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Bram Cohen's analysis:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/bramcohen/

In FF, you can have bookmarks like this: http://livejournal.com/~%25s/ Give it a keyword (say, 'lj'), type in the URL line: lj someusername and someusername's livejournal opens. This is the simplest example. I have several more sophisticated; this mostly obviates the FF search box. And all this with a *very* simple syntax that only allows substitution of one string. Imagine something a bit more powerful in that place.

More interestingly, will significant numbers of Linux users contributing useful work migrate?

I don't know how many, but it does happen.

got a little layout for my dream machine in the above link, let me know what you think, people!

I don't know how difficult this is in Python, but with Cocoa, you can build a web browser in zero lines of code by clicking and dragging to designate actions and connections between objects in Interface Builder.

This is a lot more than just another shell. If you won't RTFA, read a livejournal posting of mine where I came up with the same idea about a month before hearing about Monad. It has pictures describing how it works.

The "woraround" link in TFA led me to this link. That persons situation and the MSN situation in China is not about assasination threats or even the law, it is about intimidation to silence dissent. We all know that anyone with a handfull of crayons can intellectualy threaten Bush, but how does someone posting on a blog physically threaten the president anymore than graffiti on a wall?

"We've had 44 presidents, 4 assasinated while in office. 4 more who have had attempts on their life while in office. That's 18% of the the presidents so far."

Thanks for the interesting stats on what is obviously a dangerous but very rewarding job but other dangerous and rewarding jobs don't seem to require an army of SS officers. From my brief experience on the planet it seems to me that political leaders do more to succesfully incite violence than all the blogs ever writen combined.

And americans should resolve their own government censorship problems before they go telling other people what to say and how to say it.

I wonder how many of those 'activists' have even been to China, or for that matter, even have passports.

You are thinking of Fitt's Law. Some platforms get it right and some don't

errmmmm.... mayhaps this will put her mind at ease then??

www.livejournal.com

Check out
http://www.livejournal.com/stats.bml
Where you will see that LJ has 1.5 million people posting in the last 30 days, and another million who are active in some way (commenting on others, etc.)

Wookie porn? http://www.livejournal.com/community/blood_art/

I don't have a single desktop in this configuration, as in Xinerama-style single X screen, however I had at some point single kayboard and mouse, and the same computer running applications displayed on three physical screens, mapped to two or three X screens. This is how it looked (laptop's keyboard and trackpad work but aren't used), and this is how it was done. Two monitors are handled by a dual-monitor nvidia card, and can be configured either as two or a single screen spanning both.

This configuration doesn't allow windows to span between "local" and "remote" screens, however for many purposes this is useful -- in a different setup I often run 3D CAD on one screen, and 2D CAD an the other one, and obviously there is little point in mixing those two. Separate virtual desktops on all monitors also help -- I usually have 4x3 viewports in Sawfish, so with three monitors that would be 36 semi-independent viewports.

"We have a sound system that works most (but not all) of the time if you are lucky."

How is this different from OSX or Windows?

Are you kidding?

In Windows, install the drivers for your sound card, reboot and sound works in every app, at the same time if you so wish.

In Linux, alsa has made great strides, but still doesn't support a lot of cards out there and a lot of the supported cards have trouble mixing audio from more then one app. In fact, the whole reason jwz is now using OSX, the whole point of this article, is that the sound system in Linux sucks hard.

This is neither here nor there, but I found this chick on LJ, and I'd wax that ass at least 40 times a day if she was close and didn't have a boyfriend who might kick my ass. She tolerated Star Wars and has nice boobs. http://www.livejournal.com/users/starswillfollow/5 8845.html Check her out, seriously. http://www.livejournal.com/users/starswillfollow/5 5813.html

This is neither here nor there, but I found this chick on LJ, and I'd wax that ass at least 40 times a day if she was close and didn't have a boyfriend who might kick my ass. She tolerated Star Wars and has nice boobs. http://www.livejournal.com/users/starswillfollow/5 8845.html Check her out, seriously. http://www.livejournal.com/users/starswillfollow/5 5813.html

Checkout the cool Monad demo videos. This is seriously cool stuff!

Tell that to EA Spouce, she knows.

http://www.livejournal.com/~l33tsysadmin/26211.htm l

Well, there's this guy who supposedly was offered a job by Apple working on ACPI & BIOS. He's a contributor to the linux kernel.

Not that I want to fan the rumor flames. And yes, if I was a firefighter, I'd be on the 'fight fire with other fires all over the place' bandwagon.

That's what SL is in theory. In practice however... wellll... Though with the place as overrun with furries as it is, adapting a browser with "fox" in the title seems all too appropraete.

And as he says in his comments, ACPI and BIOS ugliness only occurs on the PC platform.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/pavelmachek/7323. html

I really hope it doesn't happen. Used to want it, but now just see it messing up Apple.

Smelling x86-64 Macs...

I fell from a horse today... that's not strange. Twice... well that had to happen someday. But then something strange happened: Apple offered me a job. Seeking ACPI & BIOS person, guess what that means :-).

How about someone offered a job doing ACPI and BIOS stuff?

http://www.livejournal.com/users/pavelmachek/7323. html

What does make sense is if they were to move the x-serve to x86-64. I could see something like that happening. I can see that with the PowerBook line that Apple may be feeling vulnerable but they are still very competitive machines.

Linux kernel hacker Pavel Machek claims to have received a job offer from Apple to hack on things ACPI and BIOS related.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/udrepper/7326.htm l

Now back it up with Real Life(tm) references.

I don't like MySQL (I prefer PostgreSQL or ibFireBird) but at 100 tickets a second it does seem to cut the ice for large applications.

Arjen also routinely mentions "terabyte" databases, although he tends to speak more in terms of "billions of records". If in doubt, email him. You'll get an authoritative answer.

since everyone bitches about how they have no content, let's see how many present their content, or rather: how many are black text on white background...

EVIL

* underlined+bold
* drop shadow
* cream background, not much of an improvement. some of the header text is glossy (shiney / embossed / see above one / other various "auto-artistic" trash ).
* the tiny images illustrating each entry, are dithered (i guess with a "web palette" [making it look even more horrible], which people stopped doing 5+ years ago) then jpg'd.
* cyan background (the name of 100% green + 100% blue)
* purple text, orange links. no, that's not better.
* yes i really want to be tortured with your family album pics
* half of the people leave directly (or die) with the header
* light yellow (piss-water yellow?) background.
* "I.Mter-
views" ?
i don't get it. dashes in headlines are satan.
* scary vector portrait
* horrible. evil. tasteless.
* scarier than the sixapart girl.
* yellow background.

GOOD

* pear/white background. title with first letter biggie, first line in different font from rest.
* greenish tasty tone over everything ...which i didn't follow. great. thanks. as for the equally bad link-colours being that horrible default-blue/purple, it was only around 10%. this was checking 70% of the a-list. methinks those popular people should hire someone to design their site

good design = pyros, don't remember any other. and yeah, it's not a blog.
says intersting things = ms g33k. who i'm not sure is a good thing to link, i won't link myself.

The inevitable situation is that we will have unlimited space -- that is, more than we can fill. So what happens when we can quite easily put every piece of digital media we've ever even thought about owning -- all the movies, all the games -- on a single disk, without ever having to delete anything?

I really don't know -- it's an interesting question, both similar and dependent on the question of what happens when we have bandwidth abundance. I don't know the answer. What do you think?

One thing that I think is likely is that we will stop trying to organize our data with a tree metaphor and move more toward a search-based system, like how iTunes organizes music. It seems a likely possibility.

I had my own 15 minutes of fame here in Wichita, KS because of Star Wars and my Jedi costume:

Me in the Newspaper

It was fun being on every newscast. People I've never met before recognize me.

See this entry in the Google Weblog by Google employee Wei-Hwa Huang. It mentions that the best performers in the US Puzzle Championship go on to form part of the US team in the World Puzzle Championships; Wei-Hwa has been part of the US team for each of the past 12 years and won the whole World Championships in 1995, 1997, 1998 and 1999. It's fair to say that the conduit between impressive competitors in the championships and Google is pretty well-defined, to both parties' benefit - though, like you, I don't know of any Google employees who joined as a result of their participation.

If you're interested in the World Puzzle Championships, I blogged live from their finals day last year.

Chris Dickson (82nd out of 90, 2004 World Puzzle Championships)

well done young jedi!

my take on the film is at my LJ; at almost 2000 words, it's too long for a /. comment box.

Yeah, Slashdot might help raise awareness in the geek community, but as far as general "critical mass" goes, LJ has zillions more active logged-in users than we do :)

I've got one more: Kenneth Turan, the L.A. Times and NPR movie critic. He's right more often than he's wrong, and he and Ebert agree on this one. The link is to my LJ, where you can also see his reviews of the first two. Enjoy.

Dear Sub-Editor,

Opportunity and Spirit are girls.

Dear Sub-Editor,

Opportunity and Spirit are girls.

...but at least Opportunity herself is keeping in touch through her LiveJournal blog.

There's no mention of this on Spirit's livejournal --- but then, she never did get on terribly well with her sister (not brother, BTW). Opportunity seems to be mildly worried, but is in no way panicking yet...

There's no mention of this on Spirit's livejournal --- but then, she never did get on terribly well with her sister (not brother, BTW). Opportunity seems to be mildly worried, but is in no way panicking yet...

He explains that he got the same results using the rawmedia interface. It was just a bitch to do the aligned writes in perl.

Fsync on linux happens to issue the underlying raw flush command.

The issue is NOT that fsync isn't guaranteed to do a physical flush to media! The issue is that even though on linux it happens to issue that command, the underlying physical media controller lies about having done so.

You owe him a public apology. I doubt you'll have the balls to do it, though.

For that they'd have to copy a dislcaimer from Apple too: Do not eat iBox.

Yes. But sadly there are those for whom it does do it. God I hate myself for knowing these things.

http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=clunk ies&mode=full

The author of frankenlies is an anonymous coward, and for good reason. I
correct her many misstatements
here.

I'll take one of your thoughts a step further: real estate prices affect not only where people live, but also where they work.

Boston is a great example. My husband and I can't afford to live in Boston - particularly because we don't work in Boston. We both work in big office complexes in the "outer loop" (I-495) suburbs, and we currently live in the next city to the west (Worcester, MA), because we can't even afford to live in most of the towns/suburbs that fall between Worcester and Boston. (Student loans factor heavily into our cost of living).

I've looked into taking public transportation from Worcester to my job, and I've realized that it would take at least twice as long and cost at least twice as much as taking my car to work (because we'd still need to keep the car for everything OTHER than work).

Even so, I am willing to try public transportation (see above link) to commute. I just don't think it's going to be worth it.

Solaia Loses, Rockwell Wins...What Does It Mean?

http://www.livejournal.com/~waltboyes/2032.html

GE Fanuc Automation agrees to Solaia patent license

http://www.manufacturing.net/ctl/article/CA510015

Rockwell sues Schneider, Solaia, law firm over patent lawsuits

http://www.manufacturing.net/ctl/article/CA269801

The shameful Solaia affair

http://www.manufacturing.net/ctl/article/CA336749

US Patent Office

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PT O2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r =1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=5,038,318.WKU.&OS=PN /5,038,318&RS=PN/5,038,318

I thought everyone knew that Opportunity is a girl.

It's like the The Very Secret Diaries of Cassandra Claire http://www.livejournal.com/users/cassieclaire/ meets Star Wars. This one went well, can there be another? Perchance a Very Secret Star Logs site? ;)

Also see:
http://www.livejournal.com/~bobafett/

and

http://www.livejournal.com/users/theforce/

Also see:
http://www.livejournal.com/~bobafett/

and

http://www.livejournal.com/users/theforce/