Well, it might be one point of view if you keep both eyes open, but if you keep your left eye closed to look at one, and do the same with the right eye for the other, they count as two.
Uuhhh... so you want a computer built into the kitchen, or you want a kitchen built into the computer? The former is easy, the latter not quite there yet. Though, if you have a dual Pentium 4 Xeon or Athlon MP box, you could cook breakfast while fragging.
NT SP6 broke Lotus Notes, primarily, and other Winsock apps. MSKB Q245678 contains the description of that bug:
SYMPTOMS
After you apply Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6, Winsock calls may not work properly. Generally the problem manifests itself when a program attempts to connect to a server. You may see an application layer error like:
Could not connect to server.
or
Access denied.
CAUSE
The problem only occurs if the user does not have full administrative rights to the computer.
You can just Ctrl-click (or right-click, if using a two-button mouse) on the volume you want to eject, or choose "Eject Disk" from the Special menu (OS <= 9.x). Having said that, though, the first time I used a Mac (Mac Classic running System 6) and wanted to eject the floppy disk, the first thing that came to my mind was to "drag the floppy icon to the trash bin". And it worked.
You're right, it does mean "Oh, God! There is an axe in my head!". Actually, it's more like "There is an axe in my head, I tell you!", due to the presence of the "yo" sentence particle.
I don't think it'd make much sense to follow a particle with another ("ni" and "wa"). My Japanese is pretty craplousy, however, so don't quote me on that.
The phrase comes from some website I found at random, which had "Oh, my God! There is an axe in my head!" translated into many different languages. And I was bored, so I found it amusing.
Those in the U.S. who had cable TV in the early 90's probably recall TV Guide Channel's precursor, Prevue Channel. This channel used to be in my hometown's cable company's lineup, cycling through the program listings over and over. As it happens, the channel's video was fed from an Amiga equipped with a Video Toaster. How do I know? "Guru Meditation", of course; it happened at least once a week, flashing a bright red box over a black background around the error message, asking the user to "press the left mouse button to reboot".
As for the origin of that phrase, ESR kindly provides us with this explanation.
When the updates are available via anonymous FTP (and at least some of them still do), it's not a huge deal. As long as you don't give your real e-mail address when prompted, that is.
But I wonder, when will I be able to add whale-tail spoilers, glasspack mufflers, 4-inch tailpipes, single-windshield-wiper mods, blue turn signal lenses, and Type R/VTEC logo stickers to one of those ZipZaps?
... The new world, which has been dubbed Quaoar, is about 1,280 kilometres (800 miles) across. Quaoar orbits the sun ever 288 years and is 1250 Km wide, about the size of all the asteroids combined.
So which one is it? 1280? 1250? Both? Neither? CowboyNeal?
Yes, you are right, it does seem racist. My idea, however, was to look like a certain infamous Arab, not like Arabs in general. Besides, I'm intrigued to find out what kinds of reactions it'd bring, specially after they learn that the Arab-looking guy is not really an Arab after all.
I've always wondered what to do with a lab coat I have left over from my college days which I don't use anymore. For some reason, I keep thinking of using it as part of a Halloween costume, along with some Herman Munster-esque face paint, and an 8-inch afro wig. With a hair pick. I could just roam about, saying "slap mah 'fro!" repeatedly. Yeah.
Other than that, people keep saying that I have a Middle Eastern look; this is usually uttered by Middle Eastern people. As a result, I have at some time or another entertained the idea of dressing up in a turban with a long grey beard and a bullseye painted on the back. A true-scale toy AK-47 rifle would come in handy to complete the overall effect.
Yes, in a way, the root account on OS X exists mostly for those Unixish aspects of the system that require superuser privileges. It basically is just a record in the NetInfo database and in/etc/passwd with its password field disabled (that is, there's an asterisk in it). Those applications that require root privileges (like some System Preferences applets, Disk Setup, and the NetInfo Manager) use sudo to gain said privileges. Everything else depends on the user being in the admin group (equivalent to the wheel group on BSD systems), like installing apps in/Applications. All of this is done using standard Unix security, and as such could be done on other Unix and Unix-like systems.
Nope, OS X doesn't ask for the root password, because the root account in OS X is disabled by default. Instead, the user is asked for his/her own password, and the user's account has to be a member of the admin group. It does so via sudo, so if you've used sudo on Linux or BSD or some other system, you already know how it works on OS X.
I think you've confused ATA and SCSI with bus and port attachments, respectively. Both ATA and SCSI use shared parallel buses to connect devices to the controller. Also, multiple SCSI devices on the same bus can and will saturate the bus, specially if you have many 15Krpm drives with insanely high transfer speeds per spindle. ATA's limitation of being able to perform one transaction at a time is independent of it using a shared bus design.
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Shouldn't the article point out that these DivX DVD players aren't the same as the DivX players once sold by Circuit City? Or are they?
I think they were talking about italian water ice.
Ahh, love the Damon Knight/Twilight Zone reference. That story was part of my English class textbooks in middle school.
I'm still waiting for the infinite energy box...
Well, it might be one point of view if you keep both eyes open, but if you keep your left eye closed to look at one, and do the same with the right eye for the other, they count as two.
Uuhhh... so you want a computer built into the kitchen, or you want a kitchen built into the computer? The former is easy, the latter not quite there yet. Though, if you have a dual Pentium 4 Xeon or Athlon MP box, you could cook breakfast while fragging.
NT SP6 broke Lotus Notes, primarily, and other Winsock apps. MSKB Q245678 contains the description of that bug:
SYMPTOMS
After you apply Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6, Winsock calls may not work properly. Generally the problem manifests itself when a program attempts to connect to a server. You may see an application layer error like:
CAUSE
The problem only occurs if the user does not have full administrative rights to the computer.
Because they believe that:
Ignorance is bliss, some people say.
How many MPH (miles per herring) will it get?
You can just Ctrl-click (or right-click, if using a two-button mouse) on the volume you want to eject, or choose "Eject Disk" from the Special menu (OS <= 9.x). Having said that, though, the first time I used a Mac (Mac Classic running System 6) and wanted to eject the floppy disk, the first thing that came to my mind was to "drag the floppy icon to the trash bin". And it worked.
Since they already seem to be in the financial doldrums, it is a good time for them to change their name. I suggest: Suc King.
You're right, it does mean "Oh, God! There is an axe in my head!". Actually, it's more like "There is an axe in my head, I tell you!", due to the presence of the "yo" sentence particle.
I don't think it'd make much sense to follow a particle with another ("ni" and "wa"). My Japanese is pretty craplousy, however, so don't quote me on that.
The phrase comes from some website I found at random, which had "Oh, my God! There is an axe in my head!" translated into many different languages. And I was bored, so I found it amusing.
Weird... I read that as "aibophobia", and thought it was the fear of electronic pets.
This is a great time to sing the Programmer's Cheer:
Shift to the left!
Shift to the right!
Pop up, push down,
Byte, byte, byte!
Those in the U.S. who had cable TV in the early 90's probably recall TV Guide Channel's precursor, Prevue Channel. This channel used to be in my hometown's cable company's lineup, cycling through the program listings over and over. As it happens, the channel's video was fed from an Amiga equipped with a Video Toaster. How do I know? "Guru Meditation", of course; it happened at least once a week, flashing a bright red box over a black background around the error message, asking the user to "press the left mouse button to reboot".
As for the origin of that phrase, ESR kindly provides us with this explanation.
When the updates are available via anonymous FTP (and at least some of them still do), it's not a huge deal. As long as you don't give your real e-mail address when prompted, that is.
But I wonder, when will I be able to add whale-tail spoilers, glasspack mufflers, 4-inch tailpipes, single-windshield-wiper mods, blue turn signal lenses, and Type R/VTEC logo stickers to one of those ZipZaps?
So which one is it? 1280? 1250? Both? Neither? CowboyNeal?
Yes, you are right, it does seem racist. My idea, however, was to look like a certain infamous Arab, not like Arabs in general. Besides, I'm intrigued to find out what kinds of reactions it'd bring, specially after they learn that the Arab-looking guy is not really an Arab after all.
I've always wondered what to do with a lab coat I have left over from my college days which I don't use anymore. For some reason, I keep thinking of using it as part of a Halloween costume, along with some Herman Munster-esque face paint, and an 8-inch afro wig. With a hair pick. I could just roam about, saying "slap mah 'fro!" repeatedly. Yeah.
Other than that, people keep saying that I have a Middle Eastern look; this is usually uttered by Middle Eastern people. As a result, I have at some time or another entertained the idea of dressing up in a turban with a long grey beard and a bullseye painted on the back. A true-scale toy AK-47 rifle would come in handy to complete the overall effect.
Yes, in a way, the root account on OS X exists mostly for those Unixish aspects of the system that require superuser privileges. It basically is just a record in the NetInfo database and in /etc/passwd with its password field disabled (that is, there's an asterisk in it). Those applications that require root privileges (like some System Preferences applets, Disk Setup, and the NetInfo Manager) use sudo to gain said privileges. Everything else depends on the user being in the admin group (equivalent to the wheel group on BSD systems), like installing apps in /Applications. All of this is done using standard Unix security, and as such could be done on other Unix and Unix-like systems.
Nope, OS X doesn't ask for the root password, because the root account in OS X is disabled by default. Instead, the user is asked for his/her own password, and the user's account has to be a member of the admin group. It does so via sudo, so if you've used sudo on Linux or BSD or some other system, you already know how it works on OS X.
I fear that they might want to change the kernel error messages first.
Dude, you're getting a kernel panic!
Obviously, their definition of "Normal" must be "SNAFU":
Situation Normal, All F*ed Up
I think you've confused ATA and SCSI with bus and port attachments, respectively. Both ATA and SCSI use shared parallel buses to connect devices to the controller. Also, multiple SCSI devices on the same bus can and will saturate the bus, specially if you have many 15Krpm drives with insanely high transfer speeds per spindle. ATA's limitation of being able to perform one transaction at a time is independent of it using a shared bus design.
Learning that you paraphrased a MasterCard commercial thinking it was a Visa one: -1 D'oh!