My personal favorite was building a small network out in a field. We set up our four machines [286's] in the dirt, got our power from a generator being towed by a five-ton and wired together on a 10Base2 network. For the first day or so the only shelter we had for the machines was a tarp that we pulled over them when it started to rain.
Lying on the ground, underneath the leaky tarp, hoping that I did not get electrocuted, or if I did that I would not be held accountable for the damaged equipment [trust me, this was not my idea], I decided that re-enlistment was not a great idea.
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Well, you could simply load your Palm device up with a bunch of quality Project Gutenburg text and then place one of these labels on it and leave it for someone to find. Although if you have a model that does not run on AAA's you may want to leave behind your charger too.
Unfortunately no one knows what is really going to happen with HPQ, including the people who actually work for this company. I am sure that there will be major growing pains as they integrate their various departments, especially tech support. But being a ridiculously large company, hopefully this will take a fair amount of time before it tackled [maybe a year or two]. But if you enjoy living on the edge with linux, you need to be prepared for a bump in the road every now and then.
Fortunately there is strong community support, even if it is not to be had from the major corporations. When it comes to laptops a good place to start is http://www.linux-laptop.net/. It seems that no one has written up an article on your girlfriend's particular model yet, but I would not be surprised to see that change in the near future. The information on this site helped me a great deal in setting up my HP Pavilion N5430.
I will be watching to see what happens, but at I fear the worst. Maybe when it comes time to replace my laptop it will be time to take a look at what IBM offers [assuming that they do not opt to pull out of the consumer market all together].
You are apparently very good a jumping to unsupported conclusions. If you take a look at my post you will see that I did not say that I am superior to the masses, I readily admit to being one. I have one many occasions made very questionable decisions often due to poor analysis of my situation [I even enlisted in the Marine Corps for crying out loud, if that isn't a bone head move I do not know what is].
But I do know that people generally do not make good choices, as individuals or in groups. Just because I am among the masses that do stupid things I do not feel the need to put blinders on and pretend that the stupid things that we do are really wise and intelligent.
I beg to differ, for what is a mass of people but a large number of individuals?
Sure if you take a fairly slow person aside and spell something out for them, they may indeed be able to demonstrate something approaching intelligence, but without that assistance most are lost.
Well, you might be interested in knowing that one of the applications that are used to handle air traffic in this country is running on Linux right now.
Enhanced Traffic Management System (ETMS) has been in testing on site for some time now. Currently it is used in the western part of the United States and in Mexico.
Reports from the field for the last 6 months have been very positive. These boxes will be replacing either HP-UX boxes, or in some cases the hated Windows boxes connecting to HP-UX via an Exeed session. Those users who will be doing away with their Exeed session have been jumping with joy. As for the users coming off of the HP-UX systems they do not seem to notice much difference (but the accountant who pays the bills sure does).
Mexico held of their trial of the ETMS system until a Linux version was available because they felt the cost of the HP-UX system was simple unreasonable.
Perhaps you should get out more often. The point was simply that people, including myself, can find plenty of things to be bitter about that origins of some silly program. Maybe you can discuss your need to jump to conclusions in your next therapy session.
I do not know where you hail from, but in the vast majority of the world, especially in Virginia, acquiring a motor vehicle license is just slightly harder than maintain a pulse and breathing fairly regularly. It is of absolutely now value in determining that someone is capable of operating and maintaining a vehicle without causes severe damage to it.
With that in mind I believe that it would be fair to say that if a product suffers from repetitive failures during 'regular use' [not abuse], replacing the part with the same part [i.e. not a improved part] is a sham. Now I would argue that the incredibly rapid depreciation rate for computers [which does far out strip even that of automobiles] makes the 'lemon law' reimbursement clause too severe for computer manufactures. I feel that some middle ground must be available. What exactly I am not sure, but I would think that an extension of the warranty especially regarding the parts related to the inferior component would be a good start.
While I applaud Mr. King's efforts to improve the services that the state of Maine provides by implementing technical solutions, he should remember that technology is not a solution in and of itself.
I fear that merely throwing hardware at the class of 2006 will provide very few with any significant benefit. Now I am sure there will be the occasional adventurous student who will discover their own means of benefiting from this windfall, but for the masses I believe it will cause more confusion than benefit.
I doubt seriously that the majority of junior high school teachers have the knowledge of how to thoroughly implement the new machines into the their daily lesson plans. Do they know how to reinstall the OS, or how to configure the computer to print to a different printer when the class's primary printer goes belly-up?
Hopefully these issues, and others have been taken into account and resolved, but I would not hold my breath. My guess is that the primary benefit will be the extra strength training the kids will receive in having an extra 5 - 10 lbs in their book bags every day.
Allowing prosecutors to determine when they want to observe someone, without requiring a warrant from a Judge is a blatant disregard for the 4th Amendment. I understand that there are many people who are scarred due to the events of the last week, but this is no reason to allow the government to throw away the principles on which this nation was founded.
I just wanted to let you know that I appreciated the great work that the./ crew has done this week../ Is where I found out about the tragedy on Tuesday morning, and through the links in the stories and by the fellow./ posters, how I was able to get more detailed news on what ad actually happened.
You should feel proud of the job that you performed and the service that you provided.
The story of credible threat to Air Force One is a bunch of bunk. Nothing in the air can get close to that bird with its fighter escort. The intention of relocating the President was not related to any real or perceived threat. Instead it was to keep him under raps, practicing his speech. We can?t have a President sounding like an idiot when people may actually be listening to him.
OK, quick question hot shot. If you are sitting in Regional ATC center in NY and you notice a flight has turned off its transponder [hence there is no identifier of who it is on your status screen] and not responding to radio contact, flying at a suspicious speed and altitude, eventually going beneath radar. You then receive a report that a plane has collided into the WTC. Now there is another flight is behaving in a similar matter, what are you supposed to do in the next 18 minutes? Call the maintenance room at the WTC, odds are they are fairly busy. How about the maintenance room at the Statute of Liberty? That would have made a good target, with there remaining 13 minutes they could have made a 200 foot sign that read, ?please do not fly into me?. Or call the Air Force, lets assume that they could get a fighter scrambled from a nearby New Jersey air force base. For the sake of argument 3 minutes for the Air Force commander to be convinced that the person calling is not a crackpot, 6 minutes for a fighter with live missiles to get off the ground and pointed in the right direction another 4 to locate and identify the rouge aircraft. Just enough time left to pump a couple of missiles into the commercial airlines so that the burning hulk can fall randomly into Manhattan, big improvement.
While you are correct that there is no WM player for linux, it is not as far fetched as it sounds. Currently WM player is offered for Sun Solaris. And from working with the people at Sun, I would say that they feel no closer to Microsoft that most devoted linux users.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
You are so full of it. There is NO PROOF that speeding is a direct cause of excessive fatalities. In those states that even attempt to keep these stats they are at best a joke. The vast majority of accidents caused by 'speed' [especially those on freeways] it only a contributing factor. This decision is made by some street cop who has a below average IQ and 8 hours of training.
Living in a world where your government protects you from everything will not cause you to live forever; it will just feel like it. Go brush up on your Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
... that people are sheep who will allow themselves to be lead anywhere, weather it is to a shearing or a slaughter.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
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Copyright (c) 1997, 2001 Suelette Dreyfus & Julian Assange
This HTML and text electronic version was arranged by Julian Assange
and is based on the printed paper edition.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
publication provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
preserved on all copies and distribution is without fee.
If you bothered reading past the first page you would see the above, which I beleive address your concerns.
Please note the above quote is from Underground By Suelette Dreyfus with Research by Julian Assange, First Published 1997 by Mandarin. Feel free to find your copy at http://www.underground-book.com/ or a mirror near you.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
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No, this particular bad memory was courtesy of a trip to Cobra Gold in the early/mid nineties with 1st Battalion 3rd Marines.
My personal favorite was building a small network out in a field. We set up our four machines [286's] in the dirt, got our power from a generator being towed by a five-ton and wired together on a 10Base2 network. For the first day or so the only shelter we had for the machines was a tarp that we pulled over them when it started to rain.
Lying on the ground, underneath the leaky tarp, hoping that I did not get electrocuted, or if I did that I would not be held accountable for the damaged equipment [trust me, this was not my idea], I decided that re-enlistment was not a great idea.
[former] USMC geek
Hey, that is an insult to cavemen.
Former Corporal USMC
Well, you could simply load your Palm device up with a bunch of quality Project Gutenburg text and then place one of these labels on it and leave it for someone to find. Although if you have a model that does not run on AAA's you may want to leave behind your charger too.
Yes indeed there is a red version of this book, it would be the second edition.
The Purple Book is: UNIX System Administration Handbook (3rd Edition) by Evi Nemeth, et al. And it is a very good read.
I just bought my plane tickets to Wisconsin so that I could see the pre-release demo at GenCon again this year....
Fortunately there is strong community support, even if it is not to be had from the major corporations. When it comes to laptops a good place to start is http://www.linux-laptop.net/. It seems that no one has written up an article on your girlfriend's particular model yet, but I would not be surprised to see that change in the near future. The information on this site helped me a great deal in setting up my HP Pavilion N5430.
I will be watching to see what happens, but at I fear the worst. Maybe when it comes time to replace my laptop it will be time to take a look at what IBM offers [assuming that they do not opt to pull out of the consumer market all together].
You are apparently very good a jumping to unsupported conclusions. If you take a look at my post you will see that I did not say that I am superior to the masses, I readily admit to being one. I have one many occasions made very questionable decisions often due to poor analysis of my situation [I even enlisted in the Marine Corps for crying out loud, if that isn't a bone head move I do not know what is].
But I do know that people generally do not make good choices, as individuals or in groups. Just because I am among the masses that do stupid things I do not feel the need to put blinders on and pretend that the stupid things that we do are really wise and intelligent.
I beg to differ, for what is a mass of people but a large number of individuals?
Sure if you take a fairly slow person aside and spell something out for them, they may indeed be able to demonstrate something approaching intelligence, but without that assistance most are lost.
Well, you might be interested in knowing that one of the applications that are used to handle air traffic in this country is running on Linux right now.
Enhanced Traffic Management System (ETMS) has been in testing on site for some time now. Currently it is used in the western part of the United States and in Mexico.
Reports from the field for the last 6 months have been very positive. These boxes will be replacing either HP-UX boxes, or in some cases the hated Windows boxes connecting to HP-UX via an Exeed session. Those users who will be doing away with their Exeed session have been jumping with joy. As for the users coming off of the HP-UX systems they do not seem to notice much difference (but the accountant who pays the bills sure does).
Mexico held of their trial of the ETMS system until a Linux version was available because they felt the cost of the HP-UX system was simple unreasonable.
And on the bright side you can talk to most of them as they wait in line at the unemployment office.
...there are significant ground forces, they are just not Americans.
Perhaps you should get out more often. The point was simply that people, including myself, can find plenty of things to be bitter about that origins of some silly program. Maybe you can discuss your need to jump to conclusions in your next therapy session.
Although I know what XP is based off of, I am still capable to being very bitter.
I do not know where you hail from, but in the vast majority of the world, especially in Virginia, acquiring a motor vehicle license is just slightly harder than maintain a pulse and breathing fairly regularly. It is of absolutely now value in determining that someone is capable of operating and maintaining a vehicle without causes severe damage to it.
With that in mind I believe that it would be fair to say that if a product suffers from repetitive failures during 'regular use' [not abuse], replacing the part with the same part [i.e. not a improved part] is a sham. Now I would argue that the incredibly rapid depreciation rate for computers [which does far out strip even that of automobiles] makes the 'lemon law' reimbursement clause too severe for computer manufactures. I feel that some middle ground must be available. What exactly I am not sure, but I would think that an extension of the warranty especially regarding the parts related to the inferior component would be a good start.
While I applaud Mr. King's efforts to improve the services that the state of Maine provides by implementing technical solutions, he should remember that technology is not a solution in and of itself.
I fear that merely throwing hardware at the class of 2006 will provide very few with any significant benefit. Now I am sure there will be the occasional adventurous student who will discover their own means of benefiting from this windfall, but for the masses I believe it will cause more confusion than benefit.
I doubt seriously that the majority of junior high school teachers have the knowledge of how to thoroughly implement the new machines into the their daily lesson plans. Do they know how to reinstall the OS, or how to configure the computer to print to a different printer when the class's primary printer goes belly-up?
Hopefully these issues, and others have been taken into account and resolved, but I would not hold my breath. My guess is that the primary benefit will be the extra strength training the kids will receive in having an extra 5 - 10 lbs in their book bags every day.
Allowing prosecutors to determine when they want to observe someone, without requiring a warrant from a Judge is a blatant disregard for the 4th Amendment. I understand that there are many people who are scarred due to the events of the last week, but this is no reason to allow the government to throw away the principles on which this nation was founded.
Thanks!
./ crew has done this week. ./ Is where I found out about the tragedy on Tuesday morning, and through the links in the stories and by the fellow ./ posters, how I was able to get more detailed news on what ad actually happened.
I just wanted to let you know that I appreciated the great work that the
You should feel proud of the job that you performed and the service that you provided.
The story of credible threat to Air Force One is a bunch of bunk. Nothing in the air can get close to that bird with its fighter escort. The intention of relocating the President was not related to any real or perceived threat. Instead it was to keep him under raps, practicing his speech. We can?t have a President sounding like an idiot when people may actually be listening to him.
OK, quick question hot shot. If you are sitting in Regional ATC center in NY and you notice a flight has turned off its transponder [hence there is no identifier of who it is on your status screen] and not responding to radio contact, flying at a suspicious speed and altitude, eventually going beneath radar. You then receive a report that a plane has collided into the WTC. Now there is another flight is behaving in a similar matter, what are you supposed to do in the next 18 minutes? Call the maintenance room at the WTC, odds are they are fairly busy. How about the maintenance room at the Statute of Liberty? That would have made a good target, with there remaining 13 minutes they could have made a 200 foot sign that read, ?please do not fly into me?. Or call the Air Force, lets assume that they could get a fighter scrambled from a nearby New Jersey air force base. For the sake of argument 3 minutes for the Air Force commander to be convinced that the person calling is not a crackpot, 6 minutes for a fighter with live missiles to get off the ground and pointed in the right direction another 4 to locate and identify the rouge aircraft. Just enough time left to pump a couple of missiles into the commercial airlines so that the burning hulk can fall randomly into Manhattan, big improvement.
While you are correct that there is no WM player for linux, it is not as far fetched as it sounds. Currently WM player is offered for Sun Solaris. And from working with the people at Sun, I would say that they feel no closer to Microsoft that most devoted linux users.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
Living in a world where your government protects you from everything will not cause you to live forever; it will just feel like it. Go brush up on your Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
... that people are sheep who will allow themselves to be lead anywhere, weather it is to a shearing or a slaughter.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut
If you bothered reading past the first page you would see the above, which I beleive address your concerns. Please note the above quote is from Underground By Suelette Dreyfus with Research by Julian Assange, First Published 1997 by Mandarin. Feel free to find your copy at http://www.underground-book.com/ or a mirror near you.
all persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. - Kurt Vonnegut