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Nice! That picture makes me wish I was still getting some use out of the telescope in my closet. Astrophotography was something I always wanted to get into, but my particular telescope (8" diameter Newtonian) isn't particularly well-suited to the job. I wish we had a few more moons around...

Planet: Earth Coldest recorded temp: -89.2 °C (-128.6 °F) Vostok research station, Antarctica, 1983 Hottest recorded temp: 57.7 °C (135.9 °F) Al Aziziyah, Libya, 1922 These values ignore any additional effects from wind chill or humidity that a human might sense. I have read somewhat...

CityK, that post actually hurt me. :P

Wimps. It's -201° C ( -330° F) on Enceladus. And you wouldn't believe how bad the network latency is...

I used to be a contributor to the distributed.net project as far back as 1998. What happened from time to time was that someone would crack the latest version of the client and send bogus data back to the project servers just as fast as they possibly could. Does anyone really monitor the data...

Mercutio, I thought that was a really good posting. Clearly honest in every possible way. I think that counts for a lot. Don't give up on it. To follow what Lunar said, you might not be at the right site. But give it some time...

If you were shot in the leg, I imagine you'd be posting here within an hour or so asking for advice on how to resolve the hardware problem. :wink:

Last time I tried, I discovered that Newegg had no clue how to safely package a hard drive for shipment. Mine arrive loose inside a box underfilled with only packaging peanuts, and had settled up against one side of the box. The only protection it had from the world at that side was the...

I'll consider buying pretty much anything from Newegg, except for 2 things: 1. Almost never any cable of any type. 2. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER ... NOT EVEN IN 9 BILLION YEARS NEVER ... will I make the mistake of ordering a hard drive from Newegg again.

Does the drag-and-drop tab reshuffling work? If so, that might be enough to get me to try Firefox again. I agree with Tannin on this one: the parent Mozilla browser provides a much more comfortable browsing experience. Not that I have anything against Firefox -- I just don't like it...

Coug ... do you have a link to some more background about nLite? Is it free? Who makes it?

And where are the pictures?! You can't start a cat-oriented thread and not post some pictures!

It will be -4C here tonight. I think it was about that last night. It sure felt like it...

Oh, and Tannin, the reason I've started folding again is because it's winter here. Space heaters are something I am actively looking for. :) As I posted earlier, if I'm going to be using wild hordes of electrons to heat my apartment, they may as well do something else while they're here...

Tannin! I told you not to read this post! :wink:

:D

That one, single work unit was completed this evening. My 200 MHz Pentium Pro had been running non-stop, 24 hours a day, seven days a week with no down time. It took 29 days. I reviewed the information the server passed back after the work unit was turned in. There were no messages about the...

Just wait until they bring back Cyrix...

At my old job I used to have to deal with a dysfunctional knob all the time. Turns out he was fired this past summer. Yay!

Or ... ... the seller never used it, but the 156 owners before him each used it for an hour.

Umm ... why does the subject line get truncated at a different length when a new discussion is posted? That last "word" is supposed to be "dev". Handy, is that fixable?

I don't have much to add beyond the subject line. I'm just elated to finally be in the process of leaving that hideous world behind and I had to post something. I've developed as many Ruby text-based apps as I could find reason for over the past 3 years. And during that time I'd been wanting...

Learn how to write cron jobs!

That's one of the best Freudian slips I've read this year. :lol:

To summarize: 1. No, his suggestions are not ridiculous. 2. Yes, they do hold water, but only to the extent that you find the situations he and others outline could be applicable to your situation. You don't need to go "whole hog" and split everything. Or perhaps you do. You have to make...

*sigh* Excerpts from one tiny section of the OpenBSD 3.8 Installation FAQ: Now, all of that refers to OpenBSD, but you're a bright guy, CityK. I'm sure you can apply the parts you find relevant to your Linux system.

Just for the record, in theory you shouldn't need to do any of this as root. You should able to download, unpack, and execute the client as a normal user. You really only want to do something as root when you need the equivalent of a blowtorch and a sledgehammer. Of course, you might be at...

Here, look, if you're running this out of a subfolder on /opt, who knows what kind of file permissions are coming into play here. 1. Log in as a normal user. 2. As a normal user, create a 'temp' subfolder from within that user's home directory, e.g. /home/normaluser/temp 3. Download the 5.02...

Here, look, if you're running this out of a subfolder on /opt, who knows what kind of file permissions are coming into play here. 1. Log in as a normal user. 2. As a normal user, create a 'temp' subfolder from within that user's home directory, e.g. /home/normaluser/temp 3. Download the 5.02...

You know ... with that number sign, it looks like you're trying to do all of this as root. Are you?

Hmm ... well, at least you're getting some output from strace, and it's showing problems. So you know that the application is at least trying to execute. It's clearly not happy about something. Can you give the old 5.02 a try just to see if it's any better? Try it in a completely new...

Hmm ... you might like to try an ls -d from within the folder: myself@oops:~/temp/Folding$ ls -ld drwxr-xr-x 3 myself myself 4096 2005-11-14 23:35 . myself@oops:~/temp/Folding$ Other than that, I think you've stumped me for now. I'll keep thinking about it. In the meantime, I just checked...

Another thought. You didn't unpack the application as root by any chance, did you? Can you paste in the full output of an "ls -l" command. Here's mine for comparison: myself@oops:~/temp/Folding$ ls -al total 11852 drwxr-xr-x 3 myself myself 4096 2005-11-14 01:06 . drwxr-xr-x 4 myself...

Yah, you're right. That is both weird and frustrating. I've never used the "strace" command before, as I believe it's meant for a programming when trying to debug an application. But just for the heck of it -- and have your fingers ready to go with CTRL+C (you may have to press it a gazillion...

I used to agonize over this sort of thing, especially as I was starting with OpenBSD, which really emphasizes getting security right. Then I got some larger hard disks greater than 2 gigabytes in size, and it turned out to be hard to go wrong. Really. I wouldn't worry about this too much...

So what does happen? Can you copy and paste the prompt, the command you are entering, and the output? Does it provide any output? Does it just drop back to another prompt with no output? Does it just stall and hang there? What?

A default shell in Linux is not like DOS -- the current folder you are sitting in is NOT normally included in your $PATH. And you should NOT try to "fix" that. This is a very basic security consideration. If you were sitting in /tmp/somefolder and issued a "passwd" command, what do you think...

Are you sure it's expecting that final "/foldingathome" to be a file, and not a folder?

I'm sorry to say that I'm much more skeptical about the scientific value of the Holding @ Foam project. For me personally, it's wintertime, and as I'm going to be using a certain number of electrons to generate some heat around here anyway, they might as well be doing something else for their...

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I said the first documented case, I did not say it was the last. I'm sure we all have rodent or bug stories.

Dunno. But Linux has DOSEMU. I think it's supposed to work quite well. Anyone here used it?

I can't say I've ever heard of any "crashes" or "near-misses" stemming from "fly-by-wire mistakes" with an Airbus aircraft. Any links?

"Bug" in this context is a confusing word, and the quote about the Mark II is also confusing. I vaguely remember covering this in 2nd year computer science. You can read more at Wikipedia. It's confusing enough that I'm not even sure if I'm understanding the title of this discussion...

That is true for the masses. And those users should be using Macintosh systems. Windows is inherently defective. Someone who has adopted the above stance and is using a Windows system is doomed to Hell, in part because they won't recognize the warning signs of impending doom, and they...

Sure. But at least you'd know in which discussion to find updated opinions. I didn't expect a recommendation discussion on, for example, DVD writers would just suddenly come to a halt. :)

Speaking of no solid conclusions, my suggestion in the Feedback forum for a "Recommendations" category never went anywhere. (Or was the best conclusion to just add them to the Toolbox category?) I sure do wish we had one though. I hate asking for new recommendations when I'm sure they've been...

Oh yeah, things are ok. I just don't spend enough time at home during the day, and I'm not sure if I'm going to be moving next year or not. It would be hard on me, and not really fair to the cat or dog. What is it with cats and boxes? :)

Greg if you get your photos hosted somewhere, post a link for them here. I don't have enough stability in my life these days for either a cat or a dog. Staring at other people's pets is about the best I can manage these days.