I'm reminded of the Japanese 5th generation AI / language project of the 90s... that was going to somehow revolutionize everything. Anyone hear about that in the last few years?
Yeah, but this requires over a gig of ram or a free partition.
I did manage to remove the CD after an hour of fiddling.
I remember a bit more clearly now what I did:
I killed almost all the processes.
I then had copy the essential commands to the ramdisk, remove the symlinks to the mounted CD filesystem and only then try and remove the modules.
Knoppix isn't always the best tool for the job, due to the fact that you can't use the cd drive when running it.
I once accidently deleted the/boot directory and obiously couldn't boot the machine. I did have everything backed up on CD-Rs. So I'm thinking, great I'll just boot with Knoppix and restore everything back. Little did I know.
Anyway, I had to kill all the processes and rmmod all the modules, in order to unmount the Knoppix CD. Which wasn't easy at all, because as soon as you try to run some program the Knoppix distro tries to access the CD. And so you get some of the modules flagged as busy and you have to wait to remove them. Arrhh!!!!
Imagine someone with too much money hates your guts,
they can let you pay a couple of thousands bucks
just by sending you a insane amount messages?
Especially when when loads of websites allow you to send text messages for free. (In exchange for flooding you with text spam. Though I think the bloke doing it wouldn't care about such things.)
Just like almost all those hippies are now lawyers.
What I'm about to say is not about piracy, which I do not condone. (I doubt the kids doing it, have some noble ideal in mind, anyway.)
There's nothing worse than having a certain set of beliefs and then throwing it all away over the prospect of big bucks, or some other mundane reason. To me it's of much greater value that a person retains his/her integrity, rather than tries to conform to whatever everyone's doing. Especially with all the corporate and political bullshit that we seem to be spoon-fed all the time.
It's surprising to see so many./ers think of "growing up" as selling out to become a corporate drone, or a fat cat lawyer.
God, I hope I'll never "grow up".
Re:God of the Gaps: Glass half-full or half-empty?
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I don't really agree with this.
It would take much more intelligence to create the universe as we see it now, than as you put it, set a bunch of universal constants and "watch the resulting fireworks". What this really means is watch the universe massively increase in complexity, no thanks to the "creator" you've just described.
The underlying laws of the universe are actually much more simple than the complexity that has arisen from them. And with the multiverse theory, (which is consceptually similar to the theory of evolution) it's even possible to explain how these laws could have emerged.
Not strictly Open Source, but free as in beer for Linux at least. It's now coupled with Scilab, so it's possible to do both symbolic and numeric maths with it. Just like in Mathematica.
Re:I will help YOU get a JOB! (Programming puzzles
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Most of them are quite easy, except for number 11. I knew instantly how to do each of them, but number 11 kind of jumped at me and I thought, this is interesting...
I managed to come up with this after an hour or two:
int main() { char* a = "int main() { char* a = "; char b[128] = " printf( %s%c%s%c; char b[128] = %c%s%c; , a, 34, a, 34, 34, b, 34); b[8] = b[40] = 34; puts(b); }"; printf("%s%c%s%c; char b[128] = %c%s%c;", a, 34, a, 34, 34, b, 34); b[8] = b[40] = 34; puts(b); }
There's probably loads of more elegant ways of doing it, though.
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Well...
No 11 is wrong. You wrote printf("an exact copy of the source". Given that you only wrote three lines of code, that should be pretty easy do, right?
The question is recursive. If you include the source in the printf statement, than you'd have to include the printf statement itself as well, together with the source...
I kind of had a look at it and managed to come up with this:
int main() { char* a = "int main() { char* a = "; char b[128] = " printf( %s%c%s%c; char b[128] = %c%s%c; , a, 34, a, 34, 34, b, 34); b[8] = b[40] = 34; puts(b); }"; printf("%s%c%s%c; char b[128] = %c%s%c;", a, 34, a, 34, 34, b, 34); b[8] = b[40] = 34; puts(b); }
It should work OK in unix. Not sure about Windows. Not terribly elegant, I know. There's probably loads of better ways of doing it.
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Only the stupid ones do :)
You mean this?
Classic Adequacy-like troll/satire. Brilliant!!!
* I then had to copy the essential ...
I did manage to remove the CD after an hour of fiddling. I remember a bit more clearly now what I did:
I killed almost all the processes. I then had copy the essential commands to the ramdisk, remove the symlinks to the mounted CD filesystem and only then try and remove the modules.
I once accidently deleted the /boot directory and obiously couldn't boot the machine. I did have everything backed up on CD-Rs. So I'm thinking, great I'll just boot with Knoppix and restore everything back. Little did I know.
Anyway, I had to kill all the processes and rmmod all the modules, in order to unmount the Knoppix CD. Which wasn't easy at all, because as soon as you try to run some program the Knoppix distro tries to access the CD. And so you get some of the modules flagged as busy and you have to wait to remove them. Arrhh!!!!
Especially when when loads of websites allow you to send text messages for free. (In exchange for flooding you with text spam. Though I think the bloke doing it wouldn't care about such things.)
All I can say is:
Well, DUH!
And get this, my university has got around 100 x-terminals conected to a server running 2.6.9. :)
It's more accurate to view RMS as asocial, rather than anti-social. Anti-social is more about breaking kneecaps and giving people bloody noses.
Care to explain?
What I'm about to say is not about piracy, which I do not condone. (I doubt the kids doing it, have some noble ideal in mind, anyway.)
There's nothing worse than having a certain set of beliefs and then throwing it all away over the prospect of big bucks, or some other mundane reason. To me it's of much greater value that a person retains his/her integrity, rather than tries to conform to whatever everyone's doing. Especially with all the corporate and political bullshit that we seem to be spoon-fed all the time.
It's surprising to see so many ./ers think of "growing up" as selling out to become a corporate drone, or a fat cat lawyer.
God, I hope I'll never "grow up".
It would take much more intelligence to create the universe as we see it now, than as you put it, set a bunch of universal constants and "watch the resulting fireworks". What this really means is watch the universe massively increase in complexity, no thanks to the "creator" you've just described.
The underlying laws of the universe are actually much more simple than the complexity that has arisen from them. And with the multiverse theory, (which is consceptually similar to the theory of evolution) it's even possible to explain how these laws could have emerged.
For the love of god, how could he do this to us?!!
It all depends on the assumptions and definitions.
Mathematica is actually available for Linux, as well.
Not strictly Open Source, but free as in beer for Linux at least. It's now coupled with Scilab, so it's possible to do both symbolic and numeric maths with it. Just like in Mathematica.
I managed to come up with this after an hour or two:
There's probably loads of more elegant ways of doing it, though.No 11 is wrong. You wrote printf("an exact copy of the source". Given that you only wrote three lines of code, that should be pretty easy do, right?
The question is recursive. If you include the source in the printf statement, than you'd have to include the printf statement itself as well, together with the source...
I kind of had a look at it and managed to come up with this:
It should work OK in unix. Not sure about Windows. Not terribly elegant, I know. There's probably loads of better ways of doing it.
Other than that everything looks pretty good!!
There's plenty of Linux clustering technologies available. I wonder how does the Red Hat stuff compare.
Why use lynx to look for exploits?
Perpetual motion machines are not.
You could have a system moving forever as long as it does not lose any energy.
Having said that, wafer sizes have been increasing steadilly, and will definetely do so in the future, accoring to Intel.
Don't you mean just.. this
Shouldn't that be August 5th?
I mean I'm not that good with dates usually, but it is my birthday date.