In my neighborhood this looks like the same dataset as terraserver.microsoft.com, right down to the red car parked 2 houses down. (SF Bay Area CA, zip 94549) According to terraserver that data set is "Urban Areas" from 2/2/7/2004 - pretty new data. These are HR aerial, not sat, photos, probably from a commercial service under contract to USGS. And Yes There's a Scale!
I can zoom in a lot farther on terraserver - down to where I can see the white railing of our deck standing out against the back yard.
The image looks better rotated 180 deg; since the airplane was north of my location the parallax makes everything "upside down".
It will instantly adjust your gamma to zero. It will fill your house wiht toxic smoke, too, so you if you gets all humans and pets out the house first, you can use it to fumigate for pests.
Las Vegas hated Comdex anyway, except for a small number elite enough to hire the top-shelf hookers and hotel suites, most attendees were typical nerds, smart enough to stay away from the slot machines, two-dollar blackjack hackers at best, and crummy tippers. The big hotels generally gouged you on rooms - the year I went to support a big vendor booth I think my employers got charged $375 per night for a $150 per night room.
I think I have a franchise opportunity here. Please send enquiries to/dev/null.
I'd lie to a pollster for free chocolate -
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As a poster to the BBC article said, "I'd reveal my "password" to anybody if they were offering me free chocolate! My password is "givemefreechocolatenowplease"!"
This is the distro I would be working on if I had the time: "GrandmaIX" - in this case for my poor mother, who can just barely use a cell phone and her DVD player, but wants to have email. A lot of her now-retired buddies have internet access, but spend all their time recovering from the various disasters they endure on their Windows machines.
My distro is a live-CD based on Knoppix or Ubuntu or whatever, I send it to Mom with a cheap-ass PC with a fair amount of memory, and she is in business.
If I were an ISP, and somehow hoping to make money off people like her, you could just send her a new CD every month for $10 or so preconfigured with a month's worth on unlimited dialup access.
In my next contract after this one expires I'm going to see if I can be a missionary for a liveCD based Linux server architecture, why deal with expensive and finicky blade servers - a $10 CD drive would actually be faster - at least the HP blades I am working with right now can't actually boot diskless; instead, you have to re-image the blade, which has an internal disk. Bleh.
The CA Tax authorities cracked down before the feds did, back in the mid-90s when a lot of the contractors were dodging their state taxes. YMMV may vary in other states with less agressive tax authorities, no state tax, or states with no money to enforce tax laws.
Right now California is in the latter category, and tax-dodging is on the upswing. Just like the goold old days, co-workers are starting to brag about how they have established out of state residency to dodge their state taxes.
It USED to be in the US that people were hired as "contractors" , paid directly without any withholding from their pay, and were responsible for paying their own taxes (and additional self-employment "social security" tax).
The IRS and state tax authorities got wise to this a LONG time ago - when I was a wee lad and no one, at least in California gets hired as a "1099" anymore (named after the tax form the hiring company reports your income on) unless you have a bundle of proof you are your own incorporated, have business insurance or a bond, or otherwise legal-tax-paying entity.
These gutless ambulance-chasing whiners in Idaho almost certainly were employees of a temp agency, which duly reported their income and withheld their taxes as employees of the temp agencies, not HP.
A lot of these temp agencies now offer benefits anyway. But then this is in Idaho, not California. Up there can't you just take an underperforming employee out in the desert and shoot 'em cowboy-style? In California you at least have to file and Environmental Impact Statement before you do that.
If the user doesn't exist, most of the time it gets/dev/null'ed - you have to accept the message rather than just drop the connection, but sendmail and postfix deal with this situation fairly gracefully, at least if your server can handle a brief load average of 100+ gracefully.
Traditionall, we just send those unknown addresses to "sales" where they were dutifully examined by someone, usually by filtering through "rm" after the disk filled up - you never known when a message addressed to aaaaaaa@ is going to be the big sales lead!
In the past I've been awakened in the dead of night by my IDS'es detecting a fork bomb and it's always been self inflicted - some dumbass^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmisinformed programmer not understanding why it's important to check the return status of a fork() or set alarms to kill off hung sockets.
I found some earlier kernels ignored RLIMIT_CPU, RLIMIT_RSS, and RLIMIT_NPROC, and setting the CPU and RSS limits in Apache was ineffective. This was in the Red Hat 9 / 2.4.20 kernel days. I have not researched this in a year or so. If all this stuff works now, let me know so I can insert a "ulimit -Hu 10" in future startup scripts as a "courtesy" to inattentive programmers.
I didn't see a price for the motorcycle, but I assume that if you have to ask you can't afford it.
However, I ran into a guy on BART (San Francisco Bay Area) with a Segway - he was just getting on in Orinda and said he had come over the hill from Berkeley - a good 5 miles and a 1000 foot climb and descent. And he was not a small guy either. He says he has ridden as far as 10 miles from Berkeley, over the hill and into Lafayette, 5 miles further than Orinda.
I had previously thought of the Segway as a toy for rich tech kiddies but this raised my respect for the technology considerably. The Segways are 3 KW and also have regenerative braking (which helped the big guy going over the hill get such good range.)
If the Segways come down a $K or two in price I'll probbaly buy one instead of a new motorcycle.
We always saw 12:08 in the advertisements of old TI digital watches, and decided it was the 12-hour format time that displayed the maximum number of valid LED segments.
Everyone has equal protection and responsibilities under the law, so OSS projects would have to be held to the same standards as oh-so-evil big corporations. Be careful what you wish for.
The electric cars were heavily subsidized both by the government and by GM.
To get an idea of what you can buy, consider a Corbin Sparrow (http://www.sparrowelectriccars.com/) or Seqway as "free market" equivalents. The dinky (but fast) little Sparrow is $15K, the Segway $5K. The listprice of the electric RAV4 was over $40K. Basically, the people who are whining about their destruction were getting a free ride at $400-500 per month including maintenance.
That the louder their motorcycle is the more likely it is for people to hear them coming.
I've been riding for 30 years and I've only been in one accident - I got rear ended. And the close calls - it's people who didn't SEE me. Sealed up in their cars I make damn sure they can see me a lot further away than they could ever hear me, even if my bike was as loud as a 747.
I'm sending my Mom a Knoppix CD - she can barely operate a cell phone but I think with just a little coaching over the phone that she could get a Knoppix psedo-thin-client all set up, enough to get her started on gmail at least.
When I was a lad we called these skylights!
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And we had to walk 10 miles barefoot through the snow in a jungle full of hungry tigers and shuriken-wielding ninjas to get that sunlight.
The new version they've been installing here in California since the mid-90s has a shiny mirrored duct about 8 in diameter that can carry sunlight about 10 feet and through a couple of 30 degree turns. They are pretty cheap, about $500 each, and work pretty well. You can get models fortitifed with compact flourescents.
Right now you can download PDF files of most tax forms that you can fill in on screen and print. If you have Acrobat, you can save the filled-in PDFs.
AFAIK, not having Acrobat, PDFs have the capability to do spreadsheet-like calculations, and the IRS has been holding off issuing such forms because Congrefs doesn't want them competing with the private sector for tax preparation services.
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In my neighborhood this looks like the same dataset as terraserver.microsoft.com, right down to the red car parked 2 houses down. (SF Bay Area CA, zip 94549) According to terraserver that data set is "Urban Areas" from 2/2/7/2004 - pretty new data. These are HR aerial, not sat, photos, probably from a commercial service under contract to USGS. And Yes There's a Scale!
I can zoom in a lot farther on terraserver - down to where I can see the white railing of our deck standing out against the back yard.
The image looks better rotated 180 deg; since the airplane was north of my location the parallax makes everything "upside down".
It will instantly adjust your gamma to zero. It will fill your house wiht toxic smoke, too, so you if you gets all humans and pets out the house first, you can use it to fumigate for pests.
Guess all you non-'merkins are out of luck!
Las Vegas hated Comdex anyway, except for a small number elite enough to hire the top-shelf hookers and hotel suites, most attendees were typical nerds, smart enough to stay away from the slot machines, two-dollar blackjack hackers at best, and crummy tippers. The big hotels generally gouged you on rooms - the year I went to support a big vendor booth I think my employers got charged $375 per night for a $150 per night room.
I think I have a franchise opportunity here. Please send enquiries to /dev/null.
As a poster to the BBC article said, "I'd reveal my "password" to anybody if they were offering me free chocolate! My password is "givemefreechocolatenowplease"!"
First show after Sept 11th:
Lorne Michaels to Rudy Giuliani: "So can we start being funny again?"
Giuliani: "Why start now?"
This is the distro I would be working on if I had the time: "GrandmaIX" - in this case for my poor mother, who can just barely use a cell phone and her DVD player, but wants to have email. A lot of her now-retired buddies have internet access, but spend all their time recovering from the various disasters they endure on their Windows machines.
My distro is a live-CD based on Knoppix or Ubuntu or whatever, I send it to Mom with a cheap-ass PC with a fair amount of memory, and she is in business.
If I were an ISP, and somehow hoping to make money off people like her, you could just send her a new CD every month for $10 or so preconfigured with a month's worth on unlimited dialup access.
In my next contract after this one expires I'm going to see if I can be a missionary for a liveCD based Linux server architecture, why deal with expensive and finicky blade servers - a $10 CD drive would actually be faster - at least the HP blades I am working with right now can't actually boot diskless; instead, you have to re-image the blade, which has an internal disk. Bleh.
The CA Tax authorities cracked down before the feds did, back in the mid-90s when a lot of the contractors were dodging their state taxes. YMMV may vary in other states with less agressive tax authorities, no state tax, or states with no money to enforce tax laws.
Right now California is in the latter category, and tax-dodging is on the upswing. Just like the goold old days, co-workers are starting to brag about how they have established out of state residency to dodge their state taxes.
It USED to be in the US that people were hired as "contractors" , paid directly without any withholding from their pay, and were responsible for paying their own taxes (and additional self-employment "social security" tax).
The IRS and state tax authorities got wise to this a LONG time ago - when I was a wee lad and no one, at least in California gets hired as a "1099" anymore (named after the tax form the hiring company reports your income on) unless you have a bundle of proof you are your own incorporated, have business insurance or a bond, or otherwise legal-tax-paying entity.
These gutless ambulance-chasing whiners in Idaho almost certainly were employees of a temp agency, which duly reported their income and withheld their taxes as employees of the temp agencies, not HP.
A lot of these temp agencies now offer benefits anyway. But then this is in Idaho, not California. Up there can't you just take an underperforming employee out in the desert and shoot 'em cowboy-style? In California you at least have to file and Environmental Impact Statement before you do that.
If the user doesn't exist, most of the time it gets /dev/null'ed - you have to accept the message rather than just drop the connection, but sendmail and postfix deal with this situation fairly gracefully, at least if your server can handle a brief load average of 100+ gracefully.
Traditionall, we just send those unknown addresses to "sales" where they were dutifully examined by someone, usually by filtering through "rm" after the disk filled up - you never known when a message addressed to aaaaaaa@ is going to be the big sales lead!
You can export and import putty's registry info pretty easily, it's all in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Simon Tatham.
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- I know a Labor Dept agent who carries a gun. Or at least went through training at the FBI academy at Quantico.
"Drop that 401k Plan or I'll shoot!"
Why spend your valuable quatloos on a USB drive when you can throw a CD in a $10 CDROM drive?
All kinds of people make portable VOIP phones, you just connect to your VOIP-enabled router or tunnel to a PC. Cisco, for starters, at the high-end:
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/phones/p
In the past I've been awakened in the dead of night by my IDS'es detecting a fork bomb and it's always been self inflicted - some dumbass^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmisinformed programmer not understanding why it's important to check the return status of a fork() or set alarms to kill off hung sockets.
I found some earlier kernels ignored RLIMIT_CPU, RLIMIT_RSS, and RLIMIT_NPROC, and setting the CPU and RSS limits in Apache was ineffective. This was in the Red Hat 9 / 2.4.20 kernel days. I have not researched this in a year or so. If all this stuff works now, let me know so I can insert a "ulimit -Hu 10" in future startup scripts as a "courtesy" to inattentive programmers.
I didn't see a price for the motorcycle, but I assume that if you have to ask you can't afford it.
However, I ran into a guy on BART (San Francisco Bay Area) with a Segway - he was just getting on in Orinda and said he had come over the hill from Berkeley - a good 5 miles and a 1000 foot climb and descent. And he was not a small guy either. He says he has ridden as far as 10 miles from Berkeley, over the hill and into Lafayette, 5 miles further than Orinda.
I had previously thought of the Segway as a toy for rich tech kiddies but this raised my respect for the technology considerably. The Segways are 3 KW and also have regenerative braking (which helped the big guy going over the hill get such good range.)
If the Segways come down a $K or two in price I'll probbaly buy one instead of a new motorcycle.
And those damn pedestrians - totally silent!
You'll hear me coming - I'm the one yelling "HEY ASS****!" at the car trying to hit me.
We always saw 12:08 in the advertisements of old TI digital watches, and decided it was the 12-hour format time that displayed the maximum number of valid LED segments.
Everyone has equal protection and responsibilities under the law, so OSS projects would have to be held to the same standards as oh-so-evil big corporations. Be careful what you wish for.
The electric cars were heavily subsidized both by the government and by GM.
To get an idea of what you can buy, consider a Corbin Sparrow (http://www.sparrowelectriccars.com/) or Seqway as "free market" equivalents. The dinky (but fast) little Sparrow is $15K, the Segway $5K. The listprice of the electric RAV4 was over $40K. Basically, the people who are whining about their destruction were getting a free ride at $400-500 per month including maintenance.
That the louder their motorcycle is the more likely it is for people to hear them coming.
I've been riding for 30 years and I've only been in one accident - I got rear ended. And the close calls - it's people who didn't SEE me. Sealed up in their cars I make damn sure they can see me a lot further away than they could ever hear me, even if my bike was as loud as a 747.
I'm sending my Mom a Knoppix CD - she can barely operate a cell phone but I think with just a little coaching over the phone that she could get a Knoppix psedo-thin-client all set up, enough to get her started on gmail at least.
And we had to walk 10 miles barefoot through the snow in a jungle full of hungry tigers and shuriken-wielding ninjas to get that sunlight.
The new version they've been installing here in California since the mid-90s has a shiny mirrored duct about 8 in diameter that can carry sunlight about 10 feet and through a couple of 30 degree turns. They are pretty cheap, about $500 each, and work pretty well. You can get models fortitifed with compact flourescents.
Can't wait to try one of these suckers out. See 3 articles up on main page:
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/11/184
Right now you can download PDF files of most tax forms that you can fill in on screen and print. If you have Acrobat, you can save the filled-in PDFs.
AFAIK, not having Acrobat, PDFs have the capability to do spreadsheet-like calculations, and the IRS has been holding off issuing such forms because Congrefs doesn't want them competing with the private sector for tax preparation services.