I'm finally getting 25+ KB/s download from bittorrent. But I'm uploading at 100KB/s (I set that as my limit to not swamp my T1). Of course, I already downloaded all 4 main binary CDs from mirrors.kernel.org, and moved those over to my bit torrent, so I'm now effectively a seed (still downloading the rescue CD via BT).
We quickly found out just what fake farmers we were the first time we tried worming the sheep. I think our herd was 60 or 70 around then, and we even had a chute, but we'd grab for them and they'd go sailing over our heads, or butt the little plastic syringes out of our hands, or the ones with horns would crunch our hands between the side of the chute and our hands. But nothing can beat the feeling you get when you go out in the snowy field one morning and see several new lambs wobbling around like cats on stilts.
I know what you mean. In my F250, I could get 2 big round bales, or a whole lot of square bales. Alas, we no longer have the farm, but I'm still making payments on the truck (though the 4x4 does come in handy when it snows).
And back on topic, the above picture is being served from my home server, running Apache on FreeBSD. And since Windows doesn't run on UltraSparc machines, it wasn't even an option. (My personal workstation, on which I'm typing this is a Pentium 4, though, running Fedora Core 3.)
Heh, I remember when Unix at Hopkins meant 4.2BSD on a VAX-11/750 in Barton Hall. And most of the students logged in from VT100s in Maryland 109. Actually, when I first got there, it was a PDP-11/something running 7th Edition. But that wasn't around long enough for me to actually go see it in person.
As for Fedora, I recently upgraded my home machine from RedHat 9 to FC3, which worked well, except I can't get my 2nd graphics card and monitor working. Any ideas on how to fix x.org and Xinerama?
I think people are confusing "reverse engineering", which I think is accurately described in the post you quote, with "disassembling" which is taking an executable and seeing exactly how it does what it does. With reverse engineering, you're simply figuring out what it does, i.e. what packets it sends and receives to check-out files, run merges, etc.
Aw come on, I like98 Rock. Yeah, they play too many Linkin Park type bands, but they also play good stuff (Rush, Black Sabbath, Megadeth, Iron Maiden). I don't listen to Mickey and Amelia as much as I used to (before they and Stash switched shifts), but I thought they were pretty funny. It's also nice in this day and age (the "Age of Clear Channel?") to be able to tune in to a station and hear at least a few of the people (Sarah, Lopez) that have been on since I started listening in the early 80's.
That's strange... I seem to recall running several GTK-based applications on my office PC (my home PC runs Fedora) running Windows XP. I remember Ethereal, Gaim, and gimp.
And, for GTK on Linux without X, you can run SDL... as there has been some work on getting the two working together.
That brings up a question that's been bugging me for a while. I've watched several BBC shows on DVD, and in most of them, there are 8 or so episodes in a series/season. In the US there are 20 to 23 or so. Do they spread these fewer episodes out over the course of a year (one episode a month)? Or do they simply show them over the course of a couple months, and then show other stuff (or reruns) the other 10 months of the year? Or, something else?
According to the Solaris 10 system requirements, all you need is some kind of UltraSparc (64-bit Sparc chip). So, an Ultra 1, or even Ultra 5 or 10 would be an inexpensive way to try out Solaris 10. (Ultra 1 and 2's are S-Bus based, Ultra 5 & 10's are PCI-based, and a bit faster).
I've had good luck with RetroBox.com. I've ordered a pair of Ultra 1 machines, at $75 each. They also have PC's of various vintages, and Macs and network equipment (routers, switches, etc.)
Apparently, I missed the part of the bible where it says "And God saw all the planets spinning in the same direction, and said 'This is boring.... You three! Reverse direction please.'"
There are plenty of reasons why planets might rotate in the opposite direction (and Neptune is on its "side", don't forget). The early solar system was a busy place, with lots of collisions going on.
Gravity is an interesting force. Most forces (such as magnetism) have an opposite force (like charges repel, opposite charges attract). Gravity, the most far reaching of the forces, only attracts. The more mass you have, the more it attracts. Over vast periods of time, it can draw huge amounts of matter together. The more matter, the more it attracts, and the denser the resulting accumulation. As humans didn't feel like waiting millions or billions of years, they had to "cheat" to create their stars.
Anyway, I'm not going to convince you, since your definition of religion, making it the opposite of "logical thought" (science), makes it entirely irrational, and impervious to debate.
Secondly, I would like to point out that stellar evolution is absolutely impossible. This may sound crazy, but I am willing to back up my statement. In order to create a star (according to evolution), gas must be compressed enough for fusion to take place. The problem with this theory is that gas just can't be compressed that much by anything except (possibly) a bunch of stars blowing up at the same time near each other.
I can prove you wrong. Humans have created very small stars (fusion of hydrogen and other light elements like helium and lithium) in several ways.
See
fusion reactors and
H-Bombs. If we can do it, the forces of nature can do it.
As for the "big bang", you seem to be under the impression that science and religion are mutually exclusive. Science can only say that "the universe is expanding outward in all directions, so presumably it came from the same place". It can't trace back further than the evidence will support, and so rather than making stuff up, scientists wisely say "and where this 'cosmic egg' came from, we can't say".
You may be on to something. That's why I list Hopkins on my resume, even though I dropped out after 2 years (I simply list the years I attended, which sometimes causes people to ask if I got a degree).
That said, I did have to hustle to get my first couple years experience, which amounted to doing some contracting and freelance work. My work study job during college helped a little (I worked in
the terminal room, helping users log in, making sure none of the equipment walked out, etc.), as did just hanging out around the computers (I made my first money programming helping a chem grad student debug his Fortran program).
But with over 19 years experience now, I don't have much trouble finding work.
Democrats use the courts to pass policies they know they could never be elected by supporting. So while Kerry wouldn't say anything in support, he would happily sit by while activist judges (of the sort he would be appointing) rammed it down our throats. Just like with abortion. To this day there is zero chance Congress would vote to legalize abortion but Democrats depend on unelected Judges to do their dirty work for them.
Why do you think the framers of the constitution created a court system? Ever hear the phrase "the tyranny of the majority"? The majority of the population of the US is so stupid, hateful, or both, that they don't think women should be trusted to decide what to do with their own bodies. I'm glad some reasonably intelligent people are on the bench, protecting me from you yahoos.
Were they "Power Stack" (?) machines? We had one, based on a 603, which ran OS-9000 (portable version of OS-9 (not to be confused with MacOS version 9). We also had a set-top box based on a PPC 403 (basically a 603 without floating point, designed for embedded systems) with a hardware MPEG decoder chip.
I believe it looks to see if the DISPLAY environment variable is set (tells an X11 program where to open its window: this host, another host, and which display if there are multiple ones). So, something like "unsetenv DISPLAY" should do it (for [t]csh, for bash I guess "DISPLAY= ; export DISPLAY" would work).
Well, you know, you could just download the Linux version of WordPerfect.:-) Well, ok, it's an old version (v8) and no longer supported, but it works (I've used it in the past). See here for more details.
Guys, I meant "somewhat new" as in "somewhat recent". I'd been going to say "There is some new stuff I like." but changed my phrasing because Iced Earth has been around since early 90's, and Nightwish since.. what? 1996? And yes, I love both bands, or I wouldn't have mentioned them.
Someone after my own heart! And I just saw them both live at OzzFest 2 days ago. Sabbath's set was short, and not one of their better shows. But Priest totally rocked! Oh, yeah, and I saw Maiden last fall. Bruce is a maniac on stage! Bands like these defined heavy metal. This new crap, especially the "rap influenced" stuff, is utter garbage. Well, ok, there is some somewhat new stuff (Iced Earth, Nightwish, etc.)
And sorry for fitting into their stereotype, but I've been a developer for 19 years (I'm a Linux user too, but for fewer years obviously, although I started using Unix over 21 years ago).
I have every right to stand on my lawn with my hair on fire screaming about whatever it is I believe, but if I do that in the middle of a department store, they have every right to kick me out.
You didn't pay for the right to be in that department store. They allowed you in there, in the hope that you might buy something.
A better analogy might be an apartment or rented house. You don't own it, but you do pay for the right to be there. At an ISP, you pay for the right to store your data there. There may be something in your contract about not storing "illegal" data there, so the US ISP was smart in investigating further.
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I'm finally getting 25+ KB/s download from bittorrent. But I'm uploading at 100KB/s (I set that as my limit to not swamp my T1). Of course, I already downloaded all 4 main binary CDs from mirrors.kernel.org, and moved those over to my bit torrent, so I'm now effectively a seed (still downloading the rescue CD via BT).
We quickly found out just what fake farmers we were the first time we tried worming the sheep. I think our herd was 60 or 70 around then, and we even had a chute, but we'd grab for them and they'd go sailing over our heads, or butt the little plastic syringes out of our hands, or the ones with horns would crunch our hands between the side of the chute and our hands. But nothing can beat the feeling you get when you go out in the snowy field one morning and see several new lambs wobbling around like cats on stilts.
And back on topic, the above picture is being served from my home server, running Apache on FreeBSD. And since Windows doesn't run on UltraSparc machines, it wasn't even an option. (My personal workstation, on which I'm typing this is a Pentium 4, though, running Fedora Core 3.)
What about a similar but distinct name for the experimental version (ala Fedora from Redhat). Possible names:
(By the way, I have your book on GTK app development... It's very good. Thanks.)
As for Fedora, I recently upgraded my home machine from RedHat 9 to FC3, which worked well, except I can't get my 2nd graphics card and monitor working. Any ideas on how to fix x.org and Xinerama?
I think people are confusing "reverse engineering", which I think is accurately described in the post you quote, with "disassembling" which is taking an executable and seeing exactly how it does what it does. With reverse engineering, you're simply figuring out what it does, i.e. what packets it sends and receives to check-out files, run merges, etc.
Aw come on, I like 98 Rock. Yeah, they play too many Linkin Park type bands, but they also play good stuff (Rush, Black Sabbath, Megadeth, Iron Maiden). I don't listen to Mickey and Amelia as much as I used to (before they and Stash switched shifts), but I thought they were pretty funny. It's also nice in this day and age (the "Age of Clear Channel?") to be able to tune in to a station and hear at least a few of the people (Sarah, Lopez) that have been on since I started listening in the early 80's.
And, for GTK on Linux without X, you can run SDL... as there has been some work on getting the two working together.
According to the Solaris 10 system requirements, all you need is some kind of UltraSparc (64-bit Sparc chip). So, an Ultra 1, or even Ultra 5 or 10 would be an inexpensive way to try out Solaris 10. (Ultra 1 and 2's are S-Bus based, Ultra 5 & 10's are PCI-based, and a bit faster).
I've had good luck with RetroBox.com. I've ordered a pair of Ultra 1 machines, at $75 each. They also have PC's of various vintages, and Macs and network equipment (routers, switches, etc.)
Reading is a good start. Another book I have to recommend is Peopleware by Lister and DeMarco.
There are plenty of reasons why planets might rotate in the opposite direction (and Neptune is on its "side", don't forget). The early solar system was a busy place, with lots of collisions going on.
Gravity is an interesting force. Most forces (such as magnetism) have an opposite force (like charges repel, opposite charges attract). Gravity, the most far reaching of the forces, only attracts. The more mass you have, the more it attracts. Over vast periods of time, it can draw huge amounts of matter together. The more matter, the more it attracts, and the denser the resulting accumulation. As humans didn't feel like waiting millions or billions of years, they had to "cheat" to create their stars.
Anyway, I'm not going to convince you, since your definition of religion, making it the opposite of "logical thought" (science), makes it entirely irrational, and impervious to debate.
As for the "big bang", you seem to be under the impression that science and religion are mutually exclusive. Science can only say that "the universe is expanding outward in all directions, so presumably it came from the same place". It can't trace back further than the evidence will support, and so rather than making stuff up, scientists wisely say "and where this 'cosmic egg' came from, we can't say".
That said, I did have to hustle to get my first couple years experience, which amounted to doing some contracting and freelance work. My work study job during college helped a little (I worked in the terminal room, helping users log in, making sure none of the equipment walked out, etc.), as did just hanging out around the computers (I made my first money programming helping a chem grad student debug his Fortran program). But with over 19 years experience now, I don't have much trouble finding work.
Were they "Power Stack" (?) machines? We had one, based on a 603, which ran OS-9000 (portable version of OS-9 (not to be confused with MacOS version 9). We also had a set-top box based on a PPC 403 (basically a 603 without floating point, designed for embedded systems) with a hardware MPEG decoder chip.
I believe it looks to see if the DISPLAY environment variable is set (tells an X11 program where to open its window: this host, another host, and which display if there are multiple ones). So, something like "unsetenv DISPLAY" should do it (for [t]csh, for bash I guess "DISPLAY= ; export DISPLAY" would work).
Well, you know, you could just download the Linux version of WordPerfect. :-) Well, ok, it's an old version (v8) and no longer supported, but it works (I've used it in the past). See here for more details.
Guys, I meant "somewhat new" as in "somewhat recent". I'd been going to say "There is some new stuff I like." but changed my phrasing because Iced Earth has been around since early 90's, and Nightwish since .. what? 1996? And yes, I love both bands, or I wouldn't have mentioned them.
And sorry for fitting into their stereotype, but I've been a developer for 19 years (I'm a Linux user too, but for fewer years obviously, although I started using Unix over 21 years ago).
A better analogy might be an apartment or rented house. You don't own it, but you do pay for the right to be there. At an ISP, you pay for the right to store your data there. There may be something in your contract about not storing "illegal" data there, so the US ISP was smart in investigating further.
Whatever this guy did, it doesn't show up in Mozilla. Oh, this explains it: