the "anti-gay marriage" stance the current administration has embraced is an attempt to pander to the religious right and gain votes.
For what it's worth, I'm a Christian and I am opposed to gay marriage, but I believe you're absolutely right about that. Sure, Bush mentions God in just about every (carefully prepared) speech, but that doesn't mean he actually tries to submit himself to God's will. I'm not aware of Bush attending church aside from special occasions which he uses to his political advantage.
I also agree with you about the prison issue, although I don't think oil was a major factor in the decision to go invade Iraq - I believe it was done for political reasons, trying to capitalize on the momentum of the war in Afghanistan in hopes that the American public would continue to rally around the President during a continuing crisis ("we have always been at war with East Asia...").
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The fact is, you can probably hook up whatever device to whatever portion of the brain (e.g. an artificial arm to you toenail brain area) and after some practice the subject will learn now to move it. So when they say "we don't see the brain as a mysterious organ anymore" they are telling you a bold-face lie.
Does the mouse get water by thinking about water, or by thinking something completely different that happens to trigger the machine? Once he figures it out, he'll do it again when he's thirsty.
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Qwest does not require you to use any particular ISP (they currently have a promotional arrangement with MSN, but that's just for marketing). I signed up with a local ISP that gives me what you describe, and just pay Qwest to connect me to that ISP.
Anyway, what I can't get is a really vanilla offering, just the bandwidth. Now I have to pay for five e-mail addresses that I don't use, 50 MB webspace that I don't use, anti-virus that I don't use, etc., etc.
What I have from Qwest is just a line to my ISP of choice - Qwest doesn't connect me to the Internet at all. I chose a local ISP that gives me pretty basic Internet access. I pay Qwest around $30/month for the line, plus I pay the ISP around $20/month for Internet access (static IP, custom reverse DNS, no ports blocked).
I've been very pleased with my service from Qwest - I've heard complaints from people like you, and I know they got in trouble with the PUC for sucking ass, but it seems to me they really are working to improve. I recently received a letter in the mail saying they were reducing the price of my DSL service and I'd get a credit on my next bill - that was a pleasant surprise.
It wouldn't surprise me if the quality of their service varies greatly between different regions; I'm in Portland.
They are user-serviceable, but I am fairly sure that it voids your warranty, which is crap.
If it's still under warranty, you should get the battery replaced for free under the warranty, and save yourself the $50 it costs for a new battery. If the warranty has expired, then it's a non-issue.
Let's see if I can remember this. I must have been around 14 at the time, and my goal was to make a burglar alarm for my bedroom which would keep a record of unauthorized entries but not be too annoying (so as to avoid pissing off my parents if they triggered it).
First step was the sensor. I taped a wire to a small piece of aluminum foil on the inside of the door near the doorknob, then another wire to the doorknob itself with a wadded ball of aluminum foil at the end of the wire. I bent the wire so that the two pieces of aluminum foil would touch as long as the doorknob was in its normal position, but if you turned the knob the contact would be broken.
This and an AC adapter that produced 9vDC were connected to the relay in a Radio Shack 200-in-1 electronic project kit, and wired such that the relay would remain on as long as the circuit was closed, but switch off and remain off once the circuit was broken.
To the other side of the relay I connected a battery pack holding four C-cell NiCd batteries, and the tape recorder for my Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 laptop computer, such that when the relay switched off, power would be applied to the tape recorder.
On the computer (with its own AC adapter) was a BASIC program I wrote. The first thing it did was attempt to read a file off the tape. To do so, it would switch the tape player on, wait until it found the file it was looking for, read the file, and switch the tape off.
Let's review. Normally with the doorknob in its normal position the relay remains on. When someone turns the knob, the circuit is broke and the relay switches off (and remains off until it is reset, regardless of the knob). When the relay switches off, power is applied to the tape recorder. The computer has been waiting to read a file off the tape. The first thing recorded on the tape is the the file the computer is looking for. The volume is turned up on the tape recorder so that when the tape is played, it makes a really obnoxious screeching sound for a few seconds - this serves as an alarm. Think of the sound of a modem handshaking; same idea.
As soon as the computer has finished reading the file off the tape, it logs the occurrance and displays a message on the screen with a timestamp. It then switches the tape back on. After the file on the tape is a recording of my own voice saying something - I don't recall what. The computer waits an appropriate amount of time for the message to finish playing, then switches the tape off. The computer then beeps, and keeps beeping every few seconds for awhile, then shuts up.
So there's the alarm. Now I just have to be able to get in and out myself without triggering it. Getting out is easy - since the relay circuit is only broken by turning the doorknob, I simply open the door, reset the alarm, and close the door behind me without turning the knob. To get in, though, I need a way to deactivate the alarm from outside (before turning the doorknob).
So, I make a keycard. I use a small piece of cardboard, with more aluminum foil and masking tape. I tape non-touching strips of aluminum foil over one edge of the cardboard, connecting two of the strips together and leaving the others not touching. I now have my keycard. The card reader involves more of the same materials, mounted on the wall outside the door with a piece of telephone wire running to it. When the card is pressed against the reader properly, each strip on the card should touch a strip on the reader. The two contacts on the reader that correspond to the two that are wired together on the card are wired in parallel with the doorknob sensor, so that holding the card in place will maintain the relay circuit while opening the door. Some of the remaining contacts on the reader are wired in parallel with the other side of the relay so that if they are shorted together, the tape player will come on - the idea being, if you try to forge my keycard by shorting random contacts, you'll trip the alarm instead of disabling it. I don't recall how well I actually got this working, but since nobody forged my keycard, it wasn't an issue.
So there you have it: my burglar alarm hack. One of many, actually, but this was certainly the most interesting.
Mind you, I didn't actually try dialing 911 as "just testing" probably wouldn't qualify as a plausible excuse.:-)
Yes, "just testing" is fine, as long as you STAY ON THE LINE long enough to explain to the dispatcher that you are testing the phone line and there is no emergency. Don't just dial and hang up, or they'll have to assume there's some kind of emergency and you were unable to stay on the line for some reason, and send a police officer to your house - and "just testing" will NOT make him happy.
Last thing it says is "Root device is mounted read-only"
This is normal; it must be remounted read-write before you can do anything with it. Normally this is done automatically by a script, but if you're in single-user maintenance mode, the system assumes there could be a problem (e.g. maybe the hard drive is fried) and you might want to read some data off the disk before writing anything to it.
and "Filesystem checks skipped."
OSX 10.3 uses journaling, so checking the filesystem for errors isn't needed.
They're working on it - notice RedHat and Slackware use the same/var/www directory, and RedHat and Mac OS X use the same/var/log/httpd directory. Apple obviously chose their/Library/WebServer paths to be easier for GUI users (/var is hidden in the Finder). The problem is, if any distro changes their convention, they'll break compatibility with older versions of that distro.
For anything more complex I use BBEdit, which does pretty much everything that vi or emacs does except with a nice GUI.
Hell yes. Editor of the gods. Does everything, and they're very responsive to bug submissions (and fixed bugs are listed extensively in the release notes).
For casual Mac users? No way is this going to be of any use to them. If they were so inclined, they'd already have some experience on another OS by now.
If they are so inclined and want to get that experience, they can now do so without having to use another OS to get it, and this book will help them to do so.
(posted with Safari on my iBook G4, with pretty antialiased transparent terminal windows ssh'd to my Slackware boxen in the background)
If you have trouble configuring Apache, the Apache website doesn't help much because OS X has files in different locations.
Apache's files are in different places on different flavors of UNIX or Linux distributions - and they're different still if the administrator compiled from source.
On Mac OS X 10.3, configuration files are in/etc/httpd, log files are in/var/log/httpd, DocumentRoot is/Library/WebServer/Documents, and ScriptAlias/cgi-bin is/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables.
On Slackware 8.1, configuration files are in/etc/apache, log files are in/var/log/apache, DocumentRoot is/var/www/htdocs, and ScriptAlias/cgi-bin is/var/www/cgi-bin.
On RedHat 9, configuration files are in/etc/httpd/conf, log files are in/var/log/httpd (symlinked at/etc/httpd/logs), DocumentRoot is/var/www/htdocs, and ScriptAlias/cgi-bin is/var/www/cgi-bin.
By default on most systems, if you've compiled from source and haven't changed any paths, configuration files are in/usr/local/apache/conf, log files are in/usr/local/apache/logs, DocumentRoot is/usr/local/apache/htdocs, and ScriptAlias/cgi-bin is/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin.
Troll? The funny thing is, this is actually true! If you've used OS X, and tried to do some fun CLI stuff like yr used to, you'll realize it. Sure, it can be fixed, but it should all work; it would if Appl would have stuck with convention instead of/Applications/Users and so on...
You're also a troll. There is no CLI stuff under/Applications, and there's nothing wrong with using/Users instead of/home as long as getpwnam(3) works - if you're hard-coding that, you suck ass. Sure, there are conventions Apple chose not to follow, such as SysV-style init scripts; bitch about that if you want, but don't complain about non-issues.
When the update applies itself and wants a reboot, your only options are "shutdown" and "restart." There's no "cancel" option.
Updates never apply themselves automatically - Software Update will present you with a list of updates available, and you have the option to install them or not. It will tell you, via an icon and a text description, which ones require a reboot before you install. Once you've installed an update which requires a restart, there is no cancel button, but you can just keep working in other applications until you're ready to restart (often, however, launching new applications doesn't work - I'm not entirely sure why).
While I'll admit that I find these behaviors pretty annoying,
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Why aren't the christians calling for execution of homosexuals or at least making homosexuality a death penalty offense.
Because according to the New Testament, Christians aren't bound by Jewish laws such as those found in Leviticus.
the "anti-gay marriage" stance the current administration has embraced is an attempt to pander to the religious right
and gain votes.
For what it's worth, I'm a Christian and I am opposed to gay marriage, but I believe you're absolutely right about that. Sure, Bush mentions God in just about every (carefully prepared) speech, but that doesn't mean he actually tries to submit himself to God's will. I'm not aware of Bush attending church aside from special occasions which he uses to his political advantage.
I also agree with you about the prison issue, although I don't think oil was a major factor in the decision to go invade Iraq - I believe it was done for political reasons, trying to capitalize on the momentum of the war in Afghanistan in hopes that the American public would continue to rally around the President during a continuing crisis ("we have always been at war with East Asia...").
The fact is, you can probably hook up whatever device to whatever portion of the brain (e.g. an artificial arm to you toenail brain area) and after some practice the subject will learn now to move it. So when they say "we don't see the brain as a mysterious organ anymore" they are telling you a bold-face lie.
Does the mouse get water by thinking about water, or by thinking something completely different that happens to trigger the machine? Once he figures it out, he'll do it again when he's thirsty.
How about just implanting the ringer, so they don't bother the rest of us?
I wonder if Tom Galvin and Darl spend late nights together working on clever metaphors to use in press releases related to their lawsuits...
No, I'm sure they hire people to be clever for them.
You've done that? What did they say?
Qwest does not require you to use any particular ISP (they currently have a promotional arrangement with MSN, but that's just for marketing). I signed up with a local ISP that gives me what you describe, and just pay Qwest to connect me to that ISP.
You have a dry pair from Covad? I don't think they've offered those for a long time; how long have you had the service?
Anyway, what I can't get is a really vanilla offering, just the bandwidth. Now I have to pay for five e-mail addresses that I don't use, 50 MB webspace that I don't use, anti-virus that I don't use, etc., etc.
What I have from Qwest is just a line to my ISP of choice - Qwest doesn't connect me to the Internet at all. I chose a local ISP that gives me pretty basic Internet access. I pay Qwest around $30/month for the line, plus I pay the ISP around $20/month for Internet access (static IP, custom reverse DNS, no ports blocked).
I've been very pleased with my service from Qwest - I've heard complaints from people like you, and I know they got in trouble with the PUC for sucking ass, but it seems to me they really are working to improve. I recently received a letter in the mail saying they were reducing the price of my DSL service and I'd get a credit on my next bill - that was a pleasant surprise.
It wouldn't surprise me if the quality of their service varies greatly between different regions; I'm in Portland.
They are user-serviceable, but I am fairly sure that it voids your warranty, which is crap.
If it's still under warranty, you should get the battery replaced for free under the warranty, and save yourself the $50 it costs for a new battery. If the warranty has expired, then it's a non-issue.
Let's see if I can remember this. I must have been around 14 at the time, and my goal was to make a burglar alarm for my bedroom which would keep a record of unauthorized entries but not be too annoying (so as to avoid pissing off my parents if they triggered it).
First step was the sensor. I taped a wire to a small piece of aluminum foil on the inside of the door near the doorknob, then another wire to the doorknob itself with a wadded ball of aluminum foil at the end of the wire. I bent the wire so that the two pieces of aluminum foil would touch as long as the doorknob was in its normal position, but if you turned the knob the contact would be broken.
This and an AC adapter that produced 9vDC were connected to the relay in a Radio Shack 200-in-1 electronic project kit, and wired such that the relay would remain on as long as the circuit was closed, but switch off and remain off once the circuit was broken.
To the other side of the relay I connected a battery pack holding four C-cell NiCd batteries, and the tape recorder for my Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 laptop computer, such that when the relay switched off, power would be applied to the tape recorder.
On the computer (with its own AC adapter) was a BASIC program I wrote. The first thing it did was attempt to read a file off the tape. To do so, it would switch the tape player on, wait until it found the file it was looking for, read the file, and switch the tape off.
Let's review. Normally with the doorknob in its normal position the relay remains on. When someone turns the knob, the circuit is broke and the relay switches off (and remains off until it is reset, regardless of the knob). When the relay switches off, power is applied to the tape recorder. The computer has been waiting to read a file off the tape. The first thing recorded on the tape is the the file the computer is looking for. The volume is turned up on the tape recorder so that when the tape is played, it makes a really obnoxious screeching sound for a few seconds - this serves as an alarm. Think of the sound of a modem handshaking; same idea.
As soon as the computer has finished reading the file off the tape, it logs the occurrance and displays a message on the screen with a timestamp. It then switches the tape back on. After the file on the tape is a recording of my own voice saying something - I don't recall what. The computer waits an appropriate amount of time for the message to finish playing, then switches the tape off. The computer then beeps, and keeps beeping every few seconds for awhile, then shuts up.
So there's the alarm. Now I just have to be able to get in and out myself without triggering it. Getting out is easy - since the relay circuit is only broken by turning the doorknob, I simply open the door, reset the alarm, and close the door behind me without turning the knob. To get in, though, I need a way to deactivate the alarm from outside (before turning the doorknob).
So, I make a keycard. I use a small piece of cardboard, with more aluminum foil and masking tape. I tape non-touching strips of aluminum foil over one edge of the cardboard, connecting two of the strips together and leaving the others not touching. I now have my keycard. The card reader involves more of the same materials, mounted on the wall outside the door with a piece of telephone wire running to it. When the card is pressed against the reader properly, each strip on the card should touch a strip on the reader. The two contacts on the reader that correspond to the two that are wired together on the card are wired in parallel with the doorknob sensor, so that holding the card in place will maintain the relay circuit while opening the door. Some of the remaining contacts on the reader are wired in parallel with the other side of the relay so that if they are shorted together, the tape player will come on - the idea being, if you try to forge my keycard by shorting random contacts, you'll trip the alarm instead of disabling it. I don't recall how well I actually got this working, but since nobody forged my keycard, it wasn't an issue.
So there you have it: my burglar alarm hack. One of many, actually, but this was certainly the most interesting.
a valid interpreter must be specified in the file(such as #!/bin/sh)
./foo.txt
Probably depends on your distro, but usually if it's executable and has no shebang line, it will be treated as a shell script.
phroggy@curry:~$ echo "echo foo">foo.txt
phroggy@curry:~$ chmod a+x foo.txt
phroggy@curry:~$
foo
phroggy@curry:~$
I'll take Microsoft's self-righteous commercials about helping kids reach their goals and striving farther over that Mac ad any day.
It's not a Mac ad, it's an ad for an MP3 player.
The company who makes this particular MP3 player also happens to make Macs, but the MP3 player works just fine plugged into a PC running Windows XP.
Mind you, I didn't actually try dialing 911 as "just testing" probably wouldn't qualify as a plausible excuse. :-)
Yes, "just testing" is fine, as long as you STAY ON THE LINE long enough to explain to the dispatcher that you are testing the phone line and there is no emergency. Don't just dial and hang up, or they'll have to assume there's some kind of emergency and you were unable to stay on the line for some reason, and send a police officer to your house - and "just testing" will NOT make him happy.
what does IOW mean?
In Other Words
Last thing it says is "Root device is mounted read-only"
This is normal; it must be remounted read-write before you can do anything with it. Normally this is done automatically by a script, but if you're in single-user maintenance mode, the system assumes there could be a problem (e.g. maybe the hard drive is fried) and you might want to read some data off the disk before writing anything to it.
and "Filesystem checks skipped."
OSX 10.3 uses journaling, so checking the filesystem for errors isn't needed.
What was the fix?
I got hooked on Dew...
So, the promotion worked then?
You forgot to color the rim of the cap black with a Sharpie.
They're working on it - notice RedHat and Slackware use the same /var/www directory, and RedHat and Mac OS X use the same /var/log/httpd directory. Apple obviously chose their /Library/WebServer paths to be easier for GUI users (/var is hidden in the Finder). The problem is, if any distro changes their convention, they'll break compatibility with older versions of that distro.
For anything more complex I use BBEdit, which does pretty much everything that vi or emacs does except with a nice GUI.
Hell yes. Editor of the gods. Does everything, and they're very responsive to bug submissions (and fixed bugs are listed extensively in the release notes).
I think a Unix for MacOS publication would be useful for those migrating to Apple from some (any) other platform.
As someone else already pointed out, that's a different book.
For casual Mac users? No way is this going to be of any use to them. If they were so inclined, they'd already have some experience on another OS by now.
If they are so inclined and want to get that experience, they can now do so without having to use another OS to get it, and this book will help them to do so.
(posted with Safari on my iBook G4, with pretty antialiased transparent terminal windows ssh'd to my Slackware boxen in the background)
If you have trouble configuring Apache, the Apache website doesn't help much because OS X has files in different locations.
/etc/httpd, log files are in /var/log/httpd, DocumentRoot is /Library/WebServer/Documents, and ScriptAlias /cgi-bin is /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables.
/etc/apache, log files are in /var/log/apache, DocumentRoot is /var/www/htdocs, and ScriptAlias /cgi-bin is /var/www/cgi-bin.
/etc/httpd/conf, log files are in /var/log/httpd (symlinked at /etc/httpd/logs), DocumentRoot is /var/www/htdocs, and ScriptAlias /cgi-bin is /var/www/cgi-bin.
/usr/local/apache/conf, log files are in /usr/local/apache/logs, DocumentRoot is /usr/local/apache/htdocs, and ScriptAlias /cgi-bin is /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin.
Apache's files are in different places on different flavors of UNIX or Linux distributions - and they're different still if the administrator compiled from source.
On Mac OS X 10.3, configuration files are in
On Slackware 8.1, configuration files are in
On RedHat 9, configuration files are in
By default on most systems, if you've compiled from source and haven't changed any paths, configuration files are in
Troll? The funny thing is, this is actually true! If you've used OS X, and tried to do some fun CLI stuff like yr used to, you'll realize it. Sure, it can be fixed, but it should all work; it would if Appl would have stuck with convention instead of /Applications /Users and so on...
/Applications, and there's nothing wrong with using /Users instead of /home as long as getpwnam(3) works - if you're hard-coding that, you suck ass. Sure, there are conventions Apple chose not to follow, such as SysV-style init scripts; bitch about that if you want, but don't complain about non-issues.
You're also a troll. There is no CLI stuff under
When the update applies itself and wants a reboot, your only options are "shutdown" and "restart." There's no "cancel" option.
Updates never apply themselves automatically - Software Update will present you with a list of updates available, and you have the option to install them or not. It will tell you, via an icon and a text description, which ones require a reboot before you install. Once you've installed an update which requires a restart, there is no cancel button, but you can just keep working in other applications until you're ready to restart (often, however, launching new applications doesn't work - I'm not entirely sure why).
While I'll admit that I find these behaviors pretty annoying,
That's why you can change them. Easily.