Whoever did the original Win95 Explorer design needs a medal: it's still the best feature of Windows.
I second that. There are some apps that keep me on Windows, but the things that I cannot stand in other OSes are the Explorer replacements that suck: I could never stand the Finder and I cannot do anything with Konqueror.
No decent tree view.
YES! I know some people use Explorer (or others) without tree view. But I refuse to believe they are doing it for real. It must be some kind of joke.
No simple TEXT BOX view of the current location
Yes again. And the ability (which you have in Explorer but it's really well hidden), to select a bunch of files and copy their full path to the clipboard with a right-click. I do a lot of manual file manipulation and I cannot live without this feature. I bet it will be the first thing I implement when I try developing for KDE or similar.
What we need are real killer applications in completely new spaces.
Here's one for you: the application and driver update mechanism. On Windows, you have to go find (not easy) and download every single one on their various maker's sites, unzip them, execute, figure out why you have problems now since your last update was 3 years ago, repeat, lather and rinse (if you can). Net result: nobody updates. On Linux: see, that little icon that says 'click to update your entire system' ? Well, done.
At work we have one of those industrial printers that puts a header page with the name of the person doing the print job in big ahead of the job. Then we more or less 'sort' them on tables for people to come an pick up. There are users with thousands of pages accumulated over a few weeks gathering dust in a huge pile. Since there are printing costs overruns, I suggested we should charge people by the number of pages not picked up at the end of the month. My suggestion was quickly shot down. I'll never make it into management.
The ground is already pretty warm as it is (it's the average temperature of the place some meters underground, and only increases the deeper you go). Meaning if you want to dump excess heat in the Texas underground, you'll need additional heat exchangers, meaning even less efficiency.
Geothermy works because there are physical fluxes: hot water flowing through porous ground, lava flow nearby (Iceland).
I'm completely surprised that some people get it to work. I'd love to see a temperature curve of the surrounding ground. Personally I've had the opposite problems, getting servers to run in places that are too cold...
There is no universally agreed-upon method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees from sequence data
And after reading a paper about how most arthropods may actually hybrids between two or more original animals, I completely gave up on that idea. Some people think that an insect and its larvae were originally two separate animals. So on which branch of the tree do you place the hybrid ?
How do I get more detailed sshd logs like you do ? Currently it generates nothing useful (only crash reports). The -d option states that "The server sends verbose debug output to the system log, and does not put itself in the background. The server also will not fork and will only process one connection. This option is only intended for debugging for the server." so it's not helping.
The French started it with their ethnic cleansing campaign against German people in the late 17th century (google for 'Burn the Palatinate')
It's not a good sign when the 5th such link points back to your own post ! (damn Google is fast nowadays). Disgusting excesses of war, certainly. Relevant ? Who knows. Anyway, I didn't know about it.
Or you could say it started with the 30 years war, which killed about a fifth to a quarter of the German population. Before 1870, France was the big bully superpower that always threatened to beat people up.
I agree with you on the last point, but how is France to blame for the first one ? Sure, Richelieu took opportunities during that dark period, but the blame falls first on stupid and greedy religions, and also on the little known facts that 1/3 of the german population at the time were nobles (it was hereditary to _all_ offsprings) and that nobility didn't pay taxes... If you think that Bush's tax cuts for the rich was back, take a look at Germany during the 30 years war.
Of course, with computers, a big part of the problem is that most of the settings, options, whatever, aren't documented anywhere that the user is likely to discover.
That's why, when I start a new program, the very first thing I do is [Menu][Options] and then look at all the options. It's the best way to grok the capabilities of a program. And incidentally also the reason why I hate Macs: their programs often don't have any options.
I did that years ago in a scientific program. The 'egg' would trigger on april 1st and on one of the plots it sent daily to the printer it would add large white chars with some joke (don't remember what it was).
I wrote it a day I was bored, and obfuscated the code so it would be hard to find. Then I forgot all about it.
Years later my former boss calls me all worried: "the program has been hacked! You have to help us!". It took me several hours to find the problem, and more to remember who the author was... Non billable, of course.
My moth... someone I know uses the following words in a loop when talking: I mean, you know, like, whatever, just sayin'... and a few others with only a few bits of information immersed in between. We have a game when she calls, keeping tabs on which ones she uses and placing bets beforehand... It would be fun to see a speech to write output.
Since we are complaining about/. recent changes, I want to pipe about the metamoderation: I don't understand how it runs anymore. On the firehose (and now main) page you click [+] if the articles are good. Also on the moderation page, if you see a comment moderated insightful and it is so, you click [+]. OK. Now what if it's flaimebait or troll and moderated as such ? Do I click [+] to indicate that the moderation is accurate or do I click [-] to imply that it sucks and the comment should go to the pit of hell ?
One language torture I loathe happens in french. Take a word: 'question'. Turn it into a verb 'questionner'. Then into an adverb: 'questionnement'. Then back into a name: 'questionnementation', etc... A quick way to generate manager speech.
It's not necessarily altruistic. We host grid computers in our lab. Our researchers use them: instead of writing MPI code for a multicore/multiprocessor behemoth, they write grid code and run it on them. Then if they need more CPU power they can run it on a wider grid outside; or if we have available CPU space, we open to the outside and let other labs run on our CPUs. And indeed we cannot get financing anymore to purchase hardware for specific CPU-intensive research projects. It all get pooled into the grid.
Yes, it's part of those loaded words like 'god' or 'sin' that everybody think they know what they mean but actually don't. It's hard enough to try to pin down 'consciousness' or 'intelligence' without muddying the water even more with words that represent something different for everyone. Hint: it's a good way to break a religious discourse in stride to ask them to precisely define one of those words. Usually they come back with "but everybody knows what that is!". Yeah, as if that explains it.
Why? I mean, why ? For an insane rate, anybody will tell you anything you want. Which is the root of the legal problems in the US legal system: too much money (for some).
This joins the 10^122 article published some time ago about strange coincidences between basic physics constants. Very interesting... almost in a numerological point of view !
I hope that further study/excavation shows us something more meaningful than what has been found.
A lot has been found already, with incredible surprises: the site does not seem to have a city nearby. It's 20km away from where wild wheat comes from. The stones are very different from any other megalithic culture. The site was _purposefuly_ covered with dirt (for our own enjoyment?).
I've been following this discovery for a while and it's certainly the most extraordinary archaeological find of our generation.
My phone has a silent mode and it doesn't go to an answering service if I don't pick it up, it just gets recorded as a missed call.
I had to yell at my provider so they would remove the answering machine service which they provide you 'for free' (not!). I don't like talking to people on the phone and I loathe answering machines. If I don't pick up, it's because I'm busy or asleep: call back later or send me a message, don't make me waste my time calling _twice_ (the message and you) to know what's going on.
At work I can't disable the damn thing, so every time I pick up the phone it starts with "you have 617 messages"... The user's manual for the phone is 400 pages long. Come on, I'm a computer engineer, but you are fucking with me here, right ? The phone system admin even called me after a while to ask why I hadn't used any of the advanced functions ! And people complain that Linux is hard to learn ?!?
The day they charge for incoming SMS and calls here in Europe is the day I throw my phone through their window. The abuse from spammers (sorry, marketing calls) in the US is beyond words... and you pay for that too ?!?
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Whoever did the original Win95 Explorer design needs a medal: it's still the best feature of Windows.
I second that. There are some apps that keep me on Windows, but the things that I cannot stand in other OSes are the Explorer replacements that suck: I could never stand the Finder and I cannot do anything with Konqueror.
No decent tree view.
YES! I know some people use Explorer (or others) without tree view. But I refuse to believe they are doing it for real. It must be some kind of joke.
No simple TEXT BOX view of the current location
Yes again. And the ability (which you have in Explorer but it's really well hidden), to select a bunch of files and copy their full path to the clipboard with a right-click. I do a lot of manual file manipulation and I cannot live without this feature. I bet it will be the first thing I implement when I try developing for KDE or similar.
What we need are real killer applications in completely new spaces.
Here's one for you: the application and driver update mechanism. On Windows, you have to go find (not easy) and download every single one on their various maker's sites, unzip them, execute, figure out why you have problems now since your last update was 3 years ago, repeat, lather and rinse (if you can). Net result: nobody updates. On Linux: see, that little icon that says 'click to update your entire system' ? Well, done.
At work we have one of those industrial printers that puts a header page with the name of the person doing the print job in big ahead of the job. Then we more or less 'sort' them on tables for people to come an pick up. There are users with thousands of pages accumulated over a few weeks gathering dust in a huge pile.
Since there are printing costs overruns, I suggested we should charge people by the number of pages not picked up at the end of the month. My suggestion was quickly shot down. I'll never make it into management.
I'm completely surprised that some people get it to work. I'd love to see a temperature curve of the surrounding ground. Personally I've had the opposite problems, getting servers to run in places that are too cold...
There is no universally agreed-upon method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees from sequence data
And after reading a paper about how most arthropods may actually hybrids between two or more original animals, I completely gave up on that idea. Some people think that an insect and its larvae were originally two separate animals. So on which branch of the tree do you place the hybrid ?
Why was the cooling cheap ? I'd expect cooling to be the major problem with bunker data havens. You need to evacuate the heat to the surface.
tvpack... QAM... ATSC... QAM... ?!? I must be drowning in either acronym or duck soup as I have no clue what you are talking about.
Truly madly deeply
How do I get more detailed sshd logs like you do ? Currently it generates nothing useful (only crash reports). The -d option states that "The server sends verbose debug output to the system log, and does not put itself in the background. The server also will not fork and will only process one connection. This option is only intended for debugging for the server." so it's not helping.
The French started it with their ethnic cleansing campaign against German people in the late 17th century (google for 'Burn the Palatinate')
It's not a good sign when the 5th such link points back to your own post ! (damn Google is fast nowadays). Disgusting excesses of war, certainly. Relevant ? Who knows. Anyway, I didn't know about it.
Or you could say it started with the 30 years war, which killed about a fifth to a quarter of the German population. Before 1870, France was the big bully superpower that always threatened to beat people up.
I agree with you on the last point, but how is France to blame for the first one ? Sure, Richelieu took opportunities during that dark period, but the blame falls first on stupid and greedy religions, and also on the little known facts that 1/3 of the german population at the time were nobles (it was hereditary to _all_ offsprings) and that nobility didn't pay taxes... If you think that Bush's tax cuts for the rich was back, take a look at Germany during the 30 years war.
Of course, with computers, a big part of the problem is that most of the settings, options, whatever, aren't documented anywhere that the user is likely to discover.
That's why, when I start a new program, the very first thing I do is [Menu][Options] and then look at all the options. It's the best way to grok the capabilities of a program. And incidentally also the reason why I hate Macs: their programs often don't have any options.
I did that years ago in a scientific program. The 'egg' would trigger on april 1st and on one of the plots it sent daily to the printer it would add large white chars with some joke (don't remember what it was). I wrote it a day I was bored, and obfuscated the code so it would be hard to find. Then I forgot all about it. Years later my former boss calls me all worried: "the program has been hacked! You have to help us!". It took me several hours to find the problem, and more to remember who the author was... Non billable, of course.
My moth... someone I know uses the following words in a loop when talking: I mean, you know, like, whatever, just sayin'... and a few others with only a few bits of information immersed in between. We have a game when she calls, keeping tabs on which ones she uses and placing bets beforehand... It would be fun to see a speech to write output.
Since we are complaining about /. recent changes, I want to pipe about the metamoderation: I don't understand how it runs anymore. On the firehose (and now main) page you click [+] if the articles are good. Also on the moderation page, if you see a comment moderated insightful and it is so, you click [+]. OK. Now what if it's flaimebait or troll and moderated as such ? Do I click [+] to indicate that the moderation is accurate or do I click [-] to imply that it sucks and the comment should go to the pit of hell ?
I read the title as "Roving Ewoks"... That sure got my attention.
cron job with a ping in it works for basic on/off, then draw it in excel.
Are the base elements (neurons, dendrids...) larger in a larger (elephant, large dog vs small one...) brain ?
One language torture I loathe happens in french. Take a word: 'question'. Turn it into a verb 'questionner'. Then into an adverb: 'questionnement'. Then back into a name: 'questionnementation', etc... A quick way to generate manager speech.
It's not necessarily altruistic. We host grid computers in our lab. Our researchers use them: instead of writing MPI code for a multicore/multiprocessor behemoth, they write grid code and run it on them. Then if they need more CPU power they can run it on a wider grid outside; or if we have available CPU space, we open to the outside and let other labs run on our CPUs. And indeed we cannot get financing anymore to purchase hardware for specific CPU-intensive research projects. It all get pooled into the grid.
Yes, it's part of those loaded words like 'god' or 'sin' that everybody think they know what they mean but actually don't. It's hard enough to try to pin down 'consciousness' or 'intelligence' without muddying the water even more with words that represent something different for everyone. Hint: it's a good way to break a religious discourse in stride to ask them to precisely define one of those words. Usually they come back with "but everybody knows what that is!". Yeah, as if that explains it.
You can bill insane rates.
Why? I mean, why ? For an insane rate, anybody will tell you anything you want. Which is the root of the legal problems in the US legal system: too much money (for some).
This joins the 10^122 article published some time ago about strange coincidences between basic physics constants. Very interesting... almost in a numerological point of view !
I hope that further study/excavation shows us something more meaningful than what has been found.
A lot has been found already, with incredible surprises: the site does not seem to have a city nearby. It's 20km away from where wild wheat comes from. The stones are very different from any other megalithic culture. The site was _purposefuly_ covered with dirt (for our own enjoyment?).
I've been following this discovery for a while and it's certainly the most extraordinary archaeological find of our generation.
My phone has a silent mode and it doesn't go to an answering service if I don't pick it up, it just gets recorded as a missed call.
I had to yell at my provider so they would remove the answering machine service which they provide you 'for free' (not!). I don't like talking to people on the phone and I loathe answering machines. If I don't pick up, it's because I'm busy or asleep: call back later or send me a message, don't make me waste my time calling _twice_ (the message and you) to know what's going on.
At work I can't disable the damn thing, so every time I pick up the phone it starts with "you have 617 messages"... The user's manual for the phone is 400 pages long. Come on, I'm a computer engineer, but you are fucking with me here, right ? The phone system admin even called me after a while to ask why I hadn't used any of the advanced functions ! And people complain that Linux is hard to learn ?!?
The day they charge for incoming SMS and calls here in Europe is the day I throw my phone through their window. The abuse from spammers (sorry, marketing calls) in the US is beyond words... and you pay for that too ?!?