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  1. Re:The usual on Learn Linux the Hard Way · · Score: 1

    It's fairly new, but LinuxExchange is pretty useful. Personally though, I think Ubuntu and Fedora have some of the best documentation available from their sites.

  2. the really hard way on Learn Linux the Hard Way · · Score: 1

    lynx http://nixsrv.com/llthw

    Cached version while it's down. I don't even see mention of curl! That zany CEO of FaceBook used it in that Social Network movie! It was so much hax! And there is only mention of installing files on debian/ubuntu, not with fedora's yum! Some people like to imagine they're eating really really really good food while they install stuff! And it needs more bangs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  3. Re:Instead of cloning, have sex on Human Cloning Possible Within 50 Years, Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Claims · · Score: 1

    I agree that there needs to be some control of population now. However, for the people out there saying that we should go to strict cloning, it's a terrible idea. Cloning ruins natural evolution and immunities, so even from a scientific perspective, it's a bad idea.

  4. this is a joke on Your Hands Were Made For Punching According To New Study · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I feel like this whole site is made for trolling. Read any of the suggested articles or the other articles that she wrote. And when you say "hands were made for punching" instead of "scientists suggest that hands may have evolved in part due to its fighting capabilities," it's hard to really consider this "scientific" but instead more to just increase read count (++readCount).

    Other articles she wrote:
    1. New Dinosaur Had Unforgettable Smile
    2. Sabertooth Cat Lived in Vegas
    3. Iron Age Feast Found in England

    Suggested related articles:

    1. First Human Ancestor Looked Like a Squirrel
    2. Early Human Ancestors Ate Grass
  5. Re:Surprisingly works on Linux Mint 10 64-bit on Steam For Linux Is Now an Open Beta · · Score: 1

    Also, if this is the case and you're on a multi-user machine, I'd just make a soft link to a folder that all users have access to:

    $ sudo mkdir /etc/mysteam
    $ sudo chmod a+rwx /etc/mysteam/
    $ mv -n ~/.local/share/Steam/* /etc/mysteam
    $ rmdir ~/.local/share/Steam

    Then do this for each user:

    $ ln -s /etc/mysteam/ ~/.local/share/Steam

  6. Re:Surprisingly works on Linux Mint 10 64-bit on Steam For Linux Is Now an Open Beta · · Score: 1

    That's a good question. These files are the ones through Steam's update mechanism, so they are *pseudo-part of the package. Usually updates occur through the package manager and not through the program so that you don't have this problem. Perhaps steam could add a "steam --purge" or something?

    *If you change specific user settings and/or game settings, I think those are all stored in ~/.steam. The Steam in ~/.local/share just has logos, binary files, etc. that are all apart of just running steam from what I saw. That's why I say it's pseudo-part of the package. I'm not sure why they do this? I haven't looked thoroughly into it. If I'm right, this means each user will have to have a ~1GB Steam folder which will all be identical. I think they're making this with a Windows mentality, which is not the best way.

  7. Re:Surprisingly works on Linux Mint 10 64-bit on Steam For Linux Is Now an Open Beta · · Score: 1

    Try the below and then updating again:
    $ sudo apt-get -f install

    Or look at this discussion. It seems to be a common issue currently. I bet you can get around it though.

  8. Re:Surprisingly works on Linux Mint 10 64-bit on Steam For Linux Is Now an Open Beta · · Score: 1

    "Configuration files residing in ~ are not usually affected by this command."
    Source

    So you're right for the most part. Since these truly are config files (and files that take up ~1GB), I think Steam should purge them when I use the purge command (for remove, it should keep them). For instance, these files aren't equivalent to the files in ~/.wine. The files equivalent to that would be ~/.steam, ~/.steampath, and ~/.steampid. I would compare ~/.local/share/Steam with /etc/myprogram.

    I wouldn't complain if it didn't take up so much data, and this was a machine with not much space, so I wanted to completely wipe it. I just wanted to test Steam on it.

  9. design it into an Owl, on Drone Made of Lego Takes Flight · · Score: 1

    make millions selling it as a Harry Potter toy. Then use the Arducopter he already has setup to fly to their friends' houses. Hell, you could trade 128-bit friend codes so that it automatically allows friends to download their "home" GPS position, just leave it out at night so that it can deliver the messages.

  10. Re:Surprisingly works on Linux Mint 10 64-bit on Steam For Linux Is Now an Open Beta · · Score: 4, Interesting

    However, completely purging it is crap. "dpkg" and "apt-get" remove and purge didn't delete the really big directory, which is ~/.local/share/Steam. This is where your ~1GB went.

  11. Surprisingly works on Linux Mint 10 64-bit on Steam For Linux Is Now an Open Beta · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just had to do this:

    $ sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i steam_latest.deb
    $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
    $ steam

    System I tried it on:

    $ uname -a
    Linux XXX 2.6.35-32-generic #67-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 5 19:39:49 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
    $ lsb_release -a
    No LSB modules are available.
    Distributor ID:____LinuxMint
    Description: _____Linux Mint 10 Julia
    Release:________10
    Codename:______julia

  12. Re:same as non-programming languages? on How Experienced And Novice Programmers See Code · · Score: 1

    Chess masters recognize patterns in chess like they recognize faces. Show them a realistic pattern for a few seconds and they can remember it. Show them a random pattern and they won't remember it.

    That makes sense, but I wouldn't say that a for-loop is a random pattern either. If they've seen a mate in 3 with a similar board configuration before, then I bet they can remember it, just like I've seen a for-loop before. Show a codemaster or chessmaster something truly random, then I don't think either party will be able to remember it. It really depends on the random patterns though. I still think a coder and chess player may have similar eye movements (and maybe even brain patterns if the coder is actually trying to solve a problem).

    If someone showed me code like this, I wouldn't be able to memorize it, but maybe I'm not elite enough????

  13. same as non-programming languages? on How Experienced And Novice Programmers See Code · · Score: 1

    It'd be interesting to see if it's similar to novices & experts with non-programming languages (but using a non-native language of course). You will have to give some lean for the more linear flow of non-programming languages (especially if the code has multiple threads).

    It's also different if I'm trying to figure out a bug or if I'm trying to figure out the output (like this example). (This is assuming I don't have a compiler and can't run the code.) If I'm trying to figure out the output, I jump to main first and follow the breadcrumbs. If I'm trying to figure out a bug without a stack trace, then I'd either start at where I think the problem is occurring or gloss over the code quickly first and then go back over each line methodically. Usually if it's a novice's code, I can just gloss over the code quickly and grab the problem. I would say that this is similar to a chessmaster who has solved countless chess puzzles. They have thousands of patterns already memorized, so they can get a solution much quicker. Actually, I bet the eye movement of chess players between novices and experts is closer to programmers. If looking for checkmate, start at the king and follow the breadcrumbs. Gloss over the image to see if any neurons fire a memorized pattern.

  14. Re:Mandarin and or Cantonese on Ask Slashdot: 2nd Spoken/Written Language For Software Developer? · · Score: 1

    If you're a fan of Kill Bill, I give +1 vote to Cantonese.

  15. When deciding a language... on Ask Slashdot: 2nd Spoken/Written Language For Software Developer? · · Score: 1

    One must think about the practicalities in relation to self.

    For instance, for us basement-dwellers, Morse code may be the obvious choice, but then you have to spend hours teaching your mom upstairs. However, it can be quite rewarding if you're willing to expose yourself to partial amounts of sunlight coming in from your mother's kitchen windows. Now whenever you need a hot pocket, you just tap on your wall without ever having to involve yourself in verbal communication. Be warned that this can have unfortunate consequences if you pleasure yourself too closely to a wall or a pole.

    Klingon is the second choice, but the only people that know it are your friends, and do you really want to talk with your friends? Of course not. You are only interested in peaceful guild-relations. They are a philia of utility. Your only friend of the "good" is your computer.

    This leaves us with our last option: sign language. You know that the only girls that you have a chance with are the hearing impaired as they don't have to hear about you babbling on about the latest programming language or competition. (It used to be the visually impaired, but it only lasts 2 or 3 dates after they inevitably touch your face.) Learn enough to get married, and you're golden.

    I've never been happier.

  16. big leap on Carmack: Next-Gen Console Games Will Still Aim For 30fps · · Score: 1

    Why the big jump from 30 to 60? How about you target 35 fps or 40 fps?

    The most unnerving part about the article:
    "...30 frames per second could also mean many displays of future console games will also come in at a resolution of 720p."

    I predict the next posts to be about FPS standing for Fraps Per Second.

  17. Re:Reminded me of my first C application on Whose Bug Is This Anyway? · · Score: 1

    The (1 = i) trick was taught in my college. The university's main language was Java, and we were also taught to do this:

    String name = null;
    // This will not cause a NullPointerException
    if("bob".equals(name)) { // do stuff }
    // This will
    if(name.equals("bob")) { // do stuff }

    Not only is it safer, but it's actually a microsecond faster than if you were to always do this:
    if(name != null && name.equals("bob")) { // do stuff }

    Here's another major gotcha:

    String password = getPasswordInputFromUser();
    if("password".equals(password));
    {
    // access granted
    }

    Did you notice the semi-colon at the end of the if-statement? That means access will always be granted, as it isn't seeing it as really an if-block but just a block; the if-statement would be executed, but has no true "then" clause. My co-worker ran into this problem a couple of weeks ago during test... luckily, it was during development and not production.

    Despite these concerns, I'll still write code every now and then that is in the unsafer way, as it's more natural in English to say in your head "does the user's name equal to bob?" than to say "does bob equal to the user's name?" Of course, if(i = 1) is invalid in Java anyway (as it has to be a boolean result; it can't be an integer like in C/C++), but I can write if((--i) >= 0). I feel comfortable writing this way though as I feel like I know most of the gotchas. I'm not trying to be arrogant here. I just write code the natural way to me and how my subconscious has written it since I first started coding. Human error will always be a problem; it's just important to always be paranoid.

  18. whatever you do... on Ask Slashdot: How To Collect Payments From a Multinational Company? · · Score: 1

    DO IT NOW! the Death Star will be built soon, and then all hope is lost (unless the Death Star needs the development you provide).

  19. pssst on UK Internet Porn Blocking Rejected · · Score: 1

    hey kiddos, click this link for porn, just make sure your parents aren't around ;)

  20. Re:already taken down on Official Doc Reveals Oracle's Cloud Rules · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's the same. Google has a cached version now though.

  21. Re:Try Wabbitemu on Ask Slashdot: Replacing a TI-84 With Software On a Linux Box? · · Score: 1

    He can't use this because it's duck season.

  22. CRC on Denial-of-Service Attack Found In Btrfs File-System · · Score: 1

    My knowledge of file-systems is minimial. But since it's a CRC attack, can you just turn off the ability of Btrfs to check errors (if that's possible)? However, I'm sure data corruption would then ensue.

    Anyway, I'm glad I always use ext4/3. I thought about trying ZFS at one point, but decided that using Solaris as a non-server OS is pointless. Does anyone still use Solaris?

  23. Use... on Ask Slashdot: Replacing a TI-84 With Software On a Linux Box? · · Score: 0

    ...this, and you'll never be without a calculator again. However, I can't guarantee that it won't go out-of-date...

  24. It doesn't matter... on Will Tablets Kill Off e-Readers? · · Score: 0

    ...if the sells of e-readers are down, as long as the purchasing of e-books is up. There is a missing factor here. Are people buying more e-books on tablets than they are on e-readers? For the producer, it's just a device to get people to buy more books, not to buy more of the devices. And since it's more convenient, I imagine more people are buying books on e-readers as opposed to in-store. And if that's the case, I can't see the decline of e-readers. We need actual figures from Barnes & Noble and Amazon on book and e-book sells, not statistics on devices.

  25. Re:Linux? on Redbox Set To Compete With Netflix On Video Streaming · · Score: 1

    After looking through their Job Listings, I didn't see a single engineer/developer job that mentioned a preference for a *nix background -- while my eyes did gaze upon words relating to that Micro$oft $cum -- our mortal enemies. Based on this, I think we are at a lost my comrade.

    However, there is still hope! A new hope? From this huffingtonpost article: "Epix CEO Mark Greenberg said the expansion onto Redbox will help grow its customer base since Redbox's customers tend to be younger than its current subscribers." Let's just hope the younger crowd yearns for Linux.

    Based on this cnn article, this is what will be supported in the beginning: "At launch, Redbox Instant will be available through traditional web browsers, tablets and phones that run on Apple's iOS or Google's Android, as well as a few Blu-ray players and smart TVs." So it will be available on Linux (ARM), just not desktop Linux -- the one we love. I imagine this will be like Hulu. Hopefully, they use HTML 5 and not Flash.

    I'm tempted to email Redbox directly...