# QWERTY/DVORAK SWITCHING
alias asdf='xmodmap/usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.dvorak'
alias aoeu='xmodmap/usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.us-101'
I've had that in my.bashrc for ages, came up with it myself. I'd think it's pretty obvious/straightforward for anyone who switches layouts. Of course, I never got beyond playing with it for a couple minutes before just switching back... oh well.
Exactly- as long as the ads fit into the game's universe, they're fine. I actually bought the Jak & Daxter games partially because there were billboards for them in one of the cities in Ratchet & Clank 2, and the credits revealed Insomniac (R&C) was using Naughty Dog (J&D)'s rendering engine.
Way back in the day, I had to write some code into our client's web site that recognized search engine IPs & gave them different "optimized" pages to boost their search ranking (this was before people realized that getting caught doing so would actually hurt your rank).
So on April 1st that year, I took the external IP of the internal corporate network, & made a front page of the site that was filled with images from the hampster [sic] dance site, complete w/ the sound file- the site still showed up normally for the rest of the world, but everyone in the office saw the hamster dance page, unless they used the internal network IPs to view the site (which I used,to show people "Hmm, works fine for me..."). Reactions ranged from a bunch of laughs & "Aww, that's cute"s around the office, to one of the assistant producers running around going "OMG Our site's been hacked!" before I was asked to turn it off.
San Francisco has a pretty large Japanese population as well, complete w/ its own Japantown and Kinokuniya mall. Even outside of school, I hear Japanese almost every day.
Our cinema department has something similar to this set up for checkout of cameras, editing equipment, etc. There's an 'edit cage' which is open during set hours (9-11, 12-2, 4-6) and staffed by student workers (not sure if they actually get paid or just get credits). Professors & Grad students (who are apparently more trustworthy) have the keypad code to the door, so they can get/put back stuff whenever (I'm sure there's a camera as well). Everyone else fills out a form of what they're checking out & leaves their ID, which they get back when they give the stuff back, and everything can be accounted for & checked for damage, etc.
As posters above have pointed out, laptops get stolen from "secure" (keycard to enter) offices all the time. Having expensive equipment unattended is just asking for trouble.
See a problem here? Your wife has YOU download the pics off her camera. If Linux is so easy and intuitive, why does she not do it herself?
My mom can use gphoto just fine (installed Linux on her machine a couple years ago since Windows was infested w/ adware). Yeah, I had to set it up for her (installing it & selecting the camera model was about it), but I would've had to do the same under Windows (I've had to tell her how to copy/move files from one place to another). All they ever use besides that is mozilla for web & email, and some of the GNOME games, and my little sister uses gaim. Haven't bothered teaching them any of the GUI apt frontends, since they really have no need to install anything. And if they do, I can just ssh into the machine & do it for them.
If their computer ever broke down (hardware-wise), I'd probably suggest a Mac mini, but once the machine is set up (and someone would have to come in to set up Windows for them as well, I'm sure), they've had absolutely no problems running Linux.
If you believe Think Secret (page bottom), the powerbooks will be upgraded next week, since the current stock is completely out. I've been looking into one for a while now, and am waiting 'til at least Tuesday. I'm not expecting G5 laptops or Tiger until at least summer, and even then they'll be way more expensive than I'm planning on spending. If nothing happens next week, though, who knows when it will. It all depends on how long you can wait.
Ancient Mayan 1: Gee, I really wish I could make some strange and evocative echoes... Ancient Mayan 2: Hey, I know! Let's build a pyramid! It'll act as a giant resonator!
Don't forget such classic lines as "Uh-oh, the truck have started to move!", "I feel asleep!" and "First, attempt to contact missing our 'Grey Fox'. Then try to find the Metal Gear."
Putting it all online would let people get copies of it for *gasp* FREE.
Not only have the other comments pointed out that most libraries allow you to check out anything for free anyway (provided they have a copy), most university libraries also allow you to access a huge amount of content ONLINE. There are hundreds of academic databases full of scholarly magazine & journal articles (some w/ just the abstract, some w/ the full text) that can be accessed at a university library computer, or even from home (may require a student login). One of my classes uses this system for all of its reading assignments: go to the library web page, go to the corresponding academic database, look up the article, read the PDF. Beats the hell out of buying books & "course readers", or having 20 people waiting for the one print copy of the 1970s magazine with that article in it.
Having digital copies of large amounts of printed material isn't a new thing, and it doesn't necessarily have to mean it will all be freely available. Some of it might be, but for the rest, you might need to either pay by content, or have a student or subscriber account. Nothing that can't be & hasn't already been done before.
Exactly. The one thing I hear over & over from my animation teachers regarding 3d is that you can spend all your time making great-looking models, textures & lighting, but if the movement isn't right, the whole thing is ruined. That rock-jump was especially horrid, no weight to it. Not to mention a general lack of secondary motion (except for the babies hair when she was spinning it around, which went too far & stuck straight out sideways).
several hundred [screenshots] were allegedly found to have been taken from magazines and overseas game sites without the permission of the game publisher
He wasn't just posting screenshots, he was taking other sites & companies' screenshots. Perhaps there wouldn't have been a problem if he'd made them all himself?
See, this is the biggest thing that bothered me about WindWaker- if the Link in WW is a descendant of the other Link, then why in God's name is TINGLE still around? Unless WW happens BEFORE Majora's Mask...?
Nintendo has always had Mario, Zelda, and Metroid. I never had a SNES, but I've played all the way through every NES, N64 and GC version of each of the three series, and ALWAYS look forward to the next ones. Why? It's all about the characters. Which is also why I love Super Smash Bros. Melee so much, despite the fact that I never really liked any other combat-type game (Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, etc.).
I haven't even bothered looking at an Xbox, but we've got a PS2, of which my gf is a huge fan, mostly for the Final Fantasy series. And yeah, the graphics are nice, but the character movement & game play just doesn't seem as fluid - especially the camera controls. Started playing Ratchet & Clank a while ago, and after being used to Mario & Zelda 64 camera controls, I find the 'set camera behind you' interface to be horribly disorienting. Not to mention the damn controller- every time it says to push square, circle, triangle, or X, I have to look down. I've never had a problem finding A/B/X/Y, and w/ color-coded screen icons representing the buttons, they're even easier to find. Better control, better characters, better games.
My mom's computer was popping up ads every couple minutes under windows, so last summer I set it up as a dual-boot Debian box. Installed mozilla, gaim, openoffice, & the usual basics (my mom had to have solitaire & mahjohngg), and showed them how to switch back & forth w/ the lilo menu. I also set up gdm w/ the face browser, & set it so they don't have to type in a password (although my 16-yr-old sister opted to have one anyway, 'cause "it's cool!").
Next time I went home, they had me switch the default to Linux so they didn't have to sit there when it booted up. My mom, sister, and stepdad (who can't even figure out how to use the DVD player) have been using it quite happily since then, and aside from having to install flash for my sister (which I was able to do remotely via ssh, another plus), they haven't complained at all about not being able to install shit. They're just damn happy they can read their email (they use mozilla), chat, & web surf w/o being bombarded by popups all the time. They're also quite impressed that they can each have their own web bookmarks and desktop pictures (first thing my sister did was put up a Pirates of the Caribbean background). I don't think they've booted into Windows much at all since then.
Only real problem they've had is that there's currently no way I know of for them to switch users when my sister has xscreensaver locked, short of killing X.
My roommate told me he was getting a bunch of spam last night that was going through SA. I noted that I hadn't. Of course, I got 2 today, and while looking through w/ -t to check everything (it should've been quite obvious), noticed the Habeas X-Headers in there, & found their little notice about this rash of spams. So, rather than just add a score of 0 for HABEAS_SWE, I figured I'd give them a chance & added the following to my ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs, which takes care of the current rash:
body PHARMAWHAREHOUSE/pharmawharehouse.biz/ describe PHARMAWHAREHOUSE Link to pharmawharehouse.biz
body PHARMACOURT/pharmacourt.biz/ describe PHARMACOURT Link to pharmacourt.biz
body VALUEPOINTMEDS/valuepointmeds.biz/ describe VALUEPOINTMEDS Link to valuepointmeds.biz
Looking through my mail, it turns out some of my valid mail actually does contain those headers (would never have noticed them), and a few spams, even w/ the haiku headers, have been blocked by HABEAS_VIOLATOR (RBL: Has Habeas warrant mark and on Infringer List), so the company does appear to be doing its job..
1) I remember way back in middle school when I got my brand new Amiga 2000 w/ its whopping 48M HD, and trying to use one of those old file explorer/graphical shell type programs to free up some space by deleting a bunch of pesky *.info files that were littered around, taking up space. Go back to the desktop & open my drive, oh shit- nothing's there! A call to the local Amiga BBS's sysop informed me that those.info files are the icons.
2) A little more serious- few years back at a large client site, I was running some thing to generate a bunch of temporary files from the db & do something with them. I tested it on a few rows, then set it to run on the whole database. Most of the system was on RAID-5, which was quite slow, I'd learned, so I just stuck all the temporary files in/tmp. And I figured I'd leave them there instead of deleting each one as it was done, so I could make sure they all ran properly. The next day I was informed that/tmp is what Solaris uses for its swap (I'd only had a bit of experience on HP & Linux), and I'd brought down the machine.
3) Several other instances involved working on the web-based data entry system at the same client site & accidentally doing something wrong that brought down the whole machine, causing all the DE people to be unable to work until the machine rebooted, but that was mostly due to 1) the in-house PHP-like parser we were using not handling unclosed tags & continuing to read past the file until it used up all available memory (the guy who wrote that fixed it after that happened a few times), and 2) not actually having a separate development/testing environment, & just editing the UI on production, while people were working on it (that changed, too).
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# QWERTY/DVORAK SWITCHING /usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.dvorak' /usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.us-101'
.bashrc for ages, came up with it myself. I'd think it's pretty obvious/straightforward for anyone who switches layouts. Of course, I never got beyond playing with it for a couple minutes before just switching back... oh well.
alias asdf='xmodmap
alias aoeu='xmodmap
I've had that in my
"Take it with you" is not a solution. At best it's a good practice. Seriously, if that's all it took, then pickpockets would be out of a job.
Actually, by definition, pickpockets pick things out of people's pockets, so taking it with them is what gives them their job.
Exactly- as long as the ads fit into the game's universe, they're fine. I actually bought the Jak & Daxter games partially because there were billboards for them in one of the cities in Ratchet & Clank 2, and the credits revealed Insomniac (R&C) was using Naughty Dog (J&D)'s rendering engine.
Way back in the day, I had to write some code into our client's web site that recognized search engine IPs & gave them different "optimized" pages to boost their search ranking (this was before people realized that getting caught doing so would actually hurt your rank).
So on April 1st that year, I took the external IP of the internal corporate network, & made a front page of the site that was filled with images from the hampster [sic] dance site, complete w/ the sound file- the site still showed up normally for the rest of the world, but everyone in the office saw the hamster dance page, unless they used the internal network IPs to view the site (which I used,to show people "Hmm, works fine for me..."). Reactions ranged from a bunch of laughs & "Aww, that's cute"s around the office, to one of the assistant producers running around going "OMG Our site's been hacked!" before I was asked to turn it off.
555-1212 is also the number for directory information (the same as 411, only you can dial an area code first).
San Francisco has a pretty large Japanese population as well, complete w/ its own Japantown and Kinokuniya mall. Even outside of school, I hear Japanese almost every day.
Our cinema department has something similar to this set up for checkout of cameras, editing equipment, etc. There's an 'edit cage' which is open during set hours (9-11, 12-2, 4-6) and staffed by student workers (not sure if they actually get paid or just get credits). Professors & Grad students (who are apparently more trustworthy) have the keypad code to the door, so they can get/put back stuff whenever (I'm sure there's a camera as well). Everyone else fills out a form of what they're checking out & leaves their ID, which they get back when they give the stuff back, and everything can be accounted for & checked for damage, etc.
As posters above have pointed out, laptops get stolen from "secure" (keycard to enter) offices all the time. Having expensive equipment unattended is just asking for trouble.
The only real fun comes if and only if you are duel booting
Is that when you have a Windows and a Linux partition, and they each stand back to back, walk 10 paces away from each other, turn around, & shoot?
See a problem here? Your wife has YOU download the pics off her camera. If Linux is so easy and intuitive, why does she not do it herself?
My mom can use gphoto just fine (installed Linux on her machine a couple years ago since Windows was infested w/ adware). Yeah, I had to set it up for her (installing it & selecting the camera model was about it), but I would've had to do the same under Windows (I've had to tell her how to copy/move files from one place to another). All they ever use besides that is mozilla for web & email, and some of the GNOME games, and my little sister uses gaim. Haven't bothered teaching them any of the GUI apt frontends, since they really have no need to install anything. And if they do, I can just ssh into the machine & do it for them.
If their computer ever broke down (hardware-wise), I'd probably suggest a Mac mini, but once the machine is set up (and someone would have to come in to set up Windows for them as well, I'm sure), they've had absolutely no problems running Linux.
If you believe Think Secret (page bottom), the powerbooks will be upgraded next week, since the current stock is completely out. I've been looking into one for a while now, and am waiting 'til at least Tuesday. I'm not expecting G5 laptops or Tiger until at least summer, and even then they'll be way more expensive than I'm planning on spending. If nothing happens next week, though, who knows when it will. It all depends on how long you can wait.
Hey look, it's a dupe!
Oh wait- my posting that it's a dupe is a dupe...
Oh wait- my realization that my posting is a dupe is a dupe...
Oh wait...
With years of slashdot stories asking "Will XXXX finally be the year of Y?", will 2005 finally be the year of slashdot retiring that stupid phrase?
Ancient Mayan 1: Gee, I really wish I could make some strange and evocative echoes...
Ancient Mayan 2: Hey, I know! Let's build a pyramid! It'll act as a giant resonator!
Yeah, I'm sure that's how it went...
...and sue Diebold! Lawsuits solve everything, after all...
Well, that js file would be cached by the browser, hopefully, not reloaded with every single page load.
True, but that's only per user. Thousands of different users would still generate thousands of hits, and thus thousands * 3k of unnecessary bandwidth.
Don't forget such classic lines as "Uh-oh, the truck have started to move!", "I feel asleep!" and "First, attempt to contact missing our 'Grey Fox'. Then try to find the Metal Gear."
Check the Way! Over.
Putting it all online would let people get copies of it for *gasp* FREE.
Not only have the other comments pointed out that most libraries allow you to check out anything for free anyway (provided they have a copy), most university libraries also allow you to access a huge amount of content ONLINE. There are hundreds of academic databases full of scholarly magazine & journal articles (some w/ just the abstract, some w/ the full text) that can be accessed at a university library computer, or even from home (may require a student login). One of my classes uses this system for all of its reading assignments: go to the library web page, go to the corresponding academic database, look up the article, read the PDF. Beats the hell out of buying books & "course readers", or having 20 people waiting for the one print copy of the 1970s magazine with that article in it.
Having digital copies of large amounts of printed material isn't a new thing, and it doesn't necessarily have to mean it will all be freely available. Some of it might be, but for the rest, you might need to either pay by content, or have a student or subscriber account. Nothing that can't be & hasn't already been done before.
Exactly. The one thing I hear over & over from my animation teachers regarding 3d is that you can spend all your time making great-looking models, textures & lighting, but if the movement isn't right, the whole thing is ruined. That rock-jump was especially horrid, no weight to it. Not to mention a general lack of secondary motion (except for the babies hair when she was spinning it around, which went too far & stuck straight out sideways).
It's easy to miss this part:
several hundred [screenshots] were allegedly found to have been taken from magazines and overseas game sites without the permission of the game publisher
He wasn't just posting screenshots, he was taking other sites & companies' screenshots. Perhaps there wouldn't have been a problem if he'd made them all himself?
See, this is the biggest thing that bothered me about WindWaker- if the Link in WW is a descendant of the other Link, then why in God's name is TINGLE still around? Unless WW happens BEFORE Majora's Mask...?
Nintendo has always had Mario, Zelda, and Metroid. I never had a SNES, but I've played all the way through every NES, N64 and GC version of each of the three series, and ALWAYS look forward to the next ones. Why? It's all about the characters. Which is also why I love Super Smash Bros. Melee so much, despite the fact that I never really liked any other combat-type game (Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, etc.).
I haven't even bothered looking at an Xbox, but we've got a PS2, of which my gf is a huge fan, mostly for the Final Fantasy series. And yeah, the graphics are nice, but the character movement & game play just doesn't seem as fluid - especially the camera controls. Started playing Ratchet & Clank a while ago, and after being used to Mario & Zelda 64 camera controls, I find the 'set camera behind you' interface to be horribly disorienting. Not to mention the damn controller- every time it says to push square, circle, triangle, or X, I have to look down. I've never had a problem finding A/B/X/Y, and w/ color-coded screen icons representing the buttons, they're even easier to find. Better control, better characters, better games.
My mom's computer was popping up ads every couple minutes under windows, so last summer I set it up as a dual-boot Debian box. Installed mozilla, gaim, openoffice, & the usual basics (my mom had to have solitaire & mahjohngg), and showed them how to switch back & forth w/ the lilo menu. I also set up gdm w/ the face browser, & set it so they don't have to type in a password (although my 16-yr-old sister opted to have one anyway, 'cause "it's cool!").
Next time I went home, they had me switch the default to Linux so they didn't have to sit there when it booted up. My mom, sister, and stepdad (who can't even figure out how to use the DVD player) have been using it quite happily since then, and aside from having to install flash for my sister (which I was able to do remotely via ssh, another plus), they haven't complained at all about not being able to install shit. They're just damn happy they can read their email (they use mozilla), chat, & web surf w/o being bombarded by popups all the time. They're also quite impressed that they can each have their own web bookmarks and desktop pictures (first thing my sister did was put up a Pirates of the Caribbean background). I don't think they've booted into Windows much at all since then.
Only real problem they've had is that there's currently no way I know of for them to switch users when my sister has xscreensaver locked, short of killing X.
1) I remember way back in middle school when I got my brand new Amiga 2000 w/ its whopping 48M HD, and trying to use one of those old file explorer/graphical shell type programs to free up some space by deleting a bunch of pesky *.info files that were littered around, taking up space. Go back to the desktop & open my drive, oh shit- nothing's there! A call to the local Amiga BBS's sysop informed me that those .info files are the icons.
/tmp. And I figured I'd leave them there instead of deleting each one as it was done, so I could make sure they all ran properly. The next day I was informed that /tmp is what Solaris uses for its swap (I'd only had a bit of experience on HP & Linux), and I'd brought down the machine.
2) A little more serious- few years back at a large client site, I was running some thing to generate a bunch of temporary files from the db & do something with them. I tested it on a few rows, then set it to run on the whole database. Most of the system was on RAID-5, which was quite slow, I'd learned, so I just stuck all the temporary files in
3) Several other instances involved working on the web-based data entry system at the same client site & accidentally doing something wrong that brought down the whole machine, causing all the DE people to be unable to work until the machine rebooted, but that was mostly due to 1) the in-house PHP-like parser we were using not handling unclosed tags & continuing to read past the file until it used up all available memory (the guy who wrote that fixed it after that happened a few times), and 2) not actually having a separate development/testing environment, & just editing the UI on production, while people were working on it (that changed, too).
Counting out the Hundreds, Thousands, Millions,& Billions places, I only get 3 B's:
H B M T H B M T H B M T H
2^128 = 340 282 366 920 938 463 463 374 607 431 768 211 456
Therefore it should only be 340 billion billion billion, not 340 billion billion billion billion.