--Just MHO, but I think the kernel developers could come up with some more descriptive names, like:
linux-2.6.8--devfs-removed.tar.bz2
--And the like. Or someone should create a central webpage where fairly major revisions like this are posted. I'm not talking about a changelog per se, more like "reiserfs 4 added, AFS and Intermezzo support were removed completely" kind of stuff. Major things only, not fixes.
--If this kind of thing already exists, kindly point me to it.:) TIA
--IIRC, one of the new hard-coded laws the committee crammed into Robocop that helped him go insane was "Don't splash through puddles" or something similar.:) Rent the movie and watch the rules go by in slomo, that was one that really stood out.
--That's one of the things that really got me: The protagonist robot in the movie (Sonny) is given a direct order by a master roboticist (Calvin) SEVERAL TIMES to deactivate / stop immediately, and blatantly disobeys. What you have on your hands here is a **very dangerous** robot. So instead of confining (remove brain from body), analyzing and deactivating it, the damnthing becomes the HERO?
--Totally unrealistic. The movie isn't a total loss like Bicentennial Man; there were some neat camera angles and combat scenes that I'd like to see refined in future movies. But the overall plot just can't hold up when you know **anything at all** about Asimov's Robot stories.
--Suspension of disbelief is one thing. What this movie is expecting is another...
--Thus proving ONCE AGAIN that Hollywood is incapable of doing justice to a given Asimov story.
--I *walked out* of Bicentennial Man a few years ago and demanded my money back. This one wasn't quite that horrible, but it still bears almost *no* relation to the original Asimov story OR concept.
--I really objected to their treatment of Susan Calvin. Nuff said.
SIGH
--There was a lot more that I wanted to say, but I'll settle for the fact that interest in Asimov's original stories has gone up again, and people that are intrigued by the movie are picking up his books.
--I'm just waiting for the episode where O'Neill realizes that being a general means too much paperwork and not enough away-team time, and gets himself busted back down to Colonel so he can do what he likes.
--Hmm, sounds a lot like ST:Voyager. I have mixed feelings about this...
--To me, what makes SG1 work: Richard Anderson (O'Neill) Amanda Tapping (Samantha Carter)
(To a lesser extent)
The hot doctor - Teryl Rothery (Doc Frasier is now dead, unforch) Teal'c Dr. Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) General Hammond (Don S. Davis)
--Without *any* of the "original crew" (Hey, how about bringing Kurt Russell or French Stewart into Atlantis?) signing on, it's a 50/50 chance the show will struggle. IIRC, they had to bring Michael Dorn (Worf) onto DS9 before the ratings started to climb back up.
--I use "screen" pretty much every day, very useful.
--In addition, if you want to logout and still keep background jobs running, here's an entry from " man bash ":
disown [-ar] [-h] [jobspec...] Without options, each jobspec is removed from the table of active jobs. If the -h option is given, each jobspec is not removed from the table, but is marked so that SIGHUP is not sent to the job if the shell receives a SIGHUP. If no jobspec is present, and neither the -a nor the -r option is supplied, the current job is used. If no jobspec is supplied, the -a option means to remove or mark all jobs; the -r option without a job- spec argument restricts operation to running jobs. The return value is 0 unless a jobspec does not specify a valid job.
--Basically you start a long-running command in the BG: ' time bzip2 thisfile & '
And then disown it:
' disown %1 '
--Then you can safely logout and the job will still be running.
> We're talking about total protonic reversal Ray. The end of the universe.
--Would that be so bad, given that Stargate SG-1 is of sufficient quality to completely substitute for Trek these days?
--Someone may doubtless mod me Troll for this one, but it's true - I realized it last night while watching the Stargate season premiere.
--The reason I don't watch "modern" Star Trek (beyond Next Gen) is because Stargate's writing team has completely surpassed Trek! Interesting plots, interesting aliens, character development, etc. And Major Carter (hottay) FINALLY got promoted... What else could a sci fi fan ask for - we even got to see Carter's doppelganger in the altogether! (OK, it was from the back and tastefully done, but still!)
--Stargate delivers today what Trek fans have been longing for. Think about it.
--I just finished reading Ender's Game for the first time; found out that I really enjoy Orson Scott Card, and have been picking up the rest of his stuff at the library, especially his Alvin Maker stuff.
--Speaking of Ender tho, "Blade Dancer" by S.L. Viehl has kind of a similar storyline; if you enjoyed Ender's Game, I recommend you check it out:
$LUSER receives memo and verbal chewing-out from $SYSADMIN not to do this EVER again.
$LUSER deliberately opens an infected attachment for the SECOND TIME.
$LUSER is IMMEDIATELY FIRED and escorted from the building for:
1) Incompetence
2) Ignoring established and reasonable safety precautions
3) Causing damage/downtime to the company's daily operations.
--Make a VERY PUBLIC example of this idiot, explain WHY they were fired and that it WILL happen again if somebody else is stupid enough to follow in their footsteps. Repeat as necessary.
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Games I still play:
o Half-Life
oo Opposing Force
oo Blue Shift
oo Gunman Chronicles
o Battle Chess
oo Chinese Battle Chess
o Fallout
oo Fallout 2
o One Must Fall 2097 (DOS)
o Rise of the Triad (DOS)
o Mechwarrior 2 - Ghost Bear's Legacy (DOS - plays well on a cheap P166 laptop)
--What you need, my friend, is a *tunnel.*
:b
--Just MHO, but I think the kernel developers could come up with some more descriptive names, like:
:) TIA
linux-2.6.8--devfs-removed.tar.bz2
--And the like. Or someone should create a central webpage where fairly major revisions like this are posted. I'm not talking about a changelog per se, more like "reiserfs 4 added, AFS and Intermezzo support were removed completely" kind of stuff. Major things only, not fixes.
--If this kind of thing already exists, kindly point me to it.
--I wish I had mod points today... Mod parent UP!
--IIRC, one of the new hard-coded laws the committee crammed into Robocop that helped him go insane was "Don't splash through puddles" or something similar. :) Rent the movie and watch the rules go by in slomo, that was one that really stood out.
** SPOILERS **
--That's one of the things that really got me: The protagonist robot in the movie (Sonny) is given a direct order by a master roboticist (Calvin) SEVERAL TIMES to deactivate / stop immediately, and blatantly disobeys. What you have on your hands here is a **very dangerous** robot. So instead of confining (remove brain from body), analyzing and deactivating it, the damnthing becomes the HERO?
--Totally unrealistic. The movie isn't a total loss like Bicentennial Man; there were some neat camera angles and combat scenes that I'd like to see refined in future movies. But the overall plot just can't hold up when you know **anything at all** about Asimov's Robot stories.
--Suspension of disbelief is one thing. What this movie is expecting is another...
--Thus proving ONCE AGAIN that Hollywood is incapable of doing justice to a given Asimov story.
--I *walked out* of Bicentennial Man a few years ago and demanded my money back. This one wasn't quite that horrible, but it still bears almost *no* relation to the original Asimov story OR concept.
--I really objected to their treatment of Susan Calvin. Nuff said.
SIGH
--There was a lot more that I wanted to say, but I'll settle for the fact that interest in Asimov's original stories has gone up again, and people that are intrigued by the movie are picking up his books.
--That is genius, man - GENIUS! :)
(For the uninformed, this should be sung to the lyrics of "One night in Bangkok") which is still one of my favorite songs to this day.
--You know, Bush could prolly gain a few points by publically pardoning Fischer. Think about it.
--I'm just waiting for the episode where O'Neill realizes that being a general means too much paperwork and not enough away-team time, and gets himself busted back down to Colonel so he can do what he likes.
;-) :b
--Just like Jim Kirk.
--Hmm, sounds a lot like ST:Voyager. I have mixed feelings about this...
--To me, what makes SG1 work:
Richard Anderson (O'Neill)
Amanda Tapping (Samantha Carter)
(To a lesser extent)
The hot doctor - Teryl Rothery (Doc Frasier is now dead, unforch)
Teal'c
Dr. Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks)
General Hammond (Don S. Davis)
--Without *any* of the "original crew" (Hey, how about bringing Kurt Russell or French Stewart into Atlantis?) signing on, it's a 50/50 chance the show will struggle. IIRC, they had to bring Michael Dorn (Worf) onto DS9 before the ratings started to climb back up.
--In addition, if you want to logout and still keep background jobs running, here's an entry from " man bash ":--Basically you start a long-running command in the BG:
' time bzip2 thisfile & '
And then disown it:
' disown %1 '
--Then you can safely logout and the job will still be running.
Games I actually play in Linux from time to time:
frozen-bubble
gnome-gataxx (A better version of Reversi, and one of my all-time favorites)
kpoker
xarchon (kind of like battle chess)
xonix
> Besides, I got a kick out of seeing Night Court's Dan Fielding and Taxi's Jim Ignatowski as Klingons.
--Holy crap, you're right! I never knew that Maltz was JL!
http://imdb.com/name/nm0488662/
> We're talking about total protonic reversal Ray. The end of the universe.
--Would that be so bad, given that Stargate SG-1 is of sufficient quality to completely substitute for Trek these days?
--Someone may doubtless mod me Troll for this one, but it's true - I realized it last night while watching the Stargate season premiere.
--The reason I don't watch "modern" Star Trek (beyond Next Gen) is because Stargate's writing team has completely surpassed Trek! Interesting plots, interesting aliens, character development, etc. And Major Carter (hottay) FINALLY got promoted... What else could a sci fi fan ask for - we even got to see Carter's doppelganger in the altogether! (OK, it was from the back and tastefully done, but still!)
--Stargate delivers today what Trek fans have been longing for. Think about it.
Parent -2 Troll
--Oh, bullshit. I've been using Netscape (and more recently, Opera) in both Linux and Windoze for YEARS.
--Almost anyone who thinks "IE is the Internet" probably has a local geek who's been trying to educate them, but they just don't LISTEN.
Delaware? How about Indiana?? (Informative replies are welcome)
--Here's what I'm worried about:
How are they going to shield these habitats from radiation and space-debris/asteroid collisions?
--You're new here, aren't you?
:b
--You had an ABACUS?? Luxury! When I was a lad, we had to wait till NIGHTFALL and use the STARS to count!
:b
--But I also bet that dual Athlon won't achieve anywhere NEAR the 6-year uptime, either. Those things run hot.
--I just finished reading Ender's Game for the first time; found out that I really enjoy Orson Scott Card, and have been picking up the rest of his stuff at the library, especially his Alvin Maker stuff.
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--Speaking of Ender tho, "Blade Dancer" by S.L. Viehl has kind of a similar storyline; if you enjoyed Ender's Game, I recommend you check it out:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0
--Blade Dancer was under the New Sci Fi section at my library.
--Also:
"Out of the Silent Planet" and
"Perelandra" == by C.S. Lewis
--I can honestly say that those two books, especially Perelandra, changed my perspective on the universe.
--Easy fix:
$LUSER receives memo and verbal chewing-out from $SYSADMIN not to do this EVER again.
$LUSER deliberately opens an infected attachment for the SECOND TIME.
$LUSER is IMMEDIATELY FIRED and escorted from the building for:
1) Incompetence
2) Ignoring established and reasonable safety precautions
3) Causing damage/downtime to the company's daily operations.
--Make a VERY PUBLIC example of this idiot, explain WHY they were fired and that it WILL happen again if somebody else is stupid enough to follow in their footsteps. Repeat as necessary.
+1 Conspiracy Theory