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Perhaps I was a bit hard on that book, my expectations were that it would be a deep, expert type of book. If that's not what you are looking for, it is perfectly fine. Actually, now that I think about it, the epub version is good to keep on your mobile phone as a handy, easily-accessible reference for use in the coffee shop, so I guess it does get a credit from me.
They terminated him and made him come in to work to sit in a featureless room with only a table and chair -- no computer, nothing. He'd rather stay at home and garden or whatever, even it meant finishing up early, but they wouldn't let him. He always said that he must have seriously pissed someone off in HR.
What I do is fire up the XBox. It's a brain-dead app there too+, but at least I can rewind a few seconds if I missed a word or two.
+ Titles truncated too much; no comments viewer; unresponsive UI.
But neither can Mars. Most of its early atmosphere was blown away and that will continue. There's nothing we can do about the lack of gravity.
The problem with Mars is that it is cold, terminally. The nuclear furnaces have gone out. I haven't seen a proposal from the terraformers that counteracts that. You might be able to counteract it with CO2, but then that gets blown away by the solar wind. It's crazy hard to fix.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to see us on Mars. Unfortunately, the engineering and science obstacles are huge, enormous.
For Bash, M-# (alt-shift-3) puts a comment token '#' at the start of the current line and begins a new empty line. Handy if you are 150 characters deep in a command and realise you need to do something else for a moment (i.e. momentarily in the correct sense). You can store your 150 char command and come back to it, it is in the history and can be retrieved with a couple of Up-arrows.
+ Southern hemispherePlus it uses functional programming! What's not to like.
Yeah, that was my first thought when I saw him interviewed. He had no empathy at all. He basically admitted he ran a shady business that monetises peoples' misfortunes, but, hey, if he didn't someone else would. As if that justifies it, somehow.
The Chinese attacks use a group of about 15 IP addresses, then, every so often, they all change the addresses to new ones at once. This has just happened, last week, in fact. So now I have dozens of attackers all coming from a group of about 15 IP addresses, which are different to the 15 or so IP addresses they used a couple of weeks ago. (No kidding, the regularity that this happens, it would not surprise me if their military is training a new class of crackers and has been assigned a different set of addresses to use this term.)
When I get a new IP address in the log, I do a whois and rewrite the "inetnum:|NetRange:" field to a class A|B|C address and then DROP it in iptables. Fuck 'em. The whole darn network class gets dropped. Not that I'm likely to be logging in from China any time soon anyway.
I now have a list of network classes with about 35 address ranges that get dropped, if anyone is interested in the list.
Exactly. Henry Ford paid his workers very well, not out of altruism because he was the one of the most unaltruistic people you can think of, but because he wanted them to be able to afford his car. They would become mobile advertisements of his new technology.
In that, they were much like the Google Glassers are today.
This is what I do. The browser generates a warning on first use, and I then put the domain in the "ignore" list (since I trust my own domain). After that, it works fine.
My first router could only do the 192.168 range so I got in the habit of it. Later with subsequent routers, all my devices were already set up on a specific class C network, so it was easier to change the router than go through all the devices and change them.
Which DVRs? Mine had better not be doing that.
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I've been here for far longer than you and I'm still stuck in the 300 karma range. Why? Because of my timezone. Most people are asleep when I'm awake.
It is virtually impossible for me to submit an article and have it viewed by a large number of people before it is pushed off the front page. So all my submissions get low score, only for the same article to be submitted later in the day once NY and LA have woken up and get big karma scores for someone else. I've given up submitting, which is how you accumulate the big karma scores.
You could argue that Indonesia has a muslim radical problem as well, but at least the govt recognises it as a problem. Indonesia seems to be trying to become more democratic and neutral in religious matters, whereas I'm not sure Malaysia has the same degree of commitment or willpower.
Control-q: beginning-of-line
Such a handy feature, isn't it. I would be lost without my drop-down console.
BTW, Texas Instruments has recently upgraded the MSP430 to 128K.