A few years back, I bought a ThinkPad. It came with a special ThinkPad build of some DVD player software, don't remember the name of it. But, because my locale wasn't set to English, its default language for the software setup was either Mandarin or Cantonese,... which, unless you are Chinese and living in Western Europe, is pretty much useless. But, as soon as I set my locale settings to en_US, the installation greeted me in English.
OK, I'm at loss at how behaviour that, by design does not permit one to replace a highlighted section of a text with anther one, can in any way be considered "more flexible".
Since you mention being hunched over a toilet I really must get this out of my system that,... when I'm drunk and really really need to expunge something food-like out of my body (usually the same way it came in), I actually find no other place more comfortable than lying on cold bathroomfloor-tiles.
That still won't beat being woken up by the 3-4 cops in a big cruiser, in the parking lot of my apartment. Now, I'm 6ft tall and don't exactly have a small or weakish frame, so not surprisingly my neighbour was a bit nervous to go out when she saw me lying face down in a leather jacket and leather boots, next to the door of her car when she had to go to work on a Saturday morning. So, not to anyone's astonishment, she called for the cops to remove this monster from the parking lot.
But, yes, the cops were nice. They woke me up, helped me get up, and then went on their merry way . I only realized when I sobered up how fortunate it was that I choose that car to pass out in front of, since I was so cold I was actually shaking for a good hour when I got inside.
Drunk as I was I still managed to dial up on my modem and fire up an IRC client, join my usual channels, but no more. I still remember the "oh, shit!" feeling I felt when I finally woke up properly, since I had been online for some 8 hours ; which was nice except for the fact that I live in Europe where we, as everybody knows, paid/pay by the minute for local phonecalls.
What happened the night before was that I had gone out on the town with a friend of mine, and I had gotten drunk enough to kill an ox, and was just as difficult to manouver around. Having spent some 2 hours and close to 100$ for cab-fare just getting ME to my home, he just gave up, believing the biggest lie of them all, "I'll just have a seat for a second or two so I can walk the rest".
As others have pointed out before me, there is quite a lot of bandwidth to be saved for Slashdot to switch over to a CSS based web. The content will be MORE ACCESSIBLE TO OTHER DEVICES. It'll actually have a better chance of getting validated as anything. Right now it doesn't even rank good enough to validate as HTML 3.2*.
Why do you consider CSS "god-awful" as you put it? Is it because you can't grok it, or are you the type that would prefer a compiler that assumes when statements end and puts in its own end-of-statement marker instead of doing the right thing and bitch about it in the compiler output?
*It would appear that the powers that be here on Slashdot aren't too happy with people trying to validate the site as the W3c validator received a HTTP 403, Denied from slashdot.org
The sad part is that this particular copy of the slashdot front page links to an article where the W3C recommends HTML 4.0. And now 7 years later, slashdot is STILL using the much-outdated HTML 3.2.
About 5 years ago I was a fan of the NT bootloader since it enabled me to simply use the arrow keys to decide whether to boot Linux og NT. And since I had for some reason or another re-installed LILO, with the expected effect that it overwrote the Master Boot Record with its signature, I figured I might as well try and put the NT boot loader there instead.
I had read somewhere that the MBR was the first 512 bytes of the disk, and since I had somehow worked out in my head that LILO booted DOS by running some code from the first sector I naturally came to the conclusion that I could easily restore the NT bootloader as the default bootloader by simply copying the first 512 bytes of the NT partition to the front of the disk.
The command I then came up with was the following dd command:
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
The system worked of course just fine after copying these few bytes from one place to the next and it wasn't until I rebooted the machine that I found out that something had gone terribly wrong.
I can't recall what the error message was exactly, but what I do remember is the feeling I got in my stomach when I saw it.
At first I just said to myself that I had simply hosed the MBR. But that bad feeling in my stomach grew worse and worse when a Linux Rescue CD I booted from actually found NO partitions at all on the hard drive.
So, let this be a lesson to everyone not to run dd unless you're REALLY sure you know what you're doing.
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Then a couple of years later I was working as a programmer, and I too did what I guess a lot of programmers have done at one point or another in their career.
That is, "DELETE FROM table;". But I was fairly lucky in that it was not on a production server, and the data was easily restored from backup.
Now, that may be a bit tricky, seeing as an overwhelming majority of software that I've installed using the good old method of "./configure && make && make install", didn't even _have_ a Makefile until configure was done configuring, writing the Makefile being the last step performed.
And, when there's no Makefile, there's no "make clean" either:-)
In Java, unlike C#, primitive types such as 'int' are not derived from the Object class. So your code would not compile. In order to make it compile you'd have to call it like this:
It stores mailfolders in a single file, i.e. a folder named INBOX is just a file called INBOX, and the Sent folder is a file called Trash.
While this may be OK for simple mail storage, it also means that simple things such as subfolders is out of the question (thus making it virtually impossible to work with for people like me, and NO I will not resort to naming folders something like mailinglists-mailinglist1:)
At home I use Cyrus IMAP without any trouble whatsoever. As far as Outlook XP is concerned, all I had to do to make it use SSL to talk to the IMAP server was checking a checkbox saying "Use SSL"
Auto-update doesn't install new apps. If you've ever been to windowsupdate you know that updates are split into 3 main categories, critical updates and service packs, driver updates and windows software. The only thing that the update daemon does is download updates from the first category, i.e. critical updates and service packs.
To install, say WMP9, you have to manually go to windowsupdate, select WMP9 and click install.
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A few years back, I bought a ThinkPad. It came with a special ThinkPad build of some DVD player software, don't remember the name of it. But, because my locale wasn't set to English, its default language for the software setup was either Mandarin or Cantonese,... which, unless you are Chinese and living in Western Europe, is pretty much useless. But, as soon as I set my locale settings to en_US, the installation greeted me in English.
OK, I'm at loss at how behaviour that, by design does not permit one to replace a highlighted section of a text with anther one, can in any way be considered "more flexible".
Isn't that like saying inches are metric since an inch is 2.54 centimetres?
Since you mention being hunched over a toilet I really must get this out of my system that, ... when I'm drunk and really really need to expunge something food-like out of my body (usually the same way it came in), I actually find no other place more comfortable than lying on cold bathroomfloor-tiles.
That still won't beat being woken up by the 3-4 cops in a big cruiser, in the parking lot of my apartment.
Now, I'm 6ft tall and don't exactly have a small or weakish frame, so not surprisingly my neighbour was a bit nervous to go out when she saw me lying face down in a leather jacket and leather boots, next to the door of her car when she had to go to work on a Saturday morning. So, not to anyone's astonishment, she called for the cops to remove this monster from the parking lot.
But, yes, the cops were nice. They woke me up, helped me get up, and then went on their merry way . I only realized when I sobered up how fortunate it was that I choose that car to pass out in front of, since I was so cold I was actually shaking for a good hour when I got inside.
Drunk as I was I still managed to dial up on my modem and fire up an IRC client, join my usual channels, but no more. I still remember the "oh, shit!" feeling I felt when I finally woke up properly, since I had been online for some 8 hours ; which was nice except for the fact that I live in Europe where we, as everybody knows, paid/pay by the minute for local phonecalls.
What happened the night before was that I had gone out on the town with a friend of mine, and I had gotten drunk enough to kill an ox, and was just as difficult to manouver around. Having spent some 2 hours and close to 100$ for cab-fare just getting ME to my home, he just gave up, believing the biggest lie of them all, "I'll just have a seat for a second or two so I can walk the rest".
So, are we going to be measuring storage in terms of Googles?
"Why, that thing could store 1200 Googles!"
"I managed to compress this 30 Google archive down to a single Google"
Actually, according to the Linux Standard Base, the proper place IS /etc/init.d.
Write your app according to the LSB and you should be safe.
As others have pointed out before me, there is quite a lot of bandwidth to be saved for Slashdot to switch over to a CSS based web. The content will be MORE ACCESSIBLE TO OTHER DEVICES. It'll actually have a better chance of getting validated as anything. Right now it doesn't even rank good enough to validate as HTML 3.2*.
Why do you consider CSS "god-awful" as you put it? Is it because you can't grok it, or are you the type that would prefer a compiler that assumes when statements end and puts in its own end-of-statement marker instead of doing the right thing and bitch about it in the compiler output?
*It would appear that the powers that be here on Slashdot aren't too happy with people trying to validate the site as the W3c validator received a HTTP 403, Denied from slashdot.org
The sad part is that this particular copy of the slashdot front page links to an article where the W3C recommends HTML 4.0. And now 7 years later, slashdot is STILL using the much-outdated HTML 3.2.
So, uhm..... Do they work?
So if I buy a Sun Fire E25K server just for myself, you'd consider it to be a PC too?
... why on earth a Dutch company has to jump through hoops with a product they sell because said product is on a legally gray area in one country.
Don't forget the pens!
... And what's this "blow_computer_up()" I found grepping the source?
About 5 years ago I was a fan of the NT bootloader since it enabled me to simply use the arrow keys to decide whether to boot Linux og NT.
And since I had for some reason or another re-installed LILO, with the expected effect that it overwrote the Master Boot Record with its signature, I figured I might as well try and put the NT boot loader there instead.
I had read somewhere that the MBR was the first 512 bytes of the disk, and since I had somehow worked out in my head that LILO booted DOS by running some code from the first sector I naturally came to the conclusion that I could easily restore the NT bootloader as the default bootloader by simply copying the first 512 bytes of the NT partition to the front of the disk.
The command I then came up with was the following dd command:
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
The system worked of course just fine after copying these few bytes from one place to the next and it wasn't until I rebooted the machine that I found out that something had gone terribly wrong.
I can't recall what the error message was exactly, but what I do remember is the feeling I got in my stomach when I saw it.
At first I just said to myself that I had simply hosed the MBR. But that bad feeling in my stomach grew worse and worse when a Linux Rescue CD I booted from actually found NO partitions at all on the hard drive.
So, let this be a lesson to everyone not to run dd unless you're REALLY sure you know what you're doing.
---
Then a couple of years later I was working as a programmer, and I too did what I guess a lot of programmers have done at one point or another in their career.
That is, "DELETE FROM table;". But I was fairly lucky in that it was not on a production server, and the data was easily restored from backup.
Now, that may be a bit tricky, seeing as an overwhelming majority of software that I've installed using the good old method of "./configure && make && make install", didn't even _have_ a Makefile until configure was done configuring, writing the Makefile being the last step performed.
:-)
And, when there's no Makefile, there's no "make clean" either
Or in the international version. Pizza Hut.
You forgot '<pedant mode="html">' as well as closing the tag with '</pedant>'
<pedant>
The keypad locking system on many phones is bypassed when an emergency number is being dialed.
That is the case with my Sony Ericsson T310, and my Nokia 3310 and I'm sure is the case with many other phones.
I could have egg on my face in a couple weeks
:-)
Sounds like an open invitation to me!
Nope.
In Java, unlike C#, primitive types such as 'int' are not derived from the Object class. So your code would not compile. In order to make it compile you'd have to call it like this:
meth("string", new Integer(1) );
...almost exactly one foot
Dude, it either travels at EXACTLY one foot per nanosecond or it doesn't. There is no such thing as "almost exactly".
It stores mailfolders in a single file, i.e. a folder named INBOX is just a file called INBOX, and the Sent folder is a file called Trash.
:)
While this may be OK for simple mail storage, it also means that simple things such as subfolders is out of the question (thus making it virtually impossible to work with for people like me, and NO I will not resort to naming folders something like mailinglists-mailinglist1
At home I use Cyrus IMAP without any trouble whatsoever. As far as Outlook XP is concerned, all I had to do to make it use SSL to talk to the IMAP server was checking a checkbox saying "Use SSL"
Remarkably, BruCe Schneier's house was left intact.
Auto-update doesn't install new apps. If you've ever been to windowsupdate you know that updates are split into 3 main categories, critical updates and service packs, driver updates and windows software. The only thing that the update daemon does is download updates from the first category, i.e. critical updates and service packs.
To install, say WMP9, you have to manually go to windowsupdate, select WMP9 and click install.