Couldn't they just go to 4.10 and up? I know there are many different standards for versioning numbers but they look like 'Major.Minor' with no '.Revision'. N/M they do use.Revision? I'm currently running KDE 3.5.9. 4.10.x should still work though, right?
Crypto is very useful and transparent too.. key exchange is quick. It's not for hiding from a dictatorship either. It's for talking to your friends on a public network.
Honestly i think ICQ was a better messenger than MSN. AIM seems be to the most popular in the US. Most of the AIM users don't use the official client but Pidgin or Meebo or Gtalk or whatever floats the boat.
As far as MSN pioneering anything, lets take a short history lesson.
1996 - ICQ released 1997 - AOL Instant Messenger released 1999 - MSN Messenger released
It's fun to SSH into your home box and use your IM client from there. Especially if the network you're on prevents you from using an IM locally. Actually, this is pretty funny... IM'ing is just a command-line interface for talking anyways. You should only be talking to other people with pictures! instead of flaunting your l33t CLI talking, hah.
I know what your are saying though, some people are practically religious about CLI. I prefer a simple GUI for most things and CLI for any repair work or system admin.
I can take a C# program written in MonoDevelop in linux and copy it to a windows machine and run it. No modifications or extra libraries required. I've only been into mono for 5-6 months and maybe things were different before then.. but it works great right now.
The only feature i've personally seen that Mono hasn't fully supported yet is System.IO.Port.SerialPort and i really really want my C# apps (with GTK# not winforms) to talk to my arduino in windows AND linux with no modifications. eek, really long sentence. Anyways I enjoy writing C# as much as C++ but i need a fully functional SerialPort!
For kicks i checked out bing. It looks nearly identical to google : / The news page does, for sure. I don't have JS enabled for either site, so that might be why. The top nav bars are identical too. The shopping pages look different! Ok, searched for "arduino" on both. Google wins that one. Bing only showed one arduino item (a book, not even the device) and google had all correct results minus one. Ohh, bing images looks good.. correctly showing all arduino pictures too. Ah, but i can't click on anything.. must need javascript enabled. Google is showing similar pictures.. and works without javascript.
I'm still sold on google. Bing looks much cleaner than google though. Google still looks geeky with it's "I did your search in (0.04 seconds)" thing.. can't see that as being very useful. Bing looks more polished but Google is more functional.
Those are commands, symbols for something. They don't need to be descriptive. You have to memorize what it is, autocomplete can't know what your intentions are. Really, it's faster to just type the command than scroll through autocomplete options.
Gah, sorry, i'm frustrated with autocompleters. Take someone off their VC++ and they can't write a basic Cpp program. They don't remember the members/properties of the class they just wrote 5 minutes ago. They type 'Object.' *pause* "no autocomplete? How am i supposed to work under these conditions?!"
I will remember that. But i honestly don't think it would have worked on that beetle, he barely fit in there and i don't think he could turn around if he wanted. But i'm sure i wasn't quiet enough to give him the opportunity to come out peacefully. He crawled as far as possible until he started destroying my ear and died (drowned is my guess). He died probably 10-15 minutes into the adventure.
I could hear again immediately after he was flushed out but everything sounded distorted. It was a week or two before everything sounded normal again.
It IS creepy, haha. Wore earplugs camping for a few years after that. Yeah, hearing completely returned though.
Two years later, an explosion ruptured the TM of that same ear. I have no idea what the universe will cook up next to torture that right ear.
A few of my friends will still fiend a conversation (just mouthing words, not actually talking) when i walk up.. just for kicks. Very similar to the guy who makes robocop sounds when i walk "vvvvv *chink* vvvvvv *chink*" which is from another painful story entirely.
I was camping once during a nice summer weekend.. no chance of rain so i just slept on the ground. Early morning something was crawling on my face (happens a lot) so i swiped it off and was planning on going back to sleep. It was a little black beetle and i startled him badly apparently because he decided to find refuge in my ear.
You can imagine my surprise.. my surprise deepened into worry when i realized my finger could not get him out and he was still burrowing (or whatever it is beetles do). After a few minutes it really really started to hurt and i could hear the beetle screaming or something.. it was beyond loud. I tried not to panic and re-packed what little i had to GTFO of the woods. Made it maybe a half mile and could barely jog in a straight line. Stashed my pack and kept going. He stopped screaming and burrowing and the pain was down to a throb (but still quite intense). Blood was coming out of the ear and i couldn't hear anymore.
Anyways, finally got back to base and the hospital. They flushed my ear with a pinkish fluid and a large syringe type thing, just like you described. Of course they had to bring every freaking doctor and nurse in the hospital down to see the guy with a beetle in his ear. Not that i really cared at that point, giggling doctors is nothing compared to a beetle inside your head. After a dozen or so high pressure blasts and the little guy (and some of his legs) came out. What a relief!
It is still pretty much like you remember. The portage system is a lot better though. Gentoo use to have a lot of breakage during emerges but not any more. The last two years or so have been very stable (for me atleast).
My favorite part about Gentoo is their Docs section. Anything you need to know about, probably has a howto for installation/setup.
It seems like at that point they could replace the computer with a microcontroller. Or even run the old software on a new computer emulating the old hardware?
I'm not critisizing, just proposing a possible improvement.
I remember that same scenerio happening in the Army a lot. Because so many soldiers come and go, complex systems quickly turn into black boxes and inertia keeps everything together. But as soon as something breaks, it's back to pen and paper or doing it all in excel. Hiring contractors to come repair it only means that the problem will occur again someday (not to mention it costs money!).
The best solution i've seen to these kinds of problems is barney level continuity books. Just lots and lots of documentation. Then that documentation must be well labeled, organized, and affixed to the complex system in a way that it can't ever get lost. I guess in a way it makes the solution open source?
I will agree with you that it's a small accomplishment to not have a social networking account anywhere. Mostly because everyone goes "sign up so we can do X together" or "sign up so we can be 'in a relationship' together" or whatever other viral method of spreading is popular today.
I still have an LJ account from around the time i first signed up at slashdot. *sigh* yes! i know that is a blog.. and yes i know that blogs aren't cool anymore. But what i discovered is that when it became uncool.. suddenly the quality of posts and comments improved! It's obvious why in hindsight, really.
There are actually accomplished non-asshole, intelligent, and fair-minded people here on slashdot. Somewhere... hidden among all the assholes.. probably..
Also, you are dead wrong:) data-mining anyone and everyone seems to be a very popular thing, whether you think the people are important or not.
I can call the government and have a chat, anytime. Police, fire dept, senator's office, VA, and other stuff i'm sure. I guess i could call the FBI but i have no idea why i would need to? The president is wayyy to busy to talk to me though : /
I must know, how well is eve running in Gentoo? I tried a year or two ago and had problems running fullscreen or changing the windowed resolution. This was with wine (i'm guessing that's what you are using).
I haven't used Mandrake in a long time but i liked it a lot around 2000. But RPM hell drove me away from Redhat and Mandrake into the arms of Gentoo. I've been there ever since. People make fun of my lengthy install process.. but i still remember how painful those binary distro's were.
Doubt anyone is really interested in joining Gentoo these days though. There are some really good and easy to maintain distros out there like Mandriva. Unless you specifically want to build your OS from source, Ubuntu or Mandriva are probably the best. IMO of course.. there is a ton of distros i never got around to trying.. slack, debian, suse, and many others.
It's accepted insanity. But it isn't the Chinese.. it's everyone. People accept crazy things when they are desensitized to them. Security theater, windows, death, living in garbage, and so on.
If the bullets were designed to defeat police body armor.. the intended purpose of the bullets would be clear. Unless they were purchased by the police, with the intention of using it against other armored citizens.
If he was selling normal cable modems there wouldn't be a problem. But by selling cable modems designed to defeat an ISP's security mechanism... he actively helped. Maybe if he only sold to tech support groups or something?
Low grade tech like manufactured 155mm rounds? Most IEDs and VBIEDs are made from military grade weapons. Nobody is building their own rockets. Just like you aren't building your own rocket engines, you purchase them.
In my experience, i'd rather be rocketed than mortared. Half of the time the rockets never explode, just stick in the dirt like a lawn dart.
Exciting times! I only recently started messing with an arduino and thoroughly enjoying every minute. I've never been very good at electronics but decent at programming. The arduino opened up so many doors.
A hardware backdoor in an embedded chip would be absolutely impossible for me to detect. Or even if the compiler was putting in a software backdoor.. i wouldn't know. That's a pretty general purpose chip though, not sure how a backdoor could be used. Unless they learned more about it's purpose in the project? Or they knew my address and interdicted and substituted my atmel chips with a modified version..../me puts on tinfoil hat
Any decent howto's on building 8 bit socs in the garage? Preferably something the wife won't notice?
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Couldn't they just go to 4.10 and up? I know there are many different standards for versioning numbers but they look like 'Major.Minor' with no '.Revision'. N/M they do use .Revision? I'm currently running KDE 3.5.9. 4.10.x should still work though, right?
There is no such law? ...scary...
So what is there to stop a gas station owner in backwater Kentucky to publish my CC number online?
He would need internet access and a computer first.
Joking! Full disclosure: I'm living in KY
Crypto is very useful and transparent too.. key exchange is quick. It's not for hiding from a dictatorship either. It's for talking to your friends on a public network.
Honestly i think ICQ was a better messenger than MSN. AIM seems be to the most popular in the US. Most of the AIM users don't use the official client but Pidgin or Meebo or Gtalk or whatever floats the boat.
As far as MSN pioneering anything, lets take a short history lesson.
1996 - ICQ released
1997 - AOL Instant Messenger released
1999 - MSN Messenger released
It's fun to SSH into your home box and use your IM client from there. Especially if the network you're on prevents you from using an IM locally. Actually, this is pretty funny... IM'ing is just a command-line interface for talking anyways. You should only be talking to other people with pictures! instead of flaunting your l33t CLI talking, hah.
I know what your are saying though, some people are practically religious about CLI. I prefer a simple GUI for most things and CLI for any repair work or system admin.
I can take a C# program written in MonoDevelop in linux and copy it to a windows machine and run it. No modifications or extra libraries required. I've only been into mono for 5-6 months and maybe things were different before then.. but it works great right now.
The only feature i've personally seen that Mono hasn't fully supported yet is System.IO.Port.SerialPort and i really really want my C# apps (with GTK# not winforms) to talk to my arduino in windows AND linux with no modifications. eek, really long sentence. Anyways I enjoy writing C# as much as C++ but i need a fully functional SerialPort!
For kicks i checked out bing. It looks nearly identical to google : / The news page does, for sure. I don't have JS enabled for either site, so that might be why. The top nav bars are identical too. The shopping pages look different! Ok, searched for "arduino" on both. Google wins that one. Bing only showed one arduino item (a book, not even the device) and google had all correct results minus one. Ohh, bing images looks good.. correctly showing all arduino pictures too. Ah, but i can't click on anything.. must need javascript enabled. Google is showing similar pictures.. and works without javascript.
I'm still sold on google. Bing looks much cleaner than google though. Google still looks geeky with it's "I did your search in (0.04 seconds)" thing.. can't see that as being very useful. Bing looks more polished but Google is more functional.
Those are commands, symbols for something. They don't need to be descriptive. You have to memorize what it is, autocomplete can't know what your intentions are. Really, it's faster to just type the command than scroll through autocomplete options.
Gah, sorry, i'm frustrated with autocompleters. Take someone off their VC++ and they can't write a basic Cpp program. They don't remember the members/properties of the class they just wrote 5 minutes ago. They type 'Object.' *pause* "no autocomplete? How am i supposed to work under these conditions?!"
Autocomplete is rotting programmer's brains!
I will remember that. But i honestly don't think it would have worked on that beetle, he barely fit in there and i don't think he could turn around if he wanted. But i'm sure i wasn't quiet enough to give him the opportunity to come out peacefully. He crawled as far as possible until he started destroying my ear and died (drowned is my guess). He died probably 10-15 minutes into the adventure.
I could hear again immediately after he was flushed out but everything sounded distorted. It was a week or two before everything sounded normal again.
It IS creepy, haha. Wore earplugs camping for a few years after that. Yeah, hearing completely returned though.
Two years later, an explosion ruptured the TM of that same ear. I have no idea what the universe will cook up next to torture that right ear.
A few of my friends will still fiend a conversation (just mouthing words, not actually talking) when i walk up.. just for kicks. Very similar to the guy who makes robocop sounds when i walk "vvvvv *chink* vvvvvv *chink*" which is from another painful story entirely.
I was camping once during a nice summer weekend.. no chance of rain so i just slept on the ground. Early morning something was crawling on my face (happens a lot) so i swiped it off and was planning on going back to sleep. It was a little black beetle and i startled him badly apparently because he decided to find refuge in my ear.
You can imagine my surprise.. my surprise deepened into worry when i realized my finger could not get him out and he was still burrowing (or whatever it is beetles do). After a few minutes it really really started to hurt and i could hear the beetle screaming or something.. it was beyond loud. I tried not to panic and re-packed what little i had to GTFO of the woods. Made it maybe a half mile and could barely jog in a straight line. Stashed my pack and kept going. He stopped screaming and burrowing and the pain was down to a throb (but still quite intense). Blood was coming out of the ear and i couldn't hear anymore.
Anyways, finally got back to base and the hospital. They flushed my ear with a pinkish fluid and a large syringe type thing, just like you described. Of course they had to bring every freaking doctor and nurse in the hospital down to see the guy with a beetle in his ear. Not that i really cared at that point, giggling doctors is nothing compared to a beetle inside your head. After a dozen or so high pressure blasts and the little guy (and some of his legs) came out. What a relief!
It is still pretty much like you remember. The portage system is a lot better though. Gentoo use to have a lot of breakage during emerges but not any more. The last two years or so have been very stable (for me atleast).
My favorite part about Gentoo is their Docs section. Anything you need to know about, probably has a howto for installation/setup.
http://gentoo.org/
It seems like at that point they could replace the computer with a microcontroller. Or even run the old software on a new computer emulating the old hardware?
I'm not critisizing, just proposing a possible improvement.
I remember that same scenerio happening in the Army a lot. Because so many soldiers come and go, complex systems quickly turn into black boxes and inertia keeps everything together. But as soon as something breaks, it's back to pen and paper or doing it all in excel. Hiring contractors to come repair it only means that the problem will occur again someday (not to mention it costs money!).
The best solution i've seen to these kinds of problems is barney level continuity books. Just lots and lots of documentation. Then that documentation must be well labeled, organized, and affixed to the complex system in a way that it can't ever get lost. I guess in a way it makes the solution open source?
Zealot isn't like a class you pick when you signup for slashdot... though maybe a class system would clear the air a bit
Just saying! hah.
I will agree with you that it's a small accomplishment to not have a social networking account anywhere. Mostly because everyone goes "sign up so we can do X together" or "sign up so we can be 'in a relationship' together" or whatever other viral method of spreading is popular today.
I still have an LJ account from around the time i first signed up at slashdot. *sigh* yes! i know that is a blog.. and yes i know that blogs aren't cool anymore. But what i discovered is that when it became uncool.. suddenly the quality of posts and comments improved! It's obvious why in hindsight, really.
There are actually accomplished non-asshole, intelligent, and fair-minded people here on slashdot. Somewhere... hidden among all the assholes.. probably..
Also, you are dead wrong :) data-mining anyone and everyone seems to be a very popular thing, whether you think the people are important or not.
I can call the government and have a chat, anytime. Police, fire dept, senator's office, VA, and other stuff i'm sure. I guess i could call the FBI but i have no idea why i would need to? The president is wayyy to busy to talk to me though : /
I must know, how well is eve running in Gentoo? I tried a year or two ago and had problems running fullscreen or changing the windowed resolution. This was with wine (i'm guessing that's what you are using).
I haven't used Mandrake in a long time but i liked it a lot around 2000. But RPM hell drove me away from Redhat and Mandrake into the arms of Gentoo. I've been there ever since. People make fun of my lengthy install process.. but i still remember how painful those binary distro's were.
Doubt anyone is really interested in joining Gentoo these days though. There are some really good and easy to maintain distros out there like Mandriva. Unless you specifically want to build your OS from source, Ubuntu or Mandriva are probably the best. IMO of course.. there is a ton of distros i never got around to trying.. slack, debian, suse, and many others.
It's accepted insanity. But it isn't the Chinese.. it's everyone. People accept crazy things when they are desensitized to them. Security theater, windows, death, living in garbage, and so on.
If the bullets were designed to defeat police body armor.. the intended purpose of the bullets would be clear. Unless they were purchased by the police, with the intention of using it against other armored citizens.
If he was selling normal cable modems there wouldn't be a problem. But by selling cable modems designed to defeat an ISP's security mechanism... he actively helped. Maybe if he only sold to tech support groups or something?
hah, i like the sign that just says "US Property. NO"
I know.. it's like reading a book synopsis.. i need the story!
Low grade tech like manufactured 155mm rounds? Most IEDs and VBIEDs are made from military grade weapons. Nobody is building their own rockets. Just like you aren't building your own rocket engines, you purchase them.
In my experience, i'd rather be rocketed than mortared. Half of the time the rockets never explode, just stick in the dirt like a lawn dart.
Exciting times! I only recently started messing with an arduino and thoroughly enjoying every minute. I've never been very good at electronics but decent at programming. The arduino opened up so many doors.
A hardware backdoor in an embedded chip would be absolutely impossible for me to detect. Or even if the compiler was putting in a software backdoor.. i wouldn't know. That's a pretty general purpose chip though, not sure how a backdoor could be used. Unless they learned more about it's purpose in the project? Or they knew my address and interdicted and substituted my atmel chips with a modified version.... /me puts on tinfoil hat
Any decent howto's on building 8 bit socs in the garage? Preferably something the wife won't notice?