Over the weekend I was watching the History Channel, and they showed footage from the Holocaust. This wasn't what civilians normally see, which is the concentration camps months after they've been cleaned up, but rather this was when the U.S. first overran them. They were mostly Jews, but there were...

Pot destroys brain cells? I've never heard of any research that supports that assertion. Can you give any references? Effects on the brain, heart, lungs, and other problems: http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofacts/marijuana.html Summary: Short-term effects: problems with memory and learning; distorted pe...

You do bring up a few good points: It's America (or the U.K, or

I think I said that if we're able to save a few lives by scaring the sh*t out of someone, there's no harm done, and that scaring someone really isn't torture anyway. Yup, I did say that. I also said that we've done a lot worse in the past than we've done now, and that worked pretty darn well. Sad to...

Refreshing RAM actually consumes more power than writing to it. Say, for instance, you have a system with a 1 GB RAM card in it. If you write 256 MB to it, you use enough power to write 256 MB. When the hardware refreshes it, which is very often, it reads the entire 1 GB, and writes the entire 1 GB ...

I have to wonder if, when it comes to go-time, this error message will be displayed: NOTICE: You are attempting to run this software on a non-genuine operating system. Click "Get Genuine" and you'll receive a special offer to purchase a genuine Microsoft operating system and convert your s...

One of the questions I see from people new to UN*X is: Why is all my memory being used when I close all my programs? I found it interesting that UN*X uses RAM as a disk cache, speeding disk operations when needed, and shrinking the cache if more RAM is needed for programs. Why not use it? If it's no...

Can you kill someone by shooting straight up? Probably not. Send them to the hospital? Yup. I think this beggs the question: Do you want to be the test dummy?

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a950414b.html

"I would make drugs legal..." You would? Why? So we have more half-bakes complaining about how unfair life is, demanding more welfare money from those who hold a job? Do you know that smoking pot kills more brain cells than drinking, and by a huge margin? The pro-marijuana folks don't tell...

I think some people have a pretty skewed view of what torture is. When we lost a hummer because the driver took a wrong turn, they broke every bone in the detainee's bodies, then burned them alive, except for the woman, who was the only one to survive. Her treatment wasn't any better, really, but I'...

the extra characters in the long file names are kept in hidden directory names As it turns out, VFAT is FAT-16 with long file names stored as directory entries with an "impossible" combination of attribute bits - thus causing them to be safely ignored by most software written before Windo...

I wish I'd thought of using MUT! MUT detects the volume correctly . I needed an entry in /etc/fstab , looked at a Puppy document for mounting FAT-16 (which is what the volume is formatted as), and added msdos . It mounted w/o problem, so I thought all was well, but it obviously could have been done ...

The problem is that Puppy makes my knowledge obsolete with every improvement! You said " Microsoft ?" Oops. My mistake. I'd like to see us migrate our knowlege from the forum to a documentation page (there's a great format on a Puppy site, but in 3 minutes of clicking Puppy links I still ...

http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?p=61095
gave: /usr/lib/mut/bin/guess_fstype /dev/sda6
gave: vfat

Changed in /etc/fstab from msdos to vfat, re-mounted, worked. Details added to main post above. Thanks!

How do I get Puppy to write long file names to a FAT-16 partition? HISTORY Standard Puppy Linux 2.02 File: puppy-2.02-seamonkey.iso Source: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/puppy-2.02-seamonkey.iso MD5 Checksum: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux...

I had a problem upgrading Gnumeric after installing Gtk-2.8 because I didn't see that I had to install three files until I read the following, also in this post: To upgrade Puppy to Gtk 2.8, install these Gtk-Dotpups: http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Libraries/Gtk-2.8.20/Gtk-2.8.20-Glib-2.9.3-Atk-1.10.3-Pa...

Thanks Mark! I upgraded Gnumeric. Unfortunately, it did not solve the file-save problem, which turned out to be Gnumeric trying to write long file names to a FAT-16 partition. A new topic will be started on this: How do I get Puppy to write long file names to a FAT-16 partition? http://www.murga.org...

Gnumeric ran correctly until I upgraded to v1.6.3, at which point it wouldn't run, because libgoffice-1.so.2 is missing. SOLUTION Before upgrading, install: http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Libraries/Gtk-2.8.20/Gtk-2.8.20-Glib-2.9.3-Atk-1.10.3-Pango-1.10.4-Cairo-1.2.0.pup http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Librarie...

I forgot to mention (sorry) that I previously tried: xorgwizard : died after selecting Xvesa xwin : X started and shut down immediately. xwin fvwm : X started and shut down immediately. Note missing '95' Solution (by GuestToo): xwin jwm : started X and window manager, loaded the background, everythi...

I acidentally ran rc.shutdown from inside Xvesa instead of opening to read it. On reboot, I get:

This script will run X windows for you