Gentoo does this for your files in/etc. Use dispatch-conf and forget about etc-update. You can set it to use RCS, so no more overwrites of your configs.
F#$@ing X prize!! Damn this m*******ing piece of flying s#@$! No way there going to drag me back into this tin can next week! I WILL HUNT YO... oh look, shiny wings!!!
On the 3rd of February 2004, this page (or rather the page that was here) was swamped by requests and the server subsequentially failed. The reason was traced to Google introducing a fractal looking logo (see below), which when clicked, performed an image search for "julia" and "fractal". The two most interesting resulting images on the top row of the list were on this page (or rather the page that was here).
[Image used without permission from Google]
In order to get this server functional again, the pages that were here have been moved somewhere else. It shouldn't be too hard to find them if you really want to, do a Google search for "Quaternion fractal" or if you would like to create your own Quaternion fractals try POVRay.
Please note that this is not a criticism of Google but rather an interesting dimension to the power they wield. They have hundreds (thousands?) of servers worldwide that distribute their traffic load. If even a small percentage of that traffic is directed to a single server.....what chance does it have?
Questions: Should Google ask permission before potentially sending huge traffic loads to a single page/server? Should they regulate traffic to individual sites/pages by changing the order of the search results? Happy searching!
Google giveth and Google taketh away Blessed is Google? [Roger Bagula]
So after several pages of bashing pretty much each and every applicant and resume they ever had, the little note at the bottom says (emphasis mine):
Are you a student looking for a great job next summer? Fog Creek Software, a small and friendly startup in New York City, offers summer internships in software development for Computer Science students.
You know, it's funny there is a/. story about a one-way trip to Mars today - I just had a conversation about this last night with somebody, and I said I would go in an instant.
You can call me a whacko, but I think of it as a chance to see and live (ok, not for long) on an extraterrestrial world. Every time I see pictures of Mars and Venus, I wish I could see it for myself.
Before you dismiss me as a total idiot, I would go if there was a measurable benefit to the humankind, be it scientific, religious, or whatever. I wouldn't want to go to just get out of the lander, look at the rocks, walk around until oxygen runs out, and die in half an hour - what can you possibly do in half an hour that a robot can't, and don't forget about the cost of a manned mission, despite whatever Dubya feeds to the TV-worshipping masses. But if going meant staying there for even a day, hell, 6 hours, with a mission that would further our knowledge and needed a human volunteer - where do I sign up?
It's not about the middle finger, or about just having 'asian character support'. They want to create a product for businesses ("server-operated environment"), and for that you need tech support. From the article: "The two companies also aim to set up a joint support centre at Oracle's Beijing facility to provide technical assistance to China customers using Asianux-based products"
Basically, it's a choice between having to resort to mailing lists and dealing with people who don't have a clue( 'CJK support? What does that mean? Why don't you just use UTF like everyone else???"), and tailoring the kernel to their exact needs with good tech support behind it. Seems pretty obvious to me.
I guess it's my turn to punch you in the nuts. Mine was a Sinclair Spectrum ZX80 with 48KB of memory. I dreamt of upgrading to 128KB. 8086 was beyond even the wildest dreams.
It used cassette tapes as external media, no floppy, no hard drive. It was hooked up to a black-and-white TV, so you had to guess the color of objects on the screen. When it overheated, video output would become garbled, but if you hit it in exactly the right spot on the case, it would come back for a while.
Still, playing Elite on it was such a blast... Or Matchball Soccer or some such - my brother and I played 2-on-2 against the computer. Good times...
I nearly jumped out of my pants when I saw the Rockstar intro video on the Xbox version of GTA3: VC, it is exactly what the screen looked like when you were loading a game on my first box. I tried explaining it to my girlfriend, but I don't think she believed me.
You'd think this is such an obvious concept, right? Single/double envelopment, flank attacks, etc? But don't forget that frontal assault was the tactic of choice up until the 19th century - Pickett's charge, anyone? And only with the advent of gunpowder and long-range rifles it finally became clear that charging against riflemen is mass suicide. So charging at oliphaunts maybe wasn't too bad of an idea, especially if you consider that the battle had to be won swiftly to prevent the Mordor/Harad armies from regrouping.
Also, don't forget the pride of the Rohirrim. Somehow I doubt that the people who still answered a call for help from someone who didn't come to their aid (Helm's Deep) would be bothered to plan a flanking maneuver.
84 keys outta be enough. (general use computing appears) oh wait, surely 101 keys will be plenty.. (stupid Windows keys appear) Gee, how about 104? No way a human with 10 fingers can use all 104 keys??? (even stupider Internet/Multimedia buttons appear)......
Damn, and I had thought the entire audience of TLC is comprised of my girlfriend who apparently can watch that dumb-ass show and others like Trading Spaces 24 hours in a row while I slowly go insane. I guess TLC is the female equivalent of Slashdot. Hey, if the two merged, it'd be called Slashing Spaces...
<overly excited female voice>Did you know that you can make curtains out of old binder covers??!! <me shoots self>
Where else can you see a half an hour show that can be easily reduced to 30 seconds and 2 shots, before and after?? Oh wait...
But in all fairness, they do have some good ideas for organizing your stuff.
You are clearly a moron. This is exactly why the rest of the world hates Americans.
Nobody steals a job from 'native born Americans'. Remember, you live in a capitalist economy of which you are so proud. If somebody can do a job better than you, and they are willing to be paid less, guess who's going to get hired?
You have no clue how difficult it is to get a student or a work visa. I know this because I went to a major East Coast Ivy League college on an F-1 visa. Let me tell you that all those H1B and F-1 people have more motivation and drive than you ever will. They are hungry to work, to study, and to get what they came to the US for. That's why they are consistently in top 5-10% of their class, and that's why they get hired.
You may now return to your sad chavinistic world in which the inscription on one's passport determines one's career and rights.
Oh give it a rest. Not everybody has time to go through the entire tldp.org and read every HOWTO and Guide. Chances are, there are people who will want to _read_ a book (not necessarily buy - libraries? hello?) that has pointers on how to begin solving their problem.
And yeah, how about not having (if only temporarily) Internet access? So my network card stopped functioning, and I need to know how to fix it and that AC'97 in alsa. Yes, I can print those 65,535 howtos if I have a printer and the patience of a camel, or I could read the book.
Personally, I wouldn't buy it, because I believe in learning things as you RTFM. But maybe new users would benefit from such a book, making Linux more open to newbies.
Slashdot Mirror
Also pretty easy in Russian. Literally translated, means something like "in the event of silence" or "when unspecified."
You don't think the FSF lawyers (including Eben Moglen) considered that question before publishing the draft?
Besides, if you don't think it'll hold up, submit a comment
Gentoo does this for your files in /etc. Use dispatch-conf and forget about etc-update. You can set it to use RCS, so no more overwrites of your configs.
F#$@ing X prize!! Damn this m*******ing piece of flying s#@$! No way there going to drag me back into this tin can next week! I WILL HUNT YO... oh look, shiny wings!!!
emerge -upv world. Check what it says, if you're happy, emerge -uv world
Page already loading slow, here's the full text
Using Google?
Looking for images of quaternion fractals?
On the 3rd of February 2004, this page (or rather the page that was here) was swamped by requests and the server subsequentially failed. The reason was traced to Google introducing a fractal looking logo (see below), which when clicked, performed an image search for "julia" and "fractal". The two most interesting resulting images on the top row of the list were on this page (or rather the page that was here).
[Image used without permission from Google]
In order to get this server functional again, the pages that were here have been moved somewhere else. It shouldn't be too hard to find them if you really want to, do a Google search for "Quaternion fractal" or if you would like to create your own Quaternion fractals try POVRay.
Please note that this is not a criticism of Google but rather an interesting dimension to the power they wield. They have hundreds (thousands?) of servers worldwide that distribute their traffic load. If even a small percentage of that traffic is directed to a single server.....what chance does it have?
Questions: Should Google ask permission before potentially sending huge traffic loads to a single page/server? Should they regulate traffic to individual sites/pages by changing the order of the search results?
Happy searching!
Google giveth
and Google taketh away
Blessed is Google?
[Roger Bagula]
My favorite quote from the article:
"And you needn't worry about your system going obsolete if it already is."
How true...
So after several pages of bashing pretty much each and every applicant and resume they ever had, the little note at the bottom says (emphasis mine):
Are you a student looking for a great job next summer? Fog Creek Software, a small and friendly startup in New York City, offers summer internships in software development for Computer Science students.
Oh the irony...
You know, it's funny there is a /. story about a one-way trip to Mars today - I just had a conversation about this last night with somebody, and I said I would go in an instant.
You can call me a whacko, but I think of it as a chance to see and live (ok, not for long) on an extraterrestrial world. Every time I see pictures of Mars and Venus, I wish I could see it for myself.
Before you dismiss me as a total idiot, I would go if there was a measurable benefit to the humankind, be it scientific, religious, or whatever. I wouldn't want to go to just get out of the lander, look at the rocks, walk around until oxygen runs out, and die in half an hour - what can you possibly do in half an hour that a robot can't, and don't forget about the cost of a manned mission, despite whatever Dubya feeds to the TV-worshipping masses. But if going meant staying there for even a day, hell, 6 hours, with a mission that would further our knowledge and needed a human volunteer - where do I sign up?
Why don't you RTFA?
It's not about the middle finger, or about just having 'asian character support'. They want to create a product for businesses ("server-operated environment"), and for that you need tech support.
From the article:
"The two companies also aim to set up a joint support centre at Oracle's Beijing facility to provide technical assistance to China customers using Asianux-based products"
Basically, it's a choice between having to resort to mailing lists and dealing with people who don't have a clue( 'CJK support? What does that mean? Why don't you just use UTF like everyone else???"), and tailoring the kernel to their exact needs with good tech support behind it. Seems pretty obvious to me.
I guess it's my turn to punch you in the nuts. Mine was a Sinclair Spectrum ZX80 with 48KB of memory. I dreamt of upgrading to 128KB. 8086 was beyond even the wildest dreams.
It used cassette tapes as external media, no floppy, no hard drive. It was hooked up to a black-and-white TV, so you had to guess the color of objects on the screen. When it overheated, video output would become garbled, but if you hit it in exactly the right spot on the case, it would come back for a while.
Still, playing Elite on it was such a blast... Or Matchball Soccer or some such - my brother and I played 2-on-2 against the computer. Good times...
I nearly jumped out of my pants when I saw the Rockstar intro video on the Xbox version of GTA3: VC, it is exactly what the screen looked like when you were loading a game on my first box. I tried explaining it to my girlfriend, but I don't think she believed me.
You'd think this is such an obvious concept, right? Single/double envelopment, flank attacks, etc? But don't forget that frontal assault was the tactic of choice up until the 19th century - Pickett's charge, anyone? And only with the advent of gunpowder and long-range rifles it finally became clear that charging against riflemen is mass suicide. So charging at oliphaunts maybe wasn't too bad of an idea, especially if you consider that the battle had to be won swiftly to prevent the Mordor/Harad armies from regrouping.
Also, don't forget the pride of the Rohirrim. Somehow I doubt that the people who still answered a call for help from someone who didn't come to their aid (Helm's Deep) would be bothered to plan a flanking maneuver.
Seeing that it is NY vs Boston again, here goes...
Nomah is bettah!
84 keys outta be enough.
(general use computing appears)
oh wait, surely 101 keys will be plenty..
(stupid Windows keys appear)
Gee, how about 104? No way a human with 10 fingers can use all 104 keys???
(even stupider Internet/Multimedia buttons appear)
TLC??? Clean Sweep????
Damn, and I had thought the entire audience of TLC is comprised of my girlfriend who apparently can watch that dumb-ass show and others like Trading Spaces 24 hours in a row while I slowly go insane. I guess TLC is the female equivalent of Slashdot.
Hey, if the two merged, it'd be called Slashing Spaces...
<overly excited female voice>Did you know that you can make curtains out of old binder covers??!!
<me shoots self>
Where else can you see a half an hour show that can be easily reduced to 30 seconds and 2 shots, before and after?? Oh wait...
But in all fairness, they do have some good ideas for organizing your stuff.
Next week: SCO sues itself...
No it doesn't. Tried Debian security advisories?
You are clearly a moron. This is exactly why the rest of the world hates Americans.
Nobody steals a job from 'native born Americans'. Remember, you live in a capitalist economy of which you are so proud. If somebody can do a job better than you, and they are willing to be paid less, guess who's going to get hired?
You have no clue how difficult it is to get a student or a work visa. I know this because I went to a major East Coast Ivy League college on an F-1 visa. Let me tell you that all those H1B and F-1 people have more motivation and drive than you ever will. They are hungry to work, to study, and to get what they came to the US for. That's why they are consistently in top 5-10% of their class, and that's why they get hired.
You may now return to your sad chavinistic world in which the inscription on one's passport determines one's career and rights.
Oh give it a rest. Not everybody has time to go through the entire tldp.org and read every HOWTO and Guide. Chances are, there are people who will want to _read_ a book (not necessarily buy - libraries? hello?) that has pointers on how to begin solving their problem. And yeah, how about not having (if only temporarily) Internet access? So my network card stopped functioning, and I need to know how to fix it and that AC'97 in alsa. Yes, I can print those 65,535 howtos if I have a printer and the patience of a camel, or I could read the book. Personally, I wouldn't buy it, because I believe in learning things as you RTFM. But maybe new users would benefit from such a book, making Linux more open to newbies.