Wow, you're old. Don't buy an SUV, her reaction times are not good enough to handle an extra heavy vehicle - especially not if it took 15 years to react to the change in MTV. 15 years. Shit, I guess I'm old too...
I've gotta comment that the Focus has been a top seller in Europe for years, and that I see more old people driving them now than young people. You probably were thinking of "Scion".
The farm where my dad grows corn also runs biodiesel in the tractors and grain trucks. It's worth noting that the equipment isn't all precisely as efficient as others, so one would wonder how the average (or worst-case) efficiency was calculated for this study's diesel cost estimate...
I imagine you've got more room in your ass, after pulling those numbers out - especially since they're much larger than reality.
Table 1 at http://www.aft.org/salary/ shows salaries from a year or so ago (so the data's not *too* out of date). About half of the country averages below $40K for teachers, and below $30K for starting teachers. In case averages are beyond comprehension, that means that, for every teacher making $60K, there's one making $20K
So, you wanted an easy to use, user-friendly, don't have to know anything Linux distribution. Then you chose Gentoo? Is that the first result that comes up in a Google search for Linux, or what?
Go to Ubuntulinux.org. Really. Once installer CD and an internet connection later, you'll have your nice friendly install. Well, about as friendly as Linux generally gets. You don't even have to use fdisk - it'll do that for you.
He had to make it himself, and the parts didn't all fit out of the box. He had to cut the boards, drill holes, bend brackets. He's even really proud of it even though it's no better than any other shelf (actually, the design could use some work - like vertical bracing behind the weak cardboard back). To anyone other than the builder, it looks like junk.
You can make multi-session CD-Rs with any reasonable burning program. If you're only storing a floppy's worth of data, you can get quite a few sessions out of a CD-R... That's quite reusable.
Or, maybe even better, store the important files on a "computer" that gets backed up once in a while. That's even more environmentally responsible than using a new floppy or CD for every file, and more reliable, and faster, and really, better in every way that I can think of.
That's not hindsight. Web devlopers (and sysadmins masquerading as programmers working on the web) have been doing that for a while now. It's a pretty obvious idea, but he did wrap it all up into a nice, clean package. For that reason alone, he gets some props - "web developers" don't generally do nice things like making their code readable or making it flexible - probably because most of them don't have serious programming background.
I've done similar things several times before, where you wrap the legacy object in something you can hide, and hide it in such a way that only browsers that support your new method do the hiding while the new stuff is wrapped in such a way that old browser will skip over the new stuff. Most CSS hacks essentially work that way, as do the large majority of browser workarounds. It's sort of like a slightly more flexible browser sniffing thats still bad because it depends on buggy behavior...
The coefficient of friction for a tire is based on the size of the contact patch, though, and therefore the force due to friction (aka, "traction") is indeed related to the size of the contact patch. Mu is not a constant.
Find some sticky motorcycle tires and put them on the back of my 412 HP car, and tell me that they hook up better than (or as well as) the 11" wide tires that are on it now. Well, after the motorcycle tires go up in a cloud of smoke after one hard launch, that is.
coax is pronounced like co-axe in this part of the world. I'm failing to see what that'd sound like mumbled (quacks?), though I can see how a misspelled variant might be slightly amusing...
They aren't. All of the concepts involved with SMTP are complicated, and it takes a complicated system to be able to handle that effectively. Postfix is one of the easiest to configure, but the key here is that you need to know what your goal is. If you don't know what you're trying to do, then sure, any mail system will seem pretty complicated. Setting up any other complicated service with specialized needs (say, a web server, for example) is much the same - you've gotta know what you're trying to do *first*.
That said, a default postfix install wil work for basic needs, and most user-oriented Linuxes (SuSE, Fedora, not Gentoo, etc) have friendly config tools to make basic changes.:)
How do the thieves know about the passwords in advance?
Handheld label printers are pretty cheap now... Then again, so is "tell your daughter that she needs to pay attention to the expensive, easy to steal items".
What? "I'm running out of disk space, I'll fix the problem by defragging". Umm, I'd like to know what defrag tool you're using. When I defragged Win32 drives previously, the performance may have been helped, but the "I'm about out of space" problem was not. The only way to get more space would be to compress some data, delete some data, or add drives. A defragger does none of that - though it can somewhat bandaid your performance along until you save up the $50 that another drive costs someone who's too lazy to shop around.
BTW, that smart (not rich, smart) user who's using an LVM system shoudl be able to just stab the drive in and append it to his ever growing array of disks. LVM's great.:)
"Wrong" in that the drives continue to be replaced with proven bad drives?:)
What's that thing about insanity being the repetition of the same process over and over, expecting different results each time?;)
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Yes. An IBM Deathstar is worth $100 if it has failed and not been exchanged by IBM, or a spool of CDs / discount certificate if it has. Hooray for class-action lawsuits! The Maxtor, unfortunately, is both unreliable and truly worthless (even if it's been unimaginatively screwed to a marginal piece of art).
If you're seeing fragmentation problems, it's probably *because* your filesystems are really full. Reiserfs, for example, doesn't like to be much over about 85% full I'm a big fan of Reiser on top of an LVM setup, personally - largely because of the ability to grow both on the fly (though, logically, you have to unmount if you wanna shrink).
People used to Win32 do worry about fragmentation, but the filesystems really are well done. I know, one would think that the fine folks in Redmond would catch up, but they've got more legacy baggage to handle. At least, I like to think that's why they haven't done things "right" yet.:)
The "active bookmark" in Firefox truncated the title to "New Star Wars Movie From The Maker" and I got all excited like maybe Lucas was gonna make still another Star Wars movie. Cursed points of elipses being nearly invisible on a high-resolution screen...
I guess it could be worse. I could have watched "Star Troopers".:)
No, height of immaturity would be saying that they pooped themselves, or making some other joke about a bodily function / natural act.
Also, that music doesn't suck - it's just that it's not good enough to offend much of anyone. I argree that it sucks, and that the opportunity to watch a video of the concert is a suck-ass gift. It's like giving lottery tickets as a gift. "Surprise, I probably didn't get you anything! Happy father's day!"
For the record, all of those "free concerts" are a load of crap. A recording is a recording, even if it's a "live" recording. I'd be happier with a discount price on a CD or something - maybe free shipping on one CD (normally you have to go over $25 to get free shipping). Then, I'm not angry with this announcement, like some of the posters have been (which perhaps was the point). Free shipping would've been nice...:)
You know that you can get pipe bending tools for under $5, right? Most hardware stores have both the springs that go around the outside of tubing to be bent, and the lever-based things - and both methods are easier to use + quicker + just about as cheap.
I use the harbor freight one all the time on steel, aluminum, and copper. It does a much prettier job than bending by hand. The kind with a roller works well, too, but I still prefer the Harbor freight unit's angle gauge for repeatability.
Who's to say that the files must be stored in a flat heirarchy? For speed purposes, it'd make sense if files that were grouped together were physically stored together. I see no reason that the file indexing methodology has to have any other significant bearing on the physical storage scheme. Apple already has a database indexing files stored on the machine - the only new thing here is that the computer choose where to store stuff rather than the user directly choosing - which is not much more abstraction than modern filesystems choosing where on the disk to put data anyway.
If you take apart a disk, you'll see a few flat platters. The filesystem abstraction is what makes folders appear to be folders, not the disk - and using a database-based abstraction is no less valid than using special blocks to hold pointers to the first block of a stream of data blocks. There are already filesystems that do this - just no shiny GUI to take advantage of it.
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Wow, you're old. Don't buy an SUV, her reaction times are not good enough to handle an extra heavy vehicle - especially not if it took 15 years to react to the change in MTV. 15 years. Shit, I guess I'm old too...
I've gotta comment that the Focus has been a top seller in Europe for years, and that I see more old people driving them now than young people. You probably were thinking of "Scion".
The farm where my dad grows corn also runs biodiesel in the tractors and grain trucks. It's worth noting that the equipment isn't all precisely as efficient as others, so one would wonder how the average (or worst-case) efficiency was calculated for this study's diesel cost estimate...
I imagine you've got more room in your ass, after pulling those numbers out - especially since they're much larger than reality.
Table 1 at http://www.aft.org/salary/ shows salaries from a year or so ago (so the data's not *too* out of date). About half of the country averages below $40K for teachers, and below $30K for starting teachers. In case averages are beyond comprehension, that means that, for every teacher making $60K, there's one making $20K
So, you wanted an easy to use, user-friendly, don't have to know anything Linux distribution. Then you chose Gentoo? Is that the first result that comes up in a Google search for Linux, or what?
Go to Ubuntulinux.org. Really. Once installer CD and an internet connection later, you'll have your nice friendly install. Well, about as friendly as Linux generally gets. You don't even have to use fdisk - it'll do that for you.
Boot?
He had to make it himself, and the parts didn't all fit out of the box. He had to cut the boards, drill holes, bend brackets. He's even really proud of it even though it's no better than any other shelf (actually, the design could use some work - like vertical bracing behind the weak cardboard back). To anyone other than the builder, it looks like junk.
Man, that's like a friggin' Gentoo shelf.
I think you meant to say "White president" - that'll offend more people while having equal relevance.
Hah! You chose floppies for durability? Over CDs?
You can make multi-session CD-Rs with any reasonable burning program. If you're only storing a floppy's worth of data, you can get quite a few sessions out of a CD-R... That's quite reusable.
Or, maybe even better, store the important files on a "computer" that gets backed up once in a while. That's even more environmentally responsible than using a new floppy or CD for every file, and more reliable, and faster, and really, better in every way that I can think of.
That's not hindsight. Web devlopers (and sysadmins masquerading as programmers working on the web) have been doing that for a while now. It's a pretty obvious idea, but he did wrap it all up into a nice, clean package. For that reason alone, he gets some props - "web developers" don't generally do nice things like making their code readable or making it flexible - probably because most of them don't have serious programming background.
I've done similar things several times before, where you wrap the legacy object in something you can hide, and hide it in such a way that only browsers that support your new method do the hiding while the new stuff is wrapped in such a way that old browser will skip over the new stuff. Most CSS hacks essentially work that way, as do the large majority of browser workarounds. It's sort of like a slightly more flexible browser sniffing thats still bad because it depends on buggy behavior...
The coefficient of friction for a tire is based on the size of the contact patch, though, and therefore the force due to friction (aka, "traction") is indeed related to the size of the contact patch. Mu is not a constant.
Find some sticky motorcycle tires and put them on the back of my 412 HP car, and tell me that they hook up better than (or as well as) the 11" wide tires that are on it now. Well, after the motorcycle tires go up in a cloud of smoke after one hard launch, that is.
coax is pronounced like co-axe in this part of the world. I'm failing to see what that'd sound like mumbled (quacks?), though I can see how a misspelled variant might be slightly amusing...
Sound worked out of the box on all of my desktops, and my old Dell laptop.
It's only funny if you've never heard a language other than the one you speak. :)
At least there's unlikely to eb an old lady's group that starts calling themselves the Ubuntus - as opposed to the Red Hat ladys...
They aren't. All of the concepts involved with SMTP are complicated, and it takes a complicated system to be able to handle that effectively. Postfix is one of the easiest to configure, but the key here is that you need to know what your goal is. If you don't know what you're trying to do, then sure, any mail system will seem pretty complicated. Setting up any other complicated service with specialized needs (say, a web server, for example) is much the same - you've gotta know what you're trying to do *first*.
:)
That said, a default postfix install wil work for basic needs, and most user-oriented Linuxes (SuSE, Fedora, not Gentoo, etc) have friendly config tools to make basic changes.
How do the thieves know about the passwords in advance?
Handheld label printers are pretty cheap now... Then again, so is "tell your daughter that she needs to pay attention to the expensive, easy to steal items".
What? "I'm running out of disk space, I'll fix the problem by defragging". Umm, I'd like to know what defrag tool you're using. When I defragged Win32 drives previously, the performance may have been helped, but the "I'm about out of space" problem was not. The only way to get more space would be to compress some data, delete some data, or add drives. A defragger does none of that - though it can somewhat bandaid your performance along until you save up the $50 that another drive costs someone who's too lazy to shop around.
:)
BTW, that smart (not rich, smart) user who's using an LVM system shoudl be able to just stab the drive in and append it to his ever growing array of disks. LVM's great.
"Wrong" in that the drives continue to be replaced with proven bad drives? :)
;)
What's that thing about insanity being the repetition of the same process over and over, expecting different results each time?
Yes. An IBM Deathstar is worth $100 if it has failed and not been exchanged by IBM, or a spool of CDs / discount certificate if it has. Hooray for class-action lawsuits! The Maxtor, unfortunately, is both unreliable and truly worthless (even if it's been unimaginatively screwed to a marginal piece of art).
If you're seeing fragmentation problems, it's probably *because* your filesystems are really full. Reiserfs, for example, doesn't like to be much over about 85% full I'm a big fan of Reiser on top of an LVM setup, personally - largely because of the ability to grow both on the fly (though, logically, you have to unmount if you wanna shrink).
:)
People used to Win32 do worry about fragmentation, but the filesystems really are well done. I know, one would think that the fine folks in Redmond would catch up, but they've got more legacy baggage to handle. At least, I like to think that's why they haven't done things "right" yet.
The "active bookmark" in Firefox truncated the title to "New Star Wars Movie From The Maker" and I got all excited like maybe Lucas was gonna make still another Star Wars movie. Cursed points of elipses being nearly invisible on a high-resolution screen...
:)
I guess it could be worse. I could have watched "Star Troopers".
No, height of immaturity would be saying that they pooped themselves, or making some other joke about a bodily function / natural act.
:)
Also, that music doesn't suck - it's just that it's not good enough to offend much of anyone. I argree that it sucks, and that the opportunity to watch a video of the concert is a suck-ass gift. It's like giving lottery tickets as a gift. "Surprise, I probably didn't get you anything! Happy father's day!"
For the record, all of those "free concerts" are a load of crap. A recording is a recording, even if it's a "live" recording. I'd be happier with a discount price on a CD or something - maybe free shipping on one CD (normally you have to go over $25 to get free shipping). Then, I'm not angry with this announcement, like some of the posters have been (which perhaps was the point). Free shipping would've been nice...
You know that you can get pipe bending tools for under $5, right? Most hardware stores have both the springs that go around the outside of tubing to be bent, and the lever-based things - and both methods are easier to use + quicker + just about as cheap.
ok: $1.99 (rent at Auto Zone for $0)
even useful: $3.99
springie: $4.95
I use the harbor freight one all the time on steel, aluminum, and copper. It does a much prettier job than bending by hand. The kind with a roller works well, too, but I still prefer the Harbor freight unit's angle gauge for repeatability.
But you'd still be waiting on that slow-ass modem to download stuff.
Who's to say that the files must be stored in a flat heirarchy? For speed purposes, it'd make sense if files that were grouped together were physically stored together. I see no reason that the file indexing methodology has to have any other significant bearing on the physical storage scheme. Apple already has a database indexing files stored on the machine - the only new thing here is that the computer choose where to store stuff rather than the user directly choosing - which is not much more abstraction than modern filesystems choosing where on the disk to put data anyway.
If you take apart a disk, you'll see a few flat platters. The filesystem abstraction is what makes folders appear to be folders, not the disk - and using a database-based abstraction is no less valid than using special blocks to hold pointers to the first block of a stream of data blocks. There are already filesystems that do this - just no shiny GUI to take advantage of it.
I wonder who Google will hire to replace him?