I keep an old Psion Revo and a Iridium satelite phone in my backpack when I'm out in the woods - it lets me fix servers, while still enjoying my vacation.
I had Telneted (SSH is too slow over a satelite link) into my home server, and from there, to my customer's server.
After I fixed their problem - I just had to try a 'lynx slashdot.org'.
most UNIX vaients have a 'nice' command to bump the priority of processes up or down - I know Widnows 2000/XP can do this as wee via the GUI, I'm sure there's a command line way to do it.
On our FreeBSD servers - we 'nice' the backups to a low priority and nobody notices. Even if we don't 'nice' them, nobody notices - but that's because FreeBSD is uber-good at scheduling.
What the hell is "innovative" or "creative" about stealing someone elses product idea and reimplemting it under open source?
What the hell, it happens in commercial software all the time. Jucst because the Free software poeple do it now and then doesen't make it any more whong.
MS-DOS/Quick and Dirty DOS copied CP/M Word copied WordPerfect Excel copies Lotus 123 who copied VisiCalc Windows coped Mac who copied Xerox
A friend that works at Microsoft MSN fessed up that Hotmail *still* has a lot of FreeBSD boxes when I causally asked He claimed that Microsoft decided that there wasn't and competitive advantage to move Hotmail to Windows - but because of GMail, Microsoft has decided that the are reasons to move off of FreeBSD. He woulden't elaborate.
Grow up. Stop running around being "offended" at everything. You fake concern is just a show you put on to please others - and it doesen't fool anybody.
I've marked you as a friend as well, and if I view my postings from your viewpoint - I really cam off as a twit.
Perhaps we just got off on a bad foot.
My little scope is a complete optical nightmare - it's virtue is that it gets used, it's horribly light, and I can leave it around without worrying 'bout it - it's quite rugged.
I hope I'm using the correct terms:
I have a little Velcro closured bag that you fill up with sand/pebbles at your destination; once you're done findings small rocks you place the new bean-bag on your knee while sitting Indian style.
The butt of the scope is a round - a chopped up Styrofoam ball, and the tube is a chopped up 4-liter Nalgene lab-bottle. The wide rim of the Nalgene bottle is left alone so the traditional Nalgene cap is the lens cap.
The secondary optics were harvested from and old, beat up, Russian surplus binocular set and the small flat mirror was from a Cannon laser printer that probably weighed 60 lbs - it was 4x as big as an HP LaserJet III.
(I used the spinning mirror form the printer for my lame 'measure the speed of light' setup, there's a lot of fun things in really old laser printers)
All the bits have been epoxied/screwed into place, its field of view is narrow, the chromatic aberration is horrible, and the edge is quite dim.
I've fiutzed with the prisms/mirrors to make up-up and down-down (I think it's called a terrestrial prism).
I use it to check out the conditions of the slopes for climbing and for wowing people with looking at the terminus of the moon. A little Mylar solar filter is great for showing off sunspots.
All said and done, I should have probably bought a set of binoculars - but it was a fun learning experiance, and it gets used so I can't complain too much. The clearness of the tube, of course, is intolerable (for daylight use, I do have a backy nylong wrap for the tube) - but people get a kick seeing how all the parts of a scope work - they can see that the 'lens' is actually a mirror - good stuff.
I've sold the B&L a long time ago - I just wasn't getting any use from it, and grudgingly realized that I needed a really light scope for my woodland trips if I was to *actually* use it.
Unlike you, I'm a successful tech professional with over two decades of experience, so I'm not so easy to fool as your your little school buddies. Better luck next time
"Tech Professional."
Not if your conduct here is indication of your "professionalism."
Ad-nausea Repetition of a false fallacy without evidence is a sure indication of lack of logical reasoning. Granted, my spelling may be atrociaous but lake of attention to detail is no indication of intelectual capacity.
You have exactly 5 years on me, but I feel sad for you. I learned that pissing contest are inane a long time ago. I've met idiots with 50 years of experience and geniuses with only a few years.
I bet your MCSE brings you a lot of joy.
My PADI certification, Technician class HAM Radio (with code), any my (soon to be) private pilots license brings me joy.
BTW - Celestron does suck. Grind your own mirrors - it's a lot of fun. I've made a custom 4" Newtonian with an acrylic primary mirror - the whole scope only weighs 7 lbs. It's great for hiking - people who never seen a planet before really enjoy it on our climbs. It's a POS, but it's fun - I wouldn't cry if I dropped it.
Of course, what do I know - I got suckered into buying an 8-inch Bauch-and-Lomb just before they stopped making scopes.
The delusions under which so many open-source proponents labor is incredible.
Whatever..
My company is clobering the competition by the judicious use of open souse products.
Our bids are lower and our re-work costs are lower.
In fact, I hope the goodness of open-sourse doesen't come to light - it's a distinct competitive advantage that I don't want my competition to know about.
Currently we use lots of symlinks to tie it all together into a single logical directory tree, but that's a really ugly solution.
I don't think a bunch of symlinks is ugly at all. If it works well - who cares?
Are you haveing trouble with any of your simlinked directory structures - in my little FreeBSD world, I've never noticed any problem at all except for a few utilities that are aware of simlinks and will allow you to chose to traverse them or not - like rsync.
Slashdot Mirror
Basically all hardware works just fine with Windows. It's not the same for Linux. Give me a break.
You mean, all Intell x86 based hardware.
The day I see Windows run on POWER5 is the day that I'll stop thinking of it as a consumer OS.
Untill then... Windows is like a Toyota. It's usefull for 80% of the people out there - but some of us need a work truck.
Yes, you can remove solitaire and other games from Win 2k. You must edit sysoc.inf to unhide the Games section of Add/Remove Windows Components.
And they say Unix is hard. All this to remove a program?
Ugh.
I keep an old Psion Revo and a Iridium satelite phone in my backpack when I'm out in the woods - it lets me fix servers, while still enjoying my vacation.
I had Telneted (SSH is too slow over a satelite link) into my home server, and from there, to my customer's server.
After I fixed their problem - I just had to try a 'lynx slashdot.org'.
Windows 2000 seems good enough....
Until you sit down and play with Mac OS-X.
Then you realize that it sucks.
most UNIX vaients have a 'nice' command to bump the priority of processes up or down - I know Widnows 2000/XP can do this as wee via the GUI, I'm sure there's a command line way to do it.
On our FreeBSD servers - we 'nice' the backups to a low priority and nobody notices. Even if we don't 'nice' them, nobody notices - but that's because FreeBSD is uber-good at scheduling.
I Bent My Wookie
-Love Ralph
The Viwesonic and this IBM monitor look like twins....hmmmm....
http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servle
I do know that IBM has had this monitor available for the last 2.5 years - including the special Matrox card to drive it.
What the hell is "innovative" or "creative" about stealing someone elses product idea and reimplemting it under open source?
What the hell, it happens in commercial software all the time. Jucst because the Free software poeple do it now and then doesen't make it any more whong.
MS-DOS/Quick and Dirty DOS copied CP/M
Word copied WordPerfect
Excel copies Lotus 123 who copied VisiCalc
Windows coped Mac who copied Xerox
WELL I'M WRITING THIS ON A CO
CO TRS-80 YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!
AT LEAST YOU HAVE LOWER-CASE!!
OK?
OK?
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
OpenBSD has has NX for about a year now, and Solaris on Sparc has had if for much longer than that.
As a side note...
A friend that works at Microsoft MSN fessed up that Hotmail *still* has a lot of FreeBSD boxes when I causally asked He claimed that Microsoft decided that there wasn't and competitive advantage to move Hotmail to Windows - but because of GMail, Microsoft has decided that the are reasons to move off of FreeBSD. He woulden't elaborate.
Snowcat,
I kind you not...
The stand-along callendar: Sunbird
Grow up. Stop running around being "offended" at everything.
You fake concern is just a show you put on to please others - and it doesen't fool anybody.
Those Gay Nazi half-breed Nigger Europeans will only take my hate speech when they pry my tongue from my cold dead body
I'm reposting this because I have Karma to burn, and some nit-wit mods can't take a joke. Do your worst.
Those Gay Nazi half-breed Nigger Europeans will only take my hate speech when they pry my tongue from my cold dead body.
I've marked you as a friend as well, and if I view my postings from your viewpoint - I really cam off as a twit.
Perhaps we just got off on a bad foot.
My little scope is a complete optical nightmare - it's virtue is that it gets used, it's horribly light, and I can leave it around without worrying 'bout it - it's quite rugged.
I hope I'm using the correct terms:
I have a little Velcro closured bag that you fill up with sand/pebbles at your destination; once you're done findings small rocks you place the new bean-bag on your knee while sitting Indian style.
The butt of the scope is a round - a chopped up Styrofoam ball, and the tube is a chopped up 4-liter Nalgene lab-bottle. The wide rim of the Nalgene bottle is left alone so the traditional Nalgene cap is the lens cap.
The secondary optics were harvested from and old, beat up, Russian surplus binocular set and the small flat mirror was from a Cannon laser printer that probably weighed 60 lbs - it was 4x as big as an HP LaserJet III.
(I used the spinning mirror form the printer for my lame 'measure the speed of light' setup, there's a lot of fun things in really old laser printers)
All the bits have been epoxied/screwed into place, its field of view is narrow, the chromatic aberration is horrible, and the edge is quite dim.
I've fiutzed with the prisms/mirrors to make up-up and down-down (I think it's called a terrestrial prism).
I use it to check out the conditions of the slopes for climbing and for wowing people with looking at the terminus of the moon. A little Mylar solar filter is great for showing off sunspots.
All said and done, I should have probably bought a set of binoculars - but it was a fun learning experiance, and it gets used so I can't complain too much. The clearness of the tube, of course, is intolerable (for daylight use, I do have a backy nylong wrap for the tube) - but people get a kick seeing how all the parts of a scope work - they can see that the 'lens' is actually a mirror - good stuff.
I've sold the B&L a long time ago - I just wasn't getting any use from it, and grudgingly realized that I needed a really light scope for my woodland trips if I was to *actually* use it.
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I suspect only 13 year old boys can focus them clearly.
..... fifteen seconds later....
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Re-Enter Password: billiejean
Congratulations, TouchMyWhiteGlove, you're our newest Slashdot member.
They bought someone up and slapped their name on it. http://www.ravantivirus.com/
RAV Antivirus also supported Linux and FreeBSD, and were proud of it.
Your web-broser is dowinloading SOFTWARE:
HERE IT IS:
10 PRINT "BILL GATES MAKES 3L33T PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES";
20 RUN
Unlike you, I'm a successful tech professional with over two decades of experience, so I'm not so easy to fool as your your little school buddies. Better luck next time
"Tech Professional."
Not if your conduct here is indication of your "professionalism."
Ad-nausea Repetition of a false fallacy without evidence is a sure indication of lack of logical reasoning. Granted, my spelling may be atrociaous but lake of attention to detail is no indication of intelectual capacity.
You have exactly 5 years on me, but I feel sad for you. I learned that pissing contest are inane a long time ago. I've met idiots with 50 years of experience and geniuses with only a few years.
I bet your MCSE brings you a lot of joy.
My PADI certification, Technician class HAM Radio (with code), any my (soon to be) private pilots license brings me joy.
BTW - Celestron does suck. Grind your own mirrors - it's a lot of fun. I've made a custom 4" Newtonian with an acrylic primary mirror - the whole scope only weighs 7 lbs. It's great for hiking - people who never seen a planet before really enjoy it on our climbs. It's a POS, but it's fun - I wouldn't cry if I dropped it.
Of course, what do I know - I got suckered into buying an 8-inch Bauch-and-Lomb just before they stopped making scopes.
Keep wasting you time little troll.
I'll take it from the lack of substantive answers that I hit the nail on the head
Lack of reply does not imply consent; just that I prefer to tweak trolls like you in a more ad-hominum way.
Ta ta, my little spell-checker. I'll have some more work for you later.
Thanks for being my spell-checker.
You make a good man-bitch.
The delusions under which so many open-source proponents labor is incredible.
Whatever..
My company is clobering the competition by the judicious use of open souse products.
Our bids are lower and our re-work costs are lower.
In fact, I hope the goodness of open-sourse doesen't come to light - it's a distinct competitive advantage that I don't want my competition to know about.
Raking in the money with little effort is FUN.
Currently we use lots of symlinks to tie it all together into a single logical directory tree, but that's a really ugly solution.
I don't think a bunch of symlinks is ugly at all. If it works well - who cares?
Are you haveing trouble with any of your simlinked directory structures - in my little FreeBSD world, I've never noticed any problem at all except for a few utilities that are aware of simlinks and will allow you to chose to traverse them or not - like rsync.