The keyboard that I'm typing on now is an IBM model M from 1984. That's right; 25 years of very hard use & abuse, and it's still doing fine.
I've slaughtered lesser keyboards provided to me by employers. Now I have a model M at the office (much newer; it's only twenty years old) and doing fine.
$70 for a brand new one with a USB connection and the extra "Windows" keys is a steal.
Thermite is a perfect example. It's easy to make, the ingredients are dirt cheap and unregulated, and it takes no special knowledge to put it together.
It was the French crown, pre-revolution, that came to the aid of America. It was not the people of France that came to aid us! Also don't forget the Dutch contribution to the American revolution.
Still, in both the malicious and the benign examples, the camera is making a boolean decision: did the motorist cross the intersection through a red light? The motorcyclist is getting a ticket and treated just like the jerk that operated a motor vehicle with blatant disregard for the safety of his fellow man. I'd much rather have to explain myself to a cop that watched me sitting for 2 or 3 minutes at the light before crossing it than having to lose a day of work to go to traffic court and fight the ticket after it has already been issued.
Clearly you're not a motorcyclist that has fallen victim to sensor-driven traffic lights. You can wait all day at a red light for a car to come trip the sensor for you, or you can wait a couple of minutes, wait for a clearing, and run the light.
This could be a real public relations boost for NASA if they went with the Colbert name. NASA would earn the good will of many tax paying Americans and get the occasional positive plug from Stephen on the show. NASA often has to fight against politicians for funding, but Colbert brings to bear an army of letter writers who will help secure funding to make sure his ISS module gets launched.
Most of the public feels completely disconnected from NASA and this could really help to change that. I hope they take the Colbert plug and run with it!
It may have been out for months, but it has been in development for much longer. Any author writing about software ought to be in tune with development roadmaps and syncing their writing up with anticipated releases so that their books can hopefully drop in time with the software that they are writing about.
Adn how long would it take me to SSH into 40,000 desktops to update Adobe Reader 8 to Adobe Reader 9, because there is some new feature that someone decided we just have to implement?
How long to copy the browser link to 40,000 desktops to comply with a mandatory ethics reporting plan we had to put in place? How long to patch 40,000 kernels for a security hole that must be resolved within 72 hours due to Corporate Information Security policy?
How long does it take you to install software on just one machine?
Because seriously... NFS mounted app directories. It will change your outlook. Look into it.
I use cfengine to manage my servers. Right now I only have about 50 servers to manage, but with a userbase of about 30,000 very clever users and some really obnoxious corporate policies to enforce. At a previous job I was managing thousands of Linux boxes all by myself, and had half my day left over to help the Windows guys with their pile of work to manage a few hundred desktop machines and a couple of dozen servers.
This isn't rocket science. This is a matter of a professional using the right tools to get the job done effectively and efficiently.
Bugs filed with Ubuntu are routinely ignored. There is a huge drive for forward movement, new features, but almost no emphasis on cleaning up the myriad bugs. Why should I waste my time reporting bugs if Canonical isn't putting resources into resolving them?
I am a photographer (serious amateur, not paid professional) and I use Gimp. It's mostly good for photography work, but it does have some inherent limitations. For example, my archival 16 bit greyscale scans of medium format B&W film have to be downsampled to 8 bit before Gimp can open them. For simple touchups, and a little bit in the way of zany effects, Gimp is actually pretty good if you can live within its limitations (and I do).
With that said, most "photographers" today are more like "graphic artists" that use a photograph as the foundation for creating electronic art that is based on a photograph. I strive to get it right in-camera and mostly use Gimp now for scaling, adjusting the curves for on-screen display, and possibly a light unsharp mask at the desired display resolution.
(recent example... Mamiya C330, 80mm Mamiya-Sekor, Kodak TXP320 film expired in 2000, developed in Rodinal 1:50. Metered with Sekonic L358. Scanned with Vuescan on an Epson V500.)
...but then someone came into the recovery room with a stack of legal contracts an inch thick for my wife and I to sign. I know that most people will sign whatever is put in front of them without reading, but I'm not one of those people. They made it so complicated to donate cord blood that we just sent them off and ditched the idea.
If they want parents to donate cord blood, they need to make it an easy process.
Do you want to die by way of eaten by sharks, or would you rather have wolves?
I honestly don't think either candidate is qualified for the position. We already know that Cisco is willfully ignorant, even hostile, towards FOSS and I imagine quite a lot of that mindset is endorsed by the CTO's office.
If I were someone in a position of authority at Netflix, here is how I would handle it.
When you rent a movie, Netflix has record that you rented it.
Don't allow anyone to review a movie that hasn't first rented it from Netflix!
This will shut out people who have seen it in the theaters, of course, as well as pirates. But it will also make it a lot harder to shill without first renting the movie.
But no matter how many times you rent it, your account only gets to review a movie once.
Yeah I was being careful in my original comment to not really mention which side of the issue that I'm on, but rather where I could see this going given the current political climate. I'm not a fan of all of this meddling, either.
Getting all of the records into a standardized format is a stepping stone to universal health care. By biting it off in pieces, he's going to be able to make the apparent cost of the transition lower because much of the expensive work will have already been done by initiatives like this.
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The keyboard that I'm typing on now is an IBM model M from 1984. That's right; 25 years of very hard use & abuse, and it's still doing fine.
I've slaughtered lesser keyboards provided to me by employers. Now I have a model M at the office (much newer; it's only twenty years old) and doing fine.
$70 for a brand new one with a USB connection and the extra "Windows" keys is a steal.
Right, just like what they used on 9/11 to take down the twin towers and WTC7.
It was the French crown, pre-revolution, that came to the aid of America. It was not the people of France that came to aid us! Also don't forget the Dutch contribution to the American revolution.
Didn't anyone bother vetting him first?
Still, in both the malicious and the benign examples, the camera is making a boolean decision: did the motorist cross the intersection through a red light? The motorcyclist is getting a ticket and treated just like the jerk that operated a motor vehicle with blatant disregard for the safety of his fellow man. I'd much rather have to explain myself to a cop that watched me sitting for 2 or 3 minutes at the light before crossing it than having to lose a day of work to go to traffic court and fight the ticket after it has already been issued.
Clearly you're not a motorcyclist that has fallen victim to sensor-driven traffic lights. You can wait all day at a red light for a car to come trip the sensor for you, or you can wait a couple of minutes, wait for a clearing, and run the light.
This could be a real public relations boost for NASA if they went with the Colbert name. NASA would earn the good will of many tax paying Americans and get the occasional positive plug from Stephen on the show. NASA often has to fight against politicians for funding, but Colbert brings to bear an army of letter writers who will help secure funding to make sure his ISS module gets launched.
Most of the public feels completely disconnected from NASA and this could really help to change that. I hope they take the Colbert plug and run with it!
It may have been out for months, but it has been in development for much longer. Any author writing about software ought to be in tune with development roadmaps and syncing their writing up with anticipated releases so that their books can hopefully drop in time with the software that they are writing about.
I've got Gimp 2.6.1 on my box. Why would I want to buy a new book published about the 2.4 series?
Check out the HTML source for the adbusters link. Oops! Google tracking bug!
How long does it take you to install software on just one machine?
Because seriously... NFS mounted app directories. It will change your outlook. Look into it.
I use cfengine to manage my servers. Right now I only have about 50 servers to manage, but with a userbase of about 30,000 very clever users and some really obnoxious corporate policies to enforce. At a previous job I was managing thousands of Linux boxes all by myself, and had half my day left over to help the Windows guys with their pile of work to manage a few hundred desktop machines and a couple of dozen servers.
This isn't rocket science. This is a matter of a professional using the right tools to get the job done effectively and efficiently.
I think LTSP was what you were looking for.
Obama To Reverse Bush Limits On Maximum Size of Federal Government
Seriously, I thought Bush was awful, but Obama is making Bush look like a small government president! I've never seen anything quite like this.
...it turns out that a voting machine bug produced incorrect results in November, 2008 and John McCain actually won by a landslide.
When asked for comment, newly sworn-in Vice President Sarah Palin gave a hearty thumbs up and declared "You betcha! Yer darn tootin' we won!"
Bugs filed with Ubuntu are routinely ignored. There is a huge drive for forward movement, new features, but almost no emphasis on cleaning up the myriad bugs. Why should I waste my time reporting bugs if Canonical isn't putting resources into resolving them?
We just got done with 8 years of the monkey man. Why would you want him back?!?
...we reached this global green milestone under the Bush administration? That's unpossible (as George would probably say)
I am a photographer (serious amateur, not paid professional) and I use Gimp. It's mostly good for photography work, but it does have some inherent limitations. For example, my archival 16 bit greyscale scans of medium format B&W film have to be downsampled to 8 bit before Gimp can open them. For simple touchups, and a little bit in the way of zany effects, Gimp is actually pretty good if you can live within its limitations (and I do).
With that said, most "photographers" today are more like "graphic artists" that use a photograph as the foundation for creating electronic art that is based on a photograph. I strive to get it right in-camera and mostly use Gimp now for scaling, adjusting the curves for on-screen display, and possibly a light unsharp mask at the desired display resolution.
(recent example... Mamiya C330, 80mm Mamiya-Sekor, Kodak TXP320 film expired in 2000, developed in Rodinal 1:50. Metered with Sekonic L358. Scanned with Vuescan on an Epson V500.)
...but then someone came into the recovery room with a stack of legal contracts an inch thick for my wife and I to sign. I know that most people will sign whatever is put in front of them without reading, but I'm not one of those people. They made it so complicated to donate cord blood that we just sent them off and ditched the idea. If they want parents to donate cord blood, they need to make it an easy process.
http://www.fsf.org/news/2008-12-cisco-suit
Do you want to die by way of eaten by sharks, or would you rather have wolves?
I honestly don't think either candidate is qualified for the position. We already know that Cisco is willfully ignorant, even hostile, towards FOSS and I imagine quite a lot of that mindset is endorsed by the CTO's office.
Is it too late to clean the slate and start over?
If I were someone in a position of authority at Netflix, here is how I would handle it.
When you rent a movie, Netflix has record that you rented it.
Don't allow anyone to review a movie that hasn't first rented it from Netflix!
This will shut out people who have seen it in the theaters, of course, as well as pirates. But it will also make it a lot harder to shill without first renting the movie.
But no matter how many times you rent it, your account only gets to review a movie once.
Yeah I was being careful in my original comment to not really mention which side of the issue that I'm on, but rather where I could see this going given the current political climate. I'm not a fan of all of this meddling, either.
Getting all of the records into a standardized format is a stepping stone to universal health care. By biting it off in pieces, he's going to be able to make the apparent cost of the transition lower because much of the expensive work will have already been done by initiatives like this.
Then there is the dynamic of a guy that looks to be in is mid 20's playing a character that has live over 900 years.
When 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not.