Thanks guys! All these comments, pictures, and stuff are making me think the Dreamcast is some gameplay-heavy-but-with-cute-graphics dream game device, so.. I just went on eBay and bought one with a bunch of games for like $60. I'm sick of all the new stuff on the PS2, and these games sound great for quick play (I hate storylines or long games).. so thanks, and let's hope I have fun with it when it arrives:)
A lot of companies who have no legal rights in the European Union, like Flickr, FeedBurner, and, well, just pick 1000 names out of a hat.. have already been domain squatted on.eu. Even my own little web tool has had its domain name registered. To be honest, I'm surprised, as.eu names aren't cheap..eu is a back-water. It'll have a small cluster of EU related domains that might be popular, but otherwise it's just another demilitarized zone where people register domains to be 'protected' but never actually use them.
I don't see any good reason for anyone to bother with a.eu name..eu patriotism isn't great enough to warrant it, it's confusing to new users, and many in the UK look at the EU with disdain anyway.
I imagine.eu will be of primary use to companies with an overall (continental) European presence, but who's that? I can't even think of a single grocery store that's in more than two EU countries, let alone anything else.
Not really. A file of 1 bit in length with that bit set to 1 = first choice.. File of 1 bit with bit set to 0 = second choice.. File of more than 1 bit = third choice:)
That said, I'm not sure any file system supports bit level indexing and storage:)
It's not really a complete answer, but OS X can connect to OS X Server. I believe you can store profiles, desktops, files, etc, on the OS X server transparently. I have no experience with OS X Server though, so I don't know to what extent it works compared to a Windows client/server situation.
I've been an Apple fan for the past two years since buying my first Apple product, an iBook, in early 2004 (I've since entirely switched). Still, 99% of my love for Apple is for OS X, and I wouldn't agree that their customer service is amazing.
Consider that all their machines come with a year's warranty. You can buy AppleCare within the first twelve months, so it makes sense to not buy AppleCare at day one and rely on the warranty for the first year. The problem is, they make it really hard to work out who to talk to in that first year. AppleCare comes with a phone number and all the details, but if you don't have AppleCare, working out who to call regarding your warranty requires some digging. Put it this way, if you trawl through their support site(s), everything is pitched at AppleCare and there are no specific references to who to call regarding the/warranty/.
My iBook had a fault at age 11 months. Whenever you opened the screen beyond 90 degrees, it cut out. I eventually worked out a number at Apple (which goes to Ireland) and waited in the queue. I eventually found out that Apple didn't actually do the servicing. They gave me a URL to find a local 'approved' repair center for Macs. Turns out my nearest one was 2 hours away so I called them up. They told me to bring the machine in and they could sort it out under warranty. They also said I could send it in, but I'd have to pay all the costs and insurances, etc.. which came to more than actually going there. Eventually I decided against it, ripped open the machine myself, and found a wire was getting caught in the hinge, which was easily fixed.
So it ended well, but not thanks to Apple at all. However, they've opened an actual Apple store about 90 minutes away from here now, so it won't be so bad in future, but still.. it felt that without AppleCare, Apple were more interested in getting rid of me than fostering a customer who'd go on to spend thousands on Apple products.
The only wrong answer I got in my IT test in 1993 was down to this. You had to mark and name each section of a computer as one of the basic questions and CPU was the expected answer for the base unit, so I got it wrong whereas the rest of the class, mostly who didn't own computers, got it right. No biggie though, but I did try and chew out the teacher over it:)
It's not exactly a "community" in the "let's all chat" sense, but a community has sprung up on Code Snippets, a tagged 'del.icio.us for source code'.. most notably around Python coding on cellphones. But there's over a thousand users so something was bound to spring up.
The lack of Unicode support isn't such a major deal. Most applications developed in Rails just push information around from database to user and vice versa without needing to 'do' much with it. Unicode will 'go through' a Rails application just fine. It's not as if your non ASCII text will suddenly disappear or get changed (unless your logic sets out to do this).
We don't need no stinkin' SDKs.. why not officially document and open up the API instead? That way we can call it and do what we want on any platform without having to worry about SDKs.
I'm a bit too busy to go into any depth, but Ruby can be a very 'meta' language (much like LISP or Smalltalk) and it's easy to override almost anything, so dealing with special cases is pretty easy.
I've developed some pretty large scale things with RoR that required a lot beyond what the framework offered, and it's been fine.. although in hindsight I can see how I should have done things a bit different. That's mainly due to a lack of knowledge of Ruby rather than Rails though. Ruby is a lot more powerful than the quick demos show, even if Rails is not.
If it's not sensitive, and I wouldn't mind people using it, I like to store it on my tagged code snippets site. It helps me find useful bits and pieces again at a later date as I can always remember a word or two which I tagged it with. 1000 other users seem to enjoy it too:) and if you're looking for inspiration you can subscribe via RSS.
Note: My full name, adress and phone number are in the domain registry, if you need to contact me to whitelist your IP address, I'm only a phone call away. The problems blacklisting causes for my users is about zero. The spam and hack attempts stopped number in the thousands daily (about 1.2% of the total number of IP adresses is blocked at my servers). Blacklisting *works*. The whining from users with shady ISP's is bonus.
This would be applicable if my ISPs were actually shady, but I am aware of (in one main case) their tough stance on spam. It has even been to the deteriment of other customers where they've overzealously unplugged machines.
The problems blacklisting causes for my users is about zero.
Your blacklisting probably isn't as crazy as that of others. I only have a handful of users and I get a phone call almost every single time one of them can't send a single mail to a single other domain. The same happens with the person at the other end (i.e. the person at the ISP who's doing the blocking).
I believe in blacklisting to an extent, and have blacklisted much of China and South America in the past (as these have tended to be the hotspots for spam and/or attacks in my experience), but blacklisting major American ISPs would seem like commercial suicide to me.
I think whitelisting is a pretty good idea. My SpamAssassin-oriented setup kinda does things this way. That is, a non whitelisted mail has to be pretty squeaky clean to get through, whereas whitelisted addresses get straight through.
But lately I've been hitting a different problem which totally destroys the point of e-mail in many cases for me. That is, idiotic sys admins who firewall out entire IP blocks for, seemingly, no reason.
Just because someone several machines down the co-lo rack let their machine get hacked is no reason for mail server administrators to *firewall out* entire ranges of IP addresses. Lately I've seen some ridiculous behavior where users of the other mail server can't even e-mail people on MY server because the block is two-way! So I end up with users complaining that only certain e-mail addresses appear unmailable (because only a small percentage of sysadmins are stupid enough to block entire classes) but it's still a major PITA that makes e-mail useless for many people. The worst part is when you complain to these sys admins/ISPs, many of them proclaim innocence and believe they have no blocks.. but it's their upstream provider, etc, etc.
I'm beginning to think that encouraging people to migrate over to systems like 'GMail for your domain' and the like are going to be the way to go. At least Google has teams of people working 24/7 keeping their machines whitelisted. Having the US government able to subpoena your private information is the least of your worries, as long as you can actually e-mail the people you need to.
And no, schemes like SPF do not help this problem, since if they're blocking IP ranges outright at their firewall, nothing can break through that except mail proxying (which I've been considering).
Oh, the irony. That article has the world's tiniest font on there. Their layout/navigation might look nice, but if you can't read the articles without about fifty words to a line, it's not worth it. These sorts of rapid studies will not determine if a page is nice to read, but only get views on the layout and navigational elements.
Who modded the parent post up? It's totally devoid of fact.
Steve Jobs initially became famous over twenty years ago for leading the company who developed the, then, most successful microcomputer of its generation, the Apple II. He then pushed his boundaries of fame with the whole Macintosh / 1984 commercial thing and became seen as a visionary and leader of the industry. This was no accident or coincidence.
He then bankrolled and managed (in the business sense, rather than creatively) Pixar for many years, eventually engineering a clever IPO and became a centimillionaire in the process (and now a billionaire).
To compare Steve Jobs to Paris Hilton is ridiculous. Jobs has put in a lot of hard work, a lot of money, and run himself ragged on his route to success.. he was no overnight sensation.
Because not all of us have the ability to remember everything we read? Because not all of us have the time to visit 100 or more Web sites, work out what we read, and then read the new stuff that interests us?
With my RSS reader I can get the 100 or so new stories I haven't seen on the sites I like each day, and load up the ones that interest me or that I haven't read yet. No browser can do that.
Instead I take a couple of minutes to find everything I need to read rather than visiting 100 sites.
That's really not a 6 year old Mac though, is it? It's a 6 year old Mac whose processor has been overridden by a modern expansion card and whose GPU has been overriden by a modern expansion card.
Putting a brand new V8 in a Model T and claiming it "runs well for a 80 year old car" isn't really in the spirit..
That said, I'm always astounded at how well old Macs keep going. I know a design company who still run Macs from the mid 90s as their main machines!
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Wow, I've never before seen chicken-related food that made me feel nauseous looking at it!
Thanks guys! All these comments, pictures, and stuff are making me think the Dreamcast is some gameplay-heavy-but-with-cute-graphics dream game device, so.. I just went on eBay and bought one with a bunch of games for like $60. I'm sick of all the new stuff on the PS2, and these games sound great for quick play (I hate storylines or long games).. so thanks, and let's hope I have fun with it when it arrives :)
A lot of companies who have no legal rights in the European Union, like Flickr, FeedBurner, and, well, just pick 1000 names out of a hat.. have already been domain squatted on .eu. Even my own little web tool has had its domain name registered. To be honest, I'm surprised, as .eu names aren't cheap. .eu is a back-water. It'll have a small cluster of EU related domains that might be popular, but otherwise it's just another demilitarized zone where people register domains to be 'protected' but never actually use them.
.eu name. .eu patriotism isn't great enough to warrant it, it's confusing to new users, and many in the UK look at the EU with disdain anyway.
.eu will be of primary use to companies with an overall (continental) European presence, but who's that? I can't even think of a single grocery store that's in more than two EU countries, let alone anything else.
I don't see any good reason for anyone to bother with a
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Anyone have any idea what Steve Jobs' office / work environment's like? I imagine that'd be more interesting. Bill Gates' is extremely spartan.
Not really. A file of 1 bit in length with that bit set to 1 = first choice.. File of 1 bit with bit set to 0 = second choice.. File of more than 1 bit = third choice :)
:)
That said, I'm not sure any file system supports bit level indexing and storage
It's not really a complete answer, but OS X can connect to OS X Server. I believe you can store profiles, desktops, files, etc, on the OS X server transparently. I have no experience with OS X Server though, so I don't know to what extent it works compared to a Windows client/server situation.
I've been an Apple fan for the past two years since buying my first Apple product, an iBook, in early 2004 (I've since entirely switched). Still, 99% of my love for Apple is for OS X, and I wouldn't agree that their customer service is amazing.
/warranty/.
Consider that all their machines come with a year's warranty. You can buy AppleCare within the first twelve months, so it makes sense to not buy AppleCare at day one and rely on the warranty for the first year. The problem is, they make it really hard to work out who to talk to in that first year. AppleCare comes with a phone number and all the details, but if you don't have AppleCare, working out who to call regarding your warranty requires some digging. Put it this way, if you trawl through their support site(s), everything is pitched at AppleCare and there are no specific references to who to call regarding the
My iBook had a fault at age 11 months. Whenever you opened the screen beyond 90 degrees, it cut out. I eventually worked out a number at Apple (which goes to Ireland) and waited in the queue. I eventually found out that Apple didn't actually do the servicing. They gave me a URL to find a local 'approved' repair center for Macs. Turns out my nearest one was 2 hours away so I called them up. They told me to bring the machine in and they could sort it out under warranty. They also said I could send it in, but I'd have to pay all the costs and insurances, etc.. which came to more than actually going there. Eventually I decided against it, ripped open the machine myself, and found a wire was getting caught in the hinge, which was easily fixed.
So it ended well, but not thanks to Apple at all. However, they've opened an actual Apple store about 90 minutes away from here now, so it won't be so bad in future, but still.. it felt that without AppleCare, Apple were more interested in getting rid of me than fostering a customer who'd go on to spend thousands on Apple products.
The only wrong answer I got in my IT test in 1993 was down to this. You had to mark and name each section of a computer as one of the basic questions and CPU was the expected answer for the base unit, so I got it wrong whereas the rest of the class, mostly who didn't own computers, got it right. No biggie though, but I did try and chew out the teacher over it :)
It's not exactly a "community" in the "let's all chat" sense, but a community has sprung up on Code Snippets, a tagged 'del.icio.us for source code'.. most notably around Python coding on cellphones. But there's over a thousand users so something was bound to spring up.
The lack of Unicode support isn't such a major deal. Most applications developed in Rails just push information around from database to user and vice versa without needing to 'do' much with it. Unicode will 'go through' a Rails application just fine. It's not as if your non ASCII text will suddenly disappear or get changed (unless your logic sets out to do this).
We don't need no stinkin' SDKs.. why not officially document and open up the API instead? That way we can call it and do what we want on any platform without having to worry about SDKs.
I'm a bit too busy to go into any depth, but Ruby can be a very 'meta' language (much like LISP or Smalltalk) and it's easy to override almost anything, so dealing with special cases is pretty easy.
I've developed some pretty large scale things with RoR that required a lot beyond what the framework offered, and it's been fine.. although in hindsight I can see how I should have done things a bit different. That's mainly due to a lack of knowledge of Ruby rather than Rails though. Ruby is a lot more powerful than the quick demos show, even if Rails is not.
No, it's that Apple's version of Ruby is screwed up. I still run most of my Rails apps on 1.8.2 (25th December 2004 build).
If it's not sensitive, and I wouldn't mind people using it, I like to store it on my tagged code snippets site. It helps me find useful bits and pieces again at a later date as I can always remember a word or two which I tagged it with. 1000 other users seem to enjoy it too :) and if you're looking for inspiration you can subscribe via RSS.
Note: My full name, adress and phone number are in the domain registry, if you need to contact me to whitelist your IP address, I'm only a phone call away. The problems blacklisting causes for my users is about zero. The spam and hack attempts stopped number in the thousands daily (about 1.2% of the total number of IP adresses is blocked at my servers). Blacklisting *works*. The whining from users with shady ISP's is bonus.
This would be applicable if my ISPs were actually shady, but I am aware of (in one main case) their tough stance on spam. It has even been to the deteriment of other customers where they've overzealously unplugged machines.
The problems blacklisting causes for my users is about zero.
Your blacklisting probably isn't as crazy as that of others. I only have a handful of users and I get a phone call almost every single time one of them can't send a single mail to a single other domain. The same happens with the person at the other end (i.e. the person at the ISP who's doing the blocking).
I believe in blacklisting to an extent, and have blacklisted much of China and South America in the past (as these have tended to be the hotspots for spam and/or attacks in my experience), but blacklisting major American ISPs would seem like commercial suicide to me.
I think whitelisting is a pretty good idea. My SpamAssassin-oriented setup kinda does things this way. That is, a non whitelisted mail has to be pretty squeaky clean to get through, whereas whitelisted addresses get straight through.
But lately I've been hitting a different problem which totally destroys the point of e-mail in many cases for me. That is, idiotic sys admins who firewall out entire IP blocks for, seemingly, no reason.
Just because someone several machines down the co-lo rack let their machine get hacked is no reason for mail server administrators to *firewall out* entire ranges of IP addresses. Lately I've seen some ridiculous behavior where users of the other mail server can't even e-mail people on MY server because the block is two-way! So I end up with users complaining that only certain e-mail addresses appear unmailable (because only a small percentage of sysadmins are stupid enough to block entire classes) but it's still a major PITA that makes e-mail useless for many people. The worst part is when you complain to these sys admins/ISPs, many of them proclaim innocence and believe they have no blocks.. but it's their upstream provider, etc, etc.
I'm beginning to think that encouraging people to migrate over to systems like 'GMail for your domain' and the like are going to be the way to go. At least Google has teams of people working 24/7 keeping their machines whitelisted. Having the US government able to subpoena your private information is the least of your worries, as long as you can actually e-mail the people you need to.
And no, schemes like SPF do not help this problem, since if they're blocking IP ranges outright at their firewall, nothing can break through that except mail proxying (which I've been considering).
Nice! Serves me right for using the Ruby 1.6 docs.
As an aside, are there proper references for Ruby 1.8 online? I have the Pickaxe book, but I'd much rather have something online and searchable..
What's a better way of doing this in Ruby? My solution looks a bit long winded.
0 0 100000010101110110010100100000 01101100011010010111011001100101001000000110100101 101110001000000110000100100000 01100010011010010110111001100001011100100111100100 100000011100110111100101110011 01110100011001010110110100111111".gsub(/\s/, '').scan(/......../).each{ |c| t=0; p=7; s=''; c.each_byte{|d| t += 2 ** p if d == 49; p -= 1; }; print t.chr }
"010100110110100001101111011011110111010000100001
Oh, the irony. That article has the world's tiniest font on there. Their layout/navigation might look nice, but if you can't read the articles without about fifty words to a line, it's not worth it. These sorts of rapid studies will not determine if a page is nice to read, but only get views on the layout and navigational elements.
Who modded the parent post up? It's totally devoid of fact.
Steve Jobs initially became famous over twenty years ago for leading the company who developed the, then, most successful microcomputer of its generation, the Apple II. He then pushed his boundaries of fame with the whole Macintosh / 1984 commercial thing and became seen as a visionary and leader of the industry. This was no accident or coincidence.
He then bankrolled and managed (in the business sense, rather than creatively) Pixar for many years, eventually engineering a clever IPO and became a centimillionaire in the process (and now a billionaire).
To compare Steve Jobs to Paris Hilton is ridiculous. Jobs has put in a lot of hard work, a lot of money, and run himself ragged on his route to success.. he was no overnight sensation.
Because not all of us have the ability to remember everything we read? Because not all of us have the time to visit 100 or more Web sites, work out what we read, and then read the new stuff that interests us?
With my RSS reader I can get the 100 or so new stories I haven't seen on the sites I like each day, and load up the ones that interest me or that I haven't read yet. No browser can do that.
Instead I take a couple of minutes to find everything I need to read rather than visiting 100 sites.
No, wrong one I'm afraid, but it wasn't /exactly/ $4k. That said, I'm totally impressed with your hack-fu.
You're wrong. I personally know someone who spent $4000 on an ad there.
Scaffolding is temporary. Scaffolding is not meant to be used in production apps. A lot of people in #ror seem to forget this.
That's really not a 6 year old Mac though, is it? It's a 6 year old Mac whose processor has been overridden by a modern expansion card and whose GPU has been overriden by a modern expansion card.
Putting a brand new V8 in a Model T and claiming it "runs well for a 80 year old car" isn't really in the spirit..
That said, I'm always astounded at how well old Macs keep going. I know a design company who still run Macs from the mid 90s as their main machines!