Pilot magazines are full of ads for folding electric and gas scooters. They are designed to fit in the tiny little baggage compartments on a Cessna 172 or a Piper Archer, so they're small and light. I've seen them on the web, but I'm too lazy to do the search right now since I'm supposed to be on my way to work.
...is something like etags, but which will show who calls the function/method I'm looking at now. Etags in vim is great for tunneling down to the definition of the functions that I'm calling, but not so good for going "up". So far I mostly end up using "find . -type f -name \*.[Chc] -print0 | xargs -0 grep foo", which is time consuming and annoying.
I'd like to know why, of those 4 people who pointed it out, only mine got moderated down as flamebait when it was the most humourous and least flammable of the 4 times. Not your fault, I know, but somebody out there is a fucking idiot with moderator points.
Hmmm, maybe it's time to sell the old LC-III and Performa 6360CD.
I wonder what people would pay for them - they've got after market ethernet cards in them and as much memory as I could cram into them.
Try closing the lid on a TiBook while iTunes is running. Try using the "sleep corners" in Seti@home. Both of those things have repeatedly crashed the whole thing, requiring the reset button on the back to recover. (I didn't have "remote logins" enabled at the time, so I don't know if I could have ssh'ed in and fixed stuff the unix way, but splat-option-esc wouldn't do anything.)
I've seen other full machine crashes, but those were the two that were so consistent that I was able to stop doing them. There's another crash I get sometimes while running the DVD player, but I'm not sure what's going on there.
Where did you get that idea? The annoying child was talking about SGIs running a stupid demo that came on one of the demo disks. I know, because I ran it on my Indy at work, and it sucked even more than it seemed to in the movie. And since this was before XFS, shutting down that huge disk farm would have led to hours of fscking.
Subjectively, I have to disagree. My couple of weeks of experience with OS X on my new TiBook and my new (used) dual-G4 is that while the OS is extremely slick, and the integration between something that feels like Unix on the command line and something that feels like Mac OS on the desktop, it's not rock solid. It crashes about as often as Windows does.
However, a lot of the bugs that bother me are probably tiny and will be squashed soon. I can see more promise for OS X becoming *my* operating system than I did when I first booted up Linux 0.99.14ple and said "It's a Unix system - I know this!" like that annoying child in Jurrasic Park.
As an addendum to the above, I'd like to mention that I've only use MP3s that I've ripped myself from CDs that I own (using Linux ripping tools). I have some MP3s from a CD that I bought from mp3.com, but I haven't tried them to see if they have DRM "features", but I doubt it.
I certainly haven't tried any mp3s from Sony or other pay-per-play sites that would have DRM, nor have I tried MP3s from Napster or Kazaa or other music sharing services, nor do I intend to.
the MP3 software won't simply play MP3s off a standard memory stick
Bullshit. I'm playing The Pogues "Sunnyside of the Street" off the 8mb unprotected memory stick that came with it as I type this. I stuck the Clie in the cradle, ran MS-Import, mounted it in Linux (love that usb-device support), copied 3 mp3 files on, and then went into the built-in MP3 player and they all played fine.
The mp3 software won't play "protected" mp3s that you get from Sony's web site without the protected memory stick, but who the hell would want to do that?
Where do you get that from? I have a Clie PEG-N760C and at work I have a regular $9 Radio Shack ear buds that I use with it. The headphones that come with it are "better" (for certain values of better - I don't like them much) because they have a little "stick" about half way along the cord with volume, stop/pause/start and skip forward/back controls on it. I guess that's for when you have the thing in your pocket and you don't want to fish it out to control the music, but I don't tend to use that feature. Maybe when I buy a bigger memory stick.
By the way, it runs most Palm OS software just fine - you don't have to run "only Sony software". The Clie CD-Rom includes the USB drivers for the USB cradle and a slightly modified version of the familiar Palm Desktop.
By the way, it syncs just fine using coldsync and Linux kernel 2.4.17. I can even mount the memory stick as a vfat file system to delete the old mp3s and put new ones on.
Sci-Fi channel is also running a one hour "Making of LOTR" program
I watched that last night. I was wondering if anybody knows why they pixel-blurred out every breast pocket, sleeve, t-shirt and hat where there was probably a LotR logo?
One thing you have to remember about trailers is that they come out before the film has finished post production. So they may have quite a different look and feel from the real movie, as atmospheric effects and colour balance is tweaked in post production.
I got a spam about this web site too. At first I assumed it was one of my users (I have a web site that solicits donations via PayPal) but it turns out that it was just a spam. I'm not sure I believe all the horror stories. I'm paid for hundreds of dollars of auction stuff using PayPal, and I've received over $300 in donations to my site using them (but I send nearly $200 of that to their September 11th fund).
I am now using Amazon's Honor System and C2IT to get donations as well for people who don't trust PayPal, but frankly I don't see what the problem is.
When I worked for a company that made routers and other networking equipment (Gandalf, now part of MIke and TErry's Lawnmowers), we had a very large address block. I forget how big it was, it might have been a class B or even an A. But I know we had assigned to our lab three class Cs, one that we used for computers we put on the internal net, and two that we used for computers we put on test networks. Usually the two class Cs on test networks were only connected to each other through a router or bridge that we were testing, not to the internet at large.
Actually, this was a pretty interesting project to many slashdot readers. Using an extremely early version of Linux (SLS 1.02 with kernel 0.99pl14e, I seem to recall), we had a laboratory full of 486s and 386s with two ethernet cards. One was a standard card that was connected to the company lan, and the other was a special programmable card that could be commanded to do stuff that ethernet cards aren't supposed to do, like short packets and bad ethernet headers and the like. This card was connected to one of the lans on one side or the other of the unit under test. There was an automated program running on each box under control of the master box, which ran a script in a custom scripting language that could tell one box to emit a packet, and another box on the other side to check if it got it, and more sophisticated stuff.
It was very cool, and a very early use of Linux in a commercial environment.
I take that partly back. Looking through my logs again, I see what appears to be legitimate traffic (ie to existing web pages) from AOL ips like:
ACA19CF3.ipt.aol.com and
AC8D6E32.ipt.aol.com
I believe these are people who aren't using the default AOL browser, though.
All legitimate traffic from AOL appears to come from address that reverse lookup to foo.proxy.aol.com. This guy doesn't.
For instance in my current logs, the only legitimate traffic from AOL addresses comes from
spider-mtc-tg014.proxy.aol.com and
spider-mtc-tk043.proxy.aol.com and
spider-mtc-tb054.proxy.aol.com.
It's a spammer or a mail bomber looking for form-mail scripts that he can hijack to send his millions of email messages through and make it hard to catch him or block mail from him. They used to rely on finding open mail relays, but except for a few thousand in China and Korea, there aren't that many around any more (and anybody who doesn't want to get spam just blocks everything from sites in China or Korea). So they've altered their tactics.
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For example, if you're designing for kids, you wouldn't have to worry so much about supporting Netscape on Unix platforms.
That's right, because my kids are smart enough to use Mozilla or Konqueror.
Pilot magazines are full of ads for folding electric and gas scooters. They are designed to fit in the tiny little baggage compartments on a Cessna 172 or a Piper Archer, so they're small and light. I've seen them on the web, but I'm too lazy to do the search right now since I'm supposed to be on my way to work.
...is something like etags, but which will show who calls the function/method I'm looking at now. Etags in vim is great for tunneling down to the definition of the functions that I'm calling, but not so good for going "up". So far I mostly end up using "find . -type f -name \*.[Chc] -print0 | xargs -0 grep foo", which is time consuming and annoying.
I'd like to know why, of those 4 people who pointed it out, only mine got moderated down as flamebait when it was the most humourous and least flammable of the 4 times. Not your fault, I know, but somebody out there is a fucking idiot with moderator points.
Not that I'm bitter or anything.
It would be a PR coo for whoever buys it
Is that what pigeons in the marketting department do?
The word is coup.
Speaking as a former biathlete, I'd rather meet up with 20 pissed off biathletes than one showing-off-for-his-friends football player.
Hmmm, maybe it's time to sell the old LC-III and Performa 6360CD.
I wonder what people would pay for them - they've got after market ethernet cards in them and as much memory as I could cram into them.
Try closing the lid on a TiBook while iTunes is running. Try using the "sleep corners" in Seti@home. Both of those things have repeatedly crashed the whole thing, requiring the reset button on the back to recover. (I didn't have "remote logins" enabled at the time, so I don't know if I could have ssh'ed in and fixed stuff the unix way, but splat-option-esc wouldn't do anything.)
I've seen other full machine crashes, but those were the two that were so consistent that I was able to stop doing them. There's another crash I get sometimes while running the DVD player, but I'm not sure what's going on there.
Where did you get that idea? The annoying child was talking about SGIs running a stupid demo that came on one of the demo disks. I know, because I ran it on my Indy at work, and it sucked even more than it seemed to in the movie. And since this was before XFS, shutting down that huge disk farm would have led to hours of fscking.
the OS is solid (unix-based)
Subjectively, I have to disagree. My couple of weeks of experience with OS X on my new TiBook and my new (used) dual-G4 is that while the OS is extremely slick, and the integration between something that feels like Unix on the command line and something that feels like Mac OS on the desktop, it's not rock solid. It crashes about as often as Windows does.
However, a lot of the bugs that bother me are probably tiny and will be squashed soon. I can see more promise for OS X becoming *my* operating system than I did when I first booted up Linux 0.99.14ple and said "It's a Unix system - I know this!" like that annoying child in Jurrasic Park.
And two weeks ago, I bought a dual 450 G4 Powermac for $1200 from some guy who was clearing off his desk in anticipation of these new guys.
If you don't need the latest and greatest, last year's computers can be pretty cheap and extremely functional.
As an addendum to the above, I'd like to mention that I've only use MP3s that I've ripped myself from CDs that I own (using Linux ripping tools). I have some MP3s from a CD that I bought from mp3.com, but I haven't tried them to see if they have DRM "features", but I doubt it.
I certainly haven't tried any mp3s from Sony or other pay-per-play sites that would have DRM, nor have I tried MP3s from Napster or Kazaa or other music sharing services, nor do I intend to.
the MP3 software won't simply play MP3s off a standard memory stick
Bullshit. I'm playing The Pogues "Sunnyside of the Street" off the 8mb unprotected memory stick that came with it as I type this. I stuck the Clie in the cradle, ran MS-Import, mounted it in Linux (love that usb-device support), copied 3 mp3 files on, and then went into the built-in MP3 player and they all played fine.
The mp3 software won't play "protected" mp3s that you get from Sony's web site without the protected memory stick, but who the hell would want to do that?
Only compatible with Sony headphones
Where do you get that from? I have a Clie PEG-N760C and at work I have a regular $9 Radio Shack ear buds that I use with it. The headphones that come with it are "better" (for certain values of better - I don't like them much) because they have a little "stick" about half way along the cord with volume, stop/pause/start and skip forward/back controls on it. I guess that's for when you have the thing in your pocket and you don't want to fish it out to control the music, but I don't tend to use that feature. Maybe when I buy a bigger memory stick.
By the way, it runs most Palm OS software just fine - you don't have to run "only Sony software". The Clie CD-Rom includes the USB drivers for the USB cradle and a slightly modified version of the familiar Palm Desktop.
By the way, it syncs just fine using coldsync and Linux kernel 2.4.17. I can even mount the memory stick as a vfat file system to delete the old mp3s and put new ones on.
Sci-Fi channel is also running a one hour "Making of LOTR" program
I watched that last night. I was wondering if anybody knows why they pixel-blurred out every breast pocket, sleeve, t-shirt and hat where there was probably a LotR logo?
From my limited exposure to the trailers
One thing you have to remember about trailers is that they come out before the film has finished post production. So they may have quite a different look and feel from the real movie, as atmospheric effects and colour balance is tweaked in post production.
I got a spam about this web site too. At first I assumed it was one of my users (I have a web site that solicits donations via PayPal) but it turns out that it was just a spam. I'm not sure I believe all the horror stories. I'm paid for hundreds of dollars of auction stuff using PayPal, and I've received over $300 in donations to my site using them (but I send nearly $200 of that to their September 11th fund).
I am now using Amazon's Honor System and C2IT to get donations as well for people who don't trust PayPal, but frankly I don't see what the problem is.
...to implement the death penalty for anybody using Outlook or Outlook Express on my internal networks? It would make my life a lot easier.
It's worked for me!
When I worked for a company that made routers and other networking equipment (Gandalf, now part of MIke and TErry's Lawnmowers), we had a very large address block. I forget how big it was, it might have been a class B or even an A. But I know we had assigned to our lab three class Cs, one that we used for computers we put on the internal net, and two that we used for computers we put on test networks. Usually the two class Cs on test networks were only connected to each other through a router or bridge that we were testing, not to the internet at large.
Actually, this was a pretty interesting project to many slashdot readers. Using an extremely early version of Linux (SLS 1.02 with kernel 0.99pl14e, I seem to recall), we had a laboratory full of 486s and 386s with two ethernet cards. One was a standard card that was connected to the company lan, and the other was a special programmable card that could be commanded to do stuff that ethernet cards aren't supposed to do, like short packets and bad ethernet headers and the like. This card was connected to one of the lans on one side or the other of the unit under test. There was an automated program running on each box under control of the master box, which ran a script in a custom scripting language that could tell one box to emit a packet, and another box on the other side to check if it got it, and more sophisticated stuff.
It was very cool, and a very early use of Linux in a commercial environment.
I take that partly back. Looking through my logs again, I see what appears to be legitimate traffic (ie to existing web pages) from AOL ips like:
ACA19CF3.ipt.aol.com and
AC8D6E32.ipt.aol.com
I believe these are people who aren't using the default AOL browser, though.
All legitimate traffic from AOL appears to come from address that reverse lookup to foo.proxy.aol.com. This guy doesn't.
For instance in my current logs, the only legitimate traffic from AOL addresses comes from
spider-mtc-tg014.proxy.aol.com and
spider-mtc-tk043.proxy.aol.com and
spider-mtc-tb054.proxy.aol.com.
It's a spammer or a mail bomber looking for form-mail scripts that he can hijack to send his millions of email messages through and make it hard to catch him or block mail from him. They used to rely on finding open mail relays, but except for a few thousand in China and Korea, there aren't that many around any more (and anybody who doesn't want to get spam just blocks everything from sites in China or Korea). So they've altered their tactics.
Yeah, I was looking for that specifially because just this afternoon I saw a whole metric buttload of these:
/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl?email=&recipient=tester@aol.n et&subject=P80+24.161.81.172+7 HTTP/1.0" 404 279 "-" "-" 152.163.160.44 - - [05/Nov/2001:14:50:00 -0500] "GET /cgi-bin/formmail/FormMail.pl?email=&recipient=tes ter@aol.net&subject=P80+24.161.81.172+11 HTTP/1.0" 404 288 "-" "-"
/cgi/FormMail.pl?email=&recipient=tester@aol.net&s ubject=P80+24.161.81.172+19 HTTP/1.0" 404 275 "-" "-"
/cgi-bin/formmail.pl?email=&recipient=tester@aol.n et&subject=P80+24.161.81.172+35 HTTP/1.0" 404 279 "-" "-"152.163.160.44 - - [05/Nov/2001:14:50:00 -0500] "GET /cgi-sys/formmail.pl?email=&recipient=tester@aol.n et&subject=P80+24.161.81.172+67 HTTP/1.0" 404 279 "-" "-"152.163.160.44 - - [05/Nov/2001:14:50:00 -0500] "GET /cgi-sys/FormMail.pl?email=&recipient=tester@aol.n et&subject=P80+24.161.81.172+131 HTTP/1.0" 404 279 "-" "-
152.163.160.44 - - [05/Nov/2001:14:50:00 -0500] "GET
152.163.160.44 - - [05/Nov/2001:14:50:00 -0500] "GET
152.163.160.44 - - [05/Nov/2001:14:50:00 -0500] "GET
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