The comment about all the duplication of storage makes me think of the current pop culture obsession with hoarding.
I'd guess that all slashdotters have known someone who obsessively downloads music - to the point that they've got more music stored than they could possibly listen to.
You're assuming that these routers even have a resolver. Typically the IP address of the time server is hard-coded.
If that's the case with these D-Link models, the routers will continue to hammer that IP until the last one dies.
This clears some things up. . .
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I read this book about six months ago and greatly enjoyed it -- it's one of the best 'popular' explanations of a math topic I can recall.
And it was the only time I'd heard of John Derbyshire. When I saw a political blogger slag him off a couple of weeks ago, I thought "this can't be the same guy who wrote the Riemann book!"
The best singer I've ever sung with not only has perfect pitch, he has it in at least two different tunings. If you're singing at modern concert pitch he can give you an A440. But most early music is at A415. He can give you any named note in that tuning.
He also can give you a named note in just temperament if you prefer that to Well Tempered Clavier equal temperament.
On the other hand, what if they weren't the ones who wrote the code? Maybe they just bought a "router kit" from some small company, slapped a "Netgear" logo on it, and shipped it out? This is very common. Many times these 'router kits' arrive from the Taiwanese vendor pre-configured with a list of Stratum 1 time servers!
NPR reported a few minutes ago that the expected items have appeared, and that eBay pulled them immediately.
Also that eBay will probably be reporting the sellers to the Feds.
So does knowing a little history
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A Word a Day
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It's surprising than anybody can natter on about the history of 'malapropism' without mentioning that it originates in a coinage: Mrs. Malaprop is a character in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play The Rivals.
The reporter needed to investigate this new software DSL users are being asked to install, and find out what sort of user tracking it enables. David Lazarus is a columnist for the Chronicle's business pages. Michael's point may be good but it's important to realize that the writer isn't under the same sort of obligations that a reporter would be.
The Chronicle's headline
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"Crichton stretches out another nano-idea" brightened my morning the other day.
First off all the King James Version is protestant not catholic. Acutally the Authorised/King James version is Anglican. You'll hardly ever see it in the US, but King James's translators definitely did translate the Apocrypha and a complete edition of the KJV will include those texts.
Check the Articles of Religion for the Anglican view of the Apocrypha.
Second the inclusion list for the Kind James isn't arbitrary its following the organization from Martin Luther's Geneva Bible.
The Geneva Bible had nothing to do with Luther. It was the work of English exiles in Geneva during the reign of Mary Tudor. It is much more Reformed (i.e. Calvinist) in outlook than Luther would have been.
The books included in the Protestant canon are those selected in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Scriptures.
...until the MAC address generators have gone through all the "MAC-space" of possible addresses...
Eh? The MAC address space is 2^48 addresses. We divide by 2 since you shouldn't use a multicast address as your SA. You can set the 'locally administered' bit (second on the wire or 0x02 in ethernet notation) and you won't collide with any of the existing allocations. That leaves you 2^46 to play with -- roughly 10,000 addresses for each resident of the planet.
Running out of MACs is something you don't need to worry about.
Actually unless my memory of early Sunday School fails me, the Bible does not say that the Iraelites built the Pyramids.
Right. The pyramids were built long before the time of Ramses II, who is usually identified as the Pharoah of the Exodus. Archaeology is now suggesting that much of the history of the Hebrew Bible didn't actually happen. The Bible Unearthed provides a good summary of the argument.
I occasionally have to give seminars to an audience that includes a fair number of sales types. Now a sales person is apparently genetically preconditioned to answer a ringing phone instantly -- I think they score karma points for answering before the first ring ends.
So I begin these classes by announcing the ground rules:
For all of you who think that Mozilla stops pop-ups go to epicurious.com and watch.
Hmm. I just went there in Galeon (1.2.0). No popups in sight. I don't get popups at the NYT either. And yes, JS is enabled.
(or is it here here? I've never seen it explained.) It's hear, hear. The American Heritage Dictionary has the phrase under "hear". It's like saying "I hear you talking!"
To each his own. I find Pullman's invention breathtaking. The first volume (which BTW was titled The Northern Lights in its British incarnation) was exciting and each of the following ones gets even better. Pullman's writing is gorgeous. In...mumble... years of reading fantasy I've rarely come across anything as good as this. I'd warmly recommend it to anyone from 12 up.
There's a marked "zero" line going through the courtyard. This is actually a little different from the actual zeroes used by various different mapping systems (GPS will probably tell you you're not quite at zero if you stand in the courtyard of the observatory, for this reason). But the zeroes are all based on the Greenwich meridian.
The brass line across the courtyard marks the old zero meridian. The "real" one changed when the officials at the Royal Observatory moved the transit instrument that made the observations which actually defined the Prime Meridian.
I type in google.com and it loads damn near instantly.
The Google folks were at a local user group meeting a few months ago. They told us that they have byte counters -- the human kind -- monitoring how many bytes each page served takes. Their mission is to keep the count down.
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The comment about all the duplication of storage makes me think of the current pop culture obsession with hoarding.
I'd guess that all slashdotters have known someone who obsessively downloads music - to the point that they've got more music stored than they could possibly listen to.
You're assuming that these routers even have a resolver. Typically the IP address of the time server is hard-coded.
If that's the case with these D-Link models, the routers will continue to hammer that IP until the last one dies.
I read this book about six months ago and greatly enjoyed it -- it's one of the best 'popular' explanations of a math topic I can recall.
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And it was the only time I'd heard of John Derbyshire. When I saw a political blogger slag him off a couple of weeks ago, I thought "this can't be the same guy who wrote the Riemann book!"
Maybe I should get out more. .
LOL! Somebody mod that one up, please?
That's the one I use when I teach the OSI model. I think it's best to teach the concepts from the wire up rather than the reverse.
Is it coincidence that the quote at the bottom of this page currently is:
"It is easier to port a shell than a shell script." -- Larry Wall
?
The best singer I've ever sung with not only has perfect pitch, he has it in at least two different tunings. If you're singing at modern concert pitch he can give you an A440. But most early music is at A415. He can give you any named note in that tuning.
He also can give you a named note in just temperament if you prefer that to Well Tempered Clavier equal temperament.
On the other hand, what if they weren't the ones who wrote the code? Maybe they just bought a "router kit" from some small company, slapped a "Netgear" logo on it, and shipped it out?
This is very common. Many times these 'router kits' arrive from the Taiwanese vendor pre-configured with a list of Stratum 1 time servers!
I don't really need the Inquisition -- we don't really need to torture and burn spammers.
I wouldn't mind a return to the early American custom of public humiliation, though.
Anyone for a return of the stocks/pillory?
Ah. Well, it _was_ a funny image. Thanks.
...some ubergeek in tweed...
Garsh, I didn't know James Bond worked for Sun!
Tweed? James Bond??? NEVER!
NPR reported a few minutes ago that the expected items have appeared, and that eBay pulled them immediately.
Also that eBay will probably be reporting the sellers to the Feds.
It's surprising than anybody can natter on about the history of 'malapropism' without mentioning that it originates in a coinage: Mrs. Malaprop is a character in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play The Rivals.
The reporter needed to investigate this new software DSL users are being asked to install, and find out what sort of user tracking it enables.
David Lazarus is a columnist for the Chronicle's business pages. Michael's point may be good but it's important to realize that the writer isn't under the same sort of obligations that a reporter would be.
"Crichton stretches out another nano-idea" brightened my morning the other day.
First off all the King James Version is protestant not catholic.
Acutally the Authorised/King James version is Anglican. You'll hardly ever see it in the US, but King James's translators definitely did translate the Apocrypha and a complete edition of the KJV will include those texts.
Check the
Articles of Religion for the Anglican view of the Apocrypha.
Second the inclusion list for the Kind James isn't arbitrary its following the organization from Martin Luther's Geneva Bible.
The Geneva Bible had nothing to do with Luther. It was the work of English exiles in Geneva during the reign of Mary Tudor. It is much more Reformed (i.e. Calvinist) in outlook than Luther would have been.
The books included in the Protestant canon are those selected in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Scriptures.
Eh? The MAC address space is 2^48 addresses. We divide by 2 since you shouldn't use a multicast address as your SA. You can set the 'locally administered' bit (second on the wire or 0x02 in ethernet notation) and you won't collide with any of the existing allocations. That leaves you 2^46 to play with -- roughly 10,000 addresses for each resident of the planet.
Running out of MACs is something you don't need to worry about.
Actually unless my memory of early Sunday School fails me, the Bible does not say that the Iraelites built the Pyramids.
Right. The pyramids were built long before the time of Ramses II, who is usually identified as the Pharoah of the Exodus.
Archaeology is now suggesting that much of the history of the Hebrew Bible didn't actually happen.
The Bible Unearthed provides a good summary of the argument.
I've always thought that the fundamental conceit in American Gods, as you state above, was one that was appropriated from Douglas Adams...
It's a pretty well-worn conceit -- I recall reading similar things as long ago as the '60s -- and I doubt that those were "original" either.
I though Gaiman handled it very well -- I thoroughly enjoyed the book.
The distinction between science fiction and not-science-fiction doesn't worry me as much as it once did. It seems that the Hugo voters agree.
So I begin these classes by announcing the ground rules:
If your phone rings, that's a $1 forfeit.
If you answer it, it's $10.
For all of you who think that Mozilla stops pop-ups go to epicurious.com and watch.
Hmm. I just went there in Galeon (1.2.0). No popups in sight. I don't get popups at the NYT either. And yes, JS is enabled.
(or is it here here? I've never seen it explained.)
It's hear, hear. The American Heritage Dictionary has the phrase under "hear". It's like saying "I hear you talking!"
To each his own. I find Pullman's invention breathtaking. ...mumble... years of reading fantasy I've rarely come across anything as good as this. I'd warmly recommend it to anyone from 12 up.
The first volume (which BTW was titled The Northern Lights in its British incarnation) was exciting and each of the following ones gets even better. Pullman's writing is gorgeous. In
There's a marked "zero" line going through the courtyard. This is actually a little different from the actual zeroes used by various different mapping systems (GPS will probably tell you you're not quite at zero if you stand in the courtyard of the observatory, for this reason). But the zeroes are all based on the Greenwich meridian.
The brass line across the courtyard marks the old zero meridian. The "real" one changed when the officials at the Royal Observatory moved the transit instrument that made the observations which actually defined the Prime Meridian.
Derek Howse wrote a very good story of Greenwich Time and Longitude, which has recently been updated.
I type in google.com and it loads damn near instantly.
The Google folks were at a local user group meeting a few months ago. They told us that they have byte counters -- the human kind -- monitoring how many bytes each page served takes. Their mission is to keep the count down.
They got very noisy applause for that statement.