I was always worried about the computers and everytime the cron.daily would start writing to the hard drive I wouldn't hear the customary hard drive sounds and I'd panic and wake up (sleeping in the room right next to mine).
I know what you mean. Although, ever since I got an 8:30-5 Day Job, I know that if I'm still awake when the nightly jobs kick off, it's way past my bedtime.
Even the sad thing with me, is that I know the particular pitch of the fans. I can tell which devices are on just by the pitch.
Well, since mine are on 24/7, I don't have that kind of indicator. I do, however, enjoy the fact that the whooshes are not synchronous, so they produce a nice, ever-changing medly of white noise.
I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I find it difficult to sleep at night without the whoosh of the fans from the handful of servers I keep in my room. What kind of geek likes quiet machines?
crypt(1) only offered trivial protection, but it *was* an application-independent system resource that could be used to encrypt and decrypt messages with a classic algorithm.
Not quite. The UNIX crypt() function is a one-way algorithm. A character string is run through crypt() along with a 2-character salt, which is used to mutate the encryption algorithm. The result is a 13-character string, the first 2 characters being the salt. To check, for example, a password against a crypt()'ed password, you take the user-supplied password string and the first 2 characters of the encrypted password, run them through crypt() and compare the output with the previously encrypted string. If both encrypted strings match, then the user-supplied string matched the string that was previously crypt()'ed.
By the way, since crypt() is a system library function , it is in Section 3 of the manual, and is denoted as crypt(3), not crypt(1).
Note: I'm not sayng that this isn't a dumb patent, but your example of prior art is in error.
When we get rid of the window manager you will probably see some real innovation, like windows without borders (you move/raise
them by grabbing any inactive area)...
You can do this already. I have dozens of aterms
running just dandy on multiple desktops under WindowMaker with no titlebars, no resize bars (the bar across the bottom), no window borders, transparent backgrounds, and transparent scrollbars. I click the window I want to be active (or, more often than not, hotkey cycle through them), and can CTRL+click to grab it and drag it around. A hotkey combo pops up the window commands menu so I can resize it with my cursor keys, or use CTRL+cursor to resize it. Hell, I can even turn the scrollbars off for applications with built-in scrollback, like ircii. IRC looks pretty damn swank when it's seamlessly and transparently overlaid on my root window.
If you didn't watch Phantom Menace until it was rentable, you would have no idea who this Jar-Jar was, and how he could have sucked so bad to lead some people to suicide.
I still haven't seen Episode I, yet I know who Jar-Jar Binks, Queen Amidala, Darth Maul, etc are, and know the basic synopsis of the story line. Given the fact that I only watch about 5 hours of television per month, and never go to the cinemas, that's pretty indicative of the amount of hype that surrounded the movie. Hell, I don't even have cable (don't want it, either), so I probably will never see Episode I (or II, or III) unless I happen to be at a friend's house and it just happens to be on at the time.
I've learned that the
best deals now a days are comming more and more from simply having connections
Damn straight. A friend of mine is giving me her brother's old Tandy Model 100 for free next time she visits her Mom's to get it. My Toshiba T3400
(486SX33 w/ 8MB RAM, 120MB HD and greyscale LCD) was also given to me by a friend. I pretty much use it as a portable Angband machine. By the way, I love old Toshiba laptops. These things are tanks. I "lost" this one two years ago when I moved, and just found it again about two months ago. It had been in my attic for two years, buried at the bottom of a box full of IBM Microchannel Token-Ring cards. Two years in an uninsulated attic in a city where the temperature ranges from sub-zero to ninety-plus, and I still get about 6 hours out of the battery.
Three cheers for the unabashed candor of Mr. Zappa during the PMRC and Senate Commerce Committee hearings:
Senator Danforth: There is nothing on the face of the album which would notify you if the record has pornographic material or material glorifying violence?
Tipper Gore: No, there is nothing that would suggest that to me.
Frank Zappa: I would say that a buzz saw blade between the guy's legs on the album cover is good indication that it's not for little Johnny.
California emissions aren't the only things about automobiles that differ according to location. Many states require a license plate to be on the front and the back of the vehicle. In those states, cars are sold with a front bumper that can accomodate the second plate. In states where only a rear license plate is required, the front bumper typically does not have a place for mounting a front license plate. Although, most front bumpers nowadays are large, single pieces of molded plastic, so they're pretty simple to swap.
For a more extreme example, think outside of the USA for a minute. (auto makers sell worldwide, and so does Microsoft.) When was the last time you saw a BMW or a Volkswagen in the US with the steering wheel on the right? Do you think Ford or GM or whoever sells cars in Europe with the steering wheel on the left?
Both are from the Swedish PDC (Centre for Parallel Computers), and are the only two Kerberos implementations I've ever used besides MIT's and Transarc's. (Transarc's implementation was a proprietary extension of MIT krb4, and was included in AFS. However, the OpenAFS developer community reccomends against using Transarc's krb4, and instead suggests using MIT or Heimdal krb5.)
I fail to see how this is Informative. More like Offtopic and Poor Reading Comprehension. A Gameboy is an 8-bit Z80 clone with 16kB of RAM (8 system and 8 video) and a 2-bit greyscale display with a resolution of 160x144. It was a closed architecture, and only software developers that licensed the API from Nintendo could develop games for it. Gameboy emulators have been produced by good old-fashioned reverse engineering. I believe that Jamie was comparing future PCs to Gameboy's closed architecture and "toy" status. A Gameboy Advance is a completely different system.
Wil, if you ever make raspberry seltzer water come out of my nose again, I swear I will...
well, do nothing, other than be in pain for a little while. That was the funniest damn thing I've seen all day.
(Yes, kids. That is the real Wil Wheaton who posted this comment's parent.)
My ranking is Capsula > Erector > Tinker Toys > Lincoln Logs > Lego.
Are you sure your angles are facing the right direction there, Timothy? I had four of the five of those as a kid (no Erector set, but I had
something that was essentially plastic Erector that used rubber pop-rivets to hold the pieces together -- It was called Rivetron.) Also, the Tinker Toys I had weren't the little wooden ones. They were the HUGE ones you could build jungle gyms and cars and swingsets out of. I was always awestruck by some of the creations
people were able to make with their Erecto/Meccano sets, and would definietly drop a ton of cash on them if they were re-released in the US.
Just for the record, here's my ranking of the construction toys I had:
Rivetron
Construx
Lego
Robotix (a little limited in what you could make because of the lack of variation in structural parts. The motors, claws and jaws kicked ass, though.)
Giant Tinker Toys
Capsela (way too limited in what you could make, and they were always bulbous contraptions. The floats for making watercraft were nice, though.)
Lincoln Logs (Oh, look! I made another log cabin!)
At the place I work, we had a few 18GB IBM drives fail on us. They were standard inclusions with the Sun gear we use here (Sun ships a lot of machines with IBM and Seagate drives.) We found out from IBM that there was a recall on 9, 18 and 36 GB, 10,000 RPM drives manufactured between certain dates. These drives are pretty much guaranteed to fail, period. One of our other departments had over 90% of their suspect drives fail already. Our Sun reps came out to count how many we had, so that they could replace them. My department has well over 100 of the recalled drives. Fortunately, most of them are in gear that hasn't been put into production yet.
Here is a link to Google's cached copy of a previous Wired article on Web Stalker, the software used to make the black-and-white Spirograph-esque image in the Wired article above. The Web Stalker software itself can be found here, but for Windows and MacOS only, alas.
Still BattleBots is dumb not to have registered the.org domain.
Why? Are they a non-profit organization now? People always seem to forget the original intents of the com/net/org TLDs. At least there are still restrictions on edu/gov/mil. Even a lot of the gTLDs have restrictions on their categorical subdomains, like co.uk.
Normally, I wouldn't post something like this, but the audacity (and naïveté) that comes across in Mr. Cooper's letter to Barret realley cheesed me off.
As you will not be able to use the domain (battlebots.org) in any fashion,
we recommend that you transfer it to us immediately, and BattleBots Inc.
will reimburse you for the expense you incurred in registering the name.
Excuse me? Who says he is not allowed to use it? That's for a judge or an arbiter to decide, not a marketroid.
Another natural language language is Chef. Programs are written like cooking recipies. The above link has examples of a Hello World and a Fibonacci sequence generator.
I wouldn't want to eat either of them, though. The ingredients are the variable names, so some of the concoctions sound downright nasty. Although, the Fibonacci generator only requires 100g flour, 250 g butter, and one egg, and it's accompanying Caramel Sauce (the recursive function) requires a cup of white sigar, a cup of brown sugar, and a single vanilla bean.
I have seen the recent prices on the more interesting sets, and they can't compete. The really huge sets, the ones that
look like a full day of fun to build, and they sell for over $100 at Toys'r'us.
If Lego wants to stay competitive they will have to learn how to cut prices down to $20 for the large sets, which shouldn't be impossible (how much does Lego plastic
cost to make?), and hope that all of us 20/30-something slashdotters will start buying them.
Most of that $100 price tag probably comes from the licensing fees for the objects the kits are supposed to resemble. You think Lucas is going to let them sell a huge X-Wing replica for less than a $50 cut per unit sold?
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Then why the fake User-Agent field?
It's not a fake User-Agent. Inktomi is a search-engine company. They (used to) make their money by licensing their search engine software to other people. (Now they're laying off workers left and right.) Looks like the DoD is one of their customers.
Try things like...killing applications through the GUI.
It's called xkill. You don't even have to know the name of the misbehaving application and select it from a list. Xkill changes your cursor and you just click on the window you want to die.
Some of my friends and I populate almost the entire 1 AM hour.
All the photos in that block were taken at a club here in Pittsbugh, PA. Not all the photos are of us, though -- running around the club and asking random people to let us take their pictures for a website was really fun while drunk, and a surprising number of people agreed. I think we only had one or two people refuse.
I think my favorite pic of the three of us that did the photo-taking is the one at 1:59 AM, because I'be been told I ended up looking like Gary Oldman in that one.
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I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I find it difficult to sleep at night without the whoosh of the fans from the handful of servers I keep in my room. What kind of geek likes quiet machines?
By the way, since crypt() is a system library function , it is in Section 3 of the manual, and is denoted as crypt(3), not crypt(1).
Note: I'm not sayng that this isn't a dumb patent, but your example of prior art is in error.
Or how about Sun's SPARCstation Voyager that came out in 1994?
Three cheers for the unabashed candor of Mr. Zappa during the PMRC and Senate Commerce Committee hearings:
Senator Danforth: There is nothing on the face of the album which would notify you if the record has pornographic material or material glorifying violence?
Tipper Gore: No, there is nothing that would suggest that to me.
Frank Zappa: I would say that a buzz saw blade between the guy's legs on the album cover is good indication that it's not for little Johnny.
California emissions aren't the only things about automobiles that differ according to location. Many states require a license plate to be on the front and the back of the vehicle. In those states, cars are sold with a front bumper that can accomodate the second plate. In states where only a rear license plate is required, the front bumper typically does not have a place for mounting a front license plate. Although, most front bumpers nowadays are large, single pieces of molded plastic, so they're pretty simple to swap.
For a more extreme example, think outside of the USA for a minute. (auto makers sell worldwide, and so does Microsoft.) When was the last time you saw a BMW or a Volkswagen in the US with the steering wheel on the right? Do you think Ford or GM or whoever sells cars in Europe with the steering wheel on the left?
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Heimdal Kerberos 5
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KTH Kerberos 4
Both are from the Swedish PDC (Centre for Parallel Computers), and are the only two Kerberos implementations I've ever used besides MIT's and Transarc's. (Transarc's implementation was a proprietary extension of MIT krb4, and was included in AFS. However, the OpenAFS developer community reccomends against using Transarc's krb4, and instead suggests using MIT or Heimdal krb5.)I fail to see how this is Informative. More like Offtopic and Poor Reading Comprehension. A Gameboy is an 8-bit Z80 clone with 16kB of RAM (8 system and 8 video) and a 2-bit greyscale display with a resolution of 160x144. It was a closed architecture, and only software developers that licensed the API from Nintendo could develop games for it. Gameboy emulators have been produced by good old-fashioned reverse engineering. I believe that Jamie was comparing future PCs to Gameboy's closed architecture and "toy" status. A Gameboy Advance is a completely different system.
This year, I resolve to 127.0.0.1.
(I seem to have the same resolution every year.)
(Yes, kids. That is the real Wil Wheaton who posted this comment's parent.)
Just for the record, here's my ranking of the construction toys I had:
At the place I work, we had a few 18GB IBM drives fail on us. They were standard inclusions with the Sun gear we use here (Sun ships a lot of machines with IBM and Seagate drives.) We found out from IBM that there was a recall on 9, 18 and 36 GB, 10,000 RPM drives manufactured between certain dates. These drives are pretty much guaranteed to fail, period. One of our other departments had over 90% of their suspect drives fail already. Our Sun reps came out to count how many we had, so that they could replace them. My department has well over 100 of the recalled drives. Fortunately, most of them are in gear that hasn't been put into production yet.
Here is a link to Google's cached copy of a previous Wired article on Web Stalker, the software used to make the black-and-white Spirograph-esque image in the Wired article above. The Web Stalker software itself can be found here, but for Windows and MacOS only, alas.
According to her reply to the Bugzilla post, she will continue to work on the Mozilla project, just not under the employ of Netscape.
Jason Cooper - jason@battlebots.com
Creative Director
BattleBots Inc.
Normally, I wouldn't post something like this, but the audacity (and naïveté) that comes across in Mr. Cooper's letter to Barret realley cheesed me off. Excuse me? Who says he is not allowed to use it? That's for a judge or an arbiter to decide, not a marketroid.
Another natural language language is Chef. Programs are written like cooking recipies. The above link has examples of a Hello World and a Fibonacci sequence generator. I wouldn't want to eat either of them, though. The ingredients are the variable names, so some of the concoctions sound downright nasty. Although, the Fibonacci generator only requires 100g flour, 250 g butter, and one egg, and it's accompanying Caramel Sauce (the recursive function) requires a cup of white sigar, a cup of brown sugar, and a single vanilla bean.
Some of my friends and I populate almost the entire 1 AM hour. All the photos in that block were taken at a club here in Pittsbugh, PA. Not all the photos are of us, though -- running around the club and asking random people to let us take their pictures for a website was really fun while drunk, and a surprising number of people agreed. I think we only had one or two people refuse.
I think my favorite pic of the three of us that did the photo-taking is the one at 1:59 AM, because I'be been told I ended up looking like Gary Oldman in that one.