Not only that, but the original site had quotes around "Rings", which (at least for me) made the headline a lot easier to understand. I wish they would have kept those. Of course, English isn't my native tongue, so maybe it's just me.
Um, how do you propose that a browser-only browser such as Firebird handle mailto:-links? Perhaps by starting an external application or something, or what?
Also, there are more addresses!
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The State of IPv6
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There are good reasons to move to IPv6, including security, multicasting, simplified header structures, and better routing to name a few.
Um, is this just an oversight, or is the poster so US-centered (s)he doesn't realize that one of the major reasons why IPv6 is interesting to us in that weird "foreign" part of the world is that is expands the address space?
I don't recall how large the US allocation of IPv4 addresses is, but I'm pretty sure it's at least 25% of the space, and that's being conservative. Since the US doesn't even have 1/16th of the population, that's obviously b0rken, and IPv6 is a more or less natural fix.
Now, I'm Swedish, and I'm sure we have enough IP addresses for our puny country, but the nations of Asia probably can't say the same. Thus, more interest in switching over sooner, and less in the US where there's no (or less) pressure from simply running out of addresses.
Um, I'm not from the US, so for me it's not such a big deal, but I *suspect* that the NetBSD flag logo (which I hadn't seen before today) is meant to in some way give a nod to this rather famous photo. Maybe you knew this and didn't mention it for humouristic reasons, or maybe the likeness is just a coincidence. I would really be surprised if that's the case, though. Gee, pointing this out makes me look historically well read, which I certainly am not.
[...]the Gamecube controller is just plain weird. It's great for games that don't need more than one button, but it's terrible for anything else (and it leads to stupid design decisions, like Metroid Prime's horrible control scheme).
This is just as weird-sounding to me, as a new GameCube owner and total fan of Metroid Prime, as I guess the OP's statement about the Xbox' pad is to you. Metroid Prime certainly needs more than one button; it uses every single one on the controller and there's no problem at least not for me. Sure, sometimes I press the wrong button, but I don't attribute that to any design flaw with the joypad, it's just me getting old.:)
The DualShock(2) still holds a special place in my heart though, I find it absolutely beautiful despite being a bit angular. It's symmetric, which to me is always a sign of being good. The Cube's joypad is far from symmetrical, but it still works, even in a complicated game like Metroid Prime. You learn.
A local soul/dance radio station (Power Hit Radio, 106.3 MHz FM in Stockholm, Sweden) has a segment in its weekday morning show where one of the hosts "gurgles" a tune. You know, as if he's brushing his teeth and decides to "sing" with his mouth full of foaming toothpaste. It's... not very hilarious. Luckily, my morning routine places me in the bathroom when that happens, so all I get to hear is the callers who try to guess the song, which is far more tolerable.:)
"Judging"? I really wasn't trying to sound as if I were judging anyone, least of all an entire culture I know very little about. I was merely trying to give words to the weird feeling I got from the article. I mean, free software is free because the copyright-holder choses to release it under a license that is intended to keep it free. In a domain without copyright, the license is meaningless, at least that's how I see it. As some other poster mentioned, this might well be RMS' dream, since it can be thought of as making all software free. Well, if that wasn't the intention of the original author of the software, I don't think it's an improvement. I'm not 100% aligned with RMS, there, I guess.
Well, according to the article, Iran is not a signer of the international copyright law. This means, as far as I understand (I'm no lawyer), that "copyright" as we understand it has no legal standing there.
I associate "free" and "open source" software with software made available under various licenses, i.e. pieces of legalese that use the power of copyright to control what can and cannot be done with the software. Now, if Iran's laws don't recognize even basic copyright for whatever reason, then surely these licenses are meaningless there, and everything can be legally copied in the eyes of local law?
From this perspective, I would be a bit catious as a free software (GPL licensed) author to actively support Irani users. I mean, if they give themselves the right to circumvent my license, and thus "steal" my software, why should I help them by making the software more attractive? Now, of course there is no monetary loss to me from limitless copying of software that is free to redistribute to begin with, but the different legal "flavor" of it all disturbs me somehow. Maybe it's just me being cheap, again. I think I need to meditate a bit over this.
into my friendly shell, and the answer came back as
E2.CBD2C
Learn to do that by yourself, instead of trolling these fine forums. I now realize I'm far too tired to even contemplate floating point numbers in base 16, and lightly curse you for making me see one.
Okay, this is really simple, but since you managed to confuse it even in that very minimal post, I'll bullet it for you:
PS/2: A computer model introduced by IBM sometime in the eighties, I think. Also introduced the mini-DIN connectors for mouse and keyboard that are now what most people mean by the term.
PS2: Short for Playstation2, a pretty nifty video game console by Sony.
I'm not sure if it's obvious to English-speaking folks, since I'm too lazy (and/or focused; I'm at work) to check with Greek and other languages, but the word "origo" is Swedish for "origin". I guess that makes sense for the device, and can almost smell the marketing-speak about "putting you at the center" or something...;)
"Overloads"? Some kind of double pun on the Slashdot effect, or what? *Confused*. You gotta stick with the pattern for those kinds of jokes to work. Or be more obvious when you break it, I guess...
Not true. If a C program deletes a file by calling the unlink() standard function, your shell script can't do much to prevent it. I'm guessing you were thinking about scripting a replacement for the rm command, or something, but that doesn't catch all file deletions. I'm not sure replacing unlink() through a preload does either, but it at least sounds a lot better.
Um, it may well be a regional thing, but if you add a 'c' before the second 'k', to make the vowel sound short ("kacka"), I sure associate it with matters fecal in nature. It's not a very adult thing to say, I think it's mainly child's talk. Btw, I'm in Stockholm...
Um, not to be too much of a jerk, but that's Kerberos. I just felt a need to point that out in case anyone got confused. Your point remains valid, of course.
As far as I can recall, they actually have their own server solution, which they are fond of bragging^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hwriting technical articles and speaking appreciatingly about. It seems to have not survived so well this time, however. I thought it had, since I could continue from page 5 or wherever I was when you guys hit, but it's down now. Otherwise I would have linked to some article about their back-end, of course.
I have no idea who Shane Warne is, and lack the energy to ego-surf him (her?), but whoever this person is (s)he must also be a massive geek, in order to SMS without a display on the phone. Phew!
"I use the pen tool to write down names of roads or explain any significant changes to what we currently have in the database," she says. Ghee, that really is some sophisticated technology they're using to solve these problems. Driving around in cars, using "pen tools" to "write down" information. It really smacks of the new millenium!;^)
Actually, the link in the article seems to have been updated, but I nevertheless made the old site a meta-redirect to the new one. I'm the other half of the original Verse development team mentioned in Eskil's post above, and still have SSH access to SourceForge of course.:^)
Slashdot Mirror
Not only that, but the original site had quotes around "Rings", which (at least for me) made the headline a lot easier to understand. I wish they would have kept those. Of course, English isn't my native tongue, so maybe it's just me.
Um, how do you propose that a browser-only browser such as Firebird handle mailto:-links? Perhaps by starting an external application or something, or what?
Um, is this just an oversight, or is the poster so US-centered (s)he doesn't realize that one of the major reasons why IPv6 is interesting to us in that weird "foreign" part of the world is that is expands the address space?
I don't recall how large the US allocation of IPv4 addresses is, but I'm pretty sure it's at least 25% of the space, and that's being conservative. Since the US doesn't even have 1/16th of the population, that's obviously b0rken, and IPv6 is a more or less natural fix.
Now, I'm Swedish, and I'm sure we have enough IP addresses for our puny country, but the nations of Asia probably can't say the same. Thus, more interest in switching over sooner, and less in the US where there's no (or less) pressure from simply running out of addresses.
Um, I'm not from the US, so for me it's not such a big deal, but I *suspect* that the NetBSD flag logo (which I hadn't seen before today) is meant to in some way give a nod to this rather famous photo. Maybe you knew this and didn't mention it for humouristic reasons, or maybe the likeness is just a coincidence. I would really be surprised if that's the case, though. Gee, pointing this out makes me look historically well read, which I certainly am not.
Really? Then I would like to get overwhelmingly rich by selling disks to that majority. I seem to sense some kind of profit possibility, there...
This is just as weird-sounding to me, as a new GameCube owner and total fan of Metroid Prime, as I guess the OP's statement about the Xbox' pad is to you. Metroid Prime certainly needs more than one button; it uses every single one on the controller and there's no problem at least not for me. Sure, sometimes I press the wrong button, but I don't attribute that to any design flaw with the joypad, it's just me getting old. :)
The DualShock(2) still holds a special place in my heart though, I find it absolutely beautiful despite being a bit angular. It's symmetric, which to me is always a sign of being good. The Cube's joypad is far from symmetrical, but it still works, even in a complicated game like Metroid Prime. You learn.
A local soul/dance radio station (Power Hit Radio, 106.3 MHz FM in Stockholm, Sweden) has a segment in its weekday morning show where one of the hosts "gurgles" a tune. You know, as if he's brushing his teeth and decides to "sing" with his mouth full of foaming toothpaste. It's... not very hilarious. Luckily, my morning routine places me in the bathroom when that happens, so all I get to hear is the callers who try to guess the song, which is far more tolerable. :)
So, um, like... Since when is a capacitor made with substandard electrolyte not a substandard capacitor?
"Judging"? I really wasn't trying to sound as if I were judging anyone, least of all an entire culture I know very little about. I was merely trying to give words to the weird feeling I got from the article. I mean, free software is free because the copyright-holder choses to release it under a license that is intended to keep it free. In a domain without copyright, the license is meaningless, at least that's how I see it. As some other poster mentioned, this might well be RMS' dream, since it can be thought of as making all software free. Well, if that wasn't the intention of the original author of the software, I don't think it's an improvement. I'm not 100% aligned with RMS, there, I guess.
Well, according to the article, Iran is not a signer of the international copyright law. This means, as far as I understand (I'm no lawyer), that "copyright" as we understand it has no legal standing there.
I associate "free" and "open source" software with software made available under various licenses, i.e. pieces of legalese that use the power of copyright to control what can and cannot be done with the software. Now, if Iran's laws don't recognize even basic copyright for whatever reason, then surely these licenses are meaningless there, and everything can be legally copied in the eyes of local law?
From this perspective, I would be a bit catious as a free software (GPL licensed) author to actively support Irani users. I mean, if they give themselves the right to circumvent my license, and thus "steal" my software, why should I help them by making the software more attractive? Now, of course there is no monetary loss to me from limitless copying of software that is free to redistribute to begin with, but the different legal "flavor" of it all disturbs me somehow. Maybe it's just me being cheap, again. I think I need to meditate a bit over this.
Sure it does. It's also excellent at rotating, translating, and (I'm sure) shearing. Plus, all of these transforms can be anmimated over time. ;)
- PS/2: A computer model introduced by IBM sometime in the eighties, I think. Also introduced the mini-DIN connectors for mouse and keyboard that are now what most people mean by the term.
- PS2: Short for Playstation2, a pretty nifty video game console by Sony.
There, see? It's all in the slash.I'm not sure if it's obvious to English-speaking folks, since I'm too lazy (and/or focused; I'm at work) to check with Greek and other languages, but the word "origo" is Swedish for "origin". I guess that makes sense for the device, and can almost smell the marketing-speak about "putting you at the center" or something... ;)
"Overloads"? Some kind of double pun on the Slashdot effect, or what? *Confused*. You gotta stick with the pattern for those kinds of jokes to work. Or be more obvious when you break it, I guess...
Not true. If a C program deletes a file by calling the unlink() standard function, your shell script can't do much to prevent it. I'm guessing you were thinking about scripting a replacement for the rm command, or something, but that doesn't catch all file deletions. I'm not sure replacing unlink() through a preload does either, but it at least sounds a lot better.
Um, it may well be a regional thing, but if you add a 'c' before the second 'k', to make the vowel sound short ("kacka"), I sure associate it with matters fecal in nature. It's not a very adult thing to say, I think it's mainly child's talk. Btw, I'm in Stockholm...
Um, not to be too much of a jerk, but that's Kerberos. I just felt a need to point that out in case anyone got confused. Your point remains valid, of course.
Nice sig! :) ;^)
[...]he also wanted the system to be [...] a workstation for gaming ;^)
Well put! *Applauds*.
As far as I can recall, they actually have their own server solution, which they are fond of bragging^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hwriting technical articles and speaking appreciatingly about. It seems to have not survived so well this time, however. I thought it had, since I could continue from page 5 or wherever I was when you guys hit, but it's down now. Otherwise I would have linked to some article about their back-end, of course.
I have no idea who Shane Warne is, and lack the energy to ego-surf him (her?), but whoever this person is (s)he must also be a massive geek, in order to SMS without a display on the phone. Phew!
"I use the pen tool to write down names of roads or explain any significant changes to what we currently have in the database," she says. ;^)
Ghee, that really is some sophisticated technology they're using to solve these problems. Driving around in cars, using "pen tools" to "write down" information. It really smacks of the new millenium!
Actually, the link in the article seems to have been updated, but I nevertheless made the old site a meta-redirect to the new one. I'm the other half of the original Verse development team mentioned in Eskil's post above, and still have SSH access to SourceForge of course. :^)