Wait, you mean people actually are still using Woody and are trying to upgrade all at once to Sarge?
Nobody uses Woody. Run 'testing' or 'unstable' and upgrade continuously-- that's the best way to use Debian, and with perhaps slightly expanded automated testing of the 'testing' branch, and more frequent moving of packages into 'stable', that could simply be the way it always works in the future; forget these antiquated "distribution releases".
A terrific way to experience the outdoors, the Mackinaw has so many uses: waterside cabana, deluxe playhouse, weekend retreat & more! Crafted from select knotty red pine, the Mackinaw is completely panelized for easy assembly. Handy Home Products' do-it-yourself building kits are completely pre-cut - there's nothing to saw! No special carpentry skills are needed to build a Handy Home building - we've designed each one with you, the do-it-yourselfer, in mind. All that's needed are a few common household tools and a little spare time.
I was rooting for a somewhat local team but they didn't qualify, probably will enter next year though.
Their vehicle is pretty awesome, hope they can get some good navigation software worked out by next year. The vehicle can just drive over lots of obstacles that seem to get the various trucks and jeeps hung up, which gives it a good advantage, but they will probably need to "armor" it a bit from branches, posts, and loose rocks.
"Proof of concept" using all free software (client and server): Free 3D engine, free web browser, free networking architecture. Pending changes to Mozilla will be integrated into user applications sooner or later. Hackers wanted...
Most large companies like Coca Cola have many associate companies around the world that are licensed to use its trademarks, patents, and to manufacture and bottle its products. So its not just one company. I have heard that in fact the top-level Coke corporation is technically based in Japan, no idea if that's true or not.
Related to logging, is program output. If you are writing tools that run at a Unix console, then someday you'll want to run them from scripts and use their output:
1. Use stdout and stderr appropriately: I should be able to run "foo > file" and see warnings on my console, but only get useful data in the file. Don't write messages to stdout if they aren't useful output. C++ has std::clog too. Don't make scripts use "grep -v" to remove random status messages or whatever.!
2. prefix your warnings/errors with the name of the program. So if a bunch of programs run in a script-- or in the background-- you can sort them out.
3. Indicate if something in an error or a warning.
4. Don't get too emotional, unless it's really neccesary:
Notice that you can use a ! at the end for emphasis, but it's not obnoxious.
Make reasonable suggestions if you think an error might be caused by user error:
fooprogram: Error: No status file found. (Use fooprogram -s to initialize.)
fooprogram: Error: No response from server at localhost:2323. Did you run it first?
(But try not to be too patronizing!)
5. Use error codes. (in exit() or return from main). Make an enum or #defines somewhere. Document them in the man page and/or --help output.
What do you mean when you say "Virtual Reality". There are lots of related technologies that were pretty immature in the early 90s that have made a lot of progress, the biggest one being 3D graphics display hardware and software.
Now, I think, one of the more interesting technologies that could possibly be grouped under the otherwise vague "Virtual Reality" umbrella to work on is user-interface stuff, and desiging applications and networking software that lets people use their personal computers to share a graphical world and collaborate in it over the Internet.
There are several Free Software projects working on this, one of them I helped design so I feel obligated to plug it here:) http://interreality.org/ (actually, another VOS user told me to!)
It's important that a strong Free Software project emerge in this area soon, or the field will become dominated by proprietary software and standards! Interreality and VOS are especially lacking in nice, easy to use applications for non-programmers and non-Unix-geeks, and we need artists to try creating worlds for the system and give us some direction on where it needs to go.
Regarding VRML, you may think it's lame and dead but it's not. The latest version, called X3D, fixes a bunch of problems with VRML97, and with today's graphics cards the graphical quality is far better than it was 10 years ago.
...after the first human-brainpower-equivalent CPU is created. It will take that long for the machine to "learn" the world if it only has a CPU equivalent to one human brain (1 HBE).
Of course, if Moore's Law is still kicking, then 2 years into the learning phase, they can swap the 1-HBE processor for a 2-HBE processor...
What are you talking about? This doesn't mean anything. What is the clock cycle of your brain? What is its instruction set? RAM access time? It makes no sense...
I love the Berkshire Hathaway site. Take it as some advice from some people who know how to make a lot of money with a minimum of waste. Looks like someone's nephew put it together in a few hours circa 1996, and it's one of the most easy-to-use and clean sites I've seen in months. No need to impress anyone with slick graphics there:)
It's not quite as dumb as it looks, it just came out of specific uses. The year is often implied. It also matches the way you say it, "February sixteenth, two thousand and five". (You don't say "two thousand and five february sixteenth", though you could I guess). Some examples:
02/16 02/16/05
What dates are those? Both the sixteenth of February, current year. They line up nicely. If you are more interested in month-related data, then it works well; you can make nice lists, where the constant year is not obscuring the data that is varying; compare (e.g., how many August dates are in this list? How many August 1 dates?):
Yes, as one of those tourists I agree. I did manage to get a photo of Stonehenge-minus-tourists by lying down in the grass so that they were all just obscured. Looks cool against the sky too.
send(FIX(foo)); bar = FIX(thing); if(FIX(baz) == 23) {
Code readability is usually better than such tiny optimizations that the compiler will do much better than you anyway, and this FIX macro is probably there for readability.
When will I be able to download a.gpx (common GPS interchange format) file with my route on it?:)
Nicely implemented interface, too bad it doesn't do smooth zooming, and it needs a miniature overview map in the corner zoomed out a few levels from the main map, first time I zoomed in I ended up lost in the middle of the ocean.
Isn't that circumventing the purpose of the EPO? If there's a smokey fire in there and the firefighters have to enter the room and start spraying water around, won't a few machines glowing for four minutes after the EPO was pressed put them in danger of electrocution? Or force them to wait four minutes beore they can enter?
No, you have two, one for each power system, seperated by enough space that it's hard to hit them both by accident, but easy for both to be hit in an emergency.
You can "Man in the Middle" this SSL exchange by spoofing the entire look and behavior of https://www.bankofslashdot.org. The only problems are getting a key signed by a CA (not that hard), and implementing the spoof deeply enough that you can get the info you want before throwing up a mysterious error at the user and making them go away.
Why does everyone think that the Intel PC will last forever? Why is it ridiculous for new hardware with a new OS to be feasible?
That said, if I was able to run AmigaOS on a PC or Mac, even in a slow emulation mode, or on a cheaper native machine, I'd consider porting my software. Especially if there's a POSIX layer to work with.
There is something to be said for starting over from scratch with a nice simple system. Anyone remember something called "V2OS", a new OS built from scratch for Intel x86? I was ready to start playing with it and writing programs, but I don't think they ever got a C compiler finished for it...
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http://www.retroweb.com/prisoner/prisx60r.jpg
R.I.P ClarisWorks!
Once I had that, I never opened Word95 again!
Most of the features, but sane.
It can import and md2, md3 and md5. If the neccesary scripts aren't in the release yet, you can get them (and many other scripts) at:
h tml
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Import___Export.5.0.
Wait, you mean people actually are still using Woody and are trying to upgrade all at once to Sarge?
Nobody uses Woody. Run 'testing' or 'unstable' and upgrade continuously-- that's the best way to use Debian, and with perhaps slightly expanded automated testing of the 'testing' branch, and more frequent moving of packages into 'stable', that could simply be the way it always works in the future; forget these antiquated "distribution releases".
http://www.homedepot.com/prel80/HDUS/EN_US/diy_ma
A terrific way to experience the outdoors, the Mackinaw has so many uses: waterside cabana, deluxe playhouse, weekend retreat & more! Crafted from select knotty red pine, the Mackinaw is completely panelized for easy assembly. Handy Home Products' do-it-yourself building kits are completely pre-cut - there's nothing to saw! No special carpentry skills are needed to build a Handy Home building - we've designed each one with you, the do-it-yourselfer, in mind. All that's needed are a few common household tools and a little spare time.
I was rooting for a somewhat local team but they didn't qualify, probably will enter next year though.
Their vehicle is pretty awesome, hope they can get some good navigation software worked out by next year. The vehicle can just drive over lots of obstacles that seem to get the various trucks and jeeps hung up, which gives it a good advantage, but they will probably need to "armor" it a bit from branches, posts, and loose rocks.
Videos of the vehicle here: http://www.howeandhowe.com/videos.htm
http://interreality.org/projects/crystalzilla
"Proof of concept" using all free software (client and server): Free 3D engine, free web browser, free networking architecture. Pending changes to Mozilla will be integrated into user applications sooner or later. Hackers wanted...
I dunno I run Windows 2000 at work and it's perfectly stable. I also run Debian unstable which is also perfectly stable (heh heh).
Don't use WinXP.
Most large companies like Coca Cola have many associate companies around the world that are licensed to use its trademarks, patents, and to manufacture and bottle its products. So its not just one company. I have heard that in fact the top-level Coke corporation is technically based in Japan, no idea if that's true or not.
Wow, that was one of the most pointless rants I've read in a long time.
Related to logging, is program output. If you are writing tools that run at a Unix console, then someday you'll want to run them from scripts and use their output:
1. Use stdout and stderr appropriately: I should be able to run "foo > file" and see warnings on my console, but only get useful data in the file. Don't write messages to stdout if they aren't useful output. C++ has std::clog too. Don't make scripts use "grep -v" to remove random status messages or whatever.!
2. prefix your warnings/errors with the name of the program. So if a bunch of programs run in a script-- or in the background-- you can sort them out.
3. Indicate if something in an error or a warning.
4. Don't get too emotional, unless it's really neccesary:
Bad: WARNING! SOMETHING REALLY HORIBLE HAPPENED! AHH!!!
Good: fooprogram: Warning: Something really horrible happened!
Notice that you can use a ! at the end for emphasis, but it's not obnoxious.
Make reasonable suggestions if you think an error might be caused by user error:
fooprogram: Error: No status file found. (Use fooprogram -s to initialize.)
fooprogram: Error: No response from server at localhost:2323. Did you run it first?
(But try not to be too patronizing!)
5. Use error codes. (in exit() or return from main). Make an enum or #defines somewhere. Document them in the man page and/or --help output.
What do you mean when you say "Virtual Reality". There are lots of related technologies that were pretty immature in the early 90s that have made a lot of progress, the biggest one being 3D graphics display hardware and software.
:) http://interreality.org/ (actually, another VOS user told me to!)
Now, I think, one of the more interesting technologies that could possibly be grouped under the otherwise vague "Virtual Reality" umbrella to work on is user-interface stuff, and desiging applications and networking software that lets people use their personal computers to share a graphical world and collaborate in it over the Internet.
There are several Free Software projects working on this, one of them I helped design so I feel obligated to plug it here
It's important that a strong Free Software project emerge in this area soon, or the field will become dominated by proprietary software and standards! Interreality and VOS are especially lacking in nice, easy to use applications for non-programmers and non-Unix-geeks, and we need artists to try creating worlds for the system and give us some direction on where it needs to go.
Regarding VRML, you may think it's lame and dead but it's not. The latest version, called X3D, fixes a bunch of problems with VRML97, and with today's graphics cards the graphical quality is far better than it was 10 years ago.
Reed
What are you talking about? This doesn't mean anything. What is the clock cycle of your brain? What is its instruction set? RAM access time? It makes no sense...
My God, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing still exists??!!
I love the Berkshire Hathaway site. Take it as some advice from some people who know how to make a lot of money with a minimum of waste. Looks like someone's nephew put it together in a few hours circa 1996, and it's one of the most easy-to-use and clean sites I've seen in months. No need to impress anyone with slick graphics there
No, "" is just the minimally sized dept. name :)
It's not quite as dumb as it looks, it just came out of specific uses. The year is often implied. It also matches the way you say it, "February sixteenth, two thousand and five". (You don't say "two thousand and five february sixteenth", though you could I guess). Some examples:
What dates are those? Both the sixteenth of February, current year. They line up nicely. If you are more interested in month-related data, then it works well; you can make nice lists, where the constant year is not obscuring the data that is varying; compare (e.g., how many August dates are in this list? How many August 1 dates?):
Yes, as one of those tourists I agree. I did manage to get a photo of Stonehenge-minus-tourists by lying down in the grass so that they were all just obscured. Looks cool against the sky too.
When will I be able to download a .gpx (common GPS interchange format) file with my route on it? :)
Nicely implemented interface, too bad it doesn't do smooth zooming, and it needs a miniature overview map in the corner zoomed out a few levels from the main map, first time I zoomed in I ended up lost in the middle of the ocean.
No, you have two, one for each power system, seperated by enough space that it's hard to hit them both by accident, but easy for both to be hit in an emergency.
You can "Man in the Middle" this SSL exchange by spoofing the entire look and behavior of https://www.bankofslashdot.org. The only problems are getting a key signed by a CA (not that hard), and implementing the spoof deeply enough that you can get the info you want before throwing up a mysterious error at the user and making them go away.
That's a five year chart btw.
Maybe, but hang onto your IBM shares...
SCOX vs IBM and S&P:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=5y&s=SCOX&l
That one really tells you a lot about SCO's prospects..
SCOX is currently about 4 at 200k volume average, IBM is mid 90s at 5M volume average...
Why does everyone think that the Intel PC will last forever? Why is it ridiculous for new hardware with a new OS to be feasible?
That said, if I was able to run AmigaOS on a PC or Mac, even in a slow emulation mode, or on a cheaper native machine, I'd consider porting my software. Especially if there's a POSIX layer to work with.
There is something to be said for starting over from scratch with a nice simple system. Anyone remember something called "V2OS", a new OS built from scratch for Intel x86? I was ready to start playing with it and writing programs, but I don't think they ever got a C compiler finished for it...