> Also - why use a tanker ship? Couldn't you construct a giant bag of water and just drag it with a tug-like vessel?
Far too risky. You saw what happened when the Exxon Valdez ran aground. Can you imagine what would happen if your giant bag of water got snagged on a big sea branch??!
Can this new audio stuff be used to stream stuff in the iTunes folder on my Mac on over to my Airport Express seamlessly?
I'm about ready to put WINE and iTunes 7.2 on my wife's laptop just to keep her happy, and that seems patently ridiculous.
The other option is to buy another iPod touch so we can use it as a remote control, but that seems stupid, too.
I should be able to, at least, NFS mount my iTunes folder and send it to the living room speakers. Without interfering with iTunes wanting to use those same speakers later.
They're Neil's lyrics -- and why would he need to revise them? She's still dead on the ground.
And this Terry fellow could very well be described as a Tin Soldier....that said, I'm still not sure what the President's orgasms had to do with that shooting.
A little bit of legislation would go a long way here.
They need to grant the fire department the right to bill you -- by a placing a lien on your property -- for fighting a fire on your property if you didn't pay the fee.
To keep things fair, homeowners could be allowed to opt out of "save my home" protection and just go with "don't spread to others" protection.
I have found that activities like yard work (that doesn't vibrate your hands), stacking firewood, and framing carpentry seem to really help my RSI (median nerve damage).
I think there's something to be said for living "old school" during the weekends when you're stuck in an office 5 days a week.
A couple weeks off in the summer and at Christmas also help to reset my baseline.
Sun's Solstice Disk Suite GUI used to generate scripts for the actions you were trying to take. The scripts were perfectly readable.
It's not like there's going to be any flow control in a CLI-automating-GUI tool. It's just going to emit commands which represent the actions you're taking.
This is great way to write a GUI, and a fine way to learn the ins and outs of a system.
I have yet to see the helmet that fits properly that will allow me to use any kind of an earbud without putting me in total, excrutiating pain.
The earphones used for the HJC chatterbox aren't too bad, although I find that they aren't really loud enough to compete with my earbuds.
I'm hoping to try one of those native bluetooth helmets in the near future. Funny name... Headcase? I don't know how good their crash protection, is, though.
Free software is NOT about working for free; it's about users having the freedom to hack on the code they use.
Diss Apple's model all you want, it's very anti-free-as-in-freedom, but if you really think it's reasonable to expect developers to work for free, then you need to get your head out of your ass.
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Thanks for the tips.
I too develop configuration scripts by hand, but frankly have not cross-compiled anything in over a decade. I've been wondering how the heck to support cross-compiling cleanly, and from your laundry list, it looks like I'm pretty close already -- our best practices jibe pretty well.
Now if only you could tell me how to get upstream packagers to stop asking me to convert a *very* complicated build to autoconf, I'd be even more grateful.:D
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You can write a GNU make makefile which replaces the implicit rules with rules that use CL.EXE and so on to compile binaries, then run the whole shootin' match in Cygwin. You can find tips for your implicit rules by reading the nmake files that ship with Visual C.
(Yes, I have done this)
BTW, if you're running Firefox on Win32, it was built with Visual C++, GNU make, and autotools running under mingw. Google "mozilla build"
> Call 911 and tell them you have an under cover unit requesting pullover.
That is *extremely* difficult to do safely on a motorcycle.
Riding with only one hand on the controls is impractical - either you can't use the throttle or your clutch - and a proper helmet makes hearing the conversation difficult at best.
I use incandescent light bulbs in a cabinet in my garage to keep my aerosols from freezing (a 50W and a 60W bulb - redundant and thermostatically controlled).
What the heck am I supposed to do when I can't buy incandescent bulbs anymore? I have yet to find any kind of heater that is safe to use in such an enclosed space, but the main room heat costs a fortune to run (2800W with a 50/50 duty cycle all winter long for a room I use 2 hours a week is not sane).
I also have a separately-switched incandescent lamp in that room for days when the fluorescent tubes just won't fire up because it's so damn cold. Any what about my security lights? They are supposed to come on instantly, but I have yet to see an instant-on outdoor CFL that works at -25.
I use CFLs and FL tubes everywhere they are appropriate, but frankly, taking away the incandescents that I need is just plain stupid.
> And since all your important email is encrypted, your passwords are safe
So, let me get this straight -- your proposal to fix this is to get every service on the internet that has a password-recovery button to encrypt the e-mail with GPG before sending it to gmail?
The likelihood of achieving that is about 1 over infinity.
Then, nevermind that you can't really deploy this type of solution as a webmail offering without either a browser plug-in or giving google your private key. So your solution also involves creating a browser plug-in for every browser on the market that people need to install before using Gmail.
Golly. It would probably be easier to just re-invent email.
Really old, really crappy lines might have had a problem with DTMF signalling, but then those lines would be sub-par for any other application, too. Including clear voice calls.
It's much more likely that the line at the CO end had to be moved from a 50-year-old piece of junk to much better gear in another cabinet.
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> If I was Canadian, I would happily say that I was from America, and let people interpret
> it however they like.
I guess that's why you advertise your non-vegetarian diet by telling your friends you are a murderer?
> Also - why use a tanker ship? Couldn't you construct a giant bag of water and just drag it with a tug-like vessel?
Far too risky. You saw what happened when the Exxon Valdez ran aground. Can you imagine what would happen if your giant bag of water got snagged on a big sea branch??!
Can this new audio stuff be used to stream stuff in the iTunes folder on my Mac on over to my Airport Express seamlessly?
I'm about ready to put WINE and iTunes 7.2 on my wife's laptop just to keep her happy, and that seems patently ridiculous.
The other option is to buy another iPod touch so we can use it as a remote control, but that seems stupid, too.
I should be able to, at least, NFS mount my iTunes folder and send it to the living room speakers. Without interfering with iTunes wanting to use those same speakers later.
> Hooray for 64-bit integers, in any event.
Using unsigned integers (or negative indexes) would have doubled the lifetime of the database without increasing storage overhead.
They're Neil's lyrics -- and why would he need to revise them? She's still dead on the ground.
And this Terry fellow could very well be described as a Tin Soldier. ...that said, I'm still not sure what the President's orgasms had to do with that shooting.
A little bit of legislation would go a long way here.
They need to grant the fire department the right to bill you -- by a placing a lien on your property -- for fighting a fire on your property if you didn't pay the fee.
To keep things fair, homeowners could be allowed to opt out of "save my home" protection and just go with "don't spread to others" protection.
I have found that activities like yard work (that doesn't vibrate your hands), stacking firewood, and framing carpentry seem to really help my RSI (median nerve damage).
I think there's something to be said for living "old school" during the weekends when you're stuck in an office 5 days a week.
A couple weeks off in the summer and at Christmas also help to reset my baseline.
The ulnar nerve doesn't run through the carpal tunnel, and affects different fingers than the median nerve (which does).
Your docs missed some really basic shit, I hope you stick with the current guy!
> Also its not like getting the output of find or ls in CSV is easy
ls > dirlist.csv
Sun's Solstice Disk Suite GUI used to generate scripts for the actions you were trying to take. The scripts were perfectly readable.
It's not like there's going to be any flow control in a CLI-automating-GUI tool. It's just going to emit commands which represent the actions you're taking.
This is great way to write a GUI, and a fine way to learn the ins and outs of a system.
I have yet to see the helmet that fits properly that will allow me to use any kind of an earbud without putting me in total, excrutiating pain.
The earphones used for the HJC chatterbox aren't too bad, although I find that they aren't really loud enough to compete with my earbuds.
I'm hoping to try one of those native bluetooth helmets in the near future. Funny name... Headcase? I don't know how good their crash protection, is, though.
Free software is NOT about working for free; it's about users having the freedom to hack on the code they use.
Diss Apple's model all you want, it's very anti-free-as-in-freedom, but if you really think it's reasonable to expect developers to work for free, then you need to get your head out of your ass.
Thanks for the tips.
I too develop configuration scripts by hand, but frankly have not cross-compiled anything in over a decade. I've been wondering how the heck to support cross-compiling cleanly, and from your laundry list, it looks like I'm pretty close already -- our best practices jibe pretty well.
Now if only you could tell me how to get upstream packagers to stop asking me to convert a *very* complicated build to autoconf, I'd be even more grateful. :D
You can write a GNU make makefile which replaces the implicit rules with rules that use CL.EXE and so on to compile binaries, then run the whole shootin' match in Cygwin. You can find tips for your implicit rules by reading the nmake files that ship with Visual C.
(Yes, I have done this)
BTW, if you're running Firefox on Win32, it was built with Visual C++, GNU make, and autotools running under mingw. Google "mozilla build"
> Call 911 and tell them you have an under cover unit requesting pullover.
That is *extremely* difficult to do safely on a motorcycle.
Riding with only one hand on the controls is impractical - either you can't use the throttle or your clutch - and a proper helmet makes hearing the conversation difficult at best.
...goes something like this:
I use incandescent light bulbs in a cabinet in my garage to keep my aerosols from freezing (a 50W and a 60W bulb - redundant and thermostatically controlled).
What the heck am I supposed to do when I can't buy incandescent bulbs anymore? I have yet to find any kind of heater that is safe to use in such an enclosed space, but the main room heat costs a fortune to run (2800W with a 50/50 duty cycle all winter long for a room I use 2 hours a week is not sane).
I also have a separately-switched incandescent lamp in that room for days when the fluorescent tubes just won't fire up because it's so damn cold. Any what about my security lights? They are supposed to come on instantly, but I have yet to see an instant-on outdoor CFL that works at -25.
I use CFLs and FL tubes everywhere they are appropriate, but frankly, taking away the incandescents that I need is just plain stupid.
> And since all your important email is encrypted, your passwords are safe
So, let me get this straight -- your proposal to fix this is to get every service on the internet that has a password-recovery button to encrypt the e-mail with GPG before sending it to gmail?
The likelihood of achieving that is about 1 over infinity.
Then, nevermind that you can't really deploy this type of solution as a webmail offering without either a browser plug-in or giving google your private key. So your solution also involves creating a browser plug-in for every browser on the market that people need to install before using Gmail.
Golly. It would probably be easier to just re-invent email.
I guess PARC's research into Hypertext wasn't worth mentioning?
> Rubberhose (Pronounced Marutukku)
How did I know this was going to be a link to open-source software?!!
> Gotta love slashdot for posts like yours.
Yeah, uh, me too. Thanks masters dude.
I tried that, but it keeps running out of disk space.
> I wonder what real 4g will be called in the us.. Epic 4G, no wait...
Duke Nuke'em 4-FR-G
Really old, really crappy lines might have had a problem with DTMF signalling, but then those lines would be sub-par for any other application, too. Including clear voice calls.
It's much more likely that the line at the CO end had to be moved from a 50-year-old piece of junk to much better gear in another cabinet.
Yes, but you can blind drinking methanol. You're better converting it to ethanol, and shipping it to Ireland.