I agree and all, DLT is definately the shit. 30 year shelf life is great. And DLT robots start at around 4 grand.
Sucks when the tapes come off the spindel though. Expensive as hell to fix, but you can do it yourself.
However, going through a slipped spindel and a buffer underrun, I think I'd choose the underrun (which takes about 3 seconds to deal with- the disk is trash) over the 3-4 hours of getting up and running again with DLT.
I used to have that problem. Then I realized I just wasn't eating the right food. I needed *grease*. There was a 24x7 place that sold BLTs for 39 (my God I miss that place), and since then a new place has popped up with burritos you have to wear a towel when you eat because the grease soaks through the tortilla, the paper, *and* the 3 paper towels. Big too.
Either item works quite nicely, for me, and with all that grease in my system my body shuts down about the same time as my brain does.
Many many many project deadlines met with greasy burritoes and BLTs..
I almost reached for a flounder to smack you with while yelling "RTFM" but choose not to..:)
Try running perldoc perl (or man perl if you are using *nix) and search for the keyword "delta".
From the doc on my 5.6.1 (sorry, I have not upgraded yet):
perldelta Perl changes since previous version
perl5005delta Perl changes in version 5.005
perl5004delta Perl changes in version 5.004
It's all there, Larry isn't about to leave you out in the dark. Well, he would if he thought it was funny, but I don't think he does.
-- I knew I'd hate COBOL the moment I saw they'd used "perform" instead of "do".
-- Larry Wall
They (the list administrators for securityfocus.com) have sent me this about a billion times now- one copy to each list I subscribe too. Then I check slashdot for a break from all the email spam and there it is again..
So I guess that means that Symantec has acquired SecurityFocus. I also heard that Symantec has acquired SecurityFocus. And in related news, yeah, you guessed it- Symantec has acquired SecurityFocus.
Look here and read about Linus' thoughts about how Tux should look (this is from the early days before Linux had a logo).
After you've read the whole article, it should be quite obvious that Linus has a "thing" for penquins. If you've read up on Linus at all you would know that it probably borders on a fetish.
Now re-read that last paragraph and ask yourself- what exactly was Linus doing that had him being chased by a speeding penguin..
I think the marrage was just a publicity stunt, much like when Troy McLore married Thelma..
I used to use Bearshare, but they started putting in ads, even *popup* ads. So I switched to Limewire, who also starting using ads. You can buy the product to get rid of them, but there are just too many programs like that to bother with it. Now I use mutella, and I actually like it a lot more because it's lightweight and I can run it on my home boxen from anywhere using screen. I'll probably end up buying limewire someday, but I havn't cared since the ads came into play.
The point is, as soon as I start seeing ads get built into a tool, application, or whatever, I lose interest. And as has been pointed out, it's easy enough to strip out the ads code anyway.
Maybe an ads for the precompiled versions, and the availablility of a paid for version without the ads? I suppose it's more likely to work for some people.
Another idea is to have a switch for configure like so:
./configure --disable-ads
that triggers a blurb at the bottom of the configure and the make saying that I'm breaking their hearts. At least then it's a reminder and will probably prevent a whole add-striping patch project..
I've gotten both the Verisign and the DRA letter, and after reading both in light of the Veresign suit, the DRA letter is VERY clear that submitting the form back to them will switch your registry to them
I've gotten both too. And I liked the Verisign one more. Why? Prepaid postage. I was able to let them know how I felt about it without wasting a stamp.
The DRA letter comes with an envelope with a "place postage stamp here". I was annoyed, but not annoyed enough to waste 37 cents to complain to them.
Replacement BIOS -
$55,000 Kernel and XFree drivers - $25,000 FATX and miscellaneous - $10,000 XBE bootloader $10,000 Run unsigned code on an Xbox without any hardware modification - $100,000
Turning Microsoft's business against them - Priceless
we gave up when 6th came out. We just couldn't keep up any more. 40,000 cards in a box and when we do play, it's with a few cherished sets that we enjoy playing.
As for keeping up, who would want to. After the reworking of trample (or is it nuked entirely?), the base edition becoming a handicapped beginners version to be supplimented by boosters for advanced play, and the endless rule changes/redefinitions/updates (so what exactly, it ends up being a lawyers game.
More fun to stick with the cards you know and love and let the game move on without you..
The disgruntled employee must check in to defuse the bomb once a week.
If he doesn't (ie, if he got canned....) A week later, the business is going to grapple with an unfortunate surprise.
Totally underhanded, but not at all uncommon.
That is underhanded, and I would think could get you into a lot of trouble.
I typically put scripts for things like log rotation & email alerts in my home directory and have them spawned by cron jobs. Or re-spawning at jobs.
The idea is a clever admin who is paying attention will migrate my stuff over and all is well. But the typical admin will just nuke my account.. Nothing like turning off nightly log compression on a few hundred websites to make someone feel the heat.
all the obscure Emacs keybindings are so well known by its users (and developers), they can't be changed?
I can't remember the version, but it was around '95 that emacs *did* have several changes made to the keybindings in ange-ftp.
ange-ftp is why I learned emacs. It provided the ability to manipulate remote files seamlessly, and download files in a hidden window while you did whatever wanted to do with emacs. With the crypt++ add-on, you could even edit remote.gz files. It was just about the best thing since the linux doom port.
Then it changed, what used to be "copy the file" became "chmod the file" (if I remember correctly), and a several other changes happened at the same time. A real pain in the butt dealing with the context switches on different systems with different versions of emacs. Granted it could be handled with some elisp changes, but eventually I switched to vi.. which hasn't changed.
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I agree and all, DLT is definately the shit. 30 year shelf life is great. And DLT robots start at around 4 grand.
Sucks when the tapes come off the spindel though. Expensive as hell to fix, but you can do it yourself.
However, going through a slipped spindel and a buffer underrun, I think I'd choose the underrun (which takes about 3 seconds to deal with- the disk is trash) over the 3-4 hours of getting up and running again with DLT.
It really depends what you are doing.
I hope you are planning to tell us where exactly you plan to be in 2018..
Either item works quite nicely, for me, and with all that grease in my system my body shuts down about the same time as my brain does.
Many many many project deadlines met with greasy burritoes and BLTs..
give me support if it doesn't work in my environment.
::shudder::
If that's a primary concern, I wonder what you are using. Ultrix maybe? OS/390?
2.4 is in no way stable yet.
/me thinks he was kidding..
I almost reached for a flounder to smack you with while yelling "RTFM" but choose not to.. :)
Try running perldoc perl (or man perl if you are using *nix) and search for the keyword "delta".
From the doc on my 5.6.1 (sorry, I have not upgraded yet):
perldelta Perl changes since previous version
perl5005delta Perl changes in version 5.005
perl5004delta Perl changes in version 5.004
It's all there, Larry isn't about to leave you out in the dark. Well, he would if he thought it was funny, but I don't think he does.
--
I knew I'd hate COBOL the moment I saw they'd used "perform" instead of "do".
-- Larry Wall
They (the list administrators for securityfocus.com) have sent me this about a billion times now- one copy to each list I subscribe too. Then I check slashdot for a break from all the email spam and there it is again..
So I guess that means that Symantec has acquired SecurityFocus. I also heard that Symantec has acquired SecurityFocus. And in related news, yeah, you guessed it- Symantec has acquired SecurityFocus.
this is a pronoun. I think we need a noun to answer your question.
here and read about Linus' thoughts about how Tux should look (this is from the early days before Linux had a logo).
After you've read the whole article, it should be quite obvious that Linus has a "thing" for penquins. If you've read up on Linus at all you would know that it probably borders on a fetish.
Now re-read that last paragraph and ask yourself- what exactly was Linus doing that had him being chased by a speeding penguin..
I think the marrage was just a publicity stunt, much like when Troy McLore married Thelma
The point is, as soon as I start seeing ads get built into a tool, application, or whatever, I lose interest. And as has been pointed out, it's easy enough to strip out the ads code anyway.
Maybe an ads for the precompiled versions, and the availablility of a paid for version without the ads? I suppose it's more likely to work for some people.
Another idea is to have a switch for configure like so: that triggers a blurb at the bottom of the configure and the make saying that I'm breaking their hearts. At least then it's a reminder and will probably prevent a whole add-striping patch project..
is right here.
I've gotten both the Verisign and the DRA letter, and after reading both in light of the Veresign suit, the DRA letter is VERY clear that submitting the form back to them will switch your registry to them
I've gotten both too. And I liked the Verisign one more. Why? Prepaid postage. I was able to let them know how I felt about it without wasting a stamp.
The DRA letter comes with an envelope with a "place postage stamp here". I was annoyed, but not annoyed enough to waste 37 cents to complain to them.
Gotta Love /. there needs to be a mod for this.
Yes, but should a bad pun mean positive or negative karma?
Turning Microsoft's business against them - Priceless
When I saw this article, my first thought was "Hey- maybe Mr. Katz is going away!"
For one fleeting moment, I was filled with glee..
As for keeping up, who would want to. After the reworking of trample (or is it nuked entirely?), the base edition becoming a handicapped beginners version to be supplimented by boosters for advanced play, and the endless rule changes/redefinitions/updates (so what exactly, it ends up being a lawyers game.
More fun to stick with the cards you know and love and let the game move on without you..
I mean, really, how dare they bring out M:tG online during an economic recession?
:)
From what I can see, the online cards run the same as the paper cards, which means every damn cent you can beg, borrow, or steal.
I wonder how many people won't be able to pay their ISP bill because they spent all their money on virtual cards.. Pity we won't get to hear
You say that like it's a bad thing..
on every single page is going to replace the whale in my nightmares..
That is underhanded, and I would think could get you into a lot of trouble.
I typically put scripts for things like log rotation & email alerts in my home directory and have them spawned by cron jobs. Or re-spawning at jobs.
The idea is a clever admin who is paying attention will migrate my stuff over and all is well. But the typical admin will just nuke my account.. Nothing like turning off nightly log compression on a few hundred websites to make someone feel the heat.
A free coaster!
Microwave it and convert it into a clock!
Or better yet, if you have a tesla coil you can impress all your friends!
Because other companies send me word files in word 2002 format with nested tables and other funky objects that "strings" doesn't work on?
I can't remember the version, but it was around '95 that emacs *did* have several changes made to the keybindings in ange-ftp.
ange-ftp is why I learned emacs. It provided the ability to manipulate remote files seamlessly, and download files in a hidden window while you did whatever wanted to do with emacs. With the crypt++ add-on, you could even edit remote
Then it changed, what used to be "copy the file" became "chmod the file" (if I remember correctly), and a several other changes happened at the same time. A real pain in the butt dealing with the context switches on different systems with different versions of emacs. Granted it could be handled with some elisp changes, but eventually I switched to vi.. which hasn't changed.
I remember dialing in. I remember all types of connectivity problems.
Sounds like fun during a bios flash. I hope they include things like MD5 checksums.