He has already tried getting a new battery and soldering on the old contacts.
Too bad he couldn't be bothered to actually get the correct battery, instead of using some random battery he had lying around. He obviously knows which battery he needs--he should spend his 35 cents and get the correct battery, then solder the old contacts onto that.
Wow, pretty bad when the author of the script doesn't even know what it does... I'm definitely sticking with Fink.
Quick Unix refresher course... the following:
wget http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/packages/tar -O tar
cp -f tar/usr/bin
will overwrite Apple's/usr/bin/tar with the file fetched from gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net. Check the cp(1) manpage for a more detailed explanation of what the -f option does.
Well, maybe nobody has been paid for the papers... but in any case, why should the publishing company get all the money? The scholars who write the papers don't get any monetary compensation from the publishing companies--the publishers get all these papers for free. They should only charge what it costs to print/bind/distribute.
As for peer review, the same people doing reviews of hardcopy papers can review electronic papers... I don't see why that has to change. The reviewers aren't getting paid either...
BTW, arXiv has a good selection of physics, math, and some CS papers.
Good to see that they're using NetBSD as a reference for this... OpenBSD is basically a less-active branch of NetBSD from a couple years back, so it should be a pretty straightforward process to merge in the SMP stuff from NetBSD (which, like just about every other OS, has had SMP for quite some time now).
OpenBSD is a very promising OS, and SMP support will finally let it play with the big boys in the free *nix playground:)
Who the hell deep fries crawfish? For 3 hours? No, I'd recommend a pack of your favorite crawfish boil seasoning, Zatarain's or whatever, toss in some onions, corn, lemons, and potatoes, and buy a pound of boudin and a six pack to round out your meat. Might as well buy a few more pounds of crawfish while you're at it--just one is barely an appetizer, much less a meal.
Pine supports IMAP, and I guess your IMAP server supports Maildir. Stock pine does not support Maildir format mailboxes directly (i.e. without using an IMAP server).
The author loves LISP and tries to write C code that does things in a LISP style... Even to the point of using gratuitous #defines like:
#define NIL 0/* convenient name */ #define T 1/* opposite of NIL */ #define LONGT (long) 1/* long T */ #define VOIDT (void *) ""/* void T */
All sorts of type casting and pointer arithmetic too--you just know there's a bug lurking in there somewhere. That said, I still use pine... tried switching to Mutt, but I didn't find it as convenient to use.
Halon, otoh, is perfectly comofortable to breathe in and out, but will provide no oxygen.
Why does it need to provide oxygen? The air provides oxygen. How come you're not worried that air is about 80% nitrogen, which also provides no oxygen? See, humans don't need to breathe 100% oxygen... we do fine with much less. The advantage of Halon over CO2 is that it does not extinguish a fire by displacing oxygen. It will put out a fire at concentrations of about 5%, leaving plenty of oxygen to breathe.
the burned Halon/air/diesel mixture produces some really nasty toxic gasses.
And a fire doesn't? If you have an undersized system installed, you're gonna have problems in a fire anyways. With a proper system, the small quantity of toxic gasses produced by the Halon decomposition before the fire is extinguished (which is a fraction of a second--Halon systems have been used for explosion suppression) is much preferable to the large quantity of toxic gasses and heat produced by a fire.
I have no idea... I just found the page by doing a Google search on some of the words. Like I said, knowing what language it's written in doesn't help in understanding it.
Well, the GENERIC kernels have pretty much every other option turned on, and are built by the NetBSD release team, so it's not gonna affect your build time unless you feel like recompiling the GENERIC kernel even though there's already a perfectly good one you can download:) And if you're building your own kernel, might as well go through the configuration and turn off the stuff you don't need.
What do you mean by "opportunistic encryption"? KAME's IPsec comes with the racoon daemon that speaks IKE and will negotiate the keys and change them every once in a while, so you don't need shared keys. I think you do still need at least a certificate though.
Can't be done. If you're using a binary version of Editor X, then you're not integrated with it. At best, you're using system() calls to fire off an instance of the editor for each source file in the project, which is not the same thing at all.
Well if you can make it look like the same thing, isn't that good enough? Assuming something Unixy, fork()/exec() the editor with stdin/stdout/stderr hooked up to a pty. Have the IDE communicate with the editor through the pty and interpret the editor's output (including any VT100 or whatever display control commands), displaying the output in the IDE's own window. Voilà, integration of any tty-compatible editor. There might be a bit of a problem with mouse support, such as having a working scrollbar, but I guess the IDE could have a list of supported editors and send the appropriate commands to scroll the editor when the scrollbar is clicked. For editors the IDE doesn't know about, you wouldn't have a scrollbar on your editing window, and would have to use the keyboard to scroll around, but when you're coding, scrolling with the keyboard is often more convenient than using the mouse anyways:)
A default install of Windows 2000 (Server or Pro) installs IIS.
False. No non-server version of Windows installs IIS by default. In other words, a default install of Windows 2000 Pro does not install IIS. Try it sometime.
BIOS is the Basic Input/Output System, and is a IBM PC-specific thing. OpenFirmware is firmware. BIOS is firmware. And your analogy is completely wrong too.
You're talking about the fogging equiment, right? Liquid nitrogen itself is, as the saying goes, cheaper than beer. It's around US$0.50 a liter... plus dewar rental fees for a container to transport the stuff around.
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Try man curl for the answer to your question.
Too bad he couldn't be bothered to actually get the correct battery, instead of using some random battery he had lying around. He obviously knows which battery he needs--he should spend his 35 cents and get the correct battery, then solder the old contacts onto that.
Quick Unix refresher course... the following:
wget http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/packages/tar -O tar /usr/bin
will overwrite Apple'scp -f tar
As for peer review, the same people doing reviews of hardcopy papers can review electronic papers... I don't see why that has to change. The reviewers aren't getting paid either...
BTW, arXiv has a good selection of physics, math, and some CS papers.
OpenBSD is a very promising OS, and SMP support will finally let it play with the big boys in the free *nix playground :)
Uh.... no.
1 km ~= .6 mi. Square both sides and you get .36 mi^2. Or to be more precise, 1 km^2 ~= 0.38610216 mi^2.
1 km^2 ~=
But it's true that there's no way 1134.5 people/mi^2 = 2938 people/km^2. Try 438 people/km^2.
Laissez les bon temps rouler!
Actually, it's generally accepted that people who think that split infinitives are bad grammar are anal-retentive people who seem to think they're speaking Latin rather than English. There's nothing wrong a so-called "split infinitive."
Ellen Feiss on Linux. Use MPlayer.
Pine supports IMAP, and I guess your IMAP server supports Maildir. Stock pine does not support Maildir format mailboxes directly (i.e. without using an IMAP server).
Why does it need to provide oxygen? The air provides oxygen. How come you're not worried that air is about 80% nitrogen, which also provides no oxygen? See, humans don't need to breathe 100% oxygen... we do fine with much less. The advantage of Halon over CO2 is that it does not extinguish a fire by displacing oxygen. It will put out a fire at concentrations of about 5%, leaving plenty of oxygen to breathe.
the burned Halon/air/diesel mixture produces some really nasty toxic gasses.
And a fire doesn't? If you have an undersized system installed, you're gonna have problems in a fire anyways. With a proper system, the small quantity of toxic gasses produced by the Halon decomposition before the fire is extinguished (which is a fraction of a second--Halon systems have been used for explosion suppression) is much preferable to the large quantity of toxic gasses and heat produced by a fire.
Nope, not as long as RMS keeps insisting it's GNU/Linux, and calling himself its principal developer.
Stop guessing my single! Perv.
I have no idea... I just found the page by doing a Google search on some of the words. Like I said, knowing what language it's written in doesn't help in understanding it.
Why? What good does that do? But since you care, it's in Luo, and is just copied from jaluo.com. Not that that helps you understand what it says...
What do you mean by "opportunistic encryption"? KAME's IPsec comes with the racoon daemon that speaks IKE and will negotiate the keys and change them every once in a while, so you don't need shared keys. I think you do still need at least a certificate though.
Well if you can make it look like the same thing, isn't that good enough? Assuming something Unixy, fork()/exec() the editor with stdin/stdout/stderr hooked up to a pty. Have the IDE communicate with the editor through the pty and interpret the editor's output (including any VT100 or whatever display control commands), displaying the output in the IDE's own window. Voilà, integration of any tty-compatible editor. There might be a bit of a problem with mouse support, such as having a working scrollbar, but I guess the IDE could have a list of supported editors and send the appropriate commands to scroll the editor when the scrollbar is clicked. For editors the IDE doesn't know about, you wouldn't have a scrollbar on your editing window, and would have to use the keyboard to scroll around, but when you're coding, scrolling with the keyboard is often more convenient than using the mouse anyways :)
NetBSD has KAME IPsec in the kernel source tree, but the GENERIC kernels have the option commented out (I don't know why):
% grep IPSEC /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC
#options IPSEC # IP security
#options IPSEC_ESP # IP security (encryption part; define w/IPSEC)
#options IPSEC_DEBUG # debug for IP security
I've got a NetBSD machine at home running a VPN to the office LAN and it works great.
False. No non-server version of Windows installs IIS by default. In other words, a default install of Windows 2000 Pro does not install IIS. Try it sometime.
Who said anyone considered it insightful? What I don't get is why anyone considered your post interesting...
BIOS is the Basic Input/Output System, and is a IBM PC-specific thing. OpenFirmware is firmware. BIOS is firmware. And your analogy is completely wrong too.
Uh, posting to slashdot shouldn't get you that excited...
You're talking about the fogging equiment, right? Liquid nitrogen itself is, as the saying goes, cheaper than beer. It's around US$0.50 a liter... plus dewar rental fees for a container to transport the stuff around.