I replaced the battery in my wristwatch, and I had it all together and re-sealed when I noticed the tiny 1 mm spring on the table. I opened it up, found the place it went, and put it back in. While re-seating the seal, I accidentally pushed the spring down, and it disappearred off into the sunset... My watch has been mute ever since.
Hell, make it 20 megs of static ram, VGA video, and a 320x240 screen, and you have pocket Doom. And it's the real one, not a bastardized GBA/SNES version.
If you're in the middle of the Sahara and all you have to get help is your laptop, you're pretty screwed whether you have satellite modem access or not. Now, on the beach in a resort in some dirty third-world country, that's another story.
Would we expect any less? This way, they get to screw Apple's video standard in favor of their own, *and* they get to get rid of a deprecated feature that almost nobody else uses.
Florida's filled with the incompetent, the elderly and folks who refuse to learn English. Now that communism is barely a threat we should secede it to Cuba.
"Will the last American to leave Miami please turn out the lights when you leave."
The other reason suspicion was cast on my home state is because our governor (Governor Jeb "Duh" Bush) was the candidate's brother.
Pulleys! Huhahah!! Attach pulleys to the ceiling, tie ropes to your shelves, run them through the pulleys, and put a big cleat on your desk. You pull the rope, and the shelf full of O'Reilly books goes up, up, and away! Make sure you attach the pulley to part of the ceiling that can hold weight, and don't try that with USB periphs while they're still connected. If the ceiling is really high, use helium balloons. Lots of helium balloons.
Bill Gates prepared a chart of how much money his closed-source license has made him, N*Sync prepared a chart of how much money their CD sales have earned, and an unnamed open-source programmer made a sign that says "will prepare charts for food."
SSX is fun, but I'm more of a Tony Hawk person. And I watched the first bit of the MGS2 demo at a friend's house, but I wasn't extremely impressed. You can't go wrong with giant fighting robots, though. I think 50% of the current PS2 offerings are about giant fighting robots.
You should buy a PS2 if you want to play games for it, or if you have an urge to pay for an X server when there are plenty of free ones available for platforms more suitable to non-gaming uses.
That's actually when I got this message - but I felt a need to post it today just to demonstrate what retarded "admins" have to ignore in order to distribute Code Red.
I got this mail, and the problem is that people are WAY TOO STUPID to know what to do. If the microsoft patch can tell if it needs to do anything or not, RR and @home security should point everybody to it.
From: security@cfl.rr.com
To: Our Valued Customers
Subject: Security Notification
ROAD RUNNER ALERT
VIRUS ALERT. YOUR IMMEDIATE ACTION IS REQUIRED.
Dear Road Runner Subscriber:
Road Runner, like many other ISPs and, indeed, the entire Internet, has
experienced an attack on its network that apparently is attributable to a
strain of the Code Red virus. It is possible that this virus has infected
the PCs of Road Runner customers using the Microsoft Windows NT Server or
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server operating systems. Infected PCs may
continue to flood the Internet and the Road Runner network with
virus-generated messages (even without your being aware of it).
Road Runner is working to alert all of its subscribers to this problem
and to instruct them on where to find and install the patch necessary to
eliminate the virus. In the meantime, Road Runner customers may
experience slow network response, flashing data lights on their cable
modems, and other symptoms (such as unusual port scan log activity or
increased firewall activity) while Road Runner and the Internet community
work to control the impact of this virus.
IF YOUR PC IS RUNNING WINDOWS 2000 SERVER OR WINDOWS NT 4.0 SERVER,
PLEASE IMMEDIATELY DOWNLOAD THE CODE RED PATCH FROM MICROSOFT'S WEBSITE
(www.microsoft.com/security) AND RESTART YOUR PC.
IF YOUR PC IS RUNNING WINDOWS 98, WINDOWS 95, OR WINDOWS ME, OR IF YOUR
ARE A MACINTOSH USER, NO ACTION IS REQUIRED ON YOUR PART.
We ask for your patience while Road Runner continues to work with the
Internet community to address this virus.
Slashdot Mirror
I replaced the battery in my wristwatch, and I had it all together and re-sealed when I noticed the tiny 1 mm spring on the table. I opened it up, found the place it went, and put it back in. While re-seating the seal, I accidentally pushed the spring down, and it disappearred off into the sunset... My watch has been mute ever since.
Don't worry - I won't. I would only end up using it as a desktop, and my desktop is better for what I do.
The second hardest part is running your website off it when it's slashdotted. :)
Hell, make it 20 megs of static ram, VGA video, and a 320x240 screen, and you have pocket Doom. And it's the real one, not a bastardized GBA/SNES version.
You greatly underestimate the desire of people for objects that are shiny. Go to a record store and look at the cover of a rap album.
Maybe they got confused and meant "The only way to beat bullies is bullets." Remember, ranged weapons are here for the scrawny guys like us.
The DMCA has been rated A for Awful by the US Copyright Office.
Oh how I would like to see that happen.
True - this was supposed to be funny, I don't think it's particularly insightful.
If you're in the middle of the Sahara and all you have to get help is your laptop, you're pretty screwed whether you have satellite modem access or not. Now, on the beach in a resort in some dirty third-world country, that's another story.
Would we expect any less? This way, they get to screw Apple's video standard in favor of their own, *and* they get to get rid of a deprecated feature that almost nobody else uses.
"Will the last American to leave Miami please turn out the lights when you leave."
The other reason suspicion was cast on my home state is because our governor (Governor Jeb "Duh" Bush) was the candidate's brother.
Pulleys! Huhahah!! Attach pulleys to the ceiling, tie ropes to your shelves, run them through the pulleys, and put a big cleat on your desk. You pull the rope, and the shelf full of O'Reilly books goes up, up, and away! Make sure you attach the pulley to part of the ceiling that can hold weight, and don't try that with USB periphs while they're still connected. If the ceiling is really high, use helium balloons. Lots of helium balloons.
Bill Gates prepared a chart of how much money his closed-source license has made him, N*Sync prepared a chart of how much money their CD sales have earned, and an unnamed open-source programmer made a sign that says "will prepare charts for food."
eXtremely Pirated? eXtremely Profitable (so M$ can pay their legal bills)?
Same thing - they kind of blend into each other.
If you drive it yourself - it's in Titusville, FL, IIRC.
It's been done in MegaTokyo.
SSX is fun, but I'm more of a Tony Hawk person. And I watched the first bit of the MGS2 demo at a friend's house, but I wasn't extremely impressed. You can't go wrong with giant fighting robots, though. I think 50% of the current PS2 offerings are about giant fighting robots.
I'd buy one for GT3 and ZOE, but that's me.
That's actually when I got this message - but I felt a need to post it today just to demonstrate what retarded "admins" have to ignore in order to distribute Code Red.
And no, I don't exclusively use Linux. I *have* to play RollerCoaster Tycoon.
I got this mail, and the problem is that people are WAY TOO STUPID to know what to do. If the microsoft patch can tell if it needs to do anything or not, RR and @home security should point everybody to it.
From: security@cfl.rr.com
To: Our Valued Customers
Subject: Security Notification
ROAD RUNNER ALERT
VIRUS ALERT. YOUR IMMEDIATE ACTION IS REQUIRED.
Dear Road Runner Subscriber:
Road Runner, like many other ISPs and, indeed, the entire Internet, has
experienced an attack on its network that apparently is attributable to a
strain of the Code Red virus. It is possible that this virus has infected
the PCs of Road Runner customers using the Microsoft Windows NT Server or
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server operating systems. Infected PCs may
continue to flood the Internet and the Road Runner network with
virus-generated messages (even without your being aware of it).
Road Runner is working to alert all of its subscribers to this problem
and to instruct them on where to find and install the patch necessary to
eliminate the virus. In the meantime, Road Runner customers may
experience slow network response, flashing data lights on their cable
modems, and other symptoms (such as unusual port scan log activity or
increased firewall activity) while Road Runner and the Internet community
work to control the impact of this virus.
IF YOUR PC IS RUNNING WINDOWS 2000 SERVER OR WINDOWS NT 4.0 SERVER,
PLEASE IMMEDIATELY DOWNLOAD THE CODE RED PATCH FROM MICROSOFT'S WEBSITE
(www.microsoft.com/security) AND RESTART YOUR PC.
IF YOUR PC IS RUNNING WINDOWS 98, WINDOWS 95, OR WINDOWS ME, OR IF YOUR
ARE A MACINTOSH USER, NO ACTION IS REQUIRED ON YOUR PART.
We ask for your patience while Road Runner continues to work with the
Internet community to address this virus.
Thank you.
Road Runner Security
I'm looking forward to Quake 4: Quaker.
-Beans
:-)
I'm updating my installs the day it is released, just like I did with GNOME.
Apologies to any GNOME entusiasts for the comment. I like GNOME. I like GTK+. I like puppies, but not as much as GTK+.