You must've had an ancient version of MySQL. Versions > 4.0 or 4.1 (can't remember which) support subqueries, and I know I've done negative subselects like that.
I found the guy you could kiss, though I opted not to introduce that, uhh, predilection into play. It's one of the aquamarine sweater-wearing guys, though I can't remember his name.
Isn't that summary just a bit of anti-Microsoft bias? I see this as a move to outflank Yahoo, who bundles their toolbar with a wide variety of apps, not Microsoft, who only bundles with their own products. I'm sure the #1 search engine sees the #2 search engine as more of a threat than #3.
I bought it before I even had a computer that would run it just because I wanted to listen to Trent Reznor's soundtrack, which was also on the disc as regular CD audio. I still have the disc, but I really need to track down a copy of qcrack.exe.
When HD DVD debuted, there were only three titles, two of which were of rather dubious value to tech-heads. But Blu-Ray is debuting with The Fifth Element, and all good geeks will snap that one up!
That, or you just stumbled on how to make a MMORPG based on the Alien films...start as a facehugger, infest a creature, you grow into something that resembles both an alien and the host.
If I had to guess, I'd say the device that most people from the '20s would be astounded by would be the microwave oven. No apparent heat source, yet you put food in and a couple minutes later it comes out piping hot (I'd add "and delicious," but most food that comes out of a microwave doesn't qualify). That affects daily life, and while it's something of an extension of existing technology, it's quite an evolutionary step from the range and oven.
FreeBSD has the port system. Everything's built from source and is highly configurable. For maximum ease of use, make your first installed port...well, your first installed one should be cvsup (to update the port tree), but your second one should be portupgrade (which includes portinstall and portversion, which should be obvious from their names what they do unlike, say, apt or portage or rpm). portupgrade resolves dependencies and downloads/installs for you.
Personally, I'd hate to see the FreeBSD installer change. Installs are such a pain in the butt, but with FreeBSD, it's the least painful of any OS I've used. It's (relatively) simple to step through the actual install, and a snap to install any optional packages you want. Compared to, say, Fedora Core, it's so darn easy.
Swatch monitors logfiles - monit can do that and so much more. It can connect to sockets or ports and test that the services are running. It can access a webpage and test for the presence of a string. It can checksum a file and take action if it changes. It can monitor the size of a file. It can take action based on memory usage or load average. You can configure it to take action if a test fails x times out of y (to account for false positives). I work for a small company where I'm the only admin and basically on call all the time. I can't imagine life without monit.
That will be fun. But what will pacman mean to my children / grandchildren?
I have a three-year-old son. He loves playing the games on my Namco Museum Gamecube disc, including Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man (my all-time favorite game). The answer's simple: If the games mean something to you and you share with them, they'll mean something to your children.
On all the systems I admin, it's a zero-byte file. I don't know why I don't just delete it; I think so FreeBSD's mergemaster won't simply put one back in place when I rebuild the system.
Granted, the early HDTV adopters are SOL if their set doesn't have DVI or HDMI inputs, but anyone who has bought a set in the last six months or so would be foolish if they didn't do their research and make sure that they got one with HDMI. I bought a HD set (a low-end one, but HD nonetheless) in December '05, and I made darn sure I wasn't wasting my money - it has two HDMI inputs. Now if only I had something to connect to them! Buying the set cost me all my Wife Karma for the next year, at least.
Add another vote for Lego Star Wars. I play it with my three-year-old son, and we both get a huge kick out of it. It's the first game that we've been able to play together, since if he wanted he could just basically run around in circles, changing characters, while I do the dirty work. And now that I've unlocked Darth Vader - his favorite character in the movies (in fact, he doesn't even bother with the prequels because there's no Darth Vader) - it's even more fun for him.
The standalone BluRay players are predicted to cost upward of $1000. The PS3 will be less than half that. I'll bet you'll be seeing a lot of PS3s snatched up to be part of a home theater system by people who want the next-gen film experience on the cheap. Oh, and it can play games too.
I bought a HDTV just before Christmas. I have a GameCube now and love it, but the games really don't look that great on the new set (especially considering I have a newer GC without the component output). I was going to hold out for the Revolution, but the lack of HD support may drive me to the PS3. I think Nintendo may really be missing the boat by not supporting HD, unless they're planning on shortening the product lifecycle and launching the Revolution2 before the 2009 switch to all-HD in the US.
I don't know specifically about what breaks in Safari on gap.com, but I've been working on a project using a WYSIWYG HTML editor in the browser, and it doesn't support Safari. From what I can tell, no in-browser WYSIWYG HTML editor works with Safari because of some structural problem in Safari (which I've chosen to forget exactly what it is). Perhaps Gap wanted to use some sort of Javascript/CSS doodad that the Safari developers have not implemented.
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So invest in a copy of AnyDVD (quick, before the RIAA sues them!). It acts a lot like the nefarious driver-level copy protection, except the opposite - it allows you to do more, rather than less. I know it works with other Sony discs, like Kung Fu Hustle.
I don't know if this was covered in the article in question, but one of the stories I heard about the Tim Burton version (and I've heard a lot of Tim Burton stories; I founded timburtoncollective.com) was that they designed a Batman-like costume for Superman - latex, foam rubber, that sort of thing. Nicolas Cage was set to star, but when Burton saw him in the costume for screen tests, he bust out laughing, and their version was pretty well doomed at that point. But, they both had pay-or-play contracts, so Cage made something like $10 million for not playing Superman, and Burton also made a tidy sum. I was afraid the one-two punch of the domestic failure of Mars Attacks! and the development nightmare of Superman would sour the relationship between Warner Bros. and Burton, but he's come back to direct Corpse Bride with them, so there must've been no lasting damage to their relationship.
Yeah, I know, checking the release status like it's your pulse isn't all that fun, but I've been using it for years on a board with 700+ members and 145K+ messages, and switching would be a pain.
I tried installing 5.1.0 this morning, and it broke phpBB (the latest version, whatever it is) - phpBB could not log me in. No errors or anything, just no login. I know they've had compatibility issues with PHP5 before, but never anything this drastic. I went back to 5.0.4 until someone gets it fixed.
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You must've had an ancient version of MySQL. Versions > 4.0 or 4.1 (can't remember which) support subqueries, and I know I've done negative subselects like that.
I found the guy you could kiss, though I opted not to introduce that, uhh, predilection into play. It's one of the aquamarine sweater-wearing guys, though I can't remember his name.
Isn't that summary just a bit of anti-Microsoft bias? I see this as a move to outflank Yahoo, who bundles their toolbar with a wide variety of apps, not Microsoft, who only bundles with their own products. I'm sure the #1 search engine sees the #2 search engine as more of a threat than #3.
I bought it before I even had a computer that would run it just because I wanted to listen to Trent Reznor's soundtrack, which was also on the disc as regular CD audio. I still have the disc, but I really need to track down a copy of qcrack.exe.
When HD DVD debuted, there were only three titles, two of which were of rather dubious value to tech-heads. But Blu-Ray is debuting with The Fifth Element, and all good geeks will snap that one up!
That, or you just stumbled on how to make a MMORPG based on the Alien films...start as a facehugger, infest a creature, you grow into something that resembles both an alien and the host.
If I had to guess, I'd say the device that most people from the '20s would be astounded by would be the microwave oven. No apparent heat source, yet you put food in and a couple minutes later it comes out piping hot (I'd add "and delicious," but most food that comes out of a microwave doesn't qualify). That affects daily life, and while it's something of an extension of existing technology, it's quite an evolutionary step from the range and oven.
I'd gladly pay $5 to play Super Mario Bros.
FreeBSD has the port system. Everything's built from source and is highly configurable. For maximum ease of use, make your first installed port...well, your first installed one should be cvsup (to update the port tree), but your second one should be portupgrade (which includes portinstall and portversion, which should be obvious from their names what they do unlike, say, apt or portage or rpm). portupgrade resolves dependencies and downloads/installs for you.
Personally, I'd hate to see the FreeBSD installer change. Installs are such a pain in the butt, but with FreeBSD, it's the least painful of any OS I've used. It's (relatively) simple to step through the actual install, and a snap to install any optional packages you want. Compared to, say, Fedora Core, it's so darn easy.
Why not just use pico and/or nano for Windows? Either one has Windows binaries available - you don't even need Cygwin.
Swatch monitors logfiles - monit can do that and so much more. It can connect to sockets or ports and test that the services are running. It can access a webpage and test for the presence of a string. It can checksum a file and take action if it changes. It can monitor the size of a file. It can take action based on memory usage or load average. You can configure it to take action if a test fails x times out of y (to account for false positives). I work for a small company where I'm the only admin and basically on call all the time. I can't imagine life without monit.
That will be fun. But what will pacman mean to my children / grandchildren?
I have a three-year-old son. He loves playing the games on my Namco Museum Gamecube disc, including Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man (my all-time favorite game). The answer's simple: If the games mean something to you and you share with them, they'll mean something to your children.
On all the systems I admin, it's a zero-byte file. I don't know why I don't just delete it; I think so FreeBSD's mergemaster won't simply put one back in place when I rebuild the system.
Granted, the early HDTV adopters are SOL if their set doesn't have DVI or HDMI inputs, but anyone who has bought a set in the last six months or so would be foolish if they didn't do their research and make sure that they got one with HDMI. I bought a HD set (a low-end one, but HD nonetheless) in December '05, and I made darn sure I wasn't wasting my money - it has two HDMI inputs. Now if only I had something to connect to them! Buying the set cost me all my Wife Karma for the next year, at least.
Add another vote for Lego Star Wars. I play it with my three-year-old son, and we both get a huge kick out of it. It's the first game that we've been able to play together, since if he wanted he could just basically run around in circles, changing characters, while I do the dirty work. And now that I've unlocked Darth Vader - his favorite character in the movies (in fact, he doesn't even bother with the prequels because there's no Darth Vader) - it's even more fun for him.
The standalone BluRay players are predicted to cost upward of $1000. The PS3 will be less than half that. I'll bet you'll be seeing a lot of PS3s snatched up to be part of a home theater system by people who want the next-gen film experience on the cheap. Oh, and it can play games too.
Hey, that's why I'll be buying one.
I bought a HDTV just before Christmas. I have a GameCube now and love it, but the games really don't look that great on the new set (especially considering I have a newer GC without the component output). I was going to hold out for the Revolution, but the lack of HD support may drive me to the PS3. I think Nintendo may really be missing the boat by not supporting HD, unless they're planning on shortening the product lifecycle and launching the Revolution2 before the 2009 switch to all-HD in the US.
I don't know specifically about what breaks in Safari on gap.com, but I've been working on a project using a WYSIWYG HTML editor in the browser, and it doesn't support Safari. From what I can tell, no in-browser WYSIWYG HTML editor works with Safari because of some structural problem in Safari (which I've chosen to forget exactly what it is). Perhaps Gap wanted to use some sort of Javascript/CSS doodad that the Safari developers have not implemented.
So invest in a copy of AnyDVD (quick, before the RIAA sues them!). It acts a lot like the nefarious driver-level copy protection, except the opposite - it allows you to do more, rather than less. I know it works with other Sony discs, like Kung Fu Hustle.
I don't know if this was covered in the article in question, but one of the stories I heard about the Tim Burton version (and I've heard a lot of Tim Burton stories; I founded timburtoncollective.com) was that they designed a Batman-like costume for Superman - latex, foam rubber, that sort of thing. Nicolas Cage was set to star, but when Burton saw him in the costume for screen tests, he bust out laughing, and their version was pretty well doomed at that point. But, they both had pay-or-play contracts, so Cage made something like $10 million for not playing Superman, and Burton also made a tidy sum. I was afraid the one-two punch of the domestic failure of Mars Attacks! and the development nightmare of Superman would sour the relationship between Warner Bros. and Burton, but he's come back to direct Corpse Bride with them, so there must've been no lasting damage to their relationship.
Yeah, I know, checking the release status like it's your pulse isn't all that fun, but I've been using it for years on a board with 700+ members and 145K+ messages, and switching would be a pain.
I tried installing 5.1.0 this morning, and it broke phpBB (the latest version, whatever it is) - phpBB could not log me in. No errors or anything, just no login. I know they've had compatibility issues with PHP5 before, but never anything this drastic. I went back to 5.0.4 until someone gets it fixed.
"They'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skin to their clothes. And if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order."
1. Get Apple to produce iPrint, or iEbook, or some other product starting with "i" that acts as an ebook reader.
2. Hire Harold Ramis to promote it.
3. Profit!
(Wait, there's not supposed to be a step 2...)