SETI is an important project, but almost as important is the safety and reliability of our nuclear arsenal. I am proposing a distributed project to assist the US Army in safeguarding the integrity of our nuclear stockpile, and in designing new nuclear weapons for our 21st century needs. This is a worthy project, because right after we contact the aliens, they will come after us and we'll need the nukes to fend them off.
I used to be a customer of Concentric network, which also hosts www.traderspain.com.
Anyway, traderspain spammed me twice, and I complained both times. Nothing happened. Concentric ignored my followup e-mails, including the ones that said if I don't get a reply I'm going to cancel my service. Concentric continues to harbor this spammer.
I voted with my feet. Concentric is a company that I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone for anything.
I often find myself yelling at the TV because I need to respond to idiots in some way. Slashdot lets me respond to idiots any time that I like. Not that you're an idiot...:-) I too find myself looking for the reply button when I'm reading cnn.com or newscientist.com.
Because you are a firm believer that other people should be required to carry your traffic, then obviously that rule works in reverse. You should be required to carry MY traffic.
Please install an OC-3 line at your house, and run a dedicated connection to my house. Even though the OC-3 would be your own private network, you should owe it to me to carry all my traffic for free.:-)
Do you see the problem? I've got a computer, and I've got a modem. I choose not to carry everyone's traffic through my modem because it would be a burden on me. I only carry the Usenet traffic that I read myself. You cannot and should not be able to force me to carry traffic on my own modem that I choose not to carry.
Makefiles are not a nightmare. If you can't read your makefiles, then there's something terribly wrong.
I've been on many projects where it was impossible to read the makefiles, and nearly impossible to do a clean build. The problem was that some whiz kid decided to set up global makefiles all over the place, with implicit rules to handle illogical commands and directory structures. When you went to read a makefile, you first needed to be intimately familiar with 5 other included makefiles, all of which were 500 lines long, as well as the total directory structure of the project. Stupidity!
Makefiles are a breeze to use IF you:
1) don't include any global makefile crap 2) don't hide implicit build rules in a file included in a file included in another file included in yet another file included in still yet another file, which is finally included in your makefile, unless of course that sneaky user defined local makefile configuration wasn't abused by the user to deactivate the build rule defined above... yes, I've seen it. 3) put ONE makefile in a directory and have that makefile build either a program or a library. This makes it super simple and super understandable to build either an entire program or just a small part of it 4) make sure you've put the right targets in your makefile - make all, make clean, make doc, make install, make depend. The make depend is a snap because the gcc compiler will build your dependencies for you! 5) don't get tricky with the defines either. Your program should build the same no matter what your.bashrc says. Define all your variables in the makefile itself.
If you do all these things and aim for makefile simplicity, then makefiles are the A-number-one best way to build a project. IDE's are a distant second.
I am a contractor and I get paid more than the regular employees around here. I also get overtime which they don't.
I also get healthcare, stock options in my consulting company, participation in a stock purchase plan on equivalent terms to other SPP's at other companies I've been at, and a few vacation days a year.
And on top of that, whenever something political comes my way I don't need to think twice before I excuse myself from the childishness saying "I was contracted to produce a specific deliverable, not engage in politics or sit in this meeting that doesn't concern me."
You can't guess reliably. You'd need more information than that. Even if you look at a photograph of me you can't guess my race.
To correctly answer the question of what race I am you'd have to give three separate answers separated by commas.
There was a time when you could reliably say that anyone on the internet was either at a college or in the military. Now with half the country online it's much harder. In a few years you won't even be able to guess that someone is American because most people won't be.
As time goes on, you can make fewer and fewer assumptions about the person you're talking to.
How do bacteria survive with what are essentially little nano machines for organs?
At the tiniest scales, life is all about shuffling atoms around, generally according to a pattern encoded in DNA molecules. That's already sort of a nano machine already existing in nature.
Yes it did, but companies are slow to adopt, especially big companies.
When W2K comes out almost nobody will be rushing it into production. In fact, most people will probably wait a year before even thinking about betting the business.
Linux is just now on some companies' radars, and it will still be 2 years or more before large conservative institutions like banks even realize that Linux is an option. Right now they just shoot it down as a h4X0r OS. Eventually they will be rolling it out as part of their business. IBM supposedly has a 390 mainframe implementation. I wonder where that will eventually go.
Absolutely right with all your comments. I figure that in 10 years or so I'll be happy to have bought my Red Hat stock.
If I were to sell it today, I'd lose a big chunk. You don't lose until you sell, right? In 10 years I won't care about the temporary price dip after I bought.
Could that be a company as large as, say, American Express?
When I was there a couple years ago and official e-mail was sent out to put everyone on notice that *any* installation of Windows 98 would result in the immediate and non-negotiable termination of the offender.
Just two months later an IT guy was installing it on everyone's computer because it was the new standard.
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SETI is an important project, but almost as important is the safety and reliability of our nuclear arsenal. I am proposing a distributed project to assist the US Army in safeguarding the integrity of our nuclear stockpile, and in designing new nuclear weapons for our 21st century needs. This is a worthy project, because right after we contact the aliens, they will come after us and we'll need the nukes to fend them off.
Yes, BSD has page coloring.
See? The bars on the BSD pages are all red, and followed links are black.
Linux has page coloring too, but the colors are *different.*
That would be a tremendous improvement over the current situation. My Windows laptop acts like it's running off crack!
Anyone notice that "Newlix" is just a little bit like "GNUlix? I wonder if they got it from /.
I never get 502 errors. YOU are the one who is faulty. Change your internet provider.
I used to be a customer of Concentric network, which also hosts www.traderspain.com.
Anyway, traderspain spammed me twice, and I complained both times. Nothing happened. Concentric ignored my followup e-mails, including the ones that said if I don't get a reply I'm going to cancel my service. Concentric continues to harbor this spammer.
I voted with my feet. Concentric is a company that I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone for anything.
Extremely efficient??? You young kids don't know what efficient means!
Back in MY day, I nearly failed out of college with nothing more than a 1200 baud modem. Now THAT's efficient.
Signed, cranky old bastard.
I often find myself yelling at the TV because I need to respond to idiots in some way. Slashdot lets me respond to idiots any time that I like. Not that you're an idiot... :-) I too find myself looking for the reply button when I'm reading cnn.com or newscientist.com.
Because you are a firm believer that other people should be required to carry your traffic, then obviously that rule works in reverse. You should be required to carry MY traffic.
:-)
Please install an OC-3 line at your house, and run a dedicated connection to my house. Even though the OC-3 would be your own private network, you should owe it to me to carry all my traffic for free.
Do you see the problem? I've got a computer, and I've got a modem. I choose not to carry everyone's traffic through my modem because it would be a burden on me. I only carry the Usenet traffic that I read myself. You cannot and should not be able to force me to carry traffic on my own modem that I choose not to carry.
Makefiles are not a nightmare. If you can't read your makefiles, then there's something terribly wrong.
.bashrc says. Define all your variables in the makefile itself.
I've been on many projects where it was impossible to read the makefiles, and nearly impossible to do a clean build. The problem was that some whiz kid decided to set up global makefiles all over the place, with implicit rules to handle illogical commands and directory structures. When you went to read a makefile, you first needed to be intimately familiar with 5 other included makefiles, all of which were 500 lines long, as well as the total directory structure of the project. Stupidity!
Makefiles are a breeze to use IF you:
1) don't include any global makefile crap
2) don't hide implicit build rules in a file included in a file included in another file included in yet another file included in still yet another file, which is finally included in your makefile, unless of course that sneaky user defined local makefile configuration wasn't abused by the user to deactivate the build rule defined above... yes, I've seen it.
3) put ONE makefile in a directory and have that makefile build either a program or a library. This makes it super simple and super understandable to build either an entire program or just a small part of it
4) make sure you've put the right targets in your makefile - make all, make clean, make doc, make install, make depend. The make depend is a snap because the gcc compiler will build your dependencies for you!
5) don't get tricky with the defines either. Your program should build the same no matter what your
If you do all these things and aim for makefile simplicity, then makefiles are the A-number-one best way to build a project. IDE's are a distant second.
"Four flames and seven firsts ago"
Another funny one, thanks a bunch. I can't believe that the moderators think this isn't funny.
"Meept some friends of mine"
That's good stuff. Ignore those without humor who mark you as flamebait. A few of us here appreciate the funny lyrics.
I am a contractor and I get paid more than the regular employees around here. I also get overtime which they don't.
I also get healthcare, stock options in my consulting company, participation in a stock purchase plan on equivalent terms to other SPP's at other companies I've been at, and a few vacation days a year.
And on top of that, whenever something political comes my way I don't need to think twice before I excuse myself from the childishness saying "I was contracted to produce a specific deliverable, not engage in politics or sit in this meeting that doesn't concern me."
So, you're saying that Malda is Luke Skywalker?
Thanks for that. You're funnier than Tom Green.
Greetings, Earthling. I was one of the first 10,000 on the planet to learn about Linux, and one of the first 100,000 to install it.
I don't run either GNOME or KDE, finding them both to do nothing that I absolutely need.
So, now you know at least one who doesn't use a desktop.
You can't guess reliably. You'd need more information than that. Even if you look at a photograph of me you can't guess my race.
To correctly answer the question of what race I am you'd have to give three separate answers separated by commas.
There was a time when you could reliably say that anyone on the internet was either at a college or in the military. Now with half the country online it's much harder. In a few years you won't even be able to guess that someone is American because most people won't be.
As time goes on, you can make fewer and fewer assumptions about the person you're talking to.
No project should be considered complete until the little ritual of a blood sacrifice has been completed.
Cutting yourself on the case is not an accident. It's a requirement for completion of the job.
How do bacteria survive with what are essentially little nano machines for organs?
At the tiniest scales, life is all about shuffling atoms around, generally according to a pattern encoded in DNA molecules. That's already sort of a nano machine already existing in nature.
Wrong!
alt.comp.virus FAQ
There's another page with some serious analysis of the Latin words
right here
Heheh! I did the same thing and I got the same message. I'll be checking www.poso.com in the future to keep after them.
But how do we know which one of us should get credit for the kill?
That's truly excellent. I wonder why the media doesn't make as big a deal about this as they did with the two mars mission failures?
Maybe the media just hates geeks and people who want to advance space technology. Sometimes it appears that way to me.
Yes it did, but companies are slow to adopt, especially big companies.
When W2K comes out almost nobody will be rushing it into production. In fact, most people will probably wait a year before even thinking about betting the business.
Linux is just now on some companies' radars, and it will still be 2 years or more before large conservative institutions like banks even realize that Linux is an option. Right now they just shoot it down as a h4X0r OS. Eventually they will be rolling it out as part of their business. IBM supposedly has a 390 mainframe implementation. I wonder where that will eventually go.
Absolutely right with all your comments. I figure that in 10 years or so I'll be happy to have bought my Red Hat stock.
If I were to sell it today, I'd lose a big chunk. You don't lose until you sell, right? In 10 years I won't care about the temporary price dip after I bought.
Could that be a company as large as, say, American Express?
When I was there a couple years ago and official e-mail was sent out to put everyone on notice that *any* installation of Windows 98 would result in the immediate and non-negotiable termination of the offender.
Just two months later an IT guy was installing it on everyone's computer because it was the new standard.
Never say never!