Anyone know if there is there a filesystem out there for Linux that has that level of rights?
Well, in my operating systems class, my professor often mentioned the Andrews FS, which lets you have acls in linux.. Google gave me this info about AFS permissions
It seems to me that real progress should be made by dividing the day up into decimal units of time, and the circle into decimal units of arc, thus eliminating the second as a unit of measure.
They tried.
It just didn't catch on. For a while you could get watches that had decimal time and normal time, but because of the division problem, it never caught on. If the big advantage of the decimal system is the ability to change units easily, the inability to evenly divide years into days negates that. If both your alternatives suck, why bother changing?
Someone else may want to elaborate about other things ms does to make the XP boot quickly.
I don't have a source, but I understood that XP optimized the disk locations of the system files, so that the next thing read in the boot sequence would be under the head when it was needed. It would make sense anyway, because a lot of bootup time is IO-bound. I suppose it would also explain why the other services don't start up as quickly as the core OS - it'd be quite a feat to figure out the boot order on all your installed programs/services and optimize the disk that way.
Sure, you could email people to let them know they're going to be slashdotted, but what good would it do?
They're not going to be able to create a beowulf cluster in an hour. If I were in that situation, depending on my situation and inclinations, I would do one of several things:
1. Take down the page of interest - especially if I pay for bandwidth.
2. Replace the page with a link to the google cache.
3. Put in a lot more advertising on that one page.
4. Meta refresh to, oh, say, goatsomething.
It's not really feasible for OSDN to mirror each page that goes on slashdot. It couldn't be completely automated, because the bigger sites or sites that sell advertising would complain. Another problem is that usually what's of interest on smaller websites is pictures/movies, and I'm sure that OSDN doesn't have enough money to spend it on the bandwidth so that I can see chickens being mutilated in cool ways, or whatever.
Star Trek has been parodied many times in many different formats; other television shows, movies, comics and so on. You yourself have probably been parodied as much or more in people's "Captain Kirk Impression" stand up skits and the like. My question is, do you recall a favourite parody for it's comedy or cleverness of either yourself or the series?
I can quickly solve any problem that arises. For example I have a script to prefix files with a given string. (simple shellscript) With Windows, it's of course possible, but it's much harder because I would have to learn VBscript which is different to normal commands.
Hm.. I guess if you spent as much time learning the windows command shell as you did learning your *nix shell of choice, you'd know that you could make a batch file to do that.
The batch file would be:
prefixall.bat for %%f in (%1) do ren %%f %2%%f
And usage would be "prefixall wildcard prefix"
Not to say that the windows command shell is as powerful as bash or something, but it's not powerless.
Tom "I once wrote a software distribution package in dos batch files" Finnigan
It's pretty cool. There are some really large unsolved problems with it though - the biggest is that it's really tough to detect when objects go in front of each other (occlusions). If you don't detect them correctly, then you get really bad results. Of course, you can do things with a little human intervention, which lets you get almost perfect results, but the time that that takes is proportional to the number of source frames.
That's why you see those kind of effects for slow-motion (in Lost in Space or the Matrix) which has relatively few source frames, but I doubt we'll see it any time soon to increase framerate in movies, because 24fps for a whole movie is a whole lot of frames to manually tweak.
I used to do a little ESD via a product called Xcellenet. It's an extremely solid piece of code, very secure, and easily lets you distribute source to various sites, over various connection types. We used it internationally and domestically. I think it's also used a lot for ATM transactions (that's ATM bank machine, not the other kind). I think it can do TCP/IP, X.25, modems, ISDN, etc..
My favorite feature was a CLI which would transparently work the same on different platforms.
People think that just because gnutella doesn't scale very well that any peer-to-peer will have the same flaws.
If you can have hosts that don't go up and down all the time, and you don't care about anonymity (which you really shouldn't if you're looking up addresses in other people's contact lists) then peer to peer can scale in a way which is competitive with client-server. Plus, nobody needs to invest in a massive server (or server farm).
The guy I heard talk about this has a paper up (sorry, it's postscript).
I think it's a great thing that there is a standard library (Gecko) for rendering web pages that other projects can implement and build on. While I don't want to suggest the stifling of competition, I don't want to see people wasting time developing an alternative to something that is the best there is, and that they can just grab and use.
So, in that earlier post it links to a website where they show how to make a png action. Instead of doing the funky hack for each image, you just create a single 'behaviour', which is pretty much the same thing as Mozilla's XBL. It'll change all your code automatically.
So, in other words, include the behaviour, and create the html just as you would normally. Everything will work.
Their support is un-unified at best, but it does work. It's probably not the default just because of performance, or it was a late feature or something. But it does work, and it's pretty cool.
The way that a hologram works is the two laser beams. To create a hologram, shine two laser beams onto some film - one a direct beam (the reference beam), and the other being reflected off the object. The pattern of collosions of light is recorded in the film. When developed, shine another laser at the film with the same angle and properties as the reference beam, and voila, the reflected light emerges.
It's basically obj+ref=film, film-ref=obj. But the fact that it actually works is the magic of it. (The holograms that you typically see being sold are modified so that the reference beam can be just a bright white light from overhead, but they aren't 'true' holograms.)
So, to answer your question directly, you can't see normal lasers as they shoot across a room, because there is nothing to bounce off and deflect light towards your eye. Holograms, on the other hand, you can see, because the laser bounces off of other light.
As a side note, other people have been doing stuff like this already, which is used to help doctors visualize cat scans and so forth.
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Anyone know if there is there a filesystem out there for Linux that has that level of rights?
Well, in my operating systems class, my professor often mentioned the Andrews FS, which lets you have acls in linux.. Google gave me this info about AFS permissions
Joey: If the Homosapiens were, in fact, "Homo-sapien", is that why they're extinct?
Ross: Joey, Homosapiens are people.
Joey: Hey, I'm not judging.
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They tried.
It just didn't catch on. For a while you could get watches that had decimal time and normal time, but because of the division problem, it never caught on. If the big advantage of the decimal system is the ability to change units easily, the inability to evenly divide years into days negates that. If both your alternatives suck, why bother changing?
More like:
You: I need a bubble sort.
Tank: Comin right up
* Eyes flutter *
You: Wow, that sucks!
I don't have a source, but I understood that XP optimized the disk locations of the system files, so that the next thing read in the boot sequence would be under the head when it was needed. It would make sense anyway, because a lot of bootup time is IO-bound. I suppose it would also explain why the other services don't start up as quickly as the core OS - it'd be quite a feat to figure out the boot order on all your installed programs/services and optimize the disk that way.
Anyone want to confirm/deny?
Both of them?
Third thursday of the month is duplicate stories about patent hysteria.
Tune back in!
The keys came off? Whatever happened to "it just works"? Bah. See if I ever buy an apple.
Actually, C++ is being post-incremented, so this iteration C++ is the same as c, but next time around it'll be great!
Sure, you could email people to let them know they're going to be slashdotted, but what good would it do?
They're not going to be able to create a beowulf cluster in an hour. If I were in that situation, depending on my situation and inclinations, I would do one of several things:
It's not really feasible for OSDN to mirror each page that goes on slashdot. It couldn't be completely automated, because the bigger sites or sites that sell advertising would complain. Another problem is that usually what's of interest on smaller websites is pictures/movies, and I'm sure that OSDN doesn't have enough money to spend it on the bandwidth so that I can see chickens being mutilated in cool ways, or whatever.
..or do you just hate them all?
I can quickly solve any problem that arises. For example I have a script to prefix files with a given string. (simple shellscript) With Windows, it's of course possible, but it's much harder because I would have to learn VBscript which is different to normal commands.
Hm.. I guess if you spent as much time learning the windows command shell as you did learning your *nix shell of choice, you'd know that you could make a batch file to do that. The batch file would be:
And usage would be "prefixall wildcard prefix"
Not to say that the windows command shell is as powerful as bash or something, but it's not powerless.
Tom "I once wrote a software distribution package in dos batch files" Finnigan
1. Developers!
2. Developers!
3. Developers!
4. Developers!
And the obligatory:
5. ???
6. Profit!
So, that's what I do at work.
It's pretty cool. There are some really large unsolved problems with it though - the biggest is that it's really tough to detect when objects go in front of each other (occlusions). If you don't detect them correctly, then you get really bad results. Of course, you can do things with a little human intervention, which lets you get almost perfect results, but the time that that takes is proportional to the number of source frames.
That's why you see those kind of effects for slow-motion (in Lost in Space or the Matrix) which has relatively few source frames, but I doubt we'll see it any time soon to increase framerate in movies, because 24fps for a whole movie is a whole lot of frames to manually tweak.
I used to do a little ESD via a product called Xcellenet. It's an extremely solid piece of code, very secure, and easily lets you distribute source to various sites, over various connection types. We used it internationally and domestically. I think it's also used a lot for ATM transactions (that's ATM bank machine, not the other kind). I think it can do TCP/IP, X.25, modems, ISDN, etc..
My favorite feature was a CLI which would transparently work the same on different platforms.
Info is at http://www.xcellenet.com/
People think that just because gnutella doesn't scale very well that any peer-to-peer will have the same flaws.
If you can have hosts that don't go up and down all the time, and you don't care about anonymity (which you really shouldn't if you're looking up addresses in other people's contact lists) then peer to peer can scale in a way which is competitive with client-server. Plus, nobody needs to invest in a massive server (or server farm).
The guy I heard talk about this has a paper up (sorry, it's postscript).
Yeah, like IE, just grab and use!
oh, wait..
So, in other words, include the behaviour, and create the html just as you would normally. Everything will work.
Links:
Sorry all these links come from the same site, it was convenient
See:
The way that a hologram works is the two laser beams. To create a hologram, shine two laser beams onto some film - one a direct beam (the reference beam), and the other being reflected off the object. The pattern of collosions of light is recorded in the film. When developed, shine another laser at the film with the same angle and properties as the reference beam, and voila, the reflected light emerges.
It's basically obj+ref=film, film-ref=obj. But the fact that it actually works is the magic of it. (The holograms that you typically see being sold are modified so that the reference beam can be just a bright white light from overhead, but they aren't 'true' holograms.)
So, to answer your question directly, you can't see normal lasers as they shoot across a room, because there is nothing to bounce off and deflect light towards your eye. Holograms, on the other hand, you can see, because the laser bounces off of other light.
As a side note, other people have been doing stuff like this already, which is used to help doctors visualize cat scans and so forth.