under what circumstances is copy/pasting rectangles useful?
I have used it, rarely, to extract columns from CSV files. But granted, it's totally idiotic as a selection method for multiple lines. It may have been acceptable 2 decades ago when Windows first had to mix copy/paste and DOS consoles, but by now this 'feature' should have made it to the top of the bug list of things to fix at Redmond, no ?
On a similar topic, what is the X/kde/gnome equivalent of Cygwin's getcip/putclip commands ?
Case in point: my father collects roman coins and is quite expert. Recently he bought a coin on eBay that appeared perfectly real. But then some time later the same coin was for sale again. He contacted the other buyer and they traded high-res pics: they were identical down to the same defects. He then started a private inquiry on the buyers which led him to some russian (what a surprise) groups that sell perfect fakes on the Internet to people who want to then sell them on eBay. They do mass quantities (in the thousands). They even guarantee them against several types of scientific tests (including fluorescence and mass spectrography) ! I have no idea how they can do that, unless they have access to a certain amount of 2000 year old copper and other metals.
The thing that bothers me with newspaper and TV news is that many stories need information from a specialist and they insist on putting a non-specialist, a journalist, between you and the person who knows what they're talking about.
Yes. One the one hand I have a lot of respect for the job of journalist (war stories and all), but on the other hand I was interviewed several times in 2005 while doing some new kind of scientific mission in Antarctica.
Every time the articles were full of shit, completely misrepresenting what was said. Even the videos: they would cut at the most meaningless moments and keep the stupid stuff (me slipping on ice, very funny) !
It was up to a point that many of my colleagues would point blank refuse to talk with journalists... while (one) other absolutely loved the exposure, no matter what ended up being written.
The BIOS option to enable the 4th core is called Advanced Clock Calibration, and when set to Auto, turns on the 4th core.
Yes, I did that without knowing while testing various options (I had a glitch with a RAM with some options). Neat! I assume the downside is that it slows the processor down a notch.
Well, no, I was working for either the french or the italian polar expeditions, but I changed job 2 years ago and am no longer associated with Antarctica. They still want me to go back there though, apparently having difficulty finding new recruits. I wonder why C;-)
'Code red' did one good thing though... It was the only worm that ever affected me. At the time I was running everything MS, webserver was IIS, etc. After that I installed Apache on Windows. And ever so slowly I began to think that it might have been easier to run it directly on Linux (and it was). Now I write Linux drivers for a living C;-)
Let me be the first to say that you have a really cool job.
Let's see if I can best that... C;-)
In Antarctica we can't use CAT cables because their dielectric properties change at extreme cold temperatures (-80C) and they run like crap. The cables also turn to raw spaghetti and break at the slightest touch.
So we use wireless (absolutely no interferences there !), or fiber, which doesn't change properties with the cold. Usually both as a backup in case a snowmachine runs in a cable (we can't put them in the 'ground' or they would disappear under the accumulated snow over a few years, so we place them on rows of low poles).
Exactly. At home I've had wireless for a decade. But now with the ubiquity of wireless ADSL modems, there are about 15 hotspots within range and I can't get a stable connection anymore. I can't wire the rental appt I'm in, so I'm using ethernet over electric wires and it works great. Wireless is already dead for people who live in dense urban environment.
I shouldn't be too hard to design a laser targetting system to blind it... The hard part might be to make to it doesn't blind live pilots, but then those don't tend to look at naked ladies taking the sun in the garden while they fly.
I recently bought a mobo with an AMD Phenom II X3 710 processor. You know, it's one of those quadcores where one of the cores doesn't work, and it gets fried by AMD and sold as a triple-core for about half the price of the quad-core.
Anyway, it worked as advertised, and then after a few days it magically turned into a quad-code !
$ sudo lshw -C cpu
description: CPU
product: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 10 Processor
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 4
bus info: cpu@0
version: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 10 Processor
All 4 CPUs show in the system monitor and seem to work fine. Should I be happy or worried ?
I must say that after 20 years of successfully avoiding gotos, I'm on a project where I couldn't do other than use them: lots of different machine states with a common set of exit conditions... I don't see how I can code that simply without gotos... C:-(
Everybody knows that democracy is 3 wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner, but I'm surprised at how inept the discussion has been so far. Here's a good example at how a democratic system can be subverted, and there's not much you can do about dedicated opponents in similar cases. But it has little to do with the internet.
I've been wondering about that too. Erlang or Ada maybe, as languages with built-in multithreading and no pointers they avoid entire classes of bugs. Anyway, are there real-world kernels that don't use C ?
If popularity were the only metric w.r.t. archiving, a LOT of our human cultural heritage would have disappeared by now
IIRC, the gist of the sumerian tablets contain lists of bought/sold items (actually traded items since money didn't exist at the time). In other words, shopping lists. Something totally uninteresting ? Nope, it gives us all the information we need to know about how people used to live.
Having said that, not everything is worth preserving...
Indeed, a backup of all Visa card transactions would be probably more enlightening to future generations than a geocities backup.
I heard this morning that 700 letters sent by Jean Cocteau (famous french director) to Jean Marais (famous french actor) were sold for 2 millions euros !
I can't imagine my emails being sold, much less for this value !
I've never understood why the same people who complain about the blink tag praise OSX 'design', including the dock's bouncing icons. Both irritate me to no end and the first thing I ever did with Mac OSX was spend 10 minutes on the web to figure how to turn that concentration killing monstrosity off.
In so called "professional wrestling" people do actually get hurt and do actually die, but when they aren't in front of a camera, they are all going out to dinners with one another, playing golf, visiting each other's homes, having parties and the like. They are NOT bitter enemies.
I've always wondered how they decide who wins the championships. Between themselves in advance, and then build a year's worth of show around it ? Is the 'winner' paid more ?
Accounting works that way for historical reasons; it was designed when arithmetic was expensive.
As an engineer who had to study accounting briefly in order to get my degree, it made me want to scream: "What, you haven't discovered what negative numbers are by now ?!?" and many other expletives. It stays that way because it allows for creative accounting.
I have Kubuntu 8.10 on my home 'mainframe' and I'm waiting a few days before jumping into the 9.04 fray just to be sure there aren't upgrade horror stories surfacing...
Well, my post sure brought out some interesting replies (and from all over the spectrum too). Never underestimate the power of mixing Windows and Religion on Slashdot for a good troll (although I don't make it a habit)...
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under what circumstances is copy/pasting rectangles useful?
I have used it, rarely, to extract columns from CSV files. But granted, it's totally idiotic as a selection method for multiple lines. It may have been acceptable 2 decades ago when Windows first had to mix copy/paste and DOS consoles, but by now this 'feature' should have made it to the top of the bug list of things to fix at Redmond, no ?
On a similar topic, what is the X/kde/gnome equivalent of Cygwin's getcip/putclip commands ?
Case in point: my father collects roman coins and is quite expert. Recently he bought a coin on eBay that appeared perfectly real. But then some time later the same coin was for sale again. He contacted the other buyer and they traded high-res pics: they were identical down to the same defects. He then started a private inquiry on the buyers which led him to some russian (what a surprise) groups that sell perfect fakes on the Internet to people who want to then sell them on eBay. They do mass quantities (in the thousands). They even guarantee them against several types of scientific tests (including fluorescence and mass spectrography) ! I have no idea how they can do that, unless they have access to a certain amount of 2000 year old copper and other metals.
The thing that bothers me with newspaper and TV news is that many stories need information from a specialist and they insist on putting a non-specialist, a journalist, between you and the person who knows what they're talking about.
Yes. One the one hand I have a lot of respect for the job of journalist (war stories and all), but on the other hand I was interviewed several times in 2005 while doing some new kind of scientific mission in Antarctica.
Every time the articles were full of shit, completely misrepresenting what was said. Even the videos: they would cut at the most meaningless moments and keep the stupid stuff (me slipping on ice, very funny) !
It was up to a point that many of my colleagues would point blank refuse to talk with journalists... while (one) other absolutely loved the exposure, no matter what ended up being written.
The BIOS option to enable the 4th core is called Advanced Clock Calibration, and when set to Auto, turns on the 4th core.
Yes, I did that without knowing while testing various options (I had a glitch with a RAM with some options). Neat! I assume the downside is that it slows the processor down a notch.
Well, no, I was working for either the french or the italian polar expeditions, but I changed job 2 years ago and am no longer associated with Antarctica. They still want me to go back there though, apparently having difficulty finding new recruits. I wonder why C;-)
'Code red' did one good thing though... It was the only worm that ever affected me. At the time I was running everything MS, webserver was IIS, etc. After that I installed Apache on Windows. And ever so slowly I began to think that it might have been easier to run it directly on Linux (and it was). Now I write Linux drivers for a living C;-)
Let me be the first to say that you have a really cool job.
Let's see if I can best that... C;-)
In Antarctica we can't use CAT cables because their dielectric properties change at extreme cold temperatures (-80C) and they run like crap. The cables also turn to raw spaghetti and break at the slightest touch.
So we use wireless (absolutely no interferences there !), or fiber, which doesn't change properties with the cold. Usually both as a backup in case a snowmachine runs in a cable (we can't put them in the 'ground' or they would disappear under the accumulated snow over a few years, so we place them on rows of low poles).
Exactly. At home I've had wireless for a decade. But now with the ubiquity of wireless ADSL modems, there are about 15 hotspots within range and I can't get a stable connection anymore. I can't wire the rental appt I'm in, so I'm using ethernet over electric wires and it works great. Wireless is already dead for people who live in dense urban environment.
I shouldn't be too hard to design a laser targetting system to blind it... The hard part might be to make to it doesn't blind live pilots, but then those don't tend to look at naked ladies taking the sun in the garden while they fly.
series of failures
I recently bought a mobo with an AMD Phenom II X3 710 processor. You know, it's one of those quadcores where one of the cores doesn't work, and it gets fried by AMD and sold as a triple-core for about half the price of the quad-core.
Anyway, it worked as advertised, and then after a few days it magically turned into a quad-code !
$ sudo lshw -C cpu
description: CPU
product: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 10 Processor
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 4
bus info: cpu@0
version: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 10 Processor
All 4 CPUs show in the system monitor and seem to work fine. Should I be happy or worried ?
Now whatever happened to this guy ? Did he carry on to write Perl or something ?
I must say that after 20 years of successfully avoiding gotos, I'm on a project where I couldn't do other than use them: lots of different machine states with a common set of exit conditions... I don't see how I can code that simply without gotos... C:-(
At the least the belkin mouse I had. There was always a delay when moving the mouse, which makes any kind of graphic work impossible.
Everybody knows that democracy is 3 wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner, but I'm surprised at how inept the discussion has been so far. Here's a good example at how a democratic system can be subverted, and there's not much you can do about dedicated opponents in similar cases. But it has little to do with the internet.
Dropping C... for what exactly?
I've been wondering about that too. Erlang or Ada maybe, as languages with built-in multithreading and no pointers they avoid entire classes of bugs. Anyway, are there real-world kernels that don't use C ?
If popularity were the only metric w.r.t. archiving, a LOT of our human cultural heritage would have disappeared by now
IIRC, the gist of the sumerian tablets contain lists of bought/sold items (actually traded items since money didn't exist at the time). In other words, shopping lists. Something totally uninteresting ? Nope, it gives us all the information we need to know about how people used to live.
Having said that, not everything is worth preserving...
Indeed, a backup of all Visa card transactions would be probably more enlightening to future generations than a geocities backup.
I can't imagine my emails being sold, much less for this value !
I've never understood why the same people who complain about the blink tag praise OSX 'design', including the dock's bouncing icons. Both irritate me to no end and the first thing I ever did with Mac OSX was spend 10 minutes on the web to figure how to turn that concentration killing monstrosity off.
For multinationals, have revocations ever happened in some countries while continuing to operate in others ? I can't think of an example.
In so called "professional wrestling" people do actually get hurt and do actually die, but when they aren't in front of a camera, they are all going out to dinners with one another, playing golf, visiting each other's homes, having parties and the like. They are NOT bitter enemies.
I've always wondered how they decide who wins the championships. Between themselves in advance, and then build a year's worth of show around it ? Is the 'winner' paid more ?
LSD. It's great for creativity and getting yourself out of "single directional thinking". It definitely helped my programming anyway
Larry Wall, is that you ?
Nothing says 'beat me up, I'm a geek' like a set of photochromic glasses...
Accounting works that way for historical reasons; it was designed when arithmetic was expensive.
As an engineer who had to study accounting briefly in order to get my degree, it made me want to scream: "What, you haven't discovered what negative numbers are by now ?!?" and many other expletives. It stays that way because it allows for creative accounting.
I have Kubuntu 8.10 on my home 'mainframe' and I'm waiting a few days before jumping into the 9.04 fray just to be sure there aren't upgrade horror stories surfacing...
Well, my post sure brought out some interesting replies (and from all over the spectrum too). Never underestimate the power of mixing Windows and Religion on Slashdot for a good troll (although I don't make it a habit)...