Also, not to be a wiseass, but how do skydivers get out of a plane?
The planes we fly in are not pressurised, so there is no difference in pressure between inside the plane and outside the plane. In addition, we either use planes without doors, or with doors that slide up. And some wiseass normally has his foot under the door jamming it open for the whole of the ride to altitude anyway:D
Mr Card is absolutely wrong. You do not have to defend your copyright, only your trademarks. If any of these characters is trademarked, then he has to act in every case where he becomes aware of infringment. See the recent posts about Google trying to stop people using their name as a verb.
Trademarks must be defended. Patents and copyrights don't.
Interesting to see that OSC would sue over something he obviously doesn't understand. Hopefully his lawyers would stop him.
It's also interesting to see an artist crave that life + 70 year bullshit. He seems more interested in leaving his family money than in contributing to the shared culture of the world. Sad... I expected more of him:(
but the number of writers who started out writing media fanfic who went on to actually produce professional original works of fantasy and science fiction is vanishingly small.
How many accidentally improved their skills just enough so that their CV stood out above their competitors for jobs or university placements?
One of my biggest complaints when hiring is that most of the people I interview cannot communicate in writing. Their documentation skills suck so it makes it hard to share knowledge about work. E-mail manner is terse and besides causing conflicts, often confuses support issues. I think everyone should spend at least some time trying to write and thinking about what they are doing.
Maybe someone with more of a background in explosives than me can answer this... How real was this threat? How many explosive compounds are there that meet the terrorist's requirements:
1. Look sufficiently like a regular liquid (the police don't seem to know if we were talking water or gel / paste here)
2. Be easily and quickly detonated with a primitive home-made detonator (camera flash was bandied about?)
3. Be able to carry enough onto a plane to cause significant structural damage without causing concern about the amount of this particular liquid that they are carrying.
Most of the explosives / high heat exchange chemicals that I am familiar with don't fit many of these criteria, let alone all, but I freely admit to being ignorant in this field.
I carry water on board even the shortest flight... generally at least 1 litre. Ever been stuck on a plane on the runway at JFK for 3 hours? I have, and they don't serve anything during that time. Ever been diverted to Milan and held on the apron for 2 hours? I have, and they don't serve anything during that time. And during all of these stops, they don't run the aircon, so you and the other hundred or so people in this sealed can generate a lot of heat, get hot and you sweat a lot. Water is essential.
Ever been on an 11 hour flight and wanted a drink of water around 3am? Good luck getting anything from the crew on-board!
I've spent two hours on the apron at Heathrow when the flight itself was only scheduled to be 1.5 hours. And did we get any refreshment then? No.
Out of curiosity, how often do you make flights longer than 8 hours? I make about 4 a year and that's why I now carry water:)
Some people believe this because that is what they were personally told by the product manager for RHEL. No 'I heard it from my brother's cousin's aunt's neice'. I was personally told that by the RHEL product manager.
Red Hat support? You mean the team of geniuses who told me NOT to hot swap disks on a DL-380 because it wasn't good for the machine? The same people who take 4x as long as experts exchange to respond to a support request? The people who, despite me paying 300k for support on my environment tell me that if I actually want a response in under a day, I should pay another 40k per year for a dedicated support engineer? Feh!
If I'm paying for support, I should get that. As it is, they distinguish between standard and premium support. But all their SLA says is that they have to respond in a certain timeframe. And a response can be as simple as asking you for a sysreport when your problem is that the installation is failing!
RedHat, the same company that will take your patches to their products and make money from them, but then not even allow you an eval copy to learn and stay current on (e.g. Satellite). RedHat, the company that won't give you a test license for free even if you've paid full retail for your main production license. So you are forced to either pay twice for the product, or not have a test environment and just do upgrades on the live, business critical system. Even Oracle doesn't charge us for dev / test licenses! Hell, Microsoft are more friendly towards their technical users than RedHat are!
That's right... It's the iPod's fault that street crime is rising. Heaven forbid that we actually point the finger of blame at the home office who can't seem to sing the same song about their policies for two years running. Gods forbid that we blame the criminals who do the mugging... No, let's just blame the victims for having nice things.
I guess this is the same as all those whores in skirts who get raped. They were just asking for it, right?
This does work, yes, but then I don't get paravirtualisation for stuff that _does_ support it. So I have to run VMware / Qemu for stuff like Windows, and Xen for stuff that has a modified kernel.
That's a waste of money that I spent on the Intel CPU and motherboard, and far more aggro than I want.
I'll keep plugging on Xen, but even something as simple as up-to-date or accurate documentation would help... For example, from the Xen manual:
"You can also copy an existing Linux configuration (.config) into e.g. linux-2.6.12-xen0 and execute:
# make ARCH=xen oldconfig"
From the command line:
$ find . -name "*-xen0" ./buildconfigs/mk.linux-2.6-xen0
hmm...
$ cd linux-2.6.16.13-xen/
$ make ARCH=xen oldconfig
Makefile:439:/home/waynep/Xen/xen-unstable.hg/linux-2.6.16.13-x en/arch/xen/Makefile: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `/home/waynep/Xen/xen-unstable.hg/linux-2.6.16.13- xen/arch/xen/Makefile'. Stop.
I've spent 10 hours over the last two days trying to get Windows XP working on Xen. I bought all the right hardware, followed all the right instructions, and hit a wall. I've found other people with the same problem (e.g. http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users /2006-06/msg00452.html) and some of them got around it... others didn't.
I've tried IRC, I've read the docs, I've even rebuilt the FC5 kernel RPMs with some patches, but nothing works.
Wake me when virtualisation on Linux is as simple as it is on OS X with Parallels. I should have saved the money I spent on the chip and the board for a new Intel Mac:(
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is give me something on my Mac that I can play with my friends on PCs. But no-one else seems to want to do that.
Are you sure that remote sites see your MAC address? I can't see why this would be transmitted beyond your router.
As for hiding your IP address, just use TOR.
I generally get a free phone from my provider every year or two. Last year it was the Nokia 6681. This year I got the N80.
WoW is the only MMO that I can play on my Apple and I'm not buying 2 PCs (one for me, one for the wife) just so that we can move to another MMO
He should have been fired
You know the CTO was a she, right ?
Ummm... the same reason we talk people down off bridges and high buildings?
It's killjoys like you who are ruining B.A.S.E for the rest of us!
Also, not to be a wiseass, but how do skydivers get out of a plane?
:D
The planes we fly in are not pressurised, so there is no difference in pressure between inside the plane and outside the plane. In addition, we either use planes without doors, or with doors that slide up. And some wiseass normally has his foot under the door jamming it open for the whole of the ride to altitude anyway
You're probably fine... unless you're a well respected British scientist.
Mr Card is absolutely wrong. You do not have to defend your copyright, only your trademarks. If any of these characters is trademarked, then he has to act in every case where he becomes aware of infringment. See the recent posts about Google trying to stop people using their name as a verb.
:(
Trademarks must be defended. Patents and copyrights don't.
Interesting to see that OSC would sue over something he obviously doesn't understand. Hopefully his lawyers would stop him.
It's also interesting to see an artist crave that life + 70 year bullshit. He seems more interested in leaving his family money than in contributing to the shared culture of the world. Sad... I expected more of him
but the number of writers who started out writing media fanfic who went on to actually produce professional original works of fantasy and science fiction is vanishingly small.
How many accidentally improved their skills just enough so that their CV stood out above their competitors for jobs or university placements?
One of my biggest complaints when hiring is that most of the people I interview cannot communicate in writing. Their documentation skills suck so it makes it hard to share knowledge about work. E-mail manner is terse and besides causing conflicts, often confuses support issues. I think everyone should spend at least some time trying to write and thinking about what they are doing.
Maybe someone with more of a background in explosives than me can answer this... How real was this threat? How many explosive compounds are there that meet the terrorist's requirements:
1. Look sufficiently like a regular liquid (the police don't seem to know if we were talking water or gel / paste here)
2. Be easily and quickly detonated with a primitive home-made detonator (camera flash was bandied about?)
3. Be able to carry enough onto a plane to cause significant structural damage without causing concern about the amount of this particular liquid that they are carrying.
Most of the explosives / high heat exchange chemicals that I am familiar with don't fit many of these criteria, let alone all, but I freely admit to being ignorant in this field.
3. Success! No more plane bombings.
You say that like there's been a spate of them recently. Did I fall asleep after Lockerbie only to wake up now?
I carry water on board even the shortest flight... generally at least 1 litre. Ever been stuck on a plane on the runway at JFK for 3 hours? I have, and they don't serve anything during that time. Ever been diverted to Milan and held on the apron for 2 hours? I have, and they don't serve anything during that time. And during all of these stops, they don't run the aircon, so you and the other hundred or so people in this sealed can generate a lot of heat, get hot and you sweat a lot. Water is essential.
:)
Ever been on an 11 hour flight and wanted a drink of water around 3am? Good luck getting anything from the crew on-board!
I've spent two hours on the apron at Heathrow when the flight itself was only scheduled to be 1.5 hours. And did we get any refreshment then? No.
Out of curiosity, how often do you make flights longer than 8 hours? I make about 4 a year and that's why I now carry water
two guys in two anti-terror exercises. One dead, one injured. That's a 100% failure rate, which scares the living shit out of me!
Please stop writing 'then' when you mean 'than' :)
tuck the sheets in ?
You can get groceries for 6 months for $280? I want to hire you to do my shopping for me!
CentOS has nothing to do with Fedora. CentOS repackages RHEL and provides it for free, but are a seperate entity entirely.
Some people believe this because that is what they were personally told by the product manager for RHEL. No 'I heard it from my brother's cousin's aunt's neice'. I was personally told that by the RHEL product manager.
Red Hat support? You mean the team of geniuses who told me NOT to hot swap disks on a DL-380 because it wasn't good for the machine? The same people who take 4x as long as experts exchange to respond to a support request? The people who, despite me paying 300k for support on my environment tell me that if I actually want a response in under a day, I should pay another 40k per year for a dedicated support engineer? Feh!
If I'm paying for support, I should get that. As it is, they distinguish between standard and premium support. But all their SLA says is that they have to respond in a certain timeframe. And a response can be as simple as asking you for a sysreport when your problem is that the installation is failing!
RedHat, the same company that will take your patches to their products and make money from them, but then not even allow you an eval copy to learn and stay current on (e.g. Satellite). RedHat, the company that won't give you a test license for free even if you've paid full retail for your main production license. So you are forced to either pay twice for the product, or not have a test environment and just do upgrades on the live, business critical system. Even Oracle doesn't charge us for dev / test licenses! Hell, Microsoft are more friendly towards their technical users than RedHat are!
I'm not sure I can take an article seriously when the author does not know the difference between then and than.
Uh, you don't live in East London do you? Because that exact situation has just happened at my local ASDA :)
That's right... It's the iPod's fault that street crime is rising. Heaven forbid that we actually point the finger of blame at the home office who can't seem to sing the same song about their policies for two years running. Gods forbid that we blame the criminals who do the mugging... No, let's just blame the victims for having nice things.
I guess this is the same as all those whores in skirts who get raped. They were just asking for it, right?
This does work, yes, but then I don't get paravirtualisation for stuff that _does_ support it. So I have to run VMware / Qemu for stuff like Windows, and Xen for stuff that has a modified kernel.
./buildconfigs/mk.linux-2.6-xen0
/home/waynep/Xen/xen-unstable.hg/linux-2.6.16.13-x en/arch/xen/Makefile: No such file or directory- xen/arch/xen/Makefile'. Stop.
That's a waste of money that I spent on the Intel CPU and motherboard, and far more aggro than I want.
I'll keep plugging on Xen, but even something as simple as up-to-date or accurate documentation would help... For example, from the Xen manual:
"You can also copy an existing Linux configuration (.config) into e.g. linux-2.6.12-xen0 and execute:
# make ARCH=xen oldconfig"
From the command line: $ find . -name "*-xen0"
hmm...
$ cd linux-2.6.16.13-xen/
$ make ARCH=xen oldconfig
Makefile:439:
make: *** No rule to make target `/home/waynep/Xen/xen-unstable.hg/linux-2.6.16.13
Ok... no help there then. Grrr!
I've spent 10 hours over the last two days trying to get Windows XP working on Xen. I bought all the right hardware, followed all the right instructions, and hit a wall. I've found other people with the same problem (e.g. http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users /2006-06/msg00452.html) and some of them got around it... others didn't.
:(
I've tried IRC, I've read the docs, I've even rebuilt the FC5 kernel RPMs with some patches, but nothing works.
Wake me when virtualisation on Linux is as simple as it is on OS X with Parallels. I should have saved the money I spent on the chip and the board for a new Intel Mac