put escape characters in subject lines, its neither a virus nor a worm but it is a pain.:)
^[[2J^[1;1H^[[30m^[[40m^[12;7] should be a good sequence to scare someone.:) Put that sequence in a text file at linux console and cat it. Now present that to a newbie. Result: ahh! what happened to my computer? Answer: nothing. But it looks like something did.:)
So now can we sue the United States for having a monopoly on world politics, international affairs, and the world's economy? I bet we could make a sustantial case...
I have been thinking about a solution to kernel panics and no-reboot kernel upgrades for a while, and here is the only thing I have come up with that seems viable:
We have redundant power supplies, hard drives, and many other pieces of hardware. I am thinking it may be good for developpers, at any rate, to use redundant kernels. Kernel 1 dies, kernel 2 realises this and kills kernel 1 and takes over the system. Interrupt in service: a few clock cycles. Perhaps a new runlevel should be implemented into the linux kernel...runlevel 7, which would be against the POSIX standard I think, not sure, but would allow a condition in which the kernel is replacing itself in memory, by having a redundant kernel take over while one is being replaced in memory, and the second kernel handing off resources to the new primary kernel when it is ready, returning to the previous runlevel.
The long and the short of what I am saying is that there should be a second kernel in memory at all times ready to take over at any time, but programmed to not run until the first kernel dies or is being upgraded.
The disadvantage: it starts to consume extra memory resources, and process table entries, and will take a long time to perfect.
This screams in my ears that big business is, yet again, hurting us more then helping us. Progress is the enemy of profits. It may be worth it to start a Slashdot Defense Fund, as this is one of the larger (largest?) forums of free-software users and writers.
Yeah. Sheesh, I can think of a few governments and corporations (which have more power anyway) that would be scared silly confronted with that proposition:)
"May you live in interesting times" is a Chinese _curse_.:)
This leads me to my next question (not the quote), do you think that this technology (as an AC pointed out farther down, this article was posted in Januray) could be used as a pain reliever by sending false signals over the sensory nerve cells?
Well my concern is that someone of a different weight or build could create havoc to another person. I need a certain amount of energy going a certain precise way to move my 5'9" 200 pound bulk. If I gave my programme to my friend who is 6'5" and 130 pounds, he is not going to fare too well. Similarly, if I take his programme I will be troubled to even stand on my own.
Also, a glitch, it seems to me, could result in two muscles both being contracted simultaneously and excessively and possibly even tearing them from the bone.
Though then again perhaps it could be used to hard-code monkeys to type hamlet....:)
I don't think so. As I understand it, the users need to be able to record the signal and then play it back. If they can't do a particular motion, they won't be able to do it again, as they couldn't record it.
So this will only help if you keep a storage bank of all your different possible motions so that if you are disabled later you can be...err..reloaded.
Hmm. Bob Dole could probably make use of this technology.:)
I just hope they are using embedded linux, or better, BSD microkernel, to run people's bodies, having bloatware or unstable systems running people might lead to catastrophic acts of politicians telling the truth.
hear hear (or is it here here?) Perhaps we can turn this into a discussion of true (technical) arguments, with cited sources, for and against Microsoft products, BSD && linux, and everything beyond. As this will just be a 'yeah MS sucks!' argument otherwise.
I call on all the dutiful readers to come out with a good set of articles and reasons as to why we say what we do about who when where how, and why. This could be an interesting learning experience for us all if people take it seriously.
I get the impression they aren't too good at finding the important stuff, if they were unable to determine that Pakistan had been building nuclear weapons for a quarter of a century, and took the US by surprise by testing them.
Maybe they should start focusing on the important stuff in the World?
A revolution would do a lot of good in a lot of Western Countries right around now - they've mostly long stopped being democracies.
IIRC CBC carried a story a couple of years ago about CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) getting in trouble with the RCMP (mounties, Royal Canadian Mounted Police) over listening in for keywords in coversations. CSIS, which doesn't have the same mysticism around it as No Such Agency, has no government allocated rights to do this (thus the reason they got in trouble) but are reputed to anyway. Perhaps, under the Access to Information Act, someone could dig up something about them?
So 733MHz goes to 1GHz. Next year we get an Athalon 1.1GHz, which we overclock to 2GHz. And so forth.
But why is this such a big deal?
Probably the same reason as going from 700 mph to breaking the sound barrier in the air was, or having the first car exceed 100 miles per hour. Its a logical progrression, but milestones are important in our culture. Why do we celebrate our 50th birthdays or 50th anniversaries? Well, because they are milestones.
I'm still using a p/233MHz and it still offers me instant gratification for anything I want it to do. What's the rush?
By the same token, if everyone votes, then you may find yourself with a bad candidate because a lot of people just voted for whose name they saw the most on signs around their town. I see it in Quebec regularly. The inteligencia in my area all vote Liberal, and the welfare class (50% unemployment in my hometown), all vote PQ. The result? Separatist victory, and endless complaints about how bad the government is with no thought to the fact they put them there.
I am not jealous of the US. I live in Canada, and I lived four years in your hell hole called the US. Outside of academia it is hard to find an American capable of thinking for themselves. You do whatever the fresh prince or seinfeld tells you to do. Your world is made up of abusing forign countries for cheap labour. The US could not afford to have every country be first world because the costs of goods would become too high, and the US standard of living would continue to drop.
When will the US pay up its membership to the UN? When it gets a veto. Oh wait, it already _has_ a veto, and it still isn't paying.
for(bool offtopic=true;offtopic=false;slashdot.comment()) { Hmm... Roblimo could drive himself in the motorcade - he already has the presidential limosine(sp?):)
If we had Robin for president, do you think he'd overturn all the encryption laws?:)
Though I like the fact that, as a friend of mine puts it, the Canadian Prime Minister can be mugged as easily as I can. (Unlike the US.)
Every generation has its intellectual magnet. It used to be industry, then it was the war machine, and now its the internet. Each one has been a direct result of the previous, and the next boom will take all the bright folks left from the internet world and move them on to the next step. And like industry, and the war machine, the internet will be left incomplete, and inefficient, but nevertheless there to stay. The next target of the geek community may be bio-technology, or it may be agriculture, or it may be something noone around today ever even thought of. But the way I see it, there is always a single place where the intelligencia go, and the second-raters will always be everywhere else. The geek world is like an antibody. It attacks a problem as it comes up, and doesn't let go until its solved. Soon we will see a new problem, and all pounce on it, leaving the internet in a precarious balance with only the second-raters taking it over. We've been there, we've done that, we'll do it again.
I hadn't heard that, but the thought had crossed my mind playing MS flightsim. It would fit the pattern from our dear friends at redmond though. The 'look and feel' of the cockpit was very similar. Does SubLogic still even exist?
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put escape characters in subject lines, its neither a virus nor a worm but it is a pain. :)
:) Put that sequence in a text file at linux console and cat it. Now present that to a newbie. Result: ahh! what happened to my computer? Answer: nothing. But it looks like something did. :)
^[[2J^[1;1H^[[30m^[[40m^[12;7] should be a good sequence to scare someone.
slink is a happy median.
So now can we sue the United States for having a monopoly on world politics, international affairs, and the world's economy? I bet we could make a sustantial case...
"#define RANT_MODE" :)
"#endif"
Do you, by any chance, have trouble compiling your code?
I have been thinking about a solution to kernel panics and no-reboot kernel upgrades for a while, and here is the only thing I have come up with that seems viable:
We have redundant power supplies, hard drives, and many other pieces of hardware. I am thinking it may be good for developpers, at any rate, to use redundant kernels. Kernel 1 dies, kernel 2 realises this and kills kernel 1 and takes over the system. Interrupt in service: a few clock cycles. Perhaps a new runlevel should be implemented into the linux kernel...runlevel 7, which would be against the POSIX standard I think, not sure, but would allow a condition in which the kernel is replacing itself in memory, by having a redundant kernel take over while one is being replaced in memory, and the second kernel handing off resources to the new primary kernel when it is ready, returning to the previous runlevel.
The long and the short of what I am saying is that there should be a second kernel in memory at all times ready to take over at any time, but programmed to not run until the first kernel dies or is being upgraded.
The disadvantage: it starts to consume extra memory resources, and process table entries, and will take a long time to perfect.
What do you think?
This screams in my ears that big business is, yet again, hurting us more then helping us. Progress is the enemy of profits. It may be worth it to start a Slashdot Defense Fund, as this is one of the larger (largest?) forums of free-software users and writers.
Yeah. Sheesh, I can think of a few governments and corporations (which have more power anyway) that would be scared silly confronted with that proposition :)
"May you live in interesting times" is a Chinese _curse_. :)
This leads me to my next question (not the quote), do you think that this technology (as an AC pointed out farther down, this article was posted in Januray) could be used as a pain reliever by sending false signals over the sensory nerve cells?
Well my concern is that someone of a different weight or build could create havoc to another person.
:)
I need a certain amount of energy going a certain precise way to move my 5'9" 200 pound bulk. If I gave my programme to my friend who is 6'5" and 130 pounds, he is not going to fare too well.
Similarly, if I take his programme I will be troubled to even stand on my own.
Also, a glitch, it seems to me, could result in two muscles both being contracted simultaneously and excessively and possibly even tearing them from the bone.
Though then again perhaps it could be used to hard-code monkeys to type hamlet....
I don't think so. As I understand it, the users need to be able to record the signal and then play it back. If they can't do a particular motion, they won't be able to do it again, as they couldn't record it.
So this will only help if you keep a storage bank of all your different possible motions so that if you are disabled later you can be...err..reloaded.
Hmm. Bob Dole could probably make use of this technology. :)
I just hope they are using embedded linux, or better, BSD microkernel, to run people's bodies, having bloatware or unstable systems running people might lead to catastrophic acts of politicians telling the truth.
*pop* there goes the little bubble I had growing around me :)
hear hear (or is it here here?)
Perhaps we can turn this into a discussion of true (technical) arguments, with cited sources, for and against Microsoft products, BSD && linux, and everything beyond. As this will just be a 'yeah MS sucks!' argument otherwise.
I call on all the dutiful readers to come out with a good set of articles and reasons as to why we say what we do about who when where how, and why. This could be an interesting learning experience for us all if people take it seriously.
It defaults to yes.... :)
I get the impression they aren't too good at finding the important stuff, if they were unable to determine that Pakistan had been building nuclear weapons for a quarter of a century, and took the US by surprise by testing them.
Maybe they should start focusing on the important stuff in the World?
A revolution would do a lot of good in a lot of Western Countries right around now - they've mostly long stopped being democracies.
IIRC CBC carried a story a couple of years ago about CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) getting in trouble with the RCMP (mounties, Royal Canadian Mounted Police) over listening in for keywords in coversations. CSIS, which doesn't have the same mysticism around it as No Such Agency, has no government allocated rights to do this (thus the reason they got in trouble) but are reputed to anyway. Perhaps, under the Access to Information Act, someone could dig up something about them?
No I truly don't give a rats a$$ about games. Sorry. Coding is far more fun. :)
So 733MHz goes to 1GHz.
Next year we get an Athalon 1.1GHz, which we overclock to 2GHz. And so forth.
But why is this such a big deal?
Probably the same reason as going from 700 mph to breaking the sound barrier in the air was, or having the first car exceed 100 miles per hour. Its a logical progrression, but milestones are important in our culture. Why do we celebrate our 50th birthdays or 50th anniversaries? Well, because they are milestones.
I'm still using a p/233MHz and it still offers me instant gratification for anything I want it to do. What's the rush?
By the same token, if everyone votes, then you may find yourself with a bad candidate because a lot of people just voted for whose name they saw the most on signs around their town. I see it in Quebec regularly. The inteligencia in my area all vote Liberal, and the welfare class (50% unemployment in my hometown), all vote PQ. The result? Separatist victory, and endless complaints about how bad the government is with no thought to the fact they put them there.
I am not jealous of the US. I live in Canada, and I lived four years in your hell hole called the US. Outside of academia it is hard to find an American capable of thinking for themselves. You do whatever the fresh prince or seinfeld tells you to do. Your world is made up of abusing forign countries for cheap labour. The US could not afford to have every country be first world because the costs of goods would become too high, and the US standard of living would continue to drop.
When will the US pay up its membership to the UN? When it gets a veto. Oh wait, it already _has_ a veto, and it still isn't paying.
"God bless America"
arrogant bloody country.
From the userinfo page: [greendot.gif] :) I think slashdot will be going through more modifications in the next 5 days :)
hmmm...
for(bool offtopic=true;offtopic=false;slashdot.comment()) { Hmm... Roblimo could drive himself in the motorcade - he already has the presidential limosine(sp?) :)
:)
// hmm...that sounds really disjointed.
If we had Robin for president, do you think he'd overturn all the encryption laws?
Though I like the fact that, as a friend of mine puts it, the Canadian Prime Minister can be mugged as easily as I can. (Unlike the US.)
}
Every generation has its intellectual magnet. It used to be industry, then it was the war machine, and now its the internet. Each one has been a direct result of the previous, and the next boom will take all the bright folks left from the internet world and move them on to the next step.
And like industry, and the war machine, the internet will be left incomplete, and inefficient, but nevertheless there to stay.
The next target of the geek community may be bio-technology, or it may be agriculture, or it may be something noone around today ever even thought of. But the way I see it, there is always a single place where the intelligencia go, and the second-raters will always be everywhere else.
The geek world is like an antibody. It attacks a problem as it comes up, and doesn't let go until its solved. Soon we will see a new problem, and all pounce on it, leaving the internet in a precarious balance with only the second-raters taking it over.
We've been there, we've done that, we'll do it again.
Its just trying to emulate tar ... :)
/dev/psaux. :)
tar - is for stdin, so you use tar xvzf filename.tar.gz
ps aux to me, though, makes me feel like i'm sending a request to my mouse on
I hadn't heard that, but the thought had crossed my mind playing MS flightsim. It would fit the pattern from our dear friends at redmond though. The 'look and feel' of the cockpit was very similar. Does SubLogic still even exist?