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| 2004/12/25-27 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:35434 Activity:moderate |
12/25 Is email down?
\_ I am getting an insufficient disk space error when trying to
send mail. -!op
\_ Fixed. - jvarga
\_ Well, wait for the load to get back to normal to actually
start getting mail again. - jvarga
\_ sweet!
df -k /var/spool/mqueue
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da0s1f 1016303 974635 -39636 104% /var |
| 2004/12/25-27 [Reference/Celebration] UID:35435 Activity:very high |
12/25 Merry Christmas!
\_ Is there any evidence of any kind in the bible or elsewhere that
Jesus was even born this time of year? Is this just a
christian/consumerist cooption of solstice celebrations?
\_ The latter. -tom
\_ I think based on historical accounts of when the census was taken
they believe it was during the winter.
\_ No, this is not true. Jesus, if he existed, was probably born in
the spring or fall. One way we know it was not winter is that the
shepards were in the fields with their flocks. They did not
do that in the cold of winter.
\_ Cold of winter? In Jerusalem?
http://weather.cnn.com/weather/forecast.jsp?locCode=JRUX
And even if it were cold, do you think sheep hibernate in
the winter? Being a shepherd is not a seasonal job.
I know exactly jack shit about christianity, but I do know
a thing or two about sheep. -!pp,!ppp
\_ Maybe you should learn a thing or two about shepherds
in Israel at that time. They put the sheep in pens
in the winter and let them out in the fields when it
was warmer.
was warmer, keeping them in at night especially.
\_ We Mongols put our sheep to pasture the whole year
even though our winters are much harsher.
\_ A&E and the History Channel had a one hour show in their classroom
series about Christmas. Basically, Chirstmas was a pagan holiday
for a long time. The Chirstian church couldn't suppress it so they
co-opted it around the 4th century by turning it into a celebration
of the birth of Christ. Various theocratic governments including
Cromwell in England and the Puritans in America specifically
banned the celebration of Chirstmas because it was viewed as
frivolous and non-Christian. The modern form of Christmas we
celebrate in the US started in the mid 1800s basically.
\_ Eh, December was long celebrated by Christians before that,
placing the conception in the spring and hence Christmas in
December. AFAIK Dec 25 was settled on because it *wasn't* the
solstice and because it would give the pagans a party to choose
instead of the solstice.
\_ Yeah, and the 4th of July is a meaningless day too if you
want to consider historicity. |
| 2004/12/25-27 [Consumer/PDA, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:35436 Activity:kinda low |
12/25 Is there a HotSync Manager (or free equivalent) available for
syncing a sony clie with os x? All I see is this "Missing Sync"
which costs.
\_ Which CLIE model? USB cradle? I think you can use the Mac
version of Palm Desktop from palmone's site. If you want
other features (such as being able to mount the Memory Stick
as a drive through the CLIE), then you do need Missing Sync.
--jameslin
\_ Clie PEG-665C, with USB cradle. There is no mention
of sony clie's on the palmone webpage, so which
one should I select before I download?
\_ Well, it won't say that CLIEs are supported. They
just might happen to work. Probably try downloading
the version for a Palm m505 or something, although
I don't think the model number really matters. I
could be wrong about all of this, though. --jameslin
\_ Just a thought (since I don't own OS X), but aren't you able
to compile one of the various UNIX hotsync clones out there?
It probably won't have all the features you want, but if all
else fails... |
| 2004/12/25-27 [Consumer/Camera] UID:35437 Activity:low |
12/25 Ok camera people: what's your 2 cents on the longevity of this "APS-C"
format or whatever (the smaller sizes on cheap dSLRs). The best lenses
still have the practical zoom range for full 35mm.
\_ I wrote this 5-6 years ago
http://tinyurl.com/47xj3
\_ Perhaps I wasn't clear. I was referring to digital SLR sensor
sizes. I did read this but it didn't really convince me either
way: http://www.photo.net/oped/bobatkins/full_frame.html
\_ personally? I think the dSLR eventually going to full-frame,
36mm-24mm. The reason is simple. CCD/CMOS sensors will
eventually drop in price like LCD as the manufacturing
techniques gets better. The cost of making ultra-wide
lenses are much harder to come down. So, there isn't much
incensitive to roll out APS size cameras. |
| 2004/12/25-27 [Science/Biology] UID:35438 Activity:insanely high |
12/25 Why don't religious types who hate the theory of evolution cry about
gravity being taught in high school physics?
\_ Because 'theory' or not, gravity does not contradict anything in
the bible.
\_ Because they have about an 8th grade level education and it
never occurred to them.
\_ natural law was created by god
\_ Because Newton was a devout Christian?
\_ I'll vote for an overturn of gravity. Gravity sucks.
\_ It's hard to argue with 9.8m/s^2 in the here and now.
it's verfiable, repeatable, and subject to continual experiments
that can be completed within ones lifttime.
\_ Just like evolution, gravity is a *theory* and not a *fact*.
Schools should be emphasizing this and not teaching gravity
as a universal truth.
\_ Actually, Newton's gravitational theory is known to be wrong,
thanks to the accurate predictions of general relativity. I
don't think any effort is made to hide this fact. Of course,
at some level GR has to be wrong because of its inconsistincies
with quantum mechanics, which in turn could only be an absolute
truth if God is a sick bastard.
\_ Newton's gravitational theory is NOT wrong. It is merely
incomplete. It's a great fallacy of the layperson who
has an incomplete understanding of classical mechanics
to believe that it is "wrong". If you were to argue
that classical mechanics is "wrong" then you'd have to
assume that 90% of science is "wrong" in the sense
that we utilize approximations for almost everything.
In fact, Newton's gravitational theory is what general
relativity approximates to in day-to-day observation.
Your definition of what "wrong" is is plainly idiotic.
-williamc
\_ I can't believe I'm being called a layperson by a
fucking sysadmin. Newtwon's laws of gravitation
predict, among other things, an incorrect result
for the precession of the perihellion of Mercury.
GR gets the right answer, Newton's laws don't.
\-GR gets a "better" answer.
Period. The sense in which it is wrong is exactly
the sense in which creationists and their ilk are
claiming that evolution is not "right" as an absolute
truth. I agree that that is a red herring which would
render most science wrong in some sense, but I think
that is precisely the point. It is yet another way
for the right to try to not just fight a specific
scientific/political battle but to try to undermine
the very essence of science.
\_ QM has fully deterministic interpretations. -- ilyas
\_ Which almost no one believe.
\_ Which almost no one believe. I'm not saying they're
wrong. I have no opinion one way or the other, but
these fundamental philosophical questions about QM
are awfuly hard to resolve experimentally.
\_ On the contrary, if no one believed in QM then
we wouldn't be sitting here typing to each other
on MOSFET driven devices, idiot. -williamc
\_ re-read the fucking post, idiot. I meant the
deterministic interpretations of quantum mechanics.
The philosophical interpretations of quantum
mechanics have no bearing on practical predictions
or applications like MOSFET design.
\_ Your brain has been classified as: small.
\- you must pay me 5cents.
\_ ?
\_ it is far more testable and verifiable via experiment than
evolution is (at the moment).
\_ Biogenesis evolution is equivalent to a religious cult for
secular extremists.
\_ I think the appropraite response to this is "fuck you and die."
\_ this is perfect example of cult behavior.
\- the comparison between the "evolution debate" and the
physics theories arent really comparable because the
anti-evolution crowd is not attacking they evolution
theory scientifically but are affimatively pushing a
crazy and non-scientific "explanation" [sic]. it's like
saying "newton's theory is wrong because it doenst
explain clairvoyance or telekinetic motion." something
like refining evolution from the crude species theory
to something more sophisticated on genes may be more
comparable to the "upgrade" to relativisitic theory. --psb
\_ from wikipedia: Since the emergence of modern
genetics in the 1940s, evolution has been
defined more specifically as a change in the
frequency of alleles from one generation to the next. |
| 2004/12/25-27 [Computer/SW/SpamAssassin] UID:35439 Activity:nil |
12/25 Anyone else notice spammers being out in full force the last couple
of days? The amount of spam that has gotten past the spam filter
seem to have increased ten fold.
\_ The last two weekends, definitely. I've also seen a number
of email services being crushed because of bounces to forged
From addresses. Bad shit. --scotsman |