Couldn't "really looked cool" be correct if really modifies looked instead of cool? 'Did it look?' 'Yes it really looked.' 'How did it really look?' 'Cool'... Don't bother me with facts while I'm trying to talk myself into this. Damn I give up. Okay. I have been corrected.
Ok, this has been getting to me throughout the commentary, but people keep on making the same mistake.
LDAP is a prototol. It's not a product.
I wasn't making a mistake. I know that LDAP is a protocol and not a product. However, there are many implementations of LDAP and many of them are high quality and open source. Any LDAP software is likely to be able to support more transactions per second than one of the big-name products implementing X.500 yet would probably be able to handle the complexity of the job. That was the point I half expected people to rebut me on.
That animated gif was cool. It's too bad they didn't keep the camera at exactly the same spot for each frame though. That would have really looked cool.
Which is,
according to the industry rags, NDS, now called eDirectory. I know many people will point out that LDAP could almost certainly handle the job and is basically the de facto standard, but NDS has had more time to mature and is more robust. Either one can run completely on Linux (or even Solaris or NT/2Kx if you enjoy paying needless license fees). Are you stuck using the legacy windows platform or can you make a clean break and migrate to something better?
You sound like Diebold spokesman David Bear when he wrote "While security is an important issue... improvements can and will be made." But common sense tells us that things don't get fixed unless people see the need to fix them. The saying 'Don't fix it if it ain't broke' reflects the human tendancy to not spend time and money on something that no one is compaining about. Saying 'don't sweat it' is a most counter productive strategy toward getting every citizens vote counted correctly.
Maybe he's arguing about it because you don't even understand the terms you are using, so you are obviously clueless.
Are you honestly going to sit there and insist that a normal, home PC is somehow worthy of lemon laws which are designed to protect the lives of citizens like you and me?
You believe that Lemon Laws are designed to protect lives and use this as your argument that software doesn't need similar laws. Go learn what Lemon laws actually are and then you'll realize how silly you look.
And why are you being so abusive to people in an argument over something you don't even understand? Is it because Microsoft was used as a perfect example of the type of company we need protection from? Why do you pledge allegiance to Microsoft? Do you work for it? Do you own stock in it? Tell us please.
I was a little worried recently when Sun made up with Microsoft and signed a cross-licensing agreement. I said at the time that if Sun wasn't just rolling over and giving up then the thing for them to do would be to open source much of their technology. After all, if your enemy now has access to everything you've got, shouldn't your enemy's competitors also? My faith in Sun's management is somewhat restored. I still think they have a difficult road to travel but at least they are trodding it with their eyes open and brains engaged.
Are you really so eager to jump headlong into the new world of software liability litigation?
It's bound to happen eventually. And I have to believe that the liability for software would not exceed it's purchase price unless there are punative damages for gross negligence. I was told by an engineer who sometimes works as an expert witness in product liability suits that it's very hard to prove negligence, so I don't think Joe College-student who is giving away his Free and Open Source project for free would be affected.
Yes but what if there were little green men who suicide bomb your shuttles and then shout 'Earthmen Go Home!' while dragging the bodies of your fellow species members behind their saucers and cutting the heads off any who let themselves be taken alive?
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Should we change that old saying to: 'People who live in amorphous steel houses shouldn't throw stones'?
It sounded like you want to make it autonomous but I think you should just try to make it telerobotically controlled at first to get the kinks out of your hardware design, adding some H bridges, sensors, and a laptop later on. It might be safer to build onto a store bought mower with a clutch that can disengage the blade. That's uncommon though and you probably won't find one at a garage sale. So the cheapest and maybe safest route would be to make a mower using the weed whacker concept of a spinning spool of heavy nylon cord. If an accident happens at least you won't lose an arm.
I was excited about ATI's card for a few minutes too until I saw the screenshots and realized that since it is from ATI it will require Microsoft's Windows to do anything with it. I was hoping it was more like a hardware device with maybe a webserver interface to control it and the picture digitally overlayed on an SVGA signal. Thanks for the mention of pcHDTV since I hadn't heard of it before. But you said ther are no Linux HDTV cards that can do air, cable and satellite HDTV. I am clueless about HDTV. Can you tell me why the coaxial input on the pchdtv won't work for all these? And do I understand right that this card will work with normal TV signals just as easily as with HDTV? What exactly is it missing?
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A. Send a videotape of it to the news media.
B. Send the tape to America's funniest Home Videos.
C. Be laughing too hard to even point the camera.
D. Wait till their done then go over and give him a real beatin'.
First put your drywall up. It looks like you already have an electrical outlet nearby. You might want another one there and now is the time to do it. I would make separate holes for the Cat5 and the RG6. Then put up a 2'x2' plywood backboard to screw things into. Screw that into the studs with drywall screws. Go buy a drill bit that makes 2" holes so it looks nice where the cables feed out.
Forget the cabinet. Just buy a little 19" rack with about 12 RJ45 jacks (modular racks are much more expensive but then you could probably terminate your RG6 into it) and terminate all your cat5 wire neatly. Punch down all 8 conductors. That way you may be able to do 1000Mbit networking on your cat5 wire IF the runs are short and IF you bought cat5e connectors for both ends and IF you terminated to 5e spec using the 568a or b wiring standard.
Also make sure that the rack you buy lets you plug RJ12 into the same connectors so you can use the wiring for phones if you feel like it. Of course you would need dialtone down there to do that and a way to split it out. That's why I suggested a rack with 12 connectors. Punch down several of those to a 66 block and then you can cross connect dialtone to any of the new connectors.
You don't need a 19" switch to mount in the rack. Just mount your little switches or routers above the rack to the backboard using woodscrews. It will still look very nice and neat. Use 3' patch cables to reduce clutter. This whole project should cost you about $120 not counting the drywall or the short patch cables.
Well maybe it was a beta version rather than OEM. Ten years is a long time to remember every detail, but I assure you that we shipped it and lots of it.
Nope not just a beta version. It was in at least one OEM version because I saw hundreds (at least, maybe thousands) of machines loaded with it as part of our custom configuration process at the value added reseller where I worked in the early to mid nineties. I was working in Quality Assurance at the time and did not want to allow the machines to be shipped this way but was ordered to by management who said they cleared it with the sales rep for that account.
I downloaded from an http link. Now how can I check its integrity before I run the installer? I looked on the mozilla.org site and could only find checksums for Solaris.
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I used infrared LED's and sensors as eyes. By pulsing the LED's and reading the sensors when both on and off, I was able to filter out background noise. When the truck approaches an obstacle it knows something is there and will swerve or stop and back up if the obstacle registers on both its left and right front. Like this, the truck can drive around continuously on its own. But not for long cause it sucks down batteries like you wouldn't believe, worse on plush carpet but not so much on hardwood flooring.
I've also modded a different RC monster to carry a wireless video+audio camera. It moves too fast to drive indoors. It is interesting to drive around the yard while sitting at my dining room table watching the monitor. I would like to add a radio circuit to carry my voice. Imagine the neighbors kids reaction if a little truck drives up to them and says 'Hey you little hooligans, get the heck out off my lawn!'
I don't think so. There are many borderline conservatives who are shocked at the amount of tax money Bush has spent fighting a needless war which has killed hundreds of American kids and thousands of Iraqi civilians. What is it up to now, 150 Billion? And now that even the Limbaugh Zombies know that Iraq and 911 were not linked, the Administration needs a completely different issue to claim the moral highground and reclaim those fence-sitters.
Is this one of the reasons why the US DOJ recently announced it is going to be taking a closer look at the porn industry?
More likely they want to take on 'porn' to garner political support from the conservatives for the upcoming election and deflect public attention from their failure to uphold civil liberties and their failure to protect the public by enforcing antitrust law.
And by the way I can remember about 5-10 or so years ago there being another study of this same thing and it claimed about 90% of all traffic was porn, so are we getting less sinful or is the other 70% copyrighted songs and movies now?
That was back when there were still anonymous FTP sites filled with the stuff but the moral minority got them shut down. I wonder if the morals of those righteous crusaders were really offended or if they just smelled the untapped potential of pay porn sites (which rapidly sprang up.)
...dark. Some people like bacon that has been fried to a crisp, some people like to purposely burn their marshmallows over the campfire. Some people like the dark meat from the Thanksgiving turkey. Obviously it is a matter of personal taste.
If "Cook's Illustrated" used words like 'so burned' to write off every variety of the world's most successful coffee franchise then I suspect that using sources who were in the business may have compromised the objectivity of the article.
I haven't worked with Python yet though I plan to take a look at it soon. I know it is a scripting language but is there a way to compile it into native executable form? If not, what is needed to make a Python app run on a system without the interpreter installed or with an older or newer version? Would I need to ship something JRE-ish that would that make a HelloWorld package megabytes in size?
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Couldn't "really looked cool" be correct if really modifies looked instead of cool? 'Did it look?' 'Yes it really looked.' 'How did it really look?' 'Cool'... Don't bother me with facts while I'm trying to talk myself into this. Damn I give up. Okay. I have been corrected.
I wasn't making a mistake. I know that LDAP is a protocol and not a product. However, there are many implementations of LDAP and many of them are high quality and open source. Any LDAP software is likely to be able to support more transactions per second than one of the big-name products implementing X.500 yet would probably be able to handle the complexity of the job. That was the point I half expected people to rebut me on.
That animated gif was cool. It's too bad they didn't keep the camera at exactly the same spot for each frame though. That would have really looked cool.
Which is, according to the industry rags, NDS, now called eDirectory. I know many people will point out that LDAP could almost certainly handle the job and is basically the de facto standard, but NDS has had more time to mature and is more robust. Either one can run completely on Linux (or even Solaris or NT/2Kx if you enjoy paying needless license fees). Are you stuck using the legacy windows platform or can you make a clean break and migrate to something better?
I for one am glad to see that Microsoft is finally being realistic about the future of Linux.
You sound like Diebold spokesman David Bear when he wrote "While security is an important issue ... improvements can and will be made." But common sense tells us that things don't get fixed unless people see the need to fix them. The saying 'Don't fix it if it ain't broke' reflects the human tendancy to not spend time and money on something that no one is compaining about. Saying 'don't sweat it' is a most counter productive strategy toward getting every citizens vote counted correctly.
Maybe he's arguing about it because you don't even understand the terms you are using, so you are obviously clueless.
Are you honestly going to sit there and insist that a normal, home PC is somehow worthy of lemon laws which are designed to protect the lives of citizens like you and me?
You believe that Lemon Laws are designed to protect lives and use this as your argument that software doesn't need similar laws. Go learn what Lemon laws actually are and then you'll realize how silly you look.
And why are you being so abusive to people in an argument over something you don't even understand? Is it because Microsoft was used as a perfect example of the type of company we need protection from? Why do you pledge allegiance to Microsoft? Do you work for it? Do you own stock in it? Tell us please.
I was a little worried recently when Sun made up with Microsoft and signed a cross-licensing agreement. I said at the time that if Sun wasn't just rolling over and giving up then the thing for them to do would be to open source much of their technology. After all, if your enemy now has access to everything you've got, shouldn't your enemy's competitors also? My faith in Sun's management is somewhat restored. I still think they have a difficult road to travel but at least they are trodding it with their eyes open and brains engaged.
It's bound to happen eventually. And I have to believe that the liability for software would not exceed it's purchase price unless there are punative damages for gross negligence. I was told by an engineer who sometimes works as an expert witness in product liability suits that it's very hard to prove negligence, so I don't think Joe College-student who is giving away his Free and Open Source project for free would be affected.
Yes but what if there were little green men who suicide bomb your shuttles and then shout 'Earthmen Go Home!' while dragging the bodies of your fellow species members behind their saucers and cutting the heads off any who let themselves be taken alive?
Should we change that old saying to: 'People who live in amorphous steel houses shouldn't throw stones'?
I have gotten into it from the console and it appears to have the same categories and commands as the X Windows version.
It sounded like you want to make it autonomous but I think you should just try to make it telerobotically controlled at first to get the kinks out of your hardware design, adding some H bridges, sensors, and a laptop later on. It might be safer to build onto a store bought mower with a clutch that can disengage the blade. That's uncommon though and you probably won't find one at a garage sale. So the cheapest and maybe safest route would be to make a mower using the weed whacker concept of a spinning spool of heavy nylon cord. If an accident happens at least you won't lose an arm.
I was excited about ATI's card for a few minutes too until I saw the screenshots and realized that since it is from ATI it will require Microsoft's Windows to do anything with it. I was hoping it was more like a hardware device with maybe a webserver interface to control it and the picture digitally overlayed on an SVGA signal. Thanks for the mention of pcHDTV since I hadn't heard of it before. But you said ther are no Linux HDTV cards that can do air, cable and satellite HDTV. I am clueless about HDTV. Can you tell me why the coaxial input on the pchdtv won't work for all these? And do I understand right that this card will work with normal TV signals just as easily as with HDTV? What exactly is it missing?
A. Send a videotape of it to the news media.
B. Send the tape to America's funniest Home Videos.
C. Be laughing too hard to even point the camera.
D. Wait till their done then go over and give him a real beatin'.
First put your drywall up. It looks like you already have an electrical outlet nearby. You might want another one there and now is the time to do it. I would make separate holes for the Cat5 and the RG6. Then put up a 2'x2' plywood backboard to screw things into. Screw that into the studs with drywall screws. Go buy a drill bit that makes 2" holes so it looks nice where the cables feed out.
Forget the cabinet. Just buy a little 19" rack with about 12 RJ45 jacks (modular racks are much more expensive but then you could probably terminate your RG6 into it) and terminate all your cat5 wire neatly. Punch down all 8 conductors. That way you may be able to do 1000Mbit networking on your cat5 wire IF the runs are short and IF you bought cat5e connectors for both ends and IF you terminated to 5e spec using the 568a or b wiring standard.
Also make sure that the rack you buy lets you plug RJ12 into the same connectors so you can use the wiring for phones if you feel like it. Of course you would need dialtone down there to do that and a way to split it out. That's why I suggested a rack with 12 connectors. Punch down several of those to a 66 block and then you can cross connect dialtone to any of the new connectors.
You don't need a 19" switch to mount in the rack. Just mount your little switches or routers above the rack to the backboard using woodscrews. It will still look very nice and neat. Use 3' patch cables to reduce clutter. This whole project should cost you about $120 not counting the drywall or the short patch cables.
Well maybe it was a beta version rather than OEM. Ten years is a long time to remember every detail, but I assure you that we shipped it and lots of it.
Here is a link concerning the situation in case any readers are not familiar: Caldera: MS Cheated in DOS War
I downloaded from an http link. Now how can I check its integrity before I run the installer? I looked on the mozilla.org site and could only find checksums for Solaris.
I used infrared LED's and sensors as eyes. By pulsing the LED's and reading the sensors when both on and off, I was able to filter out background noise. When the truck approaches an obstacle it knows something is there and will swerve or stop and back up if the obstacle registers on both its left and right front. Like this, the truck can drive around continuously on its own. But not for long cause it sucks down batteries like you wouldn't believe, worse on plush carpet but not so much on hardwood flooring.
I've also modded a different RC monster to carry a wireless video+audio camera. It moves too fast to drive indoors. It is interesting to drive around the yard while sitting at my dining room table watching the monitor. I would like to add a radio circuit to carry my voice. Imagine the neighbors kids reaction if a little truck drives up to them and says 'Hey you little hooligans, get the heck out off my lawn!'
I don't think so. There are many borderline conservatives who are shocked at the amount of tax money Bush has spent fighting a needless war which has killed hundreds of American kids and thousands of Iraqi civilians. What is it up to now, 150 Billion? And now that even the Limbaugh Zombies know that Iraq and 911 were not linked, the Administration needs a completely different issue to claim the moral highground and reclaim those fence-sitters.
How about their former Deputy Prime Minister getting his own vanity site?
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More likely they want to take on 'porn' to garner political support from the conservatives for the upcoming election and deflect public attention from their failure to uphold civil liberties and their failure to protect the public by enforcing antitrust law.
And by the way I can remember about 5-10 or so years ago there being another study of this same thing and it claimed about 90% of all traffic was porn, so are we getting less sinful or is the other 70% copyrighted songs and movies now?
That was back when there were still anonymous FTP sites filled with the stuff but the moral minority got them shut down. I wonder if the morals of those righteous crusaders were really offended or if they just smelled the untapped potential of pay porn sites (which rapidly sprang up.)
...dark. Some people like bacon that has been fried to a crisp, some people like to purposely burn their marshmallows over the campfire. Some people like the dark meat from the Thanksgiving turkey. Obviously it is a matter of personal taste.
If "Cook's Illustrated" used words like 'so burned' to write off every variety of the world's most successful coffee franchise then I suspect that using sources who were in the business may have compromised the objectivity of the article.
I haven't worked with Python yet though I plan to take a look at it soon. I know it is a scripting language but is there a way to compile it into native executable form? If not, what is needed to make a Python app run on a system without the interpreter installed or with an older or newer version? Would I need to ship something JRE-ish that would that make a HelloWorld package megabytes in size?