Even cooler than barcodes is RFID. You don't even have to aim to get it to scan correctly. The only problem is the printers that you let you arbitrarily mark the tags are expensive; about $1000, whereas barcodes can be printed on anything with black ink.
BUT!!... optical scanners are expenive ($250 and up). Yet you can get a RFID USB reader for about $60. It comes with a few premade tags. You can buy pre-signed RFID tags for less than $1.00 each, and a sheet of them can usually be run through a printer; then you could have barcodes AND RFID.
We're considering using such a system to do inventory control. Fun!
Taking the multiverse theory at face value, therefore, means accepting that virtual worlds are more numerous than "real" ones. There is no reason to expect our world -- the one in which you are reading this right now -- to be real as opposed to a simulation.
I mean, what's the problem with this? Until we find evidence to the contrary, it remains a distinct possibility. And it borders on the realm of so-what. Is the knowledge that you're actually a participant in a very large simulation going to change how you live your life?
I mean, are you annoyed that when you fall, you accelerate at exactly 9.8 m/s^2 (in a vacuum) towards the center of the earth, without fail? Those unimaginative programmers...
1) In Win2K... Change the Logon path for yourself... run mmc.exe %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\lusrmgr.msc And find yourself, go to properties, then profile, then set the Logon path to the drive letter (and perhaps a safety-subfolder) that contains your user profile when the USB key is attached. AFAIK it supports UDF filesystems on zip-like things as well (you may need UDF tools like DirectCD if it doesn't work)
2) In Unix... In FreeBSD and Linux, you should be able to create and write to UDF filesystems on anything that looks like a SCSI device (IE a USB flash disk). And OSX 10.1 is UDF-ready for reading and writing on arbitrary devices (incl. usb hard disks/flash disks). Set up your/etc/fstab file to recognize but not automagically mount/mnt/dongle (noauto), then configure your automounter to mount it when you access it. Make sure you add support for umass under FreeBSD, and usb-storage in Linux. Then, set up an auto.home NIS map and again use your favorite automounter to map/home/yourname to/mnt/dongle.
I had this same feeling. Having watched and been impressed by the show, the movie was a bit disappointing because it just wasn't EPIC enough to be called the Cowboy Bebop movie. I mean, the topic was serious, and the team pulled together to save the day. But I just wasn't very excited while watching it; they got into and out of worse situations in the show itself! I guess my standards were just too high.
And I can undestand how someone who hadn't watched the show would be confused by it. It made sense to me why each character did what they did because I was already familiar with them. This actually annoyed me because I wanted to know the bad guys a little better, but we miss out on that. (The characters all needed equal development, after all..., even if that means less development than I would have appreciated.)
I also want to throw out the realization that this movie was NOT underadvertised. Unless you had seen the show, there was not a real good reason to see the movie. (OTH, if you saw the show, you would be chomping at the bit to find out when and where it would receive its theatrical release.) A newcomer would totally be lost in it, and that's probably why people complained about the lack of a coherent plot. Show watchers would shrug and say, well this shit happens ALL the time on Mars, and they know the Bebop team knows exactly what it needs to do, without pointless explanations to placate the viewer. The long time viewer just wants to see how they resolve the problems, and if they get the money. Also they're primarily interested in the Mrs. Valentine fan service.:{ meh, boys.
There should be a recommendation, not a specification. Let me explain:
There will be some linux systems wherein zero file manipulation occurs on the system image. Perhaps the files are rsynced from a master, or certain filesystems are network mounted. Or perhaps the system is COTS and boots from flash. Clearly, a package management system would be inappropriate in each case.
Or, perhaps the system is running in a limited environment, and the most basic techniques are being used to maintain it (ie shell scripts, cp, mv, ln, etc.) to reduce space or complexity.
Finally, choosing one true package manager would be limiting. Why? Because we have at least 3 or 4 modern choices right now, and if one gets chosen for linux, the others might stagnate, or be adopted by other Unicies. And they could become popular, only to break the LSB when we clamor to get them back. And why should the application developer be limited to how he chooses to distribute his software? A developer for Windows users will have his pick of at least 3 different installation systems (with the back-end state, but not dependancy management, handled by Windows). And it's no easier to do "relocations" and "dependancy management" with their systems than RPM or apt or anything else.
Here's what SHOULD happen.
1) We create a standard based on something that no one uses on linux right now, namely the Sys V package tools (like Solaris). It becomes a recommendation (not a required inclusion), but then we also stipulate that IF a package manager is bundled, it can't be certified LFS-compliant unless...
2) We ensure that an LFS compliant package manager can do everything those tools do, AND, the provide the legacy interface so that Solaris admins can still hack it.
3) We provide a convienent set of extensions to the package management tools that address certain oft-sited shortcomings. The biggest would be automatic dependancy analysis and a way to fetch the required patches or missing components. Also it would be nice to have a way to "force" things that wouldn't normally be allowed, and a way to remember that they were forced.
4) (Optional?) Force the package managers to use a common format for storing installed packages, etc. so they can be swapped out without fear of losing the package information. Perhaps not the entire backend, but enough to ensure the Sys V package interface is unpurturbed by the change behind the scenes.
With a recommendation, we can be sure that a package manager, if available, will function consistently across the various package management systems.
It's "undefined". When approaching the value of a function from different directions in the complex plane gives you different numbers, the value of the function there is called undefined. None of the points nearby line up, but it's not "in the middle", that would imply it switches direction and comes back down!!! (which it doesn't). So, we say that it just doesn't have a value in there. In fact, the domain of the function 1/x expressedly prohibits x to be zero, usually in math proofs you see something or other over x where x != 0. Just so that you don't forget.:-)
The fact that the concept of dividing by zero doesn't make sense to you is evidence for that! You know?
On the other hand, the directed limits THEMSELVES (i.e. the end of the pattern 1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, etc.) DO exist, and it's the obvious value (+inf. from the positive axis, -inf from the negative real axis, etc.). But this works because you aren't dividing by zero, but asking what the sequence is approaching. THAT is defined... it's evident from the series.
...than the balloon attempt. I mean, aside from the technical details and data that will be gathered in the attempt which may or may not be useful in later high-altitude endeavors; this stuff is mostly for getting in that coffee table book.
The website is really, really shiny, btw. Lots of pretty photographs. What gives... ^_^
Anyway, I wanna see more research into unmanned high altitude/solar powered aircraft because I think that they are the next affordable mobile platform for doing land surveys and such; forget satellites. That's too expensive.
unless of course the poster doesn't live in the US. I note that he had trouble finding a blockbuster to suit a gamer's needs; where does he live, Canada? ^_-
You can't walk past a Starbucks before coming across a Blockbuster in this great nation.
Lilo and Stitch was a damn fine movie too. It had been awhile since Disney released a movie that got that special balance between kid-friendly and more sophisticated adult humor. And it was beautiful (being set in Hawaii helped there). No silly music, (except for THE KING), and a weighty plotline too.
Spirited Away wasn't up against just any flavor-of-the-year Disney flick. The fact that Disney lost out to an import in the category carries extra weight.
Even I knew that. I mean, stuff keeps falling in them. You know that last significant figure to which they measured the weight? About 10^-8 percent of that are my keys, for sure.
Serious crackpot? Maybe. But so are all the authors of the weblog.
I have never seen so many crackpots critizing so many crackpots. Jesus christ you people are MINDNUMBING and you make my brain want to ooze out onto the floor and make me climb into bed.
Dependable? Yes Sharp? Yes Hygeine? Always well maintained
But they don't often like to: 1) be imaginative or speculative, and in that vein 2) take risks. Also, I find them to sometimes be ill-tempered, overly confident, or sometimes unintelligent or gullible. The best of them, however, were the ones who went into the service to get free education and world experience. If you've been lucky enough to get a college education early without much financial obligation, avoiding a military stint is perfectly logical. Unless you really like the idea of inflicting personal and violent retribution on others without the need to understand the reasons behind it. Those people tend to be the ill-tempered and overly-confident.
Also I will warn you that you can't impress your way up the corporate ladder. Eventually your superiors will become intimidated by you and you will be silently ousted by your peers. Instead, you must take risks, and occaisionally get lucky (or be very smart), thus convincing the board, chairs or whomever that you are the mover and shaker that needs to be promoted.
Maybe I see this because of the environment I work in (defense contractor), but I think it scales across industries. And you're going to have to lose that chip on your shoulder, marine, if you want anyone to really take you seriously.
It has NO way of storing executable code onboard unless there's a flash or EPROM chip installed.
Are you sure? Because when the BIOS went a-callin for a PXE boot device, something on the network card had to answer with a BOOTP attempt, and my guess is that it is an onboard EPROM. They sell those cards with and without them, and from his description, it sounds like there was one installed.
Unless it was built into an overzealous motherboard BIOS (assumed it could find an NE2000 compatible card?)... but I highly doubt it.
Speaking of antisocial hardware: If you have a Dell Precision 410, note that you can use both the built-in IDE and SCSI at the same time. But if you install a secondary IDE card (for doing, let say, IDE raid), the motherboard helpfully disables the existing IDE chipset for you. There is NO WAY to prevent it from doing that, and I have not had success trying to get it to reinitialize at a later point under OS control. This is quite frustrating when your boot drive was IDE, and you then have to scurry to find a SCSI drive big enough to hold its contents (and you thought you were going to save money with IDE raid... v_v)
Only do it if the email addresses you send to them are disposable. That means they aren't email addreses anyone uses for anything important. When you hit your friends up for one, don't use the main one. Ask them to register a new hotmail account and use THAT one.
It may be that SchoolMall is smarter than they sound and they will disallow just email addresses, especially if they come from hotmail or yahoo where they can be created easily. In that case, I will donate to you as many fake email addresses as you desire. And if I'm lucky, maybe you'll give me a receipt when SchoolMall makes the donation, so I can deduct it on my taxes, right? ^_^
1) Anything that to shareholders of the constituent record companies looks like lost sales
2) You having more informed choices (hence bringing the commodotized music market closer to a free market)
3) Losing ground to new distribution technology. Or realizing that record companies and "labels" are becoming less important for the purpose of getting music to an audience (being replaced by the internet, and direct marketing)
I still don't know how to uninstall anything that i've compiled...
If you still have the source code, (preferably the build tree), use "make uninstall" as opposed to "make install"
If you deleted the build tree after you installed the app, untar it again, then re-run the configure script from last time (use your command history!). Then do the make uninstall.
And if that fails, just use find / -ctime (flags, date range, read the manpage) to find the files that were installed or moved aside on a certain day, and do it manually. There is no registry to mess up in linux, so this is perfectly acceptable. It would have been smart to install the app in/opt/app-name and create soft links in/usr/local/bin if you really wanted to be neat about it. This also makes it easy to install multiple versions of software in parallel. Wheee
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Even cooler than barcodes is RFID. You don't even have to aim to get it to scan correctly. The only problem is the printers that you let you arbitrarily mark the tags are expensive; about $1000, whereas barcodes can be printed on anything with black ink.
BUT!!... optical scanners are expenive ($250 and up). Yet you can get a RFID USB reader for about $60. It comes with a few premade tags. You can buy pre-signed RFID tags for less than $1.00 each, and a sheet of them can usually be run through a printer; then you could have barcodes AND RFID.
We're considering using such a system to do inventory control. Fun!
I understand it lets you get away with not having to treat the observer of the quantum event as seperate and somehow special.
This seems less arbitrary to me... Copenhagen's interpretation makes a big assumption about the role of the observer.
Taking the multiverse theory at face value, therefore, means accepting that virtual worlds are more numerous than "real" ones. There is no reason to expect our world -- the one in which you are reading this right now -- to be real as opposed to a simulation.
I mean, what's the problem with this? Until we find evidence to the contrary, it remains a distinct possibility. And it borders on the realm of so-what. Is the knowledge that you're actually a participant in a very large simulation going to change how you live your life?
I mean, are you annoyed that when you fall, you accelerate at exactly 9.8 m/s^2 (in a vacuum) towards the center of the earth, without fail? Those unimaginative programmers...
1) In Win2K...
/etc/fstab file to recognize but not automagically mount /mnt/dongle (noauto), then configure your automounter to mount it when you access it. Make sure you add support for umass under FreeBSD, and usb-storage in Linux. Then, set up an auto.home NIS map and again use your favorite automounter to map /home/yourname to /mnt/dongle.
Change the Logon path for yourself... run
mmc.exe %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\lusrmgr.msc
And find yourself, go to properties, then profile, then set the Logon path to the drive letter (and perhaps a safety-subfolder) that contains your user profile when the USB key is attached. AFAIK it supports UDF filesystems on zip-like things as well (you may need UDF tools like DirectCD if it doesn't work)
2) In Unix...
In FreeBSD and Linux, you should be able to create and write to UDF filesystems on anything that looks like a SCSI device (IE a USB flash disk). And OSX 10.1 is UDF-ready for reading and writing on arbitrary devices (incl. usb hard disks/flash disks). Set up your
I had this same feeling. Having watched and been impressed by the show, the movie was a bit disappointing because it just wasn't EPIC enough to be called the Cowboy Bebop movie. I mean, the topic was serious, and the team pulled together to save the day. But I just wasn't very excited while watching it; they got into and out of worse situations in the show itself! I guess my standards were just too high.
:{
And I can undestand how someone who hadn't watched the show would be confused by it. It made sense to me why each character did what they did because I was already familiar with them. This actually annoyed me because I wanted to know the bad guys a little better, but we miss out on that. (The characters all needed equal development, after all..., even if that means less development than I would have appreciated.)
I also want to throw out the realization that this movie was NOT underadvertised. Unless you had seen the show, there was not a real good reason to see the movie. (OTH, if you saw the show, you would be chomping at the bit to find out when and where it would receive its theatrical release.)
A newcomer would totally be lost in it, and that's probably why people complained about the lack of a coherent plot. Show watchers would shrug and say, well this shit happens ALL the time on Mars, and they know the Bebop team knows exactly what it needs to do, without pointless explanations to placate the viewer. The long time viewer just wants to see how they resolve the problems, and if they get the money. Also they're primarily interested in the Mrs. Valentine fan service.
meh, boys.
CP/M
Perhaps he is speaking of Alpha ...
Exactly. But it's she. Thanks!
is that each one is 2 syllables. Hence, it's easy to partition them off in a noisy environment without wondering if you're hearing 1 or 2 digits.
There should be a recommendation, not a specification. Let me explain:
There will be some linux systems wherein zero file manipulation occurs on the system image. Perhaps the files are rsynced from a master, or certain filesystems are network mounted. Or perhaps the system is COTS and boots from flash. Clearly, a package management system would be inappropriate in each case.
Or, perhaps the system is running in a limited environment, and the most basic techniques are being used to maintain it (ie shell scripts, cp, mv, ln, etc.) to reduce space or complexity.
Finally, choosing one true package manager would be limiting. Why? Because we have at least 3 or 4 modern choices right now, and if one gets chosen for linux, the others might stagnate, or be adopted by other Unicies. And they could become popular, only to break the LSB when we clamor to get them back.
And why should the application developer be limited to how he chooses to distribute his software? A developer for Windows users will have his pick of at least 3 different installation systems (with the back-end state, but not dependancy management, handled by Windows). And it's no easier to do "relocations" and "dependancy management" with their systems than RPM or apt or anything else.
Here's what SHOULD happen.
1) We create a standard based on something that no one uses on linux right now, namely the Sys V package tools (like Solaris). It becomes a recommendation (not a required inclusion), but then we also stipulate that IF a package manager is bundled, it can't be certified LFS-compliant unless...
2) We ensure that an LFS compliant package manager can do everything those tools do, AND, the provide the legacy interface so that Solaris admins can still hack it.
3) We provide a convienent set of extensions to the package management tools that address certain oft-sited shortcomings. The biggest would be automatic dependancy analysis and a way to fetch the required patches or missing components. Also it would be nice to have a way to "force" things that wouldn't normally be allowed, and a way to remember that they were forced.
4) (Optional?) Force the package managers to use a common format for storing installed packages, etc. so they can be swapped out without fear of losing the package information. Perhaps not the entire backend, but enough to ensure the Sys V package interface is unpurturbed by the change behind the scenes.
With a recommendation, we can be sure that a package manager, if available, will function consistently across the various package management systems.
What do you mean say not to another .com era?!
::bawls::
I want my free mountain bikes that I used to get when I appeared at trade shows.
Please google, PLEASE!!! Rei needs a pretty new one with the claw tires and sports bottle holder. ^_^,
(april fools)
(and it's not "canceling out")
:-)
It's "undefined". When approaching the value of a function from different directions in the complex plane gives you different numbers, the value of the function there is called undefined. None of the points nearby line up, but it's not "in the middle", that would imply it switches direction and comes back down!!! (which it doesn't). So, we say that it just doesn't have a value in there. In fact, the domain of the function 1/x expressedly prohibits x to be zero, usually in math proofs you see something or other over x where x != 0. Just so that you don't forget.
The fact that the concept of dividing by zero doesn't make sense to you is evidence for that! You know?
On the other hand, the directed limits THEMSELVES (i.e. the end of the pattern 1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, etc.) DO exist, and it's the obvious value (+inf. from the positive axis, -inf from the negative real axis, etc.). But this works because you aren't dividing by zero, but asking what the sequence is approaching. THAT is defined... it's evident from the series.
...than the balloon attempt. I mean, aside from the technical details and data that will be gathered in the attempt which may or may not be useful in later high-altitude endeavors; this stuff is mostly for getting in that coffee table book.
The website is really, really shiny, btw. Lots of pretty photographs. What gives... ^_^
Anyway, I wanna see more research into unmanned high altitude/solar powered aircraft because I think that they are the next affordable mobile platform for doing land surveys and such; forget satellites. That's too expensive.
unless of course the poster doesn't live in the US. I note that he had trouble finding a blockbuster to suit a gamer's needs; where does he live, Canada? ^_-
You can't walk past a Starbucks before coming across a Blockbuster in this great nation.
Lilo and Stitch was a damn fine movie too. It had been awhile since Disney released a movie that got that special balance between kid-friendly and more sophisticated adult humor. And it was beautiful (being set in Hawaii helped there). No silly music, (except for THE KING), and a weighty plotline too.
Spirited Away wasn't up against just any flavor-of-the-year Disney flick. The fact that Disney lost out to an import in the category carries extra weight.
I'm sorry everyone, but global warming is caused by my Nvidia FX card.
Even I knew that. I mean, stuff keeps falling in them. You know that last significant figure to which they measured the weight? About 10^-8 percent of that are my keys, for sure.
Serious crackpot? Maybe.
But so are all the authors of the weblog.
I have never seen so many crackpots critizing so many crackpots. Jesus christ you people are MINDNUMBING and you make my brain want to ooze out onto the floor and make me climb into bed.
I've worked with your type.
Dependable? Yes
Sharp? Yes
Hygeine? Always well maintained
But they don't often like to: 1) be imaginative or speculative, and in that vein 2) take risks. Also, I find them to sometimes be ill-tempered, overly confident, or sometimes unintelligent or gullible.
The best of them, however, were the ones who went into the service to get free education and world experience. If you've been lucky enough to get a college education early without much financial obligation, avoiding a military stint is perfectly logical. Unless you really like the idea of inflicting personal and violent retribution on others without the need to understand the reasons behind it. Those people tend to be the ill-tempered and overly-confident.
Also I will warn you that you can't impress your way up the corporate ladder. Eventually your superiors will become intimidated by you and you will be silently ousted by your peers. Instead, you must take risks, and occaisionally get lucky (or be very smart), thus convincing the board, chairs or whomever that you are the mover and shaker that needs to be promoted.
Maybe I see this because of the environment I work in (defense contractor), but I think it scales across industries. And you're going to have to lose that chip on your shoulder, marine, if you want anyone to really take you seriously.
More info
any other info about this?
http://www.grinta.net/doc/phrack.html
It has NO way of storing executable code onboard unless there's a flash or EPROM chip installed.
Are you sure? Because when the BIOS went a-callin for a PXE boot device, something on the network card had to answer with a BOOTP attempt, and my guess is that it is an onboard EPROM. They sell those cards with and without them, and from his description, it sounds like there was one installed.
Unless it was built into an overzealous motherboard BIOS (assumed it could find an NE2000 compatible card?)... but I highly doubt it.
Speaking of antisocial hardware: If you have a Dell Precision 410, note that you can use both the built-in IDE and SCSI at the same time. But if you install a secondary IDE card (for doing, let say, IDE raid), the motherboard helpfully disables the existing IDE chipset for you. There is NO WAY to prevent it from doing that, and I have not had success trying to get it to reinitialize at a later point under OS control. This is quite frustrating when your boot drive was IDE, and you then have to scurry to find a SCSI drive big enough to hold its contents (and you thought you were going to save money with IDE raid... v_v)
Only do it if the email addresses you send to them are disposable. That means they aren't email addreses anyone uses for anything important. When you hit your friends up for one, don't use the main one. Ask them to register a new hotmail account and use THAT one.
It may be that SchoolMall is smarter than they sound and they will disallow just email addresses, especially if they come from hotmail or yahoo where they can be created easily. In that case, I will donate to you as many fake email addresses as you desire. And if I'm lucky, maybe you'll give me a receipt when SchoolMall makes the donation, so I can deduct it on my taxes, right? ^_^
1) Anything that to shareholders of the constituent record companies looks like lost sales
2) You having more informed choices (hence bringing the commodotized music market closer to a free market)
3) Losing ground to new distribution technology. Or realizing that record companies and "labels" are becoming less important for the purpose of getting music to an audience (being replaced by the internet, and direct marketing)
I still don't know how to uninstall anything that i've compiled...
/opt/app-name and create soft links in /usr/local/bin if you really wanted to be neat about it. This also makes it easy to install multiple versions of software in parallel. Wheee
If you still have the source code, (preferably the build tree), use "make uninstall" as opposed to "make install"
If you deleted the build tree after you installed the app, untar it again, then re-run the configure script from last time (use your command history!). Then do the make uninstall.
And if that fails, just use find / -ctime (flags, date range, read the manpage) to find the files that were installed or moved aside on a certain day, and do it manually. There is no registry to mess up in linux, so this is perfectly acceptable.
It would have been smart to install the app in