I stand corrected. Philae is where the obelisk where the names of Cleopatra and Ptolemy in Egyptian hieroglyphs were found, enabling Champollion to start dechiphering the Rosetta stone (which was found elsewhere).
Most viruses spread so quickly that the AV tools' databases are inevitably out of date and ineffective.
That wasn't really true until just a week ago when I had to manually update my f-prot twice in one day to catch the new Neksky variants. I had it set at once a day for the longest time, set it for twice a day a month ago and it's now at every four hours. The updated db got them right away, the delay (in my case) was me doing the update in the first place.
Nope, I meant basic as in functionality, not basic as in gorillas tossing bananas.;)
I sometimes do the one-man-wave of the victorious gorilla just to see if people I talk to are geeks or just posers. Wait, results just in: They're all posers! You however, are a true geek. *bows*
Nonono, that's a simple mistranslataion. That offence, gravy as it may be, is not punishable by death, but by diet. That's right - you kill the meatball, you pay the price. No more meat for you!
The Riksbank may refuse to reimburse you for bills or coins who have deliberately been altered or damaged. It says [in the law]: "If a bill or coin has been deliberately altered so its format or appearance differs from the norm, we can refuse to reimburse you for it." This refusal to reimburse is applied as a rule for colored and laminated bills, for deliberately cut bills, for bills missing the security metal thread and such.
The cited law is mentioned previously in the linked text *oh shit, I just remembered that this part was probably also in the English part of the Riksbank website that I found too late, I need to go home and get some sleep*.
Besides, I figured no one except Swedes would be interested in the specifics anyway.
The flaw in the whole "make money from support" argument is that if the software was any good it wouldn't need support, or a book to manage it.
This is a myth, as anyone who have ever worked in support can tell you. The correct line of reasoning goes: If the users were any good the software wouldn't need support. No one wants to give stupidity support. No one wants to tell 100 people a day how to change their screensaver.
Real support, to real users, involves helping them do things with the software that it wasn't designed to do, but can do with a bit of thought and elbowgrease. It also involves telling them what the software cannot do. No amount of clever UI design or well-written helpfiles can substitute this. You see, in the real world, people are always trying to pound in nails with monkey wrenches or put flat-head scrwdrivers into Philips head screws. No amount of re-designing wrenches or screwdrivers will address that and that's why support will never cease to be relevant, no matter how well you design and build software.
It's named after the Nile island where the Rosetta stone was discovered. Apparantly, a 15-year old girl suggested the name in some kind of competition they never bothered to tell me about and she got to go see the launch.
Not really, but amazingly, you instantly get fined the same amount that you destroy.:-)
Riksbanken kan vagra att losa in sedlar eller mynt som avsiktligt andrats eller skadats.
Dar star: "Har en sedel eller ett mynt avsiktligt andrats sa att dess format eller utseende avviker fran vad som tillkannagivits kan inlosen darav vagras." Denna vagran att losa in tillampar Riksbanken som regel for infargade och inplastade sedlar, for avsiktligt sonderklippta sedlar, for sedlar dar sakerhetstraden rivit ur och dylikt.
I haven't seen one of your new twenties, but in Sweden, all bills have metal strands in them, in the same exact location in every bill. They have had this for at least 20 years, probably more. It's for the same reason as they watermark them, make them light up under UV light and use special paper - to make them more difficult to forge.
But if the metal strands really are RFID tags, I guess the RFID technology actually came from Roswell and was kept secret until fairly recently...
Does he ever comment on conditions in the hereafter?
Yes: They have great, juicy apples. He's currently trying to figure out how the snake delivers them but has a theory that it slaps them out of the tree with its tail.
Use the 1.4 CDs, then update specific packages with binaries from the mirrors with portage. If there are no new binaries for your architecture at least you'll have access to a lot of usable programs and applications while the new ones compile. Just make a new partition (5 gigs should be plenty if you want all the bells and whistles, but I have Gentoos running on a tenth of that) and install to that from a shell in Mandrake.
Gentoo isn't really release-specific in that you'll need to reinstall the entire system to upgrade to a new release. the releases are just milestones for the LiveCDs and included packages. If you already have an installed system, you can upgrade only the parts you need off the net or CD as source or binaries.
What I'm saying is that you can safely install all of Gentoo 1.4 as binaries and then go hardcore with tweaking CFLAGS, upgrade and re-compile gcc, KDE and OpenOffice to your heart's content. But it's not mandatory. If you're willing to wait a while or stay behind the bleeding edge a bit (less supported systems wait longer/further back), you can get binaries for everything.
How can she sail with no wind in her sails and no tide?
Day after day, day after day
We struck nor breath nor motion
As idle as a painted ship, upon a painted ocean
Water, water everywhere, and all the boards did shrink
Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.
I impressed the hell out of my English teacher once when Coleridge came up in class and I could recite several lines from The Ancient Mariner by heart. You know why.;-)
Oh, and to be slightly on-topic: I'm also an old Amiga user and run Gentoo on all my machines. It seemed the natural choice.
I'm still running Mandrake on my home boxes, I can't have it down for a day while its compiling. Now if Gentoo just offered a full binary build also.
a) You can chroot into the Gentoo environment and compile whatever while multitasking. I'm actually compiling gcc right now in a VMWare window from XP. You're saying that Mandrake can't do something that XP can?;-)
b) Check out the second CD in the big LiveCD set. My God, it's full of binaries! KDE, Gnome, the lot. It's available for x86, PPC and Sparc. Read more about it here.
Starting out with programming OSS is like starting as an apprentice or intern. Merriam-Webstar says: "one who is learning by practical experience under skilled workers a trade, art, or calling" and that sounds like almost all budding kernel hackers and OSS gurus I've ever heard about. The apprentice system has been around for thousands of years and it works very well. It has nothing to do with labeling ones education as worthless and everything to do with learning skills useful in the real-world.
pushing open source as if your life depended on it is going to, sooner or later, cost you your job.
if an open source / free (cost) solution does what your expensive product does, count yourself out of a job.
So what you're saying is that if you charge for your product, you'll get no sales because someone else does the same thing for free? And if you don't charge for your product, you'll earn nothing and starve? Nice, a lose-lose situation!
How about starting out writing OSS (instead of shuffling burgers or doing tech support) and when you're built some experience and reputation either start charging for support/book deals/customizations or accept a reasonably well-paid job coding for money and keep doing OSS on the side? I don't see Linus starving...
There you go, I thought the LZ went the way of the dodo at the same time PARK.EXE did. I sort of assumed everyone did the ramp trick from 1988 onwards or so (around the same time the drives shock rating went into the hundreds of Gs).
I'm currently looking at the output from the demo of Stellar Phoenix and it looks like it can pull most of the data off a IBM Deathstar (yes, I know, but I did the firmware upgrade a long time ago and it looked like it was going to pull through) with a 46GB NTFS partition. The drive does the click of death and although Windows sees the partition, it could not find a file system.
Norton DiskDoctor told me to take it out and shoot it because it was suffering. Partition Expert didn't even want to make a raw copy of it and Partition Magic just laughed at me.
If the drive isn't even spinning up and stopped after a *thonk*, the only options are to send it off for a wallet-cleaning, or open it up and see what happened. My guess is some kind of head crash or catastrophic bearing failure in which case your friend is pretty much SOL with regards to option #2. He should have made a backup immediately when it started making those noices. Live, learn.
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Thanks for the clarification.
Because there's a lot of anal retentive grammar nazis here but they have never had any sex.
That wasn't really true until just a week ago when I had to manually update my f-prot twice in one day to catch the new Neksky variants. I had it set at once a day for the longest time, set it for twice a day a month ago and it's now at every four hours. The updated db got them right away, the delay (in my case) was me doing the update in the first place.
F-prot and SpamAssassin with Courier-MTA, BTW.
So, you got a "don't ask, don't tell" policy? Hmm, where have I heard that one before...?
That's Chairman Bill to you, buddy!
I sometimes do the one-man-wave of the victorious gorilla just to see if people I talk to are geeks or just posers. Wait, results just in: They're all posers! You however, are a true geek. *bows*
Nonono, that's a simple mistranslataion. That offence, gravy as it may be, is not punishable by death, but by diet. That's right - you kill the meatball, you pay the price. No more meat for you!
Besides, I figured no one except Swedes would be interested in the specifics anyway.
Well, bork-de-bork-bork on you too. ;-)
This is a myth, as anyone who have ever worked in support can tell you. The correct line of reasoning goes: If the users were any good the software wouldn't need support. No one wants to give stupidity support. No one wants to tell 100 people a day how to change their screensaver.
Real support, to real users, involves helping them do things with the software that it wasn't designed to do, but can do with a bit of thought and elbowgrease. It also involves telling them what the software cannot do. No amount of clever UI design or well-written helpfiles can substitute this. You see, in the real world, people are always trying to pound in nails with monkey wrenches or put flat-head scrwdrivers into Philips head screws. No amount of re-designing wrenches or screwdrivers will address that and that's why support will never cease to be relevant, no matter how well you design and build software.
Been there, got a lot of t-shirts.
It's named after the Nile island where the Rosetta stone was discovered. Apparantly, a 15-year old girl suggested the name in some kind of competition they never bothered to tell me about and she got to go see the launch.
After a brief search, I found the English link here.
But if the metal strands really are RFID tags, I guess the RFID technology actually came from Roswell and was kept secret until fairly recently...
How did that slogan go... Something like:
Yesterday's computer today, today's operating system tomorrow.
Yeah, that sounds about right. :-)
Yes: They have great, juicy apples. He's currently trying to figure out how the snake delivers them but has a theory that it slaps them out of the tree with its tail.
Gentoo isn't really release-specific in that you'll need to reinstall the entire system to upgrade to a new release. the releases are just milestones for the LiveCDs and included packages. If you already have an installed system, you can upgrade only the parts you need off the net or CD as source or binaries.
What I'm saying is that you can safely install all of Gentoo 1.4 as binaries and then go hardcore with tweaking CFLAGS, upgrade and re-compile gcc, KDE and OpenOffice to your heart's content. But it's not mandatory. If you're willing to wait a while or stay behind the bleeding edge a bit (less supported systems wait longer/further back), you can get binaries for everything.
Day after day, day after day
We struck nor breath nor motion
As idle as a painted ship, upon a painted ocean
Water, water everywhere, and all the boards did shrink
Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.
I impressed the hell out of my English teacher once when Coleridge came up in class and I could recite several lines from The Ancient Mariner by heart. You know why. ;-)
Oh, and to be slightly on-topic: I'm also an old Amiga user and run Gentoo on all my machines. It seemed the natural choice.
a) You can chroot into the Gentoo environment and compile whatever while multitasking. I'm actually compiling gcc right now in a VMWare window from XP. You're saying that Mandrake can't do something that XP can? ;-)
b) Check out the second CD in the big LiveCD set. My God, it's full of binaries! KDE, Gnome, the lot. It's available for x86, PPC and Sparc. Read more about it here.
Starting out with programming OSS is like starting as an apprentice or intern. Merriam-Webstar says: "one who is learning by practical experience under skilled workers a trade, art, or calling" and that sounds like almost all budding kernel hackers and OSS gurus I've ever heard about. The apprentice system has been around for thousands of years and it works very well. It has nothing to do with labeling ones education as worthless and everything to do with learning skills useful in the real-world.
if an open source / free (cost) solution does what your expensive product does, count yourself out of a job.
So what you're saying is that if you charge for your product, you'll get no sales because someone else does the same thing for free? And if you don't charge for your product, you'll earn nothing and starve? Nice, a lose-lose situation!
How about starting out writing OSS (instead of shuffling burgers or doing tech support) and when you're built some experience and reputation either start charging for support/book deals/customizations or accept a reasonably well-paid job coding for money and keep doing OSS on the side? I don't see Linus starving...
So pay them. Don't pay the RIAA. And make a note of this and hang it on the wall: If no one wants to pay them, they don't deserve getting paid.
Artists want to be free.
He mooed we must fight, escape or we'll die
Cows gathered around, cause the steaks were so high
Bad cow pun
We will fight for bovine freedom
We will run free with the Buffalo, or die
Cows with guns
Thanks for the clarification.
Norton DiskDoctor told me to take it out and shoot it because it was suffering. Partition Expert didn't even want to make a raw copy of it and Partition Magic just laughed at me.
If the drive isn't even spinning up and stopped after a *thonk*, the only options are to send it off for a wallet-cleaning, or open it up and see what happened. My guess is some kind of head crash or catastrophic bearing failure in which case your friend is pretty much SOL with regards to option #2. He should have made a backup immediately when it started making those noices. Live, learn.