Well, I'm the one who told them. Does that mean I get some money?:-)
Seriously, though, they did respond fairly quickly. My mail logs show my message to them was at 16:23(US Central), and the reply back was at 19:34. I would assume that the time in there was spent researching to verify what I told them (as well as other paperwork-type stuff to make it all "official").
Uh, ok, so I just put the time in and encountered the lameness filter (too many caps). I guess this should be enough normal words to bypass that. Now back to your regularly scheduled guesses.
The DB admin wanted to take a 2-week vacation during the summer, and I was looking for summer employment, so they hired me to take over during the vacation. I spent about the first three or four weeks getting up to speed, and was ready for it with time to spare. The whole thing went off without a hitch. The admin got her vacation, and I earned some money and experience.
The noun 'email' is plural, and should be used exactly the same way as the plural noun
'mail'.
'Mail' and 'email' are neither plural nor singular. They are uncountable nouns(is that the right term?), like water. You don't speak about how many mail, email, or water, you speak about how much.
Oh, I agree completely. It just bothered me that he claimed that nobody would even try to put a backdoor into open-source software, when it has been done. It can be dangerous to think that way.
ESR needs to do a little remembering. There has already been at least one case of a backdoor being put in open-source Linux software. Anyone remember this? There were logged downloads of the infected file before the backdoor was discovered, but I don't know if anybody got as far as installing the bad login program.
It just shows that you can't believe that because there's somebody out there looking at the source that you'll always be safe. It's all too easy to download, compile, and install something without security concerns because you think that nobody will attempt to put backdoors in the software, or that even if they do try, somebody will catch it before you become a victim.
Is it just me? When I learned Pig Latin, I learned that words beginning with vowels should end in "way", not "yay". Itway ustjay eemssay atthay itway ollsray offway ethay onguetay away itbay easierway atthay ayway.
Ok, I'm feeling a bit in the dark here about debuggers. I've never done anything useful with a debugger. I've tried playing around with gdb a bit, but haven't gotten anything useful from it. Yet, people here seem to see a debugger as an essential tool. Can somebody help me with this? What do you use a debugger for? (other that just "debugging"... duh)
I seem to remember a few years ago, when I was using MSIE (don't know which version), I was able to select links with the keyboard using the tab key. I think even buttons, checkboxes, and everything else was accessible with the keyboard as well. I haven't used IE for a long time now. Does anybody know if this feature still exists?
No, this isn't middle-clicking on a link in the Netscape window. This is selecting a URL in another program (perhaps an email client or something) and then middle clicking on the Netscape window. The URL you selected in the other program will now load in the current Netscape window.
Quite often, I want to copy an URL and paste it into the address bar of Netscape or something -- OOOOOPS, when I highlighted the current URL in the address bar of Netscape to copy over it, the text in another window that I DID have highlighted stopped being such, and I can no longer copy it.
I just learned a shortcut for this the other day. I found out that you can simply middle-click anywhere in the Netscape window and it'll paste it in the Location bar and bring you there right away. Talk about a hidden feature!
And Netscape menues will never be accessible via the keyboard. Arggh.
Well, here's another suprise I discovered just yestarday. I had my keyboard on my lap, and it slipped down and hit the bottom of my desk, hitting a few keys on the way. A netscape menu popped up! Trying a few keys in the general area where this happened, I discovered that the F10 key brings up the Netscape menus.
This is simply not true (well, sure, for some guns, but not in general). I've never held a gun who's sole purpose was to kill people. Every gun I've held has been made for the sole purpose of hunting (animals, not people), and that's exactly what I've used them for. If somebody wants to kill somebody, they'll find a way, with or without guns.
-- Gun control? Sure, I hold my gun firmly with both hands.
where textfile is the name of the file containing the text and wordnumber is the number of the word you're looking for. So, numbers do count as words, and in hyphenated words the hyphen is the same as a space.
Well, it's not named after the internet. It's not called Intanium but Itanium.
As far as the PIII comment, I agree that nothing out there requires the horsepower of the PIII, but I think I've heard of sites out there (java applets perhaps?) that actually check to see if you're using a PIII, and won't let you run it if you aren't.
First, correctness isn't defined by whether it makes sense or not.
Second, if you're really looking for something that makes sense, take the rule (box->boxes, vax->vaxes, axe->axes) and extend it to ox->oxes, instead of extending the single exception to all other words that end in 'x'.
It makes sense that way because in English, plurals end in 's', except for the exceptions. It has nothing to do with being right or wrong. It's just the way it is. English, as a whole, isn't "wrong." Of course, that entire concept of a language being wrong sounds pretty clueless, but I won't get into that.
Now excuse me, because I have some faxen of pictures of foxen and lynxen to send out. I took the pictures some time around one of the equinoxen, but I can't remember which.
By the whole "oxen/boxen" logic, that "made sense." I suppose next we'll have to "extend" that exception to all plurals.
Want to modify the rulen of the entire English language? Just find a word that doesn't follow a standard English rule, and "extend" it to all other worden. From this day forward, any group of more than one moose shall be called meese (by extension of goose->geese)! (althought I admit that even moose->moose is itself an exception, too)
Ok, enough ranting for today. If you got it, good. If not, there's no sense trying to explain it further to a person who thinks something is right just because it "makes sense." Anaximander's theory of the universe made sense in his day, but it was still wrong.
(Of course, the use of boxen as a form of Jargon, as pointed out to me earlier, isn't quite as bad, as long as you know that it's not right, and use the correct form when appropriate.)
I disagree. The plural of words like box, vax, and axe is boxes, vaxes, and axes. ox->oxen is what you might call an exception to the rule. The English language is full of them.
Also, the jargon file isn't necessarily right about everything, of course. Believing that would be like the people who state Linus' opinions as fact, simply because he is Linus.
I was thinking that me or I are first person. First person is in reference to yourself, second person is in reference to the person or people you are talking to, and third person is in reference to somebody else.
Of course, some people could make the argument that y'all is singular second person, and all y'all is plural second person.
I'm not one of those people. I'll stick with you and y'all
Yeah, I guess I did leave that part of it out. I got so involved in the link of Frequently Asked Questions that I forgot about that part. It's kinda scary how much money they want you to spend on these books, reports, etc., when so much of the info is online. And, when you read the book, you're only getting one person's opinion (and a wrong one, in my opinion).
Well, that was certainly painful to read. Alot of the tips in there were things that are just good tips for life in general, and not Y2k specific. For instance, she said that if the power goes out, the kids can't play N64, so you should have some books and board games around. With all the recent talk on/. about people needing to be good parents, don't you think it makes sense that a good parent would have books and board games around for the kids anyway? There's nothing wrong with playing video games, of course.
Many of the tips were useful in *ANY* disaster situation. Some of them were even totally irrelevant to Y2k. Some computers decide they can't understand what year it is, and so suddenly you need a hammer and screwdriver? What the heck?!
What really bothered me is all the examples about "if there was an earthquake", or "if there was a flood". Yeah, ok, that involves actual physical things happening, like machines and buildings being destroyed, and nothing CAN work, even if it knows the correct year. People writing these things need to look at reality, do some research, and instead of pointing out all the worst things that could ever happen, look at *why* these things might happen, and what would happen as a result of them. Clueless FUDmeisters have this idea that the whole world will just stop at the stroke of midnight. The truth is that many Y2k problems have already been happening, with things like credit card expiration dates, and many things will not go wrong until well after January 1. But I us slashdotters already know all of this stuff.
So, what's my point here. Well, I'm sick of the media blowing this stuff out of proportion. They all talk about stocking up on everything so you can survive the week or two when things might not work (if even that long). They claim everything in the stores will magically disappear. They may be right, but it won't be because of the y2k problem. It will be because of them telling everybody that everything will be gone. So the media is causing the very problem they are predicting.
I think the whole moderate vs. comment thing is a pretty good idea. Yes, there are disadvantages to it, but there is also a good reason to implement it. If a person has a strong enough of an opinion on a particular topic that they will take the time to write a comment about it, it is likely that that person, if they were an abuser, would moderate comments that they agree with up, and comments they disagree with down. This would eliminate that from happening.However, if the topic is fairly new to you, and you want to learn more about it by reading the comments (I've done this), you are likely going to be more objective in your moderation, marking up the worthwhile comments.
Yes, this obviously doesn't apply to non-abusers who moderate objectively, but in any large-group situation you will find a small group of people who force restrictions to be put on the whole group.
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Seriously, though, they did respond fairly quickly. My mail logs show my message to them was at 16:23(US Central), and the reply back was at 19:34. I would assume that the time in there was spent researching to verify what I told them (as well as other paperwork-type stuff to make it all "official").
Uh, ok, so I just put the time in and encountered the lameness filter (too many caps). I guess this should be enough normal words to bypass that. Now back to your regularly scheduled guesses.
2001-03-23 14:34:56
The DB admin wanted to take a 2-week vacation during the summer, and I was looking for summer employment, so they hired me to take over during the vacation. I spent about the first three or four weeks getting up to speed, and was ready for it with time to spare. The whole thing went off without a hitch. The admin got her vacation, and I earned some money and experience.
'Mail' and 'email' are neither plural nor singular. They are uncountable nouns(is that the right term?), like water. You don't speak about how many mail, email, or water, you speak about how much.
Oh, I agree completely. It just bothered me that he claimed that nobody would even try to put a backdoor into open-source software, when it has been done. It can be dangerous to think that way.
It just shows that you can't believe that because there's somebody out there looking at the source that you'll always be safe. It's all too easy to download, compile, and install something without security concerns because you think that nobody will attempt to put backdoors in the software, or that even if they do try, somebody will catch it before you become a victim.
Is it just me? When I learned Pig Latin, I learned that words beginning with vowels should end in "way", not "yay". Itway ustjay eemssay atthay itway ollsray offway ethay onguetay away itbay easierway atthay ayway.
Maintenance
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Of
Open-Source
Software
Encountered
Desertion
And you can say that an unmaintained project has been "moosed".
Ok, so it's dumb, but a little brainstorming never hurt anyone.
Ok, I'm feeling a bit in the dark here about debuggers. I've never done anything useful with a debugger. I've tried playing around with gdb a bit, but haven't gotten anything useful from it. Yet, people here seem to see a debugger as an essential tool. Can somebody help me with this? What do you use a debugger for? (other that just "debugging"... duh)
d.net also cracked rc5-56.
I seem to remember a few years ago, when I was using MSIE (don't know which version), I was able to select links with the keyboard using the tab key. I think even buttons, checkboxes, and everything else was accessible with the keyboard as well. I haven't used IE for a long time now. Does anybody know if this feature still exists?
No, this isn't middle-clicking on a link in the Netscape window. This is selecting a URL in another program (perhaps an email client or something) and then middle clicking on the Netscape window. The URL you selected in the other program will now load in the current Netscape window.
I just learned a shortcut for this the other day. I found out that you can simply middle-click anywhere in the Netscape window and it'll paste it in the Location bar and bring you there right away. Talk about a hidden feature!
And Netscape menues will never be accessible via the keyboard. Arggh.
Well, here's another suprise I discovered just yestarday. I had my keyboard on my lap, and it slipped down and hit the bottom of my desk, hitting a few keys on the way. A netscape menu popped up! Trying a few keys in the general area where this happened, I discovered that the F10 key brings up the Netscape menus.
This is simply not true (well, sure, for some guns, but not in general). I've never held a gun who's sole purpose was to kill people. Every gun I've held has been made for the sole purpose of hunting (animals, not people), and that's exactly what I've used them for. If somebody wants to kill somebody, they'll find a way, with or without guns.
--
Gun control? Sure, I hold my gun firmly with both hands.
cat textfile | tr -d "\t\n\n" | tr "-" " " | tr "/" " " | tr -s " " | tr -d "!" | cut -f wordnumber -d " "
where textfile is the name of the file containing the text and wordnumber is the number of the word you're looking for. So, numbers do count as words, and in hyphenated words the hyphen is the same as a space.
As far as the PIII comment, I agree that nothing out there requires the horsepower of the PIII, but I think I've heard of sites out there (java applets perhaps?) that actually check to see if you're using a PIII, and won't let you run it if you aren't.
Second, if you're really looking for something that makes sense, take the rule (box->boxes, vax->vaxes, axe->axes) and extend it to ox->oxes, instead of extending the single exception to all other words that end in 'x'.
It makes sense that way because in English, plurals end in 's', except for the exceptions. It has nothing to do with being right or wrong. It's just the way it is. English, as a whole, isn't "wrong." Of course, that entire concept of a language being wrong sounds pretty clueless, but I won't get into that.
Now excuse me, because I have some faxen of pictures of foxen and lynxen to send out. I took the pictures some time around one of the equinoxen, but I can't remember which.
By the whole "oxen/boxen" logic, that "made sense." I suppose next we'll have to "extend" that exception to all plurals.
Want to modify the rulen of the entire English language? Just find a word that doesn't follow a standard English rule, and "extend" it to all other worden. From this day forward, any group of more than one moose shall be called meese (by extension of goose->geese)! (althought I admit that even moose->moose is itself an exception, too)
Ok, enough ranting for today. If you got it, good. If not, there's no sense trying to explain it further to a person who thinks something is right just because it "makes sense." Anaximander's theory of the universe made sense in his day, but it was still wrong.
(Of course, the use of boxen as a form of Jargon, as pointed out to me earlier, isn't quite as bad, as long as you know that it's not right, and use the correct form when appropriate.)
I stand corrected. Thanks. :-)
Also, the jargon file isn't necessarily right about everything, of course. Believing that would be like the people who state Linus' opinions as fact, simply because he is Linus.
Of course, some people could make the argument that y'all is singular second person, and all y'all is plural second person.
I'm not one of those people. I'll stick with you and y'all
Yeah, I guess I did leave that part of it out. I got so involved in the link of Frequently Asked Questions that I forgot about that part. It's kinda scary how much money they want you to spend on these books, reports, etc., when so much of the info is online. And, when you read the book, you're only getting one person's opinion (and a wrong one, in my opinion).
Well, that was certainly painful to read. Alot of the tips in there were things that are just good tips for life in general, and not Y2k specific. For instance, she said that if the power goes out, the kids can't play N64, so you should have some books and board games around. With all the recent talk on /. about people needing to be good parents, don't you think it makes sense that a good parent would have books and board games around for the kids anyway? There's nothing wrong with playing video games, of course.
Many of the tips were useful in *ANY* disaster situation. Some of them were even totally irrelevant to Y2k. Some computers decide they can't understand what year it is, and so suddenly you need a hammer and screwdriver? What the heck?!
What really bothered me is all the examples about "if there was an earthquake", or "if there was a flood". Yeah, ok, that involves actual physical things happening, like machines and buildings being destroyed, and nothing CAN work, even if it knows the correct year. People writing these things need to look at reality, do some research, and instead of pointing out all the worst things that could ever happen, look at *why* these things might happen, and what would happen as a result of them. Clueless FUDmeisters have this idea that the whole world will just stop at the stroke of midnight. The truth is that many Y2k problems have already been happening, with things like credit card expiration dates, and many things will not go wrong until well after January 1. But I us slashdotters already know all of this stuff.
So, what's my point here. Well, I'm sick of the media blowing this stuff out of proportion. They all talk about stocking up on everything so you can survive the week or two when things might not work (if even that long). They claim everything in the stores will magically disappear. They may be right, but it won't be because of the y2k problem. It will be because of them telling everybody that everything will be gone. So the media is causing the very problem they are predicting.
Well, I'm babbling now. Time to shut up.
I believe "Human Translation" meant translated by a human, and not by babelfish. :-)
Try the http link instead of the ftp link given.
I think the whole moderate vs. comment thing is a pretty good idea. Yes, there are disadvantages to it, but there is also a good reason to implement it. If a person has a strong enough of an opinion on a particular topic that they will take the time to write a comment about it, it is likely that that person, if they were an abuser, would moderate comments that they agree with up, and comments they disagree with down. This would eliminate that from happening.However, if the topic is fairly new to you, and you want to learn more about it by reading the comments (I've done this), you are likely going to be more objective in your moderation, marking up the worthwhile comments.
Yes, this obviously doesn't apply to non-abusers who moderate objectively, but in any large-group situation you will find a small group of people who force restrictions to be put on the whole group.