I remember a rather terrifying expeience of taking a bag of bread* down below the water - the local fish population had grown quite fond of the sight and swarmed me en mass. Litterally, I was the center of a great mound of frantically pecking fish. I was only ten feet below at the time, so I surfaced and held the well gnawed bag of bread above the surface and instantly the hidiould little buggers lost interest.
Sorry to hear about your hand! A least you can brag that it was a barracuda - I have a three inch long gash on by leg from a baby Picasso triggerfish. I noticed him on a outcropping of coral and wathed his antics for a few moments, as I swam away, somthing did somthing to my leg (I assume it was my colorfull fried) and I wound up with a three inch long scar. The little bugger was only two inches long. Oh well, a small price to pay to be a guest in their ocean.
* I later found out (in defence, I was 11 at the time, but should have known better) - don't feed fish bread as it can clog some fishes guts, leading to painfull bloating and death. Don't listen to the natives if they tell you it's ok.
The jellyfish reminds me of a hidden danger of the tropical seas: little colorfull snails, that after you pick up will inject you with a combination of 'tooth' and venom - possibly enough to kill you. These little buggers are responsible for quite a few injuries and an occasional death or two. Woth knowing about the next time you go snorkeling. More info
Hey this stuff compresses wonderfully down to zero bits with my new MP3000 patent-pending compression technique. Take that Fraunhoffer and your crappy MP3's.
I guess the end run around any preceived problems on CmdrTaco's part would be to just provide links to Google's cache.
A certainly agree with you..
Considering that there are several full-time people working (and being paid) on Slashdot, I find it rather odd that that hasen't been a solution forthcoming to this common problem.
It could be a case of burn-out, but I suspect general lazyness.
There are two reasons why Slashdot doesen't cache liked pages:
1) I could very well be illegal without obtaing permission from a human. This would take too much time away from CmdrTaco adding spelling errors to my posts.
2) It would costs money in bandwidth costs. VA Software coporate officers love to roll naked in freshly minted $1 bills, and this would take away from their stash. Then only, one officer could roll at a time. Not a happy thing.
We install servers all the time, and we would love a local mom and pop place that would have the following stuff in stock:
SCSI dirves and controllers.
Decent cases with good power-supplies.
Stable motherboards.
Generic mice and keyboards without hidious logos.
Well-built cooling fans.
2U cases.
Don't bottom fish - servers still have good profit margins and there are people like me who will gladly pay a premium for good service. You'll lose your shirt if you sell crappy computers to little old ladies - the suport costs will eat you alive if you don't have the heart to tell them to piss off when they can't figgure out 'winderz.'
*If* thats all it does, I tip my hat to the writer of the worm: at least it doesen't destroy any data and you can recover.
If I meet the worm writer - I'm tempted to throttle him on one hand, and shake his hand on the other. It's kinda like a house burgler who steals all your top-ramen and doesen't take your expensive jewlery. Annoying, but in the long run, there wasen't much damage and you securty system had been debugged.
Well, you thought I was incorrect, why wern't you 'polite enough to keep' your 'mouth shut'?
Simple: You saw me engaging, in what you though, was insensitive behaviour and you spoke up. Well done, and to be encouraged. Now, here's the hard part, give others the same license you give yourself.
I guess this is a case of diferance. I do recomend, though, that swareing doesen't augment your argument.
I don't know who John Postel is so I can't comment on that. But, I do disagree that impersonal plublicly displayed greif over a personality is somehow 'classy.' It's actually, intuelectually pathetic, childish and usually insincere.
Well anyways...I guess we just disagree.
...
I do miss the days before MTV, when pop music was judged on its poetry, style and beauty. Now days, generally, pop music is judged by the beauty of it's lead singer, and the slick marketing of the lables. It's sad to see that pop culture is loosing *all* of it's graces and is really quite shamefull to think that this is the best, as a socioty, we can do.
There is hope - The Lord of The Rings is good literature and is popluar at the same time, The Simpsons episodes are witty and aserbic. Hopefully, as a population we can choose to make things like 'Survivor' and 'Entertainment Tonight' go away.
Here's to good rock, fun and poetic at the same time.
What is wrong with you - this is Slashdot, not a funeral home.
Obviously, you are a huge fan of the musicians in the band 'Who.' in order to be so weirdly defensive.
Maby, if you spent more time with your frinds, family and real people - you'd understand my shock of people boo-hooing over the loss of entertainment.
Especially in this case, where the persion is quiestion's life should have been celebrated as a kick-ass example of someone doing what they love and having fun doing it.
This whole thing reminds me of all the fake wailing and moaning when 'Lady Di' died. Hell, 99.99% of the 'mouners' haden't even seen the woman, let alone developed a relationship.
I'll leave you to your amusements, and apparently, your heros of god like stature. Try not to let your 'entertainments' rule your life - especially the ones with advertisements.
Upon refection I do know where your coming from, I had the same reaction when I figgured that Santa Clause wasen't real. And, quite frankly, if a little pain is caused by getting people to wake up from their 'pop-culture' dreams, and even if pepole have an ill though nasty word tward me, so be it. It's only slashdot.
I'd have sympathy for them if they diden't BURN THROUGH $75,000,000.00. The debt load alone will kill them, and the fact that their crappy business skill with most likly take down The Well is a real bummer.
Not if The Onion falls on bad times then that will truly be a shame.
Thanks - I'll give that a try on my other laptop and if it works, I'm off to get a new iBook. Adminstering stodgy/serious UNIX boxes with a shiny Apple will be kinda fun.
The lack of DB9 serial port kills the iBook for me, and you can't add one with the non-exsistant PCMCIA. I'm sure there's a USB dongle to DB9 serial that would work fine, but I'm too lazy to dink around.
A life without $BIG-MEDIA, is like a life without McDonalds.
Crappy Life:
Disney
Coke
Britney Spears
Track House
Organised Religion
Good Life;
Family Videos
Good Red Wine
Local Jazz Joint
Old Rickety Home
Walk In The Park
To me, the crappyest photos taken by my friends and family are worth more that the masterpeices in any photo-calender. Same way with just about anything.
Slashdot Mirror
It like your sig :)
I remember a rather terrifying expeience of taking a bag of bread* down below the water - the local fish population had grown quite fond of the sight and swarmed me en mass. Litterally, I was the center of a great mound of frantically pecking fish. I was only ten feet below at the time, so I surfaced and held the well gnawed bag of bread above the surface and instantly the hidiould little buggers lost interest.
Sorry to hear about your hand! A least you can brag that it was a barracuda - I have a three inch long gash on by leg from a baby Picasso triggerfish. I noticed him on a outcropping of coral and wathed his antics for a few moments, as I swam away, somthing did somthing to my leg (I assume it was my colorfull fried) and I wound up with a three inch long scar. The little bugger was only two inches long. Oh well, a small price to pay to be a guest in their ocean.
* I later found out (in defence, I was 11 at the time, but should have known better) - don't feed fish bread as it can clog some fishes guts, leading to painfull bloating and death. Don't listen to the natives if they tell you it's ok.
The jellyfish reminds me of a hidden danger of the tropical seas: little colorfull snails, that after you pick up will inject you with a combination of 'tooth' and venom - possibly enough to kill you. These little buggers are responsible for quite a few injuries and an occasional death or two. Woth knowing about the next time you go snorkeling. More info
Hey this stuff compresses wonderfully down to zero bits with my new MP3000 patent-pending compression technique. Take that Fraunhoffer and your crappy MP3's.
I guess the end run around any preceived problems on CmdrTaco's part would be to just provide links to Google's cache.
A certainly agree with you..
Considering that there are several full-time people working (and being paid) on Slashdot, I find it rather odd that that hasen't been a solution forthcoming to this common problem.
It could be a case of burn-out, but I suspect general lazyness.
Actually this is a case of "You Get What You Don't Pay For" -
HPUX, Windows and AIX are all expensive and suck.
Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD are all free and work wonderfully.
So in this case, your level of protection is determined by your inteligence and not by the amount of money you sepend.
There are two reasons why Slashdot doesen't cache liked pages:
1) I could very well be illegal without obtaing permission from a human. This would take too much time away from CmdrTaco adding spelling errors to my posts.
2) It would costs money in bandwidth costs. VA Software coporate officers love to roll naked in freshly minted $1 bills, and this would take away from their stash. Then only, one officer could roll at a time. Not a happy thing.
The entire reason for this post is to see how many people gripe when I mis-spell Atheleon.
We install servers all the time, and we would love a local mom and pop place that would have the following stuff in stock:
SCSI dirves and controllers.
Decent cases with good power-supplies.
Stable motherboards.
Generic mice and keyboards without hidious logos.
Well-built cooling fans.
2U cases.
Don't bottom fish - servers still have good profit margins and there are people like me who will gladly pay a premium for good service. You'll lose your shirt if you sell crappy computers to little old ladies - the suport costs will eat you alive if you don't have the heart to tell them to piss off when they can't figgure out 'winderz.'
fake beeing mozilla or lynx
;)
Aughfully clever way for Mozilla to gain market share
*If* thats all it does, I tip my hat to the writer of the worm: at least it doesen't destroy any data and you can recover.
If I meet the worm writer - I'm tempted to throttle him on one hand, and shake his hand on the other. It's kinda like a house burgler who steals all your top-ramen and doesen't take your expensive jewlery. Annoying, but in the long run, there wasen't much damage and you securty system had been debugged.
Tough call.
Better than their other one:
Under $50 Bucks? Under $50 Bucks! From Ah-Tar-E
Ugh..
Well, you thought I was incorrect, why wern't you 'polite enough to keep' your 'mouth shut'?
Simple: You saw me engaging, in what you though, was insensitive behaviour and you spoke up. Well done, and to be encouraged. Now, here's the hard part, give others the same license you give yourself.
I guess this is a case of diferance. I do recomend, though, that swareing doesen't augment your argument.
I don't know who John Postel is so I can't comment on that. But, I do disagree that impersonal plublicly displayed greif over a personality is somehow 'classy.' It's actually, intuelectually pathetic, childish and usually insincere.
Well anyways...I guess we just disagree.
...
I do miss the days before MTV, when pop music was judged on its poetry, style and beauty. Now days, generally, pop music is judged by the beauty of it's lead singer, and the slick marketing of the lables. It's sad to see that pop culture is loosing *all* of it's graces and is really quite shamefull to think that this is the best, as a socioty, we can do.
There is hope - The Lord of The Rings is good literature and is popluar at the same time, The Simpsons episodes are witty and aserbic. Hopefully, as a population we can choose to make things like 'Survivor' and 'Entertainment Tonight' go away.
Here's to good rock, fun and poetic at the same time.
Cheers.
What is wrong with you - this is Slashdot, not a funeral home.
Obviously, you are a huge fan of the musicians in the band 'Who.' in order to be so weirdly defensive.
Maby, if you spent more time with your frinds, family and real people - you'd understand my shock of people boo-hooing over the loss of entertainment.
Especially in this case, where the persion is quiestion's life should have been celebrated as a kick-ass example of someone doing what they love and having fun doing it.
This whole thing reminds me of all the fake wailing and moaning when 'Lady Di' died. Hell, 99.99% of the 'mouners' haden't even seen the woman, let alone developed a relationship.
I'll leave you to your amusements, and apparently, your heros of god like stature. Try not to let your 'entertainments' rule your life - especially the ones with advertisements.
Upon refection I do know where your coming from, I had the same reaction when I figgured that Santa Clause wasen't real. And, quite frankly, if a little pain is caused by getting people to wake up from their 'pop-culture' dreams, and even if pepole have an ill though nasty word tward me, so be it. It's only slashdot.
I guess I'm out of touch.
To me, tradgity is the deat of a child, a child just becoming consience and is just begining to dream.
An older musician, somebody who lived his dreams, passing on seem normal.
If someone told me that "my mom died", I'd have sympathy, but if someone told me "my favorite author died" I'd just shrug.
I guess I've never had any form of entertainment touch me like my friends and family do.
Lamenting the loss of a loved one, to me, is natural. Lamenting the loss of a source of entertainment just seems hollow, to me.
Oh well, to each his own.
1) Sue people who copy the Patented Underpants Gnome Business Method *
2) ??
3) Profit!
* Patent pending.
jackass.
Sorry if I've hurt you when your down and out.
I obviously touched a nerve here - sorry your hero died.
I guess i'm juse a bit diferent than you - I'll save the sorrow for when one of my family, friends or pets dies.
Good luck with your greif, and hope you find another hero soon.
http://www.seanbaby.com/news/pandaporn.htm
Maby not more informative, but a hell of a lot funnier.
I'd have sympathy for them if they diden't BURN THROUGH $75,000,000.00. The debt load alone will kill them, and the fact that their crappy business skill with most likly take down The Well is a real bummer.
Not if The Onion falls on bad times then that will truly be a shame.
Thanks - I'll give that a try on my other laptop and if it works, I'm off to get a new iBook. Adminstering stodgy/serious UNIX boxes with a shiny Apple will be kinda fun.
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The lack of DB9 serial port kills the iBook for me, and you can't add one with the non-exsistant PCMCIA. I'm sure there's a USB dongle to DB9 serial that would work fine, but I'm too lazy to dink around.
Otherwise, a fine and well made laptop.
Hear Hear!
A life without $BIG-MEDIA, is like a life without McDonalds.
Crappy Life:
Disney
Coke
Britney Spears
Track House
Organised Religion
Good Life;
Family Videos
Good Red Wine
Local Jazz Joint
Old Rickety Home
Walk In The Park
To me, the crappyest photos taken by my friends and family are worth more that the masterpeices in any photo-calender. Same way with just about anything.
Isn't one remote hole all Windows needs too? Or isn't that the Windows nature?
The biggest security hole in Windows is the power-button. Turn it on, and POW! HACKED BY CHIN33SE!
When you consider that an average person earns 2 million in his/her lifetime, this 'fraud' can be considered the 'murder' of 1500 lives worth of work.
Perhaps, death is an appropriate punishment.
Just food for thought.