Sure, it's not as pleasant as driving your air-conditioned SUV with leather seats, on your own... but it does the job. It's pretty damn good as far as public transport in major cities go (although nothing is as sexy as the Lyons metro).
I've used London public transport, on a daily basis, in rush hour. It does the job. If you think it's worth 5 quid a day not to put up with it, then you still have that choice. Hopefully the congestion charge will tax the selfish for the benefit of the rest of us.
Hmm. One of the main reasons why people were in favour of the Charge is that it was promised that the extra revenue would be directly invested in improving public transport services so people have less incentive to drive in the first place.
I wonder how much the cost of implementing the system on Windows will detract from those improvements...
But London has good public transport. People have a choice. If you live out in the sticks, you have to have a car since there's no other way to get food, go to work, or whatever. The Charge is aimed at people too proud to make use of public transport - and since the money generated will go into improving public transport, it's more of a stupidity tax than anything else.
Improving bus services is far more cost-effective.
Since the New Labour government tried to castrate the powers of the Mayor of London by selling off the Tube to a bunch of independant contractors (thereby bringing about the kind of safety and bureaucracy nightmare that Railtrack became on the overland trains), I'm not sure investing in the Tube would be at all possible, even if it were practical.
"$100, and 100 million computers in the country, which makes for a nice cool $10 billion if my maths (as the brits say) are correct"
Actually, as we Brits say, that's "$10 thousand million" - a billion is a million million (1e12) in the UK, not a thousand million (1e9) as it is in the US. Let's see your billionares now!:)
It's simple. If you're right in the middle of a good hack session, game, or other absorbing and distracting activity, she wants sex. Otherwise, she's not interested - if you're not giving up something for her, she doesn't want to know;)
Really. I looked into PPPoE and it's pretty nasty. I recently set up a wireless network for a company in Birmingham and found that the easiest thing to do was just use IPSec - Linux supports it, FreeBSD supports it, Win2K and XP support it. Set up one Linux or BSD box as an access point (note that you don't want ad-hoc mode for this) and use either shared secrets for each node or keypairs - that's an easy sneakernet install. If you want you can do clever things with your firewalling so systems without keys or secrets can get onto your network and abuse your network connection.
There's plenty of IPSec and 802.11b HOWTOs out there, and they're pretty useful - just make sure you're using a recent version of racoon, the *nix IKE daemon, and you should be fine.
If only we were trying to encourage people to download IE when they were all using Mozilla - link pre-caching could give IE a literal no-click install from a webpage;)
Assuming you're running under Linux, running mozilla -no-xshm will run a second instance which is completely seperate from the first (by default, Mozilla instances share memory for the XUL framework which is why they go down together). I do this to run two mozilla instances - one for the HTML I'm working on (sometimes obscure CSS bugs kill Mozilla) and one for Slashdot etc.
Just start up the mail client in one of the instances and kill the browser (there's probably a command-line to just load the mail client), and the two will co-exist peacefully and not affect each other if one crashes.
Just a suggestion, but if you work there, can't you make an ISO of the Windows versions of OpenOffice, Mozilla etc. which you can hand out to students who have old versions of Word? You could probably justify the (small) expense by explaining that it discourages student piracy, and it'd help them with their work (especially if you configured OO to save as something like Word97 by default).
Doesn't help your professorial problem whatsoever, just something I do at work - when people have Word document version problems, I go round and install OpenOffice.
The method you described for your web generation seems to be a rudimentary re-implimentation of the Template Toolkit Perl modules, probably the best way to generate templated material in Perl, and certainly preferable (IHMO) to either having code in the HTML, or HTML in the code...
Discipline can be important, but IME you can tell a good perl coder by using appropriate constructs for the job - even using foreach() instead of for() when you don't need to access the iterator is a sign of good Perl, and an instance of TMTOWTDI.
TMTOWTDI does seem like a disadvantage at times, admittedly, but it means you can use the same language in different styles depending on what is more appropriate - within a project, a coding style guide is appropriate, but generally those are useful no matter what language your project uses...
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Christ, you'd think I could at least configure it to get my damn name right... ;)
They seem to be missing the TIA red armband for all your rallying needs! Goes well with that black leather uniform!
Sure, it's not as pleasant as driving your air-conditioned SUV with leather seats, on your own... but it does the job. It's pretty damn good as far as public transport in major cities go (although nothing is as sexy as the Lyons metro).
I've used London public transport, on a daily basis, in rush hour. It does the job. If you think it's worth 5 quid a day not to put up with it, then you still have that choice. Hopefully the congestion charge will tax the selfish for the benefit of the rest of us.
Hmm. One of the main reasons why people were in favour of the Charge is that it was promised that the extra revenue would be directly invested in improving public transport services so people have less incentive to drive in the first place.
I wonder how much the cost of implementing the system on Windows will detract from those improvements...
But London has good public transport. People have a choice. If you live out in the sticks, you have to have a car since there's no other way to get food, go to work, or whatever. The Charge is aimed at people too proud to make use of public transport - and since the money generated will go into improving public transport, it's more of a stupidity tax than anything else.
Improving bus services is far more cost-effective.
Since the New Labour government tried to castrate the powers of the Mayor of London by selling off the Tube to a bunch of independant contractors (thereby bringing about the kind of safety and bureaucracy nightmare that Railtrack became on the overland trains), I'm not sure investing in the Tube would be at all possible, even if it were practical.
How about a C&C game where you play Canadian troops trying to avoid being bombed by USAF pilots?
Doesn't Alan Turing have prior art before Knuth? :)
I don't want to know what part of your person you call "Marshmallow Peeps"...
Actually, as we Brits say, that's "$10 thousand million" - a billion is a million million (1e12) in the UK, not a thousand million (1e9) as it is in the US. Let's see your billionares now!
It's simple. If you're right in the middle of a good hack session, game, or other absorbing and distracting activity, she wants sex. Otherwise, she's not interested - if you're not giving up something for her, she doesn't want to know ;)
Really. I looked into PPPoE and it's pretty nasty. I recently set up a wireless network for a company in Birmingham and found that the easiest thing to do was just use IPSec - Linux supports it, FreeBSD supports it, Win2K and XP support it. Set up one Linux or BSD box as an access point (note that you don't want ad-hoc mode for this) and use either shared secrets for each node or keypairs - that's an easy sneakernet install. If you want you can do clever things with your firewalling so systems without keys or secrets can get onto your network and abuse your network connection.
There's plenty of IPSec and 802.11b HOWTOs out there, and they're pretty useful - just make sure you're using a recent version of racoon, the *nix IKE daemon, and you should be fine.
Damn, you beat me to the -p solution ;)
Although the -a switch to ping, if available, is the easier option still...
If only we were trying to encourage people to download IE when they were all using Mozilla - link pre-caching could give IE a literal no-click install from a webpage ;)
Surely the GPL community races with Tux Racer? ;)
XForms are a Very Good Thing, but only if browsers support them... a search at mozilla.org reveals only a Status Update from January 2001 suggesting a review of the (then) state of the XForms spec, and BugZilla only mentions one feature request for XForms which is only three days old...
Still, I'm really looking forward to this one - death to the tired key=value GET and POST lists!
Assuming you're running under Linux, running mozilla -no-xshm will run a second instance which is completely seperate from the first (by default, Mozilla instances share memory for the XUL framework which is why they go down together). I do this to run two mozilla instances - one for the HTML I'm working on (sometimes obscure CSS bugs kill Mozilla) and one for Slashdot etc.
Just start up the mail client in one of the instances and kill the browser (there's probably a command-line to just load the mail client), and the two will co-exist peacefully and not affect each other if one crashes.
Just a suggestion, but if you work there, can't you make an ISO of the Windows versions of OpenOffice, Mozilla etc. which you can hand out to students who have old versions of Word? You could probably justify the (small) expense by explaining that it discourages student piracy, and it'd help them with their work (especially if you configured OO to save as something like Word97 by default).
Doesn't help your professorial problem whatsoever, just something I do at work - when people have Word document version problems, I go round and install OpenOffice.
The method you described for your web generation seems to be a rudimentary re-implimentation of the Template Toolkit Perl modules, probably the best way to generate templated material in Perl, and certainly preferable (IHMO) to either having code in the HTML, or HTML in the code...
Discipline can be important, but IME you can tell a good perl coder by using appropriate constructs for the job - even using foreach() instead of for() when you don't need to access the iterator is a sign of good Perl, and an instance of TMTOWTDI.
TMTOWTDI does seem like a disadvantage at times, admittedly, but it means you can use the same language in different styles depending on what is more appropriate - within a project, a coding style guide is appropriate, but generally those are useful no matter what language your project uses...
No, I can't hear the silenced black helicopters. They're silenced.
You shouldn't go looking... remember, If you can't see the fnords, they can't eat you!
26 million Xboxen running Linux? Wow, imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!
An apt quote? It's got nothing to do with package management!
Actually, this is probably a better list...
And whatever you do, don't click on AnalZilla. Foolishly, I thought there couldn't be a pr0n site that badly named.