Weee, I may be tired, but I thought that was funny.
The story of the killer attack children! Working with the attack squirrels, they plan to overthrow the alien-installed government of the fourth quadrant.
The fact that they are not going out of business, and in fact seem to be thriving, means that some people like spam, (or at least are willing to buy from it) even if you personally don't happen to believe it.
OK, then shall we update the phase?
99.9999% (is this correct? I think the success rate of spam is about 0.00001%, or something of that order?) of people do not like spam.
1. Very wasteful of hard drive space. You need to have complete copies of a document in every folder/directory it belongs. Today hard drive space is cheap, but MS is trying to grow the data file sizes to keep up.... Unix/Linux users have symbolic links. They are exposed to them very early, and learn that a link to a file can be treated as the file, for everything except its organization. Updating the file updates it everywhere.
On the other hand, unix people also have hardlinks, and one can unlink() each copy of the hardlink, and the "original" (no such thing, really) is left intact. I quite like this model of operation...
And having/home as a partition makes OS upgrades easier.
You're too right about that one!
For tha very reason, I have the same justification for/usr/local, although you could put/usr/local on the same partition as/home, and do a mount --bind from one to the other. Too late now for my drives, but given the read-errors I have been experiencing on my laptop the last few days, perhaps it is time to backup, low-level format, and reinstall?
porn1 porn2 New Folder New Folder(1) unsorted_porn mp3s
I made the mistake of making too many partitions on my drive. So my porn on my/home kills my/home disk freeocity, so I move some stuff to/usr/local, and set up a symlink. Then/usr/local runs out of diskspace, so I set up another symlink to/var, etc. Eventually, it all comes crashing down when I can't make a symlink in/dos, because of stupid lacking features of a dos fs.
I'm sure I've got all this porn stashed away somewhere on some random partition on my drive that has no links pointing to it, so I'll never find it. I love it when I do find a 1GB stash of.avi files though, that I didn't know I had:)
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Darl McBride, capitalist crusader against the commie horde of Linux users
There is nothing "capitalist" or "fundamentalist" about McBride--his is a campaign of lies and stock manipulation, and McBride's company is apparently engaging in intellectual property theft. Like so many other dishonest people before him, he is hiding his misdeeds by accusing his opponents of being un-American and communists.
There is nothing "communist" about Linux. Linux has thrived in free market economies because it's a highly efficient way for commercial entities to develop software. Linux is about free markets at their best: goods being produced at marginal costs, which, in the case of software, happens to be zero.
They're also keenly aware of how out-of-whack the user/nerd ratio is. Conservative (read:CHEAP) companies will let it get to 70:1, users:nerd. Good companies will go 40:1. Exceptional companies will go 20:1.
And here in academia, we have 15:1. Wheeee!
I hope I never have to go into the corporate world; 'tis so much better here:)
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Note that I don't know how the UPS's inverter will handle running at rated load for longer than the internal battery is capable
I picked up a Sola 300 UPS for $10 with 2 dead batteries, so bought 2 12v car batteries. I killed the first UPS after about an hour of testing (at the rated 300 W load), because the main transformer got too hot and burnt out one of the windings. The transformer retained a heckload of heat for several hours.
So I bought another $10 UPS, and this time drilled holes all through the case, and put a large fan that was fed 12V when power off, and a few volts when power on (so it would still keep the charging circuit cool -- keeps the noise down though)
I also only run the computer, switch and other low power important things off this, and the monitors and other less important things off an inverter/charger/power-available-tester/relay circuit. This way the UPS has been able to stay up as long as the batteries hold out (at least a few hours), and the transient created by turning on the monitors don't kill the UPS when under battery (it just kills the inverter, which can be rebooted).
The moon race isn't the only example, SSI, public education, medicade/medicare are all drastic and sorry failures. I really feel sorry for the prople who truely believe in them.
Or, alternatively, you could live in a better country. One where the leader doesn't favour corporate collapses to proplerly funded public education etc. But I'll be flamed by the closed minded Americans for saying that, so I won't.
I don't know, but Australia's public education seems to be not too bad, if a little underfunded. Just because it doesn't work well in America, doesn't mean it is a bad idea.
Just like my argument that just because communism didn't work well in Russia doesn't mean communism is a fundamentally flawed idea.
The biggest cause of bugs, IMO, is complexity. We continually add more features to our software and this adds to the complexity. We quickly get to a point where the number of interactions of the inner workings far exceed our ability to visualise them...and then bugs creep in because we fail to realise some of the interactions.
And cars are pretty complex too. But they are engineered properly. Perhaps companies should take more time to properly engineer their code, instead of releasing it on a 6 month deadline, and charging $245 to fscking fix the damn thing?
Secondly, remember that bandwidth is probably cheaper than postage. Shipping a carton with a few hard disks and proper insulation would cost at least $30 to overnight it.
Really, the title of the article comes upon the conclusion way too quickily. You must consider much bandwidth the sender and the reciever have. If both have a several gigabit OC line, then perhaps uploading it would be faster.
(Article is old news. Film at 11.)
I can assure you that it is cheaper still to ship a box full of 10G DAT's, let along a box full of 180G disks (and the DATs cost about as much as the disks these days anyway).
All telescopes do it this way. It was cheaper for one of our observers to travel to Hawaii ($20,000AU flight), pick up the tapes, and come back, than to use a OC3 for several weeks on end. VLBI (very long baseline interferometry - where telescopes are scattered across Africa/Australia/US etc, observing the same target, have recorded to a bank of VHS tapes at each site for years now.
What we have just done is aquired 15TB of RAID arrays - 6 boxes of 14 180G drives (the boxes are in the process of being setup as we speak). 1 box is being sent up to a telescope >1000km from our cluster of 120 P4's, and a box of 14 drives will travel with one of the observeres every time they go up there. The other 5 boxes are going to be used by all the astronomers here for their general storage needs. Needless to say, we don't have a backup plan... (yes, our data is at risk from being lost, but since it will only take a few hours of observing to record 2TB of raw data, the loss would not be too bad)
Nah. Set off many bombs, and then when the Ruskis release their "doomsday device", we can live in mine shafts, and have 10 women for every man. Mind you, we will have to get rid of monogomy, and we ought to select the women for sexuality, because to procreate and get the world back on track after the Cobalt Thorium G with a half life of 93 years has dissipated, we will need to breed lots and lots.
The biggest problem I've had is that no candidate supports my position. If I disagree with everyone, who the FSCK should I vote for? The lesser of several evils?
You could pressure your goverment to use some voting system other than that luserish "Winner takes all" voting system of yours. Here we have a thriving Greens and Democrats (very differnt to you Democrats) who keep the pressure on.
In Heaven music is English, girls Australian, beer German.In Hell beer is Australian, girls English, music German
Hey, I take offense. Ausatralian beer is OK, english girls are fucking awesome (what is that cute kurvy cook-girl we see on the ABC?), and german music is great (Alex deLarge, Ramstein)
Hey, this is not a knock on the way GWB was elected, but do not mistake the actions of this administration for the intent of our nation as a whole.
Bullshit.
First, we more people voted for Al Gore than GWB. GWB is president not b/c of a corrupt Supreme Court and absentee ballot shenanigans, but rather b/c 1) the Palm Beach County butterfly ballot, and 2) Al lost his home state voting. Yikes.
If American's got off their fat apathetic arses, and everyone became educated and actually voted, then you could have had everyone voting for Gore, instead of the red-neck gun-toting fuckers who voted for Bush.
Interesting post. I'm sure that it depends on the school sometimes, though. I have spoken with some from other colleges who tell me that they could turn in programming assignments that did not compile. That would never fly at my school. And while I sure did question some of the theory classes that I had to take, later on I realized their importance.
I remember in first year where I lost about a quarter of my marks from one theory exam (write one program on paper, no chance to compile it), because of about 4 syntax errors. I, along with about 1/10th of the other students, actually hacked computers outside of class-time, and as such had been programming in other languages around then, and so got confused between pascals expression syntax and the proprietry internal language we had been forced to use for that class. I was pissed, but in the scheme of things, it didn't really matter.
They required that the lyrics not be presented in text, so they had to devise a method that presented the lyrics in some kind of applet so end users couldn't grab 'em all wholesale.
The end result: if you didn't user Windows you couldn't use the site.
And yet, if you were a real "pirate", you could get a screengrab, and feed it through your favourite OCR program. Alternativly, if the "pirate" has 4 brain cells connected, they could type it in. Sounds effective to me...
Hmmm. Did they anonymise the sending address, or bounce an error back to you if you tried to reply, so you couldn't reply to them? If so, I am sure you could get them under under the DMCA.
Well, where do we start? Sure, it isn't "high speed broadband". So I was agreeing with the judges decision. Afterall, here in.au, we actually care about the "consumer" (hate that word), and if some lousy business lies to you, we sic ACCC (Asutralian competition and consumer commision) onto them.
But then found out that the lawyers were arguing it wasn't "broadband". ie, some stupid slime has stolen physicist's language, and is trying to force change in terminology through law. They didn't have a beef with the "high speed" part, instead they chose to pick on "broadband".
The problem is, everyone on slashdot would rather just complain on slashdot instead of actually writing thier representative a well worded letter.
Actually, the problem is a lot of/.ers are international. We see daily just how fucked up the good ol' US of A is becoming, and can do nothing about it. Now, that's not so bad - I don't ever want to travel to the USA myself, let alone live there, but in the meantime, our own counties are threatening to follow in their footsteps, so that we can further our trade agreements.
So in that way, we whinge about the USA laws, because they will eventually influence our own laws.
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Super move RIAA: attack children
Weee, I may be tired, but I thought that was funny.
The story of the killer attack children! Working with the attack squirrels, they plan to overthrow the alien-installed government of the fourth quadrant.
The fact that they are not going out of business, and in fact seem to be thriving, means that some people like spam, (or at least are willing to buy from it) even if you personally don't happen to believe it.
OK, then shall we update the phase?
99.9999% (is this correct? I think the success rate of spam is about 0.00001%, or something of that order?) of people do not like spam.
Happy?
1. Very wasteful of hard drive space. You need to have complete copies of a document in every folder/directory it belongs. Today hard drive space is cheap, but MS is trying to grow the data file sizes to keep up. ...
Unix/Linux users have symbolic links. They are exposed to them very early, and learn that a link to a file can be treated as the file, for everything except its organization. Updating the file updates it everywhere.
On the other hand, unix people also have hardlinks, and one can unlink() each copy of the hardlink, and the "original" (no such thing, really) is left intact. I quite like this model of operation...
And having /home as a partition makes OS upgrades easier.
/usr/local, although you could put /usr/local on the same partition as /home, and do a mount --bind from one to the other. Too late now for my drives, but given the read-errors I have been experiencing on my laptop the last few days, perhaps it is time to backup, low-level format, and reinstall?
You're too right about that one!
For tha very reason, I have the same justification for
porn1
/home kills my /home disk freeocity, so I move some stuff to /usr/local, and set up a symlink. Then /usr/local runs out of diskspace, so I set up another symlink to /var, etc. Eventually, it all comes crashing down when I can't make a symlink in /dos, because of stupid lacking features of a dos fs.
.avi files though, that I didn't know I had :)
porn2
New Folder
New Folder(1)
unsorted_porn
mp3s
I made the mistake of making too many partitions on my drive. So my porn on my
I'm sure I've got all this porn stashed away somewhere on some random partition on my drive that has no links pointing to it, so I'll never find it. I love it when I do find a 1GB stash of
Darl McBride, capitalist crusader against the commie horde of Linux users
There is nothing "capitalist" or "fundamentalist" about McBride--his is a campaign of lies and stock manipulation, and McBride's company is apparently engaging in intellectual property theft. Like so many other dishonest people before him, he is hiding his misdeeds by accusing his opponents of being un-American and communists.
There is nothing "communist" about Linux. Linux has thrived in free market economies because it's a highly efficient way for commercial entities to develop software. Linux is about free markets at their best: goods being produced at marginal costs, which, in the case of software, happens to be zero.
Umm.... "Sarcasm".
They're also keenly aware of how out-of-whack the user/nerd ratio is. Conservative (read:CHEAP) companies will let it get to 70:1, users:nerd. Good companies will go 40:1. Exceptional companies will go 20:1.
:)
And here in academia, we have 15:1. Wheeee!
I hope I never have to go into the corporate world; 'tis so much better here
Note that I don't know how the UPS's inverter will handle running at rated load for longer than the internal battery is capable
I picked up a Sola 300 UPS for $10 with 2 dead batteries, so bought 2 12v car batteries. I killed the first UPS after about an hour of testing (at the rated 300 W load), because the main transformer got too hot and burnt out one of the windings. The transformer retained a heckload of heat for several hours.
So I bought another $10 UPS, and this time drilled holes all through the case, and put a large fan that was fed 12V when power off, and a few volts when power on (so it would still keep the charging circuit cool -- keeps the noise down though)
I also only run the computer, switch and other low power important things off this, and the monitors and other less important things off an inverter/charger/power-available-tester/relay circuit. This way the UPS has been able to stay up as long as the batteries hold out (at least a few hours), and the transient created by turning on the monitors don't kill the UPS when under battery (it just kills the inverter, which can be rebooted).
The moon race isn't the only example, SSI, public education, medicade/medicare are all drastic and sorry failures. I really feel sorry for the prople who truely believe in them.
Or, alternatively, you could live in a better country. One where the leader doesn't favour corporate collapses to proplerly funded public education etc. But I'll be flamed by the closed minded Americans for saying that, so I won't.
I don't know, but Australia's public education seems to be not too bad, if a little underfunded. Just because it doesn't work well in America, doesn't mean it is a bad idea.
Just like my argument that just because communism didn't work well in Russia doesn't mean communism is a fundamentally flawed idea.
The biggest cause of bugs, IMO, is complexity. We continually add more features to our software and this adds to the complexity. We quickly get to a point where the number of interactions of the inner workings far exceed our ability to visualise them...and then bugs creep in because we fail to realise some of the interactions.
And cars are pretty complex too. But they are engineered properly. Perhaps companies should take more time to properly engineer their code, instead of releasing it on a 6 month deadline, and charging $245 to fscking fix the damn thing?
Secondly, remember that bandwidth is probably cheaper than postage. Shipping a carton with a few hard disks and proper insulation would cost at least $30 to overnight it.
Really, the title of the article comes upon the conclusion way too quickily. You must consider much bandwidth the sender and the reciever have. If both have a several gigabit OC line, then perhaps uploading it would be faster.
(Article is old news. Film at 11.)
I can assure you that it is cheaper still to ship a box full of 10G DAT's, let along a box full of 180G disks (and the DATs cost about as much as the disks these days anyway).
All telescopes do it this way. It was cheaper for one of our observers to travel to Hawaii ($20,000AU flight), pick up the tapes, and come back, than to use a OC3 for several weeks on end. VLBI (very long baseline interferometry - where telescopes are scattered across Africa/Australia/US etc, observing the same target, have recorded to a bank of VHS tapes at each site for years now.
What we have just done is aquired 15TB of RAID arrays - 6 boxes of 14 180G drives (the boxes are in the process of being setup as we speak). 1 box is being sent up to a telescope >1000km from our cluster of 120 P4's, and a box of 14 drives will travel with one of the observeres every time they go up there. The other 5 boxes are going to be used by all the astronomers here for their general storage needs. Needless to say, we don't have a backup plan... (yes, our data is at risk from being lost, but since it will only take a few hours of observing to record 2TB of raw data, the loss would not be too bad)
(And I am, of course, surprised that sportscasters would make grammatical errors.)
Oh man. Them and "literally". Pronounced out in painstaking detail as well.
Fsckers.
go nuclear!
then all we need is 1 bomb
Nah. Set off many bombs, and then when the Ruskis release their "doomsday device", we can live in mine shafts, and have 10 women for every man. Mind you, we will have to get rid of monogomy, and we ought to select the women for sexuality, because to procreate and get the world back on track after the Cobalt Thorium G with a half life of 93 years has dissipated, we will need to breed lots and lots.
Ah, sigh, Stanley Kubrick was a geneous.
The biggest problem I've had is that no candidate supports my position. If I disagree with everyone, who the FSCK should I vote for? The lesser of several evils?
You could pressure your goverment to use some voting system other than that luserish "Winner takes all" voting system of yours. Here we have a thriving Greens and Democrats (very differnt to you Democrats) who keep the pressure on.
In Heaven music is English, girls Australian, beer German.In Hell beer is Australian, girls English, music German
Hey, I take offense. Ausatralian beer is OK, english girls are fucking awesome (what is that cute kurvy cook-girl we see on the ABC?), and german music is great (Alex deLarge, Ramstein)
At least the teaching is better than Monash or Swinbourne (or so I hear).
:)
Hey, I take offense
Oh wait, there is no teaching in astrophysics as Swinburne, we just steal all the postgrad students from the other universities.
Hey, this is not a knock on the way GWB was elected, but do not mistake the actions of this administration for the intent of our nation as a whole.
Bullshit.
First, we more people voted for Al Gore than GWB. GWB is president not b/c of a corrupt Supreme Court and absentee ballot shenanigans, but rather b/c 1) the Palm Beach County butterfly ballot, and 2) Al lost his home state voting. Yikes.
If American's got off their fat apathetic arses, and everyone became educated and actually voted, then you could have had everyone voting for Gore, instead of the red-neck gun-toting fuckers who voted for Bush.
Nixon/Ford/Carter/Bush I/Clinton moderate foreign policy
Bush I -- moderate foreign policy? I must have missed something.
Interesting post. I'm sure that it depends on the school sometimes, though. I have spoken with some from other colleges who tell me that they could turn in programming assignments that did not compile. That would never fly at my school. And while I sure did question some of the theory classes that I had to take, later on I realized their importance.
I remember in first year where I lost about a quarter of my marks from one theory exam (write one program on paper, no chance to compile it), because of about 4 syntax errors. I, along with about 1/10th of the other students, actually hacked computers outside of class-time, and as such had been programming in other languages around then, and so got confused between pascals expression syntax and the proprietry internal language we had been forced to use for that class. I was pissed, but in the scheme of things, it didn't really matter.
An old AMD computer, processor type forgotten. (Probably about a 400 Mhz) something.
Ugh. Old? So old you don't even remember?
Wow. That's not exactly a collection you have going on there. That would be ontop of my desk at home.
They required that the lyrics not be presented in text, so they had to devise a method that presented the lyrics in some kind of applet so end users couldn't grab 'em all wholesale.
The end result: if you didn't user Windows you couldn't use the site.
And yet, if you were a real "pirate", you could get a screengrab, and feed it through your favourite OCR program. Alternativly, if the "pirate" has 4 brain cells connected, they could type it in. Sounds effective to me...
Heh heh. I just read the readme file with the "usher" in the filename.
I love the way he tears apart the reviewer of his submitted journal article.
<blam> Take that!
Good though, to see the network admin is getting signatures in his department to tell RIAA to go formally fsck themselves.
riaa:...
me:....
Hmmm. Did they anonymise the sending address, or bounce an error back to you if you tried to reply, so you couldn't reply to them? If so, I am sure you could get them under under the DMCA.
Well, where do we start? Sure, it isn't "high speed broadband". So I was agreeing with the judges decision. Afterall, here in .au, we actually care about the "consumer" (hate that word), and if some lousy business lies to you, we sic ACCC (Asutralian competition and consumer commision) onto them.
But then found out that the lawyers were arguing it wasn't "broadband". ie, some stupid slime has stolen physicist's language, and is trying to force change in terminology through law. They didn't have a beef with the "high speed" part, instead they chose to pick on "broadband".
The encrypted protocol? I have it here,
and I can post it on Slashdot right now,
right after I answer the knock at the door...
Haiku really bad
Poetry police at door
Better answer it
The problem is, everyone on slashdot would rather just complain on slashdot instead of actually writing thier representative a well worded letter.
/.ers are international. We see daily just how fucked up the good ol' US of A is becoming, and can do nothing about it. Now, that's not so bad - I don't ever want to travel to the USA myself, let alone live there, but in the meantime, our own counties are threatening to follow in their footsteps, so that we can further our trade agreements.
Actually, the problem is a lot of
So in that way, we whinge about the USA laws, because they will eventually influence our own laws.