"Wall along with Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Christiansen writing in the second edition of Programming Perl, outlined the Three Virtues of a Programmer:
1. Laziness - The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer. Also hence, this book. See also impatience and hubris.
2. Impatience - The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don't just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or at least pretend to. Hence, the second great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and hubris.
3. Hubris - Excessive pride, the sort of thing Zeus zaps you for. Also the quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won't want to say bad things about. Hence, the third great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and impatience." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall
My favorite example being Alexis de Tocqueville lamenting that "ordinary citizens" had too much voice in politics and society, meaning the "elites" didn't get their proper due.
After extensive experience of looking after Windows, I've decided that all NT kernels are custom kernels - you just don't know in what manner it's been customised, or by whom.
I have an el cheapo Dell laptop on my desk - the FPOS 2000 I think it's called. The pre-installed OS (Vista) won't run properly and won't recognise the wireless card when I try to reinstall from the manufacturers own CD. You really don't want to buy a low-end Dell.
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That was a cheap shot. I apologise.
Does 'missing_dc' refer to you having skipped a few sessions of electroconvulsive therapy?
You're most welcome.
"Wall along with Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Christiansen writing in the second edition of Programming Perl, outlined the Three Virtues of a Programmer:
1. Laziness - The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer. Also hence, this book. See also impatience and hubris.
2. Impatience - The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don't just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or at least pretend to. Hence, the second great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and hubris.
3. Hubris - Excessive pride, the sort of thing Zeus zaps you for. Also the quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won't want to say bad things about. Hence, the third great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and impatience."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall
Spoiler: Obama won.
Notes?
And I'm an indiscreet math major.
BTW, it's not, hard - take hold of the plastic bit of the soldering iron and poke the heatshrink with the warm end.
Doesn't seem to - solar output is a fairly constant 1366 W m^-2. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Solar-cycle-data.png
But 12M taxpayers take up quite a lot of room. How on earth can you lose that many people?
Especially parties where the lawyers have one too many hits on the crack pipe.
GPRS is roughly dialup (speed-wise) if (latency-wise) your ISPs modem bank was handily situated on the moon.
The 1980s called - they want their 16-bit microcomputer back.
# find ~ -type f | wc -l
44435
Call me when you've got 44,000 cars and still manage to keep track of them all.
They'd like to join the EU, but they have a way to go yet because of concerns over human rights issues, eg. "Turkish minister apologises after 'tortured' activist dies in prison" -- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/15/turkey-humanrights
If you had Windows Vista, you would spend most of your time dual-booted into Ubuntu (like I do) and therefore wouldn't have such a big problem. Easy!
This CISSP says, "best analogy ever".
Which is why there is an American institute named after him? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville_Institution ). What can I say? He was a dickhead and I apologise on behalf of Europe.
After extensive experience of looking after Windows, I've decided that all NT kernels are custom kernels - you just don't know in what manner it's been customised, or by whom.
Who knew Michael Dell had mod points?
Quite good, but I can't get past the end-of-level boss (CmdrTaco).
I have an el cheapo Dell laptop on my desk - the FPOS 2000 I think it's called. The pre-installed OS (Vista) won't run properly and won't recognise the wireless card when I try to reinstall from the manufacturers own CD. You really don't want to buy a low-end Dell.
I spent a year at University of Edinburgh, and I can tell you the parent should be modded informative, not funny.
Admins watching helpless with no way of fixing the problem? Sounds a lot like sendmail 8.11.3.
The Internet is basically a series of web browsers.