I have a Swisstool and a mini screwdriver stashed in my backpack, and they're all I need for minor repairs. The blades on the swisstool are hard to open (I think it needs to be lubricated) but it hasn't broken despite a few stupid things I did with it.
I tend to do that while I'm building parts of programs, but I delete them when I'm done. When I killed the 'blocked out' lines from my current project prior to deploying it, I noticed the line count drop by half. At least I tend to over-comment when I comment.
Right now I'm deploying a tiny Perl program that monitors all the servers at work and sends nastygrams when they go down. It's running on two servers at my location and once I get this little Linux system built, it'll be running on one server downtown. Most of the web-related things here are also in Perl. The only other language I really use is C, to make local modifications to various daemons.
Or, moderators could be only be allowed to moderate with a threshold of 0 or 1 - although this would probably have the side effect of no moderation on the MS article (with 700+ comments).
If a Linux kernel can only see 970 MB RAM, it's been misconfigured. To make it see more, there's a source file that has to be edited - but why isn't it an option selectable from 'make config'? SMP is... maybe this'll motivate the change.
I modified that Process Roulette script so that I can specify a victim user; I think I did another change, but I forgot what it was supposed to do. Now if only I could remember where I put it....
I've become reasonably fast at one-handed QWERTY (although the shift keys are somewhat difficult to use). This comment was typed with my left hand (I'm right-handed) while I rested my chin on the other hand, except for the part I typed with my hands reversed.
If none of this really exists and we're all in vats somewhere, there could be some mechanism built in to allow one to su and modify what we percieve as reality.
On a diffirent exam, the AP Calculus test, there are guaranteed to be at least six problems that are unsolvable without a graphing calculator...
Although I haven't taken the SAT yet, if the PSAT (practice SAT) is any measure of what the SAT is like, a calculator would not be of use except for arithmatic and possibly to calculate trig functions. While both can be done by hand or mentally, it's faster to use a calculator to find an arcsin than to to start drawing special triangles to generate a unit circle. If the test is only to see how fast you can do arithmatic, and not also to see what you can do with the arithmatic, it should be in the format of the 'time-tests' that I was always horrible at in elementary school. Calculators _can_ be inappropriate for some tests - a calculator would not be approprite for a time-test, and the (somewhat rare) calculators with computer algebra systems would not be appropriate on tests solely of algebraic manipulation - but calcultors are entirely appropriate on a test of general math skill. Just because I'm slow to multiply and divide dosen't mean I can't integrate and derive.
A calculator is not a magic device that enables stupid people to pass tests. If you don't know what you're doing in the first place the calculator isn't going to be of much help.
With computers, abuse can sometimes be used to rectify past abuse. Some of the keys on my laptop's keyboard don't seem to work unless the system is bent at a certain angle; although it looks like I'm abusing it I'm actually trying to use 'g', 'h', '\'', uparrow, and escape. It first happened after the computer fell off a table under a load of books... the same accident broke the CD-ROM drive so it has to be taped closed.
I've also run into monitors that go whacked until whacked - the one downstairs (attached to the computer I fried the BIOS of) has a funny green channel, the other (at school) has a slightly less funny red channel.
With computers, abuse can sometimes be used to rectify past abuse. Some of the keys on my laptop's keyboard don't seem to work unless the system is bent at a certain angle; although it looks like I'm abusing it I'm actually trying to use 'g', 'h', '\'', uparrow, and escape. It first happened after the computer fell
I've also run into monitors that go whacked until whacked - one has a funny green channel, the other (at school) has a slightly less funny red channel.
I've been looking for a dead CD-ROM drive to use as a cupholder - it'd compliment my AOL coasters. Only thing is, the only dead drives I've found so far either take a caddy or have the laser built into the tray...
It looks fine in Netscape, but in Lynx the columns of checkboxes are all one column, with the Author/Topic/Section labels at the very top of the single column.
Poke around glubco.com and you'll find a microwave weapon. Heck, you could probably get a microwave weapon by defeating the safety switch that keeps your microwave from running with the door open.
Why do I keep hearing the media say that the chip transmits its ID to the net? The only way for the chip to do that would be if it implemented a TCP/IP stack in hardware. Otherwise, it's just the software running on the chip that's doing the transmitting.
That said, my next machine still won't be an x86 box.
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I have a Swisstool and a mini screwdriver stashed in my backpack, and they're all I need for minor repairs. The blades on the swisstool are hard to open (I think it needs to be lubricated) but it hasn't broken despite a few stupid things I did with it.
I tend to do that while I'm building parts of programs, but I delete them when I'm done. When I killed the 'blocked out' lines from my current project prior to deploying it, I noticed the line count drop by half. At least I tend to over-comment when I comment.
Right now I'm deploying a tiny Perl program that monitors all the servers at work and sends nastygrams when they go down. It's running on two servers at my location and once I get this little Linux system built, it'll be running on one server downtown. Most of the web-related things here are also in Perl. The only other language I really use is C, to make local modifications to various daemons.
Or, moderators could be only be allowed to moderate with a threshold of 0 or 1 - although this would probably have the side effect of no moderation on the MS article (with 700+ comments).
If a Linux kernel can only see 970 MB RAM, it's been misconfigured. To make it see more, there's a source file that has to be edited - but why isn't it an option selectable from 'make config'? SMP is... maybe this'll motivate the change.
I modified that Process Roulette script so that I can specify a victim user; I think I did another change, but I forgot what it was supposed to do. Now if only I could remember where I put it....
I've become reasonably fast at one-handed QWERTY (although the shift keys are somewhat difficult to use). This comment was typed with my left hand (I'm right-handed) while I rested my chin on the other hand, except for the part I typed with my hands reversed.
If none of this really exists and we're all in vats somewhere, there could be some mechanism built in to allow one to su and modify what we percieve as reality.
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On a diffirent exam, the AP Calculus test, there are guaranteed to be at least six problems that are unsolvable without a graphing calculator...
Although I haven't taken the SAT yet, if the PSAT (practice SAT) is any measure of what the SAT is like, a calculator would not be of use except for arithmatic and possibly to calculate trig functions. While both can be done by hand or mentally, it's faster to use a calculator to find an arcsin than to to start drawing special triangles to generate a unit circle. If the test is only to see how fast you can do arithmatic, and not also to see what you can do with the arithmatic, it should be in the format of the 'time-tests' that I was always horrible at in elementary school. Calculators _can_ be inappropriate for some tests - a calculator would not be approprite for a time-test, and the (somewhat rare) calculators with computer algebra systems would not be appropriate on tests solely of algebraic manipulation - but calcultors are entirely appropriate on a test of general math skill. Just because I'm slow to multiply and divide dosen't mean I can't integrate and derive.
A calculator is not a magic device that enables stupid people to pass tests. If you don't know what you're doing in the first place the calculator isn't going to be of much help.
Before you flame Rob, remember freshmeat.
It's only at the K-12 schools - The U's network connection goes through UEN but is not filtered.
They block port 80 to all hosts except their censoring proxy and an internal server that has proxy configuration files for people's web browsers.
With computers, abuse can sometimes be used to rectify past abuse. Some of the keys on my laptop's keyboard don't seem to work unless the system is bent at a certain angle; although it looks like I'm abusing it I'm actually trying to use 'g', 'h', '\'', uparrow, and escape. It first happened after the computer fell off a table under a load of books... the same accident broke the CD-ROM drive so it has to be taped closed.
I've also run into monitors that go whacked until whacked - the one downstairs (attached to the computer I fried the BIOS of) has a funny green channel, the other (at school) has a slightly less funny red channel.
With computers, abuse can sometimes be used to rectify past abuse. Some of the keys on my laptop's keyboard don't seem to work unless the system is bent at a certain angle; although it looks like I'm abusing it I'm actually trying to use 'g', 'h', '\'', uparrow, and escape. It first happened after the computer fell
I've also run into monitors that go whacked until whacked - one has a funny green channel, the other (at school) has a slightly less funny red channel.
I've been looking for a dead CD-ROM drive to use as a cupholder - it'd compliment my AOL coasters. Only thing is, the only dead drives I've found so far either take a caddy or have the laser built into the tray...
It looks fine in Netscape, but in Lynx the columns of checkboxes are all one column, with the Author/Topic/Section labels at the very top of the single column.
I tried turning a normal mouse into a foot mouse. It didn't work too well - I think I prefer operating a touchpad with my thumbs.
Out of curiosity, is eth0 an eepro100 card?
Does doing `ifconfig eth0 promisc' make the problem go away?
Sometimes I wish everything _would_ fall apart when the clock rolls over to 2000....
Didn't that happen in some old movie? Where the robots turned agains the people and made them into slaves in revenge for their years of servitude?
A few months ago I noticed a tape calculator with a little sticker on it saying it had been tested for Y2K compliance.
Poke around glubco.com and you'll find a microwave weapon. Heck, you could probably get a microwave weapon by defeating the safety switch that keeps your microwave from running with the door open.
Why do I keep hearing the media say that the chip transmits its ID to the net? The only way for the chip to do that would be if it implemented a TCP/IP stack in hardware. Otherwise, it's just the software running on the chip that's doing the transmitting.
That said, my next machine still won't be an x86 box.
*uncorrupted* backups
(I'm SOOO glad I don't have to back up over appleshare to a Zip disk anymore!)