Scalability and performance management: they don't mention numbers. I therefore do not trust them. Of course they don't mention numbers. Have you ever seen a Google press release or product launch with/any/ numerical details? Never any stats on number of machines, number of distinct users, query rate, or anything of the like.
And, you twit, are these or aren't these apps standing up to a Slashdotting?
How about because there's no guarantee that we would have been able to reconstruct the data using land-based radio telescopes? You do recognize that this is an exceptional accomplishment that requires a lot more work (and most importantly, a lot more luck) than having the satellite record this data and send it back to us in digital, error-corrected form, right? Sure, there's no guarantee that we would have gotten the experiment either way, but the odds are a hell of a lot better.
Can they make wallpaper that enhances my wifi instead of killing it?
For this you will need to send inverse-polarity tachyon pulses into a time-flux capacitor. Don't forget to modulate the pulses at your shield frequency.
Kramer: They're trying to screw with your head. Jerry: Now why would a junior high school want to screw with my head? Kramer: Why does Radio Shack ask for your phone number when you buy batteries? I don't know these things.
is the middle finger. As a New Jerseyian (born and raised), I have a sub-two second roll down window/extend arm/raise middle finger time. It's second nature in situations like "soccer mom in minivan on my right doesn't even look out her left window and tries to change lanes into my car." My response then was an instictive, sub-second horn/brake/swerve/flip-bird.
This system is sufficient for any and all inter-driver communication needs I could ever imagine.
With gcc, the -j will setup gcc to utilize SMP. You specify the number of processors you physical have. I do not know how it would work with HT, and I didn't RTFA to see if they covered it. There is native support inside of gcc for SMP-based compiling though.
Um, no, not quite. You pass the -j option to make. make will then go through your makefile, and assuming you wrote it right, run specified commands (like gcc) in parallel. You have to be careful about target dependencies when doing this, though. And this parallelization is even useful on uniprocessor machines, as if you use make -j2 you will get some gain in time in a big compile because while one gcc is doing I/O, the other can be using the CPU and compiling.
"It would be interesting to see if there's a correlation between the meteoric rise of blogging, the practice of keeping a frequently-updated online journal, and the rise of unemployment in Silicon Valley and other tech corridors."
It'd also be interesting to see if there's a correlation between having a SHITTY ECONOMY and the rise of unemployment in fields who have MORE WORKERS THAN THERE IS DEMAND. But surely that's not possible. Blogging must be the cause.
An open letter to the editors of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle:
Your articles are only quasi-interesting. Semi-interesting. You're the margarine of interesting. You're the Slashdot of interesting -- only one calorie, not interesting enough!
If he personally is caught, he just gets sent to a minimum security country club for a few months.
No, a minimum-security prison is no picnic. I have a client in there right now. He says, the trick is kick someone's ass the first day, or become somebody's bitch. Then everything will be alright.
One thing I don't like about RPM/.deb/etc is that they rely way too heavily on a database of what is installed to determine what they will install next. If I don't package my "found" software using the package system, this causes RPM/dpkg to start complaining about stuff it doesn't have that I know it does.
You don't necessarily have to package anything to get dpkg to know about it. Simply use the "equivs" program:
% apt-cache show equivs
Package: equivs ...
Description: Circumventing Debian package dependencies
This is a dummy package which can be used to create Debian
packages, which only contain dependency information. .
This way, you can make the Debian package management
system believe that equivalents to packages on which other
packages do depend on are actually installed. ...
Thus, you can build something from source, install it in/usr/local, and use equivs to generate a fake deb telling the packaging system the foo library is installed, and thus all your dependencies will work.
On that note, though, I honestly prefer having dpkg and apt-get control all the software installed on my Debian systems. Binary package availibility in the "sid" distribution (or "unstable") is usually only a day or two behind releases of actual source. And for those who fear breakages in sid (which does happen from time to time), there is always the "testing" distribution of Debian, which does not include packages known to be bad by implementing a short waiting period and checking bug tracking systems -- and almost never breaks.
After installing the snmp utils (apt-get install snmp) and doing some minor surgery to the MIB
so it would parse correctly, I think I've found the element to modify:
enterprises.atmel.atmelmib.atmelSys.TestModeSettin gsGRP.TestModeRadioConfiguration.0 = Hex: CA CA CA CA CA CA C9 C9 C9 C9 C9 C9 C9 C9
Although not in the same configuration as the article describes, this may be due to the fact that I've never upgraded the firmware on the access point I snmpwalk'd this from. Perhaps I should get busy on that....
Any of you people out there with an upgraded firmware, you should try snmpset under Linux or your UNIX of choice and see what kind of results you get... extra points for verifying the change with the Windows stuff in the article.
Numerically, snmptranslate says that the correct field is.1.3.6.1.4.1.410.1.1.8.8.0, assuming I'm using it right (I called it with the commandline snmptranslate -m +ATMEL-MIB -IR enterprises.atmel.atmelmib.atmelSys.TestModeSettin gsGRP.TestModeRadioConfiguration.0.)
MC Hawking is Stephen Hawking, physicist and gangsta rapper. Despite three critically acclaimed albums and nearly ten years on the mic, Stephen Hawking remains virtually unknown as a musician. mchawking.com is devoted to Stephen Hawking's career as a lyrical terrorist.
Harm me with harmony.
Doomsday, drop a load on 'em.
Entropy, how can I explain it? I'll take it frame by frame it,
to have you all jumping, shouting saying it.
Let's just say that it's a measure of disorder,
in a system that is closed, like with a border.
It's sorta, like a, well a measurement of randomness,
proposed in 1850 by a German, but wait I digress.
"What the fuck is entropy?", I here the people still exclaiming,
it seems I gotta start the explaining.
You ever drop an egg and on the floor you see it break?
You go and get a mop so you can clean up your mistake.
But did you ever stop to ponder why we know it's true,
if you drop a broken egg you will not get an egg that's new.
That's entropy or E-N-T-R-O to the P to the Y,
the reason why the sun will one day all burn out and die.
Order from disorder is a scientific rarity,
allow me to explain it with a little bit more clarity.
Did I say rarity? I meant impossibility,
at least in a closed system there will always be more entropy.
That's entropy and I hope that you're all down with it,
if you are here's your membership.
Chorus
You down with entropy?
Yeah, you know me! (x3)
Who's down with entropy?
Every last homey!
Defining entropy as disorder's not complete,
'cause disorder as a definition doesn't cover heat.
So my first definition I would now like to withdraw,
and offer one that fits thermodynamics second law.
First we need to understand that entropy is energy,
energy that can't be used to state it more specifically.
In a closed system entropy always goes up,
that's the second law, now you know what's up.
You can't win, you can't break even, you can't leave the game,
'cause entropy will take it all 'though it seems a shame.
The second law, as we now know, is quite clear to state,
that entropy must increase and not dissipate.
Creationists always try to use the second law,
to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.
The second law is quite precise about where it applies,
only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun,
so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!
That, in a nutshell, is what entropy's about,
you're now down with a discount.
In Debian terms, "boot-floppies" (notice the hyphen) is the name of the installer system. So the old, aging Debian installer is called boot-floppies, which is what the submitter said. He did not mean to say that floppies themselves are aging; they are still useful for the tasks you describe.
That said, the installer can and will still work with floppies, CD-ROMs, NFS, HTTP/FTP and whatnot.
giFT, general interface to FastTrack or giFT isn't FastTrack is a client that uses the Kazaa/Morpheus/Grokster peer-to-peer file sharing network, it is intended to be used in Linux
Admittedly, it is a bit broken now. Fasttrack changed the protocol, but they're working on reverse-engineering it again.
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And, you twit, are these or aren't these apps standing up to a Slashdotting?
I'm intrigued. Are you actually planning to open-source this?
-chris
Related quote from a truly classic film.
Tommy: Does this suit make me look fat?
Richard: No, no. Your face does.
Oh, Chris Farley, how we miss thee.
You don't have to imagine that. Just look around.
For this you will need to send inverse-polarity tachyon pulses into a time-flux capacitor. Don't forget to modulate the pulses at your shield frequency.
Kramer: They're trying to screw with your head.
Jerry: Now why would a junior high school want to screw with my head?
Kramer: Why does Radio Shack ask for your phone number when you buy batteries? I don't know these things.
is the middle finger. As a New Jerseyian (born and raised), I have a sub-two second roll down window/extend arm/raise middle finger time. It's second nature in situations like "soccer mom in minivan on my right doesn't even look out her left window and tries to change lanes into my car." My response then was an instictive, sub-second horn/brake/swerve/flip-bird.
This system is sufficient for any and all inter-driver communication needs I could ever imagine.
The Crossbow Project. Because there's no defense like a good offense.
No, no, you've got it all wrong. You should wait until they lower the Terror Alert to Mauve, or at least Burgundy.
Well, jeez. Who crapped in your Cheerios this morning?
Um, no, not quite. You pass the -j option to make. make will then go through your makefile, and assuming you wrote it right, run specified commands (like gcc) in parallel. You have to be careful about target dependencies when doing this, though. And this parallelization is even useful on uniprocessor machines, as if you use make -j2 you will get some gain in time in a big compile because while one gcc is doing I/O, the other can be using the CPU and compiling.
Just to be a pedant,
-chris
It'd also be interesting to see if there's a correlation between having a SHITTY ECONOMY and the rise of unemployment in fields who have MORE WORKERS THAN THERE IS DEMAND. But surely that's not possible. Blogging must be the cause.
"Exportation" is a perfectly cromulent word.
What are you talking about? Jedi mind tricks can and do work on arresting officers, even without years of training.
An open letter to the editors of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle:
Your articles are only quasi-interesting. Semi-interesting. You're the margarine of interesting. You're the Slashdot of interesting -- only one calorie, not interesting enough!
Thank you.
Actually, you're both wrong. He used an alpha particle source to ionize the air in the chamber, which then ionized the drops of oil.
Okay, this guy is submitting a question to freaking Ask Slashdot. Let's try to use analogies that these people can understand.
Slashdot weenie? Already taken? Jeez!
There's a ton of photos at http://photos.cc.uq.edu.au/HYSHOT/ and also at http://www.mech.uq.edu.au/hyper/hyshot/HyShot_phot os.html. The former link has some friggin huge jpegs.
There is also a page about the HyShot program itself at http://www.mech.uq.edu.au/hyper/hyshot/
No, a minimum-security prison is no picnic. I have a client in there right now. He says, the trick is kick someone's ass the first day, or become somebody's bitch. Then everything will be alright.
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You don't necessarily have to package anything to get dpkg to know about it. Simply use the "equivs" program: % apt-cache show equivs
...
.
... /usr/local, and use equivs to generate a fake deb telling the packaging system the foo library is installed, and thus all your dependencies will work.
Package: equivs
Description: Circumventing Debian package dependencies
This is a dummy package which can be used to create Debian
packages, which only contain dependency information.
This way, you can make the Debian package management
system believe that equivalents to packages on which other
packages do depend on are actually installed.
Thus, you can build something from source, install it in
On that note, though, I honestly prefer having dpkg and apt-get control all the software installed on my Debian systems. Binary package availibility in the "sid" distribution (or "unstable") is usually only a day or two behind releases of actual source. And for those who fear breakages in sid (which does happen from time to time), there is always the "testing" distribution of Debian, which does not include packages known to be bad by implementing a short waiting period and checking bug tracking systems -- and almost never breaks.
enterprises.atmel.atmelmib.atmelSys.TestModeSettin gsGRP.TestModeRadioConfiguration.0 = Hex: CA CA CA CA CA CA C9 C9 C9 C9 C9 C9 C9 C9
Although not in the same configuration as the article describes, this may be due to the fact that I've never upgraded the firmware on the access point I snmpwalk'd this from. Perhaps I should get busy on that....
Any of you people out there with an upgraded firmware, you should try snmpset under Linux or your UNIX of choice and see what kind of results you get... extra points for verifying the change with the Windows stuff in the article.
Numerically, snmptranslate says that the correct field is .1.3.6.1.4.1.410.1.1.8.8.0, assuming I'm using it right (I called it with the commandline snmptranslate -m +ATMEL-MIB -IR enterprises.atmel.atmelmib.atmelSys.TestModeSettin gsGRP.TestModeRadioConfiguration.0.)
Yeah, you know me!
For the unintiated, MC Hawking lyrics follow.
MC Hawking is Stephen Hawking, physicist and gangsta rapper. Despite three critically acclaimed albums and nearly ten years on the mic, Stephen Hawking remains virtually unknown as a musician. mchawking.com is devoted to Stephen Hawking's career as a lyrical terrorist.
Harm me with harmony.
Doomsday, drop a load on 'em.
Entropy, how can I explain it? I'll take it frame by frame it,
to have you all jumping, shouting saying it.
Let's just say that it's a measure of disorder,
in a system that is closed, like with a border.
It's sorta, like a, well a measurement of randomness,
proposed in 1850 by a German, but wait I digress.
"What the fuck is entropy?", I here the people still exclaiming,
it seems I gotta start the explaining.
You ever drop an egg and on the floor you see it break?
You go and get a mop so you can clean up your mistake.
But did you ever stop to ponder why we know it's true,
if you drop a broken egg you will not get an egg that's new.
That's entropy or E-N-T-R-O to the P to the Y,
the reason why the sun will one day all burn out and die.
Order from disorder is a scientific rarity,
allow me to explain it with a little bit more clarity.
Did I say rarity? I meant impossibility,
at least in a closed system there will always be more entropy.
That's entropy and I hope that you're all down with it,
if you are here's your membership.
Chorus
You down with entropy?
Yeah, you know me! (x3)
Who's down with entropy?
Every last homey!
Defining entropy as disorder's not complete,
'cause disorder as a definition doesn't cover heat.
So my first definition I would now like to withdraw,
and offer one that fits thermodynamics second law.
First we need to understand that entropy is energy,
energy that can't be used to state it more specifically.
In a closed system entropy always goes up,
that's the second law, now you know what's up.
You can't win, you can't break even, you can't leave the game,
'cause entropy will take it all 'though it seems a shame.
The second law, as we now know, is quite clear to state,
that entropy must increase and not dissipate.
Creationists always try to use the second law,
to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.
The second law is quite precise about where it applies,
only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun,
so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!
That, in a nutshell, is what entropy's about,
you're now down with a discount.
Chorus
Hit it!
Doomsday, kick it in!
That said, the installer can and will still work with floppies, CD-ROMs, NFS, HTTP/FTP and whatnot.
giFT.
Admittedly, it is a bit broken now. Fasttrack changed the protocol, but they're working on reverse-engineering it again.
Have a nice day, drive through please.