All of a sudden extra solar colonization doesn't seem so impossible if we can live for a few thousand years. Sure communication would be a problem but at least we can go out and explore new star systems.
a sweet bootloader for OS X? i mean, it's probably known that the OS X system has the ability to butt into a pseudo loader screen if you hold down option on boot up. this give you a nice blue screen with the icon of, say, OS X or a cd or OS 9 if you have it installed. it shold be pretty easy to extend that, right? I mean, i want a blowfish icon showing up for my open bsd partition, and maybe a penguin for linux. Try as I might i cannot seem to find any documentation on setting that up, or writing a program to do it for me. If i have to delve into the open firmware guts i can, but it seem slike such a waste to overlook this nice built in bootloader for 3rd party programs.
Could this just be a case of the fox contracting security for the hen house?
This metaphor is a lot like a duck riding a chainsaw to the primary school. It makes no sense at all.
You're welcome. I actually totally agree with you. The Web Controls SHOULD render 100% compliant html and java script, but unfortuantley they don't hence the browsercaps stuff.
I have actually toyed with the idea of either writing a new web controls library, that provides the same functionality, but with standards compliant html and css and all that kind of stuff. You could either sublcass each individual contorl (really ugly) or do your own from scratch using the System.Web base classes. In fact, you could probably even look into mono for the source, or at least hack on it there to know you got all the code right.
It seems like a lot of work, though, and like everyone else I always seem to be short of free time;) Maybe someone more knowledgeable in the state of the mono web controls could chip in with some more information.
With regards to the HTML problem, have you considered that it might be because of an outdated segment in your web or machine.config files?
I myself am a C# developer (win forms and web forms), and I initiall had a huge problem trying to test and use any sort of aspx web application in firefox. After poking around for a bit, it turns out that the.NET framework will generate two different kinds of html one for "uplevel" browsers (by default i think this is only MSIE 5+ and posibly netscape 6 but don't quote me on that last part).
Anyway, there is a section that you can place in you web.config or machine.config files (i assume you know the difference between the two) that details the browser capabilities of various browsers hence the name browsercaps. By default this section of the file is pretty useless, it will detect IE, some netscape and that more or less it. Maybe some mobile browsers for PocketPC as well. This can be updated, and i find that the information at This Link is extremley helpful. I have used the browsercap information from this site on a few production servers to get rid of some ugly issues with AbleCommerce and Firefox, and i have it on my development machine as well; the difference in rendering will suprise you. In short, I highly reccomend that every ASP.NET developer check this information out, and keep your browsercaps section up to date. It may not be a 100% effective solution but it does do an excellent job of getting rid of most of the problems you will have when using a non MS browser.
Yeah but what happens when your flight is delayed for so long that civilization around you collapses? Tea and biscuits and lemon scented tidy-naps every 500 years doesn't sound to appealing to me . . .
(God as my witness, I honestly thought turkeys could fly.)
Err . . they can. Well, I can't speak for the farm raised turkeys, what with being fed all day and pumped full of hormones and food for extra delicious-ness (TM). BUt wild turkeys can most certainley fly. Quickly as well. Once, in the wilds of wisconsin, me and a friend were tramping through some field with his dog, when all of a sudden this giant commotion of noise and feathers took off from teh ground so fast i could barely even see it. Just a giant blur. Turns out the dog had stumbled on a wild turkey, and scared it enough to make it fly away very fast. Scared the shit out of both of us as well, since the thing flew up less then 5 feet in front of us.
Just thought you'd want to know. thus endeth my rather inane and rambling tale;)
I find this very interesting, because I was recently able to download the FreeBSD 5.3 Release (the boot disk and ISOs for disc one and two) in just under an hour and a half. Thats about 1.5 GB of data in a very short time, and i was literally amazed at how well it worked, esepcially given that shareazaa reported only around 20 peers.
I have almost never had a problem with bit-torrent downloads being too slow.
How can you forget possibly THE most addictive game of all time, Spin Doctor. In a nutshell, you control a wand, and you have to move from dot to dot, avoiding other wands, bombs, and acid while triggering doors and telporting dots, as well as dots that disappear after being used once.
I remember when it came on the Demo CD with my preforma,and i was hooked in about 5 seconds. You can still get it today from http://mac.the-underdogs.org/ but you will need to have classic installed.
A;though the EFF was already mentioned, the closest i can thinf of would be IPAC . . . i weill see if i can find the URL.
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Just an addendum:
The wired article talking about pebble bed reactors (in particular a type developed by the chinese to be modular, easy to produce, and apparently cluster) can be found online at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/china.htm l
That they will not be using a standard rod and hot water setup for this thing. This seems like the ideal position in which to use a pebble bed reactor, perhaps like the modular ones china is developing, as discussed in the latest wired.
I think the pebble bed model wpould be safer, and lend itself less to the recycling of spent fuel rods into weapons grade isotopes, since the actual radioactive material is sealed inside a ball of some rediculosly hard metal i cant think of off the top of my head.
Seriously. My mom is a professor of nursing, and as such whenever i had to have surgery (bi-lateral arthoscopic knee surgery in this particular case) she would bring all her little nursing studnet to see me.
Which isn't so bad right?
Wrong. Not only did they come see me, they got to practice giving IVs. Now, usually the nurses do a great job of this. After years of practice.
Fresh nursing student, are not so good. in fact, the first time they work on a real patient, they are bad. Really bad. Really Really bad. God, i still think of the horrfying bruises and marks those poor students left on me as each one tried, and failed, to put the damn IV in. It went something like this:
NS: "OKay, now clench your fist" Me: "You sure you know what you're doing?" NS "Okay now in we go . . hmm the vein seems to have dissapeared" Me: "Umm . . oooooow" NS: "Maybe if i dig around for it . .." *roots around in my arm with a needle* Me: "OOOOOOW! DAMMIT, CUT IT OUT! NEXT!" NS: "Sorry, its my first time" Me: "Yeah, i think i figured that out"
Finally one of the real nurses came in, and put it in in one shot.
So . . yeah. This is a good thing. The more a nurse trains on this virtual hand thing, the less people like me have to bleed and get bruised.
It Is, to quote the Open Firmware website, a "specification for a largely machine-independent BIOS based on ANSForth that is capable of probing and initializing plug-in cards that have on-board IEEE-1275 compliant Fcode in their ROMs. "
Forget the iPod SDK, i want the iSync SDK. I think it would be much much cooler to be able to write my own conduits to keep the information on my palm in sync with all the apple applications (iCal, Address Book, Mail, a bunch of others)
please, please, pleasepleaseplease! open up the iSync SDK!!!!
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Actually, I have successfully managed to install X windows on OpenBSD using VMWare 4 and 5 workstation edition. It did use VMware tools as well. You just have to follow the instructions found here: http://www.vmware.com/support/gsx3/doc/tools_insta ll_lin_gsx.html(freebsd version) and then the ones found here: http://frogger974.homelinux.org/
With a minimal amount of tweaking, you should be able to get it to work no problem.
All of a sudden extra solar colonization doesn't seem so impossible if we can live for a few thousand years. Sure communication would be a problem but at least we can go out and explore new star systems.
You know, that thing we already had?
"The Interdictor" may just be the best job title in the history of time.
a sweet bootloader for OS X?
i mean, it's probably known that the OS X system has the ability to butt into a pseudo loader screen if you hold down option on boot up. this give you a nice blue screen with the icon of, say, OS X or a cd or OS 9 if you have it installed. it shold be pretty easy to extend that, right? I mean, i want a blowfish icon showing up for my open bsd partition, and maybe a penguin for linux. Try as I might i cannot seem to find any documentation on setting that up, or writing a program to do it for me. If i have to delve into the open firmware guts i can, but it seem slike such a waste to overlook this nice built in bootloader for 3rd party programs.
Could this just be a case of the fox contracting security for the hen house?
This metaphor is a lot like a duck riding a chainsaw to the primary school. It makes no sense at all.
Everything is more important then Paula Abduls Idol issues.
So, does that mean that code in the linux kernel now was once in UnixWare?
Or does it mean that SCO UnixWare has code that was once in the linux kernel?
It's interesting either way, of course, but c'mon guys. Precise wording is your friend.
You're welcome. I actually totally agree with you. The Web Controls SHOULD render 100% compliant html and java script, but unfortuantley they don't hence the browsercaps stuff.
;) Maybe someone more knowledgeable in the state of the mono web controls could chip in with some more information.
I have actually toyed with the idea of either writing a new web controls library, that provides the same functionality, but with standards compliant html and css and all that kind of stuff. You could either sublcass each individual contorl (really ugly) or do your own from scratch using the System.Web base classes. In fact, you could probably even look into mono for the source, or at least hack on it there to know you got all the code right.
It seems like a lot of work, though, and like everyone else I always seem to be short of free time
With regards to the HTML problem, have you considered that it might be because of an outdated segment in your web or machine.config files?
.NET framework will generate two different kinds of html one for "uplevel" browsers (by default i think this is only MSIE 5+ and posibly netscape 6 but don't quote me on that last part).
I myself am a C# developer (win forms and web forms), and I initiall had a huge problem trying to test and use any sort of aspx web application in firefox. After poking around for a bit, it turns out that the
Anyway, there is a section that you can place in you web.config or machine.config files (i assume you know the difference between the two) that details the browser capabilities of various browsers hence the name browsercaps. By default this section of the file is pretty useless, it will detect IE, some netscape and that more or less it. Maybe some mobile browsers for PocketPC as well. This can be updated, and i find that the information at This Link is extremley helpful. I have used the browsercap information from this site on a few production servers to get rid of some ugly issues with AbleCommerce and Firefox, and i have it on my development machine as well; the difference in rendering will suprise you. In short, I highly reccomend that every ASP.NET developer check this information out, and keep your browsercaps section up to date. It may not be a 100% effective solution but it does do an excellent job of getting rid of most of the problems you will have when using a non MS browser.
I use w00t way more then I use ginormous or confuzzled. In fact, I think that both of those other words are dumbpendous.
Yeah but what happens when your flight is delayed for so long that civilization around you collapses?
Tea and biscuits and lemon scented tidy-naps every 500 years doesn't sound to appealing to me . . .
If this could be successfully . . err . . ."mated" with that real doll technology.
I for one welcome our sexy robot overlords (yeah yeah it had to be said).
I bet all those Great Slashdot Blackout dorks are sitting in their basements smug as hell right now.
Err . . they can. Well, I can't speak for the farm raised turkeys, what with being fed all day and pumped full of hormones and food for extra delicious-ness (TM). BUt wild turkeys can most certainley fly. Quickly as well. Once, in the wilds of wisconsin, me and a friend were tramping through some field with his dog, when all of a sudden this giant commotion of noise and feathers took off from teh ground so fast i could barely even see it. Just a giant blur. Turns out the dog had stumbled on a wild turkey, and scared it enough to make it fly away very fast. Scared the shit out of both of us as well, since the thing flew up less then 5 feet in front of us.
Just thought you'd want to know. thus endeth my rather inane and rambling tale
I find this very interesting, because I was recently able to download the FreeBSD 5.3 Release (the boot disk and ISOs for disc one and two) in just under an hour and a half. Thats about 1.5 GB of data in a very short time, and i was literally amazed at how well it worked, esepcially given that shareazaa reported only around 20 peers.
I have almost never had a problem with bit-torrent downloads being too slow.
How can you forget possibly THE most addictive game of all time, Spin Doctor. In a nutshell, you control a wand, and you have to move from dot to dot, avoiding other wands, bombs, and acid while triggering doors and telporting dots, as well as dots that disappear after being used once.
I remember when it came on the Demo CD with my preforma,and i was hooked in about 5 seconds. You can still get it today from http://mac.the-underdogs.org/ but you will need to have classic installed.
Actually . . . its second only to Quality Italian Engineering
Seriously, you all know what FIAT really stands for, right? Fix It Again, Tony.
A;though the EFF was already mentioned, the closest i can thinf of would be IPAC . . . i weill see if i can find the URL.
Just an addendum:
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The wired article talking about pebble bed reactors (in particular a type developed by the chinese to be modular, easy to produce, and apparently cluster) can be found online at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/china.ht
That they will not be using a standard rod and hot water setup for this thing. This seems like the ideal position in which to use a pebble bed reactor, perhaps like the modular ones china is developing, as discussed in the latest wired.
I think the pebble bed model wpould be safer, and lend itself less to the recycling of spent fuel rods into weapons grade isotopes, since the actual radioactive material is sealed inside a ball of some rediculosly hard metal i cant think of off the top of my head.
Seriously. My mom is a professor of nursing, and as such whenever i had to have surgery (bi-lateral arthoscopic knee surgery in this particular case) she would bring all her little nursing studnet to see me.
."
Which isn't so bad right?
Wrong. Not only did they come see me, they got to practice giving IVs. Now, usually the nurses do a great job of this. After years of practice.
Fresh nursing student, are not so good. in fact, the first time they work on a real patient, they are bad. Really bad. Really Really bad. God, i still think of the horrfying bruises and marks those poor students left on me as each one tried, and failed, to put the damn IV in. It went something like this:
NS: "OKay, now clench your fist"
Me: "You sure you know what you're doing?"
NS "Okay now in we go . . hmm the vein seems to have dissapeared"
Me: "Umm . . oooooow"
NS: "Maybe if i dig around for it . .
*roots around in my arm with a needle*
Me: "OOOOOOW! DAMMIT, CUT IT OUT! NEXT!"
NS: "Sorry, its my first time"
Me: "Yeah, i think i figured that out"
Finally one of the real nurses came in, and put it in in one shot.
So . . yeah. This is a good thing. The more a nurse trains on this virtual hand thing, the less people like me have to bleed and get bruised.
It Is, to quote the Open Firmware website, a "specification for a largely machine-independent BIOS based on ANSForth that is capable of probing and initializing plug-in cards that have on-board IEEE-1275 compliant Fcode in their ROMs. "
This would seem to fit the bill exactly.
Forget the iPod SDK, i want the iSync SDK.
I think it would be much much cooler to be able to write my own conduits to keep the information on my palm in sync with all the apple applications (iCal, Address Book, Mail, a bunch of others)
please, please, pleasepleaseplease! open up the iSync SDK!!!!