I think the reason ST:ENT is being cancelled is because Star Trek no longer has the huge following it once did. The Nielsen ratings indicate that not as many people watch ST:ENT as watched ST:TNG, ST:DS9, or even ST:VOY.
That's because Enterprise was rubbish from the beginning, so the real Trek fans have been leaving over time. The idiotic plot holes even within their own show are what really irks me - my favourite is "everyone knows about this disease that comes from mind melds (hence there is a stigma over it) but no one knows about mind melds themselves". Duh...
Which is why creationists recognise that you need both. As Einstein said, "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind."
Or to put it another way, the 1915 Nobel Prize winner for physics (William Henry Bragg) said, "Sometimes people ask if religion and science are opposed to each other. They are - in the sense that the thumb and fingers of my hand are opposed to each other. It is an opposition by means of which anything can be grasped."
Yes, all of that is very doable (not that I've done it on mine since I don't have callerid). You'd just need some logic to check the value of the ${CALLERIDNUM} variable.
Take a look at the Asterisk wiki, particularly the variables and commands pages.
If you search funeral on google you do get adds, but not in email, strange. Wonder if there was a reasoning to this, or they just used different algorithms that happened to have that result.
This is apparently as designed. From the help:
Privacy is an issue we take very seriously. Only ads classified as Family-Safe are distributed through our content network and to your Gmail inbox. For example,
Google would block certain ads from running next to an email about catastrophic news.
...the XFPS fulfills the "why didn't I think of that" niche for console-based shooters.
But I did. Honest. My final-semester TAFE Elect.Eng. project was to build pretty much the same thing (but keyboard only, mouse was too hard) for an N64 controller.
It was based on a PIC16C84 doing the interpretation of the keyboard scan codes, from memory. Unfortunately I never got it working, but it is all constructed and programmed... (and yes, I did pass the unit anyway, fortunately)
this is what tabs are for. do a search in google and right click the link you want to go to and select "open in a new tab". if you find out that link is not what you want, close it. you still have the original search results in the first tab. lather, rinse, repeat.
Yes, but you can't do this on a form submit button, which is where a good deal of the "interactive pages" he's talking about would come from. Ditto for Javascript I think.
(I third his request - and would be nice if lynx had the option to not reload the document when you hit \ for View Source...)
If they brought in J. Michael Straczynski, you can bet I'd watch the new series. Babylon 5 showed that that man knows how to write a goddamn good story, and might be one of the few people who could save Star Trek at this point.
Can you imagine if JMS and Joss Whedon ever teamed up? [Drooling...]
As quoted in Lessig's OSCON speech (kudos to whoever made that Flash presentation), Bill Gates has been thinking along these lines for a while:
The solution... is patenting as much as we can... A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high - established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.
Its brilliant lines like those that have lots of people worried about how this is going to translate into film.
I mean, how exactly do you shoot 'gigantic yellow spaceships hanging in the sky in exactly the way that bricks don't.'
I agree. My personal favourite is near the start of LU&E (are there official acronyms for the other books?) when Zaphod is talking to Trillian about freedom. He downs one drink, then another to make sure it's all right, then a third to check on the both of them. Then a fourth one down the other throat to head them off at the pass, etc. Classic...
Of course without at least a spoken dialogue you'd lose all of that. You'd just see him drink 6 glasses, three in each mouth. Bleh.
Wish I could remember the link, but IIRC one of the cell phone manufacturers, Ericsson, I think, had some advertising campaign where to promote their new line of cell phones with interactive games they deployed pairs of good-looking women in bars using the phones to play games. You can see where male bar patrons would suddenly become interested in being able to play games on the new phones.
Said link would be here. (Took me a while to find...)
... I can't see any mention of this (last 4 or 5 paragraphs) in the archives. I can't believe no one bothered to submit it...
I discovered it yesterday, and like Cringely, the more I thought about it, the more I liked it. I might make its implementation my New Year's Resolution. (Gee, having a New Year's Resolution would also make a good New Year's Resolution:)
Obviously there are some addresses like sales@ which it would be inappropriate for, but for the rest of us...
My first thought when I read the quote in the article was:
"Um, maybe patches from some `random hacker' in China are regarded as better simply because they are? (Technical conciseness, etc). Whereas MS is hoping to maintain their opposite assumption, namely, that the patches out of their multi-billion-dollar corporation in the all-powerful USA (oops, that wasn't meant to be a flame...) are better by definition."
Now I can't remember where I heard this story first (Slashdot?), and I've most certainly not remembered all the details correctly, but admit it's a cool story nevertheless!:)
It's actually in the fortune database, under "computers":
... an anecdote from IBM's Yorktown Heights Research Center. When a programmer used his new computer terminal, all was fine when he was sitting down, but he couldn't log in to the system when he was standing up. That behavior was 100 percent repeatable: he could always log in when sitting and never when standing.
Most of us just sit back and marvel at such a story; how could that terminal know whether the poor guy was sitting or standing? Good debuggers, though, know that there has to be a reason. Electrical theories are the easiest to hypothesize: was there a loose with [sic] under the carpet, or problems with static electricity? But electrical problems are rarely consistently reproducible. An alert IBMer finally noticed that the problem was in the terminal's keyboard: the tops of two keys were switched. When the programmer was seated he was a touch typist and the problem went unnoticed, but when he stood he was led astray by hunting and pecking.
-- "Programming Pearls" column, by Jon Bentley in CACM February 1985
Disclaimer: That was blatantly ripped from a User Friendly comic. Sadly, their search engine doesn't seem to be working quite as well as the Penny-Arcade one.
We had a spam problem a few weeks back. Some inkjet printer spammer was sending spam to/from one of our addresses.
At first they sent a couple of hundred _to_ our address, then they sent hundreds apparently _from_ our address (so we got all the bounces of invalid users, as well as a few "remove me from your list" types).
The weird part is, instead of using the actual valid email (eg. someone@validdomain.org), they were sticking random letters on the end (ie. someonegtwk@validdomain.org), thus making it _invalid_.
Eventually I wrote some exim and procmail rewrite rules to dump them into a file in my mail directory... they seem to have stopped at ~900. All bounce types, so who knows how many they sent...
(Before you ask, no, we're not an open relay, and they weren't coming through us. They were being sent, apparently from their system (or other people's), just with the From and Reply-To addresses set to our (invalid) address.)
Um, slight correction here... us geeks are the ones pointing out that DeCSS is neither INTENDED nor REQUIRED for copying. It's solely meant for playback, but that of course negates the DVD industry's PLAYER monopoly.
This is all well explained in the Motley Fool article here (a few years old, but things don't seem to have changed much...)
As the.sig says, "I play DVDs on my Linux machine. I'm a CRIMINAL!"
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ACLs on Unix (Linux, anyway) are all very well, but the permissions themselves are still only Read, Write, Execute. The extra things like Modify and Full Control are lacking.
I speak from experience - it's the reason why we were ultimately unable to replace an existing W2k fileserver with Debian (on ext3).
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Does that mean we can celebrate Serenity's release with two sets of Wine?
(Actually no, here in Oz we probably won't get it by then :( )
I think the reason ST:ENT is being cancelled is because Star Trek no longer has the huge following it once did. The Nielsen ratings indicate that not as many people watch ST:ENT as watched ST:TNG, ST:DS9, or even ST:VOY.
That's because Enterprise was rubbish from the beginning, so the real Trek fans have been leaving over time. The idiotic plot holes even within their own show are what really irks me - my favourite is "everyone knows about this disease that comes from mind melds (hence there is a stigma over it) but no one knows about mind melds themselves". Duh...
Which is why creationists recognise that you need both. As Einstein said, "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind."
Or to put it another way, the 1915 Nobel Prize winner for physics (William Henry Bragg) said, "Sometimes people ask if religion and science are opposed to each other. They are - in the sense that the thumb and fingers of my hand are opposed to each other. It is an opposition by means of which anything can be grasped."
Yes, all of that is very doable (not that I've done it on mine since I don't have callerid). You'd just need some logic to check the value of the ${CALLERIDNUM} variable.
Take a look at the Asterisk wiki, particularly the variables and commands pages.
If you search funeral on google you do get adds, but not in email, strange. Wonder if there was a reasoning to this, or they just used different algorithms that happened to have that result.
This is apparently as designed. From the help:
Makes sense...
Here's a more useful link.
But I did. Honest. My final-semester TAFE Elect.Eng. project was to build pretty much the same thing (but keyboard only, mouse was too hard) for an N64 controller.
It was based on a PIC16C84 doing the interpretation of the keyboard scan codes, from memory. Unfortunately I never got it working, but it is all constructed and programmed... (and yes, I did pass the unit anyway, fortunately)
this is what tabs are for. do a search in google and right click the link you want to go to and select "open in a new tab". if you find out that link is not what you want, close it. you still have the original search results in the first tab. lather, rinse, repeat.
Yes, but you can't do this on a form submit button, which is where a good deal of the "interactive pages" he's talking about would come from. Ditto for Javascript I think.
(I third his request - and would be nice if lynx had the option to not reload the document when you hit \ for View Source...)
If they brought in J. Michael Straczynski, you can bet I'd watch the new series. Babylon 5 showed that that man knows how to write a goddamn good story, and might be one of the few people who could save Star Trek at this point.
Can you imagine if JMS and Joss Whedon ever teamed up? [Drooling...]
Perhaps every administrator should have a Knoppix CD on reserve.
s/every administrator/everyone/
We sysadmins [should] have been using them long ago :)
In English, we do not posess a grammatical gender to refer to the unknown: we have male, female, and neither, but not a possibly-either.
What's wrong with "they"? It's what I always use:
Yes, I know it's technically plural rather than singular, but it works fine with everyone I've talked to...
As quoted in Lessig's OSCON speech (kudos to whoever made that Flash presentation), Bill Gates has been thinking along these lines for a while:
Er, I think that was the parent's point :)
Its brilliant lines like those that have lots of people worried about how this is going to translate into film.
I mean, how exactly do you shoot 'gigantic yellow spaceships hanging in the sky in exactly the way that bricks don't.'
I agree. My personal favourite is near the start of LU&E (are there official acronyms for the other books?) when Zaphod is talking to Trillian about freedom. He downs one drink, then another to make sure it's all right, then a third to check on the both of them. Then a fourth one down the other throat to head them off at the pass, etc. Classic...
Of course without at least a spoken dialogue you'd lose all of that. You'd just see him drink 6 glasses, three in each mouth. Bleh.
Wish I could remember the link, but IIRC one of the cell phone manufacturers, Ericsson, I think, had some advertising campaign where to promote their new line of cell phones with interactive games they deployed pairs of good-looking women in bars using the phones to play games. You can see where male bar patrons would suddenly become interested in being able to play games on the new phones.
Said link would be here. (Took me a while to find...)
... I can't see any mention of this (last 4 or 5 paragraphs) in the archives. I can't believe no one bothered to submit it...
I discovered it yesterday, and like Cringely, the more I thought about it, the more I liked it. I might make its implementation my New Year's Resolution. (Gee, having a New Year's Resolution would also make a good New Year's Resolution :)
Obviously there are some addresses like sales@ which it would be inappropriate for, but for the rest of us...
Really?
Allow me to repeat something that was said a couple of days ago (but not by me) :
If you don't understand a comment, don't moderate it.
Exactly.
My first thought when I read the quote in the article was:
"Um, maybe patches from some `random hacker' in China are regarded as better simply because they are? (Technical conciseness, etc). Whereas MS is hoping to maintain their opposite assumption, namely, that the patches out of their multi-billion-dollar corporation in the all-powerful USA (oops, that wasn't meant to be a flame...) are better by definition."
My $AU0.02, anyway.
Now I can't remember where I heard this story first (Slashdot?), and I've most certainly not remembered all the details correctly, but admit it's a cool story nevertheless! :)
It's actually in the fortune database, under "computers":
Attorneys use it because they have such a bad reputation in this world
Reminds me of my boss's favourite lawyer joke (he is both a lawyer and a Linux consultant): "99% of lawyers give the rest of us a bad name."
Disclaimer: That was blatantly ripped from a User Friendly comic. Sadly, their search engine doesn't seem to be working quite as well as the Penny-Arcade one.
This was the closest I could find...
We had a spam problem a few weeks back. Some inkjet printer spammer was sending spam to/from one of our addresses.
At first they sent a couple of hundred _to_ our address, then they sent hundreds apparently _from_ our address (so we got all the bounces of invalid users, as well as a few "remove me from your list" types).
The weird part is, instead of using the actual valid email (eg. someone@validdomain.org), they were sticking random letters on the end (ie. someonegtwk@validdomain.org), thus making it _invalid_.
Eventually I wrote some exim and procmail rewrite rules to dump them into a file in my mail directory... they seem to have stopped at ~900. All bounce types, so who knows how many they sent...
(Before you ask, no, we're not an open relay, and they weren't coming through us. They were being sent, apparently from their system (or other people's), just with the From and Reply-To addresses set to our (invalid) address.)
Strange...
Only us geeks care about being able to copy DVDs.
Um, slight correction here... us geeks are the ones pointing out that DeCSS is neither INTENDED nor REQUIRED for copying. It's solely meant for playback, but that of course negates the DVD industry's PLAYER monopoly.
This is all well explained in the Motley Fool article here (a few years old, but things don't seem to have changed much...)
As the .sig says, "I play DVDs on my Linux machine. I'm a CRIMINAL!"
ACLs on Unix (Linux, anyway) are all very well, but the permissions themselves are still only Read, Write, Execute. The extra things like Modify and Full Control are lacking.
I speak from experience - it's the reason why we were ultimately unable to replace an existing W2k fileserver with Debian (on ext3).