I'm sure my browsers are left open for days or weeks at a time...but hey, I use IE and don't have to restart it every day.
Indeed, I usually have my firefox window open 100% of the time opening and closing hundreds of tabs over the weeks until there is an update. Why close the browser when you can just hit "suspend" or "hibernate"?
char character = NULL;/* NOT portable! Try with GNU C library 2.5 (probably other versions too) */
True. AFAIK this code is not meant to be portable to other libraries or operating systems which is why it is in the OpenBSD CVS (they maintain the code in their CVS repositories.)
Is there a way to put a -1 against a certain "Story writer"? I dont care if Bonk.. er Zonk or whoever puts it here...
yes: Preferences -> Homepage -> "Authors"
Uncheck Zonk and you will not see any Zonk stories on the main page anymore. (I think thats what you said you wanted...)
We saw all sorts of bubbles before the dot-com one. For instance, there was the CD-ROM bubble. Remember all the CD-ROM companies? Bill Gates's "Information at Your Fingertips" was the watchword. Microsoft itself started a unique division called Microsoft Home. The whole scene collapsed almost overnight.
Yeah, I keep my music CD's and software CD's in the same box as my Pets.com stock.
I take it you don't remember "all the CD-ROM companies." In the late 90s I remember walking in to every damn grocery store, book store, toy store, and radio shack and being bombarded by a wall of crappy software which seemed to be written and stamped out in a month by hundreds of different no-name companies. It was like the shareware of the 80s/90s minus the "share."
Me as a 15 year old:
$20 for a 3D "build your own home" CAD package? How can I lose! Oh wait, which of the eight different $10 CDROMS do I want to choose from... oh! here's one that was marked down from $40, it must be better! Except, they almost all sucked. I did buy a few of those discs and enjoyed them for a short period of time, but I'm sure they didn't sell much, considering how long the titles would stay on the shelves (and the cut-rate prices.)
Eventually the software kept getting cheaper and cheaper... I imagine most of it ended up in the landfill.
If all the exercise machines were in use 10 hours a day for a year, the gym could generate roughly $183 worth of electricity. At that rate, it would take about 82 years to pay off the initial $15,000 investment.
You see... nerdy young boys with glasses didn't get socially accepted, so they started using computers. That's why many computer geeks wear glasses.
Well, as a useless bit of anecdotal evidence: I has 20/15 vision as a kid, up until after graduating high school. After being on computers for 8-12 hours a day, my eyesight deteriorated slightly, and now I need glasses to read road signs. However, the same thing happened to my parents when they were around the same age, long before they used computers.
In other words they behave like drug addicts, they are just addicted to the junk additives in junk foods, hardly surprising, as those additives are designed to be addictive.
So how sorry do you feel for unwitting drug addicts, especially as their addiction is as a result of corruption and those addictive substances are being marketed and targeted at children with the full support of for profit government departments.
It is not just that they are addicted, but like most addicts, they try to pull you in as well! I'm fairly skinny, and often I've tried to say "no" to a piece of birthday cake (I dislike cake... too sweet) or "here, eat the last two donuts, you're too skinny." Fat people seem to try to make you fat so they feel better about themselves. Of course... I would gladly help them finish off their bag of Doritos... but that does not seem to come up as often.
Sure, it has been used a few times. there are only so many TLAs, you know. Much less than there are IPv4 addresses, and we seem to be running out of those as well.
5 minutes a year is nearing "five nines" for reliability (and you don't want to rely on the power supply being your only source of downtime in that situation.) I'm not sure if their customers have "99.999% uptime guaranteed" in their contract, but if so, I'm sure they did have their tanks in working order. Some old press releases of theirs are touting 100% uptime.
I realize that a press release from 2004 is hardly relevant, but this is slashdot... so here is a choice paragraph: By surpassing the five-nines milestone, 365 Main further establishes itself as the go-to facility with the necessary investments to ride through any worst-case scenario. Equipped with ten 2.1 Megawatt continuous power systems, an N+2 or greater facility-wide redundancy, an award-winning base isolation system, and 60,000 gallons of fuel on-site, 365 Main's structural resiliency is unmatched by any other data facility in the region. 365 Main's customers continued to perform at 100% during one of the Bay Area's largest power outages of recent history. 365 Main's customer data remained online, accessible, and secure.
I am an amateur photographer, musician and filmmaker. In my professional life, I am responsible for systems management and support for a large, multi-national company. Everything I do in my personal and professional life results in the creation of large amounts of data, all of which needs to be backed up using multiple, redundant forms of media.
When I buy a spindle of 50 CDs for 10 or 15 Canadian dollars, to back up the hundreds of photos, or gigabites of video or music I may produce on any given day, the price I pay at the checkout is DOUBLE that, as I am forced to pay 21 cents per disc to these clowns at the CPCC, despite the fact that the what I am actually using these discs for has nothing to do with their shitty music.
How nice for them.
As an aside, have you considered using DVDs? They're cheaper per GB and are not covered by the private copying levy.
Perhaps I could apply for an exemption and jump through hoops to be reimbursed my hard-earned dollars so I can continue to pursue my interests and ply my trade without sending a gratuity to the music mafia. I honestly don't know.
And now they want to extend this tax to ipods, hard drives and computers in general. Produce some data, pay a tax. A similar thing happened to our neighbors to the south a couple hundred years ago.
It's time Canadians stopped buying into the fiction that there is a connection between our right to make fair use of the media we own and the the tax we pay to the music industry for our blank media. Despite what the media cartel would have you believe, we are completely within our rights to make personal copies of the music we buy without paying this tax, not because of it.
I agree, having to pay a levy because of private copying is ridiculous.
It is a tax because it is collected regardless of whether the services are rendered or not. Everybody pays it, even those who do not download content off p2p sites. Those who use their blank media for other purposes pay this tax just for the privilege of backing up their data.
In the end, it doesn't matter what you call it. If you are forced to pay it, levy, tax, extortion... it's all the same.
If you are a business, non-profit, are perceptually disabled or are in one of many other categories, you can apply to be exempt from the levy. Everyone else is forced to pay it, however.
I don't understand why the artist should get extra money because I listened to the music I purchased from them on a different device. It isn't like I'm listening to it on separate devices at the same time. I can only listen to one copy at a time.
I agree. What's worse is they were going to charge a levy on the SD cards for my digital camera as well (starting 2008, but is probably no longer going to go into effect.)
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Well, he is not the only guy to die during a marathon
uname -a FreeBSD shiny.router 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sun Aug 19 15:24:33 MDT 2007 root@shiny.router:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 /bin/ls -l `which cat`
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7996 Aug 19 15:49 /bin/cat :-D
Because everyone knows that "bacteria and host DNA just don't splice"
Or was that "pig and elephant," I forget.
Maybe someone who knows how to spell "loser." ;-)
Depends what hardware you are looking for...
g ory_id=1
http://www.dspdesign.com/products/index_html?cate
http://www.embeddedarm.com/
http://www.phytec.com/
http://www.gumstix.com/
http://us.kontron.com/
True. AFAIK this code is not meant to be portable to other libraries or operating systems which is why it is in the OpenBSD CVS (they maintain the code in their CVS repositories.)
yes: Preferences -> Homepage -> "Authors"
Uncheck Zonk and you will not see any Zonk stories on the main page anymore. (I think thats what you said you wanted...)
I take it you don't remember "all the CD-ROM companies." In the late 90s I remember walking in to every damn grocery store, book store, toy store, and radio shack and being bombarded by a wall of crappy software which seemed to be written and stamped out in a month by hundreds of different no-name companies. It was like the shareware of the 80s/90s minus the "share."
Me as a 15 year old:
$20 for a 3D "build your own home" CAD package? How can I lose! Oh wait, which of the eight different $10 CDROMS do I want to choose from... oh! here's one that was marked down from $40, it must be better! Except, they almost all sucked. I did buy a few of those discs and enjoyed them for a short period of time, but I'm sure they didn't sell much, considering how long the titles would stay on the shelves (and the cut-rate prices.)
Eventually the software kept getting cheaper and cheaper... I imagine most of it ended up in the landfill.
You missed one thing, that was $183 per year, not per month.
Yes, that is what I was implying. It had nothing to do with computers.
How dare you submit a bulleted list to slashdot that does not result in ... Profit!</sarcasm>
If all the exercise machines were in use 10 hours a day for a year, the gym could generate roughly $183 worth of electricity. At that rate, it would take about 82 years to pay off the initial $15,000 investment.
This is a "remote control" for bittorrent related things running on other computers, not a bittorrent client.
It is not just that they are addicted, but like most addicts, they try to pull you in as well! I'm fairly skinny, and often I've tried to say "no" to a piece of birthday cake (I dislike cake... too sweet) or "here, eat the last two donuts, you're too skinny." Fat people seem to try to make you fat so they feel better about themselves. Of course... I would gladly help them finish off their bag of Doritos... but that does not seem to come up as often.
They do have backup power systems in place. Ten 2.1 MW "Continuous Power Systems" according to this document. I wonder how close they were to guaranteeing 99.99 percent uptime this year...
5 minutes a year is nearing "five nines" for reliability (and you don't want to rely on the power supply being your only source of downtime in that situation.) I'm not sure if their customers have "99.999% uptime guaranteed" in their contract, but if so, I'm sure they did have their tanks in working order. Some old press releases of theirs are touting 100% uptime.
I realize that a press release from 2004 is hardly relevant, but this is slashdot... so here is a choice paragraph:
By surpassing the five-nines milestone, 365 Main further establishes itself as the go-to facility with the necessary investments to ride through any worst-case scenario. Equipped with ten 2.1 Megawatt continuous power systems, an N+2 or greater facility-wide redundancy, an award-winning base isolation system, and 60,000 gallons of fuel on-site, 365 Main's structural resiliency is unmatched by any other data facility in the region. 365 Main's customers continued to perform at 100% during one of the Bay Area's largest power outages of recent history. 365 Main's customer data remained online, accessible, and secure.
You mean that all 3 x 20,000 gallon tanks were empty? I find that hard to believe.