One thing that irritates me are all these little black power warts that the stupid manufacturers do not label. What about "This thing is for the printer" Almost the same as the idiots who did not put the harddisks sector/track counts on the disk before autodetection IDE days.
Anyways, I once had a brand new SMC SDL model-router and took it work to show to someone. When I brought it back I accidentally brought back the power wart for a printer. These tend to have higher voltages (30 instead of 12) to drive the motors.
The SMC went kaboom wth a loud bang, lots of smoke and a foul smell. The thing was a week old.
I then opened it up and saw that one electrolytic cap had blown. After washing off all the yucky electrolytic fluid scum and cutting off the cap's legs the router came up perfectly, without the cap.
These large caps are usually only used to filter line noise. Removing it may make thing somewhat unstable if you have bad power but I have not had a single problem
One friend of mine once had a machine plugged into a 220V Socket and wiped the thing with a cloth to clean some dust. She accidentally switched the 220 to 120 Volts and when she plugged it in, kaboom.
This story did not have a happy ending though:) Mobo was nuked.
Noting against the Nigerians. I am from Africa too, in fact. Problem is, when they people from ONE country start taking away 20% of your administrative staff's time by trying to scam you into getting them a visa for something they do not want to attend you have to truly wonder.
The people trying to keep'em out of Europe is the government, not us. We would be happy to have them at the conference. If they come, that is.
Where I work we do scientific conferences in Europe. We have Nigerians paying by fraudulent credit cards.
However, what they like to do is to get an visa-invitation to come to Europe for a conference and then they do not pitch up. They do enter Europe though and stay illegaly. And we get to be harassed by the cops.
The last conference we had had like 35 Nigerians registering (out of 450), for a European Physics Conference in an obscure field. So now, now more Nigerians get to come to our conference. Pity, really.
Some of the Nigerians also tried to register with fake CC's and they also did things like using multiple credit cards everytime we rejected the transaction.
We had a guy who spent half his day on some website checking his stocks. This was during the boom. We simply logged all outgoing web requests (the URL's) and the amount of traffic to the website and displayed them during a meeting when everybody was present. His website accounted for something like 40% of the traffic. We did not name names, but everyone knew he did this, and he knew it.
It stopped. He resigned after while, and the sad thing is he had made a boatload of money on the stock exchange!
Of course, this does not help when people are claiming that it is work. Then actually logging the content would be your only option which is at best intrusive and at worse illegal. Difficult case, but perhaps simply blocking the ports would help?
Who are the work-related people? Internal or external. If its internal there is no difference between this and colleagues who hang out in each other's cubicles all day.
Now the DPRK Goverment are going to claim in their propaganda broadcasts that their website was immediately swamped by the oppressed workers of the world!
Sign. Again, people confuse the UN with the UN Security Council. The UN has the following other part who have, well, done great things:
UNESCO UNHCR The Commission for Refugees WHO (THe World Helath ORganization. Has Smallpos lately?
I could go on a bit, but the UN is much more about making people over the world work together than just the security council. Ok, its an inefficient organization, and probably wastes money like there is no tomorrow, but they do good work.
Ok, I'll bite. I have to choose between buying some NIC's for a small (8 machine) network (upgrade to Gigabit Ether). I have the coice between a Syskonnect and an Intel NIC. Why would you recommend SK? We are not talking the serious megablasting things above, just a really small shop.
Try Float's Mobile Agent if the walk-away thing i what you want with a Phone. IT also has a lot of things to control the phone and a API (for Delphi) so maybe a Salling-like program would not be that difficult to write using it. It certainly has a mode where you can see which buttons you pressed on the phone and press then via an onscreen phone. And it can display a popup box on screen as soon as the cellphone rings, which is very useful if you have it in silent mode.
I sell my bandwidth to my neighbour and we share the costs. Works fine.
The only problem is, if HE downloads childporn or visits www.osamaforpresident.com or pisses off the RIAA by running Kazaa all day I get the visit from the coppers, not him. So one should be a little careful.
Even Microsoft copied it with.NET. And while everyone here freaks out about Inferno and so on they tend to forget that Inferno is a VM based system just like Java.
And so, I might like to add is Perl, in which/. is written. In fact, the Perl people are building a new VM just for the job (Parrot).
Java does have complexities, but a lot of that is solved in 1.5. The API's are complicated but then, so is the real world. They are also complete. And I really do not think that the few (standardized by Sun) API's are worse than the hordes of modules you get for Perl on CPAN.
Geez, if it is so easy to dig into hell why don't we launch a rescue mission? Gives the US Army somthing to do! Mind you, it might give all thos ex-Red Army soldiers something to do, since this is in Siberia.
So if I write Macro in Excel will that be taxed too??!! And what about my.procmail script which dumps things from some people into a Folder. IS that also taxable? What is "Custom Software"??
True, and I've been maintaining that horrible thing for 8 of those 12 years:)
But still, Emil is much more of an online sort of thing than a web app. Eventually you MUST be online. For office you not have to be (and quite often are not). Many people go online quickly to down and upload their mail, and for few other real reasons (my GF for one).
Arthur C Clarke once wrote a nice little piece called "Apes or Angels" (Ok, the title may be wrong). Basically his point is that the universe is 10 billion years old, we have been here for 5 million years. That is a tiny drop in the lifetime of the universe. So if we hit alien species the chances that life on the planet would be exactly in the same range as our evolutionary scale is pretty remote because 1 million years back or forth yould not be much in the tiemscale that the universe operates in.
There is a much better chance that they would be either millions of years behind us (bacterial or so) or millions of years ahead. They would more probably or not be either Apes or Angels.
Btw, this is one argument to use to say why we have not found any aliens yet: No ways to find bacteria on a long range and perhaps if they are millions of years ahead they would be so strange to us that we would not now what to look for. All advanced technology looks like magic.
So the chances of finding a civilization close to here which is about 1000 year ahead or behind us is pretty much zilch purely from a statistical point of view.
Of course, the argument does not quite hold in the Solar System since all the bodies in it are about the same age per definition (they were formed at the same time). But then you could still be talking a million years give or take. No human-like organisms then.
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One thing that irritates me are all these little black power warts that the stupid manufacturers do not label. What about "This thing is for the printer" Almost the same as the idiots who did not put the harddisks sector/track counts on the disk before autodetection IDE days.
Anyways, I once had a brand new SMC SDL model-router and took it work to show to someone. When I brought it back I accidentally brought back the power wart for a printer. These tend to have higher voltages (30 instead of 12) to drive the motors.
The SMC went kaboom wth a loud bang, lots of smoke and a foul smell. The thing was a week old.
I then opened it up and saw that one electrolytic cap had blown. After washing off all the yucky electrolytic fluid scum and cutting off the cap's legs the router came up perfectly, without the cap.
These large caps are usually only used to filter line noise. Removing it may make thing somewhat unstable if you have bad power but I have not had a single problem
One friend of mine once had a machine plugged into a 220V Socket and wiped the thing with a cloth to clean some dust. She accidentally switched the 220 to 120 Volts and when she plugged it in, kaboom.
This story did not have a happy ending though:) Mobo was nuked.
Noting against the Nigerians. I am from Africa too, in fact. Problem is, when they people from ONE country start taking away 20% of your administrative staff's time by trying to scam you into getting them a visa for something they do not want to attend you have to truly wonder.
The people trying to keep'em out of Europe is the government, not us. We would be happy to have them at the conference. If they come, that is.
Where I work we do scientific conferences in Europe. We have Nigerians paying by fraudulent credit cards.
However, what they like to do is to get an visa-invitation to come to Europe for a conference and then they do not pitch up. They do enter Europe though and stay illegaly. And we get to be harassed by the cops.
The last conference we had had like 35 Nigerians registering (out of 450), for a European Physics Conference in an obscure field. So now, now more Nigerians get to come to our conference. Pity, really.
Some of the Nigerians also tried to register with fake CC's and they also did things like using multiple credit cards everytime we rejected the transaction.
We had a guy who spent half his day on some website checking his stocks. This was during the boom. We simply logged all outgoing web requests (the URL's) and the amount of traffic to the website and displayed them during a meeting when everybody was present. His website accounted for something like 40% of the traffic. We did not name names, but everyone knew he did this, and he knew it.
It stopped. He resigned after while, and the sad thing is he had made a boatload of money on the stock exchange!
Of course, this does not help when people are claiming that it is work. Then actually logging the content would be your only option which is at best intrusive and at worse illegal. Difficult case, but perhaps simply blocking the ports would help?
Who are the work-related people? Internal or external. If its internal there is no difference between this and colleagues who hang out in each other's cubicles all day.
....with totally crap user interface for navigating directories.
/.ed already.
Now the DPRK Goverment are going to claim in their propaganda broadcasts that their website was immediately swamped by the oppressed workers of the world!
"Hello world" is in routine use on millions of computers??!!! I swear to God I have'nt seen it in a while!
Well, actually running an real analytical engine in the flesh WOULD be interesting!
And inefficient. That code sorts a list, not an array and QS is not very good at that.
Sign. Again, people confuse the UN with the UN Security Council. The UN has the following other part who have, well, done great things:
UNESCO
UNHCR The Commission for Refugees
WHO (THe World Helath ORganization. Has Smallpos lately?
I could go on a bit, but the UN is much more about making people over the world work together than just the security council. Ok, its an inefficient organization, and probably wastes money like there is no tomorrow, but they do good work.
Ok, I'll bite. I have to choose between buying some NIC's for a small (8 machine) network (upgrade to Gigabit Ether). I have the coice between a Syskonnect and an Intel NIC. Why would you recommend SK? We are not talking the serious megablasting things above, just a really small shop.
No spacecraft has ever flown through the rings of a planet either
...that you get a compentent network administrator.
My dad still uses Dbase IV with an app he wrote on Xenix on a 286. It still runs every day without a hitch
Try Float's Mobile Agent if the walk-away thing i what you want with a Phone. IT also has a lot of things to control the phone and a API (for Delphi) so maybe a Salling-like program would not be that difficult to write using it. It certainly has a mode where you can see which buttons you pressed on the phone and press then via an onscreen phone. And it can display a popup box on screen as soon as the cellphone rings, which is very useful if you have it in silent mode.
I sell my bandwidth to my neighbour and we share the costs. Works fine.
The only problem is, if HE downloads childporn or visits www.osamaforpresident.com or pisses off the RIAA by running Kazaa all day I get the visit from the coppers, not him. So one should be a little careful.
Ok, valid point. It would be like busting the doors on a major high-security prison: all the badass types would get out!
On the other hand my experience with some Christian whackos would indicate that launchins a rescure mission into heaven would unleash, well, hell.
Lord knows why Slashdot is so anti Java.
.NET. And while everyone here freaks out about Inferno and so on they tend to forget that Inferno is a VM based system just like Java.
/. is written. In fact, the Perl people are building a new VM just for the job (Parrot).
Even Microsoft copied it with
And so, I might like to add is Perl, in which
Java does have complexities, but a lot of that is solved in 1.5. The API's are complicated but then, so is the real world. They are also complete. And I really do not think that the few (standardized by Sun) API's are worse than the hordes of modules you get for Perl on CPAN.
Geez, if it is so easy to dig into hell why don't we launch a rescue mission? Gives the US Army somthing to do! Mind you, it might give all thos ex-Red Army soldiers something to do, since this is in Siberia.
You hang out with the wrong crowd then :)
Hey, I saw that just last night. And since my GF (who does speak French) was asleep I did not undertand it. Translate please?
So if I write Macro in Excel will that be taxed too??!! And what about my .procmail script which dumps things from some people into a Folder. IS that also taxable? What is "Custom Software"??
True, and I've been maintaining that horrible thing for 8 of those 12 years :)
But still, Emil is much more of an online sort of thing than a web app. Eventually you MUST be online. For office you not have to be (and quite often are not). Many people go online quickly to down and upload their mail, and for few other real reasons (my GF for one).
Arthur C Clarke once wrote a nice little piece called "Apes or Angels" (Ok, the title may be wrong). Basically his point is that the universe is 10 billion years old, we have been here for 5 million years. That is a tiny drop in the lifetime of the universe. So if we hit alien species the chances that life on the planet would be exactly in the same range as our evolutionary scale is pretty remote because 1 million years back or forth yould not be much in the tiemscale that the universe operates in.
There is a much better chance that they would be either millions of years behind us (bacterial or so) or millions of years ahead. They would more probably or not be either Apes or Angels.
Btw, this is one argument to use to say why we have not found any aliens yet: No ways to find bacteria on a long range and perhaps if they are millions of years ahead they would be so strange to us that we would not now what to look for. All advanced technology looks like magic.
So the chances of finding a civilization close to here which is about 1000 year ahead or behind us is pretty much zilch purely from a statistical point of view.
Of course, the argument does not quite hold in the Solar System since all the bodies in it are about the same age per definition (they were formed at the same time). But then you could still be talking a million years give or take. No human-like organisms then.