Off all the Universities in Canada who would do a study and determind beer is good for you, it had to be Western. That in itself makes this story awesome.
(For the non-Canucks out there, Wetsren is considered to be a massive party school in Canadian university circles)
That would be Rocked by Rape, by the Evolution Control Committee. It's made entirely of Dan Rather samples from the CBS evening news, set to "Back in Black."
These things have been around for awhile, but known as Network Telescopes. The largest (AFAIK) is at UCSD, which is just a tad larger than a/32 (like, say, a/8). They collected some interesting data off the thing during all the Blaster rampages (Google cache of HTML'ed PDF here).
Also, see the NANOG guide to setting them up here, and the home for the CAIDA/UCSD telescope here.
So in short, nice job to the Welsh for implementing it, but there's bigger elsewhere for y'all to play with.
If you write the Daily's crossword, I tip my hat to you. Doing it has saved me from many a boring class (and cleared my head after too long studying). A nice mixture between easy and obscure.
If you do the Trib's, I got nothing. I haven't seriously opened a Trib in a semester.
Does some great stuff with their lables. I have one of their t-shirts which includes "wash cold, dry low, use no bleach or chemical weapons, question authority" and "100% cotton mouth, made in the united states of the eu."
As someone mentioned, the searching from the address bar is brilliant. And while I don't have that much of a problem typing in google's search location (when I'm not using FF), this is just that much slicker.
They also censor their results. Hardcore. As an indication, a9 give zero results for "hardcore" whereas google gives somewhere in the area of sixty million. While I'm sure that the bulk of them are porn, I'm not sure how much I trust a9's censors. Search engines already miss enough of the web - I don't want them purposefully hiding more of it.
And I can't stand "sponsored links" in line with real results. I know it's small, but I love how with google I can look at the left side of the screen for "real" results, and the right side of ads.
Earth to google: you've got nothing to worry about. But get in easyier address bar searching, and bring back than plan you mentioned a while ago to place fulltext copies of lots of books in your database, and you're golden.
I've got several addresses on fastmail.fm - both at the free and the one-time-fee "Member" levels. It has most of what you ask at the "Free" level, but in order to get custom filtering and forwarding rules (and access to the raw sieve script) you need to be a "Member" - for fifteen bucks, one-time.
In terms of things I've spent fifteen bucks on, Fastmail is one of the best ones. Try the "Free" service (which in itself is a fine service), and you'll see that these guys are fully deserving of your cash. Plus, the two owners regularly read and participate in the forums, and will respond to your complaints/questions/issue directly.
fastmail.fm - call this a plug (for the record, I have no connection to these guys besides them providing email hosting for a conference I run), but I have no problem paying for a good service like FM.
As the subject line indicates, a gallon is a unit of volume. If you're American, I thnk you may even buy your gas and milk in units of a gallon. Also, be careful with the difference between a US gallon and a UK gallon - one is slightly larger.
Maybe you were thinking about acre or hectare for acre?
"I started my blog just before the SCO case was filed. Originally, my purpose was just trying to learn how to blog, because an attorney and I were discussing the possibility of me doing some telecommuting work for him, including work on his blog
[...]
My thought then was to try to explain legal news stories as they came along. I was forever reading/. [Slashdot] comments about legal news and most of the comments would be way off, and I realized that there is a hunger for someone to explain what it all means, what the process is, how things play out, to people who aren't in the legal field.
[...]
I didn't think too many people would ever read it, except I thought maybe IBM might find my research and it'd help them. Or someone out there would read it and realize he or she had meaningful evidence and would contact IBM or FSF. I know material I have put up can help them, if they didn't already know about it. "
We have a similar thing in Toronto - although I'm not sure if it has a name. It's a rectangular lantern-ish thing on top of a spire on the old Canada Life (I think) building, just north of Queen street at University. It's either red or green, and flashes in various patterns which altert the savvy viewer to the weather.
Except that no one I've ever met knows how to interpret it. Any ideas?
Turns out this behaviour is specified in RFC 1738 (Uniform Reasource Locator), where it defines a URL as being of the form:
//<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<url-pa th>
Although the RFC does go on to stipulate that "[s]ome or all of the parts '<user>:<password>@', ':<password>', ':<port>', and '/<url-path>' may be excluded." Oddly enough, this form is broadly defined as being the general form of URLs, but is not the form of HTTP URLs (which lack the username and password). The RFC seems to indicate that this functionality was designed with FTP in mind - anyone know if MS disabled it for all URLs, or just http ones?
While everyone keeps commenting that disabling this functionality seems to break an RFC, does anyone know which one it is? It seems like the kind of thign that would be one, but after a few minutes of cursory searching I can't find a reference.
If it truly an RFC, then Firebird (and I assume Mozilla) are equally as guilty - in thefew instances where I've tried to use this functionality (mostly as bookmarks for protected pages I frequent), it has yet to work. Bugzila anyone?
I think thers is more than one of those places. The one I'm thinking of - and actually looking at, as I live across the street from it - is on Mackay, and charges fifteen bucks (last I heard) for anything you want. You bring in the course code (McG or Con) and they give you a nicely photocopied and bound edition of it. They also sell dirt-cheap computer components, which one imagines fell of the back of the proverbial truck. I've been in once, and they have a huge set up - tow or three of the industrial size printers running almost constantly.
As someone else metioned, I think there's also one in the Ghetto, on Parc - to cater for the people who refuse to leave the McG area.
While we're alll mentioning Montreal places, I can imagine these types of operations exist in all towns with a certain percentage of University students. Part of the underground university-based economy.
Some experiences I've had in the search for textbooks, from a student smack dab in the middle of their university career:
- I've sold several books directly to people in the bookstore. In all cases, I've simply been looking for my books (or in line to pay for them), and seen someone buying a book I own. Right there, I offer them my book at about 75% of the price, with delivery as soon as they want it - usually the next day we'll arrainge to meet and do the deal. Only once has this approach been rebuffed, and in that case, the person behind them bought it from me.
- Almost all my profs recommend getting older editions. In one case, we got a ten minute rant on the first day about how bad the new edition is, and how they're dumbing down everything in it. As such, the required text in one of my math classes is the sixth edition, whereas the most recent one is the nineth. They've been using this edition, however, for four or five years now, so there's a significant number of them in circulation.
- Most engineering courses have forgone textbooks and coursepacks, in favour of handouts and online PDFs. The standard EE class - the one that all EE/CompE/SoftE have to take at least once - no longer has a text, instead a series of (free) handouts from the prof and the TAs. Totaling three or four inches of paper, these could easily be a text in themself.
- Almost none of my friends in Arts use the bookstore for anything that's not a coursepack. Although those in themselves are ripoffs, most profs will put ten or so in the library. And almost all texts are on Amazon/Chapters for ~30% less.
In sum, profs know the textbook market is a racket, and understand. At least here at McG.
For your MySQL needs, what's wrong with phpMyAdmin? It's pretty straightforward, and within half an hour of pulling out some SQL documentation and glancing at how the interface worked, I was fine.
It's not the slickest thing, but if you run Firebird you can install Flash Click-To-View. It does exactly what you'd think it would do - replaces any and all Flash content with a gray box saying "Flash - Click to View." Works pretty well, except gets annyoing on those flash-only navigation pages.
Firstly, the use of Turnitin.com is very rare at McG. In fact, the prof for this class is one of only two profs in the whole school that make using the site mandatory. Apparently this prof is the only one that thinks we're all rabid cheaters.
Secondly, although the article dosen't say it, the case was won in a domestic McGill instiution. As of the fall (when this was big news), the saga of Jesse Rosenfeld had moved beyond the negociations with the prof, to the point where he was about to file a J(udicial)-Board complaint. Seeing as the J-Board, however, takes somewhere in the matter of a year to get anything done, it was time for another round of negociations, this time between Jesse, the prof, the departement, and Student Advocacy which got the solution.
Oh yeah, and this was after five or six articles in both Campus papers, as well as the backing of the Undergrad Student Society and the Postgrad Student Society.
So way to go Jesse. Although I'm personally not a fan of you, you won one for the little guy.
You forgot about the one asking if you were a Nazi.
Anyways, the first time I saw that form I too was curious, so I asked a lawyer-friend about the rationale of asking questions that everyone will say no to. Apparently, that's the idea. You say no, and then sign the dotted line saying that everything is true, under penalty of arrest and perjury. So if you happen to be a terrorist or spy, they can pick you up on lying on your immigration form, and then get more time to get a real case. It also makes it much easier to deport you.
Remember Al Capone: he may have been famous for the Mob, but he got nailed for tax evasion.
The fire code in MY jursitiction says nothing about extension cords. It also says nothing about alarm systems, halon, or the purchasing power of ferrets. Although you don't say where you are, I guarentee you that my fire code dosne't apply there - and as such, my advice will have zero value.
You're obviously a competent guy - you thought to see weather what you wanted to do was legal, as opposed to many who would just have done it. So why not take the extra step, and hire someone who's job it is to know the particularities of your local regulations? There may be a wealth of experience here, but that dosen't make up for being a licensed electrician located nearby who can come and inspect the place and tell you what you need.
Normally, I support doing it yourself. But if you're going as far as thinking of fire codes, you may as well get the right answer (and I suspect your insurance premiums may thank you too).
Slashdot Mirror
We've had this (or a variant) before, when Bush told the world that his favourite philospher was Jesus
See more about this site (and the AASTINO, the Little Telescope That Could) at Wednesday's Story
Off all the Universities in Canada who would do a study and determind beer is good for you, it had to be Western. That in itself makes this story awesome.
(For the non-Canucks out there, Wetsren is considered to be a massive party school in Canadian university circles)
That would be Rocked by Rape, by the Evolution Control Committee. It's made entirely of Dan Rather samples from the CBS evening news, set to "Back in Black."
These things have been around for awhile, but known as Network Telescopes. The largest (AFAIK) is at UCSD, which is just a tad larger than a /32 (like, say, a /8). They collected some interesting data off the thing during all the Blaster rampages (Google cache of HTML'ed PDF here).
Also, see the NANOG guide to setting them up here, and the home for the CAIDA/UCSD telescope here.
So in short, nice job to the Welsh for implementing it, but there's bigger elsewhere for y'all to play with.
If you write the Daily's crossword, I tip my hat to you. Doing it has saved me from many a boring class (and cleared my head after too long studying). A nice mixture between easy and obscure.
If you do the Trib's, I got nothing. I haven't seriously opened a Trib in a semester.
Does some great stuff with their lables. I have one of their t-shirts which includes "wash cold, dry low, use no bleach or chemical weapons, question authority" and "100% cotton mouth, made in the united states of the eu."
As someone mentioned, the searching from the address bar is brilliant. And while I don't have that much of a problem typing in google's search location (when I'm not using FF), this is just that much slicker.
They also censor their results. Hardcore. As an indication, a9 give zero results for "hardcore" whereas google gives somewhere in the area of sixty million. While I'm sure that the bulk of them are porn, I'm not sure how much I trust a9's censors. Search engines already miss enough of the web - I don't want them purposefully hiding more of it.
And I can't stand "sponsored links" in line with real results. I know it's small, but I love how with google I can look at the left side of the screen for "real" results, and the right side of ads.
Earth to google: you've got nothing to worry about. But get in easyier address bar searching, and bring back than plan you mentioned a while ago to place fulltext copies of lots of books in your database, and you're golden.
I've got several addresses on fastmail.fm - both at the free and the one-time-fee "Member" levels. It has most of what you ask at the "Free" level, but in order to get custom filtering and forwarding rules (and access to the raw sieve script) you need to be a "Member" - for fifteen bucks, one-time.
In terms of things I've spent fifteen bucks on, Fastmail is one of the best ones. Try the "Free" service (which in itself is a fine service), and you'll see that these guys are fully deserving of your cash. Plus, the two owners regularly read and participate in the forums, and will respond to your complaints/questions/issue directly.
fastmail.fm - call this a plug (for the record, I have no connection to these guys besides them providing email hosting for a conference I run), but I have no problem paying for a good service like FM.
As the subject line indicates, a gallon is a unit of volume. If you're American, I thnk you may even buy your gas and milk in units of a gallon. Also, be careful with the difference between a US gallon and a UK gallon - one is slightly larger.
Maybe you were thinking about acre or hectare for acre?
"I started my blog just before the SCO case was filed. Originally, my purpose was just trying to learn how to blog, because an attorney and I were discussing the possibility of me doing some telecommuting work for him, including work on his blog
/. [Slashdot] comments about legal news and most of the comments would be way off, and I realized that there is a hunger for someone to explain what it all means, what the process is, how things play out, to people who aren't in the legal field.
[...]
My thought then was to try to explain legal news stories as they came along. I was forever reading
[...]
I didn't think too many people would ever read it, except I thought maybe IBM might find my research and it'd help them. Or someone out there would read it and realize he or she had meaningful evidence and would contact IBM or FSF. I know material I have put up can help them, if they didn't already know about it. "
So in short, yes.
Although I guess that was technically a post-Valentine's Day present...
We have a similar thing in Toronto - although I'm not sure if it has a name. It's a rectangular lantern-ish thing on top of a spire on the old Canada Life (I think) building, just north of Queen street at University. It's either red or green, and flashes in various patterns which altert the savvy viewer to the weather.
Except that no one I've ever met knows how to interpret it. Any ideas?
HTTP 403.9 - Access Forbidden: Too many users are connected
So this article has now taken down two distinct sites. Anyone willing to see if we can slashdot Intel?
Turns out this behaviour is specified in RFC 1738 (Uniform Reasource Locator), where it defines a URL as being of the form:
//<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<url-pa th>
Although the RFC does go on to stipulate that "[s]ome or all of the parts '<user>:<password>@', ':<password>', ':<port>', and '/<url-path>' may be excluded." Oddly enough, this form is broadly defined as being the general form of URLs, but is not the form of HTTP URLs (which lack the username and password). The RFC seems to indicate that this functionality was designed with FTP in mind - anyone know if MS disabled it for all URLs, or just http ones?
While everyone keeps commenting that disabling this functionality seems to break an RFC, does anyone know which one it is? It seems like the kind of thign that would be one, but after a few minutes of cursory searching I can't find a reference.
If it truly an RFC, then Firebird (and I assume Mozilla) are equally as guilty - in thefew instances where I've tried to use this functionality (mostly as bookmarks for protected pages I frequent), it has yet to work. Bugzila anyone?
I think thers is more than one of those places. The one I'm thinking of - and actually looking at, as I live across the street from it - is on Mackay, and charges fifteen bucks (last I heard) for anything you want. You bring in the course code (McG or Con) and they give you a nicely photocopied and bound edition of it. They also sell dirt-cheap computer components, which one imagines fell of the back of the proverbial truck. I've been in once, and they have a huge set up - tow or three of the industrial size printers running almost constantly.
As someone else metioned, I think there's also one in the Ghetto, on Parc - to cater for the people who refuse to leave the McG area.
While we're alll mentioning Montreal places, I can imagine these types of operations exist in all towns with a certain percentage of University students. Part of the underground university-based economy.
Some experiences I've had in the search for textbooks, from a student smack dab in the middle of their university career:
- I've sold several books directly to people in the bookstore. In all cases, I've simply been looking for my books (or in line to pay for them), and seen someone buying a book I own. Right there, I offer them my book at about 75% of the price, with delivery as soon as they want it - usually the next day we'll arrainge to meet and do the deal. Only once has this approach been rebuffed, and in that case, the person behind them bought it from me.
- Almost all my profs recommend getting older editions. In one case, we got a ten minute rant on the first day about how bad the new edition is, and how they're dumbing down everything in it. As such, the required text in one of my math classes is the sixth edition, whereas the most recent one is the nineth. They've been using this edition, however, for four or five years now, so there's a significant number of them in circulation.
- Most engineering courses have forgone textbooks and coursepacks, in favour of handouts and online PDFs. The standard EE class - the one that all EE/CompE/SoftE have to take at least once - no longer has a text, instead a series of (free) handouts from the prof and the TAs. Totaling three or four inches of paper, these could easily be a text in themself.
- Almost none of my friends in Arts use the bookstore for anything that's not a coursepack. Although those in themselves are ripoffs, most profs will put ten or so in the library. And almost all texts are on Amazon/Chapters for ~30% less.
In sum, profs know the textbook market is a racket, and understand. At least here at McG.
For your MySQL needs, what's wrong with phpMyAdmin? It's pretty straightforward, and within half an hour of pulling out some SQL documentation and glancing at how the interface worked, I was fine.
It's not the slickest thing, but if you run Firebird you can install Flash Click-To-View. It does exactly what you'd think it would do - replaces any and all Flash content with a gray box saying "Flash - Click to View." Works pretty well, except gets annyoing on those flash-only navigation pages.
...and can clear a few things up.
Firstly, the use of Turnitin.com is very rare at McG. In fact, the prof for this class is one of only two profs in the whole school that make using the site mandatory. Apparently this prof is the only one that thinks we're all rabid cheaters.
Secondly, although the article dosen't say it, the case was won in a domestic McGill instiution. As of the fall (when this was big news), the saga of Jesse Rosenfeld had moved beyond the negociations with the prof, to the point where he was about to file a J(udicial)-Board complaint. Seeing as the J-Board, however, takes somewhere in the matter of a year to get anything done, it was time for another round of negociations, this time between Jesse, the prof, the departement, and Student Advocacy which got the solution.
Oh yeah, and this was after five or six articles in both Campus papers, as well as the backing of the Undergrad Student Society and the Postgrad Student Society.
So way to go Jesse. Although I'm personally not a fan of you, you won one for the little guy.
...and they didn't even tell me.
Way to gout out of your way there, Net BSD. After years of loyal servitude, this is how you treat me.
You forgot about the one asking if you were a Nazi.
Anyways, the first time I saw that form I too was curious, so I asked a lawyer-friend about the rationale of asking questions that everyone will say no to. Apparently, that's the idea. You say no, and then sign the dotted line saying that everything is true, under penalty of arrest and perjury. So if you happen to be a terrorist or spy, they can pick you up on lying on your immigration form, and then get more time to get a real case. It also makes it much easier to deport you.
Remember Al Capone: he may have been famous for the Mob, but he got nailed for tax evasion.
If we read about it two days ago, here's hoping it won't get Slashdotted...
The fire code in MY jursitiction says nothing about extension cords. It also says nothing about alarm systems, halon, or the purchasing power of ferrets. Although you don't say where you are, I guarentee you that my fire code dosne't apply there - and as such, my advice will have zero value.
You're obviously a competent guy - you thought to see weather what you wanted to do was legal, as opposed to many who would just have done it. So why not take the extra step, and hire someone who's job it is to know the particularities of your local regulations? There may be a wealth of experience here, but that dosen't make up for being a licensed electrician located nearby who can come and inspect the place and tell you what you need.
Normally, I support doing it yourself. But if you're going as far as thinking of fire codes, you may as well get the right answer (and I suspect your insurance premiums may thank you too).