After recently attending the PDC in Los Angeles, I must say that this seems to be a big step forward. The separation between code and GUI-design/layout is a great step forward. Designing and changing GUIs should not rest on the developer (You know you've been there, programmatically moving a button two pixels to the right to align with some text label or somesuch, worrying about how the size of the button text will look in german, etc. That's just plain dumb) but rather on the GUI designer.
You know, you could've just said "Interface Builder" and saved yourself a bunch of typing.
I honestly have no idea how half of my music is organized. It's in iTunes, and it's searchable and sortable there. Since I don't listen to music in the Finder, so I don't care how my music is organized as long as it's in my home folder somewhere, so it [my music] gets backed up along with everything else.
If I really need to find something, iTunes can show me where the file is, or Spotlight can.
What if his script is deployed on machines he has no direct control over? (Say, he's writing the script for people to download.)
Original poster: I'm not sure what the purpose of your script is, but if you can, create a temporary folder called "MyScriptFiles.noindex" and write your temp files to that instead. Folders with a ".noindex" suffix don't get indexed by SpotDark.
I dunno about what's "most suited to big iron", but I do know that 45 of Netcraft's top 50 uptime list run some type of BSD (as of the authoring of this post):
Imagine being in England for a moment. It's 3 a.m., and you're sitting on one side of the Thames River.
Your friend Bob is perched in his chair on the other side.
Your camera's all set up and ready to snap a picture. Just when you're about to snap, you realize that the nearest streetlight is three miles to Bob's left. Seeing that the Thames isn't a sneeze's distance across, you know that the dinky flash on your camera is pretty useless.
You whip out your trusty imaging spectrometer camera lens and line up the shot with Bob again. Bob's giving off some good x-ray emissions, and those come across just fine.
You could've used a really, really awesome lens and captured a bad photo of Bob--he still reflects some light, though it's a ridiculously small amount--but the IR lens gave you a more descriptive picture of Bob. Why? Mr Bob the Planet Man doesn't give off his own visible light, but he certainly emits x-rays on his own.
This scales higher:
In this new-but-similar scenario, you're flying over England. You're trying to take a picture of Bob and his lazy ass, but all you can see, no matter how much light you shine down onto the city below, are the lights from the buildings, bridges, and streetlamps. There's just too much noise to find ol' Bob in that galaxy of lumens.
You've got all these lights shining on Bob, but unlike the first scenario, there's/too much/ light to see Bob; all you see are stars, so to speak, drowning out the nearby planets. Well, in x-ray mode, your camera can see that while those stars are emitting x-rays, so is Bob, just like before. You're not seeing a faint image of Bob drowned out by the only light illuminating him, you see Bob's x-ray signature approximately ten feet to the right of that cluster of streetligts.
The universe is a dark place, but sometimes it can be TOO bright! It's a good thing I remembered a towel!
As do I, but I really thing Apple need to do something about getting a cheap machine out. I can build my own for half the price of a Mac mini, and until they can match that they won't be getting any of my money, and I'm sticking with Windows.
ROFLCOPTER. "Apple need to sell a cheap [$250] computer."
An upgrade to Windows XP Professional is $200 alone. How much computer can you buy for that last $50? Sorry, but if you're going to complain that a $500 isn't cheap enough, I'm going to say you're a biased troll who thinks pirating an OS makes a computer cheaper for comparison purposes. You can't call something cheaper if you're stealing part of it.
"Man, that $2000 PowerBook is too expensive. If they had a $1000 laptop, I'd buy one, but NOT SOONER NO OMG."
"Man, that $1000 iBook is too expensive, but if they had a $700 Mac, I'd buy it. NOT SOONER, though!"
"Man, that eMac isn't cheap enough for me. I can build my own computer for $10 and a pack of paper clips. Wake me when they sell an AFFORDABLE computer."
"What? They're charging $500 for a computer?! Too bad they don't have a $250 computer, or I'd buy one."
Brand-new 15" PowerBook G4 here. 1.5 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, Combo Drive. One finicky pixel. That's it. No wobble, case problems, or other issues. (LCDs inherently are subject to pixel problems when you're dealing with mass amounts of them; it's just the way of the tech.)
Who mods up ONE voice of sub-quality without modding up the FOUR other contrary voices?
Know what that is? It's a reeeeeeally tiny violin, and it's playing a reeeeeeeeally sad song for the advertisers!
Your Flash/animated ads are annoying, Mr Advertiser. Why would I buy something from annoying advertisers, let alone want to LOOK at such intrusions? As advertising becomes more and more an unavoidable, almost oppressive part of daily life, the amount of advertising one can stand decreases severely.
/hoping I don't get flamed for taking money from content providers, but I have a well-crafted/etc/hosts file and it ain't going anywhere
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After recently attending the PDC in Los Angeles, I must say that this seems to be a big step forward. The separation between code and GUI-design/layout is a great step forward. Designing and changing GUIs should not rest on the developer (You know you've been there, programmatically moving a button two pixels to the right to align with some text label or somesuch, worrying about how the size of the button text will look in german, etc. That's just plain dumb) but rather on the GUI designer.
You know, you could've just said "Interface Builder" and saved yourself a bunch of typing.
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/zeta-1.0.ars
Eat me, lameness filter.
The NEXII is a buggy piece of garbage. I bought one off of EBay three years ago, and it will deafen you with electrical noise every few minutes.
I love my iPod. It's better than any other player I've used.
But.
Your statement is pretty thin, bro. You bought a piece of electronics off of eBay and it--GASP--doesn't work properly?
Yeah, it must be a problem with the product line. Totally.
The current human life span is way too short.
You know, I think nature would disagree with you there, and she's got far more experience with the subject than you.
Ahem:
"A close relative of the next two groups of people . .
That, sir, was genius.
*golf clap*
This is pretty nifty, but the submitter and I apparently have very different thresholds for considering something "high resolution".
To the submitter, it's actually huge.
It's all about your frame of reference.
I honestly have no idea how half of my music is organized. It's in iTunes, and it's searchable and sortable there. Since I don't listen to music in the Finder, so I don't care how my music is organized as long as it's in my home folder somewhere, so it [my music] gets backed up along with everything else.
If I really need to find something, iTunes can show me where the file is, or Spotlight can.
Radiohead:The Bends:Fake Plastic Trees
Only on Slashdot could you ever see a song become part of a hierarchical view.
But it's not a POSIX path, so I'm afraid you still don't win the "supernerd" prize.
What if his script is deployed on machines he has no direct control over? (Say, he's writing the script for people to download.)
Original poster: I'm not sure what the purpose of your script is, but if you can, create a temporary folder called "MyScriptFiles.noindex" and write your temp files to that instead. Folders with a ".noindex" suffix don't get indexed by SpotDark.
Use /sbin/kextunload to remove kernel extensions (what drivers in OS X tend to be) that are in memory, not kill.
you$ man kextunload
More apologies for forgetting to factor in the BSD/IIS combinations. Those are probably Windows/IIS boxes running through BSD proxies.
"My bad," as the kids say.
I dunno about what's "most suited to big iron", but I do know that 45 of Netcraft's top 50 uptime list run some type of BSD (as of the authoring of this post):
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html
Regardless of applicability to the topic at hand, that's a pretty impressive statistic.
(Apologies for not citing more than one statistic in a post like this. I know it's pretty much useless as-is.)
Or we could /not/ click the spam blog, and not Slashdot the shit out of their page load count.
Just a thought.
Does it have the `any' key?
Yeah, but I can't find the damned thing!
But what about Armstrong the overly stretchy action figure?
In Stretch Armstrong's frame of reference, it's everyone else who's stretching madly!
Imagine being in England for a moment. It's 3 a.m., and you're sitting on one side of the Thames River.
/too much/ light to see Bob; all you see are stars, so to speak, drowning out the nearby planets. Well, in x-ray mode, your camera can see that while those stars are emitting x-rays, so is Bob, just like before. You're not seeing a faint image of Bob drowned out by the only light illuminating him, you see Bob's x-ray signature approximately ten feet to the right of that cluster of streetligts.
Your friend Bob is perched in his chair on the other side.
Your camera's all set up and ready to snap a picture. Just when you're about to snap, you realize that the nearest streetlight is three miles to Bob's left. Seeing that the Thames isn't a sneeze's distance across, you know that the dinky flash on your camera is pretty useless.
You whip out your trusty imaging spectrometer camera lens and line up the shot with Bob again. Bob's giving off some good x-ray emissions, and those come across just fine.
You could've used a really, really awesome lens and captured a bad photo of Bob--he still reflects some light, though it's a ridiculously small amount--but the IR lens gave you a more descriptive picture of Bob. Why? Mr Bob the Planet Man doesn't give off his own visible light, but he certainly emits x-rays on his own.
This scales higher:
In this new-but-similar scenario, you're flying over England. You're trying to take a picture of Bob and his lazy ass, but all you can see, no matter how much light you shine down onto the city below, are the lights from the buildings, bridges, and streetlamps. There's just too much noise to find ol' Bob in that galaxy of lumens.
You've got all these lights shining on Bob, but unlike the first scenario, there's
The universe is a dark place, but sometimes it can be TOO bright! It's a good thing I remembered a towel!
As do I, but I really thing Apple need to do something about getting a cheap machine out. I can build my own for half the price of a Mac mini, and until they can match that they won't be getting any of my money, and I'm sticking with Windows.
ROFLCOPTER. "Apple need to sell a cheap [$250] computer."
An upgrade to Windows XP Professional is $200 alone. How much computer can you buy for that last $50? Sorry, but if you're going to complain that a $500 isn't cheap enough, I'm going to say you're a biased troll who thinks pirating an OS makes a computer cheaper for comparison purposes. You can't call something cheaper if you're stealing part of it.
"Man, that $2000 PowerBook is too expensive. If they had a $1000 laptop, I'd buy one, but NOT SOONER NO OMG."
"Man, that $1000 iBook is too expensive, but if they had a $700 Mac, I'd buy it. NOT SOONER, though!"
"Man, that eMac isn't cheap enough for me. I can build my own computer for $10 and a pack of paper clips. Wake me when they sell an AFFORDABLE computer."
"What? They're charging $500 for a computer?! Too bad they don't have a $250 computer, or I'd buy one."
Pattern here?
"Improving CSS support consistency" means that CSS in IE is going to be consistently broken.
So you're saying this isn't a new feature, then?
Three more: Giggity giggity giggity!
What about the Fark.com UFIA Arena?
... Ah, forget it. Those didn't make the cut last time, either! /got nothin'
Abe Vigoda Memorial
Brand-new 15" PowerBook G4 here. 1.5 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, Combo Drive. One finicky pixel. That's it. No wobble, case problems, or other issues. (LCDs inherently are subject to pixel problems when you're dealing with mass amounts of them; it's just the way of the tech.)
Who mods up ONE voice of sub-quality without modding up the FOUR other contrary voices?
I give it two months before someone can boot Linux on it [. . .]
So not only will the child have dependencies on her teddy bear, but the teddy bear will have dependencies of its own?
Of course he knows the CIA doesn't want the machine at this point.
. . . The black box hasn't told him anything yet!
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/hoping I don't get flamed for taking money from content providers, but I have a well-crafted /etc/hosts file and it ain't going anywhere
Know what that is? It's a reeeeeeally tiny violin, and it's playing a reeeeeeeeally sad song for the advertisers!
Your Flash/animated ads are annoying, Mr Advertiser. Why would I buy something from annoying advertisers, let alone want to LOOK at such intrusions? As advertising becomes more and more an unavoidable, almost oppressive part of daily life, the amount of advertising one can stand decreases severely.
Actually, I'd wager that the budget for these one-minute cell phone episodes actually came out of the FOX News ethics training budget.