Ireland is a Republic today due to the "Republic of Ireland Act". A peice of legislation brought in by one of the "minor" parties in a coalition. Our system is far superior to the US. Americans have no idea what freedom means. As Irish citizens we still have control over our political system.
We've mostly had fianna fail government because we've voted fianna fail into power. And our PR system enables us to indicate clearly with our vote the path we want fianna fail policy to take when in government rather than the first-past-the-port endorsement of all their policies (e.g. why we put the greens in coalition and rendered the PDs impotent)
I'm currently running a 57km total (longest stretch 45km) 802.11a link with two relays to my parents house. I have fiber and they can't even get a stable dialup link. I know for a fact that three OC-192s lie less than a meter from the front gate and the local fiber MAN ends just a few hundred meters from there. 300m from 100Mbit Nirvana and unable to get DSL.....
In Ireland, Vodafone HSDPA Unlimited has that same hidden 5GB limit.
You can go through 5GB on HSDPA a heck of a lot faster than EVDO. I myself have come within 50MB of the limit and all I do on my account is collect my mail and do a heck of a lot of browsing, no large downloads.
Why is it every linux distro I use lacks support for open source codecs like dirac, theora and xvid? I use these formats regularly, why are they never supported?
Businesses have a responsibility to society in general. A certain level of job security should be part of that responsibility. This idea americans have that pure self interest will somehow maintain a stable economy and an acceptable working environment is bull. Business must be regulated and must understand that an economy is equivelent to an ecosystem and maintain the health of said ecosystem requires some thought towards society outside of the office.
I live in a country where there's a 25 year jail scentence for possessing a lethal weapon.
Our murder rate is 20 times lower than the US.
Our police don't even carry batons because there is no need, even the criminals dont have guns.
Firearms introduce fear into a culture. Whenever I visit the US I can see the "does he have a gun, will he attack me" fear in a police officer's face at a routine traffic stop.
Gun Control and Censorship are two completely different issues.
1 x Thrown together desktop, 1gig RAM, 2.8Ghz Northwood P4, The most unstable system on the planet 1 x Toshiba P20 Laptop, 1gig RAM, 3.06GHz P4, Paid 7500 Euro for it several years ago 3 x DNUK Dual Xeon Nocona Servers 16gigs RAM, 3ware 9500-8 SATA RAID, 1.6TB RAID 5, Debian/Suse 1 x 4x 8Core Ultrasparc T1, 32Gig RAM, On Loan Sun Server(Thanks Sun!) 1 x Venerable 3Com ISDN Router I've repurposed as a simple webserver 1 x Netgear WRT54G Router 1 x DLink 32 Port Gigabit Switch 1 x Cisco 2600 Router 1 x Toshiba Satellite 750Mhz PIII 384 Meg RAM, running FC4 and mirroring wikipedia
And thanks to my wonderful telco Eircom(B*ST*RDS!!!) who want to charge me 2000 Euro a month for a 512K, I have no net connection, and last time I had a modem charged me 1200 euro a month for 56K that tended to give generally 1KB/sec in addition to the hefty monthly charge to get a "cheap" dialup number. They only rolled out DSL to 20% of the population, at almost 100 euro a month for a 2 meg line with a 1gig(wtf?) download limit, and now they've slowed down the big rollout due to "lack of demand". What's worse is they wholesale this crappy service to EVERY other telco. I've been waiting 15 years to get a half way decent net connection... instead I have to commute 50 miles to impose on a friend who's stupid and rich enough to pay the 2000 euro........
... when I was a kid my parents allowed me 1 hour a week with my computer. Considering the thing took 35 minutes to boot up...erk! I used to write programs out in the back of my schoolbooks and have a great big pad of code ready for my weekly session. Later, when I was a teenager, my parents locked the computer away 6 days a week. However they kept forgetting to lock away all my spare parts, so I used to build a new system from the spares while they were at work and disassemble before they returned home. They never caught on... Those were the days...
The IEEE Spectrum magasine also ran a story recently on hybrids. They focused on so-called plug-in hybrids, the modified stock hybrids such as the Prius with larger batteries, allowing them to be run on electrical power alone for, say urban conditions. Here's a link.
I await the update with bated breath...but i'll be concentrating on the Windows Server R2 Beta for the next while. You guys got anything to do with the new unix sybsystem?
I've been testing MSH since october... It ain't all its cracked up to be.
A little background: I've been admin on unix systems since 1989. I know 14 UNIX shells inside out.
MSH: Horribly chained to.net
Archaic and obtuse commands(I still have severe trouble using the most basic commands)
VERY basic scripting(difficult to use as well)
Relative inability to use existing external programs, ability to use external.net progs and COM+ exists(but its very limited)
Coupled with the fact that devel is going VERY slow(bugfixes never seem to happen + last update was September 20, 2004):
1: It's going to be VERY slow to arrive or very buggy when released)
2: Nobody who values sanity is going to use it.
End Transmission....;)
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funny, you could be talking of the things many geeks do for fun....
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"Ideally this will bring transparency to citizens and inform them of their senators' & representatives' positions and ideas."
This is clearly fabricated. In what crazy mixed-up world do elected officials have ideas?
Remember mate...
Ireland is a Republic today due to the "Republic of Ireland Act".
A peice of legislation brought in by one of the "minor" parties in a coalition.
Our system is far superior to the US.
Americans have no idea what freedom means.
As Irish citizens we still have control over our
political system.
We've mostly had fianna fail government because
we've voted fianna fail into power.
And our PR system enables us to indicate clearly with our vote the path we want fianna fail policy
to take when in government rather than the first-past-the-port endorsement of all their policies (e.g. why we put the greens in coalition and rendered the PDs impotent)
I'm currently running a 57km total (longest stretch 45km) 802.11a link with two relays to my parents house. I have fiber and they can't even get a stable dialup link. I know for a fact that three OC-192s lie less than a meter from the front gate and the local fiber MAN ends just a few hundred meters from there. 300m from 100Mbit Nirvana and unable to get DSL.....
Cool, the bird has a HUD
In Ireland, Vodafone HSDPA Unlimited has that same hidden 5GB limit.
You can go through 5GB on HSDPA a heck of a lot faster than EVDO.
I myself have come within 50MB of the limit and all I do on my account
is collect my mail and do a heck of a lot of browsing, no large downloads.
"The USA learns the Metric system, and the rest of the world learns to speak English. Seems reasonable to me."
Actually I'd rephrase that as "The USA learns the Metric system and learns to speak English. Seems reasonable to me."
"The range of 0-100 degrees is roughly the temperature in which human being can live."
So are we talking about the imperial standard human being here or the metric?
wtf? I live in ireland where the motorway speed limit is 120km/h.
I can say that equals 2km/minute too. Stop talking bull.
Why is it every linux distro I use lacks support for open source codecs like dirac, theora and xvid?
I use these formats regularly, why are they never supported?
Ubunutu? What the hell is an Ubunutu? It's U B U N T U
More specifically plonkers
Businesses have a responsibility to society in general. A certain level of job security should be part of that responsibility. This idea americans have that pure self interest will somehow maintain a stable economy and an acceptable working environment is bull. Business must be regulated and must understand that an economy is equivelent to an ecosystem and maintain the health of said ecosystem requires some thought towards society outside of the office.
While I come from a country where unions are very much encouraged, I do not wish to join a union myself.
However I would like:
1. To have the option
2. To see others in my workplace have said option
3. Stop using the IEEE as a substitute
What? Where? Where? huh?!? Awwwww shoot....
Bullshit...
I live in a country where there's a 25 year jail scentence for possessing a lethal weapon.
Our murder rate is 20 times lower than the US.
Our police don't even carry batons because there is no need, even the criminals dont have guns.
Firearms introduce fear into a culture. Whenever I visit the US I can see the "does he have a gun, will he attack me" fear in a police officer's face at a routine traffic stop.
Gun Control and Censorship are two completely different issues.
But what do I know...I'm "oppressed". lol
agreed.
1 x Thrown together desktop, 1gig RAM, 2.8Ghz Northwood P4, The most unstable system on the planet
1 x Toshiba P20 Laptop, 1gig RAM, 3.06GHz P4, Paid 7500 Euro for it several years ago
3 x DNUK Dual Xeon Nocona Servers 16gigs RAM, 3ware 9500-8 SATA RAID, 1.6TB RAID 5, Debian/Suse
1 x 4x 8Core Ultrasparc T1, 32Gig RAM, On Loan Sun Server(Thanks Sun!)
1 x Venerable 3Com ISDN Router I've repurposed as a simple webserver
1 x Netgear WRT54G Router
1 x DLink 32 Port Gigabit Switch
1 x Cisco 2600 Router
1 x Toshiba Satellite 750Mhz PIII 384 Meg RAM, running FC4 and mirroring wikipedia
And thanks to my wonderful telco Eircom(B*ST*RDS!!!) who want to charge me 2000 Euro a month for a 512K, I have no net connection, and last time I had a modem charged me 1200 euro a month for 56K that tended to give generally 1KB/sec in addition to the hefty monthly charge to get a "cheap" dialup number. They only rolled out DSL to 20% of the population, at almost 100 euro a month for a 2 meg line with a 1gig(wtf?) download limit, and now they've slowed down the big rollout due to "lack of demand". What's worse is they wholesale this crappy service to EVERY other telco. I've been waiting 15 years to get a half way decent net connection... instead I have to commute 50 miles to impose on a friend who's stupid and rich enough to pay the 2000 euro........
Excuse me I must now go vomit.......
if only to repeat scenes from minority report, the 6th day and i robot.
Hood-surfing anyone?
From the font/format of the text in the top right of the augmented image i think he may be using celestia
... when I was a kid my parents allowed me 1 hour a week with my computer. Considering the thing took 35 minutes to boot up...erk! I used to write programs out in the back of my schoolbooks and have a great big pad of code ready for my weekly session. Later, when I was a teenager, my parents locked the computer away 6 days a week. However they kept forgetting to lock away all my spare parts, so I used to build a new system from the spares while they were at work and disassemble before they returned home. They never caught on...
Those were the days...
The IEEE Spectrum magasine also ran a story recently on hybrids.
They focused on so-called plug-in hybrids, the modified stock hybrids such as the Prius with larger batteries, allowing them to be run on electrical power alone for, say urban conditions. Here's a link.
Same Here
thanks mate,
I await the update with bated breath...but i'll be concentrating on the Windows Server R2 Beta for the next while. You guys got anything to do with the new unix sybsystem?
Good Luck!
I've been testing MSH since october... It ain't all its cracked up to be.
.net .net progs and COM+ exists(but its very limited)
A little background: I've been admin on unix systems since 1989. I know 14 UNIX shells inside out.
MSH: Horribly chained to
Archaic and obtuse commands(I still have severe trouble using the most basic commands)
VERY basic scripting(difficult to use as well)
Relative inability to use existing external programs, ability to use external
Coupled with the fact that devel is going VERY slow(bugfixes never seem to happen + last update was September 20, 2004):
1: It's going to be VERY slow to arrive or very buggy when released)
2: Nobody who values sanity is going to use it.
End Transmission....;)
funny, you could be talking of the things many geeks do for fun....