I'm quite certain the book would have something to say about such an egregious waste of space to communicate the number "10".
Ah, but there's a lot more than just the number 10 being represented. Ten what? Percent?
If you were to visually display that quantitative information, you'd need both a sense of scale and of precision. The scale would be the 1-to-10 (although on Slashdot reviews I think the scale is 8-to-10), and the precision (is it 10.0 or 10) which the whole asterisks the original poster used were fine. I think if you communicated in another way all that his simple graphic represented, you'd be the one wasting space.
Since when has being acquired by Novell been a good thing? Novell has a knack for picking seemingly good targets, but has a history of failing miserably in post-acquisition execution. One example of many is SilverStream. It was one of the pioneering java application servers, and had a lot of mindshare. It was celebrated acquisition, supporters claiming it was a great match and flush with resources, it would really dominate the market. Now I ask, how many people have heard of Novell exteNd?
Nothing microsoft or any other programer can do is going to be able to stop me if I grab pair of mac-10s and just go after their physical computer, so theres no real point in talking about it.
You just blew big Mac-10 size holes in your own argument. And proved his point.
This is just taking energy fluctuations and "resampling" and scaling into the narrow band of frequencies (approx. 20Hz-20KHz) that we perceive as sound.
You can do this with anything--I wouldn't be surprised if some site somewhere lets you "hear" the Sun's recent plasma ejection.
This is not what you would have heard if you had "been there", folks.
This kind of pseudo-science is even more useless than the "what color is the universe" articles. I guess people love to be able to relate to hard-to-comprehend things with their senses.
Nothing to see here, folks, lets just move along and go back to our arguments about whether the universe is shaped like a donut or a soccer ball.
Actually HP put the inkjet mechanism in their cartridges, and that is protected by patents. They've fairly effectively stopped the knockoff cartridge industry. Although this may have changed in the EU.
Not the Chingiz Aitmatov Gold Medal of the Kyrgyz Republic! How can we hope to emulate so exalted a personage!
No biggie. I've got one too! Ebay rules!
None of them do what I want
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I have been looking (for years) for a PDF generator that will handle complex tables, with requirements that include: - automatic column sizing (like HTML) - clean break between pages - repeated header and footer on each page
None of the open source generators, none of the Commercial ones (including Adobe's expensive solution), and not even LaTeX with the longtable package will do this.
I guess I'm going to have to try some postscript generators like OpenOffice. PDF generation is evidently still in its infancy.
Sadly, you are wrong; I, too, have X10 home control technology purchased from X10.com... I'd like to see higher quality alternatives which would dim lights more smoothly.
I think you misunderstand. The parent was saying that X10-the-protocol is good, and X10-the-company doesn't make good X10-the-protocol stuff.
The "higher quality alternatives" you are seeking exist, from many companies:
Every one of those companies have better X10-the-protocol switches than X10-the-company. Not to mention that other companies provide more products and features, allowing more kinds of automation (HVAC control, sprinkler controllers, etc).
That's because "biodegradable" is a catch-all term. Some plastics (like grocery bags) would be better termed "photodegradable" because they will break down in sunlight, but not in a landfill.
This is already happening in China. They overtly practice height-discrimination, and women are getting surgical "height enhancements" in order to get a job.
You know... you do have the source code to formmail.pl, so if you're not satisfied with what Matt is doing, you are capable of fixing it yourself and mailing him the result.
First of all, why reinvent the wheel when someone's done exactly that? The Not Matt's Scripts (NMS) project has rewritten all his notoriously terrible scripts to make them more robust and secure.
Second of all, it's serious. The formmail script is on the Security Focus Top 10 attacks list. Why people keep using it is beyond me.
This was a fairly vague question. I moonlight as a home automation consultant. Most people, when they think of "home automation" they are really thinking about "home theater" or whole-house audio and video. There's a lot more to it, from structured wiring to control of lights, appliances, HVAC, and other items via relays, IR, etc. There could be many ways of doing what you want, depending on issues such as desired price, reliability, and how you plan to expand your system in the future.
I'm going to assume you want a simple starter solution that allows you to control an appliance (your radio), and uses a Linux box as a controller. You need at minimum two devices: A PC-to-powerline interface, and an appliance module.
For the powerline interface, pick up a CM11A which interfaces with a serial port. This is one of the few X10-the-brand devices I recommend*. Other companies make far superior X10-the-protocol equipment.
For the appliance module, pick up an ApplianceLinc. You can get one with two-way communication so that you can also request a status response (on/off) if you need to know that. Believe it or not, most of the time you don't need two-way X-10, and it's better from a signal-strength standpoint to minimize the number of transmitters on a circuit.
The simplest Linux software is heyu. This is extremely easy: just ssh into your machine and type 'heyu turn radio on', where radio has been set up in heyu as an alias for X10 code A1, or whatever X10 code you configured the appliance module to be.
The reason I said "at minimum" above is that this may work, but for a truly reliable X10 infrastructure you may need additional hardware, particularly if you decide to expand your system. In this case you'd need to get a coupler (to bridge the two 110V phases in your house) or better yet an amplified coupler/repeater such as the ACT CR230 I recommend, available at Home AutomationNet. There are others on that page as well. If you're not electrically inclined, there is a plug-in coupler.
With the above, you're almost there. Some electrical equipment attenuates X10 signals. Some computer power supplies, laser printers, and some TVs can affect signal strength. To isolate them, you may need to use some plug-in filters such as the FilterLinc or the ACT filters on the bottom of this page. If you want to get serious about obtaining a rock-solid X10 infrastructure then you can use an ESM1 signal meter. Also a new plug-in amplifier has been getting good reviews by early adopters.
* An alternative to the CM11A interface is the PowerLinc USB. Currently, the only linux support for this is in the wish project. This project seems VERY cool. Set an X10 address by just writing to a/dev device. You can also read status this way. Any shell script or language can therefore control your X10 stuff. The only downside is that it currently requires recompiling your kernel sources, except for a couple of specific RedHat kernels for which RPMs have been built. Man, would it be great if this project made it into the kernel source tree...
Boo-hoo! Shame! Life is so hard! Do you have ANY idea how many American companies turned me down before I managed to pick up a job in the US?
That's the way the cookie crumbles my friends whether you are American or not. If you want to live and work in another country prepare yourself for a lot of hardship.
Sigh... another person who either misunderstood the article, didn't read it, or just decided to get on a personal soapbox.
The article makes it obvious that Daniel Soong couldn't even get a job in THIS country when things got tight. It's hard for everyone, no matter where you were from. He wasn't complaining about that.
The point is in the quote "...Tata only interviewed Americans to be in compliance with the equal opportunity employment commission, and that no Americans were ever hired." That smacks of illegality, and it may well be true.
Also, ChevronTexaco breaking his contract for no good reason, while possibly legal, is pretty darn shady.
This is what gets me the most about these anti-H1B types on/. here. They have no idea - no idea whatsoever - what it takes to get a job here in the first place, go through the visa process and the relocate your entire family to another country. Then guess what? I still have to compete with Americans in the same shitty economy - paying the same rent and the same taxes! Interestingly enough I still have a job here. Guess what- I am really good at my job and my attitude doesn't suck. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. No, obviously not.
Do you catch me complaining about it though? No of course not!
I caught you--I read the preceding paragraph. Or do you think Slashdot doesn't count?
Honestly, the average American these days seems to have grown too soft and that is the root cause of a lot of the problems in the USA today.
I'm not sure what you mean by this, but I have noticed that Americans tend to have quite a bit more "padding" than those from other countries:-)
Seriously though, I have noticed something. I think it's a lack of education. All the just-out-of-college people seem to be simply idiots. Just 10 minutes ago I was helping a recent (year ago) CS grad who didn't know what fork() is, or even conceptually what it does. What are they teaching CS people these days? FrontPage? Geez.
Re:Why yes, it *is* illegal to work with no visa
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The implication of the article was that it is not possible for him to get a work visa. A work visa requires a corporate sponsor, and no Indian firm was even willing to talk to him.
That was terrible! Ads on the page, pop-under ads, and pop-away ads (which pop up when you leave the site). I'm feeling a little less sympathy for Register.com now.
A point to consider is that the windows (NT) kernel has more security designed into it than the unix kernel.
Nice troll. A generic, unprovable statement with no facts to back you up.
NT once got a security certification (forgot the name, but you probably know which one I mean). It was promptly ridiculed into oblivion by the unix/linux world, because it only applied to machines that had no network interface.
The C2 security certification was obtained by Microsoft to be able to compete in certain Federal markets. The problem is not just the network, but many other aspects of the system needed to be removed with the result that the "C2 Secure" version of Windows was basically unusable. You're giving the Unix community too much credit if you think they successfully "ridiculed" it into oblivion. It was never meant to be used; it was simply a vehicle for Windows to be included on Federal RFPs because a C2-secure OS was a checklist requirement.
Worms are malicious programs that are designed to infect, harm and disable targeted computers. They spread through internal networks and the Internet, but unlike viruses, they do not require people to open e-mail attachments or take other actions in order to function.
This, of course, is completely wrong. And thus, their basis for calling it a worm is wrong. This virus can infect without user intervention.
Also stop drinking red wine, grape juice, and eating tomatoes and chocolate. Oh, and stop getting older too, as your teeth become more porous.
In my opinion, the thing to do is to stop thinking of yellowing teeth as a "problem" that needs to be fixed. It's natural.
But if you are unduly influenced by Hollywood or all the Photoshopped magazine pictures, the thing to do is go to the dentist and get the real thing--a custom moulded tooth tray and whitening gel. My wife does this. There's a bit more upfront cost, but it works far better than the over-the-counter stuff, which won't get between your teeth.
I would agree with the above post. Take a step back, and rather than deciding which weblog to use, ask yourself if a weblog is what you really need.
A general-purpose open source CMS, such as WebGUI - check out the demo, it's nice - can be used as a weblog, but you can also provide the ability for certain people to create new pages, drop widgets on these pages (calendars, discussion forums, versioned document repositories, tables from databases, etc). Depending on what your needs are, you may find a weblog too inflexible.
Another type of application to consider is a portal. An example is Metadot, which has a large library of widgets to choose from, and can also extend the page design to the users, who can choose the widgets they would like to appear on their own page (like a my.yahoo.com).
Slashdot Mirror
I'm quite certain the book would have something to say about such an egregious waste of space to communicate the number "10".
Ah, but there's a lot more than just the number 10 being represented. Ten what? Percent?
If you were to visually display that quantitative information, you'd need both a sense of scale and of precision. The scale would be the 1-to-10 (although on Slashdot reviews I think the scale is 8-to-10), and the precision (is it 10.0 or 10) which the whole asterisks the original poster used were fine. I think if you communicated in another way all that his simple graphic represented, you'd be the one wasting space.
MTV's getting into the music business? What's next, they'll start showing music videos or something?
Since when has being acquired by Novell been a good thing? Novell has a knack for picking seemingly good targets, but has a history of failing miserably in post-acquisition execution. One example of many is SilverStream. It was one of the pioneering java application servers, and had a lot of mindshare. It was celebrated acquisition, supporters claiming it was a great match and flush with resources, it would really dominate the market. Now I ask, how many people have heard of Novell exteNd?
Novell acquisition press releases are epitaphs.
Nothing microsoft or any other programer can do is going to be able to stop me if I grab pair of mac-10s and just go after their physical computer, so theres no real point in talking about it.
You just blew big Mac-10 size holes in your own argument. And proved his point.
This is just taking energy fluctuations and "resampling" and scaling into the narrow band of frequencies (approx. 20Hz-20KHz) that we perceive as sound.
You can do this with anything--I wouldn't be surprised if some site somewhere lets you "hear" the Sun's recent plasma ejection.
This is not what you would have heard if you had "been there", folks.
This kind of pseudo-science is even more useless than the "what color is the universe" articles. I guess people love to be able to relate to hard-to-comprehend things with their senses.
Nothing to see here, folks, lets just move along and go back to our arguments about whether the universe is shaped like a donut or a soccer ball.
Actually HP put the inkjet mechanism in their cartridges, and that is protected by patents. They've fairly effectively stopped the knockoff cartridge industry. Although this may have changed in the EU.
Not the Chingiz Aitmatov Gold Medal of the Kyrgyz Republic! How can we hope to emulate so exalted a personage!
No biggie. I've got one too! Ebay rules!
I have been looking (for years) for a PDF generator that will handle complex tables, with requirements that include:
- automatic column sizing (like HTML)
- clean break between pages
- repeated header and footer on each page
None of the open source generators, none of the Commercial ones (including Adobe's expensive solution), and not even LaTeX with the longtable package will do this.
I guess I'm going to have to try some postscript generators like OpenOffice. PDF generation is evidently still in its infancy.
I think you misunderstand. The parent was saying that X10-the-protocol is good, and X10-the-company doesn't make good X10-the-protocol stuff.
The "higher quality alternatives" you are seeking exist, from many companies:
Every one of those companies have better X10-the-protocol switches than X10-the-company. Not to mention that other companies provide more products and features, allowing more kinds of automation (HVAC control, sprinkler controllers, etc).
That's because "biodegradable" is a catch-all term. Some plastics (like grocery bags) would be better termed "photodegradable" because they will break down in sunlight, but not in a landfill.
This is already happening in China. They overtly practice height-discrimination, and women are getting surgical "height enhancements" in order to get a job.
You know... you do have the source code to formmail.pl, so if you're not satisfied with what Matt is doing, you are capable of fixing it yourself and mailing him the result.
First of all, why reinvent the wheel when someone's done exactly that? The Not Matt's Scripts (NMS) project has rewritten all his notoriously terrible scripts to make them more robust and secure.
Second of all, it's serious. The formmail script is on the Security Focus Top 10 attacks list. Why people keep using it is beyond me.
-bp
I must have had typos on a couple of links, which got dropped. Here they are:
heyu: http://heyu.tanj.com/heyu/.
ACT filters: bottom of this page.
This was a fairly vague question. I moonlight as a home automation consultant. Most people, when they think of "home automation" they are really thinking about "home theater" or whole-house audio and video. There's a lot more to it, from structured wiring to control of lights, appliances, HVAC, and other items via relays, IR, etc. There could be many ways of doing what you want, depending on issues such as desired price, reliability, and how you plan to expand your system in the future.
/dev device. You can also read status this way. Any shell script or language can therefore control your X10 stuff. The only downside is that it currently requires recompiling your kernel sources, except for a couple of specific RedHat kernels for which RPMs have been built. Man, would it be great if this project made it into the kernel source tree...
I'm going to assume you want a simple starter solution that allows you to control an appliance (your radio), and uses a Linux box as a controller. You need at minimum two devices: A PC-to-powerline interface, and an appliance module.
For the powerline interface, pick up a CM11A which interfaces with a serial port. This is one of the few X10-the-brand devices I recommend*. Other companies make far superior X10-the-protocol equipment.
For the appliance module, pick up an ApplianceLinc. You can get one with two-way communication so that you can also request a status response (on/off) if you need to know that. Believe it or not, most of the time you don't need two-way X-10, and it's better from a signal-strength standpoint to minimize the number of transmitters on a circuit.
The simplest Linux software is heyu. This is extremely easy: just ssh into your machine and type 'heyu turn radio on', where radio has been set up in heyu as an alias for X10 code A1, or whatever X10 code you configured the appliance module to be.
The reason I said "at minimum" above is that this may work, but for a truly reliable X10 infrastructure you may need additional hardware, particularly if you decide to expand your system. In this case you'd need to get a coupler (to bridge the two 110V phases in your house) or better yet an amplified coupler/repeater such as the ACT CR230 I recommend, available at Home AutomationNet. There are others on that page as well. If you're not electrically inclined, there is a plug-in coupler.
With the above, you're almost there. Some electrical equipment attenuates X10 signals. Some computer power supplies, laser printers, and some TVs can affect signal strength. To isolate them, you may need to use some plug-in filters such as the FilterLinc or the ACT filters on the bottom of this page. If you want to get serious about obtaining a rock-solid X10 infrastructure then you can use an ESM1 signal meter. Also a new plug-in amplifier has been getting good reviews by early adopters.
* An alternative to the CM11A interface is the PowerLinc USB. Currently, the only linux support for this is in the wish project. This project seems VERY cool. Set an X10 address by just writing to a
Hope this helps
-bp
Boo-hoo! Shame! Life is so hard! Do you have ANY idea how many American companies turned me down before I managed to pick up a job in the US?
/. here. They have no idea - no idea whatsoever - what it takes to get a job here in the first place, go through the visa process and the relocate your entire family to another country. Then guess what? I still have to compete with Americans in the same shitty economy - paying the same rent and the same taxes! Interestingly enough I still have a job here. Guess what- I am really good at my job and my attitude doesn't suck. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. No, obviously not.
:-)
That's the way the cookie crumbles my friends whether you are American or not. If you want to live and work in another country prepare yourself for a lot of hardship.
Sigh... another person who either misunderstood the article, didn't read it, or just decided to get on a personal soapbox.
The article makes it obvious that Daniel Soong couldn't even get a job in THIS country when things got tight. It's hard for everyone, no matter where you were from. He wasn't complaining about that.
The point is in the quote "...Tata only interviewed Americans to be in compliance with the equal opportunity employment commission, and that no Americans were ever hired." That smacks of illegality, and it may well be true.
Also, ChevronTexaco breaking his contract for no good reason, while possibly legal, is pretty darn shady.
This is what gets me the most about these anti-H1B types on
Do you catch me complaining about it though? No of course not!
I caught you--I read the preceding paragraph. Or do you think Slashdot doesn't count?
Honestly, the average American these days seems to have grown too soft and that is the root cause of a lot of the problems in the USA today.
I'm not sure what you mean by this, but I have noticed that Americans tend to have quite a bit more "padding" than those from other countries
Seriously though, I have noticed something. I think it's a lack of education. All the just-out-of-college people seem to be simply idiots. Just 10 minutes ago I was helping a recent (year ago) CS grad who didn't know what fork() is, or even conceptually what it does. What are they teaching CS people these days? FrontPage? Geez.
The implication of the article was that it is not possible for him to get a work visa. A work visa requires a corporate sponsor, and no Indian firm was even willing to talk to him.
That was terrible! Ads on the page, pop-under ads, and pop-away ads (which pop up when you leave the site). I'm feeling a little less sympathy for Register.com now.
If you look at the Netcraft survey of web servers, you'll find that about 66% are running Apache or Zeus.
Within the margin of error of the statistics, it's pretty much an even distribution of defacements across various OS's.
HERE IS
AN EXAMPLE
A point to consider is that the windows (NT) kernel has more security designed into it than the unix kernel.
Nice troll. A generic, unprovable statement with no facts to back you up.
NT once got a security certification (forgot the name, but you probably know which one I mean).
It was promptly ridiculed into oblivion by the unix/linux world, because it only applied to machines that had no network interface.
The C2 security certification was obtained by Microsoft to be able to compete in certain Federal markets. The problem is not just the network, but many other aspects of the system needed to be removed with the result that the "C2 Secure" version of Windows was basically unusable. You're giving the Unix community too much credit if you think they successfully "ridiculed" it into oblivion. It was never meant to be used; it was simply a vehicle for Windows to be included on Federal RFPs because a C2-secure OS was a checklist requirement.
This, of course, is completely wrong. And thus, their basis for calling it a worm is wrong. This virus can infect without user intervention.
Subject is an oxymoron. Perhaps it should have a different name?
Also stop drinking red wine, grape juice, and eating tomatoes and chocolate. Oh, and stop getting older too, as your teeth become more porous.
In my opinion, the thing to do is to stop thinking of yellowing teeth as a "problem" that needs to be fixed. It's natural.
But if you are unduly influenced by Hollywood or all the Photoshopped magazine pictures, the thing to do is go to the dentist and get the real thing--a custom moulded tooth tray and whitening gel. My wife does this. There's a bit more upfront cost, but it works far better than the over-the-counter stuff, which won't get between your teeth.
I would agree with the above post. Take a step back, and rather than deciding which weblog to use, ask yourself if a weblog is what you really need.
A general-purpose open source CMS, such as WebGUI - check out the demo, it's nice - can be used as a weblog, but you can also provide the ability for certain people to create new pages, drop widgets on these pages (calendars, discussion forums, versioned document repositories, tables from databases, etc). Depending on what your needs are, you may find a weblog too inflexible.
Another type of application to consider is a portal. An example is Metadot, which has a large library of widgets to choose from, and can also extend the page design to the users, who can choose the widgets they would like to appear on their own page (like a my.yahoo.com).