Of all the calls I get here in my company's call center, the whinney, cry-babies who can't get 56K on their phones are the worst. It's especially funny when they call in on a line that is so noisey I can barely understand them through the static. "Why can't I get 56K speeds? I can only connect at 19200!". Sometimes they have 20 feet of phone cord between their computer and the wall when their computer is right up against the wall and 2 feet from the walljack... I could go on, but why waste even more space...
Here in Portland, OR (Home of the Amazing Tonya Harding),a local pizza joint, Stark Street Pizza, uses what I think is an old Radio Shack Color Computer (anybody from Portland correct me if I'm wrong, please) to flash customer numbers on a little 13" tv. Whatever it is, I know it is old. The Church of Elvis used to have a C-64 running a fortune-telling (I think) program in the storefront window
Go to the netscape archive. All versions back to 2.x for Win, Mac and *nix platforms. Opera is still not quite ready ( I check every week). Check out their Project Magic page.
It was the same here in Portland, OR. The lines and the I-have-no-life-so-I'll-camp-out-for-3-days groups were for the midnight 1st showing. AFAIK, in some theatre locations, you can still buy tickets for the 1st days shows, but don't quote me on that.
Hmmm, I seem to recall a story along that line myself. IIRC, Microsoft tried to convert hotmail over to NT, but it just couldNT handle the server load.
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Yeah! (pointless-disgruntled-ex-employee-rant follows, feel free to totally ignore it)... Another example of a high traffic website using Linux (Redhat to be exact) is Wells Fargo. With their online banking, loan apps and internal access (at least when I was there), I think it holds up pretty good... What is ironic ( to me) is that at one particular call center (I can't say where, but it is in the NW), the internal network is on NT and when I worked there, it crashed at least 1-2 times a day, sometimes more. The lowest bidder won when it came to deciding who and what the new network was set up on. I'm done now.
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Yeah! (pointless-disgruntled-ex-employee-rant follows, feel free to totally ignore it)... Another example of a high traffic website using Linux (Redhat to be exact) is Wells Fargo. With their online banking, loan apps and internal access (at least when I was there), I think it holds up pretty good... What is ironic ( to me) is that at one particular call center (I can't say where, but it is in the NW), the internal network is on NT and when I worked there, it crashed at least 1-2 times a day, sometimes more. The lowest bidder won when it came to deciding who and what the new network was set up on. I'm done now.
That's why he's going with ORA... From the Daily Static page: Recently, O'Reilly stepped in and made an offer that was more fitting the User Friendly philosophy (placing the book in the Computer section instead of the General Humor section for example), so we closed the deal with them.
Sounds like a good idea to me. I have actually seen a couple NG posters with similar statements in their.sigs. (...persuant to amendment blah blah under the FCC 12.3.456..I'm sure that is WAY off, but you get my drift) I think I'll come up with a like tagline for my email sig and follow through.
Your comment about the white collar crime reminded me of a guy (can't remember his name) that worked for a bank, calculating interest rates on customers CD's or interest earning accounts or something of that ilk. Anyway, the jist of it is that while customers were being paid, let's say, 8.3%, he was calculating it at, like, 8.305%. Pocketing the.005% difference. Got away with t millions and wrote a book about it from the Bahamas or someplace. I saw it on the news once, so it has to be true.. ;^)
I have several of the ORA books. Whenever I leave one laying around the living room, my wife always says to me, "I wish you'd stop buying those damn computer books with the cool animal covers. I always think they're about something interesting, then I read the title. You geek." :)
Nope, hasn't been PR for sometime. They are selling R4 as a full retail version, as they did w/ R3.2... QuakeII has been ported (and looks awesome from what I have read). Granted, they don't have a lot of commercially available software (yet), but with Q2 ported, an ICQ/AIM (yes, both in one) client in the works, Opera (web browser) more than 1/2 finished, a full featured mail client available, it is coming right along...
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Of all the calls I get here in my company's call center, the whinney, cry-babies who can't get 56K on their phones are the worst.
It's especially funny when they call in on a line that is so noisey I can barely understand them through the static. "Why can't I get 56K speeds? I can only connect at 19200!".
Sometimes they have 20 feet of phone cord between their computer and the wall when their computer is right up against the wall and 2 feet from the walljack... I could go on, but why waste even more space...
I hope he submitted the changes he made in, as outlined in the GPL. :)
Xianity.
Cool, At least I know I'm not the only pagan/geek to use the term.
It's not just your HO, it IS why they went with that version number(s).
I second that. :)
Here in Portland, OR (Home of the Amazing Tonya Harding),a local pizza joint, Stark Street Pizza, uses what I think is an old Radio Shack Color Computer (anybody from Portland correct me if I'm wrong, please) to flash customer numbers on a little 13" tv. Whatever it is, I know it is old. The Church of Elvis used to have a C-64 running a fortune-telling (I think) program in the storefront window
Go to the netscape archive. All versions back to 2.x for Win, Mac and *nix platforms.
Opera is still not quite ready ( I check every week). Check out their Project Magic page.
I second that.
;^)
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Paranoia is complete knowledge of your surroundings.
It was the same here in Portland, OR. The lines and the I-have-no-life-so-I'll-camp-out-for-3-days groups were for the midnight 1st showing. AFAIK, in some theatre locations, you can still buy tickets for the 1st days shows, but don't quote me on that.
Hmmm, I seem to recall a story along that line myself.
IIRC, Microsoft tried to convert hotmail over to NT, but it just couldNT handle the server load.
Naturally, fetchmail will be included.
Yeah! (pointless-disgruntled-ex-employee-rant follows, feel free to totally ignore it)... Another example of a high traffic website using Linux (Redhat to be exact) is Wells Fargo. With their online banking, loan apps and internal access (at least when I was there), I think it holds up pretty good... What is ironic ( to me) is that at one particular call center (I can't say where, but it is in the NW), the internal network is on NT and when I worked there, it crashed at least 1-2 times a day, sometimes more. The lowest bidder won when it came to deciding who and what the new network was set up on. I'm done now.
Yeah! (pointless-disgruntled-ex-employee-rant follows, feel free to totally ignore it)... Another example of a high traffic website using Linux (Redhat to be exact) is Wells Fargo. With their online banking, loan apps and internal access (at least when I was there), I think it holds up pretty good... What is ironic ( to me) is that at one particular call center (I can't say where, but it is in the NW), the internal network is on NT and when I worked there, it crashed at least 1-2 times a day, sometimes more. The lowest bidder won when it came to deciding who and what the new network was set up on. I'm done now.
That's why he's going with ORA... From the Daily Static page: Recently, O'Reilly stepped in and made an offer that was more fitting the User Friendly philosophy (placing the book in the Computer section instead of the General Humor section for example), so we closed the deal with them.
I hear the eye banks are looking for donors, too. You only need one eye to see the computer...
Well the (original, not the mirrors) images are located in the 'unstable' directory... :^)
I couldn't have said it better myself. Thankyou...
Sounds like a good idea to me. I have actually seen a couple NG posters with similar statements in their .sigs. (...persuant to amendment blah blah under the FCC 12.3.456..I'm sure that is WAY off, but you get my drift) I think I'll come up with a like tagline for my email sig and follow through.
Boycott to your heart's content. I'll buy your ticket. And eat your popcorn :)
Your comment about the white collar crime reminded me of a guy (can't remember his name) that worked for a bank, calculating interest rates on customers CD's or interest earning accounts or something of that ilk. Anyway, the jist of it is that while customers were being paid, let's say , 8.3%, he was calculating it at, like, 8.305%. Pocketing the .005% difference. Got away with t millions and wrote a book about it from the Bahamas or someplace. I saw it on the news once, so it has to be true.. ;^)
Works for me. I'd pay for a poster like that...or two or three...
I have several of the ORA books. Whenever I leave one laying around the living room, my wife always says to me, "I wish you'd stop buying those damn computer books with the cool animal covers. I always think they're about something interesting, then I read the title. You geek."
:)
Nope, hasn't been PR for sometime.
They are selling R4 as a full retail version, as they did w/ R3.2...
QuakeII has been ported (and looks awesome from what I have read). Granted, they don't have a lot of commercially available software (yet), but with Q2 ported, an ICQ/AIM (yes, both in one) client in the works, Opera (web browser) more than 1/2 finished, a full featured mail client available, it is coming right along...