I broke my hand a year ago and I too had the fun of doing one-handed coding (in Fortran, baby!) for a couple months. In truth, it wasn't that bad, though my productivity was slowed a bit.
I managed by remapping keystrokes in vim to be more friendly, like remapping '' to 'jj' and ':wq' to just 'wq'. If you are clever, you could easily remap shift-combos (like braces) to un-used areas. Say, remap '{' to '[['...unless C# has those. (I am not a C# programmer). It's a bit harder for '(' as you can't just remap that to '99'.
As a grad student currently at JILA I'd like to say "Congratulations" to Jan Hall for his work on the frequency comb. It's been a good ride for JILA during my *ahem* years of graduate work here. Three Nobels (among many other awards) for Hall, Wieman, and Cornell, and even more accolades for Debbie Jin, Kapteyn and Murnane... It's been an honor to be able to talk, heck, be in the same building with these people.
I don't know if this is true or not, but I might believe it. My Alpha has some horrific number like 8 or 16 memory slots and it is hella fast. Combined with the very good DEC/Compaq/HP Tru64 compilers and CXML, I love my Alpha.
I'm sad to see it go. I'm happy though, knowing Itanium will eventually be EV8 (I mean, come on, you keep using Alpha ideas) and MKL is getting to be CXML.
Look at the "another story"...
Man, I pity the poor soul that isn't a Linux guru but wants to try Linux out. I figure 75% of my Linux questions are answered via IRC. It is still a much better and quicker way to get the answers than mailing lists or Usenet.
(FWIW, the other 25% is mainly Gentoo Forums).
Friend, you need to do all the deleting and regedit'ing in Safe Mode. Since msblast starts with Windows, you'll never be able to delete it in Normal mode.
I've been helping my parents and sister with this all night. I MUST REMIND MYSELF THAT I AM THEIR ADMIN!!!
You could use zsh. This is one of the reasons I love it, it's great completion system. You can do:
rpm -Uvh [TAB] and only.rpm will complete
tar xjf [TAB] and only.tar.bz2 or.tbz2 are completed.
Hoo boy, be careful. I can tell you right now, in Quantum Chemistry, Statistical Mechanics, Spectroscopy, &c., the lecture ain't dead. In fact, what would be dead is the students if you moved these to the tutorial favored by Humanities.
For example, I am not the greatest person at Stat Mech. If there wasn't a teacher up there, I'd probably never learn it. I can read and re-read a Stat Mech book and absorb about 10%. Lecture it to me, and I suddenly learn.
Just a shoutout, but how about scientific computing? You know, the guys whose boxes lead the Top500 (Earth Simulator, ASCIs, NCAR, NOAA)?
For us we need 64-bits for both the memory and better precision.
I know the ALA Conference is happening there and all, but was anyone else kind of freaked to see the American Library Association issuing this release from Canada?
It's like they left the nation in response.
There were others as well. My favorite was the puzzle based on lute notation. I think someone in the Cloudmakers ran a lutherie, or something, so even that was solved.
And, of course, there is the famous Fuzzymelon incident where about one week into the game, he hypothesized the entire plot.
Man, Tuesday's were pretty much no-work days for me then...that's why I came in every Saturday.
Even better are the worlds that
Worlds.com has now. They have Hanson World...why? Are there enough Hanson fans that want a crappy pseudo-VR IRC experience?
Sadly, I, too, played Alpha World, but I could never find anyone, let alone someone interesting, to talk to.
If you have ever had a Linux system running a non-journaling filesystem, you'd know. I had a box using ext2, a non-journaling fs, go down in a power failure. This baby had about 100 GB of space in ext2. It took at least an hour to get the system up because if a box crashes without journaling, it must check the drives for consistency.
In comparison, that same box using ext3, a journaling filesystem, takes a second or two to recover since it is not dependant on the size of the drives, but the (small) size of the journal (except if your drive hardware fails).
Also, journaling helps with data integrity in cases of failure as well, so you don't get files filled with garbage at the end.
If they are using anything close to BeOS's filesystem, use it. That was by far the best filesystem I have ever seen. Beautiful.
Well, not quite. I am in the process of turning my awful home page (which I use mainly to try out new techniques, &c.) into accessible XHTML 1.1. Ever try to go to an index.xhtml page with lynx? You get the source out, and that's it. Kinda annoying.
The FCC is directed by five Commissioners appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate for 5-year terms, except when filling an unexpired term. The President designates one of the Commissioners to serve as Chairperson. Only three Commissioners may be members of the same political party. None of them can have a financial interest in any Commission-related business.
But, the FCC also acknowledges that there are only four commissioners at this time. I guess the Senate must be debating the fifth? Anyone know why there's four at the moment?
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Bah! Young whippersnapper! We all know ed is the standard Unix text editor. In truth, I can barely use ol' vi now. I need the niceness that is vim.
Actually, it's everything and vim, but I usually code in Fortran. After that, bash, Python, a bit of Perl and C.
Oh yes, and set up Sticky Keys everywhere. Typing then m is a lot easier than -m. Usually you can toggle the sticky keys with a keyboard shortcut.
I broke my hand a year ago and I too had the fun of doing one-handed coding (in Fortran, baby!) for a couple months. In truth, it wasn't that bad, though my productivity was slowed a bit. I managed by remapping keystrokes in vim to be more friendly, like remapping '' to 'jj' and ':wq' to just 'wq'. If you are clever, you could easily remap shift-combos (like braces) to un-used areas. Say, remap '{' to '[['...unless C# has those. (I am not a C# programmer). It's a bit harder for '(' as you can't just remap that to '99'.
Isn't TIFF's patent mess now over as well? And if so, when will I be able to view TIFFs in Firefox? Soon? Please? Question mark?
As a grad student currently at JILA I'd like to say "Congratulations" to Jan Hall for his work on the frequency comb. It's been a good ride for JILA during my * ahem * years of graduate work here. Three Nobels (among many other awards) for Hall, Wieman, and Cornell, and even more accolades for Debbie Jin, Kapteyn and Murnane... It's been an honor to be able to talk, heck, be in the same building with these people.
I don't know if this is true or not, but I might believe it. My Alpha has some horrific number like 8 or 16 memory slots and it is hella fast. Combined with the very good DEC/Compaq/HP Tru64 compilers and CXML, I love my Alpha. I'm sad to see it go. I'm happy though, knowing Itanium will eventually be EV8 (I mean, come on, you keep using Alpha ideas) and MKL is getting to be CXML.
Quoth: Final image file size: 2,068,654,055 bytes
So, how long until it's on Kazaa? Or BitTorrent?
And, man, wait 'til the pr0n industry gets ahold of this.
Look at the "another story"... Man, I pity the poor soul that isn't a Linux guru but wants to try Linux out. I figure 75% of my Linux questions are answered via IRC. It is still a much better and quicker way to get the answers than mailing lists or Usenet. (FWIW, the other 25% is mainly Gentoo Forums).
Friend, you need to do all the deleting and regedit'ing in Safe Mode. Since msblast starts with Windows, you'll never be able to delete it in Normal mode.
I've been helping my parents and sister with this all night. I MUST REMIND MYSELF THAT I AM THEIR ADMIN!!!
You could use zsh. This is one of the reasons I love it, it's great completion system. You can do: rpm -Uvh [TAB] and only .rpm will complete
tar xjf [TAB] and only .tar.bz2 or .tbz2 are completed.
Hoo boy, be careful. I can tell you right now, in Quantum Chemistry, Statistical Mechanics, Spectroscopy, &c., the lecture ain't dead. In fact, what would be dead is the students if you moved these to the tutorial favored by Humanities.
For example, I am not the greatest person at Stat Mech. If there wasn't a teacher up there, I'd probably never learn it. I can read and re-read a Stat Mech book and absorb about 10%. Lecture it to me, and I suddenly learn.
Just a shoutout, but how about scientific computing? You know, the guys whose boxes lead the Top500 (Earth Simulator, ASCIs, NCAR, NOAA)? For us we need 64-bits for both the memory and better precision.
I know the ALA Conference is happening there and all, but was anyone else kind of freaked to see the American Library Association issuing this release from Canada? It's like they left the nation in response.
They did, sorry. The first story said 5-4 as did the other rumors I saw. They changed it pretty quick, though.
Shin Nihon Kokaku
HTH
There were others as well. My favorite was the puzzle based on lute notation. I think someone in the Cloudmakers ran a lutherie, or something, so even that was solved. And, of course, there is the famous Fuzzymelon incident where about one week into the game, he hypothesized the entire plot. Man, Tuesday's were pretty much no-work days for me then...that's why I came in every Saturday.
5 DVDs worth of LOC's. HTH
Even better are the worlds that Worlds.com has now. They have Hanson World...why? Are there enough Hanson fans that want a crappy pseudo-VR IRC experience?
Sadly, I, too, played Alpha World, but I could never find anyone, let alone someone interesting, to talk to.
Quad XGA is 2048x1536. In fact, NEC developed/is developing a 21" LCD with this resolution. I'd like that.
Yes, once again, theoretical chemistry is left out. It was a good year, though, and some day we will make the list!
If you have ever had a Linux system running a non-journaling filesystem, you'd know. I had a box using ext2, a non-journaling fs, go down in a power failure. This baby had about 100 GB of space in ext2. It took at least an hour to get the system up because if a box crashes without journaling, it must check the drives for consistency.
In comparison, that same box using ext3, a journaling filesystem, takes a second or two to recover since it is not dependant on the size of the drives, but the (small) size of the journal (except if your drive hardware fails).
Also, journaling helps with data integrity in cases of failure as well, so you don't get files filled with garbage at the end.
If they are using anything close to BeOS's filesystem, use it. That was by far the best filesystem I have ever seen. Beautiful.
Well, not quite. I am in the process of turning my awful home page (which I use mainly to try out new techniques, &c.) into accessible XHTML 1.1. Ever try to go to an index.xhtml page with lynx? You get the source out, and that's it. Kinda annoying.