That being said, I can't wait to eat dinner tonight. I'm so hungry, I'm going to break open TWO barrels of food! (probably a chicken drumstick in each barrel)
Coming from a large SW Engineering corporation, this is EXACTLY the role of the contractor; they are considered highly skilled and are brought in because it would be too costly to grow that level of skill from within the ranks.
We don't pay for their vacation, we don't pay for their education. Boo Hoo. They have their own company to do that!
SO if the contractors at MICROSOFT are having such a bad time, why don't they apply for a job and become full time MSFT?!
yeah acts of gord is the chronicle of a owner of a video game store that rents video games, and it seems that people who are on welfare decide they have to rent games, keep them out for 3 months, and then never pay up.
so I bought the linux ppc cd's (figure I'd do my part to support the community!)- and after partioning my drives the install itself took place over 4-6 attempts- I don't know if it was my cd rom drive (doubt it) or the cd's (doubt it) but for some reason a package MAY OR MAY NOT install... very wierd.
So it finally goes through and installs all the packages I want (and I wanted a lot)- so I go to log in and once X comes up, it starts recursing- it totally freaks out! and renders my system un-useable. My brilliant solution (which I posted to their website) was to set the system to only come up to run level 3- then run kdm. So KDM is hysterical, because it plays a sound on start-up and it was so choppy and crappy that my wife laughed EVERYTIME it came up. There was no way to silence the internal speaker- not even if you had the headphones plugged in!
I had it up, and i had it useable. I never got PPP to work, but afte a few weeks I got a cable modem anyway- so who cares.
But the straw that broke the camels back- I had no INETD. WTF?!?!?!? It was no where to be found. I dl'd the source code and if I tried I prolly could have gotten it to work- but at what cost? I mean, I do stuff like that at work, because they pay me. This is not my idea of fun.
I have a yellow dog iso, but once bitten twice shy. I'm thinking of just running Mac Os 8.6 on my 7600!!
oh yeah- MKLinux was a clean install, but ran stupid-slow on my 7600.
Lesse, I'm having some memory problems... Oh, I've got the manual! Right here!/* $Id: dma.c,v 1.7 1994/12/28 03:35:33 root Exp root $ 2 * linux/kernel/dma.c: A DMA channel allocator. Inspired by linux/kernel/irq.c. 3 * 4 * Written by Hennus Bergman, 1992. 5 * 6 * 1994/12/26: Changes by Alex Nash to fix a minor bug in/proc/dma. 7 * In the previous version the reported device could end up being wrong, 8 * if a device requested a DMA channel that was already in use. 9 * [It also happened to remove the sizeof(char *) == sizeof(int) 10 * assumption introduced because of those/proc/dma patches. -- Hennus] 11 */
21 22/* A note on resource allocation: 23 * 24 * All drivers needing DMA channels, should allocate and release them 25 * through the public routines `request_dma()' and `free_dma()'. 26 * 27 * In order to avoid problems, all processes should allocate resources in 28 * the same sequence and release them in the reverse order. 29 * 30 * So, when allocating DMAs and IRQs, first allocate the IRQ, then the DMA. 31 * When releasing them, first release the DMA, then release the IRQ. 32 * If you don't, you may cause allocation requests to fail unnecessarily. 33 * This doesn't really matter now, but it will once we get real semaphores 34 * in the kernel. 35 */ 36 37 38 spinlock_t dma_spin_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; 39 40/*
If version X of a release is difficult to use, why try Version Y? And if Version Y is also not working for you, what kind of a moron do you have to be to say "Hmmmm, Version Z, that's gonna be the one to solve MY hyper-specific and unique problems!"
I was told the definition of insanity was doing the same thing and expecting a different result. Now I've had some bad linux installs (*Cough* linuxppc *cough*) but I take that as an indicator that I have to move on. This woman is crazy!
And do you think it would be so hard to bribe that geek to install it for her?! Just show him a little ankle flesh and I'm SURE he'd do whatever you wanted!
correct me if I'm wrong, but as long as this student is not using VS.NET for commercial purposes, there is no way the BSA will bust down the doors! Is there?
Tyb- please turn on the comments in your journal entry. The defaul is "No comments"-
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hog wash.
If you want a bunch of people to work on one thing until completion, PAY THEM.
Otherwise you get what you get- a sea of productivity that comes and goes in fits and spurts. you also get a lot of different ideas on how to approach the same problem.
. "It's Microsoft that's allowing people to share these files; we're just accessing public information."
So because somebody didn't lock their door, its okay to steal the things in their house?
This is not a flame bait, this is the line of reasoning that a judge would see. The kids argument is valid for non-ip protected stuff: sure, look around the network and snag some freeware files off somebody else's drive. But just because you CAN do something, doesn't make it right in the eyes of the law.
Why? Because I could quite conceivably press the wrong button and screw it all up horribly.
You are exactly who this comment is aimed at. Exactly! Now my theory is this- most likely if you did screw up the copier there would be costly repercussions, right? Maybe its a small office you work in? Everyone would know it was you? This is just an example and not your specific case.
My point is that Technophobia is more about the fear of the potential repercussions. This is best exemplified by the distinction between parents and childrens usage of a computer (especially when they were new). Parents outlaid a lot of MONEY for it. So there is already a cost associated with the object. If you broke it because you didn't know what you were doing, you would be out hundreds of dollars! Better wait until you have time to read the manual. (never mind that the manuals suck and that you never have time to read them!)
However the money didn't come out of the childs wallet, and even if it did children (including teenagers) don't have the concept of scarcity and resources fully understood; they just want to press buttons.
So at work, we have a staff of people who I can call when the copier is down. That doesn't stop me from fiddling with it and taking the innards apart when there is a paper jam. Because I have that backup net.
The analogy to the coal story is very interesting, but its just like radio: the discs go to radio stations, who are paid to play certain songs. And while there may have been a cost savings for the central heating model, you know darn well that when the landlord controls the thermostat, you go cold. Its happened in countless apartments where we get a cold spell before "the heat is turned on" and all I could do was bundle up and shiver.
The same thing is happening with music. I get free music all the time in elevators and shopping malls and on radios. But it sucks, and leaves me cold.
d) The fact that homosexual conduct occurs in the privacy of the home does not affect the result. Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 557 , distinguished. Pp. 195-196.
I don't see how the above claim == there is no sanctity of the home.
maybe... now IANAL, but from my law-school wife, I get the knowledge of the "sanctity of the home"- that's why police can't barge in without a warrant, they can't peek into your windows, and this would be upheld by the supreme court.
So my thought is someone was just trying to brown nose some ultra-conservative constiuents in an effort to get more money out of them. It doesn't sound like there is a reasonable method of "getting caught"-
Again, IANAL, nor am I paranoid. I just have a low enough opinion of politicos so that I don't assume they want to fuck everyone over, I think they are just pandering "laws" for a buck. It'd be great to get some insight from Michigan police officers on this one.
It would be nice to also get the point of view of any lawyers, specifically those from Michigan.
plenty of shareware and freeware on the net for simple recording. In fact, Hit squad shareware music machine is a wealth of shareware/freeware/crippled demoware to get you started.
wait! I almost forgot! PRO TOOLS FREE! Yep, what the professionals use, just with slightly less bells and whistles. Get your head around this, and you've got jobs waiting for you in recording studios.
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It wasn't just funny- it was true and rather sad.
That being said, I can't wait to eat dinner tonight. I'm so hungry, I'm going to break open TWO barrels of food! (probably a chicken drumstick in each barrel)
But what about all that shiny-ness! And all that silver and black?! It was like, WHAM, BOOM, ZAAP!
And the part where he goes "I just learned kung fu!" its a crime that he didn't win an oscar for it!
Coming from a large SW Engineering corporation, this is EXACTLY the role of the contractor; they are considered highly skilled and are brought in because it would be too costly to grow that level of skill from within the ranks.
We don't pay for their vacation, we don't pay for their education. Boo Hoo. They have their own company to do that!
SO if the contractors at MICROSOFT are having such a bad time, why don't they apply for a job and become full time MSFT?!
I've had it for 3 years, and no problems. Well, one problem once, with Office 2k on a laptop, but I blame microsoft for that! ;)
Infact, I'm even using the wrong drivers (for the 850, actually) for it on some of my machines (network printer) and it works fine.
yeah acts of gord is the chronicle of a owner of a video game store that rents video games, and it seems that people who are on welfare decide they have to rent games, keep them out for 3 months, and then never pay up.
so I bought the linux ppc cd's (figure I'd do my part to support the community!)-
and after partioning my drives the install itself took place over 4-6 attempts- I don't know if it was my cd rom drive (doubt it) or the cd's (doubt it) but for some reason a package MAY OR MAY NOT install... very wierd.
So it finally goes through and installs all the packages I want (and I wanted a lot)- so I go to log in and once X comes up, it starts recursing- it totally freaks out! and renders my system un-useable. My brilliant solution (which I posted to their website) was to set the system to only come up to run level 3- then run kdm. So KDM is hysterical, because it plays a sound on start-up and it was so choppy and crappy that my wife laughed EVERYTIME it came up. There was no way to silence the internal speaker- not even if you had the headphones plugged in!
I had it up, and i had it useable. I never got PPP to work, but afte a few weeks I got a cable modem anyway- so who cares.
But the straw that broke the camels back- I had no INETD. WTF?!?!?!? It was no where to be found. I dl'd the source code and if I tried I prolly could have gotten it to work- but at what cost? I mean, I do stuff like that at work, because they pay me. This is not my idea of fun.
I have a yellow dog iso, but once bitten twice shy. I'm thinking of just running Mac Os 8.6 on my 7600!!
oh yeah- MKLinux was a clean install, but ran stupid-slow on my 7600.
Lesse, I'm having some memory problems... /* $Id: dma.c,v 1.7 1994/12/28 03:35:33 root Exp root $ /proc/dma. /proc/dma patches. -- Hennus]
/* A note on resource allocation: /*
Oh, I've got the manual! Right here!
2 * linux/kernel/dma.c: A DMA channel allocator. Inspired by linux/kernel/irq.c.
3 *
4 * Written by Hennus Bergman, 1992.
5 *
6 * 1994/12/26: Changes by Alex Nash to fix a minor bug in
7 * In the previous version the reported device could end up being wrong,
8 * if a device requested a DMA channel that was already in use.
9 * [It also happened to remove the sizeof(char *) == sizeof(int)
10 * assumption introduced because of those
11 */
21
22
23 *
24 * All drivers needing DMA channels, should allocate and release them
25 * through the public routines `request_dma()' and `free_dma()'.
26 *
27 * In order to avoid problems, all processes should allocate resources in
28 * the same sequence and release them in the reverse order.
29 *
30 * So, when allocating DMAs and IRQs, first allocate the IRQ, then the DMA.
31 * When releasing them, first release the DMA, then release the IRQ.
32 * If you don't, you may cause allocation requests to fail unnecessarily.
33 * This doesn't really matter now, but it will once we get real semaphores
34 * in the kernel.
35 */
36
37
38 spinlock_t dma_spin_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
39
40
If version X of a release is difficult to use, why try Version Y? And if Version Y is also not working for you, what kind of a moron do you have to be to say "Hmmmm, Version Z, that's gonna be the one to solve MY hyper-specific and unique problems!"
I was told the definition of insanity was doing the same thing and expecting a different result. Now I've had some bad linux installs (*Cough* linuxppc *cough*) but I take that as an indicator that I have to move on. This woman is crazy!
And do you think it would be so hard to bribe that geek to install it for her?! Just show him a little ankle flesh and I'm SURE he'd do whatever you wanted!
A potential nitpick:
correct me if I'm wrong, but as long as this student is not using VS.NET for commercial purposes, there is no way the BSA will bust down the doors! Is there?
like thats gonna fix it?! perchance, are you a security expert for large corporations, or from microsoft? ;)
Scum do get past detectors. Not posting the rules won't hinder them.
Tyb- please turn on the comments in your journal entry. The defaul is "No comments"-
hog wash.
If you want a bunch of people to work on one thing until completion, PAY THEM.
Otherwise you get what you get- a sea of productivity that comes and goes in fits and spurts. you also get a lot of different ideas on how to approach the same problem.
. "It's Microsoft that's allowing people to share these files; we're just accessing public information."
So because somebody didn't lock their door, its okay to steal the things in their house?
This is not a flame bait, this is the line of reasoning that a judge would see. The kids argument is valid for non-ip protected stuff: sure, look around the network and snag some freeware files off somebody else's drive. But just because you CAN do something, doesn't make it right in the eyes of the law.
IANAL, IANAL, and, BTW, IANAL.
Why? Because I could quite conceivably press the wrong button and screw it all up horribly.
You are exactly who this comment is aimed at. Exactly! Now my theory is this- most likely if you did screw up the copier there would be costly repercussions, right? Maybe its a small office you work in? Everyone would know it was you? This is just an example and not your specific case.
My point is that Technophobia is more about the fear of the potential repercussions. This is best exemplified by the distinction between parents and childrens usage of a computer (especially when they were new). Parents outlaid a lot of MONEY for it. So there is already a cost associated with the object. If you broke it because you didn't know what you were doing, you would be out hundreds of dollars! Better wait until you have time to read the manual. (never mind that the manuals suck and that you never have time to read them!)
However the money didn't come out of the childs wallet, and even if it did children (including teenagers) don't have the concept of scarcity and resources fully understood; they just want to press buttons.
So at work, we have a staff of people who I can call when the copier is down. That doesn't stop me from fiddling with it and taking the innards apart when there is a paper jam. Because I have that backup net.
or does it?!
The analogy to the coal story is very interesting, but its just like radio: the discs go to radio stations, who are paid to play certain songs. And while there may have been a cost savings for the central heating model, you know darn well that when the landlord controls the thermostat, you go cold. Its happened in countless apartments where we get a cold spell before "the heat is turned on" and all I could do was bundle up and shiver.
The same thing is happening with music. I get free music all the time in elevators and shopping malls and on radios. But it sucks, and leaves me cold.
SIDE NOTE:Dewd, TURN ON COMMENTS IN YOUR JOURNAL.
Other than that- I also agree out sourcing is a bad idea, simply so I can get past the lamness filter.
hahahahaha!although, camden isn't too far from philly...
now GTA:Grand Forks, North Dakota - THAT would be quality entertainment!
JERSEY city!
;)
haha! Let me guess, in typical slashdot fashion, you didn't even read his comment, did you?!
Oh wait, april fool... I get it!
I mean, the other 364 days a year wasn't enough? ;)
ohhhh! and emoticons have taken the 1970's smiley face to new hights of ubiquity! :)
Slashdotted without a comment in sight!
d) The fact that homosexual conduct occurs in the privacy of the home does not affect the result. Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 557 , distinguished. Pp. 195-196.
I don't see how the above claim == there is no sanctity of the home.
But then again, IANAL!
maybe... now IANAL, but from my law-school wife, I get the knowledge of the "sanctity of the home"- that's why police can't barge in without a warrant, they can't peek into your windows, and this would be upheld by the supreme court.
,
So my thought is someone was just trying to brown nose some ultra-conservative constiuents in an effort to get more money out of them. It doesn't sound like there is a reasonable method of "getting caught"-
Again, IANAL, nor am I paranoid. I just have a low enough opinion of politicos so that I don't assume they want to fuck everyone over, I think they are just pandering "laws" for a buck. It'd be great to get some insight from Michigan police officers on this one.
It would be nice to also get the point of view of any lawyers, specifically those from Michigan.
p.s.- for those who care, some quick-o sanctity links:
social workers can't enter a home w/o a warrant , Kirk v. louisiana, you can't bust into someone's home and just arrest them
Illinois v. McArthur, even if I have some weed, you can't bust into my place without a warrant.
plenty of shareware and freeware on the net for simple recording. In fact, Hit squad shareware music machine is a wealth of shareware/freeware/crippled demoware to get you started.
wait! I almost forgot! PRO TOOLS FREE! Yep, what the professionals use, just with slightly less bells and whistles. Get your head around this, and you've got jobs waiting for you in recording studios.