@Pandya I'd ask on IRC. Though I don't think running the HURD is an especially useful way of spending the time.
Point of clarification - are garbage answers like those for unix.stackexchange.com/q/261233/4671 eventually garbage collected? I think I read that somewhere.
@derobert Do you mean my laptop's BIOS? I'll try asking on SuperUser. Wierdest thing is that this was all working perfectly before I updated to VirtualBox 5. — neuron1 min ago
... ya think that might have been important info? :-/
@FaheemMitha I don't have the rep to see the "garbage" answers, but in general deleted answers and questions do not get purged from the system. Exceptions are if someone asks a CM to purge it, the user gets "destroyed" (which is pretty rare and can only be used in limited situations) and maybe if the question/answer was flagged as spam and deleted by the bot.
@derobert @StrongBad I thought that under certain conditions they do get purged. I.e. when the question has a negative score, and no questions with a positive score. Or something like that.
@FaheemMitha ... ok, or there was just a bug in 4.3. That could be too.
xorg has a VESA driver (and maybe one or two more) which uses video hardware in a very basic way, as just a framebuffer. It's slow, because it fails to use any acceleration.
That works even without real drivers.
The drivers are split in two parts, part lives in the kernel, part lives in xorg
if both parts agree its not supported, you get the VESA driver. If they get confused if its supported, it can just break
(could be fixed by forcing the VESA driver, of course)
I have three DS18B20's (or I believe at least two of them are DS18B20's). I am currently reading them through an embedded Linux board (Raspberry Pi in this case).
I have two of the sensors in a breadboard, they give seemingly accurate temperatures. The third one is one of those DS18B20's enclose...