if you could pop a pill that would make you never die from something biological, the *average* age you would live to be is about 600, after you calculate in train wrecks, falling down stairs, car crashes, and well, anywhere you can kill yourself mechanically or chemically. Given that's the average, that means some lucky 10 percent would be seeing more like 6000 years, and some unlucky folks getting their 60, or worse, 6! I really wish I had a source for that number, but if it is indeed roughly corect, then someone can just do whatever math is required to decide for themselves. Sorry I dont have a link...
I guess it's a problem for people who don't run their own mail server, but that serves them right.
i'd hand the Internet down to my little brother if everyone had their own mail server.
be like my dad and his voice mail- "i have voice mail?" "yeah, for two years you've had it. you should check your messages." "...wow, i had 430 new messages! they started getting cranky so i just deleted all of them at once!"
narh having your own mail server is actually really sweet. it becomes very annoying to do so when your ISP blocks the SMTP port, too. i dont care if they filter my outgoing SMTP, but incoming, they should never really block that. its not fair:D
And the Good Ol' Lay-Zee Boy American version of this (field tested at home!): If you find yourself worried about backing up valuable data, the most effective way around this is to just not have any valuable data on your own machine. Find an ISP with no enforced mail quotas, make your POP mailer leave the mail on the server, store all your photos on your geocities website, and leave the rest up to Lord Raiden the lightning god! You know their backups are 100% because you pay them, and heck, if they loose the data, just ignore that AUP and sue 'em for more than the value of the data. w00000t
*sigh*
oh heck i might as well ask a serious question while i am here. my backup plan is cheap and not-so-good. here it is:
4 drive machine on a lan. machines SCP tarballs of user data over every 6 hours. drives A and B are a software raid 1 (mirror right?) drives C and D share a drive bay, getting rotated every week. every night before i stop by, the data on the raid (A+B) gets copied to drive C or D. then i put the other one in. we have no money, so, this cost us about 600 bucks to set up. can anyone think of a better way i could have spent the 600 bucks, or a better way to implement what I already have?
The event of which I am most afraid is the day on which I'll submit a job application to a person who will choose a sloppy writer over myself because they'll be better understood.
additinal bandwidth costs aside, the main reason us ISPs are afraid of you running services is when you decide to try for tech help and call in, stumping our techs and wasting about 12 bucks an hour. 90 minutes of tech support blows the profit margin for X number of users. its not your virgin apache install with a perl page counter that we fear, its the money that we lose that we fear:D
given that, we dont block any ports, give out real IPs, and my ISP at home far away also blocks no ports and gives out real IPs.
and given THAT, as an isp netadmin, and as an isp customer to someone else, i'd gladly pay 5 bucks/month to a paranoid isp to unblock my ports and give me a real ip. ARIN charges you like 2 grand a year for your own/20, I think it was. you do the math.
humans, at a basic level, have only one goal- to spread out and multiply. everything else aside, it would seem that if on earth, machines take care of everything for us, the 10% of humans that wouldnt just sit back on their lazy-boy recliner and get fed tv dinners for the rest of their lives would split into two groups: those anachronism people, and people would look for things that are not Earth, so that they'd have something to do. course, now i have to be right, cause the 90% of people who dont agree are the same 90% that cant be bothered to post:D
"pan", for bread, is apparently from the "root language", a patched together half understood language that linguists have been working on figuring out. If you look, "pan" or a close cognate, is the word for bread in many different, non related languages. Just one of those words that kept making it up through.
spanish->pan french->pain italian->pane japan ese,romanjii->pan portuguese->pão
course, four of those are gimmes 'cause they're all just dialects of Latin, if you look at it that way.
Sanskrit Greek Latin Gothic English pita pater pater fadar father
anyways, i'm no expert, just interested-- check out ancientscripts.com for a ton more about this stuff, and then hop over to omniglot when you want some more, but a little different.
i did spell the word wrong, but i meant a consensus of everyone on the net, not me. then again, they weren't a group as a whole so i'd even still be wrong.:)
English is cool. We cram every word we like into our lexicon. According to this site, English is composed of the following:
Latin, including modern scientific and technical Latin: 28.24% French, including Old French and early Anglo-French: 28.3% Old and Middle English, Old Norse, and Dutch: 25% Greek: 5.32% No etymology given: 4.03% Derived from proper names: 3.28% All other languages contributed less than 1%
I tried to find a word count for French vs. English lexicons, but unfortunately after about 15 googlings I came to the concensus that you can't count how big a lexicon is, only the number of words in a dictionary. I remember a high school teacher telling me that there are about 100,000 words in the French lexicon, though. English is a magnitude larger, and impossible to give a straight answer- do you include technical words? medical words? colloquial words?
There's an uncommon delay of 3 or 4 hours to get a response, but they're just giving away the correct IOS updates if you give them your serial number. Heck, sounds like some people arent even giving them their serial numbers. *shrug*
But here's my insightful comment for the day- Cisco is going to have a mint spam list at the end of this. "Hey boss? I just realized that 30,000 people with 100 thousand dollar routers just emailed us with verified addresses." Boss: "I need a paper towel"
my friend works at a GIS place. he corrects map coordinates. commercial map vendors will make fake streets to catch people using their data. so they have a policy. if its a commercial source, they need one more commercial source saying the same thing, else its bogus. government maps are always ok, though.
wanna hear something evil? it's no lie. if IE had tabs i would probably switch back. i'm one of those users in the article who just doesnt care about whats under the hood as long as it works, and i have the fidelity of a ugh.. something... that is low fidelity. i think we read about the browser wars online so often cause the people that know how to publish to the web are the people who care about web browsers, mainly. think of all the other things that the average joe never hears about simply cause it doesnt have a convenient vocal outlet. i bet those tounge depressors at the doctor's office cost 15 times more than they should, but nobody ever hears about the competitor getting trampled cause tounge depressor manufacturers can never get their message out- come on seriously, who would read the side of a tounge depressor? Well, think about it anyways. Truth be told I do really care about browser choice availability, but I had to say that as the average person on the street who doesnt work with the stuff. This is obvious enough as my words are encoded in html...
A while back, over in Great Britain, a woman complained to the telephone company
about her phone. It would sometimes not ring when someone called. The
strange part, she said, was that when it *did* ring, the ring was invariably
preceded by her dog barking. So she was convinced she had a broken
telephone and a psychic dog.
Now, in Britain, the ring signal is a high-voltage low-ampere current sent
from the local office to the phone. The wire which carries this signal
is run from the pole to a large metal spike in the yard, which grounds the
circuit. In order to isolate the problem, the phone company sent a repairman
out to climb the pole and manually send the signal down the wire.
Sure enough, when he did this, nothing happened the first time. The
second time, the dog barked just before the phone rang.
Investigation revealed that the dog was chained (with an iron chain) to the
spike that grounded the circuit. So this is what was happening: the
ground was dry, preventing the ring signal from grounding itself easily
through the spike, so the current ran down the chain to the dog, paralyzing
him. When the current released the dog, he yelped and urinated, which
wet the ground, so that the second ring signal made it through and the
phone rang. (yes i copied this off the web somewhere.)
Can you figure out how to make these slashdot tshirts not magically start smelling like body order after 5 to 6 days of use? Oh, and make them out of 100% cotton, too- I don't need slashdot messing with my open sores!
"We'll be giving the dog what the dog wants to eat," James F. Lyons, president of direct-marketing consultancy Optima Direct told the paper.
The paper said that in addition to seeing more e-mail or junk mail, consumers who call companies on other business may now have to listen to sales pitches while negotiating voice mail messages.
Yeah, that's what I wanna hear- I'm a dog, and I get to listen to kibbles and bits and bits and bits next time I call to get my dog neutered. Tell ya what boys, you pull a voice spam on me while I try to give you business and I'll just be letting my dog hose down whatever he feels like instead. As I close my CNN Money Pop up. I fell for something pretty bad tonight too- got my first land line in three years (cell only since) and it rang for the first time tonight. I hadnt given the number to anyone. I picked it up... listened for about 10 seconds of silence. I go, "hello?" CLICK. Looks like another fake hotmail address for the Do Not Call registry. Crimony. Doesn't it just make you livid? Gah....Raah.,
He had me thinking he was insightful and thoughtful until the end where he replies to all of his hate mail individually. Woulda made his point better if he just left it alone.
If you live here in the states, you may know it as "the movie" the USA network played from 1994 well through 1997 between the hours of 8 and 10 eastern time.
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if you could pop a pill that would make you never die from something biological, the *average* age you would live to be is about 600, after you calculate in train wrecks, falling down stairs, car crashes, and well, anywhere you can kill yourself mechanically or chemically. Given that's the average, that means some lucky 10 percent would be seeing more like 6000 years, and some unlucky folks getting their 60, or worse, 6! I really wish I had a source for that number, but if it is indeed roughly corect, then someone can just do whatever math is required to decide for themselves. Sorry I dont have a link...
I guess it's a problem for people who don't run their own mail server, but that serves them right.
:D
i'd hand the Internet down to my little brother if everyone had their own mail server.
be like my dad and his voice mail- "i have voice mail?" "yeah, for two years you've had it. you should check your messages." "...wow, i had 430 new messages! they started getting cranky so i just deleted all of them at once!"
narh having your own mail server is actually really sweet. it becomes very annoying to do so when your ISP blocks the SMTP port, too. i dont care if they filter my outgoing SMTP, but incoming, they should never really block that. its not fair
And the Good Ol' Lay-Zee Boy American version of this (field tested at home!): If you find yourself worried about backing up valuable data, the most effective way around this is to just not have any valuable data on your own machine. Find an ISP with no enforced mail quotas, make your POP mailer leave the mail on the server, store all your photos on your geocities website, and leave the rest up to Lord Raiden the lightning god! You know their backups are 100% because you pay them, and heck, if they loose the data, just ignore that AUP and sue 'em for more than the value of the data. w00000t
*sigh*
oh heck i might as well ask a serious question while i am here. my backup plan is cheap and not-so-good. here it is:
4 drive machine on a lan. machines SCP tarballs of user data over every 6 hours. drives A and B are a software raid 1 (mirror right?) drives C and D share a drive bay, getting rotated every week. every night before i stop by, the data on the raid (A+B) gets copied to drive C or D. then i put the other one in. we have no money, so, this cost us about 600 bucks to set up. can anyone think of a better way i could have spent the 600 bucks, or a better way to implement what I already have?
The event of which I am most afraid is the day on which I'll submit a job application to a person who will choose a sloppy writer over myself because they'll be better understood.
After reading through all the posts, it's pretty obvious that we've redefined introvert to mean "nerd" and extrovert to mean "cool".
additinal bandwidth costs aside, the main reason us ISPs are afraid of you running services is when you decide to try for tech help and call in, stumping our techs and wasting about 12 bucks an hour. 90 minutes of tech support blows the profit margin for X number of users. its not your virgin apache install with a perl page counter that we fear, its the money that we lose that we fear :D
/20, I think it was. you do the math.
given that, we dont block any ports, give out real IPs, and my ISP at home far away also blocks no ports and gives out real IPs.
and given THAT, as an isp netadmin, and as an isp customer to someone else, i'd gladly pay 5 bucks/month to a paranoid isp to unblock my ports and give me a real ip. ARIN charges you like 2 grand a year for your own
and it's worth the 5 bucks hands down :)
"yes sir"
humans, at a basic level, have only one goal- to spread out and multiply. everything else aside, it would seem that if on earth, machines take care of everything for us, the 10% of humans that wouldnt just sit back on their lazy-boy recliner and get fed tv dinners for the rest of their lives would split into two groups: those anachronism people, and people would look for things that are not Earth, so that they'd have something to do. course, now i have to be right, cause the 90% of people who dont agree are the same 90% that cant be bothered to post :D
"pan", for bread, is apparently from the "root language", a patched together half understood language that linguists have been working on figuring out. If you look, "pan" or a close cognate, is the word for bread in many different, non related languages. Just one of those words that kept making it up through.
n ese,romanjii->pan
spanish->pan
french->pain
italian->pane
japa
portuguese->pão
course, four of those are gimmes 'cause they're all just dialects of Latin, if you look at it that way.
ok here's one i can back up a little more:
the word "father" in a wide array:
Sanskrit Greek Latin Gothic English
pita pater pater fadar father
anyways, i'm no expert, just interested-- check out ancientscripts.com for a ton more about this stuff, and then hop over to omniglot when you want some more, but a little different.
i did spell the word wrong, but i meant a consensus of everyone on the net, not me. then again, they weren't a group as a whole so i'd even still be wrong. :)
Latin, including modern scientific and technical Latin: 28.24%
French, including Old French and early Anglo-French: 28.3%
Old and Middle English, Old Norse, and Dutch: 25%
Greek: 5.32%
No etymology given: 4.03%
Derived from proper names: 3.28%
All other languages contributed less than 1%
I tried to find a word count for French vs. English lexicons, but unfortunately after about 15 googlings I came to the concensus that you can't count how big a lexicon is, only the number of words in a dictionary. I remember a high school teacher telling me that there are about 100,000 words in the French lexicon, though. English is a magnitude larger, and impossible to give a straight answer- do you include technical words? medical words? colloquial words?
Who's the leading distributor period?
But here's my insightful comment for the day- Cisco is going to have a mint spam list at the end of this. "Hey boss? I just realized that 30,000 people with 100 thousand dollar routers just emailed us with verified addresses." Boss: "I need a paper towel"
my friend works at a GIS place. he corrects map coordinates. commercial map vendors will make fake streets to catch people using their data. so they have a policy. if its a commercial source, they need one more commercial source saying the same thing, else its bogus. government maps are always ok, though.
wanna hear something evil? it's no lie. if IE had tabs i would probably switch back. i'm one of those users in the article who just doesnt care about whats under the hood as long as it works, and i have the fidelity of a ugh.. something... that is low fidelity. i think we read about the browser wars online so often cause the people that know how to publish to the web are the people who care about web browsers, mainly. think of all the other things that the average joe never hears about simply cause it doesnt have a convenient vocal outlet. i bet those tounge depressors at the doctor's office cost 15 times more than they should, but nobody ever hears about the competitor getting trampled cause tounge depressor manufacturers can never get their message out- come on seriously, who would read the side of a tounge depressor? Well, think about it anyways. Truth be told I do really care about browser choice availability, but I had to say that as the average person on the street who doesnt work with the stuff. This is obvious enough as my words are encoded in html...
I'll think about that next time I'm in a casino on the east coast *owch rimshot*
A while back, over in Great Britain, a woman complained to the telephone company about her phone. It would sometimes not ring when someone called. The strange part, she said, was that when it *did* ring, the ring was invariably preceded by her dog barking. So she was convinced she had a broken telephone and a psychic dog. Now, in Britain, the ring signal is a high-voltage low-ampere current sent from the local office to the phone. The wire which carries this signal is run from the pole to a large metal spike in the yard, which grounds the circuit. In order to isolate the problem, the phone company sent a repairman out to climb the pole and manually send the signal down the wire. Sure enough, when he did this, nothing happened the first time. The second time, the dog barked just before the phone rang. Investigation revealed that the dog was chained (with an iron chain) to the spike that grounded the circuit. So this is what was happening: the ground was dry, preventing the ring signal from grounding itself easily through the spike, so the current ran down the chain to the dog, paralyzing him. When the current released the dog, he yelped and urinated, which wet the ground, so that the second ring signal made it through and the phone rang. (yes i copied this off the web somewhere.)
Can you figure out how to make these slashdot tshirts not magically start smelling like body order after 5 to 6 days of use? Oh, and make them out of 100% cotton, too- I don't need slashdot messing with my open sores!
"We'll be giving the dog what the dog wants to eat," James F. Lyons, president of direct-marketing consultancy Optima Direct told the paper.
...Raah.,
The paper said that in addition to seeing more e-mail or junk mail, consumers who call companies on other business may now have to listen to sales pitches while negotiating voice mail messages.
Yeah, that's what I wanna hear- I'm a dog, and I get to listen to kibbles and bits and bits and bits next time I call to get my dog neutered. Tell ya what boys, you pull a voice spam on me while I try to give you business and I'll just be letting my dog hose down whatever he feels like instead. As I close my CNN Money Pop up. I fell for something pretty bad tonight too- got my first land line in three years (cell only since) and it rang for the first time tonight. I hadnt given the number to anyone. I picked it up... listened for about 10 seconds of silence. I go, "hello?" CLICK. Looks like another fake hotmail address for the Do Not Call registry. Crimony. Doesn't it just make you livid? Gah.
He had me thinking he was insightful and thoughtful until the end where he replies to all of his hate mail individually. Woulda made his point better if he just left it alone.
8 slots times 1 gig sticks. certainly it can address more than that, there's just no way to add it physically.
Well you must be a real blast at Christmas then!
If you live here in the states, you may know it as "the movie" the USA network played from 1994 well through 1997 between the hours of 8 and 10 eastern time.
I've started porting this to perl- should have something in cvs later tonight. thanks