In Germany, the cameras take 3 photos. One approaching, one from the rear, and one from the driver's side... so you can't claim someone else was driving your car!

Here in Aussie, a red light camera was recently STOLEN from it's post, and has not been recovered.

IMHO, "tailgating" causes most accidents here, and speed makes the damage to person and property worse. Hit the tailgaters with a heavy penalty, force people to leave a safe gap between vehicles, and accidents will automatically reduce. Stop people speeding, and the severity of crashes will reduce.

The company that installed and maintains the system (and keeps 75% of the revenues generated) admitted there's a problem with the computer control system at that intersection.

That's Hiway Robbery!

I am suprised the camera has not caught a bullet yet. They don't usually put those things in high faluting neighborhoods, they are usually around the "hoods". At least that is the way here in Northern Virginia, main roads but still near the "hoods".

I am new to Linux and BOINC. I downloaded the firefox zip file and unzipped it to my desktop but I don't know how to add the extension. any help will be appricated.

Thanks

Any suggestions for a total noob of even where to start.

How hard is it to create the live CD?

I'd like to play around some before I actually refortmat and repartion my lappy to dual boot.

The computer is a 2.8 ghz P4 with a gig of RAM. I think the harddrive is 50 gigs.

Arrgh... I missed it.

LOL Thats ok, you still get recognition in this thread. :-) WTG again man.

The definition of a planet is that gravity has made it round, and it orbits the sun rather than another planet.

I wonder what will happen if we ever discover a pair of objects the same size that would otherwise fit the definition of planet but are orbiting each other.

dang, now that is impressive!


*drool*

what the heck would we use it for?

Hello!
Im planing on instaling ubuntu Linux on my PC i hear its good for noobs like me ;)
So is it easy to use and safe?

I use Gentoo myself and am very happy with it.

tekwyzrd can you give (copy/paste) me a quick rundown of the major differences between Gentoo and Sabayon? Cuz I'm really too lazy to check it out by myself :P.

Sabayon Linux is a live DVD designed to transform a computer into a powerful Gentoo Linux system in less than 5 minutes. Gentoo Linux is a Linux distribution powered by a software install manager engine called "Portage". Besides functioning as a live DVD, Sabayon Linux can also be installed on a hard disk, acting effectively as an easy-to-use Gentoo installation disk. The live DVD includes a large range of desktop environments and open source software applications, such as KDE, GNOME, XFce, Fluxbox, KOffice, OpenOffice.org, FreeNX, amaroK, Kaffeine, etc.

The distro formally known as RR4 is soon to be released, and we have taken a hard first look at what's being offered. Based on Gentoo, Sabayon already has a solid base. Add superb Live DVD functionality and a complete installer, this is one distro worth watching.

Similar to other distros, you can update all the packages on your system with a simple command: emerge -uD world. One benefit that some enjoy is the fact that if a program is open source, emerge will download the source code and compile it. This 'optimizes' that application for your system. I should mention though, that the quick installation of Sabayon is due to binary packages being used on the DVD. Further updating the applications, such as using the -uD world, will then compile them.

Another benefit Gentoo has is the genkernel tool. Essentially, this allows you to very easily upgrade your kernel with a simple command. Though power users will want to manually install and configure their kernel, this is a great secondary option.

Gentoo specific benefits aside, this is a great distro on it's own even if you never touch the perks of Gentoo. For the casual user, it includes everything you will need from a base install... trust me on this. If you later want to upgrade/install new packages but don't want to deal with emerge, a Kuroo icon is waiting for you on your desktop. It allows you the power of emerge, but in a GUI frontend.

For power users, Sabayon is one of those distros that comes packed, but holds back no control. After installation, you can do whatever you please... upgrade your kernel or packages, hack your grub.conf, uninstall programs you don't need, change the theme to mimic a regular KDE and much more. The primary difference here is, that it makes the installation far quicker than a regular Gentoo distro.

If you are a fan of XGL and are a regular Gentoo user, you may understand the hassle of trying to get it to function. Sabayon is actually XGL capable from the start, but you need to activate it manually on boot: gentoo xgl res=1280x1024 refresh=75. I didn't touch up much on XGL in this article though, as it's not really the focus of this distro. It's there for the taking, if you are interested.