I'm actually quite surprised that in all of the replies here, no one has remembered the actual solution for keeping branch office, departement, floor, room number etc. with a machines name.
It's called a subdomain and it rather works somewhat like this: x.dept.city.company.tld, so you'd get e.g. 01.accounting.amsterdam.acme.com. You can let the workstation get its hostname and domain information through a rather useful system called DHCP. In most cases, this is already being used to configure IP addresses, and given these addresses can change, the odds are pretty high that you already HAVE a database of names which already HAS a key for each record.
You can make as many subdomains as you like, and you can even delegate them to the seperate branches, departements, your stepmother or whatever you like. This also makes the system work more distributed, like the Internet, so if one nameserver dies it can never take down the entire network. Cool, huh?
I wonder if the faster warmboot times under XP are due to its prefetching functionality. Another benchmark with prefetching disabled could determine this. Maybe Ubuntu or other distributions can try adding prefetch functionality to their distributions and put Windows where it belongs, (at) last.
All those fancy cell cores with their gigahertzes and gigaflops, the hdd with its gigabytes and then bluray, just to play a game of Hunt the Wumpus! Hunt in shiny HD ascii!
Actually you can buy the same ones from Bestlink. They give bulk discounts too, but you don't have to buy in bulk from them.
The manufacturer of these notebooks keeps slapping on different labels, but they're all pretty much the same, except for some minor aesthetic and firmware differences.
I've compared one of them (from yet another reseller, with yet another unknown brand slapped on the back) to my EeePC 701 and here's what I found:
Pros:
- Cheaper then the Eee
- Smaller and lighter, even when compared with the 701
- Screen is very bright, even with the Eee at its brightest, the el cheapo is still brighter, see picture)
Cons:
- No onboard wlan although it comes with a usb wlan device
- 400MHz mipsel as opposed to a 600 or 900MHz IA32 CPU in the Eee's
- No frozen bubble (???)
b) If someone writes a FOSS implementation of a.doc/.xls viewer, does that mean MSFT could more easily throw their weight to declaring.doc a standard? (Since a standard ought to have multiple implementations, although maybe office 2003 and 2007 counts as two, or office and word/excel/powerpoint viewer:p )
It needs Verdana from MS TrueType core fonts, so it doesn't work across multiple platforms. The link is slashdotted anyway. Here's a version that's still available: http://www.romancortes.com/blog/homer-css/
The correct term is "variable expansion". Besides, double-quoted strings don't just expand variables, they also interpret escape sequences. That's what's in the manual (and it's correct, of course).
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This slows down the PHP interpreter by forcing it to check for variables within the strings, to be interpolated.
Say what?!
e.g., using print() in most cases, but echo() in the remaining ones
They are language constructs, not functions (so your notation is kinda wrong, otherwise valid point).
On page 41, $cipher is set to the string "MCRYPT_SERPENT_256," which generates an error, and probably instead should be set to the constant MCRYPT_SERPENT, which works fine
Their PHP was compiled with libmcrypt version 2.2.x. Big deal.
In the downloadable code for section #68, getpage.php fails because "<?" should be "<?php."
using NoScript is a Good IdeaTM. Linking to a page with a black-white pixel gif animation on the background is still possible though, there's no risk with animations disabled as well (unless you like to scroll).
The movie hasn't been seen by anyone yet except a bunch of politicians who can't say anything about its contents. This is really a failure on the side of NetSol, as there was no objectionable content hosted whatsoever (a cover image, a title and the words "coming soon", zomg, the horror!). If the upcoming movie is really offensive to some religious groups, then they've just fueled the backlash some more. It just gets worse with every news item about it, and this has been going on for months. See what happened in Danmark, no media circus means the muslims get mad about it 3 months late. Now even with NO MOVIE RELEASED WHATSOEVER there are already flags being burned: http://www.nieuwnieuws.nl/archives/buitenland/2008/03/protesten_tegen_fitna_de_fotos.html
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Is this it? http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames2/levels/m-o/ncc1701d.zip
I'm actually quite surprised that in all of the replies here, no one has remembered the actual solution for keeping branch office, departement, floor, room number etc. with a machines name.
It's called a subdomain and it rather works somewhat like this: x.dept.city.company.tld, so you'd get e.g. 01.accounting.amsterdam.acme.com. You can let the workstation get its hostname and domain information through a rather useful system called DHCP. In most cases, this is already being used to configure IP addresses, and given these addresses can change, the odds are pretty high that you already HAVE a database of names which already HAS a key for each record.
You can make as many subdomains as you like, and you can even delegate them to the seperate branches, departements, your stepmother or whatever you like. This also makes the system work more distributed, like the Internet, so if one nameserver dies it can never take down the entire network. Cool, huh?
By that definition, if Firefox would limit network traffic to a mere 28kbps it would be on top. And RMS would browse the web faster then anyone.
I wonder if the faster warmboot times under XP are due to its prefetching functionality. Another benchmark with prefetching disabled could determine this. Maybe Ubuntu or other distributions can try adding prefetch functionality to their distributions and put Windows where it belongs, (at) last.
All those fancy cell cores with their gigahertzes and gigaflops, the hdd with its gigabytes and then bluray, just to play a game of Hunt the Wumpus! Hunt in shiny HD ascii!
A dutch version of TFA: http://www.autoblog.nl/archive/2008/08/04/hengelo-krijgt-straat-met-luchtzuiverend-beton
Groetjes!
They did. At least, some time ago they did just that. You can even see an icon for it if you look closely at the picture in TFA.
One catch though, it's only version 6 (and AFAICT, standalone-only).
Actually you can buy the same ones from Bestlink. They give bulk discounts too, but you don't have to buy in bulk from them.
The manufacturer of these notebooks keeps slapping on different labels, but they're all pretty much the same, except for some minor aesthetic and firmware differences.
I've compared one of them (from yet another reseller, with yet another unknown brand slapped on the back) to my EeePC 701 and here's what I found:
Pros:
- Cheaper then the Eee
- Smaller and lighter, even when compared with the 701
- Screen is very bright, even with the Eee at its brightest, the el cheapo is still brighter, see picture)
Cons:
- No onboard wlan although it comes with a usb wlan device
- 400MHz mipsel as opposed to a 600 or 900MHz IA32 CPU in the Eee's
- No frozen bubble (???)
They were never gone, they just dropped the name in favor of 3D Realms. Read the Wiki page on Apogee for details.
(Now excuse me while I dig up that disk of Commander Keen 5...)
a) Does this mean the standard GNU response is now invalid?
b) If someone writes a FOSS implementation of a .doc/.xls viewer, does that mean MSFT could more easily throw their weight to declaring .doc a standard? (Since a standard ought to have multiple implementations, although maybe office 2003 and 2007 counts as two, or office and word/excel/powerpoint viewer :p )
It needs Verdana from MS TrueType core fonts, so it doesn't work across multiple platforms. The link is slashdotted anyway. Here's a version that's still available: http://www.romancortes.com/blog/homer-css/
Here's how i see it: http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/9183/homeraz4.png
I couldn't access Think Geek or Freshmeat either :'(
I was about to write a lengthy reply to your comment but then I reminded myself of this
Pfft, only 12 Euros, that's pocket money!
I'm the head of the WZA, the World Yahoo Association, and I'h here to tell we want more moneh.
The correct term is "variable expansion". Besides, double-quoted strings don't just expand variables, they also interpret escape sequences. That's what's in the manual (and it's correct, of course).
...posted as an AC to make the claim seem more legit.
They do?! Ye gods, i didn't know!
Fixed that for ya.
using NoScript is a Good IdeaTM. Linking to a page with a black-white pixel gif animation on the background is still possible though, there's no risk with animations disabled as well (unless you like to scroll).
The movie hasn't been seen by anyone yet except a bunch of politicians who can't say anything about its contents. This is really a failure on the side of NetSol, as there was no objectionable content hosted whatsoever (a cover image, a title and the words "coming soon", zomg, the horror!). If the upcoming movie is really offensive to some religious groups, then they've just fueled the backlash some more. It just gets worse with every news item about it, and this has been going on for months. See what happened in Danmark, no media circus means the muslims get mad about it 3 months late. Now even with NO MOVIE RELEASED WHATSOEVER there are already flags being burned: http://www.nieuwnieuws.nl/archives/buitenland/2008/03/protesten_tegen_fitna_de_fotos.html
And those who still want to burn a flag and haven't yet done so: Please get it right (the least you could do!): Red bar (not dark purple), white bar, blue bar, top to bottom! Don't be these guys http://forum.fok.nl/topic/1133672 Unless you add a star, in which case it's the SFR Yugoslavian flag: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_SFR_Yugoslavia.svg