When they came to take away the Gnome Shell, I said nothing, for I do everything from the command line anyway (higher bandwidth than clicky-clicky)
When they came to take away the Gnome, I said nothing, for I run KDE, really just kdm/konsole.
When they came to take away emacs, I said nothing, for I am a VIM user.
When they came to take me away, there was no one left to defend me, because everyone else had upgraded to the latest Debian stable, now releasing 3 times as fast as recent Winders releases.
We already created one, and all humanity worships it, even if can't do FTL. And if well is not based in very advanced technology, people think that with enough of it they can do magic.
We call it money.
Geeze I thought you were going to say "Apple Inc" not boring old "money".
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How can I combine the STDOUTs of two processes? Do I really need to resort to using temporary files? Is there really no tool to do the logical opposite of the "tee" command?
You are probably thinking: "Oh, you silly person, that's so trivial, you must be very incompetent", but in case you aren't, you might want to spend a minute trying to figure it out before reading on. I even asked a colleague for help before realizing that the reason I could not find a tool for the task was quite an obvious one: such a tool does not exist.
Google for the term "named pipe". Shove both files into the hole, pull one file out.
Wget for crawling tens of millions of web pages using a 10 line script? He doesn't understand crawling at scale.
There's a lot more to it than just following links. For example, lots of servers will block you if you start ripping them in full, so you need to have a system in place to crawl sites over many days/weeks a few pages at a time. You also want to distribute the load over several IP addresses, and you need logic to handle things like auto generated/tar pits/temporarily down sites, etc. And of course you want to coordinate all that while simultaneously extracting the list of URLs that you'll hand over to the crawlers next.
Its a little more advanced than "cat" with a http interface, in the same way that a 777 is a little more advanced than the Wright Flyer.
(In all fairness, the point that you need a little iptables magic to fake your multiple ip addresses in addition to wget, if anything, proves his point further that multiple little tools work best)
Then make a project in git, which is a simple shell script that looks for your git repos, and if found, pulls from the "hub", and tests to see if there is new stuff that needs to be committed / pushed and if so alerts you. Of course, it updates itself each time it runs...
Start session, run clustersync. Do your thing. Run clustersync before you stop working, to make sure you committed everything you planned to.
Splitting git projects is a pain and making sense of gitweb containing multiple projects is incomprehensible, so make your projects no bigger than necessary.
OK, so "Security harden stream wrappers by defaulting them as remote" sounds like a major one, "Cannot install on PHP 5.3.2" sounds like it would be hilarious for newbie abuse aka RoR recruitment, and "Do not enable the management menu by default" sounds like one of those "Klingon language RSS bugs" that I mentioned.
So are stream wrappers a pretty big topic in the book and if so is this a dealbreaker for buying the book?
What are the 11 critical issues? Or more precisely, could they ruin the book?
I can imagine, perhaps, one of them being RSS feeds written in Klingon with backdated pre 1970 timestamps having the wrong rules of Klingon punctuation. That's all very fascinating, but since I don't care, I won't mind that the book doesn't cover that particular critical issue.
But what if one of the 11 critical issues is some deep core framework type of thing that will require changes in everything?
Inviting a newbie to learn on a buggy system just annoys the newbie. So unlike the review, I'd suggest a newbie learn on a fully patched version 6 Drupal. Getting stuck and not being able to figure out if its my code or a Drupal 7 prerelease bug is an excellent recruitment tool for RoR, not for Drupal 7.
Maybe its like antibiotic resistance, where killing the 99.99% that are immune means the remaining 0.01% replicate like crazy, causing an unintentional negative outcome.
So an immune system that ignores 99.99% of "stuff" goes bonkers on the 0.01% that it is actually allowed to react to, in this situation, peanuts, causing an unintentional negative outcome.
An interesting model might be that most people's immune system expends most of its effort on relatively reasonable stuff like dirt and stuff in food. But if you give it nothing to do, it eventually finds itself something bad to do.
I believe if you get a lung transplant you get to take immunosuppresive drugs for life. So, she's on a heavy diet of drugs that deeply mess with her immune system, her immune system malfunctions, therefore it must be some mystical connection to a dead person.
The original poster doesn't even understand what neutron activation is or how its completely irrelevant to this situation, yet he's scared of it. Brilliant.
you could have accurately shortened it to
its never going to be emitting radiation.
The stereotypical granite countertops are probably going to pump out about as much gammas as she'd get from flying at low altitude.
Instead of just one house though, they could probably use the materials to do a lot more. I don't know what. Is there rare earth elements in them?
Being mostly aluminum, the first thing that comes to mind is a nice mobile home, but I'm guessing a rich chick like her would not want to live in a doublewide. And the last thing Hawaii needs is a tornado/hurricane magnet as its well known on the mainland that those things attract tornadoes.
The most exotic component of aircraft of that era is probably some of the counterbalancing weights, which were probably removed before she got it. Solid blocks of W in the old days, depleted U in the modern era. In her house I'm sure they just weld stuff into place instead of balancing on a pivot... probably. Oh and the engine fan blades are pretty interesting metallurgically but I'm sure they were removed to keep other engines running.
Ariane rocket, specifically AR40 model? I believe that style is referred to as "cut" as opposed to "uncut".
A BGM-109 has rather manly proportions for an unmanned missile.
In the era of, and preceding, "dont ask dont tell", it seems pretty obvious why most rocket designers had to be civilians instead of military personnel. Must have driven the security clearance officers crazy.
Yeah, thats why none of us eat high fructose corn syrup, or smoke tobacco. Large swaths of our population are unable to properly / safely metabolize wheat gluten, mammal milk (as adults), or alcohol, so they don't use them, uh huh. And all of us pale skinned folks stay out of the sun to avoid skin cancer, all of us. We're not physiologically built to breathe vacuum either but I don't think that'll slow us down much.
Somehow I'm not seeing "true pioneers" being slowed down unless the fatality rate exceeds 90%, which so far it does not appear to do.
Why is black silicon being used in security and surveillance significant? Title should read more like "Paul Allen and others invest in Black Silicon."
A photodiode is a really tiny solar cell. Or a CCD is vaguely like an array of really tiny solar cells with a bunch of glue logic (actually way different but at a simplistic enough level thats a useful mental model of a CCD even if its implementation is different..)
Anyway the short version is high efficiency works, but apparently failed economically for bulk energy production. Ooops. Time for a new business plan. The purpose of yer low light camera sensor isn't to charge a battery, so its possibly useful regardless of manufacturing dollars per watt delivered.
I see the US political right as having a generally negative opinion of the ACLU
Responding authoritatively for exactly one former republican, they don't hate the ACLU because they hate four letter acronyms beginning with the letter "A", its much more like that tired old saying "they hate us for our freedom".
Back when the statists mostly hung out with the Ds and the libertarians mostly hung out with the Rs it wasn't so bad, but the religious loonies expelled all of us out of the R party hence my "former" self description. Then the statists invaded the Rs, so we really only have two sides of the same coin now.
I will not throw my vote away next month on one of the big two, I will vote 3rd party.
Simple. Enact legislation (yes yes, I know) that would would say ISPs have to provide a minimum of 1/3rd the advertised speed when throttling technology is used. No muss, no fuss.
Whom gets sued when whatever.com gets slashdotted or whatever and speeds drop to 1/3 of the advertised speeds due to poor peering rather than throttling?
Is it "throttling" if a "tier 1 ISP" in the default free zone decides they will only peer with the pirate bay directly using, say, a 56K DDS connection instead of 10gig ethernet, and forces their traffic thru that link using BGP (trivial)?
NASA and the rest of the industry would be unable to do it. The entire industry is oriented around project based operations with a defined start and end. Where is the "end" of a one way colonization ship? If an accident wipes them all out? Its incompatible with the whole corporate structure and mindset. Example, after the project ends, you get evaluated and perhaps promoted, on a project that never ends, that means you never get promoted, I'm sure they'll love that.
That's also why the cost concept is pointless. They mean $1B per bi-annual colonization shuttle sending more and more people, supplies, and capital goods? Or is it just a one time stunt?
I would not mind a one-way trip at all, IF I knew there was a continuous line of people behind me lining up for their one way trip. But if I/we were being abandoned to die there, when vital material X finally runs out, not so cool, I'm staying home. Its also psychologically safer if you imagine your friends and family could theoretically join you on the next ship, rather than you'll never see them again.
Yes! It means I can finally throw my 3dfx card away.
A (slightly) older generation thought it amusing to hang ancient winchester drive platters on the wall. Bonus points for visual head crash damage.
I'm sure that "soon" people will pay excellent money for your 3dfx card screwed onto neatly finished wood plaque. Its been a backup business plan of mine in case of unemployment... The ideal target customer is an insecure relatively inexperienced CIO type trying to redecorate his mahogany row office with loads of cash whom wants to appear to be a tech oldtimer. Artistic production value of the whole deal being the key. A four digit price "artistic piece" sale per month would be quite helpful when unemployed.
"Things degrade and break over time, especially if you use them." How this is news ? WTF?
The article carefully avoided mentioning that the scale of the damage was not known before. In my limited chemistry knowledge I always assumed the problem was the electrodes either went into solution or gained a molecule thick film of icky-stuff that prevented the reactions.
Its bad news... If you're trying to prevent dissolving, well, thats a very well known problem and you can play games with buffer solutions and making the electrodes more or less insoluable, and all kinds of other ideas. Old tech "no problemo". Or if the problem was thin film growth, basically electroplating gone wild, thats also old tech "no problemo" with chleating agents and electropositive series and decades/centuries of metallurgical corrosion research. By old tech, no problemo, I mean its a well developed area of study, not "the great unknown", or not that the solution inevitably exists or is cheap, just that the research is likely to proceed quickly and efficiently. But what is a non-mechanical engineering solution to surface roughness getting screwed up chemically? Hmm. At this time of morning, I have no idea what the next step could be. Lots of blue sky research money getting spent, I'd guess.
If you stand 5 feet away from a pretty narrow-beam 100W spotlight - you *can* feel it.
I'm sensing a mythbusters episode coming on... bring Kari and Obama.
I donno about that, you've roughly described my basement lighing system, track light around the perimeter with R-20 or whatever beams every couple feet focused to reflect off the walls. Yes I'm aware it draws about a kilowatt and I like it that way. 7 cents per hour is by far the least of my operating expenses when I'm in my workroom / lab / whatever you call it.
60 watts on an adjustable/flexible arm worklight a foot from my head, I'll sweat, eventually.
Now a thousand watt infrared "quartz tube" heater, 5 feet away, that I'll notice.
nor an electronic device (of reasonable size/value) without one.
The key phrase is "recorded serial number". I have an aftermarket 7 year old cd player in my car. No idea what the serial number is and no way to find out short of breaking the thing out of the dash myself. I would be surprised if even one percent of the population knew their ipod serial number, or their computer serial number.
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When they came to take away the Gnome Shell, I said nothing, for I do everything from the command line anyway (higher bandwidth than clicky-clicky)
When they came to take away the Gnome, I said nothing, for I run KDE, really just kdm/konsole.
When they came to take away emacs, I said nothing, for I am a VIM user.
When they came to take me away, there was no one left to defend me, because everyone else had upgraded to the latest Debian stable, now releasing 3 times as fast as recent Winders releases.
But for facebooks loadsize it's not a matter of signing up with digicert and enabling SSL.
Problems can be solved with money. Their only income stream is selling private information. Therefore:
Scenario one, your privacy is lost because they sell it to someone with money to pay for the dedicated SSL hardware cluster.
Scenario two, your privacy is lost because semi-smart people skimmed it away.
Since the end result is about the same, I'd rather reward the smart people than the greedy/rich people.
We already created one, and all humanity worships it, even if can't do FTL. And if well is not based in very advanced technology, people think that with enough of it they can do magic.
We call it money.
Geeze I thought you were going to say "Apple Inc" not boring old "money".
How can I combine the STDOUTs of two processes? Do I really need to resort to using temporary files? Is there really no tool to do the logical opposite of the "tee" command?
You are probably thinking: "Oh, you silly person, that's so trivial, you must be very incompetent", but in case you aren't, you might want to spend a minute trying to figure it out before reading on. I even asked a colleague for help before realizing that the reason I could not find a tool for the task was quite an obvious one: such a tool does not exist.
Google for the term "named pipe". Shove both files into the hole, pull one file out.
Wget for crawling tens of millions of web pages using a 10 line script? He doesn't understand crawling at scale.
There's a lot more to it than just following links. For example, lots of servers will block you if you start ripping them in full, so you need to have a system in place to crawl sites over many days/weeks a few pages at a time. You also want to distribute the load over several IP addresses, and you need logic to handle things like auto generated/tar pits/temporarily down sites, etc. And of course you want to coordinate all that while simultaneously extracting the list of URLs that you'll hand over to the crawlers next.
Guess what wget can do?
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html
Its a little more advanced than "cat" with a http interface, in the same way that a 777 is a little more advanced than the Wright Flyer.
(In all fairness, the point that you need a little iptables magic to fake your multiple ip addresses in addition to wget, if anything, proves his point further that multiple little tools work best)
Store it all in various git repos.
Then make a project in git, which is a simple shell script that looks for your git repos, and if found, pulls from the "hub", and tests to see if there is new stuff that needs to be committed / pushed and if so alerts you. Of course, it updates itself each time it runs...
Start session, run clustersync. Do your thing. Run clustersync before you stop working, to make sure you committed everything you planned to.
Splitting git projects is a pain and making sense of gitweb containing multiple projects is incomprehensible, so make your projects no bigger than necessary.
OK, so "Security harden stream wrappers by defaulting them as remote" sounds like a major one, "Cannot install on PHP 5.3.2" sounds like it would be hilarious for newbie abuse aka RoR recruitment, and "Do not enable the management menu by default" sounds like one of those "Klingon language RSS bugs" that I mentioned.
So are stream wrappers a pretty big topic in the book and if so is this a dealbreaker for buying the book?
What are the 11 critical issues? Or more precisely, could they ruin the book?
I can imagine, perhaps, one of them being RSS feeds written in Klingon with backdated pre 1970 timestamps having the wrong rules of Klingon punctuation. That's all very fascinating, but since I don't care, I won't mind that the book doesn't cover that particular critical issue.
But what if one of the 11 critical issues is some deep core framework type of thing that will require changes in everything?
Inviting a newbie to learn on a buggy system just annoys the newbie. So unlike the review, I'd suggest a newbie learn on a fully patched version 6 Drupal. Getting stuck and not being able to figure out if its my code or a Drupal 7 prerelease bug is an excellent recruitment tool for RoR, not for Drupal 7.
Maybe its like antibiotic resistance, where killing the 99.99% that are immune means the remaining 0.01% replicate like crazy, causing an unintentional negative outcome.
So an immune system that ignores 99.99% of "stuff" goes bonkers on the 0.01% that it is actually allowed to react to, in this situation, peanuts, causing an unintentional negative outcome.
An interesting model might be that most people's immune system expends most of its effort on relatively reasonable stuff like dirt and stuff in food. But if you give it nothing to do, it eventually finds itself something bad to do.
I believe if you get a lung transplant you get to take immunosuppresive drugs for life. So, she's on a heavy diet of drugs that deeply mess with her immune system, her immune system malfunctions, therefore it must be some mystical connection to a dead person.
If you hear hooves, think horse not zebra.
The original poster doesn't even understand what neutron activation is or how its completely irrelevant to this situation, yet he's scared of it. Brilliant.
you could have accurately shortened it to
its never going to be emitting radiation.
The stereotypical granite countertops are probably going to pump out about as much gammas as she'd get from flying at low altitude.
Instead of just one house though, they could probably use the materials to do a lot more. I don't know what. Is there rare earth elements in them?
Being mostly aluminum, the first thing that comes to mind is a nice mobile home, but I'm guessing a rich chick like her would not want to live in a doublewide. And the last thing Hawaii needs is a tornado/hurricane magnet as its well known on the mainland that those things attract tornadoes.
The most exotic component of aircraft of that era is probably some of the counterbalancing weights, which were probably removed before she got it. Solid blocks of W in the old days, depleted U in the modern era. In her house I'm sure they just weld stuff into place instead of balancing on a pivot... probably. Oh and the engine fan blades are pretty interesting metallurgically but I'm sure they were removed to keep other engines running.
Nice misspelling. www.getfirefox.com
Ariane rocket, specifically AR40 model? I believe that style is referred to as "cut" as opposed to "uncut".
A BGM-109 has rather manly proportions for an unmanned missile.
In the era of, and preceding, "dont ask dont tell", it seems pretty obvious why most rocket designers had to be civilians instead of military personnel. Must have driven the security clearance officers crazy.
Physiologically we're just not built for it.
Yeah, thats why none of us eat high fructose corn syrup, or smoke tobacco. Large swaths of our population are unable to properly / safely metabolize wheat gluten, mammal milk (as adults), or alcohol, so they don't use them, uh huh. And all of us pale skinned folks stay out of the sun to avoid skin cancer, all of us. We're not physiologically built to breathe vacuum either but I don't think that'll slow us down much.
Somehow I'm not seeing "true pioneers" being slowed down unless the fatality rate exceeds 90%, which so far it does not appear to do.
Why is black silicon being used in security and surveillance significant? Title should read more like "Paul Allen and others invest in Black Silicon."
A photodiode is a really tiny solar cell. Or a CCD is vaguely like an array of really tiny solar cells with a bunch of glue logic (actually way different but at a simplistic enough level thats a useful mental model of a CCD even if its implementation is different ..)
Anyway the short version is high efficiency works, but apparently failed economically for bulk energy production. Ooops. Time for a new business plan. The purpose of yer low light camera sensor isn't to charge a battery, so its possibly useful regardless of manufacturing dollars per watt delivered.
I see the US political right as having a generally negative opinion of the ACLU
Responding authoritatively for exactly one former republican, they don't hate the ACLU because they hate four letter acronyms beginning with the letter "A", its much more like that tired old saying "they hate us for our freedom".
Back when the statists mostly hung out with the Ds and the libertarians mostly hung out with the Rs it wasn't so bad, but the religious loonies expelled all of us out of the R party hence my "former" self description. Then the statists invaded the Rs, so we really only have two sides of the same coin now.
I will not throw my vote away next month on one of the big two, I will vote 3rd party.
Simple. Enact legislation (yes yes, I know) that would would say ISPs have to provide a minimum of 1/3rd the advertised speed when throttling technology is used. No muss, no fuss.
Whom gets sued when whatever.com gets slashdotted or whatever and speeds drop to 1/3 of the advertised speeds due to poor peering rather than throttling?
Is it "throttling" if a "tier 1 ISP" in the default free zone decides they will only peer with the pirate bay directly using, say, a 56K DDS connection instead of 10gig ethernet, and forces their traffic thru that link using BGP (trivial)?
Imagine the net ran through a router with an iptables rule of:
iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -m random --average 99 -j DROP
but ONLY on the websites / protocols that the ISP chooses (and / or is being paid by).
Yea without pings they'll be a quakin' in their boots.
Dontcha mean something more like:
iptables -A INPUT -d 144.160.0.0/16 -m statistic --mode random --probability 0.01 -j DROP
(that ip block being their "psuedo-competitor" att as in ns1.attdns.att.net etc etc)
Or were you making it up not knowing its actually implemented in iptables?
If you're going to be an evil genius, at least do it right, not like Dr Doofenshmirtz
NASA and the rest of the industry would be unable to do it. The entire industry is oriented around project based operations with a defined start and end. Where is the "end" of a one way colonization ship? If an accident wipes them all out? Its incompatible with the whole corporate structure and mindset. Example, after the project ends, you get evaluated and perhaps promoted, on a project that never ends, that means you never get promoted, I'm sure they'll love that.
That's also why the cost concept is pointless. They mean $1B per bi-annual colonization shuttle sending more and more people, supplies, and capital goods? Or is it just a one time stunt?
I would not mind a one-way trip at all, IF I knew there was a continuous line of people behind me lining up for their one way trip. But if I/we were being abandoned to die there, when vital material X finally runs out, not so cool, I'm staying home. Its also psychologically safer if you imagine your friends and family could theoretically join you on the next ship, rather than you'll never see them again.
Yes! It means I can finally throw my 3dfx card away.
A (slightly) older generation thought it amusing to hang ancient winchester drive platters on the wall. Bonus points for visual head crash damage.
I'm sure that "soon" people will pay excellent money for your 3dfx card screwed onto neatly finished wood plaque. Its been a backup business plan of mine in case of unemployment... The ideal target customer is an insecure relatively inexperienced CIO type trying to redecorate his mahogany row office with loads of cash whom wants to appear to be a tech oldtimer. Artistic production value of the whole deal being the key. A four digit price "artistic piece" sale per month would be quite helpful when unemployed.
"Things degrade and break over time, especially if you use them."
How this is news ? WTF?
The article carefully avoided mentioning that the scale of the damage was not known before. In my limited chemistry knowledge I always assumed the problem was the electrodes either went into solution or gained a molecule thick film of icky-stuff that prevented the reactions.
Its bad news... If you're trying to prevent dissolving, well, thats a very well known problem and you can play games with buffer solutions and making the electrodes more or less insoluable, and all kinds of other ideas. Old tech "no problemo". Or if the problem was thin film growth, basically electroplating gone wild, thats also old tech "no problemo" with chleating agents and electropositive series and decades/centuries of metallurgical corrosion research. By old tech, no problemo, I mean its a well developed area of study, not "the great unknown", or not that the solution inevitably exists or is cheap, just that the research is likely to proceed quickly and efficiently. But what is a non-mechanical engineering solution to surface roughness getting screwed up chemically? Hmm. At this time of morning, I have no idea what the next step could be. Lots of blue sky research money getting spent, I'd guess.
If you stand 5 feet away from a pretty narrow-beam 100W spotlight - you *can* feel it.
I'm sensing a mythbusters episode coming on... bring Kari and Obama.
I donno about that, you've roughly described my basement lighing system, track light around the perimeter with R-20 or whatever beams every couple feet focused to reflect off the walls. Yes I'm aware it draws about a kilowatt and I like it that way. 7 cents per hour is by far the least of my operating expenses when I'm in my workroom / lab / whatever you call it.
60 watts on an adjustable/flexible arm worklight a foot from my head, I'll sweat, eventually.
Now a thousand watt infrared "quartz tube" heater, 5 feet away, that I'll notice.
nor an electronic device (of reasonable size/value) without one.
The key phrase is "recorded serial number". I have an aftermarket 7 year old cd player in my car. No idea what the serial number is and no way to find out short of breaking the thing out of the dash myself. I would be surprised if even one percent of the population knew their ipod serial number, or their computer serial number.
Powerpoint-Roulette, how many slides till an adult image?
Guess that covers Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Access. So what's the rest, then ? Visio ? Exchange ?
Good point. Google Docs has a word processor thats better because its free. Its a competitive market. But what about Visio?
Who out there has a web based Visio that I can use? Like for network and wiring diagrams?