So, at Carnegie Mellon, for undergrad Discrete math we have two main courses. The first one is sort of wimpy, but the second one is AMAZING! The professor keeps the text book online as a bunch of lectures and assignments. See http://www.discretemath.com and click calendar.
> Government Trap #5: The belief that government people can do anything better than other people. Government people don't have any special magical powers.
I'll assume you are talking about American Government.
The government in America does have one, very special, magical power that you seem to be neglecting, it has the support of the people it is regulating. This is from where it derives its power, and its authority to use such power. So in one sense, sure the government is just a bunch of people, a bunch of people who have the support of a majority (well...) of the rest of the people
On September 11th and 12th, the United States saw many small planes and helicopters traveling from Afganistan (Talibana controlled areas) to Somolia.
Still think this is unjustified?
Take a look at the use of code words used by our (probable) attackers, as reported by the economist: http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID =876925.
Now, imagine the damage a constantly changing table of what code words correspond to what real words on the internet somewhere. Hell, imagine knowing that the details for an attack are contianed in an encrypted message!
I am as much a proponent of civil liberties as the next (member of the ACLU) guy, but I am especially fond of the right to LIFE.
Although we bash the house a lot, it is quite significant here. In terms of Federal taxes, what the house says goes. After all, all tax bills must originate in the house, so if the Federal government was planning on taxing the internet, we needn't worry. "All bills raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representives..." (Article I, section 7)
If people are worried about State Taxes, which could theoretically be passed if no Federal law prohibits them, they should also relax. As you know, states can only tax intra-state commerce. THey can't tax anythinhg at the comes in at thier borders under any circumstances. So, very few internet transactions are at risk here. Also, considering it would probably be difficult to argue that anything you do over the internet is entirely within one state. (Did you use a router in another state?)
FInally, in the current economic climate, I can't imagine any government would ever want to pass a law discouraging commerce.
I don't thing we have to worry about this,
--Alex Fishman
Let me just start by letting everyone know I live (and am currently typing this) from Manhattan.
I used to dislike cops. THey harassed me, the were disrespectful to me, and messed with my friends.
I take it all back. All of it.
I have a new respect for all police in New York City since the attacks on the world trade center. They, along with the firemen all risked thier lives to help get people out of the buildings as quickly as they could. But, as you know, the building collapsed, trapping thousands (literally) of New York's finest men and women, who selflessly gave thier lives to help the rest of us.
Now, when I see a police man on the street, I smile at him. He is ensuring my safety, and the safety of others.
Now, its our turn. Sure, the government may have "demonized" us before. But times are fundamentally different now. This is not about image, or public policy, this is about honest to god people. People's lives, thousands, mabey millions of people, are at risk. I for one will do ANYTHING, yes ANTHING, the government needs done. (And yes, if they have enough tech people, I will gladly go to the front line in Afganistan, or Iraq, or wherever).
It is now our turn to step up, and help defend our country.
Make no mistake, our society, our values, the very things that allowed us to achieve such levels of science and technology, is under attack.
Lets show those bastards they messed with the wrong people
--Alex Fishman
All macs have a cool bootloader known as Open Firmware. This takes the form of a tiny little forth interpreter, and this is also where netboot-ing takes place. So, I am guessing that there are Ethernet drivers built into to this. As for Wireless cards, they seem fairly similar to regular nics, so mabey it is already supported. As I recall, the OF has a whoooole bunch of drivers, like USB and audio, already built in.
To check it out, restart your mac, and hold down apple-option-o-f when it first turns on. You will get a nice little shell in a few seconds. As I recall, type printenv to see a list a variables. A bunch of these have to do with netboot. I would guess that if you just set the IP, etc, evertyhing will work out.
This used to happen to me all the time in helix-update, red-carpet and up2date. After much pain and suffering, I discovered it was just a slightly broken RPM database. To fix it, just issue the following command:
The only thing left to computerize is the one thing that can't be (totally) automated, the doctoring. However, artificial neural nets are fairly effective (99.99899%) in predicting how well patients will recover, and what kinds of specific things they will/won't be able to do. The process is quite frightening actually. A company that I know of is doing this, check them out at
http://www.arcon-inc.com.
Also, once this is established, doctors and patients can both save money. For example, if the neural net predicts that someone is going to make a full recovery in 5 days, send them home now with a living assistant. This saves you money for obvious reason, and saves them money. After a certain number of days in a hospital, the likelihood of getting a new disease becomes almost certainty. But I digress.
Eventhough the company I mentions earlier is on windows, it is worth checking out.
New recon from Cupertino is providing a number of interesting tidbits regarding the progress of Mac OS X development as Apple prepares to ship the first final release of the new OS. Among the highlights:
Although builds 2E14 (just after the Public Beta, AKA 1H39) and 4F8 (just prior to Macworld San Francisco) improved performance by as much as 400%, particularly for user-interface tasks, since the Public Beta...very recent builds have come further still, with disk accesses less frequently halting processes with the spinning CD and Finder copies in particular now much accelerated.
When more than one or two Finder copies/moves were launched in the Public Beta and many successive builds, typically the Finder would be unable to spawn more copy tasks or, much of the time, do anything else until the copies were completed. In some cases, file copies involving large numbers of files would result in obvious errors such as not enough room on disk reports when the files being copied came to less than 50MB with hundreds of megs free on the disk -- or flat-out crashes of the Finder. No more; in fact, Finder copies/moves are now at least up to par with the current Mac OS. In the case of gigabit-ethernet network copies between two Mac OS X computers, OS X is now dramatically faster than OS9 -- twice as fast is the norm.
A very persistent problem with the Battery Monitor not properly displaying battery charge(s) in its Dock icon after long-term use seems to be nailed down at last.
New optimizations designed specifically to take advantage of the PowerPC 7450 G4e, its three new Altivec units, new cache and data bus architectures have paid off dramatically. If you've bought one of the new 667 or 733MHz PowerMacs, prepare to be very impressed by the snapiness of Mac OS X even under extremely heavy processor loads. In fact, a trusted Apple contact demonstrated for Rumors recently that unless a user is also running a very heavily Altivec-demanding task such as Photoshop filtering, it may be extremely difficult to cause the Aqua interface to lag at all with a 733MHz G4e...with one of the new 1GHz chips that are being played around with at Apple, it's virtually impossible!
One common problem with Aqua windows is that they can only be dragged from the titlebar -- and if a window somehow ends up partially outside the bounds of the screen, that may make moving it back into place impossible. Apple's solution in the Public beta was to make it impossible for the user to drag a window beyond the Menu bar, but what about instances where windows are placed out-of-bounds by applications or system errors? In new builds, when a window's titlebar ends up out-of-bounds, it automatically bounces back into the nearest spot where its titlebar can be reached. For power users who dislike such padded-wall protection, this should be easily disabled with the wonderful third-party utility PrefEdit.
And, for those who won't be moving to a G4 Mac for a while, Apple has a version of Aqua, complete with an altered Dock, that uses almost none of the animations present in the standard Aqua. Launching application icons in the Dock have a flashing activity triangle instead of bouncing up and down, preselected buttons have a glowing ring around them instead of flashing, and so forth. Unfortunately, this is more of a toy modification than an official effort at present and may not be part of the 1.0 release.
Running a G4 Mac but don't use many apps that are optimized for Altivec? Well, Apple is working on a rewrite of many system routines to reroute tasks (audio, video, images, networking, memory-intensive tasks, etc.) to the Altivec units on your G4 even if the applicaton isn't aware of it. This won't result in as widespread or dramatic performance improvements as with apps that have been Altivec optimized, but in some cases it can still make a big difference.
I am not sure how far along you are in your study of japanese, so this may be new, or not.
In Japanese, every "sound" can be created by stringing together charectars in the core alphabet (also known as hiragana) which consists of 40 something charectars. Kanji's are pictures which are equivelent to one or more hiragana, depending on thier context. For example:
The Word JAPAN is: (individual hiragana charectars are seperated by spaces)
ni ho n
It is comprised of two kanji's. Sun, and book.
Sun == ni
book == hon
I.E. Japan == Sun (Kanji) + Book (Kanji) == ni + hon.
However, there is one little wrinkle here, the kanji's can change thier pronunciation (and sometimes meaning) depending on thier context.
I.E. Monday
Monday == Sun (Kanji) + Day Of Week (kanji)
But, in this case,
Monday == ni chi
(in case you are curious, Day of Week == yobii)
To remedy this situation, most westerners input japanese by inputting the sounds, and then choosing kanji's for them once they are input. (The computer has a database of hiragana->kanji).
This is do-able through many many packages for linux and Windows. Check out the MULE package.
As for looking up Kanji's you see, this is done by stroke order and radicals. The Japanese language is extremely modular, and mosr complex Kanji are made up of sevral radicals. When looking them up, you give the dictionary a few radicals and it gives you a list. There is an excellent palm program for this (Called Hanabi,) and sevral linux programs, such as gjiten and jdict.
Finally, there is an extremely cool Kanji handwriting recognition project for linux called kanjipad. It is a stand alone program as well as a widget, However it is very very difficult to draw Kanji with a mouse.
Has anyone else watched the speed of mp3 encoding double when they use gogo (an mmx enabled encoder)?
Yes?
Now imagine (insert your fave mp3 encoder here) compiled with linuxPPC's <A HREF="http://www.linuxppc.org/software/index/ByDat e.html">AltiVEC enabled GCC</A> God damn!
Seriously though, this new hardware is BIG news for apple, whose future (IMHO) will be determined the acceptance (or lack there of (I hope not)) of OS X. Hopefully this will stop people from turning away from apple simply because its "Not fast enough"
BTW, I think the people saying apples are "not fast enough" are the same people asking you "What version of linux are you running?" expecting an anwer of "Redhat XX".
What happened when the folks at IBM started playing with digital logic? They "learned" that the world would need 10 "computers" TOTAL
What happened when main frames came about? People said that they should close the patent office, becuase there was nothing left to invent!
WHat happened after Newton died in the Physics world, almost nothing for 400 years.
What happened in the late 1600s when the black plauge began spreading? People were sure the world was ending.
The point is, The human race as a whole seems to have this painfully fatalistic attitude, which does nothing but impeade progress. In this century alone, the major advancements, (Quantum Physics, The information age, etc.) all occured when people DOUBTED what their "elders" taught them.
It seems society as a whole has this bullshit idea that older people are just plain superior to younger people. Not to say that they aren't wiser, but if they are it is NOT because they are older. When we look at what is "taken forgranted," we find that there are often faults with it.
The idea of science is that it is OK to disagree. In fact, it is your duty as a scientist. You should DOUBT everything, until you have seen data that suggests otherwise.
My Highschool electronics class was probably the most enjoyable class I took in High School. However, in order to get a really good understanding of robotics in general, I think it is extrememly important to build the robots out of discrete compononents.
No, I don't mean transistor by transistor. I mean logic gates and ICS. For one project, we created what were effectively turing machines (email me for the source, err schematics.) These were fiarly easy to make with a 555 a few gates and a counting chip.
There are a few reasons why this is better. First, electrical engineering really requires a different kind of thinking than programming does. (I'll never forget the look on my friends face when we got the assignment. He said: "But wait! That means we would need ifs...") Second, people feel more comfortable tinkering with stuff with electronics when they know exactly how all of it works. (I would love to hear one of you guys explain to me how a basic stamp works...) Finally, there are no expensive components to buy!
Also, another project you guys might enjoy is buying a cheap R/C car from radioshack, and hacking it to do something interesting, like follow a path, or come towards a noise or something.
It seems to me that one of the biggest things in this whole case that M$ is doing is not publishing thier full API. That is, M$ programs have an inherent advantage over non M$ programs, because the third party programmers don't know these "secret calls."
Note, this does not nessesarily call for M$ to open source thier compiler. It just means that they should be forced to document all API calls that they use.
As for the current situation, the government should give M$ 2 weeks to "catch up," and release all the calls. After this time, there should be a $1 Million bounty on all calls. Also, if a call is found, M$ must reimplement all thier uses of it.
I wish I could take credit for this scheme, my brother came up with it, but he doesn't read/. much.
From your description, it sounds like this "portal page" is going to change fairly often, but is not going to be dynamically generated for each visitor. If this is the case, you might get the best performance by running the perl script from a cron job every 30 mins or so, and have it output a static HTML page. If you were looking to create a more modular site, then perhaps you should implement something like this modularly. THat is, have each module run every n number of miniutes, and generate a static "pagelet" for itself. Then, the main page just concatinates a bunch of these together. I would guess that this sort of system would be by far the fastest.
Good Luck
--Alex the FIshman
(sorry for the horrible grammar, its late...)
Perhaps I should start by quoting the dude himself:
" think businesses will use it first and then it will be adopted by society," he said. "I'm just one mathematical miracle away. If something happens on New Year's, or with the Dow Jones or the presidential ballots, this whole thing will really be brought to the surface."
Will someone please explain to me how a major societal event will bring such a trivial matter to the fore front of news?
In general, I consider myself a fairly liberal person. But in this case, I have to say it, its just plain not worth it!
Sorry, but someone was going to have to break the news to you sometime. My company bought one of these things, thinking we could use it for people to store thier data on, seeing as how it supported NFS and all. But, there is one little catch, is NFS on a FAT32 fs, which means no ownership, no symlinks, and no permissions. Sorry, these things aren't useful for much other than a whole crap load of MP3s.
But, knowing this might give you some insight as to how to format new drives, (I would guess FAT32).
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm...
On my Dual 2ghz G5 I get:
Execution starts, 10000000 runs through Dhrystone
total time: 3545ms
Result: 2820874 dhrystone/sec.
So, at Carnegie Mellon, for undergrad Discrete math we have two main courses. The first one is sort of wimpy, but the second one is AMAZING! The professor keeps the text book online as a bunch of lectures and assignments. See http://www.discretemath.com and click calendar.
Enjoy
--Alex
Here is one of the sites we used for new ideas in my CS class at cmu
http://www.seanet.com/~brucemo/topics/topics.htm
Here is another one
Enjoy
Here at CMU they have a whole school in the school of computer science to deal with this issue. Check them out at http://www.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/ .
They seem to have a bunch of projects relating to what you are doing here
Good luck,
--Alex
> Government Trap #5: The belief that government people can do anything better than other people. Government people don't have any special magical powers.
I'll assume you are talking about American Government.
The government in America does have one, very special, magical power that you seem to be neglecting, it has the support of the people it is regulating. This is from where it derives its power, and its authority to use such power. So in one sense, sure the government is just a bunch of people, a bunch of people who have the support of a majority (well...) of the rest of the people
--Alex Fishman
No, this was bin Laden and the rest of his crew escaping from Afganistan......
Sorry for the confusion, I just assumed it was clear...
--Alex
On September 11th and 12th, the United States saw many small planes and helicopters traveling from Afganistan (Talibana controlled areas) to Somolia.
D =876925.
Still think this is unjustified?
Take a look at the use of code words used by our (probable) attackers, as reported by the economist: http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_I
Now, imagine the damage a constantly changing table of what code words correspond to what real words on the internet somewhere. Hell, imagine knowing that the details for an attack are contianed in an encrypted message!
I am as much a proponent of civil liberties as the next (member of the ACLU) guy, but I am especially fond of the right to LIFE.
--Alex Fishman
Although we bash the house a lot, it is quite significant here. In terms of Federal taxes, what the house says goes. After all, all tax bills must originate in the house, so if the Federal government was planning on taxing the internet, we needn't worry. "All bills raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representives..." (Article I, section 7)
If people are worried about State Taxes, which could theoretically be passed if no Federal law prohibits them, they should also relax. As you know, states can only tax intra-state commerce. THey can't tax anythinhg at the comes in at thier borders under any circumstances. So, very few internet transactions are at risk here. Also, considering it would probably be difficult to argue that anything you do over the internet is entirely within one state. (Did you use a router in another state?)
FInally, in the current economic climate, I can't imagine any government would ever want to pass a law discouraging commerce.
I don't thing we have to worry about this,
--Alex Fishman
Let me just start by letting everyone know I live (and am currently typing this) from Manhattan.
I used to dislike cops. THey harassed me, the were disrespectful to me, and messed with my friends.
I take it all back. All of it.
I have a new respect for all police in New York City since the attacks on the world trade center. They, along with the firemen all risked thier lives to help get people out of the buildings as quickly as they could. But, as you know, the building collapsed, trapping thousands (literally) of New York's finest men and women, who selflessly gave thier lives to help the rest of us.
Now, when I see a police man on the street, I smile at him. He is ensuring my safety, and the safety of others.
Now, its our turn. Sure, the government may have "demonized" us before. But times are fundamentally different now. This is not about image, or public policy, this is about honest to god people. People's lives, thousands, mabey millions of people, are at risk. I for one will do ANYTHING, yes ANTHING, the government needs done. (And yes, if they have enough tech people, I will gladly go to the front line in Afganistan, or Iraq, or wherever).
It is now our turn to step up, and help defend our country.
Make no mistake, our society, our values, the very things that allowed us to achieve such levels of science and technology, is under attack.
Lets show those bastards they messed with the wrong people
--Alex Fishman
This is probably through the Open Firmware.
All macs have a cool bootloader known as Open Firmware. This takes the form of a tiny little forth interpreter, and this is also where netboot-ing takes place. So, I am guessing that there are Ethernet drivers built into to this. As for Wireless cards, they seem fairly similar to regular nics, so mabey it is already supported. As I recall, the OF has a whoooole bunch of drivers, like USB and audio, already built in.
To check it out, restart your mac, and hold down apple-option-o-f when it first turns on. You will get a nice little shell in a few seconds. As I recall, type printenv to see a list a variables. A bunch of these have to do with netboot. I would guess that if you just set the IP, etc, evertyhing will work out.
Good Luck
--Alex Fishman
Who cares!? Degrees are stupid anyway.
The linux community should be making 2 pi radian Spin-arounds!
--Alex Fishman
This used to happen to me all the time in helix-update, red-carpet and up2date. After much pain and suffering, I discovered it was just a slightly broken RPM database. To fix it, just issue the following command:
rpm --rebuilddb
Good Luck
--Alex
The RPM posted won't work without this RPM:
- minf-demo-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
http://download.sourceforge.net/marathon/AlephOne
Geez I am Karma Whore.
--ALex the FIshman
Hey,
The only thing left to computerize is the one thing that can't be (totally) automated, the doctoring. However, artificial neural nets are fairly effective (99.99899%) in predicting how well patients will recover, and what kinds of specific things they will/won't be able to do. The process is quite frightening actually. A company that I know of is doing this, check them out at http://www.arcon-inc.com.
Also, once this is established, doctors and patients can both save money. For example, if the neural net predicts that someone is going to make a full recovery in 5 days, send them home now with a living assistant. This saves you money for obvious reason, and saves them money. After a certain number of days in a hospital, the likelihood of getting a new disease becomes almost certainty. But I digress.
Eventhough the company I mentions earlier is on windows, it is worth checking out.
Aren't computers cool?
Good Luck
--Alex FIshman
>In downtown minneapolis I have no reception at all.. will the cars just stop totally?
:-)
Few places in the world are as rural and remote as downtown minneapolis, I don't think anyone in even the UK has to worry about this.
--Alex the Fishman in NYC
I am not sure how far along you are in your study of japanese, so this may be new, or not.
In Japanese, every "sound" can be created by stringing together charectars in the core alphabet (also known as hiragana) which consists of 40 something charectars. Kanji's are pictures which are equivelent to one or more hiragana, depending on thier context. For example:
The Word JAPAN is: (individual hiragana charectars are seperated by spaces)
ni ho n
It is comprised of two kanji's. Sun, and book.
Sun == ni
book == hon
I.E. Japan == Sun (Kanji) + Book (Kanji) == ni + hon.
However, there is one little wrinkle here, the kanji's can change thier pronunciation (and sometimes meaning) depending on thier context.
I.E. Monday
Monday == Sun (Kanji) + Day Of Week (kanji)
But, in this case,
Monday == ni chi
(in case you are curious, Day of Week == yobii)
To remedy this situation, most westerners input japanese by inputting the sounds, and then choosing kanji's for them once they are input. (The computer has a database of hiragana->kanji).
This is do-able through many many packages for linux and Windows. Check out the MULE package.
As for looking up Kanji's you see, this is done by stroke order and radicals. The Japanese language is extremely modular, and mosr complex Kanji are made up of sevral radicals. When looking them up, you give the dictionary a few radicals and it gives you a list. There is an excellent palm program for this (Called Hanabi,) and sevral linux programs, such as gjiten and jdict.
Finally, there is an extremely cool Kanji handwriting recognition project for linux called kanjipad. It is a stand alone program as well as a widget, However it is very very difficult to draw Kanji with a mouse.
Good Luck in you Quest! (ganbatte)
--Alex Fishman
Has anyone else watched the speed of mp3 encoding double when they use gogo (an mmx enabled encoder)?
t e.html">AltiVEC enabled GCC</A> God damn!
Yes?
Now imagine (insert your fave mp3 encoder here) compiled with linuxPPC's <A HREF="http://www.linuxppc.org/software/index/ByDa
Seriously though, this new hardware is BIG news for apple, whose future (IMHO) will be determined the acceptance (or lack there of (I hope not)) of OS X. Hopefully this will stop people from turning away from apple simply because its "Not fast enough"
BTW, I think the people saying apples are "not fast enough" are the same people asking you "What version of linux are you running?" expecting an anwer of "Redhat XX".
Oh Well
--Alex the rambling Fishman
What happened when the folks at IBM started playing with digital logic? They "learned" that the world would need 10 "computers" TOTAL
What happened when main frames came about? People said that they should close the patent office, becuase there was nothing left to invent!
WHat happened after Newton died in the Physics world, almost nothing for 400 years.
What happened in the late 1600s when the black plauge began spreading? People were sure the world was ending.
The point is, The human race as a whole seems to have this painfully fatalistic attitude, which does nothing but impeade progress. In this century alone, the major advancements, (Quantum Physics, The information age, etc.) all occured when people DOUBTED what their "elders" taught them.
It seems society as a whole has this bullshit idea that older people are just plain superior to younger people. Not to say that they aren't wiser, but if they are it is NOT because they are older. When we look at what is "taken forgranted," we find that there are often faults with it.
The idea of science is that it is OK to disagree. In fact, it is your duty as a scientist. You should DOUBT everything, until you have seen data that suggests otherwise.
--Alex the GNome Fishman
Hi,
My Highschool electronics class was probably the most enjoyable class I took in High School. However, in order to get a really good understanding of robotics in general, I think it is extrememly important to build the robots out of discrete compononents.
No, I don't mean transistor by transistor. I mean logic gates and ICS. For one project, we created what were effectively turing machines (email me for the source, err schematics.) These were fiarly easy to make with a 555 a few gates and a counting chip.
There are a few reasons why this is better. First, electrical engineering really requires a different kind of thinking than programming does. (I'll never forget the look on my friends face when we got the assignment. He said: "But wait! That means we would need ifs...") Second, people feel more comfortable tinkering with stuff with electronics when they know exactly how all of it works. (I would love to hear one of you guys explain to me how a basic stamp works...) Finally, there are no expensive components to buy!
Also, another project you guys might enjoy is buying a cheap R/C car from radioshack, and hacking it to do something interesting, like follow a path, or come towards a noise or something.
Good Luck!!
--Alex Fishman
It seems to me that one of the biggest things in this whole case that M$ is doing is not publishing thier full API. That is, M$ programs have an inherent advantage over non M$ programs, because the third party programmers don't know these "secret calls."
/. much.
Note, this does not nessesarily call for M$ to open source thier compiler. It just means that they should be forced to document all API calls that they use.
As for the current situation, the government should give M$ 2 weeks to "catch up," and release all the calls. After this time, there should be a $1 Million bounty on all calls. Also, if a call is found, M$ must reimplement all thier uses of it.
I wish I could take credit for this scheme, my brother came up with it, but he doesn't read
Anyway,
--Alex the Fishman
From your description, it sounds like this "portal page" is going to change fairly often, but is not going to be dynamically generated for each visitor. If this is the case, you might get the best performance by running the perl script from a cron job every 30 mins or so, and have it output a static HTML page. If you were looking to create a more modular site, then perhaps you should implement something like this modularly. THat is, have each module run every n number of miniutes, and generate a static "pagelet" for itself. Then, the main page just concatinates a bunch of these together. I would guess that this sort of system would be by far the fastest.
Good Luck
--Alex the FIshman
(sorry for the horrible grammar, its late...)
Don't forgett:
/etc/passwd > list
better !pout !cry
better watchout
lpr why
santa claus < north pole > town
cat
ncheck list
ncheck list
cat list | grep naughty > nogiftlist
cat list | grep nice > giftlist
santa claus < north pole > town
who | grep sleeping
who | grep awake
who | grep bad || good
for (goodness sake) {
be good
}
Will someone please explain to me how a major societal event will bring such a trivial matter to the fore front of news?
In general, I consider myself a fairly liberal person. But in this case, I have to say it, its just plain not worth it!
--Alex the Fishman
Hey man,
Sorry, but someone was going to have to break the news to you sometime. My company bought one of these things, thinking we could use it for people to store thier data on, seeing as how it supported NFS and all. But, there is one little catch, is NFS on a FAT32 fs, which means no ownership, no symlinks, and no permissions. Sorry, these things aren't useful for much other than a whole crap load of MP3s.
But, knowing this might give you some insight as to how to format new drives, (I would guess FAT32).
Sorry to have to ruin your dreams
--Alex