Actually, I'd like to see the study that says woman are happier than men, because that flies in the face of my experience. Most of the women I know are either depressed or angry all the time.
I was wondering exactly the same thing... Slashdot forgets that a lot of readers aren't from the US and don't know anything about US-centric brand names...
The Superhub is SLIGHTLY better, but still nothing on a dedicated router. But can you still plug in your own router? Nope, VM deliberately disabled the DHCP options within the HUB, meaning you have to rely on it (although a patch is coming that will enable "gateway" mode).
I have a SuperHub with VirginMedia and I use my own router: you need to set "DMZ Host" in the "SuperHub" advanced settings to the IP of your own router's WAN port. That means that your router's external IP looks like a private IP (in a different subnet from the LAN obviously) but that's not a problem in practice.
www.stackoverflow.com is a much better free alternative to expertSexchange.com.
They also regularly provide a complete database dump of all the questions and answers (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/) so there is no risk they'll steal the community effort like expertsexchange did...
It works great, especially for engineers/programmers!
The hacker's diet is very simple: you can eat whatever you want, just make sure you eat less calories than what your body needs. You can feed on hamburgers if you want as long as you eat less. You can worry about exercising or eating healthy stuff later, this will come automatically once you've lost some weight.
4 years ago I was at 215 lbs (for 5'10), loathed any form of physical activity, and was not very happy about this situation. After skimming through the hacker's diet I decided to lower my daily food intake to around 1000-1200 cal (the average intake for a man is between 2000-2500 cal)
This wasn't very pleasant at first but it worked and 12 months later I was down to 155 lbs (60 pounds less), without any exercise at all. To keep the same weight I started eating a bit more and I immediately felt like running everywhere instead of walking! So I bought a bike to get some low impact exercise and a year afterwards I found myself cycling 20 miles every day to work (not in the snow though)
Today, 4 years after I started this very simple diet, I'm still at 155 lbs, very active and generally much happier. Also I'm not closely counting calories anymore as my body automatically knows how much food is enough.
The most difficult part I found when starting the diet was evaluating calories in food. You can find calories on most food labels (usually in cal/100g of product) but it took me a while to learn what type of food would bring me the best quantity/energy ratio. I found some great low cal food are veggies (I am lucky to love beans and 1kg of beans is about 200cal - you can stuff yourself on this without any problem), chicken, fish... All this food happens to be very healthy too, so as you see there is no need to worry about knowing what's healthy and what's not because if you want to eat a lot (as in volume) without taking in too many calories, it will have to be healthy food anyway.
Read the Hacker's Diet for more info, it is definitely worth it!!
Re:Dismissing an author for his politics
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I was also very skeptical about OSC as he's a mormon, but Ender's Game didn't seem tainted by Card's beliefs.
In what concerns other authors, I have a strong mistrust about Heinlein (because of his military past) and Hubard (obvious). I read a few books by Heinlein and unlike many critics, I wouldn't dare to compare him to Asimov or Clarke who are strong peace advocates.
VanVogt (The world of null-A) has also a troubled past, he was a co-founder of scientology with Hubard although he quit after a few years. The null-A are based on General Semantic, a kind of alternate philosophy (akin to scientology without religious stuff) but it's still a worth reading.
I couldn't work in a company that would block deja.com, or anyway I'd certainly lose a lot of time searching for technical problems while the answers are certainly in the news already.
Dejanews saved me numerous times !
Dejanews is a fount of knowledge and it would be an enormous error to block it, even if you can also waste time reading alt.sex.whatever...
Of course the snail mail services will be reduced to the strict minimum over the years, once everyone (even your girlfriend;) will be used to the email. Maybe children won't even learn handwriting at school but rather typing, and if these nifty neuronal interfaces come out one day, typing will become obsolete as well.
If you push further the concept of a digital world, you can find out that after all most things you do or care about (your work, your professional or personal mail, books, videos, pictures, etc...) can be stored on a computer and easily duplicated. If you can see beyond your porsche or any other "futile" belongings (that could be simulated anyway), what you've got left in the plain old reality is only bare humans with some HD and computers.
It's one aspect of The Matrix or any cyberpunk book and it might sound cheap SF, but it sounds quite probable to me that eventually people won't have any "valuable" belongings besides their digital world.
Even now, if I think seriously about it, the worst "material" thing I could lose (of course I don't take account of beloved human beings) would be my HD and backups. Cars, computers, etc... are easily expendable, but datas are not ! Fortunately it will be really easy to backup our personal datas in several places on the earth in the next years so that an earthquake or any other major disaster wouldn't destroy them.
I remember Torvalds said one day that whenever he needed something backuped, he just uploaded it on a server and it was mirrored worldwide on the same day:)
Slashdot Mirror
slackware -> redhat -> debian -> ubuntu -> back to debian
IMO debian is the benchmark, especially to build servers from scratch quickly.
Actually, I'd like to see the study that says woman are happier than men, because that flies in the face of my experience. Most of the women I know are either depressed or angry all the time.
You should stop playing angry birds...
I was wondering exactly the same thing... Slashdot forgets that a lot of readers aren't from the US and don't know anything about US-centric brand names...
Thank you for the link and the parent for the reference.
It's the full text and was well worth a read !
You can actually run a proper VPN with ssh and not just tunnel individual ports:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH_VPN
This creates a point-to-point layer 2 or 3 tunnel between 2 hosts. This is great for proxying TCP, UDP, ethernet frames...
The Superhub is SLIGHTLY better, but still nothing on a dedicated router. But can you still plug in your own router? Nope, VM deliberately disabled the DHCP options within the HUB, meaning you have to rely on it (although a patch is coming that will enable "gateway" mode).
I have a SuperHub with VirginMedia and I use my own router: you need to set "DMZ Host" in the "SuperHub" advanced settings to the IP of your own router's WAN port. That means that your router's external IP looks like a private IP (in a different subnet from the LAN obviously) but that's not a problem in practice.
I use the N900 keyboard quite often, sysadmin tasks via ssh are surprisingly easy once you remap a few symbol keys!
Thanks, that looks promising!
PasswordSafe has less functionality than KeePass except that there is a compatible command line client for it (pwsafe).
I often use pwsafe from a remote shell and I would switch to a KeePass database if I could find a CLI for it...
You calibrate the monitor on the host, and use the resulting ICC profile with each application both on the host and guest.
This is discussed here: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=18188
Shocking vulnerability, you could potentially get rooted just reading some dodgy email in mutt under screen!
It was fixed in October 2006 (couldn't find a POC though) but there must be a lot of people with older versions still...
www.stackoverflow.com is a much better free alternative to expertSexchange.com.
They also regularly provide a complete database dump of all the questions and answers (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/) so there is no risk they'll steal the community effort like expertsexchange did...
If you like initiatives like the TV turnoff week, make sure to check out adbusters
There's some interesting info about the .iq domain on The Register.
It works great, especially for engineers/programmers!
The hacker's diet is very simple: you can eat whatever you want, just make sure you eat less calories than what your body needs. You can feed on hamburgers if you want as long as you eat less. You can worry about exercising or eating healthy stuff later, this will come automatically once you've lost some weight.
4 years ago I was at 215 lbs (for 5'10), loathed any form of physical activity, and was not very happy about this situation. After skimming through the hacker's diet I decided to lower my daily food intake to around 1000-1200 cal (the average intake for a man is between 2000-2500 cal)
This wasn't very pleasant at first but it worked and 12 months later I was down to 155 lbs (60 pounds less), without any exercise at all. To keep the same weight I started eating a bit more and I immediately felt like running everywhere instead of walking! So I bought a bike to get some low impact exercise and a year afterwards I found myself cycling 20 miles every day to work (not in the snow though)
Today, 4 years after I started this very simple diet, I'm still at 155 lbs, very active and generally much happier. Also I'm not closely counting calories anymore as my body automatically knows how much food is enough.
The most difficult part I found when starting the diet was evaluating calories in food. You can find calories on most food labels (usually in cal/100g of product) but it took me a while to learn what type of food would bring me the best quantity/energy ratio. I found some great low cal food are veggies (I am lucky to love beans and 1kg of beans is about 200cal - you can stuff yourself on this without any problem), chicken, fish...
All this food happens to be very healthy too, so as you see there is no need to worry about knowing what's healthy and what's not because if you want to eat a lot (as in volume) without taking in too many calories, it will have to be healthy food anyway.
Read the Hacker's Diet for more info, it is definitely worth it!!
BTW the first time I heard about the Hacker's diet was on Slashdot, 4 years ago.
blop.
I was also very skeptical about OSC as he's a mormon, but Ender's Game didn't seem tainted by Card's beliefs.
In what concerns other authors, I have a strong mistrust about Heinlein (because of his military past) and Hubard (obvious).
I read a few books by Heinlein and unlike many critics, I wouldn't dare to compare him to Asimov or Clarke who are strong peace advocates.
VanVogt (The world of null-A) has also a troubled past, he was a co-founder of scientology with Hubard although he quit after a few years. The null-A are based on General Semantic, a kind of alternate philosophy (akin to scientology without religious stuff) but it's still a worth reading.
I couldn't work in a company that would block deja.com, or anyway I'd certainly lose a lot of time searching for technical problems while the answers are certainly in the news already.
Dejanews saved me numerous times !
Dejanews is a fount of knowledge and it would be an enormous error to block it, even if you can also waste time reading alt.sex.whatever...
Of course the snail mail services will be reduced to the strict minimum over the years, once everyone (even your girlfriend ;) will be used to the email.
:)
Maybe children won't even learn handwriting at school but rather typing, and if these nifty neuronal interfaces come out one day, typing will become obsolete as well.
If you push further the concept of a digital world, you can find out that after all most things you do or care about (your work, your professional or personal mail, books, videos, pictures, etc...) can be stored on a computer and easily duplicated.
If you can see beyond your porsche or any other "futile" belongings (that could be simulated anyway), what you've got left in the plain old reality is only bare humans with some HD and computers.
It's one aspect of The Matrix or any cyberpunk book and it might sound cheap SF, but it sounds quite probable to me that eventually people won't have any "valuable" belongings besides their digital world.
Even now, if I think seriously about it, the worst "material" thing I could lose (of course I don't take account of beloved human beings) would be my HD and backups. Cars, computers, etc... are easily expendable, but datas are not !
Fortunately it will be really easy to backup our personal datas in several places on the earth in the next years so that an earthquake or any other major disaster wouldn't destroy them.
I remember Torvalds said one day that whenever he needed something backuped, he just uploaded it on a server and it was mirrored worldwide on the same day