The structure seen above was placed to test the ability of the sandy Berlin soil to support the weight of the triumphal arch. It was a large concrete mass with apparatus to test and measure its movement relative to the ground level
I wasn't aware that destroying it was that out of reach.
Al.
cd my_unversioned_project
git init.
git add.
git commit -m "initial import"
# hack, hack
git add modified_file_1 modified_file_2 added_file
# (at this stage, be sure to know what the "index" is)
git commit
and work that way locally for a while, venturing into branching (remember: git is about having plenty of small, not so short-lived, feature branches) and then merging until all that you see in the gitk --all and git ui GUIs make sense to you. Or, why not, cloning your repo/directory, and pushing from the clone to its "master".
Overall at this stage, the github usage docs and getting started are your friend. After this learning phase, stackoverflow will come in handy
Last, don't be too afraid to try things on working copy with clean status, since git commands only affects the
git reset --hard HEAD@{1}
will take you to the previously recorded state of your repository. Just look into git reflog for past things not necessarily in "gitk --all".
Short, only one links, but hope this will help.
Hal.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. All the rest is education.
Al.
I don't know about pre-grub time, but SGA Bios is a damn cool looking bit of x86 asm from Google themselves, meant to be cast in one of your BIOS option ROMs (wtf ? does it hurt ?? maybe some answers, as usual, on Wikipedia) that enhances your VGA console output with serial port IOs. Used by Google (themselves) for their servers farms, or so they say.
Al.
Ok, there may be discussion, and I'll even agree this raise a thousand objections and obstacles to be overcome. Still, I'll keep in mind that the idea of having a LED display under your car wheels sounds damn cool, and that forking a tenth of million dollars on that possibility might more rational use of taxpayer money compared to... well you know what I mean: hey,
Please be bothered instead that this is, after all, not so much money, or, if you really need to stick to your whining mood, blame the funds granters and their nonsensical criterias
Al.
Aside from the obvious wear and tear, what about the fact that cars are covering up the panels?
That very point is addressed in their FAQ section on their website. In short: cars never packs up and cover more than a small fraction of the asphalt surface. Other common objections are, if not addressed, at least discussed, on that same page which, all in all, makes for a nice engidreaming read.
Al.
... Amazing how long he kept playing
I'll try to elaborate on this, from my selfish little point of view. I had to marvel some times ago at Les Paul wikipedia photograph, where he can be seen playing guitar on stage. He was born 1915, which made him 2 years younger than my (late) grandfather, and the wp photograph is from 2004: abstracting the fact that mine was not exactly the artist kind of person, boy-would-it-feel-strange seeing daddy rocking the stage with his guitar !
Too bad he used to be for some time head of the Stairway to Heaven — The 100 oldest rockstars still living list.
Wishes to the family,
Al
I quite like the way this blog by an old time Atari employee recalls the when and how of Atari developement. Something (Donkey Kong port on Atari consoles) that read
I should explain how Atari's Arcade conversions group worked. Basically, Atari's marketing folks would negotiate a license to ship GameCorp's "Foobar Blaster" on a cartridge for the Atari Home Computer System. That was it. That was the entirety of the deal.
made it clearer with
We got ZERO help from the original developers of the games. No listings, no talking to the engineers, no design documents, nothing.
but, wait... there was even less:
In fact, we had to buy our own copy of the arcade machine and simply get good at the game (which was why I was playing it at the hotel our copy of the game hadn't even been delivered yet).
was for me a sure way to a plentiful of nostalgiaholic reading.
Al.
Men take only their needs into consideration -- never their abilities. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
