This is how the Belgian public credit risk insurance body evaluates risks in select world countries. The country that has the world record of being without the government is rated best, the other, buried down in a full-fledged civil war, is just marginally worse, and the most stable political regime on earth is very risky.
Is it just me or the ESA logo indeed looks like a fingerprint? Turns out, they wanted to represent a planet. I learned this while reading the ESA Visual Design Guidelines. Do you see a planet on the picture?
В этих самых интернетах очередной скандал: все сливают некую российскую компанию, которая продаёт некачественные автокресла в интернете.
По поводу автокресел в 2008 году вышло исследование американского экономиста Стивена Левитта, который более известен как автор книжки Freakonomics. Стивен на свои деньги заказал испытания ремней безопасности по программе испытаний автокресел. С макетами детишек разных возростов, датчиками, замедленной съёмкой. Короче, полный фарш.
The recent Doing Business '2011 report states on page 98 that Belgium has no limit on the maximum length of fixed-term contracts. AFAIK, this is wrong. The maximum length of fixed-term contracts is 2 years (exceptionally, 3 years). In some sectors, this is down to 6 months. My knowledge dates from 2007, but I bet nothing changed since then.
Here's a prooflink from 2006.
Assuming that the internal screen is LVDS and the external screen is DVI-0. inotifywait comes from the inotify-tools package.
# Wait for the changes detected by the kernel laptop mode.
while inotifywait -e modify /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
do
laptop_mode=`cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode`
# If on battery, switch on the internal screen.
if [[ $laptop_mode -gt 0 ]]; then
xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1280x800
xrandr --output DVI-0 --off
# Otherwise,
elif [[ $laptop_mode = 0 ]]; then
# if the external screen is connected, switch it on.
if [[ `xrandr -q|grep DVI-0|cut -f2 -d\ ` = connected ]]; then
xrandr --output DVI-0 --mode 1920x1200
xrandr --output LVDS --off
fi
fi
done
I recently bought an Asrock ION 330 Pro HTPC which supports VDPAU, an NVIDIA API for Linux that offloads parts of video processing to the GPU. The upgrade from the old HTPC went smoothly with a mere dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb and a few system tweaks. However, it turned out that Mplayer in Debian Lenny that I was running on my new HTPC box did not support VDPAU. Checking the usual places, like backports and debian-multimedia did not help, either.
