I have 2 floppy drives in my Novell server.. 1 5 1/4" that is just there to fill a hole on the case and a 3 1/2 I only used when i built the box 4 years ago.
Around work we use floppy disks all the time for booting new boxes to the imaging network.
Some CD burning software (Roxio) requires a "Bootable Floppy" to make bootable CD's
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If you want a cheep sealed battery with automotive capacity just run down to Schucks, Checker, Kragen, Autozone, pep boys, wherever and pick up an Optima Yellow top (deep cycle). Then you don't have to worry about hydrogen build-up in your computer room. These batterys are sealed wet cells that will last for years.. expect to drop about $150-200 US
Optima's and other type of sealed automotive batterys can be ordered from either Summit Racing or Jegs
Yes it's possible to replace existing product placements but how am I going to place an add for "Schumate Pontiac/GMC's big blowout sale at the mall with free hotdogs for the kiddies if you test drive a new Envoy" inside the latest episode of Friends??
Product placement depends on having a place in the show that works for that product..
Do you honesly think the production crew at your local TV station has the time to go through 12 hours of syndicated programing every day to find the perfect place to drop a hint for Chico's Tacos? I don't think so..
Not to mention the cost.. Yeah sure Pepsi may be willing to pay CBS a million bucks to drop a logo over a coke sign but your local broadcasters and cable companys are not going to generate the kind of revnue to justify the equipment costs and man hours necessary to pull it off. Broadcast equipment is anything but cheep.. Yeah the hardware is getting cheep but you'll get raped on the software. Unless you can point me to an open source GNU licensed real time 3d product placement package..
OK I'll agree that product placement will become more common but it's not the solution they are looking for.. Alot of the money is made in syndication.. Syndication as a bussness model falls flat on it's face if you remove the comercials and go with product placement. Your local TV station isn't going to buy rights to broadcast reruns of Friends or ER if they don't have a big hole in the show to drop a spot into.
I've taken a different approach to keeping my spam under control..
I have 1 address called spam@mydomain.com that goes straight to the bin.. no question about it.. anything sent here is crap.. I use this one for any site that requires and address and I don't care if I hear from again.. If for some stupid reason I may need to use a working address I'll use the companys name.. adobe@mydomain.com would be one example.. It all ends up in the same account anyway so it's no trouble..
Now if that address starts getting spam it's quite easy to send any incoming mail to that address straight to hell. as a bonus I know what company sold my name and I can add them to my shit list.
The article cites 25,000 users and MS is offering the software for $500,000
That is $20 a copy. Deal with it or switch to linux. Yup, those horrible horrible businessmen
I guess you missed the part where they said this is an ANUAL FEE.. Every year the school will have to cough up half a mill to MS for licensing fees.. This is for PC's they already have lifetime licenses for but they don't have the time or resources to prove it.. Just having the fancy little scrap of paper isn't good enough either.. They want invoices to prove it was payed for too.
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The way into Intel is through the Green Badge (Contractor with good pay but no bennies) eventuly go blue (Intel Employee) and get your pay cut in half but pick up some killer bennies)..
I worked in Intel's Dupont, WA CV labs.
Sign up for a 1 year contract through CDI (Do a search on Monster for CDI and check the job listings with Intel lab locations)
Quite honestly the job can get quite boring.. Yes sure there is fun stuff like fiddling with tearabyte san systems, "testing" DVD's by watching movies on 37" monitors and Itanium boxes with 64 GIGS of memory but by the time you have loaded Whistler so many times you can recite the CD-Key from memory it gets a bit boring.
Imagine this as a work day.. Your boss hands you a case of hard drives and a stack of SCSI cards.. Your job.. load up 5 drives each in 3-4 Itanium workstations, load Whistler on each one.. run a list of tests.. load Linux on em.. run more tests.. repeat untill you have tested the whole case of drives.. repeat the entire process with 3-4 brands or SCSI cards.. then go get the RAID cards.. repeat again.. Next week you get a new case of drives..
Guess what.. same thing all over again. Sometime in the middle wander down to the other side of the lab and chat with they guys hackin linux kernels to run on the new Mckinleys.
Still I learned a ton and got to play with next years toys last year.
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Yes.. the one we had posted in the Dupont Labs was Evil Inside..
Personaly I have this little "Feature" MS stuck us with.. Wanna turn it off?? Here's how..
Go to Internet Options, Advanved Tab.. Scroll down to Search and check "Do not Search from Address Bar". THen It will try and go where you tell it.. No matter how mangled the URL.
OK drifting a bit off the main topic here but I wanted to address the concept of Programming funded through product placement as the do in the movie industry. Where this idea falls on its face is in syndication. The bulk of the royalties from TV shows comes when the shows go into syndication and you local TV stations contract out to broadcast these shows... They then make money by selling local commercial time.
Without commercial brakes to fill they have no reason to buy these shows. The only way to fix that is to design the shows with segments you could chop without hurting the show to provide room for brakes in syndication... You thought TV was crap now?? Imagine a sea of shows with 10-20 minutes of worthless programming... Ohh wait... It's already worthless... go for it.
The music industry wants to maintain it's profits. It has two avenues it can pursue. It can try to put everyone in jail by paying for horrible legislation, or it can try to find some technological solution. It's fairly obvious that the first solution is a bad one and must be fought tooth and nail. But why does everyone on slashdot demonize the RIAA for choosing the second option. I am more than happy for them to choose that one, especially if it keeps them from pursuing the first further than they have already pursued.
The Problem is the the RIAA and MPAA want BOTH options.. They want to lock down the media and and then Stuff you in jail under the DMCA if you dare to break their copy protection.
Loose my credibility or loose me LEGAL rights to make personal copys... I'll give you 3 guesses what I'd rather do..
You know why every Mom & Pop shop in the country is turning to Debit/Credit systems?? It's because they can't afford to take checks anymore. Ask any bussness owner about how many NSF checks they get back Every Week. You'll have a hard tme just finding a small store that will take a check anymore. For them it's take a loss on bad checks or jump over to the Debit system and end the nightmare. Almost any Checking account these days comes with a Debit card.. I'll bet most of the people writing checks when debit is avaliable are doing it becasue they don't have enough in their account to cover it. They are hoping to float till the next paycheck.
You can get just about any Lego you want in Bulk from the Lego Bulk Ordering Site. You can get 2x and 1x bricks in bags of 25-100 in your choice of colors. They also have Roof tiles, Trees, Windows and much more avaliable.
My Last Job was in Health Care..
We had a mix of Salaried and Hourly People.
EVERYONE was in the On-Call rotation.
Everybody got $1.50 pr hour for every hour you were on call but not working.. ( 128 hours if you never got called in )
Hourly people got OT if they were called..
30 minutes Min if you got paged and fixed it over the phone.
4 Hours Min if you had to go in and fix it.
I used to love getting 4 hours to go pull a piece of paper out of an HP printer.. hehe
Nice:)
My poor little Novell 4.11 server is still going after 330 days. Here's my screenshot to prove it.
I haven't had a monitor or keyboard on it for the last 6 months. I needed em for the Slackware box.
It's a Pentium 90 on an FIC board with 32 megs memory and 3 Drives. I think the drives will die before the box does.
Pontiac
I'll pretend there's something witty here.. You Pretend you laughed at it.
If anyone read the Overview you might have found this interesting tidbit "Scyld Beowulf's unified approach extends to the systems installation and boot designs. The operating system on cluster slave nodes is downloaded from the front-end computer. Only a minimal boot image on either a floppy, a CD, or the cluster node's hard disk is required for each cluster node. Once booted, cluster node configuration is controlled by the front-end"
This is a great feature.. You can upgrade the Kernel or Apps on the entire cluster by simply patching the Master Node..
I think it's time to start collecting old Compaq's again. But where will I put them all?
I've been dealing with people "borrowing" from my sites for 4 years.. At first I was mad.. Now I've just resigned myself to the fact that it's going to happen.. Deal with it.. I got sick of getting into flame wars with people for nothing more that a little recognition and maybe a link back as a thank you. It's not worth it. Now days I just take it as a sign of respect for my work and I've created a page on my site where people can DL all the graphics I've created for my site since I started it. I did realize one thing while making that page.. My early stuff sucks!
do you think that the average Slashdot reader is too lazy or imbecile to notice and click on the article link in the story? This comment deserves a -1: Redundant at very least. Hairy_Potter is karma whoring.
If you had bothered to read a few posts you would have known that 2600.com was suffering from the mighty slashdot effect plus not everyone could even use that link because they are behind firewalls that won't let them through.
Microsfot my not be offering Unix but they sure are working at providing access and control. go check out the features in Windows Services for UNIX . Do you want some NT head to administrate your Unix Boxes?
I came to work today and what did I find? /. was BLOCKED! action has been taken and the problem is now fixed Just a coincidence? I wonder. Is your favorite site blocked? Check here Cyber Patrol Search Engine
Umm NTSC aspect Ratio is 4:3. 640x480 fits this ratio. The Toaster was nice in it's time but it's not broadcast quality. I wonder if there is a reason Adobe Premere, Adobe After Effects, The Turbo Cube non linear system, Matrox non linear, Type Deco C.G., Chyron and many more use 640x480. Oh yeah.. 640x480 includes the overscan area. It's not just overscan top and bottom but side to side too.
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There are seperate reserved frequences for ground vehicles (boats and cars) and Aircraft..
I have 2 floppy drives in my Novell server..
1 5 1/4" that is just there to fill a hole on the case and a 3 1/2 I only used when i built the box 4 years ago.
Around work we use floppy disks all the time for booting new boxes to the imaging network.
Some CD burning software (Roxio) requires a "Bootable Floppy" to make bootable CD's
If you want a cheep sealed battery with automotive capacity just run down to Schucks, Checker, Kragen, Autozone, pep boys, wherever and pick up an Optima Yellow top (deep cycle). Then you don't have to worry about hydrogen build-up in your computer room.
These batterys are sealed wet cells that will last for years.. expect to drop about $150-200 US
Optima's and other type of sealed automotive batterys can be ordered from either Summit Racing or Jegs
Yes it's possible to replace existing product placements but how am I going to place an add for "Schumate Pontiac/GMC's big blowout sale at the mall with free hotdogs for the kiddies if you test drive a new Envoy" inside the latest episode of Friends??
Product placement depends on having a place in the show that works for that product..
Do you honesly think the production crew at your local TV station has the time to go through 12 hours of syndicated programing every day to find the perfect place to drop a hint for Chico's Tacos? I don't think so..
Not to mention the cost.. Yeah sure Pepsi may be willing to pay CBS a million bucks to drop a logo over a coke sign but your local broadcasters and cable companys are not going to generate the kind of revnue to justify the equipment costs and man hours necessary to pull it off. Broadcast equipment is anything but cheep.. Yeah the hardware is getting cheep but you'll get raped on the software. Unless you can point me to an open source GNU licensed real time 3d product placement package..
OK I'll agree that product placement will become more common but it's not the solution they are looking for..
Alot of the money is made in syndication.. Syndication as a bussness model falls flat on it's face if you remove the comercials and go with product placement. Your local TV station isn't going to buy rights to broadcast reruns of Friends or ER if they don't have a big hole in the show to drop a spot into.
I've taken a different approach to keeping my spam under control..
I have 1 address called spam@mydomain.com that goes straight to the bin.. no question about it.. anything sent here is crap.. I use this one for any site that requires and address and I don't care if I hear from again.. If for some stupid reason I may need to use a working address I'll use the companys name.. adobe@mydomain.com would be one example.. It all ends up in the same account anyway so it's no trouble..
Now if that address starts getting spam it's quite easy to send any incoming mail to that address straight to hell. as a bonus I know what company sold my name and I can add them to my shit list.
So simple it's stupid..
The article cites 25,000 users and MS is offering the software for $500,000
That is $20 a copy. Deal with it or switch to linux. Yup, those horrible horrible businessmen
I guess you missed the part where they said this is an ANUAL FEE.. Every year the school will have to cough up half a mill to MS for licensing fees.. This is for PC's they already have lifetime licenses for but they don't have the time or resources to prove it.. Just having the fancy little scrap of paper isn't good enough either.. They want invoices to prove it was payed for too.
Readthis
and this
It clearly states the resolution of 1920x1080
I think I've made my point.
The way into Intel is through the Green Badge (Contractor with good pay but no bennies) eventuly go blue (Intel Employee) and get your pay cut in half but pick up some killer bennies)..
I worked in Intel's Dupont, WA CV labs.
Sign up for a 1 year contract through CDI (Do a search on Monster for CDI and check the job listings with Intel lab locations)
Quite honestly the job can get quite boring.. Yes sure there is fun stuff like fiddling with tearabyte san systems, "testing" DVD's by watching movies on 37" monitors and Itanium boxes with 64 GIGS of memory but by the time you have loaded Whistler so many times you can recite the CD-Key from memory it gets a bit boring.
Imagine this as a work day.. Your boss hands you a case of hard drives and a stack of SCSI cards.. Your job.. load up 5 drives each in 3-4 Itanium workstations, load Whistler on each one.. run a list of tests.. load Linux on em.. run more tests.. repeat untill you have tested the whole case of drives.. repeat the entire process with 3-4 brands or SCSI cards.. then go get the RAID cards.. repeat again.. Next week you get a new case of drives..
Guess what.. same thing all over again. Sometime in the middle wander down to the other side of the lab and chat with they guys hackin linux kernels to run on the new Mckinleys.
Still I learned a ton and got to play with next years toys last year.
Yes.. the one we had posted in the Dupont Labs was Evil Inside..
Yup.. I head about this on Usenet qwest.dsl group (Only avaliable to Qwest subscribers).
I made the witch to the Startup pack about a month ago.. No problems
Personaly I have this little "Feature" MS stuck us with.. Wanna turn it off?? Here's how..
Go to Internet Options, Advanved Tab.. Scroll down to Search and check "Do not Search from Address Bar". THen It will try and go where you tell it.. No matter how mangled the URL.
OK drifting a bit off the main topic here but I wanted to address the concept of Programming funded through product placement as the do in the movie industry. Where this idea falls on its face is in syndication. The bulk of the royalties from TV shows comes when the shows go into syndication and you local TV stations contract out to broadcast these shows... They then make money by selling local commercial time.
Without commercial brakes to fill they have no reason to buy these shows. The only way to fix that is to design the shows with segments you could chop without hurting the show to provide room for brakes in syndication... You thought TV was crap now?? Imagine a sea of shows with 10-20 minutes of worthless programming... Ohh wait... It's already worthless... go for it.
The music industry wants to maintain it's profits. It has two avenues it can pursue. It can try to put everyone in jail by paying for horrible legislation, or it can try to find some technological solution. It's fairly obvious that the first solution is a bad one and must be fought tooth and nail. But why does everyone on slashdot demonize the RIAA for choosing the second option. I am more than happy for them to choose that one, especially if it keeps them from pursuing the first further than they have already pursued.
The Problem is the the RIAA and MPAA want BOTH options.. They want to lock down the media and and then Stuff you in jail under the DMCA if you dare to break their copy protection.
Loose my credibility or loose me LEGAL rights to make personal copys... I'll give you 3 guesses what I'd rather do..
You know why every Mom & Pop shop in the country is turning to Debit/Credit systems?? It's because they can't afford to take checks anymore. Ask any bussness owner about how many NSF checks they get back Every Week. You'll have a hard tme just finding a small store that will take a check anymore. For them it's take a loss on bad checks or jump over to the Debit system and end the nightmare. Almost any Checking account these days comes with a Debit card.. I'll bet most of the people writing checks when debit is avaliable are doing it becasue they don't have enough in their account to cover it. They are hoping to float till the next paycheck.
You can get just about any Lego you want in Bulk from the Lego Bulk Ordering Site. You can get 2x and 1x bricks in bags of 25-100 in your choice of colors. They also have Roof tiles, Trees, Windows and much more avaliable.
My Last Job was in Health Care..
We had a mix of Salaried and Hourly People.
EVERYONE was in the On-Call rotation.
Everybody got $1.50 pr hour for every hour you were on call but not working.. ( 128 hours if you never got called in )
Hourly people got OT if they were called..
30 minutes Min if you got paged and fixed it over the phone.
4 Hours Min if you had to go in and fix it.
I used to love getting 4 hours to go pull a piece of paper out of an HP printer.. hehe
Pontiac
Nice :)
My poor little Novell 4.11 server is still going after 330 days. Here's my screenshot to prove it.
I haven't had a monitor or keyboard on it for the last 6 months. I needed em for the Slackware box.
It's a Pentium 90 on an FIC board with 32 megs memory and 3 Drives. I think the drives will die before the box does.
Pontiac
I'll pretend there's something witty here.. You Pretend you laughed at it.
"Scyld Beowulf's unified approach extends to the systems installation and boot designs. The operating system on cluster slave nodes is downloaded from the front-end computer. Only a minimal boot image on either a floppy, a CD, or the cluster node's hard disk is required for each cluster node. Once booted, cluster node configuration is controlled by the front-end"
This is a great feature.. You can upgrade the Kernel or Apps on the entire cluster by simply patching the Master Node..
I think it's time to start collecting old Compaq's again. But where will I put them all?
Pontiac
Aimazing is still avaliable on Firehose in an unlisted directory.
http://www.firehose.net/free
Enjoy.. There's lots more Cool stuff in there for Free!(and not as in beer)
Pontiac
I've been dealing with people "borrowing" from my sites for 4 years.. At first I was mad.. Now I've just resigned myself to the fact that it's going to happen.. Deal with it.. I got sick of getting into flame wars with people for nothing more that a little recognition and maybe a link back as a thank you. It's not worth it. Now days I just take it as a sign of respect for my work and I've created a page on my site where people can DL all the graphics I've created for my site since I started it. I did realize one thing while making that page.. My early stuff sucks!
Pontiac
If you had bothered to read a few posts you would have known that 2600.com was suffering from the mighty slashdot effect plus not everyone could even use that link because they are behind firewalls that won't let them through.
Pontiac
Microsfot my not be offering Unix but they sure are working at providing access and control.
go check out the features in Windows Services for UNIX .
Do you want some NT head to administrate your Unix Boxes?
Pontiac
Got Beer?
I came to work today and what did I find?
/. was BLOCKED!
action has been taken and the problem is now fixed
Just a coincidence? I wonder.
Is your favorite site blocked?
Check here Cyber Patrol Search Engine
Umm NTSC aspect Ratio is 4:3. 640x480 fits this ratio. The Toaster was nice in it's time but it's not broadcast quality. I wonder if there is a reason Adobe Premere, Adobe After Effects, The Turbo Cube non linear system, Matrox non linear, Type Deco C.G., Chyron and many more use 640x480. Oh yeah.. 640x480 includes the overscan area. It's not just overscan top and bottom but side to side too.