The bulshit detector almost reached full-scale. Note that in the winter the earth is not farther away from the sun as you think, but one hemisphere gets lower/higher sun path because of the inclination of earth's rotation axis.
For all that matter to our daily lives, earth's rotation is a almost round circle, that is, we don't get close/far away from the sun.
Agree. Blocking comments during that time may actually get people to RTFA.
Or, if one *really* fells like enabling comments, at least remove the option to post as AC during that timeframe, so as to reduce trolls and such (those who must be AC can wait the extra 20min)
Granted it's dead now, but they once stood much like AMD today as a alternative to Intel CPUs. They even started the trend to call CPUs not by its clock (MHz), but by it's "P-rating", roughly how it benchmarked against Intel CPUs.
Back in the day, a "format/mbr" from a DOS disk would restore the MBR (not sure about the rest of the boot track). It doesn't do anything besides this, and it's safe with Win9x and probably Win2000 too.
However, if you're using lilo, this will wipe it out, so you'll need to boot from floppy and run lilo as root again to re-create the MBR.
Quotes: (...) releases the first beta of Samba-TNG (...) (...) it is _the_ alternative solution for Windows domain controlling at the moment (...)
While I'm all for OSS alternatives to M$ products, I don't think it is wise to call a "first beta" product a viable alternative to NT4, which is proven and tested (I can almost feel the fames coming now)
Totally off-topic, but do you happen to know a few good starting points for learning what amateur telescope to buy for backyard fun and some photography - mostly stars, not neighbors?;)
Too many brands / models / sizes. Easy to get confused by sales pitches...
I think what the original poster (of the article) meant was to use vulturous:
vulturous
adj : living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey;
"a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves";
"a vulturine taste for offal" [syn: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine]
The spec (...) is now available online in a version 2.8 for a 10-year royalty-free license.
So what happens after ten years? Huge fees those manufacturers who can afford, lawsuits for everyone else? The fact that Magic is not a open standard may prevent it's wide acceptance.
While I recognize it's a valid project, this type of announcement is more deserving of a frontpage at Sourceforge or Freshmeat. Now if there was a huge breakthrough, we could expect to see it posted here, right?
Actually I learned that trick during computer architecture classes. As part of the course we would learn assembly language of hypothetical machines (simple instruction set) and run programs on simulators. The tasks included implementing subtraction and division routines in a machine that could only do add and 2's complement. Good learning experience:)
At one point we had a open challenge in class to implement a fast sort algorithm that would run in the minimum amount of (virtual) machine cycles. I actually got FP (first place) with a custom pivot sort suitable for arrays that size (less then one hundred elements)
Professor Weber, if you're reading this (I doubt), thanks: that was one heck of a learning experience.
Microsoft Sharepoint also allow you to store your own metadata with files - and also grab the "properties" from office files. This is not to substitute the folder tree, but in addition to it, and it's indeed a great tool (aimed more at the corporation than the individual)
But it's MS and here I am burning karma for just mentioning it. Big deal, I can spare the karma:-P
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Moderators, take note: parent is not Miguel de Icaza from Ximian!
/. user # 7116!. Compare recent posts from both users to see it.
The real Miguel is
Please mod parent down as a troll or something.
I know. And that's why I *allways* have a Knoppix CD with me.
Saves so much time!
Support. Don't pay, you don't get it. As simple as that.
The bulshit detector almost reached full-scale. Note that in the winter the earth is not farther away from the sun as you think, but one hemisphere gets lower/higher sun path because of the inclination of earth's rotation axis.
For all that matter to our daily lives, earth's rotation is a almost round circle, that is, we don't get close/far away from the sun.
Gnokii seems great for GSM phones, but any option for the 7160? (TDMA)
The app that comes with it is proprietary and no longer supported, and if you ask me, I would like more flexibility...
I like the idea of allowing posts, just make sure you don't allow "post as AC" during that window. Honest use of AC can wait another 20min ...
Agree. Blocking comments during that time may actually get people to RTFA.
Or, if one *really* fells like enabling comments, at least remove the option to post as AC during that timeframe, so as to reduce trolls and such (those who must be AC can wait the extra 20min)
Who else got confused by reading that "IIS Discovers A Remote Hole In Sendmail"?
Looks neat :)
yeah, right! Like you saw anything at all.
Granted it's dead now, but they once stood much like AMD today as a alternative to Intel CPUs. They even started the trend to call CPUs not by its clock (MHz), but by it's "P-rating", roughly how it benchmarked against Intel CPUs.
Back in the day, a "format /mbr" from a DOS disk would restore the MBR (not sure about the rest of the boot track). It doesn't do anything besides this, and it's safe with Win9x and probably Win2000 too.
However, if you're using lilo, this will wipe it out, so you'll need to boot from floppy and run lilo as root again to re-create the MBR.
Quotes:
(...) releases the first beta of Samba-TNG (...)
(...) it is _the_ alternative solution for Windows domain controlling at the moment (...)
While I'm all for OSS alternatives to M$ products, I don't think it is wise to call a "first beta" product a viable alternative to NT4, which is proven and tested (I can almost feel the fames coming now)
Totally off-topic, but do you happen to know a few good starting points for learning what amateur telescope to buy for backyard fun and some photography - mostly stars, not neighbors? ;)
Too many brands / models / sizes. Easy to get confused by sales pitches...
vulturant?
I think what the original poster (of the article) meant was to use vulturous:
vulturous
adj : living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal" [syn: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine]
Now it does return at least one result. Damm, google is FAST.
From the article:
The spec (...) is now available online in a version 2.8 for a 10-year royalty-free license.
So what happens after ten years? Huge fees those manufacturers who can afford, lawsuits for everyone else? The fact that Magic is not a open standard may prevent it's wide acceptance.
I just posted a new version of ...
While I recognize it's a valid project, this type of announcement is more deserving of a frontpage at Sourceforge or Freshmeat. Now if there was a huge breakthrough, we could expect to see it posted here, right?
From the hasn't-anyone-heard-off dept
Forgot to mention: you can use that awesome XOR instruction also to swap registers without using a third register, like in:
R1 = R1 XOR R2
R2 = R1 XOR R2
R1 = R1 XOR R2
Just try it with a pencil and you'll "get it".
Actually I learned that trick during computer architecture classes. As part of the course we would learn assembly language of hypothetical machines (simple instruction set) and run programs on simulators. The tasks included implementing subtraction and division routines in a machine that could only do add and 2's complement. Good learning experience :)
At one point we had a open challenge in class to implement a fast sort algorithm that would run in the minimum amount of (virtual) machine cycles. I actually got FP (first place) with a custom pivot sort suitable for arrays that size (less then one hundred elements)
Professor Weber, if you're reading this (I doubt), thanks: that was one heck of a learning experience.
Why would this be illegal?
Because you are making a decision on the user's behalf and hiding that from the affected party?
Microsoft Sharepoint also allow you to store your own metadata with files - and also grab the "properties" from office files. This is not to substitute the folder tree, but in addition to it, and it's indeed a great tool (aimed more at the corporation than the individual)
:-P
But it's MS and here I am burning karma for just mentioning it. Big deal, I can spare the karma
This is not a dupe (hey, not yet ;) but a similar story was reported a while back. Here is the magic link.
The linked BBC article on the story is in English too.