We unfortunately have to run Windows. Fortunately, it is only to run Oracle databases, so we can lose the crappy GUI, Internet Exploder, and all the rest of the junk. With 2003, I've already ditched the crappy scheduler and replaced it a cron daemon.
At home, I still have one Windows box for gaming. I have already replaced the command shell with Cygwin and plan to replace the Windows GUI shell with KDE 4 when it comes out.
I'm not sure what you mean about the turntable. I have a USB turntable I bought from Thinkgeek. I can rip my records to any format I like (MP3, WAV, OGG, etc) that Audacity supports. Half of my Ipod library is my ripped vinyl, and I have a lot of CDs made from my record collection. And it works fine on Linux.
I once was driving my Camaro at about warp 8 when a driver going the other way flashed his high beams at me. I slowed down, as did the mini-van in front of me, just before driving into the biggest ass speed trap I have ever seen in my life.
I remember first reading about activeX security vulnerabilities in one of the O'Reilly nutshell books about website design. The book also covered controversial topics such as the use of the and
tags in HTML.
Most spam is blocked by spam filters like spam assassin and spamd, so it never reaches anyones inbox. Still it is profitable for the spammers because it costs them almost nothing. They just set up 10,000 unpatched Windows boxes on their botnet, and bingo, 15 million V1a6ras a day. All of the cost is borne by the owners of the botnet PCs, their ISPs, and the ISPs of the people who receive the spam. All the spammer has to do is set up a crappy server to handle the few people who respond to the spam that gets through, and ??? profit!
What is the one thing all spam has? A URL to their server, of course. Otherwise, how would you be able to buy anything from them? What if the spam filters scanned the filtered spam for the URLs, and automatically sent opt-out requests to them, one for each filtered spam? Slashdotted by their own botnets!
You can get a good Amiga emulator at Amiga forever. You can also get the original version of Defender of the Crown for free at Cimemaware. Event the sound works, everything just like I remember it.
I had been in the army about 9 years when I started getting thirsty and having to go to the bathroom all of the time. I also lost 20 pounds in about a month, which was a lot considering I was already skinny. After a few months of this, I finally went to sick call after almost passing out after playing about 5 minutes of basketball. The dumbshit doctor advised to eat more food and come back in 2 weeks if I didn't feel better, even though I had (unknowingly) read him the classic symptoms of diabetes right out of the book. I said "shouldn't you give me some sort of test, make sure nothing is wrong?" Grudgingly, he took a blood test. A few days later, I got a call from Walter Reed saying my blood sugar was 465 and I needed to come in immediately.
At Walter Reed, they determined I had adult-onset type-1 diabetes and prescribed insulin. My body responded well, and soon my blood sugar was in the 100-160 range. Life was good, and I pretty much put my diabetes on auto-pilot. Big mistake. I took my insulin daily and never skipped doses, but didn't really monitor it otherwise. Very gradually it got worse without obvious symptoms until my blood sugar was in the 200-300 range, and I didn't know it.
These days, I am on a sliding scale and take 2 different types of insulins. I have to take at least 5 shots a day and test my blood sugar at least as often. I have been in the emergency room twice for low blood sugar. My blood sugar can go from 100 to 400 in an hour if I eat the wrong food, and I avoid the obvious wrong foods like sweets and such. Despite such difficulty in controlling blood sugar, my 3 month average is only 6.5
If you have either type of diabetes, test your blood sugar daily, even if you thing everything is fine. $30/month isn't really that much. Do it daily, and get the 3 month test done regularly. If eating a certain food hoses your blood sugar, stop eating it. Just keep an eye on it. You can't count on your doctor to do it.
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [12700], [4389808], [163632983], [23], [104892995], [25], [], []
ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel
ORA-03114 not connected to ORACLE
ORA-01012 not logged on
I have a lot of experience in Windows. I manage hundreds of Windows servers at work and can fix a friends crapware infested PC without reinstalling. One friend had a computer with all kinds of crap installed on it, old ISP software, AOL, MSN, IE toolbars, etc, every one loading its updater into the tray. There must have been 100 entries in the Add/remove software. It took 15 minutes to boot. My process went something like:
10 Remove using Add/Remove programs - Ignore requests to reboot (remember it takes 15 minutes)
20 Windows equivalent of rm -rf "c:\program files\some_crapware"
30 reg/delete hklm\software\some_crapware
40 Every 10 programs removed, run regseeker or ccleaner to clean out the registry and maybe reboot if I feel like it
50 goto 10
60 When done, install FF and NAV, remove all IE icons from system. When they try the computer they are amazed at the speed. And I didn't even have to reinstall Windows!
Imagine my surprise when the keyboard on my daughters machine stopped working. I couldn't type on it in Windows. The BIOS didn't report any errors and I could dual boot into Mandrake and the keyboard was just fine. Google was no help. Her Windows was unusable for a month and couldn't figure anything out. I was ready to reinstall. Frustrated, I pressed and held a bunch of keys. One typed. Eventually, I figured out that if you pressed and HELD a key for 5 seconds it would appear. Googling that revealed the sticky key feature. Finally! It was turned on (probably accidently by pressing a button on a game too fast). Turning it off fixed the problem and I still didn't have to reinstall. But Windows was unusable for a month because something that got enabled automatically and had no indication that it was on. Microsoft, couldn't you have made sticky keys something you went to control panel to turn on or at least have an icon or something indicating it is on? I wonder how many Windows computers have been reloaded because of problems like this?
You will be able to buy fully activated versions on E-bay, complete with trojans, spyware, viruses, botnets, and other required software long before then.
A few years ago at our Harris-Teeter grocery store, I noticed one of the self-checkout machines had gone back to the Windows NT 4 desktop. Using the touch screen, I clicked on the little Microsoft Start button and rebooted the checkout machine before the sales clerk could stop me. I don't think they have been updated.
Currently, wind power is considerably cheaper by the watt. The price point for alternative energy for me is about $1/watt. Wind is close to that, while solar is considerably more expensive.
I guess this makes sense, since Solar panels require a complex manufacturing process, while a wind turbine is essentially just a fan connected to a motor, and can easily be made at home. In fact, I am in the process of doing this using plans from Make magazine.
I wish I had mod points too. Several years ago my ground floor condo was flooded by a backup of the main sewer line. Total destruction of the interior of the unit. The cleanup involved people in HAZMAT suits and negative air pressure machines to avoid contamination of the surrounding area, and cost $22,000. Somehow, I don't think sewage cleanup in a 2 bedroom condo is more expensive than plutonium removal. Maybe they forgot about 3 or 4 decimal points in the cost estimate.
I recently had to have a key card reprogrammed for our downtown parking garage. Much too my surprise, the entire system was controlled by an old 386 running dBase IV. I think it also had a dot-matrix printer for invoices. The application need some tuning however, as reprogramming the card required querying the entire database. What a pleasure to watch that old 40MB hard drive grind away for 10 minutes, and knowing I could make the same query run in less than 1 second, even on that old 386.
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We unfortunately have to run Windows. Fortunately, it is only to run Oracle databases, so we can lose the crappy GUI, Internet Exploder, and all the rest of the junk. With 2003, I've already ditched the crappy scheduler and replaced it a cron daemon.
At home, I still have one Windows box for gaming. I have already replaced the command shell with Cygwin and plan to replace the Windows GUI shell with KDE 4 when it comes out.
I'm not sure what you mean about the turntable. I have a USB turntable I bought from Thinkgeek. I can rip my records to any format I like (MP3, WAV, OGG, etc) that Audacity supports. Half of my Ipod library is my ripped vinyl, and I have a lot of CDs made from my record collection. And it works fine on Linux.
I just upgraded a Ubuntu computer from 6.10 to 7.04. The experience was about the same as applying SP2 to XP.
I once unplugged an IDE CD-ROM drive from a running machine. Instant BSOD. Standard reload from scratch Windows repair.
That grinding noise is just the sound of bits flying off the spindle and hitting the side of the computer case.
Windows 2000
Suse 10.0
I once was driving my Camaro at about warp 8 when a driver going the other way flashed his high beams at me. I slowed down, as did the mini-van in front of me, just before driving into the biggest ass speed trap I have ever seen in my life.
I remember first reading about activeX security vulnerabilities in one of the O'Reilly nutshell books about website design. The book also covered controversial topics such as the use of the and tags in HTML.
Most spam is blocked by spam filters like spam assassin and spamd, so it never reaches anyones inbox. Still it is profitable for the spammers because it costs them almost nothing. They just set up 10,000 unpatched Windows boxes on their botnet, and bingo, 15 million V1a6ras a day. All of the cost is borne by the owners of the botnet PCs, their ISPs, and the ISPs of the people who receive the spam. All the spammer has to do is set up a crappy server to handle the few people who respond to the spam that gets through, and ??? profit!
What is the one thing all spam has? A URL to their server, of course. Otherwise, how would you be able to buy anything from them? What if the spam filters scanned the filtered spam for the URLs, and automatically sent opt-out requests to them, one for each filtered spam? Slashdotted by their own botnets!
But will it run on Linux?
I just bought a Ubuntu Dell instead. Sends pretty much the same message and is a lot less hassle.
I would too, after reading this. (Warning, PDF content)
You can get a good Amiga emulator at Amiga forever. You can also get the original version of Defender of the Crown for free at Cimemaware. Event the sound works, everything just like I remember it.
I had been in the army about 9 years when I started getting thirsty and having to go to the bathroom all of the time. I also lost 20 pounds in about a month, which was a lot considering I was already skinny. After a few months of this, I finally went to sick call after almost passing out after playing about 5 minutes of basketball. The dumbshit doctor advised to eat more food and come back in 2 weeks if I didn't feel better, even though I had (unknowingly) read him the classic symptoms of diabetes right out of the book. I said "shouldn't you give me some sort of test, make sure nothing is wrong?" Grudgingly, he took a blood test. A few days later, I got a call from Walter Reed saying my blood sugar was 465 and I needed to come in immediately.
At Walter Reed, they determined I had adult-onset type-1 diabetes and prescribed insulin. My body responded well, and soon my blood sugar was in the 100-160 range. Life was good, and I pretty much put my diabetes on auto-pilot. Big mistake. I took my insulin daily and never skipped doses, but didn't really monitor it otherwise. Very gradually it got worse without obvious symptoms until my blood sugar was in the 200-300 range, and I didn't know it.
These days, I am on a sliding scale and take 2 different types of insulins. I have to take at least 5 shots a day and test my blood sugar at least as often. I have been in the emergency room twice for low blood sugar. My blood sugar can go from 100 to 400 in an hour if I eat the wrong food, and I avoid the obvious wrong foods like sweets and such. Despite such difficulty in controlling blood sugar, my 3 month average is only 6.5
If you have either type of diabetes, test your blood sugar daily, even if you thing everything is fine. $30/month isn't really that much. Do it daily, and get the 3 month test done regularly. If eating a certain food hoses your blood sugar, stop eating it. Just keep an eye on it. You can't count on your doctor to do it.
I wish I had mod points. I spend at least 5$/day in test strips. Diabetes is too profitable to be actually cured.
I think the correct syntax is:
SQL> truncate table "customer data";
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [12700], [4389808], [163632983], [23], [104892995], [25], [], []
ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel
ORA-03114 not connected to ORACLE
ORA-01012 not logged on
I have a lot of experience in Windows. I manage hundreds of Windows servers at work and can fix a friends crapware infested PC without reinstalling. One friend had a computer with all kinds of crap installed on it, old ISP software, AOL, MSN, IE toolbars, etc, every one loading its updater into the tray. There must have been 100 entries in the Add/remove software. It took 15 minutes to boot. My process went something like:
10 Remove using Add/Remove programs - Ignore requests to reboot (remember it takes 15 minutes)20 Windows equivalent of rm -rf "c:\program files\some_crapware"
30 reg
40 Every 10 programs removed, run regseeker or ccleaner to clean out the registry and maybe reboot if I feel like it
50 goto 10
60 When done, install FF and NAV, remove all IE icons from system. When they try the computer they are amazed at the speed. And I didn't even have to reinstall Windows!
Imagine my surprise when the keyboard on my daughters machine stopped working. I couldn't type on it in Windows. The BIOS didn't report any errors and I could dual boot into Mandrake and the keyboard was just fine. Google was no help. Her Windows was unusable for a month and couldn't figure anything out. I was ready to reinstall. Frustrated, I pressed and held a bunch of keys. One typed. Eventually, I figured out that if you pressed and HELD a key for 5 seconds it would appear. Googling that revealed the sticky key feature. Finally! It was turned on (probably accidently by pressing a button on a game too fast). Turning it off fixed the problem and I still didn't have to reinstall. But Windows was unusable for a month because something that got enabled automatically and had no indication that it was on. Microsoft, couldn't you have made sticky keys something you went to control panel to turn on or at least have an icon or something indicating it is on? I wonder how many Windows computers have been reloaded because of problems like this?
You will be able to buy fully activated versions on E-bay, complete with trojans, spyware, viruses, botnets, and other required software long before then.
A few years ago at our Harris-Teeter grocery store, I noticed one of the self-checkout machines had gone back to the Windows NT 4 desktop. Using the touch screen, I clicked on the little Microsoft Start button and rebooted the checkout machine before the sales clerk could stop me. I don't think they have been updated.
Oracle and Microsoft never do. Why should anyone else?
But will it run on Linux?
Currently, wind power is considerably cheaper by the watt. The price point for alternative energy for me is about $1/watt. Wind is close to that, while solar is considerably more expensive.
I guess this makes sense, since Solar panels require a complex manufacturing process, while a wind turbine is essentially just a fan connected to a motor, and can easily be made at home. In fact, I am in the process of doing this using plans from Make magazine.
I wish I had mod points too. Several years ago my ground floor condo was flooded by a backup of the main sewer line. Total destruction of the interior of the unit. The cleanup involved people in HAZMAT suits and negative air pressure machines to avoid contamination of the surrounding area, and cost $22,000. Somehow, I don't think sewage cleanup in a 2 bedroom condo is more expensive than plutonium removal. Maybe they forgot about 3 or 4 decimal points in the cost estimate.
I recently had to have a key card reprogrammed for our downtown parking garage. Much too my surprise, the entire system was controlled by an old 386 running dBase IV. I think it also had a dot-matrix printer for invoices. The application need some tuning however, as reprogramming the card required querying the entire database. What a pleasure to watch that old 40MB hard drive grind away for 10 minutes, and knowing I could make the same query run in less than 1 second, even on that old 386.