No "aliens" have claimed the planet of the Tau'ri within the last two millenia. Ra's claim was superceded long ago, after the revolt, when it fell under the Goauld/Asgaard Protected Planet Treaty. This means that it belongs to the inhabitants.
> I think that sun should come out with a new open version of Solaris that is fully > compatible with the current version but integrates some flavor of BSD.
How would that be more beneficial than simply opening up the current sources? What parts of BSD would you include? Certainly, you don't mean the kernel, because you want full Solaris compatibility.
Oh, wait, you must be one of *those*.
Here's how to transform your Solaris box into a BSD box:
1. Install gcc and gnu make packages from sunfreeware.com 2. usermod -s/bin/csh cow007 3. Add this to your.cshrc: "setenv PATH=/usr/ucb:$PATH" 4. Add this to all Makefiles: LOADLIBES += -lbsdmalloc -lucb
..is why the Microsoft-supplied OpenGL screen saver on my Compaq PC (installed by Compaq, no less) keeps crashing? You know, the one gives the date and time in a cool spinny font.
Without fail, *every* morning I have come to work in the last five years, that stupid thing has either crashed repeatedly or hung the box outright.
This is a real pain, because the power button on the Compaq wore out years ago, it doesn't have an auto-power-on option in the BIOS, and it didn't ship with a reset switch (or a place for one on the mobo). I have to jump the freakin' power switch pins with a goddamn nickel.
Maybe I should just short the power-please signal on the ATX power supply connector and be done with it.
> Why does every BIOS *require* a VGA card in order to boot?
I'm the first to admit that I'm a little dated (haven't been a PC tech in 7 years), but the last time I checked (about 9 years ago), you could boot most (if not all) motherboard without a VGA card. In the first BIOS screen, there is a Display option, and allows you to select Monochrome, CGA, EGA/VGA or None.
This whole "signal strength" strength is a boat load of red herrings.
I don't know how the tracking software works per se, but you can bet your backside that it probably employs:
1. Which cell [antenna cluster] you're logged into 2. Which sector of the cell you're using (around here, there's usually three, and they are directonal) 3. What the TDMA transmit delay is
3 is a little less obvious -- GSM uses TDMA to divvy up the channel. The phone and the tower need to know how far apart they are, for speed-of-light reasons -- this is why cellular switches are all run off atomic clocks.
Since we know the time for the signal to reach the phone, we know how far away it is. We also know the direction (down to 120 degrees).
Finally, GSM phones keep tabs on up to six nearby towers, and the GSM network must know which ones the phones can see in order to do tower handoff.
So, now we have a several approximate vectors and distances. It shouldn't be hard to come up with their intersections. I think it can be done with two angles and two distance measurements.
> When your C compiler chokes on "maloc" do you > whine that "it's obvious what I meant and > anyway, languages evolve"?
Oh, ho - but the C compiler will never choke on malloc -- the linker will!
Otherwise, excellent points.;) It's nice to see another geek express these sentiments; I thought for a while that I was the only one who felt that way.
> Imagine a superset of `ant build` that not only compiles your binaries, but > also generates your documentation and install and test everything you need > to run your application out-of-the-box in a single step.
You mean like 'make' with a default rules, plus a couple of shell scripts and Doxygen?
Actually, It's been a while since I've see the episode in question.. but I kind of thought Jack learned most of the text more by rote than anything else.. and probably needed prompting at that. You know, like that song you hear on the radio, that you can sing, only when you hear it?
> At least one isn't exactly a "new" character- she > was on the last three episodes last season
Better make that two, then. We're running about a year behind in Canada, but the SG-A home page -- look at the guy on the right. Look familiar? Yeah, that guy. That annoying motherfucker. Rodney what's his face.
Remember, he spent half an episode telling Sam how stupid she was, and then cried mommy when he couldn't save the universe? And then they sent him to work in the Siberian desert or some place?
Hmm.
I think I just figured out why nobody discovered Atlantis first. It's too cold in Siberia to bother looking for anything.
I forget the exact details, but it has *something* to with partial HTTP retrievals.. block support or something.. I haven't looked at it in a coon's age. IIRC, the "Fix" is to force apache into HTTP/1.0 mode when serving PDF files to MSIE. And it is indeed a problem with the Acrobat plugin.
I can see why they'd want to do it, though. The idea is that you can read a thirty trillion gigabyte PDF without waiting for the whole damned thing to download. But - if it's busted, waiting is better than not being to read it at all...
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No "aliens" have claimed the planet of the Tau'ri within the last two millenia. Ra's claim was superceded long ago, after the revolt, when it fell under the Goauld/Asgaard Protected Planet Treaty. This means that it belongs to the inhabitants.
> I think that sun should come out with a new open version of Solaris that is fully
/bin/csh cow007 .cshrc: "setenv PATH=/usr/ucb:$PATH"
> compatible with the current version but integrates some flavor of BSD.
How would that be more beneficial than simply opening up the current sources? What parts of BSD would you include? Certainly, you don't mean the kernel, because you want full Solaris compatibility.
Oh, wait, you must be one of *those*.
Here's how to transform your Solaris box into a BSD box:
1. Install gcc and gnu make packages from sunfreeware.com
2. usermod -s
3. Add this to your
4. Add this to all Makefiles: LOADLIBES += -lbsdmalloc -lucb
That oughta do it.
..is why the Microsoft-supplied OpenGL screen saver on my Compaq PC (installed by Compaq, no less) keeps crashing? You know, the one gives the date and time in a cool spinny font.
Without fail, *every* morning I have come to work in the last five years, that stupid thing has either crashed repeatedly or hung the box outright.
This is a real pain, because the power button on the Compaq wore out years ago, it doesn't have an auto-power-on option in the BIOS, and it didn't ship with a reset switch (or a place for one on the mobo). I have to jump the freakin' power switch pins with a goddamn nickel.
Maybe I should just short the power-please signal on the ATX power supply connector and be done with it.
Damn, and here I thought the speed limit on my commute was 61440 meters per hour. Drat! I guess I'll have to slow down to a paltry 60000.
> With a gmail address of "fillmybox", I wonder
> what kind of file attachments he received!
I was really pissed when my hot grits bounced.
Does Natalie Portman have a gmail account yet?
IUDs don't kill sperm, they trick the woman's body into thinking she's already pregnant. Kinda like the pill.
> Why does every BIOS *require* a VGA card in order to boot?
I'm the first to admit that I'm a little dated (haven't been a PC tech in 7 years), but the last time I checked (about 9 years ago), you could boot most (if not all) motherboard without a VGA card. In the first BIOS screen, there is a Display option, and allows you to select Monochrome, CGA, EGA/VGA or None.
> if((p = double(rand())/RANDMAX) 2))
> Where the heck is BSD???
BSD is dead.
This whole "signal strength" strength is a boat load of red herrings.
I don't know how the tracking software works per se, but you can bet your backside that it probably employs:
1. Which cell [antenna cluster] you're logged into
2. Which sector of the cell you're using (around here, there's usually three, and they are directonal)
3. What the TDMA transmit delay is
3 is a little less obvious -- GSM uses TDMA to divvy up the channel. The phone and the tower need to know how far apart they are, for speed-of-light reasons -- this is why cellular switches are all run off atomic clocks.
Since we know the time for the signal to reach the phone, we know how far away it is. We also know the direction (down to 120 degrees).
Finally, GSM phones keep tabs on up to six nearby towers, and the GSM network must know which ones the phones can see in order to do tower handoff.
So, now we have a several approximate vectors and distances. It shouldn't be hard to come up with their intersections. I think it can be done with two angles and two distance measurements.
You forgot the important features -- you put the control key in the right place, and plug it into a sun.
I love mine.
Well, if I was in management.. I would find the programmer responsible, and have him snipped!
That's okay -- aim lower. Troll the big blog sites, looking for interesting photos. Work backwards. Easy as pie!
> When your C compiler chokes on "maloc" do you
;) It's nice to see another geek express these sentiments; I thought for a while that I was the only one who felt that way.
> whine that "it's obvious what I meant and
> anyway, languages evolve"?
Oh, ho - but the C compiler will never choke on malloc -- the linker will!
Otherwise, excellent points.
> Imagine a superset of `ant build` that not only compiles your binaries, but
> also generates your documentation and install and test everything you need
> to run your application out-of-the-box in a single step.
You mean like 'make' with a default rules, plus a couple of shell scripts and Doxygen?
*yawn*
I've been doing that for a while, now.
> Ombrurshure
That's "embouchure". The etymology is French. (Bouche means mouth)
I wish to hell I got the Sci-Fi channel, I'm still catching up on Season 7. I need to get one of those illegal US dishes..
Actually, It's been a while since I've see the episode in question.. but I kind of thought Jack learned most of the text more by rote than anything else.. and probably needed prompting at that. You know, like that song you hear on the radio, that you can sing, only when you hear it?
> At least one isn't exactly a "new" character- she
> was on the last three episodes last season
Better make that two, then. We're running about a year behind in Canada, but the SG-A home page -- look at the guy on the right. Look familiar? Yeah, that guy. That annoying motherfucker. Rodney what's his face.
Remember, he spent half an episode telling Sam how stupid she was, and then cried mommy when he couldn't save the universe? And then they sent him to work in the Siberian desert or some place?
Hmm.
I think I just figured out why nobody discovered Atlantis first. It's too cold in Siberia to bother looking for anything.
I was hoping to play some Doom this weekend. Looks like it's time to hit the zero day sitez!
"could of" and "would of". ARGH! Big pet peeves.
Change the rules and the equipment a little. Allow potentiometers on the guns to tune the LED output. Let it range from 90% to 150% power or so.
Allow three LEDs of the player's choosing per game. If you burn out an LED during the game because you were trying to shoot too far, tough shit.
LED choices could include bright LEDs with small angles to wide-angle but dim.
This would add an interesting element of strategy.
I suppose disco balls could, too.
Wes
> use one of the guns to program a universal remote and play with that instead.
Yeah! Half of you could wear velour shirts, and the other half could dress up as Klingons!
> All the tests failed with "undefined reference" link errors. [...]
> but nobody's ever done anything about it.
Sounds like you have some hacking to do tonight.
> FireFox 9.0 returns a null.
9.0? What are you, from the 23rd century?
I forget the exact details, but it has *something* to with partial HTTP retrievals.. block support or something.. I haven't looked at it in a coon's age. IIRC, the "Fix" is to force apache into HTTP/1.0 mode when serving PDF files to MSIE. And it is indeed a problem with the Acrobat plugin.
I can see why they'd want to do it, though. The idea is that you can read a thirty trillion gigabyte PDF without waiting for the whole damned thing to download. But - if it's busted, waiting is better than not being to read it at all...