> Sure, and if you want to put up with the possibility that, eg, trying to use tab-completion will cause your shell to dump core then, by all means, use testing.
Never happened to me.
Personally, I find that Debian testing is more stable than the other distros' supposedly stable versions. Except Ubuntu, maybe, but they build on Debian.
You are actually in a better position than most to exploit MicroHP, solar, wind, etc.
Where I live we get 75%+ from renewables so for me to do my own solar etc makes little sense- it makes sense for me to convert my car to biodiesel (zero net carbon since it all came from the air to begin with, and money to local farmers instead of to the Saudis and Bushbuddies) or electric.
But if you are getting most of your electricity from fossil, it makes more sense for you to look at ways to get electricity from other sources rather than increase the electricity you buy from the "utility" (quotes because what is the long term utility, really of using fossil fuels)
Yeah, you can buy content to be downloaded to your TiVo. From Amazon. But not the stuff I like to watch. And with some serious terms-of-service issues. And insane pricing.
The energy label for my (local, municipal) shows at least 75% renewable, mostly hydroelectric. And there are government websites you can use to direct your utility to buy more renewable on your behalf at an extra charge.
> His take: there should be as little government regulation of broadband as possible. The market should be allowed to solve the Net-neutrality issue: 'When you control the pipe you should be able to get profit from your investment.'"
Sound like a reasonable concept until you realize that there'll be no disclosure. We the people won't know that their connection to BannerAdSearch.com is way way slower than their connection to MyBetterSearch.com because their ISP is getting paid money (on top of the money we pay them) to prioritize our traffic toward BannerAdSearch.com
"Let the market sort it out" doesn't work as well when secrecy is applied- then it becomes "race to the bottom".
-- Nil
((How long do you think it is before slavery is legal again? The new improved non-racist kind.))
... > The "computer industry" has been so anti-degree of late it's not surprising this offends people. But, honestly, every other industry places value on a good degree, so why should we be special in this regard?...
Um, because there is such a history of people with "great degrees" doing poorly.
Programming is really a personality thing... and real academic types often can't get "real" enough to solve the "real world" problems.
> A couple of years ago, I wrote a prototype for a video game called "Spam Rage Rampage" > -- a first-person shooter where you roamed a Tron-like world, killing spam zombies and > rescuing real people (== legitimate mail) while you searched for clues to the location > of the nefarious spam kingpin, Ospama Bin Sendin. Each zombie represented a different > class of spam... prostitute zombies for porn, business-suited zombies for stocks, > pharmacist zombies for pill ads, etc. > > Upon seeing a demo, one of my friends commented that I should hook it up to a real e-mail > inbox, so you could kill your own spam messages, perhaps even in real time....
Um, doesnt the system already have to know whether messages are spam or not?
> Unfortunately I have never had the time to complete it... maybe after the kids are out of the house.
Release the code under GPL with a couple screenshots of the demo and I'm sure others will finish it for you! It's a cool enough idea...
I'm partial to the Toshiba Portege myself. It's cheap, it has XGA resolution, and unlike many, it can take a fairly modern larger-capacity hard drive.
It doesn't have the rez (1920x1200) or memory or CPU speed I'm used to but then again my primary use is to save off my photos.
On my last trip (Mexico) it was rare to find a place outside the larger-city hotels that would let you use their wifi- generally the practice was to rent access to a wired machine. But it sure did come in handy when we did stay in a hotel to be able to check my banking and my billpay service- I didn't trust the internet cafe to not have spyware (soft or hard!)
I personally want to give no more money to the ethically challenged monopolist. Yes, its not much, but still. It's a moral stand, I guess.
Re being jacked and your happy acceptance of inferior resolution:
Since the screen is the only thing I see most of my days, I feel jacked by there being no better display selection than there was five years ago! Yes, there are bigger screens, but more pixels? Nope.
So I personally will stick with my four-year-old 1920x1200 laptop till I can afford to buy a Microsoft-free machine with a better display.
If we don't tolerate 300dpi from our printers, why should we tolerate 72dpi from our displays?
If you have to run Microsoft software to make it work
If you have you cant copy it to your mobile media device to watch it during the commute
If there are restrictions on my freedom to use it the way I want to...it's not free, just gratis, and then only for those who conform the the corporate giant.
Our public institutions should not be supporting corporate agendas, like "you must run Microsoft".
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Put a turbine on the hole.
Pump water down.
Harvest the steam, sell the energy.
Use the funds from the geothermal power facility to fund the second hole.
Repeat.
Given you've converted enough water to steam it should be cool enough to go deeper.
Um, Microsoft Wants To Identify All Web-Surfers
Well, and also that I can generally find out what went wrong in a standard place, /var/log .
All I know is that when I fix something in Linux, it stays fixed
> Sure, and if you want to put up with the possibility that, eg, trying to use tab-completion will cause your shell to dump core then, by all means, use testing.
Never happened to me.
Personally, I find that Debian testing is more stable than the other distros' supposedly stable versions. Except Ubuntu, maybe, but they build on Debian.
This was featured in the Keynote at Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco yesterday morning
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You are actually in a better position than most to exploit MicroHP, solar, wind, etc.
Where I live we get 75%+ from renewables so for me to do my own solar etc makes little sense- it makes sense for me to convert my car to biodiesel (zero net carbon since it all came from the air to begin with, and money to local farmers instead of to the Saudis and Bushbuddies) or electric.
But if you are getting most of your electricity from fossil, it makes more sense for you to look at ways to get electricity from other sources rather than increase the electricity you buy from the "utility" (quotes because what is the long term utility, really of using fossil fuels)
Yeah, you can buy content to be downloaded to your TiVo. From Amazon. But not the stuff I like to watch. And with some serious terms-of-service issues. And insane pricing.
The energy label for my (local, municipal) shows at least 75% renewable, mostly hydroelectric. And there are government websites you can use to direct your utility to buy more renewable on your behalf at an extra charge.
This is what I do to the podcasts I listen to:
Convert to wav, run sox mask, normalize, and reencode at the same bitrate.
Or at one that sounds fine to me and I can fit more stuff on my player.
Sounds the same to me, plus now my collection is at the same volume level.
I suppose it would also strip out any but the most sophisticated watermark.
I know it does strip out the mp3tags but I dont care about that.
> His take: there should be as little government regulation of broadband as possible. The market should be allowed to solve the Net-neutrality issue: 'When you control the pipe you should be able to get profit from your investment.'"
Sound like a reasonable concept until you realize that there'll be no disclosure. We the people won't know that their connection to BannerAdSearch.com is way way slower than their connection to MyBetterSearch.com because their ISP is getting paid money (on top of the money we pay them) to prioritize our traffic toward BannerAdSearch.com
"Let the market sort it out" doesn't work as well when secrecy is applied- then it becomes "race to the bottom".
-- Nil
((How long do you think it is before slavery is legal again? The new improved non-racist kind.))
... ...
> The "computer industry" has been so anti-degree of late it's not surprising this offends people. But, honestly, every other industry places value on a good degree, so why should we be special in this regard?
Um, because there is such a history of people with "great degrees" doing poorly.
Programming is really a personality thing... and real academic types often can't get "real" enough to solve the "real world" problems.
> A couple of years ago, I wrote a prototype for a video game called "Spam Rage Rampage"
> -- a first-person shooter where you roamed a Tron-like world, killing spam zombies and
> rescuing real people (== legitimate mail) while you searched for clues to the location
> of the nefarious spam kingpin, Ospama Bin Sendin. Each zombie represented a different
> class of spam... prostitute zombies for porn, business-suited zombies for stocks,
> pharmacist zombies for pill ads, etc.
>
> Upon seeing a demo, one of my friends commented that I should hook it up to a real e-mail
> inbox, so you could kill your own spam messages, perhaps even in real time....
Um, doesnt the system already have to know whether messages are spam or not?
> Unfortunately I have never had the time to complete it... maybe after the kids are out of the house.
Release the code under GPL with a couple screenshots of the demo and I'm sure
others will finish it for you! It's a cool enough idea...
Um, not to nitpick, but I think it's a Y-cable, not a through-cable.
Mod parent down or grandparent up. Parent is nonsensical without context.
> No, it's not theft, and there is a legal precedence that backs this up. Stop spouting idiotic bullshit.
> United States Copyright Law:
> http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#501
Obviously congress confuses "theft" with "copyright violation" too, just look at how they name their laws (search for "theft" in the above reference).
You might want to study up on the difference between throughput and latency.
I'm partial to the Toshiba Portege myself. It's cheap, it has XGA resolution, and unlike many, it can take a fairly modern larger-capacity hard drive.
It doesn't have the rez (1920x1200) or memory or CPU speed I'm used to but then again my primary use is to save off my photos.
On my last trip (Mexico) it was rare to find a place outside the larger-city hotels that would let you use their wifi- generally the practice was to rent access to a wired machine. But it sure did come in handy when we did stay in a hotel to be able to check my banking and my billpay service- I didn't trust the internet cafe to not have spyware (soft or hard!)
Obviously your priorities differ.
Re Windows price:
I personally want to give no more money to the ethically challenged monopolist. Yes, its not much, but still. It's a moral stand, I guess.
Re being jacked and your happy acceptance of inferior resolution:
Since the screen is the only thing I see most of my days, I feel jacked by there being no better display selection than there was five years ago! Yes, there are bigger screens, but more pixels? Nope.
So I personally will stick with my four-year-old 1920x1200 laptop till I can afford to buy a Microsoft-free machine with a better display.
If we don't tolerate 300dpi from our printers, why should we tolerate 72dpi from our displays?
If you have to run Microsoft software to make it work
...it's not free, just gratis, and then only for those who conform the the corporate giant.
If you have you cant copy it to your mobile media device to watch it during the commute
If there are restrictions on my freedom to use it the way I want to
Our public institutions should not be supporting corporate agendas, like "you must run Microsoft".
Oops. I meant the origins of...
Anyone care to speculate on the Old Testament prohibition?
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Yo! Give Dougie a credit!