TPB is also a bittorrent tracker, something that users mostly ignore due to lack of knowledge of the bittorrent protocol. You can get your torrents from anywhere, it will still need to connect to a tracker that will keep track of who is sharing the pieces that you want. Often people say that "lol piratebay sucks, use bigger sites like isohunt", but then fail to see that most of the isohunt torrents are using TPB as a tracker.
The role of the tracker is somewhat going away with DHT and PXE, but is still very important for closed (controlled) trackers.
My later Amigas typically had a boot time of 10 seconds.
I'm booting my Amiga from a compact flash disk, about 2 seconds from it starts loading until it's completely booted. Add a a few more seconds from the time I hit the power switch to the time it starts loading the software. Veeery nice.:)
Did they mount a couple of file systems, start cron+http+aptcache+distcc+cpufreqd+ntp daemons and wait for DHCP_ACK, then mount some more file systems and load up a highly configurable login screen?
Why are you starting up all that on your laptop? Do you think the average ubuntu user need to run distcc? http servers? are they mounting several filesystems, some networked?
Other questions are why it takes time to start a webserver? Locating and loading a couple of megabytes of code on a modern hard drive or flash disk takes a couple of miliseconds. Perhaps the applications are badly and lazily written? Why does it take time to mount a filesystem, more than actually locating the header on the disk?
Why do you need a highly configurable login-screen? Isn't it better to just boot up everything and then lock the system, letting someone else log in if they need to?
Just that no one seem to care, because people want the bloat. They want to wait 10 seconds to load a bootsplash image, because omg it looks so fancy. Nothing stops the distromakers from making their distro boot in 5 seconds.
Thank you! I was reading retarded reply after reply, and was wondering why no one was mentioning the obvious.
The openmoko is clearly the best choice here, since you need to be able to have full control over your application if you want to do stuff like opening doors. Who knows what backdoors are hidden in the closed phones.
Of course I did. It was big news, because it was so rare and strange. Microsoft having a backdoor like this seem to be in the news a couple of times every year.
The difference is that the FOSS software have millions of people that can check the source code, Microsoft only a couple of thousands. Having the source makes it so much easier to spot the flaws.. (and thus fixing them)
But you can update your proprietary software without electricity? I fail to get your point here. If the whole society collapse, then yes, it will be difficult to operate a computer. I think we can all agree on that, since it will still need some sort of power. Then again, would still work if people had invested in renewable energy sources like wind power.
Ok, so it's also not racism to say that I like black people for their crack-smoking skills, since it's true, as they are overrepresented among crack-smokers? Somehow that seems wrong.
You and I should pay because we want to live in a society where if your mother/sister/wife/daughter/friend is raped, you'd like her to get a decent treatment, that does not depend on her financial status.
The same reason we have a law against raping people. From another angle: "I'm not a woman so I can't see why I should have to pay for the police to actually bother with this crime."
Then again, PunkOfLinux here has a good point, and that's a bit how it works in Sweden, where if you're sentenced to jail, you also often have to pay a sum to a fund that is used for things like this.
Anyway, yes, you can export them to a Word-compatible format, and since OpenOffice is using a standard file format, MS Word should be able to read it as well. Also, OpenOffice will create smaller and nicer Word-files than Word.
That's about $10000 per person, much less than the U.S.
Traditionally, democrats/left-ish governments spend less while taking in more, thus reducing the debts, while right-wing capitalist governments tend to spend more. (what they don't spend on health care they spend on prisons and "national security")
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Only stuff that makes perceptible noise are the case fans
In a silent PC you wouldn't have case fans
the fans are the noisiest part of my computer
Now see what happens when you silence the fan, like you would in any silent computer that this article is meant to be used for
TPB is also a bittorrent tracker, something that users mostly ignore due to lack of knowledge of the bittorrent protocol. You can get your torrents from anywhere, it will still need to connect to a tracker that will keep track of who is sharing the pieces that you want. Often people say that "lol piratebay sucks, use bigger sites like isohunt", but then fail to see that most of the isohunt torrents are using TPB as a tracker.
The role of the tracker is somewhat going away with DHT and PXE, but is still very important for closed (controlled) trackers.
Those who deal in child pornography and prey on children are, to my mind, some of the worst exxamples of humanity out there.
Worse than murderers? Worse than someone who was driving drunk and ran over a child?
It's more likely the Ubuntu/GNOME moving all apps to run in mono. I doubt the kernel have anything to do with this.
My later Amigas typically had a boot time of 10 seconds.
I'm booting my Amiga from a compact flash disk, about 2 seconds from it starts loading until it's completely booted. Add a a few more seconds from the time I hit the power switch to the time it starts loading the software. Veeery nice. :)
Why does every HP come with 30 preinstalled programs in the startup?
Because they are given money to install it. Why are you supporting this business by buying HP computers?
Did they mount a couple of file systems, start cron+http+aptcache+distcc+cpufreqd+ntp daemons and wait for DHCP_ACK, then mount some more file systems and load up a highly configurable login screen?
Why are you starting up all that on your laptop? Do you think the average ubuntu user need to run distcc? http servers? are they mounting several filesystems, some networked?
Other questions are why it takes time to start a webserver? Locating and loading a couple of megabytes of code on a modern hard drive or flash disk takes a couple of miliseconds. Perhaps the applications are badly and lazily written? Why does it take time to mount a filesystem, more than actually locating the header on the disk?
Why do you need a highly configurable login-screen? Isn't it better to just boot up everything and then lock the system, letting someone else log in if they need to?
it *certainly* doesn't boot nearly as fast as BeOS did
Yes it does: http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/
Just that no one seem to care, because people want the bloat. They want to wait 10 seconds to load a bootsplash image, because omg it looks so fancy. Nothing stops the distromakers from making their distro boot in 5 seconds.
Thank you! I was reading retarded reply after reply, and was wondering why no one was mentioning the obvious.
The openmoko is clearly the best choice here, since you need to be able to have full control over your application if you want to do stuff like opening doors. Who knows what backdoors are hidden in the closed phones.
Of course I did. It was big news, because it was so rare and strange. Microsoft having a backdoor like this seem to be in the news a couple of times every year.
Oh how I wish I had modpoints right now, but alas. +1 Insightful.
The difference is that the FOSS software have millions of people that can check the source code, Microsoft only a couple of thousands. Having the source makes it so much easier to spot the flaws.. (and thus fixing them)
But you can update your proprietary software without electricity? I fail to get your point here. If the whole society collapse, then yes, it will be difficult to operate a computer. I think we can all agree on that, since it will still need some sort of power. Then again, would still work if people had invested in renewable energy sources like wind power.
Ok, so it's also not racism to say that I like black people for their crack-smoking skills, since it's true, as they are overrepresented among crack-smokers? Somehow that seems wrong.
Do they also run on water and carbon dioxide?
Well, you got me there. I actually thought most of it was true, that's why I wanted to see some sources to read more about it.
citation needed
I guess that's why they didn't ask you.
You and I should pay because we want to live in a society where if your mother/sister/wife/daughter/friend is raped, you'd like her to get a decent treatment, that does not depend on her financial status.
The same reason we have a law against raping people. From another angle: "I'm not a woman so I can't see why I should have to pay for the police to actually bother with this crime."
Then again, PunkOfLinux here has a good point, and that's a bit how it works in Sweden, where if you're sentenced to jail, you also often have to pay a sum to a fund that is used for things like this.
I think GeoWrite existed for Apple-II as well.
Anyway, yes, you can export them to a Word-compatible format, and since OpenOffice is using a standard file format, MS Word should be able to read it as well. Also, OpenOffice will create smaller and nicer Word-files than Word.
Somewhat off-topic, but what is a 'deltic'? Google only gives me locomotive links. :(
Now, a football can be far more complex than some patented software algorithms I've seen, just check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(ball)#Construction
If you run a debian-ish system: aptitude install pwgen
That's about $10000 per person, much less than the U.S.
Traditionally, democrats/left-ish governments spend less while taking in more, thus reducing the debts, while right-wing capitalist governments tend to spend more. (what they don't spend on health care they spend on prisons and "national security")