I suspect it is one of those precedent things. If you turn a blind eye and a chuckle to IBM, you invite every company with a can of spray-paint and a stencil to start turning your city sidewalks into billboards.
"The system collapsed when a Microsoft employee attempted to plug a scanner into the computer. Gates moved to another computer to complete his presentation, which was demonstrating how Windows 98 will be simpler to use. "
Why are they pushing it? Sheesh, you don't remember when Rob was being called a child-molester every 15 minutes until he released the/. code?
This 'community' gave him no end of shit for being a hipocrite [sp?] for running an (open source/free software/whatever)-centric site and not releasing the code that runs it.
So he released the code and has had his minions working to rewrite it and has now released it to the public.
Now you are moaning about him 'pushing' it. Give me a freekin break!
>convert your mp3's to wma's to... get better quality
mmm, except you can't exactly take a compressed file in one format and convert it into another and expect to make improvement in quality, can you? Wouldn't you have to go back to the source and re-encode?
>Decelleration will put you in a HIGHER orbit - you must Accelerate to go lower
Please tell me you don't work for NASA!
If what you say were true, satellites and Mir would never de-orbit and re-enter the atmosphere on their own. As you lose speed, you have less centrifugal force to offset the pull of gravity and you fall out of orbit. Ever heard the term 'escape velocity'? It isn't 0.
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>And fight evil purple(?) things.
Vermicious Knids, and I do seem to recall they are purple.
Heh, I was just reading Charlie and the Glass Elevator to my son a couple weeks ago. Amazing how that stuff holds up. He is still talking about Wonka-Vite.
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Only reason I knew about this one was from a theatre poster on the wall outside when I went to see 'spy kids' with my son. Looked interesting*.
But no, no ads on TV, no trailers in the theatre. Had to go looking online to find out anything about this.
(*the poster is a silouette (sp?) of the dish surrounded by a flock of sheep. I have no idea why this caught my interest, initially. Must have a thing for wool, I guess)
Man, I am _so_ tired of everyone ragging on our CIC! When will you rat-bastards all realize that you completely misunderestimate the true genius of the leader of the free world!?
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>When I moderate, I look for comments with a score a two and moderate them down when appropriate
What an incredibly futile waste of moderation points. I look for 0-point AC posts that contain actual useful content and mod them up so that _someone_ will ever see them. If I have any points left, I will look for overrated +5/4 posts that need to come down...
sorry to reply to my own post, but I found the user manual online (pdf, sorry) where it shows the instructions for using this feature on the P6DBE board I have.
section 5-1-5 on PnP setup details this on about page 85 or so. Actually, it is the _priority_ for IRQ and DMA that is set here, maybe that is different from what the original post talked about?
>At the very least, add a feature to the BIOS to let the user choose plug'n'play or manually assign resources to SPECIFIC SLOTS so that from the card's point of view, it has ONLY those resources to choose from
One of my machines has a supermicro MB that does exactly this. (came in real handy when PnP for W2K professional turned up broken).
Dunno, if Microsoft were to immediately acknowledge the existance of a security vulnerability and offer a patch that worked within a few hours or days of the alert...
Well, they have no tv's in their rooms, but they have their own comupters along with their own interests and networking these machines is not solely for internet access. Sharing files, printing and other stuff like that was the primary reason for networking the kids' machines.
>It's just that I think that a parent should stay involved with the media his or her children consume until they are ready to undertake adult responsibilities on their own.
No argument there. That's what I do. The difference is I don't have to be standing over them in a common area like a family room to do it.
I've had 'the talk' with them about what my expectations are for 'responsible use'. I've made it clear that I value their privacy and I trust them to use good judgement when they are online. I've also made sure they understand that it is easily within my ability to monitor what they are doing and to impose restrictions if I feel the need.
So far this works very well. I've done some spot-checking now and then and haven't seen them doing anything untoward.
Besides, my oldest is just like I was - he is really picking up things quickly and I envy him the access he has to information at his age. The last thing I want to do is hamper his budding intelect in the name of protecting him from the 'evil internet' TM.;-)
>You don't need a different server for each
server daemon.
Of course you're right. For the most part I have most of my stuff running on two machines, a file server running Debian with a bunch of SCSI disks and my tape backup drive, and a win2000 server that I use to serve notes, office and websphere (the kind of crap I work with at the office).
Usually if I'm setting up a separate machine for something, it is because of where it needs to be located (print server in the closet, mp3 'server' in the living room*) or because I am doing something experimental and I dont feel like messing with one of the other machines.
You are right though, it doesn't make much sense to have a dozen machines each doing something different when a couple machines could handle everything.
I've ended up accumulating lots of older hardware and I like to spend my time trying out new things to learn how stuff works. I guess I left the impression that every PC I get my hands on ends up getting something installed on it and then it gets plugged into the network and is left running. That's not really the case. I have my linux file server, my windows app server, my print server and my masq box that stay up all the time. The rest sits on the shelf until I get some idea for something I want to try out.
in wiring my home was how to get to the second floor of my house.
I started out with a BAN (Basement Area Network):-) where I placed the cable modem and my 386 gateway/masq/firewall/etc PC and a hub, then strung cat5 along the basement ceiling to the spot under each floor where I wanted to put an outlet. I drilled down along the baseboard, fished the line up and then put a surface mount box. My wife wasn't too happy to see me drilling holes in the floor, but it was through carpet and ended up looking fine.
This worked for all the 1st floor rooms, but I scratched my head for a long time about how to extend my network to the kids' bedrooms upstairs. I discovered a TV antenna mounted in the attic, with the coax going down to the basement through a conduit.
I tied a string, pulled the cable through, then pulled a length of cat5. I bought another hub and wired the length going to the attic as a cross-over to connect the two hubs. Then I ran cat5 to each room, dropping through small holes drilled in the closets. Again I used surface-mount boxes, installed this time on the inside of each closet near the door. Both the kids' computers are sitting along the walls near the closets, so the patch cable is slipped under the door.
For my server room, I bought some of that wire shelving from Office depot and put it in the small study off in the back of the house to prop up my web server and file server. I got one of those cheapo data transfer switches so I could hook up the monitor and kbd.
I got a cheap rolling cart and set up a print server in the kitchen closet. My company waits about 5 years before they throw out old computers, I happened to be there when they were throwing an old compaq laptop and its docking station out. The display was fried, but the docking station has 2 ISA slots, it was pretty easy to get a $10 ne2000 card to work in there and to get samba running so kids could print from their win boxes.
Problem is, I keep coming up with ideas for stuff I want to do and it usually involves getting an old PC from someone, installing Linux or BSD and running some wires somewhere. A few weeks ago I got really pissed because my ISP's DNS servers were down for the 3rd time that week. A woman I work with had given me an old Packard Bell 486 sh*tbox with a <100 Mb drive, I decided to set it up as a name server.
I have a real problem. Looking around the room here, I have 7 boxes (actually, only 4 of them are on and doing anything right now). Well, guy's gotta have a hobby, right?:-)
No, you are right, and that is a _very_ isolated example. I think it is gonna be a long time before there is widespread support for ipv6 in common applications like games and such.
It seems it boils down to short-sighted economics.
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Windows 98 crashes during Gates' Comdex demo
"The system collapsed when a Microsoft employee attempted to plug a scanner into the computer. Gates moved to another computer to complete his presentation, which was demonstrating how Windows 98 will be simpler to use. "
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Assuming you meant STS, not ISS?
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Why are they pushing it? Sheesh, you don't remember when Rob was being called a child-molester every 15 minutes until he released the
This 'community' gave him no end of shit for being a hipocrite [sp?] for running an (open source/free software/whatever)-centric site and not releasing the code that runs it.
So he released the code and has had his minions working to rewrite it and has now released it to the public.
Now you are moaning about him 'pushing' it. Give me a freekin break!
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Cool, maybe there's hope yet!
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mmm, except you can't exactly take a compressed file in one format and convert it into another and expect to make improvement in quality, can you? Wouldn't you have to go back to the source and re-encode?
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yeah, either that or the civil war
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Please tell me you don't work for NASA!
If what you say were true, satellites and Mir would never de-orbit and re-enter the atmosphere on their own. As you lose speed, you have less centrifugal force to offset the pull of gravity and you fall out of orbit. Ever heard the term 'escape velocity'? It isn't 0.
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Vermicious Knids, and I do seem to recall they are purple.
Heh, I was just reading Charlie and the Glass Elevator to my son a couple weeks ago. Amazing how that stuff holds up. He is still talking about Wonka-Vite.
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But no, no ads on TV, no trailers in the theatre. Had to go looking online to find out anything about this.
(*the poster is a silouette (sp?) of the dish surrounded by a flock of sheep. I have no idea why this caught my interest, initially. Must have a thing for wool, I guess)
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Man, I am _so_ tired of everyone ragging on our CIC! When will you rat-bastards all realize that you completely misunderestimate the true genius of the leader of the free world!?
;-)
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What an incredibly futile waste of moderation points. I look for 0-point AC posts that contain actual useful content and mod them up so that _someone_ will ever see them. If I have any points left, I will look for overrated +5/4 posts that need to come down...
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Wow, nice. I wan't sure at first where you were coming from. Now I got it.
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Know that is a reference to some campy movie, just can't remember which one...
though I remember it had something to do with having to eat minstrels...
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http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/Manuals/MB/440BX /BX3.2i.pdf
section 5-1-5 on PnP setup details this on about page 85 or so. Actually, it is the _priority_ for IRQ and DMA that is set here, maybe that is different from what the original post talked about?
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One of my machines has a supermicro MB that does exactly this. (came in real handy when PnP for W2K professional turned up broken).
Is this a new concept?
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Dunno, if Microsoft were to immediately acknowledge the existance of a security vulnerability and offer a patch that worked within a few hours or days of the alert...
I would still bitch and moan!
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>It's just that I think that a parent should stay involved with the media his or her children consume until they are ready to undertake adult responsibilities on their own.
No argument there. That's what I do. The difference is I don't have to be standing over them in a common area like a family room to do it.
I've had 'the talk' with them about what my expectations are for 'responsible use'. I've made it clear that I value their privacy and I trust them to use good judgement when they are online. I've also made sure they understand that it is easily within my ability to monitor what they are doing and to impose restrictions if I feel the need.
So far this works very well. I've done some spot-checking now and then and haven't seen them doing anything untoward.
Besides, my oldest is just like I was - he is really picking up things quickly and I envy him the access he has to information at his age. The last thing I want to do is hamper his budding intelect in the name of protecting him from the 'evil internet' TM.
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server daemon.
Of course you're right. For the most part I have most of my stuff running on two machines, a file server running Debian with a bunch of SCSI disks and my tape backup drive, and a win2000 server that I use to serve notes, office and websphere (the kind of crap I work with at the office).
Usually if I'm setting up a separate machine for something, it is because of where it needs to be located (print server in the closet, mp3 'server' in the living room*) or because I am doing something experimental and I dont feel like messing with one of the other machines.
You are right though, it doesn't make much sense to have a dozen machines each doing something different when a couple machines could handle everything.
I've ended up accumulating lots of older hardware and I like to spend my time trying out new things to learn how stuff works. I guess I left the impression that every PC I get my hands on ends up getting something installed on it and then it gets plugged into the network and is left running. That's not really the case. I have my linux file server, my windows app server, my print server and my masq box that stay up all the time. The rest sits on the shelf until I get some idea for something I want to try out.
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I started out with a BAN (Basement Area Network)
This worked for all the 1st floor rooms, but I scratched my head for a long time about how to extend my network to the kids' bedrooms upstairs. I discovered a TV antenna mounted in the attic, with the coax going down to the basement through a conduit.
I tied a string, pulled the cable through, then pulled a length of cat5. I bought another hub and wired the length going to the attic as a cross-over to connect the two hubs. Then I ran cat5 to each room, dropping through small holes drilled in the closets. Again I used surface-mount boxes, installed this time on the inside of each closet near the door. Both the kids' computers are sitting along the walls near the closets, so the patch cable is slipped under the door.
For my server room, I bought some of that wire shelving from Office depot and put it in the small study off in the back of the house to prop up my web server and file server. I got one of those cheapo data transfer switches so I could hook up the monitor and kbd.
I got a cheap rolling cart and set up a print server in the kitchen closet. My company waits about 5 years before they throw out old computers, I happened to be there when they were throwing an old compaq laptop and its docking station out. The display was fried, but the docking station has 2 ISA slots, it was pretty easy to get a $10 ne2000 card to work in there and to get samba running so kids could print from their win boxes.
Problem is, I keep coming up with ideas for stuff I want to do and it usually involves getting an old PC from someone, installing Linux or BSD and running some wires somewhere. A few weeks ago I got really pissed because my ISP's DNS servers were down for the 3rd time that week. A woman I work with had given me an old Packard Bell 486 sh*tbox with a <100 Mb drive, I decided to set it up as a name server.
I have a real problem. Looking around the room here, I have 7 boxes (actually, only 4 of them are on and doing anything right now). Well, guy's gotta have a hobby, right?
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It seems it boils down to short-sighted economics.
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