Of course command lines are friendly! Whenever I need to find a program that does something new, I just hit the tab key. The shell helpfully asks, "Display all 2414 possibilities? (y or n)". I hit "y", and then it's just a matter of looking at about 25 pages of program names until I find the one I want. It even shows "--More--" at the bottom of each page and lets me go to the next page when I want to, instead of whizzing all 2414 programs by at ludicrous speed. How much more user friendly can you get?
So how many people are going to take them up on their offer of the "binary T-shirt"?
I am. The T-shirt offer is real, as far as I can tell. I just submitted an order, and the shipping and handling with the T-shirt was more than it was without, so it had better be real!
In my cupboard the other day I found a box of snacks marked with this expiration date: "02 05 04". What the puke is that supposed to mean? I love people who still use 2-digit years, especially when it makes the date almost completely ambiguous.
Of course, these days when someone says "nine-eleven" or "nine-one-one", chances are they're not even referring to emergency services, but rather to the events of September 11, 2001. Because some joker somewhere noticed that "September 11" => "9/11" => "911", and the news media keep propagating this stupidity. That's just what we need, more confusion about what 9-1-1 means.
I love my start page. It's got a pretty picture of a feather, and says Seeing this instead of the website you expected? See for yourself: http://localhost/.
Everyone knows that Shakespeare (who was a sugar freak) would have released his work as Open Source in an MP3 format if the British Empire hadn't stopped him.
I'm not sure that being able to edit the,v files by hand is an advantage of CVS. If anything, I see it as a disadvantage since: a) you're making changes "behind the system's back"; and b) it's easy to screw up.
The face that Subversion uses a Berkeley DB file backend doesn't mean you're hosed in case of problems, especially if you've been backing your data up. You can make a live backup anytime you want - with every commit, if you're paranoid. It's also possible to dump any or all commits to a human-readable format that can also be used to restore. But usually you won't even have to muck around with restoring from backup - if the repository gets wedged somehow, try 'svnadmin recover' and it will usually solve the problem.
There's a nice chapter in the Subversion online book that deals with all this stuff.
The statue of Brigham Young is facing directly south down the middle of Main Street, the north-south road that runs down the center of SLC. The temple and Key Bank are both to the west of Main Street. So the statue doesn't have his back directly to the temple and isn't stretching his arms directly toward the bank, but it's close enough that your comment made me smile.
I used to use ClickDough, which was actually still around as of a few months ago, albeit with a greatly modified "business model"... A couple of months in a row, I got checks for about $30-40 just for having a fairly small banner ad in the corner of my desktop. Ah, those were the days.
Actually, there is still a service that basically pays you to receive ads: MyPoints. They send you emails with links that you follow to earn points. I've been racking up the points and just a few weeks ago redeemed them for $75 in Barnes and Noble gift cards. Not bad. (Oh, and yes, the above link is a "you were referred by 'thelenm'" link... if for some reason anyone wants to join but would rather not give me credit for it, just go straight to their main page and check it out.)
Lots and lots and lots and lots of practice, I'm sure. It doesn't exactly answer the question of how he did it, but the Twin Galaxies article does include a list of checkpoints and the times at which they were reached:
0:21 - touches flagpole in stage (1-1) 1:03 - enters warp pipe to stage (4-1) 1:31 - touches flagpole in stage (4-1) 2:17 - enters warp pipe to stage (8-1) 3:02 - touches flagpole in stage (8-1) 3:39 - touches flagpole in stage (8-2) 4:16 - touches flagpole in stage (8-3) 4:37 - enters 1st pipe in stage (8-4) 4:46 - enters 2nd pipe in stage (8-4) 4:54 - enters 3rd pipe in stage (8-4) 5:17 - touches bridge key and completes game under Twin Galaxies rules governing this title
So it took him 0:45 to beat 8-1, 0:37 to beat 8-2, and 0:37 to beat 8-3. For me, I think those stinking Hammer Bros on 8-3 would be one of the most frustrating game-killers. And of course, Bowser at the end. You could have a near-perfect run up until either of those points and easily screw it up.
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I had such a fun time the other day installing BerkeleyDB 4.2, Apache 2.0.48, and Subversion 0.37 from source. It just took me way too long to figure out the right configuration options to get the Subversion server installed correctly, so here are my notes. They're mostly stolen from somewhere on the Web (don't remember where), modified a bit with things I learned along the way. If this is useful to you, great.
1) Download, build, and install Berkeley 4.2.52 with the default location; this is as simple as:
$ cd db-4.2.52/build_unix
$../dist/configure
$ make
$ su
# make install
make sure LD_LIBRARY_PATH includes/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2
2) Download Apache 2.0.48 tarball and build it with the defaults:
$ cd httpd-2.0.48
$./configure --enable-dav=static --enable-so=static --with-dbm=db4 --with-berkeley-db=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2
$ make
$ su
# make install
3) Download a Subversion tarball (e.g. subversion-0.37.0.tar.gz) since that comes fully formed:
$ cd subversion-0.37.0
$./configure --with-berkeley-db=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2
$ make
$ su
# make install
And then follow the directions for configuring Apache, which could be as simple as adding the following:
"Well, we sorta kinda sold less than 25% of what we thought we would, but as far as it being a success or failure... just give us another um, 21 months. Then we'll be able to judge."
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Of course command lines are friendly! Whenever I need to find a program that does something new, I just hit the tab key. The shell helpfully asks, "Display all 2414 possibilities? (y or n)". I hit "y", and then it's just a matter of looking at about 25 pages of program names until I find the one I want. It even shows "--More--" at the bottom of each page and lets me go to the next page when I want to, instead of whizzing all 2414 programs by at ludicrous speed. How much more user friendly can you get?
What do you mean, April Fool's joke?
So how many people are going to take them up on their offer of the "binary T-shirt"?
I am. The T-shirt offer is real, as far as I can tell. I just submitted an order, and the shipping and handling with the T-shirt was more than it was without, so it had better be real!
By the way, the super secret message on the T-shirt says, "I shopped at ThinkGeek on April Fools Day, and all I got was this lousy shirt!"
In my cupboard the other day I found a box of snacks marked with this expiration date: "02 05 04". What the puke is that supposed to mean? I love people who still use 2-digit years, especially when it makes the date almost completely ambiguous.
Of course, these days when someone says "nine-eleven" or "nine-one-one", chances are they're not even referring to emergency services, but rather to the events of September 11, 2001. Because some joker somewhere noticed that "September 11" => "9/11" => "911", and the news media keep propagating this stupidity. That's just what we need, more confusion about what 9-1-1 means.
Speaking of that Monty Python skit, Microsoft might as well change their argument to "Remember, buy MS Office, and go to heaven!"
I love my start page. It's got a pretty picture of a feather, and says Seeing this instead of the website you expected? See for yourself: http://localhost/.
... not to mention other important questions, such as "When is the universe?", "Who is matter?", and "Where the hell is the remote?"
Four hours!? Wow. About four seconds on Google led me to a Web page that looks like it would have solved your problem immediately.
Isolated Quiet Area: free
Index Fingers: free
Veins and Arteries: free
Watching all of Slashdot sitting in a corner and sticking their fingers in their ears: Priceless.
Everyone knows that Shakespeare (who was a sugar freak) would have released his work as Open Source in an MP3 format if the British Empire hadn't stopped him.
I'm not sure that being able to edit the ,v files by hand is an advantage of CVS. If anything, I see it as a disadvantage since: a) you're making changes "behind the system's back"; and b) it's easy to screw up.
The face that Subversion uses a Berkeley DB file backend doesn't mean you're hosed in case of problems, especially if you've been backing your data up. You can make a live backup anytime you want - with every commit, if you're paranoid. It's also possible to dump any or all commits to a human-readable format that can also be used to restore. But usually you won't even have to muck around with restoring from backup - if the repository gets wedged somehow, try 'svnadmin recover' and it will usually solve the problem.
There's a nice chapter in the Subversion online book that deals with all this stuff.
Don't you mean goatsesu.cx?
The statue of Brigham Young is facing directly south down the middle of Main Street, the north-south road that runs down the center of SLC. The temple and Key Bank are both to the west of Main Street. So the statue doesn't have his back directly to the temple and isn't stretching his arms directly toward the bank, but it's close enough that your comment made me smile.
No, carbs do! Well, not really, but you'd never know it these days.
Studies have statistically shown that there's less likelihood of an incident if you fire people while they're not in the office.
I know!! I used to read another site that was kind of like that, too. What the heck ever happened to Chips & Dips??
I used to use ClickDough, which was actually still around as of a few months ago, albeit with a greatly modified "business model"... A couple of months in a row, I got checks for about $30-40 just for having a fairly small banner ad in the corner of my desktop. Ah, those were the days.
Actually, there is still a service that basically pays you to receive ads: MyPoints. They send you emails with links that you follow to earn points. I've been racking up the points and just a few weeks ago redeemed them for $75 in Barnes and Noble gift cards. Not bad. (Oh, and yes, the above link is a "you were referred by 'thelenm'" link... if for some reason anyone wants to join but would rather not give me credit for it, just go straight to their main page and check it out.)
Lots and lots and lots and lots of practice, I'm sure. It doesn't exactly answer the question of how he did it, but the Twin Galaxies article does include a list of checkpoints and the times at which they were reached:
0:21 - touches flagpole in stage (1-1)
1:03 - enters warp pipe to stage (4-1)
1:31 - touches flagpole in stage (4-1)
2:17 - enters warp pipe to stage (8-1)
3:02 - touches flagpole in stage (8-1)
3:39 - touches flagpole in stage (8-2)
4:16 - touches flagpole in stage (8-3)
4:37 - enters 1st pipe in stage (8-4)
4:46 - enters 2nd pipe in stage (8-4)
4:54 - enters 3rd pipe in stage (8-4)
5:17 - touches bridge key and completes game under Twin Galaxies rules governing this title
So it took him 0:45 to beat 8-1, 0:37 to beat 8-2, and 0:37 to beat 8-3. For me, I think those stinking Hammer Bros on 8-3 would be one of the most frustrating game-killers. And of course, Bowser at the end. You could have a near-perfect run up until either of those points and easily screw it up.
Or nickname it "W"?
I had such a fun time the other day installing BerkeleyDB 4.2, Apache 2.0.48, and Subversion 0.37 from source. It just took me way too long to figure out the right configuration options to get the Subversion server installed correctly, so here are my notes. They're mostly stolen from somewhere on the Web (don't remember where), modified a bit with things I learned along the way. If this is useful to you, great.
../dist/configure
/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2
./configure --enable-dav=static --enable-so=static --with-dbm=db4 --with-berkeley-db=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2
./configure --with-berkeley-db=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2
/repos> /absolute/path/to/repository
1) Download, build, and install Berkeley 4.2.52 with the default location; this is as simple as:
$ cd db-4.2.52/build_unix
$
$ make
$ su
# make install
make sure LD_LIBRARY_PATH includes
2) Download Apache 2.0.48 tarball and build it with the defaults:
$ cd httpd-2.0.48
$
$ make
$ su
# make install
3) Download a Subversion tarball (e.g. subversion-0.37.0.tar.gz) since that comes fully formed:
$ cd subversion-0.37.0
$
$ make
$ su
# make install
And then follow the directions for configuring Apache, which could be as simple as adding the following:
<Location
DAV svn
SVNPath
</Location>
"Well, we sorta kinda sold less than 25% of what we thought we would, but as far as it being a success or failure... just give us another um, 21 months. Then we'll be able to judge."