My first inclination would be to attempt to receive the fax, not only is there a lack of ways to do so in your situation but it's quite a bit more trouble than you deserve for someone calling you with a fax machine...
I don't know of a solution that doesn't cost money. I don't think the phone company will do anything for free. You could have your number changed, though depending on how long you've had it already it might be quite a bother and, again, more trouble than you deserve. You could disconnect your phone at night, which would be quite annoying and a hazard, I think. A good try would be to tell the phone company you've been "harassed" with phone calls at night, fax or human doesn't matter. Aren't records kept to allow them to see which numbers call? Should be... I wouldn't put it below them to try to sell you Caller-ID on the very same call. (Don't)
But mostly I'm thinking of how I dropped having a land-line altogether as it's such a bother.
Too bad it's all the way on Mercury, but after you do the attunement quest you'll be able to make it directly from Blackrock Mountain. That won't be too bad.
Cops look for a reason to arrest. If they "just know" that some civilian is guilty of "something," then obviously they can make a field test return a positive result with soap to give them more time to search or whatever. There's probably a short list of somewhat common materials people may have with them that tests positive on some specific test.
It's along the same lines as pulling someone over and asking the driver ten different times the basic question "Is it okay to search your car?" In progressively more confusing and convoluted ways because all the driver has to do is slip up once. Then the cop can get on with his job of figuring out what you're guilty of.
It's like developing a field test for explosives and then being able to arrest someone because their gasoline tank tested positive for highly flammable material.
I would mod you a +6 or higher if I could. I love being reminded of such lesser used words as "aggrandizing." I am also intrigued by your thoughts and would like to subscribe to your blog!
Well, Microchannel rings a bell and at the time I assumed it was to blame. That was just from the limited information I could find on using Linux on PS/1 machines. But now I think this box is not MCA.
It is an IBM PS/1 "Consultant", 386SX 25MHz. Came with an 80 meg hard drive, I don't know how much ram came with it originally but I had 8 megs in there. Card interface was ISA. I see from the Wikipedia article that there's an earlier PS/1 model and I can see how that one could be considered a flop. I'm sure that's what the article writer had in mind...
It's all coming back to me. I could boot Linux from a floppy but not reach the hard drive, and if I installed Linux to the hard drive and tried to boot then it'd find and load the kernel, but never find the root device (the hard drive of course). I'm past trying to install Linux on it at this point, it's in storage 2500 miles away anyway (though I'm sure it still works). But with the Microchannel bus not really applicable in this case it is remaining a mystery. After ten years.
Hey! That was my primary system back in the day. I don't see how it was a flop, it was pretty much like other 386s of the time. Many a BBS were dialed and game played. What was the problem with it?
Couldn't get Linux to recognize something in that system. I can't remember now but there was some proprietary bus or something not supported (and I doubt it was ever added after the fact either). It would refuse to find the hard drive, so I could only boot Linux from a floppy.
That couldn't be why it's supposedly a flop, though. News to me. =/
My Computer Science class is requiring that I submit program assignments on a floppy disk. She's not flexible about it, in fact she's very strict about even how to attach the disk to the paper (binder clip), using the proper cover sheet, and so on, or get a huge fat automatic zero.
I understand adhering to requirements. But floppy disks?
I guess the real lesson I'm learning so far is that some people will force you to use stupid old methods or standards or media because they said so and for no other good reason. Might as well tell me to submit it on five-and-a-quarter, it would the same inconvenience at this point.
You can't invade an enemy Titan without these stupid things trying to shoot at you through thirty feet of boxes and walls. A couple good shotgun blasts should do one in though, or maybe a rocket.
neglecter appease luis seagram bratwurst bluet burgundian seamstress adair embolden frontal rhodonite bitwise neither clara mercy footstool delivery
or how about....
Subject: dewdrop
perspicuous dinosaur fluency depart colombia oaken balfour odometer because propel bead cowry nihilism melanesia down mccluskey cryostat elena alphameric
----
I wondered what these emails were, but trying to poison spam filters seems correct. I figured spammers were doing it, but I thought the reason was just to spite us all. I'm sure people are doing this to email addresses and selling lists of "prepared email addresses" with compromised spam filters for extra message penetration panel sandman eyeglass conclusion inhibition globular irrigate -- er, sorry... yes, yes I have been checking my mail lately, why do you ask?
This page is used to test the proper operation of the Apache Web server after it has been installed. If you can read this page, it means that the Apache Web server installed at this site is working properly.
Joking aside... It appears someone pulled all content at this time, judging from http://www.wbglinks.net/
Sigh... seems anything interesting on the Internet done by someone without a bandwidth budget gets blown to bits. But ah, yes, the site is completely down.
[...]A federal judge in Denver issued an opinion blocking implementation of the list on free-speech grounds, throwing its future into limbo.[...]
Free-speech grounds? Haven't we gone over this? Yes, we have. As far as anyone's concerned, though, the judge's opinion could've been on "coin-toss grounds" or "from the professional advice given by my cat." Now it *has* to be challenged. WTF do they see that we don't?
Someone earlier posted a link to this, but it stopped working. This is the bill. It's short.
108th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3161 To ratify the authority of the Federal Trade Commission to establish a do-not-call registry.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 24, 2003 Mr. TAUZIN (for himself, Mr. DINGELL, Mr. UPTON, and Mr. MARKEY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
---
A BILL To ratify the authority of the Federal Trade Commission to establish a do-not-call registry.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. NATIONAL DO-NOT-CALL REGISTRY.
(a) AUTHORITY- The Federal Trade Commission is authorized under section 3(a)(3)(A) of the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act (15 U.S.C. 6102(a)(3)(A)) to implement and enforce a national do-not-call registry.
(b) RATIFICATION- The do-not-call registry provision of the Telemarketing Sales Rule (16 C.F.R. 310.4(b)(1)(iii)), which was promulgated by the Federal Trade Commission, effective March 31, 2003, is ratified.
the letter "o" and zero are right next to each other on the keyboard... I make that mistake on accident myself sometimes. In most fonts, its hard to catch. Dont worry,/. isnt getting leet on anyone.
Re:The best way to spend less time rebooting
on
Booting Linux Faster
·
· Score: 1
The point was, the uptimes under win32 were fine, given decent hardware. Decent uptimes given decent hardware was the point of the post I was replying to.
And two weeks is no joke. They seriously don't do anything other than browse the web and email. I was amazed, I cant even get my win32 system to do that with identical hardware.
They just dont mess around with the system much. When you're paying attention to other things like they are, two weeks go by fast.
Run windows on some decent hardware, maybe you wont think it's too laughable.
I'll freely share my uptime, but it's not something I'm too proud about. I don't need to fake how lazy I am. I am, in fact, too lazy to fake being lazy. I really need to slap a new kernel in that machine, but I haven't gotten around to it.
I wanted to make it's first uptime-birthday the day I compiled the newest stable kernel and rebooted. Obviously, that didn't happen.
Slashdot Mirror
My first inclination would be to attempt to receive the fax, not only is there a lack of ways to do so in your situation but it's quite a bit more trouble than you deserve for someone calling you with a fax machine...
I don't know of a solution that doesn't cost money. I don't think the phone company will do anything for free. You could have your number changed, though depending on how long you've had it already it might be quite a bother and, again, more trouble than you deserve. You could disconnect your phone at night, which would be quite annoying and a hazard, I think. A good try would be to tell the phone company you've been "harassed" with phone calls at night, fax or human doesn't matter. Aren't records kept to allow them to see which numbers call? Should be... I wouldn't put it below them to try to sell you Caller-ID on the very same call. (Don't)
But mostly I'm thinking of how I dropped having a land-line altogether as it's such a bother.
Too bad it's all the way on Mercury, but after you do the attunement quest you'll be able to make it directly from Blackrock Mountain. That won't be too bad.
Cops look for a reason to arrest. If they "just know" that some civilian is guilty of "something," then obviously they can make a field test return a positive result with soap to give them more time to search or whatever. There's probably a short list of somewhat common materials people may have with them that tests positive on some specific test.
It's along the same lines as pulling someone over and asking the driver ten different times the basic question "Is it okay to search your car?" In progressively more confusing and convoluted ways because all the driver has to do is slip up once. Then the cop can get on with his job of figuring out what you're guilty of.
It's like developing a field test for explosives and then being able to arrest someone because their gasoline tank tested positive for highly flammable material.
I know the ongoing debate about whether open source or closed source has the security advantage when it comes to exploits in code.
But this is a case where a half-and-half approach is probably the worst of all.
I would mod you a +6 or higher if I could. I love being reminded of such lesser used words as "aggrandizing." I am also intrigued by your thoughts and would like to subscribe to your blog!
Well, Microchannel rings a bell and at the time I assumed it was to blame. That was just from the limited information I could find on using Linux on PS/1 machines. But now I think this box is not MCA.
It is an IBM PS/1 "Consultant", 386SX 25MHz. Came with an 80 meg hard drive, I don't know how much ram came with it originally but I had 8 megs in there. Card interface was ISA. I see from the Wikipedia article that there's an earlier PS/1 model and I can see how that one could be considered a flop. I'm sure that's what the article writer had in mind...
It's all coming back to me. I could boot Linux from a floppy but not reach the hard drive, and if I installed Linux to the hard drive and tried to boot then it'd find and load the kernel, but never find the root device (the hard drive of course). I'm past trying to install Linux on it at this point, it's in storage 2500 miles away anyway (though I'm sure it still works). But with the Microchannel bus not really applicable in this case it is remaining a mystery. After ten years.
Hey! That was my primary system back in the day. I don't see how it was a flop, it was pretty much like other 386s of the time. Many a BBS were dialed and game played. What was the problem with it?
Couldn't get Linux to recognize something in that system. I can't remember now but there was some proprietary bus or something not supported (and I doubt it was ever added after the fact either). It would refuse to find the hard drive, so I could only boot Linux from a floppy.
That couldn't be why it's supposedly a flop, though. News to me. =/
My Computer Science class is requiring that I submit program assignments on a floppy disk. She's not flexible about it, in fact she's very strict about even how to attach the disk to the paper (binder clip), using the proper cover sheet, and so on, or get a huge fat automatic zero.
I understand adhering to requirements. But floppy disks?
I guess the real lesson I'm learning so far is that some people will force you to use stupid old methods or standards or media because they said so and for no other good reason. Might as well tell me to submit it on five-and-a-quarter, it would the same inconvenience at this point.
You can't invade an enemy Titan without these stupid things trying to shoot at you through thirty feet of boxes and walls. A couple good shotgun blasts should do one in though, or maybe a rocket.
I hope your clipboard didn't contain anything you didn't want this guy to see.
Heh, what a stupid troll the original was, then. Making people copy and paste the link just before stealing their clipboard text. Duuuuh.
I copied about 16 megs of random letters and numbers and tried going to that link a few times, just for good measure.
The first rule of MCP club is you do not talk about MCP club.
Now go set up franchises all over the country.
Subject: fodder gallonage
neglecter appease luis seagram bratwurst bluet
burgundian seamstress adair embolden frontal
rhodonite bitwise neither clara mercy footstool delivery
or how about....
Subject: dewdrop
perspicuous dinosaur fluency depart colombia oaken balfour odometer
because propel bead cowry nihilism
melanesia down mccluskey cryostat elena alphameric
----
I wondered what these emails were, but trying to poison spam filters seems correct. I figured spammers were doing it, but I thought the reason was just to spite us all. I'm sure people are doing this to email addresses and selling lists of "prepared email addresses" with compromised spam filters for extra message penetration panel sandman eyeglass conclusion inhibition globular irrigate -- er, sorry... yes, yes I have been checking my mail lately, why do you ask?
Joking aside... It appears someone pulled all content at this time, judging from http://www.wbglinks.net/
Sigh... seems anything interesting on the Internet done by someone without a bandwidth budget gets blown to bits. But ah, yes, the site is completely down.
Making the impossible possible has already been done with ZomboOS.
You're right, we shouldn't build tall buildings because terrorists told us not to.
In case Google gets slashdotted, here is the Google cache for Google.
Free-speech grounds? Haven't we gone over this? Yes, we have. As far as anyone's concerned, though, the judge's opinion could've been on "coin-toss grounds" or "from the professional advice given by my cat." Now it *has* to be challenged. WTF do they see that we don't?
this will save us from the hundred or so "Why not firewire?" posts every time somebody discusses some other method of moving data around.
<heh>
Yes, but... but...
Why not USB or SCSI?!?!1??one!1! firewiere si teh lame??? first post!
</heh>
Just in case you thought things were getting better.
Frying an Egg on an Athlon XP
the letter "o" and zero are right next to each other on the keyboard... I make that mistake on accident myself sometimes. In most fonts, its hard to catch. Dont worry, /. isnt getting leet on anyone.
The point was, the uptimes under win32 were fine, given decent hardware. Decent uptimes given decent hardware was the point of the post I was replying to.
And two weeks is no joke. They seriously don't do anything other than browse the web and email. I was amazed, I cant even get my win32 system to do that with identical hardware.
They just dont mess around with the system much. When you're paying attention to other things like they are, two weeks go by fast.
Run windows on some decent hardware, maybe you wont think it's too laughable.
I'll freely share my uptime, but it's not something I'm too proud about. I don't need to fake how lazy I am. I am, in fact, too lazy to fake being lazy. I really need to slap a new kernel in that machine, but I haven't gotten around to it.
I wanted to make it's first uptime-birthday the day I compiled the newest stable kernel and rebooted. Obviously, that didn't happen.
At least I keep it apt-get-upgraded.