> What actually happens is that when an object is stored in the system - the system checks to see whether it is > identical to another object, and if so - just stores a reference to the other object. This is achieved using a > "signature" or in non-M$ language - a hash.
This scares me evin more than M$ claiming to invent symlinks. Imagine having a web page you're working on. You store a good copy in a directory as a backup, then put another copy in a different directory that has your changes in it. But wait.. before you get to modify you devel copy, Windows steps in and makes them all the same file, so when you go and edit your devel copy, you're also editing your backup copy. Then you make a stupid mistake, delete half the text and save.. well you also lost your emergency backup, so you're royally screwed.
This is yet another case of M$ thinking it knows what you want and doing it without asking you.
This seems to me like we're getting closer and closer to having those PADD things they have in Star Trek. First there was the palm pilot which was nice, but didn't have much connectivity (I know the newer ones have it now), and now we have this which is even closer to the PADD's level of connectivity.
According to the Technical Manual, the PADD is just a portable computer terminal that also has some local memory.
Now just imagine in a few years when we have college students walking around campus with something like this in hand to write english papers, catch up on reading for their next class, or just play some minesweeper.
Actually, there are a good number of homosexuals and bisexuals who hardly breath a word of their sexuality. The people who broadcast their sexuality like that are the more forward homosexuals and bisexuals. If you think about it, there's a very good reason for them to broadcast it. How do you think a straight male would feel if guys kept flirting with him? He'd probablly get tired of it pretty quickly and want to find a way to broadcast that he's straight. Well, homosexual people think the same way, they gay guys want guys flirting with them and the lesbians want other lesbians flirting with them. Broadcasting like this also makes it more likely that they'll find someone else with their own sexuality. What are the chances of two needles finding each other in a haystack if one doesn't yell?
The Quadrants of the Galaxy are called quadrants because there are only four of them, alpha, beta, gamma, and delta (the first four Greek letters). You'd never have more than four because once something is divided four ways, there are only four pieces. They've also never left the galaxy, so we're stuck with only these four divisions. (They have gone to alternative universes, but it was always the Milky Way over there, and they probablly kept the same quadrants for simplicity's sake)
Its nice to know that the login form is hosted by a *NIX, but what about the machines hotmail users really use to read their email? Right now I'm reading email on hotmail, and the actual web server it is using is lw4fd.law4.hotail.msn.com and its IP isn't one of the ones that www.hotmail.com points to. Has anyone checked the OS/webserver/etc for these other machines?
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When you watch BWP you realize that the Lo-Tech stuff is what made it what it is because the setting is actual and the events make it seem at least somewhat plausible (especially if you've been backpacking before). Seeing the film through the eyes of a handheld camera makes it that much more realistic and makes you wonder just how real it is. The actors improvising everything also gave it realism, by making their responses seem more lifelike.
This might work for a few other movies, but not many. Its almost imposible to set a good Sci-Fi thriller with something that would allow this lo-tech to work, and I personally can't think of any other place where this kind of lo-tech would work except in a forest. It is relatively inexpensive to just travel to a forest and walk around taking shots, whereas setting a lo-tech film in a big city will still be expensive, you'll probablly need permission to shoot some of the areas as well as having to rent rooms and such to shoot in. All of this adds money and sense special effects and computer rendering are getting less expensive, its starting to become more cost effective to just render a lot of the stuff, like Squaresoft is doing in their Final Fantasy movie which is going to be completely rendered.
A lot of the BWP was also do to the shock value of seeing a big film that was filmed on a handheld camera.. that's a shock value that is a one time thing.. it might still be around for other movies that do the same thing, but the effect won't be anywhere as great. BWP was also very original in this.. if someone tries to make another lo-tech blockbuster like this, it'll lose all originality and personally I'd rather see a hi-tech non-original movie than a lo-tech non-original movie.
I personally detest censorship, especially on the net, but I wish people who tried to do it would at least be smart (I know, an oxymoron..) while trying to block out 'unsuitable' stuff they're also blocking out some of the most useful resources on the Internet, like information on gothic architecture, or looking up information on a long lost relative with the first name of Pamela.
> They thought he was trying to devleop a new religion based on the force.
Lucas was trying to create a religion, one for his/characters/ to believe in, not everyone else in the world. I wish people would learn to seperate characters in a different world from RL.
And as proof that he was trying to create a religion just look back to when Darth Vader was being critisiced for still believing in that old religion by one of the Emporer's head military guys..
The users are an interesting aspect in sysadmining. They are the reason your doing it, your greatest anoyance, and a source of great fun all at once.
It is best if you have your users know who you are and realize that you are human, but can still kill the acess with a couple of keystrokes. I spent some time sysadmining at a school with approximately 500 other students and they all knew who I was and they also knew that if I just stared at them when they told me about a problem that they best ask about it later. (I always knew abou thte big problems before they did so it wasn't a concern.)
There are also the joys of having a lab full of sparcs with limited floppy drives. One day you get bored and rearange the lab, leaving one sparc with a slot for a floppy but no drive, and another with the drive and slot. You watch several people go up to the sparc that no longer has a drive, slide a disk in, watch it fall into the case then walk away. When no one is around you just open up the case and count how many users didn't think to check for a drive.
And every once in a while it is nice to see the smile on someone's face when you tell them that they can read there e-mail again.
Maybe someone should thoroughly check out claims before they post. When the Shredder is pointed at http://www.transmeta.com/ it doesn't return anything at all. I know there isn't much there for it to shred, but it is still a web page.
Earlier this week I was websurfing and ran across this same site. This site is not new as of today, but has been around for a while. Don't let the fact that there is a support site now up make you think it is real, even the support site says its just a joke.
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> What actually happens is that when an object is stored in the system - the system checks to see whether it is
> identical to another object, and if so - just stores a reference to the other object. This is achieved using a
> "signature" or in non-M$ language - a hash.
This scares me evin more than M$ claiming to invent symlinks. Imagine having a web page you're working on. You store a good copy in a directory as a backup, then put another copy in a different directory that has your changes in it. But wait.. before you get to modify you devel copy, Windows steps in and makes them all the same file, so when you go and edit your devel copy, you're also editing your backup copy. Then you make a stupid mistake, delete half the text and save.. well you also lost your emergency backup, so you're royally screwed.
This is yet another case of M$ thinking it knows what you want and doing it without asking you.
Jag
This seems to me like we're getting closer and closer to having those PADD things they have in Star Trek. First there was the palm pilot which was nice, but didn't have much connectivity (I know the newer ones have it now), and now we have this which is even closer to the PADD's level of connectivity.
According to the Technical Manual, the PADD is just a portable computer terminal that also has some local memory.
Now just imagine in a few years when we have college students walking around campus with something like this in hand to write english papers, catch up on reading for their next class, or just play some minesweeper.
Actually, there are a good number of homosexuals and bisexuals who hardly breath a word of their sexuality. The people who broadcast their sexuality like that are the more forward homosexuals and bisexuals. If you think about it, there's a very good reason for them to broadcast it. How do you think a straight male would feel if guys kept flirting with him? He'd probablly get tired of it pretty quickly and want to find a way to broadcast that he's straight. Well, homosexual people think the same way, they gay guys want guys flirting with them and the lesbians want other lesbians flirting with them. Broadcasting like this also makes it more likely that they'll find someone else with their own sexuality. What are the chances of two needles finding each other in a haystack if one doesn't yell?
The Quadrants of the Galaxy are called quadrants because there are only four of them, alpha, beta, gamma, and delta (the first four Greek letters). You'd never have more than four because once something is divided four ways, there are only four pieces.
They've also never left the galaxy, so we're stuck with only these four divisions. (They have gone to alternative universes, but it was always the Milky Way over there, and they probablly kept the same quadrants for simplicity's sake)
Its nice to know that the login form is hosted by a *NIX, but what about the machines hotmail users really use to read their email? Right now I'm reading email on hotmail, and the actual web server it is using is lw4fd.law4.hotail.msn.com and its IP isn't one of the ones that www.hotmail.com points to. Has anyone checked the OS/webserver/etc for these other machines?
When you watch BWP you realize that the Lo-Tech stuff is what made it what it is because the setting is actual and the events make it seem at least somewhat plausible (especially if you've been backpacking before). Seeing the film through the eyes of a handheld camera makes it that much more realistic and makes you wonder just how real it is. The actors improvising everything also gave it realism, by making their responses seem more lifelike.
This might work for a few other movies, but not many. Its almost imposible to set a good Sci-Fi thriller with something that would allow this lo-tech to work, and I personally can't think of any other place where this kind of lo-tech would work except in a forest. It is relatively inexpensive to just travel to a forest and walk around taking shots, whereas setting a lo-tech film in a big city will still be expensive, you'll probablly need permission to shoot some of the areas as well as having to rent rooms and such to shoot in. All of this adds money and sense special effects and computer rendering are getting less expensive, its starting to become more cost effective to just render a lot of the stuff, like Squaresoft is doing in their Final Fantasy movie which is going to be completely rendered.
A lot of the BWP was also do to the shock value of seeing a big film that was filmed on a handheld camera.. that's a shock value that is a one time thing.. it might still be around for other movies that do the same thing, but the effect won't be anywhere as great. BWP was also very original in this.. if someone tries to make another lo-tech blockbuster like this, it'll lose all originality and personally I'd rather see a hi-tech non-original movie than a lo-tech non-original movie.
[agrajag@shift agrajag]$ nslookup www.windows2000test.com
Server: uni00rh.unity.ncsu.edu
Address: 152.7.1.3
*** uni00rh.unity.ncsu.edu can't find www.windows2000test.com: Non-existent host/domain
[agrajag@shift agrajag]$
hmm... anyone know why this machine seems to have disappeared?
The URL in the story doesn't seem to work, but this one does:
s earch_mo.right_frame?p_story=87942
http://webserv.vnunet.com/www_user/plsql/pkg_vnu_
I personally detest censorship, especially on the net, but I wish people who tried to do it would at least be smart (I know, an oxymoron..) while trying to block out 'unsuitable' stuff they're also blocking out some of the most useful resources on the Internet, like information on gothic architecture, or looking up information on a long lost relative with the first name of Pamela.
`Jag
> They thought he was trying to devleop a new religion based on the force.
/characters/ to believe in, not everyone else in the world. I wish people would learn to seperate characters in a different world from RL.
Lucas was trying to create a religion, one for his
And as proof that he was trying to create a religion just look back to when Darth Vader was being critisiced for still believing in that old religion by one of the Emporer's head military guys..
`Jag
The users are an interesting aspect in sysadmining. They are the reason your doing it, your greatest anoyance, and a source of great fun all at once.
It is best if you have your users know who you are and realize that you are human, but can still kill the acess with a couple of keystrokes. I spent some time sysadmining at a school with approximately 500 other students and they all knew who I was and they also knew that if I just stared at them when they told me about a problem that they best ask about it later. (I always knew abou thte big problems before they did so it wasn't a concern.)
There are also the joys of having a lab full of sparcs with limited floppy drives. One day you get bored and rearange the lab, leaving one sparc with a slot for a floppy but no drive, and another with the drive and slot. You watch several people go up to the sparc that no longer has a drive, slide a disk in, watch it fall into the case then walk away. When no one is around you just open up the case and count how many users didn't think to check for a drive.
And every once in a while it is nice to see the smile on someone's face when you tell them that they can read there e-mail again.
Jag
Maybe someone should thoroughly check out claims before they post. When the Shredder is pointed at http://www.transmeta.com/ it doesn't return anything at all. I know there isn't much there for it to shred, but it is still a web page.
Earlier this week I was websurfing and ran across this same site. This site is not new as of today, but has been around for a while. Don't let the fact that there is a support site now up make you think it is real, even the support site says its just a joke.