there was an island between Sumatra and Bali...
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Bitter Java
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· Score: 4, Funny
The island that used to exist between Sumatra and Bali seems to have been wiped off the Net...
At least, I went through the top 200 results of a Google search for "Java" a while back without finding any pages about it and, while
some of the 1294 books at Amazon must surely be about the island, none of them make it into the first 200 results.
Re:crashes on me on "wants to load image, allow?"
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Mozilla 1.0 RC2 is out
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· Score: 2
I don't think that's the bug that's getting me. Firstly, I get crashes, not a hang. Secondly, if I restart Mozilla and revisit the page it crashed on, it works fine - my crashes are NOT replicable with particular pages they seem to happen randomly.
There seems to be some connection with pages that load images from many sites - the "allow" dialogs kind of pile up and I can sense the crash coming. When I revisit the site, presumably there aren't so many dialogs because I got through some of them before it crashed.
Because fsck would take so long, it's unlikely that a non-journalled filesystem would be used on a large partition/logical volume.
You can say that again! Fscking even 60 gig takes a painfully long time - with 10 terabytes it wouldn't be "go away and take a long coffee break", it would be more like "go away and read a book". And the with the 9EB limit he mentions, maybe "go away and write a book"!
Danny.
highlights of my netrek career
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Netrek
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· Score: 2
I organised an Australian team to play CMU back in 1993 (CMU was the biggest netrek centre back then). They played on our server, with 750ms lag over the then satellite connection. But despite the fact that they were cactus in any 1-on-1 dogfight because of the lag, they genocided us in 40 minutes - their teamwork was that much better than ours. (Teamwork is crucially important to netrek, which is one reason it's such a cool game.)
I ran the 1994 International Netrek Leaguge (as a 7 round Swiss), which was a success and I think one of the best INL years. (I still think Swiss scheduling is better than a divisional system, as it produces more games between balanced sides.)
And I've played a few INL games this year with the Golden Bears, having fun passive scout-bombing over a 28k modem in the wrong hemisphere...
Danny (netrek handle "ICMP Redirect", used to be "the best base in the southern hemisphere).
All versions of Mozilla since around 0.9.7 have been incredibly unstable for me. I have "Accept all images" set, but with "Ask me before downloading an image" checked, and I mostly say "No"... but about one time in twenty when I do that, Mozilla crashes. Is anyone else using the same image acceptance settings and seeing anything similar? (I'm running Red Hat Linux 7.2.) I'm using a talkback build which is reporting each time it crashes, so I'm hoping this will be fixed before 1.0.
I didn't think the book was negative to other FS people. In fact, if anything, I got the impression that the author was probably more of an "Open Source" person - his dialogues with RMS sometimes suggest that, anyway. And I opened my review by describing it as "far from hagiographic"!
The book does quote Richard Stallman a lot, naturally, and it is about him, so obviously his views get more space than others. It's a biography, not a history of free software, even if, given RMS' influence, it comes close to being the latter!
Human beings developed from earlier species of animals. (True, according to the theory of evolution, which is accepted by the majority of scientists, but not by many religious leaders.) 53 percent.
Acutally, most religious leaders, worldwide, accept the truth of the theory of evolution. (The Pope does, for example, as does the Anglican hierarchy.) The United States is exceptional here, but even in the US a large number of religious leaders accept evolution. For some examples, see
Voices for Evolution .
Yeah, that excerpt made me wince too. Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I have not the remotest intention of inflicting any more of it on myself - "total crap" is the phrase that springs to mind.
Asimove wrote an incredible number of books, but none of them are masterpieces. No one would think about giving him a Nobel Prize on the basis of his science writing, for example, and I don't think any of his novels stand out from the mass enough to warrant literary awards either.
None of Asimov, Brin, Gibson or Rowling would make my list of the best 20 or 30 science fiction novelists. Asimov and Gibson are undoubtedly important and influential, and they both produced some really enjoyable and memorable books, but they are also very limited.
PageRank is only used as the sole criteria for ranking pages when they are all within the same category - ie, in the Google Directory listings.
In general search results, Google ranks a page based not just on its PR (ie on how many pages link to it and their overall quality) but on the TITLEs of those pages and the anchor text of the links. So Microsoft could put the string "book reviews" on their home page but they'd still rank behind me on a
search for "book reviews", because none of their incoming links are from pages about book reviews.
Yes, if the links to the removed copy go away, that will just make it easier for people to find the mirrors! But the next step is presumably demanding that Google remove links to all copies of the document (oh dear, I changed byte 34109) from its index...
That's the strange thing - 0.9.7 was really stable, but 0.9.9 and 0.9.9+ (20020411 nightly) haven't been. It could be my X setup - I had to revert to XFree86 4.0.3 when 4.1 wouldn't work for me.
I have a Duron 700 and Mozilla is plenty fast enough - how much memory do you have?
My main beef is that it's unstable and crashes regularly - I thought I'd fixed that by upgrading to a nightly release (instead of 0.9.9) but now it's started crashing again.
Maybe it's time for me to make a fourth attempt at
reading Harper and Greenberg's Algebraic Topology: A First Course. I think I got
three quarters of the way through last time...
Can anyone recommend any other books on algebraic topology?
Isn't there an implicit claim in this license that *existing* versions of samba (among other software) need to license a patent from Microsoft?
That may be legal codswallop, of course.
The copyright license is for the reference.
But there is a claim in there that a Microsoft
*patent* must be licensed merely to distribute
an implementation that complies with the reference!
Microsoft hereby grants Company a worldwide, royalty-free,
non-exclusive, personal, transferable, non-sublicensable,
license under its Necessary Claims to (1) make, use, import,
and (2) offer to sell, sell and distribute, directly or
indirectly, to End Users, Company Implementations that fully
comply with the Technical Reference.
I've been using GNU/Linux on the desktop for eight years now, and just this month I switched my mother and her partner over (from Windows 3.1).
My estimate is that maybe 0.5% of Internet users are running GNU/Linux on the desktop. That's not a huge percentage, sure, but it works out at something
like 2.5 million people - some people like toast!
Danny.
the Art of Computer Programming
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Deep Algorithms?
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Don't do this - that is called cloaking and may
result in Google blocking your entire site.
The best way to help publicise xenu.net - to
push it further up the search results for
"Scientology" - is to link to it from high-profile
pages, with anchor text that contains the string "Scientology". e.g.
<A HREF="http://www.xenu.net/">Scientology info</A>
The main Scientology page only has a PageRank of 6, so it should be possible to push it off #1...
I could understand if Google drops stuff from their
cache that could get them into trouble, but they
really have to stand up to the right to link - if
necessary that should be fought right up to the US Supreme Court (as the 2600/DeCSS case may).
Slashdot Mirror
Danny (who plays gamelan and is interested in Indonesia).
There seems to be some connection with pages that load images from many sites - the "allow" dialogs kind of pile up and I can sense the crash coming. When I revisit the site, presumably there aren't so many dialogs because I got through some of them before it crashed.
Danny.
Danny.
I ran the 1994 International Netrek Leaguge (as a 7 round Swiss), which was a success and I think one of the best INL years. (I still think Swiss scheduling is better than a divisional system, as it produces more games between balanced sides.)
And I've played a few INL games this year with the Golden Bears, having fun passive scout-bombing over a 28k modem in the wrong hemisphere...
Danny (netrek handle "ICMP Redirect", used to be "the best base in the southern hemisphere).
Danny.
The book does quote Richard Stallman a lot, naturally, and it is about him, so obviously his views get more space than others. It's a biography, not a history of free software, even if, given RMS' influence, it comes close to being the latter!
Danny.
Danny.
Acutally, most religious leaders, worldwide, accept the truth of the theory of evolution. (The Pope does, for example, as does the Anglican hierarchy.) The United States is exceptional here, but even in the US a large number of religious leaders accept evolution. For some examples, see Voices for Evolution .
Danny.
George R.R. Martin is way better.
Danny.
Danny.
But I should write more science fiction reviews...
Danny.
Danny.
In general search results, Google ranks a page based not just on its PR (ie on how many pages link to it and their overall quality) but on the TITLEs of those pages and the anchor text of the links. So Microsoft could put the string "book reviews" on their home page but they'd still rank behind me on a search for "book reviews", because none of their incoming links are from pages about book reviews.
Danny.
It just crashes too often.
Danny.
Danny.
Danny.
My main beef is that it's unstable and crashes regularly - I thought I'd fixed that by upgrading to a nightly release (instead of 0.9.9) but now it's started crashing again.
Danny.
Danny.
Can anyone recommend any other books on algebraic topology?
Danny.
Danny.
Danny.
My estimate is that maybe 0.5% of Internet users are running GNU/Linux on the desktop. That's not a huge percentage, sure, but it works out at something like 2.5 million people - some people like toast!
Danny.
Danny.
The best way to help publicise xenu.net - to push it further up the search results for "Scientology" - is to link to it from high-profile pages, with anchor text that contains the string "Scientology". e.g. <A HREF="http://www.xenu.net/">Scientology info</A> The main Scientology page only has a PageRank of 6, so it should be possible to push it off #1...
Danny.
Danny.