Re:I've been using vi for so long...
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I remember back in school I considered learning emacs (or jove *shudder*) and then I started to do sysadmin work, and guess which editor was always installed on every system by default (be it running SunOS, Ultrix, or Dynix [from hell]) Thats right, good ol' vi. And in nearly every case emacs was a "compile it later after everything is up and running" package, so I pretty much had no choice but to learn vi (or ed!). That said, the joy of vi is that even after using it for 18 years, I will still see someone doing something new that I have never seen before. Oh, and colors in vim are an abomination. Then again people should realize I use xterms with a black background and green text because it reminds me of the vt240 terminals I used to use. I'd type more but the arthritis is acting up and my wooden dentures need a new layer of tree sap to keep from falling out:-|
Re:I've been using vi for so long...
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Yeah, but which editor did you use to write the code for your editor?
That is the beauty of the vmware solutions mentioned above: since linux handles the underlying hardware, it presents the same interface to the windows side no matter what hardware you are running on. This is really really nice, since I can upgrade my hardware, re-install vmware, copy the vmware win2k files to the new machines, and it just works; win2k thinks it is on the exact same hardware. This is the setup I use at home to run photoshop, illustrator (both latest versions, wine compatibility isn't there yet), poser, vue, etc. So far everything works perfectly. In fact I think win2k runs better than ever, since it is seeing a standard set of hardware that it already has built-in drivers for, it seems way more stable than any other win2k installation I have ever used. Plus as an added bonus, I can backup win2k when vmware isn't running and restore it to the exact same state within minutes if something ever breaks.
While tar may or may not be available (or useable) under Microsoft Windows, you might want to consider one pitfal when using tapes for backups: if the office burns down and you lose your tape drive, unless you keep a spare drive offsite you now have a box of useless tapes until you can find and purchase a new tape drive that can read them. The advantage of removeable drives in this case is you can plunk them into any PC and get at the data right away.
The ET scanning project SETI@Home was wildly popular, and the mock project Yeti@Home much less so, but soon there will be a chance for the enthusiastic amateur astronomer to combine those two scanning techniques and spot explosions on the moon with simple telescope and camera equipment at home.
So they will be looking for exploding Yeti on the moon? I would pay good money to see that, but I dunno about the scientific value.
See what we need here is a new measurement system; I propose the "Chimp" unit. The variance between humans and chimps could be 1Chimp, while variances between humans could be measured in, say, milliChimps or even picoChimps. Plus then we could all poke fun at people whose dna measures as less then 1Chimp away from chimpanzees.
I think he made the rational decision that he would rather burn to death than wait for the new server hardware to arrive, and then wait for file restores to finish, all while people dropped in every 2 minutes to ask when the server would be back up.
I always wanted a little TV in my car's back window, so I could show video of cars smashing into each other, bloody bodies flying into the air, etc which could be played when people follow me too closely. Either that or a pneumatic arm with a ballpeen hammer on the end to put holes into the hood of cars following too closely.
You can read the first paragraph of the paper at Nature; subscribers can read it all.
Can anyone, umm, translate that paragraph into everyday english? I don't think we went over how gyrations of the vortex structure can be reversed by applying short bursts of the sinusoidal excitation field with amplitude of about 1.5 mT in high school physics.....
What about hanging upside down? If only they had found hanging upside down to be the healthiest non-standing posture, we could look forward to a wide array of new chair/desk/computer arrangements. And don't even get me started on how happy many big corps would be if they could hang employees from the ceiling, doubling the number of people they can cubicalize in a given space.
Well, if any of the scientists working on this project suddenly become filthy rich, we will know that the process works. Unless of course that happens in a parallel universe, and the ones in this universe aren't as smart.
I thought the moon got knocked out of orbit 7 years ago?
The best part of building near a crater is you are safer from future meteor strikes; it sort of follows the whole "lightening never strikes twice" principle. Speaking of which, I wonder how lightening rods work.....
Teach it to say, "here kittykittykittykitty" and the problem will eventually solve itself.
A friend of mine had a pair of mockingbirds that would sit outside his window and do a nice imitation of a car alarm bright and early in the morning. They were clever little buggers.
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I remember back in school I considered learning emacs (or jove *shudder*) and then I started to do sysadmin work, and guess which editor was always installed on every system by default (be it running SunOS, Ultrix, or Dynix [from hell]) Thats right, good ol' vi. And in nearly every case emacs was a "compile it later after everything is up and running" package, so I pretty much had no choice but to learn vi (or ed!). That said, the joy of vi is that even after using it for 18 years, I will still see someone doing something new that I have never seen before. Oh, and colors in vim are an abomination. Then again people should realize I use xterms with a black background and green text because it reminds me of the vt240 terminals I used to use. I'd type more but the arthritis is acting up and my wooden dentures need a new layer of tree sap to keep from falling out :-|
Yeah, but which editor did you use to write the code for your editor?
That is the beauty of the vmware solutions mentioned above: since linux handles the underlying hardware, it presents the same interface to the windows side no matter what hardware you are running on. This is really really nice, since I can upgrade my hardware, re-install vmware, copy the vmware win2k files to the new machines, and it just works; win2k thinks it is on the exact same hardware. This is the setup I use at home to run photoshop, illustrator (both latest versions, wine compatibility isn't there yet), poser, vue, etc. So far everything works perfectly. In fact I think win2k runs better than ever, since it is seeing a standard set of hardware that it already has built-in drivers for, it seems way more stable than any other win2k installation I have ever used. Plus as an added bonus, I can backup win2k when vmware isn't running and restore it to the exact same state within minutes if something ever breaks.
While tar may or may not be available (or useable) under Microsoft Windows, you might want to consider one pitfal when using tapes for backups: if the office burns down and you lose your tape drive, unless you keep a spare drive offsite you now have a box of useless tapes until you can find and purchase a new tape drive that can read them. The advantage of removeable drives in this case is you can plunk them into any PC and get at the data right away.
So they will be looking for exploding Yeti on the moon? I would pay good money to see that, but I dunno about the scientific value.
Once all that illegal content is gone, it will make it easier to find things like this.
Maybe NASA could drum up interest by giving travelers to the moon free iTunes store credit for each flight?
"Look, there is some water! Quick, lets crash a probe there and create a nice impact crater where very possibly the last life on Mars exists!"
No WONDER life on Mars has been so hard to find; it is hiding out of fear.
See what we need here is a new measurement system; I propose the "Chimp" unit. The variance between humans and chimps could be 1Chimp, while variances between humans could be measured in, say, milliChimps or even picoChimps. Plus then we could all poke fun at people whose dna measures as less then 1Chimp away from chimpanzees.
I think he made the rational decision that he would rather burn to death than wait for the new server hardware to arrive, and then wait for file restores to finish, all while people dropped in every 2 minutes to ask when the server would be back up.
I always wanted a little TV in my car's back window, so I could show video of cars smashing into each other, bloody bodies flying into the air, etc which could be played when people follow me too closely. Either that or a pneumatic arm with a ballpeen hammer on the end to put holes into the hood of cars following too closely.
Can anyone, umm, translate that paragraph into everyday english? I don't think we went over how gyrations of the vortex structure can be reversed by applying short bursts of the sinusoidal excitation field with amplitude of about 1.5 mT in high school physics.....
What about hanging upside down? If only they had found hanging upside down to be the healthiest non-standing posture, we could look forward to a wide array of new chair/desk/computer arrangements. And don't even get me started on how happy many big corps would be if they could hang employees from the ceiling, doubling the number of people they can cubicalize in a given space.
Let me guess; we could go read the Bradbury story, except you can't post it somewhere because it would be a copyright infringement? Oh the irony....
Though if they would just wait a few years, this would give Lucas a chance to destroy the childhoods of a whole new generation of moviegoers.
That depends, how comfortable are you drilling holes into your own skull?
Well, if any of the scientists working on this project suddenly become filthy rich, we will know that the process works. Unless of course that happens in a parallel universe, and the ones in this universe aren't as smart.
This isn't much of a feat for conjoined twins.
Anyone else find it sad that a search for sarcasm on google returns the wikipedia link as the first result?
The best part of building near a crater is you are safer from future meteor strikes; it sort of follows the whole "lightening never strikes twice" principle. Speaking of which, I wonder how lightening rods work.....
A friend of mine had a pair of mockingbirds that would sit outside his window and do a nice imitation of a car alarm bright and early in the morning. They were clever little buggers.
If you knew what he was doing with his hands before he started clapping, you would run away screaming instead.
Next hurdle to overcome: how to keep from going batshit insane while riding in an elevator for 7.5 days.
I just assumed the new Vista startup sound would be a "cha-ching" cash register sound, followed by Balmer saying, "Booyah!!!"
The world would be such a different place if people were struck by lightening right after uttering/typing a pun.....