I've never read Watchmen or even heard of it before today. I don't care if it matches the book 100% or 0%, if it's a good movie, I'd like to see it. And if it isn't a good movie, the director should still be allowed to make it. In either case, the guy who sold the rights to it gave up a certain amount of control, and from here on out, the capitalists take over. But, according to you, if it isn't done *right* (i.e., your way), it shouldn't be done at all. Why should your opinion of what's "right" prevent the movie from being made and prevent *me* from seeing it at all?
I mean, I loved Jurassic Park (the book) and hated Jurassic Park (the movie) but you'd never hear me say that Crichton shouldn't have sold the rights and Spielberg shouldn't've spent his money to make it. Movie companies have been borking novels since Gone With The Wind and that will never change. More people have seen Gone With The Wind than have read it and, despite not following the book, it's always in the top 5 on anyone's list of Greatest Films Ever, right along with Citizen Kane and Casablanca.
At the other end of the spectrum, Runing Man, the movie, was better than Runing Man, the book by Richard Baghman (aka Stephen King.) So what if it doesn't follow the book? Movies should stand on their own.
After a short discussion here I leanred that it doesn't work with pages loaded in new tabs in the background. Since I rarely want to see just one story at slashdot, it's pretty much useless to me. So, control-plus-minus it remains.
It's basically just put it in your CD drive and 1 minute later it's up and running a full GUI with your browser connected to the internet and solitaire ready to play. Not to mention having a _full_ office suit ready to use. Still think it's not something you want to find in your XMas stocking?
Well, let's see... if it doesn't automagically find and properly set up the printer on the first pass, they're fucked. Ooh, and where do they save the document they created?!? I suppose they could email it to themselves, but then what will they do with an OOo file? (And don't tell me they can rename it.zip, unzip it, and extract the text out of the XML files. Oh yeah, that'll go over *really* well.)
Besides, they probably *already* have a web browser, an office, suite, and solitaire. Why do you think they already have the machine?
Bonus question: how do they get online if they don't have a high-speed connection? Can I have them call you to ask how to find their username, password, and ISP's phone number? 'Cause you know they threw that info away the day after they got DUN set up. Bonus bonus question: what if they're on AOL dialup?
But I'm not one to gripe and not offer any solutions. If anything, the submitter should be handing out something like The Opeen CD.
I was at an electric vehicle trade show in late 1997 and saw a hybrid Hummer. (Diesel engine working as a generator for electric motors, IIRC.) It was actually faster 0-60 than a stock Diesel hummer and it had a great feature: you could put it into "stealth mode" (yes, really) and run almost completely silently. Stealth mode temporarily turned off all hydraulics, etc. Worked great, too. The guy was talking about the vehicle to a group of attendees/reporters, then instructed them to turn around. Unnoticed by anyone, the Hummer had silently pulled up and parked behind them.
CinePaint, formerly Film Gimp, "...is a free open source painting and image retouching program designed to work best with 35mm film and other high resolution high dynamic range images. It is the most popular open source tool in the motion picture industry -- used in 2 Fast 2 Furious, Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, Stuart Little and other feature films. CinePaint is used for painting of background mattes and for frame-by-frame retouching of movies. It is being extended to do film restoration. CinePaint is available for Linux, Macintosh OS X, Windows, and other popular operating systems... CinePaint Features:...
8/16/32-bits of color per channel (up to 128-bits RGBA)"
I wouldn't use this as a banner of the greatness of open source. I have FF 1.0 and that extension and it is making no difference that I can see. I still have to ctrl+/- on about 1/3-1/2 of slashpages.
>To force myself to learn Python, I'm thinking of setting up a Python daemon that will listen for an "administrator" machine that pushes commands that a company's SysAd wants.
I've been working on a thing to do updates like that as well. What I came up with is each box gets a cron entry like this: 0 * * * * curl http://a.server/secret_dir/script.sh | sh In other words, you use CURL to download a script. Curl, with no options, will create STDOUT. Pipe STDOUT into 'sh' and voila! whatever script is on the server gets run. Put that into root's crontab and you can do whatever you want. Just be sure the script on the server is in a safe place. And use different times on different machines so the server doesn't get hammered at the top of the hour.
Of course, in unix, there are always many ways to solve a problem. But a lot of times I use several 'grep's and 'grep -v's and the way my mind works, I find it easiest to just cat the file first, run it through a few greps, change my query several times, and then get the result I want. Also, doing a 'wc -l' is just the first step--once I get it down to a reasonable number, I'll want to see the output, so I just press [up arrow], delete 'wc -l', and replace it with 'less'. ls -lR | wc -l huge number? no problem... ls -lR | grep 2004 | wc -l reasonable number? great! ls -lR | grep 2004 | less
I always use it to find how many files are in a directory (ls -R | wc -l) or how many Windows boxes are trying to root me (cat/var/log/httpd/access_log | grep cmd.exe | wc -l) or how many visitors I got from a Slashdot story (cat access_log| grep slashdot | wc -l) or how many files I've touched this year (ls -lR | grep 2004| wc -l) or...
What I'm saying is, people who complain about the "how many ways do you know to count words?" example are missing the forest for the trees. 'wc' is one of countless small UNIX utilities that I sting together in new combinations ever every day. I don't write books or magazines, so I *never* care how long my files are in that sense. But seeing how many lines in a log file contain a certain string is useful every day.
Besides, "In the Beginning..." was written back in 1998 or 1999.
Beyond WC: The coolest things about unix in OS X is the interaction with the GUI. I can type "scp " and then drag a file from the desktop into the Terminal window and then finish with the destination server and path. I can be anywhere in the filesystem and say "open." and a Finder window of the current directory will open. I can access the clipboard with "pbcopy" and "pbpaste" (though I must occasionally make a temp file and use 'tr' to change from Mac line breaks to unix line breaks). The final hurdle--dealing with two-part Mac files at the command line--will be solved in 10.4.
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"Ability to scroll the tab bar, so that when I have 50 or so tabs open, I can see the ones on the right-hand side."
Is this feature hidden, or did I somehow miss seeing it in RC1? I've opened a zillion tabs and they just get tiny. Then again, I'm at 1600x1200, so maybe I just needed to open a zillion and one.
Does it also have the ability to automatically force it.slashdot.org, games.slashdot.org, etc. to load from slashdot.org instead, with the default color scheme? Not trolling, I'd really like something that does this. And no, I don't want to set my slahdot prefs to 'lite'.
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...anyone who has used Google's image search will tell you, we're still a long way off from something akin to "good."
This is slashdot. On-Topic comments are hardly "obligatory.":-)
And I just put together a new w2k box 2 weeks ago. Used IE for longer than I can usually stand, then said "aw, hell, I guess the 1.0 isn't coming out anytime soon, I'll put on the RC." That was 2 days ago. D'oh!
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"The W3C is the de facto standards body for internet standards."
No, the W3C is an *actual* standards body for Internet (Web, actually) standards. IE is the "de facto" standard browser, despite not being standards-compliant. Confusing? Indeed. Kinda like the early 1990s, when "alternative" music became meainstream.
I'm not normally this pedantic (here, anyway:-) ) but when the intended meaning is exactly opposite the expressed meaning, I'll chime in.
PS: great post otherwise. I'll even flesh out point #1 for you, with Microsoft's help: "...an attacker could run programs on your computer while you view a Web page. This affects all computers with Internet Explorer installed (even if you don't run Internet Explorer as your Web browser [emphasis added])."
"Most of Europe pays three times what we do for gas."
IIRC, most of Europe & the UK put huge taxes on gasoline to pay for nationwide health insurance, among other things. $50/barrel is $50/barrel worldwide, right?
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I've never read Watchmen or even heard of it before today. I don't care if it matches the book 100% or 0%, if it's a good movie, I'd like to see it. And if it isn't a good movie, the director should still be allowed to make it. In either case, the guy who sold the rights to it gave up a certain amount of control, and from here on out, the capitalists take over. But, according to you, if it isn't done *right* (i.e., your way), it shouldn't be done at all. Why should your opinion of what's "right" prevent the movie from being made and prevent *me* from seeing it at all?
I mean, I loved Jurassic Park (the book) and hated Jurassic Park (the movie) but you'd never hear me say that Crichton shouldn't have sold the rights and Spielberg shouldn't've spent his money to make it. Movie companies have been borking novels since Gone With The Wind and that will never change. More people have seen Gone With The Wind than have read it and, despite not following the book, it's always in the top 5 on anyone's list of Greatest Films Ever, right along with Citizen Kane and Casablanca.
At the other end of the spectrum, Runing Man, the movie, was better than Runing Man, the book by Richard Baghman (aka Stephen King.) So what if it doesn't follow the book? Movies should stand on their own.
After a short discussion here I leanred that it doesn't work with pages loaded in new tabs in the background. Since I rarely want to see just one story at slashdot, it's pretty much useless to me. So, control-plus-minus it remains.
I tried this extension and it doesn't work for me. Javascript is enabled but everything is unchecked except "change images". Might that be why?
It's basically just put it in your CD drive and 1 minute later it's up and running a full GUI with your browser connected to the internet and solitaire ready to play. Not to mention having a _full_ office suit ready to use. Still think it's not something you want to find in your XMas stocking?
.zip, unzip it, and extract the text out of the XML files. Oh yeah, that'll go over *really* well.)
Well, let's see... if it doesn't automagically find and properly set up the printer on the first pass, they're fucked. Ooh, and where do they save the document they created?!? I suppose they could email it to themselves, but then what will they do with an OOo file? (And don't tell me they can rename it
Besides, they probably *already* have a web browser, an office, suite, and solitaire. Why do you think they already have the machine?
Bonus question: how do they get online if they don't have a high-speed connection? Can I have them call you to ask how to find their username, password, and ISP's phone number? 'Cause you know they threw that info away the day after they got DUN set up. Bonus bonus question: what if they're on AOL dialup?
But I'm not one to gripe and not offer any solutions. If anything, the submitter should be handing out something like The Opeen CD.
I thought I read it, but evidently I somehow missed that. Oops. Never mind.
I was at an electric vehicle trade show in late 1997 and saw a hybrid Hummer. (Diesel engine working as a generator for electric motors, IIRC.) It was actually faster 0-60 than a stock Diesel hummer and it had a great feature: you could put it into "stealth mode" (yes, really) and run almost completely silently. Stealth mode temporarily turned off all hydraulics, etc. Worked great, too. The guy was talking about the vehicle to a group of attendees/reporters, then instructed them to turn around. Unnoticed by anyone, the Hummer had silently pulled up and parked behind them.
CinePaint, formerly Film Gimp, "...is a free open source painting and image retouching program designed to work best with 35mm film and other high resolution high dynamic range images. It is the most popular open source tool in the motion picture industry -- used in 2 Fast 2 Furious, Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, Stuart Little and other feature films. CinePaint is used for painting of background mattes and for frame-by-frame retouching of movies. It is being extended to do film restoration. CinePaint is available for Linux, Macintosh OS X, Windows, and other popular operating systems... CinePaint Features: ...
8/16/32-bits of color per channel (up to 128-bits RGBA)"
Mac OS 9 and earlier worked like that. OS X doesn't.
I wouldn't use this as a banner of the greatness of open source. I have FF 1.0 and that extension and it is making no difference that I can see. I still have to ctrl+/- on about 1/3-1/2 of slashpages.
>To force myself to learn Python, I'm thinking of setting up a Python daemon that will listen for an "administrator" machine that pushes commands that a company's SysAd wants.
I've been working on a thing to do updates like that as well. What I came up with is each box gets a cron entry like this:
0 * * * * curl http://a.server/secret_dir/script.sh | sh
In other words, you use CURL to download a script. Curl, with no options, will create STDOUT. Pipe STDOUT into 'sh' and voila! whatever script is on the server gets run. Put that into root's crontab and you can do whatever you want. Just be sure the script on the server is in a safe place. And use different times on different machines so the server doesn't get hammered at the top of the hour.
Of course, in unix, there are always many ways to solve a problem. But a lot of times I use several 'grep's and 'grep -v's and the way my mind works, I find it easiest to just cat the file first, run it through a few greps, change my query several times, and then get the result I want. Also, doing a 'wc -l' is just the first step--once I get it down to a reasonable number, I'll want to see the output, so I just press [up arrow], delete 'wc -l', and replace it with 'less'.
ls -lR | wc -l
huge number? no problem...
ls -lR | grep 2004 | wc -l
reasonable number? great!
ls -lR | grep 2004 | less
I always use it to find how many files are in a directory (ls -R | wc -l) or how many Windows boxes are trying to root me (cat /var/log/httpd/access_log | grep cmd.exe | wc -l) or how many visitors I got from a Slashdot story (cat access_log| grep slashdot | wc -l) or how many files I've touched this year (ls -lR | grep 2004| wc -l) or...
." and a Finder window of the current directory will open. I can access the clipboard with "pbcopy" and "pbpaste" (though I must occasionally make a temp file and use 'tr' to change from Mac line breaks to unix line breaks). The final hurdle--dealing with two-part Mac files at the command line--will be solved in 10.4.
What I'm saying is, people who complain about the "how many ways do you know to count words?" example are missing the forest for the trees. 'wc' is one of countless small UNIX utilities that I sting together in new combinations ever every day. I don't write books or magazines, so I *never* care how long my files are in that sense. But seeing how many lines in a log file contain a certain string is useful every day.
Besides, "In the Beginning..." was written back in 1998 or 1999.
Beyond WC: The coolest things about unix in OS X is the interaction with the GUI. I can type "scp " and then drag a file from the desktop into the Terminal window and then finish with the destination server and path. I can be anywhere in the filesystem and say "open
Maybe they're all playing Halo 2?
"Ability to scroll the tab bar, so that when I have 50 or so tabs open, I can see the ones on the right-hand side."
Is this feature hidden, or did I somehow miss seeing it in RC1? I've opened a zillion tabs and they just get tiny. Then again, I'm at 1600x1200, so maybe I just needed to open a zillion and one.
For those of us not from Oz, what's a bloke? and a pom? and a Jesus?
Does it also have the ability to automatically force it.slashdot.org, games.slashdot.org, etc. to load from slashdot.org instead, with the default color scheme? Not trolling, I'd really like something that does this. And no, I don't want to set my slahdot prefs to 'lite'.
...anyone who has used Google's image search will tell you, we're still a long way off from something akin to "good."
:-)
You will hear no such heresy from me!
This is slashdot. On-Topic comments are hardly "obligatory." :-)
And I just put together a new w2k box 2 weeks ago. Used IE for longer than I can usually stand, then said "aw, hell, I guess the 1.0 isn't coming out anytime soon, I'll put on the RC." That was 2 days ago. D'oh!
"The W3C is the de facto standards body for internet standards."
:-) ) but when the intended meaning is exactly opposite the expressed meaning, I'll chime in.
No, the W3C is an *actual* standards body for Internet (Web, actually) standards. IE is the "de facto" standard browser, despite not being standards-compliant. Confusing? Indeed. Kinda like the early 1990s, when "alternative" music became meainstream.
I'm not normally this pedantic (here, anyway
PS: great post otherwise. I'll even flesh out point #1 for you, with Microsoft's help: "...an attacker could run programs on your computer while you view a Web page. This affects all computers with Internet Explorer installed (even if you don't run Internet Explorer as your Web browser [emphasis added])."
...but I hope they rename the old version to sound faster than the new version so people who have 1st-gen BT gear don't feel sad. Just like DVDs--widescreen, fullscreen... wow, they both sound great!
God dammit... Angelina Jolie was in Sky Captain but *Tom Hanks* is in the movie where no one wears costumes? eww...
"Now, having said all that, some lawyers are ok - just look at the ones working for IBM."
:-)
Exactly. It's just another case of the bad 99% giving the other 1% a bad name.
...until it comes with that cool Calculus game, Feel the Magic DY/DX.
"So much for a thousands-of-dollars price tag deterring crime."
Yeah, 'cause criminals would never, you know, STEAL a gun.
"Most of Europe pays three times what we do for gas."
IIRC, most of Europe & the UK put huge taxes on gasoline to pay for nationwide health insurance, among other things. $50/barrel is $50/barrel worldwide, right?