These are real solutions my computer friends and I did when living in a dorm room together.
1) Stay up later. I'd often force myself to sleep whent he sun came up. Everyone is alseep then. (My 1st class was at 2:00pm, but my last class was at 8:00pm)
2) Drink more. Alchol is a depressent. It'll make you tired and you won't care about the clicks. It's really depressing that I have to tell a college student to drink more though.
3) The clicks are binary. They are telling you to party harder. You aren't tired enough. A good college day should leave you exhauseted.
4) Get a girlfriend and sleep in her room. Witha guy and girl in a room in college, there's no reason to not get it on. That'll help you sleep too. I definately recommend NOT doing that everynight, unless you take 0-30 minutes. I enjoy foreplay so it'd be a 2, sometimes 6 hour act starting at 10pm. That much sex up until that early in the morning will effect your studies. Be careful with this one. (Yes, I am serious here; no nerds don't get it jokes please, because I got plenty of it.)
5) Room configuration. We bunked our beds, and messed wit the supplied desks. This part is hard to explain but... we had desks that had hutches on them that were supposed to provide a back and a book shelf above the monitor on top of the desk. If we re-oriented these so the bottom edge was facing us, and and the fide edges that used to face us were againt the desk, we'd wind up with a cubby hole that a keyboard and mouse fit in, and only allowed the sound to travel out in 1 direction. This direction was perpendicular to be bed line, so no bed heard it. (Imagine an L with the shorter line being the direction of sound traved and the long line as the placement and orientation of the bed) One you have this cubby, we took the stands off our minitors and sat them down, and everything was ergonomically kosher.
6) Soft music in the room. I lucked out. All my friend from high school went to the same school and liked the same music. We got a 300dic cd changer put our music in it, and pressed play. We'd have it on 24/7 and it provided a nice murmer to cover up any kind of other sound in the room. Speaker placement is key.
Microwave Fallicy #1: Water vibrations heat the food.
This is true as much as saying that Jews were killed in WWII. It is not wrong, but it is faaaar from complete.
Fact is any molecule with polarity (including H2O) will be subject to molecular vibration. The nature of the vibration is the molecule moving in alignment with the magnetic feild. In essence, I make a wave in a pool, and the water molecules move as I directed. This makes the molecules rub together, creating friction.
2.4 Ghz has nothing to do with the ressonance frequency of water, which is what you claim by claiming that water molecules heat the food. I can melt metal in a microwave, and the metal has no water in it. But it is made of molecules that have polalrity. It takes several hours, but you can get it to 1000C where most everything melts.
Fallicy #2: You can't put metal in a microwave. This is an over simplification again. A lot of those disposible pasta cups come with metal rings and you nuke that too. The rule comes about because shape is vially important. Between two points, (like on a fork) you can get an arc to form, which would create a fire if in the presense of a flammable material. So the general rule is don't put it in because it s too hard to explain the science to a layman.
Yeap. Buy sex toys/lingere for yourself. He'll like them too. Just only ever use them when he's around so he doen't get jealous. (Some guys are like that)
The cheapest place for that stuff is www.discountsextoyshop.com. It's not a lot to look at the the prices are great (I am not affiliated in any way aside form being a customer) I highly recommend the sportsheets. This is the cheapest place for them on the web by a lot. Both me and my girl looked.
If you havne't figured out lingere yet (most girls don't) It's all about the tease. How bad can you make him want you? I never was a lingere guy until we figured that one out. Before I was like, yeah lookd nive, but it'd look better on my floor... so that's where it'd go. Go slow, enjoy it, you're both going to get some, but just make him want it soooo bad.
I love your mom every night, dos that mean I have more meaning?
(Mods, I'm going for funny here, not cruel)
Seriously though, Love's function is to ensure procreation and mutual cooperation. Something needed when you give birth to an almost non-functional being what requires time to mature outside the womb.
So then we come back around to the purpose of life is to create more life. This is logical and beatufully recursive. If we don't love we'd cease to exist. And we wouldn't be here right now. We'd be like a spark and would have burt out quickly eons ago.
and you need a lot more to your clim that positive infinity equals negative infinity.
PS. Computer people will tell you thr difference between everythign and nothing: Nothing is NULL, and everything is MAX_INT;-)
First of all, we're talking about base-2 computers.
Secondly, the math is easily fixed when you comupute digit by digit. True, this takes many more CPU cycles, but it results in a good trade off. You get perfect base-10 math at a processing cost, but you can still biuld the machine to to it very inexpensively and have it run at 3Ghz....
PostgreSQL DB solves this problem with the NUMERIC(x,y) datatype. There are no base conversion errors since the numbers are not floats.
Re:A god with a plan?
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I tend to agree with you. But I think that the use of "God with plan" actually weakens the argument.
Assuming God is all powerful, as is the usual definition of God, then God would not need to follow any plan. Things would just be. 1+1=2, 1+2=3, etc until you try to do math with a number that God had not created yet. Then thigns would break down.
Of course, that is the plan - to keep things consistant so they scale and continue to work. x1+1=x2... x(n-1)++1=xn gives a number line that is infaninte in size. Things since all things are mathematical in nature, and constructed from the same elements of the universe, everything shares a common mathmatical foundation. When that is the case, of course a few of the same numbers pop up everywhere. Pi, e, and the Golden Ratio to name a few.
Once you realize that God is slave to math and rules, then you must comclude that math is more powerful and absolute than God. Therefore your old notion of a traditional God should be superceeded byt the ultimate one - mathematics.
When you pray, you pray that the maths of the universe work out in your favor. Since we mathmatically backtrace events, we know that God has not suspended reality, but you have mathmaticaly evaluated the likely outcomes and calulated the propability of your favored action to be within the realm of mathematical rendering. So you pray. Had it been clear cut you would not have wasted your time.
Actually Norwegiens are very fond of their troll folk lure. Trolls in american culture are ugly and live under a bridge and eat children. Trolls in
Norwegian culture they are smarter than humans, and are very well respected. Since the company is based in Norway and they deal with technology, there is no joke.
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Re:It will be scary when they put it in money...
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Quit yur bitchin' and get Cygwin - gcc/ming is avialible and works well.
In this day and age there is no commercial software that isn't in some part mostly covered by an opensource one. And that is even truer to a greater degree with development tools.
Grants for starting my own tech company. I have an idea, and a proven business model. But I need time and money. I figure that since 75-58% of all business in the US is small business, there should be some grant program to help me start my own company...
Most americans don't realize what they have. It took me working for a Danish company in the US working with Danes to see the opportunity before us.
Case and point: If you get a promotion in Europe you get a tab more money with a lot more reponsibility. With that tad bit more money, you have a 85% tax rate to take all but 15%.
Here, in the US, we have a 15-33% tax rate. You get to keep 2/3rds of waht you make. This is a huge boost for you. It's one of the lowest in the world, and yet no one takes advantage of it. That alone should be motivation enough to get into a position where you are captain of your own fate.
Let me aloborate... Stippers are good help because they are free during the day (business hours) and they usually have really good interpersonal skills. Manipulationof men comes naturally, and in business they are still usually the decision makers.
You still have to train them though. But come christmas party time, there is sure to be no shortage of entertainment either!
I think as part of the settlement, - for any compay that has ben found to hold an illigal monopoly - that patents should not be granted during the period of recovery (the period when the market ss being restored back to a competitive nature)
Doesn't anyone else see this move as anti-competitive? It is not for the purpose of the advancement of arts and sciences, as XML schemas are so cheap to design and implement. This move is squarely to maintain lock-in in the 21st century. No company with an illegal monopoly should be able to do that.
Security is good. There is much classified information from the military that senators get to know about. This of course should not be open (I'll save the argument of does classifing things work and help for another day)
Prevention of tampering is a good thing. However for all unclassified documents on a government owned computer system (vs, as you point out parties aren't technically part of the government) that that information be public to any citzen of the country.
The goverment os america is supposed to be an open prcess for the people, by the people, and of the people. I don't know how any political party can have an expectation of secrecy.
Those who maintain that there should be security between parties are arguing security-through-obscurity. It is only a matter of time before the actions are brought before the people in open congress, and played out in the media. All in all, I think party secrecy is just as effective as security-though-obscurity -- doesn't work good for long.
If the people own the government (which we claim) then all memos should be availible, not just the ones that get voted on.
Finally, no one seems to remember: Didn't the Democaric party run Linux (at least on their website) and the Rebublicans Windows?
They all are management types looking at computing power measured in bita and bytes as a publically availible 'resource.'
In the beginning there was nothing, then there was the big bang, then we had solarsystems and like like. Matter and energy were the only 2 resources.
A few billion years later, we get life on at least one known planet. This life requires new specific kinds of resources call food. One form of life evolves high enough that it establishes the term 'resource' and begins to manage it - first it were things called tools, then the agricurtrial revolution, so now food was a managed resource. Food everywhere and used everywhere. We all know what it is used for and in most places it is readily availible.
Now ne have a new kind of resource - a logic processor. We know what these things can do (execute instructions to solve problems) and there is so much 'resource' out there, that we typically only use 1-5% any given second. 95% of this resource is wasted, that is, it exists to be used, but is discarded. Businesses want to be able to rpofit from this waste (moey for nothing essentially) and normal people don't care about it being wasted, so it should be a relatively inexpensive resource.
Now these beings know there's a lot of data out there and even more questions, and that there's plenty of power in parts of the world that even the most complicated problem could be solved in a timely manner if all this resource was coordinated.
Or, we could flip it the otyher way around and have only cheap thin clients and big iron for th larger tasks. This 2nd approach is much more affectionate towards companies that want to charge, as it is a central location and you can meter and charge for it better.
We already have examples of on-demand computing - RC5 and SETI. We're finally getting to the point that the more distributed model can dynamically load algorithms and process them.
If there were any kind of money to be made in this viral computing model, it would be here. People would run clients and get paid for the CPU cycles they dedicate to the virus.
So these companies are on to something, they know what it is, how it works, btu they don't posess the correct infrastructure to reap the benefits though they make it possible. As soon as they figure it out (see the centralized implementation described above) they'll really know how to sell it.
The centralized model has a cheap CPU, prolly a clone - Transmeta, Via or NS, a decent video accelerator (for GUI), IDE HD, DVD, and USB ports. The box can run word and the like on its own, but could export intensive tasks to back-end big-iron.
Unfortunately, there are only a few things I can think of that could be offloaded like that because the time to specify the task, offload the data, process and ship it back has tobe shorter than just processing it on the client. Whats more is it has to be cheaper (the cost of time/time savings) has to make it sensible (hence a large disparity between computer power of the big-iron and the client). A few examples are: Cracking passwords, database queries, MP3 [en|de]coding, dynamic programming algorithms, image/video processing, compiling (a big one for me!).
On a personal note, I wish I could pass a parameter to gcc that would send my source and make files to a 200 cpu goliath, and compile everything in paralell. I'd be done in a second. Linux people who do a 'make clean' would love this too! But compilingis impractical unless the filesystem (headers and sources) can be sent to the server in a timely manner (NFS mount?))
He is 100% right, provided it is 2003. The 2.6 kernel goes a LONG way in supporting the embedded segment. In 2004, average ram and flash will almost double, clock cycles will almost match that growth.
He is right about size - Linux is too big when compared to the competition.
What he does fail to understand is the real reasons people switch to embedded linux. Not for gains today, but gains tomorrow. EL (Embedded Linux) provides hardware abstraction, simplifies programming and opens you up to standard technologies.
The problem with most EL projects today is that they are ports of legacy systems. One will realize much benefit int he now if the start from scratch. Backwards compatibility is the problem here.
If you look at all the sucessfull EL prodects, 90% are new designs or use 20% or less old code. It realyl does shorted your TTM and maintance costs, if you don't bother porting old code.
In the end EL is about the future, not the now. But we must use it now to bring about the future.
I've worked on 2 embedded linux projects professionally, and those is my opinions.
This sucks, but you did what you were told. And it is not your fault the tank flipped. Better simulate a loss in comms and have your men learn that they can send plain text over their radio, than lose 10 men in wartime.
Still, I'd feel horrible. But I wouldn't hold you responsible.
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I should have posted this a long time ago:
The Microwave Foundry
But the answer is no. A blob will not arc. THe problem is keeping the inside from melting.
These are real solutions my computer friends and I did when living in a dorm room together.
1) Stay up later. I'd often force myself to sleep whent he sun came up. Everyone is alseep then. (My 1st class was at 2:00pm, but my last class was at 8:00pm)
2) Drink more. Alchol is a depressent. It'll make you tired and you won't care about the clicks. It's really depressing that I have to tell a college student to drink more though.
3) The clicks are binary. They are telling you to party harder. You aren't tired enough. A good college day should leave you exhauseted.
4) Get a girlfriend and sleep in her room. Witha guy and girl in a room in college, there's no reason to not get it on. That'll help you sleep too. I definately recommend NOT doing that everynight, unless you take 0-30 minutes. I enjoy foreplay so it'd be a 2, sometimes 6 hour act starting at 10pm. That much sex up until that early in the morning will effect your studies. Be careful with this one. (Yes, I am serious here; no nerds don't get it jokes please, because I got plenty of it.)
5) Room configuration. We bunked our beds, and messed wit the supplied desks. This part is hard to explain but... we had desks that had hutches on them that were supposed to provide a back and a book shelf above the monitor on top of the desk. If we re-oriented these so the bottom edge was facing us, and and the fide edges that used to face us were againt the desk, we'd wind up with a cubby hole that a keyboard and mouse fit in, and only allowed the sound to travel out in 1 direction. This direction was perpendicular to be bed line, so no bed heard it. (Imagine an L with the shorter line being the direction of sound traved and the long line as the placement and orientation of the bed) One you have this cubby, we took the stands off our minitors and sat them down, and everything was ergonomically kosher.
6) Soft music in the room. I lucked out. All my friend from high school went to the same school and liked the same music. We got a 300dic cd changer put our music in it, and pressed play. We'd have it on 24/7 and it provided a nice murmer to cover up any kind of other sound in the room. Speaker placement is key.
Microwave Fallicy #1:
Water vibrations heat the food.
This is true as much as saying that Jews were killed in WWII. It is not wrong, but it is faaaar from complete.
Fact is any molecule with polarity (including H2O) will be subject to molecular vibration. The nature of the vibration is the molecule moving in alignment with the magnetic feild. In essence, I make a wave in a pool, and the water molecules move as I directed. This makes the molecules rub together, creating friction.
2.4 Ghz has nothing to do with the ressonance frequency of water, which is what you claim by claiming that water molecules heat the food. I can melt metal in a microwave, and the metal has no water in it. But it is made of molecules that have polalrity. It takes several hours, but you can get it to 1000C where most everything melts.
Fallicy #2:
You can't put metal in a microwave.
This is an over simplification again. A lot of those disposible pasta cups come with metal rings and you nuke that too. The rule comes about because shape is vially important. Between two points, (like on a fork) you can get an arc to form, which would create a fire if in the presense of a flammable material. So the general rule is don't put it in because it s too hard to explain the science to a layman.
Ok, here's a shocker for you.
Don't spend that $100 on him, spend it on you!
Yeap. Buy sex toys/lingere for yourself. He'll like them too. Just only ever use them when he's around so he doen't get jealous. (Some guys are like that)
The cheapest place for that stuff is www.discountsextoyshop.com. It's not a lot to look at the the prices are great (I am not affiliated in any way aside form being a customer) I highly recommend the sportsheets. This is the cheapest place for them on the web by a lot. Both me and my girl looked.
If you havne't figured out lingere yet (most girls don't) It's all about the tease. How bad can you make him want you? I never was a lingere guy until we figured that one out. Before I was like, yeah lookd nive, but it'd look better on my floor... so that's where it'd go. Go slow, enjoy it, you're both going to get some, but just make him want it soooo bad.
Enjoy!
I love your mom every night, dos that mean I have more meaning?
;-)
(Mods, I'm going for funny here, not cruel)
Seriously though, Love's function is to ensure procreation and mutual cooperation. Something needed when you give birth to an almost non-functional being what requires time to mature outside the womb.
So then we come back around to the purpose of life is to create more life. This is logical and beatufully recursive. If we don't love we'd cease to exist. And we wouldn't be here right now. We'd be like a spark and would have burt out quickly eons ago.
and you need a lot more to your clim that positive infinity equals negative infinity.
PS. Computer people will tell you thr difference between everythign and nothing: Nothing is NULL, and everything is MAX_INT
First of all, we're talking about base-2 computers.
Secondly, the math is easily fixed when you comupute digit by digit. True, this takes many more CPU cycles, but it results in a good trade off. You get perfect base-10 math at a processing cost, but you can still biuld the machine to to it very inexpensively and have it run at 3Ghz....
PostgreSQL DB solves this problem with the NUMERIC(x,y) datatype. There are no base conversion errors since the numbers are not floats.
I tend to agree with you. But I think that the use of "God with plan" actually weakens the argument.
... x(n-1)++1=xn gives a number line that is infaninte in size. Things since all things are mathematical in nature, and constructed from the same elements of the universe, everything shares a common mathmatical foundation. When that is the case, of course a few of the same numbers pop up everywhere. Pi, e, and the Golden Ratio to name a few.
Assuming God is all powerful, as is the usual definition of God, then God would not need to follow any plan. Things would just be. 1+1=2, 1+2=3, etc until you try to do math with a number that God had not created yet. Then thigns would break down.
Of course, that is the plan - to keep things consistant so they scale and continue to work. x1+1=x2
Once you realize that God is slave to math and rules, then you must comclude that math is more powerful and absolute than God. Therefore your old notion of a traditional God should be superceeded byt the ultimate one - mathematics.
When you pray, you pray that the maths of the universe work out in your favor. Since we mathmatically backtrace events, we know that God has not suspended reality, but you have mathmaticaly evaluated the likely outcomes and calulated the propability of your favored action to be within the realm of mathematical rendering. So you pray. Had it been clear cut you would not have wasted your time.
Math is the CPU in wich the universe runs.
Actually Norwegiens are very fond of their troll folk lure. Trolls in american culture are ugly and live under a bridge and eat children. Trolls in
Norwegian culture they are smarter than humans, and are very well respected. Since the company is based in Norway and they deal with technology, there is no joke.
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You mean the nylon strip?
Quit yur bitchin' and get Cygwin - gcc/ming is avialible and works well.
In this day and age there is no commercial software that isn't in some part mostly covered by an opensource one. And that is even truer to a greater degree with development tools.
FUBU.
At $3,650/yr that's 365 $10 hookers.... Who's the fool now?
Grants for starting my own tech company. I have an idea, and a proven business model. But I need time and money. I figure that since 75-58% of all business in the US is small business, there should be some grant program to help me start my own company...
Does anyone here know of such resources?
Most americans don't realize what they have. It took me working for a Danish company in the US working with Danes to see the opportunity before us.
Case and point: If you get a promotion in Europe you get a tab more money with a lot more reponsibility. With that tad bit more money, you have a 85% tax rate to take all but 15%.
Here, in the US, we have a 15-33% tax rate. You get to keep 2/3rds of waht you make. This is a huge boost for you. It's one of the lowest in the world, and yet no one takes advantage of it. That alone should be motivation enough to get into a position where you are captain of your own fate.
Let me aloborate... Stippers are good help because they are free during the day (business hours) and they usually have really good interpersonal skills. Manipulationof men comes naturally, and in business they are still usually the decision makers.
You still have to train them though. But come christmas party time, there is sure to be no shortage of entertainment either!
1) Product userinterface design is #1. It doesn't ahve to work right, as long as it can politely tel the user to goto hell. They'll be happy to.
2) It should work as advertised. Yeah, its got to do what it says it will do. But if you're polite, everything is negotiable.
3) Don't do the work yourself. You cost too much. Get at job managing a Mc'D.'s
4) Outsource the actual work to India (Not China - the hippy reds will steal your code)
5) Get your wife or some stripper to sell it during the day time. Pay them commission only.
I think as part of the settlement, - for any compay that has ben found to hold an illigal monopoly - that patents should not be granted during the period of recovery (the period when the market ss being restored back to a competitive nature)
Doesn't anyone else see this move as anti-competitive? It is not for the purpose of the advancement of arts and sciences, as XML schemas are so cheap to design and implement. This move is squarely to maintain lock-in in the 21st century. No company with an illegal monopoly should be able to do that.
No, not at all.
Security is good. There is much classified information from the military that senators get to know about. This of course should not be open (I'll save the argument of does classifing things work and help for another day)
Prevention of tampering is a good thing. However for all unclassified documents on a government owned computer system (vs, as you point out parties aren't technically part of the government) that that information be public to any citzen of the country.
(Not Flamebait)
The goverment os america is supposed to be an open prcess for the people, by the people, and of the people. I don't know how any political party can have an expectation of secrecy.
Those who maintain that there should be security between parties are arguing security-through-obscurity. It is only a matter of time before the actions are brought before the people in open congress, and played out in the media. All in all, I think party secrecy is just as effective as security-though-obscurity -- doesn't work good for long.
If the people own the government (which we claim) then all memos should be availible, not just the ones that get voted on.
Finally, no one seems to remember:
Didn't the Democaric party run Linux (at least on their website) and the Rebublicans Windows?
They all are management types looking at computing power measured in bita and bytes as a publically availible 'resource.'
In the beginning there was nothing, then there was the big bang, then we had solarsystems and like like. Matter and energy were the only 2 resources.
A few billion years later, we get life on at least one known planet. This life requires new specific kinds of resources call food. One form of life evolves high enough that it establishes the term 'resource' and begins to manage it - first it were things called tools, then the agricurtrial revolution, so now food was a managed resource. Food everywhere and used everywhere. We all know what it is used for and in most places it is readily availible.
Now ne have a new kind of resource - a logic processor. We know what these things can do (execute instructions to solve problems) and there is so much 'resource' out there, that we typically only use 1-5% any given second. 95% of this resource is wasted, that is, it exists to be used, but is discarded. Businesses want to be able to rpofit from this waste (moey for nothing essentially) and normal people don't care about it being wasted, so it should be a relatively inexpensive resource.
Now these beings know there's a lot of data out there and even more questions, and that there's plenty of power in parts of the world that even the most complicated problem could be solved in a timely manner if all this resource was coordinated.
Or, we could flip it the otyher way around and have only cheap thin clients and big iron for th larger tasks. This 2nd approach is much more affectionate towards companies that want to charge, as it is a central location and you can meter and charge for it better.
We already have examples of on-demand computing - RC5 and SETI. We're finally getting to the point that the more distributed model can dynamically load algorithms and process them.
If there were any kind of money to be made in this viral computing model, it would be here. People would run clients and get paid for the CPU cycles they dedicate to the virus.
So these companies are on to something, they know what it is, how it works, btu they don't posess the correct infrastructure to reap the benefits though they make it possible. As soon as they figure it out (see the centralized implementation described above) they'll really know how to sell it.
The centralized model has a cheap CPU, prolly a clone - Transmeta, Via or NS, a decent video accelerator (for GUI), IDE HD, DVD, and USB ports. The box can run word and the like on its own, but could export intensive tasks to back-end big-iron.
Unfortunately, there are only a few things I can think of that could be offloaded like that because the time to specify the task, offload the data, process and ship it back has tobe shorter than just processing it on the client. Whats more is it has to be cheaper (the cost of time/time savings) has to make it sensible (hence a large disparity between computer power of the big-iron and the client). A few examples are: Cracking passwords, database queries, MP3 [en|de]coding, dynamic programming algorithms, image/video processing, compiling (a big one for me!).
On a personal note, I wish I could pass a parameter to gcc that would send my source and make files to a 200 cpu goliath, and compile everything in paralell. I'd be done in a second. Linux people who do a 'make clean' would love this too! But compilingis impractical unless the filesystem (headers and sources) can be sent to the server in a timely manner (NFS mount?))
Ok. I'm done.
He is 100% right, provided it is 2003. The 2.6 kernel goes a LONG way in supporting the embedded segment. In 2004, average ram and flash will almost double, clock cycles will almost match that growth.
He is right about size - Linux is too big when compared to the competition.
What he does fail to understand is the real reasons people switch to embedded linux. Not for gains today, but gains tomorrow. EL (Embedded Linux) provides hardware abstraction, simplifies programming and opens you up to standard technologies.
The problem with most EL projects today is that they are ports of legacy systems. One will realize much benefit int he now if the start from scratch. Backwards compatibility is the problem here.
If you look at all the sucessfull EL prodects, 90% are new designs or use 20% or less old code. It realyl does shorted your TTM and maintance costs, if you don't bother porting old code.
In the end EL is about the future, not the now. But we must use it now to bring about the future.
I've worked on 2 embedded linux projects professionally, and those is my opinions.
You forgot a 't'
add a ; and an ifcfg eth0 up to the command line, and you'll be able to log in next time
./reset_eth0
For added protection, put the commands in a file and no-hup it
# nohup
This sucks, but you did what you were told. And it is not your fault the tank flipped. Better simulate a loss in comms and have your men learn that they can send plain text over their radio, than lose 10 men in wartime.
Still, I'd feel horrible. But I wouldn't hold you responsible.
You have given me an idea...
/// and get into a command prompt:
///
in any text area, we should be able to type
i wish I knew how to spell blackmail///look blackmail
it sure would help me from switching windows! I'd have a command prompt everywhere!