I'm continually getting empty-body emails. I assume they are testing my address to see if it's alive. _Please_ could ISPs set up the MTAs to bounce empty messages.
Wash what you sensibly can with pretty hot water and detergent. i.e. Don't immerse memory, cpu, or disk drives, but more or less everything else is pretty waterproof. Take the covers off the powersupply and take particular care to make sure you get it clean and dry. Make sure you rinse it all very well with lots of clean water. Then put it in the clothes dryer on warm and no-tumble for half an hour. While that's happening do the keyboard. You'll be amazed by what falls in there! Don't use powerful organic solvents, they damage plastic parts.
So, if a user doesn't like something about the system, they have the ability to change it directly.
I can't see any small-town PHB suddenly having the ability to change it, merely by installing it. The right to have it changed, yes, but ability no. Poor marketing there. I like the overall concept though. The best one of each application type is a very good idea.
This is the original live CD. Pop it into any reasonably modern PC and reboot to experience Linux without installation hassles. It's horribly slow but does give you a decent start.
This is what you have to learn to just start out on Linux admin. Skip the hardware stuff and start out at Objective 103. Go back to the hardware lessons after you are more confident.
Once you have got a bit of experience with Linux this is the distribution to go for. The install manual is a lesson all of its own!
Don't waste your employers money on courses which are simply not necessary provided you can read and understand English, and have sufficient self disipline to do the reading. The money would be much better spent getting a small laptop, and giving it to you once you have an LPI certificate or two.
Completely Slashdotted!!
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When the world runs out of petroleum in 50 to 100 years, there will be famine and real wars, both civil and international, and after that most of the West will reneg on its debts, and be taken over by a bunch of New Colonial Masters. We will then be doing their bidding. That's where it ends. Let's hope and pray, for our children's sake, that they are Just and Mercyful.
Re:Looooong article, but worth the read
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Yup, the story _is_ gripping, but at the same time both the parent posting and the story show how current thinking about paper money is fatally flawed.
The fix is to have EFT-POS used widely, and to have a much less counterfeitable currency for the odd transaction which still needs it. Here in little old NZ almost every business doing legitimate cash sales has a terminal. The 'paper' money is printed on a clear plastic film, with the registration of the printing on the two sides of the plastic being perfect. There are two 'holes' in the printing where you can check it. Certainly it's quite impossible to replicate it using a computer and an ink-jet printer. For a central bank to design a currency so that a kid with a printer worth a few hundred bucks can replicate it so simply is just plain lunacy on the part of the central bank. Leaves the country open to economic sabotage by any bunch of wealthy neredowells. Think of the social chaos if Al-Qaeda dropped a few tons of forged banknotes on any Western city. The cash economy would grind to a halt in a day or two.
It's go a steep learning curve but the view from the top is just fantastic. There are many vendors of which Cincom is probably the best known. It has a superb data-entry form generator and several database interfaces. PostgreSQL is one. Also SmalltalkX
offers a very good free (beer) implementation.
60 years ago humanity sacrificed between 20 and 30 million people on account of this sort of governmental behaviour. This time around it's the other side being totally idiotic clots. Let us all pray that they don't do anything really silly before the regime change.
For me, I think I'll go around the world the other way next time I travel.
... is a very cleverly designed keyboard. Looks just like a nice generous pair of boobs. With that look, it can't help but succeed. Must be designed especially for dotty slashers. Be in quick or they'll all be sold out before you can turn it on.
Indeed not, as far as I can tell it seems to be a time machine of some sort. Quoting verbatim with my emphasis.
If all goes well, MESSENGER's main engine will fire for 15 minutes on March 18,
2001, putting the spacecraft into an elliptical orbit tilted 60 degrees to the planet's equator with a low point of about 125 miles above the northern hemisphere and a high point of 9,420 miles.
Even in these interesting times, I don't think Big Blue can have a patent on the colour of a portable computer. The white is pristine for a moment or two. Then you start to use the dratted machine and you get hopelessly dazelled by the white. A few months after that it gets a few inevitable scratches which get filled with dirt and it looks, frankly, scruffy, cheap, and nasty. With that shiny surface they slip out of your grasp so easily too. Yes, I do know. I've seen them, and used them, in an educational setting.
Please Steve, CAN I HAVE A MATTE BLACK ONE? Sorry to shout but you didn't hear last time I asked.
This is the kind of thing that should be impossible in any browser. Don't, please don't, click on it folks. It's a fraud, which arrived in my inbox just this morning. https://sec.westpactrust.co.nz/IOLB/newSession
On the other hand a good solid/.ing is just what these crooks need. Let's blow their traffic ration as soon as possible.
But for goodness sake don't actually do anything at the site. I'm sure I don't have to say that to the/. community, but I'd hate some poor innocent to get ripped off.
How will they ever be ready in time for the November elections?
They won't, but as was mentioned here recently there were 1.5 Million suitable machines used recently by the world's largest democracy. I'm sure these machines won't be needed again in their Country of Origin for a few years.
Problem is that these machines will tell the truth which is not necessarily what everybody in the US wants.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm continually getting empty-body emails. I assume they are testing my address to see if it's alive. _Please_ could ISPs set up the MTAs to bounce empty messages.
Wash what you sensibly can with pretty hot water and detergent. i.e. Don't immerse memory, cpu, or disk drives, but more or less everything else is pretty waterproof. Take the covers off the powersupply and take particular care to make sure you get it clean and dry. Make sure you rinse it all very well with lots of clean water. Then put it in the clothes dryer on warm and no-tumble for half an hour. While that's happening do the keyboard. You'll be amazed by what falls in there! Don't use powerful organic solvents, they damage plastic parts.
I can't see any small-town PHB suddenly having the ability to change it, merely by installing it. The right to have it changed, yes, but ability no. Poor marketing there. I like the overall concept though. The best one of each application type is a very good idea.
A Knoppix CD
This is the original live CD. Pop it into any reasonably modern PC and reboot to experience Linux without installation hassles. It's horribly slow but does give you a decent start.
The Linux Professional Institute lpi-101 Objectives.
This is what you have to learn to just start out on Linux admin. Skip the hardware stuff and start out at Objective 103. Go back to the hardware lessons after you are more confident.
The RUTE book
This is by far the best book for the root user. It's in serious need of a second edition, but it's 600 pages of good solid stuff
Gentoo
Once you have got a bit of experience with Linux this is the distribution to go for.
The install manual is a lesson all of its own!
Don't waste your employers money on courses which are simply not necessary provided you can read and understand English, and have sufficient self disipline to do the reading. The money would be much better spent getting a small laptop, and giving it to you once you have an LPI certificate or two.
So here's the contents page from Google's cache:-
Dive Into Python Table Of Contents
When the world runs out of petroleum in 50 to 100 years, there will be famine and real wars, both civil and international, and after that most of the West will reneg on its debts, and be taken over by a bunch of New Colonial Masters. We will then be doing their bidding. That's where it ends. Let's hope and pray, for our children's sake, that they are Just and Mercyful.
Yup, the story _is_ gripping, but at the same time both the parent posting and the story show how current thinking about paper money is fatally flawed.
The fix is to have EFT-POS used widely, and to have a much less counterfeitable currency for the odd transaction which still needs it. Here in little old NZ almost every business doing legitimate cash sales has a terminal. The 'paper' money is printed on a clear plastic film, with the registration of the printing on the two sides of the plastic being perfect. There are two 'holes' in the printing where you can check it. Certainly it's quite impossible to replicate it using a computer and an ink-jet printer. For a central bank to design a currency so that a kid with a printer worth a few hundred bucks can replicate it so simply is just plain lunacy on the part of the central bank. Leaves the country open to economic sabotage by any bunch of wealthy neredowells. Think of the social chaos if Al-Qaeda dropped a few tons of forged banknotes on any Western city. The cash economy would grind to a halt in a day or two.
It's go a steep learning curve but the view from the top is just fantastic. There are many vendors of which Cincom is probably the best known. It has a superb data-entry form generator and several database interfaces. PostgreSQL is one. Also SmalltalkX offers a very good free (beer) implementation.
Assuming that the symbol 'immediate' is a constant of some kind, you should express the conditional around the other way, eg:-
Then every compiler will pick up your error. I know it's counter intuitive, but it can save you ages searching for that elusive bug.
It's been done. That is what The Open CD is all about.
If every /. reader put a single dollar in the hat this fellow could make the journey in a private Lear Jet.
./ could you help with the banking?
I think helping a guy to say good bye to his Mother is worth a buck don't you?
60 years ago humanity sacrificed between 20 and 30 million people on account of this sort of governmental behaviour. This time around it's the other side being totally idiotic clots. Let us all pray that they don't do anything really silly before the regime change.
For me, I think I'll go around the world the other way next time I travel.
emerge sync; emerge kde;
... going to have to be me@goomail.com
REXX Rules. Understand that you snake.
... is a very cleverly designed keyboard. Looks just like a nice generous pair of boobs. With that look, it can't help but succeed. Must be designed especially for dotty slashers. Be in quick or they'll all be sold out before you can turn it on.
Indeed not, as far as I can tell it seems to be a time machine of some sort. Quoting verbatim with my emphasis.
Haven't they heard of cdrom.sneaker.net?
"Under a $1,000,000" is a mere bagatelle, the failure to check for arithmetic overflow cost the European Space Agency two Communications Satellites at well over 600,000,000 Euros. For more such fun see Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related SystemsForum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems
Charity starts at home.
There are millions of Americans, and deserving Free Software Projects who could really benefit from your gift.
Nobody needs your cast-off e-waste.
Get the CD fixed before you give it to anybody.
Even in these interesting times, I don't think Big Blue can have a patent on the colour of a portable computer. The white is pristine for a moment or two. Then you start to use the dratted machine and you get hopelessly dazelled by the white. A few months after that it gets a few inevitable scratches which get filled with dirt and it looks, frankly, scruffy, cheap, and nasty. With that shiny surface they slip out of your grasp so easily too. Yes, I do know. I've seen them, and used them, in an educational setting.
Please Steve, CAN I HAVE A MATTE BLACK ONE?
Sorry to shout but you didn't hear last time I asked.
... the same applied to the Digital VAX, yet it's a fact that several were dotted around Moscow. Pointless political grandstanding.
They had some spare cash to blow before the end of the financial year.
This is the kind of thing that should be impossible in any browser.
/.ing is just what these crooks need.
/. community, but I'd hate some poor innocent to get ripped off.
Don't, please don't, click on it folks. It's a fraud, which arrived in my inbox just this morning.
https://sec.westpactrust.co.nz/IOLB/newSession
On the other hand a good solid
Let's blow their traffic ration as soon as possible.
But for goodness sake don't actually do anything at the site.
I'm sure I don't have to say that to the
Attack the problem with vim and vigor , but note that KOrganiser has a pretty good to do section.
They won't, but as was mentioned here recently there were 1.5 Million suitable machines used recently by the world's largest democracy. I'm sure these machines won't be needed again in their Country of Origin for a few years. Problem is that these machines will tell the truth which is not necessarily what everybody in the US wants.