Yea, right. I bet it will be difficult to find anyone on this thread that knows you personally to back you up on this.
what? Next thing you'll tell me I'm supposed to see Ovid on Sunday...
They both get their maps from NavTech. I'm surprised they'd give a different result.
I always amused by the direction that Navtech would give for one path a couple blocks from home. It would direct me over the barrier between the N & S lanes of a road. Doubly Ironic that my wife worked for NavTech at the time.
Other than that, I use mapquest more often than not, just out of habit.
This just shows that anything can be broken whether Windows or other OS. I'm surprised that they're backup scheme was this shoddy. Possibly something where they didn't save back far enough to be sure, or something fairly recent that can't be verified as non-hacked in their backups. Of course, I'd be wary of any MD5dsums sent in unless sent in from various verified sources. Of course they might not be trusting their own MD5sums and want to verify from the outside as well? Certainly a black eye for the FSF, but I'm sure they'll learn a lesson from this in any case.
Hmmm. I posted a bug and got a small progress report. No attitude or anything, but then I found that the bug was more a user error (me) than anything else.
It's 1.5 years old now, but I've had no problems with it. SuSe 7.3 installed with no problems with any of my hardware. Earlier versions needed tweaking to get up to speed. It's been to Burning Man twice, which is not a laptop friendly enviroment and been carried all over the place. The only downside is it's a heavy beast, but there are lighter models. Weight was not an issue for me.
I've been using StarOffice 6.0 for writing a newletter and it's been great for that.
You can insert a graphic, scale it and position it where you want it based on Page, paragraph or even as a character. I am running into a bug with the 6.0 beta in that occasionly I get a "Read Error" and I lose the graphic. I had sent a bug report in about that and hope it's not in the release version. While it sounds like a really bad bug, if you have notes of how you placed your image, it's easy to reinsert. (at least with less than a dozen images and it normally drops about 1/2 on occasion.)
We had a sale's engineer show up at the "customer" to install the system and the "customer" was wondering what he and the $100,000 worth of boxes were doing there. Turns out the sales weasel had forged the sales docs...
I saw the Mummy Returns and enjoyed it. Why I enjoyed it and didn't like Phantom Menace is in retrospect puzzling. They both had fairly annoying kids and used lots of computer anumation to hide the lack of plot.
I guess I expected more from Phantom Menace and suspended by disbelief for Mummy Returns.
I was expecting an action film, not a classic mummy film. Note I hadn't seen The Mummy so no comparison was available.
If I think about it my problems with the film
Linear Plot with no surprises
Don't think about history when seeing the film.
Fight sequences were good if compared to non-Hong Kong films.
Actually the kid in The Mummy Returns wasn't nearly as annoying as the one in Star Wars.
Back in 1995 when I was doing on-call IT, I was paid a salary, but when you were on-call you were paid 25% of what your salary worked out to be. The first month I was there I was the only on-call person, so I was getting a 150% of a paycheck. The system that I was babysitting needed all the attention during that time. That settled down once we had installed a reliable server and a few more people.
I hear you on that. I was working a job where I had to pick up the slack from losing two people. I was coming in at 6:30 am and leaving at 8 or 9 pm for a large chunk of time. One week after several months of this schedule, I took off at 4pm a couple days in a row (still coming in before 7). My manager pointed this out to me as bad behaviour. I don't work there any more.
Huffman did a lot of good work, but to me he was an arrogant bastard. I had him for three classes at UCSC. You could open notes from several years earlier and get the same information. But that's not what caused me to dislike him. First midterm of my first class of college, I was asked to pick up my midterm from his office. Strange, but I didn't know any better. I was asked to think about what I did during the test very carefully. Even stranger. I told him to the best of my ability. "Came in, took test, handed test to you, left." I was then accused of lying and that it would go easier on me if I named accomplices. After several iterations of this, I was finally accused of cheating. He displayed the evidence. Two tests with my name on it. Similar printing styles. I was able to identify which one was mine. Neither one was a stellar performance of scoring. High 70's and low 80's. More accusations and since I had no clue on how this happened, he figured I was protecting someone. He sent me out, saying he was going to get me thrown out of college. It's a good thing I ran into a TA who mentioned seeing duplicate homeworks. She suggested checking the registration office. The next morning I find out I have a name in common with someone else at UCSC. He happens to be auditing CIS 10. I go to Huffman and explain my find. I was grudgingly allowed back into class while he checked this out. So that's my memory of Huffman. He nearly turned me complety off computer science. Hopefully, my story wasn't common to most students.
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Peter does a lot of good work cutting thru bad statistics. Very much a feline advocate of the first order and does quite a bit of TNR in his own area.
Yea, right. I bet it will be difficult to find anyone on this thread that knows you personally to back you up on this. what? Next thing you'll tell me I'm supposed to see Ovid on Sunday...
They both get their maps from NavTech. I'm surprised they'd give a different result.
I always amused by the direction that Navtech would give for one path a couple blocks from home. It would direct me over the barrier between the N & S lanes of a road. Doubly Ironic that my wife worked for NavTech at the time.
Other than that, I use mapquest more often than not, just out of habit.
This just shows that anything can be broken whether Windows or other OS.
I'm surprised that they're backup scheme was this shoddy. Possibly something where they didn't save back far enough to be sure, or something fairly recent that can't be verified as non-hacked in their backups.
Of course, I'd be wary of any MD5dsums sent in unless sent in from various verified sources. Of course they might not be trusting their own MD5sums and want to verify from the outside as well?
Certainly a black eye for the FSF, but I'm sure they'll learn a lesson from this in any case.
Hmmm. I posted a bug and got a small progress report. No attitude or anything, but then I found that the bug was more a user error (me) than anything else.
It's 1.5 years old now, but I've had no problems with it. SuSe 7.3 installed with no problems with any of my hardware. Earlier versions needed tweaking to get up to speed. It's been to Burning Man twice, which is not a laptop friendly enviroment and been carried all over the place. The only downside is it's a heavy beast, but there are lighter models. Weight was not an issue for me.
I've been using StarOffice 6.0 for writing a newletter and it's been great for that.
You can insert a graphic, scale it and position it where you want it based on Page, paragraph or even as a character. I am running into a bug with the 6.0 beta in that occasionly I get a "Read Error" and I lose the graphic. I had sent a bug report in about that and hope it's not in the release version. While it sounds like a really bad bug, if you have notes of how you placed your image, it's easy to reinsert. (at least with less than a dozen images and it normally drops about 1/2 on occasion.)
We had a sale's engineer show up at the "customer" to install the system and the "customer" was wondering what he and the $100,000 worth of boxes were doing there. Turns out the sales weasel had forged the sales docs...
While I'm a diehard Vim user, I expect a similar announcement when the next Emacs version comes out.
I guess I expected more from Phantom Menace and suspended by disbelief for Mummy Returns.
I was expecting an action film, not a classic mummy film. Note I hadn't seen The Mummy so no comparison was available.
If I think about it my problems with the film
Linear Plot with no surprises
Don't think about history when seeing the film.
Fight sequences were good if compared to non-Hong Kong films. Actually the kid in The Mummy Returns wasn't nearly as annoying as the one in Star Wars.
Back in 1995 when I was doing on-call IT, I was paid a salary, but when you were on-call you were paid 25% of what your salary worked out to be. The first month I was there I was the only on-call person, so I was getting a 150% of a paycheck. The system that I was babysitting needed all the attention during that time. That settled down once we had installed a reliable server and a few more people.
none. There's no need, plenty of viruses come from kits and the like outside of the AV companies.
I hear you on that. I was working a job where I had to pick up the slack from losing two people. I was coming in at 6:30 am and leaving at 8 or 9 pm for a large chunk of time. One week after several months of this schedule, I took off at 4pm a couple days in a row (still coming in before 7). My manager pointed this out to me as bad behaviour. I don't work there any more.
Huffman did a lot of good work, but to me he was an arrogant bastard. I had him for three classes at UCSC. You could open notes from several years earlier and get the same information. But that's not what caused me to dislike him.
First midterm of my first class of college, I was asked to pick up my midterm from his office. Strange, but I didn't know any better. I was asked to think about what I did during the test very carefully. Even stranger. I told him to the best of my ability. "Came in, took test, handed test to you, left." I was then accused of lying and that it would go easier on me if I named accomplices. After several iterations of this, I was finally accused of cheating. He displayed the evidence. Two tests with my name on it. Similar printing styles. I was able to identify which one was mine. Neither one was a stellar performance of scoring. High 70's and low 80's. More accusations and since I had no clue on how this happened, he figured I was protecting someone. He sent me out, saying he was going to get me thrown out of college. It's a good thing I ran into a TA who mentioned seeing duplicate homeworks. She suggested checking the registration office. The next morning I find out I have a name in common with someone else at UCSC. He happens to be auditing CIS 10. I go to Huffman and explain my find. I was grudgingly allowed back into class while he checked this out.
So that's my memory of Huffman. He nearly turned me complety off computer science. Hopefully, my story wasn't common to most students.