One time I hired a monkey to take notes for me in class. I would just sit there with my mind all a blank while the monkey scribbled on little pieces of paper. At the end of the week, the teacher said, "Class, I want you to write a paper using your notes." So I wrote a paper that said, "Hi, my name is Bingo! I like to climb on things! Can I have a banana? Eek eek!" I got an F! When I told my mom about it, she said, "I told you never trust a monkey!" The End.
I have a friend who used some hard drive magnets in the gas tank of his '65 Mini so it would collect all the bits of rust and metal to it instead of feed them through the pump and clog up his fuel filter. Mind, it would have been better to replace the tank...but hey, it's cool.
Agreed. I would think it'd make more sense to have it in a non-rotating place, like on the front forks. Not to mention there would be less of a possibility that it'd come flying off...
Actually, in Freshman year of high school we had such teachings in our math class. Every student was required to go through it. Basic stuff about filling out checks, balancing the checkbook, etc.
Pretty helpful, and I have no debt now. Mainly because I haven't found the right house to purchase...
It's like Citrix but for Unix/Linux. Cool. We use Citrix on some Windows 2000 servers here at work, and feed about 50% of our 250 users off of them. Works pretty well.
Wonder if I could get the bosses to switch 'em over to Sun Ray....
As a side note, like all weapons, you have to play by the rules of the house. Meaning my friend who would routinely bring his switchblade to school (why, I'll never know -- probably to look cool) back in high school was definitely breaking the law.
I was a teenager when Green Day and the Offspring were all that. I couldn't like the Offspring any less.
Really? I can tolerate Offspring, but Green Gay makes me vomit.
As a 25-year-old Linux using IT person (which involves a lot of security) I like electronica, I've been to The Dead (before Jerry died), and I like Floyd, Blues Traveller, some alternative, some heavy stuff, etc.
Basically I'm all over the board. The survey is indicitive of listening habits, but certainly not conclusive. It really should have a wider poll and get more datapoints.
I had something similar to this, except it was a HP tech created problem.
We had a backplane on a 20 disk RAID array fail on one of our HP 9000 computers, so we had HP come in to do the repair. That night, at about 11:00pm, the HP tech lady shows up, with the new backplane. She removes the old backplane, and sets it down next to the new one and remarks how it's odd that the power and data connectors seem reversed.
Apparently, though, this doesn't phase her, so she puts it in anyways. I'm sitting there thinking "Hey, she's the HP tech", and say nothing. Big mistake.
Plugs everything in, powers on the system -- no lights on any of the drives. No spinning. Nothing.
After about 4 hours, she decides, after numerous calls to other HP tech folks and after I mention it a couple of times, that those connecters were indeed on the board wrong, and she's just fried all 20 of our 18GB disks. And we open for business at 6:00am.
By 7:00am, my boss showed up, as did another HP tech (who actually knew what he was looking at). It's determined that we can run, crippled, for the day off of our development system, which is a nearly identical mirror of our main HP9000. Later that day, the second HP tech returns with 20 brand new disks (free of charge!) and proceeds to ponder how to recover our data.
At this point, I'm pissed. The boss is pissed. The users are beyond pissed. So I tell him to just swap the circuit boards and be done with it. 20 minutes later, we were finally back up and running.
Several (several!) pages of a record label. The first 134 results were all at hieroglyphics.com. It wasn't until the 135th entry that we had something about a several thousand year old dead language.
WTF? Why do we need so many results that all point to different pages at hieroglyphics.com? How about a couple, and a link that says 'More rsults from hieroglyphics.com'.
There's a good chance this is a guy by the name of Russ Swift (Home page). He holds the record for that particular flavor of parking -- fitting into a spot with just 6 inches of space on either end of the car. There are cool videos on his homepage, and he's also on Jeremy Clarkson's "No Limits" video(No Limits)
Not me. I don't bike much, but I love toying with things. As I told my current employer, I'm the type of guy who spends his day playing with computers, then goes home and plays with his computer.
Seriously, I love tinkering. That's why I own British cars...
I would think if the police went to the phone company and asked them "we need to find out where these calls are coming from", the phone company would know what needs to be done to find out.
Man, you must've never dealt with one of the large telecom companies. They'll dance around the issue, and give you loads of crap until you ask for the exact thing that it says on their screen, word for word. Not to mention you have to figure out which of ten phone numbers to call to get to the right place, and they'll have to talk to five other "technicians" to figure out what needs doing.
Now, contrast this with a small local phone company that, while they can't handle the load and expansion of a large company, end up solving your problem with one person and one phone call. Simply put, the large phone companies are too large to get anything done in any reasonable amount of time.
It gets more fun when one large phone company has to coordinate with another one.
Yeah, they'd even triangulate the position of the cell phone for them, and have it display on their workstation with a purdy map of the town, and a blinking red dot that made beeping noises.
That would be a disturbingly cool book or short story. Care to write it? If not, mind if I write it? My work usually never goes anywhere, but it's an interesting avenue to explore...
I own a Thinkpad, but use a Toshiba Tecra for work. We have a bunch of Thinkpads here at work (older ones -- T23s and things), and they do end up being more expensive. They are also slightly slower. The reason, as I've been told, is thus:
Basically, IBM will never pack the latest bleeding edge equipment into their laptops. They wait until other companies have found the quirks and bugs, as well as their own internal testing and ruggedising, then they'll release it. The result is a very sturdy laptop that is a half to a full step behind the other guys.
But I've dropped my laptop from the hieght of a desk, and aside from needing to replace the HDD (it was running), the system works fine still.
I highly recommend IBM laptops to anyone who travels.
Cisco kit is pretty impressive. We're currently evaluating VoIP and IP Telephony systems to replace our Difinity G3, and Cisco is a top contender. Their equipement has gotten better over the last year, and their prices have come down.
You want these guys. We're looking at their system to replace our aging PBX here at work, and their main box runs Linux on dual PPC CPUs. Also, all of their phones run Linux on a single PPC.
Slashdot Mirror
The problem is that n00bs don't know what "command" to even look up.
apropos
It's a great command.
Sure, I know that I can completely trust a monkey
Seriously ripped off from Space Ghost:
One time I hired a monkey to take notes for me in class. I would just sit there with my mind all a blank while the monkey scribbled on little pieces of paper. At the end of the week, the teacher said, "Class, I want you to write a paper using your notes." So I wrote a paper that said, "Hi, my name is Bingo! I like to climb on things! Can I have a banana? Eek eek!" I got an F! When I told my mom about it, she said, "I told you never trust a monkey!" The End.
I have a friend who used some hard drive magnets in the gas tank of his '65 Mini so it would collect all the bits of rust and metal to it instead of feed them through the pump and clog up his fuel filter. Mind, it would have been better to replace the tank...but hey, it's cool.
Agreed. I would think it'd make more sense to have it in a non-rotating place, like on the front forks. Not to mention there would be less of a possibility that it'd come flying off...
Actually, in Freshman year of high school we had such teachings in our math class. Every student was required to go through it. Basic stuff about filling out checks, balancing the checkbook, etc.
Pretty helpful, and I have no debt now. Mainly because I haven't found the right house to purchase...
It's like Citrix but for Unix/Linux. Cool. We use Citrix on some Windows 2000 servers here at work, and feed about 50% of our 250 users off of them. Works pretty well.
Wonder if I could get the bosses to switch 'em over to Sun Ray....
Oregon allows them for anybody
I love living in Oregon.
As a side note, like all weapons, you have to play by the rules of the house. Meaning my friend who would routinely bring his switchblade to school (why, I'll never know -- probably to look cool) back in high school was definitely breaking the law.
I was a teenager when Green Day and the Offspring were all that. I couldn't like the Offspring any less.
Really? I can tolerate Offspring, but Green Gay makes me vomit.
As a 25-year-old Linux using IT person (which involves a lot of security) I like electronica, I've been to The Dead (before Jerry died), and I like Floyd, Blues Traveller, some alternative, some heavy stuff, etc.
Basically I'm all over the board. The survey is indicitive of listening habits, but certainly not conclusive. It really should have a wider poll and get more datapoints.
Because, ya know, this is important stuff...
I don't remember buying a Nissan that included an ad for a Mazda in the glovebox.
It's similar, but not the same. Your example is akin to buying Windows, and having a window pop up after you install it advertising Red Hat.
It's more accurate to say you buy a Nissan, and there's an ad in the glovebox for a Kenwood stereo to replace the stock Nissan stereo.
In the same way, it wouldn't kill Microsoft to have an icon on the desktop that takes you to Mozilla's website.
Regardless, most people will probably ignore it anyways, same as most would throw away an ad for Kenwood stereos in their Nissan's glovebox.
but I see this alot.
That's okay, I see 'alot' a lot.
BTW, I agree it should be creator/developer.
I had something similar to this, except it was a HP tech created problem.
We had a backplane on a 20 disk RAID array fail on one of our HP 9000 computers, so we had HP come in to do the repair. That night, at about 11:00pm, the HP tech lady shows up, with the new backplane. She removes the old backplane, and sets it down next to the new one and remarks how it's odd that the power and data connectors seem reversed.
Apparently, though, this doesn't phase her, so she puts it in anyways. I'm sitting there thinking "Hey, she's the HP tech", and say nothing. Big mistake.
Plugs everything in, powers on the system -- no lights on any of the drives. No spinning. Nothing.
After about 4 hours, she decides, after numerous calls to other HP tech folks and after I mention it a couple of times, that those connecters were indeed on the board wrong, and she's just fried all 20 of our 18GB disks. And we open for business at 6:00am.
By 7:00am, my boss showed up, as did another HP tech (who actually knew what he was looking at). It's determined that we can run, crippled, for the day off of our development system, which is a nearly identical mirror of our main HP9000. Later that day, the second HP tech returns with 20 brand new disks (free of charge!) and proceeds to ponder how to recover our data.
At this point, I'm pissed. The boss is pissed. The users are beyond pissed. So I tell him to just swap the circuit boards and be done with it. 20 minutes later, we were finally back up and running.
What a pain...
Here's a good one.
Search for 'hieroglyphics'
Several (several!) pages of a record label. The first 134 results were all at hieroglyphics.com. It wasn't until the 135th entry that we had something about a several thousand year old dead language.
WTF? Why do we need so many results that all point to different pages at hieroglyphics.com? How about a couple, and a link that says 'More rsults from hieroglyphics.com'.
Oh wait, that'd be Google.
There's a good chance this is a guy by the name of Russ Swift (Home page). He holds the record for that particular flavor of parking -- fitting into a spot with just 6 inches of space on either end of the car. There are cool videos on his homepage, and he's also on Jeremy Clarkson's "No Limits" video(No Limits)
Not me. I don't bike much, but I love toying with things. As I told my current employer, I'm the type of guy who spends his day playing with computers, then goes home and plays with his computer.
Seriously, I love tinkering. That's why I own British cars...
Every time somebody mentions nuclear weapons, I get reminded of this funny animation about the end of the world. Too fun...
Supports DVD menus, too!
I use Xine on my laptop and my multimedia PC (that runs my home theater).
I would think if the police went to the phone company and asked them "we need to find out where these calls are coming from", the phone company would know what needs to be done to find out.
Man, you must've never dealt with one of the large telecom companies. They'll dance around the issue, and give you loads of crap until you ask for the exact thing that it says on their screen, word for word. Not to mention you have to figure out which of ten phone numbers to call to get to the right place, and they'll have to talk to five other "technicians" to figure out what needs doing.
Now, contrast this with a small local phone company that, while they can't handle the load and expansion of a large company, end up solving your problem with one person and one phone call. Simply put, the large phone companies are too large to get anything done in any reasonable amount of time.
It gets more fun when one large phone company has to coordinate with another one.
Yeah, they'd even triangulate the position of the cell phone for them, and have it display on their workstation with a purdy map of the town, and a blinking red dot that made beeping noises.
It's, like, so easy!
Sorry, but reading your post, the only thing I could think of was this flash animation about The End Of The World.
Pretty dang funny...
Very nice! I'm going to have to check it out.
Thanks for the link!
That would be a disturbingly cool book or short story. Care to write it? If not, mind if I write it? My work usually never goes anywhere, but it's an interesting avenue to explore...
I own a Thinkpad, but use a Toshiba Tecra for work. We have a bunch of Thinkpads here at work (older ones -- T23s and things), and they do end up being more expensive. They are also slightly slower. The reason, as I've been told, is thus:
Basically, IBM will never pack the latest bleeding edge equipment into their laptops. They wait until other companies have found the quirks and bugs, as well as their own internal testing and ruggedising, then they'll release it. The result is a very sturdy laptop that is a half to a full step behind the other guys.
But I've dropped my laptop from the hieght of a desk, and aside from needing to replace the HDD (it was running), the system works fine still.
I highly recommend IBM laptops to anyone who travels.
Cisco kit is pretty impressive. We're currently evaluating VoIP and IP Telephony systems to replace our Difinity G3, and Cisco is a top contender. Their equipement has gotten better over the last year, and their prices have come down.
You want these guys. We're looking at their system to replace our aging PBX here at work, and their main box runs Linux on dual PPC CPUs. Also, all of their phones run Linux on a single PPC.
Pretty good pricing, too.
and has a second tool with it that is a screw/allen/torx driver.
Leatherman has this also, possibly first. I've had my tool adapter for just about five years now...
Here is the link.