for you to post his server's address here. It's already slashdotted... just goes to prove that gobs of disk space won't help your web server's resilience to massive ammounts of requests.
Dasher was featured on slashdot a while ago. "Dasher is an information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures. Dasher is a competitive text-entry system wherever a full-size keyboard cannot be used". It has two features that are important to your situation: one, it has predictive behavior, meaning that it sort of guesses what you want to write and makes it easier to say "that's exactly what I meant", all this without losing the ability to input stuff even if dasher can't guess it; and it doesn't require a keyboard. You could even rig some sort of visual tracker so the user won't need anything but her eyes.
What attempts have been made to both translate the GPL to other languages, and then verify that the translated version still makes sense?
a translated version of the GPL would be really helpful to those of us who deal primarily with non-english-speaking customers (they all speak spanish here), particularly when they ask about the licensing terms for Free Software we install for them. Instead of telling them to believe us about the license, we'd like to hand them a copy they can read, understand, and then hand to their legal department for them to also read and understand. However, even while there are unofficial translations available, they're still unofficial and thus don't instill much confidence in people.
Some review sites have said you could throw a harddrive against a wall while it is running and it would be fine.
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Well, they're dead wrong. I kicked a computer about 2 weeks ago while it was turned on. One of the hard disks failed, ended up with lots of bad sectors, plus it lost all the data we had on it. So no, they won't be fine, altough at least it wasn't rendered completely useless.
Canadian author Robert J. Sawyer's work is pretty recent (maybe last 15 years, "golden fleece" is, as far as I know, his first novel, and it's from 1990). It's also very good, I've yet to read one of his books and not like it. This guy has such mastery of science, fiction and storytelling, you'd almost think scientific principles adapt themselves to better suit Robert's storylines, and not the other way around.
He also touches topics ranging from paleontology to artificial intelligence, quantum computing, extraterrestrial races, time travel and genetics.
And, if that kind of thing interests you, he's also won the Nebula award and is a 6-time Hugo award finalist.
Finally, he's got a pretty complete website where you can see what this is all about.
No personal ties, I'm not his agent or anything. I just think his books are awesome.
how things have changed in a few years. S3 is now considered a low-end manufacturer; some years back, they were top-of-the-line, I remember spending over 200 bucks on a S3 Vision968-based card which was the best there was back then. This of course was in the days before 3D acceleration, and this card touted features meant to accelerate video playback.
To S3's credit, my 968-based card with 2 MB VRAM still holds its own against more recent offerings, at least as far as 2D work goes.
Melee mode is largely unchanged, with perhaps only the addition of a few new ships. But "full" mode is a whole other beast; where SC1 was a strategy-oriented game, SC2 is a story-driven RPG. You can still have the computer auto-resolve combat if you're not arcade-game-inclined.
That's what she said; and technically it's correct, she doesn't do it, but her computer guy does, from the article:
He labors over a message's subject line; he's found people are more likely to open e-mail if it appears to be from a real person, so he types his friends' names on "from" lines.
That IS forging headers. That's using deception to try to get me to open her e-mails. You say she's not a spammer; I say, not only is she a spammer, she's also a natural born liar. Not the kind of people I'd like to deal with. Fortunately I have spamprobe to take care of spam for me.
I thought about switching to the new bayesian filters I'd read about on Slashdot, but they don't seem that mature yet
They're mature, they work and they get rid of over 90% of my spam. Check out spamprobe and bogofilter, in my oppinion the most mature of the bunch. spamprobe does have more features:)
how about some details on how "the Mac versions are basically unusable"? I've used them, so they're not *unusable*, and they perform pretty well; in fact, I know plenty of mac users who prefer it over IE.
Why do you say "the Windows version is hurting"? what problems do you have with it? For me, it works just fine and I prefer it over IE, even with the slower loading time, and even on my slow K62-400 with 48 MB RAM. I did say "for me", but in all truth I can't find any instances where it is "hurting".
Your final comment seems to imply Mozilla is not good, which in my oppinion is not true. Hey, we're all expressing our oppinions here, nothing more:)
Just because it's the first one that actually makes the slashdot frontpage it doesn't mean it's the only one.
Do a freshmeat search for bayespam, bogofilter and spamprobe, they're all working and quite mature bayesian filters (or should we say "paulgrahamian" in order to appease the "true bayesian" crowd). Hell, even a search for "bayes" will turn out a few more hits, like ifilter, which aims to automatically classify mail in different folders, but could be easily tuned to filter out spam.
Of these, I think spamprobe is becoming the true "swiss army knife" of "bayesian" filtering; I did find both bogofilter and bayespam spartan, but they work well. spamprobe, on the other hand, is very actively maintained, is under constant improvement by the author, Brian Burton, and has given me excellent results getting rid of over 90% of my spam.
Maybe Theo meant it as a filter; if a user can't install without ISOs then he's not worthy of using OpenBSD.:)
Seriously, making your own OpenBSD CD is not that hard; you just download the files, the boot floppy images, then boot with that floppy, check the path in which it looks for the installation files, and then make a CD with files in that path and using the boot floppy image as your El Torito boot image. I've been doing it since 2.9 and it works like a charm. I put all the files on CD anyway, to save HD space on our server, and making it so that the CD was bootable and could be installed from was obvious and simple.
No, but how about 5% of the people spend 100% of their income on telemarketing goodies? you know some of those pitches can be really convincing... *LOL*
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Visions of the BOFH: "My account is full. I need more space." "What was your username again?" *crunch, grind* "Okay, you now have 4MB free." "Great, so I have 8 total? The 4 I started with and 4 more?" "No, you have 4 total."
This HAS to be meant to be either a hge troll or a humorous comment, but since it hasn't been modded as such, here are the inaccuracies in this comment:
1- UNIX talk predates ICQ by at least 10 years, and it appears as "vastly inferior" because it's meant for a completely different purpose. A car appears "vastly inferior" to an airplane because it can't fly, but that's not what it was meant to do.
2- Trillian's author (and those of all the "compatible" IM utilities) aren't "stealing intellectual property"; they're doing reverse engineering of the protocols, then implementing those protocols in their own applications. It's actually so legal, it's even explicitly permitted by law. It's actually a good idea since that way I can use all those IM networks without having to use Windows, or Yahoo's, AOL's and Microsoft's client software. Um, maybe they would prefer I didn't use their IM networks?
Trading files is not "illegal" per se. That's all I'm going to say about this one.
This is AOL realizing "hey, we bought ICQ a while ago, let's start actually doing something with it", because they were getting stomped in the IM arena by competitors.
There are some types of data that just can't be adequately stored in a RDBMS without serious kludging and even then it won't function optimally. Bibliographical data is an example; some people I know wrote a book cataloguing app and from all the research they did they found out using a RDBMS wouldn't cut it. There's a data format specially created for this purpose and that's what they used, though I can't really remember what it was.
" OpenMP is a specification for a set of compiler directives, library routines, and environment variables that can be used to specify shared memory parallelism in Fortran and C/C++ programs." All that would have to be added to gcc are the "compiler directives", as the "library routines" and "environment variables" aren't directly a part of the compiler.
Now, openMP is good for programming extremely high-performance shared-memory applications, like scientific computation applications and stuff like that. It really sounds like overkill for a desktop environment where it's probably easier to program a multithreaded application with standard IPC mechanisms where communication is required. And really high-performance applications could also be programmed using MPI and a message passing communication scheme, which is far more widely used (compare the # of people who know about openmp versus those who know about mpi), probably wouldn't be much less efficient, and would quite likely scale much better than a shared memory implementation.
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for you to post his server's address here. It's already slashdotted... just goes to prove that gobs of disk space won't help your web server's resilience to massive ammounts of requests.
Dasher was featured on slashdot a while ago. "Dasher is an information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures. Dasher is a competitive text-entry system wherever a full-size keyboard cannot be used". It has two features that are important to your situation: one, it has predictive behavior, meaning that it sort of guesses what you want to write and makes it easier to say "that's exactly what I meant", all this without losing the ability to input stuff even if dasher can't guess it; and it doesn't require a keyboard. You could even rig some sort of visual tracker so the user won't need anything but her eyes.
Check out Dasher here.
What attempts have been made to both translate the GPL to other languages, and then verify that the translated version still makes sense?
a translated version of the GPL would be really helpful to those of us who deal primarily with non-english-speaking customers (they all speak spanish here), particularly when they ask about the licensing terms for Free Software we install for them. Instead of telling them to believe us about the license, we'd like to hand them a copy they can read, understand, and then hand to their legal department for them to also read and understand. However, even while there are unofficial translations available, they're still unofficial and thus don't instill much confidence in people.
"In the digital world, we don't need back-ups, because a digital copy never wears out. It is timeless."
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Wait till his hard disk dies
Well, they're dead wrong. I kicked a computer about 2 weeks ago while it was turned on. One of the hard disks failed, ended up with lots of bad sectors, plus it lost all the data we had on it. So no, they won't be fine, altough at least it wasn't rendered completely useless.
Canadian author Robert J. Sawyer's work is pretty recent (maybe last 15 years, "golden fleece" is, as far as I know, his first novel, and it's from 1990). It's also very good, I've yet to read one of his books and not like it. This guy has such mastery of science, fiction and storytelling, you'd almost think scientific principles adapt themselves to better suit Robert's storylines, and not the other way around.
He also touches topics ranging from paleontology to artificial intelligence, quantum computing, extraterrestrial races, time travel and genetics.
And, if that kind of thing interests you, he's also won the Nebula award and is a 6-time Hugo award finalist.
Finally, he's got a pretty complete website where you can see what this is all about.
No personal ties, I'm not his agent or anything. I just think his books are awesome.
Then it came back to earth, where a merciless slashdot crowd pounded the poor server into the ground.
Now all it needs is to be inside a submarine!
To S3's credit, my 968-based card with 2 MB VRAM still holds its own against more recent offerings, at least as far as 2D work goes.
is the kemper interview long enough that they just *HAD* to put it in a zip file? or is it yet another ploy to counter the slashdot effect?
And by what strange quantum phenomenon does 2002-1900=100?
I swear i'll never understand quantum mechanics.
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Melee mode is largely unchanged, with perhaps only the addition of a few new ships. But "full" mode is a whole other beast; where SC1 was a strategy-oriented game, SC2 is a story-driven RPG. You can still have the computer auto-resolve combat if you're not arcade-game-inclined.
You want the slashdot editors to die from electrocution don't you?
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thats pretty mean
spamprobe works exactly the way you describe it. That's how I use it on my imap server. Do yourself a favor and check it out. :)
She doesn't forge headers.
That's what she said; and technically it's correct, she doesn't do it, but her computer guy does, from the article:
He labors over a message's subject line; he's found people are more likely to open e-mail if it appears to be from a real person, so he types his friends' names on "from" lines.
That IS forging headers. That's using deception to try to get me to open her e-mails. You say she's not a spammer; I say, not only is she a spammer, she's also a natural born liar. Not the kind of people I'd like to deal with. Fortunately I have spamprobe to take care of spam for me.
I thought about switching to the new bayesian filters I'd read about on Slashdot, but they don't seem that mature yet
:)
They're mature, they work and they get rid of over 90% of my spam. Check out spamprobe and bogofilter, in my oppinion the most mature of the bunch. spamprobe does have more features
how about some details on how "the Mac versions are basically unusable"? I've used them, so they're not *unusable*, and they perform pretty well; in fact, I know plenty of mac users who prefer it over IE.
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Why do you say "the Windows version is hurting"? what problems do you have with it? For me, it works just fine and I prefer it over IE, even with the slower loading time, and even on my slow K62-400 with 48 MB RAM. I did say "for me", but in all truth I can't find any instances where it is "hurting".
Your final comment seems to imply Mozilla is not good, which in my oppinion is not true. Hey, we're all expressing our oppinions here, nothing more
Just because it's the first one that actually makes the slashdot frontpage it doesn't mean it's the only one.
Do a freshmeat search for bayespam, bogofilter and spamprobe, they're all working and quite mature bayesian filters (or should we say "paulgrahamian" in order to appease the "true bayesian" crowd). Hell, even a search for "bayes" will turn out a few more hits, like ifilter, which aims to automatically classify mail in different folders, but could be easily tuned to filter out spam.
Of these, I think spamprobe is becoming the true "swiss army knife" of "bayesian" filtering; I did find both bogofilter and bayespam spartan, but they work well. spamprobe, on the other hand, is very actively maintained, is under constant improvement by the author, Brian Burton, and has given me excellent results getting rid of over 90% of my spam.
Dude, be thankful that it's not a 10-MB 2-page word document! plus, how ironic would that be?
Maybe Theo meant it as a filter; if a user can't install without ISOs then he's not worthy of using OpenBSD. :)
Seriously, making your own OpenBSD CD is not that hard; you just download the files, the boot floppy images, then boot with that floppy, check the path in which it looks for the installation files, and then make a CD with files in that path and using the boot floppy image as your El Torito boot image. I've been doing it since 2.9 and it works like a charm. I put all the files on CD anyway, to save HD space on our server, and making it so that the CD was bootable and could be installed from was obvious and simple.
No, but how about 5% of the people spend 100% of their income on telemarketing goodies? you know some of those pitches can be really convincing... *LOL*
MAKE THEM RAISE YOUR QUOTA
Visions of the BOFH:
"My account is full. I need more space."
"What was your username again?"
*crunch, grind*
"Okay, you now have 4MB free."
"Great, so I have 8 total? The 4 I started with and 4 more?"
"No, you have 4 total."
100% disk compression with rm -rf !
This HAS to be meant to be either a hge troll or a humorous comment, but since it hasn't been modded as such, here are the inaccuracies in this comment:
1- UNIX talk predates ICQ by at least 10 years, and it appears as "vastly inferior" because it's meant for a completely different purpose. A car appears "vastly inferior" to an airplane because it can't fly, but that's not what it was meant to do.
2- Trillian's author (and those of all the "compatible" IM utilities) aren't "stealing intellectual property"; they're doing reverse engineering of the protocols, then implementing those protocols in their own applications. It's actually so legal, it's even explicitly permitted by law. It's actually a good idea since that way I can use all those IM networks without having to use Windows, or Yahoo's, AOL's and Microsoft's client software. Um, maybe they would prefer I didn't use their IM networks?
Trading files is not "illegal" per se. That's all I'm going to say about this one.
This is AOL realizing "hey, we bought ICQ a while ago, let's start actually doing something with it", because they were getting stomped in the IM arena by competitors.
There are some types of data that just can't be adequately stored in a RDBMS without serious kludging and even then it won't function optimally. Bibliographical data is an example; some people I know wrote a book cataloguing app and from all the research they did they found out using a RDBMS wouldn't cut it. There's a data format specially created for this purpose and that's what they used, though I can't really remember what it was.
" OpenMP is a specification for a set of compiler directives, library routines, and environment variables that can be used to specify shared memory parallelism in Fortran and C/C++ programs." All that would have to be added to gcc are the "compiler directives", as the "library routines" and "environment variables" aren't directly a part of the compiler.
Now, openMP is good for programming extremely high-performance shared-memory applications, like scientific computation applications and stuff like that. It really sounds like overkill for a desktop environment where it's probably easier to program a multithreaded application with standard IPC mechanisms where communication is required. And really high-performance applications could also be programmed using MPI and a message passing communication scheme, which is far more widely used (compare the # of people who know about openmp versus those who know about mpi), probably wouldn't be much less efficient, and would quite likely scale much better than a shared memory implementation.