So what would a good limit to the number of processes spawned be?
I mean what can say what is good for everyone?
Saying that if you think the fork bomb is good grep bombs are more fun and particularly good for silincing the mass of Quake 3 players in an undergraduate lab:
'grep foo/dev/zero &' fun about 5 of them and watch the box grind to a screaming halt then eventually recover.
"MIT's Media Lab has written to the Brazillian
government (who is looking into a method to get
its citizens cheap, high quality PCs) and has
urged them to use Linux."
Was derived from this:
From the article: 'Free software is far better on
the dimensions of cost, power and quality...if
the source code is proprietary, it is hidden from
the general population. This robs them of a
tremendous source for learning.'"
They said free software, not GPL or GNU/Linux
You could run Hurd or BSD. Why is it that everyone associates Free == Linux.
Why doesn't this guy just put an advert out asking to be bent over a table and shafted with a giant vegetable.
I mean sure you pissed them all off, so go get out the red rag and shake it some more.
Christ, i'm no apple fan, but all this will accomplish it to "fix" the broken thing by apple and cause the **AA to ask for even stronger laws and then have the US strongarm the rest of the world into accepting them!
No i'm not talking about the spoilers and alloy wheels.
Seriously Gentoo has x86(stable) & ~x86(testing) and there equivalents for each platform, and different packages are considered stable or not on a per platform basis.
SUrely something like this for debian, with prehaps core architectures being released together (eg x86, ppc & Alpha).
Also how about Stable, Release and Testing/unstable as better names.
Testing & unstable all sound like they are broken, when infact testing usually isn't.
While my course mates and I were pulling all nighters and putting huge amounts of work into our degrees with 12 exams a year, the humanities with english studies students were doing ohh 4 hours a week with 1 exam a year if they were unlucky enough to pick the wrong subject.
You can see why there is a feeling that BA's are easy. It isn't the lectureres that spread it, it's that the Science and Engineering students notice the Arts students doing practically nothing.
It's the next meeting of enough of the right people, so in theory the meber states could vote on it there.
Yes I know it has nothing to do with agriculture, and I think it's a stupid idea to.
The reason it got to this committee was that certain people had pushed and railroaded it through, and they wanted it passed by people who had no concept of it's effect and so wouldn't ask questions.
A sensible look from most would show that software patents are a bad idea.
A language makes something possible and therefore you should be able to do it.
MS would not have been able to create the windows monopoly it now enjoys is xerox & apple had patents for windowing systems. If somebody had created an overly vuage patent such as "a mechanism for storing bits of data on a disk" then we may not even have had file systems.
I forsee a large market for genital protectors made from lead to protect male sperm counts at some point in the future.
Have to say it is a little worrying, although after I finally gave up trying to resolve a problem with unsolicited recieving of premium rate text messages, it's less of a problem since I won't have a phone soon.
These things look just like the old PII & PII slot chips.
In next weeks article I'll be showing you how to turn a stick of ram, a serial cable, an LED array and an old PII into one of these babys using a glue and a dremmel:)
Would the light and circuity required to drive it increase electrical noise. If it does, yoru scrolling a message on the display could start to flip bits which would be interesting.
This seems to the the Manufacturers ricing equivelent of Gentoo. (Except that gentoo actually does something useful).
And before I but Gentoo is teh R0x0r.. I am very happily running it as I write this.
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I believe the Free Software Song would be torture in most places in the world.
I completely misread that as a good Vim
A troll, but i will bite.
If you don't want to support DRM and don't like it, then the answer is to not spend your money with people who use it.
THe answer is not to circumvent the DRM and give the companies that invest in it your money.
You were running bash then :p
:) .login or .bash_rc files.
I recognise that one... which is always good
just don't leave your box unlocked and have some "funny" person drop it in your
User - Give me a gun I want to shoot my foot off.
...[BSOD] fatel exception
*NIX - Sure here it the gun it's loaded
Windows 9* - Are you
Windows NT - Are you sure?
- Sure your sure?
- Oh by the way sorry your only admin,
not the SYSTEM account so I can't let
you do that.
I know it's a bit trollish, but I like the ability to over rule what the OS thinks is best for me.
And as previously mentioned you can turn this option on easily enough.
So what would a good limit to the number of processes spawned be?
I mean what can say what is good for everyone?
Saying that if you think the fork bomb is good grep bombs are more fun and particularly good for silincing the mass of Quake 3 players in an undergraduate lab:
'grep foo
Oh hang on did i just discover a new exploit
Stick Balmer in a Room with RMS.
;)
Make Balmer listen to RMS until all problems are sorted.
Should take about 30 second, oh or Balmers head may explode.
Could somebody please explain how this:
"MIT's Media Lab has written to the Brazillian
government (who is looking into a method to get
its citizens cheap, high quality PCs) and has
urged them to use Linux."
Was derived from this:
From the article: 'Free software is far better on
the dimensions of cost, power and quality...if
the source code is proprietary, it is hidden from
the general population. This robs them of a
tremendous source for learning.'"
They said free software, not GPL or GNU/Linux
You could run Hurd or BSD.
Why is it that everyone associates Free == Linux.
Why doesn't this guy just put an advert out asking to be bent over a table and shafted with a giant vegetable.
I mean sure you pissed them all off, so go get out the red rag and shake it some more.
Christ, i'm no apple fan, but all this will accomplish it to "fix" the broken thing by apple and cause the **AA to ask for even stronger laws and then have the US strongarm the rest of the world into accepting them!
No i'm not talking about the spoilers and alloy wheels.
Seriously Gentoo has x86(stable) & ~x86(testing) and there equivalents for each platform, and different packages are considered stable or not on a per platform basis.
SUrely something like this for debian, with prehaps core architectures being released together (eg x86, ppc & Alpha).
Also how about Stable, Release and Testing/unstable as better names.
Testing & unstable all sound like they are broken, when infact testing usually isn't.
Well to be honest I did CS at southampton.
While my course mates and I were pulling all nighters and putting huge amounts of work into our degrees with 12 exams a year, the humanities with english studies students were doing ohh 4 hours a week with 1 exam a year if they were unlucky enough to pick the wrong subject.
You can see why there is a feeling that BA's are easy.
It isn't the lectureres that spread it, it's that the Science and Engineering students notice the Arts students doing practically nothing.
Anyway thats my rant over
That server isn't down.
I'm sure if i speak to some of my mates who work in the ecs department at southampton they will confirm that it hasn't died.
Why my damn Dell Inspiron keeps melting it's base :(
It's the next meeting of enough of the right people, so in theory the meber states could vote on it there.
:D
Yes I know it has nothing to do with agriculture, and I think it's a stupid idea to.
The reason it got to this committee was that certain people had pushed and railroaded it through, and they wanted it passed by people who had no concept of it's effect and so wouldn't ask questions.
So good on Poland
A sensible look from most would show that software patents are a bad idea.
A language makes something possible and therefore you should be able to do it.
MS would not have been able to create the windows monopoly it now enjoys is xerox & apple had patents for windowing systems. If somebody had created an overly vuage patent such as "a mechanism for storing bits of data on a disk" then we may not even have had file systems.
These things are bad news!
He Actually made it to and then through customer services!?!
:)
Thats amazing
It will also probably affect Adults.
I forsee a large market for genital protectors made from lead to protect male sperm counts at some point in the future.
Have to say it is a little worrying, although after I finally gave up trying to resolve a problem with unsolicited recieving of premium rate text messages, it's less of a problem since I won't have a phone soon.
The Mac Version being MoFo X
Great I get home & find the house has been slashdoted.
:(
For the record the grill and the router were fine. What people were finding was that our DSL line couldn't keep up.
Oh well
Old PC's that need additions have PCMCIA.
New Laptops have everything you could ever want on the mobo.
Na I think this one should die horribly.
These things look just like the old PII & PII slot chips.
:)
In next weeks article I'll be showing you how to turn a stick of ram, a serial cable, an LED array and an old PII into one of these babys using a glue and a dremmel
Would the light and circuity required to drive it increase electrical noise. If it does, yoru scrolling a message on the display could start to flip bits which would be interesting.
This seems to the the Manufacturers ricing equivelent of Gentoo.
(Except that gentoo actually does something useful).
And before I but Gentoo is teh R0x0r.. I am very happily running it as I write this.
I for one would like to get this card dumped into my AGP Pro 110 slot ;)
:)
Although a standard slot and a molex would work too
If there is such a bouncback where are the jobs.
.NET.
.NET hadn't even existed for 5 Years).
;)
People want to pay a graduate wage to get a person with a good amount of experiance.
Some jobs demand a MCSE for things that are not even related to the qualification.
Others are just plain absurd. eg about 1.5 years ago I saw an add asking for CCNA, MCSE and 5+ years commercial experiance with
(The salary was £17-22k per year and
If there is a revolution howabout some jobs.. go on please
I don't, but I still hear some blogging mates go on and on about it.