This is not (just) a spelling issue... perhaps y'all (is that standard?) missed this email (or maybe no one RTFA): From: Jasper Spaans [email blocked] Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 08:52:30 +0200
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:42:37PM -0400, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> > It changes all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' in the complete tree; > > I've just comiled all affected files (that is, the config resulting from > > make allyesconfig minus already broken stuff) succesfully on i386. > > Arrrgh! You can't be serious!
Yes, I am bloody serious; this patch might look purely cosmetic at first sight.. yet, there's a technical reason for at least one part of it. Grep and see the horror:
Quick question-- I've been using thunderbird for about two months now, and I have one feature that I sorely miss from OE. In OE, I had the machine "syncronize" each folder, so it didn't have to hit the server for each message. How can I make T-bird do the same?
There are actually some stats regarding this exact question over at tubgirl tech archive
Am I the only one who misses the days when trolls (tubgirl is similar to goatsex in terms of disgust) actually read the questions, instead of just writing "some stats regarding this exact question?"
you might remember agora and getweb servers. Web pages by email, formatted via lynx. _Very_ cool for those who may have only had a mail connection (either a BBS->net, or, like one place I was at for a while, UUCP for mail downloading).
Ah, true. You see, very few people on/. really understand the whole baby-making process... not something they're familiar with. (Despite my screw-up, I say they-- our first child is due in 8 days)
Just in case someone's not familiar with parallel programming terminology, embarassingly parallel means that each operation is independant of any other, so it can scale virtually perfect. The classic example:
1 women * 9 months = 1 baby 9 women * 9 months = 9 babies 9 women * 1 month != 1 baby
Putting 9 women on the baby-making task for 9 months is scales the baby-making operation, but since it's embarassingly parallel, it doesn't speed up any one operation (each baby still takes 9 months, but in those 9 months, you can now get 9 babies).
Another example (I made up the 10 factor):
1 worker * 10 days = 1 car 10 workers * 10 days = 10 cars 10 workers * 1 day = 1 car, because they can work on seperate things at the same time.
Of course, in reality, they can't quite work on things at the same time (steering wheel can't be installed before the body is welded together), so you have operations that block, leading to the steering wheel guy sitting around doing nothing, but you get the idea. This, of course, is where pipelining comes in...
Finally, they cannot discuss ongoing cases, investigations or related hypotheticals.
While this may mean no "let's-get-'em" questions, I look forward to seeing what happens. This will be a chance to actually hear good questions and good answers, as opposed to questions that are really statements and answers that are "no comments".
Sometimes, even if you don't know exactly what's going on, when someone messes up the one part you DO know, you just doubt them on everything.
E.g.: Family Radio Service (FRS) is FREE! The application fee is for GMRS, radios which are more powerful, and broadcast on a slightly different set of frequencies. Presumably, the confusion comes about due to the fact that 7 of the 22 GMRS channels (more precisely, 7 of the 22 channels GMRS radios operate on) are FRS... but FRS is still free (I don't know about using GMRS radios on FRS-only freqs).
Is this true? I mean, for someone who tries his best to impersonate the real Bruce Perens (oh, uh.. yeah... there's a dot there), and has often lied on copyright posts (by pretending to be Bruce), I think your credibility is... how do you say....Gone.
Was I the only one who saw shortage and reach Pacific Asia Network Information Center (PANIC)? If only slashdot has DON'T PANIC on the inside front cover... I think it would make my life a lot easier, plus, it would sell better, despite being completely inaccurate.
Good to see that michael is again replacing facts with fictions. Demand is not who wants something, it's who will buy it (at a given cost, etc). Now, how to calculate demand is a different matter... but just because I want something, doesn't put me on the demand curve. If I buy it (or will buy it at a given price), that places me there.
There was a Twilight Zone episode that was similar. Basically:
Satan (or your local bad dude) says to someone, here, you can have a million dollars if you push this button, which will kill someone, but don't worry, you don't know them.
So, after much discussion, they do it, and then he takes back the devices, and says he's off to give it to someone else... someone they don't know.
Since the writeup said NOTHING, here's the article:
Big Brother Is Tracking You. Without a Warrant. By JAMES BAMFORD
he sky was nearly cloudless on Aug. 19, 1960, when Capt. Harold E. Mitchell took off from Hawaii in his stubby C-119 Flying Boxcar. A short time later, in the blackness of space, an orbiting satellite ejected a small film capsule that tumbled earthward protected by a heat shield. When it reached the lower atmosphere, a parachute deployed, and it began a slow descent over the South Pacific. Then, like an outfielder catching a pop fly, Captain Mitchell snagged the falling object -- on his third try -- in a trapeze-like contraption on the nose of his plane.
In that instant, satellite espionage was born. Inside the capsule were thousands of images of Soviet territory never before seen by American intelligence.
Forty-three years later, satellite imagery similar to that collected by the Central Intelligence Agency is available to anyone with a credit card. From detailed shots of India's nuclear sites, to high-resolution pictures of a neighbor's backyard, reconnaissance satellite images have become as easy to obtain as a novel from Amazon.com. In fact, much of them are free for the taking from the Internet.
Last week, in an effort to increase satellite intelligence coverage of high-priority targets, President Bush ordered spy agencies to begin buying as much imagery as possible from private companies. The reason was quality and quantity. The close-up resolution of today's commercial imaging satellites is comparable to that of the spy world, and their numbers are constantly growing.
But the high quality and wide availability of such imagery is also raising questions. For more than four decades, American intelligence has aimed its cameras almost exclusively on foreign targets. But now the lenses are also being trained on American citizens.
Minutes after someone began shooting passengers at Los Angeles International Airport last July Fourth, for example, law enforcement agencies began receiving close-up images of the airport and the exact coordinates where the attack took place. The pictures came from the federal National Imagery and Mapping Agency, which is responsible for analyzing spy satellite images. Its imagery was also used at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City to assist the Secret Service and F.B.I. in security.
But as cameras take ever-closer aim at domestic targets, the legal, political and ethical issues remain unresolved. "Our whole posture as to how we respond to this is still a work in progress," said James Clapper, director of the mapping agency, in an interview last year with Signal Magazine.
In the meantime, satellite imagery abilities are growing exponentially. In addition to the expanded use of commercial satellites, which can be used for both foreign and domestic surveillance, plans are under way to increase the number of spy satellites. Under a program known as Future Imagery Architecture, the intelligence agencies plan to launch nearly a dozen imagery satellites to replace the four or five currently in orbit. Although smaller than their predecessors, these models, because of their increased numbers, will allow more continuous coverage of targets.
Given enough commercial and spy satellites, supplemented by aircraft and a ground system to marry it all together, the intelligence community might one day achieve the ultimate in coverage: constant, real-time surveillance of the planet.
But even without such coverage, imaging and other satellite technologies are already colliding with privacy concerns. Consider the constellation of global-positioning satellites that provide precise tracking information to hand-held receivers. Many people use them to pinpoint their locations while driving, boating or hiking. The president of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, keeps one on him at all times in case he is kidnapped or is the target of an assassination attempt.
But the sheriff of Spokane County, Washington, foun
What would be even better is if they had the footage of Rodney King at all of his criminal convictions, or maybe how he was drinking that night, or maybe as the police tried to subdue him using pepper spray and stun guns...
... doing quite well. I just had lunch with a Senior VP yesterday, and he was updating me on their plot for world domination (for which they're being sued by microsoft). Seriously... they're doing quite well; they've branched out way past the big-iron Unisys of even a few years ago... one thing I didn't know... they handle _lots_ of check clearing internationally... 70% in Australia, 75% in UK (I think), and they just took over for Washington Mutual here in America on their rise. An interesting "service" oriented approach, but you've got to change to survive. Actually, most of their business seems to be more "service" related than "server" related.
I remember my old Apple II's had a schematic for the motherboard, as well, in the back of one of the manuals... I think it was the II+, although I also had a IIe. Never bought a IIgs or Mac... went straight to IBM's after that one burned up when something shorted in the power supply;)
I sincerely hope you go down in flames for the way you treated Kevin Mitnick. You probably cost him 3 to 6 additional months of his life in a federal prison.
How much time did Kevin cost people? How much money? He's a criminal too, folks...
Amen. I've got the same ML-1430... actually, I bought mine from CompUSA (I had a $50 gift card to use that I won in a drawing) plus there was a $30 mail in rebate, so $120 total. It's a great printer, takes USB or parallel, and actually does print 15 ppm. They say the toner cartridge it comes with is only good for 1000-1500 pages-- I'm on number 800 or so, so we'll see. My only gripe-- warmup time for the first page is very slow (20 seconds), so it's about 7 ppm in the first minute, then 15, but once it gets going, it moves nicely. Even the toner save button works well, and the print quality still looks great.
So... for those people who installed Seti on 100 machines at school/work, are you updating them RIGHT NOW? One guy where I am put Seti on a bunch of cluster machines because, after all, no one else is using them. I certainly hope that he's working unpaid overtime patching his (against the rules) pet project.
One thing I've learned is that it takes a VERY big offense to motivate your average citizen to actually get up off their couch and do something - ANYTHING - about something. I mean geez, polls show that at a minimum, 30% of Americans oppose the war on^H^Hin Iraq. That's what, 90,000,000 Americans? How many actually show up at the protests? A few thousand here and there? And we're talking about peoples' lives being at stake! Hell, half of the Yankee populace can't even be bothered to vote - you think they're going to sit down and write a letter to their rep over some stupid copy protection that they don't even understand anyway? Call my cynical, but I don't think so.
Keep in mind... 40% of the population always votes democrat. Another 40% always votes republican. They wouldn't change their mind if FDR was running against Lincoln... or Hitler, just to cover both sides.
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This is not (just) a spelling issue... perhaps y'all (is that standard?) missed this email (or maybe no one RTFA):
From: Jasper Spaans [email blocked]
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor'
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 08:52:30 +0200
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:42:37PM -0400, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> > It changes all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' in the complete tree;
> > I've just comiled all affected files (that is, the config resulting from
> > make allyesconfig minus already broken stuff) succesfully on i386.
>
> Arrrgh! You can't be serious!
Yes, I am bloody serious; this patch might look purely cosmetic at first
sight.. yet, there's a technical reason for at least one part of it. Grep
and see the horror:
$ egrep -ni 'flavou?r' fs/nfs/inode.c
[snip]
1357: rpc_authflavor_t authflavour;
[snip]
VrGr,
--
Jasper Spaans http://jsp.vs19.net/contact/
Quick question--
I've been using thunderbird for about two months now, and I have one feature that I sorely miss from OE. In OE, I had the machine "syncronize" each folder, so it didn't have to hit the server for each message. How can I make T-bird do the same?
There are actually some stats regarding this exact question over at tubgirl tech archive
Am I the only one who misses the days when trolls (tubgirl is similar to goatsex in terms of disgust) actually read the questions, instead of just writing "some stats regarding this exact question?"
~sigh~
I don't get it...the man sits around for 9 months and then a woman comes along and poof a baby is born?
(1 woman + 1 man) * 9 months = 1 baby
Order of operations man! Gotta get those parenthesis right.
Not exactly, because you really only need the man for a few seconds (though I pity the guy who's that quick). So perhaps:
(1 woman + 1 man) * 30 seconds + (1 woman * 9 months) = 1 baby?
Who knew sex could be made so boring?
you might remember agora and getweb servers. Web pages by email, formatted via lynx. _Very_ cool for those who may have only had a mail connection (either a BBS->net, or, like one place I was at for a while, UUCP for mail downloading).
Mmm, your example is incomplete, no ammount of woman can produce babies by themselves...
1 woman + 1 man * 9 months = 1 baby
1 woman + 1
Ah, true. You see, very few people on
Just in case someone's not familiar with parallel programming terminology, embarassingly parallel means that each operation is independant of any other, so it can scale virtually perfect. The classic example:
1 women * 9 months = 1 baby
9 women * 9 months = 9 babies
9 women * 1 month != 1 baby
Putting 9 women on the baby-making task for 9 months is scales the baby-making operation, but since it's embarassingly parallel, it doesn't speed up any one operation (each baby still takes 9 months, but in those 9 months, you can now get 9 babies).
Another example (I made up the 10 factor):
1 worker * 10 days = 1 car
10 workers * 10 days = 10 cars
10 workers * 1 day = 1 car, because they can work on seperate things at the same time.
Of course, in reality, they can't quite work on things at the same time (steering wheel can't be installed before the body is welded together), so you have operations that block, leading to the steering wheel guy sitting around doing nothing, but you get the idea. This, of course, is where pipelining comes in...
Finally, they cannot discuss ongoing cases, investigations or related hypotheticals.
While this may mean no "let's-get-'em" questions, I look forward to seeing what happens. This will be a chance to actually hear good questions and good answers, as opposed to questions that are really statements and answers that are "no comments".
Sometimes, even if you don't know exactly what's going on, when someone messes up the one part you DO know, you just doubt them on everything.
E.g.: Family Radio Service (FRS) is FREE! The application fee is for GMRS, radios which are more powerful, and broadcast on a slightly different set of frequencies. Presumably, the confusion comes about due to the fact that 7 of the 22 GMRS channels (more precisely, 7 of the 22 channels GMRS radios operate on) are FRS... but FRS is still free (I don't know about using GMRS radios on FRS-only freqs).
Is this true? I mean, for someone who tries his best to impersonate the real Bruce Perens (oh, uh.. yeah... there's a dot there), and has often lied on copyright posts (by pretending to be Bruce), I think your credibility is... how do you say... .Gone.
Was I the only one who saw shortage and reach Pacific Asia Network Information Center (PANIC)? If only slashdot has DON'T PANIC on the inside front cover... I think it would make my life a lot easier, plus, it would sell better, despite being completely inaccurate.
Good to see that michael is again replacing facts with fictions. Demand is not who wants something, it's who will buy it (at a given cost, etc). Now, how to calculate demand is a different matter... but just because I want something, doesn't put me on the demand curve. If I buy it (or will buy it at a given price), that places me there.
There was a Twilight Zone episode that was similar. Basically:
Satan (or your local bad dude) says to someone, here, you can have a million dollars if you push this button, which will kill someone, but don't worry, you don't know them.
So, after much discussion, they do it, and then he takes back the devices, and says he's off to give it to someone else... someone they don't know.
Yep. Or they should say something masses 80kg... but that just sounds really stupid.
Since the writeup said NOTHING, here's the article:
Big Brother Is Tracking You. Without a Warrant.
By JAMES BAMFORD
he sky was nearly cloudless on Aug. 19, 1960, when Capt. Harold E. Mitchell took off from Hawaii in his stubby C-119 Flying Boxcar. A short time later, in the blackness of space, an orbiting satellite ejected a small film capsule that tumbled earthward protected by a heat shield. When it reached the lower atmosphere, a parachute deployed, and it began a slow descent over the South Pacific. Then, like an outfielder catching a pop fly, Captain Mitchell snagged the falling object -- on his third try -- in a trapeze-like contraption on the nose of his plane.
In that instant, satellite espionage was born. Inside the capsule were thousands of images of Soviet territory never before seen by American intelligence.
Forty-three years later, satellite imagery similar to that collected by the Central Intelligence Agency is available to anyone with a credit card. From detailed shots of India's nuclear sites, to high-resolution pictures of a neighbor's backyard, reconnaissance satellite images have become as easy to obtain as a novel from Amazon.com. In fact, much of them are free for the taking from the Internet.
Last week, in an effort to increase satellite intelligence coverage of high-priority targets, President Bush ordered spy agencies to begin buying as much imagery as possible from private companies. The reason was quality and quantity. The close-up resolution of today's commercial imaging satellites is comparable to that of the spy world, and their numbers are constantly growing.
But the high quality and wide availability of such imagery is also raising questions. For more than four decades, American intelligence has aimed its cameras almost exclusively on foreign targets. But now the lenses are also being trained on American citizens.
Minutes after someone began shooting passengers at Los Angeles International Airport last July Fourth, for example, law enforcement agencies began receiving close-up images of the airport and the exact coordinates where the attack took place. The pictures came from the federal National Imagery and Mapping Agency, which is responsible for analyzing spy satellite images. Its imagery was also used at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City to assist the Secret Service and F.B.I. in security.
But as cameras take ever-closer aim at domestic targets, the legal, political and ethical issues remain unresolved. "Our whole posture as to how we respond to this is still a work in progress," said James Clapper, director of the mapping agency, in an interview last year with Signal Magazine.
In the meantime, satellite imagery abilities are growing exponentially. In addition to the expanded use of commercial satellites, which can be used for both foreign and domestic surveillance, plans are under way to increase the number of spy satellites. Under a program known as Future Imagery Architecture, the intelligence agencies plan to launch nearly a dozen imagery satellites to replace the four or five currently in orbit. Although smaller than their predecessors, these models, because of their increased numbers, will allow more continuous coverage of targets.
Given enough commercial and spy satellites, supplemented by aircraft and a ground system to marry it all together, the intelligence community might one day achieve the ultimate in coverage: constant, real-time surveillance of the planet.
But even without such coverage, imaging and other satellite technologies are already colliding with privacy concerns. Consider the constellation of global-positioning satellites that provide precise tracking information to hand-held receivers. Many people use them to pinpoint their locations while driving, boating or hiking. The president of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, keeps one on him at all times in case he is kidnapped or is the target of an assassination attempt.
But the sheriff of Spokane County, Washington, foun
What would be even better is if they had the footage of Rodney King at all of his criminal convictions, or maybe how he was drinking that night, or maybe as the police tried to subdue him using pepper spray and stun guns...
... doing quite well. I just had lunch with a Senior VP yesterday, and he was updating me on their plot for world domination (for which they're being sued by microsoft). Seriously... they're doing quite well; they've branched out way past the big-iron Unisys of even a few years ago... one thing I didn't know... they handle _lots_ of check clearing internationally... 70% in Australia, 75% in UK (I think), and they just took over for Washington Mutual here in America on their rise. An interesting "service" oriented approach, but you've got to change to survive. Actually, most of their business seems to be more "service" related than "server" related.
I know this isn't quite what you asked for, but check out http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots / for advice on using rsync to create "snapshot" like backups.
I remember my old Apple II's had a schematic for the motherboard, as well, in the back of one of the manuals... I think it was the II+, although I also had a IIe. Never bought a IIgs or Mac... went straight to IBM's after that one burned up when something shorted in the power supply ;)
>> My question is, if this was the fourth or fifth generation, what were they eating??
>Probably the organic material [april12.de] that was on board.
Whoever moderated this as funny is one sick and twisted individual.
I sincerely hope you go down in flames for the way you treated Kevin Mitnick.
You probably cost him 3 to 6 additional months of his life in a federal prison.
How much time did Kevin cost people? How much money? He's a criminal too, folks...
Amen. I've got the same ML-1430... actually, I bought mine from CompUSA (I had a $50 gift card to use that I won in a drawing) plus there was a $30 mail in rebate, so $120 total. It's a great printer, takes USB or parallel, and actually does print 15 ppm. They say the toner cartridge it comes with is only good for 1000-1500 pages-- I'm on number 800 or so, so we'll see. My only gripe-- warmup time for the first page is very slow (20 seconds), so it's about 7 ppm in the first minute, then 15, but once it gets going, it moves nicely. Even the toner save button works well, and the print quality still looks great.
When we see a handheld device that ... has a 17" screen on it
Unless there's some genetic mutations scheduled, I'm not sure how a 17" screen will ever be handheld...
So... for those people who installed Seti on 100 machines at school/work, are you updating them RIGHT NOW? One guy where I am put Seti on a bunch of cluster machines because, after all, no one else is using them. I certainly hope that he's working unpaid overtime patching his (against the rules) pet project.
One thing I've learned is that it takes a VERY big offense to motivate your average citizen to actually get up off their couch and do something - ANYTHING - about something. I mean geez, polls show that at a minimum, 30% of Americans oppose the war on^H^Hin Iraq. That's what, 90,000,000 Americans? How many actually show up at the protests? A few thousand here and there? And we're talking about peoples' lives being at stake! Hell, half of the Yankee populace can't even be bothered to vote - you think they're going to sit down and write a letter to their rep over some stupid copy protection that they don't even understand anyway? Call my cynical, but I don't think so.
Keep in mind... 40% of the population always votes democrat. Another 40% always votes republican. They wouldn't change their mind if FDR was running against Lincoln... or Hitler, just to cover both sides.
Source: Tom Clancy.