Yup, I get that - internal network name lookup starts to fail, IP addresses are fine; reboot the router fixes the problem.
Happens every few weeks/months.
The router is a Billion 7404VGO - don't know what the OS is, but it isn't Linux. It's easier to do the off and on again than to jump through the flaming hoops of persuading tech support to report it as a bug, especially as it's only very recent firmwares that have allowed internal name lookups anyway!
I know an awful lot of parents of well-behaved children who don't seem to have this problem. Perhaps it is YOU who can't control your children?
In the context of two-year olds, as featured in the ad, that is not an insightful comment. Everybody tells me that my two-year old is adorable and well behaved, but I expect her to do naughty and silly things.
Should Looney Tunes be banned?
I think that the ads and program content are distinct - I can choose to watch "18:30 - Bugs Bunny Drives Hilariously Fast", but there is no choice offered for "20:45 - Car Ad with the Cute Driving Baby". It is shown unsolicited to the viewer. I couldn't choose not to watch the ad in the same way that I could choose not to watch Looney Toons, Dumbo or Peter Pan.
BTW, how old were you when you first watched those? If you can remember, then you were probably over 3 years old.
Well, OK, of course I talk to her about what she does, and what we do together. Like about her kite getting stuck in a tree in the park on Sunday (because she didn't stop when I called her), and who she plays with at nursery. And she doesn't get to see much TV, and I pretty much don't have time to watch any, recorded or otherwise.
But the episode of The Simpsons where Marge campaigns about violent cartoons just makes soo much sense to me now http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itchy_&_Scratchy_&_Ma rge. "Monkey see, monkey do", to quote Marge. So if 80 people see fit to find something to complain about in a particular advert featuring a photo-realistic toddler scrambling out of a cot, walking out of the front door, and driving away in a car, that is beamed unsolicited in to their homes, fair play. And that a regulator considered the 80 complaints and pulled it from broadcast. No problem.
I don't think that's censorship, it's just society at work.
And now I've watched the ad, I'm not too keen on the "jumping out of your cot" tutorial in it either - I'm hoping for a couple more weeks before she starts bangin me on the head to wake me up in the morning;-)
Here are some things I've noticed about my two year old:
- At her own whim, she will copy almost anything that she sees or hears
- The distinction between saying "You must try to drive the car" and "You must not try to drive the car" is VERY subtle to her toddler brain
- Controlling her actions is very different from the type of programming I usually do
- Like other two year olds, she does things that she knows her parents will not approve of
- She already pretends to drive our car, and has worked out how to sound the horn
I'm sure seing someone "like her" driving a car would be quite a powerful image to her.
Personally, I have no problem with 80 parents choosing to complain about this ad. You don't choose the adverts that are injected in to the programs you watch. Though my wife wouldn't approve, I can imagine a scenario where I was watching (what I considered was) an appropriate program recorded late at night with my daughter in the room.
I use some of those apps on my Vista install (the basic UI, I don't have the graphics hardware for the fancy AERO stuff).
Firefox runs just the same as it always did, as does OpenOffice.org 2.1
Adobe PhotoShop Elements 3 editor is pretty horrible to use though. The screen doesn't repaint properly, and cursor clicks and drags don't land where I expect them to (there's sort of a 10-ish pixel offset to the north-east.
Adobe have released a patch for Elements 5, but releasing a fix for my 3 year old version 3 is probably well off their list of interesting projects...
Other useful (free) things that are broken are PDFCreator, which just won't install, and Synergy keyboard and mouse sharing, which installs and runs but won't start automatically as a service.
Also my Hauppauge HVR-1300 causes the machine to restart randomly if the device is enabled.
Oh and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 performance was terrible (very sensitive to host OS load), but luckily VPC 2007 RC is fine to use for my purposes.
You probably guessed I'm planning my migration back to XP (MCE 2005), which will probably be a little more work than the "Insert disk and click yes" that I needed to do the upgrade.
I bought my current machine with 4GB RAM (a 32-bit Pentium M on an aOpen i915Ga-HFS motherboard).
I was annoyed that the OS could only see (approx) 3GB of that, even though the BIOS "supported" 4GB max. Most of the memory addresses (not actual RAM, just the addresses) are reserved for hardware devices that might or might not be installed, so anything over 3GB just can't be used.
I sold 2x1GB on eBay, and replaced it with 2x512MB, because I couldn't sleep at night knowing that the RAM wasn't getting used. So, if Vista will make good use of all the RAM that it can see (in my machine at least)? Perfect:-)
I work in a small dev team that produces a specialized server that exposes some of its functionality via a web-UI. The dev-team is fantastic, and does everything right (and still uses CVS!)
Outside of my team we have some people in a pre-sales role, and part of their job is putting together quick customer-specific demos online for potential customers. It drives me nuts that if I have to go in and fix an issue, then my changes will be overwritten if the presales team decide to tweak their local files and reupload.
Presales are always working under time pressure, and are very resistent to any change that doesn't make their job easier, so I need to tread carefully in how I try to force them to use version control for their demo work.
I thought that I might switch off direct access via scp/sftp, and set up a version control system as the primary method of publishing. In CVS, I can do that by adding a line like this to loginfo:
For those too busy to follow the links: caffeine consumption causes more calcium to be excreted; carbonated water is acidic and bad for your teeth; fizzy drinks have displaced milk in our diet => increased bone fractures in girls.
Wow, so many "Who needs an IDE?" posts, and so far only one other user of the plugins has posted. Maybe ActiveState are right -- not enough people use them. Is that a marketing problem rather than a product failure though? I think the Visual Studio Perl product is very impressive. I only bought them 4 months ago, but it's not like they are going to stop working.
I used to use Emacs, and thought that syntax highlighting and integrated debugging made an IDE. I coded up a few lisp macros, and ended up with a reasonable collection of "favourite modules". But I resented the time I needed to spend setting Emacs up each time I moved to a new machine, and even then, the app always felt out of place in whichever desktop I ran it in.
Then I spent a year writing.Net Web and Windows applications in VS.Net 2003. It really opended my eyes to how a good IDE helps speed up my development. Project and file templates take away a little setup; syntax checking "as you type" means I fix silly breaks right away, not in 30 minutes when I compile (or even later when I run, for Perl), which means the fix is more likely to be correct; code completion saves my fingers a little, and is a great way to learn about a libraries interface because all object methods are presented right in the context of where I'm trying to use them; help is integrated with the editor, for quick access to the documentation for any class or method; code browsing takes me right to the definition of any method or class in my project. As well as all that, the editor is a very pleasant place to work too.
OK, I could do some of that in Emacs, but in Visual Studio it's just there out of the box, with my prefered key-bindings as the default.
When I recently came back to a job that uses a lot of Perl and other script languages among it's C++ (for Windows and Solaris). I was really pleased that I could carry on using Visual Studio, and impressed with what ActiveState had done to integrate Perl within it (given that Perl is untyped!).
Syntax checking works by running some kind of perl process in the background. The debugger allows any variable, object accessor method, and attribute to be watched. Sensible templates and options are added to for Perl projects. (Careful, Visual Studio projects can lead to very deep module hierarchies!)
That's not to say that there aren't any rough bits -- the "as you type" Perl process crashes quite frequently (on my code, anyway) (but then restarts itself), and the help integration is a little light. I was looking forward to these being fixed in the VS2005 version (and I get a nicer editor that then too!)
That's not going to happen though:-( I've checked out Komodo (3.5.1), and at least the default key mappings are the same as VS! But I will stick with VS Perl Plugin for now, as I find the Perl debugger integration more reliable in VS!
The building is/was part of Electronics and Computer Science (http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/, but the servers are down at the moment). It was a postgrad/research building (no undergrads). I did my PhD research there 7 years ago.
I know there is computer science research being done in the building, which is shaped like a 'U'. From what I saw on the news, the fire started in (and destroyed) the other side of the building (the opposite leg of the 'U') where the the clean rooms and laboratories are. It seems to have burned the side of the facing leg of the U off too.
I was working in the Optoelectronics Research Center (http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/) when I was there. The sort of research they do isn't going to be restored from backup tapes. Some past results may be, but even without fires I often heard stories about people losing years of work when their hard disk crashed or laptop was stolen.
Where in the quote or TFA does it say that liquid nitrogen is flamable?
Read the side of one of your non-flammable aerosol cans -- anything about not throwing it in a fire written there? Above 77 Kelvin (minus 196 centigrade) it wants to be a gas again. In a fire it might well be able to pop the can it's stored in.
That's not to say there weren't more explosive materials in the building. That building is used for research in microelectronics fabrication and optical fibre and laser research.
I leave occasional test prints on my window sill, pretty much worst cast for any print. They get a lot of sunshine there.
With my old Epson Stylus 790 printer (dye-based inks) I noticed differnces between Epson ink and generic ink, and differences between paper brands, but they all faded after a few months.
Epsons current inks, branded Durabrite and Ultrachrome (Ultrachrome is best for photos), are pigment based. My Durabrite prints have not faded noticably in over a year on the sill. They are also water resistant, and the Durabrite inks print very well on plain paper too (rather than the special coated paper you need to get the best quality for a photo).
They don't seem to be "sticky" like the old pigment inks were, so they sit more nicely in a photo album.
Epsons Durabrite printers are all 3 colours, and don't print gloss prints so well, but for longevity, I have no complaints. I'd expect the Ultrachrome prints to be better than anything I could get from a lab, and last as long, but with 7 colours plus gloss optimizer... think of all the blocked nozzles;-(
Takes up very little desk space, and pretty cheap among other laptop stands, but I just feel like I've been robbed paying that much for a few centimeters of aluminium extrusion:-(
This website says that the official reports on the 1988 Airbus A320 Paris airshow crash concluded pilot error was the cause: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~szewczyk/cs294 -8/hw1.h tml
"Three of the 136 passengers were killed."
The software bug that was found was for airconditioning control, and the delay in the engines providing enough power to clear the trees was to be expected in that class of plane.
Slashdot Mirror
"Rather than trying to have the last word, look for the times when there is no need to reply"
Does the Great Firewall of China allow access to WikiLeaks? I think it was on the Australian internet filter blacklist for a time.
Any plans for similar system in the US?
Yup, I get that - internal network name lookup starts to fail, IP addresses are fine; reboot the router fixes the problem.
Happens every few weeks/months.
The router is a Billion 7404VGO - don't know what the OS is, but it isn't Linux. It's easier to do the off and on again than to jump through the flaming hoops of persuading tech support to report it as a bug, especially as it's only very recent firmwares that have allowed internal name lookups anyway!
In the context of two-year olds, as featured in the ad, that is not an insightful comment. Everybody tells me that my two-year old is adorable and well behaved, but I expect her to do naughty and silly things.
I think that the ads and program content are distinct - I can choose to watch "18:30 - Bugs Bunny Drives Hilariously Fast", but there is no choice offered for "20:45 - Car Ad with the Cute Driving Baby". It is shown unsolicited to the viewer. I couldn't choose not to watch the ad in the same way that I could choose not to watch Looney Toons, Dumbo or Peter Pan.
BTW, how old were you when you first watched those? If you can remember, then you were probably over 3 years old.
Well, OK, of course I talk to her about what she does, and what we do together. Like about her kite getting stuck in a tree in the park on Sunday (because she didn't stop when I called her), and who she plays with at nursery. And she doesn't get to see much TV, and I pretty much don't have time to watch any, recorded or otherwise.
But the episode of The Simpsons where Marge campaigns about violent cartoons just makes soo much sense to me now http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itchy_&_Scratchy_&_Ma rge. "Monkey see, monkey do", to quote Marge. So if 80 people see fit to find something to complain about in a particular advert featuring a photo-realistic toddler scrambling out of a cot, walking out of the front door, and driving away in a car, that is beamed unsolicited in to their homes, fair play. And that a regulator considered the 80 complaints and pulled it from broadcast. No problem.
I don't think that's censorship, it's just society at work.
She'd also have trouble working the clutch. I admit that I'm really not worried about her taking and driving away.
I was just trying to point out that "talk to your children about what they see on TV" isn't an instantly helpful suggestion.
I see it more like 80 people clever enough to realise that if they get the ad pulled then they won't have to keep reaching for the remote.
And now I've watched the ad, I'm not too keen on the "jumping out of your cot" tutorial in it either - I'm hoping for a couple more weeks before she starts bangin me on the head to wake me up in the morning ;-)
Here are some things I've noticed about my two year old:
- At her own whim, she will copy almost anything that she sees or hears
- The distinction between saying "You must try to drive the car" and "You must not try to drive the car" is VERY subtle to her toddler brain
- Controlling her actions is very different from the type of programming I usually do
- Like other two year olds, she does things that she knows her parents will not approve of
- She already pretends to drive our car, and has worked out how to sound the horn
I'm sure seing someone "like her" driving a car would be quite a powerful image to her.
Personally, I have no problem with 80 parents choosing to complain about this ad. You don't choose the adverts that are injected in to the programs you watch. Though my wife wouldn't approve, I can imagine a scenario where I was watching (what I considered was) an appropriate program recorded late at night with my daughter in the room.
I use some of those apps on my Vista install (the basic UI, I don't have the graphics hardware for the fancy AERO stuff).
...
Firefox runs just the same as it always did, as does OpenOffice.org 2.1
Adobe PhotoShop Elements 3 editor is pretty horrible to use though. The screen doesn't repaint properly, and cursor clicks and drags don't land where I expect them to (there's sort of a 10-ish pixel offset to the north-east.
Adobe have released a patch for Elements 5, but releasing a fix for my 3 year old version 3 is probably well off their list of interesting projects
Other useful (free) things that are broken are PDFCreator, which just won't install, and Synergy keyboard and mouse sharing, which installs and runs but won't start automatically as a service.
Also my Hauppauge HVR-1300 causes the machine to restart randomly if the device is enabled.
Oh and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 performance was terrible (very sensitive to host OS load), but luckily VPC 2007 RC is fine to use for my purposes.
You probably guessed I'm planning my migration back to XP (MCE 2005), which will probably be a little more work than the "Insert disk and click yes" that I needed to do the upgrade.
I bought my current machine with 4GB RAM (a 32-bit Pentium M on an aOpen i915Ga-HFS motherboard).
:-)
I was annoyed that the OS could only see (approx) 3GB of that, even though the BIOS "supported" 4GB max. Most of the memory addresses (not actual RAM, just the addresses) are reserved for hardware devices that might or might not be installed, so anything over 3GB just can't be used.
I sold 2x1GB on eBay, and replaced it with 2x512MB, because I couldn't sleep at night knowing that the RAM wasn't getting used. So, if Vista will make good use of all the RAM that it can see (in my machine at least)? Perfect
I work in a small dev team that produces a specialized server that exposes some of its functionality via a web-UI. The dev-team is fantastic, and does everything right (and still uses CVS!)
Outside of my team we have some people in a pre-sales role, and part of their job is putting together quick customer-specific demos online for potential customers. It drives me nuts that if I have to go in and fix an issue, then my changes will be overwritten if the presales team decide to tweak their local files and reupload.
Presales are always working under time pressure, and are very resistent to any change that doesn't make their job easier, so I need to tread carefully in how I try to force them to use version control for their demo work.
I thought that I might switch off direct access via scp/sftp, and set up a version control system as the primary method of publishing. In CVS, I can do that by adding a line like this to loginfo: That checks out files to the live site as soon as they are commited to CVS.
Can I do that in SVN too?
And probably my boy bones too:v erages.shtml
http://vitacorp.icthus.net/articles/carbonated_be
http://www.drdonnica.com/faqs/00005211.htm
And just generally bad:
http://www.cspinet.org/liquidcandy/index.html
For those too busy to follow the links: caffeine consumption causes more calcium to be excreted; carbonated water is acidic and bad for your teeth; fizzy drinks have displaced milk in our diet => increased bone fractures in girls.
Wow, so many "Who needs an IDE?" posts, and so far only one other user of the plugins has posted. Maybe ActiveState are right -- not enough people use them. Is that a marketing problem rather than a product failure though? I think the Visual Studio Perl product is very impressive. I only bought them 4 months ago, but it's not like they are going to stop working.
.Net Web and Windows applications in VS .Net 2003. It really opended my eyes to how a good IDE helps speed up my development. Project and file templates take away a little setup; syntax checking "as you type" means I fix silly breaks right away, not in 30 minutes when I compile (or even later when I run, for Perl), which means the fix is more likely to be correct; code completion saves my fingers a little, and is a great way to learn about a libraries interface because all object methods are presented right in the context of where I'm trying to use them; help is integrated with the editor, for quick access to the documentation for any class or method; code browsing takes me right to the definition of any method or class in my project. As well as all that, the editor is a very pleasant place to work too.
:-( I've checked out Komodo (3.5.1), and at least the default key mappings are the same as VS! But I will stick with VS Perl Plugin for now, as I find the Perl debugger integration more reliable in VS!
I used to use Emacs, and thought that syntax highlighting and integrated debugging made an IDE. I coded up a few lisp macros, and ended up with a reasonable collection of "favourite modules". But I resented the time I needed to spend setting Emacs up each time I moved to a new machine, and even then, the app always felt out of place in whichever desktop I ran it in.
Then I spent a year writing
OK, I could do some of that in Emacs, but in Visual Studio it's just there out of the box, with my prefered key-bindings as the default.
When I recently came back to a job that uses a lot of Perl and other script languages among it's C++ (for Windows and Solaris). I was really pleased that I could carry on using Visual Studio, and impressed with what ActiveState had done to integrate Perl within it (given that Perl is untyped!).
Syntax checking works by running some kind of perl process in the background. The debugger allows any variable, object accessor method, and attribute to be watched. Sensible templates and options are added to for Perl projects. (Careful, Visual Studio projects can lead to very deep module hierarchies!)
That's not to say that there aren't any rough bits -- the "as you type" Perl process crashes quite frequently (on my code, anyway) (but then restarts itself), and the help integration is a little light. I was looking forward to these being fixed in the VS2005 version (and I get a nicer editor that then too!)
That's not going to happen though
The building is/was part of Electronics and Computer Science (http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/, but the servers are down at the moment). It was a postgrad/research building (no undergrads). I did my PhD research there 7 years ago.
I know there is computer science research being done in the building, which is shaped like a 'U'. From what I saw on the news, the fire started in (and destroyed) the other side of the building (the opposite leg of the 'U') where the the clean rooms and laboratories are. It seems to have burned the side of the facing leg of the U off too.
I was working in the Optoelectronics Research Center (http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/) when I was there. The sort of research they do isn't going to be restored from backup tapes. Some past results may be, but even without fires I often heard stories about people losing years of work when their hard disk crashed or laptop was stolen.
Where in the quote or TFA does it say that liquid nitrogen is flamable?
Read the side of one of your non-flammable aerosol cans -- anything about not throwing it in a fire written there? Above 77 Kelvin (minus 196 centigrade) it wants to be a gas again. In a fire it might well be able to pop the can it's stored in.
That's not to say there weren't more explosive materials in the building. That building is used for research in microelectronics fabrication and optical fibre and laser research.
I leave occasional test prints on my window sill, pretty much worst cast for any print. They get a lot of sunshine there.
... think of all the blocked nozzles ;-(
With my old Epson Stylus 790 printer (dye-based inks) I noticed differnces between Epson ink and generic ink, and differences between paper brands, but they all faded after a few months.
Epsons current inks, branded Durabrite and Ultrachrome (Ultrachrome is best for photos), are pigment based. My Durabrite prints have not faded noticably in over a year on the sill. They are also water resistant, and the Durabrite inks print very well on plain paper too (rather than the special coated paper you need to get the best quality for a photo).
They don't seem to be "sticky" like the old pigment inks were, so they sit more nicely in a photo album.
Epsons Durabrite printers are all 3 colours, and don't print gloss prints so well, but for longevity, I have no complaints. I'd expect the Ultrachrome prints to be better than anything I could get from a lab, and last as long, but with 7 colours plus gloss optimizer
http://www.prop-forward.com/products.asp
:-(
Takes up very little desk space, and pretty cheap among other laptop stands, but I just feel like I've been robbed paying that much for a few centimeters of aluminium extrusion
This website says that the official reports on the 1988 Airbus A320 Paris airshow crash concluded pilot error was the cause:4 -8/hw1.h tml
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~szewczyk/cs29
"Three of the 136 passengers were killed."
The software bug that was found was for airconditioning control, and the delay in the engines providing enough power to clear the trees was to be expected in that class of plane.