Re:SYSV.. bah. BSD-style is the way to go.
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Does launchd Beat cron?
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Also, in many cases you don't have to directly edit all those files. For instance, you can chkconfig on many distributions to turn on and off services at boot time. (Or whatever it is Sun uses in Solaris 10 now, not that I've had a chance to play with it much yet.)
It's also easier to test startup and shutdown scripts. For instance, if I want to test the foo startup script, I just run "/etc/init.d/foo start" (or "service foo start" on some distributions). With the BSD-style startup scripts, I have to add it to another script--which makes testing part of the script more difficult and error-prone. If it's small enough, I can just cut and paste that snippet of the script, but still...
A simple profanity filter could have saved his startup by blocking the email for containing words like "sucks" and "clusterfuck."
Otherwise, ah, obviously the CEO needs to read all email before it's sent to properly gauge its impact on the business.
My wife's company has a profanity filter. It drops email without bouncing it, which I didn't realize for a while. Apparently I'm quite the potty mouth.
Anyway, she does in fact have a colleague named Dick. He doesn't get a lot of email.
Yes. For instance, you may recall that a large number of career diplomats were hired or appointed under Reagan and Bush '41 and were not fired by Clinton.
How did this get modded informative? First, even the Germans make plenty of wheat beer. Last I checked, malted wheat ain't barley.
Second, the quality of the finished product has little to do with whether or not the brewer uses rice, corn or potatoes. Budweiser sucks because they use less malt and hops than in a traditional pilsner, and because they go to extraordinary efforts to remove whatever flavor they do add to the beer.
For that matter, I've had some excellent beers made with all three of your verboten grains (yes, including potatoes), and some of the best beers in the world are made with added sugar.
For an example of a classic beer made with corn, check out the Classic American Pilsner. This is a style of beer brewed in America before Prohibition, and which was revived in large part through the efforts of homebrewer Jeff Renner. Unfortunately, it is true that there aren't any good commercial examples.
It's not a bad beer if it's been kept out of the light. If you take a six pack directly out of the cardboard box, it shouldn't be skunked like 99% of Heinekens are.
Having said that, it's just another boring lager with an annoying advertising campaign I personally wouldn't waste my time with.
We had an issue last year with some dork who complained that we weren't doing anything about spam sent from somebody else's network with a forged domain that looked like ours. I mean, what the hell are we supposed to do?
I gotta admit that this kept me from trying python for some time. However, I tried it for a mall project a few months ago, and I barely noticed the whitespace thing at all.
I like ruby better and I'm more comfortable in perl, but python is still a neat language.
Them: "Irony is the statement of one thing when another thing (typically the opposite) was intended."
You: "That's not irony, it's sarcasm. Slashdotters are freaking brilliant. (Pop quiz: Is that irony or sarcasm?)"
Slashdotters also apparently can't be bothered to look up words in the dictionary.
The post you were replying to was right. However, sarcasm has a similar meaning. Irony tends to be more subtle, while sarcasm tends to be cutting and in your face.
You can find a decent if imperfect discussion of the difference between the words here.
Is this the same Duane Gish who once used a not very clever joke to argue against evolution? A biochemist told a shaggy dog story about how a bullfrog was found with proteins related to humans--the implication being that the bullfrog was actually an enchanged prince.
It's like he cited the Onion.
Come to think of it, considering the usual quality of creationist research, I wouldn't be surprised to find somebody quoting the Onion.
The article doesn't say whether or not anyone grabbed the actual mailing list. This is something they could presumably check by looking through the web logs.
If the addresses were harvested by somebody's spam bot, I would assume they were added to the spammer's address database. I'm not sure it would have been obvious to anyone that they had been spammed because they had subscribed to the Spamalot mailing list.
Anyway, my general assumption is that all spammers out there already have my email address. With effective spam filtering, it's only a minor nuisance.
Based on what a colleague of mine says, the iSeries HMC probably also runs OS/2. He was surprised that the pSeries HMC runs Linux, and I think it's a good bet the iSeries HMC doesn't run Windows.
None of the other members of the White House press corp attempts to conceal their identity as he did.
Gannon/Guckert is not a journalist. He has no experience and he doesn't work for a legimimate news outlet. He couldn't get permanent press credentials to the White House, which is why they had to issue him a daily pass.
His function at press conferences appears to have been to save the ass of Scott McLellan or the President by asking softball questions. It suggests coordination with the Whte House, as doees his role in the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame (in which he apparently received a confidential CIA memo from someone in the White House).
The article (dating from a year and a half ago) you quoted mentioned that they were going to send special forces to Afghanistan. It appears that they have sent them since them.
I'm not suggesting that they're exactly leading the effort, but give me a break. It should be obvious that the US doesn't have enough troops there, either, considering the fact that the opium crops are doing so well.
It's semantics. I think the problem is that you can still see the bolts where perl's OO-ness was hacked on. It's just much more elegant in other langugages, including ruby.
Oh, and it's not just ugly. You left out "royal pain in the ass."
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It's also easier to test startup and shutdown scripts. For instance, if I want to test the foo startup script, I just run "/etc/init.d/foo start" (or "service foo start" on some distributions). With the BSD-style startup scripts, I have to add it to another script--which makes testing part of the script more difficult and error-prone. If it's small enough, I can just cut and paste that snippet of the script, but still...
Although my wife has another year before she finishes the MBA program, so maybe they teach this in the final year.
My intended pont was that the only way a non-human email filter would have worked would have been by accident.
And what kind of startup can afford to have a human being look at all of its outgoing email?
A simple profanity filter could have saved his startup by blocking the email for containing words like "sucks" and "clusterfuck." Otherwise, ah, obviously the CEO needs to read all email before it's sent to properly gauge its impact on the business.
Anyway, she does in fact have a colleague named Dick. He doesn't get a lot of email.
Neither Reagan nor Bush '41 would have, either.
Hell, I don't think Nixon would have done this.
Funerals in my family are fucking hilarious, and don't you forget it. Albeit usually in an absurdist sort of way.
Second, the quality of the finished product has little to do with whether or not the brewer uses rice, corn or potatoes. Budweiser sucks because they use less malt and hops than in a traditional pilsner, and because they go to extraordinary efforts to remove whatever flavor they do add to the beer.
For that matter, I've had some excellent beers made with all three of your verboten grains (yes, including potatoes), and some of the best beers in the world are made with added sugar.
For an example of a classic beer made with corn, check out the Classic American Pilsner. This is a style of beer brewed in America before Prohibition, and which was revived in large part through the efforts of homebrewer Jeff Renner. Unfortunately, it is true that there aren't any good commercial examples.
Nice beer, but no national distribution.
Or the process happened somewhere else (Mars, for instance).
Having said that, it's just another boring lager with an annoying advertising campaign I personally wouldn't waste my time with.
My basement. Then again, I make the stuff.
We had an issue last year with some dork who complained that we weren't doing anything about spam sent from somebody else's network with a forged domain that looked like ours. I mean, what the hell are we supposed to do?
I like ruby better and I'm more comfortable in perl, but python is still a neat language.
How can you check for a cheap power supply?
You: "That's not irony, it's sarcasm. Slashdotters are freaking brilliant. (Pop quiz: Is that irony or sarcasm?)"
Slashdotters also apparently can't be bothered to look up words in the dictionary.
The post you were replying to was right. However, sarcasm has a similar meaning. Irony tends to be more subtle, while sarcasm tends to be cutting and in your face. You can find a decent if imperfect discussion of the difference between the words here.
It's like he cited the Onion.
Come to think of it, considering the usual quality of creationist research, I wouldn't be surprised to find somebody quoting the Onion.
Don't tell my wife or my girlfriend.
The article doesn't say whether or not anyone grabbed the actual mailing list. This is something they could presumably check by looking through the web logs. If the addresses were harvested by somebody's spam bot, I would assume they were added to the spammer's address database. I'm not sure it would have been obvious to anyone that they had been spammed because they had subscribed to the Spamalot mailing list. Anyway, my general assumption is that all spammers out there already have my email address. With effective spam filtering, it's only a minor nuisance.
Just so you know, that's how they started out here, too. You do have the advantage of seeing our bad example.
Based on what a colleague of mine says, the iSeries HMC probably also runs OS/2. He was surprised that the pSeries HMC runs Linux, and I think it's a good bet the iSeries HMC doesn't run Windows.
None of the other members of the White House press corp attempts to conceal their identity as he did.
Gannon/Guckert is not a journalist. He has no experience and he doesn't work for a legimimate news outlet. He couldn't get permanent press credentials to the White House, which is why they had to issue him a daily pass.
His function at press conferences appears to have been to save the ass of Scott McLellan or the President by asking softball questions. It suggests coordination with the Whte House, as doees his role in the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame (in which he apparently received a confidential CIA memo from someone in the White House).
The article (dating from a year and a half ago) you quoted mentioned that they were going to send special forces to Afghanistan. It appears that they have sent them since them.
I'm not suggesting that they're exactly leading the effort, but give me a break. It should be obvious that the US doesn't have enough troops there, either, considering the fact that the opium crops are doing so well.
Those socialist, cheese-eating surrender monkeys sent troops to Afghanistan, where we had a clear and reasonable justification for going to war.
Oh, and it's not just ugly. You left out "royal pain in the ass."