This claims to be able to scan for open proxies on ports 80, 8080, 1080, or 3128. Never used it so I don't know how good it is. I saw it on Freshmeat and thought I'd pass it along.
No I don't, this is what I was told by my boss when I first started working in the traffic industry. We use AC power for all of our timing since it's FAR more accurate than a RTC. Cumulative drift in time is a very bad thing for us since the traffic controllers in a system would gradually get more and more out of step with each other.
I designed a piece of equipment once that had a touchpad and an LCD (and a few other odds and ends) that were all run from the same board. This board was connected to the CPU board with a flat ribbon cable (I wanted a backplane, but economics won out). Anyway the devices on the front panel board were much slower than the CPU and due to that and also the lag on the cable I had to insert wait states for the block of memory that mapped the front panel. The 302 made it real easy, there was virtually nothing on the CPU board other than the CPU itself, some RAM, ROM, and drivers for the ribbon.
Exactly right. Nowdays, most of the Motorola embedded processors (many of which use 68000 or 68020 cores) can generate their own DTACK signals. For example, the 68302 has four CS (chip select) lines that you can internally map to whatever address ranges you want. You specify how many wait states are required and the DTACK and CS signals get generated automagically. This cuts down dramatically on on-board glue logic and address decoding logic, which is important for (typically small) embedded designs.
It's dead accurate. By law, the number of zero crossings on an AC line must be 10368000 every day. If there are too many in the morning, they have to make up for it that afternoon.
But I think an asynchronous computer would still use a RTC to keep track of calendar time. It has to keep time even when it's turned off.
Let me ask you. Should we adopt MicroSoft software if it offers better features and useability?
Short answer: Yes, in my opinion.
Long answer: That's a personal decision. If 'best' to you means that it offers better features and useability without consideration of other factors such as license, then you should use MS software if you feel that it is the most functional thing out there. In my case, I don't use BSD/Linux because they're open/free. I use them because I think they're the best tools for the job (from a purely pragmatic viewpoint). If MS offered something that I thought was better, I'd consider switching, even if I had to pay for it. (I don't think this is likely, but it is conceivable.)
On the other hand, if your definition of 'best' takes into consideration the ideology behind the software, if you (like RMS) require software to be free before you will consider it worthy of use then obviously the answer is no.
It boils down to how pragmatic/ideological you are. Linus is and has always been the pragmatic type, whereas Stallman....well, you know where he stands.
Let me also say that I don't fault RMS for (what some consider to be) his extremism. As you say: someone has to be. To move something of enormous inertia, you either have to push really hard or have a lot of people pushing with you.
I've also seen companies lose people because HR moves to slow - losing people in THIS economy.
We just had this happen. One of my co-workers left last week. The reason is that my company has a policy of hiring new people first as contractors and then bringing them on full-time after a certain period of time (6 months, I think) - sort of a probationary period. [Note that I was an exception to this as I moved across the country for this position and wouldn't have done so as a contractor.] Anyway, he was due for full-time status a few months ago, but was told that he would have to wait because of financial problems. No time estimate was given for how long he would have to wait. So he waited. And waited. And waited some more. Finally, he got tired of waiting and found something else. He was an excellent employee - very concientious, did great work, enjoyed being here. All they had to do was offer him a full-time position and he'd still be here. But instead, because of a silly and short-sighted policy, we lost an extremely valuable resource. I just can't figure it out.
Careful anybody out there running enlightenment. I upgraded (via up2date) my imlib a few weeks ago and suddenly enlightenment would not start up. When e started up it would get to 91% and just die. Backing up to the previous imlib rpm fixed the problem. Don't know if this problem still exists in 7.3, but I'd be careful if I were you.
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I saw a special on TV about the SR-71 once and it discussed how difficult Ti was for the folks at the Skunk Works to work with. For one thing, all the wrenches, and other tools had to be specially made because normal tools had something in them that would contaminate the metal long term and cause it to fail. Another thing was that they started having wing root failures all of a sudden in some of the planes but not others. Investigation revealed that the failing units were all built in the summer. The city of Pasadena uses Chlorine in the water supply during the summer and they were using regular tap water to clean the parts. The chlorine reacted with the titanium and weakened it causing the failures years later.
Yes I know.....I'm one of those people. I encourage all amateur astronomers with this capability to join in and help. I'm more into variable stars myself, which is another area where amateurs can help out the pros. My only point was that a hundred scopes isn't going to cover the sky, but still, 100 > 0.
Good idea but a 12 inch SCT has a field of view on the order of 1 degree (probably somewhat less). We'd need thousands not a hundred to cover the sky. That number could be reduced somewhat by limiting the search to expected asteroid and comet orbits, but still....there would have to be lots of scopes to provide decent coverage. Even so, I think this is a great idea. Even 1% of the sky is better than 0%, right? And scope time on the big boys is way too expensive for a project like this.
How about a consistent file system layout and consistent installer UI so that the less tech-savvy crowd doesn't have to find an expert to hold their hand when they want to install those extra apps.
Windows has such a thing?
Theoretically, a linux app install should be even easier than a Windows install. Put up a dialog that says "I'm going to install Turbo Super Mega Calc on your computer now. Is this OK?" [Yes] [No]
This isn't quite right. They were operating the reactor near the edge of its performance envelope, but at the low end of its power range. This particular type of reactor is unstable when operated at low power. Then some safety systems failed when the core temp started to get too high. As is usually the case in large disasters, more than one unlikely event happened at the same time.
That being said, an elegant naming convention I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere here is the planets and moons.
I use star names, so I have dubhe.ursa-major, merak.ursa-major and so on. This scales pretty well up to a point. I'm sure I could come up with a couple of hundred names of stars but I doubt there are 4000 named stars in the sky (unless you count names like HD51202).
The real benefit becomes obvious when you start using tabbed browsing. You can set middle click to open in new tab instead of open in new window. Now you save the huge penalty of opening a new browser window, since tabs are relatively fast to open. On top of that, you can set links to load in the background, so the link loads silently behind the page (and tab) that you're looking at, without interrupting what you're reading. When you're ready to go and look at the new page, it's loaded and ready.
How do you do this? This is exactly the functionality I want in moz. I've been using tabbed browsing, but having the middle button open a page in a new tab in the background is imo the perfect way to browse. How do I set it up that way...tia.
That's where the local astronomy club can help. It's likely that they own/rent a site away from the city where the skies are dark(er). Even if you can't attend the meetings, most clubs have a regular observing night once a month. These are usually on the Saturday closest to new moon, so you shouldn't have any conflict with your classes. Club members are usually quite willing to let others look through their instruments.
As for college, if you're thinking about becoming a professional astronomer/cosmologist (not to be confused with a cosmetologist) you should major in physics and then specialize in astronomy in grad school. Of course you should take all the undergrad astronomy courses you can find as well.
How 'bout a squid proxy? Is there anything magic about SOCKS that makes it particularly useful for this application? Never set up a SOCKS proxy, but I've set up many squid proxies and they're a snap to configure.
I do think you're on to something. Starting tonight, I shall begin collecting my belly-button lint in a quart Mason jar and when I have enough (about 2 years from now), I'll get my grandmother to knit me a pair of socks from it. Then it will be OUR experiment on the front page of/. not some lame-ass story about some stooopid black hole observatory.
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This claims to be able to scan for open proxies on ports 80, 8080, 1080, or 3128. Never used it so I don't know how good it is. I saw it on Freshmeat and thought I'd pass it along.
No I don't, this is what I was told by my boss when I first started working in the traffic industry. We use AC power for all of our timing since it's FAR more accurate than a RTC. Cumulative drift in time is a very bad thing for us since the traffic controllers in a system would gradually get more and more out of step with each other.
No need to be sorry. We know what async means. We're just off on a tangent here.
I designed a piece of equipment once that had a touchpad and an LCD (and a few other odds and ends) that were all run from the same board. This board was connected to the CPU board with a flat ribbon cable (I wanted a backplane, but economics won out). Anyway the devices on the front panel board were much slower than the CPU and due to that and also the lag on the cable I had to insert wait states for the block of memory that mapped the front panel. The 302 made it real easy, there was virtually nothing on the CPU board other than the CPU itself, some RAM, ROM, and drivers for the ribbon.
Exactly right. Nowdays, most of the Motorola embedded processors (many of which use 68000 or 68020 cores) can generate their own DTACK signals. For example, the 68302 has four CS (chip select) lines that you can internally map to whatever address ranges you want. You specify how many wait states are required and the DTACK and CS signals get generated automagically. This cuts down dramatically on on-board glue logic and address decoding logic, which is important for (typically small) embedded designs.
It's dead accurate. By law, the number of zero crossings on an AC line must be 10368000 every day. If there are too many in the morning, they have to make up for it that afternoon.
But I think an asynchronous computer would still use a RTC to keep track of calendar time. It has to keep time even when it's turned off.
Let me ask you. Should we adopt MicroSoft software if it offers better features and useability?
Short answer:
Yes, in my opinion.
Long answer:
That's a personal decision. If 'best' to you means that it offers better features and useability without consideration of other factors such as license, then you should use MS software if you feel that it is the most functional thing out there. In my case, I don't use BSD/Linux because they're open/free. I use them because I think they're the best tools for the job (from a purely pragmatic viewpoint). If MS offered something that I thought was better, I'd consider switching, even if I had to pay for it. (I don't think this is likely, but it is conceivable.)
On the other hand, if your definition of 'best' takes into consideration the ideology behind the software, if you (like RMS) require software to be free before you will consider it worthy of use then obviously the answer is no.
It boils down to how pragmatic/ideological you are. Linus is and has always been the pragmatic type, whereas Stallman....well, you know where he stands.
Let me also say that I don't fault RMS for (what some consider to be) his extremism. As you say: someone has to be. To move something of enormous inertia, you either have to push really hard or have a lot of people pushing with you.
I've also seen companies lose people because HR moves to slow - losing people in THIS economy.
We just had this happen. One of my co-workers left last week. The reason is that my company has a policy of hiring new people first as contractors and then bringing them on full-time after a certain period of time (6 months, I think) - sort of a probationary period. [Note that I was an exception to this as I moved across the country for this position and wouldn't have done so as a contractor.] Anyway, he was due for full-time status a few months ago, but was told that he would have to wait because of financial problems. No time estimate was given for how long he would have to wait. So he waited. And waited. And waited some more. Finally, he got tired of waiting and found something else. He was an excellent employee - very concientious, did great work, enjoyed being here. All they had to do was offer him a full-time position and he'd still be here. But instead, because of a silly and short-sighted policy, we lost an extremely valuable resource. I just can't figure it out.
Careful anybody out there running enlightenment. I upgraded (via up2date) my imlib a few weeks ago and suddenly enlightenment would not start up. When e started up it would get to 91% and just die. Backing up to the previous imlib rpm fixed the problem. Don't know if this problem still exists in 7.3, but I'd be careful if I were you.
I saw a special on TV about the SR-71 once and it discussed how difficult Ti was for the folks at the Skunk Works to work with. For one thing, all the wrenches, and other tools had to be specially made because normal tools had something in them that would contaminate the metal long term and cause it to fail. Another thing was that they started having wing root failures all of a sudden in some of the planes but not others. Investigation revealed that the failing units were all built in the summer. The city of Pasadena uses Chlorine in the water supply during the summer and they were using regular tap water to clean the parts. The chlorine reacted with the titanium and weakened it causing the failures years later.
And the sound of a 747 taking of comes @ no extra charge!
Yup, and with an Athlon and a GeForce in there too, it can double as a weenie roaster.
In the old days it meant inputting the boot loader manually via the toggle switches on the front of the beast.
Yes I know.....I'm one of those people. I encourage all amateur astronomers with this capability to join in and help. I'm more into variable stars myself, which is another area where amateurs can help out the pros. My only point was that a hundred scopes isn't going to cover the sky, but still, 100 > 0.
Good idea but a 12 inch SCT has a field of view on the order of 1 degree (probably somewhat less). We'd need thousands not a hundred to cover the sky. That number could be reduced somewhat by limiting the search to expected asteroid and comet orbits, but still....there would have to be lots of scopes to provide decent coverage. Even so, I think this is a great idea. Even 1% of the sky is better than 0%, right? And scope time on the big boys is way too expensive for a project like this.
How about a consistent file system layout and consistent installer UI so that the less tech-savvy crowd doesn't have to find an expert to hold their hand when they want to install those extra apps.
Windows has such a thing?
Theoretically, a linux app install should be even easier than a Windows install. Put up a dialog that says "I'm going to install Turbo Super Mega Calc on your computer now. Is this OK?" [Yes] [No]
If yes, rpm -U TurboSuperMegaCalc-1.2.i386.rpm.
Done [OK]
This isn't quite right. They were operating the reactor near the edge of its performance envelope, but at the low end of its power range. This particular type of reactor is unstable when operated at low power. Then some safety systems failed when the core temp started to get too high. As is usually the case in large disasters, more than one unlikely event happened at the same time.
That being said, an elegant naming convention I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere here is the planets and moons.
I use star names, so I have dubhe.ursa-major, merak.ursa-major and so on. This scales pretty well up to a point. I'm sure I could come up with a couple of hundred names of stars but I doubt there are 4000 named stars in the sky (unless you count names like HD51202).
I think you are....OpenBSD's packet filter is stateful. Don't know about the other BSDs.
The real benefit becomes obvious when you start using tabbed browsing. You can set middle click to open in new tab instead of open in new window. Now you save the huge penalty of opening a new browser window, since tabs are relatively fast to open. On top of that, you can set links to load in the background, so the link loads silently behind the page (and tab) that you're looking at, without interrupting what you're reading. When you're ready to go and look at the new page, it's loaded and ready.
How do you do this? This is exactly the functionality I want in moz. I've been using tabbed browsing, but having the middle button open a page in a new tab in the background is imo the perfect way to browse. How do I set it up that way...tia.
As for college, if you're thinking about becoming a professional astronomer/cosmologist (not to be confused with a cosmetologist) you should major in physics and then specialize in astronomy in grad school. Of course you should take all the undergrad astronomy courses you can find as well.
I do think you're on to something. Starting tonight, I shall begin collecting my belly-button lint in a quart Mason jar and when I have enough (about 2 years from now), I'll get my grandmother to knit me a pair of socks from it. Then it will be OUR experiment on the front page of /. not some lame-ass story about some stooopid black hole observatory.
Where else do you think all those socks go when you wash them in the laundry?
My navel...in the form of belly-button lint.
Saw a bumper sticker soon after that:
So many stupid people, so few comets
This can.