No difference? Really? I used to have to leave my house FORTY MINUTES EARLIER when I worked north of the city in Medford on the old highway, the tunnel moves cars MUCH more efficiently than the old highway did. The day the northbound-93 tunnel opened up I realized that my LIFE was about to become MUCH more tolerable.
As for congestion in the city, It's not really so bad, except for a few runs you can learn to avoid. A REAL solution would be to massively expand parking at the outlying ends of the rail lines (Medford, Quincy, etc) and aggresively advertise that you can park out in Medford and get downtown faster and cheaper than if you tried to park in-city. If you did this there would be a LOT fewer cars in the city in the first place.
I've never seen a stupider and more dangerous practice than opeing up the breakdown lane for travel. I commute to Boston from Rhode Island daily, and the cause for the vast majority of the traffic is NOT 'bandwidth' issues, it's that everybody packs so close together that they force people to behave aggresively to get on or off the highway, stopping two lanes of traffic so one ass can switch lanes. The backup from the 95N-93N connector is ENTIRELY due to the fact that two lanes of drivers have to merge (slowly) into one just where they SHOULD be speeding up to merge with 93N!
Breakdown-lane travel seroiusly exacerbates the problems, every exit and onramp becomes a total disaster. The real answer would be to have police or cameras strictly enforcing a 'keep a safe distance from the guy in front of you' rule. The reason RT3 'inbound' is so fucked has little to do with how many lanes it bears, it's that when it finally DOES merge onto 93 the lane markers are unclear and improperly implemented, and people pack too close together to let proper lane-switching..
I've singlehandedly boosted the throughput of SEVERAL of these problem spots by STOPPING my car or moving slow enough to let two lanes of cars (in one 'lane' become one so everyone can do what they need to do.
It's not going to all-of-the-sudden be like this all the time, all the teams are pushing out their progress and tying up loose ends before the year ends. I'm sure there's a lot of developers at Apple who want to spend the next two weeks relaxing and soaking up the holiday work atmosphere, not crunching code.
AFAIK, the contracts awarded to BecTel(sp?) and Halliburton so far are 'cost plus' meaning that the companies will get reimbursed FULLY for all expenditures like software, plus a markup. They have nothing to gain, and all to lose by implementing OSS in Iraq under those conditions, charging an extra 10% on a Windows liscense puts $30 into the contractor's hands, while 10% of $0 is still $0.
Also, I'd be thinking of internationalization in the current Linux offerings, I'm not welll versed, but how is Arabic language support these days? How well does it compare to Windows or Mac OS X?
I just got a job running a network of macs and this totally threw me for a loop. I ended up including the client AND server on the image though, that way I can 'control' any machine from any other machine on the network. Overall it's a great product, it saves my ass every day (large campus in wintertime, prevents icy walks).
I was with a few friends at the bar, one said he was gonna bail to go catch '24' and I asked if it was really that good. He guaranteed that I'd fall in love with it if I gave it an episode, so I left too. We get in and turn on '24' and I could only bear it for about 15 minutes, the mangled geekspeak was too much for me to handle.
There's another 'antiterror' drama on too, one episode they landed a cargo plane on a carrier (which has been done, once). The show was just SO lame though, there was NO regard for proper portrayal of millitary protocol or the technical limitations of ANY equipment. I was just sitting there thinking, "what good is it if the hero's guns never run out of ammo and their cargo planes can dodge missiles?"
I think hollywood would be well served if they hired a kid for $30,000 / year to sit in with the writers and make sure there was enough realism in the shows to make them... acceptable.
I Austin is anything like Rhode Island, the employees will threaten strikes/lawsuits if you even mention the thought of having them contribute 1% to their benefits programs. Forget about making them buy 'office supplies'. We can't even get the cops to pull over traffic offenders here anymore because they bitch about their pay.
They talked about how hard it is to get Office working under WINE, but Office DOESN'T work under WINE _AT ALL_ because office uses undocumented windows APIs.
That' what stood out as I read it, and that's what I assume the moderator's reasoning was.
But really, what we need is a new generation of solid-state but small-as-hell storage, maybe based on current RAM modules (SRAMS are speedy and use VERY little juice). Maybe a CompactFlash form-factor stack of SRAM with a lithium battery to 'maintain' data when not plugged into a larger device. When the battery starts to go after X amount of time unplugged the host device warns you that your data's at risk. SRAMS don't suffer from 'burn in' either, that's the key advantage.
Um, my TiBook has a nice 'big' 2.5" drive and I can twirl it around as much as I want, that's about the same ratio of 'spinning platter : rest of device' that you'd have in a cell phone with a.85" drive in it.
By the way, what you suggest doing is a GREAT way to fsck-up a drive.
Because the only way to not write repeatedly to a sector is to have a counter somewhere and increment it, and that means 'writing to a single area over and over'. I guess another would be to have offset 'heat' counters spread through the filesystem, but that's way to complex, especially considering that most flash is in embedded systems that benefit from simplicity.
Has anyone else noticed that the slashboxes need a bit of a revamp? The Mozilla slashbox has been broken on and off for a while now, it often lags several days behind the source. Isn't at least some of that supposed to be automated? Shouldn't headlines from mozilla.org automagically be pumped into the slashbox?
Also, why not a 'Kernel' slashbox with a summary of current releases and test releases so we don't have front-page announcements?
But don't you want badly anti-aliased fonts applied to half the stuff on the screen, like the konsole? I would just die without my konsole, everything else makes the text go by too fast. Konsole slows it down to a reasonable pace for me.
AFAIK almost NOBODY uses the Linux ARCnet component, it's a very obscure protocol for what Linux is put to use for. I absolutely understand why this guy doesn't get any help. The protocol works though, and it's complete, so nobody's gonna make a stink about it until something breaks it.
Sorry, my 1994 Ford Escort Wagon has a 'black box' under the driver's seat which monitors several seconds of data before an airbag is deployed. I tried unplugging it and the car wouldn't start. I asked my mechanic about it and he confirmed it's purpose, but said it would only be used if I tried to 'total' my car.
I don't mind it being there, because it doesn't transmit anything, just records for the insurance to plug into to verify my claims. I WOULD have it 'worked around' if it was possible to transmit it's data without adequate security though, I consider my driving habits private and don't see how they shoud be available unless I am involved in an accident.
No, the idea is that the machine would spool the printed votes through a small window, so you could see a hard-copy of your vote, then it would be spooled up ad stored if there needs to be a recount. It wouldn't give YOU the reciept, that's not auditable on a massive-scale. Maybe it should keep one paper AND give you a copy?
Thinking about this got me riled up enough to pull out my banking records, it looks like my bank (Fleet) made quite a bit, by charging a huge 'exchange fee' and whoever sat at the Canadian-end of the deal took about $10 CAN as a "service charge".
It cost me $40 US, but my bank charged everything after $30 CAN.
I'm so pissed at Fleet, I've watched them switch around my transactions so they can charge overdraft fees. I sat and WATCHED online as my paycheck clearing time changed to AFTER the bills were paid so they could nail me with $75 in fees. I called them right after and told them that if I didn't get my $75 back I'd get a lawyer involved, they gave it right back. If my identity weren't stolen (long story) I'd open an account with Citizens Bank right now, I used to work there so I'd know who to call and yell at.
I went up to Montreal two years ago to visit a friend, I used a 'white label' ATM at a chinese food joint and took out $20 CAN from my US account, the transaction ended up costing me upwards of $40 US, which is like $60 CAN!
And this was all legal, no recourse was possible. I wonder who made off with the 'big money' though, my bank, the ATM company, or the chinese food joint.
VIA VPSD, the motherboard-end of VIA has a great board, the C3M-266, it's a socket-370 board running the CLE266 chipset (native VGA support coming soon in XFree86 4.4, VESA for now). It's got integrated-everything and it's the only DDR chipset for the Pentium3/Celeron/C3 that I know of.
The board is designed to run a C3 at full-blast, which is very stingy on power. Also, the DDR makes it less expensive to own, as SDR is getting pricey. If you need more power than the C3 you can slap a celeron or PIII into it and cruise away.
I'd look for someone making a box running this board.
There's something broken on you system or in your Mozilla. Since 1.2 Mozilla has been getting smaller and faster, from what I can see. I myself find that Moz 1.5 feels faster than any other 1.x build I've worked on.
There really haven't been to many new features, and the functional parts of a lot of stuff that was 'almost there' has been added (calendar anyone?).
I do think Moz on Win32 is a tiny bit slower than IE, but the time saved by tabbed browsing alone makes it WELL worth my while. The automatic 'google search' is great too, and the sidebars let me monitor several projects without having to trod over to the actual websites.
Actually yes, but I wasn't the jerk, I was a third party watching.
I've seen this happen at least five times, where one of a group of five people grabs the cash AND the stash never to be seen again. For some odd reason all but one of the 'getaways' was to Florida or California. I guess that's where you want to go when you've got $5K, a few pounds, and people looking to kill you.
That was several years ago though, maybe this 'generation Y-and-a-half' is a bit wiser.
Go more than 500 miles away, make friends with local druggies, move up the chain, gain their trust. Do little deals for a while until you have the capital to pull a big one, rip off the supplier, move back home (or better yet, elsewhere) and sell off your stolen drugs while holding your ill-gained cash. Most mid-level pot/coke dealers aren't nearly as tough as they seem, they aren't going to go more than 500 miles out of their way to recoup under $5,000.
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No difference? Really? I used to have to leave my house FORTY MINUTES EARLIER when I worked north of the city in Medford on the old highway, the tunnel moves cars MUCH more efficiently than the old highway did. The day the northbound-93 tunnel opened up I realized that my LIFE was about to become MUCH more tolerable.
As for congestion in the city, It's not really so bad, except for a few runs you can learn to avoid. A REAL solution would be to massively expand parking at the outlying ends of the rail lines (Medford, Quincy, etc) and aggresively advertise that you can park out in Medford and get downtown faster and cheaper than if you tried to park in-city. If you did this there would be a LOT fewer cars in the city in the first place.
I've never seen a stupider and more dangerous practice than opeing up the breakdown lane for travel. I commute to Boston from Rhode Island daily, and the cause for the vast majority of the traffic is NOT 'bandwidth' issues, it's that everybody packs so close together that they force people to behave aggresively to get on or off the highway, stopping two lanes of traffic so one ass can switch lanes. The backup from the 95N-93N connector is ENTIRELY due to the fact that two lanes of drivers have to merge (slowly) into one just where they SHOULD be speeding up to merge with 93N!
Breakdown-lane travel seroiusly exacerbates the problems, every exit and onramp becomes a total disaster. The real answer would be to have police or cameras strictly enforcing a 'keep a safe distance from the guy in front of you' rule. The reason RT3 'inbound' is so fucked has little to do with how many lanes it bears, it's that when it finally DOES merge onto 93 the lane markers are unclear and improperly implemented, and people pack too close together to let proper lane-switching..
I've singlehandedly boosted the throughput of SEVERAL of these problem spots by STOPPING my car or moving slow enough to let two lanes of cars (in one 'lane' become one so everyone can do what they need to do.
It's not going to all-of-the-sudden be like this all the time, all the teams are pushing out their progress and tying up loose ends before the year ends. I'm sure there's a lot of developers at Apple who want to spend the next two weeks relaxing and soaking up the holiday work atmosphere, not crunching code.
AFAIK, the contracts awarded to BecTel(sp?) and Halliburton so far are 'cost plus' meaning that the companies will get reimbursed FULLY for all expenditures like software, plus a markup. They have nothing to gain, and all to lose by implementing OSS in Iraq under those conditions, charging an extra 10% on a Windows liscense puts $30 into the contractor's hands, while 10% of $0 is still $0.
Also, I'd be thinking of internationalization in the current Linux offerings, I'm not welll versed, but how is Arabic language support these days? How well does it compare to Windows or Mac OS X?
I just got a job running a network of macs and this totally threw me for a loop. I ended up including the client AND server on the image though, that way I can 'control' any machine from any other machine on the network. Overall it's a great product, it saves my ass every day (large campus in wintertime, prevents icy walks).
I was with a few friends at the bar, one said he was gonna bail to go catch '24' and I asked if it was really that good. He guaranteed that I'd fall in love with it if I gave it an episode, so I left too. We get in and turn on '24' and I could only bear it for about 15 minutes, the mangled geekspeak was too much for me to handle.
There's another 'antiterror' drama on too, one episode they landed a cargo plane on a carrier (which has been done, once). The show was just SO lame though, there was NO regard for proper portrayal of millitary protocol or the technical limitations of ANY equipment. I was just sitting there thinking, "what good is it if the hero's guns never run out of ammo and their cargo planes can dodge missiles?"
I think hollywood would be well served if they hired a kid for $30,000 / year to sit in with the writers and make sure there was enough realism in the shows to make them... acceptable.
I Austin is anything like Rhode Island, the employees will threaten strikes/lawsuits if you even mention the thought of having them contribute 1% to their benefits programs. Forget about making them buy 'office supplies'. We can't even get the cops to pull over traffic offenders here anymore because they bitch about their pay.
They talked about how hard it is to get Office working under WINE, but Office DOESN'T work under WINE _AT ALL_ because office uses undocumented windows APIs.
That' what stood out as I read it, and that's what I assume the moderator's reasoning was.
I claim the name "Random Allocated File System"!
But really, what we need is a new generation of solid-state but small-as-hell storage, maybe based on current RAM modules (SRAMS are speedy and use VERY little juice). Maybe a CompactFlash form-factor stack of SRAM with a lithium battery to 'maintain' data when not plugged into a larger device. When the battery starts to go after X amount of time unplugged the host device warns you that your data's at risk. SRAMS don't suffer from 'burn in' either, that's the key advantage.
Um, my TiBook has a nice 'big' 2.5" drive and I can twirl it around as much as I want, that's about the same ratio of 'spinning platter : rest of device' that you'd have in a cell phone with a .85" drive in it.
By the way, what you suggest doing is a GREAT way to fsck-up a drive.
Because the only way to not write repeatedly to a sector is to have a counter somewhere and increment it, and that means 'writing to a single area over and over'. I guess another would be to have offset 'heat' counters spread through the filesystem, but that's way to complex, especially considering that most flash is in embedded systems that benefit from simplicity.
Has anyone else noticed that the slashboxes need a bit of a revamp? The Mozilla slashbox has been broken on and off for a while now, it often lags several days behind the source. Isn't at least some of that supposed to be automated? Shouldn't headlines from mozilla.org automagically be pumped into the slashbox?
Also, why not a 'Kernel' slashbox with a summary of current releases and test releases so we don't have front-page announcements?
But don't you want badly anti-aliased fonts applied to half the stuff on the screen, like the konsole? I would just die without my konsole, everything else makes the text go by too fast. Konsole slows it down to a reasonable pace for me.
NPR listeners will be presented with a blank billboard, as they prefer to donate rather than support advertisers.
(I'm a rabid, die-hard NPR listener myself)
AFAIK almost NOBODY uses the Linux ARCnet component, it's a very obscure protocol for what Linux is put to use for. I absolutely understand why this guy doesn't get any help. The protocol works though, and it's complete, so nobody's gonna make a stink about it until something breaks it.
Sorry, my 1994 Ford Escort Wagon has a 'black box' under the driver's seat which monitors several seconds of data before an airbag is deployed. I tried unplugging it and the car wouldn't start. I asked my mechanic about it and he confirmed it's purpose, but said it would only be used if I tried to 'total' my car.
I don't mind it being there, because it doesn't transmit anything, just records for the insurance to plug into to verify my claims. I WOULD have it 'worked around' if it was possible to transmit it's data without adequate security though, I consider my driving habits private and don't see how they shoud be available unless I am involved in an accident.
No, the idea is that the machine would spool the printed votes through a small window, so you could see a hard-copy of your vote, then it would be spooled up ad stored if there needs to be a recount. It wouldn't give YOU the reciept, that's not auditable on a massive-scale. Maybe it should keep one paper AND give you a copy?
AFAIK, Citizens Bank is still 95% Win98se. New machines are being rolled out as XP where possible, but some departments have and NEED Win98 to run.
Thinking about this got me riled up enough to pull out my banking records, it looks like my bank (Fleet) made quite a bit, by charging a huge 'exchange fee' and whoever sat at the Canadian-end of the deal took about $10 CAN as a "service charge".
It cost me $40 US, but my bank charged everything after $30 CAN.
I'm so pissed at Fleet, I've watched them switch around my transactions so they can charge overdraft fees. I sat and WATCHED online as my paycheck clearing time changed to AFTER the bills were paid so they could nail me with $75 in fees. I called them right after and told them that if I didn't get my $75 back I'd get a lawyer involved, they gave it right back. If my identity weren't stolen (long story) I'd open an account with Citizens Bank right now, I used to work there so I'd know who to call and yell at.
Whew. Don't drink, bank, and slashdot!
I went up to Montreal two years ago to visit a friend, I used a 'white label' ATM at a chinese food joint and took out $20 CAN from my US account, the transaction ended up costing me upwards of $40 US, which is like $60 CAN!
And this was all legal, no recourse was possible. I wonder who made off with the 'big money' though, my bank, the ATM company, or the chinese food joint.
VIA VPSD, the motherboard-end of VIA has a great board, the C3M-266, it's a socket-370 board running the CLE266 chipset (native VGA support coming soon in XFree86 4.4, VESA for now). It's got integrated-everything and it's the only DDR chipset for the Pentium3/Celeron/C3 that I know of.
The board is designed to run a C3 at full-blast, which is very stingy on power. Also, the DDR makes it less expensive to own, as SDR is getting pricey. If you need more power than the C3 you can slap a celeron or PIII into it and cruise away.
I'd look for someone making a box running this board.
There's something broken on you system or in your Mozilla. Since 1.2 Mozilla has been getting smaller and faster, from what I can see. I myself find that Moz 1.5 feels faster than any other 1.x build I've worked on.
There really haven't been to many new features, and the functional parts of a lot of stuff that was 'almost there' has been added (calendar anyone?).
I do think Moz on Win32 is a tiny bit slower than IE, but the time saved by tabbed browsing alone makes it WELL worth my while. The automatic 'google search' is great too, and the sidebars let me monitor several projects without having to trod over to the actual websites.
Overall Moz/FireBird are great products.
Actually yes, but I wasn't the jerk, I was a third party watching.
I've seen this happen at least five times, where one of a group of five people grabs the cash AND the stash never to be seen again. For some odd reason all but one of the 'getaways' was to Florida or California. I guess that's where you want to go when you've got $5K, a few pounds, and people looking to kill you.
That was several years ago though, maybe this 'generation Y-and-a-half' is a bit wiser.
Go more than 500 miles away, make friends with local druggies, move up the chain, gain their trust. Do little deals for a while until you have the capital to pull a big one, rip off the supplier, move back home (or better yet, elsewhere) and sell off your stolen drugs while holding your ill-gained cash. Most mid-level pot/coke dealers aren't nearly as tough as they seem, they aren't going to go more than 500 miles out of their way to recoup under $5,000.