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Well, even if we only save one child from being raped, molested or killed by a Dave, isn't calling uncle Daves creepy worth it?

(/sarcasm)

At first I thought you meant "use 'ipconfig' instead" and I was like, "Whaaaaat?!". Then I checked the man page for "ip". Thank you. It looks rather useful. I don't mess with routing or devices too much but I have in the past and only knew about ifconfig.

> That's really genius, pun intended

Sorry that this is off topic, but thank you for saying "pun intended". It sometimes saddens me when people try to cover up a perfectly good pun or act like they are above being amused by puns.

Yes. My problem is very similar. Sometimes its because I think I'm stupid, but sometimes I'm almost afraid to start (because I'm worried about failing) or the task just seems too large. Maybe my approach has too many issues that I don't know how to address. Sometimes its just that I don't know where to start.

When I was in college I also had this problem, but then I would realize things were due in a day or two and I'd just figure everything out (often in one all-nighter). I'm finally starting to get over this.

Wow, this looks really great. Sounds like there is currently a 50 year limit on copyright. I found a bunch of works I haven't read by Akutagawa Ryunosuke that are public domain.

Thank you so much!

> “The home-made e-book market will continue to exist as long as the copyright situation isn’t dealt with and people cannot find books they want in electronic format"

Sorry this is a bit unrelated, but out of curiosity, are there any legal ways to buy Japanese books in an electronic format? I have been trying to start reading books in Japanese but I don't know enough kanji to make it enjoyable.

I actually came up with my own way around this.. I bought a physical copy of the book, opened it to a random page, did a quoted search ("たとえば") on google for a full, unique sentence and found some plain text copies. I wrote a script to quickly format this in html and used rikaikun/chan to make reading easier (just put the mouse over words I don't know and it looks them up). The problem is that this limits me to reading in a browser on a computer (with chrome or firefox installed).

I've actually been interested in doing some sort of app like this (probably for free). Then adding the functionality to add words I don't know to a word bank that I can practice on my own later. If anyone is interested, please let me know. The biggest thing stopping me is that I don't see any way to get legal content for this (and the fact I do not have a lot of spare time). Does anyone know if some Japanese books/stories are in the public domain?

Plus, you are _charging_ them to collect the intelligence for you!

I don't know the actual statistics, but I heard that nearly everyone from my high school went to college after graduating. Even though I got good grades, I was actually a bit of a slacker myself in high school; mostly because I did a lot of extra curricular activities (ice/roller hockey, drumline, cello, studied Japanese and computer stuff). However, I heard somewhere that about 30% of the kids from my high school would drop out from college in their first two years. This seems about right based on what I saw on Facebook. Some of them were slackers, some of them must have had no interest in college and probably shouldn't have bothered going.

Anyway, I'm in grad school now, and I haven't noticed many slackers (maybe a grad student taking a weekend off?). Although, I didn't really notice many slackers in college either. That may be because I went to a research-focused University to study engineering.

I don't know if GMail itself is "research", but I'm sure there is definitely a lot of systems research going on behind the scenes. I don't know that they use it for GMail, but the Google File System paper was interesting. Allowing their users (millions?) to quickly search their email (tens to hundreds of thousands?) must have some interesting networking/distributed systems research questions.

That said, some more publications/insight on those systems would be nice to see.

Also seems odd that there were no collaborations or internships with businesses. People in my lab have interned in research labs at IBM, AT&T, and Telefonica. Additionally, we've worked on projects with people from Google, Akamai, Vuze, and Skype. These seem like pretty decent opportunities to establish contacts and fairly typical (at least in CS). On top of that we've also collaborated with researchers at other universities.

Sure the majority amount of my/our time is spend sitting and working in the lab, but going to a few conferences per year, doing an internship most summers, and having weekly meetings with other researchers adds up to establishing a lot of contacts in the research community that I wouldn't have without graduate school.

I came across this when I was applying to programs. I thought it was pretty useful, especially the section on recommendation letters. It helped me decide what professors to ask for recommendations and how to do it.

I also liked the "So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!" article: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~azuma/hitch4.html

As a graduate student looking to learn LaTeX, I'm curious if you know of any decent first references? I've had to work in it before and learned enough to get by, but am looking to learn more.

Mighty mouse had middle click support; you just click with your finger on the scrolling ball. Not great but you could program what to do with this button.

Unfortunately the Macbook trackpad doesn't have middle click natively. However, with BetterTouchTool you can assign commands for 2, 3, 4, and even 5 finger clicks. For five finger click you have to include the thumb. This means that clicking the trackpad with your thumb while a single finger is on it is a 2 finger click, which I prefer to be a regular left click. These are all settings you can control.

Anyway, BetterTouchTool lets you configure a whole bunch of different actions (clicking or swiping in different parts of the pad with a different number of fingers) to activate a whole bunch of commands.

FTA, those are the two things that don't seem to be improved.

"Application results were much more impressive. Because the drive learns, the first time you bring up an app it happens at disk speed. But the 2nd time!"

"Boot performance sucked compared to the old drive’s ~45 second boot"

Boot performance was improved by doing a clean install, however, the best the reviewer got was close to the old HDD speeds (45 seconds) not a Macbook Air's boot times with SDD (15-20 seconds).

If you watch the videos, the speedups being boasted on the review involve opening the application, closing it, and opening it again, without running anything else.

Couldn't these huge speed ups be do to caching or space in inactive memory? For example, you may quit Word or Final Cut, but if nothing else is grabbing for memory aren't a lot of the needed libraries sitting there? I opened, closed, and reopened a few applications on my Macbook Pro with my 500 GB HDD, seems like they are way faster when I open them the second time... For example, iTunes went from taking about 5 seconds to opening almost instantly..

I completely agree with you, but I just wanted to point out that the idiocy is all over the place (found in the wikipedia discussion):

"A prominent Iranian newspaper says it is going to hold a competition for cartoons on the Holocaust to test whether the West will apply the principle of freedom of expression to the Nazi genocide against Jews as it did to the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad." http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/07/world/africa/07iht-web.020...

My point is just that everyone (atheists, christians, muslims, jews) needs stop being immature and realize that trying your best to piss off people with a different opinion is just going to cause polarization and make them think their way of thinking is correct.

Honestly I'm a little disappointed they didn't check the manual pages for any of these commands.

In case it wasn't clear... (e.g. man grep, man touch, man fsck, man mount, etc.)

I completely agree. My university required you to change your password every 90 days. Not such a bad idea, however, they compare your new password against all previous passwords to make sure they are significantly different (e.g. you can't change your password from abcdefg to abcdeff). I'm assuming this means they save your passwords in clear text somewhere. Not exactly the type of people I'd trust with sensitive information.

EDIT: meastham makes a good point and he/she could definitely be right about generating hashes of all slight variations of each password. In response to what fname said, I'm wondering if there are any security concerns about being able to find similarities in hashes for similar passwords.

You want your programmers to be terribly self-contradictory?

(from someone that had to read 'Hagakure' last year)

I had used Papers for a couple years off and on. I really thought it was worth the money, but after I discovered Mendeley, I found it more useful. The built in synchronization of Mendeley works better than using Papers + Dropbox (which didn't work well). Importing papers seemed easier with Mendeley and a browser. Also, I have a couple of personal Macs and an Ubuntu box at work and it's nice to be able to run Mendeley on both.

I might not be up to date on all the features of Papers but I am pretty sure they never added a better way to sync between computers.