... and not just for the obvious reasons.:-) There is a company that makes a family of devices (can't find it online now, my google-fu is weak) that lets you move a computer without ever turning it off. 1) Plug in a USB "mouse jiggler"--a USB device that pretends to be a mouse that moves the cursor every few seconds so the computer won't go to screensaver or sleep 2) Hook a special apparatus to the power cord that connects it to a UPS so you can pull the plug out of the wall and the UPS instantly kicks in 3) Load the running computer onto a cart then take it down to the station Aha! Here it is. Watch the videos, they're pretty cool.
And this is why I love Slashdot. I was gonna reply about the one thing I love about wordpad--that it handles various line endings better than notepad--but I first checked the other replies to see if that had been mentioned. Not only have a few others already posted the same thing, they've also mentioned a bug^H^H^Hfeature that I HATE (that dragging a document into the window doesn't open it) AND a fix (drag it onto the toolbar instead.) AWESOME!!!!!11
Regarding the 1960s movie Incubus with William Shatner, which was the first American movie to be done entirely in Esperanto:
Incubus is "the movie-watching event of a lifetime" according to Forrest J. Ackerman, the man whom Ray Bradbury called "the most important fan/collector/human being in the history of science-fantasy fiction." Mr. Ackerman, winner of 6 Hugo awards, also said, "There are perhaps a baker's dozen of lost films of the fantastic that imagi-movie fans thirst to see: London After Midnight, Mystery of Life, Night of the Gods, The Young Diana, and... Incubus.
I remember seeing a reference to something like 'jsgraphs' that used javascripot (and probably css) to do graphs. I used to LOVE using PHP to create SVGs and was very happy when Firefox and Safari announced native support, but Safari's support does NOT extend to the iPhone so I'm looking for something new. I just looked for 'jsgraphs' and came up empty and paging through results for 'javascript graph' didn't yield anything that looked familiar. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
21 million is three in four existing German bank accounts.
I have for sale EVERY VISA NUMBER EVER ISSUED! From 4000 0000 0000 0000 to 4999 9999 9999 9999! (Note: some numbers may not be valid.)
I will sell them for US $1,000,000 MILLIONS US DOLLARS. Contact me via this website.
Act now and I'll throw in every Master Card ever issued. (5000 0000 0000 0000 to 5999 9999 9999 9999) (Same disclaimer as above.) And no identity thief would be complete without a REAL SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER to go with it, eh? Guess what? That's right--I'VE GOT THEM ALL TOO! (001-01-0001 to 999-99-9999)
Is it possible to create an *unsecure* remote shell so that I can give my home computer commands while away?
Yes. Mail rules + AppleScript = fun. I'm linking to those because I just so happen to have heard of them; I'm sure similar things could be done with other scripting languages and operating systems. Bonus fun: if you have a Mac, you can use Apple's "say" command.
<tt>echo "Get off the phone, Susie, I need to talk to mom" | say
I agree that tags aren't especially useful, but they're occasionally handy for things like 'badsummary' or 'flamebait.' Hasn't that been one of the requests around here forever--"Can we moderate stories 'flamebait'?"
They're also a great source of funny one-liners: a story the other day about a guy in the military who asked "what can I do about this crappy laptop?" had "chargeback" and "airstrike" as the first two tags.
This won't solve everything, but as a tip to other readers who aren't having this many problems, using "ssh -XC" can greatly help over slow links. The capital C turns on compression. Ages ago, SSHing from work to home (home is DSL, 256k up), launching Bluefish dropped from 30 seconds to 10.
Alternately, if the performance of the Linux box isn't especially crucial, maybe the solution to all your problems is to RDC to a Windows box running Linux in a VM.:-) VirtualBox is free now.
+1. I was happy that I could undo all the JavaScript bullshit on the Slashdot front page and the story pages by logging in and setting my prefs but the user page looks like the database was trying to swallow Digg and threw up.
It's like Yahoo mail. Overall pretty good but when I log in to email I want to see my fucking INBOX, not this crappy summary+news+other crap I never look at. ESPECIALLY sucky since their most recent redesign REMOVED keyboard shortcuts (like shift-control-C to check for new mail, i.e. look at the inbox.) (Not even the new AJAXY, Outlook-looking "beta" version--I'm talking about the regular old HTML version.)
This is the worst thing to happen to Slashdot since the I.T. color scheme.
I respect what you've done. Creating what became the Yahoo! store in Lisp was pretty cool. "A Plan For Spam" was awesome. (Too bad Microsoft gave spammers infinite resources with which to create infinite variations of messages and defeat Bayesian filtering.)
But please... it's almost 2009. I don't care what you once read about optimal column width. Why not just let the text be a fraction of the page's width and let the reader decide how wide they want it to be? I've got a GUI and resizable windows and a wide monitor and everything.
... but whoever tagged this story "hardhack" is wrong. This is NOT a hard(ware) hack. A hard hack would be something like "solder a resistor across these two points and the iPhone will boot off of whatever you connect it to."
I wouldn't go so far as to put in an Easter egg that actually does something, but I'd definiltly "sign" my work. Maybe use "42" as a seed value, make an error message that just happens to be a haiku, something really subtle like that. Basically, the kind if thing that, if it gets noticed, can't possibly get you into any trouble.
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I read this book on the plane on the way into theatre.
A 900+ page book in one trip? Where is this theatre, Mars? Or were you riding coast-to-coast on the Wright Flyer?
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Sure, there might not be a word in the English language that perfectly encapsulates the idea he was trying to communicate, but most writers are forced to overcome this obstacle every day, and do so without making up new words.
Shit, at this point I'm just happy he's not making up letters.
My company had two early Compaq tablet PCs, a TC1000 with a 1 GHz Transmeta CPU and a (by that time HP) TC1100 with a 1 GHz PIII. The PIII ran circles around the Transmeta (like, when you were waiting for it to turn your spoken words into text, it was 1-2 seconds versus 3-5) but the Transmeta didn't get significantly better battery life--both were good for about 4 hours in typical usage (which, at a conference, means taking notes, surfing, and playing FreeCell and Dots.)
Thank you for wasting five years of the Linux community's time and casting a shadow over the legitimacy of the world's countless open-source projects. Think of all the interesting things we could have devoted our time to if we hadn't been dealing with you assholes. I hope you rot in Hell.
Slashdot Mirror
... and not just for the obvious reasons. :-) There is a company that makes a family of devices (can't find it online now, my google-fu is weak) that lets you move a computer without ever turning it off.
1) Plug in a USB "mouse jiggler"--a USB device that pretends to be a mouse that moves the cursor every few seconds so the computer won't go to screensaver or sleep
2) Hook a special apparatus to the power cord that connects it to a UPS so you can pull the plug out of the wall and the UPS instantly kicks in
3) Load the running computer onto a cart then take it down to the station
Aha! Here it is. Watch the videos, they're pretty cool.
And this is why I love Slashdot. I was gonna reply about the one thing I love about wordpad--that it handles various line endings better than notepad--but I first checked the other replies to see if that had been mentioned. Not only have a few others already posted the same thing, they've also mentioned a bug^H^H^Hfeature that I HATE (that dragging a document into the window doesn't open it) AND a fix (drag it onto the toolbar instead.) AWESOME!!!!!11
Regarding the 1960s movie Incubus with William Shatner, which was the first American movie to be done entirely in Esperanto:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070102034106/http://www.incubusthefilm.com/
I remember seeing a reference to something like 'jsgraphs' that used javascripot (and probably css) to do graphs. I used to LOVE using PHP to create SVGs and was very happy when Firefox and Safari announced native support, but Safari's support does NOT extend to the iPhone so I'm looking for something new. I just looked for 'jsgraphs' and came up empty and paging through results for 'javascript graph' didn't yield anything that looked familiar. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
21 million is three in four existing German bank accounts.
I have for sale EVERY VISA NUMBER EVER ISSUED! From 4000 0000 0000 0000 to 4999 9999 9999 9999! (Note: some numbers may not be valid.)
I will sell them for US $1,000,000 MILLIONS US DOLLARS. Contact me via this website.
Act now and I'll throw in every Master Card ever issued. (5000 0000 0000 0000 to 5999 9999 9999 9999) (Same disclaimer as above.) And no identity thief would be complete without a REAL SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER to go with it, eh? Guess what? That's right--I'VE GOT THEM ALL TOO! (001-01-0001 to 999-99-9999)
He might have gotten confused by the name and thought this was some other kind of "slash" site. :-) No worries, happens all the time.
I consider data to be a mass noun, like money. "All this money is useful." "This data is inconclusive."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data#Usage_in_English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_noun
Not that there's a single right answer--I'm just sayin'. :-)
Is it possible to create an *unsecure* remote shell so that I can give my home computer commands while away?
Yes. Mail rules + AppleScript = fun. I'm linking to those because I just so happen to have heard of them; I'm sure similar things could be done with other scripting languages and operating systems. Bonus fun: if you have a Mac, you can use Apple's "say" command.
I'll see your stolen security fence and raise you a stolen security camera.
OK, so it was a general-use webcam, not MAINLY for security, but it did serve that function... even got 2 shots of the guy taking it. :-)
I agree that tags aren't especially useful, but they're occasionally handy for things like 'badsummary' or 'flamebait.' Hasn't that been one of the requests around here forever--"Can we moderate stories 'flamebait'?"
They're also a great source of funny one-liners: a story the other day about a guy in the military who asked "what can I do about this crappy laptop?" had "chargeback" and "airstrike" as the first two tags.
This won't solve everything, but as a tip to other readers who aren't having this many problems, using "ssh -XC" can greatly help over slow links. The capital C turns on compression. Ages ago, SSHing from work to home (home is DSL, 256k up), launching Bluefish dropped from 30 seconds to 10.
Alternately, if the performance of the Linux box isn't especially crucial, maybe the solution to all your problems is to RDC to a Windows box running Linux in a VM. :-) VirtualBox is free now.
HOLY FUCK! As if the new user page weren't bad enough, it mixes the classic green color scheme with whatever the theme is for the current subdomain, if you happen to be on one. You thought http://slashdot.org/~CleverNickName looked bad? Check out http://yro.slashdot.org/~CleverNickName or http://games.slashdot.org/~CleverNickName or http://it.slashdot.org/~CleverNickName!!!!!
Orange links on green? My eyes! Ze googles, zey do nossing!
+1. I was happy that I could undo all the JavaScript bullshit on the Slashdot front page and the story pages by logging in and setting my prefs but the user page looks like the database was trying to swallow Digg and threw up.
It's like Yahoo mail. Overall pretty good but when I log in to email I want to see my fucking INBOX, not this crappy summary+news+other crap I never look at. ESPECIALLY sucky since their most recent redesign REMOVED keyboard shortcuts (like shift-control-C to check for new mail, i.e. look at the inbox.) (Not even the new AJAXY, Outlook-looking "beta" version--I'm talking about the regular old HTML version.)
This is the worst thing to happen to Slashdot since the I.T. color scheme.
I respect what you've done. Creating
what became the Yahoo! store in Lisp
was pretty cool. "A Plan For Spam"
was awesome. (Too bad Microsoft
gave spammers infinite resources
with which to create infinite variations
of messages and defeat Bayesian filtering.)
But please... it's almost 2009. I don't care
what you once read about optimal column
width. Why not just let the text be a fraction
of the page's width and let the reader decide
how wide they want it to be? I've got a GUI
and resizable windows and a wide monitor
and everything.
Thanks,
- The Internet
... but whoever tagged this story "hardhack" is wrong. This is NOT a hard(ware) hack. A hard hack would be something like "solder a resistor across these two points and the iPhone will boot off of whatever you connect it to."
I wouldn't go so far as to put in an Easter egg that actually does something, but I'd definiltly "sign" my work. Maybe use "42" as a seed value, make an error message that just happens to be a haiku, something really subtle like that. Basically, the kind if thing that, if it gets noticed, can't possibly get you into any trouble.
I read this book on the plane on the way into theatre.
A 900+ page book in one trip? Where is this theatre, Mars? Or were you riding coast-to-coast on the Wright Flyer?
Sure, there might not be a word in the English language that perfectly encapsulates the idea he was trying to communicate, but most writers are forced to overcome this obstacle every day, and do so without making up new words.
Shit, at this point I'm just happy he's not making up letters.
In defense of the parent, math with dark matter can be hard. Dark matter is so dense, each pound of it weighs over ten thousand pounds!
Ooh, that's fun. Lots of good rap lyrics talk about guns like that.
"Now I got to follow him home, with my chrome, send him to the twilight zone, it's on!"
--Ice Cube, Robbin' Hood
Yeah, I could see Google using that in an ad. :-)
My company had two early Compaq tablet PCs, a TC1000 with a 1 GHz Transmeta CPU and a (by that time HP) TC1100 with a 1 GHz PIII. The PIII ran circles around the Transmeta (like, when you were waiting for it to turn your spoken words into text, it was 1-2 seconds versus 3-5) but the Transmeta didn't get significantly better battery life--both were good for about 4 hours in typical usage (which, at a conference, means taking notes, surfing, and playing FreeCell and Dots.)
See also: VLIW processors, where the hardware guys fool themselves by saying, "the software guys will figure out how to compile to it."
Q: How many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Isn't that a hardware problem?
Q: How many hardware engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Can't the software guys just code around it?
Well, if enough of them were dupes, it could have been the 13th story. :-)
Thank you for wasting five years of the Linux community's time and casting a shadow over the legitimacy of the world's countless open-source projects. Think of all the interesting things we could have devoted our time to if we hadn't been dealing with you assholes. I hope you rot in Hell.
Archives go back to December 31, 1997 but the site itself goes back to September. So I don't think that was the real 13th story.