No, no, no. Logical arguments don't make sense in our government. What you need is some nonesense. What we need to do is make it illegal to break the law. And then the next obivous step is to take radar guns away from police and implement skill-based speed limits, wherin idiots can't drive fast but people that aren't crappy drivers are allowed to drive at reasonable speeds.
Yes, I'm bitter...:)
written by a gun-owner and a safe, but fast, driver
"Windows" claims to be an OS, when it's just a shell over the top of DOS. All this Amiga thing has to do is hang around for a few years, and people will forget that it's just a shell...:)
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Yeah, and right after that you could get your speeding ticket in the mail without having seen a cop, 'cause your car sent the local law enforcement an e-mail. When you take the catalytic converter off and go to work because you don't have time to replace it that morning, whoops, there's another violation. More tickets in the mail.
Personally, I like to fix my own car even though I'm not an authorized mechanic; and I like for cops to have to see me break the law if they wanna give me a ticket. But then, I've already got an internet-enabled car, so who am I to mock?:)
Oh. A high speed reconfigurable patch panel sounds a lot easier to implement, and makes more sense to me... That doesn't realy make it a switch in the "router/bridge/switch/hub" kind of switch that I thought it meant though.:)
I was wondering how they were gonna make mirrors that understood where a packet should go, but then I read the article. There's no mirrors. They're using a bubble-maker out of an old cannon printer. So they've made IP-aware bubbles instead. Or maybe it's that they have electronics reading the headers and then creating an optical route? That seems like it would be the weak link in the chain to me, but then, my mirror sometimes doesn't even get the picture of me back to my eyes right, let along reliably switching high-speed data...
When you're making due with what you have, you don't complain that the only language anyone's capable of teaching "might encourage poor programming practices if it's not done right." Just because it's possible to program poorly in perl doesn't mean it's required. If taught right, students can learn C-like sturcture in an environment where hard-to-understand C-like code doesn't have to be there getting in the way of useful programming theory. The teachers are there to help students learn good structure - the language is just a tool to help them learn.
This is a problem with a lot of introductory programming classes today. There's too much emphesis put on the tool used to teach and not enough put on the actual higher-level concepts that need to be communicated. There's a lot to be said for using a forgiving, flexible language to start with.
"Why not just charge me with murder, regardless of what I used as a weapon?"
Because if you were only charged with murder, you'd only serve a few month in prison in the US. Programmers aren't the only ones that kludge things up instead of fixing them right - our legal system is so badly implemented that stupid things like extra charges have to be added (that's the kludge) to provide any valid form of punishment. Unfortunately, as with any kludge, this ends up only complicating matters further and not really fixing anything...
I've got a cyrix chip in my car's mp3 player (soon to be radar detector monitor and engine status recorder) because it was the sheapest chip I could buy and I wondered if they suck as bad as everyone says. My MX/2-300 or whatever the heck it is sucks as much as everyone says they do. It's super hot all the time, and not nearly as fast as other socket-7 chips at the same clock speed. I had to underclock it just to get the system running stably (and to keep the outrageous power consumption down). I really hope cyrix gets their next chip working better, 'cause choices are always a Good Thing.
In celebration, I'm going to ignore all of my coworkers that don't use linux, and I'll try to be the first to say anything every time anyone around me has some news.:) Or maybe I'll just go back to bed...
You forgot to quote The movie shamelessly invokes "Lord of The Flies," the dark novel about what kids do to one another when left alone on an island in that burst of insightfulness.
BTW, why is Jon Katz writing about every possible unrelated topic possible? I've nothing personal against the guy, but what the heck? The movie's not even almost tech-related... The Daily Show's review of "Beach" this week is pretty funny, though. Comedy Central's neat.
I second that. Good thing you can catch the Critic on Cartoon Network (or is it comedy central? I only watch 2 channels of TV...) once in a while... It'd sure be nice to have some new episodes, though.
As a junkbuster alternative, you can use squid and this redirection script to block out web pages, and also do some cool caching proxy stuff that made squid popular (it's great if you have a masq'd dial-up with a few machines that all check similar pages).
My blocklist is available here, and via anonymous rsync at rsync://cloudmaster.com/redir/redir Assuming you already have squid up and running, you can just
At least, I think that will likely work. You get the point...:) It'd prolly be better to just get the distrib from the other link, and then see if anything's in my blocklist that is desirable and isn't in the official distribution.
They've got a nice, usable interface over at Yahoo too. I'm trying to get somewhat close to that on the web-mail system we're using at the school that pays my bills... Somehow I've gotten a higher level of respect for Yahoo since trying to emulate some of their better ideas.:)
Boy, good thing I don't come from a dysfunctional home, or I'd be a dangerous criminal waiting to destroy my town instead of making a valuble contribution to society in my current job as a computer tech. I'll have to tell my co-workers.
I think I'll call my parents tonight and thank them.:)
======================= == Section 11. == == MESSAGE OF THE DAY== =======================
When Quake 3 Arena starts a map up, it sends the GL_RENDERER string to the Message Of The Day server at id. This responds back with a message of the day to the client. If you wish to switch this option off, set CL_MOTD to 0 (+set CL_MOTD 0 from the command line).
I hope this allows the paranoid to play Q3 safely again...:)
Like a majority of the posters, I've got my 77 El Camino, 80 Caprice, and 85 3/4 ton truck, all with far-too-powerful V8's and all with a signifigant amount of non-stock parts attached. The caprice even has a computer inside to play mp3's and show all my car buddies that I'm a geek at heart.:)
As far as the guy with no room for working on a car and no time to find parts - If you really love cars you'll find time to work on them, and you'll find a way to work on them. I know I'd never give up my current home for an aartment with no place to park an extra car. With regards to reliability, well, snce I've got room to work no my car, I've got room to make it reliable. All cars can potentially break down, but the cars I've built can also be fixed on the side of the road. Just like any car built by somene with a love of the "sport".
Of course, a large part of my time's spent hotrodding my computer too...:)
If you're gonna do non-standard thngs with your distrib, regardless of whose you use, you really need to take th esmall amount of time to learn how that particular base distrib works so you can sucesfully modify it. I do all sorts of non-standard things with my SuSE-bases (including my mobile mp3 player), just as I have with some other distribs. Each has its own little quirks that need to be addressed, but in no case are they insurmountable blockages.
In my opinion, SuSE is like slackware with current packages and RPM support - it's pretty easy to turn of all the automation and do everything yourself but you also get the benefits of easy package management. Of all the distribs I've tried (which unfortunately doesn't include debian yet) SuSE has been the easiest to get working initially and the easiest to disable the little automatic pieces in.
I'd be happy to help you with those customizations you were having problems with, sufi, if you drop me an e-mail.:)
--Danny, who needs to try FreeBSD again and Debian for the first time...
Wintel machines (I'm not sure about Macs) can set up "user profiles" so multiple users of the machine can have their own settings without installing a new copy of netscape. Each profile has independent user preferences (all of them) and bookmarks.
Netscape also has a feature called "roaming profiles" that allows user settings to be kept in sync on an LDAP server or on a web server. I personally use the roaming profiles with my linux boxes at home and the wintel/linux machines at work. It's damned handy.
And third, Corel Linux is now available - if you can handle a 311 MB download and if you have a CD-R drive available, because this is an ISO file that can't be installed directly. Happy downloading!
You're a real trooper man. If only everyone was so dedicated, to stay up playing a game all night for the good of the people... Are you sure it wasn't just damned fun?:)
dtheatre had the news before slashdot. Cool, 'cause that let me get most of the demo before slashdot added to the already bogged server...
I just tried the name search and it doesn't return results for addresses outside the purdue.edu domain. So you'd have to do some IP spoofing to get in...:)
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, I'm bitter... :)
written by a gun-owner and a safe, but fast, driver
"Windows" claims to be an OS, when it's just a shell over the top of DOS. All this Amiga thing has to do is hang around for a few years, and people will forget that it's just a shell... :)
Personally, I like to fix my own car even though I'm not an authorized mechanic; and I like for cops to have to see me break the law if they wanna give me a ticket. But then, I've already got an internet-enabled car, so who am I to mock? :)
Holy Crap! I can't get into any of the listed mirrors elsewhere, but sourceforge is giving me 8 KB/s on my modem... That's cool.
Oh. A high speed reconfigurable patch panel sounds a lot easier to implement, and makes more sense to me... That doesn't realy make it a switch in the "router/bridge/switch/hub" kind of switch that I thought it meant though. :)
I was wondering how they were gonna make mirrors that understood where a packet should go, but then I read the article. There's no mirrors. They're using a bubble-maker out of an old cannon printer. So they've made IP-aware bubbles instead. Or maybe it's that they have electronics reading the headers and then creating an optical route? That seems like it would be the weak link in the chain to me, but then, my mirror sometimes doesn't even get the picture of me back to my eyes right, let along reliably switching high-speed data...
This is a problem with a lot of introductory programming classes today. There's too much emphesis put on the tool used to teach and not enough put on the actual higher-level concepts that need to be communicated. There's a lot to be said for using a forgiving, flexible language to start with.
Because if you were only charged with murder, you'd only serve a few month in prison in the US. Programmers aren't the only ones that kludge things up instead of fixing them right - our legal system is so badly implemented that stupid things like extra charges have to be added (that's the kludge) to provide any valid form of punishment. Unfortunately, as with any kludge, this ends up only complicating matters further and not really fixing anything...
I've got a cyrix chip in my car's mp3 player (soon to be radar detector monitor and engine status recorder) because it was the sheapest chip I could buy and I wondered if they suck as bad as everyone says. My MX/2-300 or whatever the heck it is sucks as much as everyone says they do. It's super hot all the time, and not nearly as fast as other socket-7 chips at the same clock speed. I had to underclock it just to get the system running stably (and to keep the outrageous power consumption down). I really hope cyrix gets their next chip working better, 'cause choices are always a Good Thing.
In celebration, I'm going to ignore all of my coworkers that don't use linux, and I'll try to be the first to say anything every time anyone around me has some news. :) Or maybe I'll just go back to bed...
BTW, why is Jon Katz writing about every possible unrelated topic possible? I've nothing personal against the guy, but what the heck? The movie's not even almost tech-related... The Daily Show's review of "Beach" this week is pretty funny, though. Comedy Central's neat.
I second that. Good thing you can catch the Critic on Cartoon Network (or is it comedy central? I only watch 2 channels of TV...) once in a while... It'd sure be nice to have some new episodes, though.
If only google had gotten around to spidering his site before it went away.
I was just thinking how I need to use less wine with my games. This would help a lot... :)
--From the makers of lumpy linux
My blocklist is available here, and via anonymous rsync at rsync://cloudmaster.com/redir/redir
Assuming you already have squid up and running, you can just
- mkdir
/var/squid/blocker - echo "redirect_program
/var/squid/blocker/squid.redir" >> /etc/squid.conf - rsync -v rsync://cloudmaster.com/redir/*
/var/squid/blocker - cd
/var/squid/blocker - make
At least, I think that will likely work. You get the point...They've got a nice, usable interface over at Yahoo too. I'm trying to get somewhat close to that on the web-mail system we're using at the school that pays my bills... Somehow I've gotten a higher level of respect for Yahoo since trying to emulate some of their better ideas. :)
I think I'll call my parents tonight and thank them. :)
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== Section 11. ==
== MESSAGE OF THE DAY==
=======================
When Quake 3 Arena starts a map up, it sends the GL_RENDERER string to the Message Of The Day server at id. This responds back with a message of the day to the client. If you wish to switch this option off, set CL_MOTD to 0 (+set CL_MOTD 0 from the command line).
I hope this allows the paranoid to play Q3 safely again... :)
As far as the guy with no room for working on a car and no time to find parts - If you really love cars you'll find time to work on them, and you'll find a way to work on them. I know I'd never give up my current home for an aartment with no place to park an extra car. With regards to reliability, well, snce I've got room to work no my car, I've got room to make it reliable. All cars can potentially break down, but the cars I've built can also be fixed on the side of the road. Just like any car built by somene with a love of the "sport".
Of course, a large part of my time's spent hotrodding my computer too... :)
In my opinion, SuSE is like slackware with current packages and RPM support - it's pretty easy to turn of all the automation and do everything yourself but you also get the benefits of easy package management. Of all the distribs I've tried (which unfortunately doesn't include debian yet) SuSE has been the easiest to get working initially and the easiest to disable the little automatic pieces in.
I'd be happy to help you with those customizations you were having problems with, sufi, if you drop me an e-mail. :)
--Danny, who needs to try FreeBSD again and Debian for the first time...
Wintel machines (I'm not sure about Macs) can set up "user profiles" so multiple users of the machine can have their own settings without installing a new copy of netscape. Each profile has independent user preferences (all of them) and bookmarks.
Netscape also has a feature called "roaming profiles" that allows user settings to be kept in sync on an LDAP server or on a web server. I personally use the roaming profiles with my linux boxes at home and the wintel/linux machines at work. It's damned handy.
A quick search at developer.netscape.com outghtta turn up something more descriptive...
mount newCDimage /mnt -t iso9660 -o loop
Works on *my* linux box. :)
dtheatre had the news before slashdot. Cool, 'cause that let me get most of the demo before slashdot added to the already bogged server...
I just tried the name search and it doesn't return results for addresses outside the purdue.edu domain. So you'd have to do some IP spoofing to get in... :)