SuSe and Slackware due to general lack of popularity, corporate backing, and maintenance.
So many Americans say this about SuSE: well, I've got news for you. It is the number one distro in Germany, the largest Linux market in Europe. Ditto, Denmark, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, etc.
It is used in very many corporations, and has MUCH better support than RedHat or Mandrake in my experience (having contacted all three in the last month.
Yes! Not only did it look like Star Wars, it *sounded* like Star Wars!
Yes, indeed! Several times I heard what I thought was the Darth Vader theme from Star Wars, and had to check to see if I was in the right movie. I suppose that the "The Boy Who Lived" idea from "HP & the Philosopher's Stone" fits in ver nicely with "A New Hope".
And Prof Sprout is just Yoda in disguise, no I come to think of it. The basilisk was the monster in the cave in "Return of the Jedi", Hagrid = Chewbacca.
It's been rumoured that Christopher Lee will step into the late Richard Harris's shoes as Dumbledore in the third film, although he has emphatically denied this. I'd prefer Ian McKellan myself.
Exactly! Now who could really tell the difference between Dumbledore and Gandalf. Be honest, now...
But the spammers will develop Bayesian filters of their own to find the best content that will sneak by your filters
No they won't, unless the pattern (if there is one discernable in the S/N ratio) of replies they receive changes. As most spam, as far as spammers goes, disappears into a black hole, they have no way of learning how your filters are working.
Well after a while I went back to take another look at Ghostzilla, and guess what?
The account has been suspended by the ISP, presumably for data transfer limits or simultaneous connection limits being exceeded.
Now, everybody jokes about the/. effect, but is some cases it could turn out not to be too funny, especially if somebody is relying on a site for financial/emotional/whatever support. I don't know what can be done about it, as it is rather like the tragedy of the commons: everybody will rush to be there first, and bang goes the resource. I was going to post a screenshot, but I am afraid of my site being slashdotted...
Anyway, is there such a thing as a secodary/. effect? Now that the site has been suspended, will people go to it by clicking here and create furhter problems for the ISP?
Re:This "news" article being posted on slashdot...
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really makes a case for moderation of articles
You think that doesn't happen? There no other way all my witty, informative, insightful articles haven't made it onto the fron page of/.
Then odds are that no hand gesture in the world is going to save your job.
But I can sure as hell find a gesture that'll lose me the job!!
Re:Scanning without damaging the book?
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Is there any reasonable way to scan in pages from something like a 100+ year old 1.5" thick wire-bound paperback book that only opens about 60 degrees before putting up a fight?
Yes indeed! *Any* decent academic library should have a photocopier which can do this. Older models tend to have a glass platen which extends right to the edge of the photocopier, and the side slopes away at around 60 degrees rather than dropping at a right angle. Newer models, such as the Minolta PS3000 will support the book in a cradle, face up, so that contact with the pages is minimised. They also tend to have a host of features, such as automagically erasing the gutter shadow that one gets with such a system.
Not to say monolithic kernels are bad, but microkernels do have their advantages, and both GNU/Hurd and GNU/Linux will each have their respective pros and cons.
This is something that Linus Torvalds covers in his book "Just For Fun", in which he reproduces the exchanges between himself and Steven Tanenbaum relating to monolithic versus microkernels.
I think MySQL will eventually be the dominant database for two reasons:
It's easier/faster
It cots a lot less than Oracle
I use MySQL and Oracle 8i and 9i in my professional and personal lives, and while MySQL is very useful for quick 'n' easy databases, it is not something I would want to build a real-life large application around, for the simple reason that it is SO nice to be able to embed a nice set of business rules right in the database. That, for me, gives Oracle the edge currently. And yes, MySQL will, I have no doubt, grow these features essential for large and complex applications. And guess what? It will get slower/harder as it does so, and I also believe it will get more expensive.
With a brute-force break, it takes the same amount of time to break one key that it takes to break any other.
Not strictly true. It is possible that a brute-force attack will hit upon the right key at its first attempt. Or indeed, not until the last possible key in all of the keyspace. On average, though, the correct key will be found 0.5 way through the keyspace search.
Re:How can you prove this document is real?
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... could easily have made up the percentages, figures and results.
This story immediately put me in mind of anti-virus software companies, although in this case it appears to be a matter of the company that sells the solution having caused the problem in the first place.
I'm sure that AOL did not have that in mind* when they first developed AIM but I can't believe that they are not relishing the opportunity to generate even more cash from the monster they created.
*Or am I not being paranoid enough?
I'd rather fall off Ilustrada than ride any other horse
As well as providing the bare course information, these schemes also have the advantage of allowing interesting comparisons of haw various educational establishments' syllabi differ.
For example, as more and more schools publish their information, it should become possible to discover things like:
How up-to-date is a given course?
Do the professors rely exclusively on their own texts?
Is a given course pretty much stagnant?
Is there a general consensus about what should be in, say, a quantum mechanics course?
This is just a small sample of the sort of meta-information implicit in the availability of such information, and as the number of schools placing materials online grows, so too does the value and interest to be found in mining such data.
I'd rather fall off Ilustrada than ride any other horse
Check out some of the newer Nokia 'phones. They have predictive test input whereby you press each key one and the 'phone tries to make up a word out of the available letter choices on each pressed key. forex, pressing 6-4-6-3 will give you "mind". Since "mine" is also spelt by using the same keys, you can cycle between all qualifying words. Saves a ton of time when sending text messages...
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SuSe and Slackware due to general lack of popularity, corporate backing, and maintenance.
So many Americans say this about SuSE: well, I've got news for you. It is the number one distro in Germany, the largest Linux market in Europe. Ditto, Denmark, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, etc.
It is used in very many corporations, and has MUCH better support than RedHat or Mandrake in my experience (having contacted all three in the last month.
There is a larger world outside the US...
Yes! Not only did it look like Star Wars, it *sounded* like Star Wars!
Yes, indeed! Several times I heard what I thought was the Darth Vader theme from Star Wars, and had to check to see if I was in the right movie. I suppose that the "The Boy Who Lived" idea from "HP & the Philosopher's Stone" fits in ver nicely with "A New Hope".
And Prof Sprout is just Yoda in disguise, no I come to think of it. The basilisk was the monster in the cave in "Return of the Jedi", Hagrid = Chewbacca.
It all fits in!!!
It's been rumoured that Christopher Lee will step into the late Richard Harris's shoes as Dumbledore in the third film, although he has emphatically denied this. I'd prefer Ian McKellan myself.
Exactly! Now who could really tell the difference between Dumbledore and Gandalf. Be honest, now...
Was I the only person who thought that the scene with Malfoy in the Quidditch match was like the Death Star trench scene in Star Wars?
I kept on expecting Dobby's voice to break in, saying "Harry Potter must use the Force, sir!"
But the spammers will develop Bayesian filters of their own to find the best content that will sneak by your filters
No they won't, unless the pattern (if there is one discernable in the S/N ratio) of replies they receive changes. As most spam, as far as spammers goes, disappears into a black hole, they have no way of learning how your filters are working.
And that's good filterin'!
Thanks, Emeril.
Is this a US-oriented joke or comment? It means nothing to me...
Well after a while I went back to take another look at Ghostzilla, and guess what?
/. effect, but is some cases it could turn out not to be too funny, especially if somebody is relying on a site for financial/emotional/whatever support. I don't know what can be done about it, as it is rather like the tragedy of the commons: everybody will rush to be there first, and bang goes the resource. I was going to post a screenshot, but I am afraid of my site being slashdotted...
/. effect? Now that the site has been suspended, will people go to it by clicking here and create furhter problems for the ISP?
The account has been suspended by the ISP, presumably for data transfer limits or simultaneous connection limits being exceeded.
Now, everybody jokes about the
Anyway, is there such a thing as a secodary
really makes a case for moderation of articles
/.
You think that doesn't happen? There no other way all my witty, informative, insightful articles haven't made it onto the fron page of
What a bunch of rubbish. I cannot believe /. would post this pile of rotting crapola
/. is a bot, trawling for text: it picked up "com", "post" and "bin", and Bam!:- there's the story!
It just proves that
Is it true that people pay /. money not to be mentioned here?
Then odds are that no hand gesture in the world is going to save your job.
But I can sure as hell find a gesture that'll lose me the job!!
Is there any reasonable way to scan in pages from something like a 100+ year old 1.5" thick wire-bound paperback book that only opens about 60 degrees before putting up a fight?
Yes indeed! *Any* decent academic library should have a photocopier which can do this. Older models tend to have a glass platen which extends right to the edge of the photocopier, and the side slopes away at around 60 degrees rather than dropping at a right angle. Newer models, such as the Minolta PS3000 will support the book in a cradle, face up, so that contact with the pages is minimised. They also tend to have a host of features, such as automagically erasing the gutter shadow that one gets with such a system.
If I need between 40 to 80 partitions (between 1 and 2 gigs each), it's not just a nuisance.
Hell yes! You'd have to use Chinese or some other character set that more than 26 letters for all those!!!
Not to say monolithic kernels are bad, but microkernels do have their advantages, and both GNU/Hurd and GNU/Linux will each have their respective pros and cons.
This is something that Linus Torvalds covers in his book "Just For Fun", in which he reproduces the exchanges between himself and Steven Tanenbaum relating to monolithic versus microkernels.
I use MySQL and Oracle 8i and 9i in my professional and personal lives, and while MySQL is very useful for quick 'n' easy databases, it is not something I would want to build a real-life large application around, for the simple reason that it is SO nice to be able to embed a nice set of business rules right in the database. That, for me, gives Oracle the edge currently. And yes, MySQL will, I have no doubt, grow these features essential for large and complex applications. And guess what? It will get slower/harder as it does so, and I also believe it will get more expensive.
Apparently, though, the US is just fine with (even welcoming and asking for more of) the kind of government that would pass USAPATRIOT.
Waitsec, didn't USAPATRIOT pass a Democratic controlled Senate?
And where in smallest's post was any reference whatosever to Democrats versus Republicans?
With a brute-force break, it takes the same amount of time to break one key that it takes to break any other.
Not strictly true. It is possible that a brute-force attack will hit upon the right key at its first attempt. Or indeed, not until the last possible key in all of the keyspace. On average, though, the correct key will be found 0.5 way through the keyspace search.
... could easily have made up the percentages, figures and results.
Surely that proves it's from Microsoft?
somebody to prove it is possible to play a perfect game of PacMan
This story immediately put me in mind of anti-virus software companies, although in this case it appears to be a matter of the company that sells the solution having caused the problem in the first place.
I'm sure that AOL did not have that in mind* when they first developed AIM but I can't believe that they are not relishing the opportunity to generate even more cash from the monster they created.
*Or am I not being paranoid enough?
I'd rather fall off Ilustrada than ride any other horse
For example, as more and more schools publish their information, it should become possible to discover things like:
- How up-to-date is a given course?
- Do the professors rely exclusively on their own texts?
- Is a given course pretty much stagnant?
- Is there a general consensus about what should be in, say, a quantum mechanics course?
This is just a small sample of the sort of meta-information implicit in the availability of such information, and as the number of schools placing materials online grows, so too does the value and interest to be found in mining such data.I'd rather fall off Ilustrada than ride any other horse
standard linux access shell...
/bin/false
That is simply not true...
Check out some of the newer Nokia 'phones. They have predictive test input whereby you press each key one and the 'phone tries to make up a word out of the available letter choices on each pressed key. forex, pressing 6-4-6-3 will give you "mind". Since "mine" is also spelt by using the same keys, you can cycle between all qualifying words. Saves a ton of time when sending text messages...