i view forums like slashdot as just the next level of newsgroups, just as search engines are the next generation gopher & WAIS
And I'm still hoping for the day when forums approach the same level of usefulness as usenet. Threading, anyone? There's something to be said for the old way of doing things aside from commenting on that they're old, or pointing to the size of the surge of the great unwashed masses rushing to adopt something different.
Speaking of which, I'd happily fork over the bucks if CmdrTaco ever implements a Slashdot-to-news/email gateway.
And yeah, I'd say that inventing component-based systems after the world had stagnated for years piping streams of ASCII text around was quite a step, and no, I don't really see a competitor to Excel emerging until someone takes that step. Although it would be good if they did. It's easy to dismiss OLE now but at the time, it was such a vast step -- and then when it was backed up by a highly performant component system, COM, that's when the whole thing became unstoppable. With WordPerfect, you could edit a document. With Notes, you could check your calendar. With Lotus, you could edit a spreadsheet. With MS, you could embed an image in a spreadsheet in a document in your calendar -- it was a whole nuther level of flexibility and interoperability.
That's quite a speech. I don't even how to begin to respond, so instead, I'll suggest you expand on the above into a book. In fact, let's have a contest. You write your book in Word (be sure to embed some spreadsheets, email messages, pictures and movies into it, and collaborate with others while you're at it), and I'll write mine using groff. We can see who finishes, and who has the best results.
As for interoperability, I know you don't know the meaning of that word. Maybe your book publisher can explain it to you when you try and email him your finished product.;-)
Can someone please explain to me what the market is for portable video players with builtin viewing screens, in general?
Sure.
The market segment could be characterised as weird old old guys who live in their vans down by the river. Or put another way, the same folks bought those mini TVs 20 years ago.
Funny thing about those TVs -- no one could really stand to watch them, but that didn't prevent any of their proud owners from showing them off to friends and strangers.
Kill your television. Don't bring it with you in a little box.
Even better, find a way to record those 5 hours of weekly programming actually worth watching, and enjoy them at your leisure.
...light rail is working in Los Angeles. What's the fastest way to get Downtown? The Red Line. 30 minutes from NoHo to Union Station. Un-freaking-believable.
Best thing that's happened in decades, and even though the benefits are starting to become obvious to commuters, landlords, property developers, businesses, restaurant owners, etc. it'll be a few more years before it gets really good. I'll predict within 20 years, we might actually get a real downtown, and put away the bogus mythology of LA not needing any center.
We have our ill-advised lines too: the Green Line which boneheadedly does not go all the way to LAX
The "L" in Chicago didn't go to O'Hare, either. Took a great number of years, lots of planning and seemingly endless bureaucratic arguing and stealing, but it eventually got done. It became (surprise) one of the nicest "features" of living in Chicago. LA will eventually get there. With more kicking and screaming, of course. First they worried about the up-front money as it wasn't chump change. When they got over that, they started to deal with the NIMBY folks, which is what's happening now.
My biggest fear is having the But Buses are Better Cheap and Faster crowd win out for a few years. LA, despite it's nice pockets and generally OK weather, is a really ugly place. More buses can only make that worse.
stiff as hell (don't react well to bending), somewhat brittle (don't react well to bending or crushing), and designed to be laid and buried, and never move again (don't react well to general movement).
I suddenly had this deja vu feeling where I'm hearing my ex-wife talk on the phone with her girlfriends.
Problem is, I don't get to decide what wireless chipsets get integrated in products. I sort of have a choice when it comes to USB adapters, but whole laptops?
Granted laptops tend to be decided on by the make or model, but you can custom order laptops, unless you bought a Dell, in which case you can't be sure of what's inside until you open it up. A Thinkpad ordered with an Atheros instead of the usual Intel seems to be a popular enough choice these days.
"Due to proprietary and copyright policies of our company, this information is not divulged for end users."
LOL. You'll get the same response from Seagate when asking a question about the output of smartmon tools. Actually, that's wrong. They'll tell you to shut down the system and run a DOS pass-fail utility if you have concerns about drive health. Then they'll tell you the information you're looking at, or asking about, is proprietary, and they can't discuss it.
If it wasn't for the 5-year warranty, I'd be looking elsewhere.
Which is why we get things like carpool lanes. It's the one thing I kinda like about LA.
Those are the lanes at the side of the road that are a few miles long and are mostly empty throughout the day, right? Or where people drive bumper-to-bumper at a barely noticeable faster rate than the folks driving bumper-to-bumper in the regular lanes?
Personally, I think everyone in the LA area should get get over the political correctness and shitcan the idea. No one carpools (except by accident of circumstance) and no one ride shares, and if the money wasn't taken from the kicking and screaming residents, there would still be zero public transportation. In other cities, typically those without the seemingly insurmountable sprawl that defines most all of the LA basin, car pool lanes do work. Oddly, those cities have better roads, less congestion, better drivers, lower car registration fees, and lower fines. Go figure.
As for the subject of "traffic analysis," I've read about case studies where neighborhoods and/or regions have been dramatically improved by the act of "synchronising" traffic lights. I don't know enough about the subject or the practice to offer a comment, but I doubt there's anyone who hasn't noticed that driving through any area with moderate traffic, the lights seem to work OK, but come 4-5:00pm (or 6-7:00am), irrespective of traffic flow, the lights start turning read with increasing frequency, and traffic starts backing up. My guess is there's a BOFH version of a traffic controller in every city doing it on purpose.
You know this is a problem when dealing with Microsoft. You come into the process as objective person without prejudice to them and then you study the subject. If you study in a sufficient detail, you will become so enraged by what they are doing and that you are now hopelessly prejudiced against Microsoft...
This, sir, is one of the best reasoned and articulate posts I've ever read on Slashdot.
What's most interesting is that much of it would be relevant to the majority of stories appearing here, and the arguments you raise could be offered as a suitable response for the perennially lame defenses of Microsoft, among which are misguided comments citing so-called "de facto standards", thoughtless repetition of the more-secure-than-ever advertising copy, spin on the ruse of interoperability, claims of unfair bias, narrow-minded defenses of unethical business practices, and discussions of meaningless TOC studies. And then, of course, there's all those folks for whom the word monopoly is only a vague notion gleaned from either common usage by other folks with a similarly vague notion, or a board game.
Like most things in life, it's easy to blame it on ignorance, apathy or sheer idiocy, if it weren't so inevitable that the more you know and understand, the angrier you become.
I think that you have/really/ hit the nail on the proverbial head there. To make plain text emails usable we need a STRONG and well defined _SYNTAX_ for visually communicating "text style". Until then, this email thing will _never_ catch on.
LOL. If the OP wants bold and underlining in his emails, I'd suggest he starts with reading
Personally, I'd find that annoying, like every other attempt to be interesting, or creative or otherwise expressive. Look folks, many of us read hundreds of emails per day. Subscribing to few mailing lists and we're looking at thousands.
Do we really need or want anything other than standard messages? The content of an average message is just a few sentences. What people send out, on the other hand, is somewhere between unecessary and absurd. And all of it (at least in a corporate setting) gets stored and archived.
...or have it in digital format for half the price.
When was the last time you received a product manual and actually read the thing? Probably about the same time when they started being distributed exclusively in electronic form, right?
I've got a drive filled with everything from O'Reilly books in html, PDF versions of texts I purchased and didn't purchase, and a seemingly infinite amount of documentation that's too long to read on screen and too short or of too little interest to the unwashed mashes to merit being stocked in bookstore that serves lattes.
You can keep your e-whatever. I've already invested in a quality printer, but have no interest in purchasing and maintaining duplexing equipment, or binding equipment, or otherwise reading books constructed from letter sized paper. Or worse, curling up in bed a with a 3-ring binder. I am, however, interested in reading what I already have available. And the best format for that is still a book. If someone comes up with an easily accessible device that can take care of all this for me, my wallet's open.
And as for wasting paper, I can't think of a better use for paper (and, by extension, trees) than a printed book. And unlike your USB device, completely recyclable.
Actually, the majority of Linux users and contributors are pretty focused on Linux on the server, and are not all that interested in it on the desktop. Of the 20 or so regular Linux contributors in my office right now, only two I know of are running it on the desktop. A few are running a BSD, a couple are running Windows, and the remaining majority are running OS X.
Huh?
So all those *nix admins responsible for a few dozen, a few hundred, or a few thousand systems are doing what? Using their company-provided MacBook or Windows desktop to ssh into the server? Running X remotely? Using Cygwin? Shuffling their chairs around or plugging in VGA cables or serial cables so they can sit at a connected monitor to get some work done? Investing in elaborate KVM setups?
Maybe you need to rethink your conclusion as "not interested in the desktop." I'd suggest the reality is that there is no overwhelming desire to write GUI applications to replicate what is traditionally done in a terminal window so that novice users will find things "easier". Unfortunate for some, maybe, but the reality is that *nix is designed around the concept of a terminal. Gnome, KDE and friends are mostly there to provide wallpaper.
Here's a tip. Many of us do use *nix as a "desktop". At the same time, most of us know there is no real distinction between desktop and server. Except for the wallpaper, perhaps.
So is that why nerds are getting acused of rape? (Not checking return codes...) The semicolons should be double ampersands, so that execution will stop if a command fails.
Yeah, but in the guy's defense, there wasn't a single argument to any of those commands.
Hmm.. I remember reading somewhere that sense of smell is first to develope, then it gets surpassed by sense of sight and eventually relegated to background.
I'm sure that's been carefully studied and quantified, but when you're born your eyes aren't very developed, not that you'd be capable of understanding what you see.
My theory is that, at least with respect to dogs, their sense of smell remains well-developed and prominent for a number of reasons. They're closer to the ground. They don't use tables or chairs, but prefer to eat on the ground, where everything else is anyway. Dogs breathe at a different rate than we do, so even though both of us have double nostrils, they take in the smells around them faster. A big wet nose is always more sensitive than a narrow one that's typically filled with dust.
More importantly, the interesting part of the female of the species is always at nose level.
Part of me sees the point you're making, but another part of me say "Yea, and... what?" Does Notepad, embarrassingly simple though it may be, not still have appropriate uses?
New Programs include Sidebar, Photo Gallery, DVD Maker, Chess Titans
and Flip 3-D
More logic to its folder structure and naming scheme
New Sleep mode for laptops
New Presentation Mode for PowerPoint
Internal fortifications blah blah Service Hardening blah blah blah
Includes IE7
Includes Windows Defender
Includes Parental Controls
Includes User Account Control
Includes a backup program
Netmeeting has been replaced by Meeting Space
Wordpad can't open.doc files
Sigh.
With a little effort, Microsoft could fit the David Pogue Takes On Vista review onto a sticker to put
on the retail boxes. Until then, let's hope some enterprising Slashdot
reader downloads a copy of Vista and offers something more substantive for
discussion.
I honestly don't think it should be a surprise that working with an area of your brain would increase its "strength." This is (effectively) what practice is
No surprise, yes, but often overlooked or disregarded. There have been studies on the brains of older folks and Alzheimer patients that have shown that people who make an effort to be stimulate their brains in later life (by reading, taking classes, learning music, etc.) tend to fare better than their counterparts. I wonder why it is that when people reach adulthood, they consider such activity as unimportant. Granted, kids are better wired to learn, and are able to absorb everything around them, but still, intellectual laziness can't be any more healthy than any other kind of laziness.
At the same time, one of the questions of a study like this would be what would the consequence of television be on a person's brain? For the most part television would be training the brain in a way which would not be particularly useful in any pursuit and yet many/most people have a ton of exposure to this influence.
Or clicking icons?;-) I've always held to the theory that the more people rely on GUIs, the less they understand their computers. Being trained to be an office drone may be useful and appropriate, but given that computers are an integral part of our lives, you'd think we'd by trying harder and learning more. Instead, we get Wizards and yes/no/cancel dialog boxes and a general insistence that we don't want to be bothered with thinking because we're too busy. Sounds like we want everything to be just like TV.
This isn't the first time I've seen this, but it will result in a file MYJPG.JPG being called MYjpg.JPG, ${i//JPG/jpg} would be better as at least the it would end up with the.jpg at the end, but ${i%.JPG}.jpg would be best.
Again, there's lots of ways to do it. To use the trivial JPG -> jpg, example, yes, you're correct in that using the shortest match at the end would be a better approach (excluding other issues). I just wanted to illustrate the redundant (and typically overused) use of basename with a simple example, and remind the folks that using parameter expansion is preferrable both in interactive form, and in scripts.
Me, I've always relied on Larry Wall's script exclusively to rename files interactively. Scripts, on the hand, are often best written with/bin/sh in mind, and should as a rule be as simple, clean and efficient as possible.
Cybertip claims after all that they "only" have about 800 sites on their
list, compared to millions of regular porn sites).
And of those 800 sites (the FBI, by contrast, say there's hundreds of thousands!), 'll bet that 99.9% of them contain, at best, questionable content. That is, they offer content that may offend some, may or may not be considered illegal (in any number of jurisdictions), and most definitely do not contain of anyone having sex. The other 0.1% I'll leave aside.
The truth of the matter is there are, and have always been, many sites that are designed to appeal to prurient interests. So what else is new,right? These sites do not cross any line that would make them subject to
being shut down by local authorities. They want to stay on the "legal"
side, and typically prefer to stay on the "legal and innocent enough"
side, because they don't want the attention, but more importantly, their
income is based on credit card receipts. In recent years, credit card
companies have implemented policies refusing payment to such sites.
So, let's call them "girlie" sites, because that what they are. Girlie
sites with a lot of suggestive poses and clothing, but little (if ever)
nudity, and definitely no sex of any kind. And if that sounds too benign, note that these are the very sites you read about in the papers when they get shut down. The headlines, of course, are very different.
Now as to the matter of "harm", well that's a legitimate question. A
parent that allows their child to engage in any kind of modelling,
prurient or otherwise, may be harming that child. Dr. Phil would say,
"Yes, they definitely are being harmed, exploited and abused." On the
other hand, if the content of Myspace is any indication, that conclusion
doesn't reconcile with the attitudes and mores of today's kids (or
parents, it seems), and doesn't take into account the parents' or child's
wishes, irrespective of how outsiders may judge them.
The people who do commit real crimes against children typically are family relatives or friends of the family. They don't have websites.
This getting together of ISPs under the pretext of protecting children is
disigenuous and dangerous. The motivation for this and similar actions I
see as two-fold. First, most parents aren't being very good parents (all
too busy, right?), and the internet was never designed to be
"kid-friendly." Removing access to content that isn't suitable for kids
is a legitimate, but highly debatable, goal. Second, most people have a
strong dislike for prurient subject matter, and have an even stronger
disklike for prurient subject matter that involves anyone under the
mythical age of 18. If you can't convince the site owners, the models, or
their parents to stop, the goal becomes legislating away access for the
customers. The scenario could be best described as, "Yeah, it's not
illegal, but we're not going to let you watch it." and is simply
legislating morality.
I'm going to need to find a solution for this as well. I want to generate a PDF manual, HTML "technotes", HTML API documentation, man pages and possibly more materials. Much of the content will appear in more than one place. It seems to me the ideal solution would use a single set of XML sources written in a custom markup specific to the content (e.g. API descriptions, code examples, etc) and then translate that into HTML, PDF, and so on using XSLT.
As for the original question, I prefer a simple binder with copies of the output of whatever program can be used to generate the output: dmesg, netstat, ifconfig, Windows whatever, etc. Not exactly enterprise, but it works at a smaller scale. Past that, you're looking at first defining what you're going to document, the form of that documentation, how it's distributed or made available, blah blah blah. That's the kind of job best left to a committee or by the folks upstairs whose job it is to define and set policies.
Slashdot Mirror
i view forums like slashdot as just the next level of newsgroups, just as search engines are the next generation gopher & WAIS
And I'm still hoping for the day when forums approach the same level of usefulness as usenet. Threading, anyone? There's something to be said for the old way of doing things aside from commenting on that they're old, or pointing to the size of the surge of the great unwashed masses rushing to adopt something different.
Speaking of which, I'd happily fork over the bucks if CmdrTaco ever implements a Slashdot-to-news/email gateway.
And yeah, I'd say that inventing component-based systems after the world had stagnated for years piping streams of ASCII text around was quite a step, and no, I don't really see a competitor to Excel emerging until someone takes that step. Although it would be good if they did. It's easy to dismiss OLE now but at the time, it was such a vast step -- and then when it was backed up by a highly performant component system, COM, that's when the whole thing became unstoppable. With WordPerfect, you could edit a document. With Notes, you could check your calendar. With Lotus, you could edit a spreadsheet. With MS, you could embed an image in a spreadsheet in a document in your calendar -- it was a whole nuther level of flexibility and interoperability.
;-)
That's quite a speech. I don't even how to begin to respond, so instead, I'll suggest you expand on the above into a book. In fact, let's have a contest. You write your book in Word (be sure to embed some spreadsheets, email messages, pictures and movies into it, and collaborate with others while you're at it), and I'll write mine using groff. We can see who finishes, and who has the best results.
As for interoperability, I know you don't know the meaning of that word. Maybe your book publisher can explain it to you when you try and email him your finished product.
Can someone please explain to me what the market is for portable video players with builtin viewing screens, in general?
Sure.
The market segment could be characterised as weird old old guys who live in their vans down by the river. Or put another way, the same folks bought those mini TVs 20 years ago.
Funny thing about those TVs -- no one could really stand to watch them, but that didn't prevent any of their proud owners from showing them off to friends and strangers.
Kill your television. Don't bring it with you in a little box.
Even better, find a way to record those 5 hours of weekly programming actually worth watching, and enjoy them at your leisure.
The one that impressed me most was seeing a mention of sed TV. I haven't read the article yet (too long), but now I'm all pins and needles.
Just think, right around the corner we might see awk Radio! Or Perl the Movie. Or how about groff the Board Game?
...light rail is working in Los Angeles. What's the fastest way to get Downtown? The Red Line. 30 minutes from NoHo to Union Station. Un-freaking-believable.
Best thing that's happened in decades, and even though the benefits are starting to become obvious to commuters, landlords, property developers, businesses, restaurant owners, etc. it'll be a few more years before it gets really good. I'll predict within 20 years, we might actually get a real downtown, and put away the bogus mythology of LA not needing any center.
We have our ill-advised lines too: the Green Line which boneheadedly does not go all the way to LAX
The "L" in Chicago didn't go to O'Hare, either. Took a great number of years, lots of planning and seemingly endless bureaucratic arguing and stealing, but it eventually got done. It became (surprise) one of the nicest "features" of living in Chicago. LA will eventually get there. With more kicking and screaming, of course. First they worried about the up-front money as it wasn't chump change. When they got over that, they started to deal with the NIMBY folks, which is what's happening now.
My biggest fear is having the But Buses are Better Cheap and Faster crowd win out for a few years. LA, despite it's nice pockets and generally OK weather, is a really ugly place. More buses can only make that worse.
stiff as hell (don't react well to bending), somewhat brittle (don't react well to bending or crushing), and designed to be laid and buried, and never move again (don't react well to general movement).
I suddenly had this deja vu feeling where I'm hearing my ex-wife talk on the phone with her girlfriends.
Problem is, I don't get to decide what wireless chipsets get integrated in products. I sort of have a choice when it comes to USB adapters, but whole laptops?
Granted laptops tend to be decided on by the make or model, but you can custom order laptops, unless you bought a Dell, in which case you can't be sure of what's inside until you open it up. A Thinkpad ordered with an Atheros instead of the usual Intel seems to be a popular enough choice these days.
"Due to proprietary and copyright policies of our company, this information is not divulged for end users."
LOL. You'll get the same response from Seagate when asking a question about the output of smartmon tools. Actually, that's wrong. They'll tell you to shut down the system and run a DOS pass-fail utility if you have concerns about drive health. Then they'll tell you the information you're looking at, or asking about, is proprietary, and they can't discuss it.
If it wasn't for the 5-year warranty, I'd be looking elsewhere.
Which is why we get things like carpool lanes. It's the one thing I kinda like about LA.
Those are the lanes at the side of the road that are a few miles long and are mostly empty throughout the day, right? Or where people drive bumper-to-bumper at a barely noticeable faster rate than the folks driving bumper-to-bumper in the regular lanes?
Personally, I think everyone in the LA area should get get over the political correctness and shitcan the idea. No one carpools (except by accident of circumstance) and no one ride shares, and if the money wasn't taken from the kicking and screaming residents, there would still be zero public transportation. In other cities, typically those without the seemingly insurmountable sprawl that defines most all of the LA basin, car pool lanes do work. Oddly, those cities have better roads, less congestion, better drivers, lower car registration fees, and lower fines. Go figure.
As for the subject of "traffic analysis," I've read about case studies where neighborhoods and/or regions have been dramatically improved by the act of "synchronising" traffic lights. I don't know enough about the subject or the practice to offer a comment, but I doubt there's anyone who hasn't noticed that driving through any area with moderate traffic, the lights seem to work OK, but come 4-5:00pm (or 6-7:00am), irrespective of traffic flow, the lights start turning read with increasing frequency, and traffic starts backing up. My guess is there's a BOFH version of a traffic controller in every city doing it on purpose.
You know this is a problem when dealing with Microsoft. You come into the process as objective person without prejudice to them and then you study the subject. If you study in a sufficient detail, you will become so enraged by what they are doing and that you are now hopelessly prejudiced against Microsoft...
This, sir, is one of the best reasoned and articulate posts I've ever read on Slashdot.
What's most interesting is that much of it would be relevant to the majority of stories appearing here, and the arguments you raise could be offered as a suitable response for the perennially lame defenses of Microsoft, among which are misguided comments citing so-called "de facto standards", thoughtless repetition of the more-secure-than-ever advertising copy, spin on the ruse of interoperability, claims of unfair bias, narrow-minded defenses of unethical business practices, and discussions of meaningless TOC studies. And then, of course, there's all those folks for whom the word monopoly is only a vague notion gleaned from either common usage by other folks with a similarly vague notion, or a board game.
Like most things in life, it's easy to blame it on ignorance, apathy or sheer idiocy, if it weren't so inevitable that the more you know and understand, the angrier you become.
I think that you have /really/ hit the nail on the proverbial head there. To make plain text emails usable we need a STRONG and well defined _SYNTAX_ for visually communicating "text style". Until then, this email thing will _never_ catch on.
LOL. If the OP wants bold and underlining in his emails, I'd suggest he starts with reading
T^HTh^Hhe^He M^HMu^Hut^Htt^Ht E^HE-^H-M^HMa^Hai^Hil^Hl^HCl^Hli^Hie^Hen^Hnt^Ht
Personally, I'd find that annoying, like every other attempt to be interesting, or creative or otherwise expressive. Look folks, many of us read hundreds of emails per day. Subscribing to few mailing lists and we're looking at thousands.
Do we really need or want anything other than standard messages? The content of an average message is just a few sentences. What people send out, on the other hand, is somewhere between unecessary and absurd. And all of it (at least in a corporate setting) gets stored and archived.
...or have it in digital format for half the price.
When was the last time you received a product manual and actually read the thing? Probably about the same time when they started being distributed exclusively in electronic form, right?
I've got a drive filled with everything from O'Reilly books in html, PDF versions of texts I purchased and didn't purchase, and a seemingly infinite amount of documentation that's too long to read on screen and too short or of too little interest to the unwashed mashes to merit being stocked in bookstore that serves lattes.
You can keep your e-whatever. I've already invested in a quality printer, but have no interest in purchasing and maintaining duplexing equipment, or binding equipment, or otherwise reading books constructed from letter sized paper. Or worse, curling up in bed a with a 3-ring binder. I am, however, interested in reading what I already have available. And the best format for that is still a book. If someone comes up with an easily accessible device that can take care of all this for me, my wallet's open.
And as for wasting paper, I can't think of a better use for paper (and, by extension, trees) than a printed book. And unlike your USB device, completely recyclable.
Actually, the majority of Linux users and contributors are pretty focused on Linux on the server, and are not all that interested in it on the desktop. Of the 20 or so regular Linux contributors in my office right now, only two I know of are running it on the desktop. A few are running a BSD, a couple are running Windows, and the remaining majority are running OS X.
Huh?
So all those *nix admins responsible for a few dozen, a few hundred, or a few thousand systems are doing what? Using their company-provided MacBook or Windows desktop to ssh into the server? Running X remotely? Using Cygwin? Shuffling their chairs around or plugging in VGA cables or serial cables so they can sit at a connected monitor to get some work done? Investing in elaborate KVM setups?
Maybe you need to rethink your conclusion as "not interested in the desktop." I'd suggest the reality is that there is no overwhelming desire to write GUI applications to replicate what is traditionally done in a terminal window so that novice users will find things "easier". Unfortunate for some, maybe, but the reality is that *nix is designed around the concept of a terminal. Gnome, KDE and friends are mostly there to provide wallpaper.
Here's a tip. Many of us do use *nix as a "desktop". At the same time, most of us know there is no real distinction between desktop and server. Except for the wallpaper, perhaps.
So is that why nerds are getting acused of rape? (Not checking return codes...) The semicolons should be double ampersands, so that execution will stop if a command fails.
Yeah, but in the guy's defense, there wasn't a single argument to any of those commands.
Hmm.. I remember reading somewhere that sense of smell is first to develope, then it gets surpassed by sense of sight and eventually relegated to background.
I'm sure that's been carefully studied and quantified, but when you're born your eyes aren't very developed, not that you'd be capable of understanding what you see.
My theory is that, at least with respect to dogs, their sense of smell remains well-developed and prominent for a number of reasons. They're closer to the ground. They don't use tables or chairs, but prefer to eat on the ground, where everything else is anyway. Dogs breathe at a different rate than we do, so even though both of us have double nostrils, they take in the smells around them faster. A big wet nose is always more sensitive than a narrow one that's typically filled with dust.
More importantly, the interesting part of the female of the species is always at nose level.
A clicky to the Wiki article on ZFS.
Part of me sees the point you're making, but another part of me say "Yea, and ... what?" Does Notepad, embarrassingly simple though it may be, not still have appropriate uses?
Short answer: No.
Longer answer: None at all.
A summary of the fine article:
Sigh.
With a little effort, Microsoft could fit the David Pogue Takes On Vista review onto a sticker to put on the retail boxes. Until then, let's hope some enterprising Slashdot reader downloads a copy of Vista and offers something more substantive for discussion.
I honestly don't think it should be a surprise that working with an area of your brain would increase its "strength." This is (effectively) what practice is
;-) I've always held to the theory that the more people rely on GUIs, the less they understand their computers. Being trained to be an office drone may be useful and appropriate, but given that computers are an integral part of our lives, you'd think we'd by trying harder and learning more. Instead, we get Wizards and yes/no/cancel dialog boxes and a general insistence that we don't want to be bothered with thinking because we're too busy. Sounds like we want everything to be just like TV.
No surprise, yes, but often overlooked or disregarded. There have been studies on the brains of older folks and Alzheimer patients that have shown that people who make an effort to be stimulate their brains in later life (by reading, taking classes, learning music, etc.) tend to fare better than their counterparts. I wonder why it is that when people reach adulthood, they consider such activity as unimportant. Granted, kids are better wired to learn, and are able to absorb everything around them, but still, intellectual laziness can't be any more healthy than any other kind of laziness.
At the same time, one of the questions of a study like this would be what would the consequence of television be on a person's brain? For the most part television would be training the brain in a way which would not be particularly useful in any pursuit and yet many/most people have a ton of exposure to this influence.
Or clicking icons?
$ for i in *JPG ; do mv $i ${i/JPG/jpg} ; done
.jpg at the end, but ${i%.JPG}.jpg would be best.
/bin/sh in mind, and should as a rule be as simple, clean and efficient as possible.
This isn't the first time I've seen this, but it will result in a file MYJPG.JPG being called MYjpg.JPG, ${i//JPG/jpg} would be better as at least the it would end up with the
Again, there's lots of ways to do it. To use the trivial JPG -> jpg, example, yes, you're correct in that using the shortest match at the end would be a better approach (excluding other issues). I just wanted to illustrate the redundant (and typically overused) use of basename with a simple example, and remind the folks that using parameter expansion is preferrable both in interactive form, and in scripts.
Me, I've always relied on Larry Wall's script exclusively to rename files interactively. Scripts, on the hand, are often best written with
for i in *.JPG ; do mv $i `basename $i .JPG`.jpg ; done
Bonus points for avoiding cat, but there's no need to call basename.
$ man -P 'less -p Parameter\ Expansion' bash
An overly simplified example would be:
$ for i in *JPG ; do mv $i ${i/JPG/jpg} ; done
Obviously, you could rewrite that any number of ways (dealing with spaces in file names would be just one reason), but you get the idea.
Of course, In Soviet Russia, it's not Creationism, it's Lysenkoism!
Bonus point for trivia, but my guess is that this involves a recent convert to some form of Protestant evangelicalism, and hence the nutty posturing.
The Orthodox church doesn't have the kind of problems reconciling itself with science. Not that the typical Russian today is very religeous.
Cybertip claims after all that they "only" have about 800 sites on their list, compared to millions of regular porn sites).
And of those 800 sites (the FBI, by contrast, say there's hundreds of thousands!), 'll bet that 99.9% of them contain, at best, questionable content. That is, they offer content that may offend some, may or may not be considered illegal (in any number of jurisdictions), and most definitely do not contain of anyone having sex. The other 0.1% I'll leave aside.
The truth of the matter is there are, and have always been, many sites that are designed to appeal to prurient interests. So what else is new,right? These sites do not cross any line that would make them subject to being shut down by local authorities. They want to stay on the "legal" side, and typically prefer to stay on the "legal and innocent enough" side, because they don't want the attention, but more importantly, their income is based on credit card receipts. In recent years, credit card companies have implemented policies refusing payment to such sites.
So, let's call them "girlie" sites, because that what they are. Girlie sites with a lot of suggestive poses and clothing, but little (if ever) nudity, and definitely no sex of any kind. And if that sounds too benign, note that these are the very sites you read about in the papers when they get shut down. The headlines, of course, are very different.
Now as to the matter of "harm", well that's a legitimate question. A parent that allows their child to engage in any kind of modelling, prurient or otherwise, may be harming that child. Dr. Phil would say, "Yes, they definitely are being harmed, exploited and abused." On the other hand, if the content of Myspace is any indication, that conclusion doesn't reconcile with the attitudes and mores of today's kids (or parents, it seems), and doesn't take into account the parents' or child's wishes, irrespective of how outsiders may judge them.
The people who do commit real crimes against children typically are family relatives or friends of the family. They don't have websites.
This getting together of ISPs under the pretext of protecting children is disigenuous and dangerous. The motivation for this and similar actions I see as two-fold. First, most parents aren't being very good parents (all too busy, right?), and the internet was never designed to be "kid-friendly." Removing access to content that isn't suitable for kids is a legitimate, but highly debatable, goal. Second, most people have a strong dislike for prurient subject matter, and have an even stronger disklike for prurient subject matter that involves anyone under the mythical age of 18. If you can't convince the site owners, the models, or their parents to stop, the goal becomes legislating away access for the customers. The scenario could be best described as, "Yeah, it's not illegal, but we're not going to let you watch it." and is simply legislating morality.
I'm going to need to find a solution for this as well. I want to generate a PDF manual, HTML "technotes", HTML API documentation, man pages and possibly more materials. Much of the content will appear in more than one place. It seems to me the ideal solution would use a single set of XML sources written in a custom markup specific to the content (e.g. API descriptions, code examples, etc) and then translate that into HTML, PDF, and so on using XSLT.
How about DocBook?
DocBook is a markup language for technical documentation. It was originally intended for authoring technical documents related to computer hardware and software but it can be used for any other sort of documentation. One of the principal benefits of DocBook is that it enables its users to create document content in a presentation-neutral form that captures the logical structure of the content; that content can then be published in a variety of formats, including HTML, PDF, man pages and HTML Help, without requiring users to make any changes to the source.
As for the original question, I prefer a simple binder with copies of the output of whatever program can be used to generate the output: dmesg, netstat, ifconfig, Windows whatever, etc. Not exactly enterprise, but it works at a smaller scale. Past that, you're looking at first defining what you're going to document, the form of that documentation, how it's distributed or made available, blah blah blah. That's the kind of job best left to a committee or by the folks upstairs whose job it is to define and set policies.
Draw your own conclusions, but I think there might be something to this.
Christian girls (Protestant born-again evangelicals) are more keen to do it. Mormon girls even more so.
Discuss.