I think what's he's saying is that if a computer loses power, it comes back up with nothing open, rather than restoring whatever state it was in.
He proposes that if I yank my power cord out right now (and if I weren't on a laptop...), that when I plugged the power back in, my computer would come back up with Firefox on this page, with my cursor hovering over "Submit," and with iTunes in the middle of playing a song in the background.
My favorite: the mysteriously dimmed menu options. Why are those darned things grey anyway?"
They're grey so that you know you can't click them, but they're still there so the layout of the menu doesn't change every time you go to use it: things stay in a consistent place, but you know some options can't be used.
I can't think of a better way to do it.
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Actually, lag might be a good defense.
"There was a DEER on the screen when I shot. Only afterwards did it refresh and show a person."
I think both the guy running the site and the users who cause injury to people are going to end up in a heap of trouble over this.
This project really held my interest. Not only could I get a great image for less than 1/3 of the price of a 'real' projector. And I could have more control over it anyway!
It wasn't until the last picture on the last page that I started to lose interest. Notice how the center of the image is far brighter than the edges?
That's entirely expected, if you think about how the overhead projector works. By comparison, I've never seen this on a 'real' projector. Still a nifty idea, but I think I'll splurge on a real one.
[H]ow much other stuff is in windows that has IP violations? The answer is: Nobody knows.
I just got this ingenious idea! We should find a dying software company, buy them out, and claim that they have our IP somewhere in there! We can even make a killing by trying to sell license for our technology to Windows users!
The software world seems to think that, if I use Windows, and it turns out Microsoft stole code, I am personally liable.
Maybe I missed a (hairbrained?) ruling somewhere that changed the precedent, but wouldn't it seem that I'm safe from lawsuits anyway over Microsoft's code theft?
Some places incorporate it in the price, or give it to you at much lower prices.
My VPS came with WHM/cPanel installed at not cost. (They added Fantastico a bit later, too. Dinix rocks.) $20/month to add it to a dedicated box.
RackShack (now EV1Servers) does it for $10 or $20 more a month; managed.com does it for $10; ServerMatrix (owned by ThePlanet) charges $20. Come to think of it, I'm not sure where there is that still charges $40-50, though I'm with you that not too long ago that was the going price.
cPanel/WHM rocks for an environment where you're hosting other people. It's a piece of cake for customers to use. It updates itself. It's great.
If it was a stand-alone box for my site, though, I'm not sure it would run cPanel. I'm hesitant to use the analogy here, but cPanel is kind of like Windows. It's easy-to-use. Everything just works. It'll even update itself. But every now and then some breaks, all hell breaks loose, and you have no idea what's going on. Everything works, and you can't 'look under the hood' to see how it works.
I can usually account for every process running on my Gentoo box. I freak out if my load average climbs above 0.10 without something of my doing. On my cPanel server, 'random' processes start eating up the CPU, and sites on my server start to load really slowly. My load average will break 1.00, and I have absolutely no idea what's going on. I really don't like the feeling of not having a clue what's happening, but I can't go blindly killing what's probably some sort of important cPanel update.
I meant to talk about how much I love cPanel. If you're not a control freak, you'll absolutely love it. If you are a control freak, you'll still be able to cope 95% of the time.:) But really, I am pretty impressed with it.
This is the worst possible type of advice. Do you have any reason for not using them? Maybe you've bought dozens and they've all blown up and burnt your house down, which would be a good reason to not buy 3Ware. Maybe you work for a competitor.
For all I know, you could have a very good reason. But if you tell someone to make sure to to stay away from something, you should provide a reason. Especially if it's something that seems to have a really good reputation.
The 1's fit together nicely, but this raises an even better question.
Why do we still use 'big' characters, like 1's and 0s? Why not use a . and a , for example. These would take up a lot less space than 0's and 1's would.
"It looks like you're trying to slam on your brakes. You may have been going for the gas, though. I'll automatically adjust things based on what I think you may have wanted.
productivity increased indirectly merely by changing the work environment.
I was actually wondering if anyone else had mentioned this, sometimes called the Hawthorne Effect. However, it seems you have the summarization a little wrong.
It's generally believed that productivity didn't increase because their environment was changing; productivity went up because they knew they were being studied, and/or that management cared about them enough to look. Remember that the Hawthorne study was one of the forerunners in the wild new theory that increasing productivity might have something to do with employees, not machinery.
It's not entirely unlike the placebo effect, although I'd stop short of equating the two.
I was playing with obfuscated Perl code, and got about 300 lines out. It was a script to go through my gaim logfiles, and generate stats for how much I talked to each person, how verbose they were, and so forth. It mostly just shelled various shell commands like wc, and my PIDs jumped by about 1,000 at the end (meaning that it was spawning about 1,000 processes from start-to-finish.) It wasn't well-written or anything, but it was kind of cool. And writing obfuscated, hack-job code is kind of fun. It ended up producing an HTML file.
I finally decided that it'd be cool to have the program read its own source and output it to the HTML file. It was pretty easy, and, as with anything else done just for fun that isn't too challenging, I just assigned stuff to random variable names. $hats and $fog were the most commonly-used.
I simply opened the source as $hats, and opened $fog for write, and then wrote $fog to $hats. No errors or anything!
The output file was blank. So I went back to edit the source code. Umm, it's blank too. And, of course, I was just messing around, so I had no backups.
Then one day it suddenly occured to me: I probably screwed up the variable names for the input and output, reading the blank output file and writing it over the program's source code.
So, remember, kids, use meaningful variable names. Using $hats instead of $fog could be the end of your program.
Or, alternatively, try to get Firefox banned for violating obscenity laws. That is usually excellent for publicity.
Does anyone else think this is a telling sign of something gone awry in society / the legal system? Get your own product banned so more people use it. Someone else proposed making untrue claims so that an investigation will occur, stirring up even more publicity.
I've always been under the impression that you don't mess with WalMart. (If you're a producer trying to get your goods sold, I mean.) If they tell you to lower prices and you don't, they'll drop your product altogether. Because of their immense size, they pretty much boss you around.
On the other hand, no one messes with the RIAA, either. And WalMart has a lot to lose here: couldn't the RIAA simply stop providing them with CDs? True, it might cut into their sales, too, but the RIAA could assert its dominance.
It's like the mob, only there's two of them. And one has just given an ultimatum to the other. I want to watch this one.
This is an excerpt from a previous message he received from Rackspace, which seems to be about something different. I find the text very troubling. (The text is taken from here)
Rackspace said: Mon Oct 4 07:30:53 2004
Hello,
I am sorry for the tone of the ticket you referenced. However, we are at the mercy of the DMCA as it is written. As a hosting provider, once we have received a DMCA notification, we are responsible for removing the offending material regardless of the merit of the complaint. In fact, we are not even to look into the merits of the complaint. We are only to act to remove the offending material as quickly as possible. If we fail to remove the material, we can be held liable for damages.
Essentially, they're saying that while he may well be correct that his material doesn't infringe any copyrights, Rackspace is legally obliged to remove it immediately.
I've long known that the DMCA was a terrible law. I didn't know it went quite this far, though.
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I think what's he's saying is that if a computer loses power, it comes back up with nothing open, rather than restoring whatever state it was in.
He proposes that if I yank my power cord out right now (and if I weren't on a laptop...), that when I plugged the power back in, my computer would come back up with Firefox on this page, with my cursor hovering over "Submit," and with iTunes in the middle of playing a song in the background.
Pop-Up windows which steal focus immediately from whatever task has focus
Has anyone else ever mistakenly IMed someone part of your root password? You're typing it into ssh or something, and AIM pops up?
Sometimes it seems something popping up in front of you is the best solution, but sometimes it's a terrible annoyance.
Playing a full-screen game is horrible, too, when something like AIM again steals the focus.
My favorite: the mysteriously dimmed menu options. Why are those darned things grey anyway?"
They're grey so that you know you can't click them, but they're still there so the layout of the menu doesn't change every time you go to use it: things stay in a consistent place, but you know some options can't be used.
I can't think of a better way to do it.
Actually, lag might be a good defense.
"There was a DEER on the screen when I shot. Only afterwards did it refresh and show a person."
I think both the guy running the site and the users who cause injury to people are going to end up in a heap of trouble over this.
They did say it was Texas.
Yahoo has the story, too. They include a link to the website: live-shot.com.
We've Slashdotted even the strangest of hardware, but I think a gun will be a new challenge for us.
This project really held my interest. Not only could I get a great image for less than 1/3 of the price of a 'real' projector. And I could have more control over it anyway!
It wasn't until the last picture on the last page that I started to lose interest. Notice how the center of the image is far brighter than the edges?
That's entirely expected, if you think about how the overhead projector works. By comparison, I've never seen this on a 'real' projector. Still a nifty idea, but I think I'll splurge on a real one.
[H]ow much other stuff is in windows that has IP violations? The answer is: Nobody knows.
I just got this ingenious idea! We should find a dying software company, buy them out, and claim that they have our IP somewhere in there! We can even make a killing by trying to sell license for our technology to Windows users!
The software world seems to think that, if I use Windows, and it turns out Microsoft stole code, I am personally liable.
Maybe I missed a (hairbrained?) ruling somewhere that changed the precedent, but wouldn't it seem that I'm safe from lawsuits anyway over Microsoft's code theft?
No one has made jokes about a little Diddy yet? I'm disappointed!
I'm somewhat uncertain how to interpret your "If you think primes are boring..." remark.
;)
I think I know what you meant, but I think I like the literal "If you think primes are boring... take a class in abstract algebra" better.
You can get it for as low as $40-50 per server.
:) But really, I am pretty impressed with it.
Some places incorporate it in the price, or give it to you at much lower prices.
My VPS came with WHM/cPanel installed at not cost. (They added Fantastico a bit later, too. Dinix rocks.) $20/month to add it to a dedicated box.
RackShack (now EV1Servers) does it for $10 or $20 more a month; managed.com does it for $10; ServerMatrix (owned by ThePlanet) charges $20. Come to think of it, I'm not sure where there is that still charges $40-50, though I'm with you that not too long ago that was the going price.
cPanel/WHM rocks for an environment where you're hosting other people. It's a piece of cake for customers to use. It updates itself. It's great.
If it was a stand-alone box for my site, though, I'm not sure it would run cPanel. I'm hesitant to use the analogy here, but cPanel is kind of like Windows. It's easy-to-use. Everything just works. It'll even update itself. But every now and then some breaks, all hell breaks loose, and you have no idea what's going on. Everything works, and you can't 'look under the hood' to see how it works.
I can usually account for every process running on my Gentoo box. I freak out if my load average climbs above 0.10 without something of my doing. On my cPanel server, 'random' processes start eating up the CPU, and sites on my server start to load really slowly. My load average will break 1.00, and I have absolutely no idea what's going on. I really don't like the feeling of not having a clue what's happening, but I can't go blindly killing what's probably some sort of important cPanel update.
I meant to talk about how much I love cPanel. If you're not a control freak, you'll absolutely love it. If you are a control freak, you'll still be able to cope 95% of the time.
However, I do support a vast majority of him
The correct response wasn't "which decisions," it would have been "which parts of Bush?"
*ducks*
old people loosing their life savings could be prevented.
What about old people tightening their life savings? It's looking like that's the current trend.
And if none of those will even resolve to an IP address?
This is the worst possible type of advice. Do you have any reason for not using them? Maybe you've bought dozens and they've all blown up and burnt your house down, which would be a good reason to not buy 3Ware. Maybe you work for a competitor.
For all I know, you could have a very good reason. But if you tell someone to make sure to to stay away from something, you should provide a reason. Especially if it's something that seems to have a really good reputation.
The 1's fit together nicely, but this raises an even better question.
.'s: ..........
.'s to one 1.
Why do we still use 'big' characters, like 1's and 0s? Why not use a . and a , for example. These would take up a lot less space than 0's and 1's would.
Illustration: 10 1's:
1111111111
10
You can probably get about 5
"It looks like you're trying to slam on your brakes. You may have been going for the gas, though. I'll automatically adjust things based on what I think you may have wanted.
productivity increased indirectly merely by changing the work environment.
I was actually wondering if anyone else had mentioned this, sometimes called the Hawthorne Effect. However, it seems you have the summarization a little wrong.
It's generally believed that productivity didn't increase because their environment was changing; productivity went up because they knew they were being studied, and/or that management cared about them enough to look. Remember that the Hawthorne study was one of the forerunners in the wild new theory that increasing productivity might have something to do with employees, not machinery.
It's not entirely unlike the placebo effect, although I'd stop short of equating the two.
So is this vhy the FCC wants to regulate the VOiP so much?
Vow! I alvays thought it was vonservatives, not vemocrats, that were behind it.
Use clear, meaningful, variable names.
I was playing with obfuscated Perl code, and got about 300 lines out. It was a script to go through my gaim logfiles, and generate stats for how much I talked to each person, how verbose they were, and so forth. It mostly just shelled various shell commands like wc, and my PIDs jumped by about 1,000 at the end (meaning that it was spawning about 1,000 processes from start-to-finish.) It wasn't well-written or anything, but it was kind of cool. And writing obfuscated, hack-job code is kind of fun. It ended up producing an HTML file.
I finally decided that it'd be cool to have the program read its own source and output it to the HTML file. It was pretty easy, and, as with anything else done just for fun that isn't too challenging, I just assigned stuff to random variable names. $hats and $fog were the most commonly-used.
I simply opened the source as $hats, and opened $fog for write, and then wrote $fog to $hats. No errors or anything!
The output file was blank. So I went back to edit the source code. Umm, it's blank too. And, of course, I was just messing around, so I had no backups.
Then one day it suddenly occured to me: I probably screwed up the variable names for the input and output, reading the blank output file and writing it over the program's source code.
So, remember, kids, use meaningful variable names. Using $hats instead of $fog could be the end of your program.
Or, alternatively, try to get Firefox banned for violating obscenity laws. That is usually excellent for publicity.
Does anyone else think this is a telling sign of something gone awry in society / the legal system? Get your own product banned so more people use it. Someone else proposed making untrue claims so that an investigation will occur, stirring up even more publicity.
Monopoly one, meet monopoly two
That's precisely what makes this so interesting.
I've always been under the impression that you don't mess with WalMart. (If you're a producer trying to get your goods sold, I mean.) If they tell you to lower prices and you don't, they'll drop your product altogether. Because of their immense size, they pretty much boss you around.
On the other hand, no one messes with the RIAA, either. And WalMart has a lot to lose here: couldn't the RIAA simply stop providing them with CDs? True, it might cut into their sales, too, but the RIAA could assert its dominance.
It's like the mob, only there's two of them. And one has just given an ultimatum to the other. I want to watch this one.
This is an excerpt from a previous message he received from Rackspace, which seems to be about something different. I find the text very troubling. (The text is taken from here)
Rackspace said:
Mon Oct 4 07:30:53 2004
Hello,
I am sorry for the tone of the ticket you referenced. However, we are at the mercy of the DMCA as it is written. As a hosting provider, once we have received a DMCA notification, we are responsible for removing the offending material regardless of the merit of the complaint. In fact, we are not even to look into the merits of the complaint. We are only to act to remove the offending material as quickly as possible. If we fail to remove the material, we can be held liable for damages.
Essentially, they're saying that while he may well be correct that his material doesn't infringe any copyrights, Rackspace is legally obliged to remove it immediately.
I've long known that the DMCA was a terrible law. I didn't know it went quite this far, though.