Is the number of "300 yards! what about rush hour" posts here.
Think about what you've just said guys! Do you REALLY, honestly think that they would release a car that stamps on the brakes when *anything* is in range. Give it some intelligence.. Sheesh.
I was chatting to a Sun employee the other day. He was telling me that a lot of developers at Sun are unhappy with the proliferation of Linux through their organisation.
The way I understand it, they aren't happy with the level of maturity in the Linux kernel *compared with the Solaris kernel*. He seemed to imply that the scalability in Linux wasn't as good, and felt Sun should be pushing Solaris more than Linux.
Don't take this as Linux bashing - I use it a lot at home and work, I just wondered if other developers felt similarly.
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Indeed. I was in NY for the first time last week. I bought a metro card for all-day travel. Unfortunately I got on to the wrong platform, so realising my mistake I left and crossed the road to enter the opposite platform. The turnstile said "just used" when I swiped the card. I asked the token-booth woman why and she said
"Didn't anyone tell you about the 18 minute rule"?
"What 18 minute rule?" I replied
"You can't use the card twice in any 18 minute period."
"No, nobody explained that, I just used the machine over there to buy one. I went onto the wrong platform. Can you let me onto the platform please?"
"No."
After a lot of arguing I thought 'fuck it' and got a taxi. On the whole I really enjoyed NYC, the only two things that pissed me off were that woman, and the fact the platforms aren't air-conditioned. It was like a furnace at the 34th Penn station.
What they're really doing is selling an OS-less PC, plus an extra CD that adds very little to their costs and might even be useful to a tiny fraction of their customers.
..as opposed to a couple of CDs (Linux) which would be very useful to a lot of users?
Why let some algorithm trawl around your network when you can let some human dweeb do it for you. The problem with robots - or computers in general, is that they can be fooled into thinking something is something else.
Personally I use Filemirrors. It shows what people are really downloading.
Only 'real' techies seem to have any time for Alpha. A company I work at has just thrown some out which ran a development SAP system only 18 months ago. Now it's been recycled by one of my collegues and runs RedHat.
We recently moved house and connected to NTL for telephone and cable modem. They gave us a number and I asked for it to be ex-directory (so it doesn't show up in public directories and thus should reduce the chances we get spam calls). Within a week or two we were getting fax calls from someone at all hours of the day and night. Not nice for Clare when I'm away from home, waking her up in the middle of the night (we don't have a fax machine). Problem is they always seemed to block their number, so dialling 1472 to get the CLI number didn't work. However *once* it did. We got the number and searched for it on the internet. I found out the company name and got their website from google. I then figured out their email naming convention and send an email to every employee in the company telling them to stop.
They stopped.
The problem was that our number was reused. It had been someone elses fax number 6 months ago. The phone company said they could change our number if we wanted, but we'd just get another recycled number.
The dimwit company with the fax machine hadn't purged their marketing database at all.
In the UK we have an opt-out system also, called the 'Telephone Preference Service'. There's also an associated organisation called the 'Mail Preference Service' to reduce spam through the letter box. Since we registered we haven't had any spam calls and little or no mail either.
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Is the number of "300 yards! what about rush hour" posts here.
Think about what you've just said guys! Do you REALLY, honestly think that they would release a car that stamps on the brakes when *anything* is in range. Give it some intelligence.. Sheesh.
Interesting yes, ironic, no.
What's your name, Alanis Morissette ?
But it irks me to have to maintain this stuff, just so I don't get a gazillion spams a day.
Maybe we should just resign ourselves to having to treat spam like viruses. Fixing the symptoms and not the cause.
and that's the single measure of great engineering is it?
ha ha.
American, best engineers in the world you say? I'd say Germans are the best engineers, americans are the best at marketing.
The guys at Bloggerheads have been doing a similar task to find the email of Tony Blair (British PM for those not in the know).
Slightly different as Tony promised that he would release his email address, but so far has not. Quite funny, worth a read.
I was chatting to a Sun employee the other day. He was telling me that a lot of developers at Sun are unhappy with the proliferation of Linux through their organisation.
The way I understand it, they aren't happy with the level of maturity in the Linux kernel *compared with the Solaris kernel*. He seemed to imply that the scalability in Linux wasn't as good, and felt Sun should be pushing Solaris more than Linux.
Don't take this as Linux bashing - I use it a lot at home and work, I just wondered if other developers felt similarly.
I setup a website to play with this idea Clunky.net but I don't have the time to maintain it at the moment. May resurrect it if it becomes popular..
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I wouldn't worry. We won't see it for years.
Although I did see them demoed at the Farnborough Air Show. Some promo for BAE who apparently made the gyros.
freevo is a very nice Linux equivalent. I tried it for the first time last night, and it's just gorgeous.
I'd like to put a 'multimedia' centre in the living room, maybe using a nice small micro atx board and case.
Problem will be crowbaring a wireless ethernet card (I'd like it to be the wireless gateway too), and a tv out video card as well...
(my emphasis) Navigator lets you watch DVDs from anywhere in the room, whether you're at your desk or on your living room couch.
What? I can stand over here and watch it..? What about over here? I can't possibly watch it from over HERE can I?!
They're going to be soooo expensive.
Reminds me of an old Spitting Image sketch featuring a puppet of Alexander Graham Bell and his mum. Went something like this..
*Phone Rings*
Mum: Hello, '2'. (quoting her phone number)
AGB: (disguising voice) Hello lady, what colour knickers you got on?
Mum: Alexander, I know that's you!
Made me laugh anyway.
Indeed. I was in NY for the first time last week. I bought a metro card for all-day travel. Unfortunately I got on to the wrong platform, so realising my mistake I left and crossed the road to enter the opposite platform. The turnstile said "just used" when I swiped the card. I asked the token-booth woman why and she said
"Didn't anyone tell you about the 18 minute rule"?
"What 18 minute rule?" I replied
"You can't use the card twice in any 18 minute period."
"No, nobody explained that, I just used the machine over there to buy one. I went onto the wrong platform. Can you let me onto the platform please?"
"No."
After a lot of arguing I thought 'fuck it' and got a taxi. On the whole I really enjoyed NYC, the only two things that pissed me off were that woman, and the fact the platforms aren't air-conditioned. It was like a furnace at the 34th Penn station.
What they're really doing is selling an OS-less PC, plus an extra CD that adds very little to their costs and might even be useful to a tiny fraction of their customers.
..as opposed to a couple of CDs (Linux) which would be very useful to a lot of users?
Why put freedos on it? Why not Linux?
I went to the Farnborough airshow at the weekend and there were some serious hardware which appeared to defeat gravity.
With the aid of a few thousand pounds of thrust, yes.
They should at least have chosen AOL CDs to destroy. Sheesh.
Al.
burn all jpegs
Why let some algorithm trawl around your network when you can let some human dweeb do it for you. The problem with robots - or computers in general, is that they can be fooled into thinking something is something else.
Personally I use Filemirrors. It shows what people are really downloading.
Only 'real' techies seem to have any time for Alpha. A company I work at has just thrown some out which ran a development SAP system only 18 months ago. Now it's been recycled by one of my collegues and runs RedHat.
;)
Works as a nice door stop too!
That's "Imperial" and Metric to you.
No they're not. The problem is companies that don't remove numbers from their lists which are given to them by the TPS.
*They* are the problem. We barely get any calls now, since we registered with the TPS.
If you still get calls then you should go back to the TPS and get them to sort it out. They will.
We recently moved house and connected to NTL for telephone and cable modem. They gave us a number and I asked for it to be ex-directory (so it doesn't show up in public directories and thus should reduce the chances we get spam calls). Within a week or two we were getting fax calls from someone at all hours of the day and night. Not nice for Clare when I'm away from home, waking her up in the middle of the night (we don't have a fax machine). Problem is they always seemed to block their number, so dialling 1472 to get the CLI number didn't work. However *once* it did. We got the number and searched for it on the internet. I found out the company name and got their website from google. I then figured out their email naming convention and send an email to every employee in the company telling them to stop.
They stopped.
The problem was that our number was reused. It had been someone elses fax number 6 months ago. The phone company said they could change our number if we wanted, but we'd just get another recycled number.
The dimwit company with the fax machine hadn't purged their marketing database at all.
In the UK we have an opt-out system also, called the 'Telephone Preference Service'. There's also an associated organisation called the 'Mail Preference Service' to reduce spam through the letter box. Since we registered we haven't had any spam calls and little or no mail either.