At my previous place of work, it was very common to let packages be delivered at work. However, it added to the workload of the reception desk just before the Christmas season. They were not amused when people ordered large and heavy items like a set of winter tyres;-)
Where you are is interesting for banks for example, they know that it is not possible to have two ATM transactions in the same hour on the other side of the world.
So AMEX blocked my card because they found it suspicious that I tried to buy a train ticket at Tokyo Narita Airport, 13 hours after having bought something at London Heathrow Airport...
In many european countries there's laws against bundling two unrelated things together.
I think that statement is false. Without an OS, you can't even turn on your PC properly... The BIOS will error out saying "OS not found, press F1" or something like that, and that's broken from a consumer point of view. So an OS is not an unrelated part to the hardware, instead it's highly related and essential.
Let's rewrite your reply slightly...
It's the same for a CD player. Without a CD, I can't even turn it on properly. It says "disc not found, please insert disc" or something like that, and that's broken from a consumer point of view. So a CD is not an unrelated part to the hardware, instead it's highly related and essential.
Shall we be forced to receive CD collections with CD players, too? And DVD collections with DVD players? E-books with E-book readers? Dirty clothes with washing machines? Old bread with toasters?
Okay, three things: if you want to use nuclear power to tow icebergs, how about using nuclear power to desalinate seawater instead? Saves you the trouble of having to build a ship around your nuclear power plant....
They used to have one "in the neighborhood"... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-350_reactor
4) Have a 15A socket in the garage. UPS's work better with it, and, in an automated home, it might be nice to have control of some features.. Also, try to get a high-amperage TPS run to the garage (for electric cars potentially in the future).
I've had a customer that said their new printer wouldn't work. The issue: The USB type A cable was plugged in upside down..... I was able to yank the cable out and flip it, but then got usb protocol errors. So, I got the printer up via its network port. The customer was a marine. Anyone else I think wouldn't have enough strength to force it in upside down like that.
Nah, a long time ago at work, a contractor destroyed all four USB ports on a 20000 EUR Sun workstation by trying to insert a USB connector. If it doesn't work in the first port, use more force. It that still fails, try the next port. Only when you run out of ports, ask for help...
> Typing? You can't be serious. > How do i even do that with my mouse?
You find the character you want to type, move the mouse over it while pressing the left mouse button. This is called the "copy" step. Then you press the middle mouse button, and the character will appear magically! This is called the "paste" step. Repeat for all characters you want to type. Copy and paste a long empty line afterwards and the command will be executed!
I used this to keep all versions of the Linux kernel source tree on my computer, with identical files hardlinked together to reduce storage space. Both diff (blazing fast "diff -purN ") and patch handle hard links, so this was very workable. It can be slow and take quite some memory (only 128 MiB-1 GiB in those days), but guess 16 GiB of RAM should handle 4 million files fine, as this is about the same order of magnitude as the few hundred kernel source trees I had lying around.
On other platforms, we had kernel mode setting since 1994, through the frame buffer device interface and the frame buffer console. We even got kernel messages printed to the console when running X, but people didn't like them, so they were disabled when the console was in "graphics" state.
Last time I flew to Canada via the US, US immigration wanted to take a picture from me _without_ wearing glasses (funny, as you can never find me "in the wild" without wearing glasses;-).
On the return flight, US immigration wanted to take a picture of me _with_ glasses.
Yes, it still gets a bit hot. But you can easily touch it (for less than a second). The people who give demos actually put their hands on it for longer times, but they're used to it.
Imagine putting your hand on a halogen cooking device...
So far I cooked on gas, plain electric, halogen, and finally induction. Induction cooking beats everything else!
This is a two-edged sword: now they have their own standard.
So people can write requirements that insist on using software that follows the standard. Hence as soon as Microsoft changes Office to not follow the standard 100%, people can start to complain...
"I'm sorry, we will not buy your next version of Office, as it's not compliant to the ECMA Office Standard"
CodeWarrior is a nice tool to show a (preferably somebody else's) manager how you can develop, build, and run a `hello world'-like program on your host platform, and build it for the target platform later.
It depends whether the storage costs for office documents are low in the grand scheme of things. Compared to HD video: yes. Compared to source code: no.
Guess what consumes the most space in our revision control system at work: source code and deltas, or zillions of copies of different versions of MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files?
You may think about starting to use git as the revision control system for source code, but as soon as binary documents (long live LaTeX) must be stored, the repository becomes soon too big to take with you on your laptop...
According to the article, NT was ported to the R3000 in _big_ endian mode. I thought all versions of Windows were always _little_ endian (ia32, Alpha, MIPS, PPC, all CPUs supported by CE)?
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At my previous place of work, it was very common to let packages be delivered at work. However, it added to the workload of the reception desk just before the Christmas season. They were not amused when people ordered large and heavy items like a set of winter tyres ;-)
Because he's the maintainer.
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/MAINTAINERS#n2998
DEFXX FDDI NETWORK DRIVER
M: "Maciej W. Rozycki"
S: Maintained
F: drivers/net/fddi/defxx.*
He's supposed to run the latest kernel, and keep this driver working...
Where you are is interesting for banks for example, they know that it is not possible to have two ATM transactions in the same hour on the other side of the world.
So AMEX blocked my card because they found it suspicious that I tried to buy a train ticket at Tokyo Narita Airport, 13 hours after having bought something at London Heathrow Airport...
I think that statement is false. Without an OS, you can't even turn on your PC properly... The BIOS will error out saying "OS not found, press F1" or something like that, and that's broken from a consumer point of view. So an OS is not an unrelated part to the hardware, instead it's highly related and essential.
Let's rewrite your reply slightly...
It's the same for a CD player. Without a CD, I can't even turn it on properly. It says "disc not found, please insert disc" or something like that, and that's broken from a consumer point of view. So a CD is not an unrelated part to the hardware, instead it's highly related and essential.
Shall we be forced to receive CD collections with CD players, too? And DVD collections with DVD players? E-books with E-book readers? Dirty clothes with washing machines? Old bread with toasters?
Okay, three things: if you want to use nuclear power to tow icebergs, how about using nuclear power to desalinate seawater instead? Saves you the trouble of having to build a ship around your nuclear power plant....
They used to have one "in the neighborhood"...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-350_reactor
same (ftp://ftp.bitwizard.nl/same/) replaces the duplicates by hard or symbolic links.
4) Have a 15A socket in the garage. UPS's work better with it, and, in an automated home, it might be nice to have control of some features.. Also, try to get a high-amperage TPS run to the garage (for electric cars potentially in the future).
Only 15A?
(In Belgium) All sockets are 16A now. At 230V.
I've had a customer that said their new printer wouldn't work.
The issue:
The USB type A cable was plugged in upside down.....
I was able to yank the cable out and flip it, but then got usb protocol errors.
So, I got the printer up via its network port.
The customer was a marine. Anyone else I think wouldn't have enough strength to force it in upside down like that.
Nah, a long time ago at work, a contractor destroyed all four USB ports on a 20000 EUR Sun workstation by trying to insert a USB connector. If it doesn't work in the first port, use more force. It that still fails, try the next port. Only when you run out of ports, ask for help...
From Jolla's website:
GSM/3G/4G LTE* (Works on 6 continents).
Which doesn't answer your question, but should mean that it works unless you're living in Antarctica :)
In my old school days, America was one continent, so 6 includes Antarctica ;-)
> Typing? You can't be serious.
> How do i even do that with my mouse?
You find the character you want to type, move the mouse over it while pressing the left mouse button. This is called the "copy" step.
Then you press the middle mouse button, and the character will appear magically! This is called the "paste" step.
Repeat for all characters you want to type.
Copy and paste a long empty line afterwards and the command will be executed!
... a year starting with 199...
(except for Sun-3, which uses a completely different MMU).
ftp://ftp.bitwizard.nl/same/
I used this to keep all versions of the Linux kernel source tree on my computer, with identical files hardlinked together to reduce storage space.
Both diff (blazing fast "diff -purN ") and patch handle hard links, so this was very workable.
It can be slow and take quite some memory (only 128 MiB-1 GiB in those days), but guess 16 GiB of RAM should handle 4 million files fine, as this is about the same order of magnitude as the few hundred kernel source trees I had lying around.
After git arrived, it was faster to just use git.
You see nobody cares about old crap
Indeed, that's why there's no stable ABI: the old crap is removed if new and improved code enters the build(ing).
You can find Tux on women's underwear (Hunkemöller, IIRC) and Belgian chocolates (http://www.belfine.com/en/products/index.asp?t=1&sg=VAL&hg=Reep)
Because they have more faith in the first chapter of the book?
This is on platforms that boot in VGA test mode.
On other platforms, we had kernel mode setting since 1994, through the frame buffer device interface and the frame buffer console. We even got kernel messages printed to the console when running X, but people didn't like them, so they were disabled when the console was in "graphics" state.
Last time I flew to Canada via the US, US immigration wanted to take a picture from me _without_ wearing glasses (funny, as you can never find me "in the wild" without wearing glasses ;-).
On the return flight, US immigration wanted to take a picture of me _with_ glasses.
Except that this happened already a while ago... ;-)
As long as there's no government, they cannot back out again
This is is a nice opportunity to point out that `unauthorized copying equals theft' cannot be true.
Ever heard e.g. a car dealer say: `We don't like people stealing cars, but if they do steal cars, we'd like them to steal ours'??
Or Joe Sixpack: `I don't like people stealing money, but if they do, please steal mine'?
Yes, it still gets a bit hot. But you can easily touch it (for less than a second). The people who give demos actually put their hands on it for longer times, but they're used to it.
Imagine putting your hand on a halogen cooking device...
So far I cooked on gas, plain electric, halogen, and finally induction. Induction cooking beats everything else!
This is a two-edged sword: now they have their own standard.
So people can write requirements that insist on using software that follows the standard.
Hence as soon as Microsoft changes Office to not follow the standard 100%, people can start to complain...
"I'm sorry, we will not buy your next version of Office, as it's not compliant to the ECMA Office Standard"
CodeWarrior is a nice tool to show a (preferably somebody else's) manager how
you can develop, build, and run a `hello world'-like program on your host
platform, and build it for the target platform later.
No more comments. I hate it.
It depends whether the storage costs for office documents are low in the grand scheme of things.
Compared to HD video: yes.
Compared to source code: no.
Guess what consumes the most space in our revision control system at work: source code and deltas, or zillions of copies of different versions of MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files?
You may think about starting to use git as the revision control system for source code, but as soon as binary documents (long live LaTeX) must be stored, the repository becomes soon too big to take with you on your laptop...
Of course, unlike analog theft, digital theft is perfect!
So the punishment should be perfect as well...
According to the article, NT was ported to the R3000 in _big_ endian mode. I thought all versions of Windows were always _little_ endian (ia32, Alpha, MIPS, PPC, all CPUs supported by CE)?