I owned my roommates computer last nite...and she couldnt trace NOTHING!
She could not trace nothing...
Oh boy, you're so scr3w3d. Depending on the girl, this could be a reward or a punishment I guess (the same goes the other way around, but in this case, I'm willing to bet it'll be a punishment for her, in which case this entire reasoning becomes void [recursive error detected]).
One of the nice things of April, 1st is able to spot the fake stories from the real ones. Unfortunately Gentoo makes no real sport from this anymore... (cf. the notes under their fake stories) D4mm1t!
I guess much can be said about the influence of gaming/entertainment on upbringing and reasoning and if this should have such a significan weight.
The least thing you can say that Germany is consistent and although this decision is probably influenced by recent events, I can support them (especially since it's not really censorship in the strictest sence: you can still buy the game without problem).
btw, war isn't really resolving conflicts (ever), it's just anihilating it by destroying the oponent 's view (together with the oponent that is).
I started off with templates (when I moved from C to C++ for system level exploration) and found them to be an annoying evil for the restrictiveness of void use in C++ as compared to C.
However, I had to come along when I discovered mixins:) You basically create a class without knowing what the parent or the child will be. The advantage is, that it allows for quick and modular implementation.
A small example. A house is built from a cellar, a number of levels and a roof.
In order to implement a 1-level house you define:
class SimpleHouse<Roof<Level<Cellar> > >{}; if you want a more levels class HighHouse <Roof<Level<Level<Level<Cellar> > > >{};
That's all folks, methods etc, defined by the template instantiation,...
This example might be pretty silly,but I think it gets the point accross. For a good use of these misins, look for 'heaplayers' on google (though the code is a bit buggy by times, but since everything is working via template instantiation, it's hard to debug and bugs only pop up when the become instantiated.). It would be nice is this is covered:)
What I do want to know, is what exactly this is doing to my code bloat X)
I like using Linux, but even as a seasoned IT pro, the directory structure and "what goes where" of a *nix system still bugs me.
The *n*x directory structure makes much more sense to me that the directory structure (?) you are referring to, although the one you are referring to is moving towards the *n*x structure IMHO.
My Documents ->/home
There is one big difference though, and that's that application configurations are put there too and the preferences of one user is contained to/home (and not to some messy reg).
# rm -rf/home/user and deluser user removes any trace of the user from the system/bin/usr/bin -> user apps/sbin/usr/sbin -> system apps/usr/local -> not managed by packaging systems
It has been a while, so correct me if I'm wrong but c:\windows\system32 -> one big mess c:\Program Files -> lots of duplications and a strange concept of shared libs, there is hardly any difference between system and user programs.
As for 'what goes where', I solve this mainly this way if there is no package available (if there is, there is not really a problem): $ tar xvfz my-package.tar.gz $ cd my-package $ dh_make $ fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage $ su -p # dpkg -i../my-package*.deb
programs like tcpdump, groupdel,... seem logical to bin in a sbin directory to me, since you need to be root to use them anyway...
Furthermore, it sounds to me that, if you use anything more than a bare boned system, you'll find someone that tags it as a mess, no mather waht package management (be it rpm, deb, stow or even W32).
Anyway, structure is, I guess, a matter of perspective, but how someone comes up with the W32 directory structure as being logical (or structure for that matter) beats me...
this is not really new, several institutes around the world are working with simular techniques, it's hot research for the moment.
Interesting evolution though, even though it's absolutely not certain that this technique is 'good', it's more like a shot in the dark, let's hope it works AFAIK.
If they remove the ISP that the spam originates from, the spammer will just find new ISPs.
Sure, but I think you're missing the point. It would serve as a clear warning to other ISPs with simular non existing ignore-abuse-mails policies. I am with an ISP with such a policy and it is sometimes d*mned frustrating (especially when you compare with their competitors). The last thing they pulled was letting a former employee use personal customer data for personal profit and spamming (I assume it's the guy that came to make my pc 'surf-ready' and entered with the words Ah, this is Linux, I can't do anything here, as if his services were needed or requested).
I'm pretty certain that my abuse mail about this got redirected to/dev/null again X(
I must admit that I haven't followed the flame in real time on debian-devel (it's archived though). I would just want to point out that:
1. Christian offers a real and useful service to the debian users. Not all of them compile their kernel and software from source.
2. Next to mplayer, he also packages some other software (e.g. lame) which have been removed from debian, but which are ubiquitious. I hope that in term ogg will be a viable alternative, but 'it is getting there', not yet.
3. I've worked with Christian on some 'problem' packages (dependency on mp3lame). I've never had any problems communicating with him and he was always eager to help. He has always answered in a polite way to my questions and offered help AND rearranged his packages to meet my package needs.
4. As a result of my personal experiences AND following the mplayer site and developers a bit, I can only assume their attitude in mails. I wonder if they ever heard of the term _polite_ questions or remark. You should sometimes read the remarks and replys debian devolopers get from some upstream authors.
Fact of the matter is that, unless I have a terrible character judgment, one should be very careful in pointing fingers to Christian, he was packaging video/audio {de|en}coding software before any other distribution heard of these and was and still is offering a real service to the debian community.
> A third reason is that most people are not going to fill their slots anyway. Good mobos today have > good sound, 10/100 NIC, and USB2 onboard. Add a good video card, and the rest of your slots are > pretty much empty. Even if you add another card, just follow the urinal code. Never place 2 cards > too close for comfort.
When I bought my mobo, I thought my five slots would never be filled. Guess?
The fact is just that I would not like to see some card taking space it should not be, and certainly not preventing me from using slots.
In your case, let's take away the SB, NW and UATA card, still I have no slot left in the newer motherboards (+2nd nw card and TV card): most have only 3 slots left (yes, since everything is integrated in the mother board, why adding PCI slots).
One slot is blocked by NVidia. In a not hypothetical case (thus real) an development environment (3D gfx), I want to add a DSP development board.
what if some spambot has a rule that has s/\w+\.(\d+)\.(.\w+)@spamgourmet.com/spamenab led\. 999\.$2@spamgourmet.com/g would this mean the user is buggered?
From the article: To Americans, the telecom world's model of promoting growth through vertical investments (a Nokia or an Ericsson bails out the carriers) and through IP sharing (yeuch!), and promoting common standards (that's goddam Communism!), must look like a filthy and incestuous business.
Perhaps slightly unrelated (yes, mod me down), but I wonder if the cell phone market would ever have been that successful as it is now without these common standards, especially if you think that the mobile market/penetration is the largest in Scandinavia. Imagine a world where a Nokia phone could not communicate with a Sony/Ericsson, what a waste of resources would that be,... I would say we're lucky this technology wasn't determined by American companies (and I basically don't care if they are European or Asean), or else we'd pay double for our phones, just for the patents to use the proprietary communication format.
But hey, isn't that exactly what we have on the desktop?
You will have the storage capacity for hours of MP3 on your little player when attaching a HD, but only minutes of music: your HD will drain battery power, there is a good reason why there are no HDs in a handheld device in commercial products. If power is not your concern (you'll keep the supply close or plugged in), a HD is a possibility.
If you want to upgrade your handheld, you'll have to look at e.g. flashcards.
I guess you mean "Read the article and all the links in the article" in a recursive fashion:) When having a second look at the article, it does not mention the programmer's nationality, only his homepage is on a UK URI.
> However, that is almost equivalent to linving in > the US. The UK follows the US without thinking. > Look at the Iraq situation. Everyone in the > world except for the US and their blind > followers sees how stupid it is to start a war > against Iraq. But the UK promises support. Dumb > dumb dumb.
This has nothing to do with DMCA or any of it's variants in different countries IMHO.
I don't think that integrating more functionality into the back button is a good idea. A history is fine, at least you might expect what to get this way, even though there is an occasional smallhickup.
I guess I'll just be considered as against progress:)
Ok, on one hand, you have an effort that benefits mankind as a whole and defines us: exploring and reaching out to new frontiers. I would certainly want to be around when man lands on Mars, or heck goes back to the moon for that matter...
What would be done with that money? I hope that you don't think that the administration would use it to e.g. diminish debt, build a half a decent health care system or help the disadvantaged in society?
If this were the case, one could consider scrapping the space flights or at lease reducing them in order to get the domestic situation better.
No, I would think they are going to bomb another country, manipulate politics threathen half the world,...
As the situation is as it is, I don't think there is a better goal to use the money for... Even if it sometimes means sending a national idiot to space every ten years, burning billions of euros of research money to do some *cough* important *cough* tests...
I can think of _much_ better uses for that money, but the real question is, would politicians do the same thing? Isn't there some proverb about the Eye of the Beholder?
I just had a look at the site of this KULeuven spin-off yesterday for my work and you might have a look at the site of Eyetronics. One of the things they are doing is just that. It has some nice demos. btw, they did also some work for "Die another Day" and "xXx",...
Let's start off that I'm talking about the European situation here (Brussels and around).
The best place for finding comics that were missing from your collection (particular edition or so) used to be flea markets before they caught on. Now, I have the impression that, if you are not there at 8 o'clock or so, you can only find rubbish.
This way, I was able to find a number of comics with the old "newspaper" look (Actually, Jommeke, mainly because they were missing from my all-newspaper-look collection nrs 1-96 IIRC). The same for Tintin (or Kuifje) in an older 'Flemish' edition (As opposed to the newer 'Dutch' editions). And yes, we were reading them before that Spiel-guy got interested;)
If you are very lucky, you might still find something there if you get there early.
There are a number of comic book stores that do second hand comics, which might give you the possibility to complete your collection at a fair price (to my experience, these are also getting more rare).
If you are very lucky you'll be able to get your hands on some old editions by asking around to friends and family. It's amazing what ppl have stashed away in their homes (e.g. 1st edition Nero's).
Slashdot Mirror
I normally read a story before commenting, but in this case, I'll make an exception, since the link to the article is:
http://slashdot.org/ahref=
What is this actually referring to?
I owned my roommates computer last nite...and she couldnt trace NOTHING!
She could not trace nothing...
Oh boy, you're so scr3w3d. Depending on the girl, this could be a reward or a punishment I guess (the same goes the other way around, but in this case, I'm willing to bet it'll be a punishment for her, in which case this entire reasoning becomes void [recursive error detected]).
One of the nice things of April, 1st is able to spot the fake stories from the real ones. Unfortunately Gentoo makes no real sport from this anymore... (cf. the notes under their fake stories) D4mm1t!
I guess much can be said about the influence of gaming/entertainment on upbringing and reasoning and if this should have such a significan weight.
The least thing you can say that Germany is consistent and although this decision is probably influenced by recent events, I can support them (especially since it's not really censorship in the strictest sence: you can still buy the game without problem).
btw, war isn't really resolving conflicts (ever), it's just anihilating it by destroying the oponent 's view (together with the oponent that is).
After their withdrawal of the OpenGL consortium or board, this is not a surprise.
:(
Afterall microsoft _is_ the standard, why should you have independent standard committees??
I will probably buy this book.
:) You basically create a class without knowing what the parent or the child will be. The advantage is, that it allows for quick and modular implementation.
...
,but I think it gets the point accross. For a good use of these misins, look for 'heaplayers' on google (though the code is a bit buggy by times, but since everything is working via template instantiation, it's hard to debug and bugs only pop up when the become instantiated.). It would be nice is this is covered :)
I started off with templates (when I moved from C to C++ for system level exploration) and found them to be an annoying evil for the restrictiveness of void use in C++ as compared to C.
However, I had to come along when I discovered mixins
A small example. A house is built from a cellar, a number of levels and a roof.
In order to implement a 1-level house you define:
class SimpleHouse<Roof<Level<Cellar> > >{};
if you want a more levels
class HighHouse <Roof<Level<Level<Level<Cellar> > > >{};
That's all folks, methods etc, defined by the template instantiation,
This example might be pretty silly
What I do want to know, is what exactly this is doing to my code bloat X)
http://nvrec.sf.org
http://www.sourceforge.net
console based and scriptable
I like using Linux, but even as a seasoned IT pro, the directory structure and "what goes where" of a *nix system still bugs me.
/home
/home (and not to some messy reg).
/home/user and deluser user removes any trace of the user from the system /bin /usr/bin -> user apps /sbin /usr/sbin -> system apps /usr/local -> not managed by packaging systems
../my-package*.deb
... seem logical to bin in a sbin directory to me, since you need to be root to use them anyway...
The *n*x directory structure makes much more sense to me that the directory structure (?) you are referring to, although the one you are referring to is moving towards the *n*x structure IMHO.
My Documents ->
There is one big difference though, and that's that application configurations are put there too and the preferences of one user is contained to
# rm -rf
It has been a while, so correct me if I'm wrong but
c:\windows\system32 -> one big mess
c:\Program Files -> lots of duplications and a strange concept of shared libs, there is hardly any difference between system and user programs.
As for 'what goes where', I solve this mainly this way if there is no package available (if there is, there is not really a problem):
$ tar xvfz my-package.tar.gz
$ cd my-package
$ dh_make
$ fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage
$ su -p
# dpkg -i
programs like tcpdump, groupdel,
Furthermore, it sounds to me that, if you use anything more than a bare boned system, you'll find someone that tags it as a mess, no mather waht package management (be it rpm, deb, stow or even W32).
Anyway, structure is, I guess, a matter of perspective, but how someone comes up with the W32 directory structure as being logical (or structure for that matter) beats me...
As far as I know yes, I heard a related topic on the radio a couple of months ago
this is not really new, several institutes around the world are working with simular techniques, it's hot research for the moment.
Interesting evolution though, even though it's absolutely not certain that this technique is 'good', it's more like a shot in the dark, let's hope it works AFAIK.
If they remove the ISP that the spam originates from, the spammer will just find new ISPs.
/dev/null again X(
Sure, but I think you're missing the point. It would serve as a clear warning to other ISPs with simular non existing ignore-abuse-mails policies. I am with an ISP with such a policy and it is sometimes d*mned frustrating (especially when you compare with their competitors). The last thing they pulled was letting a former employee use personal customer data for personal profit and spamming (I assume it's the guy that came to make my pc 'surf-ready' and entered with the words Ah, this is Linux, I can't do anything here, as if his services were needed or requested).
I'm pretty certain that my abuse mail about this got redirected to
WTF has 'slammer' to do with '911' and how on earth can you compare between the two events?
...
This is like comparing like comparing global warning/rising of the oceans with my bathtub that is running over.
Is it just common practice to put the label 'terrorism' to all malevolent actions these days?
Come on, wake up! I guess I must be in league with some shady organisation because I'm thinking this way,
I must admit that I haven't followed the flame in real time on debian-devel (it's archived though). I would just want to point out that:
1. Christian offers a real and useful service to the debian users. Not all of them compile their kernel and software from source.
2. Next to mplayer, he also packages some other software (e.g. lame) which have been removed from debian, but which are ubiquitious. I hope that in term ogg will be a viable alternative, but 'it is getting there', not yet.
3. I've worked with Christian on some 'problem' packages (dependency on mp3lame). I've never had any problems communicating with him and he was always eager to help. He has always answered in a polite way to my questions and offered help AND rearranged his packages to meet my package needs.
4. As a result of my personal experiences AND following the mplayer site and developers a bit, I can only assume their attitude in mails. I wonder if they ever heard of the term _polite_ questions or remark. You should sometimes read the remarks and replys debian devolopers get from some upstream authors.
Fact of the matter is that, unless I have a terrible character judgment, one should be very careful in pointing fingers to Christian, he was packaging video/audio {de|en}coding software before any other distribution heard of these and was and still is offering a real service to the debian community.
> A third reason is that most people are not going to fill their slots anyway. Good mobos today have
:(
> good sound, 10/100 NIC, and USB2 onboard. Add a good video card, and the rest of your slots are
> pretty much empty. Even if you add another card, just follow the urinal code. Never place 2 cards
> too close for comfort.
When I bought my mobo, I thought my five slots would never be filled.
Guess?
1. SB card
2. network card
3. UATA 66 card
4. 2nd network card for NAT
5. TV-card
The fact is just that I would not like to see some card taking space it should not be, and certainly not preventing me from using slots.
In your case, let's take away the SB, NW and UATA card, still I have no slot left in the newer motherboards (+2nd nw card and TV card): most have only 3 slots left (yes, since everything is integrated in the mother board, why adding PCI slots).
One slot is blocked by NVidia. In a not hypothetical case (thus real) an development environment (3D gfx), I want to add a DSP development board.
Shoot. I have the slot, but I cannot use it
Just wondering (after I created an account)
b led\. 999\.$2@spamgourmet.com/g
what if some spambot has a rule that has
s/\w+\.(\d+)\.(.\w+)@spamgourmet.com/spamena
would this mean the user is buggered?
AFAIK Norway is not a part of the EU, so they do not have to adjust their laws an accordance of the EU.
They might implement it (in this case, I don't see why they should), but they certainly don't have to by any treaty.
From the article:
... I would say we're lucky this technology wasn't determined by American companies (and I basically don't care if they are European or Asean), or else we'd pay double for our phones, just for the patents to use the proprietary communication format.
To Americans, the telecom world's model of promoting growth through vertical investments (a Nokia or an Ericsson bails out the carriers) and through IP sharing (yeuch!), and promoting common standards (that's goddam Communism!), must look like a filthy and incestuous business.
Perhaps slightly unrelated (yes, mod me down), but I wonder if the cell phone market would ever have been that successful as it is now without these common standards, especially if you think that the mobile market/penetration is the largest in Scandinavia. Imagine a world where a Nokia phone could not communicate with a Sony/Ericsson, what a waste of resources would that be,
But hey, isn't that exactly what we have on the desktop?
Kewl :)
:(
Tnx for the link.
Anyway, the remark is still valid, this only proves that it is cheaper to provide better batteries than including more power aware peripherals.
Not a elegant solution if you ask me, but possibly the most economic one
You will have the storage capacity for hours of MP3 on your little player when attaching a HD, but only minutes of music:
your HD will drain battery power, there is a good reason why there are no HDs in a handheld device in commercial products.
If power is not your concern (you'll keep the supply close or plugged in), a HD is a possibility.
If you want to upgrade your handheld, you'll have to look at e.g. flashcards.
> Read the article! He is living in the UK.
:) When having a second look at the article, it does not mention the programmer's nationality, only his homepage is on a UK URI.
I guess you mean "Read the article and all the links in the article" in a recursive fashion
> However, that is almost equivalent to linving in
> the US. The UK follows the US without thinking.
> Look at the Iraq situation. Everyone in the
> world except for the US and their blind
> followers sees how stupid it is to start a war
> against Iraq. But the UK promises support. Dumb
> dumb dumb.
This has nothing to do with DMCA or any of it's variants in different countries IMHO.
I just hope this guy is not living in the US :(
I don't think that integrating more functionality into the back button is a good idea. A history is fine, at least you might expect what to get this way, even though there is an occasional small hickup.
:)
I guess I'll just be considered as against progress
Oh come on, ...
...
Ok, on one hand, you have an effort that benefits mankind as a whole and defines us: exploring and reaching out to new frontiers. I would certainly want to be around when man lands on Mars, or heck goes back to the moon for that matter...
What would be done with that money? I hope that you don't think that the administration would use it to e.g. diminish debt, build a half a decent health care system or help the disadvantaged in society?
If this were the case, one could consider scrapping the space flights or at lease reducing them in order to get the domestic situation better.
No, I would think they are going to bomb another country, manipulate politics threathen half the world,
As the situation is as it is, I don't think there is a better goal to use the money for... Even if it sometimes means sending a national idiot to space every ten years, burning billions of euros of research money to do some *cough* important *cough* tests...
I can think of _much_ better uses for that money, but the real question is, would politicians do the same thing? Isn't there some proverb about the Eye of the Beholder?
I just had a look at the site of this KULeuven spin-off yesterday for my work and you might have a look at the site of Eyetronics. ...
One of the things they are doing is just that. It has some nice demos.
btw, they did also some work for "Die another Day" and "xXx",
OK,
;)
Let's start off that I'm talking about the European situation here (Brussels and around).
The best place for finding comics that were missing from your collection (particular edition or so) used to be flea markets before they caught on. Now, I have the impression that, if you are not there at 8 o'clock or so, you can only find rubbish.
This way, I was able to find a number of comics with the old "newspaper" look (Actually, Jommeke, mainly because they were missing from my all-newspaper-look collection nrs 1-96 IIRC).
The same for Tintin (or Kuifje) in an older 'Flemish' edition (As opposed to the newer 'Dutch' editions). And yes, we were reading them before that Spiel-guy got interested
If you are very lucky, you might still find something there if you get there early.
There are a number of comic book stores that do second hand comics, which might give you the possibility to complete your collection at a fair price (to my experience, these are also getting more rare).
If you are very lucky you'll be able to get your hands on some old editions by asking around to friends and family. It's amazing what ppl have stashed away in their homes (e.g. 1st edition Nero's).