"Thousands of developers all over the world, from hobbyists to IBM engineers, are constantly contributing to open source software, so Cox's role of organising and applying improvements is vital."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Marcelo Tosati the new kernel maintainer now ?
to support/. *and* get rid of the stupid ads *and* not pay the submission : modify junkbuster slightly so that, on certain urls (/. ads), instead of filtering them by breaking the download altogether, the url is downloaded and sent straight to/dev/null, and the browser is sent an empty image (or told that the image is not available).
Time to get coding:)
Now you really know the /. crew is on drugs
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Let me restate:
OSDN is doing very very well."
Er.. It's doing so well/. has been told to help supporting their own weight. And SourceForge goes down all the time, and those hanging around on irc.openprojects.net can't have missed the OPN crew begging for bandwidth several times in the last few days.
When The University of Utah came out with the cold fusion story, it was at best bad science, at worst a scam comparable to the memory of water, to get funds or to serve some industry's interests.
I believe that anything related to tabletop fusion coming from Pons and Fleischmann should be treated with the highest circumspection, bearing in mind that those two might have an agenda. I doubt very much top-class scientists around the world would have been trying to build Tokamaks at the cost of billions of dollars, and been through so much frustration with them, if it was even remotely possible to do fusion with a pyrex full of deuterium and a paladium electrode in a second grade lab in Utah.
So, even though there is an infinitesimal chance that P. and F. have stumbled on something legit and promising, there a much greater chance that they're crooked scientists, and an even greater chance that they're just plain crackpots.
From the website : "[...] The level of trust in my classroom has gone up 100 percent, [...]"
The level of what trust ? Trust that the students can be sure their papers will be run through turnitin.com ? Trust that their teachers don't trust them to turn honest papers in ?
This turnitin.com thing sounds all about cashing in on distrust to me, frankly.
7:00 Wake up, get brainwashed by MSNBC ($$$ --> Microsoft)
7:30 Check personal email ("you've got mail !", $$$ --> AOLTimeWarner)
8:00 Arrive at the office. Check appointements on Pocket PC ($$$ --> Microsoft)
9:00 Conference call from Utah to California office ($$$ --> USWest)
11:00 Buy a box of blank CDs to ship the product ("CD-copying fee" $$$ --> RIAA)
12:00 Have lunch with potential customers, check route to restaurant on Internet cellphone ($$$ --> AOLTimeWarner)
13:00 Pay for lunch at restaurant's WinCE-powered POS ($$$ --> Microsoft)
14:00 Back to the office, check email on company laptop ($$$ --> Microsoft)
14:45 Listen to personal CD bought yesterday on laptop ($$$ --> RIAA). Oooh, why won't it play ? gotta get another one.($$$ --> RIAA)
15:50 Finished quarterly report, email it thru company's Exchange server ($$$ --> Microsoft)
17:00 Going back home. Need to gas up the car at the local TV-equipped gas station ($$$ --> AOLTimeWarner)
18:00 Arrived home, catch the Simpsons ($$$ --> Viacom)
19:00 TV sucks. Read a good book on brand new Ebook reader ($$$ --> Microsoft)
20:00 Check email one last time before going to bed ($$$ --> AOLTimeWarner)
20:30 Give cute Barney toy to kid to help them falling asleep ($$$ --> Microsoft)
21:00 Pop CD in radio alarm clock and set it for 30 minutes ($$$ --> RIAA). Funny, that CD plays here, hmmm...
Check out the lyrics of "Choose life" from Trainspotting. That'll give you a pretty good approximation of how sick corporate America makes me (and no I'm not a communist).
"I refuse to set up a PayPal [nopaypal.com] account"
You are a wise man. I just *finally* managed to close mine without losing the $100-so in it.
Taco, arrange for a decent method of payment and I'll pay. Otherwise, sorry it's Junkbuster time.
Junkbuster will get rid of your ads easily enough. If it doesn't, someone will write an extension so that it does (there is one for the stupid YahooGroup-style "intersticial advertisement pages" already too, in case you wondered).
I'm not saying this to be a party pooper, because I probably will pay/. some, not because I want the damn ads gone, but because I like/. and I don't want it to sink with the VA boat. If I just wanted the ads gone, well, I have that already.
"government agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can utilize game-based techniques, technologies, and approaches to produce innovative simulations, models, and game-based learning products that enhance public policy decisions."
John the IRS director [playing SimCity]: There, if just raise the tax a little, I should get more money to build a road [5 seconds later] Of and fuck, it's not fast enough ! [cranking up the tax rate to 90%]... Now that's better !
Margaret the Secretary [knocking on the door]: Mr. Director, President Bush wants to know by how much you estimate he will be able to increase governmental spendings.
John: Err... well, I haven't really had time to... [Glancing at the screen, smiling] Actually, tell him he can double it easy does it !
Margaret: Very well Mr. Director.
John [looking at the screen again]: Aah *CRAP*, not again, all my nice residential areas are turning into shanty towns again. wtf? This game really sucks...
"Like most websites, they want to know what users are visiting their sites"
So do I : vi/var/log/apache/access.log
That gives me an idea of how many people come to my site, and an idea of where people visit my site from (tld).
/var/log/apache/access.log is cheap and easy (since it's there by default). But when you want more data, you need to make an extra effort to get it, and usually I'm pretty confident that people who make an effort to be nozy are (1) corporations (2) in the business of statistical data to sell. Neither match my conception of a group of people making electronica music from dinky video game tunes and distributing it on their website. Hence my question.
I use Junkbuster to rewrite the information sent by Nutscrape to websites. Obviously, my bogus browser ID strings breaks their PHP scripts : at the bottom of all their pages, there is this :
----- Couldn't insert new row into MySQL table
Reason: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'You_dont_need_to_know_what_browser_I_use."","en" ""You_dont_need_to_know_what_si' at line 1
Check if the name of the MySQL table in phphits.php is correct!
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So my question is : what business does a mere "group of video game music fanatics and musicians" has logging people's browser infos into a SQL database ?
Well, it's a conspiracy from Microsoft don't you know : they secretely triggered the explosion of the Soufriere so that the island would eventually disappear and they could lay claim on the.ms tld. It hasn't quite worked the first time, but it's only a matter of time now, and Microsoft is very very patient...
Sell ICANN to Microsoft : you'll really get rid of bureaucracy, you'll get plenty cash, a lot of favors from many democrat and republican politicians, and you'll reach yet another grandiose achievement : the creation of the.ms TLD.
I used to love the X-Files : when I started watching it years ago (I think it was 1995 or 1996), it was about those 2 FBI agents investigating strange events, and even though it was overtly about paranormal and aliens, the episodes showed simple, well-thought of mysteries. Then the series started to have more and more episodes about aliens and abductions, but it was still okay because the plot was still believable and genuine suspense was still there. But I could feel X-Files wasn't quite what it was before.
The last episodes I watched have absurd plots that have no clear beginning or end, refer to obscure things in episodes of years ago, hint clumsily at new incredible developments that will happen in future episodes, and quite frankly have more special effects than interesting plot. Plus now they threw in those two new agents that, despite being honestly decent actors, just don't match Gillian and Duchovny and can't seem to manage to peel them off the screen. It reminds be of Coy and Vance who replaced Bo and Luke in the Dukes of Hazzard : they weren't bad at all, but the serie was so linked with its original characters that they just didn't fit in.
I don't know, my friends and I used to enjoy debating what the various X-Files characters were up to, and what might happen in the next episode, but these days it's a just clumsy show that doesn't stick.
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As the article points out, FreeDOS aims at being better than MSDOS, which mean that it'll never be 100% MSDOS compliant, simply because half of MSDOS is broken.
For true near-100% MSDOS compliance, with FAT32 support, multitasking and much more more as well, you want DRDOS-7.03 here. And no, you don't want the unofficial 7.04 and 7.05 which are actually broken in some respects.
DRDOS delivers really good compatibility, because it emulates most (if not all) MSDOS flaws on purpose. The flip side is, it's not free nor is it opensource.
DISCLAIMER : I used to maintain parts of the DRDOS kernel, so I'm biased.
Given the bad performances of RDRAM due in large part to its insanely high latency, and Rambus' dubious business practices based mainly on trying to milk patents to leech on the entire memory industry's back, why on earth should anybody give then the opportunity to make a come-back ?
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To write the most Obscure/Obfuscated C program under the rules below.
To show the importance of programming style, in an ironic way.
To stress C compilers with unusual code.
To illustrate some of the subtleties of the C language.
To provide a safe forum for poor C code. :-)
If you use gcc, you probably have benefited from fixes of bugs those programs have helped uncover.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Marcelo Tosati the new kernel maintainer now ?
Time to get coding :)
Let me restate:
OSDN is doing very very well."
Er.. It's doing so well /. has been told to help supporting their own weight. And SourceForge goes down all the time, and those hanging around on irc.openprojects.net can't have missed the OPN crew begging for bandwidth several times in the last few days.
So, like, okay, OSDN is doing just peachy ...
I believe that anything related to tabletop fusion coming from Pons and Fleischmann should be treated with the highest circumspection, bearing in mind that those two might have an agenda. I doubt very much top-class scientists around the world would have been trying to build Tokamaks at the cost of billions of dollars, and been through so much frustration with them, if it was even remotely possible to do fusion with a pyrex full of deuterium and a paladium electrode in a second grade lab in Utah.
So, even though there is an infinitesimal chance that P. and F. have stumbled on something legit and promising, there a much greater chance that they're crooked scientists, and an even greater chance that they're just plain crackpots.
The level of what trust ? Trust that the students can be sure their papers will be run through turnitin.com ? Trust that their teachers don't trust them to turn honest papers in ?
This turnitin.com thing sounds all about cashing in on distrust to me, frankly.
7:30 Check personal email ("you've got mail !", $$$ --> AOLTimeWarner)
8:00 Arrive at the office. Check appointements on Pocket PC ($$$ --> Microsoft)
9:00 Conference call from Utah to California office ($$$ --> USWest)
11:00 Buy a box of blank CDs to ship the product ("CD-copying fee" $$$ --> RIAA)
12:00 Have lunch with potential customers, check route to restaurant on Internet cellphone ($$$ --> AOLTimeWarner)
13:00 Pay for lunch at restaurant's WinCE-powered POS ($$$ --> Microsoft)
14:00 Back to the office, check email on company laptop ($$$ --> Microsoft)
14:45 Listen to personal CD bought yesterday on laptop ($$$ --> RIAA). Oooh, why won't it play ? gotta get another one.($$$ --> RIAA)
15:50 Finished quarterly report, email it thru company's Exchange server ($$$ --> Microsoft) 17:00 Going back home. Need to gas up the car at the local TV-equipped gas station ($$$ --> AOLTimeWarner) 18:00 Arrived home, catch the Simpsons ($$$ --> Viacom) 19:00 TV sucks. Read a good book on brand new Ebook reader ($$$ --> Microsoft)
20:00 Check email one last time before going to bed ($$$ --> AOLTimeWarner)
20:30 Give cute Barney toy to kid to help them falling asleep ($$$ --> Microsoft)
21:00 Pop CD in radio alarm clock and set it for 30 minutes ($$$ --> RIAA). Funny, that CD plays here, hmmm
Check out the lyrics of "Choose life" from Trainspotting. That'll give you a pretty good approximation of how sick corporate America makes me (and no I'm not a communist).
You are a wise man. I just *finally* managed to close mine without losing the $100-so in it. Taco, arrange for a decent method of payment and I'll pay. Otherwise, sorry it's Junkbuster time.
I'm not saying this to be a party pooper, because I probably will pay /. some, not because I want the damn ads gone, but because I like /. and I don't want it to sink with the VA boat. If I just wanted the ads gone, well, I have that already.
John the IRS director [playing SimCity]: There, if just raise the tax a little, I should get more money to build a road [5 seconds later] Of and fuck, it's not fast enough ! [cranking up the tax rate to 90%]... Now that's better !
Margaret the Secretary [knocking on the door]: Mr. Director, President Bush wants to know by how much you estimate he will be able to increase governmental spendings.
John : Err... well, I haven't really had time to ... [Glancing at the screen, smiling] Actually, tell him he can double it easy does it !
Margaret : Very well Mr. Director.
John [looking at the screen again]: Aah *CRAP*, not again, all my nice residential areas are turning into shanty towns again. wtf? This game really sucks ...
So do I : vi /var/log/apache/access.log
That gives me an idea of how many people come to my site, and an idea of where people visit my site from (tld).
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Couldn't insert new row into MySQL table
Reason: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'You_dont_need_to_know_what_browser_I_use."","en" ""You_dont_need_to_know_what_si' at line 1
Check if the name of the MySQL table in phphits.php is correct!
-----
So my question is : what business does a mere "group of video game music fanatics and musicians" has logging people's browser infos into a SQL database ?
Well, it's a conspiracy from Microsoft don't you know : they secretely triggered the explosion of the Soufriere so that the island would eventually disappear and they could lay claim on the .ms tld. It hasn't quite worked the first time, but it's only a matter of time now, and Microsoft is very very patient ...
I mean, how simple can this be ?
The last episodes I watched have absurd plots that have no clear beginning or end, refer to obscure things in episodes of years ago, hint clumsily at new incredible developments that will happen in future episodes, and quite frankly have more special effects than interesting plot. Plus now they threw in those two new agents that, despite being honestly decent actors, just don't match Gillian and Duchovny and can't seem to manage to peel them off the screen. It reminds be of Coy and Vance who replaced Bo and Luke in the Dukes of Hazzard : they weren't bad at all, but the serie was so linked with its original characters that they just didn't fit in.
I don't know, my friends and I used to enjoy debating what the various X-Files characters were up to, and what might happen in the next episode, but these days it's a just clumsy show that doesn't stick.
a cluster of a cluster of these ...
For true near-100% MSDOS compliance, with FAT32 support, multitasking and much more more as well, you want DRDOS-7.03 here. And no, you don't want the unofficial 7.04 and 7.05 which are actually broken in some respects.
DRDOS delivers really good compatibility, because it emulates most (if not all) MSDOS flaws on purpose. The flip side is, it's not free nor is it opensource.
DISCLAIMER : I used to maintain parts of the DRDOS kernel, so I'm biased.
Given the bad performances of RDRAM due in large part to its insanely high latency, and Rambus' dubious business practices based mainly on trying to milk patents to leech on the entire memory industry's back, why on earth should anybody give then the opportunity to make a come-back ?