export TERM_DEVICE=`tty | cut -d/ -f 3-`
if [ "$TERM" = "xterm" ]; then
PS1='\[^[]0;\h:\w [$TERM_DEVICE] [`whoami`]^G\]\h:\w\$ '
else
PS1='\h:\w\$ '
fi
You'll need to convert the ^[ and ^G characters to actual escape characters. Control-V, and then the character (escape or g) for the unititiated. Or, you could use the \xxx method but I'm too lazy to convert to octal.
This probably will only work correctly with bash.
After I'm done with prompt stuff and setting up my CVS environment, I make sure to issue a:
Agreed -- it's good to use a lot of analogies. I like to use post office analogies when I teach older folks about e-mail. It takes some creativity to think of analogies about the web -- it's been so long since I've done this that I don't remember what I did -- but most old folks that I've tutored can get the hang of it pretty quickly as long as you don't try to get into all the messy technical detail of it all. That being said, I think one of the most challenging things to explain is error messages. Sometimes to explain those you have to get into some level of technical detail; my best advice is to try to simplify it as much as possible -- you don't want your internet-learning session to turn into a "trying to explain to non-technical people how DNS works" session.
I just checked my "quake" directory -- most of the files in there are dated 7/12/1996. So my guess is that August is when it hit the shelves, and the beta must have come several months before that. Now, if I could only dig up a copy of qtest and see when the timestamps on that were...
When was the first public beta released, though? I know that beta had the architecture in place... Wasn't it some time before then? If it was, would that count? IANAL.
A co-worker of mine showed be this software which I think does a lot of what you describe. I was impressed with it. It costs money, but there is a trail version on that site.
I've gotten burned twice lately with *nix auto-updaters.
1. My parents have a ppc based system that I installed Yellow Dog Linux on, and installed some network cards in, so it could function as their internet NAT router. I ran the "yup" program the other day, and it updated a lot of system utilities and was very helpful. However, it also upgraded to a different version of the linux kernel at the same time. Now, this wouldn't have been so bad -- but -- ** IT DELETED THE OLD KERNEL!! ** Not good, sir, not good. So along comes my dad to reboot the thing one day when he was moving it around, and when it came back up, since the boot loader hadn't been reconfigured, the old kernel tried to boot. Whoops! (Actually, the kernel itself wasn't deleted, but several other importants pieces close to the kernel, i.e some modules that were dependencies to other modules, etc...) It sure was fun talking my dad through hours of trying to compile modules for the other kernel and getting it installed into the boot loader. (The old kernel was toast -- the "yup" program completely overwrote the old kernel source code)
2. My system got hosed last night when I used "autoslack" to blindly upgrade my system. You'd think I would have learned my lesson -- well -- I partially did, I backed up all my config files first. (Good thing too.) Anyway, I din't figure out exactly what autoslack hosed on my ssytem -- it either upgraded a lot of critical system components to new ones that required a version of glibc that I didn't already have, or it upgraded my glibc, somehow leaving some critical system components confused about what the hell was going on. (things like "ls" and "rm" were completely broken) I ended up doing something like "cd / ; mkdir.hosed ; mv *.hosed ; mv.hosed hosed" and reinstalling a newer version of slack on the system. Ugh.
This reminds me -- I once uncovered an ex-girlfriend that was being unfaithful because she was using a command-line icq client on a box I administrated to talk to her new boyfriend... hah... I was a little suspicious so I just did a:
# tail -f micq.log
one day while she was talking, and after a few messages scrolled by, that was the end of that. My suspicions were confirmed.
As for the question in the heading of this article, I just don't see how using a computer to fall in love with somebody makes it any different than falling in love with someone over any other medium, be it IRL, a pen-pal situation, over the phone, or whatever.
It's like this -- if you use a computer to steal a million dollars, it's ethically the same as if you stole a million physical dollars. The semantics might be different, but you're in the same boat. A million dollars is a million dollars. Cheating on your significant other is cheating on your significant other. I mean -- I would be just as pissed off at my girlfriend if she called up the LiveLinks Phone Dating Service and found someone as if she went looking for someone in a chat room. We're in a relationship -- we need to work out our problems with each other, not turn to some kind of "outside comfort". Just because the computer makes it easier just doesn't make it ethically different.
I bought Baldur's Gate 2 and Icewindale for my girlfriend for her birthday last October, I got it under the premise that I would get like $10-20 back (Iforget how much exactly)... so I followed their damned instructions to the letter, mailed in the forms, and they sent me back a letter in the mail that said I had sent the wrong UPC code! (What the hell?) Of course, their instructions told me to send the *ORIGINAL* UPC code, so I could not do anything to prove that I had in fact sent the right UPC codes to them. Anyone else have this happen to them? I'm quite angry with Black Isle... argh.
If we slow the earth's rotation down enough to make a day last 28 hours, these considerably longer days could mean higher peak temperatures. That could mean considerable climate change.
If you want a 28 hour day, I suggest you spread it over the current 24 hour per day, 7 day week, not impose blazing hot temperatures on everyone for longer.
Here at iHateApple.com
we use WindowsNT machines
to host our website. That
is why is was so easy for
this site to get hacked. We
are currently still hacked
and chances are, won't figure
it out. Why you ask? Because
we are lame and tried fucking
with the platform that Bill
Gates stole. Any way, you will
be redirected to www.apple.com
shortly. Learn from us, don't
host your website on a Windows
machine. It's not smart.
r00ted by -> NewWave
(poster's note: I hope they didn't destroy the data, I kind of wanted to read the response to his letter!)
is here... for those of you who don't want to go through the linked page (which has some sort of script that makes my machine have a heart attack).
It doesn't have much information, though. I just want to know if I can use it behind an IP masquerading linux box. (Or any other NAT router for that matter.) I ordered one anyway. =)
Perhaps liable and slander laws should begin to apply to political campaigns ans well as the general public.
Public campaign financing could also help, so the candidiates are heard equally. It's hard to lose when you spend millions of dollars creating yourself a (usually fake) image.
This point comes up every time the discussion comes up where people are only voting for the "better of two evils" -- but, c'mon people, shouldn't we change the system? How can people effectively vote their hearts if they are too distracted by the FUD in the media about how Gore might lose if Nader gets too many votes?
What we need is some kind of reform -- either I should be able to cast an approve/disapprove vote for any of the candidates, or I should rank them in the order that I would like to see them as president. (or senator, or representative, or whatever.) I think it would be easier to implement the approve/disapprove model, but I think the ranking system would give more more accurate results.
Any thoughts? All I know is that we need to kick this two-party duopoly in the butt.
We believe in empowering citizens and communities.
That means more freedom for you and me. The Gerens want to decentralize power, not take away freedoms. If you happen to be a billionare corporate CEO, however -- you might be very afraid. Another quote: Centralization of wealth and power contributes to social and economic injustice, environmental destruction, and militarization. [...] Decision-making should, as much as possible, remain at the individual and local level, while assuring that civil rights are protected for all citizens.
... and most people see fit to simply replace them, rather than have somebody take a look at it and fix it. By the time a little-used machine of today goes caput, it will be so obsolete that it won't be worth trying to fix it.
So, sure, maybe people won't be so thrilled about buying new PCs. But when hard drives crash, CPU fans go out, power supplies bite the dust, and lightning strikes, a lot of people are going to find it worth their while to buy a new PC rather than trying to get their old one fixed, especially if it's a couple years down the road.
A good answer to this would be to stop corporate subsidies -- the U.S. government actually *PAYS* multinational corporations to exploit foreign labor, in the form of tax breaks, etc. That's why I said we should vote those losers in office out! =)
Yeah, maybe you can find and keep a job. Good for you. But let's take a look at the bigger picture...
These people are willing to work (or perhaps forced to work) for one third the salary of a U.S. worker. The reason this was voted in is because the high-tech industry wants to flood the job market and lower the wage scale, hence cutting costs. Why voted in by such a high percentage? Because both the democrats and the republicans are in bed with Big Business, and the high-tech industry is no exception. So, sure, you might be able to find a job, if either a) it's worth it to Big Business to pay you 3x more, or b) the wage scale has lowered enough so that it's affordable to hire you.
I have a feeling we are going to be seeing a lot more immigrant "code monkeys", but I wouldn't go so far as to say that all immigrants are as lacking in skill as you make them out to be. That's just unfair. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that a lot of them are better educated than we are -- the U.S., you remember, has a piss-poor overall education system. It may just be that language and cultural barriers are clouding Americans' perceptions of them; I don't know.
Personally, I think the only way to fix this is to get large numbers of people to not vote for (as Ralph Nader and others call them) the Republicrats. Vote libertarian, green, populist progressive, whatever, but don't settle for the status quo.
Correction -- six billion people on the planet. =)
You're right, of course. We can't go pooh-poohing the melting of the polar ice caps. This is serious stuff. And I admit, the timescales in my original post were a bit off. (I didn't have a reference handy.)
Anyway, I was merely pointing out that 45% of the ice at the north pole could be gone and sea levels might not even rise one micrometer. However, it's very important that we don't play this off just because the sea levels are not rising -- I should have stressed that more in my post. I see people all over/. saying "but the sea levels are not rising! bunk alert! bunk alert!" and it worries me; it's almost as if nobody can be convinced global warming is real until their favorite beach is a few miles into the ocean...
Think of a glass of water filled with ice. Good -- now think of what happens when the ice melts. Does the cup overflow?
Global warming isn't so much an issue of melting the ice caps and overflowing the oceans onto the cities (I suppose if enough ice melted that was significantly above sea level, that *could* start to happen), as it is a problem of -- when climates rapildly change, what happens to the life that used to live in those specific climates? There are a lot of plants and animals that are particuarly sensitive to climate. When it changes over the course of a few hundred years, the plants can naturally migrate. But plants can't move that fast when climate changes rapidly. (over a period of a few years, let's say.)
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export TERM_DEVICE=`tty | cut -d/ -f 3-`
if [ "$TERM" = "xterm" ]; then
PS1='\[^[]0;\h:\w [$TERM_DEVICE] [`whoami`]^G\]\h:\w\$ '
else
PS1='\h:\w\$ '
fi
You'll need to convert the ^[ and ^G characters to actual escape characters. Control-V, and then the character (escape or g) for the unititiated. Or, you could use the \xxx method but I'm too lazy to convert to octal.
This probably will only work correctly with bash.
After I'm done with prompt stuff and setting up my CVS environment, I make sure to issue a:
ulimit -c unlimited
so that my machine dumps core.
Agreed -- it's good to use a lot of analogies. I like to use post office analogies when I teach older folks about e-mail. It takes some creativity to think of analogies about the web -- it's been so long since I've done this that I don't remember what I did -- but most old folks that I've tutored can get the hang of it pretty quickly as long as you don't try to get into all the messy technical detail of it all. That being said, I think one of the most challenging things to explain is error messages. Sometimes to explain those you have to get into some level of technical detail; my best advice is to try to simplify it as much as possible -- you don't want your internet-learning session to turn into a "trying to explain to non-technical people how DNS works" session.
I just checked my "quake" directory -- most of the files in there are dated 7/12/1996. So my guess is that August is when it hit the shelves, and the beta must have come several months before that. Now, if I could only dig up a copy of qtest and see when the timestamps on that were...
When was the first public beta released, though? I know that beta had the architecture in place... Wasn't it some time before then? If it was, would that count? IANAL.
A co-worker of mine showed be this software which I think does a lot of what you describe. I was impressed with it. It costs money, but there is a trail version on that site.
I've gotten burned twice lately with *nix auto-updaters.
.hosed ; mv * .hosed ; mv .hosed hosed" and reinstalling a newer version of slack on the system. Ugh.
1. My parents have a ppc based system that I installed Yellow Dog Linux on, and installed some network cards in, so it could function as their internet NAT router. I ran the "yup" program the other day, and it updated a lot of system utilities and was very helpful. However, it also upgraded to a different version of the linux kernel at the same time. Now, this wouldn't have been so bad -- but -- ** IT DELETED THE OLD KERNEL!! ** Not good, sir, not good. So along comes my dad to reboot the thing one day when he was moving it around, and when it came back up, since the boot loader hadn't been reconfigured, the old kernel tried to boot. Whoops! (Actually, the kernel itself wasn't deleted, but several other importants pieces close to the kernel, i.e some modules that were dependencies to other modules, etc...) It sure was fun talking my dad through hours of trying to compile modules for the other kernel and getting it installed into the boot loader. (The old kernel was toast -- the "yup" program completely overwrote the old kernel source code)
2. My system got hosed last night when I used "autoslack" to blindly upgrade my system. You'd think I would have learned my lesson -- well -- I partially did, I backed up all my config files first. (Good thing too.) Anyway, I din't figure out exactly what autoslack hosed on my ssytem -- it either upgraded a lot of critical system components to new ones that required a version of glibc that I didn't already have, or it upgraded my glibc, somehow leaving some critical system components confused about what the hell was going on. (things like "ls" and "rm" were completely broken) I ended up doing something like "cd / ; mkdir
This reminds me -- I once uncovered an ex-girlfriend that was being unfaithful because she was using a command-line icq client on a box I administrated to talk to her new boyfriend... hah... I was a little suspicious so I just did a:
# tail -f micq.log
one day while she was talking, and after a few messages scrolled by, that was the end of that. My suspicions were confirmed.
As for the question in the heading of this article, I just don't see how using a computer to fall in love with somebody makes it any different than falling in love with someone over any other medium, be it IRL, a pen-pal situation, over the phone, or whatever.
It's like this -- if you use a computer to steal a million dollars, it's ethically the same as if you stole a million physical dollars. The semantics might be different, but you're in the same boat. A million dollars is a million dollars. Cheating on your significant other is cheating on your significant other. I mean -- I would be just as pissed off at my girlfriend if she called up the LiveLinks Phone Dating Service and found someone as if she went looking for someone in a chat room. We're in a relationship -- we need to work out our problems with each other, not turn to some kind of "outside comfort". Just because the computer makes it easier just doesn't make it ethically different.
I bought Baldur's Gate 2 and Icewindale for my girlfriend for her birthday last October, I got it under the premise that I would get like $10-20 back (Iforget how much exactly) ... so I followed their damned instructions to the letter, mailed in the forms, and they sent me back a letter in the mail that said I had sent the wrong UPC code! (What the hell?) Of course, their instructions told me to send the *ORIGINAL* UPC code, so I could not do anything to prove that I had in fact sent the right UPC codes to them. Anyone else have this happen to them? I'm quite angry with Black Isle... argh.
Careful there, cowboy.
If we slow the earth's rotation down enough to make a day last 28 hours, these considerably longer days could mean higher peak temperatures. That could mean considerable climate change.
If you want a 28 hour day, I suggest you spread it over the current 24 hour per day, 7 day week, not impose blazing hot temperatures on everyone for longer.
Here at iHateApple.com
we use WindowsNT machines
to host our website. That
is why is was so easy for
this site to get hacked. We
are currently still hacked
and chances are, won't figure
it out. Why you ask? Because
we are lame and tried fucking
with the platform that Bill
Gates stole. Any way, you will
be redirected to www.apple.com
shortly. Learn from us, don't
host your website on a Windows
machine. It's not smart.
r00ted by -> NewWave
(poster's note: I hope they didn't destroy the data, I kind of wanted to read the response to his letter!)
is here ... for those of you who don't want to go through the linked page (which has some sort of script that makes my machine have a heart attack).
It doesn't have much information, though. I just want to know if I can use it behind an IP masquerading linux box. (Or any other NAT router for that matter.) I ordered one anyway. =)
I don't know what people are thinking.
Why vote for the winner?
It's a lot easier to complain if you don't vote for the winner! =)
... or am I the only one who saw the disclaimer at the bottom of the article that read:
Note: This article is a piece of satire meant to brighten your day.
Nah, I must be seeing things.
Maybe the page was updated after it was slashdotted?
Perhaps liable and slander laws should begin to apply to political campaigns ans well as the general public.
Public campaign financing could also help, so the candidiates are heard equally. It's hard to lose when you spend millions of dollars creating yourself a (usually fake) image.
This point comes up every time the discussion comes up where people are only voting for the "better of two evils" -- but, c'mon people, shouldn't we change the system? How can people effectively vote their hearts if they are too distracted by the FUD in the media about how Gore might lose if Nader gets too many votes?
What we need is some kind of reform -- either I should be able to cast an approve/disapprove vote for any of the candidates, or I should rank them in the order that I would like to see them as president. (or senator, or representative, or whatever.) I think it would be easier to implement the approve/disapprove model, but I think the ranking system would give more more accurate results.
Any thoughts? All I know is that we need to kick this two-party duopoly in the butt.
Sure you will gain freedom. That's one of the fundamentals under which the Green Party operates:
from the Green Party platform --
We believe in empowering citizens and communities.
That means more freedom for you and me. The Gerens want to decentralize power, not take away freedoms. If you happen to be a billionare corporate CEO, however -- you might be very afraid. Another quote: Centralization of wealth and power contributes to social and economic injustice, environmental destruction, and militarization. [...] Decision-making should, as much as possible, remain at the individual and local level, while assuring that civil rights are protected for all citizens.
... and most people see fit to simply replace them, rather than have somebody take a look at it and fix it. By the time a little-used machine of today goes caput, it will be so obsolete that it won't be worth trying to fix it.
So, sure, maybe people won't be so thrilled about buying new PCs. But when hard drives crash, CPU fans go out, power supplies bite the dust, and lightning strikes, a lot of people are going to find it worth their while to buy a new PC rather than trying to get their old one fixed, especially if it's a couple years down the road.
(Oops, accidental submittal. sorry for the dupe)
A good answer to this would be to stop corporate subsidies -- the U.S. government actually *PAYS* multinational corporations to exploit foreign labor, in the form of tax breaks, etc. That's why I said we should vote those losers in office out! =)
Good point.
Yeah, maybe you can find and keep a job. Good for you. But let's take a look at the bigger picture...
These people are willing to work (or perhaps forced to work) for one third the salary of a U.S. worker. The reason this was voted in is because the high-tech industry wants to flood the job market and lower the wage scale, hence cutting costs. Why voted in by such a high percentage? Because both the democrats and the republicans are in bed with Big Business, and the high-tech industry is no exception. So, sure, you might be able to find a job, if either a) it's worth it to Big Business to pay you 3x more, or b) the wage scale has lowered enough so that it's affordable to hire you.
I have a feeling we are going to be seeing a lot more immigrant "code monkeys", but I wouldn't go so far as to say that all immigrants are as lacking in skill as you make them out to be. That's just unfair. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that a lot of them are better educated than we are -- the U.S., you remember, has a piss-poor overall education system. It may just be that language and cultural barriers are clouding Americans' perceptions of them; I don't know.
Personally, I think the only way to fix this is to get large numbers of people to not vote for (as Ralph Nader and others call them) the Republicrats. Vote libertarian, green, populist progressive, whatever, but don't settle for the status quo.
$ fortune -o -m . | rot13 | grep money | grep Cocaine
Cocaine is nature's way of telling you you have too much money.
Yeah -- they might need it in order to read the DVDs we send up there....
Oh, wait... d'oh!
Correction -- six billion people on the planet. =)
/. saying "but the sea levels are not rising! bunk alert! bunk alert!" and it worries me; it's almost as if nobody can be convinced global warming is real until their favorite beach is a few miles into the ocean...
You're right, of course. We can't go pooh-poohing the melting of the polar ice caps. This is serious stuff. And I admit, the timescales in my original post were a bit off. (I didn't have a reference handy.)
Anyway, I was merely pointing out that 45% of the ice at the north pole could be gone and sea levels might not even rise one micrometer. However, it's very important that we don't play this off just because the sea levels are not rising -- I should have stressed that more in my post. I see people all over
An interesting question, but --
Think of a glass of water filled with ice. Good -- now think of what happens when the ice melts. Does the cup overflow?
Global warming isn't so much an issue of melting the ice caps and overflowing the oceans onto the cities (I suppose if enough ice melted that was significantly above sea level, that *could* start to happen), as it is a problem of -- when climates rapildly change, what happens to the life that used to live in those specific climates? There are a lot of plants and animals that are particuarly sensitive to climate. When it changes over the course of a few hundred years, the plants can naturally migrate. But plants can't move that fast when climate changes rapidly. (over a period of a few years, let's say.)