Cool...glad to see one of those still around. I know there was one similar to this back in the mid-90s. Probably one of the cooler things to play with...guess I know what I'm doing tomorrow:)
I'm always asking HPUX why it can't be more like Linux and just work. While the OS works good, it seems some of the opensource stuff HP has borrowed and incorporated (kudos to them for it) never seems to work as well as it does on the Linux boxes.
Hmm...got a feeling I'll be kicking myself for saying this, but our 1650's have been running flawlessly. Given that we haven't had them as long as our "mostly trusty" 2550/2600's, but they have been good heat generators, er... machines.
We did have a handful of 2550's that came in and 3 of them each had a seperate different problem (bad drive, dead MB and something else - it was kinda errie)
Tomorrow, expect a followup about how our 1650's all died;)
A little darker? In the first episode, Malcolm looked at a closet of white suits and had them all replaced with black ones...probably the single greatest moment in the remake.
At least that I know of - just watched the one episode.
In other news, the Dept of Transportation are not doing enough to stop the flow of illegal goods traveling in vehicles over roads they maintain.
Also, the phone company is not doing enough to stop illegal credit card fraud which happens when someone uses a stolen credit card to place a phone order.
Okay...Microsoft does a lot of business with a lot of people in a lot of ways and it would be very easy for them to get sued over something they may have accidentally signed up for, etc...
For this I could see the "prior relationship" reasoning - much like the current telemarketting stuff.
However, the ISP part doesn't make much sense, unless they wanna be able to send tons of junk mail to their MSN subscribers about other MS junk.
Either way - a) how hard would it be for a spammer to forge a database showing how recipient a had clicked on a web site and signed up b) act as an ISP (yeah...we have 2 subscribers, but we're an ISP) and spam away.
Then again, I'm one of those old folk who remember the Internet before business took hold:)
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I agree...the supplier shouldn't track you inventory. But if they sent you an item with a tag, wouldn't you need a) a reader to know what was passing out the store b) a connection of some sort to send that back to the supplier.
In other words, the inventory isn't phoning home to the mothership - you'd have to work with the supplier to setup this sort of deal.
Of course, they would know what has left their truck into your store, but as you said, up til you sign for it, it's theirs anyway.
Personally, I'd like to start weaving the tags from items I bought into my clothes. Walk out the door in shorts and a tank top and the system thinks I am carrying a 25" tv, etc...
Unless you're just stringing together some LinkSys hubs, most management software has this ability.
I can go to a console, type an IP or MAC and be show exactly what switch and port on campus that is coming from. Pull up the map for that switch and see where that port physically terminates.
Had someone with a rogue DHCP server years ago causing trouble. Right after the class let out, we were able to go into the room and descend upon him. Pretty much freaked him out. Turns out he downloaded something that he didn't know what all it did (was kinda a windows based router for a home network).
There is a large difference between copyin features of X into windows, and some tool that a bored programmer put together in an hour or two that was released to the public.
Recording can easily be done at home/garage via a PC/Mac.
Sure - there may be some hit in quality, but for the kind of people that would probably like this band, they are probably sick to death of the super-overpolished stuff coming out now anyway and want something a little more raw sounding.
Listen to Iron Maiden's "Somewhere In Time" album - super polished, overdubs, etc... now listen to "Killers" or even "Piece of Mind". Yes...it's a clean, decent recording, but it sounds more raw, more like a bunch of guys just playing instead of 500 gizmos touching up everything.
Oh well...that's my pitch for half-assed audigy recordings:)
Commercial air-liners work this way now. Pulling on the yoke tells a computer to tell the wing to move.
That's nothing new - I had that in the first vesion of Flight Simulator back in the early 80s. In fact, Microsoft had an advanced setup with the computer controlled pretty much the whole plane.
My grandmother had a friend from when she was a lot younger. In around 1982, when I was heavily into D&D, we'd gone to Ohio to visit my parents friends and we'd stopped by to visit this friend.
I remember my grandmother asking the other lady's grandson if he played D&D, and the woman spouting out how that game was the work of the devil, blah blah blah and he wasn't allowed to play it.
I swear, you could almost litterly see the look of horror in my grandmothers face - not that I was playing the devils game, but that someone she knew so well could be so silly.
Now, that cartoon from the 80s (which I have 160x120 versions of the whole series somewhere) - that could warp minds.
Unless the DoJ decides not to be serious about it.
But anyway, I don't see where MS making their Office program have a file format that someone else can't easily read is using their leverage to destroy the competition.
If they decided to give away a copy of office to every household then perhaps. If they put code in Windows that would not let wordperfect run (again). If they send out an update to IE that just happens to delete OpenOffice.exe.
But just because they make changes to what they are currently doing or how they save a file to provide new features is hardly going out of their way to destroy the competition. I don't see where they should be required to stagnate just on the off chance some other project won't work with a new idea.
I abhor the way MS does some of their business, but I do agree with the "freedom to innovate" idea that Ballmer/Gates were pushing. IMHO the DOJ should not have been looking at them making windows more intergrated (gee...didn't KDE have browsers built into their "explorer" windows too - must have been a good idea), but should have been looking at the way MS forced companies into contracts, etc...
1) Pay more attention in Math classes. 2) Practice guitar more 3) Register a good domain name before 1993. 4) Save a LOT of money for the VA Research IPO and see when it hits $300. 5) Ask Tracy out when you meet her.
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Cool...glad to see one of those still around. I know there was one similar to this back in the mid-90s. Probably one of the cooler things to play with...guess I know what I'm doing tomorrow :)
I'm always asking HPUX why it can't be more like Linux and just work. While the OS works good, it seems some of the opensource stuff HP has borrowed and incorporated (kudos to them for it) never seems to work as well as it does on the Linux boxes.
Of course, the HPUX hardware kicks ass.
Hmm...got a feeling I'll be kicking myself for saying this, but our 1650's have been running flawlessly. Given that we haven't had them as long as our "mostly trusty" 2550/2600's, but they have been good heat generators, er... machines.
;)
We did have a handful of 2550's that came in and 3 of them each had a seperate different problem (bad drive, dead MB and something else - it was kinda errie)
Tomorrow, expect a followup about how our 1650's all died
And from what you said, it requires konqueror.
What if you have files on one system that you want a web server on another system to serve?
What if you have a huge database of images you want available in the filesystem to multiple machines?
What if you have a NAS and want to store your debian mirror on the NAS but have the ftp server be on a linux box?
Sure...Konqueror may be good for a GUI network transparent filesystem browser, but it needs to be at a lower level than KDE.
Damn french supporters - don't you know you're being unamerican supporting the french that way?
:)
Bet you also get french fries and french toast.
Learn the works "no...I'm canadian"
At least that's what I read on some other site talking about Americans travelling overseas.
A little darker? In the first episode, Malcolm looked at a closet of white suits and had them all replaced with black ones...probably the single greatest moment in the remake.
At least that I know of - just watched the one episode.
Of the people, by the people, for the people?
Oh...fuck the people. They left that one off.
In other news, the Dept of Transportation are not doing enough to stop the flow of illegal goods traveling in vehicles over roads they maintain.
Also, the phone company is not doing enough to stop illegal credit card fraud which happens when someone uses a stolen credit card to place a phone order.
Okay...Microsoft does a lot of business with a lot of people in a lot of ways and it would be very easy for them to get sued over something they may have accidentally signed up for, etc...
:)
For this I could see the "prior relationship" reasoning - much like the current telemarketting stuff.
However, the ISP part doesn't make much sense, unless they wanna be able to send tons of junk mail to their MSN subscribers about other MS junk.
Either way - a) how hard would it be for a spammer to forge a database showing how recipient a had clicked on a web site and signed up b) act as an ISP (yeah...we have 2 subscribers, but we're an ISP) and spam away.
Then again, I'm one of those old folk who remember the Internet before business took hold
I agree...the supplier shouldn't track you inventory. But if they sent you an item with a tag, wouldn't you need a) a reader to know what was passing out the store b) a connection of some sort to send that back to the supplier.
In other words, the inventory isn't phoning home to the mothership - you'd have to work with the supplier to setup this sort of deal.
Of course, they would know what has left their truck into your store, but as you said, up til you sign for it, it's theirs anyway.
Personally, I'd like to start weaving the tags from items I bought into my clothes. Walk out the door in shorts and a tank top and the system thinks I am carrying a 25" tv, etc...
Unless you're just stringing together some LinkSys hubs, most management software has this ability.
I can go to a console, type an IP or MAC and be show exactly what switch and port on campus that is coming from. Pull up the map for that switch and see where that port physically terminates.
Had someone with a rogue DHCP server years ago causing trouble. Right after the class let out, we were able to go into the room and descend upon him. Pretty much freaked him out. Turns out he downloaded something that he didn't know what all it did (was kinda a windows based router for a home network).
There is a large difference between copyin features of X into windows, and some tool that a bored programmer put together in an hour or two that was released to the public.
I'll admit - a lot of the little processes to do this and that (sync a database to LDAP, expire users, etc...) are scripts.
I think too many bosses have the idea that scripting consists of what they remember about Batch files and that's it.
Sad thing is the ones that think that perl or php is some toy scripting language have no trouble buying into a series of asp SCRIPTS written in VB.
At least I don't hit resistance, just "You can do that? Wow."
Recording can easily be done at home/garage via a PC/Mac.
:)
Sure - there may be some hit in quality, but for the kind of people that would probably like this band, they are probably sick to death of the super-overpolished stuff coming out now anyway and want something a little more raw sounding.
Listen to Iron Maiden's "Somewhere In Time" album - super polished, overdubs, etc... now listen to "Killers" or even "Piece of Mind". Yes...it's a clean, decent recording, but it sounds more raw, more like a bunch of guys just playing instead of 500 gizmos touching up everything.
Oh well...that's my pitch for half-assed audigy recordings
Commercial air-liners work this way now. Pulling on the yoke tells a computer to tell the wing to move.
That's nothing new - I had that in the first vesion of Flight Simulator back in the early 80s. In fact, Microsoft had an advanced setup with the computer controlled pretty much the whole plane.
My grandmother had a friend from when she was a lot younger. In around 1982, when I was heavily into D&D, we'd gone to Ohio to visit my parents friends and we'd stopped by to visit this friend.
I remember my grandmother asking the other lady's grandson if he played D&D, and the woman spouting out how that game was the work of the devil, blah blah blah and he wasn't allowed to play it.
I swear, you could almost litterly see the look of horror in my grandmothers face - not that I was playing the devils game, but that someone she knew so well could be so silly.
Now, that cartoon from the 80s (which I have 160x120 versions of the whole series somewhere) - that could warp minds.
Unless the DoJ decides not to be serious about it.
But anyway, I don't see where MS making their Office program have a file format that someone else can't easily read is using their leverage to destroy the competition.
If they decided to give away a copy of office to every household then perhaps. If they put code in Windows that would not let wordperfect run (again). If they send out an update to IE that just happens to delete OpenOffice.exe.
But just because they make changes to what they are currently doing or how they save a file to provide new features is hardly going out of their way to destroy the competition. I don't see where they should be required to stagnate just on the off chance some other project won't work with a new idea.
I abhor the way MS does some of their business, but I do agree with the "freedom to innovate" idea that Ballmer/Gates were pushing. IMHO the DOJ should not have been looking at them making windows more intergrated (gee...didn't KDE have browsers built into their "explorer" windows too - must have been a good idea), but should have been looking at the way MS forced companies into contracts, etc...
I'd have to say that WordPad fulfills about 95% of my word processing needs.
1) Pay more attention in Math classes.
2) Practice guitar more
3) Register a good domain name before 1993.
4) Save a LOT of money for the VA Research IPO and see when it hits $300.
5) Ask Tracy out when you meet her.
Cut & Paste
:)
Global Search & Replace
Two very dangerous tools when coding
I wish someone would start a good mud :)
;)
The problem with the new version of Kazaa is it's based on gnutella and does random port pickins, so 1214 is no longer relevant.
The other problem is too many of the students know me - not very effective when you know them, play on their counterstriker server, etc...
thats the goal. We don't snoop other than ports and amounts.
But when you know the student and what they are doing...
Sneakers was a good movie :)
Sadly, other than one used book store in town that has about as many books in the store as I do at home, I can't think of a local bookstore to go to.
That depresses me.