Last night was the last time I spend any time in Kansas. Had to go to the Ministry concert (Ha! Is that ironic or what? But hey, they did play Jesus Built My Hotrod and Psalm 69). I figured it was my duty to attend. Trust me though, it is the last time that idiotic state is getting any of my tax dollars.
Mister programmer I got my hammer Gonna smash my smash my radio
But, there is a simple fix - either set the size of the logs to be really really big and/or set the "get rid of really old events" check box. I do both on the NT boxes I have running.
Why on earth they did not have them set that way to begin with is beyond me. That is always the first thing I do when I set a box up for the first time.
My guess is the same guys that set this machine up are the same guys that said "it is the weather".
Heh. Gotta love it:)
Mister programmer I got my hammer Gonna smash my smash my radio
I myself think something along these lines would be a complete waste of time - not only for the person who wrote it, but even more so for the people who have to use it.
Think about that line I have up there as my subject. I think that kid in JP could have done her magic a lot quicker had she not had to wait for the view to move all over the world. Also think Johnny Mnemonic - to me it is just a million times easier to type "slashdot.org" than it would be to "fly there" and look at all the pretty graphics along the way.
Yeah, it would be cool, but the novelty would wear off fast. Besides, I get motion sickness when I play Quake, so I don't play it.
Mister programmer I got my hammer Gonna smash my smash my radio
Okay - there were some problems - I hate Keanu Reeves... to me he is a prick - and I hated the very first scene in the movie when he woke up cause the line came off like he was THE prick - but when you get right down to it, Johnny was a prick as well, I thought.
Henry Rollins was very cool as the doctor, and Ice-T was, well, Ice-T - I love his attitude.
I do wish they had explained some stuff to the audience a bit better - like that particle beam thingy the bad guy had in his fingernail. A lot of the audience giggled at that, but I knew what it was because I read the book.
I can't wait for Neuromancer either. Ever since I read it I have wanted one of those implants like the girl had where you could have the time of day displayed in your vision. That would be major cool.
Mister programmer I got my hammer Gonna smash my smash my radio
This is true, but you need to think about some stuff here.
First, there are only a fixed number of channels available in the spectrum. If they did hand these things out you know what it would sound like? You would have everyone in the world stepping on each other and you would NOT be able to understand anything. This is not like AM where you can hear both signals at once. The strongest FM signal wins, and the rest become noise which mix in with the strong FM signal, then it clobbers it. No way, no how can two nearby FM signals share the same frequency.
Other things have to be taken into consideration as well such as output power. A 1000 watt signal is going to be able to go quite a distance, so for a certain range nobody else can use that frequency. I am not sure exactly how they are going to determine who gets what power licence, but I would think that in some areas you would do better with 10 watts than 1000. 1000 would be good for the little towns where the nearest neighbor is 2 miles away. 10 watts would be good for a station which supports a 3 or 4 block neighborhood.
Also, the reason that this proposal "has been on the table for months" is because they always do this. It gives everyone time to draft their proposals. Sometimes they will extend the comment period, sometimes they do not.
Mister programmer I got my hammer Gonna smash my smash my radio
Ya know, the more I read about this stuff, the sadder it makes me.
I think the thing all of us need to do is say a big F.U. and start encrypting EVERYTHING we send - not just big important messages... I mean everything. Get your friends involved. Send everything via PGP as ascii plaintext. It has a really nice advertisement at the bottom for the PGP freeware.
This will get more and more folks to at least see it. The whole process is so stinking simple: Get it, use it. Nothing is hard about that at all!
Let's all quit whining about government intrusion into our privacy and do something about it.
Mister programmer I got my hammer Gonna smash my smash my radio
We are all gonna be watching TV some night and all the broadcasts will be interrupted by some bald kook with a naked cat saying, "I will turn this on unless you pay me ONE MILLION DOLLARS!"
Mister programmer I got my hammer Gonna smash my smash my radio
This reminds me of the day I realized something - most of the so called programmers I run into got their jobs because "they had a computer at home". Don't we have enough of the fly-by-night-flunky-schools and dried-up-washed-up-overweight-actress-schools turning out students looking for that "high paid profession of computer programming" without trying to bring yet more idiots who use variable names like a, b, c, d$, f into the industry?
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Last night was the last time I spend any time in Kansas. Had to go to the Ministry concert (Ha! Is that ironic or what? But hey, they did play Jesus Built My Hotrod and Psalm 69). I figured it was my duty to attend. Trust me though, it is the last time that idiotic state is getting any of my tax dollars.
Mister programmer
I got my hammer
Gonna smash my smash my radio
Totally agree. I can't name one time yet I have seen this thing up in the evening. Even right now it is offline.
Granted it is beta, but still - shouldn't it keep on running?
Mister programmer
I got my hammer
Gonna smash my smash my radio
But, there is a simple fix - either set the size of the logs to be really really big and/or set the "get rid of really old events" check box. I do both on the NT boxes I have running.
:)
Why on earth they did not have them set that way to begin with is beyond me. That is always the first thing I do when I set a box up for the first time.
My guess is the same guys that set this machine up are the same guys that said "it is the weather".
Heh. Gotta love it
Mister programmer
I got my hammer
Gonna smash my smash my radio
I myself think something along these lines would be a complete waste of time - not only for the person who wrote it, but even more so for the people who have to use it.
Think about that line I have up there as my subject. I think that kid in JP could have done her magic a lot quicker had she not had to wait for the view to move all over the world. Also think Johnny Mnemonic - to me it is just a million times easier to type "slashdot.org" than it would be to "fly there" and look at all the pretty graphics along the way.
Yeah, it would be cool, but the novelty would wear off fast. Besides, I get motion sickness when I play Quake, so I don't play it.
Mister programmer
I got my hammer
Gonna smash my smash my radio
Okay - there were some problems - I hate Keanu Reeves... to me he is a prick - and I hated the very first scene in the movie when he woke up cause the line came off like he was THE prick - but when you get right down to it, Johnny was a prick as well, I thought.
Henry Rollins was very cool as the doctor, and Ice-T was, well, Ice-T - I love his attitude.
I do wish they had explained some stuff to the audience a bit better - like that particle beam thingy the bad guy had in his fingernail. A lot of the audience giggled at that, but I knew what it was because I read the book.
I can't wait for Neuromancer either. Ever since I read it I have wanted one of those implants like the girl had where you could have the time of day displayed in your vision. That would be major cool.
Mister programmer
I got my hammer
Gonna smash my smash my radio
This is true, but you need to think about some stuff here.
First, there are only a fixed number of channels available in the spectrum. If they did hand these things out you know what it would sound like? You would have everyone in the world stepping on each other and you would NOT be able to understand anything. This is not like AM where you can hear both signals at once. The strongest FM signal wins, and the rest become noise which mix in with the strong FM signal, then it clobbers it. No way, no how can two nearby FM signals share the same frequency.
Other things have to be taken into consideration as well such as output power. A 1000 watt signal is going to be able to go quite a distance, so for a certain range nobody else can use that frequency. I am not sure exactly how they are going to determine who gets what power licence, but I would think that in some areas you would do better with 10 watts than 1000. 1000 would be good for the little towns where the nearest neighbor is 2 miles away. 10 watts would be good for a station which supports a 3 or 4 block neighborhood.
Also, the reason that this proposal "has been on the table for months" is because they always do this. It gives everyone time to draft their proposals. Sometimes they will extend the comment period, sometimes they do not.
Mister programmer
I got my hammer
Gonna smash my smash my radio
I think the thing all of us need to do is say a big F.U. and start encrypting EVERYTHING we send - not just big important messages... I mean everything. Get your friends involved. Send everything via PGP as ascii plaintext. It has a really nice advertisement at the bottom for the PGP freeware.
This will get more and more folks to at least see it. The whole process is so stinking simple: Get it, use it. Nothing is hard about that at all!
Let's all quit whining about government intrusion into our privacy and do something about it.
Mister programmer
I got my hammer
Gonna smash my smash my radio
We are all gonna be watching TV some night and all the broadcasts will be interrupted by some bald kook with a naked cat saying, "I will turn this on unless you pay me ONE MILLION DOLLARS!"
Mister programmer
I got my hammer
Gonna smash my smash my radio
This reminds me of the day I realized something - most of the so called programmers I run into got their jobs because "they had a computer at home".
Don't we have enough of the fly-by-night-flunky-schools and dried-up-washed-up-overweight-actress-schools turning out students looking for that "high paid profession of computer programming" without trying to bring yet more idiots who use variable names like a, b, c, d$, f into the industry?
I think I am going to go throw up now.