heck, in 1984, there were something like 30 universal newsgroups--seems to me that they wouldn't quite fit on one screen, but didn't need two.
And you could read the days newsfeed in about two hours (yes, my consulting at the time had some *very* boring tasks that left me sitting in front of machines for a long time waiting to change disks).
> Why should humor have to be clearly labeled as
such?
A few years ago (96?) I referred to my Cat's
Death Stout on rec.crafts.brewing, not a place
noted for the humor-impaird. Particularly, I
mentioned that it had been a double-batch, but
that my cat had knocked the airlock out of one of
the bottles, leaving it open to infection.
Sone responded with a rather rabid message,
concluding that he hoped I choked to death on the
fur.
I started sending a caustic response, but thought
better of it. Sure enough, many others did,
pointing out that any idiot should have been able
to recognize I wasn't serious. [after all, it
wasn't like he ruined *both* carboys:) ]
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney in your jurisdiction.
It is *not* a requirement in a slander or libel case to show the falsity if the defamatory statement. Truth is a *defense*--and a very good one, which will wine in almost all cases.
Being a defense rather than part of the tort makes a difference in the burden of proof--it changes who has to prove the issue.
Even if the quality level had been maintained (which I don't think has happened), the data is much more dense. A it now takes a much smaller flawto cover/crunch a bit out of existence.
What I'd like to see on the drivers for these is massive error correction. 38 bits will detect 2 bit errors and correct one bit errors. Rather than putting a byte and it's correction code in a single place, spread it around the disk. Make certain that if the disk is physically damaged at any point, there is information elsewhere to retrieve it. I'd even reserve a sector for an XOR of the other sectors. Yep, it costs space, but less data is better than irretrievable data.
Nevermind NT. Microsoft made a big deal umpteen years ago about "Windows" not being subject to trademark, and that theirs was for "Microsoft Windows." There were just too many conflicts otherwise, both for trademarks and common usage (The Apple II (and probably I) recognized windows on the screen. You poked the borders into low memory (10-13?))
In every single instance where I've noted a difference between the BSD utility and the corresponding GNU utility, I've preferred teh BSD way. The options (none of that --fifty-charactar-option-string-instead-of-two, the information (e.g., ftp status line), man pages instead of that moronic info system, etc.
A linux kerenel with BSD utilities might interest me (but why bother?), but certainly not the other way around.
hawk
But what do you expect from hard-core spammers?
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I still don't know where they got my email address; I assume it was from an old free macweek subscription. They sent a message claiming to be honoring my "request", and have steadfastly refused to remove me. I've complained several times, and I've complained to their upstream.
Today, I took another stab at their abuse@ and postmaster@ accounts--only to find that *both* bounce as nonexistant addresses.
I'm not sure what's left but ORBS and RBL.
With such a clearly demonstrated lack of understanding, listening to them on a technology issue would be like listening to Clinton on honesty, or Monica on chastity . . .
should remove all messages with badthing[12] in the heading, where f4 is an alias for
sed -e 's/\(....\).*/\1/' |tr '\n' ' '
[I'll admit that I was briefly worried the first time that this was
my reaction to a bunch of messages from a mailer gone nuts . . . ]
2) it would be nice for the system to be hostile to abusive mailings--not by content, but from the idiots that send plain text messages in html and mime. That's not a user preference; it's *wrong*.
3) Must be command line friendly. MUA's are for sissies. Real men read from the command line:)
That's the single thing that has kept me from buying or even considering a pda--I want to use it with one hand, as most of the things I can think of that (or when) I'd use it require a free hand.
I'm aware that there's a keyboard that you can attach, but I want it built into the case, as
part of the case.
Boone, Iowa used to be a major rail center--three lines crossed there, or some such. Today, their rail preservation society (or whatever) operates what they claim is the last production built coal-fired steam engine--it was built in China.
So on weekends in spring and summer, you can go to the only stop, catch a ride on an honest-to-God steam engine, and leave smiling, but with flecks of coal all over your clothing . . .
Like the article said, there are serious concerns about the efects on local flora and fauna . . . and these will lead to human injuries
It can be expected to attract iron-rich plants, such as spinach. This in turn will attract cute little bunny rabbits. When the bunnies eat too much of the spinach, they will become stuck to the tracks.
With such easy targets, larger carnivores such as wolves and lions will be drawn to the area. After too many of these meals, they to will stick to the tracks, causing the train to derail.
Stop maglev now!
Oh, and think of the poor survivors, waiting for rescue, with no food but the spinach and bunnies. They'll have to shut off the electrical grid for half of Europe to unstick them from the tracks . . .
Ever since I realized that I could watch my football games at a sports bar, I've favored removing the television, but my wife won't go for it. But there's that faint glimmer of hope that analog broadcasts will end entirely and that I can just refuse to buy a new one . . .
I find it a bit odd to find a single post thanking someone for pointing out the silliness of supporting the quicktime version since it doesn't support linux, while providing a link to the unix versions of realplayer: the full version is not avaialble, and what *is* available is "community supported"--whatever that means . . .
It's not so much as "benefit of the doubt," but that it's the type of funding that would appeal to him. Space reasearch is "push" technology, creating spinoffs, which seems to fit in with his ideology.
I'm not willing to assume anything about him just because he's a republican; that's more than slightly bigotted . . .
Again, can you provide anything to back this other than that he belongs to the Republican party? I'm serious; I haven't seen *anything* about him and space.
I absolutely need Unix for my work. I don't number crunch; nothing that element. I find new ways to bash numbers into submission.
At times, I drool over the next step features in OS/X, but at least for this machine, I won't be going that way:(
If I were designing these as classroom demos, though . . .
*sigh*
I wanted a NeXT cube back then, but it wasn't really something I could justify to run a law office:) Today it's within reach, but I need the horsepower more than the interface, so it looks like an academic priced Sun or RS/6000 . . .
but I still wish I could have the next-step interface on the fortran compilers for hte mac . . .
Apple *was* willing to buy Be. THe problem was price: Be was demanding about twice what apple was offering. Even so, they might have been able to get it, until Apple found that they could buy next for what be was demanding. At the same price, it wasn't a hard choice . . .
And in hindsight, Apple got a hell of a deal, buying Jobs for $400M and getting Next thrown in with the deal . . .
But his death preceded the entry of such information into databases . . . He and my grandmother were in their 20's, I believe, when they built theplace after the earthquake.
But it changed hands, probably twice--I assume that it passed to his widow, and it was purchased from my great-grandmother's estate by my grandmother and grandfather . . .
Slashdot Mirror
heck, in 1984, there were something like 30 universal newsgroups--seems to me that they wouldn't quite fit on one screen, but didn't need two.
And you could read the days newsfeed in about two hours (yes, my consulting at the time had some *very* boring tasks that left me sitting in front of machines for a long time waiting to change disks).
> Why should humor have to be clearly labeled as
:) ]
such?
A few years ago (96?) I referred to my Cat's
Death Stout on rec.crafts.brewing, not a place
noted for the humor-impaird. Particularly, I
mentioned that it had been a double-batch, but
that my cat had knocked the airlock out of one of
the bottles, leaving it open to infection.
Sone responded with a rather rabid message,
concluding that he hoped I choked to death on the
fur.
I started sending a caustic response, but thought
better of it. Sure enough, many others did,
pointing out that any idiot should have been able
to recognize I wasn't serious. [after all, it
wasn't like he ruined *both* carboys
hawk
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney in your jurisdiction.
It is *not* a requirement in a slander or libel case to show the falsity if the defamatory statement. Truth is a *defense*--and a very good one, which will wine in almost all cases.
Being a defense rather than part of the tort makes a difference in the burden of proof--it changes who has to prove the issue.
Even if the quality level had been maintained (which I don't think has happened), the data is much more dense. A it now takes a much smaller flawto cover/crunch a bit out of existence.
What I'd like to see on the drivers for these is massive error correction. 38 bits will detect 2 bit errors and correct one bit errors. Rather than putting a byte and it's correction code in a single place, spread it around the disk. Make certain that if the disk is physically damaged at any point, there is information elsewhere to retrieve it. I'd even reserve a sector for an XOR of the other sectors. Yep, it costs space, but less data is better than irretrievable data.
A friend spilled a beer on one of my mac disks in '84. ONce it dried, we forced the slide open, and the disk was fine.
Nevermind NT. Microsoft made a big deal umpteen years ago about "Windows" not being subject to trademark, and that theirs was for "Microsoft Windows." There were just too many conflicts otherwise, both for trademarks and common usage (The Apple II (and probably I) recognized windows on the screen. You poked the borders into low memory (10-13?))
hawk
And I've been saying it for years.
In every single instance where I've noted a difference between the BSD utility and the corresponding GNU utility, I've preferred teh BSD way. The options (none of that --fifty-charactar-option-string-instead-of-two, the information (e.g., ftp status line), man pages instead of that moronic info system, etc.
A linux kerenel with BSD utilities might interest me (but why bother?), but certainly not the other way around.
hawk
I still don't know where they got my email address; I assume it was from an old free macweek subscription. They sent a message claiming to be honoring my "request", and have steadfastly refused to remove me. I've complained several times, and I've complained to their upstream.
Today, I took another stab at their abuse@ and postmaster@ accounts--only to find that *both* bounce as nonexistant addresses.
I'm not sure what's left but ORBS and RBL.
With such a clearly demonstrated lack of understanding, listening to them on a technology issue would be like listening to Clinton on honesty, or Monica on chastity . . .
1) It needs to be *trivial* to use standard unix tools on the mailbox to find things.
e.g.,
rmm `scan
should remove all messages with badthing[12] in the heading, where f4 is an alias for
sed -e 's/\(....\).*/\1/' |tr '\n' ' '
[I'll admit that I was briefly worried the first time that this was
my reaction to a bunch of messages from a mailer gone nuts . . . ]
2) it would be nice for the system to be hostile to abusive mailings--not by content, but from the idiots that send plain text messages in html and mime. That's not a user preference; it's *wrong*.
3) Must be command line friendly. MUA's are for sissies. Real men read from the command line
hawk
It hasn't been a good idea for a regular machine for four or five years now (since 1.1 came out, iirc).
There is no guarantee, nor even a tendency, for packages in unstable to get along, or stay in synch. They really mean "unstable"
With weekly updates, I found that an unstable machine becomes completely unusable about twice a year, requiring a day or two to get back up.
The solution is to use "testing," which is lagged two weeks from unstable so that the bombs can be removed . . .
That's the single thing that has kept me from buying or even considering a pda--I want to use it with one hand, as most of the things I can think of that (or when) I'd use it require a free hand.
I'm aware that there's a keyboard that you can attach, but I want it built into the case, as
part of the case.
hawk
That's even worse. When they shu it off, the poor bunnies will fall from the track and bump their fuzzy little heads :(
hawk
Boone, Iowa used to be a major rail center--three lines crossed there, or some such. Today, their rail preservation society (or whatever) operates what they claim is the last production built coal-fired steam engine--it was built in China.
So on weekends in spring and summer, you can go to the only stop, catch a ride on an honest-to-God steam engine, and leave smiling, but with flecks of coal all over your clothing . . .
>If you decide how technologically advanced a society is by the kind of
.75 . . . :)
>trains it uses, how do you think the US would do ?.
Quite well. Most of ours fly at about mach
More seriously, though, for the most part the U.S. isn't dense enough
for trains to be practical, though there are notable exceptions.
For that matter, we only have a half-dozen to dozen cities where local
mass transict *can* be practical.
hawk
Like the article said, there are serious concerns about the efects on local flora and fauna . . . and these will lead to human injuries
It can be expected to attract iron-rich plants, such as spinach. This in turn will attract cute little bunny rabbits. When the bunnies eat too much of the spinach, they will become stuck to the tracks.
With such easy targets, larger carnivores such as wolves and lions will be drawn to the area. After too many of these meals, they to will stick to the tracks, causing the train to derail.
Stop maglev now!
Oh, and think of the poor survivors, waiting for rescue, with no food but the spinach and bunnies. They'll have to shut off the electrical grid for half of Europe to unstick them from the tracks . . .
:)
Will the engine handle explosive decompression properly when you miss? Once good high velocity hit to the walls, and . . .
Ever since I realized that I could watch my football games at a sports bar, I've favored removing the television, but my wife won't go for it. But there's that faint glimmer of hope that analog broadcasts will end entirely and that I can just refuse to buy a new one . . .
for a version that works under load?
And if it exists, would someone *please* tell cnn?
:)
I find it a bit odd to find a single post thanking someone for pointing out the silliness of supporting the quicktime version since it doesn't support linux, while providing a link to the unix versions of realplayer: the full version is not avaialble, and what *is* available is "community supported"--whatever that means . . .
yes, especially given that they were able to use the trademark to force "anti-Monopoly" off the market 15-20 years ago . . .
It's not so much as "benefit of the doubt," but that it's the type of funding that would appeal to him. Space reasearch is "push" technology, creating spinoffs, which seems to fit in with his ideology.
I'm not willing to assume anything about him just because he's a republican; that's more than slightly bigotted . . .
hawk
Again, can you provide anything to back this other than that he belongs to the Republican party? I'm serious; I haven't seen *anything* about him and space.
I absolutely need Unix for my work. I don't number crunch; nothing that element. I find new ways to bash numbers into submission.
At times, I drool over the next step features in OS/X, but at least for this machine, I won't be going that way
If I were designing these as classroom demos, though . . .
*sigh*
I wanted a NeXT cube back then, but it wasn't really something I could justify to run a law office
but I still wish I could have the next-step interface on the fortran compilers for hte mac . . .
Apple *was* willing to buy Be. THe problem was price: Be was demanding about twice what apple was offering. Even so, they might have been able to get it, until Apple found that they could buy next for what be was demanding. At the same price, it wasn't a hard choice . . .
And in hindsight, Apple got a hell of a deal, buying Jobs for $400M and getting Next thrown in with the deal . . .
But his death preceded the entry of such information into databases . . . He and my grandmother were in their 20's, I believe, when they built theplace after the earthquake.
But it changed hands, probably twice--I assume that it passed to his widow, and it was purchased from my great-grandmother's estate by my grandmother and grandfather . . .