I took a class based on his "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment" several years ago (at a Usenix conference) and it remains one of the best classes I've had. I refer to his books constantly. He was a terrific writer and instructor. Very sad news indeed.
I definitely recommend nickel-metal hydride rechargeables for digital cameras. I've been using them in my Nikon F100 film camera, too, which also tends to eat batteries pretty quickly (though certainly far less quickly than my digital camera).
Asimov, Feynman, Sagan, Kubrick... . I think one of the worst things about getting older is watching your heoroes go away, one by one. Somehow I don't find myself caring as much about, say, Ricky Martin.
I have a D600-L and it's a great camera, but Nikon is supposed to be releasing an interchangeable-lens digital SLR based on the very nice F100 (which I also own), and priced at something reasonable for a serious amateur. See http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/news/dsc99-e_99.htm. Imagine this will Linux support (though I agree with those who say that if you have no intention of buying one, don't ask for it). Mark Scheuern
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I've been using a fairly good flatbed scanner for years but just bought a film scanner and I'm amazed at how much better the results are. I also have a rather good digital camera (Olympus D-600L) and use it a lot, but still much prefer my Nikon SLRs. Until someone makes a multi-megapixel digital SLR with interchangeable lenses that costs less than a decent car, film is still best, at least for me. And quality lenses are what matters most. I don't understand why so many people put cheapy, off-brand zooms on good cameras.
Think of it in terms of dots painted on a balloon. When you blow up the balloon (that is, as the Universe expands), each dot recedes from the other, and the farther apart the observer is from a dot the more rapidly it recedes.
I agree. I've gotten squat from the mailing list. They need to update the news section of their site more often, too. I think the model for doing this sort of thing right was the deschall effort.
As a science fiction fan, I too am frustrated that good SF movies are so rare. 2001, Blade Runner, Contact, and that's about it for the last 30 years. Star Wars is fun, though, and I'm looking forward to the movie. The commercials give me hope.
I went to Borders last night and noticed that the novelization is out. I can't imagine wanting to read the book before seeing the movie.
I have to wonder... . This has nothing to do with running a mail server. This has nothing to do with loging for sys admin purposes. One more time: When a user clicks on an email address in a Usenet post, Dejanews records that address. What your SMTP server does is not the issue here.
Of course sendmail does logging but this is something entirely different. DejaNews isn't logging mail that's going through their server, they're keeping track of email addresses that users click on in Usenet posts. This clearly is not something that they need to track for system admin purposes. It's snooping. The article quotes DejaNews reps as saying that "the logging is incidental" and "they have no intention of keeping the records for any purpose at all." Then why do it?
Except that's not quite the way X works. The client application isn't sending a series of bitmaps to the X server (the display) but rather instructions for creating the graphics. Which isn't to say that X isn't overly large, complex, and a resource hog (Plan 9's window manager is an interesting and lightweight alternative) but at least computers have gotten fast enough over the years that it doesn't bring systems to their knees any more.
No, these are servers, not clients. Their page says "all host names beginning with 'ftp.', 'news.', and 'www.' (case insensitive) were queried." Presumably very few or none of these are dialups with dynamic addresses.
Then, just to add insult to injury, the data from a computer that's OK ("2000-compliant") can essentially get "infected" by the data from a computer that's got date problems (non-compliant). This means that if my business has its computers all brand new and 2000-compliant, and my computer "talks" to another computer by modem, my computer is at risk for getting major problems.
Gosh, sounds pretty bad. I am, however, relieved to know that sleeping bags now come in attractive, bright colors.
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I took a class based on his "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment" several years ago (at a Usenix conference) and it remains one of the best classes I've had. I refer to his books constantly. He was a terrific writer and instructor. Very sad news indeed.
I definitely recommend nickel-metal hydride rechargeables for digital cameras. I've been using them in my Nikon F100 film camera, too, which also tends to eat batteries pretty quickly (though certainly far less quickly than my digital camera).
Asimov, Feynman, Sagan, Kubrick... . I think one of the worst things about getting older is watching your heoroes go away, one by one. Somehow I don't find myself caring as much about, say, Ricky Martin.
I have a D600-L and it's a great camera, but Nikon is supposed to be releasing an interchangeable-lens digital SLR based on the very nice F100 (which I also own), and priced at something reasonable for a serious amateur. See http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng /news/dsc99-e_99.htm. Imagine this will Linux support (though I agree with those who say that if you have no intention of buying one, don't ask for it).
Mark Scheuern
I've been using a fairly good flatbed scanner for years but just bought a film scanner and I'm amazed at how much better the results are. I also have a rather good digital camera (Olympus D-600L) and use it a lot, but still much prefer my Nikon SLRs. Until someone makes a multi-megapixel digital SLR with interchangeable lenses that costs less than a decent car, film is still best, at least for me. And quality lenses are what matters most. I don't understand why so many people put cheapy, off-brand zooms on good cameras.
Think of it in terms of dots painted on a balloon. When you blow up the balloon (that is, as the Universe expands), each dot recedes from the other, and the farther apart the observer is from a dot the more rapidly it recedes.
My motivation for getting one (other than it being useful and cool) was the pleasure of having something that the RIAA doesn't want me to have.
The 386 glibc2.0 version will work for you.
I agree. I've gotten squat from the mailing list. They need to update the news section of their site more often, too. I think the model for doing this sort of thing right was the deschall effort.
As a science fiction fan, I too am frustrated that good SF movies are so rare. 2001, Blade Runner, Contact, and that's about it for the last 30 years. Star Wars is fun, though, and I'm looking forward to the movie. The commercials give me hope.
I went to Borders last night and noticed that the novelization is out. I can't imagine wanting to read the book before seeing the movie.
I have to wonder... . This has nothing to do with running a mail server. This has nothing to do with loging for sys admin purposes. One more time: When a user clicks on an email address in a Usenet post, Dejanews records that address. What your SMTP server does is not the issue here.
Of course sendmail does logging but this is something entirely different. DejaNews isn't logging mail that's going through their server, they're keeping track of email addresses that users click on in Usenet posts. This clearly is not something that they need to track for system admin purposes. It's snooping. The article quotes DejaNews reps as saying that "the logging is incidental" and "they have no intention of keeping the records for any purpose at all." Then why do it?
Except that's not quite the way X works. The client application isn't sending a series of bitmaps to the X server (the display) but rather instructions for creating the graphics. Which isn't to say that X isn't overly large, complex, and a resource hog (Plan 9's window manager is an interesting and lightweight alternative) but at least computers have gotten fast enough over the years that it doesn't bring systems to their knees any more.
No, these are servers, not clients. Their page says "all host names beginning with 'ftp.', 'news.', and 'www.' (case insensitive) were queried." Presumably very few or none of these are dialups with dynamic addresses.
Mark
Then, just to add insult to injury, the data from a computer that's OK ("2000-compliant") can essentially get "infected" by the data from a computer that's got date problems (non-compliant). This means that if my business has its computers all brand new and 2000-compliant, and my computer "talks" to another computer by modem, my computer is at risk for getting major problems.
Gosh, sounds pretty bad. I am, however, relieved to know that sleeping bags now come in attractive, bright colors.
I'd be curious to know how you define "pseudoscience". By my understanding of the term, this meets none of the criteria.
BTW, Carl Sagan was a CSICOP fellow and his enthusiasm for SETI projects is well-known.
Mark
Freeman's still around. As for Esther, she's something of a mystery to me, too.