Hm, wasn't aware of that. Guess that's what I get for rabidly going after the file as soon as it's released.:) Of course, "after a while" is when you don't need the MD5s quite as much because the original servers aren't getting completely pegged.
:) I have no idea why they don't at least do the MD5 thing. Even if they don't automate the process it would take about three seconds for someone to do 'em by hand whenever there's an official release. And then you could pretty much *know* that you could trust people. Ah, well...
And with that, gentlemen, we have officially spent entirely too much time on such a trivial bit of fluff.:P I recommend a healthy dose of Robocode to purge the evil from our systems...
and the author of the material either doesn't know, or changed his mind several times and didn't edit well.
Absolutely. I dig it. I still hold, however, that bringing these things up in a book review constitutes a personal attack. When you mention the author's shortcomings, you've moved into doing an "author review," not just a book review. But we're just playing semantics here, and I don't even really care.:)
Well, I'd argue that it is both legitimate criticism and a personal attack.:) "He doesn't seem to understand what software engineering is" is very different from saying "The book doesn't show an understanding of what software engineering is."
I think that's my favorite bit of spam. A few times I've gotten spam advertising supposedly wonderful products which will help me eliminate my "spam problem." Classic.
To use an Internet search engine such as google.com to look for information related to a new or potential girlfriend or boyfriend.
What the hell? WTF is that? So when I was googling for Linux kernel panic information earlier, I was really looking for a potential girlfriend? Gah. Leave off everything past "google.com."
Yeah, that's one anyway. Myself, I opted for the cheaper knockoff model at Radio Shack. But the iRock works a bit better (you get what you pay for, I suppose). I think it may even be some Radio Shack brand or something.
Heh. Generally I do (though I'm liable to make some references to vinyl and prying from dead hands, but that's another issue), but the books-on-tape you can get from the library to make long car rides more enjoyable generally tend to come in cassette format. Our library is starting to stock more books-on-CD, but tape is by far the most readily available format they have now...
Um, they have. Drop by your local Radio Shack. For fifteen bucks you can buy a little device that plugs into the headphones jack on any portable device and broadcasts it on a channel of your choice (well, usually there's a choice of maybe four channels to try). This is how we listen to cassette tapes in my girlfriend's car, which only has a CD player. That said, it is pretty cool that it's built right into the device.
Well, it's now quite possible to watch it in MPlayer, but you've gotta do two things (just compiling from various sources here, none of this was discovered by me):
First, apply this patch found here. To do so, just download MPlayer's source into the libmpdemux directory and run "patch </path/to/patchfile" before compiling (make sure you compile it in such a way as to allow for Quicktime playing - make sure it'll do other Sorenson Quicktime files first).
Next, once MPlayer is compiled and installed, run it as "mplayer -delay -10 animatrix_blah.mov" The "delay" setting in there because otherwise the sound runs ten seconds before the video, which isn't very good.
And that's it! Just watched the "large" version fullscreen on my P2 450Mhz and it worked like a charm.
Well, I should take part of that back; for the first twenty seconds or so, the video ran at about 1fps or less, and Mplayer spewed a bunch of "Your computer is too SLOW!" warnings, but that was evidentally just due to some inadequecies in the Quicktime format with relation to seeking. Once everything was synced up (well before the action starts) it went fine.
When pasting large sequences of characters, Slashcode automatically inserts spaces in an effort to reduce page-widening and the like. Having the spaces inserted is rather unavoidable. Of course, that doesn't mean you can't use a link and bypass the whole issue, but that's a different bag of worms (if that phrase didn't already exist, I'd like to claim it as my own, btw)...
You should really see Bowling for Columbine. Stop living your life in fear! Bad things happen all the time, this is one of them, but don't let that rule your whole life. The movie itself is about America's gun culture, but quickly moves past that to take a look at what some of the real problems are, and I think its conclusions are pretty accurate.
Hm, now I'm responding to trolls. Ah, well. To address your points:
"cince [sic] you are such an important person we will ompletely uproot how we are doing things and redo it all just for you. - Where precisely did I demand that the people in charge of Apache NOT adopt this version numbering system? I merely stated that I didn't like that numbering system.
"It doesnt matter that you are uneducated in it." - What's there not to understand about the numbering system? Even minor numbers are stable releases, odd minor numbers are development. That dosn't mean that I have to like it.
"so would you rather us use windows style numbering??" - No, personally I'd prefer it if they just kept the numbering system they've had all along, in the pre-2.0 days.
In summary: I have an opinion. Slashdot being a discussion site wherein people are encouraged to voice their opinions, I did so. Finally, you are a fool. That is all.
Also interesting is that now there truly is a split between a development and regular releases, adopting the Linux kernel model, with 2.1 being the dev Apache tree and 2.0 being the release tree.
Right, right, right, I knew I was going to get in trouble 'cause of my use of the word "better." I just couldn't think of a better adjective to use. So substitute "the latest officially stable release, which is at least likely to have more features, better security, etc, and will be assisting in the phasing out of the older version you're currently using." Which is a lot more of a mouthful than "better.":)
I really dislike that version numbering system. I know it makes development version numbering much easier, etc, but damn. I don't know. To me, a 2.5.35 release should be *better* than a 2.4.20 release (speaking in terms of kernel development now), as opposed to being a bunch of ones and zeroes that don't even include a working IDE driver (to be fair, I'm not sure when in the 2.5 series IDE finally stabilized; I just pulled a number out of the air). But whatever. Just picking some nits...
I read this book a year ago! What gives? I mean, I enjoyed it and all, but it seems to be a little late for doing reviews. What's next, a Fellowship of the Ring review?
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Hm, wasn't aware of that. Guess that's what I get for rabidly going after the file as soon as it's released. :) Of course, "after a while" is when you don't need the MD5s quite as much because the original servers aren't getting completely pegged.
:) I have no idea why they don't at least do the MD5 thing. Even if they don't automate the process it would take about three seconds for someone to do 'em by hand whenever there's an official release. And then you could pretty much *know* that you could trust people. Ah, well...
Still waiting.
No?
And with that, gentlemen, we have officially spent entirely too much time on such a trivial bit of fluff. :P I recommend a healthy dose of Robocode to purge the evil from our systems...
Well, I'd argue that it is both legitimate criticism and a personal attack. :) "He doesn't seem to understand what software engineering is" is very different from saying "The book doesn't show an understanding of what software engineering is."
I think that's my favorite bit of spam. A few times I've gotten spam advertising supposedly wonderful products which will help me eliminate my "spam problem." Classic.
Ha! *snicker* My kingdom for some modpoints . . .
. . . you decide to download a few Dwarves albums. :P
Yeah, that's one anyway. Myself, I opted for the cheaper knockoff model at Radio Shack. But the iRock works a bit better (you get what you pay for, I suppose). I think it may even be some Radio Shack brand or something.
Heh. Generally I do (though I'm liable to make some references to vinyl and prying from dead hands, but that's another issue), but the books-on-tape you can get from the library to make long car rides more enjoyable generally tend to come in cassette format. Our library is starting to stock more books-on-CD, but tape is by far the most readily available format they have now...
- First, apply this patch found here. To do so, just download MPlayer's source into the libmpdemux directory and run "patch <
/path/to/patchfile" before compiling (make sure you compile it in such a way as to allow for Quicktime playing - make sure it'll do other Sorenson Quicktime files first).
- Next, once MPlayer is compiled and installed, run it as "mplayer -delay -10 animatrix_blah.mov" The "delay" setting in there because otherwise the sound runs ten seconds before the video, which isn't very good.
And that's it! Just watched the "large" version fullscreen on my P2 450Mhz and it worked like a charm.Well, I should take part of that back; for the first twenty seconds or so, the video ran at about 1fps or less, and Mplayer spewed a bunch of "Your computer is too SLOW!" warnings, but that was evidentally just due to some inadequecies in the Quicktime format with relation to seeking. Once everything was synced up (well before the action starts) it went fine.
When pasting large sequences of characters, Slashcode automatically inserts spaces in an effort to reduce page-widening and the like. Having the spaces inserted is rather unavoidable. Of course, that doesn't mean you can't use a link and bypass the whole issue, but that's a different bag of worms (if that phrase didn't already exist, I'd like to claim it as my own, btw)...
You should really see Bowling for Columbine. Stop living your life in fear! Bad things happen all the time, this is one of them, but don't let that rule your whole life. The movie itself is about America's gun culture, but quickly moves past that to take a look at what some of the real problems are, and I think its conclusions are pretty accurate.
To paraphrase Rimmer, "That'll teach you to be a breadbasket."
- "cince [sic] you are such an important person we will ompletely uproot how we are doing things and redo it all just for you. - Where precisely did I demand that the people in charge of Apache NOT adopt this version numbering system? I merely stated that I didn't like that numbering system.
- "It doesnt matter that you are uneducated in it." - What's there not to understand about the numbering system? Even minor numbers are stable releases, odd minor numbers are development. That dosn't mean that I have to like it.
- "so would you rather us use windows style numbering??" - No, personally I'd prefer it if they just kept the numbering system they've had all along, in the pre-2.0 days.
In summary: I have an opinion. Slashdot being a discussion site wherein people are encouraged to voice their opinions, I did so. Finally, you are a fool. That is all.Right, right, right, I knew I was going to get in trouble 'cause of my use of the word "better." I just couldn't think of a better adjective to use. So substitute "the latest officially stable release, which is at least likely to have more features, better security, etc, and will be assisting in the phasing out of the older version you're currently using." Which is a lot more of a mouthful than "better." :)
I really dislike that version numbering system. I know it makes development version numbering much easier, etc, but damn. I don't know. To me, a 2.5.35 release should be *better* than a 2.4.20 release (speaking in terms of kernel development now), as opposed to being a bunch of ones and zeroes that don't even include a working IDE driver (to be fair, I'm not sure when in the 2.5 series IDE finally stabilized; I just pulled a number out of the air). But whatever. Just picking some nits...
I read this book a year ago! What gives? I mean, I enjoyed it and all, but it seems to be a little late for doing reviews. What's next, a Fellowship of the Ring review?