I'll never forget the AppleShare IP server I worked with about a year and a half ago that died (hard hang, power cycle required to reboot) when I sent it a single normal sized ping packet. That's network stability for ya!
First of all, there have been many things we have learned from exploring space, so why should we think that there is nothing to learn from exploring other planets?
As another person has said, Mars probably can be terraformed. One might debate whether or not that is a good thing to do, but the fact is that it probably could be done, but one needs to map and explore a place before you inhabit it, let alone terraform it.
As far as your statement about the population capacity of Earth, the maximum sustainable population varies drastically with the average standard of living you assume. To quote Ghandi (or paraphrase if my memory doesn't serve me well enough), "It the entire population of India were raised to the standard of living of the poor in England, the Earth would be stripped of its natural resources in a few years." It might take a few decades, but overall Ghandi was right. At the current distribution of standards of living, the Earth is currently beyond it's maximum sustainable population. If America alone were to shift down a few notches in waste of resources (not necessarily a very great shift in the standard of living), then our current population might become sustainable. However, the current growth rate of the population leaves our world in an untenable position. Either something must change, or a massive global crisis will occur within the next hundred years by my estimates.
I won't bother with the money issue, as someone else has already provided as succinct and effective remark on that as I can.
Gee, I had no problem getting all my windows hot keys working in linux, in fact I have more hotkeys in linux than I do in windows. It took about 10 minutes with xkeycaps to configure X so that the windows key is mapped to one of the Meta modifiers, and the context menu key is recognized in the 104-key layout as a key. So, I go into the WindowMaker menu config (substitute whatever system you use to assign hotkeys to commands) and start mapping keys... lets see... context menu key gives me the menu I get when I right click on the title bar, windows-space shades the window, windows-F4 closes it, windows-x toggles maximize, windows-n minimizes it, windows-h hides it, windows-t brings up a terminal, windows-e brings up an editor (my current favorite is joe) in a term for quick jotting of notes, windows-q exits the X session, windows-1 through windows-5 switches to a particular virtual desktop, windows-leftarrow and windows-rightarrow moves to the previous and next virtual desktop, respectively...
need I go on? Or have I blabbed at the mouth enough?
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The problem is, in a game like quake, you can split off things like network communications, and other little shit like that, but it is hard to split up the process (meaning thing you're doing, not a 'user space process') that does most of the work: taking a memory representation of where things are and converting that into rendering information, and the CPU does have to help render some, even on a system with mad-assed cool 3d accelleration. Granted it can be done, as Carmack's success attests, but as you see, you can never do a full 50/50 split of the processor time, so you're very unlikely to get a 100% performance increase (even if there weren't any bacground/OS tasks running at the same time)
To my understanding, MD uses a compresed format, so it does not have the same raw capacity as a CD. Thus, even if you used mp3 compresion on it, you would probably not get much more playing time than a regular CD.
Another couple things that is are must haves are a good set of hex wrenches, a good set of torque wrenches, and a set of Xacto Extra Hands, or equivalent (many companies make basically the same thing, they cost ~$20, and are a life saver of you're trying to do some careful, tight assembly), and a good set of very fine tweezers are often quite useful.
Personally, I carry my Leatherman Super Tool around all the time, and I also keep my toolbox handy. I am lucky, though. My dad is an Electrical Engineer, so I have a VERY complete toolbox that I got pretty much for free (discarded things from his workbench), so in addition to all that, I have a good soldering iron, solder sucker, digital multimeeter, regular wrench set, some breadboard, plus various tools for my Model RR, such as a mini mitre (sp?) box.
I think that about the only way to do this is to bring the machine back to the state where the boot loader is functioning and reload the system. Somehow I don't think that really counts as 'uptime', since the only difference is the power cycle and the 10 seconds while the POST runs and your BIOS detects your hardware (if you have a bios that does that kind of thing). It would be an ultra-soft reboot.
I guess Mac's are officially "mainstream" again...
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Do you know what "cooperative multitasking" means? It's ancient, and it was the only thing mac os did until OSX. As far as the other things you mentioned: Mutiple Monitors: Only really used by people doing graphics arts, etc, and most of them just buy one huge monitor. Very little demand. The PC has always been strictly determined by what people are willing to pay for. Auto Power on/off: Actually, it's not really that old, and is only slightly older than the ATX form factor, which is fully capable of doing automatic power on/off SCSI: Well, I could equally say that it took macs a long time to support IDE. It's a matter of which standard was chosen at the beginning. And IDE pretty much always has been and probably always will be cheaper than SCSI, which no doubt had a good bit do do with it being chosen for the PC. Boot Flexibility: Most PC's don't have external drives. Most PC's don't even have multiple internal drives. Being able to boot off of a random drive was never something PC people were begging for. For that matter, the primary thing I have seen it used for is to fix a mac that is so broken that it won't boot at all. It take real talent to get a PC to that state, but I've seen numerous macs do that. RISC: WGAS? It's not like having a non-RISC processor makes PC's inherently(sp?) inferior. GUI: Have you ever seen one of the machines Xerox Parc put out? Looks remarkably like a mac, so I don't think mac people are in a position to claim invention there. I learned to use DOS before I was 7, and could copy and move files around, run WordPerfect (4.2 for DOS), play games, etc. It is only very recently in the history of computers that having a GUI was seen as a necessary thing. 90% of what I do with a computer still involves typing things into a text prompt, be it the comment entry in slashdot, or an xterm. I am not a slackware-cli-is-god-all-else-must-die type, and I rather dislike those who are, but nonetheless, I find it much faster to use the keyboard for things. Thus I have keyboard hotkeys for virtually everything.
Overall, Apple has always been more concerned with image than with price or with the technology underneath the pretty picture. I have adminstered mac labs, I have programmed macs, I have programmed dos, and I have programmed windows (I have not yet programmed in X). I can say that mac wins the cheese for being the mose obtuse API, with windows coming in a close second if one ignores the existence of libraries like MFC and OWL. And I thought nothing could be worse than microsoft api documentation until I tried to read the mac os api documentation.
Oh, and HP and Dell have not had that much to do with the development of the interface in PC operating systems. HP may have had some to do with the hardware, but I don't know that history well enough to say anything definite about it.
People bitch about Windows crashing all the time. However, many fail to note what the dialog on the mac that is the equivalent of the GPF dialog in windows looks like. On the mac, it has a bomb icon and a button that says Restart. About 35% of the time, the machine is so hosed that you can't even click on the restart button. In windows, you at least have some hope of recovering from the app crashing.
That said, I think Apple is making a very good choice and a great leap forward with MacOS X. If what I have heard about it is true, then I will be curious to at least try it out and see how well it works. That is quite a compliment, given my current attitude about macs can be summed up as "I've gone through too much hell with these things. I don't want to touch it!" Granted, my attitude towards windows isn't that much better.
actually, Slashdot has been steadily beating Evangelista for a long time now. Evangelista is only ahead in the overall rankings because they got going sooner, and so built up a larger base of keys. In 4-5 months, unless the current trends reverse, Slashdot will take on #1 overall ranking in rc5.
Try it. Watch the mobo's short out when drops of water start condensing on them. One of the biggest problems with supercooling a system is that it starts condensing water on it. You either need to *really* dehumidify the air, or (this is a bad idea) coat the board in some kind of water-insulating thermally conductive material. Of course, this would make any upgrades to the system virtually impossible. Can you imagine what a mobo would look like covered in spray-on polyurethane foam? Weird...
Ted Turner (Owner of Turner Network Television) does just that, except that he organizes the conservation efforts himself. He is *THE* largest land holder in the US. Incidentally, he has publicly sneered at BG's puny (on a relative scale) donations to things in the past.
It was rather strange/amusing to drive by a ranch in the south west US and see the TNT symbol over the entrance gate.
I priced this, and have kept up with it, and as a result, I have two PII/300's in my box . Quad CPU's are more expensive, but Duals aren't. When I bought this box (late August '98), all other componenets the same, the SMP mobo and two 300MHz chips was cheaper than a single processor board and a 400MHz chip.
What interest does Scott Adams have in improving the geek workplace
Umm, lets see... For quite a while, Scott Adams drew his material from his job! He knows what it is like. He got fired from the job he was at when he started the strip, but if he has a new job, I doubt that all the problems with management have gone away. OF course, it is possible that he makes enough money off Dilbert and associated merchandise that he doesn't have another job.
You must have been treated pretty bad by some people if you can't believe that someone can empathize with you and want to make your life a little better by giving you some laughs. Just because he gets monetary compensation for his efforts doesn't meant that he can't empathise with the geek. You have to remember that, at least when he started the strip, he was one!
Here's another reason to love Dvorak layouts: Have you ever tried to use a QWERTY keyboard with one hand? Ya. Right. Who are we kidding. On the other hand, there are versions of the Dvorak layout that are designed for use with one hand.
Yes, even though I hate most things Macintosh, I must say that even the first Marathon was a big step above DOOM. DOOM only had 2.5 dimensions. surely you all remember the ludicrous image of firing a missle and having it amazingly decide to slope up three stories to hit a monster above you when you had just shot it at the wall? And Marathon actually has a plot, a SciFi story behind it. Oh yea, and it uses a palette that has more than brown and red on it. Can't say that for any of the DOOM or Quake games.
But if I were him, I'd be contemplating a future paying back a multi-million dollar judgement from the civil suits that will inevitably follow. And if there's any justice, New Jersey will hastily enact a law (if they don't have one already) preventing him from profiting -- by selling his story or becoming a highly-paid "security consultant". From my cursory knowledge of constitutional law (I am by no means a law student or any such thing), I believe one could make the case that such a law, while not only unproductive and unjust, is in violation of the constitution. One cannot deny life, liberty, or property without due cause. He will pay his debt in his imprisonment and/or fine if he is found guilty. To make it illegal for him to hold a job in his area of expertise would be most definitely unconstitutional. It would be like saying that if you rob a convenience store, that it is illegal for you to shop or work there when you get out of jail. Unconstitutional, and stupid and unproductive. As far as his guilt, I think he should be punished. The only times that I can think of where a virus author should not be punished for his/her actions are: 1 If they never intended it to be released into the wild, and took concrete actions to aviod that from happening, and it was through the malice or stupidity of someone else that the virus was released. 2 If they release the virus as such. Someone who releases a program that is a virus and says "See this? It shows a security hole that should be closed. Do not run this program on your computer. If you want to see what it does and how it does it, either run it on an isolated system, or, here, take a look at the source code."
Sorry, but you're just plain WRONG. There was a Slashdot article a while back about how this is done. It is indeed done with relatively large arrays of small, low-cost cameras. The original prototypes were done with disposable cameras.
And, as an amateur photographer, I must flame your point about 'being under different lighting conditions.' Unless a relatively bright light is shining directly on the lens (thus causing the repeated suns reflections one sees), what matters is the lighting of what the camera is photographing. And if you move around an object, the lighting better change some, or it will look very fake. since when have you seen an object that had even lighting on all sides?
OK, lets do some analytical thinking about this (I know, it's 4/1, we're supposed to be cracking jokes, but I'm fresh out of 'em).
Asummption #1: Illiad is not rich Assumption #2: Canadian lawers are just as expensive as American ones
OK, with these two assumptions, one can figure out quite a bit.
Deduction #!: Illiad can't buy the best lawers on the west coast of Canada with his own money Deduction #2: Therefore the lawers, if they exist, are doing this one pro bono How likely is that?
While it is quite possible that the litigation is real, why would Illiad not say who was suing him? That is a matter of Public Record!!! I do not have access to an electronic Canadian phonebook to search, so I cannot tell if Mr. DeWitt really exists. Could someone who does know where such a database can be found check?
One last point: What legal basis is there for shutting down all of UserFriendly? It would be reasonable for a temporary agreement to be reached where Illiad did not reference the plaintiff in any cartoons until the matter had been resolved. But shut down the whole site? Gimme a break man!
I must say that while the other 4/1 jokes were perfectly good jokes, this was the only one that really was funny. The Linus one was too serious to laugh at, although rather obviously not true. I'm still scared that UF/segfault/Bedope aren't jokes. The riot was obvious just from the title, and wasn't that great. This one actually made me laugh, as it did a good job of poking fun at the characters we see in every day linux life. I really hope that UserFriendly is a joke, though!
Is this the solution I have been looking for? I have been really annoyed at having to boot NT just to do stupid homework stuff. Perhaps I can now stay in linux and still use the few windows apps I need... If this was free, might it have a negative effect on wine?
The last time I had a hard drive die, I kept the dead drive. Since I live in a dorm room where most of the flat surfaces are concrete, I can just pick up the dead drive and throw it at the wall with impudence =]
Aye, it's cool. Also, in my case, it was actually CHEAPER! I bought this machine and assembled it from mailordered parts in late august '98. At that time, it was cheaper for me to get dual 300MHZ PII's than a single 400MHz chip (including the increased cost of the SMP motherboard). I must say that I am happier with my dual 300's than I would have been with a single 400, too. Heat is a problem, so make sure you get a full tower case (anything smaller, and you'll be leaving the case off and making extensive use of the vacuum (I just took out mounds of dustpuppies from the cpu heatsinks...). Linux runs great with SMP. As long as you have a recent kernel, and recent drivers (some of the 3com drivers that came with 2.0.36 are NOT SMP safe), you should be ok. NT takes advantage of SMP systems quite well too, but the number of non-SMP-safe drivers is greater, I think. In particular, the Soundblaster AWE drivers did not seem to be SMP safe. WinAmp would make NT BSOD with an INVALID_PROCESS_ATTACH_ATTEMPT (whatever that means... I think many of the BSOD messages are blacklisted info kindof like the sadmac errors at least once were, maybe, yes?). With linux, I have had few or no problems with SMP. Some process monitoring utilities need to be update/patched to report some info correctly, though... For the speed you gain, SMP is often cheaper than a single processor system. Plus you have the effect that one cpu hogging app won't make your system unresponsive (I start to notice a VERY SLIGHT decline in responsiveness at a load around 6!) PS: SuperMicro makes great single and multi-processor motherboards and has good prices!
I never knew that... I just find some way that holds it in place and looks right on the front... I've probably never tied a tie the same way twice (exaggeration). Also, when I'm putting a tie on, mathematical perfection is usually *not* what's going through my head. Usually it's more like "uuuggkkk AIR! ugkkk! Why am I putting this damn thing on? ugggkk gasp gasp swear... Damn... that doesn't look right... try to undo slipknot... gaaaaaak gasp... whoops, wrong side to pull on...
A while ago, rob posted an article about making a component stereo piece to play mp3 cd's. They used a pc running linux inside a cd player box to do it. Their solution to the fast power off problem was something like this: during boot, create some ramdisks. copy the contents of/etc,/var, and any other dir that has to be writeable to appropriate ram disks. remount all disk partitions ro. remout/etc,/var, blah blah blah from the ram disks. That solution works, but requires ram, and requires not needing real write access to the harddrive ever.
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I'll never forget the AppleShare IP server I worked with about a year and a half ago that died (hard hang, power cycle required to reboot) when I sent it a single normal sized ping packet. That's network stability for ya!
First of all, there have been many things we have learned from exploring space, so why should we think that there is nothing to learn from exploring other planets?
As another person has said, Mars probably can be terraformed. One might debate whether or not that is a good thing to do, but the fact is that it probably could be done, but one needs to map and explore a place before you inhabit it, let alone terraform it.
As far as your statement about the population capacity of Earth, the maximum sustainable population varies drastically with the average standard of living you assume. To quote Ghandi (or paraphrase if my memory doesn't serve me well enough), "It the entire population of India were raised to the standard of living of the poor in England, the Earth would be stripped of its natural resources in a few years." It might take a few decades, but overall Ghandi was right. At the current distribution of standards of living, the Earth is currently beyond it's maximum sustainable population. If America alone were to shift down a few notches in waste of resources (not necessarily a very great shift in the standard of living), then our current population might become sustainable. However, the current growth rate of the population leaves our world in an untenable position. Either something must change, or a massive global crisis will occur within the next hundred years by my estimates.
I won't bother with the money issue, as someone else has already provided as succinct and effective remark on that as I can.
Gee, I had no problem getting all my windows hot keys working in linux, in fact I have more hotkeys in linux than I do in windows. It took about 10 minutes with xkeycaps to configure X so that the windows key is mapped to one of the Meta modifiers, and the context menu key is recognized in the 104-key layout as a key. So, I go into the WindowMaker menu config (substitute whatever system you use to assign hotkeys to commands) and start mapping keys...
lets see...
context menu key gives me the menu I get when I right click on the title bar, windows-space shades the window, windows-F4 closes it, windows-x toggles maximize, windows-n minimizes it, windows-h hides it, windows-t brings up a terminal, windows-e brings up an editor (my current favorite is joe) in a term for quick jotting of notes, windows-q exits the X session, windows-1 through windows-5 switches to a particular virtual desktop, windows-leftarrow and windows-rightarrow moves to the previous and next virtual desktop, respectively...
need I go on? Or have I blabbed at the mouth enough?
The problem is, in a game like quake, you can split off things like network communications, and other little shit like that, but it is hard to split up the process (meaning thing you're doing, not a 'user space process') that does most of the work: taking a memory representation of where things are and converting that into rendering information, and the CPU does have to help render some, even on a system with mad-assed cool 3d accelleration. Granted it can be done, as Carmack's success attests, but as you see, you can never do a full 50/50 split of the processor time, so you're very unlikely to get a 100% performance increase (even if there weren't any bacground/OS tasks running at the same time)
To my understanding, MD uses a compresed format, so it does not have the same raw capacity as a CD. Thus, even if you used mp3 compresion on it, you would probably not get much more playing time than a regular CD.
Another couple things that is are must haves are a good set of hex wrenches, a good set of torque wrenches, and a set of Xacto Extra Hands, or equivalent (many companies make basically the same thing, they cost ~$20, and are a life saver of you're trying to do some careful, tight assembly), and a good set of very fine tweezers are often quite useful.
Personally, I carry my Leatherman Super Tool around all the time, and I also keep my toolbox handy. I am lucky, though. My dad is an Electrical Engineer, so I have a VERY complete toolbox that I got pretty much for free (discarded things from his workbench), so in addition to all that, I have a good soldering iron, solder sucker, digital multimeeter, regular wrench set, some breadboard, plus various tools for my Model RR, such as a mini mitre (sp?) box.
I think that about the only way to do this is to bring the machine back to the state where the boot loader is functioning and reload the system. Somehow I don't think that really counts as 'uptime', since the only difference is the power cycle and the 10 seconds while the POST runs and your BIOS detects your hardware (if you have a bios that does that kind of thing). It would be an ultra-soft reboot.
Do you know what "cooperative multitasking" means? It's ancient, and it was the only thing mac os did until OSX. As far as the other things you mentioned:
Mutiple Monitors: Only really used by people doing graphics arts, etc, and most of them just buy one huge monitor. Very little demand. The PC has always been strictly determined by what people are willing to pay for.
Auto Power on/off: Actually, it's not really that old, and is only slightly older than the ATX form factor, which is fully capable of doing automatic power on/off
SCSI: Well, I could equally say that it took macs a long time to support IDE. It's a matter of which standard was chosen at the beginning. And IDE pretty much always has been and probably always will be cheaper than SCSI, which no doubt had a good bit do do with it being chosen for the PC.
Boot Flexibility: Most PC's don't have external drives. Most PC's don't even have multiple internal drives. Being able to boot off of a random drive was never something PC people were begging for. For that matter, the primary thing I have seen it used for is to fix a mac that is so broken that it won't boot at all. It take real talent to get a PC to that state, but I've seen numerous macs do that.
RISC: WGAS? It's not like having a non-RISC processor makes PC's inherently(sp?) inferior.
GUI: Have you ever seen one of the machines Xerox Parc put out? Looks remarkably like a mac, so I don't think mac people are in a position to claim invention there. I learned to use DOS before I was 7, and could copy and move files around, run WordPerfect (4.2 for DOS), play games, etc. It is only very recently in the history of computers that having a GUI was seen as a necessary thing. 90% of what I do with a computer still involves typing things into a text prompt, be it the comment entry in slashdot, or an xterm. I am not a slackware-cli-is-god-all-else-must-die type, and I rather dislike those who are, but nonetheless, I find it much faster to use the keyboard for things. Thus I have keyboard hotkeys for virtually everything.
Overall, Apple has always been more concerned with image than with price or with the technology underneath the pretty picture. I have adminstered mac labs, I have programmed macs, I have programmed dos, and I have programmed windows (I have not yet programmed in X). I can say that mac wins the cheese for being the mose obtuse API, with windows coming in a close second if one ignores the existence of libraries like MFC and OWL. And I thought nothing could be worse than microsoft api documentation until I tried to read the mac os api documentation.
Oh, and HP and Dell have not had that much to do with the development of the interface in PC operating systems. HP may have had some to do with the hardware, but I don't know that history well enough to say anything definite about it.
People bitch about Windows crashing all the time. However, many fail to note what the dialog on the mac that is the equivalent of the GPF dialog in windows looks like. On the mac, it has a bomb icon and a button that says Restart. About 35% of the time, the machine is so hosed that you can't even click on the restart button. In windows, you at least have some hope of recovering from the app crashing.
That said, I think Apple is making a very good choice and a great leap forward with MacOS X. If what I have heard about it is true, then I will be curious to at least try it out and see how well it works. That is quite a compliment, given my current attitude about macs can be summed up as "I've gone through too much hell with these things. I don't want to touch it!" Granted, my attitude towards windows isn't that much better.
actually, Slashdot has been steadily beating Evangelista for a long time now. Evangelista is only ahead in the overall rankings because they got going sooner, and so built up a larger base of keys. In 4-5 months, unless the current trends reverse, Slashdot will take on #1 overall ranking in rc5.
Try it. Watch the mobo's short out when drops of water start condensing on them. One of the biggest problems with supercooling a system is that it starts condensing water on it. You either need to *really* dehumidify the air, or (this is a bad idea) coat the board in some kind of water-insulating thermally conductive material. Of course, this would make any upgrades to the system virtually impossible. Can you imagine what a mobo would look like covered in spray-on polyurethane foam? Weird...
Ted Turner (Owner of Turner Network Television) does just that, except that he organizes the conservation efforts himself. He is *THE* largest land holder in the US. Incidentally, he has publicly sneered at BG's puny (on a relative scale) donations to things in the past.
It was rather strange/amusing to drive by a ranch in the south west US and see the TNT symbol over the entrance gate.
I priced this, and have kept up with it, and as a result, I have two PII/300's in my box . Quad CPU's are more expensive, but Duals aren't. When I bought this box (late August '98), all other componenets the same, the SMP mobo and two 300MHz chips was cheaper than a single processor board and a 400MHz chip.
/me can't wait for SMP K-7 boards
What interest does Scott Adams have in improving the geek workplace
Umm, lets see...
For quite a while, Scott Adams drew his material from his job! He knows what it is like. He got fired from the job he was at when he started the strip, but if he has a new job, I doubt that all the problems with management have gone away. OF course, it is possible that he makes enough money off Dilbert and associated merchandise that he doesn't have another job.
You must have been treated pretty bad by some people if you can't believe that someone can empathize with you and want to make your life a little better by giving you some laughs. Just because he gets monetary compensation for his efforts doesn't meant that he can't empathise with the geek. You have to remember that, at least when he started the strip, he was one!
Here's another reason to love Dvorak layouts: Have you ever tried to use a QWERTY keyboard with one hand? Ya. Right. Who are we kidding. On the other hand, there are versions of the Dvorak layout that are designed for use with one hand.
Yes, even though I hate most things Macintosh, I must say that even the first Marathon was a big step above DOOM. DOOM only had 2.5 dimensions. surely you all remember the ludicrous image of firing a missle and having it amazingly decide to slope up three stories to hit a monster above you when you had just shot it at the wall? And Marathon actually has a plot, a SciFi story behind it. Oh yea, and it uses a palette that has more than brown and red on it. Can't say that for any of the DOOM or Quake games.
But if I were him, I'd be contemplating a future paying back a multi-million dollar judgement from the civil suits that will inevitably follow. And if there's any justice, New Jersey will hastily enact a law (if they don't have one already) preventing him from profiting -- by selling his story or becoming a highly-paid "security consultant". From my cursory knowledge of constitutional law (I am by no means a law student or any such thing), I believe one could make the case that such a law, while not only unproductive and unjust, is in violation of the constitution. One cannot deny life, liberty, or property without due cause. He will pay his debt in his imprisonment and/or fine if he is found guilty. To make it illegal for him to hold a job in his area of expertise would be most definitely unconstitutional. It would be like saying that if you rob a convenience store, that it is illegal for you to shop or work there when you get out of jail. Unconstitutional, and stupid and unproductive. As far as his guilt, I think he should be punished. The only times that I can think of where a virus author should not be punished for his/her actions are: 1 If they never intended it to be released into the wild, and took concrete actions to aviod that from happening, and it was through the malice or stupidity of someone else that the virus was released. 2 If they release the virus as such. Someone who releases a program that is a virus and says "See this? It shows a security hole that should be closed. Do not run this program on your computer. If you want to see what it does and how it does it, either run it on an isolated system, or, here, take a look at the source code."
Sorry, but you're just plain WRONG. There was a Slashdot article a while back about how this is done. It is indeed done with relatively large arrays of small, low-cost cameras. The original prototypes were done with disposable cameras.
And, as an amateur photographer, I must flame your point about 'being under different lighting conditions.' Unless a relatively bright light is shining directly on the lens (thus causing the repeated suns reflections one sees), what matters is the lighting of what the camera is photographing. And if you move around an object, the lighting better change some, or it will look very fake. since when have you seen an object that had even lighting on all sides?
Asummption #1: Illiad is not rich
Assumption #2: Canadian lawers are just as expensive as American ones
OK, with these two assumptions, one can figure out quite a bit.
Deduction #!: Illiad can't buy the best lawers on the west coast of Canada with his own money
Deduction #2: Therefore the lawers, if they exist, are doing this one pro bono
How likely is that ?
While it is quite possible that the litigation is real, why would Illiad not say who was suing him? That is a matter of Public Record !!! I do not have access to an electronic Canadian phonebook to search, so I cannot tell if Mr. DeWitt really exists. Could someone who does know where such a database can be found check?
One last point: What legal basis is there for shutting down all of UserFriendly? It would be reasonable for a temporary agreement to be reached where Illiad did not reference the plaintiff in any cartoons until the matter had been resolved. But shut down the whole site? Gimme a break man!
I must say that while the other 4/1 jokes were perfectly good jokes, this was the only one that really was funny. The Linus one was too serious to laugh at, although rather obviously not true. I'm still scared that UF/segfault/Bedope aren't jokes. The riot was obvious just from the title, and wasn't that great. This one actually made me laugh, as it did a good job of poking fun at the characters we see in every day linux life. I really hope that UserFriendly is a joke, though!
Is this the solution I have been looking for? I have been really annoyed at having to boot NT just to do stupid homework stuff. Perhaps I can now stay in linux and still use the few windows apps I need... If this was free, might it have a negative effect on wine?
The last time I had a hard drive die, I kept the dead drive. Since I live in a dorm room where most of the flat surfaces are concrete, I can just pick up the dead drive and throw it at the wall with impudence =]
Aye, it's cool. Also, in my case, it was actually CHEAPER! I bought this machine and assembled it from mailordered parts in late august '98. At that time, it was cheaper for me to get dual 300MHZ PII's than a single 400MHz chip (including the increased cost of the SMP motherboard). I must say that I am happier with my dual 300's than I would have been with a single 400, too. Heat is a problem, so make sure you get a full tower case (anything smaller, and you'll be leaving the case off and making extensive use of the vacuum (I just took out mounds of dustpuppies from the cpu heatsinks...). Linux runs great with SMP. As long as you have a recent kernel, and recent drivers (some of the 3com drivers that came with 2.0.36 are NOT SMP safe), you should be ok. NT takes advantage of SMP systems quite well too, but the number of non-SMP-safe drivers is greater, I think. In particular, the Soundblaster AWE drivers did not seem to be SMP safe. WinAmp would make NT BSOD with an INVALID_PROCESS_ATTACH_ATTEMPT (whatever that means... I think many of the BSOD messages are blacklisted info kindof like the sadmac errors at least once were, maybe, yes?). With linux, I have had few or no problems with SMP. Some process monitoring utilities need to be update/patched to report some info correctly, though... For the speed you gain, SMP is often cheaper than a single processor system. Plus you have the effect that one cpu hogging app won't make your system unresponsive (I start to notice a VERY SLIGHT decline in responsiveness at a load around 6!) PS: SuperMicro makes great single and multi-processor motherboards and has good prices!
Did Reuters really get it wrong, or is the UK forcing them to cover their ass?
I never knew that... ... Damn... that doesn't look right ... try to undo slipknot ... gaaaaaak gasp ... whoops, wrong side to pull on ...
I just find some way that holds it in place and looks right on the front...
I've probably never tied a tie the same way twice (exaggeration).
Also, when I'm putting a tie on, mathematical perfection is usually *not* what's going through my head. Usually it's more like "uuuggkkk AIR! ugkkk! Why am I putting this damn thing on? ugggkk gasp gasp swear
A while ago, rob posted an article about making a component stereo piece to play mp3 cd's. They used a pc running linux inside a cd player box to do it. Their solution to the fast power off problem was something like this: /etc, /var, and any other dir that has to be writeable to appropriate ram disks. /etc, /var, blah blah blah from the ram disks.
during boot, create some ramdisks.
copy the contents of
remount all disk partitions ro.
remout
That solution works, but requires ram, and requires not needing real write access to the harddrive ever.