Actually there is something more important than convincing them to study harder. What they need to do is learn to set goals on what they actually want to accomplish in life.
While "setting goals" is a common bit of advice, I think Graham carefully avoided mentioning it - it was conspicuously absent. I assume that it's because he thought it was either unimportant or the wrong approach.
Thanks to the magic of threading, this data can be updated dynamically. In the sample code there's a thread that reruns wiconfig regularly (about every second), repopulating the array with current data, which is displayed by the display thread.
I don't understand why this project needs the magic of threads instead of just sockets.
Err, as far as I can tell, the day after the 2nd Tuesday of _any_ month is in fact a Wednesday, and yes, yes, I do believe it will be the _second_ Wednesday !
Off topic, I know, but I'm being provoked, and it has pedagogical interest. Might even keep a bug out of someone's code some day.
Uhm, get out your calendar, and set the way-back machine to June, 2005. The day after the second Tuesday is, d'oh! From this I can deduce that you do not live in a community with monthly street-cleaning and alternate side of the street parking. Just doing my part to help the script kiddies coordinate their project management work flow. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
......June 2005 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa ..........1.2.3.4 .5.6.7.8.9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Microsoft also promises to release an updated version of the tool on the second Tuesday of each month.
Malicious software writers promise to release an updated version of their work on the day after the second Tuesday of each month (which may or may not be the second Wednesday).
In large part, the power seekers seem to negotiate their needs among themselves with cooperative grace, following a series of unspoken rules.
Chief among them, some say, is never to use more than half of the sockets in a wall outlet. If an outlet provides four sockets, electrical etiquette dictates that you can plug in, say, your laptop and your cellphone, but not the iPod, too.
Those who disregard this courtesy may find themselves the targets of grumblings and harsh stares.
"It's better not to hog all the outlets, of course," said Zyphus Lebrun, a graduate student in journalism at Columbia University. "It's like when you go to the Laundromat and there is one person using four dryers."
These power users carry $2k worth of toys to Starbucks, but they don't carry a $5 power strip. Genius.
I think 2d window managers are enough and that 3d window managers are silly. Years ago, when folks started adding shadows to title bars, resize handles, etc, I asked, Why not have ray traced shadows on these objects? What if I want to change the light source?
I've seen 3d wms, and I've never had the urge to use one. But if we're going to move away from flatland, why stop at three dimensions? Why not four or five?
One more time? What problem are you trying to solve by displaying these extra dimensions?
Like any other bug (transmitter, not software error), this would seem to rely on security through obscurity. If the person under surveillance (snoopee?) knew he was being bugged, it would be easy enough to foil.
Crooks use things like radio scanners to look for wireless bugs. They can use tools to search for such spyware, essentially tools like Adaware or virus scanners or sum | diff.
Once crooks find out how their systems are compromised, spyware removal tools can do their work, and crooks can take evasive measures. For example, installing many sets of OS binaries, DLL directories, registries, etc, on each machine. In different directories, different file systems, different disks, whatever.
You could play all sorts of cat and mouse games. Sounds sorta like fun, except, guilty or not, it's probably not fun having the heat on your tail.
Actually, if you do Hebrew, I think that you'd almost get Yiddish as a freebie.
Well, sort of. You can write Yiddish given Hebrew the same way that you can write French given English. There are minor differences that might not hinder understanding, but they change style.
There are some two-letter ligatures that are treated in Yiddish as single characters, see for example this virtual
Yiddish Keyboard. Note the line above the "feh" glyph, and the patach-yod-yod, which are distinctly Yiddish.
Re: the idea that Yiddish is comparable to Klingon in terms of its obscurity, before the nazis murdered most of the Yiddish speakers and caused the survivors to want to forget their Yiddish roots, Yiddish was culturally vibrant, with great creativity in literature, theater, music, newspapers, movies, etc. Most of this vitality disppeared in the latter half of the 20th century, but there is a small strong willed group of people working to keep Yiddish secular culture alive, and another group of religious Yiddish speakers who keep Yiddish alive as the spoken language of their Jewish heritage. No offense to the fans of Klingon (nuqneH!), but the situations of Yiddish and Klingon aren't that similar.
btw, I do have a Yiddish-Esperanto dictionary at home, there's a combination that inspired someone enough to product a fully fledged hardcover bound dictionary.
"... how they use the internet, and whether it has been beneficial or detrimental to their success."
Here, "use the internet" can mean anything from communicate with agents or people who book gigs or recording engineers or fellow musicians, to communicate with fans, to put up web sites with band info, sample tracks, etc. Most people wouldn't think of "having all my work traded on file sharing systems without my permission" as "how I use the internet." So a conclusion like "across the board, the internet helps artists make more money" is disingenuous. Note that I'm not saying that the net is good or bad for musicians, just that such a broad conclusion is dopey.
My point is that if you live in an apartment building, maybe 20% of the the tenants have broadband, but almost all of them probably have access to a neighbors's open wireless router signal. So those people may not be paying, they may not be using, but their homes are net-ready, and you can visit them and use your laptop on the net.
Am I the only one who thought that this story was going to describe using a media center to act as a bathroom in a remote place? After all the odd USB gadgets you see these days, you never know...
a classic hack (i don't know who first thought of this) is to take a handful of 128k macs and line them up and run software to display the time of day, one digit per screen. you can get arbitratily complex, with or without seconds, with a screens for the colons (flashing or not), date, networked or not, dali morphing, etc.
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Blitz championships, in human chess, as in computer chess, are of minimal relevance (compared to chess at full time controls). I did not say that Shredder was not a good program, Shredder is a fine program. It is not, however, the champion program.
As for being called an asshole by an anonymous coward, if I were an asshole, I would prefer that to being a coward.
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I'm sure that Junior is also bound by some issues such that it is not represented at Abu Dhabi.
You may be sure, I am not so sure. I don't mean to head off into troll territory, but you are saying that I'm making the mistaken assumption that all Arab nations are anti-Jewish, etc. I didn't say that, and I know that Jordan and Egypt have peace treaties with Israel, and that certain countries like Morocco and Turkey have more cordial relations with Israel.
I'm sure that you are mistaken about Junior being bound by an issue that kept it out of Abu Dhabi, I'm sure that the Israelis would be happy to go there for friendly competition. As for the treatment of Jews by the UAE establishment, you can search the web for Jews and Abu Dhabi, and find stuff like this portrayal of
PM Sharon drinking Arab blood on a popular show from Abu Dhabi TV.
I agree that the UAE is relatively cosmopolitan, but that says more about the rest of the Arab world than it says about them being cosmopolitan or permississive of the west in any familiar sense.
I do maintain that the UAE is part of the Arab community that avoids any interaction with Israel, and that's why their battle of the supercomputers does not involve the current champion.
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The "many times world champion engine" Shredder, is not the
current world champion engine. That would be
Junior, which is programmed by Israeli Jews. You wouldn't want them in Abu Dhabi, would you?
HIPAA, which went into effect in April 2003 to protect patient privacy in the USA, has provisions that seem to be incompatible with automatic Windows updates, see, for instance, this article at
InformIT (discussing HIPAA and Win2k SP3), which I will quote below.
... to be HIPAA compliant, your health-care organization must "reasonably safeguard protected health information from any intentional or unintentional use or disclosure." However, if SP3 is installed, Microsoft can now access your machines containing safeguarded information, such as confidential medical records. Ironically, however, you must install SP3 to be secure. Thus, every organization that needs to meet HIPAA's regulations must choose the lesser of two evils.
I see that Caldera/SCO's UNIX versions 5-7 are available. What happened to 1-4? How were 5-7 rescued?
The UNIX v1-4 that are being discussed as lost use a different numbering scheme from the UNIX System 5 and SCO/Caldera numbering scheme.
For a chronology of early UNIX systems, see my
UNIX timeline
from 1984. The v1-v4 are in the 1970-74 timeframe, and System V was from around 1982/83, and that's what latter-day UNIX System 5 is based on.
LOL, where's the cluebat? hint: you can't "remove" an rpm file, you need to remove the installed package...
Oops, right, thanks, sloanster. I did an rpm -qf on the broken binary to figure out what to rpm -e, and it erased, and now I'm back to good old rp8 lukewarm hotness.
I had forgotten that you can't rpm -e the.rpm (I don't rpm -e very often), you have to use the package name. You'd think that rpm could Do What I Meant. D'oh.
I realize that it would be easier if I were running something newer than rh7.3, but I have compatibility issues that keep me from doing this (involving not having time to port and test software that runs on 7.3). And really, 7.3 (2.4.18) suits my needs fine, it's sad when folks have dependencies on later versions when it's not necessary. Shouldn't I be able to run realplayer on a 2 year old OS?
Either way, the rp 10 code shouldn't just install halfway like that, it should notice that the libstdc++.so.5 was missing, and punt the install. I posted my note as a caveat to other old school 7.3 users out there.
Didn't work for me. I run RedHat 7.3 on a PC. I had been running RealPlayer-8.0-1 (rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.rpm). I got the new RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm and this is what happened:
# rpm -Uvh RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm Preparing......##### [100%] 1:RealPlayer...##### [100%] # realplay /usr/local/RealPlayer/realplay.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory # rpm -e/tmp/RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm error: package/tmp/RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm is not installed # rpm -e rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.rpm error: package rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.rpm is not installed # rpm -Uvh rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.rpm Preparing......##### [100%] package RealPlayer-10.0.0.297-20040730 (which is newer than RealPlayer-8.0-1) is already installed #
Sitz explained FYI, Mach 10 is about 2 miles per second.
Most children are taught that you can count the seconds between a seeing a lightning strike and hearing a thunderclap and divide by five to determine how far the strike was in miles. This means that the speed of sound (Mach 1) is 5 seconds per mile, i.e.,.2 miles per second (.5 km per second, I know...). It should therefore be well known to the same child that Mach 10 (10x the speed of sound) is 2 miles per second.
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While "setting goals" is a common bit of advice, I think Graham carefully avoided mentioning it - it was conspicuously absent. I assume that it's because he thought it was either unimportant or the wrong approach.
I don't understand why this project needs the magic of threads instead of just sockets.
If you get the Bluetooth Blublockers, they would probably splode themselves.
Off topic, I know, but I'm being provoked, and it has pedagogical interest. Might even keep a bug out of someone's code some day. Uhm, get out your calendar, and set the way-back machine to June, 2005. The day after the second Tuesday is, d'oh! From this I can deduce that you do not live in a community with monthly street-cleaning and alternate side of the street parking. Just doing my part to help the script kiddies coordinate their project management work flow. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
Malicious software writers promise to release an updated version of their work on the day after the second Tuesday of each month (which may or may not be the second Wednesday).
I've seen 3d wms, and I've never had the urge to use one. But if we're going to move away from flatland, why stop at three dimensions? Why not four or five?
One more time? What problem are you trying to solve by displaying these extra dimensions?
Crooks use things like radio scanners to look for wireless bugs. They can use tools to search for such spyware, essentially tools like Adaware or virus scanners or sum | diff.
Once crooks find out how their systems are compromised, spyware removal tools can do their work, and crooks can take evasive measures. For example, installing many sets of OS binaries, DLL directories, registries, etc, on each machine. In different directories, different file systems, different disks, whatever.
You could play all sorts of cat and mouse games. Sounds sorta like fun, except, guilty or not, it's probably not fun having the heat on your tail.
Well, sort of. You can write Yiddish given Hebrew the same way that you can write French given English. There are minor differences that might not hinder understanding, but they change style.
There are some two-letter ligatures that are treated in Yiddish as single characters, see for example this virtual Yiddish Keyboard. Note the line above the "feh" glyph, and the patach-yod-yod, which are distinctly Yiddish.
For info on rendering Yiddish on computers, see Understanding Yiddish Information Processing.
Re: the idea that Yiddish is comparable to Klingon in terms of its obscurity, before the nazis murdered most of the Yiddish speakers and caused the survivors to want to forget their Yiddish roots, Yiddish was culturally vibrant, with great creativity in literature, theater, music, newspapers, movies, etc. Most of this vitality disppeared in the latter half of the 20th century, but there is a small strong willed group of people working to keep Yiddish secular culture alive, and another group of religious Yiddish speakers who keep Yiddish alive as the spoken language of their Jewish heritage. No offense to the fans of Klingon (nuqneH!), but the situations of Yiddish and Klingon aren't that similar.
btw, I do have a Yiddish-Esperanto dictionary at home, there's a combination that inspired someone enough to product a fully fledged hardcover bound dictionary.
Here, "use the internet" can mean anything from communicate with agents or people who book gigs or recording engineers or fellow musicians, to communicate with fans, to put up web sites with band info, sample tracks, etc. Most people wouldn't think of "having all my work traded on file sharing systems without my permission" as "how I use the internet." So a conclusion like "across the board, the internet helps artists make more money" is disingenuous. Note that I'm not saying that the net is good or bad for musicians, just that such a broad conclusion is dopey.
I just read the headline as: Your Rights Online: U.S. to Get New ZIP Car. Oh, that's nice. I need more sleep.
My point is that if you live in an apartment building, maybe 20% of the the tenants have broadband, but almost all of them probably have access to a neighbors's open wireless router signal. So those people may not be paying, they may not be using, but their homes are net-ready, and you can visit them and use your laptop on the net.
If you count the homes in which you can find a wifi hotspot, it's way over 20 percent.
Am I the only one who thought that this story was going to describe using a media center to act as a bathroom in a remote place? After all the odd USB gadgets you see these days, you never know...
i read the slashdot story, i read the linked story, and i read the name as flatiron. i figured, hmmm, what a weirdly retro name for an lcd.
a classic hack (i don't know who first thought of this) is to take a handful of 128k macs and line them up and run software to display the time of day, one digit per screen. you can get arbitratily complex, with or without seconds, with a screens for the colons (flashing or not), date, networked or not, dali morphing, etc.
I was thinking, hashcrash-based server.
As for being called an asshole by an anonymous coward, if I were an asshole, I would prefer that to being a coward.
You may be sure, I am not so sure. I don't mean to head off into troll territory, but you are saying that I'm making the mistaken assumption that all Arab nations are anti-Jewish, etc. I didn't say that, and I know that Jordan and Egypt have peace treaties with Israel, and that certain countries like Morocco and Turkey have more cordial relations with Israel.
I'm sure that you are mistaken about Junior being bound by an issue that kept it out of Abu Dhabi, I'm sure that the Israelis would be happy to go there for friendly competition. As for the treatment of Jews by the UAE establishment, you can search the web for Jews and Abu Dhabi, and find stuff like this portrayal of PM Sharon drinking Arab blood on a popular show from Abu Dhabi TV.
I agree that the UAE is relatively cosmopolitan, but that says more about the rest of the Arab world than it says about them being cosmopolitan or permississive of the west in any familiar sense.
I do maintain that the UAE is part of the Arab community that avoids any interaction with Israel, and that's why their battle of the supercomputers does not involve the current champion.
The "many times world champion engine" Shredder, is not the current world champion engine. That would be Junior, which is programmed by Israeli Jews. You wouldn't want them in Abu Dhabi, would you?
The UNIX v1-4 that are being discussed as lost use a different numbering scheme from the UNIX System 5 and SCO/Caldera numbering scheme.
For a chronology of early UNIX systems, see my UNIX timeline from 1984. The v1-v4 are in the 1970-74 timeframe, and System V was from around 1982/83, and that's what latter-day UNIX System 5 is based on.
Oops, right, thanks, sloanster. I did an rpm -qf on the broken binary to figure out what to rpm -e, and it erased, and now I'm back to good old rp8 lukewarm hotness.
I had forgotten that you can't rpm -e the .rpm (I don't rpm -e very often), you have to use the package name. You'd think that rpm could Do What I Meant. D'oh.
I realize that it would be easier if I were running something newer than rh7.3, but I have compatibility issues that keep me from doing this (involving not having time to port and test software that runs on 7.3). And really, 7.3 (2.4.18) suits my needs fine, it's sad when folks have dependencies on later versions when it's not necessary. Shouldn't I be able to run realplayer on a 2 year old OS?
Either way, the rp 10 code shouldn't just install halfway like that, it should notice that the libstdc++.so.5 was missing, and punt the install. I posted my note as a caveat to other old school 7.3 users out there.
Ick.
Most children are taught that you can count the seconds between a seeing a lightning strike and hearing a thunderclap and divide by five to determine how far the strike was in miles. This means that the speed of sound (Mach 1) is 5 seconds per mile, i.e., .2 miles per second (.5 km per second, I know...). It should therefore be well known to the same child that Mach 10 (10x the speed of sound) is 2 miles per second.