Command-line recall and editing using the arrow keys in Korn Shell:
alias __A=^P alias __B=^N alias __C=^F alias __D=^B
Put this in your.kshrc
This works on Solaris at least. I haven't tried it on Linux since bash does this anyway. So if for some reason I don't have bash I can at least use the arrow keys for command-line recall and editing.
Note, those are control characters, not the '^' character and then P N F or B. You can insert control characters into a text file in Emacs by Ctrl-Q Ctrl-P (to insert Ctrl-P for example).
Ada (the programming language) was named after Ada Byron. Calling it ADA would be like calling me CHRIS.
Ada Byron is credited with being the worlds first programmer as she came up with some punch cards for the Jacquard (programmable) loom. Something like that. It's been a while.
She was the daughter of Lord Byron - "Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know" as someone put it (Oscar Wilde?).
What is being released is a small sub-component of the Tokeneer called the TIS ("Tokeneer ID Station") which reads biometric info about a user and if it matches signs a token so that the user can be authenticated to other components on the workstation. It's potentially an interesting little nugget of code, but not something I expect the open source community to get very excited about.
As for the existing comments on this story, I agree this is a bit like a sales pitch (and I used to work in Ada myself). Note that it's Ada not ADA (it's named after Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace).
Nah spiderman 3 wasn't great, you're right. I got the trilogy because my 5-year old daughter wanted to watch them and I didn't have any of them on DVD. Then she decided she wasn't interested after all. Spiderman 1 is my favourite of the three by far
Personally I liked The Fifth Element, Planet Earth, Blade Runner Ultimate Edition, 2001, Spiderman trilogy, Close Encounters and Hellboy on Blu-Ray Disc. In terms of image quality and visual pop (as distinct from the innate qualities of the movie) I have to say The Fifth Element was the best so far. I understand there was an inferior transfer originally, but the latest one is good.
For my final year project report I worked on the text in a plain ascii text editor until it was DONE. I also scribbled my diagrams a few times until I had the main features.
Then I imported all the text into a fairly fancy typesetting system and got it all laid out in one extremely long day (it wasn't THAT big, but having almost no revisions to the text was a big help).
Now... the actual tools were some text editor whose name I forget but it came with Apollo/Domain, and the typesetting system was Interleaf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaf) which I thought was freaking awesome. However I felt the principle worked really well for me. I would say I would never have gotten it done if I'd allowed myself to get sidetracked by "Desktop Publishing" issues when the text was not nailed down. Interleaf was great at technical diagrams too.
We had some really high-tech tools - a full-page (Portrait mode) monitor and a Laser Printer. Ok but it was the 80s!
The price to own and enjoy an iPhone over the past year hasn't budged, so I don't feel stupid at all. I was kind of expecting there to be a new one by now, but a Summer 2008 phone was no good to me last year... even just the usable mobile maps and email features made it all worthwhile. In case you haven't noticed waiting for better gadgets means doing without them in the meanwhile.
MOST people building AMD boxes in the next 6 months will want to wait for the new southbridge in upcoming chipsets. That would be me. Can you explain a bit more please?
I'm not going to get into a mechanical engineering discussion with you, but I will say that some facts are clear :
Rivet supplies were under pressure
Titanic was made with poorer materials than customary at the bow ("best bar" not "best best bar").
Harland and Wolff were aware of the better strength and predictability of steel rivets and in fact used them where they thought it was important
Extensive seam failure at the point of impact of the iceberg contributed to a relatively rapid sinking.
So I think it's unarguable that if the shipbuilders had considered this failure mode and made the bow seams with the strongest constructions methods they had (either steel rivets or at the very least the customery high-grade iron for the rivets) there is a possibility (and strong probability in my mind) that the ship would have stayed afloat longer. That's pretty much what the claim is. Nobody said the ship would have been invulnerable or even stayed afloat indefinitely.
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Bug? Phooey - The software in question performed exacly as per spec... the spec for the Ariane 4 rocket, that is.
So... you didn't actually read the article, did you?
Let's see : one particular ship only? No
No other ship had iron rivets? No
Iron rivets didn't fail elsewhere? No
Nobody noticed in 90 years? No
Ok that's enough.
As the article makes perfectly clear, iron rivets were already known to be more prone to failure if not made and inserted just right. Secondly steel rivets were already in use elsewhere and... in the parts of the Titanic that the builders thought needed the strongest rivets. Thirdly the rivet theory is pretty old. This story points out new corroborating evidence from the builders own paperwork (e.g. they didn't buy the best grade iron for these rivets). All in all I recommend reading TFA.
QuickPath: because Intel doesn't adopt standards... it rewrites them.
Why should Intel pay AMD to license HyperTransport? The specs may be open to developers, but that does not mean they are unencumbered by patents. Even if they could, why Would they?
I don't really know the situation surrounding the technology, but even if Intel could use it for free, they would lose a huge battle in the PR War. I can see it now, "Remember that interconnect AMD has been using for years now? Well our design has finally caught up with theirs enough to use it." Remember that to the masses, the non-slashdot crowd, they have no idea what the techno-jargon spouted by Intel marketing means.
Note that Intel did adopt AMD's 64-bit extensions to the x86 instruction set. I regard that as far more significant than, hypothetically, licensing HyperTransport. For example see this article on Wikipedia or any other history of AMD64/Intel64 or "x86-64" or whatever everyone is calling it these days.
This was a PR blow to Intel, but still made good business sense at the time, and seems to have been good for Intel and for AMD (bad for Itanium though).
"It seems that that Linux Networx, the pioneering Linux supercomputing company, has gone belly up." What causes you to think that? Have they filed for bankruptcy? Is there some indication they were failing? The press release says SGI acquired the core assets of Linux Networx. That phrase normally refers to buying parts of a defunct company. It does not mention taking on LNXI's staff
Likewise here, but this is a macbook with GMA950. I think the Mac Pros have it though - I'm sure the menus look different - so maybe it is something to do with the graphics hardware as you say. Or I suck and forgot that I changed something from the command line that I can't remember!:)
I have an original black macbook with gma950 and the transparent menu bar was working for me, until just now when I installed 10.5.2 and installed it. Thanks Apple!
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nice shell prompt
HOST=`hostname | cut -f2-3 -d-`
PS1=$HOST:'$PWD \$ '
got this from a book I think, possibly the Stephen Coffin SVR4 book.
results in, for example :
elrond:/home/cmorgan $ cd ..
elrond:/home $
Command-line recall and editing using the arrow keys in Korn Shell:
alias __A=^P
alias __B=^N
alias __C=^F
alias __D=^B
Put this in your .kshrc
This works on Solaris at least. I haven't tried it on Linux since bash does this anyway. So if for some reason I don't have bash I can at least use the arrow keys for command-line recall and editing.
Note, those are control characters, not the '^' character and then P N F or B. You can insert control characters into a text file in Emacs by Ctrl-Q Ctrl-P (to insert Ctrl-P for example).
10 biggest files or subdirs in current working dir:
$ du -sk * | sort -nr | head -10
The only difference in the car analogy is Volvo drivers don't act like they're driving Aston Martins.
They don't?
Right, my mistake.
Yes, thankfully there is no programming language called "ADA" :)
Sure...
ADA is an acronym for American Dental Assocation.
Ada is a girls name (short for Adeline).
Ada (the programming language) was named after Ada Byron. Calling it ADA would be like calling me CHRIS.
Ada Byron is credited with being the worlds first programmer as she came up with some punch cards for the Jacquard (programmable) loom. Something like that. It's been a while.
She was the daughter of Lord Byron - "Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know" as someone put it (Oscar Wilde?).
What is being released is a small sub-component of the Tokeneer called the TIS ("Tokeneer ID Station") which reads biometric info about a user and if it matches signs a token so that the user can be authenticated to other components on the workstation. It's potentially an interesting little nugget of code, but not something I expect the open source community to get very excited about.
As for the existing comments on this story, I agree this is a bit like a sales pitch (and I used to work in Ada myself). Note that it's Ada not ADA (it's named after Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace).
Nah spiderman 3 wasn't great, you're right. I got the trilogy because my 5-year old daughter wanted to watch them and I didn't have any of them on DVD. Then she decided she wasn't interested after all. Spiderman 1 is my favourite of the three by far
Personally I liked The Fifth Element, Planet Earth, Blade Runner Ultimate Edition, 2001, Spiderman trilogy, Close Encounters and Hellboy on Blu-Ray Disc. In terms of image quality and visual pop (as distinct from the innate qualities of the movie) I have to say The Fifth Element was the best so far. I understand there was an inferior transfer originally, but the latest one is good.
they should fix the GLUT license.
I hate to actually read the article and then post, but
Get Out
For my final year project report I worked on the text in a plain ascii text editor until it was DONE. I also scribbled my diagrams a few times until I had the main features.
Then I imported all the text into a fairly fancy typesetting system and got it all laid out in one extremely long day (it wasn't THAT big, but having almost no revisions to the text was a big help).
Now... the actual tools were some text editor whose name I forget but it came with Apollo/Domain, and the typesetting system was Interleaf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaf) which I thought was freaking awesome. However I felt the principle worked really well for me. I would say I would never have gotten it done if I'd allowed myself to get sidetracked by "Desktop Publishing" issues when the text was not nailed down. Interleaf was great at technical diagrams too.
We had some really high-tech tools - a full-page (Portrait mode) monitor and a Laser Printer. Ok but it was the 80s!
Tom Cruise is who they are afraid of. Well, him and Xenu.
I just had a quick glance through the wikipedia page on this filesystem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdvFS
and it seems to share a surprising number of features with ZFS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS
For example, pools, snapshots etc.
Cool, license squabbling aside I look forward to the massively fragmented UNIX codebase slowly coalescing in this area.
frontslash? There is only slash and backslash. That is all.
The price to own and enjoy an iPhone over the past year hasn't budged, so I don't feel stupid at all. I was kind of expecting there to be a new one by now, but a Summer 2008 phone was no good to me last year... even just the usable mobile maps and email features made it all worthwhile. In case you haven't noticed waiting for better gadgets means doing without them in the meanwhile.
Chris Morgan
that's no moon, it's a space station
I'm not going to get into a mechanical engineering discussion with you, but I will say that some facts are clear :
Rivet supplies were under pressure
Titanic was made with poorer materials than customary at the bow ("best bar" not "best best bar").
Harland and Wolff were aware of the better strength and predictability of steel rivets and in fact used them where they thought it was important
Extensive seam failure at the point of impact of the iceberg contributed to a relatively rapid sinking.
So I think it's unarguable that if the shipbuilders had considered this failure mode and made the bow seams with the strongest constructions methods they had (either steel rivets or at the very least the customery high-grade iron for the rivets) there is a possibility (and strong probability in my mind) that the ship would have stayed afloat longer. That's pretty much what the claim is. Nobody said the ship would have been invulnerable or even stayed afloat indefinitely.
Bug? Phooey - The software in question performed exacly as per spec... the spec for the Ariane 4 rocket, that is.
So... you didn't actually read the article, did you?
Let's see : one particular ship only? No
No other ship had iron rivets? No
Iron rivets didn't fail elsewhere? No
Nobody noticed in 90 years? No
... in the parts of the Titanic that the builders thought needed the strongest rivets. Thirdly the rivet theory is pretty old. This story points out new corroborating evidence from the builders own paperwork (e.g. they didn't buy the best grade iron for these rivets). All in all I recommend reading TFA.
Ok that's enough.
As the article makes perfectly clear, iron rivets were already known to be more prone to failure if not made and inserted just right. Secondly steel rivets were already in use elsewhere and
Note that Intel did adopt AMD's 64-bit extensions to the x86 instruction set. I regard that as far more significant than, hypothetically, licensing HyperTransport. For example see this article on Wikipedia or any other history of AMD64/Intel64 or "x86-64" or whatever everyone is calling it these days.
This was a PR blow to Intel, but still made good business sense at the time, and seems to have been good for Intel and for AMD (bad for Itanium though).
Likewise here, but this is a macbook with GMA950. I think the Mac Pros have it though - I'm sure the menus look different - so maybe it is something to do with the graphics hardware as you say. Or I suck and forgot that I changed something from the command line that I can't remember! :)
I have an original black macbook with gma950 and the transparent menu bar was working for me, until just now when I installed 10.5.2 and installed it. Thanks Apple!