How long ago was this one time you used it? Which version? I believe I've run across many pages stating that ReiserFS is still undergoing major development and is intended mostly for people who either need or wish to test such a filesystem. I could be wrong though.
Since near total reliability is one of the major goals of ReiserFS, at least on RAIDs, I expect that any bugs resulting in data loss, regardless of the physical circumstances leading up to it, are taken very seriously.
I haven't adopted ReiserFS yet, but I plan to within the next year or so. I'm still at the stage where I'm trying to gain experience in the field of rapid cross platform development so that I can eventually break free from the bonds of Microsoft software. For now I'm still running Windows on my main PC.
That's a good way to increase job security too, if they don't suspect anything.
As for the "on only" power switches, most of the computers have bios settings for that, and if not, holding them down for about 4 seconds usually works.
What I think a lot of people are looking for is full scaling. Programs that aren't aware of the scaling would think they were running at a certain resolution, when in fact everything they do would be scaled up to a much higher resolution. Vector graphics (such as text) would be rendered at the higher resolution.
Switching to a higher resolution would mean an increase in quality, and not necessarily a decrease in proportions. Resolution and size could be adjusted independently of each other. Someone with a low resolution display could even simulate a higher resolution if they wanted.
The Windows Longhorn demo videos suggested that it might support this, so time may be running out for anyone who wants to beat them to it.
Most of my fellow nerds from high school came out of the closet in the 3 years since I graduated. I asked one of them why and he said he just didn't believe he could ever find a girl who would want to be with him. Another now poses as a girl, but claims that he's not gay, and only does it for the money. Some of the people who used to know him but don't know his secret think he's dead.
Sure nerds are sexy but too many of them lack the interpersonal skills to find a girlfriend. I'm still looking, and don't plan on giving up soon.
I just finished reading the bill. One thing I got from it is that if after going on a trip to Disneyland, I post the photographs on my website, one of them containing a picture of Mickey Mouse or some other disney creation, after one year I would be considered to have pirated $5000 in copyrighted works, and I would be subject to hefty fines and imprisonment.
I'm scanning the photos right now, and I will post them for my distant relatives to look at, legal or not.
Recently (The week of the 4th of July) I burned 217 of my MP3's onto a single CD and listened to it throughout my vacation from Oregon to Southern California.
About a dozen of the songs were things I really pirated, all of them by Danny Elfman (where would I buy that?). Another 2 CD's worth were albums where the original CD was broken or scratched beyond repair and I downloaded replacements from Kazaa. The rest I purchased, ripped directly from the CD's, and never , and never shared. During my vacation I purchased another $55 in music CDs, but they were on sale. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I had a bunch of pirated Monty Python songs on that MP3 CD as well, but among the $55 worth of CD's I bought were 2 Python CD's containing the songs I had pirated and much more.
Although I don't support piracy in general, small scale music piracy is not always bad. Someone who has a conscience might even buy more CD's as a result. At this moment I've purchased much more music as a direct result of piracy than I've pirated without purchasing. And most of what I haven't purchased I haven't seen on music store shelves.
If they keep threatening people for such minor violations, I might just set my radio next to my PC. I could even plug it into my line-in. Problem solved.
I started writing a bunch about two weeks ago. So far I've averaged a project every two days in the 2-4 hours of free time I have each night. I'm releasing it all under the GPL, for no good reason.
I didn't pay for anything. I just saw the contest page, downloaded a free trial of the compiler, discussed a bit in the forums, wrote some warriors, and finally entered one of them. I actually ran into several unique compiler bugs while writing simple warriors, and in some cases it took 2-3 minutes to compile a few thousand lines.
GridWars programs often have a great level of directional bias in their behavior, or at least they did back when I played. It was very rare to see a warrior that could beat 3/4ths of the enemies it faced. The final winner used a flaw in the random number generator to communicate with its buddies and reduce that bias. (communication was not supposed to be possible in the first contest)
It looks like all the old warriors from the first contest automatically re-entered, so I've lost again. I wonder if I'll get another t-shirt out of this.
I competed in the first GridWars contest. I didn't even place, but they did send me a couple undersized GridWars t-shirts for having competed. A lot of people found hacks, err, undocumented features, in the battle program that allowed their warriors to some interesting things, and many of the "features" were allowed to be used in the contest. Few well behaved programs survived the first round.
That about sums it up for me. Got interested in science at age 3, and I've had ADD ever since. Tourette's too. But hey, I've learned so much about everything (I have several math trophies, know over a dozen programming languages, etc) that it's almost worth it, except for the fact that I can't pay attention no matter how hard I try, I have a mild, everlasting headache, my speaking skills rival those of a first grader, and I'm still a virgin.
I had a nasty cough for 5 weeks and didn't take a day off school or work. Pretty recently, too, when other universities were sending students home for much lesser symptoms. From the first week on, people among the university staff kept saying I should really see a doctor, as the coughs sounded worse than anything they said they'd heard. It probably lasted so long because I was pulling a lot of all-nighters at the time finishing reports, which probably weakened my immune system. Looking back at it, I probably spread it to hundreds of people by not staying home those 5 weeks, but it's too late to change now, and I would have had to retake all the classes I had that term if I did. I did see a doctor about it after the 2nd week. She was pretty scared by it, wore a mask and gloves, wouldn't get within 5 feet of me, and prescribed a bunch of expensive medications to take. She diagnosed it as acute bronchitis. Even with the medication, it took 3 weeks to for it to get better. It was probably a virus because the antibiotics seemed to have little effect.
Getting back on topic, I was near Los Angeles on vacation this morning (I'm in Oregon now) and read in the newspaper that a resident was quarantined with SARS like symptoms.
The only immorality I see in Gator is that they don't make it clear to inexperienced computer users (like my grandmother) exactly what their software does. If it said upfront that it will share all your information and occasionally pop up annoying ads in response to you visiting a site, making it appear as if that site generated the ad, then I would see nothing wrong with it. But I wouldn't expect them to have more than a handful of users if they ran an honest business, except maybe those who clicked "yes" by accident and hadn't removed it yet.
On every computer I've seen Gator on, the user didn't even know it was there, except that they were bombarded by popups, private information was shared without their knowledge, etc.
I feel they both have their place. It depends on the language I'm using and what I'm parsing. I mostly use regular expressions nowadays because they require fewer keypresses than the alternatives. But yeah, for parsing most languages a recursive descent parser is definitely best. I had to write one in C for a basic interpreter back in one of my high school programming classes.
I had no intent to post false or misleading information. I was going by a stock graph I saw a couple months ago, and with regards to the cable modem problem, I've confirmed that many other charter customers experience the same crashes caused by every available version of the XP drivers for the modems they loaned to us, but Charter's tech support claimed to have never heard of the problem, leading me to believe that they were uninformed about the problems faced by many of their customers. In their defense, they suggested I buy a dedicated router rather than plugging the modem into my USB port.
My mention of the hour long outages was meant to show that not all problems connecting through charter are necessarily their fault, though I did show a hint of dissatisfaction because my ip address used to be static and they've started changing it. I apologize for that. It was my fault for assuming that they gave me a static address and I shouldn't blame them.
Please disregard major portions of my post. It came entirely out of frustrating experiences and research I had done months before. Good luck with your stock.
Yeah,.NET is pretty awesome. With the help of the IDE I can toss together almost any sort of application in minutes, as long as I only need it to run on Windows. I always wanted a C++ like language with the ease of use of VB, and they made it.
The main problem I have with it is that whenever Microsoft calls one of their products cross platform they usually mean that it'll run on both 2000 and XP. While Sun has ported Java to just about everything, with each version originating from the same code base. There's Mono, but they still have only about half of the framework implemented, and roughly none of the gui classes.
Java also has the advantage of being free. I can install the SDK anywhere, but if I did the same with.NET I'd either have to buy another copy or support piracy.
Recently, I've been using Java more than.NET because it seems to be well suited for server apps, in addition to being free and cross platform, in case I ever release source and expect that others will be able to compile it.
The latest JDK was 37mb when I downloaded it. Another 30mb or so for the documentation. But you're right, it's not a great comparison. VS.NET came on 5 CD's and took up 3gb of my hard disk space.
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I have a niece who went through a phase from the moment she could crawl until she was 3 where she liked to press any button she could reach.
How long ago was this one time you used it? Which version? I believe I've run across many pages stating that ReiserFS is still undergoing major development and is intended mostly for people who either need or wish to test such a filesystem. I could be wrong though.
Since near total reliability is one of the major goals of ReiserFS, at least on RAIDs, I expect that any bugs resulting in data loss, regardless of the physical circumstances leading up to it, are taken very seriously.
I haven't adopted ReiserFS yet, but I plan to within the next year or so. I'm still at the stage where I'm trying to gain experience in the field of rapid cross platform development so that I can eventually break free from the bonds of Microsoft software. For now I'm still running Windows on my main PC.
That's a good way to increase job security too, if they don't suspect anything.
As for the "on only" power switches, most of the computers have bios settings for that, and if not, holding them down for about 4 seconds usually works.
Setting the dpi in windows only scales fonts.
What I think a lot of people are looking for is full scaling. Programs that aren't aware of the scaling would think they were running at a certain resolution, when in fact everything they do would be scaled up to a much higher resolution. Vector graphics (such as text) would be rendered at the higher resolution.
Switching to a higher resolution would mean an increase in quality, and not necessarily a decrease in proportions. Resolution and size could be adjusted independently of each other. Someone with a low resolution display could even simulate a higher resolution if they wanted.
The Windows Longhorn demo videos suggested that it might support this, so time may be running out for anyone who wants to beat them to it.
Most of my fellow nerds from high school came out of the closet in the 3 years since I graduated. I asked one of them why and he said he just didn't believe he could ever find a girl who would want to be with him. Another now poses as a girl, but claims that he's not gay, and only does it for the money. Some of the people who used to know him but don't know his secret think he's dead.
Sure nerds are sexy but too many of them lack the interpersonal skills to find a girlfriend. I'm still looking, and don't plan on giving up soon.
Since usernames on Kazaa do not have to be unique, some of the names on that list have probably been used by thousands, like mike@Kazaa.
It looks like research.microsoft.com has been slashdotted. I get a "Too Many Users" error.
I just finished reading the bill. One thing I got from it is that if after going on a trip to Disneyland, I post the photographs on my website, one of them containing a picture of Mickey Mouse or some other disney creation, after one year I would be considered to have pirated $5000 in copyrighted works, and I would be subject to hefty fines and imprisonment.
I'm scanning the photos right now, and I will post them for my distant relatives to look at, legal or not.
Recently (The week of the 4th of July) I burned 217 of my MP3's onto a single CD and listened to it throughout my vacation from Oregon to Southern California.
About a dozen of the songs were things I really pirated, all of them by Danny Elfman (where would I buy that?). Another 2 CD's worth were albums where the original CD was broken or scratched beyond repair and I downloaded replacements from Kazaa. The rest I purchased, ripped directly from the CD's, and never , and never shared. During my vacation I purchased another $55 in music CDs, but they were on sale. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I had a bunch of pirated Monty Python songs on that MP3 CD as well, but among the $55 worth of CD's I bought were 2 Python CD's containing the songs I had pirated and much more.
Although I don't support piracy in general, small scale music piracy is not always bad. Someone who has a conscience might even buy more CD's as a result. At this moment I've purchased much more music as a direct result of piracy than I've pirated without purchasing. And most of what I haven't purchased I haven't seen on music store shelves.
If they keep threatening people for such minor violations, I might just set my radio next to my PC. I could even plug it into my line-in. Problem solved.
I started writing a bunch about two weeks ago. So far I've averaged a project every two days in the 2-4 hours of free time I have each night. I'm releasing it all under the GPL, for no good reason.
http://www.mytsoftware.com/dailyprojects/
I didn't pay for anything. I just saw the contest page, downloaded a free trial of the compiler, discussed a bit in the forums, wrote some warriors, and finally entered one of them. I actually ran into several unique compiler bugs while writing simple warriors, and in some cases it took 2-3 minutes to compile a few thousand lines.
It's nice to see Poindexter not getting his way all the time.
GridWars programs often have a great level of directional bias in their behavior, or at least they did back when I played. It was very rare to see a warrior that could beat 3/4ths of the enemies it faced. The final winner used a flaw in the random number generator to communicate with its buddies and reduce that bias. (communication was not supposed to be possible in the first contest)
It looks like all the old warriors from the first contest automatically re-entered, so I've lost again. I wonder if I'll get another t-shirt out of this.
I competed in the first GridWars contest. I didn't even place, but they did send me a couple undersized GridWars t-shirts for having competed. A lot of people found hacks, err, undocumented features, in the battle program that allowed their warriors to some interesting things, and many of the "features" were allowed to be used in the contest. Few well behaved programs survived the first round.
That about sums it up for me. Got interested in science at age 3, and I've had ADD ever since. Tourette's too. But hey, I've learned so much about everything (I have several math trophies, know over a dozen programming languages, etc) that it's almost worth it, except for the fact that I can't pay attention no matter how hard I try, I have a mild, everlasting headache, my speaking skills rival those of a first grader, and I'm still a virgin.
I had a nasty cough for 5 weeks and didn't take a day off school or work. Pretty recently, too, when other universities were sending students home for much lesser symptoms. From the first week on, people among the university staff kept saying I should really see a doctor, as the coughs sounded worse than anything they said they'd heard. It probably lasted so long because I was pulling a lot of all-nighters at the time finishing reports, which probably weakened my immune system. Looking back at it, I probably spread it to hundreds of people by not staying home those 5 weeks, but it's too late to change now, and I would have had to retake all the classes I had that term if I did. I did see a doctor about it after the 2nd week. She was pretty scared by it, wore a mask and gloves, wouldn't get within 5 feet of me, and prescribed a bunch of expensive medications to take. She diagnosed it as acute bronchitis. Even with the medication, it took 3 weeks to for it to get better. It was probably a virus because the antibiotics seemed to have little effect.
Getting back on topic, I was near Los Angeles on vacation this morning (I'm in Oregon now) and read in the newspaper that a resident was quarantined with SARS like symptoms.
The only immorality I see in Gator is that they don't make it clear to inexperienced computer users (like my grandmother) exactly what their software does. If it said upfront that it will share all your information and occasionally pop up annoying ads in response to you visiting a site, making it appear as if that site generated the ad, then I would see nothing wrong with it. But I wouldn't expect them to have more than a handful of users if they ran an honest business, except maybe those who clicked "yes" by accident and hadn't removed it yet.
On every computer I've seen Gator on, the user didn't even know it was there, except that they were bombarded by popups, private information was shared without their knowledge, etc.
I still need to do something to protect the wireless network where I work. I hope they don't think I did it already.
I feel they both have their place. It depends on the language I'm using and what I'm parsing. I mostly use regular expressions nowadays because they require fewer keypresses than the alternatives. But yeah, for parsing most languages a recursive descent parser is definitely best. I had to write one in C for a basic interpreter back in one of my high school programming classes.
I didn't know it was free without the IDE. Thanks for the correction.
I had no intent to post false or misleading information. I was going by a stock graph I saw a couple months ago, and with regards to the cable modem problem, I've confirmed that many other charter customers experience the same crashes caused by every available version of the XP drivers for the modems they loaned to us, but Charter's tech support claimed to have never heard of the problem, leading me to believe that they were uninformed about the problems faced by many of their customers. In their defense, they suggested I buy a dedicated router rather than plugging the modem into my USB port.
My mention of the hour long outages was meant to show that not all problems connecting through charter are necessarily their fault, though I did show a hint of dissatisfaction because my ip address used to be static and they've started changing it. I apologize for that. It was my fault for assuming that they gave me a static address and I shouldn't blame them.
Please disregard major portions of my post. It came entirely out of frustrating experiences and research I had done months before. Good luck with your stock.
It gets easier after the first couple years. Although most of what you mentioned is set up automatically in many linux distributions.
LindowsOS (the expensive Linux) supposedly tries to fix all of those problems, and is near its 4th release.
Yeah, .NET is pretty awesome. With the help of the IDE I can toss together almost any sort of application in minutes, as long as I only need it to run on Windows. I always wanted a C++ like language with the ease of use of VB, and they made it.
.NET I'd either have to buy another copy or support piracy.
.NET because it seems to be well suited for server apps, in addition to being free and cross platform, in case I ever release source and expect that others will be able to compile it.
The main problem I have with it is that whenever Microsoft calls one of their products cross platform they usually mean that it'll run on both 2000 and XP. While Sun has ported Java to just about everything, with each version originating from the same code base. There's Mono, but they still have only about half of the framework implemented, and roughly none of the gui classes.
Java also has the advantage of being free. I can install the SDK anywhere, but if I did the same with
Recently, I've been using Java more than
The latest JDK was 37mb when I downloaded it. Another 30mb or so for the documentation. But you're right, it's not a great comparison. VS.NET came on 5 CD's and took up 3gb of my hard disk space.