Better still, a few years ago I worked for a major news agency who supplied financial and business news. We were writing software to search for information about companies and, whilst testing this, I discovered a Turkish company named Arcelik. Better still was the discovery that their parent company are named Koc Holding (google cache link). Those crazy Turks!
I mentioned this to my girlfriend and asked her if she'd like a job at Arcelik (as an arcelikker perhaps). She replied that she'd prefer one that involved Koc Holding.
It seems to me (drunk at the mo') that the emperor has no clothes on. What's the betting that Jackson has cut seven minutes of plot with Saruman, just to add seven minutes of fight scenes that weren't in the book. I wouldn't be at all suprised, judging by the first two movies.
I think that Jackson has been seriously overrated as a director. Every time he's had to decide between explaining the plot and developing the characters, or directing fight sequences, he seems to have cried, 'cue the orcs!'. To be fair, some parts of the films have been brilliant, but I really think that he's sacrificing story for fights and sfx. Not that there aren't enought fight sequences and cliff-hangers in the book anyway.
When you install AOL, you expect it to make changes to the configuration of your computer. Why is this any different?
My girlfriend has aol (subscribed before I met her, otherwise I'd have recommended something better) and was being driven mad by these pop-ups. I had to explain that it was microsoft stupidity that allowed them, and disabled them for her.
In article <544rn3$i69@rigel.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>, Anselm Lingnau <lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
>Im Artikel <32651589.31F14EB2@devconsult.de> schrieb >Ingo Luetkebohle <il@devconsult.de>: > >> Did you ever see a company whose primary target is Linux? > >Caldera?
Maybe 2nd best. I use Firebird at work on Windows and Galeon at home on Linux. Of the two, I still prefer Galeon. I tried Opera, but couldn't configure it (in Windoze) to use the middle button to open links in a new tab. Without that, I refuse to use it.
The site's been suffering from the 'slashdot effect' since yesterday when the BBC and various other news sites announced it. Slashdot is a day behind everyone else with this story. I tried it a few hours ago and couldn't reach it then. No chance now.
Yes, I did this last year. I'd been with T-mobile (nee One2One) for years, but decided that I wanted a new phone. T-mobile wanted 70 for an upgrade, but O2 would give me the same phone for free if I switched to them. So I did, keeping my old number. It was a fairly painless transition. It seems odd that T-mobile prefered to let a loyal customer switch to another network, rather than give me a new phone for free. Switching networks seems to be an easy way to get a shiny new phone for free AND you get to keep your old phone, which you don't when you upgrade.
Exactly what I thought. The last paragraph perfectly sums up SCO:
As Henry Ford once summed it up, lawsuits against new technologies provide "opportunities for little minds... to usurp the gains of genuine inventors... and under the smug protest of righteousness, work a hold-up game in the most approved fashion."
readers should remember that Transport for London [tfl.gov.uk], who currently operate the tube network are a publically run company whose sole aim is to provide cheap and efficient travel for Londoners and visitors
How about wearing jammers that confuse the electronics trying to track you?
This would be moronic. If you jam the smartcard, then the ticket gates won't let you on to the platform. The gates log the id's of the smartcards passing though them. Since they know the owner of the smartcards (which are season tickets), then they can track which stations you use.
How about getting one of the big newspapers (New York Times, Washington Post etc.) interested in this, since it would make a good story. Then the FBI or whoever, might be embarrased enough to investigate.
The FBI/etc wouldn't know how the attacking host resolved the address, they would simply see DoS packets from the attacking host.
True, at least at first. But it wouldn't take them long to work it out.
A better solution, IMHO, would be to transfer the domain name to someone outside of the US, who he trusts, and let them point it to the FBI or something.
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Worse, what if you run a high-volume mailing list? Everyone on the list sends mail to your server, which then sends it out again. So you get billed.
Anyway, billing for email is pretty much unworkable anyway.
HH
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Better still, a few years ago I worked for a major news agency who supplied financial and business news. We were writing software to search for information about companies and, whilst testing this, I discovered a Turkish company named Arcelik. Better still was the discovery that their parent company are named Koc Holding (google cache link). Those crazy Turks!
I mentioned this to my girlfriend and asked her if she'd like a job at Arcelik (as an arcelikker perhaps). She replied that she'd prefer one that involved Koc Holding.
True story.
HH
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It seems to me (drunk at the mo') that the emperor has no clothes on. What's the betting that Jackson has cut seven minutes of plot with Saruman, just to add seven minutes of fight scenes that weren't in the book. I wouldn't be at all suprised, judging by the first two movies.
I think that Jackson has been seriously overrated as a director. Every time he's had to decide between explaining the plot and developing the characters, or directing fight sequences, he seems to have cried, 'cue the orcs!'. To be fair, some parts of the films have been brilliant, but I really think that he's sacrificing story for fights and sfx. Not that there aren't enought fight sequences and cliff-hangers in the book anyway.
OK, drunken rant over, feel free to mod down.
HH
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Bad example. Gym equipment is very expensive, heavy and large. Digital music is none of those.
And I don't expect you'd be happy if your cd collection vanished if you didn't keep paying monthly for it.
HH
Gods, the one time that the 'new overlords' joke is appropriate and it gets modded down as Offtopic.
Oh well, off to metamoderate.
HH
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I love the smell of Linux in the morning. Smells... like victory.
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Lieutenant Torvalds in Apocalypse
When you install AOL, you expect it to make changes to the configuration of your computer. Why is this any different?
My girlfriend has aol (subscribed before I met her, otherwise I'd have recommended something better) and was being driven mad by these pop-ups. I had to explain that it was microsoft stupidity that allowed them, and disabled them for her.
HH
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So what's the best one for the Mac?
Seriously, do any of them work on Linux?
HH
No good, it's hardly rained here (London) for months now.
HH
HH
Maybe 2nd best. I use Firebird at work on Windows and Galeon at home on Linux. Of the two, I still prefer Galeon. I tried Opera, but couldn't configure it (in Windoze) to use the middle button to open links in a new tab. Without that, I refuse to use it.
HH
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No, this isn't a five year old cluster against a brand new one. The dell supercomputer is brand new - just like the apple one. See http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2003/09/ 29/daily37.html
HH
The site's been suffering from the 'slashdot effect' since yesterday when the BBC and various other news sites announced it. Slashdot is a day behind everyone else with this story. I tried it a few hours ago and couldn't reach it then. No chance now.
HH
But will SCO will claim that element 111 infringes on their IP and insist that it's called darlscotium?
And will RMS insist that this new element is GNU/darmstadtium?
HH (in a weird mood, waiting for g/f to arrive)
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Yes, I did this last year. I'd been with T-mobile (nee One2One) for years, but decided that I wanted a new phone. T-mobile wanted 70 for an upgrade, but O2 would give me the same phone for free if I switched to them. So I did, keeping my old number. It was a fairly painless transition. It seems odd that T-mobile prefered to let a loyal customer switch to another network, rather than give me a new phone for free. Switching networks seems to be an easy way to get a shiny new phone for free AND you get to keep your old phone, which you don't when you upgrade.
HH
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Exactly what I thought. The last paragraph perfectly sums up SCO:
... to usurp the gains of genuine inventors ... and under the smug protest of righteousness, work a hold-up game in the most approved fashion."
As Henry Ford once summed it up, lawsuits against new technologies provide "opportunities for little minds
HH
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No, Escape, Meta, Alt, Ctrl, Shift does that.
400 series errors are supposed to be permanent! There's a perfectly good 503 error for "service unavailable". Grrr.
Since we slashdotted this site just 5 days ago perhaps "Too many users are connected" is a permanent error on mini-itx.com
HH
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"Doom 3 will be out sometime next year." - 2002
Since one of the entrants for the X-prize is John Carmack, if things go wrong, then Doom 3 may never be finished.
HH
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SCO Darleks? Litigate! Litigate! Exterminate!
"According to one estimate, there are 2.5 million surveillance cameras in Britain, and in fact there may be far more".
So do they have 2.5 million people watching them?
HH
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readers should remember that Transport for London [tfl.gov.uk], who currently operate the tube network are a publically run company whose sole aim is to provide cheap and efficient travel for Londoners and visitors
That's exactly what they don't provide.
HH
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How about wearing jammers that confuse the electronics trying to track you?
This would be moronic. If you jam the smartcard, then the ticket gates won't let you on to the platform. The gates log the id's of the smartcards passing though them. Since they know the owner of the smartcards (which are season tickets), then they can track which stations you use.
HH
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How about getting one of the big newspapers (New York Times, Washington Post etc.) interested in this, since it would make a good story. Then the FBI or whoever, might be embarrased enough to investigate.
HH
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The FBI/etc wouldn't know how the attacking host resolved the address, they would simply see DoS packets from the attacking host.
True, at least at first. But it wouldn't take them long to work it out.
A better solution, IMHO, would be to transfer the domain name to someone outside of the US, who he trusts, and let them point it to the FBI or something.