Posts by Destroy All Monsters

Re: Easy to defeat.

"a little training should enable someone to distinguish the random motion of the fake cursors from the more-directed motion of the real one"

1) Read not-too-well explained stuff with no accompanying pics on El Reg

2) Run to the pulpit

3) Declare to world and dog that it won't work, make peremptory statements and a clown of yourself

FAIL icon doesn't begin to describe the situation

Re: @another coward Huh. - Jason

> See how that looks? How would you feel 30 mins into a course learning something new and you were called incompetent in front of everyone on the course?

THE TRUTH.

Also, I would call you ANNOYING.

Do you think these are motherfucking classes for people with special needs and daily doses of ritalin?

Re: Lots of negative AC comments.

A wild RICHTO appears!

Re: Fragmentation

> For instance, on Solaris you can change the task scheduler on the fly, without recompiling nor rebooting. I consider it as a good thing.

Okay, cool.

Can you do it in MacOS?

Why would you want to change the task scheduler of your OS while on vacation?

Re: Insecurity?

Insecure about your name, anon?

Re: funny

Sadly, "I recompile the kernel" means "I'm so operator at Linux" in the age bracket commonly associated with the larval stage or the wannabee.

Myself - Last kernel compilation: before the War on Terror

Re: I've mentioned this before.

I guess one can add an option to the bootup screen whereby "zero all working memory" can be selected on an as-needed basis. This can even be pretty fast if done correctly, just mark pages as "unitialized" and have the OS read all zeros on first use..

I wouldn't count on the "BIOS" manufacturers to get that even approximately right though.

Re: Gonna

Maybe the Galactic Council has decided to allow humanity a break and a stepping stone.

Re: Stupid Question

> But this is the first C compiler. How did they compile it? By hand?

It's magic! People don't have to explain bits!

K&R are the Siegfried and Roy of....

Awww.. ok: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_%28compilers%29

Re: @Condiment (was: I'll delve into my archives ... )

> Because .. no skin off my teeth.

This!!

I once saw a TV film about some german hacker/carder guy in his teens who ordered up an old PDP-11 because of its nostalgia value. He was then rather surprised when a truck showed up at his door...

Sadly, the guy was later found hanged in a public park. Apparently "suicide" but then he had become involved with turkish mafia.

Re: Daily defence spending...

> Stuff like this creates jobs

Actually it does *not*, because it will be paid by money hoovered up from the economy where said money would be used to buy TV sets, diapers, holidays in Spain, houses, swimming pools, hookers and coke. In other words, jobs may actually be *destroyed*.

You can argue that you funnel money into "more worthwhile developments" but unfortunately this is being done by the guns and badges of the state (in order that taxes may be collected) or even the printing press (hidden taxation by inflation), so a strong argument for amorality can be made.

But I don't care. FUND IT! BUILD IT!!

Re: Huh...

Actually this made me re-read Eric Raymond's take on The Unix Hater's Handbook take on X, here, scrolling down a bit.

Dammit, Eric's web page encoding is fubared. What the hell.

Re: Huh...

None of your bull makes any sense

> you could barely get a window manager to run on X on a 486.

Oh yeah. So it runs on a Sun 3/60 but barely on a "486". Get a real computer, buddy.

> X is a bloated nightmare of design by committee

Fark off. More like, everything not needed had been left OUT. Though I remember his Billness personally declaring X "insanely dumb" (that was when Microsoft was still on the OS/2 trainride)

> make it do everything (badly)

Like address large bitmapped screens?? Note that "unlike most earlier display protocols, X was specifically designed to be used over network connections rather than on an integral or attached display device" [q.v. Wikipedia]. Granted you don't need that when arsing around in your bedroom on knockoff 486 running Windows 3.1.

> excuse for a graphical driver

LOLNO

> Similar to PostScript..

Kinda confused here, buddy. Postscript has nothing to do with X. Though indeed I want NeWS back. Yet another Sun Microsystem production - "Nearly good, then Abandoned".

Re: You lost me after "The"

In France, one would not be allowed to do quarks!

Re: Redefining the word

Nah, that cowboy talk is over. Today we have norms!

From:

European Coordination for Space Standardization (ECSS), Glossary of Terms, ECSS P-001B, 14 July 2004 (c) 2004 by the European Space Agency for the members of ECSS (costs EUR 20).

Anomaly - Any deviation from the expected situation. [EN 13701:2001]

but

Accident - Undesired event arising from operation of any project-specific item that results in a) human death or injury, b) loss of, or damage to, project hardware, software or facilities that can then affect the accomplishment of the mission, c) loss of, or damage to, public or private property, or d) detrimental effects on the environment. NOTE: Accident and mishap are synonymous. [EN 13701:2001]

Re: metric tonnage

Still a lot of work because, even though you may now be able to LIFT it, you still have to pump/unpump the tonne with kinetic energy while watching that it doesn't squish fingers or poke holes in the compartments.

Re: Apple is refusing to hand over certain documents which might prove this one way or the other

> This is something I've seen on quite a few of the US "Cops" style TV shows,

If they do that, they must first show "probably cause" and then "detain you" upon which they may proceed to take your car apart. Of course, "probable cause" these days amounts to their 40-kilo mastiff sneezing once ("it was the weed") and "detention" occurs through judicious tasering (if lucky).

Have a load of these commendable cheeky breekies refusing "access all areas" at the DHS checkpoint.