Good for you (and us), Sam!
Please don't pay any mind to the skeptics and nay-sayers. We need more people like you and your team at Microsoft to build bridges between these technologies. The work you're doing is important and benefits everyone. Keep up the good work!
In the US (New York City, at least), when a traffic camera snaps a shot of your license plate, the owner of the car is fined, regardless of who was driving it. They don't treat it as a "moving violation," because they don't know who was driving the car, so the owner's insurance does not go up. The only exception that I know of is when the car's owner reports their car as being stolen and then is not held liable for running the red light.
I'm a PC gamer and I still have not forgiven Microsoft or Bungie for what they did with Halo. It was going to be the first FPS with vehicles on the PC platform. In the end, many of those gamers clamoring for vehicles in their FPSes ended up buying Tribes 2 at that time (GREAT GAME!).
I just posted this Slashdot article for all of my friends to read on FaceBook. It's only a matter of time before the Streisand Effect kicks-in.
To quote King Leonidas from the movie 300
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"This is Slashdot!!!"
Build a box in an enclosure with lots of hot-swap drive bays, fill it up with SAS drives, put a couple of NICs in it, plug it into your network, put a tape drive in it, install Linux on it using software RAID, and you have your NAS.
I use FaceBook every day and looking at photo albums and pictures is horribly slow on their site. I consider their implementation an example of something that still needs improvement.
Dugan, you took the words right out of my mouth. The day my ISP cancels my account will be the day that I switch ISPs. Any ISP that does not want my $$$ is more than welcome to cut my line. What a bunch of MORONS!!!
Thanks for clarifying how MS makes it easier to install software that always requires a key.
On the level playing field issue, we were talking about Microsoft buying licenses for its own software. Isn't that kind of like me taking money out of one pocket and putting it in another? Given that the $$$ goes from Microsoft to Microsoft, I don't see how that levels the playing field for a competitor...if a division needs more $$$, Microsoft could use the same software sales $$$ to fund the work of that group, right?
Anything associated with the Bush Adminsitration and fundraising for Senator McCain would definitely be sent to some educational sites of my choosing. Government propaganda sites in China would also be re-directed to more educational sites. Sites for military contractors like Halliburton, Blackwater, Lockheed Martin, McDonland Douglass, and Northorp Gruman would be re-directed to sites that show war profiteering information and US General Sevices Administration no-bid or non-competitive contract abuses.
The world would be a much better place if I controlled its DNS servers. Now, when do I get prvileges on those root DNS servers?
I just watched the video on YouTube (Streisand effect, anyone?) and found that aside from the original solos that Prince added (which were on-key and quite good), his actual singing of the song was feeble/weak, the song lacked its climaxes at the chorus, and he was off-time when singing the song's verses; he totally bastardized the song. If I were Prince, I would want it taken down too, out of embarassment for how bad the cover was.
I would not be putting out fires every few weeks...do people who know hardware still pay an IBM premium for the same parts everyone else sells? I'm finding that their RAID QA leaves a lot to be desired.
Here's a list of supported distributions (at least for that specific RPM). I first used it in RHEL 5 and CentOS is probably a good way to go if you want to get close to RHEL.
Also, I forgot to mention that the "setsebool" command is also useful.
Use SELinux commands like "restorecon" and "chcon" to fix SELinux context issues. Also, there is a GUI tool called "system-config-selinux" if you find that kind of stuff easier. If all else fails, use "setenforce" to put SELinux into WARN mode and look at the logs for clues about what is wrong.
"I remember a psychological test done on lab rats with such a scenario where they shocked one rat with electricity at regular intervals and then shocked the other at random. Even though the one at regular intervals was shocked more often, the rat that was shocked at random ate less and slept less and could not adapt to the situation."
Well, sort of...My housekeeper was cleaning and noticed (or perhaps caused) a hole about the size of a silver dollar in the drain pipe underneath my kitchen sink. The area around the hole was a corroded and basically everything that went down the drain ended up going out of the hole. I live in an apartment building where the super takes forever to fix things, so I had to come up with a stop-gap solution. First, I just put a bucket under it when I was just using water, but that was going to start to get really gross when I wanted to wash that night's frying pans, so I did not wash them that evening.
The next morning, it hit me, I could wrap the pipe with duct tape to seal the hole and it worked! I cleaned my dishes, pots, pans and made pasta on Saturday; it even held up when I poured the boiling water down the drain.
Not quite a NASA moon mission, but I did gain a new appreciation for duct tape.
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I saw the StarWars vehicle (think it's from Return of the Jedi) through your link to Amazon. Did you look at the meta data that Amazon puts at the bottom of their page. Customers who bought this Star Wars tank also bought THONGS?!? WTF!?! I'm sitting here at work, surrounded by women and I'm checking out the skimpiest underwear models in the world???
We've got the two best propagandists for both major parties right here in the US! Ann Coulter (the Devil, herself) and James Carville can spin ANYTHING!
I'm for $100 HD-DVD players and would buy one if it were still viable. Blu-Ray is still to expensive. Get me a PS3 with a big hard drive for $300 and I'm in (mmmm, Metal Gear!).
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I know that if I lived in Chicago, I would never go to that movie theater again.
Good for you (and us), Sam! Please don't pay any mind to the skeptics and nay-sayers. We need more people like you and your team at Microsoft to build bridges between these technologies. The work you're doing is important and benefits everyone. Keep up the good work!
I stumble across Piece Of Shit software all the time, both open and closed source.
The suggestion that Judge Sotomayor does not understand the law of diminishing returns is both ridiculous and insulting.
In the US (New York City, at least), when a traffic camera snaps a shot of your license plate, the owner of the car is fined, regardless of who was driving it. They don't treat it as a "moving violation," because they don't know who was driving the car, so the owner's insurance does not go up. The only exception that I know of is when the car's owner reports their car as being stolen and then is not held liable for running the red light.
I'm a PC gamer and I still have not forgiven Microsoft or Bungie for what they did with Halo. It was going to be the first FPS with vehicles on the PC platform. In the end, many of those gamers clamoring for vehicles in their FPSes ended up buying Tribes 2 at that time (GREAT GAME!).
I just posted this Slashdot article for all of my friends to read on FaceBook. It's only a matter of time before the Streisand Effect kicks-in.
"This is Slashdot!!!"
Build a box in an enclosure with lots of hot-swap drive bays, fill it up with SAS drives, put a couple of NICs in it, plug it into your network, put a tape drive in it, install Linux on it using software RAID, and you have your NAS.
I use FaceBook every day and looking at photo albums and pictures is horribly slow on their site. I consider their implementation an example of something that still needs improvement.
"They're clearly so fucking incompetent that they deserve dimemberment anyway."
There, I fixed that for you.
Dugan, you took the words right out of my mouth. The day my ISP cancels my account will be the day that I switch ISPs. Any ISP that does not want my $$$ is more than welcome to cut my line. What a bunch of MORONS!!!
Thanks for clarifying how MS makes it easier to install software that always requires a key.
On the level playing field issue, we were talking about Microsoft buying licenses for its own software. Isn't that kind of like me taking money out of one pocket and putting it in another? Given that the $$$ goes from Microsoft to Microsoft, I don't see how that levels the playing field for a competitor...if a division needs more $$$, Microsoft could use the same software sales $$$ to fund the work of that group, right?
There must be installation CDs and DVDs that don't require a CD key, right?
I'm not sure of the "level playing field" for competing organizations as a motivator for Microsoft, given their history (Nestcape browser).
Anything associated with the Bush Adminsitration and fundraising for Senator McCain would definitely be sent to some educational sites of my choosing. Government propaganda sites in China would also be re-directed to more educational sites. Sites for military contractors like Halliburton, Blackwater, Lockheed Martin, McDonland Douglass, and Northorp Gruman would be re-directed to sites that show war profiteering information and US General Sevices Administration no-bid or non-competitive contract abuses.
The world would be a much better place if I controlled its DNS servers. Now, when do I get prvileges on those root DNS servers?
I just watched the video on YouTube (Streisand effect, anyone?) and found that aside from the original solos that Prince added (which were on-key and quite good), his actual singing of the song was feeble/weak, the song lacked its climaxes at the chorus, and he was off-time when singing the song's verses; he totally bastardized the song. If I were Prince, I would want it taken down too, out of embarassment for how bad the cover was.
I would not be putting out fires every few weeks...do people who know hardware still pay an IBM premium for the same parts everyone else sells? I'm finding that their RAID QA leaves a lot to be desired.
Here's a list of supported distributions (at least for that specific RPM). I first used it in RHEL 5 and CentOS is probably a good way to go if you want to get close to RHEL. Also, I forgot to mention that the "setsebool" command is also useful.
Use SELinux commands like "restorecon" and "chcon" to fix SELinux context issues. Also, there is a GUI tool called "system-config-selinux" if you find that kind of stuff easier. If all else fails, use "setenforce" to put SELinux into WARN mode and look at the logs for clues about what is wrong.
"I remember a psychological test done on lab rats with such a scenario where they shocked one rat with electricity at regular intervals and then shocked the other at random. Even though the one at regular intervals was shocked more often, the rat that was shocked at random ate less and slept less and could not adapt to the situation."
I think you're talking about Seligman's "learned helplessness," and its behaviorist influences.
Well, sort of...My housekeeper was cleaning and noticed (or perhaps caused) a hole about the size of a silver dollar in the drain pipe underneath my kitchen sink. The area around the hole was a corroded and basically everything that went down the drain ended up going out of the hole. I live in an apartment building where the super takes forever to fix things, so I had to come up with a stop-gap solution. First, I just put a bucket under it when I was just using water, but that was going to start to get really gross when I wanted to wash that night's frying pans, so I did not wash them that evening.
The next morning, it hit me, I could wrap the pipe with duct tape to seal the hole and it worked! I cleaned my dishes, pots, pans and made pasta on Saturday; it even held up when I poured the boiling water down the drain.
Not quite a NASA moon mission, but I did gain a new appreciation for duct tape.
I saw the StarWars vehicle (think it's from Return of the Jedi) through your link to Amazon. Did you look at the meta data that Amazon puts at the bottom of their page. Customers who bought this Star Wars tank also bought THONGS?!? WTF!?! I'm sitting here at work, surrounded by women and I'm checking out the skimpiest underwear models in the world???
Yes, Mr. Stallman.
We've got the two best propagandists for both major parties right here in the US! Ann Coulter (the Devil, herself) and James Carville can spin ANYTHING!
"PS, are there any good FPSs for Wii?"
Did you ever play Meroid on the NES, SNES or GameCube? If not, imagine walking around a 3D environment, aiming at the screen with your arm-cannon.
Also, Resident Evil 4 on the Wii is awesome!
Both games have that arcade feel, using the IR bar and Wii-mote for aiming at the screen and feel very accurate.
I'm for $100 HD-DVD players and would buy one if it were still viable. Blu-Ray is still to expensive. Get me a PS3 with a big hard drive for $300 and I'm in (mmmm, Metal Gear!).