Burn CDs, hand one out to everyone in the country, job done.
Nice!
But that only allows for around 15 bytes of information per square inch. Are you sure that's enough? You'd probably need 3 bytes for the elevation, 3 bytes for the color, and a few more for composition - and that's off the top of my head. There may be a lot more we don't know about. That's cutting it a little close, don't you think?:-)
SuSe installed the 32-bit version of Firefox for you.
Well here are the contents of the "About" window: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20060911 SUSE/2.0.0.5-1.1 Firefox/2.0.0.5. See for yourself.
Even if it is the 32-bit version of Firefox, does it really matter?
if your app "knows nothing of Unix permissions" how does it screw things up?
Wow, I must have really spaced when I wrote that line. There should have been an "and the application's own access controls leave a lot to be desired" at the end of that sentence.
I'll give you the full story, if you want, but I have to ask: do you really care? Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have your input, especially if you think you can improve the situation, but we're so far off-topic now, I'm surprised no one's modded us down. We should at least take this discussion elsewhere.
I wasn't actually trying to buy karma, or even say anything important, really, I was just trying to point out the OP to the mods, since I don't currently have any mod points. If I thought anyone would have read my post, past the title, I would have tried to be more clear. I'm as surprised as you are that I got modded up.
If the permissions on an important file are wrong you should be looking for intruders
Well, not in this case. Our main application (no, we didn't write it) was developed on DOS and ported to Unix, so it knows nothing about Unix permissions. As a result, they get screwed up, occasionally. The cron job fixes that. Yes, I know it's stupid, but we don't have much of a choice.
Another cool (not!) artifact of the application's DOS-to-Unix conversion is that we have to use symbolic links to emulate drive letters, like "ln -s/u1/application/live L:"
That way, everyone now has a load of windows-only stuff that they're stuck with.
This is one of the reasons I think Mono is a bad idea. All Microsoft has to do is be friendly to Mono, until everyone drops their guard and decides it's okay to develop in dotNET. Then, all they need to do is start enforcing their patents, and it's all over...
Besides, the way files are generally manipulated on Unix, ctime has limited value. At my current job, we even have a cron job that runs once a week, and updates all the permissions on all of our important files, just in case someone screwed them up, so here, ctime has practically no value at all. I'd rather have atime, thanks.
Ummmm... if you are doing regular backups then the atime will be changing every time
Ummm... No. Not if you use the appropriate options on your backup command, such as the "--atime-preserve" option on "tar". I wish they'd add that option to "rsync".
What EXACTLY can't you customize, in Windows, if you can code (OR, see my next paragraph, even IF YOU CAN'T)?
Right at this moment? I'd be happy if I could get the Windows XP (Home) that came with my laptop to put my user home directories on a drive other than C. I thought I took care of that when I moved the "My Documents" folders for all my users to D, but apparently, that actually only moves "My Documents". Naturally, there's no obvious way to move a user's entire home directory, and the system still stores an enormous amount of junk in those directories, so my C drive is still close to full. I can't even begin to tell you how annoying that is.
Of course, with *nix, it's just "usermod -d <new directory> <user>". Ouch! That's soooo hard.
I have to admit, I'm surprised to hear people say stuff like this. My wife started using OpenOffice Writer on Windows about 6 months ago (it's required, where she works), and she can't stop talking about how much better it is than Word.
or you really need to read this article before "informing" anyone else about video cameras.
You weren't paying attention. I responded to a guy who insisted the 10x zoom claimed by the previous guy was digital, so I went to Best Buy and found that current camcorders can do 35x optical zoom. I couldn't care less about the 1000x digital. Kindly learn how to read before the next time you try to flame someone.
Umm, no. My camcorder is almost 5 years old. It has 6x optical zoom and 200x digital zoom. If you had actually taken the effort to check at bestbuy.com, you'd have seen camcorders with at least 35x optical and 1000x digital zoom.
You're probably right. I picked up "The Sims 2" a while ago. Given its popularity, I assumed it must be a pretty good game. To be honest, I can't figure out how to play it. I don't even know what the object is. I'll probably try again, at some point, but not before I check out a few strategy guides.
I wonder if the "Sim City" stuff will be in the same group.
I'll agree with you there, but Intuit had better start getting more serious about cross-platform support. Right now, Microsoft seems like they're all over the place, but I would bet money that, if and when they get it back together, Intuit will be their next target. Unless they've ported their software to other platforms by then, they're pretty much done for.
To be honest, I've never had a problem with that. For me (and most of the people I've worked with), it only becomes a problem when they add, "Oh, and we need it tomorrow", or "There's no extra money on the budget to spend on this", or both.
The catholic church is NOT mainstream Christian thought
Umm... How do you figure that, given: 1) there are at least twice as many Catholics as all other denominations of Christianity, combined, and 2) the Catholic Church is one of the oldest Christian churches?
When I was 15, most families couldn't afford computers (though that was about to change, since the Apple II had just come out). At my high school, we had computers with two 8-inch, single-sided floppy drives (Ohio Scientific, if you're interested). They held 275k, each. I remember my math teacher bragging because, if you got double-sided disk drives, you could have an entire megabyte on line.
but the real key to success in nethack is A) minimize risk, and B) PREPARE TO BE SCREWED
But that's the whole problem with NetHack. I used to love it - a lot - but having to start over from scratch, time after time, was just frustrating after a while, especially when you've got a good game going. When I'm playing Quake, or Unreal, and I know I'm getting to a difficult part, I'll save my game. If I get killed, I can pick up from my last save. I'll never understand why that's not possible in NetHack, without hacking the source. I can't stand to redo a level, much less a whole game.
its useless drivel like this that makes wikipedia look like a comedic joke.
Oh, stop. Like it or not, Stargate is part of our culture, now. If "naquadah generators" don't belong on WikiPedia, neither do things like kryptonite or "the silver bullet", and I'm pretty sure most people will argue that with you.
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Burn CDs, hand one out to everyone in the country, job done.
:-)
Nice!
But that only allows for around 15 bytes of information per square inch. Are you sure that's enough? You'd probably need 3 bytes for the elevation, 3 bytes for the color, and a few more for composition - and that's off the top of my head. There may be a lot more we don't know about. That's cutting it a little close, don't you think?
That's still a lot of square inches: 58,842,036,065,894,390. Where are they going to store it all?
SuSe installed the 32-bit version of Firefox for you.
Well here are the contents of the "About" window: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20060911 SUSE/2.0.0.5-1.1 Firefox/2.0.0.5. See for yourself.
Even if it is the 32-bit version of Firefox, does it really matter?
if your app "knows nothing of Unix permissions" how does it screw things up?
Wow, I must have really spaced when I wrote that line. There should have been an "and the application's own access controls leave a lot to be desired" at the end of that sentence.
I'll give you the full story, if you want, but I have to ask: do you really care? Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have your input, especially if you think you can improve the situation, but we're so far off-topic now, I'm surprised no one's modded us down. We should at least take this discussion elsewhere.
it's a nice sound byte to buy karma
I wasn't actually trying to buy karma, or even say anything important, really, I was just trying to point out the OP to the mods, since I don't currently have any mod points. If I thought anyone would have read my post, past the title, I would have tried to be more clear. I'm as surprised as you are that I got modded up.
I dunno, Flash 9 (or is it 10?) seems to work perfectly well on my 64-bit SuSE 10.0 laptop.
If the permissions on an important file are wrong you should be looking for intruders
/u1/application/live L:"
Well, not in this case. Our main application (no, we didn't write it) was developed on DOS and ported to Unix, so it knows nothing about Unix permissions. As a result, they get screwed up, occasionally. The cron job fixes that. Yes, I know it's stupid, but we don't have much of a choice.
Another cool (not!) artifact of the application's DOS-to-Unix conversion is that we have to use symbolic links to emulate drive letters, like "ln -s
Neat, huh?
I have more faith in MS and Silverlight on cross platform than I do Flash
Come on. You can't seriously believe Silverlight will continue to be cross-platform, after Microsoft has a large enough installed base.
That way, everyone now has a load of windows-only stuff that they're stuck with.
This is one of the reasons I think Mono is a bad idea. All Microsoft has to do is be friendly to Mono, until everyone drops their guard and decides it's okay to develop in dotNET. Then, all they need to do is start enforcing their patents, and it's all over...
--atime-preserve updates the ctime
Not on Linux: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html (search for "O_NOATIME").
Besides, the way files are generally manipulated on Unix, ctime has limited value. At my current job, we even have a cron job that runs once a week, and updates all the permissions on all of our important files, just in case someone screwed them up, so here, ctime has practically no value at all. I'd rather have atime, thanks.
Ummmm... if you are doing regular backups then the atime will be changing every time
Ummm... No. Not if you use the appropriate options on your backup command, such as the "--atime-preserve" option on "tar". I wish they'd add that option to "rsync".
What EXACTLY can't you customize, in Windows, if you can code (OR, see my next paragraph, even IF YOU CAN'T)?
Right at this moment? I'd be happy if I could get the Windows XP (Home) that came with my laptop to put my user home directories on a drive other than C. I thought I took care of that when I moved the "My Documents" folders for all my users to D, but apparently, that actually only moves "My Documents". Naturally, there's no obvious way to move a user's entire home directory, and the system still stores an enormous amount of junk in those directories, so my C drive is still close to full. I can't even begin to tell you how annoying that is.
Of course, with *nix, it's just "usermod -d <new directory> <user>". Ouch! That's soooo hard.
But OpenOffice has a long, long way to go.
I have to admit, I'm surprised to hear people say stuff like this. My wife started using OpenOffice Writer on Windows about 6 months ago (it's required, where she works), and she can't stop talking about how much better it is than Word.
or you really need to read this article before "informing" anyone else about video cameras.
You weren't paying attention. I responded to a guy who insisted the 10x zoom claimed by the previous guy was digital, so I went to Best Buy and found that current camcorders can do 35x optical zoom. I couldn't care less about the 1000x digital. Kindly learn how to read before the next time you try to flame someone.
Agreed. I wonder if it ever occurred to anyone that Microsoft was the inspiration for my sig...
Yah...10x digital zoom, not optical.
Umm, no. My camcorder is almost 5 years old. It has 6x optical zoom and 200x digital zoom. If you had actually taken the effort to check at bestbuy.com, you'd have seen camcorders with at least 35x optical and 1000x digital zoom.
You're probably right. I picked up "The Sims 2" a while ago. Given its popularity, I assumed it must be a pretty good game. To be honest, I can't figure out how to play it. I don't even know what the object is. I'll probably try again, at some point, but not before I check out a few strategy guides.
I wonder if the "Sim City" stuff will be in the same group.
Any idea why the certification is hardware specific? What do IBM eServers have that commodity hardware doesn't?
I'll agree with you there, but Intuit had better start getting more serious about cross-platform support. Right now, Microsoft seems like they're all over the place, but I would bet money that, if and when they get it back together, Intuit will be their next target. Unless they've ported their software to other platforms by then, they're pretty much done for.
Ok, you guys figure out how to do that.
To be honest, I've never had a problem with that. For me (and most of the people I've worked with), it only becomes a problem when they add, "Oh, and we need it tomorrow", or "There's no extra money on the budget to spend on this", or both.
The catholic church is NOT mainstream Christian thought
Umm... How do you figure that, given: 1) there are at least twice as many Catholics as all other denominations of Christianity, combined, and 2) the Catholic Church is one of the oldest Christian churches?
My personal favorite is "Cod am pizza ship", that appeared in User Friendly, for those of you that read it.
When I was 15, most families couldn't afford computers (though that was about to change, since the Apple II had just come out). At my high school, we had computers with two 8-inch, single-sided floppy drives (Ohio Scientific, if you're interested). They held 275k, each. I remember my math teacher bragging because, if you got double-sided disk drives, you could have an entire megabyte on line.
but the real key to success in nethack is A) minimize risk, and B) PREPARE TO BE SCREWED
But that's the whole problem with NetHack. I used to love it - a lot - but having to start over from scratch, time after time, was just frustrating after a while, especially when you've got a good game going. When I'm playing Quake, or Unreal, and I know I'm getting to a difficult part, I'll save my game. If I get killed, I can pick up from my last save. I'll never understand why that's not possible in NetHack, without hacking the source. I can't stand to redo a level, much less a whole game.
its useless drivel like this that makes wikipedia look like a comedic joke.
Oh, stop. Like it or not, Stargate is part of our culture, now. If "naquadah generators" don't belong on WikiPedia, neither do things like kryptonite or "the silver bullet", and I'm pretty sure most people will argue that with you.