The big question I have is this. Why is it that, when I run "nohup python myscript.py &" and logout of my *bsd based webserver, my python scripts crap out?
It's gonna be hard to get my program to generate updated html pages to match constantly updated data, if I can't get the dadburned script to stay running.
This is an educational thread for me. My personal guru got a travelling job. (Hi Dave!)
I get most of my movie news from the The Hollywood Stock Exchange, which is an online stock-market simulation game. I've been playing it for a few years, and I've learned about more upcoming movies than I can count. Of course, many of those same movies never actually get released on the big screen, but that's all part of the game.
HSX says:
Spider-Man 2 is the sequel to 2002's blockbuster film based on the Marvel Comic superhero. An ordinary high school student is bitten by a genetically-altered spider and acquires super powers. Tobey Maguire plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man. It's unknown who will be Spider-Man's foe in this sequel scheduled to go into production in early 2003.
If Spider-Man has a $100 million opening weekend, the HSX stock will adjust to ~$290 per share. It is currently trading at around $230 per share. Target price for the share is equal to the first four weeks take, in millions. SPID2 is trading at ~$132 per share.
If video games, books, programming, chatrooms or women have screwed up your life, don't click here and start playing HSX. It will screw up what you have left.
Count me as one who is interested in this very thing. I click-through to an average of one story a day or less on/., these days. This is my one, today.
I run a used bookstore (in Sanford, NC for those in the area who want to help keep me in business) and am VERY interested in the marketing of books, especially as it relates to the net.
I'm also working on a novel. Well, I've got four in my head, but I'm working on a political thriller at this time. I'm very interested in ways that I can develop a customer-base for my book, as it (hopefully) nears publication. Since I'm wary of spammers in my net-travels, it's nice to hear some reactions to the more acceptable cousin, the on-topic announcement in topical forums and chats.
Thanks, Jon. For what it's worth, I appreciate you. Heck, I probably have a book or two of yours here in the store to sell.
I don't know about you, but I'd be pretty scared of any one that has more than one floppy.
Well, my wife has two, and it scares Hell out of me.
The wife also used to have a black case. I guess that means she was beige before beige was black. It was cool, though, to have a 486DX33 with a black case, keyboard, mouse, and even drives. Even the monitor was black.
I have heard that you may have to distribute the source code to your woody if you go around distributing it.
So, let me get this straight. I pretty much need to keep my woody to myself. If I decide to let anybody else have access to my woody, I'm going to have to give away half of what makes my woody so magnificent.
I guess I'll have to survive on the other half of what makes my woody so magnificent, instead.
Another licensing question for you. I've had some old girlfriends who had nothing to do with the actual development of the woody, but were instrumental in beta-testing, and contributed much to the actual use. Do I have to credit them in the source, or would that just make my wife jealous?
Huh. I installed the 2.4.latest kernel two days ago. I was feeling kinda smug, having just installed an old Wyse 60 terminal, and decided it was time for a kernel upgrade.
Now, when I see "Starting Kernel" I see a stopping system. When I use Lilo to boot the old kernel, I have a choice between dropping to a useless shell or continuing until the kernel panic.
I had to spend yesterday using Windows. Tomorrow, I have to learn something new, 'cause I broke debian again.:)
Uhh, no thanks. Choosing between ads and A$80 is not my idea of a good time, at least not until I'm working again.
I used to think the same way. When Netscape on my Linux box died temporarily, I decided to live with the ads until I could fix Netscape. It was the best browser move I ever made.
All the positive statements above are true. Opera is truly an improvement on the web experience offered by Netscape and IE. Tabbed windows (also in Galeon) are my favorite feature. Speed is a close second (I have 40 meg of memory on a Pentium 200mhz).
What feature do I wish I had in Opera? (or any other browser, for that matter) Fool web pages into thinking I'm running Windows, and let me load them. What's with all the unloadable websites? Some sites, I can't load in ANY browser, but can load on a windows machine quickly.
I'm hardly an expert, but I'm working daily on a 200 Mhz Pentium with 2 gig of HD and 40 MB of RAM. I run Gnome with IceWM every day, and never have problems.
Get a full transfusion, then when you get a cut, you'll bleed milky white, and everyone'll think you're a robot!
Unfortunately, your body would keep producing red blood cells, so it would only be a matter of time before you'd bleed pink. While that might be ideal for a Democrat, I'd prefer green like money.
Gotta agree that NPR is a great source for radio entertainment.
Now, as soon as they quit stealing money from me through taxation, I'll start giving it to them freely. Instead of stealing pennies, they can ask for, and receive, dollars.
Until then, no donations, no matter HOW high quality they are.
First, yes, this is an "intellectual property issue." Fuji, in their infinite wisdom, sicced the lawyers on the fans to "protect" their property. This much I can dig.
It was done badly. Telling your fans that everything they've been doing to support your entity is bad. If they're doing something you don't like, pull out the big legal stick, lay it across your lap, and then try to work out a decent arrangement that keeps everybody happy. Want to find out how bad it can get? Search the web for "The Asshole Formerly Known As Prince" and see what happenned with TAFKATAFKAP (The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince) when he had his lawyers pull the same stunt.
Third: Jill Fairbrother Morrison & Foerster LLP 425 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94105-2482 tel: (415) 268-7000 fax: (415) 268-7522 email: fairbrother@mofo.com url: www.mofo.com
I recommend a polite letter to Ms Fairbrother expressing the poor judgement of this action in polite terms. DO NOT harass the poor woman for doing her job, but do suggest that she offer her client options for allowing the fan sites to operate with approved material, and let the fans help the client like they want to.
Some of us out here are even worse programmers, and wouldn't have the skill to write something on this scale if they wanted to. I should know, I'm one of them.
I setup slash a few months ago, and had a major learning experience with apache, perl, CPAN and funky virtual server setups. Now, I've got it running great and I'm extending the functionality by running Zope side-by-side.
I've been talking about my website idea for a LONG time with my family. Thanks to these lousy programmers, an even worse programmer has been able to impress a lot of people.
I used to live in Zambia, where we did have television. The 'advert break' consisted of someone putting cards with some writing on them, one after the other in front of the camera...yes, you could see the guy's hand..!
I live in Sanford, NC. We have a local TV station that is only slightly above this technology. The station is almost a one-man show, though. He does need his wife in front of the camera to do the news, since he's behind it and on the control board.
I find it interesting to read about how Redhat and Mandrake focus on Gnome and KDE respectively.
I've been running Linux on this box for some time. I loaded it up as a Redhat machine, running fvwm something or another. Being a shell head, I basically only used X so I could use netscape AND have my text tools on my crappy 640x480 screen.
Later, I downloaded KDE and played with it. I used it, and that original configuration, until I had beaten the poor system into submission, and it became painfully obvious I needed to update my Linux install.
When I upgraded, I wiped clean and went with the latest distro release, Mandrake 7.0. Having gotten tired of the KDE interface, though, I chose to run Gnome. Now, I'm having to wonder whether my personal use might be served better with another distro. Is it Redhat 6.2 or wait for Mandrake 7.1?
Or, I could just cope with life until I have to actually deal with a problem again, and maybe upgrade to Redhat 12.0
Wierd Al's music qualifies as a parody, and you can parody anything and anyone, for free.
You can parody anything you want, for free. The right to parody, though, does not extend to performance of the work of another.
When a radio station plays a song, they are supposed to pay a fee to the songwriter(s) for having used that song in their own performance, the radio show. If that song is "Beat It" by Michael Jackson, and both the words and music were written by Jackson, then he would receive the full fee (ostensibly, that is. This is a simplistic explanation of the much more complex system operated by BMI and ASCAP).
If, however, the song were "Eat It", then the words are by Weird Al and music is by Jackson. BOTH would benefit from the fees. So, by default, any performance of the parody, unless musically and lyrically unique, would provide financial benefit to the songwriter.
There are fees for public performance, radio play, television play, partial play and even use as a theme song. Different uses have different fees.
Rush Limbaugh had to deal with this issue last year. Chrissy Hynde of The Pretenders had apparently gotten upset, finally, about his use of one of her songs as a theme. He'd been paying his fees, but word came through that she didn't like it, so he quit using it.
The minor scandal lasted a few days, until Chrissy, in an interview, said she wouldn't mind him using the song if he would give all the fees to animal rights charities or some fluff like that. Rush immediately started playing the song again, and resumed payment of royalties through the normal channels.
Rush didn't have the option of paying the money to the charities. The law, and the company representing Chrissy, require payment to the company (BMI or ASCAP, again) and then Chrissy can do whatever the Hell she wants to with the money.
Likewise, Jackson may not like the parody (he does, for the record), but since he still gets financial rewards, he's covered legally.
Considering I coded that on purpose, I doubt we'll remove it from a future release.
I'm so happy to hear that. Although I have yet to get it working on my site, I chose to go with slashcode in the end because of this feature.
My site has a need for dozens to hundreds of rooms that are self-cleaning, non-archiving and not connected to stories. I'm going to enjoy putting that all together.
Mouse (deceased) The PC World technician who discovered the dead rodent believes the mouse had squirmed into the body of the PC through an empty card slot in a bid to keep warm. The mouse presumably died from either starvation or electrocution
My own personal experience can actually help in determining this one, should anyone ever have to determine for themselves whether the mouse inside your computer died of electrocution or more natural causes.
Approximately a decade ago, my phone went dead. An investigation showed a live line at the box outside, so I climbed under the house to inspect the line. At one point, a staple holding the line had pulled free, and the line fell across a heating duct. Near this duct, the line had drooped low to the ground.
Apparently, a mouse decided to test this line by eating the insulation, and had actually cleared several inches of insulation before severing the wire completely. An undetermined amount of time later, while the mouse chewed on the live end of the line, the phone apparently rang.
Telltale signal that electrocution was the culprit? The massive squirt of fecal matter, directly behind the mouse from when it had the shit shocked out of it.
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Atari 800? Did you say Atari 800?
I believe, somewhere in the dark recesses of the storage areas in my bookstore, among the old TRS-80s, I've got one of those things. Maybe I should be using it as a server for my bookstore, instead of letting it collect dust.
I believe the point of this article is that the error wasn't detected until well after launch time. The error was detected a few days before the landing, and nothing could be done about it.
What was to be gained by keeping it a secret? I should think that the scientists went into CYA mode.
They're sitting there thinking, "What would be gained by going to the press and saying that we KNOW it won't land?"
"We've called you here today to announce that we screwed up. We've detected a fatal flaw, and Mars Polar Lander, instead of doing lots of cool stuff, will instead crash and burn, in what would be a beautiful fiery display. Unfortunately, this display will take place far out of our sight, thus robbing us of even the chance to get a sneak preview of the great Iridium Superburn."
Alternately, they could have waited until it burned up, and announce that they knew all along it would happen.
CYA. It isn't always right, and it doesn't always work, but sometimes it is all you have.
She also has a stereopticon, which is sort of like those ViewMasters that I used to play with as a kid. It has a viewport with two lenses that look through at a little mounting place where you place a card that has two identical (or nearly identical) pictures side by side. The effect is that when you look through the viewer at the card, the two identical photos merge into a 3D picture. It blew my mind to think that my grandpa was playing with 3D when he was a kid.
This effect was achieved by taking the the two photos from slightly different angles. The idea is that you see in 3d because you are able to see any given scene from two different angles at once, allowing you to perceive depth.
By using a camera with two lenses, spaced apart much as the eyes are, and exposing images from both lenses onto the paper in the proper manner, you can fool the brain into thinking that the two images are actually one, with appropriate depth signals.
We're not 5 year olds, y'know (despite what some of the trolls would indicate).
You may not be 5 year olds, but my son is. If parenthood has taught me one thing, it is that I have a responsibility to be a good example to him and others.
Plus, in the age of unquestionable filtering software, you never know what might cause a site to be blocked completely to younger geeks, needful of guidance. I'd hate for a public library to disallow/. to some youngster because I couldn't control myself just a little.
Anyway, the habit of saying 'H' comes from having insane roommates, and taking part in a language I can only describe as "stupid shit."
At the heart of the language is the pronouncable acronymn. One particular exclamation gave a name to a BBS network two of us ran for some time. We called it FIITAnet.
Somebody needs to write a book called "How to Think *nix."
I got my start on computers back in 9th grade, fiddling with Apples and TRS-80s. I've been a DOS fan for over a decade and spent a lot of time with OS/2. I enjoy tweaking out my system so that it will do what I want when I want in the way I want.
I want to know how to think *nix so I can figure out weird stuff. Right now, I've recompiled MySQL to upgrade to the latest release but the daemon exits after it starts, and the.err file says it is normal. I'd have installed from the rpm, except for the fact that it seems to be the only file I can't download.
Now, my question is, how the *H* do you diagnose problems like these? I've been diagnosing crap for years in home, business, corporate, educational and hospital environments. I've found some STRANGE answers to some STRANGE problems, but I can't figure out a few things like this on my own system.
The Linux world needs to consider how many places a user is going to have to look for configuration information. How does one find answers to questions when nobody else seems to know them either?
The Windows world, bad as it is, does have some things that make it easier for new users. Help files are plentiful and easily found. Help buttons are placed nearly everywhere. This doesn't address every issue, but it does help a user get a lot of answers.
Often, while working on one problem or another, I just want to be able to point at a field and ask my computer, "What the Hell is This?"
A good answer to that question, provided in advance, could solve much.
Slashdot Mirror
Its called nohup.
The big question I have is this. Why is it that, when I run "nohup python myscript.py &" and logout of my *bsd based webserver, my python scripts crap out?
It's gonna be hard to get my program to generate updated html pages to match constantly updated data, if I can't get the dadburned script to stay running.
This is an educational thread for me. My personal guru got a travelling job. (Hi Dave!)
True, but as far as I can tell from the posts, Hurd=0.
No GNUs is good GNUs.
Sequel info:
I get most of my movie news from the The Hollywood Stock Exchange, which is an online stock-market simulation game. I've been playing it for a few years, and I've learned about more upcoming movies than I can count. Of course, many of those same movies never actually get released on the big screen, but that's all part of the game.
HSX says:
Spider-Man 2 is the sequel to 2002's blockbuster film based on the Marvel Comic superhero. An ordinary high school student is bitten by a genetically-altered spider and acquires super powers. Tobey Maguire plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man. It's unknown who will be Spider-Man's foe in this sequel scheduled to go into production in early 2003.
If Spider-Man has a $100 million opening weekend, the HSX stock will adjust to ~$290 per share. It is currently trading at around $230 per share. Target price for the share is equal to the first four weeks take, in millions. SPID2 is trading at ~$132 per share.
If video games, books, programming, chatrooms or women have screwed up your life, don't click here and start playing HSX. It will screw up what you have left.
Count me as one who is interested in this very thing. I click-through to an average of one story a day or less on /., these days. This is my one, today.
I run a used bookstore (in Sanford, NC for those in the area who want to help keep me in business) and am VERY interested in the marketing of books, especially as it relates to the net.
I'm also working on a novel. Well, I've got four in my head, but I'm working on a political thriller at this time. I'm very interested in ways that I can develop a customer-base for my book, as it (hopefully) nears publication. Since I'm wary of spammers in my net-travels, it's nice to hear some reactions to the more acceptable cousin, the on-topic announcement in topical forums and chats.
Thanks, Jon. For what it's worth, I appreciate you. Heck, I probably have a book or two of yours here in the store to sell.
I don't know about you, but I'd be pretty scared of any one that has more than one floppy.
Well, my wife has two, and it scares Hell out of me.
The wife also used to have a black case. I guess that means she was beige before beige was black. It was cool, though, to have a 486DX33 with a black case, keyboard, mouse, and even drives. Even the monitor was black.
She USED to have black, but then she went back.
I have heard that you may have to distribute the source code to your woody if you go around distributing it.
So, let me get this straight. I pretty much need to keep my woody to myself. If I decide to let anybody else have access to my woody, I'm going to have to give away half of what makes my woody so magnificent.
I guess I'll have to survive on the other half of what makes my woody so magnificent, instead.
Another licensing question for you. I've had some old girlfriends who had nothing to do with the actual development of the woody, but were instrumental in beta-testing, and contributed much to the actual use. Do I have to credit them in the source, or would that just make my wife jealous?
Ah but what license is you're woody going to be released under?
What a sick place it is, when you've got to have a license to release your woody.
Huh. I installed the 2.4.latest kernel two days ago. I was feeling kinda smug, having just installed an old Wyse 60 terminal, and decided it was time for a kernel upgrade.
Now, when I see "Starting Kernel" I see a stopping system. When I use Lilo to boot the old kernel, I have a choice between dropping to a useless shell or continuing until the kernel panic.
I had to spend yesterday using Windows. Tomorrow, I have to learn something new, 'cause I broke debian again. :)
Uhh, no thanks. Choosing between ads and A$80 is not my idea of a good time, at least not until I'm working again.
I used to think the same way. When Netscape on my Linux box died temporarily, I decided to live with the ads until I could fix Netscape. It was the best browser move I ever made.
All the positive statements above are true. Opera is truly an improvement on the web experience offered by Netscape and IE. Tabbed windows (also in Galeon) are my favorite feature. Speed is a close second (I have 40 meg of memory on a Pentium 200mhz).
What feature do I wish I had in Opera? (or any other browser, for that matter) Fool web pages into thinking I'm running Windows, and let me load them. What's with all the unloadable websites? Some sites, I can't load in ANY browser, but can load on a windows machine quickly.
I'm hardly an expert, but I'm working daily on a 200 Mhz Pentium with 2 gig of HD and 40 MB of RAM. I run Gnome with IceWM every day, and never have problems.
I'd think 32 would be just fine, if not optimal.
Get a full transfusion, then when you get a cut, you'll bleed milky white, and everyone'll think you're a robot!
Unfortunately, your body would keep producing red blood cells, so it would only be a matter of time before you'd bleed pink. While that might be ideal for a Democrat, I'd prefer green like money.
Dave Walker
Gotta agree that NPR is a great source for radio entertainment.
Now, as soon as they quit stealing money from me through taxation, I'll start giving it to them freely. Instead of stealing pennies, they can ask for, and receive, dollars.
Until then, no donations, no matter HOW high quality they are.
First, yes, this is an "intellectual property issue." Fuji, in their infinite wisdom, sicced the lawyers on the fans to "protect" their property. This much I can dig.
It was done badly. Telling your fans that everything they've been doing to support your entity is bad. If they're doing something you don't like, pull out the big legal stick, lay it across your lap, and then try to work out a decent arrangement that keeps everybody happy. Want to find out how bad it can get? Search the web for "The Asshole Formerly Known As Prince" and see what happenned with TAFKATAFKAP (The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince) when he had his lawyers pull the same stunt.
Third:
Jill Fairbrother
Morrison & Foerster LLP
425 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94105-2482
tel: (415) 268-7000
fax: (415) 268-7522
email: fairbrother@mofo.com
url: www.mofo.com
I recommend a polite letter to Ms Fairbrother expressing the poor judgement of this action in polite terms. DO NOT harass the poor woman for doing her job, but do suggest that she offer her client options for allowing the fan sites to operate with approved material, and let the fans help the client like they want to.
Some of us out here are even worse programmers, and wouldn't have the skill to write something on this scale if they wanted to. I should know, I'm one of them.
I setup slash a few months ago, and had a major learning experience with apache, perl, CPAN and funky virtual server setups. Now, I've got it running great and I'm extending the functionality by running Zope side-by-side.
I've been talking about my website idea for a LONG time with my family. Thanks to these lousy programmers, an even worse programmer has been able to impress a lot of people.
Now, if I can just get hits.
Dave
I used to live in Zambia, where we did have television. The 'advert break' consisted of someone putting cards with some writing on them, one after the other in front of the camera...yes, you could see the guy's hand..!
I live in Sanford, NC. We have a local TV station that is only slightly above this technology. The station is almost a one-man show, though. He does need his wife in front of the camera to do the news, since he's behind it and on the control board.
I find it interesting to read about how Redhat and Mandrake focus on Gnome and KDE respectively.
I've been running Linux on this box for some time. I loaded it up as a Redhat machine, running fvwm something or another. Being a shell head, I basically only used X so I could use netscape AND have my text tools on my crappy 640x480 screen.
Later, I downloaded KDE and played with it. I used it, and that original configuration, until I had beaten the poor system into submission, and it became painfully obvious I needed to update my Linux install.
When I upgraded, I wiped clean and went with the latest distro release, Mandrake 7.0. Having gotten tired of the KDE interface, though, I chose to run Gnome. Now, I'm having to wonder whether my personal use might be served better with another distro. Is it Redhat 6.2 or wait for Mandrake 7.1?
Or, I could just cope with life until I have to actually deal with a problem again, and maybe upgrade to Redhat 12.0
Wierd Al's music qualifies as a parody, and you can parody anything and anyone, for free.
You can parody anything you want, for free. The right to parody, though, does not extend to performance of the work of another.
When a radio station plays a song, they are supposed to pay a fee to the songwriter(s) for having used that song in their own performance, the radio show. If that song is "Beat It" by Michael Jackson, and both the words and music were written by Jackson, then he would receive the full fee (ostensibly, that is. This is a simplistic explanation of the much more complex system operated by BMI and ASCAP).
If, however, the song were "Eat It", then the words are by Weird Al and music is by Jackson. BOTH would benefit from the fees. So, by default, any performance of the parody, unless musically and lyrically unique, would provide financial benefit to the songwriter.
There are fees for public performance, radio play, television play, partial play and even use as a theme song. Different uses have different fees.
Rush Limbaugh had to deal with this issue last year. Chrissy Hynde of The Pretenders had apparently gotten upset, finally, about his use of one of her songs as a theme. He'd been paying his fees, but word came through that she didn't like it, so he quit using it.
The minor scandal lasted a few days, until Chrissy, in an interview, said she wouldn't mind him using the song if he would give all the fees to animal rights charities or some fluff like that. Rush immediately started playing the song again, and resumed payment of royalties through the normal channels.
Rush didn't have the option of paying the money to the charities. The law, and the company representing Chrissy, require payment to the company (BMI or ASCAP, again) and then Chrissy can do whatever the Hell she wants to with the money.
Likewise, Jackson may not like the parody (he does, for the record), but since he still gets financial rewards, he's covered legally.
paperbacks.homepage.com
Considering I coded that on purpose, I doubt we'll remove it from a future release.
I'm so happy to hear that. Although I have yet to get it working on my site, I chose to go with slashcode in the end because of this feature.
My site has a need for dozens to hundreds of rooms that are self-cleaning, non-archiving and not connected to stories. I'm going to enjoy putting that all together.
Now, if I could just get it set up...
paperbacks.homepage.com
Mouse (deceased) The PC World technician who discovered the dead rodent believes the mouse had squirmed into the body of the PC through an empty card slot in a bid to keep warm. The mouse presumably died from either starvation or electrocution
My own personal experience can actually help in determining this one, should anyone ever have to determine for themselves whether the mouse inside your computer died of electrocution or more natural causes.
Approximately a decade ago, my phone went dead. An investigation showed a live line at the box outside, so I climbed under the house to inspect the line. At one point, a staple holding the line had pulled free, and the line fell across a heating duct. Near this duct, the line had drooped low to the ground.
Apparently, a mouse decided to test this line by eating the insulation, and had actually cleared several inches of insulation before severing the wire completely. An undetermined amount of time later, while the mouse chewed on the live end of the line, the phone apparently rang.
Telltale signal that electrocution was the culprit? The massive squirt of fecal matter, directly behind the mouse from when it had the shit shocked out of it.
paperbacks.homepage.com
Atari 800? Did you say Atari 800?
I believe, somewhere in the dark recesses of the storage areas in my bookstore, among the old TRS-80s, I've got one of those things. Maybe I should be using it as a server for my bookstore, instead of letting it collect dust.
Or maybe I'll just put it on eBay.
paperbacks.homepage.com
I believe the point of this article is that the error wasn't detected until well after launch time. The error was detected a few days before the landing, and nothing could be done about it.
What was to be gained by keeping it a secret? I should think that the scientists went into CYA mode.
They're sitting there thinking, "What would be gained by going to the press and saying that we KNOW it won't land?"
"We've called you here today to announce that we screwed up. We've detected a fatal flaw, and Mars Polar Lander, instead of doing lots of cool stuff, will instead crash and burn, in what would be a beautiful fiery display. Unfortunately, this display will take place far out of our sight, thus robbing us of even the chance to get a sneak preview of the great Iridium Superburn."
Alternately, they could have waited until it burned up, and announce that they knew all along it would happen.
CYA. It isn't always right, and it doesn't always work, but sometimes it is all you have.
paperbacks.homepage.com
She also has a stereopticon, which is sort of like those ViewMasters that I used to play with as a kid. It has a viewport with two lenses that look through at a little mounting place where you place a card that has two identical (or nearly identical) pictures side by side. The effect is that when you look through the viewer at the card, the two identical photos merge into a 3D picture. It blew my mind to think that my grandpa was playing with 3D when he was a kid.
This effect was achieved by taking the the two photos from slightly different angles. The idea is that you see in 3d because you are able to see any given scene from two different angles at once, allowing you to perceive depth.
By using a camera with two lenses, spaced apart much as the eyes are, and exposing images from both lenses onto the paper in the proper manner, you can fool the brain into thinking that the two images are actually one, with appropriate depth signals.
I want one of the cameras, myself.
paperbacks.homepage.com
'H to pay'?
Erm, do you mean 'Hell'?
We're not 5 year olds, y'know (despite what some of the trolls would indicate).
You may not be 5 year olds, but my son is. If parenthood has taught me one thing, it is that I have a responsibility to be a good example to him and others.
Plus, in the age of unquestionable filtering software, you never know what might cause a site to be blocked completely to younger geeks, needful of guidance. I'd hate for a public library to disallow /. to some youngster because I couldn't control myself just a little.
Anyway, the habit of saying 'H' comes from having insane roommates, and taking part in a language I can only describe as "stupid shit."
At the heart of the language is the pronouncable acronymn. One particular exclamation gave a name to a BBS network two of us ran for some time. We called it FIITAnet.
paperbacks.homepage.com
Why doesn't the air force just use them to test anti-satellite weaponry?
Easy answer:
If you take out a sattelite, you run a decent chance of leaving MORE debris in space than you start with.
If any of that debris took out a useful sattelite, there'd be H to pay.
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No flames here. I agree.
.err file says it is normal. I'd have installed from the rpm, except for the fact that it seems to be the only file I can't download.
Somebody needs to write a book called "How to Think *nix."
I got my start on computers back in 9th grade, fiddling with Apples and TRS-80s. I've been a DOS fan for over a decade and spent a lot of time with OS/2. I enjoy tweaking out my system so that it will do what I want when I want in the way I want.
I want to know how to think *nix so I can figure out weird stuff. Right now, I've recompiled MySQL to upgrade to the latest release but the daemon exits after it starts, and the
Now, my question is, how the *H* do you diagnose problems like these? I've been diagnosing crap for years in home, business, corporate, educational and hospital environments. I've found some STRANGE answers to some STRANGE problems, but I can't figure out a few things like this on my own system.
The Linux world needs to consider how many places a user is going to have to look for configuration information. How does one find answers to questions when nobody else seems to know them either?
The Windows world, bad as it is, does have some things that make it easier for new users. Help files are plentiful and easily found. Help buttons are placed nearly everywhere. This doesn't address every issue, but it does help a user get a lot of answers.
Often, while working on one problem or another, I just want to be able to point at a field and ask my computer, "What the Hell is This?"
A good answer to that question, provided in advance, could solve much.
Now, back to trying to get MySQL to work.
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