RPM is supposed to be easy to use... but the dang man page is so long... Here's just the SYNOPSIS section at the beginning: NAME
rpm - RPM Package Manager
SYNOPSIS
QUERYING AND VERIFYING PACKAGES:
rpm {-q|--query} [select-options] [query-options]
Each of the above options is explained in detail, but there are no FAQ-style examples. It's no wonder the distributions are putting layers on top of rpm (urpmi, yum, etc). I like yum, and largely because the man page is short and to the point! It only takes a few seconds to figure out what I need to do.
Telling someone that there's something wrong with them because they don't fit into your definition of normal is cruel and ignorant. If someone has trouble fitting in with the jocks and cheerleaders they should be proud, not seek treatment.
Asperger's Syndrome is not a label applied to people who don't fit in. If someone is using it that way, they are wrong. You can have some or all of the symptoms, yet still not have Asperger's.
There was a very good writeup of Asperger's in a Wired article a while ago.
"macros" usually have to do with scripting GUI apps, yet another thing Linux mostly blows at, especially compared to AppleScript/OSA on Mac OS X but even Windows' WSH is better. There is KDE's and Qt's DCOP system, which is neat but very poorly supported.
Actually, I see it the other way... sutomating GUI apps via macros is a kludge that is necessary when the apps don't have a powerful command-line interface... which most Linux apps have.
People care about it because if something claims to be 99% silver then it should damn well have some silver in it. Otherwise it is false advertising which is illegal.
Are you sure they claim to have 99% silver, or is it 99% silver compounds? For example, silver nitrate is commonly used to make mirrors. It is cheap. It is also liquid, which could be combined with a thickening agent to make thermal grease. So I highly doubt we're talking about pure solid silver here.
An LED should shut off nearly instantly. I mean, how can one expect it to stay on but the rectifier diodes to turn off?:-)
My guess is that you know this... but for the non-EE's: A full-wave (i.e. bridge) rectifier does not actually turn on/off anything. Imagine a 60Hz sine wave. The rectifier takes the bottom half (the negative swing) and replaces it with a positive mirror image. For those mathematically inclined, it's like taking the absolute value of the sine. What results is a series of "bumps" that only touch zero at a tiny point.
That being said, LED light output reacts instantly and would be off at those exact points. Unless they've invented special LED's with a luminosity ramp rate, which is entirely possible.
The only problem, currently, is discerning your voice in a noisy room. Gated mic systems are the best bet, but you have to be relatively close to one for it to turn on.
Why wouldn't only the part of the population that carries the male-tendency gene die off? The remaining carp would simply rebound and we'll be back where we started.
Hey, a slashdotter with a clue! Yes, they'll need to constantly restock the "daughterless" fish to keep the population down.
Now mandrake move looks a cool idea in storing all the files on the move however what would be even better is a system which boots from a USB device. Now that would be cool
Can't we do that already? I believe most recent motherboards have a BIOS that allows booting from USB. Mine does. Haven't tried it though.
think it'd be useful to know the price (obviously for the USB key) and size of the key. and perhapse a tentative release. sure, its RC1, but the final could be in a while
Why not just follow links to the Mandrake Store? The price is $59.90 and it includes a 128MB USB 2.0 key.
You mean those ones that people buy thinking they are High def capable when they really aren't?
True, but they also think DVD's are High def. End result: their DVDs look fine and they don't notice. In fact, they're not likely to notice until the most mainstream programming is sent in HD. Perhaps not even then.
Web Developers are a dying breed. It used to mean someone who handcrafted HTML or systems to produce HTML. But now, there are mainstream tools to create page designs, to create weblogs and portals and content management systems. Very few people who are web developers need to actually touch the HTML anymore.
Imagine a hypothetical job title of "postscript developer." Sounds ridiculous, right? We don't need anybody that develops postscript. It doesn't matter if they can create better postscript by hand than any tools can. Word processors and page-layout programs can get the job done, by people who would be paid much less than those that know the entire postscript specification.
Well, that's the way things are going with HTML. HTML (and future XML-based variants) will be under-the-hood technology that people don't need to know, unless they're tools developers. And while I don't expect, say, a DreamWeaver-style tool for XSLT for quite some time, the trend is clear. The demand for web developers will continue to decrease.
What can you do about it? Emphasize related skills that are more in demand. Change your title, if you can. Learn portals, CMS technology, weblogs, and how to install and integrate them. Learn new technologies that are in demand but haven't yet been reduced to a commodity by tools. Many XML-based standards are good examples: XSLT, Web Services, SOAP, etc.
Yes, CD's are really lossless in the sense that the digital signal is 100% preserved.
Wrong. Digital studio recordings need to be downsampled for CDs.
But MP3's are lossless even with respect to CDs, noticably so.
Huh? Wow, the first time I've heard MP3's referred to as lossless.
I think you need to stop throwing the 'lossless' term around. There are no "degrees" of losslessness. The original recording is preserved, or it isn't.
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Why so crabby?
...are they giving credit (or a job) to the guy who won the Google Programming Contest?
RPM is supposed to be easy to use... but the dang man page is so long... Here's just the SYNOPSIS section at the beginning:
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NAME
rpm - RPM Package Manager
SYNOPSIS
QUERYING AND VERIFYING PACKAGES:
rpm {-q|--query} [select-options] [query-options]
rpm {-V|--verify} [select-options] [verify-options]
rpm --import PUBKEY
rpm {-K|--checksig} [--nosignature] [--nodigest]
PACKAGE_FILE
INSTALLING, UPGRADING, AND REMOVING PACKAGES:
rpm {-i|--install} [install-options] PACKAGE_FILE
rpm {-U|--upgrade} [install-options] PACKAGE_FILE
rpm {-F|--freshen} [install-options] PACKAGE_FILE
rpm {-e|--erase} [--allmatches] [--nodeps] [--noscripts]
[--notriggers] [--repackage] [--test] PACKAGE_NAME
MISCELLANEOUS:
rpm {--initdb|--rebuilddb}
rpm {--addsign|--resign} PACKAGE_FILE
rpm {--querytags|--showrc}
rpm {--setperms|--setugids} PACKAGE_NAME
select-options
[PACKAGE_NAME] [-a,--all] [-f,--file FILE]
[-g,--group GROUP] {-p,--package PACKAGE_FILE]
[--fileid MD5] [--hdrid SHA1] [--pkgid MD5] [--tid TID]
[--querybynumber HDRNUM] [--triggeredby PACKAGE_NAME]
[--whatprovides CAPABILITY] [--whatrequires CAPABILITY]
query-options
[--changelog] [-c,--configfiles] [-d,--docfiles] [--dump]
[--filesbypkg] [-i,--info] [--last] [-l,--list]
[--provides] [--qf,--queryformat QUERYFMT]
[-R,--requires] [--scripts] [-s,--state]
[--triggers,--triggerscripts]
verify-options
[--nodeps] [--nofiles] [--noscripts]
[--nodigest] [--nosignature]
[--nolinkto] [--nomd5] [--nosize] [--nouser]
[--nogroup] [--nomtime] [--nomode] [--nordev]
install-options
[--aid] [--allfiles] [--badreloc] [--excludepath OLDPATH]
[--excludedocs] [--force] [-h,--hash]
[--ignoresize] [--ignorearch] [--ignoreos]
[--includedocs] [--justdb] [--nodeps]
[--nodigest] [--nosignature] [--nosuggest]
[--noorder] [--noscripts] [--notriggers]
[--oldpackage] [--percent] [--prefix NEWPATH]
[--relocate OLDPATH=NEWPATH]
[--repackage] [--replacefiles] [--replacepkgs]
[--test]
Each of the above options is explained in detail, but there are no FAQ-style examples. It's no wonder the distributions are putting layers on top of rpm (urpmi, yum, etc). I like yum, and largely because the man page is short and to the point! It only takes a few seconds to figure out what I need to do.
Telling someone that there's something wrong with them because they don't fit into your definition of normal is cruel and ignorant. If someone has trouble fitting in with the jocks and cheerleaders they should be proud, not seek treatment.
Asperger's Syndrome is not a label applied to people who don't fit in. If someone is using it that way, they are wrong. You can have some or all of the symptoms, yet still not have Asperger's.
There was a very good writeup of Asperger's in a Wired article a while ago.
I think a good study of a purely functional language could really improve my perl, python, or ruby.
A good study of the purely functional language XSL will really improve your appreciation of perl, python, or ruby!
Does anyone have any recommendations for this application?
Any budget: Car-Tell vehicle detection + HAI OmniPro controller + hardwired ALC lighting.
Low budget: X10 floodlights set to turn on X10-compatible switches when motion is detected after dusk.
"macros" usually have to do with scripting GUI apps, yet another thing Linux mostly blows at, especially compared to AppleScript/OSA on Mac OS X but even Windows' WSH is better. There is KDE's and Qt's DCOP system, which is neat but very poorly supported.
Actually, I see it the other way... sutomating GUI apps via macros is a kludge that is necessary when the apps don't have a powerful command-line interface... which most Linux apps have.
People care about it because if something claims to be 99% silver then it should damn well have some silver in it. Otherwise it is false advertising which is illegal.
Are you sure they claim to have 99% silver, or is it 99% silver compounds? For example, silver nitrate is commonly used to make mirrors. It is cheap. It is also liquid, which could be combined with a thickening agent to make thermal grease. So I highly doubt we're talking about pure solid silver here.
A day and a half after that, New Egg sends me an email telling me that the RAM has been shipped and will arrive soon
Actually, you received the email after the RAM arrived. I'm not surprised that NewEgg's shipping is faster than email routing sometimes...
An LED should shut off nearly instantly. I mean, how can one expect it to stay on but the rectifier diodes to turn off? :-)
My guess is that you know this... but for the non-EE's: A full-wave (i.e. bridge) rectifier does not actually turn on/off anything. Imagine a 60Hz sine wave. The rectifier takes the bottom half (the negative swing) and replaces it with a positive mirror image. For those mathematically inclined, it's like taking the absolute value of the sine. What results is a series of "bumps" that only touch zero at a tiny point.
That being said, LED light output reacts instantly and would be off at those exact points. Unless they've invented special LED's with a luminosity ramp rate, which is entirely possible.
Seeing Linus Torvalds: Australian for "geek"
All of the above is possible using products from Home Automated Living (HAL).
The only problem, currently, is discerning your voice in a noisy room. Gated mic systems are the best bet, but you have to be relatively close to one for it to turn on.
They do not, however, mention any ways of controlling the spread of this gene in the wild, besides the obvious death of any affected population.
What other ways do you need?
Why wouldn't only the part of the population that carries the male-tendency gene die off? The remaining carp would simply rebound and we'll be back where we started.
Hey, a slashdotter with a clue! Yes, they'll need to constantly restock the "daughterless" fish to keep the population down.
you forgot:
vii) ???
viii) PROFIT!!!!
Asian orange...
Okay, is it a Mandarin or a Satsuma orange?
Now mandrake move looks a cool idea in storing all the files on the move however what would be even better is a system which boots from a USB device. Now that would be cool
Can't we do that already? I believe most recent motherboards have a BIOS that allows booting from USB. Mine does. Haven't tried it though.
think it'd be useful to know the price (obviously for the USB key) and size of the key. and perhapse a tentative release. sure, its RC1, but the final could be in a while
Why not just follow links to the Mandrake Store? The price is $59.90 and it includes a 128MB USB 2.0 key.
I'm having troubles understanding conceptually how this is possible?
Easy. They just kept surfing until they hit this page, and then they were done.
So it isn't a wiki, it isn't a CMS, and it certainly isn't a blog?
The term is "portal."
It's not a true CMS, despite the fact that they claim to be one. In fact CMS is a vastly overused term.
Looks like Red Hat needs to find another name.
They should call it "Crimson Fedora" and be done with it. It leaves no doubt it's associated with Red Hat.
You mean those ones that people buy thinking they are High def capable when they really aren't?
True, but they also think DVD's are High def. End result: their DVDs look fine and they don't notice. In fact, they're not likely to notice until the most mainstream programming is sent in HD. Perhaps not even then.
Web Developers are a dying breed. It used to mean someone who handcrafted HTML or systems to produce HTML. But now, there are mainstream tools to create page designs, to create weblogs and portals and content management systems. Very few people who are web developers need to actually touch the HTML anymore.
Imagine a hypothetical job title of "postscript developer." Sounds ridiculous, right? We don't need anybody that develops postscript. It doesn't matter if they can create better postscript by hand than any tools can. Word processors and page-layout programs can get the job done, by people who would be paid much less than those that know the entire postscript specification.
Well, that's the way things are going with HTML. HTML (and future XML-based variants) will be under-the-hood technology that people don't need to know, unless they're tools developers. And while I don't expect, say, a DreamWeaver-style tool for XSLT for quite some time, the trend is clear. The demand for web developers will continue to decrease.
What can you do about it? Emphasize related skills that are more in demand. Change your title, if you can. Learn portals, CMS technology, weblogs, and how to install and integrate them. Learn new technologies that are in demand but haven't yet been reduced to a commodity by tools. Many XML-based standards are good examples: XSLT, Web Services, SOAP, etc.
Good luck.
Had to learn to spell "therefore" as well, there not being a triangle of three dots in ASCII!
.·. (where the . are bold)
.<sup>.</sup>.
In HTML 4.0, you can use ∴
To support HTML 3.2 you have to use
The lowest common denominator (no pun intended) is
Yes, CD's are really lossless in the sense that the digital signal is 100% preserved.
Wrong. Digital studio recordings need to be downsampled for CDs.
But MP3's are lossless even with respect to CDs, noticably so.
Huh? Wow, the first time I've heard MP3's referred to as lossless.
I think you need to stop throwing the 'lossless' term around. There are no "degrees" of losslessness. The original recording is preserved, or it isn't.