Rather than using someone's private house as the analogy, how about we use a bank?
Somehow (nevermind how) you find out that the lock on a bank's safe deposit area has a design flaw that an anaemic sparrow could exploit. You've told the bank manager about it, and he has done nothing. Do you have a right to stand outside with a sign saying "This bank is insecure and here's why..."? Absolutely.
You do have to be very careful, but it only counts as libel if it's not true.
When I'm building a computer for somebody, I always connect stuff and power it up before I put it in the case (yes, I power it up on a static sheet). Since it's not in the case, I have to manually bridge the ATX power-on jumper. I do this with a 3.5" blade I keep in my back pocket. It alarms quite a few people, even the ones who know exactly what I'm doing.
I'm not sure if Linux has a paging file, but I fail to see why the linux swapping can't be done preemptively as well. If a program loses focus, swap the memory used by it, but retain the active copy in RAM. If another program needs the RAM, release it. If the program comes back into focus, clear the swap copy. Seems like it would give the best of both worlds.
If you're talking about losing focus in the window manager sense, it's not possible under linux without some very specific hacks:
If the window manager ran in kernel space, then it would be possible. Running a window manager in kernel space also would provide a very handy way to bork your whole system with a poorly written gtk app. It would also break the security model of linux.
Now, maybe if kernel hooks were added in so that parent processes could tag their children for paging, that might go somewhere. I don't know all that much about kernel internals yet, though.
If you're talking about losing focus in the sense of going to sleep, there's no reason why it can' happen because init handles all that anyway.
I work at Staples (just put in my two weeks' notice, yes!), and one of the first things we are told is how it's so important to sell the Extended Service Plan because we actually lose money on laptops and other high-ticket items. The store has a margin of between 3% and 5% on laptops, and almost all of that is eaten up by overhead such as the 3 hours of a salesman's time you take up learning about the laptop. You can price shop all you want, but you'd be better served to find a laptop with the exact features you want, rather than to choose a store based on how good a store you think it is.
Nothing pisses off a slimy salesman more than saying "No" before he even gets through his pitch. I congratulate a customer on his math skills if he turns my pitch down.
PS: For the geek looking to make contact with potential employers in the area, nothing beats working at an office supply store and having a big stack of your personal business cards in your back pocket. Most stores have a "No Moonlighting" policy, but don't enforce it as long as you're not blatant about it.
Northgate (a brand of computers sold at Staples) does advertise American tech support. And the ESP's that we sell (yes, I'm a red shirt) also come with American, english tech support. A lot of people say that it would be nice, but most people aren't willing to shell out the extra $$ for the ESP or make the quality of the tech support a major consideration when making a purchase.
Also the flashlight is incredibly contrived. It's not a flashlight it more like a laser. It illuminates a small sharply defined circle and emits no ambient light. Darkness adaption aside, a normal flashlight pointed at the persons feat would emit enough ambient light to make the world at least navigable. I'm all for suspense, and danger, but really, if you have to paint the entire screen black to surprise someone, you're doing something wrong.
Because my computer can do real-time radiosity calculations. Can't yours?
In the short term, if it happened with no warning then it would instantly eliminate the reserves of the US and those other countries who keep their reserves in gold.
I think it would be almost insanely hard for the US to convert its gold stockpile into another form of currency without causing a panic.
And as far as warning goes, once it becomes known that the value of gold will drop, the value of gold has effectively dropped.
On the other hand, if the "Thanks Andy" is outside of the quotes in which the rest of the message appears (as it is), then the thanks is directed to Andy by the submitter of the article. Read, people!
It had this flimsy tool that fit into a hole on the clamp to pry it on and off. In addition to cracking my core getting the damn thing off, I snapped off the mounting tab on my ZIF socket. I attempted to contact Zalman regarding this massive flaw in their design, and I never heard back from them.
The Zalman cpu fans are the worst pieces of shit I've ever had the mispleasure of using. I bought one for an Athlon 1.4. Didn't have a problem putting it on (except that it fried my chip within 3 seconds), but getting it off was a pain in the fscking ass. Thier HSF clamp design is worse than brain-dead...it's like they deliberately designed it to be impossible to remove.
OTOH, my father in law has one and is very happy with it.
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And this is true everywhere, not just Soviet Russia.
Rather than using someone's private house as the analogy, how about we use a bank?
Somehow (nevermind how) you find out that the lock on a bank's safe deposit area has a design flaw that an anaemic sparrow could exploit. You've told the bank manager about it, and he has done nothing. Do you have a right to stand outside with a sign saying "This bank is insecure and here's why..."? Absolutely.
You do have to be very careful, but it only counts as libel if it's not true.
But does the cat have an MSCE?
Grab a Haynes manual if you can find one...they're much more complete.
When I'm building a computer for somebody, I always connect stuff and power it up before I put it in the case (yes, I power it up on a static sheet). Since it's not in the case, I have to manually bridge the ATX power-on jumper. I do this with a 3.5" blade I keep in my back pocket. It alarms quite a few people, even the ones who know exactly what I'm doing.
< and > get filtered out. As dones anything in between them.
Not to mention that, as an Austrian native, he can never legally be president.
I'm not sure if Linux has a paging file, but I fail to see why the linux swapping can't be done preemptively as well. If a program loses focus, swap the memory used by it, but retain the active copy in RAM. If another program needs the RAM, release it. If the program comes back into focus, clear the swap copy. Seems like it would give the best of both worlds.
If you're talking about losing focus in the window manager sense, it's not possible under linux without some very specific hacks:
If the window manager ran in kernel space, then it would be possible. Running a window manager in kernel space also would provide a very handy way to bork your whole system with a poorly written gtk app. It would also break the security model of linux.
Now, maybe if kernel hooks were added in so that parent processes could tag their children for paging, that might go somewhere. I don't know all that much about kernel internals yet, though.
If you're talking about losing focus in the sense of going to sleep, there's no reason why it can' happen because init handles all that anyway.
Many Dothans died to bring us this processor.
A lot of home computers are also working on things like DDoS attacks and spamming.
But he already said he doesn't have a laptop! How's he going to get on the internet, doofus?
Yes, this is sarcasm.
Are we going to ban marketing departments from using common positive words now?
Now that's an idea!
Their technology for waste management alone must be revolutionary.
When companies employ revolutionary waste-management techniques, the shit hits the fan.
It doesn't matter.
I work at Staples (just put in my two weeks' notice, yes!), and one of the first things we are told is how it's so important to sell the Extended Service Plan because we actually lose money on laptops and other high-ticket items. The store has a margin of between 3% and 5% on laptops, and almost all of that is eaten up by overhead such as the 3 hours of a salesman's time you take up learning about the laptop. You can price shop all you want, but you'd be better served to find a laptop with the exact features you want, rather than to choose a store based on how good a store you think it is.
Nothing pisses off a slimy salesman more than saying "No" before he even gets through his pitch. I congratulate a customer on his math skills if he turns my pitch down.
PS: For the geek looking to make contact with potential employers in the area, nothing beats working at an office supply store and having a big stack of your personal business cards in your back pocket. Most stores have a "No Moonlighting" policy, but don't enforce it as long as you're not blatant about it.
From the forward to Hawking's "A Brief History of Time."
What scares me is that we're the front lines at Xmas and back-to-school.
Northgate (a brand of computers sold at Staples) does advertise American tech support. And the ESP's that we sell (yes, I'm a red shirt) also come with American, english tech support. A lot of people say that it would be nice, but most people aren't willing to shell out the extra $$ for the ESP or make the quality of the tech support a major consideration when making a purchase.
Also the flashlight is incredibly contrived. It's not a flashlight it more like a laser. It illuminates a small sharply defined circle and emits no ambient light. Darkness adaption aside, a normal flashlight pointed at the persons feat would emit enough ambient light to make the world at least navigable. I'm all for suspense, and danger, but really, if you have to paint the entire screen black to surprise someone, you're doing something wrong.
Because my computer can do real-time radiosity calculations. Can't yours?
In the short term, if it happened with no warning then it would instantly eliminate the reserves of the US and those other countries who keep their reserves in gold.
I think it would be almost insanely hard for the US to convert its gold stockpile into another form of currency without causing a panic.
And as far as warning goes, once it becomes known that the value of gold will drop, the value of gold has effectively dropped.
On the other hand, if the "Thanks Andy" is outside of the quotes in which the rest of the message appears (as it is), then the thanks is directed to Andy by the submitter of the article. Read, people!
The radios we use at target don't have the range to reach throughout the building...other employees have to relay for us.
Easy solution: send them, too.
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Average is 1.125, yet only 1 value is above the average.
Just being a pedant.
The one I got used clamps.
It had this flimsy tool that fit into a hole on the clamp to pry it on and off. In addition to cracking my core getting the damn thing off, I snapped off the mounting tab on my ZIF socket. I attempted to contact Zalman regarding this massive flaw in their design, and I never heard back from them.
The Zalman cpu fans are the worst pieces of shit I've ever had the mispleasure of using. I bought one for an Athlon 1.4. Didn't have a problem putting it on (except that it fried my chip within 3 seconds), but getting it off was a pain in the fscking ass. Thier HSF clamp design is worse than brain-dead...it's like they deliberately designed it to be impossible to remove.
OTOH, my father in law has one and is very happy with it.