Joke if you must, but we did filter their stuff. Especially after they sent out a combined 1 gig of traffic, 77mb each, to our sales reps. Who dialed up on a 28.8 modem. On the plus side, that squashed quite a few marketing ideas, when the managers called up and started yelling (we thoughtfully pointed them towards marketing)
If you're only running Exchange? Sure. But we used to use Lotus Notes, and it was used for several important applications. Our Notes admin knew a LOT about the business by the time we finished building it. I'd build the backend in SQL, he's build the front end in Notes, and we could move data either way.
And, equally important - if he doesn't know the business, why the hell not? It'll make filtering spam easier, it'll let him know the best times to do maintenance on the servers (one of my Unix servers was turned off for 3 months out of the year!), etc, etc. It also helps the admin add value to what he does - "wouldn't it be handy if you were emailed every ?"
You haven't been to Fort Stockton, have you? The only thing they have thousands of is jackrabbits.
Of course, I used to drive through it, heading to El Paso. Considering what a speed trap it used to be, I can only imagine the police licking their lips... after all, imagine what kind of speeding ticket they could give a rocket!
Not sure which one to buy, but apparently (and according to everyone in the office who bought it - damn my television's 1 S-Video!) the difference between RCA and S-Video is nothing short of stunning. Not sure if the monster cable is worth however much extra they get over the Microsoft (or generic) kit, but if you have the ability, get the S-Video cable.
ads. Come on, guys. I _own_ an X-Box, and that was a bit fanboyish. It had its tongue stuck further up MS's ass than even their magazine, which is saying something.
Check further in the above's post - while at some things the speed is abhorrent and other times good, it's not equivalent to a 800 mhz celeron. Most times it scores worse than a 667 Celeron, but sometimes up to a Celeron 1300 (UT2003), but LAME encoding takes 3 times longer (1224 vs 451 seconds) than a 667. Those numbers are really fubar'd.
Hmmm... I wonder if Amazon would be willing to say how many CDs Kazaa users have bought? That might just prove (note that I said "might") prove that those filthy dirty music pirates are actually *gasp* big customers. Could be interesting.
Hate to say this, but we have a 4-month old, and all he does is hang onto the breast and eat. Oh, and sleep. Tools are WAY outside his grasp, no pun intended. Swatting at things is way outside his grasp. How are these kids doing this at that age?
Does anyone here take seriously anything said by a publication that would actually print something like this?
What, Fortune? Sure. The fact that they don't see the world the way you do is fine. Indeed, irrelevant. Just like the fact that we see Free (Speech) and they see Free (Beer). It's nothing to be shocked at. They're doing it in terms their readership will understand, just like Slashdot has spelling errors (at least, I _hope_ that's why) and the inevitable Microsloth slam (whoops, did I just contribute?).
As for the comment on the culture? If the shoe fits... I keep thinking back to the old Dilbert strip, with the bald, bearded Unix guru ("Here's a nickel, kid, buy yourself a real operating system"). Like it or not, Berkeley is viewed as a hippie commune, a view that many (in Berkeley) subscribe to and act in accordance with.
And finally - it's largely irrelevant WHY they choose Linux, isn't it? After all, even if they're just buying it because it's "free beer", (a) the techs that will be running it know the difference (b) they're happy, (c) the techs are happy, (d) Microsoft is unhappy, and (e) WE'RE STILL RUNNING LINUX.
Good point, wish someone would mod it up. Yes the profanity doesn't really add anything (though I die laughing during it), but I'll probably never watch the TNT/WGN version again, partially because of the DVD's extra footage, partially because it has no ads, and partially because the 10 minutes, while not adding a whole lot, do make it a better movie. But considering how much else can be viewed as controversial in the movie, why just stop at the language? The South Park movie said it best: "As the MPAA says, violence is fine, so long as there's no naughty language". It'd be fun to go to the extreme on the cutting. Let's take Saving Private Ryan (or even Casablanca), but remove those nasty Germans. Take Song of the South and remove all the Civil War references. Take Hunchback of Notre Dame and remove the bad endi...oops, Disney already did that.
One of my coworkers was commenting about how he had to run AdAware every couple of weeks, how he'd gotten 30 things since last time. I mentioned that I never had that problem, didn't see why that was a big deal. He mentioned that IE lets applications auto-install in the background, without asking, and so he continually gets them. I said I had none, since I was using Mozilla (well, K-meleon...), and it never did any of that. I honestly didn't think Spyware was that big a deal - but IE lets it occur all the time. Now I see why it's a big deal to him. I'll just keep using Moz.
I've watched Blues Brothers hundreds of times... WGN and TBS/TNT would show the living hell out of them. Years ago, we actually switched from one channel to the other, near the end of the movie. It had just started on the other.
So, I bought the DVD when it came out. To my surprise, there were an extra 10+ minutes of footage I hadn't seen, since it was mostly swear words (like the scene with 'Da Penguin'). There was extra footage added as well, so that was cool, but I was amazed that the movie "I knew so well" had a ton of stuff I had forgotten about.
Actually, this is an X-Box. Go talk to people who own it. Odds are (everyone in our IT department got one) that they'll mention the graphics, how amazing the graphics are (yes, they'll mention it twice), how pretty it looks, how the AC3 sound is impressive, how it's got a Geforce card in it, how it'll kick Sony's ass... oh, and did we mention the graphics?
Note that actual gameplay was not mentioned. They think it's all about how pretty it looks.
I was on a low-carb diet for about a year. Not Atkins, but Neander-thin. Basic premise - mankind has only recently started eating cultivated foods, and these "alien proteins" are what make us fat.
Practical upshot? If you could eat it, naked in the savanna with a stick, you can eat it. Basically, eat like Neanderthals eat. So Corn? Out. Beef? In. Peanuts? Out. (they're actually beans). Almonds? In. Cauliflower? In. Carrots? In. Rice? Out. (has to be processed)
So, given that, I did eat vegetables. Quite a bit, actually, more so than I used to. Could cook them in butter, actually, but it had to be real butter.
Overall, being very strict on it, I lost 30 pounds in the first month. Not a typo. I actually ate fairly healthily. Decent amount of veggies, took vitamins, and kept the weight off for over a year, and lost an additional 30 pounds over the next several months. I didn't lose more since I wasn't as strict as I was the first month - while there was a lot of food I could eat, even more so than on normal diets, it's just NICE to be able to tuck into some bread, or pasta, etc occasionally. There is an entire subculture devoted to the low carb diet, though. You can get bake mix, cookies, chocolate bars, etc online, and they taste good.
Why'd I get off? Combo of things. I didn't have the cooking skills to go after some of the foods, and so the variety wasn't enough. My breakfast used to be a 1/3rd pound of bacon in the morning, and while it tastes great for the first 6 months, you can get sick of it. Also, since you're eating more meat, bills go up. Not to mention eating out! But, overall, it worked fantastically, and I don't regret it.
Please don't mod on this - yeah it's offtopic, but the best forum to ask is/.
What are the downsides to DirectFB? I'm looking at the site now, and some of the FAQs and the like are down. I believe that DirectFB is part of ByzantineOS, in which case one downside is that DFB requires a Vesa 2.0 card, which apparently my Dimension l500c doesn't have(?!). Granted, it's a 3-year-old machine (and I now date myself), but what's considered modern enough?
What other advantages to DFB are there?
Many thanks. So much for my +1 on that other thread...
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Joke if you must, but we did filter their stuff. Especially after they sent out a combined 1 gig of traffic, 77mb each, to our sales reps. Who dialed up on a 28.8 modem. On the plus side, that squashed quite a few marketing ideas, when the managers called up and started yelling (we thoughtfully pointed them towards marketing)
I was under the impression that if you paid, there are no ads whatsoever.
If you're only running Exchange? Sure. But we used to use Lotus Notes, and it was used for several important applications. Our Notes admin knew a LOT about the business by the time we finished building it. I'd build the backend in SQL, he's build the front end in Notes, and we could move data either way.
And, equally important - if he doesn't know the business, why the hell not? It'll make filtering spam easier, it'll let him know the best times to do maintenance on the servers (one of my Unix servers was turned off for 3 months out of the year!), etc, etc. It also helps the admin add value to what he does - "wouldn't it be handy if you were emailed every ?"
Don't forget foreplay either... *hmm... need 45 more seconds to get the bonus tracks*
You haven't been to Fort Stockton, have you? The only thing they have thousands of is jackrabbits.
Of course, I used to drive through it, heading to El Paso. Considering what a speed trap it used to be, I can only imagine the police licking their lips... after all, imagine what kind of speeding ticket they could give a rocket!
"When an unemployed iron worker can lay in his Barcalounger and f*ck Claudia Schiffer for $19.95, it's going to make crack look like f*cking Sanka".
After all, I own an X-box. There just aren't that many games to choose from. ;)
And another commercial distro, Xandros, based off of Corel Linux 3 (which is, in turn, based off Debian), is due out in the next 3 weeks.
http://www.xandros.com/anticipated.html
"Our manufacturer indicates the product should be available for shipping in the week of October 21."
Not sure which one to buy, but apparently (and according to everyone in the office who bought it - damn my television's 1 S-Video!) the difference between RCA and S-Video is nothing short of stunning. Not sure if the monster cable is worth however much extra they get over the Microsoft (or generic) kit, but if you have the ability, get the S-Video cable.
Now if it only helped the gameplay...
ads. Come on, guys. I _own_ an X-Box, and that was a bit fanboyish. It had its tongue stuck further up MS's ass than even their magazine, which is saying something.
News for nerds? Where...
It's been fixed now... sites are unreachable. Have a nice day. Please drive through.
Check further in the above's post - while at some things the speed is abhorrent and other times good, it's not equivalent to a 800 mhz celeron. Most times it scores worse than a 667 Celeron, but sometimes up to a Celeron 1300 (UT2003), but LAME encoding takes 3 times longer (1224 vs 451 seconds) than a 667. Those numbers are really fubar'd.
Hmmm... I wonder if Amazon would be willing to say how many CDs Kazaa users have bought? That might just prove (note that I said "might") prove that those filthy dirty music pirates are actually *gasp* big customers. Could be interesting.
Hate to say this, but we have a 4-month old, and all he does is hang onto the breast and eat. Oh, and sleep. Tools are WAY outside his grasp, no pun intended. Swatting at things is way outside his grasp. How are these kids doing this at that age?
Does anyone here take seriously anything said by a publication that would actually print something like this?
What, Fortune? Sure. The fact that they don't see the world the way you do is fine. Indeed, irrelevant. Just like the fact that we see Free (Speech) and they see Free (Beer). It's nothing to be shocked at. They're doing it in terms their readership will understand, just like Slashdot has spelling errors (at least, I _hope_ that's why) and the inevitable Microsloth slam (whoops, did I just contribute?).
As for the comment on the culture? If the shoe fits... I keep thinking back to the old Dilbert strip, with the bald, bearded Unix guru ("Here's a nickel, kid, buy yourself a real operating system"). Like it or not, Berkeley is viewed as a hippie commune, a view that many (in Berkeley) subscribe to and act in accordance with.
And finally - it's largely irrelevant WHY they choose Linux, isn't it? After all, even if they're just buying it because it's "free beer", (a) the techs that will be running it know the difference (b) they're happy, (c) the techs are happy, (d) Microsoft is unhappy, and (e) WE'RE STILL RUNNING LINUX.
That's why the blurb called them "early adapters". ;)
What exactly is Kaplan, and where's its web site? Every link I find is of Judge Kaplan.
Good point, wish someone would mod it up. Yes the profanity doesn't really add anything (though I die laughing during it), but I'll probably never watch the TNT/WGN version again, partially because of the DVD's extra footage, partially because it has no ads, and partially because the 10 minutes, while not adding a whole lot, do make it a better movie. But considering how much else can be viewed as controversial in the movie, why just stop at the language? The South Park movie said it best: "As the MPAA says, violence is fine, so long as there's no naughty language". It'd be fun to go to the extreme on the cutting. Let's take Saving Private Ryan (or even Casablanca), but remove those nasty Germans. Take Song of the South and remove all the Civil War references. Take Hunchback of Notre Dame and remove the bad endi...oops, Disney already did that.
Good point, though.
One of my coworkers was commenting about how he had to run AdAware every couple of weeks, how he'd gotten 30 things since last time. I mentioned that I never had that problem, didn't see why that was a big deal. He mentioned that IE lets applications auto-install in the background, without asking, and so he continually gets them. I said I had none, since I was using Mozilla (well, K-meleon...), and it never did any of that. I honestly didn't think Spyware was that big a deal - but IE lets it occur all the time. Now I see why it's a big deal to him. I'll just keep using Moz.
I've watched Blues Brothers hundreds of times... WGN and TBS/TNT would show the living hell out of them. Years ago, we actually switched from one channel to the other, near the end of the movie. It had just started on the other.
So, I bought the DVD when it came out. To my surprise, there were an extra 10+ minutes of footage I hadn't seen, since it was mostly swear words (like the scene with 'Da Penguin'). There was extra footage added as well, so that was cool, but I was amazed that the movie "I knew so well" had a ton of stuff I had forgotten about.
That price should be mentioned in large print.
"Samsung has priced the 10GB Yepp YP-900 at $399 and expects to ship the unit by next February/March."
So, for the same price as the iPod, you could buy a knockoff. Huh?
Actually, this is an X-Box. Go talk to people who own it. Odds are (everyone in our IT department got one) that they'll mention the graphics, how amazing the graphics are (yes, they'll mention it twice), how pretty it looks, how the AC3 sound is impressive, how it's got a Geforce card in it, how it'll kick Sony's ass... oh, and did we mention the graphics?
Note that actual gameplay was not mentioned. They think it's all about how pretty it looks.
I was on a low-carb diet for about a year. Not Atkins, but Neander-thin. Basic premise - mankind has only recently started eating cultivated foods, and these "alien proteins" are what make us fat.
Practical upshot? If you could eat it, naked in the savanna with a stick, you can eat it. Basically, eat like Neanderthals eat. So Corn? Out. Beef? In. Peanuts? Out. (they're actually beans). Almonds? In. Cauliflower? In. Carrots? In. Rice? Out. (has to be processed)
So, given that, I did eat vegetables. Quite a bit, actually, more so than I used to. Could cook them in butter, actually, but it had to be real butter.
Overall, being very strict on it, I lost 30 pounds in the first month. Not a typo. I actually ate fairly healthily. Decent amount of veggies, took vitamins, and kept the weight off for over a year,
and lost an additional 30 pounds over the next several months. I didn't lose more since I wasn't as strict as I was the first month - while there was a lot of food I could eat, even more so than on normal diets, it's just NICE to be able to tuck into some bread, or pasta, etc occasionally. There is an entire subculture devoted to the low carb diet, though. You can get bake mix, cookies, chocolate bars, etc online, and they taste good.
Why'd I get off? Combo of things. I didn't have the cooking skills to go after some of the foods, and so the variety wasn't enough. My breakfast used to be a 1/3rd pound of bacon in the morning, and while it tastes great for the first 6 months, you can get sick of it. Also, since you're eating more meat, bills go up. Not to mention eating out! But, overall, it worked fantastically, and I don't regret it.
May be susceptible to TiVo automatic software upgrades.
I think it would officially _suck_ to spend 1k+ on all this, only to have a software update render it unusable.
Please don't mod on this - yeah it's offtopic, but the best forum to ask is /.
What are the downsides to DirectFB? I'm looking at the site now, and some of the FAQs and the like are down. I believe that DirectFB is part of ByzantineOS, in which case one downside is that DFB requires a Vesa 2.0 card, which apparently my Dimension l500c doesn't have(?!). Granted, it's a 3-year-old machine (and I now date myself), but what's considered modern enough?
What other advantages to DFB are there?
Many thanks. So much for my +1 on that other thread...