Comet Cursor, Weatherbug, Bonzi, that "set your clock" thing, backdoors, and a deluge of popups that will make your head spin when IE is loaded ( I installed Opera. They don't like it. ).
You could try blocking sites in the hosts file and installing the Google toolbar with popup blocker.
No.. Bill Gates doing a rendition of 4'33" I hope I'm not the only one that got that - but you should have said Darl McBride, not Bill. All your silence are belong to us...
The only thing Microsoft has on any Windows system I install is Windows itself. The rest of their junk is just that: junk.
Nicely put, and your comment is at +5 Insightful for slamming Microsoft. I am no fan of their tactics either, but to call all of their software junk indicates either that you have never used it, or lack the skills to use it properly.
When you use words not in your normal vocabulary you should take the time to check how they're spelled. Symantec is a software company, but you probably meant semantics.
I use Ghost in deploying donated computers to schools and community centers How do you get around the per-workstation licensing requirements? That would amount to a hefty chunk of change if you are doing significant numbers.
Far be it from me to criticize my home and native land (yes, that phrase is lifted from our national anthem), but: 1) The Elections Canada budget may have been 57 M$ for 2002-2003, but no general election was held that year. 2) The last general election was in 2000. 3) From the Elections Canada web-site, "The estimated cost of the November 2000 general election is $200 million." (Canuck bucks, about $152 MUSD).
Locking under any network filesystem, be it nfs, cifs, dfs, etc doesn't work well.
I'm not sure about those examples, but I have found it works quite well on Netware.
You have a single server and multiple clients. File locks are held in the OS of the local machine.
That isn't completely true, again at least for Netware. An application requests a lock for a file or section of a file from the server. The server grants the request if the file or record isn't already locked by another application, notifies the application. The lock is added to a lock table if granted, before the application is notified. This is atomic in the sense that if a second request for the same file or record is received from another application it can't be granted since the lock table will have the record of the previous lock.
In the OS of the local machine, you can lock a file or a section of a file, and be certain that it is an atomic operation -- i.e. between the start of the locking process and the end of the locking process, no changes have occurred to section being locked. During the locking operation, you can also be sure that no other lock will be granted on the data, or your attempt to lock will fail.
So, you try and do this with multiple network clients. First, no locking daemon currently available currently runs in such a way as to ensure atomicity of the locking operation. Since there is network latency and no atomic shared resource, you will get two processes claiming they hold the same lock.
Consider what this implies - and replace multiple network clients with multiple threads or multiple processes running on a multi-tasking OS. If your local OS can handle those requests atomically, why couldn't an OS specifically designed for the purpose of sharing files do at least as good a job?
I will admit there is a problem if a network failure occurs - what does a server OS do with the locks a workstation has open? One approach is to maintain the locks on the server and require manual intervention. I haven't done any multi-user progamming recently, but Netware through version 4.11 did this, at least the way my clients had it configured. To get around that you can get the lock, write to a flag file on the server the record number and username,release the lock, perform the processing required,lock the record again, flush the record, delete the record in the flag file. That way the lock is held open for a minimum of time and won't be held open in the case of network or power failure, but another user can't open the record anyway because of the flag file. If the failure occurs during the processing the flag file can be cleared at the application, not the server, level (after checking with the stored username to be sure it isn't a valid lock).
The only problem with this method is that companies cannot track who owes them how much, and which companies get the bigger share of the chunk of taxes.
IIRC, funds from the levy (not a tax) are distributed by the CRIA among member companies by their own criteria; presumably proportionate to sales.
Customs has been advised that the servers did not contain personal, business-related or national security information. So what exactly did they contain? Does Customs need that much porn?
that's the only communications system the government has any business regulating.
So I guess any bozo with a transmitter should be able to run his own radio and/or TV station? This may actually sound like a not-so-bad idea at first, but think of the consequences.
For example, what does "key" mean in English? Is it a house key? A key on a keyboard? In such a case, you could have "key" associated with 2 different groups of words:
I think it would be a bit more complicated than 2 different groups for this word anyway. Consider:
key: central or most important, as in "He is the key player on the team"
key: Enter on a keyboard, as in "Please key in the requisition"
key: coastal island, as in "We spent a week on Key West"
key: scratch with a key (act of vandalism), as in "If you have a Canadian license plate and drive to the US these days, someone might key your car"
key: list of explanations or descriptions as in "Use a key to determine the species of this insect"
key: tone or pitch as in "This music is in the key of C minor"
key: mood or intensity as in "Low key presentation"
there are probably others as well
Considering key (among other words) can be a noun, verb, and adjective this would be quite a challenge for translation software.
I had an interesting spam last night - it came from Best Buy Customer Service, and warned that my credit card number may have been leaked. It asked me to go to their web-site to check. Well, surprise, the web-site wasn't from Best Buy, although it represented itself as such and most of the links on the home page did point to Best Buy pages. Another surprise was that the check for fraud page asked me to enter my credit card number and other ID so they could check to see if my account had been hacked and my card number stolen.
That's the first one of these I've seen, and I'm sure it will catch some people (although they won't catch many in my area - no Best Buy within 500 miles). I also didn't have much success reporting it.
Full marks for creativity, but pretty high on the scumbag scale.
BTW, If it weren't for countries like Britain and the US, who are willing to send their young men to die for the causes of others, Finland might have entirely disappeared from the map in 1940... This seems to be a revisionist view, considering the US didn't join the war until 1941 - two years after say Britain and Canada. No, I don't consider sending supplies to have others fight your battles the same as sending troops (and considering George W's present attitude toward Canada, neither does he). Also, it was quite clear that the US rationale for supporting and eventually joining the war (Pearl Harbour aside) was to keep war from eventually reaching the US.
Define "equal". I can think of at least two potential sources of variance between the actual values shown on the scales. First, since gravity is not constant over the earth's surface, consider the case where one scale is on the edge of a sheer cliff, and the other is suspended over the edge. You would expect some variance in the force of gravity due to the difference in mass underneath the two scales.
The second is that barring compression of the feathers to the density of the brick, the volume of feathers will be much greater than the brick. Since the force of gravity is inversely proportionate to the square of the distance between centres of mass, if the scales are not height-adjusted to compensate there would also be some variance.
Neither of these might produce currently detectable variance, but as I said, define "equal".
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Comet Cursor, Weatherbug, Bonzi, that "set your clock" thing, backdoors, and a deluge of popups that will make your head spin when IE is loaded ( I installed Opera. They don't like it. ).
You could try blocking sites in the hosts file and installing the Google toolbar with popup blocker.
Is also a pretty good Pogues album.
Perhaps you meant voila
(yes, there should be an accent on the a - too lazy to look it up).
Babelfish isn't much of an improvement. . .
At least now we know what Yoda does between movie gigs.
No.. Bill Gates doing a rendition of 4'33"
I hope I'm not the only one that got that - but you should have said Darl McBride, not Bill. All your silence are belong to us...
The only thing Microsoft has on any Windows system I install is Windows itself. The rest of their junk is just that: junk.
Nicely put, and your comment is at +5 Insightful for slamming Microsoft. I am no fan of their tactics either, but to call all of their software junk indicates either that you have never used it, or lack the skills to use it properly.
The late, great, Stephen Jay Gould.
you are worried about symantics
When you use words not in your normal vocabulary you should take the time to check how they're spelled. Symantec is a software company, but you probably meant semantics.
From the post: Apparently traditional ethanol from food crops like corn used at least as much energy to create as they released when burned.
From the parent: That is, the product will produce more energy than it takes to manufacture it.
Thanks for your keen understanding of entropy and the Laws of Thermodynamics.
I use Ghost in deploying donated computers to schools and community centers
How do you get around the per-workstation licensing requirements? That would amount to a hefty chunk of change if you are doing significant numbers.
Far be it from me to criticize my home and native land (yes, that phrase is lifted from our national anthem), but:
1) The Elections Canada budget may have been 57 M$ for 2002-2003, but no general election was held that year.
2) The last general election was in 2000.
3) From the Elections Canada web-site, "The estimated cost of the November 2000 general election is $200 million." (Canuck bucks, about $152 MUSD).
Locking under any network filesystem, be it nfs, cifs, dfs, etc doesn't work well.
I'm not sure about those examples, but I have found it works quite well on Netware.
You have a single server and multiple clients. File locks are held in the OS of the local machine.
That isn't completely true, again at least for Netware. An application requests a lock for a file or section of a file from the server. The server grants the request if the file or record isn't already locked by another application, notifies the application. The lock is added to a lock table if granted, before the application is notified. This is atomic in the sense that if a second request for the same file or record is received from another application it can't be granted since the lock table will have the record of the previous lock.
In the OS of the local machine, you can lock a file or a section of a file, and be certain that it is an atomic operation -- i.e. between the start of the locking process and the end of the locking process, no changes have occurred to section being locked. During the locking operation, you can also be sure that no other lock will be granted on the data, or your attempt to lock will fail.
So, you try and do this with multiple network clients. First, no locking daemon currently available currently runs in such a way as to ensure atomicity of the locking operation. Since there is network latency and no atomic shared resource, you will get two processes claiming they hold the same lock.
Consider what this implies - and replace multiple network clients with multiple threads or multiple processes running on a multi-tasking OS. If your local OS can handle those requests atomically, why couldn't an OS specifically designed for the purpose of sharing files do at least as good a job?
I will admit there is a problem if a network failure occurs - what does a server OS do with the locks a workstation has open? One approach is to maintain the locks on the server and require manual intervention. I haven't done any multi-user progamming recently, but Netware through version 4.11 did this, at least the way my clients had it configured. To get around that you can get the lock, write to a flag file on the server the record number and username,release the lock, perform the processing required,lock the record again, flush the record, delete the record in the flag file. That way the lock is held open for a minimum of time and won't be held open in the case of network or power failure, but another user can't open the record anyway because of the flag file. If the failure occurs during the processing the flag file can be cleared at the application, not the server, level (after checking with the stored username to be sure it isn't a valid lock).
Pepsi came from aliens
I guess that explains the Michael Jackson commercials. Now if only we could figure out what planet he's from...
Would that be an arm, a leg, or something smaller, and which prophet did you have in mind?
No, Grima Wormtongue was ousted.
IIRC, funds from the levy (not a tax) are distributed by the CRIA among member companies by their own criteria; presumably proportionate to sales.
Since UNIX begins with U, all rights to this letter belong to SCO. Soon all your NIX will belong to them as well, and watch out you basketball team!
Customs has been advised that the servers did not contain personal, business-related or national security information.
So what exactly did they contain? Does Customs need that much porn?
So I guess any bozo with a transmitter should be able to run his own radio and/or TV station? This may actually sound like a not-so-bad idea at first, but think of the consequences.
key: central or most important, as in "He is the key player on the team"
key: Enter on a keyboard, as in "Please key in the requisition"
key: coastal island, as in "We spent a week on Key West"
key: scratch with a key (act of vandalism), as in "If you have a Canadian license plate and drive to the US these days, someone might key your car"
key: list of explanations or descriptions as in "Use a key to determine the species of this insect"
key: tone or pitch as in "This music is in the key of C minor"
key: mood or intensity as in "Low key presentation"
there are probably others as well
Considering key (among other words) can be a noun, verb, and adjective this would be quite a challenge for translation software.
I've been mugged, robbed, and assulted multiple times in my life
Ever thought of moving?
I had an interesting spam last night - it came from Best Buy Customer Service, and warned that my credit card number may have been leaked. It asked me to go to their web-site to check. Well, surprise, the web-site wasn't from Best Buy, although it represented itself as such and most of the links on the home page did point to Best Buy pages. Another surprise was that the check for fraud page asked me to enter my credit card number and other ID so they could check to see if my account had been hacked and my card number stolen.
That's the first one of these I've seen, and I'm sure it will catch some people (although they won't catch many in my area - no Best Buy within 500 miles). I also didn't have much success reporting it.
Full marks for creativity, but pretty high on the scumbag scale.
BTW, If it weren't for countries like Britain and the US, who are willing to send their young men to die for the causes of others, Finland might have entirely disappeared from the map in 1940...
This seems to be a revisionist view, considering the US didn't join the war until 1941 - two years after say Britain and Canada. No, I don't consider sending supplies to have others fight your battles the same as sending troops (and considering George W's present attitude toward Canada, neither does he). Also, it was quite clear that the US rationale for supporting and eventually joining the war (Pearl Harbour aside) was to keep war from eventually reaching the US.
Define "equal". I can think of at least two potential sources of variance between the actual values shown on the scales. First, since gravity is not constant over the earth's surface, consider the case where one scale is on the edge of a sheer cliff, and the other is suspended over the edge. You would expect some variance in the force of gravity due to the difference in mass underneath the two scales.
The second is that barring compression of the feathers to the density of the brick, the volume of feathers will be much greater than the brick. Since the force of gravity is inversely proportionate to the square of the distance between centres of mass, if the scales are not height-adjusted to compensate there would also be some variance.
Neither of these might produce currently detectable variance, but as I said, define "equal".
The latest chip from AMD sustains that amount of heat just fine thank you.