It looks a great book. There are dozens of similar titles, but I find the British stance to be compelling. American writers tend to focus solely upon the mainstream machines (Mac, Windows, C64, Altair), with only brief mentions for machines manufactured by defunct companies.
Try renting/buying a place in the UK and not buying a TV licence. I spent 1-2 years without a TV and would repeatedly receive letters informing me that a licence was required if I owned a TV and letters from the BBC demanding I pay £100+. After ringing the number mentioned in the letter I received a prompt apology and a promise that I wouldn't receive any more, only to be hassled a few months later. On one occasion I also received notes through my door indicating someone had been to check if I owned a TV, but obviously I wasn't at home at the time. Another phone call to tell them I didn't have a TV. The BBC may have a good reputation on Slashdot, but they're terrible at maintaining customer records and unnecessarily suspicious of those who (shock! horror!) can live without a TV.
I haven't noticed any pronounciation guide, but I immediately pronounced it 'dingy' (i.e. Shabby, drab, or squalid.). There are already thousands of people who have trouble with SCSI (scuzzy), GIF (JIF), PNG (ping) and MNG (ming). One more unpronounceable acronym won't make a difference.
Erm, the Genesis emulator was never released and the Mac emulator was horribly buggy and was done better in software 5 years later. The PC emulator was also terribly slow IIRC. Geek points for effort, but no cigar (to mix a metaphor)
>I always thought it was illegal to refuse >currency, but that nobody enforced it. Learn >something every day. Honestly- it should be >illegal for businesses to refuse currency;
Employees are extremely wary of accepting unusual currency. On several occasions shop staff have refused to accept Scottish currency that I have withdrawn from the bank (I live near London) because "it doesn't have the queen's head on it". I dread to think what will happen when shops outside central London accept Euros.
News has just reached the Slashdot studios that Sheerness has officially declared to be part of Iraq. In an interview, President Bush announced: "Thank gawd! There's y'er nuclear weapons, y'all".
Dilbert established that males are born with an unnecessary work gene, that allows them to recognise when a meeting with be cancelled at the last minute. If anything, the scientists should find a way of installing this feature in the genetic make-up of women without the irritating side effects (bushy beards, poor fashion sense, wind trouble).
Funding Proposal Applicant: Darl McBride Funding: 100,000 US Dollars Summary: The Slashdot site has a loyal following among target audience and have the ability to damage our business reputation. Using funding provided by Microsoft and the US government we intend to discredit these hippies by developing an "Anti-Slashdot" forum. Although much of our product is protected by US trademark/copyright/patent laws to prevent others noticing how pathetic our ideas are, our strategy will include the following:
- A 600 dollar licence for on-demand 503 errors - An enlightened discussion on how SCO can attract new customers - An ice sculpture of Darl McBride, to be erected in Disney World, Florida - Regular news stories on DRM and its importance for protecting our customers - An altar for the worship of CSS encryption and DVD in general. - A campaign to discredit IBM with particular reference to the War (to confuse competitors we will mention several different wars, some of which occur in fiction)
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Of course, if v4 runs along side of v6 for 20 years that may mean that it would be harder to implement an IP-per-user scheme. I don't know. But, 20 years should be enough time to work out any bugs:
The millenium bug* was around for 20-30 years before anyone noticed it. However, I'm glad that they plan to run it alongside the existing system to prevent common problems becoming fatal.
*Yes, I know it wasn't a bug in the traditional sense.
PCWorld has an article on tech myths that mentions DOS and its derivatives.
"IDC's best guess is that about 1000 new copies of all DOS flavors--MS-DOS, PC-DOS, and the rest--were installed last year. This year? Effectively zip. "There's still some life in it for real specific purposes," says IDC analyst Dan Kusnetzky, "but there's zero growth in usage."
>or indeed working with WINE etc, such as program >that allows me to read specially compressed >[/comicgeek]
Are you referring to the.cbr and.cbz formats that seem to be increasingly common for comic books? These are merely rar and zip files that can be decompressed using common archivers.
A simple, though extreme solution is to reinstall your OS every few months. I find Windows 2000 slows to a crawl after 12 months or so, so I backup my files and reinstall the machine. Bye-bye hidden passwords! I'm surprised that Microsoft has not promoted this as a feature for their products.
However, a big threat comes from people who hack into your machine. I've seen numerous home computers that have all their passwords stored in a passwords directory, so their owner does not have to remember them. Anyone who has gained access to their machine can simply copy one directory and access their bank, email account, web site, and other personal records.
>short gate delay time (1.2 microseconds) allows >the Colossus to match the speed of a modern PC."
Typical Slashdot responses: 1) Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.... 2) Colossus is dead. Let it rest in peace. 3) COLOSSUS RUNS LINUX AND QUAKE!!!! I AM L33T!
My life has been greatly simplified by the purchase of a trouser press. Admittedly I've never tried shirts (it doesn't get warm enough to burn anything, so it is possible for the back), but it only cost 5 - significantly less than this piece of hardware.
I bought a Brother MFC 8820D sheet-feed scanner for work. It reduced my workload by 2/3 when copying large amounts of legal documents. The "send to email" feature is nice, but a bit pointless for large scans. Once scanned, the files are saved as PDF and multi-page TIFFs.
If you go down this route, you should check your multi-page scans before saving them. Acrobat has a random buffering problem, which causes some pages to be placed in the wrong order.
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It looks a great book. There are dozens of similar titles, but I find the British stance to be compelling. American writers tend to focus solely upon the mainstream machines (Mac, Windows, C64, Altair), with only brief mentions for machines manufactured by defunct companies.
>No you didn't. The BBC sent you no letters at >all. The TVLA may have done
You are probably correct. It has been four years so my memory has dimmed on the letter header. It remains a heavy handed approach though.
Try renting/buying a place in the UK and not buying a TV licence. I spent 1-2 years without a TV and would repeatedly receive letters informing me that a licence was required if I owned a TV and letters from the BBC demanding I pay £100+. After ringing the number mentioned in the letter I received a prompt apology and a promise that I wouldn't receive any more, only to be hassled a few months later. On one occasion I also received notes through my door indicating someone had been to check if I owned a TV, but obviously I wasn't at home at the time. Another phone call to tell them I didn't have a TV. The BBC may have a good reputation on Slashdot, but they're terrible at maintaining customer records and unnecessarily suspicious of those who (shock! horror!) can live without a TV.
"but it does prove that nerds are at the forefront once again!"
I hope nerds will be at the forefront in a military campaign. I'd like to use their giant brains as a shield against enemy fire.
Why yes, I have been playing war games recently. How did you guess?
I haven't noticed any pronounciation guide, but I immediately pronounced it 'dingy' (i.e. Shabby, drab, or squalid.). There are already thousands of people who have trouble with SCSI (scuzzy), GIF (JIF), PNG (ping) and MNG (ming). One more unpronounceable acronym won't make a difference.
Yet they forgot to edit the bit where a storm trooper hits his head. All clone troopers are created equal, but some are more clumsy than others?
Though it doesn't appear to be a universal solution, it may bolster the PPC Linux effort by allowing it to run software compiled for the x86 platform.
While doing some background checking I found an interview from 2003.
Damn! I hate these GPL clauses. I had to watch my mouth drop to the floor to install Wine last week.
Erm, the Genesis emulator was never released and the Mac emulator was horribly buggy and was done better in software 5 years later. The PC emulator was also terribly slow IIRC. Geek points for effort, but no cigar (to mix a metaphor)
Begun, the cash-in has.
>How about telling us the name of the DVD?
>You can help prevent this from happening to >others.
We call it Barney.
No, but it does explain Bush's pretzel incident earlier this year. He was trying to eat and watch TV at the same time.
>I always thought it was illegal to refuse >currency, but that nobody enforced it. Learn >something every day. Honestly- it should be >illegal for businesses to refuse currency;
Employees are extremely wary of accepting unusual currency. On several occasions shop staff have refused to accept Scottish currency that I have withdrawn from the bank (I live near London) because "it doesn't have the queen's head on it". I dread to think what will happen when shops outside central London accept Euros.
News has just reached the Slashdot studios that Sheerness has officially declared to be part of Iraq. In an interview, President Bush announced:
"Thank gawd! There's y'er nuclear weapons, y'all".
Dilbert established that males are born with an unnecessary work gene, that allows them to recognise when a meeting with be cancelled at the last minute. If anything, the scientists should find a way of installing this feature in the genetic make-up of women without the irritating side effects (bushy beards, poor fashion sense, wind trouble).
Funding Proposal
Applicant: Darl McBride
Funding: 100,000 US Dollars
Summary: The Slashdot site has a loyal following among target audience and have the ability to damage our business reputation. Using funding provided by Microsoft and the US government we intend to discredit these hippies by developing an "Anti-Slashdot" forum. Although much of our product is protected by US trademark/copyright/patent laws to prevent others noticing how pathetic our ideas are, our strategy will include the following:
- A 600 dollar licence for on-demand 503 errors
- An enlightened discussion on how SCO can attract new customers
- An ice sculpture of Darl McBride, to be erected in Disney World, Florida
- Regular news stories on DRM and its importance for protecting our customers
- An altar for the worship of CSS encryption and DVD in general.
- A campaign to discredit IBM with particular reference to the War (to confuse competitors we will mention several different wars, some of which occur in fiction)
Of course, if v4 runs along side of v6 for 20 years that may mean that it would be harder to implement an IP-per-user scheme. I don't know. But, 20 years should be enough time to work out any bugs:
The millenium bug* was around for 20-30 years before anyone noticed it. However, I'm glad that they plan to run it alongside the existing system to prevent common problems becoming fatal.
*Yes, I know it wasn't a bug in the traditional sense.
>Instead, it is based on touchscreen technology >and relies entirely on your thumbs for input -- >which are harder to lose than a stylus.
I'm a fish finger, you insensitive clod!
PCWorld has an article on tech myths that mentions DOS and its derivatives.
"IDC's best guess is that about 1000 new copies of all DOS flavors--MS-DOS, PC-DOS, and the rest--were installed last year. This year? Effectively zip. "There's still some life in it for real specific purposes," says IDC analyst Dan Kusnetzky, "but there's zero growth in usage."
>or indeed working with WINE etc, such as program >that allows me to read specially compressed >[/comicgeek]
.cbr and .cbz formats that seem to be increasingly common for comic books? These are merely rar and zip files that can be decompressed using common archivers.
Are you referring to the
A simple, though extreme solution is to reinstall your OS every few months. I find Windows 2000 slows to a crawl after 12 months or so, so I backup my files and reinstall the machine. Bye-bye hidden passwords! I'm surprised that Microsoft has not promoted this as a feature for their products.
However, a big threat comes from people who hack into your machine. I've seen numerous home computers that have all their passwords stored in a passwords directory, so their owner does not have to remember them. Anyone who has gained access to their machine can simply copy one directory and access their bank, email account, web site, and other personal records.
>short gate delay time (1.2 microseconds) allows >the Colossus to match the speed of a modern PC."
Typical Slashdot responses:
1) Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these....
2) Colossus is dead. Let it rest in peace.
3) COLOSSUS RUNS LINUX AND QUAKE!!!! I AM L33T!
My life has been greatly simplified by the purchase of a trouser press. Admittedly I've never tried shirts (it doesn't get warm enough to burn anything, so it is possible for the back), but it only cost 5 - significantly less than this piece of hardware.
I bought a Brother MFC 8820D sheet-feed scanner for work. It reduced my workload by 2/3 when copying large amounts of legal documents. The "send to email" feature is nice, but a bit pointless for large scans. Once scanned, the files are saved as PDF and multi-page TIFFs.
If you go down this route, you should check your multi-page scans before saving them. Acrobat has a random buffering problem, which causes some pages to be placed in the wrong order.
>Linus is not the real father of Linux and Open >source software is really just code nicked from >other sources.
Bill G: Tux, I *am* your father.
Tux: Noooo!! (translated from Penguin)
Bill G: Search your flippers, you know it to be true.