bash-2.03$ L=999999999; R=1000000000; if [ $L -lt $R ]; then echo true; else echo false; fi
true
bash-2.03$
This is the behavior of bash 2.03 on Ultrix and bash 2.04 on Linux/x86
The trouble is the constant uploads and updates to the site make page viewing slow because large parts of the database get frequently locked for commission.
Plus every geek on the planet spends 3 hours a day there, minimum. There is something like a 32 page load minimum.
> I can't wait to get myself a dual proc p4!
Intel's P4 architecture does not support SMP. Anything to get that clockspeed in the microwave range! That's Intel innovation for you.
Read those before you reply about the PIV power situation (hint: if you cool it, it won't cut itself down to half speed). But it wasn't nice that Intel forget to mention the thermal diode is what allows that theoretical lower-than-Athalon power consumption; you won't see that benefit if you massively cool it.
you of all of the Donkey Kong games? You know, klumps, the Kremlins, and King K. Rool... On the other hand, the g* naming scheme doesn't remind me of anything. I don't know, I spent all of high school playing those wonderful Rare games and now I'm permanently biased away from KDE.
There was probably elevated flooring with the network and power cables running underneath (that's what we have). Or it could be they added a wall to "round out" a recess and the power/net jacks were on the wall behind the new wall. And let's not forget the ethernet/power extension cords that come in between ceiling tiles from an overhead conduit!
But I think the first one is probably most likely.
What exactly were those construction workers thinking? The machine had to have been on at the time the workers added the drywall (wake-on-LAN wasn't available yet, right?). So they didn't think it'd be pertinent to inform their supervisor? Or wouldn't he have noticed? It's not like they couldn't here it churn and see the pretty lights.
I hope they find out who was responsible for the lab space before the modifications to the room and slap him/her silly. That's exactly the kinda stuff your supposed to prevent! (rolls eyes)
We (as in not I) were responsible for updating many of the GNU utilities to incorporate the MACs and to develop security policies for the applications. From some online briefings, we've gotten through Apache (making CGIs behave and inherit security constraints was apparently difficult), cron and some small GNU utils (cp, kill, ps, tar, mknod, etc.), and we're working on hardening our old friend sendmail and a nice sysadmin policy manager tool.
Her husband wouldn't have had a compelling reason to be gawking at naughty pictures if he felt she was good enough for him. Now if he's just not satisfied with what he has, you cannot blame the porn. Blame the guy.
I wouldn't break up with my girlfriend if she was looking at porn. I'd be curious and somewhat tickled. Plus that would allow me to reciprocate without guilt.
Come on people. It's the new millenium. Fortunately, most users aren't running BIND, and if they are, it's only on one box. So the fix is that much easier.
A lot of cable channels used to be ad-free, like MTV2 and Comedy Central. Then they figured out they could sneak ads in without people complaining too much- they're already used to it on the broadcast channels. They few exceptions are the movie networks; but you can't interrupt a feature length film with ads or people wouldn't pay the extra 20 a month when they can just go to Blockbuster.
The point is if they can get away with ads, they will. I think part of the problem is that most shows on TV are formatted to be broken once or twice by commercial messages, and so there's no better use of the dead air that fills the shows to 30 minute intervals than targeted advertising.
Of course, they could always do like PBS and beg and plead with you to send them money for hemp tote bags between shows. Which is better?
The ads are occasionally the most entertaining content on this site.
Really, there's only one ad per page, in the same spot. You don't even know it's there. There's nothing more this site could offer that anyone would want to be inconvienced to pay for. That'd be more annoying than the banner ads themselves.
I don't really read Salon.com, and I wouldn't pay $30 when I already have a subscription to the NYT. I can't imagine what sort of elitist content you would have to pay for. Somehow, I don't think they'd reserve the popular, hard hitting articles for the pay-per-view only people to read. They'd want the ad viewing general public to gawk at it, no? The only stuff of exclusive nature I might pay for online is pr0n.
"They will evolve before they are ready to be delcared a landmark."
Wow... that was really profound (I mean it). I never looked at the evolution at technology in such a way. It's sort of how we know tectonic plates are moving all the time, but everyone doesn't notice it until an earthquake. Well, there might be a better analogy, but I just finished watching Dante's Peak.
I meant for you to laugh at my really bad pokemon reference. I didn't even bother looking at the patent because I'd rather jump off a bridge then be exposed to the bullshit.
then my little brother's Game Boy (TM) and Pokemon(TM) are also violating the patent.
They make 'transactions' when he trades Pokemon across the link cable with his friends!
I wonder if this also covers my cell phone/pager combo.
WORST PATENT INFRINGEMENT LAWSUIT EVER! The problem is the difference between new products (real or vaporous, in NCR's case) and intended uses are so vague now... they cross paths so often. I use my cell phone to store addresses and my Palm to page people. Go figure. So NCR is using this to go after the biggest fish it can attach to. *Throws up in disgust*
There are a few PSX emulation companies that are legitimate. However, I am sure that Sony will use the power of this legal precendence to take stakes in other such businesses and effort. They will definitely not ignore people like Bleem!. I imagine they have a definite interest in milking the prospect of PSX games everywhere (including the Dreamcast, in Bleam's case). Hopefully, groups that do it for free can get permission to be left alone to they're endeavors. I don't think Sony will see them as financial threats, because they further the demand for older PSX games.
Generally, you don't write compiled CGI that gets rolled into the server. You can get significantly better speed and use of memory, but this is more complex than it's worth. Using compiled CGI, you do not need to restart the server when you recompile something.
In fact, you can emulate a lot of the features of stuff compiled into a module by using very small compiled CGI that do very little, and pass off the work to server processes/SQL/whatever. By avoiding linking to libraries you can avoid, and reducing code/memory size you reduce overhead. Also, try having only a few executables with lots of features, and hardlinks to them with different names for different purposes (think shell commands for root floppy disks, where cat, ls, and more are all the same proggy)
On a completely unrelated note,
I've had good experience using Makefiles to keep the state of the CGI scripts up to date when making modifications, if that is another concern.
I have had great experience with using C and C libraries for developing websites. They are incredibly fast. To reduce overhead, consider using FastCGI (it's really cool too, but I haven't tried using it. I only know what it can do from other people where I work). Or you can do what I do, and make your cgi apps REALLY small (<100K) so they don't ever leave memory when they get called. And make them handle only the work associated with formatting/displaying the HTML and relaying requests: put all the heavy processing in backend server and communicate via sockets or better yet, IPC shared memory.
But until I read the article in the MAA journal, I won't know if it's signifigant at all.
What I found out so far:
The intersection of the three lines (drawn from the midpoints of the sides) do indeed meet a single point each time. This I have shown analytically. To do the same, solve for the slope (a) for each segment. Then calculate the y-intercepts (b) for each equation ymid - xmid/a. Finally take any two of the resulting equations, and solve for a common x. You can check that all three combinations yield identical x. Then substitue x with the a and b of your choice, and you get y = a*x+b. Unfortuneately, it appears the point will never always be inside the triangle in this interpretation. For example, try (x1,y1; x2,y2; x3,y3) = {0,-1; 1,1; 2,0}. You get an intersection point at {-16/5, -11/10}.
You missed the disclaimer at the top of his post. Also, look at his website. His nickname is just a coincidence.
Also, the metric system has one signifigant advantage, it's base units of measure are derived from the size of the earth, and the weight and volume of pure water. Traditional units have the benefit of having lots of prime factors. But that's about it.
I agree with your first and second points.
I get lost on your third, but I'm going to assert that a standard Linux distro will never be something anyone can just pick up and use. Perhaps a special shell that coddles the user like a 3com net appliance. What does linux do behind your back, or do you mean other OSes?
Useability: you're just using the wrong software. And often times, makers of software have all they're own standards and formats and dialogs that aren't standard across the board. But the point is it makes it easiest for them (the developers), and those who use that stuff most. You cannot expect to use every unix utility as easy as the last without spending time to get to know each of them, just as it is difficult to learn how to remove nails with a hammer when all you've ever used is a screwdriver.
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bash-2.03$ L=999999999; R=1000000000; if [ $L -lt $R ]; then echo true; else echo false; fi
true
bash-2.03$
This is the behavior of bash 2.03 on Ultrix and bash 2.04 on Linux/x86
bash-2.03$ L=999999999; R=1000000000; if [ $L -lt $R ]; then echo true; else echo false; fi true bash-2.03$ This is the behavior of bash 2.03 on Ultrix and bash 2.04 on Linux/x86
And I don't miss the internet directory feature because it was never helpful. And google's got that too for what it's worth.
The trouble is the constant uploads and updates to the site make page viewing slow because large parts of the database get frequently locked for commission.
Plus every geek on the planet spends 3 hours a day there, minimum. There is something like a 32 page load minimum.
> I can't wait to get myself a dual proc p4! Intel's P4 architecture does not support SMP. Anything to get that clockspeed in the microwave range! That's Intel innovation for you.
Read those before you reply about the PIV power situation (hint: if you cool it, it won't cut itself down to half speed). But it wasn't nice that Intel forget to mention the thermal diode is what allows that theoretical lower-than-Athalon power consumption; you won't see that benefit if you massively cool it.
you of all of the Donkey Kong games? You know, klumps, the Kremlins, and King K. Rool... On the other hand, the g* naming scheme doesn't remind me of anything. I don't know, I spent all of high school playing those wonderful Rare games and now I'm permanently biased away from KDE.
But I think the first one is probably most likely.
What exactly were those construction workers thinking? The machine had to have been on at the time the workers added the drywall (wake-on-LAN wasn't available yet, right?). So they didn't think it'd be pertinent to inform their supervisor? Or wouldn't he have noticed? It's not like they couldn't here it churn and see the pretty lights.
I hope they find out who was responsible for the lab space before the modifications to the room and slap him/her silly. That's exactly the kinda stuff your supposed to prevent! (rolls eyes)
We (as in not I) were responsible for updating many of the GNU utilities to incorporate the MACs and to develop security policies for the applications. From some online briefings, we've gotten through Apache (making CGIs behave and inherit security constraints was apparently difficult), cron and some small GNU utils (cp, kill, ps, tar, mknod, etc.), and we're working on hardening our old friend sendmail and a nice sysadmin policy manager tool.
Her husband wouldn't have had a compelling reason to be gawking at naughty pictures if he felt she was good enough for him. Now if he's just not satisfied with what he has, you cannot blame the porn. Blame the guy.
I wouldn't break up with my girlfriend if she was looking at porn. I'd be curious and somewhat tickled. Plus that would allow me to reciprocate without guilt.
I'm thinking one could seriously improve the content on slashdot by filtering it through PLACeBO.
Too many zeros around here.
Come on people. It's the new millenium.
Fortunately, most users aren't running BIND, and if they are, it's only on one box. So the fix is that much easier.
it's "SOMEONE SET UP US THE CENSORWARE" Just doing my duty.
A lot of cable channels used to be ad-free, like MTV2 and Comedy Central. Then they figured out they could sneak ads in without people complaining too much- they're already used to it on the broadcast channels. They few exceptions are the movie networks; but you can't interrupt a feature length film with ads or people wouldn't pay the extra 20 a month when they can just go to Blockbuster.
The point is if they can get away with ads, they will. I think part of the problem is that most shows on TV are formatted to be broken once or twice by commercial messages, and so there's no better use of the dead air that fills the shows to 30 minute intervals than targeted advertising.
Of course, they could always do like PBS and beg and plead with you to send them money for hemp tote bags between shows. Which is better?
The ads are occasionally the most entertaining content on this site.
Really, there's only one ad per page, in the same spot. You don't even know it's there. There's nothing more this site could offer that anyone would want to be inconvienced to pay for. That'd be more annoying than the banner ads themselves.
I don't really read Salon.com, and I wouldn't pay $30 when I already have a subscription to the NYT. I can't imagine what sort of elitist content you would have to pay for. Somehow, I don't think they'd reserve the popular, hard hitting articles for the pay-per-view only people to read. They'd want the ad viewing general public to gawk at it, no? The only stuff of exclusive nature I might pay for online is pr0n.
"They will evolve before they are ready to be delcared a landmark."
Wow... that was really profound (I mean it). I never looked at the evolution at technology in such a way. It's sort of how we know tectonic plates are moving all the time, but everyone doesn't notice it until an earthquake. Well, there might be a better analogy, but I just finished watching Dante's Peak.
I meant for you to laugh at my really bad pokemon reference. I didn't even bother looking at the patent because I'd rather jump off a bridge then be exposed to the bullshit.
They make 'transactions' when he trades Pokemon across the link cable with his friends!
I wonder if this also covers my cell phone/pager combo.
WORST PATENT INFRINGEMENT LAWSUIT EVER!
The problem is the difference between new products (real or vaporous, in NCR's case) and intended uses are so vague now... they cross paths so often. I use my cell phone to store addresses and my Palm to page people. Go figure. So NCR is using this to go after the biggest fish it can attach to. *Throws up in disgust*
There are a few PSX emulation companies that are legitimate. However, I am sure that Sony will use the power of this legal precendence to take stakes in other such businesses and effort. They will definitely not ignore people like Bleem!. I imagine they have a definite interest in milking the prospect of PSX games everywhere (including the Dreamcast, in Bleam's case). Hopefully, groups that do it for free can get permission to be left alone to they're endeavors. I don't think Sony will see them as financial threats, because they further the demand for older PSX games.
In fact, you can emulate a lot of the features of stuff compiled into a module by using very small compiled CGI that do very little, and pass off the work to server processes/SQL/whatever. By avoiding linking to libraries you can avoid, and reducing code/memory size you reduce overhead. Also, try having only a few executables with lots of features, and hardlinks to them with different names for different purposes (think shell commands for root floppy disks, where cat, ls, and more are all the same proggy)
On a completely unrelated note, I've had good experience using Makefiles to keep the state of the CGI scripts up to date when making modifications, if that is another concern.
I have had great experience with using C and C libraries for developing websites. They are incredibly fast. To reduce overhead, consider using FastCGI (it's really cool too, but I haven't tried using it. I only know what it can do from other people where I work). Or you can do what I do, and make your cgi apps REALLY small (<100K) so they don't ever leave memory when they get called. And make them handle only the work associated with formatting/displaying the HTML and relaying requests: put all the heavy processing in backend server and communicate via sockets or better yet, IPC shared memory.
What I found out so far:
The intersection of the three lines (drawn from the midpoints of the sides) do indeed meet a single point each time. This I have shown analytically. To do the same, solve for the slope (a) for each segment. Then calculate the y-intercepts (b) for each equation ymid - xmid/a. Finally take any two of the resulting equations, and solve for a common x. You can check that all three combinations yield identical x. Then substitue x with the a and b of your choice, and you get y = a*x+b. Unfortuneately, it appears the point will never always be inside the triangle in this interpretation. For example, try (x1,y1; x2,y2; x3,y3) = {0,-1; 1,1; 2,0}. You get an intersection point at {-16/5, -11/10}.
You missed the disclaimer at the top of his post. Also, look at his website. His nickname is just a coincidence.
Also, the metric system has one signifigant advantage, it's base units of measure are derived from the size of the earth, and the weight and volume of pure water. Traditional units have the benefit of having lots of prime factors. But that's about it.
I agree with your first and second points.
I get lost on your third, but I'm going to assert that a standard Linux distro will never be something anyone can just pick up and use. Perhaps a special shell that coddles the user like a 3com net appliance. What does linux do behind your back, or do you mean other OSes?
Useability: you're just using the wrong software. And often times, makers of software have all they're own standards and formats and dialogs that aren't standard across the board. But the point is it makes it easiest for them (the developers), and those who use that stuff most. You cannot expect to use every unix utility as easy as the last without spending time to get to know each of them, just as it is difficult to learn how to remove nails with a hammer when all you've ever used is a screwdriver.