Am I the only one who is at least slightly bothered by the fact that google is famous for using thousands of linux machines, and yet orkut runs on active server pages on top of iis? Netcraft says: http://orkut.com was running Microsoft-IIS on unknown when last queried at 30-Jun-2004 06:19:37 GMT
Why, except in a few rare cases, would you regularly use a command line IM client in favor of a graphical one? It seems terribly inconvenient.
Not at all. As many other posters have pointed out, using screen pretty much mitigates many the annoyances of using a text mode interface. Using zicq or licq in console mode, under a screen session, I can go to work, home, wherever, and always have my contacts up.
another cool "feature" of screen, if it detects a.nethackrc file in your home directory, it will use the nethack mode error messages. I remember the first time I saw "The dead screen touches you" and "you cannot escape from window 0!" ah, good times.
I have been having similar problems with bogofilter. I had been using auto-training, but it seems to have really fallen off. Your scripts seem to be quite nice, would you mind posting them?
I really like using it with Evolution however I am curious if anyone knows of anything that would work faster and as efficient in conjuntion with Evolution?
I don't use evolution, but I do use bogofilter which is very fast. I have heard that it does work with evolution.
I think Finagle's law says, "the perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum". Of course, many people say that it is what is commonly called Murphy's law, namely "if anything can go wrong it will, at the worst possible moment".
slashdot doesn't allow you to edit other people's posts, let alone your own!
If you want to edit other people's posts, go to a wiki. Although I've always thought slashdot would be interesting as a wiki. I think you could still keep the comment moderation system, but also have editing and meta-editing. Maybe only a few people could edit, similar to the moderation system now. Not a true wiki in that case, but still an interesting idea. Of course, on the other hand, a true wiki where anyone can edit anything, that would be... wild!
All those things (getting back to roots, characters with flaws, irony and humor, good stories, enemy race) are in the show Enterprise. I really like it, but unfortunately it may not be doing as well in the "ratings" as it should.
... such wonderful bits as the encounter with Agrajag, the secret of flying, Prak, Belgium, etc. By contrast, all that Restaurant... gave us was "the B Ark", the (distorted?) Ultimate Question, and a lot of (relatively) uninteresting Zaphod scenes.
What about Disaster Area, Hotblack DeSiato (spending the year dead for tax purposes), the great Zarquon (How am I doing on time; have I just got a bi...), meeting the meat (don't worry sir, I'll be very humane), the B Ark (which I actually liked), the virulent disease caused by dirty telephones, finding out that the fjords were different, seeing Slartibartfast's face, seeing Wowbagger again, going mad and talking to trees, etc. Wow, now I want to go back and read the books again!
Besides, hyperspace bypasses were rendered obsolete with the IID.
True, but not the only really fast drive in the universe:
The Bistromathic Drive is a wonderful new method of crossing vast interstellar distances without all that dangerous mucking about with Improbability Factors.
Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutinary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.
I think most torrent users will agree that it is better for the network as a whole if people leave the torrent running after the download is finished, so that it will be more available to future downloaders.
As has already been pointed out countless times in this thread, the problem of having to carry more fuel to boost the mass of all the fuel you are already carrying is the hardest problem in getting to orbit. I think if we had a big lighter than-air-platform (ala jc aerospace) way up in the atmosphere, what do you all think of the possibility of it collecting atmospheric hydrogen or watervapor and electrolysing it (using solar power)? Probably there is not much hydrogen up there, but they could collect it for a long time. I guess the biggest problem is that the hydrogen (or helium) will just leak out of any LTA baloons. I don't know if our material science will ever be able to come up with a good method of containing gas though. If it did, the platform could have a net gain of hydrogen, which could then be compressed and used to launch.
I wonder if anyone has run firefox in valgrind to find the memory leaks...
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I have had problems with the adobe acrobat reader browser plugin with every browser and operating system I have used since acrobat reader version 3. I have used it on Netscape, MSIE, Firefox, Galeon, etc. on linux and windows xp, 2000, NT, 98, etc. and every time, there is about a 1 in 4 chance of it locking up the browser and being unresponsive to the point that I need to kill the browser. As a result, I always just save pdfs and view them not in a browser. (except occasionally I'll click a link unintentionally that is a pdf and I can see that yes, the newest version still has the problem.)
well, interestingly enough, photons do have mass (in the form of energy) but they have zero "rest mass" (except that a photon can't be at rest afaik). They do have inertia, that is how a light sail works.
Mixing graphic adventure style character movement with Text adventure style controls? Blech...
Did you ever play Eric the Unready? I loved its mix of text and graphics. It also was absolutely hilarious, which helped (behold, Excalibanana!). A google search turned up several sites, including a couple of places that have it available for download.
It wasn't the heat. In fact, the robot in question (in the story "Runaround") was specifically made to be able to withstand Mercury's heat. The problem was a conflict between the 2nd Law (obey humans) and the 3rd Law (protect own existence).
I was just reading this in the gcc info today (trying to discover the absolutely optimal compiler options for my box): `-mfpmath=UNIT'
Generate floating point arithmetics for selected unit UNIT. The
choices for UNIT are:
`387'
Use the standard 387 floating point coprocessor present
majority of chips and emulated otherwise. Code compiled with
this option will run almost everywhere. The temporary
results are computed in 80bit precision instead of precision
specified by the type resulting in slightly different results
compared to most of other chips. See `-ffloat-store' for more
detailed description.
This is the default choice for i386 compiler.
`sse'
Use scalar floating point instructions present in the SSE
instruction set. This instruction set is supported by
Pentium3 and newer chips, in the AMD line by Athlon-4,
Athlon-xp and Athlon-mp chips. The earlier version of SSE
instruction set supports only single precision arithmetics,
thus the double and extended precision arithmetics is still
done using 387. Later version, present only in Pentium4 and
the future AMD x86-64 chips supports double precision
arithmetics too.
For i387 you need to use `-march=CPU-TYPE', `-msse' or
`-msse2' switches to enable SSE extensions and make this
option effective. For x86-64 compiler, these extensions are
enabled by default.
The resulting code should be considerably faster in the
majority of cases and avoid the numerical instability
problems of 387 code, but may break some existing code that
expects temporaries to be 80bit.
This is the default choice for the x86-64 compiler.
`sse,387'
Attempt to utilize both instruction sets at once. This
effectively double the amount of available registers and on
chips with separate execution units for 387 and SSE the
execution resources too. Use this option with care, as it is
still experimental, because the gcc register allocator does
not model separate functional units well.
So it looks like you can use the FPU and the SIMD registers at the same time! I would love to see if this actually makes an improvement in the execution speed.
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Am I the only one who is at least slightly bothered by the fact that google is famous for using thousands of linux machines, and yet orkut runs on active server pages on top of iis? Netcraft says:
http://orkut.com was running Microsoft-IIS on unknown when last queried at 30-Jun-2004 06:19:37 GMT
I'm imagining this scenario happening with the Serta counting sheep. rofl.
another cool "feature" of screen, if it detects a .nethackrc file in your home directory, it will use the nethack mode error messages. I remember the first time I saw "The dead screen touches you" and "you cannot escape from window 0!" ah, good times.
I have been having similar problems with bogofilter. I had been using auto-training, but it seems to have really fallen off. Your scripts seem to be quite nice, would you mind posting them?
I always thought The Buck Book: All Sorts of Things to Do With a Dollar Bill-Besides Spend It was a great example of applied origami in real life. Sadly I don't have this book, but it would be really cool to fold up dollar bills for leaving as tips, etc. Also, check out Money Folding, Dollar Bill Animals in Origami: The National Origami Treasury, Dollar Bill Origami, and Money Folding 2.
I think Finagle's law says, "the perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum". Of course, many people say that it is what is commonly called Murphy's law, namely "if anything can go wrong it will, at the worst possible moment".
All those things (getting back to roots, characters with flaws, irony and humor, good stories, enemy race) are in the show Enterprise. I really like it, but unfortunately it may not be doing as well in the "ratings" as it should.
The Bistromathic Drive is a wonderful new method of crossing vast interstellar distances without all that dangerous mucking about with Improbability Factors.
Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutinary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.
yes, I love the Discworld books. And I would tend to agree with whoever said that Pratchett is to fantasy what DNA was to SF.
.......)
(..... waiting for lame "Slow Down Cowboy! delay
ah, if only I had mod points! (+1 Bogodynamic correctness) :-)
I think most torrent users will agree that it is better for the network as a whole if people leave the torrent running after the download is finished, so that it will be more available to future downloaders.
As has already been pointed out countless times in this thread, the problem of having to carry more fuel to boost the mass of all the fuel you are already carrying is the hardest problem in getting to orbit. I think if we had a big lighter than-air-platform (ala jc aerospace) way up in the atmosphere, what do you all think of the possibility of it collecting atmospheric hydrogen or watervapor and electrolysing it (using solar power)? Probably there is not much hydrogen up there, but they could collect it for a long time. I guess the biggest problem is that the hydrogen (or helium) will just leak out of any LTA baloons. I don't know if our material science will ever be able to come up with a good method of containing gas though. If it did, the platform could have a net gain of hydrogen, which could then be compressed and used to launch.
I wonder if anyone has run firefox in valgrind to find the memory leaks...
I have had problems with the adobe acrobat reader browser plugin with every browser and operating system I have used since acrobat reader version 3. I have used it on Netscape, MSIE, Firefox, Galeon, etc. on linux and windows xp, 2000, NT, 98, etc. and every time, there is about a 1 in 4 chance of it locking up the browser and being unresponsive to the point that I need to kill the browser. As a result, I always just save pdfs and view them not in a browser. (except occasionally I'll click a link unintentionally that is a pdf and I can see that yes, the newest version still has the problem.)
well, interestingly enough, photons do have mass (in the form of energy) but they have zero "rest mass" (except that a photon can't be at rest afaik). They do have inertia, that is how a light sail works.
or in netflix dvds...
It wasn't the heat. In fact, the robot in question (in the story "Runaround") was specifically made to be able to withstand Mercury's heat. The problem was a conflict between the 2nd Law (obey humans) and the 3rd Law (protect own existence).
also, don't forget zgv...
well, the bad news is that the government reads all your email, but the good news is, they read all your email. Bring on the spam!
I was just reading this in the gcc info today (trying to discover the absolutely optimal compiler options for my box):
`-mfpmath=UNIT'
Generate floating point arithmetics for selected unit UNIT. The
choices for UNIT are:
`387'
Use the standard 387 floating point coprocessor present
majority of chips and emulated otherwise. Code compiled with
this option will run almost everywhere. The temporary
results are computed in 80bit precision instead of precision
specified by the type resulting in slightly different results
compared to most of other chips. See `-ffloat-store' for more
detailed description.
This is the default choice for i386 compiler.
`sse'
Use scalar floating point instructions present in the SSE
instruction set. This instruction set is supported by
Pentium3 and newer chips, in the AMD line by Athlon-4,
Athlon-xp and Athlon-mp chips. The earlier version of SSE
instruction set supports only single precision arithmetics,
thus the double and extended precision arithmetics is still
done using 387. Later version, present only in Pentium4 and
the future AMD x86-64 chips supports double precision
arithmetics too.
For i387 you need to use `-march=CPU-TYPE', `-msse' or
`-msse2' switches to enable SSE extensions and make this
option effective. For x86-64 compiler, these extensions are
enabled by default.
The resulting code should be considerably faster in the
majority of cases and avoid the numerical instability
problems of 387 code, but may break some existing code that
expects temporaries to be 80bit.
This is the default choice for the x86-64 compiler.
`sse,387'
Attempt to utilize both instruction sets at once. This
effectively double the amount of available registers and on
chips with separate execution units for 387 and SSE the
execution resources too. Use this option with care, as it is
still experimental, because the gcc register allocator does
not model separate functional units well.
So it looks like you can use the FPU and the SIMD registers at the same time! I would love to see if this actually makes an improvement in the execution speed.