Try jumping out of your buddy's car at 22mph
this weekend and see if you make it to work monday.
You forgot the requisite: don't try this at home, kids. In this day and age of runaway litigation you can never be too safe... BTW, don't wear your clothes while ironing.
Does anyone really give a flying fsck what Congress is doing here? Can countries other than the USoA produce these games? Watch congress backtrack real fast if they see the industry pick up and move the Canada, or Ireland, or India.
All I use my ISP for is a cable connection to the net. I don't use any of their 'services' because they are so fucking crappy anyway, and that's the way I want it. All I want is an IP address so that I can firewall a masquerading linux box and ssh to my domain name hosting box.
It was inevitable that the ISP's that we had during the late 80's and most of the 90's would be eliminated once high speed became a reality. If my ISP had adjusted their web hosting rates to come to terms with this new reality I probably would have used their service. Fact is, they didn't. I could host a domain for 25 bucks yew ess in the states but these guys wanted upwards of one hundred bucks a month to properly host the domain. Morons.
Anyway, they were losing their best admins and the pinhead who ended up holding the fort had no clue what he was doing and after the second crack in so many months I'd had enough with their 'service'.
The biggest problem with zip disks is that they are still VERY expensive so shtoodents who use them for backup often have only one copy of their work on the zip disk. The number of times a shtoodent has come up to me with a bad zip disk and no other copy of their precious thesis or term paper is uncountable. "Well, you still have a copy on the network no?", I'll ask, knowing full well that they're too stupid to figure out how to use Windoze explorer to copy their files to the zip disk. I see this all the time, people working on the only copy of their file on a removeable disk. "Stupid thing to do, people!!"
The problem with zip disks is that they are too fast. With a floppy at least only the most moronic work directly off the floppy (they are only nearly uncountable).
Now, the biggest problem with your solution (that is, emailing your big files to yourself) is that this is another STUPID way to be transferring files. There are always better ways to transfer files than email. It should be the method of last resort. Let's see, http, scp, ftp... that's enough for now. Or use one of the free netdrive services.
Nothing is more annoying for a sysadmin than to slogin to the server in the morning and discover that some pinhead has filled up their mail box with 600MB of files (which translates into about 685MB after MIME translation, BTW). Believe me.
Then again, LARTing said pinhead can be quite satisfying.
If Micro$oft gets the trademark, no doubt they'll just buy it at this point, then you would have a difficult time using the name X box for your product.
X boxen sounds cool though, would they be able to prevent the use of *that*?
Perhaps easy, but your average moron who uses a comfutre is not going to know this, or even care for that matter. Most of my L^Husers don't give a fig about network security because they all say, I don't have anything to hide on the server. If they could they'd all use their middle name as their password.
As per usual, Micro$oft is culpable for the insecurity of their products. As per usual, they will not be chastised by anyone in the industry except for a bunch of snot nosed gits like us.
The Samsung flat panels are getting very high marks for the money. I was browsing through PC magazine (so shoot me) because they were comparing flat panels. The Samsung came out way on top when price was your first concern.
This is exactly the reason I've been holding off on implementing maildir. I'd like to use it but fear that with hundreds of users and thousands of files I'd soon run into problems with inodes on an ext2 filesystem.
One of the best reasons, for moi anyway, for maildir is that differential backups will only backup new messages instead of changed mailbox files. I know that on my system this would significantly reduce the size of the differential backups every night.
Er, this is FUD. Imap, most notably UW's implementation, has been the subject of several buffer overflows, but if properly patched is as secure as any POP implementation. And since IMAP connections can be protected with SSL (it seems that Messangers ssl over POP don't work.)
I understand your frustration, but at the same time you really can't blame the posters for their insensitivity. This is slashdot after all. Blame it on the "news as entertainment" industry that was just blossoming in the early 80's. This one was the first event that was covered by CNN in this manner. The Gulf War was the next. Blame this insensitivity on CNN and then blame everyone who tunes into CNN to get their fix whenever there's a disaster.
Society is sick, but it always has been so observe your moment of silence and hope (or pray or whatever it is that you do) that others follow your lead.
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I guess this is the JFK assassination of the MTV generation. I'd just finished my BSc and was forced to take a job in a factory making auto-parts. The "what's this button for?" joke had made the rounds of the factory floor before I got off work at 3pm and went home to watch the bird fry over and over and over and over.
I'll never forget how pathetic McAuliffe's poor husband looked. Pathetic in the sense of completely emasculated. Poor bastard, I just kept thinking.
There is a fringe theory that HIV is actually one of the 1,300 or so harmless retroviruses, and what doctors call AIDS is actually caused by all the drugs one is given to kill this virus (which aren't living in the first place, they're just pieces of genetic material) and the harmful lifestyle one engages in (drug use, etc.)
While I'm no great fan of the drug companies (they are culpable in the over-medication of seniors, for example), it's exactly this sort of pseudo-scientific activist FUD that eventually leads to more deaths for those who contract the disease. The original sufferers weren't subject to these drugs (throughout most of the 80's) but shitloads of them died from this allegedly mystery virus. This is pseudo-science at its best, denial of scientific findings through innuendo and rumour.
Feh. Did you know that George " " Bush is an MCSE? Q.E.D.
Have you grepped Google for "dumb motherfucker"?
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Ok, will someone tell me how the hell you add support for speed ?
I've heard that Microsoft Windoze ME is having problems with some faster processors because it is shutting itself down faster than the disk subsystem can go down. Now as to why this is being done asynchronously I canna tell you. Of course, this *is* Micro$oft we're talking about and flashiness is more important than stability.
How the fuck can shutting down the fucking computer be so fucking difficult??!!??
To be blunt, yes. Silencing of cars, trucks, buses would go a long way to increasing general mental health in the cities. I recall reading about a muffler for diesel trucks that used a computer to analyse the noise coming down the exhaust and creating an interference pattern to muffle the sound. Whenever I go to the country it's not the silence that I notice, but the goddamn noise when I finally force myself to return to civilisation. We are doomed.
Besides which the author of the salon article goes to fairly great lengths to show that the 8% claim is a load of horsehooey (sp?). The guys who came up with that figure guestimated that the average network computer consumes 1000W of power when all the routers/switches and servers are figured into the equation.
What's the average power consumption of a computer on a network? Assuming that it's always on and that it is configured to use its power saving features one can probably assume that it consumes on average about 166W (back of the envelope calculation for 8 hours of usage per day - 500W * 8/24 = 166W). That's well below 1000W. I don't claim that these figures are anything more than guestimates but I think my figures are less than conservative.
What's the power consumption of a 48 port cisco network switch? I have some cisco 3548 XL switches that consume about 150W (AFAIR) so that means we add 3W per workstation to the power cost.
If we assume that the per workstation power consumption cost decreases the further we get from the workstation, on the network, then we can probably more safely arrive at an average networked power consumption of 350 to 400 Watts.
These guys Mills and Huber (Hubris?) are suits. Their only agenda is finding a scapegoat so that the politicians will agree to build more power plants. Either that or they're just lackwits.
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You forgot the requisite: don't try this at home, kids. In this day and age of runaway litigation you can never be too safe ... BTW, don't wear your clothes while ironing.
Ha ha ha.
It was inevitable that the ISP's that we had during the late 80's and most of the 90's would be eliminated once high speed became a reality. If my ISP had adjusted their web hosting rates to come to terms with this new reality I probably would have used their service. Fact is, they didn't. I could host a domain for 25 bucks yew ess in the states but these guys wanted upwards of one hundred bucks a month to properly host the domain. Morons.
Anyway, they were losing their best admins and the pinhead who ended up holding the fort had no clue what he was doing and after the second crack in so many months I'd had enough with their 'service'.
Good riddance.
The problem with zip disks is that they are too fast. With a floppy at least only the most moronic work directly off the floppy (they are only nearly uncountable).
Now, the biggest problem with your solution (that is, emailing your big files to yourself) is that this is another STUPID way to be transferring files. There are always better ways to transfer files than email. It should be the method of last resort. Let's see, http, scp, ftp ... that's enough for now. Or use one of the free netdrive services.
Nothing is more annoying for a sysadmin than to slogin to the server in the morning and discover that some pinhead has filled up their mail box with 600MB of files (which translates into about 685MB after MIME translation, BTW). Believe me.
Then again, LARTing said pinhead can be quite satisfying.
This is your lucky day.
X boxen sounds cool though, would they be able to prevent the use of *that*?
Two fucking words: bull shit.
Fuck I hate pine.
As per usual, Micro$oft is culpable for the insecurity of their products. As per usual, they will not be chastised by anyone in the industry except for a bunch of snot nosed gits like us.
1.1) Jean Chretien
1.2) Bernard Landry (et. al.)
Jean Chretien is better known as Prime Minister Poutine to Dubya.
This is a sentence fragment.
Asshole.
Check out the review at zdnet for the comparisons.
Compare it with a PII/233 and you'll find it every bit equal to grandma's box ... er, boxen.
One of the best reasons, for moi anyway, for maildir is that differential backups will only backup new messages instead of changed mailbox files. I know that on my system this would significantly reduce the size of the differential backups every night.
Er, this is FUD. Imap, most notably UW's implementation, has been the subject of several buffer overflows, but if properly patched is as secure as any POP implementation. And since IMAP connections can be protected with SSL (it seems that Messangers ssl over POP don't work.)
Society is sick, but it always has been so observe your moment of silence and hope (or pray or whatever it is that you do) that others follow your lead.
I'll never forget how pathetic McAuliffe's poor husband looked. Pathetic in the sense of completely emasculated. Poor bastard, I just kept thinking.
While I'm no great fan of the drug companies (they are culpable in the over-medication of seniors, for example), it's exactly this sort of pseudo-scientific activist FUD that eventually leads to more deaths for those who contract the disease. The original sufferers weren't subject to these drugs (throughout most of the 80's) but shitloads of them died from this allegedly mystery virus. This is pseudo-science at its best, denial of scientific findings through innuendo and rumour.
Have you grepped Google for "dumb motherfucker"?
I've heard that Microsoft Windoze ME is having problems with some faster processors because it is shutting itself down faster than the disk subsystem can go down. Now as to why this is being done asynchronously I canna tell you. Of course, this *is* Micro$oft we're talking about and flashiness is more important than stability.
How the fuck can shutting down the fucking computer be so fucking difficult??!!??
Fsck.
Ok, we've built the steam engine ... now how the hell do we reduce the noise of the turbines?
To be blunt, yes. Silencing of cars, trucks, buses would go a long way to increasing general mental health in the cities. I recall reading about a muffler for diesel trucks that used a computer to analyse the noise coming down the exhaust and creating an interference pattern to muffle the sound. Whenever I go to the country it's not the silence that I notice, but the goddamn noise when I finally force myself to return to civilisation. We are doomed.
Right. There are enough morons bleeting away on IRC as it stands.
What's the average power consumption of a computer on a network? Assuming that it's always on and that it is configured to use its power saving features one can probably assume that it consumes on average about 166W (back of the envelope calculation for 8 hours of usage per day - 500W * 8/24 = 166W). That's well below 1000W. I don't claim that these figures are anything more than guestimates but I think my figures are less than conservative.
What's the power consumption of a 48 port cisco network switch? I have some cisco 3548 XL switches that consume about 150W (AFAIR) so that means we add 3W per workstation to the power cost.
If we assume that the per workstation power consumption cost decreases the further we get from the workstation, on the network, then we can probably more safely arrive at an average networked power consumption of 350 to 400 Watts.
These guys Mills and Huber (Hubris?) are suits. Their only agenda is finding a scapegoat so that the politicians will agree to build more power plants. Either that or they're just lackwits.