I'm not so sure...think of a venn diagram -- With two intersecting circles picking up frequency readings, you would get two potential points of origin. A third receptor will pinpoint the location as desired.
I am pretty sure this is how earthquake epicenters are also triangulated (often with many sensors, not just three). The depth of an earthquake (the "altitude") is calculated using various other means not involving triangulation.
If you can't solve this by getting a better filesystem then look to the Maildir specs about how you can implement transparent hashing in the Maildir's themselves (based on timestamp/whatever)
Maildir is easily the way to go compared to mbox on a large user system.
Anyways, that was a *great* article and hopefully it will get more slashdot readers to think about reading some real articles. (well researched op/ed, features, etc)
It's nice to see some people get it and realize that while a college degree *IS* worth something and does speak about commitment and a certain base level of info, it does not mean that GPA==success. I've seen it over and over again, especially in CS -- people who do the best in CS do the worst in the real world and are forced to stay within the towers of academia. As this article points out, the same is apparently true for business.
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check out the kde psuedo-package. It's just a list of like 20 other packages, and when one of those twenty is updated, as long as you installed "kde" you'll get the update. Of course, if you want you could still do kde-base, kde-libs, kde-multimedia, all by themselves...but the pseudo-package "groups" them and watches for updates in the individual pieces...perhaps my example "sucked":-)
The judge can specifically state that an appeal will not hold up his access to the data or request that this be granted by an appealate judge.
IANAL, obviously, but it's no uncommon for a ruling to be held while the appeal is ongoing.
The judge is well aware of his lack of time and any appeal judge would certainly respect the meaning of the original ruling allowing Karl to see the documents while the appeal was still in court.
-davidu
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I'm glad you took the time to respond.
Your points in the second part are totally valid, but again I'll stress, you don't know how the pseudo-packages work. They accomplish EXACTLY what you want. Here's a case in point. (Note, I'm a huge debian fan and user)
Debian uses the Exim MTA by default. I personally like to use qmail, from source no less. Since Exim fulfills the MTA dependency I just need to somehow tell the system that I have another package which fulfills the MTA requirement. The problem is that there exists no.deb for *my* version of qmail. The result? A simple dummy package saying "hey, I got MTA covered, any thing that needs "MTA" is a-ok. There is no actual binary or code in the package, just a one line update to the system which tells it that the MTA is rockin'. Later on, I could make another package that says "hey wait a minute, now I'm in charge of "MTA" and with that, I'm using something new.
The point is, debian affords real flexibility. It isn't all apparent in apt but it's all there in dpkg. Feel free to pursue your own package management system, and best of luck to you. In fact, feel free to email me with any updates. I urge you, however, to make sure you fully understand the debian package system before you begin as you may simply wish to work on it prior to starting from scratch. Also, figure out the reason why debian mirrors keep all the binaries in the/pool instead of their respective release repositories...it will help you understand just how flexible the system really is.
-davidu
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Individual options (e.g. vi or emacs) within each package should be just that - options, not separate packages. Sure, a user may install more than he or she needs if packages are this "collective", but in my opinion, users would be much happier having an office suite installed when they only really need document editing capabilities than with a default OS install that takes up more than 1GB because it comes with everything preinstalled so regular users won't have to puzzle out the overcomplicated package managment system in order to install something else.
And then what happens when there is a new version of one "option" in your "old" package that needs one new lib from the "base" package? Your idea doesn't scale AT ALL, nor does it make any sense.
Sound good?
No, it sounds like you have no idea what you are talking about and you've also never used debian which accomplishes this in a sane way via pseudo-packages and tasks. -davidu
There are a lot of potentially clashing personalities in the Linux world. How do you deal with them? I just try to be as technical as possible. It is very important to me... People do not use the right words some of the time. Starting a fight is really easy. But instead of saying, for example, "You are full of shit," you can just say, "I don't think you are really right." You have to use the right words.
He forgot to mention however that this kind of atitude does not apply on the DJB lists.(qmail@, djbdns@, etc) hehe
From personal observations and anecdotal evidence I can safely say that community college courses on the whole are far better then four-year university courses. The professors who teach them take a genuine interest in your success as well as a compasionate atitude towards individual students.
I attend a top US university and I can safely say the mathematics department here hasn't done any cutting edge research aside from the weekly acid trip. One of my good friends is going down the path towards becoming a math professor to stay near the young girls and the good drugs. I'd be surprised if it wasn't the same at other so-called "top schools".
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I'm not so sure...think of a venn diagram -- With two intersecting circles picking up frequency readings, you would get two potential points of origin. A third receptor will pinpoint the location as desired.
I am pretty sure this is how earthquake epicenters are also triangulated (often with many sensors, not just three). The depth of an earthquake (the "altitude") is calculated using various other means not involving triangulation.
--davidu
I THINK NOT.
This is just another example of politics being influenced by corporate desires and lobbying.
-davidu
This is a flaw in your filesystem.
If you can't solve this by getting a better filesystem then look to the Maildir specs about how you can implement transparent hashing in the Maildir's themselves (based on timestamp/whatever)
Maildir is easily the way to go compared to mbox on a large user system.
-davidu
He wants to connect to their voicemail/psuedo-pbx setup.
There's no reason they can't/won't be able to get a landline from the phone company for like a fax or local/emergency line.
Lots of offices have the occasional _seperate_ line for things like faxes, local calling and/or 911.
-davidu
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Slashdot'ers read The NewYorker?
Really, I'm shocked.
Anyways, that was a *great* article and hopefully it will get more slashdot readers to think about reading some real articles. (well researched op/ed, features, etc)
It's nice to see some people get it and realize that while a college degree *IS* worth something and does speak about commitment and a certain base level of info, it does not mean that GPA==success. I've seen it over and over again, especially in CS -- people who do the best in CS do the worst in the real world and are forced to stay within the towers of academia. As this article points out, the same is apparently true for business.
-davidu
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My mistake, you are correct.
:-)
And Tom's words are right on. I guess that's why he is the shoutcast god too.
-davidu
-davidu
These guys have had terrible reputations with faulty crap in the past BUT I have had no problem with them.
racksaver.com
-davidu
What? That makes no sense on multiple levels. -davidu
davidu on OpenProjects network.
-davidu
What about something like
libopenssl that MANY programs use?
or glibc?
-davidu
check out the kde psuedo-package. It's just a list of like 20 other packages, and when one of those twenty is updated, as long as you installed "kde" you'll get the update. Of course, if you want you could still do kde-base, kde-libs, kde-multimedia, all by themselves...but the pseudo-package "groups" them and watches for updates in the individual pieces...perhaps my example "sucked" :-)
-davidu
The judge can specifically state that an appeal will not hold up his access to the data or request that this be granted by an appealate judge.
IANAL, obviously, but it's no uncommon for a ruling to be held while the appeal is ongoing.
The judge is well aware of his lack of time and any appeal judge would certainly respect the meaning of the original ruling allowing Karl to see the documents while the appeal was still in court.
-davidu
Your points in the second part are totally valid, but again I'll stress, you don't know how the pseudo-packages work. They accomplish EXACTLY what you want.
Here's a case in point. (Note, I'm a huge debian fan and user)
The point is, debian affords real flexibility. It isn't all apparent in apt but it's all there in dpkg.
Feel free to pursue your own package management system, and best of luck to you. In fact, feel free to email me with any updates. I urge you, however, to make sure you fully understand the debian package system before you begin as you may simply wish to work on it prior to starting from scratch. Also, figure out the reason why debian mirrors keep all the binaries in the
-davidu
And then what happens when there is a new version of one "option" in your "old" package that needs one new lib from the "base" package?
Your idea doesn't scale AT ALL, nor does it make any sense. No, it sounds like you have no idea what you are talking about and you've also never used debian which accomplishes this in a sane way via pseudo-packages and tasks.
-davidu
Wow, looks awesome!
I'll give it a try...
-davidu
-davidu
This is such utter and complete FUD it is nuts.
From personal observations and anecdotal evidence I can safely say that community college courses on the whole are far better then four-year university courses. The professors who teach them take a genuine interest in your success as well as a compasionate atitude towards individual students.
I attend a top US university and I can safely say the mathematics department here hasn't done any cutting edge research aside from the weekly acid trip. One of my good friends is going down the path towards becoming a math professor to stay near the young girls and the good drugs. I'd be surprised if it wasn't the same at other so-called "top schools".
-davidu
I've never even seen a *need* to say something like this on slashdot, and I've been here a long time, but please:
TAKE THIS USELESS TALK OFFLINE or at least stop using your +1 bonus so people who browse at 2+ aren't stuck reading your content-free crap.
Thanks kindly, David Ulevitch
--davidu
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In case you didn't notice, this isn't a damn UBB forum.
-davidu
205 is *pretty* low I guess...
*GRIN*
-davidu