My daughter threatened to buy a Mac and I told her that I couldn't support it, because I just don't know about Macs.
OTOH, just by installing a router with a half decent firewall to block inbound connections, and running Firefox in place of IE, my household has been free of infection for about three years now.
Works for me.
Oh, and BTW, there's great malware cleaner tool called ComboFix that I've used for a friend. Made my job very easy.
I jumped to Delphi straight after VB3, and I loved it at the time, but it's definitely had its day. Delphi just isn't that great these days, when compared to C# (Anders Hejlsberg anyone?) and Java. Last time I used Delphi, I was really annoyed to learn that they still required an interface and implementation section. You have to declare every damned thing twice, and worse, you still get those awful circular unit references. Which in turn leads you to pass things around as TObject, which is lame and dangerous.
The only excuse for that arrangement was that it gave them a blazingly fast, single pass compiler, but that excuse no longer applies. Should have been fixed years ago.
Dude, your cockatoo is gay. And you sing K C and the Sunshine Band in the shower, from which I'll let you draw your own conclusion. Not condemning it mind you, but just a heads-up.
Living in Australia, I can pretty much assure you that most male parrots are gay, and just fake it with the babes. That's the only explanation for the plumage, the dancing and the shrieking.
Hello? Lasers? What's the point of having a cool laser defence system if you don't put it to work?
I want my LDS to be busy. Make my crib look like a frickin' ELO concert.
Seriously, it'd be a really, REALLY long article if it tried to do real justice to the subject, even of offline storage. Exabyte tape is missing, and so are the various SCSI drives. It glosses over the whole 1/2" tape range in one small step, missing the scope of that long, LONG period entirely. 7 track, 9 track, NRZI 800BPI, NRZI 1600BPI, PE up to 6250BPI. Automated tape changers (big step that one - I used to be a tape monkey). Blah. I know I'm not up to making a proper list, but the guy who wrote TFA certainly isn't.
Three words. Where's the beef? Or did I mean "beer"? Ah - there is is! Good night.
Too right. My daughter's cat, Neechee, has killed off four expensive notebook power supplies and one electric toothbrush. I only wish she'd chew the 240V cables instead, but she prefers the slimmer, safer variety (the toothbrush wasn't plugged in, sadly).
Thinkin' of gettin' me some big rats to keep the cats down around here.
Exactly! So those people using mobile phones while driving or biking should be fined and/or lose their licenses. The woman in the supermarket I can't help you with, but I say you should go ahead and rear-end her and see if they convict. I'll stand as a character witness if you pay my airfares.
But when you're jammed into an airline seat, I don't think it's an issue of public safety.
Perhaps because there's not a lot else to do. Seriously, you're stuck in a cramped airline seat. Why not catch up on your calls? As long as you're not swearing and/or speaking over-loudly, what's the big deal?
I know how this sort of movement takes root. You hear some loud wanker mouthing off all through a two-hour flight and you think "those things should be banned". You forget about the times you've taken a call from your daughter, quietly cleared up a little problem and rung off. Mobile phones are a part of life, and there are always tossers who will piss you off in the way they use them, but that's just business as usual. deal with it and move on.
Here in Australia, the checks do seem to be truly random. I recently travelled with my 16YO daughter, and she was singled out for explosives scanning on both flights. Unless they're profiling cute, 16YO, atheist geek-girls, I'd call that random chance. Especially when her black-haired bearded father looks so very much more like a terrorist.
You might try Apache OFBiz (Open For Business). I haven't tried it yet, but I'm definitely eyeing it.
That said, I do tend to agree with the posters who are warning against setting up something your boss can't work with. OTOH, if the alternative is to do nothing, the business probably doesn't have all that much to lose. Better for them to actually learn something about their sales and inventory than to go out of business through simple ignorance.
That used to work for me when I worked at home, but there is a real problem in a more public work environment.
Why? Somebody is always occupying the next stall and that guy always seems to be releasing a four-day-old curry back onto the wild.
But really, in recent years, downtime is something that I only got when I was bored and demotivated, until I started working with Visual Studio. Coding with Java in Eclipse, there are no speedbumps. Code is compiled when it's saved and a Jar takes no time at all. Builds in Visual Studio of good-sized projects take FOREVER. Worse than coding C on a 286.
Heinlein was not exactly a literary genius, but he wrote a good yarn, and that's more than some geniuses could manage. More of a Rudyard Kipling than a James Joyce. But I know which I'd rather read.
It's a tragic shame that Heinlein lived long enough to write his later rubbish, which he apparently typed one-handed, with his trousers off. But his early stuff made good light reading. Fun and full of ideas.
If you're all old enough to be working full time, they deserve the title of "men", and you really need to start thinking of yourself as a woman. If I had a co-worker who called me a boy, I'd probably be flattered, but that's only because I'm fifty years old. When I was in my twenties, "man" would have done a lot more for my self-esteem.
Try putting them back in their cases when you've finished with them, rather than decorating the room with dozens of naked CDs. They last a lot longer if they're properly cared for.
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My daughter threatened to buy a Mac and I told her that I couldn't support it, because I just don't know about Macs.
OTOH, just by installing a router with a half decent firewall to block inbound connections, and running Firefox in place of IE, my household has been free of infection for about three years now. Works for me.
Oh, and BTW, there's great malware cleaner tool called ComboFix that I've used for a friend. Made my job very easy.
I'm a terabyte sized binary clod, you insensitive blob!
Well, OK. I'm actually 1.5TB, but I have a diet plan and I've joined a gym.
1 cubic foot.
I jumped to Delphi straight after VB3, and I loved it at the time, but it's definitely had its day. Delphi just isn't that great these days, when compared to C# (Anders Hejlsberg anyone?) and Java.
Last time I used Delphi, I was really annoyed to learn that they still required an interface and implementation section. You have to declare every damned thing twice, and worse, you still get those awful circular unit references. Which in turn leads you to pass things around as TObject, which is lame and dangerous.
The only excuse for that arrangement was that it gave them a blazingly fast, single pass compiler, but that excuse no longer applies. Should have been fixed years ago.
It was only last year that they sold off Code Works. But they split it out before that to make it easier to sell.
Add a USB HD tuner and you have a full-blown HTPC. Wh00t!
Dude, your cockatoo is gay. And you sing K C and the Sunshine Band in the shower, from which I'll let you draw your own conclusion. Not condemning it mind you, but just a heads-up.
Living in Australia, I can pretty much assure you that most male parrots are gay, and just fake it with the babes. That's the only explanation for the plumage, the dancing and the shrieking.
I'm 52 and I have no degree. All I have is 33 years of experience, with more languages/dialects, OSes and APIs than I care to remember. I get by.
You, OTOH, may need to settle for an entry-level position, and be happy if you can get that, in the present environment.
Hello? Lasers? What's the point of having a cool laser defence system if you don't put it to work? I want my LDS to be busy. Make my crib look like a frickin' ELO concert.
TFA doesn't actually specify offline storage though. Also skipped magnetic drum, core, plated wire, mercury delay tubes, semiconductor memory, NVRAM, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EAROM. I'm tired.
Seriously, it'd be a really, REALLY long article if it tried to do real justice to the subject, even of offline storage. Exabyte tape is missing, and so are the various SCSI drives. It glosses over the whole 1/2" tape range in one small step, missing the scope of that long, LONG period entirely. 7 track, 9 track, NRZI 800BPI, NRZI 1600BPI, PE up to 6250BPI. Automated tape changers (big step that one - I used to be a tape monkey). Blah. I know I'm not up to making a proper list, but the guy who wrote TFA certainly isn't.
Three words. Where's the beef? Or did I mean "beer"? Ah - there is is! Good night.
Man, he REALLY wasted 3 years. Australia's Dr Karl Kruszelnicki accepted an Ig Nobel award in Boston for just such a study back in 2002...
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/lint/ .
Too right. My daughter's cat, Neechee, has killed off four expensive notebook power supplies and one electric toothbrush. I only wish she'd chew the 240V cables instead, but she prefers the slimmer, safer variety (the toothbrush wasn't plugged in, sadly).
Thinkin' of gettin' me some big rats to keep the cats down around here.
An ad blocker. That's kind of a deal breaker for me.
Exactly! So those people using mobile phones while driving or biking should be fined and/or lose their licenses. The woman in the supermarket I can't help you with, but I say you should go ahead and rear-end her and see if they convict. I'll stand as a character witness if you pay my airfares.
But when you're jammed into an airline seat, I don't think it's an issue of public safety.
Perhaps because there's not a lot else to do. Seriously, you're stuck in a cramped airline seat. Why not catch up on your calls? As long as you're not swearing and/or speaking over-loudly, what's the big deal?
I know how this sort of movement takes root. You hear some loud wanker mouthing off all through a two-hour flight and you think "those things should be banned". You forget about the times you've taken a call from your daughter, quietly cleared up a little problem and rung off. Mobile phones are a part of life, and there are always tossers who will piss you off in the way they use them, but that's just business as usual. deal with it and move on.
Thanks a lot. Bang goes my next holiday.
Here in Australia, the checks do seem to be truly random. I recently travelled with my 16YO daughter, and she was singled out for explosives scanning on both flights. Unless they're profiling cute, 16YO, atheist geek-girls, I'd call that random chance. Especially when her black-haired bearded father looks so very much more like a terrorist.
You might try Apache OFBiz (Open For Business). I haven't tried it yet, but I'm definitely eyeing it.
That said, I do tend to agree with the posters who are warning against setting up something your boss can't work with. OTOH, if the alternative is to do nothing, the business probably doesn't have all that much to lose. Better for them to actually learn something about their sales and inventory than to go out of business through simple ignorance.
That used to work for me when I worked at home, but there is a real problem in a more public work environment.
Why? Somebody is always occupying the next stall and that guy always seems to be releasing a four-day-old curry back onto the wild.
But really, in recent years, downtime is something that I only got when I was bored and demotivated, until I started working with Visual Studio. Coding with Java in Eclipse, there are no speedbumps. Code is compiled when it's saved and a Jar takes no time at all. Builds in Visual Studio of good-sized projects take FOREVER. Worse than coding C on a 286.
Heinlein was not exactly a literary genius, but he wrote a good yarn, and that's more than some geniuses could manage. More of a Rudyard Kipling than a James Joyce. But I know which I'd rather read.
It's a tragic shame that Heinlein lived long enough to write his later rubbish, which he apparently typed one-handed, with his trousers off. But his early stuff made good light reading. Fun and full of ideas.
Really, "boys and girls"?
If you're all old enough to be working full time, they deserve the title of "men", and you really need to start thinking of yourself as a woman. If I had a co-worker who called me a boy, I'd probably be flattered, but that's only because I'm fifty years old. When I was in my twenties, "man" would have done a lot more for my self-esteem.
I strongly suspect the devils contracted their disease due to their habit of gang-raping rottweilers.
Nope. There are no tame devils. They're all mean little suckers. And if there were, they'd be bitten to death before they could die of cancer.
How come I'm missing out? A stinking cup of tea is the best I can manage, and a plastic cup at that.
Let's see now, 61 donations makes two and a half slabs they owe me. Who should I call to arrange delivery?
Luke
Try putting them back in their cases when you've finished with them, rather than decorating the room with dozens of naked CDs. They last a lot longer if they're properly cared for.