Yes, that was Lazarus's grandmother, one of the *trans*generational incests I mentioned. I think you might read "To Sail Beyond The Sunset" and get it from Maureen's perspective. They both knew what they were doing;->
Yes, they were backpack sized units into the Vietnam era. Heinlein predicted pocket-sized phones for personal use. Read near the end of "Expanded Universe".
don't forget Heinlein's generational INCEST (Laz's grandmother as well as twin daughters?) and barely teen girl PEDOPHILIA, brought to you by the magic of that old perv's immagination!
he also did a great job describing corruption in evangelistic churches... long before Pat Robertson could show the world how it was done!
I remember that Asimov sotry... the corporate cronies think it would be cheaper to have a man inside a long range missle doing the calculations than to put a computer chip into them...
He predicted portable phones (cell phones), and is generally recognized as one of the first sci-fi authors to recognize the great potential in computers.
Word processors have been seen in his works ("The Moon is s Harsh Mistress" and "I Will Fear No Evil" are great examples).
Fission reactors were allready around when he began writing about them, but he took the idea of a "super reactor" and put it in space (I forget the name of that short story).
In terms of real world computer science Heinlein is second only to Aasimov's writings IMHO.
He took some ideas (escalators) and extended them into often copied devices (moving sidewalks "The Roads Will Roll").
I think the powered armor suits in "Starship Troopers" (the novel was so much better than that film) are an outstanding example of science being inspired by fiction.
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Thanks, found Switsh-E http://swish-e.org/ and Swish++ http://homepage.mac.com/pauljlucas/software/swish/ which might some day work.
Good thing I never mentioned my employer;->
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After visitng linuxworld and drilling their sales reps we came to the conclusion that Sourceforge can't compete with free alternatives. (by 'we' I mean the software Co. I'm working for)
Bugzilla/bonsai/tinderbox provides a more complete solution. We were even able to modify the trio to deal with java, our many different build scripts (make is rather lacking for java), and our test automation.
What we found was that Sourceforge provided discussion groups which we got using exchange or INND, bug tracking which wasn't nearly as feature rich as bugzilla, and cvs integration which bonsai provided just as well. It was still lacking the automated builds, and by the time they got back to us after linuxworld we had allready deployed the bugzilla solution (partly thanks to some nice debian packages put together by Remi Perrot).
One large drawback is that bonsai relies on glimpse as its fulltext indexer. Glimpse used to be free but since then has gone commercial. We were, however, able to find some old glimpse source (which may have been GPL or artistic license - perhaps we should redistribute the old code as GNUlimpse).
We have made our own tweaks to bugzilla/tinderbox/bonsai and contributed a few of them back to the mozilla developers (in the future probably all will be recycled into the public implementation).
It started when I was 12 and flipped through a computer shopper helping my dad (who also knew little about computers) purchase our first, a 386. I taught myself some BASIC on our older Compaq 8088 and a little more on the Commadore 64, but mostly I played games.
In middle school I came in contact with other "computer nerds" and discovered a thriving network of Warez bbs's. I spent the next few years absorbing all sorts of information on those bbs's forums and doing whatever I could to get various games to operate on my 486. The MS DOS 5.0 manual was my friend (why don't they make manuals like that anymore? now you have to buy them from Microsoft press).
I played a bit more doom, found a nice multiplayer bbs and learned how to make my own doom levels. Then I did the same with doom 2 and hexen. Sometime a little before that I was on AOL for a while, but gave it up for the first one-rate ISP with real internet: Pipeline-USA.
By this time I was in high-school and recalled a bit of that BASIC to program by TI-85. I met one teacher very interested in computers, and allong with another computer whiz friend of mine we founded a computer club.
I learned a bit of C, enough to do a little graphic demo for the credits on my high-school video project. Finally I found it time to decide where to go to school. I picked a school in the northwest which at the time had a top 25 computer science department.
When I got there I applied for a departmental computer assistant job. They had a low budget and I helped them upgrade half a dozen 486's to P200's allong with fixing just about every little PC problem that occurred. I was a Microsoft monkey.
I met a senior in Computer Science in my dorm. He told me all about the evils of Microsoft, demonstrated windows insecurity by tier-droping my box, and showed me how he could still play doom on his linux box (a big deal in 1996).
I attended a few meetings of the Linux Users Group at my college, but mostly kept with my games and comp sci education. I continued to troubleshoot PC problems and fool around with some security exploits I could inflict on other windows boxes running mIRC.
The summer of my sophomore year I installed redhat on a spare box and began my linux education. I took a unix administration course and a year later I was using debian. (Wow, it's so much faster than redhat 6.1 - comparing xboing and xgalaga, hey there's man pages!).
My departmental job ended with a wimper when the budget was cut and I applied to be a teaching assistant. My wife (who's story is also interesting) was working at the student labs on campus. A semester later I applied to be the unix administrator at a graduate research lab. I solved a few of their problems, but one rude doctor and an anarchical system where every grad who had been there 3 or 4 years had root. My most valuable experience there was installing debian on an HP netserver and getting a nice NIS/NFS system going.
I was recruited by the professor I TA'd for to install redhat on a few boxes for a new business he was starting. My wife and I spent hours hacking away at getting a lousy i810 video card to run properly on two redhat 6.2 boxes with no network. A few months after that we were approached to become full time sysadmins at his new computer security company.
Since then I've moved into research & development as my wife is a more dilligent sysadmin, but I still help out a bit. We both worked to setup a Win2k/debian environment taking the best of both worlds (active directory and video games of windows, and cvs/bugzilla/bonsai/tinderbox, tape backups, and reliability served from debian linux).
As soon as the VC's turn around we'll have the oportunity to get our linux certifications, and we're thinking of getting our mcse's from the college just to inflate our resume's a bit and impress our customers who care about that junk.
That's my story.
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WTF? I've been using a G400 dualhead for over a year! I even got quake3 up and running at over 40fps BEFORE Xfree 4.0 came out.
Try faq's at dri.sourceforge.net, or download the mga_hal.drv from www.matrox.com. I've reinstalled woody once and with Xfree 4.0 my G400 works _out_of_the_box_!!! Barely any configuration!
Try reading the debian wikki! Go to www.debianplanet.org... still need help... well maybe you're not ready for debian or debian isn't ready for you... one of the two... Debian is deffinately an advanced Linux OS, I won't lie to you, but when you get it up and running it kicks DeadRat's but any day. Not only that but consider that Debian unstable == redhat's rawhide, and debian testing == redhat x.0... yes things will be buggy, but updates are made every day. Try again in a few days and maybe your packages will be fixed.
results in:
$user@$host:~/testd$ cat story | perl -pe 's/(\w+)/$1.(" dick"," cock"," penis"," pussy"," twat"," vagina")[int rand 18]/eg'
MOSCOW -- When Igor pussy Lisinenko entered what penis he was pussy told was an Afghan rebel base penis in penis 1982, he wasn vagina't penis sure penis what to expect. It was, after all, his dick first vagina assignment as a member penis of dick a dick Soviet twat army reconnaissance team penis sent to confirm that airstrikes a few hours before had destroyed the base.
exactly... an Imperialist nation took over the area during the breakup of the ottoman empire and then sold it out from under the squatters after WW2.
It's sort of like our louisiana purchase. France sold us a lot of land with people who allready lived there and we kicked 'em out.
Or for a more modern example, it would be like if today, we took half the phillipine islands and deported them to make room for the Serbs, who we gave a nation there. Then when the phillipinos were pissed at the Serbs, we give them modern weapons!
I don't by the holy land bullshit either if you couldn't tell. No this doesn't mean that I support what they're doing in retaliation (DUH), no this doesn't mean that I'm anti-semetic (DUH), but it does mean that I understand what they mean when the talk about the crimes the US has commited against them.
We screwed up sometime after WW2 and created the Israeli state and later gave them guns. US diplomacy under Democrat (Clinton) leadership was saving our buts. There was a cease-fire and that was no BS. Then Bush was elected and the Israeli's and the Pallestineans started killing each other. AND BUSH WENT ON VACATION!
Maybe if we deported the whole Israeli state to someplace like Nevada or Utah and moved our own damned people around so that they could have a home. That would solve it and get the US OUT of this crap.
Clinton left the middle east with no strong "dipalomatical" (as dub-ya would say) successor to keep the Isralies from going ape, to keep the terrorists from blowing shit up.
How many arab attacks on Isralies have we seen since the election. How did Isriel respond? What did Bush do about it? TOOK A VACATION IN TEXAS!
Great job man! Way to go for world peace! Republicans rule!
If you're referring to the situation: start of round, move, attack, end of round... keep in mind the rules are an approximation of what happens, as much as the q3a field is divided up into locations of finite accuracy (ints), where in life location is a vector of floats of infinite accuracy...
My interpretation of the event you described would be "chao-baz continues his lightning-like movement across the room, striking an opponent who saw him coming and has begun to..." and continue with the enemy's action... the difference between that and a charge (moves half distance before and after the attack) would be "chao races across the room striking his opponent, who attempts to..." enemy's attack of opportunity "before chao lunges out of range". The difference added with tumbing is that the enemy has no chance to react.
Hey, what about D&D? That helped me get a head start on my math way back when. I hated to add and multiply. D&D game mechanics gave me a better head for numbers.
The only thing video games did was drive my ambition to hack warez that I downloaded and squeeze every last bit of juice out of that crappy old OS (DOS).
I encourage you to look at debian. There are standards (like the placement of configfiles in/etc/$PKGNAME/*, and documentation/usr/share/doc/$PKGNAME/*, and man pages for almost all commands, which redhat sux at) that make debian much better than the sum of its parts.
Finally I'm not talking about a daily BIND update, but security updates on the stable version of your distribution (for redhat this would be 6.2, slackware 7.whatever).
Spend some time reading up on system security... what do all these guys the pundits interview say? Keeping current to the security flaws in your system is more than a full time job. You cannot at the same time as you add users, change passwords, bail users out (oops, I deleted that file! oh I screwed up and mailed out HR info to EVERYONE! oops, I wasted the website... etc etc...) keep up to speed on the security issues reguarding every element of every system you control.
If you plan on using a UNIX of professional quality, then you rely on the individuals integrating and packaging your software to
Can you make the state of each piece of software on your system your full time job? If not, remember that there is a hacker who can. Your box is theirs for the taking.
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Radeon 8500 drivers are in fact LESS supported than the GF3's!
AFAIK, ATI has yet to release specs for the Rage 8500 to a dri-project developer!
I submitted a story detailing the ATI Radeon problems... thanks Rob... REJECTED
Another good story down the tubes.
wait... you're right, it was his mother not grandmother...
Yes, that was Lazarus's grandmother, one of the *trans*generational incests I mentioned. I think you might read "To Sail Beyond The Sunset" and get it from Maureen's perspective. They both knew what they were doing ;->
Yes, they were backpack sized units into the Vietnam era. Heinlein predicted pocket-sized phones for personal use. Read near the end of "Expanded Universe".
don't forget Heinlein's generational INCEST (Laz's grandmother as well as twin daughters?) and barely teen girl PEDOPHILIA, brought to you by the magic of that old perv's immagination!
he also did a great job describing corruption in evangelistic churches... long before Pat Robertson could show the world how it was done!
patents, latex rubber, and water all existed at that time... weren't water beds invented in the 60's? that's not too long after Stranger...
I remember that Asimov sotry... the corporate cronies think it would be cheaper to have a man inside a long range missle doing the calculations than to put a computer chip into them...
He predicted portable phones (cell phones), and is generally recognized as one of the first sci-fi authors to recognize the great potential in computers.
Word processors have been seen in his works ("The Moon is s Harsh Mistress" and "I Will Fear No Evil" are great examples).
Fission reactors were allready around when he began writing about them, but he took the idea of a "super reactor" and put it in space (I forget the name of that short story).
In terms of real world computer science Heinlein is second only to Aasimov's writings IMHO.
He took some ideas (escalators) and extended them into often copied devices (moving sidewalks "The Roads Will Roll").
I think the powered armor suits in "Starship Troopers" (the novel was so much better than that film) are an outstanding example of science being inspired by fiction.
Thanks, found Switsh-E http://swish-e.org/ and Swish++ http://homepage.mac.com/pauljlucas/software/swish/ which might some day work.
;->
Good thing I never mentioned my employer
After visitng linuxworld and drilling their sales reps we came to the conclusion that Sourceforge can't compete with free alternatives. (by 'we' I mean the software Co. I'm working for)
Bugzilla/bonsai/tinderbox provides a more complete solution. We were even able to modify the trio to deal with java, our many different build scripts (make is rather lacking for java), and our test automation.
What we found was that Sourceforge provided discussion groups which we got using exchange or INND, bug tracking which wasn't nearly as feature rich as bugzilla, and cvs integration which bonsai provided just as well. It was still lacking the automated builds, and by the time they got back to us after linuxworld we had allready deployed the bugzilla solution (partly thanks to some nice debian packages put together by Remi Perrot).
One large drawback is that bonsai relies on glimpse as its fulltext indexer. Glimpse used to be free but since then has gone commercial. We were, however, able to find some old glimpse source (which may have been GPL or artistic license - perhaps we should redistribute the old code as GNUlimpse).
We have made our own tweaks to bugzilla/tinderbox/bonsai and contributed a few of them back to the mozilla developers (in the future probably all will be recycled into the public implementation).
It started when I was 12 and flipped through a computer shopper helping my dad (who also knew little about computers) purchase our first, a 386. I taught myself some BASIC on our older Compaq 8088 and a little more on the Commadore 64, but mostly I played games.
In middle school I came in contact with other "computer nerds" and discovered a thriving network of Warez bbs's. I spent the next few years absorbing all sorts of information on those bbs's forums and doing whatever I could to get various games to operate on my 486. The MS DOS 5.0 manual was my friend (why don't they make manuals like that anymore? now you have to buy them from Microsoft press).
I played a bit more doom, found a nice multiplayer bbs and learned how to make my own doom levels. Then I did the same with doom 2 and hexen. Sometime a little before that I was on AOL for a while, but gave it up for the first one-rate ISP with real internet: Pipeline-USA.
By this time I was in high-school and recalled a bit of that BASIC to program by TI-85. I met one teacher very interested in computers, and allong with another computer whiz friend of mine we founded a computer club.
I learned a bit of C, enough to do a little graphic demo for the credits on my high-school video project. Finally I found it time to decide where to go to school. I picked a school in the northwest which at the time had a top 25 computer science department.
When I got there I applied for a departmental computer assistant job. They had a low budget and I helped them upgrade half a dozen 486's to P200's allong with fixing just about every little PC problem that occurred. I was a Microsoft monkey.
I met a senior in Computer Science in my dorm. He told me all about the evils of Microsoft, demonstrated windows insecurity by tier-droping my box, and showed me how he could still play doom on his linux box (a big deal in 1996).
I attended a few meetings of the Linux Users Group at my college, but mostly kept with my games and comp sci education. I continued to troubleshoot PC problems and fool around with some security exploits I could inflict on other windows boxes running mIRC.
The summer of my sophomore year I installed redhat on a spare box and began my linux education. I took a unix administration course and a year later I was using debian. (Wow, it's so much faster than redhat 6.1 - comparing xboing and xgalaga, hey there's man pages!).
My departmental job ended with a wimper when the budget was cut and I applied to be a teaching assistant. My wife (who's story is also interesting) was working at the student labs on campus. A semester later I applied to be the unix administrator at a graduate research lab. I solved a few of their problems, but one rude doctor and an anarchical system where every grad who had been there 3 or 4 years had root. My most valuable experience there was installing debian on an HP netserver and getting a nice NIS/NFS system going.
I was recruited by the professor I TA'd for to install redhat on a few boxes for a new business he was starting. My wife and I spent hours hacking away at getting a lousy i810 video card to run properly on two redhat 6.2 boxes with no network. A few months after that we were approached to become full time sysadmins at his new computer security company.
Since then I've moved into research & development as my wife is a more dilligent sysadmin, but I still help out a bit. We both worked to setup a Win2k/debian environment taking the best of both worlds (active directory and video games of windows, and cvs/bugzilla/bonsai/tinderbox, tape backups, and reliability served from debian linux).
As soon as the VC's turn around we'll have the oportunity to get our linux certifications, and we're thinking of getting our mcse's from the college just to inflate our resume's a bit and impress our customers who care about that junk.
That's my story.
WTF? I've been using a G400 dualhead for over a year! I even got quake3 up and running at over 40fps BEFORE Xfree 4.0 came out.
Try faq's at dri.sourceforge.net, or download the mga_hal.drv from www.matrox.com. I've reinstalled woody once and with Xfree 4.0 my G400 works _out_of_the_box_!!! Barely any configuration!
Try reading the debian wikki! Go to www.debianplanet.org... still need help... well maybe you're not ready for debian or debian isn't ready for you... one of the two... Debian is deffinately an advanced Linux OS, I won't lie to you, but when you get it up and running it kicks DeadRat's but any day. Not only that but consider that Debian unstable == redhat's rawhide, and debian testing == redhat x.0... yes things will be buggy, but updates are made every day. Try again in a few days and maybe your packages will be fixed.
would be funnier if it randombly inserted dick cock penis pussy twat vagina randomly
perl -pe 's/(\w+)/$1.(" dick"," cock"," penis"," pussy"," twat"," vagina")[int rand 16]/eg'
results in:
$user@$host:~/testd$ cat story | perl -pe 's/(\w+)/$1.(" dick"," cock"," penis"," pussy"," twat"," vagina")[int rand 18]/eg'
MOSCOW -- When Igor pussy Lisinenko entered what penis he was pussy told was an Afghan rebel base penis in penis 1982, he wasn vagina't penis sure penis what to expect. It was, after all, his dick first vagina assignment as a member penis of dick a dick Soviet twat army reconnaissance team penis sent to confirm that airstrikes a few hours before had destroyed the base.
An automatic Mr. Subliminal!!!
exactly... an Imperialist nation took over the area during the breakup of the ottoman empire and then sold it out from under the squatters after WW2.
It's sort of like our louisiana purchase. France sold us a lot of land with people who allready lived there and we kicked 'em out.
Or for a more modern example, it would be like if today, we took half the phillipine islands and deported them to make room for the Serbs, who we gave a nation there. Then when the phillipinos were pissed at the Serbs, we give them modern weapons!
I don't by the holy land bullshit either if you couldn't tell. No this doesn't mean that I support what they're doing in retaliation (DUH), no this doesn't mean that I'm anti-semetic (DUH), but it does mean that I understand what they mean when the talk about the crimes the US has commited against them.
bought from whom? don't squatters have rights?
oh, you're right... Bush Sr. did a great job too didn't he?
brilliant deduction... did dub-ya teach you that one? Learn by example I always say.
well it's to freaking late.
We screwed up sometime after WW2 and created the Israeli state and later gave them guns. US diplomacy under Democrat (Clinton) leadership was saving our buts. There was a cease-fire and that was no BS. Then Bush was elected and the Israeli's and the Pallestineans started killing each other. AND BUSH WENT ON VACATION!
Maybe if we deported the whole Israeli state to someplace like Nevada or Utah and moved our own damned people around so that they could have a home. That would solve it and get the US OUT of this crap.
Let's talk about the creation of the Israeli state. Why? Who sponsored it? What justification was there for kicking the former residents out?
You're kidding me THIS IS BUSH'S FAULT!
Clinton left the middle east with no strong "dipalomatical" (as dub-ya would say) successor to keep the Isralies from going ape, to keep the terrorists from blowing shit up.
How many arab attacks on Isralies have we seen since the election. How did Isriel respond? What did Bush do about it? TOOK A VACATION IN TEXAS!
Great job man! Way to go for world peace! Republicans rule!
I've found that linux's install is easy because of the better hardware support out of the box!
Q: how many windows boxes have you installed which require *NO* driver downloads?
Q: how many linux boxes have you installed which need a patch to work?
sure there's ata100 and such... but compare the set of hardware devices that linux 2.4 installs on compared to win2k with no driver downloads
If you're referring to the situation: start of round, move, attack, end of round... keep in mind the rules are an approximation of what happens, as much as the q3a field is divided up into locations of finite accuracy (ints), where in life location is a vector of floats of infinite accuracy...
My interpretation of the event you described would be "chao-baz continues his lightning-like movement across the room, striking an opponent who saw him coming and has begun to..." and continue with the enemy's action... the difference between that and a charge (moves half distance before and after the attack) would be "chao races across the room striking his opponent, who attempts to..." enemy's attack of opportunity "before chao lunges out of range". The difference added with tumbing is that the enemy has no chance to react.
Hey, what about D&D? That helped me get a head start on my math way back when. I hated to add and multiply. D&D game mechanics gave me a better head for numbers.
The only thing video games did was drive my ambition to hack warez that I downloaded and squeeze every last bit of juice out of that crappy old OS (DOS).
I encourage you to look at debian. There are standards (like the placement of configfiles in /etc/$PKGNAME/*, and documentation /usr/share/doc/$PKGNAME/*, and man pages for almost all commands, which redhat sux at) that make debian much better than the sum of its parts.
Finally I'm not talking about a daily BIND update, but security updates on the stable version of your distribution (for redhat this would be 6.2, slackware 7.whatever).
Spend some time reading up on system security... what do all these guys the pundits interview say? Keeping current to the security flaws in your system is more than a full time job. You cannot at the same time as you add users, change passwords, bail users out (oops, I deleted that file! oh I screwed up and mailed out HR info to EVERYONE! oops, I wasted the website... etc etc...) keep up to speed on the security issues reguarding every element of every system you control.
If you plan on using a UNIX of professional quality, then you rely on the individuals integrating and packaging your software to
Can you make the state of each piece of software on your system your full time job? If not, remember that there is a hacker who can. Your box is theirs for the taking.