I'm in the same boat, I hung the router on a floor joist. I also run Hotspot software (a la internet cafe) and just type in a password for whatever guest happens to be there (frequent guests just get their own account).
The Times machines were not clones, they were the real-deal, some kind of branding partnership as near as I can remember. My first machine was a Timex-Sinclair 1000, which was really a rebadged ZX-81 with an extra K of RAM.
> The first platform that enjoyed equal popularity in both Continents was the Amiga I think...
I don't know about your neck of woods, but every Commodore fan here WANTED an Amiga, but nobody bought 'em, 'cause the PC clones were about the same price (or cheaper if you were resourceful) and far more useful in terms of readily available warez.
POSIX.1, the specification, says you need to support X list of errors, and these are their names.
POSIX.1 compliance was a goal of Linux. If you RTFA carefully (or TFS) you'll note that Linus used different values for those same constants. Which, BTW, is a bone-headed move in terms of compatibility with UNIX but still within the letter of the specification. So clearly he wasn't using one as a crib sheet for the other.
This is basically like, Linus wanted to bake some cookies, so he looked at the recipe for his Mom's cookies and made a grocery list. Now his Aunt Martha has her panties in a knot because she thinks Linus stole her grocery list, because it has the same ingredients in it, because Linus' grandmother is the one who taught both his mom and his aunt how to bake chocolate chip cookies. And this is before Martha even bothers to notice that Linux is buying butterscotch chips and way too much baking soda.
I don't know why everybody wants phones so bad. I hate phones, but I love mobile devices.
What I want is a mobile device about the size of a credit card and as thick as a CD jewel case. You unfold it two or four times (depending on how much screen real estate you need ATM), and rubber keys magically inflate to give it some tactile feedback goodness.
Inside this device a radio for every cellular network on the continent, and the ability to go looking for open wifi.
It can run a full embedded browser (for gmail) and ssh. The screen resolution is around 72 dpi. Oh, and it has a plug for a USB keyboard.
Finally, the battery lasts for a month in standby mode, or 12 hours of actual use.
And the device costs less than $500 with monthly plans for unlimited use in the in the $100 range.
Can you tell me, do you see a difference in those numbers? You see,.035 billion, that's 35 one-thousandths of a billion. Is that your price? Because that's price I was quoted on the phone. I'd be happy to pay that price.
> However, it would seem reasonable (from what I understand) for you to > automatize things a bit more and script Gnuplot/Matplotlib/whatever
You understand [slightly] incorrectly. 90% of the time when I'm making a graph (actually, perhaps much more than 90% of the time), it's a one-off graph derived from ad-hoc analysis, for my eyes only. I graph not to present or share information, but to help me understand problems, especially when understand can only be gleaned by inputting large amounts of seemingly random data into my brain and finding patterns.
Ad-hoc analysis in terms of log/trace/etc extraction and so-forth is trivial for someone like me who counts shell, sed, grep, uniq and sort among his closest friends (and has done so for nigh on two decades).
While it is certainly possible for me to learn a dedicated graphing package, or even something like matlab to graph this data... It REALLY is easier to use excel to just snake the data in from a CSV or (column-width file, or space-delimited file...), highlight the rows and generate six or eight different views in about a minute, including the possibility of best-fit lines, log axes, etc.
So -- I'm definately no MS fan boy -- but Excel really is a pretty good package; it's been paid for on my Windows desktop for ten years and it works well for me. I also have a decade of practice using it. What I really take issue with is the GP claiming that excel is good for nothing because there are special-purpose and/or OSS packages out there which do similar things. That's crap.
This is funny, I'm seeing SQLite for the first time (I've heard of it, but not looked at it..) after searching for an Oracle replacement.
So far, I've looked at MySQL (its row-locking makes me feel a little snaky) and PostgresQL (looks like it will work just fine, but has a large ramp-time).
SQLite looks like it was almost written for me.
So, what's wrong with it. I'm serious, why aren't more people using it? Or are they just not a vocal group?
I use databases for INSERT, SELECT [row].. FOR UPDATE, SELECT via index, um, that's about it 99% of the time. Oh, and sequences. The other thing I look for is that it's not going to vomit if the kernel panics halfway through a write and can do hot backups or full exports simply. And that a million rows isn't considered overly large. And that it's about as fast as Oracle 8 [or faster] doing INSERTs, UPDATEs, and SELECTs.
*Reading* Hmmm. No support for certain kinds of joins, that's okay, I don't do joins at all in the product I'm thinking of.. Hmm. No support for foreign key constaints, that's cool, I don't use 'em. Triggers are borked, I don't care. Little support for alter table, that's okay, my DB abstraction layer makes ALTER TABLE post-dev painful anyhow. No nested transactions, that's okay, my db layer doesn't support that either (currently use OCI autocommit-off...commit paradigm exclusively). You don't support writing to views... Okay, I always thought writing to views was stupid anyhow.. Grant and Revoke are meaningless to me also.
Wow.
If your product stacks up as well as your home page suggests, I'll definately be evaluating it for commercial use. Endian-proof files is nice, as we are also migrating some of our platform from sparc to x86.
So, public domain, huh? That "license" is compatible with my enterprise; the primary key being that it's written in C and I get the source code.
Can I buy support and/or consultation services? (When I say "consultation", I don't mean "hold my hand", I mean "talk to me on the phone for a few minutes while knowing everything there is to know about the product").
Oh, now this is interesting.. You don't support row-level locking? That may be why SQLite wasn't drawn to my attention in the first place... I wonder if there is a workable work around in my environment; how do I handle the contrived case of:
SELECT a FROM mytable WHERE x=y; {let b = a + 1} INSERT INTO mytable SET a = b;
Okay, this is getting off topic. But now I think I know what I'm going to be doing next month...
What the hell is wrong with using Excel to do graphing?
I regularly generate reasonably complex CSV files with *nix tools, usually out of prof, truss, dtrace or syslog output. A couple of quick clicks in excel, up pops a graph which contains useful visual information. Why, just the other day I solved a multi-process race condition with a floating bar chart derived from a log file...
Excel is really great for that sort of stuff, lots of built-in graph types you can quickly try, it understands things like dates and floats, and if you wind up with something really cool you can take a few more minutes to add some labels and colours and bang it into a PDF.
Compared to what.. What other tool allow that? Hmm. I'm thinking here. Whatever tool that might be, it sure as hell isn't installed on my desktop and I don't know how to use it.
So, in your magic neverland where Excel is not the right solution.. What is? And why should I spend time+money on it, when Excel already does what I want it to?
If you wrote "equation = x y", then of course nothing good will happen, equation is effective a bool and will get toString()'d during concatenation.
However, most of your examples don't have squat to do with the core language, and everything to do with the DOM. Or what *you* think is a useful way to express an idea.
Just because it's possible to manipulate the DOM to insert an event listener doesn't mean that it's practical. Especially in the case when your attaching say events to HTML elements that run javascript library code. In that case, you're developing an HTML document, use the HTML attribute to key the event. Writing a one-line script to modify the DOM thereafter is not only confusing, it is retarded.
And, for the record, I'm a big fan of JavaScript, and use it quite extensively outside the browser; often when I need to deal with either large lists of things or things with lots of properties. My preferred interpreter is NJS, and I have used it to implement arbitrary object persistence, completely in JavasScript, along with several other medium-sized utility libraries, one of which contains a powerful XML DOM subset and event-triggering XML subset parser without DTD validation or entities.
Your problem is that you're a "my way or the highway" "I'm better than you are zealot". Get your head out of your ass.
I thought it was going to about the shapes of letters and such on mobile phones and so forth.
You know, the benefits of square vs. rectangular pixels when it comes to font readability on small screens, why that funny symbol means radio signal strength, that sort of thing.
They will continue to design new viruses at a faster rate than Norton, McAfee and Grisoft combined!
Of course, the assumption here is that Microsoft's virus will be able to block the viruses they write. Sorta basic for a Virus Company, but we all know how good MS is at closing the loop..
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I'm in the same boat, I hung the router on a floor joist. I also run Hotspot software (a la internet cafe) and just type in a password for whatever guest happens to be there (frequent guests just get their own account).
> Then why do they typically specify "earned degrees" in the position announcements?
It's a polite way of saying "Don't bother applying if your degree was signed by Sally Struthers".
The Times machines were not clones, they were the real-deal, some kind of branding partnership as near as I can remember. My first machine was a Timex-Sinclair 1000, which was really a rebadged ZX-81 with an extra K of RAM.
> The first platform that enjoyed equal popularity in both Continents was the Amiga I think...
I don't know about your neck of woods, but every Commodore fan here WANTED an Amiga, but nobody bought 'em, 'cause the PC clones were about the same price (or cheaper if you were resourceful) and far more useful in terms of readily available warez.
My dad had an old VW with a similar mod; if you took the key out, you could still drive the car, but you couldn't turn it off.
Those crazy Germans!
Any idea if they still do that mod that allows the car to roll forward in park (until it stops) without damaging the transmission?
Okay, the errno.h file is a list of errors.
POSIX.1, the specification, says you need to support X list of errors, and these are their names.
POSIX.1 compliance was a goal of Linux. If you RTFA carefully (or TFS) you'll note that Linus used different values for those same constants. Which, BTW, is a bone-headed move in terms of compatibility with UNIX but still within the letter of the specification. So clearly he wasn't using one as a crib sheet for the other.
This is basically like, Linus wanted to bake some cookies, so he looked at the recipe for his Mom's cookies and made a grocery list. Now his Aunt Martha has her panties in a knot because she thinks Linus stole her grocery list, because it has the same ingredients in it, because Linus' grandmother is the one who taught both his mom and his aunt how to bake chocolate chip cookies. And this is before Martha even bothers to notice that Linux is buying butterscotch chips and way too much baking soda.
How about... Kawasaki making bridges, and Nokia making rubber boots?
Oh yes, and Daewoo making cars!
d'ya think he drinks a lot of grapefruit juice??
> Wow. And I suppose you want a pony too.
You're a lot more likely to get a pony if you want one, and ask for one, than if you remain silent and keep riding the family dog.
I call BS on your French example. When I lived in Quebec, we either called 'em "les amércains" or "les idiots au sud".
> in every other place they teach that America is a continent
In Canada, I was taught that "the Americas" is the union of two continents; North and South America.
I don't know why everybody wants phones so bad. I hate phones, but I love mobile devices.
What I want is a mobile device about the size of a credit card and as thick as a CD jewel case. You unfold it two or four times (depending on how much screen real estate you need ATM), and rubber keys magically inflate to give it some tactile feedback goodness.
Inside this device a radio for every cellular network on the continent, and the ability to go looking for open wifi.
It can run a full embedded browser (for gmail) and ssh. The screen resolution is around 72 dpi. Oh, and it has a plug for a USB keyboard.
Finally, the battery lasts for a month in standby mode, or 12 hours of actual use.
And the device costs less than $500 with monthly plans for unlimited use in the in the $100 range.
.035 billion and 35 billion.
.035 billion, that's 35 one-thousandths of a billion. Is that your price? Because that's price I was quoted on the phone. I'd be happy to pay that price.
Can you tell me, do you see a difference in those numbers? You see,
Wow, I had never before considered that.
You must be absolutely correct. It is the only explanation which fits the facts.
Thanks.
You change your MAC on the 12th minute of every hour?
Interesting response -- thanks!
:)
SQLite isn't the drop-in replacement that I want, then -- but is definately a good fit for certain specialized tasks I have in mind.
*hmmm*
Maybe going big-powerful RDBMS in 1999 wasn't such a shit-hot idea. It WAS the path of least resistance, though...
> However, it would seem reasonable (from what I understand) for you to
> automatize things a bit more and script Gnuplot/Matplotlib/whatever
You understand [slightly] incorrectly. 90% of the time when I'm making a graph (actually, perhaps much more than 90% of the time), it's a one-off graph derived from ad-hoc analysis, for my eyes only. I graph not to present or share information, but to help me understand problems, especially when understand can only be gleaned by inputting large amounts of seemingly random data into my brain and finding patterns.
Ad-hoc analysis in terms of log/trace/etc extraction and so-forth is trivial for someone like me who counts shell, sed, grep, uniq and sort among his closest friends (and has done so for nigh on two decades).
While it is certainly possible for me to learn a dedicated graphing package, or even something like matlab to graph this data... It REALLY is easier to use excel to just snake the data in from a CSV or (column-width file, or space-delimited file...), highlight the rows and generate six or eight different views in about a minute, including the possibility of best-fit lines, log axes, etc.
So -- I'm definately no MS fan boy -- but Excel really is a pretty good package; it's been paid for on my Windows desktop for ten years and it works well for me. I also have a decade of practice using it. What I really take issue with is the GP claiming that excel is good for nothing because there are special-purpose and/or OSS packages out there which do similar things. That's crap.
This is funny, I'm seeing SQLite for the first time (I've heard of it, but not looked at it..) after searching for an Oracle replacement.
.. FOR UPDATE, SELECT via index, um, that's about it 99% of the time. Oh, and sequences. The other thing I look for is that it's not going to vomit if the kernel panics halfway through a write and can do hot backups or full exports simply. And that a million rows isn't considered overly large. And that it's about as fast as Oracle 8 [or faster] doing INSERTs, UPDATEs, and SELECTs.
So far, I've looked at MySQL (its row-locking makes me feel a little snaky) and PostgresQL (looks like it will work just fine, but has a large ramp-time).
SQLite looks like it was almost written for me.
So, what's wrong with it. I'm serious, why aren't more people using it? Or are they just not a vocal group?
I use databases for INSERT, SELECT [row]
*Reading* Hmmm. No support for certain kinds of joins, that's okay, I don't do joins at all in the product I'm thinking of.. Hmm. No support for foreign key constaints, that's cool, I don't use 'em. Triggers are borked, I don't care. Little support for alter table, that's okay, my DB abstraction layer makes ALTER TABLE post-dev painful anyhow. No nested transactions, that's okay, my db layer doesn't support that either (currently use OCI autocommit-off...commit paradigm exclusively). You don't support writing to views... Okay, I always thought writing to views was stupid anyhow.. Grant and Revoke are meaningless to me also.
Wow.
If your product stacks up as well as your home page suggests, I'll definately be evaluating it for commercial use. Endian-proof files is nice, as we are also migrating some of our platform from sparc to x86.
So, public domain, huh? That "license" is compatible with my enterprise; the primary key being that it's written in C and I get the source code.
Can I buy support and/or consultation services? (When I say "consultation", I don't mean "hold my hand", I mean "talk to me on the phone for a few minutes while knowing everything there is to know about the product").
Oh, now this is interesting.. You don't support row-level locking? That may be why SQLite wasn't drawn to my attention in the first place... I wonder if there is a workable work around in my environment; how do I handle the contrived case of:
SELECT a FROM mytable WHERE x=y;
{let b = a + 1}
INSERT INTO mytable SET a = b;
Okay, this is getting off topic. But now I think I know what I'm going to be doing next month...
What the hell is wrong with using Excel to do graphing?
I regularly generate reasonably complex CSV files with *nix tools, usually out of prof, truss, dtrace or syslog output. A couple of quick clicks in excel, up pops a graph which contains useful visual information. Why, just the other day I solved a multi-process race condition with a floating bar chart derived from a log file...
Excel is really great for that sort of stuff, lots of built-in graph types you can quickly try, it understands things like dates and floats, and if you wind up with something really cool you can take a few more minutes to add some labels and colours and bang it into a PDF.
Compared to what.. What other tool allow that? Hmm. I'm thinking here. Whatever tool that might be, it sure as hell isn't installed on my desktop and I don't know how to use it.
So, in your magic neverland where Excel is not the right solution.. What is? And why should I spend time+money on it, when Excel already does what I want it to?
(And, for the record, I use Excel '97...)
William Shatner, is that you?
If you wrote "equation = x y", then of course nothing good will happen, equation is effective a bool and will get toString()'d during concatenation.
However, most of your examples don't have squat to do with the core language, and everything to do with the DOM. Or what *you* think is a useful way to express an idea.
Just because it's possible to manipulate the DOM to insert an event listener doesn't mean that it's practical. Especially in the case when your attaching say events to HTML elements that run javascript library code. In that case, you're developing an HTML document, use the HTML attribute to key the event. Writing a one-line script to modify the DOM thereafter is not only confusing, it is retarded.
And, for the record, I'm a big fan of JavaScript, and use it quite extensively outside the browser; often when I need to deal with either large lists of things or things with lots of properties. My preferred interpreter is NJS, and I have used it to implement arbitrary object persistence, completely in JavasScript, along with several other medium-sized utility libraries, one of which contains a powerful XML DOM subset and event-triggering XML subset parser without DTD validation or entities.
Your problem is that you're a "my way or the highway" "I'm better than you are zealot". Get your head out of your ass.
*lol*
I knew there was a reason I missed living Quebec.
Don't miss the winters, mind you...
He just forgot to mention the part about releasing thousands and thousands of doves wearing little tin-foil hats in order to provide a return signal.
I thought it was going to about the shapes of letters and such on mobile phones and so forth.
You know, the benefits of square vs. rectangular pixels when it comes to font readability on small screens, why that funny symbol means radio signal strength, that sort of thing.
Are the configuration files in either a text format, or a well documented format?
Does have a normal UNIX shell environment?
Then it's got all the control you need.
They will continue to design new viruses at a faster rate than Norton, McAfee and Grisoft combined!
Of course, the assumption here is that Microsoft's virus will be able to block the viruses they write. Sorta basic for a Virus Company, but we all know how good MS is at closing the loop..