You haven't gone shopping for a while, have you? I don't remember the numbers is question, but I had gone to the store, and the total was, say, $1.83. I had some change in my pocket, so I give the cashier 2 singles, a nickel and 3 pennies. She tried handing back the change, I ended up having to say "just try it" before she would key it in. Whoa! I got a nice quarter back!
Tip to cashiers: if you don't know how to subtract, don't go out of your way to show it.
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
The amateurish "according to my reading of the Constitution" analysis of people who don't know shit about the case law is embarrassing
But isn't that exactly the problem? If what it says is no longer what it means, we've already strayed too far. If our "unalienable" rights have become malleable, they're not exactly unalienable, are they?
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
Yup, go read the linux-kernel mailing list archives; at least once every couple of months, someone tries to give Linus a 300K patch, and he rejects it. Linus wants *small* patches, which do specific things, or implement one new feature.
Kernel Traffic has summarized this numerous times, if you don't want to wade through the lkml. Essentially, the only reason NON-platform-specific stuff gets through faster is because it all goes to Alan Cox, who then stuffs them into his own tree (the -ac* patches). When he decides they're stable enough to pass on, he breaks them up into bite-sized pieces for Linus.
It sounds like the PPC maintainer isn't willing to do this, and so they're falling by the wayside.
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
Working in a professional studio does not make you a great musician.
Working as a UNIX admin does not guarantee competency.
Being a great musician has nothing to do with what equipment you use.
There have always been and and always will be those with talent and those without. Great musicians will make great music regardless of what tools are available to them. The difference is, now all the great musicians who couldn't shell out $50+ (at minimum) an hour to get into a studio can now afford to make great music at all, instead of fucking around on a $50 guitar and never showing how good they are to anyone but their friends and family, and never sharing their talent with anyone.
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
But it *is* possible. Listen to Mellow-D (http://www.scene.org/pub/music/artists/mellow-d/) and you'll see how professional tracked music can be (although he doesn't really do guitar stuff like you do, it's all extremely experimental electronica).
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
Re:Kinda a pain in the ass, isn't it?
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(maybe all the abuse has something to do with why nobody wants these jobs. nah.)
Heh, in the past I have worked tech support, too; I feel your pain.
Which came first, the customer abuse, or the 3-month employment turnaround?
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
Re:Looking for a new DSL provider?
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Damn you! Stop saying how good they are! Their tech guys know what they're doing, but SpeakEasy is so slammed that it can take hours (yes, plural!) to get through to them. Don't you realize that by telling people how good their connections are, you're making things worse!:)
I've got SpeakEasy, and recently had a problem. It wasn't SpeakEasy's problem (SE has been WONDERFUL, I just wish *they* didn't have to fuck with Covad and Bell South, neither of which could find their ass with both hands and a mirror.)
Whoever installed the POTS wiring in my apartment originally had f**ked up and crossed the wiring for the 2nd line with the neighbor's phone wiring. Someone new moved in next door, and apparently he got a 2nd line for dialing the net, 'cause my connection would drop in the evenings when he dialed in.
So, I call SpeakEasy, who calls Covad. Covad tests it and finds there's a short (my DSL is connected to the 2nd line, not out-of-band on the existing phone line like most of their installs are nowadays). The Covad guy says "talk to Bell South, we can't touch your lines." Fair enough, I know there's all kinds of ugly rules about who gets to touch what.
A Bell South "representative" (and I mean that term loosely) comes out, and DISCONNECTS THE 2ND LINE. "Well, you don't have phone service for a second line, so we have no obligation of fixing Covad's problem. Talk to your DSL provider." Keep in mind Bell South offers DSL in my area as well. Coincidence? I think Not.
Because of Covad being backed up, there's no way I'll get someone out to get the line switched over. I call the SpeakEasy tech support and get a great tech that confirms that, and says "You'll have better luck canceling service and subscribing new." Shit. 6-8 weeks with things down. Then the SpeakEasy guy suggests I may be able to get it fixed by having my apartment people bring in an electrician and just fix it themselves. So the electrician comes and says he can't touch it, calls Bell South and has them send a guy out.
Guess what? He actually FIXES the wiring, and then when I said I assume they're gonna charge me, he says "Oh, no, since the fault was in the wiring it's our responsibility to fix it." Well no shit, Sherlock, too bad the last guy didn't think so and just unhooked it instead. You gonna pay half of my bill for the two weeks my DSL was randomly going out when the neighbor dialed, and the 5 days it was down?
Everything's working now, but I pray to god that I never have a problem again, SpeakEasy's suggestion got me on track to actually get the damn thing fixed in a couple of days, but if I have to deal with Covad or Bell South again, I swear I'll throttle the next one that comes through my door.
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
Hey, is there good barbeque in Oakland? In a clever move which might have caused Sherman some consternation, one of the coolest things about the city of Atlanta will shortly be appearing in Oakland, CA. A notice sent out by Usenix announces that November 6-10th of this year will be the next manifestation of ALS.
Yeah, and those of us on the east coast are jumping for joy that there are now 141 Linux shows on the other side of the continent instead of 140; we can rest easy knowing California finally has a Linux expo, at the expense of Georgia. I felt bad they were being left out. Now I can rest easy.
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
Slashdot Mirror
> not against OpenNap (people running servers).
They have served the OpenNap people with cease-and-decist letters as well.
> Also I don't know any way - except for
> reconfiguring your router/firewall - to get
> Napsters official client to point to OpenNap
> servers.
Napigator
Nice try, though. =)
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
Depends on your level of voyeurism. The front is clear plexiglass... =)
Don't knock it if you haven't tried it.
Despite the fact that I despise Pokemon as a "suck the kids in" marketing phenomenon, the Pokemon gameboy games are some of the best ever created.
They're *great* games, they just happen to have stupid characters. =)
the snes emulator (and mame) work on the iPAQ in linux...
Perhaps it's a very large patch.
(a big delta)
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
...You didn't tell the secret we ALL want to know?
What's the "secret sauce"?
:)
(I know, I know, 1000 Island dressing)
is like saying Hitler is responsible for peace
Oh, wait! Everyone stop!
According to USENET posting rules, this /. story is officially closed.
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
=)
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
You haven't gone shopping for a while, have you? I don't remember the numbers is question, but I had gone to the store, and the total was, say, $1.83. I had some change in my pocket, so I give the cashier 2 singles, a nickel and 3 pennies. She tried handing back the change, I ended up having to say "just try it" before she would key it in. Whoa! I got a nice quarter back!
Tip to cashiers: if you don't know how to subtract, don't go out of your way to show it.
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
why would you want to theme cde?
Dunno. Why not ask them?
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
The amateurish "according to my reading of the Constitution" analysis of people who don't know shit about the case law is embarrassing
But isn't that exactly the problem? If what it says is no longer what it means, we've already strayed too far. If our "unalienable" rights have become malleable, they're not exactly unalienable, are they?
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
:)
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
Yup, go read the linux-kernel mailing list archives; at least once every couple of months, someone tries to give Linus a 300K patch, and he rejects it. Linus wants *small* patches, which do specific things, or implement one new feature.
Kernel Traffic has summarized this numerous times, if you don't want to wade through the lkml. Essentially, the only reason NON-platform-specific stuff gets through faster is because it all goes to Alan Cox, who then stuffs them into his own tree (the -ac* patches). When he decides they're stable enough to pass on, he breaks them up into bite-sized pieces for Linus.
It sounds like the PPC maintainer isn't willing to do this, and so they're falling by the wayside.
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
Working as a UNIX admin does not guarantee competency.
Being a great musician has nothing to do with what equipment you use.
There have always been and and always will be those with talent and those without. Great musicians will make great music regardless of what tools are available to them. The difference is, now all the great musicians who couldn't shell out $50+ (at minimum) an hour to get into a studio can now afford to make great music at all, instead of fucking around on a $50 guitar and never showing how good they are to anyone but their friends and family, and never sharing their talent with anyone.
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
(maybe all the abuse has something to do with why nobody wants these jobs. nah.)
Heh, in the past I have worked tech support, too; I feel your pain.
Which came first, the customer abuse, or the 3-month employment turnaround?
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
Damn you! Stop saying how good they are! Their tech guys know what they're doing, but SpeakEasy is so slammed that it can take hours (yes, plural!) to get through to them. Don't you realize that by telling people how good their connections are, you're making things worse! :)
I've got SpeakEasy, and recently had a problem. It wasn't SpeakEasy's problem (SE has been WONDERFUL, I just wish *they* didn't have to fuck with Covad and Bell South, neither of which could find their ass with both hands and a mirror.)
Whoever installed the POTS wiring in my apartment originally had f**ked up and crossed the wiring for the 2nd line with the neighbor's phone wiring. Someone new moved in next door, and apparently he got a 2nd line for dialing the net, 'cause my connection would drop in the evenings when he dialed in.
So, I call SpeakEasy, who calls Covad. Covad tests it and finds there's a short (my DSL is connected to the 2nd line, not out-of-band on the existing phone line like most of their installs are nowadays). The Covad guy says "talk to Bell South, we can't touch your lines." Fair enough, I know there's all kinds of ugly rules about who gets to touch what.
A Bell South "representative" (and I mean that term loosely) comes out, and DISCONNECTS THE 2ND LINE. "Well, you don't have phone service for a second line, so we have no obligation of fixing Covad's problem. Talk to your DSL provider." Keep in mind Bell South offers DSL in my area as well. Coincidence? I think Not.
Because of Covad being backed up, there's no way I'll get someone out to get the line switched over. I call the SpeakEasy tech support and get a great tech that confirms that, and says "You'll have better luck canceling service and subscribing new." Shit. 6-8 weeks with things down. Then the SpeakEasy guy suggests I may be able to get it fixed by having my apartment people bring in an electrician and just fix it themselves. So the electrician comes and says he can't touch it, calls Bell South and has them send a guy out.
Guess what? He actually FIXES the wiring, and then when I said I assume they're gonna charge me, he says "Oh, no, since the fault was in the wiring it's our responsibility to fix it." Well no shit, Sherlock, too bad the last guy didn't think so and just unhooked it instead. You gonna pay half of my bill for the two weeks my DSL was randomly going out when the neighbor dialed, and the 5 days it was down?
Everything's working now, but I pray to god that I never have a problem again, SpeakEasy's suggestion got me on track to actually get the damn thing fixed in a couple of days, but if I have to deal with Covad or Bell South again, I swear I'll throttle the next one that comes through my door.
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
+)
So is that some kind of genetically altered cyclops smiley face?
Brought to you by The People For Biclops Smiley Face Rights. =)
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
Hey, is there good barbeque in Oakland? In a clever move which might have caused Sherman some consternation, one of the coolest things about the city of Atlanta will shortly be appearing in Oakland, CA. A notice sent out by Usenix announces that November 6-10th of this year will be the next manifestation of ALS.
Yeah, and those of us on the east coast are jumping for joy that there are now 141 Linux shows on the other side of the continent instead of 140; we can rest easy knowing California finally has a Linux expo, at the expense of Georgia. I felt bad they were being left out. Now I can rest easy.
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.