Yep, you are correct. That is mentioned in the actual Scrabble rule book.
My kids and I play the reverse of that too - you can slap a blank down as a letter (typically something high value like Y) and play the actual letter to get points.
The editor put the news in the final issue as well, which was mailed out a couple of weeks ago. I'll be looking for my postcard now though - thanks for the heads-up!
While it's true that printed media has a hard time competing with online resources, SysAdmin was one of the few magazines I looked forward to reading cover to cover each month, so I'm sad to see them closing up shop.
It's nice to have information "pushed" to you sometimes; I learned several things over the years on topics I probably would never have gone looking for on my own.
I do some part-time work at an urban (not "inner city" though) school. There are a lot of donated PCs in the classrooms and computer lab (mainly Celerons w/256 MB of RAM, etc), and we have loaded Edubuntu on them. The kids (grades 4-8) are getting along with it fine; they only have basic needs to do some word processing, research online, and playing some educational games. Windows licenses (of any version) would have been too expensive for the school; fortunately, the administration was all for trying out Edubuntu and it's going pretty well so far.
I agree with the earlier poster though; if the school is really in that bad a situation, computers may not be the magic solution. But if they decide they want some and are willing to give Linux a try, check out Edubuntu for your distro.
Their counts seem inflated, as they mark every single root server for a TLD as a "dependent" server, etc. If you have multiple DNS servers for your own domain (e.g., microsoft.com has 5 nameservers), they count each of _those_ as a separate "dependent" server as well.
It seems to me that it would be more accurate to only count 1 server at each level of the hierarchy as Dependent, and all the peers at that level as Redundant (co-dependent?).
Uh, yeah, I get that part. The joke was that they had rewritten the entire site from the old gnarly hard-coded HTML mess to have CSS support just so that they could easily do the theme change for April Fool's...
This gag has obviously been a _long_ time in the planning - an entire site redesign just to pull the ol' April Fool's Website Theme Change Switcheroo... nice!
I was there in '85-'86, when one of the buggies caught fire due to some mistakes in chemically treating the tires prior to a run. I forget which house it was (I was in Kappa Sigma), but a couple of the brothers got burned pretty badly grabbing the buggy (which still had a driver strapped inside) and throwing the molten plastic shell out the back of the truck. I think they instituted a "no treatment" rule for the tires with a driver inside after that.
Good times though, going out for the night push practices and stuff...
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You can sign up for it now without a referral, but you have to give them a cellphone number and receive a signup code via SMS (it's ostensibly a spam-prevention measure or something).
I tried changing my address to send from @googlemail.com, and it won't let me. My "real" address has to be @gmail.com. I can have the Reply-To go to @googlemail.com, but the "From" will continue to be @gmail.com... weird.
So, is this going to figure into their anti-pirating plans for Windows as well? Install Windows once, then you have to purchase a new DVD if you ever need to reinstall?
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How does a genetic predisposition for suicide propagate...?
Yep, you are correct. That is mentioned in the actual Scrabble rule book.
My kids and I play the reverse of that too - you can slap a blank down as a letter (typically something high value like Y) and play the actual letter to get points.
The editor put the news in the final issue as well, which was mailed out a couple of weeks ago. I'll be looking for my postcard now though - thanks for the heads-up!
While it's true that printed media has a hard time competing with online resources, SysAdmin was one of the few magazines I looked forward to reading cover to cover each month, so I'm sad to see them closing up shop.
It's nice to have information "pushed" to you sometimes; I learned several things over the years on topics I probably would never have gone looking for on my own.
Except for the 90%+ of sites that don't let you put any "funny" symbols like + in your email address...
From digg: 50 Open Source success stories in Business, Education, and Government
+1 for Nethack :)
I also like Super Collapse II and Frozen Bubble -- they are both good for "zoning out"...
I do some part-time work at an urban (not "inner city" though) school. There are a lot of donated PCs in the classrooms and computer lab (mainly Celerons w/256 MB of RAM, etc), and we have loaded Edubuntu on them. The kids (grades 4-8) are getting along with it fine; they only have basic needs to do some word processing, research online, and playing some educational games. Windows licenses (of any version) would have been too expensive for the school; fortunately, the administration was all for trying out Edubuntu and it's going pretty well so far.
I agree with the earlier poster though; if the school is really in that bad a situation, computers may not be the magic solution. But if they decide they want some and are willing to give Linux a try, check out Edubuntu for your distro.
5000 gallons of water is nothing. I power my office with a generator that runs on bald eagle heads and Faberge eggs.
Their counts seem inflated, as they mark every single root server for a TLD as a "dependent" server, etc. If you have multiple DNS servers for your own domain (e.g., microsoft.com has 5 nameservers), they count each of _those_ as a separate "dependent" server as well.
It seems to me that it would be more accurate to only count 1 server at each level of the hierarchy as Dependent, and all the peers at that level as Redundant (co-dependent?).
Uh, yeah, I get that part. The joke was that they had rewritten the entire site from the old gnarly hard-coded HTML mess to have CSS support just so that they could easily do the theme change for April Fool's...
This gag has obviously been a _long_ time in the planning - an entire site redesign just to pull the ol' April Fool's Website Theme Change Switcheroo... nice!
Their CEO is Steven Dewitt, former CEO of Cobalt Networks, so he's got the "why buy an appliance?" sales pitch down pat.
But when he wakes up, will he squander all the money on a can of anchovies?
#!/bin/bash
URL=http://www.grokster.com
for ((i=0;i<2;i++));
do wget $URL -q -O
i=0
echo -n .
done
Yeah, cause only people 18+ have credit cards... Not! :)
You can have your entire gmail session SSL-ified, not just the login. Just use the URL https://mail.google.com/ to access it.
Probably just intimating it's a database... similiar to OpenOffice.org's Base application.
I was there in '85-'86, when one of the buggies caught fire due to some mistakes in chemically treating the tires prior to a run. I forget which house it was (I was in Kappa Sigma), but a couple of the brothers got burned pretty badly grabbing the buggy (which still had a driver strapped inside) and throwing the molten plastic shell out the back of the truck. I think they instituted a "no treatment" rule for the tires with a driver inside after that.
Good times though, going out for the night push practices and stuff...
Holy crap! A case mod that's on topic for this!
http://www.homemade-sex-toys.com/case/
You can sign up for it now without a referral, but you have to give them a cellphone number and receive a signup code via SMS (it's ostensibly a spam-prevention measure or something).
https://www.google.com/accounts/SmsMailSignup1
I tried changing my address to send from @googlemail.com, and it won't let me. My "real" address has to be @gmail.com. I can have the Reply-To go to @googlemail.com, but the "From" will continue to be @gmail.com... weird.
So, is this going to figure into their anti-pirating plans for Windows as well? Install Windows once, then you have to purchase a new DVD if you ever need to reinstall?
Neither - it's "GOOogle"
Java Desktop System is a poorly-named Linux distribution. Yes, Java is pre-installed, but that's about the limit of the Java-ness of it.
Where are the stars in the background? (this link is for those who can't tell I'm joking)
I do think it's amazing how quickly it's moving though; the visible weather patterns shown don't really change much...