I found xmodmap a horrible pain in the ass. Then, I got xkeycaps. It's a graphical front-end to xmodmap, and now I've got my keyboard hacked to do everything I want (except I still can't type oe ligature, anyone know if that can be done under x?). It takes a little fiddling to get used to, but then it's great.
I don't know what Apple's done with the code, but the Mach from which it was derived was designed for multiprocessing.
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Okay, I gotta bite. NeXTSTEP *is* a branch of Mach. However, while Mach played with all sorts of ukernel-type things before Mach3, there was a ton of BSD stuff in the Mach kernel. They took 4.2 (and updated to 4.3) BSD, and replaced it piece by piece as they went. But they only replaced part of it; there's still a lot of BSD code in there. It wasn't until Mach 3, after the NeXT branch, that the BSD code was moved out of the kernel to make the microkernel Mach we all know and love. So there is most of a 4.3BSD kernel in there.
Figure 1. ----------------------------------- Accent UNIX | | | BSD Mach-----------------(4.2BSD) (Mach 2)--------------(4.3BSD) | | +------------+ (...) | | Mach 3 NeXT (BSD moved to user- land) -----------------------------------
Since there seems to be a lack of descriptions of working systems here, I'll offer one:
Here, in Seattle, WA, our centeral and branch libraries all have internet and web access. In the adult areas of the library, there are no filters; in the childrens' areas, there are. In the cildrens' areas, there are also signs on the computers giving simple instructions of how to disable the filtering. It is unlawful to view obscene (i.e., no social value whatsoever) material in the library, and to view pornographic (i.e., unacceptable by community standards) material in the childrens' areas. N.B. the difference! I can go ahead and read existentialist pornography (I swear that's a real--if small--genre:) ) in the adult areas of the libraries all I want. Just not around the kids. And if I'm in the kids' areas, I can still disable filtering easily, it just keeps me from accidentally stumbling onto playboy without knowing it.
Of course, this city's brimming with liberal pinkos, unions, and faggots, so we probably won't be very useful to cite in communities with intolerant pluralities, but our ideas can still be cited.
Maybe if kids were exposed to healthy sexuality young, they wouldn't feel the need to have these compulsions as adults.
I know of no documented proof for this, in fact, I believe that there is proof to the opposite. Witness Japan.
Oh dear lord, I shouldn't be responding to this flame-bait (how did it get moderated up???), but: witness the most of the Catholic world! I'd say that Spain, France, Italy, Mexico, Brasil, etc., are doing alright when it comes to sexuality. I'm not claiming utopia, but I think the US has more problems.
And what the hell's wrong with Japan? Vis-à-vis the US, I don't see any more problems. Unless this is culteral imperialism raising its intolerant head, I don't see any of their problems being any worse than ours.
I've been planning on reimplementing it in Common Lisp for fun (and practice in lisp), and to encourage people to write lisp apps:). The advantage of reimplementing it in CL over, say, Java or (god save us) Perl is that it'd be as/nearly as fast as the C version (using a good lisp system), even if it'd have a larger memory footprint. Heck, if I don't do anything better over spring break, maybe I will.
I guess they did add it; the answer, however, was totally unsatisfying. WTF? Slashdot is cached on google. And it could be in a box next to the story, not in the story, which would not mess up a site's statistics any more than going down would.
This reminds me of a thought I had the last time I got a page 1/2-loaded when it got totally slashdot'ed: that is, why doesn't slashdot cache these things? It's got the resources/bandwidth to do it, it would ensure that you could actually get the value out of stories, and it would be very very nice to the poor webmasters to whose sites/. links. Just cache the links posted in the stories, and keep the cache around for a couple days. It'd be especially useful for those stories that google doesn't have in its cache:)
I am still using Netscape for e-mail and browsing (even on Windows, and fed up with its problems!), but have to use MS IE for browsing Arabic web pages! Sad!
This is far from a general solution, but for you personally, have you tried to get IE running under linux? I've heard, with some work, it's possible to get the last Solaris version of IE working under linux. It might at least keep you from having to reboot to read Arabic.
Does anyone know if Mozilla is Semitic-languages-friendly? Or if Gnome or KDE are going to be any time soon?
(I wish I could write the "is a subset of" character, let's pretend that it's XHTML It's an XML application. It's based on XML. Any tool you can use to parse XML will parse XHTML.
Usually I don't like 10e9 messages all saying the same thing, but sometimes I think it serves a purpose. Having a ton of praise for the Slash release is entirely appropriate. So, good job, guys! I know what a pain it is to release customized, idiosyncratic, constantly evolving code. And Slash is larger than anything like that that I've tried to do that with. (setq slashdot-esteem (* slashdot-esteem 2))
"s/([iI]t)'s/$1 is/" is (ugh) Perl for "substitute `it is' or `It is' for every instance of `it's' and `It's'" I don't know why people expect everyone on/. to understand Perl. I only use it for fixing other ppl's broken Perl code.
Are you sure about that? Given a large enough cat population and a suitably increasing selection pressure I bet you could get something similar to a flying fox
I should've been more specific, I was thinking of sprouting wings, not gliding (I was watching a cat going crazy about 2 meters below a bird at the time:).
I didn't see that data that showed it wasn't common in the population? Also, and more importantly, it doesn't have to be common, there just has to be one (with a suitable dispersal and reproduction rate naturally - the whole thing is meaningless without a consideration of the parameters of population structure)
Well, I made the possibly poor assumption that if there was a common allele that cause resistance, the drug wouldn't be very useful so we wouldn't have heard about it.
And, right, it doesn't have to be common at all, just possible, for resistacne to (possibly) develop quickly. I was pointing out, however, that if it's not common, there's some sort of selective pressure keeping it that way. And, if you'll allow me to make an uninformed hypothesis here (or even if you won't:), I'd guess that it could be because the mutated allele makes the virus less effective. Which would be especially good news for those of us who didn't buy the drug:). Of course, pulling another hypothesis out of my ass, the mutant allele may cause the virus to kill off its host before it gets a chance to spread. Okay, enough bad science for the day.
Use of a drug such as this would place an amazing selective pressure on the target virus population. If there are any alleles out there that provide some resistance to the drug, they'll very quickly rise to dominance or fixation in the virus population (in a Sigma-curve). If there are any possible mutations that would do the same, the same will happen. There are limits to adaptation, though; it's not magic. No matter how strong a selective pressure you excert against non-flying house cats, you'll never get one that flies. Adaptations are limited to mutations of the current genetic make-up of the population. If you put too strong a selective pressure against the house cats, you'd just wipe out the population.
My point is that, if there is a possible resistance to this drug, it will rise greatly in the population. However, if there is no possible mutation that would incur resistance (non-lethally), no resistance will evolve. Now, there's probably some possible mutation that would cause resistance, but there's a reason why it's not common in the population. I could speculate on the reason, but I'd just be pulling things out of my ass. If we're lucky, it will have the additional effect of making it less virulent in humans. The up side of pleiotropy.
Looking at the differences: Linux is not far from it's goal as gaming platform. But do we really _need_ those games? I don't know for sure, but for as far as I know, most gamers still use Windows as their main platform, and I think they don't really see the need for changing to another os.
Yes, we do need those games. Games were always part of the BSDs, have always been on the GNU task list, were included with every version of MS Windows and every version of MacOS, and have always been played by computer users. And modern computer users want modern games.
We aren't necessarily looking to change the hard-core gamers' OS of choice, but rather the general computer users'. We need games for our Free OS if we want it to be complete.
Yeah, that's one meaning of "slashdot" (or "/."). The other is the word play; say the URL aloud: "atche tee tee pee colon slash slash slash dot dot org".
I feel I've gotta stick up for the distro I'm currently using. I'm not sure of the differences from the 4.x to the 5.x series (although I do know that most packages for 4.x didn't work on 5.x), but I can say that the change from 5.x to 6.0 was very warrented. In fact, it would have been irresponsible not to change the major version number. See, 5.x was libc5 based, while 6.x is glibc2.x (libc6) based. That means that 5.x packages won't work on (most) RH 6.x systems. That last statement seems acceptable to most people, but saying that packages for 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2 won't work on 5.3 would be infuriating. So they changed the major number.
I'd be careful speaking for all of Europe. I've got two friends in Italy--who don't know each other--who both went to France for the new year so as to be away from anything the Italian government was in charge of. It was very much along the lines of how I "stockpiled" wine (any excuse) and food (in this non-Apocalyptic world, the foods I chose happen to be the makings for a good paella). Or how CmdrTaco's preparations included a bunch of whisky and frozen lasagna. In case Italy exploded, they were safe(er) in France, in case it didn't, oh look, a trip to Paris/Marseille!
Public Transportation: We have a very very good bus system. Eventually we'll have light rail, but for now, especially if you live in the city, we've got a really good bus system. Virtually every place young people want to live has fast bus lines during the rush hours, and service goes around the clock. Yes, I can catch a bus downtown (or home) at 3:30am.
Public Space: I admit, Portland, OR, kicks our asses up and down the West Coast on this one, but, up and down the West Coast, we come in second. I live in an urban neighborhood, and I'm across the street from a park system with a few miles of trails around a wooded stream, a 15 minute bike ride from two large parks, a 5 minute ride from a huge system of bike trails, and a 10 minute walk from my neighborhood Pea Patch (community garden space, perfect for appartement dwellers like myself).
xDSL: We've got it, and it's expanding into increasingly blue-collar areas.
Decent wages: For tech jobs, yes. I know the slashdot crowd has particular vitriol for MS, but they are (in)famous for creating entire suburbs of millionaires, and other local tech companies have to compete for labor (which is a tight market here).
Of course we've got a good name.
I'm not sure how telecommuting facilities are different from telecommunications facilities, except maybe in corporate attitude. The attitude around here is positive towards anything that reduces people commuting in cars, due in part to a particularly progressive city ordinance requiring almost all businesses to have a plan to reduce single-car commuters among their employees.
Innovation? We got it. MS can keep their "innovation" in Redmond, we've got some good stuff going on here.
adding to your list:
Companies: Sure everyone know about MS, but they're not from Seattle. Don't confuse the city with the suburbs; Seattle is geographically very large. Nearly all of the 30-something geeks I know, when they got all comfortable and started preparing for middle-age, didn't move to the suburbs, but moved to the outer neighborhoods. Ballard, Wallingford, West Seattle. Companies in Seattle include Adobe, Real Networks, and Sextracker. (I know some sextracker people; they're geeks at that company)
Culture: Go plop yourself down in a cafe. Look around yourself. If it's one of the 50% that isn't a Starbucks, it's probably got some sort of internet connection, likely an old vt10x terminal restored in charming metallic silver or blue-grey; thank you, Speakeasy! One of the people around you is almost certainly a geek, and, if he's not working for one of the big companies, or a cs/ee/math major at the UW, she's probably trying to start up some sort of half-baked idea that'll probably work.
Our largest problem, though, is that our system of electing city councilmembers (all seats are city-wide) means that our city counsil is always pro-corporate upper-middle-class "liberal." The good-old-girls club. We've got a ton of syndicalists, progressive queers, leftist (read: cooperativist, libertarian socialist) blacks, and such, who all can work together okay, but the political system of this city severely exaggerates the power of the majority political bloc. Yeah, so Californians, don't move here, but East Coasters, please do. Especially Bostantonians. Oh, and this city likes Cannucks.
I'm shocked! There seems to be very little mention of coffee on everyone's lists. I've got about 10 lbs (4.5kg) of good coffee. Sure, I've got canned foods, legumes, pasta, wine, liquor, and iodine crystals for purifying water (I got 'em for backpacking), but what I'll be hiding from the roving post-Apocalyptic gangs is my COFFEE.
When everything goes to shit and I can't use my lisp system, or scheme, or even Emacs Lisp, and I can only play with lisp problems using pencil, paper, and thought-experiments, I'll need all that coffee more than ever. I admit, though, that I'll be screwed once I run out, because it sure won't grow in the Pacific Northwest!
It's true that people may make pages that use this information well, but there's benefit in defeating brain-damaged uses of this info. For example, a recent post to the lynx-dev mailing list said that the Wells-Fargo web page was giving pages stating that you needed to use Netscape >= 3.x or IE >= 3.x to use the secure pages. Of course, lynx can do https, so this was not a reasonable or useful message. By using the command-line option, he changed his apparent browser type to Mozilla and solved the whole problem.
In Australia, the term "wog" used to be a 100% derogatory name for Greeks and Italians, of whom we have a large number.
Huh, I wonder if its etymology is the same as wop. Urban folk legend says that wop means "WithOut Papers," but the more likely origin is from guappo, Italian for "showy," or "gangster," from Spanish guapo, "bold." (Incidentally, wop apperently reffered to southern european immigrants in general, but Italians specificly, in the '20s in the US). Because "wog" seems like it could very well be a (Commonwealth-)anglicization of guappo. Of course, I'm making wild guesses at "wog," here. (ob:)But I, being the nerd that I am, did some research and found pretty compelling evidence that "wop" is from guappo.
For the most part, I consider the two to be interchangable, but I'm more partial to nerd because in high-school we half-way tounge-in-cheek used "nrrrd" and "riot nrrrd" (as in "riot grrrl") as a term to describe a nerd(/geek) who's (at least semi-)punk and anarchosocialist. In addition to being a prime opportunity to replace the "ur" sound with "rrr", it seemed, at least at the time, that a nerd could more probably be into math as well as language, polisci, photography, literature, philosophy, etc., than a geek. Mostly just an excuse to be tounge-in-cheek militant, tho (think "NRRRD" arm bands):).
Slashdot Mirror
I found xmodmap a horrible pain in the ass. Then, I got xkeycaps. It's a graphical front-end to xmodmap, and now I've got my keyboard hacked to do everything I want (except I still can't type oe ligature, anyone know if that can be done under x?). It takes a little fiddling to get used to, but then it's great.
I don't know what Apple's done with the code, but the Mach from which it was derived was designed for multiprocessing.
Okay, I gotta bite. NeXTSTEP *is* a branch of
Mach. However, while Mach played with all sorts
of ukernel-type things before Mach3, there was a
ton of BSD stuff in the Mach kernel. They took
4.2 (and updated to 4.3) BSD, and replaced it
piece by piece as they went. But they only
replaced part of it; there's still a lot of BSD
code in there. It wasn't until Mach 3, after the
NeXT branch, that the BSD code was moved out of
the kernel to make the microkernel Mach we all
know and love. So there is most of a 4.3BSD
kernel in there.
Figure 1.
-----------------------------------
Accent UNIX
| |
| BSD
Mach-----------------(4.2BSD)
(Mach 2)--------------(4.3BSD)
| |
+------------+ (...)
| |
Mach 3 NeXT
(BSD moved
to user-
land)
-----------------------------------
Here, in Seattle, WA, our centeral and branch libraries all have internet and web access. In the adult areas of the library, there are no filters; in the childrens' areas, there are. In the cildrens' areas, there are also signs on the computers giving simple instructions of how to disable the filtering. It is unlawful to view obscene (i.e., no social value whatsoever) material in the library, and to view pornographic (i.e., unacceptable by community standards) material in the childrens' areas. N.B. the difference! I can go ahead and read existentialist pornography (I swear that's a real--if small--genre :) ) in the adult areas of the libraries all I want. Just not around the kids. And if I'm in the kids' areas, I can still disable filtering easily, it just keeps me from accidentally stumbling onto playboy without knowing it.
Of course, this city's brimming with liberal pinkos, unions, and faggots, so we probably won't be very useful to cite in communities with intolerant pluralities, but our ideas can still be cited.
I know of no documented proof for this, in fact, I believe that there is proof to the opposite. Witness Japan.
Oh dear lord, I shouldn't be responding to this flame-bait (how did it get moderated up???), but: witness the most of the Catholic world! I'd say that Spain, France, Italy, Mexico, Brasil, etc., are doing alright when it comes to sexuality. I'm not claiming utopia, but I think the US has more problems.
And what the hell's wrong with Japan? Vis-à-vis the US, I don't see any more problems. Unless this is culteral imperialism raising its intolerant head, I don't see any of their problems being any worse than ours.
I've been planning on reimplementing it in Common Lisp for fun (and practice in lisp), and to encourage people to write lisp apps :). The advantage of reimplementing it in CL over, say, Java or (god save us) Perl is that it'd be as/nearly as fast as the C version (using a good lisp system), even if it'd have a larger memory footprint. Heck, if I don't do anything better over spring break, maybe I will.
I guess they did add it; the answer, however, was totally unsatisfying. WTF? Slashdot is cached on google. And it could be in a box next to the story, not in the story, which would not mess up a site's statistics any more than going down would.
This reminds me of a thought I had the last time I got a page 1/2-loaded when it got totally slashdot'ed: that is, why doesn't slashdot cache these things? It's got the resources/bandwidth to do it, it would ensure that you could actually get the value out of stories, and it would be very very nice to the poor webmasters to whose sites /. links. Just cache the links posted in the stories, and keep the cache around for a couple days. It'd be especially useful for those stories that google doesn't have in its cache :)
This is far from a general solution, but for you personally, have you tried to get IE running under linux? I've heard, with some work, it's possible to get the last Solaris version of IE working under linux. It might at least keep you from having to reboot to read Arabic.
Does anyone know if Mozilla is Semitic-languages-friendly? Or if Gnome or KDE are going to be any time soon?
XHTML is a member of the set XML. It's an XML application; it's an XML-based HTML.
What I'm trying to say is that any tool you can use to parse XML will parse XHTML.
(I wish I could write the "is a subset of" character, let's pretend that it's XHTML It's an XML application. It's based on XML. Any tool you can use to parse XML will parse XHTML.
Usually I don't like 10e9 messages all saying the same thing, but sometimes I think it serves a purpose. Having a ton of praise for the Slash release is entirely appropriate. So, good job, guys! I know what a pain it is to release customized, idiosyncratic, constantly evolving code. And Slash is larger than anything like that that I've tried to do that with. (setq slashdot-esteem (* slashdot-esteem 2))
"s/([iI]t)'s/$1 is/" is (ugh) Perl for "substitute `it is' or `It is' for every instance of `it's' and `It's'" I don't know why people expect everyone on /. to understand Perl. I only use it for fixing other ppl's broken Perl code.
I should've been more specific, I was thinking of sprouting wings, not gliding (I was watching a cat going crazy about 2 meters below a bird at the time :).
Well, I made the possibly poor assumption that if there was a common allele that cause resistance, the drug wouldn't be very useful so we wouldn't have heard about it.
And, right, it doesn't have to be common at all, just possible, for resistacne to (possibly) develop quickly. I was pointing out, however, that if it's not common, there's some sort of selective pressure keeping it that way. And, if you'll allow me to make an uninformed hypothesis here (or even if you won't :), I'd guess that it could be because the mutated allele makes the virus less effective. Which would be especially good news for those of us who didn't buy the drug :). Of course, pulling another hypothesis out of my ass, the mutant allele may cause the virus to kill off its host before it gets a chance to spread. Okay, enough bad science for the day.
My point is that, if there is a possible resistance to this drug, it will rise greatly in the population. However, if there is no possible mutation that would incur resistance (non-lethally), no resistance will evolve. Now, there's probably some possible mutation that would cause resistance, but there's a reason why it's not common in the population. I could speculate on the reason, but I'd just be pulling things out of my ass. If we're lucky, it will have the additional effect of making it less virulent in humans. The up side of pleiotropy.
Disclaimer: I am an evolutionary biologist
Yes, we do need those games. Games were always part of the BSDs, have always been on the GNU task list, were included with every version of MS Windows and every version of MacOS, and have always been played by computer users. And modern computer users want modern games.
We aren't necessarily looking to change the hard-core gamers' OS of choice, but rather the general computer users'. We need games for our Free OS if we want it to be complete.
Yeah, that's one meaning of "slashdot" (or "/."). The other is the word play; say the URL aloud: "atche tee tee pee colon slash slash slash dot dot org".
I feel I've gotta stick up for the distro I'm currently using. I'm not sure of the differences from the 4.x to the 5.x series (although I do know that most packages for 4.x didn't work on 5.x), but I can say that the change from 5.x to 6.0 was very warrented. In fact, it would have been irresponsible not to change the major version number. See, 5.x was libc5 based, while 6.x is glibc2.x (libc6) based. That means that 5.x packages won't work on (most) RH 6.x systems. That last statement seems acceptable to most people, but saying that packages for 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2 won't work on 5.3 would be infuriating. So they changed the major number.
I'd be careful speaking for all of Europe. I've got two friends in Italy--who don't know each other--who both went to France for the new year so as to be away from anything the Italian government was in charge of. It was very much along the lines of how I "stockpiled" wine (any excuse) and food (in this non-Apocalyptic world, the foods I chose happen to be the makings for a good paella). Or how CmdrTaco's preparations included a bunch of whisky and frozen lasagna. In case Italy exploded, they were safe(er) in France, in case it didn't, oh look, a trip to Paris/Marseille!
- Public Transportation: We have a very very good bus system. Eventually we'll have light rail, but for now, especially if you live in the city, we've got a really good bus system. Virtually every place young people want to live has fast bus lines during the rush hours, and service goes around the clock. Yes, I can catch a bus downtown (or home) at 3:30am.
- Public Space: I admit, Portland, OR, kicks our asses up and down the West Coast on this one, but, up and down the West Coast, we come in second. I live in an urban neighborhood, and I'm across the street from a park system with a few miles of trails around a wooded stream, a 15 minute bike ride from two large parks, a 5 minute ride from a huge system of bike trails, and a 10 minute walk from my neighborhood Pea Patch (community garden space, perfect for appartement dwellers like myself).
- xDSL: We've got it, and it's expanding into increasingly blue-collar areas.
- Decent wages: For tech jobs, yes. I know the slashdot crowd has particular vitriol for MS, but they are (in)famous for creating entire suburbs of millionaires, and other local tech companies have to compete for labor (which is a tight market here).
- Of course we've got a good name.
- I'm not sure how telecommuting facilities are different from telecommunications facilities, except maybe in corporate attitude. The attitude around here is positive towards anything that reduces people commuting in cars, due in part to a particularly progressive city ordinance requiring almost all businesses to have a plan to reduce single-car commuters among their employees.
- Innovation? We got it. MS can keep their "innovation" in Redmond, we've got some good stuff going on here.
adding to your list:Our largest problem, though, is that our system of electing city councilmembers (all seats are city-wide) means that our city counsil is always pro-corporate upper-middle-class "liberal." The good-old-girls club. We've got a ton of syndicalists, progressive queers, leftist (read: cooperativist, libertarian socialist) blacks, and such, who all can work together okay, but the political system of this city severely exaggerates the power of the majority political bloc. Yeah, so Californians, don't move here, but East Coasters, please do. Especially Bostantonians. Oh, and this city likes Cannucks.
When everything goes to shit and I can't use my lisp system, or scheme, or even Emacs Lisp, and I can only play with lisp problems using pencil, paper, and thought-experiments, I'll need all that coffee more than ever. I admit, though, that I'll be screwed once I run out, because it sure won't grow in the Pacific Northwest!
This might be nit-picky but that was totally wrong; it's:
b@'za:(r)
where @ = ago
and a: = arm
It's true that people may make pages that use this information well, but there's benefit in defeating brain-damaged uses of this info. For example, a recent post to the lynx-dev mailing list said that the Wells-Fargo web page was giving pages stating that you needed to use Netscape >= 3.x or IE >= 3.x to use the secure pages. Of course, lynx can do https, so this was not a reasonable or useful message. By using the command-line option, he changed his apparent browser type to Mozilla and solved the whole problem.
P.S., what's "pom" mean?
For the most part, I consider the two to be interchangable, but I'm more partial to nerd because in high-school we half-way tounge-in-cheek used "nrrrd" and "riot nrrrd" (as in "riot grrrl") as a term to describe a nerd(/geek) who's (at least semi-)punk and anarchosocialist. In addition to being a prime opportunity to replace the "ur" sound with "rrr", it seemed, at least at the time, that a nerd could more probably be into math as well as language, polisci, photography, literature, philosophy, etc., than a geek. Mostly just an excuse to be tounge-in-cheek militant, tho (think "NRRRD" arm bands) :).