Benoit Mandelbrot, 85, the maverick mathematician who developed the
innovative fractal theory of roughness and applied it to physics,
biology, finance and many other fields, died of pancreatic cancer
Thursday in Cambridge, his wife announced. He coined the term fractal
in the 1970s to refer to a
One aspect that Choice listed as a positive for Toshiba
was the matt surround of the display. Several had
reflective/glossy surrounds, which, after time, became irritating.
William Bennett.
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Dear Sluggers,
I have a simple problem, which I would expect has a simple solution,
but I'm being cautious and checking first.
At the moment, my PC (Pentium 4) is running a Slackware 11 distro,
which I have customized quite a bit. I know...I know...I've got the
Slackware 13 distro discs
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:49:51PM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote:
Matthew Hannigan m...@zip.com.au
Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:56:36 +1100
Fun fact: it has a tiny embedded linux on it just for
playing dvds so you don't have to boot into Windows
to play dvds.
Hi Matthew,
My HP has exactly
Hi Matthew,
It's a HP DV14AP - it's not in front of me at the
moment but I'm pretty sure that's the correct
model etc.
I bought it a few years ago, but I'd be surprised
if the newer HPs didn't have the same function and
keys.
My kids used to use it to watch DVDs until we got
a TV from
Hi Malcolm,
With little to know experience with Slackware :))
but with kids who want to see the latest Flash
thingies:
I tend towards the following:
1. run 'locate libflashplayer.so' in a terminal so
you can find where the libflashplayer.so (file/s)
are currently located.
2. Keep a
Here's a CNET discussion which identifies the Linux (sidux - debian sid variant)
and a source download link!
http://forums.cnet.com/7723-7587_102-236544.html
source code:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericSoftwareDownloadIndex?lc=encc=ussoftwareitem=ob-29445-1
It's not clear whether
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On 18/10/10 10:37, Malcolm Johnston wrote:
Dear Sluggers,
I have a simple problem, which I would expect has a simple solution,
but I'm being cautious and checking first.
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Now, I'm constantly getting messages from sites with video material
On Monday 18 October 2010 15:57:20 Heracles wrote:
That's it. Just remember that there may be other copies of the old
flashplayer.so on your system... perhaps in
~/.mozilla/firefox/whatever/plugins
Heracles
lsof | grep flash is one way of finding out what copy of the Flash plugin is
in use
