They just need to re-allocate resources... the Sunday Sport is the only paper to have a member of staff dedicated to making sure there are enough breasts/nipples in each edition.
I waited, and waited, and waited. No button appeared. I think that Omniweb's slightly flawed Javascript implementation confounds it. Fine by me, most sites that have Javascript I need to use work just fine with it.
As I understand it, one of the reasons Linux took off so fast in the early 90s was that people were frightened of the whole IP/patents thing surrounding 4.4BSD Lite. Later on, the copyright (whatever) issues were resolved, but by then the damage had been done and Linux had gained a lot of recognition/popularity. *
So I reckon that early adopters of FreeBSD would have had to struggle to persuade management that it was worth using, and that it wasn't a dead-end platform.
BTW, I use FreeBSD in all my servers at our small place of work (except where I have to use OS X server). Personally, I love it. But maybe that's because we *do* use all of the ftp/sendmail/apache stuff the above poster mentioned, and none of the crap the next one mentioned:)
The way the Guardian described the Hubble mirror fiasco as a 'gross design flaw' was a little harsh.
As I understand it, the mirror was polished each night, then tested to see if it was the right shape yet. The testing apparatus included a series of lenses (or mirrors) held a fixed distance apart by rods. Turned out that one of those rods had the paint chipped off one end, which resulted in NASA thinking the mirror was perfect when it wasn't.
Well, like he says, rainwater will leech out a lot of the nutrients from the heap. There's a fine balance to be struck in compost, between damp and dry, hot and cold, etc, etc, but usually the moisture from the scraps you put in there is sufficient (of course, check it regularly and add water if it's looking dry).
However, a slightly easier way of doing it is just to pop a square of left-over carpet on top of your bin.
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1. Thanks for pointing that out, I never realised 'forte' meaning 'strong point' came from the French (my British-English etymological dictionary bears that out as well). Interesting.
2. Did you have to be so damn rude about it? I very nearly modded you down as a troll...
Hmmm, maybe the article was aimed at people like me. It was interesting to have a peek at the guts of a computer, but luckily I'm technical enough not to get confused by his rather odd illustrations.
I think the pictures and graphs did their job (he chose those analogies for a reason), but you have to be on the ball.
All in all, a good read for a sysadmin who isn't an electronic engineer.
I have a special space reserved on my CD shelves for 3 quid CDs... "Moscow Military Cavalcade" (including the Tetris theme and Auld Lang Syne done by the Red Army band... very surreal), "The Mighty Wurlitzer" (I love 'popular classics' like My Favourite Things done entirely in parallel fifths), French Accordion Favourites, plenty of Spike Jones, etc. Can't live without it!
Then again, I am slowly working my way through buying the entire Frank Zappa catalogue, even though I already have all of it downloaded as MP3s. The sleeve notes make the real thing worth buying...
Not only does vi (and pico) come as standard, but Apple have made it so that the Terminal window in which you're editing gets that little "your document is unsaved" dot in it's close button if you haven't written your changes out.
Just those little touches...:)
Plus, I've said it before and I'll say it again, Win XP is so fucking ugly. Eugh!!!
Damn right... thought it was just Telewest being crap (S-W England), but from being able to load/. instantly (maybe a couple of seconds), it's now taking around 20-30 seconds *consistently*. Certainly makes posting comments a tedious chore. Grrrr.....
OpenDoc? Wasn't that some completely random bit of Apple internetty type technology that flew about as well as a lead penguin?
Surely Kaleidoscope (www.kaleidoscope.net) is what you mean:) Or did I get confused about OpenDoc?
Hmmm, I seem to remember posting something like this a few days back: it *still* looks as chunky and uninspiring as Windows always has done. I mean, come *on*! It's just so ugly. And what's with all those damn colours everywhere? Even Apple keeps window title bars neutral. Eugh.
People who are used to Windows who design things almost invariably come up with Windows-looking things. I have yet to see a skin for Windows (or Gnome, etc, etc) that actually looks like not-windows.
I'm a FreeBSD person, I use it on my various servers (from web to mail to router to NAS). (Oddly, the thing that first got me into *BSD was that MkLinux wouldn't support the ethernet card on an old 68K Mac, so I put NetBSD on it instead.)
Now not that I've used Linux much, but I once heard the phrase "FreeBSD is an operating system, Linux is a kernel with some stuff attached". Certainly the way FreeBSD *feels* coherent, and is very natural to work with, makes that statement possibly true for me.
Linux doesn't suck. As such. It can just seem like a goddamn mess at times. In the same way that skins designed by people used to Windows never ever look as good as those designed by people used to Apples (just look at www.kaleidoscope.net), apt-get or RPMs just aren't as nice as ports (www.freshports.org). Where things get installed, where the logs are (fair play, RedHat's pretty good at logs as well), all sorts of stuff... whenever I've nearly put Linux on a server (because I want some bit of hardware that only has Linux drivers):
1) I look at a Linux distro, with its docs, and think "Oh my God, wtf...", and
2) Suddenly someone writes a driver for FreeBSD, and I am saved:)
There endeth the entirely xenophobic ramblings of Huge Pi Removal:) Honestly, I wouldn't kill myslef rather than use Linux, but I sure do like FreeBSD (come on guys, ipfw2... see the light!).
I think the main point is that when the Halon goes off, it's more than likely to burst your eardrums. At least that's how it worked in a friend's Uni's server room.
I do remember they did a fire test, trying to set off the fire extinguishers with a burning wastebasket. Nothing happened, and they moved the wastebasket closer and closer to the detector. The alarm finally went off when the flames were licking at the damn thing:)
Hesus, most people don't even know what IRC is! Is there anywhere else to go for movies?
Hotline (if you can stand the fools), Carracho (if you've got a Mac), Kazaa(et al) if you've got a PC, ummm, Cinemas (if you've got the cash). Guess that's about it:)
I would advise following www.macintouch.com or similar (macfixit, macresource, etc). They usually give a good indication of problems bugging Apple products, along with other useful info. At macintouch there are various reports, so you can follow specifically iPod things if you want.
Originally I thought that having clocks spoilt the thought experiment, but after reading your response I thought some more, and I realised your original comment was a really good analogy. Thanks for that...
Now if only I'd worked something about faster-than-light pulses into the story that's my URL above. That coulda been *fun*.
Same speed limit -- same group velocity -- but phase velocity ranges from near zero to past the speed of light, depending on whether drunk drivers or synchronized computers are behind the wheel.
Only if all the computers had atomic clocks and were told beforehand an exact time to set off. If the computers were daisy-chained together, the signal would travel back through the jam at no more than the speed of light. I was with you right up until that point...:)
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They just need to re-allocate resources... the Sunday Sport is the only paper to have a member of staff dedicated to making sure there are enough breasts/nipples in each edition.
I waited, and waited, and waited. No button appeared. I think that Omniweb's slightly flawed Javascript implementation confounds it. Fine by me, most sites that have Javascript I need to use work just fine with it.
It's annoying that, I've nearly made the same mistake several times. Don't worry, I'm maxed out on karma, and your modding has been undone anyway :)
Best wishes,
Oliver.
But she says in the article, it was a true story...
As I understand it, one of the reasons Linux took off so fast in the early 90s was that people were frightened of the whole IP/patents thing surrounding 4.4BSD Lite. Later on, the copyright (whatever) issues were resolved, but by then the damage had been done and Linux had gained a lot of recognition/popularity. *
:)
So I reckon that early adopters of FreeBSD would have had to struggle to persuade management that it was worth using, and that it wasn't a dead-end platform.
BTW, I use FreeBSD in all my servers at our small place of work (except where I have to use OS X server). Personally, I love it. But maybe that's because we *do* use all of the ftp/sendmail/apache stuff the above poster mentioned, and none of the crap the next one mentioned
* Someone correct me if I'm spouting BS.
The misuse probably came from the same mentality which decided that 'to learn' was equivalent to 'to teach', as in "I'll learn you this".
Aarghhhh!
Damn, used up the last of this week's mod points on a previous story. But just let me say: hahahahaha..... :D
/bin/sh script... that's just taking the piss.
Ah, you gotta love open source. Actually, I particularly love the way he makes the CGI a
I never said NASA did build it, just that they believed it was perfect when it wasn't. But thanks for clearing up any confusion.
The way the Guardian described the Hubble mirror fiasco as a 'gross design flaw' was a little harsh.
As I understand it, the mirror was polished each night, then tested to see if it was the right shape yet. The testing apparatus included a series of lenses (or mirrors) held a fixed distance apart by rods. Turned out that one of those rods had the paint chipped off one end, which resulted in NASA thinking the mirror was perfect when it wasn't.
A blunder, yes, but not a design flaw as such.
Well, like he says, rainwater will leech out a lot of the nutrients from the heap. There's a fine balance to be struck in compost, between damp and dry, hot and cold, etc, etc, but usually the moisture from the scraps you put in there is sufficient (of course, check it regularly and add water if it's looking dry).
However, a slightly easier way of doing it is just to pop a square of left-over carpet on top of your bin.
Ummmm....
1. Thanks for pointing that out, I never realised 'forte' meaning 'strong point' came from the French (my British-English etymological dictionary bears that out as well). Interesting.
2. Did you have to be so damn rude about it? I very nearly modded you down as a troll...
Hmmm, maybe the article was aimed at people like me. It was interesting to have a peek at the guts of a computer, but luckily I'm technical enough not to get confused by his rather odd illustrations.
I think the pictures and graphs did their job (he chose those analogies for a reason), but you have to be on the ball.
All in all, a good read for a sysadmin who isn't an electronic engineer.
I have a special space reserved on my CD shelves for 3 quid CDs... "Moscow Military Cavalcade" (including the Tetris theme and Auld Lang Syne done by the Red Army band... very surreal), "The Mighty Wurlitzer" (I love 'popular classics' like My Favourite Things done entirely in parallel fifths), French Accordion Favourites, plenty of Spike Jones, etc. Can't live without it!
Then again, I am slowly working my way through buying the entire Frank Zappa catalogue, even though I already have all of it downloaded as MP3s. The sleeve notes make the real thing worth buying...
I think the phrase you're looking for is "Don't copy the flipping CD, melon farmer".
Hmmm, I'm *sure* that used to work back in the early days of OS X. Or maybe it was all a strange dream......
Sorry to decrease the signal to bullshit ratio.
Not only does vi (and pico) come as standard, but Apple have made it so that the Terminal window in which you're editing gets that little "your document is unsaved" dot in it's close button if you haven't written your changes out.
:)
Just those little touches...
Plus, I've said it before and I'll say it again, Win XP is so fucking ugly. Eugh!!!
Damn right... thought it was just Telewest being crap (S-W England), but from being able to load /. instantly (maybe a couple of seconds), it's now taking around 20-30 seconds *consistently*. Certainly makes posting comments a tedious chore. Grrrr.....
OpenDoc? Wasn't that some completely random bit of Apple internetty type technology that flew about as well as a lead penguin?
:) Or did I get confused about OpenDoc?
Surely Kaleidoscope (www.kaleidoscope.net) is what you mean
Hmmm, I seem to remember posting something like this a few days back: it *still* looks as chunky and uninspiring as Windows always has done. I mean, come *on*! It's just so ugly. And what's with all those damn colours everywhere? Even Apple keeps window title bars neutral. Eugh.
People who are used to Windows who design things almost invariably come up with Windows-looking things. I have yet to see a skin for Windows (or Gnome, etc, etc) that actually looks like not-windows.
OK, I'm not the original poster, but...
:)
:) Honestly, I wouldn't kill myslef rather than use Linux, but I sure do like FreeBSD (come on guys, ipfw2... see the light!).
I'm a FreeBSD person, I use it on my various servers (from web to mail to router to NAS). (Oddly, the thing that first got me into *BSD was that MkLinux wouldn't support the ethernet card on an old 68K Mac, so I put NetBSD on it instead.)
Now not that I've used Linux much, but I once heard the phrase "FreeBSD is an operating system, Linux is a kernel with some stuff attached". Certainly the way FreeBSD *feels* coherent, and is very natural to work with, makes that statement possibly true for me.
Linux doesn't suck. As such. It can just seem like a goddamn mess at times. In the same way that skins designed by people used to Windows never ever look as good as those designed by people used to Apples (just look at www.kaleidoscope.net), apt-get or RPMs just aren't as nice as ports (www.freshports.org). Where things get installed, where the logs are (fair play, RedHat's pretty good at logs as well), all sorts of stuff... whenever I've nearly put Linux on a server (because I want some bit of hardware that only has Linux drivers):
1) I look at a Linux distro, with its docs, and think "Oh my God, wtf...", and
2) Suddenly someone writes a driver for FreeBSD, and I am saved
There endeth the entirely xenophobic ramblings of Huge Pi Removal
I think the main point is that when the Halon goes off, it's more than likely to burst your eardrums. At least that's how it worked in a friend's Uni's server room.
:)
I do remember they did a fire test, trying to set off the fire extinguishers with a burning wastebasket. Nothing happened, and they moved the wastebasket closer and closer to the detector. The alarm finally went off when the flames were licking at the damn thing
Hesus, most people don't even know what IRC is! Is there anywhere else to go for movies?
:)
Hotline (if you can stand the fools), Carracho (if you've got a Mac), Kazaa(et al) if you've got a PC, ummm, Cinemas (if you've got the cash). Guess that's about it
I would advise following www.macintouch.com or similar (macfixit, macresource, etc). They usually give a good indication of problems bugging Apple products, along with other useful info. At macintouch there are various reports, so you can follow specifically iPod things if you want.
The more I read /., the more I think there should be a new " -1: *sigh* " mod category.
:)
It should automatically be applied to any post with the word "beowulf" in it, of course...
Originally I thought that having clocks spoilt the thought experiment, but after reading your response I thought some more, and I realised your original comment was a really good analogy. Thanks for that...
Now if only I'd worked something about faster-than-light pulses into the story that's my URL above. That coulda been *fun*.
Same speed limit -- same group velocity -- but phase velocity ranges from near zero to past the speed of light, depending on whether drunk drivers or synchronized computers are behind the wheel.
:)
Only if all the computers had atomic clocks and were told beforehand an exact time to set off. If the computers were daisy-chained together, the signal would travel back through the jam at no more than the speed of light. I was with you right up until that point...