Let me get this straight: he can't afford to buy furniture, but can afford to register a domain name and host a website? What kind of screwed up priority is that?
Oh, it's Slashdot - never mind.
In other news, the US Government banned the new X-Prize competition, say that while they didn't know how to activate it, they were sure that there was a hidden "boobies mode" in it somewhere. (John Carmack's involvement was a giveaway.)
Where exactly? I couldn't find the reference. The summary missed the key phrase "not more than" in the act, in other words:
CEOs and CFOs of listed companies (like SCOX) face up to ten years in jail and up to $1m fines for a mistake in their reporting.
So the US refuses to adopt DST, but are prepared to have the time permanently out of step with reality by up to an hour for hundreds of years just to avoid the occasional one second tweak that no one notices? (And on New Years Eve when often several hours can't be accounted for.)
Perhaps they should just disband National Institute of Standards and Technology and let their weights and measures drift too - it'd be quicker than the current approach to adopting the metric system.
The consumers know they can't get it until whatever date, and when that date comes, they jump on it and pay their 30 bucks for the hardcover.
At one local bookstore, I noticed that the price of preordering the book has already been reduced prior to the release date. The whole saturation marketing campaign is getting very tedious, and it obviously is affecting pre-sales; wait a few months and there'll be hundreds of them in the bargain bin.
Depends on the architecture - Solaris on Sparc makes sense, why anyone would choose Solaris over Linux on an x86/amd64 platform is beyond me. (I support both at work, and aim to replace as many Solaris boxes as possible with Linux.)
RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 has become the distribution of choice at work. It's not my first choice but RHEL is easy to install - and has the support pricetag (and scapegoat) to keeps management happy.
If you can't beat 'em, find something plausible to fit their preconceptions...
I was going to say it's a great way to check for new content on a site without visiting it, but it appears the Slashdot RSS feed hasn't updated for a day or so... Oh well.
What, you mean looking like an idiot isn't a great way to get a good paying job?
Why not? It works for management. The suit and tie is the giveaway - constricts blood flow to the brain, don't ye know...
The only time I wear a suit at work is for two reasons - job interviews (either as an interviewee or interviewer), and international conferences etc. where I'm representing my organisation and country - and only then under protest. Otherwise, it's neat casual clothing - the only sensible clothing for real IT work (running cables, racking servers etc.)
Just yesterday I was talking to a colleague who is doing battle with VB scripts, and bemoaned the fact that Notepad and Wordpad don't display the current line number so you can track down bugs.
I jokingly suggested he try the old DOS "edit" program - surprisingly, it still existed and it worked! (I then told him to install VIM and fix it properly...)
Why fanboys? This is precisely what meta-distributions like Gentoo are for, chuck.
Ultra-tweakers are a (vocal) minority of Gentoo users - the rest of us value Gentoo for its flexibility.
Unless you use Basic Authentication instead of the Windows proprietory stuff, you can't touch SharePoint servers with a non-Windows, non-IE browser either.
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Let me get this straight: he can't afford to buy furniture, but can afford to register a domain name and host a website? What kind of screwed up priority is that?
Oh, it's Slashdot - never mind.
Didn't you put your calendar forward for Celestial Saving Time?
In other news, the US Government banned the new X-Prize competition, say that while they didn't know how to activate it, they were sure that there was a hidden "boobies mode" in it somewhere. (John Carmack's involvement was a giveaway.)
A lot of these people are older folks who grew up in a different time.
I don't know about them being older folk; to get suckered in by these schemes, they must have been born yesterday.
From Groklaw:
Where exactly? I couldn't find the reference. The summary missed the key phrase "not more than" in the act, in other words:
CEOs and CFOs of listed companies (like SCOX) face up to ten years in jail and up to $1m fines for a mistake in their reporting.
So the US refuses to adopt DST, but are prepared to have the time permanently out of step with reality by up to an hour for hundreds of years just to avoid the occasional one second tweak that no one notices? (And on New Years Eve when often several hours can't be accounted for.)
Perhaps they should just disband National Institute of Standards and Technology and let their weights and measures drift too - it'd be quicker than the current approach to adopting the metric system.
OK, since most of the planets were named after Roman gods ...
... until they started being named after Disney characters. Since this is definitely an oddball planet, it should be called Goofy.
(Yes I know Pluto is the Roman name for the Greek god Hades, god of the underworld - save your bytes.)
"Space tourists will not land on its surface but will circle its dark side and orbit close enough to examine its cratered lunar crust."
That's marketing-speak for "crash".
The consumers know they can't get it until whatever date, and when that date comes, they jump on it and pay their 30 bucks for the hardcover.
At one local bookstore, I noticed that the price of preordering the book has already been reduced prior to the release date. The whole saturation marketing campaign is getting very tedious, and it obviously is affecting pre-sales; wait a few months and there'll be hundreds of them in the bargain bin.
Perhaps you'd like to spell-check the text of the email while you're at it: "proprietry" should be "proprietary", "furthur" should be "further" etc.
Depends on the architecture - Solaris on Sparc makes sense, why anyone would choose Solaris over Linux on an x86/amd64 platform is beyond me. (I support both at work, and aim to replace as many Solaris boxes as possible with Linux.)
RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 has become the distribution of choice at work. It's not my first choice but RHEL is easy to install - and has the support pricetag (and scapegoat) to keeps management happy.
If you can't beat 'em, find something plausible to fit their preconceptions...
I was going to say it's a great way to check for new content on a site without visiting it, but it appears the Slashdot RSS feed hasn't updated for a day or so... Oh well.
You cannot tell me that this photo doesn't make you want to see more?
You tease - when all I get is "Forbidden", of course I want to see more.
Gentoo. Download once*, install everywhere.
* almost (some platform specific downloads required.)
Countdown to Debian GNU/Solaris in T minus 10... 9...
Years?
What, you mean looking like an idiot isn't a great way to get a good paying job?
Why not? It works for management. The suit and tie is the giveaway - constricts blood flow to the brain, don't ye know...
The only time I wear a suit at work is for two reasons - job interviews (either as an interviewee or interviewer), and international conferences etc. where I'm representing my organisation and country - and only then under protest. Otherwise, it's neat casual clothing - the only sensible clothing for real IT work (running cables, racking servers etc.)
Just yesterday I was talking to a colleague who is doing battle with VB scripts, and bemoaned the fact
that Notepad and Wordpad don't display the current line number so you can track down bugs.
I jokingly suggested he try the old DOS "edit" program - surprisingly, it still existed and it worked!
(I then told him to install VIM and fix it properly...)
"Everything old is new again."
Queue gentoo fanboys...
Why fanboys? This is precisely what meta-distributions like Gentoo are for, chuck.
Ultra-tweakers are a (vocal) minority of Gentoo users - the rest of us value Gentoo for its flexibility.
... could be ovaltine, or whatever rock they said it was.
Meringue.
I suppose that would be more related to AMD's Cool'N'Quiet, though, which is a wonderful feature.
My Athlon64 3500+ with CnQ disabled already runs both cooler and quieter than my AthlonXP 1800+ does, so I don't see any point in turning CnQ on.
Mozilla (suite) doesn't - is this a Firefox-only feature?
Unless you use Basic Authentication instead of the Windows proprietory stuff, you can't touch SharePoint servers with a non-Windows, non-IE browser either.
Eleven? Is that you Nigel?
Volkswagens are metric so make sure you use A4 paper instead of US Letter.
Carrier landings in heavy jets eg F14, F15 are hard
F-15's don't fly off carriers.
That's why it's hard to land them on carriers...