I don't understand how this encompasses an entire distro. Why would someone release an entire distro, just so people who like Ubuntu, can install a different desktop manager? Couldn't people just install Ubuntu, and then install the additional stuff to run KDE or XFCE? Maybe it would be nice if someone packaged up all the stuff they need in one easy to find place, but they certainly don't need to release an entire distro. Plus, it's not like the users of Kubuntu are getting all their code updates from the Kubuntu project. I'm sure if there's a bug found in SSH, most users will be getting updates from Ubuntu, and not Kubuntu. If Kubuntu wants to release just KDE + a few apps then just release that, and it will be a lot easier to manage.
Mandriva (Formerly Mandrake) was derived from Redhat. Although I think this only shows the current state of affairs. All the ones that are offshoots actually take one of the versions, change their code a bit, and release their own distro. This doesn't happen anymore with Mandrive or Suse. They don't take an entire Redhat or Slackware distro, and change some code and release it as their own. This is also why Fedora shows up before Redhat, since Fedora is where all the development work is done, and then once features are stable they're moved to Redhat.
Which is oh so true. I think that most projects would be better served trying to maintain and produce application packages that could be run on other distros. If you're only going to edit 3% of the code, then why are you distributing an entire distro? Shouldn't you just be distributing packages that run on the distro that you're working off of?
Actually, he did get the number of addresses wrong, there's actually, 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,45 6. Not 340,282,366,920,938,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0 as he said. This means he is actually off by 463463374607431768211456. Which Means that he forgot about 107908475819842 IPV4 Internets.
Yeah, it only works out to 8.3 emails per day. But I think he's only including people that are on the internet. People who get zero emails aren't counted. This probably makes sense since only about 1/4 of the planet is online.
No, the funny part is how many mistakes this guy made writing such a short article. I give a guy a little slack when there's very complex things that are a little wrong. However, this guy failed in that he said IPV4 uses 16-bit addresses, and IPV6 uses 32-bit addresses. The numbers should actually be 32-bit for ipv4 and 128-bit for ipv6. What's even funnier is that it seems that a lot of slashdotters haven't even noticed this glaring error.
He just doesn't have his facts straight at all. IPV4 uses 32 bit addresses, which gives you about 4 billion addresses. IPV6 on the other hand uses 128 bit addresses (please correct me if i'm wrong), which gives you an unbelievably large number of addresses, which will be able to address every atom in the universe with it's own IP address. This time we aren't running out. Of course, you could assign multiple addresses to each machine, and get rid of the need for ports...
There's nothing wrong with writing your password down and keeping it in your wallet. You keep your credit cards, money, social insurance card, and a lot of other important stuff in your wallet. Why wouldln't your passwords be safe in your wallet. Besides, if you write them in a secret code, then nobody else can read them.
I think that concept could work if done correctly. The problem is, is that the computer could only be so good without making it impossible to delay them forever. It's like tetris. I think that it stops getting any faster after level 9 or 10. I've personally gotten to level 14, and I know people who says it stops counting levels at 20. But you can keep playing forever. Eventually you end up doing something wrong, or getting bad luck with the pieces, and you lose. But the whole fun is trying to beat your previous best. I don't really know if it would make a game disturbing, but it sure could make a game fun.
This has always been true. This is why you can't just replace coders. Even though there's lots of coders out there, having someone who understands your business on a higher level will help you create a much better product. You can't just high someone who's been doing financial software for 10 years to go write a game. Maybe it would be nice if companies started realizing this, and didn't just bring in contractors to do everything, who have no idea about the business, or the business's real needs.
This is soooo true. I switched over to consoles a year and a half ago (bought a GC) and I haven't looked back. I still like PC games more, but the cost was just way too prohibitive. For the cost of what I would spend on upgrades in a year, I was getting a console that would last 2 years. Also, it's much easier to find quality games for cheap on consoles. Be they used, or just old games, they are much easier to find. There's also a lot less worry about whether or not the game will actually run on your system. You know... the minimum specs are never really the minimum specs. How much they've exagerated is anyone's guess. Oh, and don't even think about trying to rent games to try them out first.
Although I agree with you that some professors are as boring as hell, and could probably do with some education of their own on how to keep an audience, I think that they are still a very important part of the learning process. No matter how boring they are, they usually (except for a few cases where they really are useless) have something important to say and worth listening to. I think that most people severely underestimate their ability to learn from listening to a person. I know it's just anecdotal evidence, but from what i've seen, the students who never went to class, or didn't listen when they were in class, had a much harder time in school than those who went to class and paid attention.
Simple answer. Switch hands. I'm assuming she's only having problems in one of her thumbs. If this is the case. Get her to use the other hand for the mouse. It will take a little getting used to, but within a couple of weeks, all the problems should be gone. The other option is to get a Logitech Marble Mouse, and use that. If you use your left hand, or swap the buttons, then the clicking can be done with the pinky finger, and, right click may be a problem, but it's easy enough to move your hand over if you're having that many problems with your thumb. You don't need to right click that often that it would cause too much stress for the thumb.
That's a little bit different than what is described, however it's an interesting concept. I'm not sure what kind of interest they're using, but assuming all the money from interest goes to pay the rent, then you're still looking at quite a substantial interest rate to pull this off. Let's see. $1000 a month for rent = $12000 a year. That means you'd need to be collecting 120% interest on the money. Realistically, you'd probably have to put down $100,000.
That wouldn't work very well. That's would be like a very long term loan. Maybe they could start doing this with houses, instead of having mortgages. You put your payment into a high interest account every month, and when you move out of the house you pay for it. Sounds like a brilliant scheme. I wonder if they offer this kind of payment plan on cars. I'll pay for it in 5 years when I'm done driving it. It would be like a bank giving you a negative interest loan.
If you're programming the robot in assembly then you aren't going to get very far in getting it to do much. Unless your assembly instructions includes MOV A,50, Which moves the arm 50 degrees, then you're going to be pretty limited in what you can get the robot to do. Also, if that's the kind of assembly programming you're doing, then you're not really learning assembly. Despite the fact that we all hated the assembly course, because we had already learned C and Java, and in assembly it takes an hour to write a function that iterates an array and does some simple operation on the numbers (at least when you first start), I still think that assembly is a very important skill. They tell you how complex certain things are in algorithms class, but you don't really get a feeling for how complex certain things are until you program them in assembly. Also, I took a robotics course in 4th year. It was a 4th year course. It was hard and there was lots of math. That's the way robotics is. Unless you're programming the robot to do a specific task (such as follow a specific path, or move from a home position and pick up a ball in a predetermined position), which is extemely boring and simplistic, then robotics gets very complicated, and is not something for first year introductory students.
It would be nice if they incorporated some of this technology into the Wii. The old games are great but they would be even better with the graphics turned up to today's standards. I've played with a few emulators that added Anti-aliasing to old SNES games and such. The games looked a lot better. I recently bought a new computer, and hooked up my old copy of Descent 3. It still looks amazing. This is because I was able to turn up all the effects to the max. Whereas before, I was stuck with everything at half. I'm sure the same thing still holds for video games. Most people can't play new games at full res and full effects. However, in 5 years when they buy a new computer, it will be able to pull it off easily.
I've been looking for something like this for years. I never use my history because frankly, it's impossible to find anything when it's all listed one after another, ordered by site. It would be much better to list things in the way in which you got to them. Something like this would be nice:
Google Search: Telescopes
Page 3 -> History Of Telescopes
Telescopes used by pirates
Page 4 -> Modern Telescopes
It would be a lot easier to find what a site that you visited, because you would probably remember what you searched for. Maybe something like this could be done as an extension to firefox, Although i'm not sure if all the necessary information is available to extensions.
I think most of the security breaches in both Firefox and IE come from user stupidity. Don't install or run unknown executables. That's the end of it. Before I started running firefox, I ran IE for many years, and never had a problem with viruses, even though I visited some pretty shady sites. I think that most of the viruses you see in the wild are because of user stupidity. I realize that there are some viruses out there that don't require any user interaction, but from what i've seen, they are the extreme minority.
I can drag and drop my bookmarks just fine in my copy of Firefox (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4)
But why do you have to feel that your time at work is wasted? Many people find their time at work to be interesting and fulfilling. Obviously there's a balance. You probably wouldn't enjoy doing anything 16 hours a day. But if you enjoy your job, there's no reason why that 8 hours a day you spend there should feel like a waste.
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I don't understand how this encompasses an entire distro. Why would someone release an entire distro, just so people who like Ubuntu, can install a different desktop manager? Couldn't people just install Ubuntu, and then install the additional stuff to run KDE or XFCE? Maybe it would be nice if someone packaged up all the stuff they need in one easy to find place, but they certainly don't need to release an entire distro. Plus, it's not like the users of Kubuntu are getting all their code updates from the Kubuntu project. I'm sure if there's a bug found in SSH, most users will be getting updates from Ubuntu, and not Kubuntu. If Kubuntu wants to release just KDE + a few apps then just release that, and it will be a lot easier to manage.
Mandriva (Formerly Mandrake) was derived from Redhat. Although I think this only shows the current state of affairs. All the ones that are offshoots actually take one of the versions, change their code a bit, and release their own distro. This doesn't happen anymore with Mandrive or Suse. They don't take an entire Redhat or Slackware distro, and change some code and release it as their own. This is also why Fedora shows up before Redhat, since Fedora is where all the development work is done, and then once features are stable they're moved to Redhat.
Which is oh so true. I think that most projects would be better served trying to maintain and produce application packages that could be run on other distros. If you're only going to edit 3% of the code, then why are you distributing an entire distro? Shouldn't you just be distributing packages that run on the distro that you're working off of?
What does rfc4291 know anyway. Everybody knows that RFC 2470 is where it's at.
Actually, he did get the number of addresses wrong, there's actually, 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,45 6. Not 340,282,366,920,938,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0 as he said. This means he is actually off by 463463374607431768211456. Which Means that he forgot about 107908475819842 IPV4 Internets.
Yeah, it only works out to 8.3 emails per day. But I think he's only including people that are on the internet. People who get zero emails aren't counted. This probably makes sense since only about 1/4 of the planet is online.
No, the funny part is how many mistakes this guy made writing such a short article. I give a guy a little slack when there's very complex things that are a little wrong. However, this guy failed in that he said IPV4 uses 16-bit addresses, and IPV6 uses 32-bit addresses. The numbers should actually be 32-bit for ipv4 and 128-bit for ipv6. What's even funnier is that it seems that a lot of slashdotters haven't even noticed this glaring error.
He just doesn't have his facts straight at all. IPV4 uses 32 bit addresses, which gives you about 4 billion addresses. IPV6 on the other hand uses 128 bit addresses (please correct me if i'm wrong), which gives you an unbelievably large number of addresses, which will be able to address every atom in the universe with it's own IP address. This time we aren't running out. Of course, you could assign multiple addresses to each machine, and get rid of the need for ports...
There's nothing wrong with writing your password down and keeping it in your wallet. You keep your credit cards, money, social insurance card, and a lot of other important stuff in your wallet. Why wouldln't your passwords be safe in your wallet. Besides, if you write them in a secret code, then nobody else can read them.
I think that concept could work if done correctly. The problem is, is that the computer could only be so good without making it impossible to delay them forever. It's like tetris. I think that it stops getting any faster after level 9 or 10. I've personally gotten to level 14, and I know people who says it stops counting levels at 20. But you can keep playing forever. Eventually you end up doing something wrong, or getting bad luck with the pieces, and you lose. But the whole fun is trying to beat your previous best. I don't really know if it would make a game disturbing, but it sure could make a game fun.
This has always been true. This is why you can't just replace coders. Even though there's lots of coders out there, having someone who understands your business on a higher level will help you create a much better product. You can't just high someone who's been doing financial software for 10 years to go write a game. Maybe it would be nice if companies started realizing this, and didn't just bring in contractors to do everything, who have no idea about the business, or the business's real needs.
This is soooo true. I switched over to consoles a year and a half ago (bought a GC) and I haven't looked back. I still like PC games more, but the cost was just way too prohibitive. For the cost of what I would spend on upgrades in a year, I was getting a console that would last 2 years. Also, it's much easier to find quality games for cheap on consoles. Be they used, or just old games, they are much easier to find. There's also a lot less worry about whether or not the game will actually run on your system. You know... the minimum specs are never really the minimum specs. How much they've exagerated is anyone's guess. Oh, and don't even think about trying to rent games to try them out first.
Although I agree with you that some professors are as boring as hell, and could probably do with some education of their own on how to keep an audience, I think that they are still a very important part of the learning process. No matter how boring they are, they usually (except for a few cases where they really are useless) have something important to say and worth listening to. I think that most people severely underestimate their ability to learn from listening to a person. I know it's just anecdotal evidence, but from what i've seen, the students who never went to class, or didn't listen when they were in class, had a much harder time in school than those who went to class and paid attention.
Simple answer. Switch hands. I'm assuming she's only having problems in one of her thumbs. If this is the case. Get her to use the other hand for the mouse. It will take a little getting used to, but within a couple of weeks, all the problems should be gone. The other option is to get a Logitech Marble Mouse, and use that. If you use your left hand, or swap the buttons, then the clicking can be done with the pinky finger, and, right click may be a problem, but it's easy enough to move your hand over if you're having that many problems with your thumb. You don't need to right click that often that it would cause too much stress for the thumb.
That's a little bit different than what is described, however it's an interesting concept. I'm not sure what kind of interest they're using, but assuming all the money from interest goes to pay the rent, then you're still looking at quite a substantial interest rate to pull this off. Let's see. $1000 a month for rent = $12000 a year. That means you'd need to be collecting 120% interest on the money. Realistically, you'd probably have to put down $100,000.
This is nothing. There's frogs that can stay frozen all winter and then wake up fine in the summer. Me thinks we need to do some gene splicing.
That wouldn't work very well. That's would be like a very long term loan. Maybe they could start doing this with houses, instead of having mortgages. You put your payment into a high interest account every month, and when you move out of the house you pay for it. Sounds like a brilliant scheme. I wonder if they offer this kind of payment plan on cars. I'll pay for it in 5 years when I'm done driving it. It would be like a bank giving you a negative interest loan.
Bah.. that's nothing. Zildjian has been around since 1623. That's 383 years.
If you're programming the robot in assembly then you aren't going to get very far in getting it to do much. Unless your assembly instructions includes MOV A,50, Which moves the arm 50 degrees, then you're going to be pretty limited in what you can get the robot to do. Also, if that's the kind of assembly programming you're doing, then you're not really learning assembly. Despite the fact that we all hated the assembly course, because we had already learned C and Java, and in assembly it takes an hour to write a function that iterates an array and does some simple operation on the numbers (at least when you first start), I still think that assembly is a very important skill. They tell you how complex certain things are in algorithms class, but you don't really get a feeling for how complex certain things are until you program them in assembly. Also, I took a robotics course in 4th year. It was a 4th year course. It was hard and there was lots of math. That's the way robotics is. Unless you're programming the robot to do a specific task (such as follow a specific path, or move from a home position and pick up a ball in a predetermined position), which is extemely boring and simplistic, then robotics gets very complicated, and is not something for first year introductory students.
Maybe it would be nice if it was an option you could turn on and off.
It would be nice if they incorporated some of this technology into the Wii. The old games are great but they would be even better with the graphics turned up to today's standards. I've played with a few emulators that added Anti-aliasing to old SNES games and such. The games looked a lot better. I recently bought a new computer, and hooked up my old copy of Descent 3. It still looks amazing. This is because I was able to turn up all the effects to the max. Whereas before, I was stuck with everything at half. I'm sure the same thing still holds for video games. Most people can't play new games at full res and full effects. However, in 5 years when they buy a new computer, it will be able to pull it off easily.
I've been looking for something like this for years. I never use my history because frankly, it's impossible to find anything when it's all listed one after another, ordered by site. It would be much better to list things in the way in which you got to them. Something like this would be nice:
Google Search: Telescopes
Page 3 -> History Of Telescopes
Telescopes used by pirates
Page 4 -> Modern Telescopes
It would be a lot easier to find what a site that you visited, because you would probably remember what you searched for. Maybe something like this could be done as an extension to firefox, Although i'm not sure if all the necessary information is available to extensions.
I think most of the security breaches in both Firefox and IE come from user stupidity. Don't install or run unknown executables. That's the end of it. Before I started running firefox, I ran IE for many years, and never had a problem with viruses, even though I visited some pretty shady sites. I think that most of the viruses you see in the wild are because of user stupidity. I realize that there are some viruses out there that don't require any user interaction, but from what i've seen, they are the extreme minority.
I can drag and drop my bookmarks just fine in my copy of Firefox (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4)
But why do you have to feel that your time at work is wasted? Many people find their time at work to be interesting and fulfilling. Obviously there's a balance. You probably wouldn't enjoy doing anything 16 hours a day. But if you enjoy your job, there's no reason why that 8 hours a day you spend there should feel like a waste.