InLawBiker wrote: > > Personally I'd like to see LAPJ: Linux, Apache, Postgres, Java. >
Well, Sun wants you to use the SAMP stack. But if you swap in Java, then it's SAMJ. Pronounced, presumably, like "sammich." But all free, don't forget. Mmmm-mmmm, free sammiches!
datapharmer wrote: > > To get them to be sweeter the blossom is cut off after an incomplete row of banana hands is made... >
Are banana hands anything like jazz hands?
Speaking as the parent of a six-year-old (and a 9-y.o. and a 3-y.o. and a new baby), there's lots of stuff in moves that Big Money knows will bring in the viewers but which isn't suitable for a six-year-old. Waaaay too much overt sex (as opposed to the more interesting tension created by, you know, *good dialogue* in older movies, like Lauren Bacall's, "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve?"). Waaay too much casual violence. And abominably bad examples for little girls.
I'm hardly a puritan, but life is hard enough for a little kid these days without giving them adult questions that they lack the tools to contextualize, much less answer and integrate. Let them watch "How It's Made" or "Dirty Jobs" ("remember kids, do your homework or you'll end up mucking out the New York City municipal bus garage grease pit sump like these guys"!) but keep them away from the trash being thrown on movie screens these days.
And my kids have got a better sense of humor -- irony, understatement, timing, the whole nine yards -- than the majority of the scripts I've seen lately, too.
But on this statement, "a mediocre movie made for the masses makes more money then a excellent movie for insiders," I am with you 100%.
abolitiontheory wrote, "For me, Cnet was the Amazon of review websites."
Well, for me, CNet was the Matlock of review websites: all the action was pretty slow-moving, there were ads everywhere, and they never tried to scare you with something you hadn't seen before a hundred times. Coincidentally, CBS is the Matlock of television networks, so I think this is going to work out juuuuust fine.
I already have tens of GB of MP3s in iTunes that I burned from CDs myself -- and iTunes automatically looks up the tags in CDDB. I see that I can short-circuit that lookup and manually tag all the files myself via unchecking the "Look up CD names from the Internet?" option in the Advanced pane of the preferences, but is there a tool (e.g., an AppleScript) that'll update my Library from Musicbrainz or FreeDB or whatever?
Having worked for some high-profile architects, all I can say is, "quelle surprise!"
Now, FranTaylor wrote: > > For another, the extreme temperature changes from summer to winter, and the requirement that the building be > heated and cooled from MIT's central steam plant. >
In the (loony) architect's defense, the University of Minnesota does this just fine with their ass-ugly Celebrity Pile Of Library, and under what I must point out are far wider temperatiure variations than those of New England: http://www.weisman.umn.edu/architecture/images.html
"That's no university library, it's a space station!"
- Will (Why yes, I *am* a Minnesotan living on the East Coast, and no, I *haven't* owned proper boots in a decade!)
Russell Coker quoted: > > Iftach Amit says "Since Linux machines can be used to more easily create specially crafted networking packets, > they can be used in highly sophisticated online attacks" >
Woah, isn't this the same reason that Steve Gibson said Windows XP would result in the oceans boiling or rampant cannibalism or whatever it was? Why yes, yes it is: http://www.grc.com/dos/winxp.htm
Whatever: "operator error" is a lot more likely than "designed to kill."
Dave wrote, in part: > > This affected more than the just the chipsets and drivers in use in Apple laptops. It could be used in the same fashion on any affected chipset, > potentially under various drivers on multiple OSes. The MacBook was just chosen as a point of principle to show that Macs, too, can be > vulnerable to such attacks. This was noted in the initial coverage in the IT press at the time, but was quickly ignored in favor of a neverending > flow of sensationalist articles claiming that any attacker could now easily take over MacBooks - and only MacBooks - at will in less than 30 > seconds, and wirelessly to boot. >
I am reminded of the story about "iPhones kill WLANs" some time ago, featuring Cisco & Apple gear, which ultimately turned out to be more along the lines of "Interference From Devices On Unregulated Bands Interferes!" But you know, tht's not qute as sexy, is it?
eln wroe: > >...it always seemed like they were shooting for too much of a novice crowd. They did highlight some interesting > things, but the articles were rarely very in-depth, and the code snippets were usually pretty basic. >
Really? I thought the articles were plenty in-depth (e.g., one a year or two back about integrating Samba with an Active Directory domain). I always read the articles but rarely put much of it into practice because they were too often fairly big projects (most daunting being that I would need to get the required softwarr running on Liniux -- I'm a Solaris guy here at work).
The recent run of articles on Solaris 10 were good, and so was Chris Page's recent oracle RAC article.
*shrug* I guess I could find comparable material on blogs and web sites and such, but it's hard to put a blog in my bag and carry it home, or read it in the Data Center, you know?
suggsjc wote: > > There are people practically begging to get these devices...and even willing to pay more than the "targeted" cost of ~$100. So, if > there was ever a case of a product selling itself, then this is it. >
"Developers! Developers! Developers!"
Or, more to the point, "selling itself" to whom? The "home" market will be smaller since the machine probably can't run, say Office XP or World of Warcraft, and people like "us" just aren't a large enough group to care about. *shrug* Like the rumbling that comes from crowds hustling to buy laptops with Linux pre-installed. (What, don't you hear it?)
Other than that, I agree that it would be stoopid of them not to add some more production capacity and make some profit, but maybe they'd prefer the stability of.gov pre-orders and the peace & quiet of not having to maintain a "One Geek Squad Per Child" desk?
Oh, I've ready them all twice, I was just warning others that a storyline that starts with deflating a domed city downshifts to talk (a lot of talk!) about lichens before it ends.:7)
For an all-girls school? Pfft, I can't believe no one has yet mentioned Larry Niven's classic boy meets girl, boy can't impregnate girl story, "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex":
Look for some older Niven books, too, like "The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton" which is a sort of police procedural but set in a future society: good science, tight crime story, and I seem to recall that it's three stories in one book. (They also bring in mature elements like addiction, murder, etc., so read them yourself first to see whether they fit your audience.)
Plenty of his short stories are ideal: they are a limited length, they're built around explicating one principle, and they're still just good stories. "Neutron Star" is one such collection.
I like the older novels a lot, but "Lucifer's Hammer" and "Footfall" (a meteor hits earth and aliens invade, respectively) are two of my favorites ever.
Note that by the third book of the Mars trilogy, the plot slows waaaaay down compared to the rip-roarin' first book. But yes, very good books, with bonus pionts so many (and such well-developed (*not* in the usual sci-fi meaning)l) female characters.
ePhil_One wrote: > >...I believe the GP was referring to systems w/ embedded processors... >
Or like the Ethernet ports for remote access in Sun arrays (e.g., the 3310), or even the RSC cards in pretty recent Sun SPARC computers (V480, V880, V490, V890, &c.) , which are a computer on a PCI card but which only do telnet last time I asked. Now having *those* be vulnerable would really suck for people without a separate VLAN just for management stuff.
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InLawBiker wrote:
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> Personally I'd like to see LAPJ: Linux, Apache, Postgres, Java.
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Well, Sun wants you to use the SAMP stack. But if you swap in Java, then it's SAMJ. Pronounced, presumably, like "sammich." But all free, don't forget. Mmmm-mmmm, free sammiches!
Hey, I wonder what's in the snack machine...?
dal20402 wrote of Massachusetts, "It was so satisfying, I'd leave again if I weren't already gone. Maybe I'll fly up there just to leave again."
Me, too! I'm going to USENIX in Boston next week. I'm going to drive home to Rhode Island each night just so I can leave over and over again.
- Will
This is a _Windows_ Safari problem, not an _OS X_ Safari problem. And yes I RTFBlogPost.
datapharmer wrote:
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> To get them to be sweeter the blossom is cut off after an incomplete row of banana hands is made...
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Are banana hands anything like jazz hands?
Speaking as the parent of a six-year-old (and a 9-y.o. and a 3-y.o. and a new baby), there's lots of stuff in moves that Big Money knows will bring in the viewers but which isn't suitable for a six-year-old. Waaaay too much overt sex (as opposed to the more interesting tension created by, you know, *good dialogue* in older movies, like Lauren Bacall's, "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve?"). Waaay too much casual violence. And abominably bad examples for little girls.
I'm hardly a puritan, but life is hard enough for a little kid these days without giving them adult questions that they lack the tools to contextualize, much less answer and integrate. Let them watch "How It's Made" or "Dirty Jobs" ("remember kids, do your homework or you'll end up mucking out the New York City municipal bus garage grease pit sump like these guys"!) but keep them away from the trash being thrown on movie screens these days.
And my kids have got a better sense of humor -- irony, understatement, timing, the whole nine yards -- than the majority of the scripts I've seen lately, too.
But on this statement, "a mediocre movie made for the masses makes more money then a excellent movie for insiders," I am with you 100%.
abolitiontheory wrote, "For me, Cnet was the Amazon of review websites."
Well, for me, CNet was the Matlock of review websites: all the action was pretty slow-moving, there were ads everywhere, and they never tried to scare you with something you hadn't seen before a hundred times. Coincidentally, CBS is the Matlock of television networks, so I think this is going to work out juuuuust fine.
So how can I tell iTunes to use it?
I already have tens of GB of MP3s in iTunes that I burned from CDs myself -- and iTunes automatically looks up the tags in CDDB. I see that I can short-circuit that lookup and manually tag all the files myself via unchecking the "Look up CD names from the Internet?" option in the Advanced pane of the preferences, but is there a tool (e.g., an AppleScript) that'll update my Library from Musicbrainz or FreeDB or whatever?
How 'bout steel wool? Cheaper and atmosphere-friendly!
> ...Bigelow Aerospace, who actually has a test bed in orbit right now.
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One bed isn't a very big hotel, though, man.
- Will
Good heavens, now we know what comes before "Main screen turn on!"
Having worked for some high-profile architects, all I can say is, "quelle surprise!"
Now, FranTaylor wrote:
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> For another, the extreme temperature changes from summer to winter, and the requirement that the building be
> heated and cooled from MIT's central steam plant.
>
In the (loony) architect's defense, the University of Minnesota does this just fine with their ass-ugly Celebrity Pile Of Library, and under what I must point out are far wider temperatiure variations than those of New England:
http://www.weisman.umn.edu/architecture/images.html
"That's no university library, it's a space station!"
- Will
(Why yes, I *am* a Minnesotan living on the East Coast, and no, I *haven't* owned proper boots in a decade!)
We need a new moderation tag, "-3 Killjoy." Damn you and your facts!!!!
Russell Coker quoted:
>
> Iftach Amit says "Since Linux machines can be used to more easily create specially crafted networking packets,
> they can be used in highly sophisticated online attacks"
>
Woah, isn't this the same reason that Steve Gibson said Windows XP would result in the oceans boiling or rampant cannibalism or whatever it was? Why yes, yes it is: http://www.grc.com/dos/winxp.htm
Whatever: "operator error" is a lot more likely than "designed to kill."
Dave wrote, in part:
>
> This affected more than the just the chipsets and drivers in use in Apple laptops. It could be used in the same fashion on any affected chipset,
> potentially under various drivers on multiple OSes. The MacBook was just chosen as a point of principle to show that Macs, too, can be
> vulnerable to such attacks. This was noted in the initial coverage in the IT press at the time, but was quickly ignored in favor of a neverending
> flow of sensationalist articles claiming that any attacker could now easily take over MacBooks - and only MacBooks - at will in less than 30
> seconds, and wirelessly to boot.
>
I am reminded of the story about "iPhones kill WLANs" some time ago, featuring Cisco & Apple gear, which ultimately turned out to be more along the lines of "Interference From Devices On Unregulated Bands Interferes!" But you know, tht's not qute as sexy, is it?
- Will
Kozar_The_Malignant wrote:
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> Hmmmm. So if I rotate my Paradox or Excel table by 90 degrees, I have achieved database coolness?
>
And if you do it again, do you get one of those "data cubes" I hear so much about? Even cooler!
You insensitive clod: I just got the CD less than a month ago!
I guess now I would get a backup copy that also contains, what, eight more issues? *sigh* Not much of a choice...
eln wroe: ...it always seemed like they were shooting for too much of a novice crowd. They did highlight some interesting
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> things, but the articles were rarely very in-depth, and the code snippets were usually pretty basic.
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Really? I thought the articles were plenty in-depth (e.g., one a year or two back about integrating Samba with an Active Directory domain). I always read the articles but rarely put much of it into practice because they were too often fairly big projects (most daunting being that I would need to get the required softwarr running on Liniux -- I'm a Solaris guy here at work).
The recent run of articles on Solaris 10 were good, and so was Chris Page's recent oracle RAC article.
*shrug* I guess I could find comparable material on blogs and web sites and such, but it's hard to put a blog in my bag and carry it home, or read it in the Data Center, you know?
Tax Boy wrote:
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> How am I supposed to use it hands-free, especially in the car? Two-hand "multi-touch" while driving equals instant death.
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"That's a feature, not a bug."
suggsjc wote:
.gov pre-orders and the peace & quiet of not having to maintain a "One Geek Squad Per Child" desk?
>
> There are people practically begging to get these devices...and even willing to pay more than the "targeted" cost of ~$100. So, if
> there was ever a case of a product selling itself, then this is it.
>
"Developers! Developers! Developers!"
Or, more to the point, "selling itself" to whom? The "home" market will be smaller since the machine probably can't run, say Office XP or World of Warcraft, and people like "us" just aren't a large enough group to care about. *shrug* Like the rumbling that comes from crowds hustling to buy laptops with Linux pre-installed. (What, don't you hear it?)
Other than that, I agree that it would be stoopid of them not to add some more production capacity and make some profit, but maybe they'd prefer the stability of
Oh, I've ready them all twice, I was just warning others that a storyline that starts with deflating a domed city downshifts to talk (a lot of talk!) about lichens before it ends. :7)
But yeah, "Blue Mars" was very good, too.
For an all-girls school? Pfft, I can't believe no one has yet mentioned Larry Niven's classic boy meets girl, boy can't impregnate girl story, "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex":
m an_of_Kleenex.shtml
http://www.larryniven.org/stories/Man_of_Steel_Wo
Look for some older Niven books, too, like "The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton" which is a sort of police procedural but set in a future society: good science, tight crime story, and I seem to recall that it's three stories in one book. (They also bring in mature elements like addiction, murder, etc., so read them yourself first to see whether they fit your audience.)
Plenty of his short stories are ideal: they are a limited length, they're built around explicating one principle, and they're still just good stories. "Neutron Star" is one such collection.
I like the older novels a lot, but "Lucifer's Hammer" and "Footfall" (a meteor hits earth and aliens invade, respectively) are two of my favorites ever.
- Will
Note that by the third book of the Mars trilogy, the plot slows waaaaay down compared to the rip-roarin' first book. But yes, very good books, with bonus pionts so many (and such well-developed (*not* in the usual sci-fi meaning)l) female characters.
ePhil_One wrote: ...I believe the GP was referring to systems w/ embedded processors...
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Or like the Ethernet ports for remote access in Sun arrays (e.g., the 3310), or even the RSC cards in pretty recent Sun SPARC computers (V480, V880, V490, V890, &c.) , which are a computer on a PCI card but which only do telnet last time I asked. Now having *those* be vulnerable would really suck for people without a separate VLAN just for management stuff.
NickyG wrote: ...anyone who doesn't feel HD is a worthwhile upgrade SERIOUSLY needs to get their eyes checked.
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No offense, but television just isn't that important to me. I have a family and a house and a lot of books I haven't read yet, you know?
But thanks for the reminder -- I really do need to schedule my annual eye doctor check-up!