However told you that was wrong. In my home countries (both of them) your signature has to be written in English text but that's the only restriction.
There's another Urban legend in the USA that states you have to write your first and last names in full on a signature. This is also false.
Me, I write my first and middle initials and my last name in full - all in cursive. At the end stick a Tengwar rune which is my initial. Yeah, I'm a geek:-) I've never gotten complaints about m signature for anyone, and it's on my passport and green card.
This'll be a wakeup call for the rest of the world if they pull this off. I think many people discount China as just another communist nation and forget how smart they really are (just think of all the inventions we have to thank China for).
My only hope is that they explore space in the same spirit the rest of the world does, for the improvement of mankind as a whole.
I keep seeing posts and news reports blaming NASA for not sending out a rescue. Read the articles people, get informed! If NASA had known the problem really was as bad as it turned out you can bet they would have put every person they could find on getting that crew home alive. Remember Apollo 13? It would have been the same scenario.
I see where they are going with this, make Linux more accessible for those coming from Windows or Mac. In practise it'll just break things and teach the newbie bad habits. The creators of this distro much be better off doing this in the KDE/Gnome desktop than using symblinks.
If you MUST use symblinks DON'T make/usr/bin a symblink to something, do it the other way around. Better still, don't.
The UNIX file heirarchy has been around for a very long time, we're all stuck with it even those who don't like it.
With an IP-Masqueraded network everyone can have an entire class A to themselves.
We need to educate network administrators that most (not all) networks that use real IP's could just as easily be converted to a NAT+MASQ system which, if properly configured, will work just as well for most applications. If this where to happen we would dramatically reduce the IPv4 allocation.
I'm all for IPv6, I just don't think it's necessary right now. Not for at least another 15-20 years.
It's a distinct possibility! Of course, most ISP's have local POPs with backup servers. The ones that don't, well, they're idiots.
The chances are that it'd take a pretty powerful bomb to knock out those buildings, though - my theory is that if a nuke hit Telehouse the walls and floor would crumble but the racks would be held up by the massive amount of wiring.
Broadband aside, one of the reasons Internet connectivity in England is so fast is that pretty much all of the ISP's are housed in 2 buildings - Telehouse City and Telehouse East. This is doable because England is so small (about the size of Florida). Therefore, if you connect to another UK site the chances are your interconnect is over a 100Mbit (or even faster) LAN connection.
Is it the same way in South Korea? If so local Internet must be blindingly fast!
I would love to see this happen on a Global Scale and it is getting close with peering points such as MAE East/West, Telehouse (New York, London, etc.), Amsterdam and Frankfurt to name but a few hosting servers with mirrors of major websites. TUCOWS being an excellent example. In a few years, bandwidth will cost next to nothing and hardware is already getting very cheap. All it takes when the prices go down is some smart routing and DNS.:-)
Actually I probably have a similar problem to the one you do. Let me clarify, my right eye (the useless one) does have some vision but it is extremely poor so my brain has always cancelled out that eye, even after surgeries to try and correct it and spending the first 10 years of my life wearing glasses. If I close my left eye I can see a but everything is a blur. The clinical term is a "lazy eye". If I squint I do get double vision but the other image is a blur, certainly no 3D. I've never tried the clear 3D glasses, maybe they will work for me.
My hand-eye coordination is also a little off, probably due to poor depth perception but after a lot of practise I think it's comparable to the average person with 2 eyes now. I put my butter fingers down to lack of skill rather than eyesight nowadays:-)
They tried me on those horrible prism glasses when I was a kid but it gave me blinding headaches as well. I never saw the point anyway, my vision didn't change noticeably when I was wearing them.
Driving has never been a problem for me, curiously my peripheral vision is fine - eg I can see things to my extreme right with no problems. I'm assuming my left eye lenses has grown shaped differently to compensate or something, but that's pure speculation. Judging distances is also not a problem even at night.
I've no idea how someone with 2 eyes views the world since I've been blind in one eye since birth. What I think is 3D and you think is 3D is probably different. Anyway, I have no problems with depth perception I probably just view it a different way to what you do.
Question: A TV screen is a "flat" 2D image, to me it's like looking through a window. Is it the same for people who have 2 working eyes?
I've no idea. I've been blind in one eye for my entire life so wouldn't really know how people with 2 working eyes "perceive" depth. I have no problems telling the differences between 2D (real world) and 3D (as seen on a TV screen/poster) objects, if that helps.
Very exciting stuff, I'm blind in one eye so 3D "goggles" and their ilk have never worked for me! Thefore, I've been waiting for these technologies for a very long time.
The possibilities are endless but I expect it'll be a while yet before this becomes popular. Maybe within 10 years.
No worse than some of the traditional art I've see
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It's something like the fun I used to have with combining RND with PRINT, DRAW etc. in BASIC many years ago. The official word for what was produced is "Squidge".
Anyway, this is not art in the traditional sense but in my opinion nor is drawing a few coloured squares and lines on canvas and displaying it in a museum. This hasn't stopped those people from making thousands out of it, however. I actually prefer the HTML art to the canvas stuff.
The random characters that my 5 month old types into our home computer isn't art in the traditional sense either. This hasn't stopped me from carefully preserving each of them and proudly showing them to anyone who's willing to look:-)
I was comparing prices to what I pay for my local cable service here, $39 per month which is about £27.85 for 2Mbit. Comparable pricing to the 600Kbit access just more bandwidth but honestly....it's very rare I need to utilise that much bandwidth!
NTL did not offer cablemodem service when I was a subscriber, right after they took over C&W. I had no idea it was that cheap! Very happy to stand corrected, however.
So basically, a saving of £25.01 per month and £50 install fee.
I was comparing prices to what I pay for my local cable service here, $39 per month which is about £27.85 for 2Mbit. Comparable pricing to the 600Kbit access just more bandwidth but honestly.
I can see where the UK consumers are complaining here, ISDN is really not much more expensive than a regular POTS line. Dual bonded ISDN is 128K so shelling out for a Cablemodem at 128K is hardly worth it.
The only advantage is that in the UK ISDN calls are metered so you're saving the 2p a minute dialup costs. Of course, this may have changed, I've not lived in the UK for 3 years, are ISP's offering unmetered access for ISDN in the UK nowadays? If so, then Cablemodem at 128K - not worth it!
OK, I know over 100 people have died of this desease and I feel for the families, I really do but why is the media hyping up this desease so much?
Yes, 100+ people died for SARS but what about the THOUSANDS of people who die EVERY SINGLE DAY in poor countries because of either famine, war or poverty?
Now, I may be wrong here... but are these the same diamonds that are used as jewelry? How big will they need to be? The diamond ring I bought my wife when I asked her to marry me cost a fortune, many times more than a CPU. (She's worth the expense, of course!).
I also shudder having to think of the poor guy in Sierra Leone who spent all week mining for the diamond to make enough money to feed his family. What will he see of this?
You've got to hand it to Steve, he's been told by countless critics that if he tries to launch into space he'll die trying but he presses on regardless.
I truly hope he does make it and proove the critics wrong! Good luck to him, he's one of a dying (no pun intended) breed of true pioneers!
Response to comments and flames I've been getting!:
I know maybe not Billions - Tens of millions for sure though. I had had maybe 3 hours sleep the night before I posted this article so my brain wasn't quite up to speed.
Speaking of brains, yes I know it can be exploited internally and it's not so easy to firewall port 135 internally (it may break other things). This is why we have logs, and LARTs.
I stand by my statement that the average life cycle of MOST software is about 5 years from date of first release. Sorry, but that's my opinion.
So, here it is from both angles, the way I see it.
Microsoft do have a point, NT 4.0 *is* 7 years old now (released 1996) and supporting it is probably a major headache for them, at least until June when it reaches end of life (bear in mind that end of life for most software is 5 years). How long can you keep patching software? I guarantee that if they did take the time to patch it many other things would break resulting in the need for more patching and more headaches.
On the other hand, they are still going to get a nasty backlash from the millions (billions?) of people still using NT 4.0. Yes, you can laugh at businesses who haven't moved to 2000 or XP yet but if you are a multinational company who depends on NT facing the huge costs of moving to 2000 it's a big deal.
Microsoft recommends we firewal port 135 - which every network administrator with a brain should already be doing! Unfortunately, good network administrators are in very short supply.
We had a user (I wonder if he still uses them?) at my last employer, I know other ex-employees of this ISP read my/. posts so this should jog some funny memories!
Let's just call him Mr W. This is a typical call, I often wonder if he is still a customer of this ISP. I hope so, he is EXCELLENT training for a green tech support Bob. He is an otherwise very intelligent man but computers just seem to send him into a frenzy...
Mr W calls me up one morning and proceeds to scream and shout at the top of his lungs for a good 30 minutes because a web site had given him the infamous "Forbidden" error. His reasoning, he's paying for the service so should not be forbidden from doing anything. I spent some considerable time explaining what this all meant and that really, there's not much I can do.
Anyway, eventually he decides he has to complain to someone so I suggest e-mailing the webmaster. Big, big mistake.
About 30 minutes later I get an even more irate phonecall from Mr W. "MY E-MAIL HAD PERMANENT FATAL ERRORS? YOU MEAN IT *DIED?!*.". 45 minutes of screaming and shouting followed. Eventually, after some very calm diplomacy I managed to explain to him the subtle intricasies of postmaster messages, pulled up a WHOIS on the domain and transfered him to the Hostmaster.
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However told you that was wrong. In my home countries (both of them) your signature has to be written in English text but that's the only restriction.
:-) I've never gotten complaints about m signature for anyone, and it's on my passport and green card.
There's another Urban legend in the USA that states you have to write your first and last names in full on a signature. This is also false.
Me, I write my first and middle initials and my last name in full - all in cursive. At the end stick a Tengwar rune which is my initial. Yeah, I'm a geek
This'll be a wakeup call for the rest of the world if they pull this off. I think many people discount China as just another communist nation and forget how smart they really are (just think of all the inventions we have to thank China for).
My only hope is that they explore space in the same spirit the rest of the world does, for the improvement of mankind as a whole.
I keep seeing posts and news reports blaming NASA for not sending out a rescue. Read the articles people, get informed! If NASA had known the problem really was as bad as it turned out you can bet they would have put every person they could find on getting that crew home alive. Remember Apollo 13? It would have been the same scenario.
I see where they are going with this, make Linux more accessible for those coming from Windows or Mac. In practise it'll just break things and teach the newbie bad habits. The creators of this distro much be better off doing this in the KDE/Gnome desktop than using symblinks.
/usr/bin a symblink to something, do it the other way around. Better still, don't.
If you MUST use symblinks DON'T make
The UNIX file heirarchy has been around for a very long time, we're all stuck with it even those who don't like it.
With an IP-Masqueraded network everyone can have an entire class A to themselves.
We need to educate network administrators that most (not all) networks that use real IP's could just as easily be converted to a NAT+MASQ system which, if properly configured, will work just as well for most applications. If this where to happen we would dramatically reduce the IPv4 allocation.
I'm all for IPv6, I just don't think it's necessary right now. Not for at least another 15-20 years.
It's a distinct possibility! Of course, most ISP's have local POPs with backup servers. The ones that don't, well, they're idiots.
The chances are that it'd take a pretty powerful bomb to knock out those buildings, though - my theory is that if a nuke hit Telehouse the walls and floor would crumble but the racks would be held up by the massive amount of wiring.
Off topic a little...
:-)
Broadband aside, one of the reasons Internet connectivity in England is so fast is that pretty much all of the ISP's are housed in 2 buildings - Telehouse City and Telehouse East. This is doable because England is so small (about the size of Florida). Therefore, if you connect to another UK site the chances are your interconnect is over a 100Mbit (or even faster) LAN connection.
Is it the same way in South Korea? If so local Internet must be blindingly fast!
I would love to see this happen on a Global Scale and it is getting close with peering points such as MAE East/West, Telehouse (New York, London, etc.), Amsterdam and Frankfurt to name but a few hosting servers with mirrors of major websites. TUCOWS being an excellent example. In a few years, bandwidth will cost next to nothing and hardware is already getting very cheap. All it takes when the prices go down is some smart routing and DNS.
Maybe I'm just dreaming...
Hello AC,
:-)
Actually I probably have a similar problem to the one you do. Let me clarify, my right eye (the useless one) does have some vision but it is extremely poor so my brain has always cancelled out that eye, even after surgeries to try and correct it and spending the first 10 years of my life wearing glasses. If I close my left eye I can see a but everything is a blur. The clinical term is a "lazy eye". If I squint I do get double vision but the other image is a blur, certainly no 3D. I've never tried the clear 3D glasses, maybe they will work for me.
My hand-eye coordination is also a little off, probably due to poor depth perception but after a lot of practise I think it's comparable to the average person with 2 eyes now. I put my butter fingers down to lack of skill rather than eyesight nowadays
They tried me on those horrible prism glasses when I was a kid but it gave me blinding headaches as well. I never saw the point anyway, my vision didn't change noticeably when I was wearing them.
Driving has never been a problem for me, curiously my peripheral vision is fine - eg I can see things to my extreme right with no problems. I'm assuming my left eye lenses has grown shaped differently to compensate or something, but that's pure speculation. Judging distances is also not a problem even at night.
...And airstrikes, and banana bombs and exploding sheep (sometimes).
:)
Why not shuttle accidents too? Should be a walk in the park for them!
Oh, shut it up it's been a long day hehehe.
Yeah ok, 2D - posters, TV, 3D real world.
What is real anyway?
ARGH!!!
Stop flaming me about depth perception!
I've no idea how someone with 2 eyes views the world since I've been blind in one eye since birth. What I think is 3D and you think is 3D is probably different. Anyway, I have no problems with depth perception I probably just view it a different way to what you do.
Question: A TV screen is a "flat" 2D image, to me it's like looking through a window. Is it the same for people who have 2 working eyes?
I'm intrigued!
I've no idea. I've been blind in one eye for my entire life so wouldn't really know how people with 2 working eyes "perceive" depth. I have no problems telling the differences between 2D (real world) and 3D (as seen on a TV screen/poster) objects, if that helps.
Very exciting stuff, I'm blind in one eye so 3D "goggles" and their ilk have never worked for me! Thefore, I've been waiting for these technologies for a very long time.
The possibilities are endless but I expect it'll be a while yet before this becomes popular. Maybe within 10 years.
It's something like the fun I used to have with combining RND with PRINT, DRAW etc. in BASIC many years ago. The official word for what was produced is "Squidge".
:-)
Anyway, this is not art in the traditional sense but in my opinion nor is drawing a few coloured squares and lines on canvas and displaying it in a museum. This hasn't stopped those people from making thousands out of it, however. I actually prefer the HTML art to the canvas stuff.
The random characters that my 5 month old types into our home computer isn't art in the traditional sense either. This hasn't stopped me from carefully preserving each of them and proudly showing them to anyone who's willing to look
Time is an Illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
I was comparing prices to what I pay for my local cable service here, $39 per month which is about £27.85 for 2Mbit. Comparable pricing to the 600Kbit access just more bandwidth but honestly. ...it's very rare I need to utilise that much bandwidth!
(damn trigger happy fingers)
NTL did not offer cablemodem service when I was a subscriber, right after they took over C&W. I had no idea it was that cheap! Very happy to stand corrected, however.
So basically, a saving of £25.01 per month and £50 install fee.
I was comparing prices to what I pay for my local cable service here, $39 per month which is about £27.85 for 2Mbit. Comparable pricing to the 600Kbit access just more bandwidth but honestly.
I can see where the UK consumers are complaining here, ISDN is really not much more expensive than a regular POTS line. Dual bonded ISDN is 128K so shelling out for a Cablemodem at 128K is hardly worth it.
The only advantage is that in the UK ISDN calls are metered so you're saving the 2p a minute dialup costs. Of course, this may have changed, I've not lived in the UK for 3 years, are ISP's offering unmetered access for ISDN in the UK nowadays? If so, then Cablemodem at 128K - not worth it!
OK, I know over 100 people have died of this desease and I feel for the families, I really do but why is the media hyping up this desease so much?
Yes, 100+ people died for SARS but what about the THOUSANDS of people who die EVERY SINGLE DAY in poor countries because of either famine, war or poverty?
All this hype is doing is creating mass panic.
Now, I may be wrong here... but are these the same diamonds that are used as jewelry? How big will they need to be? The diamond ring I bought my wife when I asked her to marry me cost a fortune, many times more than a CPU. (She's worth the expense, of course!).
I also shudder having to think of the poor guy in Sierra Leone who spent all week mining for the diamond to make enough money to feed his family. What will he see of this?
You've got to hand it to Steve, he's been told by countless critics that if he tries to launch into space he'll die trying but he presses on regardless.
I truly hope he does make it and proove the critics wrong! Good luck to him, he's one of a dying (no pun intended) breed of true pioneers!
Will moviegoers have to sign an end user license agreement upon entering the theatre?
*shudder*
Response to comments and flames I've been getting!:
I know maybe not Billions - Tens of millions for sure though. I had had maybe 3 hours sleep the night before I posted this article so my brain wasn't quite up to speed.
Speaking of brains, yes I know it can be exploited internally and it's not so easy to firewall port 135 internally (it may break other things). This is why we have logs, and LARTs.
I stand by my statement that the average life cycle of MOST software is about 5 years from date of first release. Sorry, but that's my opinion.
So, here it is from both angles, the way I see it.
Microsoft do have a point, NT 4.0 *is* 7 years old now (released 1996) and supporting it is probably a major headache for them, at least until June when it reaches end of life (bear in mind that end of life for most software is 5 years). How long can you keep patching software? I guarantee that if they did take the time to patch it many other things would break resulting in the need for more patching and more headaches.
On the other hand, they are still going to get a nasty backlash from the millions (billions?) of people still using NT 4.0. Yes, you can laugh at businesses who haven't moved to 2000 or XP yet but if you are a multinational company who depends on NT facing the huge costs of moving to 2000 it's a big deal.
Microsoft recommends we firewal port 135 - which every network administrator with a brain should already be doing! Unfortunately, good network administrators are in very short supply.
We had a user (I wonder if he still uses them?) at my last employer, I know other ex-employees of this ISP read my /. posts so this should jog some funny memories!
Let's just call him Mr W. This is a typical call, I often wonder if he is still a customer of this ISP. I hope so, he is EXCELLENT training for a green tech support Bob. He is an otherwise very intelligent man but computers just seem to send him into a frenzy...
Mr W calls me up one morning and proceeds to scream and shout at the top of his lungs for a good 30 minutes because a web site had given him the infamous "Forbidden" error. His reasoning, he's paying for the service so should not be forbidden from doing anything. I spent some considerable time explaining what this all meant and that really, there's not much I can do.
Anyway, eventually he decides he has to complain to someone so I suggest e-mailing the webmaster. Big, big mistake.
About 30 minutes later I get an even more irate phonecall from Mr W. "MY E-MAIL HAD PERMANENT FATAL ERRORS? YOU MEAN IT *DIED?!*.". 45 minutes of screaming and shouting followed. Eventually, after some very calm diplomacy I managed to explain to him the subtle intricasies of postmaster messages, pulled up a WHOIS on the domain and transfered him to the Hostmaster.