The UK has higher rape and drug use than the USA. And though i wasn't able to quickly find a reference but I believe the UK has much more knife related crimes. I would suggest most western countries have problems that need working on, it's just most don't have a fixation on guns like the USA
Yes that's a complaint i have too. As well as the near useless extra commentry on DVDs why can't they have another soundtrack with the levels adjusted for quiet listening; i live in hope.
i totally agree with your point about cars. in 50 years time we'll look back with amazement at how decadent we were now. 1.5t of metal to move often one person, 75kg. If you live in a city you can get away with a top speed of 60kph.
Whatever fuel source cars will use in the future they will be substantially more efficient than todays.
I do a similar thing but i start with knoppix and use that to access and clean windows folders, then boot windows and use hijack this to see what was referenced and make sure i've got it all.
As you say this approach seems to work with pretty much everything
Yes you are insane! KDE really needs at least 256Mb of RAM so it's not accessing the disk all the time. Only yesterday i installed mandriva 2008.1 on a celeron 400 with about 200Mb of RAM, using KDE was painful. It was much better using ICEWM. This was all done for a quick hack. In reality on something that slow you are much much better of with a small distro, e.g., Puppy, DSL or Austumi.
To the other people in this thread: I guess KDE was chosen as it is a great desktop, rather than for its speed. Having said that however i use KDE on my 2yr old lappy and it's not slow
Major achievements in NetBSD 4.0 include support for version 3 of the Xen virtual machine monitor, Bluetooth, many new device drivers and embedded platforms based on ARM, PowerPC and MIPS CPUs. New network services include iSCSI target (server) code and an implementation of the Common Address Redundancy Protocol. Also, system security was further enhanced with restrictions of mprotect(2) to enforce W^X policies, the Kernel Authorization framework, and improvements of the Veriexec file integrity subsystem, which can be used to harden the system against trojan horses and virus attacks. Please read below for a list of changes in NetBSD 4.0.
The complete list of changes can be found in the CHANGES and CHANGES-4.0 files in the top level directory of the NetBSD 4.0 release tree. Some highlights include: Networking
* agr(4): new pseudo-device driver for link level aggregation.
* IPv6 support was extended with an RFC 3542-compliant API and added for gre(4) tunnels and the tun(4) device.
* An NDIS-wrapper was added to use Windows binary drivers on the i386 platform, see ndiscvt(8).
* The IPv4 source-address selection policy can be set from a number of algorithms. See "IPSRCSEL" in options(4) and in_getifa(9).
* Imported wpa_supplicant(8) and wpa_cli(8). Utilities to connect and handle aspects of 802.11 WPA networks.
* Imported hostapd(8). An authenticator for IEEE 802.11 networks.
* carp(4): imported Common Address Redundancy Protocol to allow multiple hosts to share a set of IP addresses for high availability / redundancy, from OpenBSD.
* ALTQ support for the PF packet filter.
* etherip(4): new EtherIP tunneling device. It's able to tunnel Ethernet traffic over IPv4 and IPv6 using the EtherIP protocol specified in RFC 3378.
* ftpd(8) can now run in standalone mode, instead of from inetd(8).
* tftp(1) now has support for multicast TFTP operation in open-loop mode, server is in progress.
* tcp(4): added support for RFC 3465 Appropriate Byte Counting (ABC) and Explicit Congestion Notification as defined in RFC 3168.
File systems
* scan_ffs(8), scan_lfs(8): utilities to find FFSv1/v2 and LFS partitions to recover lost disklabels on disks and image files.
* tmpfs: added a new memory-based file system aimed at replacing mfs. Contrary to mfs, it is not based on a disk file system, so it is more efficient both in overall memory consumption and speed. See mount_tmpfs(8).
* Added UDF support for optical media and block devices, see mount_udf(8). Read-only for now.
* NFS export list handling was changed to be filesystem independent.
* LFS: lots of stability improvements and new cleaner daemon. It is now also possible to use LFS as root filesystem.
* vnd(4): the vnode disk driver can be used on filesystems such as smbfs and tmpfs.
* Support for System V Boot File System was added, see newfs_sysvbfs(8) and mount_sysvbfs(8).
Drivers
*
Audio:
o Support for new models on drivers such as Intel ICH8/6300ESB, NVIDIA nForce 3/4, etc.
o Added support for AC'97 modems.
I am not the person you were replying to and your comment seems fair and reasonable but:
Quote: When was the last time that you tried to use, say, firefox, via X11 across even a fast LAN network?
Um, every day i am at work. My home pc is on the work LAN, I always have thunderbird open and frequently use firefox and konqueror. They all seem to run fine.
Next week (no hurry I suppose), the manufacturers of the tracking device are bringing more sensitive equipment and more experienced searchers to search for it. Yes it is only the experienced searcher that can walk around and properly say "Nope, not here..."
Whilst removing the front seat may seem very suspicious under the circumstances it does give you a lot more space. I used to do it sometimes when i had a lot of stuff to shift. Of course i just put the seat in my shed rather than dumping it a few hundred miles away and then setting fire to it, but hey, each to his own.
For an interesting and somewhat chilling read on what the future might be like if we follow the pessimistic path then read "The Right to Read" by RMS. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Here's the beginning:
For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college--when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan.
This put Dan in a dilemma. He had to help her--but if he lent her his computer, she might read his books. Aside from the fact that you could go to prison for many years for letting someone else read your books, the very idea shocked him at first. Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong--something that only pirates would do.
It was my sincere hope that with the change to digital a lot of people would just say F' it, I'm not going to pay for something i didn't see a need for. Was there some vote on this, yeah thanks politicians for serving my interests.
Heck people might actually start to think if they weren't watching TV all the time. Guess it is not going to happen and i was naive to think so.
This raises a much more important question, why have some distros switched to using/media instead of/mnt. WHY! It isn't three letters, it's more typing and seems totally out of place. I don't mind change if there is a real need for it. What, are we suddenly caring that newbs might find the standard naming system a bit confusing?
What the f' is wrong with/mnt?
I encourage all of you to resist this madness!
Yes i am serious.
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I would agree that we tend to treat the symptoms not the cause. However comparing the UK to the USA
http://www.nationmaster.com/compare/United-Kingdom/United-States/Crime
The UK has higher rape and drug use than the USA. And though i wasn't able to quickly find a reference but I believe the UK has much more knife related crimes. I would suggest most western countries have problems that need working on, it's just most don't have a fixation on guns like the USA
Yes that's a complaint i have too. As well as the near useless extra commentry on DVDs why can't they have another soundtrack with the levels adjusted for quiet listening; i live in hope.
i totally agree with your point about cars. in 50 years time we'll look back with amazement at how decadent we were now. 1.5t of metal to move often one person, 75kg. If you live in a city you can get away with a top speed of 60kph.
Whatever fuel source cars will use in the future they will be substantially more efficient than todays.
I do a similar thing but i start with knoppix and use that to access and clean windows folders, then boot windows and use hijack this to see what was referenced and make sure i've got it all.
As you say this approach seems to work with pretty much everything
why is this comment modded as a troll?
Talk about a collective whoosh... from the moderators
sheesh, i'd say it was insightful
Yes you are insane! KDE really needs at least 256Mb of RAM so it's not accessing the disk all the time. Only yesterday i installed mandriva 2008.1 on a celeron 400 with about 200Mb of RAM, using KDE was painful. It was much better using ICEWM. This was all done for a quick hack. In reality on something that slow you are much much better of with a small distro, e.g., Puppy, DSL or Austumi.
To the other people in this thread: I guess KDE was chosen as it is a great desktop, rather than for its speed. Having said that however i use KDE on my 2yr old lappy and it's not slow
Let me be the third to say, "Ha ha."
This must mean that 2008 will be the year of Linux on the desktop!
You insensitive clod i still am a flannel wearing emo
Major achievements in NetBSD 4.0 include support for version 3 of the Xen virtual machine monitor, Bluetooth, many new device drivers and embedded platforms based on ARM, PowerPC and MIPS CPUs. New network services include iSCSI target (server) code and an implementation of the Common Address Redundancy Protocol. Also, system security was further enhanced with restrictions of mprotect(2) to enforce W^X policies, the Kernel Authorization framework, and improvements of the Veriexec file integrity subsystem, which can be used to harden the system against trojan horses and virus attacks. Please read below for a list of changes in NetBSD 4.0.
http://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-4/NetBSD-4.0.html
Major Changes Between 3.0 and 4.0
The complete list of changes can be found in the CHANGES and CHANGES-4.0 files in the top level directory of the NetBSD 4.0 release tree. Some highlights include:
Networking
* agr(4): new pseudo-device driver for link level aggregation.
* IPv6 support was extended with an RFC 3542-compliant API and added for gre(4) tunnels and the tun(4) device.
* An NDIS-wrapper was added to use Windows binary drivers on the i386 platform, see ndiscvt(8).
* The IPv4 source-address selection policy can be set from a number of algorithms. See "IPSRCSEL" in options(4) and in_getifa(9).
* Imported wpa_supplicant(8) and wpa_cli(8). Utilities to connect and handle aspects of 802.11 WPA networks.
* Imported hostapd(8). An authenticator for IEEE 802.11 networks.
* carp(4): imported Common Address Redundancy Protocol to allow multiple hosts to share a set of IP addresses for high availability / redundancy, from OpenBSD.
* ALTQ support for the PF packet filter.
* etherip(4): new EtherIP tunneling device. It's able to tunnel Ethernet traffic over IPv4 and IPv6 using the EtherIP protocol specified in RFC 3378.
* ftpd(8) can now run in standalone mode, instead of from inetd(8).
* tftp(1) now has support for multicast TFTP operation in open-loop mode, server is in progress.
* tcp(4): added support for RFC 3465 Appropriate Byte Counting (ABC) and Explicit Congestion Notification as defined in RFC 3168.
File systems
* scan_ffs(8), scan_lfs(8): utilities to find FFSv1/v2 and LFS partitions to recover lost disklabels on disks and image files.
* tmpfs: added a new memory-based file system aimed at replacing mfs. Contrary to mfs, it is not based on a disk file system, so it is more efficient both in overall memory consumption and speed. See mount_tmpfs(8).
* Added UDF support for optical media and block devices, see mount_udf(8). Read-only for now.
* NFS export list handling was changed to be filesystem independent.
* LFS: lots of stability improvements and new cleaner daemon. It is now also possible to use LFS as root filesystem.
* vnd(4): the vnode disk driver can be used on filesystems such as smbfs and tmpfs.
* Support for System V Boot File System was added, see newfs_sysvbfs(8) and mount_sysvbfs(8).
Drivers
*
Audio:
o Support for new models on drivers such as Intel ICH8/6300ESB, NVIDIA nForce 3/4, etc.
o Added support for AC'97 modems.
I am not the person you were replying to and your comment seems fair and reasonable but:
Quote: When was the last time that you tried to use, say, firefox, via X11
across even a fast LAN network?
Um, every day i am at work. My home pc is on the work LAN, I always have thunderbird open and frequently use firefox and konqueror. They all seem to run fine.
Marillion have done some albums funded by their fans.
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep03/articles/marillion.htm/
http://www.theregister.com/2004/04/28/marillion_comeback/
I see so many comments about this guy being stupid.... and no one on slashdot has EVER done anything stupid, yeah right.
I'm just impressed with his machine.
Well i for one welcome our new sexually harassing evil monkey overlords
Or even better how about "Grow a fucking brain month" then we wouldn't need all these special months or days.
Except "Talk like a Pirate Day", THAT was cool.
Obviously your amp doesn't go to 11, or else you wouldn't say that.
Yes, but i didn't do a cartoon about it so i didn't get fired!
Whilst removing the front seat may seem very suspicious under the circumstances it does give you a lot more space. I used to do it sometimes when i had a lot of stuff to shift. Of course i just put the seat in my shed rather than dumping it a few hundred miles away and then setting fire to it, but hey, each to his own.
Nah, didn't work in OpenOffice 2.02 on linux :-(
For an interesting and somewhat chilling read on what the future might be like if we follow the pessimistic path then read "The Right to Read" by RMS. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Here's the beginning:
For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college--when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan.
This put Dan in a dilemma. He had to help her--but if he lent her his computer, she might read his books. Aside from the fact that you could go to prison for many years for letting someone else read your books, the very idea shocked him at first. Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong--something that only pirates would do.
It was my sincere hope that with the change to digital a lot of people would just say F' it, I'm not going to pay for something i didn't see a need for. Was there some vote on this, yeah thanks politicians for serving my interests.
Heck people might actually start to think if they weren't watching TV all the time. Guess it is not going to happen and i was naive to think so.
You insensitive clod, I've only got an Atari 400!
This raises a much more important question, why have some distros switched to using /media instead of /mnt. WHY! It isn't three letters, it's more typing and seems totally out of place. I don't mind change if there is a real need for it. What, are we suddenly caring that newbs might find the standard naming system a bit confusing?
What the f' is wrong with /mnt?
I encourage all of you to resist this madness!
Yes i am serious.
That's because these are the clocks they use: http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/7437/
In my town we only have four people... and we are still waitng for the PS1