Looks like it will become a new trend to skip over the comments of an article when posting it on/.. The first 15 I found there seem to dismiss the article completely as a piece of... rubbish, with links to "why", like http://www.airbusdriver.net/airbus_fltlaws.htm
Here I was, in my dumb ignorance caused by blind experience on the field, thinking that the limit was actually caused by the magic 255 number less protocol overhead (result: 140) plus 7-bit encoding compression (result: 160).
Wow, that was a deep joke! Not only playing with the mistake between Portuguese and Spanish, but also moving the good woman from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Spain. You sir are a master!
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Poor parent... nobody seems to read your entire comment... Yeah, I know, I know, it's/. : P
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Actually, I believe you're confusing Windows' ability (and Linux as well) to identify a Mass Storage Device as containing pictures and choose the appropriate program to handle it.
Maybe you should try Linux again, or at least Ubuntu. It really does the exact same thing. When was the last time you did it?
All very nice, but I wonder how many sources you'll look to confirm every person's full name. Chances are, you'll do it with three sources, max. Unless you have a greater threshold?
Where do you actually draw the line?
What if some sources had the extra name and some didn't? How would you decide which is the right one?
Honestly, it seems to me that the problem is more in the likes of which source is more respectable for a certain topic, not exactly how many sources you look at.
I'd rather confirm somebody's name with the government (public records) or his own representative (if one exists).
There's also the possible consequences and difficulty to fix them to take into account when you're researching something. This seems like something to be put into the third page of the newspaper as "Errata" and it certainly isn't very difficult to fix in Wikipedia.
All that said, I'd be more comfortable if no article in Wikipedia could be created/modified without at least one validation.
Maybe because Apple is not very fond of people tampering with their black (white?) boxes. Like, say, installing Mac OS X on PCs or installing Windows on Macs. It could come out as a merry lawsuit on Microsoft.
And there I was, thinking that Power (W) equalled Potential (V) times Current (A). Or, as my teacher used to write, W = V x A. That, allied to the fact that your power consumption meter measures Watts per hour, makes it a little difficult to see the gain in consumption of duplicating V and dividing A.
I'd love to have someone shedding some light in this. Hopefully I'm the crazy one.
Nothing against learning different or even better ways that may be cross platform. I question labeling them correct, as in the others not being so. After all, this thread is about Ubuntu tips.
That said, I'll now gladly dive into why I like "sudo bash" slightly more than the other options.
Since the idea of sudo is to execute something as superuser, it's a simpler logical step to execute a shell as superuser rather than calling "su" with "sudo" just because sudo would give you superuser for the next command and "su" executed as superuser will call a shell with such credentials without asking for any password.
Personal opinion, of course, but I'm usually more interested in learning how to figure things out given what I already have than worrying if this or that way will or will not work in other platforms that are not in focus nor part of my problem. It was with that way of thinking that I came upon "sudo bash" on my own when the problem presented itself to me without having to think twice, look at a man page or search any forums. Should I be seated in front of another box without "bash", the thought path would still be the same, but with whatever shell is the preferred one in such box.
There's nothing to remember, except the purpose of "sudo". No need to remember extra parameters, nor that "su" has this interesting behaviour and would work just the same when combined with "sudo".
Since I have my overdeveloped ego under permanent surveillance, I'm pretty sure that I wasn't the only one following the above logical sequence, even if I'd rather think otherwise : )
I once had a plain, regular MS mouse. You know, the non-optic, non-wireless type. It was the first time I had my computer generating interference on my TV. Wish I knew how they managed to add that "feature"...
All good, well, interesting and insightful, but maybe out of topic.
That said, it's an interesting theory, but just as they didn't know that there were only 2 bombs, they'd likely not know if it was only 1. The idea is that there could be more, soon.
Besides, it's not only the number of lives taken that counts, but the damage to the bombed areas as in how poisoned it becomes and for how long.
I've got to agree that the "Stupid useless" series comes short to what it proposes. I've been reading them with a mix of curiosity and hope and have found the/. comment system to be, while entertaining, unfit as a reference of any kind.
The mentioned comparison (stackoverflow) brings up an interesting idea of sorting the comments by score rather than just post date, but that link isn't so much better a reference either.
Now, regarding Alexa, I find it hardly reliable to measure traffic, since it depends on users having such a toolbar installed. I'm sure that/. got its own stats, hence FAQ --> About Slashdot --> "How much traffic does Slashdot serve?". Would be nice to be able to see them published somewhere on the site with something like MRTG.
Been some time since I last touched a Solaris OS, but have you checked VI in there? Last time I did, it wouldn't even support the arrow keys and had some strange limitations regarding VI commands. The h, j, k, l thing isn't in my blood as much as other VI stuff.
When you say "most (all?) unix", do you mean Linux/*BSD only or also HP-UX and Solaris?
Did you install the OS yourself or could it be that somebody else replaced the native VI with VIM?
And here I was thinking that "God" would be the creator of logic and therefore not bound it its creation and able to do "impossible" things. Silly me...
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I'm about to quit contributing to project X because of the theft... What does project X do again?
I'm so happy that not every company is like yours! I'd love to watch you find experienced programmers otherwise.
Looks like it will become a new trend to skip over the comments of an article when posting it on /.. The first 15 I found there seem to dismiss the article completely as a piece of... rubbish, with links to "why", like http://www.airbusdriver.net/airbus_fltlaws.htm
Problem:
- Excel 2007 SP2's built-in ODF is not interoperable with other editors, while CleverAge plug-in is.
Solution:
- Fix CleverAge.
Here I was, in my dumb ignorance caused by blind experience on the field, thinking that the limit was actually caused by the magic 255 number less protocol overhead (result: 140) plus 7-bit encoding compression (result: 160).
Because there was no huge money figure being waved under Mr. Balmer's nose.
It probably costs way more money to patch their swiss cheese than they'd get back from the possible increase in the market share or sales.
Wow, that was a deep joke! Not only playing with the mistake between Portuguese and Spanish, but also moving the good woman from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Spain. You sir are a master!
Poor parent... nobody seems to read your entire comment... Yeah, I know, I know, it's /. : P
Actually, I believe you're confusing Windows' ability (and Linux as well) to identify a Mass Storage Device as containing pictures and choose the appropriate program to handle it.
Maybe you should try Linux again, or at least Ubuntu. It really does the exact same thing. When was the last time you did it?
All very nice, but I wonder how many sources you'll look to confirm every person's full name. Chances are, you'll do it with three sources, max. Unless you have a greater threshold?
Where do you actually draw the line?
What if some sources had the extra name and some didn't? How would you decide which is the right one?
Honestly, it seems to me that the problem is more in the likes of which source is more respectable for a certain topic, not exactly how many sources you look at.
I'd rather confirm somebody's name with the government (public records) or his own representative (if one exists).
There's also the possible consequences and difficulty to fix them to take into account when you're researching something. This seems like something to be put into the third page of the newspaper as "Errata" and it certainly isn't very difficult to fix in Wikipedia.
All that said, I'd be more comfortable if no article in Wikipedia could be created/modified without at least one validation.
instant sleep...? a feature I turn off because I'm not an idiot.
So you like it when your laptop keeps running even when you close the lid?
/Mikael
You bet. Specially in work-related laptops where I want to keep running a validation campaign while going from the office to the customer.
Oops! I take that back. The treats probably just work the other way around (running Mac OS on a PC).
Maybe because Apple is not very fond of people tampering with their black (white?) boxes. Like, say, installing Mac OS X on PCs or installing Windows on Macs. It could come out as a merry lawsuit on Microsoft.
And there I was, thinking that Power (W) equalled Potential (V) times Current (A). Or, as my teacher used to write, W = V x A. That, allied to the fact that your power consumption meter measures Watts per hour, makes it a little difficult to see the gain in consumption of duplicating V and dividing A.
I'd love to have someone shedding some light in this. Hopefully I'm the crazy one.
Nothing against learning different or even better ways that may be cross platform. I question labeling them correct, as in the others not being so. After all, this thread is about Ubuntu tips.
That said, I'll now gladly dive into why I like "sudo bash" slightly more than the other options.
Since the idea of sudo is to execute something as superuser, it's a simpler logical step to execute a shell as superuser rather than calling "su" with "sudo" just because sudo would give you superuser for the next command and "su" executed as superuser will call a shell with such credentials without asking for any password.
Personal opinion, of course, but I'm usually more interested in learning how to figure things out given what I already have than worrying if this or that way will or will not work in other platforms that are not in focus nor part of my problem. It was with that way of thinking that I came upon "sudo bash" on my own when the problem presented itself to me without having to think twice, look at a man page or search any forums. Should I be seated in front of another box without "bash", the thought path would still be the same, but with whatever shell is the preferred one in such box.
There's nothing to remember, except the purpose of "sudo". No need to remember extra parameters, nor that "su" has this interesting behaviour and would work just the same when combined with "sudo".
Since I have my overdeveloped ego under permanent surveillance, I'm pretty sure that I wasn't the only one following the above logical sequence, even if I'd rather think otherwise : )
I thought we were talking about Ubuntu.
I do "sudo bash"...
I once had a plain, regular MS mouse. You know, the non-optic, non-wireless type. It was the first time I had my computer generating interference on my TV. Wish I knew how they managed to add that "feature"...
All good, well, interesting and insightful, but maybe out of topic.
That said, it's an interesting theory, but just as they didn't know that there were only 2 bombs, they'd likely not know if it was only 1. The idea is that there could be more, soon.
Besides, it's not only the number of lives taken that counts, but the damage to the bombed areas as in how poisoned it becomes and for how long.
WOOOOOOOO!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
Lawyers!! Lawyers!! Lawyers!!
*pant* *pant* *wheeze*
Good luck with YouTube :)
I've got to agree that the "Stupid useless" series comes short to what it proposes. I've been reading them with a mix of curiosity and hope and have found the /. comment system to be, while entertaining, unfit as a reference of any kind.
The mentioned comparison (stackoverflow) brings up an interesting idea of sorting the comments by score rather than just post date, but that link isn't so much better a reference either.
Now, regarding Alexa, I find it hardly reliable to measure traffic, since it depends on users having such a toolbar installed. I'm sure that /. got its own stats, hence FAQ --> About Slashdot --> "How much traffic does Slashdot serve?". Would be nice to be able to see them published somewhere on the site with something like MRTG.
Been some time since I last touched a Solaris OS, but have you checked VI in there? Last time I did, it wouldn't even support the arrow keys and had some strange limitations regarding VI commands. The h, j, k, l thing isn't in my blood as much as other VI stuff.
When you say "most (all?) unix", do you mean Linux/*BSD only or also HP-UX and Solaris?
Did you install the OS yourself or could it be that somebody else replaced the native VI with VIM?
That has been long known!
And here I was thinking that "God" would be the creator of logic and therefore not bound it its creation and able to do "impossible" things. Silly me...