@terdon Actually the libc version is the very latest version available for Wheezy, so presumably the system is being updated at least semi-regularly...
@FaheemMitha The arguing stopped a year ago though ;-).
@StephenKitt Hmm, that's true. But it doesn't look like anything has changed since then. And a lot of the R packages in Debian are much of date, that is true.
I admit to having little patience with what I consider to be the more extremist positions Debian has about proprietary software. This kind of issue is really annoying for example.
> The upstream approach is to ship them as convenient libraries in binary package, which is unreasonable for Debian official package, and it's quite a lot of nontrivial work to package them first.
I assumed the reason Debian didn't want to take the same route was about licensing but re-reading it, I think I was wrong.
@FaheemMitha -- i have an "oversize" monitor (it can accommodate two full letter-size pages side by side, though not with the resolution i really need). the graphics card tends to get very hot. so far, two graphics cards have "fried" completely, but just a temporary overheating can cause an uncontrolled shutdown. and to restart from scratch takes nearly half an hour. (i wish it were otherwise.)
This is one of the AMS production editors, used to (still probably is) assistant to Knuth. Yes, that Knuth.
I just remarked that that sounded most strange.
@casey you have like 3 humungous monitors? Any problems with GPU meltdowns?
She was important in the early development of TeX. Coordinated between Knuth and the AMS - though I'm fuzzy about the history. Regardless, such an issue should be fixable.
and that GPU is the hottest thing in my case. CPU sits around 39, mobo T sensor a bit below and the disks report mid 30's. Lower in the winter, warmer this time of year.
though my big fans are low RPM when the load is light so they temps come up a bit. nice and quiet though
@FaheemMitha that would be my guess, or a particularly hot card. 30 minute boots are crazy too. I'd probably toss the whole thing and start over with a new machine.
Her monitors aren't even that big really. A 21"/22" screen can just about fit 2 letter pages completely. side by side is fine but the tops and bottoms get shortened. A 24" in landscape would work though for true sized 2-page letter viewing. Not really a "huge" monitor though I'd say.
I'd like bigger, but I'm not upgrading these screens until 4k gets cheap in 24" or smaller panels and there is a reasonably priced video card to drive them all
4K resolution, also called 4K, refers to a display device or content having horizontal resolution on the order of 4,000 pixels. Several 4K resolutions exist in the fields of digital television and digital cinematography. In the movie projection industry, Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) is the dominant 4K standard.
A 4K resolution, as defined by Digital Cinema Initiatives, is 4096 x 2160 pixels (256:135, approximately a 1.9:1 aspect ratio). This standard is widely respected by the film industry along with all other DCI standards.
DCI 4K should not be confused with ultra-high-definition television...