Since when does copying the XP rounded-edges candy-colored-icons count as "totally new GUI design"?
Please, if people what to copy the XP look-and-squeal, then we can (and should, and do) have particular themes to do exactly that. But this doesn't strike me as innovation.
Making the not-kicker-thingy expand as needed is an interesting tweak. But the rest is just more #*!% copying.
(I wonder what a desktop that actually looked like a desktop would do for ease of use? Hmmm. Have to give that some thought.)
If Connected had a *nix client, they might be worth invetigating. Seriously.
As it is, I'd have to do a local tar/dump/something of my data, copy the dump file to a Windows partition, boot into Windows, run the Connected program to chunk across this dump file, then reboot back into something useful.
What the fuck...? You think people actually sit there during the backups, watching the blinkenlights? Backups are automated.
and so that they don't back-up that often, which they store near the computer, so that they all can burn at the same time,
*shrug* Maybe they're stupid, but all of that applies to any other backup method too.
As for "remote site" backups, that only works with small-medium amounts of data, and the more data there is, the less remote the site can be before it no longer is worth it. I'm looking into this option for my home systems, but not for work.
For several hundred gigabytes, for example, remote sites are just not an option. Hence the nice, fast, automated, reliable tape backups.
I should know this kind of thing already, given the exposure I've had to the medical field, but how much blood is in a "unit"? Saying "12 units" doesn't communicate anything to a non-medical guy like me.
Actually, on further thought, it communicates a very wrong thing to me -- I'm a Type I diabetic, and to me "one unit" [of insulin] is 0.01 cc, or 0.01 ml. So "12 units of blood" sounds like something I would lose out of, say, a scraped knee.:-)
The most excellent R-rated parody book, "Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody," has a couple of real good slams on quidditch, mostly based on the scoring rules and the fact that catching the snitch is the only thing that matters.
In the 4th book (the good one, IMHO) is a game which brings home the fact that while catching the snitch 1) ends the game, and 2) gets you 150-odd points, that only matters if you're less than 150-odd points behind the other team. You can still get the thing and lose.
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"straight", not "strait". "strait" is a geographical feature, not a correct-or-incorrect measure.
Unfortunately for you, the AC is correct. To raise a question is to do exactly that. To beg a question is to commit a logical fallacy of circular reasoning, usually by assuming X, then reasoning your way towards proving X is true. However, the reasoning depends on X being true already, thus the fallacy.
Here's a good directory, as it were, of failures of logical thinking, and the names given to them: http://gncurtis.home.texas.net/index.html (uses frames). It points out the exact mistake you persist in defending.
I suspect you don't actually own a copy of the OED, because in my experience people who do are sticklers for correctness. I would sooner believe that the AC (modded down by a moron, more's the pity) owns a copy.
Only the poles flip. The Earth will still rotate in the direction it does now, so East (defined as "the direction in which a planet rotates") and West ("the other way") will remain the same.
Animals that think of east as "face north then turn right" are screwed, people that think of east "where the sun rises" are okay.
I've not had this problem except with Windows -- mainly because the apps that suffer most from the "I did something that required CPU cycles, therefore I will tell you about it in a popup" disease seem to be Windows apps. So I'll tell you the Windows solution:
Go to microsoft.com. Find wherever they've hidden TweakUI this month. Download it. (If necessary, download the whole "power tools" thingy that it's a part of.) Install it. (Install the "open cmd.exe at this directory" power tool too, while you're at it.)
Go to the [Out-Of-]Control Panel, fire up TweakUI, and disallow applications to grab focus. There's even a "what should they do instead" selection that lets you make them blink.
Disadvantage: some programs fire off a splash screen, then bring it down and replace it with the real program. Window focus doesn't traverse like that now, so the real program won't start off with focus, even though you the last thing you did was to double-click its startup icon. Minor annoyance only.
For starters, the 8 port version is NOT a few inches wider. It's the exact same width and looks identical from the front except the light arrangement which is slightly different.
Huh. Okay, color me stupid. I wonder what I was actually looking at when I thought I was looking at the 4-port model. (A 2-port model? Heaven knows there are users who would buy them...)
Secondly, it's a 4 port Switch AND a 4 port Hub, (4 switched ports, and 4 hub ports).
Uhhhhh. I'm pretty sure all 8 LAN ports are switched. The only 4/4 split I've ever found is this one:
The 4 Switched ports have QoS options, and the 4 port hub can be given a priority of it's own (higher or lower than the switched ports, I believe).
Actually, you get to choose which, if any, 4 ports can use QoS. The remaining 4 get low priority. But I think all 8 are still switched.
The 4-port DSL router (vulnerable) is using firmware 1.40something, and must be upgraded. The latest is 1.43.
The 8-port model, which is what I have, and which is exactly the same damn thing (same functionality, same interface, almost the same user manual) except that it's a few inches wider and has 4 more ports, uses firmware 2.something. And is apparently not vulnerable.
Providing another 4 ports (one extra bit?) requires the firmware to be that different?
glibc is the GNU C library, and the system library for most Linux platforms. The C++ library is libstdc++-v3, which is completely separate.
The MS 6.0 compiler used the most recent version of Dinkumware's C++ library at the time. I don't know what they used for 7.0, but Dinkumware has continued to update and improve their libraries. They even had bugfixes for their headers that MS hasn't included with 6.0, so you could patch them yourself.
Essential Guide to Bible Versions,
ISBN 0-8423-3484-X
The first chapter is an introduction, discussing the various problems involved in translating any part of the Bible (or any other ancient text). The next N chapters deal specifically with Old Testament manuscripts. The N chapters after that do the same thing for New Testament manuscripts.
The important part is that those 2N chapters also introduce the names and abbreviations for the various codices.
One of the final chapters is a list of New Testament verses that have appeared or disappeard over the years, as compared to the abbreviations of the codices (which is why you need to read the whole book, not just skip to this chapter).
So, the graduate CS course I'm taking this quarter is Evolutionary Computing, which is all about the convoluted nonlinear multidimensional-search-space problems, and guess what our current homework is? That's right, taking statistics on spam data, and using genetic algorithms to evolve a working spam filter.
Due to one typo and two thinkos in my fitness evaluation function, my algorithm evolves -- within only a few dozen generations -- a solution which looks like this:
Ignore the actual contents of the message. 34% of the time, it's spam.
Its camera and tape recorder are playing up, it is almost out of the fuel needed to control balance and its voice has been reduced to a whisper, thanks to its main antenna jamming shut years ago, cutting the expected flood of information and pictures to a trickle.
Tomorrow, as Galileo sweeps closer to Jupiter than ever, it will encounter twice as much radiation.
They don't build 'em like they used to. RIP, Galileo.
Collections of the earliest manuscripts are called codices, and are given a name usually based on where the codex was first discovered, or is kept.
Codices and variants on codices are also given single-character abbreviations. I have a very good book on how Bible translations are done, but I can't reach it right now (broken leg), anyhow I believe "B" is one of the more complete manuscripts ever.
The contents of the early manuscripts can be fascinating. For example, the Lord's Prayer originally didn't end like it does today.
I was browsing through the U.S. State Department's online "dossier of countries" (whatever it's called), which includes some interesting statistics for each country.
The Vatican is the only country in the world to have a literacy rate of 100%. (Granted, there's only a few thousand citizens, but still...)
Apart from being more organized and having plenty of coffee, do you have any tips on getting through ultra-long coding sessions?
Keep a separate piece of paper (sticky note, open text file, whatever) for jotting down reminders on how to do things better/correctly for when the code you're currently slamming out fails, and you need to go back and do it over again.
Not if it fails, when.
The human brain requires sleep. Deprive it and your work suffers. Trying to convince yourself (or your boss) of anything else is fucking moronic and a recipe for failure. Maybe you think that's acceptable in the short term, in which case I'm glad I don't work with you on any projects.
But it is causes applications to load slow and single applications don't appear to run fast.
Not only is Solaris a very kickass server OS, but the perceived problems you mention can be addressed by changing the time scheduling class of the process. There is a specific class of task scheduling designed for, say, sitting in front of the machine and doing interactive stuff. There's another for real-time scheduling, but I don't think anything uses that by default out of the box.
That's what I have (Linksys). But the account still has to be turned on, and the PPPoE password set, and both of those can only be done through their crappy windows software.
After that's done, I tell the router the PPPoE username and password (otherwise nothing works), and now both Linux and Windows simply speak to the local net. Yay Linksys.
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Since when does copying the XP rounded-edges candy-colored-icons count as "totally new GUI design"?
Please, if people what to copy the XP look-and-squeal, then we can (and should, and do) have particular themes to do exactly that. But this doesn't strike me as innovation.
Making the not-kicker-thingy expand as needed is an interesting tweak. But the rest is just more #*!% copying.
(I wonder what a desktop that actually looked like a desktop would do for ease of use? Hmmm. Have to give that some thought.)
...stand up, stagger backwards, and snarl, "I must find a new host body!"
...of books called the C++ In-Depth Series. Very well-written, all by experts.
One of the series' rules is that the main body text of a book must be no more than 300 pages. Be clear, be concise, get to the point and shut up.
Most excellent books.
...give a checkbox in the user preferences, "I {do,do not} have an interest in stories from subscription-only sites."
If Connected had a *nix client, they might be worth invetigating. Seriously.
As it is, I'd have to do a local tar/dump/something of my data, copy the dump file to a Windows partition, boot into Windows, run the Connected program to chunk across this dump file, then reboot back into something useful.
Thanks, I'll stick with rsync. :-)
Because tapes are cheap and reliable.
What the fuck...? You think people actually sit there during the backups, watching the blinkenlights? Backups are automated.
*shrug* Maybe they're stupid, but all of that applies to any other backup method too.
As for "remote site" backups, that only works with small-medium amounts of data, and the more data there is, the less remote the site can be before it no longer is worth it. I'm looking into this option for my home systems, but not for work.
For several hundred gigabytes, for example, remote sites are just not an option. Hence the nice, fast, automated, reliable tape backups.
I should know this kind of thing already, given the exposure I've had to the medical field, but how much blood is in a "unit"? Saying "12 units" doesn't communicate anything to a non-medical guy like me.
Actually, on further thought, it communicates a very wrong thing to me -- I'm a Type I diabetic, and to me "one unit" [of insulin] is 0.01 cc, or 0.01 ml. So "12 units of blood" sounds like something I would lose out of, say, a scraped knee. :-)
...but not until then.
The most excellent R-rated parody book, "Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody," has a couple of real good slams on quidditch, mostly based on the scoring rules and the fact that catching the snitch is the only thing that matters.
In the 4th book (the good one, IMHO) is a game which brings home the fact that while catching the snitch 1) ends the game, and 2) gets you 150-odd points, that only matters if you're less than 150-odd points behind the other team. You can still get the thing and lose.
"straight", not "strait". "strait" is a geographical feature, not a correct-or-incorrect measure.
Sorry, couldn't resist. :-) I'll go to sleep now.
Unfortunately for you, the AC is correct. To raise a question is to do exactly that. To beg a question is to commit a logical fallacy of circular reasoning, usually by assuming X, then reasoning your way towards proving X is true. However, the reasoning depends on X being true already, thus the fallacy.
Here's a good directory, as it were, of failures of logical thinking, and the names given to them: http://gncurtis.home.texas.net/index.html (uses frames). It points out the exact mistake you persist in defending.
I suspect you don't actually own a copy of the OED, because in my experience people who do are sticklers for correctness. I would sooner believe that the AC (modded down by a moron, more's the pity) owns a copy.
Only the poles flip. The Earth will still rotate in the direction it does now, so East (defined as "the direction in which a planet rotates") and West ("the other way") will remain the same.
Animals that think of east as "face north then turn right" are screwed, people that think of east "where the sun rises" are okay.
I've not had this problem except with Windows -- mainly because the apps that suffer most from the "I did something that required CPU cycles, therefore I will tell you about it in a popup" disease seem to be Windows apps. So I'll tell you the Windows solution:
Go to microsoft.com. Find wherever they've hidden TweakUI this month. Download it. (If necessary, download the whole "power tools" thingy that it's a part of.) Install it. (Install the "open cmd.exe at this directory" power tool too, while you're at it.)
Go to the [Out-Of-]Control Panel, fire up TweakUI, and disallow applications to grab focus. There's even a "what should they do instead" selection that lets you make them blink.
Disadvantage: some programs fire off a splash screen, then bring it down and replace it with the real program. Window focus doesn't traverse like that now, so the real program won't start off with focus, even though you the last thing you did was to double-click its startup icon. Minor annoyance only.
...the part where it says,
Huh. Okay, color me stupid. I wonder what I was actually looking at when I thought I was looking at the 4-port model. (A 2-port model? Heaven knows there are users who would buy them...)
Uhhhhh. I'm pretty sure all 8 LAN ports are switched. The only 4/4 split I've ever found is this one:
Actually, you get to choose which, if any, 4 ports can use QoS. The remaining 4 get low priority. But I think all 8 are still switched.
This boggles my mind:
The 4-port DSL router (vulnerable) is using firmware 1.40something, and must be upgraded. The latest is 1.43.
The 8-port model, which is what I have, and which is exactly the same damn thing (same functionality, same interface, almost the same user manual) except that it's a few inches wider and has 4 more ports, uses firmware 2.something. And is apparently not vulnerable.
Providing another 4 ports (one extra bit?) requires the firmware to be that different?
You're confusing C and C++ libraries.
glibc is the GNU C library, and the system library for most Linux platforms. The C++ library is libstdc++-v3, which is completely separate.
The MS 6.0 compiler used the most recent version of Dinkumware's C++ library at the time. I don't know what they used for 7.0, but Dinkumware has continued to update and improve their libraries. They even had bugfixes for their headers that MS hasn't included with 6.0, so you could patch them yourself.
Essential Guide to Bible Versions, ISBN 0-8423-3484-X
The first chapter is an introduction, discussing the various problems involved in translating any part of the Bible (or any other ancient text). The next N chapters deal specifically with Old Testament manuscripts. The N chapters after that do the same thing for New Testament manuscripts.
The important part is that those 2N chapters also introduce the names and abbreviations for the various codices.
One of the final chapters is a list of New Testament verses that have appeared or disappeard over the years, as compared to the abbreviations of the codices (which is why you need to read the whole book, not just skip to this chapter).
So, the graduate CS course I'm taking this quarter is Evolutionary Computing, which is all about the convoluted nonlinear multidimensional-search-space problems, and guess what our current homework is? That's right, taking statistics on spam data, and using genetic algorithms to evolve a working spam filter.
Due to one typo and two thinkos in my fitness evaluation function, my algorithm evolves -- within only a few dozen generations -- a solution which looks like this:
And it's right.
They don't build 'em like they used to. RIP, Galileo.
Reuters continues to beat the hell out of
Collections of the earliest manuscripts are called codices, and are given a name usually based on where the codex was first discovered, or is kept.
Codices and variants on codices are also given single-character abbreviations. I have a very good book on how Bible translations are done, but I can't reach it right now (broken leg), anyhow I believe "B" is one of the more complete manuscripts ever.
The contents of the early manuscripts can be fascinating. For example, the Lord's Prayer originally didn't end like it does today.
I was browsing through the U.S. State Department's online "dossier of countries" (whatever it's called), which includes some interesting statistics for each country.
The Vatican is the only country in the world to have a literacy rate of 100%. (Granted, there's only a few thousand citizens, but still...)
Keep a separate piece of paper (sticky note, open text file, whatever) for jotting down reminders on how to do things better/correctly for when the code you're currently slamming out fails, and you need to go back and do it over again.
Not if it fails, when.
The human brain requires sleep. Deprive it and your work suffers. Trying to convince yourself (or your boss) of anything else is fucking moronic and a recipe for failure. Maybe you think that's acceptable in the short term, in which case I'm glad I don't work with you on any projects.
Not only is Solaris a very kickass server OS, but the perceived problems you mention can be addressed by changing the time scheduling class of the process. There is a specific class of task scheduling designed for, say, sitting in front of the machine and doing interactive stuff. There's another for real-time scheduling, but I don't think anything uses that by default out of the box.
That's what I have (Linksys). But the account still has to be turned on, and the PPPoE password set, and both of those can only be done through their crappy windows software.
After that's done, I tell the router the PPPoE username and password (otherwise nothing works), and now both Linux and Windows simply speak to the local net. Yay Linksys.