Perl is not strictly interperted, it's dynamically compiled to a bytecode (optree, whatever) which is then interpreted. There may be no explicit "compile" step seperate from the "execute" step, but the running code is actually a compiled, somewhat optimized bytecode. That's why a Perl program takes longer to start up than, say, a C program, but (ignoring language inefficiencies) both will run at about the same speed. A purely interpreted language like BASIC (most BASICs, anyway), OTOH is slow to run because it's never translated to a bytecode and the interpreter has no chance to optimize the code being interpreted.
You must've been fooling yourself if you can possibly speak poorly about a pretty cool truck such as the El Camino.:) The Ranchero's not all that pretty, and the Dodge Rampage is ugly, but I'm pretty fond of the El Camino. I may be biased, having owned 3 of them (only 1 right now), but these's something inherently cool about being able to get the same power options as a Chevelle (mmm, 1970 LS6 454) in a body that weighs less, has a stronger frame, and can carry a good amount of cargo.
Supposedly, Chevy's planning to bring the camaro back in a few years (a la Ford Thunderbird), and the firebird will likely come back at the same time. The El Camino is also possibly coming back the same way that the Pontiac GTO was reincarnated - by importing a Holden (GM Austrailia) car. Specifically, the Holden "Ute" is pretty likely to be the new US El Camino.
To remain partially on-topic, I like the name "Camino" better anyway. Firebird is a car in most people's mind, but Camino probably means nothing to most.:)
1. There have *always* been Dupes - though they increased a little when Slashdot got a few more editors several years ago. The people who complain about it happening "recently" are usually people who also just joined "recently". Perhaps the increasing population of whiners is the real reason for "decline" - much like the internet's general decline as more people showed up who have never even heard of "netiquette".:(
2. Newspapers and magazines frequently use sensational headlines to increase readership - same deal here. Want people to read the article? Gotta grab their interest first. Pretty icons aren't enough.
3. Bah. Nearly *every* article has some sort of "Slashdot sucks because X" thread inside. Start browsing at -1 and post there if you want off-topic meta discussion unaffected by comunity moderation. Also, every user has a journal where they can post articles and then discuss them with the public. Feel free to host that "I hate slashdot's direction" discussion there. Here's the url: http://slashdot.org/~Vellmont/journal.
Also, a nit to pick - web sites are spelled "site", not "sight".:)
LFS, bah. *Really* doing things from scratch means not having all of the compile/install/setup documentation pre-assembled into one nice document.:)
Then again, the first time I installed Linux was with Slack - and it wasn't much beyond an LFS system since it came with almost nothing that I actually wanted to use (including useful docs). Several years later, I like Redhat because it just works. I still custom-roll my firewalls, though, and have never used the LFS project. Whee.
The "crud" that builds up in the lines came from the "liquid stuff" that you *want* to put in your glass. What's the problem with that stuff ending up in your glass a few weeks after you asked for it?:)
Look in your local classified ads section, and find a real car for $200-$300. Now, go to Tower Hobbies (or similar) and see what a decent 1/10 scale *gas* car kit costs. Somewhere in the $400 range, IIRC. The radio equipment is roughly the same cost either way. Steering and braking (though linear actuators, probably) on the full-sizer will probably even out the initial cost. Assembly time is probably greater for the 1/10 model (though, it does take longer to build a full-size kit car than a model car).
Now, tell me which sounds like more fun - a little car capable of maybe 20-30MPH, or a 1:1 car that can do 70-80MPH? Given that the cost and time is probably a little less for the full-sized car, and the potential for really entertaining destruction is greater in the big car, I can tell you that *I* would go the full-sized route. In fact, I'm gonna go grab a copy of the classified ads right now.:)
The head guy at the place where I work has one phone in his house, and it's a rotary phone. Sometimes his children's friends come over just to see the old phone, and I guess he gets a good laugh out of people not knowing how to use it.
Personally, I used a rotary phone (in a different town) up to about 7 or 8 years ago. It was fine except when dialing long numbers and screwing up on one of the last few digits...:)
Mimerdesk doesn't appear to count as an LMS because it doesn't have any features that are really geared towards learning ro the management of learners. It's more like a collaborative working environment. It appears to be something that'd be useful for, say, teachers. To qualify as an LMS, it'd have to have some kind of tracking of users and probably some kind of testing/quizzing-type functionality. The Mimerdesk framework could potentially be used to develop an LMS, though.
I have a Nextel phone. My wife does too. The "direct connect" functionality is great. On my bills, I used to pay a "number portability" fee. When I called them a few weeks ago because I'm planning to switch providers (Nextel service is pretty expensive relative to other carriers - $110/month for 700 total shared minutes, but with unlimited direct-connect), they told me that we can't take our numbers with us. Strangely, a few months ago the WNP charge dissapeared from our bills. I don't think they support it, therefore.:)
As an aside, they stopped providing us with wireless web service, even though it's part of the service plan we purchased and pay for every month. We upgraded to "level 2 wireless web", then canceled level 2 to return to "level 1 wireless web" (not the official terms). "Level 1" was included in our service plans, and is a subset of "level 2". For some reason - they say it was a "computer upgrade" - we now have to pay $10 each per month to get the service that was included in our service plan - and that I'm paying for, IMHO. They say that they can't add the service back for no extra charge, and that they can't deduct the charge from my bill. That, my friend, is not exceptional service worthy of the exceptional cost. So, Nextel will shortly be getting none of my money instead of some of it.
The walkie-talkie thing really is great, though - I'll miss it.
It's basically an old version of apache with a bunch of CGI scripts in poorly organized directories. From an instructor's point of view, the WebCT LMS is fairly limiting in the things that can be done (much beyond plain text and some images is a pain), and dealing with learner tracking (the data that can be collected is fairly limited, and isn't easily accessed to do anything useful with).
I'd reccomend either just creating a series of web pages manually, or try some other LMS. Most other LMSs suck in different ways, though... Meridian and Blackboard come to mind as differently crappy and bafflingly popular (and expensive) LMS's.:)
I'm completing a *regionally accredited* BS in CS online through Franklin University (http://alliance.franklin.edu/). There are a bunch of online schools, but only a few that have regional accreditation. Make sure that any school that charges money for courses is regionally accredited, or the degree means less than nothing - esp if you consider going to grad school.
BTW, those people complaining about WebCT might feel better to know that the system sucks from a sysadmin's point of view, too. Then again, almost all Learner Management Systems are garbage from the admin's or developer's point of view.:)
You want Mac OS X for Unix Geeks, by our good friends at O'Reilly. It's the only OS X book I have, and the only useful one I could find at the bookstore. It approaches the BSD side of OS X from a command line *nix perspective through mostly a series of short examples and descriptions of the system. It's not as thorough as I (and probably you) would like, but it's adequate to get you the terms that you'd need to type into Google.:)
Yes. However, much time is saved by knowing how to do that with fewer keystrokes. Doing it in one command with perl also means the filename is types once, greatly reducing the chance that a filename will be mistyped. So, it also saves the time taken to fix errors in the first command.:)
The thing about "there's more than one way to do it" is great - if there's no perl then there's probably at least sed on a system. The file could be piped through ed or any number of text editing programs, too...
meritline will sell you DVD-R media in a 500-disk spool for 74 cents per disk. You can get lower quantities of name-brand disks for around a dollar per disk. Now, if there were something like a 6x burner so a disk could be cranked out in less than 45 minutes or so...
The double-sided DVD-R media is coming down too. You can get the 9.4GB double-sided media for around $3-$4. That's pretty cool.
I propose this to the community. What is the neatest hack/trick that saves time from your day in terms of programming or system administration?
I've found that much time is saved by combining Perl knowledge and the Vim text editor. Perl one-liners are great, too - esp with the "-i" switch. For example, you wanna replace all instances of "host1" with "host6" in a file named "file.txt" - perl -pi.bak -e's/host1/host6/g' file.txt - you end up with the original file in "file.txt.bak" and an edited "file.txt". That alone saves me a fair amount of time.
It's easier to block them by just doing a whois on KR-NIC and adding all of those IP ranges into your no-access lists.:) Set those to go to a new iptables chain and choose which ports the Koreans can contact, or redirect them to a special "we hate spammers" web site.
If *anyone* would make something like Quark without the "it's a big POS that's a royal pain to support" thing, and maybe make it work natively under OS X while they're at it...:)
No, the majority of people that you *notice* are looks-driven. You (the general you, not "ReVMD") tend to notice the flash stuff and not notice the plain beige wrappers because the flashy stuff neccisarily stands out. The problem with being "different" is it's only different until everyone else starts doing the same thing. The macs aren't generally good looking, they're just different looking, and that's inherently self-destructive IMHO.
I maintain that the majority of people who buy a mac make the final decision because of mac v/s pc, not flashy color v/s beige. I'll grant that ever-changing flashy colors do probably draw in a bigger crowd than would otherwise be present, however, the elitist in me won't count that crowd as being part of the "technology world"...:)
If this is a success, it would considerably boost Apple's presence in the technology world.
I'm not sure how pretty colors will bost them in the technology world, let alone the ability to change amongst various pretty colors. Remember those sneakers with the clear logo and replacable colored inserts? That didn't boost the shoes in the technology world, why would a similar tech boost Apple? Have their shiny colored computers boosted them "considerably" so far, or was it their generally good hardware architecture and cleanly-integrated OS? Sigh.
...let's say you want to save a picture on a web site. I don't see a good way to do this without context menus...
Fire up the brower on your mac. Browse to a page with an image. Click and hold on the image, then drag it to the folder where you want to save it. No context menu required.
OS X has a good interface once you manage to look past all the fluff that's stuck on just to make things look pretty. It's still not prefectly intuitive, though. The fellow with the cd burning problem, for example, really needs to learn how permissions work. If the system was perfect, he'd already know that.:) My biggest problem with the OS? Users who look at it and say "it's just like window now" in disghust and decide that they can't use it (these are OS 8/9 users). Clearly, they've never used windows...
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Perl is not strictly interperted, it's dynamically compiled to a bytecode (optree, whatever) which is then interpreted. There may be no explicit "compile" step seperate from the "execute" step, but the running code is actually a compiled, somewhat optimized bytecode. That's why a Perl program takes longer to start up than, say, a C program, but (ignoring language inefficiencies) both will run at about the same speed. A purely interpreted language like BASIC (most BASICs, anyway), OTOH is slow to run because it's never translated to a bytecode and the interpreter has no chance to optimize the code being interpreted.
You must've been fooling yourself if you can possibly speak poorly about a pretty cool truck such as the El Camino. :) The Ranchero's not all that pretty, and the Dodge Rampage is ugly, but I'm pretty fond of the El Camino. I may be biased, having owned 3 of them (only 1 right now), but these's something inherently cool about being able to get the same power options as a Chevelle (mmm, 1970 LS6 454) in a body that weighs less, has a stronger frame, and can carry a good amount of cargo.
:)
Supposedly, Chevy's planning to bring the camaro back in a few years (a la Ford Thunderbird), and the firebird will likely come back at the same time. The El Camino is also possibly coming back the same way that the Pontiac GTO was reincarnated - by importing a Holden (GM Austrailia) car. Specifically, the Holden "Ute" is pretty likely to be the new US El Camino.
To remain partially on-topic, I like the name "Camino" better anyway. Firebird is a car in most people's mind, but Camino probably means nothing to most.
1. There have *always* been Dupes - though they increased a little when Slashdot got a few more editors several years ago. The people who complain about it happening "recently" are usually people who also just joined "recently". Perhaps the increasing population of whiners is the real reason for "decline" - much like the internet's general decline as more people showed up who have never even heard of "netiquette". :(
:)
2. Newspapers and magazines frequently use sensational headlines to increase readership - same deal here. Want people to read the article? Gotta grab their interest first. Pretty icons aren't enough.
3. Bah. Nearly *every* article has some sort of "Slashdot sucks because X" thread inside. Start browsing at -1 and post there if you want off-topic meta discussion unaffected by comunity moderation. Also, every user has a journal where they can post articles and then discuss them with the public. Feel free to host that "I hate slashdot's direction" discussion there. Here's the url: http://slashdot.org/~Vellmont/journal.
Also, a nit to pick - web sites are spelled "site", not "sight".
Camino is Spanish for Road. You're thinking of "El Camino" - which is a different thing entirely.
LFS, bah. *Really* doing things from scratch means not having all of the compile/install/setup documentation pre-assembled into one nice document. :)
Then again, the first time I installed Linux was with Slack - and it wasn't much beyond an LFS system since it came with almost nothing that I actually wanted to use (including useful docs). Several years later, I like Redhat because it just works. I still custom-roll my firewalls, though, and have never used the LFS project. Whee.
The "crud" that builds up in the lines came from the "liquid stuff" that you *want* to put in your glass. What's the problem with that stuff ending up in your glass a few weeks after you asked for it? :)
Look in your local classified ads section, and find a real car for $200-$300. Now, go to Tower Hobbies (or similar) and see what a decent 1/10 scale *gas* car kit costs. Somewhere in the $400 range, IIRC. The radio equipment is roughly the same cost either way. Steering and braking (though linear actuators, probably) on the full-sizer will probably even out the initial cost. Assembly time is probably greater for the 1/10 model (though, it does take longer to build a full-size kit car than a model car).
:)
Now, tell me which sounds like more fun - a little car capable of maybe 20-30MPH, or a 1:1 car that can do 70-80MPH? Given that the cost and time is probably a little less for the full-sized car, and the potential for really entertaining destruction is greater in the big car, I can tell you that *I* would go the full-sized route. In fact, I'm gonna go grab a copy of the classified ads right now.
The head guy at the place where I work has one phone in his house, and it's a rotary phone. Sometimes his children's friends come over just to see the old phone, and I guess he gets a good laugh out of people not knowing how to use it.
:)
Personally, I used a rotary phone (in a different town) up to about 7 or 8 years ago. It was fine except when dialing long numbers and screwing up on one of the last few digits...
Mimerdesk doesn't appear to count as an LMS because it doesn't have any features that are really geared towards learning ro the management of learners. It's more like a collaborative working environment. It appears to be something that'd be useful for, say, teachers. To qualify as an LMS, it'd have to have some kind of tracking of users and probably some kind of testing/quizzing-type functionality. The Mimerdesk framework could potentially be used to develop an LMS, though.
I have a Nextel phone. My wife does too. The "direct connect" functionality is great. On my bills, I used to pay a "number portability" fee. When I called them a few weeks ago because I'm planning to switch providers (Nextel service is pretty expensive relative to other carriers - $110/month for 700 total shared minutes, but with unlimited direct-connect), they told me that we can't take our numbers with us. Strangely, a few months ago the WNP charge dissapeared from our bills. I don't think they support it, therefore. :)
As an aside, they stopped providing us with wireless web service, even though it's part of the service plan we purchased and pay for every month. We upgraded to "level 2 wireless web", then canceled level 2 to return to "level 1 wireless web" (not the official terms). "Level 1" was included in our service plans, and is a subset of "level 2". For some reason - they say it was a "computer upgrade" - we now have to pay $10 each per month to get the service that was included in our service plan - and that I'm paying for, IMHO. They say that they can't add the service back for no extra charge, and that they can't deduct the charge from my bill. That, my friend, is not exceptional service worthy of the exceptional cost. So, Nextel will shortly be getting none of my money instead of some of it.
The walkie-talkie thing really is great, though - I'll miss it.
It's basically an old version of apache with a bunch of CGI scripts in poorly organized directories. From an instructor's point of view, the WebCT LMS is fairly limiting in the things that can be done (much beyond plain text and some images is a pain), and dealing with learner tracking (the data that can be collected is fairly limited, and isn't easily accessed to do anything useful with).
:)
;)
I'd reccomend either just creating a series of web pages manually, or try some other LMS. Most other LMSs suck in different ways, though... Meridian and Blackboard come to mind as differently crappy and bafflingly popular (and expensive) LMS's.
BTW, LMS = Learner Managment System.
I'm completing a *regionally accredited* BS in CS online through Franklin University (http://alliance.franklin.edu/). There are a bunch of online schools, but only a few that have regional accreditation. Make sure that any school that charges money for courses is regionally accredited, or the degree means less than nothing - esp if you consider going to grad school.
:)
BTW, those people complaining about WebCT might feel better to know that the system sucks from a sysadmin's point of view, too. Then again, almost all Learner Management Systems are garbage from the admin's or developer's point of view.
You want Mac OS X for Unix Geeks, by our good friends at O'Reilly. It's the only OS X book I have, and the only useful one I could find at the bookstore. It approaches the BSD side of OS X from a command line *nix perspective through mostly a series of short examples and descriptions of the system. It's not as thorough as I (and probably you) would like, but it's adequate to get you the terms that you'd need to type into Google. :)
Yes. However, much time is saved by knowing how to do that with fewer keystrokes. Doing it in one command with perl also means the filename is types once, greatly reducing the chance that a filename will be mistyped. So, it also saves the time taken to fix errors in the first command. :)
The thing about "there's more than one way to do it" is great - if there's no perl then there's probably at least sed on a system. The file could be piped through ed or any number of text editing programs, too...
meritline will sell you DVD-R media in a 500-disk spool for 74 cents per disk. You can get lower quantities of name-brand disks for around a dollar per disk. Now, if there were something like a 6x burner so a disk could be cranked out in less than 45 minutes or so...
;)
The double-sided DVD-R media is coming down too. You can get the 9.4GB double-sided media for around $3-$4. That's pretty cool.
BTW, you're paying too much for CD-R.
I propose this to the community. What is the neatest hack/trick that saves time from your day in terms of programming or system administration?
I've found that much time is saved by combining Perl knowledge and the Vim text editor. Perl one-liners are great, too - esp with the "-i" switch. For example, you wanna replace all instances of "host1" with "host6" in a file named "file.txt" - perl -pi.bak -e's/host1/host6/g' file.txt - you end up with the original file in "file.txt.bak" and an edited "file.txt". That alone saves me a fair amount of time.
You can buy your GM engines here: http://www.sdpc2000.com/cart.asp?action=catalog_st art&catid=63
:)
If you want an aftermarket engine or one from another manufacturer, you can search google for "crate engines"
HTH.
Only if you're lacking a sense of "humor". :)
It's easier to block them by just doing a whois on KR-NIC and adding all of those IP ranges into your no-access lists. :) Set those to go to a new iptables chain and choose which ports the Koreans can contact, or redirect them to a special "we hate spammers" web site.
So *that's* where all of those open mail relays are at - they're installed on game servers in baangs...
If *anyone* would make something like Quark without the "it's a big POS that's a royal pain to support" thing, and maybe make it work natively under OS X while they're at it... :)
qnx.
No, the majority of people that you *notice* are looks-driven. You (the general you, not "ReVMD") tend to notice the flash stuff and not notice the plain beige wrappers because the flashy stuff neccisarily stands out. The problem with being "different" is it's only different until everyone else starts doing the same thing. The macs aren't generally good looking, they're just different looking, and that's inherently self-destructive IMHO.
:)
I maintain that the majority of people who buy a mac make the final decision because of mac v/s pc, not flashy color v/s beige. I'll grant that ever-changing flashy colors do probably draw in a bigger crowd than would otherwise be present, however, the elitist in me won't count that crowd as being part of the "technology world"...
If this is a success, it would considerably boost Apple's presence in the technology world.
I'm not sure how pretty colors will bost them in the technology world, let alone the ability to change amongst various pretty colors. Remember those sneakers with the clear logo and replacable colored inserts? That didn't boost the shoes in the technology world, why would a similar tech boost Apple? Have their shiny colored computers boosted them "considerably" so far, or was it their generally good hardware architecture and cleanly-integrated OS? Sigh.
Fire up the brower on your mac. Browse to a page with an image. Click and hold on the image, then drag it to the folder where you want to save it. No context menu required.
OS X has a good interface once you manage to look past all the fluff that's stuck on just to make things look pretty. It's still not prefectly intuitive, though. The fellow with the cd burning problem, for example, really needs to learn how permissions work. If the system was perfect, he'd already know that. :) My biggest problem with the OS? Users who look at it and say "it's just like window now" in disghust and decide that they can't use it (these are OS 8/9 users). Clearly, they've never used windows...