Don't forget the cousin, sudo -i, which is pretty much exactly the same as su. You then have the shebang and your environment it switched to that of the root account.
eg: sudo -s cd ~ will take you to your user home directory
sudo -i cd ~ will take you to say,/root, the root user's home directory.
That having been said, sudo -s is what I use in practice just about 100% of the time since I want my.emacs and other relatively pathed RC files to work.
While I am no apologist for the republicans, I also chortled at the notion that the Democrats could accomplish such a thing were they in control of the legislature anyways.
At best they could set aside the funding and make a program, it seems to me...but that would be a huge step forward, so I'm not going to naysay this effort.
This is not true, since one simply has to type `sudo -s` to spawn a root shell.
This is actually (in some ways) better than switching users since your environment is not that of the root user (eg "cd" will still take you to the home directory of the user, not the root home directory).
It also means my.emacs will work for root work while using relative pathing.
...Once someone has physical access, the things you can do to prevent compromising the system are pretty meaningless. Want to alter the passwd file? No problem. You could also copy the entire thing to an external hard drive, and pick through it at your leisure.
I don't see the value in shredding. Once the file is root-only accessable you've gained a reasonable amount of security, save escalation exploits which now carry the danger of being able to divine the root password with relative ease.
But everything's relatively over once you escalate anyways.
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While Libertarians do come with different stripes, I would say that the more extreme do not seem very realistic -- I, for one, would not entrust everything to whims of private hands.
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Considering the relatively similar performance of the chips in question, I would be hard-pressed to believe this with epsilon documentation.
Keep in mind that even in the event of a war it may not happen anyways. I presume you mean the "free nations" of this world going in to "whip them into shape," or something like that.
The US couldn't handle Vietnam. The US contained North Korea, and now the US is struggling in Iraq. The US's only large scale success of this type was with assisting Japan with their transformation after WWII, and that only took massive firebombing and a couple of nuclear detonations on non-military targets to break the will of the populace that time around. There is little doubt that had the Allies lost the war that some US generals, self admittedly, would have been persecuted as war criminals.
China's population is huge and thoroughly propagandized. The country possesses nuclear weapons, and in a dire scenario would probably not hesitate to use them. Not only that, but the land area is immense and the infrastructure can be lacking. These traits separate it from Japan as a target for social reconstruction with a reasonably sized expenditure of resources.
No, they won't be able to find BMW-Germany. BMW in other locations, if I understand correctly, should remain unaffected. Note that BMW International is still indexed and at http://www.bmw.com/
Unfortunately, I cannot relate; the beginning of my formal instruction was taught in Scheme, and I later learned to appreciate what I had when I later took an AI class using CL.
Both were functional (in the usable sense) languages, but I have to say that I don't like the CL notion of throwing in the kitchen sink. A GOOD packaging system and standard way to write modules (Python got this right) would make me happier than some gigantic "core" functionality.
PLT Scheme is getting this more right every day, but as you said, it had to go invent its own module and packaging systems. What lisp (any dialect thereof, or those yet unmade) needs a major player to develop, standardize, and support a relatively efficient implementation. (I know that CL is quite fast, but it lacks in the other areas)
In my opinion, the those in the best position are at Sun and Microsoft. Both have significant developer drag and are showing increasing interest in having other languages run on the virtual machines. (Groovy on the former, IronPython and F# on the latter)
Let me know when the world comes to their senses and starts using Scheme instead, or some future or past dialect that has not a thousand page standard and a marginal packaging system.
Seriously. No one switches to entirely different instruction set and architecture because they "felt like it." Especially an instruction set like i386.
There, in most sane discussion, has to be a reason. And the reason is performance.
Unfortunately, Anachronox is also unfinished and quite buggy. (Although kudos for the volunteer efforts by former Ion Storm employee(s) to release unofficial patches!)
That having been said, it is one of the best unfinished games of all times in my book. And as you said, it makes supurb use of scripted sequences and (my own opinion) voice acting.
I'm not sure if there is some background here that I'm not aware of, but I RTFL (Read The Fine Link) and it doesn't mention anything like this. And I quote:
"He poured kerosene oil over a living man and set fire to him," said the judge presiding over the case at the Kushiro District Court. "We cannot understand the motives in the murder of the father."
The 58-year-old father criticized Hiroo Morimoto over the son's job on Aug. 11 last year, leading to an argument, according to the court's ruling.
I actually watched Lain just recently. I thought I was going insane when I thought I saw a "car" (as in Lisp car) fly by. Apparently they bothered getting some real source code from a code walker and an implementation of the game of life in Common Lisp to show on Lain's handheld computer scheme. Plus the chalkboard at one point has printfs et al on it...
Gnome is nice, (reasonably) simple, and boring. KDE looks like the kitchen sink has been thrown into your screen, out of the box. To tell you the truth, I can't stand it.
Then again, I don't use my DE/WM for much. I've considered switching to.+box, if I ever get around to configuring the.rcs to the way I like them.
That's nice, if you could parse english context free and extract meaning. They are lacking "an" X chromosome necessary to perform the elusive task of writing games that appeal to women. It is true that taken out of context that the title makes little sense, but if you can convince yourself to read for about two seconds more the meaning is apparent. Arguably that makes it a bad title, or at least a sensationalist one.
And of course, you could read the title as a suggestion of plurality. All have at least one, some have two, but of those creating games "an X chromosome" is lacking, and this is the purported (and not entirely unreasonable) mechanism that slow the creation of games that are appealing to the fairer sex.
I found SC4 to have far superior gameplay than SC2000/3000. I have to give 2000 the hats off -- it was ahead of its time. I think 3000 was instead the "shameless lust for more money" since it didn't really expand the gameplay, but Sim City 4 really upped the simulation detail quite a bit. Although it may seem like work, it's nice to query buildings to find out their traffic patterns to try and get your city humming smoothly with busy subway stations instead -- things that were left totally out of the picture in earlier Sim Cities.
So you are saying that I can use kioslave to, from a terminal, go and run mplayer on some random video file over ssh, using plain old system calls?
Unless kioslave implements something like fuse, I surmise the answer is no. That's why I think it's a hack. It tries to give the illusion of local file-system-like access, but the moment I try say, writing a python script to take a file over ssh and say file('foofile') I'm SOL. Correct me if the answer is yes, but I don't see KDE installing any kernel modules these days.
It's better to just actually solve the problem than rely on the likes of kioslave and its spiritual equivilent, gnome-vfs.
Of course, unless you actually wanted your remote file system mounts to actually be something more than a hack and used something like Fuse (http://fuse.sourceforge.net/) where file system syscalls can be handled by behavior defined in user space.
sshfs and smbfs work like a charm, although they have some...amusing "file systems" listed as well. (Such as a representation of a relational database as directories and XML files....)
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Don't forget the cousin, sudo -i, which is pretty much exactly the same as su. You then have the shebang and your environment it switched to that of the root account.
/root, the root user's home directory.
.emacs and other relatively pathed RC files to work.
eg:
sudo -s
cd ~ will take you to your user home directory
sudo -i
cd ~ will take you to say,
That having been said, sudo -s is what I use in practice just about 100% of the time since I want my
While I am no apologist for the republicans, I also chortled at the notion that the Democrats could accomplish such a thing were they in control of the legislature anyways.
At best they could set aside the funding and make a program, it seems to me...but that would be a huge step forward, so I'm not going to naysay this effort.
This is not true, since one simply has to type `sudo -s` to spawn a root shell.
.emacs will work for root work while using relative pathing.
This is actually (in some ways) better than switching users since your environment is not that of the root user (eg "cd" will still take you to the home directory of the user, not the root home directory).
It also means my
Why is this a right-minded concept, may I ask? I am truly ignorant of the reasoning, so please enlighten me...
...Once someone has physical access, the things you can do to prevent compromising the system are pretty meaningless. Want to alter the passwd file? No problem. You could also copy the entire thing to an external hard drive, and pick through it at your leisure.
I don't see the value in shredding. Once the file is root-only accessable you've gained a reasonable amount of security, save escalation exploits which now carry the danger of being able to divine the root password with relative ease.
But everything's relatively over once you escalate anyways.
While Libertarians do come with different stripes, I would say that the more extreme do not seem very realistic -- I, for one, would not entrust everything to whims of private hands.
Considering the relatively similar performance of the chips in question, I would be hard-pressed to believe this with epsilon documentation.
Keep in mind that even in the event of a war it may not happen anyways. I presume you mean the "free nations" of this world going in to "whip them into shape," or something like that.
The US couldn't handle Vietnam. The US contained North Korea, and now the US is struggling in Iraq. The US's only large scale success of this type was with assisting Japan with their transformation after WWII, and that only took massive firebombing and a couple of nuclear detonations on non-military targets to break the will of the populace that time around. There is little doubt that had the Allies lost the war that some US generals, self admittedly, would have been persecuted as war criminals.
China's population is huge and thoroughly propagandized. The country possesses nuclear weapons, and in a dire scenario would probably not hesitate to use them. Not only that, but the land area is immense and the infrastructure can be lacking. These traits separate it from Japan as a target for social reconstruction with a reasonably sized expenditure of resources.
No, they won't be able to find BMW-Germany. BMW in other locations, if I understand correctly, should remain unaffected. Note that BMW International is still indexed and at http://www.bmw.com/
Unfortunately, I cannot relate; the beginning of my formal instruction was taught in Scheme, and I later learned to appreciate what I had when I later took an AI class using CL.
Both were functional (in the usable sense) languages, but I have to say that I don't like the CL notion of throwing in the kitchen sink. A GOOD packaging system and standard way to write modules (Python got this right) would make me happier than some gigantic "core" functionality.
PLT Scheme is getting this more right every day, but as you said, it had to go invent its own module and packaging systems. What lisp (any dialect thereof, or those yet unmade) needs a major player to develop, standardize, and support a relatively efficient implementation. (I know that CL is quite fast, but it lacks in the other areas)
In my opinion, the those in the best position are at Sun and Microsoft. Both have significant developer drag and are showing increasing interest in having other languages run on the virtual machines. (Groovy on the former, IronPython and F# on the latter)
Modulo humor or sarcasm, the GP didn't seem to convey "we get it."
Let me know when the world comes to their senses and starts using Scheme instead, or some future or past dialect that has not a thousand page standard and a marginal packaging system.
Plus call/cc is cool.
Seriously. No one switches to entirely different instruction set and architecture because they "felt like it." Especially an instruction set like i386.
There, in most sane discussion, has to be a reason. And the reason is performance.
Unfortunately, Anachronox is also unfinished and quite buggy. (Although kudos for the volunteer efforts by former Ion Storm employee(s) to release unofficial patches!)
That having been said, it is one of the best unfinished games of all times in my book. And as you said, it makes supurb use of scripted sequences and (my own opinion) voice acting.
I'm not sure if there is some background here that I'm not aware of, but I RTFL (Read The Fine Link) and it doesn't mention anything like this. And I quote:
"He poured kerosene oil over a living man and set fire to him," said the judge presiding over the case at the Kushiro District Court. "We cannot understand the motives in the murder of the father."
The 58-year-old father criticized Hiroo Morimoto over the son's job on Aug. 11 last year, leading to an argument, according to the court's ruling.
End quote.
I actually watched Lain just recently. I thought I was going insane when I thought I saw a "car" (as in Lisp car) fly by. Apparently they bothered getting some real source code from a code walker and an implementation of the game of life in Common Lisp to show on Lain's handheld computer scheme. Plus the chalkboard at one point has printfs et al on it...
I thought that was pretty damn cool.
Gnome is nice, (reasonably) simple, and boring. KDE looks like the kitchen sink has been thrown into your screen, out of the box. To tell you the truth, I can't stand it.
.+box, if I ever get around to configuring the .rcs to the way I like them.
Then again, I don't use my DE/WM for much. I've considered switching to
That's nice, if you could parse english context free and extract meaning. They are lacking "an" X chromosome necessary to perform the elusive task of writing games that appeal to women. It is true that taken out of context that the title makes little sense, but if you can convince yourself to read for about two seconds more the meaning is apparent. Arguably that makes it a bad title, or at least a sensationalist one.
And of course, you could read the title as a suggestion of plurality. All have at least one, some have two, but of those creating games "an X chromosome" is lacking, and this is the purported (and not entirely unreasonable) mechanism that slow the creation of games that are appealing to the fairer sex.
I found SC4 to have far superior gameplay than SC2000/3000. I have to give 2000 the hats off -- it was ahead of its time. I think 3000 was instead the "shameless lust for more money" since it didn't really expand the gameplay, but Sim City 4 really upped the simulation detail quite a bit. Although it may seem like work, it's nice to query buildings to find out their traffic patterns to try and get your city humming smoothly with busy subway stations instead -- things that were left totally out of the picture in earlier Sim Cities.
It has however, earned a place in publications such as Science for definitions and background information.
So I would say you are incorrect and the emperical evidence indicates that it has in fact earned something.
but that's never true. Virtually all software ships with known issues and bugs.
I much prefer the current model...where one just prays and hopes it works.
So you are saying that I can use kioslave to, from a terminal, go and run mplayer on some random video file over ssh, using plain old system calls?
Unless kioslave implements something like fuse, I surmise the answer is no. That's why I think it's a hack. It tries to give the illusion of local file-system-like access, but the moment I try say, writing a python script to take a file over ssh and say file('foofile') I'm SOL. Correct me if the answer is yes, but I don't see KDE installing any kernel modules these days.
It's better to just actually solve the problem than rely on the likes of kioslave and its spiritual equivilent, gnome-vfs.
Of course, unless you actually wanted your remote file system mounts to actually be something more than a hack and used something like Fuse (http://fuse.sourceforge.net/) where file system syscalls can be handled by behavior defined in user space.
sshfs and smbfs work like a charm, although they have some...amusing "file systems" listed as well. (Such as a representation of a relational database as directories and XML files....)