I saw above a person who has a medical reason to use the left tumb for spacing and the mention of lefty mouse use - I understand and feel for both since I am a left thumb spacer and a left mouse user so my.02 would be that a left handed version just use the mouse idea on the left and keep the space bar with the mouse portion.
Is there a corelation between left thumb space bar use and left mouse use?
Additionally my GF converted to lefty mouse use since it frees your right hand for arrow keys and number pad use. However, the keyboard presented does not allow for simultaneious mousing and number pading since in mouse mode some of the numbers from the number pad turn into mouse buttons unless you become a hack at switching between mouse and non mouse modes just to get some numbers entered...
"except it runs on light at similar speeds" - don't you mean wavelengths?? Isn't that whole speed of light declared as a constant and not a variable or a pointer??
I've made an attempt recently to try and find the so-called blue book standards for a friend of mine who wishes to deeply know the inner workings of "enhanced" CDs. Does anyone know if this same type of obsticle ($$) faces him?
java is compilied code while the script is not meant to be compilied and it just tossed into HTML code and is run by the client. Java is portable, but to compile it into a standalone app you need a compilier for each system you intend to take it to.
The work at Xerox PARC I think of first when I want to point at a single thing responsible for many things in "modern*" computer. WYSIWG being something that although not advertised much today is a big thing to me. However I do agree UNIX is a major part in the puzzle - especiall on servers. MIMD (Multiple Instruction Multiple Data) with more than one user and threading (9x won't do threads) are things that some ahem modern systems are lacking...
* Modern computing: Starting 5 minutes ago, until about 5 minutes from now.
But aren't you over looking the wonderful creation of the BSOD ?? This conecpt not only reminds us to reboot our systems, it has also found its way into wonderful screen savers, too! Heck rebooting your system - there's something I don't think was even thought would occur much in a UNIX environment...
I was able to remove the file from the URL and get a directory listing of many pictures - including the linked to 26 - which then magically worked for me.... If it doesn't for you, try a different number - it's all the same object and nothing overly special to write home about (IMHO)...
"scratch" cancel that -
Update - I just tried it again to verify my results and it was broken again. So, I downloaded the linked to pic (#26 and posted it on my site) here so let's hope I don't get/.'ed now....
If this type of thing is able to weed about idiot witnesses this could ruin great Hollywood plots like My Cousin Vinnie where old witnesses without their glasses can't see through trees, etc... Justice sure has some trade-offs....
But shouldn't the rules apply to everyone??? Why is he even thinking about doing something that is against the rules?? Isn't this like your local police force deciding to use a cell to grow pot - since as you say the rules apply to everyone else. Just reading this makes me scared about the people I have watching over my network secrurity. I am paying them to enforce the rules, and yes that does include testing how you can break them - but not just going out and breaking them since they are the elite...
I had heard of a guy who was buliding an under the sea settlement towards the end of last year. I was following it as closely as I could as I am an avid fan of under sea exploration and colonization. It is amazing to hear about people wondering how to discover life off of earth when there are portions of our own planet (if we don't own it, we alteast live here) man has never seen and creatures no one has even imagined. Back to that guy though, although I liked his work, he was doing it for a Y2K type bunker situation and I had a great deal of hardship reading past the Y2K disaster crap to get to the meat (often lacking in stories geared towards Chicken Little).
And one question for you, colonization of the atmosphere - aren't we living amongst the atmosphere right now? I think you were implying upper atmosphere or atleast the very high mountain type living - and although admirable to attain life there, wouldn't it be easier to sink than to float?
Ok, so email is email and it's on the same port it has been for years. There are tons of servers you can install on windows, linux, solaris, etc... and there are even more clients for these varios OSs. But doesn't the Internet need a new standard for email?? Sure it'd drive people nuts if their eudora no longer connected, but ssh sure seems popular.
I am sitting here considering topics for a graduate school project and my thesis advisor and I were just on the phone minutes before I noticed this story on/. and it has me thinking? Do you think a completely seemless secure email system would be as popular as ssh?? You'd need new server software, and your clients would need to be reconfigured, and I don't see why, just as in ssh, you couldn't leave the old style open (although I'd think each user would have to be on or the other rather than maintain a system of passing between enctrpted and non-encrypted email data) during the migration time... What do you the/. community think? If there was a standard like PGP only you built in into your email cient would there be enough support out there??? Kerberos is popular and you can get eudora to support it, but I'm taking a completely encrpyted transaction with a message that stays encryped until it reaches it's destination and the user clicks "read" which translates to "decrypt and read."
Just my 2 cents since it seemed quite timely after that conversation earlier today, and Dr. Null if you're reading this - HI!
Only 8 hours??? I think that it is likely more than that for the "typical" IT person these days... if you think 8 hours enough of a sentance in the cell (er uh... cube) look at the longer setances - that's doing hard time. Then if you are really unlucky you go home at the end of the day on probation - you carry a pager and sometimes have random checks by your parole officer!!!
So, does this mean those who go out on their own and start their own dot com are self imprisoning?
I have telocity and it took forever++ to get hooked up (part of it was my fault, I canceled the credit card I used to initally sign up - but you'd think they would have called me rather than put in their database that my line was unable to get DSL...) but from what I hear a long time average these days. I like their modem because it's USB,//, and ethernet. I use the ethernet part, but I tried the USB portion for shits and giggles once and it was nice. Their modem runs a little server on it to see my download for the day and what not. My biggest gripe about them is they are always promising that someday I'll be able to buy more IP addresses - they keep saying that and never do. I signed up with them because everything on my check list was green except multiple IPs and they *promised* that was coming down the pipe.
My recomendation - keep track of your phone calls (who you talked to, when, etc...) and after one or two calls (don't call more than once a day) ask to speak to a manager and tell them your story including who/what/where/when you talked to people. This worked great for me, especially one time when a tech said, "the manager will tell you the same as me, your line can't get DSL" and 10 minutes later when I finally got the tech to put me in touch with a manger via 3-way call I was in the queue for my circut at the CO.... hehe
I work at a company where we keep the firewall pretty tight (and we just loosened it to allow outbound telnet - something I thought I'd never see) as well as take other security issues in mind (we consider running non-standard/non-supported software a security risk). Have you consulted your company's Internet usage guideline? I know for a fact our specificaly limits all non-work related computer use to surfing the web during lunch and nothing else is permitted. You might want to consider that someone put that firewall there so you can't do these activities for a reason - they don't want you to. Now, I'm the first person to complain about these rules, but it's not my job to stand up and get my head cut off I just enforce policy and go home. They own the machines, the CAT5, the routers, and pay for the Internet hookup. Like it or not, they have the right to say what you can and can not do with their property. Don't like it - quit - it's a lot nicer than getting fired...
Yes... you can certainly ls on solaris on PC and connect to NIS and do all sorts of other neat tricks, but when you are supporting a product that has been in place on sparcs for years (read: old products that vendor made for sparc back when there was little choice and vendor is not able/willing to retool to x86 now) there is definately a need/use for newer faster machines.
Besides, sun isn't trying to sell to every Tom Dick and/or Harry. As you said, there's tons of things you don't *need* sparc for - but there are a little more than you think that having one sure is nicer than not and there are a lot of companies (US, UK, and abroad) that enjoy relying on sun stuff.
So is sun hardware too expensive for what it does - well, if it fills a niche that cheaper machines can't then no. Think of it like your Ford in your driveway - there are tons on the road, many can afford them - it's like the perverbial (sp?) PC. Then look at NASCAR. Sure for what most people do a NASCAR piece of hardware is excessive and not cheap - but there is a use for them that draws in a lot of money ever year. Does this mean new NASCAR inovations aren't good to hear about? Not when you consider that many advances in consumer automobile technology stem from NASCAR acheivements (motor oil improvements and brake technology come to mind). What sorts of invovations in the PC market (not just transistors - I'm also talking sales, support, etc...) stem from Sun innovations??
I just downloaded red hat 7.0 and loaded it onto a test machine. I noticed on bootup that it loads some RSA stuff.
Just letting you know that if you absolutely want to go play with this (something I plan to do now that I saw it's already on my test box) and the mirrors you are getting BSD from are full, red hat has it, too.
What I did, since I have to use a PC w/ windoze at work (in addition to a sparc, woohoo!) I made one of them my desktop wall paper. Since we are not allowed to run annything but windows 95 I wonder how long it will take before some one thinks I'm breaking the rules!
Would you dynamically gzip the whole site before sending it? On some sites where the page content goes on for (screen) pages the browser loads what it has and when it has more it loads more. Think about the ramifications of waiting for the entire (site) page to be gzip'd then sent, then you have to unzip it...
What about parts and peices??
Here is a tar command I use to move files around from system to system occasionally:
tar -cf -./$1 | rsh destination "cd/export/home1; tar -xBpf -"
it goes in chuncks - not the whole thing, maybe you should think about incorporating this type of duck movement...
When I was working on my undergraduate degree I took courses outside of computing (for shame you say!) and one highly encouraged using the 'net to find resources for our papers. The class was a humanities class called "Impact of Technology on Society." Ok, great, I can use 'net sources, but when the source takes down the article a week after I find it my teacher didn't accept it as a source. Later she did say she would accept print outs of the 'net sources - in fact we had to now turn in printouts of every source - this was lovely in that my university charged per page of printouts/copies and my one source was on/. from a user post on an article... care to guess how many pages that was for an article with 200+ posts? (and yes, I did set the threading and the like, but she still wanted the whole! thing) I tried to talk her into accepting the.html file on a floppy disk or via email attachment, but nay.
Well, a lot of that problem was the teacher, but if the sources would realize that sometimes what they say can be used for scholarly work and keep them around for a bit, life would be nicer. I'm all for getting rid of things that no one has accessed in over a year, but when you operate a news site you should atleast think about putting old articles somewhere without pictures and such - just the text, how much space would a years worth of CNN news stories in plain text take up???
Or in this case... whose poll is it anyway? With your host MSNBC... Yes, it's the poll where the results are made up and the points don't matter, yes they don't matter, just like a tooth brush to the British they just don't matter....
(sorry to all those brits out there, I know it was a little scathing, but laugh a little, ok?)
I have a sparc 20 that I can put it on and toss up what I notice (good and bad) compared to the red hat that runs on it currently (and the solaris that had been running on it, and the mandrake that I *tried* to install, but that's another story), but what would you, you the/. populous consider to be good parts of a review for this platform?
If you offer up suggestions about what you'd like to know I'll look into it. If you offer up suggestions - and direct commands to do this all the better... but the question is, what are some general topics that would make a good reivew?
PS, what I usually look for is the KISS - does it work, was it horrible to use.... but I'm sure others would like to hear more and I'm willing to do this.
Slashdot Mirror
I saw above a person who has a medical reason to use the left tumb for spacing and the mention of lefty mouse use - I understand and feel for both since I am a left thumb spacer and a left mouse user so my .02 would be that a left handed version just use the mouse idea on the left and keep the space bar with the mouse portion.
Is there a corelation between left thumb space bar use and left mouse use?
Additionally my GF converted to lefty mouse use since it frees your right hand for arrow keys and number pad use. However, the keyboard presented does not allow for simultaneious mousing and number pading since in mouse mode some of the numbers from the number pad turn into mouse buttons unless you become a hack at switching between mouse and non mouse modes just to get some numbers entered...
"except it runs on light at similar speeds" - don't you mean wavelengths?? Isn't that whole speed of light declared as a constant and not a variable or a pointer??
I've made an attempt recently to try and find the so-called blue book standards for a friend of mine who wishes to deeply know the inner workings of "enhanced" CDs. Does anyone know if this same type of obsticle ($$) faces him?
java is compilied code while the script is not meant to be compilied and it just tossed into HTML code and is run by the client. Java is portable, but to compile it into a standalone app you need a compilier for each system you intend to take it to.
The work at Xerox PARC I think of first when I want to point at a single thing responsible for many things in "modern*" computer. WYSIWG being something that although not advertised much today is a big thing to me. However I do agree UNIX is a major part in the puzzle - especiall on servers. MIMD (Multiple Instruction Multiple Data) with more than one user and threading (9x won't do threads) are things that some ahem modern systems are lacking...
* Modern computing: Starting 5 minutes ago, until about 5 minutes from now.
But aren't you over looking the wonderful creation of the BSOD ?? This conecpt not only reminds us to reboot our systems, it has also found its way into wonderful screen savers, too! Heck rebooting your system - there's something I don't think was even thought would occur much in a UNIX environment...
I was able to remove the file from the URL and get a directory listing of many pictures - including the linked to 26 - which then magically worked for me.... If it doesn't for you, try a different number - it's all the same object and nothing overly special to write home about (IMHO)... /.'ed now....
"scratch" cancel that -
Update - I just tried it again to verify my results and it was broken again. So, I downloaded the linked to pic (#26 and posted it on my site) here so let's hope I don't get
Cheers
If this type of thing is able to weed about idiot witnesses this could ruin great Hollywood plots like My Cousin Vinnie where old witnesses without their glasses can't see through trees, etc... Justice sure has some trade-offs....
But shouldn't the rules apply to everyone??? Why is he even thinking about doing something that is against the rules?? Isn't this like your local police force deciding to use a cell to grow pot - since as you say the rules apply to everyone else. Just reading this makes me scared about the people I have watching over my network secrurity. I am paying them to enforce the rules, and yes that does include testing how you can break them - but not just going out and breaking them since they are the elite...
how secure is /. these days... how long ago was the hack??? are our votes tied to the user database at all???
I had heard of a guy who was buliding an under the sea settlement towards the end of last year. I was following it as closely as I could as I am an avid fan of under sea exploration and colonization. It is amazing to hear about people wondering how to discover life off of earth when there are portions of our own planet (if we don't own it, we alteast live here) man has never seen and creatures no one has even imagined. Back to that guy though, although I liked his work, he was doing it for a Y2K type bunker situation and I had a great deal of hardship reading past the Y2K disaster crap to get to the meat (often lacking in stories geared towards Chicken Little).
And one question for you, colonization of the atmosphere - aren't we living amongst the atmosphere right now? I think you were implying upper atmosphere or atleast the very high mountain type living - and although admirable to attain life there, wouldn't it be easier to sink than to float?
Ok, so email is email and it's on the same port it has been for years. There are tons of servers you can install on windows, linux, solaris, etc... and there are even more clients for these varios OSs. But doesn't the Internet need a new standard for email?? Sure it'd drive people nuts if their eudora no longer connected, but ssh sure seems popular.
/. and it has me thinking? Do you think a completely seemless secure email system would be as popular as ssh?? You'd need new server software, and your clients would need to be reconfigured, and I don't see why, just as in ssh, you couldn't leave the old style open (although I'd think each user would have to be on or the other rather than maintain a system of passing between enctrpted and non-encrypted email data) during the migration time... What do you the /. community think? If there was a standard like PGP only you built in into your email cient would there be enough support out there??? Kerberos is popular and you can get eudora to support it, but I'm taking a completely encrpyted transaction with a message that stays encryped until it reaches it's destination and the user clicks "read" which translates to "decrypt and read."
I am sitting here considering topics for a graduate school project and my thesis advisor and I were just on the phone minutes before I noticed this story on
Just my 2 cents since it seemed quite timely after that conversation earlier today, and Dr. Null if you're reading this - HI!
Only 8 hours??? I think that it is likely more than that for the "typical" IT person these days... if you think 8 hours enough of a sentance in the cell (er uh... cube) look at the longer setances - that's doing hard time. Then if you are really unlucky you go home at the end of the day on probation - you carry a pager and sometimes have random checks by your parole officer!!!
So, does this mean those who go out on their own and start their own dot com are self imprisoning?
Gotta run, the warden wants me in his office...
If violent video games lead children to commit violent acts, then where are all the giant walls we should see from children who play tetris?
I have telocity and it took forever++ to get hooked up (part of it was my fault, I canceled the credit card I used to initally sign up - but you'd think they would have called me rather than put in their database that my line was unable to get DSL...) but from what I hear a long time average these days. I like their modem because it's USB, //, and ethernet. I use the ethernet part, but I tried the USB portion for shits and giggles once and it was nice. Their modem runs a little server on it to see my download for the day and what not. My biggest gripe about them is they are always promising that someday I'll be able to buy more IP addresses - they keep saying that and never do. I signed up with them because everything on my check list was green except multiple IPs and they *promised* that was coming down the pipe.
My recomendation - keep track of your phone calls (who you talked to, when, etc...) and after one or two calls (don't call more than once a day) ask to speak to a manager and tell them your story including who/what/where/when you talked to people. This worked great for me, especially one time when a tech said, "the manager will tell you the same as me, your line can't get DSL" and 10 minutes later when I finally got the tech to put me in touch with a manger via 3-way call I was in the queue for my circut at the CO.... hehe
I work at a company where we keep the firewall pretty tight (and we just loosened it to allow outbound telnet - something I thought I'd never see) as well as take other security issues in mind (we consider running non-standard/non-supported software a security risk). Have you consulted your company's Internet usage guideline? I know for a fact our specificaly limits all non-work related computer use to surfing the web during lunch and nothing else is permitted. You might want to consider that someone put that firewall there so you can't do these activities for a reason - they don't want you to. Now, I'm the first person to complain about these rules, but it's not my job to stand up and get my head cut off I just enforce policy and go home. They own the machines, the CAT5, the routers, and pay for the Internet hookup. Like it or not, they have the right to say what you can and can not do with their property. Don't like it - quit - it's a lot nicer than getting fired...
Ok.. so the linklink in a post above they state:
UltraSPARC-III, which is designed to operate at 600 MHz
Are they over clocking?? Are they not listening to their spec group's specs of the design?? Does the left hand not know what the right is doing??
Yes... you can certainly ls on solaris on PC and connect to NIS and do all sorts of other neat tricks, but when you are supporting a product that has been in place on sparcs for years (read: old products that vendor made for sparc back when there was little choice and vendor is not able/willing to retool to x86 now) there is definately a need/use for newer faster machines.
Besides, sun isn't trying to sell to every Tom Dick and/or Harry. As you said, there's tons of things you don't *need* sparc for - but there are a little more than you think that having one sure is nicer than not and there are a lot of companies (US, UK, and abroad) that enjoy relying on sun stuff.
So is sun hardware too expensive for what it does - well, if it fills a niche that cheaper machines can't then no. Think of it like your Ford in your driveway - there are tons on the road, many can afford them - it's like the perverbial (sp?) PC. Then look at NASCAR. Sure for what most people do a NASCAR piece of hardware is excessive and not cheap - but there is a use for them that draws in a lot of money ever year. Does this mean new NASCAR inovations aren't good to hear about? Not when you consider that many advances in consumer automobile technology stem from NASCAR acheivements (motor oil improvements and brake technology come to mind). What sorts of invovations in the PC market (not just transistors - I'm also talking sales, support, etc...) stem from Sun innovations??
I clicked the link and this is what netscape had to say about it:
Your browser sent a message this server could not understand.
D'ohhhh!
I just downloaded red hat 7.0 and loaded it onto a test machine. I noticed on bootup that it loads some RSA stuff.
Just letting you know that if you absolutely want to go play with this (something I plan to do now that I saw it's already on my test box) and the mirrors you are getting BSD from are full, red hat has it, too.
What I did, since I have to use a PC w/ windoze at work (in addition to a sparc, woohoo!) I made one of them my desktop wall paper. Since we are not allowed to run annything but windows 95 I wonder how long it will take before some one thinks I'm breaking the rules!
Would you dynamically gzip the whole site before sending it? On some sites where the page content goes on for (screen) pages the browser loads what it has and when it has more it loads more. Think about the ramifications of waiting for the entire (site) page to be gzip'd then sent, then you have to unzip it...
./$1 | rsh destination "cd /export/home1; tar -xBpf -"
What about parts and peices??
Here is a tar command I use to move files around from system to system occasionally:
tar -cf -
it goes in chuncks - not the whole thing, maybe you should think about incorporating this type of duck movement...
When I was working on my undergraduate degree I took courses outside of computing (for shame you say!) and one highly encouraged using the 'net to find resources for our papers. The class was a humanities class called "Impact of Technology on Society." Ok, great, I can use 'net sources, but when the source takes down the article a week after I find it my teacher didn't accept it as a source. Later she did say she would accept print outs of the 'net sources - in fact we had to now turn in printouts of every source - this was lovely in that my university charged per page of printouts/copies and my one source was on /. from a user post on an article... care to guess how many pages that was for an article with 200+ posts? (and yes, I did set the threading and the like, but she still wanted the whole! thing) I tried to talk her into accepting the .html file on a floppy disk or via email attachment, but nay.
Well, a lot of that problem was the teacher, but if the sources would realize that sometimes what they say can be used for scholarly work and keep them around for a bit, life would be nicer. I'm all for getting rid of things that no one has accessed in over a year, but when you operate a news site you should atleast think about putting old articles somewhere without pictures and such - just the text, how much space would a years worth of CNN news stories in plain text take up???
Or in this case... whose poll is it anyway? With your host MSNBC... Yes, it's the poll where the results are made up and the points don't matter, yes they don't matter, just like a tooth brush to the British they just don't matter....
(sorry to all those brits out there, I know it was a little scathing, but laugh a little, ok?)
I have a sparc 20 that I can put it on and toss up what I notice (good and bad) compared to the red hat that runs on it currently (and the solaris that had been running on it, and the mandrake that I *tried* to install, but that's another story), but what would you, you the /. populous consider to be good parts of a review for this platform?
If you offer up suggestions about what you'd like to know I'll look into it. If you offer up suggestions - and direct commands to do this all the better... but the question is, what are some general topics that would make a good reivew?
PS, what I usually look for is the KISS - does it work, was it horrible to use.... but I'm sure others would like to hear more and I'm willing to do this.