The statistic that interests me (as a Slackware fanboy), however, is Slackware's, which has apparently more than doubled in the last year. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised; if I'm convinced that Slack's the best desktop distro out, it's reasonable to suppose that others might share my opinion.;-)
I would expect Slackware, being the only Linux distro that I've ever been able to love, to actually DECREASE in users, considering the problem Pat had recently with his health and all...
Being on a really old machine, Firefox would often use 112 MB of RAM with only around two-four tabs open, now with Opera at that many tabs, It'd only use around 25 MB of RAM with the same pages open.
I have 14 tabs of extremely heavy image pages (think Gamespot, not Google). It's using 12.5% of my RAM right now, which is 64 MB of RAM (I have 512 MB DDR). Your 112MB/4tabs is 28MB/tab, your 25MB/4tabs is ~6.25MB/tab, and my 64MB/14tabs is ~4.57MB/tab. I don't know HOW you got 112 MB from Firefox, but that sounds extremely high.
The memory usage between Windows and Linux (I'm on Linux, and I think you are on Windows from the sound of it) shouldn't be ANYTHING because it's the same code. I think either you were using a 0.x version of Firefox, or however you checked the RAM usage was wrong (Windows Task Manager?).
The US Constitution only affects dealings between the government and private citizens, it has nothing to do with dealings between two private citizens.
It may not be unconstitutional, but it's at least it would be illegal. If only the constitution were what controlled the nation, then people would be ALLOWED to murder each other.
But then again, this is Slashdot. Carry on with your groundless bitching.
Okay, he got a word wrong, illegal vs. unconstitutional, does that really make his claim invalid?
Given the events aren't stupid things like those... People would have to make hard to guess events, exactly like people have to make hard to guess passwords.
That would be like a password of your last name or something, sure people would do it, but they would need to get educated (like a high school diploma, which is something a lot of people need these days...).
Better events would be: When someone died (dog, cat, family member, whatever), when I got my last traffic ticket, when my favorite show started airing (worded EXACTLY like that, the show not given), etc.
And you cannot make a graphical interaction with the user complex enough to make a random guess succeed in less than, say, 1/1000 of cases. Otherwise, it'll be so complex that legit users will get annoyed and go away.
"Order these ten events of your life:"
I don't think that would be too hard for someone to do, and not too complex that someone trying to get their credit card or social security information would go away because of.
Using permutations from math class, we can find out (pull out your graphic calculators!) that "10 nPr 10" (I believe this would be the correct way to do it, please correct me if I'm wrong) is 3628800.
Over 3.6 million possiblities isn't that bad for that amount of effort required.
What's even funnier is when they zoom into the reflection of someone's eye
Not funnier, just equally funny. If you can get a high resolution picture of someone's eye (which you can't from a security camera), you CAN get the reflected picture adjusted right. This technique actually was covered on Slashdot about a year ago, I can't seem to find it now.
You also realize that one of the biggest advertisers on this site is Microsoft? Didn't you just scroll thru the big ad for Visual Studio.net?
Most of us use Firefox, available here. This browser offers a feature to "extend" it's functionality through what they call "extensions". One of such "extensions" is called "AdBlock", available here.
I need something that's stable, easy to install/maintain, and closely tracks RHEL3.0. Any words of wisdom?
Isn't RHEL a stripped down version of Fedora, focusing on security, usability, and stability (for servers, obviously)? I'm pretty sure they use Fedora as a "testing ground" for new stuff, to see if it stands up to the requirements needed for a server.
3. Occasionally your car would just die for no reason, you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you would just accept this.
My brother's car does this, usually in the middle of an intersection (it being stopped for that long makes the car die, but it's minorly delayed for some reason...). Oddly enough, he does accept it...
True in almost everything but freenet and some obscure ass tool promoted by the EFF.
Frost on Freenet wasn't too bad when I used it once, but it's gotten slower (somehow...).
Tor doesn't allow, nor does it facilitate, P2P traffic through it. You'll not only get banned, but I'm not sure if it's even possible to share files through it (the illegal part).
I2P is the only one that lets you host anonymous servers (for sharing), and has a BT client for it, but it is slow as well. So yeah, BT is pretty much the only solution as of now.
I can think of many a time I was doing a little system administration while purring "Come on, baby. Give me a cron job. You know you want to..."
Regardless WHAT it's called, I can't imagine anytime you would use the term in that context. Who would try to coerce their computer into performing a preset timed event? I don't think that's really necessary, it's not going to skip it if it feels sick or anything.
Even if you don't get two degrees, teach yourself whichever discipline you don't decide to pursue as a full-on degree.
Mod parent up.
I'm in high school (yes, high school), and I taught myself how to program in different languages since I was 8. Now I'm writing security software for Linux for a major corporation as a security consultant, but I've been dabbling in the hardware whenever I have the time. Hell, I've even designed and built a 30 chip logic circuit from scratch in my free time (my 23 year old brother who is a CS major hasn't even done that!). My point is, even if you really really enjoy one end, be it software or hardware, you should give the other a go in your spare time, because it can be fun, too.
Once a month I'm a little late for work because I had to take the side street is better than late everyday because everyone was on the main road and there wasn't capacity for it.
Maybe you need to rephrase that... it looks like you were trying to reword that sentence but didn't finish:)
What if EVERYONE had cars like this? EVERY car is avoiding traffic jam A, and creates traffic jam B, which then creates traffic jam C, which was caused by people avoiding traffic jam B. To infinity, and beyond.
But at least you can argue that J-walking can affect public saftey, after all someone jumping out into the middle of the street might get hit.
This is like creating a law that would make it illegal to smoke anywhere because it's bad for your health. Why do you care what I do to my body? I'm the one doing the dying, not you, if I get hit by a car.
I think deep down inside, you are really actually concerned about the other guy's car getting damaged.
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Well, now there are probably wankers out there digging around for an RPM for tr.
All modern distros should have tr installed already in the common GNU tools package for it (the one with 'cp', 'mv', etc).
Same here, which made me think the text was fake. But sure enough, after saving his text to file 'a':Reads in English.
or try finding where the local geek kids hang out.
What do you want him to go door to door? They're in their homes!
You're a dickhead.
The best part about that post is that it's marked "Score:4, Informative".
The statistic that interests me (as a Slackware fanboy), however, is Slackware's, which has apparently more than doubled in the last year. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised; if I'm convinced that Slack's the best desktop distro out, it's reasonable to suppose that others might share my opinion. ;-)
I would expect Slackware, being the only Linux distro that I've ever been able to love, to actually DECREASE in users, considering the problem Pat had recently with his health and all...
my impression is that advertising generates the bulk of Google's revenue
Yeah but that revenue would go down the pooper can if it didn't have any users.
Being on a really old machine, Firefox would often use 112 MB of RAM with only around two-four tabs open, now with Opera at that many tabs, It'd only use around 25 MB of RAM with the same pages open.
I have 14 tabs of extremely heavy image pages (think Gamespot, not Google). It's using 12.5% of my RAM right now, which is 64 MB of RAM (I have 512 MB DDR). Your 112MB/4tabs is 28MB/tab, your 25MB/4tabs is ~6.25MB/tab, and my 64MB/14tabs is ~4.57MB/tab. I don't know HOW you got 112 MB from Firefox, but that sounds extremely high.
The memory usage between Windows and Linux (I'm on Linux, and I think you are on Windows from the sound of it) shouldn't be ANYTHING because it's the same code. I think either you were using a 0.x version of Firefox, or however you checked the RAM usage was wrong (Windows Task Manager?).
The US Constitution only affects dealings between the government and private citizens, it has nothing to do with dealings between two private citizens.
It may not be unconstitutional, but it's at least it would be illegal. If only the constitution were what controlled the nation, then people would be ALLOWED to murder each other.
But then again, this is Slashdot. Carry on with your groundless bitching.
Okay, he got a word wrong, illegal vs. unconstitutional, does that really make his claim invalid?
Given the events aren't stupid things like those... People would have to make hard to guess events, exactly like people have to make hard to guess passwords.
That would be like a password of your last name or something, sure people would do it, but they would need to get educated (like a high school diploma, which is something a lot of people need these days...).
Better events would be: When someone died (dog, cat, family member, whatever), when I got my last traffic ticket, when my favorite show started airing (worded EXACTLY like that, the show not given), etc.
And you cannot make a graphical interaction with the user complex enough to make a random guess succeed in less than, say, 1/1000 of cases. Otherwise, it'll be so complex that legit users will get annoyed and go away.
"Order these ten events of your life:"
I don't think that would be too hard for someone to do, and not too complex that someone trying to get their credit card or social security information would go away because of.
Using permutations from math class, we can find out (pull out your graphic calculators!) that "10 nPr 10" (I believe this would be the correct way to do it, please correct me if I'm wrong) is 3628800.
Over 3.6 million possiblities isn't that bad for that amount of effort required.
What's even funnier is when they zoom into the reflection of someone's eye
Not funnier, just equally funny. If you can get a high resolution picture of someone's eye (which you can't from a security camera), you CAN get the reflected picture adjusted right. This technique actually was covered on Slashdot about a year ago, I can't seem to find it now.
You also realize that one of the biggest advertisers on this site is Microsoft? Didn't you just scroll thru the big ad for Visual Studio.net?
Most of us use Firefox, available here. This browser offers a feature to "extend" it's functionality through what they call "extensions". One of such "extensions" is called "AdBlock", available here.
Solaris will be opensourced
Solaris has been open source for awhile now.
I need something that's stable, easy to install/maintain, and closely tracks RHEL3.0. Any words of wisdom?
Isn't RHEL a stripped down version of Fedora, focusing on security, usability, and stability (for servers, obviously)? I'm pretty sure they use Fedora as a "testing ground" for new stuff, to see if it stands up to the requirements needed for a server.
So it should probably run on Fedora.
3. Occasionally your car would just die for no reason, you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you would just accept this.
My brother's car does this, usually in the middle of an intersection (it being stopped for that long makes the car die, but it's minorly delayed for some reason...). Oddly enough, he does accept it...
True in almost everything but freenet and some obscure ass tool promoted by the EFF.
Frost on Freenet wasn't too bad when I used it once, but it's gotten slower (somehow...).
Tor doesn't allow, nor does it facilitate, P2P traffic through it. You'll not only get banned, but I'm not sure if it's even possible to share files through it (the illegal part).
I2P is the only one that lets you host anonymous servers (for sharing), and has a BT client for it, but it is slow as well. So yeah, BT is pretty much the only solution as of now.
Al, what does Ziggy say my chances are?
2. it is impossible to prove that our recorded history now is the same as it was 1 second ago due to rule number 1.
Fine by me, I didn't like my life a second ago. I'm perfectly content with my new life, though.
Because then we would be hearing reports of a massive gathering at MIT, but not know what it is.
And on top of that, nobody from the "present" would be there.
I can think of many a time I was doing a little system administration while purring "Come on, baby. Give me a cron job. You know you want to..."
Regardless WHAT it's called, I can't imagine anytime you would use the term in that context. Who would try to coerce their computer into performing a preset timed event? I don't think that's really necessary, it's not going to skip it if it feels sick or anything.
Has the driver actually made a statement?
I'll take this one.
The driver's dead.
Well that clears that up then!
Even if you don't get two degrees, teach yourself whichever discipline you don't decide to pursue as a full-on degree.
Mod parent up.
I'm in high school (yes, high school), and I taught myself how to program in different languages since I was 8. Now I'm writing security software for Linux for a major corporation as a security consultant, but I've been dabbling in the hardware whenever I have the time. Hell, I've even designed and built a 30 chip logic circuit from scratch in my free time (my 23 year old brother who is a CS major hasn't even done that!). My point is, even if you really really enjoy one end, be it software or hardware, you should give the other a go in your spare time, because it can be fun, too.
Once a month I'm a little late for work because I had to take the side street is better than late everyday because everyone was on the main road and there wasn't capacity for it.
:)
Maybe you need to rephrase that... it looks like you were trying to reword that sentence but didn't finish
What if EVERYONE had cars like this? EVERY car is avoiding traffic jam A, and creates traffic jam B, which then creates traffic jam C, which was caused by people avoiding traffic jam B. To infinity, and beyond.
But at least you can argue that J-walking can affect public saftey, after all someone jumping out into the middle of the street might get hit.
This is like creating a law that would make it illegal to smoke anywhere because it's bad for your health. Why do you care what I do to my body? I'm the one doing the dying, not you, if I get hit by a car.
I think deep down inside, you are really actually concerned about the other guy's car getting damaged.