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xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.42.3-6.lvn7
kernel-headers-2.6.23.1-21.fc7
kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-21.fc7
kernel-2.6.23.1-21.fc7
kmod-fglrx-8.42.3-4.2.6.23.1_21.fc7

Coolcat

My only annoyance is the gui control panel is non operational.

Hope it helps…

You’re right, it’s the driver, not Fedora.

You have a good idea about backing off to the earlier version, which has been more stable for a lot of people. However, that’s a little tougher for some folks on Fedora who use the Livna driver packages, as they don’t have the older version being built for the newer kernels. That’s not much of an issue for me, as I could simply download their SRPM (if it’s still available) and rebuild it for the current kernel. I would then have to prevent YUM from trying to update that package, however, which isn’t that hard.

I’ve finished searching through Red Hat’s bugzilla and haven’t found anything that would apply. Still, there could be an existing bug report that would, but that’s why there’s a dup-marking ability in Bugzilla :) . So, I’ll be filing that bug later today or tomorrow.

Also, I did discover that switching to a virtual terminal (CTRL+ALT+F4, for example) then back to X (ALT+F7, typically) “fixed” those artifacts, but only temporarily. They kept coming back on my box. Thanks for the comment on that, as I’d forgot to put into my post. Mia culpa.

However, after booting into Windows (Vista Business 64-bit) last night, I’m not getting any of those artifacts at all today under Linux. I’ll have to assume that something the Windows driver did has “reset” the card such that the Linux driver isn’t having any more problems. Goes to figure, eh?

If you can I suggest rolling the driver back to 8.37.6 if you can.

I installed the 8.42.3 driver to get support for AIGLX, but it made my X session too unstable. I am not back to using XGL and it is more stable, but still not yet as stable as it was under the 8.37.6 driver

Ah here it is:

-K

You should fill that bug report ;)

Cheers,

Herlo

I tried grabbing the radeonhd driver package for F7 from the openSUSE build service website (after some Google searching), but I (apparently) haven’t figured out all the other parts needed to get it to start, I just got black screens with no mouse and no responsiveness to CTRL+ALT commands (and it looked like it locked things up once, too).

I also took a look at running with the avivo driver, but no luck getting the config to work, yet.

BTW, the radeonhd driver docs do list my particular GPU chip as supported.

Cheers,

Herlo

I suppose I should apologize for not being sufficiently comprehensive in my posting. Unfortunately, I am not an expert in the myriad number of fields of global climatology needed in order to comprehensively consider all possible variables and data sets which could contribute to the questions of global warming and/or cooling.

My post was intended to point out information from expert scientists whose opinions and findings I find highly interresting. It was not intended to be a comprehensive treatise on the subject. As such, I haven’t just “missed some things,” but entirely omitted many contributing variables. Nevertheless, I will endeavor to comment upon your particular points:

There are significantly more trees in North America and Asia than there were 150-200 years ago. There are also significantly more people and domesticated animals converting O₂ into CO₂ than there were 150-200 years ago. Yes, there are regions of the world like the Amazon Jungles, the Florida Everglades and along the Mississippi and Nile rivers that have seen a massive decline in total forrested area, Yes, I feel that these areas need to be preserved and allowed to regrow.

I have not found (in only mere minutes of searching the Internet) any hard numbers showing a comparison of the world’s oceans capacity to “assimilate CO₂“. It makes sense and I did find references, just no numbers to substatiate the implication that there has been a sufficient change to contribute in any significant way to the global climate. There are many other ways in which the oceans are affected that probably have a much larger total impact.

Things you remember (vaquely) do not qualify as arguments in my point of view.

You are, of course, referring to this clip from my post:

I remember (vaguely) when Mt. St. Hellens blew its top (we even have a jar of ash from our front yard that we kept). That one event released more “greenhouse gases” than all industrial and automotive emissions since man started industrializing. Yet, the environment overcame it (and fairly quickly, too). I read an article about a year ago about how man didn’t clean up all the ash (and the environment is still “self-cleaning”) in one valley.

Notice that I never tried to claim that my recollection of this particular volcanic event, which happened near my home when I was a child, was in any way an argument. I even linked to articles with extensive details about Mt. St. Hellens and that particular event, some of which isn’t related to the point the rest of that paragraph was making, but much does. Did you take the time to follow those links?

I suggest you start here (based on 30 seconds googling):
http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/pages/references2.html
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/

Interresting reading. Thank you. It might have been better, however, to include links from sites that are not so obviously biased one way or another for just such general references. A large part of the main point that both Fozz and I were making is that there is a lot of good, unbiased science out there which contradicts the notion that man is either a major contributor or the major contributor to global warming.

I was also trying to point out that we don’t have the numbers to support all the claims some are making that it is man’s fault, mainly because we haven’t had direct observation records (or the technology to make and keep them) that are sufficiently comprehensive and going back far enough to be used as a platform to make such claims. Yes, we can look at the geological record and take polar core samples and learn a lot. My argument is that I don’t put much stock in the conclusions being drawn by those who are using just the daily temperatures over the past 30-40 years as their only data source to claim that it must be man.

Michael C. MacCracken:
“Taken together, these results indicate the the current CO2 concentration of about 370 parts per million by volume (ppmv) is about 30% above its preindustrial level of about 280 ppmv and that the present value has not been exceeded back through at least the past few glacial cycles (and likely as far back as several million years or more).”

I need to do some more digging on this, but my initial examination seems to indicate that his synopsis is based on data from disparate locations; the historical numbers come from polar core samples and the modern readings are from within industrialized areas. Of course the numbers are higher near industry centers. Frankly, I marvel that such a comparison only showed a 30% difference. Again, though, I need to dig more to make sure that I know where he’s getting his numbers.

Wow. That was a very cool set of comments you gave me. Thanks for the invigorating dialogue.

The most important thing I’m missing in your post is *quantitative* arguments. Things you remember (vaquely) do not qualify as arguments in my point of view.

I suggest you start here (based on 30 seconds googling):

http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/pages/references2.html
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/

Michael C. MacCracken:
“Taken together, these results indicate the the current CO2 concentration of about 370 parts per million by volume (ppmv) is about 30% above its preindustrial level of about 280 ppmv and that the present value has not been exceeded back through at least the past few glacial cycles (and likely as far back as several million years or more).”

Absolutely, I agree with you.

I simply don’t buy the rhetoric of “greenhouse gasses” == “global warming” and neither do a growing number of highly reputable scientists.

I still think reducing toxic emissions is a very good idea, if for nothing more than our own health and the health of the surrounding ecosystems, wilderness and wildlife.

Great comments.

Actually, volcanic eruptions *lower* the overall temperature, so the Mt. St. Helens claim is quite irrelevant

You’re right about the overall lowering of the temperature from volcanic erruptions. I left that part out (and shouldn’t have) but I was feeling like the post was already getting to be too long. However, the point I was making was that the Earth itself dumps far more (so-called) “greenhouse” gases into the atmosphere than man and it didn’t have the effect of raising temperatures.

There is also evidence going back hundreds of thousands of years, not just hundreds - please take the time to read some of the science. The Wikipedia article on global warming has some good links within it.

Again, you’re right. Again, I didn’t mention these things as I was feeling that the post was already too long as is. What I was trying to say is that we don’t have the kind of numbers (direct, detailed, continuous readings) going back even one hundred years (let alone several hundred or thousands) like what we have for the past 20-40 years. Most of the claims that man’s CO₂ emissions are responsible for the observed temperature and climate changes are built on about 40-50 years of observed temperate changes. Basing such claims on such brief data doesn’t hold water in my book.

”
The small amount of global warming caused by eruption-generated greenhouse gases is offset by the far greater amount of global cooling caused by eruption-generated particles in the stratosphere (the haze effect)
”

http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/climate_effects.html

There is also evidence going back hundreds of thousands of years, not just hundreds - please take the time to read some of the science. The Wikipedia article on global warming has some good links within it.

Think of all the people in the world who are raped, murdered or just plain go missing.

Please, don’t tell me you think that Liberty should (or even could) be traded for “Security”? I thought I knew you better than that, Clint :) .

It is also possible that an individual may be interested in the locations where they exercise or just wander around.

The Nike+IPod Sports Kit does not have that ability. It does not have any GPS. The tracking system the researchers built/used tracks the signal from the shoes. Using two or three Radio Direction Finding (RDF) systems, they could triangulate the positions of the shoes from over 60 feet away.

It’s a completely external system, that was easy to build and deploy in a fashion where those wearing the Nike+IPod combo don’t even know they are being tracked and that that tracking system can uniquely identify them.

It is also possible that an individual may be interested in the locations where they exercise or just wander around. I know that it would be cool for me to track where I went in each of the cities I visit every year.

Food for thought…

Cheers,

Clint

Thanks. Now I don’t have to post about this.

I’m thinking I should walk my dog along some of the area roads, and it would be nice to pick a likely place to start. So I need to know where the car was found…

Is there someone coordinating a search?

Excellent points.

I’m not sure about your last quote. In n-gram models and studies of entropy in computational linguistics, noise is actually very, very difficult to understand, sift through, and reduce.

Adding noise works, but it doesn’t eliminate the root cause of the problem — yes, eventually search engines can still track you and perhaps identify you via your genuine searches. This noise-making effort is distracting but, you’re right, it doesn’t solve the remaining underlying problem. Nice post.

However, I would be surprised to find more than a tiny, tiny handful (less than 1 handful, actually) of webservers out there that are configured to support only SSL2 and not SSL3 and/or TLS.

Also, several times we could see either his butt or his hand or foot (we’re still not sure) move across her belly.

It was quite fascinating.

marco

1. Used both USB and PS/2, both worked perfectly.

2. Switching to Dvorak is handled by the keyboard itself, so it will work with any OS that can handle the connector (USB or PS/2). And, yes, it did.

3. I used models with and without the foot pedals. They sound cool (and indeed, they are), but I didn’t find it to be something that I would probably use for normal work. Then again, I didn’t get to try it out very much. It was just that my fingers are way faster than my feet.

4. SUSE & Gentoo, myself, though I know people who are using them with many others as well as MacOS X & Windows.

No need to apologize. I completely understand; it is quite an investment in which I know you will be very happy.

HTH.

- were you using the USB version of the Kinesis Contour Keyboard under Linux?

- does the switching to Dvorak key layout works under Linux?

- did you use the model with the foot pedal (action foot switch) Advantage (TM) Pro USB ()

- under which distribution of Linux did you use the keyboard? and which kernel?

I apologize for making so many questions, but I would like to have a clear picture before buying the keyboard … since it’s expensive.

Thank you in advance
Greetings
marco

Currently, I do not own one of the Kinesis keyboards. I hope to “fix” that soon.

Greetings
marco

Thanks!

I’ve never seen spam since & anything that tries to post I get notified about & filter. Nothing has slipped thru the cracks so far.

Thanks for the link. I love reading stuff by Bruce Schneier. He is very intelligent and he is an independant thinker. I don’t always agree with him, but I always learn something from him.

Tristan Rhodes

Also, I’ve updated WordPress to 2.0.3 since I put the fix in, I created a patch and sent it up to them, but I don’t know if they put it into 2.0.3. A couple of things to check there.

2) I like that idea. Email server administration is one of those area where I haven’t had much experience. I’m learning fast, now that I’m running my own mail servers for OpenBrainstem.net (and a few other domains that I hold).

I’ll try it out, tonight, and let you know how it goes.

Thanks — Lamont

2) I think there is a better way to do this mailman setup…

a) Alias with Mailman:
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The output of /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases depends on the value of the `MTA’ variable in your mm_cfg.py. If you have Postfix there, it makes a file called /etc/mailmain/alias. I think it also runs postmap on it.

Then in your main.cf you would add “alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/etc/mailman/aliases.” This way, Mailman takes care of its own aliases. Make a new list - it just works!

b) Going Virtual:
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If they are virtual domains then you have to take the extra step of adding them to the mm_cfg.py as such:

“POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = [’domain1.tld’, ‘domain2.tld’]”
“add_virtualhost(’domain1.tld’, ‘domain2.tld’)”

Then when you add new domains it will add them to a file with only mailman’s virtual settings. Let Postfix know about them by adding this to your main.cf:

“virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual, hash:/etc/mailman/virtual-mailman”

Let me know if that screws you up. It’s been a while since I’ve done it.

Later - Gabe