I would absolutely +love+ to be able to have more than 8 ANSI colors in bash. Back in the BBS days, we had EGA adapters that could do 64 colors.
Hell, it would be even better if we could define RRGGBB web-style colors.
THAT would be a very feature to have in my opinion. Does anyone know if this can be done using a VGA adapter? Would we have to do it in framebuffer or something?
Have your pages serve up a warning message as a news item at the:00 of each hour. Ask your users to stagger their downloader / parser activity and not to pull it down "on the hour" or "on the half-hour".
Alternatively, you could just not serve feeds at:00 and:30. However, your readership wouldn't know why they were getting flaky performance from your feed.
(assuming you are in the US): Make sure he/she understands that you're hiring him as "Work for hire". Then use the images as you wish. If he want's to sue you, the burden of proof will be on him to prove that HE owns the copyright of the images that you _hired him to create_. It's doubtful that he'd sue you, but if he did, he'd have a lot of prove. He would likely lose in court, and you'd get the rights to your pictures.
IANAL-BMGI (But My Girlfriend Is) and as such, my advice is exactly that - just advice. Seek a _true_ legal professional that practices Copyright/Trademark Law and see what your rights are. It would probably cost you about $250 to get a real/legitimate answer.
One might wonder though how to reconcile Oddpost's MSIE requirement with Yahoo!'s (thus far) cross-platform approach.
This is easy to remedy: Microsoft acquires Yahoo!
MSFT could kill 3 birds with one stone - they could force all existing Yahoo! Mail users to use IE, they would gain a significant market share in the search engine market (against Google), and they'd get Oddpost as a bonus (not that Oddpost is terribly exciting).
This year Georgia is going to be the next Florida disaster. Cathy Cox is a Democrat and she's in it with the Bush GOP folks.
There's nothing like having the Secretary of State in your back pocket if you're Diebold. Afterall, in 2000, it was the Secretary of State of Florida (Katherine Harris) that decided to halt the recounts and declared Bush the winner.
For the record, Katherine Harris is now a US Senator.
Maybe political speeches will become shorter, or the eleven o'clock news will last only 5 minutes, the witty banter between news anchors edited out.'
They have this now. It's called the internet. news.google.com is a great example. Pick the news that you want it, when you want it - without the witty banter!
Clifford Stolls "Cuckoo's Egg" as a lesser-known favorite. It's a non-fiction account of how Mr. Stoll tracked down an international hacker. It's chock-full of detailed *nix information about how he [the hacker] jumped from machine to machine - and almost brought the US and Russia to war.
I used to _hate_ reading books until I picked up Cuckoo's Egg. It was the first 'novel/book' I ever actually finished reading cover-to-cover.
Highly recommended.
In the unlikely event that no-one has mentioned Stephen Levy's "Hackers", I'll throw it in this post as yet another _significiant_ computer industry book.
You sound like a Fox News Reporter - "fair and balanced".
From their website: Stratfor was founded in 1996, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices in Washington, D.C., with an intelligence network located throughout the world.
Nevermind, now it's clear that they are impartial, and nothing like Fox News.
Circuit Cellar is a decent electronics rag. Some of the projects are pretty interesting (and useful). Obviously, this magazine is intended for electronically mature individuals.
I think all car manufacturers should strive for a goal as ambitious as this. Here's why:
a) it makes calculating your miles per gallon trivial b) it helps you easily budget your annual GAS expenses c) it helps you distribute OPEC barrel prices fluctuations across your fiscal 'budget' year d) you can kill yourself in your own home FASTER than your wife can even ask, "What the hell are you doing in the garage with the door closed!"
1) The US isn't a Democracy - It's a Democratic Republic.
2) Unlike Republicans, Democrats don't have alterior motives ($$$). When Social Programs are implemented, it's actually to _HELP_ the underprivleged. That' probably a very difficult concept for a money-grubbing Republican to grasp, however.
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So avoid watching if you want sleep! He's likely to fire up the US citizens and really get them moving toward progress.
But what if you're running it in framebuffer mode right at the console. Are you saying it's the fault of agetty on the terminal?
For those that don't remember, here's a screenshot of EGA text graphics with 64 ascii colors:l phaman/
http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/a
Is there anything preventing bash from being able to do this?
I would absolutely +love+ to be able to have more than 8 ANSI colors in bash. Back in the BBS days, we had EGA adapters that could do 64 colors.
Hell, it would be even better if we could define RRGGBB web-style colors.
THAT would be a very feature to have in my opinion. Does anyone know if this can be done using a VGA adapter? Would we have to do it in framebuffer or something?
If I'm not mistaken, doesn't this just shift the burden to the processor by adding more decoding time to it in exchange for memory savings?
Interestingly this virus isn't attacking MSN, and IS coming at a bad time for Google (their IPO just priced).
I wouldn't put it past 'ole Billy to hire some guerilla coders to help his cause.
(I would've spell checked the word guerilla, but Google is down right now, so I can't).
Is this complex anywhere near Redmond by chance?
If so, something here smells awfully fishy.
Another idea:
:00 of each hour. Ask your users to stagger their downloader / parser activity and not to pull it down "on the hour" or "on the half-hour".
:00 and :30. However, your readership wouldn't know why they were getting flaky performance from your feed.
Have your pages serve up a warning message as a news item at the
Alternatively, you could just not serve feeds at
I've actually had to work for the past few hours.
[shudder]
(assuming you are in the US):
Make sure he/she understands that you're hiring him as "Work for hire". Then use the images as you wish. If he want's to sue you, the burden of proof will be on him to prove that HE owns the copyright of the images that you _hired him to create_. It's doubtful that he'd sue you, but if he did, he'd have a lot of prove. He would likely lose in court, and you'd get the rights to your pictures.
IANAL-BMGI (But My Girlfriend Is) and as such, my advice is exactly that - just advice. Seek a _true_ legal professional that practices Copyright/Trademark Law and see what your rights are. It would probably cost you about $250 to get a real/legitimate answer.
... out on the linuxiso website: LinuxISO.org.
One might wonder though how to reconcile Oddpost's MSIE requirement with Yahoo!'s (thus far) cross-platform approach.
This is easy to remedy: Microsoft acquires Yahoo!
MSFT could kill 3 birds with one stone - they could force all existing Yahoo! Mail users to use IE, they would gain a significant market share in the search engine market (against Google), and they'd get Oddpost as a bonus (not that Oddpost is terribly exciting).
This year Georgia is going to be the next Florida disaster. Cathy Cox is a Democrat and she's in it with the Bush GOP folks.
There's nothing like having the Secretary of State in your back pocket if you're Diebold. Afterall, in 2000, it was the Secretary of State of Florida (Katherine Harris) that decided to halt the recounts and declared Bush the winner.
For the record, Katherine Harris is now a US Senator.
good thing Diebold has its ATM product line to fall back on.
Let's see: ATM monopoly + US Voting Machine monopoly == a good thing?
How do you figure?
Maybe political speeches will become shorter, or the eleven o'clock news will last only 5 minutes, the witty banter between news anchors edited out.'
They have this now. It's called the internet. news.google.com is a great example. Pick the news that you want it, when you want it - without the witty banter!
...Unocal. I find it hard to believe that they'd be doing anything dodgy like this.
Sheesh.
It's not like they're The Carlyle Group or anything.
Clifford Stolls "Cuckoo's Egg" as a lesser-known favorite. It's a non-fiction account of how Mr. Stoll tracked down an international hacker. It's chock-full of detailed *nix information about how he [the hacker] jumped from machine to machine - and almost brought the US and Russia to war.
I used to _hate_ reading books until I picked up Cuckoo's Egg. It was the first 'novel/book' I ever actually finished reading cover-to-cover.
Highly recommended.
In the unlikely event that no-one has mentioned Stephen Levy's "Hackers", I'll throw it in this post as yet another _significiant_ computer industry book.
I think they're trying to appear "cool" and "hip" to younger programmers.
Here's a tip:
The up-and-coming programming generation doesn't find ancient "easter-eggs" cool anymore.
MSFT: You're old. Let it go, it's over. Your jokes aren't funny. Billy's comb-over haircut is the only forward-looking thing you have going.
[hint: Being "natural" is the new trend; "Engineered" people are quickly becoming soo 20th century]
by Sun Tzu.
If you can apply the techniques of war to business, you'll be off to a great start.
Some things are very obvious (divide and conquer), and others are not (however, they are just as intriquing).
... so yes, they did exist (of sorts) before they evolved into what they are today.
Boy were my legs happy when our Betmax player came with a wired remote!
Ahh, the memories.
You sound like a Fox News Reporter - "fair and balanced".
From their website:
Stratfor was founded in 1996, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices in Washington, D.C., with an intelligence network located throughout the world.
Nevermind, now it's clear that they are impartial, and nothing like Fox News.
Circuit Cellar is a decent electronics rag. Some of the projects are pretty interesting (and useful). Obviously, this magazine is intended for electronically mature individuals.
My Excursion gets a whopping ONE mile per gallon.
I think all car manufacturers should strive for a goal as ambitious as this. Here's why:
a) it makes calculating your miles per gallon trivial
b) it helps you easily budget your annual GAS expenses
c) it helps you distribute OPEC barrel prices fluctuations across your fiscal 'budget' year
d) you can kill yourself in your own home FASTER than your wife can even ask, "What the hell are you doing in the garage with the door closed!"
2 things:
1) The US isn't a Democracy - It's a Democratic Republic.
2) Unlike Republicans, Democrats don't have alterior motives ($$$). When Social Programs are implemented, it's actually to _HELP_ the underprivleged. That' probably a very difficult concept for a money-grubbing Republican to grasp, however.