I'm in kind of the same boat, only it's a quarter (now) of 150 PCs. But here's the kicker -- some of them are still on token ring. We even have some Twinax printers, fer cryin' out loud.
A long time ago someone told me they wrapped wire a whole bunch of times around their hard drive and connected it to 120VAC and a switch.
I've heard of similar ideas, but hooked into the transformer from a neon sign. Pull the chain, presto blammo, hard drive be fried. Now, whether it would obscure the data on the drive enough to be unrecoverable, hard to say.
Speaking of Tadpole, I got an email from one of their sales guys (standard pricing email for Q1 2004), and they say they'll have a dual processor laptop called the "Bullfrog" out by June, 2004. They don't say what processor it'll have, but they claim it'll be available with up to 8GB RAM, have a 17" 1400x1050 display, and a "massive HDD."
C'mon, all these posts and not one dealing with Trainspotting. I quote:
"Relinquishing junk. Stage one, preparation. For this you will need:
One room which you will not leave.
Soothing music.
Tomato soup, ten tins of.
Mushroom soup, eight tins of, for consumption cold.
Ice cream, vanilla, one large tub of.
Magnesia, milk of, one bottle.
Paracetamol
mouthwash
vitamins
Mineral water
Lucozade
pornography
One mattress
One bucket for urine, one for feces and one for vomitus.
One television
and one bottle of Valium, which I've already procured from my mother. Who is, in her own domestic and socially acceptable way also a drug addict.
And now I'm ready. All I need is one final hit to soothe the pain while the Valium takes effect. "
Oh my word. I remember taking a QIC-80 tape drive around to all the computers in my dad's accounting firm and backing them each up on a tape. Took multiple days to do all 4 computers.
Excellent story, thanks. You raise some good points, and re-reading my original post, I can see how easily one can infer that I am merely a follower of a learned faith. Let me clarify that a bit.
I came to Christ about 4 years ago. Despite my parents being Methodist in their upbringing, they didn't convey that to their children very well. We never went to church. There was no prayer before dinner. There was no installation of many of the basic morals that are associated with religion. That said, 3 of the 4 children now consider themselves religious to some degree, as do my parents. Go figure.
I first got truly and actually excited about Christ and church in general when attending services for the first time with my now in-laws. It was totally unlike anything I had previously associated with religion. It motivated me to know Christ more, to learn on my own. I'd been to church before, but it never grabbed me like that time, and every time since then. Perhaps I wasn't ready.
In short, I didn't have anything to base my beliefs on, except what is "commonly" known about Christianity. I like to think I take others views and interpritations of the Bible into account, and draw my own conclusions, but at this point I see myself as more of an impressionable child than an accomplished Christian.
Can I defend my faith? Perhaps. Would I find the right words to convey my beliefs and bring up good points? Certainly not. I try to let other people read and draw their own conclusions from the Bible because, as you say, it's a very personal thing.
But it suddenly occurs to me that this is way off topic for a geek forum. Or is it?
Don't forget the connection to the outside world. From what I'm gathering, they need to replace some networking equipment too. You can easily spend $20k on good reliable networking equipment.
Bottom line -- if you don't think it's worth it, don't donate. If you do think it's worth it, donate.
Every time you claim the bible is correct, you are also claiming people should make that switchover, since that's a major portion of the message contained therein. It is not logically possible to say the bible is truth and not also be saying people should become Christians. The two go together.
Oh, I agree. The difference is I'm not sitting here, putting down his views and beliefs, telling him to switch to Christianity right this very instant. I mean, I'd like for him to believe, but I'm not going to beat the message into him until such time. I believe that God will make him see the way, especially since I've been praying for him.
Well, you are intitled to your own opinion. I'll ignore the defensive tone of your post. My main objection, in case you're wondering, was the attempt to change current Christians over to non-Chirstians, which is not a very good goal for ones self. I mean, how rude is that? I'm not trying to switch you over, so why do the same to me?
At any rate, you're probably right -- you do know scripture better than I do. I've only been at this for about 4 years, and don't pretend to know all, or even have formulated my own opinions on most subjects found in the Bible.
And as for the founding fathers, they were Christian enough to see that Christmas was of great importance. Also, they didn't allow businesses to be open on Sundays. That's more Christian than quite a few people. Just because Jefferson didn't believe the entire Bible doesn't mean that the majority of the founding fathers weren't Christian.
Yes, you do, you condescending, smug Christian. You claim that your superstition is ultimate truth for all humanity. If you're going to make *that* arrogant of a claim, then you better be well-prepared to defend it!
And you claim that your lack of religion (or belief in an alternate) is the ultimate truth for all humanity as well. I believe you probably have many arguments to back it up, but does that make you less smug or arrogant? No. Yes, it's true -- not believing in one God is a religion in and of itself. Several, in fact. Society seems to think that if you don't subscribe to an organized religion (and it's not that organized, trust me), then you aren't religious. Fact is, you are, just in a different way.
But we can debate this until the second coming (or, if you prefer, until the cows come home), and it will only solve to agrovate each other. So, for now, let us agree to disagree.
I recently moved out on my own into an apartment in Portland...The nearest Home Depot is 50 miles away and I don't have a car.
Ah, so not Portland, Oregon then. I live in a apartment in Beaverton (about 10 miles from Portland), and have 3 Home Depots within 10 minutes of me. And yes, I do go there. If you have a project that you're doing (computer or otherwise), it's a great place. Plus, they sell CAT5e and all the fittings to build your own network, so it's not all construction stuff.
Instead of making fun of Christians, I implore you to, instead, attack their stupid, superstitious beliefs.
I believe you just made fun of us, hence negating you're entire post. Nice work.
Besides, if the founding fathers of the USA weren't Christians, nobody here would get Christmas day off to spend with their families.
Further, I don't need to defend my religion or the Bible. If it needed me to defend it, it wouldn't still be such a driving force in a large part of the planets population. Rather, I can let the Bible speak for itself. Got a "probing question"? Read for yourself.
Is it me, or in this webcam view here of the ESA command center, are they running Celestia on the large monitor just right of center? Because, it looks just like it does on my Mac...
On a related note, have you ever heard the "Dr. Davis, telephone please. Dr. Davis, telephone please" sound that seems to show up in every single hospital scene? Talk about annoying. I think it's even in a Motley Crue song...
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This page shows the þ symbol. For those of you interested, it kinda looks like a 'p'.
What a fricking moron! He could have sold the G5 on ebay, then made a G5 clone case, or even bought a case from an Apple retailer.
Idiot. He probably was given a Jag for Christmas, and ripped the guts out to retrofit the interior, engine, wheels, etc from his 89 Honda Civic.
...flight commanders are sitting around, when a small alarm goes off.
"What is it ROVER?"
"I've just picked up a fault in the AE35 unit. It's going to go 100% failure in 72 hours."
AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!
I'm in kind of the same boat, only it's a quarter (now) of 150 PCs. But here's the kicker -- some of them are still on token ring. We even have some Twinax printers, fer cryin' out loud.
But we got the design work for the Space Station done anyway, we were Dedicated Space Groupies!
Until I read the above statement, I was picturing a meth lab of some sort.
I noticed that they reference it as 'DNF' in the FAQ. In the racing world, DNF means "Did Not Finish." That can't be good...
A long time ago someone told me they wrapped wire a whole bunch of times around their hard drive and connected it to 120VAC and a switch.
I've heard of similar ideas, but hooked into the transformer from a neon sign. Pull the chain, presto blammo, hard drive be fried. Now, whether it would obscure the data on the drive enough to be unrecoverable, hard to say.
See my post here.
Speaking of Tadpole, I got an email from one of their sales guys (standard pricing email for Q1 2004), and they say they'll have a dual processor laptop called the "Bullfrog" out by June, 2004. They don't say what processor it'll have, but they claim it'll be available with up to 8GB RAM, have a 17" 1400x1050 display, and a "massive HDD."
Right on.
I thought the international standard for measuring things was the Volkswagen...
Or was that only for asteroids?
C'mon, all these posts and not one dealing with Trainspotting. I quote:
"Relinquishing junk.
Stage one, preparation. For this you will need:
One room which you will not leave.
Soothing music.
Tomato soup, ten tins of.
Mushroom soup, eight tins of, for consumption cold.
Ice cream, vanilla, one large tub of.
Magnesia, milk of, one bottle.
Paracetamol
mouthwash
vitamins
Mineral water
Lucozade
pornography
One mattress
One bucket for urine, one for feces and one for vomitus.
One television
and one bottle of Valium, which I've already procured from my mother. Who is, in her own domestic and socially acceptable way also a drug addict.
And now I'm ready. All I need is one final hit to soothe the pain while the Valium takes effect. "
Damn straight. I'm in the same boat. I had a kidney stone in each kidney -- two for the price of one!
Doc said to cut back on my cheese (mmm....cheese) and cola, or else he'd be seeing me again. No problem!
And don't go thinking kidney stones are for old people -- I was only 23 when I got mine.
"There is no such thing as a redundant array of inexpensive programmers".
RAIP? Are you sure? Because I'm pretty sure that's what my employer is doing to me...
Oh my word. I remember taking a QIC-80 tape drive around to all the computers in my dad's accounting firm and backing them each up on a tape. Took multiple days to do all 4 computers.
Boy do I miss those days. Wait...no I don't.
I don't know about you, but visions of SUVs driving through lakes and streams running over fish came into my mind.
But insanity runs in my family...
Excellent story, thanks. You raise some good points, and re-reading my original post, I can see how easily one can infer that I am merely a follower of a learned faith. Let me clarify that a bit.
I came to Christ about 4 years ago. Despite my parents being Methodist in their upbringing, they didn't convey that to their children very well. We never went to church. There was no prayer before dinner. There was no installation of many of the basic morals that are associated with religion. That said, 3 of the 4 children now consider themselves religious to some degree, as do my parents. Go figure.
I first got truly and actually excited about Christ and church in general when attending services for the first time with my now in-laws. It was totally unlike anything I had previously associated with religion. It motivated me to know Christ more, to learn on my own. I'd been to church before, but it never grabbed me like that time, and every time since then. Perhaps I wasn't ready.
In short, I didn't have anything to base my beliefs on, except what is "commonly" known about Christianity. I like to think I take others views and interpritations of the Bible into account, and draw my own conclusions, but at this point I see myself as more of an impressionable child than an accomplished Christian.
Can I defend my faith? Perhaps. Would I find the right words to convey my beliefs and bring up good points? Certainly not. I try to let other people read and draw their own conclusions from the Bible because, as you say, it's a very personal thing.
But it suddenly occurs to me that this is way off topic for a geek forum. Or is it?
Don't forget the connection to the outside world. From what I'm gathering, they need to replace some networking equipment too. You can easily spend $20k on good reliable networking equipment.
Bottom line -- if you don't think it's worth it, don't donate. If you do think it's worth it, donate.
Every time you claim the bible is correct, you are also claiming people should make that switchover, since that's a major portion of the message contained therein. It is not logically possible to say the bible is truth and not also be saying people should become Christians. The two go together.
Oh, I agree. The difference is I'm not sitting here, putting down his views and beliefs, telling him to switch to Christianity right this very instant. I mean, I'd like for him to believe, but I'm not going to beat the message into him until such time. I believe that God will make him see the way, especially since I've been praying for him.
Well, you are intitled to your own opinion. I'll ignore the defensive tone of your post. My main objection, in case you're wondering, was the attempt to change current Christians over to non-Chirstians, which is not a very good goal for ones self. I mean, how rude is that? I'm not trying to switch you over, so why do the same to me?
At any rate, you're probably right -- you do know scripture better than I do. I've only been at this for about 4 years, and don't pretend to know all, or even have formulated my own opinions on most subjects found in the Bible.
And as for the founding fathers, they were Christian enough to see that Christmas was of great importance. Also, they didn't allow businesses to be open on Sundays. That's more Christian than quite a few people. Just because Jefferson didn't believe the entire Bible doesn't mean that the majority of the founding fathers weren't Christian.
Yes, you do, you condescending, smug Christian. You claim that your superstition is ultimate truth for all humanity. If you're going to make *that* arrogant of a claim, then you better be well-prepared to defend it!
And you claim that your lack of religion (or belief in an alternate) is the ultimate truth for all humanity as well. I believe you probably have many arguments to back it up, but does that make you less smug or arrogant? No. Yes, it's true -- not believing in one God is a religion in and of itself. Several, in fact. Society seems to think that if you don't subscribe to an organized religion (and it's not that organized, trust me), then you aren't religious. Fact is, you are, just in a different way.
But we can debate this until the second coming (or, if you prefer, until the cows come home), and it will only solve to agrovate each other. So, for now, let us agree to disagree.
A co-worker of mine gave the best gift that I had heard of to date. His girlfriend
Whoa...I thought that was the end of your post. I was thinking "wow, that's a pretty open relationship."
I recently moved out on my own into an apartment in Portland...The nearest Home Depot is 50 miles away and I don't have a car.
Ah, so not Portland, Oregon then. I live in a apartment in Beaverton (about 10 miles from Portland), and have 3 Home Depots within 10 minutes of me. And yes, I do go there. If you have a project that you're doing (computer or otherwise), it's a great place. Plus, they sell CAT5e and all the fittings to build your own network, so it's not all construction stuff.
Instead of making fun of Christians, I implore you to, instead, attack their stupid, superstitious beliefs.
I believe you just made fun of us, hence negating you're entire post. Nice work.
Besides, if the founding fathers of the USA weren't Christians, nobody here would get Christmas day off to spend with their families.
Further, I don't need to defend my religion or the Bible. If it needed me to defend it, it wouldn't still be such a driving force in a large part of the planets population. Rather, I can let the Bible speak for itself. Got a "probing question"? Read for yourself.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who read the title to the article and immediately thought of the toys from my childhood...
Is it me, or in this webcam view here of the ESA command center, are they running Celestia on the large monitor just right of center? Because, it looks just like it does on my Mac...
On a related note, have you ever heard the "Dr. Davis, telephone please. Dr. Davis, telephone please" sound that seems to show up in every single hospital scene? Talk about annoying. I think it's even in a Motley Crue song...
Um...not that I'd know that.