That's because this is apparently a Roblimo blog entry. (Which I'm not complaining about, FWIW.)
If you want something to complain about, how about the quality of "Ask Slashdot" articles? (Then again, from what I see in firehose, it's not like they have a lot of good stuff to pick from. There's a whole lot of "just fucking google it", "you expect/. readers to know enough about your obscure shit to give advice?", etc. submissions in there.)
Maybe they should ask slashdot.jp for their Unicode patches? (I just checked and it seems like they're using a relatively recent slashcode, with firehose access and collapsing threads and everything.)
If his code is that bad, he's probably got 500 warnings from the compiler. (assuming this is a language that now is good about giving warnings like C or C++) TRWTF is people who refuse to use -Werror -Wall.
If you pre-pay, the pump can be (and usually is) set to stop at the exact amount that you pre-paid for. The pump even slows down for the last 10 cents or so to avoid overshoot. So it's only an issue if you pre-pay for more than your tank can hold, and you have to get change.
If you pay at the pump, you're using a card anyhow, so there are no pennies involved.
Universal sues Nintendo for using the word "Kong". Nintendo's lawyer found a court case in which Universal had previously sued RKO by proving that King Kong was in the public domain. Oops.
Why go to that much trouble? It's not like they're actually going to insert the discs in something to verify what they have on them. Just get a nice CD printer and a bunch of cheap white label CD-R blanks, then download a bunch of disc art to print so that they don't get suspicious about the guy turning in 10 copies of the same game. (I'm not suggesting stick-on labels, because they may be stupid, but I would hope they're not *that* stupid.)
You do know that US gas prices always go down in winter, right? There are two main reasons. First, summer fuel blends cost more, second, gas is sold to the stations by the tanker gallon. When it is delivered in the summer, the temperature difference between the tanker and the underground storage tanks causes literal shrinkage. Still, they did start going down a bit early this year.
And if you're going to correlate gas prices with elections, the national average price was $1.86/gal when Obama was sworn in, and he has an energy secretary who thinks the price should be higher. Right now the price is about as low as it's been since then.
Back about ten years or so, a sort-of acquaintance was a compulsive video downloader. He had CD booklets full of downloaded.AVI Hollywood movies burned to CD-Rs. It was apparent to me that while he downloaded a great quantity of these, he was too busy doing anything else to actually watch more than a few of them. (Well, of course, since most of what comes out of Hollywood IS crap.) So, yeah, there are people who will pirate something, use it once or twice (if that much), then forget it, other than as a badge on a Download Scouts sash.
Did anyone ever crack DIVX? It was so hated that nobody even wanted to try cracking it, if for no other reason than because that would have justified its existence.
I'm going to guess that Surface tablets use an industry standard LCD interface. If so, they will still be useful two years from now when they've all been abandoned, taken apart as screens for embedded projects and hand-made portable game consoles and stuff.
It's not much of a waste of fuel because... it's mostly empty after stage separation! So it has maybe 5% (number pulled out of my urectum) reserve fuel left and no cargo. It takes a lot less fuel to bring an empty tank stage down with a powered descent than it would the whole vehicle assembly at launch. And then there's that little problem about sea water being so nasty when it gets into stuff.
And then on top of all that, it's frickin' cool, too.
Ever hear of Coldfire? It isn't nostalgia (not yet, at least), it's still a viable embedded CPU architecture, less than 10 years old. It's a RISC-ified 68K, with a few instructions removed (they can be implemented via the illegal instruction trap) to make the RISC work. If you had bothered to read TFS, you would see that was what started all this.
Maybe you should put your time into something more constructive instead of trolling for no useful purpose at all.
The specific reasons to drop 386 support from the kernel were because 1) its MMU is substandard compared to 486 and later and causes a lot of complications in the kernel, 2) it doesn't have CMPXCHG which is used for semaphores (in glibc, not just the kernel), and 3) it doesn't have the byte swap instruction which makes a big difference in network code.
Dropping 386 support is like dropping 68000 and 68010 support. It's the oldest sub-architecture, lacking a lot of good improvements that came in the next generation. Guess what? Debian dropped 386 years ago, and this m68k port doesn't work with anything less than a 68020+MMU. For all I know, the kernel doesn't support 68000 or 68010 either.
Nobody uses anything anymore that won't work a 486 build and thus requires 386, aside from someone with a 20-year old PC. But m68k is a whole architecture (like x86), and Coldfire is still Not Dead Yet. Seriously, do YOU have anything that requires a 386 build or know anybody who does? If not, why the hell do you even care, other than just to be a troll?
That's great. Now how exactly does it work with projection? You know, like in movie theaters? I don't think they want to build 20 foot high LCD screens.
Fine. Then add a specific whitelist unblock of outbound port 25 to Google's servers. It's just one more line in the router configs. The point is that residential customers (especially dynamic IPs) have zero need to be able to send outbound port 25 to random addresses. The ISP's outbound mail server doesn't have to be the only "non-random" address.
There just isn't any good reason to be operating an outbound SMTP server on a residential connection
FTFY. I've always made a point of having fixed IP on my DSL, which is now via AT&T, formerly SBC. I'm not sure that they ever implemented an outbound port 25 block, but it was just an extra line or two in my sendmail m4 config, it was a "good netizen" thing to do, and I was aware that eventually spam blocking was going that way. (In fact, it was much more annoying to find out that some DNS servers failed to find you if your registrar-listed nameserver names weren't also returned by your own nameserver.)
And there isn't much of an excuse for running an inbound one without a fixed IP, but at least if you do run one, your e-mail isn't stored somewhere that a government can declare it "abandoned" if it sits there for six months or some bullshit like that to let them download it wholesale whenever they feel like it.
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4a. Not rednecks with shotguns.
That's because this is apparently a Roblimo blog entry. (Which I'm not complaining about, FWIW.)
If you want something to complain about, how about the quality of "Ask Slashdot" articles? (Then again, from what I see in firehose, it's not like they have a lot of good stuff to pick from. There's a whole lot of "just fucking google it", "you expect /. readers to know enough about your obscure shit to give advice?", etc. submissions in there.)
Maybe they should ask slashdot.jp for their Unicode patches? (I just checked and it seems like they're using a relatively recent slashcode, with firehose access and collapsing threads and everything.)
If his code is that bad, he's probably got 500 warnings from the compiler. (assuming this is a language that now is good about giving warnings like C or C++) TRWTF is people who refuse to use -Werror -Wall.
If you pre-pay, the pump can be (and usually is) set to stop at the exact amount that you pre-paid for. The pump even slows down for the last 10 cents or so to avoid overshoot. So it's only an issue if you pre-pay for more than your tank can hold, and you have to get change.
If you pay at the pump, you're using a card anyhow, so there are no pennies involved.
I was going to suggest Canadian Tire Money, but they never made any smaller than 3 and 5 cents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_City_Studios,_Inc._v._Nintendo_Co.,_Ltd.
Universal sues Nintendo for using the word "Kong". Nintendo's lawyer found a court case in which Universal had previously sued RKO by proving that King Kong was in the public domain. Oops.
Why go to that much trouble? It's not like they're actually going to insert the discs in something to verify what they have on them. Just get a nice CD printer and a bunch of cheap white label CD-R blanks, then download a bunch of disc art to print so that they don't get suspicious about the guy turning in 10 copies of the same game. (I'm not suggesting stick-on labels, because they may be stupid, but I would hope they're not *that* stupid.)
Maybe it'll be the year of Linux Powered Spaceflight instead!
You do know that US gas prices always go down in winter, right? There are two main reasons. First, summer fuel blends cost more, second, gas is sold to the stations by the tanker gallon. When it is delivered in the summer, the temperature difference between the tanker and the underground storage tanks causes literal shrinkage. Still, they did start going down a bit early this year.
And if you're going to correlate gas prices with elections, the national average price was $1.86/gal when Obama was sworn in, and he has an energy secretary who thinks the price should be higher. Right now the price is about as low as it's been since then.
The underwear.
Back about ten years or so, a sort-of acquaintance was a compulsive video downloader. He had CD booklets full of downloaded .AVI Hollywood movies burned to CD-Rs. It was apparent to me that while he downloaded a great quantity of these, he was too busy doing anything else to actually watch more than a few of them. (Well, of course, since most of what comes out of Hollywood IS crap.) So, yeah, there are people who will pirate something, use it once or twice (if that much), then forget it, other than as a badge on a Download Scouts sash.
Is that-a you, Mario?
-- Luigi
Did anyone ever crack DIVX? It was so hated that nobody even wanted to try cracking it, if for no other reason than because that would have justified its existence.
I'm going to guess that Surface tablets use an industry standard LCD interface. If so, they will still be useful two years from now when they've all been abandoned, taken apart as screens for embedded projects and hand-made portable game consoles and stuff.
And he would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling keys.
To get to Alpha Centauri in just 70 years requires acceleration to near 0.1c.
And then to actually stop there to land on a planet requires deceleration by nearly 0.1c.
Ah, yes, the Legrange, the 2WD version of the Canyonero.
It's not much of a waste of fuel because... it's mostly empty after stage separation! So it has maybe 5% (number pulled out of my urectum) reserve fuel left and no cargo. It takes a lot less fuel to bring an empty tank stage down with a powered descent than it would the whole vehicle assembly at launch. And then there's that little problem about sea water being so nasty when it gets into stuff.
And then on top of all that, it's frickin' cool, too.
Ever hear of Coldfire? It isn't nostalgia (not yet, at least), it's still a viable embedded CPU architecture, less than 10 years old. It's a RISC-ified 68K, with a few instructions removed (they can be implemented via the illegal instruction trap) to make the RISC work. If you had bothered to read TFS, you would see that was what started all this.
Maybe you should put your time into something more constructive instead of trolling for no useful purpose at all.
The specific reasons to drop 386 support from the kernel were because 1) its MMU is substandard compared to 486 and later and causes a lot of complications in the kernel, 2) it doesn't have CMPXCHG which is used for semaphores (in glibc, not just the kernel), and 3) it doesn't have the byte swap instruction which makes a big difference in network code.
Dropping 386 support is like dropping 68000 and 68010 support. It's the oldest sub-architecture, lacking a lot of good improvements that came in the next generation. Guess what? Debian dropped 386 years ago, and this m68k port doesn't work with anything less than a 68020+MMU. For all I know, the kernel doesn't support 68000 or 68010 either.
Nobody uses anything anymore that won't work a 486 build and thus requires 386, aside from someone with a 20-year old PC. But m68k is a whole architecture (like x86), and Coldfire is still Not Dead Yet. Seriously, do YOU have anything that requires a 386 build or know anybody who does? If not, why the hell do you even care, other than just to be a troll?
It depends on how much their lobbyists can get Washington to vote into NASA's budget. Then it's a simple matter of division.
That's great. Now how exactly does it work with projection? You know, like in movie theaters? I don't think they want to build 20 foot high LCD screens.
Fine. Then add a specific whitelist unblock of outbound port 25 to Google's servers. It's just one more line in the router configs. The point is that residential customers (especially dynamic IPs) have zero need to be able to send outbound port 25 to random addresses. The ISP's outbound mail server doesn't have to be the only "non-random" address.
There just isn't any good reason to be operating an outbound SMTP server on a residential connection
FTFY. I've always made a point of having fixed IP on my DSL, which is now via AT&T, formerly SBC. I'm not sure that they ever implemented an outbound port 25 block, but it was just an extra line or two in my sendmail m4 config, it was a "good netizen" thing to do, and I was aware that eventually spam blocking was going that way. (In fact, it was much more annoying to find out that some DNS servers failed to find you if your registrar-listed nameserver names weren't also returned by your own nameserver.)
And there isn't much of an excuse for running an inbound one without a fixed IP, but at least if you do run one, your e-mail isn't stored somewhere that a government can declare it "abandoned" if it sits there for six months or some bullshit like that to let them download it wholesale whenever they feel like it.
...because we don't have enough iron on Earth already?