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Not to mention the fact that, even if they aren't like that, that they view that sort of behavior as compelling entertainment says something about Americans, too.
>tell me again why I'd want to take a step backwards?
You wouldn't. If you haven't taken the step forwards yet to 2.4 (as many probably haven't - not every distribution ships with a 2.4 kernel yet) you would need this.
There probably are (believe it or not) still many machines running 2.2 for one reason or another, and this version apparently fixes some security issues. Alan wouldn't bother to release a new version of 2.2 if no one still used it, would he?
I personally still use a 2.2 series kernel on my firewall pc. I just never had a compelling reason to upgrade to 2.4 and my 2.2.19 does everything I need. If 2.2.20 adds some security fixes, then I'll find some time in the next week to compile a new kernel.
Someday the task of moving this machine to 2.4 will move high enough on my list to do something about it. There's not a whole lot going on in this box, but I haven't found time to research all that would be involved to go from ipchains to iptables, or to figure out if there's anything I'd have to do different to get my VPN masquerading to work again.
You make an excellent point about Powell. His presence in Bush's administration is a tremendous plus right now. I get the feeling that dubya is just window dressing and Powell and Chaney & co are the ones actually calling the shots.
"So, who are the bad guys again?"
"The ruling Taliban of Afghanistan and bin Laden's organization, sir."
"That's too hard memorialize. Can't I just call them towel-headed freaks?"
"No sir, we have to be careful not to upset friendly governments in the region."
what % of the 6 billion even have phones? Probably not as much as you might even think.
Reminds me of the SantaClaus thing about how he would have to approach the speed of light to visit every child on earth in a 24-hour period: until you factor out that the % of christian children among all those in the world is like ~20%
You are probably technically correct, but in this case, the photographer took this picture at the exact instant the sonic boom happened:
Through the viewfinder of his camera, Ensign John Gay could see the A/F18 drop from the sky as it headed toward the port side of the Aircraft Carrier Constellation at 1,000 feet. The pilot increases his speed to 750 mph, vapor flickering off the curved surfaces of the plane. At the precise moment of breaking the sound barrier, 200 yards form the carrier, a circular cloud formed arourd the Hornet. With the Pacific Ocean just 75 feet below the aircraft being rippled by the aircraft's pass, Gay hears the explosion of the sonic boom and snaped his camera shutter once. "I clicked the same time I heard the boom and I knew I had it." What he had was a technically meticulous depiction of the sound barrier being broken on July 7, 1999, somewhere on the Pacific between Hawaii and Japan. Sports Illustrated, Brills Content, and Life ran the photo.
The photo recently took first prize in the science and technology division in the World press Photo 2000 contest, which drew more than 42,000 entries worldwide. Because Ensign Gay is a member of the military he was ineligible for the cash prize. "In the last few days, I've been getting calls from everywhere about it again. It's very humbling." Gay, 38, manages a crew of eight assigned to take intelligence photographs from the high-tech belly (TARPS POD) of an F-14 Tomcat. In July, Gay had been part of a Joint Task Force Exercise as the Constellation made its way to Japan.
Gay used his personal Nikon 90 S, set his 80-300 mm zoom lens on 300 mm, his shutter speed at 1/1000 of a second and the aperture at F5.6. "I put it on full manual," Gay said. "I tell young photographers who are into automatic everything, you aren't going to get that shot on auto. The plane is too fast. The camera can't keep up."
At sea level a plane had to exceed 741 mph to break the sound barrier.
The change in pressure as the plane outruns all of the pressure and sound waves in front of it is heard on the ground as an explosion - the sonic
boom. The pressure change condenses the water in the air as the jet passes these waves. Altitude,wind, speed, humidity, the shape and trajectory of the plane - all affect the breaking of the barrier. On July 7 everything was perfect. "You see vapor flicker around the plane. it gets bigger and bigger, then BOOM - it's instantaneous. One second the vapor cloud is there, the next it's gone."
Yeah, but these corp CEO types gotta do the face to face. For good or bad, being in the same room as the person you are talking to still carries a lot of weight for these people.
Oh, great... just what I want to hear after 'upgrading' to @home just this morning. I was one of the fortunate souls to be a MediaOne customer in a market that was bought by AT@T. They had left the cable modem service alone while they managed to botch the video end, now that the video is horribly 'upgraded', it is now time to upgrade the internet users.
So, having a linux machine connected happily to the cable modem for the last two years. I was a bit apprehensive to do anything (but hey, a nice $40 gift for my trouble if I do it early!).
So, since their wide range of supported OSes (windows) does not include Linux (it is just DHCP and TCP/IP, right?), I cobbled together a machine from old parts lying around and installed NT and started to hold my breath.
First, I got the box to DHCP itself to the old MediaOne service and downloaded the 'upgrade'. It gave me a service# (new hostname) and fiddled with the network card settings and asked me to reboot. I rebooted and it came up with a new lease, showing the @home domain and such, but nothing worked (couldn't ping the gateway, dns servers, nothing).
So my first call went to 1st-tier which was people who have worked for MediaOne in the local office who were very friendly, but not really able to do much from the script in front of them other than ask me to type in 'winipcfg' (this is NT, one of your supported OSes). They couldn't figure it out and gave me a number in Denver (I'm in Chicago) to ask for 2nd-teir.
What a bunch of assholes. "Sorry sir, it must be something wrong with your PC". I had to sit on hold, get hung up on and re-explain everything until I was blue in the face. "God, do I have to start over with 'what is in your control panel?' again!?" "Sir, how can I troubleshoot _your_ problem if you won't tell me some vasic information?" "but I've already gone through this 4 or 5 times this morning already!" *click*
I finally gave up and called the local support number again.
This time I got lucky and hit on someone who actually seemd to give a crap about customer service _AND_ was able to work outside the script and figure out what was wrong. Yep, the @HOME database had incorrect data about my Account (I live in Rolling Meadows, but I have a Palatine zip code) and so the wrong router was getting my info. She got her super to go in and override the setup and I was in business. Once I got all the config details written down from the NT box, I booted up my Linux box, changed a couple configs and got pump to get an IP and I was done.
I'm going to write a letter to AT&T @HOME letting them know what I think of their 2nd tier support in Denver and that the local guys were able to solve a problem that Dever should have but couldn't because they are ASSHOLES.
Well, while this is obviously intended as a funny post, the article says they will travel in simulated Martian gravity.
The Translife mission will consist of a Mars-level (0.38 g)artificial gravity spacecraft carrying a crew of mice (and possibly other animals and plants) in low Earth orbit for a period of roughly two months
So, the issue of bone loss from zero/micro gravity over long periods of time would seem to no be a factor, no?
..except almost everything I put in my fridge these days has a UPC code on it (even some produce now). Seems like a possibility to have a barcode scanner in the door or something that you could waive items past as you load the fridge after your trip to the market. I don't expect my fridge to x-ray itself to determine what is hiding in the crisper.
I would love to be able to know when the last time a gallon jug of milk was scanned in (my family consumes bovine lactate products at a fairly constant rate, so knowing that it has been 6 days since the last replentishment would be enough for me to stop on the way home to pick up more. I hate coming home and hearing "oh, we're out of milk, can you run out later and pick some up?")
I have a similar gripe. I've used winamp to play mp3 on my machines at work for I-don't-know-how-long. When our machines were replaced with W2K-pro, I started having problems with winamp playback hitching all the time. A solution I was given to this was to boost winamp's processing priority in the app's preferences. This worked like a charm, no more halts in playback.
Unfortunately, this started causing problems with the other apps (you know, the ones I'm supposed to be using for actual work?) either slowing down horribly or crashing. So guess what? Right, I stopped using winamp and switched to WMP because it was already there. It playsback mp3 flawlessly and doesn't cause any problems for my other apps.
Now, is this because Microsoft does something evil to keep winamp from performing acceptibly, or is it because of some fault in winamp and it's use of the system's resources (or both)?
Probably neither. Winamp has always worked just fine on the Windows machines I've used. No doubt MS has made changes with W2K that is causing winamp to hiccup, but I doubt it would be impossible for winamp to be 'fixed' to work better.
Does this mean I have no choice in a media player for Win2K? No, but I'm too busy(lazy) right now to go download musicmatch or sonique or one of the other free players to see if they work anybetter. WMP is good enough and it is already there. If that is anti-competitive (not defending MS, mind you) then I guess MS is guilty of being anti-competitive by providing an app that works on their OS.
>That would be the state forbidding the practice of religon
No, that would be the state refusing to _pay_ for the practice of religon with my tax money. (I don't personally have a problem with a group of kids reading the bible in a school after hours, but others might.)
Prohibiting would be more like throwing you in jail if you are caught.
The intent of the ammendment is probably more to keep the church from gaining control of the government or vice versa, but separating the two means separating any and all overlap, whether it really threatens freedom of religon or not.
The other form being orange goo. I will _NEVER_ forgive Manequin, errr.. Anakin for intervening.
TPM would have been a much better movie if we had gotten to see the pod racer creature (Sebulba?) pounding his fist through Jar-Jar's face and reducing him to a few liters of liquified amphibian remains.
Please note: The Dell Digital Audio Receiver will only work with Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, and Windows ME***
This thing just mounts smb fileshares, no?
Why wouldn't it work with NT, 95, 98 or anything else that uses smb? (the link for 'learn more' on the dell site is dead, btw).
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Not to mention the fact that, even if they aren't like that, that they view that sort of behavior as compelling entertainment says something about Americans, too.
>tell me again why I'd want to take a step backwards?
You wouldn't. If you haven't taken the step forwards yet to 2.4 (as many probably haven't - not every distribution ships with a 2.4 kernel yet) you would need this.
There probably are (believe it or not) still many machines running 2.2 for one reason or another, and this version apparently fixes some security issues. Alan wouldn't bother to release a new version of 2.2 if no one still used it, would he?
I personally still use a 2.2 series kernel on my firewall pc. I just never had a compelling reason to upgrade to 2.4 and my 2.2.19 does everything I need. If 2.2.20 adds some security fixes, then I'll find some time in the next week to compile a new kernel.
Someday the task of moving this machine to 2.4 will move high enough on my list to do something about it. There's not a whole lot going on in this box, but I haven't found time to research all that would be involved to go from ipchains to iptables, or to figure out if there's anything I'd have to do different to get my VPN masquerading to work again.
Oh man, "Whole 'Lotta Love" was my favorite tune back when I was in High School!
You make an excellent point about Powell. His presence in Bush's administration is a tremendous plus right now. I get the feeling that dubya is just window dressing and Powell and Chaney & co are the ones actually calling the shots.
"So, who are the bad guys again?"
"The ruling Taliban of Afghanistan and bin Laden's organization, sir."
"That's too hard memorialize. Can't I just call them towel-headed freaks?"
"No sir, we have to be careful not to upset friendly governments in the region."
"Oh... who are they again?"
*sigh*
what % of the 6 billion even have phones? Probably not as much as you might even think.
Reminds me of the SantaClaus thing about how he would have to approach the speed of light to visit every child on earth in a 24-hour period: until you factor out that the % of christian children among all those in the world is like ~20%
You are probably technically correct, but in this case, the photographer took this picture at the exact instant the sonic boom happened:
Through the viewfinder of his camera, Ensign John Gay could see the A/F18 drop from the sky as it headed toward the port side of the Aircraft Carrier Constellation at 1,000 feet. The pilot increases his speed to 750 mph, vapor flickering off the curved surfaces of the plane. At the precise moment of breaking the sound barrier, 200 yards form the carrier, a circular cloud formed arourd the Hornet. With the Pacific Ocean just 75 feet below the aircraft being rippled by the aircraft's pass, Gay hears the explosion of the sonic boom and snaped his camera shutter once. "I clicked the same time I heard the boom and I knew I had it." What he had was a technically meticulous depiction of the sound barrier being broken on July 7, 1999, somewhere on the Pacific between Hawaii and Japan. Sports Illustrated, Brills Content, and Life ran the photo.
The photo recently took first prize in the science and technology division in the World press Photo 2000 contest, which drew more than 42,000 entries worldwide. Because Ensign Gay is a member of the military he was ineligible for the cash prize. "In the last few days, I've been getting calls from everywhere about it again. It's very humbling." Gay, 38, manages a crew of eight assigned to take intelligence photographs from the high-tech belly (TARPS POD) of an F-14 Tomcat. In July, Gay had been part of a Joint Task Force Exercise as the Constellation made its way to Japan.
Gay used his personal Nikon 90 S, set his 80-300 mm zoom lens on 300 mm, his shutter speed at 1/1000 of a second and the aperture at F5.6. "I put it on full manual," Gay said. "I tell young photographers who are into automatic everything, you aren't going to get that shot on auto. The plane is too fast. The camera can't keep up."
At sea level a plane had to exceed 741 mph to break the sound barrier.
The change in pressure as the plane outruns all of the pressure and sound waves in front of it is heard on the ground as an explosion - the sonic
boom. The pressure change condenses the water in the air as the jet passes these waves. Altitude,wind, speed, humidity, the shape and trajectory of the plane - all affect the breaking of the barrier. On July 7 everything was perfect. "You see vapor flicker around the plane. it gets bigger and bigger, then BOOM - it's instantaneous. One second the vapor cloud is there, the next it's gone."
Yeah, but these corp CEO types gotta do the face to face. For good or bad, being in the same room as the person you are talking to still carries a lot of weight for these people.
Yeah, but that 200+ mile range of the Phoenix makes up for it a bit...
s/vasic/basic/
(and I even previewed twice)
Oh, great... just what I want to hear after 'upgrading' to @home just this morning. I was one of the fortunate souls to be a MediaOne customer in a market that was bought by AT@T. They had left the cable modem service alone while they managed to botch the video end, now that the video is horribly 'upgraded', it is now time to upgrade the internet users.
So, having a linux machine connected happily to the cable modem for the last two years. I was a bit apprehensive to do anything (but hey, a nice $40 gift for my trouble if I do it early!).
So, since their wide range of supported OSes (windows) does not include Linux (it is just DHCP and TCP/IP, right?), I cobbled together a machine from old parts lying around and installed NT and started to hold my breath.
First, I got the box to DHCP itself to the old MediaOne service and downloaded the 'upgrade'. It gave me a service# (new hostname) and fiddled with the network card settings and asked me to reboot. I rebooted and it came up with a new lease, showing the @home domain and such, but nothing worked (couldn't ping the gateway, dns servers, nothing).
So my first call went to 1st-tier which was people who have worked for MediaOne in the local office who were very friendly, but not really able to do much from the script in front of them other than ask me to type in 'winipcfg' (this is NT, one of your supported OSes). They couldn't figure it out and gave me a number in Denver (I'm in Chicago) to ask for 2nd-teir.
What a bunch of assholes. "Sorry sir, it must be something wrong with your PC". I had to sit on hold, get hung up on and re-explain everything until I was blue in the face. "God, do I have to start over with 'what is in your control panel?' again!?" "Sir, how can I troubleshoot _your_ problem if you won't tell me some vasic information?" "but I've already gone through this 4 or 5 times this morning already!" *click*
I finally gave up and called the local support number again.
This time I got lucky and hit on someone who actually seemd to give a crap about customer service _AND_ was able to work outside the script and figure out what was wrong. Yep, the @HOME database had incorrect data about my Account (I live in Rolling Meadows, but I have a Palatine zip code) and so the wrong router was getting my info. She got her super to go in and override the setup and I was in business. Once I got all the config details written down from the NT box, I booted up my Linux box, changed a couple configs and got pump to get an IP and I was done.
I'm going to write a letter to AT&T @HOME letting them know what I think of their 2nd tier support in Denver and that the local guys were able to solve a problem that Dever should have but couldn't because they are ASSHOLES.
(Myra, if you read this - god bless you dear)
heh, he said "sexist", heh heh.
Yeah... that guy SUCKS! heh heh.
Well, while this is obviously intended as a funny post, the article says they will travel in simulated Martian gravity.
The Translife mission will consist of a Mars-level (0.38 g)artificial gravity spacecraft carrying a crew of mice (and possibly other animals and plants) in low Earth orbit for a period of roughly two months
So, the issue of bone loss from zero/micro gravity over long periods of time would seem to no be a factor, no?
Isn't this an oxymoron, or something.
(or am I just a moron?)
Seriously, what do you call something like this when it is obviously unmanned (no human pilot) but there is an animal occupant on board?
>Simply remove all capital letters--how original
/. automatically did this, not me (asshole)
..except almost everything I put in my fridge these days has a UPC code on it (even some produce now). Seems like a possibility to have a barcode scanner in the door or something that you could waive items past as you load the fridge after your trip to the market. I don't expect my fridge to x-ray itself to determine what is hiding in the crisper.
I would love to be able to know when the last time a gallon jug of milk was scanned in (my family consumes bovine lactate products at a fairly constant rate, so knowing that it has been 6 days since the last replentishment would be enough for me to stop on the way home to pick up more. I hate coming home and hearing "oh, we're out of milk, can you run out later and pick some up?")
answer your question?
I have a similar gripe. I've used winamp to play mp3 on my machines at work for I-don't-know-how-long. When our machines were replaced with W2K-pro, I started having problems with winamp playback hitching all the time. A solution I was given to this was to boost winamp's processing priority in the app's preferences. This worked like a charm, no more halts in playback.
Unfortunately, this started causing problems with the other apps (you know, the ones I'm supposed to be using for actual work?) either slowing down horribly or crashing. So guess what? Right, I stopped using winamp and switched to WMP because it was already there. It playsback mp3 flawlessly and doesn't cause any problems for my other apps.
Now, is this because Microsoft does something evil to keep winamp from performing acceptibly, or is it because of some fault in winamp and it's use of the system's resources (or both)?
Probably neither. Winamp has always worked just fine on the Windows machines I've used. No doubt MS has made changes with W2K that is causing winamp to hiccup, but I doubt it would be impossible for winamp to be 'fixed' to work better.
Does this mean I have no choice in a media player for Win2K? No, but I'm too busy(lazy) right now to go download musicmatch or sonique or one of the other free players to see if they work anybetter. WMP is good enough and it is already there. If that is anti-competitive (not defending MS, mind you) then I guess MS is guilty of being anti-competitive by providing an app that works on their OS.
Ah-ha, yeah sure... whatever.
/.ed
Taking the pictures off the site and setting up your own site using those images would be wrong.
I see nothing wrong with a temporary mirror while the site is
>Megatons are what we drop on people who speak in funny languages.
No, no... _brown_ people. Think that is a Carlin bit.
What is JETO? I've heard of Jet-Assisted Take-Off (JATO) pods before, but not JETO.
Damn, that's funny! Thanks you.
(BTW, did you really bother to work that out, or is that just some random value? And if so, how long before someone corrects you?)
>That would be the state forbidding the practice of religon
No, that would be the state refusing to _pay_ for the practice of religon with my tax money. (I don't personally have a problem with a group of kids reading the bible in a school after hours, but others might.)
Prohibiting would be more like throwing you in jail if you are caught.
The intent of the ammendment is probably more to keep the church from gaining control of the government or vice versa, but separating the two means separating any and all overlap, whether it really threatens freedom of religon or not.
Or maybe not.
>That's the one form that I'd approve of jarjar.
The other form being orange goo. I will _NEVER_ forgive Manequin, errr.. Anakin for intervening.
TPM would have been a much better movie if we had gotten to see the pod racer creature (Sebulba?) pounding his fist through Jar-Jar's face and reducing him to a few liters of liquified amphibian remains.
Wonder then what this little disclaimer is about?
Please note: The Dell Digital Audio Receiver will only work with Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, and Windows ME***
This thing just mounts smb fileshares, no? Why wouldn't it work with NT, 95, 98 or anything else that uses smb? (the link for 'learn more' on the dell site is dead, btw).
Now is that any way to characterize the leader of the free world, I ask you!?