A few years ago I broke my right hand and with the cast I could not twist my hand and arm so that I could have used a conventional mouse. So I got an Evoluent vertical mouse. I've stuck with it since because I no longer have a mouse hand and the mouse does have a fully funcctional correctly placed middle button. It also has a scroll wheel but most importantly, it also is in the right place. Logitech isreally good at making wonky speciality mice that are almost perfect but then there is something that completely puts you off and they refuse to do anything about it. It's works, we won't fix it.
Let's take your brain as an example. Since natural numbers do not exist, you cannot have one brain. Judging from your post, the actual number of brains you have is less than one but hopefully it is more than ½
Fortunately for you we like rounding which means that you will be seen as having exactly one brain, although in case the real number of brains you have is less than ½ you would end up with no brain at all. I think posting on slashdot does require some sort of brain so you should be safe. Or does it require the lack of a brain...
Natural numbers are called natural because they are... natural.
If you love your iPhoney there is nothing that I can say that will change you're mind, it's the stockholm syndrome. I was close to getting one myself, but then Nokia released the N900 which, without having open hardware, is as a very open phone. After this I won't get a new phone unless I can open a terminal, do some apt-get'ting and ssh into it!
When will you see that was used to be the land of the free suddenly has become what Orwell predicted, although he was off by some 20 years.
I'd say that at this point Osama is getting what he was after in the first case, to destroy the westerners "paradise".
I just bought an Acer Aspire T136 which had Linux (the Linpus distro) almost installed on it.
When I first booted the machine I was presented with a login promt in text mode. I googled and found an FAQ answer for this, actually it was the only Linpus FAQ on acers support site. Having managed to get an actual prompt I looked for a way to get X started. Well, there was no X.
Why preinstall something in such a state that it is basically unusable. If a newbie get their hands on such a beast you can be sure that they will be Windows converts in a very short time...
I prefer a blank HD anyday to this s**t.
Nothing worng with the hardware so far though.
I'm guessing you're cutting back on the sugar because of weight issues. If that's the case then the sugar is not really that bad in moderate amounts.
What actually happens if you drink lots of diet drinks containing e.g. aspartame and acesulfame you're filling up but you're not getting the sugar which will make you feel more hunger. So what you usually do is eat something sweet with probably more sugar and fat than what would have been in the drink, and in the end you end up... fatter
So you'd be better of drinking the regular stuff in moderate amounts and substituting the excess with the real thing, coffee.
I don't agree on the flavor of diet sodas though, they all taste like shit. As the slogan for Sprite Zero goes (at least in Europe): No sugar, Only full of...it
I set up a system for a building contractor where they were being raided every once in a while. I used SBC's and webcams that save the video over the network to a server, all linux, ports configurable to whatever you desire.
The only "extra" software I used was motion, which is easily installable on a debian GNU/Linux box (and probably others as well).
The hard part will be getting these to market; since almost all mobile phones are sold thru the mobile telcom companies.
In the states perhaps. In Europe it's very common that you buy your phones unlockled. Here in Finland it's even illegal to sell a phone with the service included, they have to be sold separately, without connection.
The mention of the contatct lenses made me think of Zaphod Beebelbrox and his glasses (or was it someone else) that helped him to never be scared. The glasses went black when danger was imminent.
When choosing an MS solution you pay your money to MS. If you choose an open alternative you are more or less able to choose to whom you want to give your money. You could pay RedHat or some other distributor or you could employ the people on site (and even fight unemployment that way...)
In just about every report on worms or virus attacks the user is blamed for propagating the problem. In the article Scott Charney (MS security chief) tells the users to get antivirus software and keep it up to date.
That wouldn't be necessary if the user does as his third suggestion, patch the system.
And that wouldn't be necessary if the system would be built more securely from the start.
A good idea for MS would be to not make their stuff so userfriendly that it automatically executes every virus attachement that it comes across but instead would warn the user by default.
After having used Linux since 1993 I feel like I'm not competent to really make the choice or rather have the time to make a choice so I just stick with what I'm using. But what matters to me is that the choice is there for me to make if I feel like it, not havin to be stuck with something that really doesn't suit me.
Spreading them out is definately a good thing to do but you also have to think about in what kind of a building you put the NOC. There is a worldwide banking network that has its NOCs on three continents and in towns that are not in any way on anyones radar (well I guess they are because of these NOCs). The buildings are built as bombshelters and with faraday cages aso. They also have at least "double everything" in all NOCs. This is ofcourse extreme but if you want no single point of failure and have the need to do it right, this is the way to do it.
I already have a phone and a PDA, I want them combined in one and then I want to have the camera put in as well. So no thank you Logitech, I'll go get the Nokia 7650 once its out.
An LD will probably do it but not at the machine end. If a NIC goes down it goes down.
There's also a problem with the LD if you need sessions in your application. As long as you have big enough servers that can handle all the traffic coming from behind proxies you can always use the IP-sticky in the LD but experience with this has shown me that sometimes the load balancing can be really bad with this scheme. If the LD just happens to throw three or four big proxy addresses at one machine it will get bogged down and the whole idea with the LD is lost.
There is ofcourse the ssl-sticky for ssl sessions over http. But there's a problem with that too. If the client uses IE and sits behind a proxy the ssl-session ID will not come from the client. IE by default uses http 1.0 when talking to a proxy which doesn't allow sessions. This is probably due to the fact that up to a very late point in time MS supplied proxies that talked only 1.0 and now they correct that by disabling the newer protocol in their browser.
At the webserver end it seems like the client would be talking 1.1 but that is not true since the protocol info comes from the proxy, which talks 1.1.
There might be a solution to this but I haven't been able to find anything yet. Otherwise the LD is a working solution that also provides failover for itself if you have two of them.
I'm tired of being called a criminal. I have an extensive collection of MP3's, every single one of them ripped from a CD that I've bought. The idea of going back to switching CD's is just not anything viable anymore. I have occasionally put some of the songs onto a CD and given it to a friend, the same way that I did with tapes back in the 80's. What's the difference here? A little better quality, doesn't wear as easily (CD's don't wear at all if you remember what they said when they first came out) a much higher price on the original and lower production costs for the original. The record labels have become more greedy and somehow see a way to really put a stop to all copying, that's the difference.
I do buy DVD's but I'm not satisfied with what I get. I pay more and get a meny on the disk for jumping to the exact start of a track. It's a little bit faster but the same thing as having indexes on a tape. Most titles here in europe don't have that much extra on them compared to VHS. In a few years or probably less, I'll have enough disk space at home to put a few films on them too. Why should I be forced to drag out the DVD from the rack when I could conviniently have it stored on my disk drive? Yes, because the film industry is also greedy.
Now the DVD audio format will be interesting. We already have perfect sound on the CD's, what can I gain by getting a twice as perfect sound on a DVD (or the high definition CD's for that matter). It'll cost me a fortune to buy a new DVD player and the even more expensive DVD's. On top of it I wont be able to listen to them as I want to, 500 hours of listening without touching the DVD. I don't think the audio DVD will succeed unless I can play it on what I've got now...but I'm probably wrong, they'll ram it down our throats.
Now I don't condone sharing your files freely on the net but if that's your thing, go ahead. It's no more criminal than my copying of MP3's onto a CD but the gripe from RIAA et. al. is that the copying is so extensive. Is it really? I guess there are a lot of people who download from the net but I also think that most of those people go and buy the CD from the store, I know I would if I'd find a song that's worth it (yes even one song per CD is sometimes enough for me). I'm just not satisfied with an MP3 that is 128kb, I've got a good stereo and I want it ripped at the best possible quality. And if there happens to be some people that don't buy the CD after all, well, I don't think they would've bought it anyway.
So all in all, distribution channels like napster is actually more like a promtion channel. Instead of complaining about lost revenue the record companies should thank napster for god promotion.
I'm a unix administrator. At this moment we have about 50 Linux (yes debian) boxen and 4 HP-UX closets and a few Solaris pizzaboxes, and perhaps 10 NT's. We have to get a few more Solaris boxes installed, and beleive me, if it was possible they would be Linux boxes. The problem with Solaris is that the environment that it is shipped with hasn't changed since the early 80's. Is there a chance that we could ever see a debian distro that is made for Solaris. That way I could use the same packages (recompiled though) for both Linux and Solaris.
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A few years ago I broke my right hand and with the cast I could not twist my hand and arm so that I could have used a conventional mouse. So I got an Evoluent vertical mouse. I've stuck with it since because I no longer have a mouse hand and the mouse does have a fully funcctional correctly placed middle button. It also has a scroll wheel but most importantly, it also is in the right place.
Logitech isreally good at making wonky speciality mice that are almost perfect but then there is something that completely puts you off and they refuse to do anything about it. It's works, we won't fix it.
There is ofcourse the problem that using SSL makes it much harder for us to inspect the traffic for malware, bots, and whatnot.
But do natural numbers even exist in the real
No they don't.
Let's take your brain as an example. Since natural numbers do not exist, you cannot have one brain. Judging from your post, the actual number of brains you have is less than one but hopefully it is more than ½
Fortunately for you we like rounding which means that you will be seen as having exactly one brain, although in case the real number of brains you have is less than ½ you would end up with no brain at all. I think posting on slashdot does require some sort of brain so you should be safe. Or does it require the lack of a brain...
Natural numbers are called natural because they are ... natural.
Your statement that 1=0! is actually true but your proof is wrong. The factorial of 0 is 1 so 1=0! or 0!=1
If you love your iPhoney there is nothing that I can say that will change you're mind, it's the stockholm syndrome. I was close to getting one myself, but then Nokia released the N900 which, without having open hardware, is as a very open phone. After this I won't get a new phone unless I can open a terminal, do some apt-get'ting and ssh into it!
When will you see that was used to be the land of the free suddenly has become what Orwell predicted, although he was off by some 20 years.
I'd say that at this point Osama is getting what he was after in the first case, to destroy the westerners "paradise".
When I first booted the machine I was presented with a login promt in text mode. I googled and found an FAQ answer for this, actually it was the only Linpus FAQ on acers support site. Having managed to get an actual prompt I looked for a way to get X started. Well, there was no X.
Why preinstall something in such a state that it is basically unusable. If a newbie get their hands on such a beast you can be sure that they will be Windows converts in a very short time...
I prefer a blank HD anyday to this s**t.
Nothing worng with the hardware so far though.
I'm guessing you're cutting back on the sugar because of weight issues. If that's the case then the sugar is not really that bad in moderate amounts. ... fatter ...it
What actually happens if you drink lots of diet drinks containing e.g. aspartame and acesulfame you're filling up but you're not getting the sugar which will make you feel more hunger. So what you usually do is eat something sweet with probably more sugar and fat than what would have been in the drink, and in the end you end up
So you'd be better of drinking the regular stuff in moderate amounts and substituting the excess with the real thing, coffee.
I don't agree on the flavor of diet sodas though, they all taste like shit. As the slogan for Sprite Zero goes (at least in Europe): No sugar, Only full of
I set up a system for a building contractor where they were being raided every once in a while. I used SBC's and webcams that save the video over the network to a server, all linux, ports configurable to whatever you desire.
The only "extra" software I used was motion, which is easily installable on a debian GNU/Linux box (and probably others as well).
No. We knocked the server off the FAT (Fryer Allocation Table)
The mention of the contatct lenses made me think of Zaphod Beebelbrox and his glasses (or was it someone else) that helped him to never be scared. The glasses went black when danger was imminent.
That could be really cool when driving.
When choosing an MS solution you pay your money to MS. If you choose an open alternative you are more or less able to choose to whom you want to give your money. You could pay RedHat or some other distributor or you could employ the people on site (and even fight unemployment that way...)
That wouldn't be necessary if the user does as his third suggestion, patch the system.
And that wouldn't be necessary if the system would be built more securely from the start.
A good idea for MS would be to not make their stuff so userfriendly that it automatically executes every virus attachement that it comes across but instead would warn the user by default.
Take a look at MySQLauction.
Freshmeat is also a good startting point.
After having used Linux since 1993 I feel like I'm not competent to really make the choice or rather have the time to make a choice so I just stick with what I'm using. But what matters to me is that the choice is there for me to make if I feel like it, not havin to be stuck with something that really doesn't suit me.
Spreading them out is definately a good thing to do but you also have to think about in what kind of a building you put the NOC. There is a worldwide banking network that has its NOCs on three continents and in towns that are not in any way on anyones radar (well I guess they are because of these NOCs). The buildings are built as bombshelters and with faraday cages aso. They also have at least "double everything" in all NOCs.
This is ofcourse extreme but if you want no single point of failure and have the need to do it right, this is the way to do it.
I already have a phone and a PDA, I want them combined in one and then I want to have the camera put in as well. So no thank you Logitech, I'll go get the Nokia 7650 once its out.
There's also a problem with the LD if you need sessions in your application. As long as you have big enough servers that can handle all the traffic coming from behind proxies you can always use the IP-sticky in the LD but experience with this has shown me that sometimes the load balancing can be really bad with this scheme. If the LD just happens to throw three or four big proxy addresses at one machine it will get bogged down and the whole idea with the LD is lost.
There is ofcourse the ssl-sticky for ssl sessions over http. But there's a problem with that too. If the client uses IE and sits behind a proxy the ssl-session ID will not come from the client. IE by default uses http 1.0 when talking to a proxy which doesn't allow sessions. This is probably due to the fact that up to a very late point in time MS supplied proxies that talked only 1.0 and now they correct that by disabling the newer protocol in their browser.
At the webserver end it seems like the client would be talking 1.1 but that is not true since the protocol info comes from the proxy, which talks 1.1.
There might be a solution to this but I haven't been able to find anything yet. Otherwise the LD is a working solution that also provides failover for itself if you have two of them.
I do buy DVD's but I'm not satisfied with what I get. I pay more and get a meny on the disk for jumping to the exact start of a track. It's a little bit faster but the same thing as having indexes on a tape. Most titles here in europe don't have that much extra on them compared to VHS. In a few years or probably less, I'll have enough disk space at home to put a few films on them too. Why should I be forced to drag out the DVD from the rack when I could conviniently have it stored on my disk drive? Yes, because the film industry is also greedy.
Now the DVD audio format will be interesting. We already have perfect sound on the CD's, what can I gain by getting a twice as perfect sound on a DVD (or the high definition CD's for that matter). It'll cost me a fortune to buy a new DVD player and the even more expensive DVD's. On top of it I wont be able to listen to them as I want to, 500 hours of listening without touching the DVD. I don't think the audio DVD will succeed unless I can play it on what I've got now...but I'm probably wrong, they'll ram it down our throats.
Now I don't condone sharing your files freely on the net but if that's your thing, go ahead. It's no more criminal than my copying of MP3's onto a CD but the gripe from RIAA et. al. is that the copying is so extensive. Is it really? I guess there are a lot of people who download from the net but I also think that most of those people go and buy the CD from the store, I know I would if I'd find a song that's worth it (yes even one song per CD is sometimes enough for me). I'm just not satisfied with an MP3 that is 128kb, I've got a good stereo and I want it ripped at the best possible quality. And if there happens to be some people that don't buy the CD after all, well, I don't think they would've bought it anyway.
So all in all, distribution channels like napster is actually more like a promtion channel. Instead of complaining about lost revenue the record companies should thank napster for god promotion.
Happy ripping.
To quote with a quote (from the episode of Max Headroom about BlipVerts(tm) when he's presented to the board of executives)
So, you're the people who exec-exec-execute the audience
In that sense I could see a use for self execution or suicide as you also might call it.
I'm a unix administrator. At this moment we have about 50 Linux (yes debian) boxen and 4 HP-UX closets and a few Solaris pizzaboxes, and perhaps 10 NT's. We have to get a few more Solaris boxes installed, and beleive me, if it was possible they would be Linux boxes.
The problem with Solaris is that the environment that it is shipped with hasn't changed since the early 80's. Is there a chance that we could ever see a debian distro that is made for Solaris. That way I could use the same packages (recompiled though) for both Linux and Solaris.
In honor of the MS way, press the save button and search for your data a few days:
Do you know where your data went today?
Think about it, it really fits MS!