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I see by your UID that you've not been around on Slashdot all that long (at least w/your current username)
A UID is not that much.
I've been reading Slashdot since it was "Chips & Dips" in Rob Malda's dorm room at Hope college, and my UID is in the 200k range. I simply didn't create an account until whenever I did.
Being a system administrator, I despise seeing scripts that begin with the/usr/bin/env command.
Why? Because I do not maintain my user's dot files. Especially for shells which, IMHO, have a braindead invocation like bash. Read the manpage if you don't believe me.
One's path can change very easily, especially for non-interactive, or non-login shell invocations, cronjobs, or execution via a batch system. My path statement is always correct. I use zsh and it has a.zshenv file that is sourced on _all_ invocations of the shell to counter this specific problem.
It is common for me to have different perl commands on Solaris systems (/usr/bin/perl is shipped with the system,/usr/local/bin/perl can be an updated one). The same goes for other scripting languages.
I know that the python crowd thinks the/usr/bin/env command is cool for some reason, but I believe that simply learning where your interpreter is located and putting it on the first line of your script is much more reliable than using the env command.
They release the same products over and over again, with identical functionalities, hoping that people will be vain or stylish enough to want something that looks sleeker.
Pretty soon car manufacturers, clothing companies, and many other common consumer good companies will be doing the same thing.
into google and the first hit was the duplicate article.
There is no excuse to keep doing this shit!
I'm glad that over 99% of the reason I come to slashdot is because of people like me and not the "editors". I wish it was easy to simply migrate the community to another site, but that is much easier said than done.
I studied fonts and other silly stuff when I was in "Human Factors Engineering". Sorry, I didn't keep my notes for the citations, but I explicitly remember reading that and it is very common to find the serif - sans-serif motif used in print like newspapers, books, and magazines.
Please dont specify the font and just use my browser's default... Please remove "font-family: serif;" from the body{}
I guess that is a valid request, but you are in the minority, and slashdot actually does fonts "correctly".
For most people, a proportionally spaced serif font is easier to read for the body of a document, and a proportionally spaced sans-serif font is better for thing like headlines or section titles. However, after just typing that I went to a number of popular news sites, and they use sans-serif fonts everywhere.
Is my font data only applicable to printed text and not text displayed on a screen? Personally, I'm a fan of the way slashdot does their fonts (in the right browser:)
How often do you do something like this in the shell:
for file in `find . -name \*.[ch] -print` ; do mv $file/var/backup; done
I have yet to see a GUI that allows me to select files in this manner, and perform the same operation on all of them.
I do this all the time. This is one of many reasons the command line will not die. For loops on the command line are simply godlike. Especially with command history. Got to be careful about spaces in filenames though. I rarely if ever use spaces in filenames. They are too much of a pain in the ass.
Another aspect that I like about the command line is that it is filecentric. Not app centric. By that I mean that I can be sitting at the command line and I can compile the C source files. I can make md5 checksums of them. I can copy them, move them, archive them, edit them, compare them, make differences between other versions, I can delete them, I can easily sort them, I can run a script on them, transfer them to another computer, etc etc etc. Yeah, I have to lord forbid, type something, but most all of those operations are much shorter than the for loop above, and even that is not hard to type.
However, there is a need and a desire for GUI type applications as well. Lynx is cool and all, and I do use it at least once a week, but give me a GUI web browser please. A graphics app is obviously well suited for a GUI, but then there are a number of simple command line graphics commands that are better suited as a command line application.
Its been too many years since I've used windows, but from what I remember, I really disliked the feel of that GUI, and it did some bad things. Hiding things and rearranging menus -- no thanks. Any app can take my keyboard focus because you feel like showing me a bozo box -- no thanks. Putting that damned "windows" key right where I can and did accidentally hit it and have it bring up the "Start" menu or whatever _and_ take keyboard focus from me -- Let me tell you that the last windows machine I used, I ripped out the windows key and proudly mounted it on the wall. It never bothered me again. It was ever so pleasant to be writing code and our not-so-bright sysadmin spooled print jobs onto a 99% full partition or drive so if anybody in the office printed out something more than 5 or 10 pages we would all get bozo boxes on our screen that took keyboard focus kindly telling us that the disk was either full or almost full. We set up our own print server as a workaround.
Albeit it is not perfect, OS X is by far the best OS I've ever used. I've been using it for 18 months now, and I'm pretty comfortable with it, and it rarely annoys me. I have a low threshold for frustration, and OS X is mostly just a nice OS. Actually, most all of the things that I am bothered by are things that most users have never done, nor will they ever do something like what I do, so I don't knock them too bad.
I would like a more powerful GUI that is more like the power of the command line, but I don't know of an elegant way to do it. I guess that is why the command line still exists, and it works so well.
I wish we would get one of those google appliances instead of whatever horrible search "solution" we have now. I use google with site:mysite.com to search our website.
When looking at the google appliances, I thought it was really cool how it learns your specific terms and acronyms and it will do the "Did you mean correctspellingword?" like google does.
Pretty slick from what I gather. I have no direct experience except for google proper.
http://www.regsoft.com/ . I'm sure there are many, many others, but this is one that a friend of mine uses for his shareware.
I too refuse to do any business whatsoever if PayPal is involved. It astounds me how many times I've contacted people that think they need to go through PayPal and I would get no response if I offer to mail them a check. And this is for a donation, not a fixed payment.
It's just another round of advertising PR thinly disguised as actual news.
You'r so cynical. Why would Mudzy do such a thing?
Mudzy is The Tech Zone Forums moderator and resident network specialist. He maintains The Tech Zone's LAN to keep it running at tip top shape. When not moderating the Forums, Mudzy also does hardware reviews. Mudzy runs a Celeron 366 at 550Mhz using Windows ME. You can email Mudzy at mudzy@thetechzone.com
I want my phone to be able to make phone calls and basically nothing else.
When I was a child in the '70s, we had those kinds of phones.
You would pick up the phone, listen for the dialtone, dial the number, the other person's phone would ring. If they were home, the two of you could talk until one or both of you hung up the phone.
Now, it is common to use two phones in order to complete a conversation. Phrases like:
"Can you call me back on a land line?" (or vice versa).
"Can you hear me now?"
"Our connection got dropped?!?"
"I'm running low on minutes"
"I washed/dropped my phone, and it does not work anymore"
And so on, are new phone phrases. Sure it adds quality of life to be able to drive down the interstate while talking on the phone, and to have your phone ring in your pocket while your on the toilet, and all of those other places you simply could not make a phone call before, but is this really progress?
I will jump at the chance that Apple, or somebody reinvents the phone that "just works". I don't use anti-virus crap on my computers, why would I want it on my phone?
Reviews having actual dollar amounts I tend to trust more.
So, does the TCO include a TCF?
Thats Total Cost of Failure for those that cannot interpret made up acronyms on the fly.
I guess some PHBs out there like to read these things, but the only TCO study I would believe would be two completely parallel systems running in production until their end of lifetime and then include the cost of migration at the end of the lifetime.
First, I am a little biased because I am relatively inexperienced in the Windows world. Haven't had a need to use it personally or professionally for years. However, being that I work with computers for a living, I hear things from time to time. I recently heard that the latest service pack for XP was just approved at one place that I work, us Linux/UNIX weenies apply patches regularly with little if any issues involved with them. I hear about how networks here at work get taken down by virus/worm/or whatever they call these things that seem to come with Windows machines (and now MP3 players!). I run programs on my system or at least parts of code that date back to the middle 60s.
Windows has beat *NIX land in terms of GUI usefulness and other creature features (besides OS X). But for the things I do, Windows does not appear to be the right tool for the job (HPC, general computing, and audio creation and manipulation). I would say that I would give a spare bodypart for something as good as WinAmp, but that does not seem possible.
The DVD is two disks which have a total play time of 314 minutes of phenominal video and audio in multiple formats. I own it, and highly recommend it. It is sold at Amazon for $22.49.
The CD is three disks. The playtime is not explicitly shown, but to estimate that each disk has 70 minutes of audio (unlikely) that would be 210 minutes of music. It is sold at Amazon for $24.49.
CDs are simply too expensive for the market. Plain and simple. Why they cost more than a DVD is beyond me. I make a decent amount of money and have over 500 Gigs of (prettymuch) legal music on my computer, I go to about 5 to 15 concerts a year at a great expense. I cannot justify spending 24.49 on 2 CDs. The DVDs are a much better value.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry. Its mission is to foster a business and legal climate that supports and promotes our members' creative and financial vitality. Its members are the record companies that comprise the most vibrant national music industry in the world. RIAA members create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 90% of all legitimate sound recordings produced and sold in the United States.
In support of this mission, the RIAA works to protect intellectual property rights worldwide and the First Amendment rights of artists; conduct consumer industry and technical research; and monitor and review - - state and federal laws, regulations and policies. The RIAA also certifies Gold®, Platinum®, Multi-Platinum(TM), and Diamond® sales awards, and recently launched Los Premios De Oro y Platino(TM), a new award celebrating Latin music sales.
Plus, even though your cell phone has a battery, the batteries at the cellular provider won't last long when the entire frickin' CITY is without power.
Add in the fact that cell phones aren't reliable in perfect weather standing next to a tower, and people expect what?
Slashdot Mirror
I see by your UID that you've not been around on Slashdot all that long (at least w/your current username)
A UID is not that much.
I've been reading Slashdot since it was "Chips & Dips" in Rob Malda's dorm room at Hope college, and my UID is in the 200k range. I simply didn't create an account until whenever I did.
#!/usr/bin/env perl
/usr/bin/env command.
.zshenv file that is sourced on _all_ invocations of the shell to counter this specific problem.
/usr/local/bin/perl can be an updated one). The same goes for other scripting languages.
/usr/bin/env command is cool for some reason, but I believe that simply learning where your interpreter is located and putting it on the first line of your script is much more reliable than using the env command.
Being a system administrator, I despise seeing scripts that begin with the
Why? Because I do not maintain my user's dot files. Especially for shells which, IMHO, have a braindead invocation like bash. Read the manpage if you don't believe me.
One's path can change very easily, especially for non-interactive, or non-login shell invocations, cronjobs, or execution via a batch system. My path statement is always correct. I use zsh and it has a
It is common for me to have different perl commands on Solaris systems (/usr/bin/perl is shipped with the system,
I know that the python crowd thinks the
why are we still stuck with nothing but white with grey or black with red?
A wise man once said "You can have the car in any color you like -- so long as its black".
They release the same products over and over again, with identical functionalities, hoping that people will be vain or stylish enough to want something that looks sleeker.
Pretty soon car manufacturers, clothing companies, and many other common consumer good companies will be doing the same thing.
Get used to it.
Can anyone recommend a good dedicated piece of hardware for watching IPTV stuff on a real TV?
Bonus points if HDTV support is baked in.
Recipe:
1 Apple PowerBook/mini or other product with DVI outputs
1 HDTV with DVI inputs
1 DVI cable
Optionally garnish with a bluetooth mouse and keyboard.
Enjoy!
Again, it took me about 20 seconds to type:
site:slashdot.org hitachi (dvd or dvr)
into google and the first hit was the duplicate article.
There is no excuse to keep doing this shit!
I'm glad that over 99% of the reason I come to slashdot is because of people like me and not the "editors". I wish it was easy to simply migrate the community to another site, but that is much easier said than done.
I studied fonts and other silly stuff when I was in "Human Factors Engineering". Sorry, I didn't keep my notes for the citations, but I explicitly remember reading that and it is very common to find the serif - sans-serif motif used in print like newspapers, books, and magazines.
Actually, I made it all up.
Please dont specify the font and just use my browser's default... Please remove "font-family: serif;" from the body{}
:)
I guess that is a valid request, but you are in the minority, and slashdot actually does fonts "correctly".
For most people, a proportionally spaced serif font is easier to read for the body of a document, and a proportionally spaced sans-serif font is better for thing like headlines or section titles. However, after just typing that I went to a number of popular news sites, and they use sans-serif fonts everywhere.
Is my font data only applicable to printed text and not text displayed on a screen? Personally, I'm a fan of the way slashdot does their fonts (in the right browser
How often do you do something like this in the shell:
/var/backup; done
for file in `find . -name \*.[ch] -print` ; do mv $file
I have yet to see a GUI that allows me to select files in this manner, and perform the same operation on all of them.
I do this all the time. This is one of many reasons the command line will not die. For loops on the command line are simply godlike. Especially with command history. Got to be careful about spaces in filenames though. I rarely if ever use spaces in filenames. They are too much of a pain in the ass.
Another aspect that I like about the command line is that it is filecentric. Not app centric. By that I mean that I can be sitting at the command line and I can compile the C source files. I can make md5 checksums of them. I can copy them, move them, archive them, edit them, compare them, make differences between other versions, I can delete them, I can easily sort them, I can run a script on them, transfer them to another computer, etc etc etc. Yeah, I have to lord forbid, type something, but most all of those operations are much shorter than the for loop above, and even that is not hard to type.
However, there is a need and a desire for GUI type applications as well. Lynx is cool and all, and I do use it at least once a week, but give me a GUI web browser please. A graphics app is obviously well suited for a GUI, but then there are a number of simple command line graphics commands that are better suited as a command line application.
Its been too many years since I've used windows, but from what I remember, I really disliked the feel of that GUI, and it did some bad things. Hiding things and rearranging menus -- no thanks. Any app can take my keyboard focus because you feel like showing me a bozo box -- no thanks. Putting that damned "windows" key right where I can and did accidentally hit it and have it bring up the "Start" menu or whatever _and_ take keyboard focus from me -- Let me tell you that the last windows machine I used, I ripped out the windows key and proudly mounted it on the wall. It never bothered me again. It was ever so pleasant to be writing code and our not-so-bright sysadmin spooled print jobs onto a 99% full partition or drive so if anybody in the office printed out something more than 5 or 10 pages we would all get bozo boxes on our screen that took keyboard focus kindly telling us that the disk was either full or almost full. We set up our own print server as a workaround.
Albeit it is not perfect, OS X is by far the best OS I've ever used. I've been using it for 18 months now, and I'm pretty comfortable with it, and it rarely annoys me. I have a low threshold for frustration, and OS X is mostly just a nice OS. Actually, most all of the things that I am bothered by are things that most users have never done, nor will they ever do something like what I do, so I don't knock them too bad.
I would like a more powerful GUI that is more like the power of the command line, but I don't know of an elegant way to do it. I guess that is why the command line still exists, and it works so well.
I wish we would get one of those google appliances instead of whatever horrible search "solution" we have now. I use google with site:mysite.com to search our website.
When looking at the google appliances, I thought it was really cool how it learns your specific terms and acronyms and it will do the "Did you mean correctspellingword?" like google does.
Pretty slick from what I gather. I have no direct experience except for google proper.
http://www.regsoft.com/ . I'm sure there are many, many others, but this is one that a friend of mine uses for his shareware.
I too refuse to do any business whatsoever if PayPal is involved. It astounds me how many times I've contacted people that think they need to go through PayPal and I would get no response if I offer to mail them a check. And this is for a donation, not a fixed payment.
Somebody else can supply the furlongs per fortnight.
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It's just another round of advertising PR thinly disguised as actual news.
You'r so cynical. Why would Mudzy do such a thing?
Mudzy is The Tech Zone Forums moderator and resident network specialist. He maintains The Tech Zone's LAN to keep it running at tip top shape. When not moderating the Forums, Mudzy also does hardware reviews. Mudzy runs a Celeron 366 at 550Mhz using Windows ME. You can email Mudzy at mudzy@thetechzone.com
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BTW, the site is slashdotted on a Saturday afternoon of a holiday weekend. Hilarious.
I want my phone to be able to make phone calls and basically nothing else.
When I was a child in the '70s, we had those kinds of phones.
You would pick up the phone, listen for the dialtone, dial the number, the other person's phone would ring. If they were home, the two of you could talk until one or both of you hung up the phone.
Now, it is common to use two phones in order to complete a conversation. Phrases like:
"Can you call me back on a land line?" (or vice versa).
"Can you hear me now?"
"Our connection got dropped?!?"
"I'm running low on minutes"
"I washed/dropped my phone, and it does not work anymore"
And so on, are new phone phrases. Sure it adds quality of life to be able to drive down the interstate while talking on the phone, and to have your phone ring in your pocket while your on the toilet, and all of those other places you simply could not make a phone call before, but is this really progress?
I will jump at the chance that Apple, or somebody reinvents the phone that "just works". I don't use anti-virus crap on my computers, why would I want it on my phone?
Although slashdot's search is not very good, there is a decent search engine called google.
I just searched for site:slashdot.org creative mp3 and the 6th hit was the duped article.
If your as lazy as Zonk and don't want to type all of those characters into a search, you can click here.
Reviews having actual dollar amounts I tend to trust more.
So, does the TCO include a TCF?
Thats Total Cost of Failure for those that cannot interpret made up acronyms on the fly.
I guess some PHBs out there like to read these things, but the only TCO study I would believe would be two completely parallel systems running in production until their end of lifetime and then include the cost of migration at the end of the lifetime.
First, I am a little biased because I am relatively inexperienced in the Windows world. Haven't had a need to use it personally or professionally for years. However, being that I work with computers for a living, I hear things from time to time. I recently heard that the latest service pack for XP was just approved at one place that I work, us Linux/UNIX weenies apply patches regularly with little if any issues involved with them. I hear about how networks here at work get taken down by virus/worm/or whatever they call these things that seem to come with Windows machines (and now MP3 players!). I run programs on my system or at least parts of code that date back to the middle 60s.
Windows has beat *NIX land in terms of GUI usefulness and other creature features (besides OS X). But for the things I do, Windows does not appear to be the right tool for the job (HPC, general computing, and audio creation and manipulation). I would say that I would give a spare bodypart for something as good as WinAmp, but that does not seem possible.
I've noticed that DVD vs CD price discrepancy for some time now.
0 08PX8P/102-9694362-0748148?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846 &vi=tech-info
0 08OWZC/qid=1125589192/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-9694 362-0748148?v=glance&s=music&n=507846#product-deta ils
Take another example:
DVD -- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00
CD -- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00
The DVD is two disks which have a total play time of 314 minutes of phenominal video and audio in multiple formats. I own it, and highly recommend it. It is sold at Amazon for $22.49.
The CD is three disks. The playtime is not explicitly shown, but to estimate that each disk has 70 minutes of audio (unlikely) that would be 210 minutes of music. It is sold at Amazon for $24.49.
CDs are simply too expensive for the market. Plain and simple. Why they cost more than a DVD is beyond me. I make a decent amount of money and have over 500 Gigs of (prettymuch) legal music on my computer, I go to about 5 to 15 concerts a year at a great expense. I cannot justify spending 24.49 on 2 CDs. The DVDs are a much better value.
I'm sorry but honestly what the fuck is the real market for Winzip?
I guess the new crowd that hangs out here on slashdot.
Huh? From http://www.riaa.com/about/default.asp:
I've got about 20 lines in my hosts.deny file - mostly /8 and /16 nets.
Thats weird, I only have one:
ALL: ALL
When did humans enter the hippie's endangered species list?
Last time I checked, there were something like $6 billion of us on this planet and rising, which is supposed to cap at 10 billion or so.
Maybe we should start letting the weaker ones keep out of the gene pool for the rest of us.
...but when the city is short staffed due to the budget... ...high stress job, for such low pay.
So, a gizmo that costs over $100,000 in every pool can 1) reduce yet another decent job for younger people and 2) help save money!
I say we just ship another airplane full of hot Russian or other European girls over here instead.
DUPE!
9 13227&from=rss2 65 7
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/30/1
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/30/17392
3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/25/13182
etc...
In fact, I rather hope they build on top of the rubble instead of clearing it away.
Thats a damn good idea. I really like it when they use concrete and whatnot as a foundation for coral reefs.
I'm a much bigger fan of reuse vs recycle.
Plus, even though your cell phone has a battery, the batteries at the cellular provider won't last long when the entire frickin' CITY is without power.
Add in the fact that cell phones aren't reliable in perfect weather standing next to a tower, and people expect what?