First run 'which dc' to make sure you are useing the GNU dc and not some other command.
The following is from running dc. Output is in bold, $ is the bash prompt.
$ dc 10 3/ p 3 3 k 10 3 / p 3.333
$ dc -e '10 3 / p 3 k 10 3 / p' 3 3.333
$ echo '10 3 / p 3 k 10 3 / p' | dc 3 3.333
$ dc -V dc (GNU bc 1.06) 1.3
Copyright 1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, to the extent permitted by law.
and now for some line noise: $ dc -e '0psc5ss[lc1+psclcls>f]sflfx' 0 1 2 3 4 5
The other unique feature of many of the HP calculators was the bomb proff design. The keys are tough clicky keys designed to be used by professionals for years. HP made scientific and bussiness calculators. On the HP calcs (11B ??) has as strong a following in the account world as the HP48 in the engineering/scientific world.
"dc" command on linux except that dc is only good for integers
You probably want to check the man page on that:
dc - an arbitrary precision calculator
Look for the 'k' command. Also you should be useing p not =.
'dc' is GNU software and should compile on anything with libc.
There are a large number of Viewsonic P and G series monitors in my lab. These monitors take lots of abuse but keep on running for years with excellent picture. The Viewsonic A, E, and Optiquest monitors are best left on a shelf. I will buy Viewsonic P, and G monitors unseen because I know that these monitors will have an excellent picture, and last for years.
Could be a perfect candidate for a letter with a large number of signatories(sp?)
The spelling is correct, but the simple "signatures" would be more correct. But that is not why I posted.
I feel that a large volume of letters has more impact that one letter with a large number of signatures. This is a case where you start printing letters to hand to friends with an evelope and a stamp. Better yet, ask them to sign a preprinted letter and you can send it in. That way you know it was sent.
This is incorrect. If you, in good faith, agree to a contract that is not legal, the contract, in whole or in part, is void. (This varies from jurisdiction.) There are some rights you can't give up. Additionally if a contract is subject to misenterpretation a judge can amend and even strike down the contract. For even more fun if you can convince a judge that you did not fully comprehend the ramifications of a contract the judge can again amend or declared the contract void.
The above is a superficial look at contract law, and the reason why I hire contract lawyers.
Interesting. I still take issue with the wording as it is overly general. I think I understand what the agreement is trying to accomplish. Xtra is trying to protect themselves from (frivolous) lawsuits by customers who upload content to an Xtra owned webserver not understanding that said content has now been effectively "published" to the world. Additionally it allows Xtra to make backups of their webservers and now worry about customers trying to force Xtra to purge content from the backups years later. There has been precedents for such foolishness from atleast one (proably many) Usenet kook years ago. (This should come as no surprise to anyone.)
I personally still feel that the wording is still too general. Specifically: any other form of communication. The final limited purposes clause does limit the rights sought by Xtra, but it still leaves the door wide open for abuses. One of the problems with clauses such as these is that while the current owners/management may not have any intention of abusing their customers, future owners may not have the same ethics.
As far as I can tell Moral Rights do not grant ownership. From Article 6 of the Berne Convention:
"Independently of the author's copyright, and even after the transfer of the said copyright, the author shall have the right, during his lifetime, to claim authorship of the work and to object to any distortion, mutilation or other alteration thereof, or any other action in relation to the said work, which would be prejudicial to his honor or reputation."
Which seems to me to be a "right of refusal" to prevent the work from being used in a way which would harm the reputation of the author.
I read the Terms expecting to see a typical poorly written terms of service with wording that could be interpreted to mean that the ISP owns your work. Instead I find the unambiguous:
you grant to Xtra a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable, unrestricted, worldwide licence
You could build a device that would be able to power a LED while standing under high tension power lines. What you need is a big coil of wire. It probably would not be particularly practical to carry though. A senior year engineering project was (in essence) to construct a device to measure the magnetic field under high tension lines. The device had to use 2m diameter coils to be able to reliably measure the induced voltage. Based on that work I suspect that a coil to power a LED would need to be larger then 2m and use many coils of wire.
This could make for a pretty interesting science fair project. The math behind it is pretty straight forward. For added fun you will find that the induced voltage varies depending on how conductive the soil is (wet vs dry ground). For the basic math the variables are: area of coil (A), number of turns in coil (N), distance from transmission line (d), current in transmission line (i). All multiplied and divided together. Easy stuff. If you want to add in the conductivity of the soil you are suddenly in the land of complex Maxwell's equations and fancy mathmatic modelling.
Did the Patriot Act give a bigger penalty for [money laudering]?
Yes. If it is "terrorist" related then the money laudering crime carries harsher penalties. The Patriot Act created new crimes, and also created harsher penalties for some existing crimes.
Ofcourse you could easily stick with a new RedHat. All you would have to do is recompile the kernel. That said switching to the ultra stable Debian is probably not a bad idea.
You can run X over 14.4k useing an X11 protocol compressor such as LBX or DXPC. It was fast enough to work with, but not something you would want to do everyday. Having used Citrix and PCAnywhere over a ~33.6K modem I can assure you that neither are particularly faster then compressed X.
The Government is not going to censor or expell the US ambassador. Some Member's of Parliament (elected politicians) of the ruling "Liberal" party, but who are not part of the government (ie Liberal caucus), said some stupid things about censor. These people are called backbenchers, because they sit in the back benches away from the more important ministers who make up the government. Opposition parties also have backbenchers. A backbenchres job is to shutup and show up for the Parlimentary votes. Backbenchers are known for saying stupid things. Unfortunately average or better IQ is not required to be elected, or even form part of the government.
The whole tensions with the US thing is rather annoying. The democratically elected government of Canada responded to what their constituents told them: stay out of the war in Iraq. Really the US ambassador should have said: "That is really too bad that you won't be joining us, but you are a democracy. We understand."
Ofcourse really it is all a big sham. Canada would have very little to add to the ground war. It can't really afford to deploy more land troups, even there were troups to deploy. (Don't forget about the commitments to Bosnia and elsewhere.) The Air force dosen't exactly have very many jets it can deploy. On the other hand elements of the Canadian Navy were retasked to relieve ships in the American Navy so that the American ships could concentrate on Iraq. Ofcourse Canada will be in Iraq eventually to help remove the stupid land mines (yuck) that both parties have used. So really Canada has assisted with what little it can, a couple of ships. But good old Prime Minister Jean wants to follow the popular line (typical) and pretend that Canada is not taking part in the war in Iraq.
The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp) did a good report on Al-Jazeera. By all accounts these guys deserve praise for reporting the news. The Emir of Qatar promised Al-Jazeera that they would not be censored, and has kept that promise.
On the subject of airing images of dead people: An executive of Al-Jazeera said, and I paraphrase, "Such images are nothing new to the people of the Arab world."
A 3 hour meeting was scheduled for 8:30 Wednesday morning to discuss the department's (30+ people) low morale. Attendance was mandetory. Take a guess if muffins, donuts, or coffee was served.
Debian will install without CD or network. Copy over the Debs you want to the harddrive, and reboot with 2 floppies (I think it is two). Once in the Debian install menu there is a an option to intall the debs from the harddrive. However Debian is really meant to have a network connection to install packages with apt-get. Slackware works better then Debian if there isn't a network.
OpenBSD also installs without needing a CD or network. I think FreeBSD is still packaged such that you could put the whole thing on floppies.
Slashdot Mirror
First run 'which dc' to make sure you are useing the GNU dc and not some other command.
/
The following is from running dc. Output is in bold, $ is the bash prompt.
$ dc
10 3
p
3
3 k
10 3 / p
3.333
$ dc -e '10 3 / p 3 k 10 3 / p'
3
3.333
$ echo '10 3 / p 3 k 10 3 / p' | dc
3
3.333
$ dc -V
dc (GNU bc 1.06) 1.3
Copyright 1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE,
to the extent permitted by law.
and now for some line noise:
$ dc -e '0psc5ss[lc1+psclcls>f]sflfx'
0
1
2
3
4
5
The other unique feature of many of the HP calculators was the bomb proff design. The keys are tough clicky keys designed to be used by professionals for years. HP made scientific and bussiness calculators. On the HP calcs (11B ??) has as strong a following in the account world as the HP48 in the engineering/scientific world.
"dc" command on linux except that dc is only good for integers
You probably want to check the man page on that:
dc - an arbitrary precision calculator
Look for the 'k' command. Also you should be useing p not =.
'dc' is GNU software and should compile on anything with libc.
There are a large number of Viewsonic P and G series monitors in my lab. These monitors take lots of abuse but keep on running for years with excellent picture. The Viewsonic A, E, and Optiquest monitors are best left on a shelf. I will buy Viewsonic P, and G monitors unseen because I know that these monitors will have an excellent picture, and last for years.
totally false.
If it were true then the manufactures would do it before you ever see then thing.
2.)Leave.
This is excellent advice. Even a quick walk down to the corner and back is a good way to switch into work mode.
It is also important (at first) to keep strict hours. Start and stop every day at the same time. Take breaks at the same time.
agreed
Could be a perfect candidate for a letter with a large number of signatories(sp?)
The spelling is correct, but the simple "signatures" would be more correct. But that is not why I posted.
I feel that a large volume of letters has more impact that one letter with a large number of signatures. This is a case where you start printing letters to hand to friends with an evelope and a stamp. Better yet, ask them to sign a preprinted letter and you can send it in. That way you know it was sent.
This is incorrect. If you, in good faith, agree to a contract that is not legal, the contract, in whole or in part, is void. (This varies from jurisdiction.) There are some rights you can't give up. Additionally if a contract is subject to misenterpretation a judge can amend and even strike down the contract. For even more fun if you can convince a judge that you did not fully comprehend the ramifications of a contract the judge can again amend or declared the contract void.
The above is a superficial look at contract law, and the reason why I hire contract lawyers.
Interesting. I still take issue with the wording as it is overly general. I think I understand what the agreement is trying to accomplish. Xtra is trying to protect themselves from (frivolous) lawsuits by customers who upload content to an Xtra owned webserver not understanding that said content has now been effectively "published" to the world. Additionally it allows Xtra to make backups of their webservers and now worry about customers trying to force Xtra to purge content from the backups years later. There has been precedents for such foolishness from atleast one (proably many) Usenet kook years ago. (This should come as no surprise to anyone.)
I personally still feel that the wording is still too general. Specifically: any other form of communication. The final limited purposes clause does limit the rights sought by Xtra, but it still leaves the door wide open for abuses. One of the problems with clauses such as these is that while the current owners/management may not have any intention of abusing their customers, future owners may not have the same ethics.
As far as I can tell Moral Rights do not grant ownership. From Article 6 of the Berne Convention:
"Independently of the author's copyright, and even after the transfer of the said copyright, the author shall have the right, during his lifetime, to claim authorship of the work and to object to any distortion, mutilation or other alteration thereof, or any other action in relation to the said work, which would be prejudicial to his honor or reputation."
Which seems to me to be a "right of refusal" to prevent the work from being used in a way which would harm the reputation of the author.
Systems (including posting messages, uploading files, importing data or engaging in any other form of communication)
I would say that last part makes it very clear.
To XTRA customers you have until May 4 2003 before these new terms affect you. Contact you lawyer, or unsubscribe now.
That is some very scary stuff.
about:config
wow. I did not know that existed. thanks!
You could build a device that would be able to power a LED while standing under high tension power lines. What you need is a big coil of wire. It probably would not be particularly practical to carry though. A senior year engineering project was (in essence) to construct a device to measure the magnetic field under high tension lines. The device had to use 2m diameter coils to be able to reliably measure the induced voltage. Based on that work I suspect that a coil to power a LED would need to be larger then 2m and use many coils of wire.
This could make for a pretty interesting science fair project. The math behind it is pretty straight forward. For added fun you will find that the induced voltage varies depending on how conductive the soil is (wet vs dry ground). For the basic math the variables are: area of coil (A), number of turns in coil (N), distance from transmission line (d), current in transmission line (i). All multiplied and divided together. Easy stuff. If you want to add in the conductivity of the soil you are suddenly in the land of complex Maxwell's equations and fancy mathmatic modelling.
heh
That would be funny.
Did the Patriot Act give a bigger penalty for [money laudering]?
Yes. If it is "terrorist" related then the money laudering crime carries harsher penalties. The Patriot Act created new crimes, and also created harsher penalties for some existing crimes.
Debian/woody supports 386s.
Ofcourse you could easily stick with a new RedHat. All you would have to do is recompile the kernel. That said switching to the ultra stable Debian is probably not a bad idea.
The big bang is a "singularity." All of the (current) laws of physics break at that instant.
You can run X over 14.4k useing an X11 protocol compressor such as LBX or DXPC. It was fast enough to work with, but not something you would want to do everyday. Having used Citrix and PCAnywhere over a ~33.6K modem I can assure you that neither are particularly faster then compressed X.
The Government is not going to censor or expell the US ambassador. Some Member's of Parliament (elected politicians) of the ruling "Liberal" party, but who are not part of the government (ie Liberal caucus), said some stupid things about censor. These people are called backbenchers, because they sit in the back benches away from the more important ministers who make up the government. Opposition parties also have backbenchers. A backbenchres job is to shutup and show up for the Parlimentary votes. Backbenchers are known for saying stupid things. Unfortunately average or better IQ is not required to be elected, or even form part of the government.
The whole tensions with the US thing is rather annoying. The democratically elected government of Canada responded to what their constituents told them: stay out of the war in Iraq. Really the US ambassador should have said: "That is really too bad that you won't be joining us, but you are a democracy. We understand."
Ofcourse really it is all a big sham. Canada would have very little to add to the ground war. It can't really afford to deploy more land troups, even there were troups to deploy. (Don't forget about the commitments to Bosnia and elsewhere.) The Air force dosen't exactly have very many jets it can deploy. On the other hand elements of the Canadian Navy were retasked to relieve ships in the American Navy so that the American ships could concentrate on Iraq. Ofcourse Canada will be in Iraq eventually to help remove the stupid land mines (yuck) that both parties have used. So really Canada has assisted with what little it can, a couple of ships. But good old Prime Minister Jean wants to follow the popular line (typical) and pretend that Canada is not taking part in the war in Iraq.
The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp) did a good report on Al-Jazeera. By all accounts these guys deserve praise for reporting the news. The Emir of Qatar promised Al-Jazeera that they would not be censored, and has kept that promise.
On the subject of airing images of dead people: An executive of Al-Jazeera said, and I paraphrase, "Such images are nothing new to the people of the Arab world."
Sure it works, but it's much easier with pf.
Says the person who has not bothered to learn Linux Netfilter. I use both. My config files for both are equally easy to read and use.
congradulations. you have won the red stapler.
No word of a lie:
A 3 hour meeting was scheduled for 8:30 Wednesday morning to discuss the department's (30+ people) low morale. Attendance was mandetory. Take a guess if muffins, donuts, or coffee was served.
Debian will install without CD or network. Copy over the Debs you want to the harddrive, and reboot with 2 floppies (I think it is two). Once in the Debian install menu there is a an option to intall the debs from the harddrive. However Debian is really meant to have a network connection to install packages with apt-get. Slackware works better then Debian if there isn't a network.
OpenBSD also installs without needing a CD or network. I think FreeBSD is still packaged such that you could put the whole thing on floppies.