I spent significant time yesterday, concerned that recent firewall and DNS changes had had unintended side effects: my inbound mail volume dropped by about 70% around 16:30 eastern.
Thank God the washingtonpost.com guys posted to netnews (almost) right away.
It's like comparing a Model T -- which can collapse and fit into your wallet -- with a Lincoln Navigator.
Sure, you can use either of 'em to commute to work. But you're unlikely to have the Lincoln with you at all times, and similarly, you're unlikely to want to spend all day driving the Ford.
> Given the extremely rudimentary functionality of Google Apps, I can't for the life of > me figure out how there's even a discussion around it's potential use in business.
I use it all the time to read Word documents that are e-mailed to me, when I'm on a non-Windows machine (no wordpad.exe) and I don't feel like downloading OOo just to read a three-page memo.
The fact that my email all arrives by Gmail makes this incredibly convenient.
I don't know if you knew this or not, but that's not even a tongue-in-cheek example -- milk powder can be used in polymerase chain reactions (PCR), and is almost certainly the protein source of choice for home molecular biologists.
A more efficient method would be to covertly dig a chamber under a public urinal and pipe the fluid into a drum filled with earth and provided with holes in the bottom to let the bacterially processed nitrate solution drop into an evaporating pan. Late at night you could then use the hot-air hand dryer in the unoccupied men's or ladies room to quickly remove the water.
Um, no it doesn't. It's just more sensitive, and can detect a wider range of local oscillator frequencies. It also has an option for an antenna with more gain.
Actually, UUCP may have actually been helpful to Usenet.
If you know nobody (non-local) is going to read your article for 6 hours, and it'll be a day or two before you get an answer back -- you're a lot more likely to keep article quality high, and less likely to troll. The latter being especially true for the TV generation.
One way to reset your terminal -- particularly when reset isn't available -- is hilarious. "more/bin/ls" -- more then resets the terminal charset to ask you if you really want to view a binary file. You say "no", and you're back to normal.
This doesn't work on all unices, and definately relies on more being more and not less.
In that same vein --... | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | tail
will give you the top 10 of whatever-it-is you're listing (in your case, unique IPs) ordered by appearance, with appearance count the first column in the output.
That's a great trick for when you're really, really close to exhausting VM and can't spawn any real programs (like ps) but can still issue the odd kill as programs fork and die:
cd/proc echo *
(copy high-numbered PIDs)
kill (paste)...and cross your fingers you didn't just nuke something really important. Obviously, not recommended outside the lab!
nroff an macros might not be all that readable, but you can still grep 'em. That's how _I_ found stuff when I didn't know the magic incantation, back in the dark days before google. (Although, altavista used to wildcard searches, THAT was handy!)
I don't know anything about info, that doesn't come with UNIX. But I'll bet info pages are pretty greppable too.
You missed one thing -- the C64 is a hardware hacker's dream. There is NOTHING simpler to interface with out there in the real world than the C64's user port.
Assuming your real world revolves around unclocked TTL logic.
Well, I guess the other Commodore machines with user ports are about as easy.
Additionally, Commodore BASIC _did_ tokenize input at data entry time.
That's how the "shortcut" keywords worked -- PRINT's shortcut was P-shift-R (graphical underscore-like character), and not uncoincidentally, that was also the token for the PRINT statement.
I'm not sure the grandparent is, in fact, talking about CBM BASIC 2.0.:)
(which, don't get me wrong, sucked -- but it's not like AppleSoft BASIC was any better. Or Timex-Sinclair BASIC. Let's see. What BASIC is he referring to that has data structures and existed on home computers in 1982?)
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Wow, that's pretty sad. 12oz pints?!
The defacto-standard in Canada is that beer comes in Imperial pints (20oz) while fuel economy is discussed in US gallons.
Which really makes "how many pints in a gallon" especially confusing to the metric-raised.
Sounds about right.
I spent significant time yesterday, concerned that recent firewall and DNS changes had had unintended side effects: my inbound mail volume dropped by about 70% around 16:30 eastern.
Thank God the washingtonpost.com guys posted to netnews (almost) right away.
> convert all annoyance files to pdf form and read it with xpd
How do you convert word files to pdf without an office application? (also without installing software, since I frequently others' machines)
I'll chip in with mine:
It's like comparing a Model T -- which can collapse and fit into your wallet -- with a Lincoln Navigator.
Sure, you can use either of 'em to commute to work. But you're unlikely to have the Lincoln with you at all times, and similarly, you're unlikely to want to spend all day driving the Ford.
> Given the extremely rudimentary functionality of Google Apps, I can't for the life of
> me figure out how there's even a discussion around it's potential use in business.
I use it all the time to read Word documents that are e-mailed to me, when I'm on a non-Windows machine (no wordpad.exe) and I don't feel like downloading OOo just to read a three-page memo.
The fact that my email all arrives by Gmail makes this incredibly convenient.
I don't know if you knew this or not, but that's not even a tongue-in-cheek example -- milk powder can be used in polymerase chain reactions (PCR), and is almost certainly the protein source of choice for home molecular biologists.
http://yarchive.net/explosives/nitrates.html
Did he make it from iodized table salt?
Um, no it doesn't. It's just more sensitive, and can detect a wider range of local oscillator frequencies. It also has an option for an antenna with more gain.
There were beta release of Windows 98 in 1995?
I figured the latest beta in '95 would have been for OSR-B
Ha.
The same thing crossed my mind while writing that post!
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I actually use that file as a source for a regexp list I use with egrep -f.
I wget and sed it, then use it.
Messed me up a few months ago when the file format changed. *grumble*
Actually, UUCP may have actually been helpful to Usenet.
If you know nobody (non-local) is going to read your article for 6 hours, and it'll be a day or two before you get an answer back -- you're a lot more likely to keep article quality high, and less likely to troll. The latter being especially true for the TV generation.
Wow, you pretty much described my feelings in a nutshell.
I wonder if my years-old account still exits?
Of course. Using backticks would require you to be able to fork and spawn subshell.
Real nerds use tools as they are appropriate and to get the job done. Not for silly elitist reasons.
One way to reset your terminal -- particularly when reset isn't available -- is hilarious. "more /bin/ls" -- more then resets the terminal charset to ask you if you really want to view a binary file. You say "no", and you're back to normal.
This doesn't work on all unices, and definately relies on more being more and not less.
In that same vein -- ... | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | tail
will give you the top 10 of whatever-it-is you're listing (in your case, unique IPs) ordered by appearance, with appearance count the first column in the output.
Hey, that's a good one! Thanks!
That's a great trick for when you're really, really close to exhausting VM and can't spawn any real programs (like ps) but can still issue the odd kill as programs fork and die:
cd /proc
echo *
(copy high-numbered PIDs)
kill (paste) ...and cross your fingers you didn't just nuke something really important. Obviously, not recommended outside the lab!
Why?
nroff an macros might not be all that readable, but you can still grep 'em. That's how _I_ found stuff when I didn't know the magic incantation, back in the dark days before google. (Although, altavista used to wildcard searches, THAT was handy!)
I don't know anything about info, that doesn't come with UNIX. But I'll bet info pages are pretty greppable too.
Hell, I think it's probably a GNU extension, because it's still not in Solaris.
I think rgrep appeared around BSD 4.4, though.
Oh well. I still surprise people with backticks. *sigh*
You missed one thing -- the C64 is a hardware hacker's dream. There is NOTHING simpler to interface with out there in the real world than the C64's user port.
Assuming your real world revolves around unclocked TTL logic.
Well, I guess the other Commodore machines with user ports are about as easy.
Additionally, Commodore BASIC _did_ tokenize input at data entry time.
That's how the "shortcut" keywords worked -- PRINT's shortcut was P-shift-R (graphical underscore-like character), and not uncoincidentally, that was also the token for the PRINT statement.
I'm not sure the grandparent is, in fact, talking about CBM BASIC 2.0. :)
(which, don't get me wrong, sucked -- but it's not like AppleSoft BASIC was any better. Or Timex-Sinclair BASIC. Let's see. What BASIC is he referring to that has data structures and existed on home computers in 1982?)
Okay, who are you, and how did you co-opt my life?