I think you missed the point
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which is, to do things *yourself*, no matter how long it takes. The book isn't '13 projects to make you rich quickly' or '13 projects to save you time'.
I stopped playing this game when Ubi stopped supporting the single player experience. I don't care about multiplayer - just a few thousand moaning, whinging, swearing 15yo's with no decorum. I wanted to see some serious issues fixed in the way your team-mates interact in single player. I haven't seen anything of the kind since the release early this year, hence I don't play it any more.
And when I *did* try and play it on a LAN (with legit copies) I had to keep disconnecting the firewall just to get the server to start up (even though my CD key is fine and legal) and even then, my normal 80fps dropped to 20. 100mbit unbusy LAN too.
It surprises me - the number of people who don't know about the embedded controllers in a lot of flash cards - they do wear leveling for you - and in fact they hide the physical sector allocation from you completely so you can't even tell if two bytes are in the same block. Your comment is valid for traditional flash, but not modern removable flash cards. JJFS et al aren't needed for those.
Modern flash controllers (e.g. on Compact Flash) do wear-leveling for you. You don't need to use JJFS (which is a hideous piece of code anyway) and the device is often 'seen' as an IDE device. You can use it like a normal hard disk drive, and run ext2 on it if you like. You just have to do some careful caching to make sure you're not writing lots of little bits of data to it all the time.
Also, in the case of Compact Flash, you have no way of knowing how the logical allocation of sectors maps to the physical memory array - so there's no way to know if two bytes are in the same block. Therefore trying to attempt your own wear-leveling is completely pointless.
For 'raw' flash, you are correct - but this is becoming rarer and rarer as the market moves to removable flash media like SD, CF, etc.
it was angel cake, not fairy cake, at least in the BBC radio show. Is it different in the book?
Re:How does he handle renaming and erasing in CVS?
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Why not? CVS storage is per-file so you can happily rename/move/delete the rcs,v files if you're careful. Heck, you can even edit them. I'm not saying that's a wise thing to do, but it's not insane.
Moving the rcs files around will make your repository history inconsistent however (but the individual file history/log will be fine) which is a problem is you actually rely on it.
I thought the nigerian scam was along the lines of "I need to deposit money in your account" - the article talks about claims "you've won the lottery!"... can't say I've ever got that one.
DRIVERS have been warned to switch off their mobile phones at petrol stations because of the danger of them sparking fires. The alert follows three incidents where phones have ignited petrol fumes after motorists answered calls while filling their vehicles. One person was left with burns to the face and another received groin injuries. The NHS health chief called for warning signs at the entrances of petrol stations, adding: 'I urge people to remember to switch off phones and keep them off until they leave.'
Personally, I like the NZ, Australian and Canadian folding stuff - it's made from some sort of reinforced plastic and you can mush the note around for hours in your pocket and it still comes out in one piece. The American toilet-paper money is like something left over from the 20th century.
Hmmm, I read that as a 'gigantic explosion' involving Halley's Comet, however it seems to involve Comet 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte according to one of the linked articles. Did I miss something?
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which is, to do things *yourself*, no matter how long it takes. The book isn't '13 projects to make you rich quickly' or '13 projects to save you time'.
Nooooooo!!
It worries me that you had to qualify the cat as being 'outdoor'.
... that was ranked 'informative' when it was purely trying to be funny. Perhaps we need a /. tutorial on the meaning of words...
I stopped playing this game when Ubi stopped supporting the single player experience. I don't care about multiplayer - just a few thousand moaning, whinging, swearing 15yo's with no decorum. I wanted to see some serious issues fixed in the way your team-mates interact in single player. I haven't seen anything of the kind since the release early this year, hence I don't play it any more.
And when I *did* try and play it on a LAN (with legit copies) I had to keep disconnecting the firewall just to get the server to start up (even though my CD key is fine and legal) and even then, my normal 80fps dropped to 20. 100mbit unbusy LAN too.
It surprises me - the number of people who don't know about the embedded controllers in a lot of flash cards - they do wear leveling for you - and in fact they hide the physical sector allocation from you completely so you can't even tell if two bytes are in the same block. Your comment is valid for traditional flash, but not modern removable flash cards. JJFS et al aren't needed for those.
Modern flash controllers (e.g. on Compact Flash) do wear-leveling for you. You don't need to use JJFS (which is a hideous piece of code anyway) and the device is often 'seen' as an IDE device. You can use it like a normal hard disk drive, and run ext2 on it if you like. You just have to do some careful caching to make sure you're not writing lots of little bits of data to it all the time.
Also, in the case of Compact Flash, you have no way of knowing how the logical allocation of sectors maps to the physical memory array - so there's no way to know if two bytes are in the same block. Therefore trying to attempt your own wear-leveling is completely pointless.
For 'raw' flash, you are correct - but this is becoming rarer and rarer as the market moves to removable flash media like SD, CF, etc.
Hey, they told me Uplink was just a game!
My password is easy to remember, it's just eight asterisks:
'********'
Sometimes I forget exactly how many, but I usually get it right the second time.
Maybe so, but the original was angel cake. Perhaps there's no adequate translation for this into Hebrew?
it was angel cake, not fairy cake, at least in the BBC radio show. Is it different in the book?
Why not? CVS storage is per-file so you can happily rename/move/delete the rcs ,v files if you're careful. Heck, you can even edit them. I'm not saying that's a wise thing to do, but it's not insane.
Moving the rcs files around will make your repository history inconsistent however (but the individual file history/log will be fine) which is a problem is you actually rely on it.
I thought the nigerian scam was along the lines of "I need to deposit money in your account" - the article talks about claims "you've won the lottery!"... can't say I've ever got that one.
...can be a dangerous mix :
Mobiles a fuel pump risk!
DRIVERS have been warned to switch off their mobile phones at petrol stations because of the danger of them sparking fires. The alert follows three incidents where phones have ignited petrol fumes after motorists answered calls while filling their vehicles. One person was left with burns to the face and another received groin injuries. The NHS health chief called for warning signs at the entrances of petrol stations, adding: 'I urge people to remember to switch off phones and keep them off until they leave.'
Personally, I like the NZ, Australian and Canadian folding stuff - it's made from some sort of reinforced plastic and you can mush the note around for hours in your pocket and it still comes out in one piece. The American toilet-paper money is like something left over from the 20th century.
These brown dots are not cue dots.
If I'm not mistaken, Gentoo already does this - it uses strong and weak dependencies in the init.d scripts themselves.
Independence War (1 and 2), X, the upcoming X2, Hardwar, Freelancer (cough, choke)...
These are just some of the modern and recently modern games that continued the Elite legacy, albeit unofficially.
Here's my latex2pdf script that I wrote. Produces really nice looking PDFs from LaTeX source:
$ cat bin/latex2pdf
#!/bin/sh
latex $1.tex
latex $1.tex
dvips -Ppdf -G0 $1.dvi -o $1.ps
ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.2 -dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true $1.ps
So lets see the loop counts, I/O blocking times, pipeline flushes and page fault results then...
'reviewed' would be a better word.
Goes to show just how old this article is. Also, the SIMM insertion technique - haven't done it that way for years. Still, it's fun to reminisce.
Where the heck did this come from?
Hmmm, I read that as a 'gigantic explosion' involving Halley's Comet, however it seems to involve Comet 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte according to one of the linked articles. Did I miss something?
> The balloon is so big (1,250 feet tall) that it
> should be visible from most of the UK, Ireland and
> Western France as it climbs.
Does anyone else find that overly optimistic? I'm thinking purely about the weather...
"Is it always foggy in Britain?"
"No, only when it isn't raining"
There is a time when one may be pedantic and in some cases it can be quite interesting:
What 'begs the question' really means [worksafe].
You can mod me 'flamebait' or 'troll' if you like but consider this - I'm just trying to enhance and improve your grammar-life, with no money down!