There's always 'make config' and 'make oldconfig'...
I must be the only person who still uses that. Well it was the only thing there was back then, we didn't even have documentation for each option, and had to print out the kernel HOWTO ahead of time to know what the options meant.
Where did Newport News get that name? While there are several explanations, the most widely accepted version is that back in 1610, returning from England, Captain Christopher Newport met the Jamestown Colonists on Mulberry Island (located offshore on the James River) as they were preparing to return to the Mother Country after a year of starvation and illness. The news of his arrival with three vessels, a plentiful supply of provisions and 150 men, gave heart to the dispirited colonists who agreed to return to Jamestown. In gratitude, they named the point of landing "Newport's News." Over the years, the "s" was dropped, thus the name NEWPORT NEWS.
In other words, nobody knows, but they do have a theory or two that they'll give to the tourists.
The Culture would never terraform Mars. It would also never tear it apart. The Culture prefers appreciate planets as they are, that's why they live on less mass-wasteful and custom-made constructs like plates, orbitals, and GSVs.
If Jackson can do LotR decently in 6 hours, I think 18 will be enough for Red/Green/Blue Mars. The first three Dune books are just as voluminous, and SciFi did them well in 12.
I think using Kodak was the perfect example, because it starts just this line of thinking. When does it change from "theft of intangible property" to an industry leader that won't keep with modern technology?
I doubt Mr. Niven is unaware of Iain M. Banks, as he's become rather well known in SF.
Anyways, Banks' "orbitals" are not the same as ringworlds: Instead of a ring which has a star for the center, an orbital is a smaller spinning ring the center of which travels in an orbit around a star much as a planet would.
This has several benefits: 1) a natural day-night cycle, night occurs when the sun is occluded by your "floor" 2) progression of the sun across the sky (sunsets, sunrise) 3) less wasteful - the ringworld has a ridiculous amount of space, more than the Culture needs. In the Culture "more" is not better for the sake of being better. 4) doesn't require material shipped in from out-of-system. Given the Culture's aversion to terraforming planets, I'd imagine they'd be loathe to melt more of them down than they had to. 5) Inherently stable - Unlike the ringworld, which is metastable (thus the need for ramjets on the rim)
It's based on the original chapters from the (printed) manual for AT&T Unix, if I recall correctly.
Some of the more obscure ones vary from unix to unix, you can usually see them with 'man man' or something similar.
Here's the "key" for Linux: 1) executable programs or shell commands 2) system calls (kernel calls) 3) library calls 4) special files (/dev/*) 5) file formats 6) games 7) misc (macro packages eg. man(7), groff(7)) 8) system administration commands (ie. superuser utils) 9) kernel routines
These 'section numbers' are very useful for when you have a program named the same as a C function (printf(1) vs. printf(3) for example).
On Linux:
man printf or man 1 printf--/usr/bin/printf manual man 3 printf -- printf() manual man passwd or man 1 passwd --/bin/passwd manual man 5 passwd --/etc/passwd manual
Actually, the ending isn't a random event. The core idea in ATP was that at certain moments everything changes (a central tenent of most Gibson stuff, I'd say). The fax machine was a nanotech device, but it was being used for very basic things. Rei (the AI "girl") changes that drastically and breaks down any barrier between computer code and the real world. The effects in the future aren't shown, but that's for you, the reader, to figure out yourself.
I've always said that All Tomorrow's Parties is the book that comes between Snow Crash and The Diamond Age (and yes, I do realize I'm talking about two different authors here, thanks).
ATP ends with the shift from our modern society to a society of wish fulfillment and the solidification of dreams... represented by the creation of a living woman from dream-code.
That's funny, when I learned surveying last year in the Front Range (Colorado School of Mines) it sure wasn't zero (it was around 12.5 degrees). Maybe you were nearby a local magnetic anomoly? Or maybe you were holding your compass next to your belt buckle?
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There's always 'make config' and 'make oldconfig'...
I must be the only person who still uses that. Well it was the only thing there was back then, we didn't even have documentation for each option, and had to print out the kernel HOWTO ahead of time to know what the options meant.
If I remember correctly, thiotimoline had electron orbits that actually extended into the future/past instead of the traditional three dimensions.
In other words, nobody knows, but they do have a theory or two that they'll give to the tourists.
That should go to his wife Tove, six times national karate champion in Finland.
The Culture would never terraform Mars. It would also never tear it apart. The Culture prefers appreciate planets as they are, that's why they live on less mass-wasteful and custom-made constructs like plates, orbitals, and GSVs.
Good god, listen to yourself.
If Jackson can do LotR decently in 6 hours, I think 18 will be enough for Red/Green/Blue Mars. The first three Dune books are just as voluminous, and SciFi did them well in 12.
It all comes back to the ol' saying: "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM".
Ah, but Kodak doesn't sue digital photographers.
I think using Kodak was the perfect example, because it starts just this line of thinking. When does it change from "theft of intangible property" to an industry leader that won't keep with modern technology?
Uhh, I don't know what ssh you use, but mine calls ssh-askpass to give a password dialog very much like the one in the movie.
Granted, it only does this when called non-interactively (such as via alt-f2 in kde).
Checked the date today?
You mispelled the "downloads", here is the correct URL:
here.
I doubt Mr. Niven is unaware of Iain M. Banks, as he's become rather well known in SF.
Anyways, Banks' "orbitals" are not the same as ringworlds: Instead of a ring which has a star for the center, an orbital is a smaller spinning ring the center of which travels in an orbit around a star much as a planet would.
This has several benefits:
1) a natural day-night cycle, night occurs when the sun is occluded by your "floor"
2) progression of the sun across the sky (sunsets, sunrise)
3) less wasteful - the ringworld has a ridiculous amount of space, more than the Culture needs. In the Culture "more" is not better for the sake of being better.
4) doesn't require material shipped in from out-of-system. Given the Culture's aversion to terraforming planets, I'd imagine they'd be loathe to melt more of them down than they had to.
5) Inherently stable - Unlike the ringworld, which is metastable (thus the need for ramjets on the rim)
It's based on the original chapters from the (printed) manual for AT&T Unix, if I recall correctly.
/usr/bin/printf manual /bin/passwd manual /etc/passwd manual
Some of the more obscure ones vary from unix to unix, you can usually see them with 'man man' or something similar.
Here's the "key" for Linux:
1) executable programs or shell commands
2) system calls (kernel calls)
3) library calls
4) special files (/dev/*)
5) file formats
6) games
7) misc (macro packages eg. man(7), groff(7))
8) system administration commands (ie. superuser utils)
9) kernel routines
These 'section numbers' are very useful for when you have a program named the same as a C function (printf(1) vs. printf(3) for example).
On Linux:
man printf or man 1 printf--
man 3 printf -- printf() manual
man passwd or man 1 passwd --
man 5 passwd --
I like how bind 9 will round-robin the authors.bind response. Probably so no author feels slighted by being listed last :)
Try hitting h.root-servers.net a few times to see what I mean (it hits bind9 about half of the time).
I've always said that All Tomorrow's Parties is the book that comes between Snow Crash and The Diamond Age (and yes, I do realize I'm talking about two different authors here, thanks).
ATP ends with the shift from our modern society to a society of wish fulfillment and the solidification of dreams... represented by the creation of a living woman from dream-code.
Actually, the original Wright Flyer was not stable, and is considered unflyable by today's standards.
I hear Andy Tanenbaum wants to have the "indivisible" part removed.
You mean he.
Err, that first one's already been patented (see Unisys's patent on GIF).
That's funny, when I learned surveying last year in the Front Range (Colorado School of Mines) it sure wasn't zero (it was around 12.5 degrees). Maybe you were nearby a local magnetic anomoly? Or maybe you were holding your compass next to your belt buckle?
Spoooon!
Not a tough reference around here, really.
Let's pretend you add a facility for exchanging in-game gold pieces with real-world cash.
/random command for players to divide loot fairly.
Then you add (say) a dice game, or a casino, or maybe even just a
How long before you're shut down for running an illegal online gambling site?
Much of the "upload" bandwidth has already been sold to hosting companies and such.
The point of consumer broadband is to make some money on all of that excess "download" bandwidth that is left.
No, it's worse than that, it's about as dumb as 'vim' vs. 'nvi'.
In reality Gnome and KDE developers are not at war, in fact they've actually been known to be civil to each other! Hard to believe, I know...
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