I found last night that you can actually wget the prdownloads link and it will download the file rather than the webpage linking to all the mirrors. Pretty nice.
I also have no idea what the "pr" in "prdownloads" means.
I've been looking around for a new notebook recently after my 3 year and 3 month old T42 with a 3-year warranty started to have problems due to the BGA method of attaching the mobile Radeon 9600. See this thread at thinkpads.com for more info.
I really like the durability of my ThinkPad but this experience has left a pretty bad taste in my mouth. My 9 year old Gateway Solo 2500 still runs fine except that I've had to replace the hard drive a couple times.
As a student and employee at a higher-education institution, however, the 34% discounts available to me on ThinkPads still makes them pretty attractive. Couple that with opting for SuSE Linux and I've got a pretty well-priced notebook.
I am not ruling out a MacBook, however. Now that they come with Intel processors, I can pretty much have my pick of OSes other than OS X installed.
Hey! This is an opportunity for COMPLEX ENGINEERED SOLUTIONS! DON'T GET IN THE WAY OF OUR FUN!
Actually, I don't see why the presenters couldn't have just said "ha ha ok *turns monitor back on* Now, as I was saying..." or the pranksters could have just turned the monitor off for 5 seconds, turned it on, laughed and waved their TV-B-Gones to the presenters and walked off.
Is turning a monitor back on that big of a deal?
It's a good thing you linked to that previous story, your post, and your journal, because unlike you and me, most other people don't read and remember every Slashdot article, post, and journal.
Now that I actually take the time to click on those links, they're all from the past two weeks!
I thought the same thing, but consider how important aerodynamics are to the Space Shuttle.
Any ship that will need to descend to a place filled with air to drop off its passengers will need to be fairly aerodynamic. Or what about close-to-the-ground fighting on a planet with some atmosphere.
If it's going to look aerodynamic, it'd better be aerodynamic.
If your television gets to you over the Internet, and your telephone gets to you over the Internet, and your Internet gets to you over the Internet, then there's only need for one connection into your house. This could be a single strand of fiber optic cable. Fewer holes to dig, less material to manufacture.
As you know, the Internet is transmitted using digital signals. These signals have a multitude of mediums they can use. Radio waves, electrical signals, light pulses, carrier pigeons, etc.
POTS travels almost exclusively over copper (at least up to and into your house). Copper is expensive.
POTS is also geographically oriented. This is nice, in the case of reliable 911 service, but sucks when it comes to long distance charges. The Internet is not geographically oriented, so the pros and cons are exactly the opposite. (Though I'm sure solutions will be found in both cases!)
In general, VoIP is awesome for the big company who has to worry about 100 strand fiber optic cables as opposed to 5000 pair copper cables, especially in the event of a cut. It will be rather 'meh' for the consumer who might see lower bills or more features, but will generally see minimal benefit.
For now, nothing beats a "2500" set and a pair of copper wires for basic voice transmission.
There was a politician on the nightly news last night that said something like "I think someone without experience on the bench is a good thing, not a bad thing." My first reaction was "WTF?!"
However, they then went on to explain that ~40% of past SC judges had no prior experience. There was a clip of Rhenquist saying that it's good to have lots of people with different kinds of experience.
I'm starting to think that the "no experience" thing isn't so bad, after all.
OMGWTFBBQ (the SA admin) was in an IRC channel and they were coming up wth random acronyms.
He explains this in the SAclopedia:
Way back when, I used to work for a few online Mac Gaming websites. Inside Mac Games, Mac Gamer's Ledge, MacGamer, etc. During that time, I was often to be found on GameRanger, a Mac equivalent to Gamespy Arcade (it's actually better if you ask me). Anyhow, there was another Mac gaming website run by a few Mac gamers with a sense of humor, Utterer.com, which was headed by none other than Frank "Utterer" Caratozzolo. Frank was also always on GameRanger, and we always chatted.
One day, a person logged into GameRanger that was just a bit too AOLish for our tastes. As in, every time the guy said anything in chat, it had a "OMG" or a "LOL" or a "ROFLMAO" attached to it. Of course this gets annoying rather quickly, and Frank was tired of this guy's moronic BS. So what does any rational, sane person do? He floods the channel with as many acronyms as he can. Frank Started off with "OMG WTF BBQ DSL TNT BBC CNN CBS PCP RNR PBS NBA NFL..." and everyone else followed suit. The whole channel just spouted off every three letter acronym they could think of. The idiot got the hint and logged off.
And that's where OMGWTFBBQ comes from. True, utterly boring, story.
If they were good machines, then fine. If you no longer needed them, then they were not really "good". If the schools asked for them, fine.
If they were bad machines, you've shifted the cost and burden of having them disposed by dumping them on a school. (And hey! TAX BREAK!) Either way, you've shifted the burden of disposing them (the school will have to throw them away eventually) from your company which, more than likely, makes more money than the school that is too poor to buy their own computers. That's a pretty crappy deal.
As for the losers that go dumpster diving, that's cool. They want it, they can have it.
Slashdot Mirror
I found last night that you can actually wget the prdownloads link and it will download the file rather than the webpage linking to all the mirrors. Pretty nice. I also have no idea what the "pr" in "prdownloads" means.
I've been looking around for a new notebook recently after my 3 year and 3 month old T42 with a 3-year warranty started to have problems due to the BGA method of attaching the mobile Radeon 9600. See this thread at thinkpads.com for more info.
I really like the durability of my ThinkPad but this experience has left a pretty bad taste in my mouth. My 9 year old Gateway Solo 2500 still runs fine except that I've had to replace the hard drive a couple times.
As a student and employee at a higher-education institution, however, the 34% discounts available to me on ThinkPads still makes them pretty attractive. Couple that with opting for SuSE Linux and I've got a pretty well-priced notebook.
I am not ruling out a MacBook, however. Now that they come with Intel processors, I can pretty much have my pick of OSes other than OS X installed.
Hey! This is an opportunity for COMPLEX ENGINEERED SOLUTIONS! DON'T GET IN THE WAY OF OUR FUN! Actually, I don't see why the presenters couldn't have just said "ha ha ok *turns monitor back on* Now, as I was saying..." or the pranksters could have just turned the monitor off for 5 seconds, turned it on, laughed and waved their TV-B-Gones to the presenters and walked off. Is turning a monitor back on that big of a deal?
It's a good thing you linked to that previous story, your post, and your journal, because unlike you and me, most other people don't read and remember every Slashdot article, post, and journal. Now that I actually take the time to click on those links, they're all from the past two weeks!
So you're admitting that you sent doctored emails to Slashdot HR to try to get samzenpus in trouble? Ballsy.
Please take a hint from your buddy.
I was wondering, too. It would have been nice if it had been in the summary.
ERP = Enterprise Resource Planning.
Now, your job is to tell me what that means!
Why would a space ship care about aerodynamics?
I thought the same thing, but consider how important aerodynamics are to the Space Shuttle.
Any ship that will need to descend to a place filled with air to drop off its passengers will need to be fairly aerodynamic. Or what about close-to-the-ground fighting on a planet with some atmosphere.
If it's going to look aerodynamic, it'd better be aerodynamic.
If your television gets to you over the Internet, and your telephone gets to you over the Internet, and your Internet gets to you over the Internet, then there's only need for one connection into your house. This could be a single strand of fiber optic cable. Fewer holes to dig, less material to manufacture.
As you know, the Internet is transmitted using digital signals. These signals have a multitude of mediums they can use. Radio waves, electrical signals, light pulses, carrier pigeons, etc.
POTS travels almost exclusively over copper (at least up to and into your house). Copper is expensive.
POTS is also geographically oriented. This is nice, in the case of reliable 911 service, but sucks when it comes to long distance charges. The Internet is not geographically oriented, so the pros and cons are exactly the opposite. (Though I'm sure solutions will be found in both cases!)
In general, VoIP is awesome for the big company who has to worry about 100 strand fiber optic cables as opposed to 5000 pair copper cables, especially in the event of a cut. It will be rather 'meh' for the consumer who might see lower bills or more features, but will generally see minimal benefit.
For now, nothing beats a "2500" set and a pair of copper wires for basic voice transmission.
What happens if you dial 911 before signing into your phone?
Ever since I finished installing Yggdrasil from the 5.25" floppies I borrowed from my friend...
Which reminds me, I really ought to return them.
Good ol' Bash...
http://bash.org/?338364
I'd bet many of the comments remind you of Fark, too.
Dammit, you're right.
Hah. Thank you.
(But I think you meant ISO 9600?)
What does Linux memory management have to do with Windows?
This is Slashdot. Linux has everything to do with everything, newbie.
What's an 'Aorney' ?
There was a politician on the nightly news last night that said something like "I think someone without experience on the bench is a good thing, not a bad thing." My first reaction was "WTF?!"
However, they then went on to explain that ~40% of past SC judges had no prior experience. There was a clip of Rhenquist saying that it's good to have lots of people with different kinds of experience.
I'm starting to think that the "no experience" thing isn't so bad, after all.
So that we may all avoid said groups, please post some examples of the worst offenders. Thanks.
During all of this, Apple will still be going out of business!
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHhahdhfdsfds.f..
Whoops. On rereading your post, you didn't specify the level of RAID you were talking about, just the number of disks.
Carry on.
5-disk raid, (4 disks for data, 1 for parity)
But I thought RAID5 spread the parity across at least 3 disks.
I think you described RAID4.
See the Wikipedia article on RAID4.
Some people dont even know 2003 exists!
Durrr. "Windows 2003" is only available as Windows Server 2003. It is intended for a different market than 2000 (business) or XP (home/business).
OMGWTFBBQ (the SA admin) was in an IRC channel and they were coming up wth random acronyms.
He explains this in the SAclopedia:
Way back when, I used to work for a few online Mac Gaming websites. Inside Mac Games, Mac Gamer's Ledge, MacGamer, etc. During that time, I was often to be found on GameRanger, a Mac equivalent to Gamespy Arcade (it's actually better if you ask me). Anyhow, there was another Mac gaming website run by a few Mac gamers with a sense of humor, Utterer.com, which was headed by none other than Frank "Utterer" Caratozzolo. Frank was also always on GameRanger, and we always chatted.
One day, a person logged into GameRanger that was just a bit too AOLish for our tastes. As in, every time the guy said anything in chat, it had a "OMG" or a "LOL" or a "ROFLMAO" attached to it. Of course this gets annoying rather quickly, and Frank was tired of this guy's moronic BS. So what does any rational, sane person do? He floods the channel with as many acronyms as he can. Frank Started off with "OMG WTF BBQ DSL TNT BBC CNN CBS PCP RNR PBS NBA NFL..." and everyone else followed suit. The whole channel just spouted off every three letter acronym they could think of. The idiot got the hint and logged off.
And that's where OMGWTFBBQ comes from. True, utterly boring, story.
If they were good machines, then fine. If you no longer needed them, then they were not really "good". If the schools asked for them, fine.
If they were bad machines, you've shifted the cost and burden of having them disposed by dumping them on a school. (And hey! TAX BREAK!) Either way, you've shifted the burden of disposing them (the school will have to throw them away eventually) from your company which, more than likely, makes more money than the school that is too poor to buy their own computers. That's a pretty crappy deal.
As for the losers that go dumpster diving, that's cool. They want it, they can have it.