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« Last post by 40hz on September 24, 2012, 06:15 PM »What was done (with questionable legality) once can be done again. I don't think he - or Megaupload - are out of the woods just yet... 
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Do note that you shouldn't disable the pagefile unless you always have enough free physical memory, even under high load, or you at least know the implications of what turning off the pagefile means. Windows doesn't really like running out of memory (but at least it doesn't go about OOM-killing processes like Linux does by default).-f0dder (September 24, 2012, 05:02 PM)
P.S. If I had a dollar each time a critical backup (made using standard "enterprise grade" backup software) ended up being corrupted (and sometimes not recoverable) I'd have enough money to take a not overly modest vacation on the Continent.-40hz (September 24, 2012, 03:39 PM)
Yea, verily! Religiously backing up in obeisance to a god that we later discover does not exist or was naught but a false prophet.-barney (September 24, 2012, 04:28 PM)
I for one, do not see a significant difference between software and SaaS. The freedom issue is still the same as far as I can see, and SaaS in inherently antithetical to freedom. Am I missing something?-Renegade (September 24, 2012, 03:18 PM)
I wonder if there's an English translation around (or if Google Translate does a nice enough job) for this little piece of rms visiting Denmark a bunch of years back. Sounds like a bit of an ass, as a person.-f0dder (September 24, 2012, 03:44 PM)
-A gnuguru came to town-
"We need to have a visit from a real guru" announced my girlfriend excited about a dark January evening. "Balanced, venerable: Indian term for åndlig leader" explained Modern Danish Dictionary. "Hm?" I thought. "It's okay with me" I've never been particularly religious. The week went by and my girlfriend became more and more excited at the thought of the guru's arrival. "I have several things I just need to talk to him, he breathed while he polished his Emacs macros of one last time.
Why is this guru talk? We build much of our perception of life / outlook on myths, heroes, martyrs, mysterious people and historical figures. Some things we just like to get on and confirmed. We expect probably a little acting from people we appoint to be gurus. How would the media industry be pregnant without the help of these gurus? (Idols when you are a little younger) But my dear half then at least strongly forward to meeting with the guru and had carefully cleaned and trimmed bump into something that eventually the hysteria terms reminded most about the return of Jesus. In addition, he had carefully instructed me NEVER to say OPEN SOURCE, but ALWAYS say FREE SOFTWARE!! (The words on the occasion produced plaktat sounded namely "Free Software - colloquially known as Open Source")
Up the stairs steep steps came Stallman so. With a distant look he looked out through the long hair and straight past me. My hand fluttered a little nervous in the air, but Guru trudged past me into my bookshelf, where he peeled all English literature out. "It's British Literature musts of it", I noticed wise. "And what is wrong about that?" growled guru. Gurus should be well basically behave differently. It can also be seen as a kind of marketing, argued my inner theorist. "You are right about that," I said politely.
Tonight's next point was eating at one of the city's student-friendly restaurants. A small group from FLUUG was anxious to meet Mr. Stallman before the next day's lecture at UNI. We were ordered. Unfortunately, the restaurant had decorated the rice with chili sauce, which in no way accused Stallman. "The rise is infected with the stuff" he made staff aware of. Well - you get far with abundant tip.
After spending gradually some time under the same roof, found guru, that it was time to turn to me for the second time. After finding that the substance of bread was pâté, kiggde he almost kindly at me and remarked "Liver makes me wanna puke" "Oh I see," I said well-behaved and looked reluctantly at my half with a Danish specialty.
For DVD case in Norway would Stallman write a letter to the Norwegian Government. He even wrote the English version, but had subsequently need a translator. Here he approached the third time for me. (In third person to my boyfriend well enough) when he asked if she could write the translation. She could very well. Unfortunately, the phone rang and I had to necessarily take it. 2 minutes after the cut off Stallman interview as he easily patronizing made me aware that we had something that had to be finished! No problem! Fifteen minutes to oversætt a letter to the Norwegian Prime Minister - well, if there are too many spelling mistakes - I still have to say that it is an attempt to write new-Norwegian!
In some Linux community is a kultomgivet t-shirt with Allan Cox as prinsess Lea, Linus Torvalds as Luke Skywalker and Stallman as R2 D2 Perhaps it fits very well. R 2 D2 is a little bit easier and grumpy outdated robot that can not communicate by voice. It can be as familiar communicate with a like-minded robot, but has no ability to communicate with "ordinary" people. I do, of course, no direct comparison, but just note that Stallman's most used phrases on Funen was: I do not know what you are saying You're statement is ambiguous I simply do not understand what you're trying to say!
It's been a while. Stallman made a very good lectures at Odense University. He managed to imprison some 200 listeners for 2 hours.
Yet I sit back and think about where the current Stallman's style really is outside this still relatively narrow circle. Will Stallman missionary himself cultivated guru style too much in the long run? Well learned we probably all of the different and well fascinated we probably of eccentric people, but open source / free software can be all of us outsiders somewhat distant, if it only represented by people who (at least to the untrained eye) " mytificerer "as Stallman is a possibility to do. I know it is in no way meant, but what if human types, representing open source / free software is too close to the large group perception of something that is distant and frightening? Can it possibly. result in dissociation? It should not mean anything, but you can in BBC1's program Money magazine can still hear the term geeks. Expresses this perhaps a form of pandering to the audience, sitting and watching programs and it is estimated have this image of Linux people? And should these stereotypes do not udrydes along the way?
Thanks for visiting Guru Stallman - it gave me pleasure to write this article. And yes - quite frankly it was not worse!
Next time we would like to visit by Linus Torvalds. In addition to completing the popular myth of the American Dream he looks like someone who has both table manners, common manners - and so does he always so ...... nice out. (Speaking of stereotypes!)
I frequently (once or twice a day) do hard reboots, just to save time, and never have a corruption problem. (Granted, sometimes I just do a Firefox reboot, since the 100 windows with some PDFs and plug-ins galore is the main slow-down.) I also occasionally have OS lockups and never have corruption. (I do try to make sure not to have the same files open by two users on the puter, which can be problematic.)You're joking, right? Please tell me you're joking.-Steven Avery (September 24, 2012, 02:40 PM)
NTFS is relatively resilient, but doing hard reboots like that is asking for a disaster.-f0dder (September 24, 2012, 02:59 PM)
You might not be seeing all-out catastrophic filesystem bomb-out, but isn't the worst kind of corruption is the kind you don't discover until it's crept into your backup archives?
About the Raspberry Pi:
It will probably be very difficult to run that machine with free software at all.-Renegade (September 24, 2012, 02:44 PM)
Every time is see a discussion like this I keep wishing we had a more formal tech KB at DoCo, Something along the lines of a nicely done wiki would be good. There is a deal of good information lurking down in the forum threads just waiting to be mined.-40hz (September 24, 2012, 08:05 AM)
Sure gets my vote.
-barney (September 24, 2012, 02:08 PM)
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And while they won't be cutting off IE8 users from using Google Apps (yet), the message displayed telling them to upgrade their browser, I think should be more accurately stated as "Buy a new OS, or perhaps a new computer."-app103 (September 24, 2012, 10:21 AM)
I'm having a very difficult time finding anybody playing the big ray brown bass around here.-superboyac (September 24, 2012, 10:35 AM)
Design
If you're going to build a simple stick-through-a-box guitar, you don't need to invest a lot
of time in design. You're not exactly making a precision instrument, so it's pretty safe to
figure things out as you go.
Once you start adding details like scale, frets, standard bridges, and 100 other features,
you'll want to start planning things out on paper first before you take a saw blade to any
wood. Especially when you get to a point that you're using more expensive woods,
you'll want to plan everything out on paper first as mistakes become costly.
One of the challenges we face when we make what I would describe as a precision
cigar box guitar (accurate scale length, frets, string spacing, etc) is that we are
constrained by the size of the box we are using. Conventional guitar makers have a lot
more freedom than we do because they get to design the shape and size of their guitar
body around the features that they want the guitar to have. Cigar box guitar makers
have to design their guitar around the box to ensure that everything will fit correctly.
) decided to celebrate their 200th show with something special, they scored a major coup by getting RMS himself to be on the show for an hour of give & take. It's interesting to watch with RMS on his soapbox and Brian Lunduke trying to work around something (that for RMS) is already settled. In many respects it's the perfect example of why this argument continues - and where both sides of the argument come up short and fail to reach any sort of agreement.I've noticed some people place an emphasis on placing temp file directories in ramdisk. This might make sense, since there is nothing there to lose. Although the advantages of just that element might be quite limited.-Steven Avery (September 24, 2012, 04:59 AM)
) is here. The Win7 thread is here.Sounds like badly programmed software.-f0dder (September 23, 2012, 11:45 AM)
I'm curious - how would you manage that? I mean, manage to get a program not to work there?-Renegade (September 23, 2012, 02:55 AM)
Sounds lovely but then I see this text on it
"Images may not be copied or offloaded, and the images and their texts may not be published. All digital images of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri are © Imaging Papyri Project, University of Oxford. The papyri themselves are owned by the Egypt Exploration Society, London. All rights reserved."
So... we help them decypher it all and then they own it all, and will they charge the rest of the academic and scholarly world to access it? It would make me far more likely to give a bit of time if there was some form of open science commitment.. but no, it will be published in paid for series-iphigenie (September 23, 2012, 05:18 AM)
There is something very Cricket/Wizard of Op about this thing.-app103 (September 22, 2012, 10:37 PM)
wasn't sure how to make it work with a program.-SQUIDMAN (September 23, 2012, 02:01 AM)
