I'm currently running my 21-inch monitor at 1280x1024, and the icons and text are starting to get a little difficult to see (yeah, go ahead and laugh now - you'll break 40 someday, too). At 3840x2400 on a display marginally bigger than this one, the icons will be about 1cm square.
This thing may find a place in CAD work, but the raw resolution will be utterly useless in normal day-to-day applications.
Having worked in both public (DoD, DoI) and private sectors, I must say that I greatly prefer private.
The public sector is not as stable as one might think. New administrations tend to undo what previous ones did (even if they are the same party - the transition from Reagan to Bush caused a number of shakeups). RIFs and reassignments are dictated by the political climate and public opinion. And if the majority in Congress happens to be of a different party than the Prez, and Federal budget gets delayed, you don't get paid (and retroactive pay is not guaranteed).
Private sector is far more volatile, but the opportunities are also greater. I'll accept the higher-but-manageable risks of the private sector.
I have been a huge AB fan since my first chance to brine a turkey, never missing an episode. Now, I could have sworn I saw mention of an episode on microbrewing on his website, but it's not there any more, and the episode never aired that I could see. Wazzup with that? Will this "lost classic" ever see air?
tunner support for cable, broadcast and satellite signals in one box
I've got DirecTV at home, plus local cable for the local stations. DirecTV signals start at channel 100, the cable tops out in the mid-60s. No overlap at all. But, if I want TIVO to be able to record them both, I've got to get a non-DirecTV model, and use a separate tuner for the satellite (which means, of course, that I can't watch one satellite program and record another). And the situation doesn't change if I drop the cable and put an antenna on the roof. The DirecTV TIVO receiver (or the regular DirecTV receiver, for that matter) is not capable of tuning to non-satelitte channels.
I can't imagine that the reason for this is technological. Can anyone explain this to me?
Back in The Dark Ages when I was in HS, our computer lab was a trio of teletype terminals with paper tape readers hooked into the district mainframe. These are what we used to learn machine language and Basic programming. What fun!
Still, after hours, we would have game time, playing Trek and CivWar for hours on end. I still have a yellowing roll of printout where I managed to change history by getting the South to win after 6 battles....
Back then, before the two Steves started playing around in their garage, computers were pretty much a brand-spankin' new thing. Discovering they could be used for more than moving the contents of register A to register B was part of the familiarization process. There was an academic justification to playing games, no matter how tenuous. Today, kids already know that computers can be used for a myriad of things. Games nights, no matter how fun, don't really have the same justification of earlier times.
Personally, I think having a games night is a fine idea, from a purely social aspect. But it's a much harder sell to school boards and PTAs...
How will IBM's recently announced layoff affect the development effort around Linux? Will resources shift away from development/support for a free "product", and be added to revenue-generating projects?
Nothing disturbs an end user more then when you email them their old password,
Better is to do it publicly. At one of my former employers, we set up a password policy, started auditing, sent out notices, and still some of our upper management refused to change their passwords (and for purely political reasons, we were barred from forcing a change). So, at the next All Staff meeting, I made a little presentation about password security. One of my slides was a partial list of passwords (sans user ids) that had been cracked within 5 minutes of firing up l0ftcrack. The entire executive staff started squirming, because they all recognized their passwords.
Oddly enough, the next audit showed complete compliance with policy by the executive staff...
ZDNet recently announced the following earth-shattering revelations:
The sun may be hot
Bears may shit in the woods
Bill Gates may be reasonably wealthy
The Pope may be Catholic
Michael Jordan may be (or have been at one time) an athlete
Wars may cause people to die
Disease may be bad
Drinking massive quantities of beer may get you drunk
"There is still some speculation about that last announcement," said Norman P. Obvious, ZDNet spokesman and 1997 StarSearch Spokesmodel winner. "We're planning on doing some more testing over the next few weekends."
Never will happen. Releasing patches often would give the average users the idea that "this software is crap, they keep finding problems with it, that little Updates thingie keeps popping up and annoying me, why didn't they get it right the first time?" Far better to release one mega-patch every 6-9 months, label it a "Service Pack", and stress the "enhancements" over "bug fixes". At least, that's how Microsoft seems to view it.
Microsoft is all about perception. They learned long ago that they can release pure shite as long as the general public perceives it as good. And that can be accomplished through Marketing, which is much easier to craft and control than Coding....
Overview The CERN/CC has received reports of a new web DOS attack, called the Distributed Slashdot Denial Of Service attack. Rather than depending on exploits readily found in certain HTTP servers, this attack utilizes social engineering to bring down sites that appeal to the technically savvy. Within minutes of the target site's URL being posted on a publicly accessible web site, the target site is bombarded with connection requests. This can result in the complete blocking of even the most robust web farms.
Workaround
Don't put up a sight that is anywhere close to something considered "Cool", "Kewl", K3wl", "News for Nerds" or "Stuff that matters".
Avoid techno-geek hot topics, including Legos, Mindstorm, Manga, Anime, and Beer
Never, ever post anything complementary about Linux, or disparaging about Microsoft
When I signed up with my ISP, they asked if I needed any software. I told them "No, I've already got just about everything I need, and I know where to go to get more." Their response was basically "Cool." No questions on what OS I was running, which browser.... They provide setup instructions for Windows, Mac and Linux, and will offer limited network connectivity/application support for those platforms (and some router support for DSL customers). But if you're running Warp Browser on OS/2 (for example), they'll provide you with the network settings and do what they can to get you connected. Other than that, you'd be on your own.
These days, just about every OS out there comes with all the tools a user needs to get online. If the ISP wants to provide software, the best thing they could do is host a TUCOWS (or similar) mirror, with an easy-to-negotiate interface and search engine.
I realize that a lot of people need more hand-holding than this, but I personally found it refreshing to deal with an ISP that treats you with a little intelligence....
No, that's far to coincidental to get the conspiracy theorists going. They need something like:
Mozilla was designed by the guy on the Grassy Knoll
The SSL code was derived from code lifted off alien spaceships in Area 51
The NSA/CIA/FBI/MI5 has embedded code that will allow them to feed subliminal messages into the X10 popup ads
Microsoft is a major contributer to Mozilla, which explains why it's been in development for so long
Mozilla actually died in 1967, and was replaced by a Mozilla look-alike. If you compile the source code backwards, you'll get error messages like "I buried Moz". Mozilla's death is the real reason behind the breakup of Netscape.
I don't know about you, but if I'm paying $14 for a theater ticket, I'm going to watch the freaking movie. Split my attention between the screen and a laptop? I don't think so....
Ol' Darth could have used the Force to get by. But what about Colonel Steve Austin? No way he'd get through - even if Rudy figured out some way to pass the X-Ray machine, the slow-motion running and ch-ch-ch-ch-ch sound effects would have been a dead giveaway....
The entire fleet of Bekins moving vans was last seen converging on Redmond, WA. A company spokesman reported that they had received "one hellacious moving order" from an undisclosed client. This report came on the heels of a sudden dip in the housing market in and around Seattle, as home prices fell 73%, while listings increased 800%....
Count me as another Samuel T. Cogley, for I just don't see a day where I'll find it preferable to hold a handheld instead of a bound paper book. Yes, eBooks can be indexed and searched faster, can be updated without reprinting costs, yada yada yada. But there's just something... comfortable, substantial about hold a book in your hand, turning the pages. Definitely for pleasure reading, and probably for technical as well, I think paper books will still be preferred for a long time.
Besides, with an eBook, what's the author going to sign...?
I second this, for the above reasons and one more: Having a dead tree book open on the desk is a lot more convenient than switching between windows or desktops on your monitor. I like to have my editor open to full screen, so having a manual open on the same desktop gets in the way. And switching between desktops means finding my place when get back to the editor. The dead tree book avoids both of these problems.
From reading the articles, this guy was engaged in illegal activities (by his own admission), was caught, arrested, and is awaiting trial. So why are we even discussing it?
This guy is no Sklyarov, arrested in the US for actions he performed legally elsewhere (sort of like legally visiting a prostitute in Nevada, and getting arrested for it in New York). What he did was illegal, he knew it, he admitted it.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm currently running my 21-inch monitor at 1280x1024, and the icons and text are starting to get a little difficult to see (yeah, go ahead and laugh now - you'll break 40 someday, too). At 3840x2400 on a display marginally bigger than this one, the icons will be about 1cm square.
This thing may find a place in CAD work, but the raw resolution will be utterly useless in normal day-to-day applications.
Having worked in both public (DoD, DoI) and private sectors, I must say that I greatly prefer private.
The public sector is not as stable as one might think. New administrations tend to undo what previous ones did (even if they are the same party - the transition from Reagan to Bush caused a number of shakeups). RIFs and reassignments are dictated by the political climate and public opinion. And if the majority in Congress happens to be of a different party than the Prez, and Federal budget gets delayed, you don't get paid (and retroactive pay is not guaranteed).
Private sector is far more volatile, but the opportunities are also greater. I'll accept the higher-but-manageable risks of the private sector.
And since the Post Office charges shipping by weight, be sure to include a complementary brick or set of lead weights with the return....
I have been a huge AB fan since my first chance to brine a turkey, never missing an episode. Now, I could have sworn I saw mention of an episode on microbrewing on his website, but it's not there any more, and the episode never aired that I could see. Wazzup with that? Will this "lost classic" ever see air?
Don't seem to have. In a singular bit of wharma koring, here's the Google cache
I would add:
tunner support for cable, broadcast and satellite signals in one box
I've got DirecTV at home, plus local cable for the local stations. DirecTV signals start at channel 100, the cable tops out in the mid-60s. No overlap at all. But, if I want TIVO to be able to record them both, I've got to get a non-DirecTV model, and use a separate tuner for the satellite (which means, of course, that I can't watch one satellite program and record another). And the situation doesn't change if I drop the cable and put an antenna on the roof. The DirecTV TIVO receiver (or the regular DirecTV receiver, for that matter) is not capable of tuning to non-satelitte channels.
I can't imagine that the reason for this is technological. Can anyone explain this to me?
You enter a contract when you buy something at the store, even if you pay cash and do not say a word. It is called a verbal contract.
"do not say a word".... "verbal contract".... Illogical! Illogical! Norman, coordinate!
Back in The Dark Ages when I was in HS, our computer lab was a trio of teletype terminals with paper tape readers hooked into the district mainframe. These are what we used to learn machine language and Basic programming. What fun!
Still, after hours, we would have game time, playing Trek and CivWar for hours on end. I still have a yellowing roll of printout where I managed to change history by getting the South to win after 6 battles....
Back then, before the two Steves started playing around in their garage, computers were pretty much a brand-spankin' new thing. Discovering they could be used for more than moving the contents of register A to register B was part of the familiarization process. There was an academic justification to playing games, no matter how tenuous. Today, kids already know that computers can be used for a myriad of things. Games nights, no matter how fun, don't really have the same justification of earlier times.
Personally, I think having a games night is a fine idea, from a purely social aspect. But it's a much harder sell to school boards and PTAs...
Personally, I think Nichelle Nichols would be a far more appropriate recipient....
How will IBM's recently announced layoff affect the development effort around Linux? Will resources shift away from development/support for a free "product", and be added to revenue-generating projects?
Nothing disturbs an end user more then when you email them their old password,
Better is to do it publicly. At one of my former employers, we set up a password policy, started auditing, sent out notices, and still some of our upper management refused to change their passwords (and for purely political reasons, we were barred from forcing a change). So, at the next All Staff meeting, I made a little presentation about password security. One of my slides was a partial list of passwords (sans user ids) that had been cracked within 5 minutes of firing up l0ftcrack. The entire executive staff started squirming, because they all recognized their passwords.
Oddly enough, the next audit showed complete compliance with policy by the executive staff...
"There is still some speculation about that last announcement," said Norman P. Obvious, ZDNet spokesman and 1997 StarSearch Spokesmodel winner. "We're planning on doing some more testing over the next few weekends."
Never will happen. Releasing patches often would give the average users the idea that "this software is crap, they keep finding problems with it, that little Updates thingie keeps popping up and annoying me, why didn't they get it right the first time?" Far better to release one mega-patch every 6-9 months, label it a "Service Pack", and stress the "enhancements" over "bug fixes". At least, that's how Microsoft seems to view it.
Microsoft is all about perception. They learned long ago that they can release pure shite as long as the general public perceives it as good. And that can be accomplished through Marketing, which is much easier to craft and control than Coding....
Or my prefered example:
Fire is hot
I am hot
Therefore, I am on fire.
Now, this is utterly ridicul AAAAAlIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
Overview
The CERN/CC has received reports of a new web DOS attack, called the Distributed Slashdot Denial Of Service attack. Rather than depending on exploits readily found in certain HTTP servers, this attack utilizes social engineering to bring down sites that appeal to the technically savvy. Within minutes of the target site's URL being posted on a publicly accessible web site, the target site is bombarded with connection requests. This can result in the complete blocking of even the most robust web farms.
Workaround
Of course not - it's a Government project. Ask anybody (especially around April 15), and they'll tell you that Uncle Sam never uses lubricants!
Me? Bitter? Nah....
When I signed up with my ISP, they asked if I needed any software. I told them "No, I've already got just about everything I need, and I know where to go to get more." Their response was basically "Cool." No questions on what OS I was running, which browser.... They provide setup instructions for Windows, Mac and Linux, and will offer limited network connectivity/application support for those platforms (and some router support for DSL customers). But if you're running Warp Browser on OS/2 (for example), they'll provide you with the network settings and do what they can to get you connected. Other than that, you'd be on your own.
These days, just about every OS out there comes with all the tools a user needs to get online. If the ISP wants to provide software, the best thing they could do is host a TUCOWS (or similar) mirror, with an easy-to-negotiate interface and search engine.
I realize that a lot of people need more hand-holding than this, but I personally found it refreshing to deal with an ISP that treats you with a little intelligence....
I don't know about you, but if I'm paying $14 for a theater ticket, I'm going to watch the freaking movie. Split my attention between the screen and a laptop? I don't think so....
Ol' Darth could have used the Force to get by. But what about Colonel Steve Austin? No way he'd get through - even if Rudy figured out some way to pass the X-Ray machine, the slow-motion running and ch-ch-ch-ch-ch sound effects would have been a dead giveaway....
The entire fleet of Bekins moving vans was last seen converging on Redmond, WA. A company spokesman reported that they had received "one hellacious moving order" from an undisclosed client. This report came on the heels of a sudden dip in the housing market in and around Seattle, as home prices fell 73%, while listings increased 800%....
By the time we got to www.woodstock.com,
We were half a billion strong.....
Count me as another Samuel T. Cogley, for I just don't see a day where I'll find it preferable to hold a handheld instead of a bound paper book. Yes, eBooks can be indexed and searched faster, can be updated without reprinting costs, yada yada yada. But there's just something... comfortable, substantial about hold a book in your hand, turning the pages. Definitely for pleasure reading, and probably for technical as well, I think paper books will still be preferred for a long time.
Besides, with an eBook, what's the author going to sign...?
I second this, for the above reasons and one more: Having a dead tree book open on the desk is a lot more convenient than switching between windows or desktops on your monitor. I like to have my editor open to full screen, so having a manual open on the same desktop gets in the way. And switching between desktops means finding my place when get back to the editor. The dead tree book avoids both of these problems.
From reading the articles, this guy was engaged in illegal activities (by his own admission), was caught, arrested, and is awaiting trial. So why are we even discussing it?
This guy is no Sklyarov, arrested in the US for actions he performed legally elsewhere (sort of like legally visiting a prostitute in Nevada, and getting arrested for it in New York). What he did was illegal, he knew it, he admitted it.
End of story, to my mind.