The orignal author of menuconfig had a Microsoft email address. It was still in there the last time I looked, and I'm certain it is still in 2.2.x. I've not got access to a full source tree at the moment to double-check.
We are allowed multiple votes, at least I do in my local parish council election, where I have to choose up to 6 candidates.
When we have more than one election on the same day (parish council, borough council, county council, parliament or european parliament) the papers are colour coded to make voting easier.
This form of plural is quite old, stemming from Middle or Old English (not too sure which - I've wanted to study old forms of english for a long time). The word oxen still exists in the english language, and vixen also stems from this plural form, although it has since come to mean the singular as well.
The other problem (under NT) is that when you want to use the keyboard and monitor on one machine, someone else is using the keyboard and monitor to control something else.
I've also had the problem of working on a site with KVM and remote control packages. Same limitation of one user per machine.
Basically, NT is hopeless when it comes to remote administration.
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I first built a Linux router 5-6 years ago. I was responsible for training courses, and we needed to route a pair of IP networks together, but had no box spare. The lab was fitted out with 486SX/25s with very little disk space.
I installed UMSDOS Slackware from the A and N floppies (around 10 in those days) on one of the PCs in the lab, then installed a kernel I compiled at home in my spare time - the kernel having routing enable. Then I added a spare NIC to this machine.
Under IE a feature like this already exists for downloaded executables, where a warning is displayed in an attempt is made to run an executable downloaded directly, with the option to automatically trust all code signed by a particular certificate. Entities other than Microsoft can sign their own code. The purpose of this is to prevent trojans being installed. However it is easy to revoke.
The plans for whistler appear to be to extend this further.
They've already done this. I had a perfectly valid souncard, but I had to junk it when one version of DirectX appeared, because the drivers hadn't been updated. The card worked fine, but wouldn't run this version of DirectX. Unfortunatly the card was on a non-standard daughterboard and couldn't be removed without a hacksaw.
I live in a town in the North of England. No DSL, no cable. The only connectivity options are telephone or ISDN. The latter is fairly expensive, and, given past experiences at work, not very reliable.
Our government body for telecommunications, OFTEL, has done little regarding roll-out of DSL. The South (suprise, suprise) gets priority in DSL rollouts so far, and OFTEL have been lax in getting British Telecom in unbundling the local loop.
Our government has promised something, but our current government are a bunch of charalatans, and almost everything they promised in their elecetion manifesto has failed to be delivered.
Some other software companies have done simillar in the past, with a form of activation key to make the software work. The ones I've worked with have been annoying, particularly when attempting to recover from a system failure. They always cause annoyance when some software you need to use doesn't want to work anymore, usually when not needed.
I once had my SMTP system stop runnning due to it expiring, and the supplier was in a timezone 8 hours behind, meaning I was effectivly out of action for a day. There was nowhere indicating when it expired, and the person who installed it hadn't made notes.
Timebombed software (except demonstration or pre-release) is pure evil, and must be destroyed.
Although what can be done with a dozen or so pirates, a female diver, a Napoleonic soldier, a polieman, two coyboys, a red-indian with head-dress and a ghost?
I left my one employer early in 1999, after many years. A year later they changed their name and IPOd.
Unfortunatly when I was working there the company was in the services area - troubleshooting networks, implementing solutions and other technically proficient things. Unfortunatly, due to the incompetance of the person in charge of my department at the time, we lost a lot of customers and didn't gain new ones.
Meanwhile another team in the were working on a web server 'intranet' product, whilst abandoning the installation of firewalls and web servers as being 'too hard'.
Eventually the work in my department became no more than a call centre. I was transferred to the support team for this new product, and discovered it to be utter junk. Even the customers using it hated it. The product was more marketing than programming. I spent a few months on that team, handling customer support calls, then left to go elsewhere. I'd have stayed longer if they'd let me get my hands dirty actually solving their development problems.
A year later they IPOd on one of the minor UK exchanges, and offered a stock option. Their stock price reached around 3.75 times its debut price, but has since fallen to twice its debut value. The software itself is still junk, and it appears that most of the development team have left as the version number of the software has hardly changed in almost 2 years.
The division I worked in seems to have closed down. The website hasn't changed in 18 months, around the time that the person responsible for all the problems was fired. Everything is now this one piece of software.
I'm just waiting for their market price to crash.
And what am I doing now? I'm involved in the development cycle for stock-market dealing systems.
To me Combat was no more than a clone of some of the ideas of Space War - the first video game.
Interestingly Atari made their own Space War catridge. Games lasted a long time, particularly if both competitiors ran out of fuel!
Can anyone tell me why Space War was the only PAL only cartridge in an Atari catalogue I obtained in 1982? There were a number of NTSC only games around at the time, but most of these would not have worked outside North America for cultural reasons (baseball, that pseudo-Rugby League game they call football). Was there a legal problem with Space War?
Would whoever posted this crap (Steve Coogan is *NOT* funny. REPEAT. Steve Coogan is not funny), please go outside more often. It's also an offence under the copyrights and patent's act to post this, but today's freeloader society doesn't care about that, do they?
And whoever moderated this up should have all moderator rights removed completly.
ISTR once voting 3 times at the same UK election, each with a different coloured ballot paper. Every paper has 'Vote for no more than x candidates' printed on the top; we usually vote for just the one candidate, but some council elections require more candidates to be returned.
I can vote for members of 5 different bodies, parish council, district council, county council, parliament and Eurpean parliament. I also onced voted in a local referendum, on council policy too boring to bring up here. Sometimes elections for more than one body fall on the same day. Council elections usually occurr in May.
I once had a request from a UK company for someone to link the two Cyprus sales offices, one in the Greek area, the other in the Turkish area. We had to install a link between the two with a pair of routers, but no-one was allowed to speak to both offices. The routers were already on site, but no-one had got round to configuring them properly. It was planned to route other protocols over them as well, meaning a lot of extra configuration. To fufill the contract we had to send one engineer to one site, configure that router, then send someone else to the other site to do the same, and then hope that everything worked.
Under the bizarre constraints of this contract, I don't think anyone put in a bid. Would you?
With this being released at the same time as IE5.5 SP1, theres going to be a lot of people downloading for the next week or so.
I recal pretty poor net performance when version 4.0 first hit the streets, although that was a long time ago.
I won't be doing it, though. I'm tracking debian woody, and havn't had the time to update it for nearly two weeks, due to working away. There's some new things to pull down this weekend, glibc, XFree86 4.0, Perl 5.6 (hope the dpkg buglet is fixed) and many more. By the time I've got all that, it will be Sunday evening. Oh for ADSL.
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The orignal author of menuconfig had a Microsoft email address. It was still in there the last time I looked, and I'm certain it is still in 2.2.x. I've not got access to a full source tree at the moment to double-check.
When we have more than one election on the same day (parish council, borough council, county council, parliament or european parliament) the papers are colour coded to make voting easier.
Look at the menuconfig script, particularly the email address of one contributor.
This form of plural is quite old, stemming from Middle or Old English (not too sure which - I've wanted to study old forms of english for a long time). The word oxen still exists in the english language, and vixen also stems from this plural form, although it has since come to mean the singular as well.
Still, it's great to see a means of getting the spammers to spam each other. If only the same thing could be done for junk snail-mail.
I've also had the problem of working on a site with KVM and remote control packages. Same limitation of one user per machine.
Basically, NT is hopeless when it comes to remote administration.
I installed UMSDOS Slackware from the A and N floppies (around 10 in those days) on one of the PCs in the lab, then installed a kernel I compiled at home in my spare time - the kernel having routing enable. Then I added a spare NIC to this machine.
The plans for whistler appear to be to extend this further.
They've already done this. I had a perfectly valid souncard, but I had to junk it when one version of DirectX appeared, because the drivers hadn't been updated. The card worked fine, but wouldn't run this version of DirectX. Unfortunatly the card was on a non-standard daughterboard and couldn't be removed without a hacksaw.
"A new OS version will be released on they day that Tony downloads the ISO for the previous version".
He did it at least 3 times in a few months, offering to sell us CDs he'd just cut for media-only costs.
I don't know where he is now, but he's probably installing FreeBSD 4.1.
Our government body for telecommunications, OFTEL, has done little regarding roll-out of DSL. The South (suprise, suprise) gets priority in DSL rollouts so far, and OFTEL have been lax in getting British Telecom in unbundling the local loop.
Our government has promised something, but our current government are a bunch of charalatans, and almost everything they promised in their elecetion manifesto has failed to be delivered.
I could always move.
Some other software companies have done simillar in the past, with a form of activation key to make the software work. The ones I've worked with have been annoying, particularly when attempting to recover from a system failure. They always cause annoyance when some software you need to use doesn't want to work anymore, usually when not needed.
I once had my SMTP system stop runnning due to it expiring, and the supplier was in a timezone 8 hours behind, meaning I was effectivly out of action for a day. There was nowhere indicating when it expired, and the person who installed it hadn't made notes.
Timebombed software (except demonstration or pre-release) is pure evil, and must be destroyed.
Although what can be done with a dozen or so pirates, a female diver, a Napoleonic soldier, a polieman, two coyboys, a red-indian with head-dress and a ghost?
Except reform the Village People, of course!
(Note - only UK slashdotters will understand this. Aero is a popular UK chocolate bar).
Unfortunatly when I was working there the company was in the services area - troubleshooting networks, implementing solutions and other technically proficient things. Unfortunatly, due to the incompetance of the person in charge of my department at the time, we lost a lot of customers and didn't gain new ones.
Meanwhile another team in the were working on a web server 'intranet' product, whilst abandoning the installation of firewalls and web servers as being 'too hard'.
Eventually the work in my department became no more than a call centre. I was transferred to the support team for this new product, and discovered it to be utter junk. Even the customers using it hated it. The product was more marketing than programming. I spent a few months on that team, handling customer support calls, then left to go elsewhere. I'd have stayed longer if they'd let me get my hands dirty actually solving their development problems.
A year later they IPOd on one of the minor UK exchanges, and offered a stock option. Their stock price reached around 3.75 times its debut price, but has since fallen to twice its debut value. The software itself is still junk, and it appears that most of the development team have left as the version number of the software has hardly changed in almost 2 years.
The division I worked in seems to have closed down. The website hasn't changed in 18 months, around the time that the person responsible for all the problems was fired. Everything is now this one piece of software.
I'm just waiting for their market price to crash.
And what am I doing now? I'm involved in the development cycle for stock-market dealing systems.
Wasn't there a limit of 10 minutes per game? Or did this apply to just some of the game variants?
Interestingly Atari made their own Space War catridge. Games lasted a long time, particularly if both competitiors ran out of fuel!
Can anyone tell me why Space War was the only PAL only cartridge in an Atari catalogue I obtained in 1982? There were a number of NTSC only games around at the time, but most of these would not have worked outside North America for cultural reasons (baseball, that pseudo-Rugby League game they call football). Was there a legal problem with Space War?
And whoever moderated this up should have all moderator rights removed completly.
I can vote for members of 5 different bodies, parish council, district council, county council, parliament and Eurpean parliament. I also onced voted in a local referendum, on council policy too boring to bring up here. Sometimes elections for more than one body fall on the same day. Council elections usually occurr in May.
Don't forget the piece of string that the pencil is tied to!
Dosn't Hull have free local calls?
I once had a request from a UK company for someone to link the two Cyprus sales offices, one in the Greek area, the other in the Turkish area. We had to install a link between the two with a pair of routers, but no-one was allowed to speak to both offices. The routers were already on site, but no-one had got round to configuring them properly. It was planned to route other protocols over them as well, meaning a lot of extra configuration. To fufill the contract we had to send one engineer to one site, configure that router, then send someone else to the other site to do the same, and then hope that everything worked.
Under the bizarre constraints of this contract, I don't think anyone put in a bid. Would you?
I must be psychic - glibc 2.2 went into Debian Potato on Saturday, as I discovered when I came to do an apt-get dist-upgrade.
Anything else being released this weekend? We could also see 2.4.0 kernel, Gimp 1.2, glibc-2.2, gcc-3.00 or even the next Win2000 service pack.
I recal pretty poor net performance when version 4.0 first hit the streets, although that was a long time ago.
I won't be doing it, though. I'm tracking debian woody, and havn't had the time to update it for nearly two weeks, due to working away. There's some new things to pull down this weekend, glibc, XFree86 4.0, Perl 5.6 (hope the dpkg buglet is fixed) and many more. By the time I've got all that, it will be Sunday evening. Oh for ADSL.