I read the 1st volume when I was a high school student in the 80s. I knew Basic and Assembly and some Forth at the time. Book 2 and 3 weren't available at the library at the time so I never got around to read them. Anyway, my question is: what is MMIX, and how does it differ with MIX which was rather limited, even for the 6502 programmer I was at the time ?
I have recently installed several Dell and HP pro laptops with kubuntu without a hitch. For family, friends and work colleagues. Everything worked out of the box and if you install from a USB key, it takes about 10 minutes to install, reboot, aptitude update and full-upgrade, reboot, done.
On the other hand I tried a CentOS install, but the kernel was so old (3.10 for crying out loud) that it didn't recognize several recent hardware. I saw that and installed kubuntu over it.
I was just looking on how to get my entire household onto a permanent VPN, since a yearly VPN account is now only a few 10s of dollars. Checking into the ADSL modem deep option, I see a very convenient VPN client mode. No need for an extra router to act as VPN client between local network and ADSL modem. You just tell the ADSL modem to put all traffic through the VPN. Bang, done. If Estonia or wherever that comes out today wants to spy on it, fine then.
Yeah, this law is so retarded and it will keep the noise level up in our cities even though technology increases and could finally make cities quieter. Do people even notice how incredibly noisy cities are ?!? Put earbuds and music on at home, get out on the street and you can't hear your music at all unless you turn the volume up 3 or 4 notches.
What they should do is lower the noise threshold on all new cars AND MOTORBIKES, and if makers can't match that, then so be it (just like new pollution levels), you don't make them anymore. Yeah, I moved to a home next to a road last year and I've grown to HATE motorbikes.
I always thought that daylight saving had some kind of hidden agenda (no, I'm not a conspiracy theorist !). I mean, the amount of headaches it involves if you are a farmer, a parent, a logistician, a computer programmer, a traveler or just about anyone is astounding. To think that this amount of headaches and disorganization doesn't negate the meager supposed energy benefits is surrealist.
I will add a related story: as a contractor I worked in a place that needed constant coordination from another place with a 5 hour time difference. So the powers that be decided: "simple, we'll put them on the same time as us". Except that now we had to wake up and start work in complete darkness right at the time when it was the coldest time of day. And when I say 'cold' I mean it, it was -50C after breakfast when you where supposed to be working outside. And it would be a balmy -10C when we were supposed to go to bed. After a few days everybody started getting up later and later and refusing to answer calls in the 'morning'. We'd have breakfast at 13:00 and work till 22:00. The next year they let us have our own timezone and live according to it.
I just decided to convert my ancient and minor (used to be big in '96 [like yahoo!!!]...) website to https with let's encrypt, but CentOS 5 is not supported and I have no plan to reinstall the entire server. I spent 2 hours looking at various pages giving complex and non-working workarounds without success before giving up. A decade ago I went through the entire 'normal' https process, spent a morning to get it all working with success and then 6 months later when I had to renew I had no clue what I had to do again and said fuck it instead of wasting another morning.
I'd say turn them off. If by 'brick' you mean make them unusable unless you reflash the firmware, why not simply turn them off ? Yes, the owner will notice and turn it back on, but after a few times like that he'll probably sent it back to manufacturer. And you can't be accused to damaging the device for simply turning it off.
I'm a C programmer and I've written device drivers, but I need to ask: what makes a language suitable to write a kernel ? Once you have bit-level ability, ability to address the whole memory and inline assembly, that should be all you need, really. So why isn't there some kind of kernel, albeit experimental, in a very high level language ?
Why ? I mean, as a 99% Linux user for the past 16 years, I've never tried any BSD. I'm not religious about it, I just don't know what would be better on it.
Wrong. Thanks to orbital mechanics, you have a lot of inertia to shed, and thus need to accelerate in the opposite direction, spending precious fuel before you can hit the atmosphere again. Or wait years / forever for atmospheric friction to slow you down, depending on the altitude of your orbit.
If I paid for the car you can be damn sure I want it to prioritize my safety over some outsider's. Particularly since they may have caused the problem themselves (assuming that the car AI has very high safety). Imagine if it was the opposite: anybody could jump in front of the car and laugh as it swerves and crashes into a tree to avoid you...
I completely fail at using a trackpoint. It takes a whole minute to move the mouse from one place to another, and it goes all over the place too, so you can forget about any kind of precision move. That thing is simply impossible to use and I have NO idea how you do it, nor have I seen anyone actually use it.
What I'd want is the option to have several types of trackpads available when you order a laptop. One with buttons on bottom and top (for the trackpoint); one larger with buttons only at the bottom (that's what I prefer); and one larger still, clickable but with no buttons (my wife has that and I hate it, the mouse moves every time you click and right-clicks are hit or miss).
I'm just surprised they haven't yet found a way to render the entire surface below the keyboard as some kind of trackpad, with detection when you use the keyboard.
On one of my many systems I performed the upgrade from kubuntu to neon as indicated and it worked but it was a close call with a lot of breakage for a while. Several iterations of update / upgrade / dist-upgrade in a console were necessary before the dust settled (had to remove kde-destop). Seems to be working fine now. Lots of visible differences.
2 questions:
- is it possible to go from the current Kubuntu version to Neon without breaking anything ?
- how stable is Neon and is it one of those pet projects that'll die off as soon as his only maker graduates from high school ?
I also live in a city that has banned billboards. And I completely understand the logic. Either they work and they catch your attention while you should be focused on driving, hence they should be banned. Or their don't work, so they are useless (and ugly), hence they should be banned.
The only negative is that there is less revenue for the city through billboard taxes, hence more taxes for the rest of us.
This is entirely up to the laws to keep in check. Look, there aren't too many ways to do this. You either mount a revolution, kill the rich or despoil them (like during the French revolution) and reboot the system with new laws. Or you tweak the laws, for instance with heavy taxes on the rich, so that there's redistribution and no multi-generational accumulations of riches and land.
So, now that the pot has met the kettle, can those goons finally get their security agencies to actually do defence instead of offence ? By that I mean get the NSA, GCHC, etc to find vulnerabilities, yes, but actually use their clout to FORCE vendors to fix them (jailtime for root/root accounts on routers ?). And get ISPs to shut down the bots running on their networks. And shut down the spammers and malware peddlers that can't be that hard to find. It's for everyone's benefit, including those cabinet ministers who fear their watch...
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I read the 1st volume when I was a high school student in the 80s. I knew Basic and Assembly and some Forth at the time. Book 2 and 3 weren't available at the library at the time so I never got around to read them. Anyway, my question is: what is MMIX, and how does it differ with MIX which was rather limited, even for the 6502 programmer I was at the time ?
On the other hand I tried a CentOS install, but the kernel was so old (3.10 for crying out loud) that it didn't recognize several recent hardware. I saw that and installed kubuntu over it.
The South Pole is at high altitude, so it looks like he had pulmonary oedema. Classic there. And, yes, I've been there.
I was just looking on how to get my entire household onto a permanent VPN, since a yearly VPN account is now only a few 10s of dollars. Checking into the ADSL modem deep option, I see a very convenient VPN client mode. No need for an extra router to act as VPN client between local network and ADSL modem. You just tell the ADSL modem to put all traffic through the VPN. Bang, done. If Estonia or wherever that comes out today wants to spy on it, fine then.
What they should do is lower the noise threshold on all new cars AND MOTORBIKES, and if makers can't match that, then so be it (just like new pollution levels), you don't make them anymore. Yeah, I moved to a home next to a road last year and I've grown to HATE motorbikes.
Must see: Travelling Salesman
Well, he seems to tie gravity with entropy. So if you can reverse entropy, then yes, maybe you stand a chance at making an anti-gravity device... C;-)
I always thought that daylight saving had some kind of hidden agenda (no, I'm not a conspiracy theorist !). I mean, the amount of headaches it involves if you are a farmer, a parent, a logistician, a computer programmer, a traveler or just about anyone is astounding. To think that this amount of headaches and disorganization doesn't negate the meager supposed energy benefits is surrealist.
I will add a related story: as a contractor I worked in a place that needed constant coordination from another place with a 5 hour time difference. So the powers that be decided: "simple, we'll put them on the same time as us". Except that now we had to wake up and start work in complete darkness right at the time when it was the coldest time of day. And when I say 'cold' I mean it, it was -50C after breakfast when you where supposed to be working outside. And it would be a balmy -10C when we were supposed to go to bed. After a few days everybody started getting up later and later and refusing to answer calls in the 'morning'. We'd have breakfast at 13:00 and work till 22:00. The next year they let us have our own timezone and live according to it.
Unless your server is still on CentOS 5...
I just decided to convert my ancient and minor (used to be big in '96 [like yahoo!!!]...) website to https with let's encrypt, but CentOS 5 is not supported and I have no plan to reinstall the entire server. I spent 2 hours looking at various pages giving complex and non-working workarounds without success before giving up. A decade ago I went through the entire 'normal' https process, spent a morning to get it all working with success and then 6 months later when I had to renew I had no clue what I had to do again and said fuck it instead of wasting another morning.
I'd say turn them off. If by 'brick' you mean make them unusable unless you reflash the firmware, why not simply turn them off ? Yes, the owner will notice and turn it back on, but after a few times like that he'll probably sent it back to manufacturer. And you can't be accused to damaging the device for simply turning it off.
I'm a C programmer and I've written device drivers, but I need to ask: what makes a language suitable to write a kernel ? Once you have bit-level ability, ability to address the whole memory and inline assembly, that should be all you need, really. So why isn't there some kind of kernel, albeit experimental, in a very high level language ?
What's wrong with GNU Coreutils and glibc ?!? I use those hundreds of times a day and never knew there was something wrong with them...
Why ? I mean, as a 99% Linux user for the past 16 years, I've never tried any BSD. I'm not religious about it, I just don't know what would be better on it.
Wrong. Thanks to orbital mechanics, you have a lot of inertia to shed, and thus need to accelerate in the opposite direction, spending precious fuel before you can hit the atmosphere again. Or wait years / forever for atmospheric friction to slow you down, depending on the altitude of your orbit.
Like what ? It's like trying to promote lies as a perfectly valid alternative to truth. Not everything has two sides.
If I paid for the car you can be damn sure I want it to prioritize my safety over some outsider's. Particularly since they may have caused the problem themselves (assuming that the car AI has very high safety). Imagine if it was the opposite: anybody could jump in front of the car and laugh as it swerves and crashes into a tree to avoid you...
What I'd want is the option to have several types of trackpads available when you order a laptop. One with buttons on bottom and top (for the trackpoint); one larger with buttons only at the bottom (that's what I prefer); and one larger still, clickable but with no buttons (my wife has that and I hate it, the mouse moves every time you click and right-clicks are hit or miss).
I'm just surprised they haven't yet found a way to render the entire surface below the keyboard as some kind of trackpad, with detection when you use the keyboard.
On one of my many systems I performed the upgrade from kubuntu to neon as indicated and it worked but it was a close call with a lot of breakage for a while. Several iterations of update / upgrade / dist-upgrade in a console were necessary before the dust settled (had to remove kde-destop). Seems to be working fine now. Lots of visible differences.
2 questions:
- is it possible to go from the current Kubuntu version to Neon without breaking anything ?
- how stable is Neon and is it one of those pet projects that'll die off as soon as his only maker graduates from high school ?
So, does that mean it also rewrites all the Flash security holes into HTML5 security holes as well ?!?
The only negative is that there is less revenue for the city through billboard taxes, hence more taxes for the rest of us.
This is entirely up to the laws to keep in check. Look, there aren't too many ways to do this. You either mount a revolution, kill the rich or despoil them (like during the French revolution) and reboot the system with new laws. Or you tweak the laws, for instance with heavy taxes on the rich, so that there's redistribution and no multi-generational accumulations of riches and land.
So, now that the pot has met the kettle, can those goons finally get their security agencies to actually do defence instead of offence ? By that I mean get the NSA, GCHC, etc to find vulnerabilities, yes, but actually use their clout to FORCE vendors to fix them (jailtime for root/root accounts on routers ?). And get ISPs to shut down the bots running on their networks. And shut down the spammers and malware peddlers that can't be that hard to find. It's for everyone's benefit, including those cabinet ministers who fear their watch...