As much as the far left would like to paint Zell Miller as a crazed voice in the wilderness, he expresses the sentiments of many progressive Democrats who intend to put country before party.
For some Iraqis, obviously our GIs are liberators. For others, we're clearly occupiers. Apperantly a pretty vocal group thinks we're occupiers, since liberators generally don't get attacked 2700 times a month. Bush and Cheyney call it an occuption from time to time too.
Things do start to fall apart when you use fancy.doc files. I found a neat solution the other day - load.docs into abi, save them as.rtf, and then revert them. It kills off a lot of excess crap.
For really crazy formatting, like that underlining that JUST WON'T GO AWAY, one can hack the rtf file in emacs.
I know, joe blow secretary can't do this, but dammit, if I'm going to use my CS degree for word processing, I'm going to freakin' HACK!
Whoa, you're getting really ahead of yourself there. Before we work on getting ACPI supported, we need to figure out what the heck it is. As far as I can tell, based on talking to about 100 linux people, its "something to do with power management", but if you ask specific questions like "does it handle turning off the monitor", the answer is always "no". Also, if you try to establish its relationship with APM, you'll usually get a vauge reply like "the same but different". Mainly it seems to be another booby trap kernel module, that if you compile it you'll get inexplicable panics later. I love modules like that, especially when they've got cryptic names! We need more of them!
I've created a embedded linux system out of a piece of tofu. Its superior to regular tofu in every way! Of course, since tofu has no I/O ports this is kinda useless, but wow is it cool.
Come back next week, I should have an embedded linux system running in a fried chicken drumstick.
Well, the way to find the bottleneck is obvious. First try a transfer from linux to the mac. Then try a transfer from linux to the peecee. If both of those are fast transfers, then its time to start thinking about your linux box's bus. If one is fast and one is slow, go to town on the slow leg.
Putting 2 peer links in the linux box seems like it might have been a mistake, since you're now not able to add new computers without buying new nics for the linux box. Buying a hub might have been better, but what do I know? Maybe gigabit nics cost $1 and hubs cost $1,000.
Well, they'll probably at least try it out before blanking it. If things work well, they'll probably delay installing windows. If things work well enough, long enough, the delay could become infinate. I'm not sure how user friendly Mandrake is, but they say its friendly. I say this is its acid test.
I've decided to buck the trend and not support MSIE for many of my sites. Heh heh heh, people that are too lazy to upgrade are also too lazy to complain. Creating hobby websites is for my own enjoyment, and I just don't care to spend the sweat so the raggedy-assed-masses can continue to be ignorant savages.
So I test on linux, since it has moz, konq, opera, and netscape 4.
I think the real assumption is that a geeky fan who pays for a ticket isn't any better than a geeky fan who pays for a ticket and gets pissed off about plot inconsistencies.
You are exactly right. However, there's a growing realization among the more clueful marketroids that there are customers and there are fans and one fan is worth 100 customers. Because fans go out and see the movie on the first night and tell everyone about it and buy the DVD and invite their friends over to see it and debate timeline inconsistancies on web forums therefore keeping interest up and tipping fence-sitters into doing the same. Its just a question of when the marketroid cluetrain at Paramount runs over B&B and squishes them flat.
I hope soon, because I won't be partaking of any more B&B trek flim flam.
I tried a few of these hacks, and found them not to work in practice. (maybe not this exact one, I don't recognize that page). In the end, I just threw in the towel and decided not to support Internet Exploiter.
I did have a hard time finding a "This site designed for ANYTHING BUT Internet Explorer" graphic.
Maybe I'm confused, but I don't know/care whether my system was configured with support for ldap. I just want [whatever I'm working on] to work. I suppose that's why distro-kernels ship with almost everything compiled as a module. Now most software isn't quite so multiple-choice as the kernel, but on the other hand there are seemingly ~10 --configure-with-gl=yes options to the typical program, and it seems you'd get into recursive recompilation hell all the time if you had to compile back to bedrock if you one day woke up and decided to install DRI+OpenGL or for some perverse reason decided you didn't want "readline" on your system anymore. ?
There's no experience more eerie to me than when my hardware just works out of the box on linux. I bought a soundblaster32pci, plugged it in to debian, powered on, and blammo, it just worked, no modprobe needed. Similarly for the first time I tried a usb drive. I kinda resent this- I mean, if its not hard & cryptic, then I have to waste time with a new device figuring out if it "just works" before I get down to figuring out how to make it work.
A foolish inconsistancy is the hobgoblin of OSS peripheral installation!
So if I understand you correctly, the situation is this: Geek is typing his term paper, and Bully comes along and presses the reset button, losing all that valuable work. The number of workstation-heads is really academic at that point, you've got a rouge physically disrupting the LAN. During finals week at my school, that bully would be pulled to the ground and beaten savagely by angry deadline-oppressed students before you can say "Abu-Ghraib". I suppose the textbook solution would be "call campus security", but since those guys tend to also be deadline oppressed students, I think there's no weaseling out of the "beaten savagely" part.:)
Your wireless keyboards and mice are nice, but now that I have four users on my machine, all the wires from the hubs are getting tangly. So will you please build a single hub that accomodates up to 4 wireless mice and up to 4 wireless keyboards, all through a single USB port? That'd be sweet. Thanks!
I know we all think we like plugins - for me at least it evokes the early days of netscape corporation, and VRML, and Flash, and Java, and the idea of "limitless possiblilities".
But now that we've great gpl'ed browser, plugin is just another word for "longwinded not-as-good-as-gpl click-thru licensing agreement".
I think their plan is eventually to have a little drop down menu next to each of "write", "reply", "forward" etc, that lets you choose text or html. Or maybe I'm getting that confused with inline versus attachment forwarding.
What I really want, though, is to be able to switch a message mid composition from one format to another. Because sometimes you need a little finesse, sometimes you need a lot.
Is it me or does yahoo's mail composer stink? I always figured that all those messages to mailing lists with incorrectly wrapped ">"s were coming from yahoo mail (&c) users.
I've been to the smithsonian and the local zoo both in the last month, and I have this to say: Dinos aren't *that* much bigger than elephats. Yeah cube-square-blah-blah, but when you're standing there looking at them, you do kinda wonder about the victor in a rhino versus triceratops battle. I can also see elephants and brontosauruses filling the same niches.
Suse? Isn't that one of those distributions that either costs money or ships non-free stuff? Then my opinion is "it would have to be ten times as charming as that arnold on Green Acres, know what I'm saying?".
That light's travelled through the air, bounced off the target's paint two or more times, and travelled through the air again. Like you say its pretty diffuse by now! Even if its still harmful, I can think of three countermeasures: for most stuff, reflectivey tarps should do it. For the cameras, you can either have them "duck" (implemented by turning the mirror they peer through, or sunglasses), or have two cameras, the second of which specializes in tracking things that are really bright in the wavelength the laser fires at.
But you're right, it is sounding more complicated than "tape".:)
To harden against the effects of the reflected beam on ground-based facilities and operators (including the people who aim the weapon, etc.) will be significantly more expensive
Why is that? Why can't they just use tarps made out of the same type of reflective "bicycle reflective tape"? Or better yet, since they don't care about bouncing it straight back, just good old fasioned shiney IR mirror tarps.
Caveat: except for efficiency. These bounce-back mechanisms both involve reflecting the laser beam twice before returning it. That doubles the amount of energy the missle absorbs, but it is still absorbing a lot less than it is sending back to the cannon.
That's why I think the system is still worthwhile. We can crank up the volume and fry it anyway, meanwhile all this laser-reflective armor still subtracts from warhead size, and increases cost to an agressor. If we only have to spend $100 for each $1 that North Korea has to spend, they're losing the arms race, because we've got $10,000 for each $1 they have. (figures made up, obviously).
Its kinda funny that this is the first interceptor defense againt Kaytushkas, a weapon system most famous for killing frickin' Nazis.
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As much as the far left would like to paint Zell Miller as a crazed voice in the wilderness, he expresses the sentiments of many progressive Democrats who intend to put country before party.
Hey, I'm not saying he's crazy, I'm just saying he's a liar.
For some Iraqis, obviously our GIs are liberators. For others, we're clearly occupiers. Apperantly a pretty vocal group thinks we're occupiers, since liberators generally don't get attacked 2700 times a month. Bush and Cheyney call it an occuption from time to time too.
Things do start to fall apart when you use fancy .doc files. I found a neat solution the other day - load .docs into abi, save them as .rtf, and then revert them. It kills off a lot of excess crap.
For really crazy formatting, like that underlining that JUST WON'T GO AWAY, one can hack the rtf file in emacs.
I know, joe blow secretary can't do this, but dammit, if I'm going to use my CS degree for word processing, I'm going to freakin' HACK!
Whoa, you're getting really ahead of yourself there. Before we work on getting ACPI supported, we need to figure out what the heck it is. As far as I can tell, based on talking to about 100 linux people, its "something to do with power management", but if you ask specific questions like "does it handle turning off the monitor", the answer is always "no". Also, if you try to establish its relationship with APM, you'll usually get a vauge reply like "the same but different". Mainly it seems to be another booby trap kernel module, that if you compile it you'll get inexplicable panics later. I love modules like that, especially when they've got cryptic names! We need more of them!
I've created a embedded linux system out of a piece of tofu. Its superior to regular tofu in every way! Of course, since tofu has no I/O ports this is kinda useless, but wow is it cool.
Come back next week, I should have an embedded linux system running in a fried chicken drumstick.
I got mine, my girlfriend never got hers. Ironic that in the intervening time we got married. Maybe their spies are everywhere.
What do you mean? What is the difference between a switch and a hub?
Well, the way to find the bottleneck is obvious. First try a transfer from linux to the mac. Then try a transfer from linux to the peecee. If both of those are fast transfers, then its time to start thinking about your linux box's bus. If one is fast and one is slow, go to town on the slow leg.
Putting 2 peer links in the linux box seems like it might have been a mistake, since you're now not able to add new computers without buying new nics for the linux box. Buying a hub might have been better, but what do I know? Maybe gigabit nics cost $1 and hubs cost $1,000.
Wonder Processor Powers: ACTIVATE!
Shape of: A Laser Fuse!
Form of: A Morphing Microchip, uh, made out of ICE!
Well, they'll probably at least try it out before blanking it. If things work well, they'll probably delay installing windows. If things work well enough, long enough, the delay could become infinate. I'm not sure how user friendly Mandrake is, but they say its friendly. I say this is its acid test.
I've decided to buck the trend and not support MSIE for many of my sites. Heh heh heh, people that are too lazy to upgrade are also too lazy to complain. Creating hobby websites is for my own enjoyment, and I just don't care to spend the sweat so the raggedy-assed-masses can continue to be ignorant savages.
So I test on linux, since it has moz, konq, opera, and netscape 4.
I think the real assumption is that a geeky fan who pays for a ticket isn't any better than a geeky fan who pays for a ticket and gets pissed off about plot inconsistencies.
You are exactly right. However, there's a growing realization among the more clueful marketroids that there are customers and there are fans and one fan is worth 100 customers. Because fans go out and see the movie on the first night and tell everyone about it and buy the DVD and invite their friends over to see it and debate timeline inconsistancies on web forums therefore keeping interest up and tipping fence-sitters into doing the same. Its just a question of when the marketroid cluetrain at Paramount runs over B&B and squishes them flat.
I hope soon, because I won't be partaking of any more B&B trek flim flam.
I tried a few of these hacks, and found them not to work in practice. (maybe not this exact one, I don't recognize that page). In the end, I just threw in the towel and decided not to support Internet Exploiter.
I did have a hard time finding a "This site designed for ANYTHING BUT Internet Explorer" graphic.
Maybe I'm confused, but I don't know/care whether my system was configured with support for ldap. I just want [whatever I'm working on] to work. I suppose that's why distro-kernels ship with almost everything compiled as a module. Now most software isn't quite so multiple-choice as the kernel, but on the other hand there are seemingly ~10 --configure-with-gl=yes options to the typical program, and it seems you'd get into recursive recompilation hell all the time if you had to compile back to bedrock if you one day woke up and decided to install DRI+OpenGL or for some perverse reason decided you didn't want "readline" on your system anymore.
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There's no experience more eerie to me than when my hardware just works out of the box on linux. I bought a soundblaster32pci, plugged it in to debian, powered on, and blammo, it just worked, no modprobe needed. Similarly for the first time I tried a usb drive. I kinda resent this- I mean, if its not hard & cryptic, then I have to waste time with a new device figuring out if it "just works" before I get down to figuring out how to make it work.
A foolish inconsistancy is the hobgoblin of OSS peripheral installation!
So if I understand you correctly, the situation is this: Geek is typing his term paper, and Bully comes along and presses the reset button, losing all that valuable work. The number of workstation-heads is really academic at that point, you've got a rouge physically disrupting the LAN. During finals week at my school, that bully would be pulled to the ground and beaten savagely by angry deadline-oppressed students before you can say "Abu-Ghraib". I suppose the textbook solution would be "call campus security", but since those guys tend to also be deadline oppressed students, I think there's no weaseling out of the "beaten savagely" part. :)
On a stable machine you never have to press reset. Knock on wood. Then log out the offending user with "kill -9 -1".
Your wireless keyboards and mice are nice, but now that I have four users on my machine, all the wires from the hubs are getting tangly. So will you please build a single hub that accomodates up to 4 wireless mice and up to 4 wireless keyboards, all through a single USB port? That'd be sweet. Thanks!
I know we all think we like plugins - for me at least it evokes the early days of netscape corporation, and VRML, and Flash, and Java, and the idea of "limitless possiblilities".
But now that we've great gpl'ed browser, plugin is just another word for "longwinded not-as-good-as-gpl click-thru licensing agreement".
I think their plan is eventually to have a little drop down menu next to each of "write", "reply", "forward" etc, that lets you choose text or html. Or maybe I'm getting that confused with inline versus attachment forwarding.
What I really want, though, is to be able to switch a message mid composition from one format to another. Because sometimes you need a little finesse, sometimes you need a lot.
Is it me or does yahoo's mail composer stink? I always figured that all those messages to mailing lists with incorrectly wrapped ">"s were coming from yahoo mail (&c) users.
I've been to the smithsonian and the local zoo both in the last month, and I have this to say: Dinos aren't *that* much bigger than elephats. Yeah cube-square-blah-blah, but when you're standing there looking at them, you do kinda wonder about the victor in a rhino versus triceratops battle. I can also see elephants and brontosauruses filling the same niches.
Suse? Isn't that one of those distributions that either costs money or ships non-free stuff? Then my opinion is "it would have to be ten times as charming as that arnold on Green Acres, know what I'm saying?".
That light's travelled through the air, bounced off the target's paint two or more times, and travelled through the air again. Like you say its pretty diffuse by now! Even if its still harmful, I can think of three countermeasures: for most stuff, reflectivey tarps should do it. For the cameras, you can either have them "duck" (implemented by turning the mirror they peer through, or sunglasses), or have two cameras, the second of which specializes in tracking things that are really bright in the wavelength the laser fires at.
:)
But you're right, it is sounding more complicated than "tape".
To harden against the effects of the reflected beam on ground-based facilities and operators (including the people who aim the weapon, etc.) will be significantly more expensive
Why is that? Why can't they just use tarps made out of the same type of reflective "bicycle reflective tape"? Or better yet, since they don't care about bouncing it straight back, just good old fasioned shiney IR mirror tarps.
Caveat: except for efficiency. These bounce-back mechanisms both involve reflecting the laser beam twice before returning it. That doubles the amount of energy the missle absorbs, but it is still absorbing a lot less than it is sending back to the cannon.
That's why I think the system is still worthwhile. We can crank up the volume and fry it anyway, meanwhile all this laser-reflective armor still subtracts from warhead size, and increases cost to an agressor. If we only have to spend $100 for each $1 that North Korea has to spend, they're losing the arms race, because we've got $10,000 for each $1 they have. (figures made up, obviously).
Its kinda funny that this is the first interceptor defense againt Kaytushkas, a weapon system most famous for killing frickin' Nazis.