You're doing it wrong! It's hard work being an asshole all the time where I alternate between -1 flamebait and 5 funny, but since funny doesn't get you karma, whenever you get one too many -1s, you just have to find some random comment which is "5 insightful", and reply to it with a half-baked counter-argument - you don't even need to think it through! you get "5 interesting" because you didn't bother to actually add any insight, and BANG! Back up to "Excellent" again. Or just wait for a site to get slashdotted and post the google cache. "here's a mirror". 5 informative.
You have 2 requirements - accountability, and ease of remembering. Usually one without the other. Simple.
First, you assign a range of IPs to an arbitrary number, containing a 3 letter location, which never changes, regardless if you rebuild the machine. Eg. for London:
lon-001 A 10.0.0.1 lon-002 A 10.0.0.2 lon-003 A 10.0.0.3 etc.
Then create meaningful names. eg the person who uses the machine, or what it does if it's a server:
Well, having played 10-versus-10 FIFA 2009, the football version basically works like this..
I'm in the middle, I'm in the middle, cross it! You're offside! I'm not! Ok, ready? shit..fuck..shit.. ok, cross it! incoming!... OH YOU TWAT, that landed in row Z! sorry:(
nice to see a person that has the right tool for the job.
Having spent the last 6 hours writing music using a softsynth on linux (we're doing a 64k entry for the demoscene, on linux, so we have no choice), I have to say, in spite of the pre-emptive kernel, there need to be some serious kernel changes before it can stand up to the low latency requirements of music production.
My synth will happily plod away in interactive mode using about 30% cpu on windows (there's reasons why I can't just boot into windows and run it), and yet it munches about 40% whilst idle in its VST host on linux, and regularly spazzes out at 100% of the interrupt time given to it, requiring me to hit the panic button. That's with the pre-emptive kernel and realtime-everything switched on. All of this whilst "top" is showing that it's actually only using 30% of the total cpu time. It won't just ramp up to use the entire cpu. On the standard kernel, it's, erm.. well.
The problem appears to be the way in which the different applications are talking to eachother through processes which depend on eachother's data streams, but don't get called NOW when you need it. The previous version of my synth was a basic jack midi device, and that was even worse. Timing bugs all over the place. Occasionally it would miss entire notes.
Then again, if ubuntu are taking this seriously, hopefully we can see linux improve in this respect soon.
Either that, or I'm off to buy a quad-core xeon.
nah.. I mean, how can anyone defeat ANYTHING called "Spatio-temporal Network-level Automatic Reputation Engine"? I can barely even say it. When the machines finally take over, the human race will probably be wiped out by a Spatio-temporal Network-level Automatic Reputation Engine. It probably has its own gravity field. ZOMG! The Spatio-temporal Network-level Automatic Reputation Engines are coming!
Mod parent up. it's Microsoft's monopoly and use of OEM licensing to force vendors to sell machines with windows on them which the EU should be addressing.
I wasn't going to bother replying to this comment, because mostly, it was right!
Then again, look at the 100 years war on wikipedia and check out the number of belligerents! I'm guessing that you're a dweller of the British Isles from your knowledge, but not an Englishman. Thing is, there is no atrocity of English past that one of my family members wasn't victim to. My grandfather was from Tiperrrary, my other grandfather from Wales. And yet I was born in Portsmouth. Does it matter? It's a bit like accusing a white bloke of being a slaver. I don't even know why I had to justify the IrishWelsh bit. Are the newborn in England now excused? In fact, why the fuck does Irish heritage make a difference?:-)
If you want to know what England is, or what France is, or what Normandy was, or what Wales is, or who was responsible for all that, and how it could have all ended up different, and why you're speaking on this website in English, which didn't really exist as a language until it replaced Anglo-Saxon, or why there's so many French words in it, and you want proof of it, then a load of verifiable evidence from a bean-counter in charge of paying each individual soldier involved in it, complete with dates, is a good place to start looking.
Alternately, you could pick up a bible and guess. That would be the King James version, I imagine, which just happens to be written to "thee" in sixteenth century English.
Damn.. you got there first, although I was going to make some joke about them having sex. You wasted a perfect opportunity to gross out the whole of slashdot!
Right. As much as I hate macs, because I don't have a turtle-net sweater or keep a blog or think I'm cool, there's one thing on macs I am really envious of.
Their terminals have keyboard shortcuts for cutting and pasting. You can sort of do that in 'screen' by hitting a set of key combinations so tedious it's quicker to reach for the mouse, or you could do what mac users get, which is hold down a meta key and move the cursor about.
Until you start paying rego, compulsary third party insurance and obeying the road rules you don't have any moral right to make use of the road.
I do. Costs me £30/year and insures me for £1000000 in damages.
Or in other words, move the fuck over.
I'll move the fuck over when it's safe for you to overtake. I expect 70 cm between me and kerb, and a further 70cm between me and passing car, as dictated by the highway code. If there are hazards, crossings, or junctions coming up, then I'm not pulling in, but I'm happy to peddle at 30mph whilst doing so. IF you hit me, then I hope your cellmate prefers being the woman.
I ride three or four times a week and know my place when I hit the road, that is I'm living on borrowed time at everybody elses expense, patience and convenience riding my bike on a piece of government infrastructure that was not designed for nor payed for by push bike riders.
Given your attitude, I sincerely doubt you actually ride at all, ever. I could bring up various factors such as the fact that I also paid for that road with my annual road tax, or that my bike causes about 1% as much wear and tear as the fat fucks in cars who think they're the only ones entitled to use it. Then of course, there's congestsion - it's YOU that's jamming the roads up, not us. A little knowledge of how traffic jams occur might help you. I won't quote the equations because I expect you'll find them difficult, but in a 30mph limit with a single lane, if there is a bike doing 20mph half way down it, then the only effect will be a brief gap in the traffic around the cyclist. Upon reaching the next junction after overtaking the bike, you will have lost ZERO time, except maybe some fuel as you put down the accellerator and power up to tailgate the car that's in front. That's what you can't pass. In fact, look up "rolling blockade" - police cars use this very tactic to relieve pressure at junctions. If everyone piles up to a junction as fast as they can, it creates a bottleneck. If there isn't a car in front, then chances are it's safe to overtake the cyclist anyway because the road is open. What next, charging pedestrians for crossings?
mod parent up. I searched for this before nearly saying the same thing. This side of the pond, "liberal" means "liberal", and "conservative" just means "non-unionist"
Slashdot Mirror
You're doing it wrong! It's hard work being an asshole all the time where I alternate between -1 flamebait and 5 funny, but since funny doesn't get you karma, whenever you get one too many -1s, you just have to find some random comment which is "5 insightful", and reply to it with a half-baked counter-argument - you don't even need to think it through! you get "5 interesting" because you didn't bother to actually add any insight, and BANG! Back up to "Excellent" again. Or just wait for a site to get slashdotted and post the google cache. "here's a mirror". 5 informative.
they must have let gays in there
Maybe in America, the word has a different meaning, but this side of the pond, "bumming" is a verb.
how the hell is "Qi" pronounced "chee"?
Meanwhile, the alternative name is aiouxclvkjw, pronounced "bullshit".
You have 2 requirements - accountability, and ease of remembering. Usually one without the other. Simple.
First, you assign a range of IPs to an arbitrary number, containing a 3 letter location, which never changes, regardless if you rebuild the machine. Eg. for London:
lon-001 A 10.0.0.1
lon-002 A 10.0.0.2
lon-003 A 10.0.0.3
etc.
Then create meaningful names. eg the person who uses the machine, or what it does if it's a server:
dave-pc CNAME lon-001
sarah-pc CNAME lon-002
proxy CNAME lon-003
my own synth.. it's for a 64k demo. And yes, I have optimised it :-)
wouldn't normally reply to my own comment, but as I posted that, the "fortune" comment at the bottom of slashdot was "You now have Asian Flu."
Great! I just spent the past 3 days in bed with swine flu :(
Well, having played 10-versus-10 FIFA 2009, the football version basically works like this..
I'm in the middle, I'm in the middle, cross it! ... :(
You're offside!
I'm not!
Ok, ready?
shit..fuck..shit.. ok, cross it!
incoming!
OH YOU TWAT, that landed in row Z!
sorry
best laugh I've had in weeks.
Having spent the last 6 hours writing music using a softsynth on linux (we're doing a 64k entry for the demoscene, on linux, so we have no choice), I have to say, in spite of the pre-emptive kernel, there need to be some serious kernel changes before it can stand up to the low latency requirements of music production.
My synth will happily plod away in interactive mode using about 30% cpu on windows (there's reasons why I can't just boot into windows and run it), and yet it munches about 40% whilst idle in its VST host on linux, and regularly spazzes out at 100% of the interrupt time given to it, requiring me to hit the panic button. That's with the pre-emptive kernel and realtime-everything switched on. All of this whilst "top" is showing that it's actually only using 30% of the total cpu time. It won't just ramp up to use the entire cpu. On the standard kernel, it's, erm.. well.
The problem appears to be the way in which the different applications are talking to eachother through processes which depend on eachother's data streams, but don't get called NOW when you need it. The previous version of my synth was a basic jack midi device, and that was even worse. Timing bugs all over the place. Occasionally it would miss entire notes.
Then again, if ubuntu are taking this seriously, hopefully we can see linux improve in this respect soon.
Either that, or I'm off to buy a quad-core xeon.
nah.. I mean, how can anyone defeat ANYTHING called "Spatio-temporal Network-level Automatic Reputation Engine"? I can barely even say it. When the machines finally take over, the human race will probably be wiped out by a Spatio-temporal Network-level Automatic Reputation Engine. It probably has its own gravity field. ZOMG! The Spatio-temporal Network-level Automatic Reputation Engines are coming!
Mod parent up. it's Microsoft's monopoly and use of OEM licensing to force vendors to sell machines with windows on them which the EU should be addressing.
I wasn't going to bother replying to this comment, because mostly, it was right! Then again, look at the 100 years war on wikipedia and check out the number of belligerents! I'm guessing that you're a dweller of the British Isles from your knowledge, but not an Englishman. Thing is, there is no atrocity of English past that one of my family members wasn't victim to. My grandfather was from Tiperrrary, my other grandfather from Wales. And yet I was born in Portsmouth. Does it matter? It's a bit like accusing a white bloke of being a slaver. I don't even know why I had to justify the IrishWelsh bit. Are the newborn in England now excused? In fact, why the fuck does Irish heritage make a difference? :-)
If you want to know what England is, or what France is, or what Normandy was, or what Wales is, or who was responsible for all that, and how it could have all ended up different, and why you're speaking on this website in English, which didn't really exist as a language until it replaced Anglo-Saxon, or why there's so many French words in it, and you want proof of it, then a load of verifiable evidence from a bean-counter in charge of paying each individual soldier involved in it, complete with dates, is a good place to start looking.
Alternately, you could pick up a bible and guess. That would be the King James version, I imagine, which just happens to be written to "thee" in sixteenth century English.
It was the other way around. The Normans invaded in 1066 and annexed England. After that, things got complicated.
Paint it pink! NOBODY would steal a pink laptop!
You should hear the noise it makes when I mistake its arse for a pencil sharpener.
slashdot is like a ford focus. they're both, er, um, you can get green ford focuses.
"Mammals digest fats differently than bacteria" Mammals digest fats differently to bacteria. Write it out 100 times.
Damn.. you got there first, although I was going to make some joke about them having sex. You wasted a perfect opportunity to gross out the whole of slashdot!
Right. As much as I hate macs, because I don't have a turtle-net sweater or keep a blog or think I'm cool, there's one thing on macs I am really envious of.
Their terminals have keyboard shortcuts for cutting and pasting. You can sort of do that in 'screen' by hitting a set of key combinations so tedious it's quicker to reach for the mouse, or you could do what mac users get, which is hold down a meta key and move the cursor about.
oi, konsole authors.. are you listening?
I do. Costs me £30/year and insures me for £1000000 in damages.
I'll move the fuck over when it's safe for you to overtake. I expect 70 cm between me and kerb, and a further 70cm between me and passing car, as dictated by the highway code. If there are hazards, crossings, or junctions coming up, then I'm not pulling in, but I'm happy to peddle at 30mph whilst doing so. IF you hit me, then I hope your cellmate prefers being the woman.
Given your attitude, I sincerely doubt you actually ride at all, ever. I could bring up various factors such as the fact that I also paid for that road with my annual road tax, or that my bike causes about 1% as much wear and tear as the fat fucks in cars who think they're the only ones entitled to use it. Then of course, there's congestsion - it's YOU that's jamming the roads up, not us. A little knowledge of how traffic jams occur might help you. I won't quote the equations because I expect you'll find them difficult, but in a 30mph limit with a single lane, if there is a bike doing 20mph half way down it, then the only effect will be a brief gap in the traffic around the cyclist. Upon reaching the next junction after overtaking the bike, you will have lost ZERO time, except maybe some fuel as you put down the accellerator and power up to tailgate the car that's in front. That's what you can't pass. In fact, look up "rolling blockade" - police cars use this very tactic to relieve pressure at junctions. If everyone piles up to a junction as fast as they can, it creates a bottleneck. If there isn't a car in front, then chances are it's safe to overtake the cyclist anyway because the road is open. What next, charging pedestrians for crossings?
I don't know much about arse, but I know what I like.
Try ctrl-alt-escape. eww.. I just gave someone a windows tip. I feel dirty.
Here's one. They should make a key about the size of my forehead, marked SPAM. Preferably padded.
mod parent up. I searched for this before nearly saying the same thing. This side of the pond, "liberal" means "liberal", and "conservative" just means "non-unionist"