If the Great Wall can be seen from space then I guess all man-made objects with a width of more than say 10 meters are visible as well.
Doesn't matter how long it is.
If you glue a 10 meter long strand of hair to your neighbours wall and then walk away 50 meters, it will most probably be invisible to you.
On the other hand, if there's irrigated, fertile green land on one side of the Great Wall and barren yellow desert on the other side I guess you know where the wall ought to be. But you still can't see the actual wall.
"i must say the linux community is a lot nicer than the unix
community. a negative comment on unix would warrent death
threats. with linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies."
-- Ken Thompson. 1999
Window has its roots in swedish as well. The swedish word was vindöga, meaning the hole in the roof for the smoke to escape from the fire in the center of the house.
It was exported to english when the vikings went to Scotland.
Which was probably also what Jesus was practicing. (Where the Magdalene was the high priestess symbolising Isiris and Jesus Osiris).
Jesus was just a disciple of John the Baptist which himself had quite a large following. The Church of John survived for a very long time after his death, btw. Da Vinci was obsessed with him at least.
This and other facts was repressed by the emerging and immensely popular Christian church.
But it can now be studied in the rediscovered Dead Sea Scrolls among other gnostic "lost" old documents. One can certainly see the reason for the church to try and hide these heretic texts.
And later it created the Inquisition to really try to wipe out the knowledge for good. And this knowledge (among others) was the real secrets kept by the Templars, Gnostics and other weirdos.
Da Vinci was certainly one of the initiates (as can be seen in almost *all* of his paintings, especially "Last supper" and "Adoration of the Magi").
Not that this has anything to do with anything, though.:)
Here's a neat hack to make pdksh behave somewhat like tcsh %~. That is, it will display the current working directory, but with one's home directory represented by `~'.
The real name of the Bill Gates is William Henry Gates III. Nowadays he is known as Bill Gates (III), where "III" means the order of third (3rd). By converting the letters of his name to the ASCII-values (which are used in computers) you will get the following:
B = 66
I = 73
L = 76
L = 76
G = 71
A = 65
T = 84
E = 69
S = 83
3 = 3
-------
666
Other names which also adds up to 666:
Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and The Pope.
For the current release of XFS, the filesystem block size is limited to the
size of a memory page. On a x86 architecture that size is 4 Kbytes.
Note that files systems created on an IRIX/MIPS platform must have
been created with a 4 Kbyte block size in order to be mounted on a ia32
Linux system. File systems not created with a 4k block will fail to mount
with an error indicating the mis-match.
Ah, maybe he used the well-known PDP assembler instruction HCF?
Here's a table summarizing some other useful PDP instructions: DC Divide and Conquer DMPK Destroy Memory Protect Key DO Divide and Overflow EMPC Emulate Pocket Calculator EPI Execute Programmer Immediately EROS Erase Read Only Storage EXCE Execute Customer Engineer HCF Halt and Catch Fire IBP Insert Bug and Proceed INSQSW Insert into queue somewhere (for FINO queues [First in never out]) PBC Print and Break Chain PDSK Punch Disk HCF Halt and Catch Fire PI Punch Invalid POPI Punch Operator Immediately PVLC Punch Variable Length Card RASC Read And Shred Card RPM Read Programmers Mind RSSC reduce speed, step carefully (for improved accuracy) RTAB Rewind tape and break RWDSK rewind disk RWOC Read Writing On Card SCRBL scribble to disk - faster than a write SLC Search for Lost Chord SPSW Scramble Program Status Word SRSD Seek Record and Scar Disk STROM Store in Read Only Memory TDB Transfer and Drop Bit WBT Water Binary Tree
There he is saying exactly what I've been feeling but haven't been able to express about graphical user interfaces.
The see-and-point principle states that users interact with the computer by pointing at the objects they can see on the screen. It's as if we have thrown away a million years of evolution, lost our facility with expressive language, and been reduced to pointing at objects in the immediate environment. Mouse buttons and modifier keys give us a vocabulary equivalent to a few different grunts. We have lost all the power of language, and can no longer talk about objects that are not immediately visible (all files more than one week old), objects that don't exist yet (future messages from my boss), or unknown objects (any guides to restaurants in Boston).
Fear of getting sued was never the issue. The Lucid code was free software.
To me it looked like the whole Ludcid Emacs/GNU Emacs mess was about communications problems between RMS and Lucid. And difference in opinions about what features should be implemented.
And for the record. GNU Emacs has used ideas (and possibly code) from Lucid Emacs for a long, long time. And the other way around of course.
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The BSD part will not be vanilla BSD 4.4-lite. It will be FreeBSD 3.2.
I am really amazed that noone has mentioned this yet.
"The system's kernel, which does the heavy lifting to support all those rich applications, is based on Mach 3.0 from Carnegie-Mellon University and FreeBSD 3.2 (derived from the University of California at Berkeley's BSD 4.4-Lite), the most highly regarded core technologies from two of the most widely acclaimed OS projects of the modern era."
There you have it. MacOS X is based on Mach and FreeBSD 3.2. I'll admit as much that Next also used Mach but it certainly did not use FreeBSD and I wonder if it really used Mach 3.0...
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If the Great Wall can be seen from space then I guess all man-made objects with a width of more than say 10 meters are visible as well.
Doesn't matter how long it is.
If you glue a 10 meter long strand of hair to your neighbours wall and then walk away 50 meters, it will most probably be invisible to you.
On the other hand, if there's irrigated, fertile green land on one side of the Great Wall and barren yellow desert on the other side I guess you know where the wall ought to be. But you still can't see the actual wall.
We invented the DLT. And the VT100-terminal.
"i must say the linux community is a lot nicer than the unix community. a negative comment on unix would warrent death threats. with linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies."
-- Ken Thompson. 1999
Window has its roots in swedish as well. The swedish word was vindöga, meaning the hole in the roof for the smoke to escape from the fire in the center of the house.
It was exported to english when the vikings went to Scotland.
The swedish word means so much more than just being moderate.
There is no spoon.
Which was probably also what Jesus was practicing. (Where the Magdalene was the high priestess symbolising Isiris and Jesus Osiris).
:)
Jesus was just a disciple of John the Baptist which himself had quite a large following. The Church of John survived for a very long time after his death, btw. Da Vinci was obsessed with him at least.
This and other facts was repressed by the emerging and immensely popular Christian church.
But it can now be studied in the rediscovered Dead Sea Scrolls among other gnostic "lost" old documents. One can certainly see the reason for the church to try and hide these heretic texts.
And later it created the Inquisition to really try to wipe out the knowledge for good. And this knowledge (among others) was the real secrets kept by the Templars, Gnostics and other weirdos.
Da Vinci was certainly one of the initiates (as can be seen in almost *all* of his paintings, especially "Last supper" and "Adoration of the Magi").
Not that this has anything to do with anything, though.
Forgot about Dunblane?
How about the word "skadeglädje" in swedish? Exactly the same meaning as the german word.
Here's a neat hack to make pdksh behave somewhat like tcsh %~. That is, it will display the current working directory, but with one's home directory represented by `~'.
E *)}1)]-}${PWD#$HOME}> '
It will not work correctly in ksh88, though.
TILDE='~'
PS1=$USER@$HOST:'${TILDE[(1-0${PWD%%@([\!/]*|$HOM
The real name of the Bill Gates is William Henry Gates III. Nowadays he is known as Bill Gates (III), where "III" means the order of third (3rd). By converting the letters of his name to the ASCII-values (which are used in computers) you will get the following:
B = 66
I = 73
L = 76
L = 76
G = 71
A = 65
T = 84
E = 69
S = 83
3 = 3
-------
666
Other names which also adds up to 666: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and The Pope.
Something like this maybe?
The Amiga is not dead. It's just sleeping for a while.
The Amiga shall rise again!
You know... There is a difference between a community and a cult.
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Shouldn't it be:
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and BSD. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
For the current release of XFS, the filesystem block size is limited to the size of a memory page. On a x86 architecture that size is 4 Kbytes.
Note that files systems created on an IRIX/MIPS platform must have been created with a 4 Kbyte block size in order to be mounted on a ia32 Linux system. File systems not created with a 4k block will fail to mount with an error indicating the mis-match.
Ah, maybe he used the well-known PDP assembler instruction HCF?
Here's a table summarizing some other useful PDP instructions:
DC Divide and Conquer
DMPK Destroy Memory Protect Key
DO Divide and Overflow
EMPC Emulate Pocket Calculator
EPI Execute Programmer Immediately
EROS Erase Read Only Storage
EXCE Execute Customer Engineer
HCF Halt and Catch Fire
IBP Insert Bug and Proceed
INSQSW Insert into queue somewhere (for FINO queues [First in never out])
PBC Print and Break Chain
PDSK Punch Disk
HCF Halt and Catch Fire
PI Punch Invalid
POPI Punch Operator Immediately
PVLC Punch Variable Length Card
RASC Read And Shred Card
RPM Read Programmers Mind
RSSC reduce speed, step carefully (for improved accuracy)
RTAB Rewind tape and break
RWDSK rewind disk
RWOC Read Writing On Card
SCRBL scribble to disk - faster than a write
SLC Search for Lost Chord
SPSW Scramble Program Status Word
SRSD Seek Record and Scar Disk
STROM Store in Read Only Memory
TDB Transfer and Drop Bit
WBT Water Binary Tree
Well, you think wrong.
MacOS X uses parts of FreeBSD 3.2, not plain 4.4BSD.
Check out this link:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/inside.html
Check out http://www.acm.org/cacm/AUG96/antimac.htm .
There he is saying exactly what I've been feeling but haven't been able to express about graphical user interfaces.
The see-and-point principle states that users interact with the computer by pointing at the objects they can see on the screen. It's as if we have thrown away a million years of evolution, lost our facility with expressive language, and been reduced to pointing at objects in the immediate environment. Mouse buttons and modifier keys give us a vocabulary equivalent to a few different grunts. We have lost all the power of language, and can no longer talk about objects that are not immediately visible (all files more than one week old), objects that don't exist yet (future messages from my boss), or unknown objects (any guides to restaurants in Boston).
Fear of getting sued was never the issue. The Lucid code was free software.
To me it looked like the whole Ludcid Emacs/GNU Emacs mess was about communications problems between RMS and Lucid. And difference in opinions about what features should be implemented.
And for the record. GNU Emacs has used ideas (and possibly code) from Lucid Emacs for a long, long time. And the other way around of course.
The BSD part will not be vanilla BSD 4.4-lite. It will be FreeBSD 3.2.
I think I trust this source more than I trust you:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/inside.html
And for the record, the BSD core you're talking about is of course FreeBSD. Not some dated 4.4BSD.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/inside.html
All you who are claiming that Mac OS X is just the old Next or BSD4.4 or something... How about doing some research at the source?
http://www.apple.com/macosx/inside.html
I am really amazed that noone has mentioned this yet.
"The system's kernel, which does the heavy lifting to support all those rich applications, is based on Mach 3.0 from Carnegie-Mellon University and FreeBSD 3.2 (derived from the University of California at Berkeley's BSD 4.4-Lite), the most highly regarded core technologies from two of the most widely acclaimed OS projects of the modern era."
There you have it. MacOS X is based on Mach and FreeBSD 3.2. I'll admit as much that Next also used Mach but it certainly did not use FreeBSD and I wonder if it really used Mach 3.0...