I signed up for twitter so I could watch Wesley talk to Data. Data isn't on slashdot. Did you know he has white hair now? Very freaky. Looks better than that stupid stripe had. Made 'im look like a skunk, it did!
I think MagLev / Monorail will fail simply because they are not cool enough.
I want them to build just-barely-lifting bodies that "lift" both up and sideways. You put these trains in a concrete trench and light 'em with space-shuttle boosters which you then discard and switch to hydrogen/oxygen engines. The air pressure from the trench will keep the cars from swaying back and forth, and the lift from the car bodies will eliminate friction. You could help pay for it by painting advertisements on the trench and lighting them up with strobe lights as the train flies by -- they would appear to animate, and a fast train could generate some awesome FPS.
NY to LA in a couple of hours would be TOTALLY doable --/and/ cool.
> If I switch to Rogers, Bell will lose me as a phone customer. I'll have no > reason to not subscribe to a digital phone service from Rogers.
Make sure your port your number. When you port your number away from Bell, it triggers some magic retention-department panic. They'll call you several times asking how they can get your business back. Make sure you tell them exactly why you're no longer a Bell customer, maybe if enough people shout loud enough they'll eventually listen.
In my case, there was no DSLAM in the nearest CO; they suggested I get Bell WiMax. After I finished laughing at them, I explained that my new phone company had their own ADSL2+ DSLAM in that same CO, and that I was pleased-beyond-belief with the service I was receiving. The bits... they torrent!!
> If it's any consolation, except for those who are always > forgetting to "eject" or turn off their device before removing the media
Out of idle curiosity, you don't know why it is that when I eject my media the whole card reader gets turned off, do ya?
Stupid thing makes me mental, if I eject the card, I have to unplug the card reader and use the card. I've given up and just yank willy-nilly. So far the media seems to be holding up (probably about 1,000 inserts on this memory stick duo...)
Actually, it IS legal to rip a library CD, and to keep the copy. That's black-letter law in Canada, and why we pay the blank media levy.
You can copy and keep anything -- the interesting wording in the law says, IIRC, that the person doing the copying must also be the one doing the keeping.
Sounds like you do HA pretty much how I do it, only with different pieces (I live in Sun + Oracle land).
One thing I try to get HA admins to stop thinking about is the "primary" and "backup" servers. I find deploying a sysadmin.mental state which considers both (or all) servers equal helps make stuff more reliable in the long run. So if server "bob" bursts into flames, server "joe" takes over. Bob is then serviced and left alone until Joe bursts into flames (or we schedule some downtime and run re-certification tests).
The biggest key, as you may have guessed, to getting admins to treat servers equally instead of primary/backup is to name them appropriately. Bob & Joe is better in this case than haMaster and haSlave, or serverA and serverB, etc.
Same with IPMP and stuff - don't define a preference, whatever is, is.
Unless you have asymmetric hardware, which I really, really, really discourage.
We have both types of gas stations out here. The cost difference is so negligible (2-3 cents a gallon?) that I go to full service stations any time the weather is inclement and I need fuel.
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I signed up for twitter so I could watch Wesley talk to Data. Data isn't on slashdot. Did you know he has white hair now? Very freaky. Looks better than that stupid stripe had. Made 'im look like a skunk, it did!
> Trivia: Falkvinge essentially means wing of falcon
Did you know that Buffalo wings essentially mean wings of chicken?
I'm still trying to figure that one out.
I wanted to see something Pegabisonian on my plate. You could make shishkebobs out of them with unicorn horns!
Oh, God, that was funny.
Don't know why you're not +5 funny. I guess /.ers don't have the whole "laugh at yourself" thing downpat yet.
I think MagLev / Monorail will fail simply because they are not cool enough.
I want them to build just-barely-lifting bodies that "lift" both up and sideways. You put these trains in a concrete trench and light 'em with space-shuttle boosters which you then discard and switch to hydrogen/oxygen engines. The air pressure from the trench will keep the cars from swaying back and forth, and the lift from the car bodies will eliminate friction. You could help pay for it by painting advertisements on the trench and lighting them up with strobe lights as the train flies by -- they would appear to animate, and a fast train could generate some awesome FPS.
NY to LA in a couple of hours would be TOTALLY doable -- /and/ cool.
Fat people?
Why is your mom searching for sexy singles?
1 MM sq ft?
*scribbles*
That must have been a big campus -- twice the size of california!!
Westport Telephone / WTC Communications. ILEC for a very small community in Eastern Ontario that is also a CLEC for the surrounding area.
> If I switch to Rogers, Bell will lose me as a phone customer. I'll have no
> reason to not subscribe to a digital phone service from Rogers.
Make sure your port your number. When you port your number away from Bell, it triggers some magic retention-department panic. They'll call you several times asking how they can get your business back. Make sure you tell them exactly why you're no longer a Bell customer, maybe if enough people shout loud enough they'll eventually listen.
In my case, there was no DSLAM in the nearest CO; they suggested I get Bell WiMax. After I finished laughing at them, I explained that my new phone company had their own ADSL2+ DSLAM in that same CO, and that I was pleased-beyond-belief with the service I was receiving. The bits... they torrent!!
Put him in a speedo and show him some porn.
> If it's any consolation, except for those who are always
> forgetting to "eject" or turn off their device before removing the media
Out of idle curiosity, you don't know why it is that when I eject my media the whole card reader gets turned off, do ya?
Stupid thing makes me mental, if I eject the card, I have to unplug the card reader and use the card. I've given up and just yank willy-nilly. So far the media seems to be holding up (probably about 1,000 inserts on this memory stick duo...)
Yeah, no kidding.
I have a whole bunch here I can't do anything with. I thought they were baby ducks, and I bought them for pike fishing.
Cars are heated with waste heat. The only difference is whether the heat goes into the cabin or gets vented to the atmosphere.
There is no such thing as "waste cool" in an automobile
Nobody expects a recent graduate to write a kernel or a banking app!
So, do whatever makes you happy until you get a job.
Actually, it IS legal to rip a library CD, and to keep the copy. That's black-letter law in Canada, and why we pay the blank media levy.
You can copy and keep anything -- the interesting wording in the law says, IIRC, that the person doing the copying must also be the one doing the keeping.
Can you conclusively show that none of those British soldiers or their descendants settled in Canada?
I suspect you can't. Therefore your closing sentence is invalid.
m$ specifically stated fixing JS string concatenation was an early goal of ie8.
I haven't looked to see if they really did or not, though.
http://blogs.msdn.com/jscript/archive/2007/10/17/performance-issues-with-string-concatenation-in-jscript.aspx
Sounds like you do HA pretty much how I do it, only with different pieces (I live in Sun + Oracle land).
One thing I try to get HA admins to stop thinking about is the "primary" and "backup" servers. I find deploying a sysadmin.mental state which considers both (or all) servers equal helps make stuff more reliable in the long run. So if server "bob" bursts into flames, server "joe" takes over. Bob is then serviced and left alone until Joe bursts into flames (or we schedule some downtime and run re-certification tests).
The biggest key, as you may have guessed, to getting admins to treat servers equally instead of primary/backup is to name them appropriately. Bob & Joe is better in this case than haMaster and haSlave, or serverA and serverB, etc.
Same with IPMP and stuff - don't define a preference, whatever is, is.
Unless you have asymmetric hardware, which I really, really, really discourage.
You could type faster than 300 wps?
Colour me impressed. Here I thought a hundred was pretty good.
It's the Pittsburg Steelers, not stealers. Steelers as in people who make steel.
It's not like they called themselves the Pittsburg Pirates.
We have both types of gas stations out here. The cost difference is so negligible (2-3 cents a gallon?) that I go to full service stations any time the weather is inclement and I need fuel.
date -d 'jan 1 1970 00:00:00 UTC 1234567890 seconds'
You know, being snide just because you don't know how to do something leaves a poor impression.
Hint: date -d 'jan 1 1970 00:00:00 UTC 1234567890 seconds' works just fine on a GNU machine.
Make sure you're careful with your timing on those. At 35nm, the bottoms burn very quickly.
That's why I always tag with swear words.