1) My 1st person shooter games (great for honing mental skills) 2) Maintaining my inventory of long range hunting and sniping weapons 3) Maintaining my hunts database. Which is almost complete. Now I just need to take out a filthy rich CEO of a software company that thrives on evil practices.
Sounds like a good match to me!
8^) [smily face added for Homeland Security Squad for Watching out for Filthy Rich Evil Company CEOs benefit]
There are plenty of ways to do this. For instance, you can keep the passwords on (picked at random) page 57 of a red notebook that stays locked in your drawer when you're not around, and is only out of the drawer when it's in use. You can leave clues to yourself what they mean.
For instance:
mama: no dates
The actual password, not written down, is "n0datez!" The machine this is for is the largest system you work on (big mama).
If using random strings, try to make it look like serial numbers; again the place or account to use this for should be hinted at (to you), not stated.
There are many, many ways to do this and be very secure. I once left a set of passwords and hints out in plain sight on purpose, just to see if anyone would recognize and try to crack them. They were never cracked, and I'm reasonably certain nobody even tried. They had no idea what they were seeing.
Such behavior is illegal under at least trespassing and theft of services laws. Had the courts merely shown common sense and run over the first miscreants with a large truck, a lot less of it would be going on.
Anythiong google offers, MS feels compared to offer. I wish Google would just go nuts with this and offer a new, absurd service every month, along with their real offerings.
Maybe Microsoft would implode trying to copy the silly products.
It's a variation on how the US bested the Soviets with the SR71. We never released official max speeds. We just went faster. Then we'd wait. Eventually the Soviets would have a new prototype that was faster enough to chase the Blackbird. We'd wait until they put it in production, then just go faster.
I don't know if anyone knows the max speed of that aircraft, but it certainly helped bankrupt the Soviet Empire and bog down its designers.
I don't believe in reincarnation, including such aided by human intervention and machines.
Ifd I *did* believe in it, I really, really wouldn't want to come back as "Mr. Computer Head". That would be even worse than Mr. Potato Head.
The Bible says you get one life on this planet. I believe that. So I recommend making the most of it, rather tan counting on Mr. Machine to save you. Or Mr. Mad Scientist. Either way...
What the heck is a zone? It's almost guaranteed that your average reader won't know. (I didn't.) That really ought to be in the leader text. From th etext, I couldn't tell if it was a KDE thing, or what.
(I still get tired of seeing people whine about the/. editors, but at least I empathize with the whiners!)
We run ht://dig at work. I use swish and w4ais at home (I maintain them) and on some customer sites.
I've looked into the Google Mini for work but have some concerns.
1) The Mini doesn't handle access controls. 2) The yearly costs for all the Google search
appliances are, IMO, too high. 3) Google will only sell you one extra year of
maintenance. In effect, you're supposed to
pitch this appliance after two years.
I really, really like the Google appliance concepts, but I really, really dislike their price structure. I think Barracuda did much better with their spam firewall line on price structures, even though I have some minor gripes with them, too.
Like 90% of the pages out there don't need it. 99.99% of mine don't. All I need is my trusty hammer and screwdriver, and you're trying to insist I use a fully automatic, 50 calibre nailgun and a 3HP power drill with screwdriver attachment.
The point is that the blurb on/. should give me a *reason* to read the article. When tere's 12 new distros a day, who cares? There should be *something* in the blurb that says why this one stands out from the others. I don't have the time or the motivation to chase down every new linux release, or even just the ones that get/.ed. Most people in the real world, even those who read/., are in that boat.
The fact that four guys from some place I never heard of did it, just isn't enough motivation.
Nonsense. They could give me lots of money to do the test. I would be fair and honest. To make sure there's no incentives to cheat, make it a guaranteed one time test; I can never take money from them again. One million dollars, and I am your impartial judge.
Since the government has been trying for decades to obfuscate information and make sure people can't really get useful data, this will help them accomplish that goal.
``Saunders, you did it again. If a user visits these 73 pages in the right order, and happens to hear the NBC news theme anywhere during the last 7 pages, it will be intuitively obvious to them how to actually get through to their Congresscritter. We can't have that!''
``What message does this send to Microsoft's hardware OEM customers that make home computers? What is Microsoft saying to Dell, HP, Gateway, and others?''
The same thing they've been saying to the rest of us for years. It rhymes with "duck foo".
MS has always done this in the software space. They work with other vendors to do the stuff they don't, woo them, make all sorts of promises, then one day announce their own version and let those vendors try to survive on eating their product they can't sell. Just ask WordPerfect, Lotus, or the folk making TCP/IP stacks for DOS and Windows in the early to mid 1990s.
When I was in software design (with some hardware work), I followed several academic journals and a plethora of trade papers to keep up.
Now, after a career veer into network and systems administration, I haven't run across much worth reading on a regular basis. It may be there, but I haven't found it.
Even with the "dross", and the stuff I didn't care about, it was worthwhile when I was in software and hardware.
MS is rumoured to have a new AllInOne phone coming out to work with this OS. The electronics are near production at Lucas in the UK...
Local "antique" computer clubs
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Check in local papers (including the cheap traders), and any local usenet ".forsale" groups.
I advertised twice on austin.general with large lots of "junk", and within hours had several people wanting to come haul it off. One guy traded me a SCSI card and some install help for one of the lots, because he wanted to do something for it.
The schools around here don't want "old crap". There's a huge school budget deficit, so they make sure and only spec brand new, state of the art hardware for the schools. Go figure.
OTOH, a lot of local *students* might be interested. Check with school computer clubs, or try finding where the local geek kids hang out.
I'm not convinced that SCSI is necessarily better. I *am* convinced that you need to buy server-class drives. We lose a greater percentage of SCSI disks on our filers than we do in our compute servers. But the way we do things, the compute server disks actually get heavier usage, overall (lots of scripts using local commands, and lots of i/o to/tmp).
We've been buying nothing but WD IDE/ATA drives for the compute servers (and desktops) for 4 years. At first, we had a bad batch of WD, which they replaced under warranty. Other than that, we've had a failure rate with WD of less than 1%. Most of the older drives (10GB and vbelow) are B series, but we've been buying J series for the past 2 years; these not only have a larger buffer but have a 3 year warranty vs a 1 year for the B series. They seem rock solid, and we're now using WD J series drives (PATA and SATA) in our tier two storage systems.
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I love Windows. I use it for three main things.
1) My 1st person shooter games (great for honing mental skills)
2) Maintaining my inventory of long range hunting and sniping weapons
3) Maintaining my hunts database. Which is almost complete. Now I just need to take out a filthy rich CEO of a software company that thrives on evil practices.
Sounds like a good match to me!
8^) [smily face added for Homeland Security Squad for Watching out for Filthy Rich Evil Company CEOs benefit]
There are plenty of ways to do this. For instance, you can keep the passwords on (picked at random) page 57 of a red notebook that stays locked in your drawer when you're not around, and is only out of the drawer when it's in use. You can leave clues to yourself what they mean.
For instance:
mama: no dates
The actual password, not written down, is "n0datez!" The machine this is for is the largest system you work on (big mama).
If using random strings, try to make it look like serial numbers; again the place or account to use this for should be hinted at (to you), not stated.
There are many, many ways to do this and be very secure. I once left a set of passwords and hints out in plain sight on purpose, just to see if anyone would recognize and try to crack them. They were never cracked, and I'm reasonably certain nobody even tried. They had no idea what they were seeing.
What happened to just calling the radio station?
Such behavior is illegal under at least trespassing and theft of services laws. Had the courts merely shown common sense and run over the first miscreants with a large truck, a lot less of it would be going on.
Anythiong google offers, MS feels compared to offer. I wish Google would just go nuts with this and offer a new, absurd service every month, along with their real offerings.
Maybe Microsoft would implode trying to copy the silly products.
It's a variation on how the US bested the Soviets with the SR71. We never released official max speeds. We just went faster. Then we'd wait. Eventually the Soviets would have a new prototype that was faster enough to chase the Blackbird. We'd wait until they put it in production, then just go faster.
I don't know if anyone knows the max speed of that aircraft, but it certainly helped bankrupt the Soviet Empire and bog down its designers.
I don't believe in reincarnation, including such aided by human intervention and machines.
Ifd I *did* believe in it, I really, really wouldn't want to come back as "Mr. Computer Head". That would be even worse than Mr. Potato Head.
The Bible says you get one life on this planet. I believe that. So I recommend making the most of it, rather tan counting on Mr. Machine to save you. Or Mr. Mad Scientist. Either way...
But some brain-damaged people can't comprehend sarcasm...
I keep telling the people who don't get my sarcasm that they're obviously brain damaged, but they don't get that, either.
Which, perhaps, explains all those posts that get modded "Off topic".
What the heck is a zone? It's almost guaranteed that your average reader won't know. (I didn't.) That really ought to be in the leader text. From th etext, I couldn't tell if it was a KDE thing, or what.
/. editors, but at least I empathize with the whiners!)
(I still get tired of seeing people whine about the
They probably wouldn't be.
But at least we'd see louder Mac Minis, because if they went with Intel CPUs, they'd need those hellaciouly large CPU fans as well.
In a Mini, that might make for a helicopter. Which would be its biggest redeeming featire - thenew, Flying Mac!
We run ht://dig at work. I use swish and w4ais at home (I maintain them) and on some customer sites.
I've looked into the Google Mini for work but have some concerns.
1) The Mini doesn't handle access controls.
2) The yearly costs for all the Google search
appliances are, IMO, too high.
3) Google will only sell you one extra year of
maintenance. In effect, you're supposed to
pitch this appliance after two years.
I really, really like the Google appliance concepts, but I really, really dislike their price structure. I think Barracuda did much better with their spam firewall line on price structures, even though I have some minor gripes with them, too.
There are plenty of other reasons.
Like 90% of the pages out there don't need it.
99.99% of mine don't. All I need is my trusty hammer and screwdriver, and you're trying to insist I use a fully automatic, 50 calibre nailgun and a 3HP power drill with screwdriver attachment.
Shouldn't this subthread be in the fantasy area?
"Twi". Speaking of irony... Let's try "two".
``Too many syntax errors over the years are do to my lack of this basic skill.''
"Do to"? Are you sure the issue isn't spelling skills?
8^)
[I can spell, but can't type worth beans; the twi are not always distinguishable.]
The point is that the blurb on /. should give me a *reason* to read the article. When tere's 12 new distros a day, who cares? There should be *something* in the blurb that says why this one stands out from the others. I don't have the time or the motivation to chase down every new linux release, or even just the ones that get /.ed. Most people in the real world, even those who read /., are in that boat.
The fact that four guys from some place I never heard of did it, just isn't enough motivation.
Nonsense. They could give me lots of money to do the test. I would be fair and honest. To make sure there's no incentives to cheat, make it a guaranteed one time test; I can never take money from them again. One million dollars, and I am your impartial judge.
Since the government has been trying for decades to obfuscate information and make sure people can't really get useful data, this will help them accomplish that goal.
``Saunders, you did it again. If a user visits these 73 pages in the right order, and happens to hear the NBC news theme anywhere during the last 7 pages, it will be intuitively obvious to them how to actually get through to their Congresscritter. We can't have that!''
``What message does this send to Microsoft's hardware OEM customers that make home computers? What is Microsoft saying to Dell, HP, Gateway, and others?''
The same thing they've been saying to the rest of us for years. It rhymes with "duck foo".
MS has always done this in the software space. They work with other vendors to do the stuff they don't, woo them, make all sorts of promises, then one day announce their own version and let those vendors try to survive on eating their product they can't sell. Just ask WordPerfect, Lotus, or the folk making TCP/IP stacks for DOS and Windows in the early to mid 1990s.
Why would it be any different in hardware?
When I was in software design (with some hardware work), I followed several academic journals and a plethora of trade papers to keep up.
Now, after a career veer into network and systems administration, I haven't run across much worth reading on a regular basis. It may be there, but I haven't found it.
Even with the "dross", and the stuff I didn't care about, it was worthwhile when I was in software and hardware.
MS is rumoured to have a new AllInOne phone coming out to work with this OS. The electronics are near production at Lucas in the UK...
Check in local papers (including the cheap traders), and any local usenet ".forsale" groups.
I advertised twice on austin.general with large lots of "junk", and within hours had several people wanting to come haul it off. One guy traded me a SCSI card and some install help for one of the lots, because he wanted to do something for it.
The schools around here don't want "old crap". There's a huge school budget deficit, so they make sure and only spec brand new, state of the art hardware for the schools. Go figure.
OTOH, a lot of local *students* might be interested. Check with school computer clubs, or try finding where the local geek kids hang out.
I'm not convinced that SCSI is necessarily better. I *am* convinced that you need to buy server-class drives. We lose a greater percentage of SCSI disks on our filers than we do in our compute servers. But the way we do things, the compute server disks actually get heavier usage, overall (lots of scripts using local commands, and lots of i/o to /tmp).
We've been buying nothing but WD IDE/ATA drives for the compute servers (and desktops) for 4 years. At first, we had a bad batch of WD, which they replaced under warranty. Other than that, we've had a failure rate with WD of less than 1%. Most of the older drives (10GB and vbelow) are B series, but we've been buying J series for the past 2 years; these not only have a larger buffer but have a 3 year warranty vs a 1 year for the B series. They seem rock solid, and we're now using WD J series drives (PATA and SATA) in our tier two storage systems.
It was Dell - the asparagus!
"largest cluster of non-military satellites" my fanny. You *know* their military (and 78 others) use this data.
I guess they just mean the data isn't restricted to the military.