The radio example came up a number of years ago in Australia. Most commercial radio stations got all thing about it and started prosecuting the local hairdresser's. From memory, one radio station declared that it encouraged people to tune into it at work and turn it up for everyone to hear. That soon put everything in perspective.
I don't think you realise how different servers are to desktops. XP is being used by your average 12:00 flasher, while NT is typically used by the most computer literate person in the company. For every NT box out there you're looking at maybe 50 desktops, many of which will soon be XP. DDOS is a numbers game, so anything that increases the proportion of powerful, badly maintained PCs that can craft any damn packet they feel like this not a good thing.
Sure, SG is paranoid, but in a good way. He hasn't reached the kook level just yet. When he starts promoting cold fusion, then you can back away slowly.
I bought the limited edition Bluetooth kit for my Ericsson T28 about a year ago. It's nice except that it's too easy to knock the butt-plug off the end of the phone if you just, say, toss it in a jeans pocket. I've had to take an old glasses case and cut a hole for the antenna.
It works well, but it's a lot to carry around compared to any given small mobile phone -- and keeping two devices charged just to use my mobile phone (which can go for days without being used) is a little on the annoying side. I'm sure if I used my mobile more I'd also use the handsfree kit. Also, winter is just about to arrive so I'll be waering a jacket with more carrying capacity.
It's a shame that I can't use it with my corded MP3 handsfree kit. And it's also a shame that there hasn't been a Bluetooth solution for my TRGpro released yet. At least, not last time I checked.
I'd like Chu Chu Rocket, if we're talking Sega. Afterall, it's already been ported to the GBA and the Atari ST!
Meanwhile I still occasionally enjoy the Liberty Gameboy emulator. Just the other day I was playing Pokemon Pinball while waiting for a Ghost multicast session to finish.
If anyone in Australia wants one of these I have a batch I intended to resell and never really did (8 or 9 left). A$12 +postage (3.75). You can email me if you visit my homepage. Suits III-style cases only (IIIx, IIIe, IIIc, TRGpro, Handera 330, etc).
It's a lovely pie-in-the-sky article, but it's not particularly practical. For example, to use the terms used in the article, what happens when two specific technologies used to build a fortress don't actually have a drawbridge that knows how to communicate between them? It's all well and good to say this is a solution to a debate or an agreement to disagree, but if payroll goes one way and HR goes another then no-one gets paid.
I think all the author has done is give names to what a significant number of sysadmins already try to do. Without really addressing issues like scalability or intra-departmental trust.
Seriously, all power generation has some sort of negative effect. (You down with entropy?) Even (large) wind farms have been shown to (slightly) increase the level and duration of frost down wind.
Okay, but six months still isn't 15, and neither is 12. I did a month's temping at the local branch of the infamous Andersen that started in the middle of August of last year. If I'd actually been a corporate graphics designer I would have stayed longer than the month I was there, but as it is I'd be losing that job soon anyway. The person that took it on "permanently" had lost his previous job when it moved east, now he'll lose this one when Ernst and whatever absorb just the core business staff and none of the admin. He's barely made it 6 months and at the time it was not an obvious deathtrap (although "Profit Centres" and "Management Accounting" didn't make it particularly pleasant).
I have more stories similar to this. Lookup ERG in the Australian financial news -- I have/had a friend there too.
Sure, my previous major job lasted 30 months, but that ended over a year ago and the market is very different now.
Recent stats show that, at least for people previously on unemployment benefit in Australia, the average amount of time spent in a job is 3 months. Your chances of finding a position that lasts longer than that, for whatever reason (clueless management, business failure, fraud, etc) are slim to nil. Similarly, your trip is likely to be cancelled for one reason or another by then (airline failure, bombing, etc).
Come on people, enough is enough. AF was yesterday. Yesterday morning if you really want to stick to tradition. There's only so much you can take of these obviously stupid stories.
I thought the window for AF crap was supposed to close at midday April 1. You know, if you're following tradition rather than just using it as an excuse to be annoying.
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For anyone ahead the US AF "pranks" clog up everything for about 48 hours starting from our April 1st.
Seriously, limit next year's AF coverage to one internal/. admin related post plus a "Quickies" that reports on other pranks. Having a homepage full of stupid lies does not a happy surfer make.
Oh, yeah, much of the rest of the world doesn't "get" Halloween either, but at least the Simpsons Halloween specials are actually funny. Even if they are played around xmas.
Good idea. Add an AF entry to the list of topics you can filter off the homepage. At least that means it'll be worth visiting/. next year on the 1st and 2nd of April. Currently it's not.
(So why am I here you ask? I'm here because just enough of the staff where I work are on holiday so as to make it literally impossible to get any work done.)
Here's a free statistical point. Normally you have to pay someone for these.
I have no normal CD player hooked up to my HiFi. If I want to play a CD through my 5 speaker Dolby Prologic Yamaha system I have the choice to put it in a; Sega Mega CD, Sega Saturn or Sega Dreamcast. My Playstation is in storage. The CD drive on the Wintel PC I have connected to the system has recently failed. I have a secondary set of speakers that can be (but aren't usually) connected to an external PCMCIA CD drive connected to my portable (Wintel) PC. Mostly they're just connected to the PC. For listening to portable music I have an old Diamond Rio Special Edition (which I mostly use to load Atari 2600 games through a Cuttle Cart), the Ericsson MP3 handsfree kit, a brand new Imation RipGo! 8cm MP3/WMA/CDA player / CD burner hybrid (yes it does play normal 8cm singles) and finally an normal old Sony Discman.
Please note that any CD I purchase that doesn't play on a CD-based video games console is likely to be returned as faulty.
While I'm posting this I just want to make a request. Please start releasing singles in that cute 8cm format again.
The last games CD (actually GD) that entered my house was ChuChu Rocket. The games CD before that was a compilation of text mode games. I collect games from almost one end of the time line to the other. Trust me when I say that you can get just as much quick mindless fun out of Rogue as you can out of Crazy Taxi. Original, simple, gameplay beats cute graphics any day. It's only when you've got two original ideas competing that the eye candy starts to matter. Even then, a good game of Gauntlet beats a 3D adventure with a crap camera algorithm.
Meanwhile, for a nice mix of new and old visit my homepage for Star Wars Episode 1 and Pokemon data sets for text-mode (DOS) Monopoly.
We bought a new database because we were told that the old one would be converted to the new system. After a month and a half we finally got the "converted" database back. All they'd done was import the tables -- a process that would take maybe a whole afternoon. They hadn't even linked variables, they certainly hadn't converted any forms or reports. It took me 6-9 months to fix that problem and I never did get a fix for the fact that one part of the program was incapably of displaying/handling dates in anything but American MM/DD/YY format -- I'm in Australia (DD/MM/YY).
The database package in question is DB-Text (version 3). I won't mention the national distributer's name as they'd probably sue me.
Apparently if you make a point of playing with the prey for a while they stop doing it.
Does taking a clueless and un-injured mouse from two equally clueless cats, walking out to the back garden and flinging it over the fence count?
You should see our cats with a mouse -- the mouse typically runs into the nearest corner and then our cats just stare at it. Occasionally one will go up and tap it. Once it obviously grabbed hold of a paw because there was a sudden flicking of said paw as if to say "Eww, get if off!", mouse lobs off into distance then runs straight back to the same corner. It was pathetic.
Now, if they'd just stop bring geckos into the house...
I wonder if any former Robot Wars entrants will enter this competition. Screwing up here makes the damage from Killalot's jaws of life look like a wet kiss.
Whenever anything remotely like hacking occurs, the hacked company dramatically overstates all financial figures as well as the level of expertise required to perform the hack -- makes it seem more malicious. Damages always have at least 6 zeros (preferably 9) and you need to have a team of 15 people working 24/7 for months/years. When the truth is much closer to one person hacking away in a garage for a few weekends and finding a fundamental flaw. And damages? Well, with intellectual property it can often be argued that damages are negative, with the exposure being provided by a new technical option actually increasing the total number of people interested in spending money on a product.
Find Fast didn't just waste cycles, in the last place I worked as IT Manager, when I arrived, it was the single biggest source of crashes in the company. After disabling it on all machines the rate of crashes for some staff went from half a dozen times a day to a couple of times every few days. Some staff literally gained an hour of work time per day.
I like to think that my ability to reduce the crashing of PCs in that position was the main reason most people were able to cut down on their overtime.
If you don't charge based on what actually costs you money then it won't take long before some sort of abuse puts you back at square one. If the problem is traffic costs, then the way you charge customers has to be proportional to traffic costs.
If you only have 1000 page views per $5 are you going to use a view format that forces you to click on links to see nested or long comments or are you just going to setup the comments to display in one huge page? Are you going to have a brief front page with just the stuff that interests you or are you going to double the number of stories and uncheck all of your excluded topics, just so you don't have to click on "older stuff" to see all the stories?
Slashdot has to charge based on how much traffic you cause and it needs to have a nice way of helping you optimise your viewing.
Yeah, but whenever anyone feels screwed they complain to eBay. Even if they've done something eBay told them not to do. It is not costless to eBay to allow fraud to occur on (or near!) their site.
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The radio example came up a number of years ago in Australia. Most commercial radio stations got all thing about it and started prosecuting the local hairdresser's. From memory, one radio station declared that it encouraged people to tune into it at work and turn it up for everyone to hear. That soon put everything in perspective.
Sure, SG is paranoid, but in a good way. He hasn't reached the kook level just yet. When he starts promoting cold fusion, then you can back away slowly.
It works well, but it's a lot to carry around compared to any given small mobile phone -- and keeping two devices charged just to use my mobile phone (which can go for days without being used) is a little on the annoying side. I'm sure if I used my mobile more I'd also use the handsfree kit. Also, winter is just about to arrive so I'll be waering a jacket with more carrying capacity.
It's a shame that I can't use it with my corded MP3 handsfree kit. And it's also a shame that there hasn't been a Bluetooth solution for my TRGpro released yet. At least, not last time I checked.
Meanwhile I still occasionally enjoy the Liberty Gameboy emulator. Just the other day I was playing Pokemon Pinball while waiting for a Ghost multicast session to finish.
If anyone in Australia wants one of these I have a batch I intended to resell and never really did (8 or 9 left). A$12 +postage (3.75). You can email me if you visit my homepage. Suits III-style cases only (IIIx, IIIe, IIIc, TRGpro, Handera 330, etc).
I think all the author has done is give names to what a significant number of sysadmins already try to do. Without really addressing issues like scalability or intra-departmental trust.
Seriously, all power generation has some sort of negative effect. (You down with entropy?) Even (large) wind farms have been shown to (slightly) increase the level and duration of frost down wind.
I have more stories similar to this. Lookup ERG in the Australian financial news -- I have/had a friend there too.
Sure, my previous major job lasted 30 months, but that ended over a year ago and the market is very different now.
Recent stats show that, at least for people previously on unemployment benefit in Australia, the average amount of time spent in a job is 3 months. Your chances of finding a position that lasts longer than that, for whatever reason (clueless management, business failure, fraud, etc) are slim to nil. Similarly, your trip is likely to be cancelled for one reason or another by then (airline failure, bombing, etc).
Come on people, enough is enough. AF was yesterday. Yesterday morning if you really want to stick to tradition. There's only so much you can take of these obviously stupid stories.
I thought the window for AF crap was supposed to close at midday April 1. You know, if you're following tradition rather than just using it as an excuse to be annoying.
- 13 Updated Slashdot Advertising Policy by CmdrTaco with 320 comments on Tue April 02, 0:13
For anyone ahead the US AF "pranks" clog up everything for about 48 hours starting from our April 1st.Seriously, limit next year's AF coverage to one internal /. admin related post plus a "Quickies" that reports on other pranks. Having a homepage full of stupid lies does not a happy surfer make.
Oh, yeah, much of the rest of the world doesn't "get" Halloween either, but at least the Simpsons Halloween specials are actually funny. Even if they are played around xmas.
(So why am I here you ask? I'm here because just enough of the staff where I work are on holiday so as to make it literally impossible to get any work done.)
I have no normal CD player hooked up to my HiFi. If I want to play a CD through my 5 speaker Dolby Prologic Yamaha system I have the choice to put it in a; Sega Mega CD, Sega Saturn or Sega Dreamcast. My Playstation is in storage. The CD drive on the Wintel PC I have connected to the system has recently failed. I have a secondary set of speakers that can be (but aren't usually) connected to an external PCMCIA CD drive connected to my portable (Wintel) PC. Mostly they're just connected to the PC. For listening to portable music I have an old Diamond Rio Special Edition (which I mostly use to load Atari 2600 games through a Cuttle Cart), the Ericsson MP3 handsfree kit, a brand new Imation RipGo! 8cm MP3/WMA/CDA player / CD burner hybrid (yes it does play normal 8cm singles) and finally an normal old Sony Discman.
Please note that any CD I purchase that doesn't play on a CD-based video games console is likely to be returned as faulty.
While I'm posting this I just want to make a request. Please start releasing singles in that cute 8cm format again.
I had Silpheed, but I could never beat the last ship. Never. Personally, I preferred Xenon 2 for the Amiga.
Meanwhile, for a nice mix of new and old visit my homepage for Star Wars Episode 1 and Pokemon data sets for text-mode (DOS) Monopoly.
The database package in question is DB-Text (version 3). I won't mention the national distributer's name as they'd probably sue me.
You should see our cats with a mouse -- the mouse typically runs into the nearest corner and then our cats just stare at it. Occasionally one will go up and tap it. Once it obviously grabbed hold of a paw because there was a sudden flicking of said paw as if to say "Eww, get if off!", mouse lobs off into distance then runs straight back to the same corner. It was pathetic.
Now, if they'd just stop bring geckos into the house...
I wonder if any former Robot Wars entrants will enter this competition. Screwing up here makes the damage from Killalot's jaws of life look like a wet kiss.
Whenever anything remotely like hacking occurs, the hacked company dramatically overstates all financial figures as well as the level of expertise required to perform the hack -- makes it seem more malicious. Damages always have at least 6 zeros (preferably 9) and you need to have a team of 15 people working 24/7 for months/years. When the truth is much closer to one person hacking away in a garage for a few weekends and finding a fundamental flaw. And damages? Well, with intellectual property it can often be argued that damages are negative, with the exposure being provided by a new technical option actually increasing the total number of people interested in spending money on a product.
I like to think that my ability to reduce the crashing of PCs in that position was the main reason most people were able to cut down on their overtime.
Good question. Maybe Apple will start selling an iPod without a hard drive in Canada...
If they were going to go all retro with this you'd think they'd at least do an electronic clone of Operation...
If you only have 1000 page views per $5 are you going to use a view format that forces you to click on links to see nested or long comments or are you just going to setup the comments to display in one huge page? Are you going to have a brief front page with just the stuff that interests you or are you going to double the number of stories and uncheck all of your excluded topics, just so you don't have to click on "older stuff" to see all the stories?
Slashdot has to charge based on how much traffic you cause and it needs to have a nice way of helping you optimise your viewing.
Yeah, but whenever anyone feels screwed they complain to eBay. Even if they've done something eBay told them not to do. It is not costless to eBay to allow fraud to occur on (or near!) their site.