Eh, who cares? As if you had to type IP addresses that often. IIRC, IPv6 has DHCP or something similar in the protocol so you don't have to enter the DNS address by hand. And there's the "::" thing too.
Going to 48 or 64 bit would be dumb. First, a part of the address space will always be lost to the organization. Second, we might need to upgrade again. Why have this insane mess a second time? Just look at what happened with hard disks. There are maybe 20 disk size limits! If somebody had the great idea of updating computers to manage disks of 2^128 bytes then we'd have got of this mess a long time ago.
Very easy, you set up a Linux router and configure the packet scheduler to make P2P the filler. That is, P2P uses whatever is available. If you start downloading from HTTP then Kaaza slows down to a crawl. Pity that most ADSL routers don't have this feature.
Yup. Like the system we have in Spain, for example. I've got 256/128K ADSL with Telefonica. Costs about 30 euro a month, IIRC, and there are no limits anywhere. One month I remember having used about 26GB without problems.
Hmm, could you please explain how can a CEO engage in insider trading? Isn't s/he inside by definition? And how would Ballmer sell stock otherwise, when he manages the company and probably knows pretty much all that's going on?
I was suggesting Sophie's World because it's a nice place to start. Especially for the people who really believe that there's something deep in Matrix. Just giving somebody a random good book about philosophy probably won't work.
And, I believe that you have to start with a short introduction in all subjects. You don't want to have anything too deeply ingrained in your mind before you learn enough to have your own opinion. Say, in programming, some people never get OO, or pointers, because they focused too much on writing BASIC. In philosophy it seems too easy to take a book, and agree with pretty much everything in it, without knowing that the philosopher that appeared later noticed many problems in the first author's logic.
Um, Sophie's World (missed the L in my post, typo (thanks AC)) *is* a book about philosophy. Maybe you don't have a very high opinion of it, but in any case there's much more there than in Matrix.
Please "innovate" and "invent" the package manager! An incredible amount of trouble would be saved by it.
Yeah, I know that the "Windows installer" with the.msi files exists, and "works", but it's still very far from dpkg or rpm. Just the attempts of Office at configuring itself every time you start it from a new account show it.
Is almost inexistent. Sure there is an interesting idea or two, but compared to real philosophy it's laughable. Heck, try to see almost any movie's script on paper. The dialogue is completely dumb. They throw you a nice idea or two that makes people go "hey!", but that's about it.
For a real, nice introduction to philosophy try with Sophie's Word by Jostein Garder. It's an easy and interesting book to read, and IMO an excellent starting point. There's much more philosophy in that book than in 20 Matrix sequels.
Make the server keep a record of how good you are. Then the game would by default suggest playing against people with a skill similar to your. The cheaters would probably all come out right on the top, and could compete among themselves if that makes them happy.
I see nothing wrong with cheating, if you're doing it on your own, or with people who agree. If you want to have a competition with 10 people to see who cheats better, then why not? Just don't spoil the fun for the rest.
Well, I don't know PostScript, but I see this in the beginning of the source:
/numgens 1000 def
And at the end:
numgens { disp DoGen } repeat
I suppose this means it does 1000 iterations, so it does end. Although I imagine that means it prints 1000 pages, so it'd still be an awful waste of paper.
I guess then Lolo Ferrari would be the kind of woman you'd like? *shudder*
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That's easy, run this from cron: emerge sync emerge -f -u world
Then when you want to compile it, just run emerge -u world by hand
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I think they're the two best distributions, and should complement each other. Debian is great for the server, it's solid and works as it should. That's why it's still on my server.
Gentoo, on the other hand, will give you the latest stuff without problems. You won't have dependency problems like you can have on Debian due to strange package mixes. When you install stuff from 5 unofficial sources you end running into trouble sooner or later.
Oh, and here's a hint if you're thinking about upgrading your hardware and installing Gentoo. Get a dual CPU motherboard. It's not *that* expensive, and it more than compensates the increased cost with great stability and smoothness. I have a dual Athlon MP 2000+ and don't notice that the system is compiling at all. And KDE emerges in about 4 hours.
Heh, same goes for you. Please explain how do you think he could give a solution to that. I mean, this isn't Open Source. He can't just download the tar.gz and make a patch for it. All he could do is perhaps call MS, *paying for the call*, and hope that somebody there fixes the problem.
In Open Source, complaining like this might be frowned upon sometimes. After all, we understand that not every OSS developer works for IBM, and has time and resources to fix every bug.
However, this is commercial software, and closed source to boot. Why should anybody solve Microsoft's problems? Isn't that why people pay for work being done for them in the first place? I think he's doing pretty much the best thing he can do, complaining in public. That's the one thing that seems to work pretty well to get the attention of large companies.
Hey, everything depends on what it's going to be used for. rsync is of course a really bad idea in most cases (I wasn't being completely serious), but if the idea is to make sure that every computer has a copy of your MP3 files, then why not?
Hmm, perhaps I misunderstood the question there. I thought what zoneball wanted was some system that replicated the same data on all the machines and kept it up to date, so that when you change a file on one computer it gets sent to the other 5 automatically.
If some latency is acceptable, you could just setup cron to run rsync, or some other synchronization tool every 5 minutes. Just don't forget to run a NTP server on your network, and synchronize the time on every computer that runs rsync. Otherwise you might lose data due to clocks out of sync.
Humans on a wheelchair still hear, see, smell and feel the world around them. They have restricted movement, but still can move with help. I think comatose humans would be much nearer to the AI that doesn't experience the world.
An artificial environment probably won't take you very far. I'm not sure if there are any well known humans who spent all their life in their room or house, but I doubt that be as creative and intelligent as those who could have a normal life.
I linked to the cache because I didn't have a PDF reader installed at the time, and thought that maybe other people don't as well.
You're right, Itanium 2 can be obtained for that price. I didn't research it much and found this. Anyway, the point was that if you have an Itanium it's almost certainly there for a reason, and doing some improtant work, so an error in Itanium might have much more serious consequences than a web server crashing.
Really, if you find a serious bug in your mail server you can do something. Patch it to do a quick and dirty workaround, perhaps disable a feature, maybe leave it running while you install a different server.
With a bad CPU, especially something like Itanium you're going to take an expensive machine down. You might not have another one available, and it's quite possible that you don't have spare CPUs either. With the price of Itanium I doubt there are many people have spare ones. Besides, even if you have them, they're almost certainly the same model.
Not very uncommon, really. Here are some AMD bugs, for example. I think the deal is that the Itanium has a rather serious problem that's been undetected for a long time. Itanium based computers can cost about $20000, which is why it's a big deal. If you have such a system you probably are running something important on it.
By that definition pretty much everybody is badly socially skilled, excepting the rare people who can come to your house and sell you a vacuum cleaner for 5 times its price.
I suspect that we'd get along well, although it'd look weird to "normal" social people. I completely ignore how I look as well, I haven't used a comb in years. Most people I know here would find that offensive. Heck, the time I felt most in my place was the Hispalinux convention.
I really have no problem talking to techy people, and can chat for hours. On the other hand, I can't stand the people who "socialize" by getting drunk in a bar. Then, at least the 50% of the $RANDOM_JOEs in my area can't imagine that not everybody likes to get drunk and soccer. $RANDOM_JOEs, IMHO, are just as unsociable as I, but have the advantage of being a larger percent of the population. There are *very* few people who are truly sociable.
True, but it still leaves you with the randomness problem. Here's my theory on why this is very unlikely:
Since monkeys aren't random almost certainly nothing that makes sense will be typed. They'll find some way of having fun with say, the carriage return or jamming the typewriter. And since the distribution of QWERTY doesn't really match the usage frequency of the letters the usual "random" typing people do wouldn't make good text. For example, I'll "randomly" type something: lgkljadthglbkads. Now look at it, and you'll see pretty much all of it is in the middle row. If you try better you'll almost certainly be pressing the keys under your hands, in a not completely random order, and moving the hands around the keyboard not very randomly either. Humans don't type randomly, monkeys probably wouldn't either.
One thing you miss is that the Unix filesystem layot is actually well designed. It handles does very important things, like making disaster recovery easier, not needing complicated setups of symlinks or an insanely long $PATH, it's short and so very nice for the command line, and it allows differentiating between packaged stuff and compiled stuff. This last thing is very nice to have since you can easily say, compile Perl and nuke it if you don't like it, without affecting your packaged one.
Simply shoving everything into a structure with less stuff at the root, and long names with spaces and uppercase letters doesn't improve things as much as you think. Why do users need to know what's/usr for, for that matter? Ideally, an newbie user would only use his/her home directory and manage everything else with GUI tools.
Tyan Tiger MP: Dual AMD CPU, up to 4GB ECC Reg RAM (IIRC), PCI64, about $200 Tyan Tiger MPX: Dual AMD CPU, up to 4GB ECC Reg RAM, PCI64, about $260. Registered RAM not needed in the first 2 slots.
A perfectly decent board, btw, I have the second one and it's rock solid. Now, to be completely fair, according to Tyan you will only get 3.5GB or so, depending on configuration due to the address space allocated to AGP and other things. Probably you can get very close to 4GB by using a PCI video card.
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Eh, who cares? As if you had to type IP addresses that often. IIRC, IPv6 has DHCP or something similar in the protocol so you don't have to enter the DNS address by hand. And there's the "::" thing too.
Going to 48 or 64 bit would be dumb. First, a part of the address space will always be lost to the organization. Second, we might need to upgrade again. Why have this insane mess a second time? Just look at what happened with hard disks. There are maybe 20 disk size limits! If somebody had the great idea of updating computers to manage disks of 2^128 bytes then we'd have got of this mess a long time ago.
Very easy, you set up a Linux router and configure the packet scheduler to make P2P the filler. That is, P2P uses whatever is available. If you start downloading from HTTP then Kaaza slows down to a crawl. Pity that most ADSL routers don't have this feature.
Yup. Like the system we have in Spain, for example. I've got 256/128K ADSL with Telefonica. Costs about 30 euro a month, IIRC, and there are no limits anywhere. One month I remember having used about 26GB without problems.
Hmm, could you please explain how can a CEO engage in insider trading? Isn't s/he inside by definition? And how would Ballmer sell stock otherwise, when he manages the company and probably knows pretty much all that's going on?
Ah, true.
I was suggesting Sophie's World because it's a nice place to start. Especially for the people who really believe that there's something deep in Matrix. Just giving somebody a random good book about philosophy probably won't work.
And, I believe that you have to start with a short introduction in all subjects. You don't want to have anything too deeply ingrained in your mind before you learn enough to have your own opinion. Say, in programming, some people never get OO, or pointers, because they focused too much on writing BASIC. In philosophy it seems too easy to take a book, and agree with pretty much everything in it, without knowing that the philosopher that appeared later noticed many problems in the first author's logic.
Um, Sophie's World (missed the L in my post, typo (thanks AC)) *is* a book about philosophy. Maybe you don't have a very high opinion of it, but in any case there's much more there than in Matrix.
Please "innovate" and "invent" the package manager! An incredible amount of trouble would be saved by it.
.msi files exists, and "works", but it's still very far from dpkg or rpm. Just the attempts of Office at configuring itself every time you start it from a new account show it.
Yeah, I know that the "Windows installer" with the
Is almost inexistent. Sure there is an interesting idea or two, but compared to real philosophy it's laughable. Heck, try to see almost any movie's script on paper. The dialogue is completely dumb. They throw you a nice idea or two that makes people go "hey!", but that's about it.
For a real, nice introduction to philosophy try with Sophie's Word by Jostein Garder. It's an easy and interesting book to read, and IMO an excellent starting point. There's much more philosophy in that book than in 20 Matrix sequels.
Make the server keep a record of how good you are. Then the game would by default suggest playing against people with a skill similar to your. The cheaters would probably all come out right on the top, and could compete among themselves if that makes them happy.
I see nothing wrong with cheating, if you're doing it on your own, or with people who agree. If you want to have a competition with 10 people to see who cheats better, then why not? Just don't spoil the fun for the rest.
And at the end:
I suppose this means it does 1000 iterations, so it does end. Although I imagine that means it prints 1000 pages, so it'd still be an awful waste of paper.
I guess then Lolo Ferrari would be the kind of woman you'd like? *shudder*
That's easy, run this from cron:
emerge sync
emerge -f -u world
Then when you want to compile it, just run emerge -u world by hand
I think they're the two best distributions, and should complement each other. Debian is great for the server, it's solid and works as it should. That's why it's still on my server.
Gentoo, on the other hand, will give you the latest stuff without problems. You won't have dependency problems like you can have on Debian due to strange package mixes. When you install stuff from 5 unofficial sources you end running into trouble sooner or later.
Oh, and here's a hint if you're thinking about upgrading your hardware and installing Gentoo. Get a dual CPU motherboard. It's not *that* expensive, and it more than compensates the increased cost with great stability and smoothness. I have a dual Athlon MP 2000+ and don't notice that the system is compiling at all. And KDE emerges in about 4 hours.
Heh, same goes for you. Please explain how do you think he could give a solution to that. I mean, this isn't Open Source. He can't just download the tar.gz and make a patch for it. All he could do is perhaps call MS, *paying for the call*, and hope that somebody there fixes the problem.
In Open Source, complaining like this might be frowned upon sometimes. After all, we understand that not every OSS developer works for IBM, and has time and resources to fix every bug.
However, this is commercial software, and closed source to boot. Why should anybody solve Microsoft's problems? Isn't that why people pay for work being done for them in the first place? I think he's doing pretty much the best thing he can do, complaining in public. That's the one thing that seems to work pretty well to get the attention of large companies.
Hey, everything depends on what it's going to be used for. rsync is of course a really bad idea in most cases (I wasn't being completely serious), but if the idea is to make sure that every computer has a copy of your MP3 files, then why not?
Hmm, perhaps I misunderstood the question there. I thought what zoneball wanted was some system that replicated the same data on all the machines and kept it up to date, so that when you change a file on one computer it gets sent to the other 5 automatically.
If some latency is acceptable, you could just setup cron to run rsync, or some other synchronization tool every 5 minutes. Just don't forget to run a NTP server on your network, and synchronize the time on every computer that runs rsync. Otherwise you might lose data due to clocks out of sync.
Humans on a wheelchair still hear, see, smell and feel the world around them. They have restricted movement, but still can move with help. I think comatose humans would be much nearer to the AI that doesn't experience the world.
An artificial environment probably won't take you very far. I'm not sure if there are any well known humans who spent all their life in their room or house, but I doubt that be as creative and intelligent as those who could have a normal life.
I linked to the cache because I didn't have a PDF reader installed at the time, and thought that maybe other people don't as well.
You're right, Itanium 2 can be obtained for that price. I didn't research it much and found this. Anyway, the point was that if you have an Itanium it's almost certainly there for a reason, and doing some improtant work, so an error in Itanium might have much more serious consequences than a web server crashing.
Because software is easier to replace?
Really, if you find a serious bug in your mail server you can do something. Patch it to do a quick and dirty workaround, perhaps disable a feature, maybe leave it running while you install a different server.
With a bad CPU, especially something like Itanium you're going to take an expensive machine down. You might not have another one available, and it's quite possible that you don't have spare CPUs either. With the price of Itanium I doubt there are many people have spare ones. Besides, even if you have them, they're almost certainly the same model.
Not very uncommon, really. Here are some AMD bugs, for example. I think the deal is that the Itanium has a rather serious problem that's been undetected for a long time. Itanium based computers can cost about $20000, which is why it's a big deal. If you have such a system you probably are running something important on it.
By that definition pretty much everybody is badly socially skilled, excepting the rare people who can come to your house and sell you a vacuum cleaner for 5 times its price.
I suspect that we'd get along well, although it'd look weird to "normal" social people. I completely ignore how I look as well, I haven't used a comb in years. Most people I know here would find that offensive. Heck, the time I felt most in my place was the Hispalinux convention.
I really have no problem talking to techy people, and can chat for hours. On the other hand, I can't stand the people who "socialize" by getting drunk in a bar. Then, at least the 50% of the $RANDOM_JOEs in my area can't imagine that not everybody likes to get drunk and soccer. $RANDOM_JOEs, IMHO, are just as unsociable as I, but have the advantage of being a larger percent of the population. There are *very* few people who are truly sociable.
True, but it still leaves you with the randomness problem. Here's my theory on why this is very unlikely:
Since monkeys aren't random almost certainly nothing that makes sense will be typed. They'll find some way of having fun with say, the carriage return or jamming the typewriter. And since the distribution of QWERTY doesn't really match the usage frequency of the letters the usual "random" typing people do wouldn't make good text. For example, I'll "randomly" type something: lgkljadthglbkads. Now look at it, and you'll see pretty much all of it is in the middle row. If you try better you'll almost certainly be pressing the keys under your hands, in a not completely random order, and moving the hands around the keyboard not very randomly either. Humans don't type randomly, monkeys probably wouldn't either.
One thing you miss is that the Unix filesystem layot is actually well designed. It handles does very important things, like making disaster recovery easier, not needing complicated setups of symlinks or an insanely long $PATH, it's short and so very nice for the command line, and it allows differentiating between packaged stuff and compiled stuff. This last thing is very nice to have since you can easily say, compile Perl and nuke it if you don't like it, without affecting your packaged one.
/usr for, for that matter? Ideally, an newbie user would only use his/her home directory and manage everything else with GUI tools.
Simply shoving everything into a structure with less stuff at the root, and long names with spaces and uppercase letters doesn't improve things as much as you think. Why do users need to know what's
Tyan Tiger MP: Dual AMD CPU, up to 4GB ECC Reg RAM (IIRC), PCI64, about $200
Tyan Tiger MPX: Dual AMD CPU, up to 4GB ECC Reg RAM, PCI64, about $260. Registered RAM not needed in the first 2 slots.
A perfectly decent board, btw, I have the second one and it's rock solid. Now, to be completely fair, according to Tyan you will only get 3.5GB or so, depending on configuration due to the address space allocated to AGP and other things. Probably you can get very close to 4GB by using a PCI video card.