Personally, aside from the apathetic voters, I blame stupid people in Florida. a) can't figure out a simple butterfly ballot...piece of cake. Or the fact the sample ones were different than the final ones - how stupid are you that you go in to vote for hole #1, hole #4, hole #8.
And I've always been insulted that they created the electoral college because they thought that the masses were too dumb to elect a president...now I think they may be onto something.
I had a similar problem with the dhcp stuff. I told them I was running win2k. I was told to run ipconfig/renew. Oddly enough that didn't help the fact their dhcp server had no IP's to give out.
Then they started to argue with me about whether I was getting a 169. address that win9x auto assigns if no dhcp server could be found. Could not convince them that win2k does not do that...it reports no DHCP server found. Damn scripts.
Next time I called I just learned to say "yup." Find myself on the Linux console doing echo ^G to make the "just rebooted" beep, because rebooting my PC will fix the fact that the signal strength from my model to their office was too low.
I have a few here and there. Most of them look like crappy OCR versions, converted to text, and all paragraph breaks removed.
However, I have them for Cryptonomicon, which I have the several inch think paperback version I read. But with the.txt version, I can SEARCH for something. Don't remember when a character was introduced (the book was like 1100+ pages) I can find it easy.
I pulled the new Harry Potter down right after it came out - nice PDF. Only reason is I didn't believe it was the book. Deleted it after looking at it for 5 minutes. Never read the first 4, and if I did and read this one, it'd be hard copy.
Yes...ther is inflation...don't think it fully explains why a paperback costs $2.95 in the early 80's, $4.95 in the early 90's and $8.95 now.
I would think that with better recycling and better production of paper that the raw products would go down so the cost should not be jumping like that.
Then again, look at the costs of paperback vs. ebooks. Obviously it's not raw costs...greed.
I don't know - we had a student that went to my boss about a "security flaw" in banner. My boss sent it to me and one other person. I met with the student, even though there was no way possible for what he described to happen. Turns out the student was mistaken/misunderstanding something. If he had proved it, we would have contacted the vendor about it.
If a student was to contact the vendor directly, they would probably tell him to piss off.
It's a little better now - with v5 they did something to have local and baseline versions of the data for stuff in web tailor...so now it just overwrites half of your stuff and leaves the other half stranded in other tables.
At least that's how I remember it. Our Banner Web Server is named after a prison because even though I don't deal with it daily anymore, it is something I can't seem to escape from.
Doing their job? What about making sure systems are backed up? What about making sure that things are working normally? What about making sure grades entered in are processed correctly? What about applying the latest 5 MS patches of the day?
I know we don't have the time or money to hire someone just to sit around an play cop. Also, we don't know that someone transfering "Hold on.mp3" is transfering an illegal song, something for a music class, or any number of other things.
Local governments get sued all the time. Find enough lawyers and they'll go after whoever the county/state hired to maintain the grounds, the commisioner that signed the order for the bush, etc...
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I like the album - but I find it annoying to listen to - not because fo the loudness, but because of all the overdubs. The old albums sounded like 3 people playing in a studio with very good sound.
Now everything sounds so super-polished, layered, etc... that it is annoying to listen to. It's as if the music just sounds too cluttered and complex.
An 8 foot pricacy fence should stop a child too young to know better. If they are old enough to bypass the fence, they are probably old enough to know better.
Perhaps I'll find some poisinous berries on a bush on government land, let my daughter eat one then sue for them being an attractive nuisance.
What I was thinking, if you are really po'ed about this (especially if it's a notebook) is not to do anything with it - leave it at that initial state until your date in court and ask for damages or something since you have been unable to use the machine as yet for fear of destroying evidence.
This makes me feel like a hog for using a whole class-A all by myself. I guess I'll carve up my 10.x.x.x block for others to use. After all, I have 16M assigned to me and am only using 15.
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Personally, aside from the apathetic voters, I blame stupid people in Florida. a) can't figure out a simple butterfly ballot...piece of cake. Or the fact the sample ones were different than the final ones - how stupid are you that you go in to vote for hole #1, hole #4, hole #8.
And I've always been insulted that they created the electoral college because they thought that the masses were too dumb to elect a president...now I think they may be onto something.
no it isn't. Code Red and Nimda spread via a bug in IIS (the web server).
There is no vuln in Terminal Services - well, at least not one that has been found.
blogs from the bog?
I had a similar problem with the dhcp stuff. I told them I was running win2k. I was told to run ipconfig /renew. Oddly enough that didn't help the fact their dhcp server had no IP's to give out.
Then they started to argue with me about whether I was getting a 169. address that win9x auto assigns if no dhcp server could be found. Could not convince them that win2k does not do that...it reports no DHCP server found. Damn scripts.
Next time I called I just learned to say "yup." Find myself on the Linux console doing echo ^G to make the "just rebooted" beep, because rebooting my PC will fix the fact that the signal strength from my model to their office was too low.
I have a few here and there. Most of them look like crappy OCR versions, converted to text, and all paragraph breaks removed.
.txt version, I can SEARCH for something. Don't remember when a character was introduced (the book was like 1100+ pages) I can find it easy.
However, I have them for Cryptonomicon, which I have the several inch think paperback version I read. But with the
I pulled the new Harry Potter down right after it came out - nice PDF. Only reason is I didn't believe it was the book. Deleted it after looking at it for 5 minutes. Never read the first 4, and if I did and read this one, it'd be hard copy.
Yes...ther is inflation...don't think it fully explains why a paperback costs $2.95 in the early 80's, $4.95 in the early 90's and $8.95 now.
I would think that with better recycling and better production of paper that the raw products would go down so the cost should not be jumping like that.
Then again, look at the costs of paperback vs. ebooks. Obviously it's not raw costs...greed.
I don't know - we had a student that went to my boss about a "security flaw" in banner. My boss sent it to me and one other person. I met with the student, even though there was no way possible for what he described to happen. Turns out the student was mistaken/misunderstanding something. If he had proved it, we would have contacted the vendor about it.
If a student was to contact the vendor directly, they would probably tell him to piss off.
It's a little better now - with v5 they did something to have local and baseline versions of the data for stuff in web tailor...so now it just overwrites half of your stuff and leaves the other half stranded in other tables.
At least that's how I remember it. Our Banner Web Server is named after a prison because even though I don't deal with it daily anymore, it is something I can't seem to escape from.
Wow...must be some telescope...even the most expensive telescope I've looked through, only one person could use it at a time :)
(hoping it's not cloudy out...getting ready to take my dob out to look at Mars.)
That must have been a lot of data if it took 10 years to process. Probably had an accident 10 minutes before it would have been done.
The mice must have been furious.
Doing their job? What about making sure systems are backed up? What about making sure that things are working normally? What about making sure grades entered in are processed correctly? What about applying the latest 5 MS patches of the day?
I know we don't have the time or money to hire someone just to sit around an play cop. Also, we don't know that someone transfering "Hold on.mp3" is transfering an illegal song, something for a music class, or any number of other things.
I would never poison my own child.
Local governments get sued all the time. Find enough lawyers and they'll go after whoever the county/state hired to maintain the grounds, the commisioner that signed the order for the bush, etc...
I like the album - but I find it annoying to listen to - not because fo the loudness, but because of all the overdubs. The old albums sounded like 3 people playing in a studio with very good sound.
Now everything sounds so super-polished, layered, etc... that it is annoying to listen to. It's as if the music just sounds too cluttered and complex.
An 8 foot pricacy fence should stop a child too young to know better. If they are old enough to bypass the fence, they are probably old enough to know better.
Perhaps I'll find some poisinous berries on a bush on government land, let my daughter eat one then sue for them being an attractive nuisance.
For the younger ones, Mr. Microphone made an appearance at the end of Toy Story 2.
:)
And there was also a simpsons episode based around it - the one where bart pretends to be "Timmy" who fell down the well.
Sting: I'll do anything for one of my fans
Marge: I don't think Bart actually has one of his albums
Homer: Shhh Marge...he's a good digger.
(of course I'm sure someone will correct me with the exact words
What I was thinking, if you are really po'ed about this (especially if it's a notebook) is not to do anything with it - leave it at that initial state until your date in court and ask for damages or something since you have been unable to use the machine as yet for fear of destroying evidence.
Of course there is always just bad luck and timing all around.
Sure would have changed everything...good topic for a comic....
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What If...MS-DOS never happened?
And depending on the day, they make sure you can't do anything illegal by messing their systems up :)
Seriously thogugh - it is a good service most of the time.
MAC's can change - either via something like VMWare or as simple as Linux's ifconfig command.
This makes me feel like a hog for using a whole class-A all by myself. I guess I'll carve up my 10.x.x.x block for others to use. After all, I have 16M assigned to me and am only using 15.
Indiana University is probably a state school - therefore a government entity.
I think I saw it at Comdex once - I seem to remember there being a lot of yellow.
Gladly I can say that is my only exposure to it.
I want Rommie from Andromeda as my interface.
One I had always heard was that Gary was out of town when IBM showed up and that his wife wouldn't sign the NDA.
Wonder if he got contacted by the RIAA as the only reason to have an iPod is to obviously pirate music from the net for it.
Pixar movies kick ass.