I've been looking for years for an app to do that. The functionality is in Konqueror, but only one directory at a time, through the 'Properties' dialog. I thought Konq accomplished it by recursively doing 'ls -l' and adding everything up, something I wasn't prepared to duplicate.
This keeps happening to me.
The last time was with 'screen'. Before that it was 'df'.
The pattern seems to be:
1) Need something done
2) Google furiously, scour sourceforge, (in desperation) man -K "$function"
3) Give up, do it the hard way or not at all
4) Months to years later, discover that a programmer scratched that itch back in 196?, the function was duplicated by the GNU project twenty years later, but retained its original, short, cryptic, UNIX name
5) do: locate, man $short_cryptic_UNIX_name, discover that it's been installed on this box since I installed Mandrake 8.1
6) kick self, vow to read more early UNIX history, get on with things
Not quite.
America imported English (and Scottish and Dutch and German etc.) prudes who wished to start a new life away from the moral deficiencies of Old Europe. On arrival, they found the populated East coast too cosmopolitan (read just as morally deficient) for them, and headed out West, where they eventually formed the famous Bible Belt. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your views), they are still there, and still fearful that somebody, somewhere is having a good time.
Note that this is a very broad historical generalisation, not intended to insult Mid-Western slashdotters:)
Back on topic, this discovery may help lay the myth that Atlas 'holds the World on his shoulders', when his burden is, and always has been, the Heavens.
I quite enjoyed Asimov's tentative conclusion to 'The Collapsing Universe' which was that the observable edge of the universe was actually the event horizon of an immense black hole. Yes, that's right, we are inside a black hole.
The theory goes, as the universe collapses into a singularity, the event horizon, within which space-time is curved/twisted/completely fubar when imagined (can't observe it) from outside, moves outward with ever-increasing speed, until everything is once again inside and slowly coalescing, whereupon the process repeats.
Whether or not I believe it, well, I like to thing of myself as too scientifically-minded and sceptical to go that far, but it does have an appealing elegance.
Sourceforge
It's the first place I consider when looking 'something to do something', for whatever platform.
And yes, Win32 binaries are usually available (I think less Windows users have/can use compilers).
This is not surprising, and is caused by PageRank. Basically, the school district's website will be first because more sites/pages link to it than link to you.
Try this Google search for my brother's band (see sig)
It's taken quite some time and the placing of links on as many relevant sites as possible to achieve second ranking. The problem is that all the 'Independent Music' sites that mention Ahymsa have much more 'Google Juice' viz, they are linked to by many more other sites/pages than the Ahymsa site itself.
The solution is to get a link to Ahymsa.co.uk from every 'High Juice' site that mentions it, boosting Ahymsa's reputation by having sites, which themselves are trusted/linked to, link to it.
So why isn't Ahymsa.co.uk the top result?
I can't get a link onto this page because it's an internal search result (and it's horribly out of date). Given time, it will disappear, and Ahymsa.co.uk will be back on top.
In summary, remember how Google works, and work with it. How about getting the Alumni of your Small Town to link to the association's site from their own personal or business sites?
Oh, the irony of my.sig (Slashdot has Google Juice coming out of its ears)
Seriously, to generate this volume of bull, they must be using a common document template for all their complaints: 'Ms Crudgeworthy, would you fill in the blanks on the Leno complaint? No, the one for the 23rd - we've already done the 16th'. These people need to get some lives. Or maybe they'd be better off campaigning against people watching 'objectionable material'. The reborn masses are likely to be a more receptive audience - and broadcasters listen to ratings.
There are worse sites out there for JavaScript fubars. Suprnova's mirroring system is JS driven (and seems to be optimised for IE). That said, it's better than it used to be. I used to run:
sleep 300 && shutdown -r now before pointing Konqueror at it, to save on bad shutdowns (JS locks Konq, Konq locks X, X grabs all input and I didn't have another box to ssh in from)
You'd think a site with such ridiculous bandwidth usage would consider doing something to, you know, limit the size of each page, but of course not with SuprNova. They load every single one with as much JavaScript and images and redundant garbage as they can
Do you really think they host all those ads themselves? *.doubleclick.net is in my hosts file, and I don't see many ads on that site.
Not to mention that the people who upload the Torrents seem to be a little stupid. I know we could spend all day arguing musical genres, but i hardly consider Metallica 'indie', and i can't fathom why anyone would think to look there for it
Try here if you have trouble finding things.
A very big second to that.
I've used a LaserJet 4 Plus at home for c.2 years now. The gods alone know how many pages it had printed before I bought it second hand (it's ex-British Telecom - still has the asset sticker on it), but it's purred through the two boxes (10,000 pages) I've fed it. Toner? Nope, not replaced it yet.
At least in terms of music, the bad, infringing type of sharing usually occurs in single song mp3s. The good, wholesome sharing is happening in complete live performance SHN and FLAC.
Errr... this discussion is about BitTorrent.
You know, the P2P protocol for sharing large files?
OK, it went like this...
First there was Napster and Audiogalaxy (ye gods i miss that one)
Good for single songs - remember, at that time, most people were on dial-up @ c.20 minutes per track.
Then there was/is KaZaa, eDonkey, WinMX etc.
Still mostly single tracks, but with some rar/zipped albums, and with many users on xDSL or cable. 2 minutes/track, 20 for the whole album (although there may be trouble getting less popular tracks)
As for BT, well, just go look on Suprnova.
Very few single tracks, mainly albums, with many artists' entire discographies up for download.
Well, if I download 1 Grateful Dead show, that's more music, by volume, than 300 downloads of the latest from britany or christina.
It's more music by any measure:)
Someone want to explain how the UK TV Nazis can tell if you have an unlicensed TV in your house? Or how a radar detector can be detected? Not my area of expertise
Short answer - they don't. They simply assume that every occupied address in the country has a working TV receiver. If the address doesn't have a licence, a demand/warning letter is sent.
Long answer - what's detected is the Intermediate Frequency (IF) used to interfere with the carrier frequency of the ariel signal and reduce it to a more easily handled level. This is why you can use a computer monitor or a TV connected to a VCR/DVD - the device that's detected is the TV tuner, not the CRT.
As for detecting a radar detector, this might help. Short version - if it's a passive detector, you can't.
I gurantee you that MPEG4 as XVID/DIVX (more XVID than DIVX) is an industry standard in the P2P World.
Oh, that'll look good in the pitch to SMPTE:
"Millions of pirates can't be wrong"
Pirates (or copyright infringers) they may be, but regardless of their motives and legality, they are a HUGE userbase balancing filesize against quality (and taking compatibility into account) and they have made their choices on merit alone, away from industry lobbying.
And you should know that despite the hype and rhetoric, most Slashdotters run Internet Explorer on Windows.
Funny you should say that...
About a week ago, the link in my sig was a relevant to a discussion, so I pointed this out, and lo, the site's traffic went up by c.1000%.
The site is....well, go and have a look and you'll see. The point is, I build and admin the site, so I have access to the logs. And it's always nice to see a traffic spike. It's something you can spend time admiring. And analysing.
F'rinstance, Slashdotters come from all over the World, from (in this case) Japan to Finland, but of those leaving trails in this log, about half are at college/university in the US, and have domains ending in.edu. Five have IP addresses that do not resolve (I'm sure that's a violation of RFC something-or-other)
The (semi-)relevant bit, however, is that over 70% of accesses were by non-IE browsers, with Mozilla at the top of the list. I guess that's what happens when Microsoft's own staff recommend it.
P.S. Kudos to the Slashdotter surfing from a WAP-phone in Holland:)
Forget monetary costs. Forget DRM. Forget even allowing Microsoft to live a little longer.
This is about 'fencing-in' the Internet, taking it from an 'all-peers-are-equal' model where everyone can be both artist and audience (cue webcam jokes) to just another content-delivery system for the large media conglomerates. In fact, this has already started - cable Internet service usually only allows 128kbps upload, just enough to ACK a 10Mbps d/l.
MS Word saves documents by defualt in it's (proprietary, closed-source) native format,.doc
IIRC,.doc isn't really a file format as we would understand it - it's actually more akin to an application core dump. A.doc file simply contains the entire memoryspace used by Word at the time you tell it 'save now'. This was initially done to speed up loading/saving of files, since there is no import/export stage. It's also the reason.doc files produced by one version of Word can sometimes render poorly in or even crash a different version (and why viruses can be carried in what should be a data-only binary (hey, I wonder what Word will do about AMD's noexec memory addressing?))
If you're allowed to be offtopic, I should get away with it....
The fuel protest did have widespread support. This was reported in all national newspapers and by the BBC.
when the fuel delivery drivers were forced to do their jobs, the protest quickly died.
Nonsense. The protest was stopped when the point had been made.
There was no way fuel delivery drivers could be 'forced' to even get out of bed. Why? To drive a fuel tanker in the UK, you need expensive, advanced driving and materials handling qualifications in addition to a full Large Goods Vehicle licence. Drivers thus qualified are in short supply and can pretty much name their terms. Had fuel companies been able to replace these drivers with agency staff having only LGV1, the protest would probably never have started.
Sorry for the flames - and thank you for the 'soft answer that turneth away wrath'.
I admit that I didn't consider tropical temperatures when I sang the virtues of stainless steel slides - but if it's that hot year-round then why use metal in the first place?
children in areas with a bit more latitude
Do you mean 'children allowed more latitude', ie ruled less strictly, or 'children living in more temperate latitudes' where it's not so hot?
freak gardening accident = Spinal Tap reference (could have been worse - go see what their other drummers died of!)
Now, putting a metal slide in the playground of an elementary school in my opinion is a very dangerous and stupid thing to do.
You, sir are an asshat. (I knew I'd have a reason to say that someday!)
In.uk, every single fucking slide in every single fucking playground in the whole fucking country is made from stainless steel and has been for nearly twenty years. Why? It's weatherproof, slippery, and vandal-resistant (I've never seen one damaged to the point of being unsafe, and I used to test IED's on them).I'm sure that hundreds, maybe thousands of children use every year use them to make the important discovery that metal gets hot if it's sunny. Vey few (if any) of them are permanently harmed by it.
You are exactly the kind of moron you deny yourself to be, you believe all risks to be a Bad Thing (TM) to be stamped out even at the cost of denying anyone enjoyment. I hope you die in a freak gardening accident.
Slashdot Mirror
For what?
du
I've been looking for years for an app to do that. The functionality is in Konqueror, but only one directory at a time, through the 'Properties' dialog. I thought Konq accomplished it by recursively doing 'ls -l' and adding everything up, something I wasn't prepared to duplicate.
This keeps happening to me.
The last time was with 'screen'. Before that it was 'df'.
The pattern seems to be:
1) Need something done
2) Google furiously, scour sourceforge, (in desperation) man -K "$function"
3) Give up, do it the hard way or not at all
4) Months to years later, discover that a programmer scratched that itch back in 196?, the function was duplicated by the GNU project twenty years later, but retained its original, short, cryptic, UNIX name
5) do: locate, man $short_cryptic_UNIX_name, discover that it's been installed on this box since I installed Mandrake 8.1
6) kick self, vow to read more early UNIX history, get on with things
Not quite.
America imported English (and Scottish and Dutch and German etc.) prudes who wished to start a new life away from the moral deficiencies of Old Europe. On arrival, they found the populated East coast too cosmopolitan (read just as morally deficient) for them, and headed out West, where they eventually formed the famous Bible Belt. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your views), they are still there, and still fearful that somebody, somewhere is having a good time.
Note that this is a very broad historical generalisation, not intended to insult Mid-Western slashdotters :)
Back on topic, this discovery may help lay the myth that Atlas 'holds the World on his shoulders', when his burden is, and always has been, the Heavens.
The theory goes, as the universe collapses into a singularity, the event horizon, within which space-time is curved/twisted/completely fubar when imagined (can't observe it) from outside, moves outward with ever-increasing speed, until everything is once again inside and slowly coalescing, whereupon the process repeats.
Whether or not I believe it, well, I like to thing of myself as too scientifically-minded and sceptical to go that far, but it does have an appealing elegance.
It is possible to run a beowulf cluster on Windows
Pointless exercise, though.
It's the first place I consider when looking 'something to do something', for whatever platform.
And yes, Win32 binaries are usually available (I think less Windows users have/can use compilers).
Try this Google search for my brother's band (see sig)
It's taken quite some time and the placing of links on as many relevant sites as possible to achieve second ranking. The problem is that all the 'Independent Music' sites that mention Ahymsa have much more 'Google Juice' viz, they are linked to by many more other sites/pages than the Ahymsa site itself.
The solution is to get a link to Ahymsa.co.uk from every 'High Juice' site that mentions it, boosting Ahymsa's reputation by having sites, which themselves are trusted/linked to, link to it.
So why isn't Ahymsa.co.uk the top result?
I can't get a link onto this page because it's an internal search result (and it's horribly out of date). Given time, it will disappear, and Ahymsa.co.uk will be back on top.
In summary, remember how Google works, and work with it. How about getting the Alumni of your Small Town to link to the association's site from their own personal or business sites?
Oh, the irony of my .sig (Slashdot has Google Juice coming out of its ears)
Seriously, to generate this volume of bull, they must be using a common document template for all their complaints: 'Ms Crudgeworthy, would you fill in the blanks on the Leno complaint? No, the one for the 23rd - we've already done the 16th'. These people need to get some lives.
Or maybe they'd be better off campaigning against people watching 'objectionable material'. The reborn masses are likely to be a more receptive audience - and broadcasters listen to ratings.
sleep 300 && shutdown -r now
before pointing Konqueror at it, to save on bad shutdowns (JS locks Konq, Konq locks X, X grabs all input and I didn't have another box to ssh in from)
You'd think a site with such ridiculous bandwidth usage would consider doing something to, you know, limit the size of each page, but of course not with SuprNova. They load every single one with as much JavaScript and images and redundant garbage as they can
Do you really think they host all those ads themselves? *.doubleclick.net is in my hosts file, and I don't see many ads on that site.
Not to mention that the people who upload the Torrents seem to be a little stupid. I know we could spend all day arguing musical genres, but i hardly consider Metallica 'indie', and i can't fathom why anyone would think to look there for it
Try here if you have trouble finding things.
My current score :13/21
It's the big, heavy, gray and purple box with 'Ultra Enterprise' on it.
I've got one of them warming my feet and building Gentoo 2004.3 as I type.
Volunteers to port the ethernet anti-collision algorithms?
A very big second to that.
I've used a LaserJet 4 Plus at home for c.2 years now. The gods alone know how many pages it had printed before I bought it second hand (it's ex-British Telecom - still has the asset sticker on it), but it's purred through the two boxes (10,000 pages) I've fed it. Toner? Nope, not replaced it yet.
Errr... this discussion is about BitTorrent.
You know, the P2P protocol for sharing large files?
OK, it went like this...
First there was Napster and Audiogalaxy (ye gods i miss that one)
Good for single songs - remember, at that time, most people were on dial-up @ c.20 minutes per track.
Then there was/is KaZaa, eDonkey, WinMX etc.
Still mostly single tracks, but with some rar/zipped albums, and with many users on xDSL or cable. 2 minutes/track, 20 for the whole album (although there may be trouble getting less popular tracks)
As for BT, well, just go look on Suprnova.
Very few single tracks, mainly albums, with many artists' entire discographies up for download.
Well, if I download 1 Grateful Dead show, that's more music, by volume, than 300 downloads of the latest from britany or christina. :)
It's more music by any measure
Short answer - they don't. They simply assume that every occupied address in the country has a working TV receiver. If the address doesn't have a licence, a demand/warning letter is sent.
Long answer - what's detected is the Intermediate Frequency (IF) used to interfere with the carrier frequency of the ariel signal and reduce it to a more easily handled level. This is why you can use a computer monitor or a TV connected to a VCR/DVD - the device that's detected is the TV tuner, not the CRT.
As for detecting a radar detector, this might help. Short version - if it's a passive detector, you can't.
Oh, that'll look good in the pitch to SMPTE:
"Millions of pirates can't be wrong"
Pirates (or copyright infringers) they may be, but regardless of their motives and legality, they are a HUGE userbase balancing filesize against quality (and taking compatibility into account) and they have made their choices on merit alone, away from industry lobbying.
Sure, you can prevent apps being run as root - just alter the permissions.
Sometimes, though, the apps themselves are smarter:
[james@localhost james]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost james]# gtk-gnutella
Never ever run this as root!
[root@localhost james]#
Cool! We get a brand new DDoS tool.
Funny you should say that... .edu. Five have IP addresses that do not resolve (I'm sure that's a violation of RFC something-or-other)
About a week ago, the link in my sig was a relevant to a discussion, so I pointed this out, and lo, the site's traffic went up by c.1000%.
The site is....well, go and have a look and you'll see. The point is, I build and admin the site, so I have access to the logs. And it's always nice to see a traffic spike. It's something you can spend time admiring. And analysing.
F'rinstance, Slashdotters come from all over the World, from (in this case) Japan to Finland, but of those leaving trails in this log, about half are at college/university in the US, and have domains ending in
The (semi-)relevant bit, however, is that over 70% of accesses were by non-IE browsers, with Mozilla at the top of the list. I guess that's what happens when Microsoft's own staff recommend it.
P.S. Kudos to the Slashdotter surfing from a WAP-phone in Holland :)
This is about 'fencing-in' the Internet, taking it from an 'all-peers-are-equal' model where everyone can be both artist and audience (cue webcam jokes) to just another content-delivery system for the large media conglomerates. In fact, this has already started - cable Internet service usually only allows 128kbps upload, just enough to ACK a 10Mbps d/l.
IIRC,
This was initially done to speed up loading/saving of files, since there is no import/export stage. It's also the reason
The fuel protest did have widespread support. This was reported in all national newspapers and by the BBC.
when the fuel delivery drivers were forced to do their jobs, the protest quickly died.
Nonsense. The protest was stopped when the point had been made.
There was no way fuel delivery drivers could be 'forced' to even get out of bed. Why? To drive a fuel tanker in the UK, you need expensive, advanced driving and materials handling qualifications in addition to a full Large Goods Vehicle licence. Drivers thus qualified are in short supply and can pretty much name their terms. Had fuel companies been able to replace these drivers with agency staff having only LGV1, the protest would probably never have started.
I admit that I didn't consider tropical temperatures when I sang the virtues of stainless steel slides - but if it's that hot year-round then why use metal in the first place?
children in areas with a bit more latitude
Do you mean 'children allowed more latitude', ie ruled less strictly, or 'children living in more temperate latitudes' where it's not so hot?
freak gardening accident = Spinal Tap reference (could have been worse - go see what their other drummers died of!)
You, sir are an asshat. (I knew I'd have a reason to say that someday!)
In .uk, every single fucking slide in every single fucking playground in the whole fucking country is made from stainless steel and has been for nearly twenty years. Why? It's weatherproof, slippery, and vandal-resistant (I've never seen one damaged to the point of being unsafe, and I used to test IED's on them).I'm sure that hundreds, maybe thousands of children use every year use them to make the important discovery that metal gets hot if it's sunny. Vey few (if any) of them are permanently harmed by it.
You are exactly the kind of moron you deny yourself to be, you believe all risks to be a Bad Thing (TM) to be stamped out even at the cost of denying anyone enjoyment. I hope you die in a freak gardening accident.