I too sometimes wonder about 8.3 filenames but I think my subject is one of the reasons, it's a convention... old habits die hard
Also, I find that when I'm working in a dos/win environment that I spent about as much time on the prompt as I can, and all that ~1 crap gets annoying if I go over the 8 chars.
Taking a look around the office right now we're running: W2k, Linux, W98, NT4, OS/2, and W95. Some of the winblows boxes still run old 16 bit apps that get kinda cranky when presented with long filenames. I think the reason 8.3 is still around is that it's a convention, it's not better (and in some ways is worse) than any other convention, it's just that 8.3 has been used since the days of DOS and everybody's used to it. I really wouldn't mind seeing it go, but at the same time it's a bit of an unofficial standard and will likely remain so for quite a while, at least as long as M$ dominates the desktop.
"In brief: the Marines are deploying a microwave laser for anti-personnel usage"
now, it's either a MASER or a LASER. the M in maser stands for microwave, the L in laser stands for light.
I know it sounds picky, but microwaves really aren't the same wavelength as light. Just as a side note: the MASER was developed first (1963 I think), with the LASER coming a couple years after.
Granted I'm no expert on hard drives at a purely hardware level, but I don't think this would be that hard to do.
Start with the usual re-partition and reformat so you have a completely blank drive. Then completely fill up the drive with essentially meaningless crap, white noise. Then reformat again to blank it. All data should be completely gone.
Something like Eraser should do it I'd think. Granted it's for windows, but I'm sure there'd be a Linux or BSD equivalent somewhere.
Just wanted to point out that the article mentions using a soldering *GUN*, which should be fine in this case but generally not reccomended for electronics.
These tips won't really be useful to people with electronics experience, but I'd rather not see anybody ruin a mouse or other electronics by making an easily avoided beginner's mistake.
Mouse cicuitry isn't exactly the most complex stuff in the world, but when working on electronics projects it's really better to use some type of soldering pencil. Soldering guns put out waaaaay more heat then needed, and produce some pretty nasty electromagnetic fields. These two combinded can fry an IC in no time flat (shouldn't be directly soldering an IC anyways, but that's a different topic).
Chips? Would that be bags of chips the sysadmins were snacking on, and then threw at the wall in anger? Or perhaps virus attacks in the UK cause people to spill their lunches and have their french fries hit the floor.
'Cause if you mean computer chips... widespread, multi-billion dollar hardware damage is a new one to me.
Oh, for sure... but so far from what I've read they don't have to shut down, they just have to stop allowing the trading of copyrighted material. I'd think napster's dead no matter what, just pointing out that the legal system right now still doesn't have a handle on what's going on.
So, according to the ruling as I understand it, napster must block the trading of copyrighted material. How is this to be determined?? Sure they could have a database of bands and songs, but what about mis-spellings?
Let's say the song Metallica - Lars is a pain.mp3 is in the database... what happens if I were to rename it say:
Metallica - Lars_is_a_pain.mp3 okay, might still be blocked
Metallica - LarsIsAPain.mp3 maybe blocked
how about this: M37a11ica - 1ar$ i5 4 p4in.mp3
how do you possibly protect against this? as longs as the napster servers are running, all it takes is creative spelling. Some thing could be said for length/size... all I have to do is add a couple seconds of silence to the end and the song's length and file size have changed too.
If symantec can patent virus updates, do you think I could patents viruses themselves? Specifically trojoan horses? I mean, the patent office has repeatedly show that prior art means diddly-squat these days.
Think about it: I patent programs that appear to be useful, but in the background perform malicious acts on computers and may cause loss of user data. This is the best get rich quick scheme ever! Think of the money microsoft would owe me!
Agreed... the Blackberry is one sweet, sweet piece.
I'm not sure if it's supported outside north america though. It's kinda funny... I cut through the research in motion parking lot every day on my way to class. One of the neatest things is that it's a 386 processor... and it's the size of an overgrown pager. (well, ther's a big palm-size one too)
221 Baker street is occupied by a company called Abbey House... bankers I think. Haven't been to England for a few years, but it used to be that they'd reply to every letter they got.
Just down the street is the Holmes museum, which is labelled as 221B, but I think the address is really 217 or 227. Anyways, the museum is accurate to the stories all except for 5 minor things I think. Oh yes, and there's Mrs Hudson's restaurant on the ground floor... food is pretty good if I remember.
Anyways, if anyone's in London for a trip it's a very interesting way to spend a few hours, and quite easy to get to.
If you want to learn shorthand for note taking in class... I wouldn't worry about it. Normal words/sentence structure is just fine, just try to keep it neat. I'm in my second year at waterloo, and even though I'm in the math faculty I've taken other courses such as history, business, economics, law, english, etc... Other people may have different experiences, but for me the best thing is just fast, neat printing. Writing can get kinda messy as it's easier to fall into an illegibe scrawl.
The most important thing to remember is be at class, awake, and paying attention. Once you skip your first class, it becomes a lot easier to do it again. Then all of the sudden you're missing all of your classes some days because you don't feel like going, and there's only 3 of them so it's not tooooo big of a deal. Oh yeah, and go to labs and tutorials; just because they're not manditory doesn't make them unimportant.
I think this is one time that we have to just put our faith in capitalism and hope somebody fills a product void.
That's assuming that tv's like this ever make it into existance. Your average computer user doesn't really know, or what to know what's going on inside the beige box, as long as it works they're happy. Not everybody uses a computer, and a great percentage of those who do see it as a glorified typewriter and so they don't pay as much attention to 1984-style computer news. Tons of people watch tv, and people like to tape stuff. There has to be a backlash, well... I hope there has to be. The tv watching population is HUGE, and while the US may have trouble because of that pesky little thing you guys call the DMCA... I don't see these restrictive access devices being very popular in a country where consumers have a legal alternative. Hopefully the rest of the world doesn't fall in line with Hollywood's plan (and the RIAA for that matter) and the States can go back to being the land of the free instead of being the land of retarded legislation.
10 miles? It's actually something like 200 kilometers (120 miles).
just to nit pick:o)
Anyways, it's really pretty simple. Northern Ontario is pretty much a giant swamp, northern Quebec isn't much different, and our prairies are just like the American ones... not too densely populated, lots of farming.
Economically, it's easier to trade across the border than go east-west as our governments have tried so hard to do, basically 'cause the country is just too spread out.
I can't really give you any advice off hand on what to do with him, just remember that although you may be able to treat him intellectually as and adult, no matter how mature (or immature) he normally acts he's still emotionally a kid.
New microwave laser? Maybe I'm just misunderstanding your comment, but if memory serves correctly, the MASER (microwave version) preceeded the LASER by a couple years.
One only has to read an American paper to find out how ignorant many of their journalists are about culture in Europe, Canada, Asia, whatever...
This kind of thing happens in every culture.
It's completely unrealistic for me to expect your average American or European to be familiar with hockey at the microscopic level that most Canadians are. By the same token most people outside the states don't give a rat's behind about college football, and I know very few North Americans who get into soccer (football) the way Europeans and South Americans do.
While different cultures are growing more and more similar these days, the fact is that many are still worlds apart.
Along the same lines: "Never attribute to malice that which can satisfactorily be explained by incompetence" - Napoleon
It could very well be that they're trying to avoid being sued for providing direct access to the napster program. They're probably looking at the DECSS case, where it's apparently illegal to post a link to the code. It's just a knee-jerk overreaction attempting to keep them out of legal hot water.
Almost every western country used to use at least some of them...
Myself, I kinda use both systems. Canada's been metric my whole life and I'd still rather talk about the weather in degrees F, and if you ask me to estimate a distance under about a kilometre I'll probably respond in imperial units. It all depends what you're used to. Metric really is a whole lot more efficient though, but sometimes it just feels wierd to use it.
I'd just like to speak up for the people you're essentially trying to censor right off I2. I got my first shell account 7 years ago so I'd say that qualifies me as an internet old-timer:o)
Oh yeah, I'm 20... so that would have made me 13 at the time. I don't pretend to speak for a wide range of people, and I usually don't get involved in this kind of thing but I think it's grossly unfair to blame everything that's wrong with the internet on those damn "teenage morons". It's disturbing to see how often that demographic gets attacked these days, seems like whenever someone's pissed and there isn't a blatently obvious problem source it must be the fault of those damn kids. Remember, morons and idiots exist in every demographic, not just teenagers; a script kiddie, d00d, lAmeR or whatever could just as easily be your upstanding next-door neighbor.
As for newbies, most genuinely want to learn and those that don't quickly go away. Give them a break from time to time, we were all newbies too once upon a time.
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Haha, when you said "physically getting together" I thought your post was going to be about something very different.
I'm thinking to myself: "Now, I've never been to a LAN party, but I've never really thought of them as a good place to get laid."
Yes, it's been a slow day.
I too sometimes wonder about 8.3 filenames but I think my subject is one of the reasons, it's a convention... old habits die hard
Also, I find that when I'm working in a dos/win environment that I spent about as much time on the prompt as I can, and all that ~1 crap gets annoying if I go over the 8 chars.
Taking a look around the office right now we're running: W2k, Linux, W98, NT4, OS/2, and W95. Some of the winblows boxes still run old 16 bit apps that get kinda cranky when presented with long filenames. I think the reason 8.3 is still around is that it's a convention, it's not better (and in some ways is worse) than any other convention, it's just that 8.3 has been used since the days of DOS and everybody's used to it. I really wouldn't mind seeing it go, but at the same time it's a bit of an unofficial standard and will likely remain so for quite a while, at least as long as M$ dominates the desktop.
what you meant to say was that "microwaves are not the same wavelength as VISIBLE light"
:o)
yup, my mistake. since I was harping on a technicality myself, I probably should have been more careful... oh well, I deserved to get called on it
"In brief: the Marines are deploying a microwave laser for anti-personnel usage"
now, it's either a MASER or a LASER. the M in maser stands for microwave, the L in laser stands for light.
I know it sounds picky, but microwaves really aren't the same wavelength as light. Just as a side note: the MASER was developed first (1963 I think), with the LASER coming a couple years after.
An earth destroying event eh??
I think I've heard plans about an intergalactic superhighway... but I tend not to pay attention to these affairs.
"The internet's on computer's now?? Good for it" -Homer J. Simpson
Granted I'm no expert on hard drives at a purely hardware level, but I don't think this would be that hard to do.
Start with the usual re-partition and reformat so you have a completely blank drive. Then completely fill up the drive with essentially meaningless crap, white noise. Then reformat again to blank it. All data should be completely gone.
Something like Eraser should do it I'd think. Granted it's for windows, but I'm sure there'd be a Linux or BSD equivalent somewhere.
Just wanted to point out that the article mentions using a soldering *GUN*, which should be fine in this case but generally not reccomended for electronics.
These tips won't really be useful to people with electronics experience, but I'd rather not see anybody ruin a mouse or other electronics by making an easily avoided beginner's mistake.
Mouse cicuitry isn't exactly the most complex stuff in the world, but when working on electronics projects it's really better to use some type of soldering pencil. Soldering guns put out waaaaay more heat then needed, and produce some pretty nasty electromagnetic fields. These two combinded can fry an IC in no time flat (shouldn't be directly soldering an IC anyways, but that's a different topic).
Oh yeah, and DON'T use acid core solder.
Soldering and desoldering tips
Chips? Would that be bags of chips the sysadmins were snacking on, and then threw at the wall in anger? Or perhaps virus attacks in the UK cause people to spill their lunches and have their french fries hit the floor.
'Cause if you mean computer chips... widespread, multi-billion dollar hardware damage is a new one to me.
Oh, for sure... but so far from what I've read they don't have to shut down, they just have to stop allowing the trading of copyrighted material. I'd think napster's dead no matter what, just pointing out that the legal system right now still doesn't have a handle on what's going on.
So, according to the ruling as I understand it, napster must block the trading of copyrighted material. How is this to be determined?? Sure they could have a database of bands and songs, but what about mis-spellings?
Let's say the song Metallica - Lars is a pain.mp3 is in the database... what happens if I were to rename it say:
Metallica - Lars_is_a_pain.mp3 okay, might still be blocked
Metallica - LarsIsAPain.mp3 maybe blocked
how about this: M37a11ica - 1ar$ i5 4 p4in.mp3
how do you possibly protect against this? as longs as the napster servers are running, all it takes is creative spelling. Some thing could be said for length/size... all I have to do is add a couple seconds of silence to the end and the song's length and file size have changed too.
If symantec can patent virus updates, do you think I could patents viruses themselves? Specifically trojoan horses? I mean, the patent office has repeatedly show that prior art means diddly-squat these days.
Think about it: I patent programs that appear to be useful, but in the background perform malicious acts on computers and may cause loss of user data. This is the best get rich quick scheme ever! Think of the money microsoft would owe me!
Agreed... the Blackberry is one sweet, sweet piece.
I'm not sure if it's supported outside north america though. It's kinda funny... I cut through the research in motion parking lot every day on my way to class. One of the neatest things is that it's a 386 processor... and it's the size of an overgrown pager. (well, ther's a big palm-size one too)
221 Baker street is occupied by a company called Abbey House... bankers I think. Haven't been to England for a few years, but it used to be that they'd reply to every letter they got.
Just down the street is the Holmes museum, which is labelled as 221B, but I think the address is really 217 or 227. Anyways, the museum is accurate to the stories all except for 5 minor things I think. Oh yes, and there's Mrs Hudson's restaurant on the ground floor... food is pretty good if I remember.
Anyways, if anyone's in London for a trip it's a very interesting way to spend a few hours, and quite easy to get to.
If you want to learn shorthand for note taking in class... I wouldn't worry about it. Normal words/sentence structure is just fine, just try to keep it neat. I'm in my second year at waterloo, and even though I'm in the math faculty I've taken other courses such as history, business, economics, law, english, etc... Other people may have different experiences, but for me the best thing is just fast, neat printing. Writing can get kinda messy as it's easier to fall into an illegibe scrawl.
The most important thing to remember is be at class, awake, and paying attention. Once you skip your first class, it becomes a lot easier to do it again. Then all of the sudden you're missing all of your classes some days because you don't feel like going, and there's only 3 of them so it's not tooooo big of a deal. Oh yeah, and go to labs and tutorials; just because they're not manditory doesn't make them unimportant.
I think this is one time that we have to just put our faith in capitalism and hope somebody fills a product void.
That's assuming that tv's like this ever make it into existance. Your average computer user doesn't really know, or what to know what's going on inside the beige box, as long as it works they're happy. Not everybody uses a computer, and a great percentage of those who do see it as a glorified typewriter and so they don't pay as much attention to 1984-style computer news. Tons of people watch tv, and people like to tape stuff. There has to be a backlash, well... I hope there has to be. The tv watching population is HUGE, and while the US may have trouble because of that pesky little thing you guys call the DMCA... I don't see these restrictive access devices being very popular in a country where consumers have a legal alternative. Hopefully the rest of the world doesn't fall in line with Hollywood's plan (and the RIAA for that matter) and the States can go back to being the land of the free instead of being the land of retarded legislation.
10 miles? It's actually something like 200 kilometers (120 miles).
:o)
just to nit pick
Anyways, it's really pretty simple. Northern Ontario is pretty much a giant swamp, northern Quebec isn't much different, and our prairies are just like the American ones... not too densely populated, lots of farming.
Economically, it's easier to trade across the border than go east-west as our governments have tried so hard to do, basically 'cause the country is just too spread out.
I can't really give you any advice off hand on what to do with him, just remember that although you may be able to treat him intellectually as and adult, no matter how mature (or immature) he normally acts he's still emotionally a kid.
New microwave laser? Maybe I'm just misunderstanding your comment, but if memory serves correctly, the MASER (microwave version) preceeded the LASER by a couple years.
One only has to read an American paper to find out how ignorant many of their journalists are about culture in Europe, Canada, Asia, whatever...
This kind of thing happens in every culture.
It's completely unrealistic for me to expect your average American or European to be familiar with hockey at the microscopic level that most Canadians are. By the same token most people outside the states don't give a rat's behind about college football, and I know very few North Americans who get into soccer (football) the way Europeans and South Americans do.
While different cultures are growing more and more similar these days, the fact is that many are still worlds apart.
Along the same lines: "Never attribute to malice that which can satisfactorily be explained by incompetence" - Napoleon
It could very well be that they're trying to avoid being sued for providing direct access to the napster program. They're probably looking at the DECSS case, where it's apparently illegal to post a link to the code. It's just a knee-jerk overreaction attempting to keep them out of legal hot water.
It's really the same thing as cars... Horsepower isn't a "real" force, it's tourqe * rpm / 5250 (or something close to that).
Anyways, the point is that people buy cars based on horsepower because that's what marketing has taught us to do. Torque wins races, HP sells cars.
Just ask Mr. BigBlockMopar... doesn't matter if he's got a 426 or a 440, it'll still whoop a little honda with a big exhaust.
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just look at the Godfather err Goodfather
Unique? whhhhhaaaaaaaaat?
Almost every western country used to use at least some of them...
Myself, I kinda use both systems. Canada's been metric my whole life and I'd still rather talk about the weather in degrees F, and if you ask me to estimate a distance under about a kilometre I'll probably respond in imperial units. It all depends what you're used to. Metric really is a whole lot more efficient though, but sometimes it just feels wierd to use it.
I'd just like to speak up for the people you're essentially trying to censor right off I2. I got my first shell account 7 years ago so I'd say that qualifies me as an internet old-timer :o)
Oh yeah, I'm 20... so that would have made me 13 at the time. I don't pretend to speak for a wide range of people, and I usually don't get involved in this kind of thing but I think it's grossly unfair to blame everything that's wrong with the internet on those damn "teenage morons". It's disturbing to see how often that demographic gets attacked these days, seems like whenever someone's pissed and there isn't a blatently obvious problem source it must be the fault of those damn kids. Remember, morons and idiots exist in every demographic, not just teenagers; a script kiddie, d00d, lAmeR or whatever could just as easily be your upstanding next-door neighbor.
As for newbies, most genuinely want to learn and those that don't quickly go away. Give them a break from time to time, we were all newbies too once upon a time.