Posts by Chemist

Re: Usine arborial defecation

"The only time I have ever had this issue is"

The only time I have ever had this issue is when I got one of the first Canon 550Ds - Dave Craws RAW converter wouldn't handle the 18MP files. A couple of days later it updated to the latest version that did.

Re: KDE

"hat doesn't look anything like the KDE that I'm writing this on"

Me neither !

Re: Linux Desktop ? Yes

"Why bother going that far? Once would be enough to indicate once too often."

Don't you write any software ? I do so I compile on Linux. What I don't NEED to do is compile the kernel !

Re: funny

"Machine would suspend and resume without problem, WiFi just worked, audio did not stop working, I spend three weeks without having to recompile the kernel to adjust this or that, nor fighting the video drivers, or deal with the bizarre and random speed degradation that my ThinkPad suffered."

I take my Lenovo laptop everywhere and for much longer holidays. Using OpenSUSE I can also say I never have any problems - what is this guy going on about - anyone who is constantly recompiling the kernel ( and isn't a kernel dev) has a problem it's true, but inside his head not his laptop

Re: No choice popup on Apple, Google or Linux devices devices

"No choice popup on Apple, Google or Linux devices devices "

Well every Linux install ( I use OpenSUSE) gives me a two browsers immediately available (FF & Konqueror) and another 5or 6 others available in the distro. IF Microsoft deigned to write IE for Linux then I assume that would be available too.

Re: Hmm

"they were all responded to from a library computer,"

If you really wanted to have 'fun' with this why not use a LiveCD distro ?

Re: High Hopes

"Remember back to the Linux world before Ubuntu."

Certainly do - Installed my first Linux ~1995. I DON'T remember any particular need for editing config files after I moved to Suse and then OpenSUSE.

Re: Quite Sensible: Don't Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater

"similar way to pharmaceuticals - you get ~5 years to use your patents, then it gets opened up.""

In most countries pharma patents are exactly the same as any other 20 years

Re: OpenSuSE

"KDE4 is (mostly) fine, but KMail is an inflamed pustule on its nether regions."

So use Thunderbird, that's also installed by default

Re: "Comfortable with the terminal"

@Michael Habel

NVIDIA drivers install perfectly in my experience (OpenSUSE) and that's on about 10-15 occasions in recent years.

I've never seen "You appear to be running an X server please exit X before installing"

I just install from the NVIDIA repository and logout and back in. NO CLI

Re: Mint is great but ...

"Security seems to be such an afterthought in Linux with add-ons like SEL and having to run specific file systems to get proper ACLs, instead of having security built in from the ground up like in Windows."

Well you stick with Windows if you are so confident - I know what OS is feel most confident with.

(Are you related to RICHTO because there is an AC whose been posting a lot of funny stuff recently who seem to write just like him ?)

Re: "Comfortable with the terminal"

"Yes, but you might, just as you might in Windows or OSX"

I did qualify it by saying it enhanced the experience, I also used the words "most modern "

You might well have had a problem with one install of one distro where you needed the command line but most people don't have with most modern distros

Re: "Comfortable with the terminal"

"Until you want to use something that isn't in the official package manager,"

I do often without using the command-line - the point is that an install and use of the (GUI) installed packages doesn't need the command-line. I'm not against the CLI - indeed I use it all the time as I write a lot of programs as well as building/running scripts but there are far too many people out there who spread the FUD " Linux installations need CLI or programs compiling or whatever else. "

They don't !

Re: Test 'em first in VMs if you can.

"Nothing worse than downloading an ISO, burning it to disc or USB and then watching it crap out half-way through a real hardware install"

Don't do it then. Use a LiveCD that will not affect your existing setup. Check if the hardware works that way then install.

There are several liveCDs at : http://software.opensuse.org/122/en

Re: "Comfortable with the terminal"

""Comfortable with the terminal" "

For the last griefing time - You do NOT need to use a command line to install or use most modern Linux distros.

BUT if you do it can greatly enhance the experience.

Re: Somebody takes it...

" Somebody takes it...

and hopefully makes some kind of liquid fuel from it"

As mentioned previously.

Carbon burning to CO2 gives off ~400 kJ/mol or ~ 34MJ/kg - there's no other oxidation state to go to - any other chemical change NEEDS energy so it's hardly likely to be a useful power source. Maybe you'd take a hit, use energy to make a new liquid fuel, but it's now just an energy carrier like batteries or hydrogen.

And then it still ends up back in the atmosphere !

Re: Where are we going to store it?

"There are some uses for CO2 that could soak up some of it"

AFAIK there's no use for CO2 on any significant scale that doesn't return it to the atmosphere eventually

Re: Where are we going to store it?

"just find a way of using CO2 as a reliable power source"

Is that a joke - in which case I'll let you off otherwise please explain the magic.

Carbon burning to CO2 gives off ~400 kJ/mol or ~ 34MJ/kg - there's no other oxidation state to go to - any other chemical change NEEDS energy so it's hardly likely to be a useful power source

Re: density of liquid CO2

"and converting the C into something solid like"

and converting the C into something solid like CARBON

In any case the problem is, even in theory, it needs energy, lots and lots of it, indeed somewhat more energy than was obtained by burning the carbon in the first place.

Re: Ironically...

I think you are confusing a specific chemical with the azobenzene class. As far as I can see a particular azobenzene is bonded to this large-surface area material.

The analogy would be sodium cyanide is very toxic but the cyanide group (a nitrile actually) can be part of an organic molecule without any sig. toxic effects. In fact the breast-cancer treatment Arimidex contains 2 nitriles.

Re: How well insulated are steel toecaps?

"The material needs to be ferrous AFAIK."

And what metal do you suppose steel toecaps are made from ?

Re: Electric vehicles are a joke until storage density and infrastructure get MUCH denser.

" Gas is easy to transport or make on site (for H)"

This hydrogen, if you make it on site presumably by electrolysis the efficiency is poor. Electrolysis generates a lot of waste heat. If the electricity is generated by coal/gas/oil the overall efficiency is likely to be < 20%.

How are you going to store it in the vehicle ? Either compression or cryogenics requires a large amount of energy and each has it's own problems anyway. The overall efficiency is now ~~ 5%

Re: "can survive a strike from a 110-gram ball bearing"

"There must be something missing in this sentence"

Like what HEIGHT it was dropped from. I pretty certain most things would stand it being dropped 0.01mm

Re: LibreOffice

"LO should divert all coding efforts from the engine and into the UI"

Oh yes, style over substance every time </sarcasm>

Re: Einhorn's Ulterior Motif

""When you buy stock in a company, you must agree with the way the company is managed""

When you own stock you own a share of the company. If you have enough stock or supporters then you are fully entitled to change the way the company is managed. That's why shareholders can vote.

Indeed if a company can't see any future in what it does it's the duty of the directors to return as much value to the shareholders as they can. One of the reasons for taking a company private is to avoid shareholder involvement, although like Dell you might end-up in regretting that.