I find it interesting that the two links to si.edu sites on that page are both broken.
I looked in the si.edu site a while back to see if tours were offered, but I couldn't find anything. A couple years ago we got an announcement about a tour they were giving of the Native American artifacts in the storage facility, but I wasn't able to go for some reason.
I work near their storage facility in Suitland. Before they opened the Udvar-Hazy Center of the Air & Space Museum, many of the planes displayed were stored in that Suitland facility.
I would love to tour that facility - there has to be a TON of amazing stuff there that they simply don't have the room to exhibit. On the other hand, it's probably all boxed up or something, so maybe it wouldn't be that interesting. Still, the sheer size of the place and the organization scheme is probably something to see.
I'm with you on that. I've played with Red Hat, Mandrake, and Debian, and I always come back to Slackware. It can be harder to administer but the flexibility is well worth it.
I would add that if there's something Patrick didn't include that you need, it's easy to add it without problems. (Except GnuCash, but that's more a result of being based on old Gnome libraries, and I've figured out how to make it work reliably.)
Why doesn't it appear on ftp.slackware.com? That's where I was looking for it... Ooooh, I see - he puts them in the tree for the most recent version (in this case 10.2). I never noticed that before. Thanks!
One of my problems with Slackware is that -current isn't really what I want in many cases. I recently updated my laptop to Slackware 10.2, then searched for all of the security updates to install. I did those, but things broke, like apache (well, php, actually) because I didn't have the new-since-10.2 Cyrus-imap library, updated libpng library, etc. installed. Those weren't updated as a result of a security problem; they were updated for other reasons. I know this because I searched the changelog for "security update" and grabbed all of those packages that I use.
It's like we need a -stable-security that is security updates ONLY to a given release. I know that's a lot more work for Patrick but it's frustrating otherwise. (I've never gotten around to using a dependency management system under Slackware.)
Ideally, when a given package has a security issue, it would be compiled against what was in 10.2 AND -current. And yes I do subscribe to Slackware so I get the CDs automatically, so I feel I have some right to complain.:)
Right - but at the same time, my point was that there's nothing inherently wrong with the American worker; given the right environment they can produce an excellent product. (Responding to the "Japanese are great craftsmen" comment a couple posts up.)
How is it different from the Discovery Channel Home Planetarium I got my niece for Christmas in 2004? It sounds more advanced and a lot more expensive.
Can't we take memos home to work on them on our telework days? There are other reasons for USB keys besides moving actual secure data - memos and code come to mind.
I loved astronomy as well, until I took an astronomy class in college. It was held in the planetarium, a good place to hold such a class, and I used to spend hours just reading the textbook, even chapters that weren't on the syllabus.
But, the professor sucked ALL of the life out of that class with mindless, idiotic practices like demanding that we keep a notebook that he then graded, and I haven't had as much interest since. Reducing a student's interest in a subject has to be a teacher's ultimate sin, and I hope he's suffering in hell for it (assuming he has since died - I haven't checked).
(By the way, if I wanted to see your sig, I'd have sigs turned on.)
Here's one - Spy Hunter. I love this game, I loved the early 80s version, and I think this version is pretty cool (and I only got a PS2 last summer, so that's why I'm 5 years behind on games). It has a 2 player option, a great idea: you can drive around and blow up your friend.
Except to use it... you have to get through all of the levels and meet every objective in one-player mode. WHY? What were the designers thinking when they made this decision?
I have Gran Turismo 4, NCAA Football, Syphon Filter, and a couple other similar games for my PS2, but I almost never play them. Why? Because I know when I sit down to play those, I'm going to be there a while. I can't just sit down and play a quick game of something, like I can with, say, Spy Hunter or even Simpsons Hit and Run.
Don't get me wrong, GT4, NCAAF, and the others are good games - I'm just not ready to make the commitment to play them well.:)
XM and Sirius aren't stupid; they know people subscribe to get away from the commercials, and they know that if they do start having commercials, people will cancel and just go back to FM. Actually, in my case, I'd just start listening to CDs more, like I did before I got Sirius. I'd gladly save the cost of the three subscriptions I have.
As for HD Radio - whenever I hear an ad for it (the car I use most doesn't have a Sirius tuner, and I'm constantly frustrated by that), I want to reach through the radio and slap the station manager. Why? Because the problem with FM was NEVER the sound quality. The sound quality is fine for most people. The problem with FM is the programming. Are they ever going to figure that out?
Aside from the commercials, you've got annoying DJ "morning crews" that are there as entertainers first and don't know a damn thing about the music they play. They could be on an oldies station this week and country next week - it doesn't matter to them. They have stupid contests. On top of that, they have people call in and talk over the air...I had to switch the station this morning when I heard someone call in congratulating them on mentioning that it was 6:06 a.m. on 6/06/06. Why do they let this shit through? Do they really think we want to hear idiots calling in? At another point this morning, they played a 2 or 3 minute trailer for whatever horror movie is opening today - 15, 20 seconds, okay...but 2 or 3 minutes? I switched to another station.
The classic rock station in DC (94.7) used to have one morning person, someone who knew classic rock, and they used to advertise about how the other stations blathered on while they played music. It was GREAT. Then they dumped him, hired this morning crew (who are less annoying than most, but I still get tired of them), and played less music and filled the airwaves with useless yammering.
At least when the Sirius DJs talk, they're usually talking about the music or the artists, and you can actually learn something from them. FM? Nope, just inane ranting.
Here's how I'd summarize my situation: in the vehicles where I have Sirius available, I pretty much set the station to Classic Rewind and listen to it and rarely change channels. Also, I've NEVER listened to FM in a car after installing Sirius. In cars that don't have Sirius, I listen to a LOT more CDs or find myself flipping stations ALL the time to get music.
My employer just pushes them out when we boot - what's wrong with that? It takes a minute or two out of our day but it works just fine.
(I will say it's annoying because we don't always know when updates are being pushed to the machines, so we'll start mail programs and get everything set up only to have "You must now reboot" pop up. But for updates once every few weeks, we cope just fine.)
The term shifter is also used on motor vehicles to describe the item you use to shift between gears on vehicles that have manually-operated transmissions. Much like a bicycle shifter.:)
What is it called in other parts of the world? I'm curious.
Do you know why the anti-trust suit was unsuccessful? What I've read is that Pearl Jam (who filed the suit) was itself using a different ticket company, thereby demonstrating that Ticketmaster did not in fact have a monopoly.
I don't know what channels you listen to, but the "stupid idiot at the wheel" (by which you mean the DJ, I think) on the channels I listen to actually know and love the music they're playing. I find it quite refreshing and interesting, because they usually have great tidbits about the artists and songs they're playing. As opposed to most FM stations where they have idiotic contests where people call in and talk live, and entertainers rather than DJs (people who have NO connection to the music they're playing and could be on a station with a completely different format next week).
Yeah, there are a few adverts for the station, and I'm kind of tired of being reminded I'm listening to Classic Rewind, but those spots are few enough and far enough between that I don't go for the "next station" button like I do when I'm listening to FM. Besides, the ones on the channels I listen to are actually pretty funny, which helps a LOT in my tolerance of them.
I bought a used PS2 last summer and love it. I was planning to get the PS3 when it came out, but after last week's presentation I'm not so sure. I'll see how it does when it comes out and any buzz settles down, but I'm not looking forward to it like I was before E3. Maybe Sony will hear these comments and come up with something to get people interested in it again, like a cheaper price...
This story reminds me of the guy that wrote into PC World claiming that if everyone changed the MTU setting on their dialup connections, the internet would melt down because it couldn't deliver data that quickly.
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I find it interesting that the two links to si.edu sites on that page are both broken.
I looked in the si.edu site a while back to see if tours were offered, but I couldn't find anything. A couple years ago we got an announcement about a tour they were giving of the Native American artifacts in the storage facility, but I wasn't able to go for some reason.
I work near their storage facility in Suitland. Before they opened the Udvar-Hazy Center of the Air & Space Museum, many of the planes displayed were stored in that Suitland facility.
I would love to tour that facility - there has to be a TON of amazing stuff there that they simply don't have the room to exhibit. On the other hand, it's probably all boxed up or something, so maybe it wouldn't be that interesting. Still, the sheer size of the place and the organization scheme is probably something to see.
I'm with you on that. I've played with Red Hat, Mandrake, and Debian, and I always come back to Slackware. It can be harder to administer but the flexibility is well worth it.
I would add that if there's something Patrick didn't include that you need, it's easy to add it without problems. (Except GnuCash, but that's more a result of being based on old Gnome libraries, and I've figured out how to make it work reliably.)
My first thought: "Oh crap! We've been Slashdotted! Fire up the afterburners!"
See, I don't even use slapt-get. :)
Why doesn't it appear on ftp.slackware.com? That's where I was looking for it... Ooooh, I see - he puts them in the tree for the most recent version (in this case 10.2). I never noticed that before. Thanks!
I was down that road with the 3.x series. It was hell to upgrade from that!
One of my problems with Slackware is that -current isn't really what I want in many cases. I recently updated my laptop to Slackware 10.2, then searched for all of the security updates to install. I did those, but things broke, like apache (well, php, actually) because I didn't have the new-since-10.2 Cyrus-imap library, updated libpng library, etc. installed. Those weren't updated as a result of a security problem; they were updated for other reasons. I know this because I searched the changelog for "security update" and grabbed all of those packages that I use.
:)
It's like we need a -stable-security that is security updates ONLY to a given release. I know that's a lot more work for Patrick but it's frustrating otherwise. (I've never gotten around to using a dependency management system under Slackware.)
Ideally, when a given package has a security issue, it would be compiled against what was in 10.2 AND -current. And yes I do subscribe to Slackware so I get the CDs automatically, so I feel I have some right to complain.
Right - but at the same time, my point was that there's nothing inherently wrong with the American worker; given the right environment they can produce an excellent product. (Responding to the "Japanese are great craftsmen" comment a couple posts up.)
How is it different from the Discovery Channel Home Planetarium I got my niece for Christmas in 2004? It sounds more advanced and a lot more expensive.
Also many of those Japanese cars with such great quality are built...in the US. Toyota and Honda both have several plants in the US.
Then when that gets broken, you'll be posting here about how bad the security setup is...blah blah blah.
Can't we take memos home to work on them on our telework days? There are other reasons for USB keys besides moving actual secure data - memos and code come to mind.
I loved astronomy as well, until I took an astronomy class in college. It was held in the planetarium, a good place to hold such a class, and I used to spend hours just reading the textbook, even chapters that weren't on the syllabus.
But, the professor sucked ALL of the life out of that class with mindless, idiotic practices like demanding that we keep a notebook that he then graded, and I haven't had as much interest since. Reducing a student's interest in a subject has to be a teacher's ultimate sin, and I hope he's suffering in hell for it (assuming he has since died - I haven't checked).
(By the way, if I wanted to see your sig, I'd have sigs turned on.)
They also have pedestrian signals that use birdcalls to let the blind know when it's safe to cross. Much less annoying than the voice ones.
Here's one - Spy Hunter. I love this game, I loved the early 80s version, and I think this version is pretty cool (and I only got a PS2 last summer, so that's why I'm 5 years behind on games). It has a 2 player option, a great idea: you can drive around and blow up your friend.
Except to use it... you have to get through all of the levels and meet every objective in one-player mode. WHY? What were the designers thinking when they made this decision?
Yeah, this is it, exactly.
:)
I have Gran Turismo 4, NCAA Football, Syphon Filter, and a couple other similar games for my PS2, but I almost never play them. Why? Because I know when I sit down to play those, I'm going to be there a while. I can't just sit down and play a quick game of something, like I can with, say, Spy Hunter or even Simpsons Hit and Run.
Don't get me wrong, GT4, NCAAF, and the others are good games - I'm just not ready to make the commitment to play them well.
XM and Sirius aren't stupid; they know people subscribe to get away from the commercials, and they know that if they do start having commercials, people will cancel and just go back to FM. Actually, in my case, I'd just start listening to CDs more, like I did before I got Sirius. I'd gladly save the cost of the three subscriptions I have.
As for HD Radio - whenever I hear an ad for it (the car I use most doesn't have a Sirius tuner, and I'm constantly frustrated by that), I want to reach through the radio and slap the station manager. Why? Because the problem with FM was NEVER the sound quality. The sound quality is fine for most people. The problem with FM is the programming. Are they ever going to figure that out?
Aside from the commercials, you've got annoying DJ "morning crews" that are there as entertainers first and don't know a damn thing about the music they play. They could be on an oldies station this week and country next week - it doesn't matter to them. They have stupid contests. On top of that, they have people call in and talk over the air...I had to switch the station this morning when I heard someone call in congratulating them on mentioning that it was 6:06 a.m. on 6/06/06. Why do they let this shit through? Do they really think we want to hear idiots calling in? At another point this morning, they played a 2 or 3 minute trailer for whatever horror movie is opening today - 15, 20 seconds, okay...but 2 or 3 minutes? I switched to another station.
The classic rock station in DC (94.7) used to have one morning person, someone who knew classic rock, and they used to advertise about how the other stations blathered on while they played music. It was GREAT. Then they dumped him, hired this morning crew (who are less annoying than most, but I still get tired of them), and played less music and filled the airwaves with useless yammering.
At least when the Sirius DJs talk, they're usually talking about the music or the artists, and you can actually learn something from them. FM? Nope, just inane ranting.
Here's how I'd summarize my situation: in the vehicles where I have Sirius available, I pretty much set the station to Classic Rewind and listen to it and rarely change channels. Also, I've NEVER listened to FM in a car after installing Sirius. In cars that don't have Sirius, I listen to a LOT more CDs or find myself flipping stations ALL the time to get music.
My employer just pushes them out when we boot - what's wrong with that? It takes a minute or two out of our day but it works just fine.
(I will say it's annoying because we don't always know when updates are being pushed to the machines, so we'll start mail programs and get everything set up only to have "You must now reboot" pop up. But for updates once every few weeks, we cope just fine.)
The term shifter is also used on motor vehicles to describe the item you use to shift between gears on vehicles that have manually-operated transmissions. Much like a bicycle shifter. :)
What is it called in other parts of the world? I'm curious.
Do you know why the anti-trust suit was unsuccessful? What I've read is that Pearl Jam (who filed the suit) was itself using a different ticket company, thereby demonstrating that Ticketmaster did not in fact have a monopoly.
I don't know what channels you listen to, but the "stupid idiot at the wheel" (by which you mean the DJ, I think) on the channels I listen to actually know and love the music they're playing. I find it quite refreshing and interesting, because they usually have great tidbits about the artists and songs they're playing. As opposed to most FM stations where they have idiotic contests where people call in and talk live, and entertainers rather than DJs (people who have NO connection to the music they're playing and could be on a station with a completely different format next week).
Yeah, there are a few adverts for the station, and I'm kind of tired of being reminded I'm listening to Classic Rewind, but those spots are few enough and far enough between that I don't go for the "next station" button like I do when I'm listening to FM. Besides, the ones on the channels I listen to are actually pretty funny, which helps a LOT in my tolerance of them.
The music channels don't have advertisements.
I bought a used PS2 last summer and love it. I was planning to get the PS3 when it came out, but after last week's presentation I'm not so sure. I'll see how it does when it comes out and any buzz settles down, but I'm not looking forward to it like I was before E3. Maybe Sony will hear these comments and come up with something to get people interested in it again, like a cheaper price...
This story reminds me of the guy that wrote into PC World claiming that if everyone changed the MTU setting on their dialup connections, the internet would melt down because it couldn't deliver data that quickly.
I'm a statistician, and that's the best comment I've heard about statistics in a long time. Thanks!