Comment Re:Space travel etc. (Score 1) 501
i disagree...............as you may be lucky to get someone like Plato or Socrates, we are more likely to bring back someone more close to an imbred mental patient...
Optimizing Linux Use On a USB Flash Drive? 137
Buckbeak writes "I like to carry my Linux systems around with me, on USB flash drives. Typically, SanDisk Cruzers or Kingston HyperX. I encrypt the root partition and boot off the USB stick. Sometimes, the performance leaves something to be desired. I want to be able to do an 'apt-get upgrade' or 'yum update' while surfing but the experience is sometimes painful. What can I do to maximize the performance of Linux while running off of a slow medium? I've turned on 'noatime' in the mount options and I don't use a swap partition. Is there any way to minimize drive I/O or batch it up more? Is there any easy way to run in memory and write everything out when I shut down? I've tried both EXT2 and EXT3 and it doesn't seem to make much difference. Any other suggestions?"
Comment if everyone owns/ uses this, can the world support (Score 1) 438
in their statistica, they measure the amount of water in the air.
and
if...if..we suck up all the air's water, will we make this planet like mars.
if....if..enough of these were being used, and everyone on the planet, was to take and store water (again, future, in a haste like thought) would we see the end of free water?
if..and again, i stress "if"...we dried out the moisture in the air, would our landscape suffer...
before anyone flames out, i want to let you know, i already know all h20 has been used over and over, but i just wonder, about prolonged use, or living in a climate (even our houses) that has its water removed...
Comment maybe it was eaten (Score 1) 507
do spiders eat other spiders ?
at least, we can know that the space station will be "bug-free" now. ;)
Comment Re:I was just wondering (Score 1) 445
the bag floated away, not tools, so in essence, now we have some bag floating around in space...i guess its better than a bag, and a tether...lol
Comment thank you- no more advertisements too..right (Score 1) 594
this would also include all those "car" popups that infringe on my web viewing.
i would like my time wasted by closing popups with monetary benefit, and this may also help lead the way for the rights of peoples veiwing act (circa 2009 by me) to get paid for viewing garbage adds.
Comment ono..i can see the blue screen from here (Score 1) 202
will this make it esier, or a gigantic nightmare, and now that windows is incorperating linux, i am afraid of their..."rights" on any program i may want to run...(ono, my poor device is going to loose 99 % of its memory)
Comment becuase 1.more people and more t.v.'s (Score 1) 388
the population doubles every ten years, so it is likey, the energy consumed,is in league w/the population too.
