I suggest you educate yourself by going to Formentera or the south end of Fuerteventura. The germans there wear hats, sandals and backpacks. ONLY hats, sandals and backpacks. I initially considered the sight of German pensioners waving their tits, todgers and testicles while playing volleyball or bawls not particularly pleasant. By now (it has been nearly 10+ years since our first holiday there and we go there at least once a year) I simply do not give a damn. They are part of the scenery.
As far as the AngloSaxon vs the rest of the world all you need is to mentally compare the image of British pensioners playing Bawls and German pensioners playing Bawls. On one side you have manicured lawns, white suits, formal attire, etc. On the other you have hats on the beach. That is ONLY hats. NOTHING else.
Anywhere in the so called "Anglo-Saxon sphere of influence" will do. Rest of the world will not give a f***. Germans, french, etc all walk around wearing only a hat on holidays so I do not quite see them giving a damn about a few more nudes here or there.
Having one or two copies only of a particular state of a system is normal for most financial and SCS systems. While a lot of your data a week later or a week earlier is similar it is not the same data. On top of that you may have "risk", contractual and or regulatory reasons which force you to have that particular copy of the data and force you to have a low number of copies for it.
Frankly, it is no laughing matter and you do not need to have your head examined to do this on casual basis. Alternatively you can leave this all to the tape library. The big tape libraries used in the financial industry have this functionality built in. In fact, they can do this in an unattended mode of operation.
DLT - while it is suitable for long term storage I will run an archive refresh on it every 6 months or so.
Note - if you definitely _want_ to keep your data you have to refresh it within the period when it is readable with a very high probability of success. So while you can read a DLT from the shelf that is 3+ years old if your job is to keep the data on that DLT alive forever, you have to reread it and rewrite it back every 6 months or so.
You most likely do not have a bunch of 3" floppy disks. At least working ones.
Magnetic media and especially floppies have a limited lifetime. They are not as bad as tapes where you need to rewrite the whole tape once every 6 months or your lose your data. None the less, they are least likely to have survived for 15+ years. The plastic carrier has become brittle, the magnetic media has flaked off and the bits on the media itself have "floated". When you combine all this with no ECC or any other error recovery info your chance of reading something is pretty close to 0.
That's why I have copied all of the more valuable info of my old floppies and hard drives long ago into a set of images and keep them in an area which gets backed up regularly. Their are puny in size compared to modern data and this way if I ever need something from them I can always get it.
Just put a small PBX at home. I have an asterisk doing the same job for me. It aggregates my landline, 3 VOIP numbers (from 2 countries), 2 cell phones when I am in the home (via chan_bluetooth), etc and forwards to the correct number depending on the circumstances. There are plenty of live CDs floating around and all you need is a retired small PC to run it.
As far as non-US the Grandcentral business model will _NOT_ work outside US. It works due to the vagaries of the US mobile market. In the US called person pays for receiving calls. So if GrandCentral has a telco registration it can by collecting the termination fee pay the forwarding fee and break even (I still do not see where the profit is). In the rest of the world the calling person pays for the whole call. So Google/GrandCentral will not be able to offer this service using the same terms and conditions.
What particular goodness do you find in a classic totalitarian law?
It is formulated as per the best Joseph Vissarionovich traditions: "We despise the disgusting enemies of the freedom who do A, B, C and we prohibit any of our free people in assisting the enemies of the freedom in doing A, B and C. We hoever can do A, B, C as much as we like and we reserve our right to do so".
Animal farm all the way. All animals are equal, some are more equal than the others.
It is a classic of modern West. It is sitting up to its f*** ears in the totalitarian mud and screaming bloody murder about other countries violating human rights. Long gone are the days of Helsinky when the West actually held the higher moral ground. No wonder noone believes us any more when we talk about human rights and wrong. We deserve it.
I hate to tell you, but that is what you end up if you ship a mail order blad' sorry bride for yourself.
So beware of those Anastasia International banner ads on Slashdot. Be afraid, be very afraid.
Disclaimer - I am half of the same nationality myself and I have observed how my mom has dealt with my dad (another geek) for 25+ years. No thanks. None of that in my house. Not now, not ever.
After that you need 200£ on vandalproof housing for it.
A good security camera can take pictures quietly, unobtrusively, without any extra light and send them somewhere else.
I recently looked at the same problem and this is what I ended up with:
1. I have played with the low-end Axis and IMO the older model used to be useless. It did not have sensitivity under low lighting conditions. Same is the case for most other webcams. Using them unless you have security lighting triggered by a different sensor is pointless.
2. There is not that much difference between CMOS and CCD any more. Many CMOS cameras are as good as CCD.
3. There are plenty of sub-120$ (60£) kits on the market that are waterproof, have 10m+ cabling as standard. A proper capture card is around 30£ per channel. The overall result ends up being way cheaper than going IP for the cameras.
You can simulate it in a trigger the way pre-8i Oracle had to be done. You lose speed on the trigger, but you gain it on having less locking in the app.
No, it is a person who says moooooo when you ask him about trivial things like O(X) is his algorithm or what is the finite state machine he used to implement a protocol. Using a mutex-locked delete+insert instead of atomic replace in SQL is another popular mooooooo. It is usually done because the cretin cannot fatom the idea that a database op done correctly is atomic anyway so it needs no mutex and the database will NOT DEADLOCK the way an incompetently done mutex can.
It is the repeat of the Leonov reentry of Voshod from around 40 years back.
They are lucky to have landed only 300 miles off. Leonov's crew landed 1000 miless off in the middle of a Russian forest without any weapons and with minimal survival gear (that incident is what has made small arms and survival kits standard equipment on all russian capsules).
We should not. The original Russian 50/50 or the later Uragan anti-shuttle interceptor design is way better for crew transfers (2 people each time). On top of that, it can be manufactured with ease for a much smaller amount of money compared to the shuttle.
SMS can be done over GPRS including Edge or 3G packet connection. The feature is present in most modern phones and most networks have upgraded their SMSCs to support it long ago.
Unfortunately operators avoid enabling it by default. They have to justify the extortionate prices for SMS after all and with the legacy method which piggy-backs SMS onto signalling these prices are justified.
A large portion of the certification process in Russia is run by private labs whose tactics are not that far from the law textbook definition of extortion.
All this means is that they have gotten themselves a "men at the helm" to provide them with more income.
Oops... Should have read it again before posting. The happy event happens during full moon when it is nicely lit by the sun so the rovers have indeed experienced it and none of them has observed any such wierd things. They were up there for months so I this is mostly likely not the kind of problem to worry about. It is least likely to be even close to the amount of radiation pounding a station will get during a solar storm.
Well, it is easy to guess why it is not replaceable. It is designed predominantly for markets which require nationalisation of the keyboard which is usually country specific. If the keyboard is non-replaceable this goes a long way towards guaranteeing that they are used wherever they have been shipped and not reimported into the "Developed World".
This sounds pretty much like the Vaio syndrome. It is a common design pattern in most laptops to position a big heatsink under the keyboard. If the heatsink runs too hot the keyboard membrane gets "nice and crispy" and these are the exact symptoms in that case. I would have expected this too happen in a year or two of heavy use (especially with a closed lid).
I have seen it on plenty of 1200$+ laptops so the price is not the deciding factor by any means.
There is a misdetection of flash capable browsers. It does not detect common browsers running on Mac or Linux as flash capable or having flash installed.
You do not deserve to
get to the other comic strips . You are supposed to be subjected to a maximum possible amount of ads to generate as much revenue as possible.
As far as I am concerned this simply takes Dilbert off my morning coffee list where it has been for 10+ years. The new webshite does not work in konqueror and does not work in firefox. In both cases the idiot who wrote it misdetects them as not having flash.
Disclaimer: this is not a flamebait. I just spent half a day fighting to convert a document produced with this oxymoron into something that could be read.
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I suggest you educate yourself by going to Formentera or the south end of Fuerteventura. The germans there wear hats, sandals and backpacks. ONLY hats, sandals and backpacks. I initially considered the sight of German pensioners waving their tits, todgers and testicles while playing volleyball or bawls not particularly pleasant. By now (it has been nearly 10+ years since our first holiday there and we go there at least once a year) I simply do not give a damn. They are part of the scenery.
As far as the AngloSaxon vs the rest of the world all you need is to mentally compare the image of British pensioners playing Bawls and German pensioners playing Bawls. On one side you have manicured lawns, white suits, formal attire, etc. On the other you have hats on the beach. That is ONLY hats. NOTHING else.
Anywhere in the so called "Anglo-Saxon sphere of influence" will do. Rest of the world will not give a f***. Germans, french, etc all walk around wearing only a hat on holidays so I do not quite see them giving a damn about a few more nudes here or there.
Having one or two copies only of a particular state of a system is normal for most financial and SCS systems. While a lot of your data a week later or a week earlier is similar it is not the same data. On top of that you may have "risk", contractual and or regulatory reasons which force you to have that particular copy of the data and force you to have a low number of copies for it.
Frankly, it is no laughing matter and you do not need to have your head examined to do this on casual basis. Alternatively you can leave this all to the tape library. The big tape libraries used in the financial industry have this functionality built in. In fact, they can do this in an unattended mode of operation.
Travan - definitely.
DAT - highly recommended
DLT - while it is suitable for long term storage I will run an archive refresh on it every 6 months or so.
Note - if you definitely _want_ to keep your data you have to refresh it within the period when it is readable with a very high probability of success. So while you can read a DLT from the shelf that is 3+ years old if your job is to keep the data on that DLT alive forever, you have to reread it and rewrite it back every 6 months or so.
You most likely do not have a bunch of 3" floppy disks. At least working ones.
Magnetic media and especially floppies have a limited lifetime. They are not as bad as tapes where you need to rewrite the whole tape once every 6 months or your lose your data. None the less, they are least likely to have survived for 15+ years. The plastic carrier has become brittle, the magnetic media has flaked off and the bits on the media itself have "floated". When you combine all this with no ECC or any other error recovery info your chance of reading something is pretty close to 0.
That's why I have copied all of the more valuable info of my old floppies and hard drives long ago into a set of images and keep them in an area which gets backed up regularly. Their are puny in size compared to modern data and this way if I ever need something from them I can always get it.
I want that +1 Flamebait moderation. Damn...
'cause there is good and bad flamebait. This is one of the good ones.
No. But displaying Microsoft Ads has been commonplace especially during the "Get the Facts campaign". Nobody seemed to mind at the time.
Just put a small PBX at home. I have an asterisk doing the same job for me. It aggregates my landline, 3 VOIP numbers (from 2 countries), 2 cell phones when I am in the home (via chan_bluetooth), etc and forwards to the correct number depending on the circumstances. There are plenty of live CDs floating around and all you need is a retired small PC to run it.
As far as non-US the Grandcentral business model will _NOT_ work outside US. It works due to the vagaries of the US mobile market. In the US called person pays for receiving calls. So if GrandCentral has a telco registration it can by collecting the termination fee pay the forwarding fee and break even (I still do not see where the profit is). In the rest of the world the calling person pays for the whole call. So Google/GrandCentral will not be able to offer this service using the same terms and conditions.
What particular goodness do you find in a classic totalitarian law?
It is formulated as per the best Joseph Vissarionovich traditions: "We despise the disgusting enemies of the freedom who do A, B, C and we prohibit any of our free people in assisting the enemies of the freedom in doing A, B and C. We hoever can do A, B, C as much as we like and we reserve our right to do so".
Animal farm all the way. All animals are equal, some are more equal than the others.
It is a classic of modern West. It is sitting up to its f*** ears in the totalitarian mud and screaming bloody murder about other countries violating human rights. Long gone are the days of Helsinky when the West actually held the higher moral ground. No wonder noone believes us any more when we talk about human rights and wrong. We deserve it.
I hate to tell you, but that is what you end up if you ship a mail order blad' sorry bride for yourself.
So beware of those Anastasia International banner ads on Slashdot. Be afraid, be very afraid.
Disclaimer - I am half of the same nationality myself and I have observed how my mom has dealt with my dad (another geek) for 25+ years. No thanks. None of that in my house. Not now, not ever.
Sad, really sad, and IMO totally selfinflicted.
After that you need 200£ on vandalproof housing for it.
A good security camera can take pictures quietly, unobtrusively, without any extra light and send them somewhere else.
I recently looked at the same problem and this is what I ended up with:
1. I have played with the low-end Axis and IMO the older model used to be useless. It did not have sensitivity under low lighting conditions. Same is the case for most other webcams. Using them unless you have security lighting triggered by a different sensor is pointless.
2. There is not that much difference between CMOS and CCD any more. Many CMOS cameras are as good as CCD.
3. There are plenty of sub-120$ (60£) kits on the market that are waterproof, have 10m+ cabling as standard. A proper capture card is around 30£ per channel. The overall result ends up being way cheaper than going IP for the cameras.
You can simulate it in a trigger the way pre-8i Oracle had to be done. You lose speed on the trigger, but you gain it on having less locking in the app.
No, it is a person who says moooooo when you ask him about trivial things like O(X) is his algorithm or what is the finite state machine he used to implement a protocol. Using a mutex-locked delete+insert instead of atomic replace in SQL is another popular mooooooo. It is usually done because the cretin cannot fatom the idea that a database op done correctly is atomic anyway so it needs no mutex and the database will NOT DEADLOCK the way an incompetently done mutex can.
An so on...
Very common species... The COW-WORKER...
Both.
It is the repeat of the Leonov reentry of Voshod from around 40 years back.
They are lucky to have landed only 300 miles off. Leonov's crew landed 1000 miless off in the middle of a Russian forest without any weapons and with minimal survival gear (that incident is what has made small arms and survival kits standard equipment on all russian capsules).
We should not. The original Russian 50/50 or the later Uragan anti-shuttle interceptor design is way better for crew transfers (2 people each time). On top of that, it can be manufactured with ease for a much smaller amount of money compared to the shuttle.
Wrong.
SMS can be done over GPRS including Edge or 3G packet connection. The feature is present in most modern phones and most networks have upgraded their SMSCs to support it long ago.
Unfortunately operators avoid enabling it by default. They have to justify the extortionate prices for SMS after all and with the legacy method which piggy-backs SMS onto signalling these prices are justified.
This is not bureaucracy, it is cleptocracy.
A large portion of the certification process in Russia is run by private labs whose tactics are not that far from the law textbook definition of extortion.
All this means is that they have gotten themselves a "men at the helm" to provide them with more income.
Oops... Should have read it again before posting. The happy event happens during full moon when it is nicely lit by the sun so the rovers have indeed experienced it and none of them has observed any such wierd things. They were up there for months so I this is mostly likely not the kind of problem to worry about. It is least likely to be even close to the amount of radiation pounding a station will get during a solar storm.
Russian rovers have happily survived through it.
They were however idle during the night and ran on electronics which are considerably less prone to radiation problems.
Well, it is easy to guess why it is not replaceable. It is designed predominantly for markets which require nationalisation of the keyboard which is usually country specific. If the keyboard is non-replaceable this goes a long way towards guaranteeing that they are used wherever they have been shipped and not reimported into the "Developed World".
Which will have the same problem.
This sounds pretty much like the Vaio syndrome. It is a common design pattern in most laptops to position a big heatsink under the keyboard. If the heatsink runs too hot the keyboard membrane gets "nice and crispy" and these are the exact symptoms in that case. I would have expected this too happen in a year or two of heavy use (especially with a closed lid).
I have seen it on plenty of 1200$+ laptops so the price is not the deciding factor by any means.
Nope. In fact none of the Microsoft Office apps can open it without a special converter which is buggy and fails on a lot of the formatting.
There is a misdetection of flash capable browsers. It does not detect common browsers running on Mac or Linux as flash capable or having flash installed.
As far as I am concerned this simply takes Dilbert off my morning coffee list where it has been for 10+ years. The new webshite does not work in konqueror and does not work in firefox. In both cases the idiot who wrote it misdetects them as not having flash.
Wrong question.
The right one is "It works?"
Disclaimer: this is not a flamebait. I just spent half a day fighting to convert a document produced with this oxymoron into something that could be read.