I tell him that he should go eat or go to the bathroom, but he insists on leveling his wizard or something.
Is your roomie's entertainment score increasing, or is he still sitting at the computer even when he's maxed out? Do you see "bored" icons over his head? You may want to invest the simoleans to get some other entertainment options, such as a pinball machine or a hot tub, just so he has some variety to choose from.
Also, make sure the problem isn't something simpler. Have you ever seen your roomie leave his computer room? If not, double-check the placement of doors, furniture, etc and make sure there's a clear path between his computer room and the kitchen/bathroom. (I nearly lost a guy to starvation before I discovered that I'd placed the new refrigerator in front of the only door to the kitchen.) Oh, and make sure you've trained him up at least one point for cooking so he doesn't keep setting the stove on fire.
Remember that you might have to intervene multiple times to break your roomie of the computer habit. Just keep clicking on him and assigning another task, and watch closely to make sure he doesn't wander straight back to the computer. You might have to put up with some stormcloud icons for a bit, but with any luck he'll learn a new routine and end up happier in the long run.
If he's just impossible to retrain, you might have no choice but to stick him in the swimming pool and remove the ladder. It's a bit harsh, but in extreme cases it's sometimes better to just accept the loss and create a fresh roomie.
Distributing a card with a chip with a unique ID? I didn't think Borg cared about uniqueness when it came to assimilation?
Of course they care! Post-assimilation is when you need a unique ID. Otherwise, how would you know if you're "Seven of Nine", "Six of One", or "Half Dozen of the Other"?
By the way, just how long is Barlow going to coast on co-writing some Grateful Dead lyrics forty years ago? Isn't there a statute of limitations or something?
Statute of limitations? Well, only if you consider writing Grateful Dead lyrics to be a criminal act. (Surely "Mexicali Blues" wasn't that bad, was it?:-)
Does this make sense as well, that they've spent years researching this but their company only started in 2004?
Yes, it makes sense, but they were hoping nobody would notice the apparent incongruity. See, they also invented a time machine, and have been using it extensively to reduce perceived development time for IonXR. If it weren't for that, we'd have to wait another 10 years before IonXR was available to the public. But they don't want to announce the time machine's existence until they work out the problem with periodic instabilities in the quantum flux ion regeneration matrix that are induced by harmonic interference arising from pico-mesons in the nano-photonic resonance substructure.
Please explain to me, using small words so I can understand, how this points to the PowerBook G5 being released "very soon."
From TA:
The timing also appears to tie in with reports from sources within Apple's Far Eastern notebook contract manufacturers that the PowerBook G5 is scheduled to ship sometime in Q2.
So, rumor says Q2, which is pretty soon. Whether or not you think the web bug "appears to tie-in" is the rumor-mill equivalent of a Roshak ink blot test.
Not to mention the wonderful wackiness that will come when spyware/adware gets involved.
Driver: Dammit, where the hell are we going now?!?
Interstate Explorer: McDonalds, left turn off Exit 39.
Driver: This is the tenth frickin' McD's we've been to this trip!!!
Interstate Explorer: The EULA for the AutoNav Wi-Fi Free Edition you installed clearly stated that you wanted to be offered special deals by AutoNav Wi-Fi partner locations along your route.
Driver: But I don't *want* another Big Mac! I thought AutoNav just said it'd help optimize my driving routes.
Driver: Execute command "Search Burger King".
Interstate Explorer: Request redirected to McWi-Fi McSearch McEngine (tm).
Interstate Explorer: Search complete, one match found for topic "McDonalds".
Driver: I said BURGER KING!
Interstate Explorer: McDonalds, 10 ft ahead on left, entering drive-thru lane.
McOrderBot: Hello to you too. One McKid's Naptime Meal. Honk once to confirm.
Interstate Explorer: *honk*
Interstate Explorer: *honk* *honk* *honk*
McOrderBot: Four McKid's Naptime Meals. Credit card info received from AutoNav ChargeBot (tm). Thank you for using the McDonalds/AutoNav "One Honk Shopping (tm)" service. Please pull forward.
Driver: (jiggling door handle to no avail)
Driver: Open the driver-side door!
Interstate Explorer and McOrderBot (in unison): We're sorry, Dave, but we can't let you do that.
It may just be me who can't spot it in the list, but where is using BitTorrent to distribute the latest ISO images for Linux installs?
There's an entry for "Linux Distributions" on his UPenn SNIU page under the "Other SNIU" section, roughly 2/3 of the way down. Currently lists Debian, Gentoo, and Others. Certainly the list could be extended, but there is an entry for torrents of Linux distros.
For me, this is my primary use of torrents/P2P. I've found it much easier to get first-day Linux releases via torrents than the previous madhouse of hammering the living daylights out of a handful of overloaded ftp/http mirror sites.
For distros that have been out for a while, I found my P2P mileage varied - sometimes ftp/http sites provided faster downloads. But it's been good enough often enough that I'll try a torrent first if one exists.
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Furthermore, the FCC is also soliciting comments about the possibility of lifting the in-flight ban on cellphone use.
In an effort to save/. a little disk space, could we all agree that Monday's
discussion has already flogged the "in-flight cellphone" horse to death? Yadda yadda "annoying yammering twits", yadda yadda "but I could call my spouse", yadda yadda "all just a conspiracy by the phone company"... Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt.
So let's concentrate on important things, like making WAGs about how much the wi-fi service will cost. And how there'll be annoying twits hogging the bandwidth downloading pr0n at 30K feet, and how useful it'll be to email your spouse to let him/her know the plane is crashing, yadda yadda yadda...
Oh, and most important - we'll need at least one thread about how this will be used by terrorists to coordinate their attacks by IM-ing each other. (No flight article is complete without a terrorist thread.) And another thread about how all the money needed to implement this would be better spent feeding starving squirrels in Bulgaria. Think about the squirrels!
The biggest problem with using the sidekick on non-mobile pages is how much longer rendering/downloading takes for sites heavy with ads. The proxies should be filtering these out.
I recently picked up a Zaurus SL-C3000 and was using it for web browsing on a trip last week, and I totally agree with your point about the pain of rendering ad-heavy sites. I don't know if this is an option for the SideKick, but I found that the Privoxy proxy would compile and run fine on the Zaurus, and helped with getting a usable render/layout of many sites.
Would it not be cheaper/better to drop a lump of high explosive on it rather than a heavy lump of copper?
Given NASA's budget, copper made more sense. Finding themselves unable to afford chemical or nuclear explosives, NASA employees have spent the last four years collecting stray pennies - checking under seat cushions in taxis, keeping a watchful eye on the sidewalks and streets near their offices, and so on and so forth. Also, twice a year they held bake sales in the Vistor's Center where purchases had to be paid for entirely in pennies. Since they also lacked the budget to purchase a safe, or even a large piggy bank, one enterprising employee scrounged an old bathtub from a nearby dump, and placed it in the hall outside the Deep Impact lab for people to toss the pennies into. (Which is why the project is using the new "size of a bathtub" metric instead of the international "Volkswagon" unit of measurement.)
No kidding! My boss walked by while I was looking at the page with the $1,999 OQO, and damned near fired me on the spot for using company resources to view obscene material.
Remind me to tell my mother to start using Thunderbird and Firefox and install a firewall.
Sure, no problem. But could you ask her to hold off on the upgrades until after I've finished sending out this last batch of bulk mail that I've got queued up on her box? Quid pro quo and all that. Thanks.
you can take delivery of a cuddy non-sinus bothering bundle of joy
Ye gods, did they accidentally slip some cow genes into the mixing vat? Hairballs are bad enough - having a cat that reguritates and rechews its lunch just isn't high on my "desired features" list.;-)
What if one of those packagers got a rooted samba? How can he know? Today he is lost. If there was a signing infrastructure I mentioned, he could test the signature.
Perhaps samba wasn't the best example. Or, rather, it seems to be a very good example of achieving the main goal, since it does have a simple, open-source method for verifying source code integrity. From the top of Samba's download page:
The Samba distribution GPG public key can be used to verify that current releases have not been tampered with. Using GnuPG, simply download the Samba source distribution, the tarball signature, and the Samba distribution public key. Then run
$ gpg --import samba-pubkey.asc
$ gunzip samba-version.tar.gz
$ gpg --verify samba-release.tar.asc
gpg: Signature made Tue 26 Nov 2002 07:12:04 PM CST using DSA key ID 2F87AF6F
gpg: Good signature from "Samba Distribution Verification Key<samba-bugs@samba.org>
Where I might disagree is on the philosophical level of whether this truly needs to be directly integrated into the tar utility, as per your post at the top of this thread. For myself, I would say not, since the above approach can easily be integrated into makefiles, RPM specs, etc - providing automation without needing to make tar slurp in large chunks of gpg. But I appreciate that others may have different opinions on where the proper place is for performing integrity-checking. (I felt the same way about tar incorporating compression/decompression, but clearly others felt this was worthwhile.)
People are going to be extremely uptight about this, but this water will probably more pure than Dasani or Aquafina, since they are nothing more than filtered tap water.
And don't forget that Dasani even managed to start with London tap water and actually make it worse.
not only that... the truck's front (up to the front wheels) are inside the SUV's trunk up to the back wheels! whoever programmed the collision detection must not have been paying too much attention to details
IIAJSD (I Am A JointSAF Developer), and I actually work on the Urban Resolve exercise that the Wired article is talking about.
What you're seeing in that screenshot is basically the same kind of artifact that you'd get from lag if you were playing an online multiplayer game like Diablo II. These exercises are running on a large number of networked computers, distributed across a great many locations. (Believe me, they're not flying everyone to Hawaii just because the supercomputer cluster is down there. Oh, how I wish life were that good.:-)
What happens is that the machine drawing the 3-D view hadn't gotten the "hey, I stopped moving" update for the truck at the moment the screenshot was taken, and thought it was still moving forward. But on the machines simulating the truck and Jeep, the truck really had stopped without plowing into anyone. Had the screenshot been taken a moment later (after the packet updating the truck's info arrived), you would've seen the truck drawn at its correct position, midway between the Jeep in front and the station wagon behind.
In Diablo II terms, if you've ever hit some lag on the net, you might have seen a monster go shooting clear across the dungeon, then suddenly reappear right in front of your character. It's essentially the same thing happening here.
That stands for "Dismounted Infantry Guy", and is a program from Boston Dynamitcs, www.bdi.com. It's a skeletal-animator.
IIAJSD (I Am A JointSAF Developer), and the Urban Resolve exercise that Wired is writing about is one of the exercises I work on. Yes, the animation of the humans you see in the 3-D picture (the application is called "ModStealth") makes use of Boston Dynamics' "DI Guy" software. The screenshots don't do justice to the animations - you'd need a movie clip for that - but "DI Guy" does a really nice job.
And for those who aren't familiar with the terminology, don't read "Dismounted Infantry" too literally - a lot of mil sim software uses "DI" as a catchall term for "people who ain't in vehicles". "DI Guy" is used for all the human 3-D animation, both military and civilian.
Soldering is a "dirty" skill, on the level with being a carpenter or plumber...it's unworthy of a geek, and it's something you hire someone to do.
There's dozens of articles just from the last couple of months that disagree with this view. Geeks solder, weld, work with liquid nitrogen, regularly cannibalize and hack cameras and gaming consoles, harness power from hamsters... Perhaps you're just not paying sufficient attention to the hardware hacking articles.
Ask around at the next anime convention or star wars message board...
Sure, many geeks are fans of various movies or film genres. This doesn't imply that most fans of these movies/genres are therefore geeks. There's probably quite a few plumbers and carpenters attending those conventions or typing on those message boards, but if you asked any random fan about converting your bathroom to PVC piping or the best approach for framing a barn, you wouldn't get many responses. Does that mean plumbers no longer deal with pipes, or carpenters no longer frame buildings? No, it simply means you didn't choose an appropriate audience for your topic.
If you're at an anime convention and want to know what people like to watch, ask the fans. If you want to know how to make anime, attend lectures given by the animators. If you want to talk about rebuilding a car engine or how to build a custom high-gain ham radio antenna, think about attending a different convention.
The situation is somewhat similar with the Linux 'updatedb' and 'locate' built-in search facilities.
Yep, that is indeed a potential privacy issue with locate. Sure, you can't read the files using locate, but depending on your users, even just knowing about the existence of, say, a/home/raven/candid-pussy-shots/ directory might be enough to get 'raven' into trouble. (Even if the directory happens to contain, for instance, nothing worse than pics of raven's favorite feline.)
Consider switching to slocate instead - it's an improved (from the security/privacy standpoint) version of locate, which only lists files that the user actually has permissions to access.
However, unless a user takes specific action to change it, their home directory is world-readable by default.
That depends, to some extent, on your distribution. Red Hat distros, for instance, create home directories with all group/world access disabled by default. (This wasn't always the case for RH, but the switch was made at least as far back as RH9, probably earlier.)
If you do share a machine, it's probably just a good idea to learn about file permissions in general.
Amen and hallelujah - knowing what you're doing is a solution that works across all distros!
i've been stationed with USAF folks and on their bases and i've never heard of SBU.
That's because the existence of the SBU classification is itself classified SBU. The grandparent poster has been detained and is currently "assisting authorities with their inquiries".
Now, (/me puts on MIB sunglasses), if you and the rest of the/. readers would all look over here at this pen-like object in my hand...
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Is your roomie's entertainment score increasing, or is he still sitting at the computer even when he's maxed out? Do you see "bored" icons over his head? You may want to invest the simoleans to get some other entertainment options, such as a pinball machine or a hot tub, just so he has some variety to choose from.
Also, make sure the problem isn't something simpler. Have you ever seen your roomie leave his computer room? If not, double-check the placement of doors, furniture, etc and make sure there's a clear path between his computer room and the kitchen/bathroom. (I nearly lost a guy to starvation before I discovered that I'd placed the new refrigerator in front of the only door to the kitchen.) Oh, and make sure you've trained him up at least one point for cooking so he doesn't keep setting the stove on fire.
Remember that you might have to intervene multiple times to break your roomie of the computer habit. Just keep clicking on him and assigning another task, and watch closely to make sure he doesn't wander straight back to the computer. You might have to put up with some stormcloud icons for a bit, but with any luck he'll learn a new routine and end up happier in the long run.
If he's just impossible to retrain, you might have no choice but to stick him in the swimming pool and remove the ladder. It's a bit harsh, but in extreme cases it's sometimes better to just accept the loss and create a fresh roomie.
Of course they care! Post-assimilation is when you need a unique ID. Otherwise, how would you know if you're "Seven of Nine", "Six of One", or "Half Dozen of the Other"?
It's okay - I'm sure they used The Gimp to do it. :-)
Statute of limitations? Well, only if you consider writing Grateful Dead lyrics to be a criminal act. (Surely "Mexicali Blues" wasn't that bad, was it? :-)
Copyright duration, on the other hand...
Yes, it makes sense, but they were hoping nobody would notice the apparent incongruity. See, they also invented a time machine, and have been using it extensively to reduce perceived development time for IonXR. If it weren't for that, we'd have to wait another 10 years before IonXR was available to the public. But they don't want to announce the time machine's existence until they work out the problem with periodic instabilities in the quantum flux ion regeneration matrix that are induced by harmonic interference arising from pico-mesons in the nano-photonic resonance substructure.
Watt would be the point of that...
From TA:
So, rumor says Q2, which is pretty soon. Whether or not you think the web bug "appears to tie-in" is the rumor-mill equivalent of a Roshak ink blot test.
Not to mention the wonderful wackiness that will come when spyware/adware gets involved.
There's an entry for "Linux Distributions" on his UPenn SNIU page under the "Other SNIU" section, roughly 2/3 of the way down. Currently lists Debian, Gentoo, and Others. Certainly the list could be extended, but there is an entry for torrents of Linux distros.
For me, this is my primary use of torrents/P2P. I've found it much easier to get first-day Linux releases via torrents than the previous madhouse of hammering the living daylights out of a handful of overloaded ftp/http mirror sites.
For distros that have been out for a while, I found my P2P mileage varied - sometimes ftp/http sites provided faster downloads. But it's been good enough often enough that I'll try a torrent first if one exists.
You could if you found a Babel fish.
In an effort to save /. a little disk space, could we all agree that Monday's
discussion has already flogged the "in-flight cellphone" horse to death? Yadda yadda "annoying yammering twits", yadda yadda "but I could call my spouse", yadda yadda "all just a conspiracy by the phone company"... Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt.
So let's concentrate on important things, like making WAGs about how much the wi-fi service will cost. And how there'll be annoying twits hogging the bandwidth downloading pr0n at 30K feet, and how useful it'll be to email your spouse to let him/her know the plane is crashing, yadda yadda yadda...
Oh, and most important - we'll need at least one thread about how this will be used by terrorists to coordinate their attacks by IM-ing each other. (No flight article is complete without a terrorist thread.) And another thread about how all the money needed to implement this would be better spent feeding starving squirrels in Bulgaria. Think about the squirrels!
(And yes, it has been a long day... :-)
I recently picked up a Zaurus SL-C3000 and was using it for web browsing on a trip last week, and I totally agree with your point about the pain of rendering ad-heavy sites. I don't know if this is an option for the SideKick, but I found that the Privoxy proxy would compile and run fine on the Zaurus, and helped with getting a usable render/layout of many sites.
Given NASA's budget, copper made more sense. Finding themselves unable to afford chemical or nuclear explosives, NASA employees have spent the last four years collecting stray pennies - checking under seat cushions in taxis, keeping a watchful eye on the sidewalks and streets near their offices, and so on and so forth. Also, twice a year they held bake sales in the Vistor's Center where purchases had to be paid for entirely in pennies. Since they also lacked the budget to purchase a safe, or even a large piggy bank, one enterprising employee scrounged an old bathtub from a nearby dump, and placed it in the hall outside the Deep Impact lab for people to toss the pennies into. (Which is why the project is using the new "size of a bathtub" metric instead of the international "Volkswagon" unit of measurement.)
No kidding! My boss walked by while I was looking at the page with the $1,999 OQO, and damned near fired me on the spot for using company resources to view obscene material.
It's because most of us here on /. can't read! C'mon, how many times do you need to see posts that start with:
- "I didn't read the article, but..."
- "I didn't read the summary, but..."
- "I didn't read the post I'm replying to, but..."
before you realize that we're nearly all illiterate?Now excuse me while I go find my crayons so I can start coloring in my FC3 download.
Sure, no problem. But could you ask her to hold off on the upgrades until after I've finished sending out this last batch of bulk mail that I've got queued up on her box? Quid pro quo and all that. Thanks.
Ye gods, did they accidentally slip some cow genes into the mixing vat? Hairballs are bad enough - having a cat that reguritates and rechews its lunch just isn't high on my "desired features" list. ;-)
Perhaps samba wasn't the best example. Or, rather, it seems to be a very good example of achieving the main goal, since it does have a simple, open-source method for verifying source code integrity. From the top of Samba's download page:
Where I might disagree is on the philosophical level of whether this truly needs to be directly integrated into the tar utility, as per your post at the top of this thread. For myself, I would say not, since the above approach can easily be integrated into makefiles, RPM specs, etc - providing automation without needing to make tar slurp in large chunks of gpg. But I appreciate that others may have different opinions on where the proper place is for performing integrity-checking. (I felt the same way about tar incorporating compression/decompression, but clearly others felt this was worthwhile.)
And don't forget that Dasani even managed to start with London tap water and actually make it worse.
IIAJSD (I Am A JointSAF Developer), and I actually work on the Urban Resolve exercise that the Wired article is talking about.
What you're seeing in that screenshot is basically the same kind of artifact that you'd get from lag if you were playing an online multiplayer game like Diablo II. These exercises are running on a large number of networked computers, distributed across a great many locations. (Believe me, they're not flying everyone to Hawaii just because the supercomputer cluster is down there. Oh, how I wish life were that good. :-)
What happens is that the machine drawing the 3-D view hadn't gotten the "hey, I stopped moving" update for the truck at the moment the screenshot was taken, and thought it was still moving forward. But on the machines simulating the truck and Jeep, the truck really had stopped without plowing into anyone. Had the screenshot been taken a moment later (after the packet updating the truck's info arrived), you would've seen the truck drawn at its correct position, midway between the Jeep in front and the station wagon behind.
In Diablo II terms, if you've ever hit some lag on the net, you might have seen a monster go shooting clear across the dungeon, then suddenly reappear right in front of your character. It's essentially the same thing happening here.
IIAJSD (I Am A JointSAF Developer), and the Urban Resolve exercise that Wired is writing about is one of the exercises I work on. Yes, the animation of the humans you see in the 3-D picture (the application is called "ModStealth") makes use of Boston Dynamics' "DI Guy" software. The screenshots don't do justice to the animations - you'd need a movie clip for that - but "DI Guy" does a really nice job.
And for those who aren't familiar with the terminology, don't read "Dismounted Infantry" too literally - a lot of mil sim software uses "DI" as a catchall term for "people who ain't in vehicles". "DI Guy" is used for all the human 3-D animation, both military and civilian.
There's dozens of articles just from the last couple of months that disagree with this view. Geeks solder, weld, work with liquid nitrogen, regularly cannibalize and hack cameras and gaming consoles, harness power from hamsters... Perhaps you're just not paying sufficient attention to the hardware hacking articles.
Sure, many geeks are fans of various movies or film genres. This doesn't imply that most fans of these movies/genres are therefore geeks. There's probably quite a few plumbers and carpenters attending those conventions or typing on those message boards, but if you asked any random fan about converting your bathroom to PVC piping or the best approach for framing a barn, you wouldn't get many responses. Does that mean plumbers no longer deal with pipes, or carpenters no longer frame buildings? No, it simply means you didn't choose an appropriate audience for your topic.
If you're at an anime convention and want to know what people like to watch, ask the fans. If you want to know how to make anime, attend lectures given by the animators. If you want to talk about rebuilding a car engine or how to build a custom high-gain ham radio antenna, think about attending a different convention.
Yep, that is indeed a potential privacy issue with locate. Sure, you can't read the files using locate, but depending on your users, even just knowing about the existence of, say, a /home/raven/candid-pussy-shots/ directory might be enough to get 'raven' into trouble. (Even if the directory happens to contain, for instance, nothing worse than pics of raven's favorite feline.)
Consider switching to slocate instead - it's an improved (from the security/privacy standpoint) version of locate, which only lists files that the user actually has permissions to access.
That depends, to some extent, on your distribution. Red Hat distros, for instance, create home directories with all group/world access disabled by default. (This wasn't always the case for RH, but the switch was made at least as far back as RH9, probably earlier.)
Amen and hallelujah - knowing what you're doing is a solution that works across all distros!
No worries, we've all had days like that. :-)
That's because the existence of the SBU classification is itself classified SBU. The grandparent poster has been detained and is currently "assisting authorities with their inquiries".
Now, (/me puts on MIB sunglasses), if you and the rest of the /. readers would all look over here at this pen-like object in my hand...