I'm currently designing such a system for work.
My basic spec is to have a system that can run an arbitrary batch when another job has run, before or after a specified time and with regard to the file system information of a specified file.
e.g. run Job A when job X has successfully completed and file P has been updated, run job B if job X hasn't run by 3am, run job C if job Y fails. I've got most of the rough design done, the main problem is specifiying date/time information - I would like to say "every 2nd Thursday", "the nth of every month", "the first monday in every second month" etc. but I haven't got that done yet.
Complications: running on Windows 2000 platform, zero budget and a lot of the jobs will run 16 bit apps in a NTVDM.
I've considered VBA, having Access it costs nothing and I've written a library of WinAPI wrappers so yes it will do it, but I'd rather use something else. I'm still tempted to use Common Lisp, but it's the system level API calls that I don't know about. So it's probably going to be Perl, which is good - I can invoke processes and get the pids so I can suspend a job if it get's bumped by one with higher priority. A complication is that ntvdm processes return a pid of zero, but diffing the pid list before and after solves that. Another useful trick is going to be using Math::Logic to allow tri-state logic to make the dependency processing simpler. Of course I want to serialize everythin to disk for ease of re-starting.
I probably won't be able to release it, if I'm allowed to write it, but I'd like to. A friend suggested cron+scripts but it won't cope with the complexity of the scenatios I want to address.
Do you have supplies for you and your family? Food, water, batteries for your flashlights, etc? 'cause I can tell you, they're going to be far more useful than a radio
Not necessarily - how am I going to receive signals from a disaster area with a flashlight? This isn't McGyver. The point is that there are two ends to most communications (ignoring broadcast), if no-one can hear you ask for help...
Like Steve Buscemi as Mr Shhh in Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead? Not that he's exactly average looking but to me that part was perfect as an almost totally anonymous hitman. Not a bad film either - the best I've seen Garcia and possibly the only film where Walkern doesn't dance...
Cooking isn't cheaper if it's just for one person.
Which is why I have a freezer.
When I was single I used to do a batch of tasty food at a weekend which I could freeze in portions for during the week when I came home from work. It was tastier and healthier than most of the cheap frozen stuff around. We still do this now even though there's less need, it's convenient.
Just because you're eating alone doesn't mean you need to cook for one, economies of scale can still be made.
A lot of the food that you stock up on will go bad before one person can eat it all.
So don't buy too many perishables. Tinned, bottled and frozen food, as well as dry goods should last a while, plan ahead. You don't need lots of fresh fruit, vegetables and meat. The fruit and and veg are easy enough to buy as needed for most people and you can home freeze meat from the butcher, if you still have one, or the decent cuts from the supermarket.
I watched the program and I found the article far more informative, thanks - Horizon used to be good but has dumbed down a fair bit in the last few years. Apart from the pretty graphics there were lot's of pictures of 'mission control' and people getting excited.
We used to have Tomorrow's World which started off as pretty hard science reporting but degenerated into Blue Peter for grown ups, Horizon is following it IMHO. Equinox took over the decent reporting crown but that seems to have been shelved too. Now I have the net, hmm. Is that good or bad?
The assumption that the receiver worked was in part due to the fact the (spanish) company that made it would not release the specifications without an NDA. Because NASA is a public organ they couldn't sign the NDA.
s/spanish/Italian/g
also, from TFA:
NASA probably could have insisted on seeing the design if it had agreed to sign standard nondisclosure agreements, but NASA didn't consider the effort worthwhile
so it wasn't that NASA couldn't, they just didn't bother.
The hardware fault was not NASA's doing, however, despite what so many of the trolls around here would have you think. It isn't even NASA's probe.
again from TFA:
LAST JUNE, SCIENTISTS WERE THRILLED when NASA's Cassini probe successfully began orbiting Saturn...
In a collaboration with the European Space Agency...
If it isn't NASA's probe whose is it?
NASA built Cassini, the ESA built Huygens - Huygens appears OK as far as we can tell, it's NASA's bit that has the problem. OK it was the fault of the Italian subcontractor but NASA seems to have screwed the pooch again on the oversight.
Nice catch from Smeds though, nice to see someone wanting to do the job properly, and I do like the ingenious solution.
Go into Yast, click on "Software" then "Change Source Of Installation" and then "Add" - then add an ftp site - site is ftp.suse.com and direcory is/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.1/ya st-source - watch out for slash-inserted spaces.
Don't forget to have only this source active and then finish and go back to the software tab and then click on "Install and Remove Software" - then it's up to you but the new packages will be highlighted in an alternate colour. For me it was c.800Mb.
I suspect there's more to the story than you're letting on, but on the assumption that you've accurately portrayed the situation over there, all I can say is...
It's true (to the best of my knowledge etc) and was reported on BBC Radio 4 - the PM show is pretty accurate.
...SUCKERS!!!!
I think we've already established that.
Seriously, I rather doubt it's as one-sided as all that. Although you could always vote Tory, I guess;)
And the Tories would be better because? The best reason I can think of is they're not the lying bunch in power- they're bunch in opposition who haven't yet shown themselves to be liars.
I've not got a lot of time for any party but the present bunch have taken 5 billion ukp per year out of the UK pensions industry and changed the tax rules to destroy my career (IR35 for those in the UK) so I do bear a bit of a grudge, but there's lots of other stuff to make me distrust them too.
Except we in the UK now have a treaty with the US where if the US provides proof of identity we hand over a Brit for transportation to the US for whatever - maybe trial maybe not. This is not reciprocal (as extradition treaties normally are) and hasn't been ratified by Congress - but we've started handing people over.
Note that this doesn't mean that the extraditee has ever left the UK, it's just if the US asks for someone by name we hand them over. It was dreamt up for terrorists but the first victims^Wsuspects are for alleged offences related to Worldcom.
The other big change is that every other extradition treaty we have requires some indication not only of the identity of the person to be extradited but some prima facie evidence of a case to answer. I suppose we could streamline the process by just throwing in jail whomsoever the US names...
I'm with GANDI, I like them. One of the reasons I went with them was that they clearly state in theit Ts&Cs that the domain is mine, and that they're just looking after the dns etc for me. I don't know much about them except I have had two domains for a few years and no problems. The only communications I get from them are to warn me that the domain registration will expire in a month or so and how to renew if I choose. Very low pressure, it Just Works The Way I Want (tm).
One major advantage in using fsfs over bdb with Subversion is that you can use a network share for your repository now, this was not a good idea before but now it works.(1.1 is still in beta though)
FYI you can also use Apache or subversions own server to host a network repository.
If you want a windows gui front end for SVN try TortoiseSVN, this integrates nicely with explorer and works pretty well. I'd like a similar ability with Konqueror, but that's a long way down my to do list. It'd also be nice to work out how to really handle the situation with working cross platform and case(in)sensitive file names...
Rather than take the wheel with you, pop it off the forks and lock it and the bike to something together.
My friend locked his bike up once to a post, he came back to find that the padlock and chain had been stolen but the bike had been left untouched. He didn't see the funny side of us saying that his bike was obviously such crap that the thief would rather have the (obviously ineffective) lock. The bike was OK actually but I think we had some people with a sense of humour hanging round the campus.
I had a front light where the bottom half was fixed to the bike and the top came off to change the batteries - obviously I normally took the easily removable bits with me if I had to use the light in the first place. One night I came back to find the botom half of the light gone - but I couldn't see why anyone would want it. For some reason I looked on the roof of the bike shelter and sure enough, there it was. Just mischief, five minutes later I had a working light again - go figure.
There are many variations on this including where the student intially flunks the test and on appeal comes with several other methods. Eventually he admits to knowing the 'correct' answer but he considered this too boring and obvious.
Other methods are left as an exercise for the readership...
True, my dad has still got a few Emdens (had a few more until they get sick) and they make a mess right enough. You could consider it a fringe benefit - most places don't like burglar traps but goose shit is slippery and if a burglar goes down with several angry geese around it could be funny.
The gander (about three feet tall at the beak) used to go for Dad but Dad just used to grab him gently round the neck and swing him back and let go - sort of a gentle lob. Quite funny seeing the Gander trying to pretend it hadn't happpened:-)
Another benefit of keeping a few geese is the eggs, if you haven't tried scrambled goose egg or goose egg omelette you should do yourself a favour, delicious. Seasonal, unlike chickens, but well worth the wait.
My father wold recommend a Bouvier des Flandres. He is not a dog person at all, and has looked into this - he told me once that these were the safest dog he know of around children, although he wouldn't trust any dog unattended with them. He has one now, for my stepmother mostly. It's about 100lbs of friendly, but scarey, wool covered muscle, it's jaws are about 5 or 6 inches across at the back. It got hungry one day and helped itself to a tin of cat food - it punched holes in the tin with it's teeth and squeezed the food out of the holes...
It has a very loud deep bark and Dad doesn't get many people knocking on the door:-) Of course he lives in the country and the geese are pretty intimidating too. Oh and the bouvier are wooly (like poodles) rather than hairy so they're not such a pain around the house, they don't shed but do need clipping, but no silly shapes please. Danes are pretty good too. The main problem with a Great Dane or a Bouvier is feeding them, but then if it was cheaper to feed it probably wouldn't be a good guard dog.
And how would Seagate know why anyone bought a Rio Carbon?
This should boost Rio sales - people who want a MP3 player (and choose that model) and those who want a cheap microdrive are now the market. I read the article (I'm sorry, I can't break the habit) and the guy bought a Carbon to canibalize and liked it so much he bought another to use for music, I really don't see the harm to Rio.
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e.g. run Job A when job X has successfully completed and file P has been updated, run job B if job X hasn't run by 3am, run job C if job Y fails.
I've got most of the rough design done, the main problem is specifiying date/time information - I would like to say "every 2nd Thursday", "the nth of every month", "the first monday in every second month" etc. but I haven't got that done yet.
Complications: running on Windows 2000 platform, zero budget and a lot of the jobs will run 16 bit apps in a NTVDM.
I've considered VBA, having Access it costs nothing and I've written a library of WinAPI wrappers so yes it will do it, but I'd rather use something else. I'm still tempted to use Common Lisp, but it's the system level API calls that I don't know about.
So it's probably going to be Perl, which is good - I can invoke processes and get the pids so I can suspend a job if it get's bumped by one with higher priority. A complication is that ntvdm processes return a pid of zero, but diffing the pid list before and after solves that. Another useful trick is going to be using Math::Logic to allow tri-state logic to make the dependency processing simpler. Of course I want to serialize everythin to disk for ease of re-starting. I probably won't be able to release it, if I'm allowed to write it, but I'd like to. A friend suggested cron+scripts but it won't cope with the complexity of the scenatios I want to address.
Have fun,
Absolute zero is 0 Kelvin.
Not 0 degress Kelvin.
Soaking in vinegar helps - the weak acid helps remove the corrosion.
Like Steve Buscemi as Mr Shhh in Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead? Not that he's exactly average looking but to me that part was perfect as an almost totally anonymous hitman. Not a bad film either - the best I've seen Garcia and possibly the only film where Walkern doesn't dance...
Some babies actually have to be taught to suckle, the nipple isn't that intuitive.
When I was single I used to do a batch of tasty food at a weekend which I could freeze in portions for during the week when I came home from work. It was tastier and healthier than most of the cheap frozen stuff around. We still do this now even though there's less need, it's convenient.
Just because you're eating alone doesn't mean you need to cook for one, economies of scale can still be made.
So don't buy too many perishables. Tinned, bottled and frozen food, as well as dry goods should last a while, plan ahead. You don't need lots of fresh fruit, vegetables and meat. The fruit and and veg are easy enough to buy as needed for most people and you can home freeze meat from the butcher, if you still have one, or the decent cuts from the supermarket.I watched the program and I found the article far more informative, thanks - Horizon used to be good but has dumbed down a fair bit in the last few years.
Apart from the pretty graphics there were lot's of pictures of 'mission control' and people getting excited.
We used to have Tomorrow's World which started off as pretty hard science reporting but degenerated into Blue Peter for grown ups, Horizon is following it IMHO. Equinox took over the decent reporting crown but that seems to have been shelved too. Now I have the net, hmm. Is that good or bad?
also, from TFA: so it wasn't that NASA couldn't, they just didn't bother. again from TFA: If it isn't NASA's probe whose is it?
NASA built Cassini, the ESA built Huygens - Huygens appears OK as far as we can tell, it's NASA's bit that has the problem. OK it was the fault of the Italian subcontractor but NASA seems to have screwed the pooch again on the oversight.
Nice catch from Smeds though, nice to see someone wanting to do the job properly, and I do like the ingenious solution.
Don't forget to have only this source active and then finish and go back to the software tab and then click on "Install and Remove Software" - then it's up to you but the new packages will be highlighted in an alternate colour. For me it was c.800Mb.
It seems much faster now, good luck.
The best reason I can think of is they're not the lying bunch in power- they're bunch in opposition who haven't yet shown themselves to be liars.
I've not got a lot of time for any party but the present bunch have taken 5 billion ukp per year out of the UK pensions industry and changed the tax rules to destroy my career (IR35 for those in the UK) so I do bear a bit of a grudge, but there's lots of other stuff to make me distrust them too.
This is not reciprocal (as extradition treaties normally are) and hasn't been ratified by Congress - but we've started handing people over.
Note that this doesn't mean that the extraditee has ever left the UK, it's just if the US asks for someone by name we hand them over. It was dreamt up for terrorists but the first victims^Wsuspects are for alleged offences related to Worldcom.
The other big change is that every other extradition treaty we have requires some indication not only of the identity of the person to be extradited but some prima facie evidence of a case to answer. I suppose we could streamline the process by just throwing in jail whomsoever the US names...
I'm with GANDI, I like them. One of the reasons I went with them was that they clearly state in theit Ts&Cs that the domain is mine, and that they're just looking after the dns etc for me.
I don't know much about them except I have had two domains for a few years and no problems. The only communications I get from them are to warn me that the domain registration will expire in a month or so and how to renew if I choose. Very low pressure, it Just Works The Way I Want (tm).
FYI you can also use Apache or subversions own server to host a network repository.
If you want a windows gui front end for SVN try TortoiseSVN, this integrates nicely with explorer and works pretty well.
I'd like a similar ability with Konqueror, but that's a long way down my to do list.
It'd also be nice to work out how to really handle the situation with working cross platform and case(in)sensitive file names...
The other post regarding the time factor is a good point, but if it only takes seconds to remove a Kryptonite...
Why can't they just pick one lock and then use the bike as a lever on the other?
My friend locked his bike up once to a post, he came back to find that the padlock and chain had been stolen but the bike had been left untouched. He didn't see the funny side of us saying that his bike was obviously such crap that the thief would rather have the (obviously ineffective) lock. The bike was OK actually but I think we had some people with a sense of humour hanging round the campus.
I had a front light where the bottom half was fixed to the bike and the top came off to change the batteries - obviously I normally took the easily removable bits with me if I had to use the light in the first place. One night I came back to find the botom half of the light gone - but I couldn't see why anyone would want it. For some reason I looked on the roof of the bike shelter and sure enough, there it was. Just mischief, five minutes later I had a working light again - go figure.
Other methods are left as an exercise for the readership...
Except it's a contractual dispute and not a trademark infringement.
The gander (about three feet tall at the beak) used to go for Dad but Dad just used to grab him gently round the neck and swing him back and let go - sort of a gentle lob. Quite funny seeing the Gander trying to pretend it hadn't happpened:-)
Another benefit of keeping a few geese is the eggs, if you haven't tried scrambled goose egg or goose egg omelette you should do yourself a favour, delicious. Seasonal, unlike chickens, but well worth the wait.
He is not a dog person at all, and has looked into this - he told me once that these were the safest dog he know of around children, although he wouldn't trust any dog unattended with them.
He has one now, for my stepmother mostly. It's about 100lbs of friendly, but scarey, wool covered muscle, it's jaws are about 5 or 6 inches across at the back. It got hungry one day and helped itself to a tin of cat food - it punched holes in the tin with it's teeth and squeezed the food out of the holes...
It has a very loud deep bark and Dad doesn't get many people knocking on the door :-) Of course he lives in the country and the geese are pretty intimidating too. Oh and the bouvier are wooly (like poodles) rather than hairy so they're not such a pain around the house, they don't shed but do need clipping, but no silly shapes please.
Danes are pretty good too.
The main problem with a Great Dane or a Bouvier is feeding them, but then if it was cheaper to feed it probably wouldn't be a good guard dog.
This should boost Rio sales - people who want a MP3 player (and choose that model) and those who want a cheap microdrive are now the market.
I read the article (I'm sorry, I can't break the habit) and the guy bought a Carbon to canibalize and liked it so much he bought another to use for music, I really don't see the harm to Rio.