I've upgraded to boxes so far, one from Fedora Core 1 and the other from Red Hat 9. Both have had issues.
On the RH9 -> FC2 upgrade (4-year-old Compaq Deskpro), there was an issue with the grub.conf file that prevented the system from booting. Fortunately, I had burned the rescue CD and was able to go in and fix it. Lesson learned: make sure you have a bootable disk available! This looked like a major issue at first glance, but turned out to be fairly minor.
On the FC1 -> FC2 upgrade (Dell Inspiron 5100), the actual upgrade went quite smoothly. However, I've been unable to build drivers for my Agere-based Proxim wireless card under the 2.6 kernel. After wrestling with it for several hours, I've decided to throw in the towel and buy a Prism-based card.
In both cases, I've seen an error message pop up when first logging in to an X session. It appears to be a remnant of the Xfree86 install that wasn't removed or completely replaced by the new X.org stuff.
In all, not too bad, but there's still room for improvement....
Reminds me of a photograph from the late 70's, Richard Nixon at a book signing, handing a copy of his autobiography and saying something to the person in front of him. The caption read "It's cheaper with the autograph...."
Actually, Gollum bites of TWO of Frodo's fingers, the ring and pinkie on his right hand. Peter Jackson wants to do the Thomas Covenant series next, and figured he might as well take care of some casting while he had the opportunity.
My C64 actually did help me land a job, back in 1983. I applied for an entry-level job in an office that had just received 4 brand-spanking-new XT clones. The person I was interviewing with mentioned that she had trouble with her disks, couldn't save anything on them, brand new, out of the box. I said that happened to me with my computer at home (the afore-mentioned C64), and that you had to format them first.
I got hired as a sysadmin the next day. Didn't know s*** about IBMs or DOS. But I had a computer at home, so I must have been qualified.....
I had Mac Music for my C64 - gave you a piano roll-style interface, access to all the various sounds. A couple friends and I used to compete to see who could do the most with it. My crowning achievement was to arrange Bohemian Rhapsody for 3 voices....
From the article, immediately before your excerpt:
Innovators have wiggle room. They can steal ideas, for example, and pawn them off as their own. That's the intersection of innovation and sharp business.
Hmmm, steal someone else's ideas and pawn them off as original. Sounds like Microsoft to me!
Two words: circuit breaker. Every avionics system has to have one, or you run the risk of an overloaded circuit causing a fire onboard, with disasterous results. And every circuit breaker must be accessible in-flight, so that they can be reset if necessary, or manually popped if there's smoke but not enough current to pop it normally.
Pull the breaker, bye-bye soft wall.
Technology is not always the answer (ooo, can I say that here?)
$750M is nothing to Microsoft - they make more than that during coffee break. This is no victory for AOL, it's simply MS getting tired of dealing with the case.
Any who has read Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feinman can tell you that security at Los Alamos has been "incomplete" since Day One. Unrepaired holes in the fence, safes left with factory default combinations, banks of file cabinets with the same combo (and left open while unattended)....
I've already been working in the field for 19 years already, and plan to go another 20 or so (unless I suddenly strike it rich). I don't see why anyone shouldn't plan on working in this career field for as long as they want.
Yeah, to me, this looks like a first step. The goal should be a plant/organism that sucks up the nasty stuff and then synthesizes/metabolizes it into something benign, or even useful. Otherwise, you've cleaned things up, but still have to dispose of the stuff....
The first group of researchers added a gene from the E. coli bacteria and one from soybeans to make Arabidopsis thaliana, a distant relative of cabbage, develop its taste for arsenic.... The plant efficiently pumps arsenic from the soil and stores it in its leaves, where it can be easily harvested and disposed of.
Oh, sure, as if cabbage didn't taste bad enough already....
Illegally duplicating and distributing a movie is not in the same arena as marching against institutionalized racism. It is a petty crime with no moral value whatsoever.
Sorta like weaving your own cloth, eh? Doing something like that would never get world attention, organize the masses, and eventually drive out an empire, would it? It's just a minor, petty crime, a man sitting in a hut with a small home-made spinner and loom. Nothing to worry about. People wouldn't pay attention to something like that, right?
You'd be surprised how a much a small, petty, insignificant act can do....
Felix Lieter (sp) has his leg eaten by a shark in Licensed To Kill. (Haven't fixed that yet, but they did ditch Dalton, even if it isn't his fault that movie stunk to high heaven)
In the books, Felix was chewed up by an alligator in Live And Let Die (the second book, if I recall correctly); subsequent appearances in Goldfinger et. al. made mention of his prosthetics. The movies just took a while to catch up.
He's still a good example for this discussion.
* Felix Leiter looks like Jack Lord/Cec Linder/Rik Van Nutter/David Hedison/Bernie Casey(!?)/John Terry/David Hedison (again)....
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I've upgraded to boxes so far, one from Fedora Core 1 and the other from Red Hat 9. Both have had issues.
On the RH9 -> FC2 upgrade (4-year-old Compaq Deskpro), there was an issue with the grub.conf file that prevented the system from booting. Fortunately, I had burned the rescue CD and was able to go in and fix it. Lesson learned: make sure you have a bootable disk available! This looked like a major issue at first glance, but turned out to be fairly minor.
On the FC1 -> FC2 upgrade (Dell Inspiron 5100), the actual upgrade went quite smoothly. However, I've been unable to build drivers for my Agere-based Proxim wireless card under the 2.6 kernel. After wrestling with it for several hours, I've decided to throw in the towel and buy a Prism-based card.
In both cases, I've seen an error message pop up when first logging in to an X session. It appears to be a remnant of the Xfree86 install that wasn't removed or completely replaced by the new X.org stuff.
In all, not too bad, but there's still room for improvement....
Reminds me of a photograph from the late 70's, Richard Nixon at a book signing, handing a copy of his autobiography and saying something to the person in front of him. The caption read "It's cheaper with the autograph...."
Actually, Gollum bites of TWO of Frodo's fingers, the ring and pinkie on his right hand. Peter Jackson wants to do the Thomas Covenant series next, and figured he might as well take care of some casting while he had the opportunity.
I'd much rather supply Balmer with the blue pill... as a suppository.
Just... a... little... farther,... Steve-o.
My C64 actually did help me land a job, back in 1983. I applied for an entry-level job in an office that had just received 4 brand-spanking-new XT clones. The person I was interviewing with mentioned that she had trouble with her disks, couldn't save anything on them, brand new, out of the box. I said that happened to me with my computer at home (the afore-mentioned C64), and that you had to format them first.
I got hired as a sysadmin the next day. Didn't know s*** about IBMs or DOS. But I had a computer at home, so I must have been qualified.....
I had Mac Music for my C64 - gave you a piano roll-style interface, access to all the various sounds. A couple friends and I used to compete to see who could do the most with it. My crowning achievement was to arrange Bohemian Rhapsody for 3 voices....
From the article, immediately before your excerpt:
Innovators have wiggle room. They can steal ideas, for example, and pawn them off as their own. That's the intersection of innovation and sharp business.
Hmmm, steal someone else's ideas and pawn them off as original. Sounds like Microsoft to me!
Gillette's been doing that for decades. Give 'em the razor, sell 'em the blades....
But oddly, "Linux" gets translated as "devil-spawn eroder of intellectual property rights"....
Two words: circuit breaker. Every avionics system has to have one, or you run the risk of an overloaded circuit causing a fire onboard, with disasterous results. And every circuit breaker must be accessible in-flight, so that they can be reset if necessary, or manually popped if there's smoke but not enough current to pop it normally.
Pull the breaker, bye-bye soft wall.
Technology is not always the answer (ooo, can I say that here?)
Wonderful - now the WEP vulnerabilities will be even faster!
Hey, AIEEEEEEE.... How's about getting 802.11i finalized sometime this century, so we can be fast and resonably secure?
Hell, I was ordering porn^H^H^H^H"art films" in motels back in the 80's....
$750M is nothing to Microsoft - they make more than that during coffee break. This is no victory for AOL, it's simply MS getting tired of dealing with the case.
Any who has read Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feinman can tell you that security at Los Alamos has been "incomplete" since Day One. Unrepaired holes in the fence, safes left with factory default combinations, banks of file cabinets with the same combo (and left open while unattended)....
That hip-hop crap Daly's introducing is already enough to make my head explode....
Ah, Bach!
I've already been working in the field for 19 years already, and plan to go another 20 or so (unless I suddenly strike it rich). I don't see why anyone shouldn't plan on working in this career field for as long as they want.
I understand that the other names under consideration included:
Nah, go with PCBoard! Beats the rest by a mile.
Heh, who'd have ever expected a BBS war in 2002?
Please, no Holy See#. Gates has a big enough ego already.
Yeah, to me, this looks like a first step. The goal should be a plant/organism that sucks up the nasty stuff and then synthesizes/metabolizes it into something benign, or even useful. Otherwise, you've cleaned things up, but still have to dispose of the stuff....
The first group of researchers added a gene from the E. coli bacteria and one from soybeans to make Arabidopsis thaliana, a distant relative of cabbage, develop its taste for arsenic.... The plant efficiently pumps arsenic from the soil and stores it in its leaves, where it can be easily harvested and disposed of.
Oh, sure, as if cabbage didn't taste bad enough already....
Illegally duplicating and distributing a movie is not in the same arena as marching against institutionalized racism. It is a petty crime with no moral value whatsoever.
Sorta like weaving your own cloth, eh? Doing something like that would never get world attention, organize the masses, and eventually drive out an empire, would it? It's just a minor, petty crime, a man sitting in a hut with a small home-made spinner and loom. Nothing to worry about. People wouldn't pay attention to something like that, right?
You'd be surprised how a much a small, petty, insignificant act can do....
Felix Lieter (sp) has his leg eaten by a shark in Licensed To Kill. (Haven't fixed that yet, but they did ditch Dalton, even if it isn't his fault that movie stunk to high heaven)
In the books, Felix was chewed up by an alligator in Live And Let Die (the second book, if I recall correctly); subsequent appearances in Goldfinger et. al. made mention of his prosthetics. The movies just took a while to catch up.
He's still a good example for this discussion.
* Felix Leiter looks like Jack Lord/Cec Linder/Rik Van Nutter/David Hedison/Bernie Casey(!?)/John Terry/David Hedison (again)....
2. Carmen should never be allowed to say anything
ITYM "Carmen should never be allowed to wear anything....
HTH. HAND.