Reminds me of a robot contest I judged once. The kid's had all sorts of justifications (at least in their mind) about how the lego-bot didn't really "need" any sensors to work. They had designed the algorythems to not require them.
Better known as they programmed the thing to hit hard-coded start and stop sequences based on the internal clock, and were shocked and amazed when it didn't work.
While I feel for them that this was a unique bit of equipment under some oddbals circumstances, you don't leave anything out on the net that you don't want misused. I mean, how hard would it have been to throw all of antarctica behind a firewall for the scientific instruments, and then nat the connections to worthy parties on a need-to-know basis?
And yes, I've designed and used such a system under Linux using iptables and a shell script.
Utter that cliche again and I will kill you where you stand! Gentoo is a warrior's distribution. Built on ordeal and self reliance. A warrior is not a man until he has built his own implements from scratch!
Tread lightly on critiques of OSX. I too hated the interface the first time I saw it, but after several weeks of use I find that it has one thing most open source products lack: focus.
Yes, the OSX way may be a little odd at first. But there is only one way. And it works well with every case. Of course, this is coming from a guy who likes emacs. (Heck I have the native Aqua emacs, AND the X11 emacs through fink. They both come in handy in different circumstances.)
I use this trick for my low-end x86 boxen: Cross compile. With the right set of tweaks in your make.conf file you can build for a different architecture.
Also distcc is your friend. As long as the copies of GCC reasonably match up, distcc could really care less about the architectures of the clients.
I have a pile of rackmounts at work that run gentoo for email and firewalling. I have been playing with pre-compiling binaries on one and using the -k option, but I'm constantly having to follow up with a revdep-rebuild. There are just some packages that seem to not carry over for whatever reason. (And running emerge -e on a prodiuction machine is asking for trouble.)
There are many simpler ways to deliver 4 grams of C4. It's called a slingshot. Or just make the thing into a baseball shape and toss it. Need accuracy? How about a robot controlled trebuchet?
I have the 12" iBook. Heat hasn't been a problem, and I'm a cheap ass with the air conditioning.
Man, I thought I was being cheap picking the iBook over the PB. Ok, really I was going for the extra hour on the battery, because after adding in extra RAM, the airport, bluetooth, and maxed out HD I (cough work) really didn't save anything.
(PS, there is an hacked control panel available that will allow the iBook to do dual-screen. I look like something out of a movie at the office, I have my iBook's screen on one side, and an external flat panel next to it. Both working at the same time.)
The iBook has a fan? Crap I've been using a 12" 1Ghz G4 iBook for 3 weeks and I haven't heard the fan kick yet.
Heck the only time I hear the hard drive is late at night, and even then I think I'm half imagioning it, half feeling it.
And for those of you who thing "yeah, but he isn't doing crap on it" I do database development work. A couple of times a week I have it dump and reassemble our database for a testbed. It blows out ram and disk load for 30 minutes at a stretch. Heck, the battery is so good in this thing I've taken to doing it on my bus ride home while I fiddle around with emacs in the foreground.
Really, really nice machine. (Coming from a long time Linux laptop guy.)
Or until they realize this thing wouldn't last 10 seconds outdoors. A simple gust of wind would carry this thing WAY off course. It looks like it has a hard enough time dealing with normal air currents sans wind.
Notice the Tri-lateral commission logo on the unit's battery. If you watch the vehicle bobbing, it forms the same sort of mathemtatical patterns as a crop circle. Finally, you can see flecks of a tinfoil cap beneath the scalp of the person in the video.
The news media is still largely censored. What they can print is monitored by the mililtary. What we are recieving as BAD news isn't half of what the media WOULD be reporting on if it had unfettered access.
Conversely, the military authorities have had every opertunity to highlight their "successes" and play down their "not-so-successes". What you are seeing is the prettiest picture the Penatgon can produce.
And it ain't that pretty. And we really wouldn't have expected better, if we weren't bombarded with "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" propoganda.
As I sit here slashdotting in one hand and playing interference with my infant on the other, I contemplate the social scene for new dads.
(Tends to screaming kid.)
Well I guess I could hire a sitter. (No sweety, not the iBook!!!!)
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And let's not forget look forward to Tux's first $600 phone bill, nor the constant onslaught of "I need a car."
We get signal!
Better known as they programmed the thing to hit hard-coded start and stop sequences based on the internal clock, and were shocked and amazed when it didn't work.
While I feel for them that this was a unique bit of equipment under some oddbals circumstances, you don't leave anything out on the net that you don't want misused. I mean, how hard would it have been to throw all of antarctica behind a firewall for the scientific instruments, and then nat the connections to worthy parties on a need-to-know basis?
And yes, I've designed and used such a system under Linux using iptables and a shell script.
Utter that cliche again and I will kill you where you stand! Gentoo is a warrior's distribution. Built on ordeal and self reliance. A warrior is not a man until he has built his own implements from scratch!
Besides, my athlon-XP kicks out QT and KDE overnight.
Yes, the OSX way may be a little odd at first. But there is only one way. And it works well with every case. Of course, this is coming from a guy who likes emacs. (Heck I have the native Aqua emacs, AND the X11 emacs through fink. They both come in handy in different circumstances.)
Also distcc is your friend. As long as the copies of GCC reasonably match up, distcc could really care less about the architectures of the clients.
I have a pile of rackmounts at work that run gentoo for email and firewalling. I have been playing with pre-compiling binaries on one and using the -k option, but I'm constantly having to follow up with a revdep-rebuild. There are just some packages that seem to not carry over for whatever reason. (And running emerge -e on a prodiuction machine is asking for trouble.)
All part of the service.
There are many simpler ways to deliver 4 grams of C4. It's called a slingshot. Or just make the thing into a baseball shape and toss it. Need accuracy? How about a robot controlled trebuchet?
Who needs kids, I have justice.
Man, I thought I was being cheap picking the iBook over the PB. Ok, really I was going for the extra hour on the battery, because after adding in extra RAM, the airport, bluetooth, and maxed out HD I (cough work) really didn't save anything.
(PS, there is an hacked control panel available that will allow the iBook to do dual-screen. I look like something out of a movie at the office, I have my iBook's screen on one side, and an external flat panel next to it. Both working at the same time.)
At this point I don't WANT any more kids. Bring it on!
Heck the only time I hear the hard drive is late at night, and even then I think I'm half imagioning it, half feeling it.
And for those of you who thing "yeah, but he isn't doing crap on it" I do database development work. A couple of times a week I have it dump and reassemble our database for a testbed. It blows out ram and disk load for 30 minutes at a stretch. Heck, the battery is so good in this thing I've taken to doing it on my bus ride home while I fiddle around with emacs in the foreground.
Really, really nice machine. (Coming from a long time Linux laptop guy.)
I'm still holding out for a barcode tatoo on the back of my hand. Bonus if I can tie it into the electronic lock at the office.
I don't feel like such a cheapass for having work by me an iBook instead of the powerbook.
So when do we rename one of the months "Linuary" and add a 31st day? Oh, and are we going to yank that day from February?
Actually that isn't a captialism. There is no property (i.e. capital) involved. It's a meritocracy.
Or until they realize this thing wouldn't last 10 seconds outdoors. A simple gust of wind would carry this thing WAY off course. It looks like it has a hard enough time dealing with normal air currents sans wind.
What can this all mean?
Yes, but is that the 5 lion voltron, or the 15 vehicle voltron?
Or better yet, power the sucker with a microwave beam.
I swear that little think looks like one of DiVinci's sketches of a human powered machine. Compare
The news media is still largely censored. What they can print is monitored by the mililtary. What we are recieving as BAD news isn't half of what the media WOULD be reporting on if it had unfettered access.
Conversely, the military authorities have had every opertunity to highlight their "successes" and play down their "not-so-successes". What you are seeing is the prettiest picture the Penatgon can produce.
And it ain't that pretty. And we really wouldn't have expected better, if we weren't bombarded with "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" propoganda.
(Tends to screaming kid.)
Well I guess I could hire a sitter. (No sweety, not the iBook!!!!) a;dfogadlogjs;ldug wsorutspritgsagu9o uapouigfa oczvj zfj jozdo zdzolaeroprasjo; jgd oj j drg
No. It's that our bugs don't tend to make the headlines every few weeks.