Note to future self: remember when 1 terabyte was considered a lot of storage? those were the days....
Then there are those of us who remember when 1 gigabyte was considered a lot of storage.
Then there are those of us who remember when 1 megabyte was considered a lot of storage. Or even 100K.
You'd be surprised how much data will fit on a cassette tape at 500 baud. Over a megabyte per side on a C-90. The problem is that your computer probably only has 16K-48K of RAM to work on all that data.
Even more stupid is that the URI had a freaking version number in the filename! It's not like someone would update it, and then give it the old version number. It's going to give you the same file even when there's a newer version!
Yeah, American coins can do some pretty amazing stuff. For example, did you know that any time they strike a coin of denomination greater than $1, it vaporizes within ten seconds?
Really? I thought it just instantly underwent radioactive decay like a super-heavy element and turned into an ugly Susan B Anthony quarter*, or a tarnished-beyond-recognition Sacagawea dollar. And then was swept under the rug by dumping them at post offices nationwide.
* Yes, I actually typed "quarter" there before I noticed my error. That probably has some deep psychological significance.
They are just now offering DSL with static IP, 1.5 mbit down, and 128 kbit up, for a wee bit under $50.
Which "they" are you talking about? SBC has been offering that fixed IP service for at least four years now. Esentially it's their "business class" DSL with the name filed off. I have the 6M/384K service (though I get either 604 or 640 up) for $99/mo or so.
I've heard that there are some hosting providers out there that are so well connected that any attempt to DDoS them just shuts down one of their upstream links, without any significant effect on global availablity of the web sites they host.
The mere mention of shorter format times immediately makes me think that Windows "might" benefit from this: I've never had a long disk format time for ReiserFS, Ext3/2, nor UFS. But FAT and NTFS: give me a break. The long format times really makes Microsoft look stupid.
That's because most of that time is not spent formatting. Microsoft's formatting utilities read the entire disk volume before declaring it usable. What is stupid is that this is not optional. The best solution would to allow the volume to be used while it was verified by a background process.
What concerns me is why no one is working on improving density on my 3.5" microfloppy. I am running Windows 9.5 on an AMD-K5 HP box. I like to save Slashdot tirades, but typical Slashdot tirades consume more space than I have on my microfloppy.
They did already. The difference is that you get a whole new hard drive all at once, rather than swapping platters in and out like you do with a floppy.
Not to mention those Overrated mods that for some stupid reason still aren't part of the meta-moderation system, and are therfore easily subject to abuse.
I think there are lots of moderation abusers out there, who metamod capriciously, and who only mod things down using Overrated.
6 times I had to dial in and remotely login to the AC strip and dump the power to the DSL unit to reset it, which would then "fix" whatever it was that made it loose its marbles.
Let me guess... Alcatel 1000 modems? There was something weird about them that would do that. You didn't have to power cycle to fix it, just temporarily unplug it from the phone line, but remote power units are easier to find. It also seemed to know when you had left for a three day weekend, and would be out by noon Saturday.
I also had the DSL modem replaced 8 times in the last 2 years at all 8 of my DSL/Cable facilities. The speedstream units suck arse. The netopia units are much better, but they still screw up once in awhile.
Ugh. I got SBC's fixed-IP service (esentially their business-class DSL with the word "business" filed off), after the local super-clued ISP got borged. I had two phone lines, so I put the new service on the other line so I would have a week or two to switch over. The first thing I did when the guy wanted to hook up that $200 router (after I had just gotten an Alcatel 1000 working at the full 6 megabits) was to have him give it a lobotomy to straight Bridged Ethernet mode. About two years later its hub went flaky (TCP/IP does NOT like random packet lossage through an Ethernet hub!), so I dropped in an old A1000 and rediscovered the dropouts. Then I got a 4-light Speedstream (the 5-light versions are routers) at a thrift store and everything has been fine since.
Oh yeah, and there was that little problem shortly after I had that new DSL line installed. A few minutes after midnight, WHAM both lines lose ping to the DSLAM simultaneously. Seems someone had scrogged a flash upgrade on my remote terminal, and they had to fedex a new board. I was without two DSL lines (to different ISPs) for about 36 hours! (and presumably the rest of my neighborhood too)
I'm also disappointed by what level of internet sbc&t plans to offer with their upcoming U-verse service (internet capped at 6/1.5 or so, when I already have 6/0.6 and I'm 500 feet from the new box which could get as high as a 100/100 VDSL2 link!), not to mention that it's been over a year since they wired up the box and it still isn't offered here.
Anyone else remember tapster.com back in 2000? There was apparently a mixology site by that name that they borrowed for a few months to make a parody of Napster. I still have a couple of songs I downloaded from there, including Stonehenge, which I have on my iPod. They even had one mis-named song... I can't remember what it was listed as, but one mis-named song was actually Zappa's "I Am The Slime", which I had never heard of before. Or listened to since.
Alas, that site is now occupied by a squatter domain. They should upgrade to something newer like BitTorrent anyhow.
Also, in order to meet contractual agreements that allow them to keep using the name "Spinal Tap" (excuse my lack of heavy metal umlaut), they have to perform live once every few years.
The incident involving the stage setting for "Stonehenge" demonstrates the importance of making sure everyone involved with a project is using the same units of measure. This is an invaluable lesson that all programmers should absorb.
And Dubly[tm] so in their second movie, when the Stonehenge was made to the correct size... and they couldn't get it into the arena from outside.
I can think of one tiny thing that sucks on Mozilla on Mac... when ever I copy a bunch of text from a window, it puts bleeping CR line breaks in instead of LF line breaks. Unless I fix it first, it makes text editing act a bit wonky.
You've just applied the slashdot effect to yawning. That sound you hear isn't a web site crashing, it's the whole world yawning, even while watching Heroes.
That makes it a relatively isolated incident securitywise (not that it wouldn't be serious if they have compromised all your passwords, which I hope are different from your administrator password, bank account logins and credit card numbers).
The hell with that, all most of them want to do is use your box as a zombie spam/DoS mule. You don't need root (or its Windows equivalent) to do that.
There have already been talking heads on TV advocating "making university buildings into lock-down prisons, with no classroom windows, and wanding of everyone going in and out."
For what it's worth, the original four buildings at the University of Texas at San Antonio were designed in the early '70s. Because of the campus riots of the '60s, they were specifically designed with campus riots in mind. The buildings have very few windows, none in classrooms, and have 3 foot square hollow support columns. These each have one or two sides open on each floor, with big plastic knockout panels, and every classroom has at least one of these knockout panels. They allow a SWAT team to infiltrate the building from the bottom floor by climbing up the shafts of the support columns. (The bottom floor serves as a basement for most of the buildings, but the central area is raised such that the second level is the "ground" floor between buildings.)
Of course all that was rather a pointless extra expense since campus riots were a fad that had already passed.
But wanding everybody like they were getting on an airplane (what's next, strip searches with a body cavity option?) sounds more than a bit excessive. The cost-benefit ratio just isn't there. Incidents like this are the exception, not the rule.
A lot of people took it personally, and many of these people were Imus listeners.
Hold it right there! Just where did you hear that many of the outraged were Imus listerners? I've only heard of one "listener" who was outraged, and that was the Big Brother snitch listerner. Everybody else in the country was stirred up by Sharpton and the Drive By Media.
Imus is an "equal opportunity offender", and any of his regular listeners (certainly the ones at 6 freaking AM) wouldn't have noticed the remark as anything special.
Started it? Joe Pyne was doing it over 20 years before that and I wouldn't be surprised if there were someone else before him.
Who? Never heard of him. If he was so important, I should have heard at least his name in the past 15 years. And local guys don't count. It's the national political talk show hosts (who can sway national opinion) that they are after, not locals that nobody outside a 50-mile radius has ever heard of. Or late-night interviewers like Larry King used to be in the days before CNN.
Every now and then I watch SNL, and it still mostly sucks. Like your typical album put out by major record companies, there are one or two good skits buried in a bunch of mediocre garbage. So I just switch back to MadTV and watch a bunch of good skits with only a little mediocre garbage. I normally only stick with SNL when I want to watch it for the guest host (such as Rainn Wilson, etc.)
What YT exposure does is show off the good stuff that you don't see because you got tired of waiting for it and simply assumed that it was 100% suck. And, uh, makes you want to watch it more?
I thought I had a point here, and I guess it's that "YT exposure keeps you from thinking that SNL is 100% suck". Oh well, back to MadTV.
And this was a liberal watchdog group? Gimme a break. I thought the left at least gave lip service to freedom of speech.
Only when the speech agrees with their views. They are quite annoyed with political talk radio (which esentially didn't exist before 1989 when their number one target started it) because they have never been able to get any traction in that medium. Operating on the "if we can't have it, nobody can!" principle, they are out to destroy it, in any way they can.
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Then there are those of us who remember when 1 gigabyte was considered a lot of storage.
Then there are those of us who remember when 1 megabyte was considered a lot of storage. Or even 100K.
You'd be surprised how much data will fit on a cassette tape at 500 baud. Over a megabyte per side on a C-90. The problem is that your computer probably only has 16K-48K of RAM to work on all that data.
Even more stupid is that the URI had a freaking version number in the filename! It's not like someone would update it, and then give it the old version number. It's going to give you the same file even when there's a newer version!
Really? I thought it just instantly underwent radioactive decay like a super-heavy element and turned into an ugly Susan B Anthony quarter*, or a tarnished-beyond-recognition Sacagawea dollar. And then was swept under the rug by dumping them at post offices nationwide.
* Yes, I actually typed "quarter" there before I noticed my error. That probably has some deep psychological significance.
Which "they" are you talking about? SBC has been offering that fixed IP service for at least four years now. Esentially it's their "business class" DSL with the name filed off. I have the 6M/384K service (though I get either 604 or 640 up) for $99/mo or so.
I've heard that there are some hosting providers out there that are so well connected that any attempt to DDoS them just shuts down one of their upstream links, without any significant effect on global availablity of the web sites they host.
That's because most of that time is not spent formatting. Microsoft's formatting utilities read the entire disk volume before declaring it usable. What is stupid is that this is not optional. The best solution would to allow the volume to be used while it was verified by a background process.
They did already. The difference is that you get a whole new hard drive all at once, rather than swapping platters in and out like you do with a floppy.
Not to mention those Overrated mods that for some stupid reason still aren't part of the meta-moderation system, and are therfore easily subject to abuse.
I think there are lots of moderation abusers out there, who metamod capriciously, and who only mod things down using Overrated.
They haven't been completely ignored... where do you think they got that key from?
Let me guess... Alcatel 1000 modems? There was something weird about them that would do that. You didn't have to power cycle to fix it, just temporarily unplug it from the phone line, but remote power units are easier to find. It also seemed to know when you had left for a three day weekend, and would be out by noon Saturday.
I also had the DSL modem replaced 8 times in the last 2 years at all 8 of my DSL/Cable facilities. The speedstream units suck arse. The netopia units are much better, but they still screw up once in awhile.Ugh. I got SBC's fixed-IP service (esentially their business-class DSL with the word "business" filed off), after the local super-clued ISP got borged. I had two phone lines, so I put the new service on the other line so I would have a week or two to switch over. The first thing I did when the guy wanted to hook up that $200 router (after I had just gotten an Alcatel 1000 working at the full 6 megabits) was to have him give it a lobotomy to straight Bridged Ethernet mode. About two years later its hub went flaky (TCP/IP does NOT like random packet lossage through an Ethernet hub!), so I dropped in an old A1000 and rediscovered the dropouts. Then I got a 4-light Speedstream (the 5-light versions are routers) at a thrift store and everything has been fine since.
Oh yeah, and there was that little problem shortly after I had that new DSL line installed. A few minutes after midnight, WHAM both lines lose ping to the DSLAM simultaneously. Seems someone had scrogged a flash upgrade on my remote terminal, and they had to fedex a new board. I was without two DSL lines (to different ISPs) for about 36 hours! (and presumably the rest of my neighborhood too)
I'm also disappointed by what level of internet sbc&t plans to offer with their upcoming U-verse service (internet capped at 6/1.5 or so, when I already have 6/0.6 and I'm 500 feet from the new box which could get as high as a 100/100 VDSL2 link!), not to mention that it's been over a year since they wired up the box and it still isn't offered here.
Anyone else remember tapster.com back in 2000? There was apparently a mixology site by that name that they borrowed for a few months to make a parody of Napster. I still have a couple of songs I downloaded from there, including Stonehenge, which I have on my iPod. They even had one mis-named song... I can't remember what it was listed as, but one mis-named song was actually Zappa's "I Am The Slime", which I had never heard of before. Or listened to since.
Alas, that site is now occupied by a squatter domain. They should upgrade to something newer like BitTorrent anyhow.
Also, in order to meet contractual agreements that allow them to keep using the name "Spinal Tap" (excuse my lack of heavy metal umlaut), they have to perform live once every few years.
And Dubly[tm] so in their second movie, when the Stonehenge was made to the correct size... and they couldn't get it into the arena from outside.
I can think of one tiny thing that sucks on Mozilla on Mac... when ever I copy a bunch of text from a window, it puts bleeping CR line breaks in instead of LF line breaks. Unless I fix it first, it makes text editing act a bit wonky.
You've just applied the slashdot effect to yawning. That sound you hear isn't a web site crashing, it's the whole world yawning, even while watching Heroes.
The hell with that, all most of them want to do is use your box as a zombie spam/DoS mule. You don't need root (or its Windows equivalent) to do that.
So that's what happened to the boron in the elephant dung.
For what it's worth, the original four buildings at the University of Texas at San Antonio were designed in the early '70s. Because of the campus riots of the '60s, they were specifically designed with campus riots in mind. The buildings have very few windows, none in classrooms, and have 3 foot square hollow support columns. These each have one or two sides open on each floor, with big plastic knockout panels, and every classroom has at least one of these knockout panels. They allow a SWAT team to infiltrate the building from the bottom floor by climbing up the shafts of the support columns. (The bottom floor serves as a basement for most of the buildings, but the central area is raised such that the second level is the "ground" floor between buildings.)
Of course all that was rather a pointless extra expense since campus riots were a fad that had already passed.
But wanding everybody like they were getting on an airplane (what's next, strip searches with a body cavity option?) sounds more than a bit excessive. The cost-benefit ratio just isn't there. Incidents like this are the exception, not the rule.
From what I've heard, they counted them with Wolf Blitzer.
Quick math on Frank's TV: if it's 4:3, 2000 inch diagonal would be 1200 inches (100 feet) high. Widescreen 16:9 would be 720 inches, or 60 feet.
Basically, Frank's TV is the size of a drive-in theatre screen.
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Hold it right there! Just where did you hear that many of the outraged were Imus listerners? I've only heard of one "listener" who was outraged, and that was the Big Brother snitch listerner. Everybody else in the country was stirred up by Sharpton and the Drive By Media.
Imus is an "equal opportunity offender", and any of his regular listeners (certainly the ones at 6 freaking AM) wouldn't have noticed the remark as anything special.
Who? Never heard of him. If he was so important, I should have heard at least his name in the past 15 years. And local guys don't count. It's the national political talk show hosts (who can sway national opinion) that they are after, not locals that nobody outside a 50-mile radius has ever heard of. Or late-night interviewers like Larry King used to be in the days before CNN.
...and that also works on a Mac.
Every now and then I watch SNL, and it still mostly sucks. Like your typical album put out by major record companies, there are one or two good skits buried in a bunch of mediocre garbage. So I just switch back to MadTV and watch a bunch of good skits with only a little mediocre garbage. I normally only stick with SNL when I want to watch it for the guest host (such as Rainn Wilson, etc.)
What YT exposure does is show off the good stuff that you don't see because you got tired of waiting for it and simply assumed that it was 100% suck. And, uh, makes you want to watch it more?
I thought I had a point here, and I guess it's that "YT exposure keeps you from thinking that SNL is 100% suck". Oh well, back to MadTV.
Only when the speech agrees with their views. They are quite annoyed with political talk radio (which esentially didn't exist before 1989 when their number one target started it) because they have never been able to get any traction in that medium. Operating on the "if we can't have it, nobody can!" principle, they are out to destroy it, in any way they can.