I agree wholeheartedly what Mr. Bob has to say. Their way of doing stuff is good.. I want to see bugs... i want to know they are there and that developers of the open source world aren't perfect.
If a project is put forth in an open source world it is tested... bugs are found and fixed. By putting a buggy version of gcc into the mainstream(regardless of mistake or not), these bugs are going to be found and fixed FASTER. Redhat has the resources to do this. They are doing good here folks. Wide spread beta testing is great for the quality of the software being put on the market.
I sit at my computer most of my waking hours. I stare endlessly at a flickering screen whether I am actually working or just geeking out.
Since this is the way it goes... I may as well do it in style with the Aura, kindly supplied by Poetic Technologies.
At the impressive price of $7,769.00 USD (or for the economically challenged (me) $11,340.00 CDN Funds (Don't forget the GST)) this puppy will obviously fall under the Unlimited catagory.
A nice comfortable catheder and a bowel bag and I won't have to function as a human again.
I found a small reference in the README to copying my/usr/src/linux/.config file to my new linux src directory the running 'make oldconfig'.
This method prompted me for any new features that have been added and I'm assuming it will compile.
Can anyone confirm that this is correct? Before I install this kernal remotely and reboot, dooming my machine to be down for 6 hours while I wait till I get home:) Thank god this isn't a mission critical box.
Previously I have simply had two windows open and just made sure they looked the same.. This works... works well in fact, but lordy its a pain. There must be another way?
Copying/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig doesn't seem to work -at a glance-. I don't suppose our illustrious kernel hackers have made a utility or some sort of a script that will allow us to update easily. I'm currently using 2.2.14 and I've heard that anything below 2.2.16 has some security holes, so me thinks its time to upgrade.
First I will give you some background on how I came about seeing this flick. I had originally made my way to the north end of my nearest city to go see 'Gladiators' The newspaper said Matinee at 4, the SilverCity said 3:30. This was my first trip to SilverCity so my expectations where high.
The theatre was just cool. Its about flaming time and well worth the extra 3 bucks over a traditional sardine can. I rarely go to movies, so I plan on making Silver City my only theatre choice... No, I don't work for Famous Players.
Okay.. The movie. Your typical opressed people are opressed... opressed people revolt and succeed against their opressors... a plot older then the bible. Whatever works.
Travolta... Hello.. comeback? Poor acting? It was Travolta... compare his pissed off moods to the pissed off moods of ALL his other movies and you have the same old Travolta, the man is a typecast in my eyes.
Overall I liked the movie... LIKED.. not LOVED.. it was typical sci fi.. what is so wrong with a plot where 'the man' is overcome by aliens. People are often too jaded by movies nowadays. The storyline wasn't far fetched... the character interaction certainly wasn't far fetched.. Who is to say that the mannorisms and over the top ways of the Psyclos couldn't be -normal- for the race... not everyone acts 'human'. Now the name of the race and planet... that was dumb...
Okay back to the humans being taken over. In the end our little buddies took flight in Harrier JumpJets to whoop some ass... setting aside the fact that it would take me (as an ex-pilot) a hell of a lot longer then 7 days in a sim to fly one of these planes as well as they did. The fact that they where using Harriers tells me that earth was nailed in the 20th-21st century. Our technology isn't -that- good right now that we could take down a planetary strike from an alian race. The fact that the fsckers flew in space all the way to earth is a pretty good indecation of that.
Next... our little monkey men...:) 1000 years of opression and fear of going to the cities is a very good basis for devolution, lack of rebuilding the species etc... A little far fetched, but not impossible.
Overall out of ten I gave the movie a 6. It was entertaining... it was full of action and overall -not bad- worth 11 bucks... hell no.. 4 bucks at the corner store.. yup, very worth it.
Get out of the StarTrek and StarWars Mentalities folks... open your minds to other possibilities then Klingons and Vulcans.
This hasn't much to do with flywheel technology... its with the opening paragraphs of the article.. It mentions that cars are built "backwards". UGH!
An airfoil is shaped the way it is in order to cause a low pressure airstream on top and a high pressure airstream on the bottom. This causes lift.
Now... lets apply this to a car... what happens... your car flys away? No.. but close.. it would hover a little more while moving... especially on highways (ie when your going fast)... add rain and your fscked... you would hydrofoil and die. Or come close... the reason cars are tapered at the front is to help push the rest of the car down on the wheels giving it traction. Its an essential compromise of aerodynamics and safety.
As an Outlook user (at work, at home pine) I think this is a good thing. Not so much that you can't send attachments as easy. If I think about how hard our mail server works when some dork sends off a 4 meg attachement to 20 of his closest friends (Even I have been guilty of this at one time before enlightenment) it makes me want to spew. Personally if I have something humourous or work related to send, I put it in my webspace and send people a link. This will force people to do things such as this.
Now.. on the other end of the scale... WTF don't they just disable Javascipt and VBScript in email... not disable.. REMOVE completely. Don't give me some crap about how Yahoo can't inundate my email from their pop users with banner ads at the bottom... Its not needed... There is nothing wrong with linking an image as HTML as a lesser evil and just rotating these images on the server side for each request.. If such a beast hasn't been created for their web server, they have enough money to add a feature such as that to their webserver software. BAH!
Its not like its an operating system or some really new fancy firewall.. its a driver.. a driver that makes their hardware product more accessable to more people. Why not open source it? I own one of these cards... a RIVA TNT... It works fine for X and console of course... but can I play Unreal with it? Nooooo... It frusterates the hell out of me that I have to boot into windows for this.. (an OS that won't recognize my CDROM or my 2nd HD without a Dos driver... go figure that one... Oh well.. I'm no software/hardware developer.. who am I to say what the public needs. Regarding them fixing the mistake they made.. Kudo's... it could be fixed a little sooner if you ask me, but good for them anyway.
They see a domain that isn't being squatted. I can't pull up anything under www.coke.ch... so why shouldn't they push to get it unregistered... Had our reader done something with it 2 years ago and not let it stagnate then I bet that the big boys at Coke would have said hey.. this kids doing some good with this site.. lets leave it alone.
I disagree that coke is a slang word. Coke has been commercially associated with the drink longer then it turned into drug slang.
What does Coke mean in Swedish? Or wherever the.ch domains come from? That may also have some relevance.
Regardless of the readers good intentions (Don't get me wrong I fully agree that they are valid) the domain is being squatted.
Don't forget the thriving BBS culture. Telnet BBS's are thriving these days on the net, you thought the internet snuffed us out! Ha... we're still here in full ANSI colour!
Slashdot is a forum dedicated to discussion of technological advance in our society today and the reprocussions that technology has on our society as a whole.
Religion is an important part of society... yes. But seriously, since when did your God use an Athelon?
The Slashdot audience is a very broad based audience. We have people that are participating in an international forum that represent an enourmous amount of religions or lack of religion. To speak to one belief system would be wrong, to speak to all belief systems would be unreasonable.
Slashdot is here for technology, not religious belief. Cept when it comes to what OS is better... that is one religion that we can't be rid of.
Hell ya.. we, as informed and experienced internet/computer users know exactly what to do with spam... ignore it... we are annoyed with it simply because our participation is higher in online forums where our email addresses become easier to find. Your typical Mom and Pop on the net don't know or care... they just get the mail and either delete it or go to the site... some actually like getting the mail because the whole email in less then 2 seconds to the other side of the world "phenominon" is breathtaking to them.
SPAM is just like television, newspaper or billboards... With more quantity, you get a wider possibility of an audience. All you need is for 1% of your SPAM to get a hit. Send out 2 million messages and that translates into 20,000 hits. Do that every month or so and you are bound to get some sales out of it. Either that or you will get your name out. There is no such thing as bad publicity in the advertising world.
Do I advocate SPAM? Hell no... do I realize its value on the bottom line... Hell yes.
A lot of companies would be better off using Small ISP's. Smaller ISP's are almost always willing to give you more bang for your buck. They don't charge enourmous amounts of money and you have a better chance of getting a human on the other end rather then an automated attendent. When you call, ask them how long they have been around... the average lifespan of bankrupt/closed down companies in this world is about 3 years. If they live past then, they are pretty well as solid as the next guy.
If you are a small company chances are your webpage is not going to garner gobs of bandwidth at one time... even the little ISP with a 128K ISDN connection can easily serve up your pages to people in a reasonable amount of time. Ie. At home I have a 56K modem... at work I have a T1. Slashdot loads at the same speed for both. I get 6k per second on my home machine... and I get 80-100 on my work machine at peak so its not my server because they are both using the same pipe.
People need to get out of this frame of mind that bigger is better. It isn't... with bigger you have red tape. You have cutbacks where they have 3 guys tech supporting 10,000 users. Sure with the smaller ISP you may not get 24/7 tech service.. or you may even pay a little bit more for one specific thing but in a lot of cases cheaper isn't better. If your business hosting needs are dependent on 24/7 support then you need a Network Service Provider. If your business was so dependent on uptime that it would kill your profit margin by being down for 8 hours because your ISP staff is asleep then you need the bigger guy... even then you can find medium sized companies that have higher levels of tech support options available. I would be willing to bet that some of the best webhosting companies out there are small timers who will stay small because they won't sacrifice quantity for quality.
Just my 2 cents... keep them in mind when you need a business (or even personal) internet solution.
And many of them we can identify.. ie the latest little office romance where one of the techs (forget the name) is smitten with one of the female techs.. Personally, my wife and I met over the computer (back when BBS's ruled cyberspace (I still run one BTW)). We found it easier for us at the time to argue or get our feelings out in "Netmail"...we have since progressed and simply pound each other over the head with keyboards..
Something that Mr. Kurtz isn't taking into light is the fact that these comics aren't directed towards your average computer user. This is why we have sites like CNN and Yahoo. These sites cater to a mass audience of people from computer tech guru's to the stay at home house husbands/mothers of 5.
UF caters to UFies... those of us who deal with computers daily and have to deal with the non-user on the other end of the phone. Its an outlet for us. We deal with a lot of people who may not be stupid... but are clearly not trying hard enough. to simply learn. I have clients that will run to me every time their computer locks on them and I have to explain the same old tired story that it happens once and a while, reboot, let scandisk -or- fsck do its thing and try again.
I just got a call from a user who has a webpage on one of our servers... the original was done by a person much like myself who did the page (in FrontPage no less iCK) and then left the company later for whatever reason. The client was calling me to ask me how to change things. Since this was out of the scope of tech support and into teaching someone how to use a program I simply told them their options.
1. Learn how to HTML yourself with FrontPage
or
2. Hire someone to do it for you.
I told them I would be happy to make any regular changes to their page, but at my usual rates, they thanked me for my input and we left the call on a good note.. If seen in a comic strip I would have simply laughed my ass off and identified with it. Which is why the techs like myself like the strip. It gives us something that we can all laugh and identify with. We... are his audience.
Whats next... are we going to have people with no hair, bad fashion sense and a lousy pitching arm going after Charles Schulz for making fun of Charlie Brown's poor baseball game?
I'm sorry, but when it comes down to it, if you program it yourself using your own code it should not be patentable. I can understand copywrite issues put on software (ie. you hack our system, steal the code and use it for youself and make gobs of money) but patenting a process of doing something is BS when it doesn't actually create something solid, ie a car. I think I'll patent the method I use to put my pants on in the morning.
From what I hear DVD's are pretty big in the size department. While people may pass them around the net like ISO's, unless you have a DVD writer, what use are they.
"I might never be a Linux Geek. But I am my own particular kind of geek now. "
I prefer to think of it as being technologically enlightened. You already knew that MS wasn't the only OS on the block but Mac hardly competes. For me, Linux was a journey of enlightenment. It showed me one of the alternatives. It allowed me to open my mind and grow, which in turn has opened my career options. Linux today looks good on a resume. Especially if its your preferred operating system... it'll make Mr. Employer look at it and say.. "Well shit.. this kid must have some sort of a brain if he can do something with an Operating System that I've never heard of" heh.. either that or he shrugs his shoulders and says WTF is Linux and why does this moron have a penguin on his resume?
Both had the exact same surgery. It entailed a reliatively quick operation (1 hour). The hand was slit down the centerline from about the middle of your palm to just below where your pulse is read. They tighten up the tendons in some funky doctor way and then sew you up. If your lucky you get to watch the whole thing..:) Surgery in this area has gotten quite advanced in a short period of time (with my father the procedure had changed drastically over the year or so between hands)... the days of the 3-4 month recovery and full arm incisions is definately over. Another procedure is to make a small incision in the center of the palm and one in the wrist to tighten what they need to tighten. I guess its all a matter of how bad things are.
Full recovery was about 2-3 weeks.. they both got 6 weeks comp for good measure (ahh.. to have a union job). The first 2 days are the worst. The pain in most cases is quite unbarable unless your doctor is nice and gives you something stronger then codine. My Dad who always plays Mr. Tough guy was a complete baby for a couple days (no doubt for good reason)... For the next week after that expect a gradually disapating soarness and then they will start getting you to do simple tasks with your hands such as writing... get a stress ball, they tell you to play with them a lot to loosen up the muscles... All in all its not major surgery in anyway. Another thing to expect is to use wrist bandages if you are factory or repetitively using your hands..
For some reason I haven't encountered this problem yet.. and after 14-15 hour days on regular keyboards, lousy posture and using a regular cheapo mouse you would think I would be showing symptoms by now... oh well, no complaints here... oh wait.. my fingertips just went numb...
Another thing to keep in mind is that every medical system is different. I happen to live in one of the medical epicentres for Canada and we are lucky enough to have a lot of higher profile physicians. Things may be quite different if you live in bartfark nowhere...
I work for myself... and always will.. so its far from a concern. I have no interest in working for an orginization that feels the need to check up on how I present myself out of the office.
Anti-hate groups buy up all the defamitory web real estate on the web and all the minorities in this world (minority being a term as politically incorrect as Nigger in my books) are free of having Mr. KKK posting ignorent hate literature on nigger.com, not to mention I don't have to look at it.
The Bad:
These groups are domain camping. The only thing that would make this into a good thing is if they where to educate people about their race via these webpages... right now I get a "this page ain't here". I'm not talking about some redirect to the main site, I'm talking about a legitimate page telling people this is what this word means and this is why its wrong. With maybe a link to the main site.
The Ugly:
These neo-nazi-dweebie-morons can easily make a big stink out of this if something legitimate isn't done with the domains and unfortunately they have as much right to do so as the rest of us.
I firmly believe in free speech, but I also despise hatred or lack of tolerence in any form, and while I believe these dildo's have a right to say what they want to say, I don't think they should be allowed to be in your face at every turn. When it comes to african americans and the KKK/Skinheads yadda yadda bitching about how the "N******" are ruining this country, all I have to say is "Then why did yer great grandpappies take them away from their people and homeland and plop them in the states in the first place" or in the case of my ancestors "Then why the hell did you think you had the right to come into their land and create a government meant to demoralize their way of life". Ain't life just lovely? I'm just happy that I am lucky enough that aside from the odd Jerry Springer episode I'm not exposed to this madness often.
There's an easy thing for you to do as well.. and thats don't read... Another easy thing for you to do is put your treashold at -1 and never have to worry about censorship. Its called configurability. Just as rob said in the original artical
"Go to your user preferences and click 'Unwilling' and you won't be asked to moderate. Click 'No Scores' and you won't see scores again. Change your threshold to -1 and forget that they even exist. This system is designed to provide a solution to people who wish to use Slashdot like usenet. It's designed to provide a solution to people who want to use Slashdot more like a newspaper. "
Mr. Moderator can flag this as redundant if (s)he likes, because quite frankly it is.
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If a project is put forth in an open source world it is tested... bugs are found and fixed. By putting a buggy version of gcc into the mainstream(regardless of mistake or not), these bugs are going to be found and fixed FASTER. Redhat has the resources to do this. They are doing good here folks. Wide spread beta testing is great for the quality of the software being put on the market.
Keep up the good work!
- Xabbu
I sit at my computer most of my waking hours. I stare endlessly at a flickering screen whether I am actually working or just geeking out.
Since this is the way it goes... I may as well do it in style with the Aura, kindly supplied by Poetic Technologies.
At the impressive price of $7,769.00 USD (or for the economically challenged (me) $11,340.00 CDN Funds (Don't forget the GST)) this puppy will obviously fall under the Unlimited catagory.
A nice comfortable catheder and a bowel bag and I won't have to function as a human again.
- Xabbu
Figured it out... :)
/usr/src/linux/.config file to my new linux src directory the running 'make oldconfig'.
:) Thank god this isn't a mission critical box.
I think.
I found a small reference in the README to copying my
This method prompted me for any new features that have been added and I'm assuming it will compile.
Can anyone confirm that this is correct? Before I install this kernal remotely and reboot, dooming my machine to be down for 6 hours while I wait till I get home
- Xabbu
How in gods name do I update my configuration?
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig doesn't seem to work -at a glance-. I don't suppose our illustrious kernel hackers have made a utility or some sort of a script that will allow us to update easily. I'm currently using 2.2.14 and I've heard that anything below 2.2.16 has some security holes, so me thinks its time to upgrade.
Previously I have simply had two windows open and just made sure they looked the same.. This works... works well in fact, but lordy its a pain. There must be another way?
Copying
- Xabbu
The theatre was just cool. Its about flaming time and well worth the extra 3 bucks over a traditional sardine can. I rarely go to movies, so I plan on making Silver City my only theatre choice... No, I don't work for Famous Players.
Okay.. The movie. Your typical opressed people are opressed... opressed people revolt and succeed against their opressors... a plot older then the bible. Whatever works.
Travolta... Hello.. comeback? Poor acting? It was Travolta... compare his pissed off moods to the pissed off moods of ALL his other movies and you have the same old Travolta, the man is a typecast in my eyes.
Overall I liked the movie... LIKED.. not LOVED.. it was typical sci fi.. what is so wrong with a plot where 'the man' is overcome by aliens. People are often too jaded by movies nowadays. The storyline wasn't far fetched... the character interaction certainly wasn't far fetched.. Who is to say that the mannorisms and over the top ways of the Psyclos couldn't be -normal- for the race... not everyone acts 'human'. Now the name of the race and planet... that was dumb...
Okay back to the humans being taken over. In the end our little buddies took flight in Harrier JumpJets to whoop some ass... setting aside the fact that it would take me (as an ex-pilot) a hell of a lot longer then 7 days in a sim to fly one of these planes as well as they did. The fact that they where using Harriers tells me that earth was nailed in the 20th-21st century. Our technology isn't -that- good right now that we could take down a planetary strike from an alian race. The fact that the fsckers flew in space all the way to earth is a pretty good indecation of that.
Next... our little monkey men... :) 1000 years of opression and fear of going to the cities is a very good basis for devolution, lack of rebuilding the species etc... A little far fetched, but not impossible.
Overall out of ten I gave the movie a 6. It was entertaining... it was full of action and overall -not bad- worth 11 bucks... hell no.. 4 bucks at the corner store.. yup, very worth it.
Get out of the StarTrek and StarWars Mentalities folks... open your minds to other possibilities then Klingons and Vulcans.
- Xabbu
This hasn't much to do with flywheel technology... its with the opening paragraphs of the article.. It mentions that cars are built "backwards". UGH!
An airfoil is shaped the way it is in order to cause a low pressure airstream on top and a high pressure airstream on the bottom. This causes lift.
Now... lets apply this to a car... what happens... your car flys away? No.. but close.. it would hover a little more while moving... especially on highways (ie when your going fast)... add rain and your fscked... you would hydrofoil and die. Or come close... the reason cars are tapered at the front is to help push the rest of the car down on the wheels giving it traction. Its an essential compromise of aerodynamics and safety.
Stupid rant I know.. but it bugged me.
- Xabbu
As an Outlook user (at work, at home pine) I think this is a good thing. Not so much that you can't send attachments as easy. If I think about how hard our mail server works when some dork sends off a 4 meg attachement to 20 of his closest friends (Even I have been guilty of this at one time before enlightenment) it makes me want to spew. Personally if I have something humourous or work related to send, I put it in my webspace and send people a link. This will force people to do things such as this.
Now.. on the other end of the scale... WTF don't they just disable Javascipt and VBScript in email... not disable.. REMOVE completely. Don't give me some crap about how Yahoo can't inundate my email from their pop users with banner ads at the bottom... Its not needed... There is nothing wrong with linking an image as HTML as a lesser evil and just rotating these images on the server side for each request.. If such a beast hasn't been created for their web server, they have enough money to add a feature such as that to their webserver software. BAH!
So now I'm 50/50 on this point.
- Xabbu
Its not like its an operating system or some really new fancy firewall.. its a driver.. a driver that makes their hardware product more accessable to more people. Why not open source it? I own one of these cards... a RIVA TNT... It works fine for X and console of course... but can I play Unreal with it? Nooooo... It frusterates the hell out of me that I have to boot into windows for this.. (an OS that won't recognize my CDROM or my 2nd HD without a Dos driver... go figure that one... Oh well.. I'm no software/hardware developer.. who am I to say what the public needs. Regarding them fixing the mistake they made.. Kudo's... it could be fixed a little sooner if you ask me, but good for them anyway.
- Xabbu
1. I'm Canadian
2. Who cares if I know what country level domains are which... why don't you correct my speeling as well?
3. What does coke mean in Swedish/German/French or whatever language they speak there.
Maybe instead of insulting your peers as an AC you should try and be a little more constructive.
- Xabbu
They see a domain that isn't being squatted. I can't pull up anything under www.coke.ch... so why shouldn't they push to get it unregistered... Had our reader done something with it 2 years ago and not let it stagnate then I bet that the big boys at Coke would have said hey.. this kids doing some good with this site.. lets leave it alone.
.ch domains come from? That may also have some relevance.
I disagree that coke is a slang word. Coke has been commercially associated with the drink longer then it turned into drug slang.
What does Coke mean in Swedish? Or wherever the
Regardless of the readers good intentions (Don't get me wrong I fully agree that they are valid) the domain is being squatted.
- Xabbu
Don't forget the thriving BBS culture. Telnet BBS's are thriving these days on the net, you thought the internet snuffed us out! Ha... we're still here in full ANSI colour!
For more info, check here:
http://www.darktech.org- Xabbu
In my eye...
Slashdot is a forum dedicated to discussion of technological advance in our society today and the reprocussions that technology has on our society as a whole.
Religion is an important part of society... yes. But seriously, since when did your God use an Athelon?
The Slashdot audience is a very broad based audience. We have people that are participating in an international forum that represent an enourmous amount of religions or lack of religion. To speak to one belief system would be wrong, to speak to all belief systems would be unreasonable.
Slashdot is here for technology, not religious belief. Cept when it comes to what OS is better... that is one religion that we can't be rid of.
- Xabbu
Does Spam work?
Hell ya.. we, as informed and experienced internet/computer users know exactly what to do with spam... ignore it... we are annoyed with it simply because our participation is higher in online forums where our email addresses become easier to find. Your typical Mom and Pop on the net don't know or care... they just get the mail and either delete it or go to the site... some actually like getting the mail because the whole email in less then 2 seconds to the other side of the world "phenominon" is breathtaking to them.
SPAM is just like television, newspaper or billboards... With more quantity, you get a wider possibility of an audience. All you need is for 1% of your SPAM to get a hit. Send out 2 million messages and that translates into 20,000 hits. Do that every month or so and you are bound to get some sales out of it. Either that or you will get your name out. There is no such thing as bad publicity in the advertising world.
Do I advocate SPAM? Hell no... do I realize its value on the bottom line... Hell yes.
- Xabbu
A lot of companies would be better off using Small ISP's. Smaller ISP's are almost always willing to give you more bang for your buck. They don't charge enourmous amounts of money and you have a better chance of getting a human on the other end rather then an automated attendent. When you call, ask them how long they have been around... the average lifespan of bankrupt/closed down companies in this world is about 3 years. If they live past then, they are pretty well as solid as the next guy.
If you are a small company chances are your webpage is not going to garner gobs of bandwidth at one time... even the little ISP with a 128K ISDN connection can easily serve up your pages to people in a reasonable amount of time. Ie. At home I have a 56K modem... at work I have a T1. Slashdot loads at the same speed for both. I get 6k per second on my home machine... and I get 80-100 on my work machine at peak so its not my server because they are both using the same pipe.
People need to get out of this frame of mind that bigger is better. It isn't... with bigger you have red tape. You have cutbacks where they have 3 guys tech supporting 10,000 users. Sure with the smaller ISP you may not get 24/7 tech service.. or you may even pay a little bit more for one specific thing but in a lot of cases cheaper isn't better. If your business hosting needs are dependent on 24/7 support then you need a Network Service Provider. If your business was so dependent on uptime that it would kill your profit margin by being down for 8 hours because your ISP staff is asleep then you need the bigger guy... even then you can find medium sized companies that have higher levels of tech support options available. I would be willing to bet that some of the best webhosting companies out there are small timers who will stay small because they won't sacrifice quantity for quality.
Just my 2 cents... keep them in mind when you need a business (or even personal) internet solution.
- Xabbu
> Thank you !Xabbu...
:)
...we have since progressed and simply pound each other over the head with keyboards..
No, thank you..
> And they are rather amusing strips as well...
And many of them we can identify.. ie the latest little office romance where one of the techs (forget the name) is smitten with one of the female techs.. Personally, my wife and I met over the computer (back when BBS's ruled cyberspace (I still run one BTW)). We found it easier for us at the time to argue or get our feelings out in "Netmail"
- Xabbu
What new and wonderful reasources will andover bring to slashdot. More Hardware? More employees? More slashdot native news articles/"reporters"?
- Xabbu
Something that Mr. Kurtz isn't taking into light is the fact that these comics aren't directed towards your average computer user. This is why we have sites like CNN and Yahoo. These sites cater to a mass audience of people from computer tech guru's to the stay at home house husbands/mothers of 5.
UF caters to UFies... those of us who deal with computers daily and have to deal with the non-user on the other end of the phone. Its an outlet for us. We deal with a lot of people who may not be stupid... but are clearly not trying hard enough. to simply learn. I have clients that will run to me every time their computer locks on them and I have to explain the same old tired story that it happens once and a while, reboot, let scandisk -or- fsck do its thing and try again.
I just got a call from a user who has a webpage on one of our servers... the original was done by a person much like myself who did the page (in FrontPage no less iCK) and then left the company later for whatever reason. The client was calling me to ask me how to change things. Since this was out of the scope of tech support and into teaching someone how to use a program I simply told them their options.
1. Learn how to HTML yourself with FrontPage
or2. Hire someone to do it for you.
I told them I would be happy to make any regular changes to their page, but at my usual rates, they thanked me for my input and we left the call on a good note.. If seen in a comic strip I would have simply laughed my ass off and identified with it. Which is why the techs like myself like the strip. It gives us something that we can all laugh and identify with. We... are his audience.
Whats next... are we going to have people with no hair, bad fashion sense and a lousy pitching arm going after Charles Schulz for making fun of Charlie Brown's poor baseball game?
- Xabbu
I'm sorry, but when it comes down to it, if you program it yourself using your own code it should not be patentable. I can understand copywrite issues put on software (ie. you hack our system, steal the code and use it for youself and make gobs of money) but patenting a process of doing something is BS when it doesn't actually create something solid, ie a car. I think I'll patent the method I use to put my pants on in the morning.
- Xabbu
From what I hear DVD's are pretty big in the size department. While people may pass them around the net like ISO's, unless you have a DVD writer, what use are they.
- Xabbu
Not that I'm naive enough to believe what I see in movies, but I thought that the technology was already there and in military use?
- Xabbu
"I might never be a Linux Geek. But I am my own particular kind of geek now. "
I prefer to think of it as being technologically enlightened. You already knew that MS wasn't the only OS on the block but Mac hardly competes.
For me, Linux was a journey of enlightenment. It showed me one of the alternatives. It allowed me to open my mind and grow, which in turn has opened my career options. Linux today looks good on a resume. Especially if its your preferred operating system... it'll make Mr. Employer look at it and say.. "Well shit.. this kid must have some sort of a brain if he can do something with an Operating System that I've never heard of" heh.. either that or he shrugs his shoulders and says WTF is Linux and why does this moron have a penguin on his resume?
- Xabbu
Both had the exact same surgery. It entailed a reliatively quick operation (1 hour). The hand was slit down the centerline from about the middle of your palm to just below where your pulse is read. They tighten up the tendons in some funky doctor way and then sew you up. If your lucky you get to watch the whole thing.. :) Surgery in this area has gotten quite advanced in a short period of time (with my father the procedure had changed drastically over the year or so between hands)... the days of the 3-4 month recovery and full arm incisions is definately over. Another procedure is to make a small incision in the center of the palm and one in the wrist to tighten what they need to tighten. I guess its all a matter of how bad things are.
Full recovery was about 2-3 weeks.. they both got 6 weeks comp for good measure (ahh.. to have a union job). The first 2 days are the worst. The pain in most cases is quite unbarable unless your doctor is nice and gives you something stronger then codine. My Dad who always plays Mr. Tough guy was a complete baby for a couple days (no doubt for good reason)... For the next week after that expect a gradually disapating soarness and then they will start getting you to do simple tasks with your hands such as writing... get a stress ball, they tell you to play with them a lot to loosen up the muscles... All in all its not major surgery in anyway. Another thing to expect is to use wrist bandages if you are factory or repetitively using your hands..
For some reason I haven't encountered this problem yet.. and after 14-15 hour days on regular keyboards, lousy posture and using a regular cheapo mouse you would think I would be showing symptoms by now... oh well, no complaints here... oh wait.. my fingertips just went numb...
Another thing to keep in mind is that every medical system is different. I happen to live in one of the medical epicentres for Canada and we are lucky enough to have a lot of higher profile physicians. Things may be quite different if you live in bartfark nowhere...
Good luck!
- Xabbu
I work for myself... and always will.. so its far from a concern. I have no interest in working for an orginization that feels the need to check up on how I present myself out of the office.
- Xabbu
The Good:
Anti-hate groups buy up all the defamitory web real estate on the web and all the minorities in this world (minority being a term as politically incorrect as Nigger in my books) are free of having Mr. KKK posting ignorent hate literature on nigger.com, not to mention I don't have to look at it.
The Bad:
These groups are domain camping. The only thing that would make this into a good thing is if they where to educate people about their race via these webpages... right now I get a "this page ain't here". I'm not talking about some redirect to the main site, I'm talking about a legitimate page telling people this is what this word means and this is why its wrong. With maybe a link to the main site.
The Ugly:
These neo-nazi-dweebie-morons can easily make a big stink out of this if something legitimate isn't done with the domains and unfortunately they have as much right to do so as the rest of us.
I firmly believe in free speech, but I also despise hatred or lack of tolerence in any form, and while I believe these dildo's have a right to say what they want to say, I don't think they should be allowed to be in your face at every turn. When it comes to african americans and the KKK/Skinheads yadda yadda bitching about how the "N******" are ruining this country, all I have to say is "Then why did yer great grandpappies take them away from their people and homeland and plop them in the states in the first place" or in the case of my ancestors "Then why the hell did you think you had the right to come into their land and create a government meant to demoralize their way of life". Ain't life just lovely? I'm just happy that I am lucky enough that aside from the odd Jerry Springer episode I'm not exposed to this madness often.
- Xabbu
There's an easy thing for you to do as well.. and thats don't read... Another easy thing for you to do is put your treashold at -1 and never have to worry about censorship. Its called configurability. Just as rob said in the original artical
"Go to your user preferences and click 'Unwilling' and you won't be asked to moderate. Click 'No Scores' and you won't see scores again. Change your threshold to -1 and forget that they even exist. This system is designed to provide a solution to people who wish to use Slashdot like usenet. It's designed to provide a solution to people who want to use Slashdot more like a newspaper. "
Mr. Moderator can flag this as redundant if (s)he likes, because quite frankly it is.
- Xabbu