3.5) Booted into Windows long enough to run install CD -- because that activates my account, and lets me set a username/password for the stupid PPPoE software they're running.
4) [as before]
5) Uninstall crap from Windows box, reboot into Linux.
...personally, I was hoping that one of the victims of the Washington, D.C., sniping spree would turn out to be a major spammer. Guess they were all humans instead.
It refers to the Microsoft-provided font package, and that's been removed from Debian ever since MS pulled the fonts. The msttcorefonts.deb doesn't actually provide the fonts, it just downloads them from the MS web site -- and so, it's useless, as the web site no longer has them.
Pity, too, because I run Debian, and I've never been able to get decent fonts under any flavor of Linux.
I am a Doctor Who expert (lots of misspent (sorta) hours of my youth, up until I discovered my first compiler), and the TARDIS can be unlocked by pretty much anyone with the key.
In one of the sillier episodes, we learn (because the screenwriters had just invented this fact) that inserting the key into the lock turns off lots of protecting and stabilizing mechanisms, on the assumption that the door will be opened half a second later. So a companion (not the Doctor) puts the key in, starts to the open the door, but gets distracted and walks away leaving the key in the lock. So the TARDIS starts drifting around on its own.
the actual root of everything which is programming and this cannot be denied
...fuck are you smoking?
Programming is not the goal, nor the root, of computer science. Programming is the means, not the ends. Or, as Dijkstra (RIP) put it, "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
Programming is fun, and it's certainly the part of computer science which I tend to look forward to the most when starting a project, but your statement is like saying, "the actual root of architecture is trowling cement onto bricks."
My father used to (jokingly) complain about neighborhood kids on our lawn. (There never were, which was part of the joke.) Then he would confide that he knew the perfect way to keep them off the lawn.
Land mines.
"Tough on that first kid, but they learn quickly," he'd add.
What impressed the hell out of me was this bit from the popsci article:
The white-painted patch in front of the jet inlet on the newly revealed, previously top-secret Boeing Bird of Prey demonstrator is a dead giveaway: This stealth airplane owns not only the night but the daytime too.
[...]designed to be stealthy enough to survive in broad daylight.
The white patch offsets shadows cast by the jet inlet, as part of a sophisticated camouflage scheme.
I work in a air force research facility, and this still dropped my jaw. All the fancy stuff, plus the simple little things like, "oh, and we painted it white where the shadows are."
is Persephone. (per-SEF-oh-nee) This would be the chick from Greek mythology that ate the pomogranate seeds and thus had to stay in Hades for half the year (when the world grows cold), and gets to come out the other half (when the world warms up again).
Most of the SF and speculative fiction/nonfiction articles over the last few decades have all referred to a tenth planet as Persephone, on the assumption that we would continue naming major astronomical objects for ancient mythological figures.
Yep, even the world's finest newspaper just ran an article about democracy geeks.
As for the big distinctions between the current geek and the aboriginal geek, I agree. The people hanging out in computer labs would hardly be recognized by the early primitve neolithic hunter-geek. We forge email using holes in sendmail and tools such as prebuilt rootkits;
they forged email using a hot fire and tools of
chipped stone, and later, bronze and iron.
As others have pointed out, it was the development of agriculture that allowed the hunter-geeks to change from a nomadic lifestyle to a more stationary one, resulting in both an interest in the world around them (politics, opposite sex, etc) and often a tendency to be slightly overweight.
it covers many of the basics of software development, from OO to testing to documentation.
While I'm overjoyed to see that documentation is something that's being taught as a basic fact of development, not something tacked on in the third year as an afterthought, I'm stunned that people (whether MIT or the article submitter) think of OO as a entry-level concept to be taught to beginners.
Yes, OO is a great tool. Yes, so are most of the others. The right thing for the right job. But surely there are other concepts to be introduced first?
it wouldn't surprise me to see upper level management at JPL use the extra income to fund pet projects of their own rather that using it as intended.
JPL is run by Caltech (a school) for NASA. I doubt that Caltech would be able to sweep that much money under the rug, or divert it for other uses, without massive outcry.
Just because JPL is going commercial doesn't (necessarily) mean that all their decisions will be of the secret star chamber CEO-screws-the-world type. They will be in the public eye more than ever, over precisely these concerns.
Two years ago, the SANS Institute and the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) released a document summarizing the Ten Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities. Thousands of organizations used that list, and the expanded Top Twenty, which followed a year later, to prioritize their efforts so they could close the most dangerous holes first.
And if memory serves, the Unix list is exactly the same, with perhaps the exception of Apache. The r* services, sendmail, yep, all still there. Who in their right mind uses r* and sendmail on anything connected to the public internet?
Anyone correct me on whether the others have changed? They all look familiar to me.
It's comments like, "there's no working volume manager at the moment," that scare the hell out of me.
I run Linux for my back-end fileservers at work, and am in the middle of adding more. Right now I just use one partition per disk, and so I end up with a bunch of partitions.
I would dearly love to use some kind of striping RAID, or at least a concatenation. But when the LVM-type code keeps getting rewritten between every release, it's just too risky. I look with longing at my Sun boxes, where DiskSuite has been doing Jus' Fine[tm] for the past several years, and continues to be supported.
I would bet that they could rig up some sort of Athelon style heat sink, the air flow over it at Mach 1 should be able to take care of the heat. That seems the be how much air flow is required in my Dual Athelon system here.
They need a case mod for the JSF. I suggest one of the water-cooled systems; a second non-laser-firing plane can fly alongside with the radiator. Only a few hundred meters of tubing for the water would be needed to connect the two.
Alternatively, mount a gigantic fishtank on top of the aircraft.
I don't remember any of the other weird case mods that have been posted here, for which I'm sure all of you are thankful.:-)
After reading the article (a good one, by the way), I have to wonder whether any of this will ever be used in practice.
There's got to be more backwards compatability, or it's just not going to be adopted. I have this horrible vision of every major website replacing their initial homepage with a front door: "For XHTML 2, click here. For everything else, click here." and their entire site duplicated. Yeah, right.
I really like the idea, though. Mark it up based on content not presentation, so
that multiple browsers and other tools can all make sense of the page, and use another tool (here, CSS) to make it look pretty. Hmmmmm...... holy shit! they've invented TeX!
But I guess if the "editors" (who do no editing) are allowed to repost their own stories and call it
news, a post author is allowed to copy and paste his
own text from two days previous and get more karma for it all over again.:-) It works out.
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3.5) Booted into Windows long enough to run install CD -- because that activates my account, and lets me set a username/password for the stupid PPPoE software they're running.
4) [as before]
5) Uninstall crap from Windows box, reboot into Linux.
...personally, I was hoping that one of the victims of the Washington, D.C., sniping spree would turn out to be a major spammer. Guess they were all humans instead.
Somebody else told me that the MS fonts have been reposted somewhere on sourceforge, and that Debian now downloads them from there. That'd be neat.
I love typesetting, but I hate messing with fonts on my computer. Why the hell can't they look nice out of the box?
It refers to the Microsoft-provided font package, and that's been removed from Debian ever since MS pulled the fonts. The msttcorefonts
Pity, too, because I run Debian, and I've never been able to get decent fonts under any flavor of Linux.
Something in the Sarah Jane Smith / Harry Sullivan time. I don't recall the episode title, sorry, although I think it had the word "invasion" in it.
I am a Doctor Who expert (lots of misspent (sorta) hours of my youth, up until I discovered my first compiler), and the TARDIS can be unlocked by pretty much anyone with the key.
In one of the sillier episodes, we learn (because the screenwriters had just invented this fact) that inserting the key into the lock turns off lots of protecting and stabilizing mechanisms, on the assumption that the door will be opened half a second later. So a companion (not the Doctor) puts the key in, starts to the open the door, but gets distracted and walks away leaving the key in the lock. So the TARDIS starts drifting around on its own.
L colonies are named so because of where they are, not what shape they're built.
Maybe you're thinking of the B5 colonies? :-)
...fuck are you smoking?
Programming is not the goal, nor the root, of computer science. Programming is the means, not the ends. Or, as Dijkstra (RIP) put it, "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
Programming is fun, and it's certainly the part of computer science which I tend to look forward to the most when starting a project, but your statement is like saying, "the actual root of architecture is trowling cement onto bricks."
My father used to (jokingly) complain about neighborhood kids on our lawn. (There never were, which was part of the joke.) Then he would confide that he knew the perfect way to keep them off the lawn.
Land mines.
"Tough on that first kid, but they learn quickly," he'd add.
What impressed the hell out of me was this bit from the popsci article:
I work in a air force research facility, and this still dropped my jaw. All the fancy stuff, plus the simple little things like, "oh, and we painted it white where the shadows are."
And of course my first thought was, "Wow, wait 'til they start sending up floating-point numbers!"
Thank you, thank you, I'm here through Tuesday. Enjoy the steaks and don't forget to tip your servers.
...is the Taco Bell 7-layer burrito. Every other network vendor has played games under the hood, collapsing some of the layers into one.
(That's actually a quote, but I can't recall who said it. And I'm too tired to google for it.)
is Persephone. (per-SEF-oh-nee) This would be the chick from Greek mythology that ate the pomogranate seeds and thus had to stay in Hades for half the year (when the world grows cold), and gets to come out the other half (when the world warms up again).
Most of the SF and speculative fiction/nonfiction articles over the last few decades have all referred to a tenth planet as Persephone, on the assumption that we would continue naming major astronomical objects for ancient mythological figures.
...into my costume only really leaves me one option: dress as a mummy, and lurch around on one foot.
I haven't yet figured out how I'm going to work the crutches into the costume.
Yep, even the world's finest newspaper just ran an article about democracy geeks.
As for the big distinctions between the current geek and the aboriginal geek, I agree. The people hanging out in computer labs would hardly be recognized by the early primitve neolithic hunter-geek. We forge email using holes in sendmail and tools such as prebuilt rootkits; they forged email using a hot fire and tools of chipped stone, and later, bronze and iron.
As others have pointed out, it was the development of agriculture that allowed the hunter-geeks to change from a nomadic lifestyle to a more stationary one, resulting in both an interest in the world around them (politics, opposite sex, etc) and often a tendency to be slightly overweight.
While I'm overjoyed to see that documentation is something that's being taught as a basic fact of development, not something tacked on in the third year as an afterthought, I'm stunned that people (whether MIT or the article submitter) think of OO as a entry-level concept to be taught to beginners.
Yes, OO is a great tool. Yes, so are most of the others. The right thing for the right job. But surely there are other concepts to be introduced first?
and is hosted right over at g95.sourceforge.net. Take a look.
...and has done so for quite some time. None of the languages bundled with GCC first translate into C.
JPL is run by Caltech (a school) for NASA. I doubt that Caltech would be able to sweep that much money under the rug, or divert it for other uses, without massive outcry.
Just because JPL is going commercial doesn't (necessarily) mean that all their decisions will be of the secret star chamber CEO-screws-the-world type. They will be in the public eye more than ever, over precisely these concerns.
And if memory serves, the Unix list is exactly the same, with perhaps the exception of Apache. The r* services, sendmail, yep, all still there. Who in their right mind uses r* and sendmail on anything connected to the public internet?
Anyone correct me on whether the others have changed? They all look familiar to me.
It's comments like, "there's no working volume manager at the moment," that scare the hell out of me.
I run Linux for my back-end fileservers at work, and am in the middle of adding more. Right now I just use one partition per disk, and so I end up with a bunch of partitions.
I would dearly love to use some kind of striping RAID, or at least a concatenation. But when the LVM-type code keeps getting rewritten between every release, it's just too risky. I look with longing at my Sun boxes, where DiskSuite has been doing Jus' Fine[tm] for the past several years, and continues to be supported.
They need a case mod for the JSF. I suggest one of the water-cooled systems; a second non-laser-firing plane can fly alongside with the radiator. Only a few hundred meters of tubing for the water would be needed to connect the two.
Alternatively, mount a gigantic fishtank on top of the aircraft.
I don't remember any of the other weird case mods that have been posted here, for which I'm sure all of you are thankful. :-)
I want landmines trained to hunt down bees.
Pesky annoying fuckers.
After reading the article (a good one, by the way), I have to wonder whether any of this will ever be used in practice.
There's got to be more backwards compatability, or it's just not going to be adopted. I have this horrible vision of every major website replacing their initial homepage with a front door: "For XHTML 2, click here. For everything else, click here." and their entire site duplicated. Yeah, right.
I really like the idea, though. Mark it up based on content not presentation, so that multiple browsers and other tools can all make sense of the page, and use another tool (here, CSS) to make it look pretty. Hmmmmm...... holy shit! they've invented TeX!
You know, I thought I had read these same words before, on the last
But I guess if the "editors" (who do no editing) are allowed to repost their own stories and call it news, a post author is allowed to copy and paste his own text from two days previous and get more karma for it all over again. :-) It works out.