When you do a search, some reasonably relevant ads may appear at the top of the page. They're highlighted in a different colour and very obviously labelled as 'Sponsored Links'. It always reminds me of some radio announcer reading out an advertisement in a funny voice before getting on with the rest of the show.
> Yes, being from Finland, Linus will obviously have Swedish as his native language.
Well, surprising though it may sound, There is a minority of Swedish-speakers in Finland and Linus is one of them. You could check out his book 'Just For Fun' for a more detailed explanation of why this is so.
"Hello, My names Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as 'a funny thing happened in my bedroom when I was a student'".
Of course, in the original Swedish:
"Hellu, My nemes Leenoos Turfelds und I prunuoonce-a Leenoox es 'a foonny theeng heppened in my bedruum vhee I ves a stoodent'". Bork Bork Bork!
This is just the sort of thing we used to expect from the JPL: "We've got fifteen bytes spare and a few milli-amps left in the batteries. We can probably take out the Death Star with that."
What was that old story? With a small amount of memory remaining after all the main programs had been entered, someone at JPL wrote a program to look for and identify previously unknown moons of Jupiter and send pictures back.
Oh I don't know, apart from capitalisation, his grammar and spelling and pucntuation were acceptable and his expression and use of English was good.
It's got to be easier to teach someone how to use the shift key than how to write.
Knight1: Was that the Castle Aaaarrrrrggggghh?
Knight2: He could've been dictating...
Funnily enough, I sent the joke to a German friend once to ask if it meant anything at all and she's never replied to be since.
dave "twilight zone theme"
> 2. Send "remove" replies to spam. It only takes a few seconds and it actually works
> enough of the time to be worth the few seconds.
Um, no, it doesn't work, actually. It just confirms your address to the spammer. Either delete/ignore it or complain to the ISP it came from.
Or filter it, most spam is surprisingly easy to filter. Look for mail only BCCed to you and you'll get mostly spam.
Just wait till you start working. Frankly, four invitations to go and get dangerously drunk are one hell of a lot better than the interminable announcements about people's lights on in the carpark[1], someone's lost their keys[2], tomorrow afternoon's a holiday in another office[3].
Just filter the junk - if it's sent to everyone, not just you, then it's almost certainly junk.
dave
[1] Jeez, how difficult is it for a company to have a list of people's license plate numbers. I worked at a place where, if you left your lights on, *your* phone would ring, and the receptionist would say sweetly, "dave, you've left your lights on again." An this was with 500+ cars in the car park. Just a simple database at reception: Name, location, number, car number, etc.
[2] in another office, preferably on a different continent
[3] see [2]
Or just set up a filter which takes email sent to everybody and files it in a special folder. That moves all of the "has anyone seen my car keys" junk. If you're in a bigger company, you probably have mailboxes for each department, and you can sort them separately.
There's a quote from Terry Pratchett which explains why British books tend to get simplified or 'translated' for the American market:
It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons
with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's *American*
editors.
-- Setting the record straight
(Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)
You could probably make an argument that HP is an alternate reality, parallel to ours but with Magic real. Kind of like Tim Powers' Anubis Gates World.
The books get darker over time as Harry grows up and is exposed to more and more of the powers behind his parent's death. Goblet of Fire, is very definitely a much darker book than Philosophers/Sorcerer's Stone.
Rowling has also said that Goblet of Fire is the biggest book, and that the remaining three will be shorter.
HAve you read any of your childrood fave reads again? I did it recently with the Narnia books and some Enid Blyton. Narnia has, in some books at least, a very strident religious subtext which you can't ignore. Blyton is a very firm Law'n'Order type. Good read, but I read one of her older books (the Adventure series) rather than anything for younger kids.
It's my understanding that RH has a two default partitioning schemes for Workstation and Server installs and you only need to worry about partitioning when doing a custom install.
They could probably take a leaf out of FreeBSD's book and have and A)uto option in diskdruid/fdisk which picks some reasonable defaults based on the size of disk available.
Japan always seems to go its own way on a lot of techie things. Given the dominance of homegrown consoles in that market, is it likely that MSFT will take it over?
What about localisation issues for XBox, availability of games. local titles?
Some of the big games in the arcades here (China) are dancing games, drumming games, piano playing games (!), all very far away from traditional console fare. I've seen accessories for these for various consoles. Question, are MSFT going to push games which do well in their home market weirdness and ignore local weirdness?
...so if a spacecraft is under 1g acceleration, the back wall will become the floor. When the ship is turned over at the mid point of the journey to decelerate, the floor will now be pointed in the direction of travel and will still be down, as the thrust is still a vector perpendicular to this.
Geez, more right-wing, "We need good Christian Prayer in schools crap".
Look, in the Good Ol' US of A, prayer is *NOT* banned from schools. What is banned is the apparent favouring of one religion over another by those employed by the State. There's no reason a teacher can't pray in school, as long as he doesn't insist, using his position as a teacher, that his beliefs are better than anyone elses. Kids can pray in school, on their own, or in groups.
errr, if you hit ctrl-f, s you bring up a find dialog and start looking for the letter s. I think you mean alt-f, s or just ctrl-s.
Incidentally, it used to be possible to set up the help system in office to only show you the tips and not the animations. This would give you an occasionally updated list up keyboard shortcuts and general usability tips for whatever you were doing.
Slashdot Mirror
When you do a search, some reasonably relevant ads may appear at the top of the page. They're highlighted in a different colour and very obviously labelled as 'Sponsored Links'. It always reminds me of some radio announcer reading out an advertisement in a funny voice before getting on with the rest of the show.
see http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang _en&q=asus+motherboards for an example of what I mean.
dave
> Yes, being from Finland, Linus will obviously have Swedish as his native language.
Well, surprising though it may sound, There is a minority of Swedish-speakers in Finland and Linus is one of them. You could check out his book 'Just For Fun' for a more detailed explanation of why this is so.
dave
"Hello, My names Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as 'a funny thing happened in my bedroom when I was a student'".
Of course, in the original Swedish:
"Hellu, My nemes Leenoos Turfelds und I prunuoonce-a Leenoox es 'a foonny theeng heppened in my bedruum vhee I ves a stoodent'". Bork Bork Bork!
dave "chef"
This is just the sort of thing we used to expect from the JPL: "We've got fifteen bytes spare and a few milli-amps left in the batteries. We can probably take out the Death Star with that."
What was that old story? With a small amount of memory remaining after all the main programs had been entered, someone at JPL wrote a program to look for and identify previously unknown moons of Jupiter and send pictures back.
dave "wist"
Oh I don't know, apart from capitalisation, his grammar and spelling and pucntuation were acceptable and his expression and use of English was good.
It's got to be easier to teach someone how to use the shift key than how to write.
dave
Germans: aaaaaarrrrggggh!
Knight1: Was that the Castle Aaaarrrrrggggghh?
Knight2: He could've been dictating...
Funnily enough, I sent the joke to a German friend once to ask if it meant anything at all and she's never replied to be since.
dave "twilight zone theme"
*ahem*
Wenn ist das Nunstuck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die
Flipperwaldt gersput!
dave "and now for comething completely different"
> 2. Send "remove" replies to spam. It only takes a few seconds and it actually works
> enough of the time to be worth the few seconds.
Um, no, it doesn't work, actually. It just confirms your address to the spammer. Either delete/ignore it or complain to the ISP it came from.
Or filter it, most spam is surprisingly easy to filter. Look for mail only BCCed to you and you'll get mostly spam.
dave
Just wait till you start working. Frankly, four invitations to go and get dangerously drunk are one hell of a lot better than the interminable announcements about people's lights on in the carpark[1], someone's lost their keys[2], tomorrow afternoon's a holiday in another office[3].
Just filter the junk - if it's sent to everyone, not just you, then it's almost certainly junk.
dave
[1] Jeez, how difficult is it for a company to have a list of people's license plate numbers. I worked at a place where, if you left your lights on, *your* phone would ring, and the receptionist would say sweetly, "dave, you've left your lights on again." An this was with 500+ cars in the car park. Just a simple database at reception: Name, location, number, car number, etc.
[2] in another office, preferably on a different continent
[3] see [2]
Or just set up a filter which takes email sent to everybody and files it in a special folder. That moves all of the "has anyone seen my car keys" junk. If you're in a bigger company, you probably have mailboxes for each department, and you can sort them separately.
dave
Yeah, but muggle technology doesn't work in the environs of Hogwarts due to the intense nature of the magical fields.
dave
There's a quote from Terry Pratchett which explains why British books tend to get simplified or 'translated' for the American market:
It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons
with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's *American*
editors.
-- Setting the record straight
(Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)
HTH,
dave
You could probably make an argument that HP is an alternate reality, parallel to ours but with Magic real. Kind of like Tim Powers' Anubis Gates World.
dave
The books get darker over time as Harry grows up and is exposed to more and more of the powers behind his parent's death. Goblet of Fire, is very definitely a much darker book than Philosophers/Sorcerer's Stone.
Rowling has also said that Goblet of Fire is the biggest book, and that the remaining three will be shorter.
HAve you read any of your childrood fave reads again? I did it recently with the Narnia books and some Enid Blyton. Narnia has, in some books at least, a very strident religious subtext which you can't ignore. Blyton is a very firm Law'n'Order type. Good read, but I read one of her older books (the Adventure series) rather than anything for younger kids.
dave
It's my understanding that RH has a two default partitioning schemes for Workstation and Server installs and you only need to worry about partitioning when doing a custom install.
They could probably take a leaf out of FreeBSD's book and have and A)uto option in diskdruid/fdisk which picks some reasonable defaults based on the size of disk available.
dave
Instead of downloading, try http://www.linuxcentral.com for buying cheap CDs.
Also, with Linux, you only need one copy for all your installations, while with MX stuff, you need to get one copy per installation to be legal.
dave
Red Flag Linux is available for sale here in Hong Kong. I guess that counts as 'distributing Red Flag linux ... publicly (sic)'.
see http://www.redflag-linux.com/. (or http://world.altavista.com/urltrurl?url=http%3A%2F %2Fwww.redflag-linux.com&lp=zh_en&tt=url&urltext= for a translation.)
dave
Japan always seems to go its own way on a lot of techie things. Given the dominance of homegrown consoles in that market, is it likely that MSFT will take it over?
What about localisation issues for XBox, availability of games. local titles?
Some of the big games in the arcades here (China) are dancing games, drumming games, piano playing games (!), all very far away from traditional console fare. I've seen accessories for these for various consoles. Question, are MSFT going to push games which do well in their home market weirdness and ignore local weirdness?
dave "no mr. bond, i expect you to dance!"
...so if a spacecraft is under 1g acceleration, the back wall will become the floor. When the ship is turned over at the mid point of the journey to decelerate, the floor will now be pointed in the direction of travel and will still be down, as the thrust is still a vector perpendicular to this.
dave "what is this, rocket science?"
How about Tux wearing a tinfoil hat?
dave
try http://www.hampsterdance2.com/
dave
"The internet was designed so that, in time of nuclear war, the US Military would have uninterrupted access to pornography"
dave
Geez, more right-wing, "We need good Christian Prayer in schools crap".
Look, in the Good Ol' US of A, prayer is *NOT* banned from schools. What is banned is the apparent favouring of one religion over another by those employed by the State. There's no reason a teacher can't pray in school, as long as he doesn't insist, using his position as a teacher, that his beliefs are better than anyone elses. Kids can pray in school, on their own, or in groups.
dave
> "Always trust content from Microsoft Corporation" checkmark?
Heh, that one always gives me a little chuckle.
I want a button on that form which says "Yeah, dream on billg."
dave
errr, if you hit ctrl-f, s you bring up a find dialog and start looking for the letter s. I think you mean alt-f, s or just ctrl-s.
Incidentally, it used to be possible to set up the help system in office to only show you the tips and not the animations. This would give you an occasionally updated list up keyboard shortcuts and general usability tips for whatever you were doing.
dave