So...are there cooling robots that chase the cooling robots to cool them down when they get too hot? And if so...are there more cooling robots to cool them down? Could be interesting:)
Hmmm. I've never been paid (nor asked to be) for anything I've ever written (ok there was that one OS/2 program way back before I knew any better).
The fact is, programmers who write useful code do it for mainly two reasons: 1) they need a tool. 2) It is interesting. The fact that people share what they create helps others to create even more useful stuff (for example, I have no intention of ever creating a GUI for my envelope printer...but maybe someone else will).
Money has nothing to do with it for the folks who write most of the good stuff. Now if only folks could get away from the whole emulation of windoze programs mentality. Windoze has the worst UI I've ever seen. I really don't know why kde and gnome keep trying to mimic it.
Did you even bother reading my post? Try holding down the arrow keys on a 20 GB disk using diskdrake to get to where you want. Here's a hint...it goes one sector at a time. Only 512K/sector. You'll be holding that key an awefully long time to get to the 8.45GB point required for the partition needed.
I recently installed Mandrake 8.2 on my toshiba libretto. For those of you who do not know, the libretto's hibernate feature is bios controlled. Being an old bios, it doesn't understand anything bigger than an 8.4GB drive. This is a problem, since I have a 20GB in mine (Mmmm...portable jukebox!). What happens is the machine will dump its hibernation info right in the middle of the drive.
Anyway...The solution is not too hard. You leave a blank partition where needed, and then span it with an LVM.
The problem is that DiskDrake does not allow you to type in specific values for start/end sectors when partitioning. You have to use their slider bars. This means holding down your mouse button for an hour or so to get to the right spot, or just getting 'close enough' and wasting a couple hundred meg of space. I went for the latter, and am not too happy with it.
So, do they allow you to fine-tune your partitions yet?
Another issue I'm having is when logging in as a normal user, there is a long pause, as modprobe is called for some reason (doesn't happen with root login). Does anybody know what this is and how to fix it?
any web developer who knows what they are doing will only store one cookie on a user's browser. The session data itself is referenced by that cookie, but stored in some way on the server.
So, yes, the cookie is stored client side. The data it represents, however does not (and shouldn't for a number of reasons, including security) reside on the client computer.
Good web programmers should also delete the cookies from the browser for login data when the user 'logs out' from the site.
Damn. Where are my moderator points when I need them? +10, absolutely correct. Especially the part about being able to create art after the basics are taken care of. I've always loved the 'artists' who write crap belittling folks who labor so that moron actually has the ability to write. If not for those who are 'stealing' your work, you would not have the time to create it simply surviving (or you'd be extinct).
That does look great for MM stuff...I'd put it in th e home theatre though...add a voice modem with callerid, AIM 'whoson' poller, etc.
For the car, I use my portable jukebox, which is a toshiba libretto, mounted using a radio-shack cd player holder (damping and everything). It cost me $390 on ebay for the computer (libretto 110CT), and $130 at a computer show for a 20 GB drive for it. It's a lot easier to just plug that thing into the speakers in whatever room I want to listen in (in the past I had a main server and just had speakers wired to it all over the house, but still needed another computer to control it anyway)
Toshiba libretto 110: $390 on Ebay 20 GB Drive for it: $130 at computer show Memory Upgrade from Ebay: $8 Software: Free, and some of it written by yours truly PCMCIA Network Card: Free (actually traded a toner cartrige for it with a friend) PCMCIA Flash Card reader (hey, this little tosh makes an EXCELLENT companion to the digital camera while on the road using gqview and ROX with thumbnails enabled!): $8 at computer show
Power inverter for car (cheaper than buying the cig adapter for the toshiba): $45
Result: A car jukebox that has the exact interface I want, but that can be used for so much more (even mozilla). Much better than $1500 for something that is pretty inflexible.
That reminds me of someone who said (JWZ?) " Linux is only free if your time is worth nothing ". Despite all the commendable advances, personally I'll keep it as a damn fine server and stick with Windows for my desktop.
Well, I landed my current job in no small part because of the time I have spent learning things with Linux. So not only is Linux free, but also, it paid me back to use it. Now that I do know my way around, I can use it for EVERYTHING. Doing the same in windoze while possible, isn't practical. Windoze also requires far too much hardware for many simple tasks (like my libretto 20GB jukebox)
And until windoze 2000 (and even then a little), windoze has *NEVER* been easy to install/configure/reconfigure at ALL. How much was your time worth to you again? In linux, if there is a problem, I can look at log files, see what is going on, look at the/proc filesystem, fix the problem, and move on. Windoze? Good luck fiddling with the installer and hoping it works.
Oh, and you can't run windoze 2000 on older machines, or machines with weird unsupported hardware, so if you want windoze, you're stuck with screwing around with an older version (windos95/98) for a few days in the hopes that it will work
Windoze hell scenario 1
Upgraded both sound card and video in my main computer. Went into linux. Changed 2 files. Everything works beautifully.
Under windows, auto-detect nightmare. The sound *still* doesn't work (but I never bothered finishing...like you, my time is worth something to me
Windoze Hell scenario 2
Bought toshiba libretto. Came with windoze95, with the novell client installed. Have you ever tried to update your network config with that thing installed? Not fun. After a day of fighting with the stuff trying to get around the 'requirement' to run novell, I said fsck it and did a network install of Mandrake. Worked beautifully, including hibernation. Doing a win95 install over network would not be nearly as pleasant.
Lemme ask you something.. What the hell is wrong with Microsoft, as a commercial corporation, writing an emulator layer for Linux?
Part of the reason OS/2 died is the fact that since it ran windoze software, developers saw no need to create the superior native apps for it (protected memory, re-usable objects, very good threading, etc). Then when win95 came out, guess what...none of the windoze stuff designed for the 'new and improved' windoze would run on OS/2.
Microsoft could do exactly the same thing by running stuff on linux, and then changing everything to break it. They basically released windoze 3.11 to break OS/2's 'for windows' version in the early 90's.
People who care about running windoze on linux, or porting windoze stuff to linux instead of doing it the 'unix way' (small tight apps that excel at a specific task, easily chained together or embedded within one another) really bother me a lot.
Linux needs quality native stuff. Not windoze stuff running on top of it. Not bloated all-in-one crap.
The solution, if someone feels filtering is necessary at the workplace, is to do something similar to what spamassasin does.
If an employee goes to a 'questionable' site, have a click-through warning first, and then log the site if the use clicks through.
Then the power is on the user whether or not the site is actually legitimate, and management is happy b/c they have filtering software in place. Everyone wins.
Well no shit. Window Maker is a WINDOW MANAGER ONLY. Gnome is a DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT with lots of stuff in addition to a window manager. I swear the number of people who continue to confuse this is so irritating. BTW I usually use Window Maker as well.
Yup. I use windowmaker too. And my environment is Windowmaker + Rox Filer (which is now using gtk 2 as well...but I have not upgraded yet b/c I am highly annoyed at the decision to use one big screen sized window instead of the root:(
Many commercial firewall appliances are linux/bsd based. There's Tivo. There (was) empeg.
It seems that if you can manufacture an appliance, then yes, you can profit from OS.
Also, if you run your own business as a consultant, just think of all the money you could make offering full solutions, without having to pay for the software. Database, web, and file and print servers on a network you wire, for example. Get a few dozen clients, and rotate their 'day' of your admin time, charging more for emergency visits (visit, nah...use ssh!).
if, instead of filling the canal with ships and using up its capacity in that fashion, are you engaging in theft if you blow the canal up and turn it into a dry river bed?
Yes.
No, obviously not. You haven't engaged in theft at all, you've engaged in vandalism, sabatage, and perhaps terrorism, but you have not engaged in theft, even though you've reduced the canal's usable capacity down to zero.
You have stolen a resource via your vandalism. You have taken that resource away.
How about if you build a damn to block the canal (but don't destroy it)?
Again, no, you aren't stealing anything, you are merely abusing the canal and making it useless to others, ie. are reducing its usable capacity to zero.
Reducing its usable capacity to zero means you have stolen all of its capacity, no?
The problemis the idiots who install this stuff don't really hurt themselves at all. What if said idiots were admins at a public library or school? Big time misrepresentation of a site's content, wouldn't you think?
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He probably meant in his graduating class, not per classroom. 100 is small. I think my graduating class was like 108.
So...are there cooling robots that chase the cooling robots to cool them down when they get too hot? And if so...are there more cooling robots to cool them down? Could be interesting :)
The fact is, programmers who write useful code do it for mainly two reasons: 1) they need a tool. 2) It is interesting. The fact that people share what they create helps others to create even more useful stuff (for example, I have no intention of ever creating a GUI for my envelope printer...but maybe someone else will).
Money has nothing to do with it for the folks who write most of the good stuff. Now if only folks could get away from the whole emulation of windoze programs mentality. Windoze has the worst UI I've ever seen. I really don't know why kde and gnome keep trying to mimic it.
why would your friend's 13 year old son be using a '.com' site for civil war research? .org, .gov, .edu would be a better search.
That is obviously *not* simply a typo. It's a demonstration of stupidity.
Did you even bother reading my post? Try holding down the arrow keys on a 20 GB disk using diskdrake to get to where you want. Here's a hint...it goes one sector at a time. Only 512K/sector. You'll be holding that key an awefully long time to get to the 8.45GB point required for the partition needed.
Anyway...The solution is not too hard. You leave a blank partition where needed, and then span it with an LVM.
The problem is that DiskDrake does not allow you to type in specific values for start/end sectors when partitioning. You have to use their slider bars. This means holding down your mouse button for an hour or so to get to the right spot, or just getting 'close enough' and wasting a couple hundred meg of space. I went for the latter, and am not too happy with it.
So, do they allow you to fine-tune your partitions yet?
Another issue I'm having is when logging in as a normal user, there is a long pause, as modprobe is called for some reason (doesn't happen with root login). Does anybody know what this is and how to fix it?
I just downloaded 8.2 for my tosh libretto. *sigh*
So, yes, the cookie is stored client side. The data it represents, however does not (and shouldn't for a number of reasons, including security) reside on the client computer.
Good web programmers should also delete the cookies from the browser for login data when the user 'logs out' from the site.
You can do this using raid striping if you have 2 or more drives. Put them on separate controllers and watch them scream.
Damn. Where are my moderator points when I need them? +10, absolutely correct. Especially the part about being able to create art after the basics are taken care of. I've always loved the 'artists' who write crap belittling folks who labor so that moron actually has the ability to write. If not for those who are 'stealing' your work, you would not have the time to create it simply surviving (or you'd be extinct).
For the car, I use my portable jukebox, which is a toshiba libretto, mounted using a radio-shack cd player holder (damping and everything). It cost me $390 on ebay for the computer (libretto 110CT), and $130 at a computer show for a 20 GB drive for it. It's a lot easier to just plug that thing into the speakers in whatever room I want to listen in (in the past I had a main server and just had speakers wired to it all over the house, but still needed another computer to control it anyway)
20 GB Drive for it: $130 at computer show
Memory Upgrade from Ebay: $8
Software: Free, and some of it written by yours truly
PCMCIA Network Card: Free (actually traded a toner cartrige for it with a friend)
PCMCIA Flash Card reader (hey, this little tosh makes an EXCELLENT companion to the digital camera while on the road using gqview and ROX with thumbnails enabled!): $8 at computer show Power inverter for car (cheaper than buying the cig adapter for the toshiba): $45
Result: A car jukebox that has the exact interface I want, but that can be used for so much more (even mozilla). Much better than $1500 for something that is pretty inflexible.
Well, I landed my current job in no small part because of the time I have spent learning things with Linux. So not only is Linux free, but also, it paid me back to use it. Now that I do know my way around, I can use it for EVERYTHING. Doing the same in windoze while possible, isn't practical. Windoze also requires far too much hardware for many simple tasks (like my libretto 20GB jukebox)
And until windoze 2000 (and even then a little), windoze has *NEVER* been easy to install/configure/reconfigure at ALL. How much was your time worth to you again? In linux, if there is a problem, I can look at log files, see what is going on, look at the /proc filesystem, fix the problem, and move on. Windoze? Good luck fiddling with the installer and hoping it works.
Oh, and you can't run windoze 2000 on older machines, or machines with weird unsupported hardware, so if you want windoze, you're stuck with screwing around with an older version (windos95/98) for a few days in the hopes that it will work
Windoze hell scenario 1
Windoze Hell scenario 2
Part of the reason OS/2 died is the fact that since it ran windoze software, developers saw no need to create the superior native apps for it (protected memory, re-usable objects, very good threading, etc). Then when win95 came out, guess what...none of the windoze stuff designed for the 'new and improved' windoze would run on OS/2.
Microsoft could do exactly the same thing by running stuff on linux, and then changing everything to break it. They basically released windoze 3.11 to break OS/2's 'for windows' version in the early 90's.
People who care about running windoze on linux, or porting windoze stuff to linux instead of doing it the 'unix way' (small tight apps that excel at a specific task, easily chained together or embedded within one another) really bother me a lot.
Linux needs quality native stuff. Not windoze stuff running on top of it. Not bloated all-in-one crap.
Why pop up ads? If that annoys you, simply don't visit that site. Spam, OTOH, is different.
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I didn't see an avantgo-friendly page link on this site.
If an employee goes to a 'questionable' site, have a click-through warning first, and then log the site if the use clicks through.
Then the power is on the user whether or not the site is actually legitimate, and management is happy b/c they have filtering software in place. Everyone wins.
Yup. I use windowmaker too. And my environment is Windowmaker + Rox Filer (which is now using gtk 2 as well...but I have not upgraded yet b/c I am highly annoyed at the decision to use one big screen sized window instead of the root :(
It seems that if you can manufacture an appliance, then yes, you can profit from OS.
Also, if you run your own business as a consultant, just think of all the money you could make offering full solutions, without having to pay for the software. Database, web, and file and print servers on a network you wire, for example. Get a few dozen clients, and rotate their 'day' of your admin time, charging more for emergency visits (visit, nah...use ssh!).
Yes.
You have stolen a resource via your vandalism. You have taken that resource away.
Reducing its usable capacity to zero means you have stolen all of its capacity, no?
The problemis the idiots who install this stuff don't really hurt themselves at all. What if said idiots were admins at a public library or school? Big time misrepresentation of a site's content, wouldn't you think?
All well and good, except the majority of people are stupid.
You just described the plot of 'The Sum of All Fears' only it wasn't computer networks...