I last posted exactly (1 year - 1 day) ago. I guess it's time to post. Besides, I want the achievement of posting in the April Fools thread. I hope this is it.:)
A few of us took a couple days off in vegas this weekend. After about ten hours at the tables over friday and saturday, I got a tap on the shoulder...
Three men in dark suits introduced themselves and explained that I was welcome to play any other game in the casino, but I am not allowed to play blackjack anymore.
Ah well, I guess my blackjack days are over. I was actually down a bit for the day when they booted me, but I made +$32k over five trips to vegas in the past two years or so.
I knew I would get kicked out sooner or later, because I don't play "safely". I sit at the same table for several hours, and I range my bets around 10 to 1.
I don't remember anyone hating apple Really? Back in the day it was always "my computer is better than yours." I had a PC which meant that Amiga, Apple, etc. all sucked by definition (and vice versa for the Amiga, Apple, etc. owners). Probably had more to do with being 12 years old than anything else.
For me it was blocked by websense as a "personal website." Maybe it depends on which categories you have turned on. I thought it was kind of ironic that it was blocked. Maybe since I'm a sysadmin yet can't be trusted to visit a sysadmin appreciation website.
Cool site. I never knew that a bomb going off would cause aurora to appear somewhere else on Earth. Coincidentally, that's the second website I've seen today mentioning beta particles/electrons spiraling around magnetic field lines in space. And before today I had never heard of the phenomenon. Weird... (The other one was here (via boingboing.net))
Dry humour delivered in silence. For instance, 'do you know how much damage would be caused to this bulldozer if I let it run over you? / No / None at all'. It's funny. But no-one is laughing.
The people in my theater laughed at that. Not sure what you expected.
from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Chapter 12:
One of the major difficulties Trillian experience in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid.
What the hell was with John Malkovich? Why was that scene there at all? It did nothing to advance the plot and was not in the book that I remember reading.
He was a Jatravartid. The narrator pretty much read the first chapter of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe including the whole "in the beginning the Universe was created" bit. (I thought the Ah-choo; Bless You line was hilarious.) They obviously wanted to draw on that background matierial to create a new location and background to create an alternate plot. (Every version of H2G2 has a slightly different plot.) Of course you don't know that the whole gun thing does come into the plot in a very funny moment involving Marvin, but you wouldn't know that because you walked out of the #$@!%@ movie.
I've heard stories about people walking out of movies. I really have to question their ability to enjoy life.
Sometimes. It detects a ground fault, e.g. a short between the power and the ground in the plug. However if you were to touch a live wire and the ground is through you and down into the real ground it would NOT trip the GFCI. (Disclaimer: IANAE)
I thought TVs don't have three prong outlets. I realized this while setting up my TV area in my old rental house that had no three prong outlets. Then I realized that all of the following had two prong outlets: TV (even a big screen one), tivo, stereo, dvd player, vcr, ps2, gamecube, etc. Everything related to TV and so on is two prong. (I'm in the US.)
I hate the state the obvious, but, why not get two computers?
I think the idea is that normally you have a pile of servers each running at about 0-5% cpu utilization. If you can consolodate them all into few servers you'd be saving on hardware. You can give a partition as small as 1/10th of a CPU (on IBM P5) and adjust them by 1% increments. You can even have these multiple partitions share other resources like i/o cards. It's kind of the same idea as SAN. Instead of having a bunch of direct attached storage with enough overhead on each one, if you combine them you can keep the data in a larger pool and allocate space to different servers as you need it. In reality I don't think it really saves any money in the long run, because this enterprise stuff is expensive, not mention all the licenses and stuff you have to buy. Take the P5 for instance. Say you have a database running 10 threads. It can actually spread those across 10 cpus even though the total capacity is 1 cpu. But you still have to license your database for all the cpus in the box.
I say that too, although only to people (well, one person) who knows what it refers to, and even then very rarely. But it does convey something that a simple "what's up?" doesn't.
I remember the opening movie for WCII. There was this one scene of a large ship that kind of dipped down in a swoop while flying on the screen and it looked all 3d. We were in such awe.
This reminds me, I used to watch that at my friend's house since he had a computer that could run it. Even these days I occasionally say "How goes the war against the humans?" as a greeting to him.
I always did think that Pascal's notation for pointers and dereferencing was more intuitive than C and therefore less confusing for teaching algorthms and data structures. It also didn't let you write out of bounds of arrays. Good stuff.
If they really wanted to be objective the review sites would buy their own products retail with no indication that it is for a review site. This is what Consumer Reports does. The goes for software reviews as well. Yes, this requires a different business model than review sites are using now, but right now they are not objective; they are a part of the business they are covering.
I cannot stand the typical disposable culture mindset - [...] after throwing out the nth quartz watch that died shortly after replacing the batteries.
It's funny you should say that. I've been wearing the same digital watch (Timex Triathlon) for 17 years. Most of the labeling on the buttons is worn off, and the primary (mode) button is cracked. I've replaced the band and the batteries I don't know how many times. Every few years the plastic watchband starts getting brittle and breaks. Any store like Target has replacement bands in the watch department. I've probably replaced it half a dozen times. It's getting hard to find a battery for it. I usually replace it when pushing the (non-indiglo) light button causes the numbers to disappear. And a few years ago I submersed it and condensation appeared on the inside of the glass which was fixed by leaving it in the sun to dry. I still use the stopwatch, and countdown features. This morning, coincidentally, I am using the alarm to time tasks at specific intervals before a downtime window.
I'm going to keep this watch running as long as I can. I wonder if there are replacements for the minor rubber and plastic components for the watch body.
Democrats have been losing because the Gore and Kerry are wooden bores.
I attended my district's Democratic caucus back in the Spring. I voted for Dean at the time, but most of our delegates to the County convention ended up being for Kerry, and then even the people who were for Dean switched Kerry. They said they thought Dean was too angry. Not that they didn't agree with him, but that they thought Kerry was more likely to win. They intentionally chose the boring one as a safe bet. If my caucus was any indication of the rest of the country, it's stupidity on a national scale.
Most man pages do have an examples section. It's in all caps so just type "man command" and then/EXAMPLES to jump to the examples. Of course it depends on your Unix vendor, and who wrote the man pages. Here is the example section from "man ls" on hp-ux 11i, which happens to only have one example:
EXAMPLES
Print a long listing of all the files in the current working directory
(including the file sizes). List the most recently modified
(youngest) file first, followed by the next older file, and so forth,
to the oldest. Files whose names begin with a . are also printed.
ls -alst
The FSF man page for ls that comes with linux doesn't appear to have an example section. The hp-ux man page for find (quite possibly the most complex command line program) has 12 examples with a lot of text to explain them. The linux one I found online doesn't have any examples.
Not intended to bash one version of unix over the other. I didn't realize that linux would be the one with fewer examples.
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I last posted exactly (1 year - 1 day) ago. I guess it's time to post. Besides, I want the achievement of posting in the April Fools thread. I hope this is it. :)
I remember that too.
I found this at this url (at the bottom)
http://doom-ed.com/blog/1998/09
In his 9/8/1998 update it says:
A few of us took a couple days off in vegas this weekend. After about
ten hours at the tables over friday and saturday, I got a tap on the shoulder...
Three men in dark suits introduced themselves and explained that I was welcome
to play any other game in the casino, but I am not allowed to play
blackjack anymore.
Ah well, I guess my blackjack days are over. I was actually down a bit for
the day when they booted me, but I made +$32k over five trips to vegas in the
past two years or so.
I knew I would get kicked out sooner or later, because I don't play "safely".
I sit at the same table for several hours, and I range my bets around 10 to 1.
small correction, to add 2 + 3 it's just: 2 Enter 3 +
No need for the second enter.
For me it was blocked by websense as a "personal website." Maybe it depends on which categories you have turned on. I thought it was kind of ironic that it was blocked. Maybe since I'm a sysadmin yet can't be trusted to visit a sysadmin appreciation website.
Cool site. I never knew that a bomb going off would cause aurora to appear somewhere else on Earth. Coincidentally, that's the second website I've seen today mentioning beta particles/electrons spiraling around magnetic field lines in space. And before today I had never heard of the phenomenon. Weird... (The other one was here (via boingboing.net))
Sorry, I didn't mean to criticize you personally even though that's how I wrote it. Take care...
Dry humour delivered in silence. For instance, 'do you know how much damage would be caused to this bulldozer if I let it run over you? / No / None at all'. It's funny. But no-one is laughing.
The people in my theater laughed at that. Not sure what you expected.
What the hell was with John Malkovich? Why was that scene there at all? It did nothing to advance the plot and was not in the book that I remember reading.
He was a Jatravartid. The narrator pretty much read the first chapter of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe including the whole "in the beginning the Universe was created" bit. (I thought the Ah-choo; Bless You line was hilarious.) They obviously wanted to draw on that background matierial to create a new location and background to create an alternate plot. (Every version of H2G2 has a slightly different plot.) Of course you don't know that the whole gun thing does come into the plot in a very funny moment involving Marvin, but you wouldn't know that because you walked out of the #$@!%@ movie.
I've heard stories about people walking out of movies. I really have to question their ability to enjoy life.
They also prevent you from getting electrocuted.
Sometimes. It detects a ground fault, e.g. a short between the power and the ground in the plug. However if you were to touch a live wire and the ground is through you and down into the real ground it would NOT trip the GFCI. (Disclaimer: IANAE)
I thought TVs don't have three prong outlets. I realized this while setting up my TV area in my old rental house that had no three prong outlets. Then I realized that all of the following had two prong outlets: TV (even a big screen one), tivo, stereo, dvd player, vcr, ps2, gamecube, etc. Everything related to TV and so on is two prong. (I'm in the US.)
I saw he has a show on PBS now. To placate the right wing? Anyway, I hope he gets off of PBS especially.
ESR got furious on that documentary Revolution OS when asked if Open Source was like Communism.
I hate the state the obvious, but, why not get two computers?
I think the idea is that normally you have a pile of servers each running at about 0-5% cpu utilization. If you can consolodate them all into few servers you'd be saving on hardware. You can give a partition as small as 1/10th of a CPU (on IBM P5) and adjust them by 1% increments. You can even have these multiple partitions share other resources like i/o cards. It's kind of the same idea as SAN. Instead of having a bunch of direct attached storage with enough overhead on each one, if you combine them you can keep the data in a larger pool and allocate space to different servers as you need it. In reality I don't think it really saves any money in the long run, because this enterprise stuff is expensive, not mention all the licenses and stuff you have to buy. Take the P5 for instance. Say you have a database running 10 threads. It can actually spread those across 10 cpus even though the total capacity is 1 cpu. But you still have to license your database for all the cpus in the box.
I say that too, although only to people (well, one person) who knows what it refers to, and even then very rarely. But it does convey something that a simple "what's up?" doesn't.
I remember the opening movie for WCII. There was this one scene of a large ship that kind of dipped down in a swoop while flying on the screen and it looked all 3d. We were in such awe.
This reminds me, I used to watch that at my friend's house since he had a computer that could run it. Even these days I occasionally say "How goes the war against the humans?" as a greeting to him.
I always did think that Pascal's notation for pointers and dereferencing was more intuitive than C and therefore less confusing for teaching algorthms and data structures. It also didn't let you write out of bounds of arrays. Good stuff.
on the east side of Russian is called "China."
If they really wanted to be objective the review sites would buy their own products retail with no indication that it is for a review site. This is what Consumer Reports does. The goes for software reviews as well. Yes, this requires a different business model than review sites are using now, but right now they are not objective; they are a part of the business they are covering.
Ok, that was lame.
Is this the "big surprise" Rove was talking about?
I'm flattered but you don't need to stay with Windows just because of me.
I cannot stand the typical disposable culture mindset - [...] after throwing out the nth quartz watch that died shortly after replacing the batteries.
It's funny you should say that. I've been wearing the same digital watch (Timex Triathlon) for 17 years. Most of the labeling on the buttons is worn off, and the primary (mode) button is cracked. I've replaced the band and the batteries I don't know how many times. Every few years the plastic watchband starts getting brittle and breaks. Any store like Target has replacement bands in the watch department. I've probably replaced it half a dozen times. It's getting hard to find a battery for it. I usually replace it when pushing the (non-indiglo) light button causes the numbers to disappear. And a few years ago I submersed it and condensation appeared on the inside of the glass which was fixed by leaving it in the sun to dry. I still use the stopwatch, and countdown features. This morning, coincidentally, I am using the alarm to time tasks at specific intervals before a downtime window.
I'm going to keep this watch running as long as I can. I wonder if there are replacements for the minor rubber and plastic components for the watch body.
Democrats have been losing because the Gore and Kerry are wooden bores.
I attended my district's Democratic caucus back in the Spring. I voted for Dean at the time, but most of our delegates to the County convention ended up being for Kerry, and then even the people who were for Dean switched Kerry. They said they thought Dean was too angry. Not that they didn't agree with him, but that they thought Kerry was more likely to win. They intentionally chose the boring one as a safe bet. If my caucus was any indication of the rest of the country, it's stupidity on a national scale.
Most man pages do have an examples section. It's in all caps so just type "man command" and then
The FSF man page for ls that comes with linux doesn't appear to have an example section. The hp-ux man page for find (quite possibly the most complex command line program) has 12 examples with a lot of text to explain them. The linux one I found online doesn't have any examples.
Not intended to bash one version of unix over the other. I didn't realize that linux would be the one with fewer examples.