Well, try going "rm *" when you're in your home directory. You will see that.bash_history remains (and so does.profile -- how evil).
Might I contend that no special attention has been given by MS to its cache files; merely that OS processes hold them open, and Windows (unlike Linux) doesn't allow open files to be deleted.
Furthermore, as to file secrecy, I don't want my history files to show up when I am grepping for some text over a directory tree, etc.
I would also suggest that measures like this are in place to stop brainless users accidentally deleting useful files (we've all heard about windows users going around deleting random files because their harddrive is full). Anybody who is wised up, as you clearly are, can remove the files without much trouble.
You quoted a few bits of the article, and all the brainless moderators mark it Informative when in fact it should be Redundant because it doesn't contain anything new. Argh!
I think Daddy Longlegs isn't actually a spider, although it looks like one.
I can think of five poisonous (or venomous or whatever -- we all know what was intended here, quibbling over this is like quibbling over whether people are hackers or crackers) spiders: katipo, redback, whitetail, funnel-web and tarantula. Let's find out what the last one is, and then we can know what parts of the world to avoid.
Yeah, and how much did your friend pay for that phone?
Those things are fully available here -- just at $900 a pop, they aren't exactly in heavy demand.
What is the point of RC5? Everybody mentions the name but nobody says what they're trying to achieve.. the page linked to in the article doesn't explain it either.
I wonder if maybe the function of Hapi was only known to modern scientists via writings linking Herakleion (which perhaps worshipped Hapi) with a large flood...
It is only "bad" in the eyes of FUD-spreaders who don't actually know much about it, and have the mentality BASIC = BAD. In fact it's a fine tool for Windows application development.
Of course the syntax looks stupid, if you're used to something else. What's all those dumb '$' and arrows and dashes and guff in Perl?
Another common red herring is that because a bad programmer uses VB, VB must be bad. In fact every language has its share of bad programmers.
Anyone who's ever tried to write a page that needs to use multilingual fonts will know that Unicode is by far and away the easiest. I can load a Unicode-compatible text editor, type straight out the letters I want , and save, upload to webserver, and voila! Easy, compatible, and no pissing around with various coding conventions and garbage.
Is anyone else getting sick of seeing -- Remove "Trash+" to reach my inbox instead of my trash folder.. I write on behalf of *myself only* - not my employe after every 3rd or 4th message in this thread?
This brings me to another beef: people sometimes "spam-proof" their email by adding characters to the -username- part and not the domain. This means that any spam will still go to the domain provider anyway, but get bounced. The spam bandwidth is still used and the site owner still gets spam. Lame! Modifying the domain means that the mail will never go anywhere.
Of course, to view this your browser will need to support Unicode encoding, and have the appropriate Unicode fonts.
I have also created a test page for various operating systems and browsers to view Unicode text: here.
My opinion on this debate? When loading this page, I didn't expect to see 75% of it being Americans saying, why doesn't everyone use English (!) A better solution, IMO, would be to pick a character encoding that can a) write all possible characters with a LOT of redundancy (who would ever need 2^31 IP addresses?), and b) not take up too much storage space for simple / common characters (I don't want to use 1K to write one sentence in a 4-byte charset).
Then, this encoding should be verified with all governments and, pending acceptance, made an ISO standard.
I don't think they mentioned this in the article..
I read this in the morning, and practised it in my head on the way to work. While thinking of random dates to try, "June 6 1945" came to my mind. by "The Hand", 0 + (1900s Doomsday) + 3 + 9 + 2 = (you guessed it) the 1900s Doomsday!
Having found this, I now remember everything perfectly:)
Also, some of you may not have picked up on the fact that this article was penned cleverly: instead of brashly stating facts and expecting memories, he deliberately leaves out some critical deductions, but hints very strongly at them. It is ten times easier to remember something you worked out yourself, than something you saw somewhere.
Well, it depends on what sort of chicks you're after. Some prefer a bit of intelligence and some don't. If you're looking for a quick fuck with an airhead then by all means pretend to be dumb:)
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Well, try going "rm *" when you're in your home directory. You will see that .bash_history remains (and so does .profile -- how evil).
Might I contend that no special attention has been given by MS to its cache files; merely that OS processes hold them open, and Windows (unlike Linux) doesn't allow open files to be deleted.
Furthermore, as to file secrecy, I don't want my history files to show up when I am grepping for some text over a directory tree, etc.
I would also suggest that measures like this are in place to stop brainless users accidentally deleting useful files (we've all heard about windows users going around deleting random files because their harddrive is full). Anybody who is wised up, as you clearly are, can remove the files without much trouble.
That "Microsoft's Hidden Files" page is a crock. It writes all this sensationalist text in order to point out the existance of caches.
.bash_history files".
It's the same sort of thing as "Linux is conspiring against you and recording your every moves, because it creates
Other such particles include the IRCrumouron, and the GWBushbraincellon (the effects of whose such rapid departure have been observed recently)
Karma whore!
You quoted a few bits of the article, and all the brainless moderators mark it Informative when in fact it should be Redundant because it doesn't contain anything new. Argh!
I think Daddy Longlegs isn't actually a spider, although it looks like one.
I can think of five poisonous (or venomous or whatever -- we all know what was intended here, quibbling over this is like quibbling over whether people are hackers or crackers) spiders: katipo, redback, whitetail, funnel-web and tarantula. Let's find out what the last one is, and then we can know what parts of the world to avoid.
Well, neither -scarely- nor -scarey- are words. Perhaps you meant -scary- (frightening) ?
It's probably understandable that the previous poster got a new word by adding one letter, rather than removing two.
Maybe old Michael Bolton CDs can be recycled as a Dutch dinner delicacy
I think you may be onto it. Encode the data genetically in somebody's nads. Then one only has to read the DNA of his offspring.
Interesting that your tagline mentions being well hung -- an aid to producing more offspring, therefore making the data safer.
Yeah, and how much did your friend pay for that phone?
Those things are fully available here -- just at $900 a pop, they aren't exactly in heavy demand.
What is the point of RC5? Everybody mentions the name but nobody says what they're trying to achieve .. the page linked to in the article doesn't explain it either.
I wonder if maybe the function of Hapi was only known to modern scientists via writings linking Herakleion (which perhaps worshipped Hapi) with a large flood...
You seem to have forgotten that '=' in BASIC has a different meaning to '=' in C.
Your example is like saying that French sucks, because in English you can say "Books are good", but "Livres are bon" is a syntax error.
Okay, I've just read a large article explaining that these pain suffers do not have their pain caused by CTS, CFS, etc.
So why are they actually in pain?
Saying "It's psychosomatic" or "It's all in your head" is not good enough, because that is precisely what ALL pain is!
Well, silicone implants leak silicon into the body causing injury, whereas geeks with sore hands (generally) do not have carpal tunnel.
*giggle*
I think you mean:
You go to HELL! You go to hell and you IDE!
It is only "bad" in the eyes of FUD-spreaders who don't actually know much about it, and have the mentality BASIC = BAD. In fact it's a fine tool for Windows application development.
Of course the syntax looks stupid, if you're used to something else. What's all those dumb '$' and arrows and dashes and guff in Perl?
Another common red herring is that because a bad programmer uses VB, VB must be bad. In fact every language has its share of bad programmers.
Well, Java is faster than C for computational stuff, as this Slashdot article (June 2000!) covers -- so if that isn't fast enough for you, then what is?
Here's an example which I did quickly: http://wolf.project-w.com/chess/pieces.html
This brings me to another beef: people sometimes "spam-proof" their email by adding characters to the -username- part and not the domain. This means that any spam will still go to the domain provider anyway, but get bounced. The spam bandwidth is still used and the site owner still gets spam. Lame! Modifying the domain means that the mail will never go anywhere.
Here is an example of such a page:
http://wolf.project-w.com/chess/pieces.html
Of course, to view this your browser will need to support Unicode encoding, and have the appropriate Unicode fonts.
I have also created a test page for various operating systems and browsers to view Unicode text: here.
My opinion on this debate? When loading this page, I didn't expect to see 75% of it being Americans saying, why doesn't everyone use English (!) A better solution, IMO, would be to pick a character encoding that can a) write all possible characters with a LOT of redundancy (who would ever need 2^31 IP addresses?), and b) not take up too much storage space for simple / common characters (I don't want to use 1K to write one sentence in a 4-byte charset).
Then, this encoding should be verified with all governments and, pending acceptance, made an ISO standard.
What he meant was that Chinese characters are not an attempt at representing Chinese sounds.
I don't think they mentioned this in the article..
:)
I read this in the morning, and practised it in my head on the way to work. While thinking of random dates to try, "June 6 1945" came to my mind. by "The Hand", 0 + (1900s Doomsday) + 3 + 9 + 2 = (you guessed it) the 1900s Doomsday!
Having found this, I now remember everything perfectly
Also, some of you may not have picked up on the fact that this article was penned cleverly: instead of brashly stating facts and expecting memories, he deliberately leaves out some critical deductions, but hints very strongly at them. It is ten times easier to remember something you worked out yourself, than something you saw somewhere.
Well, it depends on what sort of chicks you're after. Some prefer a bit of intelligence and some don't. If you're looking for a quick fuck with an airhead then by all means pretend to be dumb :)
This is interesting. When I first accessed the algorithms page, my monitor's blue gun was off (it has an intermittent fault).
This meant that the algorithms, and Slashdot, both had the same bright yellow-green background. Ugh!