[xxx@xxx:~]% ls -l/ . . lrwxrwxr-t 1 root admin 12 Jan 10 00:43 tmp@ ->/private/tmp
If you are a member of admin group, you can delete it.
I am beginning to get an impression that people who had set Download folder to Macintosh HD:tmp in OS 9 using Internet Config may be affected. Looks like Safari honors the setting from the Internet Config.
I am a bit skeptical about the reports. It sounds like some people are freaking out because something they didn't happened. Is it not possible that someone tried to download a file whose name was exactly the same as his home directory, and he has set his download location to/Users for whatever reason I don't understand?
Also, the reports say that/tmp was missing, not that Safari replaces/tmp with a link to/private/tmp./tmp has always been a link to/private/tmp.
Safari is a beta software anyway. Use it at your own risk.
It's on the cover of Burton itself, too. I would like one of those. Burton jackets used to have Walkman pocket -> MD player pocket. And now this? I got my iPod for the sole purpose of listening to it while riding. But you know you can't fall when you know your iPod is in your pocket:)
Jouw post is eigenlijk grappig. It's beyond my comprehension why they decided to show Sailor Moon on Dutch TV. Still, it's for kids originally, and it's a pain for an adult Japanese too even in original. For that matter, German TV even showed Chibi maruko, which requires more knowledge of what life was like in Japan in the '70s. That show was actually quite fun for people from all the ages as long as you know what it is about.
Anyhow, you could still go to a nearest video store and rent Ghost in the Shell.
Oh by the way, you lost a point for confusing manga and anime:)
She says her name is ``Kikuchi Momoko,'' and some other links at Apple says so, too. Funny thing is that there was an aidoru called ``Kikuchi Momoko'' in the '80s. And it looks like her name is exactly the same as the celebrity, even up to the Kanji characters. (I saw it at apple.co.jp)
I don't like her ad because she looks like acting. And the story is a bad attempt of mimicking Ellen story. The Japanese don't talk that way.
- Yes, Yamato was a shift in anime, but it didn't cause a boom : the boom was a long time before 1977, and that's why Yamato came. The major thing Yamato changed, was in the songs used in anime. Before Yamato, there were 5 assigned singers (3 men, 2 women) for anime (I remember some names like Mizuki Ichirou, Kooro Gi, and of course the great Horie Mitsuko). Since the Yamato film, which used pop artists, every anime started to use people whose it was the job to sing:)
Huh? Yamato used Isao Sasaki who sang lots of animated or live TV series themes. And you forgot the great Masato Shimon:) Are you talking about Kenji Sawada who sang the theme for the second Yamato movie?
Yamato was totally different from whatever I had seen before. There was none like it--be it anime or not. I was 11 when it was shown as a TV series. I missed the first episode, but a friend of mine told me there is a cool TV show running, so I watched. It was in the second episode when the sunken imperial navy battleship Yamato was made to a spaceship. I can still vividly remember the shill I got when I saw old Yamato's skin, consisting solely of stained steel fell and saw the shining (I suppose) skin of beautifully designed spaceship appeared. I still remember the thrill I got when the crew, who were hurriedly recruited, powered the ship, fired the main gun just in time before a planetry (?) bomb hits it. I still don't think I had seen anything like it before--or I haven't seen something like it many times since. The difference was that there was no fighting robot(!), there was not an ultimately evil (this was revealed toward the end of the series). That was not simply kid's stuff.
That was in 1975, and there was not word ``anime'' before Yamato. The author of the article is right in attributing the beginning of anime to Yamato, because the show, which was not very popular at that time, and subsequent movie, which was actually a 2 hours version of copied-and-pasted TV series created the word anime. The reason why they made the movie from the TV series was that it had die-hard fans who demanded to see it again. They were the forerunners of the people who later became anime otaku.
- A lot of anime were indeed adult and successful before 1977, Yamato being one of them. The guy is sickening now...
Care to cite more examples? Are you talking about the original Lupin III series or Cutie Honey or Dororo? They did have adult oriented theme or sex or nudity, but TV stations still considered them to be for kids. Some of or most of them short-lived because the TV stations realized that they were not for kids:) Ironically Yamato was one of them. And again, they were never called anime.
- Nausicaa was NOT a big success ! Nausicaa was renowned among anime fans, that's true. Miyazaki didn't overturn anything. Toei made more bucks with his films than those of Miyazaki, until Mononoke. Miyazaki started to be a success in Japan since Mononoke Hime, when more money was put on ads. Only anime fans reverred Miyazaki well before that time.
You are right. I remember sitting in a theater all by myself watching Nausicaa on a big screen. Oh, and by the way, I hated to consider myself to be an anime fan in those days, let alone an anime otaku. The word otaku did not come into existence till late 80s, though. I still feel a bit embarrassed when I tell people that I saw Nausicaa in a theater:(
- The gold years of anime where the 80s, NOT 90s ! 90s where the decline, and then, the end of cellulo. It seems to be going back nowadays.
From an anime otaku's point of view, it might seem like that way. I know quality of drawing was going downwards when anime studios had to outsource the job to other countries. They couldn't hire highly paid Japanese artists to do the job. But it was in the '90s when regular people began to be able to talk about animes and even go to a theater to see animes. In that sense, '90s seem to be better days.
I skip some discussions here... For, I don't care about the philosophy of anime. I don't care a story is an anime or a live action or a book or on radio or on TV. I just want good stories. I don't care about formats. Many animes suck, and many live movies suck. Japanese live movies suck worse than live Hollywood, while many Japanese TV shows rule.
- The author apparently comes from the "caste" of people which rejects Japan history. All japanese are not among this group, and there is conflict, even in manga, on the subject. This turns into politics after that, and I'm tired already of this guy. Surely, I don't love all japanese (and surely not this one)...
I don't like ad hominem attack. Or I don't understand ``reject Japan history.'' What is it supposed to mean?
What I don't understand, after reading comments up to this, is that people don't seem to realize that AC who posted story is pretty much CmdrTaco himself.
I thought it was a common knowledge that he now has a TiBook and he is very happy with it---hence the status symbol bit, to the point of being childish.
All the windows bashing comes from his mouth and he is trying to be funny, thinking that everyone knows that he now has a TiBook.
Also, people seem to have missed that the Windows bashing doesn't have anything to do with Linux. He (an AC aka CmdrTaco) is lamenting that it does not run OS X, which he seems to have fallen in love.
As a side note, I realize time has changed in the past 5 years. No one really defended MS when I first came here. This place was Linux users' haven. I thought back then Windows people had a lot more places to hang around./. is still a place where Rom and co. can post whatever stories they find interesting, according to their personal preferences. If you had the same preferences, this place was a nice place to hang around. This place was never a news site for me. No wonder I'm getting old.
CmdrTaco already has this computer on a glass thing. With the help of three pre-cogs, he uses this machine to see what will happen in the future (a la Minority Report). He saw that this story was going to be posted today.
He posted the story yesterday to predict what is going to happen, at the same time to brag that he has this computer-on-glass.
Your comment is certainly fanny, but I think you have a point.
There is a reason why I have problems buying a PC laptop, as opposite to buying a Mac laptop (in addition to the noise, and MS OS).
That's those annoying LEDs. My iBook has hardly any LEDs, except for the white breathing sleep indicator, which is completely invisible while the machine is awake.
I just don't understand why there are so many LEDs on PC laptops (three at least?). Don't people get distracted by those blinking lights? Those are totally aesthetically unpleasing.
The sniper could have gotten gun training and so forth from a multitude of places. He might have trained in a militia. He might be an ex-member of the military. He might have trained with a terrorist group. He might just have a natural talent.
From how far has this Beltway Shooter been shooting? Even an armchair shooter like myself knows that 5.56mm is not at all suitable for real sniping. I'd think the effective range is something like 4-500 meters. Given the accuracy of this murderer, he perhaps has been shooting from something like 200m at best. That's not sniping at all, I think. I have been being puzzled by the use of this type of weapon by this criminal from the beginning. And the news reports I can find seldom mention how far he was when he fired.
To be on topic, I don't think you can't get anything close to real sniping in CS. The maps are too small. It's more like shooting someone close from vicinity using extremely high powered rifle.
Going back to off topic, I don't think someone who just has talent can become a good marksman instantly. In other words, however you may have potential of being a good shooter, without training, it is impossible to become one. One could tell someone is talented only after some training. I consider someone talented if he can collect all of his shots in 150mm circle from 300m from prone position. I think this is what an Olympic athlete can achieve more or less.
what other important features has OSX that Linux has not.
How can geek switchers forget about this?
emacs key-bindings everywhere.
I'm sure that most linux users like the bash feature that turns emacs key bindings on by default. This applies to most (Cocoa) appls on Ma c Os X. If you type in an OS X app (that uses NSTextwhatever), many of the familiar emacs key bindings are available.
For example, I'm using Ominiweb to type this, using those key combos: ctrl-a to go to the beginning of line, C-n to go to the next line, etc. I can't live without it once I got used to it.
Guess I'll have to go to a coffee-growing nation to get something better than what I can find in the U.S. on every other street corner.
You might as well go to Japan. Perhaps most of the best coffee beans, like Blue Mountain from Jamaica or Killimanjaro from Kenya go to Japan.
But don't go to Starbucks there. Go to a small kissaten =Coffee shop. (Funny that I am now living in Holland, where the word has completely different meaning.)
Even if Japan is not the best place to find the best coffee, typically, the best coffee or tea are grown in rather poor countries. The best quality coffee beans or tea leaves are therefore reserved for export. Not much quality stuff is left for local consumption, which is sad, but it's true.
You'd have better chance of getting the best coffee when you are in the States, Germany, or Japan, the three largest coffee importers. My personal best experience with regard to coffee was in Vienna, though. I also had good coffee every morning while I was in Germany.
It was always under bookmark menu(s). On some platform, you could press Command+H or Alt+H to invoke the command. I'd think the feature was already in Mosaic.
Was it so hard to find? Or do you mean the history feature exactly like IE?
There used to be GUI version of tar and gzip for Mac. They may have been called MacTar and Macgzip for an obvious reason:) But they didn't have quite Mac like interface. Should be easier these days with Inteface Builder and command line suites.
Going a little off topic, I'm having hard time stopping StuffIt Expander to expand *.tar.gz archives. I'd rather like to do that by hand from command line. But whatever I may try (using inspector panel, from the IE preferences), when I download a tar.gz file, Expander will automatically expand tar.gz to gz to folder. This is pretty annoying. Does anyone know how to stop this?
I don't want a laptop that blows hot air like hair drier or desktops that have three fans. As people realizing (as another poster mentioned) the CPUs are fast enough, I don't see much point in abandoning the PowerPCs that are small, consume little energy, and hence run so much cooler. For me, computers that are quiet and cool are much preferable to the opposite.
Another thing the author of the column seems to forget is that PowerPC is not a chip solely from Motorola. The point that IBM is also a partner and develops PowerPC chips is completely missing.
Minor nitpick... did anyone notice the repeated use of the phrase 'fire on the Federation starship!' and 'don't let the Federation starship get away!'
What are these guys -- Klingons?
Trade Federation. I'm not going to dictionary.com to lookup the word's definition, but I'd guess there are plenty of reasons to use it, and I guarantee it was around before Star Trek.
I personally found the comment funny because I thought the same thing while watching the Episode II. Particularly interesting was the fact that the Republic's ships were called "spaceships" while Federation ships were called specifically "starships." In Star Trek, it's the starship Enterprise.
If they can put a weather satellite up this cheaply, then they can probably get nuclear missiles up there for not much more. Or maybe they already have.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, I need a brush up...
/tmp. Yes, I tried rm /tmp :) I am in the admin group.
But / was also group writable, too. I was able to delete
[xxx@xxx:~]% ls -l
lrwxrwxr-t 1 root admin 12 Jan 10 00:43 tmp@ ->
If you are a member of admin group, you can delete it.
I am beginning to get an impression that people who had set Download folder to Macintosh HD:tmp in OS 9 using Internet Config may be affected. Looks like Safari honors the setting from the Internet Config.
Posting from Safari
I am a bit skeptical about the reports. It sounds like some people are freaking out because something they didn't happened. Is it not possible that someone tried to download a file whose name was exactly the same as his home directory, and he has set his download location to /Users for whatever reason I don't understand?
/tmp was missing, not that Safari replaces /tmp with a link to /private/tmp. /tmp has always been a link to /private/tmp.
Also, the reports say that
Safari is a beta software anyway. Use it at your own risk.
Nice discovery.
:)
It's on the cover of Burton itself, too. I would like one of those. Burton jackets used to have Walkman pocket -> MD player pocket. And now this? I got my iPod for the sole purpose of listening to it while riding. But you know you can't fall when you know your iPod is in your pocket
The Chinese have their equivalent of phoenix. It is pronounced hou-ou in Japanese, but I'm sure the Chinese pronounce it differently.
How about Thunderbird?
Radon is more appropriate. It lives in a volcano.
Jouw post is eigenlijk grappig. It's beyond my comprehension why they decided to show Sailor Moon on Dutch TV. Still, it's for kids originally, and it's a pain for an adult Japanese too even in original. For that matter, German TV even showed Chibi maruko, which requires more knowledge of what life was like in Japan in the '70s. That show was actually quite fun for people from all the ages as long as you know what it is about.
:)
Anyhow, you could still go to a nearest video store and rent Ghost in the Shell.
Oh by the way, you lost a point for confusing manga and anime
She says her name is ``Kikuchi Momoko,'' and some other links at Apple says so, too. Funny thing is that there was an aidoru called ``Kikuchi Momoko'' in the '80s. And it looks like her name is exactly the same as the celebrity, even up to the Kanji characters. (I saw it at apple.co.jp)
I don't like her ad because she looks like acting. And the story is a bad attempt of mimicking Ellen story. The Japanese don't talk that way.
Huh? Yamato used Isao Sasaki who sang lots of animated or live TV series themes. And you forgot the great Masato Shimon
Yamato was totally different from whatever I had seen before. There was none like it--be it anime or not. I was 11 when it was shown as a TV series. I missed the first episode, but a friend of mine told me there is a cool TV show running, so I watched. It was in the second episode when the sunken imperial navy battleship Yamato was made to a spaceship. I can still vividly remember the shill I got when I saw old Yamato's skin, consisting solely of stained steel fell and saw the shining (I suppose) skin of beautifully designed spaceship appeared. I still remember the thrill I got when the crew, who were hurriedly recruited, powered the ship, fired the main gun just in time before a planetry (?) bomb hits it. I still don't think I had seen anything like it before--or I haven't seen something like it many times since. The difference was that there was no fighting robot(!), there was not an ultimately evil (this was revealed toward the end of the series). That was not simply kid's stuff.
That was in 1975, and there was not word ``anime'' before Yamato. The author of the article is right in attributing the beginning of anime to Yamato, because the show, which was not very popular at that time, and subsequent movie, which was actually a 2 hours version of copied-and-pasted TV series created the word anime. The reason why they made the movie from the TV series was that it had die-hard fans who demanded to see it again. They were the forerunners of the people who later became anime otaku.
Care to cite more examples? Are you talking about the original Lupin III series or Cutie Honey or Dororo? They did have adult oriented theme or sex or nudity, but TV stations still considered them to be for kids. Some of or most of them short-lived because the TV stations realized that they were not for kids
You are right. I remember sitting in a theater all by myself watching Nausicaa on a big screen. Oh, and by the way, I hated to consider myself to be an anime fan in those days, let alone an anime otaku. The word otaku did not come into existence till late 80s, though. I still feel a bit embarrassed when I tell people that I saw Nausicaa in a theater
From an anime otaku's point of view, it might seem like that way. I know quality of drawing was going downwards when anime studios had to outsource the job to other countries. They couldn't hire highly paid Japanese artists to do the job. But it was in the '90s when regular people began to be able to talk about animes and even go to a theater to see animes. In that sense, '90s seem to be better days.
I skip some discussions here... For, I don't care about the philosophy of anime. I don't care a story is an anime or a live action or a book or on radio or on TV. I just want good stories. I don't care about formats. Many animes suck, and many live movies suck. Japanese live movies suck worse than live Hollywood, while many Japanese TV shows rule.
I don't like ad hominem attack. Or I don't understand ``reject Japan history.'' What is it supposed to mean?
What I don't understand, after reading comments up to this, is that people don't seem to realize that AC who posted story is pretty much CmdrTaco himself.
/. is still a place where Rom and co. can post whatever stories they find interesting, according to their personal preferences. If you had the same preferences, this place was a nice place to hang around. This place was never a news site for me. No wonder I'm getting old.
I thought it was a common knowledge that he now has a TiBook and he is very happy with it---hence the status symbol bit, to the point of being childish.
All the windows bashing comes from his mouth and he is trying to be funny, thinking that everyone knows that he now has a TiBook.
Also, people seem to have missed that the Windows bashing doesn't have anything to do with Linux. He (an AC aka CmdrTaco) is lamenting that it does not run OS X, which he seems to have fallen in love.
As a side note, I realize time has changed in the past 5 years. No one really defended MS when I first came here. This place was Linux users' haven. I thought back then Windows people had a lot more places to hang around.
It's a bit late, but I will have to admit--yes :)
Don't you people see what's going on here?
CmdrTaco already has this computer on a glass thing. With the help of three pre-cogs, he uses this machine to see what will happen in the future (a la Minority Report). He saw that this story was going to be posted today.
He posted the story yesterday to predict what is going to happen, at the same time to brag that he has this computer-on-glass.
Got that?
Perhaps this was exactly the point why CmdrTaco posted the story today. He knew it was going to be posted tomorrow.
Your comment is certainly fanny, but I think you have a point.
There is a reason why I have problems buying a PC laptop, as opposite to buying a Mac laptop (in addition to the noise, and MS OS).
That's those annoying LEDs. My iBook has hardly any LEDs, except for the white breathing sleep indicator, which is completely invisible while the machine is awake.
I just don't understand why there are so many LEDs on PC laptops (three at least?). Don't people get distracted by those blinking lights? Those are totally aesthetically unpleasing.
FWIW, The original Macintosh 128K ('84) did not have a fan. I heard it had over-heating problem.
I wonder if NeXT machines had fans. It's well known that Steve Jobs has problems with fans (not the people, though).
From how far has this Beltway Shooter been shooting? Even an armchair shooter like myself knows that 5.56mm is not at all suitable for real sniping. I'd think the effective range is something like 4-500 meters. Given the accuracy of this murderer, he perhaps has been shooting from something like 200m at best. That's not sniping at all, I think. I have been being puzzled by the use of this type of weapon by this criminal from the beginning. And the news reports I can find seldom mention how far he was when he fired.
To be on topic, I don't think you can't get anything close to real sniping in CS. The maps are too small. It's more like shooting someone close from vicinity using extremely high powered rifle.
Going back to off topic, I don't think someone who just has talent can become a good marksman instantly. In other words, however you may have potential of being a good shooter, without training, it is impossible to become one. One could tell someone is talented only after some training. I consider someone talented if he can collect all of his shots in 150mm circle from 300m from prone position. I think this is what an Olympic athlete can achieve more or less.
How can geek switchers forget about this?
emacs key-bindings everywhere.
I'm sure that most linux users like the bash feature that turns emacs key bindings on by default. This applies to most (Cocoa) appls on Ma c Os X. If you type in an OS X app (that uses NSTextwhatever), many of the familiar emacs key bindings are available.
For example, I'm using Ominiweb to type this, using those key combos: ctrl-a to go to the beginning of line, C-n to go to the next line, etc. I can't live without it once I got used to it.
You might as well go to Japan. Perhaps most of the best coffee beans, like Blue Mountain from Jamaica or Killimanjaro from Kenya go to Japan.
But don't go to Starbucks there. Go to a small kissaten =Coffee shop. (Funny that I am now living in Holland, where the word has completely different meaning.)
Even if Japan is not the best place to find the best coffee, typically, the best coffee or tea are grown in rather poor countries. The best quality coffee beans or tea leaves are therefore reserved for export. Not much quality stuff is left for local consumption, which is sad, but it's true.
You'd have better chance of getting the best coffee when you are in the States, Germany, or Japan, the three largest coffee importers. My personal best experience with regard to coffee was in Vienna, though. I also had good coffee every morning while I was in Germany.
This is hilarious. Good that his PC didn't start ``beep beep beep''
It was always under bookmark menu(s). On some platform, you could press Command+H or Alt+H to invoke the command. I'd think the feature was already in Mosaic.
Was it so hard to find? Or do you mean the history feature exactly like IE?
But GNU is Not UNIX, is it?
There used to be GUI version of tar and gzip for Mac. They may have been called MacTar and Macgzip for an obvious reason :) But they didn't have quite Mac like interface. Should be easier these days with Inteface Builder and command line suites.
Going a little off topic, I'm having hard time stopping StuffIt Expander to expand *.tar.gz archives. I'd rather like to do that by hand from command line. But whatever I may try (using inspector panel, from the IE preferences), when I download a tar.gz file, Expander will automatically expand tar.gz to gz to folder. This is pretty annoying. Does anyone know how to stop this?
From the article:
No.
I don't want a laptop that blows hot air like hair drier or desktops that have three fans. As people realizing (as another poster mentioned) the CPUs are fast enough, I don't see much point in abandoning the PowerPCs that are small, consume little energy, and hence run so much cooler. For me, computers that are quiet and cool are much preferable to the opposite.
Another thing the author of the column seems to forget is that PowerPC is not a chip solely from Motorola. The point that IBM is also a partner and develops PowerPC chips is completely missing.
I personally found the comment funny because I thought the same thing while watching the Episode II. Particularly interesting was the fact that the Republic's ships were called "spaceships" while Federation ships were called specifically "starships." In Star Trek, it's the starship Enterprise.
They already have.