I've had this "disease", um, personality trait, forever, but only relatively recently have I decided that I'd be better without it (after taking zyban/wellbutrin to stop smoking...). I'd always discounted the negative effect of these traits, but after being "normal" for the 4 months the wellbutrin was in my system, and realizing how much more productive (in a straight line:-) I was, I started researching and experimenting with dietary supplements to get a similar effect.
What I came up with was the following concoction taken 3 times daily, 30-45 minutes before meals if possible...
shit, where are the 6-figure positions??? I'm doing oracle dba, java/perl/python/php/(insert client-specified language here) development, *nix sysadmin, software architecture, consulting, &c for _far_ less than the lowest 6-figure number. you guys hiring? get me in the 6-figure line!
a binary install will always be needed to bootstrap the jdk build. That said, I've heard rumblings recently on freebsd-java that 1.4.1 is getting _very_ close to passing the sun tests which will allow freebsd to distribute a native binary package.
jwz rants that some developer thinks, "this program is pretty nice, but you know what it's missing? It's missing a lot of pointless chatter about what plugins and fonts have been loaded!"
You'd think he'd know how to ">/dev/null 2&1" terminal output. sheesh!
on the bottom of
http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-089.htm
you'll find the following text.
We believe God has raised up ICR to spearhead
Biblical Christianity's defense against the
godless dogma of evolutionary humanism. Only by
showing the scientific bankruptcy of evolution,
while exalting Christ and the Bible, will
Christians be successful in "the pulling down of
strongholds; casting down imaginations, and every
high thing that exalteth itself against the
knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity
every thought to the obedience of Christ" (II
Corinthians10:4,5).
I'm not saying this makes any of the text's claims
false, but I'll certainly reread with many grains
of salt.
The potential problem with non-GPL free licenses
is that development may be derailed by a rogue
commercial entity. Please read the following
message to the zebra mailing list, and explain what
assurances we, the community, have that relicensing
parts of Mono will not cause it's fate to be the
same as gated.
If you want to find out where this users is, why not
compose an html email containing an image on a
server whose logs you can read. You'll be able
grab the client IP address from his browser when
the image is displayed.
I haven't had any problems running 2.4.14, but
admittedly I only run it to play quake3 for a while,
then boot back to windows to do my part in spreading
virii.
"Just like free literature has flourished and the
big publishing houses have crumbled? Same goes for
free music too, right?"
A "book" must be made by someone with a printing
press. Music may be produced by an individual, so
this point has a _little_ more weight than the
previous one, however, you fail to recognize that
neither of the two "products" you mention may be
built upon the work of others. If I produce a
piece of software that converts a compressed image
file into a bitmap image, you may then use that
software to create a program that displays the
once-compressed image.
Collaboration and means of production make free
software a very powerful competitor to traditional
software businesses.
"Perhaps it is the natural progression of the
market. If you look at other industries, over
time they concentrated their power into the
hands of a few large companies. Oil, Automobiles,
Televisions, Radio, etc."
What do the industries you cite above have in
common? They all have a "means of production"
that could be owned by companies. Software is
radically different in that you, your neighbor,
and I all possess (or ostensibly are) the "means
of production" for software. Until humans are
legally "owned" by companies, free software will
continue to flourish, and at a much faster rate
than/any/ commercial software company's product.
Not so simple. What happens when you want to NFS
mount/usr,/var,/log to ease maintenance of a
room of machines? The sundry file locations are
partitioned <pun> like they are to group _types_
of files together. In practice, most good admins
will build a machine to maximize access to each type
of file --/var and/log on fast disks,/usr
mounted read-only (and often remotely)....
There is a necessary complexity in creating a
well-behaved computer system -- packaging systems
and common practices address this complexity. I
would like to see the complexity handled similarly
enough across all unices that software can be
more efficiently developed and deployed without
doing the job for each *nix.
cheers.
b
[mod parent up, please] Re:"L" is the problem
on
The LSB Delivers Again
·
· Score: 3, Informative
Agreed. There is a similar project for the BSD
world at http://www.openpackages.org/. It would
be _great_ if the two would cooperate to define
a common *nix platform that vendors could depend
on.
"the only time your hands need to leave the
keyboard is to make a vague mouse \"gesture\",
moving to a general area of the screen to place
the cursor in an xterm."
man, when I'm in code-mode, I push the mouse tray
under the desk (and use L_META+TAB to cycle focus)
after I get my 6 xterms spread properly on the
workspace. Sawfish/is/ the most effective window
manager around -- http://www.sawfish.org/ -- try it
out and watch your efficiency increase.
Don't get me wrong, there is a place for gui
things, but once the brain gets fully engaged,
I do not want anything more than the keyboard
between me and my design.
IAJAM (I Am Just A Monkey), but it just hit me that
I/must/ publish every thought I ever have to
protect myself from this slimy patent system we
have, and slimier patent applicants.
I suggest everyone else do the same. Document
everything you think, whether it seems significant
or not. Document the way you wipe your ass; the
way you lift food to your mouth; the way you pick
your nose. Document the method of transferring
thought to a transportable medium.
The responses to this question are quite
interesting. I've always hacked my own things
(toys, audio, autos, whatever), long before I
found the computer thing to hack. In my typical
fashion, I built my first computer from scratch --
just so I'd know what made it tick. It's not so
strange that I'm a *nix hacker after all;-)
I postulate that most people who hack their
things, are *nix (source code, please:-) users.
I believe/my/ motive for hacking things is to
not be reliant on _someone_else_ to save my ass
when it needs saving most. This is certainly
what attracts me to *nix. Putting forth enough
effort, I can solve most any problem on my system
since I can "get under the hood."
How about it? Any of you other thing-hackers
avid *nix users? How many non-*nix users hack
heavily on their cars?
I'm sending $10 to the foundation. 299 more of
the same donation, and they'll have the lawyers
paid. Come on, it's only $10 bucks -- just skip
that ${quantity_of_cold_beverage} next weekend;-)
If you can afford more... The foundation/is/ a
501(c)(3) non-profit, so you could get a bit of
a tax credit on your donation if it is postmarked
before 31 Dec 2001.
for full details see: http://freebsdfoundation.org/
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I've had this "disease", um, personality trait, :-)
forever, but only relatively recently have I
decided that I'd be better without it (after
taking zyban/wellbutrin to stop smoking...). I'd
always discounted the negative effect of these
traits, but after being "normal" for the 4 months
the wellbutrin was in my system, and realizing
how much more productive (in a straight line
I was, I started researching and experimenting
with dietary supplements to get a similar effect.
What I came up with was the following concoction
taken 3 times daily, 30-45 minutes before meals
if possible...
5-HTP (50mg)
guarana extract (300mg) (low caffeine %)
ginseng (50mg)
The best side-effect is that I am sleeping
_much_ better (like, actually feeling rested
when I wake).
enjoy.
amazing
shit, where are the 6-figure positions??? I'm doing
oracle dba, java/perl/python/php/(insert
client-specified language here) development, *nix
sysadmin, software architecture, consulting, &c for
_far_ less than the lowest 6-figure number. you guys
hiring? get me in the 6-figure line!
a binary install will always be needed to bootstrap
the jdk build. That said, I've heard rumblings
recently on freebsd-java that 1.4.1 is getting
_very_ close to passing the sun tests which will
allow freebsd to distribute a native binary package.
jwz rants that some developer thinks, "this program
is pretty nice, but you know what it's missing? It's
missing a lot of pointless chatter about what
plugins and fonts have been loaded!"
You'd think he'd know how to ">/dev/null 2&1"
terminal output. sheesh!
:-)
b "happy with xine" v
freebsd from cdrom: http://freesbie.org
yeah, right....pfft! modern torture techniques!!!
I am the first poster
a bit of a toster
I thought I was good
but turned out as wood.
on the bottom of
http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-089.htm
you'll find the following text.
We believe God has raised up ICR to spearhead
Biblical Christianity's defense against the
godless dogma of evolutionary humanism. Only by
showing the scientific bankruptcy of evolution,
while exalting Christ and the Bible, will
Christians be successful in "the pulling down of
strongholds; casting down imaginations, and every
high thing that exalteth itself against the
knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity
every thought to the obedience of Christ" (II
Corinthians10:4,5).
I'm not saying this makes any of the text's claims
false, but I'll certainly reread with many grains
of salt.
b
The potential problem with non-GPL free licenses
/not/ a license nazi, but after I
/more/ a believer
is that development may be derailed by a rogue
commercial entity. Please read the following
message to the zebra mailing list, and explain what
assurances we, the community, have that relicensing
parts of Mono will not cause it's fate to be the
same as gated.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=zebra&m=101212 675308051&w=2
(note: I'm
read that message, it makes me
that GPL is superior to BSD-like licenses.)
b
There is a reference to joshua@abram.com on the ;-)
"contact" page at vx2.cc. This is the whois
from vx2.org. coincidence? I think not.
go get him
Registrant:
Abram, Joshua (VX54-DOM)
444 east 57th street
New York, NY 10022
US
Domain Name: VX2.ORG
Administrative Contact, Billing Contact:
Abram, Joshua (FSQYHRRZLI) joshua@abram.com
444 east 57th street
New York, NY 10022
US
212 255 1008
If you want to find out where this users is, why not
compose an html email containing an image on a
server whose logs you can read. You'll be able
grab the client IP address from his browser when
the image is displayed.
b
On dream paycheck. No job. All the time in the /I/ like, code on my own terms.
world to do what
b
I haven't had any problems running 2.4.14, but
admittedly I only run it to play quake3 for a while,
then boot back to windows to do my part in spreading
virii.
;-)
b
We experienced the same thing. If you have a ;-) d-link makes a nice cheap 5-port.
hub between the problematic boxen, replace it with
a switch
b
"Just like free literature has flourished and the
big publishing houses have crumbled? Same goes for
free music too, right?"
A "book" must be made by someone with a printing
press. Music may be produced by an individual, so
this point has a _little_ more weight than the
previous one, however, you fail to recognize that
neither of the two "products" you mention may be
built upon the work of others. If I produce a
piece of software that converts a compressed image
file into a bitmap image, you may then use that
software to create a program that displays the
once-compressed image.
Collaboration and means of production make free
software a very powerful competitor to traditional
software businesses.
b
"Perhaps it is the natural progression of the
/any/ commercial software company's product.
market. If you look at other industries, over
time they concentrated their power into the
hands of a few large companies. Oil, Automobiles,
Televisions, Radio, etc."
What do the industries you cite above have in
common? They all have a "means of production"
that could be owned by companies. Software is
radically different in that you, your neighbor,
and I all possess (or ostensibly are) the "means
of production" for software. Until humans are
legally "owned" by companies, free software will
continue to flourish, and at a much faster rate
than
b
Gut check a project at X. Tell the client 2X. .5X, so you can go play
Make sure you're done in
on the client's bill.
Hint: you rarely ever get to play on the client's
bill, but it is quite a nice incentive to get
the project done on time, and sometimes even
early.
This is the surest way I've found to invest no
more than 2X in a project, and it inevitably
ends up close to 2x.
b
Not so simple. What happens when you want to NFS /usr, /var, /log to ease maintenance of a
/var and /log on fast disks, /usr
mount
room of machines? The sundry file locations are
partitioned <pun> like they are to group _types_
of files together. In practice, most good admins
will build a machine to maximize access to each type
of file --
mounted read-only (and often remotely)....
There is a necessary complexity in creating a
well-behaved computer system -- packaging systems
and common practices address this complexity. I
would like to see the complexity handled similarly
enough across all unices that software can be
more efficiently developed and deployed without
doing the job for each *nix.
cheers.
b
Agreed. There is a similar project for the BSD
world at http://www.openpackages.org/. It would
be _great_ if the two would cooperate to define
a common *nix platform that vendors could depend
on.
b
"the only time your hands need to leave the
/is/ the most effective window
keyboard is to make a vague mouse \"gesture\",
moving to a general area of the screen to place
the cursor in an xterm."
man, when I'm in code-mode, I push the mouse tray
under the desk (and use L_META+TAB to cycle focus)
after I get my 6 xterms spread properly on the
workspace. Sawfish
manager around -- http://www.sawfish.org/ -- try it
out and watch your efficiency increase.
Don't get me wrong, there is a place for gui
things, but once the brain gets fully engaged,
I do not want anything more than the keyboard
between me and my design.
b
IAJAM (I Am Just A Monkey), but it just hit me that /must/ publish every thought I ever have to
/business/.
I
protect myself from this slimy patent system we
have, and slimier patent applicants.
I suggest everyone else do the same. Document
everything you think, whether it seems significant
or not. Document the way you wipe your ass; the
way you lift food to your mouth; the way you pick
your nose. Document the method of transferring
thought to a transportable medium.
Fuck! I'm sick of the software
The responses to this question are quite ;-)
:-) users.
/my/ motive for hacking things is to
interesting. I've always hacked my own things
(toys, audio, autos, whatever), long before I
found the computer thing to hack. In my typical
fashion, I built my first computer from scratch --
just so I'd know what made it tick. It's not so
strange that I'm a *nix hacker after all
I postulate that most people who hack their
things, are *nix (source code, please
I believe
not be reliant on _someone_else_ to save my ass
when it needs saving most. This is certainly
what attracts me to *nix. Putting forth enough
effort, I can solve most any problem on my system
since I can "get under the hood."
How about it? Any of you other thing-hackers
avid *nix users? How many non-*nix users hack
heavily on their cars?
b
I'm sending $10 to the foundation. 299 more of ;-)
/is/ a
the same donation, and they'll have the lawyers
paid. Come on, it's only $10 bucks -- just skip
that ${quantity_of_cold_beverage} next weekend
If you can afford more... The foundation
501(c)(3) non-profit, so you could get a bit of
a tax credit on your donation if it is postmarked
before 31 Dec 2001.
for full details see: http://freebsdfoundation.org/
I think the Lindows people /knew/ from the beginning
that MS would spend /their money/ to give the
Lindows a little industry spotlight ;-) Kudos guys.