Lacking mod points, I think I'll simply repeat your post, since even those that don't read AC posts should see it:
I just hope they aren't using any of Excel's statistical functions. Or if they are, I hope they don't care about accuracy. There are so many problems with Excel's statistical functions (even the latest-and-greatest version) that it has been repeatedly ruled "unsuitable for serious statistical analysis". That's fine if "a large majority of people in my area need Excel to function" just be aware of its shortcomings (which are many). Gnumeric (and I think KSpread and StarCalc) is significantly better than Excel in this area (and many others, but I digress).
I'm not ruling out a good old fashioned country ass-whipping though;-)
I say let's tar and gzip'em. And do the same to:
IT management that doesn't let the admins keep the exposed servers updated
Lazy admins who don't update the servers anyway
Stupid users bringing infected laptops to work and bring down the entire LAN
Corprorate (sic) policymakers that mandate Windows on office desktops.
On second thought - when Sasser got on to the login server and knocked out almost every desktop on the site, it was noticed that the very few Linux users were able to go on working... that was the silver lining:-) (I couldn't care less that the local servers were down, I was ssh'ing to machines an ocean away:-) )
Yes, he was. I took several days off to follow the proceedings in the district court, and the verdict said, in effect, "yes, the defendant did exactly what the prosecution says he did. The prosecution has failed to show that what he did was illegal".
Just after the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act was passed, an elderly Norwegian lawyer commented only half in jest that he couldn't go to the US anymore, since he was officially a terrorist. He had assisted a sabotage action against the German occupation of Norway in the 1940s by transporting the dynamite used to blow up a place run by the occupants.
Good grief. Thanks for the information - forewarned is forearmed:-( The Dark side of the Force is strong up here in the north as well, Already anonymous cell phones are outlawed, private use of crypto is still allowed, probably because very few people use it...
Not really. It's probably the Spanish version of the ECDL - like a driving license, it's a certificate showing that the bearer has passed exams regarding basic computer knowledge and skills.
( We seem to be getting somewhere, in Norway at least "Datakortet" - the "Computer Card" - can be obtained using Linux:-) )
On friday, May 13, I got an unsolicited message at my work address, signed by the owner of sys-con telling me I was eligible for a free subscription to some magazine. It also told me I was currently subscribed to his mailing list as xxxx@blahxx.com and "follow this link to unsubscribe". Yeah, right-
The feedback to the article is closed, citing "implied death threats", but they are still soliciting comments to lloydcaron@sys-con.com
Please be polite - no need to stoop to the MOG level.
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changing out of windows... would require a wholesale hardware change
Well, not necessarily. The BSDs and Linux - and more - run extremely well on the same hardware that runs Windows - modulo the odd driver, winmodems and stuff like that. And about the ladies, well, those aren't ladies in my book.
Not intentionally. I was, however, pointing out that Microsoft is.
I just remembered that I had an old dormant Hotmail account and went back to re-activate it. Fortunately I read the terms and conditions this time and decided to let it lapse. Do they really think I'm that stupid? Insulting, you betcha
Video editing - Cinelerra perhaps - there are links to others on their site. Several mp3 players available, don't know how good they are. I just downloaded xmms-mp3 and am going to try it out...
Use confirmed opt-in. If you don't, you not only risk the spam label, you actually invite abuse.
An opt-in click should result in ONE e-mail containing a unique code, asking the client to return it if she really wants to subscribe. If that e-mail does not get returned to you, delete that client address and move on.
Save the returned confirmation message for use when people complain anyway - and some will.
Without confirmed opt-in I can sign on any address at all for your newsletter!
Nobody with a clue will hit the unsubscribe in a mail they didn't subscribe to, for the very good reason that this is a method spammers use to collect real, live addresses. "Hey - someone just read that mail - quick, add the address to the for-sale CD!"
XXY results in Klinefelder's syndrome. The fused ones seem to be perfectly normal, healthy cats.
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A well known example of natural chimeras are male cats with the "tortoiseshell" coat color. These are either XXY cats - usually sterile - or most often chimeras, i.e. two different XY embryos that fused. (well, could be an XX and an XY.) This is known from DNA analysis of the red/cream and black/blue patches. The red/cream color is sex-linked on the X chromosome, which is why most red-and-black cats are female - two X chromosomes.
Perhaps. But quite recently, live blue mussels - Mytilus edulis - were found at Svalbard (Spitzbergen ) where they have been absent for about 1000 years. Google gave only Norwegian-language news articles, sorry
Before that, there was another 2000 year break when there were no mussels there. Doesn't look like a short cycle to me.
Ever heard of Root Cause Analysis? When a server has problems like that, it is MUCH better to try to find out why, rather than doing the two-step *shrug and reboot*. Those 15 minutes could build up, you know - unless the underlying cause is found and fixed, you risk losing 15 minues out of every hour, times n developers' time.
NORSAR - an array of seismographic stations listening for nuclear explosions in the USSR - was connected to a US network over a satellite circuit, around 1970. In 1979 the first production TCP/IP connection was made to US networks from the UK and Norway. </trivia>
Not at version 1, no - still, 70 schools all over this little country are already using it. Apps? When the first trial version was demoed, teachers complained that there were TOO MANY apps on it. This is for education, not (yet) school administration - even if some of the trial schools are already using it as such.
... fiddling with a 0.95 version
The software install is already down to 5 questions - the goal is three. Webmin administration interface does not require a certification to operate.
You're not thinking like a teacher -
I may be thinking more like a principal who sees that he can hire more teachers with the money he saves. The teachers we've been talking to just love it.
Final point: Norway, Sweden and Finland has about 20,000 Saami - whose children would like to use a computer system where they can actually read the GUI texts in their own language.
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Lacking mod points, I think I'll simply repeat your post, since even those that don't read AC posts should see it:
I just hope they aren't using any of Excel's statistical functions. Or if they are, I hope they don't care about accuracy. There are so many problems with Excel's statistical functions (even the latest-and-greatest version) that it has been repeatedly ruled "unsuitable for serious statistical analysis". That's fine if "a large majority of people in my area need Excel to function" just be aware of its shortcomings (which are many). Gnumeric (and I think KSpread and StarCalc) is significantly better than Excel in this area (and many others, but I digress).
I say let's tar and gzip'em. And do the same to:
On second thought - when Sasser got on to the login server and knocked out almost every desktop on the site, it was noticed that the very few Linux users were able to go on working... that was the silver lining
(I couldn't care less that the local servers were down, I was ssh'ing to machines an ocean away
he was still not clearly innocent.
Yes, he was. I took several days off to follow the proceedings in the district court, and the verdict said, in effect, "yes, the defendant did exactly what the prosecution says he did. The prosecution has failed to show that what he did was illegal".
Upheld in appeals court.
Just after the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act was passed, an elderly Norwegian lawyer commented only half in jest that he couldn't go to the US anymore, since he was officially a terrorist. He had assisted a sabotage action against the German occupation of Norway in the 1940s by transporting the dynamite used to blow up a place run by the occupants.
Good grief. Thanks for the information - forewarned is forearmed :-( The Dark side of the Force is strong up here in the north as well, Already anonymous cell phones are outlawed, private use of crypto is still allowed, probably because very few people use it ...
Not really. It's probably the Spanish version of the ECDL - like a driving license, it's a certificate showing that the bearer has passed exams regarding basic computer knowledge and skills.
:-) )
( We seem to be getting somewhere, in Norway at least "Datakortet" - the "Computer Card" - can be obtained using Linux
On friday, May 13, I got an unsolicited message at my work address, signed by the owner of sys-con telling me I was eligible for a free subscription to some magazine. It also told me I was currently subscribed to his mailing list as xxxx@blahxx.com
and "follow this link to unsubscribe". Yeah, right-
The feedback to the article is closed, citing "implied death threats", but they are still soliciting comments to lloydcaron@sys-con.com
Please be polite - no need to stoop to the MOG level.
changing out of windows ... would require a wholesale hardware change
Well, not necessarily. The BSDs and Linux - and more - run extremely well on the same hardware that runs Windows - modulo the odd driver, winmodems and stuff like that. And about the ladies, well, those aren't ladies in my book.
Yeah, so it's a typo - I was just *shocked* to see the phrase "reverence to SCO" ....
The irony here is that you are insulting him.
Not intentionally. I was, however, pointing out that Microsoft is.
I just remembered that I had an old dormant Hotmail account and went back to re-activate it. Fortunately I read the terms and conditions this time and decided to let it lapse. Do they really think I'm that stupid? Insulting, you betcha
'll stay exactly where I am-- a Microsoft customer.
Slight correction. To Microsoft, end-users are not customers, they are consumers.
Linux end-users tend to be participants, wherever they can.
The US Government requires a specific license to provide any goods or services to anyone in iran.
..4 24-2004Dec10.html/
...)
Violations can draw 10 years in jail
It's illegal to help Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi publish her book(s) in the US:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56
but then, everyone knows the WP is a leftie extremist, terrorist supporting rag, right?
( That should be the Norwegian committee in the article, not the Stockholm one. All the other Nobels are awarded in Sweden
Video editing -
Cinelerra perhaps - there are links to others on their site. Several mp3 players available, don't know how good they are. I just downloaded xmms-mp3 and am going to try it out...
Use confirmed opt-in. If you don't, you not only risk the spam label, you actually invite abuse.
An opt-in click should result in ONE e-mail containing a unique code, asking the client to return it if she really wants to subscribe. If that e-mail does not get returned to you, delete that client address and move on.
Save the returned confirmation message for use when people complain anyway - and some will.
Without confirmed opt-in I can sign on any address at all for your newsletter!
Nobody with a clue will hit the unsubscribe in a mail they didn't subscribe to, for the very good reason that this is a method spammers use to collect real, live addresses. "Hey - someone just read that mail - quick, add the address to the for-sale CD!"
XXY results in Klinefelder's syndrome. The fused ones seem to be perfectly normal, healthy cats.
A well known example of natural chimeras are male cats with the "tortoiseshell" coat color. These are either XXY cats - usually sterile - or most often chimeras, i.e. two different XY embryos that fused. (well, could be an XX and an XY.) This is known from DNA analysis of the red/cream and black/blue patches. The red/cream color is sex-linked on the X chromosome, which is why most red-and-black cats are female - two X chromosomes.
:-)
Hah - finally a post to fit my nick
Perhaps. But quite recently, live blue mussels - Mytilus edulis - were found at Svalbard (Spitzbergen ) where they have been absent for about 1000 years.
Google gave only Norwegian-language news articles, sorry
Before that, there was another 2000 year break when there were no mussels there. Doesn't look like a short cycle to me.
Ahem.
Would you care to reconsider that comment, sir?
Or would you prefer cardpunches at dawn, one box of 2000 cards each, interpreting optional?
(tears white Sid-type beard)
Just like in your sig, huh?
Ever heard of Root Cause Analysis? When a server has problems like that, it is MUCH better to try to find out why, rather than doing the two-step *shrug and reboot*. Those 15 minutes could build up, you know - unless the underlying cause is found and fixed, you risk losing 15 minues out of every hour, times n developers' time.
NORSAR - an array of seismographic stations listening for nuclear explosions in the USSR - was connected to a US network over a satellite circuit, around 1970. In 1979 the first production TCP/IP connection was made to US networks from the UK and Norway.
</trivia>
Should we forward ALL the spam we get in our inboxes to the FBI
No, you should forward it to the FTC:
uce@ftc.gov wants all the Unsolicited Commercial E-mail you receive. What do they do with it? Beats me.
CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation), who produced software for mainframes.
And still does, among a myriad other things.
IANAL, but IAACSCE ( I am a CSC employee) who does a few of the other things.
Good God it's not even launched yet.
... fiddling with a 0.95 version
Not at version 1, no - still, 70 schools all over this little country are already using it. Apps?
When the first trial version was demoed, teachers complained that there were TOO MANY apps on it.
This is for education, not (yet) school administration - even if some of the trial schools are already using it as such.
The software install is already down to 5
questions - the goal is three. Webmin administration interface does not require a certification to operate.
You're not thinking like a teacher -
I may be thinking more like a principal who sees that he can hire more teachers with the money he saves. The teachers we've been talking to just love it.
Final point: Norway, Sweden and Finland has about 20,000 Saami - whose children would like to use a computer system where they can actually read the GUI texts in their own language.