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AIUI installing support is quite easy - I use a modified 2.6.24 kernel, but isn't it simply a matter of download, untar, configure, make, insmod? It could even be automated by a script.
Doesn't about 2% of the kernel currently consist of Linus's code? Considering its size and the thousands of developers developing the thing, that's a massive personal contribution to the ecosystem.
Call me dense, but how did it damage the system? It unreasonably increased load on it, meaning it couldn't handle all its requests, but afterwards the system was still, one assumes, functioning.
Apple should be at a disadvantage, but the fact that iTunes comes bundled with your iPod
iTunes hasn't been bundled with the iPod for some years. The packaging is too small to bundle an additional medium. The manual now just instructs users to download iTunes: although it's pushing iTunes, it's not bundling per se.
Perhaps Asus neglected to set swappiness to 0. Anyway, I have a 701 which I use as a general workhorse with no swap and a ramdisk/tmp, and it zooms with Ubuntu on it. On HDD based machines, a swapfile is a better, more flexible solution than a dedicated partition IMO. If the machine's only ever going to be used for office work (word processing, etc) I doubt a swap area will even be needed.
Just to make my position clear, I think that the age of majority should be lowered by at least one year. It seems ridiculous to me that there are differing age restrictions based on PARTICIPATING IN and VIEWING OR CREATING DEPICTIONS OF sex acts - which is why I think it would be simpler and more logical to lower the age of majority to 16. It make sense considering most kids will have finished their (or be close to completing) GCSE or K-12 equivalent education courses.
By child pornography, I mean adult porn with children. A picture of a thirty-year-old man naked != porn. Picture af ten-year-old naked != porn. Picture of either of said persons engaging in sexual acts or behaving provocatively = porn.
That again: child running about naked on beach - NOT PORN. Child having sex or being filmed in a way intended to arouse the viewer - IS PORN, therefore far beyond questionable content.
Most DEs will give you a way to change this. Otherwise you can use xmodmap.
That said, I prefer the Mac way of doing things (map the command key to Super) because it means (a) you get a greater reach over the keyboard when entering shortcuts one-handed, and (b) reserves Control as a modifier or for entering escape sequences in the console. Just my tuppence's worth...
But if the solution is outsourced and implemented badly, it will be even worse than the current patchwork of systems - because there will be massive potential for data loss and/or failure.
The phone swaps an image to the disk so it can later be used in compositing. It's nothing new you know. Virtual memory's been around for aeons, and looking through an unencrypted swapfile to find incriminating information isn't exactly new either.
It's *not* that great. It's slow, crashy and overcomplicated. It's got an ugly, messy desktop environment and it doesn't come with any decent usable software. It's got this weird browser that doesn't render stuff, doesn't have AdBlock and which usually gets replaced with Firefox. It can't play back most videos or music files without expensive shareware. It doesn't even have a usable text editor!
Yes it does, it's called TextEdit. If you're one of those Unix zealots, it also has a pretty close clone of the original vi in there as well.
The browser is fine. It uses Webkit which is based on... hmm... let me think... Mosaic? No. KHTML. Which is FLOSS. Webkit is FLOSS. Darwin is FLOSS. The desktop environment is wonderfully efficient, I find (although by no means perfect).
Please don't try to make another crappy OSX Aqua-looky-likey clone thing.
I do agree with you there. It just makes it look cheap and nasty - surely it's better to create a good Ubuntu theme than to clone OS X?
It means the ISPs haven't been bothered to fix the pipes. The ISPs should be able to provide for both users seeding their BT files, and Granny with her Windows 98 machine trying to find out what great-great-grandma did for a living. I can understand, perhaps, if users were downloading the Wikipedia database dump every hour (and then mirroring it) but we're not in 1997 any more.
However, overall, the average connection speed has increased. I sympathise with your case - it's incredibly unfortunate - but as super-fast (tens of gb/s) broadband starts being rolled out, movie downloads (with good compression) could be done in less than an hour. Even over a tethered 3G connection, a movie only takes a couple of hours at present. And anyway, digital downloads take up less space, are easier to back up, are generally higher quality, and, if the ISPs can get off their arses and provide decent connections, speedier and more convenient than a trip to Blockbuster. (I try to avoid giving money to Blockbuster, by the way - the place always feels somewhat nauseous. If I want to rent a film it's iTunes or the local library.)
Often through carelessness and/or accident (it's small, so it's easy to forget there's a functioning PC in there). The thing isn't perfect (it's currently in for repair with a busted PSU) but god, is it rugged.
But surely there should be nothing stopping them. If they document a flaw in a public system, then it is in the public's interest to know about it and there is no legal grounds for a lawsuit. Mythbusters always takes these things cautiously anyway: things like mixtures for explosives or flammable materials are bleeped out or not mentioned. I'm certain they would be happy to withold enough information to mean that no-one can do a real attack based on the information on the show alone.
The speed of the development of flash drives will make the optical drives obsolete.
It's not even flash disks. All physical sales will become obsolete with the take-off of digital downloads. With the advent of legal movie downloads and on-demand TV services, most physical media sales will, I predict, be dead within twenty years.
so customers can download the movie onto their laptop or PC if they wish,
But a laptop is a PC...
I don't see the point in this. It seems that simply shifting between media is not the way to go: film downloads are the future. Be they rentals or outright purchases, movie downloads are going to kill the physically-sold film. (With devices like home entertainment computers and Apple TVs, it's just a matter of time.)
Yes, that is a MacBook Air next to him on the coffee table. That's because Stephen also happens to be one of the Mac's most vocal proponents in the UK (he was the second person to buy a Macintosh, the first being Douglas Adams). Also remember that OS X uses some of the GNU toolchain (including Bash).
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AIUI installing support is quite easy - I use a modified 2.6.24 kernel, but isn't it simply a matter of download, untar, configure, make, insmod? It could even be automated by a script.
Doesn't about 2% of the kernel currently consist of Linus's code? Considering its size and the thousands of developers developing the thing, that's a massive personal contribution to the ecosystem.
the quick launch bar wasn't introduced until Windows 98, IIRC. which antedates NEXTSTEP's dock by at least seven years.
Apple have proven quite lenient with FLOSS clones of their patented concepts - so it looks like Avant, Looking Glass etc will be safe.
Call me dense, but how did it damage the system? It unreasonably increased load on it, meaning it couldn't handle all its requests, but afterwards the system was still, one assumes, functioning.
Apple should be at a disadvantage, but the fact that iTunes comes bundled with your iPod
iTunes hasn't been bundled with the iPod for some years. The packaging is too small to bundle an additional medium. The manual now just instructs users to download iTunes: although it's pushing iTunes, it's not bundling per se.
Because of Apple Corps.
After digging through my /etc/fstab, I can see mine is 100mB, which is quite a reasonable amount of space for a /tmp partition, I think.
Perhaps Asus neglected to set swappiness to 0. Anyway, I have a 701 which I use as a general workhorse with no swap and a ramdisk /tmp, and it zooms with Ubuntu on it. On HDD based machines, a swapfile is a better, more flexible solution than a dedicated partition IMO. If the machine's only ever going to be used for office work (word processing, etc) I doubt a swap area will even be needed.
Just to make my position clear, I think that the age of majority should be lowered by at least one year. It seems ridiculous to me that there are differing age restrictions based on PARTICIPATING IN and VIEWING OR CREATING DEPICTIONS OF sex acts - which is why I think it would be simpler and more logical to lower the age of majority to 16. It make sense considering most kids will have finished their (or be close to completing) GCSE or K-12 equivalent education courses.
By child pornography, I mean adult porn with children. A picture of a thirty-year-old man naked != porn. Picture af ten-year-old naked != porn. Picture of either of said persons engaging in sexual acts or behaving provocatively = porn.
That again: child running about naked on beach - NOT PORN. Child having sex or being filmed in a way intended to arouse the viewer - IS PORN, therefore far beyond questionable content.
Most DEs will give you a way to change this. Otherwise you can use xmodmap.
That said, I prefer the Mac way of doing things (map the command key to Super) because it means (a) you get a greater reach over the keyboard when entering shortcuts one-handed, and (b) reserves Control as a modifier or for entering escape sequences in the console. Just my tuppence's worth...
Some of the Finnish ISPs use the database to filter out questionable content such as child pornography.*
To be fair, I think that's a bit beyond questionable... don't you?
(*emphasis added)
But if the solution is outsourced and implemented badly, it will be even worse than the current patchwork of systems - because there will be massive potential for data loss and/or failure.
The phone swaps an image to the disk so it can later be used in compositing. It's nothing new you know. Virtual memory's been around for aeons, and looking through an unencrypted swapfile to find incriminating information isn't exactly new either.
It's *not* that great. It's slow, crashy and overcomplicated. It's got an ugly, messy desktop environment and it doesn't come with any decent usable software. It's got this weird browser that doesn't render stuff, doesn't have AdBlock and which usually gets replaced with Firefox. It can't play back most videos or music files without expensive shareware. It doesn't even have a usable text editor!
Yes it does, it's called TextEdit. If you're one of those Unix zealots, it also has a pretty close clone of the original vi in there as well.
The browser is fine. It uses Webkit which is based on... hmm... let me think... Mosaic? No. KHTML. Which is FLOSS. Webkit is FLOSS. Darwin is FLOSS. The desktop environment is wonderfully efficient, I find (although by no means perfect).
Please don't try to make another crappy OSX Aqua-looky-likey clone thing.
I do agree with you there. It just makes it look cheap and nasty - surely it's better to create a good Ubuntu theme than to clone OS X?
It means the ISPs haven't been bothered to fix the pipes. The ISPs should be able to provide for both users seeding their BT files, and Granny with her Windows 98 machine trying to find out what great-great-grandma did for a living. I can understand, perhaps, if users were downloading the Wikipedia database dump every hour (and then mirroring it) but we're not in 1997 any more.
However, overall, the average connection speed has increased. I sympathise with your case - it's incredibly unfortunate - but as super-fast (tens of gb/s) broadband starts being rolled out, movie downloads (with good compression) could be done in less than an hour. Even over a tethered 3G connection, a movie only takes a couple of hours at present. And anyway, digital downloads take up less space, are easier to back up, are generally higher quality, and, if the ISPs can get off their arses and provide decent connections, speedier and more convenient than a trip to Blockbuster. (I try to avoid giving money to Blockbuster, by the way - the place always feels somewhat nauseous. If I want to rent a film it's iTunes or the local library.)
Often through carelessness and/or accident (it's small, so it's easy to forget there's a functioning PC in there). The thing isn't perfect (it's currently in for repair with a busted PSU) but god, is it rugged.
And it would make it less durable. SSDs are very drop-friendly. (My own SSD-powered Eee 701 has survived many, many drops.)
But surely there should be nothing stopping them. If they document a flaw in a public system, then it is in the public's interest to know about it and there is no legal grounds for a lawsuit. Mythbusters always takes these things cautiously anyway: things like mixtures for explosives or flammable materials are bleeped out or not mentioned. I'm certain they would be happy to withold enough information to mean that no-one can do a real attack based on the information on the show alone.
The speed of the development of flash drives will make the optical drives obsolete.
It's not even flash disks. All physical sales will become obsolete with the take-off of digital downloads. With the advent of legal movie downloads and on-demand TV services, most physical media sales will, I predict, be dead within twenty years.
But a laptop is a PC...
I don't see the point in this. It seems that simply shifting between media is not the way to go: film downloads are the future. Be they rentals or outright purchases, movie downloads are going to kill the physically-sold film. (With devices like home entertainment computers and Apple TVs, it's just a matter of time.)
because choice is good.
Yes, that is a MacBook Air next to him on the coffee table. That's because Stephen also happens to be one of the Mac's most vocal proponents in the UK (he was the second person to buy a Macintosh, the first being Douglas Adams). Also remember that OS X uses some of the GNU toolchain (including Bash).