Damn, I wish I could mod this up. My girlfriend was just trying to talk me into doing a new case mod, with one of those mechanical mouths mounted in the front.
Well, back in the day I was a geek kid w/ green hair. And blue, and red, and orange, and... Now that I have a real job & all, it's back to normal. But just because you're a geek doesn't mean you can't look different.
Would it even need to be rewritable? Most tech comes out initially w/ read-only/write once (CD, DVD) drives, with recorders or rerecorders (I guess that should ahve been rewriters) priced way out of reach for Joe Schmoe. But the prices come down & they become readily available. Besides, what was it? 10tb? With that kind of space you'd rarely *need* to erase anything.
Since I was recently lucky enough to score (inadvertantly, it was next in the queue) a xxx 666 (the xxx were actual letters) license plate, maybe I should switch to BSD. I'm thinking of painting a huge devil on the back, it can be the bsdmobile:)
Hmm. I ripped my entire CD collection & burned onto mp3 CDs. That way I only have to carry 10 CDs instead of all of them. I also have them sorted by music type, so if I feel like some old school punk, I can slip that disc in & not have to skip the unwanted tracks.
I worked in an arcade for 3 yrs., way back before I was into computers. I will say that the pinball maintainance was one of the "chores" that no one liked. It wasn't that difficult if you had an ounce of common mechanical/electrical sense, but it was extremely time consuming. Mostly the cleaning & waxing the deck. It had to be done at least twice a week, and could take up to an hour for each machine. The video games were easier, but required replacement parts more often. The joysticks & buttons on the video games received a lot more use/abuse than the pinball machines. Surprisingly enough, most people who play pinball machines are affectionadoes (sp?), and respect them, and therefor tend to treat them a little nicer.
Uh, yeah, that. I've found that there is one thing I have in common w/ most ppl my age (~30): Kids. I pretty much get along w/ everyone, but not excitingly so. Start talking kids, and you can be friends w/ just about anyone:)
New guidelines must be set for how much IT workers can be forced to work without sleep. In the footsteps of pioneers of the 10-hour work day of the nineteenth century, we must today pioneer the 8-hour sleep day.
Uh, no thanks. However much I might wish to get more sleep (I only work 8hrs, but spend after-work time with my daughter, which leaves 9pm-> for me), I don't need anyone telling me how much sleep I *have* to get. That's my decision & my choice.
Maybe not. I haven't seen anywhere that their pricing is based on subscription discounts. I've seen ~$600 bandied around here (though I couldn't find it at Gateway), which would fit with the "you bought it" scenario. There's no reason for them to cripple the machine or attempt to make it non-hackable. I haven't seen any Gateway PCs with epoxy covering the board, etc.
According to gateway.com, there will be an optional ethernet port. Which bumps this little device up from "who cares" to "cool, could be interesting". Of course, that's just assuming the smarter-than-me folk will figure out how to customize the OS. Blah, blah, I'd like to see it as an Xterm...
I registered to vote after 10 yrs. of refusing. I figure that even if I can't find a candidate that I can support, I can write in "none of the above". Personally I think that should be an option on *all* ballots. If NOTA gets the majority, the election has to be held again, with none of the original candidates being eligible.
I've already implemented IPv7 on my LAN. It's really cool, all devices connected via IPv7 are automagically added to a Beowolf cluster. Even your toaster.
> I know teenagers appear dumber, but that's just observation.
Teenagers *always* appear dumber when you are no longer one of them. It's a law or something:) But think (and be honest) about what you were like when you were a teenager. I'm not quite as likely now to warm up a pot of gasoline on the stove so I can make napalm. Seems quite stupid, in fact. I'm sure it was Paul's idea... Damn. When you get old you start to ramble.
Ok, I didn't really read the article. Mainly because I barely care about who said what (sticks & stones). I generally regard Redhat to be "that upstart Linux company that will be the next MS". But if this is accurately quoted:
>They only quoted seven words from Tiemann:
>"We did start the open-source revolution"
Then I'd just about have to agree. He's not saying they invented the internet (yet), just the revolution. And not many people knew about Linux & Open Source before Redhat "legitimized" it. Once again, the parallels between RH & MS are scary, but maybe I'm just pessimistic...
Yea, I thought of that. But most of my stuff would cost more to ship than it's worth. Quick, how much would you pay for 1 working & 1 non-working KayPro4's? Next consider that they weigh ~40lbs apiece...
My experience was worse. Then again, so was my hardware. I was running on a PII-233/80mb RAM. It took half the day just to boot Win98 under Win2k. It wasn't *too* bad once it got booted, but I had to remove it. I never could get the video just right, and I have 2 nics which it flat out hated. As much a pain dual-boot is, it isn't that bad. I think that a PII(I)-450, 128mb should be enough, but it depends on the host system.
Well, NetWare 5 *does* have an X server. It sucks, but they have it. I've always been pleased by the NetWare connectivity in Caldera's OpenLinux. The company I work for resells an accounting package for small businesses, and in the past we've only supported it on NetWare. We have no plans to upgrade our servers or our customers servers to NW5. It's big and bulky and tries too hard to compete with MS (everything for everyone). I've been doing informal testing with COL, as a means to replace NW, and it works well. I'd personally like to see Caldera and Novell get *much* closer, and phase NetWare out completely.
Yah, *we* might know this, but your average win9x user doesn't. They kinda understand a virus, to the extent that they know it's bad, but let's not give them too much credit for intelligence. Worms, trojans, virus, etc. Just call it a virus & don't confuse them.
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We're pretty much to that point now. Unless you purchase new CPUs, etc. every 6 months, it doesn't make much sense to upgrade. The motherboard you purchased 18 months ago might support a CPU 3 times as fast as your current one, but by the time you get ready to upgrade you'll have a hard time finding an "obsolete" CPU to fit in it. Not to mention RAM (pc66, pc100, pc133), hard drives (ata66), video (AGP, ok, that's been awhile but none of my MBs support it & it's getting harder to find PCI cards.), heck, even video cams are mostly USB. It's cheaper nowadays to just buy a new system.
>I work with 3 MCSE's. They are tools. They might as well have been the models for the MCP dolls. I'll reviece a call about a server going down, or a workstation being kicked off the network, and their first reaction is to just reboot the system. Nevermind the fact that it is a production server. A server that people are accessing important E-Mail, or data from.
I don't blame them. Thats just what they were taught. ------------------------------- In my experience, ctrl-alt-del is the first step in troubleshooting a MS problem. Fixes 85% of the problems. What else can you do, reinstall? Remember, it's difficult to act intelligently when working with a brain-dead OS. When you have to reboot after changing display res or changing the DNS server or anything, wouldn't you reboot for just about anything? That's the second most reason I'm getting out of MS (& Novell) work. The first is that I'm tired of telling customers, "I'm sorry, that's because it's an MS product," and "I agree, MS Office and Win9x *should* work better together, but they don't."
ps. My company just sent me to a fiber-optics cert course, but decided the hands-on section was too expensive. Great course, I now know all the theory behind working w/ FO, but couldn't shear/polish a fiber to save my life.
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Damn, I wish I could mod this up. My girlfriend was just trying to talk me into doing a new case mod, with one of those mechanical mouths mounted in the front.
jred
www.cautioninc.com
Well, back in the day I was a geek kid w/ green hair. And blue, and red, and orange, and... Now that I have a real job & all, it's back to normal. But just because you're a geek doesn't mean you can't look different.
jred
www.cautioninc.com
Would it even need to be rewritable? Most tech comes out initially w/ read-only/write once (CD, DVD) drives, with recorders or rerecorders (I guess that should ahve been rewriters) priced way out of reach for Joe Schmoe. But the prices come down & they become readily available. Besides, what was it? 10tb? With that kind of space you'd rarely *need* to erase anything.
jred
www.cautioninc.com
Since I was recently lucky enough to score (inadvertantly, it was next in the queue) a xxx 666 (the xxx were actual letters) license plate, maybe I should switch to BSD. I'm thinking of painting a huge devil on the back, it can be the bsdmobile:)
jred
www.cautioninc.com
Hmm. I ripped my entire CD collection & burned onto mp3 CDs. That way I only have to carry 10 CDs instead of all of them. I also have them sorted by music type, so if I feel like some old school punk, I can slip that disc in & not have to skip the unwanted tracks.
jred
www.cautioninc.com
I worked in an arcade for 3 yrs., way back before I was into computers. I will say that the pinball maintainance was one of the "chores" that no one liked. It wasn't that difficult if you had an ounce of common mechanical/electrical sense, but it was extremely time consuming. Mostly the cleaning & waxing the deck. It had to be done at least twice a week, and could take up to an hour for each machine. The video games were easier, but required replacement parts more often. The joysticks & buttons on the video games received a lot more use/abuse than the pinball machines. Surprisingly enough, most people who play pinball machines are affectionadoes (sp?), and respect them, and therefor tend to treat them a little nicer.
jred
www.cautioninc.com
it's in 8.3 filename format...
jred
www.cautioninc.com
Uh, yeah, that. I've found that there is one thing I have in common w/ most ppl my age (~30): Kids. I pretty much get along w/ everyone, but not excitingly so. Start talking kids, and you can be friends w/ just about anyone :)
jred
www.cautioninc.com
New guidelines must be set for how much IT workers can be forced to work without sleep. In the footsteps of pioneers of the 10-hour work day of the nineteenth century, we must today pioneer the 8-hour sleep day.
Uh, no thanks. However much I might wish to get more sleep (I only work 8hrs, but spend after-work time with my daughter, which leaves 9pm-> for me), I don't need anyone telling me how much sleep I *have* to get. That's my decision & my choice.
jred
www.cautioninc.com
caution, inc.
Why are Canadians so touchy. I've known my fair share, and they're all touchy. Chill out.
jred
www.cautioninc.com
caution, inc.
Maybe not. I haven't seen anywhere that their pricing is based on subscription discounts. I've seen ~$600 bandied around here (though I couldn't find it at Gateway), which would fit with the "you bought it" scenario. There's no reason for them to cripple the machine or attempt to make it non-hackable. I haven't seen any Gateway PCs with epoxy covering the board, etc.
jred
www.cautioninc.com
caution, inc.
According to gateway.com, there will be an optional ethernet port. Which bumps this little device up from "who cares" to "cool, could be interesting". Of course, that's just assuming the smarter-than-me folk will figure out how to customize the OS. Blah, blah, I'd like to see it as an Xterm...
jred
www.cautioninc.com
caution, inc.
I registered to vote after 10 yrs. of refusing. I figure that even if I can't find a candidate that I can support, I can write in "none of the above". Personally I think that should be an option on *all* ballots. If NOTA gets the majority, the election has to be held again, with none of the original candidates being eligible.
:-)
That being said, Go Harry Browne!!!
jred
www.cautioninc.com
caution, inc.
I've already implemented IPv7 on my LAN. It's really cool, all devices connected via IPv7 are automagically added to a Beowolf cluster. Even your toaster.
jred
www.cautioninc.com
caution, inc.
> I know teenagers appear dumber, but that's just observation.
Teenagers *always* appear dumber when you are no longer one of them. It's a law or something:) But think (and be honest) about what you were like when you were a teenager. I'm not quite as likely now to warm up a pot of gasoline on the stove so I can make napalm. Seems quite stupid, in fact. I'm sure it was Paul's idea... Damn. When you get old you start to ramble.
jred
www.cautioninc.com
caution, inc.
This big-bad company is going to steal from the little-ole companies. The customer will get screwed all around.
Let me tell you guys a story about a little boy who cried wolf...
jred
www.cautioninc.com
caution, inc.
Ok, I didn't really read the article. Mainly because I barely care about who said what (sticks & stones). I generally regard Redhat to be "that upstart Linux company that will be the next MS". But if this is accurately quoted:
>They only quoted seven words from Tiemann:
>"We did start the open-source revolution"
Then I'd just about have to agree. He's not saying they invented the internet (yet), just the revolution. And not many people knew about Linux & Open Source before Redhat "legitimized" it. Once again, the parallels between RH & MS are scary, but maybe I'm just pessimistic...
jred
www.cautioninc.com
caution, inc.
Yea, I thought of that. But most of my stuff would cost more to ship than it's worth. Quick, how much would you pay for 1 working & 1 non-working KayPro4's? Next consider that they weigh ~40lbs apiece...
jred
www.cautioninc.com
jred
www.cautioninc.com
caution, inc.
Is a place to get rid of all the "vintage" computer stuff I have now. I'm starting to run out of storage space!!!
jred
www.cautioninc.com
jred
www.cautioninc.com
caution, inc.
My experience was worse. Then again, so was my hardware. I was running on a PII-233/80mb RAM. It took half the day just to boot Win98 under Win2k. It wasn't *too* bad once it got booted, but I had to remove it. I never could get the video just right, and I have 2 nics which it flat out hated. As much a pain dual-boot is, it isn't that bad. I think that a PII(I)-450, 128mb should be enough, but it depends on the host system.
Well, NetWare 5 *does* have an X server. It sucks, but they have it. I've always been pleased by the NetWare connectivity in Caldera's OpenLinux. The company I work for resells an accounting package for small businesses, and in the past we've only supported it on NetWare. We have no plans to upgrade our servers or our customers servers to NW5. It's big and bulky and tries too hard to compete with MS (everything for everyone). I've been doing informal testing with COL, as a means to replace NW, and it works well. I'd personally like to see Caldera and Novell get *much* closer, and phase NetWare out completely.
Yah, *we* might know this, but your average win9x user doesn't. They kinda understand a virus, to the extent that they know it's bad, but let's not give them too much credit for intelligence. Worms, trojans, virus, etc. Just call it a virus & don't confuse them.
We're pretty much to that point now. Unless you purchase new CPUs, etc. every 6 months, it doesn't make much sense to upgrade. The motherboard you purchased 18 months ago might support a CPU 3 times as fast as your current one, but by the time you get ready to upgrade you'll have a hard time finding an "obsolete" CPU to fit in it. Not to mention RAM (pc66, pc100, pc133), hard drives (ata66), video (AGP, ok, that's been awhile but none of my MBs support it & it's getting harder to find PCI cards.), heck, even video cams are mostly USB. It's cheaper nowadays to just buy a new system.
>I work with 3 MCSE's. They are tools. They might as well have been the models for the MCP dolls. I'll reviece a call about a server going down, or a workstation being kicked off the network, and their first reaction is to just reboot the system. Nevermind the fact that it is a production server. A server that people are accessing important E-Mail, or data from.
I don't blame them. Thats just what they were taught.
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In my experience, ctrl-alt-del is the first step in troubleshooting a MS problem. Fixes 85% of the problems. What else can you do, reinstall? Remember, it's difficult to act intelligently when working with a brain-dead OS. When you have to reboot after changing display res or changing the DNS server or anything, wouldn't you reboot for just about anything? That's the second most reason I'm getting out of MS (& Novell) work. The first is that I'm tired of telling customers, "I'm sorry, that's because it's an MS product," and "I agree, MS Office and Win9x *should* work better together, but they don't."
ps. My company just sent me to a fiber-optics cert course, but decided the hands-on section was too expensive. Great course, I now know all the theory behind working w/ FO, but couldn't shear/polish a fiber to save my life.
Here it's not considered 'paraphernalia' as long as you have tobacco with it. That shows you have a legal use for it.