The patch in question is a problem with probing the aux or keyboard port; nothing to do with partitions. The patch just comments out offending tests, very simple.
Recent Compaq/HP laptop users can't run FreeBSD. This problem has been known since July and still not fixed in this release. FreeBSD 5.3 (all betas, RCs, and the release itself), 5.2, 5.1, 5.0, all versions of FreeBSD 4 and 3 cannot run on Compaq Presario R3000Z and similar laptops, in either i386 or AMD64 mode. When is this going to be fixed?
How come the patch exists.... works perfectly.... and isn't being commited?
Why don't they just let party members vote though? Do they not actually have party members? (In the UK you would join the Labour Party, Conservative Party etc and, if that party's constitution allowed it, you would help choose the leader who would then have the opportunity to become the PM at a general election.)
By placing the party affiliation option on the voter registration form, party affiliation can be centralized. This way you can't join the Democrat Party and Republican Party and vote in both primaries.
The engineers came from a mining, electrical, and chemical backgrounds. Didn't matter - they had the engineering degree and se were part of the privilieged class.
iFilm has it has RealMedia, WMV, and QuickTime. Only at 200k or 50k (500k if you subscribe) but its better than nothing. Anyone have a non-BT source for the avi? My college blocks BitTorrent.
AAS shutdown? Interesting. I remember that site from several years ago. Their eulogy seems to end on a positive note, but if you scroll past their copyright notice the remarks on chilling effects become apparent:
SOME ADDITIONAL FACTORS...
To be perfectly honest, there are other factors in our decision to shut down, and although those factors are a little embarrassing to admit, they are important enough that others need to know about them. Speaking now just for myself as the creator of this site and primary owner, I have had other things to consider in keeping AAS open the last year or so including the fact that I now have a wife to consider and a family of my own to start, and negative opinions about this site (even though we rarely hear any) no longer affect me alone. Also, sadly, the political climate in America has changed so dramatically since the Bush Administration and the Tom Delay Congress came to power that people no longer feel that they can speak out freely on controversial issues - especially if one is daring to disagree with the current political forces. Free Speech in America has been chilled by the Bush Administration in ways I did not think was possible in this country.
Obviously I am not a fan of President Bush - no secret there - but my dislike is not based on anything personal; it is based on the sweeping policy changes related to sex education and reproduction issues in area after area of our government. In order to push their religion-based idea that there should be no sexual activity outside of marriage (between a male and female only) they have issued Executive Orders and quietly issued new policies to department after department in the U.S. Government, and most recently has begun targeting for investigation organizations and websites speaking out against their "abstinence-only" programs and ideology. As much as I hate to admit it, this is very intimidating, especially for a couple of individuals who could be ruined, financially, just attempting to defend themselves against such an investigation, even if no wrong-doing is ever found. Below is a clip from a Salon.com article :
"Only a few weeks after No New Money went live last August, 24 House Republicans, led by Joseph Pitts, R-Pa., jotted off a letter to HHS Secretary Thompson asking that both SIECUS and Advocates for Youth (which was listed on the site along with more than a hundred other 'supporting organizations') be investigated."
And that is just one small example of what the political climate has become... SIECUS is now under further vicious attack by Republicans in Congress and a score of Religious Right groups. Keep in mind that SIECUS has been writing the sex education curricula for public and private schools in America since 1964 and is hardly a "controversial" group. To get a better idea of exactly what is going on, you can read the complete last article posted on the AAS site in December 2003. You can also visit the SIECUS website for the latest news.
On the up-side, All About Sex has never taken grant money to operate and there was nothing illegal on this site. However, neither of these organizations are anywhere close to being as controversial as some of the content on this website and we cannot afford the high-powered attorneys they can in defending themselves.
In past rulings about Free Speech by the United States Supreme Court they have talked about situations like what the Congress and Bush Administration is doing and said that such intimidation and censorship "chills" the air for those speaking out against government policies. This is what our elected officials are doing - and will keep doing until the American public decide's they've had enough. Well, the way I see it, when it comes to talking honestly and openly about teens and sexuality in North America, it has gotten downright freezing, and is likely to remain that way until a new, less conservative Administration is voted in. And American children will be the ones paying the price for years to come.
If you still want to see the site was about, check it out on Archive.org.
Third party candidates have to go through amazing hurdles just to get on the ballot. People reigstered to vote with third party affiliations cannot even vote in some state elections in some states (such as California).
Can you elaborate? If I'm from California and plan to vote third party, I can't do this if I'm registered with a third party affiliation? Can I only vote third party if I am registered non-partisan? If I register (say) Democratic, can I not vote Republican? What are the restrictions?
RobPike wrote the following mostly-serious but slightly tongue-in-cheek bio for his 1994 Usenix paper presentation on Acme:
"RobPike, well known for his appearances on ``Late Night with David Letterman'', was also a Member of Technical Staff at BellLabs, where he has been since 1980, the same year he won the Olympic silver medal in Archery. In 1981 he wrote the first bitmap window system for Unix systems, and has since written ten more. With Bart Locanthi he designed the Blit terminal; with BrianKernighan he wrote TheUnixProgrammingEnvironment?. A shuttle mission nearly launched a gamma-ray telescope he designed. He is a Canadian citizen and has never written a program that uses cursor addressing."
I believe he did appear at least once on Letterman as assistant to Penn and Teller, but he's joking to say he's well-known for that. The comment about archery is also a joke of some sort; Pike is a Canadian citizen who has worked in the U.S. for decades, and both Canada and the U.S. boycotted the 1980 Olympics, so you needn't go looking for the records of that year's Olympics to figure this out.
The rest of his bio appears to be true.
He now (2004) works for GoogleSearch.
Whenever a new episode of Stargate comes out a bittorrent streams it live as it is created...
Is this possible with BT considering that it sends out blocks in a non-sequential order and the.torrent file contains SHA-1 hashes of the blocks? eDonkey sends out blocks in random order, as well, in order to optimize against the rare missing block problem. I think this is a good optimization to take, especially on file distribution networks, but it sacrifices the ability to stream (as far as I know). Anyone know any more about this?
Have you looked into WinSCP? A GUI scp (aka fish) and sftp client. I don't use sftp (does anyone?), but scp has worked very well for me so far. Works with a standard ssh server.
Are there any features you need present in SFTP but not SCP?
What I want to know is, where is a url for the Michael Badnarik and David Cobb debate. Not a url for a webpage about it or any lame streaming link. Just the damn file over http or ftp, please?
Mod parent up! The Slashdot story covering the Libertarian and Green debate says that Freemarketnews will be "streaming it and providing a download afterwards". Great. Click on the "Click here for schedule of all upcoming programs", and you are told to "JOIN NOW [...] its FREE". Fine, I'll register, verify my damn email address, and sign in. The schedule links to http://63.223.15.84:443/freemarketnews/09-30-04-pe oplesdebate.wmv. Hope this helps. (A non-SSL HTTP server on port 433, odd.)
Talk about inaccessible. The Republicrat debate was inescapable; streamed live on just about every station and rebroadcast several times. You have to jump through all these hoops to find the minor party debates. I can understand that it won't be as easy to find as the major debate, but this sort of inaccessibility is inexcusable.
Destination filtering is an excellent idea, but unfortunately Gmail doesn't let you filter based on what the to header is not set to. I file all mail sent to blackacid@gmail.com into a junk mail folder, and only give out addresses such as blackacid+slashdot@gmail.com. I don't read any email sent without the plus sign.
The problem is many spammers set the to header to something totally bogus, or ignore it completely, yet the mail still arrives in my inbox. If only Google would allow more advanced filtering techniques, to header filtering could be much more effective. Of course, those that run their own mail server can already reap the benefits of this kind of filtering, but I know many people would enjoy using this feature with Google Mail.
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I would guess Perl is optimizing away the map in a void context, but this doesn't seem to be the case. I recall a while back some discussion about optimizing the.. operator to not always create a full-blown list unless necessary; these changes must have been implemented.
On my system (using 1,000,000), Python takes 10 seconds, Perl takes 3. Even using @a=map { $_ ** 2 } grep { $_ % 2 == 0 } (1..1_000_000), forcing Perl to compute the list, Perl finishes in a mere 3-4 seconds. I ran these informal benchmarks in the debugger to discount any possibility of inclusing times being factored in.
Also, there is a caveat with Python list comprehensions. In Perl, this (admittedly contrived) example prints 42:
$x=42;
@a=map( my $x=1; $_ ** 2 } grep { $_ % 2 == 0 } (1..10);
print $x;
In Python, you don't have a $_ variable, so you have to make your own--usually x:
x = 42
a = [ x ** 2 for x in xrange(10) if x % 2 == 0 ]
print x
Prints 9, not 42 because of Python's static lexical scoping.
True, the Articles of Confederation failed to give the advocates of powerful government what they wanted. How else did it fail?
The Articles failed to contain Shay's Rebellion and failed to raise enough money to pay off our debt from the war. The decentralized government's ability to put down Shay's Rebellion was indictive of its weakness in enforcing law and order. To other nations, the US did not appear as a coherent, single country--hurting our foreign policy.
baptiste writes "Duke University has entered into an agreement with Apple to distribute iPods to all of the incoming freshmen this year - that's 1650 iPods! This agreement is part of an initiative to "encourage creative uses of technology in education and campus life" The iPods will have audio and text on them including special university content such as "faculty-provided course content, including language lessons, music, recorded lectures and audio books." Faculty will be assisted in creating new content for these devices by Duke's Center for Instructional Technology And here you thought iPods were just for music!"
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Stop the Roland Piquepaille assfest now.
That's not ironic. Morals can exist without an omniescent being dictating them.
No, its not the same thing. It's much easier to accidentially delete a file than to accidentially overwrite it with zeros (or truncate it).
Cooking at home doesn't harm society. It might harm the individual, but in doing so it can only improve society.
iTunes Music Store Catalog Tops One Million Songs. Still, that's an impressive collection.
The patch in question is a problem with probing the aux or keyboard port; nothing to do with partitions. The patch just comments out offending tests, very simple.
Recent Compaq/HP laptop users can't run FreeBSD. This problem has been known since July and still not fixed in this release. FreeBSD 5.3 (all betas, RCs, and the release itself), 5.2, 5.1, 5.0, all versions of FreeBSD 4 and 3 cannot run on Compaq Presario R3000Z and similar laptops, in either i386 or AMD64 mode. When is this going to be fixed? How come the patch exists.... works perfectly.... and isn't being commited?
By placing the party affiliation option on the voter registration form, party affiliation can be centralized. This way you can't join the Democrat Party and Republican Party and vote in both primaries.
iFilm has it has RealMedia, WMV, and QuickTime. Only at 200k or 50k (500k if you subscribe) but its better than nothing. Anyone have a non-BT source for the avi? My college blocks BitTorrent.
Bush and Kerry are both:
What else?
If you still want to see the site was about, check it out on Archive.org.
The Republicrat.
Is this possible with BT considering that it sends out blocks in a non-sequential order and the .torrent file contains SHA-1 hashes of the blocks? eDonkey sends out blocks in random order, as well, in order to optimize against the rare missing block problem. I think this is a good optimization to take, especially on file distribution networks, but it sacrifices the ability to stream (as far as I know). Anyone know any more about this?
Are there any features you need present in SFTP but not SCP?
Mod parent up! The Slashdot story covering the Libertarian and Green debate says that Freemarketnews will be "streaming it and providing a download afterwards". Great. Click on the "Click here for schedule of all upcoming programs", and you are told to "JOIN NOW [...] its FREE". Fine, I'll register, verify my damn email address, and sign in. The schedule links to http://63.223.15.84:443/freemarketnews/09-30-04-pe oplesdebate.wmv. Hope this helps. (A non-SSL HTTP server on port 433, odd.)
Talk about inaccessible. The Republicrat debate was inescapable; streamed live on just about every station and rebroadcast several times. You have to jump through all these hoops to find the minor party debates. I can understand that it won't be as easy to find as the major debate, but this sort of inaccessibility is inexcusable.
The problem is many spammers set the to header to something totally bogus, or ignore it completely, yet the mail still arrives in my inbox. If only Google would allow more advanced filtering techniques, to header filtering could be much more effective. Of course, those that run their own mail server can already reap the benefits of this kind of filtering, but I know many people would enjoy using this feature with Google Mail.
On my system (using 1,000,000), Python takes 10 seconds, Perl takes 3. Even using @a=map { $_ ** 2 } grep { $_ % 2 == 0 } (1..1_000_000), forcing Perl to compute the list, Perl finishes in a mere 3-4 seconds. I ran these informal benchmarks in the debugger to discount any possibility of inclusing times being factored in.
Second benchmark, from the command line:
$ time perl a.pl
3.113u 0.488s 0:07.15 50.2% 10+96966k 0+0io 0pf+0w
$ time python a.py
14.209u 0.309s 0:18.55 78.1% 792+12392k 0+0io 0pf+0w
Looks like Python could use some optimization.
Also, there is a caveat with Python list comprehensions. In Perl, this (admittedly contrived) example prints 42:
$x=42;
@a=map( my $x=1; $_ ** 2 } grep { $_ % 2 == 0 } (1..10);
print $x;
In Python, you don't have a $_ variable, so you have to make your own--usually x:
x = 42
a = [ x ** 2 for x in xrange(10) if x % 2 == 0 ]
print x
Prints 9, not 42 because of Python's static lexical scoping.
I found this Wired article, Making Free IPods Pay Off much more informative. The same company also offers free flatscreens (with 8 referrals).