I do hope Raja feels better, but I've been feeling like crap since Saturday.
Once again I've got doctors probing me in weird ways to find what it is. As usual, a doctor sees my blood test results and tells me to cut down on the red meat and alcohol. I'm a $%^& vegetarian! I have never consumed alcohol other than like liquor-filled chocolates-- and that was YEARS ago! So I tell the doctor that and he's like "Well... this shouldn't be happening..."
I just love it when I get to be the first time doctors ever see anything happening. I love it when they make me go thrugh tons of blood tests and ultrasuonds and make me eat and drink nothing but radioactive fluid for 24hours and then CAT scan me because one doctor didn't like what mypancris looked like, but then tells me it's "normal for about 5% of the population."
And after all the poking, prodding and analysing - they still don't know what the heck is wrong.
You know what? I've actually been feeling pretty bad since 1997! Aaaaaaaaaaaarrgghh.... Countless doctors, several different countries, nothing. I guess that's the price you pay for being a vegetarian, not smoking, not drinking, not doing drugs, etc. Now they're going to make me give up pizza and cookies, too.
I do get really pissed off when people accuse me of cheating just because I got them 20 times and they haven't got me.
Really? My friends and I have come to take it as the ultimate unintentional compliment.
Well, yeah, it sure is fun when people get pissed when you beat them - I don't mind that. It's when they start voting to kick me that I get pissed off.
I mean, I was playing Doom in order to blow off some steam. The last thing I need when I'm trying to relax is to worry about someone killing me. So iddqd and idkfa it was. To my credit, I was playing at Nightmare lever wth mosters respawning every 8 seconds. But that was the idea - infinite carnage. You'd finish a level with 5000% kills...
I would never cheat on a multiplayer game. I do get really pissed off when people accuse me of cheating just because I got them 20 times and they haven't got me.
I get really annoyed when playing a FPS+Strategy game like Tribes, where you can deploy turrets, drop mines, etc. People accuse you of cheating for actually using the resources on the game! It's rediculous.
I object to my nick carelessly being associated with hicks. Talk about being affected by TV - one show has a hillbilly named Jethro and suddenly it's the Flag Hick Name.
I wish someone would hold Pizza Hut (at least in Minneapolis, USA) accountable for their TV commercials! Or pretty much ANY pizza/fastfood place! I want the pizza I get delivered to look t least <b>slightly</b> like it does on the commercial!
I've got the screencaps of the commercial and webcams of what was delivered... got to make that website someday.
Anyway, "Truth in Advertizing" in the USA is just completely out of whack. It's like, car commercials pretty much say "We're lying!" in really small print, but they can happily lie about other things...
Dude! I never heard of that... I just brought up "Info Panel" and started clicking wildly. If you click on the GNUstep logo, it turns into a smily and says Have A Nice Day. I'm compiled without sound though.
You should definetly look into thin clients. No HDD required, no setup required. I've got an IBM Network Station, you can just plug it into the power, plug in a kbd/mouse/monitor, plug it into the ethernet and poweron. It'll tftp/hdcp/bootp itself up and let you logon to any host running XDM. There's even a mini-HOWTO on getting them up with Linux as a server.
Still need to get monitors though. And I have no idea how much these things cost.
Another way you can do it (and I'm not saying anything about how secure this is or isn't!), is have your script create a data file containing information in a predefined format, like:
ADD:jsmith:John Smith
and have a cron job run every 5/10/whatever minutes and process this file. That's how we used to do user additions at the ISP I used to work for, except that the file was generated by some database and placed on FTP.
You can have a your 'real' program rename the file right away and do some lockfile tricks to make sure the two processes don't kill each other off.
I agree about "The 13th Floor". It's a low-hype, non-flashy substitute for "The Matrix". I'm not saying the plot's the same, but they do kinda cover similar territories. At least they had somewhat of a plot.
I'm told (by my paretns) that I watched Fantasia when I was very young in the hope that I grow up to become 'civilized' or something stupid like that. Classical music never really did it for me, and Disney's Colourful Unicorns never really made me respect it more.
One day I stumbled upon this Italian movie called Allegro Non Troppo", which is more or less the same idea as Fantasia - an animation artist drawing out interpertations to classical music.
But such different execution! First of all, no colourful pegasi, no hippo balerinas, no REALLY snotty conductor at the begining. The whole concept is completely different. I wish I could describe the animation they came up to go along with Ravel's Bolero, but it's quite impossible to describe using words. It's amazing.
Everyone who thinks Fantasia is a good movie should watch this one.
Everyone who thinks Fantasia is a stupid idea should watch this movie to see how it should be done.
One word of warning - try and make sure you don't get the #$%^&* dubbed version (it's not out on DVD as far as I can tell).
The ONE time in my life I want to watch a webcast... I even installed and tested RealPlayer G2... and we have a meeting at 11 Central!!! Aaaarrrggghhhhh.... where's RealVCR G2?
Ah well... I've waited this long, I can wait another hour or two.
Talented as I am, I managed to develop an acude case of bronchitis sometime on Wednesday, and haven't slept since, but hey, we needed an excuse not to go see the inlaws.
I hope everyone else is having a better time than me - it'd take a huge amount of talent to do worse!
When "Pentium" was announced as the replacement name for 586, I thought it sounded like some kinf of contraceptive, rather than a CPU. x86 CPU names have just been getting worse. What's wrong with MicroSPARC, Alpha, MIPS R5000?
I can only imagine the Dr Strangelove meetingroom at Intel a few months ago, which lead to "Itanium".
"Gentlemen, AMD have rnamed their K7 chip to 'Athalon'. We cannot afford a Stupid-CPU-Name gap"
> I just bought a K6-III-based system, and I'd > love to have some verification that it's really > a K6-III, and not a K6-2 or something else > entirely
You can always crack open the box, take the heatsink off and look at the CPU. Make sure you have a flashlight (;
I'm not sure if all AMD chips have the speed on them, but it'll definetly say K6-3 or K6-2 on it. I did visually inspect mine before accepting it. Of course, the place I get equipment is very nice in actually testing the CPU/MBoard out in the open right in front of you before letting you take it home.
You can also cat/proc/cpuinfo - that should give you a little more info than the BIOS, including MHz.
Another thing to try is compiling gcc from scratch. If your CPU is overclocked and doesn't choke on THAT, you're probably ok...
Be grateful; at least you have THAT much. I couldn't get the darn thing to work at all, and Checkpoint just stood there and went "Er... we dunno how to set it up either. Manuals? What manuals?".
We get the thing to FIND our firewall, but then what? Checkpoint don't know. Our eval ran out and they won't give us new ones. I wish I had an alternative before someone spent all the money on their software...
> The new plugin they just announced costs $10, > but I just tried the demo version, > and it's definitely worth it
I totally agree with you. Now if only they could get the Buy Online thing to work. I tried it and it gave a File Not Found after making me fill out all the info! Twice!!!
I've been waiting for something that'd play MP3s off a CD for quite a while now. What I'd like to know is how it navigates the CD - do you need to dump all the files in the root dir, or can you have one dir per album, etc? Either way, I'm likely to get one...
I'd like to know more about the image at lame.org. What's the story behind this image? Is it superimposed or are you in front of a projector? Or a blue screen? Anything else you'd like to share?
> If he really believed she had potentially > fatally low blood pressure, the intelligent > thing to do would be to call 911 and/or take her > to the emergency room ASAP.
Well, the problem with a forum rant is you don't get totellt he whole story.
How do you know I was in a country that _has_ a '911'? How do you know I wasn't omwewhere where I and everyone else there would've been imprisioned for a long, long time for this? How do you know I wasn't at a place where people would've rather pulled a knife and shot me for calling in the police? Or killed the girl and dumped her in a ditch rather than having the police come in?
How do you know I didn't take Basic First Aid and knew I was doing the right thing? For that matter, how do you know I am an unlicenced medic?
Yeah, a lot of the replies to my original post were vast misunderstandings. This one ticked me off a bit, though.
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I do hope Raja feels better, but I've been feeling like crap since Saturday.
Once again I've got doctors probing me in weird ways to find what it is. As usual, a doctor sees my blood test results and tells me to cut down on the red meat and alcohol. I'm a $%^& vegetarian! I have never consumed alcohol other than like liquor-filled chocolates-- and that was YEARS ago! So I tell the doctor that and he's like "Well... this shouldn't be happening..."
I just love it when I get to be the first time doctors ever see anything happening. I love it when they make me go thrugh tons of blood tests and ultrasuonds and make me eat and drink nothing but radioactive fluid for 24hours and then CAT scan me because one doctor didn't like what mypancris looked like, but then tells me it's "normal for about 5% of the population."
And after all the poking, prodding and analysing - they still don't know what the heck is wrong.
You know what? I've actually been feeling pretty bad since 1997! Aaaaaaaaaaaarrgghh.... Countless doctors, several different countries, nothing. I guess that's the price you pay for being a vegetarian, not smoking, not drinking, not doing drugs, etc. Now they're going to make me give up pizza and cookies, too.
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I stand corrected. It has been a few years. I think there were 5 levels, I was playing at the 4th.
I did manually enable the monster respawn as per Nightmare though.
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I do get really pissed off when people accuse me of cheating just because I got them 20 times and they haven't got me.
Really? My friends and I have come to take it as the ultimate unintentional compliment.
Well, yeah, it sure is fun when people get pissed when you beat them - I don't mind that. It's when they start voting to kick me that I get pissed off.
--
...in Doom/Doom2, when doing single-player.
I mean, I was playing Doom in order to blow off some steam. The last thing I need when I'm trying to relax is to worry about someone killing me. So iddqd and idkfa it was. To my credit, I was playing at Nightmare lever wth mosters respawning every 8 seconds. But that was the idea - infinite carnage. You'd finish a level with 5000% kills...
I would never cheat on a multiplayer game. I do get really pissed off when people accuse me of cheating just because I got them 20 times and they haven't got me.
I get really annoyed when playing a FPS+Strategy game like Tribes, where you can deploy turrets, drop mines, etc. People accuse you of cheating for actually using the resources on the game! It's rediculous.
--
I object to my nick carelessly being associated with hicks. Talk about being affected by TV - one show has a hillbilly named Jethro and suddenly it's the Flag Hick Name.
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God, that's beautiful.
I wish someone would hold Pizza Hut (at least in Minneapolis, USA) accountable for their TV commercials! Or pretty much ANY pizza/fastfood place! I want the pizza I get delivered to look t least <b>slightly</b> like it does on the commercial!
I've got the screencaps of the commercial and webcams of what was delivered... got to make that website someday.
Anyway, "Truth in Advertizing" in the USA is just completely out of whack. It's like, car commercials pretty much say "We're lying!" in really small print, but they can happily lie about other things...
--
Dude! I never heard of that... I just brought up "Info Panel" and started clicking wildly. If you click on the GNUstep logo, it turns into a smily and says Have A Nice Day. I'm compiled without sound though.
--
You should definetly look into thin clients. No HDD required, no setup required. I've got an IBM Network Station, you can just plug it into the power, plug in a kbd/mouse/monitor, plug it into the ethernet and poweron. It'll tftp/hdcp/bootp itself up and let you logon to any host running XDM. There's even a mini-HOWTO on getting them up with Linux as a server.
Still need to get monitors though. And I have no idea how much these things cost.
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> GNU has likewise changed what was Unix, and,
> despite it's acronymic denial, has become
> Unix.
You mean it doesn't stand for "GNU's Now Unix"?
Or "GNU- New Unix".
Now that is what I call foresight!
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Another way you can do it (and I'm not saying anything about how secure this is or isn't!), is have your script create a data file containing information in a predefined format, like:
ADD:jsmith:John Smith
and have a cron job run every 5/10/whatever minutes and process this file. That's how we used to do user additions at the ISP I used to work for, except that the file was generated by some database and placed on FTP.
You can have a your 'real' program rename the file right away and do some lockfile tricks to make sure the two processes don't kill each other off.
--
I agree about "The 13th Floor". It's a low-hype, non-flashy substitute for "The Matrix". I'm not saying the plot's the same, but they do kinda cover similar territories. At least they had somewhat of a plot.
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> I actually have only seen the dubbed version
> (which had the great line, "Frisney did
> this?").
That's exactly the problem I have with dubbing - in the original Italian it's "Prisney". (;
I'm glad to hear someone else saw it. I have a PAL copy of it, so I can't even lend it to anyone here in the US ):
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I'm told (by my paretns) that I watched Fantasia when I was very young in the hope that I grow up to become 'civilized' or something stupid like that. Classical music never really did it for me, and Disney's Colourful Unicorns never really made me respect it more.
One day I stumbled upon this Italian movie called Allegro Non Troppo", which is more or less the same idea as Fantasia - an animation artist drawing out interpertations to classical music.
But such different execution! First of all, no colourful pegasi, no hippo balerinas, no REALLY snotty conductor at the begining. The whole concept is completely different. I wish I could describe the animation they came up to go along with Ravel's Bolero, but it's quite impossible to describe using words. It's amazing.
Everyone who thinks Fantasia is a good movie should watch this one.
Everyone who thinks Fantasia is a stupid idea should watch this movie to see how it should be done.
One word of warning - try and make sure you don't get the #$%^&* dubbed version (it's not out on DVD as far as I can tell).
--
The ONE time in my life I want to watch a webcast... I even installed and tested RealPlayer G2... and we have a meeting at 11 Central!!! Aaaarrrggghhhhh.... where's RealVCR G2?
Ah well... I've waited this long, I can wait another hour or two.
I had spirit.of.the.renaissance.co.il, the.lost.continent.of.atlantis.com and is.this.a.gun.in.my.pocket.or.am.i.just.feeling.fr iendly.co.il
Sysadminning for an ISP does have it's perks...
A few days late for Solstice, but what the heck.
Talented as I am, I managed to develop an acude case of bronchitis sometime on Wednesday, and haven't slept since, but hey, we needed an excuse not to go see the inlaws.
I hope everyone else is having a better time than me - it'd take a huge amount of talent to do worse!
When "Pentium" was announced as the replacement name for 586, I thought it sounded like some kinf of contraceptive, rather than a CPU. x86 CPU names have just been getting worse. What's wrong with MicroSPARC, Alpha, MIPS R5000?
I can only imagine the Dr Strangelove meetingroom at Intel a few months ago, which lead to "Itanium".
"Gentlemen, AMD have rnamed their K7 chip to 'Athalon'. We cannot afford a Stupid-CPU-Name gap"
> I just bought a K6-III-based system, and I'd
/proc/cpuinfo - that should give you a little more info than the BIOS, including MHz.
> love to have some verification that it's really
> a K6-III, and not a K6-2 or something else
> entirely
You can always crack open the box, take the heatsink off and look at the CPU. Make sure you have a flashlight (;
I'm not sure if all AMD chips have the speed on them, but it'll definetly say K6-3 or K6-2 on it. I did visually inspect mine before accepting it. Of course, the place I get equipment is very nice in actually testing the CPU/MBoard out in the open right in front of you before letting you take it home.
You can also cat
Another thing to try is compiling gcc from scratch. If your CPU is overclocked and doesn't choke on THAT, you're probably ok...
> The SecuRemote clients exist only for Windows.
Be grateful; at least you have THAT much. I couldn't get the darn thing to work at all, and Checkpoint just stood there and went "Er... we dunno how to set it up either. Manuals? What manuals?".
We get the thing to FIND our firewall, but then what? Checkpoint don't know. Our eval ran out and they won't give us new ones. I wish I had an alternative before someone spent all the money on their software...
> The new plugin they just announced costs $10,
> but I just tried the demo version,
> and it's definitely worth it
I totally agree with you. Now if only they could get the Buy Online thing to work. I tried it and it gave a File Not Found after making me fill out all the info! Twice!!!
> It's not true. It was an X-Men/Star Trek:The
> Next Generation crossover. Picard and Storm
> had the hots for each over.....
I actually read that (I got the feeling there was more than one). I found it while looking for new Star Trek books for a friend of mine.
I figured putting X-Men in a Trek book has GOT to be funny.
It was a pretty decent X-Men story, too bad about the whole Star Trek universe getting in the way (disclaimer: I like Trek)
I've been waiting for something that'd play MP3s off a CD for quite a while now. What I'd like to know is how it navigates the CD - do you need to dump all the files in the root dir, or can you have one dir per album, etc? Either way, I'm likely to get one...
Hi,
Uh, I posted that question, and I am quite serious.
No troll was attempted, sorry if it came through as such - but I have been wondering about that for quite some time.
Hi Alan,
I'd like to know more about the image at lame.org. What's the story behind this image? Is it superimposed or are you in front of a projector? Or a blue screen? Anything else you'd like to share?
> If he really believed she had potentially
> fatally low blood pressure, the intelligent
> thing to do would be to call 911 and/or take her
> to the emergency room ASAP.
Well, the problem with a forum rant is you don't get totellt he whole story.
How do you know I was in a country that _has_ a '911'? How do you know I wasn't omwewhere where I and everyone else there would've been imprisioned for a long, long time for this? How do you know I wasn't at a place where people would've rather pulled a knife and shot me for calling in the police? Or killed the girl and dumped her in a ditch rather than having the police come in?
How do you know I didn't take Basic First Aid and knew I was doing the right thing? For that matter, how do you know I am an unlicenced medic?
Yeah, a lot of the replies to my original post were vast misunderstandings. This one ticked me off a bit, though.