After the "blue star" investigation they should investigate how that new browser window simply "popped up" without me knowing about it!
This falls in line with some research that I have done, involving the exploits of one british operative 00 (double-oh) 7 (seven).
It seems he sabotaged an international arms auction. Afterwards he helped sink a "stealth boat". I wonder if this "antiques" dealer was at just such an auction...
For A long time I was loving mine (Actually a 730... a little less ram than the 770) but the screen "Crapped out" after being stuffed in a carry-on bag for 10 hours of a plane flight. 4 columns of pixels are kaput.
That seems a little weak to me, since the entire time the unit was folded closed.
So I spent a couple of hours researching communication device driver implementations for both HPUX and Tru64. "They" want prototypes by the end of next week, however I go on vacation next Tuesday.
Guess which proto I don't have to do anymore?!?!?!
(* okay, not days. But the initial developement effort was "rounded up" to days in true software engineering style. Its still a win-win situation for me.)
Before you do anything, get some logs of the worst offenders. Zip it, stuff it, tar to tap, whatever. Stick that in your back pocket becuase that is your golden parachute.
Then block the ports. If an audit does come down and someone who has half a clue (in terms of systems and networks) is turned loose on you, simply provide an extra copy of your blackmail^D^D^D^D^D^D^D^D^D insurance policy.
You can even run some awk scripts to show bandwith usage per minute, etc. You can make a pretty pie chart/bar graph of how screwed the offending teachers are.
But that is only if push comes to shove. Protect yourself, block the ports, blame it on the "unapproved", virus-riddled software and silently smirk to yourself. You've earned it! You have your forward plan (block the jerks) and your backup plan (expose them for the bandwith hogs they are). You are officially a BOFH!!!!
ACtually, its not tourists- it simply through transported vegetable matter (potted plants, etc).
Since these frogs don't have a tadpole stage (they grow from eggs laid in/on said plants) they are much easier to carry.
Since they don't belong there are no natural predators, so their population grows unabated, and they compete with birds for food resources.
These croakers have gotta go!
And have you heard the sound sample? (go to hawaii star bulletin website) EEEESH!
Thank god they haven't taken over kaua'i! (two weeks baby...)
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Given that the coqui are the size of a silver dollar and only croak at night, AND given Hawaii's position on the earth (very little "Dusk" time) I'm sure they're hard as HECK to catch!
AS also outlined in the article, one guy caught 40 in a year... can you live off 3 grand?!
Thankfully the island I'm going to in two weeks (Kaua'i) is not infested.
but mergers just don't happen becuase one woman has a vision... THE BOARD makes it happen becuase they deem the move will increase share-holder value. NOTE: I understand that sometimes the board doesn't know its ass from its elbows, and many board meetings are spent with the members sitting on their elbows;)
SO FIRST this merger had to pass by Walter (which I believe he okayed!!). Then he turns around 180 and drops everything to stop it after it was already voted on.
If there was a time to voice opposition and remind people of the HP way. it was way before the board approved. This whole fight has cost a LOT of money. Almost every day there were 3-4 pages in the Wall Street Journal full of Pro and Against advertisements, all shouldered by the share holders.
Now why is this important? Becuase Walter is on the board, and the boards mission is to increase share-holder value (As opposed to the CEO and managers whos mission is to keep their jobs!), and if Walter was acting in the best interest of the share holder this fight should have gone down long ago for much less money!
Be disappointed in Carly, but also be disappointed in Walter.
Much like AOL forcing Time Warner to use their e-mail system (which subsequently hosed up, cause e-mail to get lost, delayed, or appended with pix of britney spears) I'm sure there will be the typical integration woes.
Yup. The board chose not to "invite" back the lone trouble maker. This is the first time there is neither a Hewlett nor a Packard on the board.
I mean, what are you going to do to the whiny, cray-baby loser who just cost your company (and share holders) MILLIONS in advertising alone?! (not to mention of the proxy votes being sent, re sent, and sent yet again).
Share holders shoulder that cost. So if you own stock, give yr thanks to Walt. A raspberry over the phone at 3am would be lovely!
I was re-vamping a machine that my dad was throwing out and I wanted sound on it, so I bought a Sound Blaster Pci 16 (I figure it's not my main machine) which installed easy but COULDN'T play waves! Nor could it handle midi- it just created incredibly loud static...
So I start a dialogue with their online support people (no phone number ANYWHERE, just 1 e-mail message a day over the course of a week and a half). I told them what I did- they ignored most everything I said, asked me to perform some voodoo ("turn off your computer monitor. Turn it off twice. Keep doing that. Change your video ram cache. See if that fixes your sound") - I ended up running out and buying an SBlive and installing it (and getting it to work) just to prove to them that it was not my system, my card was broken.
Yes thats right. I paid an extra $60 just to prove them wrong. Spite will make you do a lot of things!
I ended up putting the SbLive in my XP mp3/web browser box (all it had was on board audio... maybe this is an improvment?!)
The kids using it place no immediate value on it. There is no sense of destruction with it. The Kids didn't pay for it, their parents didn't save up money for it, so there is no "be careful!" factor involved (as evindenced by the shivpuri results).
Now to those of you who had computers as kids, think of your own past. It was either a gift to you or you were "stealing time" on a machine... You didn't know what you were doing, but you didn't care about doing something wrong. You just did it (and you probably screwed a few things up, too). And you learned from that.
This method of trial and error, the "school of hard knocks" is by far the greatest teacher because that is how human consciousness is wired- to learn and pick up clues on causality from our environment.
To this day, if you ask me how I wrote my CDLI device driver, I'll say "I took some code examples and hacked around until it worked!"
(I am not a lawyer, but my wife is studying to be one) While she was taking her contracts class, she pored over EVERY single contract (Wedding coordinator, photographer, hotel where the wedding was held, DJ, etc.) with a fine tooth comb. That is the lawyer in training method.
But when I speak with friends of the family who are lawyers, many simply sign every document thrust in front of their face becuase they know that no matter how you phrased it, they can wiggle out if need be!
That explains why I sign legally binding documents as I. P. Freely
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I'm sorry, I stumbled into the conversation late! But with all this talk about RMMM (risk management, mitigation, and monitoring) I was harkened back to my first seminar about Software Engineering and that Pressman book...
The only difference being that Pressman gives some examples.
And yes, it is a process, just like any other business/engineering process. Just let engineers run the world... we'll get it together!
D00d, I'm deep like the ocean! I mean, check this out. So I'm chillin' @ easter with the 'rents and the super 'rents (thats grandparents to you un-initiated) and we're giving Roman catholicism a right bashing (thats what we roman catholics do!) while having some banging shrimp coctail, then the discussion turns to personality/game theory with specific applications to one's boss; how to placate and stroke and read 'em to get what you want.
And then I bust it out: "Hey guys, what if C-A-T, really spelled DOG?"
A hush fell over the table. Genius has that effect on people.
I'm not sure what this everquest is, but my staffers tell me its a video game. I remember when my husband was addicted to Pong I had no quaters left over to do laundry!
There are two ways you can deal with this. Its almost may, and the way it sounds your roomate will be placed on academic probation and most likely not returning next semseter. So if you can hold out a little longer...
The second way to deal with this is to be firm but fair. Let him know that you are concerned that he is damaging his grades and social life. And let him know that his behaviour is damaging your chances of hitting the nappy-dugout. All work and no play makes Jack an angry, vindictive, revenge-monger.
If there is no change in his behavior (and your ability to get some) here is your plan: wake up early (10 am) one morning. Your roomate should be passed out from sheer exhaustion. remove his hard drive. remove his mother board. remove his net-connection. re-format his drive. Or just plain remove his computer. Leave a note in its place. He will be forced to go on a scavenger hunt to reclaim his lost computer! His ram is in a locker at the bus station down town. His mother board is duct-taped to the bottom of a bench. His hard drive is hidden on the roof of the physics building. Have the clues hidden amongst people he must talk to/interact with to get.
This should take at least a few weeks, keeping him out of the room and giving you valuable "together time" with your honey.
actually, it's not a personal thing. Personally, I think/feel that the Deaf take it *WAY* TOO FAR to the exclusion of everyone who is hearing. I've heard stories of Deaf parents considering aborting children when they found that their child would come out normal. And comparing dumb kids in high school to a tight knit intergenerational community is pretty ignorant. ostiguy, were you one of those dumb kids?;) (just kidding!)
And how in hell would those Dumb people figure out how to genetically engineer more Dumb? (that's capital D dumb to you, Mr. Smarty pants!) I mean I've seen a fish ride a bicycle but this is ridiculous!
Ahhh, I see you read a little washington post magazine while on the can this Sunday!
However your argument is a gross generalization on both fronts. To go O.T. for sec, the Deaf article is not just commenting on the desireability of a physical conidition (not being able to hear) but of the fierce culture that has associated itself around it. They (the capital-d Deaf) stick together like birds of a feather. I don't know how fostering one's own community is stetting the pace of progress back, but YMMV.
back on topic- to extrapolate from this gene experiment where we have no long term data to establish its true efficacy to a Gattica-type dystopia is almost trolling as a luddite. Just like the "we shouldn't play God!" troll, we have to realize its out of our hands. Technology is neither good nor bad.
And if you live in America, you have nothing to worry about, since it will either be outlawed, the funding will be cut, or Hollywood will legislate what genes you can use. Whoops, sorry! This isn't a DMCA/RIAA/CBDBTA/TINSTAAFL article!
Personal experience! I'm not just talking out of my backside. (however if I were talking out of my backside that wouldn't just be a fitting commentary/speculation on the origin on microsoft products, but DAMN FUNNY in its own right!)
Besides, what am I going to use at work, NETSCAPE?!! HA HA! If I keep netscape open for too long, I lose the ability to "click" on links. Think about how useful websurfing is when you can't CLICK a link!
Slashdot Mirror
This is incredible news! Release all zig for great justice!
There are two wireless Ipaqs running web servers!
Maybe they will vie for control of the airwaves! It'll be duelling, http serving ipaqs!
Every sentence ends in an exclamation point! The subject line has three! I have a very low threshold for stimulus so everything is exciting!
And I've heard that STARS has bugs that Raytheon says they cannot fix, and yet they want more money to "fix bugs"?
Fat chance they'll win ERAM.
After the "blue star" investigation they should investigate how that new browser window simply "popped up" without me knowing about it!
This falls in line with some research that I have done, involving the exploits of one british operative 00 (double-oh) 7 (seven).
It seems he sabotaged an international arms auction. Afterwards he helped sink a "stealth boat". I wonder if this "antiques" dealer was at just such an auction...
For A long time I was loving mine (Actually a 730... a little less ram than the 770) but the screen "Crapped out" after being stuffed in a carry-on bag for 10 hours of a plane flight.
4 columns of pixels are kaput.
That seems a little weak to me, since the entire time the unit was folded closed.
So I spent a couple of hours researching communication device driver implementations for both HPUX and Tru64. "They" want prototypes by the end of next week, however I go on vacation next Tuesday.
Guess which proto I don't have to do anymore?!?!?!
(* okay, not days. But the initial developement effort was "rounded up" to days in true software engineering style. Its still a win-win situation for me.)
I'm such a dork.... those ^D's should be ^H's !!!
Wow. What a lame-o.
So kids, let this be a lesson on why you should always hit the preview button FIRST.
I'm gonna go hang out with my lawyer wife. She doesn't care if I get the geek jokes wrong.
This is a specific follow-up to the parent.
Before you do anything, get some logs of the worst offenders. Zip it, stuff it, tar to tap, whatever. Stick that in your back pocket becuase that is your golden parachute.
Then block the ports. If an audit does come down and someone who has half a clue (in terms of systems and networks) is turned loose on you, simply provide an extra copy of your blackmail^D^D^D^D^D^D^D^D^D insurance policy.
You can even run some awk scripts to show bandwith usage per minute, etc. You can make a pretty pie chart/bar graph of how screwed the offending teachers are.
But that is only if push comes to shove. Protect yourself, block the ports, blame it on the "unapproved", virus-riddled software and silently smirk to yourself. You've earned it!
You have your forward plan (block the jerks) and your backup plan (expose them for the bandwith hogs they are). You are officially a BOFH!!!!
ACtually, its not tourists- it simply through transported vegetable matter (potted plants, etc).
Since these frogs don't have a tadpole stage (they grow from eggs laid in/on said plants) they are much easier to carry.
Since they don't belong there are no natural predators, so their population grows unabated, and they compete with birds for food resources.
These croakers have gotta go!
And have you heard the sound sample? (go to hawaii star bulletin website) EEEESH!
Thank god they haven't taken over kaua'i! (two weeks baby...)
Given that the coqui are the size of a silver dollar and only croak at night, AND given Hawaii's position on the earth (very little "Dusk" time) I'm sure they're hard as HECK to catch!
AS also outlined in the article, one guy caught 40 in a year... can you live off 3 grand?!
Thankfully the island I'm going to in two weeks (Kaua'i) is not infested.
Yep. For all my cable modem-having, morpheus/kazaa-using, cd-rom burning,
I bought the album without hearing a peep of it before hand.
Why? Obvious reasons! But it's pretty dope!
I'm not arguing FOR Carly Fiorina...
;)
but mergers just don't happen becuase one woman has a vision... THE BOARD makes it happen becuase they deem the move will increase share-holder value.
NOTE: I understand that sometimes the board doesn't know its ass from its elbows, and many board meetings are spent with the members sitting on their elbows
SO FIRST this merger had to pass by Walter (which I believe he okayed!!). Then he turns around 180 and drops everything to stop it after it was already voted on.
If there was a time to voice opposition and remind people of the HP way. it was way before the board approved. This whole fight has cost a LOT of money. Almost every day there were 3-4 pages in the Wall Street Journal full of Pro and Against advertisements, all shouldered by the share holders.
Now why is this important? Becuase Walter is on the board, and the boards mission is to increase share-holder value (As opposed to the CEO and managers whos mission is to keep their jobs!), and if Walter was acting in the best interest of the share holder this fight should have gone down long ago for much less money!
Be disappointed in Carly, but also be disappointed in Walter.
Much like AOL forcing Time Warner to use their e-mail system (which subsequently hosed up, cause e-mail to get lost, delayed, or appended with pix of britney spears) I'm sure there will be the typical integration woes.
or maybe they'll all just use Dells...
Yup. The board chose not to "invite" back the lone trouble maker. This is the first time there is neither a Hewlett nor a Packard on the board.
I mean, what are you going to do to the whiny, cray-baby loser who just cost your company (and share holders) MILLIONS in advertising alone?! (not to mention of the proxy votes being sent, re sent, and sent yet again).
Share holders shoulder that cost. So if you own stock, give yr thanks to Walt. A raspberry over the phone at 3am would be lovely!
The most important reason to do anything:
TO GET LAID. Or Lei'd. Hawaii is damn nice this time of year.
Sorry- I'm going to Kaua'i in a few weeks. It's all about being leid.
I was re-vamping a machine that my dad was throwing out and I wanted sound on it, so I bought a Sound Blaster Pci 16 (I figure it's not my main machine) which installed easy but COULDN'T play waves! Nor could it handle midi- it just created incredibly loud static...
So I start a dialogue with their online support people (no phone number ANYWHERE, just 1 e-mail message a day over the course of a week and a half). I told them what I did- they ignored most everything I said, asked me to perform some voodoo ("turn off your computer monitor. Turn it off twice. Keep doing that. Change your video ram cache. See if that fixes your sound") - I ended up running out and buying an SBlive and installing it (and getting it to work) just to prove to them that it was not my system, my card was broken.
Yes thats right. I paid an extra $60 just to prove them wrong. Spite will make you do a lot of things!
I ended up putting the SbLive in my XP mp3/web browser box (all it had was on board audio... maybe this is an improvment?!)
Next time I will hold out for the Echo Mia.
The kids using it place no immediate value on it. There is no sense of destruction with it. The Kids didn't pay for it, their parents didn't save up money for it, so there is no "be careful!" factor involved (as evindenced by the shivpuri results).
Now to those of you who had computers as kids, think of your own past. It was either a gift to you or you were "stealing time" on a machine... You didn't know what you were doing, but you didn't care about doing something wrong. You just did it (and you probably screwed a few things up, too). And you learned from that.
This method of trial and error, the "school of hard knocks" is by far the greatest teacher because that is how human consciousness is wired- to learn and pick up clues on causality from our environment.
To this day, if you ask me how I wrote my CDLI device driver, I'll say "I took some code examples and hacked around until it worked!"
(I am not a lawyer, but my wife is studying to be one)
While she was taking her contracts class, she pored over EVERY single contract (Wedding coordinator, photographer, hotel where the wedding was held, DJ, etc.) with a fine tooth comb. That is the lawyer in training method.
But when I speak with friends of the family who are lawyers, many simply sign every document thrust in front of their face becuase they know that no matter how you phrased it, they can wiggle out if need be!
That explains why I sign legally binding documents as I. P. Freely
I'm sorry, I stumbled into the conversation late! But with all this talk about RMMM (risk management, mitigation, and monitoring) I was harkened back to my first seminar about Software Engineering and that Pressman book...
The only difference being that Pressman gives some examples.
And yes, it is a process, just like any other business/engineering process. Just let engineers run the world... we'll get it together!
D00d, I'm deep like the ocean! I mean, check this out. So I'm chillin' @ easter with the
'rents and the super 'rents (thats grandparents to you un-initiated) and we're giving Roman catholicism a right bashing (thats what we roman catholics do!) while having some banging shrimp coctail, then the discussion turns to personality/game theory with specific applications to one's boss; how to placate and stroke and read 'em to get what you want.
And then I bust it out:
"Hey guys, what if C-A-T, really spelled DOG?"
A hush fell over the table. Genius has that effect on people.
Dear Lord Ender,
I'm not sure what this everquest is, but my staffers tell me its a video game. I remember when my husband was addicted to Pong I had no quaters left over to do laundry!
There are two ways you can deal with this.
Its almost may, and the way it sounds your roomate will be placed on academic probation and most likely not returning next semseter. So if you can hold out a little longer...
The second way to deal with this is to be firm but fair. Let him know that you are concerned that he is damaging his grades and social life. And let him know that his behaviour is damaging your chances of hitting the nappy-dugout. All work and no play makes Jack an angry, vindictive, revenge-monger.
If there is no change in his behavior (and your ability to get some) here is your plan: wake up early (10 am) one morning. Your roomate should be passed out from sheer exhaustion. remove his hard drive. remove his mother board. remove his net-connection. re-format his drive. Or just plain remove his computer. Leave a note in its place. He will be forced to go on a scavenger hunt to reclaim his lost computer! His ram is in a locker at the bus station down town.
His mother board is duct-taped to the bottom of a bench. His hard drive is hidden on the roof of the physics building. Have the clues hidden amongst people he must talk to/interact with to get.
This should take at least a few weeks, keeping him out of the room and giving you valuable "together time" with your honey.
Hope this helps!
Signed,
Ann Landers
Whooo hooo! Way to go RS/6000! Just another notch in the blade of the RISC vs. CISC debate. (And no, I'm not trolling for either side!)
So when I head down to the lab and hunch over the network code for my rs6k machines I can think "these machines are the bomb!"
It'll make me feel better when I crash them with my device drivers.
oh, it's definitely sexier. Maybe not exactly interesting, but sexy.
actually, it's not a personal thing. Personally, I think/feel that the Deaf take it *WAY* TOO FAR to the exclusion of everyone who is hearing. I've heard stories of Deaf parents considering aborting children when they found that their child would come out normal. And comparing dumb kids in high school to a tight knit intergenerational community is pretty ignorant. ostiguy, were you one of those dumb kids? ;)
(just kidding!)
And how in hell would those Dumb people figure out how to genetically engineer more Dumb? (that's capital D dumb to you, Mr. Smarty pants!)
I mean I've seen a fish ride a bicycle but this is ridiculous!
Ahhh, I see you read a little washington post magazine while on the can this Sunday!
However your argument is a gross generalization on both fronts. To go O.T. for sec, the Deaf article is not just commenting on the desireability of a physical conidition (not being able to hear) but of the fierce culture that has associated itself around it. They (the capital-d Deaf) stick together like birds of a feather.
I don't know how fostering one's own community is stetting the pace of progress back, but YMMV.
back on topic- to extrapolate from this gene experiment where we have no long term data to establish its true efficacy to a Gattica-type dystopia is almost trolling as a luddite. Just like the "we shouldn't play God!" troll, we have to realize its out of our hands. Technology is neither good nor bad.
And if you live in America, you have nothing to worry about, since it will either be outlawed, the funding will be cut, or Hollywood will legislate what genes you can use. Whoops, sorry! This isn't a DMCA/RIAA/CBDBTA/TINSTAAFL article!
Personal experience! I'm not just talking out of my backside. (however if I were talking out of my backside that wouldn't just be a fitting commentary/speculation on the origin on microsoft products, but DAMN FUNNY in its own right!)
Besides, what am I going to use at work, NETSCAPE?!! HA HA! If I keep netscape open for too long, I lose the ability to "click" on links.
Think about how useful websurfing is when you can't CLICK a link!