Using the Segway a candidate can reach three times the people compared to simply walking.
For this to make sense, the transport time between visits must be incredibly high compared to the time speeched at-the-front-door. As an example, for a 4 minute speech, you'd need a 14 minute transport time reduced by a factor of seven to see 3 times more people in the same timelapse.
Are candidates aware that they don't have to visit their voters list alphabetically?
Another XML-based format is DocBook, which originally was SGML based but now has a XML DTD too. From this format you can output to ps, pdf, rtf and plenty of other formats.
You could also hack one of the docbook XSL stylesheets (using XSLT? would be pretty!) to make it parse your own format.
...rich internet applications platform (standards-based, zero-install, all-singing / all-dancing)
Last time I checked, Flash was not a web standard in the true sense, was still a proprietary technolgy and you couldn't redistribute the player (so it can't be bundled by your favorite distribution).
Pretending that this product is standards-based is like saying MSOffice is standards-based because it can import/export XML.
Are we to expect a future release supporting SVG - as the backend seems to be modeled around XML/ECMAScript? That'd be most impressive - and web engine friendly, at last.
For those who created real ASCII art back in the days of the BBS, there exists a GPL clone of TheDraw to bring back memories (and maybe dust your 5.25" floppies) called DuhDraw. Those were the good old times, as anybody remembering ANSI music will tell.
From the original paper in the British Medical Journal, the experiment was to show 7 petri dishes to each of the 6 dogs, one of the dishes containing 'cancered' urine, and repeating this 9 times. So dogs flagged the wrong dish 32 times out of 54, making both a false positive and a false negative every time. I'm no stat wiz, but I feel the "41% success rate" is a bit misleading.
Did you ever work on such a project as a programmer yourself?
At my workplace, typical work is customizing already free-as-both-beer-and-speech existing programs (skins, terminology, add a function here and there). So, take GPL, give GPL.
If so, how did the development differ from a free(dom)/free(beer) Open Source application?
As with all sections on Slashdot, there will be stories available within that section that don't get posted to the main page
For real/. geeks, would it be possible to turn on a flag to get everything on the home page? Every time I metamoderate I wonder "How come this story doesn't ring a bell?". Now I understand why.
Clicking on each and every section to watch for missing stories is a bit lame, no?
Finally I understand why they have run out of color names for makeup! Calculator Beige, Misty brown, Mirror, Dead Duck, Greedy Pumpkin and all variations.
They believe this has the potential to lead to a pill to turn similar genes on in humans
Always wondering, in genetic marketing speeches, how they can pretend that a pill or any process can change genetic code in an already grown being. To change a gene in my body, they'd have to reprogram billions of cells, one by one. Even cancer, which is a mutated DNA, can't propagate fast enough to replace all my cells (and god knows cancer cells reproduces quickly) in a few years. Maybe they have truck-stop stale egg-salad sandwiches on their mind?
a great program for slowing the spread/proliferation of virii and reducing the impact of DoS attacks, it's all being shelved due to Windows incompatibilities.
So, they are starting their own GNU/Linux distribution?
A great libre project that could be worth the try (even more so if you're into old games) is DOSBox which does a great job simulating a 1990-era DOS machine, using SDL. As it's emulating the CPU, you'll be able to summon it on your reverse-endian architecture. All you need now is a good telnet client.
Overhead for a telnet session, you could object, but as an added bonus you'll be able to reminisce all those 2 and 4 and 16-color days.
For so many years, Microsoft has brought useless fileformats to complete with those that already exist. Stop trying to innovate and start supporting the open standards. Did we really need BMP? How come PNG is so lamely supported? How about pushing Ogg Vorbis/Theora with your media player?
A slick tool is Gkrellm, which has real-time graphical status for memory/temperatures/net/disk. Can be run in "server mode" (so no need for X on the monitored server). Lots of plugins are also available, from SNMP to ping tools. The project is well alive. Don't know if it floats your boat, though, as you're mentioning huge networks.
The Linux VServer Project is a similar beast, if not the original inspiration. It's available as a kernel patch for linux-2.4 (and almost ready for 2.6), plus a handful of userspace utilities.
The idea revolves around isolated contexts, each with a different IP address - so in practice you access each of the vservers as a different machine, with its own filesystem, users, processes, semaphores,...
As you can chroot your applications to make them see different parts of the filesystem as/, you use this patch to make each vserver see different parts of the global process table - so that each vserver doesn't know about the others. Should you want to access a vserver from another vserver, you must think like they're two different machines - use the network.
As the gist of it is the isolation between processes and NOT emulation, you experience absolutely no overhead (unlike UML). And if you worry about disk space (as each vserver owns in fact a complete/), you can hardlink files between vservers, so that the second, third and son on vservers may have a disk space cost as small as 30MB. Memory-wise, it's a bit more hungry as you'd like to have crond, sshd and so on running in every vserver.
Work is being done to circumvent one of the disadvantages: a vserver can drown the whole machine as resources are not really yet limited for a particular context.
In addition to the audio/MIDI editing stuff that Muse now has, I'm looking for some decent guitar-oriented analog effects
This would have to be pipelined in Jack. As you'd put your pedals between your guitar and your amp, you'd put a software soundeffect program between the input source and MusE, via Jack. One of the available pipeline filters is JACK Rack, which does what you want.
A temporary workaround (while distributions update their packages) is to disable the memory_limit parameter. Though it can bring other weaknesses on a server (DoS by memory exhaustion), it's a lesser pain than remote code execution.
Before you consider trying Shareaza, have a peek at MLDonkey. A nice multi-interface multi-protocol project done in Python that supports all that Shareaza supports and more.
You could draw a cube and see three of its face; would "feel" 3-D to most people, but without the limitations of paper. I gimped a little sketch that explains the idea.
a different style sheet to any browser that specifically identified itself as Opera. The style sheet had less content, and broke the layout of the page
I guess they wanted to know how it feels to be forced into writing a different stylesheet like we all have to do to bypass the numerous layout bugs in MSIE. They didn't even do it right. Try with a clean W3-compliant source to begin with, next time, boys!
As far as different character sets, this becomes a non-issue as all software moves towards unicode and UTF-8 (or equivalent) encoding. Once that happens you can for get about worring about character sets (and its happening fast).
Won't happen in our lifetime. If you're a non-native english writer, how many encoding tricks did you learn in your lifetime? in my everyday activities, I have to know at least:
ISO-8859-1;
UTF-8;
Regular Unicode
HTML entities (& e a c u t e ; );
XML entities (& # 2 3 3; );
XML entities, hex ( & # x e 9 ; );
Javascript way ( \u 0 0 e 9; ).
I know I could use UTF charsets in my HTML documents, but the web is all about IE6^Wlegacy browsers, ain't it?
So that makes at least 7 ways I must encode, simply to use french. And I'm not even counting the illegal Unicode char tricks to decode texts pasted from Microsoft apps (the 128-160 range is supposed to be unused, Bill...).
Yeah, I wish everything was UTF-friendly; Microsoft doesn't even look as though it's trying...
I'm a relative newbie and the experience soured me on participating in other OSS projects. How to Slashdot users deal with this? Must I set up disposable email accounts for every list?"
OSS or not, you should. There is no link between OSS and spam, but there is between mailing lists and spam.
There is not (yet) a way to make sure obfuscated e-mail addresses don't get caught by robots, so as a good habit I'd suggest you use disposable E-mail addresses every time your mail will be available on the web.
Just tell offenders "If you don't send me in.doc format, I won't be forced to buy MSWord to read it."
It's simple, and effective. People are not educated about freedom as speech yet, don't even mention open file formats, but they can understand what a couple of hundred bucks mean.
Slashdot Mirror
For this to make sense, the transport time between visits must be incredibly high compared to the time speeched at-the-front-door. As an example, for a 4 minute speech, you'd need a 14 minute transport time reduced by a factor of seven to see 3 times more people in the same timelapse.
Are candidates aware that they don't have to visit their voters list alphabetically?
Feel ready to own one or many Tux Stickers?
Another XML-based format is DocBook, which originally was SGML based but now has a XML DTD too. From this format you can output to ps, pdf, rtf and plenty of other formats.
You could also hack one of the docbook XSL stylesheets (using XSLT? would be pretty!) to make it parse your own format.
Feel ready to own one or many Tux Stickers?
Last time I checked, Flash was not a web standard in the true sense, was still a proprietary technolgy and you couldn't redistribute the player (so it can't be bundled by your favorite distribution).
Pretending that this product is standards-based is like saying MSOffice is standards-based because it can import/export XML.
Are we to expect a future release supporting SVG - as the backend seems to be modeled around XML/ECMAScript? That'd be most impressive - and web engine friendly, at last.
Feel ready to own one or many Tux Stickers?
For those who created real ASCII art back in the days of the BBS, there exists a GPL clone of TheDraw to bring back memories (and maybe dust your 5.25" floppies) called DuhDraw. Those were the good old times, as anybody remembering ANSI music will tell.
Feel ready to own one or many Tux Stickers?
From the original paper in the British Medical Journal, the experiment was to show 7 petri dishes to each of the 6 dogs, one of the dishes containing 'cancered' urine, and repeating this 9 times. So dogs flagged the wrong dish 32 times out of 54, making both a false positive and a false negative every time. I'm no stat wiz, but I feel the "41% success rate" is a bit misleading.
Feel ready to own one or many Tux Stickers?
Feel ready to own one or many Tux Stickers?
For real
Clicking on each and every section to watch for missing stories is a bit lame, no?
Feel ready to own one or many Tux Stickers?
... then write in your CV that you're a perl developer.
Feel ready to own one or many Tux Stickers?
Finally I understand why they have run out of color names for makeup! Calculator Beige, Misty brown, Mirror, Dead Duck, Greedy Pumpkin and all variations.
Feel ready to own one or many Tux Stickers?
Always wondering, in genetic marketing speeches, how they can pretend that a pill or any process can change genetic code in an already grown being. To change a gene in my body, they'd have to reprogram billions of cells, one by one. Even cancer, which is a mutated DNA, can't propagate fast enough to replace all my cells (and god knows cancer cells reproduces quickly) in a few years. Maybe they have truck-stop stale egg-salad sandwiches on their mind?
Feel ready to own one ore many Tux Stickers?
So, they are starting their own GNU/Linux distribution?
Feel ready to own one or many Tux Stickers?
A great libre project that could be worth the try (even more so if you're into old games) is DOSBox which does a great job simulating a 1990-era DOS machine, using SDL. As it's emulating the CPU, you'll be able to summon it on your reverse-endian architecture. All you need now is a good telnet client.
Overhead for a telnet session, you could object, but as an added bonus you'll be able to reminisce all those 2 and 4 and 16-color days.
Feel ready to own one or many Tux Stickers?
For so many years, Microsoft has brought useless fileformats to complete with those that already exist. Stop trying to innovate and start supporting the open standards. Did we really need BMP? How come PNG is so lamely supported? How about pushing Ogg Vorbis/Theora with your media player?
Feel ready to own one or many Tux Stickers?
A slick tool is Gkrellm, which has real-time graphical status for memory/temperatures/net/disk. Can be run in "server mode" (so no need for X on the monitored server). Lots of plugins are also available, from SNMP to ping tools. The project is well alive. Don't know if it floats your boat, though, as you're mentioning huge networks.
Feel ready to own one or many Tux stickers?
The Linux VServer Project is a similar beast, if not the original inspiration. It's available as a kernel patch for linux-2.4 (and almost ready for 2.6), plus a handful of userspace utilities.
...
/, you use this patch to make each vserver see different parts of the global process table - so that each vserver doesn't know about the others. Should you want to access a vserver from another vserver, you must think like they're two different machines - use the network.
/), you can hardlink files between vservers, so that the second, third and son on vservers may have a disk space cost as small as 30MB. Memory-wise, it's a bit more hungry as you'd like to have crond, sshd and so on running in every vserver.
The idea revolves around isolated contexts, each with a different IP address - so in practice you access each of the vservers as a different machine, with its own filesystem, users, processes, semaphores,
As you can chroot your applications to make them see different parts of the filesystem as
As the gist of it is the isolation between processes and NOT emulation, you experience absolutely no overhead (unlike UML). And if you worry about disk space (as each vserver owns in fact a complete
Work is being done to circumvent one of the disadvantages: a vserver can drown the whole machine as resources are not really yet limited for a particular context.
A couple of days ago an article proposed that 80% of spam comes from Microsoft-infected machines. So at most, 20% could be eliminated by these laws.
So, should the Aussies really want to prevent spam and so something about it, the way is obvious.
</ms:Bashing>
A temporary workaround (while distributions update their packages) is to disable the memory_limit parameter. Though it can bring other weaknesses on a server (DoS by memory exhaustion), it's a lesser pain than remote code execution.
OCaml indeed, my bad.
:)
Must wish unconsciously it was made in Python
Before you consider trying Shareaza, have a peek at MLDonkey. A nice multi-interface multi-protocol project done in Python that supports all that Shareaza supports and more.
You could draw a cube and see three of its face; would "feel" 3-D to most people, but without the limitations of paper. I gimped a little sketch that explains the idea.
I guess they wanted to know how it feels to be forced into writing a different stylesheet like we all have to do to bypass the numerous layout bugs in MSIE. They didn't even do it right. Try with a clean W3-compliant source to begin with, next time, boys!
- ISO-8859-1;
- UTF-8;
- Regular Unicode
- HTML entities (& e a c u t e ; );
- XML entities (& # 2 3 3; );
- XML entities, hex ( & # x e 9 ; );
- Javascript way ( \u 0 0 e 9; ).
I know I could use UTF charsets in my HTML documents, but the web is all about IE6^Wlegacy browsers, ain't it? So that makes at least 7 ways I must encode, simply to use french. And I'm not even counting the illegal Unicode char tricks to decode texts pasted from Microsoft apps (the 128-160 range is supposed to be unused, Bill...). Yeah, I wish everything was UTF-friendly; Microsoft doesn't even look as though it's trying...OSS or not, you should. There is no link between OSS and spam, but there is between mailing lists and spam.
There is not (yet) a way to make sure obfuscated e-mail addresses don't get caught by robots, so as a good habit I'd suggest you use disposable E-mail addresses every time your mail will be available on the web.
Just tell offenders "If you don't send me in .doc format, I won't be forced to buy MSWord to read it."
It's simple, and effective. People are not educated about freedom as speech yet, don't even mention open file formats, but they can understand what a couple of hundred bucks mean.