You know that if they do find life they'll blame it on "earthly contamination" no matter how clean it was so these clean room conditions don't do anything but waste time and money. Why not just let it sit in the corner of a nuclear waste site for a couple months and have that nuke off any germs.
If TV has taught me anything, it's that radiation makes things grow. It's people like you who are responsible for us having six foot tall germs chasing people down the street, devouring houses and apartment buildings and leaving a trail of green slime. I hate green slime.
Try using Mozilla 1.1 beta. I'm an OSX user, and upgrading to the 1.1 beta increased the speed of Mozilla. It is so fast that web browsing is a pleasurable activity again.
One of the best reads I've ever located on the web relating to development is rather peculiar. If you do C or C++ development though, this page may very well astonish and gross you out.
It explains how to implement coroutines in C, using a not-so-well known feature of switch statements: cases may be inside blocks inside a case statement.
I printed this out and showed it to my boss. I think he said something about firing for using code like that, but I didn't pay much attention to him.;-)
There is a driver for USB mass storage devices which is already part of the operating system. It is/System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBMassStorageClass.k ext, labelled com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass. It should work with your Neo Jukebox the same as it should work with my Neo 25, but the USB chipset in the Neos is flawed. I was able to get it to work in Linux once upon a time by modifying the USB mass storage driver to ignore some of it's integrity checks... I wonder if the Apple driver could be similarly modified. Hm... IOUSBMassStorageClass oughta be part of the open source darwin... hm...
Granted, someone stupid enough to uncomment it might very well be stupid enough to delete the semicolon too, and might be stupid enough to not be able to figure out the compiler warning stating he was missing a semi-colon. I have co-workers like that. Holy shit, you're talking about my co-workers! If they started touching open source software, I'd have to crawl into a bunker with Woody and never come out.
Those of us who aren't retarded at the office call her the human bit bucket. Nothing gets stored going in, and random data gets pulled out through her fingers, usually at the painful expense of my time.
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So the slashdot effect took down your servers, and in the process, nobody got to get the software. In order to prevent slashdotting, which would make it so that nobody can see the site, you took down the site so nobody could see it.
Your comment's subject says 'Python Not the First'. This seems to indicate that you thought Python was not the first. Python's web site explicitly states that it is the first to have the OSI certification:
Python is the first website to carry the new Open Source logo. (python.org)
It is just being reported now, despite occuring a long time ago.
And because you've had it on your projects for at least a week, Python isn't the first website to carry it?
Did it occur to you that maybe python.org has had the logo for more than a week? This is slashdot, it takes about a month for 'news' to cool down enough that it can be put on the front page. Apparently.
Yeah. That would be great. Because, you know, the hard drive wasn't very portable. So you'll put a wireless card in there so that you're restricted to a smaller area, and you have access to your mp3s.
The hard drive is starting to sound like it wasn't a bad idea afterall, since it does the same thing. But you know, without any hacking.
Perhaps I am mistaken, but I am really sure the default skin for Mozilla is modern, which is much prettier than Classic.
You are mistaken, actually. The default Mozilla skin is Classic. Given that, I think a screenshot of the Classic skin is completely fair.. and it's not really all that bad.
Classic presents a clean and usable interface, and it is the skin that most resembles the operating system. FizzillaCFM, the MacOSX version of Mozilla, looks just like a native MacOSX application in Classic, just like Classic has the same colours and toolbars and such that Windows has.
Modern, on the other hand, provides the same pretty interface to all operating systems. This is also darn nice.
Hey, nobody ever managed to crack my A/UX server before I switched to OpenBSD -- maybe there's something to this.
Are you implying that someone has managed to crack your server now that you've switched to OpenBSD? Is this more than half a decade ago, or did you mess up OpenBSD's root-hole-less default installation?:-)
'Since time began' != 'since the big bang'. One of them is something which calculations can be based upon (since the big bang), the other is a statement that refers to an event that nobody is actually sure happened.
Time may very well be infinite, and evidence of such is beyond our comprehension. We're fairly sure that the big bang occured, right? But is anyone fairly sure that time has a beginning?
Oooh baby, the release of wget version 1.8 and then 1.8.1 in December was great! I think wget is more than enough to justify the existance of the entire Free Software Foundation. No, really. I'll donate to the FSF if someone keeps maintaining wget and makes it rock even more.
After seeing this headline news on slashdot, I decided it is past time for me to acquire some additional Loki titles while they are still available. I had already owned a few, such as Civ CTP and Myth II. I just went to Loki's web site and ordered SimCity 3000 Unlimited, Alpha Centuari, and Heroes of Might and Magic III.
I suggest that if you can afford it, and Loki is selling any software you're interested in, now may be the time to acquire it before it is too late.
I've been meaning to purchase these games for ages, but I've been hoping to do so from a retailer's shelf (as I did for the first two Loki games I bought). Sadly, I never saw them there.
> At one point I seriously contemplated moving a
> campbed in here to save rent (I'm unemployed, &
> live in a shared house.) But my girlfriend said
> she'd cut my balls off, and then leave me. So that
> was that:)
My condolensces on the loss of your genitals, but I'm glad you found an easy way to get rid of your girlfriend. It's obvious that with such a comfortable server room, you don't need a girl. I'm glad that you have your priorities straight.
Currently I like using Mozilla to access my mail and news simultaniously, as well as have access to a MOO client (MOOzilla) and a web browser all with one package. It is, however, a tad buggy.. I find that some newsgroups consistantly cause the mailer to crash, and I haven't yet gotten a resolution for this bug.
I used to use a perl script I wrote, fetchnews, to read newsgroups and deposit them into mboxes for use with Mutt. Posting to USENET was done by sending to local nntp-alt.bitterness, or whatever newsgroup, which used a qmail wrapper script to send the mail out properly. It was a nice setup, but since I've lost most of the configuration, I've switched to Mozilla.
I own a Neo 25 portable MP3 player, produced and distributed by SSI America. It was rather expensive to get, but it has no copy protection mechanisms, and it doubles as a portable hard drive. It uses a 2.5 inch IDE laptop drive, which is replacable, and a rechargable lithium ion battery.
I love this unit. It has played MP3s for me 8 hours a day for the past year.
The Neo Jukebox is their latest Neo product, replacing the Neo 25. It looks even nicer than my unit. They also mape the Neo 35, a car MP3 player.
Back when our company was younger, our first laptop was purchased by the president at a local computer store. It was widely hated for its massive crappiness. I mean, this thing was terrible. So, following our company motto, 'it's easier to get forgiveness than to get permission', the laptop was 'accidently' left on the front of a truck in the field before the truck drove off.
So, it crash landed on a gravel road.
And it survived. Our IT manager resurrected it and put it back into service.
Shortly afterwards, one of our marketoids took the laptop to do a demo across town of some of our software. She was showing off the software, and a bunch of gathered engineers were impressed. One of them offered up a disk containing some data that he wished to try to import into the software and see how it works. The disk went into the laptop, and was happily mangled to hell by gravel left in the floppy drive.
Marketoid: '... I'm so sorry. I hope you had another copy of that.'
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You can do the exact same thing in OS X. You just need to get rsync, which can be installed as part of fink if you have it.
Otherwise, you can get the rsync sources yourself and build it without too much trouble.
They work fine for me in the MacOS X RealPlayer beta.
You know that if they do find life they'll blame it on "earthly contamination" no matter how clean it was so these clean room conditions don't do anything but waste time and money. Why not just let it sit in the corner of a nuclear waste site for a couple months and have that nuke off any germs.
If TV has taught me anything, it's that radiation makes things grow. It's people like you who are responsible for us having six foot tall germs chasing people down the street, devouring houses and apartment buildings and leaving a trail of green slime. I hate green slime.
Do you know what happens to a toad when it gets hit by lightning? Same thing that happens to everything else.
Try using Mozilla 1.1 beta. I'm an OSX user, and upgrading to the 1.1 beta increased the speed of Mozilla. It is so fast that web browsing is a pleasurable activity again.
One of the best reads I've ever located on the web relating to development is rather peculiar. If you do C or C++ development though, this page may very well astonish and gross you out.
It explains how to implement coroutines in C, using a not-so-well known feature of switch statements: cases may be inside blocks inside a case statement.
I printed this out and showed it to my boss. I think he said something about firing for using code like that, but I didn't pay much attention to him. ;-)
There is a driver for USB mass storage devices which is already part of the operating system. It is /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBMassStorageClass.k ext, labelled com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass. It should work with your Neo Jukebox the same as it should work with my Neo 25, but the USB chipset in the Neos is flawed. I was able to get it to work in Linux once upon a time by modifying the USB mass storage driver to ignore some of it's integrity checks... I wonder if the Apple driver could be similarly modified. Hm... IOUSBMassStorageClass oughta be part of the open source darwin... hm...
Granted, someone stupid enough to uncomment it might very well be stupid enough to delete the semicolon too, and might be stupid enough to not be able to figure out the compiler warning stating he was missing a semi-colon. I have co-workers like that. Holy shit, you're talking about my co-workers! If they started touching open source software, I'd have to crawl into a bunker with Woody and never come out.
Those of us who aren't retarded at the office call her the human bit bucket. Nothing gets stored going in, and random data gets pulled out through her fingers, usually at the painful expense of my time.
So the slashdot effect took down your servers, and in the process, nobody got to get the software. In order to prevent slashdotting, which would make it so that nobody can see the site, you took down the site so nobody could see it.
Is that really useful?
Your comment's subject says 'Python Not the First'. This seems to indicate that you thought Python was not the first. Python's web site explicitly states that it is the first to have the OSI certification:
It is just being reported now, despite occuring a long time ago.
And because you've had it on your projects for at least a week, Python isn't the first website to carry it?
Did it occur to you that maybe python.org has had the logo for more than a week? This is slashdot, it takes about a month for 'news' to cool down enough that it can be put on the front page. Apparently.
It does so matter.
A windows open relay will have more downtime. Yippee!
Return of the king?
It could be Elvis...
Yeah. That would be great. Because, you know, the hard drive wasn't very portable. So you'll put a wireless card in there so that you're restricted to a smaller area, and you have access to your mp3s.
The hard drive is starting to sound like it wasn't a bad idea afterall, since it does the same thing. But you know, without any hacking.
Perhaps I am mistaken, but I am really sure the default skin for Mozilla is modern, which is much prettier than Classic.
You are mistaken, actually. The default Mozilla skin is Classic. Given that, I think a screenshot of the Classic skin is completely fair.. and it's not really all that bad.
Classic presents a clean and usable interface, and it is the skin that most resembles the operating system. FizzillaCFM, the MacOSX version of Mozilla, looks just like a native MacOSX application in Classic, just like Classic has the same colours and toolbars and such that Windows has.
Modern, on the other hand, provides the same pretty interface to all operating systems. This is also darn nice.
Hey, nobody ever managed to crack my A/UX server before I switched to OpenBSD -- maybe there's something to this.
Are you implying that someone has managed to crack your server now that you've switched to OpenBSD? Is this more than half a decade ago, or did you mess up OpenBSD's root-hole-less default installation? :-)
'Since time began' != 'since the big bang'. One of them is something which calculations can be based upon (since the big bang), the other is a statement that refers to an event that nobody is actually sure happened.
Time may very well be infinite, and evidence of such is beyond our comprehension. We're fairly sure that the big bang occured, right? But is anyone fairly sure that time has a beginning?
Oooh baby, the release of wget version 1.8 and then 1.8.1 in December was great! I think wget is more than enough to justify the existance of the entire Free Software Foundation. No, really. I'll donate to the FSF if someone keeps maintaining wget and makes it rock even more.
Yeah. That would be terrible. Why would Intel want that? :-)
After seeing this headline news on slashdot, I decided it is past time for me to acquire some additional Loki titles while they are still available. I had already owned a few, such as Civ CTP and Myth II. I just went to Loki's web site and ordered SimCity 3000 Unlimited, Alpha Centuari, and Heroes of Might and Magic III.
I suggest that if you can afford it, and Loki is selling any software you're interested in, now may be the time to acquire it before it is too late.
I've been meaning to purchase these games for ages, but I've been hoping to do so from a retailer's shelf (as I did for the first two Loki games I bought). Sadly, I never saw them there.
This comment appears in every security discussion on slashdot...
The Digital Millenium Copyright Act makes it illegal to create software that circumvents copyright enforcing technology, such as CSS.
Oracle's database has nothing to do with copyrights.
> At one point I seriously contemplated moving a :)
> campbed in here to save rent (I'm unemployed, &
> live in a shared house.) But my girlfriend said
> she'd cut my balls off, and then leave me. So that
> was that
My condolensces on the loss of your genitals, but I'm glad you found an easy way to get rid of your girlfriend. It's obvious that with such a comfortable server room, you don't need a girl. I'm glad that you have your priorities straight.
Currently I like using Mozilla to access my mail and news simultaniously, as well as have access to a MOO client (MOOzilla) and a web browser all with one package. It is, however, a tad buggy.. I find that some newsgroups consistantly cause the mailer to crash, and I haven't yet gotten a resolution for this bug.
I used to use a perl script I wrote, fetchnews, to read newsgroups and deposit them into mboxes for use with Mutt. Posting to USENET was done by sending to local nntp-alt.bitterness, or whatever newsgroup, which used a qmail wrapper script to send the mail out properly. It was a nice setup, but since I've lost most of the configuration, I've switched to Mozilla.
I own a Neo 25 portable MP3 player, produced and distributed by SSI America. It was rather expensive to get, but it has no copy protection mechanisms, and it doubles as a portable hard drive. It uses a 2.5 inch IDE laptop drive, which is replacable, and a rechargable lithium ion battery.
I love this unit. It has played MP3s for me 8 hours a day for the past year.
The Neo Jukebox is their latest Neo product, replacing the Neo 25. It looks even nicer than my unit. They also mape the Neo 35, a car MP3 player.
Back when our company was younger, our first laptop was purchased by the president at a local computer store. It was widely hated for its massive crappiness. I mean, this thing was terrible. So, following our company motto, 'it's easier to get forgiveness than to get permission', the laptop was 'accidently' left on the front of a truck in the field before the truck drove off.
So, it crash landed on a gravel road.
And it survived. Our IT manager resurrected it and put it back into service.
Shortly afterwards, one of our marketoids took the laptop to do a demo across town of some of our software. She was showing off the software, and a bunch of gathered engineers were impressed. One of them offered up a disk containing some data that he wished to try to import into the software and see how it works. The disk went into the laptop, and was happily mangled to hell by gravel left in the floppy drive.
Marketoid: '... I'm so sorry. I hope you had another copy of that.'
Engineer: '*cry*'
I believe we made the sale anyways though.