Well.. it would be yourname.geek.nz - not directly under.nz.
Unlike the US, we have second level that are our own "versions" of the top level - such as.co.nz being "nz's.com". We're not the only country to do that - co.uk, com.au come to mind..Nz is more important to us than.us is to Americans, because it contains "mainline" domains as well as oddball.
Recently, the maori.nz domain was created. It was created on the grounds that it was of cultural value for a clearly defined subculture of NZ, AIR.
However, there was something of a geek feeling that this wasn't very fair - it was a domain created on the basis of race and race alone.
In protest, and in a "if they can get it, why can't we" various people attempted to create the geek.nz domain. There is something of a race issue that we have to work through around here - thoughout the greater culture, stretching as far back as The Treaty of Waitangi
(Yes, there is something of an opening-the-floodgates problem, but there is a moritorim on new applications at the moment.)
(BTW, this isn't exactly news, as the idea was mooted, AIR, many months ago.)
From personal experience, Novell's Salvage function has saved my bacon a number of times. (Including accidently deleting a fair amount of the sys volume...)
Linus's suggestion of using LD_PRELOAD requires that every single program has that LD_PRELOAD environment varable set - quite unreliable, IMHO.
I suspect one difference is that Netware is mainly a file server os, so the salvage function might have been intergrated in the file shareing code.
I can't imagine it's that hard to manage the unlink call to relink in a new target directory or something - but, the hard part is it might just take a user-level daemon to manage the cleanup and recovery, and tracking all the increased metadata. (Precisily which version do you want to recover?)
Also, if the disc gets full and you can't boot easily to launch that daemon - well, someone would have to think about this.
(Sure, I'm a kiwi and it's a NZ outfit, so I could be biased, but at $NZ2.50 per track, it's not too bad. That's roughly $US1.25 or so - whatever the exchange rate is today.)
So, yes, there are some outfits out there that do sell MP3's online. Amplifer.co.nz features, for example, Pitch Black a local dance/trance type outfit that was on the national news)
My point is that there are real operations out there selling real MP3's using nothing more than a credit card. Right Now.
It seems that it filters out and "eats" plankton. However, it doesn't directly attack more solid sealife, it simply spreads over everything and smothers it. It doesn't seem to "inject" into (say) mussels or whatever's around to assimilate nutrients from it. (read the nz herald article)
Yeah, it seems bad for NZ sealife at the moment - man-of-war jellyfish have made their recent first appearance and a while ago there was a mysterious mussel parasite. So, it's not the first time that something wierd's turned up in the water. There was also an alge bloom a year or two back, which I don't think was ever totally explained.
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Alpha code, and especially pre alpha code, is often relased as source only form--it's entirely possible that people that don't have the ability to compile your program probably can't handle it in its current state.
(If you can't
./configure
make
then you probably shouldn't be using pre alpha code..) The theory is that people with the skill required to compile can cope with small errors, and read the documentation instead of filing too many bug reports.
Now, once it's at the "Beta" stage, perhaps binaries?
Screenshots are probably a good idea at an early stage, though. Gives people a feel for what your program actually does before they invest time downloading / gettting it going.
This is, actually, one thing that (recentish) internet explorers can do. (Tools Menu, Internet Options, Advanced, Scroll down to Multimedia and untick "play animations".) Ta da! Animations off. Not too sure what versions of IE can do this, I think 4 can, 5 certainly can.
Doesn't using the thing as a normal web proxy on port 80 (that's not a typo -- port eighty, same as normal http) work? Does for proxy 1, so long as the administrator has installed the normal web proxy module. (Yes, it does work. I surf from linux at home to a proxy 1 installation at work via a NT RAS PPP server). Course this is only FTP and HTTP, but better than nothing. Odd that it's port 80.. but that's microsoft for ya
Doubful that Grover's algorithm will ever help in a real database. Download time from classical data store -> quantum computer is order(n), so you're confined to that. And if you are going to search multiple times you can simply sort/index the classical data (like a databse) and use this structure to accelerate to something like O(log_2 n).
What it is good for is unstructured virtual databases -- such as find the key to this cyphertext / plaintext combination. (As there is no real database, just a predicate to find the value of.). Grover's finds x such that P(x) is true, in (about) sqrt(x) time, I think. P is any boolean function (predicate) you can implement on a quantum computer.
I'm no expert in the field, just doing a C.S. paper at 'varsity in this stuff. (kinda.)
"I would hate to say that he made it up as he went along, but Discworld was quite clearly been around the stories, and over the years, things have... er... evolved.
"Take, for example Granny Weatherwax. While there has been no actual change in the character as such, the woman who defies the Queen of Elves... is a much more realized and and complicated persion... than the village witch of Equal Rites... And trolls begin as little more than conventional monsters in The Colour of Magic... and by Men at arms.. certainly capable of using a knife and fork, even if not for the purposes originally envisaged."
--Stephen Briggs, in About the Companion in The Discworld Companion First Published in Great Britian in 1994 by Victor Gollancz Ltd.
Terry does change things, as needed, I think. I reckon the DW has grown up. There's a plot, there's character development. Things are more, deep, than say The Colour of Magic.
Of course, I could be totally wrong.
Dark side of the sun was not discworld. I've read it, it was a sci fi thing, used bit of the parallel-worlds-quantum theory that's familar to star trek watchers, altough it was controlled and predicted. For example, one of the characters was a lucky robot--it simply couldn't be unlucky. There was also a sentient slilcon based planet. Worth reading, but it aint DW.
Strata isn't DW. Plot: Visitors from a normal, physics dominated, universe find a flat world, somewhat reminisient of D.W. And find that all the magic, is in actuality, highly advanced technology that the inhabitants don't know anything about. It was apparently an early exploration of the idea that became the Discworld. (Although, DW has no sci-fi setting. There are no space ships, canabilistic although civilised aliens)
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Well.. it would be yourname.geek.nz - not directly under .nz.
.co.nz being "nz's .com". We're not the only country to do that - co.uk, com.au come to mind. .Nz is more important to us than .us is to Americans, because it contains "mainline" domains as well as oddball.
Unlike the US, we have second level that are our own "versions" of the top level - such as
Aah, but that's just somebody with a bog-standard non-official .org domain.
This is building it into the official structure of the DNS - and being recognised by the establishment.
Err, yeah, I know it doesn't sound a big deal.
Recently, the maori.nz domain was created. It was created on the grounds that it was of cultural value for a clearly defined subculture of NZ, AIR.
:-)
However, there was something of a geek feeling that this wasn't very fair - it was a domain created on the basis of race and race alone.
In protest, and in a "if they can get it, why can't we" various people attempted to create the geek.nz domain. There is something of a race issue that we have to work through around here - thoughout the greater culture, stretching as far back as The Treaty of Waitangi
(Yes, there is something of an opening-the-floodgates problem, but there is a moritorim on new applications at the moment.)
(BTW, this isn't exactly news, as the idea was mooted, AIR, many months ago.)
Oh, and New Zealand Herald / NZPA Coverage
It's a cool thing, let us have our fun!
Okay, I'm probably overplaying the race issue - it is something of a bugbear for me, however, that is the rationale behind.
From personal experience, Novell's Salvage function has saved my bacon a number of times. (Including accidently deleting a fair amount of the sys volume...)
Linus's suggestion of using LD_PRELOAD requires that every single program has that LD_PRELOAD environment varable set - quite unreliable, IMHO.
I suspect one difference is that Netware is mainly a file server os, so the salvage function might have been intergrated in the file shareing code.
I can't imagine it's that hard to manage the unlink call to relink in a new target directory or something - but, the hard part is it might just take a user-level daemon to manage the cleanup and recovery, and tracking all the increased metadata. (Precisily which version do you want to recover?)
Also, if the disc gets full and you can't boot easily to launch that daemon - well, someone would have to think about this.
If you actually want to buy MP3's online, check out www.amplifier.co.nz
(Sure, I'm a kiwi and it's a NZ outfit, so I could be biased, but at $NZ2.50 per track, it's not too bad. That's roughly $US1.25 or so - whatever the exchange rate is today.)
So, yes, there are some outfits out there that do sell MP3's online. Amplifer.co.nz features, for example, Pitch Black a local dance/trance type outfit that was on the national news)
My point is that there are real operations out there selling real MP3's using nothing more than a credit card. Right Now.
The Observer is the original source of this article. The linked version is a reshash of that, but the Observer is more informative.
It seems that it filters out and "eats" plankton. However, it doesn't directly attack more solid sealife, it simply spreads over everything and smothers it. It doesn't seem to "inject" into (say) mussels or whatever's around to assimilate nutrients from it. (read the nz herald article)
Yeah, it seems bad for NZ sealife at the moment - man-of-war jellyfish have made their recent first appearance and a while ago there was a mysterious mussel parasite. So, it's not the first time that something wierd's turned up in the water. There was also an alge bloom a year or two back, which I don't think was ever totally explained.
A friend writes that:
This site will register people who are safe:
http://do.millennium.berkeley.edu/
You can query this site to search for people:
http://do.millennium.berkeley.edu/find.php
Please spread the word
(And it looks like this site should withstand the slashdot effect.)
(If you can't
./configure
make
then you probably shouldn't be using pre alpha code..) The theory is that people with the skill required to compile can cope with small errors, and read the documentation instead of filing too many bug reports.
Now, once it's at the "Beta" stage, perhaps binaries?
Screenshots are probably a good idea at an early stage, though. Gives people a feel for what your program actually does before they invest time downloading / gettting it going.
This is, actually, one thing that (recentish) internet explorers can do. (Tools Menu, Internet Options, Advanced, Scroll down to Multimedia and untick "play animations".) Ta da! Animations off. Not too sure what versions of IE can do this, I think 4 can, 5 certainly can.
Doesn't using the thing as a normal web proxy on port 80 (that's not a typo -- port eighty, same as normal http) work? Does for proxy 1, so long as the administrator has installed the normal web proxy module. (Yes, it does work. I surf from linux at home to a proxy 1 installation at work via a NT RAS PPP server). Course this is only FTP and HTTP, but better than nothing. Odd that it's port 80.. but that's microsoft for ya
Doubful that Grover's algorithm will ever help in a real database. Download time from classical data store -> quantum computer is order(n), so you're confined to that. And if you are going to search multiple times you can simply sort/index the classical data (like a databse) and use this structure to accelerate to something like O(log_2 n).
What it is good for is unstructured virtual databases -- such as find the key to this cyphertext / plaintext combination. (As there is no real database, just a predicate to find the value of.). Grover's finds x such that P(x) is true, in (about) sqrt(x) time, I think. P is any boolean function (predicate) you can implement on a quantum computer.
I'm no expert in the field, just doing a C.S. paper at 'varsity in this stuff. (kinda.)
--Stephen Briggs, in About the Companion in The Discworld Companion First Published in Great Britian in 1994 by Victor Gollancz Ltd.
Terry does change things, as needed, I think. I reckon the DW has grown up. There's a plot, there's character development. Things are more, deep, than say The Colour of Magic. Of course, I could be totally wrong.
Dark side of the sun was not discworld. I've read it, it was a sci fi thing, used bit of the parallel-worlds-quantum theory that's familar to star trek watchers, altough it was controlled and predicted. For example, one of the characters was a lucky robot--it simply couldn't be unlucky. There was also a sentient slilcon based planet. Worth reading, but it aint DW.
Strata isn't DW. Plot: Visitors from a normal, physics dominated, universe find a flat world, somewhat reminisient of D.W. And find that all the magic, is in actuality, highly advanced technology that the inhabitants don't know anything about. It was apparently an early exploration of the idea that became the Discworld. (Although, DW has no sci-fi setting. There are no space ships, canabilistic although civilised aliens)