If you can still find it, AMIDIAG (from American Megatrends) was my favorite from back in the day. It booted off a single floppy, and ran an intensive gamut of memory and other sorts of tests. It might be a bit dated by today's standards, but as far as the nitty gritty I think giving it a shot might indeed prove worthwhile.
My personal cell number is 343 3200, assigned fairly randomly to me simply by having the saleswoman looking at available numbers when I signed up for service. I find it's one of the easiest numbers to remember, but the problem is when some ritzy doctor accidentally started giving it to patients. For a while, I had to deal with about 5 calls a day from geriatrics who insist that
Next person who calls me up looking for Dr. Jaime Rivera (or whatever his name is) is going to get a "No, he died in a tragic blimp accident." or "Oh, yes, Mr Johnson... You're calling about your test results? Yes, they came back positive, and you have one month to live."
867-5309 is I'm sure worse to deal with. I think I have a fairly good middle ground however.
Some oil industry barons will be ruined, many oil industry workers will lose their jobs, and the world will be changed...
You forgot that the oil industry isn't just an industry based on oil. Drive in any suburban area and you'll notice that almost every major street intersection has one if not more gas stations on it. A considerable number of the "oil industry" workers simply work in sales, distribution, maintenance, and refining.
I'm not an expert on the oil-well to gasoline supply chain, but consider this--Exxon pumps their oil in an unstable OPEC country, pipes or ships it over to American refineries, and gasoline is piped and shipped to stations. Refineries, I might add, are massive projects--costing over a billion apiece to build.
With the UoM technology, Exxon buys corn-based ethanol or the corn (locally or globally), uses these small scale reactors for local 'refinement', and uses their existing distribution and terminal sales networks to get it into the tank of your hydrogen-powered vehicle.
I'm sure oil companies are dying for innovations such as this...I'm sure the price of corn is a far more stable resource than oil.
Clean burning fuel? Boohoo if a few geologists and OPEC hagglers lose their jobs.
Back in the day(tm), I had an obscenely long TOS/copyright written on my personal website written mostly because I have/had a weird sense of humor and boredom was a strong contributing factor.
Anyways, at the very end of it all was a simple line that summed it all up:
Your mother taught you better than to steal.
Despite the irony in me lifting that line from a friend's site, I do find it kind of sad that there's a complete mutual nature of distrust in such a wide variety of websites between the visitor and webmaster. To that end, I'm glad we have saving graces like Creative Commons and other such "free" canned licenses.
I'm looking at Mandrake's two-page year-end "Newsletter to Investors" and I can qualtitatively say that there's no way one could definitively say their financial health is improving.
I'm not sure if it's just rigorous US accounting standards have kept me from the harsh realities of international investing, but I have no idea about Mandrake's debt position, their return on investment, where exactly they're generating cash flow (operating, investing, or financing activities--they're very different) and about fifty other such ratios and line-items and on average fifteen pages of notes that are given for you or very easy to figure out on companies that follow U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
Compare the annual report of any publically traded U.S. company (here's Intel's annual 2002 report--the PDF is 102 pages) and you'll notice that a lot more information is given to investors and shareholders. We have, off the top of my head, the usual letter to shareholders from the CEO, some "PR fluff", the balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flows, notes to consolidated financial statements, a signed auditors report indicating you can actually trust the data, segmental data, and thorough management discussion and analysis (MD&A) in which the company's head honchos actually talk about their company's financial health.
I'm not dissing MandrakeSoft in any way, I think their software is top-notch and with the disappearance of Red Hat from the consumer line I think Mandrake has a critical role.
I think it's important for/. readers to know that accounting and investing or disgustingly complex topics, and most shareholders don't read the annual reports or know enough to make sense of the number and subsequently get caught up in the bandwagon without a further analysis. It's very easy to lose your money in this market simply by not looking at the books.
Mandrake, for example, could be earning all their money from external financing and losing money from operations. That looks good on your income statement but if you don't check the statement of cash flows, you wouldn't know about that and you'd bee royally screwed when those external lenders come to collect. Plus, all I know about their debt situation is that they're in chapter 11--how much debt do they really have? I could think of a hundred other questions not answered by their newsletter.
Mandrake's "newsletter" does not give me the numbers I need to make that sound analysis.
Oh, and before some of you wiseguys respond to this, realise that Enron, et al. are the EXCEPTIONS, not the rules.
Cern's Grid will initially be used to handle the terabytes of data generated by an upcoming particle accelerator called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
I initially thought that read Large Hardon Collider and then cringed slightly in pain.
Likewise, you'll find lots of the cable operators in smaller markets abusing their aggregate to the extreme. Yes, it's 3Mbps local, but a single T1 for all to share leaving town.
Unless you live in Holbrook, Arizona (population 4,917) with cable service by CableOne or some other rural micro cable internet provider, your statement that your city has a single T1 is blatantly false. And if you do, get out of the boonies.:P
Cox here I think feeds an OC-12 to the Phoenix, Arizona area that is piered with their national network and off the top of my head Level 3 and AT&T.
Sun is the company that gave us NFS, a far more open protocol compared to that other 'standard' SMB. They ship mailservers that run on SMTP, not some backward port-135-using Exchange protocol. SPARC is licensed to multiple companies. Let's also not forget about java--how many java compilers are out there? Sun is the largest proponent of open industry standards that I can think off the top of my head.
Th interviewer must've been thinking "Sun workstations don't run Windows and Outlook and Office--so this must be their fault. Let's attack him on that."
I wrote a 10-page paper this summer for my ENG102 class on the topic of software patents. Mostly historical information, but the works cited list is what I consider impressive. It's a first draft, with professional recommendations left out (note to self: procrastinate less).
I find it interesting that Zero Toys would use glycol as the formula for the smoke solution, especially a cherry-scented concotion. Kids tend to equate cherries with stuff that tastes good, with perhaps disastrous results when we look at the defintion from wordnet:
glycol
n 1: a sweet but poisonous syrupy liquid used as an antifreeze
and solvent [syn: {ethylene glycol}, {ethanediol}]
You should consider studying up on your CIDR, as your 16,000 IP figure is completely random. I think you mean/16, or "class B," which is 2^16 IP's, or 65536, minus the unusables. </pedantic>
Should you end up in this situation again, I strongly recommend a relook through all the CD's that they sent you along with the laptop. They include an applications and driverrs CD (with a terribly obnoxious front end to the setup programs) that polls your system and gives you a poorly designed (did I mention I hate it?) listing of all your hardware. Click on the class of device you want installed and you're set.
Fifteen reboots later and you have a functioning (I use the term loosely) system. Fortunately I'm never doing this again as I have debian on my inspiron 1100...
The rogue program does not affect the Apple Macintosh line of computers or computers running variants of the Unix operating system.
So, Windows is there, but the NYT went out of their way to *avoid* mentioning it.
Yes, that's it--there's a grand journalistic integrity conspiracy between Microsoft and the New York Times wherein the NYT must avoid mention Windows flaws--you've got it, chief!
Or it could be that the fact that Windows' many worms, virii, etc. have become so commonplace to everyone from the linked article's author to Nancy New Yorker to the slashdot crowd that it's really not even worth mentioning that whatever new worm/virus is in fact for Windows--it's already common knowledge.
While certain IM protocols use HTTP, the thing that differentiates IM from everything else is the port--HTTP is 80, Yahoo is 5050, AIM is 5190, and MSN messenger is 1863.
And proxy.aol.com doesn't listen on anything other than:80, as far as I can tell.
If I were a brokerage firm IT manager, I'd be using NAT, and block every outgoing port--including:80. Set up a local HTTP proxy on:8080 and configure the proxy server to disallow certain sites like proxy.aol.com.
To comply with logging requirements, I'd tell employees to use an AIM client like gaim (there are win32 ports) that enable connection to a specific server and port, which would be the proxy server. I've seen perl port forwarders that could easily be extended to log conversations.
There might be things I've overlooked in my hypothetical solution, but it's 07:02 MST and I really haven't slept all that much lately.
The point is, things are not as difficult as they are made out to be.
Check today's T Berry Brazelton's Column
on
Working with ADHD?
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· Score: 1
Funny you should mention this today--while reading the East Valley Tribune (a freedom communications newspaper) today (17 June 2003), I read a letter from a mother to T Berry Brazleton, the famed syndicated pediatrician.
The mother's child was diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed Ritalin. After reading of the rather nasty side effects of Ritalin, the mother became super-dedicated in finding alternative therapies.
Turned out the child had rare food allergies to obscure/commonplace food items like corn and honey.
Eliminating these foods from the kid's diet eliminated his ADHD symptoms.
Brazelton posted a response that gave much credence to the mother's findings--I myself am a little bit more skeptical as I kind of doubt a concerned parents capabilities of setting up a proper control/variable hypothesis and testing it out keeping only one variable--I think about it further and consider that situation impossible.
Anyways, I think you should pick up the paper and read the article. Perhaps it might strike a chord with you.
If you can't find it and would like me to get you the article, my website is linked above and I can be contacted through it.
As I understand it, http will generally be faster than ftp. Unlike FTP, HTTP is a stateless protocol with no control connection. HTTP doesn't usually have username/password combinations. Nor does it have ugly passive and active transfer modes.
Always use HTTP for anonymous downloading from servers.
A quadriplegic that worked in the computer lab two or three of my jobs ago just used a device that was basically a stick with a teeth grip on one end and a regular keyboard. He bobbed for keys using just as fast if not faster than me typing one fingered.
After getting off the phone with my friend, he reminded me of one very important piece of advice. Make copies of EVERYTHING. The packing slip that comes with Dell laptops and is required for getting the rebate offered, for example, is irreplacable. If you or the rebate company lose this, you're screwed.
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If you can still find it, AMIDIAG (from American Megatrends) was my favorite from back in the day. It booted off a single floppy, and ran an intensive gamut of memory and other sorts of tests. It might be a bit dated by today's standards, but as far as the nitty gritty I think giving it a shot might indeed prove worthwhile.
My personal cell number is 343 3200, assigned fairly randomly to me simply by having the saleswoman looking at available numbers when I signed up for service. I find it's one of the easiest numbers to remember, but the problem is when some ritzy doctor accidentally started giving it to patients. For a while, I had to deal with about 5 calls a day from geriatrics who insist that
Next person who calls me up looking for Dr. Jaime Rivera (or whatever his name is) is going to get a "No, he died in a tragic blimp accident." or "Oh, yes, Mr Johnson... You're calling about your test results? Yes, they came back positive, and you have one month to live."
867-5309 is I'm sure worse to deal with. I think I have a fairly good middle ground however.
Some oil industry barons will be ruined, many oil industry workers will lose their jobs, and the world will be changed...
You forgot that the oil industry isn't just an industry based on oil. Drive in any suburban area and you'll notice that almost every major street intersection has one if not more gas stations on it. A considerable number of the "oil industry" workers simply work in sales, distribution, maintenance, and refining.
I'm not an expert on the oil-well to gasoline supply chain, but consider this--Exxon pumps their oil in an unstable OPEC country, pipes or ships it over to American refineries, and gasoline is piped and shipped to stations. Refineries, I might add, are massive projects--costing over a billion apiece to build.
With the UoM technology, Exxon buys corn-based ethanol or the corn (locally or globally), uses these small scale reactors for local 'refinement', and uses their existing distribution and terminal sales networks to get it into the tank of your hydrogen-powered vehicle.
I'm sure oil companies are dying for innovations such as this...I'm sure the price of corn is a far more stable resource than oil.
Clean burning fuel? Boohoo if a few geologists and OPEC hagglers lose their jobs.
I'm more in favor of this hacked-together contraption I assembled three years ago--SuitcaseNuke. .mil sites have hit that website.
Funny how many
Back in the day(tm), I had an obscenely long TOS/copyright written on my personal website written mostly because I have/had a weird sense of humor and boredom was a strong contributing factor.
Anyways, at the very end of it all was a simple line that summed it all up:
Your mother taught you better than to steal.
Despite the irony in me lifting that line from a friend's site, I do find it kind of sad that there's a complete mutual nature of distrust in such a wide variety of websites between the visitor and webmaster. To that end, I'm glad we have saving graces like Creative Commons and other such "free" canned licenses.
I'm looking at Mandrake's two-page year-end "Newsletter to Investors" and I can qualtitatively say that there's no way one could definitively say their financial health is improving.
/. readers to know that accounting and investing or disgustingly complex topics, and most shareholders don't read the annual reports or know enough to make sense of the number and subsequently get caught up in the bandwagon without a further analysis. It's very easy to lose your money in this market simply by not looking at the books.
I'm not sure if it's just rigorous US accounting standards have kept me from the harsh realities of international investing, but I have no idea about Mandrake's debt position, their return on investment, where exactly they're generating cash flow (operating, investing, or financing activities--they're very different) and about fifty other such ratios and line-items and on average fifteen pages of notes that are given for you or very easy to figure out on companies that follow U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
Compare the annual report of any publically traded U.S. company (here's Intel's annual 2002 report--the PDF is 102 pages) and you'll notice that a lot more information is given to investors and shareholders. We have, off the top of my head, the usual letter to shareholders from the CEO, some "PR fluff", the balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flows, notes to consolidated financial statements, a signed auditors report indicating you can actually trust the data, segmental data, and thorough management discussion and analysis (MD&A) in which the company's head honchos actually talk about their company's financial health.
I'm not dissing MandrakeSoft in any way, I think their software is top-notch and with the disappearance of Red Hat from the consumer line I think Mandrake has a critical role.
I think it's important for
Mandrake, for example, could be earning all their money from external financing and losing money from operations. That looks good on your income statement but if you don't check the statement of cash flows, you wouldn't know about that and you'd bee royally screwed when those external lenders come to collect. Plus, all I know about their debt situation is that they're in chapter 11--how much debt do they really have? I could think of a hundred other questions not answered by their newsletter.
Mandrake's "newsletter" does not give me the numbers I need to make that sound analysis.
Oh, and before some of you wiseguys respond to this, realise that Enron, et al. are the EXCEPTIONS, not the rules.
35,765 Internet Votes Cast by Arizona Democrats was submitted on 11 March 2000.
Cern's Grid will initially be used to handle the terabytes of data generated by an upcoming particle accelerator called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
I initially thought that read Large Hardon Collider and then cringed slightly in pain.
Good thing Cern isn't doing that.
Likewise, you'll find lots of the cable operators in smaller markets abusing their aggregate to the extreme. Yes, it's 3Mbps local, but a single T1 for all to share leaving town.
:P
Unless you live in Holbrook, Arizona (population 4,917) with cable service by CableOne or some other rural micro cable internet provider, your statement that your city has a single T1 is blatantly false. And if you do, get out of the boonies.
Cox here I think feeds an OC-12 to the Phoenix, Arizona area that is piered with their national network and off the top of my head Level 3 and AT&T.
T1 my eye.
Ralston Purina will sue for copyright infringement.
that the frustrated woman in the article is likely using an Apple IIgs?
Wow, if that apple IIgs can run WindowsXP, I shouldn't have given mine away!
Nutty stock photography.
I concur.
Sun is the company that gave us NFS, a far more open protocol compared to that other 'standard' SMB. They ship mailservers that run on SMTP, not some backward port-135-using Exchange protocol. SPARC is licensed to multiple companies. Let's also not forget about java--how many java compilers are out there? Sun is the largest proponent of open industry standards that I can think off the top of my head.
Th interviewer must've been thinking "Sun workstations don't run Windows and Outlook and Office--so this must be their fault. Let's attack him on that."
I wrote a 10-page paper this summer for my ENG102 class on the topic of software patents. Mostly historical information, but the works cited list is what I consider impressive. It's a first draft, with professional recommendations left out (note to self: procrastinate less).
The link is at:
http://emvis.net/~sean/school/eng102/swpat.html
Enjoy.
I find it interesting that Zero Toys would use glycol as the formula for the smoke solution, especially a cherry-scented concotion. Kids tend to equate cherries with stuff that tastes good, with perhaps disastrous results when we look at the defintion from wordnet:
glycol
n 1: a sweet but poisonous syrupy liquid used as an antifreeze
and solvent [syn: {ethylene glycol}, {ethanediol}]
Smells like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
You should consider studying up on your CIDR, as your 16,000 IP figure is completely random. I think you mean /16, or "class B," which is 2^16 IP's, or 65536, minus the unusables.
</pedantic>
Should you end up in this situation again, I strongly recommend a relook through all the CD's that they sent you along with the laptop. They include an applications and driverrs CD (with a terribly obnoxious front end to the setup programs) that polls your system and gives you a poorly designed (did I mention I hate it?) listing of all your hardware. Click on the class of device you want installed and you're set.
Fifteen reboots later and you have a functioning (I use the term loosely) system. Fortunately I'm never doing this again as I have debian on my inspiron 1100...
The rogue program does not affect the Apple Macintosh line of computers or computers running variants of the Unix operating system.
So, Windows is there, but the NYT went out of their way to *avoid* mentioning it.
Yes, that's it--there's a grand journalistic integrity conspiracy between Microsoft and the New York Times wherein the NYT must avoid mention Windows flaws--you've got it, chief!
Or it could be that the fact that Windows' many worms, virii, etc. have become so commonplace to everyone from the linked article's author to Nancy New Yorker to the slashdot crowd that it's really not even worth mentioning that whatever new worm/virus is in fact for Windows--it's already common knowledge.
... how slashdot uses an old Palm Pilot icon for Microsoft PocketPC announcements.
</pedantic>
I have an iPAQ H3600 and upgraded without difficulty from PPC 2K to PPC2K2. PPC2K also supports restoration of PPC2K2 images.
So it's hard to say.
While certain IM protocols use HTTP, the thing that differentiates IM from everything else is the port--HTTP is 80, Yahoo is 5050, AIM is 5190, and MSN messenger is 1863.
:80, as far as I can tell.
:80. Set up a local HTTP proxy on :8080 and configure the proxy server to disallow certain sites like proxy.aol.com.
And proxy.aol.com doesn't listen on anything other than
If I were a brokerage firm IT manager, I'd be using NAT, and block every outgoing port--including
To comply with logging requirements, I'd tell employees to use an AIM client like gaim (there are win32 ports) that enable connection to a specific server and port, which would be the proxy server. I've seen perl port forwarders that could easily be extended to log conversations.
There might be things I've overlooked in my hypothetical solution, but it's 07:02 MST and I really haven't slept all that much lately.
The point is, things are not as difficult as they are made out to be.
Funny you should mention this today--while reading the East Valley Tribune (a freedom communications newspaper) today (17 June 2003), I read a letter from a mother to T Berry Brazleton, the famed syndicated pediatrician.
The mother's child was diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed Ritalin. After reading of the rather nasty side effects of Ritalin, the mother became super-dedicated in finding alternative therapies.
Turned out the child had rare food allergies to obscure/commonplace food items like corn and honey.
Eliminating these foods from the kid's diet eliminated his ADHD symptoms.
Brazelton posted a response that gave much credence to the mother's findings--I myself am a little bit more skeptical as I kind of doubt a concerned parents capabilities of setting up a proper control/variable hypothesis and testing it out keeping only one variable--I think about it further and consider that situation impossible.
Anyways, I think you should pick up the paper and read the article. Perhaps it might strike a chord with you.
If you can't find it and would like me to get you the article, my website is linked above and I can be contacted through it.
Good luck.
Um,
As I understand it, http will generally be faster than ftp. Unlike FTP, HTTP is a stateless protocol with no control connection. HTTP doesn't usually have username/password combinations. Nor does it have ugly passive and active transfer modes.
Always use HTTP for anonymous downloading from servers.
--sean
The technology to which you refer is T9, by Tegic Communications.
A quadriplegic that worked in the computer lab two or three of my jobs ago just used a device that was basically a stick with a teeth grip on one end and a regular keyboard. He bobbed for keys using just as fast if not faster than me typing one fingered.
Sometimes a low tech solution works just fine.
After getting off the phone with my friend, he reminded me of one very important piece of advice. Make copies of EVERYTHING. The packing slip that comes with Dell laptops and is required for getting the rebate offered, for example, is irreplacable. If you or the rebate company lose this, you're screwed.