You might give flphoto (http://www.easysw.com/~mike/flphoto/about.html) a try. It's simple and designed specifically for touching up photos.
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No More Leap Second?
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Taken from the man page for ctime on my Linux box:
tm_sec: The number of seconds after the minute, normally in the range 0 to 59, but can be up to 61 to allow for leap seconds.
So it would seem Linux, at least, has provisions for leap seconds. I think the same thing happens on UNIX as well, but I'm not somewhere where I can verify that right now.
Speed of Earth's rotation at surface: around 1,000 miles per hour
This is true at the equator, but as you get closer to the poles, the speed will reduce. At the north and south poles, there will only be rotation. Since London is quite a bit north of the equator, the speed of the Earth below will be less than 1,000 mph.
I suspect the 5% failure rate refers to things like dropped packets. This isn't considered a critical error because of the way TCP/IP works -- the client will just resend the dropped packet. If there were incorrect results or processes hanging/segfaulting, that surely would have counted as a critical error.
Nope, tried that. It didn't work. I returned to a "bash: maek: command not found". You know, I just can't be bothered to check my spelling when I'm in a hurry to see a movie. But no problem, I need to see RotK a few more times anyway. And maybe next time I won't be wondering how my compile is going throughout the entire movie. *sigh*
SCO's web site was only designed to handle one person at a time. Until recently, it worked well enough, but recently two people tried to access the web site simultaneoulsy. This, of course, brought down their server. And since the two people were located at different locations, it was distributed; hence, we have a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
I hope Walmart is prepared for the MASS software or system returns when people contiue to puchase Windows software and think it will run on this system.
I don't know. Are people returning Macs in mass because they won't run Windows software? As long as Sun doesn't market these machines as Windows boxes, I think they'll be fine. But only time will tell for sure.
You're forgetting organizations that run legitimate email services like mailing lists. Take, for example, Bugtraq. They have, IIRC, around 100,000 subscribers, and send out 10-20 emails per day. This translates to 1-2 million emails per day. At $1 per email, this would cost them 1-2 million dollars per day for a free service. This also applies to my local LUG, which has a mailing list run by one of our members out of his house. It generates around 5,000 emails per day to its 500 or so members.
What about web sites that send automated emails to remind people of their passwords or upcoming events? What about sites like freshmeat.net that send nightly digests? Taxing email is a horrendously bad idea. It's like raising the price of gas to $100 per gallon to reduce criminals' abilities to get around. It may work for what it was intended, but the negative side effects will be far worse than the original problem.
It sounds to me like the argument you're trying to make is not that the Linux kernel is poorly written, but that it's poorly documented. The two are not the same, and in the case of the latter, I would agree. There are people trying to fill that hole, but there's no telling how long that will take, or if they can even keep pace with the development of the kernel.
It said the virus is naturally occuring, which means they merely found it rather than invented it. So, to me, that means it can't be patented. But then again, this *is* the USPTO we're talking about here, so you're probably right.
Yep, X is so bloated that my little Agenda PDA with 8 MB of ram and a slow 66 MHz processor runs it just fine. And it's sharing that memory with a linux OS and a bunch of apps (I'm usually running 3 or 4 X apps at a time on the thing). And yet it's still snappy, despite the slow processor. BTW, this isn't some stripped down version of X -- it's the real deal. Granted, it's not running at a super high resolution, and the screen is a mere 16 shades of gray, but if X were bloated as you say, it wouldn't matter.
I'm not sure where you got your information about the IDE hard drive on the A600 burning up after a low level format, but it's completely false. When Amigas first started using IDE drives, there was a bug where a low level format would render an IDE hard drive inoperable. This is because IDE drives store their geometry information (number of cylinders, etc) on the platters themselves. A low level format would erase this information, making the drive more or less useless. This was later fixed so that a low level format request would be ignored on IDE drives.
If there were cases of A600 hard drives burning up, I assure you it wasn't because of a low level format. More likely it was due to poor ventilation and drives that overheated.
If it was open source and GPLed then you wouldn't be able to use the code in your own commercial product.
Depends on the product. If it's an in-house application or it's generating content for a web server, then GPL would work just fine. Looking at the page http://people.man.ac.uk/~whaley/ag/appgen.html, AppGen (assuming this is the same program) is described as "a high level fourth generation language and application generator for producing World Wide Web (WWW) based applications." So it's a code generator (like the GPL'd flex and bison whose output can be used in proprietary code) and it's meant to be used to generate WWW backends (where the GPL doesn't require you to distribute code since you're not giving it away). Sounds to me like the GPL would have worked just fine for an application like this.
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Don't knock it. If being drunk will make the movie more enjoyable, I'm all for it!
I knew MS was still using BASIC!
No, that's their C code. Probably explains a few things.
I'd have a major orgasm of some sort or another if I could get one.
That was way more information than I needed.
For most of Asia, GNU/ASIANUX will work. But in soviet Russia, its ASIANUX/GNU. Ok, I'll crawl back under my rock now.
You might give flphoto (http://www.easysw.com/~mike/flphoto/about.html) a try. It's simple and designed specifically for touching up photos.
Taken from the man page for ctime on my Linux box:
tm_sec: The number of seconds after the minute, normally in the range 0 to 59, but can be up to 61 to allow for leap seconds.
So it would seem Linux, at least, has provisions for leap seconds. I think the same thing happens on UNIX as well, but I'm not somewhere where I can verify that right now.
You know, on second thought maybe Pacman isn't so original. Munching pills and thinking you see ghosts is probably pretty common to anyone doing acid.
Speed of Earth's rotation at surface: around 1,000 miles per hour
This is true at the equator, but as you get closer to the poles, the speed will reduce. At the north and south poles, there will only be rotation. Since London is quite a bit north of the equator, the speed of the Earth below will be less than 1,000 mph.
But isn't pong based off of tennis? I was going to say pacman personally.
I suspect the 5% failure rate refers to things like dropped packets. This isn't considered a critical error because of the way TCP/IP works -- the client will just resend the dropped packet. If there were incorrect results or processes hanging/segfaulting, that surely would have counted as a critical error.
Nope, tried that. It didn't work. I returned to a "bash: maek: command not found". You know, I just can't be bothered to check my spelling when I'm in a hurry to see a movie. But no problem, I need to see RotK a few more times anyway. And maybe next time I won't be wondering how my compile is going throughout the entire movie. *sigh*
Not to worry, they can't identify my. I mean it's not like they can get DNA from a little nose bleed.
I think people who insist on replace the F* word are a bunch of frellin' idiots!
Dear Mr. BS: . . .
Calling Blake Stowell "Mr. BS" just seems fitting somehow.
SCO's web site was only designed to handle one person at a time. Until recently, it worked well enough, but recently two people tried to access the web site simultaneoulsy. This, of course, brought down their server. And since the two people were located at different locations, it was distributed; hence, we have a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
And now you know the real story.
I hope Walmart is prepared for the MASS software or system returns when people contiue to puchase Windows software and think it will run on this system.
I don't know. Are people returning Macs in mass because they won't run Windows software? As long as Sun doesn't market these machines as Windows boxes, I think they'll be fine. But only time will tell for sure.
Of course time travel is possible. I'm doing it right now. Going backwards is still a problem, though.
You're forgetting organizations that run legitimate email services like mailing lists. Take, for example, Bugtraq. They have, IIRC, around 100,000 subscribers, and send out 10-20 emails per day. This translates to 1-2 million emails per day. At $1 per email, this would cost them 1-2 million dollars per day for a free service. This also applies to my local LUG, which has a mailing list run by one of our members out of his house. It generates around 5,000 emails per day to its 500 or so members.
What about web sites that send automated emails to remind people of their passwords or upcoming events? What about sites like freshmeat.net that send nightly digests? Taxing email is a horrendously bad idea. It's like raising the price of gas to $100 per gallon to reduce criminals' abilities to get around. It may work for what it was intended, but the negative side effects will be far worse than the original problem.
It sounds to me like the argument you're trying to make is not that the Linux kernel is poorly written, but that it's poorly documented. The two are not the same, and in the case of the latter, I would agree. There are people trying to fill that hole, but there's no telling how long that will take, or if they can even keep pace with the development of the kernel.
Viagra? Brings new meaning to the word "popup".
Don't forget to add CEO to the list!
It said the virus is naturally occuring, which means they merely found it rather than invented it. So, to me, that means it can't be patented. But then again, this *is* the USPTO we're talking about here, so you're probably right.
Yep, X is so bloated that my little Agenda PDA with 8 MB of ram and a slow 66 MHz processor runs it just fine. And it's sharing that memory with a linux OS and a bunch of apps (I'm usually running 3 or 4 X apps at a time on the thing). And yet it's still snappy, despite the slow processor. BTW, this isn't some stripped down version of X -- it's the real deal. Granted, it's not running at a super high resolution, and the screen is a mere 16 shades of gray, but if X were bloated as you say, it wouldn't matter.
I'm not sure where you got your information about the IDE hard drive on the A600 burning up after a low level format, but it's completely false. When Amigas first started using IDE drives, there was a bug where a low level format would render an IDE hard drive inoperable. This is because IDE drives store their geometry information (number of cylinders, etc) on the platters themselves. A low level format would erase this information, making the drive more or less useless. This was later fixed so that a low level format request would be ignored on IDE drives.
If there were cases of A600 hard drives burning up, I assure you it wasn't because of a low level format. More likely it was due to poor ventilation and drives that overheated.
If it was open source and GPLed then you wouldn't be able to use the code in your own commercial product.
Depends on the product. If it's an in-house application or it's generating content for a web server, then GPL would work just fine. Looking at the page http://people.man.ac.uk/~whaley/ag/appgen.html, AppGen (assuming this is the same program) is described as "a high level fourth generation language and application generator for producing World Wide Web (WWW) based applications." So it's a code generator (like the GPL'd flex and bison whose output can be used in proprietary code) and it's meant to be used to generate WWW backends (where the GPL doesn't require you to distribute code since you're not giving it away). Sounds to me like the GPL would have worked just fine for an application like this.