Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.

10/5/2007 10:09:01 PM

val:~# [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].

10/5/2007 10:10:38 PM

[jezebel@localhost ~]$ fuck
bash: fuck: command not found
[jezebel@localhost ~]$ shit
bash: shit: command not found
[jezebel@localhost ~]$ piss
bash: piss: command not found
[jezebel@localhost ~]$ i hate you
bash: i: command not found

10/6/2007 3:20:40 AM

eos% got a light?
got: no match

10/6/2007 11:21:14 AM

make: *** No rule to make target `love'. Stop.

different version I guess...

[Edited on October 6, 2007 at 2:30 PM. Reason : .,.]

10/6/2007 2:29:50 PM

solaris machine on network with host named elvis

#ping elvis
elvis is alive!

10/10/2007 9:35:00 PM

these don't give funny output but are silly to type:

:man touch
:man finger


but this one does:
:man vagina
No manual entry for vagina

10/10/2007 10:39:42 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7044606.stm

Drive advance fuels terabyte era

Quote :

"A single hard drive with four terabytes of storage (4TB) could be a reality by 2011, thanks to a nanotechnology breakthrough by Japanese firm Hitachi. Hard drives currently have a one terabyte limit. The company has successfully managed to shrink the read-write head of a hard drive to two thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair. The smaller head can read greater densities of data stored on the disk. Hitachi said the advance would fuel the "terabyte era", with a 4TB drive able to hold more than a million songs. Hard drives store data by magnetising the surface of the disk in a pattern which represents the data in digital form. The data is stored digitally as tiny magnetized regions, called bits, on the disk. A magnetic orientation in one direction on the disk could represent a "1", while an orientation in the opposite direction could represent a "0". To store an ever increasing amount of data, the magnetised regions on the disk are packed ever closer together, requiring smaller and smaller read-write heads. Current hard disks can store about 200 gigabits of information per square inch (6.4sqcms) while Hitachi believes its new technology means it can store up to 1 terabit of data per square inch. However, as the heads get smaller the amount of electrical resistance grows, generating noise output and adversely affecting the head's ability to read data off the disk. Big differences Hitachi's solution is to return to a technology which spurred an explosion in hard disk storage 10 years ago and led to the Nobel prize for physics last week for French scientist Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg of Germany. They discovered the phenomenon of "giant magnetoresistance" (GMR), in which weak magnetic changes give rise to big differences in electrical resistance. The knowledge allowed industry to develop sensitive read tools, called GMR heads, to pull data off hard drives in computers, iPods and other digital devices. In recent years GMR heads have given way to so-called tunneling magneto-resistance (TMR) heads, which have been able to read more densely-packed disks. However, Hitachi has discovered a method of reducing noise and boosting signal output when using GMR heads and so further increasing the density of data on a disk than can be read. "We changed the direction of the current and adjusted the materials to get good properties," said John Best, chief technologist for Hitachi's data-storage unit, in an interview with AP. "Hitachi continues to invest in deep research for the advancement of hard disk drives as we believe there is no other technology capable of providing the hard drive's high-capacity, low-cost value for the foreseeable future," said Hiroaki Odawara, Hitachi's research director, at its Storage Technology Research Centre. Hitachi predicts it could release a hard disk for desktops with 4TB of storage and a laptop with a 1TB drive by 2011. The company said this would mean hard drive storage would continue doubling every two years. "

OK, but what the hell is the average person gonna do with so much space?

10/15/2007 9:00:57 AM

i'm guessing you put that in the make love thread b/c the answer to your question is probably porn, amirite

that's all very interesting though. seems like every other week somebody else comes out with a way to increase hard drive or optical disc capacity by an order or two of magnitude

[Edited on October 15, 2007 at 9:18 AM. Reason : .]

10/15/2007 9:17:42 AM

% [Where is Waldo?
Missing ].


% %blow
%blow: No such job.

10/15/2007 10:29:15 AM

Quote :

"OK, but what the hell is the average person gonna do with so much space?"

That's what people have been saying about storage advances for decades now :o

On that note .. I have no idea what the average person is gonna do with that much space!

10/15/2007 11:43:20 AM

install 40G games of course

10/15/2007 12:08:02 PM

well...if you are an anime buff then thats a Tb right there...
and games and other applications get progressively bigger as they become more advanced.

11/18/2007 11:58:36 AM

porn. that's what the average person is going to do with that much space. porn.

11/18/2007 12:01:06 PM

I need me some 1tb+ drives. tens of thousands of digital images a year, plus backups, edited psds, etc, means I'll be dealing with a data nightmare at work.

11/18/2007 12:12:20 PM

rip high def media... duh.

11/18/2007 12:15:17 PM

Quote :

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

* 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
o Often attributed to Gates in 1981. Gates considered the IBM PC's 640kB program memory a significant breakthrough over 8-bit systems that were typically limited to 64kB, but he has denied making this remark.[3] Also see the 1989 and 1993 remarks above.

I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time... I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.

* Bloomberg Business News (19 January 1996); also WIRED (16 January 1997)

Do you realize the pain the industry went through while the IBM PC was limited to 640K? The machine was going to be 512K at one point, and we kept pushing it up. I never said that statement — I said the opposite of that.


http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

11/18/2007 12:26:41 PM