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At least dict.die.net has been using this kind of search for years.

Try for example http://dict.die.net/prior

That _might_ be true in some countries. At least in Spain software and music are different beasts, with different limitations.

2) Boot-legging MP3s and violating the terms of the GPL are both copyright violations.

Not true, AFAIK. First is copyright infringement, second one would be breach of contract. By the way, I never got an EULA with any CD/DVD I own. By the way, bootleg automatically implies breaking the law ("illicitly sold").

3) Neither violation is covered by "Fair Use" laws.

Fair Use still applies if I download an MP3 of a song I already have in a CD I bought, right? So your point wouldn't be correct.

Congratulations on getting so many +1, you have been overrated IMO.

The point of CSS sprites and combined files is to reduce the number of requests which take up a lot of the user's time... even if they are on broadband. Downloading one large image is faster than downloading a whole bunch of small images that equal in size to the large image. Combining this technique with some other ones result in a perceptible decrease in load time. Here are some numbers if you don't believe me.

Mile
      (from Lat. mille, "a thousand;" Matt. 5:41), a Roman measure of
      1,000 paces of 5 feet each. Thus the Roman mile has 1618 yards,
      being 142 yards shorter than the English mile.

Dimensionless or not, in the real world (i.e. not in math class - and you really have to pick one way in math class, too), you have to pick one system of representing it and use that to send to your functions (see sin() as an example).

That Wikipedia page you referred to us using the derived unit of "radians". There are a couple of different ways to represent that number - degrees, radians, grads. Hell, anybody that's ever used a calculator knows you have to use just one of those systems for your particular calculator.

Nice try, but do a little more research before posting and blasting somebody's article with illogical arguments.

autorun: http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/autorun.1.ht ml/

Wreak is a real word, it just isn't the right one. Homophones are a bitch.

Now that I think of it, it probably would be better as a heap manager feature than OS feature. You would have some way of marking a block as "freeable, but tell me when you do it". The heap manager would then try to allocate blocks out of this before asking the OS for more memory.

Sounds like a fun research project, if it's not already done.

Bad example.

Ever heard of mlock? You don't need to make the whole application non-swappable, just the page that contains the password. And the call is trivial to use.

Hmmm?

The man page for ionice

Here's a quote:
NOTES
Linux supports io scheduling priorities and classes since 2.6.13 with the CFQ io scheduler.


The support is there in the kernel. There's a basic set of userspace utilities to handle it. There are some issues to be worked out (you have to be root or have the setuid on to change priorities), and there isn't an automatic daemon to do it for you, and these isn't a top kind of utility, but the kernel level support is there for it.

> What it could really do with is I/O prioritisation.
ionice. Available since 2005-08-28.

> And an equivalent of "top" for monitoring processes' I/O activity would also be extremely handy

I agree, that would be nice.

Patent #5845280, "Method and apparatus for transmitting a file in a network using a single transmit request from a user-mode process to a kernel-mode process". Compare this with the Linux (and BSD) SendFile() API.

Yep, that's a patent violation.

Simpler interfaces can also be far more exploitable. For example, system() has a really simple interface. But it is has terrible security implications if it is ever used in conjuction with user input.

A great many SQL injection, script injection, and other security issues arise from the "simple" interfaces of JDBC, ADO.net, Response.Write(), and the like.

I wonder, if the originating process' priority is taken into account at all... It has always annoyed me, that the "nice" (and especially the idle-only) processes are still treated equally, when it comes to I/O...

Best effort. This is the default scheduling class for any process that hasn't asked for a specific io priority. Programs inherit the CPU nice setting for io priorities.

> but to the disk and
ionice
> and outbound network queues.
QoS/Differentiated Services + marking with iptables --pid-owner <pid>

As (almost) always under linux, the tools are already there, but simple accessible GUIs are lacking.

>Michael Criton

It's "michael crichton", actually, but spelling it so that it sound like "cretin" is probably more appropriate.

Shouldn't shred used on the device (/dev/sdc or whatever) work fine for Linux users?

CTCP is not just a Microsoft thing. http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man7/ctcp.7.html

(That's not to say that Microsoft's implementation isn't completely borked and incompatible with everyone else)

As for CTCP itself, I don't see much use for it, but I could be wrong.

http://dict.die.net/hack/

The first entry might just be what you were looking for.

I disagree. MS has a clean-cut attitude, IMO: they must win, competition, ethics and law notwithstanding ;-)

It also doesn't have any support for anything that compares with Cisco's extended access control lists for allowing extremely fine-grained filtering of what ports & protocols you wish to allow between combinations of individual hosts and snippets of subnets.

No?

If you're an AOL user you need to zcat this through grep ASAP for one of your unique searches, ASAP, to make sure you're not in the dataset. They can't ever "unrelease" this data.

I agree with your sentiments, but it's a lot more efficent to use zgrep.

Grammar/spelling nazi mode on On a side note, you don't need to use apostrophes with acronyms when showing the plural form and the market for games on Macs is nonexistent, not inexistant. Carry on. Grammar/spelling nazi mode off.

Mr. Grammar Nazi, you are wrong on both counts. My english is far from perfect but when you wish to correct someone's grammar, it helps if you are writing proper English yourself. Both the items you attempt to correct in my post are proper English (with a capital 'E').

I direct you to the following dictionary entry from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : http://dict.die.net/inexistent/

Inexistent \In`ex*ist"ent\, a. [Pref. in- in + existent: cf. F. inexistant.] Not having being; not existing.

And it is perfectly OK to use an apostrophe with an acronym to separate the plural form. As a matter of fact, it is MORE proper to do so. However, some people have an aversion to the proper usage of apostrophes with acronyms due to the fact that it violates the rule that apostrophes are not used before an S indicating a plural. Alas, proper English has many exceptions to the rule and here is one of them, esoteric as it may be. For example, why doesn't "i before e except after c" apply to weigh or neighbor? Anyhow, I direct you to the following site at Washington State University: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/acronyms.html

God I hate being right all the time. (Just Kidding!)

I look forward to your apology and if I ever should meet you in the real world, I will expect you to buy me a beer. In the meantime, I am glad to have enlightened a Grammar Nazi's understanding of English so that he may refrain from grammar-bashing poor fellows writing proper English in his future.

When I tell him to run "ipconfig /all"

Assuming you are using WEP encryption with your WEP key being "guest" and publicly declared, your connections are very much eavesdroppable. All it takes is putting a wireless card into monitor mode, collecting a bunch of encrypted packets into a pcap file, then using decrypt(1) and the known WEP key to decrypt those packets.

Their are wonderful OSS drivers for 2D features, it is hardware-accelerated 3D where things fall short. HA3D means AGP or PCI-Express, not PCI. Even with support there is no way the OGP is going to release anything usable on that front for YEARS.

On the other hand, Intel has been providing specs and source code for their integrated graphics chipsets. This includes hardware accelerated 3D, though the chips aren't up to the nVidia and ATI top or upper-mid range. Hardware T&L is missing, for one thing. However, their next refresh of those chips should get much closer and should still have excellent OSS drivers.

Intel offers much more hope than OGP ever will, as noble as that effort is.

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man4/i810.4.html
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164, 39352584-2,00.htm

  -Charles

xfs_check checks whether an XFS filesystem is consistent

What is this "cul?" http://dict.die.net/cul/ says there are two meanings: 1) a noun, meaning "a passage with access only at one end." 2) a verb-acronym, meaning "see you later."

Cul is also the slang French word for "ass."

So...rediculous could also mean: "your ass is worth doing twice again."

I'll be in the other room until everyone has finished with your ass. I really don't need to see it.

Let's parse the new word, and find out what they actually mean:

re-di-cul-ous:

ous = "worthy of," therefore the object is worthy of re-di-cul.

re = "to do again," therefore the object is worthy of di-cul again.

di = "twice" or "two," therefore the object is worthy of cul twice again.

What is this "cul?"

http://dict.die.net/cul/ says there are two meanings:
1) a noun, meaning "a passage with access only at one end."
2) a verb-acronym, meaning "see you later."

While the first definition could be forced into working, considering this is the internet, the second definition is more likely.

Therefore, rediculous means:

The object of the sentence is worthy of seeing you later twice again.

Is it just me, or does this sound like the definition of a dupe on Slashdot?
Therefore, many /. stories are indeed rediculous, as are 90% of the comments in response to any given story.

Thank you, Mr. Sesquipedalian; I sprained my tounge.

Lessie - it was a blog link with boingboing.net from a number of months ago, cross your fingers....

Google - rocks!

http://www.die.net/musings/bestbuy/

and the policeman was under the comments:

http://www.die.net/musings/bestbuy/

It's the last one under the posted name of David H. and it reads:

---

"Aaron,

Thanks for sharing your story of Best Buy door nazis. I was also a victim
of this today, the Best Buy security refuse to let me leave the store unless
I showed him my receipt and PHYSICALLY BLOCKED ME FROM LEAVING. Told him I
did not have to present a receipt and asked for a manager... showed the
manager my police ID... and told him that the next time anyone does that,
they'll be in handcuffs for violation of California Penal Code section 236,
False Imprisonment. I recommend all your readers do the same. They have no
legal right to force you to show a receipt.

In retrospect, I should of called the police and said that I was being held
against my will... and that I wanted the security guard to be arrested.

I smell a class action soon...."

--

I'm a crappy linker when pretending to be busy at work at the final hour of a friday (hey - I'm gonna put in 2 hours this weekend to make up for it - hey - creative grooves can't be forced in the art-asset biz - stop hounding me! Quitit!)

Lessie - it was a blog link with boingboing.net from a number of months ago, cross your fingers....

Google - rocks!

http://www.die.net/musings/bestbuy/

and the policeman was under the comments:

http://www.die.net/musings/bestbuy/

It's the last one under the posted name of David H. and it reads:

---

"Aaron,

Thanks for sharing your story of Best Buy door nazis. I was also a victim
of this today, the Best Buy security refuse to let me leave the store unless
I showed him my receipt and PHYSICALLY BLOCKED ME FROM LEAVING. Told him I
did not have to present a receipt and asked for a manager... showed the
manager my police ID... and told him that the next time anyone does that,
they'll be in handcuffs for violation of California Penal Code section 236,
False Imprisonment. I recommend all your readers do the same. They have no
legal right to force you to show a receipt.

In retrospect, I should of called the police and said that I was being held
against my will... and that I wanted the security guard to be arrested.

I smell a class action soon...."

--

I'm a crappy linker when pretending to be busy at work at the final hour of a friday (hey - I'm gonna put in 2 hours this weekend to make up for it - hey - creative grooves can't be forced in the art-asset biz - stop hounding me! Quitit!)

i don't know if this is a troll or an actual problem, but how about you try -t vfat -o rw?

Veal? I think you mean mutton. http://dict.die.net/mutton%20chop/

Granted. Though the definition of disinterested does include:

Syn: Unbiased; impartial; uninterested; indifferent.

Yeah, we refer to a politician here* as "so-and-so" as well. (* Not a republic.)

I always preferred this quote:

'Nothing Sucks Like a VAX'.

-fred

What the hell is an 'hablo' ingle? The only reference to hablo that I can find is some Spanish word.

This is up for any number of interpretations. I can find a definition that includes water as a "beverage". In the end, we are at the mercy of the system and possibly corrupt judges.
from http://dict.die.net/beverage/
beverage n : any liquid suitable for drinking: "may I take your beverage order?" [syn: drink, drinkable, potable]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Beverage \Bev"er*age\, n. [OF. bevrage, F. breuvage, fr. beivre to drink, fr. L. bibere. Cf. Bib, v. t., Poison,Potable.] 1. Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage. "He knew no beverage but the flowing stream." --Thomson.
      2. Specifically, a name applied to various kinds of drink.

The main difference is, there is no fsck in XFS. None whatsoever.

What the fuck?

Have you read this, or even used XFS before, for that matter?

http://dict.die.net/leach/

3: remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil" [syn: strip]

Just saying.

The 32GB FAT32 limit appears to be a Windows formatter issue. If you use MKFS-FAT32 you can produce a FAT32 partition that will be readable by Windows up to as size of 128GB. Apparently Windows cannot read a drive bigger than this as the driver is incapable of doing so. I understand this has something to do with the driver being only a 16 bit device (although you shouldn't quote me on that).

I have a 120GB drive in my computer that is formatted in one partition in FAT32 so I know this works. In future I'm going to be using a file server for my data so that both Widnows and Linux can read it over SMB or NFS. I feel that is the only tidy solution to this problem right now.

"It seems like you are writing a letter, but emacs is busy running a complex LISP expression. Do you want me to suspend the process for you?"

That might not improve my mood, but having an automatic renice http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/renice.8.htm l option whenever emacs slows down the UI might make me a bit more cheerful.

At some point the question becomes: which of Bush's TLAs is not illegally spying on us?

"And screen works even better!"

linux can do that too, remove the CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE and CAP_NET_ADMIN and even root will not be able to modify the firewall rules (nor its file). do that in an init script for greater annoyance.

you can also remove the CAP_SYS_MODULE capability to prevent kernel module insertion. make the init script that removes them immutable, and you have a foolproof protection against kernel rootkits, to change you need to go into single user mode, remove the lines, and reboot

there's a lot more capabilities, see:
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man7/capabilities .7.html

Right-thinking americans (who are, of course, in the majority) raly to our cause. The washington kleptocracy is o'erthrown. A new constitutional convention is held

majority? That I doubt. When the last revolution was fought, the loyalists were still the majority here.

Now, do you seriously believe that this convention results in the _absence_ of a federal government?

I never said I wanted an absence of a federal government. I want a minimalist one which sticks to its limited role as described within the constitution. E.G. national defense, weights& measures, minting and thats about it.

Here's a better question. The last five years have seen corporate malfeasance undreamt of since the era of the trusts. Why aren't you calling for the abolition of the corporation as a legal entity? Believe me the corps are a big part of the problem. Back when the country was founded there were very strict limits on corporations. I.E. a corp could only do business in its state of incorporation, AND could only do the business for which it was originally incorporated for. Thus no mega conglomerates in 25 different fields. I think the grant of corporate "personhood" to the railroads was one of the worst things ever to happen to this country.

Yeah, let's have a puny central bank, like russia. They're doing real well without inflation controls.

Im not sure you're getting my point here. We do not have inflation controls, we have GUARANTEED inflation "controls" for example, look here. the first and third graphs are interesting. Or this link

from the link above: "Whatever other problems there were with the gold standard, persistent inflation was not one of them. Between 1880 and 1914, the period when the United States was on the "classical gold standard," inflation averaged only 0.1 percent per year."

So how does 0.1 percent strike you versus the FED standard of 4.0 percent for inflationary controls? I'd say pretty damn good. It meant that if you were poor you could save your money and count on it being worth the same amount year to year. Try a compound comparison of $100.00 for 20 years. With the fed, in 20 years your 100.00 is worth $46.00 without, $98.00.

Amtrak sucks

Did you miss my caveat about good management, or just ignore it?

Nope, but can you tell me was there ever a period after it was nationalized that amtrak did not suck? For as long as I can remember Amtrak has lost money. Do you really think such a systemic problem can be blamed on bad mangagement, or upon the system (government owned and operated) itself?

The crucial difference between our points of view is that while we both think that a single entity is responsible or the world being a tiolet (you - the government, me - corporations) you call for abolition while I call for reform.

I say they are both responsible. But let me ask you a question....

Would you agree that power corrupts individuals?

If so, why is your answer to that problem the greater concentration of power in fewer hands?

Put another way, sure my local official may be corrupt, but I have a better chance of seeing that corruption on a daily basis, and a greater chance of voting him out, versus corruption in the back rooms of washington. This IMO is why like 55% of the populace does not vote. They feel powerless to change the crap that matters.