Well, in New York State at least, talking on a hand-help phone will get you a $100 ticket from Officer Friendly. Any of the other behaviors that you mention are still legal, albeit dangerous and stupid.
(There's a specific exemption for hands-free cell phones and emergency calls)
One thing I forgot to mention...it's friggin' DARK here. Being used to the ever-present 'glow' from NYC, upstate NY was quite a shock. It's very odd to be able to look up and see more stars than airplanes.
The amount of light pollution in the NYC/LI area is incredible. Then again, streetlights are a precious commodity up here. Nearly all the highways and roads are lit in NYC/LI, so using your headlights while driving is more to let other drivers see YOU.
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Well, everyone knows that the world ends once you go north of the Bronx...
You have to remember that NYC has 8 million people in it, and Long Island has about 850,000. The population density is so much less outside of NYC that most people from the city aren't even aware of what's outside it.
I grew up on western Long Island, and upstate NY was simply not a part of my consciousness. 'Upstate' was anything north of White Plains. We used to make fun of people in college that were from there (Hah! You live in the middle of nowhere!). Now that I'm working and living there (Poughkeepsie), the joke's on me.
Considering how depressed the upstate economy is (and Albany IS upstate), this will be greatly appreciated by anyone that lives there. Even though NYC is still growing population-wise, many other parts of NYS are shrinking. Granted, many of the counties just north of NYC are booming, but that's because the cost of living threre is somewhat less than NYC/LI. (Why else would a 2-bedroom 1-floor house go for $275,000?)
Well, the research group at Watson has a Redhat 7.1/7.2 based distribution called the "Client for eBusiness" that's available to IBM'ers to install on their machines. It's not really supported, per se, but most people that would install it wouldn't call the help desk anyway. It's got various tweaks to make it more friendly to the infrastructure here.
I personally use SuSE 8.0 Professional on my workstation (I'm typing on it right now, in fact). We have our own internal mirrors that have the latest Linux distributions on them - that's where I got my copy from.
Most people use the Client for eBusiness, but I'm more comfortable with SuSE.
Come to think of it, kdeinit might have calmed down since I did an update through Yast2. I think one of the packages was kdebase, which probably fixed the issue I was having.
Now if only it would detect my USB Intellimouse Optical on every boot...
That's not completely true...they don't provide ISO's to the general public. I've been running SuSE 8.0 for about two weeks now, after downloading the ISO's from our internal Linux mirror network. I guess the only reason that they make the ISO's available to us is that we are a partner with them.
I've been pretty impressed, but the kicker in KDE3.0 was giving me problems for a week or so. It seems to have calmed down now, but I don't know why. Kdeinit was taking up 90% of the CPU and the kicker would stop responding to events.
By the way, Yast is now gone - Yast2 has replaced it, both in the GUI and console. It's pretty good, albeit somewhat slow to load its modules.
I've previously bought versions of SuSE, so I don't feel bad about burning this one. I tend to get the whole boxed set about once every major release.
USS is pretty much like you describe it, but one does get used to its idiosyncracies after a while. Yes, everything is in EBCDIC, although once you're aware of it, it becomes less of a hassle. Yes, lots of software tends not to compile out of box since the authors wrote case statements without realizing that not everyone in the world uses ASCII. Yes, the filesystem is laid out like no other UNIX I've ever seen. Yes, the funky uppercase only error messages coming from z/OS look out of place somtimes. Yes, the C library doesn't have snprintf(), since it's not ANSI C. Yes, the compiler has it's idiosyncracies.
However, I happily use bash as my shell, and Vim 6.0 as my editor. We use rcs for version control, and gzip to compress files. Perl works pretty well, and I can even grab stuff off Windows shares using Samba. There's an FTP client, and Lynx works quite well for web browsing. I can open a remote xterm on my local workstation. There's an entire IBM redbook devoted to using open-source software under USS, and the second edition is coming out in March.
An if you're wondering why I know this, it's because I work in USS on a daily basis. I'm one of the software developers working on IBM's dbx debugger. (I also know the guy putting together the Redbook)
Note that the above statements are my own and are not necessarily the opinions of IBM.
No, the American PS1 could play Japanese games just fine. Sony put a hardware lockout that checked the region code of a CD before booting it to prevent console onwners from importing games. A mod chip disabled this lockout, allowing original Japanese and European games to be played on a US system.
In fact, there exists a mod chip for the PS1 that only allows original imports to be played - NOT copies.
Whether this is any different is left as an exercise for the reader.
It was a single IBM zSeries mainframe - that's the point behind their recent Linux push. It's got a whole bunch of Linux images all running concurrently on top of VM.
I saw the commercial early - being an IBM employee has its benefits.:-)
It was a single IBM zSeries mainframe - that's the point behind their recent Linux push. It's got a whole bunch of Linux images all running concurrently on top of VM.
I saw the commercial early - being an IBM employee has its benefits.:-)
Yup - as an IBM'er, this is *very* plausible. There's a whole lot of people around here who have no love lost for Microsoft. Quite a few of them vividly remember the OS/2 days, and would like nothing better than twisting the screws on Microsoft.
No, the analogy is correct. I have a LS-120 drive, and it read/writes 1.44MB floppies _MUCH_ faster than a standard drive. I think the boxes the drives are sold in claim that it is 27 TIMES faster than a standard floppy drive.
If you can find one for about $40-$50, it's a pretty good investment. This is assuming that you still use floppies, though.:)
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
It originally stood for "experimental", when the unit was just a prototype.
Actually, the PSX was originally going to be the add-on CD-ROM drive for the Super NES. It was supposed to ship with the 7th guest, and plug into the expansion slot on the bottom of the SNES unit. Nintendo finally axed the project, but Sony kept going...
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
Since I'm a Symbol employee, a quick clarification:
The Symbol SPT1700 Series either have a wireless Spectrum24 network card, or a Novatel Minstrel radio modem. The Spectrum24 card can either use a static IP address, or talk to a DHCP server. The radio modem has a static radio address, and an IP is given to the owner when s/he signs up for a wireless account with some provider.
The SPT1700 is just the base model with no wireless stuff. The SPT1740 has a Spectrum24 card. The SPT1743 has a 11 megabit wireless network card. The SPT1733 has the radio modem.
If you really want to know more about the above models, head over to epog.symbol.com and look them up. Username and Password are "guest"
Note that the SPT1700 line has a Type II PC Card slot, so all the above wireless stuff is just a PC Card added to the device at the factory.
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
SuSE has shipped with a "hardening" script since version 5.3. You run the script, and it asks you various questions about what you want to use the system for, what you want to turn off, etc. It sets permissions to "paranoid", doesn't allow users to su as root, kills inetd, and lots of other things that you can specify.
It's not too useful on a desktop system, since it's overly paranoid, but I used it on a 486 that sat in the corner of my dorm room. All it did was crack RC5 keys anyway:)
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
That sounds suspiciously like the keynote Linus gave at Linux World Expo last Wednesday. I was under the impression that this was a live interview.
Linus is a good speaker; he disarms you with his humility, and is quick to point out when he doesn't know something or someone else would be more qualified to answer. However, when hit with a question he feels is appropriate to answer, he can give it to you with both barrels.
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
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Well, in New York State at least, talking on a hand-help phone will get you a $100 ticket from Officer Friendly. Any of the other behaviors that you mention are still legal, albeit dangerous and stupid.
(There's a specific exemption for hands-free cell phones and emergency calls)
Umm...that truck would be a Toyota Tundra. The "TRD" refers to the optional the Toyota Racing Development off-road suspension.
Just wanted to clear things up.
No, more data accessed at speeds upwards of 20 times faster than a standard floppy drive. My Iomega LS-120 was marketed as a 22x floppy drive!
Granted, it's no speed demon for 120MB of data, but reading 1.44MB is cake. The Partition Magic rescue disks never booted so fast...
Poughkeepsie has some nasty areas. I don't like driving through some parts of it at night.
Hyde Park, Red Hook, Rhinebeck, and Pleasant Valley are fine. Wappingers Falls, and Red Oaks Mill aren't that bad.
The Route 9 corridor is pretty built up now, and is a reasonably decent place to spend your dollars.
Beacon sucks. Enough said.
Newburgh is BAD. My TaeKwon Do teachers used to hear the drug dealers shooting each other at night from their house.
The property/school taxes on Long Island are INSANE. My parents pay almost $6000 anually for a 60'x100' plot + house.
My girlfriend has family who live on the very tony North Shore, and they pay $30,000 for a 2-acre plot.
Kinda puts things into perspective, doesn't it?
One thing I forgot to mention...it's friggin' DARK here. Being used to the ever-present 'glow' from NYC, upstate NY was quite a shock. It's very odd to be able to look up and see more stars than airplanes.
The amount of light pollution in the NYC/LI area is incredible. Then again, streetlights are a precious commodity up here. Nearly all the highways and roads are lit in NYC/LI, so using your headlights while driving is more to let other drivers see YOU.
Well, everyone knows that the world ends once you go north of the Bronx...
You have to remember that NYC has 8 million people in it, and Long Island has about 850,000. The population density is so much less outside of NYC that most people from the city aren't even aware of what's outside it.
I grew up on western Long Island, and upstate NY was simply not a part of my consciousness. 'Upstate' was anything north of White Plains. We used to make fun of people in college that were from there (Hah! You live in the middle of nowhere!). Now that I'm working and living there (Poughkeepsie), the joke's on me.
Considering how depressed the upstate economy is (and Albany IS upstate), this will be greatly appreciated by anyone that lives there. Even though NYC is still growing population-wise, many other parts of NYS are shrinking. Granted, many of the counties just north of NYC are booming, but that's because the cost of living threre is somewhat less than NYC/LI. (Why else would a 2-bedroom 1-floor house go for $275,000?)
Well, the research group at Watson has a Redhat 7.1/7.2 based distribution called the "Client for eBusiness" that's available to IBM'ers to install on their machines. It's not really supported, per se, but most people that would install it wouldn't call the help desk anyway. It's got various tweaks to make it more friendly to the infrastructure here.
I personally use SuSE 8.0 Professional on my workstation (I'm typing on it right now, in fact). We have our own internal mirrors that have the latest Linux distributions on them - that's where I got my copy from.
Most people use the Client for eBusiness, but I'm more comfortable with SuSE.
Isn't it illegal to watch/have a TV without paying that tax? A friend of mine lived in London for a while, and he mentioned that once...
Come to think of it, kdeinit might have calmed down since I did an update through Yast2. I think one of the packages was kdebase, which probably fixed the issue I was having.
Now if only it would detect my USB Intellimouse Optical on every boot...
That's not completely true...they don't provide ISO's to the general public. I've been running SuSE 8.0 for about two weeks now, after downloading the ISO's from our internal Linux mirror network. I guess the only reason that they make the ISO's available to us is that we are a partner with them.
I've been pretty impressed, but the kicker in KDE3.0 was giving me problems for a week or so. It seems to have calmed down now, but I don't know why. Kdeinit was taking up 90% of the CPU and the kicker would stop responding to events.
By the way, Yast is now gone - Yast2 has replaced it, both in the GUI and console. It's pretty good, albeit somewhat slow to load its modules.
I've previously bought versions of SuSE, so I don't feel bad about burning this one. I tend to get the whole boxed set about once every major release.
Liberia changed over to Metric sometime last year.
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USS is pretty much like you describe it, but one does get used to its idiosyncracies after a while. Yes, everything is in EBCDIC, although once you're aware of it, it becomes less of a hassle. Yes, lots of software tends not to compile out of box since the authors wrote case statements without realizing that not everyone in the world uses ASCII. Yes, the filesystem is laid out like no other UNIX I've ever seen. Yes, the funky uppercase only error messages coming from z/OS look out of place somtimes. Yes, the C library doesn't have snprintf(), since it's not ANSI C. Yes, the compiler has it's idiosyncracies.
However, I happily use bash as my shell, and Vim 6.0 as my editor. We use rcs for version control, and gzip to compress files. Perl works pretty well, and I can even grab stuff off Windows shares using Samba. There's an FTP client, and Lynx works quite well for web browsing. I can open a remote xterm on my local workstation. There's an entire IBM redbook devoted to using open-source software under USS, and the second edition is coming out in March.
An if you're wondering why I know this, it's because I work in USS on a daily basis. I'm one of the software developers working on IBM's dbx debugger. (I also know the guy putting together the Redbook)
Note that the above statements are my own and are not necessarily the opinions of IBM.
No, the American PS1 could play Japanese games just fine. Sony put a hardware lockout that checked the region code of a CD before booting it to prevent console onwners from importing games. A mod chip disabled this lockout, allowing original Japanese and European games to be played on a US system.
In fact, there exists a mod chip for the PS1 that only allows original imports to be played - NOT copies.
Whether this is any different is left as an exercise for the reader.
It was a single IBM zSeries mainframe - that's the point behind their recent Linux push. It's got a whole bunch of Linux images all running concurrently on top of VM.
:-)
I saw the commercial early - being an IBM employee has its benefits.
It was a single IBM zSeries mainframe - that's the point behind their recent Linux push. It's got a whole bunch of Linux images all running concurrently on top of VM.
:-)
I saw the commercial early - being an IBM employee has its benefits.
Yup - as an IBM'er, this is *very* plausible. There's a whole lot of people around here who have no love lost for Microsoft. Quite a few of them vividly remember the OS/2 days, and would like nothing better than twisting the screws on Microsoft.
No, the analogy is correct. I have a LS-120 drive, and it read/writes 1.44MB floppies _MUCH_ faster than a standard drive. I think the boxes the drives are sold in claim that it is 27 TIMES faster than a standard floppy drive.
:)
If you can find one for about $40-$50, it's a pretty good investment. This is assuming that you still use floppies, though.
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
Hawaii, Guam, and all those other little islands in the Pacific Ocean.
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
It originally stood for "experimental", when the unit was just a prototype.
Actually, the PSX was originally going to be the add-on CD-ROM drive for the Super NES. It was supposed to ship with the 7th guest, and plug into the expansion slot on the bottom of the SNES unit. Nintendo finally axed the project, but Sony kept going...
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
Since I'm a Symbol employee, a quick clarification:
The Symbol SPT1700 Series either have a wireless Spectrum24 network card, or a Novatel Minstrel radio modem. The Spectrum24 card can either use a static IP address, or talk to a DHCP server. The radio modem has a static radio address, and an IP is given to the owner when s/he signs up for a wireless account with some provider.
The SPT1700 is just the base model with no wireless stuff. The SPT1740 has a Spectrum24 card. The SPT1743 has a 11 megabit wireless network card. The SPT1733 has the radio modem.
If you really want to know more about the above models, head over to epog.symbol.com and look them up. Username and Password are "guest"
Note that the SPT1700 line has a Type II PC Card slot, so all the above wireless stuff is just a PC Card added to the device at the factory.
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
SuSE has shipped with a "hardening" script since version 5.3. You run the script, and it asks you various questions about what you want to use the system for, what you want to turn off, etc. It sets permissions to "paranoid", doesn't allow users to su as root, kills inetd, and lots of other things that you can specify.
:)
It's not too useful on a desktop system, since it's overly paranoid, but I used it on a 486 that sat in the corner of my dorm room. All it did was crack RC5 keys anyway
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
Mozilla renders the CSS1 link you posted perfectly. Why can't IE or Netscape do the same?
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
Hmmmm....
That sounds suspiciously like the keynote Linus gave at Linux World Expo last Wednesday. I was under the impression that this was a live interview.
Linus is a good speaker; he disarms you with his humility, and is quick to point out when he doesn't know something or someone else would be more qualified to answer. However, when hit with a question he feels is appropriate to answer, he can give it to you with both barrels.
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"