Ah...whiz kids...the show that no matter where they were, they always seemed to end up in a room or closet that had a terminal or computer in it.
And that computer would always be networked to the rest of the world, and from it there was an interface to ANYTHING.
The only 3 episodes I really remember (and given the run of that show, it might be all of them!!!) are:
- RALF(that's the computer right?) is taken and setup someplace else and the lead's dad is a spy who needs his sons help.
- Something computer-related makes the lead turn bad.
- Some episode with a major animatronic computer setup with a big dragon that the kids use to foil the bad guys...those meddling kids.
I wish I could find some of those episodes...sci-fi should run it. Ahh...nostalgia.
Ohhh...extra tools and services - gee...then in addition to registry tweaks, they put a check box in the install saying "Do you want server tools and services"
Why does MS insist on this lunacy? How different are the codebases? Or is it just a bunch of registry settings that change the versions as in NT 4.0 (according to O'Rielly at least)?
Why do they make such a big stink over something that should be a Radio Box at install time?
The only reason is $$$ that I can think of. Kinda like the IDE cards that sold for $60, but you put a resistor on them, and they were the companies $200 IDE raid card.
I've been trying to install RedHat 7 on an old laptop (dx4-100). Obviously, running X is not something I want to do. Yet to install things, unless I want a severly crippled system, I seem to have to install X and GTK+ because one thing requires another which eventually requires X/GTK+.
Good point - While the salary cut would make the power less attractive, given the power they have, it's just a matter of sucking it up and dealing for a few months until you're setup.
Rather than passing line-item veto, they should pass something that says any rider tacked on must be related to the main bill.
Congress says they tack things on to cut down on the amount of meetings they have to have about bills...so what.
They are getting paid a LOT of money and were elected cause they lied to say the wanted to make America a better place. Fine...get off your ass and out of meetings with special interest groups and do something.
Make the salary of a congressman equal to the average salary of the American worker, and then we'll get the right kind of people in there.
There is also the fustration of the sys admin saying "This is not a secure way of doing this" and someone higher up saying "Yes, but your proposed way is more difficult. Lets do it the easy way."
Boss:
"Gee...lets just let anyone telnet into the system from anywhere because if we require ssh, then what if they don't have access?"
Admin:
Well, anyone can sniff across that wire and capture the passwords.
Boss:
"Well, then put ssh on the machine, but also leave telnet open. That should help."
Admin:
Okay...by the way - can I put you down as a reference?
Depending on how fast the project is moving, a regular binary release would be good - either weekly/monthly/whatever. Or if some major feature has been added.
This way people who are interested in the project, but are not autoconf/make/gcc whizes don't have to worry about problems, and can take a look at how things are going.
The question that just came to mind is - what generates more useless questions:
- no precompiled binaries and lots of "I can't get this to compile on my system" questions
- precompiled binaries and lots of "I can't get this to run on my system" questions
These are hardly dead - stop by a home depot or lowes. They are much better than they were 20 years ago...you can actually push them along.
- they are quiet, so I don't go deaf from the mower or turning up the walkman to hear over the mower
- they are clean
- they actually cut the grass (with a well maintained blade) as opposed to ripping and tearing the grass like spinning blade mowers.
- they take up less space
Now...if they could just make a riding reel mower:) Hook it up to some sort of bicycle and there ya go!
In any case, I don't see why people bother to get so bent out of shape about stories that don't interest them.
Because it is constant non-news that gets posted, and no real news sumbitted ever seems to make it.
Good lord - how many anti-MS articles, or RMS/GPL articles do we really need?
Then again, given the mentality some people on here exhibit, Bill Gates could personally cure cancer, and half the people would blast him and MS without reading (AND UNDERSTANDING) the article, and the other half would make lame jokes about paper-clips, blue screens, and Microsoft Bob.
Is it news for nerds, or political rallying for nerds?
Uhh... As far as I can tell, Java != AmigaOS, which is one of the selling points of the AmigaOS - it is the AmigaOS.
Are processors fast enough to virtualize a whole Amiga now? Cause even in '89, the Amiga was able to do as much as PC's can now. Only thing slow was the disk drive.
Prodigy is just an ISP now - right? (or do they still do their own access software like AOL?)
So, if they are just an ISP providing access, how are they the ones to sue? TCP/IP&PPP doesn't use hyperlinks.
Shouldn't they be going after Microsoft (IE), AOL (Netscape), Opera, Microsoft (IIS), Apache, etc.. who actually have software that deal with hyperlinks.
And even then, going after web servers is somewhat of a stretch, since all they return is data and it's the browser that makes a hyperlink out of it.
Not that I think this suit has any merit. If the original article is correct in their patent covering links to "hidden text", then it sounds like all they have a patent on is easter eggs!
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Ah...whiz kids...the show that no matter where they were, they always seemed to end up in a room or closet that had a terminal or computer in it.
And that computer would always be networked to the rest of the world, and from it there was an interface to ANYTHING.
The only 3 episodes I really remember (and given the run of that show, it might be all of them!!!) are:
- RALF(that's the computer right?) is taken and setup someplace else and the lead's dad is a spy who needs his sons help.
- Something computer-related makes the lead turn bad.
- Some episode with a major animatronic computer setup with a big dragon that the kids use to foil the bad guys...those meddling kids.
I wish I could find some of those episodes...sci-fi should run it. Ahh...nostalgia.
Ohhh...extra tools and services - gee...then in addition to registry tweaks, they put a check box in the install saying "Do you want server tools and services"
Big fuckin deal.
The two 8 position joysticks and me did not work. With the keybowl, I would be lucky to get to 5% much less 50% of my typing speed.
Why does MS insist on this lunacy? How different are the codebases? Or is it just a bunch of registry settings that change the versions as in NT 4.0 (according to O'Rielly at least)?
Why do they make such a big stink over something that should be a Radio Box at install time?
The only reason is $$$ that I can think of. Kinda like the IDE cards that sold for $60, but you put a resistor on them, and they were the companies $200 IDE raid card.
I've done it on a Dell with dual-CPU's, embedded Adaptec SCSI, and Dell's PowerEdge RAID controllers.
Piece-of-cake.
I take that back - looks like they have their own ads server. my bad
Aren't the adds just links ot other sites? So, their selling their souls to waste 1/2 of your bandwidth :)
I've been trying to install RedHat 7 on an old laptop (dx4-100). Obviously, running X is not something I want to do. Yet to install things, unless I want a severly crippled system, I seem to have to install X and GTK+ because one thing requires another which eventually requires X/GTK+.
What a pain in the ass.
Good point - While the salary cut would make the power less attractive, given the power they have, it's just a matter of sucking it up and dealing for a few months until you're setup.
Rather than passing line-item veto, they should pass something that says any rider tacked on must be related to the main bill.
Congress says they tack things on to cut down on the amount of meetings they have to have about bills...so what.
They are getting paid a LOT of money and were elected cause they lied to say the wanted to make America a better place. Fine...get off your ass and out of meetings with special interest groups and do something.
Make the salary of a congressman equal to the average salary of the American worker, and then we'll get the right kind of people in there.
I'm guessing it means that the number of real-world-time seconds that machine have put into processing blocks adds up to 500,000 years.
10 seconds on a 8086 and 10 seconds on a PII is a total of 20 seconds - regardless.
yes...and a refresh cleared it up.
Which is a so-what race compared to the big question that SETI hopes to answer.
There is also the fustration of the sys admin saying "This is not a secure way of doing this" and someone higher up saying "Yes, but your proposed way is more difficult. Lets do it the easy way."
Boss:
"Gee...lets just let anyone telnet into the system from anywhere because if we require ssh, then what if they don't have access?"
Admin:
Well, anyone can sniff across that wire and capture the passwords.
Boss:
"Well, then put ssh on the machine, but also leave telnet open. That should help."
Admin:
Okay...by the way - can I put you down as a reference?
Good point - I guess I heard too much of the DiVX marketing crap about disposable rentals.
Depending on how fast the project is moving, a regular binary release would be good - either weekly/monthly/whatever. Or if some major feature has been added.
This way people who are interested in the project, but are not autoconf/make/gcc whizes don't have to worry about problems, and can take a look at how things are going.
The question that just came to mind is - what generates more useless questions:
- no precompiled binaries and lots of "I can't get this to compile on my system" questions
- precompiled binaries and lots of "I can't get this to run on my system" questions
Completely different scenario - they are talking about works-in-progress, not something released.
Besides, that is the way it used to be and it was a pain in the ass.
These are hardly dead - stop by a home depot or lowes. They are much better than they were 20 years ago...you can actually push them along.
:) Hook it up to some sort of bicycle and there ya go!
- they are quiet, so I don't go deaf from the mower or turning up the walkman to hear over the mower
- they are clean
- they actually cut the grass (with a well maintained blade) as opposed to ripping and tearing the grass like spinning blade mowers.
- they take up less space
Now...if they could just make a riding reel mower
The theory is terrible.
"I'm to lazy to get out from in front of my tv to return this movie, so I'll just pitch it."
The last thing we need as a society is for more and more things to be disposable.
It would have been real great if they had made it so you had to support DVD-RAM or other home-writable DVD technologies to get the seal-of-approval.
That seems to be about the only way you'd get dvd makers to make them...probably RIAA with a gun at their head.
In any case, I don't see why people bother to get so bent out of shape about stories that don't interest them.
Because it is constant non-news that gets posted, and no real news sumbitted ever seems to make it.
Good lord - how many anti-MS articles, or RMS/GPL articles do we really need?
Then again, given the mentality some people on here exhibit, Bill Gates could personally cure cancer, and half the people would blast him and MS without reading (AND UNDERSTANDING) the article, and the other half would make lame jokes about paper-clips, blue screens, and Microsoft Bob.
Is it news for nerds, or political rallying for nerds?
Uhh... As far as I can tell, Java != AmigaOS, which is one of the selling points of the AmigaOS - it is the AmigaOS.
Are processors fast enough to virtualize a whole Amiga now? Cause even in '89, the Amiga was able to do as much as PC's can now. Only thing slow was the disk drive.
sarcoghogouse is spelled sarcophagus.
It's a coffin...like the ones they would entomb people in. Historically stone, but has become more of a general term for something sealed away.
Where can one find info about the eBGP RLB? I looked on their website and saw nothing mentioned.
Prodigy is just an ISP now - right? (or do they still do their own access software like AOL?)
So, if they are just an ISP providing access, how are they the ones to sue? TCP/IP&PPP doesn't use hyperlinks.
Shouldn't they be going after Microsoft (IE), AOL (Netscape), Opera, Microsoft (IIS), Apache, etc.. who actually have software that deal with hyperlinks.
And even then, going after web servers is somewhat of a stretch, since all they return is data and it's the browser that makes a hyperlink out of it.
Not that I think this suit has any merit. If the original article is correct in their patent covering links to "hidden text", then it sounds like all they have a patent on is easter eggs!