Or edit the binary. Load up the binary into emacs, then search for/dev/dsp - make sure emacs is in overwrite mode and change it to "/dev/ds2" - you cant make it/dev/dsp2 because that would change the length of the binary and probably break it.
Now make/dev/ds2 as a symlink to/dev/dsp2. Sorted.
I figured Perl would be a good language for writing a Haiku generator, so I popped over to CPAN to see what modules could help count syllables. Ah ha. Lingua::EN::Syllable
Read the docs:
"It guesses correctly about 80-90% of the time, but it's smaller and faster than a dictionary lookup. So you can't really use it for writing random haiku."
Hehe. Of course you could always rewrite this vbs file as a shell script. The trick is getting people to run it. With Windows its there in the folder, looks executable, you double click it. Bang bang bye bye hard disk.
But with the increasing use of desktop file managers like that with Gnome and KDE, you could run a shell script virus downloaded from Gnutella just as easily. All it would take is for your umask, or your application, to be set to add execute permissions to files.
Could even be a trojan, a gzexe-compressed shell script that seemingly does something else. Be vigilant - linux viruses/worms are coming!
..especially Microsoft. Not only do you see Sandra Bullock in a swimsuit, but you also see what closed-source security solutions might be setting you up for. World domination by the back door. It was shown recently on UK TV and it seemed so appropriate. If the GateKeeper software had been open source then the backdoors would have been spotted, the bad guys wouldn't have had a chance, and Sandra wouldn't have had to wear that swimsuit. Oh, maybe there's a good side to closed-source...
Anyway, serious point - closed source, bad for security. Sorry if I'm preaching to the converted.
I'm no expert in fluid mechanics, but my intuition tells me that the mushroom cloud in a nuclear explosion (or any explosion for that matter) is caused by the interaction of the material picked up by the bomb and the atmosphere in which the explosion takes place. In which case I dont see how the Air Force could get their mushroom cloud visible from earth!
I suspect a bomb exploded on or below the surface would produce a plume rather than a dome, something like the volcanoes on Io.
Also, remember one or two scientists on the first A-bomb project were worried that the explosion would ignite all the oxygen in the atmosphere? Good reason to test on the moon:)
I remember using MGR under minix on my Atari ST back in oooh, 1989 or so? Of course there's also the native Atari GUI, GEM. I've a feeling you can get the source for DR's GEMDOS now, but I may be wrong.
See the MGR-Howto on any good linux doc site. It's one of the things that came out of Bellcore's labs.
NeWS was another Sun thing, post SunView. I remember someone in the corridor asking me 'Hey Baz, whats news?' and being flummoxed by my response of 'Network Extensible Windowing System'. And if they'd said "What's new?" I would have said "13th letter of the Greek alphabet".
Although really intended for musicians, samplenet has a section of sound FX and vocal samples that might be useful in a desktop environment. And whats more:
Q. Can I use the samples on my recordings?
A. Of course! All of SampleNet's samples are copyright free.
WWW interface here, also available via ftp. I managed to nab the entire archive and burn it to two CD's for convenience... Baz
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That washing machine looks so much like a hoax, or April fool message. I mean, all that stuff about being able to change wash cycles and spin speeds 'as your washing needs change'. I've had my washing machine for 7 years and I've only used two of the programs on it. And no, they weren't emacs and Netscape...
Prices will come down. Guy Kewney has an insightful analysis of the situation on zdnet uk.
His conclusion is that they should have rolled it out earlier, but wanted to develop some unique content in order to get revenue from that as well, since the price is currently loss-making!
The UK newspaper The Guardian had an article on this - here - with some details on the method - basically work out the average amount of beer taken up by the tache per sip, the average amount of sips per pint, and the average number of pints per year. Hence the way to minimise the loss is either:
Take fewer sips. Encourage your bearded friends to do this by shouting 'down in one!'.
Take less time between sips. This means that the beard is already saturated and absorbs no more beer. Encourage your bearded friends to do this by shouting 'drink!' </Father Ted>
Surely thats an mp3 client problem. I dont see why an MP3 player can't decode the start of the next track as the last one finishes and join the audio together seamlessly. It certainly doesnt need a new standard... Try submitting this to Xmms as a future enhancement.
It bugs me too, Pink Floyd isnt the same when it hiccups between tracks...
Our campus central IT dept requests most machine names to be of the form [building][floor][room][machine number] leading to dull names like fyb052000002. So for my new linux cluster I decided on something else.
The server is called 'icefloe', and the compute nodes are named after penguins. So I've got a bunch of penguins on an icefloe. Currently only chinstrap is keeping a lonely vigil on the icefloe, but I'll get king, emperor, adelie, gentoo and all the others up one day. I must stop reading slashdot and do some work...
I guess this gives me a chance to plug my band, Monkey Bucket, and their latest song, "Dont Play With Your Food".
The corn used to ripen under the sun, and the fruit used to follow the flower, now its more like a man in a white coat saying "Igor, turn up the power",
I dont want tomatoes that keep for a year, or potatoes the size of my head, when I'm eating a meal I want something that's real and I remember what my mama said
Dont play with your food, dont play with your food How many times must I tell you dont play with your food.
there's a couple more verses, but you'll have to buy the album for that!
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings/Band for a website in severe need of an update!
It sounds like you've just been issued with a blanket statement 'you must scan all email for porn'. Get them to clarify.
Do they mean 'scan all email for pornographic images'? That'll be hard. Ask them for a list of all filenames that are pornographic images. Or a list of key words that aren't allowed in file names. Then email someone a picture of the lovely English town of Scunthorpe.
I honestly dont see how its practical, without some sort of tool for recognising large amounts of flesh-tones in images. Maybe such a thing exists, but anyway, you go tell the suits you need more information. Write them a long memo.
I'm in the Bay Area, but I dont know where you are talking about. Perhaps thats because I'm in the Morecambe Bay area. We're not all hoopy stateside SoCal froods you know!
Anyway, Guinness over here tastes _soooo_ much nicer than over there!! Ha!
Totally cool would be if you cycle past another person with a 'Bike Brain' and it flashes the route they are taking to yours, or sends you a message or something. Saves you having to wave and exchange pleasantries with fellow passing cyclists!
Slashdot Mirror
Or edit the binary. Load up the binary into emacs, then search for /dev/dsp - make sure emacs is in overwrite mode and change it to "/dev/ds2" - you cant make it /dev/dsp2 because that would change the length of the binary and probably break it.
/dev/ds2 as a symlink to /dev/dsp2. Sorted.
Now make
Make a backup of the binary first of course...
Baz
I figured Perl would be a good language for writing a Haiku generator, so I popped over to CPAN to see what modules could help count syllables. Ah ha. Lingua::EN::Syllable
Read the docs:
"It guesses correctly about 80-90% of the time,
but it's smaller and faster than a dictionary
lookup. So you can't really use it for
writing random haiku."
Dang, these guys are _way_ ahead of me!!
Baz
Just install w3-mode.el and you can web browse in emacs.
One of our real hardcore emacs users wanted it set as his default shell on our unix boxes!
Hehe. Of course you could always rewrite this vbs file as a shell script. The trick is getting people to run it. With Windows its there in the folder, looks executable, you double click it. Bang bang bye bye hard disk.
But with the increasing use of desktop file managers like that with Gnome and KDE, you could run a shell script virus downloaded from Gnutella just as easily. All it would take is for your umask, or your application, to be set to add execute permissions to files.
Could even be a trojan, a gzexe-compressed shell script that seemingly does something else. Be vigilant - linux viruses/worms are coming!
Baz
..especially Microsoft. Not only do you see Sandra Bullock in a swimsuit, but you also see what closed-source security solutions might be setting you up for. World domination by the back door. It was shown recently on UK TV and it seemed so appropriate. If the GateKeeper software had been open source then the backdoors would have been spotted, the bad guys wouldn't have had a chance, and Sandra wouldn't have had to wear that swimsuit. Oh, maybe there's a good side to closed-source...
Anyway, serious point - closed source, bad for security. Sorry if I'm preaching to the converted.
Baz
I'm no expert in fluid mechanics, but my intuition tells me that the mushroom cloud in a nuclear explosion (or any explosion for that matter) is caused by the interaction of the material picked up by the bomb and the atmosphere in which the explosion takes place. In which case I dont see how the Air Force could get their mushroom cloud visible from earth!
:)
I suspect a bomb exploded on or below the surface would produce a plume rather than a dome, something like the volcanoes on Io.
Also, remember one or two scientists on the first A-bomb project were worried that the explosion would ignite all the oxygen in the atmosphere? Good reason to test on the moon
Baz
I remember using MGR under minix on my Atari ST back in oooh, 1989 or so? Of course there's also the native Atari GUI, GEM. I've a feeling you can get the source for DR's GEMDOS now, but I may be wrong.
See the MGR-Howto on any good linux doc site. It's one of the things that came out of Bellcore's labs.
NeWS was another Sun thing, post SunView. I remember someone in the corridor asking me 'Hey Baz, whats news?' and being flummoxed by my response of 'Network Extensible Windowing System'. And if they'd said "What's new?" I would have said "13th letter of the Greek alphabet".
Baz
Q. Can I use the samples on my recordings?
A. Of course! All of SampleNet's samples are copyright free.
WWW interface here, also available via ftp. I managed to nab the entire archive and burn it to two CD's for convenience... Baz
That washing machine looks so much like a hoax, or April fool message. I mean, all that stuff about being able to change wash cycles and spin speeds 'as your washing needs change'. I've had my washing machine for 7 years and I've only used two of the programs on it. And no, they weren't emacs and Netscape...
Baz
His conclusion is that they should have rolled it out earlier, but wanted to develop some unique content in order to get revenue from that as well, since the price is currently loss-making!
Baz
Sounds like a General Prosecution Fault to me...
They're going to change it so that the entire universe rotates around Bill Gates...
[puts on square spectacles and London accent] "Oi, not a lot of people know that".
Read the specs, 60mph is only cruising speed. It gives VNE (velocity never exceed) at 120mph! More than that and things start to fall off.
Anyone done a Flight Sim 2000 model of it yet?
Baz
And dont forget that when the polytechnic colleges were becoming universities, Newcastle Polytechnic nearly changed its name to the:
.ac.uk domain name to register.
City University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Then I think they thought about what
[possibly file this under urban myths]
- Take fewer sips. Encourage your bearded friends to do this by shouting 'down in one!'.
- Take less time between sips. This means that the beard is already saturated and absorbs no more beer. Encourage your bearded friends to do this by shouting 'drink!' </Father Ted>
BazSurely thats an mp3 client problem. I dont see why an MP3 player can't decode the start of the next track as the last one finishes and join the audio together seamlessly. It certainly doesnt need a new standard... Try submitting this to Xmms as a future enhancement.
It bugs me too, Pink Floyd isnt the same when it hiccups between tracks...
Baz
And now there really is a secret message on the web site! Check the HTML source. It was the first thing I did...
Baz
Our campus central IT dept requests most machine names to be of the form [building][floor][room][machine number] leading to dull names like fyb052000002. So for my new linux cluster I decided on something else.
The server is called 'icefloe', and the compute nodes are named after penguins. So I've got a bunch of penguins on an icefloe. Currently only chinstrap is keeping a lonely vigil on the icefloe, but I'll get king, emperor, adelie, gentoo and all the others up one day. I must stop reading slashdot and do some work...
I guess this gives me a chance to plug my band, Monkey Bucket, and their latest song, "Dont Play With Your Food".
The corn used to ripen under the sun,
and the fruit used to follow the flower,
now its more like a man in a white coat saying
"Igor, turn up the power",
I dont want tomatoes that keep for a year,
or potatoes the size of my head,
when I'm eating a meal I want something that's real
and I remember what my mama said
Dont play with your food, dont play with your food
How many times must I tell you dont play with your food.
there's a couple more verses, but you'll have to buy the album for that!
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings/Band for a website in severe need of an update!
It sounds like you've just been issued with a blanket statement 'you must scan all email for porn'. Get them to clarify.
Do they mean 'scan all email for pornographic images'? That'll be hard. Ask them for a list of all filenames that are pornographic images. Or a list of key words that aren't allowed in file names. Then email someone a picture of the lovely English town of Scunthorpe.
I honestly dont see how its practical, without some sort of tool for recognising large amounts of flesh-tones in images. Maybe such a thing exists, but anyway, you go tell the suits you need more information. Write them a long memo.
Baz
I'm in the Bay Area, but I dont know where you
are talking about. Perhaps thats because I'm in
the Morecambe Bay area. We're not all hoopy
stateside SoCal froods you know!
Anyway, Guinness over here tastes _soooo_ much
nicer than over there!! Ha!
Enjoy it!
Baz
to log on to this computer.
/]
Looks like we crashed it. Funny, this happened just as I requested a URL of:
http://www.windows2000test.com///////[2000 x
Coincidence? Probably!
Baz
I wouldn't like to change a toner cartridge in zero-gravity...
Totally cool would be if you cycle past another person with a 'Bike Brain' and it flashes the route they are taking to yours, or sends you a message or something. Saves you having to wave and exchange pleasantries with fellow passing cyclists!