Of course that's news; it's interesting to anyone who's installed Tiger and wants to know what widgets are available. Why anyone would think Slashdot shouldn't run that is beyond me.
Hm. Works for me. Debian stable running a stock samba, mounted in Tiger from the regular old Network pane of the Finder. Only real change I made to/etc/samba/smb.conf was to bump SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF from 4096 to 65536.
We're working on it. Right now Slash just uses MySQL's MyISAM FULLTEXT indexing, which is kinda 2001. It's a cheap solution that we've limped along with for quite a while. But we've rewritten our search code to be modular, anticipating a better solution that we can plug in, once we find one we like. Our top contenders right now are Lucene and Kinosearch.
Last month, both the House and Senate unanimously passed amendments to the war-time supplemental bill that called on the Bush administration to ratchet up its diplomatic efforts to help end the crisis in Darfur. Yet today, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, the House is expected to pass the supplemental bill, and surprise, surprise, those Darfur provisions won't be included. What happened? After pressure from the White House (including a letter from administration officials to House Appropriations Chairman Jerry Lewis), the Darfur Accountability provisions were stripped from the bill.
Yeah, I remember Bagrada from the demo. Having worked my way across the rest of the level and then having my party kicked to pieces in about 8 seconds, I assumed that a Trow was a plot point not meant to be killed. When I got the retail game later and actually won the level, it was quite a feeling of accomplishment.
My best Myth story also involves a Trow. I was in the pregame chat before a game of Capture The Flag, on either If I Had A Trow or Desert Between Your Ears (I can't remember which was which anymore), when I noticed that Jason Jones was playing. Jason was the designer/creator of the game, and of Marathon before it, and I was a big fan of his work. I don't remember how I knew his handle, I probably read it in an interview or something. Anyway, when the game started, I was a little disappointed that he was on the other team but figured we'd do our best to kill him.
Remember how the Trow would actually freeze in place when it got down to about 20% health, but would not actually die? I played defense on our hill, and Jason won the game for his team in a spectacular ending. By the end, I was controlling just a few troops, and Jason had just 1 Trow, piloting it around near the flag trigger area trying to pick off my guys and/or contest our flag. I was trying to stall for time until my teammates could send a few units to help. Jason drew off my defenders far enough that he could make a run for the flag. I was right behind him, and just as he approached the trigger area, an archer got in the shot that froze his Trow in place.
But it didn't die. His defenseless, immobile Trow was one step inside the zone, and as my warriors rushed to deliver the death blow, I watched our flag go to contested, and then, a few seconds later, get captured. My team lost the game, and my warriors vanished just a few steps away from certain victory. I got to stare at the "you lost" screen for a few seconds, with Jason's petrified Trow the only unit visible. Pretty humbling. I never got a rematch.
It's a pain to buy through other vendors, since typically their websites suck by comparison, but -- this is why I'm still boycotting Amazon. Even the FSF gave up long ago, but Amazon's patent-hungry approach still just seems wrong to me, and I don't like rewarding corporations like that.
Amazon is really pushing its APIs to open-source developers and is trying very hard to become part of the open-source community. Jeff Bezos and Tim O'Reilly sat side by side at OSCON to tout how small developers could use Amazon's API to make lots of money. This worries me.
The Kim Stanley Robinson Mars trilogy deals brilliantly with the social consequences of eternal life as well. Partway through the series, a cure for aging is discovered on Earth, and we see the effects mostly through the eyes of the colonists far away on the Martian frontier. Basically, bedlam and social upheaval are the results. The books also explore the motivations of a few of their characters who prefer not to take the treatment, and a few who do and take the opportunity to indulge in much longer-range plans than were possible before.
And the John Varley Titan trilogy involves long life as well, though it's not really central. It's been a long time since I've read them, but as I recall, at one point the main character captures an enemy and pistol-whips him -- using the barrel of the gun, because, as the author remarks, you don't get to be 200 years old by doing stupid things like pointing a gun at yourself.
In fact that's how we first knew that Huygens had descended and landed safely -- its carrier signal to Cassini was actually picked up by a radio telescope here on Earth. That carrier was received on Earth for hours after Huygens landed!
An awesome "proper audio output" would be the AirPort Express. That's a $130 hardware device, the size of an AC adapter, plugs into both the wall and your network, and its output is digital fiber optics directly into your stereo. (If your stereo doesn't have a digital input, it has an 1/8" jack too. Actually it's the same port, it's pretty neat.) Oh, and it extends the range of your Base Station too.
I bought an AirPort Express for Christmas and plugged it into the home-theater surround sound and it sounds great and works just like it's supposed to. I'm thinking about buying a cheap used iMac to run iTunes so we can close up the laptop and let the music keep playing, but I'm with you -- if a cheap new Mac will be available, of course I'll get that instead. And if we do that, netTunes would be the logical way to control iTunes on the headless server. That'd be an ideal setup.
The other thing that headless Mac will be running is Phlink. A home menu-based voicemail service that takes messages or faxes and emails me the MP3s or JPEGs is pretty fun. If I'm getting the Mac to sit in the basement anyway, I can justify $150 for a really fancy answering machine...
You're trolling, right? The first decision, which you linked to, actually reads:
It follows that this court cannot order the Secretary to establish
standards for the recanvassing of ballots previously rejected in this
election. And petitioners' call for uniform signature-checking standards
(seemingly beyond the statutory requirement that the signature on an
absentee ballot be the same as the signature in voter registration files)
is beyond the relief that can be afforded in this action.
"the state Supreme Court ruled that its December 14 decision which disallowed including new ballots in the hand recount did not preclude county canvassing boards from including new ballots"
This seems to imply with a note of sarcasm that the state Supreme Court is ruling against itself. I haven't been following your state's results as closely as you have, but this does not seem true to me. From my skimming of the link you gave to the Dec. 14 decision, I see that decision was regarding whether the Supreme Court could order the Secretary of State to order counties to re-check previously rejected ballots. That the Supreme Court refused to order this to be done does not in any way mean it, as you write, "disallowed" it from being done. This seems to me a fairly trivial point.
From the decision you linked to:
...various electors and the Washington State Democratic
Central Committee seek an order directing Secretary of State Sam Reed to
promulgate "uniform standards"... that ensure that all ballots rejected in previous counts are
fully canvassed so that the hand recount produces as complete and accurate
a tabulation as possible...
...we must reject petitioners' arguments.
...this court cannot order the Secretary to establish
standards for the recanvassing of ballots previously rejected in this
election. And petitioners' call for uniform signature-checking standards
(seemingly beyond the statutory requirement that the signature on an
absentee ballot be the same as the signature in voter registration files)
is beyond the relief that can be afforded in this action.
And the Supreme Court goes on to address precisely the contradiction I think you're raising, in its second decision, making itself quite clear:
In our decision in that case, issued
December 14, 2004, we held that under Washington's recount statute,
"ballots are to be `retabulated' only if they have been previously counted
or tallied, subject to the provisions of RCW 29A.60.210." (Emphasis added.)
The quoted language, referencing the "recanvassing" statute, RCW
29A.60.210, acknowledges that under proper circumstances a canvassing board
may decide that ballots should be recanvassed before certification of a
recount. Indeed, the Secretary of State's Director of Elections, Nick
Handy, has provided this court with a detailed declaration explaining how
other counties have already employed RCW 29A.60.210 to count votes from
ballots not counted in the original returns for this election. Our prior
opinion did not hold that the recanvassing statute may not be employed by
canvassing boards during a recount.
(My emphasis.)
The first decision seems quite clearly limited in its scope, in such a way that there is no contradiction in the second. The Seattle Times story you link to agrees with me on this. If you disagree, you owe it to our readers either to disclose that your disagreement is your opinion, or to explain clearly and factually what parts of the two decisions contradict each other. As I say, you've been studying this a lot longer and more carefully than I have, so maybe I'm all wrong on this. I'd like to see what you have to say about it -- in detail, not just implied in part of one sentence.
My suspicion is that "the Washington Supreme Court contradicted itself, so Gregoire's election is illegitimate" may shortly become part of the GOP's talking points, so this is no small matter.
"How did Bungie whore themselves out? Because they got acquired by the company who makes the main platform they target with their games?"
No, because they changed the main platform for their games to the company that acquired them.
Bungie did Mac games first and foremost. Minotaur and Pathways Into Darkness were Mac-only. Marathon was originally Mac-only, later ported to Windows. Myth was released for Mac and PC on the same day. And the world's first glimpse of Halo was a demo run live on a Mac, shown at MacWorld '99. After being acquired by Microsoft in 2000, Bungie had to promise they would still bring Halo to the Mac. Halo was released for the Xbox in late 2001. It finally appeared on the Mac in December 2003.
If you like, contact its author and, assuming this is reproducible on an IP that isn't used for other RSS requests, have him/her email me directly about this.
Oh, I was talking about caching webpages. But the cache hit rate would still be near-zero for RSS pages, assuming your software respects the limits we recommend:
While developing RSS reading software, it's best to pull your data from your own network, not a public site.
The dc:date field is not updated because it should not be. If you mean the Last-Modified field in the HTTP header, we send that correctly. We also send an ETag header.
And we do HTTP conditional GET correctly too, as far as I can tell:
$ telnet slashdot.org 80
Trying 66.35.250.150...
Connected to slashdot.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET/yro.rss HTTP/1.1
Host: slashdot.org
If-Modified-Since: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 09:11:06 GMT
HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 15:44:53 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_perl/1.29
Connection: close
ETag: "1ae265-3464-41b816a9"
Cache-Control: max-age=1800
Sorry, I jumped the gun a bit. But the feature's in place now. Check that "rss" link at the bottom of the homepage again, it should be a dynamic URL now, which you can paste into your RSS reader.
Check that "rss" link at the bottom of the homepage again. As of now, it should be a new dynamic URL that looks like index.pl?content_type=rss&logtoken= etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Of course that's news; it's interesting to anyone who's installed Tiger and wants to know what widgets are available. Why anyone would think Slashdot shouldn't run that is beyond me.
And I should add, that's on 10.4.0. I haven't installed 10.4.1 yet.
Hm. Works for me. Debian stable running a stock samba, mounted in Tiger from the regular old Network pane of the Finder. Only real change I made to /etc/samba/smb.conf was to bump SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF from 4096 to 65536.
We're working on it. Right now Slash just uses MySQL's MyISAM FULLTEXT indexing, which is kinda 2001. It's a cheap solution that we've limped along with for quite a while. But we've rewritten our search code to be modular, anticipating a better solution that we can plug in, once we find one we like. Our top contenders right now are Lucene and Kinosearch.
You were discussing something that's never happened? Interesting.
My best Myth story also involves a Trow. I was in the pregame chat before a game of Capture The Flag, on either If I Had A Trow or Desert Between Your Ears (I can't remember which was which anymore), when I noticed that Jason Jones was playing. Jason was the designer/creator of the game, and of Marathon before it, and I was a big fan of his work. I don't remember how I knew his handle, I probably read it in an interview or something. Anyway, when the game started, I was a little disappointed that he was on the other team but figured we'd do our best to kill him.
Remember how the Trow would actually freeze in place when it got down to about 20% health, but would not actually die? I played defense on our hill, and Jason won the game for his team in a spectacular ending. By the end, I was controlling just a few troops, and Jason had just 1 Trow, piloting it around near the flag trigger area trying to pick off my guys and/or contest our flag. I was trying to stall for time until my teammates could send a few units to help. Jason drew off my defenders far enough that he could make a run for the flag. I was right behind him, and just as he approached the trigger area, an archer got in the shot that froze his Trow in place.
But it didn't die. His defenseless, immobile Trow was one step inside the zone, and as my warriors rushed to deliver the death blow, I watched our flag go to contested, and then, a few seconds later, get captured. My team lost the game, and my warriors vanished just a few steps away from certain victory. I got to stare at the "you lost" screen for a few seconds, with Jason's petrified Trow the only unit visible. Pretty humbling. I never got a rematch.
A quote posted to Usenet, in 1995.
Amazon is really pushing its APIs to open-source developers and is trying very hard to become part of the open-source community. Jeff Bezos and Tim O'Reilly sat side by side at OSCON to tout how small developers could use Amazon's API to make lots of money. This worries me.
Red Mars
Green Mars
Blue Mars
And the John Varley Titan trilogy involves long life as well, though it's not really central. It's been a long time since I've read them, but as I recall, at one point the main character captures an enemy and pistol-whips him -- using the barrel of the gun, because, as the author remarks, you don't get to be 200 years old by doing stupid things like pointing a gun at yourself.
Titan
Wizard
Demon
Both series are highly recommended, some of the best in the genre.
The Slashdot effect is more visible because we send all our readers to one place at the same time, while LJ is highly distributed.
In fact that's how we first knew that Huygens had descended and landed safely -- its carrier signal to Cassini was actually picked up by a radio telescope here on Earth. That carrier was received on Earth for hours after Huygens landed!
I just saw cheering and clapping on the NASA TV feed a few minutes ago, but nobody is saying yet what that means.
Can you quote "the Democrats" saying those things?
I bought an AirPort Express for Christmas and plugged it into the home-theater surround sound and it sounds great and works just like it's supposed to. I'm thinking about buying a cheap used iMac to run iTunes so we can close up the laptop and let the music keep playing, but I'm with you -- if a cheap new Mac will be available, of course I'll get that instead. And if we do that, netTunes would be the logical way to control iTunes on the headless server. That'd be an ideal setup.
The other thing that headless Mac will be running is Phlink. A home menu-based voicemail service that takes messages or faxes and emails me the MP3s or JPEGs is pretty fun. If I'm getting the Mac to sit in the basement anyway, I can justify $150 for a really fancy answering machine...
So the part you put in bold, you made up.
This seems to imply with a note of sarcasm that the state Supreme Court is ruling against itself. I haven't been following your state's results as closely as you have, but this does not seem true to me. From my skimming of the link you gave to the Dec. 14 decision, I see that decision was regarding whether the Supreme Court could order the Secretary of State to order counties to re-check previously rejected ballots. That the Supreme Court refused to order this to be done does not in any way mean it, as you write, "disallowed" it from being done. This seems to me a fairly trivial point.
From the decision you linked to:
And the Supreme Court goes on to address precisely the contradiction I think you're raising, in its second decision, making itself quite clear:
(My emphasis.)
The first decision seems quite clearly limited in its scope, in such a way that there is no contradiction in the second. The Seattle Times story you link to agrees with me on this. If you disagree, you owe it to our readers either to disclose that your disagreement is your opinion, or to explain clearly and factually what parts of the two decisions contradict each other. As I say, you've been studying this a lot longer and more carefully than I have, so maybe I'm all wrong on this. I'd like to see what you have to say about it -- in detail, not just implied in part of one sentence.
My suspicion is that "the Washington Supreme Court contradicted itself, so Gregoire's election is illegitimate" may shortly become part of the GOP's talking points, so this is no small matter.
No, because they changed the main platform for their games to the company that acquired them.
Bungie did Mac games first and foremost. Minotaur and Pathways Into Darkness were Mac-only. Marathon was originally Mac-only, later ported to Windows. Myth was released for Mac and PC on the same day. And the world's first glimpse of Halo was a demo run live on a Mac, shown at MacWorld '99. After being acquired by Microsoft in 2000, Bungie had to promise they would still bring Halo to the Mac. Halo was released for the Xbox in late 2001. It finally appeared on the Mac in December 2003.
If you like, contact its author and, assuming this is reproducible on an IP that isn't used for other RSS requests, have him/her email me directly about this.
I'll email your friend and if his script is still having troubles I'll try to sort out what's going on.
While developing RSS reading software, it's best to pull your data from your own network, not a public site.
The dc:date field is not updated because it should not be. If you mean the Last-Modified field in the HTTP header, we send that correctly. We also send an ETag header.
And we do HTTP conditional GET correctly too, as far as I can tell:
Sorry, I jumped the gun a bit. But the feature's in place now. Check that "rss" link at the bottom of the homepage again, it should be a dynamic URL now, which you can paste into your RSS reader.
Check that "rss" link at the bottom of the homepage again. As of now, it should be a new dynamic URL that looks like index.pl?content_type=rss&logtoken= etc.
Try it now.
Sorry, I goofed, that feature I described is subscriber-only. I'd forgotten that. I'll update the FAQ to describe it.