I suppose it depends on how much trust you have in the moving company. Taxi drivers in my city are notorious for taking the long way to their destination to get more money. Maybe these movers charged by the hour.
Its an interesting hack all the same. I think people will take this kind information for granted in the near future.
It might be easier for them to watch the location of the delivery, as opposed to repeatedly calling the removal people to find out where they were.
I am interested in getting phones with something like google latitude because a lot of our calls amount to "where are you" or "when will you be home", etc. And I hate talking on a phone when I am in transit.
I will keep a link to your id and wait to see if there is more interest. So far you are the only person who has expressed interest. I only want one or two myself so I will wait for more replies and get back to you when/if we have the numbers.
Since we are going to have non technical people using linux I think it would be better to have everything in / except/home under a folder like/linux. So you would have...
I don't see why users should care about what goes in/bin,/usr/bin and so on. Thats for the operating system and package manager to take care of.
My wife has her own filing system. Everything she is currently working on goes on the desktop. Her files are arranged geometrically into "folders". She has a hierarchy in her mail system. Everything outside there is pretty ad-hoc. He system drives me mad, but what can I do? Its her system.
I think we should recognise that the file naming and organising semantics we have known for 40 years might not be the best way to go. When using a graphical user interface I don't see why several files should not have the same name. Versioning could be provided by the file system. This has been in RSX since the 1970s and VMS since the 1980s.
I think it would be interesting if gnome users could create folders with similar semantics to the garbage bin. You could put multiple files in the container regardless of their file name.
All true, but I bet the astronauts wish they had a "just launch this fucker" button they could push to override the worry warts in mission control.
Lightning at 20 miles, who cares! Lets get on with it!
That would be suicidal. More often than not the operators of the Shuttle have been shown to be insufficiently conservative.
Yeah because if we get invaded by baby elephants from Alpha Centauri somebody is bound to say hey lets build an Orion. And then they will probably build the wrong one.
This is from Carrying the Fire, by Michael Collins. The story as Collins tells it is that as the crew entered the capsule for the launch he noticed that Armstrong had a loose strap on the thigh of his pressure suit which was about to snare a T shaped hand controller. The launch escape system is triggered by twisting the controller so there was a risk of accidently triggering it. In the book he suggests the last word spoken in the CM before the LES fired would be "oops".
Tracking down a bug at work I once downloaded the sources for X11. I can't recall if it was XFree or X.org which I got but what I saw was scary. Its all old school C. Functions trust the array indices they are given. Bounds checking is rarely done. I was eventually able to prove that the code I investigated was correct, but it took a lot of head scratching to get that far.
I don't know how they've done it, but I know this is a good thing.
They've done it by removing the responsibility of X talking directly to the graphics hardware by implementing Kernel Mode Switching for graphics drivers (among other much needed overhauls to the Linux graphics stack). Thus X can now access what it needs at the logged-in users' level and doesn't need root.
I could always do startx as a user. Was I missing out on some hardware features by doing that?
I know for sure that I used Germanium diodes before and I'm pretty sure Germanium-based LED's have been developed before. Dunno what the news is.
They seem to have improved on Germanium LEDs by doping them differently to the point where the can look into using photons to transmit information around a silicon chip in place of electrons. I imagine they will look into building light pipes out of silicon, ie, little optical fibres.
OT: somebody should teach ascribe how to use the title tag.
Similar thing with wifi routers. Rather than having one default password I think the password should initially be set to the device serial number. Similarly the voice mail password could initially be set to the first four digits of the phones IMEI number, or the customer account number or something similar.
All these things can be found out, but you might have to do some breaking and entering to get there.
Slashdot Mirror
I didn't think so. Everything they cover gets the same treatment.
I suppose it depends on how much trust you have in the moving company. Taxi drivers in my city are notorious for taking the long way to their destination to get more money. Maybe these movers charged by the hour.
Its an interesting hack all the same. I think people will take this kind information for granted in the near future.
It might be easier for them to watch the location of the delivery, as opposed to repeatedly calling the removal people to find out where they were.
I am interested in getting phones with something like google latitude because a lot of our calls amount to "where are you" or "when will you be home", etc. And I hate talking on a phone when I am in transit.
ABC
So Disney is considered a government now?!
Australian Broadcast Corporation. Funded directly by the Australian federal government. Otherwise, run like a smaller version of the BBC.
the BBC is paid for by the british public through a "license" we are pretty much forced to buy.
By the Government. Thats what I mean by "one way or another".
The BBC is paid for by the British Government, one way or another. In a different country that type of funding would be a really bad idea.
I will keep a link to your id and wait to see if there is more interest. So far you are the only person who has expressed interest. I only want one or two myself so I will wait for more replies and get back to you when/if we have the numbers.
Thanks.
I don't put manila folders inside other manila folders. They don't fit.
I don't see why users should care about what goes in /bin, /usr/bin and so on. Thats for the operating system and package manager to take care of.
My wife has her own filing system. Everything she is currently working on goes on the desktop. Her files are arranged geometrically into "folders". She has a hierarchy in her mail system. Everything outside there is pretty ad-hoc. He system drives me mad, but what can I do? Its her system.
I think we should recognise that the file naming and organising semantics we have known for 40 years might not be the best way to go. When using a graphical user interface I don't see why several files should not have the same name. Versioning could be provided by the file system. This has been in RSX since the 1970s and VMS since the 1980s.
I think it would be interesting if gnome users could create folders with similar semantics to the garbage bin. You could put multiple files in the container regardless of their file name.
All true, but I bet the astronauts wish they had a "just launch this fucker" button they could push to override the worry warts in mission control. Lightning at 20 miles, who cares! Lets get on with it!
That would be suicidal. More often than not the operators of the Shuttle have been shown to be insufficiently conservative.
I can proudly say that if i google my full name it yields 0 results. How many of you can say that??
If I google my name I get thousands of results, few of them about me. Not that I care if people match my profile with my identity.
Normally , a power supply contains a rectifier , so this should mean the signal can't be carried back.
Current going into a diode will tell you the impedance coming out of the diode.
I had the same reaction, why would meteor data ever be classified????
Because it gives you information about the sensors used to detect the meteors.
Thanks.
Yeah because if we get invaded by baby elephants from Alpha Centauri somebody is bound to say hey lets build an Orion. And then they will probably build the wrong one.
God was knocking, and he wanted in bad....
control+u
LOL!
The Australian Federal Police were originally going to be called the Federal Law Enforcement Agency.
This is from Carrying the Fire, by Michael Collins. The story as Collins tells it is that as the crew entered the capsule for the launch he noticed that Armstrong had a loose strap on the thigh of his pressure suit which was about to snare a T shaped hand controller. The launch escape system is triggered by twisting the controller so there was a risk of accidently triggering it. In the book he suggests the last word spoken in the CM before the LES fired would be "oops".
Tracking down a bug at work I once downloaded the sources for X11. I can't recall if it was XFree or X.org which I got but what I saw was scary. Its all old school C. Functions trust the array indices they are given. Bounds checking is rarely done. I was eventually able to prove that the code I investigated was correct, but it took a lot of head scratching to get that far.
I don't know how they've done it, but I know this is a good thing.
They've done it by removing the responsibility of X talking directly to the graphics hardware by implementing Kernel Mode Switching for graphics drivers (among other much needed overhauls to the Linux graphics stack). Thus X can now access what it needs at the logged-in users' level and doesn't need root.
I could always do startx as a user. Was I missing out on some hardware features by doing that?
I know for sure that I used Germanium diodes before and I'm pretty sure Germanium-based LED's have been developed before. Dunno what the news is.
They seem to have improved on Germanium LEDs by doping them differently to the point where the can look into using photons to transmit information around a silicon chip in place of electrons. I imagine they will look into building light pipes out of silicon, ie, little optical fibres.
OT: somebody should teach ascribe how to use the title tag.
Similar thing with wifi routers. Rather than having one default password I think the password should initially be set to the device serial number. Similarly the voice mail password could initially be set to the first four digits of the phones IMEI number, or the customer account number or something similar.
All these things can be found out, but you might have to do some breaking and entering to get there.