If the box is as bad as described it's only a matter of time before the business has to do without power.. if the power company find out they're likely to shut it off there and then and refuse to put it back on until it's been done professionally and certified. That could take weeks.
TBH that company is doomed.. I'd start looking for alternative work.
If this has been allowed to go on for 20 years then it's only a matter of time before that company kills someone anyway. I'd resign, then wait for the CEO to be sent to jail after the building burns down and someone dies (hopefully the CEO - cheapskates like that deserve everything they get).
I agree.. untll you can put the buttons the right way around (it isn't even a config option!) then gnome is staying off my desktop. I even had to stop using Pan when they went Gnome-2 compliant because I ended up junking more messsages than I actually sent...
It also spreads via an email virus.. Not a particularly smart one, though, and anyone who blocks executable attachments (isn't that everyone, now?) will never see it.
You're confusing the pop-science of the newspapers ('we found a tooth! Here's a picture of the missing link plus family, campfire, and clothing' See how true evolution is!!)
Real science is a moving target - every time you find an answer you generate two more questions, and your view of the world changes slightly. There's also the '90% of everyting is crap' rule, which also applies to scientific theories:) So no, we don't know everything about evolutionary processes but there's a mass of evidence that something like it happened (and continues to happen)... *exactly* what is still the subject of debate, which is great fun to argue over a beer.
(I've heard the pop-science evolution described as 'evolutionism' - a religion that like other religions says that one single fact explains all other facts... evolution theory != evolutionism (hopefully)).
Ahh there was an FBdev rewrite... that'll be why it doesn't work:) If you enable the framebuffer the machine just hangs on boot (tried on two separate machines so I guess it's a general problem).
Also there's no/dev/pts so you have to recompile KDE to not use it... that was enough for me so I went back to 2.4 until the distros have caught up.
I buy from PC world simply because it's easy to get to... the OEM stuff isn't that much more expensive than buying from a proper computer store and it's open late (ish).
For specialist stuff though they're still pants - they have their own 'shuttle-alike' which costs 50% more and has fewer features than the real shuttle.
Boy, you must have expensive DSL... The cheapest offsite host I can find with a reasonable bandwidth limit (I shift 18GB/mo.. I'd want 50GB cap + 30GB disk space + ssh before I'd even think of it) costs over 10 times the cost of a DSL line.
Try running them over a longer period of time.. I was running 2000-2500 emails a day through the one in SpamAssassin, and what I found is that over time they become very poor indicators of spam, since the spams are constantly changing, but the database is monolithic - after you've got 50,000 spams in the database and a new 'spammy' word turns up (eg. vi@gra) then it's only 1/50,000 as effective as when there's one email in the database... you'll need hundreds or even thousands of instances of the word before it'll be recognised as spammy. Also bayes poisoning is now so commmonplace that their effectiveness is cut drastically (I wouldn't rely on one as my sole filter) - I was getting 'obvious' spams marked as '0% probability of spam' by bayes, because the spammer had stuck a bunch of shakespeare in the bottom - this then gave SA a huge negative score and allowed the spam through even though it was in razor, orbs, etc.
I suppose it depends on how you percieve it. For me, the Simpsons had its day years ago.. I don't even bother watching the new episodes any more because they've completely run out of ideas (there's only so far you can push the 'homer is stupid, lisa is neglected, and bart should be in care' line). It was all very two dimensional, since it had to reflect the boring life of a power plant worker each week (one who never actually to work, except in a couple of episodes.. no wonder he was trying to drink himself to death).
OTOH Futurama had a lot further to go, because they could introduce new ideas each episode... no preconcieved ideas of what was possible and plenty of B-movies to do parodies of.
Funilly enough I had no problem with this... my laptop came with an orinoco compatible chipset - patched for kismet support and rebooted and it came right up.. it's worked flawlessly ever since (over quite a nice distance too).
wlan-ng running on the desktop automatically acts as an AP, too, thus saving me an expense (and giving me an AP with iptables support:) )
Just make modules modules_install and it'll only compile the stuff you've changed. It's rare to have to compile the whole kernel. You don't even have to reboot.
If you screw up a kernel compile, go into grub, edit the command line and select the previous kernel, then unscrew it up:)
This is *way* better than windows where after 5 reboots it suddently declares it can't find NTLDR and you have to fdisk/reinstall from scratch (I've had to do this dozens of times with the machines at work... it's basically half a days work lost when it happens).
Software mixing is my #1 at the moment... I've normally used SBLives and they mix in hardware, but now I have a laptop with a crappy AC97.
What surprised my is despite my assumptions (based on many posts here) alsa does *not* properly support software mixing... dmix is extremely beta (I can lock it solid by playing certain samples, and 90% of the time you just get silence) and isn't compatible with the OSS 'compatibility' layer.
The worst thing is KDE apps keep trying to start artsd and I have to keep kill -9'ing it (artsd isn't compatible with APM suspend - it goes into D state and you have to reboot, not to mention locking the sound output so you have no sound any more... FFS how hard would it have been for it to release the device when it's not using it?).
No, it is the responsibility of every citizen to ignore unjust laws.
And you do that properly - using an illegal transmitter and hoping you don't get caught is *not* legitimate civil disobedience. It's called criminal action.
It could be civil disobedience if you (a) lobbied for a change in the law (b) told the newspapers you were deliberately breaking the law (c) did so in public. Fully prepared to go to jail, along with a few dozen other people.
Mostly high frequency... around the frequency that Wifi broadcasts is considered to be useless for commercial exploitation, so doesn't need the license. You can get video senders that broadcast over the same frequency, for example. Sucks if someone in a nearby house has a microwave, or a taxi goes past, or a train, or just about anything else that uses RF.
Assuming you're connecting to the internet (which is a safe assumption) Win9x base install:
1. Binds netbios to all interfaces 2. Installs 'Personal webservices'
Unless you have a fact connection it's also not an option to keep it up to date. I had to install Win98se only a couple of days ago and it needed 45MB of updates from Windows Update - since 95% of users are on dialup they're probably running completely unpatched versions at this very moment, and webservers they didn't even know they had.
If the laptop is owned by the company, the company installs a firewall (at least zonealarm, probably something better). And antivirus. And locks it down.
If the laptop is owned by the user, the company mandates that he installs his own firewall - if his machine then infects the network, he gets his ass fired.
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If the box is as bad as described it's only a matter of time before the business has to do without power.. if the power company find out they're likely to shut it off there and then and refuse to put it back on until it's been done professionally and certified. That could take weeks.
TBH that company is doomed.. I'd start looking for alternative work.
If this has been allowed to go on for 20 years then it's only a matter of time before that company kills someone anyway. I'd resign, then wait for the CEO to be sent to jail after the building burns down and someone dies (hopefully the CEO - cheapskates like that deserve everything they get).
I agree.. untll you can put the buttons the right way around (it isn't even a config option!) then gnome is staying off my desktop. I even had to stop using Pan when they went Gnome-2 compliant because I ended up junking more messsages than I actually sent...
But the foetuses are *already* aborted. There's no issue there... they're a ready supply of stem cells, which are just going to be wasted otherwise.
This is trying to create a new damn species just to get a supply of cells, which is *far* worse.
It does sound exactly like the sort of thing that science students came up with after too much beer.
"Hey, how about if we cross a human with a rabbit!"
I'm all for research but I can't see how this benefits human kind or even advances knowledge one iota.. it's just doing stuff 'because we can'.
It also spreads via an email virus.. Not a particularly smart one, though, and anyone who blocks executable attachments (isn't that everyone, now?) will never see it.
Rule 1: The first thing you do when putting any system on the net is make sure it's behind a firewall.
Rule 2: See rule 1. Then do it.
FFS it's not as if it's attacking via port 80... No properly administered system should ever get this. Home users, maybe but businesses????
You're confusing the pop-science of the newspapers ('we found a tooth! Here's a picture of the missing link plus family, campfire, and clothing' See how true evolution is!!)
:) So no, we don't know everything about evolutionary processes but there's a mass of evidence that something like it happened (and continues to happen)... *exactly* what is still the subject of debate, which is great fun to argue over a beer.
Real science is a moving target - every time you find an answer you generate two more questions, and your view of the world changes slightly. There's also the '90% of everyting is crap' rule, which also applies to scientific theories
(I've heard the pop-science evolution described as 'evolutionism' - a religion that like other religions says that one single fact explains all other facts... evolution theory != evolutionism (hopefully)).
It has been hypothesized that the ape might be a new species, a subspecies, or perhaps a hybrid between two other species.
:)
About the only thing left out of that list is 'existing species'... if you add that then you can just rewrite:
It has been hypothesized that the ape might be an ape
Ahh there was an FBdev rewrite... that'll be why it doesn't work :) If you enable the framebuffer the machine just hangs on boot (tried on two separate machines so I guess it's a general problem).
/dev/pts so you have to recompile KDE to not use it... that was enough for me so I went back to 2.4 until the distros have caught up.
Also there's no
I buy from PC world simply because it's easy to get to... the OEM stuff isn't that much more expensive than buying from a proper computer store and it's open late (ish).
For specialist stuff though they're still pants - they have their own 'shuttle-alike' which costs 50% more and has fewer features than the real shuttle.
The first spam you'll get on this system will just read:
"Click here if you agree to accept unsolicited mail from us. "
They then have on record an acceptance of their terms, which they can show to their ISP if you complain.
Boy, you must have expensive DSL... The cheapest offsite host I can find with a reasonable bandwidth limit (I shift 18GB/mo.. I'd want 50GB cap + 30GB disk space + ssh before I'd even think of it) costs over 10 times the cost of a DSL line.
Try running them over a longer period of time.. I was running 2000-2500 emails a day through the one in SpamAssassin, and what I found is that over time they become very poor indicators of spam, since the spams are constantly changing, but the database is monolithic - after you've got 50,000 spams in the database and a new 'spammy' word turns up (eg. vi@gra) then it's only 1/50,000 as effective as when there's one email in the database... you'll need hundreds or even thousands of instances of the word before it'll be recognised as spammy. Also bayes poisoning is now so commmonplace that their effectiveness is cut drastically (I wouldn't rely on one as my sole filter) - I was getting 'obvious' spams marked as '0% probability of spam' by bayes, because the spammer had stuck a bunch of shakespeare in the bottom - this then gave SA a huge negative score and allowed the spam through even though it was in razor, orbs, etc.
I suppose it depends on how you percieve it. For me, the Simpsons had its day years ago.. I don't even bother watching the new episodes any more because they've completely run out of ideas (there's only so far you can push the 'homer is stupid, lisa is neglected, and bart should be in care' line). It was all very two dimensional, since it had to reflect the boring life of a power plant worker each week (one who never actually to work, except in a couple of episodes.. no wonder he was trying to drink himself to death).
OTOH Futurama had a lot further to go, because they could introduce new ideas each episode... no preconcieved ideas of what was possible and plenty of B-movies to do parodies of.
Err.. you mean the -fullscreen option?
Hit F8, you can even toggle it in real-time.
It's all in TFM, which you probably should have R before posting...
Funilly enough I had no problem with this... my laptop came with an orinoco compatible chipset - patched for kismet support and rebooted and it came right up.. it's worked flawlessly ever since (over quite a nice distance too).
:) )
wlan-ng running on the desktop automatically acts as an AP, too, thus saving me an expense (and giving me an AP with iptables support
Just make modules modules_install and it'll only compile the stuff you've changed. It's rare to have to compile the whole kernel. You don't even have to reboot.
:)
If you screw up a kernel compile, go into grub, edit the command line and select the previous kernel, then unscrew it up
This is *way* better than windows where after 5 reboots it suddently declares it can't find NTLDR and you have to fdisk/reinstall from scratch (I've had to do this dozens of times with the machines at work... it's basically half a days work lost when it happens).
Software mixing is my #1 at the moment... I've normally used SBLives and they mix in hardware, but now I have a laptop with a crappy AC97.
What surprised my is despite my assumptions (based on many posts here) alsa does *not* properly support software mixing... dmix is extremely beta (I can lock it solid by playing certain samples, and 90% of the time you just get silence) and isn't compatible with the OSS 'compatibility' layer.
The worst thing is KDE apps keep trying to start artsd and I have to keep kill -9'ing it (artsd isn't compatible with APM suspend - it goes into D state and you have to reboot, not to mention locking the sound output so you have no sound any more... FFS how hard would it have been for it to release the device when it's not using it?).
RedHat don't need to release the details publicly, just have Alan Cox quietly remove the offending code while SCO isn't looking... 'Code? What code?'
In conclusion, basically every art form corprate America touches turns to widely available shit.
Kind of like the midas touch in reverse.
No, it is the responsibility of every citizen to ignore unjust laws.
And you do that properly - using an illegal transmitter and hoping you don't get caught is *not* legitimate civil disobedience. It's called criminal action.
It could be civil disobedience if you
(a) lobbied for a change in the law
(b) told the newspapers you were deliberately breaking the law
(c) did so in public. Fully prepared to go to jail, along with a few dozen other people.
Mostly high frequency... around the frequency that Wifi broadcasts is considered to be useless for commercial exploitation, so doesn't need the license. You can get video senders that broadcast over the same frequency, for example. Sucks if someone in a nearby house has a microwave, or a taxi goes past, or a train, or just about anything else that uses RF.
Assuming you're connecting to the internet (which is a safe assumption) Win9x base install:
1. Binds netbios to all interfaces
2. Installs 'Personal webservices'
Unless you have a fact connection it's also not an option to keep it up to date. I had to install Win98se only a couple of days ago and it needed 45MB of updates from Windows Update - since 95% of users are on dialup they're probably running completely unpatched versions at this very moment, and webservers they didn't even know they had.
If the laptop is owned by the company, the company installs a firewall (at least zonealarm, probably something better). And antivirus. And locks it down.
If the laptop is owned by the user, the company mandates that he installs his own firewall - if his machine then infects the network, he gets his ass fired.
Simple.