Thanks for finding that. I had these summaries transcribed in an old email and couldn't remember the original source other than it was called 'book-a-minute summaries'.
(Nothing happens. Then, nothing happens. Then, unexpectedly, nothing happens. Everything is FRAUGHT with PORTENT.)
Moiraine
Everybody come with me.
Everybody
No. Well, ok.
(They travel a LOT. Something happens that isn't explained. Something happens that doesn't make sense. Something happens.)
Rand al'Thor
Tam is my father.
THE (predictable, cliched, dumb) END
The Great Hunt (Book 2): Rand al'Thor
I want to do something. But doing this something is probably what the Aes Sedai want me to do, so I will do something else. But doing that something else may be what they want me to do, because they think I think they want me to do the first thing, so I'll decide to do this other thing instead. So I'll just do the first thing, since I want to do it anyway. Screw them.
(Repeat seven hundred times.)
THE END
The Dragon Reborn (Book 3): Rand al'Thor
Being the Dragon Reborn stinks. I'm out of here.
(Moiraine and the gang CHASE him. But even though they are on HORSES, and he is WALKING, they never CATCH UP. This is supposed to be MYSTERIOUS but is really just a plot CONVENIENCE for Robert JORDAN.)
Perrin
I hate wolves.
(Mat and others show up out of NOWHERE. This is supposed to be MYSTERIOUS but is really just a plot CONVENIENCE for Robert JORDAN.)
Rand al'Thor
I am the Dragon Reborn. (kills the EVIL SUPREME BAD GUY)
Robert Jordan
Fooled you! That wasn't really the EVIL SUPREME BAD GUY! Now I can write forty more books!
THE END
The Shadow Rising (Book 4):
(Everybody HATES Rand, so he BEATS them until they OBEY.)
Rand
I have conquered all sorts of stuff, because I rule.
(Gibbers to self. Five hundred pages pass.)
THE END
The Fires of Heaven (Book 5):
Rand
I found an artifact which gives me limitless power. I think I shall brick it up behind a wall.
(A female character SNIFFS and thinks about her NECKLINE.)
THE END
Lord of Chaos (Book 6):
Rand
I have a secret plan, but I won't tell you about it.
THE END
A Crown of Swords (Book 7):
Rand
Now my secret plan shall be unleashed! Here it is. Are you ready? Are you sure you're ready? I'm going to make it look like I'm attacking this guy. But THEN I will attack some OTHER guy.
(He DOES, and it ALMOST WORKS.)
THE END
The Path of Daggers (Book 8):
Mazrim Taim
I am evil, yaargh! Fear me!
Spooky Voice of Lews Therin
Rand, kill Taim.
Rand
Being powerful sucks. I will brood.
THE END
Winter's Heart (Book 9):
Perrin
I was going to rescue my wife, but that will have to wait for the next book.
Mat
I was going to escape with my friends, but that will have to wait for the next book.
Egwene
I was going to attack Tar Valon, but that will have to wait for the next book.
THE END
Crossroads of Twilight (Book 10): (Rand BROODS and DREAMS about his THREE WOMEN.)
Minor Characters
There is a large use of the One Power over there. (repeat indefinitely)
Perrin
I was going to save my wife, but that will have to wait for the next book.
Egwene
I was going to attack Tar Valon, but I won't finish it until the
All of the other ones I've seen have a web interface which can be controlled via curl or links scripts. For example, I had a buffalo router that would eventually get into a state such that it would not reconnect to the DSL modem when the connection was reset, so I had a script to check the state of the internet connection and force the router to reconnect (or reboot itself if that didn't work).
You can't do that with the airport line of routers.
Try to load/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plist in vim and tell me if that is an xml file. However there is a converter that can convert non-xml (binary) plists to xml format, so it doesn't matter that much.
The point still remains that there are configuration items that cannot be changed outside of the GUI (not everything is represented in plists as far as I can tell). I would love to be proven wrong in this.
Another example outside of my list above isn't exactly OSX, but it is close. The Airport Extreme router cannot be remotley restarted or configured without using the proprietary GUI. I came close by doing some applescript that I invoke from the shell, but that doesn't work all of the time.
Really? I love doing everything from the command line, but am unsure how to do the following (at least I can't find anything after scouring google for some of these). Is it possible to do the following? I just picked some from looking at the system preferences pane:
* Time Machine: Configure what to back up * Time Machine: Restore files * Configure Parental Controls * Change an account's picture * Configure an account's login options * Configure when to put the monitor/computer to sleep * Change the desktop background * Change the screensaver * Configure the sounds * Spotlight: Configure what to index * Configure filevault settings * Disable automatic login
I'm aware that some of them may be achievable by editing plists, but of those, the plist may not be in a human-readable format. Others I don't know where to change those settings outside of the GUI.
I have an excuse. We use DB2 Connect (v8) on an HPUX platform (11i). Guess what? DB2 Connect v8 isn't certified to work with anything above JDK 1.4.x. In order to have support for JDK 1.5, you need to upgrade to DB2 Connect v9. But DB2 Connect v9 isn't certified to work on HPUX 11i. You need up upgrade the OS.
With a critical enterprise application, going down that upgrade path is costly and risky.
So there are actually lots of excuses especially when you are in a large enterprise environment.
2 - 411 is $1 a call. Around here, it means dialing it, waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Describing what you're trying to find. Waiting. Waiting. Getting your answer (texted to your phone, nice), and then turning around and calling THAT number to find the actual information you need... Oh, and you might have to hold there too. With the internet at your fingertips, it's "free" (save data costs... but considering how much I plan to use the service, it's more than worth it compared to 411).
So you can't turn UAC off because you want to match the machines that you're developing for, but you're willing to switch to XP because it's too annoying? Are the target machines now going to be XP instead of Vista too?
I wouldn't say that Bluetooth coesists fine with WiFi (a or g - 2.4GHz). I use a bluetooth mouse with my 802.11g laptop and have very sluggish response from my bluetooth mouse whenever I do heavy data transfers to/from my laptop over the WiFI network.
The problem is the PC Suite is a worthless piece of crap and a sorry excuse for a software package. It is bug-ridden and will often stop working for no apparent reason.
Just check out some of the message boards (like howardforums.com) and you'll see that nearly everyone absolutely hates PC Suite. Just having PC Suite installed requires you to keep about 4 or 5 resident programs running. Their bluetooth connectivity solution is do some sort of crappy 'serial port' emulation over USB. WTF do they do that?!
Plus, the software itself looks as if it was written by a mentally retarded person using visual basic.
I really wish there was an alternative (other than Oxygen).
First it was OpenNT from a comapny called Softway Systems which provided a fully POSIX-compliant subsystem replacement for NT.
Later, Softway renamed it to Interix, and shortly after that Softway was bought out by Microsoft. At that time, the guts of Interix were used to make the 'Services for Unix'.
After running 'urpmi.update -a' I ran 'urpmi --auto-select' and got:
To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (44 MB): kdelibs-2.2.2-48.1mdk.i586 telnet-client-krb5-1.2.2-17.1mdk.i586 arts-2.2.2-48.1mdk.i586 krb5-libs-1.2.2-17.1mdk.i586 kdelibs-sound-2.2.2-48.1mdk.i586 kdelibs-devel-2.2.2-48.1mdk.i586 libarts2-2.2.2-48.1mdk.i586 ftp-client-krb5-1.2.2-17.1mdk.i586 Is it OK? (Y/n) y
After installing the "latest" patches (I did an update just last week too), openssl is still the old, vulnerable version:
-[jeff@turing]--- -(0:~)-:/usr/bin/openssl version OpenSSL 0.9.6c 21 dec 2001
I thought the whole 'urpmi.update -a' and 'urpmi --auto-select' things were supposed to always keep you patched and safe?
You need to do more research on the microsoft thing...
When MS first released their instant messenger, it has AIM support built-in. Immediately, AOL started to change the AIM protocol to block MS. MS and AOL went back and fourth with MS trying to maintain AIM compatability before finally giving up.
Also at that time, MS put out an open letter to AOL to embrace an OPEN IM standard which all companies could follow for an open IM protocol. AOL rejectd ths. The slashdot story for this is located: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/07/24/011021 5&mode=thread&tid=120
Where did your get your info for your MSN analysis? Try to get your facts straight.
9.
Linux stocks will thrive. They've crashed to nearly nothing after their wild IPO launches, but as the technology sector of the economy rebounds from the bottom, and as weaker firms fold or merge with stronger ones, Linux stocks as a group will do well in 2001. They will regain some but not all of their IPO values, and Red Hat will lead the way with its first post-IPO profits.
Slashdot Mirror
Not old, not entitled, not egotistical, loves minecraft.
Please re-examine your warped sense of reality and generalizations based on someone's UID number!
Thanks for finding that. I had these summaries transcribed in an old email and couldn't remember the original source other than it was called 'book-a-minute summaries'.
The Eye of the World (Book 1):
Rand al'Thor
Tam is my father.
(Nothing happens. Then, nothing happens. Then, unexpectedly, nothing happens. Everything is FRAUGHT with PORTENT.)
Moiraine
Everybody come with me.
Everybody
No. Well, ok.
(They travel a LOT. Something happens that isn't explained. Something happens that doesn't make sense. Something happens.)
Rand al'Thor
Tam is my father.
THE (predictable, cliched, dumb) END
The Great Hunt (Book 2):
Rand al'Thor
I want to do something. But doing this something is probably what the Aes Sedai want me to do, so I will do something else. But doing that something else may be what they want me to do, because they think I think they want me to do the first thing, so I'll decide to do this other thing instead. So I'll just do the first thing, since I want to do it anyway. Screw them.
(Repeat seven hundred times.)
THE END
The Dragon Reborn (Book 3):
Rand al'Thor
Being the Dragon Reborn stinks. I'm out of here.
(Moiraine and the gang CHASE him. But even though they are on HORSES, and he is WALKING, they never CATCH UP. This is supposed to be MYSTERIOUS but is really just a plot CONVENIENCE for Robert JORDAN.)
Perrin
I hate wolves.
(Mat and others show up out of NOWHERE. This is supposed to be MYSTERIOUS but is really just a plot CONVENIENCE for Robert JORDAN.)
Rand al'Thor
I am the Dragon Reborn. (kills the EVIL SUPREME BAD GUY)
Robert Jordan
Fooled you! That wasn't really the EVIL SUPREME BAD GUY! Now I can write forty more books!
THE END
The Shadow Rising (Book 4):
(Everybody HATES Rand, so he BEATS them until they OBEY.)
Rand
I have conquered all sorts of stuff, because I rule.
(Gibbers to self. Five hundred pages pass.)
THE END
The Fires of Heaven (Book 5):
Rand
I found an artifact which gives me limitless power. I think I shall brick it up behind a wall.
(A female character SNIFFS and thinks about her NECKLINE.)
THE END
Lord of Chaos (Book 6):
Rand
I have a secret plan, but I won't tell you about it.
THE END
A Crown of Swords (Book 7):
Rand
Now my secret plan shall be unleashed! Here it is. Are you ready? Are you sure you're ready? I'm going to make it look like I'm attacking this guy. But THEN I will attack some OTHER guy.
(He DOES, and it ALMOST WORKS.)
THE END
The Path of Daggers (Book 8):
Mazrim Taim
I am evil, yaargh! Fear me!
Spooky Voice of Lews Therin
Rand, kill Taim.
Rand
Being powerful sucks. I will brood.
THE END
Winter's Heart (Book 9):
Perrin
I was going to rescue my wife, but that will have to wait for the next book.
Mat
I was going to escape with my friends, but that will have to wait for the next book.
Egwene
I was going to attack Tar Valon, but that will have to wait for the next book.
THE END
Crossroads of Twilight (Book 10):
(Rand BROODS and DREAMS about his THREE WOMEN.)
Minor Characters
There is a large use of the One Power over there. (repeat indefinitely)
Perrin
I was going to save my wife, but that will have to wait for the next book.
Egwene
I was going to attack Tar Valon, but I won't finish it until the
All of the other ones I've seen have a web interface which can be controlled via curl or links scripts. For example, I had a buffalo router that would eventually get into a state such that it would not reconnect to the DSL modem when the connection was reset, so I had a script to check the state of the internet connection and force the router to reconnect (or reboot itself if that didn't work).
You can't do that with the airport line of routers.
Try to load /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plist in vim and tell me if that is an xml file. However there is a converter that can convert non-xml (binary) plists to xml format, so it doesn't matter that much.
The point still remains that there are configuration items that cannot be changed outside of the GUI (not everything is represented in plists as far as I can tell). I would love to be proven wrong in this.
Another example outside of my list above isn't exactly OSX, but it is close. The Airport Extreme router cannot be remotley restarted or configured without using the proprietary GUI. I came close by doing some applescript that I invoke from the shell, but that doesn't work all of the time.
Not all of them are xml!
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plist /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plist /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plist /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plist
-[jeff@whitecloak]--<10:33 AM:Fri Apr 03>-
-(0:~)-: ls -al
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 906 2009-04-01 19:59
-[jeff@whitecloak]--<10:33 AM:Fri Apr 03>-
-(0:~)-: file
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plist: Apple binary property list
-[jeff@whitecloak]--<10:33 AM:Fri Apr 03>-
-(0:~)-: cat
bplist00Ñ^privilegedlistÒZController_CustomListItems¢Ô
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Really? I love doing everything from the command line, but am unsure how to do the following (at least I can't find anything after scouring google for some of these). Is it possible to do the following? I just picked some from looking at the system preferences pane:
* Time Machine: Configure what to back up
* Time Machine: Restore files
* Configure Parental Controls
* Change an account's picture
* Configure an account's login options
* Configure when to put the monitor/computer to sleep
* Change the desktop background
* Change the screensaver
* Configure the sounds
* Spotlight: Configure what to index
* Configure filevault settings
* Disable automatic login
I'm aware that some of them may be achievable by editing plists, but of those, the plist may not be in a human-readable format. Others I don't know where to change those settings outside of the GUI.
Is there a one-touch solution that will take all my data from the various online apps and archive it on my home server?"
no.
I have an excuse. We use DB2 Connect (v8) on an HPUX platform (11i). Guess what? DB2 Connect v8 isn't certified to work with anything above JDK 1.4.x. In order to have support for JDK 1.5, you need to upgrade to DB2 Connect v9. But DB2 Connect v9 isn't certified to work on HPUX 11i. You need up upgrade the OS.
With a critical enterprise application, going down that upgrade path is costly and risky.
So there are actually lots of excuses especially when you are in a large enterprise environment.
I think it already has happened.
800-GOOG-411 - it's free.
So you can't turn UAC off because you want to match the machines that you're developing for, but you're willing to switch to XP because it's too annoying? Are the target machines now going to be XP instead of Vista too?
I wouldn't say that Bluetooth coesists fine with WiFi (a or g - 2.4GHz). I use a bluetooth mouse with my 802.11g laptop and have very sluggish response from my bluetooth mouse whenever I do heavy data transfers to/from my laptop over the WiFI network.
The problem is the PC Suite is a worthless piece of crap and a sorry excuse for a software package. It is bug-ridden and will often stop working for no apparent reason.
Just check out some of the message boards (like howardforums.com) and you'll see that nearly everyone absolutely hates PC Suite. Just having PC Suite installed requires you to keep about 4 or 5 resident programs running. Their bluetooth connectivity solution is do some sort of crappy 'serial port' emulation over USB. WTF do they do that?!
Plus, the software itself looks as if it was written by a mentally retarded person using visual basic.
I really wish there was an alternative (other than Oxygen).
First it was OpenNT from a comapny called Softway Systems which provided a fully POSIX-compliant subsystem replacement for NT.
Later, Softway renamed it to Interix, and shortly after that Softway was bought out by Microsoft. At that time, the guts of Interix were used to make the 'Services for Unix'.
If you end up using Tinyfugue, I have all of my tf files up-to-date and free to view & use over at my website
... But the lawyers get $520,999,998.25 while Eolas gets $1.75
Isn't that how it works?
"significant evidence"?!
Yeah right...
I can't remember when I created my account, but the user # is pretty close to yours! I know it was somewhere around 1998 though.
Nokie Quickfingers' Sojourn Page
Mandrake Linux 8.2 (the latest).
/usr/bin/openssl version
After running 'urpmi.update -a' I ran 'urpmi --auto-select' and got:
To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (44 MB):
kdelibs-2.2.2-48.1mdk.i586 telnet-client-krb5-1.2.2-17.1mdk.i586 arts-2.2.2-48.1mdk.i586 krb5-libs-1.2.2-17.1mdk.i586 kdelibs-sound-2.2.2-48.1mdk.i586 kdelibs-devel-2.2.2-48.1mdk.i586 libarts2-2.2.2-48.1mdk.i586 ftp-client-krb5-1.2.2-17.1mdk.i586
Is it OK? (Y/n) y
After installing the "latest" patches (I did an update just last week too), openssl is still the old, vulnerable version:
-[jeff@turing]---
-(0:~)-:
OpenSSL 0.9.6c 21 dec 2001
I thought the whole 'urpmi.update -a' and 'urpmi --auto-select' things were supposed to always keep you patched and safe?
It only runs on one platform?! Someone better alert the mono team!
You sure don't speak for me. I prefer WinXP over 2k any day.
You need to do more research on the microsoft thing...
1 5&mode=thread&tid=120
When MS first released their instant messenger, it has AIM support built-in. Immediately, AOL started to change the AIM protocol to block MS. MS and AOL went back and fourth with MS trying to maintain AIM compatability before finally giving up.
Also at that time, MS put out an open letter to AOL to embrace an OPEN IM standard which all companies could follow for an open IM protocol. AOL rejectd ths. The slashdot story for this is located: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/07/24/01102
Where did your get your info for your MSN analysis? Try to get your facts straight.
I got a good laugh out of this one.
9.
Linux stocks will thrive. They've crashed to nearly nothing after their wild IPO launches, but as the technology sector of the economy rebounds from the bottom, and as weaker firms fold or merge with stronger ones, Linux stocks as a group will do well in 2001. They will regain some but not all of their IPO values, and Red Hat will lead the way with its first post-IPO profits.
He was joking, right.... ?