A few months ago, our building manager decided to upgrade our bathroom with the latest Cyrus Cybernetics Corporation sinks and toilets, which can see dimly into the future, thus turning on the faucet and soap dispenser just before you went to the bathroom. Of course this upgrade took 2 months and the bathroom was closed. So I had go to a different floor if I need to take a dump.
I got into the elevator (apparently also upgraded by Cyrus Cybernetics Corporation) and pushed the "up" button. I started going up as expected. All of a sudden, it stopped, all of the lights came on at the same time and it started falling as fast as it could (the normal rate but when you are going down instead of up, it seems like a lot faster). The elevators were actually called down by the fireman where they sulked on the bottom floor for a few minutes before returning to normal service.
You would not believe how creepy it when something like an elevator starts acting weird for no apparent reason. For a few seconds, I thought I would buy it splattered at the bottom or if I jumped like Bill Cosby, with my head sticking through the top:)
I agree. Machines are useless. Free weights exercise your body more naturally. One of the best full body exercises is the parallel squat. Nobody likes them because done properly, they are hard. But you will feel the difference if you do them right. A great book which I used for many years is Super Squats. If you don't know how to squat properly, another good book to get is Starting Strength.
Avoid sit down restaurants, especially the sit down ones. Outback Steakhouse, Ruby Tuesdays, TGI Fridays, Friendlys, etc. Most of the food served in them are calorie bombs - 1800 calorie salads, 2500 calorie burgers, 2500 calorie fish tacos, 1200 calorie grilled chicken spinach spaghetti, 1700 calorie veggie subs, etc. And avoid milkshakes from any restaurant at all costs - every single one of them has at least 800 calories and some are close to 3000. Read those Eat this, not that books. Believe it or not, McDonald's and KFC are some of the healthiest places you can eat.
I first heard of Linux in 1994 and the local computer store had slackware on floppies.
It is amazing to hear that your servers are that old. You should put up a paypal link. With the donations you get, you should be able to pick up a few of these.
But in Afghanistan? The opponent is a grassroots organization that has practically no power projection capability outside of its borders;
There are a few people who might disagree with that assessment. We needed to go into Afghanistan after that and kick their asses.
After we kicked the Taliban out in Nov 2001, the war was mostly over. It wasn't until recent years that it became "the right war". Iraq and all of the other "Security theator" is bullshit.
Mach 20 happens to be about orbital velocity. Assuming they can improve the materials somewhat, being able to do that in a plane instead of a rocket would be pretty useful.
3. Virtually no training need to introduce it in to an already existing windows echo system.
I have been using Word in that Windows ecosystem since the days of WFW 3.1/Word 6. When I first started using Word 2007 a few years ago, I couldn't figure out how to print. So I asked the system admin and he didn't know how either, except to use the old DOS shortcut CTRL/P. I now use it today as it works for practically all programs regardless of platform. DOS, your ultimate productivity tool!
4. Its supported by coders that are paid to fix problems, not volunteers.
In 1993, I was trying to create a help file for Visual Basic. The Microsoft documentation said any word processor which supported RTF would work. Of course the non-Microsoft one I had didn't, so I bought Word 6.0. It didn't work either. Apparently, the latest version of Word was not compatible with the latest version of VB. So I called Microsoft and had to pay an extra $35 to get a patch for an issue which should have never existed in the first place.
I been looking something like this forever. The killer feature is the multiple taskbars, like Ubuntu has. I can keep my 50 putty sessions on 1 desktop, 30 open emails on another and the 50.net compiler windows on a 3rd.
Find "print". The first time I used Office 2007. I asked the sysadmin where it was and he didn't know either. He suggested using the old CTRL-P DOS shortcut. Undo is CTRL-Z. To this day I still use it and the other DOS shortcuts. The work on almost every program on any O/S and I don't have to keep learning new GUI's every day.
The bullshit upgrade cycle is what is literally driving me away from Firefox. I have run Firefox since before it was called Firefox (it was called "Firebird" in the 0.7 days), but am now starting to switch to Chrome. It seems like every time I start Firefox, I have to go through several screens of verifying my addins, etc. Now, when Firefox "upgraded" to 10, my most important web application crashed it. Chrome runs it just fine. I love Firefox, but this upgrade bullshit is killing it.
Most people don't realize just how important the dealer is for a car company. When I bought my Chevy S10 in 2000, I did the negotiation online. Back then, GM had a program where you selected a car from the inventory your local dealer had, and they emailed you a quote. My quote was the invoice price and included all of the rebates and discounts. No pressure at all. When I went to the dealer to buy the S10, they offered financing at a lower interest rate than what I already had so I accepted it. I took a test drive and signed the forms at the exact price that I had been offered online. The entire process including the test drive took 1/2 hour.
Three years later I was having problems with brake pads. I took it to Midas and they said there was a problem with the calipers. I had 2 weeks left on my warranty. Midas said it was possible the dealer might still partially cover it, so I took it back. Not only did they cover it 100% with no questions, but the paid for a rental car too. Absolutely nothing but positive experiences with my local Chevy dealers
About the same time, my father purchased a new Toyota Corolla, which developed engine oil sludge at 15,000 miles. The following quote from the article pretty much summed up his experience with the Toyota dealer:
Charles in Arkansas said: "At 36,000 miles the engine gummed up and quit running. My wife had the oil changed at Wal-Mart and did not keep receipts for the oil changes. The North Little Rock dealer and the Toyota representative told us such problems were rare and that we had caused the problem but for $2,500 they could fix it. They inferred that my wife was a liar," he wrote.
In "The Doomsday Machine", one of my favorite episodes as a kid, the prop they used for the destroyed USS Constellation was a Revell model of the Enterprise, which they took a lighter to melt the plastic. Yes, the same one I bought for $3 as a kid!
Kind of like the Venus Flytrap. Contrary to popular belief, it is native to the coastal plains of North/South Carolina, not some exotic tropical jungle. Efforts to introduce them elsewhere have mostly failed, even though apparently someone has done so in New Jersey. I have a nice small colony which I grow outside year round in Maryland, but it requires upkeep. These plants would never survive here without my help. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? H'mm, those plants look a little big to be eating just insects. Are they supposed to be moving like that? Wait a #y!(132~a... NO_CARRIER
This pretty much the same description for KeepassX. Your master password and/or keyfile are used to encrypt the passwords, and the date is stored locally. It runs on pretty much every platform. I keep a copy on my Ubuntu desktop and a copy on my Iron key, which has KeepassX as a built in app. Since the Iron key also has a master password and will self-destruct if 10 bad passwords are entered, the entire setup is pretty secure.
I don't have any facebook. If an employer required me to get one, it would have company email and nothing personal at all. And time spent on it would be fully billable.
Try washingtonpost.com. Ghostery usually reports about 17 trackers. Noscript has about another 17 sites blocked. And I have a cron job set up to start loading the page at 3am so it will be ready for reading in the morning.
I have Simple Scan on Ubuntu and a networked Brother MFC-7840W. The Brother has a multiple page feeder which doesn't jam much and Simple Scan which supports multiple pages. Couldn't be easier. Just put your document in the feeder, push scan and a few minutes later you have a 10 page PDF of it.
I just donated $50 to Gary Johnson, the Libertarian dude. Unlike all of the other idiots, he actually has some ideas that seem to make sense. I will also be voting in the primary. I'm pretty sure he won't get elected, but if he gets enough support and votes, it might shake things up.
I wouldn't mind picking up a good used Los Angeles class boat. The USS Rickover would be especially sweet, if it is available. I once blasted Kirov all the way back to Murmansk in Red Storm Rising driving it. MK 48 torpedoes can be a real bitch if you know how to use them. The problem is, finding a parking space for one of those bad boys is even harder than for my pickup truck.
In the 1980's, our church paster had a nice set up in his living room. Higher end equipment but nothing you couldn't pick up at the local Wherehouse. The room had carpet and good acoustics so everything sounded really good. I considered him an audiophile, someone who buys good equipment and sets it up right. I am pretty sure he didn't have any $300 (or even $10) cables in his system.
About 5 years later, I went to an Accept concert in El Paso. It was horrible! While Accept totally jammed, it was way too loud and distorted for the indoor location. It was literally painful with my ears ringing afterwards (this coming from a teenage headbangers perspective). A few years later, I went to a Metallica concert in Germany. It was also in an indoor location, but wasn't as loud. No distortion, one of the best concerts I have ever attended.
Bottom line, a real audiophile setup is where the equipment is decent and matches the environment it is installed in. It doesn't cost a fortune. Anyone who brags about $300 power cords is the same sort of person who drives his Porsche 911 to the office everyday instead of buying a Camaro and running it at the strip on the weekend.
If I can resell 20,500 games on my website bfg-nation.com) at a $1 markup, I will be - uh - $20,500 richer. Pretty nice if I could actually get some games to resell. Oh, well, working on it.
Holy fucking shit! I have had issues but nothing like that!
Just today, one of our remote sites was having an issue with an external drive that was causing an issue with a database. Such things are routine and our OPS staff normally handles them without issues. However the problem reappeared and the person who worked on it had already left. The new guy working on it sent a polite but utterly clueless email about it. The client of course exploded. I stepped in and said I would handle it. I have been here a long time and have a reputation of being competent and nice (or at least not being an asshole). You wouldn't believe how fast that email defused everything.
The bottom line is, karma is not just a./ concept. If you build up your real-life karma by being reasonably good and not an asshole, you would be amazed at how much easier your life is
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A few months ago, our building manager decided to upgrade our bathroom with the latest Cyrus Cybernetics Corporation sinks and toilets, which can see dimly into the future, thus turning on the faucet and soap dispenser just before you went to the bathroom. Of course this upgrade took 2 months and the bathroom was closed. So I had go to a different floor if I need to take a dump.
I got into the elevator (apparently also upgraded by Cyrus Cybernetics Corporation) and pushed the "up" button. I started going up as expected. All of a sudden, it stopped, all of the lights came on at the same time and it started falling as fast as it could (the normal rate but when you are going down instead of up, it seems like a lot faster). The elevators were actually called down by the fireman where they sulked on the bottom floor for a few minutes before returning to normal service.
You would not believe how creepy it when something like an elevator starts acting weird for no apparent reason. For a few seconds, I thought I would buy it splattered at the bottom or if I jumped like Bill Cosby, with my head sticking through the top:)
I agree. Machines are useless. Free weights exercise your body more naturally. One of the best full body exercises is the parallel squat. Nobody likes them because done properly, they are hard. But you will feel the difference if you do them right. A great book which I used for many years is Super Squats. If you don't know how to squat properly, another good book to get is Starting Strength.
Avoid sit down restaurants, especially the sit down ones. Outback Steakhouse, Ruby Tuesdays, TGI Fridays, Friendlys, etc. Most of the food served in them are calorie bombs - 1800 calorie salads, 2500 calorie burgers, 2500 calorie fish tacos, 1200 calorie grilled chicken spinach spaghetti, 1700 calorie veggie subs, etc. And avoid milkshakes from any restaurant at all costs - every single one of them has at least 800 calories and some are close to 3000. Read those Eat this, not that books. Believe it or not, McDonald's and KFC are some of the healthiest places you can eat.
I first heard of Linux in 1994 and the local computer store had slackware on floppies.
It is amazing to hear that your servers are that old. You should put up a paypal link. With the donations you get, you should be able to pick up a few of these.
Apparently dropped himself.
But in Afghanistan? The opponent is a grassroots organization that has practically no power projection capability outside of its borders;
There are a few people who might disagree with that assessment. We needed to go into Afghanistan after that and kick their asses.
After we kicked the Taliban out in Nov 2001, the war was mostly over. It wasn't until recent years that it became "the right war". Iraq and all of the other "Security theator" is bullshit.
Mach 20 happens to be about orbital velocity. Assuming they can improve the materials somewhat, being able to do that in a plane instead of a rocket would be pretty useful.
3. Virtually no training need to introduce it in to an already existing windows echo system.
I have been using Word in that Windows ecosystem since the days of WFW 3.1/Word 6. When I first started using Word 2007 a few years ago, I couldn't figure out how to print. So I asked the system admin and he didn't know how either, except to use the old DOS shortcut CTRL/P. I now use it today as it works for practically all programs regardless of platform. DOS, your ultimate productivity tool!
4. Its supported by coders that are paid to fix problems, not volunteers.
In 1993, I was trying to create a help file for Visual Basic. The Microsoft documentation said any word processor which supported RTF would work. Of course the non-Microsoft one I had didn't, so I bought Word 6.0. It didn't work either. Apparently, the latest version of Word was not compatible with the latest version of VB. So I called Microsoft and had to pay an extra $35 to get a patch for an issue which should have never existed in the first place.
I been looking something like this forever. The killer feature is the multiple taskbars, like Ubuntu has. I can keep my 50 putty sessions on 1 desktop, 30 open emails on another and the 50 .net compiler windows on a 3rd.
Find "print". The first time I used Office 2007. I asked the sysadmin where it was and he didn't know either. He suggested using the old CTRL-P DOS shortcut. Undo is CTRL-Z. To this day I still use it and the other DOS shortcuts. The work on almost every program on any O/S and I don't have to keep learning new GUI's every day.
You might want to try one of these. They are pretty useful if you want to skate something like The rim of the world
The bullshit upgrade cycle is what is literally driving me away from Firefox. I have run Firefox since before it was called Firefox (it was called "Firebird" in the 0.7 days), but am now starting to switch to Chrome. It seems like every time I start Firefox, I have to go through several screens of verifying my addins, etc. Now, when Firefox "upgraded" to 10, my most important web application crashed it. Chrome runs it just fine. I love Firefox, but this upgrade bullshit is killing it.
Most people don't realize just how important the dealer is for a car company. When I bought my Chevy S10 in 2000, I did the negotiation online. Back then, GM had a program where you selected a car from the inventory your local dealer had, and they emailed you a quote. My quote was the invoice price and included all of the rebates and discounts. No pressure at all. When I went to the dealer to buy the S10, they offered financing at a lower interest rate than what I already had so I accepted it. I took a test drive and signed the forms at the exact price that I had been offered online. The entire process including the test drive took 1/2 hour.
Three years later I was having problems with brake pads. I took it to Midas and they said there was a problem with the calipers. I had 2 weeks left on my warranty. Midas said it was possible the dealer might still partially cover it, so I took it back. Not only did they cover it 100% with no questions, but the paid for a rental car too. Absolutely nothing but positive experiences with my local Chevy dealers
About the same time, my father purchased a new Toyota Corolla, which developed engine oil sludge at 15,000 miles. The following quote from the article pretty much summed up his experience with the Toyota dealer:
Charles in Arkansas said: "At 36,000 miles the engine gummed up and quit running. My wife had the oil changed at Wal-Mart and did not keep receipts for the oil changes. The North Little Rock dealer and the Toyota representative told us such problems were rare and that we had caused the problem but for $2,500 they could fix it. They inferred that my wife was a liar," he wrote.
In "The Doomsday Machine", one of my favorite episodes as a kid, the prop they used for the destroyed USS Constellation was a Revell model of the Enterprise, which they took a lighter to melt the plastic. Yes, the same one I bought for $3 as a kid!
Kind of like the Venus Flytrap. Contrary to popular belief, it is native to the coastal plains of North/South Carolina, not some exotic tropical jungle. Efforts to introduce them elsewhere have mostly failed, even though apparently someone has done so in New Jersey. I have a nice small colony which I grow outside year round in Maryland, but it requires upkeep. These plants would never survive here without my help. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? H'mm, those plants look a little big to be eating just insects. Are they supposed to be moving like that? Wait a #y!(132~a... NO_CARRIER
This pretty much the same description for KeepassX. Your master password and/or keyfile are used to encrypt the passwords, and the date is stored locally. It runs on pretty much every platform. I keep a copy on my Ubuntu desktop and a copy on my Iron key, which has KeepassX as a built in app. Since the Iron key also has a master password and will self-destruct if 10 bad passwords are entered, the entire setup is pretty secure.
I don't have any facebook. If an employer required me to get one, it would have company email and nothing personal at all. And time spent on it would be fully billable.
Try washingtonpost.com. Ghostery usually reports about 17 trackers. Noscript has about another 17 sites blocked. And I have a cron job set up to start loading the page at 3am so it will be ready for reading in the morning.
I have Simple Scan on Ubuntu and a networked Brother MFC-7840W. The Brother has a multiple page feeder which doesn't jam much and Simple Scan which supports multiple pages. Couldn't be easier. Just put your document in the feeder, push scan and a few minutes later you have a 10 page PDF of it.
I just donated $50 to Gary Johnson, the Libertarian dude. Unlike all of the other idiots, he actually has some ideas that seem to make sense. I will also be voting in the primary. I'm pretty sure he won't get elected, but if he gets enough support and votes, it might shake things up.
I wouldn't mind picking up a good used Los Angeles class boat. The USS Rickover would be especially sweet, if it is available. I once blasted Kirov all the way back to Murmansk in Red Storm Rising driving it. MK 48 torpedoes can be a real bitch if you know how to use them. The problem is, finding a parking space for one of those bad boys is even harder than for my pickup truck.
In the 1980's, our church paster had a nice set up in his living room. Higher end equipment but nothing you couldn't pick up at the local Wherehouse. The room had carpet and good acoustics so everything sounded really good. I considered him an audiophile, someone who buys good equipment and sets it up right. I am pretty sure he didn't have any $300 (or even $10) cables in his system.
About 5 years later, I went to an Accept concert in El Paso. It was horrible! While Accept totally jammed, it was way too loud and distorted for the indoor location. It was literally painful with my ears ringing afterwards (this coming from a teenage headbangers perspective). A few years later, I went to a Metallica concert in Germany. It was also in an indoor location, but wasn't as loud. No distortion, one of the best concerts I have ever attended.
Bottom line, a real audiophile setup is where the equipment is decent and matches the environment it is installed in. It doesn't cost a fortune. Anyone who brags about $300 power cords is the same sort of person who drives his Porsche 911 to the office everyday instead of buying a Camaro and running it at the strip on the weekend.
xkcd
If I can resell 20,500 games on my website bfg-nation.com) at a $1 markup, I will be - uh - $20,500 richer. Pretty nice if I could actually get some games to resell. Oh, well, working on it.
Holy fucking shit! I have had issues but nothing like that!
Just today, one of our remote sites was having an issue with an external drive that was causing an issue with a database. Such things are routine and our OPS staff normally handles them without issues. However the problem reappeared and the person who worked on it had already left. The new guy working on it sent a polite but utterly clueless email about it. The client of course exploded. I stepped in and said I would handle it. I have been here a long time and have a reputation of being competent and nice (or at least not being an asshole). You wouldn't believe how fast that email defused everything.
The bottom line is, karma is not just a ./ concept. If you build up your real-life karma by being reasonably good and not an asshole, you would be amazed at how much easier your life is