Yeah, and if people cared about spam prevention or antivirus, they could buy or download software to do something about that too. Doesn't change the fact that I get paid 10-20 bucks for less than an hour's work buying and installing Norton for people.
Then that cripples them. I recieve probably about 75-100 emails a day, counting spam. That's probably the max a home user should send out, too; up it to 200 just to be safe (and allow home users to do mailing lists, etc). That should make it more difficult to spam, and reduce the volume, if not cripple their operations entirely
Or, as an alternative, the ISPs should block ports (25, 2525, etc, whatever you want that's not needed) by default, and give the user an easy way to request that it be unblocked. The TOS is just there so they can target abusers.
Learn to use screen. It'll let you keep a "virtual terminal" open from day to day without leaving the physical terminal at all unlocked, you'll be able to transfer the virtual terminal home (or from one computer to another) very easily, and it allows for easy logging, which you'll definitely want (hmm, what was it I did yesterday that made the box crash?).
It's easy to use, and it comes installed by default in most (all?) distros I've ever seen.
If you're going to stick with RedHat see if you can get up2date working properly.
I'm not a sysadmin, I just use my home box (FC1, soon FC2), but in my experience, up2date is a slow, buggy, unreliable piece of crap. Go with yum. Not only is it faster and more stable, but you get more data from it, it allows you to install and uninstall stuff semi-automagically, and you can script it if you want.
Note: NEVER script upgrades on a production machine. Useful stuff to script would be "yum check-upgrade", and maybe add a file with a list of packages that you're anxiously awaiting an upgrade for (say, if you know that there's a security hole that will be fixed soon).
One variety of which involves going to the GPS coordinates and finding the webcam, then either staying there 'till it takes your picture, or calling a friend back home and having them go to the site and click "save".
Makes authentications of one's claim that you were there a bit easier; just post the photo to the forums. Yeah, you could Photoshop it, but no one cares enough to do that.
It's a joke, dummy. As in, you set it up so they thought you had infinite gift certificates/were a relative of the owner's/didn't charge your credit card... jeez.
From mom and dad. Help buying a wheelchair accessible car (man, it's expensive... like buying a cheap house) from grandma... a dirty look and lots of "I didn't do anything to it" from my brother... a broken CD-RW drive to dissect from my uncle... I love my family:)
But then we'll have Linus and Co deciding they don't need to read patches, leading to Goatse in splash screens everywhere, ASCII/ncurses Goatse in the kernel compiling utilities.
Worse, we'll have the same "Soviet Russia" and "hot grits" patches released over and over!
Lack of features (no major video or sound, no room-over-room, low-rez, yadda, yadda, yadda => no need to support Nvidia XYZ or similar)
Lack of code - it's very short
Lack of support (it's a hobby)
Manual config editing - the game doesn't have to screw around with figuring out what settings are mutually compatible - you do
If you want a game engine that can be used in a game that's actually enjoyable, try (these are just the ones I've personally tried) Aleph One (the renamed version of Marathon Infinity), Quake, Doom, Wolfenstein 3D. Granted, nothing like as nice as UT3 or CryEngine (FarCry), but still better than Cube.
This isn't an insult by any means; on the contrary, doing what he's done, all by himself - yes, just one person - is amazing. But, as he says on his site, he's doing it to code, not to play. And when you try to play, well, it's fun to compile and then ooh and ah for a few minutes, then it sucks. Like the Wolfenstein 3D or Marathon Infinity, but without the graphics (or what graphics W3D and MI had).
I heard he was involved with Far Cry - you can definitely see Cube's influence on FC's WYSIWYG, edit-as-you-play Sandbox Editor.
The parent's link didn't work because freecache only caches files larger than 5 MB, while that is ~1 KB.
Is there anyway to use sane (or any other Linux scanning software) to scan over a network? I've got my printer shared, and I access it via Samba. Is there an equivalent setup for scanners, perhaps using DaemonTools?
Thanks. It's not that I'm afraid to change the fstab... I'm just looking for a quick and easy solution. I'd rather waste my time getting something else working:)
I have a box running FC1. I want to install FC2 on a second HD (don't ask...), but I'm wondering how I should set it up.
Optimally, I'd leave the drive with FC1 as my primary master, and FC2 as primary slave or secondary master. Will there be a performance hit if I put it on primary slave? I just don't want to fsck up my fstab, or I'd make it the master.
And can I leave my CD burner on the same channel my primary HD is on, or will that cause a performance hit? (Again, I hate editing fstab).
Mods don't seem to get this, as it's only at Score:1 right now...
Human hearing goes from 20 Hz to 20 KHz, optimally (slightly less, but 20-20K is easy to remember). 25-45 KHz would be inaudible.
There might also be a joke here about keeping animals away (ultrasonic noise). Not sure. 'Course, that's assuming your cell's speaker can vibrate at 25-45 KHz... somehow I doubt it.
Actually, many "authorities" (by which I mean authors) have analyzed this kind of thing, and they've generally agreed that science fiction comes in two forms: space opera crap, and political commentary.
Witness Heinlein's "Starship Troopers", Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", Asimov's "The Gods Themselves" and "The End of Eternity", and just about every hard-core scifi book out there. Even the shorts - "Star, Bright" (forget the author), the Asimov short where a Multivac says, "Let there be light", "The Fun They Had", and so on.
So, like you said, science fiction is very political, and will often (always?) reflect its creators' culture. 'Course, it could be argued that *everything* we create reflects our culture, but... let's not get bogged down with semantics.
Worse... I called up their 1-800-R-U-PIRATE line to get a serial code. It was for 2k. The owner (who I was doing freelance support for) had the original CD, which was for Dells. The new box they wanted to install it on was one I'd built (I got the Dell; like trading in a car). I got the CD key, after being told that the CD would work on a non-Dell (yes, I asked). It didn't, of course; apparently it's not the CDs that recognize the manufacturers, it's the keys. I asked again, reminding the agent that I was installing it on a different mfg'r's computer... they said which one, I said, none; I'd rather be able to install it on any box I have in the future.
No complaints on their end, just a generic CD key:).
in the US, there's no such thing as public transportation
Especially if you're in a wheelchair. Although that's not just a US problem... Both in Cambridge (Massachussets, I was visiting MIT) and Berlin, there are some trains marked with a wheelchair-accessible symbol, but there's still a 6 inch gap from platform to train.
Now, what you're supposed to do is use a ramp that is put in place by hand... but the ramp is chained to the train in a place where you can't reach it in a wheelchair from the platform, and the button to call the conductor is too far as well. Then, imagine that you've never learned the word for "wheelchair ramp" in your 3 years of high school German, and you'll understand how screwed up it is. (That last part obviously didn't apply in Cambridge).
If A, then B; thus, if not B, then not A (contrapositive).
He's saying If (God exists and is good), then (bad stuff wouldn't happen). Since (bad stuff happens), God either doesn't exist, or isn't good. If God isn't good, he argues, then why bother? Why make the effort of having faith?
I am a soft atheist, and this is one of multiple reasons why (the reason he argues). Another reason is that the staunch religious folks I've met/heard in my life have never been all that great at basic logic...
Yes, what Americans call "closed captions" is what British & Europeans call "subtitles". I believe "subtitles" means something different to Americans (foreign languages?).
Oops. Yeah, subtitles usually refers to foreign language... the deaf community refers to native-language subtitles as "open captions", while "closed captions" are something you can turn on/off at the user level (they are encoded in one of the lines that's not used for video/sound... 21 or 22, I think, although of course I'm talking NTSC - PAL would be different). Generally, subtitles and open captions appear as white or yellow text in a sans serif font with no background, and captions appear as white text in Courier New-ish fonts with a black strip behind it for contrast.
We may be moving towards Euro-style vocab. here, though... DVDs often put "English for the Hearing Impaired" under subtitles, rather than having a separate "Captions" heading like they used to. Many DVD players also have captions encoded in them, which may be why.
in which case what Sky did is a violation of Federal law
I doubt it - Sky & NTL are English companies;-)
Again, oops./. is largely US-centric, which is my only excuse. Next time, please use a Britishism in your post;-) (colour, labour, arse, or bloody will all do fine). Anyway, this may be incredibly naive of me, but I hope the British regulatory agency{ies} have similar requirements in this regard to the FCC's requirements (Federal Communications Commission). WIBNI that was the case?
The other reason I reacted so strongly is that I'm trying to get Zenith to fix a mistake in a DVD player that wrecks close caption support for my TV... hence, I've been yelling "Federal law" and "BBB" (Better Business Bureau) a lot... maybe I should post my sad story in the other Ask Slashdot, eh?
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It goes up to 11!"
Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder? Because this goes up to 11.
Will block customers using these before it starts worrying about potential zombies!
Yeah, and if people cared about spam prevention or antivirus, they could buy or download software to do something about that too. Doesn't change the fact that I get paid 10-20 bucks for less than an hour's work buying and installing Norton for people.
Then that cripples them. I recieve probably about 75-100 emails a day, counting spam. That's probably the max a home user should send out, too; up it to 200 just to be safe (and allow home users to do mailing lists, etc). That should make it more difficult to spam, and reduce the volume, if not cripple their operations entirely
Or, as an alternative, the ISPs should block ports (25, 2525, etc, whatever you want that's not needed) by default, and give the user an easy way to request that it be unblocked. The TOS is just there so they can target abusers.
Learn to use screen. It'll let you keep a "virtual terminal" open from day to day without leaving the physical terminal at all unlocked, you'll be able to transfer the virtual terminal home (or from one computer to another) very easily, and it allows for easy logging, which you'll definitely want (hmm, what was it I did yesterday that made the box crash?).
It's easy to use, and it comes installed by default in most (all?) distros I've ever seen.
If you're going to stick with RedHat see if you can get up2date working properly.
I'm not a sysadmin, I just use my home box (FC1, soon FC2), but in my experience, up2date is a slow, buggy, unreliable piece of crap. Go with yum. Not only is it faster and more stable, but you get more data from it, it allows you to install and uninstall stuff semi-automagically, and you can script it if you want.
Note: NEVER script upgrades on a production machine. Useful stuff to script would be "yum check-upgrade", and maybe add a file with a list of packages that you're anxiously awaiting an upgrade for (say, if you know that there's a security hole that will be fixed soon).
Your sig, "So long & thanks for all the fish" goes nicely with this post. I imagine it could go nicely with a lot of posts.
One variety of which involves going to the GPS coordinates and finding the webcam, then either staying there 'till it takes your picture, or calling a friend back home and having them go to the site and click "save".
Makes authentications of one's claim that you were there a bit easier; just post the photo to the forums. Yeah, you could Photoshop it, but no one cares enough to do that.
It's a joke, dummy. As in, you set it up so they thought you had infinite gift certificates/were a relative of the owner's/didn't charge your credit card ... jeez.
From mom and dad. Help buying a wheelchair accessible car (man, it's expensive ... like buying a cheap house) from grandma ... a dirty look and lots of "I didn't do anything to it" from my brother ... a broken CD-RW drive to dissect from my uncle ... I love my family :)
Can it run Linux['s development processes]?
But then we'll have Linus and Co deciding they don't need to read patches, leading to Goatse in splash screens everywhere, ASCII/ncurses Goatse in the kernel compiling utilities.
Worse, we'll have the same "Soviet Russia" and "hot grits" patches released over and over!
So ... DidTheySueItYet? That, is, did HTRIY sue DTRIY for trademark infringement yet?
Lack of features (no major video or sound, no room-over-room, low-rez, yadda, yadda, yadda => no need to support Nvidia XYZ or similar)
Lack of code - it's very short
Lack of support (it's a hobby)
Manual config editing - the game doesn't have to screw around with figuring out what settings are mutually compatible - you do
If you want a game engine that can be used in a game that's actually enjoyable, try (these are just the ones I've personally tried) Aleph One (the renamed version of Marathon Infinity), Quake, Doom, Wolfenstein 3D. Granted, nothing like as nice as UT3 or CryEngine (FarCry), but still better than Cube.
This isn't an insult by any means; on the contrary, doing what he's done, all by himself - yes, just one person - is amazing. But, as he says on his site, he's doing it to code, not to play. And when you try to play, well, it's fun to compile and then ooh and ah for a few minutes, then it sucks. Like the Wolfenstein 3D or Marathon Infinity, but without the graphics (or what graphics W3D and MI had).
I heard he was involved with Far Cry - you can definitely see Cube's influence on FC's WYSIWYG, edit-as-you-play Sandbox Editor.
Wouldn't even need to click - the URL ends with ?url=http://goat.cx.
The script is here.
The parent's link didn't work because freecache only caches files larger than 5 MB, while that is ~1 KB.
Is there anyway to use sane (or any other Linux scanning software) to scan over a network? I've got my printer shared, and I access it via Samba. Is there an equivalent setup for scanners, perhaps using DaemonTools?
Thanks. It's not that I'm afraid to change the fstab ... I'm just looking for a quick and easy solution. I'd rather waste my time getting something else working :)
There goes my karma, but ...
...), but I'm wondering how I should set it up.
I have a box running FC1. I want to install FC2 on a second HD (don't ask
Optimally, I'd leave the drive with FC1 as my primary master, and FC2 as primary slave or secondary master. Will there be a performance hit if I put it on primary slave? I just don't want to fsck up my fstab, or I'd make it the master.
And can I leave my CD burner on the same channel my primary HD is on, or will that cause a performance hit? (Again, I hate editing fstab).
Basically, I see two options:
HD1(FC1) primary master, HD2(FC2) primary slave, CD-RW secondary master
HD1(FC1) primary master, CD-RW primary slave, HD2(FC2) secondary master
Any advice?
Mods don't seem to get this, as it's only at Score:1 right now ...
... somehow I doubt it.
Human hearing goes from 20 Hz to 20 KHz, optimally (slightly less, but 20-20K is easy to remember). 25-45 KHz would be inaudible.
There might also be a joke here about keeping animals away (ultrasonic noise). Not sure. 'Course, that's assuming your cell's speaker can vibrate at 25-45 KHz
Actually, many "authorities" (by which I mean authors) have analyzed this kind of thing, and they've generally agreed that science fiction comes in two forms: space opera crap, and political commentary.
... let's not get bogged down with semantics.
Witness Heinlein's "Starship Troopers", Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", Asimov's "The Gods Themselves" and "The End of Eternity", and just about every hard-core scifi book out there. Even the shorts - "Star, Bright" (forget the author), the Asimov short where a Multivac says, "Let there be light", "The Fun They Had", and so on.
So, like you said, science fiction is very political, and will often (always?) reflect its creators' culture. 'Course, it could be argued that *everything* we create reflects our culture, but
Worse ... I called up their 1-800-R-U-PIRATE line to get a serial code. It was for 2k. The owner (who I was doing freelance support for) had the original CD, which was for Dells. The new box they wanted to install it on was one I'd built (I got the Dell; like trading in a car). I got the CD key, after being told that the CD would work on a non-Dell (yes, I asked). It didn't, of course; apparently it's not the CDs that recognize the manufacturers, it's the keys. I asked again, reminding the agent that I was installing it on a different mfg'r's computer ... they said which one, I said, none; I'd rather be able to install it on any box I have in the future.
:).
No complaints on their end, just a generic CD key
in the US, there's no such thing as public transportation
... Both in Cambridge (Massachussets, I was visiting MIT) and Berlin, there are some trains marked with a wheelchair-accessible symbol, but there's still a 6 inch gap from platform to train.
... but the ramp is chained to the train in a place where you can't reach it in a wheelchair from the platform, and the button to call the conductor is too far as well. Then, imagine that you've never learned the word for "wheelchair ramp" in your 3 years of high school German, and you'll understand how screwed up it is. (That last part obviously didn't apply in Cambridge).
Especially if you're in a wheelchair. Although that's not just a US problem
Now, what you're supposed to do is use a ramp that is put in place by hand
...its easier to believe in nothing than to believe in a sadistic god... (GGP)
..."?
Belief as in "yes, it exists" or belief as in "I have faith and trust in
If A, then B; thus, if not B, then not A (contrapositive).
...
He's saying If (God exists and is good), then (bad stuff wouldn't happen). Since (bad stuff happens), God either doesn't exist, or isn't good. If God isn't good, he argues, then why bother? Why make the effort of having faith?
I am a soft atheist, and this is one of multiple reasons why (the reason he argues). Another reason is that the staunch religious folks I've met/heard in my life have never been all that great at basic logic
Yes, what Americans call "closed captions" is what British & Europeans call "subtitles". I believe "subtitles" means something different to Americans (foreign languages?).
... the deaf community refers to native-language subtitles as "open captions", while "closed captions" are something you can turn on/off at the user level (they are encoded in one of the lines that's not used for video/sound ... 21 or 22, I think, although of course I'm talking NTSC - PAL would be different). Generally, subtitles and open captions appear as white or yellow text in a sans serif font with no background, and captions appear as white text in Courier New-ish fonts with a black strip behind it for contrast.
... DVDs often put "English for the Hearing Impaired" under subtitles, rather than having a separate "Captions" heading like they used to. Many DVD players also have captions encoded in them, which may be why.
;-)
/. is largely US-centric, which is my only excuse. Next time, please use a Britishism in your post ;-) (colour, labour, arse, or bloody will all do fine). Anyway, this may be incredibly naive of me, but I hope the British regulatory agency{ies} have similar requirements in this regard to the FCC's requirements (Federal Communications Commission). WIBNI that was the case?
... hence, I've been yelling "Federal law" and "BBB" (Better Business Bureau) a lot ... maybe I should post my sad story in the other Ask Slashdot, eh?
Oops. Yeah, subtitles usually refers to foreign language
We may be moving towards Euro-style vocab. here, though
in which case what Sky did is a violation of Federal law
I doubt it - Sky & NTL are English companies
Again, oops.
The other reason I reacted so strongly is that I'm trying to get Zenith to fix a mistake in a DVD player that wrecks close caption support for my TV