They were a little smarter than that. A lot of people use their birth year or the birth year of one of their children as a PIN. This information is trivially available for most public figures. They got in to some people's that way.
The UK has a set of IT process standards that originated in the Office of Government Commerce, a part of the Treasury. (Think of the "Treasury" as a combination of the U.S. IRS and GAO and you're in the ballpark). Known as ITIL, these are now a de facto international standard for IT service management. However, like ISO standards, there is a whole consulting industry built around them because the text of the standards is not free.
It sounds like you need a Morris Minor, or original Mini. Both these cars were designed by Alec Issigonis, who was 6' 6" tall, and it was (understandably) part of the design brief that he be able to drive either car without modification.
A P71 Crown Vic costs over half as much again as a regular one. They have uprated _everything_ even before you start adding lights and radios. Most taxis are the P72 variant, though second had cop cars are popular, not least for the "stab plate" in the back of the seats:-/
You misspelled 'ex'. The 'ed and 'ex' editors are not command compatible. Ed famously prints a '?' if it doesn't understand what you type. Ex is effectively the vi ':' command line. They're both still there on Linux. Try them.
Tony.
sweeney@golem:~$ ed xxx 0 a asdf . . asdf a hjkl . . hjkl - asdf 1,$p asdf hjkl w 10 q sweeney@golem:~$ cat xxx asdf hjkl sweeney@golem:~$
(Holy crap! I still vaguely remember how to work ed).
Of course DailyKos is an avowedlypartisan site. And while it might be the case that most DailyKos readers might be happy to see KSFO shut down, Spocko is not one of those who is listed as a representative of the site (see the link), and in fact acted until recently as a lone gunman, documenting the hate speech emanating from that station and drawing it to the attention of its advertisers all by himself. This effort only came to the attention of the DailyKos community _after_ his personal site got SLAPPed by Disney/ABC. He's not even a regular DailyKos blogger, though he does have an account there, and someone else entirely drew the community's attention to his plight. Consciously or not, your entire post explicitly invokes the "guilt/honour by association" logical fallacy (and what the hell is wrong with the Guardian by the way?). Just because it got reported on DailyKos doesn't make the story false.
Those boards implemented the UNIX line driver protocol. If you stty a tty into 'cooked' mode, they will process a line at a time for both input and output, generating a host interrupt only when a full line is ready to be sent or received. The PDP11/44s we had at college had similar intelligent line driver hardware, but the VAX 11/750 didn't. As a consequence, you could cram 50% more students onto the PDP for normal interactive use than you could on the more powerful VAX. Flip them into 'raw' mode, however, and they become a bottleneck, since all of the lines have to share a single interrupt for each and every character sent and received.
I learned C from Russel Winder as well. He was one of the better lecturers at UCL back in the day (I was there '83-'86). We must be near-contemporaries.
Division is the act of repeatedly subtracting the denominator from the numerator until the numerator is less than the denominator. Thus, clearly, x/0 is infinity for positive x, and -infinity for negative x, for both integer and real numbers. Further, by definition, 0/0 is clearly _any number at all_ -- you can give up whenever you like. Consider the graph of the tan function. At the asymptote you are effectively dividing by zero. I fail to see the benefit of declaring the value NaN or undefined, outside the computational capabilities of a given set of computational hardware. It's clearly a continuum of every possible number between + and - infinity, rather than the traditional discontinuity, in my view.
The term Object/Relational is defined by Michael Stonebraker (progenitor of Ingres and Postgres) and Paul Brown in the book linked above. It is not the same as object persistence as implemented in hibernate or in the emerging EJB API, or older technologies such as Versant. It's impossible to have a meaningful dialogue about this without agreeing on fundamental terminology. Since Stonebraker coined the term, it seems reasonable to defer to him on its meaning. Extant implementations are to be found in Informix, Illustra, and Postgres, from which the former two derive.
Mod parent up. The elephant in the room is the RDBMS. Relational databases are the most critical systems going, if your business is transaction-oriented. Which is pretty much anything to do with money (literally -- storing currency and trade records). These are the principal reason mainframes still exist. And mainframes exist for three principal reasons in turn: massive I/O farms; massive main memory; five nines reliability.
Enterprise UNIX systems have been nibbling away at the mainframe market for years, but mainframes still exist. Now commodity x86 hardware is starting to nibble the toes of enterprise UNIX in turn, as the 2-4G memory limit is breached with the Opteron, and SAN/NAS storage is starting to make inroads on the disk farm.
What Sun seems to counting on is the reliability part. Linux just isn't there yet, and won't be for a while -- it's fine where you can line up massively redundant shared-nothing processor nodes, such as Google or straight computational loads, but for a DBMS, disk and main memory consistency/recovery are crucial, which means clustering[*], valiant shared-nothing DBMS implementations such as Informix XPS notwithstanding -- 2-phase commit doesn't always cut it.
IBM understands this -- read "In Search of Clusters" by Greg Pfister -- Sun understands this too, and are trying to raise their vulnerable low water mark by running the same ultra-reliable Solaris 10 on their smaller systems as on those that have provided the only significant challenge to the mainframe for critical database work. You won't get Five Nines running Linux on commodity hardware.
[*] Allowing that big SMP is a form of clustering.
+3 Informative? This comment is both racist and idiotic beyond reason. The only classes in Europe who didn't make a living through "backbreaking" physical labour prior to the industrial revolution were clerics, priests, and the aristocracy, (scribes, pharisees and kings), and in earlier days the aristocracy were expected to fight in the field of battle, that's how they got to be aristocrats. In terms of anything other than disease resistance, 10,000 years is a blink of the eye in evolutionary terms. Physically and mentally, we're no different than our ancestors who discovered how to make fire. Different populations have clearly selected for different traits, but to claim that in the case of Africans that this is because they are "closer to their ancestors" is unmitigated racist bullshit. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Beer + lemonade == shandy. The only kind I've ever seen premixed is Bass Shandy, about 2% alcohol, which is most likely what you had. Potato chips are called crisps over here, and are sold everywhere (in assorted flavours, no less). To the Brits, potato chips means french fries, which aren't generally sold in convenience stores. Dunno why you had a problem with pretzels though.
Napery is an old French word for household linen. Nappy and Napkin are derivatives. "Nap", by itself, refers to the lie of threads in cloth. It turns out, however, that diaper is the older word (scroll down a bit).
It's bog standard British English, nothing colloquial about it. As to your grandparents, hell, I learned to say "tomayto", just to shorten the line at the deli.
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They were a little smarter than that. A lot of people use their birth year or the birth year of one of their children as a PIN. This information is trivially available for most public figures. They got in to some people's that way.
She was found in 1983 by an anonymous collector. She was sold to the University of Oslo two years ago.
Tony.
The UK has a set of IT process standards that originated in the Office of Government Commerce, a part of the Treasury. (Think of the "Treasury" as a combination of the U.S. IRS and GAO and you're in the ballpark). Known as ITIL, these are now a de facto international standard for IT service management. However, like ISO standards, there is a whole consulting industry built around them because the text of the standards is not free.
Tony.
It sounds like you need a Morris Minor, or original Mini. Both these cars were designed by Alec Issigonis, who was 6' 6" tall, and it was (understandably) part of the design brief that he be able to drive either car without modification.
Tony.
A P71 Crown Vic costs over half as much again as a regular one. They have uprated _everything_ even before you start adding lights and radios. Most taxis are the P72 variant, though second had cop cars are popular, not least for the "stab plate" in the back of the seats :-/
Tony.
You misspelled 'ex'. The 'ed and 'ex' editors are not command compatible. Ed famously prints a '?' if it doesn't understand what you type. Ex is effectively the vi ':' command line. They're both still there on Linux. Try them.
Tony.
sweeney@golem:~$ ed xxx
0
a
asdf
.
.
asdf
a
hjkl
.
.
hjkl
-
asdf
1,$p
asdf
hjkl
w
10
q
sweeney@golem:~$ cat xxx
asdf
hjkl
sweeney@golem:~$
(Holy crap! I still vaguely remember how to work ed).
1,000,000 hours is over 114 years. Your estate would be making those warranty claims.
Tony.
...but where is my goddamn JetPack?
Tony.
Of course DailyKos is an avowedlypartisan site. And while it might be the case that most DailyKos readers might be happy to see KSFO shut down, Spocko is not one of those who is listed as a representative of the site (see the link), and in fact acted until recently as a lone gunman, documenting the hate speech emanating from that station and drawing it to the attention of its advertisers all by himself. This effort only came to the attention of the DailyKos community _after_ his personal site got SLAPPed by Disney/ABC. He's not even a regular DailyKos blogger, though he does have an account there, and someone else entirely drew the community's attention to his plight. Consciously or not, your entire post explicitly invokes the "guilt/honour by association" logical fallacy (and what the hell is wrong with the Guardian by the way?). Just because it got reported on DailyKos doesn't make the story false.
Tony.
Those boards implemented the UNIX line driver protocol. If you stty a tty into 'cooked' mode, they will process a line at a time for both input and output, generating a host interrupt only when a full line is ready to be sent or received. The PDP11/44s we had at college had similar intelligent line driver hardware, but the VAX 11/750 didn't. As a consequence, you could cram 50% more students onto the PDP for normal interactive use than you could on the more powerful VAX. Flip them into 'raw' mode, however, and they become a bottleneck, since all of the lines have to share a single interrupt for each and every character sent and received.
I learned C from Russel Winder as well. He was one of the better lecturers at UCL back in the day (I was there '83-'86). We must be near-contemporaries.
Division is the act of repeatedly subtracting the denominator from the numerator until the numerator is less than the denominator. Thus, clearly, x/0 is infinity for positive x, and -infinity for negative x, for both integer and real numbers. Further, by definition, 0/0 is clearly _any number at all_ -- you can give up whenever you like. Consider the graph of the tan function. At the asymptote you are effectively dividing by zero. I fail to see the benefit of declaring the value NaN or undefined, outside the computational capabilities of a given set of computational hardware. It's clearly a continuum of every possible number between + and - infinity, rather than the traditional discontinuity, in my view.
1953
Theoretically, yeah, with the right motherboard and a full moon. In practice, reliable USB support only came in with 98SE.
...right here
O.K., let's pick a few at pseudo-random (I've lived in all three):
Alameda County, CA : 738 sq. miles
Hampshire, U.K. : 1498 sq. miles
Greater London : 610 sq. miles
Nothing happens.
The term Object/Relational is defined by Michael Stonebraker (progenitor of Ingres and Postgres) and Paul Brown in the book linked above. It is not the same as object persistence as implemented in hibernate or in the emerging EJB API, or older technologies such as Versant. It's impossible to have a meaningful dialogue about this without agreeing on fundamental terminology. Since Stonebraker coined the term, it seems reasonable to defer to him on its meaning. Extant implementations are to be found in Informix, Illustra, and Postgres, from which the former two derive.
Tony.
Uh, who makes the G3, G4 and G5 chips that Apple uses?
Mod parent up. The elephant in the room is the RDBMS. Relational databases are the most critical systems going, if your business is transaction-oriented. Which is pretty much anything to do with money (literally -- storing currency and trade records). These are the principal reason mainframes still exist. And mainframes exist for three principal reasons in turn: massive I/O farms; massive main memory; five nines reliability.
Enterprise UNIX systems have been nibbling away at the mainframe market for years, but mainframes still exist. Now commodity x86 hardware is starting to nibble the toes of enterprise UNIX in turn, as the 2-4G memory limit is breached with the Opteron, and SAN/NAS storage is starting to make inroads on the disk farm.
What Sun seems to counting on is the reliability part. Linux just isn't there yet, and won't be for a while -- it's fine where you can line up massively redundant shared-nothing processor nodes, such as Google or straight computational loads, but for a DBMS, disk and main memory consistency/recovery are crucial, which means clustering[*], valiant shared-nothing DBMS implementations such as Informix XPS notwithstanding -- 2-phase commit doesn't always cut it.
IBM understands this -- read "In Search of Clusters" by Greg Pfister -- Sun understands this too, and are trying to raise their vulnerable low water mark by running the same ultra-reliable Solaris 10 on their smaller systems as on those that have provided the only significant challenge to the mainframe for critical database work. You won't get Five Nines running Linux on commodity hardware.
[*] Allowing that big SMP is a form of clustering.
+3 Informative? This comment is both racist and idiotic beyond reason. The only classes in Europe who didn't make a living through "backbreaking" physical labour prior to the industrial revolution were clerics, priests, and the aristocracy, (scribes, pharisees and kings), and in earlier days the aristocracy were expected to fight in the field of battle, that's how they got to be aristocrats. In terms of anything other than disease resistance, 10,000 years is a blink of the eye in evolutionary terms. Physically and mentally, we're no different than our ancestors who discovered how to make fire. Different populations have clearly selected for different traits, but to claim that in the case of Africans that this is because they are "closer to their ancestors" is unmitigated racist bullshit. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Tony.
No, it's standard for the I.N.S., not the airline, whose only responsibility is to check visas, and/or hand out I94 visa waver forms.
Beer + lemonade == shandy. The only kind I've ever seen premixed is Bass Shandy, about 2% alcohol, which is most likely what you had. Potato chips are called crisps over here, and are sold everywhere (in assorted flavours, no less). To the Brits, potato chips means french fries, which aren't generally sold in convenience stores. Dunno why you had a problem with pretzels though.
Napery is an old French word for household linen. Nappy and Napkin are derivatives. "Nap", by itself, refers to the lie of threads in cloth. It turns out, however, that diaper is the older word (scroll down a bit).
It's bog standard British English, nothing colloquial about it. As to your grandparents, hell, I learned to say "tomayto", just to shorten the line at the deli.