Nowhere in this piece of press release is there mention of the end result of eating in space: pooping in space. I could only find links to press release material about the toilet, though, too.
And how useful is it to compare percentages of documents? Did they judge by amount of words or number of points?
One carefully worded line in an otherwise innocuous legal agreement can do far more damage or good than pages of ineffective words in another.
My favorite memory from Phrack was an article outlining ways to trick pholks into giving you all the information you needed to call the phone company and get their service all messed up. The authors claimed they called people with very professional-sounding voices, and answered as MCI customer service. They had friends in the room talking to "customers" and clicking on loud IBM keyboards for background noise. The author acted like they had been called by the victim, confusing the victim who had themselves answered the phone, and said there must be something wrong with the service and that they could fix it right up in a jiff. Then they asked for all the pertinent information about the victim and their phone account.
At 14, I thought it was slicker than apeshit! Low-tech and simple.
Ahhhhh... Phrack!
I also had a friend that did lots of public service hours for unwisely applying things he learned about in Phrack. I did not think that was slick on his part.
Not until (1) journalism students have to take a science class other than "physics for poets" to get out of school, and (2) the general public have to take some math and science couses in order to get out of high school.
I agree. A newbie needs more than a book that just explains what -v and -R turn on and off for command X. I think that most newbies could start working with O'Reilly's "Running Linux." This book explains what and why you are doing something, like how the file system is organized, how permissions work, what the kernel does, etc.
In short, I think it is written for the Linux newbie that is not a computer newbie, which is probably a large chunk of the audience in question above.
As someone who can remember being a Linux newbie, I could not disagree with this more! CLI and shell scripts are what first attracted me to linux, and I suspect the same is true for others.
I started computing on a 286 DOS machine (no win 3.1) so a CLI didn't scare me.
In fact, the first linux I tried was one of the linux-on-a-floppy distros, without a GUI. I networked two 486s together with the help of "Linux for dummies" and lots of man pages, but without GUI utilities. When I installed my first "real" distribution with X, I already knew how important the CLI was, even when X was running.
I would suggest working through a good calc book and then a good college intro physics book.
They update the editions of these every other year or so, which will allow you to get the books really cheap from, say, '99 or 2000.
Is calculus really as hard as people think it should be? I don't believe so. The books always start out with the basics and work up. The same goes for the physics book, once you've got the math to understand it--and appreciate it.
I suggest Stewart's calc book and Halliday, Resnick, and Walker's "Fundamentals of Physics."
Does anyone but me feel like blowing chunks after a dasher session? I like the speed with which I can enter text, but I feel worse when I leave the computer than after I used to feel after playing Doom II all night.
Your last few completions are always still visible on the left as new choices are provided on the right. THis allows you to go back and change letters or words, or even the whole paragraph you were entering.
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Nowhere in this piece of press release is there mention of the end result of eating in space: pooping in space. I could only find links to press release material about the toilet, though, too.
And how useful is it to compare percentages of documents? Did they judge by amount of words or number of points? One carefully worded line in an otherwise innocuous legal agreement can do far more damage or good than pages of ineffective words in another.
At 14, I thought it was slicker than apeshit! Low-tech and simple.
Ahhhhh... Phrack!
I also had a friend that did lots of public service hours for unwisely applying things he learned about in Phrack. I did not think that was slick on his part.
Not until (1) journalism students have to take a science class other than "physics for poets" to get out of school, and (2) the general public have to take some math and science couses in order to get out of high school.
In short, I think it is written for the Linux newbie that is not a computer newbie, which is probably a large chunk of the audience in question above.
I started computing on a 286 DOS machine (no win 3.1) so a CLI didn't scare me.
In fact, the first linux I tried was one of the linux-on-a-floppy distros, without a GUI. I networked two 486s together with the help of "Linux for dummies" and lots of man pages, but without GUI utilities. When I installed my first "real" distribution with X, I already knew how important the CLI was, even when X was running.
I would suggest working through a good calc book and then a good college intro physics book.
They update the editions of these every other year or so, which will allow you to get the books really cheap from, say, '99 or 2000.
Is calculus really as hard as people think it should be? I don't believe so. The books always start out with the basics and work up. The same goes for the physics book, once you've got the math to understand it--and appreciate it.
I suggest Stewart's calc book and Halliday, Resnick, and Walker's "Fundamentals of Physics."
Does anyone but me feel like blowing chunks after a dasher session? I like the speed with which I can enter text, but I feel worse when I leave the computer than after I used to feel after playing Doom II all night.
Your last few completions are always still visible on the left as new choices are provided on the right. THis allows you to go back and change letters or words, or even the whole paragraph you were entering.