Really? Can you put two adapters on this? I got the impression there was only one port on which to connect the 'broadband adapter'. Wouldn't you need two?
>if the script kiddies are more on the ball than the admins are, they deserve to get hit
Time to be a grammar nitpick and be modded down (an probably be flamed for some grammar/spelling error in my own post);-)
'they' in your sentence would refer to 'kiddies', not admins as you seem to have intended.
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the script kiddies...deserve to get hit
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you might have said:
If the admins are less on the ball than the script kiddies, they deserve to get hit.
...ahh, now I feel better. I've done my anal-retentive useless nitpick for the day and can now get on with the rest of my day.
>Then, there was the IMG group which did outsourced tech support for various computer manafacturers and ISP's
no, not really. the IMG is the part that runs billing systems like Atlys, Catalys, ICOMS, Cellware, etc. I should know because I work for that division, (we do the billing for AT&T wireless).
You are talking about Matrixx. Cincinnati Bell had CBIS (cin bell info sys) and Matrixx which were split off to form Convergys. The Cincinnati Bell Telephone merged with IXC to become Broadwing.
Convergys does still run the old direct marketing and customer care operations along with a big chunk of AT&T that it bought. That part of the company is the CMG (customer management group, I believe) and the information systems part is now IMG (information management group) which runs a wireless billing outsourcing service bureau.
I happen to work in the Chicago office. Did you work in Florida or (probably) Utah?
Verizon is more than just one company. I beleive it is a consortium of wireless spin-offs, which probably does include the NYNEX/BAMS wireless operations. Here in Chicago, Ameritech's wireless was spun off because SBC bought up Ameritech and already owned one other wireless license. If memory serves, GTE bought it and and their wireless ops are now part of Verizon (the Ameritech wireless store down the street from me got a new sign a few months ago. Still the same crap service, I'm told).
That may be true for the area you live in, but Cellular One was a licensed brand name that many companies used (here in Chicago it was once Rogers/Cantel which sold to SBC - McCaw used to go by C1 in many markets before AT&T bought them)
Obviously a vast improvement over their previous effort, the cat herding spot. I thought that was the dumbest spot I'd ever seen.
I caught the pamplona running with the bulls/squirrels ad about halfway through (gotta tape the 'bowl so you don't miss the commercials during potty-breaks) and thought it looked funny. Then I realized it was the sequel to the cattle/cat drive spot and wasn't as impressed once I realized it was EDS.
My all-time favorite still has to be the e-trade (or whatever) one last year with the guys in the garage with the monkey (we just wasted a million bucks!)
talk amongst yourselves... I'll give you a topic
on
The Challenger
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"On Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff, destroying the vehicle, its crew, and the U.S. space program."
So I guess the discussion is supposed to center around the effect the disaster had on the "U.S. space program", huh?
>This was posted just over a week ago already however
It was? I thought I only saw this linked from someone's comments, not as a top-level story. Maybe I missed it, in which case I'm glad they posted it again.;-)
(actually, thought about submitting it myself as at seemed an interesting aside)
Exactly. I happened to see this comment posted under the 'ask slashdot' bit about returning junk-mail business reply envelopes, and thought it was hysterical. But not everyone saw it, and I don't expect the/. editors to always pick up on every interesting comment - that's why there is a sumbission system, eh?
Anyway, I'm glad they did post this as an article so I can read it again (told my wife about it but didn't have the link) and read comments about it (I've got more time today that I did when I was at work reading/skimming it the first time).
Exactly what I was thinking, but here's another thought..
The trial is over, the judgement is being appealed.
Now you have a changing of the guard at the DofJ, isn't it possible that they initiate settlement negotiations, this time much more favorable to MS?
Can you do that? I mean, normally if you've prosecuted a case and won you don't go out and offer to settle unless you are pretty sure the appeal will overturn the judgement, right?
But, if your new boss says 'hey, this has gone on long enough, we've made our point (wink, wink)... let's make this go away, eh?'. So you work out a deal with the defendant who agrees to drop the appeal in return for specific remedies. Does the judge go for that? Are the penalties from the original trial waived in favor of the new settlement?
I stopped watching LA Law and Law and Order years ago so...
>explain why kernel 2.4.0 shouldn't work better and faster in my 386DX-20 than 1.2.28 does
Yes, indeed. That was my question, not an assertion on my part. I think if you build a kernel with support for everything, needed or not, then you run the risk of maxing out a slower processor. Course, compile in just exactly what you need, should be the same right?
Yeah, I had TCI in the last place I lived before I moved into my house where MediaOne served. They certainly were the worst I've ever seen. They would cut out 2-3 times a week and forget about talking to anyone in customer service. I know AT&T has spent big-bucks to lay a lot of hybrid fiber/coax in the areas it acquired in buying out TCI.
Think it depends greatly on what region/market you are talking about. Here, AT&T took over from MediaOne and the service has been superb. I've heard that if you are in a former TCI area, it isn't always as great.
Remember, it hasn't been AT&T doing cable for 50 years suddenly doing broadband internet. AT&T bought their way into this market in the last few years and they bought different companies with varying degrees of competence. It takes a _long_ time for a company to get its acquired workers assimilated into the 'borg'. Hell, I should know... my company was bought out 14 years ago and we _still_ refer to them as the 'evil empire'.
>So I also say, give 2.4 a try on your 386 if it has the memory (you might get away with 8M) - you might be pleasantly surprised...
Thanks, I might just do that. It is a 4Mb machine with a 6Mb add-on card (25 Mhz, 500 Mb drive, of which over 1/2 is trashed - I installed a 50Mb root part on the internal drive then have a 200Mb IDE drive sitting in the docking station with the rest of the OS and swap on it - picked the thing up for $5 at a garage sale, not working).
Someone asked why I didn't run *BSD... cause I wasn't smart enough to figure out how to install it! Now, I'm not saying I'm too stupid to install BSD - I've actually got a OpenBSD 2.6 install on a PPro-200 that I play with. Problem was installing on this low-mem machine.
It died at the end creating the/dev tree. The FAQ says to interrupt the install towards the end to mount the swap and then resume. I finally got past this only to have it lock up on boot trying to load services (rpc, I think). So, yeah, I booted from floppy and poked around trying to stop it from starting services to see if I could get it to boot. No luck, gave up.
I _really_ wanted to give BSD a try - I've obviously heard a lot about it. In the end I installed Debian and got it to work and put it in service and have since forgotten about it.
Now I've got this 486, I'll have to decide... oh - maybe I'll find something more productive to do with my free time like play WarcraftII again:-)
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>err sorry for all the grammer mistakes
/. has dulled my perception of gammer and spelling... think I should read less since part of my job is to write and review technical documents.
funny thing is that your mistakes didn't jump out at me, I had to go back and re-read your post.
i think
oops, my bad :-/
Guess I should have said I _skimmed_ the article.
Damn, the cup's half empty!
>but it's not even being used on an up-to-date game!
This is probably because the full source is available for Quake1.
Good imagination! I actually read the article instead of using my imagination:
Chip makers [...] will be able to make the chips for devices running versions of Microsoft's Windows CE software, the paper said.
Probably not as much fun as enjoying an active imagination, though.
Really? Can you put two adapters on this? I got the impression there was only one port on which to connect the 'broadband adapter'. Wouldn't you need two?
mmm....
seaweed and giant eels, yum!
I liked the one with the 5000-yen a pound beef.
that 'fortune teller' woman they have on the panel sometimes is a riot. "this meat is very tough"
>For a real treat, watch Iron Chef while drunk.
I'll drink to that! We had a NYE party at a friend's house and he had the IC marathon on.
I'd seen this show a couple of times and didn't really get it. Made a lot more sense watching it totally blitzed.
>if the script kiddies are more on the ball than the admins are, they deserve to get hit
;-)
Time to be a grammar nitpick and be modded down (an probably be flamed for some grammar/spelling error in my own post)
'they' in your sentence would refer to 'kiddies', not admins as you seem to have intended.
--
the script kiddies...deserve to get hit
--
you might have said:
If the admins are less on the ball than the script kiddies, they deserve to get hit.
...ahh, now I feel better. I've done my anal-retentive useless nitpick for the day and can now get on with the rest of my day.
>Anything that anyone likes can't be any good.
:-P
Right. Prime example - AOL
Damn unfortunate name for a career military guy, eh?
>Then, there was the IMG group which did outsourced tech support for various computer manafacturers and ISP's
no, not really. the IMG is the part that runs billing systems like Atlys, Catalys, ICOMS, Cellware, etc. I should know because I work for that division, (we do the billing for AT&T wireless).
You are talking about Matrixx. Cincinnati Bell had CBIS (cin bell info sys) and Matrixx which were split off to form Convergys. The Cincinnati Bell Telephone merged with IXC to become Broadwing.
Convergys does still run the old direct marketing and customer care operations along with a big chunk of AT&T that it bought. That part of the company is the CMG (customer management group, I believe) and the information systems part is now IMG (information management group) which runs a wireless billing outsourcing service bureau.
I happen to work in the Chicago office. Did you work in Florida or (probably) Utah?
Verizon is more than just one company. I beleive it is a consortium of wireless spin-offs, which probably does include the NYNEX/BAMS wireless operations. Here in Chicago, Ameritech's wireless was spun off because SBC bought up Ameritech and already owned one other wireless license. If memory serves, GTE bought it and and their wireless ops are now part of Verizon (the Ameritech wireless store down the street from me got a new sign a few months ago. Still the same crap service, I'm told).
>Cingular was Cellular One
That may be true for the area you live in, but Cellular One was a licensed brand name that many companies used (here in Chicago it was once Rogers/Cantel which sold to SBC - McCaw used to go by C1 in many markets before AT&T bought them)
yeah, seems to be the trend with renaming your company lately...
telcordia (bellcore)
lucent (bell labs)
accenture (andersen?)
verizon (GTE + ameritech?)
cingular (forget which companies this used to be)
...and my least favorite
convergys (my company, used to be Cincinnati Bell)
WTF is with these dopey names?
I caught the pamplona running with the bulls/squirrels ad about halfway through (gotta tape the 'bowl so you don't miss the commercials during potty-breaks) and thought it looked funny. Then I realized it was the sequel to the cattle/cat drive spot and wasn't as impressed once I realized it was EDS.
My all-time favorite still has to be the e-trade (or whatever) one last year with the guys in the garage with the monkey (we just wasted a million bucks!)
So I guess the discussion is supposed to center around the effect the disaster had on the "U.S. space program", huh?
makes no sense. perhaps there was to bo an article posted or something along with this and Michael hit the 'submit' button without the preview first?
/. and bitch, i guess?
And where is the superbowl-related poll already?
Good day to surf
>This was posted just over a week ago already however
;-)
It was? I thought I only saw this linked from someone's comments, not as a top-level story. Maybe I missed it, in which case I'm glad they posted it again.
(actually, thought about submitting it myself as at seemed an interesting aside)
Exactly. I happened to see this comment posted under the 'ask slashdot' bit about returning junk-mail business reply envelopes, and thought it was hysterical. But not everyone saw it, and I don't expect the /. editors to always pick up on every interesting comment - that's why there is a sumbission system, eh?
Anyway, I'm glad they did post this as an article so I can read it again (told my wife about it but didn't have the link) and read comments about it (I've got more time today that I did when I was at work reading/skimming it the first time).
Exactly what I was thinking, but here's another thought..
The trial is over, the judgement is being appealed.
Now you have a changing of the guard at the DofJ, isn't it possible that they initiate settlement negotiations, this time much more favorable to MS?
Can you do that? I mean, normally if you've prosecuted a case and won you don't go out and offer to settle unless you are pretty sure the appeal will overturn the judgement, right?
But, if your new boss says 'hey, this has gone on long enough, we've made our point (wink, wink)... let's make this go away, eh?'. So you work out a deal with the defendant who agrees to drop the appeal in return for specific remedies. Does the judge go for that? Are the penalties from the original trial waived in favor of the new settlement?
I stopped watching LA Law and Law and Order years ago so...
>explain why kernel 2.4.0 shouldn't work better and faster in my 386DX-20 than 1.2.28 does
;-)
Yes, indeed. That was my question, not an assertion on my part. I think if you build a kernel with support for everything, needed or not, then you run the risk of maxing out a slower processor. Course, compile in just exactly what you need, should be the same right?
See Windows do that!
Yeah, I had TCI in the last place I lived before I moved into my house where MediaOne served. They certainly were the worst I've ever seen. They would cut out 2-3 times a week and forget about talking to anyone in customer service. I know AT&T has spent big-bucks to lay a lot of hybrid fiber/coax in the areas it acquired in buying out TCI.
Think it depends greatly on what region/market you are talking about. Here, AT&T took over from MediaOne and the service has been superb. I've heard that if you are in a former TCI area, it isn't always as great.
Remember, it hasn't been AT&T doing cable for 50 years suddenly doing broadband internet. AT&T bought their way into this market in the last few years and they bought different companies with varying degrees of competence. It takes a _long_ time for a company to get its acquired workers assimilated into the 'borg'. Hell, I should know... my company was bought out 14 years ago and we _still_ refer to them as the 'evil empire'.
>So I also say, give 2.4 a try on your 386 if it has the memory (you might get away with 8M) - you might be pleasantly surprised...
/dev tree. The FAQ says to interrupt the install towards the end to mount the swap and then resume. I finally got past this only to have it lock up on boot trying to load services (rpc, I think). So, yeah, I booted from floppy and poked around trying to stop it from starting services to see if I could get it to boot. No luck, gave up.
:-)
Thanks, I might just do that. It is a 4Mb machine with a 6Mb add-on card (25 Mhz, 500 Mb drive, of which over 1/2 is trashed - I installed a 50Mb root part on the internal drive then have a 200Mb IDE drive sitting in the docking station with the rest of the OS and swap on it - picked the thing up for $5 at a garage sale, not working).
Someone asked why I didn't run *BSD... cause I wasn't smart enough to figure out how to install it! Now, I'm not saying I'm too stupid to install BSD - I've actually got a OpenBSD 2.6 install on a PPro-200 that I play with. Problem was installing on this low-mem machine.
It died at the end creating the
I _really_ wanted to give BSD a try - I've obviously heard a lot about it. In the end I installed Debian and got it to work and put it in service and have since forgotten about it.
Now I've got this 486, I'll have to decide... oh - maybe I'll find something more productive to do with my free time like play WarcraftII again