-hood improvements like upstart instead of init (giving faster boot times).
As for updating, don't bother. The upgrade process is usually buggy and unreliable. Instead, chdir to a removable drive, run sudo dpkg --get-selections > out, install the new Ubuntu, chdir to the removable drive on the new installation, run sudo dpkg --set-selections < out and sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade.
I agree with you that Perl is hard to maintain for websites of any reasonable size. But I still use Perl for websites because of how intuitive I find coding in it. (And Perl wasn't even my first language...)
That only works about 1/2 of the time --- often, the site's admins will tell Googlebot not to cache the site (/>).
Windows (and Mac, and Linux) have always had DPI settings, but most users don't know about them.
I see your point, but then how do you write the number when you know the speed is between 349 and 351 mph?
Close, but Ubuntu didn't start out like that:
(BTW, the version number is <year_released>.<month_released>)
Nice job. What tool did you use to make these?