You could get one of these to sit on your desk and, err, light up, or you might prefer a keyboard that you can actually type on...
in that case, I suggest you acquire a man's keyboard, the IBM model M. Springs hold your fingers up so you don't get carpal-tunnel in 10 minutes like with a mushboard, and you can use it as a very effective weapon, should it come down to it. But I suspect that I am preaching to the choir.
In general the quality of the album as a whole is just pitiful these days. Nobody's made a "white album" in a long, long time. These days albums are singles + filler, and who wants to listen to crap? Or, for that matter, buy it?
personally, my "current" email, that which is important and timely, stays under 10MB or so just about all the time. Not so with "bobb", my boss. I have altered "bobb's" name slightly to protect his identity.
Bobb has every email he's been sent since 1996. It might be thousands of messages, maybe hundreds of thousands by now. His Eudora mailbox has been transplanted to two different computers and that's only in the time I've been here. He hates having to reboot his machine because it takes 20 minutes for Eudora rebuild the index. And worst of all, it's mostly useless, out-of-date crap!!! Every old, unimportant thing you could imagine--network monitoring alarms from the late '90's, 'see you in five minutes' type stuff, bounces, and spam, spam, spam... maybe 1% of this stuff has enough content to bother with. The rest? A distraction if not a hinderance.
please don't end up like bobb. prune that mailbox regularly! don't forget to wash behind your home directory, either.
OH, I DUNNO, I HAVE A BUNCH OF DELL RACKMOUNTS, AND AT FIRST I THOUGHT THEY WERE KINDA LOUD BUT NOW I HARDLY NOTICE IT. I AM WORKING ON A 2.4GHZ 2650 WITH 5 DISKS IN MY OFFICE RIGHT NOW AND IT HARDLY MAKES A WHISPER.
oh my gosh how terrible the lameness filter is trying to foil my message, lowercase lowercase lowercase text text text text one two three four i love the marine corps happy fun ball sorry dave i'm afraid i can't do that my very educated mother blahblahblah
It's a [insert old computer here] on a terminal server... one user at a time, just like the good ol' days.
Remember when the PCers were running multiple copies of their software under Desqview, for a multiline system on one machine? I wonder if you could accomplish the same thing with multiple instances of [insert old computer here] running on your favorite modern OS? Probably lots of file locking (or lack thereof) problems to overcome, though.
I ran a board for years--taught me a lot, especially about modems and serial communications, and is not a hell of a lot different from my job now, except that I get paid and the modems have gotten a lot faster.
His wife got to pick their son's first name--Ocean. He didn't like it, so for his pick as the middle name, he chose 2,4,5-Trioxin, which is the "chemical" that brings the dead back to life in the movie Return of the Living dead.
Damn right. All else aside, I would not have 21 (debian) boxes at work if not for free software. I wouldn't have machine just for spamassassin, a machine just for MRTG, a machine just for snort, a machine just to relay mail out, etc, etc... I'd be doing what the windows shops do and loading up my two or three boxes with tons and tons and tons of crap and a dozen services each, putting the load through the roof, and just generally sucking. Amen.
Neither, I think. Perhaps they just want to have a format that they can pitch to those who want to distribute DRMed content, and make money by licensing the software. It's better from a business perspective to have a go at it rather than nothing at all, and no different from plain ol' Windows Media vs. DRM-encrusted WMA files.
I work for an ISP. We run spamassassin, which is good but not perfect. I also get some of the missed spam and quasi-spam forwarded to me, in the hopes that I'll block it.
Some of these things I get are just plain SA misses, but others are kind of in a grey area. One guy keeps sending me an insurance-related email that he keeps getting, but it's not spam--he signed up to get quotes or insurance news or something, so I won't block it.
So, anyway, SA thinks it's not spam, I think it's not spam, and the recipient thinks it is. Who's right?
Actually there are two GPS systems, the civilian one that you and I and the bad guys can use by plunking down a couple of bux for a receiver, and the military version, which gives more precise measurements and is encrypted.
The two systems are seperate, and the civilian GPS can be (not sure if it's actually been done yet) shut down when the gubbermint feels it necessary. Also they are able to introduce errors in the civilian GPS data stream to knock the precision even further when Uncle Sam feels it prudent. They can also turn it off just in a certain area, for example, the middle east...
At first glance, I thought this had something to do with Solarbabies, arguably one of the worst films ever made. But it doesn't, so this is just plain ol' off-topic.
I wonder if these kinds of discoveries could get otherwise uninterested parties into the space biz. Plenty of scenerios have us mining the moon for oxygen, fuel, etc, in order to survive up there, but what about other minerals/precious stones? If a huge chunk of [gold|platinium|unobtainium] were found on the moon, would it be cost effective to mine it and send it back to earth?
I'm sure there will be other such finds. This huge diamond probably doesn't even scratch the surface. (ha!)
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in that case, I suggest you acquire a man's keyboard, the IBM model M. Springs hold your fingers up so you don't get carpal-tunnel in 10 minutes like with a mushboard, and you can use it as a very effective weapon, should it come down to it. But I suspect that I am preaching to the choir.
Here's a link (MSNBC, yeech!) about the cameras on the Mars rovers. They only have a one megapixel sensor, but damn fine optics (as you would expect.)
So I see this story has the pacman icon. Pacman, however, is not a good example of interactive fiction.
You are at the center of a maze. To your front and rear are rows of dots that recede into the distance.
> forward
As you move forward, your open mouth causes you to consume a dot.
> forward
Your bulbous body thrusts forward once more, another dot disappearing into your maw.
> back
You turn around. In the distance you can see a ghost, coming right for you!
> down
You can't go in that direction.
> up
You slip into a side passage, continuing to dine on dots. Ahead there is a turn to the right.
> right
You turn, but a ghost is waiting for you right around the corner. There is no time to react, and you run right into it.
You are dead. Your score is 14/1000.
Play again? (y/n)
In general the quality of the album as a whole is just pitiful these days. Nobody's made a "white album" in a long, long time. These days albums are singles + filler, and who wants to listen to crap? Or, for that matter, buy it?
Bobb has every email he's been sent since 1996. It might be thousands of messages, maybe hundreds of thousands by now. His Eudora mailbox has been transplanted to two different computers and that's only in the time I've been here. He hates having to reboot his machine because it takes 20 minutes for Eudora rebuild the index. And worst of all, it's mostly useless, out-of-date crap!!! Every old, unimportant thing you could imagine--network monitoring alarms from the late '90's, 'see you in five minutes' type stuff, bounces, and spam, spam, spam... maybe 1% of this stuff has enough content to bother with. The rest? A distraction if not a hinderance.
please don't end up like bobb. prune that mailbox regularly! don't forget to wash behind your home directory, either.
OH, I DUNNO, I HAVE A BUNCH OF DELL RACKMOUNTS, AND AT FIRST I THOUGHT THEY WERE KINDA LOUD BUT NOW I HARDLY NOTICE IT. I AM WORKING ON A 2.4GHZ 2650 WITH 5 DISKS IN MY OFFICE RIGHT NOW AND IT HARDLY MAKES A WHISPER.
oh my gosh how terrible the lameness filter is trying to foil my message, lowercase lowercase lowercase text text text text one two three four i love the marine corps happy fun ball sorry dave i'm afraid i can't do that my very educated mother blahblahblah
huh? outlook does this crap all the time.
"Hi, I can't get my mail."
"You use Outlook/OE?"
"Yeah"
"Reboot and call me back if it doesn't work"
I never get called back.
At first I thought, well, I'll just off myself and then I can be the first person buried on (in?) the moon!
But I see there is a 10kg weight limit...
Thus, I have decided to cut off my head, and have just it sent to the moon! Eat your heart out, Walt Disney!
did I miss anything?
It's a [insert old computer here] on a terminal server... one user at a time, just like the good ol' days.
Remember when the PCers were running multiple copies of their software under Desqview, for a multiline system on one machine? I wonder if you could accomplish the same thing with multiple instances of [insert old computer here] running on your favorite modern OS? Probably lots of file locking (or lack thereof) problems to overcome, though.
I ran a board for years--taught me a lot, especially about modems and serial communications, and is not a hell of a lot different from my job now, except that I get paid and the modems have gotten a lot faster.
His wife got to pick their son's first name--Ocean. He didn't like it, so for his pick as the middle name, he chose 2,4,5-Trioxin, which is the "chemical" that brings the dead back to life in the movie Return of the Living dead.
No, really.
I'm sure theres even more complicated things you can do with P2P, such as organizing nodes for filesharing and so on.
P2P filesharing, what a great idea! I wonder when somebody's going to try to do that...
Damn right. All else aside, I would not have 21 (debian) boxes at work if not for free software. I wouldn't have machine just for spamassassin, a machine just for MRTG, a machine just for snort, a machine just to relay mail out, etc, etc... I'd be doing what the windows shops do and loading up my two or three boxes with tons and tons and tons of crap and a dozen services each, putting the load through the roof, and just generally sucking. Amen.
I'm wondering the same thing. Is this the same problem that was patched in debian's 2.4.24-3?
disclaimer: yes, yes, drm sucks
My gadgets treat me just fine... it's everybody else's bugridden crap that gives me headaches!
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I work for an ISP. We run spamassassin, which is good but not perfect. I also get some of the missed spam and quasi-spam forwarded to me, in the hopes that I'll block it.
Some of these things I get are just plain SA misses, but others are kind of in a grey area. One guy keeps sending me an insurance-related email that he keeps getting, but it's not spam--he signed up to get quotes or insurance news or something, so I won't block it.
So, anyway, SA thinks it's not spam, I think it's not spam, and the recipient thinks it is. Who's right?
I have no telephone. I hate the damn things, and have to use one all the time at work anyway.
Am I going to be forced to get one so that I have the ability to call 911, should the need arise?
Actually there are two GPS systems, the civilian one that you and I and the bad guys can use by plunking down a couple of bux for a receiver, and the military version, which gives more precise measurements and is encrypted.
The two systems are seperate, and the civilian GPS can be (not sure if it's actually been done yet) shut down when the gubbermint feels it necessary. Also they are able to introduce errors in the civilian GPS data stream to knock the precision even further when Uncle Sam feels it prudent. They can also turn it off just in a certain area, for example, the middle east...
I know it's been decided but I can't help that Rowan Atkinson would be a great Ford Prefect... there's just something not quite right about his nose...
At first glance, I thought this had something to do with Solarbabies, arguably one of the worst films ever made. But it doesn't, so this is just plain ol' off-topic.
I wonder if these kinds of discoveries could get otherwise uninterested parties into the space biz. Plenty of scenerios have us mining the moon for oxygen, fuel, etc, in order to survive up there, but what about other minerals/precious stones? If a huge chunk of [gold|platinium|unobtainium] were found on the moon, would it be cost effective to mine it and send it back to earth?
I'm sure there will be other such finds. This huge diamond probably doesn't even scratch the surface. (ha!)
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