You say you're a skeptic, but you're going about this the wrong way by trying to confirm the existence of ghosts. It seems to presuppose the conclusion. You're going in to test, but already you're confirmation biased: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
You want to go in there and find out what's REALLY going on. Not look for ghosts. Or leave it to someone who knows what they're doing. If you start measuring electrical activity and whatnot, who knows what you'll pick up. But a ghost is still extremely unlikely. Ever heard of Occam's Razor?
Anyway, before you start measuring (experimenting), you need a likely hypothesis that you're going to be testing. Good luck on that one with the ghosts.
...and both twitter and bit.ly fail to handle the IDNs correctly. Twitter doesn't make http://-./ a link, and bit.ly just says "Server Error".
But then again, nobody could have thought this would be easy... I have an email address ending in.name, and 4 character TLDs can even be difficult sometimes.
This depends a lot on what you want to do. For my experimental/root needs, I use slicehost, because they are solid and I have full root access. For my one-click-install maintained services and servers, I use dreamhost. Dreamhost is a bit slow from Europe (because of the distance and RTT), but it works fine for me. If you want a service that gives you both, you're looking at higher prices from someone like rackspace.
All the above have decent support that answer within reasonable time and have a clue, which I find is very important. I'm done wasting time with support where different people give different answers, didn't understand the question or didn't actually even bother to read the question.
searches for the string WHATEVER in all regular files, weird-filename-safe. xargs runs 4 parallel greps, to make use of all those CPUs and cores! Here's two test runs, note the changing order:
I don't know if this is part of your plan, but you should differentiate servers and services. Each server should have a unique name, ie "elrond.london.example.com", "frodo.hongkong.example.com", etc, or whatever theme or scheme you wish.
Then, each service should have a logical name, ie the server running web server for Human Resources could be hr.example.com (then you can move the service from one server to another without having to worry about renaming servers). This way, your internal naming scheme doesn't really matter to the users, and it shouldn't.
I agree. Perhaps this can be solved running 2 instances of Linux/X with different configuration files specifying the different input and output devices? Anyone have suggestions as to how this can be done? And then, if you wanted windows or mac, you can run different instances of Qemu/Xen/whatever on each X server.
How about glasses blocking 2 of the three RGB colors, and then you can have 3 users on the same full screen in monochrome! Hmm, maybe I should have patented that before posting...
Also in the news today, Michael Jackson is not vegetarian.
I have a suggestion for the moderators of slashdot. There's something called the "so what?" factor, and if you can't answer that question about an article, then don't post it.
I think you're wrong. Kids are eager and able to learn new stuff, especially if it has some benefit for them. For instance, a colleague of mine has a 6 year old daughter who pretty much taught herself to read because she wanted to play online games and needed to understand what was going on.
Morse was developed in a clever way, so that much used characters had shorter codes, and were therefore faster to type. SMS has nothing like this. For instance, with SMS, E is 2 clicks, I is 3 and O is 3 (and S is 4!). This can be improved with "intelligence" like T9, but then you might have to wait for the software, and you have to read and choose the correct words.
I'd suggest something like Dvorak for SMS; rearrange the letters on the keys so that the most normal characters are one click, and the least normal characters are 3 clicks. No need to actually recreate morse on cellphones, but no need to be stupid about the design either.
In all that extra money you're going to earn. And even better, you could do this for 3 years and earn LOTS, and then you could stop and play all you can.
exemplary over the years, especially when cmpared[sic] to microsoft iis.
Apache's security record is good ONLY when compared to even more buggy alternatives. It has had several remote exploits, and probably even more DoS problems. This is hardly exemplary.
What's wrong with a small slick device that doesn't break if you look at it too hard? The yellow/black design of this thing reminds me a _lot_ of my late 80's Sony Walkman that was waterproof and shockproof. Why do they have to make stuff like that yellow and black? So everyone will know they can drop it for fun?
Loads of people do this, and that is exactly why WHOIS is becoming completely useless and needs to be "fixed". One possibility is to include a turing test, an email to the person who wants to contact the (owner|admin|billing) contact of a domain for tracking purposes, which then needs to be replied to, or something like that. Not all that much is needed to make it too costly for spammers.
That's not correct, WHOIS Privacy Protection does exactly that, where some proxy information is put into whois instead of the registrant information. The proxy is obviously obliged to forward important messages to the owner of the domain. This is even free with some registrars.
That's why you should use a registrar that provides WHOIS Privacy Protection. They can change your details for you, but they also have an obligation to actually receive emails/phonecalls and forward this information to the registrant if necessary. This costs money some places, but not all.
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...spent playing with my RepRap might get useful at some point! ;)
You say you're a skeptic, but you're going about this the wrong way by trying to confirm the existence of ghosts. It seems to presuppose the conclusion. You're going in to test, but already you're confirmation biased: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
You want to go in there and find out what's REALLY going on. Not look for ghosts. Or leave it to someone who knows what they're doing. If you start measuring electrical activity and whatnot, who knows what you'll pick up. But a ghost is still extremely unlikely. Ever heard of Occam's Razor?
Anyway, before you start measuring (experimenting), you need a likely hypothesis that you're going to be testing. Good luck on that one with the ghosts.
Haha, way to go Slashdot! So I have to input http://xn--4gbrim.xn----rmckbbajlc6dj7bxne2c.xn--wgbh1c/ instead of http://-./ ?
(Not that anyone will see what I originally meant)
...and both twitter and bit.ly fail to handle the IDNs correctly. Twitter doesn't make http://-./ a link, and bit.ly just says "Server Error".
But then again, nobody could have thought this would be easy... I have an email address ending in .name, and 4 character TLDs can even be difficult sometimes.
This depends a lot on what you want to do. For my experimental/root needs, I use slicehost, because they are solid and I have full root access. For my one-click-install maintained services and servers, I use dreamhost. Dreamhost is a bit slow from Europe (because of the distance and RTT), but it works fine for me. If you want a service that gives you both, you're looking at higher prices from someone like rackspace.
All the above have decent support that answer within reasonable time and have a clue, which I find is very important. I'm done wasting time with support where different people give different answers, didn't understand the question or didn't actually even bother to read the question.
find and xargs is an absolutely brilliant combination. I can't live without it.
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -P 4 -0 echo grep -H WHATEVER
searches for the string WHATEVER in all regular files, weird-filename-safe. xargs runs 4 parallel greps, to make use of all those CPUs and cores! Here's two test runs, note the changing order:
$ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -P 5 -n 2 -0 echo grep a ./1 ./2 ./5 ./6 ./7 ./8 ./3 ./4 ./9 ./1 ./2 ./3 ./4 ./5 ./6 ./7 ./8 ./9
grep a
grep a
grep a
grep a
grep a
$ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -P 5 -n 2 -0 echo grep a
grep a
grep a
grep a
grep a
grep a
I don't know if this is part of your plan, but you should differentiate servers and services. Each server should have a unique name, ie "elrond.london.example.com", "frodo.hongkong.example.com", etc, or whatever theme or scheme you wish.
Then, each service should have a logical name, ie the server running web server for Human Resources could be hr.example.com (then you can move the service from one server to another without having to worry about renaming servers). This way, your internal naming scheme doesn't really matter to the users, and it shouldn't.
This is a false dichotomy. Software patents are obviously not the only alternative to developing for charity.
I agree. Perhaps this can be solved running 2 instances of Linux/X with different configuration files specifying the different input and output devices? Anyone have suggestions as to how this can be done? And then, if you wanted windows or mac, you can run different instances of Qemu/Xen/whatever on each X server.
How about glasses blocking 2 of the three RGB colors, and then you can have 3 users on the same full screen in monochrome! Hmm, maybe I should have patented that before posting...
http://pi.cr.yp.to/
As a side note, it's interesting that Slashdot says this link is at cr.yp.to.
Having a bullshit filter is a good thing, and mine was in the red when I read this.
So somebody said nerve signals are sent by sound and not electrical impulses? Tell that to the people who regain hearing thanks to cochlear implants (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant), or to the people who have prosthetics that move based on electrical impulses (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1035304.stm). In fact, why not tell this to everyone who could be wasting their time doing research in the field of neuroprosthetics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroprosthetics)?
The "x" in the top-right of a window closes the window. It is the same with every other program.
No it isn't. Have you tried Adobe Reader?
Remember to buy that on high land. If the ice caps on Greenland and Antarctica melt, the sea level might rise by as much as 80 meters.
Source: New Scientist magazine, 27 August 2005, page 26
Also in the news today, Michael Jackson is not vegetarian.
I have a suggestion for the moderators of slashdot. There's something called the "so what?" factor, and if you can't answer that question about an article, then don't post it.
I thought the fathers of OOP were Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard.
They created the first OOP language, after all...
I think you're wrong. Kids are eager and able to learn new stuff, especially if it has some benefit for them. For instance, a colleague of mine has a 6 year old daughter who pretty much taught herself to read because she wanted to play online games and needed to understand what was going on.
Morse was developed in a clever way, so that much used characters had shorter codes, and were therefore faster to type. SMS has nothing like this. For instance, with SMS, E is 2 clicks, I is 3 and O is 3 (and S is 4!). This can be improved with "intelligence" like T9, but then you might have to wait for the software, and you have to read and choose the correct words.
I'd suggest something like Dvorak for SMS; rearrange the letters on the keys so that the most normal characters are one click, and the least normal characters are 3 clicks. No need to actually recreate morse on cellphones, but no need to be stupid about the design either.
Perhaps you should read these changelogs:
http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_2.0
http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_1.3
Pay attention to the SECURITY related changes.
Que pasa?
OK, I'm a fan of Linux, but I also have a bullshit detector, and anyone claiming that Apache has a good security track record is full of it.
What's wrong with a small slick device that doesn't break if you look at it too hard? The yellow/black design of this thing reminds me a _lot_ of my late 80's Sony Walkman that was waterproof and shockproof. Why do they have to make stuff like that yellow and black? So everyone will know they can drop it for fun?
Loads of people do this, and that is exactly why WHOIS is becoming completely useless and needs to be "fixed". One possibility is to include a turing test, an email to the person who wants to contact the (owner|admin|billing) contact of a domain for tracking purposes, which then needs to be replied to, or something like that. Not all that much is needed to make it too costly for spammers.
.name
Ketil
Shameless plug:
Personal Names - get your
That's not correct, WHOIS Privacy Protection does exactly that, where some proxy information is put into whois instead of the registrant information. The proxy is obviously obliged to forward important messages to the owner of the domain. This is even free with some registrars.
.name
Ketil
Shameless plug:
Personal Names - get your
That's why you should use a registrar that provides WHOIS Privacy Protection. They can change your details for you, but they also have an obligation to actually receive emails/phonecalls and forward this information to the registrant if necessary. This costs money some places, but not all.
.name
Ketil
Shameless plug:
Personal Names - get your