Nixies have a limited set of symbols they display - they are not your average 7 segment display. Normaly they would have only digits 0-9, as you see each digit is a separate fillament in the tube. So they are not used for displayin text.
Well the liberalization of copyright on comics started even before that, in 1896 when Outcault moved his comic "The Yellow Kid" from Pulitzer's New York World to Hearst's New York Journal. World tried to retain the rights on the comic and hired another artist to draw it.
This lead to two versions of the comic in competing magazines. Lawsuits ensued, and the result was that Outcault retained the rights to the name of the comic (if not of the characters themselves), and the World's version was renamed to "Hogan's Alley". While it looks like a small move today, this was really big leap in that era. It established that artist owns certain rights on the product, even if the copyright is with the publisher.
Offtopic: your sig really puzzled me since TSR is the name of the state owned television company in Geneva (Switzerland), and while they are ongoing some changes at the moment, they seem to be still far away from their last days.
A lot of their server products today run on 32-bit and 64-bit processors already. I bet most of their new installs of these server products are already being done on 64 bit processors so they're just going to make things simpler
Please name some of them. SQL server 2005 runs in 64bit mode (and it's been out for like a week). Exchange does not. Same for the other server products.
Also, the browser does seem to support scroll-wheel emulation on my laptop's touchpad.
Provided that you are using Synaptics TP, the problem is with the wrong settings in the default touchpad ini file (they look for wrong version of Opera).
A quick googling for "touchpad Opera" will reveal what you have to change in the ini file.
It blocks pop-ups. It doesn't get infected with ActiveX crap. It notifies you of phishing attempts. It can zoom the images.
Best of all: one handed browsing - you have a page with a lot of image links, you click the first and then just press space to go to the next link. Also works with pages where the next link is marked with Next or with >. Quite handy when you have only one hand to spare.
As programmers, we like the deterministic nature of the computers. You program something, and before the input arrives the output is already determined. No cabala, no psychology, no gremlins.
But as systems engineer you see that the system is not just the program you did, nor is it the computer it is operating on. The system includes the software, the hardware, but it also includes the wetware (people working in the system) and treeware (the procedures for the operation, so named after the manuals that document them). You have to juggle all of those, and to be honest the people part is the hardest to manage. As I said, the hardware can be replaced, the software rewritten, the procedures modified. But you have to adapt all of those to work around wetware, so that it would be "convinient".
Now as sys eng I understand that the system should be adapted so that the secretary with little knowledge of computers can enter the schedules for the boss, and I am not one of those that advocates complex procedures to hide the problems that should have been solved in sw or hw, but there are situations when making the job less complex equals to employing trained monkeys, and baggage handling (sorry to all my friends in PAX division) is one of them.
This just proves that knowing too little is worse than not knowing at all.
First of all no system reacts in "real time". There is always lag between the input and the output of the system. If the lag is acceptable for the application (and it depends on the application, as one second lag can be "real time" when cooking grits on the gas stove but is not acceptable when steering a guided missile) then the system is "real time".
Second, even if the problem is NP it doesn't mean it is unsolvable, it means that it is not solvable in O(n) time. Traveling salesman problem has trivial solutions if say n=2, but will take some time if n=100,000,000. And the time it takes depends on the processing power of the machine. If the machine is fast, and the salesman can wait half an hour for the answer - the system operates in real time.
Reminds me of a time when a colleague argued that a problem is impossible to solve on a system that did not support more than two levels of recursion. Just because you learned to use recursion to calculate n! doesn't mean that it cannot be done using iteration.
Wrong. Bagage handlers are not users of the system here. They are the part of the system. The wetware.
The system is not operating properly because wetware is not properly trained, or because they are underpaid, or whatever. If it was hardware that was malfunctioning we would change it. If it was a piece of software, we would rewrite it. With wetware you can train them, replace them or design the rest of the system to simplify their job. But when the job comes down to "take bag off this cart and place it in this position" your options to simplify things get more limited.
FYI: Mauritius & La Reunion are French DOMTOM (Departement d'outre mer et Territoire d'outre mer).
Sorry, but no. Reunion is a DOM, but Mauritius isn't. In fact, Mauritius gained independance from the British. It was french only in the brief spell in the 18th century, when it was named (ironicaly) Ile de France.
I was also surprised to learn this given the number of Mauritians I know.
On related note (no pun intended), how on Earth can you take notes in a program that doesn't have a search'n'replace function? I like OneNote interface, but am sick & tired of copying from OneNote to notepad and back just to change multiple occurence of a word in the text.
TUX is still being developed and it's shipped with even the latest version of Red Hat (no surprise if you consider that TUX started as Red Hat Content Accelerator).
It is installed by default if you select Web server as the installation package, but it is not started or configured. You have to tweak the things a bit to run it, but when it runs, it runs great, thank you very much, with TUX serving static pages, and using Apache for stuff it doesn't understand.
I'm only not sure how it is integrated with newer Red Hats (RHEL3U3 and RHEL4) since SELinux was introduced.
Why does not Microsoft not release their OS, but hold it for a few months, have a large beta group of testers.
They in fact tried this reasoning with Windows 2003 server. In the words of their salesdroids the RC1 was equivalent to gold in case of previous versions, RC2 was equivalent to SP1, and gold to SP2 (that is just because people considered that windows is not usable before SP2).
And in fact they did get it almost right with that one. The release candidates were quite widely distributed, and MS claimed that a lot of companies have used them in production, providin them with larger testing base. As it is, W2k3 was OK before they released the SP1.
This isn't such a good idea. You see, Open Source, being Open Source, can be copied, modified, re-distributed free of charge. Now imagine that, say Debian, achieves this standard complience. What stops say Ubuntu to build on that success and then claim their piece of the pie?
Now that was Ubuntu, but what stops me to create my own distro CocoTonix, based on this standardized Debian and claim my piece of the loot?
And the line would have to be drawn somewhere. And it wouldn't be just in minds of many.
It's strange that noone of the./ crowd has mentioned that Opera is the best browser for porn.
With the smart use of space button, and ability to load the images in succession as they are linked on the page helps a lot when you are just too... uhm... distracted... to use the mouse.
None of those "pins" would really qualify as a pin in the eyes of anyone that grew up playing WMS, Bally, Gottlieb, DataEast or any other "western" pins.
There are no flippers, there is little or no interaction of the player once the ball is launched, so they are not games of skill.
No, even then the mail is not deleted. The mail is held on the Exchange server for retention time, whether it was deleted through "deleted items" folder or directly from another folder with Shift+Delete.
To retreive it from another folder you just have to set the registry key on your PC as per KB246153.
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Nixies have a limited set of symbols they display - they are not your average 7 segment display. Normaly they would have only digits 0-9, as you see each digit is a separate fillament in the tube. So they are not used for displayin text.
You Sir are the last person I would like to have watching the countdown for an important defense missile:
:)
10... 9... 8... 7... 6... ooh, shiny... 4... and look at the depth change...
Only kidding
Well the liberalization of copyright on comics started even before that, in 1896 when Outcault moved his comic "The Yellow Kid" from Pulitzer's New York World to Hearst's New York Journal. World tried to retain the rights on the comic and hired another artist to draw it.
This lead to two versions of the comic in competing magazines. Lawsuits ensued, and the result was that Outcault retained the rights to the name of the comic (if not of the characters themselves), and the World's version was renamed to "Hogan's Alley". While it looks like a small move today, this was really big leap in that era. It established that artist owns certain rights on the product, even if the copyright is with the publisher.
Offtopic: your sig really puzzled me since TSR is the name of the state owned television company in Geneva (Switzerland), and while they are ongoing some changes at the moment, they seem to be still far away from their last days.
Hardly "most of their new installs".
Your understanding is wrong. You can do it quite easily using the built in command fsutil.
w indows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/fsutil_hardlink.mspx
e.g.:
fsutil hardlink create target_file.ext source_file.ext
More information on the site of MS:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/
There are a lot of useful CLI commands in Windows but people usually don't bother to learn them.
A quick googling for "touchpad Opera" will reveal what you have to change in the ini file.
File > Import and Export > Import Internet Explorer Favorites.
Can import a lot more things...
Opera is simply the best porn browser ever.
It blocks pop-ups.
It doesn't get infected with ActiveX crap.
It notifies you of phishing attempts.
It can zoom the images.
Best of all: one handed browsing - you have a page with a lot of image links, you click the first and then just press space to go to the next link. Also works with pages where the next link is marked with Next or with >. Quite handy when you have only one hand to spare.
Aye, and there lies the problem.
As programmers, we like the deterministic nature of the computers. You program something, and before the input arrives the output is already determined. No cabala, no psychology, no gremlins.
But as systems engineer you see that the system is not just the program you did, nor is it the computer it is operating on. The system includes the software, the hardware, but it also includes the wetware (people working in the system) and treeware (the procedures for the operation, so named after the manuals that document them). You have to juggle all of those, and to be honest the people part is the hardest to manage. As I said, the hardware can be replaced, the software rewritten, the procedures modified. But you have to adapt all of those to work around wetware, so that it would be "convinient".
Now as sys eng I understand that the system should be adapted so that the secretary with little knowledge of computers can enter the schedules for the boss, and I am not one of those that advocates complex procedures to hide the problems that should have been solved in sw or hw, but there are situations when making the job less complex equals to employing trained monkeys, and baggage handling (sorry to all my friends in PAX division) is one of them.
This just proves that knowing too little is worse than not knowing at all.
First of all no system reacts in "real time". There is always lag between the input and the output of the system. If the lag is acceptable for the application (and it depends on the application, as one second lag can be "real time" when cooking grits on the gas stove but is not acceptable when steering a guided missile) then the system is "real time".
Second, even if the problem is NP it doesn't mean it is unsolvable, it means that it is not solvable in O(n) time. Traveling salesman problem has trivial solutions if say n=2, but will take some time if n=100,000,000. And the time it takes depends on the processing power of the machine. If the machine is fast, and the salesman can wait half an hour for the answer - the system operates in real time.
Reminds me of a time when a colleague argued that a problem is impossible to solve on a system that did not support more than two levels of recursion. Just because you learned to use recursion to calculate n! doesn't mean that it cannot be done using iteration.
Wrong. Bagage handlers are not users of the system here. They are the part of the system. The wetware.
The system is not operating properly because wetware is not properly trained, or because they are underpaid, or whatever. If it was hardware that was malfunctioning we would change it. If it was a piece of software, we would rewrite it. With wetware you can train them, replace them or design the rest of the system to simplify their job. But when the job comes down to "take bag off this cart and place it in this position" your options to simplify things get more limited.
Yes, even a five year old with 10 years of expirience in *NIX management with emphasis on authentication methods can set it up with relative ease.
I was also surprised to learn this given the number of Mauritians I know.
On related note (no pun intended), how on Earth can you take notes in a program that doesn't have a search'n'replace function? I like OneNote interface, but am sick & tired of copying from OneNote to notepad and back just to change multiple occurence of a word in the text.
It's a bit old (page from 2000, anouncing the release in 2003), but so is Longhorn, and so are most of SourceForge projects.
TUX is still being developed and it's shipped with even the latest version of Red Hat (no surprise if you consider that TUX started as Red Hat Content Accelerator).
It is installed by default if you select Web server as the installation package, but it is not started or configured. You have to tweak the things a bit to run it, but when it runs, it runs great, thank you very much, with TUX serving static pages, and using Apache for stuff it doesn't understand.
I'm only not sure how it is integrated with newer Red Hats (RHEL3U3 and RHEL4) since SELinux was introduced.
And in fact they did get it almost right with that one. The release candidates were quite widely distributed, and MS claimed that a lot of companies have used them in production, providin them with larger testing base. As it is, W2k3 was OK before they released the SP1.
This isn't such a good idea. You see, Open Source, being Open Source, can be copied, modified, re-distributed free of charge. Now imagine that, say Debian, achieves this standard complience. What stops say Ubuntu to build on that success and then claim their piece of the pie?
Now that was Ubuntu, but what stops me to create my own distro CocoTonix, based on this standardized Debian and claim my piece of the loot?
And the line would have to be drawn somewhere. And it wouldn't be just in minds of many.
It's strange that noone of the ./ crowd has mentioned that Opera is the best browser for porn.
With the smart use of space button, and ability to load the images in succession as they are linked on the page helps a lot when you are just too... uhm... distracted... to use the mouse.
None of those "pins" would really qualify as a pin in the eyes of anyone that grew up playing WMS, Bally, Gottlieb, DataEast or any other "western" pins.
There are no flippers, there is little or no interaction of the player once the ball is launched, so they are not games of skill.
These are just pachinko machines.
OK, thanks for the info.
Do you have any link to back this up please? (Oh, and MB, SS) :)
With the swarm of nanobots. Tetrahedric nanobots.
To retreive it from another folder you just have to set the registry key on your PC as per KB246153.