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by rootbear 12y ago
This is beautiful. I hope he posts videos. It reminds me of the old electronics of my childhood; radios and TV sets that had point-to-point wiring on terminal strips. No circuit boards! But they were never this beautiful.
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by rootbear 12y ago
As a general rule, I get really annoyed when I come across a web page and I can't tell how old it is, especially if it is information that is likely to age rapidly. I don't care if putting a date on the page makes it less "e
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by rootbear 12y ago
Nice! I though for a minute about using find, but I didn't know about those options to stat, and I just punted and used ls. I need to study the stat man page, apparently.
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by rootbear 12y ago
As others have noted, awk is great for one-liners. Just minutes ago, I wanted to find out what users and groups own all of the files within a certain deep directory tree (on linux). I did this: $ ls -lR | awk '{ print $3, $4 }'
635.
by rootbear 12y ago
Interesting, I liked it a lot. I especially liked the actress playing the lead role. I'm told the second season wasn't as good, but I'll probably watch it on Netflix like I did the first. It would be nice to see a series set
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by rootbear 12y ago
I keep hoping that someone will release an HFR film that is not also in 3D. I saw an extensive demo of HFR at Siggraph a few years back and it was amazing. HFR can be so crisp and clear that you don't even NEED 3d. I have several frien
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by rootbear 12y ago
Lots of interesting discussion here about space exploration, but I'd like to add a personal note. I grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, during the 60s, NASA's glory years. Huntsville is home to Marshall Space Flight Center, where my f
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by rootbear 12y ago
Interesting. The Micro Center is Rockville, Maryland isn't bad. I don't do too much electronics hacking, but I've gotten into the Arduino and Raspberry Pi maker stuff and they have a good selection that is sometimes cheaper
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by rootbear 12y ago
When I was very young, the Sears Toy Catalog was my Book of Wonders. Then, in my teens, it was the Radio Shack catalog. Now, I guess, it's the Newegg deals page. Things change. I rarely go into a Radio Shack these days, but as other
640.
by rootbear 12y ago
I just saw some ENIAC panels at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA and I'm hoping to visit the Moore School of Engineering in Philadelphia soon to see the parts they have. Now I'll have to visit Oklahoma and see the
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by rootbear 12y ago
For modern wide monitors, I prefer 16:10, or 2560x1600. On my linux system at home I have two 1600x1200 monitors and I like that arrangement for coding. Having lots of vertical space for tall editor windows is a Good Thing. This square mon
642.
by rootbear 12y ago
I plan to try out PC-BSD (which is basically FreeBSD with all the desktop GUI stuff set up for you) when they get their 10.1 version out. I've been told by actual FreeBSD folks that it's the least painful way to get into FreeBSD.
643.
by rootbear 12y ago
I watched that whole series a year ago and was fascinated. I believe it has been posted here before but it's worth repeating.
644.
by rootbear 12y ago
With apologies to uselessdguy, I have to agree that the name is not an asset. I have NO problem with clever names, but sometimes they are a bit too much. For example, I always though that Lesstif (a clone of Motif) was a silly, off-putting
645.
by rootbear 12y ago
I believe the target price is "under $70".
646.
by rootbear 12y ago
I believe, based on descriptions of the prototype, that it will be 800 x 480. That seems rather small, but they want to hit a price point (< $70), consistent with their primary mission of providing an affordable educational system.
647.
by rootbear 12y ago
Whoa! That brings back memories. Even more than the NeWS interface I brought up on one of our Suns recently, just for fun.
648.
by rootbear 12y ago
I agree this probably looks better in theory than it does in practice. As far as long function declarations go, it sure would be nice to go back to declaring multiple arguments of the same type without repeating the type: int myfunc(fl
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by rootbear 12y ago
I've often thought that the best way to get access to the richness of Unicode would be a drawing pad, perhaps as part of the keyboard, or as an on-screen area, for use with a mouse. Character maps just seem clumsy to me. For fun, I tri
650.
by rootbear 12y ago
I guess they have OS X envy? Or just putting even more distance between this version and Windows 8? An odd choice.
651.
by rootbear 12y ago
I learned about the Beale ciphers in the 80s and wrote a simple program to try deciphering ciphers one and three using a given key text. I think it's probably a hoax, but the codes are fun to play around with.
652.
by rootbear 12y ago
Thank you! I haven't had time to read the documentation for Red Hat's change.
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by rootbear 12y ago
But which behavior is correct? On Ubuntu, ls is redefined, but isn't that what a shell function is supposed to do? If Red Hat "fixed" this, then haven't they disabled a feature? Sorry, not trying to be obtuse...
654.
by rootbear 12y ago
If this is how passing functions is supposed to work in bash, then why do I get different results, depending on which system I'm on? I've been madly patching my systems since yesterday and on a RHEL 6.5 system I get a different r
655.
by rootbear 12y ago
Boy does this bring back memories. I still have my CARDIAC somewhere. I think it was my seventh or eighth grade science teacher that gave it to me.
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by rootbear 12y ago
The 20 file descriptor limit was a pain for an app I worked on that wanted to write data to 26 files based on the first letter of a person's last name. I would have killed to have been able to keep 26 descriptors open at once. Ah, th
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by rootbear 12y ago
EichScript?
658.
by rootbear 12y ago
I expect a port to the Raspberry Pi will happen. The supported boards are all ARM v7, but the Pi is v6 and that is probably the reason it's not supported right out of the gate.
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by rootbear 12y ago
It's interesting that such a famous public figure would make such statements, so antagonistic to organized religion, at that time. That Simply Wasn't Done in the early sixties, as far as I know (I was too young to be aware of suc
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by rootbear 12y ago
I've spent much of my professional career at NASA Goddard and I'd have to agree with this for the most part. My former group worked well with a group at Ames, but my current group pissed off JPL by taking some work they wanted.

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