"Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the
tenth century A.D., and lasted until about 1957, when FORTRAN abandoned the
practice."
"Windows 98 has detected that the mouse has moved. Please restart your computer for these changes to take effect."
Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.
My pid is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 my parent process. Prepare to vi.
So what part of rpm, linuxconf, chkconfig and make xconfig do you not understand?
"Press any key if you wish to return to Windows or Control-Alt-Delete if you
wish to close it and reboot. After that action, scream at the top of your
lungs as your computer fails to respond to either of those actions." - The Truthful Windows BSOD
Unix IS user-friendly, it just chooses its friends very carefully.
"Be consistent." - Larry Wall in the perl man page
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.
Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S
relativity."
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon loaded with reels of tape.
Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code "418 I'm a teapot". The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout. - RFC 2324
"I'm not interrupting you, I'm putting our conversation in full-duplex mode." - Antone Roundy
The three triangles of the Berlin logo stands for the tripod upon
which Berlin rests: Courage, Honour, and Frozen Pizza.
X windows:
Accept any substitute.
If it's broke, don't fix it.
If it ain't broke, fix it.
Form follows malfunction.
The Cutting Edge of Obsolescence.
The trailing edge of software technology.
Armageddon never looked so good.
Japan's secret weapon.
You'll envy the dead.
Making the world safe for competing window systems.
Let it get in YOUR way.
The problem for your problem.
If it starts working, we'll fix it. Pronto.
It could be worse, but it'll take time.
Simplicity made complex.
The greatest productivity aid since typhoid.
Flakey and built to stay that way.
Strangers have the best candy. - t-shirt seen at DefCon 8.0
"Perl is Internet Yiddish." - Yoz Graehme
"And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space,
because that's exactly how much difference there is." - Larry Wall
"I *made up* the term 'object-oriented,' and I can tell you I did *not* have C++ in mind." - Alan Kay, one of the inventors/designers of Smalltalk.
A computer without a Microsoft operating system is like a dog without bricks tied to its head.
But, seriously, who gives a shit what's in any MS EULA? We all know there's going to be bullshit in any MS EULA, just as we all knew they were going to try and patent their.NET stuff, just as we all knew they'd worm their way out of real antitrust punishments. I hate to sound pessimistic here, but c'mon, does the real world ever show up around here? Ignore EULAs (MS or not) and get on with your day.
Yes, this'll hurt my karma, but I've got plenty to spare and this is actually therapeutic.
You know, another great thing about the Moon over Mars is the decorating possibilities. No, seriously, it's all grey, so you can match that with any colours you want in your habitat. But Mars, all that orangey-red, you know _that's_ gotta reduce your available colour choices something awful!
Plus, check out the view from the Moon versus the one from Mars. The Sun is a spec in the sky from Mars, but the Moon not only has the same view of the Sun as from Earth, it's also got the Earth in the sky - how fantastic is *that*?!
And for the "This Old Habitat" crowd - all that Moon dust should make for some schweet mooncrete mix for making places to live. I dunno about the Mars dirt...
And that's not even _talking_ about all the free green cheese...
> No, you can't use a CD-R/W as a floppy, because it isn't really rewritable, but rather erasable. You have to erase the whole thing at a time, rather than changing one byte like you can a floppy or hard disk.
Doesn't that depend on the filesystem used on said CD-R/W?
I think these things require boot floppy *images*, not necessarily an actual boot floppy. Such images are widely available online with various drivers.
This, of course, assumes you even need CD-ROM drivers. If you just need an emergency boot to access your HD and fix things, a bootable USB pen drive would be pretty sweet.
Before anything, the entire administration section of NASA should probably be gutted. Or, at the very least, the bozos at the top who have really screwed up things the last several years. The whole "cheaper, faster, better" thing has been a colossal failure. You know you've got serious problems when a simple measurement conversion problem loses an entire mission!
So, first step, fix the personnel problem at NASA.
Next, define the goals. Are we going to concentrate on a manned mission to Mars? More probes? More LEO (low Earth orbit) stuff like ISS, etc.? These all have vastly different requirements and budgets, and the manned stuff is much, much more expensive. Unless you can get funding for all of it (not gonna happen, especially with a Republican government and in this economy), then something's gonna hafta give. Until the priorities are set, it's silly to assign budgets, because you don't know what you need.
For my personal preferences, I'd say cut down on the probes for now and concentrate on a shuttle replacement (DC-X anyone? A craft that can have a fuel tank explode and still make a controlled landing is okay in my book!), and a manned Mars mission. An addition to the ISS to house astronauts until a rescue could be attempted would be nice. (I've been wondering lately - if they HAD been able to verify that there was tile damage done to the Columbia, could they have stayed on the ISS until a rescue craft could be sent?)
Okay, I have used Travelocity for airline tickets for years with no real troubles. You can definitely save some real cash this way.
But...
For something as important as a honeymoon, I don't think I'd do it. See, the way that online ticket pleaces work is that they offer tickets with all sorts of restrictions (both on time and on convenience). Let's say something happens to your schedule and you want to delay a flight. Well, many of those cheap tickets can't BE delayed, at least, not without fees that often exceed the price you paid for the cheap tickets. No, for something "mission critical" like a honeymoon, do yourself a favour and go with a real (and respected - ask around) travel agent. A travel agent will be even more valuable for the non-flight portions of the trip (hotels, destinations, etc.), as a good and experienced travel agent will often have personal experience with destinations. If you can, go to a travel agent that specializes in your chosen destination(s).
Wow - thanks for mentioning this! I got it and did a little test:
38,247 trek-distance2.gif original GIF 56,857 trek-distance2-ps.png first PNG converted by Photoshop 7 34,276 trek-distance2-pc.png compressed with pngcrush 31,531 trek-distance2-po.png compressed with pngout
That's a pretty good compression even over pngcrush, much less over photoshop. Plus that pngcrush one was done with '-brute', to get the absolute best compression it's capable of.
Not only that, but the pngout executable is less than 10% the size of the pngcrush executable. That's some sweet coding. He apparently uses Watcom C - I've asked the author for the source to see if I can get it to work with gcc. It's a console app, so if I can get it to work in gcc/win32 (I'm using Bloodshed's Dev-C++ package), then it should work pretty well with anything else, I'm hoping.
What IS it with Photoshop's crappy PNG compression? I'm using v7.0.1 (which, I must say, is way, WAY buggy.). *shrug*
> And web developers are still upset that PNG didn't include animation. > To them, GIF is good enough, and nobody has hassled their site yet. > Why should they change to something less compatible with less features?
I don't know what web developers you're talking about, but I certainly don't feel that way. My latest site uses nothing but PNGs and JPEGs. I don't know of anyone still using animated GIFs except for badly-designed e-commerce sites. Animated GIFs are _so_ last millennium, you know.:) If you want something animated these days, most designers seem to use Flash.
FYI - if you're creating PNGs from Photoshop, you should then compress them further with 'pngcrush' (Google to find it) - saves more space! When I changed all my GIFs to PNGs and then used pngcrush on them, they shrunk by about 40% or so. Schweet!
Oh, c'mon - everyone knows Australians kill crocs, not the other way 'round! I've seen three documentaries about this, in fact! ("Crocodile Dundee 1, 2, and 3", I think they were called.)
Wow - the extinction of sharks would mean that Australians could only be killed by dingos - you know that's gotta increase the expected lifespan of Australians by a lot!:)
There are two different versions of each 'cuda V drive - 2meg buffer versions (model numbers end in 23A and 23S) and an 8meg versions (model #'s end in 24A and 24S).
The point in saying that it won't make any difference anyway was just to clarify that for people who wouldn't know that, in general, the interface doesn't matter, assuming the interface is implemented correctly, which we won't know until a p-ata version is tested against an s-ata version.
Out of every benchmark I've seen of the new Seagate Barracuda V S-ATA drives, _none_ of them benchmark against it's parallel ATA brother, but instead benchmark it against either an older generation drive, or a drive of another manufacturer completely.
Look, if you want to know how SATA performs, benching one of these 'cuda V drives against a western digital p-ata drive isn't going to tell you anything. Those drives from Seagate aren't all that fast compared to drives from Maxtor or WD (or IBM/Fujitsu).
Expecting SATA to speed anything up is pretty ridiculous - the drive mechanism is what determines performance in current hard drives - we're nowhere near ATA drives that can match even ATA100 speeds (even burst rates are only reaching ATA66 speeds, if that!).
SATA won't increase your speed, PERIOD. New generation drives with higher data density, etc., are what speed up drives. The interface doesn't matter in speed.
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"Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the
tenth century A.D., and lasted until about 1957, when FORTRAN abandoned the
practice."
"Windows 98 has detected that the mouse has moved.
Please restart your computer for these changes to take effect."
Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.
My pid is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 my parent process. Prepare to vi.
So what part of rpm, linuxconf, chkconfig and make xconfig do you not understand?
"Press any key if you wish to return to Windows or Control-Alt-Delete if you
wish to close it and reboot. After that action, scream at the top of your
lungs as your computer fails to respond to either of those actions."
- The Truthful Windows BSOD
Unix IS user-friendly, it just chooses its friends very carefully.
"Be consistent."
- Larry Wall in the perl man page
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.
Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S
relativity."
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon loaded with reels of tape.
Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error
code "418 I'm a teapot". The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout.
- RFC 2324
"I'm not interrupting you, I'm putting our conversation in full-duplex mode."
- Antone Roundy
The three triangles of the Berlin logo stands for the tripod upon
which Berlin rests: Courage, Honour, and Frozen Pizza.
X windows:
Accept any substitute.
If it's broke, don't fix it.
If it ain't broke, fix it.
Form follows malfunction.
The Cutting Edge of Obsolescence.
The trailing edge of software technology.
Armageddon never looked so good.
Japan's secret weapon.
You'll envy the dead.
Making the world safe for competing window systems.
Let it get in YOUR way.
The problem for your problem.
If it starts working, we'll fix it. Pronto.
It could be worse, but it'll take time.
Simplicity made complex.
The greatest productivity aid since typhoid.
Flakey and built to stay that way.
Strangers have the best candy.
- t-shirt seen at DefCon 8.0
"Perl is Internet Yiddish."
- Yoz Graehme
"And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space,
because that's exactly how much difference there is."
- Larry Wall
"I *made up* the term 'object-oriented,' and I can tell you I did *not*
have C++ in mind."
- Alan Kay, one of the inventors/designers of Smalltalk.
A computer without a Microsoft operating system is like a dog without bricks tied to its head.
Cross platform apps are like unisex underwear.
But, seriously, who gives a shit what's in any MS EULA? We all know there's going to be bullshit in any MS EULA, just as we all knew they were going to try and patent their .NET stuff, just as we all knew they'd worm their way out of real antitrust punishments. I hate to sound pessimistic here, but c'mon, does the real world ever show up around here? Ignore EULAs (MS or not) and get on with your day.
Yes, this'll hurt my karma, but I've got plenty to spare and this is actually therapeutic.
"Du Jour is about technology."
You know, another great thing about the Moon over Mars is the decorating possibilities. No, seriously, it's all grey, so you can match that with any colours you want in your habitat. But Mars, all that orangey-red, you know _that's_ gotta reduce your available colour choices something awful!
Plus, check out the view from the Moon versus the one from Mars. The Sun is a spec in the sky from Mars, but the Moon not only has the same view of the Sun as from Earth, it's also got the Earth in the sky - how fantastic is *that*?!
And for the "This Old Habitat" crowd - all that Moon dust should make for some schweet mooncrete mix for making places to live. I dunno about the Mars dirt...
And that's not even _talking_ about all the free green cheese...
> No, you can't use a CD-R/W as a floppy, because it isn't really rewritable, but rather erasable. You have to erase the whole thing at a time, rather than changing one byte like you can a floppy or hard disk.
Doesn't that depend on the filesystem used on said CD-R/W?
Well, then, they'll just use their ANTI-anti-NAT technology!
"No, no, not 'Anti-NAT," that's my Aunt Natalie!"
You've obviously never seen the writings of crackers or hackers. :^)
I think these things require boot floppy *images*, not necessarily an actual boot floppy. Such images are widely available online with various drivers.
This, of course, assumes you even need CD-ROM drivers. If you just need an emergency boot to access your HD and fix things, a bootable USB pen drive would be pretty sweet.
He has good grammar and spelling. :)
Okay, then, give it a shot and report back, Agent Stevel.
If you or any of your team are caught, we will disavow all knowledge of your operation, of course.
I love the idea of these things, but I wonder - can you boot off a USB device yet?
:)
What would be neat is booting off a bootable CD-R/W, and being able to use it in R/W mode. *That's* a floppy replacement.
Now if you could just put it in a square black plastic sleeve, you could boot it "old school"!
Before anything, the entire administration section of NASA should probably be gutted. Or, at the very least, the bozos at the top who have really screwed up things the last several years. The whole "cheaper, faster, better" thing has been a colossal failure. You know you've got serious problems when a simple measurement conversion problem loses an entire mission!
So, first step, fix the personnel problem at NASA.
Next, define the goals. Are we going to concentrate on a manned mission to Mars? More probes? More LEO (low Earth orbit) stuff like ISS, etc.? These all have vastly different requirements and budgets, and the manned stuff is much, much more expensive. Unless you can get funding for all of it (not gonna happen, especially with a Republican government and in this economy), then something's gonna hafta give. Until the priorities are set, it's silly to assign budgets, because you don't know what you need.
For my personal preferences, I'd say cut down on the probes for now and concentrate on a shuttle replacement (DC-X anyone? A craft that can have a fuel tank explode and still make a controlled landing is okay in my book!), and a manned Mars mission. An addition to the ISS to house astronauts until a rescue could be attempted would be nice. (I've been wondering lately - if they HAD been able to verify that there was tile damage done to the Columbia, could they have stayed on the ISS until a rescue craft could be sent?)
You could take the other meaning of 'cheaper', as in, 'crappier,' whenever you see that argument.
hehe
...but not as we know them.
Ahem.
"Cats and dogs, living together...MASS HYSTERIA!"
Okay, I have used Travelocity for airline tickets for years with no real troubles. You can definitely save some real cash this way.
But...
For something as important as a honeymoon, I don't think I'd do it. See, the way that online ticket pleaces work is that they offer tickets with all sorts of restrictions (both on time and on convenience). Let's say something happens to your schedule and you want to delay a flight. Well, many of those cheap tickets can't BE delayed, at least, not without fees that often exceed the price you paid for the cheap tickets. No, for something "mission critical" like a honeymoon, do yourself a favour and go with a real (and respected - ask around) travel agent. A travel agent will be even more valuable for the non-flight portions of the trip (hotels, destinations, etc.), as a good and experienced travel agent will often have personal experience with destinations. If you can, go to a travel agent that specializes in your chosen destination(s).
Good luck and have fun!
Wow - thanks for mentioning this! I got it and did a little test:
38,247 trek-distance2.gif original GIF
56,857 trek-distance2-ps.png first PNG converted by Photoshop 7
34,276 trek-distance2-pc.png compressed with pngcrush
31,531 trek-distance2-po.png compressed with pngout
That's a pretty good compression even over pngcrush, much less over photoshop. Plus that pngcrush one was done with '-brute', to get the absolute best compression
it's capable of.
Not only that, but the pngout executable is less than 10% the size of the pngcrush executable. That's some sweet coding. He apparently uses Watcom C - I've asked the author for the source to see if I can get it to work with gcc. It's a console app, so if I can get it to work in gcc/win32 (I'm using Bloodshed's Dev-C++ package), then it should work pretty well with anything else, I'm hoping.
What IS it with Photoshop's crappy PNG compression? I'm using v7.0.1 (which, I must say, is way, WAY buggy.). *shrug*
> And web developers are still upset that PNG didn't include animation.
:) If you want something animated these days, most designers seem to use Flash.
> To them, GIF is good enough, and nobody has hassled their site yet.
> Why should they change to something less compatible with less features?
I don't know what web developers you're talking about, but I certainly don't feel that way. My latest site uses nothing but PNGs and JPEGs. I don't know of anyone still using animated GIFs except for badly-designed e-commerce sites. Animated GIFs are _so_ last millennium, you know.
FYI - if you're creating PNGs from Photoshop, you should then compress them further with 'pngcrush' (Google to find it) - saves more space! When I changed all my GIFs to PNGs and then used pngcrush on them, they shrunk by about 40% or so. Schweet!
Oh, c'mon - everyone knows Australians kill crocs, not the other way 'round! I've seen three documentaries about this, in fact! ("Crocodile Dundee 1, 2, and 3", I think they were called.)
Wow - the extinction of sharks would mean that Australians could only be killed by dingos - you know that's gotta increase the expected lifespan of Australians by a lot! :)
Maybe so, but benchmarks aren't testing assembly time. :)
There are two different versions of each 'cuda V drive - 2meg buffer versions (model numbers end in 23A and 23S) and an 8meg versions (model #'s end in 24A and 24S).
The point in saying that it won't make any difference anyway was just to clarify that for people who wouldn't know that, in general, the interface doesn't matter, assuming the interface is implemented correctly, which we won't know until a p-ata version is tested against an s-ata version.
Out of every benchmark I've seen of the new Seagate Barracuda V S-ATA drives, _none_ of them benchmark against it's parallel ATA brother, but instead benchmark it against either an older generation drive, or a drive of another manufacturer completely.
Look, if you want to know how SATA performs, benching one of these 'cuda V drives against a western digital p-ata drive isn't going to tell you anything. Those drives from Seagate aren't all that fast compared to drives from Maxtor or WD (or IBM/Fujitsu).
Expecting SATA to speed anything up is pretty ridiculous - the drive mechanism is what determines performance in current hard drives - we're nowhere near ATA drives that can match even ATA100 speeds (even burst rates are only reaching ATA66 speeds, if that!).
SATA won't increase your speed, PERIOD. New generation drives with higher data density, etc., are what speed up drives. The interface doesn't matter in speed.
FYI.
uce@ftc.gov
Really.
My mind had images more along the lines of the movie, "God of Cookery":
"Nice use of folding-chair!"