I hear this argument a lot, but it's a non-issue, at least with the system tested where I live. The ISA project uses an active gas pedal, where it's easy to press it to the floor when you're below the speed limit, but which gets a higher resistance when you're at the limit. If you need to go faster for any reason, you just have to push harder at the pedal. Completely intuitive, and no buttons to press. The system just makes it "easy" to drive at the speed limit, and "harder" to break it.
Mosaic did indeed have a "stop"-button. When you clicked on the logo (which was animated when loading), the load would stop. I definately remember the frustration when I started to use Netscape, wanted to stop the page load, clicked the logo, and instead got directed to the Netscape home page... But, of course, when you stopped the load in Mosaic, nothing would be rendered in the window. In Netscape, the loaded part would be displayed, which was a huge plus.
That said, I used Mosaic for a long time after Netscape was out, since Mosaic was (is still?) the only browser available for the DECStation 5000/20's running Ultrix we had then...
At LKAB (Sweden) they run something like this. It's not completely autonomous, but one operator can control three drilling rigs or three loaders at once. For the loaders, everything except the actual loading of ore is automated, the loading is done via remote control. The drilling rigs can be run without supervision, for example at night. For a short blurb, see this document, pages 3 and 4. Not much, but I didn't find a good article.
There are several advantages with this setup; the miners don't have to go down into the mine, and they can sit in a comfortable office while running the heavy machines. No humans in the mine also means that they can start loading much sooner after a blast, since they don't have to wait for the blast gases to vent out. Which in turn means that the loading machines can be run for more hours per day.
And, yes, the miners love the system - when they don't have to go down into the mines, they have some spare strength left over at the end of the day to do stuff with their families, not just fall asleep from exhaustion...
.data
msg:.asciiz "Hello, world!\n" .text .globl main .ent main
main:
subu sp,sp,4
sw ra,0(sp)
la a0,msg
jal printf
lw ra,0(sp)
addiu sp,sp,4
jr ra .end main
Or, why not this:
.section ".rodata"
msg:.asciz "Hello, world!\n" .section ".text" .global main .type main,#function
main:
save %sp,-112,%sp
sethi %hi(msg),%o0
or %o0,%lo(msg),%o0
call printf, 0
nop
ret
restore
But my Sparc assembly is a little rusty, so the last one might not be entirely correct.
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Yes, I have noticed that, since the page linked to from Slashdot just gives me a top frame with some stuff, and one frame which says "Internet Junkbuster"... In order to actually see the article, I'm forced to either allow ad.doubleclick.net (which I don't want), or use the modified link. Bad, IDG.
It always used to annoy me that the old Solaris netboot image relied on packet ordering from Sun's NFS server
Argh, I've been bitten by this too. A non-functioning CD drive in my SS5 didn't help a bit. I ended up borrowing a CD drive for the installation - hope I don't have to reinstall...
I also bought a s540, PCI version, since that was the only PCI card available at the store which could drive a monitor at 1600x1200. And in 2D it works great. However, the 3D capabilities on the card were just a big waste of money, since there are no (free) 3D drivers for this card for Linux. At least, I have been totally unable to find any. I tried an evaluation version of X from (i think) Xi, but it crashed my machine. So, all-in-all, I just paid lots of money for a fancy 2D-card.
So, if you have any option, don't buy 3D-cards from S3/Diamond!
Another rule of the game is : when memory-pigs applications are running, and swap grows too much, the/tmp shrinks accordingly.
I've been bitten by this (twice!) the other way round: When someone decides to do a 600-meg download into/tmp (because his quota is 20M), the virtual memory shrinks accordingly. After a while all you get at the prompt is this:
$ls
zsh: fork failed: Not enough memory
This symptom is usually followed by an email to the sysop, and a few minutes later everything is back to normal (except for the user who lost a few hundred megs of downloaded stuff:-).
This is for zsh, but bash should work similarly, I guess. Put it into your global zshrc. (No, I didn't write it, I just "borrowed" it...). It doesn't solve all problems, but some of them:
umask()
{
if [[ $# -ne 0 && $PWD != ~/public_html* ]]; then
_orig_umask=$1
fi
builtin umask $*
}
umask 077
chpwd ()
{
if [[ $PWD = ~/public_html* ]]; then
umask 022
else
umask $_orig_umask
fi
}
AllAxis equipment has RS232, Parallel port, SCSI, EIDE, Ethernet and Token Ring support. The only difference is what is plugged in... About the only thing that's missing from their own ETRAX processor is a MMU, but you can live without that. It's a lovely processor for building anything net-aware.
You missed the point: Nobody can explain why the woman should get millions of dollars. Sure, McDonald's may be fined ten million dollars, I don't care, but what people (outside the USA) really can't understand is why it should all go to the person suing the company. Just compensate her for the medical costs and lost revenues (for the time in court), and let the rest go to a charity organization, the government, whatever.
Spilling hot coffee on yourself should not be a "get rich quick"-scheme.
I used Mosaic for a long time, until 1995 or so, mainly because it was the only browser available for DECStations with ULTRIX. But after that I started using Netscape on Sun boxen instead (Tables in webpages! Woohoo!). I just wanted to say that I still think the spinning icon in the top-right corner of the browser should be the one that stops loading the page... I can't remember how many times I clicked on the "N" icon in Netscape and got sent to their homepage, when I just wanted to stop the page loading. After some time of that, I noticed that Netscape had a separate "stop" button, but it took long to get used to.
I want to know when email comes, even in the heavy midst of coding,...
That depends on the mail... When you get mail from some people, you want to know it directly, but some things (some types of mailing lists, spam, what have you) you don't really need to read the second it arrives. I'd really like to set different mail sounds in NSCommunicator based on my mail filters, but unfortunately that's not possible (at least not in my version (4.08, WinNT)).
...go from being an emacs user to an emacs expert. Then I'll be able to fix the keyboard commands too. (Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V should be cut, copy, paste, dammit! And Ctrl-Z for undo!
But I find the default keybindings good enough for me (\C-w, \M-w, \C-y, \C-_). Remapping Ctrl-C and Ctrl-X breaks lots of other commands, so I don't recommend doing it.
OTOH, I always end up remapping Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E in Win apps (where I can), I'm just too used to them.
Everyone should have H&P (both of them!). They are incredibly good, in my (and many others) opinion. CA:AQA could stand a third edition, though - the 2nd ed is starting to show its age.
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Ozzie: Google approaching.
Bill: What do you mean, Google approaching?
Bill: Open fire all weapons!
Bill: Dispatch war rocket AJAX to bring back his body!
Too bad they didn't discuss certain Macromedia technologies, that would have made it even more appropriate!
I hear this argument a lot, but it's a non-issue, at least with the system tested where I live. The ISA project uses an active gas pedal, where it's easy to press it to the floor when you're below the speed limit, but which gets a higher resistance when you're at the limit. If you need to go faster for any reason, you just have to push harder at the pedal. Completely intuitive, and no buttons to press. The system just makes it "easy" to drive at the speed limit, and "harder" to break it.
Mosaic did indeed have a "stop"-button. When you clicked on the logo (which was animated when loading), the load would stop. I definately remember the frustration when I started to use Netscape, wanted to stop the page load, clicked the logo, and instead got directed to the Netscape home page... But, of course, when you stopped the load in Mosaic, nothing would be rendered in the window. In Netscape, the loaded part would be displayed, which was a huge plus.
That said, I used Mosaic for a long time after Netscape was out, since Mosaic was (is still?) the only browser available for the DECStation 5000/20's running Ultrix we had then...
At LKAB (Sweden) they run something like this. It's not completely autonomous, but one operator can control three drilling rigs or three loaders at once. For the loaders, everything except the actual loading of ore is automated, the loading is done via remote control. The drilling rigs can be run without supervision, for example at night. For a short blurb, see this document, pages 3 and 4. Not much, but I didn't find a good article.
There are several advantages with this setup; the miners don't have to go down into the mine, and they can sit in a comfortable office while running the heavy machines. No humans in the mine also means that they can start loading much sooner after a blast, since they don't have to wait for the blast gases to vent out. Which in turn means that the loading machines can be run for more hours per day.
And, yes, the miners love the system - when they don't have to go down into the mines, they have some spare strength left over at the end of the day to do stuff with their families, not just fall asleep from exhaustion...
To me, 2.4.2 sounds more like a band. Heavy industry stuff, perfect for clearing your mind when hacking away :)
Nah, try this:
msg:
main:
subu sp,sp,4
sw ra,0(sp)
la a0,msg
jal printf
lw ra,0(sp)
addiu sp,sp,4
jr ra
Or, why not this:
msg:
main:
save %sp,-112,%sp
sethi %hi(msg),%o0
or %o0,%lo(msg),%o0
call printf, 0
nop
ret
restore
But my Sparc assembly is a little rusty, so the last one might not be entirely correct.
Yes, I have noticed that, since the page linked to from Slashdot just gives me a top frame with some stuff, and one frame which says "Internet Junkbuster"... In order to actually see the article, I'm forced to either allow ad.doubleclick.net (which I don't want), or use the modified link. Bad, IDG.
Changing the bootup logo is easy:
# cat my_oem-logo.data > /proc/openprom/options/oem-logo /proc/openprom/options/oem-logo\?
# echo true >
Of course, this assumes that you're on a Sun...
Link: Den store mission (All in Danish, sorry)
Anyhow, the prize there is "only" a suborbital flight (around 90 minutes), a week at the ISS sounds like a better deal...
On my windows machine, I really dislike explorer.
I also dislike Explorer in my computer. I'd rather have it in me. (Not high-profile like Absolut, but just as good, and cheaper.)Please don't be alarmed, but "A communications disruption can mean only one thing. Invasion!"
Argh, I've been bitten by this too. A non-functioning CD drive in my SS5 didn't help a bit. I ended up borrowing a CD drive for the installation - hope I don't have to reinstall...
That's the driver I use, but it doesn't do OpenGL, which means no 3D. (Or, rather, software-rendered 3D, which isn't all that fast on my PPro)
I also bought a s540, PCI version, since that was the only PCI card available at the store which could drive a monitor at 1600x1200. And in 2D it works great. However, the 3D capabilities on the card were just a big waste of money, since there are no (free) 3D drivers for this card for Linux. At least, I have been totally unable to find any. I tried an evaluation version of X from (i think) Xi, but it crashed my machine. So, all-in-all, I just paid lots of money for a fancy 2D-card.
So, if you have any option, don't buy 3D-cards from S3/Diamond!
Another rule of the game is : when memory-pigs applications are running, and swap grows too much, the /tmp shrinks accordingly.
I've been bitten by this (twice!) the other way round: When someone decides to do a 600-meg download into /tmp (because his quota is 20M), the virtual memory shrinks accordingly. After a while all you get at the prompt is this:
$ls
zsh: fork failed: Not enough memory
This symptom is usually followed by an email to the sysop, and a few minutes later everything is back to normal (except for the user who lost a few hundred megs of downloaded stuff :-).
This is for zsh, but bash should work similarly, I guess. Put it into your global zshrc. (No, I didn't write it, I just "borrowed" it...). It doesn't solve all problems, but some of them:
umask()
{
if [[ $# -ne 0 && $PWD != ~/public_html* ]]; then
_orig_umask=$1
fi
builtin umask $*
}
umask 077
chpwd ()
{
if [[ $PWD = ~/public_html* ]]; then
umask 022
else
umask $_orig_umask
fi
}
All Axis equipment has RS232, Parallel port, SCSI, EIDE, Ethernet and Token Ring support. The only difference is what is plugged in... About the only thing that's missing from their own ETRAX processor is a MMU, but you can live without that. It's a lovely processor for building anything net-aware.
0.556 cats? I think this is an int scalar.
Ever heard of Schrödinger?
Apparently it is available. Otherwise, any Lunar Lander clone will come close.
No, it's the Monolith Burger Bar. Go there and play some Astro Chicken now!
You missed the point: Nobody can explain why the woman should get millions of dollars. Sure, McDonald's may be fined ten million dollars, I don't care, but what people (outside the USA) really can't understand is why it should all go to the person suing the company. Just compensate her for the medical costs and lost revenues (for the time in court), and let the rest go to a charity organization, the government, whatever.
Spilling hot coffee on yourself should not be a "get rich quick"-scheme.
I used Mosaic for a long time, until 1995 or so, mainly because it was the only browser available for DECStations with ULTRIX. But after that I started using Netscape on Sun boxen instead (Tables in webpages! Woohoo!). I just wanted to say that I still think the spinning icon in the top-right corner of the browser should be the one that stops loading the page... I can't remember how many times I clicked on the "N" icon in Netscape and got sent to their homepage, when I just wanted to stop the page loading. After some time of that, I noticed that Netscape had a separate "stop" button, but it took long to get used to.
I want to know when email comes, even in the heavy midst of coding, ...
That depends on the mail... When you get mail from some people, you want to know it directly, but some things (some types of mailing lists, spam, what have you) you don't really need to read the second it arrives. I'd really like to set different mail sounds in NSCommunicator based on my mail filters, but unfortunately that's not possible (at least not in my version (4.08, WinNT)).
(global-set-key \C-x 'kill-region)
(global-set-key \C-c 'kill-ring-save)
(global-set-key \C-v 'yank)
(global-set-key \C-z 'undo)
But I find the default keybindings good enough for me (\C-w, \M-w, \C-y, \C-_). Remapping Ctrl-C and Ctrl-X breaks lots of other commands, so I don't recommend doing it.
OTOH, I always end up remapping Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E in Win apps (where I can), I'm just too used to them.
Well, the book says 1975...
Everyone should have H&P (both of them!). They are incredibly good, in my (and many others) opinion. CA:AQA could stand a third edition, though - the 2nd ed is starting to show its age.