Sounds like you want to drive our country into the ground. The one distinct advantage the US has is that even though you may be a "late bloomer", your entire future is not decided the moment you turn twelve. If my future had been decided by the time I was in junior high, I'd be a hell of a lot worse off than I am now. I went from a basically mediocre performance in high school (possibly due more to social issues than intelligence), to obtaining a PhD in mathematics. I'm definitely not saying that having this degree means I'm smarter than those who don't have such a degree, but it does show that, in my case at least, my parents were right not to give up on being "110% supporting" of me (Oh, but how I frustrated them when I was young!) In closing, let me just say fuck you, and fuck what you said.
Hmm, a colleague of mine had the same question from Google a while back. Are you sure they were looking for "ls"? (i.e., did she say that?) The answer of course, is "stat". (To be honest, that was a command with which I was unfamiliar until my colleague told me about the question. Since then, I've found it to be quite handy in certain situations.)
We have some really cool tech going on nowadays, but I think I miss the times when this all seemed so fresh and exciting. I suppose that really speaks to where I am *now*, versus how clueless and new to the scene I was way back then.
You are close. on Ubuntu at least (I don't know about CentOS) vim-tiny is installed by default, and to get "real" vim, you just install "vim". I only say this because if you have an Ubuntu server install (i.e. bare-bones, without X), and you install vim-full, you will get, in addition to "real" vim, the GUI version of vim. That implies of course that you are going to get a whole boatload of packages (such as X), which you probably don't want (or you would have installed it in the first place).
I was a postdoc at NRL for three years. They used to do random searches on the way out, but in the three years I was driving in and out, I was never stopped, so the percentage of outbound cars they searched must have been quite small.
I brought equipment home while I was there, such as laptops, but they were bought for me to use. (Of course, we never did get around to creating a property pass, so technically I would have had some serious explaining to do had they stopped me and found the laptop on the way out.)
Hmmm, I hope this update works with my Thinkpad T60p Hackintosh! I will of course play it safe and let some other sucker^H^H^H^H^H^H brave soul try it on their box first...
I've done just this. I have a Thinkpad that I have Linux installed on. Just for fun, I hooked up an external USB drive (a 2.5" laptop drive, so it is small) and installed OSx86 on it. To my surprise, it works just fantastic! Almost everything is working. The only things I've found that are not working are 1) Sleep mode doesn't work, and 2) I don't have Quartz Extreme graphics, so no snazzy 3D effects for me. OTOH, I now have one laptop I can carry with me that can do both Linux and OS X, so no more deciding whether to bring the powerbook or the thinkpad when I travel. Oh, and it also runs much faster than my old Powerbook G4.
Indeed. Personally, now that Firefox will save tabs, I no longer have much concern about memory leaks. Of course it would be good if they were fixed, but practically speaking, it doesn't have a material impact on my usage. I always close Firefox at the end of the day and reopen it in the morning.
However, if they can make Firefox even quicker, that would be something I'd appreciate!
One thing that's nice about the iPhone, is that it uses the same plug as the iPod. Since I've owned several iPods, I now have about 15 ways to charge my iPhone!:-)
I'm still at 1.0.2, simply because I love the 3rd party apps that are on my phone already. (I already bent over for AT&T, so I didn't bother unlocking my phone).
Now, as the summary mentions, I hope the barrier to development is not too high. They're certainly right to be concerned about security, I just hope a good balance is struck.
(Somewhat unrelated: I see that it's now possible to jailbreak 1.1.1, but I'm still waiting. Apparently you cannot yet use your own, non-apple-blessed ringtones under 1.1.1, even after jailbreak.)
Heh, I used to work early in college in a math department Apple II computer lab and, apart from keeping myself from getting bored by liberating the educational software from its copy restrictions (some of it wouldn't even run anymore, but after taking the protection off, it started to work!) I would play harmless pranks like changing that message to:
"Carelessly saving this file"
(I think there might have been a period at the end that I removed to adjust for the extra character). I didn't even expect anyone to notice, but someone did. (They realized it was a joke). The chairman of the math department liked the joke as well, but suggested I should probably change it back.
Not quite. Hyperventilation does not increase O2 levels in the bloodstream, it actually *reduces* CO2 levels, and since the basic mechanism your body uses to monitor when you should take a breath is via the CO2 level, that's why it feels like you can go longer without taking a breath after hyperventilating and holding your breath.
Of course, in space, even if you had time to hyperventilate beforehand, it would not help you any, since you can't hold your breath, and as mentioned, your blood O2 levels don't change. But perhaps you would not feel like you were suffocating before you passed out. I don't know. Any volunteers for an experiment?;-)
It wasn't just bad sectors. In the case of the Apple 2 series, the floppy drives were entirely software controlled. They were capable of tracking in greater density than the safe value that Apple went with. Hence half tracking and quarter tracking could be done where you essentially doubled or quadrupled data storage capability on the same floppy. Since a game that booted from the floppy had to basically come with its own DOS, it became a quick no-brainer to have it so custom that it tracked differently from what Apple DOS was expecting, with different sector layouts, making copying the disk much harder. Didn't stop it howerver as the parameters of what the drive could do were known so figuring out what any given game was doing was no big deal for serious hardware/software hacking geeks of the time.
Not to pick nits or anything, but hey, this is Slashdot, home of nit pickers...
You are close to right. Apple drives could do half and quarter track movements (and at that, quarter tracks were not really supported by the firmware, you had to switch the stepper motor off half-way through a move). What wasn't possible was to double or quadruple the data storage capacity of a drive. Two tracks had to be a full track-step apart. Any closer and they'd 'bleed' over on to one another. Of course, as a copy protection, you could put the information on 'half tracks', which normal copy programs (but of course, not software like Locksmith, Copy II+, etc) couldn't copy.
I once played with slowing my drive way down by turning the screw that was used to fine-tune the spindle motor speed. Doing this, I was able to create a 17 sector disk (normal is 16 sectors) that seemed to be usable in a drive running at normal speed, at least for reads. Still, it would have been easy to crack...
Ok, enough strolling down memory lane, and the nits are tired.
I *just* downloaded rc1 like, two days ago. I just downloaded the final version and diff'ed it with the rc1 candidate and it's the same file, so if you downloaded rc1 already, save yourself a little bit of time and don't bother until the next update.
Cool idea, but I wonder how long the device would hold out. LEGO isn't exactly designed for industrial apps. On the other hand, it is designed for small children, who provide perhaps the toughest test environment imaginable!
I second this, and have the same feelings. I don't care if all the content dries up -- if the price is having to watch crappy ads, then the price is too high for me...
...that's why I use Real Life Ad Block Ultra Plus! For just $29.95 (+S/H) you too can block all ads anywhere! TV! Radio! Billboards!
Call now! Operators are standing by!
(Sorry, couldn't resist. I really *do* hate ads though.)
Not sure why someone modded you offtopic. They must not have realized what your comment referred to.
I tried a couple of servers in Europe, and they were all 100KB. Then I tried the South African server and that bounced around a bit, but seemed to stay near 200KB on average. I got mine, and so far it looks good!
There were ads? It's funny, but I guess my brain has learned to completely tune them out. Reall, I'm not being snarky. When I look at a page like this I see, 1) Article text -and- 2) Random junk that doesn't attract my attention.
I *really* hate ads though, so maybe that's why I learned to do this. On the down-side, if there is something that's off the main article text that I *should* notice (such as suplimental material for the article) I just miss it.
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> This comment is worded exactly as intended. Any application of funny "Fixed that for you" jokes will be most welcome.
Fixed that for you!
Sounds like you want to drive our country into the ground. The one distinct advantage the US has is that even though you may be a "late bloomer", your entire future is not decided the moment you turn twelve. If my future had been decided by the time I was in junior high, I'd be a hell of a lot worse off than I am now. I went from a basically mediocre performance in high school (possibly due more to social issues than intelligence), to obtaining a PhD in mathematics. I'm definitely not saying that having this degree means I'm smarter than those who don't have such a degree, but it does show that, in my case at least, my parents were right not to give up on being "110% supporting" of me (Oh, but how I frustrated them when I was young!) In closing, let me just say fuck you, and fuck what you said.
Hmm, a colleague of mine had the same question from Google a while back. Are you sure they were looking for "ls"? (i.e., did she say that?) The answer of course, is "stat". (To be honest, that was a command with which I was unfamiliar until my colleague told me about the question. Since then, I've found it to be quite handy in certain situations.)
Heh, I guess I belong here. I just spent a moment trying to figure out which were the "geek city states"...
That brings back some memories.... (sigh...)
We have some really cool tech going on nowadays, but I think I miss the times when this all seemed so fresh and exciting. I suppose that really speaks to where I am *now*, versus how clueless and new to the scene I was way back then.
You are close. on Ubuntu at least (I don't know about CentOS) vim-tiny is installed by default, and to get "real" vim, you just install "vim". I only say this because if you have an Ubuntu server install (i.e. bare-bones, without X), and you install vim-full, you will get, in addition to "real" vim, the GUI version of vim. That implies of course that you are going to get a whole boatload of packages (such as X), which you probably don't want (or you would have installed it in the first place).
I was a postdoc at NRL for three years. They used to do random searches on the way out, but in the three years I was driving in and out, I was never stopped, so the percentage of outbound cars they searched must have been quite small.
I brought equipment home while I was there, such as laptops, but they were bought for me to use. (Of course, we never did get around to creating a property pass, so technically I would have had some serious explaining to do had they stopped me and found the laptop on the way out.)
How does believe the earth is flat make you feel?
Hmmm, I hope this update works with my Thinkpad T60p Hackintosh! I will of course play it safe and let some other sucker^H^H^H^H^H^H brave soul try it on their box first...
I've done just this. I have a Thinkpad that I have Linux installed on. Just for fun, I hooked up an external USB drive (a 2.5" laptop drive, so it is small) and installed OSx86 on it. To my surprise, it works just fantastic! Almost everything is working. The only things I've found that are not working are 1) Sleep mode doesn't work, and 2) I don't have Quartz Extreme graphics, so no snazzy 3D effects for me. OTOH, I now have one laptop I can carry with me that can do both Linux and OS X, so no more deciding whether to bring the powerbook or the thinkpad when I travel. Oh, and it also runs much faster than my old Powerbook G4.
Indeed. Personally, now that Firefox will save tabs, I no longer have much concern about memory leaks. Of course it would be good if they were fixed, but practically speaking, it doesn't have a material impact on my usage. I always close Firefox at the end of the day and reopen it in the morning.
However, if they can make Firefox even quicker, that would be something I'd appreciate!
One thing that's nice about the iPhone, is that it uses the same plug as the iPod. Since I've owned several iPods, I now have about 15 ways to charge my iPhone!
I'm still at 1.0.2, simply because I love the 3rd party apps that are on my phone already. (I already bent over for AT&T, so I didn't bother unlocking my phone).
Now, as the summary mentions, I hope the barrier to development is not too high. They're certainly right to be concerned about security, I just hope a good balance is struck.
(Somewhat unrelated: I see that it's now possible to jailbreak 1.1.1, but I'm still waiting. Apparently you cannot yet use your own, non-apple-blessed ringtones under 1.1.1, even after jailbreak.)
Geez, you post something 15 seconds late and you get moded redundant.
Jerk.
I'd hate to be the guy who has to weigh every book to figure out which ones are 15 ounces.
(Sorry, I couldn't resist!)
> "Carefully saving this file"
Heh, I used to work early in college in a math department Apple II computer lab and, apart from keeping myself from getting bored by liberating the educational software from its copy restrictions (some of it wouldn't even run anymore, but after taking the protection off, it started to work!) I would play harmless pranks like changing that message to:
"Carelessly saving this file"
(I think there might have been a period at the end that I removed to adjust for the extra character). I didn't even expect anyone to notice, but someone did. (They realized it was a joke). The chairman of the math department liked the joke as well, but suggested I should probably change it back.
Ahhh, good times...
Not quite. Hyperventilation does not increase O2 levels in the bloodstream, it actually *reduces* CO2 levels, and since the basic mechanism your body uses to monitor when you should take a breath is via the CO2 level, that's why it feels like you can go longer without taking a breath after hyperventilating and holding your breath.
;-)
Of course, in space, even if you had time to hyperventilate beforehand, it would not help you any, since you can't hold your breath, and as mentioned, your blood O2 levels don't change. But perhaps you would not feel like you were suffocating before you passed out. I don't know. Any volunteers for an experiment?
It wasn't just bad sectors. In the case of the Apple 2 series, the floppy drives were entirely software controlled. They were capable of tracking in greater density than the safe value that Apple went with. Hence half tracking and quarter tracking could be done where you essentially doubled or quadrupled data storage capability on the same floppy. Since a game that booted from the floppy had to basically come with its own DOS, it became a quick no-brainer to have it so custom that it tracked differently from what Apple DOS was expecting, with different sector layouts, making copying the disk much harder. Didn't stop it howerver as the parameters of what the drive could do were known so figuring out what any given game was doing was no big deal for serious hardware/software hacking geeks of the time.
Not to pick nits or anything, but hey, this is Slashdot, home of nit pickers...
You are close to right. Apple drives could do half and quarter track movements (and at that, quarter tracks were not really supported by the firmware, you had to switch the stepper motor off half-way through a move). What wasn't possible was to double or quadruple the data storage capacity of a drive. Two tracks had to be a full track-step apart. Any closer and they'd 'bleed' over on to one another. Of course, as a copy protection, you could put the information on 'half tracks', which normal copy programs (but of course, not software like Locksmith, Copy II+, etc) couldn't copy.
I once played with slowing my drive way down by turning the screw that was used to fine-tune the spindle motor speed. Doing this, I was able to create a 17 sector disk (normal is 16 sectors) that seemed to be usable in a drive running at normal speed, at least for reads. Still, it would have been easy to crack...
Ok, enough strolling down memory lane, and the nits are tired.
Nope, you are sol. They say you need 256M minimum. As for samba, it's just an apt-get away!
As always, back up your computer fist. :-D
:-)
Yup, with this being fresh off the repository, you might find some things frustrating and need to punch your computer a bunch of times.
I *just* downloaded rc1 like, two days ago. I just downloaded the final version and diff'ed it with the rc1 candidate and it's the same file, so if you downloaded rc1 already, save yourself a little bit of time and don't bother until the next update.
That really *is* Research In Motion!
Cool idea, but I wonder how long the device would hold out. LEGO isn't exactly designed for industrial apps. On the other hand, it is designed for small children, who provide perhaps the toughest test environment imaginable!
Call now! Operators are standing by!
(Sorry, couldn't resist. I really *do* hate ads though.)
Not sure why someone modded you offtopic. They must not have realized what your comment referred to.
I tried a couple of servers in Europe, and they were all 100KB. Then I tried the South African server and that bounced around a bit, but seemed to stay near 200KB on average. I got mine, and so far it looks good!
There were ads? It's funny, but I guess my brain has learned to completely tune them out. Reall, I'm not being snarky. When I look at a page like this I see, 1) Article text -and- 2) Random junk that doesn't attract my attention.
I *really* hate ads though, so maybe that's why I learned to do this. On the down-side, if there is something that's off the main article text that I *should* notice (such as suplimental material for the article) I just miss it.