I don't give a damn what party McCain affiliates with, because he's not running for any office that I can vote for anyway. Both parties boil down to taking my money away and putting it into projects that I don't support, though, and both prez. candidates are unacceptable. And people wonder why voter turnout is so low...
Too bad that Dr. that was running with a seemingly good plan ended up yelling and being excited once. Said the media, "Wait, that guy doesn't seem to fit either party's agenda very well. Let's make it appear as if he's crazy!"
Sigh. At least I'm still free to choose the use of secondhand smoke as a means to slowly kill anyone who passes by me - if I want to. I hate incompetent bloated government.
GodZilla 2000 is the only movie that I've actually purchased yet never seen in its entirety - and I'll watch dran near anything. I thought it'd be acceptable, since the soundtrack was good. I aws totaly wrong. Other movies are badly done, or I just don't like, but G2K is straight up the worst movie ever. It's bad but not at all entertainingly bad.
Your insurance sucks.:) I pay $147.73 for a $100 deductible on 3 cars - including comprehensive (and $0 deductible on windshield replacement) - combined with my renter's insurance (yes, I've listed all of the computers in my house and the tools in the garage) and my wife's wedding ring's specific policy. They even recognize my voice when I call.
Not that the insurance knows what engine's *actually* in any of my cars either - the rate would likely be much higher if they did...;)
Get one of these: http://www.cyberguard.com/snapgear/SG300.html
When cable/DSL finally comes to your area, just switch off the dialup (or keep it as an automatic failover option) and switch on the ethernet WAN connection.
Get crazy and set up the VPN server, too, with your wide-open wireless AP, and only allow outgoing connectiong originating on the VPN interface. It's point-and-click easy to set up your iptables rules, and costs nearly nothing.
Have I mentioned that I love these devices? I've insisted on building my own linux-based firewalls for years, but these things have replaces most all of them.
I installed the OS on a Del PPro machine in my basement in 1998, at the same time as I installed it in a new case to accomodate more hard drives. Right next to it is an AMD 5x86 system that I built out of used parts in 1996, and it's been running continuously since 1997 when I set up a new OS. It hasn't even been *rebooted* in 1.5 years, and that was because of a power failure. I have a color turbo NeXT station still running the NeXTStep install from the early 90's, and it works fine for webbrowsing and text editing, albeit a bit slowly. My wife's Win '98 box is 6 years old, on the second resintall of Win '98 from about 2 years ago.
I suppot Macs, windows machines, and Linux at work. Old MacOS is fine, as long as nothing goes wrong - then it can be difficult to find the problem. OS X is a little better, but still tries real hard to hid stuff. It's no more stable, properly configured, than a properly configured Win 2K box. The Linux machines, all on white-box hardware that I personally assembled (just like the windows machines) are all rock stable. However, most any of them can be made to run well if there's someone competent configuring them (and watching over them, in some cases).
I can build a white box system for under $500 that will perform comparably to a $1500 Mac. That gives me 3 full system replacements for the money, though if I go up to about $800 the components are mostly warranted for longer than the Mac and neither will probably fail, anyway. OS X is kinda nice on bleeding-edge hardware for people who don't have real work to do (ohh, look at the pretty transparent terminal and drop shadows!), but I'd rather spend the money on donuts.
Sometimes elementary school English is a bit much to remember - much like the difficulty many have in remembering the difference between multiplication and division.;)
My light was on for years.:) I can't think of any other special tool except for maybe some metric wrenches, though, so the oil light *must* be what the crazy mechanic was talking about...
Well, there's that oil change reset tool, but some/most can be simulated without buying the key tool. Any common mechanic's tool supplier should also carry the BMW-specific tools you'd need - though I've never needed one to work on our early 90's BMW.
I regularly don't remember the years that my parents were born. Then, I don't place a great importance on knowing someone's age to the precise year. I remember my wife's birthday+year and my own - I normally remember only the day of other's birthdays, and their approx age.
You forgot RFC 1149 - Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers. Then there's 748 and 1097 for amusing TELNET options, 1605 for SONNET to Sonnet translation, 2324 and 2325 for managing coffee pots, etc. RFC 1924 is one that's a bit more subtle in its humor. A google search for "amusing RFCs" will get a more complete list, since it's difficult to remember them all.:)
You mean "could be worse, you could've bought MS BOB for windows". Darned kids, forgetting all about *that* monstrosity (not to mention windows pre '95).
Is that why modern materials are stonger and modern computer-assisted designs are suprior in most way to old deigns that were done completely on paper with a slide-rule and logarithm table?:)
There's a definate "time and effort" v/s "end result" tradeoff in most engineering (I did the "computer engineering" thing - but I don't really consider myself an engineer in the same sense as a structureal engineer), and the use of a computer gets you to a useful product with less time 'n effort in many cases. Sure, you can spend the rest of your life testing lots of possiblityies for the best kind of fiber optic arrangement - or you can write a genetic algorithm and let the simulator run for a while to narrow your choices down to a month or so worth of testing.
Or:
One thing you have to learn, grasshopper, is that letting a machine calculate to more than a fraction of a decimal point (eh?) in a second or two allows you the rest of your day to come up with a better idea, rather than wasting half a day working out some complex math and the next week setting up a real-life simulation, just to realize that your idea won't work after all.
Your attitude depresses me, and it's thinking like that that's preventing briliant ideas from getting completed in the lifetime of some technophobes that are otherwise geniuses.;)
I'm sure there working on they're partials, to. Its only a matter of thyme before their finished with the wholes and partials, sew they can finally release longhorn. It'll bee happy daze four all from they're on out.
I used to haul water in my truck - it's a big enough pain with the water sloshing around back there, I don't even wanna think about having the tank moving around too...
It's really too bad no one really remembers that there were more than just Chevy's produced in '57 (and '55). The Fords were neat, too...
A stored message is not readable until the user has received it and elected to leave it on the server. Until the user has seen it, it's considered to be "still in transmission".
While it can still be read, there are more restrictions on when that's legal if it's in transmission rather than in storage./glad that the supreme court finally holds up the claims I've been making in flame wars with people who don't read the law;)
Viewsonic stuff *used* to be pretty good, but like so many manufacturers, they've gone downhill in a hurry recently. I've got a Viewsonic that's older than probably half the people who post here, and it's still working - but the new stuff's just cheap crap, IMHO.
I've had problems with a pair of P225f monitors - that's their top-end 22" "graphics quality" CRT for those who don't follow the high-end CRT market. Perhaps I should've mentioned that in the original post.
Warning, rant ahead:
No matter. I called them after they'd had the thing for 12 days and was told that it could take up to 12 days to process a monitor for return, and that mine was being tested "today" out of coincidence. The testing monkeys could've opened the box, spelled the distinctive "electrical component blew up" smell, and moved on in about 5 minutes, total. 10 minutes if they'd hooked it up and noticed that it didn't turn on.
They didn't have a replacement in the warehouse (whatever), and I was gonna have to wait a couple of weeks to get one. I sent an email to the marketing director politely explaining that my company was not going to buy any more of their monitors if they kept the montor's graphic artist out of work for another week. It took them 9 days to get me a replacement, after I had to explain that I needed one that was not black because the one I sent in was not black.
Viewsonic can go screw themselves for making me wait 3 weeks for a damned refurbished monitor, twice. I will never buy one again, and I'm gonna make sure that anyone who values my opinion doesn't buy one again. There are plenty of other manufacturers who take customer satisfaction seriously *before* the customer has to contact the company. I use KDS monitors on all of our workstations now, because they're priced reasonably, perform well, and the company has *excelent* customer service. The cross-shipping thing is super handy. I've never had a user with a KDS monitor be without their normal monitor for more than two days.
To the easily influenced: Buy KDS monitors now. Throw bricks through Viewsonic's windows whenever possible.
Cool - I don't sue people, I take the conservative "don't audit me" approach to taxes, and I carry good insurance. I think that health care is overpriced, though, so subsidies are about the only way to support that - or possibly more responsible pricing by the industry, which has tasted the cash and now certainly won't give it back...:(
Better hope you don't need to make a warranty claim on that - it'll take weeks to get your monitor back (they don't cross-ship big monitors), and they'll promise you'll get a new replacement *this* time but send another refurb that'll blow up within a few months, *again*. Not that I'm bitter or anything...:)
BTW, my main reasoning for an autox course is that I'd like to have an autox course nearby. I don't get enough chance to wring my car out on the street, so having a safe, closed environment would probably make me a safer driver by letting me work that out off of the street.;)
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I don't give a damn what party McCain affiliates with, because he's not running for any office that I can vote for anyway. Both parties boil down to taking my money away and putting it into projects that I don't support, though, and both prez. candidates are unacceptable. And people wonder why voter turnout is so low...
Too bad that Dr. that was running with a seemingly good plan ended up yelling and being excited once. Said the media, "Wait, that guy doesn't seem to fit either party's agenda very well. Let's make it appear as if he's crazy!"
Sigh. At least I'm still free to choose the use of secondhand smoke as a means to slowly kill anyone who passes by me - if I want to. I hate incompetent bloated government.
You can explore a ghost image file to see what's in it. I'm not sure how to do that with a dd image.
/path/to/image -o loop /mount/point
mount
Lots of fun with floppy/cd images, works just as well with hard drive partitions...
GodZilla 2000 is the only movie that I've actually purchased yet never seen in its entirety - and I'll watch dran near anything. I thought it'd be acceptable, since the soundtrack was good. I aws totaly wrong. Other movies are badly done, or I just don't like, but G2K is straight up the worst movie ever. It's bad but not at all entertainingly bad.
:)
Then again, I've never seen Titanic...
Your insurance sucks. :) I pay $147.73 for a $100 deductible on 3 cars - including comprehensive (and $0 deductible on windshield replacement) - combined with my renter's insurance (yes, I've listed all of the computers in my house and the tools in the garage) and my wife's wedding ring's specific policy. They even recognize my voice when I call.
;)
Not that the insurance knows what engine's *actually* in any of my cars either - the rate would likely be much higher if they did...
Get one of these: http://www.cyberguard.com/snapgear/SG300.html
When cable/DSL finally comes to your area, just switch off the dialup (or keep it as an automatic failover option) and switch on the ethernet WAN connection.
Get crazy and set up the VPN server, too, with your wide-open wireless AP, and only allow outgoing connectiong originating on the VPN interface. It's point-and-click easy to set up your iptables rules, and costs nearly nothing.
Have I mentioned that I love these devices? I've insisted on building my own linux-based firewalls for years, but these things have replaces most all of them.
I installed the OS on a Del PPro machine in my basement in 1998, at the same time as I installed it in a new case to accomodate more hard drives. Right next to it is an AMD 5x86 system that I built out of used parts in 1996, and it's been running continuously since 1997 when I set up a new OS. It hasn't even been *rebooted* in 1.5 years, and that was because of a power failure. I have a color turbo NeXT station still running the NeXTStep install from the early 90's, and it works fine for webbrowsing and text editing, albeit a bit slowly. My wife's Win '98 box is 6 years old, on the second resintall of Win '98 from about 2 years ago.
I suppot Macs, windows machines, and Linux at work. Old MacOS is fine, as long as nothing goes wrong - then it can be difficult to find the problem. OS X is a little better, but still tries real hard to hid stuff. It's no more stable, properly configured, than a properly configured Win 2K box. The Linux machines, all on white-box hardware that I personally assembled (just like the windows machines) are all rock stable. However, most any of them can be made to run well if there's someone competent configuring them (and watching over them, in some cases).
I can build a white box system for under $500 that will perform comparably to a $1500 Mac. That gives me 3 full system replacements for the money, though if I go up to about $800 the components are mostly warranted for longer than the Mac and neither will probably fail, anyway. OS X is kinda nice on bleeding-edge hardware for people who don't have real work to do (ohh, look at the pretty transparent terminal and drop shadows!), but I'd rather spend the money on donuts.
Sometimes elementary school English is a bit much to remember - much like the difficulty many have in remembering the difference between multiplication and division. ;)
My light was on for years. :) I can't think of any other special tool except for maybe some metric wrenches, though, so the oil light *must* be what the crazy mechanic was talking about...
Well, there's that oil change reset tool, but some/most can be simulated without buying the key tool. Any common mechanic's tool supplier should also carry the BMW-specific tools you'd need - though I've never needed one to work on our early 90's BMW.
I regularly don't remember the years that my parents were born. Then, I don't place a great importance on knowing someone's age to the precise year. I remember my wife's birthday+year and my own - I normally remember only the day of other's birthdays, and their approx age.
You forgot RFC 1149 - Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers. Then there's 748 and 1097 for amusing TELNET options, 1605 for SONNET to Sonnet translation, 2324 and 2325 for managing coffee pots, etc. RFC 1924 is one that's a bit more subtle in its humor. A google search for "amusing RFCs" will get a more complete list, since it's difficult to remember them all. :)
It won't cause you to collect more old pr0n. Oh, wait, did you mean "affect"? ;)
Hooray, I'm not the only person who saw "I come in peace"!
You mean "could be worse, you could've bought MS BOB for windows". Darned kids, forgetting all about *that* monstrosity (not to mention windows pre '95).
Maybe it looks "two" much like a normal /. post? ;)
Is that why modern materials are stonger and modern computer-assisted designs are suprior in most way to old deigns that were done completely on paper with a slide-rule and logarithm table? :)
;)
There's a definate "time and effort" v/s "end result" tradeoff in most engineering (I did the "computer engineering" thing - but I don't really consider myself an engineer in the same sense as a structureal engineer), and the use of a computer gets you to a useful product with less time 'n effort in many cases. Sure, you can spend the rest of your life testing lots of possiblityies for the best kind of fiber optic arrangement - or you can write a genetic algorithm and let the simulator run for a while to narrow your choices down to a month or so worth of testing.
Or:
One thing you have to learn, grasshopper, is that letting a machine calculate to more than a fraction of a decimal point (eh?) in a second or two allows you the rest of your day to come up with a better idea, rather than wasting half a day working out some complex math and the next week setting up a real-life simulation, just to realize that your idea won't work after all.
Your attitude depresses me, and it's thinking like that that's preventing briliant ideas from getting completed in the lifetime of some technophobes that are otherwise geniuses.
I'm sure there working on they're partials, to. Its only a matter of thyme before their finished with the wholes and partials, sew they can finally release longhorn. It'll bee happy daze four all from they're on out.
Holy crap! All I needed to know was "272". ;)
I used to haul water in my truck - it's a big enough pain with the water sloshing around back there, I don't even wanna think about having the tank moving around too...
It's really too bad no one really remembers that there were more than just Chevy's produced in '57 (and '55). The Fords were neat, too...
A stored message is not readable until the user has received it and elected to leave it on the server. Until the user has seen it, it's considered to be "still in transmission".
/glad that the supreme court finally holds up the claims I've been making in flame wars with people who don't read the law ;)
While it can still be read, there are more restrictions on when that's legal if it's in transmission rather than in storage.
Viewsonic stuff *used* to be pretty good, but like so many manufacturers, they've gone downhill in a hurry recently. I've got a Viewsonic that's older than probably half the people who post here, and it's still working - but the new stuff's just cheap crap, IMHO.
I've had problems with a pair of P225f monitors - that's their top-end 22" "graphics quality" CRT for those who don't follow the high-end CRT market. Perhaps I should've mentioned that in the original post.
Warning, rant ahead:
No matter. I called them after they'd had the thing for 12 days and was told that it could take up to 12 days to process a monitor for return, and that mine was being tested "today" out of coincidence. The testing monkeys could've opened the box, spelled the distinctive "electrical component blew up" smell, and moved on in about 5 minutes, total. 10 minutes if they'd hooked it up and noticed that it didn't turn on.
They didn't have a replacement in the warehouse (whatever), and I was gonna have to wait a couple of weeks to get one. I sent an email to the marketing director politely explaining that my company was not going to buy any more of their monitors if they kept the montor's graphic artist out of work for another week. It took them 9 days to get me a replacement, after I had to explain that I needed one that was not black because the one I sent in was not black.
Viewsonic can go screw themselves for making me wait 3 weeks for a damned refurbished monitor, twice. I will never buy one again, and I'm gonna make sure that anyone who values my opinion doesn't buy one again. There are plenty of other manufacturers who take customer satisfaction seriously *before* the customer has to contact the company. I use KDS monitors on all of our workstations now, because they're priced reasonably, perform well, and the company has *excelent* customer service. The cross-shipping thing is super handy. I've never had a user with a KDS monitor be without their normal monitor for more than two days.
To the easily influenced: Buy KDS monitors now. Throw bricks through Viewsonic's windows whenever possible.
Man, you included the C4 tranny but completely left out the engine's displacement. What kind of a car story is that? :)
Cool - I don't sue people, I take the conservative "don't audit me" approach to taxes, and I carry good insurance. I think that health care is overpriced, though, so subsidies are about the only way to support that - or possibly more responsible pricing by the industry, which has tasted the cash and now certainly won't give it back... :(
Better hope you don't need to make a warranty claim on that - it'll take weeks to get your monitor back (they don't cross-ship big monitors), and they'll promise you'll get a new replacement *this* time but send another refurb that'll blow up within a few months, *again*. Not that I'm bitter or anything... :)
BTW, my main reasoning for an autox course is that I'd like to have an autox course nearby. I don't get enough chance to wring my car out on the street, so having a safe, closed environment would probably make me a safer driver by letting me work that out off of the street. ;)