Why not just run Oracle w/ raw storage, and link all of your apps with a hacked version of stdio? That should only be a few days' worth of coding; if you're good, you won't even have to rebuild apps that link libc as a DSO (which would be most of 'em).
I didn't know you could drag 'em up there. You didn't used to be able to do that!
Now if I could only get the File Edit.. etc section of the toolbar to to be just File >> with the rest of it coming up when you click on the >>, I'd be all set!
There must be more to it than that -- if they just wanted to deny access to all sat images, they could just issue a press release telling the world that they can't do that, because copying the data would crash the computers.
It's a general, carte-blanche method for the government to hide information from the public, without the public really being aware that that is, in fact, what the legislation is for.
Here's how it works: A government official does something illegal.. like buying drugs, trading arms for hostages, that sort of thing. Then, he writes up what he did on a computer, and prints it out in a big font, and leaves the printout on the roof of the Whitehouse (or other skyward facing area) when he knows a satellite will be overhead.
Now, the satellite takes pictures of the incriminating evidence, and -- voila! It, and anything related to it, is no longer available via FOIA requests.
They must have been either lying, or talking about another controller entirely (SNES, maybe? Never had one of those).
The NES controller is actually quite simple, but more complicated than your assumption.
The four directions, start, reset, A and B buttons make up eight bits. If you push a button, it grounds an input on an 8-bit parallel-to-serial shift register (CMOS part 4016 IIRC.. 4xxx series, anyhow). These input are read as high when floating.
The four lines coming from the NES are serial in, clock out, ground and power (+5VDC IIRC). The shift register scans its inputs and fires a serial stream at the Nintendo, synchronized with CLK.
See? Simple -- but nowhere NEAR plug-and-play with a PC analog game port!
I know this because I took one apart once, so I could examine the design and make an adapter for my Wico Boss C64 joystick to work with the NES after killing one too many thumbs playing Super Mario Bros. It worked great; Start and Reset were mounted on the controller box; Button A (jump) was on top of the joystick; Button B (run) was actually a musical keyboard sustain pedal which plugged into the controller.
FWIW, I seem to remember the Diamond Viper being worth somewhere around $700 Canadian during its intro. And I remember selling some... Diamond FireGL (???) cards back in '96 or so when my cost was around $1500 CDN. I couldn't imagine *what the hell* that guy was doing with them, although I later learned he did some kind of graphics research at the local University.
I played Doom when it first came out through a SoundBlaster 16 and a Yamaha PSR-510. The 510's keyboard was crap, but the AWM GMIDI samples were pretty good -- and Doom sounded *GREAT*. Even better than SB16 + WaveBlaster.
> Does anyone know why Apache didn't just use glib?
Does glib provide pools-based memory allocation for all its functions?
Somehow, I doubt they do. To me, a good pool-based allocator that handles *everything* is really, really, really freakin' handy. Not only is it cross-platform, but code tends to suffer from fewer memory-allocation-related defects (such as using freed pointers, leaking core, leaking descriptors, etc).
Of course, you have to design your code properly from the outset to take full advantage of hierarchical pools. Apache 1.3 (and presumably 2.x -- I haven't studied the source) are *excellent* examples of code designed to take advantage of pools, and the HTTP request model is almost naturally suited for it as well. Write a few complex modules in C some time, you'll see what I mean.
Now, if only I could could figure out why the APR hash functions are so slow for large tables..
> If I were an athlete, I'd tell the IOC to shove it > just as soon as my event was over and post > whatever I wanted my family and friends to see.
I wish you were. Actually, I wish a big-name American athlete (e.g. Michael Phelps) would do this. It would *so* change the rules for the next games if they went after a multiple medal winner. Especially if he posted a faked photograph purporting to be real.
> Ah, but the capital F means you are referring > to the people, not the language. So there.
No, it doesn't. Proper nouns in English are capitalized. If it did not have a capital F, it would be the verb to french (as in "I think I'll french some potatoes, and deep fry them").
Note the Merriam-Webster entry, particularly definition 1:
Main Entry: 1French Pronunciation: 'french Function: adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English frencisc, from Franca Frank 1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of France, its people, or their language 2 : of or relating to the overseas descendents of the French people - Frenchness noun
The square brackets are extraneous. Or rather, they give your loop the meaning you intended, but not the way you meant it.
You are testing that the string within the brackets is not zero length. You do this by running/bin/test (which is linked from/bin/[), checking that test != "" and eating the ]. Then test returns 0 (because it's true).
What you want is
while true; do... done
This runs the program/bin/true which does nothing but return zero.
while [ crapapples ]; do... done
would also loop infinitely. As would:
while [ false ]; do... done
Which could really confuse things if you meant to temporarily disable the loop by writing
> what you have to do to the server to make it > support them gracefully if necessary.
Generate all your output in UTF-8. If the browser can't handle it -- fuck 'em. They'll see a funny little A with a circle and another character instead of the pound sign. Big deal.
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Why not just run Oracle w/ raw storage, and link all of your apps with a hacked version of stdio? That should only be a few days' worth of coding; if you're good, you won't even have to rebuild apps that link libc as a DSO (which would be most of 'em).
Hey, Thanks!
I didn't know you could drag 'em up there. You didn't used to be able to do that!
Now if I could only get the File Edit.. etc section of the toolbar to to be just File >> with the rest of it coming up when you click on the >>, I'd be all set!
> You have to be very careful with claims about being able to emulate ANY
> hardware, or being able to run ANY code.
Personally, I was hoping to download it and run HPC apps on my Commodore 64.
That's right.
The last time I implemented e-mail forwarding in software (4 years ago?), the DATA section was left alone, but the envelope always told the truth.
Seems perfectly reasonable, and probably compatible with SPF..
> Alex Trebek knows ALL of the answers
Yes, but does he know the questions?
Jesus Christ, just when I thought /. editors couldn't get any stupid, they go and spoil -- what -- 8 weeks of TV viewing?
Here's a hint - this is supposed to be news for nerds. Nerds watch Jeopardy.
Fuck, you guys are assholes.
Didn't you just post this drivel a couple of days ago?
> > it means that applications cannot cache DNS as effectively for nonexistant domains
> No, it's the TTL that determines how long a record can be cached for.
Out of idle curiosity, in which zone file do you set the TTL for the non-existant domain you're about to search for?
There must be more to it than that -- if they just wanted to deny access to all sat images, they could just issue a press release telling the world that they can't do that, because copying the data would crash the computers.
If you *really* wanted the satellite network shut down, all you'd have to do is somehow sneak in a four-inch tube full of anthrax.
> Anyone care to enlighten me?
Sure.
It's a general, carte-blanche method for the government to hide information from the public, without the public really being aware that that is, in fact, what the legislation is for.
Here's how it works: A government official does something illegal.. like buying drugs, trading arms for hostages, that sort of thing. Then, he writes up what he did on a computer, and prints it out in a big font, and leaves the printout on the roof of the Whitehouse (or other skyward facing area) when he knows a satellite will be overhead.
Now, the satellite takes pictures of the incriminating evidence, and -- voila! It, and anything related to it, is no longer available via FOIA requests.
Brilliant!
They must have been either lying, or talking about another controller entirely (SNES, maybe? Never had one of those).
The NES controller is actually quite simple, but more complicated than your assumption.
The four directions, start, reset, A and B buttons make up eight bits. If you push a button, it grounds an input on an 8-bit parallel-to-serial shift register (CMOS part 4016 IIRC.. 4xxx series, anyhow). These input are read as high when floating.
The four lines coming from the NES are serial in, clock out, ground and power (+5VDC IIRC). The shift register scans its inputs and fires a serial stream at the Nintendo, synchronized with CLK.
See? Simple -- but nowhere NEAR plug-and-play with a PC analog game port!
I know this because I took one apart once, so I could examine the design and make an adapter for my Wico Boss C64 joystick to work with the NES after killing one too many thumbs playing Super Mario Bros. It worked great; Start and Reset were mounted on the controller box; Button A (jump) was on top of the joystick; Button B (run) was actually a musical keyboard sustain pedal which plugged into the controller.
FWIW, I seem to remember the Diamond Viper being worth somewhere around $700 Canadian during its intro. And I remember selling some... Diamond FireGL (???) cards back in '96 or so when my cost was around $1500 CDN. I couldn't imagine *what the hell* that guy was doing with them, although I later learned he did some kind of graphics research at the local University.
I played Doom when it first came out through a SoundBlaster 16 and a Yamaha PSR-510. The 510's keyboard was crap, but the AWM GMIDI samples were pretty good -- and Doom sounded *GREAT*. Even better than SB16 + WaveBlaster.
> Does anyone know why Apache didn't just use glib?
Does glib provide pools-based memory allocation for all its functions?
Somehow, I doubt they do. To me, a good pool-based allocator that handles *everything* is really, really, really freakin' handy. Not only is it cross-platform, but code tends to suffer from fewer memory-allocation-related defects (such as using freed pointers, leaking core, leaking descriptors, etc).
Of course, you have to design your code properly from the outset to take full advantage of hierarchical pools. Apache 1.3 (and presumably 2.x -- I haven't studied the source) are *excellent* examples of code designed to take advantage of pools, and the HTTP request model is almost naturally suited for it as well. Write a few complex modules in C some time, you'll see what I mean.
Now, if only I could could figure out why the APR hash functions are so slow for large tables..
> If I were an athlete, I'd tell the IOC to shove it
> just as soon as my event was over and post
> whatever I wanted my family and friends to see.
I wish you were. Actually, I wish a big-name American athlete (e.g. Michael Phelps) would do this. It would *so* change the rules for the next games if they went after a multiple medal winner. Especially if he posted a faked photograph purporting to be real.
> "Top ten signs you've read too many Unix docs",
> I'd estimate this would be about #4.
That's funny, none of my UNIX systems have ncurses installed. Just good old fashioned curses, like me grandpa used to hurl.
Oddly enough, they changed the man page section recently, now it's in -s 3CURSES rather than -3 or -3X.
I always figured the really good curses were in section 3X, but it just seemed to be more of the same crap.
Who the hell ever came up with that interface, anyhow??
> Ah, but the capital F means you are referring
> to the people, not the language. So there.
No, it doesn't. Proper nouns in English are capitalized. If it did not have a capital F, it would be the verb to french (as in "I think I'll french some potatoes, and deep fry them").
Note the Merriam-Webster entry, particularly definition 1:
Main Entry: 1French
Pronunciation: 'french
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English frencisc, from Franca Frank
1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of France, its people, or their language
2 : of or relating to the overseas descendents of the French people
- Frenchness noun
To be extremely pedantic, Hergé wrote in French; therefore he wrote French cartoons; therefore he was a French cartoonist.
Ha!
> while [ true ]
/bin/test (which is linked from /bin/[), checking that test != "" and eating the ]. Then test returns 0 (because it's true).
... done
/bin/true which does nothing but return zero.
... done
... done
/bin/false; do ... done
The square brackets are extraneous. Or rather, they give your loop the meaning you intended, but not the way you meant it.
You are testing that the string within the brackets is not zero length. You do this by running
What you want is
while true; do
This runs the program
while [ crapapples ]; do
would also loop infinitely. As would:
while [ false ]; do
Which could really confuse things if you meant to temporarily disable the loop by writing
while
This concludes our shell lesson for the day.
But.. but.. he just wanted to play a game!
> what you have to do to the server to make it
> support them gracefully if necessary.
Generate all your output in UTF-8. If the browser can't handle it -- fuck 'em. They'll see a funny little A with a circle and another character instead of the pound sign. Big deal.
Ensign Robin Leffler!!
Remember that episode where Wes just got back from the Academy? Hubba hubba.
> Who have I missed?
Monsanto and the Nigerian Government
> The entire state is almost dead from unemployment
> and everyone like myself moving out.
You should go into the Shrimpin' bidness. Maybe you could talk Lt. Dan into being your first mate!