The lux (symbol: lx) is the SI derived unit of illuminance or illumination.
The candela, lumen and lux are still all units which don't really earn their places in the SI, as they're based on the physiological response to light. I'm much happier measuring the intensity of light in terms of watts per square metre.
Im not sure about you guys but its quite amazing how quickly a windows machine will get infected if its not behind a firewall. Now I'v had people tell me Im stupid and should have gotten the MS Patch CD but WTF is a single computer joe/jane windows user to do?. Wait a week for the patch cd before they can reinstall their OS?
You won't do to badly to download the latest SP installer, install Windows without network, then run the SP installer, make sure the firewall (even XP's built in one is better than nothing) is enabled, then go straight to Windows update.
"You know what I found? Right in the kernel, in the heart of the operating system, I found a developer's comment that said, 'Does this belong here?' "Lok says. "What kind of confidence does that inspire? Right then I knew it was time to switch."
[I mainly use Linux, but have used FreeBSD and think each have some advantages over the other]
Debian already uses non-standard icons in the Firefox package because the Firefox logo is copyrighted and non-Free.
On Gentoo, you don't get the cool Firefox logo if you build Firefox from source. The neatest way to get the logo back is to create a Portage overlay, copy the ebuilds for Firefox there, and modify it with IUSE="branding java mozsvg" and mozconfig_use_enable branding official-branding in the appropriate places in the ebuild, put branding in your USE flags, and emerge. Technique described on Gentoo Wiki
How on earth do you go about measuring any of the variables in their formula. For example, D, deluesions of grandeur. Do they just order a delusionometer from a scientific supplies catalogue?
I've come up with my own formula: L=(nP+sqrt(C)/i). It calulates lameness of formulae (L) according to number of terms in arbitrary units (n), popularity of subject matter (P), column inches devoted to the formula in mainstream news (C), and intelligence of the researchers who came up with it (i). My formula has a lameness of only 4.7, but their is much lamer at 205.3.
When templates first came out, I was sold on the idea. Years later, it seems that in practice, you have to write ever more code to cover every possible invocation and possible use. Now, it seems to me that templates are more useful to compiler and library writers than in the real programming world.
It is true that it's harder to write templated classes than non-templated classes. It's also true that template class libraries are often more useful and reusable than non-templated classes. However, library writers do actually exist in the real world! How else do all those libraries get written?
It just can not be said with a straight face that installing patches or an application on Linux is as easy as with Windows for average computer users.
Maybe, but the article is about servers being patched by admins. They ought to be smart enough to use package management tools like apt-get. Once you've learnt to use these tools, it's a lot easier to keep a whole system, including all the non-OS components, safely patched with all the right security updates. It's much trickier on a Windows machine, as the applications aren't updated the same way as the OS, and in general each application has its own mechanism for applying patches.
It would be appropriate to market hard disks in terms of metric gigabytes etc, if any operating systems reported disk space in terms of metric gigabytes. But since they all report space in GB, meaning 1,073,741,824 bytes, you can understand why consumers are annoyed to find that the disk they bought isn't as big as it said it was.
This IEC standard to introduce kiB, MiB, GiB is just a joke. Standards are supposed to standardize existing practice, not just make up some stupid names for things.
It's a lot of effort to go to just to cheat at Minesweeper. I find it easier to type "xyzzy" followed by enter, shift+enter. Then look at the top-left pixel of your screen.
2005-05-06 02:04:06 error The printer is on fire!
2005-05-06 02:05:12 notice The printer is no longer on fire.
These errors are famously generated by the unix lp drivers, which assumed that any error a printer reported that wasn't offline or out of paper was on fire.
Of course the memory sticks are way more expensive than the games and Sony probably makes more money off of them than the games, but that's neither here nor there.
But if you can fit one game on to one memory stick, and also have a computer to save a collection of games to, you can always rewrite (quite a few times) to the memory stick. Then you are only limited in the number of games you can play on a single trip away from your computer.
In my lab, we use some 5-metre USB extension leads, which have an active repeater at the far end. One of these stopped working, and I took it apart, and checked the cable for continuity. All the wires in the cable were good, so the problem must have been something to do with the repeater circuitry.
A colleage decided to salvage the cable by rewiring it as a passive extension cable, and hoping that the signal degradation wouldn't be a problem. He tested it on his USB flash drive, and somehow managed to fry the drive.
I mainly search from google.co.uk, but Google Search History only seems to remember the searches I make from google.com
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A few volts DC is enough to kill you...
Not true. According to UL it takes more than 5 milliamperes to be dangerous and your skin resistance is too high to permit that much current to flow at a potential of "a few volts".
According to this Darwin Award, if you take skin resistance out of the picture, then a few volts DC is enough to stop your heart.
It's not that Windows is "special", it's just that that's all most people know. And half those people don't know much, if anything, about Windows anyway, so it's no wonder Linux has a difficult time trying to enter the mainstream market.
Why is everyone so worried about whether Linux gains market share over Windows anyway. The people who do use it find it works for them, and are a large enough base that it will continue to improve.
Regular desktop users (non power users, non programmers) are unlikely to do much in the way of submitting patches, or writing new software.
As long as we can all still use Linux or other open-source software, what does it matter what the rest of the world does?
I realise this was a joke, as obviously liquid oxygen is going to be a fire hazard. But you can't go pouring liquid nitrogen on either, as you'll have problems with frost forming from moisture in the atmosphere.
I don't care what OS you use or how up to date it is, if someone can physically touch the computer they can break into it.
If you're truly paranoid, a good encrypted file system and a bunch of longish and fairly random passwords will defeat most people. You'll need pretty serious electronics kit to get any further.
Of course, someone can always DoS you, with a large sledgehammer.
Well for one thing Firefox is NOT fast. Its slow as h#ll especially when starting up.. mucha slower than IE6 IME.
That's because the IE executable isn't much more than a wrapper for the MSHTML rendering engine, which is already loaded when booting Windows.
It's a shame that on Linux and Windows the Mac paradigm is not possible: of having an application loaded with no open windows. Closing the last Safari (or Firefox even) window on OS X doesn't kill the process, so for frequently used programs, the apparent load time is very fast. Of course, it's worth actually quitting larger processes if they aren't being opened much to free up memory.
Some Windows programs come with a background utility that keeps them open even when they are closed. (I think Office might have some Fast Office Start utility for example.) The problem with this tactic is the programs take up resources all the time.
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The candela, lumen and lux are still all units which don't really earn their places in the SI, as they're based on the physiological response to light. I'm much happier measuring the intensity of light in terms of watts per square metre.
You won't do to badly to download the latest SP installer, install Windows without network, then run the SP installer, make sure the firewall (even XP's built in one is better than nothing) is enabled, then go straight to Windows update.
On Gentoo, you don't get the cool Firefox logo if you build Firefox from source. The neatest way to get the logo back is to create a Portage overlay, copy the ebuilds for Firefox there, and modify it with IUSE="branding java mozsvg" and mozconfig_use_enable branding official-branding in the appropriate places in the ebuild, put branding in your USE flags, and emerge. Technique described on Gentoo Wiki
I've come up with my own formula: L=(nP+sqrt(C)/i). It calulates lameness of formulae (L) according to number of terms in arbitrary units (n), popularity of subject matter (P), column inches devoted to the formula in mainstream news (C), and intelligence of the researchers who came up with it (i). My formula has a lameness of only 4.7, but their is much lamer at 205.3.
So there.
It is true that it's harder to write templated classes than non-templated classes. It's also true that template class libraries are often more useful and reusable than non-templated classes. However, library writers do actually exist in the real world! How else do all those libraries get written?
12 = 2^3.584962501... actually
Maybe, but the article is about servers being patched by admins. They ought to be smart enough to use package management tools like apt-get. Once you've learnt to use these tools, it's a lot easier to keep a whole system, including all the non-OS components, safely patched with all the right security updates. It's much trickier on a Windows machine, as the applications aren't updated the same way as the OS, and in general each application has its own mechanism for applying patches.
It would be appropriate to market hard disks in terms of metric gigabytes etc, if any operating systems reported disk space in terms of metric gigabytes. But since they all report space in GB, meaning 1,073,741,824 bytes, you can understand why consumers are annoyed to find that the disk they bought isn't as big as it said it was. This IEC standard to introduce kiB, MiB, GiB is just a joke. Standards are supposed to standardize existing practice, not just make up some stupid names for things.
It's a lot of effort to go to just to cheat at Minesweeper. I find it easier to type "xyzzy" followed by enter, shift+enter. Then look at the top-left pixel of your screen.
These errors are famously generated by the unix lp drivers, which assumed that any error a printer reported that wasn't offline or out of paper was on fire.
But if you can fit one game on to one memory stick, and also have a computer to save a collection of games to, you can always rewrite (quite a few times) to the memory stick. Then you are only limited in the number of games you can play on a single trip away from your computer.
To preempt the urban legend about the reason why the lack of a mathematicss nobel prize, see The Prize's Rite
In my lab, we use some 5-metre USB extension leads, which have an active repeater at the far end. One of these stopped working, and I took it apart, and checked the cable for continuity. All the wires in the cable were good, so the problem must have been something to do with the repeater circuitry.
A colleage decided to salvage the cable by rewiring it as a passive extension cable, and hoping that the signal degradation wouldn't be a problem. He tested it on his USB flash drive, and somehow managed to fry the drive.
I mainly search from google.co.uk, but Google Search History only seems to remember the searches I make from google.com
According to this Darwin Award, if you take skin resistance out of the picture, then a few volts DC is enough to stop your heart.
lusrmgr.msc really reads far too easily like Luser Manager. I was dissapointed to find out that the L probably stands for local.
Why is everyone so worried about whether Linux gains market share over Windows anyway. The people who do use it find it works for them, and are a large enough base that it will continue to improve.
Regular desktop users (non power users, non programmers) are unlikely to do much in the way of submitting patches, or writing new software.
As long as we can all still use Linux or other open-source software, what does it matter what the rest of the world does?
I realise this was a joke, as obviously liquid oxygen is going to be a fire hazard. But you can't go pouring liquid nitrogen on either, as you'll have problems with frost forming from moisture in the atmosphere.
I think you meant:
perl projeect_design_overview.ppt
C is a bit fussy over syntax.
If you're truly paranoid, a good encrypted file system and a bunch of longish and fairly random passwords will defeat most people. You'll need pretty serious electronics kit to get any further.
Of course, someone can always DoS you, with a large sledgehammer.
Help me buy one of these, Obi-wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
Yeah, but the Total Cost of Ownership is much higher than with commercial spyware.
Links is unaffected - it goes to the real paypal site.
That's because the IE executable isn't much more than a wrapper for the MSHTML rendering engine, which is already loaded when booting Windows.
It's a shame that on Linux and Windows the Mac paradigm is not possible: of having an application loaded with no open windows. Closing the last Safari (or Firefox even) window on OS X doesn't kill the process, so for frequently used programs, the apparent load time is very fast. Of course, it's worth actually quitting larger processes if they aren't being opened much to free up memory.
Some Windows programs come with a background utility that keeps them open even when they are closed. (I think Office might have some Fast Office Start utility for example.) The problem with this tactic is the programs take up resources all the time.