It was still April 01 in my timezone (ObYouInsensitiveClod).;-)
Doesn't make the jokes any funnier, though. April Fool's Day pretty much annoys me unless the joke is either really obvious, but well done (like the FIRST time I saw the RFC) or is IMMEDIATELY followed by the addmission that it's a fake (like BBSpot did at the bottom of their fake mailbag feature).
Are you kidding? I have a friend that just put Win2kPro on a P-133. After adding 80Megs of memory, it works just fine. Word and Excel (both part of Office 2k) loaded up faster than on my computer at work (a PIII-800; I must have a bunch of other crap that slows things down). If you're not going to do much more than word processing, e-mail, and web surfing, a pentium is probably totally sufficient. I'd bet the internet connection is going to be more of a bottleneck than the processor.
Hey! That's nice! There's another way, using the "boucesaying" program that comes with qmail. if you put this line in the.qmail file, you can actually control what the bounce says (though yours is nice because it's easy and looks more automated):
Very sorry.:-) As long as the mail server is running qmail and you have shell access, you can set up qmail files for any given "extension.".qmail is what happens to mail sent to username@domain.tld..qmail-yahoo is what happens to username-yahoo@domain.tld
And, if you want to accept everything that starts with your username, you set up.qmail-default. That will catch everything that isn't just sent to username@domain.tld (that has to be handled by.qmail) and doesn't already have another file handling it.
So, you can have.qmail which handles mail to just username@domain.tld, a.qmail-yahoo that handles everything to username-yahoo@domain.tld, and.qmail-default which handles everything else that starts with your username.
That's a really common thing among my friends. Most of us use qmail, so we can receive mail to username-[anything]. Sign up for financial tracking with yahoo? Then it's username-yahoo@domain.tld Ask for info from buy.com? Use the address username-buy@domain.tld I bought stuff from x10 before they started being so darned annoying. Now, I throw away anything that comes to username-x10@domain.tld
It helps you track spam AND get rid of annoying companies' e-mails.:-) And best of all, you don't have to get your own domain for this. You can use your existing e-mail address with just a slight tweak to your qmail configuration.
This would probably mean a duct system separate from the air conditioner
Why would you need a separate ducting system? I find that if you can control the fans independently of the heating/cooling elements, then you get good ventilation (albeit recirculated, but I'm sure if you were designing it, you could change that with another set of dampers).
I do this at my work whenever some foul smell invades the area or one office is too hot/cold compared to the hall (where the thermostat is). The moving air evens out the heat and disipates the smells.
I don't think that, for most of us, it's dwelling on the past (though, for those who had a particularly bad time of it, it could be).
I think the understanding is in hopes of at least trying to solve the right problems. Too often, we apply bandages to the symptoms and ignore the causes. Example (which may not be correct, but it helps exemplify what I got out of the article): Symptom: nerds get bullied. Cause: the bullies have nothing else to do. Bandage solution: punish people who bully. Real solution: make school more than a part-time prison for teenagers.
True, most of us grew up, learned what is really important, and became well-adjusted adults. However, sometimes things get so bad during those years that people are too screwed up to get past it. Or, they wind up dead or killing others. Bandage solutions just don't do enough for those situations. And besides, everyone benefits from a real solution, not just those who are "unpopular."
Well, it may have not been the best, but it was the first of a general type. Heck, it even had its own song! (Which, for some reason, I still have as a 45 single.)
Perhaps you're treating the wrong area. Now, obviously, you and your doctor should know more than I, but I was having sleeping problems and took care of a number of them by having my sinuses worked on. I had (in addition to having a seriously deviated septum fixed) what is called a "turbinate resection." My doctor suggested this after I told him that using Afrin helped me get a good night's sleep. (Can't use it very often, since I get really bad rebound effect.) If you've ever tried Afrin and it works, be sure to tell your doctor about this. You also might ask about a turbinate resection and whether they think it'd work for you.
And, obviously, this info could be useful to more than just the person to whom I'm responding.
There was this old first person "shooter" from the makers of Mr. Pibb. You had to go around your school, burping on zombies to turn them back into students. You got Mr. Pibb cans to "power up" and, iirc, when you did, it would yell the Mr. Pibb slogan, "PUT IT IN YOUR HEAD!"
I tried to play it many years after it had come out and the newer, faster computer was too much for it, or something. And I found a bug that put me into no clipping mode, but it was still relatively entertaining for a short while...
Hey! That's not such a bad idea. It works for Linus: "Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it."
Not quite everyone. Mac users aside, I decided not to include one in the Wintel computer I built 3 years ago. I only had one problem and that was when I put a new network card in and the driver only came on floppy. But, I was able to put the old one in, download the driver to the hard disk, and re-install the network card, installing the driver from a local disk. Haven't had any need of one since.
But as a serious reply, we have to understand what is being developed here. This is Real Time Strategy. You don't need tons of clock cycles and an incredible frame rate. What you need is a good user interface. Good UIs should not need lots of clock cycles. They require oodles of design time, not cpu time.
So, are we going to start seeing people swap tires with each other? I'd read the article but it's already dead. Is swaping tires going to become illegal without re-registering them with the new vehicle? It'd be pretty cool to have whoever is tracking this see most vehicles in four different places at once.
I think it'd be pretty easy to have a second, non-binding jury made up of people who have learned about the trial, but were selected as normal in every other way. Let them see (or even be in on) the trial, just like a regular jury. Then, see what they come up with.
Probably, you'd have to do something to make it so that no one (even the jurors) understood why there were two juries and no one knew which jury was going to give the "real" verdict.
It wouldn't be perfect, but it might start showing some general trends if you got this happening on enough trials.
Maybe if they stopped hyping pretty-looking but talentless actors and concentrated on people who could actually perform music in some way, we might actually be interested in buying it.
And, as an aside, many of us are so jaded from the recent crap, that we're unwilling to buy music basing our decision solely on the two (three if you're lucky) songs that get played on the radio. I want to hear a majority of the album before I buy it. Oh, sorry, that would require me to STEAL the music first. Oh well, no CDs for me.
Quite true. But if it's not illegal, then they probably won't put out a random noise file with that name. If you try to download a Metallica song (oh, just say an old one, like "Fade to Black") and you get noise, tough crap. It is illegal, after all.
But, if you try to download someone who isn't represented by the RIAA, then there's a pretty damn good chance that the song won't actually be noise. Why would the RIAA make a "noise" song with a name by someone they don't represent? Or are they doing that, too?
Quite right! Their simple signalling daemon is even GPLed and I've modified to to work slightly differently. The had been very closed about their serial communications in the past, but are very open, now.
I don't know anything about their USB stuff, as I don't have access to any of them. Anyone know if their USB servers can be controlled using open source software or if you need their program?
I recently took a class from HP (it was HP-UX for experienced sysadmins) and it was a great class. There were only 8 people in the class, the teacher was very knowledgeable, and we were using modern equipment. We were learning for the sake of learning. No one was going to use NIS? Fine, we skipped that. If you want the exam prep, it was a totally different class.
Admittedly, this was just one class from one instructor, but the facilities should be at least comparable. There's one in the New York area. And, of course, you'd be learning something HP specific. Check out their web site for more info.
There is a standard for that. You send an e-mail to webmaster@host.domain.tld
'webmaster' is one of those addresses that should be aliased in any site that has a web page, just like 'postmaster' is supposed to be aliased on any site that handles e-mail.
The real problem is getting someone to give a crap once you've sent the e-mail about their page being screwed up.
IIRC, his problem was that he credited "Cage" on the album in reference to the "song" of silence. Had he left the guy's name off, it wouldn't have been an issue.
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It was still April 01 in my timezone (ObYouInsensitiveClod). ;-)
Doesn't make the jokes any funnier, though. April Fool's Day pretty much annoys me unless the joke is either really obvious, but well done (like the FIRST time I saw the RFC) or is IMMEDIATELY followed by the addmission that it's a fake (like BBSpot did at the bottom of their fake mailbag feature).
Since when has prior art actually prevented a patent from being granted?
Score: -1, Cynical
Are you kidding? I have a friend that just put Win2kPro on a P-133. After adding 80Megs of memory, it works just fine. Word and Excel (both part of Office 2k) loaded up faster than on my computer at work (a PIII-800; I must have a bunch of other crap that slows things down). If you're not going to do much more than word processing, e-mail, and web surfing, a pentium is probably totally sufficient. I'd bet the internet connection is going to be more of a bottleneck than the processor.
Hey! That's nice! There's another way, using the "boucesaying" program that comes with qmail. if you put this line in the .qmail file, you can actually control what the bounce says (though yours is nice because it's easy and looks more automated):
| bouncesaying "Better luck next time"
Very sorry. :-) As long as the mail server is running qmail and you have shell access, you can set up qmail files for any given "extension." .qmail is what happens to mail sent to username@domain.tld. .qmail-yahoo is what happens to username-yahoo@domain.tld
.qmail-default. That will catch everything that isn't just sent to username@domain.tld (that has to be handled by .qmail) and doesn't already have another file handling it.
.qmail which handles mail to just username@domain.tld, a .qmail-yahoo that handles everything to username-yahoo@domain.tld, and .qmail-default which handles everything else that starts with your username.
And, if you want to accept everything that starts with your username, you set up
So, you can have
This info is pretty much available in the man page "dotqmail" and some info may be found at the author's web site at http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html
or the Life With Qmail web site, http://www.lifewithqmail.com/.
That's a really common thing among my friends. Most of us use qmail, so we can receive mail to username-[anything]. Sign up for financial tracking with yahoo? Then it's username-yahoo@domain.tld Ask for info from buy.com? Use the address username-buy@domain.tld I bought stuff from x10 before they started being so darned annoying. Now, I throw away anything that comes to username-x10@domain.tld
:-) And best of all, you don't have to get your own domain for this. You can use your existing e-mail address with just a slight tweak to your qmail configuration.
It helps you track spam AND get rid of annoying companies' e-mails.
This would probably mean a duct system separate from the air conditioner
Why would you need a separate ducting system? I find that if you can control the fans independently of the heating/cooling elements, then you get good ventilation (albeit recirculated, but I'm sure if you were designing it, you could change that with another set of dampers).
I do this at my work whenever some foul smell invades the area or one office is too hot/cold compared to the hall (where the thermostat is). The moving air evens out the heat and disipates the smells.
I don't think that, for most of us, it's dwelling on the past (though, for those who had a particularly bad time of it, it could be).
I think the understanding is in hopes of at least trying to solve the right problems. Too often, we apply bandages to the symptoms and ignore the causes. Example (which may not be correct, but it helps exemplify what I got out of the article): Symptom: nerds get bullied. Cause: the bullies have nothing else to do. Bandage solution: punish people who bully. Real solution: make school more than a part-time prison for teenagers.
True, most of us grew up, learned what is really important, and became well-adjusted adults. However, sometimes things get so bad during those years that people are too screwed up to get past it. Or, they wind up dead or killing others. Bandage solutions just don't do enough for those situations. And besides, everyone benefits from a real solution, not just those who are "unpopular."
Well, it may have not been the best, but it was the first of a general type. Heck, it even had its own song! (Which, for some reason, I still have as a 45 single.)
Perhaps you're treating the wrong area. Now, obviously, you and your doctor should know more than I, but I was having sleeping problems and took care of a number of them by having my sinuses worked on. I had (in addition to having a seriously deviated septum fixed) what is called a "turbinate resection." My doctor suggested this after I told him that using Afrin helped me get a good night's sleep. (Can't use it very often, since I get really bad rebound effect.) If you've ever tried Afrin and it works, be sure to tell your doctor about this. You also might ask about a turbinate resection and whether they think it'd work for you.
And, obviously, this info could be useful to more than just the person to whom I'm responding.
PowerLabs was featured on a ZZZ Article; traffic triples (now at 4000+ hits/day).
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Just wait until he sees what happens when he's exposed to
There was this old first person "shooter" from the makers of Mr. Pibb. You had to go around your school, burping on zombies to turn them back into students. You got Mr. Pibb cans to "power up" and, iirc, when you did, it would yell the Mr. Pibb slogan, "PUT IT IN YOUR HEAD!"
I tried to play it many years after it had come out and the newer, faster computer was too much for it, or something. And I found a bug that put me into no clipping mode, but it was still relatively entertaining for a short while...
Hey! That's not such a bad idea. It works for Linus: "Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it."
Not quite everyone. Mac users aside, I decided not to include one in the Wintel computer I built 3 years ago. I only had one problem and that was when I put a new network card in and the driver only came on floppy. But, I was able to put the old one in, download the driver to the hard disk, and re-install the network card, installing the driver from a local disk. Haven't had any need of one since.
Yes, yes, I thought it was funny. :-)
But as a serious reply, we have to understand what is being developed here. This is Real Time Strategy. You don't need tons of clock cycles and an incredible frame rate. What you need is a good user interface. Good UIs should not need lots of clock cycles. They require oodles of design time, not cpu time.
So, are we going to start seeing people swap tires with each other? I'd read the article but it's already dead. Is swaping tires going to become illegal without re-registering them with the new vehicle? It'd be pretty cool to have whoever is tracking this see most vehicles in four different places at once.
I think it'd be pretty easy to have a second, non-binding jury made up of people who have learned about the trial, but were selected as normal in every other way. Let them see (or even be in on) the trial, just like a regular jury. Then, see what they come up with.
Probably, you'd have to do something to make it so that no one (even the jurors) understood why there were two juries and no one knew which jury was going to give the "real" verdict.
It wouldn't be perfect, but it might start showing some general trends if you got this happening on enough trials.
Maybe if they stopped hyping pretty-looking but talentless actors and concentrated on people who could actually perform music in some way, we might actually be interested in buying it.
And, as an aside, many of us are so jaded from the recent crap, that we're unwilling to buy music basing our decision solely on the two (three if you're lucky) songs that get played on the radio. I want to hear a majority of the album before I buy it. Oh, sorry, that would require me to STEAL the music first. Oh well, no CDs for me.
Quite true. But if it's not illegal, then they probably won't put out a random noise file with that name. If you try to download a Metallica song (oh, just say an old one, like "Fade to Black") and you get noise, tough crap. It is illegal, after all.
But, if you try to download someone who isn't represented by the RIAA, then there's a pretty damn good chance that the song won't actually be noise. Why would the RIAA make a "noise" song with a name by someone they don't represent? Or are they doing that, too?
Quite right! Their simple signalling daemon is even GPLed and I've modified to to work slightly differently. The had been very closed about their serial communications in the past, but are very open, now.
I don't know anything about their USB stuff, as I don't have access to any of them. Anyone know if their USB servers can be controlled using open source software or if you need their program?
I recently took a class from HP (it was HP-UX for experienced sysadmins) and it was a great class. There were only 8 people in the class, the teacher was very knowledgeable, and we were using modern equipment. We were learning for the sake of learning. No one was going to use NIS? Fine, we skipped that. If you want the exam prep, it was a totally different class.
Admittedly, this was just one class from one instructor, but the facilities should be at least comparable. There's one in the New York area. And, of course, you'd be learning something HP specific. Check out their web site for more info.
Or the water, as the case may be...
There is a standard for that. You send an e-mail to webmaster@host.domain.tld
'webmaster' is one of those addresses that should be aliased in any site that has a web page, just like 'postmaster' is supposed to be aliased on any site that handles e-mail.
The real problem is getting someone to give a crap once you've sent the e-mail about their page being screwed up.
IIRC, his problem was that he credited "Cage" on the album in reference to the "song" of silence. Had he left the guy's name off, it wouldn't have been an issue.
No wonder HP bought what was left of DEC. They have identical sales strategies. *grumble*