Yes, but by the time I get home from work 9 hours later, I've forgotten what I was interested in listening to. Besides, have you ever tried to find a specific clip in an NPR audio archive? I don't want to have to listen through a half hour of other stuff to find the tidbit I wanted to hear.
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My biggest use of a TiVo-like feature for the radio would be to skip backward some amount of time to listen to snippets of a news/talk-radio show I was distracted from listening to the first time. I can't count the number of times that I've registered the tail end of an interesting story from NPR and wished I could go back to the beginning to listen to it again.
Of course when you post links, it would be a good plan to make certain that Ultimate Search hasn't scooped up the domain and squatted on it when it expired.
As a side note, has anyone ever managed to buy a domain off Ultimate Search? They swiped an expired domain I had my eye on.
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``Software should never ever assume it knows where to get files from,'' someone once wrote. (He says I'm taking his quote out of context, so I won't identify him here.) Here was my sarcastic response:
Yes, that's a very important principle!
Let's take, for example, csh, which uses/etc/csh.cshrc and/dev/log and/bin/sh and many other files. The reason that all those filenames are listed in/etc/csh.conf is so that they can be changed.
Now, some people want to move/etc/csh.conf itself. That's why csh looks for the/etc/csh.conf filename in a hashed/etc/registry.db file.
Of course, on some machines, we need to move/etc/registry.db. That's why the registry filename is listed in a COMPILEDFREGISTRY environment variable.
There's still the possibility of conflict with previous uses of the COMPILEDFREGISTRY variable. That's why the name of that variable is listed in/etc/fregistry_variable_name.txt.
You say you want to move/etc/fregistry_variable_name.txt? You fool! We have billions of programs that/etc/fregistry_variable_name.txt at the top of main(). Everything _else_ has to be configurable, obviously, but/etc/fregistry_variable_name.txt isn't going anywhere.
At around 8 this morning (local time) a fire started in the computing facilities of Twente University. This affects Debian, since one of our servers (satie) is hosted there. At this moment it seems very likely that the machine can not be recovered from the fire.
The following services are currently down as a result of this:
We are working to restoring these services on another machine and hope to have things in mostly working order by tomorrow. Security advisories are still available at http://www.debian.org/security/
Sometimes I think that anyone who files a patent for something that prior art can be found in 5 minutes by monkeys on slashdot should be prosocuted for fraud (esp. if they sue someone else based on the patent). As an alternate, is it possible to counter-sue someone sueing you for patent infringement (for lots more money than they're sueing you for).
Remember, at most fast food places here in the US, somewhere between 1/2 and 1/3 of any soda you order will be ice. Sometimes even more than half of it.
Nobody actually trys to run a single instance of Solaris on machines with that many processors. At that level, you partition the machine into multiple instances that all operate seperatly (different RAM, different disks, different CPUs). You get most of the benefit of having seperate machines, with the added benifit of the higher speed interconnections between the partitions.
Reminds me of when Earthlink bought my old ISP
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A bit over two years ago, I canceled my dialup account when I got a cable modem. Everything went fine, until several months later when Earthlink bought out my old ISP. Shortly after that, I got a transition packet (for the account that was no longer active). A month later I got a bill. Luckily, once I got ahold of a human in billing, I managed to explain the issue and they re-canceled me without too much trouble.
Have you even looked at ESR's software pages. They detail the real free software work he has done, besides and frequently before becoming a Open Source pundent.
Compare the cost of hiring a consultant to fix something you have access to, to the productivity costs of having to work around the problem because your vendor won't fix it now/ever.
When attempting to learn their way around a new purchase, 89 percent consult instruction manuals, poor saps.
The biggest tech lie is that people shouldn't need to read manuals. Could someone give me an example of one thing as complex as a computer that you don't need to read the instructions for (or be taught)?
Remember, you aren't getting a dumb box that works the same way forever. You get the benifits of the software improvements Tivo develops. A priority queue for season passes, keyword wishlists that can auto-record, and VBR encoding have all been added since I bought my Tivo.
Users had to be taught about setup.exe (or install.exe or whatever) once. And these days, autorunning CDs are removing the need to do that again. Remember, most things that you claim are easier in Windows are only easier because you've already been taught to do them. Teach someone how to use rpm/dpkg/apt and installing software with them will become just as easy.
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Yes, but by the time I get home from work 9 hours later, I've forgotten what I was interested in listening to. Besides, have you ever tried to find a specific clip in an NPR audio archive? I don't want to have to listen through a half hour of other stuff to find the tidbit I wanted to hear.
My biggest use of a TiVo-like feature for the radio would be to skip backward some amount of time to listen to snippets of a news/talk-radio show I was distracted from listening to the first time. I can't count the number of times that I've registered the tail end of an interesting story from NPR and wished I could go back to the beginning to listen to it again.
Of course when you post links, it would be a good plan to make certain that Ultimate Search hasn't scooped up the domain and squatted on it when it expired.
As a side note, has anyone ever managed to buy a domain off Ultimate Search? They swiped an expired domain I had my eye on.
A quote from http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage/finding.html
/etc/csh.cshrc and /dev/log and /bin/sh and many other files. The reason that all those filenames are listed in /etc/csh.conf is so that they can be changed.
/etc/csh.conf itself. That's why csh looks for the /etc/csh.conf filename in a hashed /etc/registry.db file.
/etc/registry.db. That's why the registry filename is listed in a COMPILEDFREGISTRY environment variable.
/etc/fregistry_variable_name.txt.
/etc/fregistry_variable_name.txt? You fool! We have billions of programs that /etc/fregistry_variable_name.txt at the top of main(). Everything _else_ has to be configurable, obviously, but /etc/fregistry_variable_name.txt isn't going anywhere.
``Software should never ever assume it knows where to get files from,'' someone once wrote. (He says I'm taking his quote out of context, so I won't identify him here.)
Here was my sarcastic response:
Yes, that's a very important principle!
Let's take, for example, csh, which uses
Now, some people want to move
Of course, on some machines, we need to move
There's still the possibility of conflict with previous uses of the COMPILEDFREGISTRY variable. That's why the name of that variable is listed in
You say you want to move
Actually, your cable company would rather you be spending another couple of bucks a month for their "HBO on demand" service.
Then you'd get the same story 4-5 times with all the names changed. At least Eddings is shrinking his story into a smaller number of books.
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At around 8 this morning (local time) a fire started in the computing facilities of Twente University. This affects Debian, since one of our servers (satie) is hosted there. At this moment it seems very likely that the machine can not be recovered from the fire.
The following services are currently down as a result of this:
security.debian.org
non-us.debian.org
nm.debian.org
qa.debian.org
We are working to restoring these services on another machine and hope to have things in mostly working order by tomorrow. Security advisories are still available at http://www.debian.org/security/
Wichert.
Beats me. I'm more of a recycling vegitarian (I eat things that eat vegatables).
Ah yes, that lasagna would be for all the vegetarians that still eat cheese.
Sometimes I think that anyone who files a patent for something that prior art can be found in 5 minutes by monkeys on slashdot should be prosocuted for fraud (esp. if they sue someone else based on the patent). As an alternate, is it possible to counter-sue someone sueing you for patent infringement (for lots more money than they're sueing you for).
Remember, at most fast food places here in the US, somewhere between 1/2 and 1/3 of any soda you order will be ice. Sometimes even more than half of it.
Nobody actually trys to run a single instance of Solaris on machines with that many processors. At that level, you partition the machine into multiple instances that all operate seperatly (different RAM, different disks, different CPUs). You get most of the benefit of having seperate machines, with the added benifit of the higher speed interconnections between the partitions.
A bit over two years ago, I canceled my dialup account when I got a cable modem. Everything went fine, until several months later when Earthlink bought out my old ISP. Shortly after that, I got a transition packet (for the account that was no longer active). A month later I got a bill. Luckily, once I got ahold of a human in billing, I managed to explain the issue and they re-canceled me without too much trouble.
Have you even looked at ESR's software pages. They detail the real free software work he has done, besides and frequently before becoming a Open Source pundent.
Don't you know the fundamental rule of english grammar? All nouns can be verbed.
Of course books will all be regulated digital devices too, with equal pay-per-read pricing.
Compare the cost of hiring a consultant to fix something you have access to, to the productivity costs of having to work around the problem because your vendor won't fix it now/ever.
Perhaps you're looking for Murphy's Rules, published by SJG in Pyramid magazine and later compiled into a book format.
When attempting to learn their way around a new purchase, 89 percent consult instruction manuals, poor saps.
The biggest tech lie is that people shouldn't need to read manuals. Could someone give me an example of one thing as complex as a computer that you don't need to read the instructions for (or be taught)?
Remember, you aren't getting a dumb box that works the same way forever. You get the benifits of the software improvements Tivo develops. A priority queue for season passes, keyword wishlists that can auto-record, and VBR encoding have all been added since I bought my Tivo.
For a internet playable game similar to Global Wars, check out World at War.
They tried this, it was DIVX (not the codec). It flopped, remember?
Users had to be taught about setup.exe (or install.exe or whatever) once. And these days, autorunning CDs are removing the need to do that again. Remember, most things that you claim are easier in Windows are only easier because you've already been taught to do them. Teach someone how to use rpm/dpkg/apt and installing software with them will become just as easy.
Have you tried this approach?