All in all you got about 5h sleep each night, but the floors were perfectly polished, the bathrooms were clean etc all with zero time apparently devoted to the process. All completely chickenshit stuff, but it built up a spirit of cooperation between soldiers headed for different trades very well.
Did it never occur to you that the entire purpose of this chickenshit stuff was spcifically to teach you cooperation to the point that it would come automatically in a situation where it was necessary for survival? Really.
If you're going to lose money, just keep enjoying those drinks and pole dancers until you're broke.
If you're going to have fun, do the same, but stop before you're broke, when you reach the amount you preset as your intent to spend.
If you're going to make money, concentrate on becoming the best at the game you're playing, and leave for the day/night as soon as you're up 10%. Since you're almost always up 10% at some point, you've found a nice job, paying 3,650% of your investment each year. You can't do better:).
Do you really think they'd do that? They won't. They'll turn off analog and switch their digital transmission to the post-switchover assignment in June.
Interesting point... yesterday I went bookcase shopping and discovered that all the stores that used to carry low-priced bookcases don't anymore (Kmart, Target, Walmart); only DVD cabinets.
this may seem like a stupid question, but what did they actually improve -- if not the things people were complaining about?
Their (perhaps poorly chosen) focus groups appeared to love Vista when they didn't know it was Vista; now they want to foist notVista on the rest of us.
And so far I've really liked a lot of the new features. I like that I don't have to manage my music and video sharing with my Xbox independently of my Zune independently of my WMP and I look forward to Winamp taking advantage of it as well.
And this will help Business adoption how?
Don't forget that Microsoft has no problem with home users; they get forced into the latest OS; the problem is with business users, who still want the reliability and simplicity of XP.
What did I get out of XP? An improved Start Menu? Easier Networking? More stability?
Speaking only for myself, exactly. I had nothing but problems with NT 4 (it would even crash down to the hard disk level and have to be rebuilt) and didn't see much in Win2K (I ran Win2K only in servers, and when it came out is when I was accelerating my move to Linux servers).
Was XP just Windows 98 SP3?
Hardly. Windows 98 ran FAT, Windows XP finally ran NTFS mature enough to trust.
No kidding. Years ago when I sold clone PCs I had one client (a fairly large law firm) that was very happy to buy systems from me, but paid about us$150 each to get a real IBM Model M keyboard for each.
We had two recent installations of Trixbox get hacked within a two month period. Our upstream is a VoIP vendor.
Our payment plan is automatic charges of $40 against a debit card whenever the balance gets to $20. Our charges (well under 2c per minute) means those numbers work for us.
When these Trixbox installations got hacked in both cases we were notified by our VoIP vendor, before we even hit the recharge limit.
It was inconvenient, but it saved us a lot of money.
For me it's always been the other way around. First, let's examine the irreparably damage the rest of a system: I've never had a system failure before I had to pull the system before it was too ancient to work well for us. So in our case the PSUs aren't causing catastrophic failure.
In fact our oldest running systemn, which we keep running (but not on the 'net) because it runs the version of PageMaker we still use for print and pdf materials, is about eight years old. While I no longer have receipts, the case and power supply together cost us under $40 then.
Now lets' move on to the power supplies themselves:
For many years we bought the cheapest PSUs we could find, until about two years ago. They all ran as long as did the computer in which they were installed.
Then about four years ago we started buying cheap private-label systems from Frys for our staff. We still do. The entire system generally costs us about us$200, less than some good power supplies. They're all still running. Including two I gave new to family as gifts. I just checked with them, and neither are connected to UPS systems at all; both to really cheap (circa us$20) 'surge protectors' (I put that in quotes because I understand they're really not effective at surge protection at that price point)
For myself I build state of the art systems. My last one was built about three years ago; a state of the art (when built) system can easily last that long. It's gone through two PSUs, and is now on it's third. The first one came with the (circa us$60) case. The second, installed about a year ago, not because there was anything wrong with the first but because I wanted something quieter; I paid also circa us$60, and got one with an adjustable speed 120mm fan positioned right over the processor. It lasted, with the fan running at full speed (still vey quiet) until a few weeks ago.
Then after the system shut down twice becaue of heat problems within two weeks (almost a month ago), I took a look at it and discovered the fan was no longer running. Rather than replacing the fan, I replaced the entire power supply, with a cheap one from a friend's stack of extras. Let's see how that one lasts.
Now I'm building my system for the next three years and I've bought for that one an Antec Neopower 500. Let's see how long that one lasts.
We run our systems behind APC SmartUPS systems; perhaps they're better at keeping our power clean than cheaper units from other vendors.
While I realize this isn't a scientific review by any means, it might at least be interesting to some slashdotters.
Everyone programming for Linux should start with machine code! Then after that, they should learn assembly. Only after mastering this can they begin to appreciate the power of Fortran! Finally, once they have mastered Fortran, C will finally make sense. Then, 5 years of steady C development, where they achieve Nirvana-like (the band, not the state of mind) understanding of C if they begin by handwriting the C compiler in Fortran and then transitioning it into C once the compiler is able to self-compile!
Then, only then, can you even begin to consider Object Oriented Programming.
This sounds like the stages I went through, except that I did a lot of BASIC somewhere between Fortran and C.
When it was time for me to do Object Oriented Programming I was fairly lucky; at about that time Borland brought out a version of Turbo Pascal that implemented it fairly well.
Just yesterday I got a telephone call from the local city-owned electric company. The phone call eventually failed as they were trying to transfer me, and when I called back from my caller-ID display the recording said the number was no longer in service.
It really was the city-owned electric company, and my point is that forging caller-ID is now both prevalent and acceptable.
Which blends the line so much that it's becoming harder to tell who's legit and who isn't.
No, because if you only speak Chinese, then that could be considered a disability these days, and if you're in the U.S., then he's screwed for not accommodating your disability.
Or not.
In many states it's simpler than this. For example, in California you can't get arrested for a misdemeanor unless the arresting officer sees you commit the act, so you just go ahead and pull out your receipt when the arresting officer arrives, and then force charges (in California you can make a citizen's arrest) on the person who held you. Or just walk out anyway, which I've done in several situations. Once at a restaurant I was followed out and the person who followed me out wrote down my license plate number. The result: nothing.
Nevertheless you do have the option to use (for example) OpenDNS, and keep the same ISP. On one level it won't be as satisfying as a boycott, but it should be satisfying on some level to be able to work around your ISPs insecure DNS, and you'll have resolved the real problem.
Not always true. Hughes Satelite intercepts ALL DNS even if you Opt-out, or use some other DNS server. I haven't investigated running my own DNS which sounds like it would solve the problem of them being in the middle.
No, it wouldn't, because all nameservice runs as udp (and occasionally tcp/ip) on port 53. Including your own nameserver if any.
If they block it, they block it whether you're running a nameserver or simply a stub-resolver.
We manage domains for a company that uses them, though not for websites. We get offers like this all the time. For one of the domains, on our clients order, we reply that the price is $10 million US.
For others, we let them know the fixed price.
For still others, we let them know it's not for sale.
And we always let them know there are lots of reasons to use domain names besides the web.
I would suggest to batzerto, though, that he (she?) should NEVER sell a domain name except through an escrow company with a good reputation; otherwise it's too easy to lose it. Let the buyer pay the fee.
And of course I can't help but hope someone pays the $10 million; I could retire off my commission.:)
You can buy a T1 for yourself if you like and cut out the eeeevil money-grabbing ISP. Oh look, they seem to start at about $600/mo. There's your bandwidth right there, all you can eat. Help yourself, but don't forget to pay the bill.
Yes, and once you've done that you'll find that you get a maximum speed up and down of 1.54 mbps, and yes, you still have a cap: if you use your T-1 line at full speed all month you'll be able to move 500 Gigabytes per month in each direction.
I buy GeoTrust Certificates for us$9.95, and all I have to do is have an email address at the domain in question. And I get plenty of choices for the email address; I'm NOT limited to the ones in whois, though of course if I were that wouldn't be proof of anything anyway.
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All in all you got about 5h sleep each night, but the floors were perfectly polished, the bathrooms were clean etc all with zero time apparently devoted to the process. All completely chickenshit stuff, but it built up a spirit of cooperation between soldiers headed for different trades very well.
Did it never occur to you that the entire purpose of this chickenshit stuff was spcifically to teach you cooperation to the point that it would come automatically in a situation where it was necessary for survival? Really.
natural nanoscale ice structure formed of pentagons.
Not more Pentagons! The one just south of Washington, D.C., is more than enough!
There are three reasons people gamble at casinos:
1. To lose money.
2. To make money.
3. To have fun.
If you're going to lose money, just keep enjoying those drinks and pole dancers until you're broke.
If you're going to have fun, do the same, but stop before you're broke, when you reach the amount you preset as your intent to spend.
If you're going to make money, concentrate on becoming the best at the game you're playing, and leave for the day/night as soon as you're up 10%. Since you're almost always up 10% at some point, you've found a nice job, paying 3,650% of your investment each year. You can't do better :).
Do you really think they'd do that? They won't. They'll turn off analog and switch their digital transmission to the post-switchover assignment in June.
Interesting point ... yesterday I went bookcase shopping and discovered that all the stores that used to carry low-priced bookcases don't anymore (Kmart, Target, Walmart); only DVD cabinets.
this may seem like a stupid question, but what did they actually improve -- if not the things people were complaining about?
Their (perhaps poorly chosen) focus groups appeared to love Vista when they didn't know it was Vista; now they want to foist notVista on the rest of us.
And so far I've really liked a lot of the new features. I like that I don't have to manage my music and video sharing with my Xbox independently of my Zune independently of my WMP and I look forward to Winamp taking advantage of it as well.
And this will help Business adoption how?
Don't forget that Microsoft has no problem with home users; they get forced into the latest OS; the problem is with business users, who still want the reliability and simplicity of XP.
What did I get out of XP? An improved Start Menu? Easier Networking? More stability?
Speaking only for myself, exactly. I had nothing but problems with NT 4 (it would even crash down to the hard disk level and have to be rebuilt) and didn't see much in Win2K (I ran Win2K only in servers, and when it came out is when I was accelerating my move to Linux servers).
Was XP just Windows 98 SP3?
Hardly. Windows 98 ran FAT, Windows XP finally ran NTFS mature enough to trust.
The IBM Model M
No kidding. Years ago when I sold clone PCs I had one client (a fairly large law firm) that was very happy to buy systems from me, but paid about us$150 each to get a real IBM Model M keyboard for each.
And you never make a mistake?
We had two recent installations of Trixbox get hacked within a two month period. Our upstream is a VoIP vendor. Our payment plan is automatic charges of $40 against a debit card whenever the balance gets to $20. Our charges (well under 2c per minute) means those numbers work for us. When these Trixbox installations got hacked in both cases we were notified by our VoIP vendor, before we even hit the recharge limit. It was inconvenient, but it saved us a lot of money.
For me it's always been the other way around. First, let's examine the irreparably damage the rest of a system: I've never had a system failure before I had to pull the system before it was too ancient to work well for us. So in our case the PSUs aren't causing catastrophic failure.
In fact our oldest running systemn, which we keep running (but not on the 'net) because it runs the version of PageMaker we still use for print and pdf materials, is about eight years old. While I no longer have receipts, the case and power supply together cost us under $40 then.
Now lets' move on to the power supplies themselves:
For many years we bought the cheapest PSUs we could find, until about two years ago. They all ran as long as did the computer in which they were installed.
Then about four years ago we started buying cheap private-label systems from Frys for our staff. We still do. The entire system generally costs us about us$200, less than some good power supplies. They're all still running. Including two I gave new to family as gifts. I just checked with them, and neither are connected to UPS systems at all; both to really cheap (circa us$20) 'surge protectors' (I put that in quotes because I understand they're really not effective at surge protection at that price point)
For myself I build state of the art systems. My last one was built about three years ago; a state of the art (when built) system can easily last that long. It's gone through two PSUs, and is now on it's third. The first one came with the (circa us$60) case. The second, installed about a year ago, not because there was anything wrong with the first but because I wanted something quieter; I paid also circa us$60, and got one with an adjustable speed 120mm fan positioned right over the processor. It lasted, with the fan running at full speed (still vey quiet) until a few weeks ago.
Then after the system shut down twice becaue of heat problems within two weeks (almost a month ago), I took a look at it and discovered the fan was no longer running. Rather than replacing the fan, I replaced the entire power supply, with a cheap one from a friend's stack of extras. Let's see how that one lasts.
Now I'm building my system for the next three years and I've bought for that one an Antec Neopower 500. Let's see how long that one lasts.
We run our systems behind APC SmartUPS systems; perhaps they're better at keeping our power clean than cheaper units from other vendors.
While I realize this isn't a scientific review by any means, it might at least be interesting to some slashdotters.
Everyone programming for Linux should start with machine code! Then after that, they should learn assembly. Only after mastering this can they begin to appreciate the power of Fortran! Finally, once they have mastered Fortran, C will finally make sense. Then, 5 years of steady C development, where they achieve Nirvana-like (the band, not the state of mind) understanding of C if they begin by handwriting the C compiler in Fortran and then transitioning it into C once the compiler is able to self-compile!
Then, only then, can you even begin to consider Object Oriented Programming.
This sounds like the stages I went through, except that I did a lot of BASIC somewhere between Fortran and C.
When it was time for me to do Object Oriented Programming I was fairly lucky; at about that time Borland brought out a version of Turbo Pascal that implemented it fairly well.
The rest is history (or rather, mystory.
Phunny you should say that ...
Just yesterday I got a telephone call from the local city-owned electric company. The phone call eventually failed as they were trying to transfer me, and when I called back from my caller-ID display the recording said the number was no longer in service.
It really was the city-owned electric company, and my point is that forging caller-ID is now both prevalent and acceptable.
Which blends the line so much that it's becoming harder to tell who's legit and who isn't.
I was thinking that auto-scaling in the clouds could mean some mighty big autos ... much too big to be driven on the highways.
No, because if you only speak Chinese, then that could be considered a disability these days, and if you're in the U.S., then he's screwed for not accommodating your disability. Or not.
In many states it's simpler than this. For example, in California you can't get arrested for a misdemeanor unless the arresting officer sees you commit the act, so you just go ahead and pull out your receipt when the arresting officer arrives, and then force charges (in California you can make a citizen's arrest) on the person who held you. Or just walk out anyway, which I've done in several situations. Once at a restaurant I was followed out and the person who followed me out wrote down my license plate number. The result: nothing.
Nevertheless you do have the option to use (for example) OpenDNS, and keep the same ISP. On one level it won't be as satisfying as a boycott, but it should be satisfying on some level to be able to work around your ISPs insecure DNS, and you'll have resolved the real problem.
Most likely they're both right. At least on the day they were written. According to xe.com: 995.00 AUD = 614.486 USD
Not always true. Hughes Satelite intercepts ALL DNS even if you Opt-out, or use some other DNS server. I haven't investigated running my own DNS which sounds like it would solve the problem of them being in the middle.
No, it wouldn't, because all nameservice runs as udp (and occasionally tcp/ip) on port 53. Including your own nameserver if any.
If they block it, they block it whether you're running a nameserver or simply a stub-resolver.
As long as it's taxed and has governmental oversight, nothing.
Is this the same governmental oversight that the U.S. has used so successfully on banks and mortgage companies?
I can't help but think you're serious. But if so, then you ignore the fact that i work for my client; I wrote on my clients order.
We manage domains for a company that uses them, though not for websites. We get offers like this all the time. For one of the domains, on our clients order, we reply that the price is $10 million US.
For others, we let them know the fixed price.
For still others, we let them know it's not for sale.
And we always let them know there are lots of reasons to use domain names besides the web.
I would suggest to batzerto, though, that he (she?) should NEVER sell a domain name except through an escrow company with a good reputation; otherwise it's too easy to lose it. Let the buyer pay the fee.
And of course I can't help but hope someone pays the $10 million; I could retire off my commission. :)
You can buy a T1 for yourself if you like and cut out the eeeevil money-grabbing ISP. Oh look, they seem to start at about $600/mo. There's your bandwidth right there, all you can eat. Help yourself, but don't forget to pay the bill.
Yes, and once you've done that you'll find that you get a maximum speed up and down of 1.54 mbps, and yes, you still have a cap: if you use your T-1 line at full speed all month you'll be able to move 500 Gigabytes per month in each direction.
I buy GeoTrust Certificates for us$9.95, and all I have to do is have an email address at the domain in question. And I get plenty of choices for the email address; I'm NOT limited to the ones in whois, though of course if I were that wouldn't be proof of anything anyway.
The site's private key never leaves the site's host. The authority's private key never leaves their posession.