With Gnome, you can name it without any extension and the shell will still recognize it correctly. As for notepad, I once ran a script with mistakenly "ran" database files (that had a file type associated with notepad) instead of copying them. 20 notepad sessions, each trying to open a 10gb file at the same time. "Your system is running low on virtual memory. Please close some applications." :P
About a year ago, I bought an el-cheapo Kodak camera at best buy. I plugged it into my Windows 2000 computer (fully patched, with the latest SP), expecting it to Just Work (tm). When I plugged it in, nothing, no dice. No new driver letter with the camera files, no prompts for a new USB device. Nothing, just nothing.
I run the setup program on the CD that came with the camera, and after about a half-hour of installing 100MB of crapware on my PC, I am able to see the camera and download photos from it.
Out of curiosity, I plugged the same camera into my other computer running SUSE 10.0. When I plugged it in, it asked me: "A camera was detected. Would you like to import photos into F-Spot?". Linux now manages all of my photos and other multimedia. It Just Works (tm).
I agree, and so apparently does Oracle. The last time I checked, they make a lot of money. I have another post on this exact subject.
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Haven't we seen something like this before on/.?
10 ? "Post funny joke about Futurama"
20 ? "Bitch about being too old because we know BASIC (damn I'm old)"
30 ? "*Breaks down crying*"
40 ? "Profit!"
50 goto 10
Using the all 1's CD-key has been our standard policy for installing older Microsoft software for years. We have the actual keys, but is just easier typing all 1's when asked for the key instead of looking for the real one.
I once found a subdirectory called "sparky" on a CD which I got from Oracle which contained the complete unrestricted (no keys required) installation of MS-Office.
A few years ago, I logged into hotmail on my Red Hat box with Mozilla, and the following message kept appearing:
You are attempting to download "adsadclient31.dll". What would you like to do with it?
Funny, I just thought I was accessing a web page, not downloading mysterious DLLs. Anyway, Linux doesn't have DLLs. I wonder what would have IE done with it?
I always wondered about the dead bird thing with wind farms. You can buy deer alert horns at any auto parts store or Walmart to attach to the front of your car, which emit a high-pitched sound when wind flows through them. These things actually work. They actually keep deer and other critters from running in front of your car. The same thing might work on a wind turbine, though the sound frequencies might be different for birds and bats. You might have to have several different ones for different species, but given the size (about 1 inch) and cost ($5) it shouldn't be that difficult.
Star Trek I was actually pretty good. All you have to do is lose the first 45 minutes of the movie. Get rid of Kirks pissing contest with Captain whats-his-name, no transporter malfunctions, no 20 minute fly around the Enterprise in a shuttle (I mean, it has a nice new paint job and all, but pleeeze). Just start after the worm hole bullshit, where the shit hits the fan with V'ger and your are in business. It might even be almost as good as Star Trek IV. Of course, it would only be about 1 hour long...
All of this could have been avoided if they had a real Babelfish. All you need to get one is:
A towel
Your gown
Junk mail from some company named Infocom trying to sell you games
3 beers (provided by Ford Prefect)
Signaling device (also provided by Ford)
Peanuts (also provided by Ford)
Vogon fleet (don't worry, they will be along shortly)
Ford Prefects Satchel (don't panic, he is sleeping and won't mind)
After lying down in font the bulldozer, Ford will convince Mr. Prosser to lie down in your place, you can go with him to the pub to drink your beer. After you have drank the beer and fed the dog the Vogons will show up. Get the signaling device Ford drops and make sure you press the GREEN button. You are now in dark.
Once you come to your senses, you will be in a Vogon hold with smelly alien underwear. There is a Babelfish dispensing machine here. You can get one (for free even). Just:
Cover the hook on the wall with your gown
Cover the drain on the floor with your towel
Cover the wall vent with Fords satchel
Put the junk mail on top of the satchel to distract the upper cleaning robot (you did get the junk mail, didn't you)
Push the dispenser button. Once the lower cleaning robot plows into the satchel and the flying junk mail distracts the upper robot, you will have a genuine Babelfish in your ear. Unfortunately, this won't help with the international incident since there is a hyperspace bypass where the Earth used to be...
I already do it. Something as simple as a hose reel. I have been through a lot of Chinese made ones from Home Depot. The last one had a water powered hose winder which didn't work well, reduced the water pressure, leaked like a sieve, and broke the first year. It cost about $100. For the same price, I ordered an American made one from Nothern Tool. Mine was made in Lincoln, Nebraska. I couldn't believe what a difference the quality made in a hose reel. Brass bushings and couplings, ball bearing reel. I once filled a 2000 gallon pool without a single drip. I even backed into it with a car and bent one of the axles. A little straighting with a hammer and it was as good as new.
I try to buy American every time I can and am almost always rewarded for it. My truck is a Chevy, almost trouble free for 8 years now. All of my outdoor equipment is American made (Echo, John Deere, Ariens).
Whether or they know it or not, Fisher Price, Mattel, Walmart, and China have borked themselves good this time around. My kids already know "toys made in china" == "lead paint, anti-freeze toothpaste, cheap, dangerous, etc". So when they grow up and have kids themselves, they will go to the store to buy something and see "Made in China", and its game over.
We lots of databases deployed on crappy wintel servers in remote locations. Prior to deploying any server, we lose the write cache. The group that handled deployments before us did not, and sure enough:
Server gets to about 3 years old.
Cache battery goes dead.
Power loss. Those committed transactions that were "written" to the redo logs on disk are gone.
Database fubar. Got backups?
Friends don't let friends have write cache turned on
Years ago, I got Battlezone for my old PII/64MB running Windows 98. The graphics were absolutely amazing for the time, and still look good enough to be mistaken for a much more modern game (I still run it on XP). Its funny, but I pretty much use my computer for the exact same tasks as I did 10 years ago, yet it seems to run no faster than on those old PII systems.
In the late 80's, CDs used to have a label indicating whether they were analog or digital mastered, AAD, DDD, etc. Most of them were analog (AAD). I don't see the labels anymore on CDs, but I haven't purchased many lately.
I had a kernel panic with both SUSE and Ubuntu Live on the same machine, which had worked fine previously. Googling it, kernel panics are normally associated with hardware failures. So, I ran the Ubuntu memory test and sure enough, it failed parity. Since the machine was an old cheap POS, I just yanked it and replaced it with a sweet Dell Ubuntu. Since most Windows BSODs aren't the result of a hardware failure, I'm not sure there is *nix equivalent of it.
On our old IBM mainframe mainframe, you could create a standalone restore tape which you could IPL (boot) from. Pretty old technology in 1987, but it was built directly into the O/S without requiring 3rd party applications. But now we purchase crappy, expensive third party applications with fancy names like Bare Metal Restore (warning PDF). Everything is easier now, unless you actually need to restore anything. But "Bare Metal Restore" sounds so much cooler than "Standalone Restore". And it even has a GUI!
I had an interesting experience today at work. Once of my coworkers asked about license management with Oracle. I told him that one could obtain the full unrestricted enterprise edition of the database by simply downloading it from their website. After constant dealing with WGA, activation, entering 42 digit serial numbers in Business Objects that didn't work, and a wide range of other licensing bullshit, he was absolutely shocked and didn't believe me. So I had him download the latest version of Oracle (11g) from the website.
Even though Oracle has about as much licensing hassle as your average Linux distro, it most definitely is not free. If you run it in any kind of production environment it every expensive, but they don't make you go through all of the licensing crap to enforce it. They ACTUALLY trust their customers somewhat. Of course if you want support or security patches, you have to have a license and a CSI number to access to support site. Essentially, Oracle's licensing model is similar to Red Hat's.
Why Microsoft can't use this licensing model is beyond me. Their server products have mission critical applications like Oracle databases so it should work fine. As far as home users go, most PCs come with Windows preinstalled, so the "custemers" with the licensing agreements would be the PC manufacturers.
I wish I had mod points, so I could lose your flamebait mod.
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With Gnome, you can name it without any extension and the shell will still recognize it correctly. As for notepad, I once ran a script with mistakenly "ran" database files (that had a file type associated with notepad) instead of copying them. 20 notepad sessions, each trying to open a 10gb file at the same time. "Your system is running low on virtual memory. Please close some applications." :P
About a year ago, I bought an el-cheapo Kodak camera at best buy. I plugged it into my Windows 2000 computer (fully patched, with the latest SP), expecting it to Just Work (tm). When I plugged it in, nothing, no dice. No new driver letter with the camera files, no prompts for a new USB device. Nothing, just nothing.
I run the setup program on the CD that came with the camera, and after about a half-hour of installing 100MB of crapware on my PC, I am able to see the camera and download photos from it.
Out of curiosity, I plugged the same camera into my other computer running SUSE 10.0. When I plugged it in, it asked me: "A camera was detected. Would you like to import photos into F-Spot?". Linux now manages all of my photos and other multimedia. It Just Works (tm).
I agree, and so apparently does Oracle. The last time I checked, they make a lot of money. I have another post on this exact subject.
Haven't we seen something like this before on /.?
10 ? "Post funny joke about Futurama"20 ? "Bitch about being too old because we know BASIC (damn I'm old)"
30 ? "*Breaks down crying*"
40 ? "Profit!"
50 goto 10
To convert the Win95 upgrade CD to the full version, just type:
C:\>dir > NTLDR
Now, install your "full" version of Win95 as usual. I got this little tip from Microsoft support.
Using the all 1's CD-key has been our standard policy for installing older Microsoft software for years. We have the actual keys, but is just easier typing all 1's when asked for the key instead of looking for the real one.
I once found a subdirectory called "sparky" on a CD which I got from Oracle which contained the complete unrestricted (no keys required) installation of MS-Office.
You are attempting to download "adsadclient31.dll". What would you like to do with it?
Funny, I just thought I was accessing a web page, not downloading mysterious DLLs. Anyway, Linux doesn't have DLLs. I wonder what would have IE done with it?
Pretty nice search engine. Also checkout ask.com which has been cleaned up considerably and has similar context functionality.
I always wondered about the dead bird thing with wind farms. You can buy deer alert horns at any auto parts store or Walmart to attach to the front of your car, which emit a high-pitched sound when wind flows through them. These things actually work. They actually keep deer and other critters from running in front of your car. The same thing might work on a wind turbine, though the sound frequencies might be different for birds and bats. You might have to have several different ones for different species, but given the size (about 1 inch) and cost ($5) it shouldn't be that difficult.
What about Bingo, or the state Lotteries (talk about odds that suck).
I thought Duke Nukem Forever was included in the next Ubuntu release.
Excel seems to randomly subtract .5 hours from my timesheet whenever I use the autosum feature.
Star Trek I was actually pretty good. All you have to do is lose the first 45 minutes of the movie. Get rid of Kirks pissing contest with Captain whats-his-name, no transporter malfunctions, no 20 minute fly around the Enterprise in a shuttle (I mean, it has a nice new paint job and all, but pleeeze). Just start after the worm hole bullshit, where the shit hits the fan with V'ger and your are in business. It might even be almost as good as Star Trek IV. Of course, it would only be about 1 hour long...
After lying down in font the bulldozer, Ford will convince Mr. Prosser to lie down in your place, you can go with him to the pub to drink your beer. After you have drank the beer and fed the dog the Vogons will show up. Get the signaling device Ford drops and make sure you press the GREEN button. You are now in dark.
Once you come to your senses, you will be in a Vogon hold with smelly alien underwear. There is a Babelfish dispensing machine here. You can get one (for free even). Just:
I already do it. Something as simple as a hose reel. I have been through a lot of Chinese made ones from Home Depot. The last one had a water powered hose winder which didn't work well, reduced the water pressure, leaked like a sieve, and broke the first year. It cost about $100. For the same price, I ordered an American made one from Nothern Tool. Mine was made in Lincoln, Nebraska. I couldn't believe what a difference the quality made in a hose reel. Brass bushings and couplings, ball bearing reel. I once filled a 2000 gallon pool without a single drip. I even backed into it with a car and bent one of the axles. A little straighting with a hammer and it was as good as new.
I try to buy American every time I can and am almost always rewarded for it. My truck is a Chevy, almost trouble free for 8 years now. All of my outdoor equipment is American made (Echo, John Deere, Ariens).
Whether or they know it or not, Fisher Price, Mattel, Walmart, and China have borked themselves good this time around. My kids already know "toys made in china" == "lead paint, anti-freeze toothpaste, cheap, dangerous, etc". So when they grow up and have kids themselves, they will go to the store to buy something and see "Made in China", and its game over.
We lots of databases deployed on crappy wintel servers in remote locations. Prior to deploying any server, we lose the write cache. The group that handled deployments before us did not, and sure enough:
Friends don't let friends have write cache turned on
I have a set of the old wooden ones I bought a few years ago for my kids. You can still get them at http://www.amazon.com/Hasbro-54809-Tinkertoy-Classic-Jumbo/dp/B00004TFRN
You forgot the top two:
1. whatever the default is2. "password"
Years ago, I got Battlezone for my old PII/64MB running Windows 98. The graphics were absolutely amazing for the time, and still look good enough to be mistaken for a much more modern game (I still run it on XP). Its funny, but I pretty much use my computer for the exact same tasks as I did 10 years ago, yet it seems to run no faster than on those old PII systems.
Deleting cookies is a standard option for Firefox. Edit/Preferences/Privacy, check "Always clear private data when I close Firefox".
In the late 80's, CDs used to have a label indicating whether they were analog or digital mastered, AAD, DDD, etc. Most of them were analog (AAD). I don't see the labels anymore on CDs, but I haven't purchased many lately.
I had a kernel panic with both SUSE and Ubuntu Live on the same machine, which had worked fine previously. Googling it, kernel panics are normally associated with hardware failures. So, I ran the Ubuntu memory test and sure enough, it failed parity. Since the machine was an old cheap POS, I just yanked it and replaced it with a sweet Dell Ubuntu. Since most Windows BSODs aren't the result of a hardware failure, I'm not sure there is *nix equivalent of it.
On our old IBM mainframe mainframe, you could create a standalone restore tape which you could IPL (boot) from. Pretty old technology in 1987, but it was built directly into the O/S without requiring 3rd party applications. But now we purchase crappy, expensive third party applications with fancy names like Bare Metal Restore (warning PDF). Everything is easier now, unless you actually need to restore anything. But "Bare Metal Restore" sounds so much cooler than "Standalone Restore". And it even has a GUI!
I had an interesting experience today at work. Once of my coworkers asked about license management with Oracle. I told him that one could obtain the full unrestricted enterprise edition of the database by simply downloading it from their website. After constant dealing with WGA, activation, entering 42 digit serial numbers in Business Objects that didn't work, and a wide range of other licensing bullshit, he was absolutely shocked and didn't believe me. So I had him download the latest version of Oracle (11g) from the website.
Even though Oracle has about as much licensing hassle as your average Linux distro, it most definitely is not free. If you run it in any kind of production environment it every expensive, but they don't make you go through all of the licensing crap to enforce it. They ACTUALLY trust their customers somewhat. Of course if you want support or security patches, you have to have a license and a CSI number to access to support site. Essentially, Oracle's licensing model is similar to Red Hat's.
Why Microsoft can't use this licensing model is beyond me. Their server products have mission critical applications like Oracle databases so it should work fine. As far as home users go, most PCs come with Windows preinstalled, so the "custemers" with the licensing agreements would be the PC manufacturers.
I wish I had mod points, so I could lose your flamebait mod.