I think that Red Dead Redemption is the best game that has come out in a long time. It really got me hooked and I love it! However, it's very unethical of Rockstar to try to pressure reviewers into giving good reviews.
There is no reliable way to reflow a PDF since it was not designed for it. Most of the time the reflowed result looks like crap, especially if the PDF content has more than one column or contains images, footnotes or has anything more complex than just plain text and headers.
Basically, ePub IS just a ZIP file containing XHTML files, CSS, images (PNG, JPEG, GIF or SVG) and metadata.
You can unzip the ePub and read it with your web browser.
Get a Nettop with the Nvidia ION chipset, put Linux and XBMC on it and you have a cheap, tiny, silent HTPC with HDMI and hardware accelerated video playback playing those 1080p MKV's without problem. Some of them (Asus Eee Box, ASRock Nettop and Acer Aspire Revo for example) also come with a remote control.
That conviction only ruled that the tracker was illegal. The Pirate Party is only hosting the TPB home page and the search engine, they don't host any torrent-files nor do they have a tracker anymore.
Diff the content of two tar.gz files: diff <(tar tvfz foo.tar.gz | sort) <(tar tvfz bar.tar.gz | sort)
The <(some command) trick works with all commands that takes a filename as parameter and is a good alternative to using temporary files.
Fork off five subcommands that sleeps for 0-15 seconds and wait until all of them are finished: while test $(( foo++ )) -lt 5; do
( sleep $(( $RANDOM & 0xF )); echo "Hello from $foo" ) &
done
echo "Waiting..."
wait
echo "All done."
Set a variable to a default value if it's not already set:
% echo $X
If using temporary files, use mktemp and the files will always be deleted when the script exits: TMPFILE=$(mktemp)
Run other cleanup code on exit, even if the script was interrupted: trap "psql -c 'drop table my_temp_table'" EXIT
Append ALL stdout and stderr output from the rest of the script to a file: exec 2>&1 >>/var/log/myscript.log
That's just the top of my head. I can REALLY recommend reading the free Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (more formats) from cover to cover! Every time I skim it I find something new that I missed before.
To be honest, it takes most people their whole lives and they still don't fully master it. That includes Americans, Brits and others for whom it is their native language.
As a Swedish pirate, the swedish pirate party Piratpartiet is the one I know best. Here gun control is not an issue. Pretty much everyone agrees that more guns is bad and less guns is good. I know that that's kind of opposite to the American view but anyway, that not a pirate party question here.
We explicitly don't take stand in most questions because it will only split the movement and make it weaker. Our issues are VERY important to us and our stand in them are WAY different from the established parties, at least how they act in reality (not what they say in election campaigns).
In Sweden, there are only minor differences among the established parties. They have big fights over if some benefit should be 80% or 82% for example.
If you vote for Piratpartiet, it's because you think that our issues are more important than the difference between the established parties. It's not because you think that those other issues are not important.
Some of The Pirate Parties' main points are: Defend the right to privacy and personal correspondence, less surveillance, shorten copyright, abolish patents, remove laws against reverse engineering, promote open source software, ensure net neutrality, stronger laws against plagiarism, ensure due process in all cases, and much more.
Basically, to use a cliché, The Pirate Parties exist to steer the world away from 1984, as far away as possible.
What the heck are you talking about? I very much admit that big business support is fantastic for Linux and Open Source!
Everyone seem so obsessed with these huge multinational corporations with thousands of servers spread out all over the world. I was talking about relatively small companies (the vast majority of companies) that has a small but competent IT staff, adminstrating servers that can affort to have 99,99% or even 99,9% uptime instead of 99,999%.
For the vast majority of server it doesn't make economical sense to pay the premium 99,999% uptime would cost. For these servers a community supported free operating system like OpenSolaris/BSD/Linux on low-to-midlevel hardware can be perfect!
I don't know how many companies there are worldwide, but for the argument let's just say that there are 5 million. That means that 0.002% of the companies are in the top 100. There is a whole world of small-to-medium sized companies out there doing just fine. The millions-per-minute, or even thousands-per-minute servers are extremely rare.
You're right of course and similar setups are available for most other Linux and BSD distributions also. I was talking about running them unsupported as in download-ISO-and-install, I should had been more clear about that.
Re:OS going away, or just "contractual support"?
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FOSS is FREE only if you don't value your time.
*gasp* I value my time but I also value flexibility and independence from vendor whims.
I have an equally naive cliche for you right here:
Proprietary software is only cheaper if you are incompetent.
Re:OS going away, or just "contractual support"?
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As you probably are aware of, there are TONS of mission critical servers out there running Debian, CentOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and other "there is no company you can blame and/or sue" operating systems, just as well as they run PostgreSQL or MySQL without support contracts for their mission critical databases.
For many companies that's not a problem because they have competent server admin staff and the community support is often way better than what you'd get for money.
An unsupported "debian-testing-style" OpenSolaris would make a lot of sense for both Sun/Oracle and many users. If you want support and someone to blame, just pay for Solaris instead. This model is already proven to work great: Fedora vs RHEL (vs CentOS), openSUSE vs SUSE Linux Enterprise, PostgreSQL vs EnterpriseDB, and so on.
Never underestimate the power of the placebo effect, it can do wonders! It can even make you drunk!
With that said, homepathy, like religion, although it can help people, technically it's still fraud.
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Well, almost...
I think that Red Dead Redemption is the best game that has come out in a long time. It really got me hooked and I love it! However, it's very unethical of Rockstar to try to pressure reviewers into giving good reviews.
10%? Couple of orders of magnitude too high there I think...
10% of the kids who are going to get molested. Not 10% of the kids are going to get molested.
It was Flow-Matic aka B-0 which later kind of evolved into COBOL, also designed by her.
There is no reliable way to reflow a PDF since it was not designed for it. Most of the time the reflowed result looks like crap, especially if the PDF content has more than one column or contains images, footnotes or has anything more complex than just plain text and headers.
Basically, ePub IS just a ZIP file containing XHTML files, CSS, images (PNG, JPEG, GIF or SVG) and metadata. You can unzip the ePub and read it with your web browser.
Not always... :)
Get a Nettop with the Nvidia ION chipset, put Linux and XBMC on it and you have a cheap, tiny, silent HTPC with HDMI and hardware accelerated video playback playing those 1080p MKV's without problem. Some of them (Asus Eee Box, ASRock Nettop and Acer Aspire Revo for example) also come with a remote control.
Basically anything beside Microsoft
That conviction only ruled that the tracker was illegal. The Pirate Party is only hosting the TPB home page and the search engine, they don't host any torrent-files nor do they have a tracker anymore.
..and the pretty amazing open source distributed multi-master no-single-point-of-failure database Riak.
Here are some of my "tricks" I use regularly.
Diff the content of two tar.gz files:
diff <(tar tvfz foo.tar.gz | sort) <(tar tvfz bar.tar.gz | sort)
The <(some command) trick works with all commands that takes a filename as parameter and is a good alternative to using temporary files.
Fork off five subcommands that sleeps for 0-15 seconds and wait until all of them are finished:
while test $(( foo++ )) -lt 5; do
( sleep $(( $RANDOM & 0xF )); echo "Hello from $foo" ) &
done
echo "Waiting..."
wait
echo "All done."
Set a variable to a default value if it's not already set:
% echo $X
% echo ${X:-42}
42
% echo $X
42
% X=50
% echo ${X:-42}
50
If using temporary files, use mktemp and the files will always be deleted when the script exits:
TMPFILE=$(mktemp)
Run other cleanup code on exit, even if the script was interrupted:
trap "psql -c 'drop table my_temp_table'" EXIT
Append ALL stdout and stderr output from the rest of the script to a file:
exec 2>&1 >>/var/log/myscript.log
That's just the top of my head. I can REALLY recommend reading the free Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (more formats) from cover to cover! Every time I skim it I find something new that I missed before.
To be honest, it takes most people their whole lives and they still don't fully master it. That includes Americans, Brits and others for whom it is their native language.
As a Swedish pirate, the swedish pirate party Piratpartiet is the one I know best. Here gun control is not an issue. Pretty much everyone agrees that more guns is bad and less guns is good. I know that that's kind of opposite to the American view but anyway, that not a pirate party question here.
We explicitly don't take stand in most questions because it will only split the movement and make it weaker. Our issues are VERY important to us and our stand in them are WAY different from the established parties, at least how they act in reality (not what they say in election campaigns).
In Sweden, there are only minor differences among the established parties. They have big fights over if some benefit should be 80% or 82% for example.
If you vote for Piratpartiet, it's because you think that our issues are more important than the difference between the established parties. It's not because you think that those other issues are not important.
Some of The Pirate Parties' main points are: Defend the right to privacy and personal correspondence, less surveillance, shorten copyright, abolish patents, remove laws against reverse engineering, promote open source software, ensure net neutrality, stronger laws against plagiarism, ensure due process in all cases, and much more. Basically, to use a cliché, The Pirate Parties exist to steer the world away from 1984, as far away as possible.
10 dimensions. There is a pretty easy to follow explanation on Youtube:
Imagining the Tenth Dimension, Part 1
Imagining the Tenth Dimension, Part 2
Take the blue pill...
What exactly did you expect from a guy that starts his post with "This. "
That.
What the heck are you talking about? I very much admit that big business support is fantastic for Linux and Open Source!
Everyone seem so obsessed with these huge multinational corporations with thousands of servers spread out all over the world. I was talking about relatively small companies (the vast majority of companies) that has a small but competent IT staff, adminstrating servers that can affort to have 99,99% or even 99,9% uptime instead of 99,999%.
For the vast majority of server it doesn't make economical sense to pay the premium 99,999% uptime would cost. For these servers a community supported free operating system like OpenSolaris/BSD/Linux on low-to-midlevel hardware can be perfect!
I don't know how many companies there are worldwide, but for the argument let's just say that there are 5 million. That means that 0.002% of the companies are in the top 100. There is a whole world of small-to-medium sized companies out there doing just fine. The millions-per-minute, or even thousands-per-minute servers are extremely rare.
You're right of course and similar setups are available for most other Linux and BSD distributions also. I was talking about running them unsupported as in download-ISO-and-install, I should had been more clear about that.
FOSS is FREE only if you don't value your time.
*gasp* I value my time but I also value flexibility and independence from vendor whims.
I have an equally naive cliche for you right here: Proprietary software is only cheaper if you are incompetent.
As you probably are aware of, there are TONS of mission critical servers out there running Debian, CentOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and other "there is no company you can blame and/or sue" operating systems, just as well as they run PostgreSQL or MySQL without support contracts for their mission critical databases.
For many companies that's not a problem because they have competent server admin staff and the community support is often way better than what you'd get for money.
An unsupported "debian-testing-style" OpenSolaris would make a lot of sense for both Sun/Oracle and many users. If you want support and someone to blame, just pay for Solaris instead. This model is already proven to work great: Fedora vs RHEL (vs CentOS), openSUSE vs SUSE Linux Enterprise, PostgreSQL vs EnterpriseDB, and so on.
You've actually proven all religions and any religion to be frauds?
Yes, it says so in a book I read. Proof enough for me!
Never underestimate the power of the placebo effect, it can do wonders! It can even make you drunk!
With that said, homepathy, like religion, although it can help people, technically it's still fraud.