Thanks for the advice, I never thought of that. However,
* The most important room that we need to cool doesn't have a window that we can install an a/c in. Therefore, I'm installing a *huge* a/c in the nearest window (which is in the next room, the kitchen/living room) and hoping that through some combination of fans or luck it will cool both.
* that would be ugly (where we're putting the big one now, no one will see it from the outside of the house).
* I am lazy, and we plan on uninstalling it every winter (2 or 3 would be more to uninstall).
* We can't buy the normal air conditioners, because we have casement windows. So every installation has to be a real custom job, just to get it in the window, or we have to buy casement window a/c, which cost 2x the normal ones.
We were killing 4-6 spiders every day when we first moved into our current house. So we purchased some brand from home depot, and they didn't work at all -- which proved it was all a crock, like I thought it was.
Then my wife tried another brand (Sunbeam, from Costco). Wow! We went from 4-6 spiders a day to 1 per month. Then after three months, it went up to about 1 per week (Sunbeam says they get used it) and has stayed there ever since. We have them all over (they make little 'clicking' noises, but we never notice them).
Those "$" aren't ugly, I've decided, after lots of thought. They allow you to do things that you could never dream of in Java or other $-deficient languages:
html = "<B>" + name + "</B>"; html += "<TABLE><TR><TD>"; html += $address; html += "<A HREF=\"" + $homepage + ">" + $Anchor + "</A>"; html += "</TABLE></TR></TD>";
I'm telling you... the "$" is a feature, not a bug . I know that you can use XML libraries to generate intermediate displays that aren't so ugly, but perl doesn't force you to do that.
Here's the big detractor. Their offer boasts 1,025 hours free for the first 45 days. Let's do the math. There are 24 hours in a day, right? OK. So, let's multiply that by 45. The answer is 1,080 hours. Now, we subtract from that the 1,025 hours offered for free. We get 55 hours. Divide those 55 hours by the original 45 days, and you get 1.2222222r. So, in order to use up all of the 1,025 hours in 45 days, a single AOL user would only be able to get 1.22222r hours of sleep per day in the 45 day period.
Simply put, either the user doesn't get to use all of the free hours, or they die from sleep deprivation trying to get them all in.
That's why AOL has now begun to distribute methamphetamines with their CD-ROMs. They upped it to 1,080 hours in 45 days. Part of their new license grants AOL as the sole beneficiary of your life insurance policy as well (that's how they *really* make those billions).
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Agreed. Apparently this Erik Naggum fellow isn't very well informed. Perl can be as beautiful as any language, or uglier than them all -- it's up to the programmer.
What are you talking about? UltraDNS.com is as cheap as dirt. I would charge my clients more money to config BIND than UltraDNS.com would charge in a year. Easy choice.
The only thing I don't understand about Dmoz is why "Gay, Lesbian, and Bi-Sexual" is in every single top category. Do they have it in for the heterosexuals or something? Do they think that sexual preference is so much more important than race, creed, gender, etc. that it should enjoy its own category, while the others don't?
I don't know about you guys, but this section really got me laughing, hard! To paraphrase, adding non-free-as-in-Speech software makes distribuations "adulterated versions". They certainly are religious about it!
Wouldn't it be better to reserve the name "GNU/Linux" for distributions that are purely free software? After all, that is the ideal of GNU.
The widespread practice of adding non-free software to the GNU/Linux system is a major problem for our community. It teaches the users that non-free software is ok, and that using it is part of the spirit of "Linux". Many "Linux" User Groups make it part of their mission to help users use non-free add-ons, and may even invite salesmen to come and make sales pitches for them. They adopt goals such as "helping the users" of GNU/Linux (including helping them use non-free applications and drivers), or making the system more popular even at the cost of freedom.
The question is how to try to change this.
Given that most of the community which uses this version of GNU already does not realize it is such, disowning these adulterated versions, saying they are not really GNU, would not teach the users to value freedom more. They would not get the intended message. They would only respond they never thought these systems were GNU in the first place.
I have a really hard time watching TV because of the quality of the content. Unlike most movies (which often have millions of dollars and tens of thousands of man-hours put into them), TV series are made of much less effort, talent, and budget.
People should spend that time reading a book or working on their doctorate or something, instead of watching TV.
If Debian goes with another IRC server, then that's fine. I don't think spamming solicitations for donations (even if they are for a paid salary position) is all that bad. But if you (or Debian) can do better and build a different IRC server, then I'm sure that is where the people will go (or come), for spam-free IRC.
Does the fact that Slashdot is now running MS Ads (for Visual Dev Studio) bear any significance on the timing of an editor's "kudos to MS" remark? A thought to ponder.
Did anyone else see the "Microsoft wont use DCMA" story that briefly showed on the front page, with 3 comments?
The link is http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/08/204224 9&mode=thread&tid=109
But it has dissapeared! The gist of the story was the MS wasn't going to use the DCMA to stop some guy from posting security problems, and it even said, "Kudos to Microsoft".
Yes, I was very surprised to see that on Slashdot. I wonder if it means the MS-bashing by the editors will be reduced (actually I haven't noticed it much lately...).
Truely, it is ironic, I wonder why there hasn't been any public word about it.
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Thanks for the advice, I never thought of that. However,
* The most important room that we need to cool doesn't have a window that we can install an a/c in. Therefore, I'm installing a *huge* a/c in the nearest window (which is in the next room, the kitchen/living room) and hoping that through some combination of fans or luck it will cool both.
* that would be ugly (where we're putting the big one now, no one will see it from the outside of the house).
* I am lazy, and we plan on uninstalling it every winter (2 or 3 would be more to uninstall).
* We can't buy the normal air conditioners, because we have casement windows. So every installation has to be a real custom job, just to get it in the window, or we have to buy casement window a/c, which cost 2x the normal ones.
We're purchasing the Kenmore 15,100 BTU Room Air Conditioner for $380. This is why I like it:
* Highest BTU A/C that runs on 115 volts
* Isn't a no-name brand
* Is cheap.
I researched a *lot* of a/c's and that's what I came up with.
(If anyone else has found a better one, let me know!)
Here's how I do it:
* Standard 3-ring binders (label them according to how you would like to sort your CD's.. by function, alpha-numeric, or both).
* Case Logic Album pages.
- 8 cd's per page (double sided)
Here's the link: Case Logic Album pages.
I think the price is reasonable, and keeps them very accessible, uses little space.
We were killing 4-6 spiders every day when we first moved into our current house. So we purchased some brand from home depot, and they didn't work at all -- which proved it was all a crock, like I thought it was.
Then my wife tried another brand (Sunbeam, from Costco). Wow! We went from 4-6 spiders a day to 1 per month. Then after three months, it went up to about 1 per week (Sunbeam says they get used it) and has stayed there ever since. We have them all over (they make little 'clicking' noises, but we never notice them).
Tim Bunce already did. Several years ago. It's called DBD::Multiplex.
I like OnSmart SmartPriv (Virtual Private Linux servers) for $40/mo.
I received my rebate from dell within 2 weeks. Not a single problem either. They just e-mailed me and said, "your rebate is on the way."
Of course, that is the first time that's ever happened. Usually 4-6 months for other companies.
So when Los Angeles gets shaken to pieces, will it make a "PHBTS" sound? (Phbts! Insert flatulence joke here).
What's H20? (Water, right?) Then what's H204? ...
;-)
H20 is 4 drinking.
Here's the big detractor. Their offer boasts 1,025 hours free for the first 45 days. Let's do the math. There are 24 hours in a day, right? OK. So, let's multiply that by 45. The answer is 1,080 hours. Now, we subtract from that the 1,025 hours offered for free. We get 55 hours. Divide those 55 hours by the original 45 days, and you get 1.2222222r. So, in order to use up all of the 1,025 hours in 45 days, a single AOL user would only be able to get 1.22222r hours of sleep per day in the 45 day period.
Simply put, either the user doesn't get to use all of the free hours, or they die from sleep deprivation trying to get them all in.
That's why AOL has now begun to distribute methamphetamines with their CD-ROMs. They upped it to 1,080 hours in 45 days. Part of their new license grants AOL as the sole beneficiary of your life insurance policy as well (that's how they *really* make those billions).
Agreed. Apparently this Erik Naggum fellow isn't very well informed. Perl can be as beautiful as any language, or uglier than them all -- it's up to the programmer.
If you think osCommerce looks great, then you probably haven't seen Interchange.
What are you talking about? UltraDNS.com is as cheap as dirt. I would charge my clients more money to config BIND than UltraDNS.com would charge in a year. Easy choice.
The only thing I don't understand about Dmoz is why "Gay, Lesbian, and Bi-Sexual" is in every single top category. Do they have it in for the heterosexuals or something? Do they think that sexual preference is so much more important than race, creed, gender, etc. that it should enjoy its own category, while the others don't?
:-q
That's why I prefer yahoo.
I upgraded to Apache 2.0 and I love it.
I have a really hard time watching TV because of the quality of the content. Unlike most movies (which often have millions of dollars and tens of thousands of man-hours put into them), TV series are made of much less effort, talent, and budget.
People should spend that time reading a book or working on their doctorate or something, instead of watching TV.
If Debian goes with another IRC server, then that's fine. I don't think spamming solicitations for donations (even if they are for a paid salary position) is all that bad. But if you (or Debian) can do better and build a different IRC server, then I'm sure that is where the people will go (or come), for spam-free IRC.
Does the fact that Slashdot is now running MS Ads (for Visual Dev Studio) bear any significance on the timing of an editor's "kudos to MS" remark? A thought to ponder.
Did anyone else see the "Microsoft wont use DCMA" story that briefly showed on the front page, with 3 comments?
4 9&mode=thread&tid=109
The link is http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/08/20422
But it has dissapeared! The gist of the story was the MS wasn't going to use the DCMA to stop some guy from posting security problems, and it even said, "Kudos to Microsoft".
-Baffled
This is exactly the case put forward by Dr. Walt Brown (Ph. D.).
I happen to know that fortran is used for:
* Modeling entire forests (not as easy as it sounds)
* Modeling Jake Brakes (18 wheelers')
It is a powerful language, still very much alive. Notice recent changes that allow it to link with Visual Basic code as the UI.
~60/second sustained on a 6th-generation Cheetah. They're the fastest, IMHO (and most expensive).
Yes, I was very surprised to see that on Slashdot. I wonder if it means the MS-bashing by the editors will be reduced (actually I haven't noticed it much lately...).
Truely, it is ironic, I wonder why there hasn't been any public word about it.