Then you're lucky. I'm an electrical engineer and I live in a tiny moldy apartment. I know a bunch of electricians 5 years younger than me who've already finished paying their 2nd house and take 6 months of vacation a year. Morals of the story: don't work in research.
In Cygwin under Windows you can use getclip / putclip. There's also wxcopy / wxpaste on some versions of Unix (IRIX comes to mind). Just don't try to use the commands cut and paste from a command line, they don't don what you think they do.
Just adding more practical details to your ssh tunnel example: you have a home Windows box and want to access it from work. Install TightVNC on it and allow only loopback connections. Install a ssh server (for instance from Cygwin). Configure your NAT/router to feed port 22 through (but absolutely not port 5900/5800). If you don't have a static IP (for instance on an Adsl line), use a dynamic DNS provider such as dnsalias.com
Good thread. I'm currently looking for the following trick to do in Posix C: a way to test if there is another instance of the current program already running.
In my usual (LabWindows) API, I call the following function at the start of the program's execution: Status = CheckForDuplicateAppInstance (ACTIVATE_OTHER_INSTANCE, &ThereIsAnother);
What is the Posix equivalent ?
"Copyrights restrict us from playing this video outside the U.S."
I seem to see this more and more. What's the easiest way to get around it ? Are there proxies in the US that can be used easily without juggling with browser configs ? A Firefox plugin would work great for that.
You mean the oldest and most famous graphic application didn't make use of a graphics processor before ? That can't be serious. Even before the time of 3D GPUs, there was a time of simple 2D acceleration. Why would you even want to write a graphic app if you are not using those features ?!?
DISCLAIMER: As a programmer, I can't publish load times/Performance issues with any product from Microsoft against any other. I will get sued for posting benchmarking results that show Microsoft Windows based systems, performance wise, SUCK compared to BSD/Linux systems on the same box.
Hmmm. And on what grounds would they sue ? Even if you publish completely imaginary 'benchmarks', that would still fall under the 1st amendment (assuming you are in the US).
I've never liked the K&R, even later versions, much preferring Harbison & Steele "C - a reference manual". I've worn out 3 editions so far. But that's offtopic since the question was about online presence. For this comp.lang.c remains the most useful.
He also doesn't use science to inform his morality and understanding of how we find meaning in all of it.
Science, in particular evolutionary biology and game theory, can explain morality but it gets long-winded. True, "Thou shalt not kill" is a lot easier to grok.
Also I get annoyed by people who absolutely want to pin a 'meaning' on things that don't have and don't need them. The meaning of life ? Mu. The meaning of life is to perpetuate life. Period. But when I have this argument with some people, they claim that they wouldn't be able to go through life if there was no purpose to it. As if the lowly ant needs a purpose in order to exist. How arrogant is that ?
I've worked in a place where they did exactly as you suggest: 5 hours difference between the official noon and the time the sun was at its top. And I can tell you it was hell if you had to actually _work_ outdoors. Too cold (you worked all through the coldest hours of the day), too dark, etc... Yeah, your ass is nice and cozy in the office and you want some sunlight so you can play with your dog when you get home. Right.
Hell - you don't even need that. Adding lead weights to my tinfoil hat worked just fine.
Your post, sir, is underrated. Adding weight on the shoulders of a woman is enough to have her gait appear to be that of a man. It's a well known trick of appearance change: you also need to change the center of gravity in addition to more apparent body appendage. And the opposite is true also: add some weight to... the lower part of the body... to give it a more feminine gait. Leaded thong anyone ?
That's really too bad as the Loi Informatique et Liberte (link in french) is a law meant against abusive data gathering from the state. In short, the original intent was that every entity (ministers, private companies,...) can keep you in their files, but they are forbidden to correlate their files.
You can have a tax number, a social security number, an ID card, a driver's license, etc, but those numbers cannot be mixed in a bigger database. That was the original intent anyway, and it did prevent a lot of abuse. It was a good law while it lasted. Sob.
Thanks for the link... but that's only a slight improvement. Landsat images of Antarctica were available in the past if you knew where to look (no nice zoomable applet), but its resolution is completely insufficient for any kind of work. What is that applet resolution ? One km at most ?!?
Anyway, I don't work in Antarctica anymore (never mind 2 recent propositions) so I haven't been following closely.
Hopefully with the polar orbiter we'll now get google maps of Antarctica. I've been lamenting the fact that it's impossible to find any halfway decent satellite image from down there, for ever.
Nope, you need to take the brains out and test them fresh. It's done at the slaughterhouse. My dad has performed tens of thousands of such tests, and this whole debate about US beef is about one thing only: the US using their lack of a positive (because they hardly perform any test at all) to export their beef. If a positive is found, it will devastate their beef industry (one of the biggest export of the country). Remember what happened in England, burning mass graves with thousands of cows in it ? This is only about MONEY. And with the incidence of encephalopathy in wild cattle, there is ZERO chance that ESB is not present in your cows. Somebody will pay dearly for that decision... Somebody.
After observing that only 2% of the time is the outside air too hot for our machines, we implemented the following system:
grab air from outside and run it through the machines after passing it only through a filter. All standard servers have no problem working at 35ÂC, we are not in the 70s anymore.
for the 2% of the time when the temperature in the back of the machines get too high, we get air from an air-conditioning unit.
The tuning of the algo is not all that easy, but it divided the electricity bill by 3 overnight !
Storing digital pictures as barcodes comes as... odd to me. I have an idea: why not print them out and store the paper on which they are printed inside the time capsule ?!?
Italia has 3 standard power plugs, and several other ancient ones still found in some houses. I always need to use a screwdriver and knife when hooking a power adapter !
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I've had SMS messages that were over a week late
And the unacceptable part is that you still had to pay 30 cents for it.
Then you're lucky. I'm an electrical engineer and I live in a tiny moldy apartment. I know a bunch of electricians 5 years younger than me who've already finished paying their 2nd house and take 6 months of vacation a year. Morals of the story: don't work in research.
In Cygwin under Windows you can use getclip / putclip. There's also wxcopy / wxpaste on some versions of Unix (IRIX comes to mind). Just don't try to use the commands cut and paste from a command line, they don't don what you think they do.
Then from the work machine:
ssh -CL 5900:localhost:5900 user@homemachine.dnsalias.com
Launch the TightVNC client, connect to localhost but use you remote password. You are in securely.
Good thread. I'm currently looking for the following trick to do in Posix C: a way to test if there is another instance of the current program already running. In my usual (LabWindows) API, I call the following function at the start of the program's execution: Status = CheckForDuplicateAppInstance (ACTIVATE_OTHER_INSTANCE, &ThereIsAnother); What is the Posix equivalent ?
"Copyrights restrict us from playing this video outside the U.S."
I seem to see this more and more. What's the easiest way to get around it ? Are there proxies in the US that can be used easily without juggling with browser configs ? A Firefox plugin would work great for that.
You mean the oldest and most famous graphic application didn't make use of a graphics processor before ? That can't be serious. Even before the time of 3D GPUs, there was a time of simple 2D acceleration. Why would you even want to write a graphic app if you are not using those features ?!?
DISCLAIMER: As a programmer, I can't publish load times/Performance issues with any product from Microsoft against any other. I will get sued for posting benchmarking results that show Microsoft Windows based systems, performance wise, SUCK compared to BSD/Linux systems on the same box.
Hmmm. And on what grounds would they sue ? Even if you publish completely imaginary 'benchmarks', that would still fall under the 1st amendment (assuming you are in the US).
I've never liked the K&R, even later versions, much preferring Harbison & Steele "C - a reference manual". I've worn out 3 editions so far. But that's offtopic since the question was about online presence. For this comp.lang.c remains the most useful.
We, however, do find ourselves pondering such things and this is where we find ourselves -- debating metaphysics and morality on Slashdot
I prefer to read philosophy on slashdot than in a dry and dusty book. It's a lot more lively.
He also doesn't use science to inform his morality and understanding of how we find meaning in all of it.
Science, in particular evolutionary biology and game theory, can explain morality but it gets long-winded. True, "Thou shalt not kill" is a lot easier to grok.
Also I get annoyed by people who absolutely want to pin a 'meaning' on things that don't have and don't need them. The meaning of life ? Mu. The meaning of life is to perpetuate life. Period. But when I have this argument with some people, they claim that they wouldn't be able to go through life if there was no purpose to it. As if the lowly ant needs a purpose in order to exist. How arrogant is that ?
Thread programming is HARD!
Unless you do it in a real programming language like Ada or Erlang, running on a real message-passing OS like BeOS, Plan9 or QNX...
Even for medical reasons, there are better ways. But we are way offtopic here, unless considering that thetans are sick dicks.
I've worked in a place where they did exactly as you suggest: 5 hours difference between the official noon and the time the sun was at its top. And I can tell you it was hell if you had to actually _work_ outdoors. Too cold (you worked all through the coldest hours of the day), too dark, etc... Yeah, your ass is nice and cozy in the office and you want some sunlight so you can play with your dog when you get home. Right.
Why isn't the space station listed in there ?
Hell - you don't even need that. Adding lead weights to my tinfoil hat worked just fine.
Your post, sir, is underrated. Adding weight on the shoulders of a woman is enough to have her gait appear to be that of a man. It's a well known trick of appearance change: you also need to change the center of gravity in addition to more apparent body appendage. And the opposite is true also: add some weight to... the lower part of the body... to give it a more feminine gait. Leaded thong anyone ?
Nah, didn't think so.
You can have a tax number, a social security number, an ID card, a driver's license, etc, but those numbers cannot be mixed in a bigger database. That was the original intent anyway, and it did prevent a lot of abuse. It was a good law while it lasted. Sob.
Anyway, I don't work in Antarctica anymore (never mind 2 recent propositions) so I haven't been following closely.
Hopefully with the polar orbiter we'll now get google maps of Antarctica. I've been lamenting the fact that it's impossible to find any halfway decent satellite image from down there, for ever.
It's called the gorilla arm syndrome.
Nope, you need to take the brains out and test them fresh. It's done at the slaughterhouse. My dad has performed tens of thousands of such tests, and this whole debate about US beef is about one thing only: the US using their lack of a positive (because they hardly perform any test at all) to export their beef. If a positive is found, it will devastate their beef industry (one of the biggest export of the country). Remember what happened in England, burning mass graves with thousands of cows in it ? This is only about MONEY. And with the incidence of encephalopathy in wild cattle, there is ZERO chance that ESB is not present in your cows. Somebody will pay dearly for that decision... Somebody.
The tuning of the algo is not all that easy, but it divided the electricity bill by 3 overnight !
Storing digital pictures as barcodes comes as... odd to me. I have an idea: why not print them out and store the paper on which they are printed inside the time capsule ?!?
Italia has 3 standard power plugs, and several other ancient ones still found in some houses. I always need to use a screwdriver and knife when hooking a power adapter !