The one with the old lady in the rest home is pretty cool too. She babbles on and on about impossible sounding stuff, and her daughter just nods "Uh-huh", then the grandson leans over and whispers "grandma, you should have used the magic stones", and she smiles with enlightenment.
I can neither confirm nor deny this. I only used it as an example of the wierd shit that Fox has tried. The Fox website still has pages up for tons of canceled shows, like that don't want anybody to notice that they're canceled. Go figure.
They did that by taking chances on stuff like Married with Children and the Simpsons. They're still taking those gambles.
I'll go along with that. Fox will throw anything up on the wall to see what sticks. Remember "30 Seconds to Fame" or "Banzai!" (Place your bets!) or "Performing As". I never actually saw "Gerg the Bunny" but that's kinda my point. Fox will try anything, but quickly. If it doesn't take off right away, its toast. And yes, quality apparently doesn't enter into the equation.
I (used to) call it the "Three Song Rule". If I have heard at least three songs from an album that I like, then I can justify plunking down cash for it. Originally, my primary medium for catching the three songs was commercial radio. But these days I would be hard pressed to name an album that I have heard any three songs from, much less three good ones.
AOR is dead, indie promoters are just legalized payola, and Clearchannel sucks. So RIAA picks this business environment in a down economy to start widespread lawsuits?
Why can't you just give a URL out to your friends?
Did you see his URL? Not everybody has spare domain names to throw around. So he tucks away some family snapshots in a small corner of a web server that serves a fair amount of other unreleated content. He then wants a quickly communicated and easy-to-remember way for friends and family to find the page. Who the hell else is gonna seach for "Ruby Orange" or "Mutley Sleeps" anyway.
As far as Cliff getting trolled, all of the story links are to google, so the author is not getting any page-rank karma out of it.
... a cron a job to check the timestamp of the remote file and if it's newer than the local copy, download it...
rsync, anyone?
A local mirror of the files from the public ftp server definitely sounds like the way to go. Just make sure everyone in your office knows to grab stuff from the local (ftp|nfs|samba) server. This will provide faster access for everyone in your office, and reduce load on the public server.
P2P is a solution for when you dont have control over the infrastructure to set up something centralized (ie individual users all over the 'net). Performance is the main concern in this case, rather than decentralization.
That's what I get. I broke my wrist in a car wreck in 1997, and the bone was set with a plate and screws (still there, and the doc said that these types usually are not removed unless they cause a problem).
Mine gets a bit achey *after* a thunderstorm, which is completely useless. Go figure.
... so I put on loud ass pipes so that even the most insulated SUV can tell I'm coming.
No, they can't hear you coming, but they can hear you leave. Loud pipes are only loud beside and behind you, not in front. "Saftey" is a lame excuse for some macho show-off BS.
You would always be walking a fine line between providing a useful service that is cheaper than outright ownership, and annoying people with a busy signal. Plus, as you bought more copies, the cost would go up.
This is where Cringley's dividend kicks in. One penny per download goes back to the physical owner of a CD. When a CD gets popular, somebody will
1) notice 2) go buy one (or several) 3) put it in the archive 4) Profit!
Wait a minute, there's not ??? here! I must have missed something!
In the end, few people are likely to mistake Tanya Grotter for Harry Potter; it is akin to mistaking Burger King for McDonald's.
Happens often enough. Ask anybody who ever worked in a fast food joint how many yutzes cruise into the McDonald's drive thru to order a Whopper, or ask for a Big Mac at Burger King. The holy grail of "brand recognition" is never as deeply entrenched as the copyright lawyers would have you believe.
The "bridge" game is sorta lame (Sonic walks across a bridge with gaps in it, you press the button to "jump" Sonic over the holes) but the soccer goalkeeper one is pretty cool.
NT4 was the last Windows version that did not shove the integrated Internet Explorer down your throat, just the measly IExplore.exe version 2.0 which is easily deletable.
Without all that IE crap, NT4 is fast, stable and reasonably secure. Nearly all NT4 security issues have been caused by IE or one of its addons (Outlook, Windows Scripting Host, etc). The IE desktop integration bring the whole system to its knees performance-wise.
The service packs, Office, and Visual Studio will all try to convince you to install the latest whizziest version of IE, but if you persevere, you can keep your NT4 box IE-free.
If I *have* to use Windows (and I do), then you will get NT4 away from me when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
My virus scanner updates itself without my knowledge, as does my weather bar and e-mail client. How do I know they aren't doing nefarious things?
They just might be doing nefarious things. And if you discovered that your weather bar was logging your keystrokes to an unknown location, you'd ditch it. But when the key logger is built into the OS, you're kinda stuck.
I missed a similar situation by mere weeks. I left the company for a better job offer, but I was privy to the scheme before I left.
Weeks later, three core people left, started their own consulting firm, and contracted with the employer to do their old jobs on a consulting basis! They somehow sold managment on the idea that it would be cheaper for the company to pay them as consultants than the pay them as employees. The consulting business has blossomed with new clients, and the old employer is in a well-publicized chapter 11.
These guys won, and are still doing well, but this started in late 1998-early 1999 at the height of the bubble. They managed to create solid customer releationships that they have built a solid business on.
Look before you leap, and make sure you know where you are going to land.
This is true of my currently installed version (8.1 -- copyright 2001)
I have used the registered version since 7.0, so I haven't seen those buttons for some time. My first uses of WinZip were around 5.x, I believe, 1996 or 97. I distinctly remember having to use Alt+I and Alt+G from time to time, though maybe less frequently than the others. I was under the impression that Alt+E was twice as likely because there were two E's in Agree to choose from.
With chunks as small as 10-15 lines, it ought to be pretty easy to determine which lines come from which patch, and then from the patch determine the submitter. If the sections of code that SCO is bitching just happen to line up with particular patch submissions, then they might just be able to make a case.
However, more likely, if the code that they are claiming infringes was touched by multiple contributors over a long period of time, and the result of all those edits just happens to kinda sorta resemble a piece of code in SVR5 (aka independent invention), then they are going to have a much harder time making that stick.
Check out http://www.ltsp.org/ and http://k12ltsp.org/contents.html as well. k12ltsp focuses on lab setups for schools.
The whole point of LTSP is booting a roomful of machines from one server. A lab would not really need to OpenMosix part unless you wanted to do massive after-hours number crunching.
> > Typically, "pig in a poke" implies unforseen trouble
> Furrfu. 'Poke' is an olde worlde term for sack.
I'm just going by usage and context I have observed growing up in the South. From my experience, both the term and the phrase are primarily Southern US in usage (no doubt with prior origins from the olde worlde). You don't have to buy a pig in a poke, someone can hand you a pig in a poke as well. You still have to deal with whatever trouble you have been handed.
I stand by my interpretation. You are welcome to yours.
Typically, "pig in a poke" implies unforseen trouble or concealed problems that reveal themselves later, kinda like a used car. The term "poke" usually refers to a brown paper bag, like a grocery or shopping bag (back in the days before they all turned plastic), which lends to the image of the problem being just barely contained, and liable to escape at any moment.
When you buy a pig in a poke, you had better head straight home with it, and have a sturdy pen ready for the pig.
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The one with the old lady in the rest home is pretty cool too. She babbles on and on about impossible sounding stuff, and her daughter just nods "Uh-huh", then the grandson leans over and whispers "grandma, you should have used the magic stones", and she smiles with enlightenment.
Oh good, does that mean Banzai is gone?
I can neither confirm nor deny this. I only used it as an example of the wierd shit that Fox has tried. The Fox website still has pages up for tons of canceled shows, like that don't want anybody to notice that they're canceled. Go figure.
They did that by taking chances on stuff like Married with Children and the Simpsons. They're still taking those gambles.
I'll go along with that. Fox will throw anything up on the wall to see what sticks. Remember "30 Seconds to Fame" or "Banzai!" (Place your bets!) or "Performing As". I never actually saw "Gerg the Bunny" but that's kinda my point. Fox will try anything, but quickly. If it doesn't take off right away, its toast. And yes, quality apparently doesn't enter into the equation.
I (used to) call it the "Three Song Rule". If I have heard at least three songs from an album that I like, then I can justify plunking down cash for it. Originally, my primary medium for catching the three songs was commercial radio. But these days I would be hard pressed to name an album that I have heard any three songs from, much less three good ones.
AOR is dead, indie promoters are just legalized payola, and Clearchannel sucks. So RIAA picks this business environment in a down economy to start widespread lawsuits?
Why can't you just give a URL out to your friends?
Did you see his URL? Not everybody has spare domain names to throw around. So he tucks away some family snapshots in a small corner of a web server that serves a fair amount of other unreleated content. He then wants a quickly communicated and easy-to-remember way for friends and family to find the page. Who the hell else is gonna seach for "Ruby Orange" or "Mutley Sleeps" anyway.
As far as Cliff getting trolled, all of the story links are to google, so the author is not getting any page-rank karma out of it.
... a cron a job to check the timestamp of the remote file and if it's newer than the local copy, download it...
rsync, anyone?
A local mirror of the files from the public ftp server definitely sounds like the way to go. Just make sure everyone in your office knows to grab stuff from the local (ftp|nfs|samba) server. This will provide faster access for everyone in your office, and reduce load on the public server.
P2P is a solution for when you dont have control over the infrastructure to set up something centralized (ie individual users all over the 'net). Performance is the main concern in this case, rather than decentralization.
That's what I get. I broke my wrist in a car wreck in 1997, and the bone was set with a plate and screws (still there, and the doc said that these types usually are not removed unless they cause a problem).
Mine gets a bit achey *after* a thunderstorm, which is completely useless. Go figure.
... so I put on loud ass pipes so that even the most insulated SUV can tell I'm coming.
No, they can't hear you coming, but they can hear you leave. Loud pipes are only loud beside and behind you, not in front. "Saftey" is a lame excuse for some macho show-off BS.
"RoboSweep uses artificial intelligence to sweep your entire floor."
yes. yes it does.
Reminds me of a guy I knew in high school who wrote an artificial intelligence program on his TRS-80 calculator. Something like:
10 INPUT "Enter a concept":A$
20 FOR I = 1 TO 100 : NEXT I
30 PRINT "I understand."
... what's your nick?
You would always be walking a fine line between providing a useful service that is cheaper than outright ownership, and annoying people with a busy signal. Plus, as you bought more copies, the cost would go up.
This is where Cringley's dividend kicks in. One penny per download goes back to the physical owner of a CD. When a CD gets popular, somebody will
1) notice
2) go buy one (or several)
3) put it in the archive
4) Profit!
Wait a minute, there's not ??? here! I must have missed something!
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/
Pretty comprehensive across platforms, OSs, viruses, hoaxes, buffer overflows...
Best of all, they're not trying to sell you something.
In the end, few people are likely to mistake Tanya Grotter for Harry Potter; it is akin to mistaking Burger King for McDonald's.
Happens often enough. Ask anybody who ever worked in a fast food joint how many yutzes cruise into the McDonald's drive thru to order a Whopper, or ask for a Big Mac at Burger King. The holy grail of "brand recognition" is never as deeply entrenched as the copyright lawyers would have you believe.
The "bridge" game is sorta lame (Sonic walks across a bridge with gaps in it, you press the button to "jump" Sonic over the holes) but the soccer goalkeeper one is pretty cool.
NT4 was the last Windows version that did not shove the integrated Internet Explorer down your throat, just the measly IExplore.exe version 2.0 which is easily deletable.
Without all that IE crap, NT4 is fast, stable and reasonably secure. Nearly all NT4 security issues have been caused by IE or one of its addons (Outlook, Windows Scripting Host, etc). The IE desktop integration bring the whole system to its knees performance-wise.
The service packs, Office, and Visual Studio will all try to convince you to install the latest whizziest version of IE, but if you persevere, you can keep your NT4 box IE-free.
If I *have* to use Windows (and I do), then you will get NT4 away from me when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
My virus scanner updates itself without my knowledge, as does my weather bar and e-mail client. How do I know they aren't doing nefarious things?
They just might be doing nefarious things. And if you discovered that your weather bar was logging your keystrokes to an unknown location, you'd ditch it. But when the key logger is built into the OS, you're kinda stuck.
I missed a similar situation by mere weeks. I left the company for a better job offer, but I was privy to the scheme before I left.
Weeks later, three core people left, started their own consulting firm, and contracted with the employer to do their old jobs on a consulting basis! They somehow sold managment on the idea that it would be cheaper for the company to pay them as consultants than the pay them as employees. The consulting business has blossomed with new clients, and the old employer is in a well-publicized chapter 11.
These guys won, and are still doing well, but this started in late 1998-early 1999 at the height of the bubble. They managed to create solid customer releationships that they have built a solid business on.
Look before you leap, and make sure you know where you are going to land.
This is true of my currently installed version (8.1 -- copyright 2001)
I have used the registered version since 7.0, so I haven't seen those buttons for some time. My first uses of WinZip were around 5.x, I believe, 1996 or 97. I distinctly remember having to use Alt+I and Alt+G from time to time, though maybe less frequently than the others. I was under the impression that Alt+E was twice as likely because there were two E's in Agree to choose from.
... as well as the shortcut keys. "_I_ Accept", "I _A_ccept", "I A_c_cept", etc.
With chunks as small as 10-15 lines, it ought to be pretty easy to determine which lines come from which patch, and then from the patch determine the submitter. If the sections of code that SCO is bitching just happen to line up with particular patch submissions, then they might just be able to make a case.
However, more likely, if the code that they are claiming infringes was touched by multiple contributors over a long period of time, and the result of all those edits just happens to kinda sorta resemble a piece of code in SVR5 (aka independent invention), then they are going to have a much harder time making that stick.
Check out http://www.ltsp.org/ and http://k12ltsp.org/contents.html as well. k12ltsp focuses on lab setups for schools.
The whole point of LTSP is booting a roomful of machines from one server. A lab would not really need to OpenMosix part unless you wanted to do massive after-hours number crunching.
P.S. it's "Keyser Söze"
Well, sure, *anyone* could spell it *that* way...
> > Typically, "pig in a poke" implies unforseen trouble
> Furrfu. 'Poke' is an olde worlde term for sack.
I'm just going by usage and context I have observed growing up in the South. From my experience, both the term and the phrase are primarily Southern US in usage (no doubt with prior origins from the olde worlde). You don't have to buy a pig in a poke, someone can hand you a pig in a poke as well. You still have to deal with whatever trouble you have been handed.
I stand by my interpretation. You are welcome to yours.
Typically, "pig in a poke" implies unforseen trouble or concealed problems that reveal themselves later, kinda like a used car. The term "poke" usually refers to a brown paper bag, like a grocery or shopping bag (back in the days before they all turned plastic), which lends to the image of the problem being just barely contained, and liable to escape at any moment.
When you buy a pig in a poke, you had better head straight home with it, and have a sturdy pen ready for the pig.
The headline says "Linux Powers First Handheld Software Radio".