LOL... I thought I was the only one...
Grep (well, text based tool at least)... out of all the cats I've had, she's one of two that has never been lost. The other one that never got lost Gryphon tries to stay out late. The funny thing is, I can tell her to go find Gryphon, and within 15 minutes they're both at the door waiting to come in.
I'm sure Country Music has increased the rate of suicide, while thrash metal and rap have increased the number of homicides.... I know I want to kill the little punks who drive around with this crap blasting out of their car at all hours of the night!
The problem that a paper like this might help solve is convincing others in a corporate/government environment that there are viable alternatives. Only a couple years ago a co-op student was considering writing his paper on Linux vs. Microsoft and wanted to know if he could ask me some questions (being the only Linux guy in the office). I gave him a lot of information and some links. When he presented the idea of the paper and his initial research, the dean laughed at him. The student was told that any competent 3rd or 4th year CS student should be able to crack a Linux box.
If this kind of attitude and mis conceptions exist in University CS departments, how do you expect our managers and directors to have a realistic view of Linux and OSS in general?
That's just it. A lot of people using this file sharing programs have no idea what they're doing... my site (see sig) is a prime example of this. People need to pay attention to the software they're installing and what it is doing.
The entire interview can be summed up as saying HL2 is really cool and that Counter Strike Source is the only multiplayer... though I'm sure we'll see other mods in time.
That being said, this interview basically told me not to get too excited about HL2. I'm a huge fan of HL and its mods, but I get bored quickly with single player games... I want multiplayer. AI in games can only go so far. I'm also not a big fan of counter strike. I prefer DoD and Natural Selection (some others are okay once in a while). So, no rush for me to buy HL2 when it comes out.
Yes, I remember the last eruption here in Saskatchewan. Obviously not as badly as those closer, but I do remember a significant amount of ash coming down from the skys.
Depends on the network. My wife is an avid fan of Nip/Tuck and I've seen an episode or two. In Canada, they don't leave anything out, even in prime time!
Is to keep email easy to use. SPF is a nice idea, but doesn't cope with a couple issues. The first is that a lot of SPAM comes from trojan'd machines. SPF won't prevent or help mark email coming from these machines as SPAM. Secondly, its not expensive to register a domain and flood SPAM for a few days until that domain is blacklisted. Wash, rinse, repeat. I'm not saying a solution isn't out there, just nothing that I have seen really talks to these two issues.
Yup, I did manage to see the front page though. As soon as I clicked a link I got the infamous mysql too many connections error. On another note, why is this news? I usually don't say this, but there's nothing newsworthy here. We don't see a story when thinkgeek does something new.
I really don't think kernel recompiling is the biggest thing keeping Linux from dominating any market. Ease of use is a big thing. Another is simply the myth that OSS is unsupported and/or unreliable. You can point to a thousand studies showing Linux is as good as (or better) than alternatives, but that won't change some peoples minds.
I was planning to head to the Canadian launch on Oct 2 or 3 (can't remeber which) its only about a 2 hour drive from here. However, with the delay, I don't know if I'll be able to do when they try again. Keeping my fingers crossed. Even if they don't win (or do it first) it will still be something to see.
Not only that, but I think private industry is watching all the top contenders pretty seriously. I'm sure companies like Boeing and Airbus are watching this and dreaming of selling tickets to orbit the Earth a few times.
You can have my mortgage payment, just send you cheque to...
I agree. When putting together my last machine, I set a limit of what I would spend on a graphics card. I ended up with $200 as my limit. I bought a FX5600 which on my AMD 2500 (oc'd to about a 2800) runs Doom 3 at medium Quality at 1024x768 with hardly a slow down. I'm happy, especially considering the card is over a year old. The folks who spend $500+ on cards must have more disposable income than I, or less brains than my boss.
However, the question becomes, is Google actually serving news? I honestly don't know. They are basically doing screen scraping (or RSS feeds) to display topics from other sites. Does this consitute serving news? Tough to say. Obviously the content is current events, however, Google doesn't write any of the content. Where does their responsibility lie?
Note that in Canada, the employer does not pay the woman's wages while she is on maternity leave. The Government does through employment insurance. Also note that its not just maternity leave any more. Its also paternity leave. If the couple has a baby, combined they can take 12 months off. So, for the first month, they could take off together (counts as 2 months) and the woman could stay home for another 10.
What's funny is that noone knows how it ended up there
You ever tried to parallel park one of those things... trust me its easier just to park it in the desert.
Sometimes I think this actually might be true. Well, you may not have to shoot them, but get them the hell out of the company. I was asked to look at network monitoring solutions for the SME market (small to medium size businesses). I of course reviewed several OSS as well as other closed products. I was told that we had to use HP Openview because we'd already invested so much money into it. Does this make sense? We invested so much money in a product that we must put more into it, even if its not the best solution! Instead of something we could offer for little or no cost (Nagios, Zabbix, etc) I was supposed to look at something that would cost us $250/year (license) to monitor a single web page, from one server. A real monitoring solution monitors from at least two locations. Add in our companies cost to provide the monitoring servers, network, power, etc. and we're going to charge a client over $70/month to monitor a single page on a website?
The problem is, its not solid state. I've seen CD players that say you can jog with them, but how many can actually stand up to that much jostling, same with any type of excercise. Also, being a player with a motor (gotta spin the CD up) it consumes a lot more power than solid state device. Finally, a solid state device can be a lot smaller than a CD player.
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LOL... I thought I was the only one...
Grep (well, text based tool at least)... out of all the cats I've had, she's one of two that has never been lost. The other one that never got lost Gryphon tries to stay out late. The funny thing is, I can tell her to go find Gryphon, and within 15 minutes they're both at the door waiting to come in.
I'm sure Country Music has increased the rate of suicide, while thrash metal and rap have increased the number of homicides.... I know I want to kill the little punks who drive around with this crap blasting out of their car at all hours of the night!
The problem that a paper like this might help solve is convincing others in a corporate/government environment that there are viable alternatives. Only a couple years ago a co-op student was considering writing his paper on Linux vs. Microsoft and wanted to know if he could ask me some questions (being the only Linux guy in the office). I gave him a lot of information and some links. When he presented the idea of the paper and his initial research, the dean laughed at him. The student was told that any competent 3rd or 4th year CS student should be able to crack a Linux box.
If this kind of attitude and mis conceptions exist in University CS departments, how do you expect our managers and directors to have a realistic view of Linux and OSS in general?
That's just it. A lot of people using this file sharing programs have no idea what they're doing... my site (see sig) is a prime example of this. People need to pay attention to the software they're installing and what it is doing.
The entire interview can be summed up as saying HL2 is really cool and that Counter Strike Source is the only multiplayer... though I'm sure we'll see other mods in time.
That being said, this interview basically told me not to get too excited about HL2. I'm a huge fan of HL and its mods, but I get bored quickly with single player games... I want multiplayer. AI in games can only go so far. I'm also not a big fan of counter strike. I prefer DoD and Natural Selection (some others are okay once in a while). So, no rush for me to buy HL2 when it comes out.
Yes, I remember the last eruption here in Saskatchewan. Obviously not as badly as those closer, but I do remember a significant amount of ash coming down from the skys.
Don't look too deep into that one...
Remember Rory Tate, circle researcher?
Depends on the network. My wife is an avid fan of Nip/Tuck and I've seen an episode or two. In Canada, they don't leave anything out, even in prime time!
Is to keep email easy to use. SPF is a nice idea, but doesn't cope with a couple issues. The first is that a lot of SPAM comes from trojan'd machines. SPF won't prevent or help mark email coming from these machines as SPAM. Secondly, its not expensive to register a domain and flood SPAM for a few days until that domain is blacklisted. Wash, rinse, repeat. I'm not saying a solution isn't out there, just nothing that I have seen really talks to these two issues.
Yup, I did manage to see the front page though. As soon as I clicked a link I got the infamous mysql too many connections error. On another note, why is this news? I usually don't say this, but there's nothing newsworthy here. We don't see a story when thinkgeek does something new.
If you do happen to get to the map, open the image in a new tab (window) as they have the size limited in the webpage. Actually, here's a link
No, but two I would highly recommend (if you have hours to kill) are Frozen Bubble and Battle for Wesnoth. Not sure why these aren't on the list.
I really don't think kernel recompiling is the biggest thing keeping Linux from dominating any market. Ease of use is a big thing. Another is simply the myth that OSS is unsupported and/or unreliable. You can point to a thousand studies showing Linux is as good as (or better) than alternatives, but that won't change some peoples minds.
I was planning to head to the Canadian launch on Oct 2 or 3 (can't remeber which) its only about a 2 hour drive from here. However, with the delay, I don't know if I'll be able to do when they try again. Keeping my fingers crossed. Even if they don't win (or do it first) it will still be something to see.
I love slasdot, a comment like powering the bike on methane gets modded insightful. To the mods, methane is the most common ingredient in your farts!
Not only that, but I think private industry is watching all the top contenders pretty seriously. I'm sure companies like Boeing and Airbus are watching this and dreaming of selling tickets to orbit the Earth a few times.
I agree. When putting together my last machine, I set a limit of what I would spend on a graphics card. I ended up with $200 as my limit. I bought a FX5600 which on my AMD 2500 (oc'd to about a 2800) runs Doom 3 at medium Quality at 1024x768 with hardly a slow down. I'm happy, especially considering the card is over a year old. The folks who spend $500+ on cards must have more disposable income than I, or less brains than my boss.
However, the question becomes, is Google actually serving news? I honestly don't know. They are basically doing screen scraping (or RSS feeds) to display topics from other sites. Does this consitute serving news? Tough to say. Obviously the content is current events, however, Google doesn't write any of the content. Where does their responsibility lie?
Note that in Canada, the employer does not pay the woman's wages while she is on maternity leave. The Government does through employment insurance. Also note that its not just maternity leave any more. Its also paternity leave. If the couple has a baby, combined they can take 12 months off. So, for the first month, they could take off together (counts as 2 months) and the woman could stay home for another 10.
What's funny is that noone knows how it ended up there
You ever tried to parallel park one of those things... trust me its easier just to park it in the desert.
Or, you could RTFA!
zinc whiskers that formed in the floor tiles got sucked into the computers in June.
This is classic MS. They're entire business model is based upon upgrades, and this is just another method to force companies to upgrade.
Sometimes I think this actually might be true. Well, you may not have to shoot them, but get them the hell out of the company. I was asked to look at network monitoring solutions for the SME market (small to medium size businesses). I of course reviewed several OSS as well as other closed products. I was told that we had to use HP Openview because we'd already invested so much money into it. Does this make sense? We invested so much money in a product that we must put more into it, even if its not the best solution! Instead of something we could offer for little or no cost (Nagios, Zabbix, etc) I was supposed to look at something that would cost us $250/year (license) to monitor a single web page, from one server. A real monitoring solution monitors from at least two locations. Add in our companies cost to provide the monitoring servers, network, power, etc. and we're going to charge a client over $70/month to monitor a single page on a website?
I have for my site (see sig) and haven't been able to download anything... lots queued, but not a single byte coming down.
The problem is, its not solid state. I've seen CD players that say you can jog with them, but how many can actually stand up to that much jostling, same with any type of excercise. Also, being a player with a motor (gotta spin the CD up) it consumes a lot more power than solid state device. Finally, a solid state device can be a lot smaller than a CD player.