"The driver supports i386 and x86_64 hosts and guests. All combinations are allowed except x86_64 guest on i386 host. For i386 guests and hosts, both pae and non-pae paging modes are supported." (From LKML)
Linux sucks. Get over it. There's TONS of things people are used to doing on windows ("it just works") that require you to hack stuff in config files in Windows. Windows is like a swiss army knife. Linux is like a complete hardware store in your pocket. Your average mom don't want nor need a hardware store. *I* want a hardware store (I run linux on my desktop, laptop and various embedded devices).
Let it go for fucks sake. Linux sucks as a desktop compared to Windows and OSX. But it is a great tool if you _know what you are doing_.
Deliberately overcharging a li-poly cell for almost an hour makes it BURST INTO FLAMES! OH NOES! And that is rated INSIGHTFUL? Jeez.
Seriously. Charging batteries has *ALWAYS* been "dangerous". If anything, Li-Pol batteries are *safer* than other batteries, since they won't burst into fire from a short-circuit.
Not only do they keep doing the shiny toys, their employees also gets the respect they really earn from their co-workers. And a lot of fringe benefits.
Nope. It won't work. People can't be bothered to vote on all issues. Remember that the politicians work _full time_ as politicians. Even then, they suck at what they do. Do you think joe blow spending a couple of minutes to vote on stuff once in a while would work?
"As a European, I was very surprised to find out that most houses in Canada and the States are made of woode. Actually, I should have noticed that before, having seen numerous American films. It is so obvious in them the houses are wooden once you pay attention. To me, a house is something made of concrete and bricks."
As an European, *I* was very surprised to find out that houses in e.g. Ireland was mainly concrete and bricks. To me, a house is something made of wood. I'm from Scandinavia though, where we've build with wood since the dawn of time. Here, the extreme temperatures require wood, since it's far better to insulate than concrete/bricks. It also "lives" and breathes. In the houses/buildings I've stayed in over a longer period of time, I've noticed that the air inside concrete/brick buildings isn't by far as good as that in wood.
"It's not so much a review as a rant. Hardly any info is given about how the thing works. The software didn't install? Big deal! When I updated the firmware on my brand-new iPod 3 years ago, it bricked it."
How on *earth* did you manage to "brick" it?. The iPod has a bootloader in ROM which loads the firmware from the internal hdd. If you manage to screw up everything on the disk, you can still use that bootloader to enter disk-mode and re-update the firmware.
"On a different note, what is so wrong about sharing "child" porn? People sexually mature several years before the legal age of consent, and during that "gap" they tend to have sex. Often they take pictures of these activities. Why should we throw innocent teenagers in jail just because they want to practice free love and share images of themselves doing thing that they enjoy? What if they want to share some of these images with a legal adult, what is wrong with that?"
IMHO, some young teenager sharing pics of themselves aren't that bad (Yeah, they're young and stupid, and they *will* regret it. So farking what? Life's hard, get a fucking helmet). It's the part where there's abuse that it is really bad. Would you feel comfortable with videos online of yourself as a child being anally raped by your father? How do you judge when there is abuse or not? An image can tell a thousand words, but it might tell a thousand words the photographer intended to tell you to make money off abusing a child.
"Certainly raping a young person is wrong, just as raping any person is wrong. But owning a picture of rape should not be illegal, just as owning a picture of any other crime (even murder or genocide) should not be illegal. If pictures were taken under conditions of coercion, it is the coercion that is wrong and illegal, not the pictures!"
In itself, owning such a picture isn't anything bad. But most of the pictures are taken because people *want* them. It's the free zarkin' market. Demand and supply. People make *money* (or other services) off of molesting children.
It's a complex problem that doesn't have a simple solution. I'm not pro censorship. Nor am I pro "free access to child pr0n". There's no easy way to deal with it. Censoring it just makes it go more underground.
"The really bad stuff will find ways around it and all that will be truly blocked is that which probably shouldn't be."
Yeah, one example: Norway blocks child porn. What they do is that all DNS-requests are checked, and those servers that hosts "bad stuff" are blocked, leading to a different page. Neat. So all one has to do to circumvent it is use a DNS-server not in Norway.
The manner *ips* are blocked is as far as I can tell unknown. Whether any sites are wrongly blocked is extremely hard to tell.
"Something not mentioned in that article: MS hasn't been able to make hibernation and suspend 100% reliable, and they've had years to work on it."
It's not like Linux has been able to get hibernation and suspend 100% reliable either. This isn't half as much the OS' problem as it is the motherboard/BIOS.
"You can shutoff a computer just like you can shut-off a car. There's a power switch right on the front! And unlike televisions and DVD players and other more popular toys it shuts down completely."
That statement hasn't been true since the ATX motherboards/PSU's became common. An ATX-compliant computer often has a second, *mechanical*, switch on the PSU itself. Hitting the shiny powerbutton in the front has the same effect as hitting the powerbutton on the TV remote, it just almost powers off.
they could disappear and music bands could turn back into what they once were: live performers, who were paid to play music on a stage.
And who will pay for recording in a studio? I *do* want my music recorded in a studio, as opposed to a live recording. The artists? Why? They're not getting paid for it, they only get paid for live performances.
"... an explosive device left outside of PayPal headquarters exploded last night." Ok, so someone had left a bomb outside PayPal (understandable). How long had it been lying there before it went off?
"We paid for it, we built it and we run it. The world is not socialistic. We went out on a limb and spent "our" money (hello texpayers.. your money paid for it) to embetter our country and people;"
Uh, yeah. You paid for the Internet. Really. Are you fscking stupid? And really... how much of the taxpayers money has been used to build this internet, as opposed to the telcos?
In China, we don't have software blocking Internet sites. Sometimes we have trouble accessing them. But that's a different problem.
should've read:
In China, we don't have software blocking Internet sites. Sometimes we have trouble accessing them. But that's because the hardware filters doesn't work most of the time.
It has happened before that huge batches of network card have shipped with the same mac address due to a flaw in the manufacturing process. Also, a lot of network cards allow you to set the mac manually. Counting on the MAC to be unique is silly.
My "casually mentioned xbox" was bought at a price way lower than the cost of production, as has never *ever* run any microsoft software (except the bios, once). So I've bought some cheap hardware designed by microsoft, sold at a loss. I'm using it to run linux;-)
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Yes:
"The driver supports i386 and x86_64 hosts and guests. All combinations are allowed except x86_64 guest on i386 host. For i386 guests and hosts, both pae and non-pae paging modes are supported." (From LKML)
Linux sucks. Get over it. There's TONS of things people are used to doing on windows ("it just works") that require you to hack stuff in config files in Windows. Windows is like a swiss army knife. Linux is like a complete hardware store in your pocket. Your average mom don't want nor need a hardware store. *I* want a hardware store (I run linux on my desktop, laptop and various embedded devices).
Let it go for fucks sake. Linux sucks as a desktop compared to Windows and OSX. But it is a great tool if you _know what you are doing_.
Deliberately overcharging a li-poly cell for almost an hour makes it BURST INTO FLAMES! OH NOES! And that is rated INSIGHTFUL? Jeez.
Seriously. Charging batteries has *ALWAYS* been "dangerous". If anything, Li-Pol batteries are *safer* than other batteries, since they won't burst into fire from a short-circuit.
Not only do they keep doing the shiny toys, their employees also gets the respect they really earn from their co-workers. And a lot of fringe benefits.
Nope. It won't work. People can't be bothered to vote on all issues. Remember that the politicians work _full time_ as politicians. Even then, they suck at what they do. Do you think joe blow spending a couple of minutes to vote on stuff once in a while would work?
"As a European, I was very surprised to find out that most houses in Canada and the States are made of woode. Actually, I should have noticed that before, having seen numerous American films. It is so obvious in them the houses are wooden once you pay attention. To me, a house is something made of concrete and bricks."
As an European, *I* was very surprised to find out that houses in e.g. Ireland was mainly concrete and bricks. To me, a house is something made of wood. I'm from Scandinavia though, where we've build with wood since the dawn of time. Here, the extreme temperatures require wood, since it's far better to insulate than concrete/bricks. It also "lives" and breathes. In the houses/buildings I've stayed in over a longer period of time, I've noticed that the air inside concrete/brick buildings isn't by far as good as that in wood.
"It's not so much a review as a rant. Hardly any info is given about how the thing works. The software didn't install? Big deal! When I updated the firmware on my brand-new iPod 3 years ago, it bricked it."
How on *earth* did you manage to "brick" it?. The iPod has a bootloader in ROM which loads the firmware from the internal hdd. If you manage to screw up everything on the disk, you can still use that bootloader to enter disk-mode and re-update the firmware.
"On a different note, what is so wrong about sharing "child" porn? People sexually mature several years before the legal age of consent, and during that "gap" they tend to have sex. Often they take pictures of these activities. Why should we throw innocent teenagers in jail just because they want to practice free love and share images of themselves doing thing that they enjoy? What if they want to share some of these images with a legal adult, what is wrong with that?"
IMHO, some young teenager sharing pics of themselves aren't that bad (Yeah, they're young and stupid, and they *will* regret it. So farking what? Life's hard, get a fucking helmet). It's the part where there's abuse that it is really bad. Would you feel comfortable with videos online of yourself as a child being anally raped by your father? How do you judge when there is abuse or not? An image can tell a thousand words, but it might tell a thousand words the photographer intended to tell you to make money off abusing a child.
"Certainly raping a young person is wrong, just as raping any person is wrong. But owning a picture of rape should not be illegal, just as owning a picture of any other crime (even murder or genocide) should not be illegal. If pictures were taken under conditions of coercion, it is the coercion that is wrong and illegal, not the pictures!"
In itself, owning such a picture isn't anything bad. But most of the pictures are taken because people *want* them. It's the free zarkin' market. Demand and supply. People make *money* (or other services) off of molesting children.
It's a complex problem that doesn't have a simple solution. I'm not pro censorship. Nor am I pro "free access to child pr0n". There's no easy way to deal with it. Censoring it just makes it go more underground.
"The really bad stuff will find ways around it and all that will be truly blocked is that which probably shouldn't be."
Yeah, one example: Norway blocks child porn. What they do is that all DNS-requests are checked, and those servers that hosts "bad stuff" are blocked, leading to a different page. Neat. So all one has to do to circumvent it is use a DNS-server not in Norway.
The manner *ips* are blocked is as far as I can tell unknown. Whether any sites are wrongly blocked is extremely hard to tell.
Ah, the beauty of reverse engineering. Or the "french cafe" technique: http://www.samba.org/ftp/tridge/misc/french_cafe.t xt
"Something not mentioned in that article: MS hasn't been able to make hibernation and suspend 100% reliable, and they've had years to work on it."
It's not like Linux has been able to get hibernation and suspend 100% reliable either. This isn't half as much the OS' problem as it is the motherboard/BIOS.
"You can shutoff a computer just like you can shut-off a car. There's a power switch right on the front! And unlike televisions and DVD players and other more popular toys it shuts down completely."
That statement hasn't been true since the ATX motherboards/PSU's became common. An ATX-compliant computer often has a second, *mechanical*, switch on the PSU itself. Hitting the shiny powerbutton in the front has the same effect as hitting the powerbutton on the TV remote, it just almost powers off.
And who will pay for recording in a studio? I *do* want my music recorded in a studio, as opposed to a live recording. The artists? Why? They're not getting paid for it, they only get paid for live performances.
The death sentence is irreversible. Jail (is pretty much all cases) is.
"... an explosive device left outside of PayPal headquarters exploded last night."
Ok, so someone had left a bomb outside PayPal (understandable). How long had it been lying there before it went off?
"We paid for it, we built it and we run it. The world is not socialistic. We went out on a limb and spent "our" money (hello texpayers.. your money paid for it) to embetter our country and people;"
Uh, yeah. You paid for the Internet. Really. Are you fscking stupid? And really... how much of the taxpayers money has been used to build this internet, as opposed to the telcos?
I think this:
In China, we don't have software blocking Internet sites. Sometimes we have trouble accessing them. But that's a different problem.
should've read:
In China, we don't have software blocking Internet sites. Sometimes we have trouble accessing them. But that's because the hardware filters doesn't work most of the time.
It has happened before that huge batches of network card have shipped with the same mac address due to a flaw in the manufacturing process. Also, a lot of network cards allow you to set the mac manually. Counting on the MAC to be unique is silly.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" -- Voltaire
My 100Hz TV doesn't have 100FPS. It has 24 or 25 (PAL/NTSC). The extra Hz just make the image much more stable and comfortable to look at.
Because BSD is dead ;-)
Sweden is practically the only western country that wants to use their own word for sauna, bastu.
;-)
Except us Norwegians, of course
Oooh, don't forget partly-islamic Turkey, which is trying to become part of the EU!
My "casually mentioned xbox" was bought at a price way lower than the cost of production, as has never *ever* run any microsoft software (except the bios, once). So I've bought some cheap hardware designed by microsoft, sold at a loss. I'm using it to run linux ;-)
Does it do it over a single fiber?