Fortunatly we didn't have to walk in the snow but back in my day, we had to go to the glass blower - get the tube shelling made and then go to the local "ship in a bottle" gift shop to get somebody to put all those metal bits inside the tube.
It took hours and we ended up having to get the guy to do it about 10-12 times, for each tube. He was much more used to how ships were supposed to be put together.
>>it almost reminds me of those computer science lectures where one proves that a program is correct, and then walks home without ever implementing and executing it.
This reminds me of a class that I had in which the teacher passed out a printed copy of a program and asked if it would work. I stated "No", while everyone else said "Yes."
The teacher stated that it had worked when he typed it in. I insisted that it shouldn't have. It turned out I was right. The VAX pascal compiler wasn't checking for array underflows correctly ( eg: declard 1...4 and element 0 was accessed ).
Bah humbug. Just to continue the Atari/Commodore flamewar...
I coded a basic multi-tasker that would allow different threads of a basic program to be run at the same time for the Commodore. It got confusing if you tried to modify a variable in more than 1 spot. It was more fun to play with than really practical.
Oh, while we're talking about ads and such I've got to ask (offtopically):
What's the deal with Hardees denigrating themselves and their burgers?
The guy says, It's the last place I'd go but there was nowhere else so I relunctantly went. I brought the boogers back to guys expecting to get razzed and they told me I'd have to get boogers again tomorrow.
I understood the ad had a positive meaning but it was so denigrating that I'm sure to think of it's negative message "last place I'd go" next time I select a place to eat.
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I'm wondering if this Boss at Redhat is too far up the chain that he can't see the forest for the trees.
Is he only looking at profit statements when he voices his opinion? I would suspect that the business side of Redhat brings them the most moolah ($$). Hence, from that point of view his statement is valid.
However, he fails to recognize the desktop linux, small server farms that are using Linux or Windows and the battle that is going on there. I would suspect that most people using Linux in this environment are using a downloaded copy with a few using a purchased copy for support reasons.
Evolution is a pretty full-featured mail client. I like it's additional features such as the calendaring etc. Updates come pretty regularly if you check every 2-3 weeks or so.
Plus it's easy to integrate spam-assassin into.
Mozilla's interface is tooo.... dunno. I just don't care for it. Evolution is pretty straight-forward and it's easy to figure out how to do stuff. Evolution is also faster than Mozilla in terms of searching folders too!
Granted, the parent post isn't true while mine is but this is cool to show to people who aren't that math knowledgable. Had some guy looking at it for 2 hours trying to find the problem in it.
>> You would think that all Microsoft needs to do is to twiddle a bit or two to change the value of the comparison or calculation that misuses the data.
Sorry, but this sounds like
You would think that all that needs to be done is to reach in and twiddle the and finaggle the tumor inside your head so that your brain will function correctly. Where's a knife, I'll do it.:-)
There goes 200,000 $ in people's PayPal accounts being locked up for some unknown reason. They have to pay the fine from somewhere...
The company couldn't stay afloat if they didn't do this so if you're one of the accounts that got frozen, deal with it. It's all for the best - after all - they are liable for the fine. Once they pay it it can be business as usual.
Oh, that's business as usual except for your account. Go ahead, open up a new one. What's the chances of being taken for a fool again?
Okay - I got tired of looking back at this story to see if anybody came up with the answer.
To disable the NMI interrupt on a 6502 without any hardware modifications do the following:
1) Trigger an NMI interrupt. 2) Within the NMI interrupt _do_not_ execute a RTI, instead pop off the contents pushed on the stack when the interrupt occurred and go along your merry way.
Since an NMI can't occur in the middle of an NMI - you're effectively having one long NMI interrupt and the others are disabled.
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Fortunatly we didn't have to walk in the snow but back in my day, we had to go to the glass blower - get the tube shelling made and then go to the local "ship in a bottle" gift shop to get somebody to put all those metal bits inside the tube.
It took hours and we ended up having to get the guy to do it about 10-12 times, for each tube. He was much more used to how ships were supposed to be put together.
>> Just a little note about Diablo II: WIth the original version you need classic to install the game.
I've recently installed it on my wife's laptop - I think it was version 1.03 before the BattleNet update and it didn't require a classic install.
>>it almost reminds me of those computer science lectures where one proves that a program is correct, and then walks home without ever implementing and executing it.
This reminds me of a class that I had in which the teacher passed out a printed copy of a program and asked if it would work. I stated "No", while everyone else said "Yes."
The teacher stated that it had worked when he typed it in. I insisted that it shouldn't have. It turned out I was right. The VAX pascal compiler wasn't checking for array underflows correctly ( eg: declard 1...4 and element 0 was accessed ).
>>Hell, it's not like dropped packets are unheard of on the Internet, and we still manage to read slashdot every day.
Gah, That's why I can never get first post.... Geesh.
Bah humbug. Just to continue the Atari/Commodore flamewar...
I coded a basic multi-tasker that would allow different threads of a basic program to be run at the same time for the Commodore. It got confusing if you tried to modify a variable in more than 1 spot. It was more fun to play with than really practical.
Should've used vi.
Oh, while we're talking about ads and such I've got to ask (offtopically):
What's the deal with Hardees denigrating themselves and their burgers?
The guy says, It's the last place I'd go but there was nowhere else so I relunctantly went. I brought the boogers back to guys expecting to get razzed and they told me I'd have to get boogers again tomorrow.
I understood the ad had a positive meaning but it was so denigrating that I'm sure to think of it's negative message "last place I'd go" next time I select a place to eat.
I'm wondering if this Boss at Redhat is too far up the chain that he can't see the forest for the trees.
Is he only looking at profit statements when he voices his opinion? I would suspect that the business side of Redhat brings them the most moolah ($$). Hence, from that point of view his statement is valid.
However, he fails to recognize the desktop linux, small server farms that are using Linux or Windows and the battle that is going on there. I would suspect that most people using Linux in this environment are using a downloaded copy with a few using a purchased copy for support reasons.
It looks to me like the problem is that the DNS servers don't support unicode so they're using a bad implementation of it.
Why not extend dns to support unicode? That way they'd be no translation or other crap to go through.
Granted software would need changing but that be the case with the mangled crap that's mentioned in the article.
What am I not understanding here? Or is this just implementation dreamed up to make life complicated?
>> Sure, they are great musicians. But Great White had WAY better hair!
Yeah, that was untill they burned their hair.
Evolution is a pretty full-featured mail client. I like it's additional features such as the calendaring etc. Updates come pretty regularly if you check every 2-3 weeks or so.
Plus it's easy to integrate spam-assassin into.
Mozilla's interface is tooo.... dunno. I just don't care for it. Evolution is pretty straight-forward and it's easy to figure out how to do stuff. Evolution is also faster than Mozilla in terms of searching folders too!
>>Emacs would make a great operating system, now if only someone would write a decent text editor for it.
They have. You simply have to invoke a shell from within Emacs and invoke vi.
*ducks*
>> What ever happens to locked out copies sold on e-bay?
:-)
> Caveat Emptor. Don't buy them on ebay then.
So I should buy them from the Yahoo! Stores then?
> Never, never, never, carry scissors into the MRI room.
Isn't it,
Never, never, never, run with scissors in the MRI room?
1/9 = .11111111 repeating
* 9 *9
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9/9 = .99999999999 repeating
1 = .99999 repeating
Granted, the parent post isn't true while mine is but this is cool to show to people who aren't that math knowledgable. Had some guy looking at it for 2 hours trying to find the problem in it.
but the space that I'm allowed to type in here is too short.. :-)
...both governments(non-US) pledged US$32 million into ...
Question: Why do other governments than the US pledge US dollars? Isn't that a little bit unfair taking advantage of the US like that?
Geesh...
"Hi, I'd like to speak to Steve"
"We don't have anyone working here"
*laughs* "Sure you do, it's _the_ Steve that I need to talk to."
"Nope. Sorry. Can I be of any assistance?"
"Yeah, tell him that the apple machine I got didn't work"
"Uh, this is the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation."
"That's nice but I really need to speak to Bill. I guess next time I call you'll answer Pizza Hut right?"
"No sir. This is a charitable organization."
"Stop screwing around - I need to tell Steve that my computer messed up."
--click--
Apple is so rude...
Upstream, Going against the gulf stream
Aagh, Can't remember the rest but now my image for the song is ruined by pictures of little tiny magnified sperm swimming up the gulf stream.
Gah! I wish it would stop.... Must watch something mindless to get it out of my head.
>> You would think that all Microsoft needs to do is to twiddle a bit or two to change the value of the comparison or calculation that misuses the data.
:-)
Sorry, but this sounds like
You would think that all that needs to be done is to reach in and twiddle the and finaggle the tumor inside your head so that your brain will function correctly. Where's a knife, I'll do it.
You're obviously not a programmer, aren't you?
There goes 200,000 $ in people's PayPal accounts being locked up for some unknown reason. They have to pay the fine from somewhere...
The company couldn't stay afloat if they didn't do this so if you're one of the accounts that got frozen, deal with it. It's all for the best - after all - they are liable for the fine. Once they pay it it can be business as usual.
Oh, that's business as usual except for your account. Go ahead, open up a new one. What's the chances of being taken for a fool again?
Put tropical fish in a glass enclosure inside the drive bays then run your coolant through the fish tank to keep it warm.
.....
Just be careful when feeding the fish
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... The only diffrence(sic) is that the OS movement releases bug-fix's usually within 24 hours unlike M$.
*LOL* I'll prob. be modded down ( but hey, who needs karma after they die? ) for this but lemme get this straight.
Parent post : Score 3 Interesting
>> This article is an obvious chance to bash M$, but take it easy.
Cool - Supposadly hear something from somebody non-biased, not anti-M$.
>>Yes,
It sounds like a "Oh I'm impartial statement" and then a stab in the back. Geesh.
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Okay - I got tired of looking back at this story to see if anybody came up with the answer.
To disable the NMI interrupt on a 6502 without any hardware modifications do the following:
1) Trigger an NMI interrupt.
2) Within the NMI interrupt _do_not_ execute a RTI, instead pop off the contents pushed on the stack when the interrupt occurred and go along your merry way.
Since an NMI can't occur in the middle of an NMI - you're effectively having one long NMI interrupt and the others are disabled.
Actually, I meant without any hardware modifications - there was a way to do this in software.