I think you failed to read. I was replying to this:
From where I sit GIMP is a mess and no where near as nice any many commercial offerings [...] Maybe I'm just really anal about code and quality control
Implying that he was comparing the code and quality control of GIMP to commercial offerings, and that the commercial offerings turned out favorably. I was merely asking how you can judge the code and quality control of commercial software, most of which are closed-source and with no insight into their development process.
In order for them to tell you how to get to where you are going, they have to know where you are!
Hm? GPS is one-way only, it's not like your USB-powered $3 chip can transmit your position to the GPS satellites. Then you can chose to not use navigational tools that you don't have any control over (hardware units, closed-source solutions, "cloud computing"), and you're all set.
So now is the chance to get people to start using DVORAK or maybe something even better (maybe there's been more research on this the last decades). Personally I still use QWERTY but that's just because of 20+ years of being used to it. Would be nice with a thought-through layout as standard.
That's funny, since each USB port on your computer can not and is not allowed according to spec to deliver more than 2.5W. One harddrive is at most 10W when operating (not idle), and a case fan, well, if any case fan will draw more than a few watts I think it'll melt from the heat. Somehow I think your PS calculator wants you to buy a seriously overpowered and expensive powersupply. How strange.
I didn't answer to a headline. When you use the <quote> tag and then just after that write something on your own it usually means that you are replying to what is quoted.
I suggest you take your needless frustration elsewhere.
Still I do not think there are many who think that law where released music/computer programs/... go immediately to public domain is better.
Nor can I support PiratPartiet. They are just too... anarchy.
I hope you are aware that Piratpartiet do not want all creative works to go public domain immediately, just shorten the period until that happens. The current time is insane. The one suggested by Piratpartiet, maybe not as insane.
No. GParted use the normal tools for formatting, and the formatting procedure for most (all?) file systems does not require overwriting all data, thus there will be a lot of your old data left even if the partition looks empty.
To zero out a partition in linux, you can for example do something like:
Actually, the bug was that it didn't correct the manufacturers' insane default settings. Windows did, so the hard drive manufacturers could keep shipping devices with aggressive settings while everyone used Windows. Personally I find it hard to blame Ubuntu for this, although the problem only shows when you use it..
if you haven't done a certain thing (say, activating a specific bit on a specific offset on the file), would make the file self-destruct by insertion of random data, and if the file was write-protected, it simply wouldn't decrypt
Futile. The police will never work on the original, they will always use a cloned version. All self-destruction options are pointless when protecting against anyone with a bit of knowledge. Works well against the petty thief, but then a 6 letter password works as well..
If TeliaSonera is the upstream for The Pirate Bay, I don't think they would be that happy if they had to cut them off, I bet they generate quite a lot of revenue for them.
You sound like someone that need to be reminded that RAID IS NOT BACKUP! Google for that sentence. All you talk about is saving your data, and RAID will not do that for you. You'd be better off just using the second drive as a backup. RAID will not save you from accidental overwriting of data, corrupt filesystems, broken chipsets, etc. The only thing RAID will save you from is downtime. If you lose that much money on the downtime it takes to recover from a backup, then by all means, use RAID, but don't treat it as a backup solution that will protect your data. That's not what it's made for.
See, this is not a problem. Unless society is cast back into darkness by some nuclear war, the future human/creature will easily understand how to power up and interface to this device. Either by locating historical documentation, or reverse engineering, which would be trivial for our future superhumans/robots.
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I think you failed to read. I was replying to this:
From where I sit GIMP is a mess and no where near as nice any many commercial offerings [...] Maybe I'm just really anal about code and quality control
Implying that he was comparing the code and quality control of GIMP to commercial offerings, and that the commercial offerings turned out favorably. I was merely asking how you can judge the code and quality control of commercial software, most of which are closed-source and with no insight into their development process.
What's an alternative commercial offering where you can judge the code and quality control?
Unplug the machine, boot up with a live CD, install whatever crap you want. As soon as you have physical access to a computer you won.
In order for them to tell you how to get to where you are going, they have to know where you are!
Hm? GPS is one-way only, it's not like your USB-powered $3 chip can transmit your position to the GPS satellites. Then you can chose to not use navigational tools that you don't have any control over (hardware units, closed-source solutions, "cloud computing"), and you're all set.
the chip inside gets put under higher temps than the inside of cupcake when they place them on a PCB
Not by much, and for a much shorter time with controlled ramp-up and cooling off intervals.
I have a hard time taking a shower or a dump when I'm watching my daughter by myself.
And if you do watch your daughter while taking a shower or a dump, you'll probably go to jail when she tells her teacher about it.
realize that people are mostly evil
Citation needed. How do you figure this? If people were mostly evil, most people would have a criminal record.
Yeah, except musicians and artist are normally not employed by the record companies. The article clearly says a seven-album deal.
So now is the chance to get people to start using DVORAK or maybe something even better (maybe there's been more research on this the last decades). Personally I still use QWERTY but that's just because of 20+ years of being used to it. Would be nice with a thought-through layout as standard.
That's funny, since each USB port on your computer can not and is not allowed according to spec to deliver more than 2.5W. One harddrive is at most 10W when operating (not idle), and a case fan, well, if any case fan will draw more than a few watts I think it'll melt from the heat. Somehow I think your PS calculator wants you to buy a seriously overpowered and expensive powersupply. How strange.
I didn't answer to a headline. When you use the <quote> tag and then just after that write something on your own it usually means that you are replying to what is quoted.
I suggest you take your needless frustration elsewhere.
Still I do not think there are many who think that law where released music/computer programs/... go immediately to public domain is better.
Nor can I support PiratPartiet. They are just too ... anarchy.
I hope you are aware that Piratpartiet do not want all creative works to go public domain immediately, just shorten the period until that happens. The current time is insane. The one suggested by Piratpartiet, maybe not as insane.
A group like TPB has some money to fight fights like this
No they don't, nor it is needed to fight something like this in Sweden.
Changing the Linux license is legally impossible without removing a lot of the code.
I wonder if this might lead to a dual-licensing for ZFS so it might be possible to use in linux.
No. GParted use the normal tools for formatting, and the formatting procedure for most (all?) file systems does not require overwriting all data, thus there will be a lot of your old data left even if the partition looks empty.
To zero out a partition in linux, you can for example do something like:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/yourpartition bs=512
There are of course more ways.
Actually, the bug was that it didn't correct the manufacturers' insane default settings. Windows did, so the hard drive manufacturers could keep shipping devices with aggressive settings while everyone used Windows. Personally I find it hard to blame Ubuntu for this, although the problem only shows when you use it..
Anything to back that up? What about the gaming industry in total?
if you haven't done a certain thing (say, activating a specific bit on a specific offset on the file), would make the file self-destruct by insertion of random data, and if the file was write-protected, it simply wouldn't decrypt
Futile. The police will never work on the original, they will always use a cloned version. All self-destruction options are pointless when protecting against anyone with a bit of knowledge. Works well against the petty thief, but then a 6 letter password works as well..
If TeliaSonera is the upstream for The Pirate Bay, I don't think they would be that happy if they had to cut them off, I bet they generate quite a lot of revenue for them.
I use dnsmasq on my router, you could use it locally as well. It has a --bogus-nxdomain=<ipaddr> option that you can use for this purpose.
Well you could RTFA that answers parts of your question: they have tried to call him, he isn't answering.
Compilers are pretty efficient these days.
Funny, I've heard this the last 20 years. Wonder what "these days" mean, and when it will actually become true.
You sound like someone that need to be reminded that RAID IS NOT BACKUP! Google for that sentence. All you talk about is saving your data, and RAID will not do that for you. You'd be better off just using the second drive as a backup. RAID will not save you from accidental overwriting of data, corrupt filesystems, broken chipsets, etc. The only thing RAID will save you from is downtime. If you lose that much money on the downtime it takes to recover from a backup, then by all means, use RAID, but don't treat it as a backup solution that will protect your data. That's not what it's made for.
See, this is not a problem. Unless society is cast back into darkness by some nuclear war, the future human/creature will easily understand how to power up and interface to this device. Either by locating historical documentation, or reverse engineering, which would be trivial for our future superhumans/robots.