... my machines tend to be named after spiders - latin names - Atrax, Lycosa, Argiope etc...
My work machines are names after characters in Robert Rankin novels
not exactly scalable either, I guess. I think If I had more than about, say, 20 machines, I'd be looking into grouping the machines into some sort of hierarchy - such as you'd find in nature - all NT boxes named after mammals, all Macs after snakes, all *nixes after fish, DB machines after trees and webservers after rocks or whatever. Group them how you'd like, but make them hierarchical.
It's probably easier to distinguish 10 hierarchies of 20 machines than just a straight list of 200.
You can get 8.5mm 'half-ropes' - you're meant to use them in pairs, but when in extremis they're employed singly for tough sport routes to reduce weight and drag. I did my first F7c (Hard UK E6 6b, not sure of the US grade) on one. not sure if it made any physical difference in that case, but it was a psychological edge.
Big disadvantage with this, though, is that the thinner it gets, the trickier it is to get into your quickdraw. I had length-matched 'draws with BD 'hotwire' krabs on them in the crux section so I wouldn't fumble the clip. A 3mm spider-silk rope wuld be very tricky to clip with - like using prussik cord. perhaps you could stiffen a section in the manner of the Beal program ropes to make clipping easier and the sheath more durable?
3mm - fine for topropes, no good for real climbing
what with time zones being all different and that. however, I have a solution.
We flatten the earth. yup. flatten it. With German industrial ingenuity it shouldn't be a big problem. then we all have roughly the same sunrise and sunset times, therefore allowing germany to restrict opening times in line with other net-opressive nations (Australia - Richard Alston take note)
Of course, how exactly are they going to define "porn", and then how are they going to patrol the net to enforce the whole thing?
It could, of course, be the end to World Unemployment - just give every unemployed person a net connection and ask them to rate porn sites for the German government. SIGN ME UP! I'll quit my job now.
unfortunately you're right - the masses will always dictate the "real-world" metaphor.
let's say my fresh young brain, before I started school/work/whatever, was absolutely and perfectly compatible with some bizarre spinning globe of info type-of gelatinous mass kind-of weird organisational system or interface.
I'm not going to get to use that in school/work/home/whatever. the interface is a function of social norms, and it'd take an enormous paradigm shift to break that. Besides, I'm trained for it by my social surroundings, which I guess is partly the point.
an interface has to be for the masses, and the masses are well versed in the desktop metaphor through, as i said, hundreds of years.
it may be old, but so is fire, and what's better to roast a mmarshmallow with? crappy platitude, but hey, it's getting late here. I'm off to the pub to muse on this over some more beer.
didn't someone do something like this as a *nix process management tool with the DOOM/QUAKE engine? to kill a process you go find it and shoot it, that sort of thing? someone must have the link...
.... the desktop/hierarchical structure thing isn't just a metaphor. people STILL USE in and out trays, filing cabinets, rolodexes, pen holders, noticeboards and so on. the desktop is one of two things :
a) a tried and tested system which works, and is already fairly* well established in the minds of billions of well-organised people, and was evolved over hundreds of years of trial and error by people who actually NEEDED to organise stuff
b) outmoded and ready for the trash heap.
take your pick.
I applaud the effort to find something better, but really, i think "natural selection" would have found a better real-world parallel if it existed.
relationships between files in the structure is a brilliant idea, but that's just metadata and cross-referencing.
- says the man with the cluttered desk - at least my machines don't have virtual beer bottles leaving ringmarks on my HTML documents.
missing the point. the post talked about *internal* pages - this isn't a page that should really even be looking for a search engine listing, really, apart from perhaps some altruistic urge. an outside user should end up at the real support site, not a university CS dept., which is *just* for the university. it's a pretty big issue, and i was only pointing at a small part of it...
did you have the page disallowed for search engines? if something is for internal use only, you really ought to have dropped in a robots.txt to exclude it altogether.
if more people used robots.txt, a lot of 'only useful to internal users' sites would drop right off the engines, leaving relevant results for the rest of the world...
I was reading a cheapo 'encyclopaedia of sci-fi' picked up from a charity shop which imparted this information..
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wasn't talkign about west. was talking about the prior poster's analogy.
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Surely walking through an unlocked door would be trespass rather then break & enter?
of course, I'm not sure how US law treats this, but I beleieve UK law treats it that way, and I'm fairly sure Australian law is the same (british ex-pat living in aus)
Slashdot Mirror
> Funny someone would name an encoding format after a caveman...
and there was me thinking it was a Terry Pratchett reference. (Nanny Ogg + Vorbis the Exquisitor)
signed
confused
... perhaps it's this. I don't own any of the CDs on this list though. Perish the thought.
Actually, I think there's a DVD still stuck in there, but it could possibly be a CD. I can't tell till i crack the bastard open.
Actually, it's possible the wife got the David Grey album and didn't tell me when the machine wiped ot....
can confirm :
Acting IS wooden
Yoda Kicks Ass
Acting IS wooden
now I gotta turn javascript off to view the site...
then back on to do my job.
>sigh
My old web shop in London started this team a few months after I shipped out to Australia
P.I.S.S.E.D.
Platform Independent Server-Side Enterprise Development - they were basically the java/perl squad. nice acro, and it was in fact official.
... it seems to be down already, or at least vastly slowed.
... my machines tend to be named after spiders - latin names - Atrax, Lycosa, Argiope etc...
My work machines are names after characters in Robert Rankin novels
not exactly scalable either, I guess. I think If I had more than about, say, 20 machines, I'd be looking into grouping the machines into some sort of hierarchy - such as you'd find in nature - all NT boxes named after mammals, all Macs after snakes, all *nixes after fish, DB machines after trees and webservers after rocks or whatever. Group them how you'd like, but make them hierarchical.
It's probably easier to distinguish 10 hierarchies of 20 machines than just a straight list of 200.
Nah. they'll go from 9.9.9 to 9.9.9.9
;-)
and from there to 9.9.9.9.9
know the one about the tortoise that can never be hit by an arrow?
maybe then you could track every user.... Passport anyone?
.... at least in some of the screenshots anyway...
... "Ask Slashdot" to be renamed "Bait Slashdot"
You can get 8.5mm 'half-ropes' - you're meant to use them in pairs, but when in extremis they're employed singly for tough sport routes to reduce weight and drag. I did my first F7c (Hard UK E6 6b, not sure of the US grade) on one. not sure if it made any physical difference in that case, but it was a psychological edge.
Big disadvantage with this, though, is that the thinner it gets, the trickier it is to get into your quickdraw. I had length-matched 'draws with BD 'hotwire' krabs on them in the crux section so I wouldn't fumble the clip. A 3mm spider-silk rope wuld be very tricky to clip with - like using prussik cord. perhaps you could stiffen a section in the manner of the Beal program ropes to make clipping easier and the sheath more durable?
3mm - fine for topropes, no good for real climbing
"when people click there from a Microsoft Exchange email message, Exchange helpfully gives us the subject line and username. "
And MS don't know this about their own product?
... being threatened with a lawsuit for telling someone to RTFM in a programming group. I must be up to about my tenth one of those by now...
what with time zones being all different and that. however, I have a solution.
We flatten the earth. yup. flatten it. With German industrial ingenuity it shouldn't be a big problem. then we all have roughly the same sunrise and sunset times, therefore allowing germany to restrict opening times in line with other net-opressive nations (Australia - Richard Alston take note)
Of course, how exactly are they going to define "porn", and then how are they going to patrol the net to enforce the whole thing?
It could, of course, be the end to World Unemployment - just give every unemployed person a net connection and ask them to rate porn sites for the German government. SIGN ME UP! I'll quit my job now.
I was looking at the post thinking "159 bytes? how come nothing I've ever done has compiled that small?"
not happy with making me upgrade my damn computers all the time, now I have to get 100Mbps for my Stingray??
sheesh
unfortunately you're right - the masses will always dictate the "real-world" metaphor.
let's say my fresh young brain, before I started school/work/whatever, was absolutely and perfectly compatible with some bizarre spinning globe of info type-of gelatinous mass kind-of weird organisational system or interface.
I'm not going to get to use that in school/work/home/whatever. the interface is a function of social norms, and it'd take an enormous paradigm shift to break that. Besides, I'm trained for it by my social surroundings, which I guess is partly the point.
an interface has to be for the masses, and the masses are well versed in the desktop metaphor through, as i said, hundreds of years.
it may be old, but so is fire, and what's better to roast a mmarshmallow with? crappy platitude, but hey, it's getting late here. I'm off to the pub to muse on this over some more beer.
j
didn't someone do something like this as a *nix process management tool with the DOOM/QUAKE engine? to kill a process you go find it and shoot it, that sort of thing? someone must have the link...
.... the desktop/hierarchical structure thing isn't just a metaphor. people STILL USE in and out trays, filing cabinets, rolodexes, pen holders, noticeboards and so on. the desktop is one of two things :
a) a tried and tested system which works, and is already fairly* well established in the minds of billions of well-organised people, and was evolved over hundreds of years of trial and error by people who actually NEEDED to organise stuff
b) outmoded and ready for the trash heap.
take your pick.
I applaud the effort to find something better, but really, i think "natural selection" would have found a better real-world parallel if it existed.
relationships between files in the structure is a brilliant idea, but that's just metadata and cross-referencing.
- says the man with the cluttered desk - at least my machines don't have virtual beer bottles leaving ringmarks on my HTML documents.
*irony
missing the point. the post talked about *internal* pages - this isn't a page that should really even be looking for a search engine listing, really, apart from perhaps some altruistic urge. an outside user should end up at the real support site, not a university CS dept., which is *just* for the university. it's a pretty big issue, and i was only pointing at a small part of it...
j
did you have the page disallowed for search engines? if something is for internal use only, you really ought to have dropped in a robots.txt to exclude it altogether.
if more people used robots.txt, a lot of 'only useful to internal users' sites would drop right off the engines, leaving relevant results for the rest of the world...
just a thought......
I was reading a cheapo 'encyclopaedia of sci-fi' picked up from a charity shop which imparted this information..
wasn't talkign about west. was talking about the prior poster's analogy.
Surely walking through an unlocked door would be trespass rather then break & enter?
of course, I'm not sure how US law treats this, but I beleieve UK law treats it that way, and I'm fairly sure Australian law is the same (british ex-pat living in aus)