People kept refering to me as a crank, so I looked it up, it's a useful tool for starting revolutions
Re:Nature doing what it does best...
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The Future of NetBSD
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Survival of the fittest... is often misunderstood, while niche specialist species can are usually fantastic at what they do,
Arctic beech, grows very slowly and close to the ground so snowfall doesn't break limbs
Most species specific parasites
and NetBSD, running a firewall on your toaster
However broad generalists often survive after specialists have become extinct, most rodents are not particularly good at any one role but can muddle on in many roles and breed quickly enough that the loss of a living for 20% of the population doesn't result in extermination of the species.
I suppose given the forum, Windows is akin to Tribbles pretty much useless but cute/useable enough that people are loath to phone the exterminater.
I feel a humourous article on OS/evolution parallels comming on, but I'm too busy/lazy to write it.
What struck me in the article was the option of optical mouse interation with the phone, something we missed as an application for the optical nokia mouse project. This would hugely increase the usability of my phone, the joystick thingy gets crudified and unresponsive very quickly.
Voice recognition however is a while from being usable, particularly where strong regional accents exist in a market, (though Friends etc. are quickly disposing of these).
And finaly the opportunity to charge spamers per message sent would be a fascinating addition to my user experience;?)
Excel is indeed very versatile for a spreadsheet. It's an acountants programming language. I once had a consultancy where this little analysis job was done in Excel, but then they started to ask more questions of it, and more,....
When a new dataset was added to the system, (weekly), it took Excel roughly 45 minutes to load, (when the whole acursed system didn't go belly up). I was brought in to move the whole system over to LAMP it took me weeks to go through all they had added to this spreadsheet. The whole thing worked out as one properly designed database, five perl scripts and a shell script, which answered queries instantly the data was available (for given values of an instant).
Sorry about the extended rant but essentially what I'm saying is that Excel is way too complicated to be regarded as a spreadsheet and way too slow to be regarded as a good idea for solving the kind of problems it has now geared up for.
Perhaps this is true if you're buying an appliance, which is the case for many but I would imagine that many on this board would concur with Tom Christiansen's view below. If you find the machine intrinsically interesting and want to be able to configure it to run your prefered OS/Desktop/Applications then...
"The computer is the game." ~ Tom Christiansen
PS. The time spent building a machine at home is time not spent on tedious chores;)
Did you hear about the village idiot who left Tocuaro for LA. He raised the average IQ of both.
Why is it that people who stand against the teaching of eveolution seem so, I dunno... un-evolved
In a perfect world not specifying your own prior art would be ideal, however I have seen employment contracts where the employee is asked to submit a list of prior art before starting employment with the company. I have been told that in cases of direct employment these contracts can be negated because the employee is efectively under duress, ie. sign this or no job, with the usual IANAL caveat I'd be interested in hearing what other people think of the enforcability(word?) of such a contract.
Of all the sports mentioned surely golf is the least interesting, yet nonetheless appears to have captured the imagination of those without one. Personally I think Hurling is without doubt the best sport on the planet, bar none, though chucking old boots about does have an appeal.
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The Irish govenment attempted to move to electronic voting, piloting the scheme in three constituencies. As we use PR with an STV system the counting software itself was quite complex, the issue that excited the population though was that there was no paper backup and the machines were closed source. I mean really, a private company in charge of the method of selection of the government. The attempt failed and we have returned to a paper ballot, we managed to waste € 52 millioin + storage costs during this particular experiment. I'm no luddite, however the need to produce a result instantly rather than watching our political masters twisting in the agony of the fifth count(PR again) escapes me.
I despise the IRA, I thought that was clear, all they achieved was death, destruction and polarisation of the comunity.
That does not however preclude examining how they came to have enough tacit support to be able to function in the comunity
A fish needs water to swim, and a guerila needs a comunity to hide within.
The alienisation of the Catholic/Nationalist comunity in Northern Ireland gave such a resource to the IRA.
2. Internationalization and shortcut keys.
What's so fascinating about this example - is how common it is across platforms, programs, operating systems.
The feature is called "shortcut keys" and yet everyone is implementing it as "shortcut symbols".
This is terrible - when you switch between languages, all shortcut keys break!
I think your point here has been misunderstood. I presume you mean that if you change from English to French that your keymap changes from QWERTY to AZERTY also and now [CTRL]-Z is no longer all in the bottom left, though your muscle memory is. A more extreme example is GA_IE where there is no Z in the alphabet. In the event that keyboards are every produced exclusivly for GA_IE it will be the undoing of us!
when 22000+ students are divided into 10 or more Linux flavors.
The article mentions SLED and RedHat. They also mention Ubuntu being used successfully by a different school district, I presume because of the edubuntu project. No sane admin is going to roll out 10 distros, "apt-get emerge rpm, Oh sod it install the bloody thing yourself!". However what's happening here is that different school districts are approving A distro for use on their systems, not some poor support tech trying to work out what distro is being used in a given instance.
If my experience is anything to go by students who are introduced to linux early find Windows is broken if they are asked to move over. Employers of Indianna, prepare to be swamped with demands for cheaper OS installs in 6 years!!
To bring up a bit of history, (Those who don't learn it are forced to repeat it and all that).
The IRA were a small group of nutters in the mid 60's.
The civil rights movement were demanding all sorts of outrageous things like equal access to education, employment and housing.
The Northern Ireland statelet was discriminatory to it's core.
Police and pseudo-military police were used to baton charge peaceful civil rights protestors
The IRA "was standing up to them" unlike those dippy civil rights types
The IRA gained lots of angry young recruits
After 30 years of pointless bloodshed the civil rights demands are being met. Though a lot of hatred has been alowed to develop in the interm
If were honest about the way Palestinians have been treated we'd realise that we in the west are setting up a similar scenario on a larger scale and as a previous poster said in the end we'll have to talk to Hezbolah & Hamas, or if we hang on a while longer a more extreme group will be sure to come along.
With a site offering e-mail, you could craft a message that looked like the timeout page (document.write(target=_TOP)). please login again.... Then if read via the webmail interface, the user thinks they timed out, the sender gets the login etc..
Just another thing to worry about, I'm off to check how our webmail server behaves...
it is no suprise therefore that many of your local terrorist organisations.. already very criminal by nature have moved into the drugs trade, because of the vast amount of money to be made
so the war on drugs is in direct conflict the war on terror due to economics
I'm based in Ireland, a country once plagued by terrorism. The various paramilitary groups had :
Weapons
"Soilders"
Smuggling routes
Absolute control over their enclaves
Unsurprisingly they did quite well out of the drugs racket.
As has been mentioned the prohibition experience in the USA was hardly a total victory for the forces of law and order!
Leagalisation of drugs means the state has the potential to license their sale and thus control their quality and potentially the abuse of them.The money a country wastes on this "war" seems proportional to the size of their prison populations. Why brand an otherwise law abiding citizen as a criminal for indulging in chemical escapism. Surely providing an escape route through education would be a saner approach.
Hi Mateo,
In the grub configuration file of the current default Linux distro,(/boot/grub/grub.conf under FC/RH)* add the root partitions of your other instalations whith an apropriate title. eg:
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10) root (hd0,0) kernel/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda6 initrd/initrd-2.4.7-10.img
Hope that helps.
*Haven't used Gentoo, but Debian/Ubuntu call the grub configuration file menu.list while FC/RH call it grub.conf.
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People kept refering to me as a crank, so I looked it up, it's a useful tool for starting revolutions
- Arctic beech, grows very slowly and close to the ground so snowfall doesn't break limbs
- Most species specific parasites
- and NetBSD, running a firewall on your toaster
However broad generalists often survive after specialists have become extinct, most rodents are not particularly good at any one role but can muddle on in many roles and breed quickly enough that the loss of a living for 20% of the population doesn't result in extermination of the species.I suppose given the forum, Windows is akin to Tribbles pretty much useless but cute/useable enough that people are loath to phone the exterminater.
I feel a humourous article on OS/evolution parallels comming on, but I'm too busy/lazy to write it.
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the general public." -H.L. Mencken
Sad but true.
Voice recognition however is a while from being usable, particularly where strong regional accents exist in a market, (though Friends etc. are quickly disposing of these).
And finaly the opportunity to charge spamers per message sent would be a fascinating addition to my user experience ;?)
Sorry about the extended rant but essentially what I'm saying is that Excel is way too complicated to be regarded as a spreadsheet and way too slow to be regarded as a good idea for solving the kind of problems it has now geared up for.
Perhaps this is true if you're buying an appliance, which is the case for many but I would imagine that many on this board would concur with Tom Christiansen's view below. If you find the machine intrinsically interesting and want to be able to configure it to run your prefered OS/Desktop/Applications then... ;)
"The computer is the game." ~ Tom Christiansen
PS. The time spent building a machine at home is time not spent on tedious chores
Did you hear about the village idiot who left Tocuaro for LA. He raised the average IQ of both. Why is it that people who stand against the teaching of eveolution seem so, I dunno ... un-evolved
In a perfect world not specifying your own prior art would be ideal, however I have seen employment contracts where the employee is asked to submit a list of prior art before starting employment with the company. I have been told that in cases of direct employment these contracts can be negated because the employee is efectively under duress, ie. sign this or no job, with the usual IANAL caveat I'd be interested in hearing what other people think of the enforcability(word?) of such a contract.
Of all the sports mentioned surely golf is the least interesting, yet nonetheless appears to have captured the imagination of those without one. Personally I think Hurling is without doubt the best sport on the planet, bar none, though chucking old boots about does have an appeal.
The Irish govenment attempted to move to electronic voting, piloting the scheme in three constituencies. As we use PR with an STV system the counting software itself was quite complex, the issue that excited the population though was that there was no paper backup and the machines were closed source. I mean really, a private company in charge of the method of selection of the government. The attempt failed and we have returned to a paper ballot, we managed to waste € 52 millioin + storage costs during this particular experiment. I'm no luddite, however the need to produce a result instantly rather than watching our political masters twisting in the agony of the fifth count(PR again) escapes me.
I despise the IRA, I thought that was clear, all they achieved was death, destruction and polarisation of the comunity.
That does not however preclude examining how they came to have enough tacit support to be able to function in the comunity
A fish needs water to swim, and a guerila needs a comunity to hide within.
The alienisation of the Catholic/Nationalist comunity in Northern Ireland gave such a resource to the IRA.
I think your point here has been misunderstood. I presume you mean that if you change from English to French that your keymap changes from QWERTY to AZERTY also and now [CTRL]-Z is no longer all in the bottom left, though your muscle memory is. A more extreme example is GA_IE where there is no Z in the alphabet. In the event that keyboards are every produced exclusivly for GA_IE it will be the undoing of us!
The article mentions SLED and RedHat. They also mention Ubuntu being used successfully by a different school district, I presume because of the edubuntu project. No sane admin is going to roll out 10 distros, "apt-get emerge rpm, Oh sod it install the bloody thing yourself!". However what's happening here is that different school districts are approving A distro for use on their systems, not some poor support tech trying to work out what distro is being used in a given instance.
If my experience is anything to go by students who are introduced to linux early find Windows is broken if they are asked to move over. Employers of Indianna, prepare to be swamped with demands for cheaper OS installs in 6 years!!
If were honest about the way Palestinians have been treated we'd realise that we in the west are setting up a similar scenario on a larger scale and as a previous poster said in the end we'll have to talk to Hezbolah & Hamas, or if we hang on a while longer a more extreme group will be sure to come along.
With a site offering e-mail, you could craft a message that looked like the timeout page (document.write(target=_TOP)). please login again .... Then if read via the webmail interface, the user thinks they timed out, the sender gets the login etc..
Just another thing to worry about, I'm off to check how our webmail server behaves...
so the war on drugs is in direct conflict the war on terror due to economics
I'm based in Ireland, a country once plagued by terrorism. The various paramilitary groups had :
- Weapons
- "Soilders"
- Smuggling routes
- Absolute control over their enclaves
Unsurprisingly they did quite well out of the drugs racket.As has been mentioned the prohibition experience in the USA was hardly a total victory for the forces of law and order!
Leagalisation of drugs means the state has the potential to license their sale and thus control their quality and potentially the abuse of them.The money a country wastes on this "war" seems proportional to the size of their prison populations. Why brand an otherwise law abiding citizen as a criminal for indulging in chemical escapism. Surely providing an escape route through education would be a saner approach.
Hope that helps.
*Haven't used Gentoo, but Debian/Ubuntu call the grub configuration file menu.list while FC/RH call it grub.conf.