A lower poster posted it, but just to make sure this hits your inbox, these large open areas of brush, trees, etc, in the desert might I remind you, burn every so often naturally. The problem is, now there are multi-million dollar VIP homes in those mountains, out in the middle of no where, etc.
Those VIPs make sure they fire department is well equipped to put out brush fires when they happen naturally (lightning, heat + rotting brush, etc). They do not however, line the pockets of the forest commision (or whoever) to go in and clear brush and things which would have burned naturally and completed a carbon cycle, etc. Yes small woodland creatures with big sad eyes die in the fires, they die when the brush is clear, and so on and so forth.
Now a major fire starts (from a pipe bomb, a cigarette, or a lightning strike), the winds pick up and turn it into metal melting house reducing inferno, which we cannot contain, and nature settles it's tab.
I'm no GD tree hugging hippie, but I'm also not in favor of pave it all mentality. Living in Florida I watched houses get built where they had to redo the foundation 4 times in a row because they were building too close to a lake. People are creeping into things which aren't meant to have permanent dwellings put on them. They built this house during a dry season when the lake was low, then 25% of the way through construction, the lake gained 3 feet and the water was lapping over the foundation and washing it away.
Millionaires put a house up in the mountains (fire burns up remeber?) and then they burn to the ground. I'm sorry they have lost all their things, their pictures and memories, but at some point they have to live up to where they are living. No reasonable insurance company should underwrite those homes, or if they are going to, they should be damn sure that the government or the home owners dont have a shake shingle roof on their home, and theres no dry brush etc for 500ft, things like that. That leaves plenty of room for trees, grass, and plants.
(Oh so you know, I live way to close to the Claremont fires, but still well below them, and out of the flood plane too, little research saves us a ton of money on homeowners insurance. People 1/2 mile North of us were evacuated, people 1 mile north of us lost their homes. Hot warm ash fell on our house, but we clear the brush, we have a ceramic tile roof, and we were out there at 2am hosing it all down, just in case.)
To comment on onboard audio portion, I have had many many many compatibility issues with regular sound cards. They tend to be insanely quiet, dont amp up well even on my 30$ speakers. I added a $20 sound card to the computer thinking "cool, loud", and a lot of apps (the sims, winamp) have problems because of the onboard audio port.
Screw floppies. Put your stuff on CD if it's that critical. No offense but macs have gotten along fine without them for years. My PC has also. Sure my $3 realtek NIC only comes with a floppy, but Windows XP, FreeBSD, and Linux all support it out of the box.
To give you an idea, I installed it with everquest running in the bazaar with full textures (350~megs of ram) while installing the software. It took awhile, but it works. I havn't rebooted yet as I just had to head back to work and didn't want to wait on EQ to load again.
(Home is 5 minutes from work, so I take a cheap lunch there daily:)
Don't forget the installer. We have a server here running IIS with some strange application inside of it (Riverdeep). I read through all the readme's for SUS, and it said "don't worry, we only create a new site called SUS blah blah blah", and it's reccomended not required to install IIS Lockdown. You can get that [link]here[/link].
Sounds cool to me, I run the installer, and it does as it's told, but then procedes to IIS Lockdown my server, breaking the application that was running on it. Un-Installing IISLockdown and SUS does _not_ fix the problem. Thanks microsoft, when do we get chroot for windows. Oh, but it will still need to install 400megs of cruft into root-c:\winnt.
Heh, I have this same problem too! It's worse when she's at my house, computer being 5ft from the bed causes her to wake up. But sometimes it's best to wake her up when it's dragging into 2pm.
No, because Cellular numbers are in a special block of "Call these for spam and Die" number blocks. This is originally from when call phones cost $1/minute to talk on, but it still holds true today where it's not a "free" call to get.
Why this doesn't work on people with metered phone access is beyond me. Oh wait, the telemarketers are working for ATT, so they get their nickle either way.
Comcast (ATT) rolled out fibre in all of Claremont, California last year ontop of their existing Coax. That has the same reach and scope as the telcos, only different pullboxes. I just got a letter in the mail saying "Yo! We gonna be offer all this swank new service, or you can keep your old crap, just call us". Oh, and the last time I called 611 (Local Carrier Support) I got a tech in ~30 seconds, comcast was instant pickup, this was during peek hours. I don't know what else I could ask for.
Screw that. Sony learning remotes (like they sell on think geek). I don't have one myself, but I've used one. One button turned on the TV, receiver, dvd player, tivo, and vcr. Personally I have a VCR I never turn off, so I just power on the tv with my $8 remote, switch to vcr and go from there.
LOL I know what you mean about the engine cutting off while going down hills or at stop lights. My friend has a Prius, and another has a first generation insight. The insight you can really hear the engine crank as you start going, and stall when you hit a stop.
Should try putting the car in "B" while coasting along to see how far you can go with the generators running:)
I was actually thinking that myself. They probably got some jacked up codec from who knows where and installed 4 different versions of it. One of my friends was actually on the right track, he downloaded a C compiler and everything, but got very confused once into the "IDE" that it was wrapped in, hehe.
The fact that "it's crapola" doesn't sum that up for you?;-)
I don't know, I've never used it personally, and now after seeing my friends experiences with it, don't intend to for awhile:) Not to speak poorly of an Open Source project, but this one needs some time apparently. I'm sure it will get better, Mozilla (a la netscape 5/6) was pretty sucky at one point. However, i knew it would come around, and I tested most point releases and thing, and the ram/CPU footprint kept dropping, and dropping, until it's to the current product, which you can have from my cold dead fingers.
Friends don't let friends download WMA. I have deleted swaths of music from my friends computers just because it was in WMA format.
Refuse to play tech support for friends who install stupid software. I have told all my friends not to install anything "Stupid" (and explained it to them), and that any support of that will come with a per incident charge (generally lunch). They will bitch and moan about "what I have to get clearance from you just to install software?", responde that no they don't, they just have to use common sense when installing it, things which come on hype laden websites are generally Not Good.
See also XVid or whatever that crapola is. See also all those hacked and whacked together "audio" codecs so people can watch their pirated movies.
Illegal yes, but I dunno about you, when I ask UPS for a complimentry kit of UPS sending goodies, I get a whole lot of suspiciously "letter" sized unpadded envelopes. They even say "letter" on them.
And last I checked I too can overturn the USPS's monopoly, being a person registered to vote. Great thing about this country, I can use civil disobedience and voting to get what I want, see also prohibition.
And yes, I've looked into those "presorted ready to go" offerings from the post office, it's really quite a great way to go if you are looking to reach a large audience.
Don't be so swift to judge. I too could put up a UPS box next to my USPS box and spend $3.50 on every letter I send. They could deliver it to my special UPS brown box which is next to the USPS regulation mailbox. There wouldn't be a damned thing USPS could do about that, because I'm a private citizen engaging in a private transaction with my legal tender.
Now, I choose to use USPS because I can send things across the country in 2-3 days for.37. Mind you I rarely use them to send anything, as I pay all but one bill online, and that one I walk into the bank. It's hard to compete with the government on sheer cost, but if I need garauntees, and I mean real ones, not delivery confirmation or tracking, which if lost, is just too bad heres your $3.50 back minus a.40 fee for processing your request, I use UPS or FedEx. A good old fashioned private company which I can complain to, get free stuff from, or sue if I so deem to do so.
I always add up my purchases, and if it's cheaper I buy the entire album. The one thing I wish I could do is "trade up" to the whole album. Turn in my 2 songs and download the rest for 8$ instead of $10. They just send you the same files, only an entire batch.
The problem with that argument is that cryptosystems rely on secrets in other places. A private key to decode with, a password to run through, something unknown, and completely variable. With search engines, theres no salt, nothing to be random. This page look more like "redhat linux apache package upgrade" than that one? Yes or No.
Interesting article in the Wired a while back where the reporter was touring NORAD. Deep within the mountain there was a machine with a hopper in the top (of sorts), and fine powder coming out the bottom. He asked what it was, and was told "the worlds finest paper shredder", and that after someone reconstituted a document from 1mm^2 shreds, nothing is safe.
If I'm going to trust a finacial program, I would hope theres a lot of checking routines, etc, to make sure floating point math is in check, and the like. (remember our 1.0+1.0=1.9 days?)
Anyways, look at a program like Master Builder, or AutoCAD (whatever they are calling it nowadays, Architectural Desktop?), I imagine those have similarly large codebases. You have to be able to do a lot of figuring, cross referencing, and report generating with this stuff, and it all needs pushbutton or menu programmable interfaces. Not all of us like reading our reports straight out of the SQL> prompt:)
You reference perl and Postgresql, a lot of functions from those programs are probably incorporated into this program, only in a customized way, a database for storing transactions, and perl for it's pre/regular/post processing features. Now, before someone says "then they should just reference those programs", I don't want to have to setup a working Postgre install, add a GNU/Cash user, etc, just to balance my debit card and do my taxes. That being said I'm sure it would be easier.
-- PS I hate not being able to pay my bills online.
OK. Now, in my mind, regardless of what any lists tell me, something called "Remote Procedure Call" on a home computer is nothing to leave turned on, it's just screaming for someone remote(not me) to execute(call) a procedure(shutdown) on my computer.
That, windows messaging, and remote registry connections, all gone. I have like one svchost active on my computer, and it's got FreeBSD as a residential gateway/firewall to go through. They are pretty simple to setup really, and will work on "any old hardware" that you have sitting around. Basically block all inbound traffic except return from outbound. Read up on how to make a "stateful" firewall.
I'm glad you see that. I'm glad some people see the world as an elitist place. I love IRC, I don't use usenet, but still, it's simple, it's not bloated (ICQ, AIM), and it's not email.
The "...and be done with it" is what I like about FreeBSD. RedHat is a PITA to get software installed on, but we are forced to use it to get a service contract for this new whizbang filtering software we run for the school district.
You will tear my 3hp gas mower from my cold dead hands. You ever put premium in one of those things? Those blades don't stop for nothing. (Ok, large rocks, but the shape of the blade is impressive!)
But! As someone with allergies, I already have to cut with a dust mask on, lest ye ole chronic bronchitis flair up. I find the exercise is good, really forces you to huff it along if you want to get done in a reasonable amount of time. You will be hard pressed to get me to use an electric mower again. I don't know if I just had the world shittiest mower, or what, but I used my friends once when he asked me to cut his lawn, it took me like a full hower to cut his tiny front lawn. The next time I loaded our 3hp push into the back of my volvo and beat down that lawn in 20min flat. Then I got on my old vespa and rode home. I mean, loaded the mower in the trunk and went home.
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A lower poster posted it, but just to make sure this hits your inbox, these large open areas of brush, trees, etc, in the desert might I remind you, burn every so often naturally. The problem is, now there are multi-million dollar VIP homes in those mountains, out in the middle of no where, etc.
Those VIPs make sure they fire department is well equipped to put out brush fires when they happen naturally (lightning, heat + rotting brush, etc). They do not however, line the pockets of the forest commision (or whoever) to go in and clear brush and things which would have burned naturally and completed a carbon cycle, etc. Yes small woodland creatures with big sad eyes die in the fires, they die when the brush is clear, and so on and so forth.
Now a major fire starts (from a pipe bomb, a cigarette, or a lightning strike), the winds pick up and turn it into metal melting house reducing inferno, which we cannot contain, and nature settles it's tab.
I'm no GD tree hugging hippie, but I'm also not in favor of pave it all mentality. Living in Florida I watched houses get built where they had to redo the foundation 4 times in a row because they were building too close to a lake. People are creeping into things which aren't meant to have permanent dwellings put on them. They built this house during a dry season when the lake was low, then 25% of the way through construction, the lake gained 3 feet and the water was lapping over the foundation and washing it away.
Millionaires put a house up in the mountains (fire burns up remeber?) and then they burn to the ground. I'm sorry they have lost all their things, their pictures and memories, but at some point they have to live up to where they are living. No reasonable insurance company should underwrite those homes, or if they are going to, they should be damn sure that the government or the home owners dont have a shake shingle roof on their home, and theres no dry brush etc for 500ft, things like that. That leaves plenty of room for trees, grass, and plants.
(Oh so you know, I live way to close to the Claremont fires, but still well below them, and out of the flood plane too, little research saves us a ton of money on homeowners insurance. People 1/2 mile North of us were evacuated, people 1 mile north of us lost their homes. Hot warm ash fell on our house, but we clear the brush, we have a ceramic tile roof, and we were out there at 2am hosing it all down, just in case.)
To comment on onboard audio portion, I have had many many many compatibility issues with regular sound cards. They tend to be insanely quiet, dont amp up well even on my 30$ speakers. I added a $20 sound card to the computer thinking "cool, loud", and a lot of apps (the sims, winamp) have problems because of the onboard audio port.
Screw floppies. Put your stuff on CD if it's that critical. No offense but macs have gotten along fine without them for years. My PC has also. Sure my $3 realtek NIC only comes with a floppy, but Windows XP, FreeBSD, and Linux all support it out of the box.
To give you an idea, I installed it with everquest running in the bazaar with full textures (350~megs of ram) while installing the software. It took awhile, but it works. I havn't rebooted yet as I just had to head back to work and didn't want to wait on EQ to load again.
:)
(Home is 5 minutes from work, so I take a cheap lunch there daily
Don't forget the installer. We have a server here running IIS with some strange application inside of it (Riverdeep). I read through all the readme's for SUS, and it said "don't worry, we only create a new site called SUS blah blah blah", and it's reccomended not required to install IIS Lockdown. You can get that [link]here[/link].
Sounds cool to me, I run the installer, and it does as it's told, but then procedes to IIS Lockdown my server, breaking the application that was running on it. Un-Installing IISLockdown and SUS does _not_ fix the problem. Thanks microsoft, when do we get chroot for windows. Oh, but it will still need to install 400megs of cruft into root-c:\winnt.
Heh, I have this same problem too! It's worse when she's at my house, computer being 5ft from the bed causes her to wake up. But sometimes it's best to wake her up when it's dragging into 2pm.
No, because Cellular numbers are in a special block of "Call these for spam and Die" number blocks. This is originally from when call phones cost $1/minute to talk on, but it still holds true today where it's not a "free" call to get.
Why this doesn't work on people with metered phone access is beyond me. Oh wait, the telemarketers are working for ATT, so they get their nickle either way.
Comcast (ATT) rolled out fibre in all of Claremont, California last year ontop of their existing Coax. That has the same reach and scope as the telcos, only different pullboxes. I just got a letter in the mail saying "Yo! We gonna be offer all this swank new service, or you can keep your old crap, just call us". Oh, and the last time I called 611 (Local Carrier Support) I got a tech in ~30 seconds, comcast was instant pickup, this was during peek hours. I don't know what else I could ask for.
Ever seen a coupon for Sea World/Six Flags/Etc on a coke can? I know I have. If thats not advertising on the coke can space then I don't know what is.
I see this stuff as replacing pages in Wired.
Screw that. Sony learning remotes (like they sell on think geek). I don't have one myself, but I've used one. One button turned on the TV, receiver, dvd player, tivo, and vcr. Personally I have a VCR I never turn off, so I just power on the tv with my $8 remote, switch to vcr and go from there.
DVD Player is the computer.
LOL I know what you mean about the engine cutting off while going down hills or at stop lights. My friend has a Prius, and another has a first generation insight. The insight you can really hear the engine crank as you start going, and stall when you hit a stop.
:)
Should try putting the car in "B" while coasting along to see how far you can go with the generators running
I was actually thinking that myself. They probably got some jacked up codec from who knows where and installed 4 different versions of it. One of my friends was actually on the right track, he downloaded a C compiler and everything, but got very confused once into the "IDE" that it was wrapped in, hehe.
The fact that "it's crapola" doesn't sum that up for you? ;-)
:) Not to speak poorly of an Open Source project, but this one needs some time apparently. I'm sure it will get better, Mozilla (a la netscape 5/6) was pretty sucky at one point. However, i knew it would come around, and I tested most point releases and thing, and the ram/CPU footprint kept dropping, and dropping, until it's to the current product, which you can have from my cold dead fingers.
I don't know, I've never used it personally, and now after seeing my friends experiences with it, don't intend to for awhile
Friends don't let friends download WMA. I have deleted swaths of music from my friends computers just because it was in WMA format.
Refuse to play tech support for friends who install stupid software. I have told all my friends not to install anything "Stupid" (and explained it to them), and that any support of that will come with a per incident charge (generally lunch). They will bitch and moan about "what I have to get clearance from you just to install software?", responde that no they don't, they just have to use common sense when installing it, things which come on hype laden websites are generally Not Good.
See also XVid or whatever that crapola is. See also all those hacked and whacked together "audio" codecs so people can watch their pirated movies.
Illegal yes, but I dunno about you, when I ask UPS for a complimentry kit of UPS sending goodies, I get a whole lot of suspiciously "letter" sized unpadded envelopes. They even say "letter" on them.
And last I checked I too can overturn the USPS's monopoly, being a person registered to vote. Great thing about this country, I can use civil disobedience and voting to get what I want, see also prohibition.
And yes, I've looked into those "presorted ready to go" offerings from the post office, it's really quite a great way to go if you are looking to reach a large audience.
Don't be so swift to judge. I too could put up a UPS box next to my USPS box and spend $3.50 on every letter I send. They could deliver it to my special UPS brown box which is next to the USPS regulation mailbox. There wouldn't be a damned thing USPS could do about that, because I'm a private citizen engaging in a private transaction with my legal tender.
.37. Mind you I rarely use them to send anything, as I pay all but one bill online, and that one I walk into the bank. It's hard to compete with the government on sheer cost, but if I need garauntees, and I mean real ones, not delivery confirmation or tracking, which if lost, is just too bad heres your $3.50 back minus a .40 fee for processing your request, I use UPS or FedEx. A good old fashioned private company which I can complain to, get free stuff from, or sue if I so deem to do so.
Now, I choose to use USPS because I can send things across the country in 2-3 days for
You know I once met a crazy guy in Carl's Jr. who had that on his wallet. I mean this guy was grade A nutso.
We just witness a god-damned miracle!
They do have a 15 second preview you know :)
I always add up my purchases, and if it's cheaper I buy the entire album. The one thing I wish I could do is "trade up" to the whole album. Turn in my 2 songs and download the rest for 8$ instead of $10. They just send you the same files, only an entire batch.
The problem with that argument is that cryptosystems rely on secrets in other places. A private key to decode with, a password to run through, something unknown, and completely variable. With search engines, theres no salt, nothing to be random. This page look more like "redhat linux apache package upgrade" than that one? Yes or No.
Interesting article in the Wired a while back where the reporter was touring NORAD. Deep within the mountain there was a machine with a hopper in the top (of sorts), and fine powder coming out the bottom. He asked what it was, and was told "the worlds finest paper shredder", and that after someone reconstituted a document from 1mm^2 shreds, nothing is safe.
I realized after I posted that comment it sounded a bit condescending, sorry about that :(
:)
I meant to just point people in the right direction for the keyword "stateful", as I'm a horrible teacher, I always come across condescending
If I'm going to trust a finacial program, I would hope theres a lot of checking routines, etc, to make sure floating point math is in check, and the like. (remember our 1.0+1.0=1.9 days?)
:)
Anyways, look at a program like Master Builder, or AutoCAD (whatever they are calling it nowadays, Architectural Desktop?), I imagine those have similarly large codebases. You have to be able to do a lot of figuring, cross referencing, and report generating with this stuff, and it all needs pushbutton or menu programmable interfaces. Not all of us like reading our reports straight out of the SQL> prompt
You reference perl and Postgresql, a lot of functions from those programs are probably incorporated into this program, only in a customized way, a database for storing transactions, and perl for it's pre/regular/post processing features. Now, before someone says "then they should just reference those programs", I don't want to have to setup a working Postgre install, add a GNU/Cash user, etc, just to balance my debit card and do my taxes. That being said I'm sure it would be easier.
--
PS I hate not being able to pay my bills online.
OK. Now, in my mind, regardless of what any lists tell me, something called "Remote Procedure Call" on a home computer is nothing to leave turned on, it's just screaming for someone remote(not me) to execute(call) a procedure(shutdown) on my computer.
That, windows messaging, and remote registry connections, all gone. I have like one svchost active on my computer, and it's got FreeBSD as a residential gateway/firewall to go through. They are pretty simple to setup really, and will work on "any old hardware" that you have sitting around. Basically block all inbound traffic except return from outbound. Read up on how to make a "stateful" firewall.
So what's wrong with some elitism.
I'm glad you see that. I'm glad some people see the world as an elitist place. I love IRC, I don't use usenet, but still, it's simple, it's not bloated (ICQ, AIM), and it's not email.
The "...and be done with it" is what I like about FreeBSD. RedHat is a PITA to get software installed on, but we are forced to use it to get a service contract for this new whizbang filtering software we run for the school district.
Oh, and rock on rc.conf!
You will tear my 3hp gas mower from my cold dead hands. You ever put premium in one of those things? Those blades don't stop for nothing. (Ok, large rocks, but the shape of the blade is impressive!)
But! As someone with allergies, I already have to cut with a dust mask on, lest ye ole chronic bronchitis flair up. I find the exercise is good, really forces you to huff it along if you want to get done in a reasonable amount of time. You will be hard pressed to get me to use an electric mower again. I don't know if I just had the world shittiest mower, or what, but I used my friends once when he asked me to cut his lawn, it took me like a full hower to cut his tiny front lawn. The next time I loaded our 3hp push into the back of my volvo and beat down that lawn in 20min flat. Then I got on my old vespa and rode home. I mean, loaded the mower in the trunk and went home.