Yep, the word 'wrong' is open to interpretation alright. Let say 'illegal' then.
And you are right, just about everything is logged, and there's not a whole lot anybody can do about it. And you know, most of it is because of the minority who abuse situations that most wouldn't... such a pity.
You know, you are right. And it's by design. And it's well known. I remember several years ago CmdrTaco posting an article to discuss just that particular topic. IIRC, if you put in a comment as an AC, then you can't moderate comments attached to that article you posted against, just as if you had posted from your normal account.
It's all well known about, and well documented. The idea of the AC account is that nobody knows who you are, but admin can always find out things anyway (stuff/does/ get logged, you know). There is rarely any true anonymity in this world. It's not a bad thing, unless you are doing something wrong...
We take the first letter of each of the first 2 syllables in the company name. For Joe's Diner, this is JD
We put in two letters to indicate what the server is for. IN for Internet/Intranet, FP for File/Print, etc.
We put in 2 letters to indicate whether the box is local or remote. WA for Wide Area. LO for local
We put in a letter for the location of the machine. Eg. N for New York (in our case D for Dublin, M for Maidstone).
Then we fill the rest of the space with numbers.
This could give us something like
JDINWAN1 or JDFPLOC5 (C for Chicago!) or JDINLOD7
It works fairly well for us, and by picking letters for the various positions in the name, you can make most of the names pronouncable. J'Dinlod 7, J'Dinwan 1.
Maybe using FI instead of FP, you can have JDFILOC5 (J'D'Filoc 5)
Nah, I've been using Pond Cold Cream Clenser and water for about 14 years now. Nothing beats it.
Reading the article, though, it seems like this stuff is mixed with water for dispersal, so I don't imagine it's all that thick - it probably could be used fairly well.
Only lasts 6-12 hours though. Plently long for a gig, I suppose, but if you had to put it on every time you took the instrument out of it's case, it would be quite costly. Maybe adding water will remake it slippery - just like with Cold Cream.
Or maybe I should just tap my elbow for some synovial fluid...
I seem to remember one UK broadcaster (Sky, perhaps) who, after the ads were shown, displayed the logo in the corner of the screen for the next minute or so, and then it went. This was fair enough. Now all Irish broadcasters and some of the UK broadcasters show their logo during every program, but not during ads.
Personally I don't mind the logo so long as it's no-obtrusive. The Irish logos are translucent and light in color. You don't really notice them unless the scene is dark. UTV (part of the ITV group) show an ugly Blue and Yellow logo which is really annoying.
If they have to show a logo, they it should be small, un-obtrusive, far into a corner, and translucent - kinda like a small watermark that you won't really notice.
Puss In Boots is a well known fair tail in this part of the world (Ireland and UK) about a cat that wore boots, defeated Ogres, and became Mayor of London, if I'm not mistaken.
Then again, so did Dick Wittington, so I may be getting the 2 of them confused.
One of the things about coffee is that, inevitably, someone will spill it. It's not a rare event - people spill coffee all the time. Although the temperature of the coffee is fairly 'normal' (180F is 92.5C - 100C is boiling point) according to some posts, it is ridiculously hot, and a warning of some sort should be issued saying that it is hot, and telling people to be careful. Otherwise, if you don't know how hot it is, some people will assume that it isn't too hot, and do silly things.
McD's were at fault here, and so was the lady who was scolded by the coffee - but I would put more blame on McD's in this case.
You can choose not to install X. Seriously, just don't install the X packages. However, most newbies want to use X because it provides an environment that is similar to what they are used to.
I think the point he is making is that the installation is done in X (is it?), in which case, it may be very slow on older PCs. Haven't downloaded it yet, so I don't know if you can only use X to install. I hope not.
For 6.0, there are located here; in fact, their entire support area is pretty well done.
Agreed, it is good. However, the point here is that if you download RedHat 6.0, you are still getting all the bugs and still have to to go the website and download the fixes.
Yeah, I know, you can just get 6.1, or 6.2, or soon 7.0. But when bugs are discovered in 7.0, we will still be downloading the buggy 7.0 until 7.1 comes out.
Also - isn't there also a domain '.' (to get you to the TLDs) - if so, where are the nameservers for that physically located?
You mean the main root domain servers. If you have named installed (or any other DNS server for that matter), all of the IP address should be listed there, along with the address to FTP to to get the most recent list...
Unfortunately doesn't say where they are all located, but you can see the IP addresses. It does say that one of them is in Japan. I'm sure there are a couple in the EU also, and probable is Aussie too.
This is from Sign of the Orc, just changed. It's a good story, if I remember correctly. Do a search for Knight Orc, and you'll find the story - Knight Orc was one of the old style text adventures.
---- Begin ---- - Background 'ambient' radiation: negligible, 0.1-0.5 microwatts per cm^2.
- Radiation from GSM antennaes: Unless you're within meters of the front of one of the antennaes, radiation is negligible. 1000s of microwatts per cm^2 right against it and falling according to the square of the distance (i.e. dramatically) as you move away.
- Radiation from phones: When you dial a number, never ever hold the phone up to your ear until the phone connects and starts ringing. Radiation is at its highest during this early stage. 150-200 microwatts per cm^2.
- Radiation during a call: slight 10-20 microwatts per cm^2, regardless of whether you're speaking or listening.
- Radiation from handsfree kits: Non existant on Nokia hands free kits. Media stories are contrived and don't tell you the full story. 0.0-0.5 microwatts per cm^2.
Source: we had health and safety people here in our building with a radiation meter and we went around and took measurements ourselves.
There is a company here in Ireland called Danu. They are located in the Dundalk Institute of Technology. Their web address is http://www.danu.ie and they do VPN stuff for NT and Linux (and Solaris, maybe). They might be of some help.
I know there was a guy (name escapes me) who was working on a water powered car. Basically he had developed a method of cracking water using very little power. He received multiple death threats from major oil powers until he eventually gave them the rights to the technology.
This, to me, seems to be the major problem. The rich oil countries in the Middle East just don't want to stop being rich, and will do everything they can to ensure that nothing comes between them and their money.
Money seems more important to them than the state of the planet. Water powered cars would have been efficient and very very clean (H2 burning off to become water, which is cracked to give H2, which is burned to give water....).
The same problem occurs with other fuels and other new technologies that come along to replace oil. I'm sure once all the oil is used up that we will then be free to use what we want in our cars, including nice cheap (free?) water.
I remember hearing 'Daisy' being played on the Amiga floppy drive. Way cool. Just make sure you don't have any floppy disks in there when you play it though....
Psalms 97:10 says, "Hate evil you who love the Lord."
My neighbour is only he who is truly righteous and loves God. I hate those who direct themselves against our Lord, in accordance with Scripture.
But didn't Jesus Himself say to 'Love one another as I have loved you'. Jesus didn't have any biases towards people. He forgave sinners - he didn't shun them. He didn't give off to them for being sinners. In fact, he loved them as much as he loved those who followed him.
For someone who says that he is Christian, you certainly do not live the life the Jesus (who is God, don't forget) said to live. One of love for all man, not just the few who you select to be loved.
Jesus also said 'let he who is without sin caste the first stone'. I'm sure you will remember the context of this. I'm sure you also remember the result - nobody threw a stone. Why? Because everyone is a sinner. There is not a single person in this world who, in the eyes of God, is not a sinner. And yes, that even means you. This means that Jesus, and God, loves you as much as he loves everyone else. He doesn't love you any more than anyone, nor any less. He loves all people, of all colours, of all religions, of all nationalities, or all beliefs, equally. Unconditionally. Whether or not these people believe in Him, or whether or not they even love Him back.
And before you go saying that I am a Satan worshipper just because I read Slashdot and happen to be a programmer, I am not. I too am a Christian. Roman Catholic. I go to Church once a week. I believe that God exists. I have difficulty with these beliefs sometimes, but after all I am only human. God knows this too. I pray when I feel the need to pray, whether it is to ask for help, or to say Thank You.
Feel free to condemn me, but remember that in Jesus's eyes, you are also condemning yourself...
"What you do to the least of my breathern you do to me"
Again, just like every time before, he means everyone. Even the murderers in our jails. The rapists. The pediaphiles. And the worst of the lot, us programmers!
I work in an fairly large multinational company. However, our help desk and support staff is basically split across Ireland and the UK. Officially, there is one Help Desk team and one Support Team, but in reality there is one of each here and one of each there.
Here is the breakdown:
Ireland UK Helpdesk 6 6 (Just answer phones) Desktop Support 6 5 Server Support 6 10 (NT + Exchange) Network Support 3 6 (LAN + WAN)
Total 21 27
Employees (approx) 1.5k 1k
There is more support staff in the UK 'cos all of the major hubs are there. They are the centre of the WAN and Exchange networks.
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Yep, the word 'wrong' is open to interpretation alright. Let say 'illegal' then.
And you are right, just about everything is logged, and there's not a whole lot anybody can do about it. And you know, most of it is because of the minority who abuse situations that most wouldn't... such a pity.
You know, you are right. And it's by design. And it's well known. I remember several years ago CmdrTaco posting an article to discuss just that particular topic. IIRC, if you put in a comment as an AC, then you can't moderate comments attached to that article you posted against, just as if you had posted from your normal account.
/does/ get logged, you know). There is rarely any true anonymity in this world. It's not a bad thing, unless you are doing something wrong...
It's all well known about, and well documented. The idea of the AC account is that nobody knows who you are, but admin can always find out things anyway (stuff
here is what we do here...
We take the first letter of each of the first 2 syllables in the company name. For Joe's Diner, this is JD
We put in two letters to indicate what the server is for. IN for Internet/Intranet, FP for File/Print, etc.
We put in 2 letters to indicate whether the box is local or remote. WA for Wide Area. LO for local
We put in a letter for the location of the machine. Eg. N for New York (in our case D for Dublin, M for Maidstone).
Then we fill the rest of the space with numbers.
This could give us something like
JDINWAN1
or
JDFPLOC5 (C for Chicago!)
or
JDINLOD7
It works fairly well for us, and by picking letters for the various positions in the name, you can make most of the names pronouncable. J'Dinlod 7, J'Dinwan 1.
Maybe using FI instead of FP, you can have
JDFILOC5 (J'D'Filoc 5)
T.
Nah, I've been using Pond Cold Cream Clenser and water for about 14 years now. Nothing beats it.
Reading the article, though, it seems like this stuff is mixed with water for dispersal, so I don't imagine it's all that thick - it probably could be used fairly well.
Only lasts 6-12 hours though. Plently long for a gig, I suppose, but if you had to put it on every time you took the instrument out of it's case, it would be quite costly. Maybe adding water will remake it slippery - just like with Cold Cream.
Or maybe I should just tap my elbow for some synovial fluid...
T.
As a trombone player, this stuff would be excellent on the slide. Much better than the oils and stuff I currently use.
I wonder how long this stuff actually lasts, and if it gets tacky after a while...
T.
Hey Rob,
Congrats. I hope everything goes well for you both. When's the big day?
T.
I was in Chicago only last week. I went into the SONY shop on N.Michigan and picked up a Sony Vaio running on a Transmeta chip.
Wasn't quite a laptop - the machine was about half the size, but was running WinXP.
So, they are there...
I seem to remember one UK broadcaster (Sky, perhaps) who, after the ads were shown, displayed the logo in the corner of the screen for the next minute or so, and then it went. This was fair enough. Now all Irish broadcasters and some of the UK broadcasters show their logo during every program, but not during ads.
Personally I don't mind the logo so long as it's no-obtrusive. The Irish logos are translucent and light in color. You don't really notice them unless the scene is dark. UTV (part of the ITV group) show an ugly Blue and Yellow logo which is really annoying.
If they have to show a logo, they it should be small, un-obtrusive, far into a corner, and translucent - kinda like a small watermark that you won't really notice.
T.
Puss In Boots is a well known fair tail in this part of the world (Ireland and UK) about a cat that wore boots, defeated Ogres, and became Mayor of London, if I'm not mistaken.
Then again, so did Dick Wittington, so I may be getting the 2 of them confused.
T.
One of the things about coffee is that, inevitably, someone will spill it. It's not a rare event - people spill coffee all the time. Although the temperature of the coffee is fairly 'normal' (180F is 92.5C - 100C is boiling point) according to some posts, it is ridiculously hot, and a warning of some sort should be issued saying that it is hot, and telling people to be careful. Otherwise, if you don't know how hot it is, some people will assume that it isn't too hot, and do silly things.
McD's were at fault here, and so was the lady who was scolded by the coffee - but I would put more blame on McD's in this case.
T.
You can choose not to install X. Seriously, just don't install the X packages. However, most newbies want to use X because it provides an environment that is similar to what they are used to.
I think the point he is making is that the installation is done in X (is it?), in which case, it may be very slow on older PCs. Haven't downloaded it yet, so I don't know if you can only use X to install. I hope not.
For 6.0, there are located here; in fact, their entire support area is pretty well done.
Agreed, it is good. However, the point here is that if you download RedHat 6.0, you are still getting all the bugs and still have to to go the website and download the fixes.
Yeah, I know, you can just get 6.1, or 6.2, or soon 7.0. But when bugs are discovered in 7.0, we will still be downloading the buggy 7.0 until 7.1 comes out.
T.
Also - isn't there also a domain '.' (to get you to the TLDs) - if so, where are the nameservers for that
physically located?
You mean the main root domain servers. If you have named installed (or any other DNS server for that matter), all of the IP address should be listed there, along with the address to FTP to to get the most recent list...
ftp://ftp.rs.internic.net/domain/named. root
Unfortunately doesn't say where they are all located, but you can see the IP addresses. It does say that one of them is in Japan. I'm sure there are a couple in the EU also, and probable is Aussie too.
T.
MURL said that Christopher Lee has been cast in the role of a charismatic separatist in Episode II.
:)
So Christophe Lee has been cast as Queen Amidala's Wonderbra. Wonder how much he's getting paid for that role...
This is from Sign of the Orc, just changed. It's a good story, if I remember correctly. Do a search for Knight Orc, and you'll find the story - Knight Orc was one of the old style text adventures.
T.
A friend on mine just sent me this email...
---- Begin ----
- Background 'ambient' radiation: negligible, 0.1-0.5 microwatts per
cm^2.
- Radiation from GSM antennaes: Unless you're within meters of the front
of one of the antennaes, radiation is negligible. 1000s of microwatts
per cm^2 right against it and falling according to the square of the
distance (i.e. dramatically) as you move away.
- Radiation from phones: When you dial a number, never ever hold the
phone up to your ear until the phone connects and starts ringing.
Radiation is at its highest during this early stage. 150-200 microwatts
per cm^2.
- Radiation during a call: slight 10-20 microwatts per cm^2, regardless
of whether you're speaking or listening.
- Radiation from handsfree kits: Non existant on Nokia hands free kits.
Media stories are contrived and don't tell you the full story.
0.0-0.5 microwatts per cm^2.
Source: we had health and safety people here in our building with a
radiation meter and we went around and took measurements ourselves.
----- End -----
T.
There is a company here in Ireland called Danu. They are located in the Dundalk Institute of Technology. Their web address is http://www.danu.ie and they do VPN stuff for NT and Linux (and Solaris, maybe). They might be of some help.
T.
I know there was a guy (name escapes me) who was working on a water powered car. Basically he had developed a method of cracking water using very little power. He received multiple death threats from major oil powers until he eventually gave them the rights to the technology.
This, to me, seems to be the major problem. The rich oil countries in the Middle East just don't want to stop being rich, and will do everything they can to ensure that nothing comes between them and their money.
Money seems more important to them than the state of the planet. Water powered cars would have been efficient and very very clean (H2 burning off to become water, which is cracked to give H2, which is burned to give water....).
The same problem occurs with other fuels and other new technologies that come along to replace oil. I'm sure once all the oil is used up that we will then be free to use what we want in our cars, including nice cheap (free?) water.
T.
Has he written any book, or done anything that might make his name come to mind?
Oops. Meant to say Philip K Dick, not Christopher Dick, who is someone completely different. Sorry.
T.
In the book, Deckard is tested and is not a replicant. Christopher Dick toyed with the idea and decided against it.
Ridley, on the other hand, did make a conscious decision to make him a Replicant - he even said so in a book about the making of the film.
Personally, I prefer the book, though the film is an excellent rendition - much better than most film renditions of books.
T.
I remember hearing 'Daisy' being played on the Amiga floppy drive. Way cool. Just make sure you don't have any floppy disks in there when you play it though....
T.
Remember, "Christians" != "Christianity".
...
No, it's more like
public class Christian implements Christianity {
}
T.
Psalms 97:10 says, "Hate evil you who love the Lord."
My neighbour is only he who is truly righteous and loves God. I hate those who direct themselves against our Lord, in accordance with Scripture.
But didn't Jesus Himself say to 'Love one another as I have loved you'. Jesus didn't have any biases towards people. He forgave sinners - he didn't shun them. He didn't give off to them for being sinners. In fact, he loved them as much as he loved those who followed him.
For someone who says that he is Christian, you certainly do not live the life the Jesus (who is God, don't forget) said to live. One of love for all man, not just the few who you select to be loved.
Jesus also said 'let he who is without sin caste the first stone'. I'm sure you will remember the context of this. I'm sure you also remember the result - nobody threw a stone. Why? Because everyone is a sinner. There is not a single person in this world who, in the eyes of God, is not a sinner. And yes, that even means you. This means that Jesus, and God, loves you as much as he loves everyone else. He doesn't love you any more than anyone, nor any less. He loves all people, of all colours, of all religions, of all nationalities, or all beliefs, equally. Unconditionally. Whether or not these people believe in Him, or whether or not they even love Him back.
And before you go saying that I am a Satan worshipper just because I read Slashdot and happen to be a programmer, I am not. I too am a Christian. Roman Catholic. I go to Church once a week. I believe that God exists. I have difficulty with these beliefs sometimes, but after all I am only human. God knows this too. I pray when I feel the need to pray, whether it is to ask for help, or to say Thank You.
Feel free to condemn me, but remember that in Jesus's eyes, you are also condemning yourself...
"What you do to the least of my breathern you do to me"
Again, just like every time before, he means everyone. Even the murderers in our jails. The rapists. The pediaphiles. And the worst of the lot, us programmers!
Did I hear correctly that Judge Jackson could issue this case directly to the Supreme Court, thus skipping the years upon years of appeals?
Am I right, or was I hearing things the few times someone told me about it?
T.
I work in an fairly large multinational company. However, our help desk and support staff is basically split across Ireland and the UK. Officially, there is one Help Desk team and one Support Team, but in reality there is one of each here and one of each there.
Here is the breakdown:
Ireland UK
Helpdesk 6 6 (Just answer phones)
Desktop Support 6 5
Server Support 6 10 (NT + Exchange)
Network Support 3 6 (LAN + WAN)
Total 21 27
Employees (approx) 1.5k 1k
There is more support staff in the UK 'cos all of the major hubs are there. They are the centre of the WAN and Exchange networks.
T.