man skill : skill, snice - send a signal or report process status
There's also:
man killall : killall - kill processes by name
I got annoyed by having to find the proc ID in top too, and stubled across killall. Haha =]
I found this little php script called "cp.php" which I renamed pcp and use for mundane cp whenever I'm in a tty and hafta do lotsa copying. It gives lotsa info about progress of copying and such, which I really like compared to the rather spartan cp function. It may be somewhat superfluous, but it's nice eye candy in a bash, and nice for moving lotsa big files.
Someone with more Google skills than I might be able to find it online. I got it from sourceforge originally, but it doesn't seem to show up in their search any more (not that anything usually does =/ )
I found this little php script called "cp.php" which I renamed pcp and use for mundane cp whenever I'm in a tty and hafta do lotsa copying. It gives lotsa info about progress of copying and such, which I really like compared to the rather spartan cp function. It may be somewhat superfluous, but it's nice eye candy in a bash, and nice for moving lotsa big files.
Someone with more Google skills than I might be able to find it online. I got it from sourceforge originally, but it doesn't seem to show up in their search any more (not that anything usually does =/ )
I am a young'un! I got my introduction to the color coding because I forgot which was which in a bundle of twelve or so in a new house. I knew only the primary line was actually hooked up to the house, and I didn't have a multimeter (and I've had poor luck with compasses and coils of wire =]). I was in a hurry, and I ended up using trial, error and my tongue. Gives a whole new meaning to: =p
I'd like to start out by saying that, being Irish, I've always had a softspot for Druidic cultural tidbits. =]
What I meant when I said the modern dilemma was the philosophical problem of there being more knowledge in the world than any one person can consume, with the obvious implications on ethics etc. I can't remember the actual name for the dilemma, but it has probably been around for a long time.
My old philosophy prof always said "the modern dillema" so I supposed I co-opted that. I guess "two or three hundred years ago" was a very poor choice of wording. I was actually worried about that, haha.
Anywho, I would contend that there is simply, even in conceptual form, too much information for any one person to learn and comprehend, even with an impressive Druid-like memory. =] And I would also go on to argue that there is a very low limit for the amount of information any one person can realistically effectively use on a daily basis, creating a necessity to break up fields of study as they grow and become more complex. Thus the saying "Jack of all trades, master of none."
I'll bet the people who maintain or design and build the Tesla turbines know how they work. That's what I mean by divergence versus commoditization.
With commoditization, as you describe it, the common fear is that all the knowledge will one day be lost because no one has to use it anymore. You see this in a lot of B Sci-Fi movies set in the distant future, often leading to religious-based uprising (religion being the clear enemy of science, what?)
Whereas, with technological divergence, you end up with the breakup of a field into two, like "computers" into "hardware" and "software." There are plenty of electrical engineering students who know what NPN and PNP mean, and haven't a clue about, say, the pros and cons of classes versus structs re functional programming and modularization.
Thus I say it is a point of divergence, because the field has broken into component fields. Commoditization is a realistic fear, which was certainly described somewhat in TFA, but I think it is somewhat narrow-minded at this point. Most people don't know a carburetor from a transaxle, or what ring and tell have to do with traditional land-line telephones. That doesn't mean that knowledge is lost.
I, being a believer in meritocracy, ignore the actions of the end-users, who know not what they do.
You always get this kind of attitude when a technology reaches a divergent point. I would hazard that many people know how to build CPUs and how the internal workings of a system function as ever, it's just that the hardware and the software have slowly diverged over the past twenty years. No longer do you need to know the particulars of a video card to communicate with it, etc. It isn't necessary for software people to know hardware, and visa versa. Both fields have become complex enough to function independently.
Thanks to standardization of system design and function, this isn't really a problem. And I'm certain that AMD and Intel take very careful consideration of the software demands their hardware will face (as do Crucial, ASUS, et al).
There may be a few remaining niches where the software and the hardware remain inextricably intertwined, such as small consumer devices, (iPod Nano, palmtop computers, etc).
It's the modern dilemma: there is too much to know. Two or three hundred years ago, you could read every book ever written. Now you can't even read every book ever written about computing.
It's the old joke: How many software engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
Random quotes:
"1,000 times current levels."
"The other half [of the energy] is gobbled up by a leakage current in transistors"
"designed to consume a tenth of the power"
"about a tenth the demand"
"About two years ago, the Intel process and development groups decided to find out if they could expand the space or the scope that 65-nanometer technology could serve and make adjustments so it could make a chip with extra-low leakage."
Um, so, wait, making chips with extra low transistor leakage, where leakage is only half of the chips power consumption, can result in one tenth power consumption? And even, 1/1000th what some chips use? 1/1000th the power consumption of what, a penny in the circuit breaker?
Um, why don't you just write it? Do you not have the hour or two it would take to write and debug a simple, CMS based website? I mean, WordPress? Come on!
Of course, it might just be my perception that it only takes an hour or two... you know what happens to time when you code, even when it's just web design.
Anywho, you could always just use a wiki without the whole user-added content stuff if you're really lazy.
Ooooh, I hate it when I do that with formatting =[. Otherwise, very nice explanation. Kinda fixes the gapping hole in mine, wherein I hoped everyone would simply immediately understand and apply a rather insubstantial conceptualization =]
Whenever you needed to get an answer in trig class, could you give it in the form of "c^2" or did you have to take the square root? My teachers always wanted the non-squared version... thus, the practical form of the Pythagorean Theorem that I actually used was "(a^2 + b^2)^(1 / 2) = c." I really only meant that as a base comparison between this and traditional trig.
Although, you could argue that changing the form thusly leads to the creation of the convoluted mathematics behind sine and cosine, et al. You know, I think that's Dr. Wildberger's point. Heh =]
Actually, it does look like just a tangent of traditional trigonometry. After reading the first chapter, most of his math seems to be the switching forms of the Pythagorean theorem from:
(a^2 + b^2)^(1 / 2) = c
to:
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
With a lot of just applying that paradigm to every aspect of trig. Pretty nifty time saver, but I fear the unique insights from this method may be few.
Slashdot Mirror
I hope this doesn't hopelessly ground us in chemical rockets the way car racing stuck us with internal combustion engines.
Cyric, if you wanted an Elite rip-off (which is truly high praise, as Elite is great =]) that was actually open source (and good to boot!) try:
Vegastrike
Maybe he was thinking that they Airbus was built and designed in Europe? And that he'd need to move there in order to work on it?
http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=29
Oops... I forgot my html tags =[ Shoulda been:
man skill : skill, snice - send a signal or report process status
There's also:
man killall : killall - kill processes by name
I got annoyed by having to find the proc ID in top too, and stubled across killall. Haha =]
man skill : skill, snice - send a signal or report process status There's also: man killall : killall - kill processes by name I got annoyed by having to find the proc ID in top too, and stubled across killall. Haha =]
Haha, I am clearly a CLI noob! Thank you =]
I found this little php script called "cp.php" which I renamed pcp and use for mundane cp whenever I'm in a tty and hafta do lotsa copying. It gives lotsa info about progress of copying and such, which I really like compared to the rather spartan cp function. It may be somewhat superfluous, but it's nice eye candy in a bash, and nice for moving lotsa big files.
Someone with more Google skills than I might be able to find it online. I got it from sourceforge originally, but it doesn't seem to show up in their search any more (not that anything usually does =/ )
I found this little php script called "cp.php" which I renamed pcp and use for mundane cp whenever I'm in a tty and hafta do lotsa copying. It gives lotsa info about progress of copying and such, which I really like compared to the rather spartan cp function. It may be somewhat superfluous, but it's nice eye candy in a bash, and nice for moving lotsa big files.
Someone with more Google skills than I might be able to find it online. I got it from sourceforge originally, but it doesn't seem to show up in their search any more (not that anything usually does =/ )
I am a young'un! I got my introduction to the color coding because I forgot which was which in a bundle of twelve or so in a new house. I knew only the primary line was actually hooked up to the house, and I didn't have a multimeter (and I've had poor luck with compasses and coils of wire =]). I was in a hurry, and I ended up using trial, error and my tongue. Gives a whole new meaning to: =p
I'd like to start out by saying that, being Irish, I've always had a softspot for Druidic cultural tidbits. =]
What I meant when I said the modern dilemma was the philosophical problem of there being more knowledge in the world than any one person can consume, with the obvious implications on ethics etc. I can't remember the actual name for the dilemma, but it has probably been around for a long time.
My old philosophy prof always said "the modern dillema" so I supposed I co-opted that. I guess "two or three hundred years ago" was a very poor choice of wording. I was actually worried about that, haha.
Anywho, I would contend that there is simply, even in conceptual form, too much information for any one person to learn and comprehend, even with an impressive Druid-like memory. =] And I would also go on to argue that there is a very low limit for the amount of information any one person can realistically effectively use on a daily basis, creating a necessity to break up fields of study as they grow and become more complex. Thus the saying "Jack of all trades, master of none."
I'll bet the people who maintain or design and build the Tesla turbines know how they work. That's what I mean by divergence versus commoditization.
With commoditization, as you describe it, the common fear is that all the knowledge will one day be lost because no one has to use it anymore. You see this in a lot of B Sci-Fi movies set in the distant future, often leading to religious-based uprising (religion being the clear enemy of science, what?)
Whereas, with technological divergence, you end up with the breakup of a field into two, like "computers" into "hardware" and "software." There are plenty of electrical engineering students who know what NPN and PNP mean, and haven't a clue about, say, the pros and cons of classes versus structs re functional programming and modularization.
Thus I say it is a point of divergence, because the field has broken into component fields. Commoditization is a realistic fear, which was certainly described somewhat in TFA, but I think it is somewhat narrow-minded at this point. Most people don't know a carburetor from a transaxle, or what ring and tell have to do with traditional land-line telephones. That doesn't mean that knowledge is lost.
I, being a believer in meritocracy, ignore the actions of the end-users, who know not what they do.
You always get this kind of attitude when a technology reaches a divergent point. I would hazard that many people know how to build CPUs and how the internal workings of a system function as ever, it's just that the hardware and the software have slowly diverged over the past twenty years. No longer do you need to know the particulars of a video card to communicate with it, etc. It isn't necessary for software people to know hardware, and visa versa. Both fields have become complex enough to function independently.
Thanks to standardization of system design and function, this isn't really a problem. And I'm certain that AMD and Intel take very careful consideration of the software demands their hardware will face (as do Crucial, ASUS, et al).
There may be a few remaining niches where the software and the hardware remain inextricably intertwined, such as small consumer devices, (iPod Nano, palmtop computers, etc).
It's the modern dilemma: there is too much to know. Two or three hundred years ago, you could read every book ever written. Now you can't even read every book ever written about computing.
It's the old joke: How many software engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
That's a hardware problem.
Google agrees that Klingon is a real language, but Elvish is pushing it.
Why don't the security conscious just use OpenBSD?
Random quotes:
"1,000 times current levels."
"The other half [of the energy] is gobbled up by a leakage current in transistors"
"designed to consume a tenth of the power"
"about a tenth the demand"
"About two years ago, the Intel process and development groups decided to find out if they could expand the space or the scope that 65-nanometer technology could serve and make adjustments so it could make a chip with extra-low leakage."
Um, so, wait, making chips with extra low transistor leakage, where leakage is only half of the chips power consumption, can result in one tenth power consumption? And even, 1/1000th what some chips use? 1/1000th the power consumption of what, a penny in the circuit breaker?
And they don't even link to the actually readable version:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/print/11/3
Um, why don't you just write it? Do you not have the hour or two it would take to write and debug a simple, CMS based website? I mean, WordPress? Come on!
Of course, it might just be my perception that it only takes an hour or two... you know what happens to time when you code, even when it's just web design.
Anywho, you could always just use a wiki without the whole user-added content stuff if you're really lazy.
So much the better as the actual link to the FSM article is here:
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Flying_spaghetti_monFor more information on the Swedish anti-copyright movement, see: PiratByrån (InterTran English)
Regarding your sig: can I purchase a "One" ring?
A mathematician was trying to explain something to someone who isn't a mathematician? Of cosecant!
Although, you could argue that changing the form thusly leads to the creation of the convoluted mathematics behind sine and cosine, et al. You know, I think that's Dr. Wildberger's point. Heh =]
(a^2 + b^2)^(1 / 2) = c
to:
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
With a lot of just applying that paradigm to every aspect of trig. Pretty nifty time saver, but I fear the unique insights from this method may be few.
D'oh! I'm on Linux... *snaps* dang.
1 - RedHat
2 - Debian
3 - Slackware
4 - SUSE
5 - Mandriva (Maybe)
Any to add/remove?