Depends on how long it takes a Martian colony to become self-sufficient. Stuff can grow pretty well in the Americas, and it's not overly hard to extract natural resources. The same cannot be said of Mars, with its lack of atmosphere and magnetic field.
My wife and I commute in opposite directions, mine being a bit farther at 35 miles. Both government jobs, of a sort -- she teaches public high school and I'm a computer tech for a state university, so we're relatively secure, and our combined salaries are ~$80k/yr.
Traffic's not too bad; the worst is usually getting stuck behind a semi on a 2-lane highway for a long stretch, and sometimes the highway floods and I have to detour. Takes me about 50 minutes to get to work if I obey the 55 MPH speed limit. I would rather get a job in town and have a short commute again, but I like what I do.
I'm in southwest Missouri, so I can't speak for conditions in Wisconsin or Michigan. But don't expect any sort of mass transit.
It is really cheap to live out this way. We bought a new 1900 ft^2 house on a standard-size lot a couple years ago for $160k. Can't do/that/ on the coasts.
Not as much to do, culturally speaking, and you have to live around Republicans, but overall it's not a bad life.
we don't get hit with tornadoes all that often. They do happen, and small towns do get properly torn-up by them, but one of those only hits every few years. Most of our tornadoes touch down in uninhabited areas, because there's a/lot/ of space that's farm fields, pastures, or forested. Also, I'd much rather be here than where hurricanes or earthquakes or forest fires are apt to hit, because tornadoes by their nature affect only a small area.
Taco, would you get around to firing kdawson already? His sensationalism was amusing during the election cycle, but it's getting really tiresome.
I'm 30 and haven't written in cursive since just before I was 13. My handwriting was never particularly neat, and with printing at least people have a chance to understand what I'm writing.
I did grow up with a computer, but I didn't use it all that much for doing my papers back then.
You'd think so. But haven't you seen all those wankers wearing clothes with Tommy Hilfiger logos, or Nike logos, or other corporate advertising? Those people *paid* *extra* to advertise for those companies, because they think it makes them look cool, or more desirable, or some damn thing.
I have clothes with corporate ads on them (mainly Boeing and ATI), but they were free items from trade shows, which I think is a fair bargain.
I've been using it on an old Linux box for over 3 years now and I'm pretty pleased with it. You need a Unix or Windows computer to act as a server; on Linux it's a basic LAMP stack plus some specific PHP and Perl modules, and on Windows it comes as one package that includes everything you need. Then you install the client software on each computer that needs to be inventoried. There are clients for Windows and generic Unix (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Mac OSX, etc.).
It'll track IP address, hostname, MAC, what software's installed, username, whether it's on an Active Directory domain, subnet, all hardware including serial number. You can also configure it to use Nmap to have an auto-elected client in each subnet do a quick scan to determine what other devices are on that subnet and optionally try to detect what it is (Linux box, Windows box, printer, switch). It can also push out packages to clients.
If you want to expand some more, OCS also integrates with GLPI to provide helpdesk ticketing, license tracking, etc.
Believe it or not, my alma mater teaches a 1-semester COBOL class. Nothing terribly modern (Cobol-85 when I took the course in '01), no object-oriented stuff, but apparently we're in demand from certain companies.
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Any players notice traffic to ad servers? Post the hostnames and people can just map them to 127.0.0.1.
Depends on how long it takes a Martian colony to become self-sufficient. Stuff can grow pretty well in the Americas, and it's not overly hard to extract natural resources. The same cannot be said of Mars, with its lack of atmosphere and magnetic field.
Floating in your own /urine/. In the womb, you don't have any food to eat (it's all supplied through the umbilical), so no feces.
My wife and I commute in opposite directions, mine being a bit farther at 35 miles. Both government jobs, of a sort -- she teaches public high school and I'm a computer tech for a state university, so we're relatively secure, and our combined salaries are ~$80k/yr.
Traffic's not too bad; the worst is usually getting stuck behind a semi on a 2-lane highway for a long stretch, and sometimes the highway floods and I have to detour. Takes me about 50 minutes to get to work if I obey the 55 MPH speed limit. I would rather get a job in town and have a short commute again, but I like what I do.
I'm in southwest Missouri, so I can't speak for conditions in Wisconsin or Michigan. But don't expect any sort of mass transit.
It is really cheap to live out this way. We bought a new 1900 ft^2 house on a standard-size lot a couple years ago for $160k. Can't do /that/ on the coasts.
Not as much to do, culturally speaking, and you have to live around Republicans, but overall it's not a bad life.
we don't get hit with tornadoes all that often. They do happen, and small towns do get properly torn-up by them, but one of those only hits every few years. Most of our tornadoes touch down in uninhabited areas, because there's a /lot/ of space that's farm fields, pastures, or forested. Also, I'd much rather be here than where hurricanes or earthquakes or forest fires are apt to hit, because tornadoes by their nature affect only a small area.
Taco, would you get around to firing kdawson already? His sensationalism was amusing during the election cycle, but it's getting really tiresome.
I'm 30 and haven't written in cursive since just before I was 13. My handwriting was never particularly neat, and with printing at least people have a chance to understand what I'm writing.
I did grow up with a computer, but I didn't use it all that much for doing my papers back then.
Disgusting, isn't it?
Consider it a performance-art about Slashdot moderation and how easily it may be manipulated.
'Cause I'd really like to throw a chair at a Google logo.
20 GOTO 10
You'd think so. But haven't you seen all those wankers wearing clothes with Tommy Hilfiger logos, or Nike logos, or other corporate advertising? Those people *paid* *extra* to advertise for those companies, because they think it makes them look cool, or more desirable, or some damn thing.
I have clothes with corporate ads on them (mainly Boeing and ATI), but they were free items from trade shows, which I think is a fair bargain.
You're not just paying for the rally stripes and emblems, you're also paying the studio for the license to use Transformers stuff.
In other words, a fool and his money are soon parted.
You could build new F-15s with F-22 engines and avionics, but they wouldn't be stealthy.
Might be an interesting idea to save on the cost, though: refurb some existing F-15s with new wings and the aforementioned F-22 goodies.
How many salmon does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
I've been using it on an old Linux box for over 3 years now and I'm pretty pleased with it. You need a Unix or Windows computer to act as a server; on Linux it's a basic LAMP stack plus some specific PHP and Perl modules, and on Windows it comes as one package that includes everything you need. Then you install the client software on each computer that needs to be inventoried. There are clients for Windows and generic Unix (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Mac OSX, etc.).
It'll track IP address, hostname, MAC, what software's installed, username, whether it's on an Active Directory domain, subnet, all hardware including serial number. You can also configure it to use Nmap to have an auto-elected client in each subnet do a quick scan to determine what other devices are on that subnet and optionally try to detect what it is (Linux box, Windows box, printer, switch). It can also push out packages to clients.
If you want to expand some more, OCS also integrates with GLPI to provide helpdesk ticketing, license tracking, etc.
Double plus ungood.
That would depend in large part on if the delinquent kid was stupid or just had some behavioral problems.
What's the literal translation for your country's term for "vacuum cleaner"? Just curious.
If your app is written sensibly, it will either autosave periodically or will write what it's got open to disk if you "kill -term" its PID.
The latter's no help for naive users, of course.
Another schism was when de Raadt was booted from the NetBSD team and formed OpenBSD back in the mid '90s.
both with SSH. That's still damned impressive.
Obviously flawed: they didn't include "biblical literalism" as being credulous thinking.
I remember it, and got a copy of it and Super ZZT when they were being distributed for free.
Believe it or not, my alma mater teaches a 1-semester COBOL class. Nothing terribly modern (Cobol-85 when I took the course in '01), no object-oriented stuff, but apparently we're in demand from certain companies.