'Lift' being a relative term, of course. It's been pretty thoroughly proven that the Biefeld-Brown effect has nothing to do with anti-gravity, or gravitational fields at all, but is rather a directional force in the same way a traditional rotor or jet behaves.
It's still a quite interesting effect though, and shows promise for building propulsion devices with no moving parts. The debate is still on as to whether it requires a dielectric medium (i.e. air), or can work in a vacuum as well.
Having event loops all over the place like this can cause nasty problems if an event causes you to re-enter this section of code (think infinite recursion).
The Right Way(tm) for a Windows program to always be responsive is to have the main thread concentrate solely on message handling (i.e. dedicated to the GUI), and spawn off worker threads to do the real processing. Of course this is non-trivial to get right, and may not even be possible in VB.
We already knew that. The plants are part of the system that was built by the mice for the purpose of answering the question of life, the universe, and everything.
Well that's depressing. The cynic in me has always half seriously said that money was the only thing that could get a politician's attention, but I never had any proof one way or the other.
Anyone else know somebody on the inside who would care to confirm/deny Mr. McLeod's assertions?
If Berkeley had licensed their version of Unix under something similar to the GPL, the Unix Wars never would've happened and Microsoft wouldn't have become the monstrous monopoly it is today.
...and you'd be surfing slashdot over IPX/SPX with routing extensions or possibly Vines rather than TCP/IP.
On second thought, slashdot probably wouldn't even exist.
I read an anecdote here on Slashdot about someone who was in the American Deep South on holidays and was thrown out of a store for wearing a BSD shirt, and veiled hints that he had better leave town.
The store owner probably mistook the BSD daemon for the New Jersey Devils logo. Likely, the Stars were playing the Devils that week and that's why there was such a strong reaction.
The reason we haven't seen anything in the last 10 years is also why we couldn't develop anything without German engineering. Necessity is the mother of invention, and the people of Germany were organized and motivated to survive.
I remember when 100 megs was cool.. then the gig.. then 10 gigs... then 100..
Reminds me of quote from a deep space 9 episode:
"The reason for this exercise is beyond my comprehension except perhaps that humans have a compulsion to keep records and lists and files... so many in fact that they have to invent new ways to store them microscopically. Otherwise their records would overrun all known civilization."
If two planets are 20 light-years apart, and they have a 300 baud connection between them - it'd take 1077 years to transmit the data on one of these, right?
I think even at 20 light years you'd be able to transmit a lot faster than 300 bps. Latency would still suck and error correction might be a problem, but there should be plenty of bandwidth available...
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=63 time=1262269449142.4591 ms
Apple's XServe RAID quotes that it has 3.5TB of data with 14 x 250GB.
I sure hope not -- 14 x 250 is exactly 3500. With 14 drives and no redundancy, that thing would be lucky to last more than a couple months before the whole array crashes... Maybe if it RAID5 with 16 x 250 at least, preferably 18 or 19. That's not even counting hot spares if you don't want to be constantly rushing around to replace failed drives immediately.
I ssh over ipv6 all the time -- it's just like v4 but prints out a really ugly address the first time you connect.
Will I need to update my apt.sources file?
Probably not if your favorite apt servers support it as well. Most of the switching over is handled by DNS (which has had v6 support for quite a while).
Actually the way the upgrade is done on Unix systems is to install apache httpd to a new directory that includes the version number in the name
Depends on the server administrator. On my FreeBSD-based systems, the old apache gets tarred up into a package for recovery if something goes wrong, deleted, then the new one installed where it used to be. I suspect the same holds true for anyone who uses package management systems to upgrade apache.
Another nice thing about Apache, you don't have to take it offline to upgrade it! You can install the upgrade while the old version still serves pages. Once you're done installing the new version:
This probably won't work on the Windows version of Apache. It works fine on UNIX because of UNIX filesystem semantics (files don't actually get deleted until the last file handle is closed, but are removed from the directory immediately). On Windows, executables that are running are locked and cannot be deleted or overwritten.
Legal or not, I can assure you that anyone caught stealing anything from me would be shot on site. And while I may end up in jail (or not...IANAL) I would be in the right.
Legal or not, I can assure you that anyone caught misusing the words "site" and "sight" would be shot on sight. And while I may end up in jail (or not...IANAL) I would be in the rite. Errrr.... I mean the right.
I'm not disagreeing with Sven's opinion, just his closed-mindedness to other opinions. I'm all in favor of leaving MDI as a selectable option, like it is in NetBeans IDE, for instance.
Eh, I wouldn't mind seeing the option as long as it was exactly that -- optional. Hopefully the new dockable windows in 1.3/2.0 will address most of the complaints about window overload though.
Yes, let's cram all of the tools and images into one single toplevel window so that everything is restricted to one of my monitors instead of being able to spread out across all 3.
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lol! funniest thing I've read all week. The time cube is pretty hilarious on its own, but this is great!
Copper will lift with current applied
'Lift' being a relative term, of course. It's been pretty thoroughly proven that the Biefeld-Brown effect has nothing to do with anti-gravity, or gravitational fields at all, but is rather a directional force in the same way a traditional rotor or jet behaves.
It's still a quite interesting effect though, and shows promise for building propulsion devices with no moving parts. The debate is still on as to whether it requires a dielectric medium (i.e. air), or can work in a vacuum as well.
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Having event loops all over the place like this can cause nasty problems if an event causes you to re-enter this section of code (think infinite recursion).
The Right Way(tm) for a Windows program to always be responsive is to have the main thread concentrate solely on message handling (i.e. dedicated to the GUI), and spawn off worker threads to do the real processing. Of course this is non-trivial to get right, and may not even be possible in VB.
The OS even asks to be rebooted when you change DNS settings.
The last Windows OS that did that was NT4. Win2k and everything after it no longer asks for a reboot when changing networking settings.
Even on NT4, it would prompt for a reboot, but if you hit 'no', the new settings would work just fine anyway.
We already knew that. The plants are part of the system that was built by the mice for the purpose of answering the question of life, the universe, and everything.
You either use Linux or you use Windows.
No. I use FreeBSD.
Well that's depressing. The cynic in me has always half seriously said that money was the only thing that could get a politician's attention, but I never had any proof one way or the other.
Anyone else know somebody on the inside who would care to confirm/deny Mr. McLeod's assertions?
With enough access to the drivel coming out of the SCO lobbyist's mouth, it could make for some pretty hilarious (and pointed) commentary.
Yeah, but you're assuming that congressmen are smart enough to (A) realize that it's sarcasm, and (B) associate it with the SCO lobby.
That's a pretty big leap...
Whats worse, the "random redshirt" deaths killed something like over half of the crew, if you did the math.
Speaking of math, they must have had a shuttlecraft manufacturing plant onboard with as many of those as they blew up...
No kidding. homestarrunner.com: allow. Everybody else: deny
Waiting for Godot? Ugh. Red vs. Blue is about 100x better.
If you want existentialism that isn't boring, might want to check out "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" by Tom Stoppard.
If Berkeley had licensed their version of Unix under something similar to the GPL, the Unix Wars never would've happened and Microsoft wouldn't have become the monstrous monopoly it is today.
...and you'd be surfing slashdot over IPX/SPX with routing extensions or possibly Vines rather than TCP/IP.
On second thought, slashdot probably wouldn't even exist.
To blame things on a kakodiamon was to say that you had bad luck
Isn't that one of those creepy floating red things in Doom?
I read an anecdote here on Slashdot about someone who was in the American Deep South on holidays and was thrown out of a store for wearing a BSD shirt, and veiled hints that he had better leave town.
The store owner probably mistook the BSD daemon for the New Jersey Devils logo. Likely, the Stars were playing the Devils that week and that's why there was such a strong reaction.
The reason we haven't seen anything in the last 10 years is also why we couldn't develop anything without German engineering. Necessity is the mother of invention, and the people of Germany were organized and motivated to survive.
You're absolutely right. I humbly bow before the technological advancement of the people of Germany
Reminds me of quote from a deep space 9 episode:
If two planets are 20 light-years apart, and they have a 300 baud connection between them - it'd take 1077 years to transmit the data on one of these, right?
I think even at 20 light years you'd be able to transmit a lot faster than 300 bps. Latency would still suck and error correction might be a problem, but there should be plenty of bandwidth available...
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=63 time=1262269449142.4591 ms
Apple's XServe RAID quotes that it has 3.5TB of data with 14 x 250GB.
I sure hope not -- 14 x 250 is exactly 3500. With 14 drives and no redundancy, that thing would be lucky to last more than a couple months before the whole array crashes... Maybe if it RAID5 with 16 x 250 at least, preferably 18 or 19. That's not even counting hot spares if you don't want to be constantly rushing around to replace failed drives immediately.
And here I thought we were electrochemical devices for moving water from one place to another.
Specifically, uphill.
I ssh over ipv6 all the time -- it's just like v4 but prints out a really ugly address the first time you connect.
Will I need to update my apt.sources file?
Probably not if your favorite apt servers support it as well. Most of the switching over is handled by DNS (which has had v6 support for quite a while).
Actually the way the upgrade is done on Unix systems is to install apache httpd to a new directory that includes the version number in the name
Depends on the server administrator. On my FreeBSD-based systems, the old apache gets tarred up into a package for recovery if something goes wrong, deleted, then the new one installed where it used to be. I suspect the same holds true for anyone who uses package management systems to upgrade apache.
Another nice thing about Apache, you don't have to take it offline to upgrade it! You can install the upgrade while the old version still serves pages. Once you're done installing the new version:
This probably won't work on the Windows version of Apache. It works fine on UNIX because of UNIX filesystem semantics (files don't actually get deleted until the last file handle is closed, but are removed from the directory immediately). On Windows, executables that are running are locked and cannot be deleted or overwritten.
Legal or not, I can assure you that anyone caught misusing the words "site" and "sight" would be shot on sight. And while I may end up in jail (or not...IANAL) I would be in the rite. Errrr.... I mean the right.
I'm not disagreeing with Sven's opinion, just his closed-mindedness to other opinions. I'm all in favor of leaving MDI as a selectable option, like it is in NetBeans IDE, for instance.
Eh, I wouldn't mind seeing the option as long as it was exactly that -- optional. Hopefully the new dockable windows in 1.3/2.0 will address most of the complaints about window overload though.
Yes, let's cram all of the tools and images into one single toplevel window so that everything is restricted to one of my monitors instead of being able to spread out across all 3.
What genius! We'll conquer the world yet...