ESC-k to go up to last historical command, ESC-j to go down to next historical command, etc.
Well, gee, in bash I just use the up and down arrows. But hey, if you want to press two keys to do the job of those already on your keyboard, be my guest.
Get a biggish bucket (pail) that has a flat top that can be covered, and fill it two thirds with water. Get a sweeping broom and a pair of portable ladders.
Climb up the ladders, hold the bucket against the ceiling, and challenge someone.
"I bet you can't take that broom, push it against the bottom of the bucket, and hold it there for ten seconds."
Of course, that sounds easy, so give them the broom and they do it while you let go of the bucket. Et voila.
Now the good part. Climb down the ladder, and carry them away.
Now everyone gets a laugh as someone is stuck holding a broom with a heavy bucket of water on top. How to get it down? No other way except get drenched:-)
I'm the Vice President of an engineering facility that does space stuff and I thought I'd take the time out of my busy schedule to explain the science behind this story.
Everyone knows about the Big Bang. When the Big Bang happened, all the planets were created and life began. These lifeforms then produced trash from their planets and dispelled it into space, much like we do with our garbage (where else do we keep it? under the 'ground'? *scoff*). This then causes all the showers of trash that we need to avoid when we go to Mars.
I believe the commonly held point of view in the scientific community is that most space trash is caused by life. For example, planets on the other side of the universe launch satellites which eventually turn up here and bombard our planet. But because they took so long to get here, they get dusty and are called meteors or comets. I think some scientists said once that Halley's Comet is a spaceship from the other side of the universe that is very dirty and some aliens wrote 'I wish my wife were as dirty as this' into the surface.
I can't do that in OE either. How can you sort it so all flagged messages are at the top, in reverse date order, then all the other e-mails are below in reverse date order?
I tried clicking on the flag column then the date column but that didn't work. I can only sort by flag OR by date.
That article spent time pointing out how great 2001 and 2002 were.
Sucks for PC games this year, truly. DoubleDash and Project Gotham 2 are probably the only major 'good' games out there for Xmas.. and they aren't for PC!
I'm sticking with PC in this argument because a) I don't want/don't have the consoles, and b) because PC rules more:-D
Deus-Ex is about it.. with XIII tailing on for a really piss-poor collection of RPGs and MMORPGS. Or if you really want yet another The Sims rip-off add-on or an update to the antique Civilization 3 I imagine it's a bumper Xmas for you. Certainly no Doom 3s, Quake 4s, Half Life 2s, or GTA4s though.
Nothing in these stories specify why they're not releasing the co-ordinates yet, and I thought Slashdot readers might be particularly interested in this.
I work at a computer lab which is used by a branch of a certain space agency (not NASA, but they have similar policies) and we process a lot of data for these folks (It's a bit like SETI@Home, but we get what are called the 'higher level' packets, given only to accredited packets of ramen.)
When you're dealing with signals from large distances (over a few thousand miles) you need a lot of gain on your aerial to get a strong signal. This is why they use giant dishes at places like Aribico, because the largeness of dish allows the signal to be taken and magnified when it gets here, so you get a clearer signal from a noisy signal (for the non scientific people here.. it's like how in CSI they can zoom in a noisy picture and 'clean it up' or look round corners and stuff).
Well, this high gain aerial 'sucks up' (again, non science speak) a lot of the signal. This means if they gave out the co-ordinates everyone would try to listen in to the stuff coming from that area, and diminish all of the signal so that SETI couldn't pick up anything even on their big aerials. It's kinda like how if a radio station has more listeners, they have to turn the signal up.. but we can't tell the aliens to do that!
The same thing happens with light, but to a lesser extent. Theoretically if you had a million people looking at a single LED, the light would be so spread out that it would appear to go off. This is why, as children, we're told not to look at the sun, because if we all did that, we would be plunged into darkness.
It's probably somewhere in the early 90's for me when I first got Dune 2.
But, really, isn't this year a shocker? There are no good games out right now. HL2 is delayed, Doom 3 is no existent. XIII looks interesting but gets iffy reviews. Project Gotham Racing 2 is hardly the epitome of gaming. GTA:VC (PC) is now too old to quality for this season, as is UT2003 or Simcity 4.
What interests me about this story is the connection method. Getting a low latency mid-band is not easy. Nor something they should be throwing good resources after just so some soldier can play XBox.
What would be the best way of getting air force bases (in places as far flung as, say, Afghanistan) onto XBox Live at a decent speed with a decent latency? Satellites are ruled out straight away. Microwave links to places with more reliable landline connections?
I bought a MS Natural Keyboard (sorry, but I can't find any better) about four years ago, and within a couple of months I'd knocked a glass of Coke over it, so went to PC World and bought a new one for 35 (> $50!!). The next time it happened I figured I should save some money and fix it.
So I opened it up, wiped all the plastic plates down, and cleaned it up.. all worked fine. Great!
So, this keyboard is now almost four years old, but looks like brand new. I've spilled water/coke/OJ/food into it at least six times, and after dismantling and cleaning it, it always comes back AOK.
The only problems are the space bar isn't as mechanically responsive as it once was, and I lost the num lock/caps lock/scroll lock lights.. but all seems to work okay:-)
As a comparison, my Microsoft optical mouse only lasted two years..
I disagree. We need to focus on the quality, not the quantity. We need better planning, not just less of it.
I've been involved with companies who spend forever planning and twice as long coding, and they still produce crap. Why? Because the design is always done by committee, so no really good ideas get out there, and the design always ends up as a preoptimized mess with a few "management-approved" ideas thrown in.
I seriously think a small tag-team (2 or 3 people) should be responsible for projects, and they should take in all of the input and recommendations, and produce a solid spec by themselves.. rather than the typical '10 departments sit around a table for 20 meetings and produce a piece of shit' method.
I've noticed that in-house development is harder too, but I blame a few different things. Politics and the work climate. Nowadays, admins know they can lose their job at the drop of a hat, and as such, they're getting a lot more defensive. Particularly with programmers whose systems might make their jobs a whole lot easier, making them more replaceable!
When you outsource coding, this problem is highlighted more, meaning management can finally do something. In-house programmers are more likely to sit around playing Solitaire and twiddling thumbs when they get a frosty reception from the admins. Freelancers and external people need to show progress before they get their paycheck, so they aren't scared to call out the BS within an organization, or grass up sloppy admins to their bosses.
This is why I'm a freelance programmer. I get to work for lots of different clients, but I also get to see the internal politics from a higher level. I can tell management about the BS going on at the lower levels, and look like I'm doing my job while I'm at it (because I am).
If everyone was like Heatherington and split with the cash as soon as they forced it out of someone's greasy mitts, the economy would suck ass. Heck, the stock market would probably cease to exist.
You need people who keep creating companies and lusting after wealth. It doesn't always work out great for them, but the people who had jobs under them, and the wealth that was created, keeps a capitalist economy going.
People who spend, spend, spend, do a lot better for the economy than the people who hoard.
I pretty much live, work, and sleep all in the same room, sometimes I don't even go outside for a week. But I don't get cabin fever. The several days a month I spend hundreds of miles away from here for recreational purposes and hanging with friends are enough for me.
Maybe it's just me, but while I'm not shy or particularly anti-social, I can only stand to be the hyper-socialite for a few days a month. The rest of the time has to be me-time.
600, Pentium IV 2.4Ghz, 40GB HD, 256MB RAM, smallish screen, but I know a few people who got them and they were over the moon with what they got for the.
I do believe there was a catch, however.. like no CD drive or something.
Okay, perhaps someone here can fill me in. I'm not too au fait with the business models used by these companies, and just stick to my pet distros.. but he said this:
Keep in mind that we do not sell licenses. We sell subscriptions where the value of the bits are integrated with service levels.
This sounds fair, considering Redhat is just a bundle of open source software, with a few pieces of free, but closed source, technology.
But does this mean I could legally get a copy of RedHat Enterprise Server, and install it on as many machines as I want? That is, I don't pay for any support or ongoing upgrades, but I get the benefit of the new Redhat product. Then, for support and upgrades, there's always the community.. or, as I'm sure will happen, a 'free' community effort to keep RES patched against the major problems will spring up.
I was surprised to see The Clangers weren't mentioned yet. The Clangers were little aardvark looking creatures that live on the moon and communicate by whistling. It was a kids' TV program in the UK, but became a typical 'cult' thing with students watching, etc.
The whole program was just these weird puppet things whistling at each other, with some guy narrating over it. Really creepy, but it was quite big at the time.
If in order to escape draconian DMCA-like laws, you get on a big boat and go out in international waters to perform copyright-dangerous actions, then does that make it Piracy on the High Seas?
While L R0n Hubbard wasn't out on the seas to get his fix of MP3 goodies, several Sc1entologist-staffed boats, commandeered by Hubbard, cruised around the Mediterranean for several years at the start of the 70's. The supposed reason was to get away from unrest and persecution of Scient0logy experienced in the UK and the US, and for this purpose, could be considered a good idea.
Unfortunately it didn't go quite so well with the fleet facing problems with authorities all around the Med, and even crowds of angry locals on Madeira.
Of course, there are also rumors that Hubbard was abducted by the US Gov during this time, but you can make your own mind up on that.
I wonder if Linux could become the new Sc1entology:-)
You don't need all these new fangled ideas to stop them browsing porn. Just give them a 28kbps modem, and let them at it. They'll soon get sick of waiting for crap to download and go out and find real people.
I think there's an intrinsic problem with that technique. Buy that, I mean, bayesian filter throw away content like water over the niagra falls. For sure, they're not stiff enough. I think we should focus more on developing technological solutions for better elections.
Anyway, if you want to continue this, come to my WWW site at dotlove amazing tunnel with the dot com on the end.
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ESC-k to go up to last historical command, ESC-j to go down to next historical command, etc.
Well, gee, in bash I just use the up and down arrows. But hey, if you want to press two keys to do the job of those already on your keyboard, be my guest.
Don't forget, a 35mm camera (film or digital) would make a nice Christmas Gift for that budding photographer in your life!
Really? I thought a bag of hammers would have been a much more useful gift to a photographer.
I guess this is why I'm spending Christmas alone. Again.
Get a biggish bucket (pail) that has a flat top that can be covered, and fill it two thirds with water. Get a sweeping broom and a pair of portable ladders.
:-)
Climb up the ladders, hold the bucket against the ceiling, and challenge someone.
"I bet you can't take that broom, push it against the bottom of the bucket, and hold it there for ten seconds."
Of course, that sounds easy, so give them the broom and they do it while you let go of the bucket. Et voila.
Now the good part. Climb down the ladder, and carry them away.
Now everyone gets a laugh as someone is stuck holding a broom with a heavy bucket of water on top. How to get it down? No other way except get drenched
I'm the Vice President of an engineering facility that does space stuff and I thought I'd take the time out of my busy schedule to explain the science behind this story.
Everyone knows about the Big Bang. When the Big Bang happened, all the planets were created and life began. These lifeforms then produced trash from their planets and dispelled it into space, much like we do with our garbage (where else do we keep it? under the 'ground'? *scoff*). This then causes all the showers of trash that we need to avoid when we go to Mars.
I believe the commonly held point of view in the scientific community is that most space trash is caused by life. For example, planets on the other side of the universe launch satellites which eventually turn up here and bombard our planet. But because they took so long to get here, they get dusty and are called meteors or comets. I think some scientists said once that Halley's Comet is a spaceship from the other side of the universe that is very dirty and some aliens wrote 'I wish my wife were as dirty as this' into the surface.
I can't do that in OE either. How can you sort it so all flagged messages are at the top, in reverse date order, then all the other e-mails are below in reverse date order?
I tried clicking on the flag column then the date column but that didn't work. I can only sort by flag OR by date.
Do you know a method I'm missing?
Why? It wasn't your post. To be honest, I was trolling. It just seemed to turn into humor. Mod it accordingly.
That article spent time pointing out how great 2001 and 2002 were.
:-D
Sucks for PC games this year, truly. DoubleDash and Project Gotham 2 are probably the only major 'good' games out there for Xmas.. and they aren't for PC!
I'm sticking with PC in this argument because a) I don't want/don't have the consoles, and b) because PC rules more
Deus-Ex is about it.. with XIII tailing on for a really piss-poor collection of RPGs and MMORPGS. Or if you really want yet another The Sims rip-off add-on or an update to the antique Civilization 3 I imagine it's a bumper Xmas for you. Certainly no Doom 3s, Quake 4s, Half Life 2s, or GTA4s though.
Nothing in these stories specify why they're not releasing the co-ordinates yet, and I thought Slashdot readers might be particularly interested in this.
I work at a computer lab which is used by a branch of a certain space agency (not NASA, but they have similar policies) and we process a lot of data for these folks (It's a bit like SETI@Home, but we get what are called the 'higher level' packets, given only to accredited packets of ramen.)
When you're dealing with signals from large distances (over a few thousand miles) you need a lot of gain on your aerial to get a strong signal. This is why they use giant dishes at places like Aribico, because the largeness of dish allows the signal to be taken and magnified when it gets here, so you get a clearer signal from a noisy signal (for the non scientific people here.. it's like how in CSI they can zoom in a noisy picture and 'clean it up' or look round corners and stuff).
Well, this high gain aerial 'sucks up' (again, non science speak) a lot of the signal. This means if they gave out the co-ordinates everyone would try to listen in to the stuff coming from that area, and diminish all of the signal so that SETI couldn't pick up anything even on their big aerials. It's kinda like how if a radio station has more listeners, they have to turn the signal up.. but we can't tell the aliens to do that!
The same thing happens with light, but to a lesser extent. Theoretically if you had a million people looking at a single LED, the light would be so spread out that it would appear to go off. This is why, as children, we're told not to look at the sun, because if we all did that, we would be plunged into darkness.
Anyway, I hope that cleared it all up.
It's probably somewhere in the early 90's for me when I first got Dune 2.
But, really, isn't this year a shocker? There are no good games out right now. HL2 is delayed, Doom 3 is no existent. XIII looks interesting but gets iffy reviews. Project Gotham Racing 2 is hardly the epitome of gaming. GTA:VC (PC) is now too old to quality for this season, as is UT2003 or Simcity 4.
What's up with 2003?
What interests me about this story is the connection method. Getting a low latency mid-band is not easy. Nor something they should be throwing good resources after just so some soldier can play XBox.
What would be the best way of getting air force bases (in places as far flung as, say, Afghanistan) onto XBox Live at a decent speed with a decent latency? Satellites are ruled out straight away. Microwave links to places with more reliable landline connections?
Simcity 4, but I'm a lamer :-)
I bought a MS Natural Keyboard (sorry, but I can't find any better) about four years ago, and within a couple of months I'd knocked a glass of Coke over it, so went to PC World and bought a new one for 35 (> $50!!). The next time it happened I figured I should save some money and fix it.
:-)
So I opened it up, wiped all the plastic plates down, and cleaned it up.. all worked fine. Great!
So, this keyboard is now almost four years old, but looks like brand new. I've spilled water/coke/OJ/food into it at least six times, and after dismantling and cleaning it, it always comes back AOK.
The only problems are the space bar isn't as mechanically responsive as it once was, and I lost the num lock/caps lock/scroll lock lights.. but all seems to work okay
As a comparison, my Microsoft optical mouse only lasted two years..
I disagree. We need to focus on the quality, not the quantity. We need better planning, not just less of it.
I've been involved with companies who spend forever planning and twice as long coding, and they still produce crap. Why? Because the design is always done by committee, so no really good ideas get out there, and the design always ends up as a preoptimized mess with a few "management-approved" ideas thrown in.
I seriously think a small tag-team (2 or 3 people) should be responsible for projects, and they should take in all of the input and recommendations, and produce a solid spec by themselves.. rather than the typical '10 departments sit around a table for 20 meetings and produce a piece of shit' method.
I've noticed that in-house development is harder too, but I blame a few different things. Politics and the work climate. Nowadays, admins know they can lose their job at the drop of a hat, and as such, they're getting a lot more defensive. Particularly with programmers whose systems might make their jobs a whole lot easier, making them more replaceable!
When you outsource coding, this problem is highlighted more, meaning management can finally do something. In-house programmers are more likely to sit around playing Solitaire and twiddling thumbs when they get a frosty reception from the admins. Freelancers and external people need to show progress before they get their paycheck, so they aren't scared to call out the BS within an organization, or grass up sloppy admins to their bosses.
This is why I'm a freelance programmer. I get to work for lots of different clients, but I also get to see the internal politics from a higher level. I can tell management about the BS going on at the lower levels, and look like I'm doing my job while I'm at it (because I am).
If everyone was like Heatherington and split with the cash as soon as they forced it out of someone's greasy mitts, the economy would suck ass. Heck, the stock market would probably cease to exist.
You need people who keep creating companies and lusting after wealth. It doesn't always work out great for them, but the people who had jobs under them, and the wealth that was created, keeps a capitalist economy going.
People who spend, spend, spend, do a lot better for the economy than the people who hoard.
I pretty much live, work, and sleep all in the same room, sometimes I don't even go outside for a week. But I don't get cabin fever. The several days a month I spend hundreds of miles away from here for recreational purposes and hanging with friends are enough for me.
Maybe it's just me, but while I'm not shy or particularly anti-social, I can only stand to be the hyper-socialite for a few days a month. The rest of the time has to be me-time.
LIDL were selling laptops recently.
.
600, Pentium IV 2.4Ghz, 40GB HD, 256MB RAM, smallish screen, but I know a few people who got them and they were over the moon with what they got for the
I do believe there was a catch, however.. like no CD drive or something.
Okay, perhaps someone here can fill me in. I'm not too au fait with the business models used by these companies, and just stick to my pet distros.. but he said this:
Keep in mind that we do not sell licenses. We sell subscriptions where the value of the bits are integrated with service levels.
This sounds fair, considering Redhat is just a bundle of open source software, with a few pieces of free, but closed source, technology.
But does this mean I could legally get a copy of RedHat Enterprise Server, and install it on as many machines as I want? That is, I don't pay for any support or ongoing upgrades, but I get the benefit of the new Redhat product. Then, for support and upgrades, there's always the community.. or, as I'm sure will happen, a 'free' community effort to keep RES patched against the major problems will spring up.
is that as soon as you posted here, your moderation on that post was deducted!
I was surprised to see The Clangers weren't mentioned yet. The Clangers were little aardvark looking creatures that live on the moon and communicate by whistling. It was a kids' TV program in the UK, but became a typical 'cult' thing with students watching, etc.
The whole program was just these weird puppet things whistling at each other, with some guy narrating over it. Really creepy, but it was quite big at the time.
See pictures of the Clangers.
Lots of other samples, pictures, and bits and bobs at http://www.clangers.co.uk/home.htm
If in order to escape draconian DMCA-like laws, you get on a big boat and go out in international waters to perform copyright-dangerous actions, then does that make it Piracy on the High Seas?
:-)
While L R0n Hubbard wasn't out on the seas to get his fix of MP3 goodies, several Sc1entologist-staffed boats, commandeered by Hubbard, cruised around the Mediterranean for several years at the start of the 70's. The supposed reason was to get away from unrest and persecution of Scient0logy experienced in the UK and the US, and for this purpose, could be considered a good idea.
Unfortunately it didn't go quite so well with the fleet facing problems with authorities all around the Med, and even crowds of angry locals on Madeira.
Of course, there are also rumors that Hubbard was abducted by the US Gov during this time, but you can make your own mind up on that.
I wonder if Linux could become the new Sc1entology
You don't need all these new fangled ideas to stop them browsing porn. Just give them a 28kbps modem, and let them at it. They'll soon get sick of waiting for crap to download and go out and find real people.
even Windows NT/2000 does the initial install from a Curses-like interface.
:-)
And there are plenty of 'curses' in the later parts of the install too
Hurrah, the Genius is back! I thought you'd died or something.
I think there's an intrinsic problem with that technique. Buy that, I mean, bayesian filter throw away content like water over the niagra falls. For sure, they're not stiff enough. I think we should focus more on developing technological solutions for better elections.
Anyway, if you want to continue this, come to my WWW site at dot love amazing tunnel with the dot com on the end.