I can think of at least one OS project that IMO has a very userfriendly configuration interface. Oddly enough, it's the Microsoft SMB File Sharing protocol compatibility project Samba. SWAT (Samba Web Administartion Tool) is a very nice configuration interface, that is both much more powerful and much easier to use than the Microsoft counterpart. And of course, the fact that it works in nice too.
/*
* [...] Note that 120 sec is
* defined in the protocol as the maximum possible RTT. I guess
* we'll have to use something other than TCP to talk to the
* University of Mars.
*
* PAWS allows us longer timeouts and large windows, so once
* implemented ftp to mars will work nicely. We will have to fix
* the 120 second clamps though!
*/
The Earth vs. Mars Scorecard doesn't mention the Lunokhod missions. Assuming both missions counted as successes, it would bring the score close to a tie.
Instead of just a banner at the top maybe pop ups FROM Opera?
I doubt it. One of the selling points for Opera (like Mozilla) is built-in pop-up blocking. If Opera started making their own pop-up ads from the browser that would presumably bypass the built-in pop-up blocker, it would completly negate the benefit of that feature. And I think the people at Opera, like most reasonably intellagent people, realize that end users hate pop-up ads so much that they are not a reasonable form of marketing.
Connie Willis is one of my favorite SciFi authors. IIRC she has won more Nebula awards than any other author. Or maybe it was some other award. Anyway, she's really good. Excellent short stories in Impossible Things, many of which won the Nebula award, as did Doomsday Book. She has several other excellent SciFi books. Highly recommended.
A show (I think it was on the History Channel) about nano-technology. It had a pretty funny interview with the guy who created a single molecule motor. He admitted it was a pointless endeaver because there's really no way to use a single molecule motor, but he did it "mostly because it's cool." That's how I define a geek.
On the first quiz on the Solar System, on the questions that you can select multiple answers it keeps telling me I didn't select any answer, and marks it as wrong.
Was because I couldn't get it to run under WineX. I bought the game & planned on subscribing, but when I couldn't run it...
Also around that time my M$ Windows partition ate itself for the umpteenth time, and I decided to stop dual-booting. Not worth the pain. So no I couldn't just reboot into Windows.
... you probably just needed to direct your whois request to a different whois server.
Yeah, because of course it wouldn't be the whois db of the registrar the domain was registered with that would have it, of course not. Now why didn't I think of that?
The bill would not affect people who are trying to safeguard their privacy because it only makes it a crime to submit false registration data when it is done to help commit a crime, said Mark Bohannon, senior vice president for public policy at the Software & Information Industry Association, which supports the bill.
So, if I submit false information never intending to do anything illegal, but say someone else in the business used the domain for illegal purposes, would I then be guilty under this law? Or is it only if I intend to use the false info as protection for illegal actions I knowingly plan to commit? If it's only if I intend to use the domain illegally, how would the court judge what my intent was? Intent is something that can never be proved beyond any reason of doubt.
Not having any Whois information? I remember a domain name that I wanted to register at one that had already been taken, and when I checked whois to see who had registered it, there was nothing there. Is that going to be illegal, or just having false information? If it's only illegal to falsify info, what's the point; and if no info is also illegal, then this is way too invasive.
Or maybe not. I live in a small rather rural town that doesn't have a real library. For a few years while I was in Jr. High, the city tried using the Jr. High's School (a brand new school at the time) library as a city library. It was a really small library, and it had a problem with a lot of holes in series. For example at the time it had books 1,3,5 of Jordan's Wheel of Time series. I mentioned this to the librarian, and she said that because most of the books where donations from people, they didn't have a record of what was missing. They did have a budget to buy new books, but they didn't know which to buy. So I spent a few weeks of my time voluntarily cataloging which series they had parts of, and what was missing. After getting through the city library only section (closed to students during school), I turned in what I had to the librarian. She lost it. I did it again. She never bought anything off the list as far as I know. And a few years later the city decided to give up on having a library (it was only a half hearted attempt in the first place). So now I paid non-citizen rates for a library card in the next town over.
Sorry for the long rant. It's just that your comment about asking touched a nerve for me.
The problem here is that the list is so massive, there's actually almost no point to it. There's no plot descriptions whatsoever attached to the list, just a link to elsewhere.
If you're going to recommend a book, I think whoever a book is being recommended to deserves at least a brief explanation of "WHY?" I know that's difficult for a long list like this, but just a sentence or two would be nice, not just a links leading eventually to Amazon.
I actually disagree. Most I don't like book recommendations with a plot summary or review, because of a few reasons. First off most reviews are positive for Capitalistic reasons (This book is great! Give us your money so you can read it!), which makes me a little untrustworthy of them. Even when the reviews are from unbiased reviewers, I usually have my own opinion about what I read, and all to often it differs from the reviewers, so their review was not really helpful. And it's even worse if they have a plot summary: either it doesn't tell you anything and was pointless to include a plot summary, or else they give too much away and ruin the book.
What I actually like to do to find new books is to get recommendations from people I trust to have similar likes as me: my friends and family, and some few online & magazine reviewers. And because I trust that I will like the books they recommend I don't need or want a review or plot summary. And I am very rarely disappointed.
Oops. I promise I did use the preview button, don't know why I didn't see this. My first blockquote (about Orson Scott Card) should end at Unfortunatly, like this:
"The Crystal City, Orson Scott Card (Tor)"
I am actually just now reading though this series. I sometimes can't believe just how deep he seems to build this alternative look at america. I admit I am just finishing the third book but I am hooked already.
Unfortunatly, I would say you're in for a disappointment. Card decided he was done with the series after the 3rd or 4th book, but because the plot line for the series wasn't anywhere close to being resolved Card recieved so muchfan mail asking for me that he wrote more. This is a very bad reason to write books, and from Heartfire on the series is nowhere near as good as it started.
I am actually just now reading though this series. I sometimes can't believe just how deep he seems to build this alternative look at america. I admit I am just finishing the third book but I am hooked already.
Unfortunatly, I would say you're in for a disappointment. Card decided he was done with the series after the 3rd or 4th book, but because the plot line for the series wasn't anywhere close to being resolved Card recieved so muchfan mail asking for me that he wrote more. This is a very bad reason to write books, and from Heartfire on the series is nowhere near as good as it started.
"The War of the Flowers, Tad Williams (DAW)"
I don't know how Tad ever got the chance to write. His first book was about cats, it was not very good and he even mentions that it took forever to find someone to publish it. He then went on to write his great Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series...and then on to his amazing Sci-Fi Otherworld series. The War of flowers was good but not as amazing as his last series.
I agree. My one big beef with Tad Williams is his inability to actually kill one of his characters. It's the one really annoying thing, and it's in all of his books. I mean give me break, if someone gets their throat ripped out by a dog, they are NOT goint to wakeup, in an ambulance or any where else. Orlando in Otherland is the only one that was done right. Prince What's-his-name from Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, everyone other than Orlando in Otherland, and Tinkerbell in War of the Flowers all should have stayed dead. It got really cheesy really fast.
"Fool's Fate, Robin Hobb (Voyager; Bantam Spectra 2004)"
I did not even know the third one was out (or is it?..a quick check of chapters seems to think not, in my local stores...if it is I better get to the book store fast!). If you have any interest in the fantasy genre then you have to go give these a read NOW! Each book she publishes seem to get better and better with no end in sight. I often find that many authors seem to hit their "peak" and then taper off (Hey I am looking at you Robert Jordan) but that is just not the case here.
And just to ruin my manly image (please oh please don't let anyone I know find this post), she was the first author to actually make me cry while reading one of her books...(shhhh don't tell).
I agree, except for the "every book gets better and better" part. IMO her first series The Farseer was her best, and her second The Liveship Traders was good but not as good, and The Tawny Man the current series is disappointing, not because of any real flaw, but only because it isn't as good as The Farseer books.
BTW, the problem with the link in the/. article is actually not a 404. 404 is when a URL for a valid website is a file that is not found or doesn't exist; the link in/. redirects to an entirely different domain, which could be caused by any number of things other than a 404.
Don't know for sure if this is what you're asking, but the "backend" for Wikipedia is MediaWiki. I doubt that it would be really difficult to use a dynamic page & articleid, but the WikiMedia people might have a reason for not using that method.
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I can think of at least one OS project that IMO has a very userfriendly configuration interface. Oddly enough, it's the Microsoft SMB File Sharing protocol compatibility project Samba. SWAT (Samba Web Administartion Tool) is a very nice configuration interface, that is both much more powerful and much easier to use than the Microsoft counterpart. And of course, the fact that it works in nice too.
The trailer/advertisement for the I, Robot movie being made right now. Looks more like an ad for an actual robot, rather than a movie.
Bah. They both start with an M. You expect me to read the whole word?
The Earth vs. Mars Scorecard doesn't mention the Lunokhod missions. Assuming both missions counted as successes, it would bring the score close to a tie.
Replace 'spacecraft' with 'child'...
"The most difficult thing is to know how to talk to the spacecraft when you're getting no response from it," says Douglas J. Mudgway
Connie Willis is one of my favorite SciFi authors. IIRC she has won more Nebula awards than any other author. Or maybe it was some other award. Anyway, she's really good. Excellent short stories in Impossible Things , many of which won the Nebula award, as did Doomsday Book . She has several other excellent SciFi books. Highly recommended.
A show (I think it was on the History Channel) about nano-technology. It had a pretty funny interview with the guy who created a single molecule motor. He admitted it was a pointless endeaver because there's really no way to use a single molecule motor, but he did it "mostly because it's cool." That's how I define a geek.
On the first quiz on the Solar System, on the questions that you can select multiple answers it keeps telling me I didn't select any answer, and marks it as wrong.
No, in order to perform an attack on an OpenBSD box with this vulnerability you need to patch a Linux Kernel or roll your own network stack.
My favorite 404 Page Not Found error is a online PHP version of Zork.
More games as 404 errors here.
Was because I couldn't get it to run under WineX. I bought the game & planned on subscribing, but when I couldn't run it...
Also around that time my M$ Windows partition ate itself for the umpteenth time, and I decided to stop dual-booting. Not worth the pain. So no I couldn't just reboot into Windows.
Not having any Whois information? I remember a domain name that I wanted to register at one that had already been taken, and when I checked whois to see who had registered it, there was nothing there. Is that going to be illegal, or just having false information? If it's only illegal to falsify info, what's the point; and if no info is also illegal, then this is way too invasive.
Sorry for the long rant. It's just that your comment about asking touched a nerve for me.
What I actually like to do to find new books is to get recommendations from people I trust to have similar likes as me: my friends and family, and some few online & magazine reviewers. And because I trust that I will like the books they recommend I don't need or want a review or plot summary. And I am very rarely disappointed.
The best new (to me) series I've read recently wasn't represented on Locus' recommended list. It's in the fantasy genre.
Tales of the Otori by Lian Hearn.
Book 1: Across the Nightingale Floor
Book 2: Grass for his Pillow
Book 3: Cloud of Sparrows
Highly recommended.
In Yahoo! Directory Humor > 404 Error I found the 404 Research Lab which links to my favorite 404 of all time: THCNET's 404. Also in the Yahoo! Directory and 404 Research Lab are other interesting/funny 404's
/. article is actually not a 404. 404 is when a URL for a valid website is a file that is not found or doesn't exist; the link in /. redirects to an entirely different domain, which could be caused by any number of things other than a 404.
BTW, the problem with the link in the
Don't know for sure if this is what you're asking, but the "backend" for Wikipedia is MediaWiki. I doubt that it would be really difficult to use a dynamic page & articleid, but the WikiMedia people might have a reason for not using that method.
There's a lot more interesting stuff in the FAQs. You might want to read them before you decide to donate.