i've got 768k dsl, and their downloads are fast enough to keep my pipe filled. i've done a couple downloads from them while at a client's site with multiple T3's and remember it being significantly faster (wasn't checking the actual rate, though). anyway, point is that it's fast, and always fast, and if you're at the end of consumer-grade broadband your downloads from them will be at the max speed that your connection allows.
that's because his web server is misconfigured, and returns http headers that say the content-type is realaudio (this is due to the (arguably silly) practice of deciding mime types based on filenames).
"Rather than form a federation with Microsoft and work with what we had already created, there was this notion that the world should be offered an alternative," Mundie said.
your version is rather like me quoting you as
"What kind of twisted [individual would disagree that] capitalism is [what] Mundie [is] cheerleading here?!"
if you are waiting for an e-mail you would have press receive every five minutes until the e-mail arrived.
or you can get a real mail handler (e.g. procmail) and set it up to send you an sms message whenever important mail comes through. that's what i do (only it's not sms because i'm using a samsung sph-i300 with sprintpcs) (and i've switched to qmail so there's no need for procmail) and it works great.
hey, i'm not trying to say the inspiron is a better laptop than the Ti Book. i love the Ti Book and wish i wasn't wedded to x86 hardware. i was just pointing out that battery life by itself could not justify the purchase of the Ti Book, especially if one isn't a Mac OS user but rather a linux user.
dell inspiron 8100 = 15 inch screen, which may be a smaller diagonal but because it's the standard aspect ratio (4:3) (1600x1200) instead of a widescreen, i'm guessing it's actually a bit larger in terms of area.
you got a Ti Book just to get 4 hours of battery life? did you even look at pc laptops? my dell inspiron 8100 gets 4 hours with one battery in. after i replaced the floppy drive with a second battery my battery life is 8 hours. sure, that's when i'm running nothing but vim, konqueror, and xmms, but that's what i do 99% of the time. playing dvd's cuts the battery time in half, but that's still enough to get through two movies, generally.
the point is, i'm guessing that if you're honest with yourself, you bought the Ti Book for it's looks more than anything. i know i almost did.
regarding redhat, what you describe is basically what they're doing now. it installed flawlessly on my laptop- no post-installation configuration necessary. it comes with all the great developer tools and docs that basically every other distro does: gcc+perl+python+autoconf+etc and man+info+/usr/share/doc+etc. the API is solid. it's been solid for years. i didn't even have to compile a custom kernel to get every piece of hardware (sans winmodem) working.
i'll admit that i left linux for openbsd for the last couple of years, but since trying redhat this last month i've been impressed. installed redhat, it works. installed 3d card driver from rpm. it works. installed half a dozen loki games. they all work. wireless ethernet and internal ethernet just plain work. IrDA, USB, and sound all work. everything just works, and it was all painless to install.
so perhaps it's been a while since you've tried linux. but if you put a modern distro on a modern system, i think you'll be amazed at how far it's come in the last few years.
you were going to? what's stopping you? now is your last chance!
i just put in my order for sc3k (and tribes2, and fakk2) (already have five other loki games). after all, it's not like the games magically stop working as soon as loki shuts their doors...
what exactly is the problem with a guy who wants to live in a city with less electromagnetic radiation than other cities? america is built on the ideal that people like this guy can fight for causes like this one, in order to ensure their ability to pursue the kind of lifestyle they'd like to live. if you don't like it, don't move to mednocino. if you want to live in mendocino, then lobby against him.
sheesh.
there are a lot of self-important pricks out there, but this guy doesn't sound like one of them.
I agree, AA fonts are not supposed to be used on controls.
says who? i'll admit that i've turned off AA on my KDE desktop because it, umm, sucks. but in winxp (don't ask) i've got AA with cleartype turned on, and it's used everywhere, including controls, and it looks great.
gosh, this comment would've been great if it only had a link to the original source.
oh, wait. it did.
so, the point of pasting in the entire text of the linked page was...?
no no no, i mean other than filling up my screen with pages of redundant content that gets in the way of my reading of the interesting and insightful comments posted before and after this one.
truly we are in agreement. WEP is broken. i always tunnel my wireless traffic through (Open)SSH, just as i do with my wireline traffic on untrusted networks. i just wanted to point out that even some of our most trustworthy protocols need "upgrading" from time to time.
It's interesting that you refer to WEP as being a "cat and mouse" game but don't want to admit that SSH1 was largely the same thing, as summed up in http://www.openssh.com/goals.html
just why do you think we have ssh1 (1.3) and ssh1 (1.5) and, for that matter, ssh2? regardless of implementation details (and for that matter, nobody's perfect) the ssh1 protocol had problems.
Re SSLv2: ciphersuite rollback attack is bad news. read the background section of http://www.counterpane.com/ssl.html
point being, sure WEP may have flaws, but then again, flaws have also been discovered in those other great "never need to upgrade" protocols you mention.
the article that you link to not only exploits cumulative round-off errors in order to magnify a point, but it's also overly simplistic. i routinely dial my cell phone one handed while at a stop light, and i don't always finish dialing by the time the light turns green. regardless, i notice the light turn green as it changes and proceed to accelerate as i continue dialing. either his statement that human attention is "not multithreaded" is wrong, or i've got dialing down to a reflex. also, i then turn on the speakerphone, set the phone on my passenger seat, and hold a conversation while driving through downtown boston, swerving to avoid bicyclists, stopping suddenly as people ahead of me run red lights, and rerouting to avoid congestion. all while carrying on that phone conversation. so, perhaps while the author has a hard time talking and driving, i don't.
outlawing cell phones in cars because they're a distraction? fucking retarded idea- what's next, outlawing passengers? luckily the author doesn't go that far, he just advises those building in-car devices to take driving into account when figuring out price/performance trade-offs.
Yeah, "WWW-Authenticate" is real funky. It's not like it's a standard or anything.
Let me guess, they're using Digest instead of Basic authentication, and you're just pissed because Netscape doesn't support it. Here's a nickel, kid. Go get a real browser.
I've found this awesome way of keeping my cell phone and PDA in sync:
(the poster mentioned something called Outlook, too: what's that?)
Buy your phone. When you call someone, look up their number in your PDA, then save it after dialing them. When someone calls you, save their number from the caller ID record. When someone changes their number, just change it on both the phone and PDA.
I've had both a Palm and a cell phone for about five years, and the above method has worked incredibly well for me, even with many of my friends moving around all the time due to graduating from college, getting laid off, and so on. The point is, 10, 20, even 30 digits of fairly static information just isn't that hard to keep in sync manually.
I've yet to find a good software solution that saves me more time than it wastes through lost data.
From that description, you tell me whether I work in "academia" or "industry". There is no dividing line any more.
I can't tell if you are in academia or industry, but you either picked the wrong school or the wrong employer. There is a dividing line, if you stay away from huge corporations and huge universities.
If you ever plan on using that code again, write it clean. You'll thank yourself later.
Hell, why limit yourself? Much code gets used long past it's intended lifetime, and gets inherited and maintained by people who had nothing to do with it. Writing ugly code for something you think is temporary can end up getting your name cursed by the poor schmoe who is told to add a feature to it.
Spend some time learning how to write clean code and make it a habit. The world will be a better place for it. You will gain the respect of your peers and coworkers. Women will love you and men will fear you. Presidents will bow at your feet and churches will spring up to worship you.
Or, at the very least, the poor schmoe who inherits your last project won't curse your name.
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Engineers with an over-developed
aesthetic sense are writing their code for other
engineers, not the end-user.
Engineers with an under-developed aesthetic sense are writing their code to
minimize the time invested, not maximize the quality of the code.
Too many times
in my professional life have I seen inordinate
amounts of time wasted on issues which are
invisible to the end-user, because some overly-
aesthetically minded engineer couldn't sleep at
night.
Too many times in my professional life have I seen inordinate amounts of time wasted on fixing trivial bugs due to poor design decisions, because some careless engineer didn't bother to think before coding.
Too many times in my professional life have I seen inordinate amounts of time wasted on huge refactoring efforts, because nobody ever took the time to construct things properly the first time.
It's a craft, not an art
It can be a craft or an art, but if not done well, it's just crap.
yeah, but software is incredibly complex in a fragile way, doing things like breaking in the face of unexpected-yet-valid input. biological organisms are complex in a beautifully resilient way, adapting to new situations and working through problems like losing a limb.
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i've got 768k dsl, and their downloads are fast enough to keep my pipe filled. i've done a couple downloads from them while at a client's site with multiple T3's and remember it being significantly faster (wasn't checking the actual rate, though). anyway, point is that it's fast, and always fast, and if you're at the end of consumer-grade broadband your downloads from them will be at the max speed that your connection allows.
that's because his web server is misconfigured, and returns http headers that say the content-type is realaudio (this is due to the (arguably silly) practice of deciding mime types based on filenames).
nice quotation there. what he actually said was:
your version is rather like me quoting you as
or you can get a real mail handler (e.g. procmail) and set it up to send you an sms message whenever important mail comes through. that's what i do (only it's not sms because i'm using a samsung sph-i300 with sprintpcs) (and i've switched to qmail so there's no need for procmail) and it works great.
...then get Damian Conway's Lingua::tlhIngan::yIghun. Let's you write perl code in the original Klingon!
hey, i'm not trying to say the inspiron is a better laptop than the Ti Book. i love the Ti Book and wish i wasn't wedded to x86 hardware. i was just pointing out that battery life by itself could not justify the purchase of the Ti Book, especially if one isn't a Mac OS user but rather a linux user.
dell inspiron 8100 = 15 inch screen, which may be a smaller diagonal but because it's the standard aspect ratio (4:3) (1600x1200) instead of a widescreen, i'm guessing it's actually a bit larger in terms of area.
ah yes, i remember those times well. on the bright side, it's probably better for your grades this way.
you got a Ti Book just to get 4 hours of battery life? did you even look at pc laptops? my dell inspiron 8100 gets 4 hours with one battery in. after i replaced the floppy drive with a second battery my battery life is 8 hours. sure, that's when i'm running nothing but vim, konqueror, and xmms, but that's what i do 99% of the time. playing dvd's cuts the battery time in half, but that's still enough to get through two movies, generally.
the point is, i'm guessing that if you're honest with yourself, you bought the Ti Book for it's looks more than anything. i know i almost did.
regarding redhat, what you describe is basically what they're doing now. it installed flawlessly on my laptop- no post-installation configuration necessary. it comes with all the great developer tools and docs that basically every other distro does: gcc+perl+python+autoconf+etc and man+info+/usr/share/doc+etc. the API is solid. it's been solid for years. i didn't even have to compile a custom kernel to get every piece of hardware (sans winmodem) working.
i'll admit that i left linux for openbsd for the last couple of years, but since trying redhat this last month i've been impressed. installed redhat, it works. installed 3d card driver from rpm. it works. installed half a dozen loki games. they all work. wireless ethernet and internal ethernet just plain work. IrDA, USB, and sound all work. everything just works, and it was all painless to install.
so perhaps it's been a while since you've tried linux. but if you put a modern distro on a modern system, i think you'll be amazed at how far it's come in the last few years.
you were going to? what's stopping you? now is your last chance!
i just put in my order for sc3k (and tribes2, and fakk2) (already have five other loki games). after all, it's not like the games magically stop working as soon as loki shuts their doors...
man, tough crowd here on /.
what exactly is the problem with a guy who wants to live in a city with less electromagnetic radiation than other cities? america is built on the ideal that people like this guy can fight for causes like this one, in order to ensure their ability to pursue the kind of lifestyle they'd like to live. if you don't like it, don't move to mednocino. if you want to live in mendocino, then lobby against him.
sheesh.
there are a lot of self-important pricks out there, but this guy doesn't sound like one of them.
Besides, couldn't it be possilbe for Emusic.com to copy prevent their MP3s or at least have them set to expire after, say, 30 days?
no.
says who? i'll admit that i've turned off AA on my KDE desktop because it, umm, sucks. but in winxp (don't ask) i've got AA with cleartype turned on, and it's used everywhere, including controls, and it looks great.
gosh, this comment would've been great if it only had a link to the original source.
oh, wait. it did.
so, the point of pasting in the entire text of the linked page was...?
no no no, i mean other than filling up my screen with pages of redundant content that gets in the way of my reading of the interesting and insightful comments posted before and after this one.
truly we are in agreement. WEP is broken. i always tunnel my wireless traffic through (Open)SSH, just as i do with my wireline traffic on untrusted networks. i just wanted to point out that even some of our most trustworthy protocols need "upgrading" from time to time.
It's interesting that you refer to WEP as being a "cat and mouse" game but don't want to admit that SSH1 was largely the same thing, as summed up in http://www.openssh.com/goals.html
just why do you think we have ssh1 (1.3) and ssh1 (1.5) and, for that matter, ssh2? regardless of implementation details (and for that matter, nobody's perfect) the ssh1 protocol had problems.
Re SSLv2: ciphersuite rollback attack is bad news. read the background section of http://www.counterpane.com/ssl.html
point being, sure WEP may have flaws, but then again, flaws have also been discovered in those other great "never need to upgrade" protocols you mention.
so, i suppose you're still using SSLv2 and SSH1? no? why not? perhaps because of the security flaws found in each of them?
the article that you link to not only exploits cumulative round-off errors in order to magnify a point, but it's also overly simplistic. i routinely dial my cell phone one handed while at a stop light, and i don't always finish dialing by the time the light turns green. regardless, i notice the light turn green as it changes and proceed to accelerate as i continue dialing. either his statement that human attention is "not multithreaded" is wrong, or i've got dialing down to a reflex. also, i then turn on the speakerphone, set the phone on my passenger seat, and hold a conversation while driving through downtown boston, swerving to avoid bicyclists, stopping suddenly as people ahead of me run red lights, and rerouting to avoid congestion. all while carrying on that phone conversation. so, perhaps while the author has a hard time talking and driving, i don't.
outlawing cell phones in cars because they're a distraction? fucking retarded idea- what's next, outlawing passengers? luckily the author doesn't go that far, he just advises those building in-car devices to take driving into account when figuring out price/performance trade-offs.
Let me guess, they're using Digest instead of Basic authentication, and you're just pissed because Netscape doesn't support it. Here's a nickel, kid. Go get a real browser.
No no, just boycott Realtime fur. Stick to the good old fashioned batch processed stuff.
(the poster mentioned something called Outlook, too: what's that?)
Buy your phone. When you call someone, look up their number in your PDA, then save it after dialing them. When someone calls you, save their number from the caller ID record. When someone changes their number, just change it on both the phone and PDA.
I've had both a Palm and a cell phone for about five years, and the above method has worked incredibly well for me, even with many of my friends moving around all the time due to graduating from college, getting laid off, and so on. The point is, 10, 20, even 30 digits of fairly static information just isn't that hard to keep in sync manually.
I've yet to find a good software solution that saves me more time than it wastes through lost data.
Spend some time learning how to write clean code and make it a habit. The world will be a better place for it. You will gain the respect of your peers and coworkers. Women will love you and men will fear you. Presidents will bow at your feet and churches will spring up to worship you.
Or, at the very least, the poor schmoe who inherits your last project won't curse your name.
Too many times in my professional life have I seen inordinate amounts of time wasted on huge refactoring efforts, because nobody ever took the time to construct things properly the first time.
It can be a craft or an art, but if not done well, it's just crap.yeah, but software is incredibly complex in a fragile way, doing things like breaking in the face of unexpected-yet-valid input. biological organisms are complex in a beautifully resilient way, adapting to new situations and working through problems like losing a limb.