I have that very same recollection. Luckily, it wasn't long until I discovered Total Commander (then Windows Commander). Before that I even used to use good old Norton Commander in a DOS window, just because it was more efficient to work with. While drag-and-drop is really handy for doing one simple operation, I prefer my dual panes whenever I need to copy more than a couple of files or just create a new shortcut on the desktop.
Yes!
However, it's actually misspelled in TFA, so as a direct quote it is actually correct. A little [sic] note from the editor wouldn't have hurt, though.
I beg to differ, you insensitive clod!
I am neither paranoid nor a "right wing nut job". Furthermore, I own not one gun and I am perfectly gruntled, thank you very much!
Slow download and installation using the official channels does not even begin to describe it. I did some work in Xcode this spring. Two and a half hours it took to install the bloody thing even with a quick and stable connection.
Two days later I had to install a new update to be able to continue my work. Thankfully that only took slightly more than an hour.
In hindsight it was a good thing that I didn't grab it from an unofficial source, but man, was it ever so tempting.
And I've had the reverse of your experience, which should show us how much anecdotal evidence is worth.
For what little it is worth though, I've had every single WD drive I've ever bought crash catastrophically. I've had only one Seagate drive fail and even then it failed gracefully enough to let me recover most of what was on it.
That was the story my mind leapt to as well.
It was initially written as a short story and later incorporated in "The Martian Cronicles". There was also a great dramatisation of it on Dimension X, which can be found on The Internet Archive.
It is hard to believe it was written in 1950. Sure our vision of what the tech looks like might have changed a bit, but not the essence of the story. It is a truly chilling vision and it looks increasingly plausible with every year.
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools, singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white,
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
And that's one reason I don't like the structure of *nix file systems.
One false move and you can erase everything you have plugged into your system, including, but not limited to, all your hard drives, external hard drives, network mounts, memory cards, USB sticks etc.
Sure, there's a good chance you can recover the lost data, but rebuilding a file system on one disk is painful enough, let alone all of your disks plus your NAS and it's even worse if just some of the files had their records deleted. At least in my experience.
This sound very much like a continuation and refinement of technology demonstrated a few years back that could identify mosquitoes and differentiate between males and females to only zap the females.
I remember seeing this TED talk some time back where they had constructed a working rig. At least working under laboratory conditions. Is that the precursor of this?
'You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into... the Twilight Zone.'
Is not what the intro to my first episode says...
I wasn'a around at the time, and YouTube stated it was down for maintenance when I was going to check the link.
However;
The intro to the first episode (1959) that I watched says:
'You're traveling through another dimension.
A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind.
A journey into a wonderous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.
At the sign-post up ahead, your next stop - The Twilight Zone'
I guess there may have been alternate intros though...
Sorry if I seemed harsh. That was not my intention.
And you are most certainly right. Most of the stuff will probably end up as oxides. Doesn't make it any easier to recover data from though.:-)
Intresting that about aluminium being used as a deoxidizing agent. I didn't know about that method, although I can imagine it must be terribly effective. As I remember from primary school we learned that coal was often used in the old Swedish ironworks to purify the metal.
That seems a bit redundant. You just cited him, didn't you?
I get the strangest feeling of recursion when someone quotes somebody else and asks for a citation...
Actually in the case of thermite...
(yes right now I'm being a besserwisser, but so is everyone else here, so I don't see shy I shouldn't be one as well:-p)
Thermite can be made using several different metal oxides and mixing this with a metal powder. What this resulting mixture is is something that will burn with extreme heat because of its composition. It will also provide the reaction with oxygen, meaning that as soon as it's lit it can burn in an anaerobic atmosphere.
The extreme heat that is generated from this reaction is actually enough to break up many compounds that comes in contact with it (or are nearby). E.g. water could be split into oxygene and hydrogene.
So potentially, yes, a drive could be reduced to it's elemental components by burning thermite on it.
And even if you don't succeed in breaking it up entirely, trying to recover data from a heap of metal is probably not so easy.
"is there hope for the multi-language development process?"
I dare venture that the.NET initiative (and mono) is just that.
Common language runtime, sure. But use any language you want as long as you can bind it to the framework.
[sarcasm] So my next major, multi-megabyte project I will build with brainf*ck.NET. [/sarcasm]
There are routers that run open source firmware. An example of a company that uses open source firmware is Canyon. I've had one for a couple of years now. I got the first hardware revision, so I haven't been able to upgrade my firmware to the latest, but my model is still manufactured, albeit in a later hardware revision and the firmware is open source. Works like a charm.
Two words for you:
Firefox and Adblock.
(ok that's actually three, the latter of which is a composite word, but don's you mind that)
Set the right filters and it takes care of Google's text ads as well.
Slashdot Mirror
I have that very same recollection. Luckily, it wasn't long until I discovered Total Commander (then Windows Commander). Before that I even used to use good old Norton Commander in a DOS window, just because it was more efficient to work with. While drag-and-drop is really handy for doing one simple operation, I prefer my dual panes whenever I need to copy more than a couple of files or just create a new shortcut on the desktop.
Is this what you're looking for? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...
FTFY
Yes!
However, it's actually misspelled in TFA, so as a direct quote it is actually correct. A little [sic] note from the editor wouldn't have hurt, though.
I believe it's pronounced "One hundred and one-ty third".
I beg to differ, you insensitive clod!
I am neither paranoid nor a "right wing nut job". Furthermore, I own not one gun and I am perfectly gruntled, thank you very much!
Slow download and installation using the official channels does not even begin to describe it. I did some work in Xcode this spring. Two and a half hours it took to install the bloody thing even with a quick and stable connection.
Two days later I had to install a new update to be able to continue my work. Thankfully that only took slightly more than an hour.
In hindsight it was a good thing that I didn't grab it from an unofficial source, but man, was it ever so tempting.
And I've had the reverse of your experience, which should show us how much anecdotal evidence is worth.
For what little it is worth though, I've had every single WD drive I've ever bought crash catastrophically. I've had only one Seagate drive fail and even then it failed gracefully enough to let me recover most of what was on it.
It was initially written as a short story and later incorporated in "The Martian Cronicles". There was also a great dramatisation of it on Dimension X, which can be found on The Internet Archive.
It is hard to believe it was written in 1950. Sure our vision of what the tech looks like might have changed a bit, but not the essence of the story. It is a truly chilling vision and it looks increasingly plausible with every year.
--Sara Teasdale
And that's one reason I don't like the structure of *nix file systems.
One false move and you can erase everything you have plugged into your system, including, but not limited to, all your hard drives, external hard drives, network mounts, memory cards, USB sticks etc.
Sure, there's a good chance you can recover the lost data, but rebuilding a file system on one disk is painful enough, let alone all of your disks plus your NAS and it's even worse if just some of the files had their records deleted. At least in my experience.
Had I modpoints, I would mod you up. I did not LOL, but I did SPASS (Smile Pleasedly And Snicker Silently).
I, for one, welcomes our Chinese space overlords.
Battery door? Oh, that thing on the back of the phone. Isn't that that elusive back door I've been hearing so much about? :-p
This sound very much like a continuation and refinement of technology demonstrated a few years back that could identify mosquitoes and differentiate between males and females to only zap the females.
I remember seeing this TED talk some time back where they had constructed a working rig. At least working under laboratory conditions. Is that the precursor of this?
FTFY:
I'm sure all these editorial discussions will be promptly settled once and for all now that they have been slashdotted.
And its common name is Bruce.
Is not what the intro to my first episode says... I wasn'a around at the time, and YouTube stated it was down for maintenance when I was going to check the link.
However;
The intro to the first episode (1959) that I watched says:
I guess there may have been alternate intros though...
Sorry if I seemed harsh. That was not my intention. And you are most certainly right. Most of the stuff will probably end up as oxides. Doesn't make it any easier to recover data from though. :-)
Intresting that about aluminium being used as a deoxidizing agent. I didn't know about that method, although I can imagine it must be terribly effective. As I remember from primary school we learned that coal was often used in the old Swedish ironworks to purify the metal.
Oh, you mean something similar to this?
Such loops are almost certainly buggy
[citation needed]
That seems a bit redundant. You just cited him, didn't you? I get the strangest feeling of recursion when someone quotes somebody else and asks for a citation...
Actually in the case of thermite... (yes right now I'm being a besserwisser, but so is everyone else here, so I don't see shy I shouldn't be one as well :-p)
Thermite can be made using several different metal oxides and mixing this with a metal powder. What this resulting mixture is is something that will burn with extreme heat because of its composition. It will also provide the reaction with oxygen, meaning that as soon as it's lit it can burn in an anaerobic atmosphere.
The extreme heat that is generated from this reaction is actually enough to break up many compounds that comes in contact with it (or are nearby). E.g. water could be split into oxygene and hydrogene.
So potentially, yes, a drive could be reduced to it's elemental components by burning thermite on it.
And even if you don't succeed in breaking it up entirely, trying to recover data from a heap of metal is probably not so easy.
I dare venture that the .NET initiative (and mono) is just that.
Common language runtime, sure. But use any language you want as long as you can bind it to the framework.
[sarcasm] So my next major, multi-megabyte project I will build with brainf*ck.NET. [/sarcasm]
There are routers that run open source firmware. An example of a company that uses open source firmware is Canyon. I've had one for a couple of years now. I got the first hardware revision, so I haven't been able to upgrade my firmware to the latest, but my model is still manufactured, albeit in a later hardware revision and the firmware is open source. Works like a charm.
Two words for you: Firefox and Adblock. (ok that's actually three, the latter of which is a composite word, but don's you mind that) Set the right filters and it takes care of Google's text ads as well.