Funny. I seem to recall a lot of screaming about the possibility for abuse and I distinctly recall being told to shut the fuck up, we can *trust* them to do the right thing.
The fact that it was so big and chunky, not to mention limited in song capacity... I mean, you could literally tape a nano to the back of a RAZR and have a phone that had more functionality in a smaller package!
It's like they weren't even trying very hard.
I'm more inclined to believe the "Apple uses Motorola as a whipping boy to get iTunes on a commercial phone to bolster their strategic position for launching an Apple branded cell phone" theory.
Does this mean I can draw pictures "proving" the similarities between my software "Player of Media" and sue a certain large company for damages? I mean, I have drawings!
Wow. I'm suprised nobody had jumped down this guy's throat for using eGroupware, the bastard child of phpGroupware. eGroupware is *not* GPL compatable. it was a splinter group of phpGroupware that took off when they started rejecting their CVS submissions because they weren't licensed GPL compatable.
Amusingly enough, eGroupware just split again because the guy who started the whole mess took off and decided to take his code with him. Because the code wasn't GPL'd the rest of his little crew of insurgents were screwed.
For my money, the Matrix is a really nice pack to carry a bunch of stuff in. It has a padded compartment for one laptop, and another compartment in front of that with a nice elastic support divider where a second laptop nests nicely. I carried my IBM thinkpad T22 and a Compaq Evo N400C and all the associated power bits, along with a full folding tool kit, a digital camera, a digital recorder, my PDA, an MP3 player, a full size set of padded bose headphones with a boom mic, my braces, and misc. geek crap (cd's, wallet, a few cards, parts, etc) all very comfortably. The pack adjusts fairly nicely and has a waist strap and nice cushy shoulder straps with a very handy case for your cellphone on the strap and a nice hole to run the cable of your headphones out of. It's got a padded pocket sized for a cdplayer as well (but I only use that for my software cds)
Oh, and it has a nice netting pocket with elastic straps for your jacket.
Hope this helps. At about $50 or so, it's not a bad backpack at all. I've been pretty happy with the quality.
It's possible that it is, but you don't have to join up with that stuff if you don't want to. Just get the service. It works, it's cheap and let those other guys thumb wrestle it out.
I pay about $50 a month or so (I think closer to $60 after taxes) for unlimited long distance and local calls, plus caller id, call waiting, forwarding and several other options that I don't even use.
Service has been good. Billing has been accurate and on time. I don't have any complaints at all. Particularly since I'm no longer being forceably FDA'd by SBC anymore.
I can't find the url for the offer I have. However, if you drop an email to deech "at" free "dash" source "dot" com, I'll be happy to send you the phone number from my flier.
This is a little silly, I think. They just submitted comments that the laws "may, in certain situations" collide. This hasn't occurred yet, therefore there isn't any "bruhaha" court battle or anything silly like that... so how is this some major battle to reshape the DMCA?
Actually, the PCjr came with the "chicklet" keyboard that had squared off buttons that allowed an overlay to be put on top of it. Originally that's what you got, but eventually they included a "regular" keyboard as well.
We've played witht the idea off and on of putting a wireless network out in our plant for ease of our use (the sysadmins). It would be so cool if I could just whip out my iPaq (or whatever) and use many of my often used admin utilities over the network, such as Windows usermanager (playing with those stupid permissions) or a shell to see what my 'nix server is up to and if that damn 3Ware card has barfed all over itself again or running one of several custom apps that we've developed in house. I could see this being *extremely* useful in this situation, rather then having to either a. find a nearby computer to kick a user off of to login as admin or b. walk all the way back to your office because you need a utility there.
I know there is a vnc client for WinCE. Anyone know of other useful admin type utilities that would make this venture worthwhile to us?
Ergh! I'm sick of people deciding what's too "advanced" for our children.. Oh no.. that's too *harrrdd*... They can't possibly handle *that*! I say BULLSHIT! Children's brains are like great gaping holes that you can pour information into. They adapt, their thought processes are never going to be in better shape to learn. Teach them multiple languages, they will pick it up *easily*, teach them the workings of the OS on a low level, even if they don't use it, it still will help them in the long run! How much of that Earth Science are you using now adays? It's still a requirement, because it's part of your environment. So will computers be when these kids get out of school. Show them we have the confidence in them to learn and give them as much information as we can. How many kids can organize their thoughts and think logically? Don't you think learning a programming language would help? My daughter (10) is currently working on learning BASIC on my old PCjr. No, she'll probably never actually apply her "L337" Basic skilz, but she's learning to plan her ideas, and logically comunicate her thoughts to the computer, and that, my friend, is some seriously valuable lessons.
Yes, this has rumor status. No, it's not out of the question. James is a really fantastic individual and as anyone who has met him as he made his rounds on the con circuit, is always kind and well mannered. He can also tell a mean story or two.. and it's even better when you can get him talking about William Shatner.. Bwahahaha!
He wanted to make sure his daughter and wife are taken care of when he is gone. That's what the money is for, no big mystery there.
Actually, the original imigrants fleeing religious persecution were the Puritans who were fleeing persecution due to their ultra fanactical ways (read: *uber fundie*), and they wanted to find a place where they could abuse themselves in peace...
That thinks that we should be practicing this on the *moon* before we go galavanting off to another planet?
I mean, why haven't we been back to the moon and put up a space station? Is it just not as *cool* as going to mars?
Well.. I wouldn't say "working on" as these suckers are quite real, and I think your friends will find it quite operational.
It's call THEL, Tactical High Energy Laser.
See information here:
http://www.smdc.army.mil/FactSheets/THEL.html
I'm with you!
I'm paid a reasonable (not really large, but reasonable) salary, to code, develop, build, admin, etc etc.. and have a pager on 24/7.
I really don't get paid overtime, but I do get flexability during the working week if I've worked over, I'm allowed to take paid days off without them counting against my vacation days (within reason of course), I get a nice office with a real door and window to the big blue room. I get to have a cat at work. I get respect from my bosses (who are some of the most respectable folks I've ever worked for), I get new toys. I get to develop stuff for our industry that noone has ever done before. I'm allowed plenty of time for R&D, and deadlines for projects are extremely flexable, mostly "when it works right".
My salary isn't massive, but it's decent for the area I live in. I get nice annual raises (~10%) and x-mas bonuses. I have great benifits (health, dental, vision).
I think it's a *great* deal, and am happy where I am at. I also know that my job is *secure*.
So, I too, have absolutely no problem with a salaried arrangment.
Ok, I just had to put together a couple file servers for the office and wanted to do rack mount as cheaply as possible... I managed to end up with:
4u Rackmount w/5 5.25 and 1 3.5
hot swap raid 5
120gb available space
256mg ram
Duron 650
Here's the breakdown:
(realize that I ordered double of everthing, so your prices may vary slightly on a single server)
Ordered from: bzboys.com
2 Duron 650 $46.87/ea
2 256mb Micron PC133 $109.32/ea
Total: $354.91
Ordered from: nexthardwareshop.com
8 IBM 5400rpm 40.0 gb HDD
Total: 899.52
(drives adverted at $101/ea, but they rape on shipping, still ended up cheaper then anywhere else at around $111/ea total)
Grand Total: 2614.47 or around $1300 each.
Not to shabby at all. The escalade controllers fully support Linux and also support full hot swap, hence the addition of the removable HDD carriers.. instant hot swap array!:)
You could really cut your cost by going with less then $400 worth of drives, or smaller ones.
But then again, at around $11 per gig, still not bad at all.
Disclaimer: I don't have anything to do with any of the companies listed, but they seemed to do a good job, I got all of my orders in a week. Of special mention is KD Computers. I ordered on a Wed. at 2pm, they shipped that night and I had my stuff by Fri. morning. YMMV. HTH.
Here is the link to the patent, if anyone is interested...
http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US06167407__
I couldn't quite wrap my head around it.. but I think they are basically using several different incremental versions of the update, compare it to the current data and then applying the update that is most appropriate.
i.e. say you start with data version 1.
you update to version 2
you wait a while and now they are up to version 5
when you tell the software to update itself it goes and looks to the server and on the server are 5 different incremental updates:
1 to 5, 2 to 5, 3 to 5, and 4 to 5
it realizes that it needs the incremental update from 2 to 5 and loads that one...
of course, I could be completely off, please correct me if I am wrong..(of course you will, this is/.)
HAND.
Did you actually *read* the *whole* article, or did you just read the first and last paragraphs?
"Die size" has nothing to do with the issues he presents. If you can refute the claims he makes in the *middle* section of the article, by all means do. If not, shaddap and siddown!
Slashdot Mirror
what? RUN!
If we can't stop it, just ridicule it. I say we call it "Cornflaker" from now on.
"The book is available not only in print, but in electronic form as well, as part of the Safari Books Online library"
RTFA
Man, even when it's right in front of you, second line. Nice.
Plus, a subscription to the Safari Books Online Library is ridiculously cool and cheap for the access to the library that you get.
Funny. I seem to recall a lot of screaming about the possibility for abuse and I distinctly recall being told to shut the fuck up, we can *trust* them to do the right thing.
pfft.
The fact that it was so big and chunky, not to mention limited in song capacity... I mean, you could literally tape a nano to the back of a RAZR and have a phone that had more functionality in a smaller package!
It's like they weren't even trying very hard.
I'm more inclined to believe the "Apple uses Motorola as a whipping boy to get iTunes on a commercial phone to bolster their strategic position for launching an Apple branded cell phone" theory.
Yes, Yes. I know.
It was a joke. Did you see that "exibit", complete with a funny drawing of Liberace? I just found that "proof" hilarious.
Does this mean I can draw pictures "proving" the similarities between my software "Player of Media" and sue a certain large company for damages? I mean, I have drawings!
Wow. I'm suprised nobody had jumped down this guy's throat for using eGroupware, the bastard child of phpGroupware. eGroupware is *not* GPL compatable. it was a splinter group of phpGroupware that took off when they started rejecting their CVS submissions because they weren't licensed GPL compatable.
:)
Amusingly enough, eGroupware just split again because the guy who started the whole mess took off and decided to take his code with him. Because the code wasn't GPL'd the rest of his little crew of insurgents were screwed.
ironic..
For my money, the Matrix is a really nice pack to carry a bunch of stuff in.
It has a padded compartment for one laptop, and another compartment in front of that with a nice elastic support divider where a second laptop nests nicely. I carried my IBM thinkpad T22 and a Compaq Evo N400C and all the associated power bits, along with a full folding tool kit, a digital camera, a digital recorder, my PDA, an MP3 player, a full size set of padded bose headphones with a boom mic, my braces, and misc. geek crap (cd's, wallet, a few cards, parts, etc) all very comfortably. The pack adjusts fairly nicely and has a waist strap and nice cushy shoulder straps with a very handy case for your cellphone on the strap and a nice hole to run the cable of your headphones out of. It's got a padded pocket sized for a cdplayer as well (but I only use that for my software cds)
Oh, and it has a nice netting pocket with elastic straps for your jacket.
Hope this helps. At about $50 or so, it's not a bad backpack at all. I've been pretty happy with the quality.
It's possible that it is, but you don't have to join up with that stuff if you don't want to. Just get the service. It works, it's cheap and let those other guys thumb wrestle it out.
I've recent switched to Excel for all my calls.
I pay about $50 a month or so (I think closer to $60 after taxes) for unlimited long distance and local calls, plus caller id, call waiting, forwarding and several other options that I don't even use.
Service has been good. Billing has been accurate and on time. I don't have any complaints at all. Particularly since I'm no longer being forceably FDA'd by SBC anymore.
I can't find the url for the offer I have. However, if you drop an email to deech "at" free "dash" source "dot" com, I'll be happy to send you the phone number from my flier.
(quotes are punctuation discriptions, not text)
This is a little silly, I think. They just submitted comments that the laws "may, in certain situations" collide. This hasn't occurred yet, therefore there isn't any "bruhaha" court battle or anything silly like that... so how is this some major battle to reshape the DMCA?
Actually, the PCjr came with the "chicklet" keyboard that had squared off buttons that allowed an overlay to be put on top of it.
Originally that's what you got, but eventually they included a "regular" keyboard as well.
We've played witht the idea off and on of putting a wireless network out in our plant for ease of our use (the sysadmins). It would be so cool if I could just whip out my iPaq (or whatever) and use many of my often used admin utilities over the network, such as Windows usermanager (playing with those stupid permissions) or a shell to see what my 'nix server is up to and if that damn 3Ware card has barfed all over itself again or running one of several custom apps that we've developed in house. I could see this being *extremely* useful in this situation, rather then having to either a. find a nearby computer to kick a user off of to login as admin or b. walk all the way back to your office because you need a utility there.
I know there is a vnc client for WinCE.
Anyone know of other useful admin type utilities that would make this venture worthwhile to us?
Ergh! I'm sick of people deciding what's too "advanced" for our children.. Oh no.. that's too *harrrdd*... They can't possibly handle *that*! I say BULLSHIT! Children's brains are like great gaping holes that you can pour information into. They adapt, their thought processes are never going to be in better shape to learn. Teach them multiple languages, they will pick it up *easily*, teach them the workings of the OS on a low level, even if they don't use it, it still will help them in the long run! How much of that Earth Science are you using now adays? It's still a requirement, because it's part of your environment. So will computers be when these kids get out of school. Show them we have the confidence in them to learn and give them as much information as we can. How many kids can organize their thoughts and think logically? Don't you think learning a programming language would help? My daughter (10) is currently working on learning BASIC on my old PCjr. No, she'll probably never actually apply her "L337" Basic skilz, but she's learning to plan her ideas, and logically comunicate her thoughts to the computer, and that, my friend, is some seriously valuable lessons.
Yes, this has rumor status. No, it's not out of the question. James is a really fantastic individual and as anyone who has met him as he made his rounds on the con circuit, is always kind and well mannered. He can also tell a mean story or two.. and it's even better when you can get him talking about William Shatner.. Bwahahaha!
He wanted to make sure his daughter and wife are taken care of when he is gone. That's what the money is for, no big mystery there.
Actually, if you notice, Pinball is a protected system file in Win2k. Try to delete the exe.. it just keeps coming back!
Sad it is, but I'll give you the correct line from memory:
Uncle Owen: Luke, take these two over to the garage, will you? I want you to have both of them cleaned up before dinner.
Luke: But I was going into Toshi Station to pick up some power converters..
Uncle Owen: You can waste time with your friends when your chores are done.
Now come on, get to it!
I'm pathetic, I know..
Actually, the original imigrants fleeing religious persecution were the Puritans who were fleeing persecution due to their ultra fanactical ways (read: *uber fundie*), and they wanted to find a place where they could abuse themselves in peace...
:)
Otherwise I have to agree fully with you.
That thinks that we should be practicing this on the *moon* before we go galavanting off to another planet? I mean, why haven't we been back to the moon and put up a space station? Is it just not as *cool* as going to mars?
Well.. I wouldn't say "working on" as these suckers are quite real, and I think your friends will find it quite operational. It's call THEL, Tactical High Energy Laser. See information here: http://www.smdc.army.mil/FactSheets/THEL.html
I'm with you!
I'm paid a reasonable (not really large, but reasonable) salary, to code, develop, build, admin, etc etc.. and have a pager on 24/7.
I really don't get paid overtime, but I do get flexability during the working week if I've worked over, I'm allowed to take paid days off without them counting against my vacation days (within reason of course), I get a nice office with a real door and window to the big blue room. I get to have a cat at work. I get respect from my bosses (who are some of the most respectable folks I've ever worked for), I get new toys. I get to develop stuff for our industry that noone has ever done before. I'm allowed plenty of time for R&D, and deadlines for projects are extremely flexable, mostly "when it works right".
My salary isn't massive, but it's decent for the area I live in. I get nice annual raises (~10%) and x-mas bonuses. I have great benifits (health, dental, vision).
I think it's a *great* deal, and am happy where I am at. I also know that my job is *secure*.
So, I too, have absolutely no problem with a salaried arrangment.
Ok, I just had to put together a couple file servers for the office and wanted to do rack mount as cheaply as possible... I managed to end up with:
:)
4u Rackmount w/5 5.25 and 1 3.5
hot swap raid 5
120gb available space
256mg ram
Duron 650
Here's the breakdown:
(realize that I ordered double of everthing, so your prices may vary slightly on a single server)
Ordered from: bzboys.com
2 Duron 650 $46.87/ea
2 256mb Micron PC133 $109.32/ea
Total: $354.91
Ordered from: kdcomputers.com
2 GlobalWin FOP32-1 $18.00/ea
1 Artic Silver Thermal Adhesive $14.00
Total: $63.55
Ordered from: linuxstore.com
2 3Ware Escalade ATA Raid Controller 6400 $239.00/ea
2 IWill KK66 Duron MainBoard $119.00/ea
Total: $716.00 + shipping
Ordered from: bixnet.com
8 Removable HDD Kits ATA66/100 (19.95)
Total: $174.49
Ordered from: servercase.com
2 Rackmount Case 4U w/4 5.25 bays $128.00/ea
2 350wPS AMD approved w/2 fans $45/ea
2 6cmFan $5/ea
Total: $406.00
Ordered from: nexthardwareshop.com
8 IBM 5400rpm 40.0 gb HDD
Total: 899.52
(drives adverted at $101/ea, but they rape on shipping, still ended up cheaper then anywhere else at around $111/ea total)
Grand Total: 2614.47 or around $1300 each.
Not to shabby at all. The escalade controllers fully support Linux and also support full hot swap, hence the addition of the removable HDD carriers.. instant hot swap array!
You could really cut your cost by going with less then $400 worth of drives, or smaller ones.
But then again, at around $11 per gig, still not bad at all.
Disclaimer: I don't have anything to do with any of the companies listed, but they seemed to do a good job, I got all of my orders in a week. Of special mention is KD Computers. I ordered on a Wed. at 2pm, they shipped that night and I had my stuff by Fri. morning. YMMV. HTH.
Here is the link to the patent, if anyone is interested...
/.)
http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US06167407__
I couldn't quite wrap my head around it.. but I think they are basically using several different incremental versions of the update, compare it to the current data and then applying the update that is most appropriate.
i.e. say you start with data version 1.
you update to version 2
you wait a while and now they are up to version 5
when you tell the software to update itself it goes and looks to the server and on the server are 5 different incremental updates:
1 to 5, 2 to 5, 3 to 5, and 4 to 5
it realizes that it needs the incremental update from 2 to 5 and loads that one...
of course, I could be completely off, please correct me if I am wrong..(of course you will, this is
HAND.
WooHoo!
Someone else who read Danny Dunn!
Yup, I remember it. Very cool.
You are not alone.
-deech
Did you actually *read* the *whole* article, or did you just read the first and last paragraphs?
"Die size" has nothing to do with the issues he presents. If you can refute the claims he makes in the *middle* section of the article, by all means do. If not, shaddap and siddown!