Big media did the same thing with the Australian government recently. Now instead of fiber to the home, we get fiber to the node and a crappy copper connection to the house which is controlled by a monopoly company with no incentive to fix it, and not a good record of caring one iota about their customers.
While this is true seriously as a parent....what kind of dumbass leaves magnets where a 4 YEAR OLD can get them? Now obviously this wasn't the brightest bulb in the box, at 4 my boys knew that non-food items didn't belong in the mouth but still, not very damned smart.
Bah! My 4 year old was able to dismantle a hard drive on his own. They loved playing with those super strong magnets.
Just sayin...
I wonder if China might be more likely to just sit on their hands and let the USA and NK duke it out in a conventional battle. This would cause the US to drag itself into economic despair even faster, allowing China to become the superpower sooner.
At first, the water spraying in your ass is really strange, but it cleans much better than wiping.
You are supposed to wash your face with that water spray. Very refreshing for your pleasure.
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I sold my Amiga 1000 in the early 90's, and I am sooo sorry I did. Best computer ever.
I remember feeling a genuine sense of loss when I sold my 500 and later my 1200. I have never felt the same emotional connection to any of the PC's I have owned since. I will always have a soft spot for the old Amigas.
We have a federal election less than one month away. Unfortunately, I think it's mainly the minority of geeks and nerds which fear it and understand these plans. How do we mobilise the rest of a generally apathetic nation in 3 weeks before a federal election to rally against this?
What surprises me about all these child-porn-bust stories is how many people are looking at it. I would have figured less than a thousand in the whole country.
I agree, there are either a lot of normal people getting screwed over (pardon the pun) thinking "honestly, I thought she was 18 your honour", or there are a lot of dumb people who don't realise how little privacy they have left on the internets when they go hunting for the blatantly underage stuff.
The company I work for had hundreds of the affected GX270's deployed at remote sites, and they were all supplied from Japan. This meant you couldn't get any support at all until you had the service tag transferred to the new country you were in. At the peak of the bad cap problem with the GX270's Dell would really drag their feet transferring the tag so they didn't have to deal with supplying the motherboard. I must have spoken to several Dell engineers who didn't get the memo about keeping their mouths shut about the bad caps because most I spoke to knew full well what what going on.
True. But they opened the first can of worms by collecting it in the first place.
Sorry, I disagree. FFS, if you have an open network you deserve to get owned by whichever network snooping person is driving past.
If you choose to broadcast unencrypted in range of a public road that google are driving along, IMHO stiff, you are broadcasting into the public domain. Anyone reading/. should know better and I cant believe all the Holier than Thou attitudes to this. Google are slimy suit wearing advertising types, but hell, these fools were asking for it.
Would there be all this uproar if Google collected data on people which didn't have a front door (or any form of physical entrance security) to their house?
Ring ring... "Ticking? No its not the ticking type... No, it doesn't have a timer... No! FFS it doesn't tick... No its not one with a countdown... For crying out loud it blows up when I ring ring you! we went through this... Ok.... No you hang up... No YOU hang up...."
I just recently set up a FreeNAS box. using an old p4 that I had laying around. Used a 100gb hard drive for the OS and installed 2tb hard drives in a RAID 1 array. I can use it to stream media or as a backup for my work. Cheap, easy and effective. I am looking at getting an Mini itx motherboard and setting up a 1u rack to save space using this idea.
I went down this path too. Started with an old P4 then bought a mini itx mobo (fanless) for around $100AUS, 1Gb RAM for $20, 2x1TB drive for around 200 and stuck them in an old case. loaded freenas, configured software raid1 .
One thing I overlooked in all the excitement was I planned to run the linux distro off an CF card reader, but turned out there wasnt a IDE slot on my mini itx board.
It all worked pretty well, and was fun to tinker with but I found file transfers were slow with my main windows boxes, and being fairly stuck in my windows mindset I was always a bit nervous about how easy it might be to recover data of a broken linux install/software raid array/drive. In the end I lost interest in the linux stuff trying to get it to do things which were just easier when it was a windows based solution and decided it was a waste of power having this second box running when I could just as easily throw those 1TB drives in my main box which runs 24/7 anyway. I just share my nas type data from my main box now.
You probably want more storage space than 2TB though I am guessing.
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Are you part of the A-Team?
Big media did the same thing with the Australian government recently. Now instead of fiber to the home, we get fiber to the node and a crappy copper connection to the house which is controlled by a monopoly company with no incentive to fix it, and not a good record of caring one iota about their customers.
Because fuckers like you won't pay for our culture. ;)
What's the difference between Americans and yoghurt? If you leave yoghurt alone for 200 years it will grow a culture.
> use the L word.
Liger?
Lesbian?
if you only swallow one per day you probably wont get 2 in there at the same time
While this is true seriously as a parent....what kind of dumbass leaves magnets where a 4 YEAR OLD can get them? Now obviously this wasn't the brightest bulb in the box, at 4 my boys knew that non-food items didn't belong in the mouth but still, not very damned smart.
Bah! My 4 year old was able to dismantle a hard drive on his own. They loved playing with those super strong magnets. Just sayin...
No more updates for me.
You wait till all the magic leaks out of the old version, then you will come beggin' for an update!
new task bar
Missing show desktop icon = fail
I meant to say in the old spot, I find it a pain down in the bottom right with dual monitors.
new task bar
Missing show desktop icon = fail
I wonder if China might be more likely to just sit on their hands and let the USA and NK duke it out in a conventional battle. This would cause the US to drag itself into economic despair even faster, allowing China to become the superpower sooner.
I'll have to check out PCMag and see if it's worth subscribing to.
Here is a torrent link for the latest edition....
I just leave the important emails unread on my phone until I action them.
At first, the water spraying in your ass is really strange, but it cleans much better than wiping.
You are supposed to wash your face with that water spray. Very refreshing for your pleasure.
I sold my Amiga 1000 in the early 90's, and I am sooo sorry I did. Best computer ever.
I remember feeling a genuine sense of loss when I sold my 500 and later my 1200. I have never felt the same emotional connection to any of the PC's I have owned since. I will always have a soft spot for the old Amigas.
We have a federal election less than one month away. Unfortunately, I think it's mainly the minority of geeks and nerds which fear it and understand these plans. How do we mobilise the rest of a generally apathetic nation in 3 weeks before a federal election to rally against this?
What surprises me about all these child-porn-bust stories is how many people are looking at it. I would have figured less than a thousand in the whole country.
I agree, there are either a lot of normal people getting screwed over (pardon the pun) thinking "honestly, I thought she was 18 your honour", or there are a lot of dumb people who don't realise how little privacy they have left on the internets when they go hunting for the blatantly underage stuff.
The company I work for had hundreds of the affected GX270's deployed at remote sites, and they were all supplied from Japan. This meant you couldn't get any support at all until you had the service tag transferred to the new country you were in. At the peak of the bad cap problem with the GX270's Dell would really drag their feet transferring the tag so they didn't have to deal with supplying the motherboard. I must have spoken to several Dell engineers who didn't get the memo about keeping their mouths shut about the bad caps because most I spoke to knew full well what what going on.
Are we posting funny videos now? I've got one with a chubby kid and a lightsaber around here somewhere...
Whoop Whoop! Its the FUN POLICE!
They had to send a manned F-16 to shoot it down.
Isn't that standard ops already? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theories#Flight_93
True. But they opened the first can of worms by collecting it in the first place.
Sorry, I disagree. FFS, if you have an open network you deserve to get owned by whichever network snooping person is driving past.
If you choose to broadcast unencrypted in range of a public road that google are driving along, IMHO stiff, you are broadcasting into the public domain. Anyone reading /. should know better and I cant believe all the Holier than Thou attitudes to this. Google are slimy suit wearing advertising types, but hell, these fools were asking for it.
Would there be all this uproar if Google collected data on people which didn't have a front door (or any form of physical entrance security) to their house?
ENDRANT
I've never met a person whose stated reason for not using bittorrent was "I'm afraid of getting sued."
Nice to meet you. I stopped using stopped using BT because I was afraid of getting sued. Now I use encrypted usenet.
We have a set of winners. This si the problem. These people think I should pay for every movie 5 times
Bingo, I paid to see it at the cinema, why cant I keep a divx copy? What's next, will I be punished to recall scenes in my mind without paying?
Ring ring... "Ticking? No its not the ticking type... No, it doesn't have a timer... No! FFS it doesn't tick... No its not one with a countdown... For crying out loud it blows up when I ring ring you! we went through this... Ok.... No you hang up... No YOU hang up...."
she can still touch her toes with out bending her knees and join her hands behind her back (one over the shoulder, one under).
I wish my wife was that flexible
I just recently set up a FreeNAS box. using an old p4 that I had laying around. Used a 100gb hard drive for the OS and installed 2tb hard drives in a RAID 1 array. I can use it to stream media or as a backup for my work. Cheap, easy and effective. I am looking at getting an Mini itx motherboard and setting up a 1u rack to save space using this idea.
I went down this path too. Started with an old P4 then bought a mini itx mobo (fanless) for around $100AUS, 1Gb RAM for $20, 2x1TB drive for around 200 and stuck them in an old case. loaded freenas, configured software raid1 . One thing I overlooked in all the excitement was I planned to run the linux distro off an CF card reader, but turned out there wasnt a IDE slot on my mini itx board. It all worked pretty well, and was fun to tinker with but I found file transfers were slow with my main windows boxes, and being fairly stuck in my windows mindset I was always a bit nervous about how easy it might be to recover data of a broken linux install/software raid array/drive. In the end I lost interest in the linux stuff trying to get it to do things which were just easier when it was a windows based solution and decided it was a waste of power having this second box running when I could just as easily throw those 1TB drives in my main box which runs 24/7 anyway. I just share my nas type data from my main box now. You probably want more storage space than 2TB though I am guessing.