Tell us how to fix it. Where's the online petition? Where are the meetings of these "grassroots" campaigns located? Who do I send money to? Why would a US politician care if I (a Canadian) complained about something? Where can I buy "Activism for Dummies"? etc.
I think lots of people would like to do something. They just don't know how.
four counts of selling unauthorized computer equipment
Isn't that a bit misleading?
If I buy an extension cord and use it to plug in my computer, who "authorized" that bit of computer equipment? Who authorized Bob's Harware to sell it to me?
Rules of not getting spammed.
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1. Don't put your email address on the web. 2. Don't pick a name that will be targeted by a dictionary or brute force spam attack: e.g. "ggh@hotmail" will get spammed. "lovetocook@hotmail" will get spammed. "arh6yypolk11j@hotmail" will not get spammed. (well, it will now that it's on Slashdot)
As an experiment, I created a test email address at hotmail that was 20 random characters long. Every once in a while I would send it emails, or send emails from it to myself just to keep it alive.
Never once in several months did I receive any spam.
Just so ya know. There are memory chips that are reset by exposing them to light.
Taken from here. An EPROM (erasable-and-programmable ROM) is programmed in exactly the same manner as a PROM. However, EPROMs can be erased and reprogrammed repeatedly. To erase an EPROM, you simply expose the device to a strong source of ultraviolet light. (A window in the top of the device allows the light to reach the silicon.) By doing this, you essentially reset the entire chip to its initial-unprogrammed-state. Though more expensive than PROMs, their ability to be reprogrammed makes EPROMs an essential part of the software development and testing process.
Strange -- hardware manufacturers don't often underestimate their products' capabilities, do they?
ALWAYS. Ever hear of overclocking? And not just computer hardware, but pretty much anything built is tested PAST the point that it's good for. If your car's guages tell you it redlines at 6500 rpm, it probably really redlines at 7000. If an elevator says "20 People Max" it really means 30 or 40. etc.
...accelerate an object with mass to the speed of light...
Read before you post please.
Photons from your lamp are always travelling at the speed of light. Superman had to accelerate. Now get a physics book and you'll understand the difference.
Superman also flew faster than light to go back in time.
1. Time travel gives him an advantage. 2. The work required to accelerate an object with mass to the speed of light is infinite. So Superman isn't just "Really REALLY strong", he's "REALLY REALLY REALLY..." strong. 3. The universe doesn't seem to mind when Superman breaks the laws of physics.
The boss tells the web designer what to do. (I wan't Flash, dynamic animated menus, this, that, etc.) The boss uses IE. The boss doesn't care if some small percent isn't using IE.
Implementing a custom file format where the header was an AVL tree. I was using a textbook's pseudocode for an algorithm, and sometimes values would disappear from the tree. I finally figured out that there was a bug in the book's pseudocode. Of course I though the problem was in my code, not the book, so this one took a long time to catch.
Let me explain why the parent post is both humorous and insightfull. This post is a reply to the statement Cheers to the slackware developers. (note the s) Most Slackware users know that the Slackware distro is very much a one man show: "Patrick Volkerding". see this and you'll note that the rest of the team works on ports, the website, etc. but not the distro.
The above poster saw an opportuinity to correct the first poster, AND do it in a humorous way. It's funny because it catches us off guard (we know there is only one developer but out of habit we just say "developers" because most distro's aren't a one man show). Furthermore, the author of this post was in no way rude or disrespectful to any poster, Patrick Volkerding or Slashdot.
Anyway, I'm expecting my "offtopic" moderation any moment now. Standing up for poster's rights and active opponent of bad moderation since 2002.
I've been a Gentoo user for 7 months now, and I do like the "cutting edge" aspect of it, but this "up to dateness" comes at a cost. Because the distro is actually one that you build with the tools that Gentoo provides, it's possible that no one is using it with the same versions of x, y and z that you have.
This makes stability a huge issue, and on several occasions I've had to rebuild programs because they got borked by an update of something else. Also, I've had emerge f#*k my system so badly that no one on the forums could help me, and I required a "from scratch" install.
I've been using Linux (Slackware, Debian, SuSE, etc..) for 5 or 6 years in an academic and work environment, and at this point I often feel Gentoo is more trouble than it's worth.
Having said that, Gentoo is the distro I'm running right now...
Quite honestly, I love Linux. I use it as a destop and a server on several PCs. Laptops are another story... I've owned 3 PC laptops in the last 5 years, and never had Linux working 100% on any of them.
Power management has never worked 100% properly for me. Even though I can get hardware video acceleration, switching to a tty, then back, breaks XFree and freezes my machine. etc... Basically the Open Source community can't keep up with the proprietary innovations going into new laptops.
Enter OSX. Now I know I can get a cutting edge Laptop, who's hardware is 100% supported by a UNIX based OS, at a reasonable price. I don't remember an opportuinity like this existing before.
I'm trading my (almost) new PC laptop for an (almost) new iBook this week.
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We know what the problem is.
Tell us how to fix it.
Where's the online petition? Where are the meetings of these "grassroots" campaigns located? Who do I send money to? Why would a US politician care if I (a Canadian) complained about something? Where can I buy "Activism for Dummies"? etc.
I think lots of people would like to do something. They just don't know how.
electric scooters are considered motor vehicles in Canada
This is also true for other countries that define the term "motor vehicle" as "a vehicle with a motor".
four counts of selling unauthorized computer equipment
Isn't that a bit misleading?
If I buy an extension cord and use it to plug in my computer, who "authorized" that bit of computer equipment? Who authorized Bob's Harware to sell it to me?
1. Don't put your email address on the web.
2. Don't pick a name that will be targeted by a dictionary or brute force spam attack:
e.g. "ggh@hotmail" will get spammed.
"lovetocook@hotmail" will get spammed.
"arh6yypolk11j@hotmail" will not get spammed. (well, it will now that it's on Slashdot)
As an experiment, I created a test email address at hotmail that was 20 random characters long. Every once in a while I would send it emails, or send emails from it to myself just to keep it alive.
Never once in several months did I receive any spam.
The technology stems from the discovery in 1989 of the compound p-phenylenevinylene which glows greeny-yellow when given an electric charge.
...
A little tweaking over the following decade produced compounds to emit blue and red light: the roll-up TV was born.
Makes sense to focus on those specific wavelengths.
With the flick of a switch the display could convert to infra-red
I know you can't mix RGB to get infra-red.
Is this LEP Vapourware?
Probably the coolest feature of the Debian distribution is its package management system.
Probably the only "cool" feature of the Debian distribution is its package management system.
What else in the distro could you call "cool"? And is it really that "cool"?
Just so ya know.
There are memory chips that are reset by exposing them to light.
Taken from here.
An EPROM (erasable-and-programmable ROM) is programmed in exactly the same manner as a PROM. However, EPROMs can be erased and reprogrammed repeatedly. To erase an EPROM, you simply expose the device to a strong source of ultraviolet light. (A window in the top of the device allows the light to reach the silicon.) By doing this, you essentially reset the entire chip to its initial-unprogrammed-state. Though more expensive than PROMs, their ability to be reprogrammed makes EPROMs an essential part of the software development and testing process.
Strange -- hardware manufacturers don't often underestimate their products' capabilities, do they?
ALWAYS. Ever hear of overclocking?
And not just computer hardware, but pretty much anything built is tested PAST the point that it's good for.
If your car's guages tell you it redlines at 6500 rpm, it probably really redlines at 7000. If an elevator says "20 People Max" it really means 30 or 40. etc.
...accelerate an object with mass to the speed of light...
Read before you post please.
Photons from your lamp are always travelling at the speed of light. Superman had to accelerate. Now get a physics book and you'll understand the difference.
Superman also flew faster than light to go back in time.
1. Time travel gives him an advantage.
2. The work required to accelerate an object with mass to the speed of light is infinite. So Superman isn't just "Really REALLY strong", he's "REALLY REALLY REALLY..." strong.
3. The universe doesn't seem to mind when Superman breaks the laws of physics.
"You can please all of the people some of the time, or some of the people all of the time..."
d.e.m.o.g.r.a.p.h.i.c.
The boss tells the web designer what to do. (I wan't Flash, dynamic animated menus, this, that, etc.)
The boss uses IE.
The boss doesn't care if some small percent isn't using IE.
I almost agree, except Gentoo isn't really a "distro" so much as a set of tools to create a distro.
So you could say "Rieger-Linux", built by portage, based on the Gentoo Linux core, is the best distro.
After all, I could use the tools included in Slackware (gcc, vim, the source packages, etc) to make a new distro, but that wouldn't make it Slackware.
I'll just stick to the best distribution and watch the fun from afar
should be
I'll just stick to the best distribution and watch the fun from afar
The way I see it, the italics tags aren't really a waste. Everyone loves italics, we can never have enough.
Use italics freely and enjoy them.
From the review:
which is which and what each does? Good question.
Is that really a good question?
I need a comment so here it is.
if anyone cares.
I don't know if this is a fixed reprint or not.
Data Structures and Their algorithms
Implementing a custom file format where the header was an AVL tree.
I was using a textbook's pseudocode for an algorithm, and sometimes values would disappear from the tree. I finally figured out that there was a bug in the book's pseudocode. Of course I though the problem was in my code, not the book, so this one took a long time to catch.
Read the article.
They will release the source, as per the GPL.
You can do whatever you want with the source, except compile it and give it away as "UnitedLinux".
Get it?
The parent post is currently rated "-1 Overated".
Let me explain why the parent post is both humorous and insightfull.
This post is a reply to the statement Cheers to the slackware developers. (note the s )
Most Slackware users know that the Slackware distro is very much a one man show: "Patrick Volkerding".
see this and you'll note that the rest of the team works on ports, the website, etc. but not the distro.
The above poster saw an opportuinity to correct the first poster, AND do it in a humorous way. It's funny because it catches us off guard (we know there is only one developer but out of habit we just say "developers" because most distro's aren't a one man show). Furthermore, the author of this post was in no way rude or disrespectful to any poster, Patrick Volkerding or Slashdot.
Anyway, I'm expecting my "offtopic" moderation any moment now.
Standing up for poster's rights and active opponent of bad moderation since 2002.
Mad Woooooots!!!
Slackware rocks.
I've been a Gentoo user for 7 months now, and I do like the "cutting edge" aspect of it, but this "up to dateness" comes at a cost. Because the distro is actually one that you build with the tools that Gentoo provides, it's possible that no one is using it with the same versions of x, y and z that you have.
This makes stability a huge issue, and on several occasions I've had to rebuild programs because they got borked by an update of something else. Also, I've had emerge f#*k my system so badly that no one on the forums could help me, and I required a "from scratch" install.
I've been using Linux (Slackware, Debian, SuSE, etc..) for 5 or 6 years in an academic and work environment, and at this point I often feel Gentoo is more trouble than it's worth.
Having said that, Gentoo is the distro I'm running right now...
JUST BE CAREFULL.
Quite honestly, I love Linux. I use it as a destop and a server on several PCs.
Laptops are another story...
I've owned 3 PC laptops in the last 5 years, and never had Linux working 100% on any of them.
Power management has never worked 100% properly for me. Even though I can get hardware video acceleration, switching to a tty, then back, breaks XFree and freezes my machine. etc... Basically the Open Source community can't keep up with the proprietary innovations going into new laptops.
Enter OSX. Now I know I can get a cutting edge Laptop, who's hardware is 100% supported by a UNIX based OS, at a reasonable price. I don't remember an opportuinity like this existing before.
I'm trading my (almost) new PC laptop for an (almost) new iBook this week.
What's the difference in the cost of operations between a mono-culture and a shop running two or more vendors' OSs?
How much of a raise are you asking for?