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In my mind, this is troll bait. But I just have to bite.
Doesn't that sort of rule invalidate any comments about MS products from Linux power users?
Most Linux power users have had a lot of experience working with MS products, and many still have to use them (because of their job or what have you). The opposite is not true. I myself was responsible for introducing a hard-core MCSE (if such a thing exists) to Linux, sometime in late 1999/early 2000; he had never seen a Linux box before.
I think this is a good time to start thinking about getting rid of.{com,net,org,edu,gov,dot,etc}, and go with country-code TLDs exclusively (and move the current domains into their respective.[a-z][a-z]). It's bad enough that one country gets to virtually monopolize some of these domains (.edu and.gov, for example), it gets only worse by giving a single corporation complete control over the "generic".com domain. It'd be (slightly) more acceptable if it were something like.com.us (which, obviously, doesn't exist).
It used to be this way I think, but New York City now has a new area code, 646. I think other places have codes that break that rule.
It's not just NYC. Philly has two overlay area codes, 267 and 484, on top of 215 and 610, respectively. The Montréal suburbs have area code 450 (IIRC). Northeastern PA is 570. Puerto Rico is 787. And there are many other examples.
None of them (incl. NYC) are breaking any rules. The "2nd-digit-is-either-1-or-0" rule was lifted quite a while ago. Area codes used to be of the form MNX, where M == [2-9], N == {0,1}, and X == [0-9]. Nowadays, they are of the form MXX (M == [2-9], X == [0-9]). Simply put, area codes MUST start with a digit greater than 2.
I *have* an original Sega Master system, and it came with "Hang On/Safari Hunt - the combo cartridge". It also came with a light phaser. There was another non-light phaser version that may have come with something else...
Exactly. Sega originally released the SMS in three different configurations, actually:
Sega Base System: 2 controllers, no gun; included the Hang On/Astro Warrior combo cartridge.
Sega Master System: 2 controllers plus gun; included Hang On/Safari Hunt combo cartridge. After a while (~2 years?), some of these came with the Hang On/Astro Warrior cartridge, probably by mistake (it happened to a friend of mine).
Sega 3D System: 2 controllers, gun, and 3D LCD-shutter glasses that plugged into the card slot (?). Came with some 3D game that I can't recall at the moment (Zaxxon?)
I admit, I used to be a Sega zealot when I was a kid.:)
Oh, that's way too complicated for lawmen to comprehend. You'd do better legislating for Pi to be 355/133, which not only is easier to type, but it also has had its share of signature space here on Slashdot.
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Of course, if you use Altavista's Advanced Search, you could add them up, as follows:
MCA support is enabled using the CONFIG_MCA define. A machine with a MCA bus will have the kernel variable MCA_bus set, assuming the BIOS feature bits are set properly (see arch/i386/boot/setup.S for information on how this detection is done)
I.e., MCA support is there, but so far for x86. I guess that's one of the things that should be moved out of the arch/ directory.
In a bold move that some industry pundits perceive as a reaction to AMD's announcement of their Duron processor, Intel has announced the development of the Sherwin Williams processor, which combines the tried-and-true P6 core found in the Celeron processor with new enamel- and latex-based semiconductor technologies that the company claims will provide for "A more colourful computing experience".
There's plenty of load balancing among the root servers. If you have an adequately recent distribution of BIND (4.x+ will do fine), you have a hint file (named 'root.hint', or 'named.ca', or whatever) listing all of the root servers (I guess) and the original names. My 'root.hint' file lists 13 of them (from a.root-servers.net to m.root-servers.net).
Eh, who cares about how many years of continuous entertainment one can get out of 1 TB of storage? We should be more worried about how many years it will be before Micro$oft comes out with a version of Windows that requires 1 TB of disk space for a minimum install. At the current rate, that'll probably happen within the next two years.
A correction: Phase 3D will be launched as a secondary payload; AMSAT was required to build a special mounting adaptor to fit the satellite into the Ariane's payload bay along with the primary cargo if AMSAT wanted to pay coach instead of first class.
Amateur Radio satellites are perhaps the greatest experiment ever achieved by civilians without recurring to government funding. Currently, there are about 9 OSCAR satellites ('OSCAR' meaning 'Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio') and 15 MicroSats. Most of these got into space by being piggy-backed into some rocket as a secondary payload during the launch of something larger (like a weather satellite), making the cost rather low.
AMSAT has a new satellite, the Phase 3D, which is scheduled for launch on an Ariane in July. The funding for the launch came from donations by radio amateurs (making it look like PBS), organisations like the American Radio Relay League, and other sources. Being a larger satellite, the Phase 3D has to be launched individually, raising the cost to what is now considered average. The fact that Phase 3D is going to space this summer should be used as a standard.
Actually, it doesn't work that way either. At least not with Nutscrape. Theoretically.
The Preferences dialog box in Netscape 4.x reads "Only accept cookies originating from the same server as the page being viewed." So, let's say that the page's URL is http://foo.com/qux.html. qux.html has an IMG tag that refers to http://bar.com/cgi-bin/adcrap?blahblah, causing Netscape to open a new HTTP connection to bar.com. bar.com may send a cookie to Netscape, but if you chose the option mentioned above (not the default, BTW), this cookie won't be accepted, because the page came from foo.com, not bar.com.
This is only theory. I hope this is how Nutscrape actually works. If it doesn't, screw Nutscrape.
... and I tell you, it isn't very different from Office98. So if StarOffice comes out with more improvements over Office2000, it is not such a bad idea to let the release date slip a couple of months; they'll have some time to steal ideas and all that happy stuff.
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In my mind, this is troll bait. But I just have to bite.
Most Linux power users have had a lot of experience working with MS products, and many still have to use them (because of their job or what have you). The opposite is not true. I myself was responsible for introducing a hard-core MCSE (if such a thing exists) to Linux, sometime in late 1999/early 2000; he had never seen a Linux box before.
I think this is a good time to start thinking about getting rid of .{com,net,org,edu,gov,dot,etc}, and go with country-code TLDs exclusively (and move the current domains into their respective .[a-z][a-z]). It's bad enough that one country gets to virtually monopolize some of these domains (.edu and .gov, for example), it gets only worse by giving a single corporation complete control over the "generic" .com domain. It'd be (slightly) more acceptable if it were something like .com.us (which, obviously, doesn't exist).
Somebody put up us the shares.
Simon Travaglia has gone over this idea previously in his BOFH series.
This will open the door to a new Windows feature: the Green Screen of Caffeinated Death.
Hhmmm... I think I should start stocking up on Yaucono...
It's not just NYC. Philly has two overlay area codes, 267 and 484, on top of 215 and 610, respectively. The Montréal suburbs have area code 450 (IIRC). Northeastern PA is 570. Puerto Rico is 787. And there are many other examples.
None of them (incl. NYC) are breaking any rules. The "2nd-digit-is-either-1-or-0" rule was lifted quite a while ago. Area codes used to be of the form MNX, where M == [2-9], N == {0,1}, and X == [0-9]. Nowadays, they are of the form MXX (M == [2-9], X == [0-9]). Simply put, area codes MUST start with a digit greater than 2.
It's gotta be all those power lines in Missisauga throwing the cartographers' compasses off...
Exactly. Sega originally released the SMS in three different configurations, actually:
I admit, I used to be a Sega zealot when I was a kid. :)
Oh, that's way too complicated for lawmen to comprehend. You'd do better legislating for Pi to be 355/133, which not only is easier to type, but it also has had its share of signature space here on Slashdot.
Of course, if you use Altavista's Advanced Search, you could add them up, as follows:
(email OR e-mail OR "e mail") AND anythingelse
Just in case... YHBT, YHL, HAND...
Now, get on with your lives, I already knew about the x=y=0 issue... geez.
And the following is true too:
In the wise words of Yoda,
A cheap frisbee would be a "coaster". Then you could play your favourite titles while drinking a pint of Guiness.
Whether AOL might sue or not remains to be seen.
Sounds like the Spanish pseudo-word "culómetro", which means "ass-meter"... Oh, well, such is the way of human languages...
From the Documentation/mca.txt file:
MCA support is enabled using the CONFIG_MCA define. A machine with a MCA bus will have the kernel variable MCA_bus set, assuming the BIOS feature bits are set properly (see arch/i386/boot/setup.S for information on how this detection is done)
I.e., MCA support is there, but so far for x86. I guess that's one of the things that should be moved out of the arch/ directory.
In a bold move that some industry pundits perceive as a reaction to AMD's announcement of their Duron processor, Intel has announced the development of the Sherwin Williams processor, which combines the tried-and-true P6 core found in the Celeron processor with new enamel- and latex-based semiconductor technologies that the company claims will provide for "A more colourful computing experience".
There's plenty of load balancing among the root servers. If you have an adequately recent distribution of BIND (4.x+ will do fine), you have a hint file (named 'root.hint', or 'named.ca', or whatever) listing all of the root servers (I guess) and the original names. My 'root.hint' file lists 13 of them (from a.root-servers.net to m.root-servers.net).
Eh, who cares about how many years of continuous entertainment one can get out of 1 TB of storage? We should be more worried about how many years it will be before Micro$oft comes out with a version of Windows that requires 1 TB of disk space for a minimum install. At the current rate, that'll probably happen within the next two years.
A correction: Phase 3D will be launched as a secondary payload; AMSAT was required to build a special mounting adaptor to fit the satellite into the Ariane's payload bay along with the primary cargo if AMSAT wanted to pay coach instead of first class.
Amateur Radio satellites are perhaps the greatest experiment ever achieved by civilians without recurring to government funding. Currently, there are about 9 OSCAR satellites ('OSCAR' meaning 'Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio') and 15 MicroSats. Most of these got into space by being piggy-backed into some rocket as a secondary payload during the launch of something larger (like a weather satellite), making the cost rather low.
AMSAT has a new satellite, the Phase 3D, which is scheduled for launch on an Ariane in July. The funding for the launch came from donations by radio amateurs (making it look like PBS), organisations like the American Radio Relay League, and other sources. Being a larger satellite, the Phase 3D has to be launched individually, raising the cost to what is now considered average. The fact that Phase 3D is going to space this summer should be used as a standard.
Actually, it doesn't work that way either. At least not with Nutscrape. Theoretically.
The Preferences dialog box in Netscape 4.x reads "Only accept cookies originating from the same server as the page being viewed." So, let's say that the page's URL is http://foo.com/qux.html. qux.html has an IMG tag that refers to http://bar.com/cgi-bin/adcrap?blahblah, causing Netscape to open a new HTTP connection to bar.com. bar.com may send a cookie to Netscape, but if you chose the option mentioned above (not the default, BTW), this cookie won't be accepted, because the page came from foo.com, not bar.com.
This is only theory. I hope this is how Nutscrape actually works. If it doesn't, screw Nutscrape.
They can make it secure if they pull the cat5 from the NIC. In the meantime, this is what you get from viewing the page (used Konqueror to view it ):
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'
Type mismatch: 'CInt'
/security/inc/scripts.txt, line 279
... and I tell you, it isn't very different from Office98. So if StarOffice comes out with more improvements over Office2000, it is not such a bad idea to let the release date slip a couple of months; they'll have some time to steal ideas and all that happy stuff.