Would you mind telling us what set of rules you are using right now?
The "replying to pedant" set. Gotta speak at the level of your intended audience.
(By the way, "constant state of flux" is an oxymoron. Maybe you meant to write "... has a constant rate of flux.")
No it isn't an oxymoron, but if you prefer I'll rephrase it as "continual state of flux", which has essentially the same meaning. Your suggested alternative has a different meaning and is incorrect because the rate of flux is changing - it's high at the moment because of the large amount of communication between different cultures.
ITYM 'loose'. Oh, and I think your shift key's busted:p
Actually, I'm not convinced that the spelling and grammar is any worse these days so much as there are more people writing who wouldn't have in earlier times. Plus, English is a living language in a constant state of flux; there never really was a single correct set of rules.
I suppose I could RTFA, but that would be cheating...
Uncanny - you just described almost exactly the system we used for a large process control setup. It seems odd that a lot of people use setups like these and we all have to roll our own.
Does anyone know of any "plug-in" logging systems? This particular wheel has been reinvented enough times.
I've found and fixed more bugs in large systems by analysing logfiles than by running tests in a debugger. Log everything, and make sure each line in the logfiles has an accurate time stamp.
The trick is to learn how to correlate information between different logfiles to build up a picture of how all the components (process or thread) behave together. The classic Unix utilities like find, grep, awk, cut and less are your friends.
We hear about space junk being a hazard but I've never seen a reasonable explanation as to why. 13,000 objects spread out over a sphere of radius 6500km or so doesn't seem like a lot, even if they're all concentrated in just a few bands. Why is the danger of collision so high?
Microsoft blamed the proposal on a newly hired, "lower-level business person" who did not understand the company's obligations under the antitrust settlement.
Exactly the same here - I got work to spring for the floppies, installed them on a work machine and then made off with the goods for my home box. Sadly, we didn't get far with Linux at work because at the time it didn't support file locking (!).
Ah yep. 386DX machine with a whopping 8 megs of RAM, IIRC.
Sounds about right. Ah, the joys of manually calculating X modelines. And the terror of finding out that install disk 44 out of 50 had some bad sectors. [/geezer]
The US cleared a patch of land and built a house and a road. Others came along, used the same idea to clear their own patches of land and build houses next to the road (and built other roads).
The US says, "We were here first so we get to name all the houses". Everyone else says, "No thanks - we'd prefer to pick our own names". The US says, "HaHa! Just for that,.fr will now be known as.cheeseeatingsurrendermonkeys!"
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Would you mind telling us what set of rules you are using right now?
The "replying to pedant" set. Gotta speak at the level of your intended audience.
(By the way, "constant state of flux" is an oxymoron. Maybe you meant to write "... has a constant rate of flux.")
No it isn't an oxymoron, but if you prefer I'll rephrase it as "continual state of flux", which has essentially the same meaning. Your suggested alternative has a different meaning and is incorrect because the rate of flux is changing - it's high at the moment because of the large amount of communication between different cultures.
And that's me all pedanted out for the day.
ITYM 'loose'. Oh, and I think your shift key's busted :p
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Actually, I'm not convinced that the spelling and grammar is any worse these days so much as there are more people writing who wouldn't have in earlier times. Plus, English is a living language in a constant state of flux; there never really was a single correct set of rules.
I suppose I could RTFA, but that would be cheating
You know, the guy with the 'u' phobia and the 'z' fetish.
Yep, that's the ticket. Can't believe I left out sort (and sed, for that matter) from my list of handy utils.
Uncanny - you just described almost exactly the system we used for a large process control setup. It seems odd that a lot of people use setups like these and we all have to roll our own.
Does anyone know of any "plug-in" logging systems? This particular wheel has been reinvented enough times.
I've found and fixed more bugs in large systems by analysing logfiles than by running tests in a debugger. Log everything, and make sure each line in the logfiles has an accurate time stamp.
The trick is to learn how to correlate information between different logfiles to build up a picture of how all the components (process or thread) behave together. The classic Unix utilities like find, grep, awk, cut and less are your friends.
>i>A perfect example of a careless grammatical mistake that completely reverses the meaning of a sentence.
A comment pointing out an error in the article summary which changes its meaning so drastically is NOT offtopic.
[...] the whole political spectrum concept is the wrong paradigm for approaching the problem of dysfunctional [...]
Bingo!
There's a third possibility. Maybe it isn't exams getting easier or people getting smarter but teaching which is getting better.
We hear about space junk being a hazard but I've never seen a reasonable explanation as to why. 13,000 objects spread out over a sphere of radius 6500km or so doesn't seem like a lot, even if they're all concentrated in just a few bands. Why is the danger of collision so high?
I get so tired of people who quote "Sturgeon's Law" as if it meant something.
Hear, hear. 90% of Sturgeon's Law is crap.
This stuff's been around since 1941: http://www.bibicaffe.com/
Very tasty and a nice caffeine hit too.
So many colours to choose from!
http://dellrumors.com/index.php?p=4#comments
Ever hear of microcode? Even CPUs have a software component - and I've yet to see an open source version of that.
And then we'll have the IDers fighting to be allowed to teach evolution. Gotta love that irony.
[starling folds]
Well, they would say that, woudn't they?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandy_Rice-Davies
You're right. Now I can't remember if SLS used the same default host name.
Exactly the same here - I got work to spring for the floppies, installed them on a work machine and then made off with the goods for my home box. Sadly, we didn't get far with Linux at work because at the time it didn't support file locking (!).
Sounds about right. Ah, the joys of manually calculating X modelines. And the terror of finding out that install disk 44 out of 50 had some bad sectors. [/geezer]
I'll see your Yggdrasil and raise you Soft Landing Systems on 50 floppies.
Anyone else who's first Linux system was called "darkstar"?
See this is what happens when a single company controls the names. We should get the UN on their case right away.
Hm. That started out as a joke, but when I think about it the situation with ICAAN and domain names is pretty similar.
No offence taken here. I'm just amused at all the fuss being made over something which politicians (national or UN) can't control anyway.
It's my analogy and you can't go changing it like that.
:P
Too late. The UN has now taken control of your US analogies.
It's more like this:
.fr will now be known as .cheeseeatingsurrendermonkeys!"
The US cleared a patch of land and built a house and a road. Others came along, used the same idea to clear their own patches of land and build houses next to the road (and built other roads).
The US says, "We were here first so we get to name all the houses".
Everyone else says, "No thanks - we'd prefer to pick our own names".
The US says, "HaHa! Just for that,